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Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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And when you have cortisol, you know, sort of like that fight or flight sort of thing, just call the show. 770-563-3. Whatever's bugging you, you'll feel better just by talking it out. We head to the lines. I don't know who's there. We're just going to hit you as you go. Hi, good morning.

Who's this? Hi, good morning. Yeah, this is Audrey. Hi, Audrey. What's on your mind today? I came from Portland. I was born and raised in Portland. And in the early 1970s, the machine in Multnomah County was broken then. They had, I believe, at that time, one Republican working in Multnomah County elections. And I pretty much can assume now there's just all Democrats working in Multnomah County elections. That would pretty much can assume now there's just all Democrats working in Multnomah County elections. That would be a fair assessment, sure.

Anyway, I think in 1972, there was a fellow, his name was Dan Mosday, and he worked in the city. He was elected to fellow city council, whatever it was. Anyway, he went in there because he and his brother had this repair service and of appliances and he could see the crookedness going on then. So he went in and he won and he saved City of Portland literally millions of dollars at that time because he did not let them get away with their shenanigans. Anyway, there was a fellow on I'll Be Darned if I can remember his name, ran for office, but I can remember

even as a very young person at that time, just detesting this man coming on television, because you could tell he was a crook. And he was running for some office in Portland, and he was way, way behind. And then all of a sudden, the computer broke down, and when that computer came back on, he was way ahead. Now, Bill, this was back in the 1970s. We're thinking that our crookedness is a more of a recent development, in other words, huh? Is that kind of where you're going?

That's what I'm saying. Well, especially Multnomah County. So, Herman should know this, that the machine is probably rigged up there still, is my guess, and this was way before mail-in voting. So, you know, they can do anything they want with those computers. Are these people being elected? I doubt it. Appointed, I guess, would be a way. Appointed electronically.

Yes. Okay. All right. Interesting opinion on that. Audrey, I appreciate hearing from you. Call more often, 7705-633. We go to Dave. Hello, Dave. I know that's your number. I recognize your phone number. So go ahead. Yeah, you know, it's a dead giveaway. But I have two things, pearls in my shoe. Okay. And one of them is Charleston is the best place I ever stayed.

You like Charleston like what Vicki was talking about. Okay. Yeah. I was working in Cruz Bay for a contractor for Pacific Power and it was a lot cheaper on parking my trailer in Charleston and it was a beautiful place. They liked my cat. I'm gonna have to go visit. I don't think I've ever been in Charleston and it was a beautiful place. They liked my cat. I'm going to have to go visit. I don't think I've ever been in Charleston or stayed in Charleston and all my time in Oregon. Sure. Yeah. Now the second pearl is the DOJ entered M25 states, entered an ambiguous brief over a white case on pro-second amendment. Now it's still technically in the trial court but there was some kind of injunction put on it and then it was changed by the Ninth Circuit and so it's an emergency requesting an

emergency hearing to put the injunction back on for that law not to go into effect. Oh, and I just kind of jump to the end here for the sake of time. This is about more anti-Second Amendment bills, everybody ignoring in states the Bruin decision. Is that where you're coming from? All right. Well, it sounds to me as if Oregon is about to have some more anti-Bruin kind of decisions coming out of the state legislature, according to Sterritt and others. Right. And they could be sued under civil rights violations through the DOJ. All right. Well, I hope you are right about that. Dave, thanks for the call. Let me grab another one here. It's Pebbled in Your Shoe Tuesday. And good morning. Hi, who's this?

Hey, it's Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia. Hi. I have some little pebbles that take two days to talk about it. Okay, well give me one good one today. Well, your love, God, there's so many. I always wanted to side on. Let's talk about the guest you had yesterday that was talking about diabetes and the carnivore diet more, I was listening to another doctor, a chiropractor, who has type 1 diabetes and had a heart attack. He was doing all the things the doctors told him has a heart attack and so he really started studying it. And what's amazing, some of the other information I learned from him is that when a doctor prescribes

statin drugs to lower your cholesterol, it causes diabetes. You've got to have those healthy fats, right? So they're prescribing this thing, telling you to get off all these things. And I heard one lady say, you can't get over diabetes because it's more of the bacteria unless we literally drink raw, unpasteurized, grass-fed only cows. It is not going to happen here, Lucretia. I'm sorry. Well, I know. But the other thing you said is when you do get on the diabetes medication, it increases

your risk of actually having a heart attack. Plus, it's all the grains that's causing everything from cataracts, the macular degeneration, to Dr. William Davis, cardiologist, that's also causing... Oh, God, Lou Gehrig... All right, so, all right. Now, here, I need to focus you into... And once again, you're really good at being like an electrical wire that has been downed off a power pole and it's sparking on the ground in many different directions. Okay? That's you.

Okay? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, lots of power and you know, just jumping around there. Give me your conclusion out of all of these various and sundry facts. Okay? and sundry facts. Okay. I would say absolutely. The best diet is raw milk, raw butter, you know, definitely red meat. We know that they're poisoning the water supply that goes right into the different vegetables. Okay, all right. So raw milk, raw, okay, you're looking, you're a raw food kind of diet, right? Yeah, and lots of red meat and I can get some meat for roast.

You know, I really don't want to eat beef tartare to be healthy. Okay. All right. Do you mind if I cook my beef? Can I cook my beef at least? But it's all about your bacteria in your body. Like you say you have, you know, big pockets in your teeth. That's not because you're not brushing your teeth. The Indians didn't brush their teeth. As I told you, and other people didn't brush their teeth. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I don't want to get into my pocket thing. It's in the... Okay. Hey, Lucretia, raw diet. I don't know. I'm not going tartar with you, okay? I can go with you a little bit, all right? Fermented food probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Morning. Hi, it's Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. Who's this? Hello? Hello? Hi! Hi. Good morning.

Maybe Herman should ask, now why do they continue to vote for the idiot? What do they get out of voting for the idiot? Hmm, could be a lot of self-satisfaction that you're voting for the morally superior progressive choice. Or they get a lot of things that they'll restrict Oregon, but of course they don't get restricted because they are being good little slaves. Could be. All right, Gina, I appreciate the call. Let me grab another one here before Kim Commando's digital update. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is David. How are you today, Bill? Doing fine, David. What's on your mind? My pebble is the real ID. I have questions. Real ID, a federal thing or a state?

It is a federal requirement and the state of Oregon kind of dragged its feet for a number of years but yes it was federal legislation in a post-9-1-1 world that brought this up. Right so I came from another state quite a few years ago lived here for 20 years moved away came back have a CDL had a real ID with another state came here and it's exchangeable through where the state I was from let's just say I was in Utah came here and it's exchangeable through where the state I was from let's just say I was in Utah came here and they took it away and they said oh no you got to get it through Oregon and I said but I already have it

it's a federal thing it's already on my driver's license they'll no no you have to go through Oregon to get it and I'm thinking well here I have a CDL they accepted my CDL and you have to provide quite a few things to get a CDL, especially if you are transporting people, correct? Yes. So, yeah, so they took it away and they don't know you got to get it here in the state. I still haven't got it because it ticked me off, it's a pebble in my shoe and I really don't care to get it again and pay for it. Now, my driver's license expires in August, so I've not done it yet. Do you have any choice to get the real ID? Are they just all real IDs from this point on renewal? Do you happen to know by chance David?

I have, I do not know that but I'll tell you what really kicked me off. I was standing on the DMV for something else the other day and of course somebody from another country with another gentleman came up to the desk and you always have to go to the kiosk before you can get in line, right? And showed some paperwork and showed an ID and she goes, no, I need to see his ID. And they said, well, he don't have an ID. So she went with some paperwork to somebody, came back and gave them a bunch of paperwork and gave them a ticket to go in line. But that person did not have ID that they were there for. And it just really irritated me. You know, I just, I just don't get it as far as how certain people get to do certain things and other people don't.

Yeah, my concern and my whole issue that I had with RealID is that the cockpits have already been hardened. You know, we know that at this point. All right? We know that. This was all about stopping the so-called, which of course I don't really buy the federal story of 9-11 and a lot of what happened. And I've made this clear, and I don't want to, you know, re-litigate a lot of this thing. I'm just seeing a growing time in which everything about travel and movement becomes a your papers, please kind of situation. And Americans are kind of signing up for this and kind of go oh it's not that hard go ahead get out your

birth certificate and I'm concerned that and maybe this is maybe this is unwarranted maybe I'm just totally off base I'm willing to be this way David but I can't help but think it's about keeping us in at some point rather than keeping them out because keeping them out has never seemed to have been a big concern of the of the current situation. So it's keeping the people in the tax mules, the ones who supposedly say, I'm a law-abiding citizen. A law-abiding citizen of a lawless land is, I don't know, is it admirable these days? What do you think?

You know what? I would hope it still is, but I don't think it is anymore. I'm sorry. Yeah. So there's a pebble that you and I agree on at this point. All right? Well, great. Have a great day.

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K290 AF Rogue River in South Jackson County on 1067 K294 AS Ashland. and we appreciate you being here for Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. Open phone time on that 770-5633. I'll get back to your calls in just a moment. A lot of people have been writing me and asking, Bill, who are you picking in the election? Because next Tuesday is the Vote by Mail Special District Election. And a lot of that, a lot of fire districts, a in the election, because next Tuesday is the vote-by-mail special district election. And a lot of that, a lot of fire districts, a lot of school districts, things like that. And if you're looking for the Republicans or the conservatives, you can just go to the various parties, Jackson County Republican Party, also Josephine County Republican Party, and I've posted this in the past too. They have at least the people who are the Republicans in there. It's not always a perfect situation. You'll find an occasional

progressive Republican that doesn't really look at the conservative worldview, in my point. But it is kind of interesting when you look in... Okay, let's take it as an example. I'm looking through the Voters' Guide, and I tell people, well, okay, what should you do to try to figure these people out? Can't talk to them all. Can't talk to them all. There's just so many of them and they're in non-paid positions, etc. Well, go to the voter's guide, your voter's pamphlet, and take a look for certain key tells. I'll just give you my suggestion.

If you're looking for a school district person to vote for, many of them are very much from the left because the educational people, a lot of people interested in this are very much from the left. Quite often there are some handfuls of Republicans in there, not as many as I'd like to say. I think Republicans are maybe even many of them giving up on some of this stuff.

But if you're endorsed by the teachers union, I don't consider that a real good thing. That's almost like a virtue signal that, okay, the union likes you, or you're really representing the taxpayer. I don't think so. And look at some of those organizations. Stanford Children is an example. You're endorsed by Stanford Children. Not a good thing. Stanford Children sounds good, but it's like so many other things that you'll see within the Oregon power structure that, oh, it's for the children.

No, it's for the progression of the agenda in the children is what they are. Just my opinion. Now, you can disagree with me if you wish, all right? The other thing I'm a big fan on, let's say when I take a look in... Okay, let's just open up here. Okay, Jackson County Rural Fire Protection District 5, Director of Position 3, the fire laddies and lassies, okay? It's supposed to be a civilian board.

Civilian board. I am astounded at how many people running for the fire district are firefighters from other cities. I'm looking here, Position 3, Alfredo Accedi, don't know the guy, but he's a firefighter, paramedic, and field training officer with Ashland Fire and Rescue. Okay, versus Chris Luz, former mayor of Phoenix, who has actually been in there and a business owner.

Now, I've talked with Chris off and on over the years. I talked with Terry Baker, former mayor of Phoenix yesterday, back when Phoenix was still a non-insane city, but it's getting more insane politically. And I don't think there's any choice between Alfredo and Chris. I would go with Chris. The point is, nothing against the fire laddies and lassies, but I don't want you on the fire boards. The whole idea of the board is to have a civilian component keeping an eye on what's happening there,

rather than it being of the fire laddies and lassies and for the fire laddies and lassies, because you need to have an adult in the room that may not have the law enforcement or the fire enforcement bias. That's kind of the way I look at it. I'm looking for someone just like having a teacher on the school board. You know, it just, it sounds nice. They understand this, et cetera. But once again, it's about having someone who is not directly involved in that system

being on the board. That's the way I would look at it. And frankly, being supported by the union, not a good thing in that. Okay let's see Jackson County Rural Fire Prediction Protection District 5 position 4 Jennifer Haddon. Okay Ashland Fire and Rescue Associates for Mashino okay blah blah blah blah Firefighter Paramedic you know once again that's their background. Okay um yeah it is an essential part about it. I just don't...do we want another one?

Another person from the actual industry monitoring the board? I don't know. These are the sort of questions we should be asking ourselves here. And let's see. Then the opponent, Eleanor Ponomeroff. Uh-oh. A city council member on the city of Phoenix. All right, now is it the crazy left-wing people that were elected last year or an older one? I don't know.

These are the kind of things I think if I were voting on that I'd have to take a look and find out more about Eleanor. There may be no choice, you know, these sort of things. It's fascinating when you go through the people that are really plugged into these things. Gosh, there's one guy on the library board. Okay, here's another one. Rode Valley Transportation District, position five.

Katrina Ehrman Newton, librarian, Hanon Library, Southern Oregon University, library outreach coordinator. I'm one of 10 Americans who never or rarely drive a car. Librarian, Hanan Library, Southern Oregon University. Library Outreach Coordinator. I'm one of 10 Americans who never or rarely drive a car. All right, she's got a dog in that fight, right? But do you think she's looking to actually have RVTD balance its budget? I don't know.

You look at Sam Bickel, or Bickel rather, who is her competitor in this one, Position 5, a founder and co-owner of Terrain Landscape Architecture. All right. Designing better places to live, work and move. Business owner, Colorado State University, BS in landscape architecture. All right, been on planning,

site planning and things like that. Now, you know, even being in the planning world always gives me, gives me pause because you look at how hard the left is when it comes to planting. The planting world is incredibly left. Now, Sam may not be that kind of planter, more like a landscape planner, you know, plan where to plant trees and things like that. But I don't know. Between someone who's a librarian, which is yet another profession which arguably is more likely than not to the left of Lenin, you can get a few clues on this sort of stuff.

My bottom line here is that these voters' pamphlets, especially nonpartisan, don't tell you everything, but there are usually enough clues with you searching online and searching out these people. Look up their Facebook posts, look up their social media, look and see if they're on Nextdoor, etc. You can usually get a pretty good idea or get a beam on someone. Alright? I'm looking here, RVTD Director Position 4. Now, apparently this is being run on a post. It's Tyler Jasper.

Tyler's the one that has the guy that looks like a modern version of Buddy Holly. Okay? Nice glasses, Tyler. Training. I have completed the Transportation Leadership Training Program hosted by Rogue Action Center, sponsored by the Clean and Just Transportation Network. When you hear anything about talking about the Clean and Just, just know that Wokey Brokey guy probably or likely because no conservative person ever sits there and goes,

boy, you know, I need transportation that's clean and just. This is social justice. You have to look for the certain code words and certain phrases which are are like dog whistles, of course, for the lefties. Of course, Tyler's in there anyway. I don't know Tyler. He could be a perfectly great guy, but something tells me that it's about expanding RVTD no matter how few people are writing it, as the case might be. Same with the librarian from Ashland. These are just my opinions. It's nothing personal. I don't know these people, but there are clues when you look in the voters' pamphlet. Okay? All right. Francine, you have been very patient. Sorry to keep you on hold all that time. Oh, that's all right, Bill. It was still worthwhile.

Just trying. But you know, you ever do that? You look at the voters pamphlet, there are little clues, little things, little memberships, little endorsements, right? Yeah, I try to find those things if I can. Otherwise, I just go to your site. But sometimes there is a... But the one thing, as I do know, is that you can't always just look at a party affiliation because I know that Charlene Princeton wrote in last week, or called in last week, saying that the Republican running in the Jackson County Library District thing, real prog, truly a progressive Republican, a political crossdresser. And so you can't necessarily use that. So you have to, well we have to do our work. We have to do work sometimes and look at this, you know? Straight across just by party. I mean it doesn't really mean as much anymore.

And yeah, so. Where were you? I don't want to still pass out to my board and board. Where were you? The reason I called, well actually I've changed my mind about what I want to still cast him to my board and board. The reason I called, well actually I've changed my mind about what I want to say because I was going to make a mention about 9-11 being totally planned out and things like the real ID and all that was all part of it. It was all intentional where we are today.

But since we all probably know that, I wanted to touch on Lucretia's call. But Lucretia and I have a lot of things and we see a lot of things very similarly, but we also have a lot of differences. For example, I'm not into the full carnivore diet saying, I think we are omnivores, we need to eat a little bit of everything. But where we do come together and where I have listened to you talk about things in the past like, you know, oh yeah, Linda, make this really great dinner and because, you know, the Chuck steak was on sale at Safeway or something like that. And I cringe because

I know the meat you're eating is full of crap. It's full of, you know of drugs and toxins. It's raised on a feedlot where they're standing in their own feces, about six inches worth of feces, all wet and gooey and disgusting. You don't know that. You don't know that. Yes, I do. No, you don't.

A lot of times I buy some of my favorite steaks and meat like that from Cartwrights, from their particular supply chain. Okay, great. Yay, glad. Okay, what I'm trying to say is, I'm concerned because I really like you. There's a lot of people out there that I really care about and I see them just not taking good care of themselves. And I mean, I just, for example, was doing some... Oh no, we were saved from the rest. I'm just kidding.

Save from it just gone. She's just disappeared. Well, get back to me. Maybe we can wrap up the show with you, Francie. This is the Bill Meyer show. We'll continue. All right. That's useyourgift.org.

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Delighted to be back through your calls on Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. Brad's here. Hey Brad, you have something you think that I want to listen to, huh? Go ahead. Yep. Bill, your friend Brad here, you're gonna love it that I want to listen to, huh? Go ahead. Bill, your friend Brad here, you're going to love it. And it's a follow-up to your conversation with Captain Bill Simpson yesterday. But first I got to say, I know Tonya Andretta personally, I have watched her work for years. If that's the kind of work you want done, you cannot have anybody better than Tonya come and look at it for you want done, you cannot have anybody better than Tonya come and look at it for you. Please, please do that.

She's, she's fantastic. I'm glad to hear that. It's always good. Well, you know, word of mouth is always a wonderful thing. It's great. She, she really knows her stuff. So, so Bill, Bill Simpson yesterday, you're one of the few people, you know, going back to this, this situation of, all right, we tore four

dams out of the Klamath River, the mainstream media, oh, it's wonderful, it's great, rainbows, unicorns, and yet Bill Simpson and you are talking about these scientific boilerplate inconvenient facts that just won't go away. The habitat for literally millions of aquatic creatures gone. What's the downstream effect? Well, no less a personality than John Stossel has put out a video and I emailed it to you. But John Stossel, who's kind of the Jack Webb, I mean, you remember Jack Webb, Just the Facts? Just the Facts, Dragonit. Yeah, you bet.

Just the Facts, man. So, So, Josh also was kind of the Jack Webb of photojournalists, you know, probably 15, 20 years ago. He has just released an article where he asked the question, did we just blow up a dam for no reason? And it's a video, and you and I don't have to have time to talk about all this right now, but Bill, this topic that you and Bill have been talking about is starting to get traction with people that are paying attention.

This is not an issue that's going away. These dams are causing an ecological disaster, the magnitude of which we've never seen before and people are beginning to notice. Now this John Stossel video that you sent me, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Is this the Klamath or something different, a different system? No, no, this is the Klamath. Oh. This is the Klamath.

All right. Don't know how I missed that, but I'll check it out. And I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it just came out that people are beginning to get through the hype and realize, people are beginning to get through the hype and realize, oh my God, what did we just do? And what is the re- I mean, the amount of water is life. And these aquatic creatures live in water. And when you remove that much water, you've literally removed millions and millions of creatures that need that aquatic environment.

And there's a consequence to that. Well, it's even Bill talking about yesterday, the crawdads, all the crawdads killed, you know? Now what? Yeah, exactly. And those crawdads were downstream food sources for all kinds of other creatures that don't have, so creatures don't have access to the water,

they don't have the water to live in. And all the way down through all the microorganisms that inhabited that aquatic environment that is no longer there. You know, again, it's, this is an environmental disaster on a scale of which we've never seen before, and it's going to start, you know, the cracks in the media hype are starting to show up. I appreciate the call. Thank you for that, brother Brad. All right, you will. All right, let me grab. Francine, your call dumped out and you weren't able to get to your point. You were talking about food quality here a little bit. I'll give you one more bite before we take off. By the way, Diner 62 quiz, we're going to do that tomorrow morning because

actually it's a Wednesday question anyway. Okay, so we're going to move the contest to tomorrow, folks. Okay, so we got about a minute. Can you make a good point? I'll do my best. Okay, so what this farmer, this lady farmer, I spoke to explained to me, she says, there is a disease that dairy cows will get, it's called J-O-H-N-E, apostrophe S, I don't know if it's Johns or Jones, how it's pronounced,

but in humans is the equivalent of Crohn's disease. But anyways, this disease is non-perceptible. It's undetectable for the first three years or so of the cow's life. So that after just as they're approaching their three years, the dairy cow is sold to slaughter. And that's how they get around not having to reveal this. And she said, mostly pasteurization will destroy it, although not always.

But this is an example of what the meat industry is giving us, unless you go to a better source and get people that are having different practices as farmers. Yeah, I try as often as possible, but there's also the difference in cost too because significantly the better quality certainly is fine, but it's really expensive. You know that. You can learn how to do it. I'm so sorry about my voice. My monthly income is less than Shemeah Fagan's weekly income. Okay? And I'm happy to eat really well. All right. Point well taken. I'm right. I got a role that, hey, you know, you might need a gargle for that, okay? Thank you, Beth. All right. 857. Hey, I appreciate your listenership.

We got Mark Lee Van Kamp and Robbins coming up. 99.3, the jukebox also on the way here. I just am glad you were here today. And I didn't get to an email of the day segment, but I got a bunch. We're going to get back into that with Wheels Up Wednesday tomorrow, a lot of things going. My email, bill, at BillMeyersShow.com. Go ahead and send me anything on today's news and elsewhere, and we'll kick it around again tomorrow.