Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 01-02-25_THURSDAY_6AM

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

1st show of 2025 and a lot going on, into the latest news first then auto journalist Eric Peters, we talk about the potential to civil rights issues the next 4 years, review of Mazda CX-90 and much more.

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at clouserdrilling.com. Good morning and happy new year. It is nine minutes after six, first show of 2025. How the heck are you this morning? Join in at 770-5633-770-KMED. And my email bill at billmyershow.com. We've got a lot going on today. We're going to have a Wheels Up Thursday. Eric Peters will be kicking off the guest circular at 6.30 or so. There's a lot talking about in the automotive world for 2025.

So we'll definitely have plenty to talk with him after the 6.30 news. And something for your kind of for your financial thing if you have a spare home or you're thinking about doing a rental in 2025 a lot of people are talking about that and i have a guest suzanne segerman and she's been featured you know all over the place and she she's been running like a game non-profit of some sort but she had some amazingly bad experiences renting her home to people and she's actually uh written about how to you know if you are going to have an airbnb and do something like that uh how do you do it and without getting hosed i'd like to ask her how do you get around the squatting laws and if uh if oregon is uh Oregon is tougher on the squatters than some of those other places.

There was a story I was reading about not that long ago in which someone had an Airbnb, I think back east someplace, and they stayed for more than two weeks, didn't pay, and then the laws back east in one of the states, could have been New York, was that you have somebody there for more than a couple of weeks and they end up just going nuts they just squatted so you had to hire a lawyer and took months to get rid of the people so i guess there are ways that you can structure stuff so we'll have a little talk about that and uh naturally of course your calls and opinion we're going to have a diner 62 quiz and a whole bunch more going on. Fifteen dead at this point in New Orleans.

That, of course, is the big one. We had one dead in Trump Tower, by Trump Tower, with the Tesla Cybertruck explosion. That was a weird one at first. At first I'm kind of thinking, okay, this could be just your typical electric vehicle uh self-immolation ended up not being that then they said yeah you got the the video of the cyber truck blowing up right there at uh you know under the uh the canopy or what it is by uh trump tower but it blew up blew upward instead of out and only seven people uh hurt minor injuries except for the driver inside but there were gas cans and firework mortars and things like that firework mortars exploding in in hawaii over the weekend too but yeah back to the uh the las vegas deal they are investing that investigating that

as um as potential terror but the big 115 dead and about 30 hurting in New Orleans. That happened yesterday. It was just an amazingly busy news day yesterday, and was watching that, trying to keep up on it. And Shamsuddin Jabbar, his name of the guy, and it apparently self-radicalized, married a couple of times, didn't have a big criminal record, nothing like that. A 42-year-old Army veteran just looks like he took the truck, just drove it down the streets, Bourbon Street area, and mowed down, killed 15 people.

It was 10 at first and more died then later. And talk is that we'll probably have a higher death toll as time goes on. And there's always the afterwards, you know, trying to understand, okay, how does someone get that way? And it's kind of weird. There's a YouTube video that resurfaced of Shamsuddin Jabbar and comes off so normal. Good evening. I'm Shamsuddin Jabbar, property manager with Blue Metal Properties and team lead at the Midas Group at Core Realty. I just want to say hello and let you know a little bit about me. So I'm born and raised in Beaumont, Texas,

and now live in Houston. And I've been here all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military, where I spent 10 years as a human resources specialist and IT specialist, where I learned the meaning of great service and what it means to be responsive. Yeah, and you just look at him on this YouTube video. It's been making the rounds of social media. Just looks like an everyday guy. It then turns into this. And I know that contentious second divorce was going on, and the talk is that he self-radicalized or ended up turning to Islam.

Now, this is all allegedly. It's not all official channels yet, but self-radicalized. And due to the business going down, the real estate business going down, are things not working out for him financially and under a whole lot of stress? That's the story. I guess we'll learn more as time doesn't excuse it. But that is kind of what we know about him. He had not been in much trouble at all.

It's not like it's someone that had been a long-term deal. Of course, they are searching for four or five other people that the FBI is claiming ended up planting incendiary devices in New Orleans, too. That hasn't been talked about a lot.

Have you noticed that? Yeah. They ended up delaying the Sugar Bowl. I guess the game's going to be played today. Governor of New Orleans says he's going to be there, so it's perfectly safe. You know, the security is going to be really heavy. But I guess we start 2025 with sort of a here we go again when it comes to global war on terror. And there's always – and I know it's Conspiracy Theory Thursday.

Yeah, we start the year, the start of, and then all of a sudden, all the Islamic things seem to be kicking off again. There could be no connection whatsoever, but since it is Conspiracy Theory Thursday, I thought I would at least give you always a little bit of my suspicions. Of course, there have been other ones going on there, too, like in Germany, there was the Christmas attack. I thought I would at least give you always a little bit of my suspicions. Of course, there have been other ones going on there, too. Like in Germany, there was the Christmas attack that went on there and a few others. But not always a little, just a little suspicious. FBI say there are more people involved, and I'm going to take them at their word at this point. Of course, I know one of the agents in charge said oh no this is not a terror attack but but you know this is and and everyone was uh was yelling about this uh this agent uh one person i think it was uh was it vinny

that said that on my facebook page said uh agent nose ring agent nose ring that sort of thing saying that it wasn't a uh terror attack and it ended up being, you know what's going on there. It always seems to me that the FBI is having to kind of, well, I guess, well, we don't trust the FBI and the FBI doesn't trust us. Isn't that really what we're talking about when you had the agent at first saying that what happened in New Orleans wasn't a terror attack? This is not a terror attack. And then, of course, we knew from our own eyes that, orleans wasn't a terror attack this is not a terror attack and then of course we knew from our own eyes that yeah it's a terror attack we pretty much

figured that out but i understand a little bit i'm trying to be understanding a bit of what is going on in the fbi bureaucracy because they know that we don't trust them they don't trust us necessarily with the truth you know about trying to assuage panic, I guess it could be a little bit of that. I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that could be what, how it's playing out. And maybe you have an opinion about that one way or the other.

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No, it didn't go well yesterday. I didn't watch the Rose Bowl. Of course, I never watch the Rose Bowl, so I'm never disappointed. So there we go. Hey, Pack Rat Pete, first call of the year. How are you doing this morning? What's on your mind, huh? I'm doing fantastic.

I mean, I just want to talk about something unrelated and kind of fun i love free boxes and that's what i do yeah i mean i watch yard sales and what what are free boxes just curious is when you got stuff that you don't oh oh the stuff that's free okay it says free free boxes okay all right i just wanted to make sure it had nothing to do with free basing or some illicit drug use, that kind of thing. No, no, no, no. I'll save that for another call. Okay. But anyway,

I kind of made a little melody about free boxes. Here's how it goes. It's kind of like ZZ Top. It's got a free hat, free gloves, free shirt, and I'm looking for love. They come running just as fast as they can, because

every girl's crazy about it. A free box man, yeah. Okay. That's right. Free couch, free bed, free pillows where I lay my head. You know,

Pack Rat Pete, I've got to give you a real American salute just because after all the serious stuff that happened on New Year's, you give me a smile this morning. I'm good with that, okay? Thanks for the call. Yes, sir. Hey, you know what I even do that's even worse than that? I'll get somebody's free box. Well, you get someone's.

I think we lost a free or pack rat Pete. Sorry about that, Pat. Pack rat, we just lost you, but you made me laugh. Okay. Minor Dave's here. Hello, Dave. How are you doing? Welcome.

What's on your mind? I had a very good Christmas. I had prime rib for Christmas dinner. Good for you. And it was good. I had a, you know, I had a nice steaky during that time, too. Life was good. Yeah.

So anyways, I laid those attacks on Biden's desk because of his incompetence. And, well, I don't know if this guy was born in America that drove into those places. But they're looking for suspects and um my understanding is from what i heard is that guy when he was in the military was radical then he got admonished for it and like that i've not heard that but i'm sure there there's a lot of stories still coming out at that point but isn isn't it fascinating? You listen to that YouTube video of him as a real estate guy. He sounds like an everyday guy, doesn't he? Yeah, he does.

But, you know, some people are good actors. I wanted to say this. This is a little change of subject. But did you know that all the news anchors are members, if you work and you're on air, like for Fox or, you know, any of the other stations, that they're a member of SAG. Yes. And that makes them actors, not reporters. Screen Actors Guild.

Well, it's funny that you bring that up because over in the U.K. and overseas and in other countries, they don't really call them reporters or even anchors. They talk about them as newsreaders. They actually say they're newsreaders. And I think it's almost a more honest approach to describing the job, wouldn't you say? Yeah, yeah. I would go for that. But, you know, what is it, Mark Levin? He complains about he's forced to be a member of SAG.

And if he could get out of it, he would. And that might be the other way of being fair about it because, yeah, if you're working in some of these big city operations, you are required by union rules to do that. So, anyway, happy New Year, Minor Dave. I appreciate the call. I'm glad to hear you're doing okay let me go to tom thompson talent in the south county of jackson how you doing this

morning tom welcome oh well i'm just uh trying to gather myself for the new year and so forth you know you know i'm still thinking about pack rat peyton is uh you know oh yeah every girl's crazy about a free box man you know. That was a good kickoff. Yeah, it was. It was. So you have a little more of a serious take on things, though. You are a sober fella. That's what I like about you, though.

What are you thinking this morning? Well, you know, the last four years have been a nightmare. And all this business about endless wars and then slicing up the genitals of our children and so forth. This wokeness has just been a horrible, horrible nightmare. And the brainwashing of people that thought it was all a great idea. I'm staggered. I don't know how Democrats can think all this warmongering by the Democrat Party and attacking children like they are

what is concerned with me though is that will there be any price paid for the policies that have been pushed over the last uh number of years i haven't seen any any uh any real cost other than already some people didn't get uh you know back in political, but that's about it at the moment. Yeah, at the moment, and it really remains. If Trump manages – now, we can't put it all on Trump. The swamp is so big and deep and wide. We can't just – if Trump is serious about getting rid of the swamp, he needs all the help he can get. And I think it's going to be up to all of us to just simply speak out, tell the truth, name the truth, stop pretending things are, you know, there's not a gorilla in the living room and all this pretense that we've been doing. So he needs all the help we can get. And I also have to, I think that not only does Trump need all our help, I think that it would behoove us to – I'm not talking about being a laydown, but I'm saying moderate expectations a little bit.

Would that be fair? Well, I don't want to put a cap on expectations. No. Well, let me rephrase this. It's like I'm looking at – What's that now? Rational expectation. Rational.

Okay, I think that's it because you have to remember that – and I don't like this about politicians, but that's the way it is. There's campaign. There's what you say on the campaign. And then there's reality of what can actually happen. All right? And this is with anybody. Anybody, Democrat, Republican. And in other consciousness of the American public. And I think it needs to be capitalized on and carried through. And what you were asking about is basically accountability.

And I think the criteria for the accountability, I mean, there were so many people deluded and lied to and believed in the lies and went along with the lies and promoted the lies out of uh i'd call it ignorance and stupidity but but i don't think they're as guilty as some of the people at the top who actually broke laws and then that's that's where it can be the criteria and what i don't want to see are people who actually broke the law skating because of a desire to, well, you know, that was then, we've learned, we're moving on. And then, you know, people need to pay a price for that kind of lawbreaking. They really do. Yeah, if they broke the law, there's a price to pay. And people are going to say, well, you know, this is Trump going

after his political enemies. No, if they broke the law, they need to be held accountable. There was a story I was reading. I think I have it here. Let me see if I have it in my stack of articles. I have it here somewhere. But it had to do about a judge ruling that, yeah, they broke the law requiring the jabs in public employees. They're the ones that – you remember which one I'm talking about? I don't have the story in front of me.

I have it there someplace. It's just not there in front of me. That's another point where many laws are broken. What they did to the medical doctors who spoke out and told the truth and say, hey, we got the proof here. These jabs were, you know, bioweapons. Well, what happened in this court case, though, is that the judge ruled that they did not take anybody's religious convictions into account when it came to the mandatory jabs. But to me, looking at it only as a religious situation is a dangerous slope to be going down, that the only way to resist the devil government is to be able to say you have a sincere religious conviction. How about I own my body, Tom?

I mean, that's the real issue in play here when it comes to the jabs in that court case. Absolutely. Absolutely. I wrote an essay many years ago. I never could get it published anywhere, but it was titled, Who Owns My Body? And just exactly what you're saying. We own our body. The Fourth Amendment, being secure in your own person.

That is the bottom line to this whole nonsense about mandatory jabs. Thank you so much, Tom, and Happy New Year. I'm sure we'll be speaking much more this year, okay? Be well. All right. I'll go back to my free box. Go searching out the free boxes. You know, the thing is, though,

I wonder if what Pac-Rat Pete was trying to say at the very end of that, and then his phone went awry for some reason, but I wonder if he actually takes the free box and then goes out and sells stuff out of it, and people will still buy it. That is an M.O. I bet it is. Good for him. Could be. All right. Take care. Thank you. Thank you, Tommy. It is 629. We'll check news here in just a moment.

You know, the reason why, when I was talking about moderating expectations with Trump, because Trump could do absolutely everything right. And there's still going to be a lot thrown up in front of him. And I'm not saying that's OK to to say, oh, that's all right. I'm just talking about it being a math problem. And especially when it comes to the mathematics of getting legislation through, because the Republicans have the slimmest majority. Since the 1930s. Since the 1930s.

We're going back almost 100 years. One, maybe two. That's it. That's essentially not a governing majority. And I was reading Wall Street Journal earlier this morning talking about how Mike Johnson could lose the House Speaker vote. The new House of Representatives meet for the first time this Friday, tomorrow, but before lawmakers can do anything else, they must elect a Speaker. No easy task, given Republicans' razor-thin margin in internal division.

And even though President-elect Donald Trump has thrown his support behind Mike Johnson, it's far from certain that Johnson will be able to secure the votes needed to keep the path of the gavel stakes are high if house republicans can't swiftly unite to install johnson or another person as speaker the chaos could prevent congress from functioning and if the drama drags on long enough potentially threaten trump's ascension to the presidency on january 20th and that admittedly far-fetched scenario, a 91-year-old senator from Iowa, Grassley, would become president instead. It's just bizarre, you know, what could be going on. Now, it probably won't, but for all the people that are going out there and saying stupid stuff like Elon Musk should be Speaker of the House, etc., etc.

Stop it. Stop it. I'm going to stick with what Rick Manning was saying when we spoke to him shortly before Christmas last year, end of 2024, in which he said, I asked him, I said, is Speaker Johnson going to survive the House vote for Speaker this year? And Rick said, and I think it's quite accurately, he better. Because if he doesn't, Trump's agenda goes, he's just dead. He's just dead in the water. Because it's months of not only trying to get a new speaker, but then getting a new

speaker up to speed, and then cobbling together a governing majority. Okay? And he's right about that. So you better hope that tomorrow people see the larger agenda in play. We'll just leave it at that, okay? 631 at KMED. Eric Peters will join me. Wheels up.

Yeah, it's a Wheels Up Conspiracy Theory Thursday. We'll do that next. We've had a lot of rain this year. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 106.3 KMED. Yes, it is Conspiracy Theory Thursday to start the new year, 2025. But Eric Peters, just generous enough with his time to say, all right, since we're starting on Thursday, I'll move for a day. How are you doing this morning, Eric? Welcome back.

Oh, I'm good. Happy New Year, Bill, and Happy New Year to everybody listening. And beware if a Tesla Cybertruck parks in front of your house. Yeah, although to be fair, at first when I saw that, I'm thinking, oh gosh, did we have another battery self-immolate? But it ended up not being that uh at all but you know at least you know the one thing i and i know this is this may sound really weird but you know how every time there's a safety problem with some vehicle then the federal apparatchiks end up coming out well well in order to make it safe we need to follow these rules now you know about about that, like the rear-end camera, and now all the car's rear ends are big butts now.

They got that. The windows are small, so you need the cameras. All these things like that. How about the terror-proof car will be the—every vehicle must have the explosive protection ability of a Tesla Cybertruck. Could that be the next federal rule? Well, I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe they'll require ballistic panels, ballistic glass to catch the force. Who knows?

It's all pretty appalling to think that these things are just constantly happening, and we live in a constant state of, you know, what's next? What are they going to do to us next? Yeah, exactly. And that kind of brought me to, and now this is an article I think you put out maybe a week ago, four or five days. For the holidays. Yeah, this was for the holidays. And it had to do, and I think it was very, very concerning, and it's not a criticism of President Trump, but it is titled The Orange Worry, and it has to do with there's been a lot

of push to get a lot of people who don't belong here, especially after four years of essentially anarchy on the border now, to get a lot of people out. And I guess the question is, though, to get a lot of people out, you have to know who belongs in, right? Right. That was the thought that occurred to me, and it was the inspiration for writing the article. I got to thinking, okay, we've got, what, 10 or 15 million people who aren't supposed to be in the country. How are you going to figure out not only who they are, but where they are? And the thought that sprang immediately to mind is that there's going to be some sort of papers, please, regime that's instituted a national ID system of some kind, perhaps even internal

passports where, you know, if you try to travel from state to state or even within states, you're going to have to deal with these checkpoints and roadblocks. And we've already got the predicate or precedent for that in these sobriety checkpoints that we've now been habituated to. And of course, at the airport, you get to be treated like a presumptive terrorist because everybody's got to be assumed to be Osama bin Laden. And, by the way, they have yet to have caught anyone who was a terrorist, right? It's almost like as soon as they started checking, then they stopped bothering with such things, I would imagine. Yeah, and it could be that that's the setup.

You know, I got to thinking about, well, you know, what if, you know, they game the system back in 2020 using COVID to get rid of Trump and thereby... Yeah, presumptive removal is where you were going with that, that he was removed essentially because of the COVID epidemic. Yeah, you know, that seems to me a pretty reasonable position to take. And then you bring in Biden, who, you know, is in sketchy legitimacy. And then for the next four years, you've got this policy of essentially letting anybody into the country that wants to come in completely unvetted, creating great anxiety among Americans, and it was one of the things I think that propelled Trump to victory.

So now Trump is in there, and he's kind of got the mandate to do something about it, almost as if it was, you know, like a setup. Well, a setup, yeah, that's what I was getting at, in which Deep State decides, okay, we have, I think it's like the Hegelian dialectic, which is what you have, you know, you cause the problem and then you have the solution, right? And so they didn't want Trump for a second term in a row because it might have actually tamped down some of the anarchy, right? We wouldn't have wanted that. The idea is to always push the system, push the people into a tighter box. And so you bring the anarchy of the Biden administration, and then the deep state says, okay, we won't cheat as much in 2024. And here we go. Yep. Yep. And I thought to myself,

you know, a better way to deal with this, and it's certainly even a more humane way to deal with this would simply to be for the federal government to put forward something that says, you know, a better way to deal with this, and certainly even a more humane way to deal with this would simply be for the federal government to put forward something that says, in effect, that it shall be illegal for any official who is operating in any official capacity to disperse taxpayer monies to benefit people who are not American citizens. That would be a simple way to sort of separate the wheat from the chaff, to make it so that people who are just coming here to leech off the system can't leech, but the ones who want to work, let them work. I really don't have a problem with that. And at the same time, not turn this country into another police state times two,

which we already have to deal with. And that's just it. I know that Ron Paul, for a long time, even though there's a lot about Ron Paul I love, some of it I don't agree with all of it, but the vast majority of it. And what he was always concerned about is that, hey, you know, for all this talk about a border wall, he says the way that our government has been moving for a number of decades, the wall will be used to keep people in more than to keep people out. And he may not necessarily be wrong about that, ultimately. Well, no, and as anybody who has been near the border already knows, and I've dealt with this once when I was on a car press trip, and I was in the vicinity of the border, the Mexican border in California,

you will sometimes have to deal with these so-called border checkpoints when you're not actually at the border. That's right. It's like 100 miles past the border and you're still doing border checkpoints. So there's kind of a precedence already for police state America to metastasize. President Trump comes in, arguably a less pro-war guy, and then all of a sudden, gee, Islam starts going a little bit nutsy again. It almost seems like it's a bit orchestrated. And I'm sorry to sound conspiratorial, but I think being conspiratorial means you're just noticing things. That's all. Exactly right. Exactly right. And perhaps the most troubling potentiality here is that lots of people who voted for and support Trump would go along with this if it's implemented, because it's their guy who's doing it. Whereas if it had been Kamala, they would have said, no way, we can't have that. But you see, usually that's the way it is. You will forgive your guy something that you would not allow the other guy or girl, as the case would be, to do to you.

And so I think it's something that behooves us over the next four years of the Trump administration to hold the same standard of moral outrage when it comes to our civil liberties, okay? Yeah, and just to ask fair questions and not to pretend that problems aren't right-steering us in the face, because as you say, it's our guy that's causing the problem. Yeah. Now, I have to get back to you, because you sent me a couple of pictures. My boss, last time you were here near the end of the year last year, had said that when he was listening to you talk about doing your heater core. Oh, yeah.

Now, is it in your truck? Is it in my truck yet? No, is it your truck that you were doing it in? I'm trying to remember. Oh, yeah, it's my O2 Nissan Frontier pickup, yep. Okay. And he said he was going through post-traumatic stress disorder flashbacks because he remembered when he was doing the heater core

and what a miserable job that was. And you were sending me some pictures of while you were working on it. Did you get it done finally? Almost, almost. I ran into one little roadblock. My heater core, my particular heater core has attachments. It has these two plastic tubes that connect to it that then run through the firewall. And they're specific to that particular model of vehicle. And I went to the Nissan store to get them, and they're discontinued, which is something I'm going to write about. What? What do you mean? What do you mean discontinued? Yeah, there you go. Right. You know, and this is, you know, I can still get mechanical service parts for my 50-year-old Pontiac.

Never had any problems with that. And I'm not talking about going to a specialty supplier. I can go to NAPA, you know, or O'Reilly's and get parts for that thing, just basic service parts, I mean. And the thing is, though, little heater elbows like that, little plastic elbows like that, that's really low-tech stuff in the grand scheme of things. You know, we're not talking about, as you have brought up there, one of your concerns has been with the touchscreens going completely obsolete within a few years of all the newer cars, right? Yeah. Well, here's the thing. They no longer increasingly stock parts as long as they used to because the model cycles now are faster and faster than they used to be, meaning that a new model comes out and typically it'll stay on the market for about four years before they

substantially alter it and change it. And around that point, they stop making new parts for it. Whatever the inventory is, that's all there is. And what happens is, they stop making new parts for it. So whatever the inventory is, that's all there is. And what happens is your vehicle gets to be 10, 15 years old, and you start having to replace parts like this part of my truck, and you can't find it. Now, if it's a critical part and you can't get an aftermarket part for it, you lose. You have to replace the vehicle because it's essentially no longer usable. All right. Now, when it comes to the heater elbows, well, I guess you could go to an older, to a junkyard, maybe find an older Frontier and then, you know, get the part from that. But then you're still talking about a 20-year-old old plastic part, which is not good.

That's exactly why. Like, my parts weren't damaged, but they are 23 years old, and they're plastic, and they're subjected to heat-cool cycles, and plastic degrades over time. And this is such a miserable job. The last thing I wanted to do was to put it back together with these old parts, and then a year from now have one of them crack, and then have to do it all over again. Now, something just came to my mind, though. In the world of 3D printing, could it be manufactured with an appropriate plastic these days? Oh, sure, absolutely. And thank God for that. You know, that's one of our saving graces as far as this stuff goes,

because a lot of these parts, it will be possible to make them in that manner, which will stymie and get around what I consider to be a deliberate, contrived effort to accelerate the obsoleting of these older vehicles, which are otherwise quite repairable. And that's presented a problem, frankly, for the car business, because they want you to be buying new cars more often. They don't want you to keep a vehicle for 15 or 20 years. They want you to trade it in every seven or eight. Are there any laws about how long a manufacturer needs to support older vehicles?

Do you know? No, there may be. I'm not aware of it, but I do know that in the past, and you know this too, the practice was to stock parts for a really, really long time. And some of them were excellent about that. Now, Honda, for example, with regard to motorcycles, had a policy of always making available necessary parts for everything it ever made. I don't know whether they're continuing to do that, but until just a few years ago, that was their company policy. Okay, all right. I just kind of wondered about this because uh now i understand like you know when i talk about that old van

again of mine yeah the diesel uh westphalia when i had that transmission rebuilt it took almost two years during the covid time uh in order to uh to get that transmission rebuilt it sat there for a long time in in someone's yard because of the inability of getting some gears. And we ended up having to manufacture some, actually take a different shaft and cut it down in a machine shop. And there was a lot involved in that. But there were only probably 15,000 made that year. You know, it really wasn't a high-volume vehicle to start with. I understand that.

But your Nissan was a very well-sold truck in those days. It wasn't exactly a small number of those trucks. No, no. For many years. Another related problem now is specificity. And what I mean by that is that parts are often particular to a not just a maker model, but even a year. And they have to be able to mesh with the existing electronics in the vehicle on top of that. You know, it's getting to be able to mesh with the existing electronics in the vehicle on top of that. You know, it's getting to be really, really challenging in some cases to continue to maintain late model vehicles. Is there a possibility, though, that to be fair, that Nissan's eventual financial problems and possible demise that is being talked about here,

I guess they're going to be merging now with Honda, right? That's what we talked about last time. Well, yeah, exactly. And sure, it's a money-saving way. Rather than make and stock these parts, they don't do it anymore. And then the people who need the parts are like, well, I guess I need a new truck. And if the dealer are looking for the parts, well, come on over here, son, and have a look at the new Frontier. Sure. Okay. Eric Peters with me. EP Autos. It is Wheels Up Wednesday on Conspiracy Theory Thursday again. If you have a question or comment on vehicles and maybe you're looking at something and you have an idea, just check in, all right? 770-5633. Eric, we've got plenty to talk about, including your latest reviews here, rain clovers, and maybe what you're going to be reviewing here soon.

I guess you have another EV. Well, I will tomorrow, yeah. The Prologue, which is a rebadged GM EV. Oh, okay. Can't wait. Can't wait to hear about that. This is the Bill Myers Show. And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show.

The talk with Eric Peters, 770-563-3770, KMED. Hey, Eric, do you have any New Year's resolutions for 2025? Oh, yeah. Anything? Oh, yeah, many. But they date back to 2020, and the key one is to be disobedient and questioning. I like that. I fast-forwarded to this year to encourage other people to make the same resolution,

rather than just do as they're told and put their head down, as so many unfortunately did back in 2020. You know, a lot of our listeners did not bow their head and just and I appreciate that. I appreciate what they went through. And many of them ended up losing their jobs early on in the so-called pandemic time. All right. I think that makes a lot of sense. Of course, the courts are now coming out and saying, hey, you know, they were wrong to just ignore your sincere religious-held beliefs, you know, those kind of things. But I always thought that that's kind of a bad way of looking

at it. It should not matter what your religious beliefs are when it comes to it. Oh, sure. That's an evasion. Exactly. You know, it's about your autonomy and self-respect as a human being to decide whether, for example, you wish to be injected with something. You used to be a dictum in the medical profession that you had to give people informed consent and that they had to not be under duress when subjected to treatment. That was the whole reason Joseph Mengele et al. were considered war criminals, because they were experimenting on people. I have a nephew who is officially, according to his two medical doctors, saying, yes, he was vaccine damaged. He was required to get the shots in order to keep his job. And, of course, he had a brand new family, kids, wife, things like that.

And so he had to go through with it, right? And now he's having all sorts of challenges these days. And I have a feeling there are a lot of people like my nephew. There just are. And yet nothing happens to the people who demanded that he do this. Nothing. Nothing's going on yet. And we'll see.

And for me, this is one of the crucibles that will determine for me whether I continue to support Trump, because he will be in a position to do something about this, just like he'll be in a position to do something about the J6 people that got thrown under the bus and have been languishing, some of them in prison, to this very day for what amounts to disorderly conduct. And yet there has been talk that there is some backing away from some of that, and I'm hoping that he holds firm on those kind of issues. I had kind of a fun New Year's resolution the other day that had to do in which, let's make sure that we tell the truth more. And when I talk about tell the truth more,

not using their language. And I brought up an example of our local RVTD buses the other day, the transit district, the public transit district in Jackson County. And on the side, I was reading it and it just made me laugh because it said powered by hybrid electric. Right. Now, you know that hybrid electric is not a power source. OK. The real power source is most likely, knowing the district, is compressed natural gas or diesel. You know, that's what it is but you know everyone has to try to make the spin to make it sound good you know that kind of stuff and well even worse than that it's to manipulate people and to change the direction of the conversation you know i harp often about for example the way people are told that they are contributing to

social security oh yeah yeah try not contributing and find out how voluntary it is all right let's let's just be as you say be honest and talk about what it is you know people are being compelled and coerced and forced to hand over money for various things and okay let's debate the merits of that and the merits of the program but please spare me this talk about contributing all right so the rvtd buses by, folks, are essentially a big Toyota Prius. And there's nothing wrong with that, by the way, because a hybrid electric is actually really good in stop and go driving. With four city bus, it makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? You can see that working. It may. You have to pencil out and see whether it works. Frankly, the only example

that I'm aware of of it really penciling out is in the case of diesel electric locomotives. Okay, very good. Now, there are some other things that I had on my list that I shared on Facebook the other day, Eric, and these are other definitions that will help you tell the truth this year. Eco means doesn't work, okay? EcoBoost, fake name for turbocharger, you know that. Ford's big on that one, right? Yep. High-efficiency washer means doesn't clean your clothes washer. High-efficiency detergent, that's a liquid which is very expensive that fakes you out into thinking that the washer will properly clean your clothes, but it barely gets them wet. So there we go. Yep. I've got two for you. How about smart means stupid and pro means inept? There we go.

Two more. Low-flow toilet means high use of toilet brush, okay? Yes. You're not going to get around that. And low-phosphate dishwasher detergent, that means your dishes are dirty, add some TSP, which is what I do in my load every day. You know, language, we laugh about it because it is funny, but it's also really serious. One of the things that I loved about Orwell's 1984 and about Orwell's writing in general was that he was a linguist.

He was very interested in words and the importance of words, because words are how we think. Even when we're not talking in our own heads, when we monologue things to ourselves, we use words. And so if we're not careful with words, our thoughts can be directed in a way that we perhaps don't want them to be directed. So use the truth in precise words, if at all possible. All right. There we go. It is 6.56.

Let's go to the phones here on Wheels Up Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Hi, good morning. You're on with Eric Peters. Who's this? Welcome. Yes, good morning. This is Doug. Hey, Doug.

Yeah, there was a car called a K-Car years ago. Oh, yeah. And I just wondered how they got that name, and you never hear anybody trying to recondition a K-Car. You don't ever see them anymore. I just wondered if you knew anything about those cars. Hey, Eric, weren't most of those crushed in the cash-for-clunkers era, that sort of thing? Well, some of them were, but keep in mind that they were generally considered

just transportation appliances, and we didn't appreciate that at the time and how we've lost that now. So they generally weren't saved and loved and cared for in the garage. People bought them, and they used them, and they used them up, and then they got rid of them. And of course, after a while, Chrysler stopped making those vehicles. And to the other question, K just refers to a platform. For example, my 76 Trans Am and also Camaros of the same vintage are considered part of the GM F car platform. So that's just sort of something, you know,

verbiage that the car industry uses to name their vehicles. Okay, Collar, thank you so much for checking in there. All right, Eric Peters with me this morning. And now I'm kind of curious, the vintage cars from like Chevy and Buick, they called about the X-Frame. Was that just actually called the X-Frame platform in those days that they used for all those various cars? Yeah, and there were Chrysler B-Bodies. And sometimes there was a reason for it in the sense of the way the frame may have been laid out. But generally speaking, it was just to differentiate one size from another or one type of car from another type. All right. Hey, tell us about the Mazda CX-90. It's one of your most recent reviews and where we could be headed next. Yeah, you know, it's a real step in the right direction.

You know, let me preface it by saying, yes, it's a crossover. And I always have trouble coming up with things to say about these crossovers, but I have two very good things to say about this one. The first is that Mazda is really bucking the trend in that they're using this vehicle to showcase their new inline six-cylinder engine, which is not a turbo four-cylinder engine. And it is standard in this thing. Okay, I just want to make sure I heard you correctly. An inline six-cylinder engine is actually available in a Mazda? Oh, it's standard. It's not just available.

It's not an option that you have to pay another $15,000 to get. It is standard in the $38,000 base trim iteration of the CX-90. And that's really remarkable because, generally speaking, inline six-cylinder engines are luxury brand engines. To give you an example, a cross-reference point, the BMW X5, which is similarly laid out, it comes with an inline six-cylinder engine, but it starts at $72,000. Now, the reason for that, partially, is that inline sixes are smoother, and they're also designed to be put into vehicles that, generally speaking, are built on a rear-drive-based layout. And because you need a longer hood, isn't that right? You need a longer hood because the engine goes front to back. Now, it's very uncommon to find anything that's rear-drive based these days for less than $40,000, but the CX-90 is built on a rear-drive type platform. So for all practical purposes, this thing is a luxury-badged vehicle, or a luxury vehicle without the luxury

badge price. All right. Does it have, since it is a rear-wheel-drive-based vehicle, does it have all-wheel-drive available? Just curious. Oh, yeah. It comes standard. Now, a lot of people may not understand what the distinction is. Here's the distinction. For the most part, the engine's power goes mostly to the rear rather than the front wheels under normal driving. But it will send power to the front wheels when the rear wheels begin to slip. Now, in your typical front-wheel drive, all-wheel drive transportation appliance, it's front-drive dominant. And most of the power usually goes to the front wheels. All right.

So pretty pleased with this overall from the sounds of it, right? Oh, it's an excellent vehicle. You know, it's for the person who really, really wants to have a Miata, but has got to have room for seven to eight people, probably kids and their stuff. I love the Miata too, but I got to tell you, I'm just a little too wide to fit in those. The one time I did, it felt like I was giving birth every time I got out of it. Oh, sure. You and me both, I know. And you know, it's fine if you have a passenger and neither of you are carrying anything at all with you beyond maybe a wallet and a purse. Yeah, on the way to Lahaina, back before Lahaina burned, it tells you how long ago it was, right?

We ended up having a Miata. The Miata was the only thing left at the rental car lot in Hawaii when we went there. That was it. So, okay, we took it. We had to be like a Beverly Hillbillies. We had our luggage just sitting on the back of the trunk tied down with bungee cords. So great car, but it was not really practical for us that time. Yeah, the CX-90, on the other hand, if you drop the other two rows, the second and the third,

you can put a fridge in the thing from Lowe's and haul it back home. Gotta love that. Okay, CX-90's up on epautos.com. So, Eric, what do you have to talk about next Wednesday when you're back on your normal day and time? Well, it'll be really interesting for two reasons. They're picking up the CX90 tomorrow, and they're dropping off a Honda Prologue, which is really just a rebadged General Motors EV or device, as I like to put it. And the reason the timing is perfect is we're getting a big cold front coming in.

The temperatures are supposed to plummet down to, I think, about 13 degrees, which is just the ideal driving conditions for these electric vehicles. So we'll have some fun with that. Yeah, yeah. Ideal temperatures for EVs, 13 degrees. Said no Eric Peters ever, but we're looking forward to the review and finding out. Because once again, it's about telling the truth in 2025. And like I said, if you're living in a temperate area, an EV can be a pretty decent choice. But if it's too, too cold or too, too hot, eh, it could be challenging. And hopefully I'm going to get my Chinesium heater tube parts today so I can put them in the Nissan Frontier, and then I'll have heat. And I can run that heat as much as I like, and it's not going to cut my range in half yeah you're definitely going to uh to need that heat it sounds like

over the next few days all right eric thank you so much happy happy new year once again and it is a couple minutes after seven we'll catch you next wednesday normal time all right be well sounds good thank you bill this is kmed and kmed hd1 eagle point medford kbxg grants pass