Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 07-02-26_THURSDAY_7AM

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

Greg Roberts, Mr. Outdoors from Rogue Weather Dot Com with the Outdoor report, talking about things to do over the long weekend. Newsmax insider columnist JUDD DUNNING discusses President Trumps economic successes.

This hour of the Bill Myers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Point Medford, Mr. Outdoors will join me here in just a few minutes. So we get ready to kick off along. Independence Day weekend, not 4th of July, Independence Day weekend. Let's do that, okay? speaking of which I will be off air tomorrow

and whoever's filling in for Larry O'Connor will be filling in for Larry O'Connor and filling in for me too here for that matter because tomorrow is the actual official federal holiday so I'm going to enjoy that and sleep in sleep until like 7 o'clock until fat Charlie scratches on my door and muse

beggingly it's like oh my gosh you know we we had these two cats and Matt of course is a very lean Maine Kuhn. And he can free feed all he wants. And then there is Charlie. Charlie, who was our shelter cat, you know, that we got a couple of years ago. Love him dearly.

He's a weird cat. He doesn't have the same socialization as other cats that we've had. But he loves us. You know, we get along, but still, he's just weird. And if the bowl is filled, he'll eat the whole bowl. And I'm thinking, am I going to have to get like those GLP drugs, a little like kiddie ozempic? Is that going to be the next thing? And so now we're getting to the point where we'll now feed fat Charlie when lean Maddie's hungry.

And then when he's done eating, we pick the bulls up because it's like the only way. Man, still having to work on that. Yeah, I know you're looking at me on Facebook and say, hey, how about you? Take up the bull bill. I get it. I've been this way for a long, long time, though, but at least I'll recognize it. does not. And Charlie B, you, and then

rubbing his head on the on the bowl. I'm like, please. Please. Man, I'll tell you. Let's do some emails of the day here. Sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson in Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point Family Dentistry.com.

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It's on Mazelon. I'm sorry, next to the Mazelon Mexican restaurant on Freeman Road in Central Point. Out there by Albertsons, that neighborhood, okay? And we have Wes from Grants Pass who writes me, Bill, residing in Grants Pass, I try to avoid Medford like the plague. Novelties like Trader Joe's and Chick-fil-A are hard to resist when I'm forced to make the trip. However, that triangular development defined by North Central, North Pacific Highway and Ross Anley Drive is a navigational nightmare. An out-of-towner must use the force, Luke, to hit the singular secret inlet off of North Central,

like Luke Skywalker in a quest for Chick-fil-A. That complex will likely remain barren for a while since no business in their right mind would want to build in that inaccessible labyrinth, clearly designed with either malice or ignorance. Well, I will agree with you, Wes from Grads Pass on, yeah, that one scratches my head. I try to avoid it for the same reason because, you know, the parking is miserable and the design, yes, there were certainly better ways that could have been done. I don't know. Maybe it had to do about maximizing the amount of space for the stores, but it's not a fun one to get in and out of. Everyone tells me that, okay?

The Reverend David writes me about the pregnant aliens. Bill, you and I are on the same page with this. I was thinking the very same thing earlier this morning, deny entry to all pregnant alien women. It's pretty simple. And like I said, there could be, you know, a few issues like, you know, how do you make sure? Because, you know, if you come in as a tourist, I didn't realize that you could stay in. But if you come in on a tourist visa, you can stay up to six months.

So you could technically, if you're actually making this plan that you're going to pop an instant American citizen like the Chinese agents are trying to do, you know, all that kind of thing. You come in on a tourist visa six months and then maybe you're pregnant and you're three or four months pregnant. And I don't know. Maybe this is just something President Trump's going to have to do. And, of course, you know that the left would be having a hissy fit on something like this. But I think it would have to be done. And so if someone is at the border, they're trying to get in, you're pregnant, right back immediately. and since you're supposedly subject to our jurisdiction, if you're here, okay, we're going to make sure you're not out.

Out you go. Francine writes me this morning, hey, Bill, the Supreme Court just held up the 14th Amendment, essentially defending it as written regarding birthright citizenship, without taking the changed circumstances that exist 160 years after it was written in 1866. Yet the court continues to reinterpret the Second Amendment based on what they are calling, different circumstances due to different times when it comes to a person's right to own use and carry a weapon. Such inconsistencies are blatantly politically driven, reinterpretations of law as convenient to push their personal political views and opinions, which is clearly in conflict with their sworn duty. Now, Francine, it comes down. I've mentioned this before. Unfortunately,

the Supreme Court, well, let me put it this way. The Constitution, or the meaning of the Constitution is not what the Constitution says. It is the hundreds of pages of what the Supreme Court has said about the Constitution. And there's a part of me that would absolutely love just to do a reset. If you wanted to do a great reset, it would be to practically eliminate any precedent that had been set since the founding, you know, all this kind of thing. It's just like, okay, we are taking the Constitution as written, and let's start again, okay? Anyway, appreciate you emailing Bill at Billmyershow.com. And finally, Patrick says, okay, I may have misunderstood.

People were talking about yesterday robot prison guards and sex bots for the prisoners. Is that to keep the prisoners from wanting to leave prison? If those are AI sex bots, maybe the sex bots would get tired of the wimpy human prisoners and start hooking up with each other. In an AI future, it could happen. What a dystopian thought. Thank you, Patrick. Get the latest here from Fox News and then the latest from Miss.

Mr. Outdoors. Good hot weekend coming up here. Maybe fire too. We'll talk about that too. With Greg and a whole bunch more. Need a fresh coat of paint? Call nap painting and construction in Medford. Voted Southern Oregon's best of the best three years in a row. Nap painting is known for quality work and attention to detail. From interior and exterior painting to refinishing doors and... Or stimulating talk. The Phil Myers Show on KMED. Live from the Army, Navy, Marine. store studio. Call pill now at 541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. Now more with Bill Meyer. By the way, I wanted to congratulate George Elmore, Chuck Anderson, and who else did we get as the winner of those discount fireworks super stores? Dusty Craig. Dusty Craig. And they all get their $25 gift certificates. I have one more left. We'll give that away a little bit later. And I also have tickets to the Medford Rogues this morning. This weekend, I should say, and beyond here.

And speaking of the Medford Rogues, the voice, he's the big voice there. And that would be Greg Roberts over at rogueweather.com and the outdoor report sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. Greg, welcome back. Going to be a big weekend for the Medford Roads here, isn't it? Yeah, yes, it will. You know, we're in the middle, in a two-game series, can I say in the middle? but we are currently, we're taking on a high school showcase team, mostly made up

kids from Northwestern Oregon. There are a couple central Oregon kids on it. Anyway, this team is called Lido's Labs. And Lido is a shortened version of the name of the head coach and his brother, who is an assistant, Leiden. I was wondering, because I saw on the calendar the name, I said, what the heck is? Lighthouse lap. I had no idea. Thanks for explaining this. And the cool part was Carson Leiden, who is the head coach of the team, the creator of it.

He played for us here in 2021. And his brother played in 2018 and then again in 2020. And they have an assistant, Braden Wells, who was an assistant coach for us in 2021. So it kind of explains how that all came together, but what they sought to do was find the absolute cream of the crop of high school talent, again, mostly northwestern Oregon, but some central Oregon kids. And they're developing them specifically to become high-level Division I collegiate players and also with an eye at a professional career. And so this team, there is not a senior on it. They are juniors and sophomores. Quite a few of these kids have already committed to schools. For example, the starting pitcher for them last night is going to be a future University of Oregon Ducks pitcher.

And they're exceptionally good. I mean, these kids were last night. No kidding. No kidding. And these are all soft. sophomores and juniors in high school right now. That is just amazing. What a great story.

So, well, you're going to be playing tonight, 635, right? Yes, we are. And tonight, everything out of the beer garden will be on special throughout the game. It is going to be a beautiful night to come out to the ballpark. Honestly, this entire weekend, even now looking ahead to next week, we are not looking at any hot weather at all out here. So our evenings for the ball games have just been spectacular. And then, of course, tomorrow night we've got military appreciation night. We are going to be auctioning off jerseys that our rogues players will be wearing. And this year, we are

paying tribute to the legendary Navy fighter squadron, the Jolly Rogers. And, of course, the rogues, the pirate theme, the nautical theme. That just made all. kinds of sense. Last year we honored the U.S. Army. This year will be U.S. Navy. And then, of course, Saturday night, we will be doing the big fireworks show after the game. Tickets for that. All the reserve seats are already gone, and general admission is going fast. And I heard you say you're going to be giving away tickets. It's very possible that about the best way somebody could get tickets is to win them. Okay. So that's how tight it's getting.

That's good to know, though. So that's going to be the final fireworks show of the season, right? For this season, yeah. And the timing of which, with what's going on, fire danger-wise, we're getting a huge break that we're not hot, that we do have higher humidity levels. So that's going to help. We're also going to have, you know, firefighters' engines standing by for that just in case.

But, yeah, it's fun. We got into doing this, I want to say, four years ago. now where we're doing fireworks on Friday nights, and in this case, Saturday the 4th of July. But it's hugely popular, and we get our biggest crowds of the season out on those fireworks nights. Absolutely. No doubt about that. Hey, I was kind of curious. I was talking an hour ago about a news release that I had saved from a week or two ago in

which there was a Klamath Falls guy that is facing 10 years in prison at a quarter million dollar fine. and this is because he was distributing Class M explosives. And, of course, I didn't know what a Class M explosive was. And I looked up and said, oh, it's like the M80s, the fireworks. And we had that stuff, you know, all the time. We were kids, you know, as it was a different world, I guess. Oh, yeah. And I'm just kind of wondering, did Mr. Fire ever play with Firecrackers back when?

Oh, an apypical kid. And firecrackers were a lot more easily accessible. back in the day. Yeah, well, and they were actually designed specifically for tying on to the green army men, those little plastic. Well, pretty much. Yeah. And, of course, we use bottle rockets as our version of RPGs and shot those things at each other.

And honestly, I'm surprised. I still have all 10 fingers. And I didn't, you know, shoot a bottle rocket into my eye or somebody else's eye. I mean, the things you do when you're a kid and you're dumb. Yeah, well, hopefully most of us survive our children. childhood. But what I was wondering about is that, now, I know you're Native American, too. Now, are they still selling the insane and necessarily not quite so safe of fireworks on Native American reservations in some of the states here? Or is that pretty much gone now? Do you know? Just curious.

Without any question, and Highway 95, there is a huge fireworks store, not just stand, huge fireworks store on the Paiute Nation land where Highway 95 runs through it. And there at one time used to be a Black Cat store. And Black Cat is one of the leading manufacturers of firecrackers in Vancouver, Washington. And I have memories being a kid of going to the Black Cat store in Vancouver with my dad, with my uncles, buying firecrackers, buying bottle rockets, because they were legally sold there then. Washington has since banned that. That black cat store is no longer in business. Yeah, and these are fireworks which are legal under federal law, but the states can say no. And that's like Oregon has said no to that, and Washington and other ones have done that. And then, of course,

you've got California down to the south, and you've got the Chinese communities in the Bay Area. There are fireworks stores you can go into in San Francisco to this day. And I really don't know how those stores are operating the way they do because it's definitely not a tribal situation on a reservation. But then, of course, there's the black market. And a lot of what we see and here going off already beginning right now is largely people get access one way or the other on the black market, or they're going down to Nevada and buying them at the stores on the reservations.

Yeah, do they do that with cigarettes too? And the reason, do they do that with cigarettes too? Because I was told one of my relatives went to get a couple of cartons of cigarettes and a couple of newspapers for a relative who still smokes. And it was like $330, you know, for two cartons of cigarettes. cigarettes. They're free to do pretty much whatever they want. They have their own autonomy, you know, and they will do things. You will not be able to find anywhere else. And a lot of the First Nations tribes, they have thrived upon that. And of course, you know, probably in the last,

I don't know, 30, 40 years, there's been that move to the casinos and all of the established federally recognized tribes have gone that direction. Well, could we, is there any way that, what tribe do you belong to? Or do you belong to a tribe? I don't know. Well, to the Cherokee in Oklahoma because of great-grandpa and then also great-grandma was chalk-taught. All right.

Well, could we petition as a non-inigan to join the tribe? Could we do that? I'd like that. I want to go. No, you've got to be able to prove your lineage, a certain. Massachusetts Senator notwithstanding. Oh, so I can't go out there and say I watched dances with wolves three times, and can I come in or something like that? I can't do that.

Yeah, you know, well, reality, you plea people who do a certain Massachusetts senator, notably. Oh, yeah, no doubt. I just had to ask. I'm just joshing, of course, but I've got to have a little fun with it. Hey, let's talk about where we're going here. Like I said, the weather's perfect. I'm going to love it. It's going to be warm, but not hot, really.

Why is it so nasty hot over the rest of the week, the rest of the nation? And then the other question is, is it truly the hottest temperatures they have ever recorded there? Because that's what I'm hearing repeated ad nauseum. And again, that's the fear thing. People pay attention to fear. People glom on to fear. It's one of our greatest weak human creatures. Fear makes you pay attention to news story.

We're in a trough, so cooler, back east, they're underneath a high pressure. That is going to amplify. There's a term you will hear thrown around called heat dome. This is a legit heat dome when you look at it from the meteorological point of view. Yes, there could be some places back east that may set all-time highest recorded temperatures. But recorded temp doesn't mean the hottest. it's ever been because again, we haven't really been recording temperatures here in the United States very long.

And the other thing I would say is that they're recording temperatures that are in urban areas, which are, well, their heat sinks, it's all concrete. Yeah, urban heat islands matter. It's one of the reasons Medford is one of the cherry-picked sites for quote-unquote climate change, global warming, whatever you want to call it, because it isn't. the daytime temps, it's the overnight lows, which have gotten warmer. And again, it's the urban heat island effect, concrete, rocks, asphalt, things like that. Yeah, there's going to be more heat from that than there would be from, let's say, pear trees from back in the day, you know, that

kind of thing. All right. I got the proof of that bill by paying attention to what happened in Medford and then looking at what happened in Alturis. In Alturis, no urban heat island effect. and thus changes in temperatures one way or the other. Medford, again, it's the overnight lows, and then thus the average temperature, and then they claim that Medford's getting hotter and harder and selling it as climate change, when in reality it's an urban heat island effect because we have replaced thousands of acres of grass and dirt and trees here in this valley with thousands of acres of concrete rock and asphalt. And black roofs, too.

Let's not forget about that. All right. Now, I only have a few minutes left here. So let's make sure we hit the high thing. Of course, like I said, it's a great weekend to do anything you want to do like you had talked about before. So the other thing I want to ask you, though, is the Utah fires. Could you give us your take on that because they want to make this the climate change fires, right? They're always trying to sell that narrative, aren't they?

Right. in Colorado right now, especially Aspen Acres. All of this is what gets set up when you don't have rain and snow in the winter, and then you do get the heat, which is typical for the time of the year there, but we've been seeing a lot of windy conditions. And then when fires take off and ramp up, they will create their own winds. They can progress into creating their own weather, including thunder and lightning. But in the case of what's happening back there now, those fires are quickly accelerating on a dried-out landscape primed to burn, and as they really take off, they generate more heat,

which generate dynamics that create fire-related winds. And on the Aspen Acres fire, that was getting up to 100 miles an hour in the area of the fire. The fire was creating so much wind, it reached 100 miles an hour. Wow. Well, last Saturday on the Utah, Colorado, border. They had a couple small fires get going. They rushed regencies in. And in January of this year, they took Department of Interior and all the various firefighting ability under multiple agencies. They created the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, and that was by bringing together Bureau of Indian Affairs

Fire, Bureau of Land Management Fire, National Park Service fire, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fire. And they combined all those firefighting resources into one centralized unit and gave it the name U.S. Wildland Fire Service. The president gave it one standing order. Hit fires early, hit them hard. Oh, gee, we're going to return to the way we used to do this. Well, then, of course, you have a fire explode.

Firefighters got caught. It does happen. It's a tragedy. That has been going on for as long as we've been putting people out fighting fires. Yeah. Now, the thing is, though, is that the media tends to frame this, though, is that putting out the fires is discredited? Isn't that what they're saying? Yes, that ice on this.

And it's not discredited. What it is, the federal government abandoned aggressive initial attack beyond a certain point because of the 30-mile fire in eastern Washington, where we did have firefighter deaths, and the incident commander was criminally charged with that. At that point, the federal government, and especially for a service in BLM, that was the dawning of the tactic called Big Box, where you went indirect on the fire, you constructed a box around it. Yeah, yeah, and you, well, the let it burn policy,

which of course the Jackson County Commission ended up putting out the resolution and coordinated, and they went against that. The 1995 wildfire plan. you know, that plan, which was the let it burn, which we call it. So we've already done this. The president comes out against that. Yeah. The president comes out against that.

Right. It says that's not the way we're doing it anymore. We're going to hit them aggressively. We're going to hit them small. And then this happens. And now the media, chiefly CNN and AP are saying he's promoting a discredited practice. No, it's not discredited. It's the way we fought fire for decades.

They're wanting it discredited. because it gives aid and comfort to the policies they are engaging in big box, and it brings climate change back into the picture on fires. Yep, that's it. It's part about narrative control. Greg, thank you for the hot take on that, no pun intended, all right? And have a great time over at the Rokes this weekend, too. By the way, Bob Hayworth, the formerly of the Kingston Trio, wrote me. He said that he's going to be singing the national anthem on Sunday, and he hopes that you will watch his banjo, during the game because a hot car would not be good for the banjo.

No, definitely not. In my nice air-conditioned comfort of the press box, I will be happy to take care of Bob's banjo while he's enjoying the game. All right. And we'll catch you next Friday, Greg. Thanks again. All right. You got it, Bill.

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249 a month at Kia Medford. Click kiomedford.com. Good morning. This is News Talk 1063 KMED. And you're Waking up with the Bill Myers Show. Well, between the media hissifitting, hissie fitting, rather, and various other things, how would you actually judge the Trump economy?

Well, Judd Dunning has done some work on this. He's a former talk show host. What? You worked at KABC. Wow, you're at the show, man. How you doing, Judd? Hey, good, Bill. Good morning, everybody. God bless America.

Indeed. Yeah, I did. I worked KABC. We wrote a book for Newsmax, The 13-5 reasons why not to be a liberal and how to enlighten others. And I'm a Newsmax insider columnist over there. All right. I love being with that crowd. Great people.

Yeah, well, Newsmax, like I said, it would be, that's home, right? It feels comfy. It's a comfy, warm place for you. It is. Hey, let's talk about this latest point. The latest jobs report came out. It's looking a little, I wouldn't want to say sagging. It's steady, but like 78,000 created.

And then another month it was looking a little bit better. But, of course, it goes up and down. It's a little cyclical. How would you actually score President Trump here? You have a pretty good piece on Newsmax about this right now. Yeah, great. I mean, yeah, thank you. Thank you.

You're going to say the article, yeah. Yeah. The U.S. Chabras slows a little bit. I mean, from, you know, to 4-2. We're still good. You know, there's a little bit of decline in the labor force. A lot of people are getting absorbed.

U.S. oil production just rises to record higher in April, came out in Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. factory activity continued to expand in June. I mean, I'd say he's doing great. We've got a president right now. Everybody's focusing on the metastasized, corporatized, flip and switch, move fast, tired down the master's media. That's what we still do. Ever since COVID, people get tired.

They don't focus on the good things. They focus on the bad things. Bad things make money in corporatized media, not in America. Well, yeah, but it's always. been if it bleeds it leads. I don't think that's anything new, but it's just been even more intensely promoted as of late. I guess that's really what's going on, isn't it? Even more so. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say I call it Trump resistance syndrome in this not in this area because like, you know, he's gone after the Fed. He's gone after the gold reserves. He's gone after, you know, he'll take on

anything at the beginning aggressively and then negotiate moderately. But what exactly is going on the economy, right? That's my background. We've done a couple billion dollars to real estate the background besides our political work. That's what we do. You know, GDP impact from tariffs has been estimated about 1 to, you know, 1%, but how do tariffs work? I mean, if you look at the productivity of America, is it a privilege to work with us in a globalized economy with a lot of corporatism, a lot of globalism, a big technocracy beyond the United States borders? But the tariffs were a massive ask, right? And then a renegotiation. If you look at everything Trump does, he does massive ass, no ass, no debt, and he backed it off. From that, what's happened?

About $190 billion of onshoreing have happened recently right now. I mean, that $244,000 reshoring jobs, you know, more – two million of reshoring jobs that are coming. I mean, we've got a lot of things happening right now. You know, tariffs were leveraged to start that. Of course, we've got a radically big issue with the debt, which right now the new Fed chair is taking on, right? Trump's been pressuring there and what's been happening. He said, hey, we need to slow down the printing breath. We need to use interest rates.

I mean, the federal debt is $39 trillion, and you have a trillion dollars of interest a year. Well, if we lower the debt by 2%, that's $800 billion, we could almost get to break even with two and a half basis points, right? Which is cutting the money radically. We probably won't do that. At the same time, inflation will be kept steady so we can refinance our debt with lower-priced debt. I mean, there is a plan in the Fed now. Well, you know, the thing is, though, is that there. The markets are predicting right now a 70% chance that Warsh will actually have to raise interest rates because inflation is still running hot.

You'd agree with that so far. It's running hotter than we would like. Right. But you've got to back out. You've got to back out of inflation. It's not that bad, actually. It's not bad as it was. If you back out oil, because you've got to set that in a silo, you say, okay, well, what is this trade of remorse really about?

What is Iran really about? Well, they were attacking the American petrodollar, the bricks, the Russian, the Chinese, and Iran. And we're trying to move off of the biggest security instrument. We're at our apex of oil production that we've ever been at. And they're trying to deconstruct the underlying currency, which would move a lot of security away from America. So the straight of her moose is not Trump out of control. It's the end of a 45-year stalemate where we succeeded punching them in the nose. Somebody's finally called the game.

Trump's very good at that because, you know, he's got this term left. And he's ruling for principle than just appeasing her. It's unpopular. So you're thinking that ultimately, in spite of all the criticism, because it almost seems like there are, Judd, I don't know if you're which camp you're in here, but there are two camps here when it comes to President Trump and Iran that seem to be the noisiest. There's the one that says that everything he does is perfect and it's like 39 dimensional chess. And then there's the other one that said that he lost in Iran. And I'm not reading these two. You know, how would you call this at this point?

Well, interestingly enough, I'm very close to somebody very high in the military. Yeah. What's happened from Venezuela forward, right, is we're taking massive jumps in military readiness. We're investing in America and we're sending a message. And then Iran, we're investing in strength, you know, strength through, we're supposed to be quiet strength, right? But we've had to act. In Iran, there's been, we're not hearing of the great deconstruction of how bad it's gotten for them over there. and what a crisis they are in. They're very, very tough people, at least on the elite guard, like leading the country.

My understanding, insider understanding, is that we've really deconstructed their ability to fight over there. So we're at a tipping point. Victor Dave Hansen says the same. But I think that where we're going in Iran is probably a higher level of conflict. There's more to Iran than people are talking about. I mean, it's not just nuclear weapons. It's free-seased. Since 1941, we've set up a free trade in the world. We haven't got a pat in the back for it, a massive expense for free trade to stay on the seas. And they violated that. That's why did the Suez Canal? Why did the Panama Canal?

Why have we had these issues? Because we're committed and we heavily invested in three seas. Secondly, the people are repressed, right? They're the nuclear issue. Fourth, they have proxy wars where they never, they fight constantly, but they never fight directly. So is this worth the deconstruction of the situation? Yes, but alone just protecting us on bricks. Like deconstructing the petro dollar right now when we're in the situation within with our debt would be bad.

And it's not just about America. Remember, if we defaulted, then the world would default. That's how important. We can't even consider default in America. Yeah, it would be incredibly disruptive. The one thing, though, is that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia did let their petro dollar agreement expire quietly. It was like a little more than a year ago I was reading. I didn't even hear about that.

I don't know if you heard about that or not. But they're kind of backing away from it already. And so maybe the petro dollar doesn't really matter as much as we thought that it was supposed to matter for a while. Well, in the meantime, you know what's happened during Iran, which has been fantastic for America as we moved production distribution, a ton of it back to America. This is actually strengthening us in the background. Like people are sourcing us just like World War II. like we were a major source. We're extremely abundant free economy.

So there's a lot of, there's a lot going in the article you see. I mean, you have to run. The F&P is running strong, right? The economy is at $28.75 trillion, which is a problem because, you know, there's only one other time in history has it been lower than the debt. The U.S. represents one quarter of global GDP, oil production, 13.6 barrels a day, you know. Oh, yeah. No, we would appear to be firing. Here is the reason, though, and it's something I hadn't thought much about here recently.

Judd Dunning, by the way, is with me, and Newsmax insider commonist, and Trump's scoreboard on economy and U.S. credibility speaks for itself. So you've got some good news there, and that's great. I'm wondering, though, if really what we're dealing with is a grumpiness in the middle class. You know what I'm getting at here? That seems to be, would you agree that's kind of what we're feeling out there, a real grumpiness? I would. And what I was thinking here is that I think what we're looking at here is a long-term trend. And I was reading a financial guy that I haven't talked to before, but his name is Sean.

He was over on Daily Reckoning. And he brought up something that the Economic Policy Institute called the inequality tax. And this is nothing that President Trump did. This has been a long-term trend going back 40, 50, 60 years in which, you know, you're talking about, you know how great the markets are except the challenge is is that most Americans are not in the markets most Americans are

not asset holders and that's where most of the growth has come from and what they in fact it was just saying that if just the middle 60% of Americans would have had their income keep pace with the wealth growth of the country

they'd be about they'd have about $18,000 more a year per household is what the EPI ended up saying about this. And the top 1% have doubled their share of after-tax income. In 1979, they held about 7 to 8% of after-tax. And in recent years, they having about 14% of the national income. And I think that is a challenge that we're looking at right now. Labor share of the wealth growth. It's all been going to asset holders who have had the benefit of that zero interest rate policy for a long, long time. And I believe that is where the

grumpiness is coming from. It's a real thing. Middle class has been falling behind commensurantly. Do you agree or am I wrong about that, what the EPA is saying, you know, about that? No, I think that's absolutely valid. I want to get to my next point about honesty and accountability, which relates to this. Yeah. But yes, yes, and the other side of this is a lot of the people that were pushing for COVID to shut down the economy are taking personal accountability for, you know, inflation is redistribution of cost to the private individual. So if you were pro-shutdown the economy and COVID and everything, I mean, a lot of people were picking up the tap. I was not in that camp. So, you know, we wiped out savings. We wiped out education savings. We wiped out

business savings. We wiped out proven reserves, business investment. I mean, the average individual had to spend everything in their bank account to support the government and shutting down the economy, which now, I think what's happening toward the midterms with this grumpiness is I think what the Trump camps doing on top of a strong economy is I think we have this movement to I call Make America Honest again, because you've got this massive fraud accountability counsel coming out, right? Started in Ohio, it's moving across the nation. They've got, you know, massive results of already, you know, identifying people with PPP,

Medicare, Social Security. I mean, we're talking billions and billions of dollars, trillions of dollars in PPP. Then we've got the COVID disclosure by Tulsi before she leaves. It's probably the only safe way for her to do it. Then you've got the election integrity issues. And we're taking on, I think there's a grumpy middle class, but there's a disgusted middle class. And things are the way that. Grumpy and disgusted.

I love that, John. Yeah. Yeah. That describes my daughter as well. I think the young people are just disgusted. Now, let me ask you, though, this is the, to me, though, this is a real canary in the coal mine, Judd, because you've noticed the explosion in the blue urban hive mines of socialist candidates. And I know Victor Davis Hansen says, oh, the Democrat Party is cutting their own throat, you know, by, you know, the rise of this in the Democratic policy, in the Democratic Party. I'm not so sure.

I think we should be a little more concerned about this and take this more seriously because, When you have grumpy and disgusted and middle class, bad things tend to happen politically. Do you agree? I mean, when you look at history, not just the United States history. Grumping and disgusted, bad things and stupid stuff gets embraced. And I could see the rise of the commies here they were looking at right now. Yeah. Well, look, that's how Hitler rose, right?

I mean, after the reparations being so hardcore that the people blindly followed him into hell. You know, I think that there's definitely a path forward with this Democratic Socialist element. I think it's blowback. I mean, it's interesting, right? Because I've never seen a president so attacked and dismerited for everything for the people that oppose him. And the news be so metastasized. And I wrote an article about this recently only consequential presidents get shot at is he's taken on so much stuff. You know, if they say that your JFK might have been killed.

from the military industrial complex. You know all these statements. When you take on globalism, when you take on tariffs, when you take on all the graphs in the Democratic Party, right? When you take on all forms of chicanery in the society, there are risks and there are possibilities. And I think what we're seeing here is, and they say, I don't think it's like four or five percent of the progressive left controls 34 percent of the media machine and the base. and most a lot of liberals, good normal people like you and me are are disenfranchised by their own party. But the problem is, you know, the way our campaign laws work, I mean, they've got, they've got power in the media, and we are to, you know, we're holding a very tenuous balance

in Congress. So I do think we have to take it on the nose, and I do think we have to take it very seriously, because something about the socialist movement, it's interesting how it forgets itself. I'm not to be too much, long-winded here, but, you know, I've just wrapped up the first 12 episodes of Tom Hanks's World War II, which is fantastic. There's six more episodes. It's the best that's ever come out. And you really watch this play out in live time that there are revulsionary cycles that kind of go back into madness, even though the results don't work. And definitely the socialistic model does not work. It will consume and bury the economy. We just ran that with Biden. It was a, you know, we had 106,000 laws in the federal registry

controlling our freedom under Trump. We have 60,000 laws on the federal registry. We're like the most deregulated we've been since 1952. That's why our economy's prospering. The one thing I'm hoping is that we don't slide back into, well, aping the French, the French revolutionaries, because these young ones, these young ones, these DSAs that are coming up, I would take them very seriously and not just tend to look at them. And I think a lot of the Republicans, especially the Republican establishment, is kind of like saying, oh, they would never, you know, make it into, you know, larger,

national office. I'm not so convinced that they can't right now because of the grumpiness that we were just talking about. So I imagine the President Trump's going to be focusing pretty hard on that here over the next few weeks, wouldn't you figure? Well, did you hear yesterday, Hakeem Jeffries might be like might be a candidate for the Democratic Party? I was like, it's insane after what we just went through in the left. It was so deconstructive. I agree with you. We have to keep our eyes on it. I think the biggest thing, though, is I think our power, our secret power is patriotism, gratitude, and putting America first. It's not a hate crime to actually take care of your own economy, but knowing that our strong economy and security takes care of the world. And I think we have to, you know, other people besides Trump are a little bit softer on the tongue need to keep mirroring that.

Hey, it's the 250th anniversary of the most amazing experiment in the world. You know, what is time for a revolution? I think gratitude, if love is real and God is real, I think what we on the right have to do is like, you know, that you can get past people by focusing on focusing what's good, what's working. You know, of course you don't avoid what's not working, like the debt, like the housing crisis, like interest rates, like homelessness, there's a lot going on. Indeed. Good job on the piece, though. Trump's scoreboard on economy. U.S. credibility speaks for itself, and I appreciate you doing this. And like I said, there are a lot of balls in the air. We'll be paid attention to. And we do get whips.

You don't want to be a blind Trumper. Yeah. And you want to be a thinker. Exactly. And we're all getting whipsawed back and forth on this one here. So on that note, happy Independence Day weekend, Judd. And where can people go to find out about everything, Judd? Where do you go?

Thank you, sir. You can get to the Judd-Dunny universe by my name, 3D's 2Ns. Judd-Dunning, Judd-Dunning.com, Judd-Dudding on Twitter, judd-d-dunning. blog and my website. So thank you so much. God bless everybody. Enjoy this great miracle holiday. And thank you for having me on this morning, Bill.

Such a pleasure. Good having you on. Take care now, Judd. Be well. Thank you, sir. 757, KMED and 993 KBXG. You're on the Bill Myers Show. And here it is.

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