8/11/2026 THE SIMON CONWAY SHOW Hour 3

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God. Top stories and the analysis you trust, Simon Conway, on your radio and the Iheart Radio app. All across the great state of Iowa, where it is the Simon Conway Show, you are very, very welcome in. You know, we have been talking to President Trump on this show ever since he came down the escalator. We were the first non-national outlet he spoke to, and he's been speaking to us ever since. I think I've done 30 interviews with him. He's been on a lot of radio stations, but he hasn't been two physically radio stations. Well, apart from this one. where he's been twice now. And he really has changed American politics. The big question is, is this forever? Or are we going to go back to a pre-Trump era once he is done? That's a question I want to answer. Let's talk to our guest. His name is Scott Greer. He is the author of White Pill, the online right and the making of Trump's America. You're very welcome, Scott. How are you? I'm great. How about yourself? I'm very well. This is a very interesting book for me because there was a moment in the president's first term. It was literally the day of the election that I spoke to him. I interviewed him in the morning. And then when we were done with the interview, he said to me, Simon, how do you think it's going? And I said, I think it's going very well, Donald. He had me calling, I was one of the few that got to call him Donald. And he said, how do you think it's going to shake out? I said, I think the next time I talk to you, I'll be calling you Mr. President. And he said, why? I'm like, well, you just put 35, 40,000 people in an airplane hangar at 1 o'clock in the morning in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the early morning of election day. Why? Why were they there? What were they expecting? You weren't going to unveil some brand new policy that was going to convince anybody. If you don't look at that and don't understand that something dramatic just happened in our country, then you're really not paying attention. And you have put all that together in a book. So what happened? Oh, man, a lot happened. That is a big question. A lot happened. But I think one thing you brought up is that from going back to these elections, you know, Trump tapped into something that no other Republican and no other conservative was tapping into. There was a, you know, this is you could say it's an untapped market that was there that if you looked at the other contenders in the 2016 race, none of them were saying anything that Trump was saying. And Trump took the one issue.

that all the other candidates were ignoring, but the base cared a lot about, and we're starting to demonstrate their care for, and many of the primaries, the Republican primaries and years prior to that, and that issue was immigration. And you have to remember that when he came down the escalator, what all the news coverage focused on was his comments on immigration, which they were all appalled by, that he's like, how dare he say these illegal immigrants? are bringing racists over and drugs and crime and all these bad things. How dare he say that? And many of the Republicans were condemning him as well, saying, oh, we're moving past that. We're now going to give them amnesty. We're no longer demonizing them or whatever that they would say. But Trump took this issue and knew it connected with millions of Americans and no other politician was talking about this. And he was able to take over the GOP and remake conservatism and the Republican Party in his image on this one issue. And if you compare how conservatives and Republicans talk about this issue, compare to the pre-Trump era night and day. Back in the pre-Trump era, you would be lucky if one of the candidates, one of the Republican, you know, congressmen, lawmakers would say something opposed to amnesty, illegal immigration. They wouldn't even discuss legal immigration. And now today you have Republicans who want to demonstrate that they're more conservatives in the rest of the field. They want to talk about how they want to restrict not just illegal immigration, but legal immigration. And that is part of the Trump effect that had demonstrated in my book. called White Hill. So this is what that's one of the many things that's happened. And it's also been a transformation in the media landscape that has brought up many issues that the mainstream media didn't cover in the past, but now it was brought to the fore due to this new media space brought on by the internet. Well, we don't, here's the bottom line. We don't trust those institutions anymore. Correct. Right? We just don't. We don't trust the government to tell us the truth about healthcare. That's a really serious problem, by the way. It's not that we're wrong to distrust them. They looked us in the eye and lied to us. But we need to get to the next stage where we feel comfortable that they're not going to do that again. Correct. Yes, that's, they, and we can even bring up COVID. There's been many things that they've tried to lie to us and say, this is the one thing. You know, we've got to lock down the whole country. We've got to not let kids go to school or have kids mask up even during lunchtime and all this nonsense. And they told us we had to do this. And then we found out that this didn't do anything to curb the, you know, the spread of COVID. So, yes, no, the mainstream media is full of wires and is. been responsible for many things, you know, look at how they portrayed the George Floyd event. And afterwards it's saying that we needed to fund the police and the real problem in America is systemic racism and we need to wipe out our heritage and change our law because of George Floyd. Now we get more of the truth. And I think you bring up the correct point that we have to worry about them not saying the truth. But today, you have so much access to information.

and so many different avenues besides the mainstream media that you didn't have in the past. And this was beneficial to Trump, because Trump could have never existed in the 2000, the decade, I mean, obviously the century, or in the 90s and the 80s, because there was a controlled media environment where everyone paid attention to the same big newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, and the same few networks. And when you have that controlled media space, It made it very difficult for someone like a true outsider like Donald Trump to arise. But with more people turning to the Internet and they're not being the levels of control that the old media space had, it allowed for people to find out truth and all their information that they would have never found out or never heard about before. And a lot of people, you know, if they're, you know, say if Trump's running in 88 election or something. You know, people would have been like, oh, well, you know, the newspapers tell me he's the most evil person ever, and then immigration is this great thing. I'm going to trust them. But in 2016, and especially today, they could learn all their information that would tell them that that's actually not true. What the Washington Post in your times are telling you, and CNN is telling you, is not true. There's a different story there. And that's one of the reasons that I'm optimistic that this new political dynamic, this new framework that was created by Trump. is going to remain because the old media environment, the old political structures that didn't allow outsiders like Trump to emerge, that's gone. We're in a completely new era where, you know, we're no longer paying attention to what CNN tells us about who to vote for and what information to believe and what we should think on various issues. Who's the heir apparent? Who's the heir apparent? That's a great question, but it looks like it's JD Vance by all appearances. But whoever it is, you know, they've got big shoes to fill. And we may not even have a true heir apparent in 2028. I mean, depending on how the election goes. You know, we might have to wait until the 2030s to find a true Arab parent. But it's going to be big shoes to feel. It's in the same way with Ronald Reagan in the 80s. You know, we didn't have an immediate era parent to Reagan when he left office as well. But Reagan had a major effect and was this gigantic figure within the Republican Party and the conservative movement for 30 years after he left office. And I think we're going to see that with the same with Trump, where... You had candidates in 2016. We're all saying, I'm the next Ronald Reagan. You're probably going to see candidates in the 2030s and 2040 saying, I'm the next Donald Trump in a similar fashion. That's going to be interesting, actually. You know, by the way, you're on the Ronald Reagan station right now, do you? That's fun. We're not certified. W.H.O. Radio is where Ronald Reagan worked for five years before he went to Hollywood. Oh, yeah, when he was a sports captain. Yeah, he was a sports castor. He was, all right, we even play his audio.

The WHO kept on pioneering. This station had its own accredited war correspondents in World War II, the Pacific and the European Theater. That great family of listeners here in the Middle West heard at first hand broadcast descriptions of the Battle of the Bulls and the signing of the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. And always, with the new and the different, there was an emphasis on service. During the war, WHO sold more than $6 million in war bombs to 25,000 investors in 46 states. clothing drive conducted for the destitute in the war zones and the news bureau of w h o acted as a clearinghouse the people of greece in gratitude named their streets some of their streets w h o and demoy and even ireland the legacy of the great communicator continues on news radio 1040 w h o there there goes a little gift for you right there that's awesome i did not realize that that's some great history that's uh yeah that was Hey, you've guys been around for over 100 years then. We have been around for over 100 years. Yes, sir. We've been around. I think we're 103rd year, I think. Yeah, 103. Yeah. So anyway. Then you'll maybe, remember 200 years how you were the first radio station to have Donald Trump. You know, we interviewed him a number of times, and we have maintained great access to the administration. I've already been at a White House three times, invited, not just showed up. And, you know, we get to talk to members of the cabinet on a fairly regular basis as well. All right, Scott, we will see what we will see. By the way, my answer to the air apparent, I think, I think in the current administration is probably Marco Rubio. that we will see how this all shakes out because i think you need a bold personality and i think he's got it uh scott once one more time give out the name of your book so everybody can write it down The book is White Hill, the online right and the making of Trump's America. It will tell you the full story of how our current era of politics came about. So get it on Amazon while you can. There you go. Scott Greer. Thank you very much. So you have yourself a good and safe rest of the day. Appreciate your contribution today. Thank you. There you go. Is it ever going to be the same? Two and a bit more years of this administration and then what? This is the Simon Conway show.

All across the great state of Iowa, it is the Simon Conway Show. If you're just joining us, the Rod Stewart concert at the Iowa State Fair has been cancelled. And I even just got a talk back saying it hasn't been cancelled. Yes, it has been cancelled. We have received the official communication from the Iowa State Fair that the concert has been cancelled due to his ill health. So the Rod Stewart concert this year's Iowa State Fair has been cancelled. Ticket... Tricket refunds will take place. Depending on where you've got them, some of that will be automatically done back to the card that you purchased them on and others are happening in different ways. But they're all being refunded and it's just very sad. And we wish Sir Rod very well. Yes, we do. So I posed a question at the end of that interview that I just did, which is who is the heir apparent? Who is the heir apparent to Donald Trump? Who will be able to carry that mantle forward? And I'd like to hear from you, actually. We've already got text messages. I'd like to hear from you on a text line. 81530. You can also send us a talk back. And you can even call us at 515-284-1040, 284-1040. Me? Personality-wise, big personality. Stephen Miller. Marco Rubio. I think those are the two that have the biggest personalities in the administration. Look, JD Vance is obviously the Vice President of the United States. He is in position A. If he says, I'm running, it's going to take a brave person, frankly, to run against him. Mrs. C is the person that's been involved in politics. Me, not so much. But I just feel that from the outside looking in. that it would take a very brave person to run against a vice president who frankly has done nothing wrong, right? He's done nothing wrong. He's supported the president. He's been very vocal about his support of the president. He's been handled, handed some very important things, such as being the lead person on fraud, such as being the lead negotiator on trying to bring the Iran thing to the end. So he's been handed some really important stuff. And if he says, I'm running. I don't know that Marco Rubio, for example, is going to stand up and say, well, I'm going to run against you. I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think Stephen Miller is going to do that either. I think if JD Vance runs, he will be probably unopposed. Let's go to Mrs. C and see if she thinks I might be right about that purely on the, you know, it's not really a political... conversation it's more about the dynamics of how this stuff works if JD Vance runs does anyone run against him in the cabinet i do not think so but i think if there is someone else such as Marco Rubio the internal um polling and discussions are showing would do better a conversation will privately be had with jd and excuse me vice president JD Vance and they will make it very clear this is not your time

Okay. He won't get the christening. All right. Well, time will tell. Who do you think might be the air apparent? Because you've got to start thinking about it, right? If there is to be a fight, it's going to start next year probably. We'll start to see some people show up at the Iowa State Fair next year. For sure in 2028. Absolutely for sure in 2028. There'll be Republicans all over the great state of Iowa if they decide to oppose JD Vance. The question is if he's unopposed, will he show up here? That's another question. I think he probably will. But it's going to be kind of difficult. Because he will still be in the shadow of the president. He will not resign to run. So he's still going to be vice president. So it's going to be very interesting indeed to see what occurs over the coming months. That's for sure. But whoever it is, whoever it is, will they say, I'm the next Donald Trump? I don't think they will. I really don't. I think it's going to be down to the Trump supporters as to whether or not they think whoever that is might have even some, even some of the things that make Donald Trump different from everybody else. And I think the biggest one, the biggest one that is the difference, frankly, is the truth telling. The direct language that Donald Trump uses that appeals to an awful lot of Americans. It just does. That's just the reality. That direct language appeals to an awful lot of Americans. We want these people out of here. We're not going to pussyfoot around it. This is what we want. And the fact of Donald Trump was able to verbalize what a lot of people were feeling, and, you know, Make America Great again, by the way, was not his. Ronald Reagan used it. Bill Clinton used it. So it wasn't his, but he's made it his. And now people get freaked out by a hat. My favorite hat that I own that I wear that never ceases to get multiple comments every time I wear it is a red hat with white lettering. And it says, relax. It's just a hat. Literally what it says. And Mrs. C will tell you, everywhere I go wearing that hat, people comment on that hat. Everywhere. Because it just highlights the stupidity of people getting bent out of shape over a hat. But they do. So anyway, it's certainly interesting. I would be very interested to know what you guys think or who you guys think is the heir apparent. Who is the next person to run for president with a Republican jacket on? That's the question.

And who will they be facing on the other side of the aisle? Is it going to be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? I think it might be. But she's not going to have a clear run. Right? It's not going to be like that. She will not have a clear run. She possibly will be not far left enough. Oh, really? I mean that. Because I'm saying that because if you look at what she's walking back. right now the stuff she's walking back right now is because they're telling her these policies are too crazy america's not going to elect you and the far far far left she's only the far left the far far left is not going to like that and they may well find a candidate to run against her they may well so it's going to be an interesting primary will Kamala Harris run It depends. There's no way she is polling well. There is no way that their internal polling is saying, yep, she's the one. Will she do it to get humiliated a third time? I don't think so. Gavin Newsom, he's going to run, I think, no matter what. No matter what the polling says. He's not well liked either. And I think that's a huge part of how you get elected president. You have to be liked. And I don't think he is. So anyway, that is where we are. We'll return to this issue for sure. It is coming up to 631. We will pause some news. And then we will continue our conversation straight after that. We are all across the great state of Iowa. And this is the Simon Conway Show.

All across the great state of Iowa, it is the Simon Conway Show. I do not understand some humans. I really don't. You know, we only get rescue dogs in my house. We have, right now, two of them. We have Magnus, when our son found him, he was dressed as a burrito. He had, really, he had no life. He was kept in a store as a prop, and that was his life. He lived in the store. He had nobody to love him or anything else. That's just how he lived. Our chocolate brown lab, Hank, purebred chocolate brown lab. uh his owners had to have had him from a puppy because when we got him he was one year old and he weighed 44 pounds because they moved house and they abandoned him inside today by the way he weighs about 75 pounds which is where he should be which brings us to the story of blossom Blossom is a puppy, about five months old, based on pictures I've seen, has maybe some golden in her, maybe some lab, I don't know. Five months old, full-sized dog weighs 9.7 pounds. On the phone with us on the Davidson Family Dentistry Newsmaker line is Dr. Kate's from the Animal Rescue League. We're going to tell a blossom story in a minute, but before anything else, you've had her for what, about 24, 48 hours? How's she doing? Yeah, so we've actually had her since August 8th. And so she's been doing okay. All things considered, she's really doing okay. We're very happy that we've got her. Right. So this dog was emaciated, obviously. Critical condition, obviously, 9.7 pounds. Two people found a garbage bag. On top of the garbage bag was a pet food bowl. They went down a path into an overgrown ditch, and they found the puppy. Yep. You say it's a large breed dog. What do we think she is? Yeah, I think you said it. She does look like a golden retriever puppy. She's got that really nice golden color. She's got that kind of fringy, long hair. So until proven otherwise, I would label her as a golden retriever puppy. Okay. You heard the story of my two dogs, the one before that.

He was found wandering, he also, by the way, was a chocolate brown lab, pure bread, chocolate brown lab. He was found wandering around, and based on his condition, they thought he'd been outside for about eight months, which we didn't understand, actually, how we survived that until we'd had him quite a few years, because he displayed no alpha tendencies at all. And then one day he did, which was, and we were all like, oh. That's how he did it. But I didn't even know he was a chocolate brown lab. He had very short, coarse, almost calico cat-colored hair as opposed to fur. But we just fed him properly for two weeks, and he turned into an absolutely beautiful chocolate brown lab. Do you ever question what is wrong with humans that do this to animals? Does that ever enter your head, or are you just more concerned about the patient? Yeah, I mean, absolutely. When I saw her, my first thoughts are just like, oh, my gosh, how do I even help you? And then just kind of go into the list of what I need to do for her. And then it's like, when I'm driving home or just kind of sitting, I'm like, wow, someone most likely did this to you. And it's just crazy that it still exists, honestly. But yeah, I think that's fair. But in the moment, it's just more like, oh, my goodness, we need to do something right now. You know, I had a Florida show, and at the last big hurricane, somebody tied a dog up next to I-75. The water was already up to his belly. It is quite amazing that a state trooper saw him from the side of the road and went and rescued him. But he'd have drowned. People are just so freaking evil. I don't understand it. Yeah, and it's hard to say, like, what happens here. I mean, we don't know the full story. You know, I only know that she just didn't have, she wasn't eating, wasn't drinking. She was severely dehydrated, amaciated, like we said. So, you know, I can only just think about her and what it means to get her better and, you know, rooting for her to get better. I know all of this are. But, yeah, it's a lot to think about sometimes, yeah, and sit with. She has a long road, right? No doubt. Yeah, I mean, like I said, we've had her since the eighth. And it's been really slow games, really slow, like trying to get a little bit stronger every day. But, yeah, she's got a long road. She's got to build back up everything that she lost. Right. So, I mean, here's a question. How much should a five-month-old golden retriever, that's where we're going. We think she's a golden retriever. Yeah. How much should a five-month-old golden retriever weigh? A healthy one. Yeah. I mean, I would think that we would be looking at, like, teens or 20. They're usually kind of roly-poly, you know, they're a bigger breed dog, so easily can anticipate being like a mid-sized dog. I mean, we're... So she's a girl, so she's slightly smaller, so what, mid-20s to, if she's on the heavy side, maybe 40 pounds as a five-month-old? Yeah, I would say we're probably looking at the 20 to 30 range. Yeah, I think that's fair.

So, having first scratched your head and how do I help you, what are you doing? I mean, what are you doing for? The feeding must be the hardest part because you can't just say, hey, here's a massive bowl of food, go eat. Right? Because that'll just make her ill. So how do you even begin to approach something like this? Yeah, exactly. So the biggest thing with that, she was severely dehydrated. So we've got to resuscitate her fluid balance. So got an IV in, started giving her IV fluid. She was, had a lower temperature, so wanted to make sure that she could warm up. So she was definitely in the elements and not really sure how long she had been outside. And then, yeah, figuring out, like, okay, how do we just, like, be really careful feeding you? So, just a really small portion, taking it easy. She's been really good about it. I mean, you can tell she wants to eat you at her house and home, but just really, like, telling people, like, okay, she's on a strict feeding plan. You know, this is what we need to do to just kind of slowly get her body used to it. Got to recheck weight, kind of make sure that she's able to. you know, use the bathroom, too. So all those things, you just have to really take the whole team, and thankfully, you know, the rest of the league has that. Absolutely. Well, you guys are miracle workers. I know they regard you that way down there as well. And we've seen some of these dogs come out the other end, and that is a testament to you and your team. So we'll keep hoping for her, and we'll keep tabs on her. I think we'll... We'll do little regular check-ins with her and see how she's doing. Yeah, I appreciate the support from everyone. I'm thankful to, again, be a part of the organization and to have a platform like this. So, yeah, please keep free for her and thinking about her. It's a very long road. She's very weak. If she has it in her, though, you can just tell by her eyes. Like, she's... That's what I noticed. I noticed their eyes. That's amazing. Yeah. That's amazing. That's the first thing that got me was her eyes. Yep. I'm like, wow. Okay. You're here. We're in this together. Okay, we got this. So. Well, Dr. Kates, thank you very much. And by the way, people go to ARL-Iowa.org. And if you can donate some cash, it helps with all the things like the medicine and the food and everything else. Dr. Kates, thank you very much. Appreciate you, man. Thank you so much. Take care. All right. Take care. Bye for now. We'll take a quick final time out. How do humans do this to animals? I seriously cannot get my head around it. This is the Simon Conway show.

All across the great state of Iowa, where it is the Simon Conway show, you're very, very welcome in. It is hard to believe it's 654. We're almost out of here. Today's show is absolutely flown by. A couple of things for tomorrow. A couple of things for tomorrow. Steve Scalise will be on the show tomorrow, Mr. C. Steve Scalise, he'll be on the show tomorrow. That's fairly impressive. And the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent. We'll be on the show tomorrow. You're going to have quite the day. It's quite impressive. The second one means I have to wear a suit again. Right? You know, I don't like wearing suits. But it's a respect thing. Every once in a while you can pull it off. Yeah, I look all right in a suit, but it's a respect thing. You know, it's warm and dampen. I'm sure he'll appreciate the effort. All the rest of it. But yes, I will be wearing a suit. Once again, I'll be doing that again tomorrow. So there is that. But yes, Scott Bessent will be here. If you're going out to the machine shed tomorrow morning... For the Westside Breakfast. Then I will see you there. Mrs. C, not so much. Nope. I have lots to do tomorrow. I need to go set up the Blue Star Mom table out at the Iowa State Fair. And, oh, gosh, got to go through cards. This year we're doing something a little bit different. We are taking cards for those that are deployed, and we're doing care packages for Iowa veterans. So you have your choice. You can do a card for a deployed active duty. Or you can do a thank you card for an Iowa veteran. So you can do cards at the fair. Or if you have cards, bring them to donate and let other people fill out or fill some out and bring them to me and I'll go ahead and take them. There you go. That's how all that is going to work. We'll probably spend a bit more time tomorrow between, you know, members of the cabinet. on the show. And we'll spend some time tomorrow. We've planned the first two days of the Iowa State Fair. We still have gaps that people that will come on that we don't know anything about right now because that's how we run the fair show. We never have a hard time finding somebody or something to talk about. But day two in particular is jam-packed. And day three for us on the air, of course, is the Monday. right the monday uh day three is veterans day and uh so uh one thing for sure is we will be talking to general osborne so uh that's uh that's for sure so anyway All that is going on, we have to go to the horse barn, see our friends from Windy Acres, and their Clydesdells, talking of Clydesdells, the Clydesdells. When you say the Clydesdales, there's only one set of Clydesdales you're talking about, right? I think so. Yeah, the Budweiser Clydesdales. You know, the best of popular to share. They're back. They will be riding past the Crystal Studio at 5 o'clock every evening.

during for the duration of the Iowa State Fair. So that's always cool. So they're going to be there as well. And pretty much the Iowa State Fair is just top of brain right now. But tomorrow, tomorrow, we're talking to the third most powerful man in the country. Some people think it's the Secretary of State. I think it's the Secretary of the Treasury, to be honest with you. He who controls the money. Yeah. It's the economy stupid, right? So anyway, he's, you know, some people may think he's fourth. He's certainly no lower than that. I think he's third because the president, the vice president and the secretary of the treasury, that is a... a trifecta that you have right there that is very, very important. So anyway, we're going to talk to a Scott Bessent tomorrow. I'm looking forward to that conversation. And then you get to wear comfy clothes for the next 11 days after that. Yes. We're talking to Steve Scalise tomorrow as well. And we just confirmed a member of the cabinet for the fair too. So my goodness, we're busy. All across the great state of Iowa, this has been the Saibing Conway Show. Thank you to all of our guests today. Mrs. C has podcasted those. Thanks to the best producer in the business, the aforementioned Mrs. Conway. Thank you, honey. You're welcome, my dear. Mainly, however, my thanks to you guys, it is truly never the same without you. We will be back at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to do it all over again with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Until then, have yourselves a truly great night. Good night.