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Episode Date: June 13, 2025

A mix of Outdoor report talk with Greg Roberts at Rogue Weather dot com, and a wonderful number of special father day rememberances from listeners.

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 ClouserDrilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Mr. Outdoors is standing by. I wanted to get a couple more entries in our Father's Day thing. Today we're just having fun with Father's Day. Some of the calls.

The time that dad caught you. And everybody knows what I'm talking about. I shared my situation about getting caught messing with the car and my girlfriend and everything else. Yeah. Cherry ended up sharing her story about the dad and the motorcycle and off into the canyon. Atheist parents wouldn't let her go to date a boy who wanted to take her to church on Sundays.

So I guess that's an interesting story Dan writes me says hey Bill When I was 10 years old my older sister really upset me one day I was in the kitchen with the freezer door open when she barged her way into the refrigerator below me I lined up the freezer door with her head and smack She nailed it on the way up. I turned around and dad was standing right there having witnessed the whole thing. Man, did I get a whipping! Good times! Alright, Dan, I got you in there. Minor Dave, you don't care about the tickets, but what is your story?

You turned 15 and what happened? Well, on Father's Day, it was just after my birthday, my dad, we sat down and drank a beer together on Father's Day. On Father's Day, that's interesting. Yeah, my father gave me a little sip out of the Iron City beer when the Pittsburgh Pirates were on. We would listen to it on the radio when I was a kid too, but we didn't really sit down and have a beer until we were adults though, have a full

beer. But I had a little chip, a little sip now and then. I guess now today though you would have Child Protective Services called on you. Oh yeah, probably. Yeah. And you know, I don't even really like beer. I don't either. Except on a really hot day, like when it's really hot. A really hot day, ice cold, and a frozen glass. Yep, there you go. That's the way to hot day, ice cold, and a frozen glass. Yep, there you go. That's the way to do it. All right, we'll get back to more of that here

just a moment, Mr. Outdoors. I don't know if Mr. Outdoors, you have a father's day story? When you got caught, just curious. Or did you manage to escape all the time? Did you escape? It's like, which one, which one do I tell? Actually, I'm gonna tell a funny one on my dad though that ripped dad, but we were living up in Bend and he and I went out to cut firewood, which we had a stove for our

primary heat source in the house. So we went through a lot of wood and we were out cutting down lodge pole, cutting it up in the truck. And dad was looking at this one tree and then he's kind of looking and he's like, hey watch how close I can drop this to the truck. I'm like, all right. I have a bad feeling about this story. A sazam idle tailgates down because of course we're loading the back into the truck with wood dad Gets loose on the tree saws roar and he's looking at the top. He's watching it things starts going down He's like watch this right behind the tailgate. Nope

Right on the tailgate tail Nope. Right on the tailgate. Took the tailgate right off the truck. Bang. And I turned and I look at him and he could see the look on my face and he was just beat red and he's like, don't do it. Don't you do it. He also threw a couple other words in too that the FCC forbids me from saying. Oh, I love... But you know, him dropping the tree on the tailgate of the truck was just one of the most epic things. So we managed to get it back on the truck. We drive home in absolute silence.

I am trying to stifle laughter all the way. And you know how you keep getting the sideways looks from the parents, like don't even, he did that the whole nearly 50 miles back home. We get to the house, I tell him, I gotta go to the can, he's like fine, get back out here and help me unload this. And what I did was just go into my room,

flop down on the bed, put my face in the pillow, and just start screaming with laughter, because that was one of the funniest things. It took decades before he would finally even talk about that and admit some humor in it. And then he, the last time we talked about it before he passed, he looked at me and he goes, that was probably one of the stupidest things I ever did, right? And I go, yeah, dad, that's probably right there on the top of the list. But you know, that was about as human as it gets too. It's a great story. A great story. All right, we'll get to some more listener calls about that this hour too, for sure. 770-5633. Right now though, we have the Outdoor Report. Outdoor Report is sponsored by

Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medfordford and it's going to be pretty, my gosh, pretty mild and just perfect the next few days wouldn't you say really? I mean just maybe a little bit above maybe a little bit above normal. I'm sorry what was that? It's going to be below average for our high which when you consider we were up there in the triple digits zone Sunday and Monday and then it was still plenty warm on Tuesday. To now see a high where we're going to be probably five to eight degrees below average, that's going to feel really good. I was saying on rogue weather, the giant air conditioner in the sky is going to get turned on and it absolutely did. So some pretty welcome relief, at least in terms of the temps.

I think we can enjoy that. It does not look like there's any kind of a real, even thunderstorm threat developing for at least the next 10 days. So we're looking at a lot of very sunny days with not hot temperatures either. We might touch 90, maybe low 90s on the warmest days, but the next two weeks overall it looks really awesome and you know there's a lot of outdoor oriented stuff coming up over the course of the next two weeks that having really good weather is going to be an added benefit. Now I know that you're of course working with the Rogues there doing the

announcing. Are they in town this weekend? Yeah, in fact basically we're in town until the 13th of July. We take Mondays off. Oh, we've also got a Thursday off coming up that I'm probably going to spend on the South Umpqua River doing some smallmouth fishing. But yeah, by and large, we're in town. Now tonight, fireworks night. Tickets are going real fast. We're going to have a 17-minute fireworks show after the game.

These shows, they're all different. We're going to do them. We started two weeks ago. We'll go through the 4th of July. Every show is different. We were going to do them. We started two weeks ago. We'll go through the 4th of July. Every show is different. The tickets for the July 4th were real close to a sellout and tickets were selling really well for tonight because everybody realized, oh, hey, it's not going to be super hot. So tickets started moving. But Sunday, Father's Day, There is no charge for general admissions seating. How cool So how cool is this You get to do a great activity with dad load up the whole family

It is no charge for general admissions seating. You were going to create memories that last a lifetime because Everybody remembers going to the ballgame. They just, they do. You might forget other things, but you tend to remember those trips to things like ballgames and special events and something you can do as the whole family. Well, here's something you can do as the whole family and it's not going to cost you a dime to get into the ballpark. Great story. Now you know my experience with that and baseball, of course, diehard Pirates fans, you know we were living in Pittsburgh in those days, and Bob Prince was the announcer on KDKA, we would always listen to that. And then one day, we we didn't now I didn't take off school or

cut or anything like that but one day dad said well here it is it's almost gonna be your birthday and so I'm taking you the pirate so he took me to the pirates in old Forbes field for and Bill you just aged yourself pretty well oh I know I know Forbes field has been gone for what, 50 something years, maybe more than that? That thing was gone, I want to say late 60s, early 70s. Yeah, three rivers opened up and then the pirates along with the Steelers promptly moved in there. Forbes was up for a while after three rivers was built, but then they demolished it and took it to the ground. And I do want to say it was like 70, 71 somewhere

in there. Yeah. But to me it was a beautiful experience, even though the Pirates lost the game. They lost the game that day, but I still loved it. I had my Pirates pen it and everything and the peanuts and the popcorn and everything else. It was a great day. I always remember that. You had probably there drinking in Iron City. I heard the story about your dad drinking in Iron City. There was a time when I succeeded in getting Lava Lanes here in Medford declared an official Pittsburgh Steelers fan club hangout. And the original owner of Lava Lanes, Rick, I talked him

in to ordering in Iron City beer. And I said, it's one of the official beers of the Steelers and it's way better than Rolling Rock. And he goes, okay, so I'll bring it in. And he got the 16 ounce tall cans. And myself and a couple other people were ordering that. He really didn't sell it though. Remember when the professional bowlers tour was coming here? Yeah, I remember that, yeah. When those guys got here, they were all shocked to see Iron City

and it was the pro bowlers that bought Iron City and then Rick goes, well, I learned something. I guess I probably ought to stock it up when the pro bowlers are coming in. Exactly. Man, now the other thing though you can't say Iron City it has to be Arn City. Oh yeah, you got that whole Western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh thing, Yen Stillers, Arn City. I mean yeah there's just there's a whole lot of little... And even some of that stuff still

comes out of my speech every now and then. You'll hear me say Costco instead of Costco. And I'm going to go downtown, downtown, you know, that kind of thing. And there's a little something to it that kind of reminds me of the Boston accent. It's not quite as broad, not nearly as chowd as Boston. Well, it's like a redneck gets married to a Bostonian. It's like the rednecks marry Bostonians and that was the Pittsburgh accent. You know that kind of thing.

There you go. That's a good way to describe it. All right. So anyway, anything we need to know, what about fishing, things like that? Give us the report then we'll cut you loose and we'll get back to other stuff here, okay? I'll tell you loose and we'll get back to other stuff here, okay? I'll tell you what, fishing actually for free fishing weekend last weekend, it was really good. It continues to hold up well.

ODF and W is into their summer stocking program, which means they're getting trout into a lot of our area waters. But what I did last Saturday, and I still need to put this video up, I went up with my buddy, Alan Colvin. He took me up to Applegate. He has been talking about for the longest time

that he trolls power bait. Something that most people anchor up, the boat stopped, you send your power bait down to the bottom or you float it underneath a bobber and you wait for a trout to come cruising by. Not Alan, he sets up flashers exactly like he's going to be trolling a worm, but you use power bait. But the trick is, A, you use a big treble, so you're using a big chunk of power bait,

and then you troll the boat pretty much as slow as you can. You keep it on a very slow troll. You don't troll fast and it works. We limit it out by 930 on Saturday morning. No kidding. Yeah, I couldn't believe it, but I was like, yeah, this actually works. So I did shoot a video. I've got to get that up on both the Rogue Weather social media and get it up on the fishing page so people can see this. And then a week from tomorrow up at Diamond Lake at the Blackbird Derby, my partners and I, we are definitely going to employ that technique up there and see if we can make it work there as good as it did at Applegate. All right now you're doing a daily video chat I guess, or

video post on Rogue Weather because of when it comes to fire season you're going to start doing that on a daily basis, is that right? Exactly. I started taking a look at what all the other information sources about fire were doing, especially watch duty, and what I quickly realized is, oh they're real good about telling you when an incident breaks out and what I quickly realized is oh they're real good about telling you when an incident breaks out and what's going on with the incident. What nobody is good at is telling you what the day is going to be like, what fire behavior is going to be like, letting you know the kind of information we used to get every morning in fire season and I don't care who I was with ODF

Pacific Forestry Redmond fire Jackson County Fire District 5 we knew exactly how the day was shaping up We knew what the fire danger levels were we knew when the peak fire activity each day was expected to be We knew what fire how it would move it. Oh, yeah, and so you're putting all this into the video. I get that. Exactly. All right, so you'll get that up there. That's going to be great. You can find out more and check it out on rogueweather.com. All right, now Greg, I'll tell you what, that's great news and I'm also glad to hear that we're probably at low lightning strike potential for the next few days. That's

good. Oh yeah, we'll try zero because there's just nothing coming right now. We don't see anything at all that will lead to thunderstorms in our area. We just don't have anything in the mix. So what we are going to have though, like I said, going into this, we're probably looking at about two weeks of just outstanding, easy to take, beautiful sunny skies, and temps not being hot at all. All right, very good. Greg Roberts over at ruleweather.com, of course, always brings us the outdoor report every Friday, and of course the dad story every now and then, too. I love that dad story. That's great. Yeah, my dad, it was funny. He didn't even want to mention it all for a long period of time

in his life. And then like I said, in the last few years of his life, he finally came to own it and acknowledge it and realize, yeah, he did a really stupid thing and it was actually very funny. My father was really super good at home repairs and working with wood. He was a beautiful woodworker. Now I could never do that, and I was more into the mechanical stuff.

And the one thing I'll always be grateful for him is that he was tolerant of me taking apart things, including car engines, and having extra parts when I was done. Because he more or less kind of said he probably couldn't do any better. But I learned and got better over time. I think back some of the stuff that I used to do, but hey, great talk. Appreciate the call, Greg. We'll see you next Friday, all right? Be well.

You got it, Bill. And the Outdoor Reports and the other talk, it's sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. We appreciate that. Let me head to the next line here. We have open phones for the rest of this hour on Find Your Phone Friday. Good morning. You've been on hold for a while. I have no idea who you are or what you want, but we're gonna find out. Who's this? This is George. George, how you doing this morning? What's on your mind? Hey, great. Yeah, I got a dad story. When I was a little guy about nine years old, my dad had this recliner. He'd come home and relax and

then he smoked camels and anyway he would get a keg in the back would go hey boy go draw me a beer you know but he of course you being the dutiful son when he complied right yeah but anyway he caught me behind his recliner playing with his cigarettes and he made me eat the whole pack. He did? So he kind of did me a favor because after that I never touched a cigarette in my life. You know, I guess that was a good thing, but it was aversion therapy for you, George, right? Yes, indeed.

Yeah. Now, on the other hand, did you tipple with the beer as you were pouring him a beer? Did you ever sample? Oh, no. I didn't do that until later in life when I was about 19. Good for you. Now, kind of curious, when you were 19, was it 21 in your state? Because in Ohio, at that time, at 18, you could get 3.2% beer when I graduated

from high school and it was the most miserable tasting beer in the world but you know you can still buy it. What about your state? Oh no, it was Southern California and it kind of was relaxed back then. A buddy of mine showed me goes hey go to this liquor store down here and they'll sell you beer. I'm like okay so I went down to that store at 19 and I go up the counter at my beer, and I was like a deer in the headlights, a guy goes, hey, let me see your ID. I go, oh no. He looks up behind him, there's a camera.

He goes, no, just show me your ID. I go, oh, okay, I'll get you. Oh, just show me your ID, okay. All right. You know, somehow the Republic survived those days. I don't know how, you know, because the way we hear about it today is that it must have just been anarchy back in our day, huh? Yep. Hey, George, what's your last name? I'm going to put you in for the Hellgate jet boat giveaway we have a little bit later this morning. Elmore. George Elmore.

All right, George. Congratulations. Good story. Love it. Okay. Thank you. All right. we have a little bit more Elmore George George Elmore all right George congratulations good story love it okay thank you yeah thank you all right 732 at KMED 993 KBXG yeah that's what we're doing we're just having a little bit of fun tell us a memorable story but you know you and your father and and share some of that if you want we'll put you into the drawing for a pair of river river run tickets from hellgate jet boat excursions. Very fun stuff, all right? 732. If you've been injured in an accident, click keemedford.com.

You're here in the Bill Meyers show on 1063 KMED. Seven seven oh five six three three. A little bit of open phone time here. And gosh, I'm just seeing some breaking news from the radio station trade papers. They're saying a man jumped from a Washington, DC radio tower in apparent suicide. It was a 60-hour standoff. Wow.

Meanwhile, speaking of media there, the House ends up voting to defund National Public Radio and PBS. I wonder if they'll be able to get that through? I don't know. It's 735-770-5633. Oh, okay. LaCrescia, I didn't forget your theme this time. How are you doing this morning?

Thanks, Bill. Yeah, just thanking my father. And the one time I got a thanking. The one time, the one time Lucretia. Now I can't imagine you ever misbehaving, ever. Oh, but Bill, my mother made this most incredible cornbread. Yeah. And you put butter on it, then you put honey on it. Yep. And then you're trying to sneak it out, you know, to your little camp. We had a little tent we set up on this barbed wire. You know, my girlfriend and I, and I couldn't get the door open. It was a slider door with my hands all full of honey and butter. It was really hard. So I had to really push on the window, you know, to get out. So there was honey and butter and everything fell over

the slider glass window and dad was pretty pissed at me. So I got the actual slap in the butt. You know, of all the things you could have gotten a slap in the butt for, that was it? Honey and butter on the window? Really? Oh God, it was, yeah, it took a while to clean up. Oh, oh, okay, all right. Yeah, because that, I was thinking, all right, now, I very rarely ended up getting those kind of punishments. I tended to be, well, you know, were you first born in your family? No, I was third, I was a baby. A baby, okay, see, now, oh yeah, baby, yeah.

The baby is always, is trying to get away with stuff But being the eldest, you know, you're the eldest child though usually identifies with the parents and you know, and I tended to behave Relatively well, but I would just sneakily misbehave is what I would happen Like I said, you know fast driving and all that kind of stuff Well, I'll tell you what All right, well Lucretia I'm putting you in for the Hellgate tickets, okay? And hopefully the camp trails will not obscure your trip if you win, okay? That's right. I'm just having some fun, folks.

770-5633. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hi, Bill. This is Darren Thornton. Hey, Darren. How are you doing this morning? How are things? Oh, pretty good. You know Margot's place there in Jacksonville that used to be Rasmus and Super Serve, the old gas station back in the 50s and 60s. Oh, you mean the... You're not talking about the place where the coffee is because Margot has the... What do you call it?

The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine.

The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. The coffee machine. 60s. Oh, you mean the... you're not talking about the place where the coffee is, because Margot has the... what do you call it? Gosh, I forget the name of that house, but it's like the Pilates place right now in Jacksonville? That's what Margot has. Well, it's behind her place across from the Mexican

restaurant, the old gas station, on, all right. On the main drag. So my dad was a mechanic there in the 50s and 60s and then went off to the military. So when he came back, I was born and he had a handful of loose mechanical tools gave to me, I was three, four years old. And he used to come home and plop down in his easy chair and lean that thing back.

Well, I crawled underneath there while he was at work and I undid all of the bolts on the bottom of that round plate. Of the easy chair, right? Yep. Dad came home, plopped down and wanted to kick it back and flipped the clear over backwards onto his head. What happened after that? Anything?

Well, he kind of gave me a good butt-chewing, but other than that, everybody was laughing and it was pretty good. I'm glad he wasn't hurt or anything like that, but that's a great story. I love that kind of stuff. That was innocent, but he gave you the tools, right? What did you think you were going to do with them? Oh yeah. I looked that's exactly it. I looked for something for it to fit on, and underneath that chair it fit perfect.

Now when my father would give me tools, usually what ended up happening is that they were craftsmen and invariably left out in the rain. Oh. I was not good at that. I finally wised up later on, but for some reason when I was a kid working on the bike, you know, the craftsman wrench would end up making it out there in the rain and then maybe would rust a little bit. I don't know. But yeah, typical kid. Thanks for that. Get you in here. Let's get another call. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hello? Good morning. Is it me? Yes, it is. Who's this?

Hi, good morning. Keith out of Cave Junction. Hey, Keith, how are you? What's on your mind? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You made me think about my dad. That was the purpose. Because let's face it, Mother's Day, the culture is much, much, much, much bigger into it, right? And, yeah, we love our moms and we probably even have more contact with mothers and mothers tend to get the majority of the attention when it comes to the holidays, all right? Dads, yeah, we get the tie, we talk about it, but maybe it's better just to remember in some of the good stuff and maybe the not so good stuff too.

Well here I go. I'm a nine-year-old. I'm walking home from school. I'm going by a grocery store and I'm starting to steal candy bars every time I go by. I got caught. I was sent down to a local police department where I would sat in front of the police chief Balling my head off Almost like I'm doing now

Really now your dad sent you that what happened? No, no, no, no, no, no the the store No, okay. All right, so the store so you're thinking you're in big trouble. You're going to jail, right? I Oh, okay. All right. So the store. So you're thinking you're in big trouble. You're going to jail, right? I was given a tour. You were? I was given a tour in the jail. Sat down in front of the police chief.

And the next thing he said, I have never forgotten your father will be here shortly. Uh-oh. My dad walks in, he looks at the situation, and this is the last thing he ever said about that situation. You've done enough today. Let's go home.

I have never. Forgive me. me, my right and wrong meter grew huge. You took a real lesson from that experience with your father. Oh yeah. The other thing about that though, Keith, is that you also learned the reason, well you also learned reason and I guess mercy to an extent too, because your father recognized that you had learned the lesson about this and there was no point in continuing to beat you into the ground over it. I think that's what I'm getting at, right?

Well, that as well as the police chief, as well as the store owners who didn't, as they might today, press large charges or harsh charges instead of allowing this to be a learning experience. You're absolutely right. Now I'm even more grateful for what happened to me. Great story, Keith, thanks for sharing that. And I understand the tear up part. God, it got me.

All right. If you're on hold, I will get to your call this morning. 770-5633-770KMED. Looking for particular father stories. Maybe dad caught you, maybe something else happened, but I'm putting everybody's name into the hopper this morning for it for a pair of Hellgate jet boat excursion tickets will do a random draw at the end of the show okay

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See what's on your mind. Let me go to one. Hello. Hi, who's this? Welcome. Hi, Bill. This is Vicki from the Applegate. Hello, Vicki from the Applegate. Comment? No, the no Kings or something else going on? No, I have a funny dad story. It's about stealing, but it wasn't me stealing. It was my dad stealing. Really? Okay. In my early 20s, I went with my parents down south to Santa Rosa. We were going for my cousin's wedding. Well, my great uncle lived in Hollister and so we stopped there and everything and his house was like 150 years old so it was really cool. But they have apricot orchards all around his house. Well, that's one of

the big things in California. You do not steal fruit or nuts or anything like that out of the orchard. What did he do? Well him and my great uncle were out at one of the apricot trees and they were plucking away and I was standing there with my mom and I went, woo woo woo woo! Like the cops showed up. Oh my God, I've never seen my dad throw fruit and run so fast. And I was cracking up. I thought it was hilarious. But I'm telling you, if I'd been under 18, I probably would have got the strap. I mean, my dad was so mad at me. He didn't talk to me for like two days.

But the thing is though, did you get the point across that, you know, dad, you're not supposed to take someone else's fruit. across that you know dad you're not supposed to take someone else's fruit yeah but and you know my dad was a Navy guy for 20 years so it took a lot to even scare him at all but you did oh my god I've never seen him run so quick through a field in my life he was trying to get back on my uncle's property you know Vicki from the Applegate the voice of conscience in her family right there we go so mad I'll tell you what I'll put you in for the Apple gate the voice of conscience in her family right there we go Tell you I'll put you in for the hell gate tickets all right. We'll have another one here. Hi. Good morning. This is Bill Who's this welcome?

Hi, this is Kathy. Hi Kathy. What's on your mind today? Hey, well, I guess this is kind of not I didn't get caught but my dad and I kept the secret Okay, and it was like you got remember, this is like 60 plus years ago. We're driving in our, my dad's huge car. He was an alcoholic. And I'm standing on the bench seat. And I can still smell the scotch and hear the ice cubes clinking in the glass, as they were driving hell bent for leather and catching air across the train tracks.

And I'm going, do it again, daddy, do it again. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. You know, I mean, I know I have mixed emotions about this. On one hand, it's just like, do it again, you know, catch air over the railroad crossing. But yet, did your dad... I have no idea. Yeah. Yeah. Did your dad ever end up getting that taken care of or managing to do that?

No. No. No. But we did it again. Was he a World War II veteran by chance? No, he did not serve. He was a very good athlete and a very disappointed man in life. I'll just say it that way. That is one of my memories and it's joyful for me because I was little and I just thought it was the greatest fun in the world. It's like, and then I think back on it and go, oh my God. Yeah. Kathy, Kathy, what's the last, what's the last name? I just want to put you in there in case you win.

We're going to do a random, random draw here for the... Beamer. I know it sounds like a ridiculous memory, but it's like my only memory of him or one of them. But you know the thing is that that's your memory. And one way or it is, in spite of the fact that it's kind of colored by the the weirdness of it like you just mentioned, but still you're like, hey do it again! Wee! But coming from a guy who used to drive 120 miles an hour, now come on. Yeah, well... At least you weren't drunk. No, well I wasn't drunk. I wasn't drunk doing it. But the thing is though, in Ohio we had a lot of these long straight roads and they were designed, you know, 120 miles an hour through the

straight roads around the cornfields in the summertime. And the thing is though, it was. And the part that I'm amazed though is that I never got caught. I'm still kind of like, how did this happen? I don't know. Now today I'm sure the Panopticon I would be on the no fly list, the no drive list, the no anything list. Yeah, I taught myself to drive in the sugar cane roads on Kauai, so I get it. And it was fun. Exactly. Thanks for the call. 770-5633. Next here on the Bill Maier Show. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Hello? This is Janet. Oh, hi Janet. How are you this morning? Pretty good. Great. What are you this morning? Pretty good. Great. What are you thinking? I have a dad's story. I'd love to hear it.

It's about 16 or 17. It's like 1978, 79 over in Cope Hill. And I'm in high school and I'd already wrecked my 69 Nova in my first car. And my dad helped me out and he bought me a 69 Dodge Coronet 500. Huh. All right. Well, between the Nova and the Dodge Coronet, of course, Dodge Coronet was probably a good car in the day, wasn't it?

Sure. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. It was a good car. out and he bought me a 69 Dodge Coronet 500. Huh, all right. What between the Nova and the Dodge Coronet?

Of course, Dodge Coronet was probably a good car of the day, wasn't it? Sure. It wasn't a muscle car though in the same sense as the Camaros and the Novas and stuff. But anyway, so we lived 10 miles upriver and I was on my way to work. I worked at the A&W and my dad was on his way home and there was a lot of log trucks back in those days. And from the top of this hill I could see like five corners down the hill, nobody coming, and so I passed in the log truck, always passed in the log truck on the blind corners.

Well I finally I come around this log truck on the last corner and there goes my dad, passes me. And he turned around and he passed that log truck too and he caught up with me and he just pulled up next to me with his finger like, come here. You know, so I had to follow him into town. I thought, oh, he's going to take my keys away. Yeah, you're trouble. Wow. Yeah. And he pulled up in front of Kelly tire and I got out and started just trying to justify. I could see all the way, dad, really. I could, you know, I do that all the time. He said that I don't even want to talk about that. He said, look at your tires. And the, I at your tires. And the car had retreads on it and neither one of us knew it. And both front tires were flapping. The retreads had come undone. That's what he

saw when I come around that log truck on them corners with that retreads flapping on them front tires. Oh, that could have ended so badly. Yeah, he saw my life flash before his eyes. So we put tires on it right there. That weekend he taught me how to walk around the car and do a walk around and check the oil and check everything to check because I was 16. I didn't know I never looked at things like that. My boyfriends did. They always worked on the car. So he taught me how to work on my own vehicle and take care of my own butt and look for those things. So you really took that then? That was a real gift in a way. You know, I still pass log trucks on corners probably for quite a while.

Yeah, I must say that my 120 mile per hour driving stuff, I did calm down. I knew that wasn't going to last forever. I couldn't keep doing that. But yeah, it's a great memory at this time, too. I love your story, Janet. Thanks for sharing it. Okay. We'll put you in the running. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. This is Jim from Medford with a good dad story and a follow-up with the EAA. Oh, that's right. Now, Jim, we'll talk about that too, but give me the dad story first. So back in the mid-60s, we lived in New Jersey and my dad picked up a job

delivering papers, a large paper route. We delivered the Sunday New York Times, if anybody knows the New York Times back in the day. That was heavy. It was about two inches, two and a half, three inches thick. They weighed about ten pounds a copy. And we had this route, we had this Chevy Step Van, kind of like the bread trucks you see around. And it was old. It was a manual transmission that had a manual choke. And my dad would be driving and I'd be, I was 12 at the time, and he'd pick up three

papers, jump out the left side, just leave the thing running, and with the choke out, we'd move along at about five miles an hour. He'd come back from delivering the three on his side of the street, and I'd jump out the right side, and I'd deliver three on my side of the street. Well, one day we both jumped out of the truck at the same time,

and it was the T in the road. And the truck went right into somebody's front yard. He looked from where he was on his side of the street. I looked from where I was at my side of the street. We both took off running after the truck. And needless to say, we left this tire track going right towards the house. I got to the house, to the truck first, because I was a little kid and I could run faster. And I turned the truck around and we left this nice U-turn tire track on this beautiful

green lawn on this, it was a big house at the time, in Sparta, New Jersey. We did go back later on and fix it, but we both told that story to each other for quite some time. Oh, I'll bet. You know, Jim, isn't it interesting how many times stories about our fathers, though, involve some form of mischief? Isn't that interesting? Yeah. So I was slave labor for that, of course, and as a reward, my dad brought me up to Sussex Airport and we took an introductory flight and I've been involved with and enamored with aviation ever since. All right, so it was a learning experience, but hey, tell me then about the flight experience

again that's going on in this is what, Grants Pass Airport the sorry Josephine County Josephine County Airport right that kind of thing. Yes, Grants Pass Airport it's the second exit the first exit past Grants Pass actually from Merlin it's from 8 o'clock to 11 o'clock on Saturday tomorrow and it's free flights for children 8 to 17. Parents must be present and sign a waiver. But it's the Experimental Aircraft Association. The flight's completely free. It's a young eagles program to get young people interested in aviation.

No cost for the flight and everybody who participates. It's a log book commemorating their first flight as well as a photograph with a pilot in the airplane. It's a 20 to 30 minute flight and it's a local flight right near the airport. And again, the only real important thing is that parents are present so that they can sign off. What a great story, what a great event that's going to be. And thank you, Jim, for the story too. Love that story. 770-5633. If you are on hold, just hang on and

I'll get right to you. Whatever happens beyond your mind. We're taking Dad's stories, remembering Dad. I love that because it gets me thinking about the fun stuff that I always used to do with my father too. And one of the things that he would also do that I kind of forgot about, but he got me into my love of being in the outdoors. He was an outdoorsman, a very big outdoorsman, and was a hunter. Now, I didn't become a hunter.

I was not much into hunting, still am not today. But even now, wanting to go out camp, trail, we would hike out in the Pennsylvania woods, areas that we go to old Boy Scout camps and things like that, back in the, from the Great Depression that had been built during that time, and still have such wonderful memories of that. And boy, what a legacy.