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Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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The Bill Myer Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at www.clouserdrilling.com. All right. I've been looking forward to this talk because I'm a big fan of what is going on here. There's going to be a cat rescue walkathon. Would that be a fair enough way of putting it, Amanda? Yeah. Yes. A community event supporting Cat Rescue. All right. Now you are not a crazy cat lady, but you did bring in a crazy...

I'm a sane cat lady. You're a sane cat. If you're watching her in studio here on the Facebook Live, Amanda Linahan is with Rogue Community Cat Rescue. And you have an event coming up in just a few weeks. First off, before we go any further, who is our- Who is our- Our little squeaker.

Our little squeaker, who's the little squeaker? This is Tripp. Hi, Tripp. Yeah, Tripp is about 22 days old. 22, so not even weaned yet, huh? No, he's still being bottle fed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, by the way, it is kitten season big time, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. We've even had situations like that around here at the radio station in which, you know, the mother cats get dumped and we have babies and then we have to try to find, you know,

people who will take them. Do you take, do you do that kind of work then? We do if we have room, yes, absolutely. Okay. Yeah. So tell us a little bit more about the cat rescue program and how do you pay for this? Well, we have a lot of people who are going to be in? We do if we have room, yes, absolutely. Okay, yeah. So tell us a little bit more about the CAT Rescue Program and how do you pay for this

and how many people are involved? Kind of give me the basics. The rundown, okay. Yeah, so we actually have a facility. It's our medical facility where we have just different medical cases that we take care of onsite. And then we have a robust foster program. That's growing Because we need it and then we also have a TNR program, which is trap neuter return and we have our barn program

The what the barn programs are working cat program. Oh, oh barn. Yes the barn the barn Yeah, because there are certain cats when you get get feral cats, you know they're not necessarily going to be a great indoor cat in some cases, right? Sometimes there's, you know, people are, the cats are being hurt or poisoned or whatever, and so we try and find them a safer place within our working cat program. Yeah. And now this little guy is once again his name? Tripp. Tripp. So Tripp is is he a feral cat or just someone that was dropped off? So he is socialized. So feral refers to a cat that is completely unsocialized,

can't touch it, doesn't want to be anywhere near human. And those were like the ones we would have around the radio station and people would dump kitties. Yeah. Right. That kind of thing and I don't like those people dumping cats. No. Or dumping dogs or anybody. I wouldn't be big with this. So he is going to be socialized from the looks of it because you're bottle feeding him, right?

Yes. Is he up for adoption? He will be when he's ready. When he's neutered. OK. You know, is one of the problems maybe with the cat and dog explosion for that matter the cost of neutering these days? It's definitely a barrier to getting to

the to the crisis of cats being born and dogs being born. Alright so how do you end up paying for this and what can we do to help because I know you have a walkathon coming up here. We do our walkathon is a really exciting community event that we are hoping to start building community connections within our rescue and organization world so that we are working together a little bit more in order to make a bigger impact. We pay for all of this by donations from our community. A couple of grants that we get, things like that.

All right. And who's going to be involved here with the Walkathon? When is that going to be? So it's June 28th. The walk starts at 11. So that is three weeks from tomorrow. Yes. Yep. Three weeks from tomorrow. Where is it going to happen? It's happening at the Fickner and Main Warning Park on Stewart Avenue in Medford. All right. And how does this, how do you end up getting money out of this? So we have gotten quite a few sponsors. Rogue Valley Veterinary Emergency is our title sponsor. And then we have, I don't know, six or seven other sponsors that have sponsored this event

Which has been amazing? Like I do you want hold him? Yeah, okay? I want to hold the little guy horrible hold them um and then so we've gotten those and then People are making teams and fundraising on their own and so we're getting money that way And then we're hoping to get money the day of, you know, that kind of a thing. But yes, we want to make money, but really we just want to foster a community towards what we're doing.

All right, very good. And how do we sign up and where do we go? So our website, rogcats.org, you can find the event there and sign up there through givebutter. You know I really like this little guy. He's cute. Yeah I already have two I can't take anymore but I can see what he's pretty special. Yeah he is pretty adorable when it comes right down to it so trip right? Trip. Yes and his mama journey.

Alright so roguecats.org. Roguecats.org. Roguecats.org. Yep. Okay, very good. So it's going to be three weeks from tomorrow, and does it cost anything to sign up? It does. If you're going to do the Walkathon, there is a $35 fee, I believe. I should have studied that. It's minimal. Yeah. And then if you just want to come and hang out, that's free.

All right. And we completely encourage that and want that. We're going to have a kids section. He's nibbling on your chin. I know he's nibbling on the beard. The cats always do that. Yeah. I mean, the fire department is going to be there. We're going to have a huge kid area, lots of fun things. We're going to have lots of food vendors and crafty vendors. Really just like come hang out and have fun fun. All right I'm going to take trip and hand them off to you here in just a moment maybe you could grab that

and will you also be adopting cats out at that point or is that? No we're not gonna have kitties there it'll be just a little bit too hot. All right yeah I get that. Yeah. Amanda glad to help you out keep us in the room and hopefully we'll catch you there in a what three weeks from tomorrow. Okay. Yeah. And we'll help out the trips and get cats that are feral that would make great barn cats, keep the rodents down and things like that. But keep them out of just being obviously morsels for the critters too. Yes. I guess would be something else we want to try. More kitties off the street is the goal. all right once again Amanda Linahan and along with trip over at the rogue community cat rescue rogue cats dot org Three weeks from tomorrow the walkathon. Thanks for stopping by thank you. It's 20 minutes after eight. Thank you very much

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In Eastern Oregon, you get spread out pretty thin. I won't say I retired from a school here in the valley. I'm not going to say which school, but I was working with a student. This is how bad it is. This would have been about, oh, maybe 15 years ago because I've been retired now, and it was some math work in the science class. It was a freshman level class and it was something like 10 subtract 3 and the student goes, let me go get my calculator and I think I actually started twitching and so I decided to see just how bad it was. I had

four freshman classes, all physical science, average class size anywhere from 25 to 30 so I was doing a pretty good sampling, probably 125 to 130 students. And I made up about two page, front and back, basic math, multiplication, basic division, real basic fractions, basic decimal points, what I considered fourth and fifth grade type stuff. Gave it to all the students without a calculator and I would say most of them got done with it in maybe 30 to 40 minutes. Out of all the students, one got them all correct. And here's the kicker in the story. I went up to that student and I whispered in their ear, I said, I bet you if you didn't know the stuff

where they were from, I actually said this, they would kill you. where they were from, and I actually said this, they would kill you. And he looked up at me and he shook his head up and down, saying yes. He was a foreign exchange student from Japan. Yeah, oh boy. And the problem, I had a couple of classes one year and I was really frustrated because probably my highest grade I had maybe one or two C's and probably the

bulk were failures and it's my fault. It's no accountability on the students part. It's my fault. I've got to make them feel good. I've got to make them feel like they want to get this grade. And I say, yes, there is some truth to that. I get that. If a student doesn't like you, they're probably not going to perform well. But it's just real difficult. When I closed the doors, I did my thing.

And so there were probably a lot of times when I would have gotten in trouble, but it's hard. I feel sad for the younger teachers coming in because they have that expectation that it's all on their shoulders and not the students' shoulders. Is it a culture, is it a United States cultural thing almost from what I'm hearing because you said the exchange student from Japan just came in and you know just boom off we go no problem. Exactly. Well I was complaining I taught for 10 years at

Azealia in Brookings and that one happened to be eighth grade and boy, that was hard. I had to rewrite the whole program myself because the previous teacher just did everything out of the book and that was pretty disastrous. But I was in the office complaining one day and I had a teacher that was retiring and he goes, Rick, Rick, I go, what? Wake up. And this was probably 25 years ago. He says, you're dealing with second and third generation drug babies for parents.

Interesting observation. A lot of people don't think about that. They don't know how to raise their child. I know you probably went through it. I went through it when I went home. My parents killed me on the timetables and if you did not pass the timetables, this was fourth grade, you did not pass the fourth grade. Social promotion still being done in other words. Yeah, it was just sad. I feel sorry for the teachers that are teaching right now. It's no different than any other profession.

There are great teachers and there are some teachers that I wish were in a different line of work. But the bottom line is there has to be responsibility on the students. All right, Rick, I think that's a pretty good take on it and thanks for sharing your experience. is there has to be responsibility on the students. All right. Rick, I think that's a pretty good take on it and thanks for sharing your experience. I was hoping to hear from teachers either, you know, active or retired or maybe people, you know, really can't say anything if they're active. They've got to be careful these days. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you very much.

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That's cool. I understand it. The weather's been, sleeping weather's been actually really nice lately here. Well, yeah, but the problem is, you know, hey, we have duties to perform, both with you and over across the hill now. And so things went askew but oh well we're getting coffee in and awakening nicely. All right very good. Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive and Medford sponsor of the outdoor report. Normally it's 710 but we'll take it now it's fine. Now are we going to hit a hundred you think this weekend or maybe just getting really close? What do you think? I think we do and I think it's more likely for Sunday and possibly Monday, because

there is a potential limiting factor. We now have a pretty decent chance for thunderstorms in the area on Sunday and Monday. Sunday more specifically, Northern California, Saskia's Cascades, east of the Cascades. But on Monday, yeah, we definitely, we have to include that slight chance for a thunderstorm in Medford and Grants Pass on Monday. And if we get early development on those, that will be able to help keep the temperature down where we may not hit 100 on Monday. But if they're late developing and we get a lot of sunshine through that two to five p.m. area, then yeah, we look to be pretty much a lot to hit 100 again on Monday. But

regardless, after we get past Monday, number one, we lose the thunderstorm potential and number two, temps will be cooling down quite nicely, and by the time we get to a week from today, we may even be just slightly below seasonal average. Interesting. All right. Why don't you tell us, though, about the free stuff? This is actually free weekend, isn't it?

Yeah, and you know, Oregon tried this, I can't remember the year it started, but the first full weekend of June became Free Fishing Weekend in Oregon, where you did not need licenses and tags to go out and go fishing. That wound up being so successful that they have expanded over the years the number of free-fishing weekends they offer in Oregon. We have seen as many as five in a year. Last year it was just two. This coming weekend and the weekend, well it's not really the weekend, it's Friday and Saturday on the Thanksgiving holiday and

that one has proven to be pretty successful so it has now become established on the ODFNW calendar as the other big free fishing time. But this is the traditional and then Oregon State Parks decided to get involved in this and they started offering free camping on Saturday nights at their state park campgrounds where they have camping available. The trick is though there have to be open campsites. Well down here in our area when they had Joseph Stewart State Park out at Lost Creek that was the one that got all the demand and so when they

first started doing these free camping things on the first you know Saturday with the free fishing weekend going on, Valley of the Rogue State Park you very frequently could find open camp spaces and get to camp for free. Well they rolled Joseph Stewart Park back to Jackson County Park, so it's now a Jackson County Park. And what about the only state park we have down here immediate in the valleys. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. Now, what is the only one? I didn't mean to interrupt you there, Greg. Valley of the Rogue has not had open camp spots for that free camping night on Saturday. Okay. I don't know if that's

the case this year. I suspect it will be, but if you're local and you're thinking, yeah, being able to go camp for free on Saturday night would be fun, well, you gotta check with Valley of the Rogue to see if they're even gonna have any open spaces, but they don't take reservations for this. It's first come, first served.

Now, they no longer have a rest site there, right? It's no longer a rest stop or what? I thought that there was something about homelessness camps there. Is that true or am I confusing this with something else? They quote unquote eliminated the rest stop due to a number of reasons, most of which was they had a really high concentration of rest stops in a very short traveling distance. They had the Manzanita rest stop north of Grants Pass out there in the, I want to say Murphy area, and I know I'm not getting it, Merlin area. So they had the Manzanita rest stop there. Then they have the rest stop at Talbot, then they had Valley of the Rogue. And so what they did, they now call it the Valley of the Rogue Day Use Area, because

there is a boat ramp there, there's river access there. But guess what? The restrooms are still there. All the parking is still there. So while they may have changed the name of its designation, that facility still exists, you can still access it. I believe what they did do though was they did go to standard day park usage, meaning it's not 24 hours. Oh yeah, so you put the fee box out, right? Well, yeah, and then they... well, I don't think they did that because the built, developed restrooms at that location are still there.

I think they just lock it up like a city or county park. All right, very good. That's good to know. And so there's no excuse not to get out this weekend. That's what you're telling me, in other words. There's not, and in fact, tomorrow morning, I'm going out with a friend of mine up to Applegate Reservoir, because a lot of people use power bait to fish for trout. But pretty typically, when you do that, you're anchoring up and you're putting it on the bottom

or you're suspending it underneath the bobber. Not my boy, Alan. He's been trolling with it. And the first question everybody asked is, well, how do you keep it on? Well, he's going to show me the trick to trolling with power bait tomorrow morning. And we're going to be making some videos that we will put up on the Rogue Weather Facebook page. The other video that we're looking to absolutely get made,

besides how you troll with power bait, there are hybrid cutthroat trout and rainbow trout in Applegate Reservoir. And what we're hoping to do is get what's known as a cut bow in that case, get one in and then show people what you look for to see if you've got a cross between a cutthroat trout and a rainbow trout because when you first look at it you're going to think rainbow and then you're going to

notice these funny colorings on the lower jaw line because it has the lower jaw coloring of a cutthroat which can be kind of an orange to red look. And we're going to make videos and hopefully show people that because when I've gone fishing up there with him before, we've always managed to get cut bows in the boat. So we want to give people a good look at how you would identify that fish. All right, great. Well, you have a wonderful weekend. We'll catch you next Friday for sure, and you'll keep us up. All right, great. Well, you have a wonderful weekend. We'll catch you next Friday for sure. And you'll keep us up on roguewather.com and hopefully the thunderstorm activity is moderate

and maybe too low. Well, I hope so too because we're drying out so fast. Concern about fire starts is something that has to be looked at. Do I think this is going to turn into big ripping fires sustaining over a long period of time? No, I don't think we're at that point yet, but we are drying out rapidly and we have reached the point where we can expect that we would probably get fire starts, a single tree type situation. You know we're not fully dried and cured out yet to promote that really rapid turn into big fires but we've reached the point

where lightning strikes now could definitely give us some fire. Alright. It's going to be a concern. Appreciate the tip. Thanks Greg. We'll talk to you next week. Greg Roberts at Rogueweather.com. Rogueweather.com outdoor report sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. People have been holding on and we'll try to get to everyone's call. We'll grab another one. Hi, good morning.

Who's this? Hello. Bill, it's your friend Brad. Good morning. Brad, what's on your mind? Yeah, D-Day. Did we talk about it being D-Day? We have not talked about D-Day yet.

No. Eighty-one years ago, the largest amphibious military assault in the history of civilization turned the course of World War II and America's greatest generation saved the world. I had someone that wrote something about a little bit of history on this one. Let me see if I can find that. It had to do with that. Did you ever read the message that Eisenhower had written and stuck in his pocket? I'm trying to find it. He wrote two messages. He wrote one if Operation Overlord was successful and he

wrote another one if it was unsuccessful. And you're probably talking about the second one. Yeah, talking about the second one in which he put the blame on him. So I was visiting with some friends earlier this morning and here's just what I want to share with you real quick because you and I really respect the sacrifices that that generation made. My dad was 19 years old and serving with the US Army Air Corps this day, 81 years ago. And you know one of the things that came out that I learned from my dad is nothing great gets achieved without great sacrifice. If you want to achieve great things, there has to be a great sacrifice. They were willing to do it. In this day and age, I think sacrifice looks a little bit different. But you know, as we come to the end of the

legislative session, a lot of people, you know, a lot of people are willing to, you know, express discontent, you know, that sort of thing. Very few people are willing to express discontent, that sort of thing. Very few people are willing to put their boots on and go to work to try to change things to make them better. So this reminds me, things can get better, but they're only going to get better to the extent that I'm willing to sacrifice to make them better. Well, that's something though, and I know that you may disagree with me, all my conversation about denial of quorum, because it is difficult to do and difficult to hold together. There have to be more state reps and state senators willing to stop the Democrats and possibly put their so-called career at risk. And I don't

know if that exists right now in Oregon. This is a much bigger conversation than just the 30 state senators and the 60 state representatives that we have. This is a lot bigger discussion than those 90 people. There's 250 volunteer positions available in Jackson County and many other counties. And what really will make the difference, Bill, I believe, is ordinary people making those little sacrifices that sometimes wind up being a substantial sacrifice of their time, filling those lower positions, traffic commissions, planning commissions, parking commissions, you know, again, 250 volunteer positions. If all of us are willing to do just a little

bit that we can that's in front of us, we can make a difference that'll be a big difference for all of us. That's what I believe. All right. Appreciate your take on it, Greg. Thank you so much, Brad. It is 843. If you're on hold, we'll get right to you here. 7 7705633 a lot of open conversation this morning on Friday This is the Bill Meyer show this hour of the Bill Meyer show is sponsored by Fontana roofing for roofing gutters and sheet metal services Visit Fontana roofing services com Geerson's outlet is the home of escalating discounts What's escalating when something goes up what. What's a discount? When the price goes down. That's so silly. Why Sophia?

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on 1063 KMED. 7705633, good conversation and noodling around everything from Trump to math instruction and what's going on with the kids there. Peter's here. Hello Peter, you are 5 6 3 3 good conversation and noodling around everything from Trump to math instruction and what's going on with the kids there Peter's here hello Peter you are a math teacher for 30 years is that the case yeah yeah 27 here and the local area but it was all high school so I don't know if I have a lot to say about elementary but I did want to do a little bit more assessment of your own elementary teaching. Do you know how to make seven even? Do I know how to make seven even? Uh huh. All right. Something tells me I'm about ready to fail this numeracy test.

Well, it is elementary school. It's been a while. Okay. So how do you? You take off the F. Okay. See, I could feel there was a dad joke coming in there, right? Oh yeah. These are all bad jokes. You know what the triangle said to the circle? No. What? You're pointless. You're pointless. Okay. I love the one you talked about how you can tell that plants are mathematical.

You were telling me that off air, right? Yeah. Yeah. If they have square roots. If they have square roots. Peter, I appreciate that. And everyone knows this one. You know why six is afraid of seven.

No, why is six afraid of seven? Because seven, eight, nine. Okay. Those are great. Those are great. You know, it's gentle humor too, but there's a point. 8, 9. Okay. Those are great. Those are great. You know, it's gentle humor too, but there's a point. Yeah, yeah. So I can see that we do have problems with our elementary math instruction here. Yeah. Peter, there was something I was going to ask you though. Did you, in your 27 years of doing it, did you see a decline in quality of math knowledge coming into your classes or did it pretty much stay the same? Some people were telling me that it was like the

1980s where there seemed to be a push or the first noticing of a noticeable decline. Any comment on that? Just curious. The consensus among the math teachers that I've spoken with is that there's been a noticeable decline and it's not just COVID, although we we had to do a lot of remediation for the the policies that were enacted under COVID. And there's a lot of thought about it. It's not just inappropriate instruction, but what's called short video syndrome. are you aware of that? Yeah. The kids are so addicted on these little 10-second videos that they have no attention span.

They're also getting a lot of endocrine disruptors in their food supply. So it is a complex issue, and there's a lot going on on but it's real clear that there's been a decline and we do need to do something about it. It is interesting that you brought up the short video syndrome certainly is something because to really get into the concepts of higher mathematics and even lower mathematics, you have to be able to quiet the mind and task the mind toward well concentrating, really. Yeah.

Well, thank you so much for the dad jokes, by the way, the mathematic dad jokes too. I always appreciate that. You be well. Yeah, they are in the original with me, but I can't recall where I got them all. That's all right. That's all right. Well, it was a new joke to me. That's all that matters.

We go to David, David in Phoenix. Hi, David. It's all right. Well, it was a new joke to me. That's all the matters. We go to David, David in Phoenix. Hi David. What's on your mind? Yeah, good morning Bill. It's interesting. It's almost like spot fires. Like over the past, say 35 years, it's been a soup of the day. It can be a million things, and you can put energy into one, and then you turn around and there's something behind you that needs attention, and you can exhaust yourself and nothing really gets accomplished. So going back with the getting President Trump elected, we were all excited. We got to get him elected. We dropped the ball on all the voting machines, the going to the meetings. And so I'm hoping that small things that people, instead of doing something, people

can maybe stop doing some things, like using Amazon and Amazon Prime and going to Costco. They're in the top 10 woke companies. You got to cut the head off the snake, deny them their money, punish them. And everybody just wants to fall back and now everything's fine, let's all go have ice cream until the next crisis. And if people don't like the price of eggs, hey, don't buy them. I got sick of hearing, oh eggs haven't

come down, eggs, eggs, eggs, well then don't buy the eggs. Okay, I mean... I don't think that's... I think you're off base on that a little bit here, Dave. You know I love you. You know, eggs are a basic protein source in our... in a world that... in a world that meat is insanely expensive and the protein of choice in the major food groups I guess is trying to pump you full of soy. You know, oh it's got protein! you know. Eggs of course were one of the few last bastions of affordable protein, of affordable animal protein, and I think there was a reason

why people were upset about that. No, no, I strongly disagree and I'll tell you why. How many people during the fire map thing, they talking about I can't afford this and I can't afford that. And I see them getting their bucket of mocha at one of these kiosks, buying their mocha every day for $10. That's $300 a month if they do that once a day.

Burning gasoline, they're talking about how expensive gas is, but their engines are all running. They can't even get out of their trucks to get their mocha. I mean, everybody has plenty of money to get Netflix and watch the Super Bowl and cable TV, but they can't fix the fence or they can't gravel the driveway or they can't mow the field. No, I just don't believe it.

I ride the bus, as you know, and how many people over the years, I've lost count, will have two brand new cartons of cigarettes under their arm in a case of beer and want to hit me up for a buck or two so they can ride the bus when they could buy a bus pass? I just not buying it. Okay, it's choices. David, I appreciate the call, and thanks for making it. I think he wears a shirt and it's hairy, but that's okay. Let me go to Skip. Skip Bessonet, how are you doing this morning, Skip?

I haven't heard from you for a while, but I know you're putting on a great concert tomorrow night. What's the story, huh? Well, I am, but it's not tomorrow night, it's tomorrow afternoon. Oh, tomorrow afternoon. Pardon me. All right. By the way, Skip Bessonet is an International Western Music Association recording artist. We've talked to you before in the past and you're doing a freewill concert. Where's that? It's going to be at the Central Point Presbyterian Church at 456 West Pine Street in Central Point. What time?

At 2 30. Alright, what you gonna be playing there? 3 30. Yeah, you're gonna be playing hard rock and heavy metal, right? Oh no, no, no. No, I'm gonna be doing western music and maybe throw some country in there too. What is the difference between country and western music? What is that?

Well, I believe that western music tells a story. It's a lot of... Basically it just tells a story. The country music, it can tell a story too, but it's not quite so often as a western tune, a true western tune. Well, you know, a country tune a lot of times is, you know, shake your sugar shaker at me baby on my pickup truck on the red dirt road, okay? Yeah. Now, would it be fair to say then like western music would be as contrasted with shaking your booty on the your moneymaker on the Red Dirt Road would it be out in the West

Texas town of El Paso that kind of thing? That sounds about right. Alright, alright and so as you know that tells the story there. Indeed it is. It's some of the best storytelling in Western music and so you're well how much does it cost by the way at your concert? Free will yeah that means you can come in for free anybody can come in we're gonna pass the hat