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Episode Date: June 13, 2025

Father Day stories, Dr. Eric Fruits from Cascade Policy Institute talks the TAX EVERYTHING THAT MOVES act working through the legislature, Dad day stories, D62 quiz, moer emails of the day as we wrap Friday.

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clouser Drilling.com. It's a couple of minutes after KMED and KMED HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass, having fun this morning talking about dad stories. And we'll take four more calls and then we'll have to take the calls off there a little bit, then we'll do a little bit of talk about what's going on in the state legislature. And then we'll go back to some more open phones here.

First things first, Jim Maloney is here. Hello, Jim. Dad's story. Let's hear yours for Father's Day weekend. I think you'll get a kick out of this. OK. Back in 1967, my brother got came home from Vietnam and my dad had just bought a brand new 67 not saying well my brother went out and Partied it up and wrecked darn thing and so and so anyway

My uncle had was well that was gonna be in the shop for quite a while to get repaired my uncle gave my dad a 61 Dodge Convertible, I don't know if you remember what they look like but they had big old fins on them and they were real long And they have push button transmission. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and Yeah, I think they were I think they were about the size of a battleship from what I recall and very and very low Right very low and that that kind of look. Yeah. Anyway, so Right, very low and that kind of look. Yeah. Anyway, so we're buzzing down the freeway

and keep in mind we've never had a convertible in our lives. And so he's ripping down the freeway about 80 and decides all of a sudden he's gonna put the top to cut. And so he went ahead and unlatched it and pushed it up and the wind caught it and it was just and there was there was nothing but a frame sticking up in the air. So the top went flying right? All the material ripped out of it and the frame was sticking straight up in the air. Oh no.

And my dad just the look on his face was priceless. I'm just rolling in the back seat and my mother just looks over at him with a straightened face and says, don't you feel stupid? I love that story, Jim, but those are the human stories that we remember. I love that. Thanks for sharing it. Let me head over to Suzanne. Hello, Suzanne. You have a dead story too. Go ahead. I do. I was 10 years old. It was the last day of school, 10 minutes before summer vacation started and I was destined to go to a camp and for the first time have my own horse for three weeks. Wow, cool. There was a boy who hit me. He ran between me and a girl

throwing a ball. He got hit. He hit me. I landed up in the hospital with the ruptured spleen. Oh goodness. I spent most of my summer in the hospital. When I decides to go to the hardware store and he takes me with him, doesn't say a word, he buys some stuff. I play with the bins of nuts and bolts and stuff like that. We go home and he starts doing things in the garage. And the next thing I know is built an easel. There's a two-sided easel so I could have a friend over, little containers on the bottom to hold the paint pots. And he just really endorsed my love, interest in art, painting, and photography.

He just didn't say a word about what he was doing. It was magical just watching him make this out of nuts and bolts and boards and a brace and a bit for the drill. You know, Suzanne, that was a real labor of love, wasn't it? It was a real, insightful, quiet Father's Day heart gift. Great story. Nurtured my life ever since. That was a real gift. Thank you so much for sharing that story.

I'll take two more and then we'll have to close it out here, like I said, for a few minutes, but we will do some more to wrap up the show after 830 okay let me go to disgruntled Jay hello Jay let's hear yours my dad he's kind of honored guy so I was playing around in the kitchen by myself and yeah the clothes dryer was in there and the door is open and so I decided I've been in about two years old I'll go in there and check it out. Little Dino, he saw me get in and he closed the door and turned the thing on and let me go about 20 rounds in that thing. Did you get hurt?

No, I didn't hurt. Scared the crap out of me. I got out of the thing and he was nowhere to be found. Wow. I had a similar story with my brother Mike. My brother Mike was always ornery. My sister Diana and I took Mike and we locked him in the dryer with the little see-through window that it had in it in those days. Oh my God! And my mom found us and we weren't going to do anything with him, but mom was not real happy about that. So, no, we didn't turn it on though, but you took the ride. Wow! Okay, thanks Jay. Lynn, glad to have you on. You're going to wrap up this segment. We'll do some more Dad Calls a little bit later, you know, in the show.

But what's your father's day story? Yeah, this is really a fun thing. Alan? Yeah, yeah, it's just a little scratchy. I'm just losing you a little bit. Go ahead. Okay, so my parents were divorced when I was nine, the 60s, and it was pretty brutal. But our dad would pick us up every other weekend. I was the oldest of three girls. And we'd go to his dumpy little apartment and we would play games and pictures and make dinner and have Pepperidge Farm chocolate cake. He'd go down to 7-Eleven and get me. And then when he he drove us home he'd let me drive. Really? So I'm like a little gray big bug. I mean I wasn't really driving. I was steering and there was a kind of you had to take back to where my mom lived. I just never forgot how much

fun that was and how much confidence my dad was showing me by letting me steer the car. By letting you steer it. Yeah I'm losing your phone call a little bit, but I think I got the gist of it though. That is... That's darn. Yeah, yeah, that is really, really something here. So he let you... on the lap type thing, that sort of deal? Or was it... It was driving home and he let me steer the car on the way home. Okay, yeah, yeah. My dad would put me on his lap occasionally back when you wouldn't get a

ticket for doing such things. And I remember that somehow the Republic survived such activity. Somehow we all survived, yeah. Yeah, all right. Great, I appreciate that. All right, now we will take some more calls a little bit later this hour and we'll be right back here. So let's hold the Father's Day calls. We'll do some more of that here, maybe about 20, okay? 14 after 8. We'll get back to Father's Day's calls here in just a moment and of course give away those Hellgate jet boat excursion tickets and we'll do that just a little bit. And the thing is though, I have a different scheduled guest here for a little bit. Wanted to talk about what the state legislature is up to and what I find

ironic is that so many of the Father's Day stories we were getting in had to do with going on trips, going someplace, moving car stories, things like that. And Professor Eric Fruz, PhD from the Cascade Policy Institute joins me right now and it appears that the state of Oregon, Dr. Fruz, wants to get rid of all those kind of memories. You're not going to be moving anywhere or if you are going to move everywhere, you're going to be taxed a lot more. Is that what we're getting out of the current legislature?

Good morning. It's good to have you here. Good morning, good morning. And I'm also a father of four, so Happy Father's Day to everyone out there. Indeed, indeed. Father's Day, yes. Yeah, I mean, this is just crazy.

I mean, it depends on how you count it. It's anywhere from like 12 to 35 new taxes. I mean, it depends on how you count it. It's anywhere from like 12 to 35 new taxes. I mean, it's just phenomenal. And I wrote a, well, I call it a little paper, it's 30 pages, and it's called From Gas Tank to Paycheck. Oregon's planning to tax everything that moves. And really, I mean, if you move it all in the state of Oregon under this plan, you will get tax. You will be paying higher gas taxes.

You may face a road user charge. That's a per mile tax. You're going to pay higher fees to title your car, to register your car, to get a new driver's license. There's a new payroll tax. So even if you don't go anywhere and you work from home, you're going to be paying for the transportation package. Yeah, now the payroll tax I find interesting too because they already put that payroll tax in which was like one tenth of one percent, right? And so employers were having to pay this. And what's the proposal in this House

Bill 2505, the Oregon plan to tax everything that moves essentially? Oh yeah, well now they'll trip it, triple it. And they say employers pay it, but open up your paycheck next time you get it. You'll see a line item right there where you are actually paying that payroll tax. Oh, really? So the employee pays that. It's not like a social security tax kind of thing where there's like a split half and half. So they tax employees that don't use transit to pay for transit, in other words, right? Everyone, everyone pays. Yes, everyone pays. And even though transit ridership is way down since COVID.

Well, now that we're paying that payroll tax, though, I'm sure it's going to go up, Professor Fruits, no doubt. Well, the problem is that the service is diminished. I live in Portland. I used to take the bus quite a bit. But the thing is, the bus schedule is just so terrible right now. Plus, the buses always have someone who smells like weed on it, and I don't like that. So to me, it's much better to drive.

It gives me more flexibility. I have a lot more control. And I think a lot of people feel the same way. I'm kind of curious, since you submitted this comment on the bill, the bill's final hearing was yesterday. Does this mean it's going for a floor vote at some point? Or is it going to be going to the Senate next? What is its future? I'm not sure the precise way it's going to move but there's a pretty good chance it's going to move out of committee because the Democrats seem to be all being favorites of it on the committee. The real question is do they have the votes because in the legislature the Democrats do have a super majority. I think they're one vote short in one house because of a vacancy.

So I mean if the Democrats can get one squishy Republican to swing the votes and keep all the Democrats in line, then it could pass. But I think that there's actually a few Democrats in the swing district who think this might be a, hate to use a pun, but a bridge too far because it's more than a billion dollars a year. And I go through all the different costs and how it affects the family. But, you know, you just divide it by the number of households in Oregon, and you're looking at about a $500 increase. Everything becomes more expensive here and taxing everything that moves.

I'm not surprised to see something like this. And, you know, this whole thing about the taxing by mile and everything else, it's just encircling and trying to cinch down that mobility. What is it about the Democrats usually that is so hostile to people having independent movement here, Dr. Fruits? I mean that really seems to be what it's all about. They themselves are not taking transit, but they they seem to have a, you know, being their bonnet or however you want to say it, that they really don't like regular people being able to independently move. At least that's what it looks like.

Well, I think that's part of it. I think, you know, it depends on what your color is, right? If you're a greenie, right? Then you say, oh, I hate all the emissions and we got to get down emissions. You got to get people out of their cars. If you're, you know, one of these land use people, you say, oh, you know, we want everyone to live in dense communities, you know, in what we call stack and pack apartments, right? And so therefore you won't need a car. By the way, that's

that's been renamed the climate friendlyitable Community now, you know that. Yes, oh wow, very good. Yes, yeah, and you know that there is just an abiding hostility toward, you know, auto mobility. And part of it, I think, is control. I think there's certain personalities personality that really loves to control how the world works. It's like my little kids, they used to have a wooden railway thing. They would get so mad when the trains didn't behave the way they wanted them to. And I think a lot of politicians feel they don't like it when you and I don't do what they want us to do. And so they try to make us do what they want them to do

by raising taxes. And it's just another form of control. And there are problems with the transportation system, but there's also problems with ODOT. ODOT has really had quite a long history now of mismanaging projects. And that's one of the arguments I'm making on my paper is that, you know, I think you really got to get ODOT, Oregon Department of Transportation,

house and order before you hand them, you know, billions of new dollars. Oh yeah. One thing that's in the package is to put in what they call a road user charge. It's a per mile fee that you have to pay, right? They'll track your mileage. Now this would not, and this would not replace the gas tax, right? They'd keep the gas tax there and make you pay per mile, that kind of thing?

Yes, kind of. It's really weird because if you, you know, if you, right now I think if you drive a gasoline powered car, you wouldn't pay the road user charge. you drive a gasoline powered car, you wouldn't pay the road user charge. If you have an electric vehicle, you would. If you have a hybrid, you'd pay something different. So it's really, really complicated.

And that's the thing is that this charge they want to put in, I think their target was to have it in place in a year by the middle of 2026. I don't think ODOT could do anything in a year, let alone get together a really, really complex road usage charge. And the other thing too, it's not about improving transportation. It's all about just raising money.

And if you look at the projects out there, the only two projects that are specifically earmarked where they say, we will fund this, are the Abernathy Bridge up here in the Portland area. Is the Abernathy Bridge the I-5 Bridge or is that a different one? I-205 Bridge. I-205, okay. All right. Yeah. And it's already halfway constructed, so you can't build half a bridge. So they kind of have to do that one. The other one that they say that they are going to do is the i-5

rose quarter expansion which was already in the 2017 bills so we've been waiting eight years on that one and other we raised taxes to do that never did it never gonna raise taxes again you know darn you know darn well what this is it's raising taxes and then more bicycle lanes and road diets. Right. Because they promised all these other things. It's the fun of it. But they aren't actually promises. They are kind of on an as-needed basis, which it's like the whole story with Lucy and Charlie Brown in the football. It's like they'll say, oh, we'll do all these wonderful things. And then we say, okay, hey, where's my new bridge? Where's my new bypass?

They'll say, oh, sorry, we don't have money for that. Thanks for the update on this, Dr. Fruz. I'm going to put up your testimony here, your 30 page report, people need to understand this. And I'm hoping that there's enough squish on the Dem side and enough spine on the Republican side to keep this out, because this kind of thing is making a bad situation even worse here.

But this is the state of Oregon, a bad situation even worse here. But this is the state of Oregon, so it doesn't surprise me. That is the story here. Now, get back to the Father's Day stuff. It's a lot more enjoyable. Okay, well, that's all right. But, you know, we had this... See, they're trying to get rid of Father's Day fund. They're trying to do this. It's an anti-road trip fund kind of thing. But Eric Fruits, PhD, adjunct scholar at Cascade Policy Institute, we appreciate the look at this behind the legislative deal. Okay, thanks so much. All right, thanks for having me. Hey, you do, you take care too. 824 at KMED.

And hearing.com. Welcome to the Bill Meyers show on 1063 KMED. Give Bill a call at 541-770-5633. That's 770-KMED. So glad you're here. Everyone's been waiting. And, yep, we'll take a few more Father's Day calls and stories, and then we will do the random number picker and figure out of all the people who wrote in. Like I say, it's just going to be a random one of your dad's story who ends up getting

the Hellgate jet boat excursion tickets. And that's for a river run. Very good stuff. Well, this is Sharon, Bill. I'm going to give you a pair this morning for sure. Let me go to line one. Good morning line one. You've been holding on for a while. Thanks. Who's this? This is Sherm, Bill. Hi Sherm. You have a good, now you're not in the area though, right?

You don't live here anymore? Oh yes. Oh yes I am. In fact, I live in Sam's Valley. I'm part of the ranch that dad bought back when I was in junior high. In fact, that's part of my story. Oh, okay.

Cause I thought what happened is that you had moved out then maybe you were just on a winter trip or something like that. Okay, never mind. No, no, no, no. Last place I taught high school was out of Seattle, it's Noquam in Washington for the last 13 years and I took people on trips all over. Here's your sound, when I was a business teacher that was my thing. I took students on trips, clear from Boeing, clear down to Fort to Fort Lewis. Alright well tell me the story about dad though okay thanks. Okay back to dad. So dad taught me something that was very important in my life

he was always building something and invested in real estate etc and he always told me he said real estate sherm is your ace in the hole and thank God I did invest in real estate here and there, and ultimately ended up retiring on a part of the ranch that I bought from Dad Clearback in 71. But he taught me that lesson, as far as investing. And that has helped you to this very day then, right? Oh, it's been a key. All right. Absolutely.

I'm so glad. I'll tell you what, Sherm, we're going to put you in for the story. I appreciate you sharing what dad did for you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Let me grab another line here. Good morning. Hi, who's this? Welcome. Hello. Hello. Hi, who's this? Hi, this is Kristen Medford. Hi, Kristen Medford. Good to hear you and what's on your mind? Well, first, before I get to dad, I have to tell you, not only did I put my brother in the dryer, we put him in the dryer with the cat and turned it on. Oh, you're kidding me. We were terrible children. All right, well, did he...was your brother okay? Like I said, we locked Mikey into the dryer, but that was just to teach him a lesson because he was always

picking at us, you know? Yeah, we were just honorary children. Wow. The older one picking on the younger one. But to my dad, okay, I'm gonna try to keep this brief. My father is the most amazing father on the planet. He became my father when I was 11 years old. My biological father was a career criminal and had drug us around the country for five years. He stole us from my mom. Oh. Mom got us from my mom. Oh.

Mom got us back. We are damaged. We didn't go to grade school. We didn't have manners. We were just a mess. But from the second I walked off that plane, he was my dad. And he raised us all as his own.

People would ask, because it was a blended family you know which ones are yours and which ones are hers. My dad would always say they're all mine. But he also had a very, not had, has, he's still with me, I live with him. It has a great sense of humor. We raised a pig in our garage for just for money reasons, but we were living within city limits. So it was very hush-hush and raised the pig. And my Uncle Frank was a butcher and came over to get the pig and they're loading

the pig in the trailer and the pig starts going crazy. Well the neighbor calls the police because she thinks she hears a woman screaming and there's my father and my uncle leaning up against this trailer. The smell of pig was undeniable and the police said anything going on here and my dad and my uncle Frank with the beer in their hands just said, no, no, everything's fine. I love the story, but I also appreciate what, uh, your, well, actually your stepfather, but your real father ended up doing for your life. I really appreciate that. We don't use the word step in my family.

He's my dad. No, I get it. I get it though. Thank you. Good morning. Hi, who's this? Hi Bill. This is Deb calling. Hi Deb. Hi. Hey, I was just calling in a couple things on conspiracy theories Thursday So yeah, you know all these protesters and rioters that are coming to town My thought on all that is you know, don't take the bait. I'm not gonna let myself take the bait

I believe it's not a good healthy crowd to be in. I believe we've had a few loads of them that have been completely peaceful. I believe that at some point that's not going to be the case and I'm not going to be down in a crowd like that, counter protesting or protesting, to have a crowd full of a mob turn on me or to be baited into a situation where I'm going to lose my Second Amendment rights. So that's how I feel about that. You know, that's kind of the way I was looking at this too. I didn't think there was much worth of

giving them a whole lot of oxygen in this. I know some people are going to do a counter protest. That's their choice if they want to do that. But I'm choosing to, I think there are better things to do this weekend. That's all. Yes, me too. Me too. And my story on my dad, oh my gosh, I was sitting in class one day. we had a movie, third grade, thought it was a great idea. I had a great stepmom too that came into the picture at that point too, very, very thankful for her. But I thought it was a good idea to cut a hole in this girl's jacket in front of us and fill it with glue and a couple other people. Yeah, it was my idea. Well, the first thing was she told the teacher and of course

I got the referral or suspended or whatever Immediately got this bank and when I got home And this just continued on my dad learned a little bit about this girl through the principal and she was very very poor and she lived in a housing complex down the road from us and So then we took my allowance me and my stepmom. we proceeded to go to the local mall to the fabric shop. We bought a nice tats for that jacket. My stepmom had the jacket. I got to wash it.

I got to sew it. I got to return it to her. I got to apologize. And I'll never forget it. You learned quite a bit for that, I bet. Yes, sir. I sure did. I learned what it was to be a bully and to pick on someone else without knowing anything

about them, and I learned what I know today now is what I'll stand for and what I won't stand for. Deb, thank you so much. I really appreciate your story. Yes. All right. Thank you, sir. Take care. I have time for one more. I'm just running out of time here. One more story. So, I guess

line four, you're going to be it this time. Good morning. Hi, who's this? This is Logan, Bill. I appreciate being the last one. All right, Logan, you get to wrap it up, okay? I'm trying to win my dad a river run for making a river run. It was the flood of 1997. My next door neighbor, who was also my orthodontist, had a huge double-decker dock. Basically, everyone on our street had already lost their dock in the flood. His dock was down to one pile on my dad got in a canoe, basically the whole neighborhood watching him get in the canoe row out to the dock tie a big cable on it within minutes of

him tying the cable, the pile on snap and he saved this. But with a $40,000 dock of my orthodontist needless to say, my parents never got a bill for my braces. So kudos to my dad for doing that. All right. Good job. I'll tell you, that's one way to get the the braces for free. Very good. It worked out. All right. Appreciate the call. Thank you for that. All right. Let's hold off. Like I said, I could probably do this all day. You tell me you've struck a vein this morning or struck a nerve here, and a lot of people resonating with this, okay?

I'm going to announce the winner right now. I have, let's see, we have 18 people, 18 stories that we ended up sharing this morning. And what I'm gonna do is do the random number picker between that and the winner... You're not going to believe this. The number generated was four and you know who number four story was? Lucretia. Lucretia, after all that trouble at your house and everything else this week, and in spite of the camp trails or whatever it is we'll give you a pair of tickets to

Hellgate and I'll tell you what we're gonna do I'm just feeling extra generous because there were just so many good people calling in with stories so I'm gonna give away two pair so one more here let me go between 1 and 18. So we're going to do this and the second winner will be the number 14. Number 14 was Lynn, Lynn Barton. Number 14. So we got Lucretia and Lynn, both winners today. Congratulations. And we'll give away some more Hellgate next week, by the way, on The Bill Meyers show 836 the bill meyers show on 1063 KMED 20 before 9 7705633 a little bit of open phone time here and we will have a maybe we should I can't believe it there's just

been so much phone activity this morning great stories I've just really appreciated everything that that people have been sharing about fathers and so much more. But the one thing I wanted to make sure that you know about though is the Diner 62 real American quiz. We can't get out of today without the Diner 62 real American quiz. So I will get to the last couple of calls here in just a moment, and then we're going to start the Diner 62 quiz. The Diner 62 quiz, of course, amazing breakfasts, the Diner 62 burger, one of my favorites. Everything is good, as far as I'm concerned. And, you know, normally salads at diners are not real good.

Not the case at Diner 62. I have to tell you, the salads that I've been getting out of there I think you'll really enjoy it and they have a big special still going on on the weekends two pork chops and eggs or eight ounce New York steak and eggs on special right now on the weekends. Okay. Diner 62. 770-5633 go ahead and line up and we'll get to that in just a moment. 770-5633 all I ask is that you have not won the game in the last 60 days. Okay? All right. Lisa is here from Josephine County. What, you're with the Republican Party in Joe County, Lisa? Isn't that right? Yes, yes I am. Okay, glad to have you on here. And there is so much to do here

in Southern Oregon. Gosh, you know, in Jackson County, of course, the big the big Medford Cruise and the show and all that stuff is going on. In Josephine County, it's a little bit different. I love Pottsville and they have the old-time tractor show and all the pools and the big the big flea market and everything else going on. There's something about that. I just love it. And you're going to be part of that this weekend? Yes, we are. We're going to have a pop-up there, a tent with merchandise, lots of fun to be had with all the vendors, like you said, the free market food, the tractor pole. And then the Republican Party, like you said, will have a pop-up. It will be there the whole weekend. Come by. We're gonna have some nice things for Dad. Yeah, you tend to be pretty good on Trump

merchandise too, if I recall, right? Yes, we'll have all of the hats and t-shirts. Oh yeah, some good ones. And I might even have a little special prize come by. Might even have a little freebie for whoever comes by and visits us. But yeah, we're gonna be out there and we just wanna let everybody know we will not have the office open. So you will not be able to come by and get merch for dad here on 6th Street,

but come on out to Potsville. Yeah, well, besides the No Kings ridiculous rally is going to be happening tomorrow at about that time. No point. Pottsville, much better place to hang out, in my opinion. OK? Much, much better. The weather's going to be a little bit cooler.

So it's going to be really nice. And we're excited. And we just have to be out there every year. So come see us. And we'll have something for you All right. Very good. Well, hey, thanks for the call. And by the way, I just found out that you have a brand new chair So Joseph Rice was elected was elected chair, right? That's correct. We have a new brand new chair as of yesterday or yeah yesterday Yeah, now Arden, how do you how do you pronounce Arden's last name?

yesterday or yeah, as of yesterday. Yeah, now Arden, how do you pronounce Arden's last name? Slade? Slade? Okay, Arden, yeah, Arden Slade is vice chair, so it's now Joseph Rice and Arden Slade. There we go. That's correct. Yeah, they are going to be a fantastic new team, bringing a lot of new fun things to the party.

We always are looking for volunteers to come and join us. And it would be interesting to see if things can calm down because there's been a lot of inter-republican rivalries or kind of spitting back and forth here and it'd be nice to start spitting outside of the tent rather than into it. I think this would be an interesting time. rather than into it. I think this would be an interesting time. Okay? Yeah, yeah. Just think Unity and everybody coming together and a fresh start. Yeah, I'm good with that. Lisa, thanks for the call. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. All right.

770-5633. Okay. Before we do the Diner 62 quiz, we need the Diner 62 theme. You have to have the proper music. You know, the game show feel. It's kind of like a Saturday Night Live feel. And by the way, today at Diner 62, it is Clam Chowder Friday. Get a cup. They make it. They make it there.

Good stuff. Along with everything else that we were talking about too. So 7705633. We got three people lined up. Don't know who they are, but they're hungry, about too. So, 7705633. We got three people lined up, don't know who they are, but they're hungry, I think. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hi, good morning, Bill.

Who's this? This is Wally. Wally, congratulations here. Wally, it was Tomorrow in History, June 14th of 1951. Univac, the very first commercially produced digital computer, is dedicated. U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC and UNIVAC stood for the Universal Automatic Computer developed by a team of engineers who made ENIAC the first general purpose digital computer. ENIAC stood for the

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. I'm sure you're gonna write this down Wally, okay? And it was the forerunner of UNIVAC. Now ENIAC was made in 1946, cost a half million dollars. That was real money in 1946, okay? Took up 15,000 square feet, had 17,000 vacuum tubes in it, and they programmed it, Wally, by plugging in and replugging 6,000 switches manually, is how they programmed it. Okay? So, first thing they used it for was at Los Alamos Laboratory, and when it was formally

dedicated. And it was reported that nearly 50 Univacs were sold overall. Now the question for the win here, how many vacuum tubes did the Univac have in it? Remember there were 15,000 or 17,000 rather in the, in the NIAC. So how many were in the Univac?

Was it 500 tubes, 2,500 tubes, 5, 5000 tubes, 10,000 or 15,000 tubes? The newer one at that time. How many tubes? I'm going to guess 5,000. You're going to guess 5,000. It's a good day for you, Wally. You're a winner! You're a winner! Yeah, absolutely right. Following the success of ENIAC, the developers decided to go into private business and they founded the Eckerd-Mockley Computer Corp. They weren't very good business people though, and they were struggling. Then Remington Rand bought them and then delivered Univac to the Census Bureau. Weighed 16,000 pounds, used 5,000

vacuum tubes. You can imagine, Wally, how hot that was in the room, right? And it would perform about a thousand calculations per second. I'm sure your phone is probably doing about, oh I don't know, maybe five or six thousand times the calculations of that right now. But needlessless to say on November 4th of 1952 the UNIVAC got national fame when it correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower's landslide victory in the presidential election after only a tiny percentage of the votes were in so that's what they use that computer first okay so Wally hang on off the diner 62 and we'll have

another one of these maybe Monday or Tuesday. The following preview has been rated immature for all audiences except metal roof enthusiasts and small children. In the NUG to casualty insurance company affiliates and other insurers not available in all states. Hi I'm Jim with the Beauty Mark Salon and Glitter Bar and I'm on KME. So here it is Father's Day weekend. We haven't told today's dad joke. So we got to do that. Dad jokes are very good on Father's Day weekend.

In fact, I imagine many of them will be told. Father's Day jokes. This particular case, dad jokes sponsored by Two Dogs Fabricating on Bryan Way off Sage Road in Medford. Doug Dean from Rogue River contributing another good one. And I kind of like this one. Mom says, honey, have you seen the dog bowl? Dad says, no, is he any good? I like that one, Doug. I really like that a lot. And by the way, you can go to twodogsfab.com and submit your own joke and maybe you can get honored with this too. By the way, Two Dogs Fabrication has built their business

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off Sage Road in Medford. 770-5633. Get another call. Dave, you wanted to weigh in something. Tomorrow's your birthday, isn't it? Yes, and my greatest birthday wish is if somebody, if you have any extra money, rather than going and watching Indivisible

and the No Kings, maybe they should just donate some money to the Wild Horse Brigade. What is it about the Wild Horse Brigade that seems to resonate so well with you? Well, it's because they're beautiful animals. My doctor doesn't want me riding horses, but he said taking pictures of them is a good hobby. Well, you live in a good area for that, for sure. Yeah, I wanted to say is rather than go to, you know, go to Potsville.

It's a wonderful place. I've been there many times. I love it. But the one thing we should do on Saturday is do a prayer that there's no violence and that God's will be done to prevent conflict in Medford. I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying at home because I don't have any money to go anywhere. But you know, during the little prayer about noon, we get a couple thousand people doing that. Maybe God will intervene and show the frauds these guys are.

By the way, did you hear what President Trump said yesterday about the No King's deal when someone asked him about that? They asked him about... when someone asked him about that? They asked him about... Yeah, yeah. Here, I'll just play it for everybody. In the advance here, happy birthday, Minor Dave. Okay? We'll talk Monday. Okay? All right. Very good. This is what the president said in reaction to the questions about the no-kings Saturday deal. No-kings protests planned across the country on Saturday as well. What are your thoughts on those? What are they? No-? No Kings. I don't feel like a king. I have to go

through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say I'm not gonna get this. A king would have never had the California mandate to even be talking to him. He wouldn't have to call up Mike Johnson and Thune and say fellas you gotta pull this off and after years we get it done. No, no, we're not a king. We're not a king at all. Thank you very much. All right. Gotta love it.

Gotta love the guy. Okay. Some emails of the day to wrap up this Father's Day. Well, I guess kicking off Father's Day weekend, really. And that's sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson and Central Point Family Dentistry. Centralpointfamilydentistry.com. While you wait, crowns. They have an in-house lab. very professional, and they really get you in

and out of there quickly. I like the work that they do. Had great experience. Centralpointfamilydentistry.com. It's on Freeman Way next to the Mazatlan Mexican restaurant in Central Point. Reverend David La Barbera writes in here, Bill, you know what we used to call homeless people when I was a kid? We called them bums. Yeah, I know. we used to call homeless people when I was a kid? We called them bums. Yeah, I know. I guess everything's about changing the name. It's sort of like how perverts are now sex offenders and convicts are adults in custody. Yeah, it's about the dumbing down stuff for sure. Tonya writes me this morning, Bill, back when I was a teen, this is more Father's Day stories, back when I was a teen I would have to go shopping with my parents and

on one visit my grandmother came, everything was fine until they got to the vegetable section. Before I knew it, my dad and grandma were flicking water on each other from the wet lettuce because lettuce kept the most water in it. My sister and I went around the corner and pretended to not know them. So surprised they didn't get caught doing that. That's funny, Tonya. And by the way, she also adds, I forgot to say who won the water battle. It was a toss up.

Tonya, you have to submit stuff like that for the dad joke. That's perfect. Winnie writes me this morning, hey Bill, happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dads. The stories from all those calling in are so beautiful and heartwarming. Dads are very important in our lives. Let's make dads great again, because they truly are. Happy Father's Day, Bill. Thank you very much. That's very kind. And let's see, SKC ends up writing this morning, We lived up in the mountains on my dad's mining claim. I was about 10 years old. A few days prior, my dad had killed a huge rattlesnake and he gave me the rattles.

So I took them up and hid them next to the trail. As my little sister and I walked by, I shook them and she took off screaming, terrified, back to camp. And I thought that that was just hilarious. So next I thought, well, now I will get dad. He was walking to the creek to fill the water jugs. He walked by with a jug in each hand and started rattling. In a blink, he dropped those jugs, pulled his.357 out, and leveled it at the bush I was hiding behind. I yelled out, dad, dad, it's me! And I ran to him almost in tears. I tried to scare him and it turned to him scaring me to death. I always thought twice about trying to pull something on Dad after that.

Granny says, Bill, I was a grown woman with children of my own when my dad told me he loved me for the first time and the last time. It didn't make any difference in our relationship. Sometimes too late is just too late. Good idea to always say You love when you can't hear granny, but I'm sorry. I didn't work out quite so well for you and Gar writes me. Good morning, Bill Walmart is promoting the no Kings event. Yeah, I don't think Walmart is a form. Well, maybe Walmart is I don't know Bob writes in here Bill. I'm seriously thinking about taking my band. This is Bob Hayworth Bob Hayworth says I'm seriously thinking about taking my band down to Biddle and McAndrews tomorrow and making some alternative noise

All right, besides the banjo, could you bring an accordion Bob Bob? Take an accordion with you too. The accordion, I'm sure, would be a great accompaniment to the No Kings Now. Email Bill at BillMeyerShow.com. Have a wonderful weekend, and we will catch up and talk about things Monday.