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This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Five minutes after 8, we're at 44 degrees. It's going to be a nice day from the sounds of it. Terry's here. Terry, you're kind of keying off on the Diner 62 quiz a minute ago. We were talking about the rollout of new Coke, Coke, rather, back 41 years ago.

Of course, major flop. Where did you want to go on that? Well, I wanted to go. It's not really a conspiracy, but it's more of an observation, and I wonder if anybody else thinks the same way. It seems to me more conservatives drink Coke and more liberals drink Pepsi. I was just wondering if anybody else saw that, too, or just me. Okay.

All right, Coke and Pepsi. Now, I don't drink either. I drink Soda Stream. I don't either. Yeah. For me, it's Soda Stream, and I used, like, the generic cola. I don't go and do the Pepsi and or the Coke versions of that kind of stuff. But I don't drink a lot of that anyway to start with.

You know, I got another little quick thing, too. And obviously, I would make the Iranian boats go back and forth through the Strait of Hormuz to clarity mines. Obviously, the empty ones, I'd use their boats to clear the mines out if they hit one. Go ahead and do a little zigzagging right across back and forth. Kind of like a chem trail plane, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. See, I just triggered Lucretia. You know that.

That's true. Show call. Yeah. But anyway, in all seriousness, in all seriousness, yeah, use theirs. Actually, President Trump says he's going to just blow any of those little boats out of the water. It is a shoot-to-kill order right now. So there we go, the latest. So, okay, Coke, Pepsi, or something different? That might be a fun aspect on conspiracy theory Thursday.

Do you think conservatives prefer Coke over Pepsi? I don't know. 770563. What about the prescription drugs? The prescription drug affordability board. A lot of people wrote me their opinions via email, but I'd like to get your take on. Is there a particular prescription drug experience you would like to share?

The drugs that they're going to be talking about, just so you know, that they're really looking for reports on, because this is what they're going to report on to the state legislature, maybe find a way to make it less expensive here. The ones they're looking at are Jardians, and that's a type 2 diabetes pill. I know that. Monjaro in Ozempic, those are the ones, the fat, well, the diabetes and the fat shots, right? There is Humulin RU-500 that is a blood sugar control insulin for type 1 and type 2.

Ketruda, Verzino from cancer. Zygians. Boy, I don't know where they get these names. Zygians. O'Crevis, that's an MS drug. I have a relative who has MS, and I don't know if he uses that or not. Sky Rizzy, nothing is everything. It's Sky Rizzy.

SkySkuzzy, whatever it is. Oh, that's the psoriasis. Is that the psoriasis? I think that's the psoriasis drug. And it's like, before Sky Rizzi, you know, you had the blotches on there. And by the way, I'm not making fun of the psoriasis. My father had psoriasis when I was growing up. And back then, the only thing they could give you was like Tegren.

It was like a coal tar cream that you would put on it. Stunk. It really did. I mean, they had much better stuff than they did now. Tramphia, that's another one for plaque psoriasis in Zolair. Those are the ones they're looking for. But, well, just let me know, okay? 7705-633-770 KM-E.

Coke, Pepsi. We had alien talk this morning. You know, is it really a government conspiracy and not really an alien conspiracy, but a conspiracy being run by the government itself? We had that question. And prescription drugs, too. That and more. This hour of the Bill Myers Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing.

For roofing gutters and sheet metal services, visit Fontana Roofing Services.com. Saving money has never been easier. At my Oregon E deal. It is Conspiracy Theory Thursday, April 23rd. Happy to take your calls at 7705-633. We've had a lot of topics we've been kind of kicking around this morning and noodling. It's always my favorite way to run conspiracy theory Thursday. It doesn't have to be about the prescription drug affordability, but it could be that.

Could be Coke v. Pepsi. Is Coke for conservatives and P for Pepsi for progressives? Is that what it is? I don't know. I've not noticed that myself. I know somebody brought that up last hour. Let me go to the horse lady. Hello, horse lady.

Anne, good to have you here. What's on your mind? Well, I think our drug lady was being very deceptive. She didn't know her subject, and I think probably she was trying to fib. Because I think the whole board has been set up by the mental defect in Salem that we call a governor. Oh, so you're not real... I'm not buying it. You're not buying that.

Okay, supposedly they're wanting our stories so that way they will report to the legislature, and then the legislature will do something. You're not buying it, huh? Sure. And I'll tell you something else. you wanted real good taste and Coke, you should have drunk it 75 years ago. It was delicious. Hmm. All right. Was that with the real sugar? It was real sugar and it had a little kick of Coke in it.

Oh, that kind of Coke. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're right. The earliest versions of it. Bill, 75 years, it came in glass bottles and it had some bite. Oh. Now, I don't remember the stuff that was cocaine. The cocaine stuff I thought was way back at the very beginning, though, wasn't it? I had a friend who had the bottling company in Santa Rosa, California, and I have one of the original bottles of Coke syrup. And the original Coke was really powerful stuff. Interesting. It tasted good, but it had a real thing to it.

Yeah. Well, I know if you want the real sugar Coke, you have to buy the Mexican bottles, the Mexican Coke for like four bucks a bottle or something. Yeah, I don't drink it anymore. I drink water and milk. I'm a real thrill seeker. Good for you, horse lady. Thanks for the call. Let me go.

So you don't have much faith in the pharmaceutical drug affordability board. Let me go to Tara. Terry, you want to talk about that. I'd love to get your take. Morning. I'm in agreement with the horse lady. It sounded like she didn't know a whole lot about what they were doing. You even asked the question about, okay, so are you going to take that information

to legislate, like there was just, so I'm not understanding what this forum is set up for, just to gather this information to do what with? Well, it does. Yeah, it does appear that it is about gathering the information. They had these online forums the 28th next, actually, yeah, next Tuesday. And then May 1st and May 13th and May 20th. I know the ones in person, no one's going to go there, you know, Salem, Redmond, Portland, and Beaverton. And so I guess we've got to concentrate on the online versions of those.

But, yeah, supposedly they're going to report to the legislature, which drugs, I guess, people are struggling the most, is at least that's how I'm interpreting this, Tara. That seems to be it. Does that make sense? Okay. I guess, yes. Yeah.

And now I don't know if this means that the state's going to try to use legislative power to muscle down the price of drugs. You know, kind of like what President Trump is doing for certain drugs with Trump RX. I don't know if it would be like Oregon RX or what. Right. Right. So my other question, did they say, like, how much money is involved in this group? Like, how much money is going from, like, why is this? Do you understand what I'm asking?

Like, how much money are they getting to do all this research that no one's really asking? You know, I don't feel like they're going to formulate some, like, plan to make our drugs a whole bunch cheaper. I feel like it's a group. Okay. Well, the legislature formed it in 2021. I'll tell you what. I'll try to find out how much they cost or what they're budgeting is. that's something you'd have to go into the state budget to figure out. Okay.

I'm sure there's some number there and whatever it is. It's, but it's okay. Just remember, Tara, the state of Oregon, it cares. It really cares, okay? Okay. It carries that in mind. It cares about you, and they're, you know, they feel your pain. He's having fun.

17 after 8, let me talk with Greg. Hello, Greg. Good morning. Oh, thank you, Greg. I'll take my answer up there, but I'm going to make. two points. I think everybody needs to get back on Ovalteen. And my main question is, how could an iradian citizen get into arms dealers? Did they get to watch all these movies about like Zeth Green selling bombs and such? Thank you very much, Bill. Yeah, okay. I really like that.

Ovalteen. Does anybody still drink Ovalteen getting back into Ovalteen? in Harbor. I remember when I was like growing up, it was one of those things where they had the Oval Tene ad, right? Drink Oval Tene. Kids during the Depression drank it. It's like, okay. Scuba State, did you ever drink? He never drank.

He's looking at me through the window, the next door studio. He's kind of like my unofficial Bo Snerdly, you know, right across the other side. All right, Steve, that's all fine. Oval Tene. Ovalteen, it's what's for breakfast. I don't know. It's 18 minutes after 8. 770563.633.

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It's open phones on conspiracy theory Thursday. I love this headline on Revolveller. Revolver News, Revolver. News this morning. Angry young women are driving Generation Z men straight into the arms of cougars. Yeah. I wonder if that's true. We've got a lot of cougars that are probably listening to this show.

We've got to, we've got to. They have to be some cougars that listen to our show. My show. I'd love to talk with you about this. But anyway, what they're bringing up is that young generation Z women, are just driving Generation Z men nuts. And they're talking about this over about the last 10 years, just driving them nuts.

Essentially, men are toxic, men are horrible, toxic masculinity, men are dangerous, boys are broken, women are the noble, enlightened victims, forced to endure all of the men. And so what's happening, they're finding out, is that the girl power movement in Generation Z has been pushing them into older women. And older women, I guess supposedly there is some data on this one.

In the telegraph, the UK telegraph, in a piece for the new statesman, pollster, Scarlett-McGuire revealed just how dire the numbers are. 30-8% of men, she wrote, say they feel very positively toward women, while only 18% of women say the same thing about men. Women don't like the men, the men still like women. All right. Still low. But what they're doing now, this is a New York Times story now,

they're reporting that older women are in demand by younger men. And there's this dating app, Field. I'm not familiar with that one, but they reported huge growth in this preference over the past two years. According to a 50-year-old woman on Field who chronicled her week on the app in an article, This was the quote from the woman on field. No, it's like field like playing the field. I don't think it's like field like you field her or anything like that.

But it said, after finding the courage to finally scroll, my first eyebrow raise came from the number of younger men that had liked my profile. About 30% of them were under the age of 35. So under 35 men, about a third of them were getting in touch with his 50-year-old, right? What is it that they find alluring about the thought of being with a 50-year-old? Do they think I'm rich? Do they imagine I'll take care of them? Do they think I'm experienced?

They can show them a few tricks, or is it simply that they think I'd be grateful for the attention? It may be more likely to say yes to a day. Well, a lot of it they're finding out is that the younger men are finding out that older women just like men. They like men. That's what they're finding out. and the generation C men are finding out that their peers, their same age group, doesn't like men as a rule. Not all. They're going, okay, well, if the young women won't talk to us, then we'll try someone a little bit older.

I don't know if you want to get mothered in the relationship or whatever it is. I find that very interesting. The only problem is that doesn't really help with family formation and the birthing of children, you know, that sort of thing. as the population replacement problem keeps cropping up. But I found that very interesting. I couldn't help but notice what ended up happening with my own son. My own son was telling me about his problem with he's Gen Z, and he had a Gen Z, he had a Gen Z girlfriend.

And then one day the Gen Z girlfriend came home and said, you will now refer to me as a they. Yeah. In other words, this is the classic Oregon. We're going to go transgender, two-spirit, whatever things. And you have to refer to me as a they. Yeah, in other words, there's more than one of me in here, you know, apparently that you're dealing with. And so, yeah. And Will really loved this girl.

Really did. I mean, he called me up and he was, you know, going on with me. This was about eight, nine years ago. I think this happened, right? And Will was telling me about this. I said, son, you have dodged a bullet. on this one. All right. This is the Gen Z woman,

you know, the blue hair, the bone to the nose or whatever it is. And so that's what he was all about. And he really loved her. And she was a good worker. I actually liked her.

I met her one time. But that was just it. And she comes home and says, you will refer to me as a they. All of her friends were saying, every time he would slip and call the girl, a girl or she or something like that, she's a they.

It's not she. It's they. And they're all yelling at her. And then finally, you know, they broke up and I said, son, hey, let me tell you, you, you dodged a bullet on that one, kiddo. It's all right. And something tells me that my son's experienced as a young Gen Z may not be all that different than what they're talking about in this article. Now, I haven't seen him going after 50-year-olds, though. I haven't seen them do that yet.

But I don't know. Maybe. And looking for a mom-wife, right? Geez. Hello, Patrick. How are you this morning? Conspiracy Theory Thursday. What's on your mind? Good morning, Bill. I'm going back to the other subject about Ovaltine, and yes, I drank

Ovalteen when I didn't know any better. My mom, bless her heart, thought it was good for us. I wouldn't have anything to do with anything that has to do with the Nestle Corporation now. Are you... Oh, is it because of the buying up the water thing, that deal? They tried to patent water. Yeah. And they were unsuccessful, but that's just one thing. I was hearing decades ago that they were on a big campaign.

This is what first got me alerted to them to tell all the mothers down in Africa, do not feed your baby's mommy's milk. Feed them this formula. So they're just a corrupt corporation with all this crap. If it says Nestle's on it, I would throw it in the garbage. Well, when it comes to feeding a baby, though, Make America healthy would be the first thing we would say is that, you know, if you can breastfeed. Mother's milk is still the best way to go, really is.

Something else, Bill, are you there? Yeah, still here. Yeah, you mentioned Soda Stream, and I heard Sean Hannity advertising it. I wouldn't have anything. He has to do it either. Well, I wouldn't. Don't pick on Sean about Soda Stream. Soda Stream's just there.

It's something that I heard about years ago, and I finally went and bought one a while, ago. And we don't have a lot of carbonated drinks in our family. We don't do a lot of that, but sometimes it's nice. And I have to tell you, if you play your cards right, it seems to be an economical way to do it over the standard. You know, when you're at the point where a 12-pack is going for $8.50 plus the $0.60 or no, the $1.20 in state deposit fees, it starts getting you thinking in alternative ways. I read a book years ago about reversing. aging and the scientist goes through the chemical formula of how that carbonation is harmful to your health.

Really? I'll get you that book if you'd like. All right. Bring it by. I'm always happy to read another one. That's right. I'll do that. All right.

Thanks, Patrick. Deplorable Patrick, 7705-633. This is the Bill Maher show. We'll catch up on news, more of your calls. Anything else on your mind? Some emails of the day, too, and a lot of them writing about P-Dab. That talk last hour. Oregon Truck and Auto Authority is your work truck headquarters,

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Justice Department announcing today that it had loosened up legal restrictions for medical marijuana. And officials say that this would allow for more recent. search and treatment options. Now, the move does not affect recreational marijuana, so recreational marijuana is still Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Drug Enforcement Administration would hold a hearing in June to consider doing so, and the new FDA rule approved, I'm sorry, the new rule rather moves FDA-approved marijuana and state-regulated marijuana out of the Schedule 1 category, which includes drugs like heroin that have the strictest requirements and it goes into Schedule 3,

drugs that include like ketamine and carries fewer restrictions. Okay, so that's the latest coming out of the White House this morning. Very interesting. Very interesting. So it's the medical. The medical marijuana, the feds aren't going to go after. So I guess maybe this means that less DEA work on the illegal drug grows overall. It'll be looked at as less of a happy hunting ground.

I don't know. I don't know what that actually means. maybe you know. Dave's here. Dave, you wanted to talk about the fact-finding mission that the PDAB

is doing, the pharmacy drug or pharmaceutical drug affordability board. I talked to last hour. Go ahead. Yeah, well,

generally, fact-finding missions are used to bury or kill the facts because they don't get out. It's kind of like when they point Mueller or Mueller,

or however you want to pronounce it. Yeah, you have a special prosecutor, A special prosecutor, right? You do that. Right. He was there to cover up for Obama. And so when they appoint those kind of guys or do those boards, they're usually to bury things.

All right. We'll find out, though. At least we know that they're asking for the input. And we'll see what the data says later on, Dave. Appreciate the call. Let me go to John. John, you're here. Welcome to the Bill Meyer show.

Yeah. My vote is for Dr. Pepper. Oh, okay. talking about that. Some people were claiming that Coke it was conservative and Pepsi for the frogs, but you go Dr. Pepper. Yeah, independent. Okay, so you see, you're an independent thinker, right? You can't be put into a box, right? Yeah, the comment is I used to go to work, I get a two-liter bottle of Dr. Pepper and a quarter of buttermilk. That way I didn't have to stop to eat. A quart of buttermilk, really?

Yeah. Would you mix the two? Is that what you would do? No, I'd chase it. Oh, okay. You would actually drink buttermilk. Yes. I still do occasionally.

Really? But since I've retired, I don't touch any soda of any kind. And I feel 20 years younger. Oh, well, good for you. John, I appreciate the call. Thanks for making it. 7705-633. I guess I've been noodle around with all sorts of stuff today, even when it comes to Coke versus Pepsi.

Of course, I feel like we're living in a political Coke versus Pepsi world. Okay, Coke, Pepsi, who do we like? Anyway, let me go to the next line. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hi, this is Lauren, Not Nigel point. Lauren. How are you about A?

It's on your mind. Okay. I just want to mention that if you watch, if you listened to Little Orpan Annie back in the 50s like I did, then you had to get, have over because you took the label and you got a free mixing jug if you did that. Oh, no decoder wing. No decoder ring, rather. Nothing like that? No, no.

That was something else, I think. But with the Ovalteen, it was Little Orphanati and a decoder, another decoder ring. Yeah, see, you're vintage enough to have listened to Little Orphanani, aren't you? Yes, sir, I am. I'm 85 these days, and so I'm happy to be here. Now, I want to ask you, what happened to the fellow across the street? They had the big investigation in which they hauled off a lot of child sex abuse, alleged stuff from a guy in your neighborhood. What happened, do you know?

He's still there. They haven't arrested him. Oh, all right. Which is interesting to me. And when I tell neighbors, especially ones with kids, they say they haven't. He's still here? Oh, no. Anyway.

All right. Well, I just had to ask. Thanks for keeping us in the room. Okay. Thank you. I can do that. When I see his card missing or whatever, I'll figure that. I'll let you know.

All right. Thank you, Lauren. 770-5633. Good morning. Hi, this is Bill. Who's this? Hi, Bill. It's Lucretia.

Lucretia. I should have warned me. You should have warned me that you were calling. I've got to have your song ready when I know it's you. There we go. Take it away, darling. What's on your mind? Well, even my problem with calling somebody a conspiracy theorist,

when those are the people that are thinking aren't just accepting the BS that our government and our media feeds us, you know. And so it's a frustrating situation when we're going down and people that are saying, hey, that was an inside job, you know, where are we going with this? Right. Well, you know, to a certain extent, you know, to your point, though, you know how everybody has made fun of Alex Jones for a lot of years.

I remember how he talked about, Alex Jones said that, oh, gosh, what was the place where they were doing the, The protesting, the protesting and the nationalists were there and everything else. I just forgot the name of the place. Was it Charlotte? Is it Charlotte that that happened? The Charlotte narrative? Okay.

Well, remember now we know that the Southern Poverty Law Center has been funding the so-called hate groups. They're supposedly fighting. I think it was Charlotte. I think it was Charlotte we were talking about, you know, the protest. Remember the one liberal ended up getting killed by a car? Remember that? Uh-huh. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, Alex Jones always said that was a false flag. It was a false flag like an inside job. So I guess we have to apologize to Alex Jones this morning. Now, to your point, please continue. All righty. Yeah, and 9-11 and Cindy Hook and Boston bombing, all that. But, yeah, it's a situation right now. I can't believe people are debating whether Coke or Pepsi type of things.

Oh, okay. Now, we have to have a little fun. Lucretia, you know, at some point, I need to just take you, a comedy movie and just had you laugh about nonsense, okay? You just need to do that. Brandtis is great for that. The brand seems just give it up. Okay.

That's a nice thing that what you said for yesterday, man. I really appreciated her speaking out. But let me say, John Perkins, you know, he was an economic kid, man. And before I even go into this, let me just ask you, is nationalism, communism, when you nationalize something like, you know, like our force here in Oregon. When we had that where companies could go in and harvest the government trees, and then we paid for our schools through that, and we didn't have to pay taxes to put all these children through school. Right. Is that a bad thing? Is that communism? Well, in that particular case,

It is owning, it is the harvesting of the commons, I suppose. Maybe there is a communistic aspect of that, I suppose. Because basically what Iran was doing when they saw how we were going in and taking all the mineral rights and this and that and mining rights from all these countries. And what we are doing, John Perkins said, if they didn't go along with it, knowing that they were just going to impoverish their people. they were killed. And he said when he went to Persia, back when it was just Persia, they were, people were dressed beautifully. They were more sexy than even the women in Paris, you know, with their beautiful outfits, the ladies. Yeah. Now, John Perkins wrote a great book about this called Confessions of an Economic Hitman. So what is your point on this, though? Where are you going?

Well, my point is Iran doesn't really believe in imperialism, especially by a society where the elite are torturing and raping and eating and drinking the blood of little children, which we have, which is the, you know, hiding of the Epstein documents. So you're thinking that the theocrats running Iran right now are looking at this differently. Danger of imperialism, which we know. know, Bignabersinsky said that will be the hardest part. If we can get through with that, we can create our transhumanism agenda, which he wrote about in his book Between Two Ages. I have no idea why any American wants Iran to fail when we know the next step is to literally mind control us and treat us like slaves with a boot snapping on the human face forever, as Huxley wrote about.

Okay. Now, do you honestly think, though, that let's say that Iran loo'clock. loses. Or let's say that Iran does win. Are you trying to tell me that Iran wins and then all of a sudden the tip of which you described doesn't happen because I can't necessarily buy that. We've got to stop all this tyranny. I mean, we talked talking about the drugs. These drugs are not doing any good. In Marsha Angel wrote a book in about 2000. Okay, we're all right. Now we're starting to go too far afield here at this moment. No, but it's like, why are we drinking and taking all these drugs? The top ten pharmaceutical, the top ten companies, we're making pharmaceutical companies.

We're making more money than another 490 Fortune 500 companies combined. Okay, now, Lucretia. We're written by ghost studies. Lucretia, I love you, love you, okay? I know. Here's the thing. I know, you started the talk off with complaining about, you were just, you know, about Coke versus Pepsi. We're just having fun with this.

You know what you need to do? Have you ever watched Idiocracy? No. All right. You need to get a copy of Idiocracy and watch it and watch it with a friend. Get a friend over and have some popcorn. Now for you would be GMO free popcorn and you would be probably doing it in avocado oil. I don't eat carbs.

We don't need carbs. Now you're crazy. Now you really have no fun. Okay. No fun at all. So, okay, but if you do, okay, so go out and get, all right, go out and get some, oh, I don't know, GMO-free smoked sardines or something for your diet. And then bring everybody over and watch idiocracy and laugh your butt off at the absurdity of the human condition and then get back to me. I think you'll be healthier, okay?

You need to laugh a little more, really. Okay. Jill, we don't have time to get Lucrezia to come. No, not get Francine to come over and bring the smoke. I need to bring Spanstein's son. All right. Thanks, Lucretia. Oh, I love it.

It is 845. You know, we have to laugh, too. We just can't all just be in the doom loop 24-7. That's just not healthy. Hi, KM&E. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Good morning, Bill. It's Gary. Hi, Gary. What's on your mind today? Hey, well, I take Jardians, and I could share my experience with you. Yeah, tell me about that. because that's what the PDAB is looking for, people who are getting experienced with, you know, really expensive prescription drugs. I don't think that's a cheap pill, is it?

Well, see, I started taking Jardians early in the beginning of 2025. I had a major cardiac event because of sleep apnea. I quit breathing and my heart stopped and I was why flighted to Medford and woke up in cardiac cancer. unit with a defibrillator. And I was a commercial, professional, commercial driver in federal regulations. He can't drive commercial vehicles with a defibrillator. Oh, yeah. Yeah, imagine.

If you're driving and the defib kicks in, that's really bad, right? Right. Yeah. So my defibrillator hasn't done off of it. So I was lucky enough to be in retirement age, so I was able to apply for Social Security. but one of the prescriptions I was prescribed by the cardiologist over to Assonte was Jardians. And after I lost my job, I went on to Oregon. I went on Marketplace.

And the prescription from the pharmacy or from the provider was for 90-day supply. And my out-of-pocket expense for 90-day supply of Jardians was $178. $178 for 90 days. So 90 days, it's about two bucks a day is what you're having to pay for that, right? Yeah. So then at the end of 2025, I became eligible for the Oregon Health Plan. And so now Oregon Health Plan doesn't do a 90-day supply. They just do 30-day supply at a time.

And they pay 100% of my prescriptions. but the pharmacy bill for the prescription for a 30-day supply is $312. Whoa. How many pills a day? It's usually one a day, isn't it? It's one a day. Yeah, one in the morning. So that is $10 bucks a pill per day.

Wow, that's a pricey pill. Unbelievable. Yeah. It's just in the state pays it, and I just shake my head. I'm kind of curious, you know, you might want to weigh. in on those meetings here, you know, for that because, well, I guess the reason that they want to get this information is that maybe they're going to be talking about negotiating with the drug manufacturers. I think that might be what the state legislature is hoping to do, but 10 bucks

a pill out of pocket is, that's pretty pricey pill. I'm sure there's probably more expensive pills than that, though, Gary. Well, I don't pay it. Well, the other taxpayers are paying it right now. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Well, you might want to tell them about it, okay? I appreciate the call. Thank you for checking in. 770 KMED on Conspiracy Theory Thursday. My auto answer is not working this morning, so if you call, I'm just going to put you immediately on hold, and so don't freak out by that, okay? Hi, KMED. Who's this? Good morning. Ah, good morning. Keith here out of Cave Junction. Keith, what's up? How are you doing? I'm fine, thank you. I have the pleasure of not being a commercial driver anymore. What happened? I chose.

Well, actually, I blew a transmission up, but I chose, and I feel for the gentleman before me, the reason what I called was my love of RC Cola. Back in the 80s, when it stopped being made with sugar, I stopped drinking it. I don't drink soda anymore, period. It's not good for you. But I did like RC Cola in the day. That was my sort of choice. I never like Coca-Cola, never like Pepsi.

Does that make me conservative? I guess it just means you like RC Cola. Yeah. Anyway, and a comment about that lady that was on that study group. Yes. What a government employee. What made you think that you, what made her sound like a government employee to you? She sounded so deceptive.

Why would you, and I felt like I was being told subliminally, why would you be concerned about what I'm doing? I'm doing it for your own good. There was just this undertone of, I don't even understand that. I'm here to, oh, the nine words you never want to hear. I'm here. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. Oh, okay. So in other words, you're saying it came from the same crop of individuals that in 2021 were saying,

put on your mask and take the jab. I never did. Yeah, I know. I never did. I don't take blue shots. I don't take shots. I'm skeptical. Now, do you mind if I ask you a question right now, Keith?

Okay. So you blew the transmission so you're no longer driving commercial truck. Is part of this the cost of diesel? I'm wondering what the cost of diesel is doing to the independent truck driver out there. Okay. I'm going to be very polite. The gentleman that I work for has ran himself and he's a good soul. And if he's listening, he knows who I'm talking about because he knows my name.

I haven't talked with this gentleman. I'll leave his name out. He has struggled for years. We always used to have spared trucks. But through attrition, always buying and utilizing already used vehicles, never buying new, you get to the point where your fleet long in the tooth, my truck had 700,000 miles on it, transmission blew a month and a half ago. and he was trying to get it taken care of, but I haven't talked with him for three weeks,

and I'm on Social Security now. It was not supposed to be this quick. That's why I feel empathy for that gentleman before me. But right now, I'm kind of liking this. I'm at home. I'm in the back of my property, cleaning. off the roofs of the shop where I've got my art, my, my, my, H.O. train set. I'm the one that you gave magazines to a long time ago. Oh, yeah, the trains magazine, sure. Yeah, yeah. I've been working on

that. I've been working on the property. It's nice. It wasn't how I planned it, but getting back to the industry before fuel prices went north, my boss was paying $10,000 a month per vehicle. on fuel. Yeah. It is insane the cost of doing business. I understand going to the store big time. I mean, I don't know where to go with this. Like the reason I call.

But still, you know, if it was $10,000 a month with cheap fuel per vehicle, 10,000. Not cheap. It was in the 350 to 390, not including PUC. Yeah. The weight mile tax in Oregon is insanely complicated. It's crazy. Yeah, all right. Thanks for sharing your experience there.

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Remember tonight, town hall meeting at North Medford High School. Yeah, they're going to be doing all the talk about the roads and the parks. Maybe you can ask about the ball stadium that's all happening out. Mayor Michael Zerisinski, Mayor of Medford will be hosting that. Let me go to Todd. Todd in Central Point. Hello, Todd. Go ahead. Welcome. Good morning. Just about Coca-Cola. Yeah. Definitely not conservative. I don't you remember it was about five years ago when they got some opposition for, well, they opposed Georgia's voting integrity laws. And then it came out that in their diversity training, they were encouraging their employees to be less white. Remember that?

Yes, I do remember that. Now, I'm not talking about what the corporate structure is, but I guess the point is what people were noticing or what that one guy was noticing is that he was saying, I think more of the conservatives choose Coke, and they're just probably not thinking about it as woke Coke, but just, you know, buying something that they like or Pepsi or whatever the case might be. Well, when that came out, that's when I stopped drinking it. And also about cocaine or Coca in the Coca-Cola. My brother used to live in Bolivia, and he used to send us back to the state's Coca-T tea, which, of course, if it's unrefined, it's really not that different from, you know, just regular caffeine and tea. Yeah, well, that's a T with a zip for sure, huh? No, it's very popular.

You can get it. Oh? I'm sure Lucretia likes it. You got it. Along with her smoke sardines, okay? Let me grab another call here before we take a break till tomorrow. Hi, KMEDE. Good morning.

Who's this? Oh, this is old Greg over here at Gold Hill. Go ahead, Greg. Give me a quick one. It don't got a lot of time yet, so make the... Okay, well, I just want to see if I can cheer Lucretia up with this. Um, first of all, though, let me just say, life's a miracle every instant, even your worst instant, and people forget when they get sideways.

That's when they need to remember that the most. So, moving ahead, Lucretia, this is for you. So there was two old cowboys. Oh, he was young cowboys at the time. They were at the Lake Creek store. One was Gordy and one was Charlie. They were brothers. and he was a younger brother.

He had an R.C. Cola there. He just popped the cap off of. And Charlie says, let me have a drink of that. And Gordy tipped that up, and it went right down before Charlie could even get a hold of it. I never saw a soda disappear that fast in my life. And I just thought it was kind of funny. You know, here's these two young lads. and the brothers.

And so anyways, I'm, I just went through a week from hell, and I apologize. I couldn't have that story with more of a grin on my face. But, uh, I, in other words, what you're saying, Greg, not to put words in your mouth, but it's kind of like life's a gift in spite of our challenges and we're going to muddle through. Would that be fair? Well, yeah, you know, um, I say, I, I praise God every, time anything happens good or bad, I'd say this, thank you, Lord, for the gifts you give. And actually, I wrote a song with those lyrics.

Well, I'd look forward, I'd look forward to hearing that at some point, except I got 20 seconds left before I turned into a conspiracy theory Thursday, and Greg. All right? All right. All right. All right. Appreciate the call. Yeah, we'll muddle through. We'll talk more about the muddling and the middling and the nonsense. Hey, it'll be coming up tomorrow. Okay, 9 o'clock. And Markley, Van Camp, and Robbins are coming up. See you then. News Talk 1063, KMED and KMED HD-1. Eagle Point, Medford, a marquee broadcasting West Station.

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