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Episode Date: March 18, 2025

03-18-25_TUESDAY_8AM

Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at clauserdrilling.com. Yesterday I talked with Karen England, who of course is the kitchen table activist, and she was discussing how much power school boards have to do the right thing if they're doing the right thing and if they have a good strong spine. the right thing if they're doing the right thing and if they have a good strong spine. And then we have state representative Dwayne Younger who ended up talking about a local school district. I guess what was in a... by the way, state rep Younger, which school was the haters book located? Which library was that located in again this morning that was it that was in North Valley High School okay North Valley High School all right very

good and you ended up doing a remonstrance which is what a speech you get up before the state legislature and you're able to talk about most anything you feel like it is that what that's all about yeah you get three minutes to talk about pretty much anything you want to talk about within certain rules. And one of them is that you're not supposed to be obscene, you know, doing that sort of stuff. Yeah, no profanity or obscenities or anything like that, or calling out other members of the other party.

So you don't do it, you don't make it personal usually in those kinds of conversations conversations that's about it, right? Yeah, you're not allowed to make it personal. Okay, now there was something you were trying to accomplish here and this has to do with Senate Bill 1098. Senate Bill 1098 is a bill that would make it next to impossible for parents to be able to challenge books that are in school libraries and you had a problem with that, correct? Yeah, the Senate Bill 1098 was actually Senate, Senate, on the House, on the House side, Senate side, actually was in Noah Robinson's committee yesterday, and they voted to push it to the floor. They passed on party lines.

So they passed it, they passed it on the Senate side, and now it's going over going over to the House, correct? No, no, no. They passed it out a committee to go to the floor. Oh. So it should go to the floor of the Senate. So usually when it passes the committee, it's going to pass the floor and they got the super majority and then it'll come to the House. And if the Democrats Democrats want it the Democrats will get it most likely unless the House members walk out, right? That's our bottom line That's correct. Okay, that's correct. So yes The book the the bill does not allow you to challenge anything due to the author So if the author is black or LGBTQ or all these other things, you're not allowed to challenge the authorship of the book.

Well, has anybody been challenging books because of authorship? It's usually content-based, isn't it? That was my point yesterday. It's about if it's sexualizing and it's inappropriate for children, then it shouldn't be in the school library. I'm not saying it shouldn't be in maybe a public library, but it shouldn't be in a school library. There's age-appropriate libraries, I thought. So yeah, the Democrats,

now it was a three-minute remonstrance that took 35 minutes. Yeah, 35 minutes, 35 minute video. I watched quite a bit of that last night because you started reading it and you're reading passages from the haters and like I said, basically it was a sex scene. It was a sex scene that kind of, I'm thinking back in the 1970s when the kids, oh it's the penthouse forum. It was kind of one of those sort of things, wasn't it? In which, you know, the kids describing having sex, right? And going through the whole process. Yeah, very graphic. Yeah, talking about his parts in a D word. Yeah. All these things

having him with what the girl was doing to him. And I was stopped the first time by Representative Manix, which here's the thing people didn't know. We have a caucus meeting before we go to the floor. Representative Manix was not there. He's a Republican. He was not there. So he wasn't part, he didn't know that I was going to do that, but the rest of the caucus did.

And so he pushed the privilege queue to challenge my language that was used on the floor. And then the floor was stopped. And all the big wigs of both caucuses go to the front. And they debate what I was saying was appropriate. They actually asked me to come up to the front with the material. And I showed the speaker what I was reading. I left. They announced that it was okay for me to continue to read the material. So the Democrats were going to let you continue to read, you know,

essentially the smut on the legislative floor, right? Exactly. Okay. And so I started to read again. Mannix hits the privilege button again and then challenges the speaker. What is it like a stop button when he hits the privilege button? You hit the button and then it's kind of like with the staples thing going, that's not easy and then you have to stop. I mean what? How does that work? Well, it tells the speaker that there's someone that can interrupt me. So he gets to interrupt me. Manix gets to put his point. He challenges the speakers, challenges his ruling that the materials should not be read because it's profan. He says other words.

And so they stop again. At this time, the Democrats call all their people off back to the floor, because a lot of people had already left, back to the floor floor and they huddled over in a corner and they were debating whether they're gonna let me move forward. That took about 20 minutes or so and then the speaker comes back up to the thing and changes his ruling that it's inappropriate

for me to read the book. All right, so it's inappropriate for you to read the smutty book which is in the North Valley High School Library, right? It's too smutty for you to read it on the house floor, but the taxpayers should keep paying for books like that, right? Exactly. If it's not okay for the house floor, it shouldn't be okay for a high school library or a middle school library, either library. It's got nothing to do with what the author, it's about the material. And I talked about that. And I also talked about how in 2019 Oregon had the highest amount of sex offenders. And on March 5th,

the governor wants to declassify sex offenders and not retrimmage sex offenders. Oh no, wait a minute, I missed that part. Tell me more, I didn't hear that one. That must have been... Yeah, it was at the very end. So when I got to finish reading, I talked about Oregon was the number one state in 2019 with the most amount of sex offenders. And I talked about how March 5th, the governor came out with a bill that these sex offenders

have to be registered, and she wants to not register them. I'm just shortening this up a little bit. And then I talked about all the schools where teachers have been arrested lately, and the Rogue River teachers have been arrested with 10 counts. And I just said, they want to sexualize our children. They're normalizing this stuff. And then I talked about Senate Bill 1098,

how it's not about the author, it's about the material. It's not appropriate. And I also said it's harder to go to a rated-R movie at the theater than it is to get your sexual book at the local school library. Do you think you made some good points or do you think you might have affected or... and no doubt you're trying to influence the Democrats to come to their census and say, hey listen, knock this off with essentially a smut and perversion being paid for with taxpayer dollars in school libraries. And I'm always going to hear back, I know I hear, but it's book bans! No, we're not banning books. You can go out and buy the smut if you want, parents. You can do that. But we don't have to. It's called discernment. You don't have to use taxpayer money to support that. I'm just wondering

if you think it has had any effect. In some ways, you're embarrassing the Democrats with the stuff that they're supporting all the time. I think it did. It definitely brings hypocrisy to their ridiculous idea that we should have these sexualized books and parents should not be able to challenge them and we shouldn't be able to say, hey, these are not appropriate for my 14-year-old or 15-year-old or even 10-year-old to have in a school. This is inappropriate material. It's kind of the same thing. I would probably be in favor of them not having maybe the anarchist cookbook or something like that out there in the school library too. Let's show you how to make bombs and incendiary devices and things like that.

We could probably have better uses of taxpayer dollars. Fair enough. It doesn't have to all be about sex either, right? I mean there's just judgment calls here. No, no. You know, the Democrats have already, I've already gotten some emails, I post them online, you know, I'm called a Nazi, but this is not about, the Nazis didn't want anything that wouldn't get their agenda, you know what I'm saying? Their ideology. This is not what this is. This is about appropriate books for children. If you want those books, you can still go down to the local porn shop and get them, you know. Yeah, there's adult, there's the adult store on what exit 27 or whatever it is on I-5. That's okay, they're there. Go ahead. You people in Jackson County, you got your adult bookstore, go there.

You know, saying just leave me, let parents say, hey, this is not appropriate material. That's all I'm asking. No one's saying you can't have this book. That's your right. It's not okay for children. You know, you start wondering here, and this is just, this is just so outrageous that it is considered outrageous that you would bring attention to something like this, you know, how dare you, you know, this kind of thing, which shows you how intellectually and morally bankrupt, unfortunately, this other party is right now. It's almost like maybe we have to find some of the most outrageous book examples that

aren't even necessarily sexual here. Should we bring up books that advocate targeted assassination or something like that? Should we be doing all this kind of stuff? Have you ever thought about that? How far can you push it to say, is there anything you won't say no to when it comes to taxpayer dollars, Democrat? Is there anything? Anything at all? Yeah, maybe they'll start having to put in Meincoff and all these books that are racist that show how to be a Nazi or white supremacist.

Maybe those are okay. Well, didn't they already ban Tom Sawyer though? The adventures of Tom Sawyer? Yeah. Yeah. Because of the... Yeah, yeah. All the kids are walking around with rap music with the N-word in it all the time, right? That's okay. And you hear it all the time.

I hear kids call them stuff that all the time. I'm not a fan of that. But to have a piece of literature that uses that, then it's beyond the pale. It's an amazing world that we're in right now, especially in Oregon. Yeah, if you look in the Oregonian, the speaker called me, I'm like Margie Taylor Green or I'm a company in, that's how I was acting yesterday,

my behavior. Listen, now did you talk to the Oregonian because it's like, listen, come on guys, this is the stuff that you're pushing, that you want to have, essentially having school libraries help out the groomers here. I mean, it's really what they're doing, isn't it?

Looks like to me. The Oregonian never talked to me. The Oregonian never spoke to me. They just printed that. They spoke to the speaker. They spoke to Christine Drazen, our leader on the Arcoctus side. They never asked me about my opinion. I mean I guess I read my opinion on there. But I would say when the speaker of the House wants to talk about Republicans behavior, which this look at the Max the Maxine Dexter and saying her want to F Trump and all the behavior that they did lately in the Congress. Don't talk to Republicans about behavior when you have your own party.

Yeah, well, there you are. There you are reading from a smutty public school library book here that you thought was a real problem there and they're giving you all kind of flack you know what I would say state representative Dwayne Younger you're getting flack because you're right over the target they're they're they're hypocritical target there you're you're doing good work there that's what needs to be done okay I believe so I thank you I thank you bill and I think everybody that supports me and writes me stuff. And it feels good when I have people behind me backing me.

You got it. Dwayne, thanks for being on it. And wait. Now, I guess I'm sure I'm just going to post that video if it's OK. I'll post it on my blog, but people can watch the whole thing. It is a little bit uncomfortable, isn't it? You know, to hear that stuff, isn't it? Yeah, I didn't even get to the F words and all the other stuff. Oh, you didn't get to the good stuff. Oh man.

I missed some of it talking about some things that, you know, probably shouldn't talk on the radio. All right. I didn't get to the end of that stuff, you know? I didn't get to the really juicy stuff, Bill. All right, stay wrapped, Wayne Younger, holding some situations and holding them accountable, I hope so. I'm wondering if you think the 1098 will get a pass from the Oregon Democrats this time, or might they look askance after what you did with

this school book? I don't know, I turned this building upside down. Everybody knows about what happened yesterday. We will see how they move forward. I talked to Senator Noah Robinson. Everybody heard about it. So we'll see if they have a second thought about bringing it on the floor now. Maybe they'll pass it out of the Senate, but maybe they'll crash, die in the House. I'm hoping so. I'm hoping that my point because we're not going to stop. We're not going to... if I have to read a book every day, I'll read a dang book every day on there and just highlight these things that are inappropriate.

Inappropriate books in the school library. You know, we can just call it a story day, a story time remonstrance with Dwayne Younger, state rep Dwayne Younger. Story time. And maybe to really set them on fire, show up and drag. How about that? They'd be the drag queen. Dwayne Younger. I'm just having fun with you because what would the Democrats do if you showed up as a drag queen? What could they say? You know, they couldn't criticize you because isn't this, you know, part of their oppressed people out there that they're out supporting all the time?

I don't know. Yeah, you know, I'm still trying to figure out all that, you know, because you're not allowed to ask any questions when someone identifies or whatever. It's very difficult to figure out where that begins and ends. Well, all you have to do is go up there and say, I'm State Representative Dwayne Younger, and I identify as a turtle. So you can be just like an Oregon Health Authority mental illness specialist. Okay? There you go. Yeah, and I would get probably a raise. You could be. You could be. Thanks, Dwayne. We'll talk to you later, okay? Be well. Okay, bye. Stay repped, Dwayne Younger. 828. Man, what

crazy times, huh? What crazy times. But you know, sometimes you just have to throw their own words back in their face in a situation like that. Dwayne Younger reading the smutty book in the North Valley High School library saying, this is inappropriate to read on the on the house floor and then yeah but it's okay to to give it to the kids sure if you've been injured in an accident you've got to read law firm on this is news talk 1063 KMED and you're waking up with the Bill Meyers show hey 31 don't break produce catch up on a few other things. Have it open for business and after open for business we're gonna have a Diner 62, real American quiz. It is gonna

be a fun one, we're talking rockets. Rocket Man, the original Rocket Man and no, not Elton John but we're gonna talk about some history there, a lot of fun. Give you a $20 gift certificate. Don't call right now, give me just a few minutes. Just a few minutes and then we'll do that. And I think you'll enjoy the question. Just good stuff about some of the best that ever happened with America. Now, back to Oregon then. I was thinking, you know, we have State Representative Duane Juncker who is sideways with the power structure because he has the temerity to read a smutty school book that is in the North Valley High School library and they decided not to actually take that book out of the library but yet it's too dirty to read on the floor of the state capitol. Too dirty, right?

Too, oh no, it's like our tender ears, we cannot be blessed with this. We can't have this kind of stuff. We can't have this kind of stuff. But then you have that craziness and then you couple it with the story of the other day of the Oregon Health Authority mental health specialist or specialist there who identifies as a turtle. Now this person may find themselves under fire because once you have embarrassed the state government, maybe there's going to be a problem at some point. But I'm just

wondering if maybe the tortoise that's in the Oregon Health Authority, the turtle in the Oregon Health Authority, could come up and identify as perhaps an endangered species turtle. Like I identify as an endangered species sea turtle. Remember I was talking yesterday about that story in which the people said, hey I got a turtle, a sea turtle, a skull in my luggage. Remember that story down in California, Napa and Chico? which is where they were. These people ended up getting busted and they were mouthing off to the wildlife officers that were actually on the plane with them. Just a crazy story, right? But maybe that's the way that the crazy person in the Oregon Health Authority can keep her job or keep

the turtles, her turtle job. I'm an endangered sea turtle. You can't fire me because if I had to do something, you know, productive, it would hurt the endangered species. You see what are the ESA. I'm just kind of wondering how all sorts of crazy permutations that our crazy state could do. Hi, I'm Duane Barkley with American Rancher Garage and I'm on KMED. Hi, I'm Duane Barkley with American Rancher Garage and I'm on KMED. Alright, let's have some fun with the Diner 62 Real American Quiz. And by the way, Diner 62, if you have not tried, I've had many chicken sandwiches here in Southern Oregon. But they have a crispy chicken sandwich at Diner 62? Mmm. It is just wonderful. Right up there with the best.

Next to the Chevron station just south of white city and remember clam chowder friday so good you'll hear the surf and seagulls if you hold the cup i guess up next to your head i just having some fun let me just go to uh line one hi good morning who is this good morning hi it's calvin hey calvin let's see if we can make you a winner today it was this week in history back in 1926, the very first liquid-fueled rocket takes flight. It was March 16th actually. Robert H. Goddard. He successfully launches the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn, Massachusetts. First man to give hope to dreams of space travel and it was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline. It was kind

of made out of pipes and looked kind of gangly really, about 10 feet tall. You've seen those pictures maybe, maybe you remember that from the history books. And he became fascinated with the idea of space travel after reading the H.G. Wells science fiction novel War of the Worlds. So that's what inspired him. So Calvin, the question is here, how far did Robert Goddard's first rocket travel from the launch pad? This was this week in 1926, almost 100 years ago. Was it A, 18.4 inches?

B, 18.4 feet? Was it C, 184 feet? D, 18.4 miles? Or was it E, 184 miles? How far did that rocket go first time? What do you say? 18.4 feet. 18.4 feet, kind of like it left the ground and then practically fell back.

No, it wasn't that. It wasn't that. It wasn't that much. It was more than 18.4. Let me go to the next line. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is David in Phoenix. David in Phoenix. So 18.4 inches, 184 feet, 18.4 miles, or 184 miles? How far did the first rocket when it took off?

I have no idea, so I'm guessing 100 and whatever feet, the 100 feet one. 184 feet. You think that's what it was? That was it? That's my guess. Yeah, that was a good guess. Yeah, it traveled for about two and a half seconds, about 60 miles an hour, went up 41 feet, landed 184 feet away, first launching of a liquid fuel rocket from his Aunt Effie's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. So there we go.

And he kept working on rocket work until his death in 1945. Recognized by Lindberg, helped secure him a grant from the Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of aeronautics. And by the way, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, North Carol... or Maryland, rather, is named in his honor. So he's still remembered and he was the first one. He's the one that did it. So David, hang on and we're going to get you taken care of here with the Diner 62 real American quiz. And we'll have another one probably Thursday of this week, depends on when Brian gets it. He's our quiz master. I'm Mike Gavin with Your Money Now.

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which is amazing, was the beginning of modern rocketry, but the United States government wasn't interested. So Goddard took his stuff to the local government people, don't remember who they were. They were not interested, and this is about 20 years before what happened, World War II. Then they got interested, didn't they?

Right. No, they, no, still not interested. But you know who was interested in his work? Germany was interested. Ah, the V2 rocket, right? So a young scientist named Bernhard von Braun was the guy that took it over and they, based on Robert Goddard's work, they've developed flying weapons like the member the V2 flying bomb. Yes I do. So now World War II is over and Vernon Von Braun gets recruited by the American government to come to the United States and do what? Begin a brand new

program that would that eventually became civilianized as the National Aerospace Administration. So Bob Goddard's work went to Germany, got work done by Werner von Braun, who later was recruited back to the United States and began the rocket program that eventually landed a man on the moon. Isn't that amazing? It is amazing. And you think about it more or less, and we didn't see the value of it at the time. Appreciate the call. Thank you for that. We're going to keep open phones going here for a couple more minutes if you wanted to weigh in here. I know that I've been kind of guest heavy this morning on Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. We have Wild Salmon Steve. By the way, this is KMED and KMED HD1 Eagle Point Medford KBXG Grants Pass. Steve, what did you want to talk about this morning? Go right ahead.

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Oh cool. You'll enjoy that. I have one made by a rig expert and I have learned more from that than I have anything else that I've done. Very cool indeed. Hey, thanks for the call Steve. Appreciate that. Sure. All right. Let me grab another caller too. It's Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. Do you have a Pebble or something going on in your world? You wanted to talk about it. Well, I just hear people mentioning the moon landing and I don't want to mention it to River Stearns Bebel, but that was all staged and I hope people know that by this time. No, I don't think people know that all by this time.

Okay, well, look into it. Well, no, I mean look into it by who? According to whom? I have people who call me up and say, Bill, they're admitting now that the Earth is flat too. Oh, well, I don't know. I don't want to take it all that way that far, but... A light can only cast a shadow from one direction. And if you look at a lot of the pictures, it is what it is. I encourage people to do their own research.

Well, you know, that's always the sign of someone trying to get somebody to believe something kind of crazy, do your own research. Well, that's what they said about COVID too, right, Bill? Well, what was it I wasn't, you know, doing my own research could have had me doing a lot of stupid stuff too. Well, there's still nurses, my wife being one and we're out of there, they're fired from Asante for not taking it, but still

haven't been made whole. so we need to fix it. All right, fair enough. Thanks for the call. Thanks Bill. And see, it's not even Conspiracy Theory Thursday. We had to get a call like they did. That's okay. It's called free speech.