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Episode Date: May 22, 2025

05-22-25_THURSDAY_8AM

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at ClouserDrilling.com. It's Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Glenn Archambault is going to join me here in about six, seven minutes. And we're going to talk about some conversations that the Pipeline Safety Trust has been having back east and people talking about infrastructure and asking very important big questions about things going on.

Jeff Sinselma, hey Jeff, you got a good conspiracy theory or want to take on something? Go ahead. Well, you know, Lucretia rattled off her list of seeds and Bill, I've been gardening for 27 years now and every time I plant a Frito Lay Seed, I can never get them to sprout. What, you ain't planting those corn chips? Is that what you're doing, huh? Oh yeah, you know, but anyway, you know, the Terminator gene is a real thing. Getting serious here. Yeah. Are you talking about... Pioneer, all the big seed companies.

In other words, these are the ones that make it next to impossible to save seeds, right? Did you plant that sort of thing? Well, I mean there's so many seed outlets out there that you can get that they'll reproduce just fine, but it's the big outfits and the major ag farming that has the Terminator gene seeds. Now how do you keep making those seeds is kind of beyond me. This is like years ago that they were doing this. The way I understood it was they set it up to where you have to also buy their either fertilizer or some type of chemical that allows that crop to grow. And it's already illegal for farmers to save their seed from the previous year without paying royalties to the seed company. There was a big

lawsuit over that in Canada. Yeah that was the Monsanto. I don't know which company it was. I mean it's like I said it's been years ago but the whole Terminator gene thing Yeah, that was the Monsanto. I don't know which company it was. I mean, like I said, it's been years ago, but the whole Terminator gene thing has been going on for years. And just like with Roundup, right? You buy Roundup-ready crop. So what that means is they've genetically modified that seed so that it won't be killed when they put Roundup on it, which tells you that if

it weren't for the genetic alteration, that if you put Roundup on the crops, it would kill the crops as well. Yes. So that's where the Terminator gene comes in. If you don't put their chemical on your field, then the seed that you grow, or you won't be able to save the seed from the crop that you grow and replant it. So that's the whole purpose behind it.

But to say, oh, the seeds are all terminator-gined and we're not gonna have seeds anymore. No, there will always be seeds because they'll be held captive by the major ag corporation. Well, there's nothing stopping us from using heirloom seeds. Oh no, and that's where... And frankly we're not supposed to be using... and frankly, and if you're in Jackson... Okay, well in Jackson County though you're not supposed to be using GMO seeds anyway right now. I didn't know that. Yeah, well yeah Jackson County though, you're not supposed to be using GMO seeds anyway right now.

I didn't know that. Yeah, well yeah, remember GMO free. You're not supposed to be using GMO seeds in Jackson County period right now. Well, I like that. Yeah. Thanks, Jeff. Let me go to Gene. Hello, Gene. Take it away. Take it away. Yeah Okay One idea if a dictator is for something it's bad if they're against it It's got to be good and that song that we will overcome I have to go well well well well well cuz that's what they're doing

Okay, let me play that again just because they sing it so well. Gene, I like it when you wah wah wah. Okay? That's very good. Really good. Thanks for the call. Let me go to Steve in Sunny Valley. Hello, Steve. How are you this morning? Go ahead. Good morning Bill. Yeah, everybody's talking about the bad stuff that's coming with this big beautiful bill, but one thing that did get passed is the suppressors are taking off the NFA list. Did that make it in there? It made it in there. No kidding. $200 tax stamp. Yeah. So that's a good thing. Now that doesn't mean that the state of Oregon won't ban it, but you know. I think that, I don't know, but I think there's wording in there that says that it can't be banned because it's

like banning a scope. Yeah, because not all, I hope you're right about that, because not all states, now Oregon is, they're still legal in Oregon,'re still legal in Oregon right now, but they're trying to just take everything in this state legislature. Absolutely. The other thing I wanted to talk about was the 747. I worked for American Airlines for almost a decade, and a large part of that was working on MD-80s in their heavy sea line in Tulsa. What we would do is we'd get a plane

in, we'd strip it down to wires and bare metal, even taking out the insulation and rebuild it. And it was a 29-day turnaround. 29? 29 days. That's all? And we had 12 hangars going because of the value jet crash, that plane that burned up on the way into the Everglades. All right. Now I'm going to ask you, I don't know if this is a dumb question or not, why does it take so long to build an Air Force One then? Well, and not only that, but 747, 737, their rudders are built in China now and shipped

over whole. I mean, it's not like they're all built in the United States. I didn't know that. Also it's like, Yankee boy, we make rudder for 747. We crack it in mid-flight if you do not play good with us. Anyway. Yeah, so but American was set up for it. I mean it was a big job. Probably took a year just to set up for the process. But there are heavy sea lines that do 747s, they don't do the entire down to bare wires and metal because they determined that dust from the

insulation was part of why the plane burned so fast. So we took out all the mylar and replaced it with some stuff out of Mexico. Okay, wait a minute, dust from mylar made the plane burn too much? Really? Yeah, the Mylar was flat. But the real truth is that MD80 was filled with magnesium rims and unspent oxygen generators. And when one of those kicked off, they got a magnesium fire in the car. Yeah, but remember Flight 800 also started with a spark in the fuel tank. Baloney. Oh no, no that didn't.

That didn't because jet A does not catch from a spark. You can drop a match in jet A and it goes out. I know. And it's just like, and you could talk to any airline mechanic or fuel specialist that could have told you this. And see, there is another conspiracy Theory Thursday, the insane ability of intelligence agencies to bullstein the American people. The Navy shot that one down.

Oh, absolutely. Jack Cashel is absolutely spot on with that TWA flight 800 book. Thank you for that. Thank you very much. Two more, and then I got to get to Glenn Archambault. He's probably wondering why I haven't called him yet. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Paul Williams. Hello, Paul. How are you? Yeah, a quick statement on the atomic bomb in Iran. I think the news tells us this, but they're so close, they're dragging their feet long enough until they get it. They get one, they take it out, they hide it somewhere else, they clean up the evidence of having made it and say, come on in and take a look and see what's happening. I think that's a

possibility. And if that ends up happening, I don't think Israel will sit around too long on that one, do you? Oh no, no, absolutely not. But if they have one, they stash it somewhere else, it's too late, then what? So they're dragging their feet for something. Thank you for the theory, Paul. And we'll grab one more. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Bill.

It's Logan. You mentioned generators at Costco. That generator is actually a real good one. It's a tri-fuel generator. It runs on propane and natural gas as well as natural, as well as gasoline. Yeah, I've been looking at that one and kind of thinking it's like, well, should I dig into savings and do that? Because I'm thinking three different ways. I thought it was pretty good. Well, yeah, I have a couple in the back shed. That said,

it's a great route to go. I encourage people to, as they look at a fuel source for coming, is to look at propane. I've been stacking up for 20 years. It never gets sold. I have some propane bottles that I filled that was only a dollar a gallon when I filled them. No kidding. You just buy old tanks and fill them and stack it deep because we're gonna need them. Could be right. Hope you're wrong. Okay. I hope you're, like I said, I hope we're wrong in that you prepare for something that never happens but better to be as a father as a father of three run kids I hope I'm wrong too. All right, it's not a matter of if it's just a matter of when all right. Thanks Logan We'll appreciate that 23 after 8 Kim commando digital update coming up big talks going on in Washington, DC

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There's no safe like simply. Here KMED in Krantz Pass on 1059 K290 AF Rogue River in South Jackson County on 1067 K294 AS Ashland. Glenn Archambault rejoins the show. We've talked with him in the past as a Farm Services Director. Now, a Farm Service Agency Director, are you a director? What is your title there with the Feds there? I'm a representative. Representative, thank you. For Jackson County.

Yeah, we've talked with you a lot about that with agricultural issues in the past, but you're also on the Pipeline Safety Trust, which is a group of people that are always getting together and talking about pipeline safety, whether it's, I guess, water, gases, natural gas, and I mean, just all sorts of things. Fuel, moving fuel, big infrastructure conversations. That's what part of your job on that is, right? Yes, that's right. Especially the large-diameter, high-pressured stuff that we can't do without. Yes, that would be what, gas lines, things like that? Yes, natural gas,

crude oil, surface water, there's all kinds of products. We probably don't even know all the things that go on, Bill, but the big ones are the big ones. They're easy to spot. Now the big ones here certainly were a big topic of conversation, big conversation. So you're all gathered together in Washington, DC. Is there anything you can share about some of the thoughts going through people who are there to think big thoughts about where weaknesses or cracks in the surface may be starting to appear on infrastructure? Well, you know, it helped to know just a moment of background. The trust started from a terrible gasoline accident in Bellingham, Washington. And I came along almost immediately thereafter, and I am a survivor of one of the worst gas

fires and earthquakes and floods all on the same day in the same moment. And I survived that. And so... Now, was this the Bellingham fire? Because I remember that was a gasoline pipeline, right? Yeah, that was the fire. The episode that I was in was natural gas that the system failed because they were very old in the middle of an earthquake and then followed by that within minutes we were informed that the dams would collapse,

pretty much like the immigrant lake would have, what would happen. That's what it was look like when we were going to hit the wall. But a lot of us survived, a lot of us died that day. Okay. So you come from this with, you're paying attention, in other words. I'm paying attention. You're paying attention to the stuff that most of the rest of us just kind of take for granted that people are paying attention to. Fair enough? Right?

Oh yeah. Do you ever have to go out and work on the pipeline that feeds the Rosedale bill? Never have I had to do that. We just assume that they're all working okay and that people are making sure that they don't leak and blow up and that the gas goes where it needs to go and the water goes where it needs to go and the sewage needs to go where it goes etc etc. Yeah. Alright. And they all run on pipelines. Alright. So where do we find ourselves right now in this get-together that the pipeline safety trust had? What is a general takeaway? What's going on? So

this was a Senate hearing and not much of attendance by public. Mostly it was people from the oil and gas industry, the trust, a few other people, some very sad looking people that I think had lost a little boy in an explosion somewhere sat in the corner. And what was going, we know these guys, it's kind of like a, you know, it's like a courtroom, both attorneys slap each other on the back, you know, you get along, it's just great. So after the hearing, I went over and talked to my buddies in oil and gas. And what they're telling me is they're going, you know, we still have people out there digging

holes in the ground, breaking our pipelines, killing themselves, burning the neighborhood down and the whole rest of it. And so they're, they're tired of this. And we are too, you know, every day we have a guy and he writes out what he can find across the country that's burned up, blown up, whatever. Um, and we got a ton of the stuff built as of late. And it's not the oil and gas guys. It's, it's us, the citizens do things.

Do you think, when do you do it out there, guy's us, the citizens do things you think, what are you doing out there, guy? Yeah. And so that was a big deal in the hearing. I was surprised to hear that much discussion. We had several senators there, of course, and they had a lot to say if they were from oil and gas areas. They're real sick and tired of, you know, and Bill, you can't believe some of the things people do and these guys are, you know, they're catching it. Yeah, can you give me an example, can you give me an example of some of the stuff happening to pipelines that people just don't normally hear much about that are just smack my head. This one really got me last fall in Washington state, the east side, a guy's putting in tiles on a farm. He clips the top of a big pipeline, I think it was 20-incher, belonged to Williams, came

out of Canada, and it raised holy hell. What happens is it shut everybody's gas off, including Washington State University, and they had to redo that whole, they had to relight that whole system. Huge number of people were totally in convenience, freezing cold weather, the universities closed for final exams. It was bad. We had one, and this comes from the National Transportation Safety Board, and they look at all these events where it interests them, and they have free hands to look at whatever

they want to look at. And so they just got done with one in a chocolate factory on the East Coast. Lots of mistakes made, blew the thing up, killed seven people, wrecked the neighborhood. Those kind of things happen. And then, you know, then there's a ton of small ones. That small gas line going into your house is a disaster if you don't take care of it and take care of your house. If the thing starts to leak into the building and then lights up and goes, I mean they're horrendous, horrendous accidents. There's confetti left in the neighborhood.

That's all there's left some of these houses. So these at a local level are really serious issues. Do we have a lot of those at and on a local level are really serious issues. Do we have a lot of those on a local level? Now I understand that if you have your natural gas pipeline and you don't take care of it, yeah you can blow your house up, you pretty much know, but stuff like that. What does concern me though is the relatively, as you're talking about, high number of big events that happen on large pressurized pipelines. You know, 20 inches, that's not a small pipe.

You know, that's a big pipe. They got a lot of pressure and the one feeding the Rogue Valley is running roughly a thousand PSI. Last time I heard from one of the mechanics, that's a lot of pressure, Bill. That's not a bicycle tire. So you know here locally we've got a good operator. Avista has been a good bunch. You know they've worked hard at keeping this under control. We also have TransCanada, also known as TC Energy. They bring the gas in from Canada and that's a big system, really big system.

That's out in eastern Oregon, and it feeds on the Medford lateral into our valley. And we have a metering station. We have lots of metering stations for VISTA. And I know the TC Energy people real well. The pipeline that they operate runs through my farm. I've known them for a long time. If you notice, things are not on fire to do with gas in the Rogue Valley. I can't remember the last really ugly event. And that's good. We're very happy about this. What I'm curious about

though is what is being done to perhaps keep a better track of where the pipelines are perhaps to keep the guy the farmer from putting tile you know into his farm like you had said and then puncturing a 20 inch thousand psi natural gas line that you know probably should have known about or been known about already. What do we do? Well, that's where the frustration really goes up right there Bill. So for years right here in the Rogue Valley, I worked on this, the guys in the gas pipeline industry worked on this and we, you could have come, you could have come and got training, got a lunch, you know, nice

guys, no fuss about that. What the fuss was about was that we kept having people like the guy on the farm. And so what keeps us from that is you can go to the National Pipeline Mapping System online and you can contact the operator and they'll come out and mark the line for you. We can call for LOCATE 1-800 and they'll come out and mark that line.

Is it just that people aren't calling the locators? Part of it and part of it is they don't, you know, it's, this happened right in Phoenix, Oregon. There was a guy running a bathrobe. They had it marked. Turned out there were two lines. There are not one. Nobody put in this other line and certainly told nobody about it. Things like that happen. They appear to be a minor issue on the surface, but when you get into the NTSB, National Transportation Safety Board findings,

they go, and why are we doing this again, and again, and again? And why are we going? I mean, would you dig into a live gas line with your rented backhoe or a shovel or something? Well, my thing is, wouldn't you feel it when you start digging in? I don't know.

Never having operated the backhoe, maybe I don't understand how that works. Yeah, it's really easy to strike. I've done it. I've done it on a pressured water septic line, big system, broke the flange off, running a backbone. I, you know, I was a complete idiot and it caused a lot of trouble.

So you're still talking about basically we're working to try to minimize human error on things like this. And we have all this information and assistance out there yet we're still people deny it, I guess. It's maybe one of the problems that pipelines, of course, are so successful. And it's the out of sight, out of mind thing, right? You're not even probably thinking about a lot of that when you go

digging around your property in most areas, even out in the rural lands. People having a clue don't care, you care. Some kind of response other than the response they should have, and that's to be safe. I don't know, Bill. Are there any particular procedures that they're coming up with that they think might reduce the number of pipe punctures, people punching into stuff and blowing things up? I hate to think that. Yeah. Money's been put in there like it always is in D.C. There is a lot of troubles with people recognizing the whole industry even exists.

I'm not sure why. I mean, if you have natural gas or water or power, you know it's there on your property. But when it comes to big pipelines, for some reason people don't see them. You know, and they're often marked, not always, but the ones here in the valley are marked. It's an aerial marker, a plane or a helicopter can fly the pipeline and see that you're doing some crazy thing on the ground and report it, or they can see vegetation has died or some other event. So there's a lot of effort put into

keeping people safe from the industry side. That's good to know. It just, you just wonder, you know, so I think for me, I've actually seen these things blow up. And boy, I'll tell you what, you don't forget that. You're not gonna ever make a mistake again. Yeah, when you hear those PSAs or commercials and everything else say, hey, call, what was it? 311? Is it 311?

Yeah. 811. 811, yeah, call 811 before you dig. This is serious as a heart attack really, for the reasons that you just talked about. You know, thank you for that Glenn, and Glenn Archambault once again, he's on the Pipeline Safety Trust. I was wondering Glenn, wasn't you were mentioning something that I thought was kind of even a broader conversation going on, that people

in general back in DC were concerned about the infrastructure and almost like, you know, the changing of the generations and you having all the old boomers and people older than the boomers, you know, retiring out, and that a lot of the how things work stuff is not getting passed along. Was there something like that that I recall you kind of going into? What are they talking about in the higher echelons of all these agencies jawboning amongst themselves in DC? Well, this for me is something I spot immediately. I can tell if the guy's ever been on a tractor or welded on something, those kind of skills. And that's a big deal when you realize, well, this guy just really doesn't cut it for our safety monitoring because he doesn't have a background. And I see a lot more of that. And that's one of the things the trust is doing is we're reaching out to industry and to the public trying to help them get up to

speed. Is part of this, and by the way, I'm not knocking college education, but is, because I think you went to college too, did you not? Oh yeah, lots of years of college, yep. But there was such a push for so many decades here in southern Oregon to go to college, but not necessarily going to college in the hard sciences and the mechanical world like what you had been been working into it was all kind of the you know the soft sciences the social sciences and things

like that in this at the same time that they were kind of going woke and I'm wondering if we're starting to now see the downside of some of that cultural shift I remember Ted K Kolongoski was trying to get everybody, no matter what, to sign up for college. But at that point, what we were needing were people that could weld and could dig and could construct and could build and understand these kind of things. And not just be in the theoretical world, I guess, is what I'm looking at or asking. In my observation and feeling,

is that we have lost a whole chunk of knowledge and ability. And I worked with those guys. You know, my bosses, all of them were World War II vets. And generally, they were the people that got the tanks up on the sand and onto the fight. They were people who could do things. You didn't even wonder if your boss knew how to weld. You knew he knew how to weld. So yeah, I've seen that fade away.

I'm thinking back, I'm building oil tanks in the early 70s, and the guy with me is a Marine, and he knew how to run plate through a roller like nobody's business. When he did the job, the whole tank fit together like a glove. He knew what he was doing. And I think back to people like that, and they are essential. I'm listening to President Trump right now, and I'm thinking, yeah, we could cut a lot more trees down, but guess what, guys? We don't have any saw mills anymore.

They're all gone. And I used to build saw mills. I know a lot about that industry. We have lots of land that we've set aside to do God knows what. And so we pushed aside a whole generation of people, I guess, and now we're going to pay the bill. And I think the bill might be really big. I would agree with you.

And I have a, you could almost see like there is going to be a need for, and you're not going to have artificial intelligence do this either. You know, artificial intelligence is not going to go out and do things and rebuild infrastructure for us. Maybe they think they are, maybe Elon Musk thinks it will, but for the foreseeable future it's going to take people. Could you almost see a moonshot style program of some recalibration of the higher educational world to be able to bring this stuff knowledge back into the system. So it's not just the old hands that are all retiring, that know that there really are

female and male sockets in plumbing and things like that. You know what I'm getting at? And then it's not transphobia. It's not transphobia to talk about genders on plumbing. I think that moonshine may be a long wait, because I think we're further behind than most people might realize. Really? Yeah, I think we're really behind. But they talk about it openly in DC, in these agencies behind the scenes? Oh yeah. And that's why I talked to you, Bill. It really got my attention because I know these men. And these guys have been in charge and operating, maintained and financed huge

pipeline projects. So I know I know they know what they're doing in that area. It's when you know they were telling me you know we got to go out and hire some kids off the street or we got to hire senior engineer. It's all the same story. We're still looking for people. The Pipeline Safety Trust is looking for board members, not to be found, that have some usable background. And that's something in this whole discussion you have to have, is usable background. You've got to be able to really do things, not tell me a story.

And we're struggling at this, Bill. I could sit here and rattle off all kinds of stuff to you that I did or knew or learned. I always wanted to use a low hydrogen rod on really tough projects. That's when people understand that there's all of these different materials and technologies out there that you have to know and understand. I don't know how we got to fade away so deeply, but if you look around and you watch events in your life, I think you'll see that we're really lacking for skills. And I would dare say that deciding that we, well, under the

guise of exporting inflation, trade policy, whatever it is, the entire exporting of all manufacturing or most manufacturing did have a major role. And we're paying for that right now from the sounds of it. What are you telling me? So this is the side of President Trump's agenda that I completely understand the need for. And you know, Bill, speaking of President Trump

and President Biden, I think most of the trust board would do this. If Trump called us up and said, hey, I want you front and center in the office here. I need some information. If Biden said the same thing, we've done that because we came from that generation where you were polite, you did what was asked of you, you were polite to your boss. I see a lot of things today. I just think, man, if I had done that, I would have gotten swept in the back of the head and put out on the street

with my last paycheck. So am I missing something here, Bill? I mean, is actually everything okay? I don't think so. Well, so this is going to be, it took us generations to get here. In other words, it's kind of like my other talk that I had with Kerry Lutz this morning is that it took us generations to get here. It's not going to be fixed overnight, not even in one presidential administration, for sure. That's right. Boy. And where do you start? I guess this will be the question. This will be the question. Where do we start? Are our, to your knowledge, are our local community colleges up to bringing more of this knowledge back

into our educational process? Do you know? Some, but that's a soft arrangement. A college class, a nice warm college class with lots of nice people is really fun. Laying in the mud trying to weld something when it's freezing cold or boiling hot, but you have to do it. Teach us something different. For me, college was a dream. To go to college, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. I was finally, from once, getting out of working in a mine, running heavy cats, stuff like

that. One of my bosses one day said, did you go to college? I said, yeah, I did. I knew when they asked that question, it's going to be bad. So he made me the official loader and unloader. So all the heavy equipment that came into the yard, I had to unload it and load it back up, scared me to death. But you're not gonna learn that in college. That's not gonna happen. You've got to be out there on top of that machine and operate it. Which is a lot of the kind of

knowledge missing today. And I know, I know it sounds silly, you know, to say it's missing, but, or it's in short supply, maybe not missing, but short supply might be a better way of putting it. Right, and all of us are going forward, you know, and I listened to all of your people today with, you know, the stories people were talking about, talking about for our, we are not gaining, we're not gaining ground right now right now we're kind of standing there kind of

dizzy yeah and the first the first step to solving that problem is really admitting that that's there and and not trying to and not trying to convince yourself or make yourself happy with platitudes, I guess. You know, I appreciate you sharing some of that talk coming out of the bowels of the beasts, so to speak, over in DC and these agencies and these Senate hearings there. And you're right, it's something which wasn't attended much and something which is certainly not going to be reported in your local news and such but thank you for sharing that Glenn I really do okay you know what a little test here bill all the folks are hot on solar and wind and everything ask them how much they really understand

about who the FERC is okay that'll be for next time Glenn got a role but thank you so Good talk. Glenn Archambault from Phoenix, of course, he's on the Pipeline Safety Trust Committee. He's part of that board. It is 12 before nine. Joel here from Butler-Ford and Truck Center, and it's been awesome helping a lot of people save money with the Ford employee pricing.

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doctor, instead of bouncing back and forth between multiple doctors in multiple podcasts and various other things. You know, like I will continue to say, Lucretia Brings Up has a very interesting worldview and I don't always share it, but if even 10% of what she talks about is there, it's as serious as a heart attack. So that's why I'm happy to talk with her and that's what we do. That's why I'm happy to talk with her and that's what we do. Let me go in. Why did my screen just disappear? There we go. Hans... No, not Hans Albuquerque. There we go. Hans Albuquerque writes, Bill, government schools being ruled an extension of the state has come back to bite the private school voucher payment plan in the latest SCOTUS ruling, but it doesn't appear

as double indemnity for supporters of private schools. Hang on here just a second. Something is going wrong. Something's going kaflui with my... My computer has just decided to dump out. All right, I want to continue that. I thought it was pretty good. Hang on. I'll continue that because I'm gonna reboot my computer and get back to you. Well, live by the computer, die by the computer sometimes too. I should have printed it out, huh? Young music talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn't. That's where the Use Your Gift Foundation makes a difference here in Southern Oregon.

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Kirkley's email and I think we'll be able to do it now. He said, Bill, government schools being ruled an extension of the state has come back to bite the private school voucher payment plan in today's SCOTUS ruling, but doesn't it appear as double indemnity for supporters of private schools? They're forced to pay taxes to the state, which in turn end up en masse in the coffers of GovEd. Then the same victim must pay private tuition as well. Would it not be logical and more equitable to provide a way to recover an exemption from paying the school portion of state and property taxes

if a family can provide proof of private school tuition. I actually think that would be a very reasonable way of going about it, Hans. Since the court system is so worried about First Amendment violations in private school taxpayer-funded vouchers, why isn't it as concerned about forcing a God-fearing family to pay for a queer, ungodly First Amendment violation as well? After all, teaching and enforcing that men or women is just as much a belief, if not more so, than belief in a creator with thousands of years of documents and Bibles and archaeology to back it up.

Alright, I appreciate that, Hans. Steve writes, Hey Bill, we should build a Coliseum. As far as the baseball stadium, we should build a Coliseum- far as the baseball stadium we should build a coliseum style center and have the criminal frequent flyers fight each other to the death a real spectator event and has historical precedence and would draw huge crowds and it would eliminate the need for a new jail i think you're being a little sarcastic point well taken though steve charles writes in there chuck from wolf creek on the baseball facility bill have you ever been to a Medford Rogues game? The attendance is pitiful. So why put more money into a new facility

if we get little support on what we have? New and bigger will not cure apathy for minor league sports. Well, the Eugene Emeralds is considerably... Well, it's a bigger one than the Rogues. The Rogues, of course, just a college part-time, a summer deal, so it's not exactly comparing oranges to oranges, that sort of thing. But yeah, listen, I enjoy baseball.

I would like to see baseball. The real difference, though, what what should the taxpayer be forced to support you know to do this and Chuck writes me this morning and says hey Bill your guest is severely uninformed he's speaking of Glen Arshamble he's trying to scare people or just making stuff up he's been wrong on almost everything he has said or is exaggerating greatly. No leak will blow your house up. Extremely informed on the industry Chuck. Chuck I'll tell you what I might just put you in touch with Glenn and then you and he can duke it out there. Glenn has a lot of experience in

these issues too and we do know of houses that blow up with unexplored leaks that there... I read these stories all the time, Chuck, so I don't know how he was uninformed on that one. But I appreciate your opinion, everybody else's opinion too. We'll catch you tomorrow on Find Your Phone Friday. My email, bill, at BillMeyersShow.com. You be well.

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