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Episode Date: February 21, 2026

Congressman Cliff Bentz talks the shutdown, tariff decision, where Oregon goes wrong and other issues. D62 quiz and open phone topics follow.

This hour of the Bill Meyer Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyer. It is a pleasure to have Congressman Cliff Bentz in studio. And in fact, you're the keynote speaker at tomorrow night's Lincoln Day dinner. Is that not the case? Well, I am, Bill.

Thank you for saying that. And thanks for letting me be on your show with you this morning. I think I'm the first speaker, but I understand we have four Republican candidates. And so I think my speech is going to be very short. But I have an opportunity to share with everybody the difference in the one year that just passed as compared to the four years previous. Okay. Because I was there for all five of those years. And the difference is so stark.

I mean, to the better side of things. Yeah. But you wouldn't know it because people don't, the, the, press, the big press, not you, but others don't seem to want to admit all of the amazing things we actually got done with our little majority of just two or three people. Yeah, and there, I wanted to talk about that majority here. What is the general feeling going into the midterms? Because traditionally, I mean, you got a very, very tight, very tight majority. And it's like you have to have every one of those scratching cats in line.

I'm talking about, you know, you got to keep everybody in the caucus in line in order to get anything done. And maybe you peel off a Democrat or two, which I'd imagine sometimes kind of, you know, challenging. Extraordinately rare to get a Democrat. But we do, once in a blue moon, join us. Currently, we have one vote, one vote more than we need to pass a bill if all of we Republicans vote for it. We have one vote to spare. And that's generally Tom Massey, because Tom generally votes no. And that's very sad.

Tom's a good friend. I wish it was otherwise, but that's what he plays the hand as he sees fit. But your question is, are we going to hold the House? I think the answer is yes. And let me explain why. It has to do with fund raising. So if you check to see whose people vote with their dollars. And right now, we Republicans are outraising the Democrats, particularly in individual races.

That was not the case two years ago. Many times the Democrat candidate would outraise the Republican candidate. And money may not be. but it's not nothing. Money is certainly a huge part of it because you can be the best human being, best congressperson in the history of the world, but if nobody knows about it, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yeah, and that's one of the issues that, you know, when I see as an example, I've talked about

this before, people running for Oregon governor as an example. You could be the best conservative person, person, and you've never been elected dogcatcher and you have no money and you have no organization. Chances are you're probably not going to be the next governor. as much as you would like to be. That's absolutely true. The challenge when it comes to running for office, any office, is how much money do you have to go on television, radio, other media,

even, but I'll put in quotes the old media, I'll put established, legacy, whatever world you want to use for it, and then in addition have an online presence, which is becoming more and more important. But that all costs money, and it's not just getting the word out, It's how the words are reflected, how they're written, what your motto is, what the, what the attack ads are. Yeah. Yeah.

All that kind of stuff. So you're thinking that the Republican game is stronger than the opposition. Oh, yes, it is. And we have great facts to back us up over the year just passed because we did pass the big beautiful bill. People should read the summary of it. It's very long. But there are things in the bill that are absolutely amazing for. for American taxpayers and American business and Americans in general, child care of the money we put in $13.5 billion for air traffic control improvement.

I mean, how many people have been talking about that? Nobody. Or how about, you know what we were talking about last year at this time? The border. Do you ever hear about the border anymore? It just kind of evaporated. The only time you hear about the border now is what I have to imagine it's just all ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice. ice ice and in it um it's kind of the point it is what what people voted for it does appear the Trump administration has been recalculating the uh the politics or the optics of things right now is this

i was kind of concerned that with pulling out of Minneapolis and various other things congressman that this is uh putting down the sword do you think that's what's going on no is there something else going no there's something so what's going on is this the the situation in minneapolis was extremely sad. It should not have happened. And the reason it did happen, at least a big part of it, is that local police were not there to help keep the protesters away. That's what local police are supposed to do. They're supposed to prevent interference with lawful activities by enforcement. And that was not being done. No, of course. No, they were nowhere to be found. And that is, that's leaving the federal folks who are supposed to be trying to enforce their immigration

laws, trying to fight off the crowds of protesters. That is what the local police force should be doing. I met yesterday up in Portland for an hour or so with the Oregonian editorial people. Oh, you poor dear. So you had to talk to the Oregonian people? Was it Max Bernstein? Just curious. No, no, it wasn't.

Max. Okay. All right. But my point is they kept saying over and over, well, there was no reason for the local police to be there because there was no violence. And I said, it's nonsense. I said, stop. Anyway, we're going to provide them.

with history exactly of the events that occurred from June of last year on around into the fall. But the point is that they are ignoring what caused the problem to begin with. And that was the 10 million, 12 million people that came across the border during the Biden administration. All of a sudden, all of that cause of the current problem is forgotten, overlooked, ignored. And when you point out that of the millions that came in, roughly about 1.5,000, million have criminal records. They are a danger to those of us in the United States. The others are fine, except they're here illegally. So the law says, if you don't have citizenship papers, you are subject to deportation. The president ran on this. He ran on this. He said,

I'm going to take the people that came in incorrectly. He was delivering on the promise. And now in your sanctuary states, and Oregon is one, it has been for years since the 80s. How in the world do the federal folks find out who it is that has a criminal record? Well, if you're apprehended by the state police or the city police, they are precluded, at least under current approaches to things, from calling the immigration authorities and saying, hey, we just pick this person up or whatever, and they turn them loose without ever telling the feds.

And I guess the question is, at what point does not willing to help just make a simple call to the federal government turn into openly thwarting immigration law. So not only that, that that is a question. That it's a huge question. But it's been researched down to the last split hair. Sure. By the Oregon's Attorney General and others in an effort to try to prevent anyone from calling local law enforcement and state police and not into question.

But the real challenge for those of us who understand the nature of the problem and what the president promised to do is how do you, at the federal level, identify those who have a criminal record? If you're walking down the street, how do you go to a group of people and say, hey, do you have a criminal record? The normal approach would be to call the local law enforcement people and say, hey, where are these people that tell us? Because the fed's coming and don't know. So without that cooperation, it's an incredibly difficult. task is difficult enough even with a cooperation, but you don't hear about these kinds of problems interfacing with crowds in states where local police are helping. Congressman, what about a situation? I'm not engaging in what aboutism, but I will in this particular case. For a while, Congress was

talking about it, and I thought it was a good idea, to be working more on the side of E-Verify, to actually remove the attractants to work off the clock or off under the table, illegal alien, you know, illegal aliens couldn't get a job. And I'm wondering why has there been such reticence about trying to use that? It certainly has better optics, I think, than perhaps sending your ice, you know, sending ice folks into every major blue hive mine. What do you think? Well, let me just share with you my conversation with the current, I think he's leading for

in the race to be governor of Arizona, Andy Biggs. And Andy's and I were on judiciary together for four years. He's a good friend, incredible sense of human. and they have E-Verify in Arizona. That's the state law. They do that, okay. Yeah. Well, guess how many people are there without the benefit of paperwork?

I don't know. Thousands, thousands and thousands. Why do you think that is? Welfare programs? No, because nobody prosecutes anybody for ignoring the law. Oh, okay. And not only that, there are all kinds of ways to get around E-Verify. And I called down and I talked to fire,

for six of the employers because Andy came up to me because I was saying, hey, if we're going to have you verify, let's at least have a visa program so those who have been here for years can get you put an orderly process. Exactly. Exactly right. Exactly right. And so, and I said, that wasn't working for you down there, Andy. Oh, we have no problem at all. I know, I knew at that point that that was not quite true. But it is no problem in the sense that all the employers can still keep right on employing people who are here illegally. because no one's checking. And I called three or four of the dairies down there and talk to them

and other people that are hiring literally hundreds of people lettuce, people that raise lettuce and other produce more than hundreds. And they said, well, when someone comes in and says, we're looking for Juan Carlos, this is the name that one employer gave me. and he has to take a vacation or go back home, he said, I have 20 other one, Carlos is working for me. Or maybe 30 or maybe 40. And what I'm saying is, in order to enforce e-verify, you have to have the cooperation of employers

and you have to have the cooperation with law enforcement. And so before we go to that route, we don't want to have another situation where you're trying to force an outcome. You've got to figure out a way of trying to make it work. That's why the visa program is so important. All right. Something else with breaking news this morning, as I'm sure you're aware of, and I'm not surprised about this. You being an attorney, maybe you're not surprised either. I know you're a water rights attorney, but still an attorney nonetheless,

that President Trump lost at the Supreme Court when it came to the tariffing power. And I'm not saying I'm happy about it. I'm just saying I'm not surprised about this, and they said it was a 6-3 decision. And it did appear that he doesn't really have the unitary power just on his own to set tariff rates and change it at a whim, you know, all that kind of stuff. And what is your overall thoughts about that? Maybe a way that Congress could respond on this. I don't know if there's any general consensus around Congress about this, because they had to know this was coming. There was a widespread assumption that the Supreme Court would do exactly what the Supreme Court

has done. No one, I want to say exactly, that's the wrong word. There was a why, everyone kind of figured there would be a reversal of some sort. No one knew quite what form it would take. And so the challenge as we were waiting to see what the Supreme Court was going to say was what would we do if the court did what now it has done. And that had already started to be discussed in various committees. In my committee on energy and commerce, we've been discussing pharmaceuticals and the arrangements that the president has entered into with 17 different large pharmaceutical companies in lieu of, in lieu of imposing tariffs. And this gets extremely complicated really, really fast. And I understand that.

Maybe it just gave us a 50,000 foot level. Yes. So the bottom line is we will be asked by the president to do something in this space. It will immediately go to Ways and Means Committee. And they will try to figure out the right approach. And then they'll come to all the rest of us and explain what's been proposed. So we'll be waiting to see how much the president needs Congress to help. The president has other laws he can rely upon, other than those that were the focus of this lawsuit.

And there are other laws that actually openly talk about the power of tariffing that may have been a better use than the IAPAE or whatever it's called. So he was using national security and the like for the foundation for what he was doing. The other laws are, there's going to be real pressure for Congress to try to step in. I just want to say this is one complicated space. And Congress is not known for acting with alacrity. Well, not are known with or for that matter. And it is a precise approach. That word precise hardly ever fits.

I do want to mention one thing. I put together a list of the problems that Oregon is facing when it comes to what the Democrats have done to the state over the past 40 years in leadership. And in anticipation of tomorrow all nights with our four Republican candidates, I just want to, I have 27 items on this list, which we will share with you sometime. I just had it, went through it last night and we're getting reprinted. I just want to say something about whoever should be leading the state, and I hope it's not a Democrat next year. Business-friendly ranking, Oregon is ranked 47th out of 50 on CNBC's American Top States for Business. That's 47th. 49th in the nation when it comes to fourth grade math and reading, wildfire ranking consistently the worst in the nation when it comes to wildfires.

Diesel fuel costs, one of the highest cost states in the nation for diesel fuel. public retirement funding shortfall, the 13 largest unfunded public employee liability, almost $30 billion, 43rd nationally for economic outlook, and state regulatory burden. Oregon is seventh worst when it comes state-imposed regulations, and 50th in public safety. God bless us. I have 17 more items on this list. You can't talk about that tomorrow? As a matter of fact, yes.

It's kind of a setup for those four people running for general. For a governor, yeah. No, I'm good with that. I don't know what I just want, before we leave this bill. Yeah. How did we get in this pickle? Can we blame the Republicans? Let me share this with you.

When I was at the Oregonian, what do you think they said? What, let's see, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice. No, no, no. Oh, besides that? When I was going through these problems, they said, well, what are you Republicans doing about them? I go, we're in the minority. I said, do you understand what a minority is? Don't you get it?

Yeah, that's just said, we've had nothing to do with, you know, there have been a, you know, There have been an occasional Republican that might cross the aisle and help them out on that. Well, as some sort of window dressing, not because they needed us. They have a super majority. So what I'm getting at is the ability of the minority to do anything is constrained by what the majority will allow. That's how it works. And for them to come in and try to blame us for this circumstance, these set of affairs, this incredible sad situation Oregon is in is ridiculous. This is the Democrats get to own this.

period. And so we should be looking at why is it that we've had Democrat control of the legislature and I'll only give you one reason, money. Yeah. Yeah. Well, where does that money come from? Public employee unions? Oh, no, there's certainly that. And so what I'm saying is, people need to look at the Democrat's record and go, you know what? Something needs to change. And if we look back at what we just did over this last year after four years of the Biden administration, it's astounding trying to help businesses, the golden goose that helps pay for everything else, better. I'm going to ask you about that.

How are things looking on the Putomac as they're now starting to call that with getting things reopened because there's been a big bugaboo about Homeland Security funding? Where are we on that right now? I know Congress is not in session at the moment. Right. So here's the lay of the land. We had passed, there are 12 appropriation bills. We passed six that left six to go.

And so we passed across the House floor amazingly, thanks to the president, twisting arms and our speaker, who's a miracle worker, we got the six remaining bills across the floor and over to the Senate. And the Senate had agreed to the bills. They had already agreed. And then the shooting in Minneapolis happened. At that moment, they immediately, the Democrats withdrew from their agreement and said, we're not going to vote for any more money for homeland.

None. And one of those six bills was Homeland Security's bill. It also includes FAA, the TSA and FEMA. So a deal is made to pass five of those six bills, leaving the last bill, the 12th bill, sitting over in the Senate, where it sits right now. Speaker Johnson opposed separating that bill from the other five. He said, no, let's keep them all together. Pass them all. And because if we don't, that bill could be hung up for a very long time.

And that's exactly where it is. It's hung up. Now, what is it that the Democrats would accept? Because remember, we need seven Democrat votes in the Senate to pass that bill. The House has already passed it. And so the president wanted to go over and negotiate with Schumer, and that's what he's been doing over these last couple of weeks. He didn't get it done before the shutdown.

The shutdown is what we call a partial shutdown. It only affects the Homeland Security, FEMA, and TSA. That's a big, important, all of those are things. are important. But the president and the White House are currently negotiating with the Democrats, and we'll see. Okay. So they're insisting no money, essentially, though, right? They don't want another penny to go to Homeland. We already had put $87 billion, I think, into Homeland. Yeah, that's why I was wondering why that could be effective, or is this moving forward? There's money in there right now. There's money in there right now, but that's for Homeland, not for, not for the other two,

TSA, when we go get on the airplane, and FEMA. We have to fund both. We have to fund all of them. But that additional money is going to be for other aspects of what Homeland Security is doing. Think the Democrats win this one? Well, I don't think so. But the win is, you'd have to define when. I'm just like wondering, you know, how much spine is there in the Republican caucus on this? A lot. Okay. Because if it changes, it comes back to the House, we only have one vote to spare, and I guarantee there'll be more than that people that will refuse to vote for a changed bill. Okay.

That's where we are. All right. That's why the speaker fought so hard to keep all six bills together. All right. Congressman, I appreciate you coming in. I know you have other people to go see this morning. You're turning into a pumpkin, as we can see on Facebook Live. I'll tell you what.

Catch you tomorrow with the Lincoln Day dinner. Looking forward to hearing the talk. And thank you for talking, okay? Yeah, thank you. Be well. Congressman Cliffbats. It is 831. Uh-oh.

Kept them a minute over. This is Bill Meyer's show. Need a roof that performs and lasts. Stephen Westfall. Back to your pat itself. Yep. Can't do it. Too bad.

Weekdays 9 to noon on 1063 KMED. You're here in the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. Brother Louis, you were listening to my talk with U.S. Marine Corps, retired. Was it William Dunn? William Dunn this morning. We were talking about Iran. And I know we just had, you know, I was just thinking about this, Louis. Hey, Congressman Cliff Bent's on.

but I just realized that Congress has no say in where this war on Iran is going at this point, at least doesn't appear that way. Looks like we're going to have one, don't you think? Well, it looks like we're having one because we're asking for unconditional surrender before a shot is even fired. Yeah, well, that's just it. And I was talking about that with William Dunn, and he seemed to appreciate that. You do understand that if they agree to what President Trump is saying, the regime falls.

I don't think there's any other way that that plays out. Would you agree? And the country gets split up. I mean, I don't know. But they're not going to agree to that. So we don't even have to speculate on what happens if they agree to us. So you can figure that the Trump administration will do a targeted strike of some sort on the nukes or elsewhere. Sure.

Yeah, and God help us. I don't know where that's going, but Iran is not the push over that Iraq was. and even though look how embroiled we got in Iraq and look how much destruction there was and you know he mentions a book you know the Samson um the Samson option yeah option that he picked up out of the library in Baghdad I think he said uh and uh do you know that they destroyed that entire culture you know I mean when when we got into Baghdad there were looters looting the the National Museum this is not where I wanted to go but No, I remember that, though, you know, back in the day, but where did you want to go on it, though?

I wanted to go through. People are getting the same old talking points of why we have to do this. We have to do this. My sister, I called my sister yesterday, and I'm like, I couldn't believe I couldn't even talk to her because she, we have to do this. Why do you think we don't have to do this? Why do you think, Brother Louis, that we don't have to do this? I'll just turn it around with you then. And I, now, I'm always reticent about going to, war because we tend to be fine at blowing stuff up and we always screw it up what happens afterwards. You're exactly right about that, and I don't think that's necessarily considered a bad thing by the people that are, the warmongers love that.

They don't care. And that's one thing. You assume that this is, you know, that the Iraq was a mistake. No, it was deliberate, and they wanted it to be destroyed. And if they want perpetual war, there's always a lie. There was a lie about Ukraine that Putin unprovocately invaded Ukraine. Without provocation. Well, there was provocation after provocation for years.

And now we're lying about them killing thousands and thousands and tens and thousands, and I've heard of even 40,000 of their own citizens that peacefully protested. That's not at all true. Why would they do that? You know, they were protesting against their economy that we had destroyed. We destroy their economy, so they get some peaceful protesters. And then Mossad and CIA stepped in with guns and kill policemen. And then Iran cuts off Starlink so that they can no longer get their commands from outside the country.

And so the demonstrations are over. And then three days later, demonstrators come back to the streets in support of the government. We're not hearing that. We're hearing lies. We're hearing that. And they may have executed a bunch of people, but I think they might have been some of these agents with guns that came in and killed the policemen in Iraq, in Iran. I get it mixed up because it's the same story all over again. In other words, it's our same standard regime change operating playbook.

And do you think that, no, let me ask you, this is, these are uncomfortable questions. So, I mean, I'm glad President Trump is in here, but is this, does this confluence? with what you were voting for if you voted for President Trump back then in the day? Yeah, you know, I think that's irrelevant. I think our elections are irrelevant. They're a sham. They're a show. We never get to vote for somebody I want to vote for.

I never have. I mean, not in this century. You know, and so there's an undercurrent. There's something going on. There's manipulation going on that keep us in constant war. You know, those wars all over. The Sudan has a war. Myanmar has the war. People would most likely be completely shocked at how many places we are in Brother Louis.

I appreciate the call, okay? I got that. I'm just burning daylight. I want to make sure I get everybody else's calls in there too, okay? Thank you for that. Let me grab another line. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Hey, Bill, it's Brad. Good morning to you. Brad. How are you? Oh, great. Hey, thank you so much for having Congressman Ben Sondi. I know you covered a lot of stuff. but you know one of the things that I was hoping that you get to and you just ran out of time was his work on the energy committee you know they're they're not just they're not just mowing the weeds they're literally pulling the weeds out by the roots when it comes to a lot of these really anti-business deeply rooted environmental administrative stuff that's going on and you understand the difference between administrative stuff and legislative stuff absolutely one of the best things that I think will help that energy industry issue as you were talking about though to your point, the EPA endangerment rule being repealed. That's a big deal. That's a big game changer, really. Yeah, yeah. Every one of these silly solar, I mean, we love solar, we love wind if it's on your own private property, but every one of those that goes online is revenue negative. It raises

the cost of electricity for everyone, and they're not very maintainable. Well, the main problem was solar. And like I said, you know, you're off the grid. You're out in the middle of nowhere, like well, like State Senator Lynthicum, the Lynthicums are, you know, out there in Beatty, you know, in Bady as an example, it would have cost them tens of thousands of dollars they didn't have to connect to Pacific Corp. But, you know, it made sense for them. But it also means that they have some compromises that they have to make to live a grid-free life of, you know, you have to make sure the sun's shining if you're going to turn on the vacuum cleaner, you know, that kind of stuff here. But the point being about this is that every solar cell,

which is put on the grid right now. Everyone, you know, on your house or on somebody else's house and out there on the solar farm, has to be backed up 100% by something that they can immediately call into generation, whether it's natural gas, whether it's coal fire, whether it's hydro, turn the hydro up, whatever the case might be. Every one of them, every one of them. You cannot build a sustainable 24-7 society on chaotic and intermittent.

And I think the Trump administration recognizes that fact. Yeah, they're doing such a great job. And all of that so-called electricity, it's all revenue negative. Every single water that electricity costs more than market rate electricity, which gets paid for by the poor ratepayers that are going to work every day like you do. Yep, that's right. Thanks, Brother Brad. And Cliff is doing great work on that for sure.

Hi, good morning. KMED. This is Bill. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. It's Lunatic French. Lunatic.

Take it away. Hey, I always like to have a lunatic call now and then. I try to be more often. In the 20 or so years, I've been listening to your station, Q specifically. John B. Wells is the best thing that's ever been on between 8 and 10 at night. He's doing a good job, isn't he? I think so. Yeah. I felt really happy, even though it's sad to see Ground Zero go, but I really like John B. I think he does a great job with the people he talks to.

And on a totally unrelated subject, the president is negotiating with Schumer the wrong person. He should be negotiating with John Thune. John Thune. Okay. Yeah. If you get the standing, dang it, Mr. Smith goes to Washington. What's the up?

Okay. But they have to stand there and talk. I've lost the word. Okay, well, it's all right. Well, think about it. Just send me an email on that one, Lunatic. Okay? Email at bill at billmyershow.com.

Okay. I'm just running out of time this morning with the congressman and all the other great people we've been talking to. All right. Diner 62 Real American Quiz will be coming up here in just a moment, and it's going to be a lot of fun. Now, today's question, though, is a deadly serious question from World War II, and it's a great, and it has a Southern Oregon. Well, actually, it's not a Southern Oregon. It's kind of an Eastern Oregon flavor here over by California, too. So let's talk about it. I'll get you a Diner $62, $20 gift certificate if you end up winning this, if you haven't won it in the last

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Morning. Hey, good, Bill. Now, yesterday in history, Ron, it was kind of a serious story. This is a very serious story, okay? February 19, 19, 1942. President Franklin Roosevelt signs executive order at 9066. That's the controversial World War II policy for Japanese Americans. And the document ordered the forced removal of resident enemy aliens, rather,

from these ill-defined areas around the West Coast cities, the ports, industrial, and ag regions. And the executive order also affected Italians and German-Americans. The largest number of detainees were by far Japanese, Americans. Now, Newell, California near Tully Lake was one of several internment camps. At its peak, for the win-run, how many detainees did Newell, California, the internment camp have? 3,000, 7,000, 11,000, 13,000, or 19,000. How many people were in that Japanese internment camp?

What do you say? I'm going to go long and say 19. You're going to go with 19. You think it's that many. Really? Yeah. Really? Yeah.

Interesting that you went long because I, when Brian read this, I thought that maybe it was three or four thousand at its peak. But yeah, the Tully Lake War Relocation Center in Newell reached a peak population of about 19,000. In contrast, the population of Medford was only 11,000 at that time. Clameth Falls, yeah, Clameth Falls was over 16,000 in the early 1940s. So it was bigger than Clameth Falls even. As the largest of the 10 major war relocation authority camps, it served as a maximum security segregation center for those who redeemed as loyal. Total of 30,000 people ended up going there over its lifetime.

And yet, I know. And like I said, and you go by Newell now, and there's practically nothing there. But nothing or very little of it's left. I guess there is a monument for it. I'm going to have to go look out next time I head out there. But if you can hang on, I'll get you all set up here, Ron, and we'll get you over to 9062. I wanted to share a little bit more information about this, too, because this was an important part of history known. 19, 1 point.

Roosevelt delegated enforcement to the War Department telling the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, be as reasonable as possible. Attorney General Francis Biddle were calling Roosevelt's grim determination to do whatever he thought was necessary to win the war. Now, in her memoirs, Eleanor Roosevelt recalled being completely floored by FDR's actions. And she was a first proponent of civil rights. Eleanor hoped to change Roosevelt's mind, but when she brought the subject up with him, he interrupted her and told her never to mention it again. So there me go. Not one of our happier moments in American history. It's 851 and change at KMED and 993 KBXG. Sometimes when you get the renewal for your car insurance, that's not necessarily the happiest moment either. Yeah,

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Morning, Bill, Steve, in Sunny Valley. Steve, welcome. What's on your mind today? Well, I would like to encourage everybody to go out and sign that petition for the animal rights, not to get on the ballot. The animal rights. Oh, initiative petition 28, right? They need another 20,000 or so by July.

Yeah, everybody needs to sign it because nothing will bring out red meat-eating conservatives like somebody trying to take their food away. I'm giving you a real American salute for that one. Okay. What? You're coming after my steak? The hell with you, right? Exactly.

Yeah. I know what the peace people, that's the name of their group, Peace. And I'm thinking they probably walk up. up to you in the restaurant saying, how can you eat that dead animal? And then I say, well, steak sauce, obviously. Exactly. I medium is my favorite. Yep, exactly. Thanks, Steve. That's funny. Give me a laugh on that one. All right. And by the way, I think that we have a moral obligation to be good stewards of animals. I don't want to sound flippant about that. I love my animals too. But I'm also a carnivore, maybe an omnivore some days.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Great to have you on. Hello. Good morning. Why? Who's this? Washington. Conspiracy Friday. Okay. Last night, and this is published on the Internet, some photos from it last night. It's about 710 of the evening.

We saw what appeared to be a booster going up in this space, the burnout of a booster phase with the second stage. But nothing was launched out of Vandenberg. There are videos of it from Vancouver, Washington, Vancouver, Canada, Victoria, also people over there sought. So this is going to track down what happened because there's nothing at that. And it was too far away to be from Cape Canal. Okay.

And so where and when did this happen again? Last night, you can see what looks an ionosphere trail of a booster stage going up. It might have been an unannounced Starlink or an unannounced mission, but into the northwest skies. Yeah, but usually they talk about those. things before it happens, don't they?

Yes, and I've gone to all the websites and haven't found out anything about it. I will send you the link of the images. Well, please. Well, please do. Maybe this is why President, well, maybe it's the alien launches. President Trump says he wants to declassify all that alien information, so maybe it's there. Okay? I was thinking it was something maybe from Kodiak.

Base launch facility up on Kodiak Island now, but nothing so far. We'll find out. Well, the other thing you've got to do is standby for sporting. in the Middle East, right? You can feel that coming like any second. Any second. Oh, yeah. That's going to be some very interesting times, and I don't want to be there. Yeah. You take care. Thanks for the call, all right. Thank you. All right. Now, I would normally do an email of the day except I'm running out of time. We'll still thank our sponsor. That's Dr. Steve Nelson, Central Point Family Dentistry.

We'll hit up more of those emails on Monday's show for that point, okay? The email, Bill at Billmyers Show.com. Have a wonderful weekend. Hope to see you at tomorrow night's Lincoln Day Dinner over at the at the country club here in Medford and we'll talk more about that a lot of good speakers a lot of gubernatorial candidates are going to be speaking there we'll talk a bit more about that on Monday's show and is there anything else okay I think just have a great weekend and I hope you're well and pray for peace one way or the other that we make it through okay all right