6/2/2026 THE SIMON CONWAY SHOW Hour 3

Hey guys, it is Ryan. For years, Chumba's been set in the bar for online social casino fun, and it just keeps getting better. With new games released every week and daily bonuses to collect, the fun never stops. So claim your welcome bonus now at chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW room. Boy, prohibited by law. See terms and conditions, 21 plus. All across the great state of Iowa, it is the Simon Conway Show, primary day in the great state of Iowa. And the man responsible for keeping that particular train on the tracks is our Secretary of State Paul Pate, who is on the Davidson Family Dentistry Newsmaker Lion right now. How you doing, sir? Doing great, and a very smooth election today. Yeah, you sound really chill, actually. Well, a good election is when it's a little boring for me. Exciting for the voters, but boring for me. All right, well, let's start with the thing everybody likes to know. Any problems? No, we've had a very good day. We've got a couple minor questions in this morning, but nothing that impacted the voters. And, you know, what we're hearing is a robust day. Considering we had a light turnout going into this election with the early voting, I was kind of, you know, down on whether we're going to have much of a turnout today. But from the reports I'm getting, it seems like they're keeping busy at the polling site. I heard there was a power outage in Milo. It was a brief one, but most of the systems all have backup batteries on the system, so they can go for a couple of few hours before the power gets back on. So everything went fine, and they were back up and going. So this is really good. Now, when you say robust, we're talking primary. So robust for primary would be, I guess, north of 25%. I think we're going to get closer to the 20, Simon. I don't think we can make up the full gap from the lighter turnout in the early voting, but there seems to be a lot more people who are coming out to vote in person. And it's actually, I'd say both political parties are about the same. There's no one dominating. But again, reminding your listeners, primaries are not... partisan in the sense that the political parties themselves don't get involved in turning out the vote. It's all about the candidates. So what we're seeing is what I call the foundation of the dieharts who are out there voting. And I think that's a good indicator for some of the candidates of where their base of support is. In fact, Polk County, about 4 o'clock I checked in, and they had about 37,000 who had voted today. Scott County, I checked in about earlier, like a one or two o'clock. And they were a little lighter. They had about 5,000. And Johnson County was about 10,000 around 3 o'clock when I checked in. So those aren't bad numbers. I mean, again, these are primaries. They're not the big general election. So I'm...

I'm pleased to see those kind of numbers. I wish they were a little higher, but at least it shows people are tuning in. So on a primary day, unless there's something really horrific, are you basically just in your office and are waiting to deal with issues as they occur, or are you traveling around? Well, I'm traveling around. I actually spent some time with the Polk County Auditor, visiting the next to them of their polling sites, and then I was out at Camp Dodge at the command center out there. We operate with him. for our cyber division monitoring what's going on and spent some time there. And, of course, at the capital, our operations there. So it's kind of moving around, just kind of keeping an eye on things. And what I've seen is I'm pretty impressed. The poll workers are very enthusiastic. And I think the training we put into us is paid dividends. Okay, so while you're at Camp Dodge, did you try the F-16 simulator? I did that back when we were doing the Memorial Day. Oh, you did? Yeah, no, I remember now you crashed it. Let's not tell everybody that now. Yeah, I don't know why I blocked that out. But, yes, I remember. Yeah. It was worse because it was like a 12-year-old. It went right after me, and he did a really good job. Uh-huh. Okay. Well, you'll have to have another go and figure it out, my friend. Yeah, that's right. Okay, so when do our polls close? Eight o'clock, so those folks out there still have time. And again, I want to point out anyone who voted early through the mail, that process. Please go to the website, voterready.Iowa.gov, and check to make sure the county auditor got your ballot, because if they didn't get it, you still have time to go in person and vote. Because if they don't have it in their possession today, It's not going to get counted. The mail doesn't count. It's got to be in their physical possession. So I don't want to get anybody left out of this. So check it out, folks. Okay. With there being low numbers, we can expect fairly quick answers? I think it should be reasonable. The early voting has been cast because of the light turnout, I suspect those auditor numbers will be up pretty quick right after the 8 o'clock polls close. So you'll get a good read on some of it. But again, this is not a sprint. This is a marathon. I'd rather give you guys the right numbers instead of getting in a hurry. Sure.

I'm not counting on making this a late night. I think we'll have the numbers then. Now, of course, people might be confused because primaries, well, the Republicans are picking their people, the Democrats are picking their people. Why is the state involved in counting all of that? Well, it's how we do the primaries, but as I think you've mentioned, if one of the candidates for a certain position doesn't get at least 35%, then the political parties will take over and they'll operate it. at their conventions. And that will be one of the things we're watching tonight with a lot of discussion on the governor's race with five candidates on the Republican side. It could be a little closer on getting to that 35 threshold. We've seen that in the past for some congressional offices. We've seen it for Secretary of Ags bought a few years back. I can't remember any governor's races. I kind of peek back at the history. books. I didn't see one of those, but we have had others. And then, of course, it doesn't even have to be one of the people running. If it goes to convention, it could be anyone. It can be tricky. And again, we don't operate that one. That is all done by the political parties. Yes. Handle it from there. Yes. It's all down. But it really could be someone not right. It could be Mrs. C. Could end up as the gubernatorial catch. She's not happy. No, thank you. I wonder, are you volunteering to be your campaign manager? No. Oh, double no, thank you. No, no, I mean, look, it'd be very easy. She's Mrs. C. Just vote for her. I mean, come on. There you go. There you go. Paul Pate is our Secretary of State. Thank you very much. You always do this. And I am always grateful on Election Day, whether it's a presidential election or a primary day like this without a presidential election in the fall. You always make yourself available to us. And we are genuinely really grateful that you would do that. Thank you very much. for that again. Thank you. And may your day continue to be quiet. All right. Take care. God bless you. There you go. Secretary of State, Paul Pate. It's all going very well. I think that's the headline from that particular conversation. We will take a quick time out right now, and we will continue the conversation after that. It is just coming up to 615, and it is the Simon Conway Show. All across the great state of Iowa, it is the Simon Conway Show 621 on this Tuesday, June 2. Marco Rubio continues to impress me. He was giving evidence at the Senate committee today. And Senator Rosen thought she would take him down. I don't know why they think that he's unprepared. He always ends up wiping the floor with them.

This really is quite an astonishing exchange here. We were at a party with President Trump in Miami instead of accompanying Vice President JD Vance to Pakistan for negotiations. What party was I at? I was at a party? It's publicly reported and there's photos there. But what party? No, no, no, no, but you're going to say that. I'm going to answer it. I'm going to answer that question. Let me finish my statement. I was not at a party. If I finish my paragraph, he can answer. People are going to slander me. I'm going to answer it. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom were never confirmed by this body to be America's diplomats accompanied the vice president in the negotiations. Even Iran's foreign minister was not there. Yet you were not, was there, excuse me, and you were not. I just feel that's embarrassing for us, and it's embarrassing for you. So, Mr. Secretary, Congress represents the American people. We have the power to confirm who represents America abroad. We confirmed you to be our Secretary's State. We confirmed you to be in the negotiations that are happening, and it's just unthinkable to me that you are not. you are missing high-stakes negotiations or that you're not involved. It's sad. Senator Rosen, your time's up. Thank you. Your time's up. Secretary Ruby. You're 100% inaccurate and 100% wrong. Here's why. Number one, the vice president of the United States was there, and he wasn't confirmed by us, and he was elected by the American people. He is the second in line of the presidency, the United States. He was president. Mr. Steve Witkoff is the president's envoy for negotiation for peace deals. Mr. Jared Kushner is a private citizen that serves as an advisor on these functions. They were the team that we sent to Pakistan. I was not at a party. Where I was is next to the president. Because in the midst of those negotiations, I was in communications with them. And in fact, I think there is media reporting from that evening on how multiple occasions I went into a back room, I came back out and spoke to the president and was constantly updating him. On that evening, I spoke to Mr. Jared Kushner and our negotiating team and Mr. Woodcoff on at least six occasions, including twice on a secure line from the phone they had access to over there. So you don't know what you're talking about. Senator Rosen, he has a floor. I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your TikTok video, but it's not true. And it's not real. That's not what happened. I'm the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. I was co-located with the President in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation so that I could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world. I was where I needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in Pakistan, led by the Vice President, led by the Vice President of the United States. I don't know why they think they're going to take him down like this. He is always prepared. I want to let you know that he did not read a word of that, not a word of it. But he knew where he was. Why would you think that you could say, well, you, why were you, you were at a party? What were you doing? You were at a party.

I'm not sure how this is all going to shake out. There are other people that might consider running for a present. Ron DeSantis in Florida, he might. And the thing is, when you have an incumbent in the White House, if you're not that, then you can come early. So, run Ron DeSantis out of office. in January. Take a quick vacay with the wife and the kiddos. Does he show up in Iowa in March of next year, June of next year maybe, ahead of the fair next year? If he's going to run, he kind of has to. He's a very smart man. He knows that if he ran, he would be an underdog. Now, there is something else, potentially, that could happen between now and then. He could be pulled into the administration. They could give him a job. Or... Should a vacancy arise because of a retirement or, God forbid, somebody passes away? Ron DeSantis, Supreme Court justice? Don't rule that out either. That would be his dream job. And I think that the president is aware of all of that. So there's a number of things that could occur here, but Marco Rubio, totally ready. In my opinion, right now, the only thing that will prevent him from running for president next time would be if the vice president decides to do it.

So it's going to be interesting. I don't think those two are going to run against each other. That's my opinion. What about you? 515-284-1040-10-40. Text us 81530. Send us a talkback. Do you think Marco Rubio and JD Vance would run against each other to be president of the United States? I don't think so. This is the Simon Conway Show. 638 on this Tuesday. Plenty of stuff going on. We were talking about who might run for. President, based on Marco Rubio's performance, repeated performance on the world stage and also when being questioned in the Senate and the House by these committees, he just wipes the floor with him. But if he is going to run for president... He will have to quit the administration and run against the vice president, I believe. I don't think he's going to do that. Mike is in northwest Iowa, and he wants to weigh in on this. Hey, Mike, you're on a Simon Conway show. Hey, how are we doing? Fantastic, how are you? Good on a day like today. You've got to be good. Yes, sir. So, see, on this, Marco Rubio, I do believe he'll probably run for president. Okay. I think he handles his composure very well. He's precise to the point. He doesn't take any grief. He doesn't take any of that from Congress. I think he really knows his stuff. In respect to our vice president, JD Vance. In respect, he's a little young. However, I think the way he handled himself on that 24... Vice President with Governor Waltz, he did a wonderful job. I think he's a little wet under the collar. But I think he's gaining his knowledge. I think he's performing very well. And when you're Secretary of State, I think it's a little harder job than the vice president. So you think they're going to run against each other? No, no. So you think? I think Marco Rubio will run his president. JD Vance will stay as a vice presidency. Marco Rubio is going to groom him for a running in 2032. All right. I appreciate the input, Mike. Thank you very much. You take care. I don't see that at all. I think I'd have to look it up. But I think that would be unprecedented for a vice president to remain vice president with a different person.

at the top of the ticket. I don't think that's ever happened before in American history. Mrs. C might be checking out, I'm not sure. But I don't think that's, I don't think that's ever happened before. And I don't think it's going to happen this time. On the text line, I hope they don't run against each other. It would be too hard for me to pick between the two. That's one texter. Another texter says, I think they are going to run against each other for sure. The lust for power is very powerful. No pun intended. Furthermore, I think we're going to have a very robust field, obviously. Ron DeSantis, quite possibly, but also Ted Cruz, who was already here at Faith and Freedom Coalition banquet. I saw him, and he did a great job. That's from Isaiah. Isaiah. I don't know that. So the audience doesn't know I was talking into your ear. Oh, sorry. Yeah. I never know when you're just talking to it. It sounds literally exactly the same. It is Isaiah, and I do know because of the spelling. Ah, okay. All right, well, there you go. That's from Isaiah. So thank you very much, Isaiah. I don't see it. I just don't see it. I... If the vice president doesn't run for president, he will never run for president. I don't see how he comes back. So there's that. I don't see him remaining as vice president for a different person at the top of the ticket. I don't see that. So the only way they run together as far as I'm concerned would be JD Vance Marco Rubio. I have the answer. Yes, it has happened before. Okay. In 1812, Vice President George Clinton first served under Thomas Jefferson. Okay. Chose not to run as president, but instead ran with James Madison as his vice president. Okay. A similar situation happened later in 1832 with Calhoun, but he actually ended up resigning to become a U.S. Senator. Okay. It wasn't quite a lot different back then because you had people who were senators who then became Supreme Court justices and presidents who became Supreme Court justices. So it was quite a bit different. But anyway, I don't see that happening. That's my opinion. And we'll see what happens as the days and weeks go on. But I do not see that occurring. Meanwhile, in Iowa, Simon, not sure if you are tracking, but Iowa's ballot number 421 at Urbandale for just a few minutes ago. Have a great night to you in April. Thank you, whoever you are. Are you tracking it? No, we're not tracking it. No. That's a whole lot of polling places. We're not tracking it. We spoke to the Secretary of State.

who told us a robust turnout would be around 20%. Ugh. So does that. All right. And I is the cheerful one. I'm simply going to say, I'm grateful for that robust 20%. There you go. Glass half full, glass half empty. Look, I just would like to see more people vote. That's what I'm saying. We'll take a quick final time out, and then we've got a question coming right up. see how he would react to something that Mrs. C sent me earlier on. We are all across the great state of Iowa. This is the Simon Conway Show. All across the great state of Iowa, it is the Simon Conway Show. Just one final political question on the text line. Does the office and vice president have term limits? No, it does not. You can run forever as Vice President for four-year terms, and as long as you win, you will continue to serve unlike the President, who is restricted to two terms by the 22nd Amendment. All right, Dave Ball. Are you ready, buddy? Are you ready to chit-chat with me? Ready. I used to dream of something like this as a kid when I would go and watch football. Soccer. Okay. Mm-hmm. That they'd run out of substitutes, that the key player got injured, and they said, can anybody play defense? I put my hand in the air. Yeah, put me in, coach, I'm ready. Put in. Yeah. Yes, I used to be a dream. Okay. Mm-hmm. But it's actually happened. Wow. Not on the soccer field, my friend. Okay. Not on a soccer field. So there is, you know what La La Land is? Do I? I don't know. I don't think so. It's a musical. It's a musical. And it was in Sydney, Australia. Okay. I don't know if it was in the Sydney Opera House. I guess it could have been. I mean, it's in a big place. So maybe in the Sydney Opera House, they're doing a performance of La La Land when the pianist fell ill. Okay. And somebody attending the thing was asked, well, they said, can anybody play piano? Oh, my. And Sterling NASA, believe it or not, is his name. He was attending the show where this live orchestra was performing the film score as the movie was playing on the screen. Okay. And, yeah.

He jumped in and he played really well. Okay. So the question is, let's say it is the Sydney Opera House. I haven't read deeply enough to know if it is. Did you, Mrs. C? So let me take it from here. Okay, sure. So I found this article this morning. Yes. And it is, they play the entire, what do you call it? The score. Score? Yes. So they play the entire score while you're watching the... actual movie on a screen they go to intermission and that's when the pianist could not come back out on stage and they said anyone here can do it his friend forced his hand into the air and he got picked And apparently, one of the remaining pieces that he had performed actually had a solo. Yeah. It's John Legend's start of fire. Mm-hmm. Okay. So not just any solo. A pretty difficult one. Mm-hmm. And he pulled it off successfully. He was a fan of the conductor. He purposely went and, you know, knew. all of the pieces and arrangements. But he had to on the spot perform no warm up, be able to cite read. Yep. So I was reading this article and I sent it to Simon and I went, okay, if Dave was in this kind of situation and a saxophonist suddenly went down, would Dave step in? 100% I would. I would be nervous as heck. Yes. But, you know, in a pinch, I would totally do it. By the way, this person, 21. Ooh, okay.

The composer, well, first of all, Mr. NASA, he said, I saw it on the score talking of... John Legend started fire. And I thought, I don't know if I'm going to be able to sight read that in one go. But he took a leap of faith. He improvised. Yep. And he got through it. And the conductor said, that is a whole other skill on top of sight reading to be able to play a really cool solo in the right key, in the right scale, on the fly with no rehearsal. Yes. So there you go. Yeah. Well, there is a lot of pressure coming from a lot of different ways in this. Because not only would you have to be able, as you said, to be able to cite read, sit down. It's one thing if you say you're at home and you pull up a score and you think, I wonder if I could cite read through this. That's one thing. Right. But you're on stage. You've got the pressure of the audience behind you. You've got this conductor. You said this person was a fan of the conductor. Yep. Okay. So you've got like a little personal hero waving the baton at you. I mean, there is, to be able to drown all that out, focus on the music, perform at a high level and still pull it, pull it off. That is, that's some serious stuff. And you're 21. And you're 21. Yes. Good for him. Love it. But you would do that. I would do it. You would grab the sacks and get on stage with Bruce Springsteen and said, I can be Clarence. Yeah, yes. I've been, you know, not to pardon the pun, toot my own horn here, but there it is. Wait, wait. It's coming. There it is. Hey, a delayed symbol crash is still a symbol crash. I'll take it. It is the theme of the show. It's the theme of the show. That's true. But I've been in some fairly high pressure performance situations before. You know, if that had been the first time anything like that had ever happened to me, and I'm guessing if this gentleman performed as well as he did, it's not the first time he's been in a high-pressure environment either. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not going to be the last time. That's right, yes. I think he may have got himself a bit of a career. Anyway, carry on. Yeah. Well, hopefully at least a gig came out of that, because goodness. But, yeah, I think if you've been through some high-pressure situations before and you've been able to kind of get that level of focus and be able to perform under pressure, Yes. Yeah, I'd do it. Absolutely. Yeah, you know, I mentioned Springsteen because, of course, I don't care who you are, if you set foot on that stage with a saxophone in your hand, everyone is comparing you to Clarence Clements. True. Everyone. Isn't it his nephew right now who's playing... I think that's right. Yes, I mean, I saw that somewhere. But, yeah, I mean, talk about pressure. If he went down and you're in the audience and they're saying, hey, Dave! Yeah, that would be quite the pressure. Anyway, I figured you would say yes, by the way.

But one of the reasons I figured you would say yes is you perform a lot. So there's one thing being able to play sax, being a teacher, which you are, of saxophone. But you do perform a lot. And I think that makes a difference. I don't know anything else about this young man, except that's what he's going to be doing for the rest of his life. Yeah, one of my favorite things talking to fellow live performers is asking for stories about some crazy stuff that they've seen. you know, while a gig is happening, I know I've seen some crazy stuff. And I think anybody who's performed live a lot has. And once you've done that, it kind of desensitizes you to moments of that, you know, where you're not quite sure what's going on around you, but you have to focus anyway and power through. Right. You know, people ask me about this, and the first time I turned a microphone on and was I nervous. And I really wasn't. Really? And that was kind of when I had this epiphany that, man, this is probably what I'm supposed to be doing. Yeah, that's great. Well, out of time, my friend. Very interesting conversation. Yes, thank you. You take care. Thank you, Dave. Our saxophonist, our sax playing news anchor. We love it. They're sticking around for some results that are coming your way shortly. We're out of time. Thanks to our guests. You'll be able to pick those up on the podcast page. Thanks to the best producer anywhere out there. Mrs. C., thank you, honey. We appreciate you. You're welcome, dear. Well, many more thanks to you guys, never the same without you. We will be back, and we will be having the primary autopsy tomorrow, apart from anything else. And until then, have yourselves a truly wonderful night. Good night. Bubba Wallace here from 2311 racing. You know what's slower than a pace car? Waiting at the car wash. That's when I fire up Chumba Casino. It turns those slow minutes into fast fun. With new games every week, you'll never get bored. Next time you're stuck in the slow lane, speed up with Chumba. Play now at chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, Ford, where prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply.