775 Alive
775 is the area code of rural Nevada. The 775 Alive Podcast was created by Scott Gavorsky and Crystal Newton in 2025, after years of participating in the politics and economy of rural Nevada. Scott is a historian and consultant who currently serves on a number of government commissions and Crystal is a Business Strategist who has previously ran for office. Together they bring a three-dimensional look at modern culture and issues of rural Nevada, the United States & the Global Economy.
Episodes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the hottest issues of the 2026 Midterm Elections, and Crystal and Scott could not resist the opportunity to talk about the subject again. While data centers remain the touch-button concern, we have a wider discussion about where AI might be going. Among the topics are flock cameras, AI for government auditing and uses, opt-in/opt-out data collection, and whether the issue is AI or ...
As the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 Terror Attacks passes, Crystal and Scott sit down with Tommy Turk, a retired firefighter who experienced 9/11 from both the Elko and New York perspectives. Tommy was fire battalion chief for the National Forest Service in Elko when 9/11 happened, and shares stories of the immediate impact on northern Nevada in the midst of fire season. Within a few days, he was called to New York to assist the Fi...
Are the deep divisions we see across the country inevitable--or even real? Crystal and Scott sit down with Wesley Warshawer, a Fulbright scholar and business data analyst whose extensive travels across the United States and the world since the COVID pandemic have led to what he describes as 'epiphanies' that we might not be as divided as the media makes it seem. We discuss the various divides--red-vs-blue, urban-vs-rural, America-v...
Water has been a perennial issue in Nevada politics. Crystal and Scott sit down with Laura McSwain, President of the Water Fairness Coalition, to discuss the myriad fights going on at the moment. We start with the recent Colorado River Compact and the recent decisions that have effectively punished Nevada for doing the most to conserve water usage. Two key points are the inability of conservation alone to address the water issues a...
Melissa Clement, Executive Director for Nevada Right to Life, joins Crystal and Scott to discuss one of the major Nevada ballot initiatives this year: Ballot Question # 6. The conversation covers the Dobbs decision reversing Roe v. Wade, how Nevada's current abortion law works and what Ballot Question # 6 would expand on it, and the role of non-profits in abortion and maternal support services.
Nevada Right-to-Life: https://...
The ongoing situation with Iran continues to dominate the news. Crystal and Scott delve into the complexities of the conflict. We look at the recent history of Iran and the United States, the role of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG), the question of nuclear weapons, possible strategies and goals, and the impacts of oil and fertilizer blockages on the global economy.
Crystal and Scott are joined by one of the up-and-coming names in northern Nevada politics, former Nevada CD-2 Candidate Sherman Tylawsky. In addition to hosting the "Friends and Fellow Citizens" podcast, Sherman is also currently a graduate student studying China and American conservative approach to it from the perspectives of ideology versus institutions. We discuss the current goals of China, the history of US-China relations, ...
Crystal and Scott wade into the booming debate about data centers. After all of our episodes on AI, we get to talk about AI infrastructure! Topics include the differences in data center types, how long data centers have been around, why the new hyperscale data centers are problematic, and the economic and foreign policy dynamics structuring them. We finish by digging into the major issue: is this about data centers, or is som...
Crystal and Scott wade into the debates on three of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions at the end of June 2026: whether the counting of ballots can continue after Election Day, birthright citizenship, and boys in girls' sports. Interestingly, all three of these have parallel repercussions in Nevada that we unpack as well.
Crystal and Scott are joined by Bella Cummins, Madam at Bella's Hacienda Ranch brothel in Wells and author of the book Sexual Healers, to discuss one of the unique aspects of Nevada: its legal brothel model. Bella discusses how she came to own the Hacienda Ranch and the experiences running a heavily-regulated sensual services business in Nevada. In her book Sexual Healers Bella advocates for the extension of Nevada's brothel model ...
With the America 250 Anniversary approaching, Crystal and Scott sit down to talk about the Declaration of Independence, both the history and its continuing resonance. After Crystal stumps Scott with some 1776 trivia, we discuss celebrations of the the holiday, how independence not only marked a new stage in the world but united the fractious colonies, the role of the militia and what became the Second Amendment, and the higher valu...
Nevada's 2026 Primary Election Day was June 9th, 2026--a week after California's. Crystal and Scott discuss the results of Nevada's primaries, particularly the bitterly contested Congressional District 2 (CD-2) race. We also look at the impact of AI marketing, the low voter turnout--particularly from Non-Partisans--and some predictions for the upcoming General Election in November.
For a list of the statewide primary results...
The concept of "cashless bail" has been a centerpiece of many of the legal reform movements for the past 6-8 years. Crystal and Scott sit down with Attorney Ken W. Good of the Professional Bondmen of Texas and the Bail Post Podcast to discuss the concept. Topics include the origin of the "cashless bail" idea, how it compares to traditional surety bail systems, and whether it is actually addressing many of the issues that legal refo...
Metin Pekin's recent "Breaking Democracy's Chains" makes an argument that political parties, especially those in the United Kingdom and the United States, have perverted the democratic process in both countries. Crystal and Scott sit down with him to discuss the American Founding Fathers' views of political parties, some of the problems the current party systems are creating, and the outline of his No-Party Democracy program to res...
Homeless population growth has been a problem in both Las Vegas and rural areas such as Pahrump and Elko. Crystal and Scott sit down with David Marlon of Vegas Stronger, a Las Vegas non-profit dedicated to breaking the cycle of addiction, mental illness, and homelessness by providing compassionate, trauma-informed, evidence-based behavioral healthcare. They discuss the role that that drug addiction and mental illness plays in the h...
Mid-decade redistricting and charges of gerrymandering continue to roil national political discussions, leading 775 Alive to revisit the issue. Dr. Sondra Cosgrove of the College of Southern Nevada and Vote Nevada joins Crystal and Scott to break apart some of the national and Nevada concerns. After looking at the history of gerrymandering, we delve into what should be the basis of “communities of interest” in redistric...
With the 2026 Primary Elections getting ready to start in Nevada, Crystal and Scott dig into some of the pressing issues for the 775 Alive. Two key ones emerge: data centers and water rights. Both of these are dominating a heavily-contested Congressional District 2 (CD-2) race in northern Nevada and are central to an emerging rural-urban election divide across the country.
With the rapid increase in the number of nonpartisan voters in Nevada, Crystal and Scott sat down to discuss some of the reasons for switching to a nonpartisan "open primary" with Chad Peace of the Independent Voter Project. Chad developed the voter outreach strategy for the initiative that created California’s current nonpartisan primary system. The conversations range over the motivations for a nonpartisan primary system, t...
Crystal and Scott sat down with our good friends from Talk With A Conservative, Patricia and Garland Brinkley, to discuss the biggest buzzword of the 2026 Election: Affordability. What does affordability mean? Is it a measurable economic factor or a political narrative? Garland Brinkley's background as a PhD Economist guides us through topics such as housing costs, inflation, energy costs, the impact of tariffs, and generational we...
Crystal and Scott sat down to do a radio interview with Talk With A Conservative, a Las Vegas radio show hosted by Patricia and Garland Brinkley. We were also joined by guest host David Flippo. The wide-ranging conversation looks at differences between the rural and urban environments and what this means for Nevada's politics.
Talk With A Conservative airs weekly on Mondays at 7pm PT on KSHP (1400 am and 107.1 fm) and on the KSH...
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