Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 04-04-25_FRIDAY _7AM

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

04-04-25_FRIDAY _7AM

Eight minutes after seven, let me go to Bismarck. Bismarck, you went on the way in. I was just having a little hissy fit rant about pools and parks and rec, I guess, really, and what we need. But what are you thinking this morning? Go right ahead. Well, people have forgotten the purpose of a community pool. This Rogue X stuff is all corporate and money making, you know, greed. If you go to Jackson Pool, the one right there that they built way back when, there's a flagpole that never has a flag on it anymore. And there's a bronze plaque that was put on that flagpole. It explains everything. Jackson Pool was built by veterans of World War II, and on it it

says, we built this for the sacrifice so that children could play free. It's right there in the bronze plaque. Everybody should go to Jackson Pool, find the little park right next to the pool, walk up to that flagpole and read it. It'll make you cry. And now it is like everything about parks and recreation is, okay, how can we put a fee box in front of it or a membership about it and fill the good old boy motel network, right?

Right. So there's no playing. It's all paying. I appreciate the call. Thanks for sharing that. Let me go to Todd. Hello, Todd. How are you doing this morning? Welcome. Pretty good.

You were talking about possibly shutting off streets and making them kind of outdoor walking areas and... Well, one of the plans on downtown's main street, of course, now this is a long shot, but still, the good old boy network would love the okay we eliminate the cars and we do the trees we make a ten million dollar kind of some Eugene style sort of promenade or plaza you know downtown and all of a sudden that will make downtown attractive to everybody you know these are sort of the the plans that get thrown at the you know at the at the wall, so to speak.

Well, there's nothing new under the sun. When I was living in Southern California, in Burbank, California, specifically, there's a major road, a historic road called San Fernando Road and it connected some of the missions and stuff, but it was a major business thoroughfare. In the 1960s in the business district, they decided, you know what, we need to have it without cars so people can just walk from store to store. They called it the Golden Mall. Of course, they shut off about a mile and a half of streets. For about 30 years, the businesses went downhill and they suffered. So then they, you know,

it wasn't anything about, you know, climate equity and climate friendly areas and all that. They were just strangling the businesses. So they undid all the work they did and everything was rejuvenated because people needed to get in and out. They didn't want to park, like you said, not everyone wants to walk a couple of blocks with all their groceries or shopping materials or it out. They didn't want to park like you said, not everyone wants to walk a couple of blocks with all their groceries or shopping materials or whatever it is. Yeah, and I assure you a lot of women do not like the parking prison style of shopping in downtown either, once you go to the bunker type thing and you hope that Uncle Purvey

is not hiding in the corner as you're loading up stuff into the vehicle that you drove down. And your last caller talked about the pools and all these little community pools were for the main clientele was supposed to be children. So if they centralized it out on the west end of town, what does that mean? Kids are going to be walking longer distances to get there, or have to ride their bike on streets longer distances, or have their parents drive them? Well, it's mostly going to be their parents driving them at the same time we're not supposed to drive, but yet you take the main attracted. You see, this is one thing I thought that Kurt Ankerberg, for whatever other issues that he may have had running for office, he was absolutely

right about that. When he was talking about, you know, what the neighborhoods needed were neighborhood pools. They are expenses. We get that. But at least they were a true community good and your kids were able to go and walk and play and learn and swim in your neighborhood, rather than having to go from southeast Medford all the way to northwest Medford in order to be able to enjoy that. That's all I was getting at I guess here. Okay? Yeah. And just one last thing about the proposed different city planning for

Medford and high density in downtown and talking about getting rid of setbacks. If you want to see how stupid no setbacks are for housing, go to Central Point in the Twin Creeks neighborhood. They just finished some three-story, what they call them affordable housing areas, and there's zero setback from the sidewalk. It is so weird. So let's say you're walking down the sidewalk. If you stop in front of somebody's unit, their living room window is right there. There's no setback.

You could reach out and put your hand on their front window. So if they have their blinds up, you're looking... You're essentially looking into their living room is what you're doing now. You abs... Yay. Yeah, you see that's great, Bo. That's affordable. That's fostering community. That's fostering community to expose yourself out of your living room to the sidewalk.

In the lie is that they keep repeating, we just don't have enough developable land. Oh, there's plenty of developable land. They don't want to do that, though. Everything's supposed to be within the urban growth boundary. Because the state says so. Well, I got a letter from Habitat for Humanity and one of the things they said was there's not enough land and too expensive. I did some math. Oregon has almost no people in it. If you take the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and I forget what other small state. All of those together don't even equal half of the land mass of Oregon. You are absolutely right, Todd. It's just it. Everything when it comes to developable land, the shortage of developable land is a state-created

shortage. It is a completely artificial construct appreciate the call thanks for bringing it up 7705633 why is there a lack of the develop a land look at your legislature look at your laws look at your governor and look at your gang greens this is the bill meyer show mister outdoors standing by we're going to talk with him in just a moment we'll have more your calls coming up after the outdoor report okay

oregon truck and auto Authority is celebrating MED. Here's Bill Meyer. And we'll have the calls mostly after Mr. Outdoors is done with his report. We're going to be talking about the Outdoors and also Val Kilmer too. I think we should honor that and make sure and mention this because I'm still looking to watch for a Thunderheart by the way, Craig, but everyone's telling me that it's behind paywalls right now. You have to rent it. It is getting on the streaming services right now. I don't know, maybe they put Thunderheart behind it for that very reason.

He died. Oh, we got to make some bank here on this one. Well, and then you've got streamers now throwing up every, um, every major movie that he did. I, we have Hulu, for example, when tombstone, the top guns are up now being pushed. Um, he is up now on Hulu, but you know, yeah, some of these other performances that he has that are just incredible. Um, yeah, it doesn't surprise me they're sticking some of them, you know, behind paywalls and you either have to buy them

or you have to rent them. But two of those that if they are behind paywalls that absolutely are worth the money to see them. You mentioned Thunderheart, but the other one is the ghost in the darkness. And there he is, our Mr. Outdoors tie. All right, that is the ghost in the darkness. I have not seen that one. Tell me about it. Okay, the ghost in the darkness is actually a true story. John Henry Patterson,

the character that Val Kilmer is playing, definitely did exist. He was hired to be the engineer to develop a bridge across the Savo River. The British were in a race with the Germans to get rail service built out in Africa and everything was going great for the British until they hit Savo and then everything started going terrible for them and what wound up happening was two male lions descended on the railroad camp. Thanks. Where they were trying to build this bridge over the Savo River and these two lions went on what I believe would have to be the most horrific spree of killing humans but also eating them. If I remember right, it wound up being somewhere around...

I got 800-900 in my head. It was an incredible number. 800 to 900 humans chewed through by these two lions. Wow. These two lions, two males, and they defied every attempt to kill them. And the story was they were actually demon spirits summoned by, you know, a tribal leader to curse and then attack the British people building the railway. Well, John Henry Patterson eventually did kill both of those lions, as shown in the movie. Both of those lions were then stuffed and sent to the Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where they're on display. Now, in the movie, there are magnificent maned lions. One is kind of a golden mane, the other one is a dark mane. The ghost and the darkness therefore kind of

fits. The reality was neither one of these male lions had manes. They were very unusual that way. They were males but no manes. Were they mutants or do sometimes the lions just did not have manes? Right, which is very odd for fully mature male lions do not have manes but they didn't. They did determine these were brothers. They were born in the same litter. But anyway, John Henry Patterson does eventually A, kill the Lions and B, successfully get the bridge built over the Savo River. So those elements of the story that are in there are 100% the truth. The only

thing about that movie that was fictitious, but boy it's a great touch to the story, is the emergence of a character Charles Remington played by Michael Douglas. And this is one of the great Michael Douglas roles also. So The Ghost in the Darkness is absolutely, it is an amazing movie, it is in my top three for Val Kilmer. It is number three because of course, Doc Holliday is number two because Tombstone, now when you think of Doc Holliday, the first thing that pops in your mind

is Val Kilmer's portrayal. And he made something up that is now immortal. Is this the Huckleberry this the Huckleberry deal? That is a total ad lib from Vow. Now I'm reading, there are no scripts left of that, but you know the thing about Huckleberry is that in the South, the buckles or the handles on a coffin were called Huckles. And so there was a term in which,

hey, I'll be your Huckle bearer, you know, is what- Right, and that, see, Val, he is, was, and I had the great privilege to work for Sam Elliott doing fire prevention work on property he owned in Sun River, and Sam gave me a lot of insight into Val. Val doesn't just play a character He fully absorbs it becomes it. He does all of his homework. Well, he's a method actor I mean look at what he did web

Well, look at what he did portraying Jim Morrison. He sang the songs were crying out loud, right? Yeah, but he showed up on the set of Tombstone and he was Doc and he never broke character throughout the entire shoot. He kept the accent, he kept everything. He was Doc Holliday and he just was amazing that way. You just brought up Jim Morrison. What's funny is I think the earliest movie I ever saw Val Kilmer in was a spoof movie on World War II movies and the Elvis movies called Top Secret. Yeah, and he was, yeah, it was a total spoof on that and very funny, very funny. And his character is Nick Rivers. He did all of

his own singing and dancing in that. When the producers of The Doors, because they were already getting set up to do the movie. They saw him in that and they said, there's our Jim Morrison as soon as they found out. He was doing the real singing. Well then, when they were ready to shoot the movie, Val disappeared. They couldn't find him. What he did was he went and learned 50 Doors songs, nailed them. Then he shows up and he starts singing and I'll never forget Robbie Krieger saying when he was singing we couldn't tell if it was Jim or him. That was really high praise because you're right the

surviving Doors members just couldn't believe how he nailed that. In fact they should have had a tribute band after the movie. They should have just gone out on that. In fact, they should have had a tribute band after the movie. They should have. They should have just gone out on that. It would have been great. Very cool stuff here, Greg. Very cool stuff. Alright, so, well, I'm waiting to see... I'm going to go find Thunderheart. Thunderheart's the one I want to see again, and I've never seen Tombstone. So I've seen so many clips of it. I think I pretty much know what he's going to do on that, but we'll see. Oh, yeah. Tombstone is a tour de force and I tell people all the time if you haven't seen it even if you don't think you like Westerns watch

that one because that is so amazing and especially when you know the backstory of what happened in the production what they produced unreal and Kurt Russell is the unsung hero he played Wyatt Kurt's the unsung hero. He played Wyatt. Kurt's the unsung hero of that. He saved that whole thing. He kept that movie going after the studio fired Kevin Harre, who wrote the script. But Kevin Harre was supposed to direct it, and then the studio lost faith in him. And then they brought in, I just blanked his name, anyway he'd done Rambo movies, he'd done other stuff and the cast just did not bond with him at all and

Kurt Russell stepped up and essentially became the director of the movie called All the Shots and he saved that thing and Tombstone went forward because of him and Sam told me, if not for Kurt he goes I don't know that that thing ever would have gotten completed. All right, very good. Mr. Outdoors here. Why don't we get into the bit of the outdoor news here as we think about Ghost of the Darkness and everything else and certainly going to be doing that. Gonna be nice weather this weekend. We get back to some wetness on Sunday, you know, apparently. And is the real hard spring going to be

still a few weeks off the way you're looking at it? Yeah, here's what's gonna happen. At least I can say this now. In the next seven to ten days, I don't see anything that looks like the kind of major winter storms we've been going through. What it looks to me like is we're going to see a lot of what we would typically see in March. We're going to be having disturbances come in. We're going to have showers, but we're not going to have these big major storms with a lot of wind and a lot of rain and a lot of mountain snow. That kind is transitioning away. But we are definitely going to be seeing unsettled weather

coming through and it will cool down this weekend, today, tomorrow, 70s. Sunday, probably upper 60s, around 70. There is that chance for showers coming in later in the day, but right now it feels like Sunday is mostly going to be a really nice sunny day and then transitioning to some clouds popping up and a chance for showers. So I think that kind of thing everybody will go, oh alright we can take that. What is your favorite outdoor activity? Is it a fishing or something else going on? What would you do? Right now it definitely it would be a couple different things. It would be fishing, but the morel mushrooms are

starting to pop. Getting out and walking around, especially in elevations below 2,500 feet, morels are definitely getting out there. You're going to most typically find them with southern exposures where they're getting more sunshine right now, but the morels are beginning to pop. The weather we're going to see today and tomorrow, especially, will really get them popping because we're going to be up in the seventies, low mid seventies today, followed by mid to upper seventies tomorrow. And then like I said, Sunday said Sunday well we start going the other

direction and temps will cool but we'll be probably upper 60s to around 70 on Sunday so still not bad and actually pretty seasonal for the time of the year all right very good talking with Greg Roberts Mr. Outdoors at rogueweather.com an outdoor report sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on airway drive in Medford let me grab a couple of calls here people I think they I don't know if they want to talk tombstone or outdoors. I don't know here Greg. Let's find out. Okay you're all but Greg and Bill who's this? Welcome. Hey Bill, it's Wild Salmon. Hey Steve. Several years ago you I won a book from you about the

history of the Southwest and it talked about Doc Holliday and the funniest thing about it was he was a terrible shot. He and another guy got in a gunfight, he in a bar emptied their six guns and neither one of them hit anything. Really? No kidding. Yeah, no, the reality, the gunslinger, you know, the kind of the thing they do put across in Tombstone with both Doc and Johnny Ringo.

Yeah, the reality is it doesn't quite happen that way. Those weapons, and if you get your hand on a true original, you kind of start to understand it compared to today's handguns. Those things really... Yeah, they're sloppy by comparison for sure. That's a great story though, but you're absolutely right. Of course, there's another aspect of this that we didn't mention though. A lot of whiskey lubrication may have gotten in the way too.

Yeah, for sure. And then the one thing the movie did show right at the beginning in Tombstone, what Doc was actually far more known for for being lethal with? Knives. Oh. He was very good with knives. Yeah, it's up close and personal for sure. Let me grab another call. You're on with Mr. Outdoors. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Yeah, good morning. This is Terry.

Terry, what are you thinking? Hey, Greg. I looked at the United States map for drought and I see Oregon has zero drought in it, which was awesome, or is awesome. How are we doing on snowpacking and water equivalent? Oh yeah, I posted that earlier in the week on Rogue Weather's page, so you can go look that up on Facebook.

But if I remember right, we were somewhere around 150 to 160 percent of normal now in the Rogue Basin, and it was like 160 to 170 for the Klamath Basin. So no, we're doing great. We've got absolutely no concerns at all. The reservoirs for the time of the year, all of our reservoirs are above where they would normally be for water in them. So yeah, it's it's gonna get real interesting with Applegate when the snowpack really does start melting off because they're gonna have to do bigger releases out of Applegate to keep up with that now than you would normally see in the spring. All right. Well, let's grab one more call here and good morning.

You're on with Greg and Bill. Who's this? Good morning. It's deplorable Patrick, Greg and Bill. Yeah. I know yours too. It's always a pleasure to talk with when Greg is on because he knows everything. Or like me, he thinks he knows everything. I'm just going to say, careful now, I don't know everything, just some things. But you know, we're able to present ourselves as if we're pure authorities on everything. Of course, that may be a man thing. I don't know. But just go ahead.

I think so. So I'm going to roll the dice. I remember years ago when I was driving the up and down I-5 a lot. And we used to be able to look off in the distance off to the west and see trucks way up there operating the Hannah Nickel mine. Yeah. And then along came these destructive politicians and shut it down, and now we've got Trump. Do you think the Hannah Nickel mine is going to come back? I would say because of who sits in the White House now and a lot of changes they're making, it's entirely possible. And let me chime in on that too. Let me chime in on that, Greg, because

when Scott... It's a valuable resource. Yeah, when Scott Besant... You know, you have to look at a lot of what's going on right now through the lens of Scott Besant, who is of course Treasury Secretary, and I will take you back to a press conference that happened a few weeks ago. It was the same day, Greg and Patrick, that they had all the tech bros out there talking about their half trillion dollar AI investing. Remember that? Right. All right. And Scott Besant is talking about the

creation of a sovereign wealth fund in which the resources of the country are investable and will spin off income or royalties to the federal government. And when they're talking about that given the incredible indebtedness of the United States and then they're whacking global trade right now in order to restart domestic, getting more domestic manufacturing. I would dare say take them at their word serious as a heart attack and in spite of what gangrene and the... And who's the big KS wild guy, George Sexton? In spite of the George Sextons of the world, financial bankruptcy, which is what the United States is technically in right now, it just hasn't really been declared, is sharpening

the mines. And this idea of we're going to burn the forest and build the taxpayers, I don't think it's going to happen or keep going for a lot longer. And that would also include sitting on stuff like the nickel mine that you were talking about, Patrick. It's just now, I could be absolutely wrong, but they're serious about it as far as I can tell. Okay? Well, I think they might declare it as strategic, national, I'm trying to think of the right term, but a strategic resource and that changes the game on everything. I'm really, really happy overall with Trump and with the prospects for this country.

Yeah, we'll just have to see if there will be enough roadblocks thrown up in front of him. We don't know. But the days, once again, in which you're going to lock up every resource that we have here, you're going to burn the forest, bill the taxpayer, and not really try to get any wealth out of these resources, I think necessarily, and it's just a math problem here, you know, it just can't go on any longer. I appreciate the call there. And Greg, I appreciate your take on it too. We will talk next Friday, okay? Have a great weekend.

Oh, hey, real quick, because of what you just said, there is all kinds of buzz going on, and it does sound like that fighting fires, they're going to pull the firefighting aspect of Forest Service and BLM out of the agencies and make firefighting a completely independent effort and I would totally support that. That would actually be quite helpful wouldn't it overall? Absolutely would. Yeah all right what about the budgeting you, the budgeting for the Forest Service though? That part, obviously, you know, there's still things, pardon. It's okay.

Things they would have to work out. But newly elected Senator Tim Sheehy from Montana, he's making good on everything he said he was going to do. He's pushing forward to get the firefighting positions year-round, get them benefits, and he said he wanted to take the firefighting effort independent from BLM and Forest Service and it looks like they're moving down that road. Very interesting. We'll have to keep up on that story for sure. Hey, Greg, I was reading this morning that they ended up reinstating the tour guides over at,

is it Yaquina or Ya-kina? I forget how you pronounce that up there. Ya-kina. Ya-kina, okay. Over in the Northwest part of the state, do we have any other national parks or places like that that are still sort of unattended at the moment or do they they have that all? You know, some things when you're in the middle of firing a bunch of people or laying off or reassigning sort of people,

there will be mistakes made, no doubt. Well, and here's what also happened. I mean, that made headlines that, oh my gosh, they did this. What they didn't report was how many people were hired back on within a week to two weeks. You'll still find stories out there going, they fired all these people. Well, unfortunately, I think the agency that has suffered the worst, that they clearly have not restored the staff yet, National Weather Service, and especially at this time of the year. However, that said, you know, especially

with our severe weather outbreak ongoing central and eastern US, we have not seen any decrease in their ability to crank information out, the essential life-saving information to the public. There are other things though we are concerned about. We lost some stations that are now not doing any balloon soundings of the atmosphere, and we've got others right in the heart of Tornado Alley only doing one balloon sounding a day. It's those stations, especially in Tornado Alley in the deep south where the severe weather is hitting, I think they should be doing three balloon soundings a day, 6 a.m. noon, 6 p.m.

I'm going to bring up an uncomfortable question here. I'm going to bring up an uncomfortable question here. Hey, Greg, Greg, uncomfortable question here. Are they going to replace weather forecasters with AI in these agencies? I don't believe they could fully do that but some aspects, there are definitely some aspects you can feed the model information into it and AI could take it and run with it but there are other aspects of what the staff meteorologists do for National Weather Service. you can't ever possibly fully

replace them with AI. There's no way. And I could get into this and we would be still talking at 10 a.m. with no commercial breaks. Yeah, we'll have to hold off. That'll be another day, okay? Let me grab one more call here. Do you have a question for Greg or something else this morning? Welcome.

I apologize for calling back at this while, Salmon, again. Yeah, okay. You know, the thing that you just said about the Forest Service losing their firefighting agency, the Interagency Fire Bureau, taking that away from the Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior, means that their budget goes down

by 40%. It's all over and- Yeah, seriously. Yeah, it would because the firefighting side of it, when you look at the budgets, you're right. It takes a huge chunk in both of those agencies. agencies, but in reality, so much of what they do with their resource, let's say they put 15 engines, four crews, two hotshot crews in here in Medford and fire season starts breaking loose.

The reality is, and I watch this happen with their resource report every day in fire season, those resources get moved all around the country. And sometimes, and we have definitely had it happen, we've had lightning bursts roll through, we've had all these fires starting, and we don't have enough resource that should have been here because resources that say they're from the Rogue River-Siskiw National Forest, like the Hotshot crew, or from Medford BLM, like the veterans crew, Crew 10. Yeah, they're supposedly Medford-based resource, but the Rogue River Hotshots are, let's say,

in Alaska and Crew 10 is in Colorado. So, they're just divorcing that's why they're divorcing the fire service from the actual district itself and just having it be it's in other words we got firefighters they go wherever they're needed that's just the way it goes. Exactly they become a federal resource and what Senator Sheehy is saying is well let's break this out, let's create this, and he's looking for a model that kind of makes that a little better operationally, and especially for initial attack, especially here at Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest and Medford BLM, where we have definitely

suffered in the past from not being able to put enough of an initial attack on fires. And then the other thing that they clearly need to evaluate is their own policy on fighting them once they get into extended attack. All right, very good. Really hoping we're going to start seeing some modification of the big box burn it ourselves approach because we definitely especially here need to see that part happen. All right, Greg Roberts, rogueweather.com. Greg, thanks. We'll talk next Friday. Be well. And thank you for the call, Steve, even though it was two. You know, breaking the no more than one call. All right. That's all right. It was a different topic and it

made sense. And by the way, Steve knew his stuff given his experience in the timber industry before there. Okay. Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford, the sponsor then once again of the Outdoor Report. We do this every Friday at about this time. We'll check the rest of the news here in just a moment.

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Well, I enjoy it anytime. But Kate's in Cave Junction, but he's actually in Corvallis this morning. You wanted to talk about mining that Patrick had mentioned a few moments ago, huh? Go ahead. Well, good morning. Back in World War II, strategic metals were needed. This region has been known for its gold and the Hanna-Nickel mine. I don't know its history as to when it became a viable source of nickel.

I actually had the opportunity in the early 80s of taking a tour of that operation with my geology compadres from SOSD, SOU. Anyhow, it's interesting, the chromium deposits in the Illinois Valley and Northern California region of the metamorphic terrains that are what we live on and make our lives geologically complicated are the same geologic sense Trump's presidency and his intentions. I have been praying to hear something like Patrick said, I'm not the only one, that the federal government will utilize our resources. The Kalmanauks wilderness area was built to lock that up. There is a tremendous amount of metal or rare potential in that wilderness area by itself.

I think that the conceit that has been operating the United States for a long, long time saying that says, you know, we need a strategic mineral. It's okay to have a third world kid digging it with his hands in the cobalt pit mine, right? But we're supposed to not do anything here where we could actually do it cleanly and with good environmental oversight there. I think those days necessarily must come to an end, Keith, because it's a mathematics problem. You know, you can't

have a $38-40 trillion federal deficit. At some point point the slate will be cleaned or paid off somehow. And I think this is what the Trump administration is realizing. And I have a feeling that there are going to be a lot of lock up and keep the people out of resources type folks that may be disappointed over the next few years. We'll see about that. I hope you're right because the pendulum swing from abusing and extracting because I worked out in Nevada in a gold mine. The root hit is a nightmare. Super fun site. Anaconda up in Montana. Absolute mess. Yes, same with the forest, with the lumber industry practices prior to the 60s and the early 70s when I actually watched the Forest Service doing a darn good

job, believe me, I can't believe I'm saying this, of replanting harvested timber units. And yet all of that came to a screeching halt. The practices of the government, i.e. the environmentalist influence. Well, it was also though part, and I gotta tell you though, Oregon is still strong on this deindustrializing. I don't think Oregon will be allowed over time if it's gonna remain part of the union to deindustrialize because it's not, you know, they're not going to be able to

make it on the globalist trade model that we've had so far. It's my hope that most of these mineral resources and the Blue Mountains in northeastern Oregon are the same geologic fact, they're identical to the Siskiyou region. And I'm hoping, and this is me just hoping, that because it's at a federal level that you can actually tell the state to get the heck out. And that could be. And that could be. All right. Hey Keith, I appreciate that. You burned a little bit of daylight there and I got a roll,

but thanks for the call. Point well taken. And these are the kind of things that we should be watching for over the next few years. And resources will be used and put to work. They're not just going to be sitting around and have us, no, you can't go there. You can't look at it. You can't even walk on it. No, forget about it. I think those days are going to have to come to an end.

Two dogs fabricating, carries North Star flatbeds. You're here in the Bill Myers show on 1063 KMED. By the way, Herman Berkshuger writes me this morning about the lions of the Savo, we were talking about that with the Val Kilmer movie, and Herman of course, big outdoorsman, okay okay and he says Bill there were several dozen people killed rumors were said to be hundreds 800 somewhat of a reach all right could have been for the for the movie right Herman it was something like that Betty writes me this morning says Mel Gibson actually it is an interesting story Mel Gibson's right to own guns restored by the Justice Department. So yeah, well at least maybe the Justice

Department's going to have to restore all of Oregonians gun rights if the state legislature has its way. Kevin Starrett has been putting out a lot of, you know, and all I'd say, Bill look at these anti-gun bills they're moving. Yeah, and the Republicans are there. As long as the Republicans are there, they're helping pass them. I'm sorry. It's just only so many times I can say that I feel like the proverbial broken record or skipping CD or corrupted mp3 streaming file. I don't know. Let me go to the phones there. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Logan, Bill. Hey, Logan. What are you thinking?

Hey, I just wanted to call and give a shout out and just a kudos to we've had several of these 2040 meetings, the agenda meetings. There was one yesterday. I've been able to show up for several of them, but I noticed that almost to everyone, you see a lovely smiling face of Diana Anderson. Diana Anderson has been in the, you know, has been in the forefront of keeping people. In the thick of it, fighting for us. And I just want to just bring attention to her and just as a community thank her for the work and the research that she's doing and trying to stop these agendas that are being perpetrated against our state and

open our state back up. She is just a local gem and we definitely lean to value her in all of her time. Will do. We'll have it back on, get the impression of it, and thanks for you being there too, Logan. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Bill. All right. 754, I think this is Dave. Hello, Dave, go ahead. I think this is Dave. Hello Dave, go ahead. Yeah, this is miner Dave. I wanted to say that the way we could get things started is is to say Bill Clinton took away the funding for the Bureau of Mines. The law has never been repealed, but it's not being funded and there's no director.

This would be crucial in opening up mining all over the place, not just here in Chiswick County in southern Oregon. I would imagine though, if you're not going to be able to import the minerals and the strategic materials needed to the same extent, and that's really what Trump is doing with these tariffs, right? You get that, get that right we understand right yeah but we also need to open reopen the Bureau of Mines because they get all the research and under the 1872 law they get the research if you had a patentable claim they'll get the patent well we'll see what ends up happening here with that and maybe maybe you're right about this.

The point being... Well, call your congressmen and tell them to fund the Bureau of Mines. Okay, well, one congressman can't but many could, all right? Many could. Just call as many as you can. All right. Thanks, Dave. 756 and change on KMED 993KBXG.

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Foggy as we speak. All right. On the way to the coast here. No big deal. Hey, by the way, how is that? I've always wanted to ask somebody. You know that that police car, that old vintage police car at the store in O'Brien? That's 1951 Plymouth. 1951. Does that still run or is that just a display at this point? It actually does run.

And do they ever take it out on a parade or run that around in the area? Just curious. They used to. The man that used to own the O'Brien store was a guy named Gary Moore and he was the one that purchased that vehicle and put it up and it's become an icon ever since. He used to run it in parades but then the store has been through two other owners since that time and the other owners have not had the interest in the car the way he did other than it's basically a landmark. Yeah every time I go by there I just smile.

It's like driving past the the sweet Cron sign too. Exactly. One of Southern Oregon's sweet landmarks. Good stuff. Hey, appreciate the call, John. And thanks for the dad joke. 8 o'clock at KMED HD1, Eagle Point Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Let's see, what is the price of gold this morning? Friends over at Jay Austin always say, I came to MSC, Burt's Gold. I always go to Burt's Gold page at Lew Rockwell to check this out. Latest price on gold. Yesterday, it ended up hitting an all-time high like 3168.

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