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Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Some reaction to the trucking interview, Mr. Outdoors, Greg Roberts from Rogue Weather Dot com brings the latest report, more open phone topics of the day.

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Keith, last hour, I was talking with Mike Kacharski from JKC trucking, and he was talking about illegal aliens behind the wheel, problems with this. what's happening in California specifically, but what really got my attention, 20,000 trucking companies went out of business last year, which is just, that's an insane number. You are a professional driver. You work for a small company, don't you? Yes, I do. On Tuesday this very week, I learned that a small trucking company out of Petaluma was going

out of business. The driver in question was picking up. last time where I was at, and it was kind of bluesy in my part. But when you lived the cost of compliance, the cost of business, to do insurance, each of these trucks is burning $10,000 a month in fuel alone. I mean, I got into the conversation late because I was coming through the Smith River Canyon, so I'm not privy to everything you guys talked about. But it occurs to me, and it has,

state of California, somebody in a queue, somewhere in a deep, dark place in Sacramento, was trying to come up with a way of absorbing all these illegal. And maybe I'm putting too much into it. But it occurs to me that what a good way to absorb some of these people then to give them an easy occupation. And there's, quite frankly, nothing easy about compliance. Yeah, but it's considered easy, I suppose.

You know, you go to truck driving school for a few weeks and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, here's the CDL. Now, quit complaining illegal alien. We got a job for you now, right? That sort of thing. Oh, I'm going to go. Ninety-seven. I'm at, I'm at, oh, God, RCCC truck driving school.

They were in white city, and they still are. That division. It cost me $3,500, those, you know, $195, 1997 to get through that program. I hired on with Gordon Truck Ait and no longer exists. And one year into it, I started going with small outfits. That being said, changing colors. It was made very clear in 1997 that the good dogs were going to eat the little dogs because they could undercut their costs to the shipper. Yeah, the economy of scale.

The economy of scale just naturally, sure. So anyway, it's interesting to see the government cracking down. It's like opening up a room that nobody wants you to look at. So let me ask, Keith, since you're on the road all the time, you see drivers at their best and their worst, probably a lot of the times at their worst. Is there a problem within the trucking industry of the unqualified, non-citizen foreign national, just being given a CDL like they were in California? 17,000 of them is what we were talking about. So I would say the most contact I have with other commercial drivers are out of Canada. Oh.

And a lot of them are, a lot of them are Sikh. There's a large contingency of Sikhs out of Yuba City. They all tend to, the ones that I've met talk with tend to be very, very good drivers. Glad to hear that. I don't have any direct complaint with anybody specifically that has gone through the illegal or less than professional way of getting into the business. this. What I have seen are the results of behavior. I don't see the driver. I just see what they did beside me and in front of me or with me going in the direct opposite direction. And I don't know if that's because they're poorly qualified. I'm not, oh gosh, I'm not surprised.

Okay. I really appreciate you sharing your experience. experience, though, on the road because, like I said, you see regular drivers at their worst, I would imagine. And I'll bet you have stories. But that'll be for another time. Oh, well, there you go. We'll see you later. All right. Thanks, Keith. We'll catch up on the rest of the news here. Mr. Outdoors with his outdoor report and a whole bunch more coming up. From opposition leader to elected leader, I'm Dave Anthony Fox News. I believe I will be elected when the right time comes as president of Venezuela.

That's what Maria Karina Machado predicts, telling Fox's Rachel Campos Duffy after meeting at the White House with President Trump and giving him the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her for a push for democracy that got her persecuted in Venezuela. Because I did it on behalf of a Venezuelan people that appreciate so much what he has done. The president thanked Machado on Truth Social, calling it a wonderful gesture. Now more with Bill Meyer. Larry's here from Grants Pass. Larry, you had a question once again going back on the illegal alien trucking topic we have with Mike Kacharski. And then there was Keith from Cave Junction giving us his take. What were you wondering? I just had a question as to why there is nobody that has an interest at looking at insurance companies that, you know, I would say would be helpful insure these trucks. I don't know what happened with that, you know, that Florida accident down there and whatever trucking company that those two illegals or at least the brother that did the U-turn in the highway there. Yeah, I'm guessing that that trucking company, if it's one like the young man from Chicago was talking about, they're done.

I mean, insurance companies, liabilities, you know, the guy with the deepest pockets, there's got to be some way to, since Newsom doesn't want to comply with the requests from the federal government. Maybe you have Sean Duffy then cross-reference the... Absolutely. Yeah, the illegal alien CDLs that they know about because Newsom will not decertify those drivers right now. And so Duffy can just say, okay, let's just get in touch with the insurance agents that are connected with this company. Of course, there could be a trucking company that's big enough that they self-insure. I suppose that's possible, you know. I don't know how probable that is, so they might not care.

But self-insuring, I mean, and a trucking company and, you know, whether we would say legally, knowingly hiring illegals and putting them out, you know, I'll say in front of or behind said self-insured, you know, suggestion you're making. I mean, the amount of dollars that would have to be posted up for a company like that would be multiple, multiple seven figures, I would guess. Yeah, considerably. Yeah, considerably. Of course, I've worked for companies, though, that pretty much self-insured. I guess they had a bond or some way of showing that they were financially responsible. So I not exactly know all the ins and outs of that, but yeah, that's a great question.

The company that you, that, not diminishing what you've done, Bill, you do a great job. You know, I hugely appreciate listening to you when I do and such. But I'm guessing that the jobs that you're referencing that you had employer self-insured weren't, again, multiple 80,000-pound trucks rolling down the road. No, they were not. Although that sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to do that sometime, just for fun, just to try it one time, just to see what it was like, you know? Larry, I appreciate the question and a good one posting. I don't have an answer for it, though, but I like the idea that you're saying go through it with insurance.

Good call. 770KMED already. Let me bring on Mr. Outdoors. Mr. Outdoors, Greg Roberts. Every Friday we like to talk what's going on in the outdoors, and it's more than just weather. It's climate. It's the wolves. It's the prey.

It's everything going on there. Outdoor reports sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. And Greg Roberts, of course, is rogueweather.com. Greg, welcome back. Good to having you on. Morning. Good to be back, Bill. So what is the number one complaint over at wokeweather.com from people?

What's that? The fog without any question. And, you know, it's interesting because what it shows me is either people have really short memories, which I suspect is more often the case, or they just haven't lived here very long. But, you know, I mean, everybody's complaining, obviously, about the fog, and especially when we've got freezing fog in the mornings. But the fact is, when we get these kind of high pressure situation set up over us in January, we'll see some unbelievable fog. And even what we see now is nothing like what it was back in the 70s and early 80s to this point that I'm aware of.

If it happened, I haven't seen it. I haven't seen school schedules impacted by the fog. Did that used to happen? Sophomore in high school. It absolutely impacted us. We would start two hours late every day. Our school days were compressed down into four-hour days, basically 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. And they would send us all home because by the time the buses would get back to the bus barn,

the drivers couldn't hardly see to stay on the road. And that went on for almost two months. The second half of December going into Christmas vacation, and then we came back, and January was the same thing. We stayed on those reduced day fog schedules for almost the entire month of January, and they were beginning to start talking about, we may have to add days on at the end of the school year because we're not sure we're getting enough hours in.

And then everybody was like, oh, man, this is really going to stink. Well, we wound up not having to have days added on at the end of the school year, but can persist and last for weeks. Oh, I know. Well, I want to give you my experience the first time I was exposed to the Rogue Valley, very first time. This was 1984. I left my DJ position.

It was a part-time in Sacramento, and I was heading up in the U-Haul and going to go, supposedly to take a job in Seattle, but then that job evaporated. That kind of got thrown into the turmoil, but that's neither here or there. But I'm coming down in, you know, off the pass, and I'm coming into the Rogue Valley.

It was February of 1984. And it was one of those, these kind of inversion fogs in which nothing, you couldn't see anything. I couldn't believe it. And that was also back in the days when we still have, I think they still had the wigwam burners, burners burning in some of these places. So you not only had the fog, but you had the furnace fumes or the wood smoke fumes and all the rest of it. Yeah, exactly.

You're going to laugh when I say this. I'm going through Medford at that point. Couldn't see anything in it stank and everything else. I'm thinking, who the heck would ever want to live in this godforsaken place? The irony. I know, and wouldn't you know, it was, you know, 15 years later I was here and I've loved it ever since. But, yeah, and that was real fog, real stuff, real particulate matter in there. In other words, we've gotten better over the years, not worse, really.

Oh, without any way. And once they cleaned up the emissions coming out of the mills and other manufacturing here in the Valley, the first noticeable change was that the fog just was nowhere near as thick. Well, pretty easy to figure out why it was getting so thick. It was all the particulates in the air that we were putting out, and it actually did make the fog worse. Since those days, since they markedly reduced all of that, no wigwam burners, reduced what's being pushed into the air out of mills,

another manufacturing. We still get fog, but yeah, it is absolutely nothing like the fog I grew up with here and what we used to experience routinely. So, yeah, again, I'll go back to if you think the fog is being really persistent right now, either you're forgetting something because, heck, it was just a couple years ago. In fact, I use a photo you took up on Roxanne because it shows the effects of the inversion so well. I use it as my image for today's forecast when we have these conditions because it's beautiful, sunny, bright blue sky on Roxanne and everything above. And then you see the big, poofy fog layer down in the valley. Yep.

And I know that picture. I took that a few days ago. So same sort of thing. You'd get above the inversion layer and boom, there it is. It's beautiful and even relatively warm, you know, up at that point, too. Relative Douglas County at about 4,000 feet elevation, she reported to me yesterday, beautiful bright blue sunshine 70 degrees. No kidding. No kidding.

Wow. And I believe that. Kind of reports from remote automated weather stations in the Cascades. in the Sierra right now where they're above the inversion, and this tends to be a zone somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 feet in elevation, they're running consistently 60s, even touching 70 right now during this inversion. Meanwhile, down in the valleys, everybody's shivering and freezing, and even when the fog goes away, the cold air is still trapped down in the valleys. I mean, for the last week and a half, Medford has been consistently consistent.

colder at any point in the day. You're at the lodge at Mount Ashland at 6,300 feet, and Medford's 1,390 feet. That points out what the inversion is from a temperature point of view. I had a guy send me a message and go, the temperatures at Parker Meadows are just so much warmer than Medford. That has to be a mistake, right? And I go, no. And Parker Meadows is a remote automated weather station in the Cascades. And I forget the exact elevation point, but he was showing me this. I go, no, all that's showing is that's the inversion. That's exactly what happens when the inversion is going on. Now, what actually sets up the inversion, Greg? What does that? High pressure. Just high pressure. Okay. Yeah, it's just a big cap in the atmosphere. It keeps

everything stable. It keeps the storms away from us. And the high pressure ridge is going to last at least another week over the top of us. It isn't until we get to the week of the 26th, the last week of the month going into February before we really start to see any indication of this breaking down. And this also means that the air quality is not going to be as good. Yeah, no. And the air quality, I posted that the other day. Air quality right now, pretty comparable to what we have in the summer when fires are going on. It's staying mostly in the moderate. There are times where it starts spiking up towards unhealthy for sensitive groups here in Medford, but it is staying in the moderate. Oh, I should add that's the same situation over in

Grants Pass. You want true, clean, good air. You've got to go to the coast, or you go east of the Cascades. And Clameth Falls and Lakeview have much better air than us, because while the inversion is present there, it's not nearly as strong, and they are getting some relief in the afternoons. Typical winds come up, and it helps stir that around a little bit, so their air quality is running better. And then needless to say, get up anywhere in the mountains, you don't even have to go that far. Butte Falls, Prospect, you know, those areas, you will get out of the version and you'll be a nice clean air and beautiful blue sunny skies, which for the weekend, yeah.

A lot of bad idea. Yeah. You'd walk in the mountains. Yeah, you absolutely would be able to do that. Of course, the only problem, though, is that this is why there's also no snow coming down on the ski area in Ashland. There is, here's the funny thing. When we have seen this happen in the past, inevitably what happens is we wind up.

up with really stormy February, March, April, and then people, pardon, people will always say, it feels like we had our spring in January. You're right. You're right. It happens every time. Hey, Greg, hang on just a second here. Let me take a quick break. Let's grab some calls.

People have some questions about this, too. And it is love it. It's the outdoor report, but we're talking a bit of climate here and the, and boy, I've got to tell you. You know, the one thing for sure in these frozen mornings like it is, you know, my feral Daryl, kiddie, you know, out there in the backyard, he has his little heated chalet, you know, out of the back, little heated, yeah. Yep. He's in there big time. I shine the flashlight through the front back window. I'm looking at it.

Yep, he's in there. He wasn't coming out at all. That heated, heated in enclosed space. Your outdoor kitties will love it. Now, the funny story is our kind of what had been a strictly outdoor feral cat. She's staring in, looking at me, and I couldn't help it. We let her in three days ago, and we now have a new indoor kitty because Betty's let it be known. I'm not doing the outside thing anymore.

I want to be in here with you guys. Yeah, I've been out there and I've been in here. I like it much better in here. Yep, no doubt. All right. Greg, we'll continue that here in just a moment, the outdoor report and more here with Greg Roberts on the Bill Myers Show. This hour of the Bill Myers show is sponsored by Glacier Heating and Air, making sense of the heating and air business. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED.

Now Bill wants to hear from you. 541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. And we appreciate you being here, the outdoor report, and talking about the weather and the climate too for that matter. Steve's in Sunny Valley. Steve, you had a question for Greg. Go right ahead.

Yeah, I'm a pilot, and my elevation of my place is about 11. 115, I mean, 1,150 feet. It's not super high, about 200 feet higher than the airport, but we're sunny here starting about noon all through the afternoon, and I go into Grand's Pass, and it's still foggy all day long. Why aren't we getting the same weather? What is special about Sunny Valley that makes a fog clear off? Well, you know what's funny? You're also pointing out something that's happening in Rogue River and in Gold Hill. Same thing. The fog is burning off there and it persists in Grants Pass. It's also persisting over in Medford. And over here, Central Point tends to hold on to the fog and some areas in Central Point may not clear at all.

So what happens is those narrower valleys actually, when the sun really starts baking on the fog, it can evaporate that out much faster than it can, say over Grants Pass or over Medford and Central point simply because there is more concentration. It's a thicker, more moisture-rich environment over, say, Medford than it is in the little narrow pocket valleys like Sunny Valley, like Rogue River, like Gold Hill. So the sun's able to overcome that quicker in the day and clear it out before it will clear over Grand's Pass in Medford. The flip-s-sum. of that is usually the pocket valleys are much faster to have the fog develop in the evenings overnight than what Grants Pass in Medford will have. So yeah, it's quicker to develop on you

in Sunny Valley, but it's also much quicker for the sun to be able to erode it and clear it because it's a much smaller area and that sunlight gets much more effective quicker on those pocket valleys. All right, very good. Steve, it's a great question. Thanks for making it. We have a wild salmon Steve here. Hello, Steve. Go ahead. Hey, guys. Yeah, I went to the coast yesterday. It was 75 in Brookings. Man, yep. Nice. We drove back through the fog in spots all the way through. And I think the fog really kind of comes from the water that's available along the river. But that's just a guess on my part. No, it's, that's not just a guess. That's actually exactly.

right. I mean, the rivers, Bear Creek, or waterways, yeah, they do help provide some of that moisture that will develop into the fog. But with the inversion and what's going on, it will trap and it will hold moisture that we may not necessarily see and pick up, you know, directly. But if you look at things like dewpoints, it's there. Okay. Now, there was another question you wanted to? Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, the history, I was born here, so I remember in the 50s, we did have fog. I remember sitting on the fender of my dad's 49 also holding a flashlight so we could see the center line in the road, which is kind of crazy. And that was in the 50s.

That's an activity that, you know, immediately child protective services and every form of that, nanny stateism would be called. But, yeah, those kind of things were common. They didn't do that to me, but I definitely will never forget. We had to make a trip over to Bimart and West Main in Medford. We were in Bimart, and the fog immediately developed. We drove over there, no fog. We come out of the store, instant fog, and it was so thick. I'll never forget.

My grandpa had driving, and my dad in the passenger seat, they had the windows rolled down and were sticking their heads out just to be able to see the lines. Man, that is something. That is some real fog. Nothing uncommon, all right. Wild Sam and Steve, appreciate that. All right, Greg, we appreciate your take on things, too. So it's going to stay this way the next week or more, really, is what you're expecting, right? Because, honestly, it looks like when it will really break up, we're going to be the week of the 26th. So those last days of January as we get ready to head into February, because February starts two weeks from tomorrow. So speaking of that, I almost forgot, we will be shifting the outdoor report to Mondays very soon because it is outdoor show season. And two weeks from today, I will be in Eugene with the first of the Exposer shows, which

eventually will arrive in Medford. All right, fair enough. Well, keep me in the loop on that, and we will accommodate. All right. Thanks, Greg. Yeah, we always have. It's just kind of the usual thing. So, yeah, coming up in a couple weeks.

will be shifting to Mondays for the outdoor report until we reach middle of March. All right, very good. Greg Roberts over at rogueweather.com. Appreciate the call. We'll catch you next Friday here for the time being. And outdoor report sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive and Medford. 735 will catch up on the rest of the news here in just a moment. And happy to take your calls. 770-K-M-E-D. 7705-633. We will also have a 9- or 62 Real American Quiz sometime before the end of this We'll make sure that happens. And I have a guest coming up at 8-10. I think this is a great Friday guest.

It's not a particularly, well, he's a political guy, but it's not like it's into the Trump or the other stuff and what's going on. But his name is Taki Theodore Coppulus. I hope I got his name right there. Taki is a guy I have been reading, gosh, for probably 20 years or so. He's been a journalist for 40, 50 years. He's in his late 80s now, and he put out a memoir, and this guy has had a jet-setting journalism kind of a very exciting life,

very exciting life. And he put out a book that I've been having a good time reading, The Last Alpha Mail, The Amorous Pursuits and High Life of a Poor Little Greek Boy. Amazing stories. And he's got a bunch of them, and we'll, well, he'll talk. We'll share about that. They'll be coming up about 810 or so, right? 770 KMED.

See by Millette Construction, specializing in foundation repair and replacement. Get on solid ground. Visit MilletConstruction.com. 77056633-710KMED. I want to thank the paralegal 399 over in Grants Pass writing me this morning here. Bill, what is the suspect's name in the library deal? If the person is Nicholas Andrew Johnson, date of birth in 1992, age of 33.

Because we were wondering, okay, what did he do? Right? Because remember, the DA is not going to do anything with Nicholas Johnson. All I know in the paper and elsewhere, it's just been referred to as Nicholas Johnson, but he's a 33-year-old, the one that we have in our story. But he was convicted of, and this is from the paralegal, he was convicted of rape 3 and sodomy three, both Class C felonies, in Tullamac County, September of 2023, with a victim under the age of 16 in 2022.

Most likely he served 90 to 180 days in county jail and could be off paper, as they say, or probation since mid-20205, graduated from RCC in June of 2023 with two AAS degrees, and has been employed gainfully for eight years, according to documents. Okay. So there we go. Now, we're not saying that this is the same Nicholas Johnson, but it would be strange to have two sex offenders, Nicholas Johnson, both from 1992 and both 33 years old,

may be. This may be what happened. I'm not saying it's for sure I'd have to do a little more poking around. I don't have time to poke around while I'm on the air with this, but thank you, 399. I appreciate that. 741. And we have Dave. Hello, Dave.

Fire away. What's on your mind today, huh? Go ahead. Yeah, I was going to say that I believe the games are going to make a deal after what they said yesterday, that they agreed to disagree, but they're going to work to see common ground. Why do you think we need to actually own Greenland? Because we have all the military access that we won right now with just the, I think it's used to be the Thule Air Base.

I forget what it's called now. It's something different. The military base is there. Yeah, we got one base there, but that's not why we're going there. We're going there for the minerals and the fresh water. Plus, they want to put in the Golden Dome there. So I think we're going to get it in. There'll be a lot of investments in the United States, and the Greenlanders will love it.

I would be really curious to see this so-called Golden Dome and things like that. Russia has hypersonic missiles, and I'm not aware of there being any real defense possibility on hypersonic missiles. There is, because they have to do an arc. If they launched them from Russia over Greenland, they can be taken out with our hypersonic missiles. Oh, okay. All right. And then I wanted to say about the weather. Yes. It's been 55 degrees here starting about 10 o'clock. And it's been good weather until a night when it gets down to 25. All right, very good.

Thanks, Dave. 742. Tom's in Talent. Tom, good to have you here on Find Your Phone Friday. Good morning. Good morning. A little follow up on the trekking. Oh, yeah.

I was talking with Mike Kacharski last hour about the $160 million in money being taken away from California because they won't get rid of the tens of thousands of illegal alien truckers. Yeah, well, there's apparently even a bigger crisis than what you discussed with him. California passed a lot that went in effect on, I guess, January 1st of this year, basically saying if your truck is older than 2010, you're no longer allowed on California roads. Yes. And apparently there's entire fleets of trucking that have stopped going into California. and they're also getting support from other trekking industry, folks, and so forth. And basically, Walmart and Costco, their shells are starting to empty out.

There's backloads down at the largest port in the world, which is Los Angeles. They have all these shipping containers. They can't go 10 yards. And so California is basically shutting down the governors called Food Emergency. and so forth. And it's going to affect probably Oregon because a lot of the produce and so forth comes from California and also Mexico. So it's going to be impactful here in Oregon as well, I'm sure, as it spreads. But I tell you, the main point, these laws, just like in California and Oregon here, the primary problem is that legislators are lawyers,

teachers, academics, and so they're not business people, and they're just absolutely clueless. I would agree with you. The thing that I wanted to get back, though, you're saying there is a food emergency declared in California. I can find absolutely no news, nothing about that. I don't know if that's credible. I agree with you. I don't know how credible what I'm saying is.

I've just got a couple emails from Lucretia Conspiracy Central. So we'll put the credibility on hold for the time being, but apparently that law is for real. I am familiar with that law. I'm wondering if they put it on hold because if you get to the point where we can sit there and laugh and poke fun at California, but remember, we get our produce from the San Joaquin Valley, right? Yeah, coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Yeah, I mean, and it's again, I think the crucial thing, I'm kind of wondering, if we would be safer electing a Democrat businessman as contrasted to a Republican lawyer.

I mean, if you don't understand business, you can't make sensible laws. And these people up in Salem, they're out to lunch. They're about as loony as Medford City Council, and that's pretty loony. Yep. I appreciate the call. Thank you. A day. Oh, boy, that's really something. Thank you very much, Tom. It is 746. Hi, good morning. KMEED, who's this? This is Chris Metford.

Hi, Chris. How are you? Doing well. I was listening about the weather and I know it's very typical when we have this kind of, you know, when winter starts like this for us to go into heavier weather and, you know, February, March, and April. But I happen to be waiting for my car sitting in the Subaru waiting area for their service. And there was a British lady talking to another lady and ask her, well, do you normally get snow here?

And she says, she fumbled a little bit. She says, well, yeah, we have way more snow than what we used to. And her reasoning was that because the ice caps are melting, that all that cold has to go somewhere. But once the ice caps are completely melted, then it will be warm everywhere. and I just thought it was hilarious. Yeah, I don't think it's the ice caps. I mean, just me, between me and you, I'm no climatologist. I'm going to try to pretend this.

I don't know if the ice caps melting necessarily, well, what do you think about it? I don't know. I'm a little confused about this now. No, no, no. I just thought it was ridiculous. that the ice caps melting would somehow cause more snow for us. Oh. And fortunately, she also talked about how nobody, I didn't catch the beginning of the conversation,

but it was nobody should have that much money. So we kind of know what side of the fence she's on. Oh, nobody should have that. Oh, I love that. Nobody should have that much money. So, gosh, I was just thinking about it. I was, you know, I was listening to some crusty, songs from

1967. Do you remember that, you know, there was a year or two that they had bubble gum music out there

like, you know, yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy or something like that. Yes. But there was a

flip side single that I remember on yummy, yummy, yummy, I think, and it was called like reflections

through the looking glass and it was like, and they were trying to be a relevant. It was like a relevant song and they're saying,

I'm going to take you to a place where everyone is treated the same. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, it's perfect. Socialism. They were even singing about it in the studio on the flip side of yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy

in 1967. Because everyone is treated the same. Isn't that great? Now, there's a big difference between equality, treated the same before the law, and everyone is treated the same. Yay. Okay. There's equality and there's equity.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Point well taken, Chris, thanks for the call. Yeah, I remember that. I think it's called Looking Through the Looking Glass or something like that. I'm sure it was the studio band that was the Ohio Express or 1910 Fruit Gum Company or whatever it was back in 1967. They would, 68, though, actually, I think. And they wanted to do a song that was relevant to The Times, man.

We're just not a studio band doing yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, and Simon says. But anyway, hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is the Bill Meyer's show. Hi. Hello. Good morning.

It's deplorable Patrick, Bill. Am I on? Yes, deplorable Patrick. Well, you're a trucker, too. You know what's going on out there on the road. Go ahead. A little bit, yeah. And I'm pretty critical of the illegals having driver's licenses of any kind.

But, you know, you got me all working. up and interested in calling because you were talking about the fog clearing here and not clearing there. Right. And I love a good fog story. I got my favorite fog story ready for you. Okay. Let's hear it.

And I, me and a couple of other guys were flying down to Cloverdale, California. This is years ago to do a church organ installation. I had a master musician. and I had a technician in the airplane with me. Now, I have to ask you this, given the fact that I like to play piano and keyboard and things like that, I don't do it nearly as much. Was it like a big pipe organ or was it an electronic one? I'm just curious.

We were installing a Johannes, forgot the serial number, but it was the model number, but it was an electronic organ that would save people $2 million by sounding. Very, very much like a pipe organ. All the technical aspects of you'd fool just about anybody. Got it. All right. So anyway, you're flying down in the plane, right? Yeah, I'm not, yeah, I was flying this Cesta-172, which is a four-seat airplane.

And I am not an instrument-rated pilot, meaning I have to have basically clear weather to be legal to fly. and that means visual flight rules, which means three miles visibility. And something tells me that VFR conditions went away. Well, you tell me, now I've never really asked anybody if I stepped over the line or if I was perfectly legal. But what happened was we were getting close to our planned destination. I had already made the most of the descent. We were down close to like 500 feet maybe above the ground, and I looked over at our airport.

And now fog is just a cloud that's laying on the ground. And I looked down at this airport, and you could see this fog creeping on its way to that airport to sock it in, as they say. And I said, I've got perfectly clear weather. I can see the beginning of the runway with perfect clarity. I said, you guys, hang on. We're going.

We're going to land. Okay. We're going to land here. Hang on. I yanked the flaps, full landing flaps and pointed that nose down and got that thing on the ground with perfect visibility. And as soon as we were on the ground, it was almost too socked into taxi. It was, I was.

That has to be, that has to be scary and disconcerting, because you didn't even know if someone's on the runway either, do you? It was not an instrument of runway. You wouldn't have planes. I suppose there could have been somebody taken off the other direction, but he would have been taken off with no visibility. Sure. I was headed south.

If there was another plane, he had to be headed north taking off on the runway, and I was landing to the south. Okay, well, complete the circle then. What happened then? You made it, obviously, I guess. Nothing happened. I landed with perfect control and visibility. And within seconds of being on the ground, we were driving in fog, taxiing in fog, which is legal. And you can only see like a couple under feet. But that was pretty much my favorite fog story.

And I don't, somebody that knows more than I do might say, yeah, you were technically okay, but Dave, he got after you? I don't know, but I just wanted, that was one of those things that I'll always remember. I'm just glad that you survived the day, because there are a lot of people to find themselves in those situations, and they don't, Patrick.

We read the stories all the time, see the videos. I hear, too, but I had perfect visibility all the way to the ground. All right. But once again, that perfect visibility, you don't want to have the impact with that ground. It's the sudden stop thing, you know, how that goes.

I didn't get any complaints with the other guys. They were really safe. Good. Patrick, always great hearing from you. 7705-633. I want to make sure we get to everybody in here on the open phone portion of the program. And let me go to Line 1. Hello. Hi, who's this?

Bill, it's Jerry. Morning, Jerry. How are you? I'm doing well, thank you. Good. I have a fog story. Okay. It was, I believe this was 1999, sometime in December.

I don't know if it was early, mid-December, whatever. As I recall, it's December, though. It was foggy here in the valley. So foggy that I believe they canceled flights at the Medford Airport. So anyway, me and my wife at the time decided we'd go to the coast. So we went to Brookings. It was clear 76 degrees. We had a listener called about a half hour ago.

Pretty much same sort of thing, talking about it being mid-70s. Yeah. I believe that's a record or was a record at that time, but it was just absolutely gorgeous. And, you know, we live in a valley, and all I can say, Bill, is even though we may still have foggy days, it is nothing. compared to the 70s and 80s. My dad and mom delivered mail, and there would be time they actually had to open their window or door to make sure they're still driving on the road.

I know. It was that difficult to see. We had higher particulate levels there between wood smoke, wigwams, all the rest of it. So definitely air quality has improved a bit there. Thanks for the story. I appreciate it. Glad you made it too.

Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Hi. Is this in my own? Yes, you are. Okay. Well, everybody's telling funny little stories about fog, but I want to tell a funny little story about this immigration problem that we're having.

Okay. I'd love to hear some humor about that. Sure. Go ahead. It is a little funny and kind of cruel. But, you know, all these girls, they're ladies, I should say, are using whistles and whatnot to warn about ice. Uh-huh.

Well, I got myself a whistle, and I went down to the front of Home Depot where all the day laborers are, and I started blowing it. Uh-huh. And, oh, my God, you should have seen them scatter. So you blew the whistle for a different reason, right? Yes, sir. All right. Thanks for the call, whistleblower. All right.

All right. There's our whistleblower call for Friday for sure. 7.58 at KMED. This is KMED and KMED HD-1, Eagle Point, Metford. BXG grants pass. Okay, we're going to delay the 9 or 62 quiz to later next hour because we just kind of ran out of daylight

in this particular deal. But Taki Theodora Coppolis, gosh, I hope I get his name right. I hope I don't embarrass myself and mispronounce the name when I bring him on here. But as far as I'm concerned, this guy is like, he's like a living embodiment

of that old, what's that Dos Eckis advertising deal, the most interesting man in the world. Remember the most interesting man in the world? That guy? He's like the real version of it. Fascinating story.

He released his memoir. Rich guy, privilege, journalist, national review, talking mag, all sorts of things. And we'll talk about that coming up. One of each K-4-Vin-2-3-7-22 MSRP, 24-185. Tell you, ride, Vin, 707.