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Episode Date: January 17, 2025

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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. It's open phones this morning, eight minutes after seven. Matt's in Grants Pass. Hello, Matt. How are you this morning? What's on your mind?

Yeah, I'm good. I'm good, Bill. I just wanted to address a couple things. That was a great conversation. About the online bookseller, the online online digital books and the censorship over in the tech pro world you know it's funny i was actually going to call you like a week ago i just didn't get a chance to ask you if you'd notice how many commercials are running now for people uh publishing companies looking for people who've written books and then they want to help them get

those books published and get them out there yes i've noticed that too yeah, hey, and most people have figured that they have a life that is worth writing about. No, that's not true. But, you know, we'll let them have their delusion. I don't know. Well, the first thing that occurred to me was, you know, way back in the day, Netflix, you ordered a DVD and it showed up at your house or maybe several of them, but then you'd watch them and then you'd ship them back and then it turned into what it is. And then they turned into a

content creator, because everything online is about content. And that's where the competition is. When you already have a marketing structure, which is basically what these publishers are, what they're saying is, we have a structure, we have a system to plug in anything that we think is purchasable and marketable, and we want to get those out there. But they don't want to create their own content, so they put it out there, and they probably get a ton of submissions from people, and then they figure out which ones they can market and try to sell. I don't know how the pricing works. I didn't call the other thing i wanted to mention um do you remember a website called it was an organization called conservative treehouse yes i do remember conservative treehouse i don't is it gone now i haven't looked lately well i didn't want to talk

about their company per se but they used to do all their marketing through mailchimp oh mailchimp killed them, right? That's right. MailChimp basically told them, you've got two weeks to get your stuff off our servers. And where they got hosed is they had their customer data, their email addresses, the people they were marketing to, the current people who are, I don't know if you'd call them subscribers.

I would. And they basically were going to lock down all of their subscribers because they didn't have a backup. They didn't have they were basically putting their own customer database with MailChimp. And you mentioned Amazon Web Services. I used to have my website on Amazon Web Services. As soon as they started kicking people out and locking them out, I bailed and I went to somebody else because. And I'll tell you, my my concern is even greater than that. We used to sort of control the internet.

What's it called? You can or not? Is that what it is? I can. I can. Yeah, I can. I can. And who's to say if the globalists do get a hold of everything that George Soros' offspring doesn't just shut the internet down.

So you can have a website and you could have your own servers providing downloads and all sorts of other things. But if they just shut off the internet to your databases, your computers, you're still hosed. So in a way, you make a great point here because you're saying when I buy a copy of a book, it's my book. I have it now. If I want a map book, something with roadmaps across America, so just in case I don't have GPS, I can open up my almanac, my map book, and I can get wherever I need to go, even if it was on forceback. And I think people have become too dependent. I said this about the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment now is irrelevant. And the reason I say that is everybody has their whole life on Google or Microsoft or other things.

All anybody has to do to get a warrant is go to them and say, hey, I want to look at all of Bill's stuff. And they're just going to let him look. to get a warrant is go to them and say, hey, I want to look at all Bill's stuff. Yeah. And they're just going to let them look. So you really, people have given up their Fourth Amendment rights. As soon as they upload anything to a cloud or they store anything with any of these big companies, you know, nothing, you have to have it in your hand, like you said. There's just no other way around it. So I would say that people are going to have to do more self-publishing if they have materials that they want to market

and i know that some of the more controversial books are even done that way in which you uh you get on the website and then you print out a copy it'll print out uh you know that's the self-publishing world right now in which it'll print a copy and then send it to you, that kind of thing. Yeah, my situation was a little different. When I went to publish my book, I already had a, you know, a list of people who know me. And so what I did is I pre-sold, and then I had the book printed. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Matt, I appreciate you weighing in on this one. This is something I've been thinking about for a long, long time. It's like, if you don't have it, if you don't own it, if you don't have it in your hands or in your physical possession. I mean, you know, it's even, you know, when I talk about physical gold, you know, I know not everybody's into physical gold.

But I've noticed that all the national places, you know what the national places are all doing? They're saying, well, you know, we will store the gold for you, right? You're not the only person. I know a ton of people who have gold being held, in quotes, at one of these companies. I ask them, I say, well, what was your point for buying the gold? And they say, well, in case of an emergency. I said, what makes you think you're going to get your gold in case of an emergency? In case of an emergency, it's exactly what I'm getting at.

But you see, so many of us, we grew up when the world was, and even the United States especially, was a high-trust society. Well, that has been severely tested these last few years. Would you agree with me on that? okay honestly if you're buying gold because you want something in an emergency letting it being having it stored at some company is as ridiculous as buying those food kits you know a thousand dollars for the food that last 25 years and letting some company hold your food okay you know what hits the fan and all of a sudden you're calling yeah and your food is gone hey i need my food and they're saying no i'm sorry sorry. The government seized it, all right? Thanks.

I really appreciate the call, Matt. Let me go to Jay. Jay, you were on the way in. You've been holding on here patiently on the fire map. Go right ahead. Let's hear your take on it. Yeah, thanks, Bill, for diving into the fire map issue. You bet, Jay.

What are you thinking? I live in the city limits of Grants Pass. I live on the edge of Grants Pass. And I got one of those certified letters that says I'm in the high-risk area. I was a little surprised by that because I'm in the city limits. I figured having city fire would be one of those factors that might limit the risk for city properties. But looking deeper into the map, there's looks like there's quite a few properties within the city limits that have been designated high risk. So I've been I know just enough to be dangerous on this. I mean, you know,

the very early stages of researching. I think we're all getting at that, you know, kind of at that point, just dangerous enough to be frustrated, but angry. Yeah, exactly. It's a pretty frustrating issue. And I've been very disappointed about lots of things the Josephine County commissioners have done in the last two years. But the one good thing that, one of the good things that they did was dive into this fire map issue and get together with other commissioners and fight this thing. And so I think that needs to probably continue and happen again. I think that that's probably going to be one of the most powerful methods of fighting the unification of counties against this, because it is obviously flawed. I don't think that its stated purpose is really what it's going to do.

And counties, of course, also have attorneys, and I think that's going to be a very important part of fighting this, having good attorneys. But the attorneys also need to understand all of those ORSs, and that might be the challenge going on here, that there's more power for the counties to resist this than we might think, Jay. That's kind of my feeling on this situation. Absolutely. We definitely need to all band together to fight this. But thinking about

this legally and just in brainstorming mode here, usually the way land use codes and laws work in Oregon, usually there's a state overall structure like the structure Senate Bill 100 laid out. And then there's usually – or in many cases, municipalities, cities, counties can customize those rules at some level, you know, under the overarching state structures. But I have never seen, so there's, there's a couple of things. There's, there's what you have to follow when you're building something new, then there's what you have to follow to maintain your property. I have never seen, I've never seen a law or it's, it's pretty rare that that new land use, you know, laws come back

and after your property has been developed, come back and force you to drastically change how your property is developed. Usually you're grandfathered in at some level when it comes to certain things like this. But this appears to have really no grandfathering at all, none that I can detect. Can you concur with that or not? I don't know. Yeah, that's certainly what it seems to be. I was really surprised by some of the language of the letter that said, you know, you might be forced to do X, Y, and Z because you're in high risk. And I was like, wow, that's going to be potentially thousands of dollars. But my property,

I think my neighborhood, it probably is high risk, but my particular property, I've hardened my property, or I haven't, but the previous owners of my property did. And I think that if they came out and assessed my individual property, they would probably deem it low risk. So I think there's really a potential for class action lawsuits, and I think that this thing is going to be fought legally. And it's just – it's so costly and crazy that I think it goes away. But at one point in the last – I've been watching city and county meetings here in Grants Pass did, and I think this was sometime in the last five years, is there are certain codes, certain state laws related to when you can run lawnmowers and certain power tools and equipment. Yeah, keeping the possibility of a spark potential and touching stuff off. Exactly.

And those are reasonable rules. But what I found interesting was at some point in the last five years, the city of Grants Pass changed its rules so that it mirrored the state rules on that topic. So I was always under the assumption that we always had to follow the state rules on those things related to fire. And it turns out here in Grants Pass, we were not following the state rules, but we made a code change several years ago. To harmonize it, no? Yeah. So if we're allowed to not follow the state rules in that case, why do we have to follow this new crazy state law in this case? So that's just –

Well, I think the purpose – Ideas. Yeah, I honestly think, Jay, the purpose of Senate Bill 762 – and Herman Bershager had mentioned to me, and this makes more sense than anything, it's about getting the firefighting budget out of the general fund and throwing the firefighting budget onto rural landowners under the guise of, well, you know, the federal lands are going to burn around you. They're going to catch you on fire. So, you know, you're living around. It sucks to be you, so you better pay up. You know, I think that's kind of what they're trying to do, where this is ultimately, and that's the drive of it. And so the only people that will be able to afford it are probably going to be the wealthy. I appreciate your call.

Thank you for that, Jay. Let me go to James. Hello, James. I know everyone's been holding on. I'll try to get to everybody's call here in just a minute or two. Hi, who's this? Good morning. Yeah, this is James. Yeah, James. Two-minute history of where this started, and number one, it's a wildlands project where they want to get everybody out of. They don't like people. They don't like families. Yeah, and it does seem to kind of rhyme with what they're looking at. If you look at the

wildlands project in which you're not living in Selma. You're going to have to go live in Grand Spaniel. Well, actually, Cave Junction is probably too large of a city for the Wildlands Project. Number two was the monument. They wanted a monument from the California border to Coos Bay. And at the end of Obama's administration. They tried to get that through. They couldn't get it through.

We protested it. Only about 30 people showed up at the end of the Selma post office. And then the third thing is, the environmentalists don't realize that the rent's going to go up and the homeless, they're not going to be able to build houses anywhere here. And we're all going to live in the 15-minute cities. And the enviros are being useful idiots. They don't – they care. They care about— Well, you know, the thing is, though, even the enviros will be treated like, you know, the other useful idiots have in past communist revolutions.

We'll be homeless. Oh, you helped us. Oh, you helped us, comrade, have great revolution. Fine. Line up against wall for bullet. You know, that's kind of the way the Soviets dealt with it, okay? Thank you, James. Let me go to the last line here before break.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello. Hello. Hi. Oh, hi, Bill. It's Francine.

Hi, Francine. Well, okay. So I have some thoughts about, you know, you were talking about having your books and things like that on on your computer first of all i i suggest that any documents that people want to hang on to and and keep and not be have them scrutinized or possibly pulled or whatever keep them on a little drive buy those buy yourself a couple of those little one terabyte drives and put all stash all your stuff on there and have it in multiple places though have multiple copies of it not just not just one you have that did you hear about that guy that uh and this kind of

reminds me of uh there was a guy over in england i was reading about the other day that lost three quarters of a billion dollars in bitcoin because he had it on one hard drive and then he tossed it in the trash and he was trying to get this permission to go dig up the town dump and they wouldn't let him right oh there's been a lot of stories about the bitcoin people getting rid of their computer and losing their bitcoin i remember when it first came out there was stuff like that but what my my point bill is that not only do you have a place you know you can have multiple whatever not only do you have a place to keep those things but you can enjoy them without having to go online that's also very important yes which is right yeah because nobody else can can can can look at it and um there's another thing i wanted to share and there's a

website that apparently a lot of people don't know about it it's called archive.org ah i'm a member of archive.org by the way right on right member of Archive.org, by the way. Right on, right on, yeah. They are so, they're awesome. You can find almost anything that's, you know, things that you can't get anywhere else. Books, whole books and things, and you can download them. Yes, Archive.org. I became a member of it.

I sent them a donation, too. In fact, one of my colleagues within Bicostal Media is actually one of the archivists. Really? Yeah, one of the engineering people. He works in the archiving section of finding more of this information. It's essentially the Internet Archive is what it is. And it is amazing the stuff that – and you, it's also another fascinating thing about that. If you have older computers and you're looking for an older version of software that is no longer sold or available out there, oftentimes you'll find it over on archive.org.

It's amazing what you can find there. They are amazing, and I encourage people to go take a look and, give them donations and whatever, because they are lifesavers. Yeah, indeed. Hey, appreciate the call and the suggestion here, Francine. 724 at KMED. And happy to take a few more of your calls here. It's open phones on Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Here at American Rent Your Garage, we respect and support those individuals who currently or have previously served this great country and our local communities.

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The person in charge... Oh, you forgot CalPERS, too. So that person will probably make close to $800,000 a year after he or she quits, too. Yeah, he talked about that, too. The person head of Water Works, $700,000 a year salary then, of course, you mentioned all the gravy train retirement when people quit, like you just mentioned, and so forth. So all that money, these bloated salaries are going to that instead of the infrastructure and so forth. And people are being taxed out of their mines and houses and so forth. I mean, my concern is that there's no bad law down in California that Oregon doesn't want to duplicate up here. Yeah, we tend to want to style ourselves, at least in the legislature, as California Junior,

including there's even talk about getting rid of the quorum rules that we have right now, so that way there is no resistance whatsoever to where they want to take it. Yeah, I say I'm very concerned about having the supermajority up there. You might call it the supermajority for insanity. You're dealing with the fire map and everything. You just don't know what the bureaucratic mind is going to come up with next to screw over the people. But they seem to be doing an excellent job of it. Now, what do you think? Do you believe? I just want to get your opinion.

If you think that maybe there is enough problems, enough destruction, enough incompetence that a majority of the voting population in California or Oregon at that point could be persuaded to actually reverse course. I was listening to that Schiff show yesterday with Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff who moves from the House to the Senate, right? And I'm thinking a majority of Californians voted for that turd. I just can't believe it. That's why I'm having trouble working up sympathy for a lot of Los Angeles right now

because they basically voted for everything that they're experiencing right now. I call it self-meeting self, and that's what's going on down there. And, again, my concern is that Oregon is just in lockstep with California. And people, we're doing the same thing up here, not quite as drastically, but it's in full competition. Well, we do our tyranny with a little, you know, we smile a little more often. And we talk about, well, you know, we're just doing things the Oregon way, you know. And, yeah, shut up, comrade. Put on your mask and take jab, you know. Yeah. Yeah, shut up, comrade. Put on your mask and take jab, you know.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think Kate Brown should be held up for, you know, a trial. I mean, we need to find out what she knew and when she knew it because she ruined a lot of lives here in Oregon. But, you know, I don't know what she's doing right now, skipping along with her retirement and just happy as a lark. You know, I read something about, I thought that there was a position for her in the Biden administration, or maybe that didn't pan out. I don't know.

This was, you know, when she left. But I don't know. It's an interesting question. Now I'm going to have to look that up, Tom. Appreciate the call. Let me go to Ron. Hey, Ron, what's on your mind today, huh? Go ahead.

Yeah, two points. First, I have firsthand experience with lightning strikes on a family property. And there was the bark peeled off of the tree, cleared out of the ground, but there was no fire. And so I count that there is not a fire every time lightning strikes. However, if you go to the weather reports on when they have lightning events around, you'll see live indications of where lightning strikes have happened. Now, how many of those lightning strikes have created a fire and how many of those fires are on private property? And what I would wonder is if how many of those lightning strikes is that part of the algorithm in the fire map that they bring up.

I was curious. I don't know. It's kind of obtuse. And the final thing I want to say is there's so much state and federal property. Are they also subject to clean up and to maintain, to minimize, and to eliminate needles and that kind of thing? Okay, let me think about this briefly. I'm going to get answer for you uh like a grumpy cat no okay yeah thanks ron point well taken all right i'll grab one more call hi good morning who's this hello hey hey bill this is john hey john how are you john good to have you on hey so uh i've got a couple of things. I don't know if you realize that the state forester just resigned. And that was, in my opinion, that whole thing is just shenanigan because they're wanting to throw the state forester under the bus for the wildfires that happened,

and the state's got to blame somebody. But the state forester I don't think really had much to do with the U.S. Forest Service or the BLM or the other public land managers. Did he or she? No, but this year or last year they said that it cost the state of Oregon three hundred and fifty million dollars to fight wildland fires. And they're blaming it on the state forester because he's in charge of the state of Oregon forestry. And so so now he's resigning and they have to blame someone for their incompetence. It's kind of like how down in Los Angeles they can't talk about their incompetence, so it's climate change.

That's what caused the fire. That same kind of mentality, then, really. Well, yeah, and if you look at the governor's budget, you know, we we're we're ranking low in housing and she's wanting to put all this money into climate change and all this they want to quit logging and go to carbon credit well that means no forest management no nothing well yeah if you're going to if you're going to sell off the forest use as carbon credit sink you're not going to harvest anything. You're just going to be a big forest. What happens when the carbon sink catches on fire, John? Yeah, well, no, that's exactly right. It'll not be managed. And then you take the Williams area. You know, we've had this discussion about the pipe fork people that doesn't want no logging and all that out in that Williams country.

I mean, hundreds and thousands of acres of dead timber on government ground. Now, we can't keep blaming the Forest Service and the BLM for not logging. Those environmental groups out there all filed protests, filed court documents, and got those timber sales stopped from removing dead and dying trees. I would dare say that those same voters are some of the people that helped recall you, if I understand the vote count, in the Williams area. So it speaks volumes, doesn't it? Yeah, exactly. But to my point, Bill, is that we keep pointing our finger at the BLM and Forest Service. They are trying to clean up, not perfect. They're not doing a great job, but they are trying to do something. This is an example. They're trying to take thousands of acres, clean it up, remove the fuels, remove the dead and dying trees, and they get held up in court.

And the court rules, no, you can't do it. I'll bet you, well, I have no reason to doubt you on this one, John. I appreciate it. I read the court case. Our local BLM and Forest Service put up the timber sale, and they got blocked by a judge. And it's these same people that are living in our local communities that don't want no logging. And they join these environmental groups, and they fight it. And then they point the finger at them and say, well, you're not doing anything.

You can't have it both ways. Yeah, you're right about that, John, and I appreciate your call. Good hearing from you, and I look forward to hearing from you more often. Okay? 737 at KMED, 99.3 KBXG. Appreciate you waking up here on Conspiracy Theory Thursday on the Bill Myers Show. Joining me here in just a moment, I think this is going to be, I mean, everybody's celebrating. Everybody's going to be celebrating I mean, everybody's celebrating.

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Now, we have some rebuilding going on in the Jackson County Republican Party, and we've got a new leadership team in here. I want to make sure and give them a little bit of a love blast this morning and make sure you know what they're up to. Joining me in studio is Joyce Michelangelo, and she's the Jackson County Republican Party chair. How are you doing, Joyce? I'm doing very well. Thank you for having us. Now, are you still chair of the Jackson County Republican Party chair. How are you doing, Joyce? I'm doing very well.

Thank you for having us. Now, are you still chair of the Jackson County Republican Women too? I am. Okay. All right, good. So both are still in effect here. And also Commissioner Colleen Roberts and you're the vice chair. I am.

Okay, very good. I'm Joyce's support. Joyce's support. Okay. So first thing we wanted to make sure it mentioned though is that you also have a inauguration watching party and where is that going to be it's going to be monday of course this coming monday at central point library and we're starting at eight o'clock in the morning and we're going to watch the inauguration on the television there's a tv

set up in the room at the library. Going to have some snacks, things like that. All that sort of good stuff. We'll have fun. All right. Good. Good. Glad to know that.

We hope everybody comes and joins us. Okay. Everybody that wants to get up that early. Well, let's see. When does he actually take the oath? Is it nine, like noon? At nine o'clock, our time, the president is sworn in. Okay.

And the vice president is sworn in before him. Oh, okay. So we want to be ready and see that, too. And it's like, I can't remember. I don't know. Naturally, I guess in 2016 or 2017 is when that would have been. I don't know if I was watching that right then because I was just doing a talk show, doing our regular stuff. So anyway, big deal.

And it's not very often that you see a president that is out of office for four years and then coming back in. I think Grover Cleveland was the last one that did that quite some time back. So that will be fun. Central Point Library, which is where that's going on i wanted to touch on a couple of other things here because like i mentioned there's been you know i haven't talked much about this on the air but there's been some some drama going on behind the scenes for a while and there are some real challenges within the jackson county republican group now there's drama in the josephine county group but it's completely different different kind of drama. You know, it's like kind of fighting like cats and dogs everywhere, it seems, these days.

But, you know, the old management team ended up letting go of the office. The Republican women ended up taking that over. And so what is the status of having a office or possibly moving towards a reestablishing a committee office here? We are looking for a new office. It's really important to be able to support our candidates, to have a place where people can come and find out information about the candidates. And when the candidates have signs or literature, it's a focal point to come and pick up that information as and also when we have small meetings it's it's good that we have a place where we can congregate yeah and i know that even the downtown spot on on maine has not always been the

best neighborhood these days is that fair it wasn't before and two or three years ago we it was when the windows got broken the well yeah well yeah it got to be about about every other week let's say oh okay the bombs have broken the windows again right it was it was the same young man that did it and then during covid he he was uh went before a judge, and now he's paying us back. Oh, good. They're garnishing his wages is what it looks like. So every so often we get a check now. So we're grateful for that.

It took $4,000 to replace those windows. Yeah, everywhere. And I want to say because of Joyce, that office was kept through the last election, through the presidential election. And she was key to that. And I just applaud her for that because without that, there would have been no Republican office presence in Jackson County during a presidential election. Yeah, and you can see what was going on in Joe County, which they were always doing stuff. And it would be great to see Jackson County getting a little more active. And I think this rebuilding process is going to be part of that.

Lincoln Day Dinner, is that going to be back? Lincoln Day Dinner, March 22nd. It's going to be at the Rogue Valley Country Club. And we're in the very early stages of doing the planning. So we can't give you much more information other than March the 22nd. If you need an emcee? I'd be happy to volunteer if you need one. Oh, we were going to ask you. So thank you. I heard we have a good emcee. And save the date. Everybody save the date. So we'll have a good time and get some good, some of our good leaders, you know, down there talking. And I think it's, I think it's always one of my favorite parts about it in which, you know,

you have some local elected officials or even our state officials that are able to come in and talk a little bit about what's going on. And then, of course, you've got to have an auction, you know, other things like that, raise money and, you know, drink a little too much wine before you bid. I heard that helps. And we've been very fortunate. We have people donating to different wineries that donate that wine that's on the table. Even better. All right. We like that.

Free wine. Woo-hoo. And then go ahead and put the bid on here. So that's going to be good. So we're going to rebuild this, get things going again. And something I think that has been lacking for a while has been candidate training. Am I right to say about that, to even raise that issue? Is that something that is going to be a focus?

Or what other things are you going to be focusing on? Well, the Oregon Republican Party has some resources to help us with candidate training. And so, yes, part of our focus is going to be on candidate recruitment. And then once you recruit someone, you need to train them. And also you can do it the other way around. You have people that don't really believe they want to run for anything, but at least you can train them a little bit and they see what a candidate is expected to do. And then that puts them in a position where they can support candidates or they themselves can run for a position.

The other thing, I've known people in the past that have run for office and they would say things like that. Well, I'm going to run for office, but I am not going to ask for money. I'm thinking, oh boy. You kind of have to be comfortable with that or find a way to get yourself over that. Would that be fair? You know, really in one of the challenges, because, you know, I don't know if you're ever comfortable with it, but it is part of the process. It just is. You know, I remember when Dennis Richardson was running for governor.

Remember when he would come, the late Dennis Richardson would come out there and he'd be, first thing he would do, he's got, you know, 50 people in front of him. He's handing out envelopes every time. He i hate doing this but but that was the but that was the reality you know the money is the mother's milk of politics and if we're not going to raise it locally for some of our local candidates then what ends up happening is that you have the caucuses and the caucus um how do i put it the caucus lobbies herman and i and other people have talked about this in which you have uh you know other interests other than maybe what conservatives and republicans are considering about and then they they're writing the checks and so they have to dance to different tunes so we're trying to avoid that i think long term and we're hoping to raise and we're handing

out envelopes at every event as well. Just like Dennis. God bless him. And we are raising, we're trying, our financial situation really needs to be addressed. And we're running the fundraisers. We are, in fact, even at the inauguration watch party, there's going to be some silent auction items to bid on. And I said, why miss an opportunity to get donations? Okay. So we're seeking every opportunity and joyce has thought of some great new ideas for fundraising coming up even after the lincoln day dinner she can talk about as well so all right i want to hear about this because you're talking about doing a uh a golf tournament right we want to do this but this is

especially timed golf tournament this is especially timed golf tournament this right? We want to do a golf. But this is a specially timed golf tournament. This is a specially timed golf tournament. This year, President Trump's birthday is June the 14th, which happens to also be Flag Day. And this year, it's on a Saturday. And we were able to get on the calendar at Eagle point to have a trump classic trump classic first annual first annual trump classic so it's the inaugural inauguration and it happens to be the day before father's day okay so fathers that like to golf can kind of have two days in a row if they like you know they can golf on saturday and have father's day things on sunday yeah just put up a little mar-a-lago flags everywhere you're going and so more information

on that's coming up so yeah so uh still uh the website is still j what is it jcore.gop jcore.gop arcade to find out more so the jcor for jackson county oregon.gop. Okay, to find out more. So the jcor for Jackson County, Oregon dot gop. All right. Well, welcome. I appreciate it. It's great to have the new leadership team in here and working hard because, yeah, Jackson County, we got to get back up to snuff. I think it's... We do. And we have been had a lot of good support from Josephine County as well. I want to give them a shout out. I know that Holly calls here regularly and she is a wonderful person that helps me, you know, for the last two or three years,

she and I work together on some things. Okay, well, you're all welcome anytime. Anytime you need to talk about something. All right, great to see you. Thanks so much. We're excited. We're very excited to see what the year unfolds for our party yeah although all we have to do is ignore what's happening in the state legislature that's all don't watch that

because that will that will get you very depressed i just want to warn you it's a downer okay thanks bill yeah on that note we're done that done. That's why at every meeting, they're just going to rerun the Trump inauguration and not what's going on in the state legislation. Thank you very much. Joyce Michelangelo, Jackson County Republican Party Chair. Commissioner Colleen Roberts, who's the Vice Chair. Great seeing you both. Okay. Thanks again.

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You'll find out more about that. John writes from Shady Cove. He says, hey, Bill, have you ever been more embarrassed to be an American man than the other day when watching hearings on Capitol Hill? Oh, that's right. Every time there's a conservative judge nominated for the Supreme Court, they really do need IQ tests for the political leaders at this point. John Ball, mayor of the city of Shady Cove. John, I can't disagree with you on that. The part that astounded me, and I mentioned this earlier,

that can California or Oregon, can we pull ourselves away from the brink here? Because Adam Schiff was given a promotion, a promotion, if one can believe this, after all of the lying about Russia, Russia, and various other things. And then, of course, Pam Bondi ended up taking him on yesterday, pretty much going tit for tat on that. And it was quite a conversation. But, yeah, a majority of Californians promoted him. Just astounding. Gar writes me this morning, and Bill, I still don't know what the fire map was designed to do. What is its purpose?

Well, I'm sure that the claim is that to make you aware of and get people to harden their properties, I honestly think it's going to be about ultimately assessing massive taxes on wildland fires so that you can pay for the state paying to put out the fires of the federal firelands moving over onto state-managed lands. I think that's what's going on. Granny says, hey, Bill, if I donate my farm to a nonprofit, will they take it out of reach or will it be taken out of reach of these people or are these commies uh granny i wish that they could be fooled by such a simple trick

as putting your land into a non-profit status but nope that is that if it's in oregon that would be there dl writes me bill i live actually i just lost it. There we go. There's DLs. Oh, it says this message seems suspicious. Oh, stop it, Yahoo Mail. Okay. It says, Bill, I live in Josephine County, and I have to pay $60 a year for a library card to go with my kid, which I'm okay with because we voted down the library tax. Now, I think that more than once in the past. However, I was angered to hear that the library only pays a buck a year to rent and has no responsibility for upkeep.

So not only do I have to pay the $60 a year for a card, but I also have to pay for any and all of the upkeep of the building out of our property taxes, plus give them virtually free rent. Don't people see the big picture here? What am I missing? Appreciate the email there. Jerry writes about President Biden.iden jerry says bill we survived one of the most awful u.s presidents in u.s history it's the best we can say about him but now the question is what will biden do with the remainder of his life like i told a friend if i were him i'd start an ice cream business i really think he'd do well so he's a good taster if

nothing else uh butch weighs in here and says, just doing my evening Internet reading, I lost my cell signal most of the day. I use a mobile hotspot, but upper rogue. Another meeting with a proposal from the OSMB, the Marine Board, to limit, quote, boating. It didn't say power boating on days below 1,350 cubic feet per second. Not too bad. And it gave a time period that was completely outside the jet boat's operation. Also talk of nothing more than a 10 horsepower motor period. My suggestion via the river keeper was to have the river folks approach the jet boat folks and come up with a compromise. People forget when laws are made to curtail an activity, they'll affect everyone. The

gold dredges were a good example. I'm glad they're gone, but so are all the little recreational dredgers from the creeks. I appreciate all the Greg and the fire crews do, but here's what I know. My neighbor, a Rogue Valley native, was also a timber faller, and every summer he'd get called out until they started doing too much micromanaging, and he quit. He says it's a GD dangerous job. We know it, we're careful, and we get the fires out. We're pulling punches.

Butch, thank you for the email. Let's see if we can go to Dale. Dale says on the fire map, says, Bill, what I just heard, and I don't know how it reads, is that the map is dictating the regulation of the land. That tells me of true that no one's responsible for the map and it becomes the ruling factor. No map I know of ever made a decision. So how does the wording really read? Well, we hope to talk with Senator Golden about that tomorrow morning,

about that and many other things. He actually agreed to come on the show. He's also bringing a couple of – well, he's not bringing them. They're going to be on the phone. But a couple of other agency reps that are in charge of the mapping, apparently, and maybe we can find some clarity i don't know it'll be polite although there's a there's a time i just want to go all cling on all star trek cling on on the uh entire people everybody that is associated with this map and the passing of it jeff from selma says hey Hey Bill, my wife has been using Thrift Books.

Thriftbooks.com is her first line of book purchasing. Yeah, we were talking about books and digital books. I think that's used books though, isn't that right, Jeff? I think it's only used books. Keith says, Hey Bill, just thinking that when the power goes out next time and a book I'm reading is digital, I won't be able to read it. I think I'll stick with a real physical copy. You know, we might just talk a little bit about this coming up in just a moment.

Next to me is Rob Schlaffer. He's from the Oregon Education Project, which launches this coming Tuesday. We'll talk about that because he wants to reform schools. And I mean really reform schools. And part of me is thinking, oh, yeah, someone else that says, I'm going to reform the unionized public school system. Maybe he can with your help. We'll find out.