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Episode Date: March 27, 2026

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This hour of the Bill Meyer 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. Now more with Bill Meyer. It's up and phones on Find Your Phone Friday. Always interesting. And I like to hear a lot of different perspective. I'm a man on the right, but willing to listen to anyone.

So just have a good point. And I would definitely say that state rep Dwayne Younger is a man of the right. Hello, Dwayne. Welcome. What's on your mind today? What's your what you got doing this weekend, huh? What's going on? We have a couple events going on, Representative Scarlados, and Representative Dill that's running for governor.

We'll be speaking at two events. We have the Patriots Conference around New. We'll be speaking. And then we're heading over to Metford, over to Inville Winery. From 2 to 530, off of Vore's Road, we're going to be holding that thing there for Representative

Dill there. We hope a lot of people come out and ask questions, meet Representative Dill and, you know, I honestly think, I think Ed's, I think, you know, Representative Deal is a good guy. I tell you, it's, it is a high lift. I mean, it's a big deal to run for governor, isn't it? It's just a real struggle here, I know. And you got to raise money, don't you?

Big lots of. You have to raise money. You have to raise money. You're traveling around the state. You know, you usually have some people coming with you that are, you know, pay for hotel lodging. You have to get the word out, run ads. It's a lot to get people to see who you are. You're not just working for a district. Now you're working for the whole state. And obviously, I'm glad to represent deals coming down and not just going to an old folks home.

That was a dig. Well, yeah, you know, I was surprised about that because I thought for sure that the Dresen campaign would have reached out. I would have been happy to talk with Christy. I'll talk with anybody they want to. You know, you just have to just call up and say, hey, can we come on? Yeah, I guess he wasn't looking for many, for a lot of critical questioning. Would that be fair? I think it's what was going on with that one.

That would be my question, you know, yeah, what you should be, if you're running for the governor, you know, I'm not running for the governor, but you want the people to get out, you know, especially right now you're running as a Republican. You need the Republican in the primary and let the, there's only three top candidates right now. I mean, just to be honest, there's, you know, there's Dudley-Drazen and that deal. and let's let the people actually meet them and ask questions and not just take photo ops. So what time is that Edenville winery thing again after the Patriots conference at noon? Two to five 30.

All right. Excellent time to drop by there. And I guess you'll have some pooh-pos and other things like that, right? It's usually how they work that stuff. Yeah, but we're not buying alcohol for you. Yeah, I know. Liability. I've had to watch that kind of stuff too.

All right. Hey, thanks, Dwayne. We'll catch you tomorrow. And you'll be well. Thanks again. Okay, thank you, Bill. Bye-bye. Okay, so remember a state rep Ed Deal running for governor.

It's going to be here. Okay. Let me go to... Hello, Bob. Bob Shan. How are you, Bob? What's on your mind? I'm doing well, Bill.

Thank you for your show. You know, the Middle East has been in turmoil since before Christ was a corporal. You talk about World War II, but actually the Turks are still bent out of shape post-World War I when the Ottoman Empire kind of got parceled out. You got the Syrians before that. You got the Mongols before that. You know, you got the Minoans and everybody else fighting for, you know, resources, territory, or whatever. And I get that.

I guess my point when I was talking about earlier, our long involvement there is that I think most people think that somehow we were just sort of like bystanders to everything that's going on. We've been deep in the thick of it for a long time, too. It's like you have to, you know, expect on the given tape. And this particular time in history isn't going to be the end of striper. turmoil in the Middle East. It's just going to go on. It'll be somewhere else, something else, something else, another regime, another leadership, you know, it will continue.

So, you know, as long as we live, there'll be something going on over there. All right. Anything else you wanted to add to it? Keep in mind. No, just enjoy your show and enjoy the weekend. All right. Thank you for the call. Bob.

Let me go to Ron. Ron, you wanted to talk about the Iran situation, too. Go ahead. Oh, yeah. Bill. Yeah, about the no-king's, trying to talk to them and convince them is kind of an impossible task, but what I find equally as a task is trying to convince a MAGA or a Trumper that they're all part of the same team, that you're being bamboozled. That's interesting, Ron. What happens? So how do you feel that MAGA is being bamboozled?

What do you think? Well, the powers that be new when they installed Obama, that there would be another populist movement. Basically, Tea Party, re-invited, or reinvigorated. And the Tea Party, of course, got subsumed or consumed into the greater or lesser, I would say, Republican Party is what happened, if I recall my history. Yeah, and they tried to revitalize it as a MAGA group, which actually is really make America first again, not great again. But they knew this movement was coming, so they put Trump in to

co-opt it, not to destroy it, but to co-opt it. And he's done a real slick job. Like I said, if you really want to have an argument, try to convince somebody like Greg Roberts that we have to go into Iran because Iran blew up the world change. Okay. That is a pun. No, no, I get it. No, I get it. Well, I remember we were being told it was Saddam Hussein at that time, right?

That was the reason we had to go into Iraq. And a lot of people ended up thinking that it was Saddam Hussein that had somebody to do with that. Isn't that right? Yeah. Well, that and the guy that lives in a case. Well, yeah, Osama bin Laden. But remember, the reason that the United States, goes to war. It's a famous quote. I don't know who made it, but it always makes me chuckle.

The reason why we have to stay going to war is that that's how Americans learn geography. We learn all the different countries of this way, but where we have to go. Hey, Ron, I appreciate the call. It's a thought-provoking perspective, all right? David's in the Bay Area. David, welcome. What's on your mind today, huh? Oh, thanks, Bill. Yeah, I was interested in your interview you did earlier with the weatherman. But as you're talking about the No Kings thing, you know, with gas price is going crazy, it's a smart idea. You know, I'm down in San Francisco. We get 100,000 people real easy for that.

People drive all over the country. Oh, yeah. Come to San Francisco. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if you've got to protest, it's better to protest in a pretty city, right? They're going to think. Well, you save your gasoline and find out who your friends are in town. You know, interact with your neighbor.

when you're saying no kings. And in fact, if you're spending money on gas, you're just making this oil war worse. So there's a lot of reasons to do a local no kings and then post it online, you know, show your great signs, you know, up on the social media. You know, what is the real effective approach at forming a political power coalition by it, though? That's what I'm trying to figure out here, David. Maybe you can help me on you being a man of the left from the sounds of it. And because...

Well, actually, I consider myself a 1776 conservative. Oh, okay. Okay, classical liberal then. You kind of look at yourself that way. Well, you know, no kings. I mean, that's... The conservative was the king, right? Okay.

And, you know, we don't need no stinking kings around. Oh, I completely understand. And, of course, you know, the funny thing is that the president was almost created to be a king. They even asked George Washington to be, you know, could you just have it be your excellency? They would even refer to him as your excellency because we were so used to that. I guess the point being is that President Trump, if we supposedly have a king, you say no kings, but where is the king? Because I don't see people being rounded up and thrown in the dungeons for protesting the president. In fact, I consider it Elfie that we feel. comfortable enough to go out and protest a king that we don't have, I guess.

Where am I wrong with that? Well, at this moment, he's not arresting anybody. Actually, he is. You know, if you look at what's going on in Minnesota, just keep up with the Minnesota news. He still has not released, you know, when the good woman got killed, that car should go to the police department as evidence, right? It's still in the hands vice, right? They still have not released the names of the killer.

I know that Minnesota law enforcement is actually suing the Trump administration to get that information. I read that this morning. The longer they wait, every cop that's listening knows, the longer they wait, the more the evidence gets spoiled. So, you know, the Trump is making sure that ICE, you know, this TSA thing is directly tied to this. The Congress has refused to fund a homeland security until they get that evidence out of them. And TSA is just caught up in the middle of it. Well, they did ask for more than just that evidence. But all right, hey, I appreciate this.

Hey, what last thing? Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Talk about the weather. Yeah, the weather thing, I wanted to ask, and you could ask him next time you ask, you know, have him on. There's, you know, the polar vortex is like this massive tornado. It's above the North Pole. And it's been spinning for centuries and eons and maybe a million years.

It's kind of like the fan that runs the air conditioning of the world, right? And it has collapsed in the last month or so. This big frost that happened like late December or early January was directly related to the collapse of the polar vortex. And I think your interview brought up that the, National Weather Service got cut by Doge. And so we're flying blind here. And so what is your weathermen have to say about, you know, getting some honest information about this collapsed polar vortex?

I will ask them. Okay? Yeah. All right, David. Thanks for the call. 770KMED. If you are on hold, be happy to get your call in perspective. 7705633. Join in.

This is the Bill Meyer Show. If you're remodeling your house, start with the foundation. Here right now at web root.com slash Kim, webroot.com slash Kim. Go now while you're thinking about it. Webroot.com slash Kim. It's the Bill Meyer Show on KMED, Southern Oregon's place to talk. State 24, some breaking news out of Epic Times this morning, a bipartisan House Ethics Committee found that Representative Sheila McCormick, condemned from Florida, 25 ethics violations, setting up a stage for a sanctions hearing.

Maybe an expulsion vote on the House floor. This would be after the vacation. I mean, pardon me, the recess. Happens, okay? I just can't believe in everything that's been going on right now that there's a recess. I just can't believe that they're going on vacation. So much has been happening.

So much production going on there. Tom's here. Tom, it is Find Your Phone Friday. What's on your mind this day, huh? Welcome. Well, I was listening to your previous caller talked about Christianity and Western civilization and so forth, and I just wanted to reemphasize the point, the difference between communism, which is atheism and Christianity. And I think our entire culture is based upon the Ten Commandments, Private Property. Private property is kind of enshrined in the Tenth Amendment, where God says, you use.

should not covet anything that belongs to your neighbors. Yeah, your neighbors, stuff belongs to your neighbor. Yeah, that makes a good point. But it is true, though, about Western civilization really was Western Christianity or Christianity thought. That was the underpinning of it all, right? The basics of it. Yeah, well, it basically says private property is private property.

You know, if you have a free market, free market basically means a voluntary exchange of property between two people, and that's it. And it's not a government thing. When you have the landlords in Oregon here don't have any control over who they rent to, that's an interference. And it's a violation of the Tenth Commandment and so forth. So, you know, we're really up against atheism that really says, you know, your rights are subject to majority vote.

Unfortunately, I think both the left and right fall into that trap from time to time, but more so on the left than the right. But it really is. It really comes down to this issue of private property, which is the first tenant of the Communist Manifesto, abolish private property. And so many other parts of the Communist Manifesto that have become parted and just consider its standard operating procedure in the United States. Well, you have a graduated income tax. You also end up having, what is the other thing? Oh, public schools. schools run by the government. Don't forget the central bank either. Oh yeah, Central Bank, print the money. Printing Press Goes Burr. That's another glorified way of coveting and stealing from your neighbors

without them knowing it. All right. Tom, thank you for the call. Always a pleasure. It is 827. Yep, that is the theme for Brother Brad. Brad, you're a interesting fellow to have on here. Morning, great to have you on. What are you thinking? Wonderful to hear my native music. That's right. Slovenian Lives Matter. That's your group there. But what's on your mind?

Hey, I wanted to encourage people because we see a lot of tax dollars being wasted. It's really been prolific in the news lately. But locally, I saw something that really encouraged me. Oregon Lottery is funding a restoration of the climate. River drainage. And I don't know if you know it, but they're running TV pieces now telling what a great job that they're doing of restoring the whole drainage system. Now, are you serious or being... No, no, it's on TV. I've seen it.

Oh, okay. Because, you know, sometimes it's like I can sometimes have trouble telling when you're, if you're being like having fun with me. Yeah. But is it serious? Is this serious? It must be something that I've missed somehow. No, it's been on the Internet, so I'm assuming it's a piece that's been funded by Oregon Lottery. Oh, okay. What's fascinating is they have all these individuals planting grasses of some kind of restore the whole drainage system.

Oh, oh, that's what? So the grass. See, I did know about that part. I just thought that maybe they were going to find some way to restore all the water that is no longer there to provide cool water for the fish in the summertime. But it's not that kind of restoration then. I'm sorry, didn't interrupt. What made me suspicious, I noticed in the ad piece the individuals that were planting all these plants had T-shirts that were all similar. and lo and behold it said no kings on their t-shirts.

It did, huh? Yeah. Imagine a dual-purpose ad piece by the Oregon Lottery. That's amazing. That is, you know, I'm going to have to look that up. I missed that ad, that ad campaign somehow for some reason, brother Brad already? But we just have to be careful when, you know, the Oregon Lottery, I don't know what they've done with the dollars that have really benefited us, but we have to hold all that in suspicion.

I appreciate the call. And thank you, Brad. Good weekend to you. Jim's and Grants Pass. Hi, Jim. Good morning. Yeah, good morning, Bill. Yeah, I have to side with Greg Roberts on the Iraq War.

And one of the things is that I don't want my grandchildren having to listen to death to America, you know, for 50, another 50 years. These people, it's just like we had to. to do the allies had to do with the Nazis. We had to hunt them down and kill them down to the last man, you know, and that's what needs to be done. These people are Islamists, and we need Persians running Persia. And that was the original name for that area, not Iran. But are Islamists somehow not Persians? There. No, they're not. No. It's a different tribe. And the thing is, is that we just can't put up with this.

And the other thing, too, is we have to, our countrymen have to understand that there are sacrifices made in conflicts like this. And luckily, we're not in a battle zone at this point. But, you know, the Persian people or the Iranians are in that, and they're being slaughtered. But they're going to have to make even more sacrifices. and there's going to be more bloodshed to take back that country. So that's our job? So that's our job, Jim? No, it's our job to get rid of the Ayatollah.

That's what I'm saying. All right. They're going to be running it. We have to get out once the threat is gone. Well, I hope you're right about that, Jim. Here's the issue. My concern is that the unintended consequences of us getting involved in this. we don't know them all yet.

And yeah, we're complaining because the price of gas has gone up, right? My concern is if some of the analysts are examining the oil markets that I've been reading lately, and I was talking about this, the sacrifice that the world could be making could be a 10 to 20 percent reduction in the availability of oil and gas for a long time. that kills people. It may not be killing people here in the United States, but it sure could kill people over in the Middle East and Europe. And I'm just, I'm hoping that we have not,

and this is the reaction from the Iranians, right, because of damage done to the oil fields about that. And I think wise leaders have to also consider the unseen cost, and I don't know if that has been considered this time around. That's my concern about the Trump. This did seem to be a thing like, well, Bibi was going to do it, and so we joined in. That's how it started off at first. Remember, that's what Marco was talking about.

Yeah. And I'm hoping that we're able to keep the plate spinning because energy is not a small thing. When you have all that urea going through there, all the oil, all the natural gas, all the fertilizer feedstocks, it is something that can actually cause real instability on the world food supply. Well, I wish that, you know, the administration would focus on that route and not be worrying about blowing up resources that the follow-on administration in Iran is going to need. And I think, you know, it's a small place, you know, this area of the streets of Hermuz. and that focus on that and keep taking out these boats that are putting mines in or anything else like that and focus on that instead of taking the easy stuff you know um yeah yeah just

talking about having uh you know well the the navy's gone the air force is gone we've decimated them you know we hear this time and time again well then um we shouldn't be having a problem in the in the strait-of-hormoos, you would think, right? Well, yes, if that was a fact, I agree. I'd be curious what the real facts are on it, but Jim, point to your point well taken. I appreciate your call and your thought-provoking. All right.

7-70KMED, let me go to line four. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Paul Williams. All the subject, I have been remembering somebody called Roger Fredenberg, and I know that you knew him. Do you know anything?

I haven't heard anything about him or whatever happened to him. Oh, Roger passed away. Great National Talk Show hosting, of course, local flavor here in Southern Oregon. I used to work on Cope and had his own independent show for a number of years. We carried that on, I think it was called the Homeland Security Radio, is what we called it back in the day. Oh, yeah, I was a member. I've still got my Roger Rangers card. Yeah, yeah.

Roger Fredenberg, I want to say, passed away five, six years ago, I believe. Yeah. Oh, that's unfortunate. Yeah, his parents said, still the record. around here, but yeah, he did pass away, and he had some real health struggles, you know, over the years, and they finally ended up taking the big guy down, okay? Thanks, Bill. I'll be listening. All right. Thank you.

Yeah, sad about that. Hi, KMEDE, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Bill. Jerry. Jerry. Hi, Jerry. I can stand Karen saying death to America as long as they want you. Won't bother me a bit.

Okay. But should you take them at their word, though, when you have a nation yelling death to America, death to Israel, et cetera, et cetera, death to the Great Satan? I guess I will take them at their word. They have a right to freedom of speech, and we get people around here in death to America, too, essentially, without saying it directly. You know, that's interesting. Yeah.

You know, America's the horrible nation. need to destroy it all, need to open it to the third world. We need to be harmonized with the rest of the world, right? Well, you know what, Bill? Hey, maybe they mean that literally. I don't know. But you know what the problem is? A lot of Americans don't care what they mean.

They don't want to take the time to think about why do they say that and really ask somebody there who lives there. Why do you say that? They probably have a real good answer for it. I don't know what it would be. I've never been there. Well, I'm sure that whatever it is, it's a lie. That's what I would be told by my own media here in the United States, right?

Probably. All right. Thanks for the call, Jerry. Always appreciate your thoughtfulness, too. If you are on hold, I will get right to you after news. This is the Bill Meyer Show. 7705-633. It's open phones on Find Your Phone Friday.

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Find your phone Friday. What's on your mind? Yeah, I was telling you about the three states that have filed a lawsuit bill, actually a bill before the bill that calls COVID-backer. vaccines a bioweapon. Which states are those? I'm not familiar with the story. I'd love to find out more. I was just looking that up. It's Tennessee, and I can't find it, but I think it's Michigan, Tennessee, and there's another one, but also Idaho and about, I think a bunch of different

states are getting ready to do the same thing. I do find it interesting that all of a sudden I'm seeing little burblings coming in through the public health departments around the country talking about new strain of COVID. Be very afraid. Be very afraid. That kind of thing. Yeah, everything seems to be going right along swimmingly as it appears a W.E.F. Well, hey, you know, you can't own anything, Michael.

You'll be perfectly happy. We've got your Soiling Green for you and have a great thing. I'm just teasing you, you know, just having fun with you. Well, I'll tell you what, I'll look up that story. maybe we'll talk more about it next week, okay? Thank you. You're going to be... What's that now?

Oh, happy like a North Korea at the great leader's birthday party. Okay. I wasn't thinking about it that way. Point well, but I appreciate your call. All right. I guess that would be President Trump's birthday. Hello, KMED. Good morning.

This would be deported. I'm deplorable Patrick. Hi, DP. What's up? That's correct. Well, I'm being just a detailed guy. I think Roger Fredenberg probably passed away like two years ago. I was at his services. Oh, it was only two years ago. It felt longer ago for some reason. Yeah. And then his wife didn't stay around much longer after he was gone.

So Anne was an her name. Oh, so Anne passed away too? I didn't know that. Wasn't aware. Yep. Don Fumler knew both of them better than I did, so he knows a lot. But I was just curious, you're a step on everything. I haven't heard anything about that magazine that we, it was a really good magazine produced around here, World Net Daily, and where'd they go? Well, World Net Daily, I do not believe, is produced around here any longer and hasn't been for a long, long time. Joe Farrah, Joe Farrah's publication, right?

Yeah. Now, everything now seems to be an online. It's just WNDD.com. WorldNet Daily still, you know, exists as a news site. It's still there. But I don't really know. I haven't talked with Joe a long time. It appears that his daughter is actually, Elizabeth Farah seems to be involved in doing some podcasting or doing some shows on it. I don't know what Joe Farrah's

role in the company is at this point, or if he even is, at this point in time. I really haven't kept track of it. Speaking of keeping track, where I live, I can see the track that goes from like White City out west toward Gold Hill all the time. And I see these trains going along. I've noticed for years they go, it looks like I'm estimating now about seven miles an hour, no doubt due to regulations having to do with the class of track. Yeah, the condition of the track is not real high. Are you talking about that spur that goes out to the White City plant out there? The spur?

Yes, and it goes back along across, you can see it from Curtland Road. You can see it from Highbank, it goes across Highbanks Road. There's an old crossing with no light. Yeah, yeah, that's the one that, yeah, there are occasional trains that go in there. I think to some of the mills, and I don't think it's very active, and I think it joins the main track for Central Oregon in Pacific over net at tolo. Tolo Junction, I think, is what that's called over there near I-5. That track serves the old Kodak plant,

where they take chemicals in and out. Anyway, what I was going to bring up is, I noticed in the last couple of days, that train is going like noticeably faster, like double the speed it was going. Have you heard anything about the track upgrades? Is there anything like that? No, I have not, but that's interesting.

Or maybe we just have workers that are in more of a hurry. Maybe that's what it is. Yeah, because it could be. Maybe they were going slower for fuel savings or something before, but you know there are rules that you can only run the engine for so many hours before you, you know, you die on. It's kind of like a truck driver. You can only drive for so many hours and sort of thing before you have to rest.

And that main line goes so slow. I would imagine if you're having to ship. something to Eugene and or beyond you know where it's where the tracks go because uh over the siskus it doesn't go any longer i guess they stopped doing that and so it would just be very slow so you'd have to go out there and uh you know get your load and get going up there because you're going like 10 miles an hour most of the way to you gene that's a long trip well it sounds like you're going to make me do my own research well i'm going to have to look it up i haven't heard anything no one said anything i haven't read anything in trains magazine you know

me, I'm a foamer, so I'll try to find out, really, okay? I'm here. I love the trains also. All right. Thanks, D.P., I appreciate that. Hey, if you wanted to get in on the Diner's 62 Real American Quiz, now's the time. 7705-633-770, KMD. They have delivered me a wonderful lunch. I don't know what it is, but it smells incredible. I'll have to check it out here in just a bit. We'll get that contest. We've got a great question this morning. So, anyway, hi, KMED. We'll take your call before the Diner's 62 real American quiz and who's this?

This is Sylvia. Sylvia, a delight. What's on your mind? I've been wondering, and I haven't called you yet, but are the senators that are voting against the Save America Act or against the funding bill, are they being paid like these ice workers aren't and TSA agents aren't? Yes, they are. Because there's never been any question that the senators, and the House members will get paid first, okay?

So they're getting paid. It's too bad. Yeah. They shouldn't be getting paid until they pass what the people want, right? Yeah, well, of course, what the people want is always in question. If you're a person that's going to be at no King's rally, you wanted to make sure that ICE agents were completely buttoned down and not able to do much. And what we would want would be something very different. And it said, logger jam still.

They didn't fix that. They have not fixed that conflict yet. The talk, though, Sylvia, is that Thune is going to get ICE funding restored or added through reconciliation, which would only require, I think, 51 votes instead of the 60. Okay. Okay. All right. And then put a plug-in for Patriots Day, too.

All right. Tomorrow, Patriots Conference at Josephine County Fairground starts at 9. I'll be speaking at about 915. Off we go. Get your tickets before the No Kings rally because it'll be crazy down there at the Republican. party headquarters or you can just show up at the door. Okay? All right.

A lot of good people speaking there. All right. Do we have the diner 62? We do. Let me find my, I've got to have my diner 62. There we go. I have to have the music, otherwise it just doesn't feel right. You have to have that Saturday night live feel.

There it is, the diner 62 real American quiz. And by the way, today's Clampchowter Friday. So good you'll think you're on the Oregon Coast. Frankly, they had better clam chowder than most of the rest. restaurants out on the west on the coast. I don't know what it is. Not many good restaurants, in my opinion out there. They're better here in McBurd and White City. All right. Two pork chops and eggs, eight-ounce New York steak and eggs. Very good. Very much on special right now on the weekends, too. Let's go to the first person here who is going to get in. Good morning. Hi, who's this?

Good morning, Bill, Steve Sunny Valley. I was actually calling about the Corp Railroad Interchange there in White City because I've worked it. Oh, okay. Do you want to play the contest? You want to hold on, and I'll talk to you. I'll do the contest. Why not? I've never done it. All right, so here it is. It was yesterday in history, March 26, 1804. President Jefferson presented with a mammoth loaf of bread. President Thomas Jefferson attends a public party at the Senate and leads a crowd in consuming this enormous loaf of bread. It was called the mammoth, Steve, all right? The giant bread was baked to go with the remnants of an enormous block of cheese. A couple of years later, earlier rather, a bunch of Baptist women from Massachusetts had sent Jefferson a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese.

And they were supporting his religious tolerance views. So they were happy he was this way, right? That's a big block of cheese. You can admit that, right? Half a ton of cheese. Yeah, half ton, more than a half ton. Well, the cheese, they said, also illustrated Jefferson's claims that North America's superior natural resources. would one day enable the U.S. to outstrip all of Europe in production.

So the question for the win is how long was this giant loaf of bread that the ladies delivered to go with the hunk of cheese? So was it A, 8 feet long, B, 12 feet long, C, 16 feet long, D, 20 feet, or E, 24 feet? How long was the gigantic mammoth loaf of bread? Boy, that takes a big oven. I'm going to say 16 feet. You're going to say 16 feet right there in the middle. Nice try.

All right. Sorry. Call back on the train, all right. Got the hi. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Chris and Medford.

Hello, Chris and Medford. So how long was this mammoth loaf of bread? Was it 8 feet, 12 feet, 20 feet, or 24 feet? What do you say? Well, it's mammoth, so I'm going to say 24. It's going to be 24. Oh. No, it's less than that.

Less than that. All right. Thanks, Chris. Good morning. Hi, who's this? Hello. Hello. Hi.

Who's this? This Jesse. Hi, Jesse. We're talking about how long was the mammoth loaf of bread that the people presented the President Jefferson back in the day. Was it eight feet long, 12 feet long, or 20? What do you say? D20.

You say D20. No, we're getting closer, though. Thanks for the try. We'll go with this one. Hi. Good morning. is John. John, 8 feet or 12 feet? How big was that mammoth loaf? 12 feet. 12 feet.

Yeah. John, the mammoth loaf of bread presented to the president. 12 feet long, 2 feet wide. It was baked by a Navy baker, served at a Senate party to rally support for a naval war against those Muslim Barbary pirates, okay? So it was 12 noon, the Navy Baker wheels in the mammoth loaf along with the remnants of the big cheese. And so they have a big side of roast beef to go with it. And also, by the way, John, huge amounts of alcohol, okay? Yeah. And so they had just this wild party, and President Jefferson stepped up, pulled out his pocket knife,

cut the first slice of bread, and according to the observations, it quickly degenerated into a noisy, drunken affair. So they were knee-deep in, I guess, mead, hookers, cheese, and bread. So it was just wild, wild time, okay? All right, yeah, yeah. So hang on, John, we're going to get you set up. I'll get your name and address here or name and phone number just a moment. I wanted to give just a little bit of a side note here, because this is a great story.

Early Americans' use of the term mammoth actually came from the discovery of a giant woolly mammoth skeleton in New York in 1801. Now, Tom Jefferson was actually fascinated with natural sciences. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society. He helped the organization raise money to complete that project. Jefferson's Federalist's opponents, they hated Jefferson, and they ridiculed Thomas Jefferson's scientific side project. And to try to embarrass the president, they called that giant dairy product,

the mammoth cheese. And then what happened to the Federalist surprise, the regular people embraced the term. They loved it. Me, mammoth, mammoth, mammoth cheese, yeah. And then butcher shops and markets started advertising mammoth-sized products from sides of veal to mammoth pumpkins, mammoth loaves of bread. It kind of, everybody started using the term mammoth, and they thought, well, we're going to make fun of Jefferson. It backfired on the Federalists. All right.

Great story. It is 856 at KMED. Excuse me. I'm trying to take a shower here. I was just going to point out that you're taking a shower in the store here. This is Grover's electric and plumbing supply. Uh-huh. And Grover's certainly sells showers and sprinklers, but most people don't actually test them out right here.

Oh, I always try everything out first. Okay. You don't have any shampoo, do you? Not on me. Boy, I love this shower. Ring it up for me. Sure. I'm building a whole new bathroom.

Okay. That's why I came to Grover's. Uh-huh. I'm going to try some other stuff out, like this sink. All right. Nice nice. You like that? Pour me a bath, would you?

I'm going to try out that tub. Okay. I like it good and hot. Built in a new bathroom, huh? Yep. You're not going to need to try out a new... No, I won't. Good.

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Of course, I'll be at the Patriots Conference tomorrow. You'll be at both places. Steve and Sunny Valley, we got about 40 seconds. Can you tell me what happened with the track that that trains running on the spur that goes to White City? Go ahead. Well, when I worked it, there was a 10-mile-an-hour slow order on the entire thing. But I saw him working on a road crossing, which might have been part of the slowdown.

But 25 miles an hour is all the faster that short lines can go anyway. And the long trip up Cow Creek is only 20 miles an hour for the whole way. 20 miles. That's a long slog. Yeah, that's a long slog for sure. Well, thanks for letting us know. And, of course, I will continue to be a fomer. Thanks for feeding my foaming addiction.

Okay. Thank you. Sure. All right. email Bill at Billmeyer's show.com. We'll do some more emails and discuss what happened at the Patriots Conference. No Kings Gregory Wrightstone tonight. See it all.

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