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Episode Date: March 20, 2026

03-20-26_FRIDAY_7AM

This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Well, at least our normally scheduled time for the outdoor report every Friday at about this time, 714. It's all sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. Greg Roberts is holding it down at rogueweather.com. so your outdoor shows are all done. They're all finished.

You're back to your normal home. So how are things, Greg? Welcome back. Well, it's nice to be back on the, quote, normal schedule, unquote. And, yeah, outdoor shows, they're done until the end of January next year when we start the fun all over again up in Eugene. Very good. And what are we looking at here? Because I can't help but notice that my inbox filling up with temperatures never hotter.

Climate change. Climate. Who, who, poke, poke, poke. And yeah, it's been warm. It was pretty warm weather around here over the last few months. No doubt about that. We tied records in Medford, which ought to say something, you know, right there. We tied. We didn't set. Other, you know, stations in the Medford National Weather Service zone, Klamath Falls, Alturis, Monague, Mount Shasta. They set, Roseburg set. but they weren't dramatically higher and didn't go back as far as one would think to break those records, meaning we weren't talking about records set way back in the early 1900s, 1920s, that kind of thing. You know, I saw so much hysteria. And, you know, even in places like California, of a single weather reporting station in California that goes back 200 years. So we're talking about really brief snapshots in time.

And how do we really truly know this, you know, they're breathlessly declaring this is the hottest it's ever been in March. Do we know that? Well, hottest that it's ever been, what, according to the weather forecasting records of, of 111 years. And all those back to what's been recorded. Well, yeah, that's what I'm getting at, though. Getting at that, that they never say, they always just say hottest ever, not hottest recorded.

And we've only been recording weather records accurately, what, maybe 110, 120 years, maybe. That's what I'm saying. Here in Medford, it goes back to 1911, Sacramento, California. It goes back officially to 1840. Okay. So that's a little bit longer, but still, even then, even 150 years, these are blips in time. Exactly. It's an afterthought in the history of the world, really.

It's a nanosecond. We truly don't know that kind of thing, because every time you start, gee, I don't see this, the climate change proponents immediately go, well, that's just weather, that's not climate. Well, okay. then why are we having all the breathless hysteria? I did have somebody ask me, do you ever remember anything like this in Medford before? And I said, oh yeah, absolutely.

I can remember being in Little League and playing games in March where it was definitely in the 70s, up into the 80s, and then my, I'm trying to figure out what year would this be, my sophomore year high school baseball, I vividly remember games being played in March that it was very similar to what we saw the last two days here in Medford. Pretty close temperature-wise,

I would bet you, because I know it was over 70, and I remember standing out there in the outfield, you know, in between batters and just kind of soaking it in and going, perfect baseball weather, and we're getting it in March. This was awesome. I think what's driving the hysteria more, I don't think you would see nearly as much focus on the warmth of what's been going on the last a few weeks. If there was tons of snowpack and everything was all healthy and that it just snowed like crazy. But, you know, it's like all the snow that went like crazy was all in the Midwest and on the East Coast. It was just like they just got pounded and pounded and pounded and pounded. And I don't think anyone's talking about global warming in those neighborhoods, you know, right now.

Yeah, no, definitely not. And, of course, that also illustrates what our prolonged, pronounced bridging patterns over us did. It sent everything up over the top of us and went diving into the eastern part of the U.S. And then you wind up with really unusual things like, you know, spots in Florida had more snowfall this winter than Medford did. Yeah, Florida. Yeah, Florida. Of course, up in the northern end of the state, Panhandle, north end of the state. But that's true.

There are locations in Florida who saw more snow this winter than Medford did. So definitely unusual patterns, but this is that ridging you were talking about setting up the high. The high pressure has been over the west coast for most of the winter. It just wasn't really good for setting up all those storms that we need, unfortunately. It's going to be a rough year for water. They just bounced them right over the top and away from us, or we get the atmospheric river events, and somehow they always seem to go to our north or to our south,

and we were left high and dry in the middle. It's interesting to look back at history of the area, and a listener a number of years ago, and I continue to bring this up, but it's worth reading, but it was a history of the railroad coming through, Southern Oregon. Mm-hmm. And they were talking about, you know, and at this point, you know, there was no real industrialization going on out there. And certainly nobody had any SUVs or anything else.

But overall, the story of the Rogue Valley climate as they were building the railroad through here was just like how miserably baked you were going to be at any time outside of winter. And there's a reason why they called us the agate desert. It was not considered like, oh, my gosh. In fact, if we didn't have irrigation water coming through here a lot of times of the year, you know, what would you be growing in a lot of the road valley? Seriously. Without any question. I mean, and just that name, it meant something.

It still means something. But people forget that because, and I'll take this back to even what my wife Linda was talking about, her years when she first came here in the early, I want to say early to late, eight, I think it was the early, the late 1980s is when she moved here. It was actually, I remember we talked about this before. It was definitely that mid to late 80s period because that was very La Nina dominated. Yeah, and it was very wet and very cool. And it just like rained for weeks at a time out in the Applegate, you know, those kind of things.

And that's fine. That worked really great and plants and trees loved it. But still, Southern Oregon, for the most part, and especially the Medford metro area, is really what, 18, 19 inches a year. That's it. It's not like Cape Junction. 18.41 inches average annual rainfall. You get to Grants Pass. That gets up to about 30.

You get out to O'Brien on the west end of the Illinois Valley, and it's 100 inches a year. Yeah, very different microclimates when you look all around here. And so what is rough is because, and you also had mentioned, the arrangement of our mountains makes it more difficult for us to scrape the moisture that does come. over us into snow in like the ski Ashland areas. You talked about that. It's that east-west ranging rather than north-south, right? You know, like I said, I understand why they wanted to put Mount Ashland, the ski area that is where they did. But in terms of snow, better locations that they could have put it, but it's what it is. And so they've had to deal with that ever since. And, you know, We didn't have much of a season this year for Mount Ashland, but at least there were days of operation.

And now I'm spacing what year it was. Wasn't too far in the distant past. They didn't get open at all. Well, at least we had some opening. But what I get concerned about, though, is naturally looking at agriculture, the water year, how it's going to look, how the lakes will look. Will there be getting a lot of a fillage? I don't know. Fillage is a word or not.

And what about fishing? How is that going to look for, you know, out on the lakes for us? That's the thing that, you know, what we just saw happen this winter. That's where it's really going to have its biggest impact. It's going to be on agriculture. It's going to be on recreation. It's going to be on fishing. Some of these smaller Stalower lakes that are well noted that in the summertime, the trout,

basically go, ugh, it's too hot. I'm not comfortable. I don't even want to move and fishing shuts off. So lakes like Howard Prairie, Hyatt, Willow, there's definitely going to be a shut off on trout fishing coming up this summer. The water temps will get too high. Oxygen content gets too low. The fish gets sluggish, the trout, that is. If there's warm water species in them and all three of the ones I just mentioned have warm water species in them,

Then if you're going to want to catch fish, you're switching to the warm water and forgetting about the trout in there. Lost Creek is a lot different. That's a very big, deep, cold lake. And even if the surface layers really warm up, you can still get down deep and you can still find trout. Then you have other lakes like Fish Lake, Lake of the woods, even Diamond Lake. There are underwater springs, meaning below the surface of the lake, still pumping up. up colder water, oxygenated water, and the trout will gather around those. Pardon, and when you get right over those spring areas, fishing's going to wind up being good, kind of the way our

summer looks to go, four-mile lake, which normally you can't get into until some years, July. Well, yeah, in fact, I'm sure right now you're able to get to four-mile. You know, I'm having the same problem this morning, by the way, Mr. Outdoors, and I think it's the allergies. It's the springtime allergies. I think it's just getting nailed by them. I think vegetation-wise kicked off. I want to say it was on full-on in the grip of it.

But I was going to say four-mile. Another deep, cold lake. Normally you can't get to it until July because of snow. But I'm betting if you've got a four-wheel drive with some clearance, you probably could get in there right now. That will be another lake that fishing will hold up well this summer just because of how deep it is. And you got that colder water in it. All right.

Talking the outdoors and weather and all sorts of things here, Greg Roberts at Rogueweather.com. Just got a couple calls here, Greg. See what they're wanting to know. Okay. Hi, good morning. You're on with Greg. Who's this? Yeah.

Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Greg. This is David and Phoenix. Yeah, David. Question. Yeah, Greg. Even if we had all the snow that we normally would get, with the dam removals, there are some groups that are still talking about some more dam removals.

How do you feel about the removals on the calamath? And even if we had the water, would we be able to affect things or we'd still be in a tough spot? To be in a tough spot on the Klamath. And, you know, I saw the confederated tribes of the Klamath put out, information yesterday. They have definitely seen the first salmon in the waters up there in, I don't even know how long, and they're cheering and celebrating that news. And I'm like, well, cheer and celebrate it while you can't. You can't remove dams and just expect to restore things to the 1800s. It's not that world anymore. There are a number of things, including things in the water, and on the

water. Once those fish reach the out populations feeding on them, you've got foreign fishing pressure, Chinese, Russians, Japanese, Koreans. Yeah, but to your point, will there be enough good, strong stream flow to help them out to the ocean, too? And then you get into what I was going to say, you know, we're at a period of time where the stream flows have been dramatically, dramatically, decreased by a number of factors, some of which is natural. We're definitely going to see that this year. And we went through a run of years that the only reason there are any salmon left in the Klamath is the dams. Because if they didn't have the dams where those water temperatures got to drain the oxygen content out of it, there would have been massive salmon die-off

without the dams, maybe to the point of complete eradication of the stock. And there was still big salmon die-offs, even with the dams, all of them still being in on the Klamathen helping. Now we don't have that anymore. And I'm still very pessimistic, you know. Well, I'm kind of curious if we'll get to the point where the tribes will end up saying, okay, now we don't really have any way to cool that river to the extent that we're used to be able to.

Right. And at some point, maybe the tribes that are saying, okay, great, you know, the river is free now. Now what? I guess is what I'm wondering if they will kind of think, hey, maybe we were taken for a ride by the enviro types. I don't know. Well, and then another guy I'm never going to forget who was trumpeting this and pushing for it, who has now faded into the woodwork, it seems, Jason Atkinson.

Jason Atkinson was a huge proponent of getting the dams out of the climate. Well, he was the deciding vote, if I recall, correct? Yeah, exactly. And he pushed and pushed and pushed for that. And Jason Atkinson's totally disappeared from view. But, you know, the damage that he helped create, well, okay, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. And they did.

Long term, no, I don't think the outcome is going to be anything what they think it is. Yeah. Doesn't feel that way. Like I said, it's a little too early to tell, but I would concur with you on that. Hi, KMEDE. You're with Mr. Outdoors. Who's this? Welcome.

Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Greg. This is Bob Shannon Medford. Yeah, Bob. My personal outdoor report, having resided in Oregon for 50 years and being over 65, I was able to get my senior fishing hunting license for $10. Yep. So it's worth waiting for. Question, I do like to fish up at Willow Lake. Do I need to take a noisemaker with me, or are the wolves hanging out around the lake itself or are they more further back?

Yeah, this is an interesting thing about Willow Lake and the wolves. Even though there's wolves apparently everywhere in the hills adjacent to it, I don't hear any reports of people seeing them at the lake at all. I have never had a report the wolves being at the lake. They may have been there. It's just I haven't had anybody report it to me. But if that was an ongoing presence there, I think I would have heard something about it or it certainly would have popped up on social media, but I've never seen it. So yeah, it's a bit of an oddity. Why that is, who knows?

I suspect what I said first about it probably has a lot to do with it. People just haven't reported it if they have been seen there. But yeah, I've kind of wondered that myself because there's certainly been reports of wolves seen at Diamond Lake especially, but I've also had a couple reports from up at Lake of the Woods and at Willow Lake. And the same too for Fish Lake. I haven't had any reports from people seeing them at Fish Lake or, you know, right around Fish Lake, like going in on the access road. So I just don't know if it's a case of they're not going there for whatever reason

or people just haven't reported them when they did see them there. All right. Hey, thanks so much for the call. Bob, I really appreciate that. Greg Roberts, once again, atrogweather.com. For fun this weekend, where would you be going at this point, huh? Oh, I'll tell you what, you know, because of the winter that we didn't have and because the water temperatures in the lakes are so much warmer than they would typically be, trout fishing is already going big guns down here at a time where normally you're kind of waiting for water temps to increase to get to really good, consistent fishing. We're already there.

and ODF and W ahead of spring break coming next week is definitely ramping up the stocking program. They're stocking all of the big major destination lakes here in Jackson, Josephine counties. They're also hitting the ponds because if kids can't get the family to drive them to something like Las Creek or, you know, fish lake or something like that, they're stocking the ponds out at the expo. They're stocking the ponds over in the sportsman's park in Grants Pass. They're trying to create as much local opportunity fishing within the towns as they possibly can. But, yeah, it's going to be a great week next week to get out and do some fishing. It will be definitely our more typical spring-like conditions, chances for showers,

temps back down in the 60s where they ought to be. So if you want to call it that weather that we've seen this week is, it further kicked up the temperatures of the water and definitely has increased the trout bite. So there's the good news. And yeah, I would definitely be looking to get out and do that fishing. And like I said, even the ponds locally, expo ponds in Central Point. Yeah, they're going to be good then.

The ponds in the sportsman's park and Grants Pass. All right, very good. Greg Roberts,rogweather.com. Rogueweather.com keep up on such matters. By the way, breaking news. This one just is, I can't say I'm surprised, but I'm sadden by this. And you've got to know this too. Chuck Norris just died.

We just got the news from that. Oh, wow. I'll tell you what. I saw all the news breaking yesterday that there'd been a medical emergency, and he was rushed to a hospital. and I'm like, oh, goodness, if this is Chuck, this has to be serious. Yeah, and 80. It's very sad news.

Yep, 86 years old. But boy, what a story, you know, between the martial arts, between the martial arts that he brought to it. The movies, I'm thinking about, the eyes of the Ranger are upon you. That always runs through my head. Walker, Texas Ranger. Yep, Walker, Texas Ranger. But 86 years old, but real American, real. America. Yeah, and Medford has a big connection to him. Chip Wright, right? Right, who was his

number one stuntman and one of his best friends, had Chip Wright's karate studio here in Medford, and Chuck would come to Medford frequently unannounced to come hang out with Chip, and he would go to the karate academy and just show up. And yeah, that was always something really special for the people, the kids involved in the program when he would make these special visits into Medford. So, yeah, Medford, we do have a bit more of a Chuck Norris tie than a lot of people would think because of Chip Wright. That's right. Good story. Hey, thanks so much, Greg. We appreciate talk next Friday. Once again, Chuck Morris just got the news. Chuck Norris, rather, passing away at the age of 86 had a medical emergency yesterday. Ready to upgrade your roof to a durable, sleek metal option?

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Catch up on what's going on. And then more of your calls here. We're going to actually do a Diner-62 Real American Quiz afternoon. We're going to take care of that first, all right? And I can't wait. I've been sitting on this Dund. or 62 quiz all this week. I'd just been so busy. It was not able to get to it.

So we'll have this coming up. If you have not won this in the last 60 days, you can win the next. 770 KM.E. 7705-633. Chuck Norris, I just mentioned dead at the age of 86, had a medical emergency family reports. He ended up passing away in the hospital last night. And what, I mean, what a legacy, what a legacy, what an image. You know, to me, it was just like, to me, Chuck Norris is like real Mr. America. I know he probably wouldn't look at it that way.

But what a man. Texas Ranger, great. I can't say he was a great actor, but I like the movies he was in. You know what I think? Not a great actor, but just there. You know, if you're really going to, we need to do dad jokes, but I think today it's going to be dad jokes, Chuck Norris, because nobody generated more what I would say are great dad jokes

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All right, here we go. Now, I've been holding on to this question all this week. I have not had a chance to get to this, David. So let's see if maybe you can become a winner on this one. It is, well, it was March 17th, 1601, that there was the very first St. Patrick's Day parade. The first recorded parade honoring the Catholic Feast of the Day of St. Patrick, patron state of Ireland, is held in the new world, not in Ireland. It didn't actually get held in Ireland. It was held here. Early Irish settlers to the 13th. Let me try this again. Early Irish settlers to the 13 colonies, many of whom were indentured servants, brought the Irish tradition to celebrating St. Patrick's Feast Day to America. Now, I guess my question knows, in what eventual state was the very first St. Patrick's Day parade held in. Was it A, Florida, was it B, New York, was it C, Massachusetts, D, New Jersey, was it E, Virginia? It's one of those five. The very first St. Patrick's Day

parade. There's five of them. Five choices. Which one? Forgive me for my ignorance, but I'm just going to say Massachusetts. You're going to say Massachusetts, that's what I said to the guy writing the question yesterday. And you know what? I lost. Okay. Oh, thanks. All right.

Thank you for the call. Let me go to... Hello, Wally. How you doing this morning? Welcome. I'm great, Bill. Thank you. All right.

So, Florida, New York, New Jersey, or Virginia, which of those five states, eventually, the first St. Patrick's Day parade held in? What do you say? Well, I see. I just got back from Florida. So I'm a good guest, Florida. You're going to guess Florida. Yeah.

That was the last state that I would have ever thought was going to be the St. Patrick's Day Parade. You know, I just thought, Wally, and you knew this, or did you just take a guess? Oh, just a great guess because we were just there. Okay, it's true. I thought Florida, hot stinky Florida back at that time, you know, that's going to be like where they, yes. The earliest St. Patrick's Day parade, March 17, 1601, the Spanish colonial settlement, which is now St. Augustine, Florida, under the direction of Ricardo Artur. And the more than a century later, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the English military

marched in Boston in 1737 and in New York City in March 1662. All right, hang on here, Wally. I'll get your information here just a minute, but I wanted to give you a little more information on this. I always thought it was interesting. St. Patrick, born in the late 4th century, one of the most successful Christian missionaries in history. and he was taken prisoner at the age of 16 by a group of Irish raiders who attacked his family estate. They took him back to Ireland.

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752. I know that today we're supposed to be getting the language for ballot measure 120. And that way Jackson County Clerk, Josephine County Clerk, can get the voter pamphlets printed and get the ballots and get that all set out and this and that and the other. I think the 23rd is the final deadline for statements. I don't normally get involved too much in the primary of things, but I couldn't help but notice some strange political bedfellows developing here in southern Oregon. And one race I was looking at, state representative Dwayne Yonker, who has attracted a, well, he's attracted a primary challenger. Now, I don't mind challengers, that's fine. But what I do find interesting is that state rep Kim Wallen endorsed the

challenger. And of course, that raises, you know, you can tell a lot about people. You can't always tell a lot, but you can tell a lot sometimes about, you know, interpreting the endorsement situation. And the one thing I'll say about Dwayne Yonker is that, gosh, darnit, the man's a fighter, You know, in a sea of squishes that tend to rise to the top of our Republican Party, Dwayne Yonker has been a fighter. May not like the style or whatever it is. Maybe sometimes he gets upset talking about things that all the other squishy Republicans don't really want you knowing about what's going on in Salem. But Dwayne does. And Dwayne fights for the district, in my opinion, at least after having talked to them for a number of years.

And I find it interesting that we have Jackson County Republicans getting involved in trying to get him out. And I think it's reasonable to ask why that would be, especially because State Representative Wallin, for all the other good things she may have done, endorsed Tobias Reed a Democrat for Secretary of State rather than Dennis Lentham, the conservative, who I think would have made a far better, far more. even tempered and rational secretary of state. That's all I'm going to say. I'm just kind of like wondering, why would you go there? I don't understand this, but I at least wanted to raise the issue when I see these kind of interesting endorsements coming on. I don't know.

First off, I've never had been able to understand from State Rep Wallen, because I remember when she made that endorsement, I wrote her, I reached out to her and is this true? I thought it was a fake story. I really did think it was a fake story. It's never made sense to me unless maybe it's just part of the normal deal making which goes on.

But you think about what state, what former Senator Lenthicum and state senator Kim Thatcher have been doing trying to dig into election integrity. Meanwhile, we have Tobias Reed endorsed by state rep Kim Wallen, who, of course, is resisting the Trump administration at every step.

We don't want the voter information going to the Trump administration because it's personal privacy issues. So that's magic super secret squirrel information. Really? About voter registration? So I just want you to be aware of some of these strange bedfellows that I'm seeing developing here in southern Oregon, And I have no idea why Republican Party members would want to see Dwayne out of office.

It does not make sense to me. Unless the goal is to not have many fighters left. Maybe that's as simple as that. If you're making noise, if you're not making it easy for squishies, then you've got to go. Maybe it's something as simple as that. But I at least wanted to make that observation. That's just my opinion, in my opinion only. 770 KMED. Let me talk with Deplorable Patrick. Hello, DP. Good to have you on.

Yeah, I agree with you. A lot of these Republicans are just there to hold office and have the prestige. But anyway, yeah, it is sad that we've had to say goodbye to Chuck Norris. I was there at the Academy when he did visit one time years ago. Oh, so you were at the Chip Wright, the Chip Wright studio? right? Yeah, before Chip Wright had it, Chip was the time was one of the lead instructors, but Bob Barrow had the academy, and Chip and Chuck Norris came to visit and say hi and to invite Bob Barrow to be in the movie with him. That's all true. And who said, I would have thought Chuck Norris would live forever. Look how healthy he was.

Well, he lived a good long life, no doubt about that. 86 is not a bad lifespan. for a typical American to these days, especially an American male, I should say. Okay? That's right. And that book that you were going over with Dr. Gilda, Carl, did you get the idea that it's a good read for girls and women, too? I don't know. I've not read the book myself. I just invited her on because she's been making a lot of noise with it.

I've not read that particular book yet. Not yet. No. I'm going to get it and try to help my grandson and my granddaughter, because there's a lot of. The women, you know, they're as young, my granddaughter's like 23 and single, and they can fall into the trap of the wrong kind of thinking, too. Well, the culture supports the culture supports the wrong kind of thinking is what it's all about, in which, you know, men are supposed to sit down and shut up. And, I mean, we've really had the pendulum swing the exact opposite direction. Now, of course, I and you, and, of course, many other people that I talk to, and, you know, we're not going to be told to shut up and sit.

down. But if we had grown up in this toxic over-feminized culture, maybe we would have turned more that way. So I'm not blaming the young man. It's kind of where they are, where they find themselves quite often. They need the correct leadership. And Dr. Carl was really good, I thought, and it's good when a woman will step out and like her and say, hey, we've been wrong or we've been told wrong. And so I went online and you can even get not just a book, but you can get T-shirt. Here's T-shirt says, white, straight Republican male. You're right on the front. Got to love it. Got to love it, Patrick. Appreciate the call. Thanks for the note on Chuck Norris, the late Chuck Norris. By the way, if you didn't hear that, Chuck Norris passed away

overnight at the age of 86. Hi, K.M.D., good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning. Holly Morton, Josephine County. Hi, Holly. You know, I just, I checked in with Kim Wallen. I said, hey, what's up with this? I mean, why do you do this? And, you know, she didn't answer back. But we need as voters to start getting people out of office who are not supporting the Republican platform and who are not basically not supporting the community. Dwayne Younger just got $3.5 million for our county.

They always say, oh, we never get to any money. That's why we can't keep him. He isn't a transactional politician. In other words, he's not going to make deals with the Kim Wallins and the other people of the world to try to get their deals passed if they want passed. He's going to do what he thinks is right, right up and down the line. And I have watched him carefully. He tends to be dead on correct on what needs to happen. And you know, the other thing about Duane is that he tends to have the right enemies, as far as I'm concerned.

You know what I mean? Well, and he just isn't afraid to say it. I mean, I go crazy with the – I've had so many different politicians, not doing, but people say, well, you know, we have to – you know, we have to try to go light on those issues. We don't want to say this and that. Once we get elected, we'll, you know, we'll do what we do. Well, I just don't trust that. Yeah, well, I guess I don't know. Are the Republican squishes – are the Republican squishes, and that's the term I'll use for it here, Holly.

are the Republicans squishes nothing more than going out there and coddling the LGBT agenda in the schools and you're not supposed to make any noise? Is that what it's all about? Is that what's all about? Well, I believe they do whatever they need to do

to get elected, but the fact of the matter is people need to listen to the leaders and the people who are going to lead our community to start. People in the legislature should say exactly what they think, get elected on exactly what they feel, and not try to bend the issues,

because that's when things get really crazy. Then they get in and they do do what they want. And then you have the tampons in the boys' room kind of votes, right? Exactly. And I hear them articulate. I mean, I talk to them all the time, and they say, well, you know, in order to get elected, we have to do this and that. No, just state what your actual opinion is, and then we'll elect the person who is most consistent with our belief system and also lead. If you think that kind of stuff is wrong, don't equivocate. Say, that's wrong.

It's a cultural war. We don't believe that's correct. We don't believe that that's good for our community. Put it out there like Duane always has. All right. Thank you, Holly. We'll catch you next Saturday at the Patriots Conference. Okay.

All right. Great. We'll see you that. All right, thank you. By the way, where do you get the tickets for that again? You can get the tickets from our office at 513 northeast 6th Street right across from the courthouse. You can get them at the door. If you call the office, you can get it online so you can just walk in the door. There are lots of ways of getting the tickets. All right. Thanks, Holly. 770KMedia. I'll grab one more call before news. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Hello? Hello? Hi. Hi, good morning, Bell. This is Josh from Grant's Pass. Hi, Josh. Morning. Hey, I just wanted to touch on this whole Dwayne Yonker Challenger situation, right? So I remember seeing something where I don't even remember the opponent's name now, but where, you know, they came out and said, oh, we're going to get stuff done

and insinuating Yonker hasn't. And that's because Yonker's not a dealmaker. He's not going to go show up and provide a vote on something. that's not right. You know, he's one of the few that stands up, walks out, doesn't show up, you know, when it's something that's bad for Oregon. You know, the other thing I can say about Younger, yeah, like you said, he's a fighter. We've only got a couple of them up there in the state legislature, right? You know, Ed Giles another one that's a fighter that stands up for Oregon. But it just shows you, it goes to your point, though, it goes to show. It goes to show

the spinelessness of your standard Lick-Spittal Republican, unfortunately, in the state legislature. A hundred percent. You know, the other thing about Yonker that I want to call out is he's a man of integrity and he cares about the people. I had an issue I was dealing with, and that's a whole other topic. But I reached out to Yonker's office and I asked if there was anything they could do to help. and I had actually, you know, requested a piece of legislation to help fix part of the issue. And you know what? Even though the piece of legislation was doomed to fail and it never made it to the floor,

Youngers still introduced it and got support for it from the couple of fighters that do exist, you know? And I thought that was really cool because he actually cares about the. the people and the community. And we need more people like Younger up in Salem. I appreciate the call. Thanks for making it. Like I said,

it was just my observation about this. And I don't know Dwayne's opponent. Dwayne's opponent hasn't reached out to me, okay? I'm willing to do this. I just can't help but notice when I start seeing interesting, interesting endorsements flowing, I'm kind of wondering why. why would a Jackson County Republican care about that particular race so much to get involved in this in the primary?

I don't know. Shaking my head over it. I'll still continue to shake my head.