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Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Republican gubernatorial candidate and State Rep. ED DIEHL talks about issues and changes he would make if elected. Open phones follow,

This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klauserdrilling.com. State Representative Ed Deal running for governor as Republican. A lot of people running for governor as Republican, but I would definitely say he's in the top three at this point. You can find out more about his candidacy along with what we're going to talk with him about this morning at eddeal.com. D-I-E-H-L.com. And, of course, Ed, you're the guy.

Of course, one of the spearheaders of the $4.3 billion tax-increase referendum to get rid of the gas tax. So congratulations on that. I wish we were voting on it in November rather than May. But what are you thinking this morning? We tried, Bill. We tried. Yeah. I'm just kind of curious.

I wonder if the deals that were made by the caucus in order to make things. happen like the gun bill and various other things I I wonder if if we're going to be taken for a ride by a governor Kotech the current occupant of the office huh what do you think well regarding this transportation taxi and moving it to May I mean she just showed additional disdain for the very people she supposedly represents and it's it's pretty atrocious that for me it doesn't matter which which election it's on, it will be defeated. Oh, yeah, it's going to go down in flames one way or the other.

Even the Democrats hate that, which kind of tells you what they're really thinking that the Democratic Party in the state of Oregon is not even representing its own people, at least in this particular issue. Right, right. They're not. And it happens over and over again. This was just an opportunity for me and other legislators to highlight what goes on in that building and what we see every day.

They are constantly taking votes that's. don't represent the best interests of the people. And even if this thing's in May, which, you know, we took it to court and they shot us down, we will remind, and I will make it my personal duty after I win the primary to remind voters every day until November what she did, what she did to them and the open disdain she showed to the voters. I love that when you mentioned that the courts shot it down, shot the request that you ended up making legally here. And, of course, that judge was probably appointed by a Democratic governor. Wouldn't that be the case?

Isn't that usually the way that works? That is the case. Yeah. And that's the case, I think, for every judge we have, almost every judge we have. That's why I love it when people say, hey, well, we should just file a lawsuit. You do realize it's going to go in front of a Democrat judge, right? Yeah. Really?

Yes. Really? Well, we need a Republican governor so we can appoint some more even-handed judges in this state. That's one of many reasons. I hope that's the case. I really do, Ed. Of course, then all of a sudden you would see all the Democrat judges in office. They would end up serving all the way through their terms.

They wouldn't let the Republicans appointed. But I digress. We'll work with that problem later. Hey, tell us a little bit about the for people who don't know. I know your state rep. Of course, we know that part about it. You know, solid conservative, no doubt about this. And a business person where you're engineered by trade, right?

Tell us a little bit about that, please. Yeah, I have a degree in mechanical engineering, so I got my bachelor's and master's in mechanical engineering from Stanford. That's where I met my wife, actually. She grew up in SIO, just out of the Salem, Albany area. But, yeah, that background and experience in business, I built a business from the ground up with two business partners here in Oregon and built that up doing what we called factory automation and control systems.

So we would travel around to factories all over Oregon and, in fact, all over the world to make them as efficient as possible. But most of our work was in the United States because we believe the U.S. and Oregon needs to build the stuff that we design and create. We can't depend on other countries to do that. It's for national security. It's for great jobs. we have to be the country and the state that makes stuff. I did a lot of work in the timber industry and aerospace and food products. You know, when it comes to the timber industry, a lot of my customers are gone now,

which is really sad and frankly unnecessary, and it's one of the reasons that I'm running. Do you think the governor could hold some influence in that? And I know that people were being told, hey, this is great. You know, the President Trump executive order, we're going to, we want to, get more productive activity on these public lands, which makes sense. As it is right now, there are a burden on the people, Ed, because we burn the forest, we don't harvest, we burn it, and then build the taxpayers to do collaborative work and thinning and all the rest of that kind of stuff with it, and it doesn't make any money, you know,

honestly. And, you know, is it too late, though? I mean, the infrastructure's gone. The people that know how to do this are probably gone, too, aren't they? Well, we've definitely damaged our infrastructure. but we have to turn it around. You're right. We've taken Oregon's greatest asset, greatest asset, and turned it into a liability by locking up these forests. And it's not only the federal forest land, it's state lands. So as governor, there's two things that you want a governor to do,

and what I would bring to the office is, one, push back when the feds are not allowing us to do adequate timber harvesting and cleaning of the fuels in those federal forests. The other thing is to actively manage our own state forests, which are some of the most productive timberlands in the world. And that means, as the governor, I get to select who's on the board of forestry. I can tell you that the Habitat Conservation Plan would look a lot different with me as governor. And we would get back to sustainable harvesting levels in these lands. And the point of point is, you know, we don't, my dad was a logger, my grandpa was a sawmiller, you know, the people that work in this industry love the forest. They want those forests there for their generation

of future generations. Well, yeah, we don't want them even, you know, loggers don't want moonscape, do they? No, they don't. We want beautiful forests that not only are great for recreation, but produce jobs and produce revenue for our rural communities. And that, that's the way. And that's That is possible. This is a win, win for Oregon if we do it right. And we are epically failing on that job right now. All right. You would work on that aspect of it. Could I just kind of zoom in on something that I've kind of wondered about? Sure. How would you, assume you get through the primary and that you're running and you're going against Kotech, right? And no one is challenged Kotech on the Democrat side. And they're not necessarily in love with her, but it's very tribal.

You know how these votes tend to go. Let's say, boy, you get through it, you win. How would you deal? How would you plan to deal with an extremely hostile Oregon legislature and hostile bureaucracy? Is the entire state bureaucracy you know would not even want to talk to you, I guess, at first. What do you do? What kind of power would you have to be able to whip some of that around? Well, yeah, great question.

Well, first off, as governor, well, when I get past the prime. and I will. I will be identifying leaders in each of these agencies and within the agencies and revamping their priorities. So when I hit the office on day one, we are doing systematic change in all of these agencies to get real leadership in place and align the priorities with the priorities of the Oregon people. And that includes full detailed performance audits because my goal is to cut government

spending, cut the waste out, and reduce taxes. But you understand that's also why the bureaucracy would be extremely hostile to you? They will be hostile. I'm already seeing some oppo positioning by the public sector unions. They will not be happy if I'm elected when I'm elected. But I'm prepared for that fight. I'm prepared for that fight because they have taken. taken control over this state, a small number of leaders within those unions.

And half of their members don't even agree with their leadership. Control the capital. They do. There's not a single bill that goes through that a public sector union opposes. And we have to fight tooth and nail to push back on any bill that they fully support. We're successful once in a while doing that. But they, you know, when you look at why the state budget has doubled in 10 years, and why we can't seem to get control of our spending and why people feel like they're taxed to the hill,

but they're not getting any value in it, that is because of the power and control of these public sector unions and some of the nonprofits that are sucking up a lot of money and misplacing our priorities. So it's going to be a big battle. But the other thing I'm going to look at too, and I will do is I will look to form coalitions across party lines. we have to remember that the Democrat Party is very fractured right now. There are Democrats that are so frustrated with the extremist positioning and extremist views of our Governor Kotech, and they want more. They understand capitalism.

They understand free markets. They want more of that. Okay. Are you sure? Are you sure that there are enough Democrats that really might agree with kind of a coalition like that? because, I don't know, it seems to me that the progressive socialist coalition is the controlling authority in Oregon State government right now. Am I wrong? Well, yes, it is, but here's the thing.

We see it every day, and the referendum highlighted it. They don't represent the majority of Oregonians. My job as governor will be to highlight that on a regular basis. And frankly, when Oregon elects a Republican governor for the first time in 40 years, that is a shock wave across the country. And that alone comes with a mandate. And it will, I will have a platform that I will expect to go through that represents the best interest in the majority of the Oregon people. If they refuse to do that, I don't have a problem being the first governor, active governor in Oregon history to be chief petitioner on initiative petitions. and we'll take the vote right to the people.

We will not accept a legislature that is out of touch with the people they're supposed to represent. We're doing it right now. But I think the referendum brought that to light to a lot of people, and we're going to keep that fire up and momentum going, and that's how we're going to take back Oregon. Ed Deal is running for governor, Republican. Ed Deal. I notice on your website it's Ed No Tax Deal, right?

That's my new middle name. Okay. Ed, no tax. Ed N. Deal, right? That's how you signed that. Ed, given the fact that you were going to be against a very hostile and openly hostile legislature for the most part, except for maybe the Republican tribe and a few and a couple reasonable Democrats,

a lot of the damage done to the state of Oregon has been through executive orders. Governor Brown, Governor Kotech, past governors too. And in other words, I'm kind of asking the Donald Trump, question, you know, of sorts. What executive orders need to be repealed? What kind of executive orders might you think need to be in place to bring the state back to a more balanced, a balanced position here in your view? Well, there's three executive orders that are top of mind. One is the Project Labor Agreement executive order, which actually, the courts just

struck down as illegal. So that's a huge victory for us. I don't have to mess with that one. But we have executive orders around clean fuel standards that aren't doing anything for the environment but are costing Oregonians plenty in their energy costs. We have another one that we have not felt the pain yet with the climate protection program. Is that the climate-friendly equity, what gave us the climate-friendly equitable communities here in southern Oregon? This one is even worse than that. This one will be basically a punitive tax on anything that creates carbon, natural gas, gasoline,

on distributors and manufacturers. And the money that's raised by that goes to a woke nonprofit called Seeding Justice that will redistribute those funds in the name of restorative justice and climate equity. It is a mess. Now, was that a law or an executive order? No, that was an executive order because when Republicans stood up and said, hey, we're not going to accept a carbon, you know, a carbon tax, basically. That was during the walkout with Herman years ago, right? Yes.

Okay. Exactly. In fact, I was just talking to him. When they did that, this was Kate Brown's response. Well, we'll just do it by executive order. And we're not going to call it a tax. We'll call it a fee. That's a whole other problem I have a solution for.

we're going to fix that loophole in our Constitution. Yeah, so she put this in place, and it's about to hit this year, and in the next couple years, it will be devastating to a lot of manufacturers that rely on natural gas, those distributors, fuel distributors, it is devastating. And so it has to be repealed. And the thing is, I say it hits them hard. It hits consumers. is what it does. Ultimately...

Well, I mean, those businesses don't pay the fees, the consumers, people who buy the products, we pay it in the end. You wonder why your utility costs and your gas prices are so high in Oregon. It's because of actions like those executive orders and actions by your legislature that are driving those costs up. Our problems that we face from high taxes to the homeless issue to businesses, to businesses is fleeing, these are self-induced by an extremist governor and legislature, and they will be fixed by a Republican governor that brings back balance and reflects where the Oregon people are

really at. And that is what I'm doing. Okay. Would you consider repealing the climate-friendly, equitable community deal? Because this is, once again, about driving social engineering through planning, all based on climate, climate goals, that sort of thing? Yes, I will. And you're reminding me of some of the problems we have within ODOT

and why we have projects that are so bloated that don't seem to be actually oriented around getting traffic from A to B safely. Instead, our restorative justice programs and climate justice programs that are not serving the best interests of the Oregon people. Well, as an example here, you know, when we see the various road diets, It's every single road diet that we have, Ed, in Southern Oregon, and what was done with downtown Medford, Main Street, and various others, and now is being turned back.

It all starts with the Oregon Department of Transportation. It always starts with ODOT. Everything about it, you know, it's usually some multimodal grant of some sort under climate goals. We put a swidewalk in, a very wide sidewalk in front of the Rogue Valley Mall, because some nonsense study, they say, say people walking felt too nervous, you know, being walking next to the traffic. So you take away a lane and then make an extra wide sidewalk in front of it.

That's the kind of stuff that it comes. And it's through ODOT and our local city counselors that vote for the nonsense that take the grant because, well, they need the money, Ed. That's what's going on. I know. But when you have an agency, and this isn't just ODOT, you have an agency whose strategic plan, the number one goal in that strategic plan is equity. What is equity in transportation?

What is equity in transportation? Equity is a focus totally on restorative justice and climate justice, exactly the kind of misguided projects you're talking about. And it's costing us a lot of money. It means we don't necessarily have the best leadership in place. they're definitely not focused on the core mission of ODOT, which is safe, well-maintained roads and bridges. They're off mission, and that will change when I'm governor. Ed Deal, running for governor.

Ed, what do you do? I'm going to shift it here at this point over to education because the joke is everybody talks about Oregon, how low our education ratings are. The governor is essentially the state superintendent. Essentially what it is. The Public Education. Yeah, Superintendent of the Public Education without the title here. And I hear all this talk about, we're going to talk about the science of reading and isn't the other.

The kids still have trouble reading, and the kids are still having trouble with the test scores and measuring up to the rest of the country here. And what would Superintendent Ed Deal do, I guess? How would you, where would you even start on something like that? I know it's a big question there. Oh, yeah, it's big. And we have to change leadership and really redistribute how the money is being spent from a bloated administrative state within the Department of Education and focus that money back into the schoolrooms, the classrooms themselves. You know, for me, public education is so important.

I went through public school. My wife did. My kids did. I don't even recognize the public schools we have in Oregon today. For me, it's about accountability, about discipline, and excellence in our schools. And how would you attain that through the, you know, given the fact you were talking about how people are terrified of the unions, the public employee unions, the teachers union, probably the most powerful of all, really? Yeah, yeah. Well, remember that these unions are relatively small compared to the Oregon population, but they get the governor's attention. Sure. Why is the governor so, you know, you can have a quarter.

of a million people sign a referendum, and she pays them lip service while she's doing the bidding of a small number of SEIU members. Frankly, she's just doing the bidding of SEIU leadership or the teachers' union leadership and not really even representing the interest of those members. I've talked to a lot of teachers, and they're as frustrated as we are about the state or our schools. So how do you think, how do you think as governor you can bypass that that cabal actually running the school unions rather than the rank and file teachers that are paying dues, I guess. Well, I think what will happen is if I will work with the teachers themselves, I will

bypass the union leadership, I will find coalitions of teachers that will finally be brave enough to step up and say, you know, this guy is right. We need to be able to restore discipline in our own classrooms. We've taken that ability away. we need to have education standards. We need to have discipline and enforcement around truancy. Instead of studying truancy, which is what Oregon's answer is, wow, we have high truancy rates. We need to study that.

We study it? Why do we have? Are you serious? We study it? We just study it? We study why? Well, you don't enforce truancy. That's why we have high absenteeism in our schools.

But, you know, and we will get back to the basic fundamentals. I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but the fight has to be taken. We need a governor willing to acknowledge that and fight it head on and find coalitions with these teachers that are just as upset, like I said, as we are with the state of their schools. They are so frustrated that good teachers are leaving. We want them to stay. We want them to focus on the basics that they know how to teach their kids and not some of the nonsense.

And the DEI will go away. It will go away from our schools. What is the ideal economic plan to try to keep those businesses here? And it seems like the governor, the current governor, doesn't even ask the question, hey, why did Dutch bros leave, you know, for example? Didn't even get a call. I was talking to a company down in White City when we went down, we were down in Grants Pass over this weekend, Grass Pass area, White City, Medford, Povadi Boats.

You know, they are looking at leaving Oregon. They're looking at leaving Oregon. And they can't get a callback from Governor Kotech, but Governor Abbott in Texas is talking to them and inviting them and saying, he will help them in Texas if they commit to creating jobs. What is our governor doing? She does not understand how business works. She spent her entire career in government, and she does not understand private business. She does not appreciate it. All right. Well, you do. What would Governor Ed Deals' plan look like here? So for me, business will be a priority and jobs will be a priority. So I understand that.

That was my background, my entire career. Well, then how would you as governor tie a pork chop around the dog's version of the Oregon regulatory state and say, hey, no, we're going to work on this? What would you like to do? What are some of your action plans? I guess some of your, maybe the top two things you can do as governor, as governor. Because if you're looking for legislative help, that may be a long time in coming. Okay. Well, one thing is when we do the deep dive inside these agencies, we are going to streamline regulations. A lot of that is based in rule. I can do it without legislative action. Okay.

We will streamline permitting. If there are permitting delays for a project, for a business, that will show up on my desk, and it will get resolved. It's not going to get stuck for years like we have right now. Those are things that I can do immediately as governor, and we will start seeing businesses. say, hey, you know, I'm going to stay and I'm going to give Oregon another shot. And I will also, I mean, I will also be working directly with recruiting businesses into the state, but more importantly, working with businesses. And when I say business, I'm talking about cattle ranchers. I'm talking about, you know, natural resource businesses as well as manufacturing. I will be working with them to understand what are their roadblocks and how can we truly help you. Right now we've got a governor that's traveling around doing a prosperity road show asking, asking businesses, wow, what can we do to help you stay?

She just passed a bill that disconnects us from the federal tax code that takes away accelerated depreciation for these businesses. Massive. Massive change. That's a massive disincentive for businesses here. It really is. Totally. Totally. The whole point of that, of that. change in the tax code was to incentivize investment, investment in Oregon, investment in equipment and infrastructure, and the governor took it away, and then she's going around to businesses, how can we help you? Well, how about this, governor, veto that thing? Vito that bill. So, Governor Kotex kind of the... We're bringing that bill to a referendum. Oh, you are?

That's good. Okay, now, yeah, because Governor Kotex response seems to be like, okay, I'll break your leg, but what kind of crutch would you like here? Yes, yes. Going around to companies around here. Yeah, go ahead. We actually had legislators this session. Their goal was to go after business. I couldn't believe it.

All business wants is give me a breather. Just give us a break for one year. Don't put any more burden on us. They can't even do that. They're continually going after business. They are viewed as the enemy. And that is the break in the Democrat Party between the there's pro-business Democrats and then there are the socialists. So you're thinking that's the chink in the armor then?

That's the chink in the armor, absolutely. All right. Ed Deal, running for governor. Ed, I appreciate you taking a few minutes this morning. And I know you're going to turn into a pumpkin here pretty soon, but I'm just going to tell people to go to eddeal.com, Ed, no tax deal, running for governor there. And what's next? What happens next in your schedule here? anything that? Oh, boy. I'm continuing my road show. I'm doing some stuff in my district today,

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e-deals.com and start saving today. You're here in the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. 841, it is pebble in your shoe Tuesday. What do you think about that deal? 770563. We can talk about that. Other things on your mind, because it is pebble in your shoe Tuesday. The 399 divorce and paralegal people wrote me this morning. And it had to do with sex offender ended up getting sentenced in Josephine County Circuit court yesterday. Marciaun sentenced

Monday before Josephine County Circuit Judge Matthew Galley, or Gali, rather, who before handing down the penalty stated he has known of her father, retired OSP Trooper, but that it would not affect his ruling.

Marchon's guilty play for her was one count of sex abuse to the B felony, online sexual corruption was dismissed. I'm sorry, yeah, the B felony, online sexual corruption was dismissed. It was accepted by the court. She was sentenced to 30 days jail for an alternate, an alternate, rather, incarceration program. That's house arrest or community work crew.

Three years supervised probation. Register annually as a sex offender, complete sex offender treatment class, 18 months. No contact with the victim, no contact with minors. cannot be where minors congregate, $200 fine, no intoxicants, and must get approval from probation to change residents or jobs. No jail time, they write. She got lucky and should have been sent to jail. They opined, and she's listed as a level 8-I crime index

by Measure 11 minimum sentencing guidelines. Anyway, the mother, and remember I was talking about the mother yesterday, her social media posting, but Jennifer Archie went off on the judge when it was the victim's family turned to speak. They're going to file a civil suit with an attorney. They hired from Portland against Marciaun as her son has been enduring psychological counseling and mental health service from the abuse. This was a school official or school employee and young man, sex abuse case, that kind of thing. Anyway, $399.

I appreciate the note there. And a little look at the underbelly of the legal system here in southern Oregon. It's 843. We'll catch up on the rest of it and then happy to take more of your calls on anything on your mind because it is pebble in your shoe Tuesday. And I want you to relieve yourself from the pebble. Okay, okay. The purchase of another gutter manufacturer.

045. Again, 800, 869-2045. News Talk 1063, KMED. This is the Bill Myers Show. I mentioned earlier this morning that RFK Jr., and HHS are talking about new rules, saying that hospitals must serve healthier food. Let me ask, if you've ever been in the hospital,

what was the worst food you ever had? I'll just put that out there. What's the worst one? Now, they're not talking about taste in this particular case, the new rules, but I'll give you an example, but what RFK Jr. said. A good patient for a diet might feature steel-cut oats with berries and nuts for breakfast, grilled salmon with quinoa and roasted vegetables for lunch,

and a lentil-based entree with a side salad later in the day, according to the document, you know, coming from HHS on this. And so, boy, they're looking about change. I mean, that sounds kind of like gourmet. Gourmet hospital food, huh? What was the worst? I don't know. Happy to take your call. Don's here, though. Don, you have a pebble in your shoe. Go ahead. It's on your mind. Hi, Bill. Well, I had a couple of reasons to call. You were giving up personal theme songs.

And I honestly, I thought I would love to have one. But I thought Tom was deserving. And maybe we could go with, we won't get fooled again by the Who. Oh, yeah, yeah, no. Or another brick in the wall about the education system. I call it the public fool indoctrination. system myself. I think we're getting the brain dead. You know, the children are just being taught the climate change nonsense and all the grooming or whatever they're doing with the kids these days. And we should be teaching the seven of the ancient, the trivium and the quadrivium is what we should be teaching, like logos. Charger School. Yeah, it's interesting what's not happening,

what is not happening right now. And I often wonder this is I'm driving by a local school. Here's an elementary school up by my house, and I'm wondering what they're teaching inside those schools sometime, Dawn. And I know that parents are walking their kids to and from the school. And I'm thinking to myself, do you really pay attention to us? I mean, are they teaching you? Are they having to teach your kids about, you know, sexual perversions and or,

identity pronouns and all this. I mean, how deep does it go? And I'm going to imagine that most parents probably don't know and maybe don't even know to ask these days, Dawn. It's kind of sad. Right. And they're turning out Democrats, I'm thinking Democrats for sure. Yeah, and the fact that they won't let us change the indoctrination system is just beyond. The hand that rocks the cradle, right? Right, right. But the reason I actually called with the Medford baseball stadium. Yes. Did any of us want this?

I just don't see it. But I came up with a couple of names for them. How about the Medford Milk Toast, or maybe the Medford meringue? Because it just seems like this has been shoved down our throat, and nobody's, you know, I mean, come on. This is like a tax burden beyond belief. I think the only way we could pencil this out would be to be like Otson Stadium in Eugene and have it be a concert venue. And I don't know if the location they're talking about by Hawthorne would necessarily be effective. But you understand what's going on, though, Dawn.

You have the city fathers and mothers, for that matter. They're desperate for finding some way, some sort of economic development to throw at the wall in hoping to stick. I understand why they're doing this because Oregon and, frankly, to a lesser extent, the United States in general is making it very difficult to do productive things. And so we comfort ourselves by saying, okay, well, we're going to build a big medical community. We're going to have a medical community, except that what's paying for most of that? Transfer payments. How sustainable are that over the long time? You know, wouldn't we be actually a better society if we were healthy rather than needing doctors all the time?

See what I'm getting at? We don't seem to, well, we focus on taxpayer-subsidized stuff, I guess, is what we do, ultimately. Yeah, our priorities are way backwards. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for the call, and I appreciate it. I'll have to look for those songs, another brick in the wall, and won't get fooled again. I'll get him in the bumper for you, okay?

Thanks, John. Right on. Thank you, Bill. All right. Good morning, KMED. Hi, who's this? Hey, good morning, Bill. This is Logan, following up with Don said.

and kind of what you mentioned, you know, I don't know if parents realize it, but when you send your children to public school, you are essentially agreeing to co-parent with the government. That is essentially the contract. It's left unspoken, but it's unwritten, but that's it. I'll agree with you there. I pity the MOOC. It is what it is. Furthermore, I just want to caution people, you know, it seems like every four years we get a politician who comes and tells us all the right things, and it's just like, What are we, you know, and we just like sheet to the slaughter once again. I want to remind your listeners and you, Bill, that when it came time to vote on House Bill 2010, Ed Deal sided with the Democrats, an extended health care, what essentially is free health care to illegal immigrants until the year 2032. It is what it is.

Okay. We can't overlook that. All right. I wasn't familiar with that particular vote, but thanks for the suggestion. Okay. Yep. I would also remind that it's relatively a binary choice. Unfortunately, whatever Republican makes it through there in the end, it's going to be one or the other.

That's just the way it goes. So let's vote a good one in the primary. All right. And, okay. You also have to vote for a Republican that could actually have the gas in the tank to carry it on, too. There are a lot of nonsense candidates, in my opinion, in the race right now, on the Republican side. I hear that. But where is picking the least dirty shirt in the room gotten us, Bill?

One of those dirty shirts as you term them will be the candidate one way or the other. That's all I'm getting there. Well, there's one that's not. And someone with no money and no organization has no chance. You can do that. You can run those kind of races in your local city council races. You can do this without a lot of money. Governor is going to be a $10 to $12 million race on each side.

I remind you that Trump, when the polls was doing terrible, in the poll. Trump is a billionaire. Do not compare it. It's not the same. Trump was a billionaire. Trump was well known. He had been on television for years. He was a known quantity. That's the mistake that I think people make. They're saying, well, I can just be, you know, here it is. I'm a seamstress or what it is. And God bless you seamstress. You're well-needed it. But you know, I have great ideas, and I'm going to run for governor. And it doesn't work that way, buddy. Sorry. Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill. I'll remind you to remind the listeners, everyone, Everyone doubted the Shepherd Boy, too.

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Uh-huh. Second ingredient is corn syrup. The third ingredient is canola oil or seed oils. And it goes on from there, synthetic vitamins that, you know, don't really get absorbed, of course. So that's what is given when you need some IV nourishment. So corn syrup, one of the worst sweeteners, in the world there. And what was the other one you'd mention, too?

Is the other thing? Canola oil or seed oil. Oh, seed oil. Inflammatory. What could go wrong? Well, hey, we have to make Ivy food healthier again too here, Michael. Right? I got five seconds left, so I got to go, right?

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