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Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Clauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clauser Drilling dot com. Here's Bill Meyer. Great to have you here this Monday, June. Make that July. July 21st, I was a month behind, right? You know, my thinking process, at least.

And we're about 67, 68 degrees going to be in the low 80s. That's about it. Quite a bit cooler than it's been the last few days. And I hope that it was a good weekend for you. It was a very good weekend for me to an extent, other than the fact that, you know, my home cats just would not let me sleep late for some reason. And it's just one of those things. In fact, it even happened again this morning. I think the torch has passed over at my house. I know this has nothing to do with the news, just a little something. The torch has passed at my house. It used to be Matt, the 15-year-old Maine coon. That would be the one who would be a little bit grumpy and say, hey, it's time to be

fed, that sort of thing. That has now been passed to Charlie, the little guy. Well, he's not little. He eats way too much as far as I'm concerned, but then that's sort of why, I guess. Maybe he's just mimicking me. But he is now at the point where if it's six o'clock, six fifteen in the morning or so, there he is scratching, meowing at the door, and he's now doing what Matt used to do when Matt was younger a younger cat he would take his body run for the door and throw it against the door he would throw it against the door and it's like okay servants it's time to get up I don't know that's what he probably had over the weekend had some family and friends over on Saturday that

was great and for the most, I was just kind of noodling and binge watching shooter on Netflix. That was about it. I guess that shooter series from 2016. I'm getting near the end of the binge, I guess, but you know, it's okay. It wasn't one of the great ones. I was trying to get off into stuff that just didn't matter. And about the only crazy story that we had over the weekend here in southern Oregon was that we had a crazy guy, alleged crazy guy, active shooter. And this happened on Saturday morning, Interstate 5, and I was talking with a relative of mine who was in the Ashland Police Department. I said, well, what ended up happening?

Well, they had an active shooter happened about quarter after five Saturday morning and he got into a wreck apparently and the guy who is has been identified as 29 year old Devante mater of Ashland. So he is a local. He was a known person around here and He shot a firearm at a responding officer, then took off on foot, and they ended up having the freeway. Interstate 5 was shut down for several hours, and yeah, active shooter there. They got him for menacing, reckless endangering, unlawful use of a weapon, first degree assault, DUII, reckless driving, criminal mischief,

and OSP now investigating this one and there may be some additional charges put on that KDRV reporting that part of it then. But yeah, I was talking with my relative who's in the Ashland Police Department. He said, yep, crazy guy with a gun. And you know, you just don't really think about that 5 30 5 30 Saturday morning but yeah it was gummed up on the interstate 5 there for quite a few days a few hours rather pardon me and that was about it and uh Friday I you know I had a great time it was emceeing the talent show

over the Jackson County Fair was everybody out there having a good time and there was a uh I I don't know who won the finale on Saturday. Maybe if you were at the county fair, you could let me know. Because I was emceeing on Friday night. Scuba Steve and Chrissy were from the station were doing it on Saturday night. And the winner from Friday night ends up taking on the winner from Saturday night's group. And then they would find out who was gonna win all the money. But I gotta tell you, I was...

You know how you really love being surprised about art? And I'll just give you an example of this, because I don't like rap. I've never liked rap. In fact, I got out of Top 40 radio in the late 1980s when I was a young DJ, because I just didn't care liked rap. In fact, I got out of Top 40 radio in the late 1980s when I was a young DJ because I just didn't care about rap. I didn't care about rap and going into... I was kind of more of a rock guy at that point and rap seemed to be kind of being the growing thing and I wanted nothing to do with it. I still don't really like it. And yet there I was, emceeing this talent show Friday, and this young man, I want to

say he's probably in his early 20s, maybe mid-20s or so, Jason, he ended up coming out there. He was a secular musical person, he was telling me. And then he went to Christian rap. And you know, thinking Christian rap, right? What was this all about? And I got to tell you, he had the crowd eating out of his hand. He was, even though I really don't like rap, I would never buy any rap music.

He was good. And you could tell that he really was great and a master of his craft. And I think he has a great future. In fact, he should have been opening for the Christian band Skillet on Friday night. He should have been out there. Instead of at the talent show, he should have just been opening for Skillet and just gotten it over with, right? And caught out there.

And he was telling me how he was saved and talking about it. And of course, he looks like the rapper with the accoutrement and everything else, the tats and everything else you kind of expect from a young and rising star these days. But you want to talk about the book not, or the cover not necessarily matching the material inside. And it was a very positive message. And he was doing a great job entertaining and engaging. And it's just great to be surprised because normally when I see someone's ready to do a rap, it's just like, oh, okay, yeah, whatever. Yeah, I know, Bill, you're gonna be 64.

You're one of those boomer types there, get off my lawn. No, I, I'm just hey listen in the 1980s. I didn't care about rap and so in the 2020s, I still don't care about it But it was great to see Artistry and knew that you were looking at someone who was doing a good thing and I thought he did a great job I don't know if he won Saturday night or not, but we'll see. I'll have to take a look. I'll talk with Scuba when he comes in. Scuba's to you this morning when he pops in. But it was a very positive experience. Great to see people with good talent here in Southern Oregon. I hope that Jason goes far. It's 17 minutes after 6, 7705633, Public TV and Radio, looking at facing some pretty big cuts. I know that the NPR CEO was out over the weekend and talking about the need to, well, I guess,

dig deep, right? Hi, I'm Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR. Congress has voted to eliminate all federal funding for public media. This decision hurts communities across America. It means fewer local reporters covering town councils and state championships. It means fewer stories about local farms, fisheries, businesses, about what's happening in the state house, about musicians and civic leaders who make our communities tick. It means fewer voices reflecting the richness of who we are as a nation, fewer stories about what connects us and brings us closer together. And for millions, especially in rural areas, it means losing access to trusted local

news, emergency alerts, and everyday connection. But you can help us keep this vital, vibrant service on air across our nation. For your neighbors, for you, and for millions of Americans. Please donate now. Thank you. Yep. That was her statement over the weekend. I find it interesting she said trusted news and emergency alerts, that we have to have taxpayer funding for JPR and NPR in order to have emergency alerts? Really? Well, I suppose if the stations for some reason actually went off the

air, yeah, then they're no longer licensed because, I mean, we run emergency alerts here too on KMED. In fact, every broadcast radio station and television facility in the entire country does emergency alerts. But I find it interesting that they're going to try to sell the news in the emergency alert aspect of things. Don't you find that interesting? I don't know. It's an interesting push that the only way that we'll have trusted news and emergency alerts is with taxpayers paying the bill, I guess. Now we managed to do that and pay the bills ourselves, you know, without the taxpayers having to to kick in money. I was reading in the Rogue Valley Times over the weekend

Southern Oregon public broadcasting could lose 37% of its planned budget next year. It's about $900,000 because Congress has passed billions in funding clawbacks. And so they did this. They're clawing back $9 billion foreign aid in public broadcasting, 51 to 48 vote. Southern Oregon Public Broadcasting Director Phil Meyer ended up saying, uncertainty is the word of the day. And he said that he told the Royal Bally Times at the station had already begun to plan for what the funding cuts, part of a recession of previously approved budget, would mean

for the station. The worst-case scenario budget is basically a hiring freeze, said Meyer. We look at cuts to individual initiatives, whether it's local programming or a member of magazine, and we'd have to find those cuts where we could. Okay. I'm kind of interested that, or I just find it interesting rather, that Phil is talking about all the things that we might have to cut, including the magazine and all these other various things. You're trying to tell me that taxpayer funding going to NPR and JPR, Jefferson Provda Radio? That's it Jefferson Provda Radio.

I know, I know. Sure, they have been competition and yeah, they're competitors on the dial. I get that. But I've always been irritated at the fact that I'll go out there and I'll be at sites and various other things, maintaining equipment and stuff, and there it is, public radio festooned all over here in southern Oregon. I'm thinking to myself, yeah, I was paying about 30, 40 percent, me being a taxpayer paying 30, 40 percent to bring this up, to pay for people to speak softly and have the sounds of the cellos and the flutes and the all things considered, etc., etc.

Well, on the other hand, I had to come in here and do something that you would find interesting and then if I don't, if I don't come in there, then we won't have advertising, and then the money won't come in, and then we won't have the emergency alerts like they're talking about. But yeah, you think it's going to cause a problem? I don't know. As it is right now, I think a lot of people who like public radio and public broadcasting, don't they tend to be contributors already? Maybe they aren't. Well, they're going to have to. That's one of the things that has been made clear here right from the beginning.

This is why I talk about our local sponsors, because you support our local sponsors, then you support the programming and the kind of programs that you want to hear. That's what this is all about. It's a symbiotic relationship. But what public radio and public television has been, has been a parasitic relationship. It has had the unique ability to be able to force everyone to pay them, to pay them and pay for their stuff. And boy, hey, listen, I'd love to have a little bit of that coming in, you know, go ahead.

Yeah, maybe get a new studio, new camera, something like that, make the taxpayers pay for it. I'm just kidding about this, but it's interesting that public radio, if it's going to survive as a going concern, is just going to have to get support from people who support and like public radio and public television programming. And what's wrong with that? You can talk about it if you wish. 7705633. But yeah, they're nervous. I have a feeling that the public radio and public TV types are always kind of feeling entitled, entitled to the taxpayer money. That's a dangerous place to be.

Wouldn't you say? 7705633 you're on the Bill Meyer show. Fontana Roofing keeps rolling out new products, constantly challenging their in-house creative marketing team. So call 855 Roofmax. Hi, I'm Steve Potter, Body Shop Manager of Lithia Body and Paint, and I'm on 106.7 KMED. 626. We have Vicki from the Applegate joining me this early Monday morning. How are you doing, Vicki?

Good to have you on. Good. I'm doing good. Got some coffee? Doing good? I have my coffee. I got my dog. I'm sitting out enjoying the view. So I'm

good this morning. Okay, before you get to your stuff here, I have to ask you, does your dog wake you up in the morning for food? Yes, she's in lab. So, and she has a routine. She's seven years old, her name's Celine. And she has a routine. She gets up, she goes potty, she has two little VitaBones, and then she has her breakfast. And she will start eating grass in the morning in the yard if I don't give her her food, because she knows that... I mean, I don't mind if she eats some grass, but she'll go mac daddy down on it. And so it's like, Celine, no grass! Okay, the reason I was asking is that, you know,

they've, there's been a changing of the guard at my house. I now have Charlie throwing his body against the bedroom door on the weekends. I normally feed the cats at 430 in the morning before I take off and come to KMED. Well, I have an outside cat, Leo, I think I've mentioned him before, and he comes in at night because of the raccoons and stuff, but he'll start about four o'clock with that bellowing deep in your belly, that kind of... Yeah, that sounds familiar. Charlie's not quite that yellow.

It's the mew and the throw, and the mew and the throw, and the mew and the throw. So I'm just trying... And yet the cat is... He's pretty chubby. Yeah, Leo, he hunts a lot. He'll kill squirrels. He's a hunter. But I've used the squirt bottle.

Now I just tell him, Leo, no. And then he'll wait about 20 minutes and then start... Okay, that's all that buys you then. So it's not crazy. I'm just dealing with what every other cat owner gets. I swear it's like the buys you then. All right, so it's not crazy. I'm just dealing with what everybody every other cat owner gets You know, I swear it's like that what the older cat told the younger cats like, okay You have to wake up the servants. It's your job now in order to do it Oh, we are the servants. Yeah, exactly. All right. Hey, you wanted to talk about a couple of things. Go ahead

Yeah, well, I'm gonna start with the public TV and radio my mom worked back in the day in the in the late 80s and early 90s. She worked for every single TV station in the valley and even Fox. And she said that she liked the public radio TV, the least of all of them. Why was that? Because it's like Stedford Wives. It's like everybody's pretending to be so like you were talking about the way they talk and everything's so wonderful and rainbows and butterflies.

And in the background, there are a bunch of apes and very like narcissistic and very just think that they are kings and queens. My mom, yeah, she did not like working for that station at all. And back in the day when I was a kid, they had good programming. Nowadays, not so much. I would not let my grandkids watch that program, any programs on there. So that's the first thing. The Epstein, I think, you know, when Trump has said hoax, you know, witch hunts, hoax about all the other things he went through back in 2016 and what, you know, they've

said so far about him since he's gotten re-elected you kind of got to go hmm and think back and go well everything he said was a hoax pretty much was a hoax and I think they have enough evidence and if the Democrats are saying that there's a list and and he's got friends and he's trying to protect them and everything I wouldn't believe that so much because they've been after him for so many years already and they'd say pretty much anything to discredit him. But I think that there's already evidence about Obama, there's evidence of the Clintons.

The only reason I'll disagree with you slightly on this one is that there's grand jury testimony on Epstein. Epstein's not a hoax. And so it bothers me when I hear him talk about this stuff, like weaklings and Democrats, to ask questions about this. I don't like being told that kind of stuff. And kind of like making fun or irritating his own base. It's not reading the room real well, in my opinion.

Right. No, the hoax, I think the Epstein thing is very real and very, you know, there's a lot of it that's there. What I'm talking about, hoax-wise, is that possibly, and Trump knows a lot of people, I mean, think about it. He's been in the circle of the high and mighty for way many years before he even thought about running for office. So that's what I'm referring to. I'm not referring to the whole Epstein thing, like, did he kill himself? Is he still alive? I'm talking about, you know, the reason why they don't want to release stuff is possibly because Trump's in with the people that were associated with him.

That's a reasonable theory. Otherwise, all you have to do is ask, what is Galeen Maxwell in jail for? Just because we wanted her in jail? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. I'll give you some points on that, alright? Thank you, Vicki. It is 631. Speaking of trafficking, a lot of times when we think about trafficking, we think about this only coming from, well, child trafficking, child trafficking being very serious.

Well, I'm going to talk with Dan Nash here in just a few minutes, and he is a big expert on the trafficking. And you'll be surprised about who gets trafficked the most in the United States. It's not necessarily the kids even. And he's going to share a bit of that coming up here as we explore the news on Monday morning. This is the Bill Meyers Show here on KMED. After that, we have Congressman Cliff Benson will be joining me via phone about 10 after seven or so. I know that President Trump is talking

about not wanting to have any August recess, ostensibly to get his judicial nominations or various other people put through. I wonder if this affects the House, if the House could actually go on vacation and then the Senate doesn't. We'll talk with Cliff about that and what else is going on. Hi, I'm Matt with Stone Heating and Air. We understand that it truly knows you for one low monthly price. It is more than a medical membership. It is a partnership in your health journey. Call us today to find out more or visit us at TheWellCenterForHealing.com. It's The Bill Meyers Show on KMED, Southern Oregon's place to talk.

638-770-5633, Dan Nash for some reason. Having trouble finding Dan Nash. But we'll get him on. We were going to talk about some child trafficking and adult trafficking and other things like that. And we must have got our wires crossed or whatever. It went to message, but I left him a message. Maybe we'll get a chance to talk with him. Also coming up this morning, we're going to have a

talk with Congressman Cliff Bentz about what is going on in DC. Kind of the swamp update right from the the swampies, the swampies themselves. All right. And Chad McComis is going to be dropping back in. I wanted to catch up with what was going on with that elderly homeless project that he has going on on Biddle Road in Medford. And I think they have seven of the tiny homes built and are in right now, and they're continuing to grow this project. I like this project, and one of the reasons I like this project is that they're not taking government grants from what I understand what he told me last time. And they are doing this from people's generosity and heart. And they're getting elderly folks who are having trouble, just having trouble with their, well, they can't find a place to rent within their means. And so this is what they're doing. So it's Joy Community, it's what it's called. We'll talk with Chad about that all coming up. All right. And speaking of unaffordable

real estate, I love this one. I'm looking at this story, a story rather, over at KOBI 5 the other day. Jacksonville Mansion is up for sale. Eye-popping price of $5.95 million. It's on Paradise Ranch Road. Of course, $5.95 million. Yeah, this is what you get for $5.95 million. 9,000 square foot home, five acres, 700 square foot casita, eight fireplaces, a wine cellar, butler's pantry, a pool, a 12-car garage. Yes, this is called sustainable development here in southern Oregon.

Sustainable development means that the elite get their $6 million mention, you get the stack and pack housing in downtown Medford, and you can walk everywhere you go. I'm just kidding about that part of it, but actually that is kind of the plan that the governors and everybody else would like. All right, hang on, so we got going on. Big national story over the weekend, and then I'll get to your calls. Newly declassified material confirming the worst intuitions many had about Obama and the rest. Fox News reporting the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence

the 2016 presidential election despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise. But the real intelligence revealed the intelligence that Obama refused to accept. We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure. This according to the presidential daily brief. And Russian government affiliated actors most likely compromised in Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states.

But the brief stated that it was highly unlikely the effort would have resulted in altering any state official vote count. Tulsi Gabbard, the director, ends up saying these documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people and to try to usurp the President from fulfilling his mandate. Question for you this morning. Does anybody really think that Obama is going to be indicted or called to account on this one? Do you think so?

And if so, why? If not, tell me why. You know, there's a part of me that says that if we can't even see the Epstein files, because there are very, very important people here that need to be protected, I know they're saying that there's just nothing to it. I never did quite believe that. I'm finding it hard to believe that there would actually be legal proceedings brought against a Democrat former president in reasonably good standing within the system. But tell me what you think. I'm happy to get your call, 7705633770KMED.

I just hope this is not another one of these things where, let's dangle this out in front of the MAGA people, we MAGA folks, and so that way we can poke at it and say, see, we're draining the swamp, we're draining the swamp, and then very few, if any, perp walks. Maybe a few suicides here and there, or you know, those kind of forced retirements. You know, that kind of thing. But nobody really doing a perp walk. I could be wrong about that. Or it could be something else on your mind too. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Welcome. Hello. Going once, going twice. Hi, good morning.

Who's this? I'll try it again. All right. Do you have the phone working? I supposedly am talking to you, but I'm not hearing anything. There may be something wrong on your end, caller. Give it a shot. Okay.

Yep, phone is definitely working. Hi, good morning, KMED. Who's this? This is Jeff. Hey, Jeff, what are you thinking. Hi, good morning, KMED, who's this? This is Jeff. Hey, Jeff, what are you thinking? I don't think anything will happen. Nothing ever does.

They knew Hillary did stuff and didn't do anything. They didn't do anything with Biden, and they said he had dementia. Nothing ever seems to happen to politicians in general. I'm surprised that one, I think he was a senator or congressman in New York, New Jersey, actually got trouble for bribery, but I just don't, politicians don't get held to the same account that we do. Do you think that this is yet another example of something else to distract us from something else maybe we should be paying attention to or not? I think that's always happening. You know, they'll bring up Britney Spears or P. Diddy

or they'll do stuff all the time to distract us from things, but I just have no faith in our system when it comes to politicians, unless they're like city councilmen from some small town or something like that. But when it comes to Congress, senators and governors and stuff like that, no, I have no faith. So you're not thinking that much swamp is being drained in that respect at least, huh? I don't even know if the politicians are even aware, some of them are even aware, who's in the swamp that it's all done with people that we don't even know or and those people don't even care because they're untouchable too. So yeah.

What would it take? What would it take to actually change your mind on something like that? That the system really was going to go back to the same rule of law for everybody? I don't know because they may give someone up just to make it look like they are. You know you'll be like oh my gosh the governor of New Mexico got in trouble in Arizona you know because they manipulated the voting or something like that. And then you're like, oh look, it finally happened, and then you'll never hear anything again for 70 years, and that'll be the big mark forever. So in your opinion, then, there's an occasional token accountability, like Bill Menendez, right? Or like Menendez up over in New Jersey.

Okay. Yes, that's the one. Yeah. You know, I just don't, I don't have any faith in our system. It's like they don't do anything. They know Hillary's corrupt. They've never done anything. They know Biden had all that classified information everywhere, but they yelled that Trump had some at his place that he was actually allowed to have if he wanted to. But you know, nothing ever happens, especially to Democrats. But I don't, I don't like politicians in general. I appreciate your call. 7705633. I don't think that gentleman is uncommon. Go to the next line. Hi, good morning, KMED. This is Bill. Who's this? Okay. You're still not getting through. Hi, good morning, KMED. Who's this?

This is Minor Dave. Yeah, Dave. So you made it through until your cell phone blows up. Well, yeah. Well, you know, sometimes out here it drops off. But anyways, I have two things I wanted to say. I don't see President Obama getting charged with anything, but I see them throwing Adam Schiff to the wolves over his mortgage fraud. You know, I was just thinking about that too. I called up the people who represent John O'Connor, you know, the guy that did Postgate, the Watergate book, right?

The attorney down in the Bay Area. And I have a feeling he's thinking that they're going to go after Schiff, they're going to go after Schiff hard on this one. Oh yeah. And same with, what's her name, the lady from New York, the AG. They haven't charged her yet, as far as I know, but... Are you talking about Letitia James? ...millions. Are you talking about Letitia James? Yeah, Letitia James.

Yeah, interesting. I don't know if they've indicted her yet or not, but she had to hire a lawyer and she's begging for money. Appreciate the call. Thank you, Minor Dave. 7705633. I just want to find out if I make sure my line two is working, okay? Okay, line two is working. Okay, good. I just want to make sure sometimes that we've had that one person who's just not been able to get through the last few minutes. Hi, good morning. Who's this? This is Gene.

Oh, it's you. Hello. Gene, were you the one not answering when I was called up and trying to get you on? Well, my stupid phone went to mute instead of... and I couldn't get the damn thing off in time. Okay, see now you're getting grumpy. Now you're getting to be grumpy, Gene, this morning. All right? Now you're grumpy. Well, I'm grumpy at my phone. Okay. Good.

Just like this Chinese junk. All right. So what's on your mind, Jean? Go ahead. Okay. As for the Epstein files, it's in a New York state, which is totally Democrat-controlled. Now, can you actually trust anything in there? Because they have no doubt added things, deleted things. They're against the Republicans so they're gonna go after them any way they can if they're not good little brown noses. Okay so for Republicans now who for years have been talking about the need for transparency then and that all this stuff should be declassified, President Trump promised he was going to declassify this and release it. He ended up mentioning this about a little more than a year ago, I think, if I recall. And should we just take

everyone's word for it at this point that there's nothing there? Well, you can go ahead and read it and see what kind of fantasy story the Democrats came up with. So you wouldn't trust anything that's in that anyway? You wouldn't trust anything that's in that in other words, even if they did release it, right? I would not trust anything because they are Democrats, they change things the way they want. And as for Democrats, they never get punished for their crimes. If I recall correctly though, the people who first started investigating Epstein were actually,

it was actually the first Bush administration, George W. Bush administration back, you know, early 2000s. They're the ones who first started, there wasn't a Democrat investigation. But can you actually trust Bush because he was rooting for the Democrats? Yeah, that's true. He was kind of an open border shill, wasn't he? But can you actually trust Bush because he was rooting for the Democrats? Yeah, that's true. He was kind of an open border show, wasn't he? I remember that part. He loved, loved the open border stuff. Yeah, maybe so. Maybe so. Maybe he's part of the UNO party. All right. Thank you, Gene. Brown nose.

Okay. Yeah. And they all get together at every funeral. They're all palling and laughing and joking with each other, right? Oh yeah. Thanks Gene. Good hearing from you. Okay. Get you another phone. Okay. It's 9 before 7. Visit American industrial door.net. This is News Talk 1063 KMED and you're waking up with the Bill Meyers show. Noodling around with a little bit of open phone time here on the Bill Meyers show.

7705633, Congressman Cliff Betts will be joining me live from the swamp here in the next few minutes. Maybe about 15 or so. We'll find out what is going on in there. And of course the continuing news coverage seems to be about who's going to get cut and whose budgets are going to be going away. The latest one has been concerned about public television and public TV, public TV and public radio taking about a 30-40% hit from their budget. And is that a problem? I don't know. Maybe they can get some more of those underwriting kind of ads.

You know, the ads which are not ads, they claim they're not ads because it's supposed to be non-commercial, but yet we have, you know, underwriting grants provided by, you know, Cargill, the Cargill Corporation or something like that. I don't know, but we'll see. We'll see. It'll be interesting. Maybe we'll be seeing more of that and maybe Southern Oregon PBS and Jefferson Pravda Radio will end up just having to sell ads like everybody else has to. And they'd probably find people willing to

sponsor it, wouldn't you think? How are you doing, Jerry the Bull? What's on your mind today? Good to have you on. Well, hey Bill. Yeah. I do think there's something to the Epstein case. That's just my opinion. Sure. And that's all any of us can really have is just an opinion on it, really. Exactly. Now, I'll tell you one thing that was interesting to me. This actually goes back about five years. When Trump was running for reelection. It was in October. He appeared or he appeared on Rush Limbaugh's radio show and Rush asked him

a very simple question. He, and here's the essence of what he asked him. And here's the essence of what he asked. And he asked him what really motivated him or led him to leave his luxurious life to, you know, run for president. Now, what was interesting is I never heard him give a very straight answer to that question. a very straight answer to that question. He talked about things that he had done and so forth, but he never really succinctly said, well, you know, Rush, I care about America, for example. What do you think you took from what you thought was a non-straight answer? That broadcast was obviously a long time ago.

Even Rush has been gone for a long, long time. I'd have to look it up in the archives, so to speak. Well I know, and I did actually, and it was somewhere on YouTube. Excuse me. Well, hey, I don't know. I'm not going to presume anybody's guilty or anything. I'm just saying I know then, even five years ago, I thought that was interesting. I thought, well, sometimes Trump goes off on tangents and blah, blah, blah.

But it really wasn't that difficult of a question. So anyway, and you know, Bill, but anyway, I just think... So what conclusion did you personally draw from this? Because it's a very interesting, very interesting situation. You would have thought there would have been a ready answer ready or a very ready answer ready to to spout on something. Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Well, why do you want to be president? Why do people go into politics, Bill? That's my question. I don't, you know, I'm sure there's a multitude of reasons. Not everybody has the same reason.

Some I think go into it because it's obviously the next step that... Well, power is intoxicating, wouldn't you say? In many cases, especially at the presidential level. Boy, that level, man. Right. So anyway, I don't know. I just, I have a feeling there could be something behind this, but we'll see.

I'm not hoping that there is, but there could be. All right. I appreciate your call as always, Jerry the Bull, 770-5633. Pardon me, maybe give you a little coffee before I head back to the phones. Hi good morning who's this? Hey Maringville it's Cliff. Cliff what's going on in your world today? I'm gonna throw something different into the mix this morning. I'm good with that go ahead.

Okay ran across an article out of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. They went out and did a study of direct current fast chargers for EVs in the LA basin, about 50 different area, 50 charging stations across 47 cities in LA County. They're looking at PM2.5 particle pollution. Oh yeah, PM2.5 is the very small particles that they're always trying to reduce, you know, fine levels of soot that they claim cause problems with people's health, right? Yeah, heart and lung. Heart and lung, yeah.

Okay, so what they found as is when they were doing the study that at the fast charging stations it was two to three times the ambient of other urban sites that they went and tested including gas stations that did not have fast chargers there. All right, that's kind of interesting. So the claim being made then that there's more pollution around the fast chargers than there are in areas that don't have the fast chargers, was that what the study was concluding, more or less? Right, and what they're concluding is that the fans in these fast chargers that are keeping the components cool are picking up the dust in the charger cabinets themselves and in the

surrounding area and then just blowing around those VB stations. What an interesting conclusion. In other words, they're causing more problems at least when it comes to the fine dust pollution problem. That's interesting. I have not heard that, but you know the other part about it though is that a lot of those fast charging stations are kind of located in the dregs of various towns. It's usually the less desirable areas. Have you noticed that? I don't have an EV, so I can't attest to that. So my conclusion is if you've got an EV and you're charging it out there at one of those stations is to get a fine particulate respirator

to wear. Oh no, get your COVID particulate respirator to wear. Oh no, get your COVID mask out again. All right. Thanks, Cliff. 770KMED, this is the Bill Myers show. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Mary. Hi, Mary. What's on your mind today? Well, I just wanted to make a quick comment since you brought up the public broadcasting budget cuts and say that I think that they do cover some really interesting stories. For example, the fact that the Fisheuth County Sheriff

was put on the Brady List. That story was basically only covered by Oregon Public Broadcasting. That should be national news that an elected official sheriff is put on the Brady List, which is something that most people don't even know exists. Yeah, by the way, what is the something that most people don't even know exist. Yeah, by the way What is the Brady list for if her people who don't know? It's a list of officials that are not allowed to testify in court because they've been so dishonest But somehow they're allowed to retain their jobs. Most of them are police officers Yeah, that's what they meant. Yeah by that. Yeah, that's very interesting Oh PB covered that one now. So OPB was was the one that did that in the Portland area.

And so that was interesting. Yeah. And so do you think though that Oregon Public Broadcasting should continue to get their taxpayer subsidies in order to do an occasional story like that? I think we should be allowed to vote on it on our...if we feel say whether we want our tax money to go towards it. I would check yes on that box. It wouldn't bother me. I appreciate public broadcasting. I've always felt that that's something that would cost almost nothing to put on people's

ballot, you know. You know, if I were to turn my show into a nonprofit, should I be able to get taxpayers to fund my salary? If they want to. If they want to, okay. Right. Well, isn't that kind of what people will do with the funding going away is that the people who support that programming will end up paying it, just like listeners who support my show by going to the various advertisers and helping them pay for mine. Isn't that something that they could do? Yeah. I'm a fan of donating, taking your money and donating it where you want to instead of having it allocated by the federal government.

Well, yeah. You see, and my point is, you know, we vote on it, okay, but you vote on, okay, let's say we all voted in Oregon to say whether or not JPR and Oregon Public Broadcast end up getting taxpayer funding. That still means that one vote more than 50% forces the other 49% who may not support them to have to pay. You see, that's the issue that I have with the forced funding of the taxpayers. You don't have that choice, really, to pay. Yeah, and I'm a libertarian, so I don't believe in taxes at all. I think that we should have minimal taxes for a few things, roads, you know, we have to have the military. I don't believe we should be funding the public schools the way that we are. I

mean, I believe in all of that. I just do think that we should be giving a nod to the public broadcasting for stories that they do cover that are pretty much swept under the carpet by the mainstream media. All right, point well taken on that one. Mary, I appreciate the call and thank you. All right, I'll get there though. All right, you too now.

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