The Neal Larson Show

Send us Fan Mail Neal Larson and Julie Mason dug into the ongoing tension inside Idaho Falls School District 91—starting with this year’s teacher contract talks and widening into a broader conversation about trust, transparency, and leadership. Former IFEA leader Julie Nawrocki joined the show to explain how negotiations moved from “everything’s going well” to a sudden push toward mediation, and why that shift—especially when money talks go behind closed doors—creates suspicion among teachers...

Send us Fan Mail Neal Larson and Julie Mason kick off the Monday show with a Father’s Day reflection, then pivot to a big weekend in Idaho politics: Dorothy Moon winning a third term as Idaho GOP chair (and congratulations to Julie Young for winning second vice chair unopposed). Neal and Julie spend meaningful time on what they see as a discouraging fracture among conservatives—less about core ideology and more about personality clashes, misread motives, and performative conflict amplified on...

Send us Fan Mail Decision day at the U.S. Supreme Court had Neal Larson and Julie Mason glued to SCOTUSblog—only to get a couple of smaller rulings (including a narrow Second Amendment decision involving a marijuana user) while the big Idaho-adjacent cases everyone’s watching remain pending. That wait became a jumping-off point for a bigger frustration: how national media frames Idaho’s “protect girls and women in sports” case as “LGBTQ+ rights,” and how often adults’ interests get elevated a...

Send us Fan Mail Neal Larson and Julie Mason kicked off the week with a clear-eyed look at the newly announced U.S.–Iran framework deal—what it *does* cover (a halt in hostilities, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and a commitment to stop pursuing nuclear weapons) and what’s still unresolved (enrichment details, inspections, proxy groups, missiles, long-term sanctions relief, and Israel’s role). They also pushed back on rumors flying around online—like claims the U.S. would spend $300 billion ...