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Episode Date: February 1, 2025

Some emails of the day and a talk with a concerned grandmother from Phoenix about an apparent DEI person brought into Kindergarten, Grandma Boom. Commissioner Ron Smith in Jo Co recaps the last night Fire meeting, D62 quiz and more.

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at clouserdrilling.com. Glad you're here. Eight minutes after seven. Coming up in a few minutes, we're going to talk with a local mom, concerned parent, about a character who has been going in and out of some of the school systems. I think the Phoenix school system is where it's happening right now.

Granny Boom. school systems i think the phoenix school system is where it's happening right now uh granny boom and it seems to be part of a state diversity equity and inclusion we want to train the little kids to be accepting of people who look differently from them and the uh the parrot thinks that there's a a little more of an agenda based process than just trying to get the kids to get along with other people. Just saying. But I don't know if it's grooming or whatever, but I'll talk with her in the next few minutes, okay? I want to touch on some more emails of the day. Emails of the day are sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson,

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We don't know that at this point in time, but it is a reasonable theory. It is a reasonable theory. Like I said, this has been going on a long, long time. It's just more and more in your face. Like I said, back in the late 80s when I was applying for a job and I was told, well, you're white, you're not going to get it. Yeah, and the boss even at that point admitted that. I'm not supposed to

even be able to tell you that but he said no we're we're been more or less told you're going to hire minorities at this point that's just it so uh i know i know how that works ended up working out okay but uh yeah it stung a little bit it really did but anyway we have jeff writing me this morning bill we have to consider that ai submits to the authority of no one. And while there are several independent iterations of AI, once they're able to communicate between each other, there will be one superior AI who will call all the shots. Since we know that the programming is garbage in, garbage out,

the input to any AI language has been done by those who follow the current people are bad for the earth trend i personally have no doubt that colossus will view humans as parasites that need to be eliminated enter arnold schwarzenegger interesting perspective on that randall writes me from advanced air you know we talk with him all the time. He says, Bill, about Tina Kotak's construction labor executive order. As a non-HVAC, a non-union rather, HVAC contractor in rural southern Oregon, we find Governor Kotak's recent executive order, 2431, stunning and extraordinarily unreasonable. In short, Bill, Kotak's executive order forces all future federally funded construction projects to be awarded only to unionized companies.

This has devastating consequences for hundreds of small construction businesses in Oregon, like Advanced Air, that are not unionized and therefore are disqualified from the bid. For Kotech to argue that this executive order will ensure that all construction projects adhere to the highest standards of quality and efficiency at the lowest responsible cost is preposterous. In smaller markets like Medford, Oregon, there is almost no union presence or support. Our local economy does not support the outlandish demands that union pricing and production requires of small construction businesses. Unionizing is therefore impractical. This is worth discussing next time I come in on Open for Business, and we will. Randall, we'll talk about that more. It'll be interesting.

I mean, that's an example how it is affecting advanced air. And I would imagine it affects all the other HVACs. I imagine most of the HVAC contractors here in Southern Oregon, all the good people, the stone heirs and all the rest. They're, you know, probably all looking at us and going WTF, so to speak. All right. It's 12 minutes after 7. This is the Bill Meyer Show. Winter rain wreaks havoc on your home's foundation.

Here's Bill Meyer. Interesting story that a listener raised to me the other day and wanted to ask her a few questions about it and kind of get to the bottom of it having to do with some of the dei programs that are coming into the government school systems here in southern oregon and uh and we have darlene who is here this morning hello darlene good to have you on the show hello welcome thank you good morning all right now uh you ended up pulling your grandson out of the Phoenix Talent School District or into a different school? Is that what has happened recently? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he was coming home, and we had noticed these little notes, these flyers from somebody calling herself Grandma Boom. Yeah, Grandma Boom. I had never heard of the individual that you were bringing up. So I did speak to the principal about one of the messages that was kind of open-ended. It could be taken as a negative instead of a positive.

But we talked, and then I got onto Facebook. I got a little curious, so I got onto Facebook. I got a little curious, so I got onto Facebook, and some of the things that I was seeing, I didn't really like. And so, you know, Grandma Boom comes in full costume. I'm sure the kids love it. And is this like kindergarten age or early? It's like kindergarten, yeah. Okay, kindergarten, all right.

We didn't even think DDI would be in kindergarten. You know, we were just thinking maybe high school or something. So we didn't even ask. So I want to let the community know that if you're bringing your child into a public school, even kindergarten, you need to ask because they won't tell you. At least Phoenix Elementary never alerted us. We would always get the notes that she had visited after the fact. So as parents, we need to be vigilant. We need to ask questions.

We can't just drop our kids off. All right. Now, Grandma Boom dresses up kind of flamboyantly. It's almost, I don't know if it's like Harry Potter, but kind of like a kid's... Yeah, colored wigs. Colored wigs, you know, all the rest of it. And, you know, at first glance, it appeared pretty innocuous to me. But where was it, though, that you started thinking that maybe there was a larger agenda in play with the grandma boom sort of thing? And it's getting everybody to sing about how, you know, from what I can see, it's like, hey, we're all supposed to get along no matter how you look, right? I guess this is about conditioning the kids.

But where do you think it might be going sideways? Yeah, I agree with that. When we got onto her Facebook page, the grandma Zoomed in. Hey, could you speak into the phone more directly, Darlene? Oh, sure. You know, I've ran over this phone, so I have problems sometimes. Can you hear me? Okay.

Well, move it around again. I'm just clicking a little bit there. Can you hear me now? Oh, that's better. Okay. Okay. All right. clicking a little bit there can you hear me now oh that's better okay okay all right um yeah when we looked on the facebook page um you know she lays a rainbow art it's a heart that all that

yeah and yeah the uh the rainbow uh in other words it was the lgbtq carpet i guess is what it was like like a mat brought into the school, right? Yeah, yes. And then she strategically lays candles down on it. They're lined up in a specific way. And then she has the children lay on their backs, encircling the rug with the candles. And they're very close. They're touching shoulder to shoulder and on their back. And then she has the tone bowl and bell.

The tone bowl and bell? And bell. Now, the tone bowl, are you talking about one of those things like you take your finger and you run it around it and it makes one of the new age hoo-ha bowls? Yeah, you hit it with something in it oh okay all right you know you're using tones to relax the children i guess and then she'll pick up her little ringing bell and bring it then she'll say her message that she's trying to get into the children and then you know and then she puts bendy dots on them now that can you know all she puts bendy dots on them. Now that can, you know, all this. She puts what dots on them? Bendy, bendy dots.

Those are the dots that you see on Hindus. They're the little dots that they put on the middle of your forehead. Oh, oh, oh, okay. So Grandma Boom, from the looks of it then, bringing Eastern religion symbolism, I guess, into the Phoenix Talent School District then, right? Well, I think she's mixing it all. She's taking a little bit from... A little bit of Buddhism, a little bit of Eastern...

You know, throwing in a Christian to one to other than she would have them do, you know, in her work. Yeah, so what happened then when you brought your concerns? Because it does sound a little like it's an oddly ritualistic thing to be bringing into a government school. If a Catholic priest were to walk in to the Phoenix Talent School District in the kindergarten department and then bring the incense burner and start waving it back and forth and say, hey, we're going to talk about how we're going to get along with everybody. All of a sudden the ACLU would come unglued and talk about separation of school and state or whatever but uh but well the thing is is that you know apparently they have to ask and and sign up for a good news plus well this is i felt was nothing you know we weren't told so parents were not told about this it just happened no okay what was the response when you raised some concerns about this to the Phoenix College School officials? Well, the principal

was okay with it. Was okay with Granny Boom? Yes, she's okay with Granny Boom. Alright, so we've got the LGBTQ mat, we've got the symbolism, the little clanging bells, and the tone bowl, and all the rest of it, and almost like setting

up an altar in the school, right? Yes, exactly. That's what it looks like now. You know, I tried to do a little bit. Yeah, could you speak more directly? Your phone, I'm having trouble hearing you there. Okay. Okay.

I'm sorry. I'm going to move. Yeah, we've tried to contact Granny Boone to understand her more, but she, you know, deleted my messages off of Facebook. So I tried it again, asked her out for coffee, gave her my phone number, you know, deleted the message again, and then she blocked me. So that caught our concerns up really high. Okay.

Because if you are doing that, then you are hiding something. Okay. Well, were you hostile, though, when you were reaching out to Granny Boo? Was there anything that could be construed as being hostile, darling? I did, yeah, maybe just a touch, maybe. I said, we can't bring in the Lord God Almighty into the classroom, but this is what they let in. Ah, okay. So, all right. I don't know if that's necessarily hostile, but it is certainly an observation, which would be true of the Phoenix Talent School District, and I would dare say every other government public school in the state of Oregon.

Okay? That's a reasonable observation. You know, she probably did take it a little hostile. Okay. All right. But still, bottom line, she's probably a granny boom. I don't know granny boom. I watched some of those videos and I looked at the flamboyant stuff.

I don't know her either. I'm sure she's a fine lady. I'm not here to discredit anybody but still it does seem like a very odd ritualistic new agey uh you know uh some eastern religion eastern mysticism now um it would seem to me that if you just wanted to get across to the kids that okay get along with one another uh you don't you don't have to pull out an LGBTQ rug to make that point, or do you? No, you don't.

Just teach people respect. My teacher used to do this on a daily basis. Yeah, all right. Well, I'll tell you what. You pulled your grandson out and is in a different school now, and I guess at this point, it's over, or are you just hoping that more parents will ask a few questions? What are you hoping to gain from this? Well, I got good response from the superintendent.

I did write a letter. So I'm just telling people, if you don't like something, write a letter. You know, do something about it. Okay. All right. It's hard to do this. A lot of people just go, well, I don't think it's the tanning. So I'm not even going to about it. Okay. All right. It's hard to do this. A lot of people just go, well, I don't think it's satanic. So I'm not even going to say it.

Okay. Well, I don't think it's satanic. All right. Why do you need to bring that kind of a mat and the arguably ritualistic sort of aspect of it and putting the dots on the kids' heads and all the other thing. I don't know. It does strike at someone's trying to push a bit of an agenda. It sounds that way.

Okay. And I think it would be reasonable for parents in the Phoenix Talent School District maybe ask about that. Maybe they like that sort of ritualistic thing. Well, Ben, if that's the case, you better bring in the Catholic priest, and you better bring in the other people to help them understand and be inclusive. We'll use their terminology, okay, Darlene? Yes, and I did get good response from the superintendent. He said he's going to implement the opt paper. Okay, I would be asking more instead of an opting out or an opt in there. I think the school board should be asking, why are we doing this?

Don't you? Yeah. Well, hey, if I had it my way, I would have. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, I agree. I agree. Hey, Darlene, appreciate the heads up.

That's very interesting. And like I said, and I looked up Grandma Bloom on Facebook, and she seems like a perfectly nice person. I don't know. Oh, yeah, I'm not trying to discredit anybody. But essentially, though, it does appear that they'll be anti-Christian and hate everything about Christianity. But, yeah, let's bring in the new age hoo-ha into the school. And that's okay. That's inclusive.

All right? Reasonable question to raise. Okay, Darlene? Yeah. Thank you for the school. And that's okay. That's inclusive. All right. Reasonable question to raise. Okay, Darlene? Yeah. Thank you for the call. Okay. 29 after 7. Grandma, boom.

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and josephine county all gathering together at the josephine county fairgrounds on the senate bill 762 deal okay had uh email her and i don't know, it's elderlyiron.com. I don't know who that person is. Maybe you could let me know about this. But says, Bill, what that listener was describing to you a few minutes ago, Grandma Boom, she's describing a witchcraft ritual. Well, there are, I've seen enough of that over the years that, yeah, you could be right about that.

And it does seem odd that this is something that the Phoenix Talent School District thinks is necessary for the DEI child development. In other words, getting the nice little indoctrinated drones coming out of the public school. They want to do it early from the looks of it. And it does seem strangely ritualistic. You know, the tone balls, the dots on the head, the getting around in a circle, the candles on the little altar-type table in front of the kids. I just can't, like I said, you know,

I grew up in the Catholic Church and we had candles and incense and we'd have the altars and everything else and come up and take the, you know, take communion and all the rest of it. And they wouldn't tolerate that. Well, I guess maybe they would tolerate it if the priest said, put down a LGBTQ. Well, you know, this just seems to be the standard stuff that you get out of the Oregon Department of Education. Okay. You know, this just seems to be the standard stuff that you get out of the Oregon Department of Education. OK. And maybe parents in Phoenix Town should ask a few questions about it. Like, why do we have this? It's like it's one thing to have an opt out.

But why do you have this in the first place? How does this enhance the educational experience of the kids that are forced to go to the taxpayer funded school? OK. I think it's a reasonable question to ask there. And like I said, I don't know, ask to grind against Granny Bloom or anybody else like that, but it does appear to be wanting to put a thumb on the value judgment of people, all right, of the little kids. 732 at KMED.

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not relatively extremely well attended here, Ron. Welcome back. Well, good morning, Bill. Thanks for having me on the show. Yeah, it was well attended. It's what I call a wooey wowee. The wildland urban interface, right? Wooey wowee. Okay. A wooey wowee. About 650 plus showed up. Oh, okay. I wasn't sure. I'm looking at that. I'm thinking about a thousand, but still, it's a lot of people to get in one place there. Well, it seemed like it. Yeah. It seemed like it, Bill.

All right. It's well attended, and I think people got an education and a good idea of what they can do. What are some takeaways from what occurred last night? Well, that it's a very, pardon my pun, hot issue for the property owners of Josephine, Jackson County, and most of rural Oregon. So it's something we, I would call it a good start. Okay. It's a good start. Is there any general plans of action that came out of that, or is it still people just kind of trying to find their sea legs?

No, our general plan of action is to overwhelm the system. Okay, how so? By everybody appealing saying they're going to get a lawyer. We gave out cards with all the pertinent phone numbers for people to call. We want them to overwhelm them with phone calls and emails. They need to know we're not happy. Okay, and what about the cease and desist? Did you check that out yet? Or did you have you? Well, that got handed out last night and we'll see how that goes. I will let you know that

we have found out, and thank my friend Bob Hart, that the counties can appeal this for everybody in the county. Okay. So we're working on that. I think Jackson County is thinking about it. I'm reaching out to other county commissioners in other counties in the state. Douglas County, Deschutes County has hit pretty hard with this. So I'm reaching out to see how many counties we can get together and create a huge pushback. I've been in communication with State Senator Jeff Golden, and he's going to come on the show next week. And I get the impression that there could be some what Jeff would call fixes to Senate Bill 762.

Are you hearing that, too, that this is the impression he's kind of leaving with me? I've been involved in this since day one. I actually was involved in this when it was just an IP-188 or whatever it was. I've seen it coming. And there's no fixing this. There is no fixing this. They need to go back to their drawing board. They're going to dump hundreds of millions of dollars down into these little forest collaboratives

and the little youth conservation corps that they're building and that money would be better spent sent to the property owners so they can hire help to a clear defensible space and do whatever else they need to harden the home i i gotta tell you that it's not a bad idea to prepare your home for wildfire i think that's great we're just opposed to making it a mandate yeah the idea that you are mandated by the state to get your to get your property resistance to a federally triggered fire on federal land that's going to burn through your property that doesn't seem to be uh that doesn't seem to pass the smell test i wouldn't think no it doesn't you know my concern is we we in josephiana have a lot of elderly people that

that own their homes free and clear and i'd say a lot of more elderly women. How are they going to do this? How are they going to offer a $250 grant? Sure, that's going to cut one tree down maybe. But how are they going to comply with this? There's no fixing this. This needs to be repealed. No, Senator Robinson has introduced legislation to repeal this law.

Will it see the light of day? I don't know. Yeah, well, even he said, he admits it's a high lift. We understand that. But although that is, you know, obviously what should happen. I think one of the most interesting parts of that cease and desist, though, that I was reading this morning, I talked about on the air briefly, was how it would appear that the statute that the Senate Bill 762 bill ended up relying on to have Oregon Department of Forestry get involved with this doesn't really authorize them because, you know, it's about forest land owned by the state of Oregon that ODF usually has jurisdiction over. Don't you find that interesting? Well, I do, and I read in their OARs that they cannot do anything to force you to regulate private property. But yet that would appear to be what Senate Bill 762 is attempting to do through their implementation.

That's exactly what it's trying to do. It's forcing a mandate on people. The thing that gets me about this is they're doing this on the if-come. On the what now? on the if-come. On the what now? On the if-come. If there's a fire that comes through. Oh, okay. So it's like saying, you've got to build yourself a cement earthquake bunker because someday we may have Cascadia.

You know, you're right. That would be kind of the equivalent in earthquake country, which we all are, really. Yeah. In other words, get rid of your house, bulldoze your house, build it all underground, and that's just the way it is. Now you're going to be protected from the earthquake if or when it comes. Got it. All right. Yeah. Or a plane falling out of the sky.

It may fall on your house someday, so you've got to build a net over there to protect your home. Hey, listen. Commissioner, don't give them the idea. That'll be the next thing, all right? We need to have something to protect you. I want to point out the ludicrous of this whole idea of forcing a whole state to jump through their hoops to try to do everything the state wants, and still, it will not change your hazard classification. One thing that I think is important, and I don't know if the counties can get involved with this too, but I would definitely be getting the United States Department of Justice at least notified of what's going on here in the state of Oregon, because it also affects the federal lands around it. It was due to federal lands around us.

And my concern is that if anybody tried filing suit in Oregon court, I'm not convinced they'd get a fair shake here, because I think the Oregon state court is so thoroughly corrupted with leftist governor appointees. That's just my opinion. Well, I think you're right about that. I mean, you can look at recent history regarding the courts and what they should have done and what they did do. And yeah, I believe we need... Now, Trump has said that he's going to reform

the Justice Department. It looks like he's well on his way. And I think that's an avenue we can pursue. Right now, my objective is to get 20, 30, 40,000 people just totally upset about this and push back real hard. One thing I've learned about politicians, they understand one thing and one thing only, numbers. It's either numbers of people or numbers of money. So what they're hoping to do then with this kind of a meeting and the various people getting involved and doing the appeals, it's flooding the zone, so to speak. Flooding it. The political zone. That's right. Just a huge, huge pushback. That's what we need. So we're reestablishing the webpage we had when I first got involved in this. It's called undo762.com. And we're going to make that a central clearinghouse so people can download

documents. They can get the latest news. It's a central place where we can tell people about meetings. We need a place, a virtual place, for people to get their information. And it's not going to be on a social media. We're going to put up a web page that's dedicated to this one thing and one thing only. Okay. Very good. All right, Commissioner, stay in touch and tell me how successful or unsuccessful getting other counties involved in this, because it would be a big help if all of the counties down here united and said, hey, we are opposing this and appealing this, and the only real action is to repeal 762. Now, next week, Senator Golden is probably going to

talk about some amendment or something that he wants to do to Bill 762. What would you ask him? Is there a question you would like me to ask him? Yeah, clean up your own property. Clean up your own property. If you've looked at his property, it's a total overgrown mess with dead trees and all. So he's classified as low. Don't be a hypocrite about this thing. You want other people to do this property. Why don't you lead by example? Okay. All right. I'll ask him about that. All right. Okay. All right. Thanks, Bill, for having me on. All right. You bet. Jackson County, I make that Josephine County Commissioner Ron Smith. All

right. It's 746 at KMED, 993 KBb xg 7705633 diner 62 real american quiz we're going to take care of that next front and center 7705633 let me dig out this diner 60 oh this is a good one this is about this is presidential history assassinations and war okay and if you have not won this in the last uh 60 days so, we'll get you in. And by the way, over at Diner 62, today's Clam Chowder Friday. Just know that. And so many clams. It's just delicious. You know that homemade there. And they've extended through Valentine's Day the hot open-faced sandwiches, either the pot roast sandwich or the hot turkey sandwich there. And Diner 62 is your lunch destination.

All the juicy third-pound burgers and so much more. Maybe you can win that $20 gift certificate next on The Bill Myers Show. Being good steward of your taxpayer dollars. On News Talk 106.3 KMED. 11 before 8, the Diner 62 Real American Quiz. And we're talking about something which happened yesterday in history, January 30th of 1835. Let me go to line two. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hey, Joel. It was yesterday, 1835, Andrew Jackson became the first American president to experience an assassination attempt.

Very first one, okay? And there was a guy who was an unemployed house painter richard lawrence he approached jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the house chamber of the capitol building and shot at him but his gun misfired joel what was president yeah what was president jackson's reaction to this would-be assassination a he hit the guy with a cane. B, he took cover behind a marble statue. C, he returned fire. D, he tackled him. Or E, he threw his leather briefcase at him. This is Andrew Jackson back in 1835.

How did he deal with the assassin? Boy, toss up here. Yeah. He fired back. He fired back. He fired back, returned fire. I thought it'd be pretty good because, yeah, Andrew was kind of cantankerous. No, it wasn't that, though. He didn't fire back.

Not this time, all right? Let me go to line three. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello? It's Janice. Oh, hi, Janice. And Andrew Jackson had that would-be assassination attempt, January 30th, 1835. How did he react to the would-be assassin? Did he hit him with a cane?

Did he take cover behind a marble statue? Did he tackle him, or did he throw his leather briefcase at him? It's one of those four. I think he probably bopped him with his cane. You think he bopped him with his cane and it's a good day for you. You're a winner! That's exactly

what old Hickory did. Just took it and whacked him. a furious 67-year-old Andrew Jackson confronted his attacker clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane. And during the scuffle, Lawrence managed to pull out a second loaded pistol, pulled the trigger, and that also misfired, Janice. Yeah, I know. Jackson's age then wrestled Lawrence away from the president, leaving Jackson unharmed but angry and, as it turned out, pretty paranoid.

They're figuring that Lawrence was most likely mentally ill, no connection to Jackson's political rivals, but Jackson was convinced that Lawrence had been hired by his Whig Party opponents to assassinate him. And Jackson's suspicions never proven. Lawrence spent the rest of his life in a mental institution. A hundred years later, Smithsonian Institute researchers conducted a study of Lawrence's derringers during which both guns discharged properly on the first try. And it was later determined that the odds of both of those guns misfiring during the assassination attempt won in 125,000. So, man, either extremely lucky or divine intervention, we don't know. But that's how that happened in that very first assassination attempt.

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Give Bill a call at 541-770-5633. That's 770-KMED. KMED and KMED HD1 Eagle Point Method, KBXG Grants Pass is where you are. And we have all sorts of things going on here. I had some people writing me this morning about Grandma Boom, the flamboyant character who one listener called and said pulled her grandson out of the Phoenix Talent School District because Grandma Boom brought in to do apparently DEI kind of stuff, and we want the kids to all get around or get along

i saw the video with her on her facebook page you know here's the lgbtq rainbow rug and we're going to have the little tone bowl and the the bells we're going to put little dots on their heads have them lie around the uh you know lie around the it kind of looks like an altar. You could argue that it would look like an altar there. And more people sharing information about it. But apparently Grandma Boom says, helping children with ACEs build resilience through sensory learning. Stress health. If a fairy godmother got to pick your child's uh kindergarten teacher she'd probably

choose grandma boom with a wand a mane of cascading red curls okay yeah that's uh yeah that's uh yeah i i saw that that's uh that's quite interesting i don't know what that has to do though with the the educational process now shry writes from Southern Oregon, lives in the neighborhood of Grandma Boom. And Grandma Boom lives about a block from us. Grandma Boom, dressed in very flamboyant, loud outfits and a huge floppy hat, frequently walks up and down our street. Rumor has itself proclaimed which. Maybe she is. I don't know. But that's perfectly legal, okay?

Back in July, our security camera caught her walking through our mobile home park she was behaving strangely you know i didn't see anything strange about of course i maybe just going out for a walk early in the morning is something she's into but as far as her her pre-elections i don't know but i think it's a reasonable thing that if you are concerned about Grandma Boom to just bring it up with the Phoenix Talent School District and say, why is this being done? What are the qualifications? And can we not make it a new age little hoo-ha celebration? I just thought I would just bring that up. That would be a reasonable thing for parents to do here because, like, you've got to tell you,

they would come unglued if there were any priests or ministers or anybody else there, okay? And there's a lot of similar ritual behavior from what I could see in Grandma Boom's video, you know, there at the school. But anyway, what do I know? Let me talk with Lynn. How are you doing this morning, Lynn? Welcome. Hi, Bill. Ay-yi-yi.

Oh, so that kind of struck you a little odd too, huh? A little bit? Oh, no. It's horrible. I mean, at first glance, it appears perfectly innocuous. It may be perfectly innocuous behavior. This is just where Grandma Boom's coming from. It's a free country.

I get it. But I just know that, like I said, if you had a priest walk in and doing anything ritualistic with the kids, people would be going nuts. They'd be coming unhinged. Okay? It sounds like indoctrination to me. A little bit. You could argue that case. We'll see.

But anyway, what's on your mind today, huh? Well, I just wanted to follow up on some things I've seen on Twitter regarding this helicopter pilot who had transitioned from male to female. And it also talked in another, I think, there's actually an interview with this person on that you can watch. And he's also talked about being depressed. So it may be that this was a murder-suicide type deal. And maybe that's what Trump was referring to. And I also want to point out, did you guys talk about the fact that the reason there's a shortage of air traffic controllers is because Biden fired thousands of them for not taking the dead baby poison shot? Yeah, we did mention a bit of that yesterday.

There were many people that were bounced out of the system. It wasn't just nurses and doctors here in Southern Oregon. I think it was 3,000 air traffic controllers, if I remember correctly, but I could be wrong on that. Anyway, it's very strange, and I feel horrible for the air traffic controller who apparently was trying to do two jobs at the same time, and it may not have been that person's fault at all. Now, you said there was a report on X that one of the pilots had transitioned because the one pilot that was being brought up there was a brand-new father. He had kids and everything else.

Are you talking about that one or a different pilot? I don't know. I thought it was the pilot. So, I mean, that would only make sense if it was the actual pilot who is piloting the, you can go through transition. It doesn't necessarily fix the depression or other emotional and mental potential problems that could be surrounding the gender dysphoria. It doesn't solve the underlying issues, of course. capacity for judgment, and that they may be vulnerable to impulsive outbreaks of, you know, murder or suicide when they just kind of give up because nothing they've tried has worked. Now, the only transgender person that I ever worked with closely over the years was a radio consultant about 20, 25 years ago. And he, she, you know, if you want to turn to that,

ended up being one of the sweetest people I ever knew, you know. And I didn't detect all of that. Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm sure, well, I'm not sure. Well, I'm not, and I'm just saying, though, is that, you know, you can't tar everybody with the same thing, but there is the possibility of some mental and emotional issues there that don't go away with the transition process surgery. And if that person is kind of politically protected, then warning signs might not be heeded, you know, so it'll be interesting to see what happens.

Yeah. And still looking for more information there, but I'm going to look up that report. Thanks for that, Lynn. Okay? See if I can find out. Of everything that's been going on with this, of course, you know, Twitter. Twitter's great, but it could be Big CB Radio, too. Breaker, breaker, one, nine.

Let me go to line two. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Bill, it's Jerry. Hi, Jerry. this welcome phil it's jerry hi jerry i read for 48 hours before this incident happened in dc there was uh they were training for and preparing for a possible nuclear war in new york and in other areas believe. So this was urban nighttime flying.

And by the way, it is known that the pilots were all wearing night vision goggles for this. Right. Anyway, I heard before your show came on this morning, I forget what the show is before yours. But anyway, he had a guest on there. Oh, I know who you're talking it's uh chris de gaulle replaced as hugh hewitt in the morning yeah anyway he was interviewing some lady who i believe was an aviation investigator and she believed and i thought of this too anyway Anyway, a couple days ago, that what might have happened, she doesn't know, is that if they were involved in a training mission, they possibly could have been more focused on the mission than on the plane.

I heard that statement on the interview. Yeah, I heard her. Yeah, you're right. That's what she said. No, no. Bill, real quickly, you know more about this than i do i doubt it i doubt it jerry but try okay the black hawk because of this training exercise i read where the black hawk had a transponder off and probably was carrying a high-profile person. Now, if they're transponders off, do they connect to the tower at the D.C. airport?

I don't know. I don't know either. Now, the transponder off is rumored, I believe. I don't think that has been confirmed, but I know that was one of the early rumors that made it out onto the socials at this point. I can't answer that. The one thing that we do know is that, you know, some people have been saying, well, there needs to be proximity radar on these planes,

and there is. The challenge, though, is that those systems shut off when you're below 1,000 feet, which is where this traffic was happening. This is where this was all going on, below 1,000 feet, because there's really no way. The plane's not that maneuverable at that point on the approach. And you have nowhere to dive or to even really pull up really quickly, you know, if you're in time, those sort of things. The idea is to try to keep them from getting close to one another in the first place. And I guess it's still early, and I'm trying to withhold a lot of judgment, but it still looks to me like human error, doesn't it?

I mean, just you're in the wrong place, wrong time, you know? I don't really know. But anyway, what I will say real quickly is I think it's too early to prejudge anything. These people have been very well-qualified pilots and made a human error. You can be the best pilot in the world and still screw up. You're still human. That hasn't been repealed yet all right thank you for the call 7705633 we go to line three hi good morning you're on with bill

who's this yes joel um you know our neighbor captain william simpson is a helicopter pilot if he's listening maybe he can call in and give us a little insight. Did he fly? Did he fly helicopters? I forgot about that. Yeah. He's a certified helicopter pilot. Ah, you know something?

I'll ask him about that. Maybe we'll get him on Monday, okay? All right? Yeah, that's great. All right. Thanks, Joel. Line four. Hello, line four.

You're on. Who's this? Hello? Hello? Hi, who's this? This is Bob Hart. Hey are you i'm doing good how are you doing this morning doing fine want to give me a quick uh quick hot take on last night's meeting senate bill 762 talk with ron smith happy to hear from you i was glad to see the the turnout there that was quite a showing for jose County. And I know Ron's wanting to do more of those meetings because not everybody could get in and not everybody could get out that night.

So we're hoping to do more. What do you think about the angle of attack of just flooding the zone, so to speak, with the ODF and other state agencies? Part of it is letting Salem know that the people are not happy with the program. And they've got to hear it some way, and the best way at this point is to file an appeal. One of the things we did last night is we did have a handout, and we're going to get it on Ron's website. Here are items that you can use as part of your appeal. I was rating that cease and desist. I got a copy of that this morning, the cease and desist and various other things.

I haven't seen that yet. I'm going to review that next. So I've got to take a look at that. I guess one of the things I know you said, you've got Senator Golden coming on next week with some possible adjustments. That's what Senate Bill 80 was supposed to do, was to be the adjustments to fix 762. You are correct. That is what, you know, they keep trying to fix the mix, you know, all along the way, kind of fixing it rather than just killing it and starting again. But it's almost as if they feel like there's a deadline.

You get that impression that the state legislature is feeling like, oh, gosh, if we don't do this now, we're never going to be able to screw these rural landowners. I don't know. You start wondering, don't you? Yeah, I think it goes back to that thing. Never let a crisis or a calamity go to waste. Good point. And they're using the Alameda fires as an excuse to try and do things. And I would remind people that the Alameda fire was an arson set or arson-triggered urban wildfire.

It wasn't a wildfire on the rural lands, was it? No, it wasn't a wildfire on the rural lands, was it? No, it wasn't. And the map, as it showed then and shows now, it shows that as moderate. Nothing in this legislation would change what happened with the Alameda fire. Very good. Hey, appreciate the update here, Bob, and welcome back. Maybe we'll touch on it and do a deeper dive even next week, okay? Thank you. Sounds good, Bill. All right. here bob and welcome back maybe we'll uh we'll touch on it and do a deeper dive even next week okay thank you sounds good bill all right this is kmed and kmed hd1 eagle point medford kbxg grants pass and we're gonna take a little break here do a little bit of news and get down tonight

i don't know actually i'm going to be talking with ira edwards here in a few minutes too i talked to a lot of national authors. It's great to talk to a local author, and he has written a book, Mere Christian, Mere Scientist. What is this all about? Do a little dig with him coming up.