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I hope a lot of other people watch that forum as well. Several things stood out to me, and that is you can absolutely see. the individuals at that forum in both categories that are the strongest conservative candidate that we have out there. And that is, one is, Dwayne Yonker. Dwayne Yonker, you can tell that he is fit for the Battle of Salem. Dwayne Yonker is a strong conservative,

and I urge every single voter, especially if you consider yourself a conservative voter, you have got no choice but to vote for Duane. And I wanted to just also talk a little bit about the commissioner forum as well, because one of the things that stands out of that, I don't know as far if the listeners know this, but during the 2024 election when, I can't think of her name, Colleen Martin.

When Colleen Martin was running for commissioner, one of the things that struck me when you drive around the city of Grant's path is that I noticed that her campaign sign was in the yard of Harris sign. Of what now? And so. Of Harris sign? Collin Martin's campaign sign found its way in a lot of yards. that also have campaign signs for her.

Well, I don't think there's any doubt, at least from what I've heard from folks living in Josephine County, Mike, that Colleen is what you would call a more moderate conservative, a more moderate Republican candidate out there. I think that's the way she's designed herself, at least seems that way. Am I wrong? Well, no, you're not wrong, but at the end of the day, we know what the Democrats have done to the state of Oregon.

what the Democrats have done to our entire country. And so when a Democrat comes out and puts their, supposedly a conservative campaign sign in your yard, that should tell you everything that you need to know. And so if you consider yourself a strong conservative and you love Josephine County and you want to keep this county conservative, you have no choice but to vote for John West, and of course

Duane Younger so that's really my take on what we saw last night and I'm looking forward to the next round that I believe will be tomorrow night and hopefully I can call in and share my thoughts about okay yeah that that's quite a jungle you got going on there in the primary because of the nonpartisan the nonpartisan for Josephine County Commission for sure

that is just wild all right Mike appreciate the call okay it's 10 minutes after 8 we'll catch up a quick one on Fox News we have the Kim Commando update always great information for your digital life that'll be coming up here too after weather and then john schlining a little bit more on s o you and has anything changed from when he was last teaching at s o you when it comes to de i and do they deserve their 10 15 million dollars from the legislature fox news i'm c j papa king charles at the white house today i think the king's visit

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But what's the point of giving it more money? And, you know, I just think it needs to just be reduced somehow. But I'm different, I guess. But what are you thinking, huh? Okay. So my tape measure needs to be pulled out a few more inches. Okay. Because, well, if you're going to use 80 inches, I'm done.

But anyway, I graduated from Southern Oregon College in 1969. And the underlying theory that was going on then, that the college system wasn't paying the professors enough money. So they figured out that they controlled the keys to the kingdom because education was how they were going to get more money for the college and university systems. And I think they supported the unions to do that. And they also put a lot of agendas into that would support paying college and college and university professors more money. But what's happened is that teachers union is more powerful. And so they have more lobbying power than the colleges and universities do. So they're sucking up all the money.

And neither one of them are doing a very good job. Yeah, but K through 12 gets the agenda, has the political juice, is really what you're saying. Yes. So I was right about that, my assumption with that. Okay. Yeah. That's the Frankenstein. They created it.

And now they're trying to figure out a way around it. Well, neither one of them are subject to the market in terms of, okay, they produce something of value. So they're both going down, but they're kind of pointing fingers at each other. All right. Steve, I appreciate the call. Thank you for that. And I did say I was going to talk with John Schlining a little bit. later here, but we'll talk to him right now because I know he's on the hold there right now.

Hey, John, how you doing? Welcome. Good to have you on. Morning, Bill. Yeah. You, yeah, we were having that conversation yesterday about, you know, what's going to happen with the resizing, I guess, of Southern Oregon University. And of course, Dr. Powers has very, you know, taught there for many, many years. And I think he was mifted me yesterday. At least I didn't call him up and ask him about it, but I have a feeling he was a little mifted me. because when I was hearing about all the challenges with the professors and the indoctrination in the schools, to me it made, it was kind of making the case, I thought, for reducing the influence of Southern Oregon University, but maybe I'm wrong about that, and you taught there for a while too.

I know it was a while back, but what was your experience there? Yeah, well, I taught there in 2004 and 2005, and I taught family counseling and counseling adolescents, And my background, I ran the high school of Clivalency Program at the University of Oregon. I worked at Clackamas County Juvenile Corps, Clackamas County Mental Health. And I've had, you know, I was in a Ph.D. program in counseling, psychology for adolescents and family counseling.

And half the kids that I taught were undergraduate students, and the other half were graduate students, and they're all looking for practical ways to learn how to deal with adolescence and do family counseling. So I did lectures, and I did, had the people write personal journals with, I asked them questions about what it was like for them to be an adolescent when they were an adolescent. And then the third thing was to participate in counseling sessions. I made up stories from people that I actually had worked with.

Then they play, they roleplayed either as the kid or the mother or the father or the therapist. And the students really liked it. And back then they sent out a deal where they wanted to give feedback to the teachers. and I actually won the outstanding teacher award for the Anthropology Sociology Department, and two weeks later I was fired. And I asked them, and it was my friend that was the department head. I asked him, I said, so did I get fired because they were jealous? And he said, no, we were required to hire a woman.

So then a year goes by, a year and a half goes by, and I get called by the dean. And I had a student in the class, and the grades were based upon participation, writing your journal, and that was pretty much it. But anyway, this woman turns in her journal, and she had just copied a journal out of a book that I had read. And boy, and you had read the book. Boy, I'll tell you, talk about busted. I had read the book.

Right. Yeah, and it was totally, totally just plagiarism. And the whole point of the journal was for you to feel what it was like to be an adolescent. And the other thing is she only showed up for less than half of the time, and she really didn't participate. So I gave her an F. So a year and a half later, I get called by the dean and saying, well, this was a black woman. And she's saying that the only reason that she got an F was because she's black.

And I said, well, this is the reason she got an F. And I explained it to him very clearly. And he said, well, the dean can override you. So I'm giving her a pass. Which really upset me. I mean, I tried to reach the president. So even 20 years ago, they were just, well, kind of enforcing a DEI sort of situation. that that person who did not follow the rules of the class and then complained about it and then

played the race card. Right. Got her report card fixed. Right. So on the other side of that coin, my wife went and got her master's degree in the master's program for psychology. And she graduated in 2004 and was very satisfied and thought they did a great job. But recently, about a year ago, my daughter was thinking about going there.

So I went in and met with the people. And it's so woke that I couldn't even give a lecture there today. I mean, it's sickening for what I saw. My daughter, who's not all that conservative, said, Dad, I just can't go there. It's just too woke even for me. So, I mean, it's a huge problem. And I think, you know, but it's not just SOU.

I mean, the University of Oregon, I'm sure, is the same way. All the schools are the same way. Well, let me ask you then as someone who has taught within it and had, you know, children involved with it. this and like I said, you've described these issues. How do you reform such, I mean, what is Bailey going to have to do to truly reform? Can this be reformed within the institution itself? And that's, of course, what Dr. Powers and I, and of course, you were calling, you know, yesterday about that. And I don't know how you can reform it, so why would I care about throwing more

taxpayer money at it? And I know, you know, people may not like hearing that, but that's just me, am I wrong about that? What would you do in your magic one world? Why would you think they would want to reform something that they don't think there's an issue with? They don't think there's an issue with it, in other words. No. No, not at all. Okay.

So there's not going to be any reforming. What's the point of giving it more money to keep a, well, a poorly run or a poorly, well, I mean, as you said, we know that in certain cases, if you get a diploma from SOU, it may not mean anything because they'll change your grade. if you were the right race, I guess, from the sounds of it. Yeah. It was hideous. I mean, I was so upset with the dean, and when he told me that the dean can override the professor's grades, I was just furious with him, but it didn't do any good. How can a dean override a teacher's grade?

I don't get that, a professor. I don't know either. They just took the authority, didn't that? By the way, one of my students, he said, I'm going to be the principal at Phoenix High School. would you like to be the dean of students for a year? And I have a certificate through U of O that I can be a principal or a superintendent or dean of students. So I did it. I said, I'd like to do it to see if you can do it without being a jerk.

And I did it for a year. Before I went in. And so I created a work experience program. We had a program at Phoenix High School where the kids actually built a house every year. And it was very, very good. The school did it just, I thought they did. I had 200 kids in the work. experience program. And I went to the English department and I said, you have to stop teaching English

until the kids can read the newspaper. And I hired a reading teacher who later became the principal years later. Glad to hear that. So you've been, you've had a big focus on this. Back to SOU, though. What would you do with it? What could be done about that? What should we think about this as you have Rick Bailey going on, you know, the news channels and talking about the right sizing of the curriculum, et cetera, et cetera? I don't know. I wish I had to. I wish I had to. an answer for you, but I don't think that they see being woke as far out as they are as a problem. So then there is no real, nobody's looking for a solution to that. You're looking at it as a problem and that you're looking for a solution. I don't think to any of them see it as a

problem. So therefore, there will be no solution. So you take it or leave it. Okay. All right. John, I appreciate it from your point of view from being inside the beast. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. John Schlining, it is 824. This hour of the bill, Meyer's show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing. For roofing gutters and sheet metal services, visit fontana roofing services.com. slash Kim. That's expressvpn.com slash Kim. ExpressVPN.com slash Kim.

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I'll tell you more about that here in just a minute. But 770563, let me go to Holly. Holly, you wanted to weigh in and want to happen. Last night's Joe County's candidates forum. A lot of people were up there doing their spiel for three hours. What do you think? Well, Dwayne Yonker ran circles around Seth Benham, for one thing. I mean, he was very well informed.

He knew what he was planning on doing. He understood the players. He understood the political scene. He just did a very good job and gave me a lot of confidence, which I already like him. But last night, I was blown away by how far ahead of the other two candidates he was. Seth Benham is on our city council. And, you know, bless this heart, he's just. not ready for prime time. He needs to do something good on the city council first.

Okay, so in other words, get a little season you're saying, right? That kind of thing? Yes, that would help a lot. He's a nice enough guy. I mean, I spent some time with him and tried to encourage him on a specific vote, and he decided to vote otherwise. And that turned out to be, I think that's going to be catastrophic. So we'll see how that works out. But, yeah, he needs a little bit more time and understanding. He's definitely not ready for prime time at state level. Yeah. Were there any impressions from the Democratic candidates that were running for state rep? Well, Susan Fisher-Machie, I mean, she's just a serious left, just far, far, far to the left. She's been on the school board, and, you know, she's a nice gal.

Of course, on the school board. Where else do you go? Okay, never mind. I'm sorry. Right. But she got voted off. school board recently, and they put a more conservative candidate. Things are going a little better where she had been. But, no, she wouldn't be somebody that could possibly vote for. You know, she's got that kind of sweet thing going. But right now with the huge problems we have in Oregon, I don't think sweet needs to be on the ticket. Okay.

We need people that are tough enough to stand up, which kind of brings me to the commissioner's situation. You know, John West is tough. And he came, I thought, to the forum with the goods. He knew exactly what was going on in the county. And there were a lot of things that were misspoke. And I think Herman brought a couple of those things up where I think Colleen Martin had talked about how great the airport was and so forth. You know, Herman's got a plane. He knows what's going on out there.

And he knew that that was erroneous information. John West really does have to go. He knows what's going on in the county. He's strong enough to handle it. and he doesn't need the money. We keep having these candidates come in that need the job. And if you need the job, you're probably not the right one for it because you have to be really tough and you can't be people pleasing all the time. Yeah, I would imagine no matter what you do, if you're doing your job properly, people are not,

there are going to be a lot of people probably unhappy in the Josephine County Commission. I think that just seems to come with it if you're dealing with reality. I'm thinking, you know. Well, and if you, the department heads were the ones who brought in two of the current commissioners. And that has turned out to be a pretty rough situation. You know, they're all freshmen now, and they're making a lot of questionable decisions and scaring everybody half to death. Yeah. And, you know, so to continue Colleen on to the next phase, it's really a scary thing.

John West really does know what he's doing, and he brought the goods, I thought, last night, and I think he probably showed everyone that he was well-informed and knew what was happening, and we need to get him back asaph before it's too late. All right. I appreciate the call. Thank you very much for that, Holly. Thank you. 7705-633.

All right. Let's see. Joshua says, Bill, I was listening to this morning for my drive to work, and you were on with Herman. I might have misheard it, but it sounded a lot of it. I think there was an indication that both Dreson and Deal had voted for SB 1501. I was initially a bit upset at hearing that. I was recently at a meet and greet with Ed Deal and recalled him stating he voted against that bill. All right, I was looking at that last night here, Joshua.

And just to be sure, I'm going to look that up during the break, okay, because I'm, you know, maybe I read it wrong. Because, you know, sometimes when you're looking at how the, you know, how SB, how the vote goes, it's very easy. Maybe I looked at the wrong thing. Let me get back to you on that, Joshua. I want to make sure I get that right because I was kind of surprised that Ed had voted for that. And to me, you know, I saw all sorts of other Republicans that were voting against it. And maybe this was a part of the deal-making that you have to do in the legislature, I guess. All right.

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A, 6,000 feet, B, 12,000 feet, C, 18,000 feet, D, 24,000 feet, or was it E, 30,000 feet? It's one of those five. Let's go with 24,000. 24,000. Was it 24,000? I can't believe it. First out. Yeah. Happened 20 minutes into the flight, 24,000 feet, 95 passengers and crew member. 300 mile per hour wind coming into the plane was so noisy that the pilots had difficulty even talking in the cockpit. And the flight attendants couldn't get into the cockpit to see if even the pilots were still alive.

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But anyway, yeah, it's amazing story. Just an amazing story how that happened. And do you remember when that happened? It must have been terrifying. Oh, I can't think of anything more terrifying than that than being in a barrel roll, right? And Captain Shorn Steimer began an emergency descent into Kahului Airport on Maui, flying the crippled jet over the mountains to get there. Passengers later interviewed felt certain they were all.

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Well, there are a couple of interesting things to add to that conversation. Sure, what's that? And one is that I was reported later that, you know, they didn't have a jet way like big airports do. You could walk up the steps to get in the airplane. Right. And right there, as you would walk in, there were loose rivets that you could see. and nobody said anything. Okay.

Yeah, so, so that's stupid people. Well, anyway, I think you get the point. Well, you know, there's a different culture on the island. Hey, it's like, hey, Mahala, brother, you know, that sort of thing. You got a few rivets loose on the jet, it's on the 737. No problem. It's okay. No, in all seriousness, though, what ended up happening, I was reading more about that at the time,

that it ended up being the cycling because it was a short island hopper flight that was going up and down several times a day. And so there were a lot of pressurizing and releasing of the pressure, and it was metal fatigue. It ended up causing that, wasn't it? Yeah, all those cycles. And people were much surprised as I was that that airplane held together structurally because now with the roof missing, it was a lot of structure that's not there. And all the structure that kept the airplane in one piece to get back to the airport was in the lower half.

Exactly. And it was definitely, I'm glad they had the control. The control cables were still able to work or the hydraulic lines and all the rest of it. You know, I mean, I'm not an airplane guy, but you know, you understand some of that. Sure, those run under the floor. Anyway, the most important thing I want to add to the combat is that even though sadly, C.B. Lansing, was lost, did you know there was one other flight attendant that was on her way out and the passengers grabbed her by the feet? They grabbed her and kept her from flying out the hole in the

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I belong to a mastermind group bill that's just for automotive shop owners. And I pay five times more than what it costs. to come into here to NIA. And I think we bring more value in NIA than what I get from that group. So a real learning, a real way of not just contacts, but also making the cash register ring for your business. Well, making the cash register ring for your business through referrals and through what you're learning to become a better business on it. Yeah. Okay. Well, you've talked about how especially a lot of one-horse businesses, you know, people who are entrepreneurs can get just so overloaded and can't see the forest for the tree sometime. All right?

Yeah, it gets overwhelming, and it's actually, we have a higher suicide rate than a lot of other groups as just being an entrepreneur because it's so hard. Okay, now I'm not going to have to keep the sharp objects away from you, right? No, no, I'm okay. Good. Glad to hear that. All right. Who did you bring in this morning, huh? Here we go. I brought in Mr. Brian Pistol from Wafed Bank and Mr. Chris from Invictus Security.

All right. I'll tell you what. Start with you first there. From the right, we'll work from the right and work our way to the left here. Invictus Protection Agency. Tell us a little bit. Well, it sounds like when you need to dive after someone trying to run down, run through the magnetometers, you'd be the one, huh?

Would that be fair? Hopefully we can talk them out of it before it gets to that point. But yeah, we're a private security company in the valley and throughout the state. How long have you been doing it? We started in 2020. All right. And what do you like about that business? You can't do it just for the money.

There has to be some kind of love of keeping the bad guys in a way. It's more than that. I enjoy helping people. And this business is the perfect place to help people on both ends of the street. Right? You get to protect people and give them safety, but you also get to help the people you're correcting get to a safe place for themselves and hopefully get to resources.

And to your point, though, let's talk a bit about what you're doing with the Salvation Army's Hope House complex and you're doing the security there or no no we're not under any contract with the the Hope House it's just a project that I really find inspiring and oh it's a they have great success rates they're doing great things for our community and um the property could use a little bit of help so we're putting together volunteers to go through the landscaping right now of the commitment from the 1186 headquarters company from the Army National Guard to send men. And then I have a few general contractors and getting more that will lead three to four man teams and will stain gazebo, sand benches, stain those, do some landscaping, fall some

trees. So when you're, so you're looking for some help then from the community to help you with us. How can they join the team then? What do they do? They can reach out to me via phone or email. Okay. And I'll put this up here and Invictus Protection Agency is IPAsafe.com, right? That is correct. That's probably one of the easiest things. I'll put it up on the Bill of Myers show blog. What do you like about network and action? It gives small businesses a chance to collaborate like this project. You have access to a lot of other small businesses so you can compete at a much larger scale than you normally would.

they teach you how to be more business-minded and compete at that higher level. All right, glad you here. Hey, great getting a chance to meet you, Kristen. Let's talk with Brian next here. Brian, go ahead and belly yourself up to that microphone. Now, you are the business director. I have to ask you because I look at the sign and I don't know how do you pronounce it because I remember Washington Federal, but it's what used to be Washington Federal.

So it's W-A-F-D. Is it waft or what? Wafed. Wafed, Wafed, okay. You're not the only one. Okay, all right, well, that's good. Maybe I put a little pronouncing, pronouncer underneath that.

So you, now, from Washington Federal, you rebranded in 2019, have been around for more than 100 years, so this has been a white deal. What can you tell us about Wafed that is special that people need to know more about? Yeah. Because you're the business.

business banker there, right? Yeah, I'm a business banker. You know, we got out of mortgages about a year ago, and so we're really trying to drill down on business lending and business supporting businesses through their banking. Okay, so getting out of mortgages will give, that's been pretty tough recently, hasn't it? The actual mortgage business. So that makes sense. And traditionally, it's been hard for people to get business loans. You hear of this all the time from people who are wanting to open up businesses, and I've known people that had to go to their credit cards. What can you offer over at Woff-Fed? Yeah, we've actually got some pretty slick SBA programs, so for businesses that are just getting started or have been around for a little while but need access to funds.

So those are, those are, you know, up to 100,000 that are unsecured based on a credit score. Hey, you know, 100,000 unsecured. That's not bad. Yeah. That's not bad these days, you know. All you got to do, hey, I have a credit score of $8.50. Would you give me $100 grand? You can't answer that. Yeah, yeah.

If you have a business behind it, and we've actually found it does meet a really need that's out there. So we found some success with it. How can they get a hold of you over at Wofford? Phone, email. Yeah. I try to be out in the community as much as possible. So we've got branches that would know how to get a hold of me. But our branches actually do quite a bit of business lending themselves now.

Yeah. The other thing about it is that Wafed, from what I understand, is actually built for the business community. That's really what you have designed this for. Right. Yeah, exactly. And we made that shift when we got out of the mortgage business and wanted to find a new way to provide value. All right. What do you like about that network and action?

Call me. Give me your secret. I've been in it since about the beginning of the year, and it's fun. I've been in other networking groups where it's kind of a force deal where everybody's trying to sell something. And I think Lisa does a good job of fostering community and building relationships, and we have a good time. Yeah, well, a lot of the other networking type groups are kind of like you're just selling to each other, right? Exactly.

This is better than that, or a larger focus with Ebifair, kind of the way of looking at it. Yeah, it feels like we're a small community. You know, we're out there rooting for each other, trying to understand how to better support one another. Well, that's good. Make more business, more business. Everybody's happy. All the boats rising around here in Southern Oregon.

Brian, thanks so much, all right. Good seeing you there. So, Queen Bee, hit the homer as we head out here on another open for business. All right. So you can get a hold of me if you're interested at s-o-networking.com. And you should reach out to both of these guys because they're both amazing men and I'm so proud to have them in network and action. Join the team. All right. Thank you so much. All right. Thanks. Lisa McLeese-Kelly, network in action. It is 854 at KMED.

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Well, I did, and it's a Sonse. You know, we keep hearing that Sonte is in, you know, dire financial straits. So I guess the first question is, how is somebody in that financial situation able to buy the surgery center? and second, if the surgery center knows that Asante is in such financial problems, why would they consider selling to someone like that? It just kind of doesn't make sense. Well, and, you know, it's kind of an opaque story right now. I was reading this and got that story from the Ashland Chronicle. And it's, I think what's going on here is that I don't think that Asante itself is in bad financial shape or horrible.

Yeah, they've got those liability cases out there for sure. And that's bad. Don't get me wrong. But actually, the place which is having trouble is the surgery center itself. And it's kind of like a forced sale. And Asante already has a piece of that business, Randy. And so they're trying to keep it from just closing and going down the tubes. That's kind of how I'm interpreting that.

Does that make sense? That's the way it's. Well, it does. Yeah. And that does make sense. Yeah, and so, yeah, there are definitely challenges over at Asante, but there would be even more challenges if the surgery center that they already own a piece of were to go away. And the state appears to be dragging its feet because Asante has arguably not been real transparent about the Ashland Hospital stuff, if you know, if you get my drift.

Okay. Well, you know, there's that brand new surgery center that went out there by the airport, so I don't quite understand, you know, where that fits into the next either. Well, I would say it's probably competition, but I'll try to find out as much as I can, but yeah, it is trying to unwrap anigma. Okay. Thanks for the call, Randy. The email bill at Billmyershow.com. We'll catch you on Wheels Up Wednesday. See you then.