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But submit your joke over at Two Dogsfab.com, all right? Let me go to, well, I tell you, the lines are loaded. What is going on here? Of course, we had that good artificial intelligence conversation with Martin Moyer. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. This is Jim from Medford. I'm the treasurer of the Experimental Aircraft Association out of Grants Pass. Sure, Jim. You got an event going on this weekend, don't you?

We do. This weekend is a pie day, fly day. So for those who can't make it to the ham radio swap meet, kids from the ages of 7 through 17, if they sign up at the airport or online at EAA, 725. Get a free flight in a local airplane. They fly around for 15 to 20 minutes. That's really cool. Yes, it is cool.

They also get a certificate and logbook. And if they really are interested in aviation, then they can qualify for a free ground school from Sporty's pilot shop. All right. Now, give me the address once again so you can find it. up and get, you know, getting on this for tomorrow. Okay, it's a Grants Pass airport, which is actually the Merlin exit, excuse me, going north on I-5.

It's the one after both Grants Pass Airport. Yes, so it's exit 61. Sure, go ahead. Exit 61. 1441, Brookside Avenue in Grants Pass. And it goes from 9 o'clock till whenever we have, we've flown all our young Eagles. All right. Very good. And I'll make sure and get that up there. And thanks for letting me know. All right. Have a good time. That'd be great fun. I would have loved that when I was a kid.

Love is an adult. Who am I kidding? Hi, good morning. KMED. Who's this? Welcome. Hello. Hey, is this me? Yeah. Yeah, Steve. So Jim got in ahead of me. Oh, okay. Sorry about that. That's okay. That's okay. He did a great job. He always does. He's our treasurer and does a fantastic job with that too. I wanted to also talk a little bit about the topic you had yesterday with the veterans and being put into homes against their will. Yeah, that is something which is coming, the A, not the A-I, I'm sorry, I've got an AI on the brain at the moment, the VA. The VA. Yeah, it's going to empower their attorneys to be able to

forcibly commit a drug-addicted or alcoholic veteran that might be within that system in order to get them into compelled treatment. Right. What do you think about that overall, huh? Well, I think we're looking at it sideways. I think that to get any kind of government assistance, you need to pass a drug test like I had to, to work as an aircraft mechanic or a railroad engineer

or even a school bus driver. You have to pass a drug test to keep your job and get your pay. So I think that the VA, the veterans have earned a spot for treatment and it will improve their lives, get them off the street, and it might not be what they want right now, but you know what, three-year-olds don't always want what's best for them either. And if you're looking at somebody who's lost in addiction and alcohol, they're kind of like a three-year-olds, and sometimes they need a little nudge in the right direction. All right. Point well taken. I appreciate the call. It's why I ended up raising it because I had a

feeling that some people would be pushing back. Others might think it's okay, and you think it's all right. Appreciate that. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hi, Bill. Hi. It's Francine. Hello, Francine. Okay, well, I'm going to jump into the AI conversation here. All right. First, I'd like to propose an idea. What do you think about the people that or the companies, companies that are programming and producing these AI products and these AI chat bots and, you know, I don't know. I don't know. get into it, so I don't know exactly what to call everything. But these things that are interacting with people, and sometimes there are tragic results because of these interactions, what do you think about those people being held libel for damages? Because they program

a machine. It's not a person. Well, I have to understand, though, that the federal government seems to, and the world governments really seem to want this, and they want it really bad. So I would figure that what you're going to see is that it's going to be like the new vaccine. Okay? Yeah, yeah. I hear what you're saying. Yeah. You know, this is all part of the agenda 21, 30, 40, 50, you know, this is part of it, you know, taking over our lives, making us have no ability to be cogent and make decisions and to actually believe what a machine is telling us.

telling us and that we're going to have love, we're going to have, you know, I mean, it's sick. It's really, really, really sick. It is a bit to my, but yet I can see the positive uses. I've used it in positive fashions to get information that would be, have taken me a long time to dig up on my own. So I see the positive sides of it, but I'm not sitting there talking to it and not having it. It's different levels.

Yeah, I'm using it on a different level, I guess so. But point well taken. Thank you for that. Okay. All right, we're going to have to turn the phones off here for just a little bit here. But I'll be right back and we'll talk some more. This is the Bill Meyer show and you're on KMED. One in four Americans have a disability. I'm one of them. I'm also a working mom who cares deeply about making sure every child with a disability. Yeah, we're at 813 continuing in the conversation. Wayne is online one. Hello, Wayne. How are you this morning? What's on your mind? I'm doing fine. I have a different definition of artificial intelligence. The state of Oregon public education system puts a kid through school for 12 years. At the end of that, they give them a diploma that says they are intelligent and educated, and yet they can't read, they can't write, they can't think.

I think that's the perfect definition of artificial intelligence. Do you think that artificial, you know, there is actually talk about turning over a lot of lot of education over to the so-called artificial intelligence. Do you think it could be any worse, or it might even be an improvement? Well, I think it would be an improvement in one sense in that it could instill a higher level of thinking on the student's situation. Well, the one thing is I guess we'd have to find out if the artificial intelligence in the education world would be unionized if they would be paying union dues, right? Well, we'd have to see what the action AI has to say about unions. I think they'd want to take control of the union.

All right. Appreciate the call away. Rangers here. Hey, Ranger. What's on your mind? Yes. About 40 years ago, I was listening to a program. Your gentleman suggested the possibility of interfacing a computer with a human brain. Yes. And I've held this thought for all this time. And as I give thought to, in the book of revelation is speaks of ability to speak image that is built really happening because if a human if a person is killed and his brain is preserved hooked to a computer he would have understanding of what's happening around the world at all times and every person well I think the the issue I have with all this talk about interfacing human brains with with computers

almost like the singularity I think I think there is a falsehood that is still pushed within the scientific world is that the soul is nothing more than what our brain cells are either storing or preserving or interacting with. I look at the brain as the translator of the soul and as far as I'm concerned, you know, the brain without the soul is nothing more than just a calculator with no instructions. That's all. Okay, let me see if I can clarify something here. Okay. The soul is personality of the person. The spirit is the aspect of the person, the part of the person that lives for eternity.

Okay, so I guess I was conflating the two then, Ranger. But I enjoyed your call. Thank you very much for this. And I'll take a couple more. Yes, thought-provoking talk with Marvin, with Martin Moyer, rather. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Hello. Good morning. Good morning. Hi, David. Listen. What's up? I'm, instead of crying, I'm sitting here laughing. Oh, yeah?

You know, my favorite example is when everybody complains about how bad soda pop is and high fruit toast corn syrup and, you know, not good for your teeth and it's no nutrition and all that. And then people go out and buy a two-liter bottle or a case of the stuff. We're sitting here just like yesterday talking about, you know, G5 or all this stuff. Everybody gets excited about this stuff, the hive mine cars, you know, with your computers. You can't work on your own car anymore and all these things. But we, as we sit here and have these great conversations, it's wonderful with a cup of coffee. We go out and participate in all this stuff. So I'm just laughing.

I'm just laughing. and I think people should think about that. They're not doing it to us. We're doing it to ourselves. Thank you, David. David, real American salute. Can I give you that? Do you mind?

I would love what I've never had one. All right. I was thinking about nicknaming you Dower David. How about that? I'm fun at parties. I really am. Oh, you're a funny guy. Thanks, David.

Hi, KMED. Good morning. Welcome. Hey, Bill. This is Vicki. I know I've already called in. Okay, wait a minute. Where's my shot? Where's my digital shotgun? No, I'm just calling. Oh, no. Don't shoot me. Don't you mean. No, we wouldn't do that.

Well, I can remember when Alexa first came out, and a friend of mine, oh, my God, he had like a full-on cussing. He hated Alexa. Well, now it's been a few years later, and now he has Diana. And I walked into the room, and I actually thought he was talking to a real person. and when he got off the phone, I'm like, who's Diana? And he's like, oh, that's my new, whatever they call him. Because I don't have Internet. I don't have cell phone. What chatbot or chat agent?

Yeah. And he's like having a full-on, totally calm conversation with her. Is he asking Diana what she's wearing? I'm just curious. No, but if she's not about aliens, she can't comment. Oh, okay. I mean, there's certain questions that you can ask them and they just, they won't comment. Well, that's still fine.

That does concern me. Doesn't that concern you just a little bit, though? Well, it concerns me a lot. It concerns me a lot. Because, I mean, if I'm going to call you, well, if I'm going to ask you something and you're a robot computer, I expect you to give me the answer. And when they can't, that's kind of scary. Yeah, well, if you ask me, though, at least you know you're dealing with a non-robot here because it takes real biological intelligence to screw up like I do, okay? Thank you for the call. All right. And you see, and it is the flaws that make us human. And I'm feeling more human than ever this morning. It's 20 minutes after 8. Okay, we're going to hold off here a little bit. I have a report from Hannah Davis over at Fair about the voting in eight states. And I have a feeling that Oregon is involved in this when it comes to Hinky with illegal immigrants. And then we'll We'll take more of your calls here coming up.

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It is a delight to welcome back Hannah Davis, who is the investigation manager at the Federation for American immigration reform, fair us.org. And she ended up conducting an investigation, and I know you're going to be really shocked at this, but Oregon is part of the problem when it comes to illegal aliens voting in American elections. I know you'll be shocked about, well, maybe not. Hannah, it is a pleasure having you back on. Welcome to the show.

Morning. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. Tell us about this widespread non-citizen voting because the one thing we're told, the one thing even our Secretary of State will say, Tobias Reid, you know, all this talk about, you know, non-citizens voting. It's a conspiracy. It's not widespread.

There's no proof. We can't let you look at the ballots, though, not unless you have a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera. Tell us what you have found out in this investigation. Yeah, so we at fair. We see those headlines, too, and we wanted to do a report. And what we noticed is that there were eight states, one of them being Oregon, that have what we'd like to call a trifecta of policies. So they issue driver's license to illegal aliens. They have automatic voter registration, and then they also have mail-in voting.

And what we noticed that is in these eight states through this policies that they have set up is that they've essentially created a pathway to the ballot for illegal aliens, and that these eight states in particular have widespread chronic voter fraud happening in their states. and it's unfortunate, but it's not only just these eight states, though. It's a widespread issue across the nation where these states have basically placed convenience over legality. A challenge that you run into is that, yeah, we certainly are part of that trifecta, like you mentioned. And by the way, there are other states involved with this, too. It's what? It's California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Vermont, and the state of Washington.

We all do this kind of same thing. You can't help but notice that. but I know that there are several hundred non-citizens that were found to have voted in Oregon elections. Secretary State did talk about that, but they've stopped looking and they say, okay, this is what we done. We fixed this and nothing to see and move on, but stopped looking. Do we know for sure are there receipts available on this, so to speak, in this investigation, or are they just claims? Well, there's probably going to be no receipts because the election officials in Oregon admitted that they don't know how these illegal aliens were registered, and they also don't know the number

of aliens that have voted. I do know that recently Oregon registered at least 1,700 non-citizen aliens to vote, and some of them had forward passports when they went to go get their driver's licenses. And so, you know, the DMVs up in Oregon should not have even registered these individuals to vote. But when I did a bunch of records requests, Oregon was one of the states I targeted. I sent a records request to the elections division and to their Department of Transportation and, you know, the Department of Transportation, the information they sent back was pretty revealing.

It highlighted structural vulnerabilities in the state's automatic voter registration system. You know, they admitted to me that when the state classifies a person's citizenship status as unknown, they still present that individual with an opportunity to vote. And furthermore, they also admitted that they ask anyone who hasn't provided proof of citizenship if they want to register to vote. So, in my opinion, Oregon is inherently very vulnerable to, these weaknesses through these policies that they have implemented. They were one of the first states, I think back in 1998, to implement mail-in voting, which means once these illegal aliens get registered to vote through the same database where they've gotten their license, they also get a

mail-in-ballot, which is inherently susceptible to fraud. The other thing that we do is that we don't clean the roles, but I don't know if any of the states are really cleaning the roles at this point, even though there is talk of this. What about, now, we had like, More than a thousand like you had just mentioned, they admit to this. But I kind of look at this, and I don't want to sound conspiratorial, but to me it's like this is just what they admit to. Would that be a fair way of looking at this without being too off the rails? That's exactly right.

Like, for example, when I sent a records request to the elections division in Oregon, they delayed over and over and over. They pushed back the timeline. And then what they eventually gave me was public-facing information that wasn't needed for this report. and they said that anything that I needed is public knowledge. And that's just simply not true. These records requests, you know, I was asking for documentation on how the agencies

distinguish between citizens and non-citizens and their data flagging procedures, et cetera. And so what I've noticed is the systemic stonewalling where states pass the buck. They say, you know, oh, we don't house those records. It's on the state level. And then I contact the state level, and they say, oh, it's at the county level. You know, or outright delays or denials or these extremely high fees, like for, example, in Colorado, they said that they would get me the information if I paid them $6 million. Or, you know, in Washington, D.C. or California, they would give me information, but it's all heavily

redacted. And I think this opacity in and of itself is a story. Yeah. To me, yeah, there's a lot of smoke there, Hannah. Awful lot of smoke, right? Yeah. It shows that these states, you know, they don't want to admit that they have no safeguards in place, or they don't want to reveal the weaknesses that are in their system. Well, to your point on the excessive amount of money, Jackson County was part of a lawsuit. I don't think anything really would happen with this one, but we had a couple of state senators that actually sued to be able to examine the actual ballots from an election that happened here a few years ago. And they were told by the county, and by the way, this was not the county wanting to do this.

These were the rules of the Secretary of State of Oregon that if you wanted to examine these ballots and looked for irregularities, that you'd have to pay the county about a million dollars in labor because you'd have to hand go through every ballot first and make sure that there was no personally identifiable information on the ballots before you could actually examine them. Well, that's cost prohibitive. You know, for anybody just so, you know, a million dollars, it used to be that you could just go and get a CD ROM of it or a thumb drive of it,

and, you know, here it is. Here's all this information. So there seems to be a concerted effort, hide this from further scrutiny? That's exactly right. It's systemic stonewalling. I saw that when doing this report across numerous states, like I said, the election division in Oregon did the same thing, so I'm not surprised they're doing it to constituents that live there as well. But there are things, there are solutions to this. I hate to write a report and not present the readers with solutions.

I mean, and one of them is the Save America Act. I know President Trump recently at the state of the union address in front of millions of people referred to the act as a life-saving, country-saving measure. And he's exactly right. I mean, what this act would do would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. And it also requires photo ID when you go to cast your ballot. So it's common sense legislation. But unfortunately, we've got these eight states, Oregon included, that have just gone rogue. And in common sense just doesn't seem to be so common anymore. Now, Hannah, what I'm kind of curious about here is I've talked a lot about the SAVE Act, and I really do like the intent of this, and I think it should be

passed, my concern has been how it would actually be implemented in a corrupt state like Oregon, because I got a real ID last year and had to show the birth certificate, but Oregon, in many states, do not differentiate anything about citizenship when it comes to your real ID. So having a real ID is not enough to be able to prove your citizenship in the way. this state. And I would imagine that a lot of people don't have passports or birth certificates is handy. I mean, I know you can get them, but the implementation I could see being pretty serious. What do you think? Yeah, even if you could afford one, there's, you know, usually at the timeline, massive delays, it can take months to get one. But fortunately, I mean, the real ID Act is

very explicit that it's for citizens and citizens only. I do know that states that issue drivers license to illegal aliens typically have some kind of weight of flag on the license physically itself. Oh, they can? Oh, they can flag that? Because the research that I was reading said that there's, you know, you look at the real ID, you look at the ID, doesn't say anything about citizen at all on it, but there's something digitally encoded in there someplace, or it could be?

Well, not only, well, they're supposed to. It doesn't mean that they will, but not only digitally, but the license itself should say, you know, not for federal purposes. and for my sense of understanding is that a non-citizen alien can't get a real ID. They have to get some kind of other form of identification. But it doesn't help that all of these identifications, whether it be a real ID or just an ID that's not a real ID, they're all implemented and distributed through the same process, the same DMV database or Department of Transportation database.

And so that is inherently going to make the system weak. And, you know, these downstream effects where these people, go and get their licenses, and they have to basically self-attest that they are not or that they are a legal citizen, and then they take a voter oath, and then they're registered to vote. And so basically this entire process hinges on an individual telling the truth about their citizenship status, regardless of what license they go in there to get. So it ends up people getting registered to vote. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We have what I've termed, a faith-based voting system. And, you know, we can't necessarily have faith in what state of Oregon or California or Washington or

Hawaii, Nevada, et cetera. Fascinating report here. And how can people get a hold of this report and maybe push this around and maybe even talk to some of our local elected leaders in Congress, say maybe get off the, you know, get off the stick when it comes to this SAVE Act. It really is a good thing. Yeah. You can find us at fair us.

Or, you know, it's an acronym for Federation for American Immigration Reform. on all forms of social media, and the report is titled Manufacturing the Vote, how anti-border states are harming election integrity. Do you have any way of maybe estimating what the electoral landscape might look like out in our states? If it truly was a clean voting system, do you know, do you dig into that, or are you just looking at, you know, how bad it is in these various states? I didn't dig into that specifically for Oregon, but I do think that even if all non-citizen aliens were purged off. of Oregon's voter rolls. Oregon's inherently a blue state. I mean, I think that that's what they're

going to be, you know, and it's kind of the essence of the Oregonians and what they've been doing. And, you know, but that's not something I really dug into. But I do know that even one issuance of a mail-in ballot to an illegal alien in Oregon is one too many. I do know that the sanctity of our elections should not be a partisan issue. It's foundational. And the Constitution has entrusted states, including Oregon, with preserving these free and fair elections, and they failed to do so. So federal oversight is not only justified, but imperative at this point. I'm thinking, Hannah, and it's just my opinion, that the real reason the state of Oregon fights so hard to not have anybody look under the hoods of illegal immigration or illegal alien here is I think

it has to do with congressional seats. And I'm wondering if that's what this is really all about, because, as it is right now, people are counted just because they're here. You've got a heartbeat. Yes. And it counts towards you having, well, the number of congressmen that you end up having in your state. That's exactly right. I mean, redistricting. And, you know, it's essentially, you know, they count these citizens and these non-citizens,

and it all plays together and it sways elections because of the seats and how they're counted. So, yeah, that's, I mean, that's why they don't want you to look under the hood, as you put it. Yeah. Hannah Davis, Investigation Manager at Fairus.org, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, read up, sign up with their alerts, and also support the organization's work if you can too. Hannah, I appreciate you being on. Be well. Thanks for having me. Thank you.

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Mixing it up on a Friday morning, deplorable Patrick. Up next. Hello there, Patrick, and you are up at the talk bar. What's up? Wow, sweet. Well, I want to lip off and make perhaps a silly idea of having a system from head to toe where it's wide open to examination. It's designed to be. That would be ideal.

and this thing about having, oh, it's going to cost a million dollars to go through and get all the, make sure there's no personal information. That's just stonewalling. And here's, but, you know, I'm sure the... I would remind people, though, that we've had Republicans actually endorse the election of Tobias Reed. Yeah. I don't, I don't, not that... Remember Dennis. Remember Dennis Lenthicum.

was competing for the vote with Tobias Reid. For governor, I don't remember. Yeah, I kind of missed Dennis. But this thing about, I want to hit on this before I have to go. I'm sure the elections department would tell you about personal information. This is a starting place for a better system. They would tell you personal information on the ballot. That's a real problem because, you know, people are always writing all their passwords and their

address and their phone number and the Social Security number on the ballots. And we have, we're the elections department. We have to protect people from themselves. As far as I'm concerned, if you're signing the, signing the ballot, that's your problem. That's the way I would look at it. But, oh, no, that is the, well, the pretext for the Secretary of State saying, you can't qualify, you aren't qualifying to look at it. Don't even look at it.

Don't even think about it because someone's privacy might be violated. I would advocate for having a notice on the ballot. Do not put any personal information on this ballot. We're not here to protect you from you giving away your personal information. Do you put it on there? It's on you. All right. There you go.

I'm giving you real American. Goodness, that's better. All right. All right. One more call. Hi. Good morning. Hello.

Hello. Hi. Hey, Bill. Sorry. A couple of comments. Sure, what's your name? I'm sorry, Darren. Hi, Darren, go ahead.

Yeah, and I was just calling. Appreciate the AI discussion again this morning. Thanks. Kindly suggest the Zagher and Evans song intro. In the year 2525. If Matt is still alive. Exactly. It's just, it's hair-raising.

The lady a few calls back who was talking about asking AI about aliens had a little thought, and it was maybe she didn't ask the question specific enough. Couldn't answer it because, you know, there's a difference between illegal aliens and space aliens. That's a good point, actually. I hadn't thought about that. It may be programmed not to answer illegal alien questions. Yeah. How about what would you think about this? What if artificial intelligence is actually space aliens in to the United States society or to the world society? You think about that.

Is that a reasonable theory? Could that actually be part of that maybe? Yeah. Well, maybe it's nonsense. Maybe it's nonsense. I don't know. I just kind of, sometimes I spitball. I can't help but do that. That's what we do. Thank you for the call. I really do. We'll catch up on the rest of the news, which was done with biological intelligence. I assure you of that because it takes a biology to be that real. And then I have a talk with Terry Haynes. He has an event going on here. And he's like the veteran guy, you know, that sort of thing. But he'll tell us more about it coming up. Look, I could lecture for hours about the technological advancements of the modern mattress, but come on, all you want is a better night's sleep, right? The savvy sleep specialists at Gerson's Sleep have the know-how to help you know-how to find the perfect mattress. Gerson Sleep has the most impressive selection of name brands in all of Southern Oregon,

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Want to make that clear. But OHA is saying anyone who was in the Gresham Winco store last Saturday between two and five should get checked out by a doctor and let us. them know about a possible exposure to measles. A University of Washington Center for Human Rights Study released this week shows that immigration enforcement soared to historic levels in our state. Between October and December last year, just under 1,200 illegal aliens were detained in the state of Oregon, 951 arrested in Washington. Oregon's greatest increase in arrests happening mostly in the Portland metro area and Marion County. And no surprise, but they're making it official at Mount Ashland closing for the winter season due to low snow. Bill Meyer, KMED News.

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Terry Haynes joins me in studio here. And he is the gentleman that runs the NCOA. What is the NCOA for those that don't know, Terry? Non-commissioned Officers Association. Yeah. Got an event going on here. How many members you have here in Southern Oregon? Probably, well, we've got 420 and most of them, probably 250 of them, probably 250 of

them are local Jackson and Josephine County. All right, very good. Got an event coming up a couple of months from now. So wanting to give you a little bit of love on this right now. So this way you can get a bunch of people out there. And it's for breaking clays, right? Absolutely. A sporting clay event.

I've never done it. But, you know, it's a different demographic. We're working with the Veteran Project, which many of you've heard about in the past. But it's going to be May 16th at the Josephine County Sportsman Gun Range. located at 7407 Highland Avenue in Grants Pass, and you just take the Merlin exit right there just north of Grants Pass and take a right, take a left at the light, and you can't miss it because it's right at the end of the road. And the point is, if you were to sign up right now, you save a few bucks on this, right,

in order to do this. Absolutely. Early Bird originally was scheduled for March 16th cutoff, but they extended it to April 2nd. It can save $10 per shooter or about $40 per team. So it's $140 per shooter and $520 per team by April 2nd. Then it goes up $10 per after that. Now, Terry, is this something that is called a championship. Are there prizes involved in this for the people who take part?

We have some trophies for teams and individuals and certificates. We even have a can't hit the broadside of a barnyard award for the worst shooter. Just to put a little fun and, you know, everybody gets something sort of out of it. I love that idea, Terry. You know, that's something. I've never tried shooting. skate. I never have. And boy, I've always been able to, I've always admired people that could really pull that off. Right. Probably be a heck of a skill to have, I imagine. Yeah, it really is.

And, you know, we've got one shooter that's 13 years old. It's pretty good. And we've got a bunch of old crusties. And I got one guy that signed up that's 90 years old. No kidding. You know, so it's an all-age event. Men, women. We've got different categories. for men and women, recognizing the top three in each, as well as the teams. So how do people get signed up for this and get in there? Make sure you got to go space. Well, they can sign up either there's flyers all over town with a QR code on it. You can use that or you can go to NCOArog.org, which is our website and then go to the

events thing and the the sign up is right there. It's really simple. Or if you just want to sign up and you don't want to use a credit card online because you don't trust online stuff, you can send a check made out to NCOA. And I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll put that address on the website and do it that way, make it easier. So, absolutely. Terry, this is going to benefit a lot of good veteran groups, apparently, from the looks of it. And I'd never even heard of this. one. Operation Rambo is what the funding will go to help two. One of three. Right. Operation Rambo is a Just Being County charity that does service dogs for disabled vets. So we're helping local operations. Mighty Oaks Foundation is an organization that deals with veteran suicide prevention

and then veterans back 40 adventures deal with PTSD, veterans. They take them out in the boonies and kind of commune with them. Yeah, kind of get them back to reality. Absolutely. They're all good. Very good. So I want to get that information up here because we've got a couple of months to go, but good time to sign up is right now.

And this is the first annual sporting clays championship. This is a different kind of fundraiser for you because you'll still do the veteran, I'm sure, and various other things here. But we'll get all that up. Terry, you being a veteran, I wanted to ask your, opinion about it. Do you mind me just asking about a little bit of the news here lately? The administration, VA, is now going to be empowering attorneys to forcibly commit some veterans that find themselves in alcohol or drug treatment crisis.

And it would kind of, you know, almost like committing them or forcing them into treatment. Is that something that the veterans are talking much about at this point? It's such a new thing that I hadn't really, I mean, I think yesterday's the first I'd even heard about it. Yeah, it just got announced. I don't, I haven't really had time to really think it through and, you know, taking, I mean, veterans that are suffering from, you know, they need help. I think offering help is one thing, enforcing help is a whole different bailiwick. Yeah, and there have been two ways of looking at that. Actually, more than two, really, is what I'm, you know, getting from people. I can, I can understand that. But,

I'm not a veteran, so I'm not the one that gets involved with this, but I thought to ask you. Think about it, we're always welcome to talk about this and anything else you're doing over at the NCOA. Okay? Well, you know, I want to acknowledge a few people because the, so far, Pacific Crest excavation and Fox Firearms out of Grants Pass have already sponsored this event at $3,000 each. The old guard riders and Company B in Grants Pass have sponsored one of the stations

and Alpine Electric out of Jacksonville has sponsored 10 shooters already. But a $500 sponsorship will allow a business to sponsor a station at this event, but it also entitles that business to sponsorship for the 5K fund run and the bowl for vets in October. So what we're trying to do is if you got a business out there, for 500 bucks, you can basically, get promoted on our website, on social media, email blasts, and like today we're talking with Bill on this thing, between now and the end of October. So it's like six months of advertising for 500 bucks. It's a good deal, and it helps a good cause. It helps deal with veteran suicide

and mental health. All right. Terry, I appreciate you coming in, and we'll get your information up and put this in the door and I'll give it a blast on our blog here too, all right? I appreciate you coming in. You bet. Thank you. Thank you. It is 854 and change at KMED. All right. Now, before we head back to more of the calls, we have a diner 62 real American quiz. I did promise you that. We're running out of daylight. So jump on it. 7705-633-770 KMED. And let's see if we can make you a winner in just a couple of minutes. Shady friends? I have lots of them. This is Jeff with Quality Tree Service. a certified arborist, I consider myself

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Let me go to Lauren. Hello, Lauren. How you doing? I'm doing fine. I'm actually up my walking today right now. But get the good answer, please. All right, Lauren. It was yesterday.

Well, actually, two days ago, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan causes massive devastation. It's that Fukushima nuclear disaster. Debris from the tsunami found its way to American shores. And light debris arrived first, but major debris followed, including the first most significant pieces of debris. A 65-foot dock washing up on Agate Beach just north of Newport. How long did it take the dock to go across the Pacific and wind up in Oregon? Lauren, was it six months, nine months, 12 months, 15 months, or 18 months? What do you say?

I'm going to go with six months. You're going to go with six months? No, it's more than that. I'm sorry. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello.

This is Brad. Brad, go ahead. Nine months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months. What do you say? Golly. I'm going to go with nine months. Nine months? No, it's more than nine months. All right. Let me go to... Is it Calden? Or I forget? Yes, it's Calvin.

Calvin, all right. Twelve months. Fifteen months or eighteen months? And you know what I would suggest? 18 months. No, I would not suggest that one. Sorry. Let me grab one more. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hi. All right. Let me go. Who's this? One, you got to turn the radio down.

One more time. Hello. All right. You got to do it. Hi, one more time. Who's this? This is Holly Morton, Josephine County. Holly, you want the Diner 62?

Okay. People are not answering me. Holly, you got to turn the radio down. Please. Okay. You got to turn the radio down and listen to the phone. Hi, who's this? Welcome.

Okay. They're still not there. Let me try this again. One more time. Hi, who's this? This is Jerry. Jerry. Can you say 15 months because I'm just running out of time, okay? 15 seconds. They're already planning chips in people's brains. Okay, no, no, no. That's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about brain stuff right now. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is Tom. Tom. All right. Can you say 15 months, please? Save the content. 15 months. Thank you. Oh, my gosh. All right. Okay, so that is true.

Debris from the 2011 tsunami. It took 15 months to get here and wash up on the beach. So anyway, you hang on, and thank goodness you were there. And by the way, all right, hang on. We're going to make sure that you're a big winner on this one. And, ooh, that was wild, okay? Remember, when you're calling the station at a contest, you've got to listen to the phone, not the radio. It's a little delay.

We'll talk Monday.