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Episode Date: June 16, 2025

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The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clouser Drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Just a beautiful start to Monday here in southern Oregon. And we're looking for about a high of 84 going to be in the lower to mid 80s. Most of this week, no rain, really. I don't know what the forecast is in Salem right now, other than maybe

the bribes are being pulled out and maybe that's a foggy to partly cloudy kind of day. State Senator Noah Robertson, how you doing this morning Noah? Great to have you back on. How are things in Salem? Well I'm okay and it's great to be on. Thank you. The last couple weeks and we don't know what will happen. It's been kind of a rough session so far. Yeah, it certainly has been. And I was disappointed to see that in spite of you bringing all the scientific papers and the charts and you're explaining to the progressives on the other side, I call them

progressive, just Democrats, whatever you want to say, most of the people on the other side of the political aisle. And they still decided that they're going to inculcate fear into the kids in public school curriculum when it comes to human-caused climate change. So they went and they passed the bill anyway, in spite of your eloquent speech, in spite of your scientific cred saying it's not true, but that didn't matter? No, it didn't matter.

And as I said at the time, it's political. None of this is based on science. They had two arguments. Number one, so the idea is that climate change is now going to be incorporated into the public school curriculum. And this includes civics, geography, everything. They want climate change to be taught, which is basically scaring children. They've already got scared badly enough that the world's going to end, but they want to

make sure they do a thorough job of it. They had two arguments that I tried to discuss the science. We had lots of Republicans opposed to it. It was, I mean, not a single Republican voter for it. But they were saying that, number one, we could trust the education professionals to be fair about the science. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. They actually said that out in the open?

That the educational professionals that all tend to come from one political ideology could be trusted to be fair and balanced about climate change? Really? Oh yes, that was because I kept pointing out that this was political, that we weren't going to have a fair discussion of the science of schools, that I didn't suspect that they would show the grass I'd been showing them in the public schools. So they had that argument and then the other thing they said was science was settled so we didn't need to discuss it anyway. So... That is such nonsense.

There's no such thing as settled science. Science is... Of course not. The scientific method is always, hey, when you have new information or evidence, you can question what you think of as normal standard science. I mean, right? Nothing is supposed to be unquestionable, right? Boy.

That's correct. But that is the claim that has been made about this issue since for decades. My father and others, when we organized the petition project, starting in the 90s, we got 31,000 scientists to sign up saying there was no problem, no issue that this was not a problem. At the time, the purpose of the petition was to show that there was a consensus and to come back that argument. But they've been saying for decades, the science is settled, because they can't debate the science, they can't win a scientific discussion.

It's too easy to show that the weather has not changed, that the storms are not getting worse over the last century, that the temperature has fluctuated naturally for thousands of years and fluctuations we're seeing now are not unusual, you can show all these things very easily. On the other side you have these complicated computer models which they say indicate we're going to fry in the next five or ten years. And yet every time we're told we're going to fry in the next five to ten years, five to ten years comes by and we have yet to fry, right? I mean this is what happens every time. You've got to be out just far enough that you can scare people but not in too

close, otherwise you lose credibility. You think they lose it anyway but they figure being out ten years is always a good place to be. You know it's interesting Noah, I don't know if you keep up...there's even a schism right now that has been developing even on the so-called political right when it comes to climate change as to you know which side of you know why is hasn't been getting warmer are we are we at. Are you aware of that? Have you ever talked with Dr. Ed Berry by chance? No I haven't. Yeah Dr. Ed Berry is in Montana and he's a climate scientist.

He's sort of in a battle. There's like this battle going on between the CO2 coalition, the Gregory Ritestones of the world and Patrick Moore and Ed Berry, because the CO2 coalition is pushing this thing in which they say that, thank goodness for all the CO2 which has been created because otherwise there wouldn't be a, you know, we wouldn't, you know, we would have gone into a CO2 death spiral, you know, lack of CO2 plants wouldn't grow. And that is a possibility, but they're looking at it from human-based. And Ed Berry says, yeah, we have more CO2, but you cannot blame human-based sources for it. So, you know, even on the right side, but you cannot blame human-based sources for it.

Even on the right side, but you see that's science though. You have scientists debating each other on what's going on with this. That's correct. And there is a debate about how much of the rise of CO2 is caused by human burning because when the temperature naturally gets warmer, it outgasses from the ocean. Yes, CO2 comes out of the ocean and then we get more of it in the air. That's just the way it is. It's the natural part of the carbon cycle, isn't it? That's right. And you know, just sort of back at the envelope calculations on this

because it is not a simple science. I tend to believe, when I was calculating this, it's been a while since I did, but you can easily say that maybe a quarter of it was just from the natural temperature rise. And it's possible that it's more, but it's more complicated. I would not claim that I was sure that human release of carbon dioxide wasn't raising the carbon dioxide level because it's reasonable to say that. It's a reasonable theory. I guess the point is, the point being though is that, is it harmful?

And they can't because we've had CO2 levels way, way higher than they are right now and the planet didn't burn up. It just didn't. Yeah, in historical record, yes. And what they forget is that without carbon dioxide, we all die. It's part of the carbon cycle. The plants use carbon dioxide to grow, release the oxygen which we breathe. It's essential for life on Earth to have carbon dioxide. So I have to ask you here, Senator Robinson, you've just stated a scientific fact that we know

about. And so what's going to happen with the state of Oregon, the Oregon Department of Education, being tasked with indoctrinating kids in climate change and scaring them with these theories? Because you know the carbon cycle. All scientists that are worth their salt know that the carbon cycle is valid. How is the state going to teach the carbon cycle? Is that going to be taken out of the science books in Oregon? In Oregon schools? You think it wouldn't be compatible and they'd have to stop talking about it and be quiet, or else they're maybe going to have to take the odd position that we can go back 100 years and that

particular carbon dioxide concentration happens to be the perfect carbon dioxide concentration, which of course we know isn't true. It's obvious we're better off with a little more carbon dioxide. And the plants are growing faster because of it. You can show in the laboratory that plants grow faster. It's easier to grow food. It's easier to grow trees. It's significant. It's already measurable from this moderate rise. I know it's crazy because even during the big illegal marijuana grow problems And we still have a little bit of that But what is the most famous thing that the dope growers do here in southern, Oregon?

You know about that. They put the propane burners in the greenhouses to To get the CO2. Yeah, it's sort of funny because my We did some experiments on mice to show, you know, this is back in the 1990s, but my dad and my family and others were working on mouse experiments. We were curious to see what happened to mice if they breathe very high concentrations of CO2 or up at a couple thousand parts per million. We could see no effect.

But for these experiments, we were having delivered to our laboratory very large amounts of carbon dioxide in cylinders. And my dad, just as a precaution, because our area at the time was known for growing marijuana, made sure that everyone involved knew what we were doing, because he didn't want the gas company to be telling the police, here's another high CO2 user.

Now, the gas for marijuana is everywhere. Nobody's practically noticing. But no, it's right, and it's using greenhouse CO2. It's been using greenhouse forever because it makes plants grow faster. It's something that they don't talk about much, except that a number of years ago, widely publicized was the discovery that poison oak grew faster with higher CO2 concentrations. That one got a lot of news. Oh no! So that's the reason to start driving an electric car because higher CO2 levels cause a...

I'm just kidding. Hey, I don't like poison oak either. But State Senator Noah Robinson, but in all seriousness though, with this requirement that the state of Oregon requires climate change inculcation in public schools, is this only in public schools or are they going after the public private schools too? Or maybe they have no right to? What happens now? They should have no right to, right? This is the public school curriculum specifically. Of course one always wonders what will be next, but no, the bill is just for the public schools. Another reason not to send your children there, my advice. I have a lot of suggestions for fixing the schools. They're going the other direction. They're going to get worse. I would send children to public

schools. You know, that is really sad. And that's sad to hear because the point is that there are many people in the pub whose children, due to their own financial situation or whatever their situation is that they're in, makes it impossible for them to home school and teach their own young children. And now that you know that you are intentionally, that you're stuck putting your kid into a public school that is going to scare them with climate so-called science in their schools, you have generations of children that are going to be damaged by nonsense. That's right. That's exactly right. And that's right. For many families, it's difficult to go to school. I think more could do it than

realize. But it is difficult for them, or in some cases almost impossible. And you can't blame a parent that feels that the public schools are only option for whatever reason. But it's not a good option anymore. And it's terrible. Already, the children are being scared because the teachers are already putting this into the curricula. Oh, so this really just makes it official then, the bill which was passed the other week. And you did a very eloquent speech against it. I have to admire you on that, Bob. Well, thank you very much. I was just trying to point out what they were doing. And it's incredible. Yeah, the children are already so scared. I think I pointed out in the speech that Oregon's kid

governor, ceremonial position, it's a nice thing, fifth grader. And she has been taught and scared so much that the climate change is going to end the earth, that that's her platform. She's running around telling everyone that's what she'd like to do, raise awareness for climate change. There's lots of things she could do, but that's what she'd like to do, raise awareness for climate change. There's lots of things she could do, but that's what she's been scared by. You know, and it's important what's in the school curriculum. Now, I don't know how old you are, but I grew up in the 1970s. I was in high school in the 1970s, and we had very balanced scientific approach at that

point because the popular science or the popular meme at that time, Noah, was we're going to go and freeze to death because of the change in the climate. Climate change at that point, we're going to freeze to death. That's really where they were going right back into the ice age. That didn't happen, right? But what if our, but what if my school had been required to teach us that, hey, we're going to freeze to death because of industrial activity, right? Honestly, that could have happened then. That's it, that's exactly right. You want children to be optimistic. Instead, we have all these scare scenarios one after another. And of course, the climate going one direction or the other makes great news because fear obviously fell.

What do you think is going to come from this or is this just yet another reason why the schools are continuing to fail? I mean give me your overall hot take Noah. Well I think that they will it will take them a few years to incorporate into the curriculum because the bureaucrats are fortunately a little bit slow. But what it will do is it's just one more hit at the academic quality coming out of the schools. I think the schools will just get worse from it. If you want to educate children, you focus on the basic anyway. They should be concentrating on teaching them to read, teaching them to do math, teaching them basic things that you teach children in

grade school. And we're not doing that well at all, and if we're going to put an emphasis on this, it's not only going to frighten children, but it takes away from efforts that could go into actually improving the school. Point well taken. Before we take off, what is the political landscape right now as far as getting a sine die? And are you aware? I know that one of the gun bills is getting a work session today.

I think it's the 234A one, right? Isn't that the case? Or is that over in the House now? 234, yeah. The 234A got through the Senate, unfortunately. So it's over at the House, yeah. All right. And what does the overall feel?

Is all this stuff just going to pass at the last minute and are they going to keep everybody bribed with the Christmas tree bill like former state senator DeBoer was talking about a few minutes ago? Are they going to keep everybody in their seats? Well, it's very hard to say at this point because we hope that things will... We'd like to get the session over as quickly as possible, but we need to stop. There's some things we need to stop. Of course, they haven't been able to stop. They have the vote and the dynamics are such that it's just been going ahead.

Yeah, the Christmas tree bill where they essentially pay everybody off, I think that's horrible. The amount of money that they distribute in districts with this legislation, you know, the special projects, is small. It's tiny compared to the money they have taken out of the district. So you give a little back to the district and everybody's supposed to be happy they got a million dollars for the water treatment plan or whatever. And I don't blame them for putting in the project. And I, when asked, I put them on the list too, just because I think it's not fair for all the other districts to ask to be on the list and not ours.

But I'm going to vote against the bill. I don't like the whole thing on principle. And I sure don't think that you should consider the fact that you're on that list to be any reason to vote differently on any other legislation. Everything should be taken individually. All right, very good. Very good, but in a very bad legislative session, unfortunately. State Senator Noah Robinson, we appreciate your take, and if anything breaks that we need to know about, you know my number, let me know, okay?

Thanks again. Okay, thank you very much. All right. 729 at KMED, 99.3 KBXG. Ready for fun and excitement for the entire family? Join us at the Jackson County Fair, July 15th through the 20th at the Expo. Don't miss the 4-H and FFA exhibits,

the Junior Life Stock Auction, and of course, delicious carnival food. Check out incredible conches, smart caps, century and more. Come see Oregon Truck and Auto Authority today and take your efficiency to the next level. Hi, I'm Charlene, owner of American Industrial Door, and I'm on 106.7 KMED. 735, I pull out this chestnut from Ray Charles. Let the good times roll. If you are a public employee union baby, we got the corrupt bill signed by Governor Tina Kotec.

And what bill am I talking about? It's House Bill 3789. In other words, a protect the union bill. And I know you're kind of shocked to hear about this, but I wanted to talk with, anyway, wanted to talk with Ben Strachow about this. He's on the research and government affairs team of the Freedom Foundation Ben it is good to have you on morning sir thank you Bill all right let the good times roll indeed here and what did this House bill do in fact you folks have nicknamed it the Sue

the Freedom Foundation bill what happened with this huh we have yeah so it's helpful to know a little bit about what the Freedom Foundation bill. What happened with this? We have, yeah. So it's helpful to know a little bit about what the Freedom Foundation does as a backdrop for the bill. So we are a non-profit organization that's been around in Oregon here for about the past 10 years. Longer than that, we were founded up North Olympia, Washington. But we run a campaign to help public employees understand and exercise their constitutional right to leave the union and stop paying union dues. The U.S. Supreme Court and a couple different rulings for different types of public employees understand and exercise their constitutional right to leave the union and stop paying union dues. The US Supreme Court and a couple different rulings for different types of public employees have said that unions can't force public employees to support them financially.

A lot of that money goes towards politics. By nature, much of what public sector unions do is political. So that's the backdrop for this bill. And so we have made many enemies with the unions in the state, obviously, and helped a lot of public employees opt out. And so they've come forward with this bill this session, and it's now been signed by the governor to... The purpose on paper is to prevent the false impersonation of unions. The ridiculous claim from the unions is that we essentially have

health public employees opt out by saying, we're from your union, we want you to leave the union. That's nonsense! That is absolute nonsense that they would say, you the Freedom Foundation sending information to a public, yeah we're the union here, we'd like you to opt out. It makes no sense at all. Of course, they didn't come with any evidence or credible examples or anything of the sort. So the whole thing turned into a circus this session and they just kind of buried their heads in the sand and asked the Democratic legislators whose campaigns they support to vote for the bill and that's kind of how we got here. All right, now what part of this bill, House Bill 3789, is a slap lawsuit in some form or another? In other words, trying to slap people like you down to keep you from being in the political process here.

Sure, it's a very simple bill. It's deceptive, but it's simple. It's only two pages. Essentially, it defines, quote, falsely impersonated union representative, and it makes that illegal. And it allows unions, not public employees who have been supposedly harmed by this, to bring civil lawsuits against any personal organization that's code for us to pursue civil monetary damages in court, right? So the bill doesn't require any public employee to actually say they were fooled, and none have. It doesn't require any show of harm from public employees who says that they've been, you know, fooled into thinking that we're the union.

It only requires a union to go to court with, say, some of our written material or a story and describe to a judge that this constitutes false impersonation, and from there, the civil penalties would be assessed. So the bill is extremely vague and broad, and unlike any of the other anti-fraud laws on the books in Oregon that are actually fair, it doesn't actually require any showing of harm for the person who's supposedly experienced the false impersonation. But that's the bill. But this is a total violation of the First Amendment, the United States and the state

version of free speech. Political speech, first and all, protected here. You are not allowed, in essence, to write to any union member and say, you could even say, we are from the Freedom Foundation, we believe that you as a public employee or as a union member have the right to be able to opt out and keep your money, and you make it very clear right in the beginning, we're from the Freedom Foundation, we are not your union, and they can still sue you? That's what they hope. They've written this bill so broadly that they literally hope

that's the case. And it was almost comical for the legislative session committee hearing process because that's exactly right. You know, we produced examples of what we send and tell to public employees. Eventually the unions did too because there was so much pressure from our allies on committees that they had to produce something, right? But all the examples don't show anything about what they were doing. So you must have been very, you must have been impactful. The only reason that the the unions were going to their Democratic corrupticos

to do this was because they must have been starting to lose some money. Would that be fair? Is that what was going on? I think that's a fair takeaway. We've been saying that for years and we see that in the numbers. There are ways that we can track that in annual reports that unions have to file. So they are losing members and money. Now, of course, they are affiliated with powerful national unions and those can move money around and send money in for political campaigns and stuff like that. But it is having a big impact. Lots of public employees have left. I think we've had probably the biggest impact on union membership here in Oregon, as anywhere around the country.

More public employees have left and taken their money with them. So, yeah, they wouldn't be bringing this bill if it wasn't to try to shore that up. But yeah, they hope that it just takes us completely out of the equation. I don't think that it will work the way they intend, but that is their hope with the equation. I don't think that it will work the way they intend, but that is their hope with the bill. So how can you then craft information that you send to union members to make it clear that, hey, you're not impersonating a union person, I am not a union person, but we're here advising you that, you know, your union doesn't want us talking to you, but here, we're going to talk to you anyway because we think you need to know. How do you end up working around this one, Ben? Well, something like that. I mean, we'll see

what happens. I think they've even written a bill to where, you know, if we even explicitly disclaimed and said something to the effect that you just did, you know, I think funnily enough, they've written a bill to allow them to still bring lawsuits into... Oh, so apparently public employee unions are too stupid to read information sent to them. Is that what they're implying? You know, that was brought up during the committee here. I mean, no public... Yeah, exactly. The unions are there saying that their members are confused by simple messages on paper. People come to their door and of course, when we get there, of course we identify ourselves like we talked about. It makes no sense to do otherwise.

You know, we have a clearly stated objective and want to help public employees do that and leave the union. So, yeah, I don't know. We'll see how it plays out. I'm sure that we'll, you know, either see them in court before the law takes effect or I'm sure that we'll see them in court when they follow through and take us to court. Well, there sure looks like a real constitutional problem here and a real constitutional challenge that could be done.

But of course, you'd be doing a constitutional challenge in the Oregon courts, which is always a little bit dicey, I would imagine. Well yeah, it doesn't bode well. I think there's a way to take this to federal court as well. And I'm not a personal attorney, so I would have to put a pin in the details on that. But there are some options, I think, to pursue this legally that we can look into. But yeah, to your point, I guess probably the union losses against us would be initiated in state court. And of course, that's their playground. So yeah, so that plays into it too. So I can see what could happen here given that the unions want Democrats to protect their

ill-gotten gains, I suppose, or keeping their union members in the dark here. Let's say Grandma, a union member's grandma, were to write them and say, Sonny, I heard about the Freedom Foundation and they say you can opt out of the union with paying the dues there. Would they go after grandma? Is that what they would do? If they were so inclined, they could. This is wild.

But you know, this is the state of Oregon. Nothing surprises me about what comes out of, what plops out of the cloaca, the bird butt of Oregon state Legislature politics. But thank you for updating this. Where can people find out more about this? Can we help you? Is there a legal defense fund that maybe you're raising to try to go after these goons? There may be.

Yeah, there may be. FreedomFoundation.com is just the best way to find us. FreedomFoundation.com. Yeah, there may be that. We're supported by donors to begin with. And so any support that we can give is much appreciated. But that's, you know, our website has all the news on this and all the other issues that we're working on.

And that's where people can go to get in touch with us. By the way, does this bill, House Bill 3789, does it only affect public employee unions or is it all unions, private sector and otherwise? It was only the unions that, the only unions bringing it, the testified in favor of it, were the ones whose members in the public sector that we helped opt out. All right. Does it affect private sector though? I'm sorry I missed you. Your phone cut out for a second. No, it does not.

It does not. It says only public sector. So only public sector unions have people that are so weak-minded that they can't read something from the Freedom Foundation and realize that it's not SEIU, right? Evidently. Evidently. What a coincidence. Amazing times. Ben, we appreciate you sharing this story. It is astounding, but yet not, since it is Oregon. Ben Straka on the Research and Government Affairs team for the Freedom Foundation, freedomfoundation.com. We'll have you back. Good luck on finding this, okay? Thank you. Thank you so much, Bill. 745, a little bit of open phone time here before top of the hour news and more. 770-5633-770K-MED. and what I'm wondering is, did you end up going to the No Kings protest?

And what did you see? What happened? I know that Mike Pelfrey text messaged me and said he got smacked by someone's sign, that someone intentionally beat him with the sign and that there was a little bit of a dust-up. That was in Joe County. But Mike, you're one of those kind of guys. You just invite Democrats wanting

to hit you with signs. I don't know what it is. I'm just having fun with you, Mike. But if anybody else was there, what did you observe? Because I did my best to stay clear of it until the very end. I didn't think there was anything that could necessarily happen good from this. I went over to Potsville. I had a great time looking at all the hit and miss engines there and watching the tractor parade at noon. I ended up getting a couple of junkie radios. It's not a junkie radio. I actually really love it. It's a nice little antique. Someone had an old Zenith Universal portable tube radio back in the days. It's great.

It was kind of like the AM version only of these old tube, what do they call them? The trans-oceanics one with the shortwave in them too, that were very expensive, like 129 bucks back in the mid to early 1950s. Just great stuff. So I'm working on that on the workbench. So it was a great day and I got it cheap too, even better.

That's the kind of stuff, that's what I did with my weekend. What about you? For precision and performance. Three, that's 770 KMED. Dead before eight, 770-563-3, like the man said, we'll get to your calls here in just a moment. I had a great Father's Day yesterday. I talked with my son, Will. I got a text message from Sarah. That was my Father's Day gift. But my son, Will, we talked for a good 20, 25 minutes and I

find out he's running this pet store now with his stepsister up in Prineville and they're going into business there. And I'm just thrilled. He sounds like he's at a great place and it just cheered my heart great hearing from will speaking of pets uh... linda sends me a father's day card from our two cats mat and mat and charlie and it says

sure you scoop my poop and scratch under my chin clean up my barf and make my toy spin but that's not even why i love you dad not even close I love you big bunches cuz you feed me the most mom stingy happy okay that's a funny that's a funny pet Father's Day card it's true though I do feed them a little bit more I think than Linda does Linda says char well we say Charlie doesn't really have fur he has has a sausage skin, or a casing. Like a casing. So I pet his casing. He is food-centric, man, I'll tell you. Let me go to you. Gene's here. Gene, you wanted to talk about no kings. We've got open phone time. What's on your mind, huh?

Well, I was wondering if anybody showed up with a sign that says no queens, or maybe no dictating dictators. You know, funny that you bring that up because State Representative Dwayne Younger ended up putting out a meme over the weekend said no queens and had a picture of Tina Koteck hugging her wife, you know, that kind of thing. No queens, no Queens Day. But I don't know, I think Tina is kind of a manly and manful woman so I would I would say Oregon kind of a manly and manful woman, so I would say Oregon has a king. We have a king too, but that's okay. It's a Democrat king. Oh, we've got a dictator.

Yeah, well, Democrat king. He's a Democrat. Democrat king. All you have to do is look at climate-friendly, equitable community and all the rest of it. Thank you, Gene. Love hearing from you as always. I didn't even call her grumpy that time. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Minor Dave. Dave, go ahead. Well, first off, I watched the parade on YouTube. Oh, the military, the Army parade? Yeah. Okay. Which was very well done. It was a good show, you know, respect for the Army. Even the Marines were commenting or giving a happy birthday to the Army, and you know how there's that rivalry between the

Marines and the Army. So that made me feel good. And then the murderer that, you know, House Speaker of Minnesota, you know, they're trying to say that he was MAGA. Turns out he's a Democrat and he worked for, he was appointed by... By Tim Walz. Yeah, you know, it's kind of an open question right now. He was a Republican, he switched his affiliation a while back to non-affiliated somehow, and I'm not exactly sure what he is but yeah they're trying to make him into a Republican but you knew that. He was appointed to a refugee thing to bring in people and you know put in people

you know illegals into homes and he was in disagreement with that speaker over funding for Medicaid for illegals. Yeah, you're right. That was a bone of contention. So it'll be interesting to see where this goes. You know the thing is, David, I am not advocating this at all, but I'm surprised given the level of divisiveness in this country that we haven't seen more of this up to this time. It's me. I'm afraid of it. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. 7705633 people say, oh, political violence doesn't work. No, unfortunately it does. Otherwise,

people would not engage in political violence. Good morning. Hi, this is Bill. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. It's Francine. Francine, welcome. What's on your mind? You survived apparently. No King Saturday. Yes. Well, I didn't even show up. And I do have something to say about that. But first, before I chicken out, I want to tell you a really bad attempt at a dad joke that I came up with. Okay. What's that? Okay. Okay. How do we know the guy who texted you who was attacked by a violent deaf person? I don't know. How can you tell when a person texted you was attacked by a violent deaf person? How do you? Yes. Yes. They used sign to hit him. They use sign to hit him. They use what now? Sign to hit him. Oh, they use a sign. Okay.

Yeah, that is kind of weak, but I get it now. If you have to explain it to me, it's a problem, right? Well, Bill, I have to explain a lot of my jokes. That's all right. What else was on your mind? Okay. Well, I just wanted to say that, you know, when they first started discussing, you know, openly on the air, you know, the airwaves, the news, etc., etc., about this big to-do that Trump was going to pull on his birthday, right? All they mentioned was his birthday. They never said anything about it being the 250th anniversary of the Army. It just happened to be on his birthday. Well, yeah, but they didn't even mention that.

I mean, I was thinking, why is he doing this on his birthday? What is he trying to do? You know, actually for a while, it took me a while until I understood the whole context. You know what, you have to understand it was also Flag Day too, right? It was Flag Day. Oh, by the way, did you hear about Flag Day over at New York Mets on Friday, what they did? No. Yeah, they ended up having the Star Spangled Banner singer and then they had the Pride flag on the big

Jumbotron there for everybody. I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you. I can't take that anymore. I mean, I stay home a lot because a lot of stuff out there I can't take that anymore. I stay home a lot because there's a lot of stuff out there I can't take. I know. Now, I cut you off there, but you were talking about the date, so I wanted to make sure you can get that out there. What else was on your mind though? Please complete your thought. That was it mostly. The reason I'm bringing it up is because it's a really good example of how the media, what is the word, obfuscates? They change the meaning of the news just so simply by just leaving out... Yeah, it's the lie of omission, right? Yes, the lie of omission, and it's just, they just don't stop. It's like when they're holding up a sign at No Kingsburg,

immigrants are people too! Well, no one's questioning the personhood that I saw over there on on McAndrews on Saturday. No, it's not that. They leave out the illegal part about it. Did you ever look at... I sent you an email a while back about the Boston Marathon, the video that I keep wanting you to watch that you won't watch because you don't like to watch videos. But the present, I'm telling you the presentation is amazing, but did you see the pic, did you even look at it and look at some of the, there's some pictures I included? I don't know if I did or not. I don't think I did. Okay, I'm gonna resend it to you. At least look at the, at the photo. Oh gosh, you're getting like, you're getting like Lucretia. It's like, I am going to get you...

You will not ignore me! You were going to watch that video! Well, you know, I mean, I need a little bit of attention here and there, Bill. I appreciate it, but please do. I'll get back to you. Thank you, Francie. I want to make sure we get everybody else's call. I'm just having a look. We're just noodling around here. Some open phone time on Monday. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is Jerry. Jerry, what's on your mind today?

What's happening? I was kind of late to the King's protest, but my sign was, Jesus is King. Oh, they wouldn't like that. There wasn't many people there when I got there. Oh, okay. See, they wouldn't like that. There wasn't many people there when I got there. Oh, okay. See, they wouldn't like that because the whole idea is that group, they definitely want a king. They definitely want a king. They just want a king from their tribe, Jerry, would you agree? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, all right. Well, I'm glad you showed up there and I will concur with your sign.

Let me grab one more. Hi, good morning and who might you be? Hey, good morning, Bill. It's Brad with the SLM. Brother Brad! Slovenian Lives Matter. How are you my friend? Hey, man, I wanted to let you know that I think Saturday we missed that there's been a great time to loot Ashland. Because everybody in Ashland was in Medford. Was that what was going now? The claim from Medford police was that there were 3,000 people. And I looked at the pictures and yeah, there were a lot of people here.

I'm not discounting that. But when I think of 3,000 people, I think of a totally stuffed Brit Festival crowd. And that's a lot of people. I don't know if it looked like that or not, but estimating it's kind of a tough thing. Yeah, I haven't heard anybody call in, but I made it to the car deal Saturday. Oh, you went to Medford Cruise then, right? Oh my God, I had a cargasm. What was it like? What was it like?

Tell me about what was the best car that you saw at the cruise? Well for me there was a 67 Malibu, which was my favorite car. I wanted one so bad. You know, Malibu was always one of my favorite Chevy's back in that day. It really was. I drove something similar to it for a while. I had a 1970 Monte Carlo. It was built on that same platform, but it was supposedly like the upscale Malibu of the day. That kind of thing. It was great. There was a gold-colored 67 GTO. You know what a six-pack is? Oh yeah, that was the three two barrels, right? Three two barrels?

Yeah. Yeah, and it had the whole... And you know what? There was one stinking electric car in the whole deal. You're kidding me. The Medford Cruise and the show and everything, no electric cars? How could that be? No, it was just a bunch of old guys just having the time of their life.

Hey, I'm kind of curious about, speaking of that, I know that for those kind of cars, you do have to be probably a little bit older to appreciate it then. Are you seeing, were you seeing any participation from the younger kids, maybe going after 1980s and 1990 cars? I'm kind of wondering how old they, or how young the cars could be, because I've heard that there's some shifting to... I mean I never thought that

people would start getting nostalgic for 1980s and 1990 cars but I am aware of some shows that are doing that now. Well it's interesting you say that because there was a couple of rows because it was segmented that had 80s to 90s cars very different models and whatnot. Well that's kind of cool because that is that generation. Yeah, it's like you like whatever was really cool during that time. The one that you pined for that you were never able to get back at that time, usually is how that worked.

And when I was back from my high school reunion last year, my best friend Bob Orpin, and the thing is he worked for in Detroit, you know, for the automobile industry for quite some time. And when I was back from my high school reunion last year, my best friend, Bob Orpin, and the thing is he worked in Detroit, for the automobile industry for quite some time, but he says, you know what my favorite, and there was one at a car show there in Milan, Ohio, and it was, gosh, what was it? It was a 1980 something Trans Am.

And it was one of these things that was like a pace car for the Indianapolis 500. I forget exactly the details of it. And he says, this is the one I've always wanted, Bill, and this guy has it. And we've been talking about it. And I said, Bob, that thing's a dog. It's got, you know, a Trans Am even in those days, it was like a 125 horsepower. I think my PT Cruiser has more horsepower.

He says, I know, I don't care. I've always loved this car. But that's what cars are to people. It's not necessarily whether it's the best performer or not. It's whatever you wanted at the time. And the biggest flashback for me was so many of these older cars had huge back seats. And I was flashing back to my teenage years because me and my buddy had a double date and we went to Tacoma Nero's Bridge to go watch the submarine races in one of those. Yeah, I'll bet.

69 Cadillac. Dad's 69 Cadillac. I'll always remember that. Oh my gosh. That thing was like a living room. Amazing how big those old Detroit iron cars were. Thank you, brother. I appreciate the call. Thanks for the memories too. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. Steve in Sunny Valley. Steve, what's on your mind? Oh, I had a great Saturday.

I went to the airport with the EAA. Oh, how did it work with the EAA, the experimental aircraft people? Was there a good turnout for them? It was a great turnout. We had four pilots given lots of kids rides. I think we flew about 30 kids. Great. The weather was perfect.

No wind at the beginning. So those, seeing the 701s gave a nice smooth flight for the kids. It was a fantastic day. Glad to the kids. It was a fantastic day. Glad to hear it. It was a great day at Potsville. It was a great day at the show, the car show in Metford. It looked like everybody was having a good time. It was a great time to avoid the No King Saturday. There were ways to do it. I just feel a little bit bad for the downtown businesses because I know I'm not the only one who avoided downtown because of it. Yeah, I imagine so. Steve, thanks for

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