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The Bill Myer 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 Clouser Drilling.com. Hey, you want to talk a bit about the the Comey investigation? Yeah, I'm more about the secret service. You know, they get, you know, four or five thousand threats against a president, you know, every month. And it's always coming and they always investigate that, right? They always investigate them.

Now normally they don't announce they're investigating somebody. They just do it quietly and then, you know, it can lead to charges or not. So just because they're investigating anybody doesn't mean there are going to be any charges. My thing though is that I'm looking at this and I remember the BS, Elon's doing the Nazi salute, oh the OK, you do the OK sign, it's the white supremacy thing, and hate speech, I'm done with this kind of stuff. And I'm looking at 86-47. In my entire life I've never heard 86 in

someone as you know a code what I always knew it to mean was being kicked out of a bar yeah and never allowed to come back yeah you're you're kicked out of defenestrated from some organization or whatever it is now other people are now saying no that means you drive eight miles out of town and you bury him six feet under and well that might be but that's... I found out gangs, it's slang for gangs, for rubbing somebody out without saying it. Yeah, well, that's okay, but like I said, I don't want the limitation on speech being determined by some morons in the cartels, okay? Right, right. But what I'm getting at is, I don't think Comey will be charged

because the seashells and what it said are nuanced. Yeah, okay, fair enough. Thanks, Dave. Let me go to Jean. Jean, you had a question about the, once again, the birthright citizenship thing. I think it's interesting. Good morning.

Okay, did the woman that came in and have a baby, was she here legally? And is there a way to find out if the woman is pregnant, she's not allowed a visa, so she can't come into the country? Yeah, well most of the birthright citizenship issues here that we're talking about are people who are coming in illegally and even on a visa should still be not under the jurisdiction for citizenship purposes. But they're essentially using the loophole or the vagaries of the law to fulfill the racket or keep pushing the racket, I guess, Gene. But I don't know if they could really... All right, you're coming in here. Now, I guess if someone is obviously pregnant, you could say, no, we're not going to give you a visa here for

the safety of your unborn child, right? A lot of times if you're getting ready to give birth, they don't want you flying. You may be aware of that. They've done that. But as far as once they're here, I don't know. You're going to make me want to look into that, Gene. Appreciate the call. 77-Hoke KMED. Let me go to another one before news. Hi, good morning.

Who's this? Hey, Bill. 127. Hey, Steve. Go ahead. Well, this whole thing about coming is an interesting deal. There's a book you need to read, and it's not something you'd read. It's written by a lawyer. It's called The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Oh, that's Charlie's book, isn't it?

Yes, it is. It's very interesting because it goes back into the history of free speech and Kind of lays out what the what what that is all about Well, I'm so focused on it why I am so irritated at stupid stuff being raised up in white supremacy Left-wing crazy, you know I'm tired of it though Steve is that if we can't hash things out honestly and communicate Robustly we got nothing long term I am I understand and I agree

however This might be kind of a reverse Logic thing because it stirs up the left How dare you? Use our our tactics on our own people. But free speech, the cure for bad speech is more speech, not less speech. On that, we and Hurley and Turley rather would agree wholeheartedly, okay? Yes, and that's the point now as far as Comey goes the guy's a sleazebag And he knew exactly what he was doing and he did this I think and and he what he thought was a sub subtle enough strategy to

You know just that he would have a detection or being called on the carpet though yes yes so it was something stupid he did and you know it maybe it's a little bit over the top to go after him but he deserves it because of all the stuff he did now I don't know if that makes it right but you know I'm not anywhere near a left-wing person and I see the kind of subtle beauty in doing this. Oh yeah, I do too. Yeah, I do too.

Yeah. Appreciate the call. Thank you, Wild Salmon Steve. I'll grab another one. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Morning Bill, Steve in Cine Valley. Hi Steve, what are you thinking?

Two quick points. One of them is, it's funny that Greg Roberts thinks that chemtrails are just the wildest thing, but he's a bigfoot hunter. Other people have said that too. Well, you know, we all have our, I think we all have our unique features in thought process. It's our own personal paradigms. It leads to blind spots in logic. And it's hard to lift up the corner of that paradigm and see what's under it. The other one is, what do Ronald Reagan, Steve Scalise, Rand Paul, Justice Kavanaugh, and

Donald Trump have in common? I don't know, but I'd love to hear. They were all attacked by left-wing loonies egged on by politicians. All right. Well. attacked by left-wing loonies egged on by politicians. Alright. Well? So, so Comey is putting out what the left call a dog whistle to all the left-wing loonies out there that, hey, let's, and if you haven't heard 86 before, you haven't watched enough

1930s gangster movies. I guess I haven't watched 1930s gangster movies, but I've been going on 63 years and I've never heard this. I never heard about this until just this week. I'm only 61 and I heard it all in high school. Oh, I had a father who loved those movies. Okay, all right. You dirty rat, you killed my brother, right?

Yeah, 86 him. Yeah, I mean they could have used it in The Godfather, you know, take the cannoli and leave the gun or... Yeah, 86 the gun, take the cannoli, right? All right. No, no, no, no, you would have 86 the rat. Yeah, oh, that's right. Anyhow, have a great weekend. And by the way, I will have Monday off. I'm taking just Monday off, but I'll catch you on Tuesday. All right? Thank you. All right. Everybody needs a day off.

All right. Yeah. It's a court appearance, actually. It's 11 minutes after eight. Let me grab another one here. Good morning. Hi. Hi, is this me?

It is you. Hi, Bill, it's Carol Ann out in the Applegate. Carol Ann, welcome. I've been wanting to ask you to do something for days, but I'm almost still afraid to ask you to do it. What's that? But what spurred me, this isn't what I'm gonna say. What spurred me to call this morning

was you talking about anchor babies, and it reminded me of about when I was pregnant with my first daughter 47 years ago I worked I lived in San Diego and I worked in Imperial Beach at a hospital's border and on the weekends I worked at night on the weekends in the emergency room admitting people. And women would come over and have anchor babies. They would come over. They hadn't been seen by a doctor. They hadn't had any prenatal care.

They were getting ready to go into labor and they would hit that emergency room, especially when the barometer dipped and it does bring on labor. And it was, the weekends were super busy with women coming in to have babies so that their babies would be US citizens. It's not anything new. No. It's nothing new, but it is something which needs to be remedied, wouldn't you agree?

Oh, oh, yes. We're stating the obvious. You know, and I also, I'm a permanent resident alien in this country. I've been here since 1952. I came with my father on a quota and the laws really haven't changed. You always, we had to submit to come here prior to coming, of course, and be vetted. And my dad had to have a sponsor, someone that was willing to say, you won't be on the dole or anything. Yeah. Now, Carol Ann, I find it fascinating that you had to jump through all those hoops and you had to be irritated by seeing people just walk in, have a baby, and then instant grant. You had to be irritated by that. Well, you know, back then when I was in my 20s, my head wasn't politically savvy. So none of that, none of what I see today did I see in it. I just knew that we were darn busy and the nurses,

the nurses didn't like it. The nurses in delivery, they didn't like it. But, and they would talk about it. And at that time I felt like it was, oh, poor people. But I was very liberal until I was a hippie in the hate Ashbury until I came to Jesus. You were in the hate? Really?

Oh yeah. Oh man! I could write a book, but I figured nobody would read it. I was in the hate when it crumbled into violence and I was like a gangsters mall i would go with the guys and they would repel often for drugs and take drag dot i've got a history now while you know the councils wrote a song about you right

i was the flower girl and i was i was a party it's uh... and the most dangerous places but got to care of me because even while I was His enemy, Christ died for me. So that made the difference. Okay, so the other thing is, real quick, yes, you're not going to like, and I don't know how to beg you to do this, but I know you have an open mind. There's a video out there called Frankenskies. Please find

it and watch it. I wasn't looking to watch it. I went to the free library, by the library one day, and it was in there, and I took it out, and I thought, what's this? I watched it and it talks about what's going on in the skies, but it brings it all the way from when they were first like using aerosol way before Agent Orange. All right, Carol Ann, I will do so. I will do so, but you know, I just have to stop you right now though because you are opening up the phone call line for this now. I'm going to be peppered. I'm sorry, but if you watch that, if you and Linda watch that, it's a full length movie.

It's so well done. And it'll make you laugh because there's a couple of serious people on there seriously trying to convince some late night guy that replaced Jay Leno, try to convince him that this is a good idea, even though we have no idea of the outcome. Fair enough. Carol Ann, thank you for the call. All right.

I'm supposed to be talking with Victoria Marshall. I might just ask her to delay here just a little. I'm gonna call her during the break here here and we'll take more open phones. If you're on hold, I'll get right to you here. This is the Bill Meyer Show. We'll kind of go where things go. Diner 62 quiz coming up a little bit later this hour too on KMED and KMED HD1 Eagle Point Medford KBXG Grants Pass.

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Chance of some light showers on Saturday with some breezy winds and then drying out with warming temperatures back into some upper 70s next week. Delighted to have you here and we're just going back to the phones here on Find Your Phone Friday and I've just kind of lost control of the show. That's all right. Sometimes this happens. All right. I'm just having fun with you. You know that. By the way, programming note that I will be off Monday, but back on Tuesday, just one day off and we'll still be in touch, okay? Let me go to Jerry. Hello, Jerry.

You wanted to talk about French citizenship or something? Go ahead. Yeah, it seems to me, how's this for a radical idea? If you're French, your baby is born a French citizen. If you're a Russian citizen, your baby is born a Russian citizen. If you're a Tanzanian citizen, your baby is born a Tanzanian citizen. It doesn't matter where in the world the baby is born. In other words, the citizenship follows the citizenship of the parents. I know that that is just, that is a really radical idea. Gosh, you know, nobody could ever really

really radical idea. Gosh, you know, nobody could ever really fly with that. I'm having fun with you. You know that, right? Thank you. Let me go to Michael. Hello, Michael. Good to have you here. Hey, good morning, Bill. Morning. So you've heard of the abortion drug, RU486? Now, is that the Mifapnone or whatever it is that they were talking about is that the another number for it? I'm not sure about the name but I just thought that was really peculiar a few years back when it first came out I just thought oh that's not too obvious. Oh okay now I get it all right it kind of went over my head RU486 right as an 86, right? As in 86ing, right? That's what it seems like to me, but I'm just one of them. You know, my mind goes there.

Yeah, that's all right. Hey, thanks for twisting it that way. Now you help me out. Let me go to Ann. Hello Ann, how are you? He just stole my thunder. He did? Oh, I'm so sorry about that. Oh, I'm so sorry about that. That's all right. Michael, darn you. But yeah, that's if you pay attention. I picked that up several years ago and I went, oh, the bad guys are having fun with words. Okay, RU486.

Now, that was the morning after pill, wasn't it, if I recall? Yes. And it's been around for a while, but 86 has been around for years. I've heard it for years and years and years. Yeah, but I've never heard, until recently, I have not heard the term about 86ing as in killing something. That's how it's been carried. All right. I always heard it as they're going to bump somebody off. Yeah, but even then, even then I'm still in this situation where the solution to nasty speech is more speech. And that's just the way I'm an absolutist on such matters.

I just am. And maybe it's- I agree. All right, appreciate the call. Let me go to Lynn. Hello Lynn, how are you? Welcome. Hey Bill, I never thought of that on RU-486.

And by the way, it was just announced that RSK Jr. has ordered an investigation into that drug because it's incredibly dangerous. And there's new research showing 11% of the women who take it end up in the emergency room. By the way, I wanted to share a little bit of information that I just read this morning. I imagine you probably did too. But this has to do with HHS now not recommending COVID shots. It's fantastic. You know, so they're forging ahead and I just want to point out all the people are like, oh, Bobby Kennedy, he's not pro-life. He's a horrible person. But anyway, so just want to point that out. But I have to talk about disagreeing with you because I hardly ever do. And I disagree with you on the Comey.

You do. You cannot encourage people to assassinate a president. And there's been incredible lot of toleration of that. There were whole movies made suggesting Trump be assassinated during his first term. And you can't do that. And you can't joke about bombs at the airport. And this is more serious and there's lunatics out there and I don't know that maybe the deep state is still trying to assassinate them, but he's had multiple assassination attempts and this should not be tolerated. In fact, I think one of the limits to free speech is suggesting violence.

So I think it's well within the limitations of the laws on free speech. So I'm not going to agree with you on that. OK, well, we will agree to disagree on this. We agree on many other things, though. And I've always associated with 86 with killing, never anything else. So the softer versions of 86, I think, came after that, you know, let's kill this or that. Well, apparently I must have grown up in naive places and times. Never heard 86 referred to. Then how you missed it. Yep. I don't know how I missed it either. But in other words, here it is. I missed it news team. My I missed it news team never knew about it.

Nobody's perfect. All right. Thanks, Lynn. Let it go. Another line. Hi, good morning. Nobody's perfect. All right. Thanks, Lynn. Let it go. Another line. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Hello? Hey, it's Michael Ferguson. How are you? Michael, welcome. What's on your mind today? Well, you know, since you've lost control of the show anyway, I wanted to talk about chemtrails. Okay. They are real.

The chemical they put out is a chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide. And a lot of people don't know about it, but if you inhale a lot of dihydrogen monoxide, it could kill you. Especially if your head is immersed in dihydrogen oxide, right? Well, yeah. If your head is immersed in dihydrogen monoxide, it could kill you. At extremely cold temperatures, it's been known to harm the skin. So, you know, I love Greg Roberts to death, but it is chemtrails. It is dihydrogen monoxide, and we've got to do some research on it. You get right on that, okay? I'll do it. All right. Thanks, Michael. Hopefully, okay. I'll do it. Alright, thanks Michael. Hopefully I'll get a government grant. Oh yeah, yeah, someone needs to check out the

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Dale writes me this morning, Bill, definition of citizen. My definition is a person who has allegiance to and the protection of the country in which he lives. I see nothing too difficult to understand in that definition and I can't understand people who have trouble with the sanity and sense of it. Fair enough. Granny writes on Comey, Bill, we don't have to buy into the crazy or perpetuate it. We only need to acknowledge that it is theater to keep the sheep on both sides focused on the distraction. Betty writes me this morning from Grants Pass says, Bill, so you know some rednecks are going to be out there at those two restaurants. Remember the restaurants, the Southern restaurant

in Medford and the Cantina in Grants Pass. You know, the PETA truck is going to be out there with the squealing pigs coming out of there. The hell on wheels, I think is what they're calling it at noon and five today. And then Betty says, you know some rednecks are going to be out there and someone will get a whooping before the police get there. I don't know. I don't know. And writes me, Bill, after having had horses and barns and stuff, those buzzy things, the hornets and the yellow jackets have given me fit for years.

Not long ago, a friend told me about an absolutely foolproof way to massacre them. Use WD-40. The little critters drop like a stone. They're dead. Be careful not to step on them barefooted. They will still sting." Anne was weighing in on what I was talking about, the hornets having gotten into the satellite dish the other day. There we go. Oh, Jeff writes me, Bill, on Musketel, I was talking about Elon Musk. I mix on him, I see good and I see not so good coming out of some of those policies and his connection with power.

And he says, Bill, freedom is slavery, slavery is freedom. Is that kind of what you're thinking of? Elaine writes me also about the Elon Musk conversation yesterday. The government pays NASA billions every year. Do you think that they are spiritual? No, I do not, Elaine. But if the government gave tax breaks to people who listen to conservative radio, would you get out of the business?

I don't know. But yeah, I see your point about the tax breaks were offered, okay? The point being though is that I can have an opinion on someone who I think looks at humanity as mostly just a meat sack to be programmed. And that to me is someone who does not have room for the sacred and the spiritual in his life and I don't feel real comfortable about that. That's my opinion. You don't have to like my opinion.

Good point, well taken. I had John write me about the interview with Jack Cashel yesterday about the reading books for young men and how the reading list was just insane that would be handed out in government schools. It's all about LGBTQ and female protagonists and everything. And John says, an interesting interview with Jack. I'm a bit older than you, and I remember a literature class in high school in the late 1960s. I enjoy reading every day in spite of reading classes in school.

My experience of required reading did not include anything with an obvious sexual angle to it, as the books mentioned on today's interview, but instead were books I found to be very uninteresting. Books like The Old Man and the Sea, and To Kill a Mockingbird just about made mentioned on today's interview, but instead were books I found to be very uninteresting. Books like The Old Man and the Sea and To Kill a Mockingbird just about made me a non-reader as an adult. Add the required summaries and I would bet that many of my classmates, even back then,

never developed a love of reading. I think first of all, reading should be taught to be an enjoyable activity. Of course, pushing an agenda, as in the books mentioned today, is going to be an enjoyable activity. Of course, pushing an agenda as in the books mentioned today is going to be a big turn off for young men. Thank goodness I learned to love reading. It has made me a much better educated person. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Glad to hear that. Another person writes in about female leadership, I guess, of the education system. Isaiah 3.12. Interesting that he said three out of 12 books.

As for my people, children are the oppressors and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths. Then we have Randy writing about the Borg. Bill, the Borg is a metaphor for communism, a collective. Everywhere I look I see collectives popping up, art collectives, folk collectives, religious collectives and such. For a country founded on freedom, individual rights, why are we digressing into collectivism where the individual doesn't matter?

I think it all begins in public school, which has become exactly like the board, where resistance is futile. All our children are being taught is to conform and merge into the collective. Progress never comes from the collective. Individuals, standouts, rebels, and mavericks are the ones who think outside the box. Newton, Da Vinci, Tesla, or anything but conformists. Innovation emerges from non-conformists, free thinkers, and those unwilling to follow the herd. Public school demands conformity,

which in turn destroys the minds of those who could design a better future. American exceptionalism is based on supporting the individual, not the collective. Randy and Ashlyn. Randy, I guess there does have to be some balance in that quotient, but I will agree with your evaluation. And I can't help but notice all the people that are running for school board, the ones that are being pushed, like the ones from the Medford Education Association or the ones pushed by Stand By Children. It's about promoting that status quo, in my view, under the guise of, oh, we're going to take care of the kids. Yeah. More left-wing and more left-wing, good and hard. Let's keep that in mind. Vote accordingly. All right. Let me see. Jerry writes me, Bill, a couple of things to tell Donald Trump is he's following in Biden's

footsteps in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Biden may have provoked the conflict by aiding Ukraine, but how can the conflict end when Trump continues to aid Ukraine with weapons? Weapons don't lead to peace, just more casualties and deaths. So Trump's talk about peace is just that talk. Second, I continually hear how we've been ripped off on trade over many decades. No disagreements, but here's a solution to prevent that. Go back to the gold standard, a medium of exchange that can be verified on a scale by weight and tested for authenticity. That'll get rid of the currency manipulation. Honestly, I haven't followed Trump news on a daily basis,

but I do hope he and his administration will put America on a better path. I realize the financial mess we face is immense and I hope real results will be achieved in the next 18 months. After that, with midterms and the beginning of the presidential elections, I have my doubts that anything positive will be achieved. Patiently waiting, Jerry. Jerry, thank you for writing. In the email bill at BillMyersShow.com, I wanted to... Oh, by the way, there's one more, one more quick one. The guy I'm going to talk to in a few days here who walked around the world, Bill, Reverend, the Reverend David says, Bill, the guy who walked around the world, how did he get across the oceans?

Only one man who could do that. Maybe two if you count St. Peter's short walk, Dave. Dave, you make me... yeah, I get your point. I get your point. Should have remembered that, okay? All right, we'll grab a few more calls. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Welcome. Hello? Hi. Yeah, Bill, it's Lucretia. Lucretia, I don't have a lot of time, so it's gotta be pithy, okay? I will be fast. That Frankins...

Oh, God, what is Frankins Guys movie? Yeah. Greg Robert cuts the watch step because it is all military operations they talk about, so it's not debatable. It's just... Oh, I think you could be debatable with military people. Just being in military doesn't make you an absolute truth teller. But yeah, it's worth watching. All right. Well, let him know, okay? I'm not going to tell Greg Roberts what to do. I don't think anybody can tell Greg Roberts what to do, but we'll see. Thank you, let me grab another one here.

Good morning, hi. This is Miner Dave. Dave, you already called. I know, but this is about the mining situation. The county is not under any obligation to lease anything to anybody. And the highest use is to put that property back into where it's paying property tax to the county.

Well, we'll see what happens with that lawsuit against Josephine County. We'll have to see then. It'll be up to the courts to make that decision one way or the other. Well, I'm gonna dismiss it. Yeah, $20 million. Yeah, $20 million is a pretty big lawsuit. Good morning. Yeah, it's 20 million dollars. Yeah, 20 million dollars is a pretty big lawsuit.

Good morning. Hi, who's this? Hello? Hello, going once? Hi, go ahead. Good morning. Yes, good morning. Tracy in Mount Vernon, Washington. Oh, hey. Hey, Tracy. Okay, I didn't get the... Tracy, it's okay. Just move along. Click. Tracy, just move along. it's okay, we got you here, okay? Okay, great. Hey, first off, I enjoy very much that dihydrogen monoxide, the frozen kind in my lemonade in the summertime. I think that's definitely a nice thing that Kim Crales bring. You got it. What I wanted to call about was PETA.

I used to live in Norfolk, Virginia and PETA's got this marvelous skyscraper there, office space that they own. I think they own the building that, right. But the reason why they're targeting those two small restaurateurs is they don't dare go after the chain restaurants. They don't.

They will be hammered by the lawyers so they find an independent restaurant owner to take on and that's what we're seeing here. Ed, that's interesting that's what I thought too. Buffy Pollock reached out to me from the Road Valley Times and was wondering you know just asking you you know gee why going after these two restaurants which by the way are over easy Southern on North Bartlett in Medford and Frida's Brunch in Cantina, 786 Southeast 7th. And I think the reason they're doing this is just like you mentioned, these are small

restaurants and probably easily embarrassed and I'm hoping that they stand strong against this kind of, I don't like bullies Tracy, I really don't, of any sword. I'm waiting for the local Yocles, as you mentioned, to give the Pita folks that come up. All right, appreciate the call. This is Bill. Hi, good morning. Hey Bill, since I probably got a few thousand people listening to my voice right now, I want to remind people that our special elections have literally just been decided by a few thousand votes. So get those ballots in and as I wear your shirt here today, the voice of resistance, thank you for what you do and we just need to get the word out. Get your ballots in and let's make Mepper great again.

Alright, thank you Logan Vaughn. You take care. Just want to make sure you are on the ballot too, okay? So there we go. Hello, KMD. Hi, who's this? Yes, thanks. This is Greg on State of Cove. Yes, Greg. Okay, I'm just kind of wondering about the immigrant lake. I'm wondering if possibly an alien spaceship has crashed in there and started causing all this allergy, or is it another solution

problem? Yeah I'm thinking it's more likely that we just had an overly ambitious Oregon Health Authority sticking its nose where it really shouldn't have. I don't think there was much evidence in the first place about that about that toxin. Okay. Great, there are no foreign agents in the lake today then. Thank you much. All right, thank you. Yeah, not today. Now it doesn't mean that we couldn't have algae from the next time.

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one of group of American bombers, becomes one of the first B-17 crews to complete 25 missions over Europe and get back to the United States. It was a bombing raid against Lorient, a German submarine base. I don't know if I pronounced that correctly, but before getting back home, film footage was shot of the Bell's crew getting combat medals, part of a longer documentary on that

day. All right? Now, the Memphis Bell documentary wouldn't be released for another 11 months. More footage was required to demonstrate the risk those pilots ran. Okay. But the question is, and this is the question this morning here.

What was the odd, or what were the odds rather, Lauren, of being lost on a single bombing run when you would take off and go into that bombing world? Okay. Was it A, 3%? Was it B, 6%? Was it C, 9%? Was it D, 12%? Or E, 15%? What were the odds of you going down in flames on a bombing run, an individual bombing run? What do you say? Okay, that's an interesting question. I'm going to go with a last one, 15%. 15%. I'm sorry. You're still hungry. I was trying for, I was pulling for you. Let me go to Deb. Hi Deb. Hi. The odds of you going down in flames and dying in your first single bombing run, what was

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We're left with 3%, 6%, or 12%. Your odds of a bomber being lost on your first ship or your first... If we're dancing around it, I'm going to say 12%. You're going to say 12%, dancing around it? No. Sorry. All right. So we go to Mike. Mike, you're a 50-50 guy here. 3% or 6%? What say you? Oh, let's go with 6%. 6%! Yeah! During the Memphis Bells Tour, the 8th Air Force averaged one bomber lost for every 18 sorties. Although the Memphis Bell was damaged on several missions, the crew beat the odds, completed their 25th May 17th of 1943. So congrats! Hang on, you'll be fed today at Eating Well at Diner 62. We'll have

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Good morning. Well, thank you. Good morning, Bill. Now, you are holding a big meeting. This is a big meeting on the homelessness situation, the crisis here in Southern Oregon. And Grants Pass, of course, has been on the docket and on the target for quite some time because of all of the legal issues here. So what is happening Monday and just give me your spiel and then we'll talk about how we got here perhaps, okay? Oh, all right. Well, Monday evening at 6 p.m. the city of Grants Pass will have a listening and learning session regarding House Bill 3-115. It will be in City Council Chambers, which is 101 Northwest A Street.

I think pretty much everybody who wants to go to that knows where that is. And we want people to hear the latest updates about our, about, with regards to House Bill 3-115, with regards to House Bill 3-115, which was enacted in 2021. Is this the bill which essentially codified the Boise decision into state law? Or would it have to follow essentially what the Boise court decision was saying back then? Is that really what this is about? Well, yes, I suppose that you could say it that way. But while two court cases were making

their way up to the Supreme Court, Boise v Legislature passed House Bill 3115, which says that the measures municipalities take to regulate homelessness in their city must be objectively reasonable. And the issue that municipalities are having is interpreting objectively reasonable. So that is at the center of the new lawsuit from the Oregon Law Center and Disability Rights Oregon that the city of Grants Pass is involved in right now. And right now, because of this injunction, you really can't enforce a lot of the laws or rules right now, or there's a specific lightness to the way that enforces. I'm sorry, I know there's some things you...

Oh, yes. There's a preliminary injunction, which was put in place March 28 2025 that bars grants passed from enforcing any of its anti camping ordinances until the city designated a certain amount of sites and made them ADA accessible and the city is responding to that injunction and And I think fairly soon, within the next week or two, we will go back to court with the measures that we have taken. You know, it's interesting here, Council President Victoria Marshall with me, by the way, by the City of Grants Pass. it surprises me that we have this situation

where objectively reasonable. I can almost see how, you know, in some ways, the way the legislature wrote this, it's almost their contradictions in terms, because objectively means dealing with fact, and reasonable is something which is always sort of open to interpretation, reasonable. What's reasonable?

Reasonable to one person in Grants Pass is that homeless get to do anything they want and reasonable to someone else is that, no, they just need to leave town. Isn't that kind of where we find ourselves right now in our homelessness policies everywhere? I think that is a little bit where we find ourselves. And because of that, I know that there have been legislators

who have wanted to look at 3-1-1-5 to get the legislature to define more fully what objectively reasonable means. And but this year, those, I think there were two bills, but they will not be heard in this legislative session. It may come up in the short session. So this is where our city stands right now. And we have taken measures to make sure that we have addressed what the judge has asked us to address. And then we'll go from there after her ruling comes back from that. And what do you think the timing will be on that? Well, I believe it will be, I'm just guessing, I can't say when court cases will happen,

but the, I think within one or two weeks our court case will be heard or our response to her ruling will be heard and then I don't know how long it will be heard or our response to her ruling will be heard. And then I don't know how long it will be before the judge comes back with her next ruling, but I don't think it will be months. I think it will be weeks. This Monday night meeting, which is going to be happening in the council chambers on Northwest A Street here, six o'clock when this could be happening this coming Monday here. What are you hoping to

accomplish with you know a listening session? Are you just are you trying to get the citizens to understand the law better so that maybe we understand what is really possible rather than what maybe people may want? I don't know I'm just sort of spitballing here. I think it's twofold, Bill. I think that we want to give people an opportunity to submit questions and to answer them to the best of our ability, because there are many people who are very concerned with what they have seen happening and with possible responses to what is happening. People have a lot of questions and they need to have those answers.

But as a basis, I think our whole community needs to understand the 30,000 foot view of why we are where we are. Many people, and rightfully so, I think, believe we won a Supreme Court decision and therefore we should be able to enforce our own ordinances. Yeah, and that's what I thought too. It's like everyone's kind of tiptoeing around this and what was the whole point of this Supreme Court win and then it seemed like it wasn't a win. Right, well what the Supreme Court said was that it is not an eighth amendment issue. It's not, they said it wasn't cruel and unusual punishment to have ordinances that regulate resting sites in your city.

And that it would be up to local, they pushed it back to municipalities and states. But while that was happening, our state in 2021 passed 3.115, which made it so that we need to make, every municipality in Oregon anyway needs to make sure that we meet this objectively reasonable standard. But as you just mentioned, that's a pretty, it's a hard standard because it can mean so

many different things to so many different people. So to be clear, really what we're talking about today is battling with our state law, not really the Supreme Court decisions or any other higher authority, right? Am I right in assuming that? That is absolutely true. Okay. As we have understood it,

this will only go, this particular case could not go any higher than the Oregon Supreme Court. So that is, well, we hope that it won't go beyond this, but because we have met, you know, what the judge has asked us to do, but this is not a federal issue. It's a state issue because of House Bill 3-1-1-5 passed in 2021. Thank you so much. Council President Victoria Marshall grants pass and the meeting, of course, six o'clock Monday night, this listening session, get your questions answered.

This will be at 101 Northwest A Street, 6 p.m. Monday. I have a feeling you're going to be well attended. Victoria, thank you so much for being on the show. Okay, take care. Thank you so much. All right, have you back. Yeah, this is, yeah, that is one of the challenges. There's what the federal government said, what the federal court said, and then there's what our state government. It's kind of like at war with your own government, I suppose. Anyway, I got a role here. Have yourself an incredible weekend. I am taking one day off, one day off Monday,

and Chris Tugal will be filling in for me, but I'll be right back in the saddle with you this coming Tuesday, okay? Great weekend for you too. It's nine o'clock, rather, at KMED and KMED HD1 Eagle Point Medford, KBXG Grants Pass. We're gonna check town hall news and Mark Lee Van Kavan Robbins coming up shortly. Breaking news this hour from

townhall.com I'm John Scott.