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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. I know what the news reports are saying from all sides, and one could be confused for being a little confused for wondering what's really going on in Iran. And I'm just so proud to have Stephanel Rittenale. He is the chief intelligence officer at Arturias, which is a threat. intelligence and geopolitical risk company. Boy, he's knee-deep, firsthand operational intelligence,

experience on Iran, and then the broader Middle East and Persian Gulf region. Stefano, it's a pleasure having you on. Morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Thank you so much for having me. Tell me a little bit about your experience in the Persian Gulf. I'd like to hear a bit more of that before, and then we'll kind of dig into what we know or don't know at this point, you know. Right, absolutely. So my background, basically related to Iran specifically, although I've experienced in the Middle East, was from previous to this job, I was a government contractor with the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command. I was specifically under the intelligence section there. And the 32nd Army Air

and Missile Defense Command, also known as W&DC, they own basically the majority of the Army Patriots and Thads. And so maybe our listeners are familiar. Those are the guys are shooting down the Iranian ballistic missiles. And my job, for the 32nd was when they did military exercises. A lot of them were based in the Middle East, had specifically Iran. And so I really specialized in how the Iranians and other countries as well would use their ballistic missiles, their drones, and their cruise missiles to conduct attacks.

So everything that we're kind of seeing is things that we, you know, me and my team and the team I belong to really build a lot of military exercise to train these air defenders and Air Force people and others on how to fight and defeat. the Iranian ballistic missile program in time of war. All right. So, Stefanel, when I look at this situation as a regular guy, just looking at regular news reports that are available to all Americans, I get the, well, it's kind of back and forth. It kind of go back and forth on this. I almost get the impression that in some ways we are at a strategic stalemate. And I'm wondering if you believe that might be true.

And I know that may sound hilarious, given that Iran has just taken a huge pounding. 10,000 or more targets that have been taken out. But it doesn't appear that yet there's been the ability for either President Trump to totally enforce his will on Iran, and nor can Iran completely enforce its will on the United States. Is that a fair way of looking at it right now, or just looking for some nuance from your point of view? Yeah, no, I think a lot of – I would say it's kind of an interesting development where were just barely a month over this war. And, you know, people are automatically assuming that's a campaign at this magnitude to completely

integrate and destroy its Iranian military capabilities can be conducted so quickly, even though we have had a lot of opportunities. Now, granted, in the strategic level, I mean, Iran continues to, you know, threaten to close the straits or more moves. And that's kind of the leverage. And their whole game plan has always been the whole global economy hostage. You know, this has been something that military planners and the Middle East were very familiar with, we knew in a time of regime instability or threaten a regime change, that Iran would

take an approach of just scorch earth across the region, conducting drone strikes, ballistic missile strikes around, closing the streets from home. This is something that military planners were very well aware of and baked in into any military plan against Iran. It's just obviously, I think, for a lot of the American people, you know, this is a news, something they haven't really seen, and it's causing concerns and kind of this political pressure. From a strategic perspective, obviously Iran still has leverage over the global economy, but I would also just put a little bit of caution out.

So there's a lot of concerns. It's not a total scenario where we're seeing an absolute collapse. I think Iran would want to have, in their thought process, specifically the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, would want to see even more economic pain around the world and collapse. And although they have been somewhat successful, they're not able to completely halt all trade. And I think President Trump is really leveraging that.

to say, look, Iran, you closing the strait for Hamoos causes also damage to your economy. And so the only cars Iran has to kind of maybe survive also have very short, medium, and long-term damage to the Iranian economy itself. So it's a very complicated situation. And although there might be some impact, I think the initiative is still with the United States. All right. How is our ammo box looking, as far as you know? And because I was just watering just as once again, a regular guy, you know, to shoot down a 30 or

$40,000 drone with a multi-million dollar Patriot missile or a fayette is not real sustainable over the long haul, and they seem to be able to keep throwing that stuff up, and they seem to be getting through in some cases. How do you see it right now? Right. So, I mean, if I actually can provide a kind of a counterpoint, right? I mean, there is a great report, and I'll just leverage this, a con-use agency, which is a major Israeli news channel, they released an assessment, basically saying that what Israel anticipated was in the conflict of this magnitude against Iran, that they would anticipate about 150 to 200 ballistic missile launches every single day against Israel.

And that's what they planned for. And what they actually saw is that was the amount that was launched in one week. And I would just put people in our country. I mean, this has been a problem that the U.S. has faced for decades. And the Iranian ballistic missile program is one of the most advanced ballistic missile progress out there and also their drone programs. The Russians have copied the Iranians, and they've used Iranian drones in their war against Ukraine. And so, yes, there is a lot of aspects. There is systems that the U.S. has in place, such as short-range air defense and what we would

call non-kinetic in a way like Electoral War for to defeat these drones. Yes, I mean, there is a concern. But in the reality, any military planner, they have to fight with the tools they have and the assets they have. And at some point, what's more important, a missile that costs $3 million, or the lives of American service members. And I think your listeners would agree at the end of the day, we need to protect our service members more than anything else, regardless of the cost. And that's kind of the plan that the U.S. military has baked into place. And we're not seeing the large quantities that a lot of us expected Iran to launch

from a ballistic missile program or a drone project against this. So I would even make the argument that is not as significant as maybe I would have anticipated before this war started. What kind of anti-dron technology do we have? Because it sounds like, you know, the West, we're kind of primed for, it seems like our battle plan seemed to be, it's going to be shock and awe, right? We're going to go in there and just start blowing the world to smithereens, you know, around them,

and expecting a capitulation. Well, they did a decapitation, no doubt about that. And are we really, are we equipped as the United States of America to be able to do proper anti-dron warfare or even work with our own? What is our capability, do you know? I mean, yeah, no. I mean, look, we have very advanced capabilities, but I think this is maybe one of the areas where a lot of people are leveraging and using maybe Ukraine as an example when they're fighting Russia. and ignoring that the United States has, that's not how we would deal with this problem set. So, for example, the drone problem generally is actually the primary responsibility to kind of

interdict those drone assets is the Air Force, right? It's F-15 pilots, F-16 pilots. We've seen the UK with their typhoon fighters also deployed to shoot-down drones. I mean, the number one asset that we would leverage to shoot down these drones are actually our Air Force and our fighter jets, no different than if these were manned aircrafts and man-jet. Same concept, and that's what they would do. And so that's something that we kind of have leverage. And frankly, Ukraine also does, but they don't have the quantity as we do.

And so that's the number of way we would really deal with this problem. So that down at the Army level, right, at the ground, and I think to get to the heart of your question, I mean, there's a lot of systems that we've seen in the last couple of years the U.S. really try to prioritize that are much more cost-effective and efficient. For example, one of the – you know, we talked about non-kinetic, you know, electronic warfare. There's another system that the Army has developed and deployed called the coyote, which is kind of like a small cost-effective way of shooting down. drones. Obviously, you have the Avengers, which are basically with these finger missiles. It's on a

Humby. In Iraq, we're seeing a lot of usage of the Seawiz system, which is that gatling gun that, you know, kind of fires and intercepts. So there's much more assets that the U.S. has outside of just Patriots. But, you know, in the end of the day, there is moments where you just have to leverage your Patriot missiles to intercept these threats. If there's no other tool or if they manage to get through. And that's where military planners and more specifically, you know, U.S. Army air defenders really specialize and focus on it in planning on all levels, the Air Force. This is a joint fight. This is both Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps Guard and Space Force. And that's part of the whole process is that when drones are coming in,

they look at the assets they have available. And in the end of the day, they have to protect their people and their equipment, regardless of the cost. If that means they have to use a patron missile, then they will. But the U.S. military is very well equipped to continue this fight, even from a manufacturing-based perspective, because we're still sending patron missiles to Ukraine. So I think the U.S. can leverage this. It's just a new problem that I think a lot of Americans haven't been familiar with or maybe kind of have not been keeping track compared to, let's say, the 91 Gulf War, which is a little bit more prevalent, at least in the ballistic missile side. All right, very good.

Boy, Stephano, once again, as Stefano Rittendale, Chief Intelligence Officer at Arturias, a threat intelligence and geopolitical risk company. Now then today, the news coming out, President Trump's saying good conversations with Iran, but everyone's talking about how there are likely going to be boots on the ground, rather. Marines headed in, and the talk is to go after the enriched uranium, the half-ton or so, which is known to be in an existence. What kind of challenges do you think we're going to face on that because, you know, a ground war very different from an air war, no doubt, strategically. Correct. I mean, the main conversation, right, and based of what we're seeing in public information and open source intelligence is that the vast majority of the nuclear material is deep underground after they were bombed in Ishfahan, which is kind of inside of Iran. And I mean, the problems you would be looking at an operation of this magnitude, obviously, is, one, there's a significant risk, obviously of what type of Iranian military forces are there that can kind of counter a problem set. Two, we obviously here, we don't know the extent of how deep or, or how inaccessible these nuclear materials are.

Do we need to bring, for example, excavators, right, to kind of dig in? And obviously, these are the conversations that military planners are having and trying to analyze it, because there's a scenario you can analyze this where maybe there's a kind of a small special forces team that can maybe kind of do quicker out, or maybe you need a little bit larger presence, and that's why you're seeing the activation, let's say, the 82nd Airboard Division being sent over to the Middle East, the Marine Expeditionary units being sent over there, because maybe there's a thought process, Like we have a dedicated unit that can try to – it's going to take longer, so we have to send in a team to extract a nuclear material, but we need an outer corridor security perimeter to respond to any possible Iranian attack, and then also have persistent Air Force coverage and enabling these operations.

But a raid like that you're talking about, like related to the nuclear material, it wouldn't be a full-blown, let's say, occupation long term. The contract would be a raid. Get in, do the operation, get the nuclear material, get out. the other areas where we're seeing some of this is, for example, Carg Island or the Strait of H. Fumuz, which might require a longer-term presence of U.S. military forces there. But the nuclear material, the design of such an operation would more than likely just be a short, come in, come out, get the nuclear materials and send her guys home. Why has Iran been able to gum things up so much over in the Strait of Hormuz? I think a lot of people were wondering that, even me, too.

It's like when you're talking about, okay, the military is often destroyed or the Air Force, forces destroyed the navies at the bottom of the ocean, you know, that kind of thing. And then I think people are kind of surprised that Iran is still able to gum it up there. What structures or what causes that or what drives it? You know, I think it's also there's from a, I'm wondering in my perspective it would be, there's more of a threat perception is higher than the actual military threat. So, for example, you know, we've seen Iran during the Iraq war in the 80s. I mean, they've dropped minds in the strict or Kramuz, but, you know, there was an

International Coalition. They were sending vessels around and around. Obviously, the famous naval battle Operation Prane Mantis with the U.S. Sun, various Iranian warships happened because an Iranian mine hits the U.S. warships. So we've seen this in the past. I think the concern is, you know, the Iranians, all the estimates we have is about a dozen mines were dropped in the straits of Hormuz, which in quantity-wise is not a large amount. But that then causes a perception, specifically in the shipping industry and the insurance industry, to say the risk is unacceptable. we're not going to, you know, cover any vessel going through the straits or promotes. And obviously, no shipping company then is going to allow their people to go through.

And so that's why they leverage the Iranian government to say, okay, well, either we'll go through, you know, Iranian territorial waters through the island. Some of them are even reportedly paying a fee to go through because the Iranians militarily don't necessarily need to do much. They understand that just the perception of it, just the propaganda aspect of it. Okay. And announcing, are enabling the shipping industries to not really go through. So the fare is greater. And then when you're talking about hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars with just one ship being taken down, right? All it would take is one.

And the insurance companies say, hey, we're not covering that. Forget about it. Right. And so this kind of spreads. It's kind of a fear contagion, in other words. Exactly. Exactly. And then the IRC needs.

The Bows go in and the attack of tanker. That's all Iran needs. and then this broader constants of a war to really concern shipping insurance companies. And we do know that the government, you know, U.S., and I believe in the U.K., are having conversations with this insurance company to try to alleviate these concerns. But obviously, they're not there yet, and Iran is leveraging that to their advantage. Stephano, where can people go to find out more about you? I appreciate the talk here. So, and if you could give us maybe just one on what you think we really need to be paying attention to this week in this conflict,

and where can people go to find out more about your writings or your thoughts on this? Yeah, so you can find us on ArtoriusTech.com, A-R-T-O-R-I-A-S tech. That's the company that I've worked for and all our work and social medias are also there. And the one area that I would really see people to look at, if I may, I was going to say two. The first one would be the increased deployment of U.S. ground forces to the Middle East, because that would be a key indicator if President Trump believes the negotiations going on and looks like they're going to happen in Islamabad, are not going to really take hold. And so that would be the number one, because that would be a key indicator of ground operations

inside of Iran. And then the second one is I wouldn't discount the possibility both either Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates might even joining themselves and doing bombing operations instead of Iran because they've taken the brunt of a lot of the attacks, specifically Dubai. And obviously, their patience isn't unlimited. We've seen they've really taken a step back trying not to get completely involved. but obviously they have concerns and they feel like their threat perception and their deterrence is being ignored. So I would also keep an eye on those two countries to see if they're taking the diplomatic route or they decide to get involved connectically.

Stefan, I appreciate that. Final question I would have for you, though, is what shape are the bases that we have in those particular areas? Are they still in pretty good shape? Have we been able to repair or some of them just gone entirely? What's the story there? Yeah, so I mean, you would have to really kind of look at the map. The ones that are right up at the Persian Gulf, for example, Bahrain, Qatar, and some of their bases in the U.A, a lot of them were kind of evacuated before this war because the understanding was they were going to take the brunt of the attacks. I mean, obviously there's some damages, but the U.S. military can repair it.

Other bases, for example, those in Jordan and more famously in Saudi Arabia, we did see an E3 airwax was destroyed in the strike. They're still being utilized constantly. Even if they get hit, they're still using air power, pushing Air Force over into Iran. And so even though some of these assets have been hit and some much more significantly those closer to the Persian Gulf compared to those far away suffered more damages, the U.S. military is still able to do almost near and constant air dominance over Iran. And we're seeing it with all the reports of air strikes happening all the time, all day, inside of Iran. So the U.S. military is well-postered to continue this and any damage there can be repaired, especially after the end of this war. Stefan O Rittendale, and I thank you so much for your analysis. A pleasure.

I'll have you back anytime you want. Okay, you take care. Awesome. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you, Stephano. KMED, 993KBXG. This is the Bill Meyers show at 732. It's a wild, chaotic, cuckoo world out there, but home is where you de-stress and...

This is the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. Got something on your mind? Give Bill a shout at 541-770-5633-770-KMED. I did not go to any No King's rallies. I noticed that the RV Times did have coverage on it, and they said thousands lined Biddle. Was that true? Somehow I missed it, and even as I was driving around, I didn't intentionally try to avoid it, but I didn't see a whole lot. Now, I'm not talking that there weren't a whole lot.

I'm just like saying, I don't know if I know. I don't know about thousands upon thousands. They said thousands in downtown Portland, and they had the drone shot from above. You can tell, yeah, there are, you know, many, several thousand people out there. Be hate Trump and, you know, three people arrested, trying to mess around with the ice center, you know, that kind of thing, because we love illegal aliens and we love illegal aliens more than we do, actually, regular people than your regular people that think you should be treated differently

than illegal aliens. Well, you're just bigots. Anyway, let me know what you think about this. President Trump talking about, of course, Marines boots on the ground probably maybe today, maybe sometime this week, going in. and getting the uranium. Now, we're into the fifth week now, 31 days. Today's the 31st day.

You supportive of this? Are you wanting just to keep it going until the end? If it takes maybe more than just the three or four weeks that was originally talked about, let me know. It's another topic we can kick around this morning. And now we have Sunshine David from Phoenix. Sunshine David. How are you doing this morning?

A little cloudy with possible lightning and thunder. You know, I think I actually have your theme song. You know how some of our regular callers have theme music. I think you have one too, all right? Here we go. Happy, happy, joy, joy, happy, happy, joy. Happy, happy, joy, happy, happy joy, happy, joy. Happy, happy, joy, happy, joy.

Yep, that's it. Happy joy, joy, joy. Here we go. I don't think you're happy enough. Oh, my gosh. I finally have made it to the big time. I got a couple weeks ago, my first real American salute after all these years.

And now I have my own theme song. Boy, I have finally made it after nearly 20 years. Now, don't lose your dour approach, though, because we need that. You know, this is the character you're playing, okay? I'm pioneering. I'm a favorite school. Well, I'm glad that I can entertain you. I'm glad to be able to put a smile on your face in such a...

I've got to catch my breath. Okay, here we go. Okay. What's going on, David? First of all, the No King's BS thing on Biddle Road was a lot more spotty than it was the last time. So there wasn't nearly as many this time as it was. Well, that's what I wondered about, too. It was much more spread out and spotty and gaps and not nearly, you know, it wasn't nearly as deep.

I think people are kind of bored with it. Plus, it was the weather. And there might have been something else going on, like ice cream or something. And they only show up when it's fun, you know. Oh, I guess so. Well, we had a good time over at Patriots Conference. And Gregory Wrightstone, who followed me just at a stellar production. By the way, I put a link on my Facebook post to Mike Jones video of Gregory Wrightstone.

Well worth watching when it comes time to have conversation on the carbon nonsense. Okay? Yeah, I got to meet him and talk with him on Friday, so it was, it was good. Very good. Very good. So what else is going on in your world, huh? All right. Well, I just find it crazy how President Trump wants our BLM and Forest Service managed lands to start producing a little more timber.

We all remember talking about probably about two weeks ago. We talked about that. Well, K.S. Wilde has runoff. to get an injunction and a stoppage because of the spotted owl and other native species to put the hold on it. That's why I tried to tell everybody, there's not enough mills. Roseburg lumber says, we'll take all the logs, but you've got to be able to get in the woods and the equipment to get it out. I'm telling you, they're going to be at every turn. So everybody was all excited about President Trump saying, we're going to get in there and get some more logs that harvest out of these woods.

And here's a contract, and they're ready to go in, and imagine all the money tied up. It's unbelievable what it takes to do one of these jobs before you cut a single tree, and now they've run off to put a stoppage on it. So I just wanted to put that out there and let you know what we're really up against. They won't quit. I'm wondering if the real angle of attack should be to attack the Equal Justice for All Act, You know, that act that essentially is the sue and settle that ends up, I don't know if it's necessarily enriching, but it more or less, you know, pays for KS. Wilde to go out there and sue every time they, that a potential,

that a potential saw might actually be started up in a wood someplace. It's not then the next time it'll be some, the John Muir Trail, it's going to be harmed in some way because the wrong kind of boots going to step on it, and then it will be Sierra Club. I mean, they don't quit. They don't quit. This is what they do. Yeah, I know. But you see, just because they never quit doesn't mean we should, does it?

No, no, no. I understand. But that's a big difference for people that just want to get placards and say, stop. And lawyers that are in on the graph, stop in a multi-million. They have to have a billion dollars worth of bonding. They have to have insurance. They have to shove out money out the door that you wouldn't believe before they ever even think about driving a cat up a road. They have to even maybe even open the road.

The road's decommissioned. My God, it's not a fair fight. It's unbelievable. So you're saying, in other words, temper enthusiasm is what you're recommending. I'm just saying we're not looking at this realistic. We all get excited. When I saw those two facilities in Mapleton, be completely torn down.

I don't care if Roseburg Lumber says, we'll take all the logs you got, they're not big enough to take to make the death that we need. All right. I appreciate your opinion on that, David. And thank you for being a ray of sunshine, as always. I try to be happy. Joy, joy, joy. Okay, yeah, so you just know that David's theme, right?

Happy, happy, Joy, Joy, Happy. It's 742. We'll catch up all the rest of the news. That's all happy, too, on the Bill Myers show. And then your calls at 7705633. When you donate blood, you help save life. And I'm on 106.3, KMED. What is on your mind?

You can go ahead and gas off, 7705633. And maybe I can find a theme song for you. You know, other than, you know, Lucretia has a theme song. Brad, you know, Polka, he has the Polka. And you have David with happy, happy, joy, joy. Everybody needs one, right? Of course, I've got to run out of room on my little buttons that I can punch up music if you get enough people in that. But anyway, 7705-633.

Hey, what are you thinking about going in and getting the uranium? President Trump is making a big deal about this, and yet saying that the talks are going really well with Iran, but ready to put some boots on the ground and go after the uranium. It's about a half ton. About a half ton. It's quite a bit of uranium. I imagine it's probably not just sitting around in,

in flasks. I don't know how you store a half ton of uranium, but I guess we're about to find out, and there are experts who certainly understand that more. So you want to just go in, are you kind of committed to the fact that this is probably going to go on for a few more weeks? What do you think about that?

Supporting somewhere in the middle? Kind of like a stand-in-weight or fully against it? What do you think? There does seem to be some difference of opinion within the Republican and or conservative world. 7705-633-770K-MED. The paralegal people have written me again. They write me every now, then, $3.99. Hidden Valley High School, former education assistant, Keely Marchan, will be sentenced today, 10 in the morning,

Josephine County. And she pleaded guilty last week to sex abuse to, with a 17. year old boy student that she mentored from September 2024 until the date of the crime, January 5th, 2025, and then was arrested in April. DA dismissing a B felony charge of Snapchat online, they write. Marchand indicted for grooming the victim for months while on the first day back from winter break. Mother of the victim apparently grilled her son as to where he was. Mother reported the incident to Three Rivers School.

The mother, Jennifer Archie, is livid with the school district, claiming that she was offered money to sign a non-disclosure agreement, not to talk about the reported incident in investigation. She's also alleging further online over the months of the case that Hidden Valley's high school was not going to investigate the initial report. And if not for a female teacher reporting it, the crime may have gone unattended to. I don't wonder about that. The question posed, and I think it's a reasonable question, do you think that female sex abusers or sex offenders within the school system are treated differently from the male sex offenders?

7705-633-770 KMED. Yeah. Is the system more... Of course, I know having been a... having been a horny goat, 17-year-old male at one point with hormones coursing. Yeah, no, if the hottest teacher in town, and I don't know about this alleged teacher, I'm not going there, all right, but I will tell you that most guys, most guys are going like, oh, they're calling these women going after the guys, the young men sex abusers. No, I wouldn't have looked at it that way. I don't know.

We do have a different standard about that, don't we? The guy going after the young girl is still probably going to be hammered much more in the courts, don't you think? Is that a double standard that makes sense? And if so, why? Tell me about that or anything else on your mind. I'm just going to pose the question. Do you think that women are treated more gently when they're accused of, getting it on with the older male school kits.

770KME a day. Let me go to the phones here because it's Monday. And I don't want to talk about No Kings. Well, not a whole lot at least. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Are you talking to me? I'm talking to you.

Yeah. Oh, so good. You. Hi. Who's this? Boy. So you gave away my song, which is fine, because the song that I want for me is the best day of my life.

The best, what, the George Strait song? It's American Authors. American author, I don't know that. I don't know that song. Oh, it's fast. They dance around and they sing and they frolic about this is going to be the best day of my life. Oh, okay. And now, what's your name, though?

This is Joy. Oh, Joy. Okay. Oh, so I gave away the happy, happy Joy Joy song. Yes. But you see, I gave it away to David because he's the exact opposite. I don't want to call him Dowery David, so we're going to just call him, you know, Sunshine David. Yeah.

So the happiest day of my life, I'm going to look that up, all right? Thank you so much. Oh, it's fabulous. All right. Fabulous. Appreciate it. Well, I am going to Club Northwest to work out, so I'm almost there. What I wanted to say, I was going to talk to you about the uranium.

Yeah. But I think I'm out of time. I was going to say, let's get it back. What are we going to do with it? But let's bring it home, right? Uh-huh. But the other thing I wanted to say about this Hidden Valley thing, I haven't heard that before. This is the first I've heard of it.

So I'm going to look into it and see what that's all about. But the only thing I want to say to your listeners is there's two sides of the pancake no matter how thin. Sure. So we don't really know. You know, it's really easy to cast judgment, but we don't really know. Yeah. Well, in your knowledge, though, do you think that women are treated more lightly, more gently, such matters, though, in your opinion? Just looking for an opinion on that.

My opinion is, that hasn't been my experience. I just recall that gal that, and they're still together. That's the crazy thing that ran off with that boy. I know that she- Oh, Laterno, Mary Kay Laeterno, right? Yes. Yeah. And they're still married and have kids and stuff. It's ridiculous. But, so I think that she was treated harshly, and, you know, she probably deserved to be treated. harshly. But I think, I think it depends on which situation it's been as to how much ruckus comes up about it as to how harshly they treat them. Very good point. Joy, I appreciate your call. Thank you, happy Joy, Joy, all right? Yes, yes. Make it a great thing. You too. Good morning. Hi,

KABD. Who's this? Hello? Good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Is it me? It is you. It is you. Good morning. Good morning. Well, you know, a few weeks ago, you had the doctor on that was talking about marijuana and psychosis interactions. And he had mentioned that the human brain, the prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until at least 25. And that being like on the early end, right? It could be 27, 28. And anybody who's over that age could like kind of identify with feeling like when they were. teenager, they felt like they really had it all together.

And we didn't. But then once you're in your 30s, you were like, no, I had no clue what I was doing, you know. Yeah, yeah, and you just realized that how smart you thought you were and how dumb you really are at that age. Yeah, 100%. And what you just mentioned, being a 17-year-old with hormones coursing through your blood and kind of, I mean, that's kind of like the predominant focus at that age, right?

So, anyway, we've. So we say the prefrontal cortex isn't developed until 25, and then we turn around and say an 18-year-old as an adult, and they can enter into a legal contract. And then we also say a 16-year-old can not tell her parents about going getting transgender, let's say, and all that stuff, and the abortion. Yeah, it doesn't make sense, does it? So, no, an 18-year-old is seven years away from being mentally competent to make decisions where they're truly able to, conceive what might happen down the road should they make that choice. Well, now your name is Michael, right? Did I get that right?

Okay, Michael. Is there a, would you say that there's a strong case to actually raising the age of adulthood to 25, given that knowledge? Oh, a thousand percent, Bill, a thousand percent. And this is like no, like, no attack on the young folks. Like this is like, as older folks, this is where we need to protect them. because their hormones are raging and they are 100% feeling like they're ready to take the bull by the horns. They don't want to be homeless and to their parents anymore. Like, look, in the grand scheme of things, we are to be children of God.

And that's the whole scam to say that we're adults. Like, no. No, thank you. All right. Michael, I really appreciate your call. Thank you. It's good hearing from you. Keep calling already.

Thanks, buddy. All right. Thank you. Good morning, KMED. Who's this? Chris and Method. Hi, Chris. How are you?

I'm doing okay. Great. What's on your mind? Well, I think that women are treated differently, and I'm okay with that. Not because it makes it any less worse. I honestly, I've had this experience and it's, I think women are just as retarded as men. For lack of a better word. Okay, Chris, hold still here just a second.

Okay, so we're both, we're all bozos on the same bus then is what you're saying. Okay. Yes. Hmm. I think that women are, they just feel this joy and love and they're just as involved. It doesn't make it good. I just think we're just as stupid. Okay.

Generally speaking, though, this seems to be a recent development. Maybe we just didn't know about older women, you know, going for the younger men, you know, kind of thing in high school. Well, no. Think about Mark and Marr, no, back in the old time, that women were mothers at 13 and 14 years old. That's true. that they were expected that that is what their life was going to be. Yeah, but you also died maybe when you were 40, right, back in the day? Right. But biology doesn't change.

All right. What do you think about that mid-20s for adulthood? No, absolutely. I think that that is really when you become adult. Yeah. All right. Chris, I appreciate you, Sherry. a bit of that. Thank you. 770 KMED. Then we grab another call here. Hi, good morning. Who's

this? This is Jane. Hi, Jane. Good morning. Welcome. I'm going to change all the subjects because something happened last night that I'm wondering if anybody else called or had any ideas of. Well, let's find out. What is it? Okay, last night, it was like the moon or someone was shining a light. in my, I've got these block curtains into my bedroom. Well, I can't sleep with a light on, so I finally got up, went, set, and looked out the window. It was a orb completely lit up like the moon. Only thing is, it slowly moved towards my house and then darted off to one side, went back and kind of moved over a little bit to the other side, and then,

and slowly, it finally went away when it went across my house. And somebody else called in about that orb. Yeah, I've not heard anybody else calling in about an orb. How large would you have estimated that orb was from your vantage point? Well, it was not as big as the moon, for sure. Not as big as the moon, okay. It lit up all the way around. and it was round.

It was lit up. And it just, I sat there and watched it, and finally it went over the house. So I was able to actually go to sleep after that, but I still would like to know if anybody else didn't it. Yeah. Well, I will, now you live out in the, in the woods at what, rural Wilderville, don't you if I recall? Yeah, I do. Okay. Yeah.

Some strange things. out in those would sometime. I'll tell you what, we'll leave it open. If anybody else has had a similar experience to Gene and maybe saw that in the Wilderville area, let us know. Appreciate the call. Thank you, Gene. I'll grab one more before we break for news.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? David, quick second by unintended consequences. I believe that people shouldn't be classified as adults until 26, but that means you can't go in the military. I wonder how what they'd say. You can't get a driver's license. You can't vote. You can't buy liquor. You can't serve on jury duty. You can't get a job. And if you do something really bad, you don't go to prison. You go to juvie and have ice cream and then get released without a record. I just want to know how this works out. You know, I just don't know if I would have been

real great about being completely responsible for my son or daughter in their 23, 24, 24, years. I don't know. Children. They're just children. They're still children. Yeah. Yeah, I know. There was part of me, he's just like, I was, I was so thrilled to get out of my, out of my house. I left home at 19. And, but on the other hand, I will admit, I've made some mistakes, but, you know, here I am. Well, here's, I'll leave, I'll leave you on a smile. Okay. So I must have been about five, and I was running around the yard, you know, acting a little bit silly and stuff. And my dad brought me up short. What are you doing? acting like a little kid. And I said, but I am a little kid. Five across the eyes. All right, I'll leave you on a happy note. Okay. Thank you. KMED, KMED, HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG grants passed. Let's check news here. Dr. Dennis Powers will be joining me. I wonder if maybe a orb was over at his house yesterday.