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Open phones and topics, Vall Kilmer gone and comments and other stories. Retired school librarian Mary Lynne Jarvis talks about the inappropraite school book issue and more.

The Bill Myer Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at clauserdrilling.com. 17 after seven continuing open phones on anything you feel like talking about this morning. 7705633. Speaking of the doors. Actor Val Kilmer ended up dying last night, age 65. Of course, he played Jim Morrison in that 1991 film, The Doors. And I thought it was one of the most astounding movies

I'd ever seen and probably the best biopic ever involving the Jim Morrison story. He was, as far as I was concerned, Jim Morrison. I couldn't believe it. And he sang all the songs in that movie. I used to have the CD of it, which I thought was just incredible too, because in some ways he had a little bit better voice than Jim Morrison, in my opinion. I think Val did a great job on that.

Of course, he was in Tombstone, all sorts of other movies too. I think my favorite movie, I don't know if you have a favorite Val Kilmer movie, number two is The Doors, number one is Thunderheart. Thunderheart, which he played the FBI agent out on the Indian reservation. That one just, I could watch that movie again and again In fact, I just might now that he ended up passing away of course, he was diagnosed with throat cancer had a couple of tracheotomies over the years and Gosh at 2014 is when he was diagnosed. So he'd been battling this quite some time He had pneumonia, which is what finally took him out last night at only 65 years old But he was struggling with health for a while and gosh, I'm thinking...

people saw him in Tombstone, there's... Oh yeah, Maverick! Yeah, Maverick from Top Gun. How could you forget that too? Right? Yeah. Arguably a difficult actor to work with. But boy, when he was on, he was golden, man. I'll tell you, really was. 770-5633. What's on your mind this morning? We can discuss this a bit. I wanted to touch about, touch on some emails I ended up getting about mental health issues. We were having

some conversations about that and trying to commit people. And one person weighed in with a really good opinion, and I'll share that and one person weighed in a really good opinion and I'll share that with you here in just a minute or two or maybe three depends on how the calls go but I'm always willing to take your calls first 770 KMED. Let me go to line one. Hi good morning who's this? Welcome. Good morning Holly from Josephine County. Hey Holly how are you this morning? I am splendid so Saturday we're having our Patriots rally at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's going to be a really interesting day. We're going to have Senator

Noah Robinson will be there. Representative Dwayne Younger will be there speaking. Commissioner Chris Barnett, former Commissioner Herman Bershig will be there. City Council President Victoria Marshall, I'm going to be doing a little speaking. Very good. And the Ed City Coordinator Oliva Herrera will be there. It's a phenomenal opportunity for people who really want to talk to our leaders. Now this is interesting you're doing this Saturday because you know what else is going on Saturday, right? Let's just mention that.

Yeah, across the street in Forehouse,ouse. Right across the street. Right across the street, you were going to have the hissy fit of all hissy fits with Democrats, Indivisible, and all the rest of them out there protesting. It's the day of resistance. You know, the day again. Now, you know, and you'll hear all sorts of stuff. You know that. Well, of course, but don't you just love the fact that they want to call, you know, particularly Elon Musk, a Nazi? Do these switch realize that the Nazis were socialists? If the Nazis were much closer to our Democrat Party than anything, it seems in the KKK, you had to be a Democrat to be along to the KKK. When did they ever

get this switch? Well, it's one of those things here. It's one of those things, Holly, where you know how this ends up going. The Democrats, of course, really what they're saying is that authoritarian government, that's really they're criticizing authoritarian government as when Democrats run everything, they're not authoritarians. It's tyranny with a smile. That's the difference. And we're talking about inclusion. But you know what I want you to do? I want you to have a, can you have a drinking game at your Patriots rally Saturday?

Okay. I like having one. Okay, all right. This is what you want to do. What I want you to do is sit out in front of the, after you have your Patriots rally, which is what, 10 to noon, I think at noon they're gathering for the HisseFid rally, and then they're gonna be screaming and honking and banging of pots and all the rest of this stuff. You could have a drinking game, maybe raise some money. Everybody has to chug a beer every time

you hear this. Now listen. Don't take my healthcare away! Don't take my healthcare away, okay. Don't take my healthcare away! Don't take my healthcare away, okay? Don't take my healthcare away! Wouldn't that be a great drinking game to do out in front of the Indivisible protest on Saturday? Well, if there's a drink you want to drink, to listen to that kind of thing. Well, yeah, it might give you an excuse. Don't take my healthcare away!

And then you chug a beer and maybe charge a buck for the... and no you probably can't do that because of the OLCC. Oh, regulations. Gosh, you just can't sell it without a license. I'm just thinking outside the box here trying to help you with the fundraiser, you know? Yeah, there you go. Well, former City Council member Vanessa Ogier, I guess it is, what a character. She seems to be heading up a lot of these demonstrations. You know, do these people read history, you know?

And heaven forbid that we should have somebody to come in and try to clean up overspending so we aren't adding trillions of dollars to the deficit. They don't care about that. All that's cared about though is what do I get right now? That's all that matters. What do I get right now? Democrats right now are doing everything that they can to just hammer down the average citizen. We are just stacked with this homelessness problem and they just keep dropping more and more problems on us. I wonder how this is going to end long term because I'm reading some email trees behind the scenes and I don't want to really bring up names and all the

rest but there's talk about, you know, people kind of going vigilante on a lot of this kind of stuff over time. It's like, yeah, there may be an order against the City of Grants Pass and Medford has to work under it and Ashland and all the rest of it. But there comes a point that I don't think that there's certain folks within the citizenry that are just going to start taking matters in their own hands. I'm not necessarily advocating this. I'm just saying that I understand where these things come from, where you're told by judges and legislatures that you're going to take disorder and mayhem on your streets.

I don't think people want to put up with this. We'll see. Well, I think just saying no is starting to come up. People are saying, we cannot accept this. And there is talk about it. I'm not into fighting over it. You know, brutal discourse, yes. But you can kind of tell that a fight's brewing, can't you? It could easily happen, you know. There's so much frustration on both sides. Fear is one of the greatest motivators for that kind of activity. And a lot of people are fearful.

You know, the people that are here in the county that have a little something are fearful of losing that. They're fearful of losing the rights to their property. They're fearful of losing their homes because taxes are getting higher and higher. We're watching the trajectory of the county and the city, you know, going broke. And that's very frightening. So when people are fearful, you get the... Well, when people are fearful you get the... When people are backed up against the wall and they still think they have something to lose. There's... yeah, you almost say. But anyway, 10 to noon is when

you're doing this Saturday, Josephine County at the GOP headquarters, right? Great event. We're expecting a lot of people to attend the event. Okay, now remember you might want your your flack jackets or something, you know, just in case. Well, hopefully not. All right. Yeah. Don't don't leave your headquarters, though, until their protest is over across the street. OK. Yeah. Well, if they're well, because hey, listen, if they're if they're willing

to burn Teslas everywhere around this state, they're certainly willing to break your windows across the street. I'm not advocating I'm not, you'm not saying this is necessarily going to happen, but I would not leave your storefront alone. Well, that's a good point. All right. Thanks, Ollie. 770-5633. Hi, KMED. Who's this? Hi, this is Double Dip Francine. Okay. Everyone's double dipping after calling it with Eric. That's all right though.

I'll let you take another bite. Go ahead. Thank you. I had no idea Val Kilmer had died. And I have to say there were a lot of roles he was in that were very, not very well known. Val Kilmer, is it right? Yeah. We were talking about.

Yeah. Yeah. He was, some of them he was just outstanding and yet they outstanding and yet the movies are not very well known, you know, but there's nothing that touches Doc Holliday. Do you think that was the best one for you? I absolutely just love that character. I have watched Tombstone, I don't even know how many times over and over, partly if not mainly because I love to watch his Doc Holliday. You know I've never I never saw Tombstone so this sounds like a must see for me really right?

Really you you need to it's it's it's that he his portrayal was just unique and excellent. You'll you'll dig it. Okay I've seen so many clips of him of him as Doc as Doc Holliday. Yeah well I got I got two guns for you, one for each of you. You know what's going to happen. No, you got to watch the whole thing. You know, I'll be your huckleberry. Okay, will do.

All right, Francie. All right. Thanks. I don't know if we have any more double dippers or not here on Wheels Up Wednesday, Liberation Wednesday. Hi, who's this? Good morning. Welcome.

Hi, it's me, Cherry Cherry. Cherry, hey, now you are our resident film critic, so you must have something to say about Val Kilmer. I think that Thunderheart is his best. What do you think? I think he was so incredible in the island of Dr. Moreau. Really? Yes, he was so scary good. I mean it was amazing, amazing. I just love him.

I never saw the remake of that because I saw the original one from like the 1930s or 40s, the one with Peter Laurie and they would, you know, like he would put his head in between a couple of electrodes and it turns into a skull or something you know the cheesy the cheesy kind of horror effects of the 1930s and 40s it's what they could do but what did you what did you think about this one the the remake I thought I loved it was so incredible with Marlon Brando, who was like three or four hundred pounds. Oh. And, oh, it was so, oh, it was so scary.

You know what? It's happening right in our backyard, the island of Dr. Moreau, because people are really turning into creatures and not people anymore. So I love that movie. Oh, so the island of Dr. Moreau has been turned into an instruction manual in the United States. Got it. It's really good. But the other one you would love and I watched last night was with Bruce Willis in 2017. I believe before all of his stroke that he got in the night. The aphasia. Yeah. Yes. It's death wish, not with Bronson,

but death wish with Bruce Willis. Death wish. Did I see that one? It hit my stars, but it was really good. It was so good. I loved it. And then the other two happened to my ancestors was One Life with Lena Olin, Anthony Hopkins, and Johnny Flynn. It's about the Holocaust. And you know there's millions of those movies but One Life was the most moving movie I've ever seen in my entire existence based on a true story. All right we need a we're just going to have a segment with you at some point just called Cherry's Cinema take, okay? Cherry Cinema, all right? Love that. Thanks, Cherry. One more with Bill Macy. It's called Focus, and that's also having to do with anti-Semitism.

And it was so good with Laura Dern and William H. Macy. And the name of that again? Focus. Focus. All right. Thanks, Cherry. Focus. Good job.

You're welcome. All right. Giving her a thumbs up on things that are worthy of your time. Let me go to line four. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is minor Dave. Hello, Dave.

Yeah, I wanted to let you know, they know where the Ark of the Covenant is. It's in the Lithuania in a warehouse somewhere. Well, that's not what the CIA paperwork, I was talking about this earlier this morning, this seems to be a story which is now kicking up here that the CIA used remote viewers to view where it was and they're claiming that it's in Hebron, Hebron, Israel or in that in that neighborhood right now. You can't believe the CIA for anything. They're a bunch of liars. It's disinformation, right? So it's in that warehouse, that warehouse, and Doge hasn't found it in those government warehouses yet, right?

No, because it's mislabeled. It's marked as the Ark of Collectibles. Oh, okay, the Ark of Collectibles instead of the Ark of the Covenant. Great. Hey, listen, now even the CIA, according to the Daily Mail story, I know this is a crazy funny story, I mean we can laugh with it, have a little fun with it, but the remote viewer was saying that yes, if you look inside it, that he saw, the remote viewer supposedly saw in the CIA documents that when people would open it up and they'd look into it and yet they'd

be destroyed, right? So could you imagine what kind of fun we could have inviting, you know, folks in Congress that are causing trouble, let's say. Hey, it's a little field trip. Come over to this government, this government operation here and just open up the lid. We got something to show you. Yeah, yeah, we got something to show you. You want to take a look? Sure! Okay. Oh well. Talk to you a little later, Dave, on that one. Felican dream. Thank you.

732. Since 1979, Dusty's transmissions at AmericanIndustrialDoor.net. You're here in the Bill Meyers show on 1063 KMED. American Industrial Door does do great work. I can attest to that for sure. 734. Deplorable Patrick Patrick you wanted to weigh in on Val Kilmer great actor dead at the age of 65 have been badly throat cancer since 2014. What are you thinking? Well I'm thinking that I don't envy anybody but if I was gonna envy somebody it might be Val Kilmer. If I looked like Val Kilmer I'd

have to be fighting off women even worse than I already do. Well I know that in the especially in his prime in his 20s and 30s I have to admit that was one of those things where there's one of those guys I looked at him it's just oh man the genetic lottery right? And I didn't know about the movie Thunder Heart. I'm sitting right down, I'm going to order it and see what it is. I tend to like Native American-themed movies for some reason. I do have a like for those. He plays the part of a...

I'm even a little light on the plot. It's been a few years since I've watched it, but I know that he's an FBI agent and he's getting sucked up, I think, in a murder mystery and it's involving a lot of native lore. And I just found it a very well-done, just amazingly themed, well-themed movie too. I just really thought that was really good. Well, I'm gonna go out and,

but one thing I'll throw in here and that's part of the factoid thing about this. I did see a picture of him fairly recently and I was really disappointed. He really let himself go. He gained a lot of weight and, and you know, with a guy that has so much going for him, you think why in the world would you just, you know,

turn into a fatso and a, and he, so that's probably where his health problems came from. You have other celebrities who get into health and nutrition and exercise and they seem to live forever. I think it's one of those, honestly, I don't know how he was taking care of himself. Like I said, he was battling this a long time ago. And I remember reading a story that a

lot of the bloat came from he was taking a lot of prednisone too for anti-inflammatory purposes. And of course that tends to bloat you up into a blimpy, you know, if you take enough of it. But there's also probably maybe he realized that he was just on the downward side and was not going to be able to survive the you know the throat cancer issue and then maybe you just figure okay I'm going to have a Wendy's double cheeseburger and a frosty every day because I'm going anyway at least I'm going to enjoy my meal. I don't know it's hard to say but yeah

you're right about the observation though sure. Yeah I appreciate the reference I'm going to order that movie right now so okay. Good bunch, Joe. Full bucks, Bill. All right, you take care Patrick. 737. KMED 993KBXG. What's happening with gold this morning? Well on Liberation Day, gold is still sitting there at just under the old time highs here. 3,124 and silver just a hair under 34 bucks. And so if you have scrap gold, scrap silver, boy, a better time than to take it over to Jay Austin and company,

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through fortunereserve.com. Hi this is Lisa from Kelly's Automotive Service in Grants Pass in Medford. Hi I'm Michael with Gage of Construction and I'm on KMED. 742 we appreciate you being up this morning. Todd's in Central Point. Todd, you had a quick memory of Val Kilmer because you dated someone that was going to be his assistant. Yeah, back in the 80s, an ex-girlfriend of mine was going to be hired as his personal assistant. And you grew up in Studio City area, right, of Southern California. So you were all immersed in this culture? Yeah, he went to Chatsworth High School down there and we're the same age and he was about to go off to Africa to shoot this movie and I warned her. I said, you know,

he has a bad reputation for not getting along with people. And I think that was born out. That movie, The Island of Dr. Murrow, he and Marlon Brando, they wouldn't even be in the same room together. They had to shoot the scenes separately. Really? But also his big breakout movie was a Zucker Brothers movie called Top Secret. And I recommend people see that.

That was such a cute movie. He danced, he sang, it was funny. And that was a spy spoof, if I recall, right? Absolutely. And also, no one's mentioned yet the movie Heat. And that was the movie that the two murderous bank robbers down in the North Hollywood shootout used as a model on how to attack that Bank of America. Yeah. Hey, well thanks for sharing the issue with about your girlfriend and did you marry this girlfriend or did she? Oh no no. But also he also wrote a book, I Am Your Huckleberry, and I recommend people read it.

Okay. One other quick local story and I'll let you go. A friend of mine was attending a church in Wyricka, and I can't even remember how long ago it was, he walked in and he said, could I play your piano? Okay, wait a minute, Val Kilmer just walked into the church and asked to play piano? Really? Yeah, he just, well, it wasn't during a service or anything. He just wanted to practice and play on the piano. My friend said he was just the nicest guy. So that's a local story. Yeah, so nice guy personally from what I understand though, but yeah, a reputation of very difficult

to work with, that's for sure. Got a lot of work though in spite of the fact that he was difficult to work with because obviously he was bankable. He was a bankable star in the day, right? Absolutely, for that good-looking. You and he, we used like doppelgängers. Well, no, yeah, I'm a doppelgänger for Val Kilmer now or in the later part as he got a little bit inflated, I think is really the inflated Vel Kilmer, but thank you for the call. I'll catch a little bit later. All right, Todd, good call. I like that. 745. I want to talk with Mary Lynn

Jarvis here, and I had a great little conversation with her yesterday because she is a retired school librarian. And Mary Lynn, it is a pleasure having you on. Welcome to the program. Good morning. And Mary Lynn, it is a pleasure having you on. Welcome to the program, good morning. Thank you. All right, where were you a school librarian? Because there's been a lot of conversation about the choosing of books. And you were a librarian from what, 1986 to 2008.

So 10, 15 years ago is when you ended up quitting or retiring from this. But what districts did you work in? I was a school librarian in Missouri. Okay, and the question that has been brought up is this House Bill 1089, which was passed yesterday, which would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to challenge a really sexually explicit, very age-inappropriate stuff. And it does look like it's going to be on its way to passing the House and then be signed by Governor Koteck into

law. And what was your experience in and who actually set up the it was it was it all school board choices back in the day that determined whether you were allowed to buy books or you know where where was the authority in your day of a librarian? The school board approved the school selection policy which was was passed down off libraries all over the nation from the American Library Association. The school library section of it was very specific and included such things as the book had to support and enrich the curriculum and the student's personal interest in learning. It had to be appropriate for the subject area and for the age, the emotional development, the ability

level. I'm just reading off of the actual school library selection policy that all schools, as far as I understood, had the board look at and approve and that was like our constitution. And that was not that long ago in the grand scheme of things, correct? No, and this is the actual current recommendation for school library selection criteria policy. And so what I'm trying to figure out is why people have to go to the school board or to the legislature about a book challenge when the school selection policy could have stopped the book from being circulated any further. All a parent had to do was fill out a form, and then in the way it was handled in our

school, is you go to the principal once the librarian receives the form from the parent, parents, which is very specific of what you complain about, what specifically quote, you know, bothered you, what page was it on, and what would you like us to do about it? Do you want us to withdraw the book from the collection? Do you want us to withhold it only from your student, your child, what you want us to do? And so that form then, I would take the principal, he would form a committee of teachers, usually three to five teachers, who would read the book in its entirety to see whether this quote was even, you know, I don't know, appropriate in any way or not. And then they would make a recommendation to me.

Then I would go back and I would write a report to the parent and I would include every single section of the school selection criteria. It's interesting here, Mary Lynn, by the way, I'm talking with a retired school librarian, Mary Lynn Jarvis. Mary Lynn, it appears that what the state of Oregon has done with Senate Bill 1089, this according to State Senator Noah Robinson, who talked to me about it yesterday, is that it is put in state law that if you have any kind of protected class, and this would be like LGBTQ,

transgenderism, whether it's a person of color, all of these other various created protected classes, that it ends up being next to impossible to remove a book from the shelf because it would be looked at as discrimination against these classes. Was there anything like that that you had to deal with there up until you know the mid-19, the mid-2000s, you know really? It wasn't an issue. It wasn't. Because the classes were not protected really as such back then. The political climate was a little different. So that is what has changed between when you were a school

librarian and now. Now the American Library Association has been accused of being one of the most so-called woke organizations today. Have you kept in touch with any of your colleagues or you know that system now and watched it? I quit my membership in ALA long ago because they stopped being neutral. I just absolutely couldn't support their position anymore where they were actually taking sides and collecting money from librarians to promote homosexuality. Oh. In the Pride Parade.

So I quit the ALA. However, other librarians did have to promote books that discussed, we're talking about in the middle school and the high school, it discussed homosexuality, but transgenderism wasn't even heard of. Yeah, it wasn't a thing, you know, at that point. You know, Mary Lynn, it's quite interesting because it sounds to me like the state is trying to cover itself with a fig leaf by saying, well, we're going to be going with the American Library Association guidelines, the ALA guidelines, but the guidelines themselves have shifted to a very severe thumb then on

what is considered acceptable for you know a 14 year old in high school let's say or in junior high. I don't know because when it says that the book must be appropriate for the subject area and for the age, the emotional development, the ability level, the social, emotional, and intellectual development of the student for whom the materials are selected. I'm thinking they're selecting them for the librarian who is a very liberal person or they're selecting them for the some teacher, but they're not selecting them for the students. Yeah, but where is the educational value in wild teen sex scenes, you know, with graphic?

Absolutely none. And then the very first item on the selection policy is it must support and enrich the curriculum and or students personal interest and learning. What do you want them to learn? Well, apparently the educational process is wanting people to learn about the pornography process. I think that's given what is being protected here

under the guise of non-discrimination. I don't know if I could come up with another explanation for it. There's not enough pornography in the schools apparently. I can't explain it. But one of the items on here, and it's a big one, is to balance the cost with the need. Now, I don't know about the school districts here in Oregon, but we had a strict budget and we had to first meet the needs of the curriculum and then we had to buy all of the award-winning books that were being recommended throughout. We're talking about books that were like in a contest. We had the Mark Twain award in Missouri where the kids would read from a selection of 20

books. Well, you know, the funny thing is now is that Mark Twain is considered something that you shouldn't be reading. Well, they didn't change the name of the award. Not yet. They haven't chiseled Samuel Clemens' head off the award yet, but they're probably getting around to that. He's still loved in Missouri. Point well taken. Mary Lynn, I really appreciate you sharing a bit of your experience here. So really what we could be, they're hiding behind ALA and ALA has changed over the years because even you yourself noticed the corrosion of standard then and that's true but the selection policy is still very neutral. All right thank you for the call and thanks for sharing your

experience as a school former school librarian okay you bet all right you be well thank you 754 Mary Lynn Jarvis this is the Bill Meyers show at KMED. Homeowners are discovering what lawn care professionals have no... News Talk 1063 KMED. This is the Bill Meyers show. Interesting day always. And Lucretia, you're checking in rather. Go ahead. What's on your mind today? Yeah, you know, my brother thinks Trump walks on water. You just got to be positive, you know, my brother thinks Trump walks on water. You just got to be positive, you know, and it is nice to be positive.

You know, like Marcus Aurelius said, journey from within is the hardest to face. And I was listening to a Catherine Austen Fitz talk from way back, like 40 years ago, when she was talking about the money laundering in Wall Street. By the way, I want to make sure that people understand when you talk about Catherine Austin Fitz, a lot of people don't know who she is, but she was within, I think, the first Bush administration, wasn't she? Under Bush Senior? Yeah, under Bush Senior in housing, in the housing world, I think is where she worked, right? Brilliant, with understanding the money.

Yeah. And anyway, she and Michael Rupert, but she was talking about all the money laundering through Wall Street. And some of the companies were Hewlett Packard, Ford, General Motors, Whirlpool, General Electric, Philip Morris. They didn't mind them doing it, but it was the amount that they were laundering. So these big companies that we think are all American and everything are just part of the destruction of the children and the people of America.

She also talked about one of the biggest things that Trump did when he first came in is FASB 56. Is what? It deals with literally... No, is what? What was it? I can't understand what you said there, Lucretia. I want to hear it clearly.

She calls it Fazbe 56. What, 56? What? Fazbe, Fazbe. She calls it Fazbe, but it's one of the first things she did when he came in in 2016. And she says it's made it so the government can hide money

by just not disclose where the money's being sent. So it's interesting that now they're doing this, but it's also interesting people are thinking, oh, the government can't do anything right. We'll just must handle it and save those people. You know, I actually agree with you on this particular case because I didn't want to, I do not, and I'm going to go on the record here, and this may be controversial, I do not want to replace a ill-functioning representative republic democracy in decline with a super efficient tech-nocracy

surveillance state either. And I would dare say Elon Musk and the various other tech bros kind of lean towards this. And so that's where I break with the so-called Department of Government of Efficiency. Now if you want to get rid of the waste and the fraud and get rid of the fraud, hey, I'm all for this, but I'm concerned what is to replace it next. Is that kind of where you're going? Yeah, like she says, it's now illegal. You can't report any of the attestable fires with the cars that where they're

just, you know, burning up the people and, you know, the cars and quitting the house fires. You can't report that anymore. Yeah, I don't want to replace one dictator with another dictator type system just under a different name and a different style. That's all I'm getting at. Okay? And so, and I think that, and I'm hoping that people, because hey listen, I was happy to give President Trump my vote. My concern though is that there may be, and we'll have to see, you know, part of this is that you're going to have to let some of this play out. We're not even in really basically 100 days right now, you know?

Well, Bill, do you know who runs Netflix? I haven't had a TV since 2006, but I remember you were talking, they were just putting on a lot of smutty stuff, right? They were for a while. I do have a Netflix account because I did want to watch a couple of movies. I just re-upped it recently. The part that I find most interesting is that, you want to know what's really funny about Netflix though? Netflix seems to like to take every actor in any kind of a series and replace it with a black, an African American. And there is a series that they said, we picked this for you, Bill.

And it came out there and it talks about the residents of everyone living in the White House. And you see on the screen is screen is you know everybody's black everybody you know on the on the screen and I thought that they were only kidding around when they were joking about making the the Greta Thunberg story with everyone it's family families on that Netflix no which ones Edward Bernays and Bertrand Russell really I'm gonna have to look that up. You see, I don't know if I don't want to believe you on this one, but that's a great, great theory.

But this is pre-Conspiracy Theory Thursday. This is Wednesday. This is Liberation Wednesday, Lucretia. Get with the program. He's well-known. Okay, all right. I'll look it up. I'll look it up. Thanks for the call. I appreciate that. Boy, that's going to send me on a fox hunt, I imagine. It's a couple minutes after eight o'clock. This is KMED HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. We're going to be talking a bit of American history, both older American history and newer American history too. And I am so looking forward to this. Jared Nott, he has written a second edition of Tiny Blunders and how government people worldwide throughout history, tiny little mistakes that they make end up having huge

consequences. It's an interesting, fun read. We'll have a little talk about the some of the stuff that went on. That'll be coming up in about 10.