Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 07-18-25_FRIDAY_6AM

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

07-18-25_FRIDAY_6AM

The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clouser Drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Sure, it's great having you here this Friday, July 18th. 67 degrees, but it's going to get quite a bit warmer. Close to 100 again today under a bit of smoky and hazy skies. And we're going to talk with Greg Roberts about that about an hour from now. Mr. Outdoors, Mr. Fire and see where things are going. I know we have this, what was it, Board Shanty Fire?

When did they come up with the names, I wonder? Board Shanty? Is there an old board shanty out there? I'm sure someone can tell me about that. I guess about 300 acres, not too far out of Grants Pass, and that is still being fought. But overall, you know, actually in Jackson Josephine County, we're in better shape than than many places around here. In fact, most of the smoke, I swear, is coming from elsewhere this morning. So we'll have Mr. Outdoors on. I'm also going to talk with George Lutz. George Lutz, this is, this is not the standard kind of political guest that I would often have here, but George is the founder of Honor and Remember. It's a

national nonprofit and it's dedicated to public recognition and permanent recognition of every U of S member who died in the line of duty duty and he's written a book about his experience and just wanted to go off into that. So we'll have him on about eight o'clock this morning. Other than that, this is a great day to catch up on some of those stories that got lost between the cracks and if you've had a chance or you didn't get a chance to make it in yesterday on Conspiracy Theory Thursday, it was a busy, busy morning with a lot of news that we were digging around. Same with Wednesday too, for that matter. It's just been a busy kind of fire hose sort of news cycle. Go ahead and join the conversation, 770-563-377-OKMED. And my email is bill at BillMeyersShow.com.

Now yesterday, I had an interesting experience because I've been hearing all the horror stories about going down to the DMV. And so, gosh, and I've been dragging my feet here because my conventional driver's license expires August 5th, my birthday. And it's been eight years since I've been in there. And eight years ago in Oregon was a lot different than today's Oregon. I think we can all agree on that. Eight years ago, you think about that, that was what, 2017. This was, you know, in the first Trump administration. And there had been no COVID chaos that had been brought into the system at this point.

And all of this, we're going to work at home and who is, who is, you know, our acquired worker, who is a necessary worker, and who is just a surplus useless eater worker and needs to stay home, you know, all these things. And I remember how just things went to hell 2020, 2021, you know, as this entire system took over. And I remember, like I said, the concerns that I had because I was given all of this federal paperwork my boss gave it to me that would allow me to leave my house and allow

me to have access to fuel if need be because I maintained a federally licensed broadcast facilities, you know, being the station chief engineer here, chief operator, all that kind of stuff. And I remember that. And then the DMV would be closed or half the time people wouldn't be in there or how many times are we going to put on the ridiculous face mask, all this kind of stuff. And I don't think we had really perfectly recovered from it since that time. And I know that there was a big rush for the Real ID back in May when the first, I guess these must be for people who end up flying. I don't fly a whole lot because flying is not fun. Flying used to be fun in the United

States of America. Come fly with me. And it was just like, oh man, off into the sky. And now it's essentially bad Greyhound buses, the only thing we're missing. Sometimes maybe the chickens, like on a bus in Mexico City. We don't have the chickens up in the overhead, but yeah, it's just a different world you're crammed in. And I remember one time, last time I flew first class, and we had a problem with a drink spilling. A drink spilling. Now remember, we paid extra to be in first class. And the United flight attendant was just like like here, shut up, sit down, I'll get to you more or less when we get to. Oh, okay. So I paid a lot to, so I paid $500 more so you could just bark at me as if I'm a two-year-old. Yeah, it's different. It is so different flying

these days. I wonder if we could even really still call ourselves a free people But anyway back to going to the DMV Yeah, I know there's all circuitous room I apologize for that, but sometimes my mind wanders around a little bit of that ADD sort of thing But I went to the DMV yesterday I thought okay, I just got to get this over with because I'm not gonna be a driver's license Can't drive the station vehicle all this kind of stuff. you can't do this, can't do this kind of stuff. So I tough it out, I have all the my data, okay I'm gonna get the real ID, you can't really

escape it, you have to you know go into the mall of the digital realm I guess. And so had my birth certificate, had okay here's a Jackson County tax statement, property tax statement with my address on it, here's my insurance with my address on it, okay, all this kind of stuff. I got my birth certificate, you know, certified from the state of Pennsylvania. I had this already. And I got to tell you, it was about as easy and smooth and perfect. I mean, to borrow a Trump phase, phrase rather, it was beautiful. It was like perfect, it was the perfect experience. It was perfect, it was beautiful. It was.

And from start to finish, the longest time I spent in line was just the initial line to check in. And you have to stand in the line longer if you're getting the ID because they have to look at your documentation and make sure your documents are okay. So I did that and it was pretty painless. Maybe I think the total time less than an hour. Maybe it was just because it was Thursday and I was strategically looking, okay if I had to go down to the DMV at a certain time of week, which would be the best day? You know you're always kind of making this bet. Monday I figure would be a bad day to go to the DMV at a certain time of week, which would be the best day? You're always kind of making this bet. Monday, I figure would be a bad day to go to the DMV.

I don't know if, maybe if you're a car dealership, you can tell me more, but the car dealer, they have their own entrance into the DMV. But I would figure Monday would have to be the worst day to go in there because of people having bought and sold cars over the weekend, wanting to get the paperwork done, etc. It's just people thinking, okay, I'm going to go.

Tuesday, maybe better. Wednesday, that's a short day at the DMV in Medford. And so I'm thinking, all right, Thursday, Thursday, that's it. And then, and it was great. It was perfect. I can't say anything bad about the experience. And you know how much it cheers, how much it cheers me to be able to say that because of all the times we talk about the inefficiencies and the stupidity in there? But it worked out

well. And I put it up on Facebook and people say, Bill, are you delusional? No, actually it worked out okay. Maybe it was just because it was a hot day and people didn't want to go down to the DFBA that was unusually quiet. Maybe that was what was going, but it did not take that long. I think by the time I got in there, to the time my docs were scanned and they took the picture and everything else, maybe 45 minutes, I think that was it. And I was expecting it to take a lot longer. I was expecting just to have to wait in line just for the check-in a lot longer than I

did. But there were only like four or five people in line. Maybe it was worse when you went. I don't know. But it worked okay. The worst part of going to the DMV and getting the new ID to replace my expiring driver's license is the picture. Because I compared my, in fact, I'm going to hold it up to the Facebook Live.

There's my 2017 picture and then there's the 2025 picture. Now it's a bad digital, grainy, temporary, you know, driver's license sort of thing. It's like, man oh man oh man, I look like Frankenstein. I take my glasses off and my eyes are sunken back in my head. Now I knew there was going to be more gray in the beard. So anyway, that's my experience with real ID. The worst part about it is having to look at the picture afterwards and say, oh my gosh, I'm looking like hell. What's going on? You know what we need to be

able to do? You need to be able to use those filters like they have on the social media sites, those filters you can run that, but I guess that wouldn't make it a real ID then, would it? They need your biometrics. They need to know what you really look like, not what you would wish that you really looked like. 7705633 to join in. This is the Bill Meyers Show. Let me grab a call here on Find Your Phone Friday. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Oh, good morning, Ben. This is Francine. Hey, Francine. How are you doing today? What's going on?

Well, I wanted to ask you, aren't we allowed to opt out of the Real ID anymore? Did they change it? Oh, well, you don't have to get a Real ID driver's license if you don't want to. Okay. So why did you get one? Because I will fly now and then, and it's the only way you're going to get on, unless you have a passport. I don't have a passport right now. Okay? Okay. Well, yeah, I just, you know, all we're doing is complying and every time we comply, we feed their tyranny. So I don't know, Bill. Okay. Well, you know, at this point, hey, you know, if I'm going to go into a courthouse,

if I'm going to be able to do anything else like that, that's just the rules. And I would love to say, hey, don't comply and then the world will comply with me. But it has yet to do that, Francine. I just haven't done it. You know, I haven't, I haven't noticed that. And I figure I'm on every government watch list already anyway, because I say things that the government probably doesn't like. So we'll find out. If they revoke my real ID and then turn

off my bank account I'll get back to you on that. Okay? Well that's in the future, you know that. Oh yeah well that's with that's with the programmable money. Yeah. So. Right and that's gonna happen. I mean your guest the other day was. Yeah Christian Briggs. Saying everything that you know that movie I'm trying to get you to watch that Catherine Austin fits, uh, from Solari report. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you, you, of course you won't watch it. I know how you feel. Oh, no, it's not a matter of not watching it. It's just like, by the time I get home,

maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon, I've already been going through stuff just to get my show, just to take care of my show. I mean, I don't sit around and watch Catherine Austen Fitz videos for fun. Okay. I know, but it's actually really well done. You watch it on the weekend. You don't have to watch it all at once. I mean, you know, watch a little bit and go do something, whatever. But, but you see so often I hunger for people just to put out a file, something I can read. I like that.

And I don't watch videos generally, you know, although especially all the little short stuff I just know if I can't, if I have to click on a link and go watch something, I don't care what you sent me. So I totally understand, but there are some exceptions. And if you pick and choose carefully, the stuff that actually is good. But my point being is that what they were talking about was very much what your guest said the other day about we're not going to be able to avoid what's coming

down the pipe. That's what he's saying. He made a pretty good case for that. It was pretty frightening stuff. And yet, what are the options here? Because we are being herded en masse into the globalist abattoir, no matter what President Trump seems to be talking about right now. Right. And that's my point is every time we say, oh well he's nothing we can do about it let's just go get our real ID because

otherwise I can't fly. You know I mean I get it. It's it you know your life has certain things you need to do. I on the other hand I'm somebody that I guess because I'm older and I'm retired and I live by myself and I don't have all these... Yeah, you don't need to. You just go get a conventional driver's license, you're fine. Right. I can get away with saying, oh, I'm not going to fly. I haven't flown anywhere for probably 20 years and I'm not going to get on a plane ever again

until they heard me off to the camp or something. Yeah, but well, that's going to be a boxcar though, right? That's going to be the boxcar. That's not a plane. Okay. Yeah, you have to get the, you know, to the GULOG, to the digital GULOG, that's in the boxcar. You know, no, no, no, you actually want to probably do though, update it. It'll probably be in the self-driving Uber at some point. That's what it'll be. You know, the self-driving Uber shows up and you get into it and then the wristbands lock down on you and then they take you out to the FEMA camps that they

always say are in Jackson and Josephine County. They always talk about that. Yes, and that's where they make the Soylent Green with us. That's right. That's right. That's right. And we end up showing up on the shelf at the Ashland Co-op, that kind of thing. Right? That's right. And we end up showing up on the shelf at the Ashland Co-op, that kind of thing. Right? And it was saying, you know, it's for people and it's all natural. Right? Well, you know, that's us. You know, I'm just having fun with you on that. Right? And by the way, Ashland Co-op, I'm just teasing. All right. I'm just kidding. He's talking about how the abuse of the label

all natural, right? Yeah. That label doesn't do a thing for me at all. I know better. And even the co-op has items that have ingredients that I won't touch. I don't really package food anyways now, but you can't get away from it. You just can't. It's really hard. Well, all I was saying though is that my experience was okay in spite of the fact. So my sliding into digital real ID tyranny was relatively easy. Hey, I want to share a little tip for you and anybody else that's interested.

It's a shopping tip. And they were talking today about how expensive beef is and everything. Well, grocery outlet, I don't know about the one in Central Plano, if it's the same owners or not, but the one here in Medford they carry it's Thomas or Thompson beef that comes from New Zealand. It's really, really, really good. And it's five bucks a pound forever. That's it. They have that price locked in and they're doing it for their customers. What is it called again? It's Thompson or Thomas. I can't remember which it is. They always have lots and lots and lots of it,

and it's delicious. Where do they sell it? At the grocery outlet. Oh, okay. All right. Now, is it real meat or is it like a meat-like substance? You know, kind of like going to Taco Bell. No, Bill, it's real meat. Okay, just have to ask because there's a lot of meat and meat-like substances in our society. Oh, God. Well, you know, I mean, they do carry some of that stuff in the freezer case because people want it and all that, but they know they have the real deal. All right. Thank you for the suggestion there. 7705633. You have a great day, Francie. Maybe talk to you a little later, okay? 26 minutes after six. It's about the

stuff that got lost in the shuffle this morning, whatever's on your mind. Hi, this is the Bill Maier Show. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. Hi, Tom. Cheers. Last night on Hi, Tom. Cheers. Last night on Clyde on Ground Zero, he said they just passed the Genius Act, which is laying the groundwork for the digital dollar. And that was exactly what Christian Briggs was talking about on my show on Tuesday, I think is when it was. Yeah. And then we have Doug Casey on Lou Rockwell describing Trump as gone from being an egomaniac

to a megalomaniac. And I'm really concerned about this whole march to the New World Order gulag, the 15 minute cities and so forth. And you know, there's a lot of things that Trump has done that I like and support. But if he goes ahead with this whole digital dollar and super surveillance state, it seems like whether it's Trump or a Democrat, they're trying to herd us into a Chinese-style gulag. It does have that appearance. Now, if I recall, Christian was saying that what happened with the passages of these acts is not like something which happens right now. It's about how it would be used in the future by someone with ill intent, is what he was getting at. Yeah, well, okay, we can put it at that. Yeah, yeah, who do you trust then, I guess, is what... Do you trust anyone to not go in that

direction at some point, right? Yeah, and then you were talking about, you know, with Francine, you know, Soylent Green on the shelf, recycled Bill Maier. It's all natural. It's all natural. Well, I just got an email, you probably heard of this, Apeel, and apparently that's gotten a green light to be put on organic produce. Oh, is that the stuff which is... I think Lucretia sent me that, probably sent that to you too, right?

Yeah. Yeah, and you know, Apio is what, a coating that goes on fruit to give it longer shelf life. Is that what that is? I seem to recall... I didn't have time to read that, really. Yeah, it's on fruits, vegetables, and so forth. They know... the only known ingredient is one... well,'s six tenths of one percent. The other 99.4 or whatever it is, we don't know what's in it, but it comes from Bill Gates. It's really pushed by the world economy. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

APL going on organic fruit, pushed by the Gates organization, Bill Gates? Because I know that everything about Bill Gates, I found nothing untrustworthy about that man absolutely at all. How can you have any doubt about...oh my gosh, I'm just kidding. Yeah, he's definitely a stalwart that you really put your trust in and so forth. But one of the guys that's the head of the APL company and so forth. He's one of the young global leaders, you know, from Klosh Schwab and so forth. So I don't know. I just feel like no matter whether we have a president with a D or an R after his name, it just feels like this rural economic forum, New World Order, nooses tightening around all our necks. I can understand that impression reading the

The news and I wish that I could give you words of comfort about that and I really would love to be able to say that and it's it's almost like which version of tyranny and Control do you want right? Do you want the World Economic Forum one or do you want just kind of like the United States brand of the control grid? It's kind of either or, I guess, at this point. It's not that I'm happy saying that or that it's like, man, I'll tell you, it just keeps my show going because we're able to talk about stuff like that. But yeah, when you look under the hood of the world and even just the United States, even under Trump, there are troubling signs bubbling under that mix.

That's all just kind of, you know, bubbling in the background and we're not supposed to pay attention to that. But look, look, look. Move along. Don't ask questions. Yeah, yeah Don't ask too many questions on the other hand though ice Barbie. I don't know if you read that ice Barbie I love that nickname for for DHS Christy Noem

The thing is the problem with with ice Barbie Christy Noem is that the stupid hair extensions, okay? It's like why are you doing the Marie Osmond style hair extensions and wanting to be taken seriously? I just, I'm sorry to be lookism about that with someone, but please just put the hair back in a ponytail or something like that. Not in the Ice Barbie hair extension world thing, okay? Our circus just continues. But she's doing something good. Okay? Ice Barbie I think is doing something good. Now they're talking about taking the boot off of the the liquid restrictions. The carry-on boards. If you know if you're gonna be flying on board a plane or something like that. They're not gonna be going through all of that stuff. Man

they're they're talking about getting rid of a lot of those rules. Which I think is a positive thing she got rid of the of the shoe taking off thing she got rid of that a few days ago so I look at I have to give Ice Barbie some credit on that all right so that that's we that's some good news out there okay a little bit yeah someone was saying that because they didn't have the real ID when they went to the airport and so forth, they just gave them the full pat down, complete, total and so forth.

So, you know, I don't know, I disagree with this real ID business. I've disagreed with it either and yet at this point it's like had to renew it and there are times you're going to get on the plane and I'm just going to do it. So yes, I will confess I got compliant on this one. Okay? Yeah, well it's creating convenience for security. Haha. Yeah, well there's no security or convenience involved in any of this. Okay? Yeah. Yeah, because I would just remind everybody, you know, I could make this a real American quiz, but I think it would be too easy to answer if I were to go out there and say, okay, how many terrorists has TSA been able to get after they've gone through granny's colostomy bags

and felt up all sorts of women and men and grabbed the genitals, how many have they caught? And the answer would be zero. And I would say, yes, you're the winner of the quiz. You know? Granny's collapsing me back. But it's true. They would do stuff like that. They did that.

They've done that. They have. Yes. Nothing surprises me anymore. You know, Team America, World Police, the parody that was put out by that, you know, They have. Yes. Nothing surprises me anymore. Team America, World Police, the parody that was put out by that back during the Bush administration with the puppets, the puppet movie. It's one of the grossest, funniest movies I've ever watched in my entire life.

But Team America, World Police, we've turned into that. We've turned into that. That's what we've done. They're making fun of it, but boy, we just continue to go down there. Okay? Appreciate the call, Tom. 7705633. I am delighted to take your call this morning as we noodle around all sorts of things. And all coming up, this is the Bill Meyers Show, 7705633. Rule number one, if you're looking to sell a home, choose a local real estate agent. Hey, it's Lars. And why? It starts with an overall

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I can't help it. Like I said, just don't listen to his politics, but they're good tunes. Let me go to Gene. Hello, Gene. How you doing this morning? Welcome. Great to have you on from...

By the way, has the fire caused you any trouble near Wilderville? Is it that the That was a different fire. I forget which fire was you had like four of them. Uh get off touched off by you the other day Yeah, well it didn't cause me any problems good good because we don't want jean messed with over there because boy I'll tell you you'll call you'll call him. Give him a piece of your mind i'll bet call him and give him a piece of your mind on that. It's a little hard to get a recording a piece of mind. Okay. That's true. Good point. All right. What's on your mind?

Okay. A few things. Puky came on with something today about release the files on Epstein and get that over with. Yeah, he has instructed, Trump has instructed Pam Bondi to get with the courts and have the grand jury testimony released. Yeah, at least in some other documentation, yes. Have they deleted so much that you're not really going to see much of anything?

I don't know, but I think it would be safe to assume that if a lot of this was going to be released, chances are would be sanitized for your protection, of course, Gene. And also, what are they up to that they're trying to keep us from noticing. And when they put President Trump in jail, would he have committed suicide if the security hadn't been insistent on being with him? You know, those are a lot of great questions. I don't think Epstein... the reason I don't think Epstein would have committed suicide voluntarily is not anything that I know for sure, but it's obvious from the real attempt to keep any information coming out that he would have won his case anyway. There's no way they would have convicted him.

That's all I can get at you. I don't know how else to put it. It's like, you know, I don't know how else to put it. It's like, you know, when you have dirt on a lot of people, when you have dirt on a few people that could be your problem, when you have dirt on a lot of people, it's their problem, I guess. I appreciate the call. Good questions, though. Let me see. We have Keith in Cave Junction.

Hello, Keith. How are you doing? Go ahead. Oh, pounding the asphalt going north. Good for you. Good morning. Good morning. Your comments about the DMV brought up one thought. The entry procedures in three different locations are different. Yeah. What you described in Medford and what I saw in Roseburg and Grants Pass, which doesn't surprise me, that's the government. Yay. The other comment that you brought up that made me laugh was, Team America's

uniforms look all absolutely identical to the TSA uniforms. It's true. It's true. It's true! Now, you know what's running through my head now. America! Yeah! Okay. Now, the reason that I wanted to talk to you this morning is, last winter, I purchased a 5,000 watt generator for two purposes, one my RV, but one to plug into my house when I needed

some power to run my two threesers in my refrigerator and probably my wife's computers that go there if you want. I was two block, or I should say I was stonewalled by a local musician, a local electrician, because he insisted that I have a 9,000 watt generator because he didn't want to put together the system that you isolate your circuits. Yes. Yeah, you have to have the with the changeover relay, etc. That kind of thing.

Exactly. And with your project, and you've given me the reasons to throw other resources in the sense of electricians, because of the fact that I want to not purchase another generator, and I want to be able to be a smart human and isolate the systems that need to be isolated. You know, no more back, no backfeeding into the, into the grid, no backfeeding into my solar panels.

None of this, you know, turn off all the 220s. Everything that, you know, turn the furnace off, turn all that stuff off so that you're just taking care of those freezers and that refrigerator and a few lights. Yeah, well, the way I'm doing it here, it's very low-tech. Now, they do sell inexpensive kits that mount on certain breaker boxes that will allow you to put the generator on the house with but only when the the main breaker is off and isolating your home from the grid and there's nothing wrong with that but the the generator that I

bought to replace my very noisy craftsman is only a 120 volt generator I did not get I felt like spending only about $450 rather than $800 for a big 220. I'm not gonna be running the stove. I'm not gonna be running the heat pump. You know, when it comes to heating, I would just have a propane heat. I propane heat for backup in that particular case,

and also propane with cooking. My main issue was just running lines to the freezer and to the refrigerator inside the house to protect food, just like what you're talking about. That's a big one. And also then to charge up batteries and maybe keep internet and various other things connected if that is still available. That's kind of the way I'm looking at it. It's a lower tech, higher impact kind of thing than maybe what you're thinking about.

Well, okay. Then in other words, you're even more low tech than I want to be. And that's fine. And my main thing is that I did want a generator that was quiet and unobtrusive so it wouldn't bother the neighbors because I'm in a subdivision, that sort of thing. And so I'm just going to be running extension cords in this particular issue. I wanted dual fuel, that was a big one.

I wanted a propane, the ability to use propane because I can't tell you, you know, the few times you use the generator then you got the fuel in the tank, it goes sour unless you drain it and you drain it, you know, all that kind of thing. You know, the gasoline is great for a longer term back out and I have it stored and I have it treated and all that kind of stuff. But for the intermittent outages that we have right now, like in the summertime, I would like to be able to start with propane. Well, very interesting. You have given me reason to return to this project because when I was told that I needed

a larger generator because I need to get in on the Generac. Oh yeah, you've got to sign up on KMED.com. I'd love to sign up for that, but except I can't win it. So you sign up and win on KMED.com. I'd love to sign up for that, but except I can't win it. So you sign up and win on KMED.com, okay? Exactly. Yeah, the Patriot Electric contest they have going on right now. Sure. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Let me go to Michael. Hello, Michael. You wanted to talk about a

Lancet study which has been yanked. Go ahead. Yeah, before I do that I want to just put out a little PSA on generators. Don't you want to make sure you don't use that ethanol gasoline to store your generator because that is every year you're going to rebuild that. Oh, I agree with you, Holt. You need to go down even though they will run on the E, you know, the 10% ethanol mix that we have, they'll run there. The ethanol gasoline does not store nearly as well as pure gas. Sure.

Yeah, I just rebuilt two carburetors on generators just a couple days ago. So anyway. Good. Yeah, before, anyway, I wanted to talk about Brian Artis. He just disclosed a study that the Lancet conducted about, I don't know, I think it was 10 years ago or more, but it was blocked. The results of the study was about salt intake. And they did, I think it was $148,000, so it was a very large study, but they didn't like the results. The American Heart Association came out and threatened them that if they didn't take the results down, they wouldn't

get any funding or something to that effect. In other words, artists probably came out with the reality that I've read from many, many doctors that have been more truthful than the standards, I guess, out there. That there is no evidence that salt raises blood pressure. that salt raises blood pressure. It's always been a weak case and that salt is necessary in your diet. It's necessary. So they came out... the thing is, what do they do when you have a heart attack? The first thing you do is give you a bag of salt. It's 9,000 milligrams per bag. Sometimes they'll do a two-bag and that is to stabilize your blood pressure and all that stuff. So anyway, the Lancet study came out to say that the most healthy, lowest blood pressure, best condition was six to nine thousand milligrams, which is nine times what the American Heart

Association recommends. And yeah, just that. Yeah, well, the American Heart Association says, I guess, if you want to be healthy, no sodium, and of course, then you have a shortage of statins in your bloodstream too, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because yeah, I know it's been, there's a lot of revisionist, revisionism going on in this stuff. But thank you for bringing it up. I think there's an article on something like that similarly in lurockwell.com today too, all right. Michael, thank you for bringing it up. I think there's an article on something like that similarly in the lurockwell.com today too. All right, Michael, thank you for the call and Pat, you've been hanging on here patiently.

I'm sorry. I'm glad to happy we get to you here before news. I'm running late this hour, but you know, we're having fun. What's on your mind? I'm happy we got here before news too. Thank you. Good. What's on?

Briefly. We just flew in and out of Kansas City. I mean, out of here to Kansas City. And it was seamless. Just so you know, we didn't take the facial recognition. We denied that. Nobody, no problem. Oh man, they're trying to get everybody into that aren't they? And they just assume I mean people just do it but we said we just said

right away I don't want that and they said okay and then on both ends and we don't have the real ID we just used our passport no problem we no attitude at all it wasn't a big deal. Yeah, passport's no problem. There's no problem with that. Yeah, passport works too. And I am going to get my passport renewed too. But the real ID is something. I don't carry my passport, and my driver's license I do carry with me. That's all. Yeah, we just don't want the real ID not joining the program. All right. Well, good for you. And by the way, I've not found the TSA checkpoints nearly as much problem. My problem is the way you're treated

once you're in the sky half the time. Is that just me? It was fine. Okay. All right. We went to Alaska both ways. All right. Which airline? Alaska. Okay, maybe Alaska is different, but last time I was treated pretty poorly, it was United out of Medford. And it was not, actually not out of Medford. I think it was when I was going Denver to DC at that point. And it was, yeah, paid extra for first class and you would have thought that I might as well have been riding a bicycle.

I would have been treated better out there. Okay. Yeah. All right. Hey, appreciate that, Pat. Thanks for that. might as well have been riding a bicycle. I would have been treated better out there, okay? All right. Hey, appreciate that, Pat. Thanks for that. And if you are on hold, I will get right to you. Just give me a couple of minutes here and we'll catch up with the rest of it,

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For whatever reason but it came from northern California where you got the big redwood trees. They're fire resistant, thick bark, they don't burn, and there's burn scars from hundreds of years ago where they were burned. They're different kinds of trees. You're not going to do that with the... No. With the Douglas fir, the Doug fir, you're not going to do that with the Douglas Fur, the Doug Fur, you're not going to do that with it, right? And then the other fable, well the other thing is with Governor Newsom, he was connected to that pot grow that they rated.

What was he he a customer? He had an investment just like some of our people in our government here in Oregon. Oh, it's like with Oregon people and Secretary of State and LaMotta, right? Right, right. But also he says, who's going to build our houses if the illegal immigrants don't come? well, he should have had them building that bullet train to nowhere and maybe he would have had a train running but you know, I I've been in construction my whole life and Ever I don't know we build our own houses we we don't know. We build our own houses. We don't need illegal immigrants building our houses. We can build our own. And he wants to build in that Palisades fire area. He wants to build those 15-minute cities. So... Well, it does appear that, our progressive elite are really wanting to...

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KMED, KMED HD1, Eagle Point Point Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Before I hit the phones, I wanted to give you a heads up that a week from tomorrow, we're having a change on the weekend lineup a little bit. And what we're doing is moving things around because I wanted to bring in a new show that I've wanted to get on for a long time because we have pets, we have dogs, horses, cats, whatever, and I just wanted to do something that fulfills that. A lot of people want to talk. In fact, it's called Talking Pets. Jon Patch does this show. It's a live call-in show, nationwide show, that you can talk with him.

Saturdays, 2 to 4, they're going to have pet specialists, food people, animals, psychiatrists, whatever the case might be. You know, got problems, just good stuff going on. And it's not politics. Doesn't matter if you're a lefty or a tidy righty, whatever it is. We love our kids, we love our pets too. And John Patch will be there two to four next Saturday, every Saturday. And so I'm moving Handel the Law to 2, noon to 2, after the Rogue Gardener. So noon to 2, after the Rogue Gardener, and then Talking Pets. And then everything is normal after that. We'll have the third hour of Handling the Law, Sunday mornings

at 9. So that's how we're going to do that, kind of rejigger the broadcast schedule just a bit. Deplorable Patrick is here now. Good morning. Good to have you on, Patrick. Good morning, sir. Hey, yeah, my generator is dual fuel. I wouldn't consider putting gasoline in it that sits there and evaporates and leaves deposits. Oh, yeah. And storage gas cans stored around. And then after eight hours, you gotta go out and refill the thing. Of course, you gotta shut the generator off to refuel it. And if you hook it up with propane,

you hook it up to a huge big tank that could run for days, and not even have to worry about it. Now, mine has an automatic shutdown if the oil gets low. But so propane is the way to go. It doesn't leave deposits. Well, the other thing about it though is that it stores permanently. The only challenge though is that you do have to have... It's bulkier than gasoline. It doesn't have as much energy density as a gallon. A gallon of propane is not the same amount of energy as a gallon of gasoline, so you'll have to have more gallons of propane than you would for gasoline for the same thing.

That's all. You get less watts out of propane than you do gasoline, but I wanted to mention something that's been on my mind. If you want emergency lighting, it's really handy these days to get some of these LED camp lanterns. Now, the one that I use is a direct replacement for the old Coleman gas camp light, except you don't have to put oil in it. You don't have to listen to it. You don't have to have the smoke or the fire hazard. It has four d-size Cells you turned on last

Longest time. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't be without it. I don't worry about the power going off I have something similar to that at home, too and I'm also thinking about investing in a couple of that at home too. And I'm also thinking about investing in a couple of lithium-ion powered batteries too. I also have some other battery-powered lanterns that also double as power banks. But yeah, I'm working to get all that kind of knitted together here too, because this is actually a really sad statement that we have to do this, but this is state policy. State policy is about we don't want coal-fired power, which is just reliable and works. We have to power everything with intermittent and chaotic, and then we also have to give

priority to the tech bros and their artificial intelligence data centers up in the northern part of the state. I'm being a little sarcastic about this, but this whole idea that you're going to run a 24-7 society on intermittent power sources is absolutely insanity. And yet they're talking about how wonderful it is that Oregon has approved microgrids. Have you noticed that? Did you see that story? No, what's that? Okay, let me see if I can find this. Oh, here we go. Oregon approves, this is from Capital Chronicle, Oregon lawmakers have passed a pair of bills to enable

microgrids within the larger power system. Microgrids are essentially local islands of energy generation and storage systems that connect to a utility but can operate independently when needed. Many are designed to serve community facilities such as hospitals and schools during emergencies. So in other words, it's a combination of solar power often and battery storage. you have the big lithium ion or lithium phosphate batteries that are being stored in big battery banks to keep things going. What is left unsaid is that if you had a well-supplied energy grid that was reliable, you wouldn't need the microgrids. So they're saying, isn't this great, Patrick?

We can have micro grids You can have a micro grid in your own home. I suppose if you wanted to But there it's the reason that you're kind of being forced to do that that should be causing us some concern. That's all All right, but they're talking about it. It's a good thing. It's a good thing We'll let you have a micro grid to back up for the grid that the Oregon Public Utility Commission is destroying. That kind of thing, right? They think they're fooling us. The real truth is it's an attack on the people. Now in California, I don't know all the details, but they say it's illegal to have your private generator. How long before they do that in Oregon? Well, that's why I say get your generator now, I suppose. And you have one at home?

You have one at your place? What type? Yep. Well, it's a Duramax. I got it for $1,700. Oh, that's a nice one. You got a big one. Now, the one I ordered, I had a 3600 watt Craftsman from 1999.

And that's a great generator. Don't get me wrong, but it's extremely loud. And I suppose I could build a enclosure for it. And I probably will, you know, to have it as a backup to the backup. But I ended up getting a Wen generator, which ended up having some really good ratings out there, but it's a dual fuel 3600. And I've had good luck with other WEN products and so I'll let you know I haven't received it yet but that's what I ended up focusing on but I got it for less than $500 and it's sold at a number of places around here but like I said my budget was relatively limited I wanted to do the best I could

the best bang for the buck for what I had available so that's what I'm gonna try see how that works. The only thing I'm thinking about that I don't have on this generator is a remote control that when it's middle of the night and you're tired of listening to it and you don't need the air conditioning, you can just push a button and turn the thing off outside. That's what I'm thinking about. Well, maybe what you can do is find a remote control switch to do it and actually just build a little device for it.

It's probably no problem. We can do a finer way to do that. Okay? There's different ways to do it. Yeah, I'll get back to you on that one. All right. Thanks, Patrick. Thanks for the program.

Okay. Thank you. All right. Let's catch up with the rest of the news here. Town Hall news in just a moment. Mr. Outdoors should be joining me in a few too. We'll get the Outdoors and the Fire Report, get the update. So, you're about to hear the news.