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Dave, before your cell phone, It craps out, because it always does. Give me a quick take on the... You know, I need some Wi-Fi. We can improve it. Yeah. There's two things. There's two things.

King Charles to come to grovel to Congress so he can save his empire, the special relationship. Well, you know, it's funny that there are more people talking about what you have been mentioning off and on about this is about trying to save the special relationship, the financial relationship, with London, right?

That's kind of what you're getting at, the city of London? Right, because he, Donald Trump has already cut five eyes out. He cut five eyes out. You know, when they were going into Iran and, you know, Venezuela, the British didn't get heads up on that at all. And so we got that. And then, of course, I'm not sure what the indictment is for Comey. Okay, well, the Comey indictment has to do with the Seychelles

by the seashore, you know, the ones that said 86-47. Remember that? And oh, look what I found. You know, I don't know if that's actually a good charge or not. Well, I'm thinking that this is a thin-grewd charge. It's just my opinion. I'm not saying that I'm supporting Comey. I never have. But I thought it's kind of a BS charge.

I venture against that'll be thrown out. But we'll see. I appreciate the call. We have Wild Sam and Steve. the delusion, Trump delusion syndrome topic. Give me your take on it, Steve. Go ahead. Okay, just to start out with, I have a degree in psychology, which I got because I didn't

want to get drafted, and I thought it was going to be yes at the time, but I got a lot of background into what psychologists and psychiatrists were thinking. Then I got it in the military. I did get drafted, and I worked for a psychiatrist in counseling people to try to decide whether people could be saved in the military, what their issues were. And then I got out of the military, and I ended up in management in the wood products industry where I had hundreds and hundreds of employees. So you're always working things as psychiatrically, I guess, from the sounds of it. But, you know, what do you think, though, about the, such a great percentage of the population,

literally suffering from a syndrome. Now, I forgot to mention during Dr. Carroll's talk, She's actually trying to get Trump derangement syndrome put into the DMSO. Is it the DMSO? What is the diagnostic book that you? I don't know. The basic point that I would like to bring up is that the country has changed because of how government views the citizens. and it all started with Social Security, and right now it's the universal basic income thing, where government has convinced people that they need to be dependent on the government,

and it makes them accept that. So what makes you think that that drives people to a Trump-derangement syndrome? Well, because Trump is trying to make government more responsive and cut out waste, If you're dependent on the government, Trump is a threat because he's trying to cut things that you need to be – you believe you need to be alive. Okay, so, all right. And now – but, of course, we've heard things like that, like Republicans were going to throw grandma off the cliff and push her off in the wheelchair. No, for years. We've been hearing that.

What makes Trump different, though, in that? That's what I'm trying to find out from you, your evaluation. Because Trump is not a frightened person. And he's likely to do things that, you know, the guys that tried to kill him, he acknowledges that, but it doesn't make him upset. If you have Trump-terrangement syndrome, you believe that you have this universal basic income theory that you're okay. You don't have to work to get money, and or if you're in the educational system whereby, you know, you get tenure and you don't have to worry about if, He's threatening that. Then he's threatening, as Abraham Maslow said, he's threatening it.

It's the hierarchy of needs you're saying. Okay. Yeah. All right. Got it. Steve, thank you very much for sharing your experience about that. I have Jerry, Jerry the Bull, who is here, too, one of the way. On TDS or maybe something different?

I don't know. Morning. No, Bill, on Trump. On Trump. Okay. Go ahead. Anyway, first of all, I will say that I am. turned off on Trump mostly this whole term.

Really? Yeah. Now, I'm not losing my mind because of Trump. I have just seen some things over the, I don't know, the past couple years probably. And, you know, I think Trump has his rich buddies ahead of most American people. And that bothers me. just like your guest the other day said, he's a transactionalist. He wants to make a deal.

Well, he's certainly been making a lot of deals, and I've noted that, but I'm trying to also look at this through a broader viewpoint, because I was nervous when I saw all the tech pros, you know, up on stage with him in the early part of the second term, because the tech bros, of course, look at us as just people to be farmed for our data, etc. And, you know, that's what this is all been part of the rising of artificial intelligence and more and more data, in more and more data, and we want to do this. And we, and we are looked at as data founts to be massaged and sold for profit, okay? That being said, though, if you're

trying to move the country forward, are you going to do it with poor people with no connections? Right. Hey, I understand, though. I, you know, now his first term, he did cut people's taxes. I believe those tax cuts were made permanent in the second term. Yes. Now, anyway, I'm not losing my mind over Trump. I just, you know, some of the things that have happened this term, and I won't go into all of them, just lead me. me to have pause on Trump. I do think, like your guest yesterday, that, you know, I will take Trump over Kamala Harris, probably. Yeah, no problem. Would you agree also with what Steve Bontta was talking about, though, that we've got to get this Iran situation figured, and you can't just let it fester. Would you agree? Then now that we're in. I think Trump committed suicide the minute he attacked

Iran. You do? I said that, you know, it's going to be a disaster for him. Part of me wonders, Bill, why he did it and why the Israelis did it, because the first time around back in June, I thought the Iranians pounded everybody pretty good. You're talking about June from last year, the last year attacks? Yeah, yeah.

And now, a lot of Americans may not know some of the damage that was done to Israel. during last June and even most recently because Israel doesn't let people spew out that information. All right. Jerry, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. A, you know, a contrarian kind of look at that. 7705-633. All comers here. Gene, you got a couple of things on your mind, too. Good to hear from you in Wilderville. What's up? Okay, one thing, the gas shortage in California, look who wants the state, and it may be a way of telling Trump, be a good little boy, and obey us. You know, I was wondering about that, too, Gene. I'm glad you picked that up, picked up on that, because, and this was an article that I was talking about the early part of the show when I first came on here from Byron King, and he's sounding the alarm bells that there's maybe five to six. six weeks of gas and liquid fuels available for the West Coast for California specifically

because it's, they've used mostly Middle Eastern oil to fund the few refineries that are left that are making that California formula gasoline. So, yeah, you're thinking this is a way to kind of starve out the opposition in California? Is that kind of almost like creating a crisis for Californians to see what their policies have been all for? Is that it? Yeah, a way to dictate to California. And it also turned them against President Trump and the Republicans. All right.

I appreciate the – well, what was the other one here before we take off? You had two. I would like to have asked the psychologist if there was any reason why they last year. tripped over his own feet. Oh, you're talking about on the video? The video. Yeah. Well, he tripped on his feet and he kept going, though.

Well, he tripped on his own feet, went down, and then the security was able to jump on him. Yeah. I don't know if she would know that, but it could be a good question. Thanks, Gene. This is KMED and KMEDE HD-1 Eagle Point Medford, KPXG grants pass. We can talk about that or anything else in your mind. We can even talk about the Oregon politics, if you wish, is quite interesting.

Are you hearing... One question I wanted to bring up for you this morning is, speaking of Oregon politics, are you hearing any fight coming out of the top three or four candidates? Probably the most aggressive fight that I've heard so far has been a lot of going toe-to-to-toe with Danielle Bethel. Daniel Bethel apparently polling at about fourth place here right now. And ballots are dropping in the mail. Gosh, two days from now.

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Thursday, 81 and partly cloudy Friday with a breezy wind. And then we're getting back into some rain chances through the weekend. Happen to take your calls at 7705-633. You're going to see if I can get a call in with Hans von Spakowski. And, of course, he's a senior legal fellow and a pretty big law guy and a pretty big brain when it comes to voter integrity, too. I know about that. But, you know, that Supreme Court decision this morning to strike down the race-based gerrymander in Louisiana. This is a big deal.

He's happy about this. I'd find out if this would affect any of the other gerrymandering. gerrymandering incidents that have been going on in which I guess pretty soon we're going to have out of 11 districts, what is it, out of 11 congressional districts in Virginia, we're probably going to have 10 of them Democrats, even though it's about a 50-50 balance, 10 Democrats, 1 Republican. But anyway, we'll see how that works. If I can't get him on today, maybe it'll have to be for tomorrow.

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Kim Commando Digital Minute and more of your calls, too, on Wheels Up Wednesday, on the Bill Meyer show. This hour of the Bill Myers Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing. For roofing gutters and sheet metal services, visit Fontana Roofing Services. Now more with Bill Meyer. As far as the racial gerrymandering story, Hans Spokoski did get back to me. He says, I'm busy right now, but he will join the show tomorrow morning sometime, and I'll let you know about that. Hans is a big, big brain on this, but that you're going to hear all about it. It's going to get beaten up by the national shows for sure, but we'll have a local analysis coming.

From that gentleman also, Hans knows his stuff. All right, 22 after 8, we'll continue the conversation. It's open phones this morning. And yeah, we were talking even about Trump derangement syndrome. If anybody in your neighborhood and your family has been suffering from it, I'm certainly willing to do that. We were talking about challenges for fuel out on the West Coast, what that might mean. Some emails. and I'll share some of those people kind of confused about my take on it, but we'll dig in.

Scott's here too. Scott, you want to change the palate a little bit or cleanse the palate this morning? What's on your mining Eagle Point, huh? Go ahead. Well, sure. It's fantastic to have King Charles here hopping over from the pond. My great, great, great, great, great back there, grandfather was Sir Thomas Willett, the first mayor of New York City. First mayor of New York City. Now, so this is way before the corruption in Tamimi Hall and all the rest of that stuff for Tamany. Yeah, of course, of course. He actually helped form the Plymouth Project, it's really a project, you know, to colonize and secure land here.

And, yeah, the British have been here quite a while. Let me ask you since you had relatives, like they said, the first mayor of New York, was that a territorial, or was it like a village? How large was it at the time when you were great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, relative, you know, was running it. Well, I think that's subjective. How large was it? It was a mud flats. Manhattan was a big mud swamp. Uh-huh. This is my understanding and horrible, horrible things they had to go through the mayor. The main fire was small. It was a very, if you have an opportunity, there's a model to visit. I'm trying to think of it's in Boston or where it is.

and our family came over from Stonehidge, which is kind of cool, because we're the Walters, the Woolshire, England, and we were part of the Royal Court. We were sheriffs, which were a little bit different, almost like Samarise. We were talking about Samarise the other day, Bill. So we governed areas for the royal family. Your relatives were as sheriffs essentially then, right? Yes, absolutely. What an interesting story. I didn't know that that's the way that things were structured.

So our modern-day conceptualization of a sheriff is very different from what it might have been in the small groups. Yeah. Very small groups. Villages were sometimes only 20-some-odied people. It's almost like a school, you know, a classroom. You know, a teacher is taking care of 25, 25 max, I would say, ever for schools. And if we want to segue into schools, but I don't know if we want to, Bill. So, you know, do we have to at this point?

No, we've been talking about it all week. You know, one thing I would say, though, about schools, have you been watching any of the coverage of what's going on at SOU, Scott? Just curious. No, my sister was the mascot back in when it was SOC, you know, Southern college. And really, it's just, you know, my opinion of our college here that we have is it's like high school and steroids.

Oh, is that a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. I don't know. Well, listen, I didn't. Well, what I was going with is, though, is that I've been watching a lot of the television news coverage of this, and what has struck me is that when you'll hear the audio from the meetings or people talking or putting out letters about what's going to happen with the changes probably coming to Southern Oregon University, it's almost as if, you know, the sky is falling and that you can hear the tone of the voice sometimes.

Like on KLBI, I was watching KLBI last night. Well, it's like they're ready to cry. Tony Boom. I don't know if you know that name, but, yeah, it's, it's hard. It's hard to get funding for high school, you know, for college, especially small colleges, like Southern Oregon University. And, you know, of all, of course, has the backing, mostly of Nike or was, right? and then, of course, Corvallis, you know, Oregon State University, they get help.

They have to have help. So, you know. Well, they certainly need the help here. But like I said, people almost like sounding like they're ready to cry. Like, it's that serious. At least maybe I'm reading more into it. But, Scott, thank you for sharing the story, though, about your sheriffs, the sheriffs of Scotty Dam. Okay?

How about that? We're sorry, England. All right. Scott from Eagle Point. It is 827 at KMED, 993KBXG. We have some interesting emails of the day. I want to share some of that. I don't always get enough time to go through as many as I want. But I have one especially about the fuel issue on the West Coast. We'll have that coming up. One of each K4 VIN 235-722 MSRP 24-185. Tailuride VIN 0-069-369-2-Signin-Sighting, 10K miles per year, zero security deposit, all incentives and discounts to dealer. Plus tax title license 150 registration processing fee. Trading in a vehicle will not eliminate your debt. Negative equity applied to new loan balance ends for 3026.

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Then this morning, I heard on your show, the Southwest has a 90-day supply of jet fuel because they depend on Middle Eastern oil. Meanwhile, other nations get ours. How is that possible? Butch, I'm glad you asked. And it has to do with what's available where, and also what is the type of oil your refinery can do.

A lot of the domestically produced oil that we have, Butch, is sweet crude. All right, sweet crude coming from the frackers, that kind of thing. And that doesn't necessarily work in a lot of our older refineries like are out on the West Coast. They haven't built any West Coast refineries and what forever. They went down from around 20 or so, if my memory serves correctly, down to six or seven right now. And everything California does is to make it more difficult for them to be in business. because climate and the air and all the rest of it

and we need to just go to wind power and solar. No nukes either, you know, if we can help it. Except the ones that are still working. We like those plants, I guess, in California. But it's interesting how it's going that not all oil is the same. A lot of the West Coast refineries in California need that heavier crude that tends to come from. Well, maybe Venezuela could help there at some point,

But even then Venezuela is only producing about 500,000 barrels a day, about a half million. They've got a lot of damage in their system. But that's why the more sour crudes from the Middle East are on 90-day boats going through. They go through the Strait of Hormuz, come out and go across the Indian and Pacific Ocean, and they make it here. And those boats have not been moving. They've not been moving. So you had like about a 90-day supply of the boats coming in. And it doesn't matter how much crude we may have.

It may not necessarily be the right kind, and it can't get there. And what I talked about in that Bryron King article is the lack of pipelines. Now, it's not an environmental thing that California doesn't have a huge pipeline network going into it to bring the fuel in and the crude oil from other areas. It's because of mountainous terrain, and there were less expensive ways to do it. bringing it in from the Middle East has been fine. But also, California is refining or it's not producing oil like it did because they have been openly warring against their own oil supply. So that's what we're looking at right now.

That's one of the reasons. It's very complex. And that's why. I mean, New York could have jet fuel, let's say. New York City would have jet fuel, let's say. it's not going to go out to LAX. It just won't. There's no pipeline network that's going to magically transport it out there.

So there are a lot of moving parts to something like this. And it's not just California. Now, we're in better shape than California, oddly enough. And I think it's reflected perhaps in our energy prices here because we do have the fuel pipeline that's ending up, but not too far from us. So it gets trucked down to us. So we're in better shape than that, say, Los Angeles could.

They only have a few pipelines in and out of a much, much, much larger, much higher population state than we do. So, yeah, we may have our fuel. It'll just be more expensive. California literally may have difficulty filling the tanks. That's the way it's looking right now, okay? All right. Elaine writes me this morning. Elaine, I'm sorry about that.

But I wonder if that guy you were talking to, the music guy, Joe McEwen, is his book as boring as he is? No, it's not. Elaine, and I'm sorry about that. There are times you book an interview, and I booked it because I was reading part of the book, and it was really fascinating. Joe McEwen had an amazing ability to make a really exciting and interesting book sound boring. Okay? You never know until you bring someone in, but it was only for a few minutes.

It's like I've tried to get a few things out of them. All right. I get it. Bob Shan writes me, Bill, the book you were talking about. that Dr. Lieberman's trying to get the Trump derangement syndrome put into is DSM. Thank you. I said DMSO. DMSO is that solvent that is like the painkiller and the health thing that a lot of people use.

Sorry about that. Just talking off the top of my head. Gar writes me about the recall. Bill, I have a 2015 F-150. Sunday I was on the Beltline in Eugene heading home doing about 65 miles per hour. And my truck dropped into first gear. Pretty wild. Never seen this happen before.

Gar, that's exactly the recall that we ended up getting for a F-150 here within the company. That's what happened. And, yeah, it's a speed sensor, and Mach 4 is going to be dropping by and doing some work on it. It's like a 15-minute fix tomorrow. But, yeah, that's a big deal. I guess some problem with a speed sensor on the transmission. But to drop it automatically into first gear at 65 miles an hour, that could be, as they say, very exciting.

Very exciting, as it were. What else do we got going on here on the e-mail? Oh, Dan writes me about sleeping. Bill, I'm 62, and a couple of years ago, I came down with COVID in a bad way. I was into caffeine at that point, drinking two or three cups of the stronger stuff. And as I laid on the couch recovering,

I went through a major caffeine withdrawal, major headaches, but as I recovered, I never felt the need to put myself through that again. I love me's coffee. and the buzz, but I sleep much better now as long as I don't have sugar before I go to bed. Dan, thanks for sharing your experience. I was complaining about that the other day. I actually got sleep overnight with my magnesium and my chamomile tea. 770 KMED.

What's on your mind here? This is the Bill Maher show. Hi, KMEDE. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning. It's Vicki from the Applegate. Hi, Vicki.

What's going on with you today? Wheels up Wednesday, huh? I thought that was interesting about California, because my dad was back when I was like in seventh grade, my dad was stationed in Long Beach in the Navy at the base there. And there was like hundreds of well drilling, you know, the ones that go up and down. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, what are they called pump jacks, I think pump jacks of one form or another?

Yeah. So are they still like using those? Because it seems like that would bring up a lot of what they. need. Yeah, it would be. Now, maybe a lot of those oils have played out. I don't know for sure. And I don't go into California a lot in those oil producing areas to be able to say with any great certainty, Vicki. But I know that if you go out to the Bakersfield area, you'll still see some of those going on. But when it comes to the larger fields, California has a real, well, they have a, well, they're a dog with a bone of trying to get rid of any of that kind of activity. They

really don't like it. And it's maybe coming around to bite them in the behind right now. There's less and less Californian oil, even though they could develop it, but less and less going into the refineries, according to Byron King. And now that, and I never, did you know it took 90 days to get the oil from Iran in the Middle East to the West Coast? I didn't until Byron wrote that. Wow, that's a long time. And so that's why if you say, okay, we're going to, Okay, we're going to take a couple of weeks and flatten the Iranians and then move on. You could see that would have been fine. It wouldn't have been that disruptive.

But if this continues a whole lot longer, California could be suck and dry, and there's just no ability to move it easily or inexpensively to them. Well, this is going to sound probably rude to some people, but they have electric cars. Well, that's what they claim, right? Plug it in. Whatever you fill it with, we don't care. All right, Vicki. 770K.

KMED taking your calls this morning. Hi, good morning. KMED, who's this? Good morning, Bill. It's Francine. Francine, what's on your mind? Go ahead, please. Well, I have a question. I'm a little bit confused. Okay. I was under the impression that until Biden started trying to deplete it entirely, we had a huge oil reserve, and this country did, and I believe we still have, he didn't empty it. Why is there no mention of this and no consideration?

that this might have to be used to help the people while this is going on. I mean, isn't that kind of what it's there for? Yeah, yeah. Well, it is there. It is there. But even then, even under the Trump administration, we did not refill it. And I don't think it was even more than half full when we ended up doing this. I was kind of surprised that we did this without having filled the Strategic Petroleum Reserve first.

But even then, I'm not sure what the distribution is of where. all that oil is? Is it distributed out to the West Coast or is it heavy around Texas or Louisiana or the East Coast? I can't answer that without a little more research. Right, but that's something we should find out about because I mean, I know it's not empty. So they would have, they would have been screaming and carrying on back then. Well, they can only do so many millions. I think they can only do about 10 to 15 million barrels a day through the Strategic Reserve right now. There's pipeline and transport limitations. You just can't send it all. all out to everywhere at the same time.

It's a... Right. But it could be done. I mean, they could be doing it. Well, they are. They are using it. Oh, yeah. It is being used right now.

I know that that's so like... Last time I saw the reports a few weeks ago, they were going to open it up there. Trump ordered that. But that's a relatively small blip. And they can keep doing this for a while. No worries. That doesn't help necessarily California. keep its massive refineries going at this point because it may not be out there or a lot of

that reserve may not necessarily be there okay thank you all right yeah and like i said this is a story i'm just reading this morning it's uh it's very thought-provoking hi km ed who's this good morning welcome yeah this is ron hey ron i wanted to suggest that we should go back to the iraq war earlier where what they did is they took a spool of wire, and I guess it dropped an anchor before they went over a high-tension line, and they shortered out the high-tension line, basically creating a temporary EMP. It didn't blow up any of the infrastructure. They didn't do anything of that nature, and they don't have to blow up a bridge.

All they've got to do is drop a good-sized bomb on the north side and the south side of the bridge and blow a hole in the road. You can't use the bridge, but you're not destroying the bridge. So there's a lot of things I think that can be done to bring them down in a quick hurry. You destroy the connections rather than the entire infrastructure. That's what you're saying. Absolutely. Okay.

We need to do it. All right. I appreciate the opinion. 770 KMED. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hey, good morning, Bill.

Real quick history lesson. Someone is talking about the Mayflower coming over on the Mayflower. Yes. A lot of people don't realize that was in the year 1610. 1,620. And we made a covenant with God. It was called the Mayflower Compact. People can look it up. It was 41 men who signed it. And within six years, we broke that covenant. We sold off the, what was now Manhattan, Wall Street, to the Dutch Indies, which was essentially just a front for the church back then. But that said, six years that covenant lasted. I want to remind people that the Israelites were

enslaved in Egypt for 400 years. If you can do the math on that, that was a physical slavery, what we're in now is a financial, more spiritual slavery. That said, watch Manhattan burn here real soon in one day because that 400 years, 1626 plus 400, if you do the math, we're right there. So I encourage people to look at the Mayflower Compact and how this land was originally founded. And it all makes sense when you, when you look at all of our history. All right. Appreciate the call. 770 KMED. Interesting perspective, I guess. Hi, good morning. KMEDE.D. Who's this? Bill is Wayne Central Point? Wayne, CP. What's up with you? Yeah, I sent you at email. What is your email? Yeah, it is Bill at Bill Meyer Show.com.

Okay. And what was the name of the publication where you got the lack of oil in California? Yeah, it is Byron King's piece. Morning Reckoning. is what it would be. And it's a newsletter I subscribe to, and it's free. I think it may be part of Daily Reckoning.com. But send me an email, and I'll send you a link to Byron's piece. I thought I was really thought-provoking. And he's an oil, gold, mining, and natural resources, analyst and investor guys. So he's always running out to these places. And this is what he's saying is being teed up in the state of California right now. Pretty interesting, isn't it? Yeah, I can't believe how valuable you are, Bill, to Southern Oregon.

You're just tremendous. Oh, well, I'm just the messenger. But thank you, Wayne. All right. You're the town choir. There we go. Yeah, so you never would have thought. We're always complaining about the price of fuel here.

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It's the Bill Meyer Show on KMED, Southern Oregon's Place to Talk. I'll be right back to your calls here in just a little bit, but we have another palli cleanser, some people that need some of your love. They need, man, it's about, it's about plants. The news has been so crazy, everything else has been so crazy. Get out there and dig in the garden, dig in your front yard. And I'll tell you what, why don't we help out the crater high horticulture department while we're at it? And I wanted to talk this morning here with a couple of fine young ladies that popped in here this morning.

We have Maggie Mize. Hello, Maggie. How are you? Good. I'm doing great. And we also have Isabel Herringshaw. Hi. How are you, Bill? So I am great. I ended up getting extra points because I could pronounce both of your names. So I'm very proud of myself. Okay. Hey, tell us a little bit about this plant sale and what the Crater Horticulture Club, I guess, is all about. Who wants to take it? Go ahead. So what happens in our plant sale is our horticulture students at Crater

plant these seeds and they grow these plants that go to your houses. It's grown from seed all the way to plant. We don't pre-buy-buy-buy-thing. We don't just buy our baskets. It's all made by horticulture students. And all the proceeds go back to our horticulture programs and upgrading our greenhouses. Okay, that's really cool. Now, this has been going on for a number of years.

Isn't that right, Maggie? Well, yes, it has. Okay. Yeah, what is your role been in? What's your favorite part been about growing this? in the horticulture department. We're about this. So this is my second year being in our plant science horticulture class.

So it's my second year doing the plant sale. And I think my favorite part is watching all of the community take home all the hard work that my classes have helped to cultivate and also helping them in their plant selection. What's an example of a kind of plants that you'll have at this sale? Because it's right now through tomorrow, right? Is that right? So we have some very cool super tunas that are self-cleaning petunias, as well as a large variety of different baskets and other flowering plants just in little pots. Okay.

Self-cleaning petunia, what is that? Because, you know, I kill everything in my yard. Okay? So our self-cleaning petunias are really cool. It's a very nice variety because instead of when the flower dies, having to pick it off yourself, the end of the flower will just fall off and it's self-cleaning. Oh, okay. You don't have to do anything.

All right. I get that. So, Isabel, how do you actually get these plants? What do we do here? So you just come to Crater and then what happens is our Crater students will help you grab your plans. They'll help direct you through the greenhouse. You check out and then our students come and take those plants to your car so you don't have to carry anything.

It's really easy just to go to Crater, buy the plans. and we create our students there can help you with that. And what are the hours for this sale? So we're 9 to 5 for Wednesday and then Thursday tomorrow, and we accept all forms of payment, cash, check, or credit or debt. And all the money goes back into the horticulture department, right? Yep. You've got to be really proud of this, right?

Yes, we are very proud of our horticulture program. We raise a lot of money for our students, and that's great. The fundraiser is awesome, and the kids really enjoy it. So it's all around great. Now, the other question I have, is it just flowers or are there maybe vegetables, things for the vegetables and fruits? Just give me the variety and then I'll cut you loose. Okay. So we have lots of different varieties.

We have tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, melons, surely some I'm forgetting. We also have a very cool variety of different grasses that are fun, very curly ones. All right, very good. So Isabel and Maggie, I thank you both for coming in. go out and sell some plants, okay? Yes, thank you. And keep that growing. By the way, you both going to think about doing this professionally as time goes on?

Or any thoughts for the future? Or is it just, I don't know. Right now, horticulture is a big passion of mine. I'm excited for that. But we'll see where it takes us. All right. Isabel, Maggie, thanks for coming in from Crater. Yes, thank you.

Thank you. Sale going on today till 5 o'clock and then again tomorrow for the final day. It is 854 in change on KMED. back to the phones here on Wheels Up Wednesday. Let me go to Jim. Jim, you wanted to talk about that California story about the fuel that we've been kicking in and out of this morning here. What are you thinking? Well, it's bigger than he was the saying because Chevron has a big refinery in Richmond, California.

And from that point, there's a pipeline that goes up over, follows along the route of Interstate 80 over Donner Pass. and it goes all the way to a tank farm in Sparks, Nevada. And they run both diesel, all the grades of gas, and jet fuel through that same pipeline, at different times, of course. And so I think that the Reno area, at least, is going to be impacted by this whole thing, too. Yeah, well, I know that Byron is saying that the fuel impact of not having these these boats, you know, coming into the West Coast refinery, will be affecting not only Nevada, but also the state of California

and also Arizona. Arizona, as you start moving a little bit east and it has to do with lack of pipelines. And it's not because they didn't want to build pipelines, but they're just difficult, it's difficult terrain to punch pipelines through. Well, yeah, they're very expensive in rough country like that, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Hey, thanks for the extra mention there. And let me head to, Scott, you wanted to respond to the Mayflower Compact.

I know we had you on a little bit earlier. I'll give you another quick bite of that. Fire away, huh? Yes, but I'm going to research that. And I think it's very fascinating. And it stirs a lot of interest with our First Nations. And here in the Rogue Valley, and specifically in North. Northern in Oregon and Northern California, Southern Oregon and Northern California,

it was the Tituetni tribe, and the Tittutni tribe governed all these bands. And a huge number of people here when our colonists arrived, the British and the Spaniards. And it's interesting history. And when you dig anywhere on the ranches around here, you find the history. Some say, and indisputably, 10 and even 14,000 years, they found like Marcosons out in Fort Rock. It's incredible places to discover here in history. Yeah, and I appreciate you responding to that here. Hey, Scott, I just run out of time and turning into a pumpkin.

We'll do more on, of course, conspiracy theory Thursday. Hi, good morning, KMED. Who's this? It's past. Hey, Kurt, I got about 45 seconds. You make a great point. Wrap up the show. How about that?

I just wanted to tell you I used Cherise from no wires. What was that? On your record. Oh, okay. All I can say is... Okay, so hang on just a second here, Kurt. So you like the experience? You okay?

Half and got me a huge chunk of money for a refund on phones. Yes. Glad to hear it. Thank you, Kurt. And it's gotten out a little bit on the road there. That happens. All right, wheels up Wednesday. See you tomorrow. Don't Portland.