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Episode Date: May 12, 2026

Epoch Times military and foreign policy reporter RYAN MORGAN talks the Iran non-ceased-Fire, and other analysis of what is going on there, also the rise of Marco Rubio. Later Michael Letts, law enforcement expert from In-Vest dot org talks 2nd A and USPS

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Of course, my brother, Mike, from North Carolina, has been here since two. Tuesday of last week and having a good time sitting around shooting the breeze, his wife, Holly, with him to, my sister-in-law. And so me and Linda and all, we were all together. We were all together for a nice, happy get-together. Had some mimosas for Mother's Day in Strata. And, of course, Mom got a lot of Mother's Day candy. I don't know how good that is for her, but she loves it.

And I said, okay, Mom, all right, you have the, you have the, the Seas Candy now. this great candy or whatever it is. Remember, spread it out portion control. Yeah, she loves candy. Absolutely no doubt about that, though. But it was a good get together. And Mike and Holly took off this morning and it was great having them here. But you know, anytime you have visitors for like almost close to a week, great to have them there. Great to have the house back now, too. It's nice and quiet. And I'm loving it. And, of course, in our household, though, there's always a freak out though because it's Charlie. You know, Charlie, the shelter cat that we got a couple of years ago,

he's been here two years now, and he's one of those frady cats that he's fine with me and Linda, he's happy with Maddie. Anybody else comes into the house, phew, into the room and under the bed, and not coming out for a few days. So I'm sure Charlie's good with that, too. All right, what do we got coming up this morning? There's going to be quite a bit. I'm going to be talking with one of the major Epic Times reporters here,

getting the latest in what's happening in the Persian Gulf and what's happening with Cuba, too. I wanted to get that here. And there's a lot going on. And it has been triggering higher oil prices this morning. Oil prices in Oregon, though, but fuel prices in Oregon actually dropped a couple of cents over the last week. A week ago, it was actually two cents more. Of course, a year ago at this time, a gallon of diesel was about four bucks, and a gallon of regular was about 406.

So, yeah, we have seen some big increases over the last year or so. So anytime they can pull this to a close sooner rather than later would be a good thing for sure. It's a 614. I'll get that Epic Times reporter on and we'll dig into that and more coming up here on the Bill Meyer show. Man, I love this place. I've been certainly here since I was a kid. Now, seeing my grandson out on the water, it means everything to me. watching him and taking in the blue waves, the sea breeze, the blurry horizon?

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Great to have you on, sir. Thank you for having me. Having a great day, and I'm looking forward to talking with your audience. All right. Well, we have, what, about 10 weeks now that we've been in on two weeks to flatten the Iranians, right? That's kind of where it's been going right now. And I understand that President Trump has just rejected the low. latest response from Tehran.

I was wondering you can bring us up what's going on with that and what we're looking at at the moment because oil prices of what popped another couple percent because they're still looking at more tension, apparently. Yeah, so I think the important thing is, at least for me, looking back over the last week, really, was just that tension over the straight-of-horn moves is, I think, a really divisive factor in the entire negotiation here. Back when the Iranians accepted that ceasefire last month on April 7th, their calculation was, okay, everything is paused. The status quo is pretty much the same except we're not lobbing missiles back and forth.

When Donald Trump ordered the U.S. blockade, that certainly changed their calculus quite a bit. And we saw the blockade along with this early kind of short-lived attempt by the U.S. to start pulling commercial ships out of the Persian Gulf that were stuck there. And as this was happening, the Iranians really saw, okay, you know, our leverage is slipping away by the minute here. We can't really allow this. So we really saw a flare up over the last week where the Iranians are, you know, for whatever reason, their calculus early on is we're not going to challenge this blockade. but now they see challenging the blockade as a necessity to maintaining their leverage at the negotiating table.

And also I would imagine this is their economic lifeline, too, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, certainly they are not able to get their petrochemicals, their oil and gas out nearly to the same scale now as they were before. I have seen that there's been an uptick in, you know, an oil rail shipping over land to China. China is still a major buyer, but the volume that they can move by rail is nowhere close to the same as they can get by ship. Yeah, so the tankers are really the mainstay. About how many are, is anything moving through the Persian Gulf at this point? You know, I heard at one point maybe one or two tankers a day or something, maybe, but maybe not. It's a little fuzzy on the actual real numbers, do we know?

Yeah, so my understanding is that, yeah, it's kind of like you said, you might get one or two out per day. The real challenge is not what's going out. It's whether or not ships are trying to get back in. You might be able to clear the backlog of ships that are stuck in the Persian Gulf. That's one risky calculus, but to see these commercial ship captains say, I'm willing to sail back into that and potentially be stuck in the Persian Gulf another two or three months stretch at a time, that's a tough one. And I think that one's going to be the one to look for in the long run is not how many ships are getting out, but how many are willing to sail back in. Yeah, I noticed that I saw some reporting that on the West Coast, the final tanker went out to the West Coast refineries that had left in February. You know, a lot of folks didn't realize I didn't either until this all started, Ryan, that 90 days travel time from the Persian Gulf to get to the West Coast.

So we've been kind of living on the West Coast of refineries like California off of oil that was shipped three months ago, really. And what I'm kind of curious is there any talk within the D.C. world about, you know, the challenges of maybe trying to find alternative sources out on these refineries. Because I know we don't import a lot, but we import enough. And certainly in California, that's a big deal, isn't it? Yeah. To be honest with you, I'm not as plugged in on the actual energy side of things. But, yeah, I mean, one thing to consider is that given a, given a, given a, long enough time frame, we can

certainly, we can find alternative energy route. Like, that is certainly something that we can do in, you know, in the span of six months or a year. But, you know, that's a long six months to be paying, you know, $5 a gallon or

I don't even know what it is, you know, out of California. Well, there are spots in California, northern California, just south of a border that diesel touches $8 a gallon out on the coast. And now, of course, that's on top of their crazy carbon taxes and everything else they do too. So it's already more expensive there. Oregon's a little less expensive. We look like a bargain by comparison, just so you know. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, I imagine so.

I know from being out in California every once in a while, yeah, I've seen how rough it can be out there price was. Yeah. Well, I wanted to just touch back on to the foreign policy aspects of this in the military. do we have it is it truly you know the part that of course is as us me kind of scratch in my head maybe some other people too is that they said that the the ceasefire has been holding but yet we're still shooting at each other right is that is that true what's going on from what i'm from what i'm seeing in epic times yeah so um if i can walk it back it is exactly as you said we are the Trump administration has said, you know, the ceasefire is holding, but, you know, subsequent to them saying that, in declaring a Congress that the hostilities have terminated, we've seen a pretty big uptick in Iranians launching missiles,

not only at commercial ships, but there was an incident on Thursday where they lobbed a pretty significant salvo at three U.S. warships. And I believe, and this is kind of my analysis here rather than just a pure statement of fact, but I believe the calculus by the administration here is that they have passed that 60-day mark stipulated under the war powers resolution. So you want to reset the clock, right? That's what the attempt is here. Yeah. I believe their calculus here is that they're in kind of this untreaded water here where they can kind of live in this ambiguous place where we are continuing and trade fire at a low level, but as long as U.S. aircraft are not bombing, extensively bombing

sites within the Iranian mainland. And there have been a couple of limited strikes by U.S. forces on Iran last week. But they've claimed that's defensive. And as long as these are quick defensive in retaliation for missiles being launched at U.S. warships, they can say that's not a resumption of the hostilities. Yeah, yeah, quick little skirmishes, but a mostly peaceful ceasefire, right? You know, putting it that way, yeah. Yeah, we're blowing some things up and shooting some people, but it's mostly peaceful, kind of like that fire and back during the summer of love with when cities are there. It's mostly peaceful protest, that kind of thing. All right, that's really interesting, Ryan. What about the Iranian missile and drone stockpile? Do we have any way of really

figuring out how much is there? Because, gosh, they sure still seem to have quite a few things to throw at people, even being, you know, mostly blown up in many places militarily. Yeah. As far as, as far as what we hear, that's the interesting thing. You know, we've certainly seen estimates, you know, back during the heat of things. I was being told, you know, oh, the Iranian stockpile is down, you know, over half, over, you know, three quarters. But, you know, there is no such thing really as knowing the exact number during an active conflict without, you know, having deep sources inside the Iranian military. And certainly, if you take their public statements at face value, those are going to be exaggerated. So really,

what you kind of have to do is find the averages between both sides' claims. I have seen some reporting that the CIA estimates that around two-thirds to three-quarters of their missile and drone stockpiles are still there. And keep in mind, the Iranians have been planning for decades for a standoff exactly like this over the Strait of Hormuz. Boy, they saw what America did in Iraq and did a completely different plan for defense there from the looks of it. Yeah, absolutely. They certainly knew that this was going to be the way the standoff would play out. If they were able to survive, this would be how they would do it. And they certainly planned for decades for this.

All right. I'm talking with Epic Times. Military and Foreign Affairs reporter Ryan Morgan does great work there at Epic Times. If you're not subscribing, you should. Okay. Another question, I wanted to kind of switch it over to Marco Rubio. Is it just me or is, boy, is his star rising lately in importance? It sure feels that way.

I know that's more analysis than factual reporting, but, boy, he's talking a lot and talking well from the looks of it. What do you think? Yeah, I think your assessment is pretty spot on. You know, if we were to look back as far as 2016 during that Republican primates, Mary, you know, Trump and Rubio famously didn't get along. So it's already huge vote of confidence, not only that they are on good terms, that Trump has brought Rubio into his administration. Yeah, there's no more little Marco talk like it was on the campaign trail back in the day.

None of that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and huge vote of confidence that Rubio is not only the Secretary of State, but he is also the national security advisor. So he is, you know, he is, he is well within Trump's counsel here. And, yeah, he has a pretty outside, say, possibly even more so than Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in terms of the foreign policy decision making. What is your impression of what is his take on what's going on or what is next for Cuba?

And it hasn't been getting a lot of play yet, but I imagine that's next on the menu. Yeah, there was a, so the day that he gave his White House press briefing, he also posted a photo with the commander of Southcom, Frank Donovan. And it's not, it's not so much intriguing that they're, you know, it's a picture of him and the Southcom commander shaking hands. It's the fact that they're standing in front of a map of Cuba and looking very knowingly at the camera like something's about to happen. and then certainly we've seen rising sanctions on Cuba over the past week. There is certainly a buildup here. I can't say that it's going to be military action, but it certainly looks that there is a big strong play here to force some kind of change in administration within Cuba,

what that looks like, not entirely certain. But I would believe even just from Rubio's family background that it is a high, priority in his mind and to the extent that he's able to lobby his interests, certainly I think it's gathering momentum in the Trump administration. Do you believe there is any effective political pushback to all of this foreign policy action being taken right now? I know we hear grumbling from the Democrats, but is there anything gaining traction that you're aware of?

As far as effective, I would say there is a slight sign. that a few key Republicans might turn their votes over on a war powers resolution given enough time. But right now, I think the majority of Republicans are kind of writing on this. You know, the war is paused with Iran, and we're going to just allow Trump to have this sort of ambiguous moment and not disturb it. But if we were to see, you know, potentially, you know, U.S. losses or things get really nasty over the next couple weeks, that might trigger a few key Republicans to switch sides on the war powers vote. But then, you know, but then it becomes a question of, okay, the president needs our authorization, but we'll give it to him rather than, you know, oh, because the president doesn't have our authorization, this must stop.

Yeah, traditionally, when you have the troops actually in play, you're not pulling the authorization during that. When you look back at history the way other presidents have treated this, it's like, okay, yeah, you can tell me that you don't like it, but guess what? They're out there, right? So when you look at the history of such type of operations, Epic Times, Military and Foreign Affairs reporter, Ryan Morgan. Ryan, I really appreciate you taking a few minutes. I know you have other work to do, and you've got to go right, too, on top of that. But thanks so much. Great job of explaining the latest here in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

Okay, thanks so much. Thank you for having me. You bet. TheepicTimes.com. Get your subscription if you don't have one already. Well worth it. Wonderful reporting going on there at 631. We'll have the latest on what's going on here locally too.

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KMED News, here's what's going on. Oil prices up more than 2% this morning over continued 10%. tension in the Middle East wars. President Trump rejecting the latest peace offering from Iran. Even so, the price of gas and diesel in Southern Oregon has actually gone down a couple of cents over the last week. AAA Oregon reports a gallon of regular is 534 in Grants Pass, 533 in Medford, diesel in Grants Pass 619 per gallon, a penny more in Medford. A year ago at this time, both gas and diesel were just a little over four bucks a gallon. Meanwhile, a renewable energy project, Oregon's first floating solar power project was unveiled Friday. The Daily Courier reports

the Medford Irrigation District has more than 1,700 floating solar panels on one of their reservoirs, which is just outside of Jacksonville. The panels generate solar power for the district's pumps and surplus power can be sold into the grid. Some will go to our area's sewage treatment plant. The panels also help reduce evaporation, a plus in this drought year. The project cost $3.8 million. dollars. Panel is estimated to generate some 2 million kilowatt hours of energy per year. And a lot of economic development projects in Southern Oregon are designed around getting more tourism flowing here. However, a report in Oregon Live indicates the money coming in from tourism while going up isn't keeping up with inflation. An annual study done for travel Oregon says travel to Oregon went up a little

more than 1% last year. Sluggish growth at best visits from Canada and international tourism down sharply since 2019. The study indicates a bounce back by the end of this decade. Bill Meyer, KMED News. Jackson County, your vote counts. This May 19th primary election process will be exactly the same as prior years. There have been no changes to how we conduct elections in Oregon. If you are not registered with a major political party, you will receive a ballot with nonpartisan candidates and measures. Know when your ballot arrives at your mailbox by signing up at informed delivery.usps.com Postmark or deposit your ballot in an official ballot dropbox no later than 8 p.m. on May 19th, but recommended that you mail by May 12th.

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To learn more, call 1-855 IZERVE or go to IZERVA.com, paid for by Estella's Pharma. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063KMED. 637. We continue the conversation catching us up on the latest news here with Michael Lutz. He's the founder, president, and CEO of Invest USA. and what you do, Michael, by the way, welcome back to the show. Morning, sir. Always a privilege with you, Bill.

Thank you so much for the opportunity. Yeah, and what you do is that you raise money and you essentially go out there and go to many police agencies around the state and the country here, really, and you grant money to buy good bulletproof vests, right? Good plate protectors, right? What we do, Bill, is we raise the funds, and we currently have our buying our vests.

from Buffalo Army out of New York, which has the steel alloy plate to them, and, you know, provide them hand them to the agency. The reason why we do it that way is because we want to make sure that we can assure our supporters that we actually know the money they gave that a vest went on an officer because we actually handed the best. In other words, we just give it to an agency who happened to, you know, find a different need that it might be needed for.

All right. now, and you can see the importance of it, even with the White House correspondence agency or that dinner that they have every year, that there was the assassination attempt once again of people that happened. And the officer got hit with something. Now, was he hit by the perp? Do we know the whole story about that yet, just off the top of your head? Have you seen that? Because I know he took a shot and ended up being okay, if I recall. He's fine. You are correct. Here's what's interesting in that scenario. When we did the debriefings and studied the videotape, of course, you know, busted through. And as he was busting through, he was pulling out a long-range rifle.

Underneath his jacket, he fired with that long-range rifle. Oh, did he have it? Was it like a sawed-off barrel? He shortened them the barrel somehow? Okay. And he, the agent that was in front of him happened to have. on tactical gear and one of the best that we, you know, our technology, the one that we provide that have the, uh, yeah.

And if it's interesting, if you look at the video, most of the agents there in their suits had on a concealable vest. Had this agent been wearing a concealable vest, it was a direct hit, it would have gone right through that conceivable vest. No kidding. We're direct hitting a chest to the heart. He would, I mean, he'd have been dead instant. Wow.

You see, I haven't heard much about this. You said everything kind of went silent once they got him in, right? There's been very little. Right. Yes, we're going to be talking about the trial at this point. What was the caliber of that rifle, do you know? Off time? Offhand.

30-od6. Oh, 30-od6. That's nothing to mess with. Okay. No. All right. Wow. And, you know, and here's to show you the effectiveness.

Obviously, you know, it's not just stopping the bullet, but you remember the key component in these vests or they stop the blood, problem. It goes all across the vessel so that it doesn't provide internal damage. I'll bet that agent, though, still, even with that type of a bruise or had a hell of a bruise on the chest. He got not pretty hard. Here's the interesting part about it. Of course, you know, we want to make sure we immediately an agent that's been hit, transported to the hospital and have them checked, make sure there's nothing internal going on that we can't see. He was transported and the doctors were examining him. His first,

response was, can you all hurry? I've got a president to protect. I need to get back on my job. Great story. Great response, right? Yeah. He showed you how well those vests work. I mean, yes, yes, yes, but was it bad enough for he couldn't perform? No, he was ready to get back in the field that, you know, within an hour. Yeah. So you showed you how effective those best are. I would imagine a lot of times with something like that, I've heard that sometimes you'll break, you know, depending on where the hit comes and it'll spread the force, you know, across. the area. But you can still like break a rib or something. It's not uncommon, right? You get something like that happened. That is correct. What's the real issue with the blunt trauma? Breaking a rib

you heal from. You hit it, you hit the heart, you know, hard enough. I mean, no, it didn't penetrate. But the blunt trauma to the heart can stop the heart can kill you. Can do spleen damage, liver damage, depending on where it hits. Even though it doesn't penetrate inside you, the blunt trauma can because I was like taking baseball back and hitting you upside the head, you're hitting you by the liver or their heart or whatever. It can cause some internal malfunctioning, shall we say, even though it hasn't actually been hit with a bullet. Yeah, Michael, once again, Michael Lutz, once again, founder, president and CEO of Invest USA. If you want to help support that, what's the website again? And now that we know that works, right?

N-V-E-S-T-U-S-A.org, that's correct. It's technology, you know, you got to keep track of that every day, don't you know, Bill? Yep, sure do. But hey, thanks for letting us know because it's been very quiet about ever since that, you know, shooter ended up going into the White House Correspondents dinner, okay? Hey, let's take it over to a very interesting Second Amendment issue going on here. There is conversation that very soon, quite possibly, maybe, maybe, you know, cross our fingers or whatever it is, that people who own firearms would be allowed to, again, mail them in the U.S. Postal Service,

mail system, which hasn't been able to be done in what, almost 60 years, if I recall correctly. Wasn't that part of the Gun Control Act of 1968? You are recalling correctly, Bill. And, you know, here's the interesting part about it. It's the persona that you're creating, that just being involved with a firearm. Somehow you do something illegal. Yes. You don't want to tell anybody about it.

You want to hide it. You want to let you hear. Let me say a gun on me. Let's go out and hear what's go on here. back alley somewhere in the way you can see. This is a guaranteed constitutional right. Why should you not be able to exercise that constitutional right anywhere you prefer to exercise, including mailing it in the mail if necessary. People argue, well, it can get stolen. Well, of course, that depends on how you, if you want to put on the box, you know,

P, you know, attention, there's a gun in here if you said anybody wants to steal it. Yeah, by the way, here's a very extensive six-sour firearm. Please steal it, postal workers. Right? Yeah. Exactly. But, you know, you get firearms that are stolen in our houses every day. So can I ask what the difference is? I mean, you're assuming the risk. Of course, you know that you need to package it correctly, discreetly. And there's nothing wrong with in that fire. What are they think it's going to happen to it? Well, what I'm wondering, though, is that... But it's perfectly okay, I guess, for, is it UPS? Can UPS and FedEx send it? Now, this is all part of regulations, from what I understand. I forget when I had to send a firearm. back to the factory. I forgot if I had to use a UPS or FedEx. Do you know what the rules are on that? UPS, it has to be a private. It can be government subsidized.

Okay, it has to be private. So it could have been either one of them. Okay. That's correct. All right. And was this something, so the 1968 gun control act said you cannot use the U.S. Postal Service, you know, to do this. Which, correct. All right. Now, what is the change going on? Is it a regulatory change or is there a congressional law change? And this is interesting. You haven't heard much about it until recently. They're looking to make sure that they can be done regulatory. If it can, it'll be congressional. But there is that central, even in Congress.

That, I mean, you know, this is hypocrisy. I think what you're seeing, Bill, across the country is people are tired of the hypocrites in government. And the hypocrisy that comes with it. Well, you kind of get tired of looking at all of the government protection for all of the high mucky mucks. Even here in the state of Oregon, too. You know, the governor has OSP protection everywhere that she goes, that kind of thing. And when they're in session, boy, we have OSP troopers everywhere, and they're armed to the teeth. But, you know, you try carrying in the people's house, all of a sudden you're the bad guy, you know, that kind of thing.

I think people are a little bit tired of the animal farm kind of treatment where the mucky mucks have plenty of protection in the little people, not so much. You know you're exactly right, Bill. on the issue that we're talking on here. People want to know why the hypocrisy. Why can I ship it to do with UPS or FedEx, but I can't send it through the mail? Why is it that it's a constitutional right, and I'm being limited to how I can express that constitutional right? And because, you know, Congress always exempt itself from everything. Yep.

Congress should do anything they want to. And the reason why I'm mentioning that is now that's why you're seeing, yes, we're looking can to be done was classified as a regulatory act, but which we can just simply, the postal office can simply make the change, or do we need to make a constitutional change, not constitutional change, but I think what you're seeing on the hill is they're being very sensitive about showing hypocrisy, and that's why there's a good chance that if it needs a congressional action, it'll be done. Well, it would be helpful any time you want to either send something back to the manufacturer or do some other work. Now, have you seen any of the details?

Would you be allowed to mail? Something tells me you probably would not be allowed to mail to an individual. Just say, I'm going to mail my gun to my brother-in-law, let's say, or something. It's not like that. Or is it you would be able to ship to manufacturers or to repair depots or something? Do you know what they're talking about doing at this point? That is what Congress wants. You can just simply mail to manufacturers or to, you know, how it's.

What many conservative Republicans are arguing is that, again, why am I trying to limit your constitutional right? If you want to send it across the street, that should be your business. Now, the point I was getting at, though, is that prior to 1968, the Gun Control Act of 1968, you could order a firearm in the catalog, right? You go to the Sears Roebuck-R-Buck-R-Words catalog and order a firearm, and it'd be shipped right out to you. And then, you know, most of people who are alive today probably don't even really remember that as an adult, but maybe a few do, you know, at this point. So it's not exactly like it's taking us back to the 1700s or the Revolutionary War. This is just something that is just a couple of generations ago or two or three generations ago that it was very commonplace.

And has it stopped gun crime? You know, what they did? I don't think so. What about you? And, of course, what they will argue on this particular issue. Bill is, well, you know, we have ever, of course, we're trying to make a uniform across the country right now. But, you know, you have to have identification. We have to run your background and make sure you're not criminal, ass support, etc.

And that if we allow you to do that over the mail, how do we prove that that's you? Well, here's the question. When I walk up to buy a gun in a gun store, it's showing my driver's agent. How do you know that's not an altered license? You don't, really. You're taking it on faith, I suppose. You know, how many times you see fake driver's ID, you can easily lift a picture of yourself and put on somebody else's license in heartbeat. Yeah, well, maybe it'll be a little tougher.

Maybe they'll require that you use a real ID or something to mail a firearm. Maybe that's what they'll do, which is very difficult to forge from the looks of it. Right, that's correct. But there are ways, just what you're pointing out, there are ways to deal with that issue that automatically assume I'll have to take your ride away from it. That's always a governance reaction. and it's usually the wrong reaction. All right. Now, has this actually passed the regulatory estate?

No, it's being discussed. Just being discussed at the moment. Okay. All right. Well, I think it's a discussion worth having for sure, and I appreciate that. Oh, there was another story that there was involving police. I wanted to touch on. And what was that issue in Georgia that happened recently?

This is amusement for your listeners. Okay. There was a mayor in a small town calling right outside of Atlanta. Georgia, that his wife was the town clerk. And she was very hostile, especially towards law enforcement. So they complained. The mayor's clerk. The mayor's clerk was hostile to the cops.

Not a good plan, but all right. Police continue, what happened? So the law enforcement officers and the chief complained to the councilman, the town councilman. Yeah. They voted to tell the town clerk, mayor's wife, she had to leave. She wasn't going to be employed there anymore because that's what she treated cops. So the mayor turned around and retaliated and fired the whole police force 10 of them plus the chief 11.

Fire the whole. Okay, so the mayor, because of the problems with his wife, fires the entire town police force? Really? The entire town police force. Well, what happened after that? There must have been some fun and frivolity that ensued from that story. Yeah, here was a funny part about it. Two days later, the town council convenes a meeting without the mayor.

I mean, the mayor is invited off because he's a member. But you can get a quorum. You can demand a meeting without the mayor having to set the agenda. Okay. And they voted to bring back all the law enforcement officers and be to censor the mayor. And then they refer to the attorney general's office for prosecution if there was any application that can be done. I've been reviewed now. So the town just figured out, no, firing all 11 of our police force, not a good plan.

We weren't up with this. All right. Very good. Well, I'm glad the mayor got smacked, and it sounds like the mayor got smacked on the wrist there for some big, for a good reason, good cause, okay? No question. All right, Michael. Hey, I appreciate the take. Thanks for being on this morning.

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We'll have Fox News coming up here in just a little bit. And then we will have one more guest segment. And I'm looking forward to talking with Martin Moyer. And he is, he's the president of the Christian Action Network, but has an interesting Patriots Minority Report. newsletter that he puts out that you can sign up for. And I wanted to talk with him about the latest coming out of the tech pros. Yeah, AI, the AI world.

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but if they're telling the truth and it looks like they are, it's pretty interesting. Some of those sane men appear to be funding what sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. Technologies designed to help parents

select, optimize, and genetically engineer their children. And the tech pros are all over this. So we'll have a little conversation with Martin about this and he's a little conversation, always very thought-provoking when I've talked with him about various things, okay?

You go. Betty writes me a story this morning or pops me a story. Bill, hantavirus latest update. U.S. citizens test positive, 17 American passengers air lifted back. Yeah, they've been a lot of that, that cruise ship, you know, just docking and that they're getting everybody evacuated out. You know, it's kind of funny. Did you ever get the feeling that maybe we're looking at gain of function version 2? Remember the whole idea with COVID, how they were experimenting on that?

Hanta virus, according to my way of looking at it and my experience with it, having had, you know, known some people who ended up suffering from Hanto virus at one point, and as someone who has been very careful going into transmitter sites, as an example because, you know, well, I'll go and go into transmitter sites now and then, and they're usually sealed up buildings, but rodents do get into some of these buildings, and you'll find rodent droppings. And the antivirus is how this ends up being spread. So the question is, how is it all of a sudden it's being spread air to air among passengers?

I'm not aware of this ever having happened before, Betty, are you? Is someone playing a little bit of a global, globalism depopulation, and we're going to make sure that we're going to get our depopulation whether you want it, good and hard, right? You didn't ask for it? I know that sounds like, once again, like I'm doing conspiracy theory Thursday on Monday. But, yeah, I've been scratching my head over that one. Has anybody else thought about that, too? How exactly is something that is transmitted by rodent feces? all of a sudden being transmitted human to human.

It's kind of weird, isn't it? It doesn't make you wonder, has someone been playing in a Wuhan lab or have been having fun in the labs over in the Ukraine or places like that? I don't know. But yeah, we've got to keep an eye on that one. And I know the World Health Association

or organization is saying, don't worry, there is nothing to worry about any kind of a hentavirus pandemic. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll bet the Bill Gates types are just absolutely. We've got them now. If it's not going to be COVID. Oh, yeah, yeah.

One of the pharmaceutical companies is talking about how their stock went up six or seven percent this morning because they've been working on a hantavirus vaccine. Yes, something else that somebody can get fired for not taking, right? I can see they're doing this to the nurses in Asante or Providence. And I'm sorry, you have to have a, you have to have a hantavirus vaccine on top of everything else or else. No, don't talk to me about your religious rights. Yeah, it's funny. My sister-in-law, Holly, is a nurse. She's a traveling nurse, as a matter of fact.

One of the traveling nurses, she didn't come here to Southern Oregon and work, but many did, you know, back during that COVID time. and I asked her how that worked. And she says, oh, yeah, if I wanted to work and have some kind of a paycheck, I had to get them all. Not happy about it. But that's what I had to do. It's the only way that I could work and get money for the family budget. She was one of them.

Good morning, KMED. Hi, who's this? Welcome. Hey, Bill, it's Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia. How are you this morning? What an interesting call to start the week off? But with you, I'll bite.

Go ahead. What are you? Well, you ask. Do you remember when Pfizer, there was no insert of the side effects or safety of the vaccine? Yeah, and every vaccine is supposed to have a white sheet inside the box. Yeah. And they even refused. And they said, no, we don't want to release the information for 75 years.

Yeah. Remember that part? Yeah, I remember that part. That was the studies, the studies that they did, right? And while they're, you know, this whole thing and the whole shutdowns going on, they're putting 5G towers up everywhere. Okay. So you add that to it. Well, one of the side effects of the vaccine lists onto virus.

And when you understand that everything's frequency, and now that they've got this graphene oxide, which your guest said that, God, that was an incredible talk that he gave about graphene oxide. oxide. Yeah, I forget who that was that gave that talk. We're going back a few years. Oh, God. Two thousand times more conductive than copper, a thousand times stronger than steel. It's flexible as rubber. All right. So we irritate ourselves with graphene, with 5G, then it messes with the graphene oxide in the vaccines. So we know you can create different diseases to make some frequency. Your thoughts are like frequency. When you think certain things, you can get sick. Having the difference of just your energy, your thoughts can create problems, and cancers in your body.

You lose your son, you know, for an accident, and a lot of men will get prostate cancer. Well, people die of a broken heart after. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, on that note, I don't know, like I said, this is just pure conjecture on our part, but you have to wonder, don't you? You sure do. All right.

In the late. No, Ron song. I was going to play your song, okay? Because if we have you, we can't, we have to have your song, all right? I know, but one other thing on your... Okay, quickly, I'm almost out of time. I'm already late. 29.

1929, Lord Birkenhead said women won't have to give birth anymore. We'll have test two babies. Oh, yeah. I remember reading that one and many other quotes, so similar to that. And we're getting close. Thanks, LaGresia. Hi, KMED. Morning.

Who's this? Good morning. this is Suzanne. Suzanne, what's up? I understand through the radio vibrations that there are a hunter virus from Argentina, is contagious,

is transmissible from human to human. Oh, that's interesting. It's the first time I heard about that. And that's where the bird watchers were standing on a trash site watching birds, and that's how they picked it up. Yikes. Because all the other hantel virus that I, it was like you had to have contact with the rat droppings.

Right? Yes. So what, okay, so here's the conspiracy then. The conspiracy then is that they genetically engineered the Argentine hantle virus in order to go person to person. What do you think about that? They could very well have augmented. My God, if they can't find it, they'll make it. Yeah, find out.

Fauci over the last few weeks. That's what we have to do, okay? Where's he been? All right, hanging with the rats, indeed. I appreciate the call. This is KMED and KMED HD-1 Eagle Point Medford, KBXG grants passed. You know, if you can't have fun with rat droppings and Hanna virus, what can you do, okay? We'll have Fox News coming up here just a little bit, and then a little conversation about what is going on with AI, AI and genetic engineering. For real, and they admit it. For over 20 years.