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Episode Date: January 8, 2025

Open phones for Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday, the 5000-plus tickets being written in the newly slowed down downtown Medford, Open For Business with Cheriesse from No Wires with the latest deals, plus more of your calls.

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mentioned that he would like independence from Denmark. And remember, Greenland, they're mostly Inuit, which is the same tribe in Alaska. So that's the biggest population there. And Denmark doesn't invest in Greenland. They would look to the United States to do investments to improve the lives of the people of Greenland that live there. And I think that would be an interesting thing because of all the minerals. By the way, they have geothermal heat in a lot of those places because of the volcanic activity. Yeah, speaking of which, did you hear that Klamath Falls is looking to expand their geothermal from their area in the downtown sector? Well, that would be a good thing. Remember, the co-gen plant that's out there, they use partial geothermal in it to heat the water to 160 degrees, and then they use natural gas to bring it up to steam level. And they're recycling sewer water once it's been treated.

Yeah, as long as they're not recycling sewer water in the drinking water plant. I'm not a fan of that. I know you hear about there are areas that are doing that. I just don't know if I like that idea. Do you? No, I don't like that idea either. But to clean the water up and then use it in a power plant, it actually distills it. Yeah. And when they put it in the – they cool it down and they dump it back into the Climax River. All right. Appreciate the call there, Dave.

7705633. Next up on Pimple in Your Shoe Tuesday in Who Might You Be? Good morning. Hello? Hey, Bill. Bill Brad here. Good morning to you. Hi, Brad. What's on your mind? Bill, I'll tell you what. This water heater ban that Biden signed is on my mind. I know that you've looked at it.

Bill, are you as concerned about this as I am? As a matter of fact, I am because everything seems to be – well, this is about reducing the emissions from natural gas. This is what the Biden administration is doing. And it is going to increase the cost of water heating and i would imagine this is ultimately to push more people into those uh into those uh electric water heaters you know the ones like the heat pumps like what i have would that be fair is that where they're going no no bill this this is much much worse than that so first of all we need to you're a kind person, so you'll tolerate this trip into mathematics here for a minute. Okay.

So a tankless water heater, the reason you have a tankless water heater is it heats water on demand, right, compared to the water heaters that guys like you and I grew up with. You'd have to heat the water and store it it store hot water in a big tank and yeah 40 60 80 gallon yeah right right typical one millions of across the united states 50 gallons two electric elements for into about 5500 watts so the tankless idea is it heats water on demand and the idea there is because you're not paying to heat water that is stored you're ultimately saving energy right right right but but the way that it works is is it converts a massive amount of btus into hot water very quickly those things those uh tankless water heaters those gas ones are are about 199 000 btu units right you're there and the reason they're 199 is because at 200 they become a boiler,

and there's a whole bunch of code issues that kick in at that point. But most of them are right up at 200,000. Now, to replace 200,000 BTUs of gas heat is 56.5 kilowatts. That's what it converts to. Boy, that is a huge amount of uh of electricity on demand instantly right it's impossible right exactly so so what you have is is you have an impossible situation here you have the old the old style the 50 gallon water heaters which you know you got uh 5500 watts is what they run on. They heat the water up to about 120 degrees, and then they just cycle throughout the day.

Excuse me. And so what Biden's ban does, if they eliminate these tankless water heaters, it's literally impossible to replace that much energy with an electric device. It would take 10 times the amount of electricity that your entire house runs on just to run your water heater. Thank you for explaining it. I think people grasp that. And I don't know if the president, if the incoming president can get rid of that rule or not. How difficult would that be in your view, having watched the regulatory state, Brad? Yeah. So he's doing it by executive order and he's doing it through one of the administrative branches. But the bigger story here, somebody has to be making a bunch of money out of this deal.

Things like this do not happen unless somebody is making a lot of money. Somebody really smart like you, Bill, needs to dig into this thing and find out who benefits from this absolutely insane policy. Oh, yeah. I'll get right on that, okay? I'll get on that with my staff. Scuba Steve is laughing in the other room, but I appreciate the call, really. 7705633, if you are on, I will be right with you. And we're getting a pretty full board in here, but it's Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. My pebble has to do with the speed limit changes in downtown Medford.

And Newswatch 12 ended up doing an interesting story the other day about the number of tickets, which have soared from 163 in the downtown area to 5,665 times. And that's just between October and December of 2024. That's how many times that they caught people going too fast all right and naturally what comes out of the government is that well we're telling people that you guys have got to slow down here well it would seem to me that if you see the cameras grabbing people speeding 5664 times that's the real speed limit you're supposed to be the real speed limit. You're supposed to be setting the speed limit.

The way it's always been working in the state before is that you try to set the speed limit at a reasonable rate that was pretty close to what most people are comfortable doing in a particular area. Otherwise, all you're doing is chiseling people out of money. So do you have an opinion on this one way or the other? Are you willing to go to the city council and say, reverse the decisions to lower the speed limit? Why or why not? 7705633, we'll talk about that and so much more. Pebble in your shoe Tuesday. This hour of the Bill Myers Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing.

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And we're going to the phones. And I think Michael's here. Michael, we were talking about the speeding tickets, the explosion of speeding tickets in downtown Medford. And this after the slowdown to about 20 in many of those parts of the business district. And the citations have skyrocketed there. the slowdown to about 20 in many of those parts of the business district. And the citations have skyrocketed there. Newswatch 12 is talking about going up from 163 citations during the same month in 2023 to more, well, 5,665 times that the cameras got people speeding in downtown Medford.

So what is the right speed for downtown Medford? What do you think, Michael? What are you doing? Well, Bill, I am one of the 5,000. I consider myself, you know, not a speeding giant, but I love your intro song, I Can't Drive 55, right? Right. So I've been living here over 30-plus years years in downtown i always drive 30 miles an hour so when i get uh a ticket a camera ticket and i watch the video i'm doing 31 well if i'm doing

31 and a 20 that fine is 165 dollars and i've been driving downtown for a very long time, hasn't had any problems. So these kinds of draconian speed reduction, they do nothing really to change the behavior of drivers that have been here forever and think that they're driving at safe speed. So I believe that downtown should not be anything less than 25, preferably 30. Okay. Well, the way I'm looking at this, I know that government will always tend to take the

wrong message from this, and I couldn't help but chuckle as the public information officer at MPD, Jeff Kirkpatrick, says, we're just asking people to slow down no you are taxing people for not listening to you the thing is though is that it's the people's roads and you know it's well known in traffic circles that people will tend to drive in an area at a speed that feels right for the conditions here and that's why speed limits are usually adjusted to match reality and that if you're going to pop people for speeding they're're way outside the mainstream, right? So it would seem that you are in the old mainstream, but they're trying to come up with a new mainstream. What do you think about that?

I am in the old mainstream. I think that downtown driving 25 to 30 is more than reasonable. And when they drop it to 20 and not really seeing the signs or not even paying attention to the signs, there's a number of different places within downtown that still say 25. And if they say 25 and then you have another section that's 20, why is that? That's because they want to raise revenue. They're not trying to slow people down. Are you willing to go and go to your city council and talk to them about it and express yourself? Absolutely. Okay. I think that the punitiveness of government is alive and well. Of course, there's a part of me that makes me wonder if the reason they wanted to have these cameras going

and nailing people for thousands and thousands of dollars is maybe to pay off the eventual people who were screwed in the red light camera over in South Medford. You have to wonder. So we have to screw the speeders downtown to take up with the people that the city screwed over at the red light camera. I don't know. Well, they've got to be able to pay for these cameras, and they've got to pay for the people to manage them. But the interesting thing about this ticket is that you can go online and see yourself either running the red light or speeding. It doesn't show the actual speed that you're going, but when I saw myself,

I saw it being a little bit faster than the guy next to me. So the guy next to me is probably doing 25. Maybe he's doing 27 or 28. And then I pass him a little bit on the right-hand side, and they nab me for 31. Well, I have no idea. I have no idea whether I'm doing 31 or I'm doing 29 or whatever, but it is a safe speed. Thank you very much. And that is the operative team. What they consider safe, they want to turn it into a car-free area, ultimately, I think is where they're going with that, Michael. Appreciate the call.

All right. Let us go to line three. That means Brad's here. Hello, Brad. Hey, man. How did you know I had polka-dotted underwear on? Yep. Got to have a polka on for you.

Oh, my God. Happy New Year there. How you doing? Hey, uh, I love listening to you because you're such a force to reckon with on information. Well, that's very nice. The reason I called, I, um,

I'm a business guy. I'm 70. I still work because I have to provide the kind of lifestyle I want, which I enjoy. But I am looking at history, and I'm looking at fiscal management. And where I'm going with this is what has happened in the last four years under the current management style nationally. And one of the major factors was COVID. What has COVID done to our economy?

I'll give you some measurements. You're probably aware of this because you keep an eye on all forms of knowledge. You know that Walgreens has decided to shut down 1,200 locations? And we've witnessed that already in Southern Oregon, closed down several months ago. They're one of many, and it's the impact of COVID and the style of management that comes from, you know, the Republicans have their issues,

but Democrats, they've hurt our economy over the last 50 years way more than Republicans have. And how I measure that is I just look at retail. We are going to see in the next two years this massive exodus of business out of the marketplace because they can't make a living. You're already seeing this happen. Well, look at how many going out of business signs have you seen around Southern Oregon in the last few weeks here? And it's not just Big Lots, but there have been other ones, too. It's an interesting time. Yeah, it's kind of showing the rot in the system, which has

been self-inflicted, I think, honestly. We'll see. Well, and the reality of it is, you know, I saw this happening five, six years ago when they started talking about jacking up the wage limitations for those in the food industry. Going to 15 bucks an hour. I said, there's a huge ramification of jacking up wages. There has to be compensation. When they did that in Seattle, the immediate impact was many, a large number of restaurants went out of business. And was it more, is it morally superior to be laid off because the wages have been raised, but yet you know you can be satisfied knowing that, well, the people who remain, though, are going to make that wage, but I'm not.

And so it boils down to your previous caller talking about this whole speed thing and his bureaucrat sucking the blood out of a taxpayer. Appreciate the call there. I appreciate the call. Do you have a point to make from this to wrap that? Put a little bow on it? You know what? Keep an eye on what's happening.

Keep your eyes open. And thank God I work, and there's lots of people trying to make a limit. All right. Thank you for the call there, Brad. Let me go go to line two you're up on pebble in your shoe tuesday who's this hi this is rick hi rick howdy hey i'm one of those lucky uh people just received his hundred and sixty five dollar ticket also all good for. Yeah. It got me curious about, you know, I started thinking about these radar vans that are around. And so I just looked up on the ORSs and four interesting points that are in the ORSs. One says that a sign is required to display the driver's current rate of speed that's posted between 100 to 400 yards before the location of each fixed photo radar unit. You know, the little sign, which I think is, it's a pretty small sign. You know that one, they always put it on the sidewalk or something, maybe just a hundred feet or so before.

I rarely see it more than 100. So I was popped at Central, I'm sorry, Riverside and 8th. And there's no sign prior to that. Second point from the ORS was that the may not be used a sign posted that says, quote, traffic laws photo enforced. I wonder if that satisfies the statute, because they have that sign up on all of the entries into the city.

Everywhere you're coming into the city, you see photo laws or traffic laws, photo enforced. I wonder if that satisfies that. I don't know. The ORS identifies that that sign that, quote, says specifically traffic laws photo-enforced must be between 100 and 400 yards before the location of the photo radar unit. Have you measured the distance between the sign and what happens? There is no sign that says that specific term, which is specifically identified in the ORSs. There is no sign like that along the river side. Well, that could be interesting. Maybe you could take that up with Joee charter over there at the justice court yeah

point three also says that an indication of the actual speed of the vehicle is displayed between 150 feet uh of the of the location of the photo radar unit so you're supposed to have a sign saying how fast you're going, right? Exactly. That's what the ORS says. Huh. And then.4 front again. Well, there are some of those signs with the flashy light there that usually start nagging at you, slow down, aren't there? Aren't there or not? Well, I'm being selfish and just talking about my specific instance.

Okay. selfish in just talking about my specific instance, which I imagine would also apply to a whole bunch of other people that you pointed out how many more people have been cited. And the fourth point, again, from the ORS may not be used for more than four hours per day at any one location. I'm going to guess those cameras are going pretty much all the time. Yeah, I don't know if those permanently fixed signs are under a different ORS or not. You might have to do a little more investigating on that.

There's probably an exception for the fixed cameras that are always on. Because, you know, after all all they're there to keep you there those cameras are there to keep you safe okay repeat after me all right right yeah let me know what you find out 7705633 i'll take one more call and then we'll have to uh close this segment off hi good morning who's this that would me? That would be you. Hey, Matt. How you doing? Hey, I'm good. Hey, so my pebble in my shoe is Walmart.

Yeah. I went in there yesterday to buy some carb cleaner, a phone charging cord, and some motor oil. And the motor oil, you could just grab off the shelf. But the other stuff was locked up. And it's annoying enough that it's locked up, but I'm annoyed at the people who work there that act put out when you lock everything up. Oh, so you're having to ask, hey, can I get to the cleaner here? And I understand the reason Walmart does this is because you've got dirtbags stealing the stores blind.

You know that, right? That's right. Okay, so I kind of get the phone charging cord because everybody has a phone. But carb cleaner? I was like, are people really stealing cans of carburetor cleaner and parts cleaner? Huh. You know, well, I was there a couple of weeks ago to buy one of those paint pens so I could, like, mark stuff. And they were $2.50 each.

The guy comes over, unlocks it for me. Had to get the manager because the other guy couldn't figure it out. He gets the pens out. He hands them to me, and he says, oh, are you checking out right now? I said, no, I have some other shopping to do. And he says, oh. He goes, well, let me have those back. He goes, I'll put them up in customer service.

And I looked at him. I go, what? And he says, well, yeah, you know, I got to put them in customer service. You have to pick them up on the way out. This is right before Christmas. So I do the rest of my shopping. I go over to the customer service, and there's a 20-minute line. And then if you end up going into the self-serve line, 20-minute line.

And then if you end up going into the self-serve line, was that the self-serve line or someone that would actually do it for you? Well, no, Bill. This was the customer service department. So these are people returning stuff. Oh, okay. All right. So then after I did that, then I was going to have to go,

you know what I did? There were these two really sweet gals who worked there. They looked like they were both cashiers. Okay, back off your phone a little bit, though. Back off your phone a little bit, okay? Because I know you're excited. Anyway, so I walked over there. I said, I just got these two paint pens. The guy unlocked them for me, and he put them in customer service.

I don't have 20 minutes to wait in that line. Any chance one of you ladies could go over there and grab them for me? Oh, sure. So they did. One of the ladies went over, actually grabbed my pens and gave them to me so I could check out. But just think about this. For $5, I probably took up $20 of customer service pay for a $5 item. So anyway, oh, by the way, I did read a story a couple weeks ago that Walmart is

discussing putting body cams on the people who work at the checkout stand. Yes. Well, you know why they're doing that? It's so that they can have the dirtbags doing really disgusting, ugly things they can put on the People of Walmart website, okay? And they're going to charge. They'll start charging for the people of Walmart to be able to view that. So you see all the disgusting stuff that goes on there and the funny stuff, the crazy stuff. Thanks, Matt. Sorry for your trouble. Oh my gosh. As far as

locking up the carburetor cleaner behind, I don't know. There's a possibility. This may be a possibility. They may be huffing that stuff, Matt. Now that I think about it, they could be huffing. Maybe we have the drug addicts that will spray some of that stuff out and sniff the methanol. I think a lot of that's methanol that's used there. I could be wrong.

Hi, KMED. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hi, this is Mark. Hey, Mark. Can you turn your radio down there? Thanks.

I don't know how to use my mom's radio. You don't know how to use your mom's radio? No. Oh, okay. Well, stand away from it then. What's on your mind? Yeah, I want to find out from you about what you're talking about on the traffic cameras. Oh, yeah, downtown.

Yeah, sure. Yeah, downtown. I had gotten caught through there. Uh-huh. How many times? Just once. Okay. But at that moment when I got caught, I was feeling really tired.

And on that day, too. Are you looking to get someone to go easy on you because you retired that day? Yeah, pretty much. I had a plea of guilty on the ticket. Oh. talking about it and explaining the reason why they did the 20 miles an hour to 30, 20, 30 through there.

I was wondering, is there a way of fighting that? Well, fighting any traffic ticket, of course, is a challenge. I forget, were you given the option to go to Justice Court with Joe Charter or would it be Municipal Court? Pardon me, Municipal Court. It might be Municipal Court where you'd have to fight that one.

I don't know. Yeah, I've got to go through Municipal Court. Okay, well, I would just say, okay, go in there. I would like to explain the circumstances and see if they'll cut you a break for being a low-energy driver, okay? Okay. All right. All right, thanks, and ask Mom how to use the radio next time, too, all right? Appreciate the call.

7705633. Let me go to line one. Hi. Good morning. Hello? Hey, Bill. Hi. Garth Harrington. Hey, Garth. How you doing? Well, fine. Look, I've got a whole string of things here, so I'm just goingth Harrington. Hey, Garth. How you doing? Well, fine. Look, I've got a whole string of things here, so I'm just going to fire them at you, and you guys toss it around.

All right. You go ahead. Throw us off, Bill. The first two words out of my mouth are school zone. Uh-huh. You can deal with that. Okay. The second one is the southern border.

These are the rewards of not enforcing the law. We now have chaos on the border. Indeed. And number three, I think I forgot number three. But all I'm saying is the difference between 25 and 20 is not that big a deal. And, you know, if you can't control yourself to that, then that then you know there's a very strong chance that you you know you can't just everybody else can drive 20 you're going to drive 30 all right here here's the point though here's the point when you have 5,600 something violations there in one month one one month period, right? What that is saying is that the standard is unreasonable.

The rules about setting speeds have always been about what will most people tend to drive in a particular area, and they're supposed to be taking this into account. I don't think they're doing that there. The desire is that they just want people to go slow through downtown Medford is all. They want them to go slow through downtown. That's right. Except that that area is a main thoroughfare to get north-south

without having to use Interstate 5. There aren't many options to that. Do you think we ought to put it at 30? That's where it was i know and and you know you had you had traffic death we know that and we had uh a lot of people you know i've seen terrible situations down there and i'm a sinner i'll tell you i got caught by uh a ticket by a camera and And believe me, it converted me. It converted you, okay. All right, so good.

You're a good complier. You're a good complier, Garth. I'm having fun with you. You know that, right? I know that, but unfortunately, if I go back to the number two point, pardon me, I'm in the middle of breakfast uh the real point here is oh the third point pardon me to me was okay since we're allowing people to violate the law now merchants have to pay the price by having to close their stores

that's the price of ignoring the law. Indeed. And thank you for the call. We're going to break here for a little bit. This is the Bill Myers Show. or cable TV, call me today to see how I can save you money. Plus, I'll lower your internet and cell phone bills. And those offers in the mail from DISH, you can go through No Wires Now for those. Call me at 541-680-5875. Call Cherise like I did or visit their showroom off Biddle Road in Medford, nowiresnow.com. Restrictions apply.

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Go ahead. Good to have you on. I had to weigh in, Michael, you wanted to call back. Go ahead. I had to weigh in, Bill, because when a guy like Garth Harrington says that he was quote-unquote converted because he got a ticket going downtown, and his reasoning was that they have had some issues with pedestrians. And sure, you know, there's going to be those kinds of accidents that happen, but how often does that happen in order to be punitive to the drivers to the tune of 5,000 brand new tickets? The logic is not quite there yet. And so the conversion is exactly what the government overlords want. They want to beat you into submission by picking your pocket

once again. All right. Thank you for the call, Michael. Ed, hello, Mr. X. Good to hear from you. What are you thinking? Bill, I'm sitting back looking and thinking back on this whole system of punitive harms for driving somewhere has evolved through what they call transportation, safety plans, whatever. But it's basically related to sustainable development. But let's break it down to a point where people have a clear-cut understanding. 5,000 tickets at $165. I just did a quick calculation. It was $825,000. Okay. And what was the duration of time?

It was one month, I think it was. I don't have a story in front. Let me take a look at this. Between October and December. Okay. So now they are now going to collect $825,000 based upon a traffic infraction that was previously not a traffic infraction. Now that is subcontracted through the camera people who are out of state, if I remember correctly. That's the way it was with the original camera system.

I presume it's the same. It's an enlargement. Now, this money goes to them. Okay, they get paid for this. We're now doing an organized criminal activity, in my mind, because it shouldn't be happening in the first place. The reality is, Medford, you had a gentleman on your show here, oh, it was a year ago or whatever, but he was talking about the reduction in businesses in downtown Medford. Let's look at our area. Let's

look at the viability and the vibrance of our community, how it's diminishing with these ridiculous moves. And it's all related to the state of Oregon coming in with their move to eliminate carbon from the atmosphere and to reduce vehicle miles traveled. So they want to penalize you for going downtown to do business with someone. And so instant fewer emissions, but also then less business. And so I guess all you can do is just rise up in outrage and tell your city council to not sign on to those proposals. That's all you can do. If you track it down, whoever made this decision, and it normally will come down to the city council, okay, the reality to it is it's ridiculous. They are destroying your city.

They're destroying the strength and the economic vitality of our region by doing this. This stuff is what has to stop. Thank you very much. Good statement there, Ed. It is 10 before 9. All right. Now, after you've been screwed $165 for getting popped by one of those cameras, you need to save some money. All right?

And saving money is what we do here on Open for Business when we talk with locally owned and operated businesses. And as a matter of fact, I imagine Cherise at No Wires Now, you could probably do some some work there, darling. Right. You could do some work, darling, and then save more than enough to make up for the speed camera. Fine. Right. Couldn't you do that? I want to I want to bring that up. My daughter just got a ticket. I think it's on Riverside. Was driving my business car. It wasn't in her name. It was in my business name.

I got a $165 ticket. And my insurance is going up like from $600 a month to $900. I'm freaking out about it. And so I told my family, do not be driving downtown anymore. Just like he said, it hurts businesses. I said, we are not going that way ever. You're going to have to go a different route. And it doesn't even feel like you're going that fast.

And you get a ticket right there. And the camera gave Lyle a ticket there, too. So we've had two people in our family get a ticket. Yeah, so in other words, you're feeling the pain there, too. You are there, though, to help people feel a little bit better, at least at NoWiresNow.com, about ways to save money on your phones and your Internet and your various other forms of entertainment, television and so much more. And my name is actually worth something if you switched a dish over there at Nowires. How much is my name worth to people if you mention my name?

$200 Visa card if you switch. Woo-hoo! And then I can help you lower your spectrum internet bill to $30 a month. And then I can also help you get free cell phone service for a whole year, which is, that's a huge amount of savings. Wow. That's pretty cool. Each phone after that's only $30 a month. Unlimited talk, text, and data. It's through Verizon. It's worth it just to come talk to me. You know, if you're like, oh, I don't really want to switch, you know, I'm going to save you money. Well, look at how I dragged my feet becoming one of your clients for a while, didn't I?

Right? Yeah. I dragged my feet. I don't know if I want to switch to Dish. I'm happy with my stupid TiVo, which, by the way, I broke apart and scrapped the other day. I've had it sitting on a shelf for a number of years. But so I went there, and then I got the dish, and I got the remote control that you have, the hopper, and I just love it. And it works really great, and we talk to it all the time.

And I like the fact that the remote doesn't listen to you when you're not pushing the listen button. I like that part. Unlike everything else. Unlike my cell phone. But be that as it may one of your listeners call me last week and spectrum ran lines to his house and he signed up with spectrum and not me and if they're running lines to your house call me i'm going to give you way better service than a 1-800 number you know if you have issues if they run the line on top of the ground anything like that i'm going to take better care of you. So please, if you're getting spectrum lines to your house,

call me first. Okay. One way or the other, the whole idea is that you become a client of Cherise, Lyle and Cherise over at No Wires Now. It's at 1560 Biddle Road, Suite B in Medford, nowiresnow.com. Also the website is that Charisse is going to take care of you. And even if you're going to switch to different services, you take back the old equipment. You take care of all that legwork, right? You make it so easy. It really is. Yeah. Lyle installs it for free.

He brings me back your old equipment. I help you cancel your old service. I take the equipment back, just like you said. I take really good care. I spoil your rotten. All right. And this is what you do. Write this number

down or if you can't write it down email me at the station and i'll and i'll get it to you 541-680-5875 541-680-5875 you could call her right now leave a message you could also text message her send a copy of the bill that you're looking to get work on. She'll go to work on it. And then your restrictions can apply here. You just never know. Not everybody has access to all the different services that she talks about, but she'll go to work with you on this. Okay. Is that a good way of putting it? We'll just leave it there. Yes. Yes. All right. And remember, mention that you heard about this on the Bill Myers show and you get a $200 visa gift card when you switch to DISH. All right. Find out more at nowiresnow.com. Anything else before we take off? And I'm sorry

about your daughter getting, you know, popped with that ticket. Yeah, it's not a great thing, but I just got back from Vegas. Happy New Year's, everyone. I got interviewed on the news in Vegas live on New Year's Eve. Lyle and I did, which was amazing. Wow. And so I'm really hoping that this year's going to be an awesome year for everyone. Yeah. By the way, if you're getting screwed on your insurance, you might want to talk to my other sponsor, Steve Yancey,

my friend. Okay, 261-5444. Yes, I will. Okay, you do that. Steve Yancey at Skypark. 261- Okay, I'll give him a call. 261-5444. Thanks, Charisse. I'll call him today.

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the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, and this station. Hi, I'm Charlene, owner of American Industrial Door, and I'm on 106.7 KMED. 8.57 and change. You've got about a minute left in pebble in your shoe tuesday which means wheels up wednesday with eric peters tomorrow tom is in talent tom you wanted to talk about the traffic mafia in downtown with the cameras and so much more what are you thinking well i'm surprised that people surprised i. I mean, the Medford City Council has demonstrated over and over again that they are the stupidest city council, not just maybe Oregon, maybe across the country. I don't know.

And, of course, you know what this is really all about. They take their wisdom from SOCAN. And so this is all about global warming. You know, the slower you go in the cars and so forth, you're saving the planet. And so it is up to us, though, to re-educate or reiterate and bring the, well, the power of the body politic in play here to say we don't want you paying attention to these particular regulations, these policies. We want a different policy here, which means, yes, sometimes you've got to change some stuff around.

You've got to say something about it, folks. I mean, calling me is great. You need to call them. This is the Bill Myers Show. Looking for your next adventure? From the rugged Subaru Outback to the versatile Subaru Forester, Southern Oregon Subaru has the perfect vehicle for you. Plus, we're offering a lifetime powertrain warranty on all new Subarus.