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Episode Date: March 25, 2026

Dan Boyajian, of the SOUTHERN OREGON LIVESTOCK AUCTION juse got approved - big impact on local food. Later Gregory Wrightstone of the CO2 coalition - he is live at Rogue X Fri at 5, and the Patriots Conference Saturday - author of A CONVENIENT WARMING.

This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausurrilling.com. Dan Boyajian joins me this morning. You may know him as D&B Land and Livestock, doing business as Southern Oregon Livestock Option. Dan, welcome to the show. Good morning. Thanks for having me on, Bill.

Dan, you got your license. This story first came out a few weeks ago. in which you were looking at Southern Oregon and looking at the situation saying, hey, we need a livestock auction. There's been no way to do it here. You had to go up to Roseburg, if you wanted to do this before.

Isn't that right? Yeah, so actually since the last sale closed in this region, which Murphy's livestock had a small monthly auction in Cave Junction. And I think they operated from about 2012 to 2019, and there was a gap before then. And since that's closed, the closest regional livestock auction would either be Klamath Falls, livestock auction to our east or Eugene to our north.

So you were looking at a little bit of travel regardless. Yeah. And that adds to the cost, too. It's a very big deal. Especially today with what we're seeing on fuel prices. Every mile counts. Boy, I know out on the coast there's talking about $6-7 diesel right now, some places. Yep, and your farmers are feeling that.

I mean, you've got guys fertilizing today, and everything in the agricultural world anymore seems to roll on petroleum. So it's all tied together and costs. What drove you to come up with this livestock auction? Was it just because you yourself had cattle or livestock that you were just tired of taking it to, you know, to Douglas County or some other thing? What happened? So I've been in the livestock industry for, I would say,

my working life at this point. And both raising, selling livestock, buying and selling, so worked as basically a bonded livestock dealer. We have, you know, sold in about every avenue you could sell in and bought cattle and livestock, you know, from private parties, farmers, ranchers, auction barns, through order buyers. And, you know, it really just seemed like it was a service that was needed locally. We've seen more and more small farms and producers go away over the years, and there's more consolidation and less opportunity, both for transacting and marketing and for new young

producers or even older producers that are starting that have a little bit of land that want to get in to agricultural animal agriculture and, you know, add a few animals to their operation or start a homestead farm. Yeah, ultimately you're looking to then grow the Southern Oregon livestock and food supply, I guess, is what you're hoping to do over time. Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, we see it as an avenue for established commercial producers, but we also see it as as very vital for your small independent, your homestead operators, whether it's a place to market goods or it's a place for them to be able to acquire animals to begin their own food production, whether it's for their own family and friends or their local community or a small commercial

venture as well. What happens then to an animal that gets sold in your auction? By the way, is it once a month or how often are you doing it? I forgot to ask you. So we're planning for starting. We're planning monthly. We're planning the second Sunday of every month. Second Sunday.

Okay. Yeah. So we wanted to focus on the weekend as, you know, a lot of the folks I think that we'll do business with and they'll enjoy coming are going to be otherwise committed working during the week. And we were going for a one o'clock start time for livestock on Sunday. So to give folks, you know, they got family obligations, church, things like that in the morning. Hopefully they can still attend to that and still come see us in the afternoon. Do you have to sign up or do you just bring your animals and off to the market we go? say that again as far as a sign.

Oh, okay. You know, do you have to sign up, let's say. Oh, sorry. Sorry, I didn't get to that. Yeah, or do you just bring your animals and say, hey, I got a bunch of animals. And I'm ignorant of how this process works, all right? That's why I'm asking, Dan. Yeah, absolutely, Bill.

So we can accommodate pretty much anything. We call that like a drive-in, right? Like, you got a couple of cows and you say, you know what? I'm going to sell these today. load them in your trailer, you show up, we'll be able to assist you, you will get them unloaded, brand inspected, tagged, you know, consigned, the whole process. We are advocating that people reach out ahead of time.

The more we know, the more we can market. So if you have something coming to us and we know ahead of time, we can get that word out to that potential pool of buyers, and that's going to help everyone. But absolutely, last-minute business drive-ins. you don't have to be signed up ahead of time. Just the more we know, the more we can help look out for you. Dan Boyagin with me this morning.

Is it actually going to be called Southern Oregon Livestock Option? Or auction, rather. What's the name of the business? Yeah, so that is the business name. The DBA is Southern Oregon Livestock Auction. Okay. We wanted livestock auction in the name to be clear. And Southern Oregon, obviously, to kind of differentiate the region that we are in and home

to us. and we are looking to serve. And where will the auction actually be taking place at your ranch or your facility? Yeah. Yeah. So physical location will be in Williams, Oregon. 734B is in Bravo, Powell Creek Road, Williams, Oregon. Good.

And that is on a small ranch we own there. And very well set up for it. We've been able to retrofit a lot of existing infrastructure. that was there as it was previously a dairy farm. Was it a tough jump or a tough lift to get the license? I sometimes wonder how the regulatory state treats people trying to do this. You know, so we have to work with two sides. We deal with the federal government, which would be the USDA,

United States Department of Agriculture, and an umbrella under them would be P&S, the Packard and Stock. yards division, which regulates basically commission firms, auctions, butchering places, things of that nature. They were phenomenal to work with in the sense of they handle so much of this that they have a very expedited process. And we have an existing relationship with them through our brokerage for livestock that we've done prior.

I was very impressed with how easy it was to understand the process. There's still a lot of regulation to comply with. The second part is the Oregon Department of Agriculture. They're actually the ones that are issuing the state license for the auction. They were also phenomenal to work with. The interesting thing is it's been so long since anyone has applied for a license in the state of Oregon for an auction. What I collected was there was really no one in the departments I was working with that was employed there or working last time it happened. So there was a lot of due diligence involved.

Well, there's no institutional memory left in the ODA from the sounds of it, right? You know, it sounds like it. And the other thing that we were, or they, the state contends with, is the ORS's, the Oregon statutes, and the Oregon Department. of Ag rules that guide all of this for auction markets. I believe it was 1978 was the last time that they were updated or amended. So there's a lot of reference to some older protocols, and when things have to be cross-referenced, they then have to be cross-reference to ORS as a rules that are carcaning to something else from almost 50 years ago. So, That process was just a little bit more time-consuming to navigate, but I'm really happy with where we got with it.

And everybody we worked with really brought a lot of knowledge and everything that they had from their limited experience with this exact process to the table to get it done. Dan Boyangian with me, Dan, what about, you know, you brought up the USDA. And I've heard from other providers or suppliers that there's been such a need for a truly permanent USDA certified slaughterhouse. And I'm wondering if you having the auction here might be able to spur that, that creation. I know that there's a mobile USDA lab that, or not lab, but, you know, slaughterhouse that could come and do this. I'm just kind of wondering what you see as the ultimate goal out of this. Yeah, so actually, and I don't know if you're familiar with it or not, but Montgomery's Meets in Central Point, they have a cut and wrap butchering facility for folks prior years ago. It was Jerry's Custom Meets. Montgomery's runs that, and they had partnered with Rusty Gate Farm out there outside of Central Point. I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with them. They've been involved in a lot of

different things agriculturally here. And they actually did start a USDA inspected harvest facility there. So that, don't quote me on the time frame, but I think they've been going for over a year now. And they have a physical location that those animals go to. So is that enough then, or what Montgomery does, what they do? Because I write about that too. And I'm sorry, I don't know a whole lot about that. In fact, I probably will talk with them at some point, too. I will tell you what, you should reach out to them. I'll share a contact with you. They're great folks.

They're doing a good job there. And they would really be able to speak better to, you know, what the market demand is. But I know they're doing a lot of work through there. And I know that they are, you know, expanding the services and the offer, you know, the offering to customers there. So I think in a way that we are looking to start filling a niche here for having a market environment is very much what they've done on the other hand there with the USDA processing. You know, they've got that ball rolling and they've got something in place. And then, you know, I think we're both looking in our respective operations to have that opportunity to, you know, expand it and meet customer demand where we find it. Ultimately, though, you're hoping to grow more meat production, more livestock production here in southern Oregon.

And it's been kind of, is it been dying on the vine, even though it's not a vine. I know, maybe it's the wrong term of bringing up here. I think that's correct. I think for many of us and even an older generation that has been here, you know, for decades, we don't see the small farms and the animal agriculture that we did at one point. But I do feel that we have a small resurgence in that. And our intention and goal is to help support that because, you know, we could go so many directions with that. But, I mean, we could talk anything from, you know, food security, the economies of it, wildfire mitigation, fuel reduction.

You know, the benefits to the community of having hooves on the ground and people caring for those animals in the land are numerous. Dan Boyal-Ijin. It is Southern Oregon Livestock Auction website. Any other information people can go? Find out more. Yeah, so we got our website, Southern Oregon Livestock auction.com. You can find us on there. Lots of information. contact page, our email is S-O-Livstock Auction at gmail.com. We're on social media. My cell phone is on probably all those pages, so I'm easy enough to find. And I would just encourage people if they have any questions or want more information, just to read out in whatever form they prefer to communicate, and we'll look forward to

visiting with them. Dan, I appreciate the talk. Thanks for sharing some of this, and all the best. think this is great news for Southern Oregon food production. I'm good with this. Okay. Be well. Thanks, Bill. Dan Boyajun. It is 826, KMED, 993, KBXG. Hi, it's Megan McPherson with the McPherson Insurance Agency.

We are now a 100% independent insurance agency, new name, same great service, with more companies to better... Tripcheck.com for the latest conditions. A message from Modoc. This is News Talk 1063, KMED. And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. I don't think you have to worry about the snow this time. I think I'll talk to ODOT and get that ESA replaced. It's 829 Thomas here.

Hey, Tom, how you doing this morning? Welcome. Oh, doing fine, Bill. There's quite an article on the guest opinion page of our local communist rag called the Rogue Valley Times. And there's an article regarding the environmental rights, amendment. And I think it would be really good. It's somehow, some way you could talk with some of the people on that because the way I see it right now is that they could use that as an excuse to

literally sue any business in operation. They could sue Dutch brothers for their paper cup. Because we have a right to a clean environment, right? As soon as you empower government with that, then anything could, well, of course, you know, you could just, why don't you? Sue, the Providence Burthing Center, too, for that matter, because you're adding to carbon, to carbon production, right? That's right. Yeah, all those little babies coming out and so forth, and, yeah, little carbon production units and so forth. It's kind of one of the things that say they want people to come together for their talk so they can share the stories about how climate change is going to be,

is impacting their health and well-being and so forth. And what this amendment seems to do is throw the gates wide open for slap junk lawsuits. Yeah, I would agree with you wholeheartedly. I'll take a look at that editorial and see if I can reach out of the people and pick their brain or what's left of their brain to see what's going on there. Okay. Yeah, I want to find out whether this is just going to open the floodgates to all these, as it say, junk lawsuits.

And you talk about driving businesses out of Oregon. This would pretty much be the, you know, the silver. dagger through the heart of Oregon business. Point well taken. And thank you for the suggestion, Tom. I'll take a look at it. Hadn't read that editorial yet, right? Wild Salmon, Steve, is here. Wild Salmon. Go ahead. Morning. Hey, yeah, that was an interesting article, a deal you had on the guy that's starting the auction because we did that for 14 years.

We started out with a piece of land that was basically dry land. And I built a pasture using the Oregon Extension Agency as to how to do it, put up fencing. My wife was the cattle buyer. She'd go to the auction, and we'd buy from two to five head depending on the price and how the year was going. I only had about an acre and a half a pasture, but I'll tell you what, we made great beef. We had no problem selling it. I don't know that we made any money doing it. I enjoyed the cattle.

They're interesting critters. I raised a garden. I faddened him on cornstocks. The guy that butchered him gave me a lot of hints about things to do. And, you know, we kept our property under the – I forget what the deal was, but it's – Yeah, you can't get too big, right? Can't get too big. But a point being, though, is that I think this is a positive development because anything

that could then make it easier to produce local beef or local sheep, local, local, local anything for that matter. What could go wrong with something like that? What's wrong with having that ability is what I would say? And having the market to be able to auction the livestock is very important. It saves fuel and time. Yes, it is. And my wife was the cattle buyer.

She, you know, I was working. I worked at a mill, and she would go buy the cattle, and it worked out wonderfully. She enjoyed that. And, you know, I had a friend, an older fellow at the time who was in his 70s, who gave me hints about raising cattle, because he had a hobby farm, too. He had a milk cow, and, you know, he'd raised beef before. But that reminds me here, Steve. And I'm sorry, chase you off.

I got Gregory Ritestone's going to stand by here. a couple of minutes. He's coming to town. I want to make sure and get him on before the show's over. Sure. But, you know, keeping that knowledge alive, that knowledge that was imparted to you, back when you were doing this, I get concerned that you get to the point where nobody knows how to do anything productive anymore, and especially when it comes to food, that, well, the only thing we can do is just go to Safeway, you know, to get our steak. Anything that could add an additional source is a good thing. And I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experience with that. Okay. We'll catch up on the rest of the news here in just a moment. Gregory Wrightstone coming to

Southern Oregon. Friday night's going to be over at Rogue X. Saturday night, Saturday, rather, he's going to be at the Southern Oregon Patriots Conference in Roe in Grant's Pass, rather, pardon me, Grant's Pass of where that's going to be going on where I'll be speaking. I'll be speaking there at 915 Saturday morning. I get to kick it off looking forward to it. Good talking more and we'll find out what he's kicking around with next. Stephen Westfall roofing is growing. Oregon Thrives. The Bill Myers Show is on.

News Talk 1063, KMED. Gregory Ritesone, it's a geologist, executive director of the CO2 coalition in Virginia. He's coming out to town here. In fact, he'll be speaking Friday, 5 o'clock over at Rogue X in Medford. Saturday, I think shortly after I give my talk on Saturday at the Patriots Conference in Grants Pass. And, of course, gosh, Greg talks about the climate change malarkey all the time. Greg, welcome back, as always.

Good to have you on. Oh, really good to be back with him. Looking forward to hopefully this TSA mess will allow me to get out to Oregon and back in good time. Boy, I'm hoping so, too. Now, I doubt you'll have any problems with TSA in the Medford airport. I'm told that wait times are normal. Everything is pretty much going okay. Are you...

Oh, come on now, Bill. You just jinxed me. But I'm sure it'll be fine. Now, are you connecting through Portland or are you going directly? Denver. Oh, Denver. Oh, okay. Yeah.

All right. Well, at that point, though, you will already be there because, yeah, but you're going to be connecting in Virginia or Florida. Are you in Florida right now? I'm in Florida. Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay. All right.

Excuse me. The free state of Florida. You have to say it correctly. There we go. All right. I imagine you'll be talking a lot about a very convenient warming. Your latest book, How Modest Warming and More CO2 Actually Benefiting Humanity. And do you ever have to deal with screaming nasty hordes when you go on and give presentations? I'm kind of wondering how the world reacts to this because there is such a religious zeal that the planet is dying because of CO2 more than 400 parts per million? Well, I don't get that.

You don't. I've been fortunate. Now I just jinxed myself. They'll probably be screaming at me in Medford. But no, I don't get, I've not seen anything. Now, six years ago, we had Antifa. I was speaking in St. Louis. And we had five Antifa protesters that came in with bullhorns.

And I went right, they came right into my chest, pointing a finger in my chest. You know what that does to you. I just walked straight into them. back the guy up. I didn't back down. And the police were right there. But no, it's because I'm a rational person. I provide rational, clear-headed information that's easy to digest, just like I have in my books. And that's the, that'll be the themes that I'll be talking about Friday and Saturday is how, by almost every metric we look at, Bill, we see that our ecosystems are thriving and prospering and humanity is benefiting from the combination of warming, we're in a warming trend,

the combination of warming and more CO2. And the greatest benefit we see from that is a huge increase in agricultural productivity. It's just productivity is outpacing population growth. And again, that's fueled by the warming temperatures mean we have longer growing seasons. We've seen an increase in growing season in the continental United States of nearly two weeks since 1900. Now, we have had, I think you're pretty aware that Southern Oregon has had, and actually the West Coast. The West Coast in general has had a relatively warm, pretty dry, and minimal snow winter. And I would imagine people are coming up to you and saying that this is evidence, though, that CO2 is killing us.

Or do they not use wet that? And I, yeah, well, people are confusing weather with climate. And I'll be showing, actually, my talks, I'll be showing actual Oregon temperatures. We've gone to the United States historic climate network data. And I look, I'm looking at a chart right now of Oregon's percentage of days with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. And it's flat. This goes back to 1895 is when it starts. We have a whole 120-plus years of data, and it's basically flat.

The percentage of days over 100 degrees in Oregon is – and we see, too, Oregon precipitation actually has increased a little bit. Again, this data goes back to 1895. There's been a slight increase in precipitation. And again, that's good. That's very good. And you do get droughts periodically and dry spells. Oh, yeah.

And we definitely have one. That happens. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. But I would imagine what happens, though, is that the people who disagree with you use any kind of anomaly like what we had this winter as, uh-huh, see? I guess that's what goes on. Maybe not. Yeah. Yeah, and I saw on Monday, just today's Wednesday, Monday, I was starting to recap my presentation.

And there was a story about how the Western United States is experiencing heat wave, not seen in over 4,000 years. We've never seen anything like it. Well, I took a look. The whole, the red area that was in this heat wave included Medford, Oregon. And I said, really? I went to the, of course, acuether forecast. I said, I'm going to Medford. If it's in this heat wave, I better be careful.

And of course, as you know, the Medford temperatures over the next five days, high of 72, low of 33. I would hardly call that a heat. Now, granted, the heat wave does is pretty bad in other parts of the West, but that's what they do is they, they wave their hands and provide a broad brush. They're providing misinformation to people's what they're doing. And because we just don't see increases in maximum temperatures very significant at all over 120 plus years in Oregon. Gregory Ristone here once again from the CO2 Coalition, speaking Friday, 5 o'clock at Rogue X in Medford, and then Saturday morning at Southern Oregon Patriots Conference. That's going to be in Grants Pass, and I'll be speaking there too.

I think before you, I'll be kicking things off. I won't be talking climate. I'm going to be talking about the media climate because that's more my thing. You'll be talking about the climate climate and the real thing. And giving some people some great information to take away from this, too. Will you also be bringing copies of a convenient warning, a very convenient warning? A warming, rather. Yes. Okay.

Friday night we'll have books available for purchase. And then for the Saturday GOP meeting, I've shipped, they're going to be giving away 100 of my books for the first 100 people to attend. Oh, that's very cool. It's a very convenient warming. We'll also have some of our materials there that should be helpful, including climate, change and health. And that was one of the, this, we filed a comment concerning the EPA, Lee Zeldon's repeal of what was called the endangerment finding. And we filed two official comments. In fact, just Friday, we filed an intervention. We intervened in the appeal of the EPA

repeal of the endangerment finding. I think Oregon joined that long. sued along with a lot of other West Coast hive mine states, right? They all suing over that. Well, not in this one. There was, because what happened was EPA repealed it. They said, we're going to repeal the endangerment finding, which found that CO2 is a pollutant and they can regulate it. And then a group of environmentalists challenged that. And they appealed this ruling by the EPA. And now we've intervened against the environmental people saying no, no, no. Oh, okay.

So you're intervening or intervening with their interference is what you're doing. Exactly. That's right. All right. And so what's going to happen next? This will go, this will, it's in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. And so they'll look at it. And they will probably rule in favor of the environmental companies or the groups.

and then the next step would be to the Supreme Court after that. And we're in it for the long haul. It's not cheap, but it's something we have to do. I'm glad. I'm glad you're coming here, too. Looking forward to catching you. I'm going to be working on my materials for Saturday on Friday, so I can't see a Friday, but certainly people can see Gregory Ritestone at that event.

And I've got an important announcement here, too, if we have time. Sure, go ahead. There's going to be newsmax this Sunday. nine o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific time, the documentary Uncettled will air on Newsmax. So please go look at it. I was one of the featured people as were our chairman, Dr. William Happer. We're featured. And also, it'll be the debut of our, we have two really good 60 second ads that will be debuting during the documentary. So it's documentary, 6 p.m. Pacific. on Newsmax on Sunday. You want to tune in for that place. Very well. And if you can't tune in, put it on your DVR, something like that. I'll put that information up here too. Greg, looking forward to seeing you again. It's always wonderful seeing you here in Southern Oregon

and such a resource. And once again, author of a very convenient warming, how modest warming and more CO2 are benefiting humanity, talking Friday at Rogue X, 5 o'clock, and Saturday at the Southern Oregon Patriots Conference. seen you there. Thanks so much, Greg. Always a good talk. Thank you very much. All right. Catch you then. It is 848 at KMED and 993 KBXG. Now then, coming up here in just a few minutes, we've had so much going on this morning. Let's have a pallet cleanser, okay? The Diner 62 Real American Quiz. You know, we're talking like real beef, real food, things like that. Oh man, I've got to tell you. Diner 62 Real American Quiz, we have got a great question from

some history earlier this week, and it involves us here in the Northwest. Now, if you haven't won this in 60 days, you could play it next. 770-633. Good luck. Do you take safe drinking water for granted? If you have a well for your water, no one's monitoring what's in. Okay, where, oh, here we go. It's like, where's my diner 62 real American quiz? Where's my kaboom?

Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Here we go. Diner 62, Real American Quiz. And I have to tell you, the salads at Diner 62, they brought me a taco salad. It was just like, you know, in heaven, I want a little cubicle in which Diner 62's Real American Taco Salad gets delivered. Just delicious. Try it if you haven't done that.

All your hearty breakfast favorites, omelets, skillets, waffles, biscuits, and gravy, they got it all. They go to the phones. Hi. Morning. Who's this? This is David. Good morning.

You got me with the taco salad thing. Oh, man, I have to tell you, they were so good, David. They really were. I'm excited. All right. Well, we're talking about Monday in history of this week, David. It was March 23rd, 1826. Lewis and Clark left Fort Clatship.

Okay. After passing a wet and tedious winter near the Pacific coast, Lewis and Clark leave behind Fort Classip ahead east. The Corps of Discovery arrives at the Pacific the previous November, having made a difficult crossing over the rugged, Rockies, their winter stay on the south side of the Columbia dubbed Fort Clatsip in honor of the local native tribe there, plagued by rainy weather and not a lot of fresh meat, unfortunately. No one in the core of discovery regretted leaving Fort Clatsit behind. However, a head loomed

the high rugged slopes of the Rockies that had proved so difficult to cross in the other direction. This time, though, Lewis and Clark had the advantage of knowing the route they would take. How long did it take for Lewis and Clark to make it back to St. Louis? Was it A, five months, B, six months, C, seven months, D, eight months, or E, nine months. One way or the other, it was a real commitment to go traveling in those days. What do you say? What was the second choice? Second choice was six months.

I'm torn. Okay, five, six, seven, eight or nine. Just pick a number. I'm going to go with six. You're going to go with six. I'm sorry, it wasn't that. So Dower, David, he's going to be upset now. He's not getting fed.

We'll get you back in there, though. Hi, K.M.D., who's this? Morning. Hello. Is it me? It is you? Oh, it's Lauren. Lauren.

With a horse first. Go ahead. Good for you. Okay, five months, seven months, eight months, nine months. How long did it take for Lewis and Clark to make it back to St. Louis? Let's go with eight months. Was it eight months? Survey said no.

Oh, I know. We were pulling for you. Hi, good morning. Hello. One, two. Going once, going twice. Hello? Hi.

What's your name? Jesse. Jesse. Five months, eight months, nine months. How long did it take for Lewis and Clark to get back? Let's go with five months. Five months. No.

More than that, Jesse. Sorry. Let me go to the next one. Hi. KMED. Good morning. Okay, got to listen to the phone, folks, not the radio. Hi, KMED, good morning.

Good morning, Bill, this is Jerry. Jerry, eight months or nine months? How long to get back to St. Louis? Let's go nine months. Nine months. No, right down at the end. Can you say eight months, caller? Welcome.

Eight months? Was it eight months? Yes. Yes, it was. Back in the days before the departure, Lewis recognized the possibility that some disaster might still prevent them from making them. it back east, he prudently left a list of the names of all the expeditions, men with Chief Cowboy of the Klazip. Lewis asked the chief to give the list to the crew of the next

trading vessel so the world would learn that the expedition did reach the Pacific, and they made a parting gift, a Fort Klatsip and its furniture to the chief. So they gave the chief the furniture in the fort, so it's pretty good. I love that. Love that story. So off the Diner 62 with you. Hold on. Hang on. make that happen. It is 854 and change at KMED. Solar and Stone, owner of Stone heating and air, and I'm on 106.3, KMED. Some emails of the day, then I'll try to squeeze a call or two in. Emails of the day, sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson, Central Point, Family Dentistry,

Central Point, Family Dentistry.com. And I'm going to give an email to an anonymous person, doesn't want me using their name. We were talking about the junk fees in Asante the other day, Bill. You're on-air discussion of the junk fees. You know, like the facility charges, reminded me of a recent Asante bill my family got that had a similar, unexplainable large fee. Back in November last year, it took my 12-year-old to urgent care in Grants Pass because we thought he had strep throat. We had the rapid test done as well as the lab test that takes a day or two.

Thankfully, he didn't have strep, but the bill shocked us. See below for a screenshot. And yep, there is the treatment room, the treatment room for $750. added to the bill. All right. So see that treatment room charge for $750 and $60. We were only in a small room in urgent care for 20 to 30 minutes and charged $750. So they are essentially renting out their tiny urgent care rooms for about $1,500 per hour.

Argue. Yeah, my wife and I agree that the family will be going to one of the other two immediate care facilities in the future. Yeah, that doesn't look good, does it? All right. There was another one I wanted to make sure and say, gosh, what was it? Oh, it was from Janet. Here it is. Yeah, Janet wrote me and just cracked me up. Bill, I was in Ashland the other day, and I saw in Ashland on an elder. Cremation will be my last hope to have a smoking hot body. That made me just laugh. I just made me laugh out loud. Randy from Ashland writes, Bill, what's the big deal with having ice at airports? Ice stands where U.S. immigrants. and customs enforcement. Hey, no problem with me. Winnie writes, Bill, thanks for the great music down memory lane yesterday.

I grew up in the central coast of Kami Kali and was able to see the strawberry alarm clock at the Rose Garden in Pizmo Beach. At another time in Santa Maria at the Elks Rodeo. My first concert was in Santa Barbara to see the doors. Jim Morrison in person. Cool. What a great story, Winnie. Saw Janus and Cal Poly. What a wonderful time to grow up.

Man, great story. I kind of like those throwback bumpers every now and then. I'll just do that for fun, Winnie. Thanks for the call. Hi, KMEDE. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Deplorable, Patrick. Welcome to you, Bill. And good morning. There's too much to talk about. I met the doors. But what I wanted to talk about is I'm the one who, in fact, my mother was a Lewis. And so they were back. there in Alabama and the family was getting together writing up family history, and they wrote it up

and we were related descendants of Meriwether Lewis. No kidding. Well, there was a certain amount of kidding because I, later, after years and years of going around being so prideful, I started looking into Maryweather Lewis. He never had any kids. Let's talk about me. Oh, okay. Let's talk about that tomorrow on Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Okay, I got to go now, but we'll talk more. But thanks for sharing. Oh, no. Oh, man. This is KMED and KMED HD HD-G-G grants pass. It's 9 o'clock.

It's high time to end it on Lisa Brady. Fox News. That message from the head of the U.N., urging the U.S. and Israel to stop attacking Iran and for Iran to stop attacking.