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The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at ClouserDrilling.com. We have State Rep Dwayne Younger on the program this morning. Hello, Dwayne. I hurt your feelings this morning. Everybody else's feelings are hurt because we have to change the names of everything. What's going on? Yeah. Yeah, I was.

I felt that you were, you know, you were offending me at my vote. But you know me, I have thick skin Bill and I'll get over it. Okay. All right. So what was going on here? Because, you know, the one that got me was Cannibal Mountain. I mean, are we seriously going to be going out for diversity and inclusion and making cannibals feel welcome in Lincoln County if we don't have if we if we don't change the name of Cannibal Mountain. I understand some of the rest of it but you know tell me what happened. I would agree with you. Okay. I would totally agree with you. It was a little ridiculous. You know when I walk under the floor I have a sheet that I've already had my votes written down and I actually changed my vote. Well, because, you know, I don't have much

feelings, but I, and you got to remember, Representative Stanchis has the most power in this building. She represents the money. And I was like talking to her and I throw her into the bus a lot. And she has on her big picture for her speech, she has Squaw Mountain Road in Josephine County. And I was like, oh good, I guess we're a bunch of racists in Josephine County. I was just kind of, you know, and so I watched the votes and then I was like, well it already passed. I will, you know, not try to tick her off more at me because I do tick people off a lot up here by calling them out. So I voted. Really?

Yeah. You tick people off up there up here by calling them out. So I voted. Really? Yes. You tick people off up there? Seriously? I have never heard that about you, not once. It's not junkyard dog, it's fluffy kitty Dwayne. Yes. I have a habit of calling them out for their stupidity. And so, yeah, I don't usually like to just have to talk about my votes, but that was my pity vote yesterday. And actually a couple of my colleagues that you should be proud of because they stuck their guns, like Rep Osborne and Rep Scarlato they voted no on it and they gave me, they

called me a rhino and I had my feelings were hurt yesterday. And yeah, so, yeah, so. Okay. Okay. So, so it wasn't, so it was a pity vote. So you would agree though, that we shouldn't be worried about the feelings of cannibals, but I understand, but I understand the stuff like Squaw Mountain road or something. I get that.

Okay. I guess I can understand that. Right. Yeah, I can get the Squaw Mountain. It's not a very good word to use. If you go back and read the history on it, and it was already supposed to be changed. I don't know why it wasn't already changed. I don't really get it, but I think we get a little oversensitive up here about every

little thing that offends people. Well, couldn't we just put memorial next to it and then that makes it okay? That's what they did in Jackson County. Yeah, you know, like when they took the names off of the high schools and stuff like that, that was really dumb. You know, this is history. Everybody's offended by everything now, you know. As I know, that's why I'm under investigation because I offend people. But whatever. It's what we're wasting our time on up here. But we should be talking about the largest drug bust that happened with the Kingpin living in Salem, Oregon. You're not talking about that? Yeah. I was going to mention that. I actually saved the story, but I kind of got sidetracked

by Cannibal Mountain being considered so offensive that it shouldn't exist on the map. But still. Yeah, that was interesting. So a big cartel, fentanyl-pushing cartel type, it was just living out in the open in Salem and illegal alien, right? Yeah, illegal alien living in Salem, tons of money living right here. He's probably getting Tons of money living right here. He's probably getting Medicaid and some other services. His children probably go to school for free, college scholarship off the taxpayer dollars, and he lives right here in Salem, Oregon. So he finally gets busted. Now, I guess my question is, do you think that the Democrats will reconsider their sanctuary

state policies? No, no, no. No, they will not. Do they even connect the sanctuary state policies to Oregon drowning in fentanyl from gangbangers that are living illegally here in the state of Oregon? Even in the state capitol, right by the state capitol? They won't. They won't even talk about it. It won't be... They are still dug in on their ideology. I mean, just like yesterday when I talked about OHSU doing transition surgeries on children using taxpayer dollars to do it, and then you have another representative stand up and compare it to like getting the hip surgery that we're doing these

transactions. So elective surgery is taking care is put in the same... I can't say that astounds me, Representative Younger, but still it disappoints me but I can't say it surprises me. Okay. All right. But that's the thinking of them. It's the same, you know what I'm saying? Like you, you have a lasik surgery is the same of cutting off genitals of children. That, you know, I can't even explain this stuff. It's really hard to understand what's going on in their head, but they'll double down on the, you know, this man from the Sinaloa Cartel, and I'm sure he's just a hardworking individual here. Well, no, he's a Salem father, I'm sure. He's a Salem man.

A Salem father. Yeah, he's like the Maryland father, Maryland man, that kind of thing, same sort of thing. And he was just doing Dishonest Day's work for Dishonest Day's pay, but he loved his family. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot of this coming from the Salem Democrats. As the people in Josephine County and Jackson County or whatever are going out to the streets and seeing drug addicts and people out of their mind, the Democrats will not talk about where all the drugs come from. They will not talk about that and who's bringing them here and the trafficking. Let's remind them when these come up because I've no

doubt Grants Pass, Medford and everybody else is still going to be dealing with this scourge of fentanyl. State Rep Dwayne Younger, I appreciate you checking in. All right, we'll catch a break on the on the pity vote, okay? All right Bill, thank you so much. All right, and don't let me hurt your feelings. Alright? We'll see you later. You won't build. Thank you. Bye. Alright. This is the Bill Meyer Show.

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District of Arizona, so federal prosecutor is appropriate. All right, very good. Okay. And wanted to get your take here on President Trump. It's stirring the imagination talking about taking Alcatraz and reopening it and having really, really bad people put in this one. And then San Francisco, of course, is not real happy about this. It's a big tourist attraction there. I was thinking maybe they could do both. You could have it open. It could be maximum security and then you can have the tourists come in and see what it's really like, really like for the Sinaloa drug cartel or whatever it is in our jails. But what is your overall take on that legality of it and the practicality in your view? What do you say?

Well, I think your idea is that it certainly takes deterrence to a new level, right? Come in and see this maximum security prison. I think that, listen, I think that President Trump is doubling down on this idea, obviously, of safety and returning to a time where, you know, Alcatraz held Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, the notorious gang members, and that appeals to him. I think he also may have been inspired by Naib Bukhale and El Salvador. That prison is considered the most maximum secured prison in the world now and El Salvador used to be a crime haven and

now it's one of the safest places. Now here's the thing, it's gonna be expensive and the question is how does President Trump really, how bad does he want this? Because it's technically governed by the National Park Service, not the Bureau of Prisons. It would require somewhere between a half a billion and a billion dollars to refurbish. Really? Yeah, because it's on an island. And it's about three times more expensive because even human waste has to be shipped

out from the island and water and food and everything has to be brought in. So it's expensive, no doubt. And I think part of it though, Bill, is President Trump, part of me thinks that he loves the idea, but he also loves trolling the left because they've lost their minds. You know, Nancy Pelosi and Governor Newsom in California, you know, are speaking out because God forbid if there's like safe streets in San Francisco and in those areas. So it, but it would take an act of Congress to do it. So the question is, is President Trump really interested in this? If so, he needs to get the Congress to start writing up the legislation. Now, you ran for Congress. You were trying to take out Senator Elizabeth Warren last time around,

right? And it didn't work. And God bless you for trying. I know that she goes up there and does that little kitchen table video with her drinking a beer just like every other person in the world. That looks so fake. I mean, when I saw that. Do you remember in that commercial, she's supposed to be in her kitchen house with her husband, and she literally looks to her husband and says, thank you for being here, dear. As though he doesn't have a right to be there every other day.

Yes, yes. Thank you for being around me, the great senator. But are you thinking about running again? Have you ever given... I know you have your law firm right now in which you work on mesothelioma cases, you know, people that have been hurt by that. I'm just curious, where are you going on that? Well, you know, Massachusetts is interesting because, you know, I got my butt kicked by 20 points, but I was the first Republican candidate for Senate to get 40% or more in many, many years. And so there was a poll recently done by folks who want me to run again that showed that

I could beat Ed Markey, who has even left the Senator Warren. Just to put it in perspective, Bill, I'm not a young man. I'm 57 years old. But when Ed Markie first went to Washington, I was nine. And so that poll shows that I could beat him. So it all depends. If I think there's a real path to victory, I'll do it.

But I'm a competitive guy. I don't want to lose twice. Yeah, I get it. I get it. All right. I understand. Once again, we have John Deaton here once again. Do you have a website for your law firm and also your various writings so people can find out more about you? Sure. It's Deaton Law Firm, D-E-A-T-O-N, lawfirm.com. You can follow me on XJohnEDeaton1. And my book is Food Stamp Warrior.

It's available on Amazon. All right. Yeah. Before you take off, I wanted to mention a couple of other things. So just to wrap up here, the Alcatraz thing you think is probably more about trolling and poking his opposition and getting them all riled. Okay. That would make some sense.

Now, I'm going to ask you, though though about the latest announcement that he's talking about taking up deportees and transferring them to Libya. This seems to be the latest one. As a former federal prosecutor, does he have authority to do things like that? Or what kind of authority issues may arise here? Because it seems like President Trump just wakes up and burps in the morning and there's usually some temporary restraining order against his burping. You know what I mean? Listen, to prove how on point you are, Bill, President Barack Obama, when you count turnaways, deported five million. When you take Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, they deported millions and millions as well. Zero deport, zero injunctions, millions and millions of deportations, zero injunctions.

President Trump has now deported a hundred thousand and he's had 30 injunctions imposed against him. And so, yes, listen, this is going to be the debate. And by the way, all those other deportations were without due process hearings. And now they're invoking this due process. They went from the Maryland guy to the due process guy. And so it's going to come down. The Supreme Court has said due process matters, but due process for an illegal migrant doesn't rise to the same kind of due process for an illegal migrant doesn't rise to the same kind of due process, you know, for US citizens. Some have been making this sound as if there

needs to be like a jury trial of some sort in testimony and I would think that wouldn't due process be we have a hearing? Do you have authorization to be here? No. Okay. Thank you very much. Here you go. You're gone. 24 hours notice is enough. You get detained. You sit, you're told that, yeah, you're an MS-13 member. We believe you're here illegally. You can't prove otherwise you're gone. That's all that's required. And so I think that President Trump will find a way to be able to satisfy the minimum due process requirements. But it's going to be challenging. 12 million folks have come into this country

under Biden administration. That's what I was told when I went to the border. And if you invoke due process to each one of them in the way the Democrats want, it would take about 55 years to get them out. And if it's gonna take 55 years to get them out, that means they essentially or effectively aren't gonna be forced to leave.

That's not good. All right. And the left says, well, let's just give them amnesty and let them vote. That's really the path that they want. I don't think we can take that anymore. I remember back during the Reagan world, I was just a young man when that happened at that point.

They did the Reagan amnesty and everybody said, yep, we're going to do the amnesty back then and then we're going to enforce the law. And then guess what? They didn't enforce the law. And they kept doing what they always wanted to do, John. Just amazing. That's right.

And he, Reagan, it was three million immigrants he gave amnesty to, but you know, they've left so many in now. A gesture like that today would be impossible anyway, in my opinion. All right. Back on Libya though, does he have the authority? Can he do that? Or does that something that has to go through Congress overall? What do you think? Well, if he's invoking the Emergency Act, if he's invoking the Alien Enemies Act, and he can show a nexus, yes. I mean, is it going to be litigated? And is the Supreme Court

ultimately going to rule? But yes. But the Supreme Court gives great deference on issues of foreign policy and immigration to the president and the executive. So on certain types of illegals, yes. I think he can get away with it. John Deaton, a pleasure talking with you. I hope you do run at some point. Maybe you have to move to another state, but I'd like to see you in there. Okay? Thanks so much. Thank you Bill, I appreciate you. John Deaton, Deaton Law Firm, 730 at KMED. Since 1938, Blue Star Gas has been serving Jackson and Josephine counties for all your residential and commercial propane needs. That's a long time and for good reason. Blue Star Gas employees live, play, and volunteer here in the Rogue Valley and truly care about their customers. As a customer, you can count on Blue Star Gas to provide excellent service for decades

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I think we were living under Jesse Ventura as the governor. Yeah, we had that. But what you did though is that the West Side over on Fargo had much, much higher property taxes than on the Fargo or on the Moorhead side of it. And so a lot of people would buy homes, especially if you were trying to save a buck or two, you'd live in Moorhead and you would pay less in property taxes. Fargo is more much higher. Fargo had a lot of money, a lot of money in that in that city, even though yeah, it is Fargo and yep, the

weather routinely kills people, but the people were very good. However, I was one of those crazy West coasters, right? And and we did okay. But it was one of those crazy West coasters, right? And we did okay, but it was one of those things that one of those places like you could live in Fargo-Moorhead for 20 years and you would still be considered the new person in town. You know what I mean? Very insular culture, but it's a little more relaxed on the West coast.

And besides, you know, I moved out to the West Coast 1980 and I never really looked back except for a couple of years between Fargo and then living back in Pittsburgh a little bit, but good people. I can't say I really miss it. I don't miss it. I'll always remember first week at KFGO, and by the way, they paid you big money to go into radio in

in Fargo when I left Medford at that time 1990s when did I go there was it 98 I think yeah 1998 or so got offered huge money huge money compared with Southern Oregon money at that point to work in Fargo and I couldn't believe the salaries they were offering of course that only lasted a year or two. But when I first got to KFGO, they had three staff meteorologists on a radio station. And the guys, and I've told this story before, but I'll tell it one more time

for people who have never heard it. They told me that if you're going to put your emergency pack in your car, make sure that there is dental floss in there. And I said, what do you need dental floss for? And the meteorologist said, well Bill, you know in the snow we always find people who are dead in the snow and so you when you need to take a pee you tie the dental floss to your hand and then you tie it to the car so when you go out and then you take a pee and you can find your way back to the car. And it was true, I thought it would routinely happen that people

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Yeah, I get that. Oregon bill, I'm reading here this morning, and I will be getting to the call by the way, Ron, you hang on and grants pass, all right. Oregon bill would stop bans on mobile homes. Representative Pam Marsh, Democrat from Ashland, said the bill is a step to address Oregon's housing crisis. So a bill making its way through the legislature would prevent new planned communities from banning manufactured in modular homes. House Bill 3144 would not impact existing communities, which means that, I guess, you know, like Jeff Goldin's house couldn't,

you know, wouldn't have to face a mobile home next door, or her house either for that matter. But it would be new communities moving forward. So modular homes and mobile homes would be welcome. So she is the chair of the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness. Of course, it, you know, one of the issues I think you run into though is, gosh, you know, isn't the permitting just about the same? No matter what. And if you're going to choose between a stick built and a mobile home,

I don't know, maybe it is more affordable. I'd say it's hard to say. Hmm. If you have any thoughts on that, you know my number, 770-5633. Mobile homes everywhere? What do you think? Let me go to Ron.

Ron's in Grants Pass. Ron, you were watching a YouTuber who had unkind things to say, hurting the feelings of Southern Oregon. What's the story? Yeah. Well, sir, there's a YouTuber, very, very popular. He's got over a million viewers. Goes by the handle of world according to Briggs. He's out of Portland and I am a huge, was a huge fan of his. He recently, three days ago, did a trip from Portland to Salem to witness and show the homeless of Salem and the protests that are a daily activity within Salem. And in his trip, he defined Grant's Pass as the, quote, toxic waste dump. And that really struck me very hard because I've lived here for seven years now, retired

military, and found Grants Pass as being exceedingly better than a toxic waste dump. I'm wondering where this Briggs fellow comes up with the definition of toxic waste up. Is it because of the politics or something like that? Because the Democrats, of course, have had a real focus on flipping what's left of Southern Oregon, if not hard purple, like in Jackson County. They really hate Grants Pass in Josephine County, I think because of the right-wing flavor of it. And I don't know, is that what they mean or is there something deeper or darker in that description?

Do you know? I don't know, but I did do a little, trying to do some digging to find out if there was an actual toxic waste dump within Grants Pass, and they defined Grants Pass. He didn't say Josephine County. He said the city itself. Okay. The city itself. Which again, yes, we have our issues within Grants Pass, but far, far from being a toxic waste dump. Could it be something, Ron, that he's calling a toxic waste dump because of the resistance

to the homelessness regime and the attack on the city by the homeless industrial complex? I'm wondering if that has something to do with it, given that he was focused on showing the gentle treatment, I guess, of the homeless industrial complex that is happening in Salem, perhaps, and Portland. I don't know, I'm just raising the possibility. Well, that was my second thought after doing research as much as I could on if there was a toxic waste dump in Grants Pass, which I could not find anything of such. So my next thought was just as you described, which he normally does not carry neither a leftist view nor a conservative view. He normally runs right down the middle with good statistics. Well apparently he was hiding in plain sight for a long, long time from the

looks of it I guess, right? You know long time on the looks of it, I guess. At some point, the hardcore... Now see, I'm not going to make any excuses for my point of view. I'm a hardcore writer, and I guess you can like, hate me, et cetera, et cetera. But at least I'll tell you where I'm coming from. It does surprise me that he would come out without any specifics other than the fact that it's not like Portland. And yet, that's exactly why many people will like to live in Medford or Rogue River

or Portland or in Ashland or even Ashland to an extent because it's not Portland. We don't all like that overly urbanized feel, I guess. Agree. And just like yourself, I'm a staunch conservative, And just like yourself, I'm a staunch conservative, which again, kind of hurt my little feeler when he called my home a toxic waste dump. Well, I wouldn't take it too personally. I have a feeling my gut would tell me that this has more to do like, eww, it's those people. They don't all agree. They don't all agree.

And we know that the Stacey Abrams, former official campaign person, is there helping to make it right to remove the toxic waste. She's doing her best there. But, ew, gosh, it is even dry. I can smell the conservatism a mile away as I go by on

i-5 oh well hey we all we all have opinions don't we Ron? Oh, not all of them smell good. Well. Alright I appreciate the call thanks for making it okay 7705633 toxic waste dump now I have been talking a lot about PFAs over the last few days you know those all polyfluoroalkali chemicals, you know, the forever chemicals. And, you know, there seems to be more talk about that, but I don't think there's any more PFAs in Grand Spas than there would be in any other city here. Although, I got to tell you, I know that the state of Oregon is looking hard. We're going to regulate the use of PFAs moving forward, yada, yada, yada.

But you know what I have not heard yet? And this is why I brought it up a couple of years ago. First when I was reading about these forever chemicals in sewage sludge, being concentrated in sewage sludge and being put on land, is that just about everywhere you would go in the country, they would take sewage sludge and experiment with spraying it on farmland and then there's supposedly problems with that now. The DEQ would never answer my question. State of Oregon doesn't seem to be wanting to look at the problem other than saying well you know we're going to stop using PFAs in firefighting foam etc etc and okay we'll ban Styrofoam,

which has some Pifa chemicals in it too. And that's, but other than that, we don't want to know. La la la la la la la la la la, putting their hands over their ears. I don't know. I don't know if that's all that big of a deal or not. Or if Pifas are the next global warming scam. I hope that's not the case, but I have

read about some of the endocrine disruptive capabilities of these chemicals. And you look at the kids at, you know, all fat at age four seem to be, you know, acting normally. And as Alex Jones talks about, they're turning the freaking frogs gay! That was pretty funny when he did that. Someone made a meme out of that. It's pretty funny. Anyway, so we got mobile homes here. Supreme Court allows... Now that was a big one. Supreme Court allows transgender military man to take effect for now. Wasn't it a relief to actually see a common sense 6-3 ruling here? Yeah, 6-3.

It was actually 6-3. John Roberts decided not to be a judicial crossdresser for a day. Same with Amy Coney Barrett. And they said the president actually has the power to run the military as he sees fit. I am shocked. Shocked, shocked, shocked, I tell you. 11-P-4-8. Let me go back to the phones here.

Good morning, this is Bill. Who's this? Yeah, Bill, this is Terry. Terry, it's on your mind. I think the toxic waste dumps they were talking about is all the homeless camps. Well, that same person was talking about showing the homeless camps in Salem, which are also pretty gross, really, like most of the homeless encampments are. Yeah, so anyways that's my two cents. Well, okay. Well, thanks for giving it Terry. How's everything else going? Going good, thank you.

Good. Have a good morning. Alright, thank you. It is a beautiful morning. The politics be ugly, but the prettiness is out there for sure. Hi, who's this? Good morning. Hello? Hi. Hi Bill, it's Francine.

Francine, welcome. Hi. Well, I wanted to touch on the sewage sludge kind of topic there a little bit. Well, first, and I don't know a whole lot about it, but I know some things about, for example, compost. Well, yesterday you were mentioning composting toilets and things like that. And so the word compost, you know, that means it's been, it's had time to sit and turn into something different than just raw sewage, you know.

Agreed. Okay. So that, so you're not, you can't be dumping raw sewage on anything that's, you know, any kind of a crop or anything like that. That's insane. Well, they didn't use, they used treated sewage sludge. The problem with sewage sludge though, sorry, I kind of slur over that. I'm feeling like Nancy Pelosi trying to say sewage sludge.

That would be interesting to watch her do that. But the challenge though is that sewage sludge in a commercial system will tend to concentrate any contaminants into the sludge and that's why they're concerned about this with PFAS, the forever chemicals. Okay? Well yeah, but I mean and that having the chemicals in it in the first place because you can't control what gets put into the sewage because people are dumping whatever they feel like. Some people are responsible and a lot of people aren't. Sure. So it's a really bad idea overall.

But even with, as far as using composting toilets, and I've lived in communities where a few times where we had a group composting toilet that people were using. And we never put it in the food, the vegetable garden. We used it around trees and shrubs and things like that. That would make sense. Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, you don't have as much control because you also have to remember that even within sludge and sewage effluent, you have issues with pharmaceutical drugs that end up getting into this from people's

prescriptions. Exactly, or disease. Sure. You know, diseases and things like that. So you know, you can't use anything like that on any sort of food product or food growing situation at all. End of story. Excellent.

Thank you for the call, Francine. All right. St. Francis. St. Francine. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Yeah, this is Minor Dave. You know, Salem actually likes the Salem man because, you know, he trades in fentanyl. No, no, no. Remember, Salem father. He must be a Salem father, I'm sure. Oh okay. Yeah. Anyways they need somebody to do the dirty work, you know,

to smuggle in fentanyl and you know human trafficking, you know, because you know Salem wouldn't... Yeah well it's jobs that Americans won't do, right? Right. Okay. Jobs Americans won't do. All right. Thank you, Minor Dave. Yeah that's's the Salem man, the gangbanger, drug fentanyl kingpin. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. How's it going? This is Michael. Michael, go ahead. Yeah, I just kind of thought it was funny they were talking about due process for these guys. And you know, you've heard of the asset seizure program here in America? Yes, I've heard of that. Yes. You know, where they can just pull you over and take everything you own and give you a, you know,

it's just ridiculous. People get into it. Yeah, and then you have to sue to prove that your property is innocent, right? That kind of thing. Well, they charge the property and then, you know, just a joke. But anyway, I was gonna point out the irony of the California flag that some visionary whoever created that was just genius. Have you ever looked at that closely? The California flag with the bear on it? Yeah, have you looked at that closely? What do you see? I can't say that I really looked at it all that closely. Please help me out. Well, what's the bear trying to avoid walking? These big brown square patches of

it just is the crack of I just found. Oh, okay, so he's trying to step over the excrement. Okay. Yeah, there's like five or six brown piles of something on the ground. I don't know what that is, but it's pretty ironic. You know, now you're gonna make me look at a California fly and I'm gonna look that up. Thanks. Okay. All right. Why did the bear walk across the road to avoid the the excrement pile? Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello. Good morning Bill. Deplorable Patrick here. Am I up? You are up Deplorable Patrick Hey, you're gonna really flip out. I figured out a new way for you to serve humanity.

Oh no, what do I have to do now? Well, you're a great movie critic and I know you've got movie critics in the listening audience. And I was just wondering if you can help me find a movie, I don't know the name of it, me find a movie, I don't know the name of it, but I can describe a very distinctive scene from the movie and if somebody can call in you maybe you could say, this is such and such a movie.

Okay, watch the movie, watch as many movies as you think. Cherry would be the one, but go ahead. What's the scene? Well, I hope she's listening and I want to make a rule. If somebody knows the answer and they already called in, they can call back in. That's all right. Go ahead. What's the scene, Patrick? It's a Wild West movie and there's a trapper who has to go out and run his traps. He's gone for, like, I don't know, a couple weeks or whatever. When he comes back, he finds out that his wife has been raped, and she knows who it was. And so he

goes looking for this guy. He's out there. It's kind of the cold part of the year. And he comes upon a camp at night with these guys all sitting around the campfire and the perpetrator is there. And the guy that's seeking revenge, the trapper comes into the camp and he sits down and they're sitting around the campfire drinking chicory. And the perpetrator knows who this other guy is that's seeking revenge, but he doesn't exactly know if he is being looked at. He doesn't know whether he should be worried or not.

So the rapist knows it, that the guy that's there is the husband of the woman he raped. Yes. Okay, got it. He knows that, but he doesn't know if he should be worried about does he know that I know or does he know that he knows or whatever Exactly. So so so they're sitting there and this this guy has this bad guy that rape rapist has a cup of chicory in his hand like a ten cup and He raises his cup up to have a drink and tilts his head back. Well in the meantime

the trapper seeking revenge is wearing a parka and he has his gun out under the parka. You can't see the gun because it's under his parka and he's pointing and he shoots that guy and blows his brains out right through the cup of coffee he's drinking. Right through the cup of coffee. So it's good shooting. All right. Good. All right. Does anybody know what movie that was? Because I want to see that again. All right. I love Frontier Justice. All right. So this Frontier Justice scene, which Patrick has just described, what is it? Does anybody know this movie? 7705633. You know, something if you can't abuse a talk radio show for something like this, what fun is it having a talk

radio show? Okay. I love it. It's a wonderful day. All right. Thank you very much. Anybody know? I've not seen this movie. Hi. Good morning. Who's this? Hey, Gene. Hey, Gene. Perhaps that guy thinks that Grants Pass is a toxic sludge because Grants Pass doesn't kiss butt and it's not saying yes and yes or whatever you want. Yes, I'm Gene. I'm going to give you a real American salute on that. I think that might be the best reason why that blogger or that youtuber from Portland had that to say, okay? Did you feel that little crown appear on your head? Right there? The ad's holding my hat up.

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I was checking my little baby 401k, which I take and still throw some money in it and kind of speculating on some stocks. And I speculated a lot in gold and mining stocks. It's just me, just something I've liked to speculate in because I know that there's a lot of shenanigans going on behind the scenes. And a lot of stuff and a lot of challenges

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just popped up like four or five percent yesterday in one day. And I was wondering what the heck happened. And I found out the price of gold exploded at 3,500 bucks or so and above and it zoomed up just a little bit. Thinking, wow, okay. And it settled back down. Let's write it like around 30, almost about $3,400 today. It settled back down a little bit. But I was wondering why did Gold pop like it was?

Sean Ring over at Rude Awakening had a great post on his daily newsletter. I really think that he's a great writer. It is worth taking a look at. I get his newsletter every day. By the way, it's free, so there's no dog in this. He said, Dear Bill, everyone's tuned out the Fed lately. The narrative is that Jerome Powell and the crew are sidelined with a hiking interest rate cycle over and markets are pricing in the next rate cut.

So everyone's yawning about this. So today, the Federal Reserve meeting at 2 o'clock will likely be a nothing burger as the markets don't think Jay Powell and his crew are ready to cut interest rates yet. But if you think that the Fed's only job is fiddling with interest rates, you're missing the real story. Yesterday, gold soared by more than a hundred dollars an ounce. Not because Powell spoke or inflation ran hot, but because of something that's been happening quietly in the background. Remember when I was telling you the reason I was looking at gold was because I'm thinking about there's

hinky going on behind the scenes? Here's the hinky folks. Sean actually brought out the charts. The Federal Reserve and the federal government bought over 20 billion dollars in bonds. Even though they're saying that they're tightening and they're raising interest rates, the Fed is buying the government debt. They're monetizing it. That's why gold rallied over a hundred bucks yesterday. So here's how it works. This is how he explains it. It's pretty simply.

The Federal Reserve printed over $20 billion in one day out of thin air, and then they took those freshly minted $20 billion that they took out of thin air and they bought US Treasury bonds, that's federal government debt, in order to help shore up the bond auction because foreign countries are not wanting to buy our debt like they were. I don't know if it's about tariffs or anything else but they're running away they're backing away from our debt because the markets aren't as dumb as Jay Powell thinks they are they bought gold because they know that this is a quantitative easing move. Quantitative

easing move is the kind of like the equivalent of printing money, not tightening. And it has the charts, really interesting. So they're saying one thing, doing another thing, and the last thing that the Federal Reserve wants to see is that when they auction off those Treasury bonds, that it doesn't catch a bid, that people aren't wanting to invest in U.S. debt. So the Federal Reserve bought the government debt with money that they created out of nothing. And that is inflationary. And that's why people are looking at gold and silver and all the big guys are taking

a look at this. Oh, they're printing. They're printing money. Even though they say they're not, they're printing money. I just wanted you to know that okay I thought it was a very very interesting thing that that Sean had to say that's why I read his newsletter every day Seven seven oh five six three three. Well, hold the phone. Hold the phones here a little bit We'll have a town hall news just a little bit and get dig into some other issues here, too And we're gonna talk about a bill a prescription drug bill in Oregon that has

some pretty rough side effects. It tries to make everything affordable but it's not really working all that well. We'll talk to the people involved.