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Greg over at rogueweather.com. Greg, welcome back. How did they go? Actually, it went very well. Very well attended. You know, people ask great questions. What there absolutely was not, though, was any kind of real confrontational thing, yelling and screaming. And, you know, when you do this kind of talk the way I do it, that never happened.

Well, I'm glad to hear that because sometimes the conversations when it comes to wolf depredation can get pretty little and pretty. serious out there. Well, I mean, the big part of it is I started putting it up in the post, letting people know it was going to be happening up there. But then the very first thing I did leading it off was to say, this is not going to be pro-wolf. This is not going to be anti-wolf. What I'm going to do is share information with you that has been researched in our proven facts and proceeded to get right into that. And then for people who came up there, especially from out of the valley, because there were those, and had never laid eyeballs on a wolf, one of the

things I also did with that was address a lot of myths that just aren't true. And you hear the pro-wolf crowd refer to wolves in terms of their size a lot as German. Really? He immediately countered that. Boy, you know, guys, I understand isn't a real wolf considerably larger than your typical German Shepherd? Absolutely. Okay. And to counter that, I had my friend Mark bring his wolf hybrid Opa, who is 78% northern timber wolf. And Opa has apparently been doing Wolfazimpe because he is now down to between 150 and 155 pounds.

And when we had him at the sportsman show, he was 100. hundred and sixty-five, literally larger in body, mass, and frame in every way than a German shepherd. Yeah, a 155-pound, a 155-pound canine is a big canine, though. There's no doubt. Yeah, it is. And the other nice part to high percentage in a public setting, he is so mellow. He just, I mean, you would look at him and think that's a vicious animal could tear you apart. And in his case, he'll love you to death, just like a little poodle.

And I called him the biggest chihuahua ever because he just spent most of his time, actually, just laying on the floor sleeping. And then anybody wanted to come up and meet him, he'd just stand there. But once again, proved he has a definite proclivity for women and for girls at that meeting. Because the women who came up to him, he was way more attentive to them than the men. Okay, typical guy. What can I say? Yeah, exactly. You know, the thing is, I wonder, now you can never discount the genetics of a canine,

and you have to respect when you have a hybrid, that even though there's a lot of dog in there, and the dog might be more trusting and more friendly than the wolf's side of that, you still have to respect that all. But I would imagine that a lot of this is when you're, what Maslov's hierarchy of needs, you know, the hierarchy of needs, when your food is taken care of, when your shelter is taken care of, there's different behavior out of animals. Without any question. And a lot of people get into trouble owning hybrids because they tend to want to try and act

like it's just a dog, a bigger dog. The wolf side is in there, and you've got to treat it completely differently than you would a standard dog. I mean, even right up to the kind of things a lot of people like doing the dogs that they're even meeting for the first time, just march right up and get basically all over in their personal space, and dogs will react negatively to that. Appa, though, if you just kind of let him dictate the interaction, he'll come in, he'll approach you, he warms right up. I was talking to somebody answering a specific question. All of a sudden he gets up off the floor, and he starts coming over to me, and he starts body love rubbing up on me.

And I had to laugh, and I had to point out, you know, the interaction that was going on and going, this is a very classic wolf behavior. This is what they do. When you watch a pack of wolves, you'll see a lot of times they're making body contact. They're body bumping up on each other. and when they acknowledge you as being part of, quote, the pack or somebody they know and they're really familiar with, they come and start doing that big body rubbing and pushing up against you. So I'm sitting there trying to answer a question.

Meanwhile, Appa's over here. Yeah, the wolf is going all over you. So, Greg, let me just direct it to... Showing your affection. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So what about...

What are some of the more interesting questions that were asked at... at the wolf meeting last night in the falls. The biggest one, a lot of people, they wanted to know exactly how we got the wolves that we got here. And so I broke it down. I said, we're talking about two different types. We're talking about our true northern native timber wolves. And then you've got the Alaska Yukons. And so I also let people know, if you think wolves have been exterminated in Oregon and then suddenly,

just showed up again and there are all these, quote, Canadian wolves, you about a lie. They never did get rid of all the northern timber wolves, and northern timber wolves have been coming into this area for decades because what we now know about dispersal by watching the collared wolves, but what we learned was in the past, nobody had any idea how far wolves would go on their voyage looking for mates and territory, and that was one of the first things became quickly evident watching them on the satellite tracking callers. They were going thousands of miles. O-R-7 went over 2,000 miles on his dispersal from northeast Oregon, down the Cascades, then the Sierra in California, then came back around and wound up here in Jackson County.

OR7's daughter, if you will, OR-54, way over 9,000 miles of trekking. She never found a mate. She never established a territory. And she died of natural causes. And I think a big part of it was just the eventual toll on her body. All of that nonstop trekking did to her. Oh, yeah. That's a lot of walking for anything.

or any animal, really, 9,000 miles. So it's interesting they tracked that. I did not realize that they would roam that far then. Now, what about the number? Because I guess our grouse pack is the largest one in the state right now. That's from the Wolf Report. Yeah, everything I can determine up there, I still believe that number's low. I think it's more accurate to say it's in the 20 to 22 range up there.

I also told people this, you know, one of the other things we got into was talking about how wolves make for life. Well, some one pair in the pack breeds. And if you've got a pack that is at a minimum confirmed 15, there is a high likelihood that right now they're preparing their dinsights for the pups if they haven't already been born. and we may wind up having multiple litters in that pack again because based on traffic evidence, video evidence, eyewitness testimony. ODF and W said five pups in that pack last year. And people I absolutely know and trust that if they're lying, it's the first one they've ever told me, said it was more like nine.

Okay. Now, what is the rate of pups that make it to adulthood? generally speaking, because I imagine some die along the way. Yeah, and the first year of life, I make it out of the den, and that's due to either disease, parasites, oh. In fact that there are enemies for the wolf out there. There are things that will kill wolves, and when it turns into adult wolves, things that kill wolves, other wolves, swing cat and dog, a different level out there

when you're talking about cougars and wolves. And cougars, if they can get a lone wolf, will absolutely kill it. If a pack of wolves can keep a cougar from getting up in a tree, they will kill it. Interesting. All right. Things I didn't know. I have not really studied this deeply. I know you and others have done this.

Greg, I'll be right back here. I want to talk more about what happened at that meeting because, like I said, very well attended. A lot of people interested in this. Maybe when we return a conversation about our number of wolves in our area and, you know, if that's considered a good thing, bad thing, neutral, I mean, what, you know, what we're talking about when it comes to livestock predation, okay? Right back with Greg Roberts at rogueweather.com, 725. Whether you've had your car for a few months or many years, most people take pride in their vehicles and take good care of them. So when an accident happens, Lithia Body and Paint knows you want it back on the road fast, looking at you.

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but it's also a recap of last night's big public meeting on wolves. And wolf predation, livestock predation, all the rest of it. So when it comes to the number of wolves, what are we thinking here? Because you had a lot of people from ranches. They were there very concerned because they're feeding the wolf population to an extent here, Greg. What are you thinking? Yeah, I kind of, I wrote the livestock owners who participated in our meeting on Ron Anderson's place on February 3rd.

Not a single one of them were at the meeting last night due to, you know, other reasons, why things happening. but, you know, I kind of wanted at least one of them to show up to kind of underscore how the wolves, what they wound up doing, and this was something none of us foresaw coming, but I did tell people wolves are risk managers about themselves, and they will want to, that involves when you start sizing up your average, you know, steer cat or elk, they're going to choose the steer or calf every time because they're just much easier for them to kill and avoid a lot of risk for themselves. You know, when they're hunting deer and elk, deer and elk have very sharp hooves. There's also antlers involved with males.

There's a lot of risk involved for a wolf in killing deer or elk that just are not present when it comes to livestock. And so what we see happen is they become specialist in killing livestock, and they will do it as long as livestock is available to them, totally ignore other sources of food. But we start on the livestock. So what does that mean then for our area ranches? It means a lot because the cattle, the livestock that aren't killed also wind up suffering from this. They have a lot more stress, lower body weight, spontaneous abortions of calves that don't

variety of reasons cannot tolerate the pregnancy, and so they spontaneously abort. There are a lot of losses for ranchers that most people never even think about, losses that are not adequately compensated at all at this point, and there is no doubt about that. And then I got asked the big question. What do you propose that we do? Yeah, I was wondering about delisting. And I know there's been taught about that. This is beyond delisting.

This is beyond. DeLifting, what it really is is an administrative process. It removes the federal government out of administering the wolves and returns it to the state level. And here in Oregon, don't expect any dramatic change from where things are at right now. I said, you know, you can definitely shoot a wolf if it's attacking you. What I think we need to have happen is the ability for livestock owners on their property, not out on the summer range, on the public lands, but on their property, if wolves are there and attacking their livestock, they need to have the ability to shoot to kill.

Are they not allowed to shoot a wolf that is eating their livestock? Can they not do anything to them? Yep. Nope. Wow. Even if you're sitting there watching your calf being eaten alive, and that is how wolves kill, they eat things alive. The death comes from the shock of the loss of volume of blood. Honestly, if I'm a deer or an elk, I would a thousand times rather be shot by a human hunter's bullet or arrow than be eaten alive by a pack of wolves. I imagine so. It's me. Yeah.

Yeah, I would agree with you that the state, though, our state, unfortunately, is kind of ruled by Bambi kind of thing. You know, it's kind of a Bambi or a Disney kind of approach to wildlife. Isn't that one of our challenges, I think? Well, it's one of our challenges. Our other big challenges for that reason, ODF and W is absolutely not participating in the program here in Jackson County or elsewhere, as they should be. I heard again last night. Well, I called O'DF and W and they wouldn't even come out. That's not supposed to be happening.

Well, ODF and W came out, and then they told me a bear killed this animal. Maybe or maybe not, but ODF and W didn't even want to hear the argument about, well, we've been watching wolves on this thing for days because it took ODF and W days to get out there, and then they said it was a bear kill. And I looked at videos from the kill site. They put a game camera up to monitor it. Yes, there was a large bear on day one, but in one of those pictures, you clearly see wolves shadowing him.

And then the manager of the ranch said, it was nothing but the wolves, and the wolves kept returning. And I said, okay, here's part of why they're saying it's a bear kill. Even though you don't want to hear that, What you can't prove is the wolves killed it. What I can prove is wolves will drive bears and cougars away from their kills and then claim them as their own. Okay. And especially the Grouse Ridge pack with the numbers of wolves in that pack.

Yeah, and the bears more or less say, hey, I'm not taking on the wolf pack, right? Yeah, it's the biggest bear. And this was a huge bear. I mean, monster black bear. they're not going to withstand the pressure of the Grouse Ridge. He didn't particularly like hearing what I told him, but he said what you're saying, though, does make sense. But he said, that's not the way ODF and W described it.

They wanted to argue, oh, this is a bear kill. No, that's not what ODF and W is supposed to do. If they're really biologists who know anything about wolves, exactly what I did with him. break it down scientifically, explain it, let him know why. Yeah, it is very likely the bear did kill your animal, but the wolves drove the bear off. ODF and W didn't even cover that at all. Yeah, you would think, though, well, it must be politics that's involved with this then.

Aren't you talking about a political, really a politicized agency, right? But the problem is, ODF and W is totally executing it from the political. side, not the scientific side, and that's part of the reason why I'm not on the Jackson County Wolf Committee anymore, because I can do more good being a private citizen than I ever could on the Wolf Committee. All you really do on the Wolf Committee, cut checks. Okay. I'm talking about Greg Roberts here, and I think... I think... I think this is Scott. I think... Is this Scott? I think that's your number, isn't it? Is it right, Scott? Morning.

Hey, good morning, guys. Hey, uh, hey, uh, great. Gregory, hey. Yeah, yeah, what's your question, Scott? Go ahead. Yeah. Hey, oh, I'm sorry. Anyway, I'm back out of the ranch here, and we do have wolves. Yes, we do. We have wild packs of dogs late at night. Oh, we have it all, right? You know, out here in North Eagle Point area. and I was going to say a segue into actually satchquatch stuff.

I don't want to talk saskwatch today, okay? All right. We're going to be wolf-focused here. We're wolf-in? Okay, so what do we do, Greg? Hey, Greg, what do we do about all these packs? Not all of them, but we have a good group here in north, let's say closer to Ball Road area. Okay.

It's easy to address. if the dogs are coming on your property and they're a threat to livestock, you are free to shoot and kill any dog on your property regardless of if it's somebody's pet. You are legally covered to do that. The wolves do anything except haze them. Hazing them involves a lot of things, including shooting towards them at them, not towards them, meaning to hit them, but you can shoot over the top. You can fire guns. And we actually did have people who showed up last night and said, we've done that. And even that's not effective.

The wolves will move and then just stop and turn and look at you. Well, they start to realize, I guess. That's an issue. Well, Greg, what you're talking about then is that they are smart enough to realize that you're faking them. You're faking them. You're faking them out. They figured it out. Yeah.

They truly are. The only thing that will change wolf behavior like that is the permission to be able to, shoot them and when they see their pack leaders die on doing certain things, then maybe some behavior would change, right? The flip side of that is what we discussed last night. We need to take out members of the Grouse Ridge Pack to deter the livestock kills. Okay. Here's what we absolutely know now from years of doing that in northeastern Oregon.

That will be a short-term relief. It does. Driving members of the pack scatter out. They get maids. They establish new territories. they still definitely have the taste for livestock, you eventually wind up having more problems. You do removals of members of your targeted pack. But, you know, are you kind of implying or intimating that just cutting checks is the only

way to respond to this? No. Okay. Because what ability to kill wolves on their property, threatening their livestock, and it's not just this random every once in a while thing with, you know, maybe three, four members of the pack on Anderson's property. Her who is his ranch foreman goes out. She sees five wolves in the process of actively trying to kill one of their cows.

She is now legally covered to kill wolves doing that, and she shoots and kills at least three of the five wolves. and that continues to happen every time the wolves come after the livestock on their ranch, the wolves are going to figure it out, and then the wolves are going to start giving you space. That would never eliminate the wolves completely. And I know this now because Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have basically its open season on wolves in those three states. But the interesting thing, especially in Idaho, is the elk have figured out, hey, the humans can kill the wolves.

And if we go here and the wolves show up, the humans are going to kill the wolves, and it worked. And then the wolves quit showing up, but all the elk moved in, and now the ranchers in Idaho are begging the state of Idaho to do special ag hunts on the elk that become crowding onto their properties. Oh, my God. I don't know who's dumber. Yeah. Humans or the animal. Okay. All right.

Because the humans can't seem to figure out why the animals are doing what they're doing. and it is such an obvious thing. It is such a duh. Yeah, well, they're behaving logically on the incentives which are out there. Okay, interesting story there. Okay, well, I'm glad you had a good meeting there. And thanks for the recap here, Greg. I got a roll, but I appreciate that.

And we'll be continuing this conversation next week on the Outdoor Report here. Is there any quick outdoor, actual outdoor, maybe forecasting we need to know about here for the next few days before you take off? Yeah, I heard the forecast coming in. And if you stay here in Medford and Grants Pass over the weekend, it's going to be sunny, nice weather. There is some potential for rain and higher elevation snows over the Cascades, northern Clameth County, Southern Deshutes County. From around Medford and Grants Pass, believe me, it is going to be a way better forecast for the weekend than what we heard coming in at the top of the hour. All right, very good. We'll take that. So you'll see me whacking and putting down black plastic, okay? And there you go. Putting that barrier down is probably in your situation, your best plan of action to keep all the things you really don't want coming up from coming up.

You got it. All right, Greg. We'll talk next Friday. All right. Be well. Thanks. You too, Bill. Greg Roberts atrogweather.com, Oregon Truck and Auto Authority, the sponsor of the Outdoor Report every Friday. And today was mostly about the recapping the Wolf meeting. It was a big one, too. And we'll catch up on the rest of the news coming up on KMED. If you're remodeling your house, start with the foundation. Millet Construction offers a no-pressure, thorough inspection of your home's foundation and a no-obligation estimate if your house needs work.

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So it really serves some really great purposes, and we are still in need of some players. And the poker tournament is tomorrow Saturday, the 25th. Okay. And where's this going to be? We are having it, again, out at Triple Tree Restaurant out on 234 in Sam's Valley. Registration is at 5 p.m. It comes with dinner. Dinner's at 5.30, and cards are dealt at 6.

And don't you get a whole bunch of chips, like in the beginning? beginning, you know, you sign up, you get a whole, just a ton of chips to play with. Isn't that right? Yes. With the dealer fee and the entry fee, it's $120. You get 20,000 poker chips. And then throughout the night, there's time when you can, for $50, you can get an extra 15,000 chips.

I noticed a lot of the real seasoned register people, they can both right off the bat, but you don't have to. Okay. So if you're a good player, just come and win on the, initial investment. Yeah, well, you know, people who are into poker, I mean, they're really into poker. That's what you discovered last year, isn't it? They are.

I don't think there's a whole lot of politics that gets discussed, but it is just a really, it's a fun group and a really fun time. Monty out there at Triple Tree does our dinner and puts on a really hostess very nicely, and we do this through Gamble for Good, who actually runs the tournament. thank goodness, because I don't think any of the rest of us could ever pull that off. But he does a great job. And we have some – can I give a plug for our sponsors? We have several returning.

Okay, so you're abusing my radio station again, Colleen. I do apologize. Okay. But we have Sky Park Insurance, and he's a returning sponsor. Well, he's one of my sponsors, too. So, hey, there you go. Sky Park. Woo-hoo.

Yep. And Red Robin Restaurant. on his back and Snyder Creek development and Congressman Ben's host the table and Steve self-repair does. But we got some new ones, Dusty's Transmissions, who's also a sponsor of yours and now ours. And we have 8th Street Business and Financial Services and a really unique sponsor through Triple Tree. They're Liars Club. So if you want to, you know, know who the Liars Club is and join in with them, I guess it's your opportunity to meet them.

Okay. The Liars Club, is that like a, you know, a political? I can't speak for them. No, I don't know. I'm not sure. I think they are a group of people that just go and solve all the world's problems. I'm not sure. But they'll be there.

If you're interested, it'd be a good opportunity for everybody come out and see who these people are. And then we have our chair, Joyce Michelangelo, she and her husband were our big sponsors that sponsored actually the food. And we just thank them all. All right, very good. So this is tomorrow, Triple Tree, in Sam's Valley, Highway 234. And what time again? Does it start? Registration.

If you're not registered, come at five. We can get your registered there. If you want to register ahead of time, you can go online. we have an ability to get your registered that way or call the office 7705277. I think I'm going on memory. Yeah, all right. How is the – before we take off here, Colleen, what about the – how have the petition signature gatherings been going for the no-tax clawback? I know that's been the new one that just started off.

I think this is going to be a big weekend for a push on that, is that? Yes, and we will have the petition out there. I mean, even though we're not talking politics. It's really important to get those signatures. I know Vicki Westbrooks has been in charge of that. They've been at the office every day this week. I have not. I don't know where we're at on signatures,

but we will have the signature sheets out at the poker tournament because it's that important. Yeah, I just got a signature sheet location here from Vicki. I'm going to post that on Facebook here just a moment. We'll throw that up, okay? All right. Great. All right. I appreciate it.

I hope people that aren't signed up will find it interesting. come and join us. The food's great. The company's fun, and we have snacks all night, and you can win some gift card money, so it's... It's gambling for good and helping keep the office open, okay? And your new location is getting good reviews, okay? Thanks. Great. Thanks so much, Bill. Appreciate it. Thanks, Colleen. Colleen Roberts, not as commissioners this time, but speaking as the vice chair of the Jackson County Republican Party headquarters or party, right it is. And about funding the headquarters and more, okay? It's 10 before 8, 10 before 8.

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So perhaps we should let them eat cake or let them drink. wine. Some prominent founding fathers were wine, beer, cider, and whiskey drinkers. Of course, I don't know. Jerry, there's another way of looking at that is that you have to drink a whole lot of wine to make a decision. Oh, I don't know. What am I going to do? Okay. You know, give me some pino and it'll help me. Just having fun with you, though, all right? Ron weighs in with a conspiracy from yesterday. Bill, I couldn't call, but I had this thought that your guest the other morning who wrote this book about there is an intelligence operational principle that I once read about. I think it's called the Art of War.

It calls for in certain high-risk circumstances for the operatives who carry out the mission to be eliminated. Oh, this is about the when I was talking with the gentleman, the L.A. attorney on he thinks that a lot of the UAP and the disclosure stuff is really kind of a government-controlled op. Okay. But anyway, he's going back to the people being eliminated because their existence in the knowledge they now have poses a risk. Could it be that the group of missing top scientists that are being talked about more and more could be missing because of something like this? Perhaps whatever the coming revelation is referred to by your guest author on Thursday is related to the group. Just a wild thought. Ron Goodpasture, Ron, that is not a wild thought at all. It's a very reasonable theory.

wrote me about the cost of drugs. I had the prescription drug about people that were on yesterday talking about, and they're looking for public input on which drug costs are really messing with people. And Dale writes and says, Bill, I am diabetic and on Jardians. That was one of the drugs that were talked about. It was talked about in that conversation they're looking at. I'm on Jardians as well as insulin, along with many other medications because of blood pressure. And my co-pay for a 90-day supply of Jardians, my co-pay, wow, that's something.

The co-pay, this is not the cost of Jardians, this is just the co-pay for a 90-day supply of Jardians, has run anywhere from $276 to almost $400. And it's never the same when I pick it up at the pharmacy. The total cost is over $2,000 each time. That is an amazing cost. I didn't realize those pills were so expensive, Dale. But continues when I was first diagnosed as a diabetic, the upper threshold on the blood sugar was 140. But within that first year, it got changed to 120.

And then all the high-priced med started showing up. Diabetes, a great moneymaker for the drug companies and the doctors. I don't think the health insurance companies are helping with this either, okay? Francine weighing in on the disclosure. Question, are the elite, deep state? super secret dark governments, truly dealing with extraterrestrials or are they relying on both the nut job as well as the classic fear factor to serve as but another control mechanism? A few decades ago, I saw some extremely interesting moving lights in the sky over the East Bay

and California. Personally, I have no idea of extraterrestrials visited Earth. However, I do not subscribe to the idea that we humans are the only intelligent life forms in a supposedly infinitely vast and unending universe and that we are so, so special that we were made in the image of God. I mean, considering how every religion is, sure, they are God's favorite and chosen people. I actually believe God was either invented, where if God is real, interpreted by humans in our image. Okay. So, if we indeed have an extraterrestrial presence on Earth, why would they allegedly have set up some sort of presence on

Earth to work with the planet's elitist leadership? Or are they only dealing with the American leadership? To what purpose? It makes no sense. except to make people believe that we humans are so special that even aliens from outer space want to be in our club. Duh? Well, that's an interesting way of looking at it, Francine, all right? Yeah. Why would it be all that interesting? Okay.

Okay. I got to get that. I understand. I'll grab a call here before news. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Welcome.

Hey, good morning. This is, Scott. I know you have a lot of people ahead of me. But, hey, you know, if you're from St. Louis, you have to see it. What do you mean if you're from St. Louis? What do you mean? Well, my mom's from St. Louis, a long-time Eagle Point resident. You know, Helen Wogamont was her best friend. She curated at the Eagle Point Museum. And these lights have been around forever. You and I see him, Bill, all the time, right? And a good place if you want to see stuff is go out to Kino up Hamaker Road and just go up there where the Air Force Doppler is up there and just sit and look up and watch all the white little craft that appear.

And then the daytime, now the nighttime is the story. And you see Mount Shasta and you see McLaughlin. It's a beautiful place. And I proposed my wife there two years ago. Okay, now you're saying that, you know, you're saying. it around Shastard too. Now, that's the Lemurian spacecraft, right? Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh, the Lomeroans that are supposedly living inside the, inside the mountain, and that there's, like, underground, underground travel corridors, apparently? I'm not rolling it out, but, you know, my mom would have to see

him. I'm, I'm more susceptible to, because I'm a satchquatch guy. You know that, me and, me and Greg, we go satch, satch, watching, and we've had her own personal experiences seeing I've seen Satchkos twice from a delivery truck late night doing that high security. Well, all I know, Scott, is that I've talked to enough what I would consider to be sober people out there. Sure. You know, police and soldiers and various other things that go in and they say, hey, I can't talk about this. But, yeah, we see more stuff, way more stuff out there in the sky.

And to your point, Sasquatch on the ground. And we don't really want to talk about it because, and everybody knows it. And everybody, no one wants to talk about it. We talk wolves. You know, Bill, when you talk wolves, we have them out here on our ranch and out in Eagle Point, with 53 years. And, you know, the dogs will get whatever's left from what the wolves take down. And these dogs are people will let their dogs go loose.

That's how I found, that's how my dog found me and how I found my wife ultimately. What was through your dog? Really? Yeah, through my dog. It was almost like a Disney story. dog was the matchmaker. How interesting. How did you meet your wife through your dog? I want to hear this story. My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and I love her very deeply. But we didn't start that way. It never does. Okay, well, I'm out in the wood that's question, right?

And this dog appears up off Wagner Creek Road, and he's just this cute little puppy. And I take him down to the animal shelter, and, you know, the Jackson County Animal Shelter. And then I just had to take them home. So anyway, I was out of one of my walks after, you know, and I'd been through a relationship that was about four or five years, almost five years anyway. And I was just done with women, completely done. I was done with the drama, all that, you know. I was just going to go race cars.

So I do that now today, and build cars too. And so, anyway, just walking around Medford, you know, in an apartment, had a small apartment at the time. And there she was. I stepped out behind a tree, you know. Many of we pee behind a tree anywhere we can early in the morning, you know. It's illegal, of course, in Medford. You know, you can't pee behind a tree.

Anyway, whatever. We're out in the county here. We can pee wherever as long as nobody sees us. Well, that's what, you know, nature is an outdoor toilet. That's the main benefit of being out in the unincorporated. Absolutely. In the unincorporated county, that's the place to live for that reason. Just stepped out behind a tree.

And my dog was looking at her dog, which was a white lab. And actually, it's coming up when we first met Cinco de Mayo. Just get to the story. Just give me the story. How do they help? Oh, okay. So, Bill, I looked left and I see this beautiful woman. And within about 15, 20 minutes, she starts talking and tells me she's a black belt samurai since they trained Navy Seals and one frog.

And she's still in love. What's that? What a woman. You fell in love with a tough girl, right? Oh, I love confident, beautiful women, and she can kick my ASS. I've learned a lot from her. Oh, I'm glad to hear that. Well, hey, I'm big on, I have a strong woman in my life.

not physically strong like that one, but point will take it. All right, thanks for the call. I want to hear the story on how the dog got you together. I love that. Thank you, Scott. KMED, KMED, HD, HD, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. All right. Also heard on translator K294A S, Ashland, K290AF, Rogue River.

Scott, I think that Fox News is coming up here in just a moment. And I don't know if you heard what is going on with the report. Replacement for Eric Swalwell. Swalwell may be replaced by the first Afghan Muslim congresswoman. Yeah. Daniel Greenfield has that story. He'll join me in just a few. Ronda talks about her experience with Klausur drilling.