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Episode Date: April 10, 2025

Open phones on Conspiracy Theory Thursday

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clauser Drilling dot com. News talk one oh six three KMED. This is the Bill Myers Show. Oh, man. Good conversation with Jeff over at Blacko. I didn't realize that we were in a situation where they estimate that it cost them about

13 bucks to fill a prescription, but the pharmacy benefit manager who is between the insurance company and or the Oregon health plan and them says, okay, you get a buck or two. How sustainable is that? And we wonder why the local community pharmacies end up shutting down all around us. And then you're only left with well I guess that will just be Amazon right? That's all you have to do you don't need a local pharmacy you have Amazon. Amazon pharmacy everything through one China source. Give me started on that. Oh man, I'll tell you.

It just gets pretty wild. Let me see. Let me do some emails of the day. Emails of the day, they're sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson. Central Point Family Dentistry. Centralpointfamilydentistry.com is on Freeman Road, or Freeman Way rather, I think next to the Mazatlan Mexican Restaurant.

And if you need a water pick and other specialty toothbrushes and toothpaste and things to help you maintain good dental health, he will sell that to you at cost. In fact, I ended up getting a water pick from Dr. Steve last time I was in the office a few weeks ago. And I've been using it on this one, well, all my teeth, but this is one particular tooth they're trying to save so that we don't pull it. I'd like to save it there for a few more years and and keep it going but you know we're seating gum on it so I'm getting it all

cleaned up and it works out. But Central Point Family Dentistry, good people get your appointment here. Once again, local, it's not Amazon, it is CentralPoint FamilyDentistry.com. I'm going to give an email of the day to the mayor of the city of Shady Cove. There's John Ball. And John Ball is writing to me about the public-private partnership. He calls them P3s. P3s. And the public-private partnership happens a lot like, as an example, when a ball team like the Eugene Emeralds comes to Southern Oregon and then says, we would love to bring the ball team here. And then everybody says,

oh, we would love to have your ball team here. Let's make the taxpayers pay for a new ball field. 100 million bucks or whatever. At least that's what they try to do in Eugene and Eugene turned them down. And so now they're saying, hey, let's go find the rubes in Southern Oregon. I don't know if that's what happened yesterday. I know they talked with the city council. I was so busy with taking care of family matters. I didn't get a chance to watch that. I'll

probably have to do that later today on the study session. But John writes in about this bill, public-private partnerships, P3s don't work. The underlying fact of all P3s is this, the investment or business decision doesn't pencil out. For example, it would not be profitable. So what does the developer, the business owner, the minor league ball club owner do? Well, they turn to the taxpayers and state agencies for funding. It's still someone else's money. If it made sense financially, they'd never seek or look outside for the free money, especially from government agents.

John, you're absolutely right, and that's why I'm giving you an email of the day. Randy and Ashland saying, Bill, taxpayers paying for a baseball stadium makes as much sense as taxpayers funding elective surgery and off-label drugs to mutilate the kids. We can't afford it, and both ideas are based on flawed logic and lies. Alright. are based on flawed logic and lies. Alright. Cliff writes me, Hey Bill, Senate Bill 599 would change what types of ID

would be acceptable for the application process for renting a property in Oregon. Look at it. Section 2, except as required by a federal program that provides rent subsidies or affordable rents, 1. A landlord may not inquire about the immigration or citizenship status of an applicant, a tenant, or member of an applicant or tenant's household.

2. If a landlord requires verification of the identity of the applicant or tenant, the landlord shall accept any of the following necessary to verify an applicant's name, date of birth, and physical appearance? 1. Social Security card or evidence of a Social Security card? What is evidence of a Social Security card or evidence of a Social Security number? What, that you gave it to somebody else and they bought it? I don't know. Cliff, this is really wild. Okay, this bill, right?

B. A certified copy of a record of live birth. Okay, at least that's real. C, a permanent resident card issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. D, an immigrant or non-immigrant visa. E, an individual taxpayer identification number card issued by the Internal Revenue Service. Don't think you should have those two illegals. I think so. Passport, driver's license, other government ID, any government identification or combination. A landlord may not discriminate against an applicant, a tenant or member of an applicant or tenant's household on the basis of actual or perceived immigration or citizenship status. Cliff, see, that's an example in which

when it comes to rental property, the federal government forces you into a public-private partnership. The public side of the partnership says you're going to take whatever dirt bag shows up to your rental apartment or home, okay? And the private partnership, and the private part of it means that, yeah, you get to keep the rent but screw you if you get screwed by the dirt bag. Just saying. Public-private partnership, it's another example that's a forced public-private partnership you didn't ask for. Isn't life great?

Ah, let me go to line one. Hello, who's this? Morning. Bill, good morning to you. Great, great, great to hear the talented and hardworking Mr. Meyer at work this morning. Indeed, thank you very much, Brad. What's on your mind?

Got a question for you, You'll know the answer. What civilian was one of the most visited civilians to the White House during the Obama administration and the recent Biden administration? I'll give you a tip. His last name begins with Soros. Oh, okay. Would that be George Soros or the kid Soros? Which one? That would be Alex. That would be Alex Soros.

That's what I thought. Alex Soros, according to White House visitor logs, made either as much or more visits to the White House during the Obama administration and the Biden administration as any other civilian. Who? Yeah, so next question. Well, you have to understand though that Alex is there representing the emperor. The emperor's wishes.

Yes, yes, the emperor is here. Isn't this delightful? Smithers. He's the Smithers. Alex Soros is the Smithers for George Soros, right? Yeah, so that's one part of it. Here's the Smithers. Alex Soros is the Smithers for George Soros, right? Yeah, so that's one part of the deal. Now, here's the other deal. So who is Alex Soros currently engaged to marry? Oh, my gosh. I remember reading this. I forget. Who was it again?

Which show? Which one? Would it happen to be the would it happen to be the current ex-wife of Anthony Weiner, who is also the ex chiefchief of staff for Hillary Clinton. Huma Abedin. Huma Abedin. Yeah. Now, if you want to talk about the ultimate insiders, you've got the son of one of the most powerful fund shorters.

I mean, that's how George Soros made the majority of his fortunes, by shorting currencies. So you got the son of one of the most powerful adverse investors on the planet marrying one of the most consummate insiders in Washington, DC. Think about it. And that's why we call this, Brad, Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Thank you. There's the conspiracy.

There's your conspiracy, Larry. Let me go to line two. Hi, good morning. Who's this?. There's your conspiracy Larry. We go to line 2. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hey Bill, Michael Shaw. You're talking about the Eugene Emeralds meeting with the council or... Yeah, there was a study session by a company out of LA called Beacon Something, which is a consultant to the Emeralds about the feasibility studies and things like that. And even in their report, the Beacon's report, they state that the revenue generated by the emeralds being here will take 23 years to

just match the expenses. Oh, a 23-year payoff. Wonderful! No, no, no, no, no. Just the expenses. They didn't say anything about paying for the building. Oh! Because the taxpayers would be paying for the expenses. They didn't say anything about paying for the building. They're talking about their revenues expected that they would generate and their expenses.

Oh, so their costs would take 23 years to flush out. Their side of it. They said revenues versus costs and they did not mention the cost of the land or the building. Oh, gotta love it. Gotta love it. So, they're probably looking for free land, right? Looking for free land at a taxpayer stadium, right? Well, absolutely. It'll be free to them. But the question is, if I was to put together a business plan and present it to a bank for financing and I tell the bank I'm going to be in the hole, underwater for 23 years, do you think the bank would lend me any money?

No. No, they would happily show you the door and say, don't come back. No, yeah, they'd just be laughing to themselves right out of their chairs. Well, let's find out if we have smart business minds in charge of the city of Medford. We'll see. That's all we can say. Could be. There's a second thing I wanted to mention today. I'm here in Medford for a few days and had a discussion with the manager of the hotel

I'm staying at about all the excessive hotel rooms being built. And that manager agreed with me and they said, there's no more room for any more rooms because you just can't compete here. But she said, what has been told to her by their regional director is that there is some event coming to Medford that's going to require 3,000 hotel rooms. And I don't know what that event coming

here would be. Is it a baseball tournament or you know, a kiddly wick tournament or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah. Corn hall over America kind of event. Who knows? Right. So my response to her was great. So you build enough hotels to satisfy 3000 hotel rooms for that event. What happens when that event is over?" She said, the hotel stay empty. All right. What great minds have decided this is the path forward here? Well, the great minds are the good old boys and the council who keeps approving their hotels. There's two more being built on the south end of town.

So, I don't get it and I don't get the rates that they want to charge from seeing that most of them have 50% occupancy or something like that. Michael, thank you for sharing your input, your community input. That's what they would say in some of those public hearings. We'd like some input from the community as long as it is supportive of what the Good Old Boy Network would like to do. Thank you very much. Let me grab a couple more calls and then we're gonna get ready. Steve Yancey, by the way, standing by. We're gonna talk with him about insurance, where that's headed. Hi, good

morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Todd and Senator Point. Really quick, I don't know if it qualifies as a conspiracy theory Thursday, but first I want to beg your forgiveness for listening to Jackson Public Radio. And I was driving in my car last night and I was listening to this guy being interviewed who had previously worked for the Rogue Valley Times and he now works for some news organization in Ashland and he was lamenting the loss of local news sources and that different papers were

folding and different places were being bought up by a huge conglomerate and he mentioned some papers something that went from 600 employees down to six and it was all canned, and it just lacked the local flavor and interest and all like that. But what really piqued my interest is he was promoting some film they were showing tonight in Ashland, whining about this. And he was talking, and I didn't write down the numbers, I was driving, that there are four bills going through the state legislature right now aimed to help local news sources. But I thought, uh-oh, let me guess, the Democrat

supermajority wants to pump money into what? What the old mail Tribune used to be or that lefty paper in Grant's Pass to promote another form of public radio or public television. I mean, any public... Yeah, pretty much. That's what you're looking at. I don't know if they would be looking to give money to the Oregon Eagle with Richard Emmons, you know, his point of view, right? But it would be Scott... Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know, we would have to compete on our own, but Stoddard in the Rogue Valley Times in the Ashland dot news well they're there because they're there for the community

once again the community Todd okay oh yeah remember you have to say community the same way as you would say our democracy, okay? Our democracy, the community, in other words, the left-wing thing. That's all there is to it, really. Yeah, but look for that check in the mail, Bill. Have a good day. I'll let you know. I'll let you know if I get my check.

I get my check. There we go. One more call, then I got to go because Steve is standing by. Who is this? Good morning. Welcome. Hey, this is another I got to go because Steve is standing by. Who's this? Good morning. Welcome. Hey, this is another Steve. Alright, Steve. Fire away. Okay, so when you're looking at something that doesn't make sense, you have to go back in history and see what's changed.

And the stock market has changed dramatically since the invent of the internet and when your friends started in 1990 Brokerage firms controlled the access to the stock market in every way It cost you five percent to get to buy a stock or to sell a stock and that was all controlled now the brokerage business was really separated out in 1933 by something called the Glass-Steagall Act. Around 1990, the banks were pushing to be able to do investment banking, which means they would be involved in the stock market.

I was working for a local brokerage firm, or I got hired by a local brokerage firm at the time. And, you know, I worked out of ordinary business where you had a balance sheet. And, and, uh, I, I became a broker in 1999. Okay. Well, I don't need, I can't, I can't take the whole history right now. Okay. Drill drill to the point. Well, Glass-Steagall act was changed around that time, and the Uptick Rule for shorting

stock was changed. And the financial institutions, the major depository banks, federal deposit insurance company banks, were allowed to own stock, and the world has changed dramatically ever since. I can't exactly say for the better either. I would dare say the other thing that we've had the rise of is naked shorts in which people don't really borrow those stocks. Right. They allow that to happen.

And the other thing that's happened that's interesting is the politicians have all gotten rich during the same period of time. You think there's a conspiratorial connection there? Elon Musk made that point in the speech that he gave. He started out talking about the markets and how politicians have gotten rich. And he was saying, we're gonna look into that. And all of a sudden, everybody is all piled onto him.

So, I don't know what the answer is. Well, I don't know if we can draw a conclusion, a legal conclusion from that, but it does look a little stinky, does it not? Conspiracy Theory Thursday Bill, thank you. Thank you for the call. Steve Yancey joins me. We're going to talk about the insurance business here for a little bit because it is worth talking about. People still concerned probably about, especially home insurance. Does anything change? We'll talk about that.