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Episode Date: March 18, 2026

Open phone calls on the war, your general take on things both nationally and at home.

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What are you doing right now and what are you thinking? Well, I'm on the road now, and I'm independent driver, and I've got a 120-gall tank on here. So it cost me a little over $4,000 to make a one run over to the East Coast. But Bill, in my opinion, I think it would be I'd pay twice that much if this is going to keep America safe of what's going on. We deal with it now, and when gas prices do go back down, everybody's going to be, oh, it was such a good job that he did and everything else like that. Times are a little rough right now. Yeah, right now, we don't know when it ends at this point.

But you will admit, though, that if it's going on for two or three months, there goes the midterns probably, huh? That'd be rough. Oh, exactly. It's going to hurt him. But, again, like I said, if I've got to pay $7, $8 a gallon, I'll pay twice that much if it's going to keep America safe. I guess my question for you, Brad, is that you as the truck,

or pay $7, $8. Right now, from what I understand in California. In fact, I think my boss text message me here. Let me find it. He was in Crescent City. And it was, yeah, diesel was $7 a gallon in California. Now it's less here in Oregon, but, you know, not that much less here. Yeah, sure.

You pay seven, though, but can your customers afford to pay the cost, the increased cost of freight on that kind of diesel cost? What do you think? That's going to be the long story. The longer that this goes on, the harder. it's going to be on them and they're going to have to make adjustments. Everybody's going to have to make adjustments. You know, you make adjustments in what your delivery, what you're going to have to deliver to them,

how much cost, and then they have to make adjustments too. Can you make an adjustment, let's say that you contract that you're going to deliver a load of whatever it is from the West Coast to the East Coast, all right? And you agree to a price. Do those contracts also allow some wiggle room in it for, like if all the a sudden the price of diesel goes up a buck from when you signed the contract to when you deliver it. Can you do that? Or how does that work in the world? Yes, there is a little bit of wiggle room in the contract that can for. I didn't get the

load there on time because of bad weather or something. The customer won't hold that against me. I've got that covered. But I wouldn't, if gas goes up, I'm just, I'm sorry. I'm going to keep the contract of what it was that it cost me. If I have to eat a little bit of this, as this goes on, I'll eat a little bit of it, just like I think everybody needs to do at the gas pumps, at the grocery stores and stuff like that. It's not a fairy tale story. Things like this are going to happen, no matter who's in the White House, no matter who we're going to war with or what, but if it's to keep America safe,

I think it's worth every bit of it. Brad, I appreciate your call. Glad you called. Checked in, okay? Thank you, Bill. All right, be well. 7705633-770K-MED. What is your overall impression? I do think that the overall thought, I think, when we went into Iran,

was that this was not going to be even lasting the 18 or 19 days that we're at right now. And are you with Brad? Do you think Brad has the right attitude about it? It's like, hey, he paid double. He paid double for the price of fuel to make this happen, to keep the nation safe. Or do you have a different take on it? I'm happy to take your call.

770KMED, 7705633. We had a few days of this, and none of us know really, you know, the truth about what they knew as far as intelligence. You know, you sure you can look at what the reporting says, but can you believe reporting these days? Then you have a situation that people like Joe Kant, Joe Kant, honorable guy, you know, served his nation with distinction. and Joe Kant, of course, saying that he thinks that it was a waste and that we're getting ready to, well, drag a lot more American lives into this. Where are you on this, huh? Happy to take your call.

I'm not going to criticize anybody about that. We can just kick this around. 7705-633. It is a big deal. It's affecting us here at home and abroad. You're on the Bill Myers Show. Now then, another number, if you're not going to call me right now, You can certainly call Steve Hansy over at Sky Park Insurance because with the other costs like the fuel going up,

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Yeah, I kind of liken what we are facing there in Iran. To me, having a cancer, and it's in that third stage, but it's still recoverable. and I find out about this, but I decided to ignore it for a while because that's not convenient. So that's one option. Now, I could go back to the Iran War. It was found out that these folks have a way to deliver at some point in the future a nuclear or three nuclear bond, let's say that one on the West Coast, one in the Midwest, and one on the East Coast. If they did that, two things could happen.

If they had an EMP type of delivery, that could wipe out all the illegal. electronics, and then if they didn't have that, I'd just had a dirty bomb kind of a thing, but a big one, then the persons all over the place would have a hard time surviving that because of radiation and power being out and so forth as a constant. Yeah, those are a lot of might-haves or may, you know, kind of things. Nobody knows, yeah, for sure. But on the other hand, do you think that were they lying to us last year and they said it was all destroyed? I'm not sure about that except one thing.

If you find out that the cancer is not taken care of, you have to do the next step or you just go down the tubes. So I'm saying is he's done preemptive activity by wiping out the source and then going after the octopus head and preventing America from having to pay more later. We're paying a little bit right now in higher prices, but that's a lot better than having to face nuclear fallout. All right, I appreciate your call. And we're taking all comments on this thing. Mark's here. Hello, Mark.

Go ahead. Good, have you on. Yeah, anyway, I read a book several years ago. I can't remember the name of it, but it was written by two brothers. They came here from Iran for college education. While they were here, both of them got saved. They became Christian. The reason they wrote the book was because they can never, ever return home.

If they do, their family will kill them, period. And the crux of this book was, folks, you cannot negotiate with these people because they have a radical ideology that will never change. Okay, so does that mean that we should just go and kill all 95 million Iranians? Well, I mean, if you're saying that they're all radical and, you know, if this is the cancer, should we just go and just kill them all? Statement. But their premise in this book is that you cannot negotiate with these people because they're allowed to lie, cheat, steal, because it's anything to win. All right.

Thank you, Mark. Let me go to Phil. Phil. Phil's in Rogue River. Phil good to have you here. Morning. All right, Phil. Just a quick comment about this Joe Ketka, fella.

Yeah. And, well, I think he got a little upset because there's accusations flying around about him being a leaker of information to Iran. And so he got booted out of the morning conferences, the presidential, you know, the updates that they do every morning a couple of months ago. And so I think he got a little upset about that. And I kind of believe that maybe somebody found out for sure that he was leaking and was probably about to turn him in, so he just quit. That's my theory. So too bad it's not Thursday. Well, if he, now if that's true, if he was leaking to Iran, then he would still be in trouble, if that's the case. Even quitting will not stop the, if he is in trouble. But I do find it interesting,

well, I guess it's hard for me to criticize his record. When I, when I look at his record, the record looks pretty damn solid, you know. Oh, it's stellar. Yeah. Unfortunately, his wife was killed by a suicide bomber by ISIS. Yeah, she was a cryptotech. Now, what I find most interesting, though, is that he says, you know, in Joe Kent's claim, his claim is that it is the Israeli lobby that was pushing this. I don't know if I believe that, I know that the Israeli lobby has huge influence on Congress in general. We know about this APAC. It's pretty well known. Thomas Massey, whether you love him or hate him, you know, he pretty much exposed. that going on for quite some time.

But that being said, I don't think anybody really tells President Trump what to do. No, no, not at all. I don't believe that. Nothing strike me. It doesn't strike me as that kind of guy. But. No. And I listened to Hannity at night, and he's known Trump for 30 years personally and

professionally, and he says nobody tells Trump what to do. Sometimes it would be helpful if he would listen to someone. of the people to talk to them, though, like anybody, you know, because my wife has made it clear. It's made it clear to me, well, Bill, you know, you could be absolutely wrong, but you are completely convinced of how correct you are. And he said, yep, honey, that's my deal. And I'll joke with her. I'll say, honey, I was r about that wrong. I can't even say the word wrong, but we always have fun. Good hearing from you. Thanks for the call. 770KMED, Dave, Miter Dave's here.

Dave, how are you doing this? You understand that your brother is going to have some issues. I'm asking for prayers from my brother, Greg. He's going in for a heart procedure in Portland University Hospital. They're going to go through his leg and put some kind of catheter down and fix a valve in his heart. And so I'm asking the people out there to pray for him. And to remember the good meals we used to make at Dunners. Yeah, Greg Everest, he used to be the owner. Your brother used to own Diner 62. And just great guy, great guy. And he's been a big help. He's been a big help for you in your life. And I appreciate that aspect of him. Yeah, yeah. He's been, he's been wonderful and he's still wonderful. He's sad right now because my sister-in-law died back in January. We just had a celebration of life over the weekend. And I got to see, uh,

People I haven't seen in a long time, like my younger brother, he flew in from Florida and my sister-in-law and their young third son, Stephen. By the way, he's so tall. He's like 6'2, and I remember him when he was a little boy. And, you know, like my other nephews, they're like 6.2. They're giant. Man, because you're not that tall, are you? Well, if I get a card doctor rejoin, I'm 6-1. Oh.

But right now I probably measure out 6 foot. Okay. I didn't realize you were that tall. I never thought of you as being that tall because, you know, I've been 5-8-5-9 forever, and I'm probably shrinking at this point. Who knows? Well, you know, my legs are shorter than my arms. So I don't look tall because of my short legs.

Yeah, that must be it. Well, you know, back when I was a kid, back when I was a kid, though, the doctors all said, oh, yeah, he's going to be 6-2, 6-3. And that just never happened, but I have the body. You know, if I was 6-2 or 6-3, I'd be perfectly in proportion. I love it. Right. All right.

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Let me go to Gene. Hello, Gene. Good to have you on. You wanted to, what, weigh in on the Democrats in Congress, huh? Go ahead. Well, I'd like to weigh in on anyone who wants to throw a tantrum, really. Okay. They should make it the law.

You are going to pay the bills out of your paycheck, and that way everybody would be getting their paycheck except for the Democrat. They want to throw tantrums, pay for it. Well, I'm not included. So do you say that Congress, with their power of the purse, because they get to say no or yes to, you know, to the money, that they should just vote for the money no matter what? Yeah, they should just take the money out of their paycheck for the bills they don't want to pay

because they're thrown at tantrum because they want to ice stood up against the ground and murdered or up the wall. Okay. Well, you know, but whether I agree with a Democrat or not, Jane, is it is that, it is their power to say no. It's, you know, the idea is not that if somebody or if the president or anybody decides that they want to spend money, that they just get to spend money just because it has to be approved by Congress.

And, of course, Democrats are part of Congress. I don't like that, but that's just the, you know, the way that is. How would you? They have had tantrums. How many cantrums they throw in this year are this term already? because they're not getting what they want. Yeah. They're not kissing their, you know what.

Why not give them exactly what they want? Take the money out of their paycheck. Well, it's one thing, it's one thing. The idea, you know, the whole idea that the spending is automatic and that ICE gets its money or that TSA gets its money, the whole concept, though, is that we vote on such things. And if they don't have the votes, they can't make it happen. Well, you may vote on things, but if the Republicans really wanting to punish them for throwing their tantrums, especially since they are just wanting ice.

What they ought to do is the protests just have to take their masks off. They have to put their name tag and address and everything right on their chest so that you can see exactly where they live and see if they would like that. Okay, so, well, you know, I kind of like that idea. You know, what's good for the ICE agent is good for the Antifa goon. Okay. But, yeah. All right. All right.

Yeah, I mean, the thing is, though, whether I disagree or agree with a congressional vote here, you know, their vote is their vote. Just like when I go and vote, my vote is my vote. And nobody can make me do something. There's no cost to me directly if I don't make the right vote. so to speak, I guess. We go to Jim. Hey, Jim, how you doing? What's up? Yeah, good morning, Bill. Say, two quick points.

The first one is I came across a interview with Donald Trump being interviewed by Barbara Walters. This was a couple of decades ago. And he was incredibly consistent back then about Iran. And I invite everybody to find that interview. And it tells you right then and there that he was not led around by the Israelis in any sense of the word. So that's one of them. And then the other thing, too, is maybe I had got it wrong. But were we a net exporter of petroleum products?

If that's the case, maybe we should stop exporting and start consuming here in this country. Well, there's not a shortage of it. There's just a shortage of it at a cheap price because, you know, unless you're going to, unless you're going to impose an export ban, it's really not going to have any effect on our price. You know what I'm getting at here unless you do an export ban, and, you know, do you really want to, do you want to ban exports of oil out of here? No, of course not. No, but not necessarily.

But if we had to, because we need, you know, petroleum is the fuel that runs this country, in particular to diesel, like you said. Yeah, because all we're arguing about right now is really the price. It's not that you can't get it here, but because of the worldwide, it is a fungible commodity. You know, oil that doesn't get used here can be sold elsewhere, and the price is a lot higher, you know, than it was. Yeah, well, I find it also kind of funny. that all of a sudden the Strait of Harmoos is the choke point of the world, where, you know, there's oil all over this world that there's tankers at any given time floating across the ocean. Yeah, except that about 20% of the world's oil flows through that one section, that one little two-mile channel,

and that's why it's been such a bone of contention. And also, helium goes through there, urea, fertilizer, feedstocks. I mean, all sorts of things there. It is a big, big deal, which is why it's caused so many problems to play around there because it has always been at risk of being shut down. There's no way to bypass that right now. And the demand for oil and fertilizer stocks, things like that, you get it, Jim. It's relatively inelastic.

It's not exactly like all of a sudden that you've been buying oil from Iran or you've been buying oil from the UAE or whatever it is, and all of a sudden you're just going to flip on a, you know, just turn on a dime, that kind of thing. It's pretty complex, wouldn't you think? Yeah, there's a lot of moving parts on this whole thing. But, you know, supposedly for a longest time, Iran was under sanction, too, which is another factor that I don't think has fully been accounted for. you know i know uh that uh biden lifted those sanctions if i remember right well well now we've lifted

the sanctions on russias because because we said russian oil was was evil well it's not evil right now you can buy russian oil over there so just keep that in mind all right yeah doesn't go through it does not go through the store uh the port of or the astrid of hormones rather now my question though are you feeling i mean how are you feeling right now about what you've seen so far on a scale from like one to 10. One, you're miserable, 10, pretty happy. What do you think? Well, you know, of an age that, you know, we've had to sacrifice at different times with conflicts around the world.

I remember sitting in line back in the original gas crisis when the Arabs cut us off. Me too. I remember that well. I was a kid, but I remember it well. You bet. Yes. That was only, supposedly, the number they threw out was 13% of the world's oil comes from Saudi Arabia back in the day, you know.

Yeah. 174, I believe it was, something early 74. So, you know, it just, it comes and goes. You know, I just couldn't drive around. I couldn't drive to Santa Cruz or something on the weekend. You know, if we had to, you know, be very frugal with our fuel. Yeah, you had to pinch it. So what are you thinking right now?

How are you feeling about it all? One through 10. Give me a rate. I'm thinking, you know, it's about a four. About a four. Yeah, it's inconvenient. But I'm like that trucker that was called in. You know, if it's going to, it's for our nation.

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Hi, I'm Deb with Father and Sonjorie, and I'm on KMED. Good conversation this morning on anything it's on your mind, but I've been focusing a lot on the Iran War, what's been going on over there. And I didn't talk about it a lot at first, you know, other than the what was obvious and effects on oil markets, things like that, and, you know, what could be going on. Because one of the challenges we have is it, you just don't know. you can't really just go off of what you're seeing on news reports

because the first victim of a war is always the truth all sides everybody does it everybody does propaganda we're good at propaganda Israel's good at propaganda Iran certainly good at propaganda and if you don't believe their propaganda well they'll kill you but you'll be that as it may

we can kick around that and other things on your mind too let me go to Terry Terry good to have you on what's happening Yeah, Bill. I'm on the fence on it. I think in a way it's a good thing in the long run. Right now, I don't know if it's the right time. But, you know, I've heard this that they've always been ready to have a bomb for the last 20 years. They've always been six months away, it seems like. But then I heard the beginning of Eric Peter's interview. I didn't get to hear the whole thing. But, you know, come on, those guys obviously thought about the straight-over moves. They knew that they were going to do something with it. So they thought about that. Also, my other thing where I'm sort of with it, is during the peace talks, they offered the Iranians, all the uranium, depleted uranium, they wanted for, you know, for power and all that stuff. And they said, no way. So you know they want, supposedly they have the enriched uranium to build 12 bombs or something or had it. Yeah, well, the last time, the last time I'd heard they were at 60%, 60%, but it wouldn't take very long

to enrich to weapons grade 90%, I think, is what you need, right? Is it a 90%. And so the thing that almost put me off the one side of the fence is, like I said, we offered them whatever they wanted for the uranium, and they still didn't want it. So they obviously want the bomb. I don't know. Here's my other thing. I don't know if they wanted it to use it, or they want it like North Korea has it as a deterrent for somebody to attack. Well, the one thing about that, the one thing about you have a nuke, and then, you know, the great Satan, as they term us, can't do much to you any longer. Well, exactly. And, you know, I don't know if they were crazy enough to where a lot of the warhawks say, oh, they're going to use it as soon as they get it. I don't know if they would or not. I think they'd be like North Korea and they would hold on to it. Yeah, well, that's kind of what I thought too, but who knows. I appreciate the call, though. Thank you, Terry. 7705-633. We have David. We're going to call you Paracquot, David. How you doing, David? How are you on? Great morning. How are you doing fine. So you are calling it about that. Paraguay. Paraguats spill over by Doris, California. I didn't even know they still used that herbicide, but so did you want.

I know about that. It triggered a really clear memory of mine that I've got back from around 1977. Being a marijuana consumer at the time, apparently our government thought it was a good idea to poison a lot of Mexico crops before they could reach harvest and get sold back here. And they poisoned it with Paraguat, if I recall, didn't? Didn't they use it for that? Yeah. The cheap, sensible way of taking care of that was to spray it from the air rather than put people on the ground, pulling it up and whatever, burning it. So what did Mexico do?

They just sped up their harvest. They went ahead and sold it back to us anyway, so we got the privilege of smoking our own poison. Isn't that interesting? My only experience with Paraquot that I remember, I think when I was a kid growing up, there was a DJ named Paraquot Kelly. Was he in L.A. DJ or was he in Cleveland at WMMS? Forget I'd have to look it up. You got me on that one.

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, that was it because of the marijuana, the marijuana smoking. That was just it. By the way, anybody died from that when they smoked the Paraguat? You know? No, excuse me, while I hack along up. Oh, gotcha. No, I don't know if there's any connection at all, but, you know, the respiratory issues as a result of that will always remain a mystery.

Yeah. David, I appreciate your call. Thanks for sharing that. I forgot about that. 770KMED. We have David from Phoenix. Hello, David. How are you?

Good morning, Bill. Thanks for the show. Oh, always my pleasure. We noodle around and, you know, it's like, I'll be the first to admit, do I know everything that's going on? Heck no. But we'll try to noodle our way through it. What are you thinking? Well, it's fun with a cup of coffee. So however it goes, it's always good. So thanks. Good. Anyways, I'm sorry about to hear about Dave's brother, and we all like Niners 62, and we thank them for sponsoring the show.

So I want to say that. Yeah. Anyways, I always wondered, and I still don't understand, I get really impatient. and the same problems seem to come around and around and around, and I don't want to play anymore. You know, I mean, it's not fun. Why isn't there a pipeline from Kuwait and Iraq to the Mediterranean? And then instead of using the Persian Gulf, have all those nations have a pipeline across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and bypass all that. I don't understand sort of like our Alaska pipeline.

It just would seem like you should have a secondary back door and say, to heck with you, why do you get to have this? You know, I just don't understand it. And I always thought that was a good idea, and I still think it's a good idea. I'd like to hear some comments about that. Yeah, I don't know what the actual, what the mechanism and cost would be about something like. that. I would imagine that if you're going to move that, that level of oil, what were you talking to like, a 12 to 15 million barrels a day? And probably it to be a heck of a pipeline, wouldn't

it? Well, what's our Alaska pipeline do? I don't know. See, now you're going to make me look. You see, you're just asking me to spitball off of something I really don't know. I'm just like, you know, I mean, either of that, I have the core of engineers blast out, blast out that point. I look on the map on my globe, there's a little, that little cow horn there and blast it back 20 miles, you know, drill and blast. Yeah. Like the Panama Canal, straight of Hormuz is going to open up by about 50 miles. Uh-huh. Exactly.

Let me see. You know what? I'll start doing, I'll start doing a little bit of searching around seeing kind of like, so the question. question would be how large of a pipeline would it take to replace the straight of Hormuz? And maybe that's where you go. I mean, how big would it be a three-footer, four-footer, five-footer, ten, twelve? You wouldn't just have one single pipe. You know, you have a 48-inch pipe.

Well, then you have a parallel 40. You have ten of them. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, it could be. Yeah, what kind of capacity would that take? Let's see. Well, sure, but look at the economy, the steel industry, the welders. You know, you get people working and stuff.

I don't know. Infrastructure. I need some money to be going to something that would have long-term value. And, I mean, what do all these bombs cost and stuff? You know, I'm just throwing it out there. Yeah. Now, to your point, though, I just found a story on CNBC, and it's entitled The Two Oil Pipelines Helping Saudi Arabia and the UAE

bypass the Strait of Hormuz, two critically important oil pipelines that buyings. bypass Strait of Hormuz have been thrust into the global spotlight as the Iran War drags on, is what they're saying. Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline and the UAE's Abu Dhabi crude oil pipeline, that's the AdKopp or the Habian Fajaria pipeline, are thought to be able to help partially offset that Strait of Hormuz's blockage. The risk of infrastructure damage, though, threatens to limit the total capacities. In other words, see, that's the downside of the of the pipeline is that a pipeline is relatively easy to knock out. You know, you're able to bomb it pretty easily, right? I just, okay, I appreciate that. I just, you know, after a while, you know, you just get worn out.

I mean, I'm serious. You know, it feels like I'm putting out spot fires. Do I worry about the courts in Jackson County, the Congress critters in Washington, five wars, you know, the economy, you know, whatever happened to the criminal gangs in Mexico and our American people on vacation. What happened to our deal with Canada? What's going on with Venezuela?

What about Puerto Rico again? You know, I mean, just what about Cuba? Hey, hey, listen, come on, don't worry about Venezuela that beat us in the worldwide baseball championship. Yeah, last night. Yeah, so they're obviously, they're totally recovered now. Don't worry about Venezuela. They're fine.

Okay. It's fine. It's all good. It's Bonn. It's Bond Dower, David. Okay. I wanted to die 62 and have pie, okay? Okay, there you go.

There you go. We are going to do that. Dower, David, from Phoenix. I love that nickname. We're going to do it. Okay. So here we go. What would it take to replace the Strait of Hormuz?

All right. Now, this is a AI search assist, so take it for what it's worth, all right? But it's probably, you know, reasonably, okay. Let's see. Strait of Hormuz typically handles around 20 million barrels per day. A pipeline or network of pipelines would need to have a combined. capacity significantly exceeding that amount as existing bypass pipelines. Those are the ones I was talking about on that CNBC story can only handle around three to

five and a half million barrels per day. Therefore, a much, much larger infrastructure would be necessary to meet the demand currently served by the straight. And of course, why do they use the Strait of Hormuz? Because it's cheaper, right? That's the only reason they would be doing something like that. if the pipeline were cheaper, they'd use the pipeline. So there we go.

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today. The Bill Myers Show is on. News Talk 1063, KMED. This is KMED and KMED HD1 Eagle Point Medford, KBXG grants pass. Transletter K290AF Rogue River, K294 ASHLIN. All right. We'll continue conversation here going on. And another topic I wanted to just toss at you. I wanted to try to get to that yesterday, but I wasn't able to. And so I'm going to retorting. tossed it out to the Southern Oregon jury pool. This would be the jury pool involved in the nurse trial. No, just kidding. Chances are none of us would get on that jury trial.

What do you think about it? She had a fry. You know, boom, out you go. You know, that kind of thing. By the way, I'm not saying she's guilty. I don't know. It sure looks guilty. But there are a lot of times that things look guilty and that it doesn't work out that way.

But who knows, we'll see. But, you know, there was a story in the Roald Valley Times. And there was this guy who was putting in a letter to the editor saying that we should get a vote on the stadium, on the baseball stadium. Now, certainly we, you know, voted. They approved. They're going to, you know, raise the hotel motel tax. That's all fine. You know, they do this.

And that was approved. That was approved by the voters. And all this talk about, you know, a conference center, all the rest of it, et cetera, et cetera. And this letter to the editor said that really what we need to. to do is just have a chance to vote on this. Would you agree with that or do you trust the City Council to make the right decision, the right financial, and this is a financial and economic development decision that is being made? Do you trust the Metford City Council to do the right thing? Or do you think it's just kind of being swept along by, well, the Eugene

emeralds are available, so we have to, we have to try to get it because, you know, whatever it takes, got to throw something against the wall, you know, Medford's not good enough by itself, you know, it has to have some shiny object to poke at and minor league baseball team. You know, that's the way that we're going to help revitalize downtown. Every downtown's trying to revitalize itself. That's just the way it goes. It's nothing unusual. So do you trust the Medford City Council on this, or would you like to have a say on it

before they even continue to move forward because they're going to want to keep spending more money. What do you think? Gentleman in the Rogue Valley Times says, hey, we should get a vote on that. Let's say you. We can talk about that and a bunch more. I got a breaking news story from the New York Times this morning.

I just have to share this with you, though. Well, maybe I'll share it afterwards, but it has to. They've come for Caesar Chavez, folks. Caesar Chavez. They've come for him now. I'll give you that story here coming up. It is absolutely fascinating, and I can't help but think that they had to take him down for a different reason than you might be thinking.

Remember a guy, United Farm Workers guy? Well, now they're saying that he abused women, and then he groomed women. Now, of course, it may be true. I'm not saying it is, but the New York Times is breaking it. Here, let me share this with you right now. New York Times, Caesar Chavez, a civil rights icon, is accused of abusing girls for years. years. And they have a picture of them on here. The reporters interviewed several women who told their stories for the first time as well as more than 60 other people, including

Caesar Chavez's top aides and relatives. The reporters also reviewed hundreds of pages of union records, confidential emails, photographs, and other material. Anna Merguia, Marguia, rather, remembers the day the man that she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a door. dirt trail, entered the rundown building, past the secretary and stepped into his office. He locked the doors he always did and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down.

Don't tell anyone he told her afterwards. They'd get jealous. Now, of course, Caesar is unavailable for her comment on this because he passed away a number of years ago. but I couldn't help but chuckle a little bit. Not that this is a funny story because, you know, it's a serious story. You know, sex abuse is bad no matter who's doing it. But do you think if Caesar Chavez had not been known, especially on the right wing side of things,

for being against illegal aliens, do you think they would have even gone there? I don't think so. had he been just a pure civil rights icon and not anti-illegal alien, I think the New York Times would have covered for him. I think they would have covered up. They would have never even looked. They wouldn't have cared.

Because he was for the greater good, you know, that sort of thing. Just wanted to let you know that, but that story is going to make a little bit of noise this morning. Now, Caesar Chavez. Yeah, Caesar Chavez, abuser of girls. An anti-immigrant. I can hear it already. This is the Bill Meyer show.