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Episode Date: July 11, 2026

An hour of open phones and talk on the Flock license plate cameras. Not a fan, I explain my take but not all agree. Good conversation.

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cameras. The flock cameras is how they're more commonly known. And my point has been that we're all treated as suspects in such a, well, it's also surveillance capitalism, too. There's a lot of reasons why I think that we're embracing something that, well, kind of like AI, that we don't necessarily know where it goes. But Jim, good to have you here from Grants Pass. And do you have an opinion on this one way or the other? I love to get your opinion. Yeah, a couple things on that. I was stationed in Germany from 8790. And at that time, my wife had came over for a couple months, and I had to skip her back because he was up to no good. When I got ready to leave Germany, you had to go clear the post office, which is the Bundes Post. That's where all

traffic tickets are paid, etc. When I went down there to clear, she had about 500 marks, which is about $3, $350 U.S. dollars at the time. fines. And the reason she had it, because when they, even at that time, what they would do if you were breaking the wall, speeding, running through lights, not obeying pedestrians, they'd have a picture of you with the car and the license plate. And it had to find on it. So I had to pay that. Now, on the other part, with the United States, with these cameras that are looking at their license plates, I have a different opinion. really don't care because if you're not up to no good you have nothing to worry about where i'm more

concerned about that a lot of people are kind of overlooking these new cars track every place you go we also have a device that we seem not to be able to get away from our cell phones are all gps track it will tell you every place you drive every place you stop i mean even my little smartphone. If I go out and check on somebody's house, take care of her pants, but she's gone, I'll get messages saying, well, since you're out here, why don't you stop by here, and we'll give you a $5 off coupon. Yeah, I turn all that stuff off, though. I don't have that. So, you can, yeah, you can try to turn it up, and the best thing do is leave your phone at home. Yeah.

But as the cameras go, my opinion, they're going to track you one way or not. Now, they're going to... It's going to happen. So, all right, just embrace it. Okay, Jim, I appreciate the opinion. Thanks for making it, but, you know, I'm a little more concerned about this, but I appreciate it, and that's why I'm glad you called. All right, thank you.

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you know, the flock camera system here. It's, in my view, private surveillance capitalism, which, of course, the government is more than happy to purchase. And I think that it turns policing on its head. You know, instead of police being a made aware of you through probable cause, you know, those sort of issues. Just by nature of you being in the public space, you're monitored, tagged, and database,

and a lot can be gleaned from where you go and when you go on a daily basis. Is that something you're okay and comfortable with? That's one of the topics I have this morning. With an automated license plate reader, everybody's a suspect. Unlike normal policing that it used to be that the required reasonable suspicion,

every plate that passes gets long. in there. Maybe you're okay with that. Maybe you're saying, hey, there's just so much surveillance going on. What's one more? But I think it's something worthy of discussion. Let me go to Dave. Dave, you are first up here. And then we got Jim and Brad and Mel. Let's get everybody on here. Morning. So I wanted to thank Alan DeBore for the really nice letter for recommendation of pardon for me. That's, and... He wrote a great letter, by the way. That was a great letter. I wanted to say that he ced that to Congressman Cliff Bince, so I don't know where that will go.

But I sent you an email saying if you would forward your letter to Cliff Bince or the PBS. Now, for some reason, Alan DeBore couldn't read it. and he didn't put it in a PDF, but it allowed me to correct for my surname. It happens all the time. They misspell my last name. All right. Well, point well made, and we're happy, and let's hope that you get your pardon. I would love to see that happen.

I'm already glad they're not finding you anymore each month. Minor Day, thanks for the call. Let me go to Jim. Jim wants to talk about the license camera situation that we're facing here in southern Oregon. Hundreds of them. Good morning. Good morning, Bill. Well, hey, thank you so much for all you do, man. You are a very good interviewer.

Oh, I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. I've been listening to you for over a decade, and you're an excellent interviewer. This license plate reader is a horrible idea, and I remember back when they started the checkpoints, the DUI checkpoints back in the early 80s or whatever it was. and it's a slippery slope. It's another reason these license plate readers, it's another reason to pull you over. And the cell phone law back in 2008 in California, same thing. It's another reason to pull you over.

And where does it stop? You know, you are presumed guilty. I don't even know what these cameras actually read. But, you know, once you accept the premise that they're allowed to try, track you, all bets are off. And this is something we should definitely protest against. Something which is concerned me about this here, Jim, is that, I mean, people say when you have nothing that, well, if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. Well, you know, let me tell you, we're in a world now where you present the man or the woman as the case might be.

We can find something to hang on you. Exactly. You know? Show me your papers. Yeah, exactly. No, it's an absolutely horrible idea. There was no public notice. I don't know who authorized this. And by the way, how many stolen vehicles are there in Medford every year? What? I imagine there are.

And I have no doubt that there are people who have been helped by this. I'm not trying to poo-poo this. But on the other hand, maybe what we should do is just tie an automated license camera to everybody's head so this way we can all be super safe inside our home and outside our home. Oh, and that way, you notice how Kevin Sterrett said that you can be popped for unsafe storage of your firearm? Let's make sure there's a camera inside our home there, too, to make sure that you open up your desk drawer, and there's a firearm, and then you automatically get the summons to court, you know, sent to you. I know I'm engaging in hyperbole, but...

Well, you're not that far off, man. This is a horrible idea, and we should all be against this. and I don't know who we can approach to get this taken care of, you know, but this is a bad, bad idea. All right. Appreciate the call, Jim. Let me go to, I think we have the Mr. SLM here in front of us now, and that would be Brad. Brad, I need some more patizza badly, my friend, but how you doing? Oh, dude.

What would we be without a slice of patita and a beer? Yeah. Now, do you want Iron City or something? different. Iron City doesn't really qualify as beer any longer, and well, of course, it never really did, in my view. Your last caller

took words right out of my thought process. Really? In a sense of, you know, all these different forms of surveillance. How far are we are we from present your papers? It's almost like an electronic presenting of your papers

everywhere you go. And my concern about this is that a watched people, people who know that absolutely everything is monitored, database, watched, they start behaving as unfree people. You just start knowing this, right? Everything you do, gosh, you know, I don't know if I want to be in this neighborhood. Well, let's think about this, Brad. Automated license plate readers there from flock or whatever, any other network goes up there.

essentially they can figure out who you're sleeping with, who your political associations are with, who you're hanging out with, or are you hanging out with savory people, or what about even your medical conditions? You know, you're out there in front of the Cancer Center in Medford, we're in Grants Pass every day or something, they know about that. You go into the methadone clinic? All right, fine. Where do you go?

What kind of evil religious affiliations do you have? Let's think about this as the state becomes even more anti-religion. You know, the state of Oregon is an example. Oh, by the way, where you sleep and who you're sleeping with? I mean, there's a whole lot of stuff that can be put together with just a few days of surveillance in these camera networks here. What are you thinking? Well, my wife has me those questions. Thanks for ending it on a happy note.

All right. Brad from the SLAM. Let me go to Mel. Mel's in Gold Hill. Mel, what are you thinking this morning? Welcome to the show. Well, I kind of agree with just about everybody, but I have a different slant to it. Okay. A lot of times technology is neutral. It's the people who run the technology that is the dangerous part. Human beings in general tend to be greedy and selfish. And these technologies, like other people mentioned, Even on your phone, your track everywhere you go. It's really an invasion to privacy. Should we tolerate yet another one because even though we have a lot of invasions everywhere that we volunteer for,

because, you know, the real concern about flock, what flock does and what other companies do, is that there's all sorts of third-party access, all sorts of third-party access. The Fed agencies, ICE, FBI, of course, the LIBS, of course, are upset because ICE is going after in looking for illegal aliens, right? But ICE, FBI, DEA, usually without warrants. You just ask it and you can get it because it's private information, it's surveillance network, and they sell it. And private companies will buy the data.

Flock actually does that. They'll sell you the information, and they monetize the monitoring of you on public streets. Gosh, you know, I could see attorneys getting involved with this. How about insurance companies? Could you imagine insurance companies calling up your license plate information, seeing what you're doing, how, and what? win and where you're really going? I don't know. Maybe it can go there. I had an insurance company once on my car that had a little plug-in thing. And what it did was monitored your speed and stuff.

And if you violated that, the next time your insurance renewal came up, they either increased it or they let you go. Yeah, a flow's dungle, right? It's horrible. Yeah. All right. So I'm not saying that there are not good reasons to use this and that it couldn't be used to fight some crime. I get that. But what are we giving up? Let me go to you. I think this may be Dave. No, and that's not Dave.

Must be somebody else now. Hi, who's this? Welcome. Hey, Bill, you just caught on the words, what are we giving up? And I'm just reminded of a famous quote that those who would give up a little liberty for security deserve neither. It is what it is. It's all coming down the head. I don't know. I asked yesterday about Sherman Simmons, and I just want to just, you know, echo chamber, echo chamber.

This is the echo chamber of Southern Oregon, but a lovely old man I met actually at a commissioner's meeting speaking out like he's supposed to the commissioners a couple years back. His name was Sherman Simmons. Yeah, Sherm Simmons, great guy. He used to call here and talk about, he called a lot about education is what he would do. He called a lot about his work with helping get children. And if I recall correctly into kind of understanding how the real working world works and getting them into good jobs, things like that. He did a lot of that. He was a great man.

You know, narrow is the way and few will enter. And I would put a lot, I would put everything on it that I'll be able to meet him again. He was a great man in April 16th this last year. If people were wondering, he went to go be with our Lord. But, you know, I bring him up again because I actually met him down, like I said, at a commissioner's meeting. Where are all these people on Wednesday mornings at 930? Why are they not? All these people we just heard, I agreed with everything they just said.

You know, I went in months ago to speak about these flaw cameras at a commissioner's meeting and ask the people which show up at that commissioners meeting at the Medford City Council meeting that evening. I was been the only, I'm the voice in the wilderness here, Bill. We need people to go in and speak to our commissioners about what's going on or nothing's going to change. We have to hold their feet to the fire here locally or nothing. will change. We can't just call in on the Bill Meyer show in the echo chamber of the Bill Meyer show because that's, we're all, we all agree here. No, actually, we don't all agree here. No, you'll get, yeah, you have your random listener who doesn't, but you know what, for the most

part, there's common sense in this audience, but I don't understand what's the hang up of showing up at Jackson County Commissioners meeting at 930 on Wednesday mornings. They give you five minutes to say what you need to go for it. Let them have it. All right. Thanks for the call, Logan. 770 KMED. Line 3, you're up. Who's this? Hey, this is Mike here in Medford. Mike, go ahead.

Hey, I was reading a news story that popped up on my screen first thing this morning. Apparently, Springfield and Eugene have ended their contract with the camera people. Now, is this the flock camera people, or is it with like the automated, the cameras at the intersections, the intersection cameras, do you know? They mentioned block and then the choice with the dance. And what now? I'm sorry, I couldn't understand that. Tried again? The other one company started with the F.

Oh, okay. All right. Solis or something like that. All right, yeah. There was a story up on all the public radio thing up there. Yeah, OPB. All right. Yeah, and it was right on the front page.

Well, thanks for letting me know, Mike. What do you think, though? overall? I think it's bull, personally. I think it's an evasion. And, you know, you have no privacy at all, especially with these cameras just tracking your every movement. I mean, they know when you go to Fred Meyer. All right. Thanks for the call, 770KMED. Now, I guess the question is, will people actually raise this with elected officials? You'd let them know. And I know that there would be push back from police. I would expect that. Because it does make, I would imagine, their work easier in some ways. But I don't know. If you have a constitutional

republic, the work of police is not necessarily an easy one, I guess. So what are we given up in order to, you know, help law enforcement? I don't know. Let's go to line four. Hi, KMED. Who's this? Good morning. Hey, George. Hey, morning, Bill. Scott, how goes it? Doing fine, Scott. What's on your mind? So, you ever seen the movie, T. H.X. 1138? No, I have not. People have written me about that. Now, isn't that a George Lucas film from early? Yeah. Every time you open up your bathroom mirror, there's a camera in there telling you what drugs you need to take and all that.

So anyways, here in Grants Pass, two flock cameras have already been chopped out, chopped down. When you say chopped out, taken out by Vandal? I guess so. There was one on the corner over where Elmer's is, and there was another one somewhere else. And, I mean, I don't know, I have mixed emotions about cameras because every place you walk into has a cash register has a camera. Every place you go design is going to have a camera. So no matter what, you're being surveilled no matter where. The only place you're not being surveilled is at your home. Well, until, like you said, we put cameras on our heads, which is obviously an Orwellian idea.

Well, think about it, how they were trying to do that with, you know, remember the Facebook glasses and the Google glasses and all the rest? Yeah, you know, in which they were, everybody that you would look at would essentially be put into the database and then coming up with their name. Or you could, you know, it's kind of like this Terminator world. And maybe it's, maybe it can't be resisted. What is your overall belief on that? I mean, it's so prevalent. Even Rayban has those glasses that you can walk around within, you know, foot, not photo, but film people all the time. So, again, we are a surveillance state.

It is what it is. I mean, you can't escape it no matter what country you go to because it's still going to follow you around. So those are my thoughts of the day. All right. Appreciate the call. And if you're on hold, I'll get right with you. But I thought this was a, be good to just say, hey, nay. So I guess are you okay with the encroaching camera network of growth in that out on the public roadways or near the public roadways?

A lot of these cameras, by the way, the flock, they're on private property. and there are people that like that aspect of it. They'll put them on private property. But flock will sell the data to anybody. You know, then wants it. It's okay. Doesn't matter because you can't do anything about it because we have so much else.

Or just you just absolutely want to go out and chop them down, I guess. Like that gentleman was talking about people in Grant's Pass. Let's kick it all around. Coastal. Just what the country needs. Podcast. And to find out more about our sponsor, Clouds are drilling.

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Go ahead and submit yours over at 2Dogspab.com, okay? All righty. Let's go back. It's open phones. Anything it's on your mind. But I've been talking a lot about the flock camera system, which is spread all around the country. It's not just Southern Oregon.

And you can talk about that or anything else on your mind. Good morning, caller. You're on. Who's this? Good morning. Hey, it's Scotty. Mercedes Benz-driver. Yes, Scotty.

What's up? Hey, you know, I want to do a little bit. with a pallet cleanser. And by the way, I agree with the cameras when you're in town and also on the expressway. You do. And segueing on the expressway, if you go 71 miles an hour past the speed traps, you will receive a picture of you taken. Whether or not you get a ticket is I have no idea. So keep in mind, we have cameras everywhere we go. We are watched everywhere. but the manpower, not the AI. Now, AI is doing some of this.

If there's an incident, we have documentation, especially accidents. So working with Gary Leamy back in the day in my dad's company, and when we came up with the expressway, that was going to be an Audubon. But the state of Oregon came down and wanted 55 miles an hour. They thought we couldn't drive, you know, like the Germans, you know, on the Audubon, right? So as county commission, we're going to work on some strategies where we can actually drive. All right, Scotty. Appreciate the opinion.

Thank you, 770, KMED. We have open phones this last half hour. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is Ron here in Medford. How you doing, Bill? Don't fine, Ron. What's on your mind today?

Well, for all those people that want the cameras, I'd say leave your doors and windows wide open and see how that works out for you. I did see a, this is actually for the next COVID lockdown because they have Dr. documentation stating as such. I'd like to tell the listeners that there's a guy, I think it was in California, cut down a bunch of them and then put up flags. And they're trying to put him in jail for 17 years. So if anybody tries to do anything, I'd say leave your phone at home. And then I think you helped me launch the Yellow Best movement against the smart meters.

It might be time to do that again for the flock cameras in the surveillance state. All right, Ron, I appreciate the call. Thanks for making that. 770KMED. Line 3, you are on. Good morning, caller. Yeah, this is Jake with another number. Hello, Jake with another number.

Good to hit. That's a long nickname, but how you doing, Jake? Well, you know, the other fellow said, leave your phone at home. Nobody reads the agreements when they buy a phone. You're being followed everywhere, and it's being logged. I first saw another conspiracy theorist. Well, you know that insurance thing where it drops you at about $39 a month?

It's nothing but just tracking your phone so that it follows you everywhere you go. Well, the one thing... It's already there. And it's true that that's already there. But here is the difference when you're talking about phone data versus automated license plate data. There was a case back in 2018 in the Supreme Court. and this is Carpenter v. the United States, all right? And what it ruled was that long-term cell site location data requires a warrant

because what it essentially reveals is the privacies of life. That was the term they used. I looked that case up here, okay? And I would dare say that the same logic could apply to any kind of automated license plate reader because short-term monitoring, okay, fine, might be working out okay. But when you have long-term historical databases, it's a detailed portrait of people's lives. You see what? And so they require a warrant when you're trying to get it from, you know, from the cell phone dealer or from the cell phone.

But when you read the agreements on buying these devices, then it's all in there. You just signed it. Well, you just signed to what? You just signed a way that the government. doesn't have to get a warrant to get the data. The Supreme Court says differently here, though. Yeah, well, I'll see how that goes. Oh, and I learned something else about voting machine.

Okay. You know how planes got a glide path when it's plot on and it's supposed to stay at that 3% glide path. Right. And if it goes under or over that, the computers adjust it. That's what I was described, the way that the, through Venezuela. Patrick Burns, he's got it all. Okay, I don't understand the 3%, what is this connected with again? I'm sorry, I'm losing you. Computer, when the glide path of an airplane is coming in at 3% glide path. It's 3% dropping.

Yeah. If it gets hit by wind and pushes it down or pushes it up, the computer will adjust it. Well, it's the autopilot, right? The algorithms work in the voting machines. All they got to do is set them. Oh, okay, that's the connection. All right. So you're just setting.

All right, got it. All right, thanks for the call. Now I understood it. I was trying, so it's connect. Oh, it's the voting machine connection to that. Okay, I get it. KMED, good morning. Hi, who's this?

Hello. Hello. Hi. Is that me? Well, yeah, hey, Bill. I was going, my friend. How you doing? I'm fine.

Yeah, I was calling about this surveillance subject, whether or not we need to revisit that Fourth Amendment. But a while back, and I'm glad you're talking about this. But you think you're safe inside your house, but if you're inside of a Wi-Fi field, you can be monitored, even read your lips. You're absolutely right about that. You are absolutely, you are actually absolutely correct. I know people may think that sounds wild. but there are machines now that will read the disturbance in the Wi-Fi field that just the movement of your lips makes, right? And then they end up reading your lips through that methodology.

It's really wild, isn't it? Yeah, and also works with your appliances and everything here, all your gadgets and stuff, to send the data anytime they need it or want it or anybody wants it. Yeah, I know it sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, but it's absolutely. absolutely, it's absolutely capable with today's modern technology. KMED, good morning. Hi. Hi.

Glenn R. Shambo. Glenn, a pleasure. What are you thinking? Well, you really guys got me off track of where I started. I've been following T.C. Energy's project here in the Rogue Valley, they're running from North Phoenix Road to Klamath Falls, and they're clearing and putting a pig through the pipeline there. which sounds pretty harmless, but when I go back and remember the documents when our land was taken by the federal government, they can put anything they want out on that easement.

And they did. As they were building the gas pipeline, they installed phone lines. We give them permission. But they did. So it's another area to look at, and if you haven't seen something like this, they're working right on North Phoenix Road right now. These are big operations. So the pig in the pipeline is supposed to what monitor it or look for flaws in it?

Isn't that what they normally put a pig in the pipeline for? Hello? Oh, we lost your phone there, Glenn. Sorry about that. Maybe get back in touch, okay. Hi, KM&E. Good morning. Who's this?

It's Francine. Hi, Francine. Well, this is not the reason I called, but I just want to mention the phone cell phone service, particularly in the rural areas, is getting really spotty. and weird. People are constantly losing calls. And if this were Thursday, I would tell you that it's possible that this is happening because they want to have people complain so that nobody will complain when they put in all kinds of new cell towers out in the rural areas. Oh.

That's my conspiracy that I, you know, from yesterday. So you saved it for Friday instead, right? Well, it just because we just lost Glenn. So I thought I would throw that out there. Yeah, I'm surprised, you know, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to when cell networks get spawning around southern Oregon. I don't know if it's because a lack of capacity or what exactly, but places that I used to be. Now, I always know that when I'm going up Highway 238 to Jacksonville Hill, the cell phone will always go out. Doesn't seem to matter which provider, no matter where you are. It's gone. There are some areas that have always been problematic in terms of, you know, constant coverage.

but what's happening. I mean, I used to have, you know, four or five years ago, I never had issues with losing calls. It happens quite often now. Well, the other thing, I could swear we never had trouble when we had the old analog bag phones, you know, the old analog bag phones that were very expensive and very heavy. But, you know, you might get more hiss and more noise, but you can hang on. Now what happens in the digital world is that there's either enough strength, for the digital signal or it's just gone.

It just completely disappears is what happens. So there's a good and bad side to having left the analog world behind. This is the Bill Meyers show on KMED. If you're on hold, let's get you on here. 7705633-770 KMED. By the way, we're going to be giving away a prize from the Army Navy Marine store here in just a little bit. But if you're planning your next adventure,

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Private network, actually. We'll sell it to anybody, you know, that goes on. and everyone could eventually be treated as a suspect just because you're in a public space. And so a lot can be garnered from, well, where people are and when they are. And you find out a lot about the person. You think it's a problem or just a sign of everything else has been going on. And hey, well, hey, okay, one more surveillance deal. What's the problem?

I mean, everything else is already surveilled? And is it something maybe you want to talk with elected officials about? I mean, a few people saying something about it, but not a whole lot. But hi, KMEDE. Good morning. Who's this? Oh, hi, Bill. Yeah, Glenn.

Yeah, Glenn, don't have a lot of time, but make it count, okay? No, I know. A quick point here, Bill. Every major utility has a contract and arrangement with the local landowner, maybe the county government. But that gives them great leeway to do whatever they like out there. Once they have possession of your property, they can install anything they like, which they do. So it's not just, you know, license plates.

This is the big stuff because we're talking about a 35-foot easement, you know, out of Canada. Oh, yeah, in your particular case. All right, thanks for letting me know about that, Glenn. Yeah, it's not just a little thing, that kind of an easement. Good morning, KMED. Who's this? Welcome. Hello.

Hi. Bill, it's Francine. You cut me off. I called about the bear. Oh, okay. I thought you were calling about something different. All right. Now the bear. So go ahead and give me the bear. What about the bear's Fourth Amendment rights? Let's hear it. Well, okay, so a few weeks back, we were having, I'm out here rural, rural talent, you know, off of Wagner Creek ways. And we were having the bear getting into people's garbage. In fact, I get up so early so I can make sure I catch the show. Sure. I actually went out, and I put my garbage out the day of because, you know, just because I'm trying to discourage bear. Well, I've cleaned up neighbors trash a few times because it was too early to go walk up their big long driveway and beat on their door. But what things that, you know, the garbage is a real draw for the bear.

And I don't know if it's the same bear who's moved on ways and stuff, but taking your garbage out the morning of as opposed to leaving it out there for, you know, a few days to get nice and ripe is a really good deterrent. The other one is that they do make a bear-proof trash can. It's about 15 bucks more a month, I think. But it is bear-proof. I did not know that. Yeah, a lot of people didn't. I just found out about it a couple of weeks ago when one of our neighbors drove by and saw me picking up trash and told me about it. All right. Well, thanks for the suggestion. 770K. Media. Thank you, Francine. Hi, who's this? Good morning. There's Paul and Williams again, Bill. Hi, Paul. I've got an electronic question for you. Sure.

Does it really work if you put your cell phone in a metal container that blocks the signals until you need to use it? Well, if you put it inside a metal container, pardon me, a metal container, it will not get out or receive. It may know where it is sitting, I suppose, but it kind of defeats the point of having a cell phone, though. It will not do anything. Well, yeah, you'd have to take it out to use it, but it would not track you as your memory. moving. And if you didn't have to use it, then it wouldn't, I use mine for emergency, so I don't worry that much about it. Yeah, as far as geolocation, I believe as long as the battery is in a phone, and most of the phones today you can't really remove the battery from, that there is still power

applied to some ability of geolocation. I'd have to look that up, though, Paul. I don't know for sure, but you raised a question. I'm not quite sure about it yet. I'll get back to you, okay? And one more. Hi, KMED. Who's this? Welcome. This is David. How are you doing, Bill? Doing fine, David. What's on your mind? Hey, with all the bear that people are talking about, we live on Granite Hill Road, almost straight across from Donaldson. We've got 20 acres. I know where you are. In fact, I was just up there yesterday at KBXG doing some work off of Granite Hill Road.

I know you go by there. Yep. Yeah, anyhow, Tuesday morning, my wife looked out the window into our yard, and she sees it look like a coyote or something. And she grabbed a camera to take a picture of it and then realized that our little Yorkie got out. Oh. She said the Yorkie goes running after the coyote, the coyote kind of led our dog up the mountain. And my wife said within two minutes, she heard all the coyotes howling. I mean, they killed the poor little thing.

So people just got to, you've got to watch out. You know, it made me wonder something I've noticed here. What was your name again, sir? Sorry about that. David, David. You know, David, we've noticed in our neighborhood that all the feral stray cats that have normally come by looking for food, they've all stopped all of a sudden here. And I can't help but think that it's the same sort of thing.

They become coyote food up in our neighborhood. So I'm right there with you. Exactly. All right. We moved here from, we moved here from San Diego, and gosh, streets in San Diego, daytime coyotes, you see them going up and down the road. You know, even if you're in town there, you can lose your cat if it goes out. All right. Well, I appreciate the call.

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