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Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Listener Brian calls with a potential school sex abuse problem, later Landmark Legal Foundation legal brain Michael ONeil explans why the SAVE act is good law and perfectly constitutional.

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What do you know? Well, yes. You know, this mother came anonymously to us at Parkwatch describing Highland Elementary School with a 10-year-old, her own 10-year-old daughter, finally came openly to her mother. and described that there has been a teacher or a staff member at this elementary school that's been sexually harassing her. Now, we don't know to what details, but I confirmed this with our chief of police, Chief Hensman here in Grants Pass, and Oregon State police are looking into this investigation at this school. I think this is absolutely sickening at an elementary school. And like you were mentioning, public schools in general run by unions,

there is an extreme amount of corruption at these schools, especially with this whole anti-icing of Grants Pass High School, helping kids make signs and leaving during school hours to go protest, down here in Medford doing this. And, you know, what parent, my question is what parent would leave their kid in a public school. Now, having said that, I've heard a lot of parents tell me, Brian, you have no idea how expensive it is to put my kid in a private school. Oh, and they're absolutely right, though. I mean, you know, the whole idea is you're essentially being forced to pay for it twice.

You know, you're forced to pay through it through your taxation to support the failing system. and then trying to dig deep and not everybody can sit there and do homeschooling and such. So I'm sympathetic to that. I realize, in fact, back at the time with my children living alone, I could not have done the homeschool and kept paying child support, you know, for me, you know, back in the day. So I get that. It's reasonable. But that's almost when you wish that funding just followed the child to wherever you wanted to.

but that would not be real happy, I guess, for the unionized workforce. They wouldn't like that part of it. Well, I think the best thing, though, is to expose all the corruption going on in public schools. I saw this with my kids in California many years ago in early 2000s. We had a teacher take down the American flag off the wall in the classroom. She snapped the handle of the pole in half through it in the garbage can, and she said because of the separation of church and state, they'll never ever be the Pledge of Allegiance said or any other religious conversations in this classroom.

I'm the authority of my class. And I had to write a whole letter and got all I got over a hundred parents to sign it. We went to the school board and they put the flag back on the walls of the Pledge of Allegiance. And the woman left as a teacher and went back to Berkeley where she lives. And so, you know, this stuff needs to be exposed. people, parents need to know exactly what's going on in their classrooms. Yeah. One of the challenges that I see here, though, is that conservatives, conservative parents, of course, good ones have been saying I'm going to go on the school board and get on the school board.

And I admire that wholeheartedly, except I've talked to enough former school board people who say that the system, the public school system, especially in Oregon, is almost designed to be impervious to any. kind of outside force reforming it. Is that a fair assessment? You know, the way I'm looking at this or not? Yes. If you're a conservative on the school board, you will be ignored. Hmm. And so the only solution, then, is to get a parallel system going or, you know, remove your

child right now if you're looking to save that child. Well, I think the number one solution is to cut the funds. Now, how do you go about doing that? You know, take the kid out of the school and, you know, you know, The school board is not getting the money because your child doesn't go there anymore. But still the tax situation, you know, they're taxing your property to be in that district. It's just they've got a pretty good program here to keep this going. Teaching these kids that all conservatives are racist.

I mean, my kids still believe that nonsense. Oh, your kids still believe it? Well, I mean, yeah, they, they, every, my kids. kid was coming up here after he went to college in California, and he'd look at my Trump flag in my front yard and say, yeah, my professor told me he's the biggest racist in America. Oh, okay. All right. Isn't it great to know that you're paying for such fine quality influencing? Yeah. All right, Brian. Well, keep us in the room there. So you're saying, though, that when it comes to this allegation of sexual abuse in the elementary school there,

they're on it, though, right? Yes, yes, they are. Now, these are just allegations. We just want to be careful about that because people can be ruined over false accusations, so we don't want to do that. Exactly. That's why this deprivation thing you're talking about this morning, I can see where, you know, I think every conservative politician, it receives threats. I know Dwayne Yonker and Cliff Benz, they've both been threatened because they're conservatives.

you know, but I'm not... But do they need extra, do politicians need special protection from such, some such things? Do they occupy such a unique situation that regular harassment in criminal law can't protect them? Well, that's why I think the, you know, the new law needs to be upheld, you know, needs to be promoted because, or the old law, I mean, we don't want special laws, just like Eric was talking about for politicians. I think that can turn into a big problem as well. All right, Brian. Well, I just thought I'd just pick your brain on that one, okay? Appreciate the call, right?

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Gosh, he was just amazing. But us kid in high school, we were just always in awe. If you were a trumpet player, you wanted to be Maynard First. and I just wanted to be part of his band and just know his, be as keyboardist. I wanted to be his keyboard player. I was never that good. But, man, what a great show he did out there doing his best to keep music and jazz, which, of course, is what he was trying to do, keeping jazz in the schools with the various stage bands.

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but I want to give you a little note that happened to me the other day. I was over at Walmart, walking in just because I was over at Lowe's, and I had to get something there, and then I got something over at Walmart. I think it was onions or something that Linda needed. And I ran into someone who I had not seen for probably 15, maybe, maybe even 20 years.

I don't know. Long time. Long time. Does anybody remember Dana, the liberal? The liberal Dana, Dana, who would call me up and say, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. Bill, Bill, Bill, kind of like, you, you poor ignorant, idiot. Dana saw me from across at Walmart. He comes up, Bill, how you doing?

going, Dana, it's me, Dana. Well, Dana lost about 100 pounds since the last time I had seen him. And he was, you know, getting healthy and clean. He had had, and he was catching me up on his life. And what had been going on the last few minutes, I think I talked with about 20, 25 minutes. I'm going to invite him on the show sometime because one of his big problems that he had that he finally got over it was opiate addiction. opioid addiction and this was prescribed after

back problems which sounds so similar to a friend of mine who ended up dying a few years ago cancer but Roger ended up having problems was always having to battle always having to battle the the opiates because he needed the opiates

because the crushing spine injury he had was so bad and nothing else would take away the pain but the addiction was a real thing but yeah Dana the liberal He called up. He's looking good, and we had a good talk, and we've always had, you know, good conversations, even though we don't agree on many things. But we agree on some things, right? He might come in. We'll talk about that opiate situation that he was working with and how he finally ended up kicking it. But he's doing fine. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Welcome.

Hey, Bill, it's Brad. Good morning to you. Morning, Brad. What's up? Bill, education. So, you know, you follow this stuff. You know, I. what's going on. You know, you hear people like Brian, they're so frustrated, but here's the deal. The education industry, and it's an industry, the industry is a juggernaut. You know, here in just the state of Oregon, the Oregon Education Association has 40,000 members. They've got, last time I looked, you had like $7 million a month coming in through the front door. And the only way this is going to get changed is literally if there is a popular uprising among the taxpayers, and it's going to have to be from the top down. It's going to, you know, I mean, right now. Or from the bottom,

I think it is. Well, as you would agree with me, though, that it is almost completely impervious to reform from outside. Would you agree with me on that? It is, it is a fortress. It is, it's a juggernaut. It's a fortress. And it was built to be that way. And anyone, anyone who raises, you know, the specter of education reform, they say, oh, you don't like children. Yeah. Children are the human shields that they use to defend all the stuff that they do. And the other challenge, though, is that I think that even modern-day parents, they're busy, they're just trying to get to their job, they're trying to do their work and keep a roof over their head, keep the food coming in, that kind of stuff.

And I think that they look at the local public school kind of with that same familiarity and positive feeling of, well, kind of like the yellow school bus back when we were kids. kids, you know, kind of looking, but it's not the same system. It's not the same system we were growing up with or that we grew up with. It's just not. Yeah. Yeah. Or our poor modern parents, they're paying for this system at a rate that makes their eyes water. You know, for the amount of money that Oregon spends on education, you could almost put these kids in a limousine and driving to school every day. It's just, it's horrible what our poor young parents are having to pay for this really bad system. Indeed. Appreciate the call there. Thank you, Brother Brad.

have an old KMED. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Bill, it's Jerry. Hi, Jerry. I remember Dana, I believe. You do? Yeah. Dana the liberal. In fact, Bill, Bill, Bill. That's what he was famous for that line. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. Here's what I remember about Dana. Now, I'm just giving you my perception, not a criticism of Dana. Dana would call in, and he'd want you to give him like 10 minutes to make a point.

Oh, yeah. And I just feel like, Dana, just get to the point. You know, and he did. Well, I am better at that now. Sometimes it was, okay, what's your question, or what do you try to do here with this? But we try to be polite, small town radio, right? And I totally understand that.

And I was, you know, it was just, it wasn't a real big deal, but I just feel like, say, Dana, come on, come on, get to the point. You don't need to make a speech for us. Well, you know, back then, though, he was dealing with the opioids. So it might be a little bit different talking to him now as he kicked the opioid situation here. That's what I was going to talk with him about, you know, because he's, because he's finally back into a healthier and better thinking time, I think, than what he was dealing with 20 years back. Just saying. Right. All right.

And you know what, Bill, what's ironic is that, I don't know when this was, but recently within a couple weeks or a few weeks or a month, whatever it was, I thought about him. I couldn't remember what his name was. I thought, you know, I wonder what happened to that guy who used to call him. Well, you must be psychic. You were plugged in with me that day, but yeah, he's doing just fine. And thank you, Jerry.

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A lot of talk about getting the Save America Act passed. which would require voter ID. I like that idea. It just sounds like common sense. But I have mixed emotions about it, too, with the federalizing elections to a certain extent. I wanted to talk with Landmark Legal Foundations, Michael O'Neill, about that. Michael, it's a pleasure having you back on. Welcome.

Always great to be with you, Bill. How are you today? I'm great. Could you set the table here? Sure. Sure. They're trying to holding up, they're trying to hold up Save America, passing Save America, as one of the bargaining chips here, trying to avoid government shutdown and so much more.

You explain and the table, set the table for us what's really going on here. Sure. So the Save America Act sets a floor for election integrity. It mandates that you establish your citizenship before you, when you're registering to vote, that you approve that you're established that your U.S. citizen when you're registering to vote. It also mandates that you show voter, some sort of identification, approved identification, when you vote. It also, and this one kind of gets lost in the shuffle.

It also obligates state officials to identify and remove non-citizens from their respective voter rolls. We've talked about that. in the past, the extent to which non-citizens' names are appearing on the voter rolls is problematic from another of reasons. So it really, what it does is it doesn't nationalize elections. I mean, everybody talks about nationalizing elections, and that's the rhetoric that folks on the right are using now to express skepticism about passing. Yeah, and I get this.

I know that our Secretary of State, our Democratic Secretary of State, of course, is talking about President Trump wanting all of this personal information, personal voter information, what it's really about trying to clean up the roles here in Oregon. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And again, it's, it's, this is, this is really important. It doesn't, it bears to heating, of course. This is overwhelmingly popular among the American people. We had 84% of Americans, pure research, this is, you know, nonpartisan research, 84% of Americans believe you should have to show identification for when you vote. 71% of Democrats believe you should have to show identification for when you vote. Seventy-four percent of African Americans think you should show, I have to show

identifications when you vote. So this is, I mean, I challenge you, Bill, to find something where 84% of Americans agree on anything. But this enjoys overwhelmingly popular support. This is just a common sense measure. Again, mandated from Congress. Now everybody says, well, states have the power to effectuate time, place, and manners for elections. Well, if you continue to go, that's, of course, a constitutional provision. But if you continue to read that proviso, it says specifically that Congress has a role there, too. Congress can come in and regulate, too. And the purpose of this, and again, conservatives will say, okay, I'm skeptical about this. Where does it come from an originalist perspective? Well, Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist papers warned against

vesting all of the power to regulate elections, time, place, and manners, with simply with the states, because he saw the problems that you could have even today where what happens if a state like California or maybe Oregon, remove all reasonable protections on the sanctity of the electoral process, you have chaos, right? All right. So, um, we are totally enshrined. We are totally all in on mail-in voting. So does that mean that everybody that, if the Safe Act passes then, we would all essentially be re-registering that in order to, to work with this and that we would have to prove citizenship, kind of like getting the real ID that we had to do here recently. Right. Well, I think it depends on, we'll see the devil the detail. I think,

going forward, you would have to establish your citizenship. I don't know if people will be grandfathered in. If you're already on the voter rolls, I don't know if they'll make everybody come back and re-register and establish their citizenship. I don't see that. I think it's going forward if you register to vote, you have to establish your citizenship. Also, again, showing identification to vote. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out in jurisdictions like Oregon, which, of course, has male voting. It has universal mail voting. I think the devil will be in the details about how that works out. If for federal elections, state election officials might have to make some changes here. And if it's a federal election and it mandates that you have to vote, that you have to choose

some sort of identification, maybe male votes, universal mail votes, at least pertaining to federal elections, elections for senators and congressmen, that might be on the chopping block universal mail voting. Now, I don't think that there's a provision in the Save America Act that specifically addresses mailing voting. Specifically, we talk about the three big ones, identification. citizenship and removal of non-citizens. But again, we'll see how that plays out with the details with the implementing regulations once the law is enacted. And again, I think that, you know, I waver on this. It depends on the day. Sometimes I'm really skeptical about whether leadership in the Senate is going to put this up for a vote. Other days, I see the pendulum swings and it looks like

there's going to be a vote, and they are going to invoke the traditional filibuster. In other words, make the opponents of this, make the Chuck Schumer's of the world, the dictums of the world, actually filibuster in the traditional manner and avoid the opposition to this, make them explain why they oppose this, drag it to the floor and actually put it up for a vote, which would be refreshing to see from the American, from the public standpoint, particularly regarding as I said before, this is something that enjoys overwhelming public support. So you're just saying, though, ultimately that you see nothing then in the SAVE Act that would be constitutionally a problem, none?

I don't. I don't. And I think that that will be, I can guarantee you the minute this, if this blog gets passed, it will be challenged immediately. But again, I simply see from a constitutional conservative position that the framers envisioned a dual role here. And as Congress has a safety valve. Clearly within the Constitution, there's language that empowers Congress to play a role in how our elections occur. Yeah, and that's what they're trying to do here.

The final question I have, do you know, is there anything in this that would require election day to be election day rather than like election week or election month? the way our state does it. Do you know? Yeah, regarding early, I haven't seen that. Of course, I welcome that. I think that the base, I think certain, I think this is an initial step here. I would love to have Election Day, making a national holiday, right? Make it a national holiday, election day. I'm all for your basics. Paper ballots, in-person voting on Election Day, limit mail voting to abstin to traditional absentee for those

who are elderly, infirm, or incapable of legitimately getting to a polling place. All right. Landmark Legal Foundation's Michael O'Neill, great office. bad piece, Red State. I will get that posted up there. Thank you for the time. I know you have a hard out. You're going to talk to somebody else right now. Okay? You'd be well. I appreciate it. All right. Take care. Michael O'Neill from Landmarkleagle.org. Landmarkleagel.org. And my number here is 770 563-770 KMED. What would you think about that actually having to prove and establish your citizenship to be a voter? Is that racist? Being sarcastic, of course. This is the Bill Maher's show.

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that then released it. but they're saying that no, they are going to be happening another 10 days. Restrictions for 10 days. No flights in or out. Oh. Last time you were doing stuff like that was 9-11, remember? Oh, boy, who could forget. 10B48-7705663-3-770 KMED.

Ron's here. Hello, Ron. It's on your mind. Yeah, with reference to the Marxist teachers and unions, I think the first steps to take is for students to privately record the teacher's class hour. Then the parents should join with other parents to document the bad subject brainwashing activities. And thirdly, after about a month, make a petition of wrongful statements and activities that are presented by the teachers and then go to the school board. Okay.

Yeah, going to the school board then. And I guess what it would come down to, what we consider wrong, would that be considered teaching discretion or their, you know, you have a right to teach the class to your professional opinion, you know, that kind of thing. Well, I kind of think that when parents are being castigated, the CRT kind of thing that are still being perpetuated in the classrooms. and that teacher, as an example, that took down the flag, that kind of thing where it's anti-American, the kids should be reporting this to their parents so that the parents can stop this, because we can't be paying the teachers to teach our kids to be Marxists. All right. Thanks for the call.

770KM.D. Dave's here. Hello, Dave. I was life on the Iron Gate. It's good. It's nice and sunny. We've got a little rain over the weekend. Good. I wanted to talk about foreign interference of our elections.

Now, are you talking about what I was concerned about with, like, the blackmail of intelligence agencies through the Epstein files kind of sort of sort of. Yes, correct. Because to me, to me, that is, I mean, I'm not sitting around there and poo-pooing the perversion, okay? But the end result of it, though, is that essentially we have government intelligence running our elected officials. So it's like, who are we actually electing? That's been my concern all along. And if you start off with Christopher Steele and the Pee-P dossier, right, well, he was MI6 and he was in charge of the Russian desk in Whitehall in England. So, you know, and you remember we're part of Five Eyes. Five Eyes is actually run by British M.I.6.

So we've got to get rid of Five Eyes. Well, we won't get any arguments with me on that. But remember, Five Eyes keeps us safe, Dave. No, no, no. They don't keep us safe. I think they're the ones that engineer all the wars. All right. Appreciate the cold.

No, but engineering all the wars. that keeps us safe. I'm just borrowing their take their take on the world, okay? Okay. All right. 770K.m.D. Hi, good morning. This is Bill.

Who's this? Hello, Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia. Boy, it's a hat trick. What's going on this morning, huh? Well, you know, it's interesting. I was listening to Whitney Webb. Do you ever listen to her?

No, I don't have a lot of time to listen to other people. I'm worried about my own thing. But Whitney Webb has a really interesting book, One Nation, Under Blackmail. right? Yeah. Now, I have touched, I have dove in and out of that book, and it's quite interesting. And this is why I keep bringing up, and I know some of just laughing at me. Well, of course, we know it's our government intelligence agencies, and it's a Mossad,

and it's going to be the Five Eyes, and it's going to be all these other things. But you would think that people would think deeply on such a matter that as bad as the perversion is, and it's bad, and these people should be, you know, hauled up on charges over this kind of stuff. you know, these perverted elite. But ultimately, we've got fake government people that are controlled by intelligence agencies or nefarious influence, wouldn't you say? Isn't that a real story? The real problem here?

Basically, she says it's the Clinton Foundation and Bill Gates, but it all came about with Roy Cohn, who was also somebody that Trump worked with, you know, and basically Roy Cohn was a mob boss, and basically they weaponized through, Well, recently it was homosexuality, which Roy Cohn was a total homosexual, you got to go after him. But they were... Yeah, but right now, though, being a homosexual is actually a requirement for office in Oregon, okay? Yeah, yeah.

But basically, that's how they were controlling people, and all our even elected good people. I mean, they get, hey, we'll kill your mother, you know, your daughter's shoes, nice. I'd hate to see or die, type of thing, you know. Yeah, so the Epstein file is... really like means to an end though, right? It's not because all of a sudden we're going, hey, we'd like to run this operation just to see how many perverts and sex offenders we may have within the halls of power,

but it is about having leverage. And, you know, there are obviously still a lot of people that are in power likely who have leverage over them, in which there is such leverage over them. At our highest level of government in our CIA, yeah, it's totally run. and it's really an SOS operation. I mean, we brought overall a lot of the Nazis to run our CIA, which is really the SOS.

Mm-hmm. It's pretty bad. Joel Scounson, the editor of World Affairs Brief here, has made it very clear. And if you're a subscriber of his, and I am, I read that quite often every week comes in. And he says the challenge that we face here is because of these black mail networks that we have here, almost, or very few people, I should say, who are honest and reasonably moral, make it up to a high level of government service, make it up to the high one. You know, if you're going to make it, you have to be controllable on one form or another. And yes, this includes Supreme Court justices,

all right. Yeah, or they have an accident. Yeah, I often think about that, that My Pillow model of, the Scalia model of my pillow. Yeah. Antenon Scalia. Could you still believe, that that was actually passed off to us and everyone just kind of nodded their head. Oh, there was just a pillow on his head. I could get into almost everything we know. Even the nuclear physics is totally BS. You know, when you understand what they did to wheat in the 70s. Yeah, well, I get that.

I get that. I'm not going into the no nuclear fission thing, though. I think that's a conspiracy theory too far. But I always appreciate your call, Lucretia. All right. See you later. 7705. 633, and it's not even conspiracy theory Thursday.

But yeah, you know, to have all sorts of people around us, whether they're senators, whether they're judges, whether they're just administration functionaries, you know, those sort of things, and realizing that there's likely leverage used against them through Epstein files or other similar type operations. To me, that means that the election process, well, essentially it's a, uh, it's a, uh, it's a false election type thing. You're voting for someone who is already, who is ready open to going against you.

And then you start wondering then how, you know, politicians run on certain platforms. They run on one platform and they govern completely differently. And maybe that's the clue. Okay. You're in that file or you're in some other file. But yeah, Joel Scousen says that nobody gets to super high level, Very rare does someone of high moral character make it through high federal office or high state office, too, for that matter.

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You probably know that the governor of the state sets the date for the special election to the seat. But are you aware that Gavin Newsom has set the date for the election not until August? This means that people in the first district will basically be unrepresented for the whole year of 2026. I'm sure that Newsom did this to deny the Republicans a reliable vote in the House of Representatives. Yeah, you're right about that, Scott. It is hardcore politics. You know that we already have a bare majority in the first place. It gets worse because when the regular elections happen in November,

the district will have new boundaries and it will probably flip to the Democrats. I know that politics is hardball, but this is about as hard as it gets, Scott. Point well taken, indeed. You are absolutely right about that. Chris writes me, Bill, just wanted to let you know. I saw the movie Melania recently. I would highly recommend it. Really gives insight into how hard the first lady works and her many jobs, not to mention how impressive it was that she can walk around on three-inch stilettos for 20 hours a day. The three shows on Sunday practically sold out.

Chris, thanks for letting me know about that. This is a criticism of local news that was sent to me a couple of weeks ago, and I had saved it until now. And it was from Gordon. Gordon riding me, Bill, at 7.30 a.m. this Saturday morning near the northbound freeway on ramp at Phoenix, the on-ramp at Phoenix. I saw a body lying on the shoulder of the freeway. People were pulling over, but no emergency vehicles,

so it must have just happened. Later, it was swarming with them. I expected to see something on the local TV stations, KOBI leading off with a Cornhole story, while KDRV stuck with their Eugene affiliate. Why our accidents never reported here? even fatal ones. Too much work, I suppose. They never miss a demonstration, though. I'll bet the news departments are run by sensitive, left-wing liberal women. I've been sending sarcastic emails to them

with no reply. Thank you for reading this. Gordon, Gordon, I want to be, you know, fair to the local news, too, because, you know, I also am involved in this. Everything is different now in the, even the local news world where it is the reporters on newspaper, local newspapers, local websites, things. Same with the TV stations, too, is that there are way fewer people involved in these industries than there once were. And it's a matter of economics. You know, legacy and media, it's a different kind of world. used to be that you know you had 20 reporters in at the Mail Tribune back in the day. I know it was 20, but it was, you know, quite a few, you know, at some points.

And you had multiple editions in the day. The news is being delivered in different ways. On the weekend especially, the staffs are thin. They're just thin, and that's just it. I don't think they're intentionally trying to ignore it. A lot of times that you have the people who are working their own cameras and cutting their own stories and going out there having to go back. It's not like you have a cameraman following you around.

You don't have a whole ton of producers around. I'm not trying to excuse, just explain that there is a lot more being done by a lot, a lot fewer people, and especially on the weekends, okay? I just wanted to let you know. It's just a matter of economics. And this is the result of something like that. You don't have the breaking news that hits it. and yeah, I was aware of that.

As a matter of fact, the OSP still is not really sure what happened. That was a hit and run, and they are asking, in fact, it may be someone who hit this guy over on that exit and didn't even realize he hit a person. They don't know. They're still asking for the public's help on this. But point well taken, but it is kind of the new world, the new news world, I guess, that we're living in, in which it is harder and harder to pay lots and lots of reporters to stand by and get ready to run out on I-5, exit 24, you know, 730 on a Saturday morning, because those people don't exist any longer. The same number of people don't exist that once were maybe 20 years ago. Back in the days when you had three or four radio stations here, you go back to the 1960s, three or four radio stations. And now that same amount of advertising that would have covered.

three or four radio stations is now covering 20 to 25, right? It's not like more money is going into that. And news is a very labor-intensive process. You can't do it all by the telephone, as you, well, you know, talking about with a body on the side of the road. I'm just trying to explain a bit of the economic reality. Nobody wants to pay for the newspaper. Oh, I never read that newspaper. And then those reporters don't get hired.

or I don't want to pay this subscription so those reporters don't get hired. It takes money. And there has to be an economic return. And in a small market like Southern Oregon, it's a tough one. It really is. And the ones that are doing it and doing it well, my hat off to them. Okay? I understand both sides of it.

I really do.