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Episode Date: June 5, 2026

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Because they have all that camping and survival gear, all sorts of stuff, All sorts of good stuff. We have Sonny David right now from Phoenix. Hello, Sunny David. What's on your mind today? It's fine. Your phone Friday. Well, toilet paper doesn't work very good as a coffee filter, so I'm having a bad day.

Oh, no. Don't tell me you ran out of coffee fillers. You didn't do that, did you? I know. So I'm very happy right now. Anyways, I have a question. This is where I get a little confused. Okay.

We hear that deficit spending, servicing the debt takes all the money just to pay the interest, $41 trillion in debt, and they've put the country up as collateral to the bankers about $400 plus trillion. You know, Yellowstone is on the books in case so the bankers will loan as money. I'm not familiar. Well, I've heard those kind of those kind of discussions in which, you know, there are people who believe that we have already been mortgaged off. Of course, I would say the moment we did, you know, created the Federal Reserve that kind of mortgaged our future anytime you have an elastic currency. But so what I'm saying, Bill, Bill, what I'm saying is this nice lady, I appreciate what she shared. Thank you for having all your wonderful.

You always have great interviews, and we're all grateful to you. I don't know anybody who doesn't appreciate you and bringing your interviewer, your guests on. Okay, we all appreciate it. I don't know anybody who doesn't. So thank you, thank you, thank you. But where are we supposed to get all this federal money to pay for all this stuff? Oh, the $4 billion for the homelessness situation. Okay.

Well, I thought we wanted a new jail. Now we want to build a new marble. nut house. Now we want to build an insane asylum. Now we want, where's all the money coming from, Bill? Well, that's a work in progress, I think, Sonny David, is really what is going on. Now, as far as the jail, if we build the jail, that would be coming directly out of our pockets here through most likely a local jail district, law enforcement district. That would be a permanent increase in the cost. As far as the federal money, yeah, that's borrowed money. that has borrowed money conjured into existence in the magical paper Federal Reserve money printing machine, okay?

But Bill, Bill, it still comes out of your wallet. You're not, you're saying, oh, no, no, but it comes out of that. But you see, it's hidden. It's the hidden tax of the inflation. Okay. That's what that is. All right? Yeah, well, it still comes out of your wallet, Bill.

I know, I know, but I'm, but still saying also still has to be done, too, right? or does it not have to be done? For the love of God, we've been doing this for years, Bill. It's not, okay. Anyways, it just, I just don't see all this magic money coming up. Okay, well, the magic money is there for right now, for the grand streams, okay? For that one. While the hot, the hot checks are still being cashed, Sonny, David, for the time being, okay?

So I guess the idea is to cash the hot checks and get some of the drug-addicted raving lunatics off the street. How about that? Well, I'm not buying it. But anyways, have a great day, Bill. And thank you. You too. He asked a question. I think I answered. I think I answered the question to the best of my ability, didn't I? It's fine. Your phone Friday. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hi, good morning. I'm not sure if it's me that is online. My name is Joan. And actually, I was calling to say thank you for your show. And I was hoping for the drawing for. the Army Navy gift or prize. You were hoping for, oh, okay. Well, what I was going to do was take a random call for that here.

I wasn't giving it away quite yet. You'd like that, huh? Yes, I would. Well, okay, I'll tell you what. Why don't you wax poetic about, because I hadn't decided how I was going to give it away. Oh. All right. I think they're just handy.

and with the, you know, the emergency calls to evacuate, it would be a very handy thing to have in the go bag. Yeah, so you would like that then. Okay, this two-person camping cook set. Pots, well, plus the fact that it's worth $100 isn't bad either, right? Oh, wow, no kidding. Okay. I'll tell you what.

Just this one time, since you're interested in it, and you've talked about how you would use it, and you're going to put it in your go bag. So it's going to go in your go bag then. I'll tell you what. Would you call me back, Joan, after you get it, and that you, so that way you could review it and tell me what you think about it. Would that be good?

I will do so. Okay. All right. So I'll tell you what. We're just going to hit the button. We're going to make this easy because time's short anyway. You win it this time. The next time we're going to have some other type of contest.

But since you're the first one and I hadn't decided how we were going to do it, you get it. How about that? All right? Well, thank you very much. That's very kind of you. Okay. So once again, they have all this camping and hunting and the outdoor adventures, everything for that, for that sort of stuff over at the Army Navy Marine Store.

And, you know, we love it. And good to have you here. Hang on. We'll get you all set up. But I'll tell you what we will do set up. Why don't we do the Diner 62 quiz after this then? 770563-770K-MED. We'll get you set up with a $20 gift certificate and get you fed today and talk about some

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So many good things. And who's on the line to play right now? Good morning. Who's this? Oh, hey, Bill. This is V. V. A pleasure.

Wow. Thank you. You too. All right. Now, what we're going to do right now, V, is that it was tomorrow in history, June 6th of 1933, the very first drive-in movie theater opened up. Eager motorists parked their automobiles on the grounds of the park-in theaters. And the term drive-in, that came a little bit later, all right? So the person who came up with the drive-in theater, Richard Hollings hit, he was a movie fan. He was a sales

manager, his dad's company, Wiz Auto Products, and he was inspired by his mother's struggle to sit comfortably in the typical movie theater seat. So she didn't like that. So she's thinking, well, why not do a drive-in, right? So he experimented in the driveway of his own house with a couple of projection and sound systems. He mounted a Kodak projector on the hood of his car, and he pinned a screen to some trees, and he put a radio behind the screen for sound. So this young entrepreneur, he got a patent for this concept in 1933, so he opened Parkin theaters less than a month later.

Initial investment, $30,000. And the advertising it is entertainment for the whole family, Hollingshead charged 25 cents a car and 25 cents per person. That was pretty good money back in those days, as you know, V. But nobody paid more than a buck, though. So you end up saving money overall. The question for the win, what state did Hollingshead establish the nation's first drive-in? Or even if he called it a park-in, all right?

Was it A, Minnesota, B, Georgia, C, California, D, New Jersey, or E, Texas. What do you think? New Jersey. You just took a guess, New Jersey? Yeah. I wanted to pick something on East Coast because they still had drive-ins on East Coast, and they're almost like all gone, if not all gone, out this way on the West Coast. Yeah. So when you said Minnesota, I was like, okay, Minnesota, not Georgia for sure,

probably in California. Yeah. And then you came to New Jersey. I was like, oh, yeah, that sounds better. All right. Yeah, yeah. So you were actually looking at this logically because I had no idea about this one. But yeah, New Jersey. The first ever won. It was Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pensacan, New Jersey. And after Hollingshead patent was overturned in 1949, because remember he patented, he had the patent on the concept.

But then they overturned that, figuring, yeah, you can't really patent this. And then you started getting drive-in theaters all over the country. One of the largest was the all-weather drive-in in New York, which feels. featured 2,500 cars. You could get 2,500 cars in there. Had a kids playground, full-service restaurant, all 28-acre a lot. And the popularity spiked after World War II, reached his heyday in the late 50s to the 1960s or so. He had about 5,000 at the peak here.

But, you know, gosh, there aren't very many of them, you know, left at this point. In fact, we had, well, how many drive-ins do we have around here, V? I know we had one out on Highway 99 for the longest time. It was sort of abandoned there for a while. I forget what's there now. But what about you? What was your experience? I was talking to someone the other day in saying,

I wonder if there's still a driving down in Capitola. But you know, as well as I do, how we loved our driving in the Pittsburgh area. They always had a little playground down in front, and you brought your basket of chicken. You made it home. Yeah. Open up the tailgate with a mattress and a back of the truck, laid down, watch movies. Or you open up the trunk after you got in there. and five more people piled out, right?

You know? Yeah, when you were told to go with your mom and dad, you started going on your own, yeah, definitely. Oh, yeah. I tell you, some of my favorite movie memories, though, are from when I was a kid, and I was living in New Kensington, you know, my grandmother, and we had a 1965 Ford Country Squire station wagon,

had that beautiful red vinyl deal. And there was, had the flip up seats in the back. Remember those? Like that sort of thing. And so we would just put all three of us kids. We would put down the blankets. And we'd be watching. Yeah, I mean, I think it's where we saw Bambi.

We saw Bambi, you know, from that. And, oh, no, they shot down. Anyway, everybody cried in the end. But you know how that goes. Hang on. We're going to send you to a diner 602. Yes. You still cry when you see it.

I haven't seen that for a long time. I think I'd rather cry at old yeller. But hang on. All right, B. You're right with you. Okay. 770563. Another diner 62 quiz next week. But what is on your mind here this morning?

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And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. Live from the Army Navy Marine Store Studios. And I appreciate you being here. We have open phones and we have Driven Ivan. Driving Ivan. I like that nickname. How you doing, Driving Ivan? Oh, that's pretty good. Mr. X. David, it to be a while back. Oh, no, kid. Oh, okay. Oh, you're that, you're that, Ivan. I know you.

I'm that, Ivan. All right, all right. How you doing, sir? I'm doing fine. Hey, you wanted to talk about that homelessness conversation I had with Michelle Steve and what's going on in Grants Pass. Go ahead. Yeah, correct. You know, I was in yesterday. We're serving a community here, doing our business.

They're transporting medical health patients. We're setting some care. Right. And, you know, it's just kind of weird how that whole thing is set up with a negative about that thing. It didn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Yeah, yeah. So I just wanted to let you know here. Now, I'm just taking this from the Daily Courier story.

Vicki Aldous, you know, ended up writing about this in the Daily Courier. And what they're going to do here, they're putting this up there right now. It's Parker's Village, Parker's Place Village, I guess is what it is called. And they're going to be able to. to take a number of the homeless that are already in these, in these unmanaged campgrounds, and they're going to be, I guess, encouraging many of them to go into these containers, these shipping containers, which have been redesigned then as bedrooms, in essence. So that's what's going to happen.

So you're not getting a warm feeling from it from what you're just looking at, huh? Well, no, not from the appearance, at least not from the opposite. You know, I've got to say, you know, we've worked with a lot of homeless every day, and I've seen some of these different places like Medford has a couple of great ones. But, you know, there's like the tiny home places, and I talk with people that live there. And, you know, some of the people like it, some of them don't, some are long-term people there. And, you know, but this situation that you got going on in Grand Pass, I don't know what's happening. But I just noticed there was, like, homeless and I've seen in a long time. and you've got the two places that are, you know, with the outdoor encampments, one by the police station and the other one by the courthouse, almost like the city's putting it on as a trophy item, you know, for what they're doing.

And I think it's doing the complete opposite effect. But I'm wondering if... Those kind of situations are good, though. Well, Ivan, yeah, I know. Well, Grant's Pass, of course, has been the linchpin of legal activity. And I think that may have something to why the city of Grants Pass has done what they've done, because the last one that they had, the last lawsuit, had to do with Disabilities Rights Oregon. Disability Rights Oregon. Are you familiar with that group? Have you heard about that?

Yeah. Yeah. Disability Rights Oregon is this group, which is, you know, essentially, yeah, they claim it's about the rights of the disabled, but it's really a Democratic Front Group, Democratic Party Front Group once again. And they've got lawyers and all the, the rest of this. And the attack has really been on the city of Grants Pass, and I think the city of Grants Pass is trying to find some way to move them out of these eyesore campgrounds and get them into some kind of regimented, some basic rules of living sort of thing to try to camp down the lawyers going after the city. I think that's why they're doing this. It's not because the city of Grants Pass wouldn't want to just throw everybody's butt out of there. I think this is about placating the lawyers.

I think that's what's going on, really. And until... And they do need a place to go. And I think that the modules they're putting up, you know, whoever gets into those are probably going to be okay with them. And it's good that we can do that. I'm just kind of wondering why is there such a difference between the way that Medford operates and Grants Pass.

Because you look at Medford. And, yeah, you'll see the homeless out there. But it's not as blatant as it is. I think to be fair to Grants Pass, it's easier to hide them also in Medford, given the Greenway property. And I know they flush them in and out of there, too. There's a lot more places to put it to a larger area. And also, we do have a larger existing shelter system. It's just my opinion.

I haven't studied that aspect of it deeply. But I know, you know, I live in Northeast Medford. Now, you see, if I understand correctly, you live. live in Central Point, right? Right. Okay, yeah. Now, I live in Northeast Medford, and even I have to tell you, I'm starting to see it more of the homeless creeping into my neighborhood, not directly because I'm out by foothill,

but the closer you get to Crater Lake Avenue, the more that you have the continue zombie shuffle up and down the sidewalks. And you know what I'm getting at, right? You know, though. Right, yeah. We're starting to see a little bit of that Central Point as well. I get up one morning and see somebody camped out by the... Yeah.

I appreciate the call, and thank you, Drive and Ivan. You were welcome anytime, all right. 7705-633. Let me grab another opinion here on whatever happens to be on your mind. Find your phone Friday. Hi, KMED. Who's this? Welcome.

Hi, this is Sandy Abercrombie about Bambi. Hi, Sandy. Bambi. In eastern Oregon, it's not quite the same. I lived in John Day for a couple years at the Forest Service. Bambi was showing at the movie, so I went. The kid behind me said, after, you know, Bambi's mommy was shot, he said, gee, mom, I guess they ever dressed out and in the truck by now, huh?

Didn't have the same effect, right? No. You know, I could still, you know, Sandy, I have to tell you this story from my, my dad was a deer hunter. And he was good at it, too. And one of my favorite pictures I have of him, of my late father, is him with a beautiful bow set. And he was a, you know, young man. And, of course, I almost forget about what that young man of my father used to look like.

But he'd go hunting. And there was one time that he brought home a deer, you know, tied to the car, you know, because he went out and, you know, shot the deer and brought it home. And my mother carried on and, oh, how could you? you shoot this beautiful animal that is like this or the... Dad never hunted again. Never went hunting again. It affected him like that at that time.

I think he went up hunting after they divorced later on. Maybe that was... I don't know. Maybe they divorced each other so he can go deer hunting again. I don't know. Maybe he just didn't bring it home again, you know? You know, that could be. Hey, I shot a deer, but I'm going to give it to my friend over here.

Yeah, Bob or something. Yeah. Thanks for the call. That's great, Sandy. How could you kill this, animal. How could you eat this animal with barbecue sauce? But anyway, hi, KMEDA, good morning. Who's this? Hello. Hi, who's this? Oh, this is Skip Bassinet. Hey, Skip.

I'll invite your audience to my concert on Saturday. Okay, so go ahead and abuse my radio station. Where is it going to be and what time? Yeah, it's going to be at the Central Point Presbyterian Church. that's at 4-5-6 West Pine Street at 2 o'clock on Saturday, this Saturday. Okay, 2 o'clock tomorrow. Great. Yes, free will concert. So anybody can come and we welcome everybody. And what are you going to be playing, Skip?

What's that? What's you playing? What songs are you playing? Oh, gosh, I'm going to play probably a lot of my Western tunes. Good. And country and a lot of tunes that I've written. so it's going to be kind of probably one of my last concerts. So I hope that a lot of people will come.

Well, I know that people have enjoyed that. So one more time, though, this could be your farewell concert then. All right. Well, we'll talk about that another time. Where's it going to be one more time? Just give me a quick shout on that. Okay, it's going to be at the Central Point Presbyterian Church at 456 West Pine Street. Good.

All right. So 2 o'clock tomorrow, free offering concert and all the rest of it, and wonderful Western music. Skip, I know you've done a great job. Thank you for the call, okay? Be well. Thank you for putting it on. All right, happy to. 20B49-7-05633.

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Slovenian Lives Matter. That would be Brad. Hello, Brad. How you doing this morning? Welcome. I just want to say thank you for emceeing the Vietnam Wall. Oh, it's my pleasure. It's my honor, actually. I wasn't able to stay there too long because of the heat, but I did appreciate it. but I do have a point that I think is germane. Another, I love information. I was listening to Bill O'Reilly, and the reason I bring it up, he was just in Europe recently, in England. And what he made commentary on was the amount of foreign individuals there

creating havoc in the culture of England. And the reason I bring that up is this homeless issue that we have is not going to go away because the government funds it. And I know that there needs to be some help, but it's amazing the amount of money that's being spent. And yet the problem does nothing but gross. And it boils down to what's the future hold? The future holds. To me, I think ultimately here, Brad, this is just my opinion, and I don't consider myself an expert on the homelessness crisis. All right.

I'd like to say I were. But ultimately, I think we are rapidly reaching a point in our culture, in our United States, that you're going to have to, well, how do I put this? I'm trying to put this in a kind, politics. way, all right? You're going to have to choose, and I'm talking about you being very much an individual. We're running out of other people's money, and we're probably going to be running out of a lot of other people's compassion over time. And my gut tells me that sooner rather than later, there's going to be a real people just going to have to go cold turkey on services, on the so-called services and the NGO kind of

industrial complex. I don't think it's a sustainable funding model. The United States, you know, a financing method of printing money every time we need services and such. It's coming to an end. The petrodollar, essentially, when you look at what's happening in Iran, is we're probably coming to an end when.

I don't know, but maybe some sometime within our lifetime, the idea that we're just going to fund everybody's taking care of everybody's problem. I think it's coming to an end, and we haven't quite come to that realization. What do you think? Because we're paying attention to the red flags. Look at our national debt. We're at a point where we're on the edge.

And I think the idea that we're going to get everybody who has decided to stick something in their veins or up their nose that we're going to get them help. there's probably going to be a lot of people dying over the coming years. It's going to be all right. You know, either you decide you're going to want this enough to get off of it or else you're probably not going to make it. I think on it, I know people may not like that. I mean, I'm not trying to be unkind.

I'm just talking about there are going to be some priorities. Priorities are going to have to be sharpened because we're going to have no choice but to sharpen priorities. and the idea that you're going to pay for people who are not producing much and are essentially causing problems and we're going to help you when you're not wanting to really help yourself, I think it's coming to an end. And I would like to think that that wouldn't happen,

but I'm just saying, honestly, I think it's going to get tougher. Am I right, wrong? Let me know. Let me go to Pebbles. Hello, Pebbles. You have a fairy tale on the Bidens. Go ahead. I do. I do. And a lot of us remember fairy tales when we were kids.

And I don't know whether anybody would remember Jack and Jill went up the hill. Well, this is about the Bidens. Well, old Joe and Jill went up the hill, but what did they fetch? To fetch a pail of power. Ah, okay. Well, old Joe fell down the hill and Jill came tumbling after. Well, when they woke and Jill had no excuse, the police were there and arrested her for elder abuse. That nice, interesting fairy tale, huh?

Let me give you a real American slew for that. You made me laugh a bit, okay? Good. You know, that whole canard, you hear that thing. Well, I thought he was suffering from a stroke, right? Yeah, you know, anybody who truly thought that and truly loved that individual would have had the medical people there, taking care of business. Well, she's a doctor, you know, and she probably thought, well, he'll take a pill and he'll be all right. Yeah, could be.

Thank you very much, Pebbles. Love the name, by the way. Tom's in the sprawling city of talent. Hello, Tom. Welcome. Hello. Cool, yeah, somewhat what you were talking about. It's basically we're running out of other people's money.

Yeah. And you've heard me rant on the Federal Reserve and how inflation is the hidden tax. And every time we go to the grocery store and gas station, we're paying more so that more money can go to Lockheed Martin and Rathion and all the military industrial complex. That's another example of the rackets that we've talked about. We have rackets of the homeless industrial complex, and same with the military industrial complex, too. Of course, they're probably taking more of it at the moment. So, you know, in economics, that's something called a misallocation of wealth. On a family level, it would be like dad goes out to the horse races and the gambling, casinos, and so forth,

and rather than buying food for the family, what's going on with the Federal Reserve with print money on design is they basically now can divert where our money and choices of where our money goes. And so it's become this gargantuous, completely way beyond anything the founders envisioned, so powerful, so centralized, and so on. And I always say the number one autopsy of the United States of America in terms of being a republic has been the formation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. It's killing it. Yeah, it is the poison pill.

Now, at some point, you know, something which cannot continue will not. Okay? Now, I don't know. I don't know at what point that ends. But I think we're starting to witness a bit of the crumbling around the fraying around the edges here right now. And even President Trump's reindustrialization plan, you know, everything that he's been doing, whether it's rare earth or, you know, going and doing this and doing that kind of, and we're going to do the AI war.

I think it's in realization that Don realizes that the crisis is probably deeper than even they want to admit out there. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think so. And like you said, I think at a certain point, we're heading towards collapse of a certain type. Now, it may be, it could take many different forms and so forth, but collapse may not necessarily be a bad thing. If we have enough moral people and knowledgeable people that can pick up the pieces and start over again. But we're definitely – we can't sustain ourselves the way we're going right now. Yeah, the status quo of the way the United States is run is not sustainable.

I will agree with you on that. But just remember, collapse is not a day, is not an event. It is a process. And I think – It certainly is. All right. And that's why people will – well, when's the collapse? Well, no, it's a process.

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We'll probably have a longer email segment on Monday, sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson at Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point Family Dentistry.com, but Brad writes me this morning, Hey, Bill, writing a single 100-word email with chat GPT consumes about the volume of a standard bottle of water. Wow. The global infrastructure processing AI questions, projected use the equivalent of half the United Kingdom's annual water by 2027, and much of that

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And the other thing is, tomorrow is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day where America's greatest generation saved the world. Thank you, greatest generation. All right. Thank you, Greg. Thanks for no. Brad, thank you for noting that. Okay. Now we wrap it up with a real positive.

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