Hour 2: Puyallup school officials charged, guest Spencer Meline, Vancouver halting arrests

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You have consent when you're wrestling, even though she did not consent to wrestle a boy. It makes it very difficult for them to be able to charge this student. And. have any confidence that they would be able to get a jury to side with them on sexual assault. But they do believe that they can get these two educators or, you know, administrators at Rogers High School. Because they found out about this, according to the court documents, two days after the match, they got emails or one of them got emailed, the other one was forwarded, something like that. An email from the mother. that described what had happened to her daughter. The coach forwards the email to the principal that same afternoon, according to the charging documents. The principal then loops in this other official within the athletic department that same afternoon. Then they met to talk about this. Court records say Smith said that he would call. and opened an investigation, but nothing happened apparently for weeks. Again, this is according to the court documents. January 28th comes and Keeler messages her coach on a school platform saying, hey, what gives? What happened with this investigation? And according to the charging documents, Scott told her Smith, the principal, would not share any information. healer then asks on behalf of her mother whether she should file sexual assault charges because the district at least it seemed like they were just dismissing this case the coach's answer per the court filing is that they shut the coach out and the coach doesn't have any information So it goes back and forth for several days, 55 days ultimately pass before the school issues this incident report and told a school resource officer about what had happened. 55 days. The law says you have 48 hours to report this, which, by the way, is already way too long. 48 minutes, I'll give you that. Because you got to figure out what number do you call? Oh, wait, 911. There's only three numbers for you to memorize, but I'll give you 48 minutes. Because maybe you were on your way to the office when you found out and you wanted to make sure that you could sit down, have a phone conversation with the police while looking at your notes of what had occurred, allegedly. 48 hours is nuts. 55 days is insane. That's insane. And if this timeline is accurate, As much as I can probably explain what was going through their heads, they seemed guilty as sin. Now, what will be their defense? Guarantee you, it's going to be the fact that the student is trans. And they're going to acknowledge, I think, or they will allege that because the student is trans, they didn't want to...

push forward with getting police involved because you think that that person's coming from a marginalized community and is only being singled out because that person's trans and they didn't view this as a sexual assault and would have said well had the student treated her opponent as a female There would be no report whatsoever. The only reason they're making a report and arguing sexual assault is because she happens to be a biological boy. But trans lives matter, and we're not going to allow for this. That's my guess is how this will all unfold. It doesn't really matter. You want to know why it doesn't matter, Jackson? Why? The law says, regardless of your feelings of the people involved, if you have this information that has been presented to you, reported to you, you have 48 hours to report it, period. You can go ahead and hold your views. You can have your nuanced conversation about why this is occurring and what was the motivation. Have at it. You still have to call the cops. You still have to report this. It is a mandatory report. Now, this is the second time we have seen either an educator or an administrator get hit with charges for some alleged misconduct. We covered... Back in, I think it was May, the Longview Public School Superintendent, Karen Klonginger, I think her name was. She was arrested. She was charged with felony witness tampering, plus gross misdemeanor failure to report tied to sexual assault allegations at the school Mark Morris High School. That was alleged then. Now again, all these people are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. It does to me suggest that we're in a much better place in this state, at least with the prosecutors, given that they've actually been charged to begin with. Would you have ever guessed any administrator or educator would have been charged with anything outside of like a physical assault or some sort of violent act that they committed? Just this idea that they're failing to withhold. There was a story last year at a Bellingham. School district, similar case of sexual assault being alleged and they just didn't report it. We're often told that any kind of criticism against educators or administrators is inherently wrong, that it's cruel, that these are all heroes, and they all should be supported, no matter their backward position that they take. But things are changing. We're actually starting to pay closer attention. And there's going to be some level of consequences for bad behavior. This is the first step. Again, I'm not expecting any of these people get tossed in jail. None of them will be sent to prison. Well, Jason, there's a 364 day. They're not going to jail. Maybe they get hit with a fine. But to me, it's more about the message that you're sending other educators and officials that you will charge. They're going to have that charge on their records forever. And even if they come up with some sort of plea agreement with the local prosecutors, whether it's in, you know, Clark County or Pierce County or Bellingham County, doesn't matter.

You Google it, their names will be attached to that forever. They're not going to be able to get out of that unless they're found not guilty. But again, based on some of the facts that have been presented in both cases we talked about here, I don't know how you get out of it. Well, I didn't take it seriously. Yeah, that's a problem. You're not supposed to judge it. You're just supposed to report it. You might not take it seriously. You might think that it's bogus. You might think that it's politically motivated. Okay, fair enough. You get to hold that view. What you don't get to do is withhold the report from authorities. Whether it's going directly to the police or the school resource officer and having them, you're supposed to report it to the state. Period. End of story. That's it. It really is as cut and dry as that. Well, you know, the parent was supposed to. So? That's what you believe? So? Let the police handle that. You are not equipped. as a school director, an athletic director, or a principal or vice principal or a dean or whatever. Like, that is not your role. End of story. This is so cut and dry. It's just, it's truly remarkable. But again, good news that we're actually seeing charges. Did you think we would see charges in this case? No. Not even, at no point did it even dawn on me that that was possible. At no point did I think that that was even a possibility. So the fact that they ended up charging in both of these cases signals to me that we're starting to see a true shift in how these kinds of stories are perceived. And that's nothing but good news. Horrible that this poor girl had to go through it. And keep in mind, the federal government has opened an investigation into this instance. There have been several cases in this state in which under the Trump administration, the Department of Education and the DOJ Civil Rights Division, they're actually looking into all this stuff. Things are shifting, and it's shifting in our favor, finally. Finally, because maybe we created a disincentive for this kind of behavior to happen in the future. Maybe. We got this written up over at seattlered.com. I hope you'll read it. I hope you'll share the story because it's an important one. Let's find out what else is trending. What's trending on the campaign trail. Kim Schreier, who's a doctor, if you didn't know. She likes to remind people of that every single time you have a conversation with her. But she's been in Congress since 2018. And she has beaten Jesse Jensen, Matt Larkin, Carmen Goers. And tomorrow, four Republicans. are on the ballot trying to become the fifth name that she hopes they will be, but this time maybe will be a little bit different. Spencer Maline is a small business owner. He's a father of four out of Kashmir, and he's endorsed by both the King County and Snohomish County GOPs. He's been outraised roughly 20 to 1, but that's not stopping him from trying to win back this district. He says the American Dream is slipping out of reach. in the eighth congressional districts ballots are due tomorrow if you still have yours make sure you're turning it in today and bring it to a drop box do not risk it joining me on the line is spencer maline welcome to the show

Hey, Jason. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it. I mean, let's just start with the elephant on the ballot, I suppose. Four Republicans in the primary. Only two candidates are going to advance. One of them is undoubtedly going to be Kim Schreier. So make the case for why you're the one who should get through from the Republican side. Yeah, so I think for me in particular, the biggest strength that I have is, you know, I've born and raised in this in this state. I grew up in Sonomish County in Edmonds. I lived on the west side of the mountains for a good portion of my life. After I got married, my wife and I, we moved to Leavenworth where... I started my first restaurant in 2018. We raised our four kids here. We're in Kashmir right now. This district is, there's a stark contrast between the Cascade divide. You know, we have a lot of ag and rural over on this side and then, you know, tech, you know, over on the west side. And I think that I'm uniquely positioned to kind of understand both sides of this district, you know, in particular the district as a whole, where I feel like a lot of these other candidates, you know, can't speak to the entirety of the district right now. You've been outraised about 20 to 1, and we've seen in the last several cycles, well-funded Republicans lose this seat, right? I think it was four cycles in total. Dino Rossi, we can throw in there as well. What's the difference between those campaigns and yours, despite or aside from the funding? Yeah, I think it's speaking to the people at the lowest level, right? It's like my campaign has just been who I am. I'm a small business owner and I'm a dad, right? And I think that that message resonates. That got me, you know, the King County endorsement, the Stomwich County endorsement. I've been traveling the district the last six months and meeting with. average everyday people and you know their concerns are are the same they want somebody who can actually represent them who's living you know the same you know struggles that that they are and i'm right there with the people and i have been this entire time and that's a big reason why i got into this race at the beginning of the year i'm talking to these 18 19 year old kids who i'm hiring it my business who are just getting ready to save enough money to leave for Texas or Idaho to start their lives, right? The opportunity isn't here. And when I was 15 starting out, I never felt that way. I felt like I was able to save a little bit of money. You know, I love the restaurant industry. I looked at it like a trade. I'm just going to learn everything I possibly can. I'm going to move up. And when the opportunity to present itself, I'm going to start my own business, right? And I was fortunate enough to do that, obviously through a lot of hard work and trials and tribulations.

But we were able to make that happen. Now I have 100 people that work for me. And it's amazing. And I love it. And I want that opportunity for the next generation. For my kids, for the kids that I'm hiring in particular in Washington State, that opportunity doesn't seem to be on the table anymore. And that's what I'm trying to claw back. That's what the campaign has been about since the beginning. I usually ask this question in reverse where I point out the Kim Schreier. You know, she understands Issaquah, I guess, right? Like, she understands sort of the Seattle values, Sammamish, things like that. And I always wonder, well, how can she represent, you know, Enumclaw or Snoqualmie or Kashmir? Like, so the same question for you then. I have no doubt that you know what life is like and can represent the people of Leavenworth and Cleellum and Snowqualmie. But how would you fare in, you know, representing Sammamish or Issaquah? Yeah. And I think it goes back to kind of the same principles, right? It's common sense leadership. It's being accountable. It's showing up. And, you know, speaking to there are still small business owners in Issaquah and across the district as a whole, right? People are frustrated. The cost of living has skyrocketed in this state. You look at housing. Housing is probably. the number one issue that comes up when when i've been you know going across the district people like my kids aren't going to be able to afford a house here we can't barely afford you know a home here and we have you know adult children living with us right um so it's one of those things where we we have to start having you know conversations about the future of how are we going to get more housing built what can we do in the meantime um to kind of ease the burden of these issues that are right now, right? In my business, right? We're always talking about we have short-term goals and long-term goals, right? And they have to be working in tandem continuously, right? But they're always going to be different. And I feel like long-term goal, as far as like housing goes, like we have a shortage, right? We need to build more homes, right? That's across the board. Everyone agrees on that. In the meantime, that's not going to happen overnight. So what can we do to lessen the burden of that? And that's where some of these ideas we've been talking about on the campaign, you know, let's talk about bringing the first time homebuyer tax credit back, right? Let's get, you know, big government, you know, out of. the single family market, you know, these Wall Street buyers, you know, buying up inventory that should be going to, you know, families. And another really cool idea that we've been running on is portable, portable mortgages, right? We go back to COVID and we slashed interest rates to 3%, right? 10 million. homebuyers have a 3% or less interest rate and they're stuck, right? So let's run a pilot program with VA loans and see if, you know, they can.

transfer that existing mortgage rate into a new property for these young families who maybe have outgrown their home during COVID. And I think there's a lot of little things we can do. We don't want to, you know, get too big and put ourselves in a situation to make it even worse. But these are conversations that we need to have at the federal level to make families feel like they can, you know, participate in the American dream again, own a home, raise a family, start a business. It's just, it's really common sense stuff. Kim Schreier likes to pitch herself as this some, you know, this kind of moderate Democrat, which she's very clearly not. So what's the single strongest argument you have that she's not who she claims to be? I mean, you just pull her voting record, right? Like, just look. Recently, I think this was a couple months ago, the Protect Kids Act, right? In that passed the house, she voted against it. And that was basically, you know, preventing schools from socially transitioning kids, right? It's a common sense thing without parental consent. She voted against that. And now that's in the Senate, we're praying that it gets passed through the Senate and gets signed into law. But yeah, she's just as radicals and extreme as the rest of them. And yet her branding somehow allows her to get away with being a moderate, which is just, it's just so wild. Which is wild, 100%. She's very clearly not. I'll give you the last word. Yeah, no, and that's the thing. You know, we're not running against Kim Schreier. We're running against the Democrat Party. What's happening in Washington State here, we've said it time and time again, this is the research and development lab of the radical left, right? If they get through, if they get the House, the Senate, the presidency. There will be no Texas. There will be no Idaho. This is coming for everybody, right? So we have to, you know, fight against it at all levels. Well, I'm glad you're in the fight. Yeah, exactly. And it's just one of those things. I don't want to be the guy that, you know, tells my kids, you know, 20 years later that, hey, you know, I didn't do anything about it. Right? And that's where we are. It's like going across this district, meeting, you know, other people running across the state. There's so many good people in the fight. We've got to get these people elected. The primary is so important. Please go out and vote. Don't leave your ballots on, on your, you know, desk or your junk tour. Get out. Fill it out today. Take 10 minutes. Find a drop box. There's so much good information out there. Go to the King County GOP website. If you're in King County, the judges are extremely important. That's a huge, huge one for Washington State in particular. Yeah, just get out and vote. It does matter. I hate hearing that your vote doesn't matter. Sure, we live in Washington State. We can think of all the... fraud and all the things that go on. But if you don't show up, you're already conceding the race. Yeah. And the reality is the turnout right now and, you know, today it'll go up in King County. But the turnout is exceptionally low. And that can benefit Republicans if we actually show up and vote. So make sure you're turning in your ballot. Take it to a drop box location. I would not mail it at this point. I mean, unless you're going directly to the mail to the post office today.

And they can guarantee it's going to get postmarked by tomorrow at 8 p.m. Don't risk it. If you still got your ballot, make sure you're just dropping it off in a drop box location. There are many of them all across the district. We've been talking with Spencer Maline. He's running for Congress in Washington's 8th Congressional District. The website is malign for Congress.com. M-E-L-I-N-E-F-O-R-R Congress.com. Spencer, good luck. We hope we'll have another conversation with you after the primary. Absolutely. Appreciate the time. Absolutely. Again, it's Spencer Maline. Make sure you're voting for him. Did you know that every qualifying new and used vehicle at Sunset Auto Family comes with oil changes for life? You get up to five a year. That's going to save you thousands of dollars over the lifetime of your vehicle. So visit our friends at the Sunset Auto Family in Auburn and Sumner online at sunset autofamily.com. Back with the big local right after this. The all-new Seattle Red.com. Finally, conservatives in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest have a home dedicated to local news. When I'm out and about in Seattle or anywhere just because I like to go into the field. Conservative analysis and opinion. And the left is saying this is anti-democracy. Seattlered.com is a new experience for Seattle's conservative movement where your comments are welcome and we encourage thoughtful conversation and debate. This is the key piece here. Visit the all-new Seattlered.com.

Sammamish, Kent, Olympia, Everett. This is the big local on the Jason Ranch Show. Centralia, Lakewood. Stories about you, not about Seattle. Hey, look at that, 4.30 on a weekday afternoon. That means it's time for the big local. Brought to you by the Scott Jenning Show. Heard weeknights 8 to 10 right here on Seattle Red 7.70 a.m. This is the part of the show where we completely ignore the stories coming out of Seattle. And instead, we focus all of our attention on the communities you live in and care about most. We start in Spokane. Governor Bob Ferguson says federal resources are on the way to help the state battle. 17 major wildfires burning more than 260,000 acres, but of course the Spokane complex started off of three separate fires in the city over the weekend. That is top of mind right now for many officials in the state. They've destroyed close to 700 or so structures. They said officially it was like 640 the last time we checked, but they say that number is. a lower estimate that they expect that number is going to increase. Now, some of it is, you know, businesses, others are just infrastructure in the area. Some of it, unfortunately, are homes. We're seeing a lot of people losing their homes. Jenny Graham, state lawmaker, lost her home in this fire. The good news is FEMA has agreed to send the resources even before anything's been officially approved. Search and rescue, debris removal, sheltering for housing, right, on a short-term basis. They've already started that process to literally move those resources to Washington State. Now, the reason why they're releasing it before it's officially been approved is because it takes some time for the bureaucracy to move forward and approve these kinds of things. But thankfully, the bureaucracy isn't getting in the way of sending the resources out here and providing them nearly immediately. The entire congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats asked for the assistance. And the president yesterday, talking directly to Bob Ferguson, indicated. that he would be supporting this, that it would be coming. And that's why you saw outside of former Governor Jay Inslee, A general bipartisan push for, or show of support, we'll say, a bipartisan show of support of the president and all of this. We're hearing more and more from people on the ground who are either stepping up to help in their communities or because they lost their communities for one longtime TV weatherman by the name of Mark Peterson of KXLY. He was on our sister station, Car News Radio, on the G and Ursula show.

He said the flames came dangerously close to his home. Just below our hill a mile away. He even sounds like a weatherman. That fire had moved into that area and now had moved up the hill as we were watching. Then the fire erupted about, I'd say, two, 300 yards away from us. Like that's got to be intense. not knowing whether or not the wind is going to blow in one particular direction, which would then change the trajectory of either the fire or the embers that end up getting flown closer to your home, catching fire there. Obviously, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. And there was a lot of terror because it's loud, it's hot, and you see that fire overtaking homes and these huge pine trees that go up and almost explode as they... Get that intense heat. Now, that's the most direct danger, obviously, is in Spokane. However, we're not immune to the impacts of the fire here on the west side of the state. We're now under an advisory for low air quality because of the smoke that's in the air. The report yesterday was that we were going to start to feel it earlier this morning. And this morning it was fine. I didn't notice anything. And I thought to myself, hey, maybe because of the direction of the winds, we're not going to get hit as hard. But then around 2-ish o'clock, maybe even a little bit before that, I went outside. I was like, oh, okay, I'm starting to feel it. I mean, I definitely even noticed a haze this morning. Did you? I didn't notice anything this more, at least early on this way. You're also lazy. You get up late. We've gone over this many times. I don't get up at 2 p.m. It was well before that. I was here. I mean, were you? But I'm just saying early, early, early this morning, I didn't notice anything. But the more I spent some time, like, I walked to go get my lunch and I just went out for a little bit of a stroll. And you can definitely tell that things were starting to change. It's supposed to get even worse later this evening. And it's going to last through, they say, at least Wednesday night. Public Land Commissioner Dave Up the Grove spoke with Caro 7 TV. Wildfire smoke can be dangerous to those particularly who are elderly, who have asthma, young children, and it's one of the ways that wildfire impacts all of the state of Washington. To be clear, everyone is impacted by poor quality air. You might be somewhat more sensitive given the demographics he just said, or if you've got asthma, as I do, we're going to be a little bit more sensitive. But the reality is, No one can really escape this. So just make sure you've got your, you know, if you have a system in your home to filter out the bad air, fire that bad boy up and keep those windows and doors shut. Because it is really bad. I don't think people realize how bad it is until. It just kind of hits them. It's like, oh yeah, I guess my throat has been really dry all of it. Why is my throat so dry? Well, this is why? It's also just annoying and unpleasant to look at. It's like I want the sky to be blue and again and see the sun, you know? I'm okay if I don't see the sun.

As long as the air I'm breathing is not the worst in the world, just because, again, I am hypersensitive to all of this. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, police have been ordered to stop writing tickets for shoplifting or citations for public drug use and trespassing. Not because those crimes don't matter. They obviously matter a lot. But because the city can't find enough public defenders to take on the cases, which is the outcome that the far left activists wanted to happen. This is all by design. The police chief, Troy Price, put out a memo that was obtained by KATU News. And it said instead of issuing a citation on the spot, you have to refer the offenses to the city attorney's office and then wait for that office to decide whether or not they're going to charge, which effectively means no one is going to be charged for these kinds of crimes. Second degree criminal trespass, trespassing in city parks, third degree theft. which covers almost all shoplifting, unless we're talking about, you know, a huge sum of, you know, stolen goods or the sum amounts to more than, what is it, $1,000 or whatever the felony, you know, charges here in Washington State. It also covers disorderly conduct, possession of a controlled substance or drugs, or using drugs in a public space. Anyone under 21 smoking weed also this gets, you know, gives you a pass essentially. And they say that we have an unfunded Supreme Court mandate. And this is the Washington State Supreme Court that cap the public defender caseloads. We were amongst the only media outlets screaming about this last year. You had the Public Defenders Association pleading directly with the state Supreme Court, which is overrun by leftists, claiming that their caseloads were too high, that they were unsustainable. And so the state Supreme Court said, okay, we're going to lower your max caseloads on both felonies and misdemeanors. That means you can only have X amount of cases at once. The problem, of course, is that crime is not going down at a fast enough pace that this doesn't have an impact. And we've talked to a number of prosecutors. Who do we talk to? Franklin County, Snohomish County, I think. Benton County we spoke to. Mason County, I'm pretty sure. We're talking to all these, mostly smaller. departments because they're saying we don't have enough public defenders we don't have the funding for the public defenders what are we supposed to do if we move well this is what happens they no longer write tickets this was the design they claimed that this was about Too much pressure being placed on the shoulders of public defenders. That's not really what this was about. They used that as an opportunity to enact their 2020 through 2024 BLM-inspired agenda of abolishing police, abolishing jails, stopping the prosecution of crimes. None of it is an accident. None of it. And Vancouver is about to experience.

what it's like living in that BLM world. And Vancouver has had all sorts of problems over the years. They seem to have gotten their acts together over the last year and a half or so, maybe two years. But any kind of forward momentum has just been stalled, unfortunately. Unfortunately, we'll have a write-up on this over at Seattlered.com. I don't know how I feel about this, but air traffic controllers at Payne Field in Everett just received a new tower simulation system, which is designed to improve training as part of the modernization effort from the FAA. This is a key piece of Secretary Sean Duffy's agenda, like getting everything modernized. They say it projects realistic airport layouts, which allows controllers to practice operations and a variety of different scenarios in a controlled environment that's more realistic. This is the only, and I love that, right? That sounds like a good... move, right? We're having modern updates to the training. They say it can reduce training times by nearly 30%. That's the part I don't necessarily like. Because it kind of feels like we should have more training, not less training, even if you're more efficient in the training. Can't we just offer them more training during the time that they would otherwise save? I get some of it is that the implication here is that it was taking... 30% more time to complete the training because of older technology. And I don't know what that time period actually is. Let's just make this up. It's six months. I'm making that number up. I'd rather, rather than just get it done 30% faster, just spend that extra 30% doing even more training. And really, because there's a lot going on up there. And. You know, I flew out of Reagan or in DC, DCA. Oh, yeah, you're not going to fly out of Doas. Ugh. Thank God we had a Delta flight direct, which, by the way, because now I'm a platinum member because of how much flying I'm doing. I get automatic upgrades nonstop and no one flies out of D.C. to Seattle or Seattle to D.C. for some reason, not sure why. But there's literally only one flight in the morning direct and one flight in the afternoon direct, both ways. So I got upgraded to first class. But I was very nervous because they had that accident not long ago. And I know that they're having, you know, a shortage of traffic controllers, air traffic controllers. I'm okay with having a shortage for a little bit longer if you're getting extra training. I'm just going to throw that out there. Is that wrong with me?

I think that's a reasonable ask. And I say this as someone, when we have someone training on the show, for example, when you have someone coming in, I think we have someone training tomorrow or Wednesday, whoever that is. I'm sure he or she is wonderful. Do you know who it is? I have no idea. Actually, I met him, but I forgot his name. I'm sure he's a wonderful person. We'll have to come up with the nickname so I remember his name. I throw them on the show almost immediately. Right? He will shadow you for maybe one hour. And then I always do this. I say, how are you feeling, hot shot? And they're like, yeah, I'm feeling good. They don't expect that my response then is, okay, well, then you're running the board and you're producing with Jackson shadowing you for the remainder. And then you get all upset because you're bored, even though you should just be listening to the show and being entertained. We do that all the time. But it's not just like one and done. Even if they're great at it. And most of the people who we train, who was the last one we trained, who was really good, who left? Cash? Cash. Yeah, Kash Patel. Cash money. He was really good. I still had him. You were still shadowing him for, what, a week? Ish. That sounds about right. Yeah. That's how we do it. But Jason, his training was done the first day and he was fine after. Yeah, so. We allotted a full week. I want him there for the full week. Because when something doesn't go the right way, there are problems. And, you know, just as serious as an air traffic controller, screwing something up is a producer board op. It's arguably more important. Arguably. Because I'm more exposed than a pilot if something goes wrong here. At least they've got other people who can step in. I've got one person in there. They got parachutes, right? Yeah. I don't. You know what happens when something goes wrong here? I've got a vamp for an hour and a half. commercials aren't running. What do you want from me? I got to talk this whole time. God, I hate you. 1,800, 465, 877 for your text. Good news in Everett, but do some more training. We come back, you pick the news. Story number one, a Boise concert was canceled, I think a day and a half after the performer was announced. Azalea Banks. who has made some pretty awful comments across the board offending pretty much everyone. Is this cancel culture or story number two? A shocking former popular social media site that died is staging a comeback. And I'm weirdly excited for it. Which story should we discuss? 1-800-4-65-877. You vote. We talk when we come back on the Jason Rancho. The all-new Seattle Red.com. Finally, conservatives in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest have a home dedicated to local news. When I'm out and about in Seattle or anywhere just because I like to go into the field. Conservative analysis and opinion. And the left is saying this is anti-democracy. Seattlered.com is a new experience for Seattle's conservative movements where your comments are welcome and we encourage thoughtful conversation and debate. This is the key piece here. Visit the all-new Seattlered.com.

picked the topic on the Jason Ranch show. Indeed, you do. And you're curious about a new social media site, which I will say, on the one hand, I'm weirdly excited about. On the other hand, do we really need any more social media for the love of God? Please, God, no, please no, please stop it. One particular site is trying to make a comeback. MySpace. Remember MySpace? Was that a thing for you at all? I mean, not me personally. You might be familiar? My general. My friends had it, though. Did they really? Oh, yeah. So that was like the last though, I think was your year. Yeah. Because you're 30 now. 31. 31. I mean, even that seems a little bit too old for MySpace. So it must have been really, really, really at the end of MySpace. MySpace was huge. MySpace was to me when I was younger. as X is right now or whatever kids are, what are, I don't know what the kid, TikTok, I guess. Yeah, TikTok. Myspace was like sort of the OG Facebook, but it was used primarily for three things. One was to post music. Like your favorite songs, you would post photos and you would post the lyrics to emo songs so that people would check in to make sure you weren't suicidal. That was what MySpace was used for. You would throw in like a saves the day song and then people like, oh, what's going on? Why did you just post at your funeral? Are you okay? Talk to me. You just post these passive orcussive lyrics. And that was what MySpace was for. Unless I completely misremember, it was for kids or teens. Like you weren't really finding a whole bunch of adults on it. Or if you were, maybe they were mid-20s. It wasn't people like posting an article, like some political article like, call your congressman. It was none of that. And for the most part, you know, your parents and grandparents weren't on it the way that they're on Facebook. And Facebook and Instagram lean a little bit older. and, you know, TikTok and Snap and all those things lean younger. MySpace was in the younger crowd. Then it just died. It could not survive any competition, weirdly enough, even though there was virtually no competition. And then Facebook all of a sudden popped up and they're like, oh, we're just jumped ship to Facebook. They just jumped, which is just so weird because you can introduce something now and you don't have to choose between. one or the other people have Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat and TikTok and X now sometimes you'll have someone but those are like the crazy yeah sky maybe you pick three like I regularly use personally I regularly use X and Instagram that's pretty much it doesn't mean I don't have the other ones I still post on Facebook and whatnot but I don't use it as much They say MySpace could be staging a comeback two decades after its decline as they try to now.

They say, recompete with all the other social media sites. The owners, brothers Tim and Chris Vanderhook, announced plans to relaunch MySpace with a new vision. They said they want to create a platform that feels different from the current social media platforms, which folks complain are too focused on algorithms and are designed to encourage endless scrolling. So the Vanderhooks said that... They built an entirely new MySpace. They didn't actually tell us much about what it would be other than we really tried to modernize it. I don't know what that means. I guess it'll just have to sign up and try it to see for yourself. I am curious about what it could be. But I'm also skeptical of anyone who says they can do social media in a new way because all the quote-unquote new. updated or evolved social media channels are basically the same ones just with different branding. Tell me what's the difference, not by user, because the user base is a little bit different, but the functionality of blue sky or threads. How is that any different than X and Facebook? It's not. It's exactly the same. You just called it something different and you brought in. a new clientele, yeah, a new base of users, or they at least self-selected to become, because obviously threads, threads, I would argue, was worse than Blue Sky, mostly because I got banned from Blue Sky and I post every once in a while automatically on threads for my Instagram account. They're all crazy, the people who respond. Like, they're legitimately all mentally ill. These are, so we have two versions of the Epstein file people, the conservative ones and the liberal ones. Right? The liberal ones are way worse because at least the conservatives were talking about Epstein files for years. The liberals all of a sudden started to talk about it. They're all on threats. They're all nuts. So what could MySpace do that's truly different? And this idea that we're not going to encourage endless scrolling, well, okay, I get that. And there's nothing wrong with that from a user standpoint. How do you make money then? The reason why they have endless scrolling. It's not because they're evil and they want you to waste your time. It's because it delivers more ads to you. The more scrolling you're doing, the more opportunities for ads to get in front of you. So what can Myspace do? I do like the idea of maybe going back to its roots and making a social media site that is more focused on maybe music and movies. Just that. But isn't that what Instagram is too? You can create an Instagram that... You only get content or mostly get content that is within the subjects you're interested in, right? Like, if I go on Instagram right now, I know what I'm going to get served by the algorithm because it knows me really well. And I am pretty selective in what I choose to follow. Outside of people who I know, I follow accounts that are in Pet Rescue. Like most of the thing are Eric and Joey saving some poor animal from a Chicago, you know, nonprofit or rescue or kennel. They take it for a run and then they get it adopted. The dodo. The dodo is nonstop on my account. Nile Harbenson, I follow his stuff. Then I get a bunch of like tech review stuff. I get travel stuff. I get some hair stuff and I get gambling stuff. That's all, that's the entirety of my Instagram.

Couldn't I just do that then with music if that's what I wanted? So I am curious. Some of it is nostalgia that I want to go back to MySpace and post lyrics that are going to have you question my mental health.