Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 04-04-25_FRIDAY _6AM

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

04-04-25_FRIDAY _6AM

The Bill Meyer 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 ClouserDrilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Delighted to have you here on Find Your Phone Friday. 770-5633-770-KME. How are you holding up this morning? Everything okay?

I know a lot of people looking at the stock market stuff in 401k. I kept checking in with my little baby 401k It's not very much. I don't have nearly as much put away as I would like because you know if if you You know, I was doing a estimate the other day I was trying to think about okay What did the divorces that I had with the mothers of my children cost. I did the estimate one time that just in child support alone it was about a quarter of a million dollars. It's like

you take, you know, you have kids and you have bad marriages and you know, you just take the value of a house and set it on fire in the parking lot and there you go That's that's pretty much the way it goes. So the one thing I will say don't marry crazy people. It's all Chris my exes would probably say you're crazy But anyway, yeah It was interesting looking in on the on the stock market yesterday and that seems to be the big deal Although the jobs report from March actually ended up being pretty good. But they're not even paying attention to that right now.

Jobs report looking pretty good. Unemployment a little bit higher in some spots there, but yeah, the main thing had to do with major bloodletting. And it was kind of a pin meeting a bubble. I think we can be honest about things like this. And I had mentioned briefly yesterday that one of the biggest challenges I think we had is that people, oh, look at that roaring stock market.

Look at that roaring stock market. Oddly enough though, most of it was concentrated in a handful of stocks. Most of this huge, bubble-ish wealth creation that people are complaining about this morning was from a few stocks. It's the Apples, it's the Amazons, those sort of things. The Magnificent 7, Google, various others. Anything really connected with the globalist thing just got connected with the globalist thing just got pounded yesterday, especially if you were talking about any kind of business which requires a lot of foreign manufacturing in order to

make it pencil. I don't know if that TV show Shark Tank is still out there. I don't watch a whole lot of TV for the most part, but I remember how Kevin O'Leary, you know, Mr. Wonderful, would always go in there. They'd be talking to people about, oh, so you got this new invention, right? This new invention. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a great invention. You can't make it in the United States.

There's no way you can afford to make it. And Mr. Wonderful and all these other people, all the other ones that were there, would always be, how many times did you watch that that and then they would talk about what is your plan to get it manufactured overseas and you would have occasionally a business person that would say you know I really like to manufacture it here you can't afford to do that and so you know we won't we were not going to invest in your product unless you find a way to get it made overseas remember watching a shark tank when you would see that every now and then?

And that would irritate me. It really would. But I understood the shark tank people, yes, even Mr. Wonderful, they were saying the right thing. At that time, that was the right thing because this had been the entire focus of Western civilization, meaning the United States of America, that you can't make it here. You got to make it somewhere else to be able to sell it into the international markets

and all this kind of stuff. And they were right. And so they would always do this. And then as Ross Perot would say, and I voted for Ross Perot, by the way, that year that he was running, I thought he made a lot of sense. Hey, that giant second sound, Larry. Here's your sound, Larry. Giant second sound all going out there, down to Mexico. Man, that giant second sound, Larry. Here's your sound, Larry. Giant second sound.

All going out there. Down to Mexico. Well, yeah, all happened. So now though, we've been experiencing what, 30, 40, 50 years of globalism. And really, the globalism era really started after Nixon ended up just going with the pure fiat currency back in the early 1970s. You disconnect gold from reality, you know, that kind of thing. So that had been a long term trend really and President Trump says we're going to get this reversed. And so

most of these stocks that really got pounded yesterday were the ones that were requiring foreign manufacturing because now there's going to be a lot of tariff on a lot of these things. You know the company Wayfair? My wife has bought several things from Wayfair over the years and it's very nice home goods online website. The value of Wayfair alone went down 20% yesterday, just one day, 20%. And because most of this is their stuff is made mostly in Vietnam. Vietnam is almost the new China, really. Comes right down to it for a lot of lower value of manufacturing. And so you buy a furniture piece from Wayfair or a stuffed pillow, you know, whatever the

case might be. Well, the value of the company dropped 20% because they realized that the tariffs are going to be that big of a deal on any kind of business in which you are importing something into the United States. Apple and Nvidia alone, they lost, I'm trying to remember, there was so much going on there, about a half trillion

dollars just yesterday alone. And there's now talk that the top iPhone in the United States will soon be $2,300. Woohoo! Yeah. I think I'm going to be hanging on to my old boat anchor Android Note 20 5G. I think I'm gonna I'm just gonna hang on to that you know we may even get to five to six or seven G here pretty soon. 5G is pointing fast for me right now. I think I'm gonna be be hanging on to my phone for a little while. $2,300 for an iPhone? Wow!

Yeah needless to say Tim Cook's not real happy about those things, but we kind of knew this was coming. We knew this was coming. There was a bit of this. We knew this was coming. And there are going to be some winners and some losers. And right now, the Magnificent 7 would appear to be kind of the big losers of the moment, the big Magnificent 7, so-called magnificent seven stocks. All right. So that's what we're looking at. Futures this morning down another 1,000, 1,100 or so.

So we're probably going to see a little more bloodletting. And at some point there will be a bounce and some people will see some of this stuff was oversold and then, hey, you know, there's also money to be made during bloodletting times like this too. And the smart traders, I'll bet have their checkbooks out. I don't know which ones you should buy, Norm, but I advise you on things like that. But I was kind of happy to have gold. I have a lot of gold stocks in my particular baby 401k and also minerals and supplies because

I was thinking, you know, at some point there was going to be this, you know, this need to start reinvigorating manufacturing. So a couple of stocks that a guy that I work with, he had suggested and they have to do with supply chains here, getting things like that ready to make more. And they've actually done pretty well. And gold gave back a little bit and then bounced back and came, you know, it was down like a half percent overall.

It was not that big of a deal still. In fact, it hit a new all-time high yesterday at one point, 3,168. Silver, a little more givey-backy at this point. So a lot of drama out there in the financial world. You're gonna continue to hear a lot about that. And some of the other reaction to it, Ford Motor Company announcing that it's going to extend employee pricing to everyone

because of the tariffs that were announced by President Trump, including 25% tariffs. These are taxes on foreign-made cars that went into effect yesterday. So that is a big deal. That will be something which... Boy, yeah, okay. So employee pricing. Reverend David was the one who first turned me on to that. I thought that was really interesting. I don't know if that's a sign of strength right now. Ford Motor Company has been having some troubles here for a while.

I think this is just a little bit of a desperation to try to continue to hang on to market share. I'm not criticizing Ford. They're doing what I think they have to do. Their stock's been under pressure for a long, long time because of the electric vehicle losses and various other things, and then you put this on top of it. We'll see where this goes. Now, fortunately for Ford, they build 80% of its American-sold vehicles domestically. Getting this out of the epic times this morning.

So that's helpful, but it's that 20% that could be a big deal. Margins aren't nearly as high as they once were. Now then, you could expect that some of this was going to come back the other way. And Trump's trade war has China retaliating with 34% tariffs on American-sold goods in China. Of course, it's not going to hurt us really at all because we just don't sell all sold goods in China. Of course, it's not gonna hurt us really at all because we just don't sell all that much to China. If you do sell to China, I'm sorry for you,

that's going to suck because China is gonna say, okay, yeah, China needs us considerably more. I think we trade three times more coming in from China, roughly speaking, than we send to them. So that's not going to have much of any effect at all. All right. All right. What are some other stories that we have going on this morning? Army slashes mandatory training requirements with regulation update. Looking at this in the military times, I always find the military news interesting.

I guess they've been having a lot of classes that they think a lot of people in the military just kind of like just making all sorts of time and just wasting people's time. They're getting rid of a lot of that. Three hundred hours a year they were talking about some of the training programs. Well, that's a lot of time people were spending online trying to learn about stuff they may not actually need. The military saying, hey, the only stuff we're carried about, we care about is that you actually concentrate on training for war fighting capability.

I think that is a code word for a lot of DEI crap being cut. I don't know for sure, but it could be, it could be. All right. Daily Signal reporting. I like this one. Trump administration's Health and Human Services Agency canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in grants dedicated to the, well, the island of misfit humans, really, researching illegal sexual behavior in kids, pregnancy prevention for transgender boys, in other words, girls pretending to be boys, and so-called sleep inequality affecting black sexual minority men. Yeah, they cut

$10,000 off promised funding to a conference at the University of Oklahoma called Be Curious, Not Judgmental, the fourth national symposium on sexual behavior of youth. Oh boy, I know people are going to die because of these cuts, I'm sure. That's the way Indivisible will be talking about it tomorrow when they protest around the country. Let's see. March 21st, Trump's NIH terminated a 2.9 million dollar grant to University of Minnesota for researching on adolescent health at the intersections of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, immigrant identities, and native language. People will die because of

this kind of, I'm sure too, we'll hear about it tomorrow again. Something else indivisible will be hissing and hitting about tomorrow. By the way, it's going to be all over the country, 12 noon, I guess is when they're doing this. Hunter College lost its $211,000 grant to study development and feasibility of a psychosocial intervention for sexual and gender minority autistic adults. So island of misfit human autistics. We had to worry about that. People will die, I'm sure, no doubt. March 18th, NIH cutting off Virginia Commonwealth University $205,000 grant focused on using

youth-engaged methods to develop and evaluate a measure for disordered eating behaviors in transgender and gender diverse youth. Oh, this is just sad, sad, sad. People are just going to be dying left and right, you know, because of their of their government grift not coming in. Oh It's so sad So sad meanwhile some other decent good news here Number of migrant children arriving alone at the southern border has plummeted reaching an all-time low in March border patrol Getting an encounter with 631 unaccompanied alien children at the southwest

border last month. That's down 97% from a record 18,000, almost 19,000 kids that came in under Biden back in March of 2021. So some pretty good news there too. All right. By the way, not all of the stock news yesterday was bad. There were some places that were doing okay. You know, one of the big winners, Croker, Fred Meyer, yeah, Fred Meyer stock, doing

okay. Not necessarily going up, but it's looked at almost as safety and the grocery store chains not affected as much by tariffs. I thought that was pretty interesting. So you might be seeing people shifting into that kind of stuff. All right. 770-5633. I think this is Tom. Good morning, Tom. How are you on Find Your Phone Friday? Doing fine, Bill. Kind of a little bit of a subject shift here, but it's nice to watch

a pretty remarkable video, which I like you. I don't like to watch videos that much, but there's an interview between Tucker Carlson and a medical doctor. And she was talking about her experiences with COVID and she started out as a rather conventional non-political medical doctor, but she started seeing right off very soon that the sickest people and the more people that were sick were all vaccinated. And she said many things about what she saw and experienced as a medical doctor. But one of the most interesting things of the whole thing that I thought was there were a lot of times where a person would be in the hospital and their spouse was trying to get

them ivermectin and there was a special lawyer group that went in and sued the hospital and really tried to do that. It turned out that they did like 180 cases, but they almost fell into two equal groups. One half of them got ivermectin, the other half they failed. And she said in that division, the people who died in the ivermectin group were only three out of, say, 90, and the other group, all of them died, every one of them. Tom, I'm not surprised to hear this at all because I and many of my friends around here in Southern Oregon, let me just put it this way.

We kind of had the Ivermectin railroad going on here during COVID time here. I didn't talk about it on the air a whole lot at that time, Tom, because you just couldn't. You'd be crushed by the system right now at that time, during it. But you know how I talked about how I was taking it all the time?

This is not about me, but I'm just saying, once we saw what was going on, there were people I knew in Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland. We had kind of this Ivermectin underground railroad going on. Yes, I was in contact with it too. Oh, okay, you knew, yeah. Because we had to, you couldn't get legitimate prescriptions for it, so we were getting the

Ivermectin injectable and drinking it according to the FLCCC.net protocols and I think Ann Barnhart, that financier, you know, had some good writing about it too. And every, you know, people were contacting the Underground Railroad for this because they were dying and they couldn't get it from the medical system. Medical system would not give it to them and their relatives and there were, there was work done to supply these people and all of these people recovered. All of them. Every single one of the people that ended up approaching the Ivermectin Underground Railroad, they recovered and and like I said, I even, there are some sponsors of mine that ended up getting in contact with

the Underground Railroad too. They were talking about how I ended up getting a call from one of them one time. It said, my husband is dying. And he said, we don't know what to do because the hospital just sent him home with an oxygen bottle. And he said that, his husband just said he was just dying, was not going to make it. And then, once the Underground Railroad supplied him with the veterinary, you know, Ivermectin, which is what they were using at that time, it's the only source you had, the only source you could do, you know, at that point. had. The only source you could do, you know, at that point. Yeah, the medical doctor talked about, you know, the protocols that she talked about when someone got COVID. It was about the eighth day

that they really hit a crisis with the inflammation and so forth. And so there's a definite protocol in the early stages, ivermectin and a few things. And also vitamin D and aspirin, there are all sorts of other things you had to do at that point. But, like I said, back to that one person who said, the husband's dying. Once the railroad got it to him, it's like within four hours he was feeling better and the next morning he wanted to go back to work. That's what a miracle that was at this time and this was what was refused to most Americans, many who died over these times. It's a crime really, in my opinion.

Well, it truly is a crime and unless people become accountable and so forth, the crime will continue. It's like Catherine Fitz says that a crime that pays stays and so that's what that will be our fate if we don't do anything about this, but it was it was a crime. Yeah, indeed it was. I'm glad to know I'll have to take a look. I don't watch a lot of Tucker. I used to watch him more when I was easier for me to do it just on TV like that. But maybe I'll have to check that one out. Okay? I appreciate that. Yeah, it was really interesting because she was in the trenches. She involved her consciousness about it just from what she was touching, seeing, feeling. You know, it was right there

in her face. So, it's very insightful. Thank you very much for the tip on that one. 770-5633. By the way, there is someone who is continuing to try to call the show. And I've noticed that the system keeps hanging up on them. And they don't have caller ID on. The only way you can get through is to have caller ID. And I'm sorry about that, but it's about trolls. And trolls will usually always block their caller ID. And I'm sorry about that, but it's about trolls. And trolls will usually always block their caller ID. And so that's why we had to turn on a system that says that. So let your caller ID in so I know who you are or can see that you are legit and not a troll

and then you can make it through. Otherwise you can't. Okay. If you're on hold, I'll be right with you though. Find your phone Friday. This is the Bill Meyer Show. Hi, this is Bill Meyer. Always appreciate it. 0730. Hi, I'm Lisa with Pacific Survey Supply and I'm on KMED. 630. Jerry the Bull is here this Friday morning. How you doing, Jerry?

It's on your mind. Doing well, Bill. Good. Doing well. Good. Hey, as you were talking to Tom, I was thinking about Trump and I was thinking about COVID. And what happened during the last year of his first term?

We had COVID. Yeah. And the economy shut down big time. All of a sudden. Anyway, well, Trump's back. Now I know, I'm not saying the economy is going to shut down, but I know a lot of people think it is. Oh, like it's rhyming, right? Like rhyming with 2020? Yeah. Yeah, well obviously it's not a medical thing.

Yeah, at least we hope it won't turn into a medical thing. Yeah, and you know, I voted for Trump. I wish the best for Trump and his administration and to turn everything around. What I do know Bill, even though I don't know what's gonna happen economically, I do know that we cannot continue to go down the road that we've been going down with deficit spending and deficit spending and spending more than we make and blah, blah, blah. And not producing anything.

It's going to blow up somewhere, sometime. And you know what? Even Ross Perot back in 92 said the same thing regarding entitlement and everything. And he said, you know, we don't know when, but we know that that's what's going to happen is it's just going to be, the entitlements are going to be too big. Everything works until it doesn't, right? How many times I've been talking about that? That's really the reality.

Nobody can predict when finally the camel's back breaks or you know that sort of thing it just doesn't we don't know and and and we've you can tell that we can borrow and spend way longer than I think most people thought that that it could have ever gone on would you agree on that it's just crazy oh yeah well you know we I'm sure people thought it would all be crashed by now, but it's still here and we're still surviving while we can. I'm with you on this one. I'm guardedly optimistic about this.

When Porter Stansberry and a couple of other Trump insiders were talking about this essentially being Trump's great reset and that he wouldn't have been elected if he had told them everything that they were thinking about. I'm starting to think that they're right about this and I would much more trust a great reset from President Trump who I believe to the heart of my being loves this country. Okay. I would trust, remember, you may recall the last few weeks I've been talking about we've had dueling versions of what the Great Reset was supposed to be. You have the globalist version of the Great Reset

which is you will have your climate-friendly equitable community in your little stack-and-pack home and you will eat ze bugs because bugs are very nutritious and you will take ze bus. Now Now Medford of course is still down on that path because of climate-friendly equitable communities but this and that the other but that's not the Trump way of looking at things. His reset is that okay we're gonna have to start making things again and when we start making things again it's probably gonna hurt for a while as we transition because a lot of the stuff which has been tariffed and it will be more expensive right now Jerry as we well know it may

not be built in the United States for a while if ever it may take a while you know to crank some of that stuff up doesn't go on a dime as you well know those sort of things yeah right but I will trust his version of a Great Reset over Klaus Schwab and Al Gore's version of a Great Reset any day of the week. Okay? Yeah. I agree. And we'll see how it plays out. I think it's a multi-pronged approach. When I listen to his Treasury Secretary, it's not just about tariffs. It's about tax cuts. It's about, it seems like, trying to slow down the economy

where we're not spending as much, where we don't have all the deficits. Yeah, I do wish that they had gotten the tax cut done first before they did this part about it. But hey, I guess timing just didn't work out the way they were thinking about it. But we'll just have to be guardedly optimistic and watch it. And let's pray that it works

because it is a big disruption. You can agree with me on that. I think everybody agrees. This is a big deal. Hey, you know, years ago, Bill, and I mean 50 plus years ago, I remember my dad telling us that what we need in this country is a good depression. And I thought, oh, okay. And, you know, this was probably around the time when we had just gotten off the gold standard and inflation was just beginning to start.

So your dad was talking about washing out the rot even then. Well, the rot has just continued to build and build and build as we kick the can. Anyway, we all need a wake-up call. We all need to cut up the credit card, so to speak, and you know, live within our means. And what about the generations of kids whose greatest goal in life is to be a TikTok influencer? Oh, God. Something tells me that, you know, a tough time might sharpen the mind pretty quickly because a lot of that TikTok economy is just a fake landfill economy sort of a situation for nonsense. But anyway, hey,

Jerry, I got to go. In fact, I'm going to talk with somebody about TikTok because I guess we're up against this deadline for getting TikTok sold off. Something's going to happen. I'm going to talk with one of these people involved with that. OK, I'll catch you a little later. All right. something's going to happen. I'm going to talk with one of these people involved with that. Okay. I'll catch you a little later. All right. Thank you, Jerry, Jerry the bull six 37 at Kameda. Yeah. We'll do that. After news, a tick tock. We'll shift gears for a little bit on the tick tock. Yeah. China completed electric plus completes all those electrical.

You buy the Oregon division of financial regulation, the Oregon association of broadcasters and this station. Good morning. This is news talk. One Oh six three Kameda and you're waking up with the Bill Meyers show. Holly Mark joins me. She's the executive director of the American Parents Coalition. And Gus, if there's anybody that needs a coalition, it's parents these days. Holly, welcome back.

Good morning. Hi, thanks for having me. You know, a story that kind of got lost in the shuffle of all the drama this week in DC with tariffs and firings and doges and you know how it's just, it's just been like a fire hose of news and drama. We know that, but there's a deadline tomorrow with the negotiating with TikTok. I was just talking about TikTok with some folks

and saying, hey, you know, all the kids today, they don't want to do anything productive. They want to be a TikTok influencer. What could go wrong with such an economic plan here? But you ended up writing a letter. You sent a letter to Vice President J.D. Vance ahead of this deadline here. Now, could you tell me what's been going on?

You got billboards rolling around Washington, D.C. and everything What are you trying to to make happen here with this tick-tock divester? This divesting kind of call what do you think first for sure? Well, first of all, so our organization American Parents Coalition, we have two big goals first We're determined to reclaim parental authority and also defend parental rights So we're of the general mindset that nothing should stand between a parent and their kids to reclaim parental authority and also defend parental rights. So we're of the general mindset that nothing

should stand between a parent and their kid, not the government or schools, not the medical establishment, big tech. And boy, you have a big high lift on this kind of stuff because the attack on parents has been blistering these last few years, in my opinion. Yeah, for sure. And so with TikTok specifically, um, you know,

I think the biggest thing for people to consider when you zoom out is two things first, that the adult and the child experience on TikTok is extremely different. So for your listeners who are like, well, I am TikTok, and I don't see a problem with it. It's because the algorithm, which is controlled by a Chinese company with direct, you know, input from the CCP, which is of course our biggest adversary, they control the algorithm and what our kids see. And then when you combine that with the fact that kids are spending two hours a day, 120

minutes a day on TikTok. Now, that's not 120 minutes a day on social media. That's on TikTok. And the things that they see and are served by this algorithm are extremely dangerous. There was a study last year where they created new accounts as you know, 13 to 16 year olds, like the youngest that you can be to create a TikTok account. And within eight minutes and two minutes, the kids were being, those kid accounts were being served glorifying content about both self-harm and eating disorders. And so it creates this-

Really? Yeah. It creates this really dangerous ecosystem where kids are just constantly being feeded this really dangerous information and scrolling through that. And it's being best case scenario, normalized, worst case scenario, that could get down a rabbit hole and sucked into this really dangerous content. And so we sent a letter to Vice President Vance, as you mentioned, as the administration

is negotiating in the final days of this deal, really urging them that if that algorithm is in any way, shape or form still in Chinese control, that this quote deal would do a great disservice to the next generation of Americans. In fact, you have a name for this. You're just calling it TikTok is Poison, right? It's really all you're saying. That's right. Well, is, let me put it this way, would having TikTok under American control, would an American poisoner be any better than a Chinese poisoner? What do you think? That's a really great question.

I would always want to assume the best of our fellow Americans. I don't think that it being owned by Metta or Amazon or any of these you know other big Oracle any of these other big companies who are in the room. I think they present their own challenges. Instagram, Facebook, etc. These other social media platforms are not quote good for kids. Social media under the age of 16, 17, 18 years old is a real problem for kids writ large. But I would much rather have conversations about parental controls and the types of content that kids have access to than knowing that we've handed the keys to a car, to a known adversary, someone who wishes to do us harm and to brainwash the next generation.

I'm sure you're familiar with last year, there was a, this was in like, you know, the wake of October 7th, there were, there was a huge boom on TikTok of Osama bin Laden's Letter to America. And all of these Gen Z and younger TikTok influencers were viewing the propaganda of, oh, wow, he's not so bad. Like he's just anti-colonization, et cetera. And when there was a study- In other words, it was like having a Columbia University gender studies professor in charge of the TikTok feed,

right? Exactly, exactly. And so when you've got the CCP with the ability to control that, and there was a study at a Rutgers somewhat recently where they were looking at, trying to find some real data about whether or not the conversation was being suppressed. And they were comparing the usage of hashtags

and what was getting traction on Instagram and TikTok, which both have a similar number in their user base. And that the anti-American sentiment trending on TikTok was exponentially, it was like 59, not just like a couple of times exponentially, 59 times higher on TikTok than it was on Instagram. So, you know, is there a possibility, Olly, that maybe you're barking up the wrong tree and that you should just be going out and trying to get

parents to disconnect their kids from TikTok, no matter who owns it? 100%. And glad you raised that point. So on our website, AmericanParentsCoalition.org, we actually have an entire page of resources dedicated to parents, for them to be able to have these conversations in their family and with their kids. And we have a couple different things specifically on the on parents for them to be able to have these conversations in their family and with their kids. And we have a couple different things specifically on the social media side of things.

We have conversation guides. So like, hey, sit down at the dinner table, have these conversations with your kids. Here's some helpful points as to why it's so dangerous. And then we also have, if you don't get anywhere with that route, have. Very like easy wide step by step instructions for each operating system on how you can actually block the app and this will apply to other apps as well. But you can actually block tick tock on your phone depending on what you know version you have if you have a you know Android or an iPhone whatever you have so we will always be advocating for parents

to have as much information and resources as possible. This one's a little bit unique, again, because of the angle with it being known for an adversary. But when it comes to social media at large, I and our organization are very much in the position that parents should honestly turn it off, but have a very, very, very tight leash on social media and screen time access with kids.

Ali Mar is with me, Executive Director of the American Parents Coalition, and they're getting involved in trying to get a better outcome for this TikTok divestiture push that the current administration is working on right now, tomorrow being April 5th is the deadline. Now, is tomorrow the deadline for it to be divested or for the negotiations? Where actually are we in this process right now? I kind of lost track of it and all the other drama. Yeah, so when President Trump took office, they basically granted an extension for lack of a better way to describe it, he wanted the opportunity to, quote, save TikTok and see if he could get to a place that was basically in keeping with the spirit of what

Congress passed last year but allowed TikTok to continue to operate. And so, that expires tomorrow and we should have a better idea of what the administration is thinking at that point. And I guess, like, one of the last pitches I would make on that is, you know, we've seen this administration, you opened with this. They have taken action on all fronts, and it has been a great change from where we were just a few years ago, a few months ago even. And they have done so much in the pro-family, America

first side of things to protect kids. You know, we've seen a strong push on taking control of the southern border. We've seen keeping men out of women's sports. But I don't think anything is a greater threat to the next generation than what is trying to control and influence their minds. Speaking of which, I want to ask you what level of gender confusion and pushing the island what I term the island of misfit humans ideology. How much of that goes through TikTok? Is there a way to estimate that? You know, I don't have hard numbers for you on that, but there was a study that I believe

what the Wall Street Journal did last year where they looked into some of these more cultural quote contagion issues. Yeah, gender ideology being pushed through these kind of things. I'm wondering if that is big. For sure. And they had some direct anecdotes and quotes

from teens that they had interviewed were one said, yeah, TikTok identified that I was bisexual before I did. And so you hear- Oh, come on. Oh, come on. And that goes back to what we talked about at the beginning with the suicide and the eating disorder content. If you hover on any of these videos for more than three seconds and you're like not just like passing through them, that algorithm targets you and it thinks you're interested in this and it will just feed you clip after clip after clip.

And when you're talking about, you know, teenage girls who are, you know, in the throws of puberty and not fitting in and confused about their bodies changing something we've all gone through and was not particularly enjoyable for anyone. And you throw in that these unrealistic beauty standards that are constantly being thrown in these young girls' faces. And then they're spending eight hours a day on the internet just engaged in this kind of content. No wonder they're messed up. I wonder how badly we would have been messed up if we

had this when we were kids, Ali. I really wonder. Would be. Yeah, it would be awful. I don't know. It's one thing. Here is some. What would be the possibility of and now this may be kind of talking against you a little bit here. If you look at, at TikTok in China, and the TikTok that is in China that is delivered to the kids is way different than the TikTok which is delivered here. You know, in America, the freaks and degenerates are delivered to the kids in TikTok. In China, you have positive cultural references. Here's Yu Yu Yang or whatever it is playing, you know, a Mozart piano concerto, things like this.

That's the sort of stuff that gets delivered to kids in communist China. But here we get the dirt. What could be done about that? Because, you know, they're looking, you know, China is using TikTok over there to actually help their children. And here it's used to attack the kids. That's right. And then again, if we had someone in control of an app with that

kind of influence, who actually had the next generation of Americans best interest at heart, you know, there would be an opportunity to have that kind of influence for sure. And that's why not all digital content, not all social media is inherently bad, but the supervisory role of parents is just so important. You know, like I know my my six-year-old, she's in an alternative school, and they do a lot of their math lessons, you know, in a gamified sense, and she loves it. But we're talking about math. You know, she's never seen TikTok, Instagram, Facebook in her life, and she's not. But we're talking about math. You know, she's never seen TikTok, Instagram, Facebook in her life and she's not going to for a very long time. But it is not

inherently digital content in small doses that is bad. It is giving the keys to our kids' brain to an adversary and letting them control it and feeding them these social experiments. Yeah, I'm just hoping that we don't go from dirtbag TikTok right now to just an American controlled dirtbag TikTok, if you know what I mean. So I just don't see where the positive side of that would be. Although I guess at least we would be able to grab the dirtbag TikTok,tock in America by the scruff of the neck more easily, I suppose. I guess. Well, and we have more control and more avenues by which we can influence American companies. You know, like, and that is why our government and Congress exists, you know, like there, I think we are getting closer and closer to seeing our legislators wake up, especially as the millennial generation of elected officials start to start to actually come in and age into, you know, these elected roles.

We're seeing it in our kids and in Gen Z and want to affect that change. So you can be lobbied as hard as you want by the tech industry, but at the end of the day, you're going to start having these parents coming into these leadership roles who are saying, yeah, that's great, but I'm seeing what it's doing to my kids' friends. And then look at all the tech pros, how many of them refuse to let their kids go on Instagram and TikTok and all the other places like that, the social media, they refuse to even let them have a phone in many cases. That's a really good point.

You hear that time and time again in interviews with some of the most vocal leaders in Silicon Valley saying that their kids will never have. But it's okay to screw with our kids though, right? Yeah, our saying that you know their kids won't you'll never have Oh, but it's okay to screw with our kids though, right? Yeah our kids, you know, that's fine Hey, you know, we you know, because after all we got to sell you stuff. Yes Okay, where can people go to find out more about the you know, your organization once again the American Parents Coalition And also maybe even help you on this holdout, you know getting in in touch with JD Vans, maybe dropping a letter or an email or something. What could they do? Yes, so AmericanParentsCoalition.org is our website. We have a lot of resources there and one thing that we do that is a

little bit unique from similar organizations. We have, I guess you could call it a quote, newsletter that we send out called the Lookout. But what makes it really different is you have plenty of notifications and breaking news alerts. This is not that. It is not sent on any regular cadence. When there's a big story that's happening in the world of parental rights and influence, we digest that down into like common sense English talking points, here's what's happening.

But not just a warning of what's happening. We will in that same note include a bunch of resources for things you can do at your kitchen table today. And then also tell you what we're working on with the public advocacy side of things and how you can be helpful in that fight. So really taking this kind of like three pronged approach, keeping parents educated. Here's some things you can do at your kitchen table today. And then here's the broader approach that we as parents in the coalition can take from the public policy perspective. I appreciate your work. I'm going to go to

your site today and sign up for those alerts so I keep in on it because I don't have any children. You know, my children are all grown at this point but I guess maybe I'll be looking for trying to keep their children, my grandkids, in better shape as time goes on, all right? And thank you so much for having shared what you're doing over at the American Parents Coalition. Ollie Maher is the executive director there. Thanks so much, Ollie.

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When I see a 1960s muscle car, anything with anything bigger than 16 inch wheels, I refer to them as clown wheels. What's really moronic is seeing a huge SUV jacked up with huge wheels and tires with a three inch sidewall, just tiny sidewall, right? I love the freedom here of no vehicle inspections, but I wonder how long it's gonna last Windows tinted almost black trucks raised beyond practicality with tires just dying to float on water

Diesel's belching black smoke as the owner pretends. It's a 600 cubic inch blown V8 for what? Now I am NOT without sin my hemi Magnum runs straight through its converters, no mufflers, but it's still quieter than most Harley's I see. I hear driven by accountants and salesmen that are dressed like they're going to a Hell's Angels meeting. Thanks for a fun and informative show, Butch. Butch, always happy to help you out on that thing. Chris writes me, Bill! This popped up on my feed this morning from the city of Medford. City Council considers proposals for Main Street re-striping.

Yeah, three alternatives. There are three alternatives being discussed, Chris, and you're absolutely right. And one of them is relatively modest. Another one was more expensive, but they would have to repay the three quarters of a million dollar grant that they took to repave and restripe Main Street in the first place. And then, Chris, there's another one that they're talking about, which hasn't been getting a lot of play.

It would be a $10 million transformation of Main Street in which they would turn it into like a plaza with tons of trees in the middle of it. In other words, going even more down the climate friendly, equitable community thing. So I hope that you stay very close and get very involved in the various surveys that no doubt the gangrene and the spandex mafia crowd will try to do it it's like there there's just a part of me that would hope that the medford city council we just stop it

stop it please stop doing it they keep wondering and i might blame the current council because what they're suffering under is stupidity from prior councils and say, hey, all we have to do is put a road diet on there and put bicycle highways in there for the bums and bollards everywhere and get everybody all confused and then we'll get this $750,000 grant from the state of Oregon and then we'll be able to do this.

I'm not blaming them for this they didn't vote this this this this was past stupidity hopefully they're not doing any current stupidity but still past stupidity is what we are we're talking about that we're dealing with right now and they wonder why I don't know if it's they if it it's the council, but the planners say, well, we're trying to get more people attracted to downtown Medford. And what are we going to do about this? We have to do something. And everything that is done makes you want to go downtown less often. Because everything about attracting more people to downtown Medford, the way it's funneled through the current planning system and maybe this is the climate friendly equitable community garbage and there's more of

that coming through I'll talk about this over the next few days hey the problem with this is that everything that is connected with climate friendly equitable community means that they don't want you driving and you don't want you taking a car. Well this is an older community. You're not going to be getting an 85 year old living in East Medford to come downtown to a to a Medford festival of some sort if you're insisting that they ride a bicycle or ride RV TD to do it. But yet that's kind of how they're doing it. We're going to get rid of parking, we're going to have the speeding cameras coming in and out of there, we're going to pop you, let's do a few million dollars in fines for it, and then they wonder why people try to bypass downtown.

You're not really able to get the bums out of the way here, so nobody wants to come downtown and go to a nice restaurant if you're having to deal with the bums and the pan handling and various other things and just with the disorder. Now it's not total disorder and dirtbagry, but there's a lot of it still going on. And I think there's this, the planners are kind of under this mindset that, well, all we have to do is turn it into a plaza, $10 million, and oh, it's going to be another tourist attraction and people will be flying into the Rogue Valley International Airport. And then we're going to have another piece of wonderful infrastructure and we're going

to fill motels with it. There's a little bit of that going on. A little bit of that going on. They're the kind of people that write me and say, Bill, why are you still bagging on Rogue X? I say, because it's not what we needed. It's what the Good Old Boy Network wanted. The Good Old Boy Network wanted Rogue X. They wanted something big in the northwest side of town when really what most parents need is a neighborhood swim pool, you know, but that doesn't

fulfill the, oh we need people flying in for cornhole tournaments, you know, kind of approach. And it's in one section of town, one section of town that you go for the swimming, at the same time everything else from your city council and your government is saying you're not supposed to be driving to these sort of places. Well that would seem to mean that you should be decentralizing and distributing swimming opportunities around the city rather than just having one place and I know it's I've lost it and it's already there why are you criticizing this bill

because it's not what we needed it's what the good old boy network wanted. Huh. All right. I'm feeling better now. And yes, I know you probably like going to rogex. That's fine. Good. It's okay. But we're all paying for it. The vast majority of people will likely never go to rogex, but yet we're paying for it. I would have preferred that pools be looked at as a community need and expense rather than looking at how we're going to have cornhole tournaments and that will make us rich here in southern Oregon. Just me, all right? Maybe I'm the idiot here in this case, but this is the Bill Meyer Show.