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Episode Date: May 30, 2025

Morning news and opinion start off, Melissa Henson joins in from Parents TV council. Good news on protecting the kids online to report...but...AI??? Maybe another story. Open phones follow.

The Bill Meyer 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. Here's Bill Meyer. Great to have you here. It's Find Your Phone Friday, 7705633. As always, it is Friday, the 30th of May. 59, but boy, it's going to be a bit warmer today. Mr. Outdoors, Greg Roberts, will be talking about that.

97, the expected high, and it'll kind of cool back down to more of a normal pattern by Monday or so. But, you know, hey, it's that little herky-jerky kind of going into summer kind of pattern we see a lot of this. It doesn't appear that we're going to have one of those years without tomatoes. It'll be warm enough in June, I guess, to get tomatoes planted. No doubt, Stan the man, Stan the Road Gardener, will have more to say about that. Of course, tomorrow his show on... Just a great show, by the way, if you're into gardening.

God bless you people who are into gardening because you make up for the people like me and Linda who are not into gardening. And I really enjoy looking at your gardens and watching what you do, but as far as wanting to be you, just not in my skill set. But the Rogue Gardener, 10 to noon tomorrow. All right, and we'll talk with Greg Roberts too. By the way, we're going to have tickets to give away to the Medford Rogues. Now, he is the announcer for the Medford Rogues, you know, Greg Roberts. And so we'll have some tickets to give away after the outdoor report.

So we'll have some fun and get you out there and bake you to a delicate crunch, maybe for, you know, some games coming up here real soon. You know, it's a great way. And by the way, it's going out and seeing Medford Rogues that doesn't cost the taxpayers 90 plus million dollars to build a stadium. But I, gee, we can play baseball. I don't know. I don't know. All right. Some of the stuff going. Oh, by the way, before we move further, Monday and Tuesday, I'm actually taking a couple of vacation days. So the Chris DeGaul show will be filling in for me on Monday and Tuesday, keeping you up on all the stuff that's going on in D.C. and the culture clashes around the country.

And so I'm just letting you know right now, because it is really funny how many people, when I take a vacation day, and even if I say, hey, I'm on vacation, when the Chris DeGaul show starts, people text message me and they'll call me at like 6 15 in the morning and they'll say, where are you? What are you doing? And then it's like, I was trying to sleep and you know, those kinds of things. So I'm just letting you know right now, God bless you. But yeah, believe me, sometimes I have to take a day off too. And Linda and I are going to go to the coast for a couple of days. We haven't been out of town for a long, long time, haven't been able to get together and do this.

It's been many, almost eight, nine months, I think, since we've left town or gone anywhere. So we're just kind of getting a little cabin feverish and we'll be going to head out to the coast and see what's going on in Smith River and go down to Brookings and various other places and just see what's going on. Yeah, I know nothing really changes much on the Oregon coast, but that's the part I kind of like about it. It's like, all right, I'm still going to go into the same antique stores and gosh, there's still a lot of the same stuff in that antique store that there was the last time I was, but I enjoy it anyway. I don't know what it is about it and there is certainly a slower pace and a little less

crazy. Maybe just a little less crazy sometimes and the weather's supposed to be good out there too for sure. All right, the political weather here in the state of Oregon, though hot and getting hotter than even today's deal, Representative Dwayne Younger delivering a floor speech demanding the repeal of House Bill 315. And Dwayne Younger calling it, he's blasting it, and of course he's right about this, calling it a failed law tying the hands of cities facing public safety threats.

And they don't... The state of Oregon, I'm talking about the Democratic control grid here, wants to have nothing to do with lightening up on cities. The Supreme Court said we could, but no, no, no, we have to coddle dirtbaggy behavior, apparently. And Duane's remarks following the Circuit Court order allowing grants passed to ban camping in only seven additional parks, leaving most city parks still open to unauthorized camping.

He says only seven parks were protected today, and more than half remain open to all sorts of lawless, dangerous behavior. Seriously, you can see the time coming that if this continues, if they don't get rid of House Bill 3115, which really did like Dwayne talks about, tying the hands of the various cities around here, what's the point of heading a Parks and Recreation Department in your city? It would seem that there would be a great advantage to selling off your parks or creating, or even leasing them to a private group that would then run the parks like parks.

So that way it's not subject to the capture by House Bill 315. Could you see that happening? I mean, I could certainly could Another aspect of the of the news the latest news coming out of Salem, and it's not good Oregon Firearms Federation reporting this morning that all Senate Republicans showed up to provide the quorum the Democrats needed to pass Senate bill two four three Oregon's latest gun ban and Kevin Starratt writing that words cannot express the magnitude of the ignorance and stupidity showcased by most of the floor's speeches, but a few of

the lowlights, including Senator Brodman, suggesting that banning reset triggers and keeping concealed handgun license holders out of public meetings would reduce veteran suicide. Now have you noticed any suicidal veterans using reset triggers and taking their concealed handgun licenses and going into public meetings and shooting them up? But no, this is just the continuing encirclement. I text messaged Noah Robinson yesterday because they were all on the floor and I said, walk out, walk. And he told me, well, you know, they've already gabbled in, they can't do it right now and besides he didn't want to do anything symbolic. And I had a

talk with him afterwards and he said, well, you know, maybe I was wrong about that. You know, at this point, I'm about ready for even some symbolic gestures coming from Republicans. You know, they all won't walk out, so no one will. And even people who are not going to be allowed to run for reelection anyway, we're still there. And I don't know, it's Republicans when it comes to gun bills and all sorts of other bad stuff like what even Younger was fighting against, acting like battered wives. They were doing their job, I guess.

All of them, everybody there was doing their job. Isn't that how we've talked about that before? That's the way the Measure 113 proponents were talking. Those legislators need to be there to do their job. Doing their job meaning to be there voting present or even voting no so that the Democrats can do the nastiest stuff to people's rights ever. That's what they're doing. We're getting worse than California in many ways. it's, I don't know what to say. You know, these people, you know, the Democrats or the, I'm sorry, the Senators and House Reps

and stuff, you know, quite often like Brock Smith, David Brock Smith as an example. I worked hard to become a Senator. What's the point of being a Senator if all you're doing is being there present to be a lay down and sit around there and you do social media posts with your friends, the Democrats, saying, what is your job as senator? Is it just the title? Is it the, you know, the modicum of PERS compensation, the retirement thing? Is this, you know, to... what is this all about? What's the point of being a House wrap or a Senator if you don't show any fight? I mean, I don't have an answer for this. It's just an expression of frustration. I recall a few weeks ago when I had Court Boyce on, Court Boyce on from the coast, Republican serving out on the coast, and I was just kind of going, Court, why are you guys still there? You know, you just all get together, you walk out now, and when they want to pass budgets,

you agree to come back in as long as they excuse your absences. And if they don't excuse your absences, then they don't get a budget. The Democrats don't get a budget. It's always about the money. Even look how they're holding the wildfire repeal bill hostage so that they can take and steal your kicker. Right?

This is what's going on. And still the Republicans, they put out there harump harump and isn't this really horrible and look at what the Democrats are doing. Yeah, we know this is what Democrats do in the state of Oregon. The only tool you have is to not be there while you still have the ability to deny quorum, deny quorum, and then negotiate to get back in. And then if you can't run for reelection or something goes wrong about that, well what was the point of you being there in the first place? What

is your real desire to be a representative or a senator for if you can't stop abuse of your people? That's the part that's just going... is it just that... is it that important to be in the club? I really wonder sometimes. Is it just to say, I am a state senator? Well, Noah Roberts said, of course, you know, good guy, and he's feeling kind of one way or the other. Well, I didn't want to do just symbolic things. Well, maybe at this point only symbolic things could work if you can't get everybody. But weren't you guys and gals working before you became senators? I'm not speaking to Noah specifically.

But I don't know. It's very frustrating. You have the Democrats doing what they do, doing what Democrats do. Of course, I'm still trying to figure out why it is the Democrat constituents are thinking, you know, we really need more bums running around the street. I like seeing our parks taken over. Yeah, there's a real nasty anti-normal behavior type of thing running through the Democratic

Party in the state of Oregon. I don't like saying that either because you want to be able to say, yeah, you know, these people across the aisle, they have a different, they're a little squishier on some social issues and this and that and the other, but still, you know, we're all human. I'm starting to question that now. I'm starting to question that. You know, we all want the same things. No, apparently we don't.

Apparently we don't. And the one tool that the Republicans can do to stop some of the worst behavior It's the only tool they have they won't use it So they can run for reelection and not use it next time and then say we need more Republicans And then when they do get more Republicans, well, it's not enough more Republicans or else there are the wrong Republicans like Kevin Mannix who sits there and does this little political two-step and does his limbo underneath the... It's almost like Kevin Manix and people like that that are always crossing the aisles and talking about their friends.

They're always doing the limbo dance beneath the Democrat Party's pay toilet, getting underneath and trying not to get any feces on them. But we're here to help them pass their stuff. Yikes. 623. I'm sorry, I don't mean to... I'm not depressed, just frustrated because it's the same old, same old, and we're fighting for you.

Well, you can't fight for us if you're actually providing quorum at this point. Now the Democrats will most likely get a rule or get away some time to stop you having quorum to be able to deny quorum, but you have the power right now. And if you won't use it right now, I don't know. We can maybe talk about that or maybe not because there's no place moving forward. I know that Dwayne wrote me after I was talking with with court boys I didn't complete that thought here a moment ago, and I was just going court What are you guys doing? Why can't you know you're just sitting around there? He's like battered wives all of you just like well

You know if I'm nice enough to to them and you know They won't give me a black eye anymore anymore and they'll see what great people we are and help us pass legislation or stop bad legislation. No, no, no, they're not doing that. And Dwayne wrote me about this and said, Bill, I hear the frustration in your voice talking to representative court voice. This was a couple of weeks ago, right? And I'm writing our state representatives about similar issues. For example, get out of there. I don't know if court really gets it, he says. He's not going to change their minds. It's frustrating. Thank you, Dwayne. You're right. We're not going to change their minds. The only thing

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Had the buttons wrong. Stray Cats, that was a good groove. Look at that black Cadillac. Man, good stuff. 7705633, 770KMED. Look at that Cadillac. I remember when the Stray Cats did that song back in the 1980s and they were doing that Neo-Rockabilly revival, that music there. And even then in the early 80s I was looking at it and thinking about it, wow, that's talking about America with, that was America at its biggest swagger, you know what I mean?

The late 50s, mid to late 1950s when it comes to the cars, big American cars, big American roads, big American thinking. We're going to hit the open road and you look at what happens as you get more progressiveness within the country in which we have to replay, we have to talk about safety and where are our safe spaces? It would be like if we had the Paul Revere Today running, saying the British are coming or the British are coming or the Chinese are coming, I guess, in this particular case. The Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming.

Retreat to your safe spaces, patriots. Is that the way it would be? I hope not. Trump, I think, is doing his best to to peel back a little bit of this safe space mentality. I hope he is successful at this. Speaking of Trump news though, boy, I've got to tell you, he's just, he's really having to take a lot being blocked left and right here. Like I mentioned yesterday, Trump tariffs were blocked at the trade court. They're saying he doesn't have the authority to do this. However, the administration has asked the court to pause the ruling while it pursues an appeal, and it does appear they're going to do that. The court will let them

continue to keep the tariffs while they continue to work the legal wrangling. Okay? Meanwhile, another lawfare deal, Trump decision to end migrant parole program blocked by the district court. Federal judge temporarily blocking President Trump's administration from stopping the legal entry parole program that had allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants with US sponsors to enter the country legally. It says you can't, nope, can't do that.

Meanwhile, another one, federal judge extends order blocking Trump administration's ban on foreign students at Harvard. US District Judge Allison Burroughs extending the block she imposed last week and stopping the government action there. And meanwhile you now have Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor. He's rather frustrated. Stephen Miller saying we are living under judicial tyranny. Now there was a little bit of good judicial news yesterday too. It was an 8-0 decision and I'm gonna have to find out more about this with it with people that There was a little bit of good judicial news yesterday too. It was an 8-0 decision.

And I'm going to have to find out more about this with people that understand this more maybe when I next talk to Dr. Powers or some other folks. An 8-0 decision in a case dealing with a railroad line in Utah and NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the degree of deference that should be shown to an agency's environmental impact statement. The Supreme Court narrowed the judicial scrutiny of environmental reviews by federal agencies, ruling yesterday that courts should defer to agency decisions about the scope and content of statements on the environmental effects of a project. The decision also finds that while those agency impact statements need to address the environmental effects of the project, the statements do not have to consider the effects of separate

projects. So they're narrowing this and it was an 8-0. So that was actually kind of a win for the Trump administration. So that's really good. Meanwhile, New York Sun reporting, the DOJ is opening investigation. Did California's transgender policies violate federal civil rights laws So they're gonna be working that to be working on on that issue here, too So I said a lot of you know, well lawfare going on here with the Trump world for sure

And something else that I'm really happy with the Trump administration about and I don't know how much play this will get if you'll get a lot of reportage or not but the Trump administration's Department of Justice is no longer going to listen to or comply with the American Bar Association's ratings for judicial nominees. Yeah, that is worth a real American salute. Somebody, some administration, someone needed to start pushing back against these professional organizations. Most of them, if not all, are leftist snake pits. American Bar Association, no exception. Everything about it, left-wing Kool-Aid, climate change, DEI, tranny, this, that. They're all like this. All these groups are drinking the Kool-Aid, Climate Change, DEI, Trani, this, that... they're all like this.

All these groups are drinking the Kool-Aid. There's only one flavor of Kool-Aid in most of these professional organizations. So this whole idea that you would go to places that only look at things through a hard left point of view and you go to them to decide who's qualified to be a judicial nominee, you know, to be a judge, you go to them, these private organizations, and I would say the same thing needs to be done when it comes to the American Planning Association, where all of our planners, you know, sit there and drink that Kool-Aid. Oh, climate friendly, equitable communities, sustained, and 15 minute cities. You will own nothing and be happy. You'll be walking everywhere and be happy.

Yeah. American Planning Association, American Medical Association, these credentialed leftist snakepits here. Anything that can be done. Now I'm not saying you don't listen to anything they have to say, but they should have nothing to do. They should not be the arbiters of our life, and yet all of these professional organizations and their leftist snake pit Kool-Aid drinking, that's exactly what is it. They are part of the deep state. If you want to call the administrative state part of the deep state. So that was good news out of the

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Good to have you on. How are things? Thanks. Thanks for having me back. Wanted to touch in on some positive developments because the Parents Television Council, you're all about having responsible protecting the kids from the smuttiness of Western civilization. Would that be a fair assessment, you know, overall, what you're working to do? Well, yeah, maybe a little bit of an oversimplification. What we're trying to do is create a safer media environment for kids,

simplification way. What we're trying to do is create a safer media environment for kids and it's getting harder and harder. You know, as technology is evolving at such a rapid pace, it's really tough for parents to keep up with the rate of change and figure out, okay, what's the latest app that I need to be aware of? And, you know, how are my kids able to get around the parental controls? Yeah, and also what's the latest Netflix or Amazon Prime series that's going to try to get your kid to commit suicide or whatever, right? You know, that sort of thing.

Yeah, yeah, I get that. Before we get into the story, DeJure, I have to ask you, has Disney backed away from any of its woke, we're going to turn the world gay and transgender and lgbtq everything in there and because I still see parents that I say Oh, we have to take our kids to Disneyland and we have to have Disney Plus and we have to do all these things and I'm thinking to myself I yeah, I know it'd be great if everything was like Toy Story, you know, but that's not the reality

I thought with Disney for a lot of years. I don't have any kids there So at that age so I don't watch Disney So I'm just kind of curious has anything changed after all of this talk and all of this talk about Animators that are saying yep, you know I try to put all sorts of hidden messages into the cartoons when I send it out to the kids, right? You know, they admit it, right? You know Yeah, I mean it really is a big fag when it comes to Disney. It does look like they've backtracked somewhat on some of the sort of more progressive issues that they seem to

want to take on. And my memory is a little foggy on the details, but it seems to me I saw an article just a couple months ago about a character in some new Disney production that was actually pretty profane. You know? What? Wait a minute, someone must have burned out the existing writers department. They must have torched it. Yeah, either that or they were seeing their shares lose value and decided, boy, we really need to correct course here before we tank the company. But it really is a mixed bag. I have not yet seen the new live-action version of Lilo and Stitch, the new live-action version of Lilo and Stitch, but from what I'm reading, unlike in the animated version, the live-action version, the older sister decides to sort of just dump her sister on the system and let somebody else take responsibility for raising her younger sister so she could go

off to college and be fulfilled and be a strong, powerful career woman woman. Oh yeah so she could be a cog in corporate America. Yeah that's the that's the highest use of female energy of girl power. Yay girl power. Okay you know you know talking with you can't help but feed some of my inner cynicism. Just let it kind of run out because yeah it is about media and the conditioning which is why yeah I think it's an important thing to talk about and I'm glad you folks keep you know keep an eye on such things. Yeah I because yeah, it is about media and the conditioning, which is why, yeah, I think it's an important thing to talk about. And I'm glad you folks keep an eye on such things. Yeah, I was wondering if maybe the fact

that stock problems may have sharpened some minds, so it's a mixed bag as far as we know at the moment, right? It's a mixed bag, yeah. So I would say you wanna confirm whether or not the program aligns with your values before you let your kids watch it. So it's always a good idea to pre-screen whenever possible before you just sort of set your kids in front of the TV or the movie or whatever it is. Try to watch it yourself or at least go online and get as much information as you can about it before you let them watch.

But that might get in the way of parents handing the phone and just letting the kids watch Disney on their phone as they're at the grocery store. I see this kind of mindless thing. It is a problem, yeah. You know, it's like, okay, you're in the grocery store, and by the way, I've had kids in the grocery store, so I have experience with this. But I guess this was enough years ago, 15, 16, maybe 18 years ago, that there wasn't a cell phone to hand to them. But I just had them in the cart and I said, you just have to behave yourself. You have to behave yourself.

And I wasn't supposed to have to give them an electronic narcolepsy pill to keep them distracted away from being a crappy kid or whatever it is. But oh well. Let me just walk away from that at the moment. I'll get people mad at me. Now there is some good news though when it comes to protecting the kids online. And I was wondering if you could talk about some of the victory laps because yeah, there's a lot of still smut stuff that is going on there's no doubt about that but there's some good

news too what's the latest on that yeah so the take it down act was passed both in the House and Senate with overwhelming support and was signed into law by President Trump just a couple weeks ago May 19th in the Rose Garden at the White House so that's really a positive development. It is the first piece of legislation, as far as I'm aware, in something like 30 years aimed at helping to keep kids safer online. And this is a really important piece of legislation too because it's aimed at protecting kids from AI-generated pornographic images, which is really a growing problem. There was a story back in January about a young boy in Kentucky

who was a victim of a sex-dortion scam. In many cases, the boys will share willingly intimate photos with what they believe to be a young woman on the other end. But in the case of this young boy from Kentucky, the scammers lifted his face off of a perfectly innocent picture and superimposed it on an AI-generated body and used that to blackmail and extort him. So take it down, Bill. Hopefully, we'll put some legal teeth behind efforts to combat that. How do you enforce something like that though? The whole thing about AI is that it's kind of a wild west and you can kind of just about make anything with it if you tell it to do so, if you ask the

chat box to do it in some cases, depending on what system you're on. Is it about the sharing of it or the creation of it? I don't know how you can stop the creation of it. Maybe I'm not understanding this. Yeah, the creation of it would be very, very difficult to monitor, but it does criminalize the publication of those photos. So if, say, you created an AI-generated revenge porn image of somebody who dumped you and you try to share that on Instagram or on Snapchat or something like that, yeah, then you would face legal penalties. Okay, so that was a good win. Wasn't that being pushed by the First Lady too? First Lady Trump? Yeah, absolutely. That was part of her

Be Best campaign and you may remember that President Trump specifically singled out that piece of legislation during his State of the Union address. So this is unquestionably a positive development. Well, I hope that it is effective because anything that could reduce the... I just don't know how we would have survived with the kind of media landscape that we have right now, you know, back in the 1970s or 80s or 90s when we were, you know, a little bit younger, you know, going through these kind of things. It's horrific and it's terrifying too because, you know because it's so easy to completely destroy somebody's

life or livelihood with these AI-generated foreign images. There were stories about school kids creating defamatory images of teachers trying to destroy their reputations and careers, showing the teachers engaging in illicit acts. Now there's enough of that going on in the real world, but you know, an innocent person should not have to have their careers and reputations derailed because somebody's mad at them. Yeah, a picture is not necessarily worth a thousand words, but it could be worth a bunch of lawsuits. You know, that's the other thing about the artificial intelligence world though,

is that this push to a world that you just can't believe what you see or hear any longer. You know, that's going to be a pretty rough thing. Speaking of which, has any progress been done with the Meta AI chat box, the chat bot rather? I think the last time I talked with you, there was an issue in which they would talk and sex up kids sometimes, if certain kids would start talking with it. Anything on that update?

Yeah, no, unfortunately, there's no good news to share on that. This big, beautiful budget bill that just passed in the House and that passed out of the Senate, I assume, included a provision that basically gives AI developers sort of a free pass to do whatever they want for a period of 10 years. So it puts a moratorium on any state or federal effort to regulate the AI industry, Which is, again, it's pretty scary when you look at some of the stories about what's going on in these virtual worlds. There was the Wall Street Journal investigation that found that, you know, even though you might

indicate up front that you're a 13 or 14-year-old child, the conversations would become very sexual very early on. There's a lawsuit down in I think in Orlando, mother is suing Character AI because she claims that they are responsible for her teenage son's suicide because of sexually aggressive content that it was sending to her 14 year old and violent content that it was sending to her 14 year old encouraging this behavior. So it's really troubling that these developers are now getting basically free rein to continue to do whatever they want without any threat of legislation, without any threat of regulation. Now, I was talking with Congressman Cliff Pence, our area congressman, about this the

other day, and he made it clear that it appears that the intention of this, hey we're not going to allow any laws against it or regulating it for 10 years, was to stop the almost impossible to follow patchwork quilt of laws that various states could come through but I'm kind of more on your line here that if there is real potential to really damage your people and you're being told that you can't write any kind of law or do any kind of restriction on something because of this 10-year moratorium, that doesn't strike me as a real responsible lawmaker's stance to take on this one.

I don't know. What could be done? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we are now dealing with the fallout of social, unregulated social media from 10 years ago, and we're seeing in real time the harm that it caused the kids that grew up with it. The increase in depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation among teenagers, the screen addiction, the screen dependency, the lack of discipline in the classrooms, all these things that stem from basically handing over this untested technology, putting it in the hands of impressionable children who are still in

the early stages of brain development. Yeah, and you get them hooked on the dopamine hit, right? Exactly. That's exactly right. Heck, the adults are hooked on the dopamine hit. Oh, I got a like. Oh, someone shared. That's exactly right. And it's a real issue. And I'm not one of these people that says, you know there needs to be a law on everything right you know there ought to be a law I'm not one of those people but yet I'm not one of these individuals that and I guess I'm a lapsed libertarian in many ways here Melissa in which I realize okay I like free markets

on the other hand markets aren't necessarily moral and right and markets aren't necessarily looking out for for the kids and the next generation. They're looking out for, okay, what is going to profit us next quarter? The stock market. Usually it's what happens, I guess. Yeah, but I think the real problem is, as I say, we are now starting to see the fallout and Congress is trying to play catch-up on legislation, trying to put bills in place on this unregulated industry, and they're fighting an uphill battle trying to get bills.

You know, COSA was killed in the House last year because of intense tech industry lobbying to have it killed. They cannot keep up with the rate of technological change. And so if you are giving them a 10-year moratorium saying, hey, we're not going to do anything for 10 years to try to regulate this industry. Well, you're essentially telling them, Congress would essentially be telling the tech bros, go ahead, build the technocracy, build the scientific dictatorship, and we won't be able to do anything to you or about it.

That doesn't make sense. I think that is one thing that the Senate might do. Is there any talk that the Senate might strip that moratorium out of the big beautiful bill? Yeah, I haven't heard any rumblings. I don't have any insider information about that, but that certainly is our hope. Yeah, I would hope so too. And it's not because I think that necessarily the United States federal government is the most

elegant force to to regulate AI but just to say go ahead next ten years do what you want right you know it just what could possibly go wrong in such a system here. Right it's almost like they never watched Terminator. And yet, I don't necessarily want to... Yeah, I know. We all think about this Terminator, let's build Skynet, let's do all the rest of it. Then afterwards, it's like, gosh, you know, I wanted... all I wanted was free markets, you know, back in 2025, that sort of thing. And look what you get. All right. Melissa Hanson, and you're writing about this in doing good work over at Parents Television Council, parentstv.org. Anything else that you're working on that we need to know about? I'm glad to have the update. Some

good news and maybe not so good news and maybe potentially good news depending on what Congress does. Okay? Yeah. Anything else? You can follow us at parentstv.org for the latest news and information. We'll let you know as soon as we know something about what the Senate is going to do with that provision. All right. Thank you very much. Good having you on as always. Take care, Melissa. All right. Bye-bye. Melissa Henson, Vice President of Parents Television Council 652. Mrs. KMED 993KBXG. What's on your mind? The number 7705633. Always good talking with you. Oregon's only locally owned Benjamin Moore dealer in South Medford, North Medford and Grants Pass to save 20% on exterior stains now through Monday, June 16th.

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Now Bill wants to hear from you. 541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. By the way, Chris DeGaul show will be filling in for me. As Linda and I head out to the coast a little bit for some rest and relaxation that's for Monday and Tuesday I'll be back for Wheels Up Wednesday instead of taking full weeks off we'll we'll just do it that way okay what's on your mind though 7705633 770KMED a little bit of open phone time and gentlemen from Grants Pass what is your

name again welcome to the show good to have you on Stephen are you? Hello Stephen Good to have you on. Stephen Reed. Hello, Stephen. Good to have you on. You say you're having an issue. What are the talk about eyesight? All right, what's going on?

Yeah, Bill, I've been listening to you for years. Thank you. And 71 years of age now, and things start to happen eventually to everybody. With me, it's my eyesight recently, uh, for the past year or so, and I've been diagnosed with cataracts. And, uh, so my right eye is pretty much useless at this point. Now, uh, like I said, I've been diagnosed with cataracts and I went in to a,

uh, a local, um, uh, eye doctor and I went in for two visits where they diagnosed me with this, but they refused to treat me for the cataracts. I was originally with AllCare and I was dropped by AllCare as I've learned so many people have done. And then I went to welfare. But in the interim, they demanded the payment in full. And being on social security, that's kind of what puts me in a precarious situation. So they didn't do any treatment other than diagnosing you at this point? Exactly. At this point they won't even take my phone call. They're just simply refused and I just don't know what to do. And my left eye is getting progressively worse. So it's a pretty scary situation.

Now I'm assuming you're on Medicare, right? Well, yeah, well, well care. Well, no, you're 71. You're not on private insurance at this point, are you? No, no I'm not. Okay, so you are on Medicare and was WellCare assigned as your provider or? Yeah. Okay. And no one will talk to you about getting your... because to me, I was under the impression that

cataract surgery, especially on senior citizens, was relatively routine. and you go in and they you know you do one eye at a time maybe you know something like that and pop them pop them in the night because that's what you need right you need your cataract surgery ultimately that sounds weird did they give a reason why they're refusing to They kind of said it was my attitude, but... Your attitude? Yeah, belligerent attitude. They sent me a letter in the mail. Oh.

And I thought that was so strange because what I was doing was I was just asking questions. Why was I being a second guest? Now, did you get into any fights with people when you were in the office? No. No. No. Huh. This is almost... it's sounding like now I'm just taking your word for it here, Steve, and it kind of reminds me of... while everybody's taking the attitude of the typical flight attendant, you flight attendant these days, do not question the flight attendant, God or goddess. Otherwise, you are belligerent and we will fire you as a patient. Well, I'll tell you what we can do.

Have you, I don't know if this is an insurance issue, if there's something else I don't know about. Have you talked with Lynn Barton over at Sky Park? Have you called her by chance? Can you repeat that? Well, Lynn Barton, if there are some ins and outs on Medicare insurance issues, sometimes if it's because you said you're having trouble that they were charging you the whole thing and you weren't getting, you know, any kind of insurance on this. I don't know if you wanted to call Lynn over at Skypark, 499-0958, and see if she could

help you on something like that. There's something here that I'm not missing and I probably don't understand the system. I'm getting no help anywhere. Well that's what I'm trying and I'm wondering if maybe Lynn might know an idea or have an idea on where to send you. Okay? And... Because... and for...

Bill, I... as my world was slowly reduced to going up and down Eighth Street where I live in Grand Pass, because, you know, loss of eyesight reduces your world. Oh yeah. Yeah, you take your eyesight for granted until it's not there, and it's a big deal, Stephen. Stephen, I'll tell you what, I don't think I can solve this. Maybe some other people listening can maybe give a suggestion on where you go next. It appears that you were fired by all care, by the well care, or whoever was that is treating you for whatever reason. I don't know if they're right or if I'm not hearing something and getting the whole story here. But if they have a suggestion, I'll find out. And could you hang on? When we get into the news, I'll get your number so I can maybe

pass it around to some people. Okay? Yeah, I need to jot down all the information you just gave me, Bill. All right, hang on. Hang on. I'll be right with you in just a minute or two here. 7705633. Yeah, I don't know if I can fix this one in the call, but we'll see. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. It's Francine. Hi, Francine. What's going on? Hi. Well, I called for another reason. I called to say instead of having What's going on? Well, I called for another reason.

I called to say instead of having, what's his name, Do Your Fill-In? What's the guy's name again? Yeah, Chris DeGaul. Yeah. Why don't you just put on repeat shows of you? Doesn't work. Why? No, it doesn't work.

You have to understand. To do this, I have a floating show, that sort of thing, and it's not fixed breaks and such, like the syndicated shows, and it would be an insane amount of work for me to do it. The idea of me taking time off is to not have to do a lot of work. That's why.

Okay, well, that's a technical issue that I was not aware of, but I'm really sorry to hear that, because, I mean, the that's a technical issue that I was not aware of, but I'm really sorry to hear that. Because, I mean, the guy's okay, but he's kind of a cross between Hewitt and Hannity, you know? And I'm really not interested. A cross between Hewitt and Hannity. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay. No, I get that. You know, that's actually a pretty good description. I like Christogall, though. I think he does a pretty good job. He seemed like a really nice guy, I like Christigal though. I think he does a pretty good job. He seemed like a really nice guy

and his heart's in the right place, but he still, he comes, he goes on and on like those guys do about things. And it's like, okay, enough. Let's, you know, thank you. All right. Now, is there anything else that you wanted to mention here? Go ahead.

Yeah, I wanna respond to the caller there who just called. It sounds like he said he got assigned to this well-care, you know, medical whatever you call them. CCO. Yeah. Yeah. And now I've met with people before Lynn got into this. I had someone I met with and then I've spoken to Lynn but I'm pretty happy where I'm at. And they found me a good plan. They take really good care of me. When I'm not happy, I call them up and I tell them, and they'd bend over backwards

to see what they can do to help me. And so there's much better options out there. You know, I'm with Care Oregon, which I know a lot of people have, but you have to figure out how to work this stuff. And if you aren't good at it, you need an advocate. And like you said, calling Lynn or some, she might be a really good place for him to start.

Yeah, to start. And I'm going to give him that anyway. And it's one of those things where there could be that he's frustrated, expressing frustration, they're taking that as belligerence, that sort of thing. But on the other hand, he's the one losing his eyesight. It's a big deal. Yeah. See, Bill, that's not their place to say, oh, we don't like your attitude. Go out and be blind. I mean, I'm sorry. That doesn't cut it. And when I had one eye done, and the first place I went to, the really, really big place in Medford.

Yeah, medical eye center, right? Yeah. And I didn't really care for the way they were, they just seemed a little too big. So I said I want to go to the one across the street, the smaller one. Yeah. Well, the one thing you don't want to do is go to the cataract surgery that's being done outside of the road valley wall in a van, you know, the back of the van. Don't go there, okay? Oh, okay. Well, they were such a good deal. Yeah, you know, the engine's running and, you know, go ahead, get in the back of the van and we'll do the surgery on you. You don't want to do that. The reason I mention that is because

you can, you do have something to say about your treatment. You do. People are just afraid to bring it up because they're really cowed by all of these things. You do this and this is how it is. And we're gonna fire you. Okay, Francine, thank you for setting me straight on that. Okay, and I'm gonna talk with Stephen right now off here. We'll do some more of that.

Thank you very much. All right, coming up, Mr. Outdoors, we're gonna talk about 97 degrees and more, where it's headed and where to go. We're gonna have some fun, give away some Medford Rogues tickets too, for that matter. David Bonson will join me for the Bonson Group, an interesting financial guy. And what I like about talking with financial guys about what's going on in the political world is that, and especially David Bonson tries to take politics out of this thing.

It's like, I'm not going to give you a political spin. What are the markets saying about the big, beautiful bill? We'll have a little conversation about that and the good stuff that is still in this too, because you know, more than a thousand pages, not everybody's had time to grok at all. This is KMED, KMED HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Town Hall News next.