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Episode Date: May 18, 2026

Morning news and commentary starts out, great talk with SCOTT DAVIS, author of THE LAST OF THE OLD BREED. The oral history of the last WWII marines, open phones follow

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I took the ballots in this morning at 4 o'clock. 4 o'clock. I think that's the earliest I've ever you got the bin. I just thought okay, I'm just going to go down to the drop box and get it done right now. So I'm driving through downtown Medford at 4 a.m. It is amazing how quiet, calm, and peaceful things are.

4 a.m. 3.45, 4 a.m. on a Monday morning here in Southern Oregon. You go through it. And I'm thinking to myself of all the challenges that we face in this world. We do live in a beautiful part of the of the world. And, you know, we'll talk about the issues that we're having in some of the crime and various others and homelessness issues and drug addiction and such. And yet, in many ways, we're still better off than many other places in the United States of America. And so, you know, I kind of count my blessings as I go through and I'm looking at everything, although I will be

quite happy to see Main Street turn around. All of those, uh, bollards that they have with that old, that old system with, you know, the gangrene style thing. That is so confusing. A bicycle lane goes here. It turns there. You know, it's one of those things where you wonder, like, what traffic planner came up with that idea in the first place? And are they still working for the city of Medford? It's like, you know, anything.

Let's confuse you. Let's put a bollard out in the middle of the, you know, well, okay, we'll have parking here. and then, well, here's the bollards. Don't hit them, all right? Don't hit. You know, it's just so confusing. And from what I understand, though, Wednesday, the city of Medford, city council is going to get together, and they're going to do a final vote on if they're going to do that option, which I think it's probably the best compromise in which, yep, they'll leave a bike lane there, but it will not be that buffered bike lane and they'll put some more parking on the side. We'll talk a little bit more about that, but it has to be better and less confusing than what is there right now. just an abomination.

And hopefully people will enjoy coming to downtown Medford and the businesses will be helped with a bit more parking. Nothing wrong with that. Let's see. I'm not a sports guy, you know me, but there was a very big sports game. Well, not a game, really. It was an MMA comeback fight that happened on Saturday.

And this was Ronda Rousey taking on Gina Carrano. This is supposed to be a big long fight. people were going there and signing up for Netflix so they could see the fight. It wasn't technically a pay-per-view, but you had to have a Netflix membership to watch it. And so I guess the big winner was Rhonda Rousey. I don't really know her, but I'm not into the MMA stuff, but if you are, you know who she is. She won. The big loser, well, anybody who paid to sign up to Netflix because it was 17 seconds.

It was a 17-second fight. That was it. Boom, she's down. And then Gina ends up being in there and a leg lock or whatever it is. I don't know what they do. It's just, oh, okay, yep, she won. Boom.

That's it. You know, the one thing I will say about the MMA fighting and boxing, at least you pretty much figure who's winning and who's losing, right? That's the way that goes. 60 minutes after six. Oh, let me tell you. about who we have coming up this morning. This morning I'm going to be talking to. Let me get my notes in front of you. I got it early and the coffee's a little bit late getting into me and such,

but we're going to have some pretty good conversation. I'm looking forward to talking with Scott Davis, and he wrote a book and I was leafing through it over the weekend, going through the file, and it's called The Last of the Old Breed. We're going to talk with him in about 14 minutes. It's an oral history of the final Marines of World War II. There's fewer than 1% of the World War II Marines left. And it's an oral history. It's not done like a standard history book. It's essentially you have these old guy Marines, the old style Marines.

They were talking about how they got into the Corps, why they got into the Corps. You know the part that surprised me when I was going through these stories? I'm going to have to talk with Scott about it. Is that I would have to say about one out of three people who enlisted in the Marines right around World War II about that time. They did it because there was a movie that was out at that time. And it was really making and saying good things. And, you know, it's a nice, sharp uniform. I forget which actor was in it.

But it was in the early 1940s that this movie came out. and about one out of three guys they were saying they saw that movie. And it made them want to become Marines and they got into it. And other people were saying, hey, I just wanted to get out of school. Hey, I wanted to go get the Japs. I mean, just really interesting personal stories. There was one family which are like six, seven kids and six of them ended up going into the service. And they all ended up coming back.

They were kind of surprised about that because they were all going into combat. And they made it. Like I said, great oral history. And for Memorial Day weekend, it's a great time to pick up and read such literature, read such books. I think it's going to be interesting. I'm hoping to hear some more about it. I got through about two or three chapters. I just ended up getting it on Friday. So I think it's really interesting to read. And also how the Great Depression affected these people. some were affected really, really deeply. And they were talking about always being poor. We were always hungry. And once again, you think about how different it is today. You know, here it is, you know, you have poor people who are immensely fat. It's kind of strange how that works these days.

Well, it certainly wasn't that way during the Great Depression. And they would talk about how some were deeply poor, very, and then others, they said, you know, of the Great Depression didn't really seem to affect us. I was always selling my newspapers and I would do work. We had a garden, all the rest of it. Really interesting to hear the different responses to what was going on and what made them become Marines and what it was like is they were, you know, in the battle trenches, too, of World War II. It's really something. We'll talk with Scott about that here in the next few minutes. I'm also going to talk with Craig DeLuse. It's a commentary in a project 21. He's a Project 21 fellow, a contributor. It's a really interesting think tank there. And it's this

battle to keep America owning homes. There's been a real push right now that a lot of private equity, a lot of the bigger companies. I mean, you've heard a little bit about this, just coming in and buying up neighborhoods and making it next to impossible for people of normal means to be able to buy house. And that's kind of all of this, you'll own nothing and be happy. kind of mentality that you get. And the gang grains have been doing a lot of pushing this, not necessarily of the private equity takeover. But the part you got to remember is that you'll own nothing but be happy means that

somebody else will own it and you'll be paying them for your entire life. Now, I understand. Maybe you don't want to be a homeowner. I get that. I get that. But one of the challenges that we have is that a lot of people have been getting locked out of the asset aspect of owning a home, too. So we'll talk a little bit about that with Craig.

Ron Cole is going to join because a week from today, we have the Vietnam Memorial Wall dedication. It's going to be going on at Rogue X. I'll be the MC for that, by the way. It's going to be next Monday, Memorial Day afternoon. 1.30, it starts and maybe just all gather together about 1245. We'll kind of get together with Ron this morning and talk about what's all going on there. Plus, of course, we're past meets present with Dr. Dennis Powers. So there is a lot going on today and happy to take your call.

7705-633. So like I mentioned earlier, though, I did vote, and I voted for a deal. I'll just come out there. I'll tell you where I had been leaning the last few weeks. I've been thinking, all right, are we going to... Okay, who can actually... Well, okay, I'll just lay it out. Because, you know, I talked to all three of the candidates,

or at least one of the surrogates and two of the candidates on Thursday and Friday of last week. And by the way, I put those podcasts up. And Ed Deal has always been the candidate of my heart. I would like to see him move forward. The part that has always been a concern for me was wondering, okay, is there going to be enough gas in the tank, rather, to take on Tina Kotech?

And I came down to the realization of thinking, all right, there's a lot I like about Chris Dudley. And I like Chris Dudley. And there are a lot of good things there. And then there's the pro-life. Well, of course, he's a pro-choice guy. But he says, I'm a pro-choice guy personally. But no, I'm pro-life, but personally.

But I don't think it's up to the government to make those decisions for other people. It's kind of a decision. It's kind of a squishy decision trying to have it both ways. in my opinion. And I know that may be a more popular position for a statewide office. And so I was always wondering, okay, do I vote for Ed because I like Ed's policies more? And I think there's going to be more fought put into some of the stuff. And then, oh, yeah, but could Chris be better on a statewide vote?

Well, you know what made the decision for me about Chris Dudley? was when Chris Dudley announced the results of that poll that he conducted on Friday. He released it on poll. He talked about it on the show here on Friday. And he said that, well, he had the better chance that he would beat Tina Kotech in the November election, more so than Christine Drazen. Christine Drazen wouldn't do it, but Chris Dudley would. But to me, the dog that didn't bark was the most important part.

and the poll that Chris Dudley conducted did not mention Ed Deal. And the only reason that I would think that, and this is just me talking, maybe you had a different opinion of it, the way I was looking at it is that the only reason that Chris Dudley would have left Ed Deal's name out in the poll that he conducted to find out which of them would do better against Tina Kotech this fall. the only reason that he wouldn't have mentioned Ed Deal was that Ed Deal was beating him. And it wasn't making the right narrative. It wasn't saying the right thing. The answer for the poll wasn't right. And that's what kind of tipped it for me.

I don't know if it was that way for you. But the fact that that poll that he paid for didn't mention one of his main competitors told me a lot. because the goal is not just to win a primary. The goal is to win the general election. Otherwise, if we're just going to have another situation where we go on to lose honorably in the November election, then what's the point? And I have to tell you, I'm hoping that Ed makes it.

And even if he does make it, it's still going to be an incredible high lift, no matter what the polling says to take out Tina Kotech because of, well, Oregon. Maybe it's about driving. lesser turnout for Democrats in which they're feeling just a little less enthusiastic about voting. Because I don't think you're going to get a lot of Democrats to vote for the Republicans, just like you won't get a lot of Republicans to vote for the Democrats. We tend to stay in our tribes.

But we'll see. So that's kind of the way I was looking at things. 770-K-M-E-D. This is the Bill Meyer Show, 625 on KMED. Let me grab a call here. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hello?

Yeah, can you hear me, Bill? Yeah, I can. Go ahead. Hey, what's your opinion on the, was she with Stephen Miller over there in China? What do you think of that interaction? I have not paid attention to Stephen Miller in China. Help me out here. I've been paying attention to Oregon stuff. What's going on?

Well, it seemed like, well, AI and what people are saying on the Internet is that she basically, basically was saying to himself silently, it's his diplomatic. because he is the architect of a lot of the executive orders behind Trump. And she has met him for the first time, and he has sized him up. And he shook his hand and then gave him a long stare, dead-blank stare, before it moved on to the next handshake during the signature. Oh, he did, huh? Yeah, he sure did.

Yeah, I have not paid much attention to the China visit. I know a lot of other people did, Chris. my thing is, you know, essentially we had all of our wonderful globalist people. This seemed to be more about getting trade rolling rather than truly taking on that because we didn't really have anything to offer. I don't think President Trump had a lot of cards in this particular one. I think he'd beassed his way. I think it's a shift to the one world order there would happen.

Yeah, it could be. And I hope you're wrong about that. 770563. Thanks for the call, Chris. Hello. Good morning. Hi, who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. It's Vicki from the Applegate.

Yeah, Vicki, what's on your mind today to start off early? Well, I have some major concerns. I know that they've been really cracking down on the voting registration and the fraud and all that, but I still have not got my ballot to vote. Oh, Vicki. No, I'm serious. No, no, no, Vicki. What?

What are you doing? You know, if you haven't, the ballots went out two, three weeks ago. My friend in Central Point, I called her day before yesterday. She hadn't gotten her ballot either. Okay. Well, if you didn't, I mean, the time to be talking about that is like two weeks ago. But, you know, it's like there's not going to be any magic ballot fairy. If you haven't received a ballot by this time, you have to go down to the...

Oh, believe me. I'll be down at the court... The clerk's office. Okay, good, good. Hey, listen, you know, you should have had that two weeks ago, and if it didn't come to you At this point, there's an issue. Well, my husband didn't get his. My son didn't get his.

My friend didn't get hers. And we don't even live in the same place. I'm like 20 miles from my friend. Okay. So I think this is, maybe the listeners out there, maybe more of them didn't get their ballots. So I'm wondering what the hell. Yeah. Well, I wish I had been heard about this like two weeks ago because that's when you should have been going down there because, believe me.

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Good morning. Good. How are you doing? Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Now, you have a book out that I was starting to read over the weekend, and I really enjoyed it. It is so perfect, so perfect heading into Memorial Day weekend. And you're plumbing the memory of some of these last Marines.

In fact, the book is called The Last of the Old Breed. Tell us about that. Some great stories there. Yeah. Yeah, well, it's an oral history of the final living Marines from World War II. The youngest guy interviewed was 90 years old, and the oldest 103. He's actually still living. He's 106 now, believe it or not.

Amazing. But, yeah, yeah, it's just stories from the Pacific Theater in World War II. What is it that got you into this? Do you have relatives yourself that were part of this, or he just realizing that, hey, fewer than one percent of these people are left living today? Yeah, I've always been interested in history. I mean, my mom remembers trying to find a book that was almost. World War II that was appropriate for me when I was in the first grade. So I've always had an interest in history and going through high school and college recognizing that these guys are

starting to slip away. And I started interviewing them. I just thought it was a fascinating story. And the story of the Marine Corps in the Pacific captivated me for whatever reason. I mean, we took a group of young men from different backgrounds, different socioeconomic standings and sent them off into the Pacific to fight on little islands that nobody's ever heard of against an enemy that would rather die than surrender. That just captivated me. And that really got me going on this book project. Yeah, there's even one story that I forget which a veteran it was at that point, but they were talking about, hey, Pearl Harbor has just been bombed.

We just been bombed. The Japs just bombed Pearl Harbor. And he was going, where's Pearl Harbor, right? What a different world in those days, right? Yeah, there was one guy that said he was working with his dad out in the barn in Tuel, of Washington, and they both walked out of the barn and looked up. They thought the Japanese were going to be flying over Washington State. It was just a totally different time.

Yeah. Now, how did you end up getting a hold of these people? And I'm just curious, was it all on phone? Was it in person? Did you videotape them? I'm curious because, gosh, it would make a great documentary, I would think. Yeah, it was a mix of both. I called and did phone interviews with those who were across the country.

I had a limited budget. I did some of these interviews when I was still in college, and, you know, right after college being a new reporter. So it's a mix of phone and video. I have a lot of them on video. I'd probably say about half of them are video interviews. And it was just the way to find them. I was looking through old newspapers for 70th anniversary of the Ewo Jima.

Who talked to the newspaper? Maybe they'll talk to me. Anytime somebody would turn 100 years old, they'd say, Dad's 100 years old, World War II Marine, and you reach out to them. And it was really just doing the legwork and hunting these guys down. World War II veterans right now, there's so few of them, that they're almost like celebrities.

I think people forget that even when I started this 10 years ago, started interviewing. These guys, a lot of them were just sitting in retirement homes, and there was nobody visiting them other than maybe a son or a daughter. And, you know, you'd go in. There was one guy I used to visit. I'd go over every week, and he was a Silver Star, Bronze Star recipients, and these guys were just sitting in retirement homes, and I just went and talked to him.

Were they willing and happy to talk about it? Because it seemed like there were two types of people who served in World War II. There were those that were willing just to, hey, tell you absolutely everything they saw. And for some, it was so difficult. I remember my grandfather, my lay grandfather, who served under Patton. And he always talked about the funny and weird stuff, but he didn't really talk about the serious stuff. He just kind of kept that hidden. What was your experience like, Scott?

Yeah, there were different kind of people. There were some people that could just openly talk about it for whatever reason. They could compartmentalize their experiences. There's a guy named Dean Ladd, who could do that. and he was in four battles, and he could just openly talk about anything. The other guys that were much more reluctant, you'd sit there for two hours, three hours, maybe, and then finally you'd get one glimpse at the reality of kind of what had happened. They'd tell funny story after funny story, and finally you'd get that one where it's like,

oh, that wasn't an ugly experience. Oh, yeah. They could mask it really well. And it was a lot of calling, too. It was a lot of getting hung up on and people saying, don't talk about it and then dealing with ailments from their age and people could do interviews anymore. So it was a long process. Did many of these, these old Marines, by the way, I'm talking with Scott Davis. He's the author of The Last of the Old Breed. It's an oral history of the Pacific

Theater in World War II. And it's told by many of the, well, many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans, there's very few of them left right now. And when I was kind of curious, about is, well, it kind of surprised me when I was going through how many of them chose to join the Marine Corps because of a movie. Do you know the name of that movie that they were referencing because I haven't gotten through your entire book at this point, but a lot of them enlisted in the Marines in World War II because of Hollywood, didn't they? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I can't remember the exact title. I know the movie. I've seen it before, but it's, It's escaping me at the moment.

But, yeah, a lot of them, it was dressed blues. They see these guys in dress blue uniforms. And they go, I got to have that uniform. I got to have that uniform. And then they enlisted and they found out you had to buy your own dress blues. Unless you were a fleet Marine, too. You never wore them either. So they got kind of a surprise on that end as well.

But that uniform and these movie stars looking sharp and having girls on their arms, that really impressed a lot of these guys. And they said, I got to be a Marine. So interesting. The marketing that the armed forces ended up using. at that time. Now, was it, what was the criteria for being a Marine? Because, you know, you talked about some of the people, I guess, if you wanted to get into the Air Corps, you had to have a lot of math. And I guess even the Army and the Navy to a certain extent. Was the Navy or was the Marines not

considered an elite crew at that time? What is your overall impression after talking with these men? The Marine Corps was very highly regarded during the war. It was said that they put you eyeball to eyeball to Japanese and the guys that went into the Marine Corps, they went in because they wanted to fight. Restrictions were a lot heavier, actually, at the early part of the war, if you had eyeglasses, you couldn't get in. If you had a bunch of cavities in your teeth, you couldn't get in scars or different formities. By the end of the war, they were, I mean, they needed bodies. They needed manpower. The Marine Corps went through a tremendous growth during the war as well. They had about 60,000 men at the beginning. By the end, they had about half a million. So those

restrictions really got listed. And they were even taking 17-year-old. They'd do a funny thing. They'd take a 17-year-old, and then they'd put them on inactive reserve, and then basically they'd turn 18, and they'd pull them in and send them overseas. But, yeah, they saw tremendous growth and a very interesting time. Scott, what was it like for most of them when they talked about boot camp? Because I know there's been a lot of talk that standards have lowered over the years and now they're trying to re-tighten them up in the armed services, a lot of cases. What was it like in World War II? Do you know? Boot camp hard, boot camp kind of middle of the road.

What was it like in comparison? What did they say? It varied. A lot of the guys, you got to remember these guys from the Great Depression. And I met a lot of guys that said, you know, I've been on the farm, been working. I was in good shape. I was strong. I knew discipline.

And it really didn't have an effect on me. Some of the guys talked about there were other people they met in boot camp who, maybe it's been living in cities. There's one guy I remember he talked about there was a musician in his boot camp. And the guy would just faint. This musician, he just wasn't used to the hard physical activity. He wasn't used to the discipline. But for a lot of guys, it was a shock.

I met one guy that said he would cry at night. And then by the end of it, he kind of shaped up and not used to it. And a boot camp also went through a lot of changes during the war as well. It was shortened because they needed men and then extended because they realized. well, we need trained men, so we need better training. So a tremendous different experience for each man. I'll let me tell you, after going through it, some of my most interesting parts of the book, too,

along with the battle talk like you have in there, Scott, is what it was like in the Great Depression and how some people had a really, really rough time, bad parents or rough parents, and then the Marine Corps was looked at as an escape, as an escape and also patriotic duty. and there are other people that were doing just fine. And reading those stories, these oral histories,

I mean, this is the best history you can get as far as I'm concerned. Where can you get a copy of the old breed? Where do you have that out right now? It's on all major platforms. You want to go Amazon, Target. If you like audiobooks, I know that's a new big thing, and go to Audible and get it there, it should be on all the major platforms.

Just plug it in online and it should come up. Boy, this is perfect for a Memorial Day weekend, Father's Day coming up too. Good job. Thank you very much, Scott. Good evening. all right be well yeah appreciate your time thank you scott davis he's the author of the last of the old breed went out and talked to just as many of the uh of the old last marines that are still left around here in the pacific theater and just a great story i think you'd really enjoy it at drakes

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So what do you think? And I ended up voting, like I said, this morning got my ballot in 4 a.m. Put it in the drop box. And I will have good faith that everything will be counted just fine. And have you done that yet? And I'm just kind of curious who you voted for for governor. And I ended up voting for Ed Deal. And just like I said, I was kicking this around.

a while and thinking about strategically. Yeah, I just looked at it strategically as a matter who has the most gas in the tank to possibly take it to the end. And I thought that, you know, evaluating it, the fact that Chris Dudley did not say, did not include Ed Deal in who would most likely beat Tina Kotech was to me a tell. And if I had time or thought about it at the moment, I would have said, gee, where's that deal? on this when he talked about it on Friday. But I thought about that after the case, and I ended up voting for Ed Deal.

I'm hoping that this is a good choice, and I don't know if you've done that yet, but just let me tell me, just, you know, tell me what you're thinking about this one. I know that there are many other people that like Chris Dudley, and I don't dislike Chris Dudley. I just felt in my heart of hearts that I thought that Ed had the better chance moving forward. I, in my opinion, I think the bloom is off Christine Dresen. I can't exactly explain it. I don't have any hatred to it. I know every time I talk with Kevin Staird, it's just kind of like, oh, my gosh, you know, it's just like wall of, you know, you know, coming at me anytime he has no time for that.

But I just don't think that, you know, the fact that Christine wouldn't talk with us, wouldn't talk with me on Friday, and was talking. and actually canceled the talk with Lars on Thursday, to me that tells me that they're probably looking at polling and it's not looking as good as the story once was. And she was way out in the beginning, being on it. But that's what I thought this morning. So I voted for Ed.

I'll admit that. You know, it's a day or two before it. And I'm just telling you what I did. I don't do endorsements and things like that. But that was my reasoning. I don't know if you have a feeling about that one way or the other. The poll, the only poll that will matter is what the count's going to be by tomorrow night or seven days or ten days or 30 days after in our faith-based voting system. 770-0 KMED.

I'm just letting you know what I did. Hi, KM.E. Good morning. Who's this? Hello? Sorry about that. He's had the wrong button there. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. It's Francie. Hey, Francine. How are you? Welcome to the show. What's on your mind? Well, I'm glad I finally got the right button here. I'm kind of along the same lines with you in terms of, you know, the Ed deal.

I mean, I felt like he was made – when Chris Deadly was talking the day before, Ed came on, to paraphrase, he kind of made it sound like Ed was probably asleep at the wheel kind of thing, you know? And then when I heard Ed speak, it just sounded, it just sounded real. It sounded very real. You know, there was sincerity. And I believed him. I believed what he said when he countered, you know, what deadly had said about him. And I'd kind of been leaning forward him anyway, and that kind of cinched it for me.

It did, huh? All right. Yeah. Now, did you get the same impression I did when Christine Drazen wasn't. talking to people for the final couple of days here leading into the weekend? I told you what I think. I think it was like a ploy because to have someone else come up and speak for her and talk about how great she is.

It was like making – so she didn't have to seem too full of herself. You know what I mean? It kind of gave the impression. Like other people were all like really behind her because she was so great. And I think that was part of why she didn't want to come. And also she didn't want to have to answer questions. Well, we'll see what happens here. Like I said, the only poll that matters is Tuesday night.

I mean, all of our voices are, or all of our votes, rather, are our own, as are our voices, too. And, you know, I'm not one of these people that goes out there and does endorsements, per se, but I'll tell you what I did, at least why I did it. And I have to tell you, I was kind of, I was waffling on this the last few days. Seriously, I understand why people would be, you know, really kind of. concerned about, you know, what they're going to do about this because it's not enough just to vote for the person I like. I'm trying to think strategically also, like, who do I think would be able to attract support as time goes on to be able to help out? Now, Dudley got a lot of money from Phil Knight, so I don't know, maybe there was more money in that tank that might help

there. I don't know. But then I think that also his pro-choice situation may make Republicans, a lot of Republicans. You know how the pro-life thing is with, or pro-life and pro-choice thing in the Republican Party? Very divisive right now. It really is. It's serious stuff, yeah. And so, you know, it's really hard to say what voters are going to do. I mean, for all we know, a bunch of Democrats may have signed up as Republicans so they could tilt it, you know? Yeah, a little bit of Operation Chaos in reverse, right? Yeah. The strategies of the Democrat Party are just, you know, it's really hard to fathom that people actually function that way,

but that is what they do. That's kind of stuff you see here in the movies or something. Yeah. Now, I only talked with Bethel one time, right? I only talked with Bethel one time. And I think that she is a future star. I think that there's a real future for her, but I think, you know, it's not a ripe, it's not a ripe candidacy at this point. That's just my opinion. That's why I didn't bother. I liked her, but I agree with you. I don't think she had enough going on, enough behind her, enough history and enough, you know, people knowing who she is kind of thing to pull it off. Yeah, I can see her in the future doing really well, though.

I really can. I appreciate the call there. Like I said, we're just talking about what we were doing, what we're thinking, whether we voted or have not voted yet here. Happy to take your call. Good morning. KMED. Who is this?

Welcome. Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill. Hey, I'm with you. Ed, Bill. This is Scott. Oh, hey, Scott. How you doing?

driving a Mercedes? Hey, you're driving a hot Mercedes this morning, sir? Always, always hot Mercedes at Mephyrero Mercedes. Oh, come on, down. That's some coffee. Have some pretzels. Now, you keep doing that, Bill. I'm going to start charging you for it, though. You do know that, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I'm retired. Some people don't know that. I'm retired, but I do that with Mephyr of Mercedes. And I'm after Pike's Peak, as a matter of fact, for factory sponsorship in 2028. Also, I'm running for Commissioner in 2028. Boy, that's getting the word out early. Oh, yeah.

You know, you've got to start early. You know, it's like the Marines or special forces that show up a little bit earlier. But anyway, with that said, I want to say, Chris Dudley, I think, is an awesome fellow. He's a badass. But I did vote for Ed Dillon with you. And calling him Roberts, of course, for a county commissioner. So, yeah, what a beautiful day. Eagle Point. I'm looking at some Billy Ghost now climbing up on an oak tree. It's great. And looking at

Table Rock. You know, people complain and complain, and the news is always bad on Mondays. But, you know, that thing is, though, we live in a great area, don't we? We do. We are so blessed, Bill, to live in sunny Southern Oregon, the banana belt, you know, as Jim Belushi says, Jimmy. And, yeah, we are blessed. And let's stop complaining and we can make a lot of changes in our, in our community. Well, I hope you're right about this. Let me ask you, though, what made you vote for Ed? What made you do your choice for Ed? Well, I'm with you too, Bill. He has the momentum to carry it. And I think he'd be a strong governor. We need some balls up there. We've lacked balls for a couple years. And literally. Literally. And, you know, the button works a while, but, you know,

after a while you push the wrong button and no, no, the things are not good. So, yeah, Ed Deal, I think will do a really great job. I think he'll be a fantastic governor. And if we could get Christo, that's great. But there's so many Republicans running that they really need to get support behind one. Yeah. Well, that's the way I was looking at this. And one thing I wish that Ed wasn't talking about so early was like, hey, we're

going to have this unity dinner. I don't care about that right now. The main thing is first you've got to win. Then we'll talk about unity later. It's not a running race. It's not a marathon like my, you know, my wife does or did. Yeah. No longer doing marathon. She has

a hip surgery. But it's, you know, and in racing, there's only one. And Mercedes, only the best or nothing, right? That's the saying, it's true. Yeah, all right. Hey, I appreciate your call and thanks. It's good to check in. You do that. And see, now I've understood after meeting you the other day why you call yourself a professional driver. Thanks, Scott, because he literally is a professional driver. It's just, it's a great story. He's an interesting guy if you ever get a chance to meet Scott. Let me go to next line. Hi, good morning, KMED. We're talking about, well, just general news in general. And maybe your vote. What are you thinking?

Bill, I had a callback. This is Brancy. Oh, no. Okay. Here it is so early in your double-dipping already? Your comment, the comments you guys just made about, you know, we've got to have balls up there. Yeah. Do you know that Tina Kotech can see you for discrimination against her gender identity? By saying that. All right. All right. That's worth a double dip. Thanks, Francine. Okay. You've got to love it. It's $6.56 and change. 261-5444.

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Well, we had the intel. We know what they do. Yes. They are responsible for the lives of many Americans that have been killed. They're slaughtering their own people in the streets of that city right now. They're building a nuke. They continue to all that underground nonsense that's going on there. But it wasn't imminent.

That's the argument. It's not imminent threat. Well, when you're building a nuke, it's kind of imminent. You kind of got to take care of that right away. Weekdays 9 to noon on 106. 3, KMED. It's the Bill Meyer show on KMED, Southern Oregon's place to talk. Minor Dave, how you doing, Dave?

You got back. I'm doing. You got out of surgery, you got your kidney stones taking care. How are you feeling? Things good? I'm feeling really good. Glad. But it turned out the night they took that out,

that my heart rate was 150 beats per minute. Yikes. And they gave me fentanyl. to eliminate the spasmus. I guess I was having. And then I got septus. And it didn't clear up until Saturday. So you're doing okay now, though?

Doing okay now? I'm really good now. Oh. Extremely better. You know, I don't know what it is right now, Dave, if there's just something in the air, or it's just the face of the moon or whatever it is. I can't tell you how many people that I've know

that have been in surgery over the last few days. My sister-in-law just ended up having one of those ablation-type things. Brother Louis called, wrote me and said that he's having surgery, getting spinal surgery for those ablations, you know, nerve problems. You're having the kidney thing. It's like, my goodness. Two months ago had a heart surgery. Yeah.

Man, I got to tell you. Well, we all got to stay healthy there. You got to stay healthy too, okay? Yeah. But, you know, the interesting thing is when I went in to head to the hospital, I had to walk through this thing I thought was a metal detector, but it wasn't. It was some kind of imaging machine that had AI attached to it, but it couldn't tell the difference between a firearm and my eye case. Okay. Well, artificial intelligence, what can it do or screw up in some cases?

Thanks for the call, Dave, 770KMED. Morning. Hi, who's this? Bill. Okay, now you're going to double dip, too. Now, come on. I know, I know. But this is good. My son is ADHD, and he checked the mail, I guess, last week. Yeah. And grabbed our ballots and tucked them into my husband's, like, little between the seats. And my husband didn't even know that they were in there until this morning. Okay, so you do have your ballots, right? Yes. Okay. Yes, yes. Now get them in. All right? For sure. Gosh, because I was just thinking, like, the entire

family, nobody's getting anything? Yeah, I thought that was very bizarre, too. Because we've, I mean, the voter pamphlet came and it's like, well, what the hell? Yeah, all right. Well, thanks for the update for the clarification suit. Now we don't have to think that Bickey's entire family didn't get any balance, all right?

Thank you for that. All right. The battle to keep homeowners, homeowners in the United States of America. We'll talk about that afternoose and also the handed the update on KMED and KMED HD-E-EG-G-G grants pass. You know.