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Episode Date: April 6, 2026

Dr. Dennis Powers and I talk local history, the Drury Baseball Story, The war and other news and open phones follow

This hour of the Bill Meyer Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Dr. Dilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klauserdrilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyer. Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of law. He joins the program every Monday at about this time. We talk about some history and they get into the legal lawfare. By the way, this is KMED. KMED HD-1.

Eagle Point Medford, KBXG grants pass. I think I forgot to do the legal idea at the top. So now I have done my FCC duties here, Doc. Welcome back. And Brandon Drury is who you're profiling this week. Isn't that right? Well, it's always a pleasure, my friend, because I've been following Brandon Drury

ever since I first came here. And in any event, I have this notion that, as far as history is concerned, that today is history when we're in tomorrow. And history can be interesting, depending on a broad type of variety. But Brandon was an incredible baseball player for Grants Pass High School. And in his senior year, which was 2010, he was the first team all-state selection. Atlanta Braves just went ahead my friend, and they drafted him right out of high school.

So in any event, he went into the minors. He did well, and then in Arizona, in 2013, the Diamondbacks, he actually started playing, although he had been a minor league All-Star in a few years before. But by the time he was really in the majors, Bill, he had been in seven minor league teams in five years. You're moving around just a little bit, huh? Well, gosh, you know, Bill, I kept thinking, that's incredible, because just think where these are new people, these are different localities. I mean, it's all away from Rome, Georgia, which is 30,000 people in, you know, Atlanta. you know, close to Atlanta. But in any event, he finally gets his big breaks with the

diamond backs. And he always has had, he's had different types of injuries, but he keeps on playing. He's a utility player, which means he can play the infield. He can play the outfield. He played second and third base, outfield. He hit in 2017 for, a 280 average. Yeah, and then he made his way to the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres you talk about. But then it sounds like the big time was, what, $17 million contract with the LA Angels, right?

There you go, because always during this, he even played for the Yankees, he played for the Mets, a minor league team. And as you're pointing out, he just keeps on playing with persistence. and real courage because he would have a number of injuries as of today, everything from hamstring, fractured left. In fact, that's the reason why he was let go from the angels, right, because of injury. That's true.

And the key thing is that he even got a Silver Slugger Award in 2012 for his batting. in 2022 when he was with the Reds. And as of 2016, he had like a million-dollar net worth. And I said, boy, I'd say, he's certainly saving his money as he's going back and forth. But then when you look at it in an overview, Bill, in terms of he had a great different starting spring lead this year, did extremely. well, and then all of a sudden, you know, he gets a fractured left hand. Boy, he's had trouble staying healthy, I guess, is what I'm hearing.

That's been his challenge in his career so far. You know, that also in the fact that what offset that, which is a good point, is that he would go anywhere, and he has an agent that has been working very hard to find places. And so finally, he was able to sign a contract with a... the Royals, and where he would have records like he was with Arizona, New York, Toronto, twice in Cincinnati, San Diego, this and that. What really gets me is that he's a journeyman baseball player, but the grit, the talent, and the perseverance, and then I decided to look into his net worth and to confirm it,

and as you were pointing out, I just said, that's amazing. Yeah, don't spend it on the posse right now, Brandon, right? You don't want the entourage following you around. That is true. I believe he's finally, you know, he is married, and he has a net worth now of $22 million at $8.35. I think he's doing just fine, and we'll see what happens after the Kansas City experience. All right. We will point this up, of course, at Brandon Drury, local baseball standout, local baseball.

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Well, Dr. Powers, I did not go see Senator Ron Wyden the other day, did you? Just curious? No, I didn't either because of a number of things. It's about time for our old senators to very quietly, except they're not leave. Well, it doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon, you know, the way it is looking at the moment here. But let's see, he was, you know, naturally, naturally here in town. I was in Medford, at the Hali. And, of course, he's calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

to face sanctions for restricting humanitarian aid during the war in Gaza. What do you think about that? Well, you know, the criticism that is made in all of these types, especially during an election year, really stands out. as it's not the Vietnam War. This is only 30 days, and the attacks that are being made are continuous by the same woke people.

And, you know, the feeling about that is that, oh, Bill, who was it? It was Greta, wasn't it? It was sailing in a boat with the humanitarian aid? Yeah, I get that. Okay, fine. But, you know, when you're talking about, But I don't want the woke accusations against anybody who disagrees with Trump to necessarily fly on challenge, though.

I think, you know, it's like if you disagree with Trump on the reasoning for going to war in Iran, you know, you're being called a woke or a leftist. And yet people voted for this guy, supposedly to not get us into any additional foreign conflicts. So I don't think we can ignore that, can we? Oh, I think that's an excellent point because, you know, in terms of conscious and consciousness, morality, and in terms of people that really don't have a political ambition in mind, yes, people can. And in war itself, is something that it's almost an uncomfortable topic to talk about. you know, unless you're in the military and you're a warrior and you need to be supported. But I agree with you. Yeah, because remember, this is not supposed to be the military running things.

It's supposed to be civilian control of the military power at all times. And, of course, what President Trump is doing, you know, at this point. But at first it was going to be a few days and now we're 36, 37 days now. And markets are a little bit nervous. People are wondering, is this something which is going to continue? you know, for much longer because I think the fuel prices are going to have a significant impact on the economy. They're not going to show up right away, though. It's going to take a little bit of time for that to leak into more of the economic data.

And that's a political problem for the president, don't you think? Yeah, lots of different issues that you've raised already. You know, for example, on fuel prices, California, their diesel hit $8 a gallon. I know. Now, they're more expensive anyway, just like we, just like ours is more expensive because of our situation in this state, this anti-fuel kind of state that we live. Yeah, that's right. In this climate change that is used for political purposes, and, you and I actually were at one time at a seminar with some very fine experts who were saying that this climate change is so politically oriented because the fact that if you, deprive Texas and some aspects of the Republican Party from the oil support that comes in, then when you're going ahead to win elections and change the course of this country, you can do it. But lots of different points that are always coming up. It's always a time of

debate. But I think if, for me, Bill, I think about 35,000 Iranians murdered, even the videos of the killings, with all of the times over 47 years where, you know, we've had like Trader Carey, who got, you know, billions of dollars that went to the Iranians, as he's going back and forth when Trump was trying to go ahead and negotiate an end to all this. I mean, the politics is this thing that really disturbs most of us, even though you're right. A lot of us would rather not have a war. Well, the reason I bring this up, I mean, it's sad. Now, that's assuming that the people that were killed in Iran, we can believe that.

Because as we know, the first thing that goes to hell in a handbasket is the truth from either side of a conflict, even our own conflict. We know this from our experience in Vietnam and just about every other war, really, for that matter. That being said, though, the challenge that I think we're running into is that the goalposts seem to be moving from the Trump administration. It's kind of a two-stepping kind of thing from day to day to day. One day it's to help the Iranians, another time which to help the, well, keep the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz open. and now it's kind of like, well, we might just declare victory and go home, and now you guys can take care of the Persian Gulf. And the thing is, is that that doesn't help us.

You know, when it comes to our energy prices, because it is a world energy price. And if you have 20% of the world's oil supplies and the various petrochemicals and the fertilizers going through the Strait of Hormuz, and all we do is half destroy or half break Iran and don't break their grip on. on the Strait of Hormuz, we're still screwed here at home because it's a, you know, the markets will price in that 20% has been crimped and is very difficult to get to.

What would you say, you know, about that? Well, it's slightly different in the fact that if we look at the Vietnam War, which went years with 50,000 Americans killed, I think the number is like 47,000, but in any event, We don't have that now. And we have a regime that does threaten children and grandchildren in ourselves with what they've done with their murderous appetite, their hatred for civilization. When we're looking at this, it's a really hard thing to do. Yeah, but is it a hatred for civilization or is it a hatred of us for our meddling in the Middle East for all these years? Oh, this is really where it becomes quite complex, but I've read the Koran, and without going into all of the details, there are aspects of it that are very warlike.

But the problem is, is what we've seen in Cuba, in totalitarian regimes, which is what Iran is, and whether it's North Korea, or whether it's even Putin and Russia. We have a situation where there isn't freedom and that everything is made for the management, let's say, for those who are in charge, and they are ruthless in keeping their power. And in this case, this ruthlessness with Iran has been all over. We can see the way that they're going ahead and trying to destroy everything. And definitely President Trump is very serious about reconfiguring the trade routes, reconfiguring the energy routes. He's going to have to be very careful about this, though, Dr. Powers, because I think that in one hand, or one hand, President Trump knows that he can't get reelected, right? He knows this. And he's acting like a man who doesn't care about getting reelected.

And that gives you some amazing freedom to do these kind of things. but on the other hand, he could be destroying the second half of his term if he ends up losing the midterms. It's quite a needle to thread, wouldn't you say? Yeah, it's a needle to thread, but you see on the other hand, what my friend we are seeing is that he's able to make decisions, given the fact that he's not going to run for a reelection. Yeah, but we have to live in that world if he ends up. up losing the midterms. We have to live in that consequence of, it's like, you know, as, as challenging as it might be right now, the thought of the AOCs being back in charge of both

houses is not comforting for the rest of the Trump administration. Yeah, these are very good points that you're making. But on the other side, Bill, what I have seen is that this virus that is radical socialism, communism and just to put an old-fashioned word on this virus that's coming through is a danger to all the freedoms that we really hold dear to herself and I agree but let me ask let me ask you this though this is this is the takeaway though is an eight dollar diesel going to essentially drive people into the arms of that kind of socialistic thinking I need a break come on government save me from myself, you know, that kind of thing? Yeah, I think, I think the problem is that

the Republicans or an opposition party is not going to be able to keep the house. They'll be very, even no matter almost what Trump is doing. Because, you know, Bill, when I connect the dots, I see a radical virus, whether it's destroying Tesla's because Musk was. really heading into what is, I think, one of the most disturbing aspects of democratic funding, which is called you go ahead and give money millions of dollars that are then kicked back to the people who are running. Yeah, but Doge has been kicked out of Washington for the most part, though. It's like we're not even talking about Doge. The president's talking about $1.5 trillion in military spending.

Oh, I don't think he's going to get that. I think it's good, because one of the things that Trump does do, that especially given the fact that you have a biased media that is the big difference now between what it was in past presidents, is that no matter what happens, I'll have fun when I'm going through doing some purchasing and things for the family, for Judy, and I'll go to the grocery store. I'll always drop by and just read the headlines every single time I do it, maybe three times, four times a week. of the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle. Yeah, and I'm right there. I can get the same entertainment, but the fact of the matter is I'm reasonably comfortable in my life, all right? And the thing is, I remember what it was like to be poor, Dr. Powers.

Oh, I do too. That's where I came from. Yeah, and I remember it. And I remember the pain of when I said I was broke. Some of my friends had $200 in a coffee can, but when I was broke, I was really broke, all right? And I remember that kind of situation. And I think there are more people on that edge right now and then to take and then to kind of blithely say, well, you know, the prices will go down later.

I don't know. It's that's playing with people's lives right now. And I think that the President Trump and the people around him need to be, you know, you need to bring this to a successful, a successful conclusive. The reason for this is that I don't think that, I think there's a good portion of America that really can't handle the incredible, the crush, you know, the crush of increasing costs over time. And this will spill into the, into the economy. I mean, we were doing lots of add-a-boy.

Hey, look at that price of fuel and 262 a gallon nationwide just a few months ago. We're in, add-a-boy Trump, exactly. Yeah, I agree, Bill. I totally agree with you the point you're making. And we could have a fine, fun discussion on another time about who was poor growing up. But those were different times, my friend. I think the other thing, though, is that Trump goes ahead and puts a lot of things onto the wall. And the media just runs with every one of them. And he's still going ahead and doing the negotiating. But I think the point that we're coming into, the problem is that right from day one,

with all of the demonstrations, with the monies that Soros has pulled in, with all these different things, no kings, boy, does that sound, you know, like a socialist type of demonstration? Of course it is, but I have to tell you, leaking energy prices into every aspect of American life, food, medicine, energy, services, and all that kind of stuff feeds the enemy. It'll feed the enemy response on that. It's like spinach for them, really. Yeah, that's a very strong argument. But on the other hand, let me toss this into the, not debate, but into the arena. I believe that, let me ask you a question.

Okay. When do you think that Trump and will need to really be able to have things completely, with the Iranian war so that they could have a good fight for the elections. And I've heard that it's June. I've heard that it's out probably by a couple of months or so, but he's really threading a needle. And you're absolutely right. What do you think? How much time does he really have?

Now. That's what I think that he's playing. with fire right now because these are the kind of things that a lot of the of the Middle East oil infrastructure has been damaged and or destroyed. Many of our bases have also been damaged will likely not be rebuilt. I don't think this is maybe something that we don't bother with at this point. And I think that, you know, essentially this is a war of attrition. And say what you will, I think the Iranians played the small card that they had. I think they played it pretty smart, you know, in my respect, you know, have us throw three and a half

million dollar missiles at $30,000, $40,000 drones and grind us down. Of course, we've destroyed their infrastructure, too, but notice how the traffic is still not going through the Strait of Hormuz. Well, I'll talk this into our arena. I have a subscription to the Epic Times, and the Epic Times, has a totally different analysis as what's going on militarily than we get from the New York Times. And I think in terms of where is truth, that truth is really what someone believes based on what's in their best interest, which is an unfortunate way. Yeah, of course, everybody is that way. Everyone is that way to an extent. My concern, though, is that the slapback against something like this with consistent high energy prices that start leaking into the economy, even if everything, even if it were to end today, the oil doesn't start flowing a lot of times in the Middle East for months, if not years, in places that have already had infrastructure destruction. It's like everything else.

It takes months, if not years, to rebuild some of that. and it's not, and the demand is not that elastic. You know that as an economist, right, professor of business law. So let me go ahead and ask you this then. The question then is, is this just a short-term type of situation? Will the Federal Reserve go ahead because inflation in raise interest rates? There's a lot of uncertainty here. So what do you think in terms of the election?

Let's assume that Trump just declares that in two days it's over. Is that going to make any change really in terms of the election in the House with what the virus is doing? Yeah. Oh, no, the virus will continue to grow. There's absolutely no doubt about that. But it depends on where prices go long term. Like I said, people like you and me were reasonably well off, okay? You know, it cost me $70 to fill the tank on my PT cruiser.

I can handle that, all right? I only fill it every couple of weeks because I only drive four or five miles a day. Many people I know, the commuters, different story, you know? Yeah, one of the arguments, Bill, that's thrown out, though, is that if Trump ends too soon, that the fact that given the acknowledgement that the Iranians has a throttle on the oil that's moving out of the Strait of Hormuz, what does that do in terms of another time having to go back in? What do you think about that? Okay.

I'm sorry. Rephrase the question, counselor. I'm sorry about that. We're just throwing in ideas, which I love to do. I'm doing some spitballing here just because of listening to the answers. But my spitballing is the fact that if he does stop too soon without able to open up this trade of Hormuz for the civilized world, do you think that would be a real problem in any event with the virus people who are going to say, well, look, he gave up too soon? Well, I don't think they'd ever look at him as giving up too soon.

That's not what I would be concerned about. The point is, though, is that what's the real status of us? You know, apparently, you know, we've destroyed everything, but they still keep the straight-of-hormuz bottled up. I mean, it doesn't make sense. Yeah. If we are supposedly so omnipotent and in command of the air and able to do everything we need to, you know, it's like it's contradictory. It's contradictory, you know, the way it's been reported. You know, Bill, I see that.

I just also see that the Democratic establishment is grinning, and the Republican establishment is sweating. bricks. They should be sweating bricks. Yeah, I think so. But on the other hand, my main concern, just tossing out to you, is that I almost think no matter what happens that the Republicans are going to manage to lose the House in any event. They may have problems keeping the Senate. and in any event, I don't think that Republican Party spends enough time between us as to going ahead and getting out the vote. And I've seen this being a big weakness in them, whether it's in Oregon or whether it's in Ashland or whether it's in Medford, that the Republican establishment is one of really concerning, and I don't know if they're going to be able to bring out the vote, but, you know, Bill, the other thing is, is the fact that when they can't get

out the vote, then it's easy for them to criticize what Trump is doing, because I don't think, in my own way of looking at it, the Republican establishment is really able to get out the vote, and they're making excuses by jumping and going after Trump. At least that's my personal feeling. I could be wrong. Well, I'm kind of looking at more as the Republican base gets the ones who voted for President Trump for some specific reasons, especially those crossover votes. I think at this point we're in the process of losing those in the midterms. I'm not happy to say that.

I'm not happy saying that. I were like going, hey, see, see you. That's not it. It's just, and these were people that probably voted for Democrats in the past, or maybe didn't vote at all, I think. I think that's a very good analysis. And also, we always have seen that also after the presidential election in terms of whichever party has been controlling Congress. And I think that crossover is a concern. And I think you're absolutely right on that.

All right. So we'll agree and disagree on some of this. It's certainly interesting times. President at 10 o'clock this morning is going to be in a press conference, and so I think we'll have more fodder for next time, okay? You know, it's always interesting to talk with you because I always go ahead and say, well, you know, Bill is saying this, so what don't I think about, where's that going to lead me? Yeah.

All I'm getting at, though, is that the price of oil and fossil fuels and the stuff that keeps Western civilization running, there's one price. It's the world price. They're fungible commodities, as you well know. And you're right, Bill, because that's the big problem here in the U.S. As you're pointing out so well, the world price dictates the price we have here because of the way that that just seems to work, even though we're energy sufficient. Yeah, we're energy sufficient, but we are not an energy price island. And that's why people get really, they're confused sometimes.

They get confused about this because they're looking at this and going, well, we got all this oil here. Why are we paying $8 for diesel? And you can understand people saying that. Well, that diesel could just as easily be sold across the pond to some other European nation, hungry to pick it up, given that they can't get it through the Strait of Hormuz at the moment. So it does affect us. That's why. Yeah, and also, you know, California has all these environmental restrictions.

You know, they've put refineries out of the business. And, you know, I tell you, that's why people will come up here. to get their gas and get the hell out of California. Indeed. And a lot of people exiting because of the tax structure there, too. We'll talk about that next week, Doc. Okay, be well, my friend. Thank you. Be well and take care and all the best to all. All right. Dr. Dennis Power is a retired professor of business law. If you're on the phone, I'd be happy to get you on here in just a minute.

770563. We're kicking it all around this morning on the Bill Meyer show. Service is the difference with sweetwater sanitation, your experts. This is the Bill Meyer show on 1063 KMED. Call Bill now. 541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. Hey, David, what's on your mind this morning? Go right ahead.

Oh, thanks, Bill. Yeah, I would have liked to ask your guest a question, but I'll raise it even afterward. Okay. I would have asked him, does he plan on paying taxes this year, or does he recommend it even? Because if I remember, right, Doge got into the treasury and stole

our data. And just less than a month ago, one of those Doge kids was accused of taking the data that they stole from the treasury. All of our social security data, all our banking data, everything

the Social Security's got on us, these guys stole. And now, and he was shopping it around to his next employer is the way it's being described. Our data. So do I want to send penny one into the treasury anymore if they're going to be that sloppy with our data? Well, I know that a tech crunch story, I wasn't familiar with the story you were talking about. A Doge employee stole Social Security data, put it on a thumb drive, a large number of personal data, with a plan of using it, apparently.

I'm not real familiar with that story. Let me see if I can grab it quickly. And I started on a thumb drive, this according to a whistleblower complaint. This is a Washington Post story. Is this what you're referencing here, David? It could be. I'm sure it's in any number of different press because it's real. This kid was one of the Doge kids that was allowed into the Treasury and all of the different buildings.

Okay, well, all I could say about pay, if you wanted to pay taxes, it is a voluntary tax system, David. That's all I'll tell you. But just try not volunteering, and you'll find out how voluntary it is. Okay. Well, it's self-preservation at this point. Okay. Your point's taken. I'm almost out of time, though, but I appreciate you making a call, nothing else.

Let me go to, let me go to, who is this? This is with Brother Louis. Hey, Brother Louis. Go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to quickly. say that I can see, I was looking to you and Dr. Powers and he seems to be committed to, well, he's not interested in seeing Trump declare victory and call it off. I don't know if that's the case or not, Phil.

What is victory look like? What does victory look like? Because I'm looking at it through a political lens and everything that's happening right now is the perfect storm of feeding the enemy and living underneath the enemy again. And there seems to be, it seems to be, it seems to be, kind of a blithe paying attention to that, I guess, and I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Well, as far as the game of chicken is concerned, Iran is willing to take a head-on collision. Is Trump? You know, and that's very obvious that Iran really is willing to do that. You're right. I think that's a very interesting, hey, they got nothing to lose at this point, right? Yeah, they've made that clear even before the, even before the war was started.

They made that clear that they are not going to give in to all these, basically unconditional surrender. Do you think they're going to unconditionally surrender and allow Israel to divide Iran up into whatever kind of little, you know, occupied lands? Which, of course, feeds then the radical image that we have of Iran too, but, you know, we have to deal with people where they are, not where we would like them to be. Appreciate the call. Let me go to the deplorable Patrick. Hey, DP, go ahead. Hey, Bill, two points. I don't mind making small points sometimes, but with this, you started out talking about Boeing earlier.

Yeah. And I love to pile on. I used to be a big Boeing fan. I'm not anymore. When those two crashes occurred that grounded the 737s for 22 months, Boeing tried to blame the pilots for that initially. So screwball. as far as I'm concerned.

Back to the subject of copper and the need for copper. And I haven't never told you this, but in the last couple of weeks here, I've started paying attention to collectible coins. And you mentioned they took the copper out of the penny. Yeah, they did. And I've been noticing something here. They took the copper out of the penny in World War II. in 1943.

Yeah. They needed the copper for shells, for artillery shells and ammo. Yep. And so they made pennies out of steel in 1944. Yep. In 1943. And if you get a digging around and you see a cheap steel penny, anybody out there, you just call me up.

I'd be glad to give you a nice copper penny for that 19-pity. 43 Denver Steel Penny. Yeah, quite a collectible. Thanks, D.P. Brad, how you doing this morning? Good to hear from you, huh? Hello? Hi, Brad.

Can you hear me? Yep, sure can. Brad. Give me a quick one here. All right. Real quick. I just want to let you know in light of all this turmoil, some of which you get under my skin and it's not you.

It's just the topic matter. but ultimately radio is a talkative form of a laxative and I appreciate it. Got you. Over and out, my friend. All right, Diners 62, Real American Quiz.

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Good morning, Bill. It's Jerry from Rogue River. Jerry, it was today, actually it was April 2nd in history. It was a few days ago. It's a holdover from last week. But Marvin Gaye was born in, well, April 2nd, 1932. Transformative Motown artist, known as the Prince of Soul, the Prince of Notown, a Motown, rather. His life ended in tragedy when his father shot him, April 1, 1984, the day before his 45th birthday.

The question, which of Marvin's song spent the longest? peaked the highest on the Billboard Hot 100. I'm going to give you five choices. Was it A, let's get it on. Was it B, what's going on? Was it C? Sexual healing. Was it D, ain't no mountain high enough, or was it E?

I heard it through the grapevine. What do you say? How about sexual healing? Sexual healing. That was his last one. No, it wasn't that. Good try, though. Yeah, hi, KMED.

Good morning. Who's this? This is Barbara. Barbara, it's not sexual healing. His peaking highest on the Billboard Hot 100. Let's get it on. What's going on? Ain't no mountain high enough.

Or I heard it through the grapevine. What do you say? E, I heard it through the grapevine. Yeah. Marvin Gaye's song charted the longest, achieved the highest peak. I heard it through the grapevine, 1968. Seven weeks. Number one, 15 weeks on the chart.

However, let's get it on, is noted as his. biggest hit for Motown. It spent 13 weeks in the top 10 major chart topping hit. But yep, I heard it through the grapevine was the deal.