Neal Larson and Julie Mason start in their usual gear-shifting way—riffing on Utah potentially becoming a real-life Jetsons test lab for personal aerial vehicles (cargo first, people later) and the creeping reality of humanoid robots—before pivoting hard into an Idaho Legislature vote urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider *Obergefell* (the 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide). What makes the conversation stick is that it isn’t a simple “just undo it” take. They walk through the practical and political reality of trying to unwind a decade of contracts, taxes, insurance, property, and state laws built on that ruling—plus the electoral risk of re-litigating an issue that has become culturally embedded. They also debate the proper role of courts vs. legislatures, including a caller’s argument that courts shouldn’t be treated as ultimate lawgivers, and they push back on how quickly “ignore the courts” becomes a recipe for chaos.
In the second half, they dig into Idaho’s intraparty dynamics with Neal’s “Party Cohesion Index” (the “handy dandy data sheet”)—a metric tracking how often lawmakers vote with their party on true split votes. The goal isn’t to whip up hostility; it’s to give constituents something measurable to start better conversations with their representatives, especially when public messaging doesn’t match voting patterns. They also touch on concerns about Democrats encouraging crossover registration to influence Republican primaries, and they land on a simple response: conservatives can’t be apathetic—register, show up, and vote. Along the way they wrestle with the bigger philosophical question underneath the marriage fight: once government took ownership of marriage for secular benefits, did it inevitably invite government to redefine it?
### Highlights
– Utah as a testing ground for “Jetsons” transportation: high-speed electric aerial vehicles, cargo first, then people
– Idaho’s memorial urging SCOTUS to revisit *Obergefell*—and why undoing it isn’t as clean as it sounds
– Courts vs. legislatures: what happens if states decide Supreme Court rulings are “optional”?
– The “Party Cohesion Index” as a transparency tool for spotting trends and prompting constituent questions
– Closed primaries and crossover voting: the antidote is turnout and registration, not wishful thinking
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