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Episode Date: July 9, 2026

Morning news, the need to control city fees...looks like ASHLAND of all places may be the city to tackle it. Other open phone topics on Conspiracy Theory Thursday.

This hour of the Bill Meyer 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 Klauserdrilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyer. Welcome to Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Happy to take your calls at 770563-770KMED by email Bill at Billmyershow.com. I was hoping this hour to get your opinion on, are you, ready to start

cracking down or actually being able to vote on the fee increases. Please let me know. 7705-633. The reason I'm bringing this up is that a growing trend here, we have even more cities that are now jumping on the,

well, we have to increase fees because we can't increase your property taxes. And so we, the cities, can't live within the confines of a budget. We have to find a way and and we just have to keep raising your fees. That's what we're dealing with right now.

And the City of Phoenix earlier this week has not quite tripled their parks fee to six bucks a month. So, I mean, you said, well, Bill, six bucks a month. Well, once again, another $48 a year out of someone's pocket who lives within the City of Phoenix, $48, in addition to the 24 that was already there. So it's going to be like $72 a year just to maintain your parks. And this is a permanent increase in your cost of living. These are things that people never have the opportunity to vote on any longer. In fact, Danny Jordan was talking about this trend and what's been going on with the county budget.

Remember a couple of weeks ago, he was talking at the chamber. And I attended that lunch, and it was really interesting to listen to him as he's going in here. and these insane, insane unionized worker increases that are coming in. You have tax money going into the cities and the counties going up two and a half, maybe three percent a year, and the costs are going up six, seven, eight percent a year or more. And something's going to have to give. Something is going to have to give. In fact, this was a note that Danny had popping last night.

We were text messaging a little bit last night. And he said that, he says, cities just keep race. raising these fees like close to a 100% increase in some of these cases. Phoenix tripled the parks maintenance fee, like we just mentioned here, just a moment ago, and it'll be 617 in July next year, automatic inflation indexing thereafter. And it was seven months after Phoenix tripled its public safety fee to $10 a month, so it's $120 a year. So you got $250, and now this is in addition to the regular property taxes that people have to pay to the city. You had earlier talent, the city of talent, is proposing, raising its public safety surcharge from $566 to $10.50 per month.

That's an 86% increase, even larger increases for commercial customers. Yeah, you know, it's something to keep in mind. You know, we hear what the homeowner has to pay. But if you're a business in the city of Phoenix, in the city of Medford, in the city of talent, in the city of Ashland, yeah. And Danny adds that talent holds an open house July 22nd and the city council action expected August 5th. Oddly enough, in Ashland's case, this is interesting. This is interesting. I was not aware of this.

Danny's telling me that Ashland residents are campaigning for a ballot measure that would require voter approval for any utility bill fee unrelated to utility operations. He says he's not sure if it would stand. I guess he's talking about legal scrutiny here, but this continuing without being checked in some way can't be unsustainable and in his opinion is not realistic. Danny, you are absolutely right about that, and thanks for that extra. I did not realize that this is something I've been advocating that cities do, that residents in these cities do.

I've been talking about this for a number of years. You're never going to get control of your budget or your city, really, for that matter, as long as elected city councils that will just then behave, because all they're going to do, and I get it. You got the whole group there, and you've probably got, you know, in some of these cities, some outright socialists

that think that there's always plenty of everybody else's money to go around. They won't really cinch in the budget. They won't look for creative ways to actually save money. It's just about, well, we have utility fees, and so let's raise it. And it's so sad that the city of Jacksonville that the city of Jacksonville was able to win that case a number of years ago. Remember, there was a lawsuit against the utility fees for things,

for going to things other than the delivery of the utilities themselves. And I always thought it was an immoral thing that the cities did, but the cities had approval of the Oregon Supreme Court. And I've been thinking for a long time that the only way we're ever going to get control of this is if the voters just say, nope. We're going to pass this kind of a ballot measure. I hope the city of Ashland residents do this, and I hope they win, and I hope they start saying no means no.

And we already have the property tax increases limited to a maximum of 3% a year. It's usually what, 2.5% that the assessments are allowed to go up there. And then I suppose you could always pass some additional districts if you needed to do something like this. But this idea, this has been, like I said, there was a past Medford City manager that was going out and saying, hey, listen, the property owners are not wanting to raise their property taxes. So, you know, this is what we have to do. We're going to have to be raising fees. It's almost once again like a so-called, in our Oregon democracy, and I put that in scary air quotes,

you know, being sarcastic about it. Democracy is just fine until the actual democracy. Chrissy people end up saying, no, we don't want, no, we really, no, don't do that. No. It's like, no. But there's parks. I know. I get it.

I get it. There are expenses. Even when it comes to public safety, all the rest of it is, you get the level of public safety that you're willing to pay for, and you just have to understand that. It's like, yeah, in a perfect world, that old Jackson County Jail would be replaced with a nice shiny billion dollar structure. And by the way, I think it's what they estimate he would cost to run, to build and run a Jackson County jail for, what was it, 10, 15, 20 years.

It was 20 years out to ask Danny about that. I didn't make a note on that particular one. It has to come from someplace. It has to come from productive activity. And everybody has to pay these fees. My sister-in-law has a commercial property in the city of Jackson. And I think her water bill is $200 a month for that building before one drop of water actually gets spilled because it's paying for the fire laddies and for the police laddies and everybody else. So I guess, you know, they can wave at you as you're going through town on the way to the Applegate Fellowship.

So I'm asking, you know, are you ready or not? 7705-633. It's a little bit of a, you know, it's like death by a thousand cuts with these little nicking and nymphs. knickling and diming turning into real dollars over time. Good morning, KMEDE.D. Who's this? Welcome to the show. Good morning, Bill. It's Dickey from the Applegate. Vicki, good to have you on. What's on your mind? Well, you know, $6 increase doesn't sound like that much.

And even $72 a year doesn't sound that much. But you times that how many people live in Phoenix. I mean, it ends up being a lot of money. And I think that's where they get people to kind of go with it because it doesn't seem like that much individually. But when you put that all together, and where is all this money that they're collecting really going? Well, I mean, it's going for parks employees and expenses. And the thing is just like everything else it's going up. But there comes a point, though, Vicki, when the ability just to screw people because you happen to live in the city is going to have to come to an end. There has to be some limitation on it.

And ever since the Oregon Supreme Court approved the ability for a city to be able to put fees on top of a utility charge that people have to have. You know, you can't choose not to have your sewer coverage. You know what I'm getting at? Or your water bill. You have to do that in the city. I know you're in the unincorporated county, so you don't have that particular issue. Well, I do pay for my water in a sense because I have to use. electricity to run my well well but you're not you're not forced by the by the county as an example to

pay them a water fee each month and then the water fee ends up going to cover maybe the sheriff's department or something that's what's going on that's what's going on in the cities right now that's my point bill when we say no no doesn't mean anything that's like telling the two-year-old no yeah they have no concept of the word no yeah point well taken on that yeah appreciate the call Appreciate the call, Vicki. Have a good day in the Applegate. 7705633-770 KMED. Would love to hear your point. Have you had enough at this point?

And this growing trend of cities just raising your fees without asking any longer. And I know that they're probably kind of concerned about this, but maybe they're not. I don't know. Hi, KMD. Good morning. Who's this? Morning, Billy. Hey, it's Scotty.

Scottie. How are you doing this morning? I'm doing fine. What's happening in Bigfoot officianto and professional driver? What's on your mind, huh? Hey, overseas Benson Mepard is just smoking hot, man. Okay, now stop it. Okay.

All right. I'm going to tell you right now. I don't mind you being a professional driver, but free, try to sneak in a free plug every time. I can't let you do that. Okay. All right. So at the meeting this morning or yesterday at the county commissioner's meeting, there was discussion of some new property.

And it's amazing how many commissioners we have and how many few people that actually go to these meetings. We need more participation in these commission meetings. Okay, well, what was it of concern since you were there? And hey, God bless you, but I must tell you here, professional, driver Scotty. It's a situation where as a working fellow myself, very rarely could I just say, hey, I'm going to go for an hour and a half down to a county meeting every Wednesday. I'd like to. I understand that, Billy. So anyway, it's very important to vote. You have to vote in a good commissioner to run because they are the way they work. If you get a group of commissioners that love a

project. They're going to go for it. And they do. Do you think there's a problem with the projects that are being brought up right now? I don't complain much. Well, no, I'm just asking because, you know, you're saying, well, you have to vote in good commissioners. Are you intimating there's a problem, though? No, no. Oh, okay. You know, honestly, why do we even have an auditorium to bring people in and they have these? Because this meeting lasted, Billy, roughly 15 minutes, once a week. right there? Yeah, yeah, there. Okay, 15 minutes.

I've normally seen, well, there must not have been a lot of business this week. That's all. Well, I don't know. I mean, this is a county that's big enough to be a state. How about what's going on in the woods? You know, I spend a lot of time in the woods driving professionally. I do auto hill climbs. You know, I get that, Phil, but what is your point as to what about what is in the woods?

The one thing I can tell you is that Jackson County sheriffs are now doing more. patrols on Greenway right now. It causes a fire risk right now. I know that's something which popped up. That's important because of that AT&T road that we acquired from AT&T, the county did. I'm saying we county as a commissioner in the future in 2020. So that is very important. Now, when you're talking about the woods, though, what do you mean by the woods? Because are you advocating like you think that somehow the Jackson County Commission is going to be able to counterman everything involving the Forest Service?

and then start harvesting trees, or are you talking about a different kind of thing? And, Bill, you know that. Billy, you know that we can't do that. Oh, okay. So there is different programs that we have right now, and then also how we go out in the woods and what vehicles we take out in the woods now. The vehicles are pretty advanced that we have, that when we're out in the woods, we are prepared.

We're like the best of the best of the best. We're like Marines. And a lot of the guys that, a lot of the men that are out there that are patrolling, our former Marines, they're Marines. You're always a Marine, you know. So, and I just, the conspiracy part of this is really the Forest Service, or Forest Circus. Let's call it the Forest Circus. And how the county can work and actually make, not make, but work in tandem with the Forest Service to be able to do things. I mean, they go through them widen the road, right?

The Forest Service, they do this, right? They'll cut back, but they leave stumps. And those stumps can be ground up and made into acrylic. Well, I mean, you're kind of wandering around on the point a little bit here, Scotty. I'm just trying to figure out what the main, you know, where the drive is, okay, because, all right, so let's say even if we were to do something, okay, we'll start grinding the stumps in the, making acrylic or we're going to make whatever it is. Does it financially penciled? Does it matter? Oh, my gosh. You know, we're already, well, we're a self-sustaining valley.

The Tutinian tribe knew this. This is self-sustaining here. So we're working on that. All right. Well, I'll agree with you. We need good people. But frankly, I think we have decent people in there right now, which is why the county seems to be in much better shape than many. Scott, appreciate the call. Thank you. By the way, my auto answerer has stopped working, so I'm going to get that rebooted during the next break here. But just know that if your phone rings a little bit, I will get to it.

Hi, KMED. Good morning. It's a conspiracy theory Thursday. Welcome. Good morning, Bill. Oh, my gosh. You know, it's true. We're being feed to death, and it's getting to the breaking point.

And again, if you know me, I just think basically you're talking about symptoms of the system. that's breaking down. And just the question, how many billions of dollars do you think we've spent already just trying to blow up Iran? Well, I don't have an exact account on that one, but from what I was hearing, it was two to three billion a day, I think, is what was going on there at the peak of it. But that's okay, because we print so many more billions after that. It's okay.

It's really all right, Tom. Don't worry about it. You worry your little head about that because, you know, it's kind of like, the Federal Reserve is sort of like, well, the Dorado chips. Remember there was that old, there was an I had a number of years ago. Go ahead and eat the Dorado chips because we can make more. We'll make more. Yeah, so what's happened here is basically the Federal Reserve has robbed local governments and state governments of the ability to really run their governments properly. And so we're just being feed-to-death.

We're running out of other people's money with all these fees and everything. So in some respects, you're thinking then, well, you look at Ashland as an example. Ashland is actually campaigning and possibly going to put a ballot measure on to... Can you imagine Ashland doing something rational? It's nearly, it's mind-blowing. It's the most sensible thing that I have heard Ashland even consider that voters would say, hey, you know, we want to be able to say no to these fees that have nothing to do with delivering of the, of the power bill or the water bill or the sewage treatment, you know, that kind of thing.

And I think it would be great. Yeah, well, that's kind of what, but anyway, just stepping back, the system is systematically or system-wise sick, and it needs to be revived from top to bottom, forever we're going to get out of it. Otherwise, we're just spinning our wheels, you know. Yeah, and on a sad note on that, they have closed the Doge Department, and I would dare say that Yeah, there have been a few nips and tucks around the edges, but still most of the government money and the Grand Stream funding is still coming from the Fatherland, the Fatherland. Yes, more Dorado chips on the way. Yep, and the Dorado chips you have are worth less as time goes on.

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Hey, Grand Pomp, they'll be playing up at Seven Feathers, right? Very cool. Still going. You know, at least I think the Grand Funk drummer, you know, the main vocalist, I forget his name, was it Mark or whoever was. He can actually still sing, and that's good. Unlike David Lee Roth, who cannot sing, and about an hour from now, maybe a little bit more than an hour from now, I'm going to give you the opportunity to be able to, can you sing better than David Lee Roth? It's a low bar, okay?

and he was canceled out of Brit. Britt canceled his concert for next Thursday. So we're going to have a little fun at David Lee Roth's expense. I'm going to play a little bit of his isolated live concert video audio. Oh, it's just brutal. Oh, it's just brutal. And I think that the Brit Festival will have proven to be very wise in deciding to either bring him on. And then once they find out more than saying, Dave, it's okay.

maybe another year. Practice a little bit and get back to us, would you? But we'll have that. Oh, by the way, when you sing better than David Lee Roth at low bar, I'm going to give you the opportunity to win one of the Gordon Ramsey Secret Service grills. Those grill friends from Fox 26, KMVU Fox 26, our sister station. That's great. It's a fun little grill.

So we'll grill David Lee and have some fun. That'll be about an hour from now, all right? It is Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Brother Louis, take it away. You want to give us your take on Iran? It's probably different than what we're hearing on Fox News and all the rest. Let me think. Definitely. Definitely different.

And that's why I think people ought to get a little balance in there. You know, this M-O, what do you call it? Yeah, M-O-U. Yeah, the memorandum of understanding. I think that was written on the back of a cocktail napkin. Just kidding. Yeah, yeah. And so Iran said, okay, we'll try this.

and, you know, here's all of our conditions that we want. And Trump said, okay, we can do that. You can control the shipping through the state of Hermuz. And that way, we'll get oil to the world before the next four weeks runs out, you know. And then it works for a couple days. And then Trump decided that we could create our own corridor and run, you know, in other words, open the straight of Hermuz from the American point of view, with the Americans controlling or, you know.

Yeah, I think, what, didn't we have it going closer to the Yomans side of it, if I recall? Yeah, in any way, Iran had the conditions that they're glad to open the straight-armus as long as they control it, as long as they, you know, the boats that want to go through have to have to with Iran, and that's what the agreement was. And, you know, I tell you the Charles Freeman thing, I don't know if you watch it, but even three minutes of that, but I've told you that the United States immediately began backsliding. See, that's the conspiracy there in this whole thing.

So are you saying the United States is backsliding? Absolutely, yeah. If you look at the, if you look at the MOU, you know, Iran is in charge of conducting people in and out of the street of home lose. Yeah, but I also believe part of that MOU, if I recall correctly, though, is that they don't charge fees? I'm not, I don't even know about that. That hasn't been mentioned in the analysis that I've been watching.

Maybe I was just going on what President Trump was, perhaps that was a verbal part, not part of the MOU. Okay. Well, no. Yeah. But I don't think that's the issue. The issue is whether or not the United States is going to sneakily open the state of home moves for themselves,

and Ron's not supposed to do anything about it. And Iran, no, Iran said we have to have control of this. This is the only thing that's keeping us in existence. Iran. Okay, now, hold on just a second. So control of the Strait of Hormuz is the only thing which predicates or allows Iran to exist. Why would that be? You know, it is an international waterway.

Not really. I mean, it's pretty tight. Well, yeah, it is tight, but that, you know, it doesn't matter. See, but I think you're getting into the conspiracy narrative here. You're talking about why. Okay, so where am I wrong about it? So this is not an area? So it is the straight is owned by the – well, I suppose they will claim a certain

amount of territorial, right, much like the United States says, hey, you know, up to so many miles away from the United States, we claim it's ours, right? That kind of thing. That's what you're going down. All right. Why is there in MLU right now anyway? It's because the U.S. couldn't beat Iran back any other way. They tried to beamed chicken over and over and over again.

And now I guess they've decided to do it again. But if Iran poses a straight of a poor move, then we are going to suffer this oil shock. That's the mother of oil shocks. You know, I mean, energy expenses are going to – it's already spiked. And Iran's only holy hold car is to control the oil that goes through the Strait of Hormuz. And they're willing to do that to save the world from this economic disaster. But they're not willing to allow Israel to decimate Iran, which is the plan. You can see them doing it everywhere.

They're attacking all of their neighbors. Well, I think it had more to do with Israel and Lebanon was the main sticking point. in the MOU, wasn't it? Well, that was in there. And, of course, they violated that. Israel is definitely never, never, ever keeps a good agreement. And they think they can get away with that. And so that's why we have all this trouble in the Middle East.

We have endless, we have endless wars in the Middle East. Because, you know, just go down the list. You know, there was Iraq, and then there was Libya, and then there was Syria. All right. So let me ask you, Brother, Louis. All right. You study this deeply. My eyes glaze over every time the Middle East gets brought up, okay? And I know I probably should care more because of the impact on us.

I guess that I hope that I'm probably a standard American that says, all right, I hope we have smart people that are doing their best to do the right thing. It's what you hope. And maybe it's misplaced faith sometimes. Okay. So I'll be the first to admit this. but are you then advocating that things will actually be good if we just, let's say, completely, well, a cave to reality and just leave the person, should we just leave the Gulf? Should we just leave it entirely and just leave it up for Iran to figure it out with everybody else? Is that kind of what you're saying or advocating or that we're going to have no choice to do something like that? I mean, what do you really think about this moving forward? I think we should put it back to where it was before they started attacking Iran unprovoked.

They started out. You know, they keep trying. You know, there are 93 million people there. This is not a small country. It's bigger more than half the size of Russia. And it's a big time. And it's been preparing for a very long time for this attack because they know that it's in the car. It's in somebody's plan or Netanyahu's plan to destroy Iraq.

Iran. Yeah, part of a greater Israel plan. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And they have to stop that any way they can or otherwise they cease to exist. Do you think that the world would be better off with Iran as a sovereign government and civilization or as a failed state and incapable of influencing much in the Middle East? I think the world would be better off if we stopped giving Israel billions of dollars in weapons. Well, that wasn't the question I asked, though. I know. I know. I know. But that's the problem. The problem is that we keep funding Israel, and they've gotten more and more extreme. I mean, who attacks all their neighbors, every single neighbor?

And they get us to attack Iran. And then they attack, you know, there are only nine million people, and they attack Lebanon again. They're trying to make headway on every front. Syria, Lebanon, and now in Iran, they're trying to create this greater Israel project. And it's not good for the world. So then how does what looks good in the world then? So you're saying that, okay, you believe then. I just want to make sure I understand you. You say, cut off the Israelis, cut off the Israelis, no more Israeli eight, right?

Is that what you're saying? Well, you know, look what it's getting us. Look what it's getting us. that's getting us these oil shots. It's getting us these all these problems. Yeah, but wait a minute. Congress through the NDAA, I forget which section it is.

I don't have that in front of me, but they're actually, it appears that we're actually doing the other, or going the other direction, Brother Louis, that we're actually wanting to merge intelligence systems with the Israelis, with the military industrial complex here in the United States,

and that it's going to be, from the looks of it, if this ends up passing Congress, It's a very, very interesting and, and dare I say, unique merger of military power from the looks of it. It looks that we're going the other direction, though, so I don't think you're going to be getting your no aid to Israel anytime soon. You know, what's the reason for that? It's the fact that AAC in Mearsheimer exposed this 20 years ago. AAC runs our Congress, and B.B. can come and give a joint, you know, when Obama became president,

in it. And then, you know who came and addressed a joint session of Congress without even letting Obama know he was coming to town. You know, I mean, what kind of, what kind of a world international system of is that? And Iran has never attacked anybody. It's tried to help other people that are being attacked. And as far as I can tell, Iran has never started. So you're saying that Iran are the good guys? Well, yes. In my book, they're the good guys because they're not creating war after war after war after war. You know, I don't know if I know, I don't think I think of anyone over there as being any of the good guys, though. You know, it's like half the Middle East, well, part of the Middle East calls me Goyam and the other parts calls me infidel.

So there's a, sometimes I'm getting more along lines of, instead of calling people good guys and bad guys, I almost just want to let them fight it out amongst themselves. But there's too much international issue, though, with just letting it be an anarchistic system. Would you agree with me or not on that? I mean, when you're talking 20% of the world's oil going through that little narrow place, and it's controlled by a country that, well, you might think they're good guys, and they certainly have a right to exist, as all of God's children have a right to exist. They do have a tendency to, well, they have an odd religious fervor in their way of governing.

And we drove them to that in 1979, 1980. But the reason that they're blocking up the state of Hormuz now is not something they dreamed up on their own because they want to charge fees. because we sanctioned them and stole their money and froze their assets. And, you know, you can't do stuff like that. Well, remember, though, this was all about stopping the nuclear weapon. You know, this is something that President Trump repeats again and again and again. In fact, I can almost hit the button, okay, we can't allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. What would you say to that, brother, Louis?

It's a reasonable position, is it not? Well, positions around to want to have a deterrent. And so what's the excuse for Israel being a nuclear power? And we don't even acknowledge that that's true. We pretend it isn't. Well, essentially, Israel must be playing the part of our cat's paw in the Middle East. How about that? Yeah, I think it's the tail wagging the dog rather than what you're saying.

So the cat is wagging us. Okay. All right. Brother Louis, I'll tell you, like I said. One more thing. One more thing. I appreciate it. I listened to you this morning, and I heard you talking about the fees being added on because they can't.

We stop them from raising property taxes more than a reasonable amount, like 3%. But instead of that, they keep adding on to the fees, like your sister-in-law's, you know, Jacksonville commercial property, she doesn't even get a drop of water until she's already paid Jordan Bush. You know, I appreciate you for doing that stuff and for keeping on that one, too, Bill. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Brother Louis. So what do you think about Brother Louis' analysis of what's going on in the Middle East? If you have an opinion on that, I'd love to get your take on it.

too. It is conspiracy theory Thursday. Speaking of conspiracy theory Thursday, Richard Siritt is going to join me. And he's an interesting guy. You'll hear him filling in on coast to coast a.m. I think he's a fill-in host on the weekends, especially I'll hear him. I think he was on even just a couple of weeks ago. But he has an online radio show.

It's Strange Planet. And he has dug into, essentially, I guess the question that he's raised, And it's a perfect conspiracy theory, fairy Thursday question, is where the Beatles is essentially a mind control operation of British intelligence. It's a fascinating talk, I think. I hope it's going to be a fascinating talk. I think Sarah, it's an interesting guy.

He's Canadian. And, well, I'm not going to hold that against him, but we'll talk around 710 or so. It should be fun. Stephen Westfall Roofing is growing. Now proudly serving Brookings, Gold Beach Lumber, locally owned since 1959. The Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. 656 and change 7705-633. Interesting on Conspiracy Theory Thursday.

Let me go to Brad. Brad, you've been holding on through the break. You wanted to respond here. And Brother Louis's taken what's been going on in Iran and elsewhere. What are you thinking? Yeah, good morning, Bill. Yeah, the good guys. You know, every morning they wake up in debt to America.

Once the nuclear bomb, the weapon, they want it to be. Because it's protect themselves. He said, we've got this nuclear bomb and we're not afraid to use. It's, it's, they want to. We're going to fight. You know something, Brad? I want to just ask a question, though. Did we have no role in bringing this up?

I'm not saying that Iran's a good guy and we're just merely the bad guy. But our intelligence and British intelligence have been sticking our fingers over there and poking the Iranian people in an eye for a long time, even going back to the coup of 1950. We've had government intelligence, and we've always been trying to direct them for their own good, or I guess maybe for our own good. Do we have a role to play when we're sticking our fingers in other countries' governments? Have a right to turn that we're putting out there on it. Yeah. Would you be okay with other countries trying to say, like China is an example, saying,

well, we're the big dog in the world now. Should we come over and mess with us? I'm just trying to look at this with a little more nuance here, because I can kind of see a little understanding why there's a lot of resentment to the United States through the for the Iranian people over the years. So it's complicated, I guess, is what I'm getting at. You are threatening the rest of the world with a nuclear bomb making and doing that. That's a fairy tale.

We have no problem amusing it against Israel or Israel. And just coming through there without having to worry about. Yeah, the consideration or the thought that that particular country right now should be in charge of whether transit can happen through that area. I don't think it's wise. Yeah. I'll side with you on that one. Hey, Brad, I appreciate the opinion. That's why I put it out there and let Louie talk too.

Want to hear all sides on this particular one. Deplorable Patrick here. Hey, Patrick, go ahead. Morning. Now you let Brad take away from my point. Oh, I'm sorry. I should have told him to shut up then, knowing you were here. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, that's terrible. But I immediately wanted to pick up a phone, and brother Louis said that I ran one of the nuclear bomb for a deterrent. No, they've been threatening us for 47 years. Okay, well, saying death to America is not threatening us, though. Okay, then that right there is enough, because I would believe them. Well, no, no, and I say that. It's just, you know, I consider that, okay, you get a lot of people,

they're P-Oed at our involving. I'm saying we're not just, we're not just innocent bystanders in the Middle East. So I don't, I'm not down brother Louis thing, but then let's also be honest. We have, we're happy to let other countries get their nuclear bomb. Well, look at our, our friend in North Korea as an example, right? Look at our friend.

What do we do about that? What are we going to do about that? Remember, he was our friend in the, in the negotiations, with the president a few years ago. Isn't there a case to be made that if you want the United States to get off your back, you get a nuke, and then all of a sudden, okay, well, we have to let you be. Look at North Korea as an example. I wanted to add to, I didn't want to talk about North Korea, but it's a good point,

because I'm not up on that part of it. But Brother Louis said Iran's never attacked anybody. Is that true? Because I keep hearing about missiles flying into, Israel. Iran is even fired on the Qatar and Saudi Arabia because they're just that kind of people, I guess. Well, no, a lot of that, that's because we have bases in these areas. You know, they look at them as partnering with the great state. They look at those other Gulf countries as partnering with the great Satan, I think that's what's going on there. Brother Louis said Iran's never attacked anybody.

Oh, no, I don't think that. I don't think he said it's never attacked anyone. certainly attacked people. The last actual war, if I recall correctly, was the Iran-Iraq war in which Iran and Iraq were really, you know, keeping that up. Iran has not tended to declare overt war on a lot of countries, I guess, would be. Maybe that's a more correct way of putting it. How about that? I think you're right.

Yeah. So anyway, appreciate letting me lip off. I'm always happy to do that. Let me go to final line here before news. Hi. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Good morning, Bill. It's Bob Shannon Medford. Bob, a pleasure. What's up? Hey, on utility fees. Yes. Okay, I was at a study session in City Council sometime back, and Counselor Stein made a statement, half under his breath is with regards to the fee payers. They will grumble, but they will pay, which is almost a let him eat cake sort of statement. Boy, that is an arrogant statement, isn't it?

Yeah. And Nick Card, you know, he's been on your show, but when he was a young counselor, was very gunhole about fee increases frequently and often. And I think you've had Kevin Keating, is he the other guy that kind of comes on watching a while? He seems to be a little bit more reasonable and measured and conservative with regards to the monies. Yeah, John Quinn has not been particularly in favor of raising these fees either, I don't believe. But, yeah. So, you know, something to keep in mind is we've elected our counselors to be representatives of us. You know, but they have another face that they wear is to be agents of the city. And I think they've got that being an agent of the city out of balance with being a representative of the people.

Let me give you a real American salute this morning. Do you mind? No, Bill. There you go. A little crown on your head. The one thing I will say, if City of Ashland residents are successful at getting, this ballot measure to stop the raising of fees that have nothing to do with the delivery of the utilities that I'm all for it.

That'll be a big thing and it will spread like wildfire. In fact, it should be something that we do as a county. That's what I would say. Yeah. I don't know if it's germane, but the city of Medford split out their water bill with their utility fee bill sometime back. I don't know if that was just an accounting measure or being accountable. measure, but we get, you know, a separate water bill from the utility fee bill.

Yeah, I get that, I get that every month. And I also get the little reminders that, you know, you're using, you're using 20% more water than 80% of the other residents. You know, you get things like that. It's like Pacific Power. It's like the Pacific Power NAG emails. You get those, don't you? Oh, yeah.

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