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Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Starting off with Nick Fondacaro from MRC Newsbusters - FCC chief calls for legacy news media to once again serve the public interest. What does that look like? Open phones and news for the rest of the hour.

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But I wanted to dig into a media bias story that caught my eye yesterday and involving and it's a little bit inside baseball because it's a federal agency which also regulates KMED, television stations, I mean just about everywhere you go broadcast facilities. It's the Federal Communications Commission and joining me to talk about that is from the MRC is Nick Fondacaro. He's the associate editor of MRC's News Busters. Nick, it's a pleasure having you on. Morning. Welcome. Thanks for having me on. All right, so the chair of the FCC,

which, you know, around here in the broadcast world, we always sit around there and say, okay, when they talk we listen, right? And ended up saying something very interesting on Fox and Friends. And I'm wondering if this is going to be the development of a new era or the start of a new era or maybe there's new regulation coming on. And could you break that down? What happened? It's an interesting statement. Yeah, he basically wanted to say that responding to a comment that the White House put out on, I believe it was Tuesday or put out on Wednesday, where they were basically saying

that responding to the view, ABC's The View, where they were saying some fairly nasty comments about Trump accusing him of treason and all sorts of stuff. And the White House sort of lashed out, sort of saying like, oh, hey, you guys better watch out. You guys might be off the air next. It sort of seemed to be that the White House was into, like, sort of suggesting that they would go the way of Stephen Colbert, which that is of the like sort of a ratings and financial based stuff but when asked about it on Fox News Chairman Carr was basically saying oh hey maybe

we'll look into some of the stuff over there or maybe ABC will take some action themselves they have some problems over there with the view. He pointed out how they say like a ton of legal notes over there. I actually have a study out in 2022. They did over three dozen legal notes. What's a legal note? Is that like an apology or something they had to do? Kind of like that. So basically they'd be like, oh hey, so-and-so denies these allegations or something about this is, they come back from a break and they'll be like, oh hey, something we said in the last segment isn't quite accurate. Here's a bit more detail on that. But in recent years, or so far

this year actually, I actually have a study that I'm working on now. It's not ready for release yet, but let's just say there's noticeably fewer of those. So they're already kind of backing off a bit here. I think though what Brendan Carr said that kind of...he was calling for a course correction in the nation's media. And where was he going? And what does that mean? Because normally when you have the FCC chair saying we want a course correction,

you know, usually we are expecting some kind of regulatory oversight or is this just one of those things where the FCC head is trying to twist the arms gently to be a little more fair and open and honest about things? I don't know. How do you see that over in MRC, newsbusters? Yeah, so far we're not seeing or hearing anything of like anything official coming down the pike. I think they're kind of hoping that before things sort of get to that is to have like these executives and like the people who run the newsrooms to be sort of like pull on the reins a little bit. We saw this earlier this year with ABC with Terry Moran right where Terry Moran Went off the deep end and was posting a whole bunch of negative stuff and they're like, okay

This is bad for the brand your contracts up. We're gonna get you out of here ASAP and I think a lot of that is him trying to suggest that ABC and other Executives need to start looking at this because it did sort of sound like he wanted them And you pointed this out that he they wanted like that course correction to happen sort of internally over at ABC and ABC should be exerting some sort of editorial control over the view because I know a lot of people think that the view is an entertainment product. It's actually under the ABC News umbrella. It is a news show and they do like to say, oh we're like the editorial

pages of like a newspaper, but at the same time their opinions are not always based in fact. They definitely go off the deep end and just make things up wildly. You know all this time, all this time Nick, I didn't realize that The View was actually run out of the news department. I had no idea. I must have missed that somehow over the years because I never would have mistaken it for a news product. Just saying. Oh yeah, absolutely. There was a time period sort of maybe several years ago where they were sort of struggling and they basically shifted it over to the news division so they could give it access to extra sort of marketing and funding and stuff like that and give it a little bit more extra oomph in sort of a

reputational nature. And that's so they have been under the news umbrella for a while. And that's why a lot of people, like particularly the MRC here, and I watch them daily, why we put so much emphasis on covering them is because... Oh, you poor schmo. You have to watch the view every day? Every day? Yes.

I get hazard pay. I get hazard pay. Okay, alright. I'm just having fun with you. Every day you have to watch. Well, then you know it. I mean, you certainly know your subject here. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

Please complete the thought there, but it just struck me. A guy has paid, he has to watch the view every day oh my I get I get that reaction all the time and I have to tell people like it's okay I can handle it honestly it's it's when they're talking about things that aren't politics that they're actually tolerable when they're talking about life family members dealing with sorts of like you know just the problems of life, sickness, illness, that's when they become more relatable. It's when they get too deep into the politics that they get a little bit wild and out there. And honestly, they're definitely, they're

more overtly an arm of democratic politics and pushing democratic talking points. And they're very open about it. Twice so far this year, whoopee has defended the view to guests on the show about how they're pushing Democratic messaging she did it with Charlemagne the guy she did it with Bill Ma I believe was Bill Maher or no was Stephen A Smith and they basically say hey we did our part here during the election we pushed the narrative and it's not our fault that Kamala lost so like they're overtly an arm of democratic talking points and their media apparatus.

Is that necessarily though against the federal rules to be that way though? Because one could certainly make the argument that commercial talk radio, which of course I'm a member of, has been very largely Republican friendly and Democratic unfriendly for a long time. We have our biases and I make no bones about it. I get this. And so I always get a little concern that, well, I know that when Democrats were in control, they always wanted to reimpose the fairness doctrine on broadcast talk stations, broadcast

media here. So that way if you were saying something bad about the Holocaust, and then you would have to interview Adolf Hitler to make sure that you were being fair to the other side, that sort of thing. And so nobody would ever really cover anything of any import because you were having to supposedly be fair. You had to be fair according to what the governor said. And is there any talk about that kind of being imposed in the news world? Is Brendan kind of going in that direction from the federal government, FCC? And the reason I bring this up is that, hey, you know, maybe I

would appreciate what he would do to the Libs over on ABC, but whatever they could do to ABC, they could then go to everybody else when you have a different administration in. That's where I get a little concerned. I wanted to ask your take on it. Yeah, I think that's part of, yeah, I totally see that concern. And I can see it, so far we're not seeing anything

from CAR in terms of that. I think you're definitely gonna start seeing more of that course correction, like internally, we saw a little bit of that with CBS with like we're gonna hire it ombudsman take a look at this stuff ABC getting rid of Terry Moran with the view itself because ABC has like this large following I believe that David Muir their evening news anchor he his show I believe, David Muir, their evening news anchor. His show, I believe I just saw a headline that he was like all-time high ratings and stuff like that for amongst like even the news slots across even the cables. And so they have this extra responsibility

to try to be equal and non-biased. But the thing is is with the view it's not just that they have different opinions They just make stuff up outside of those opinions We'll be during the election claimed Trump had campaigned to outlaw interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouse Joy claims that Republicans make money off of school shootings and they so far this year about three separate times They've hinted that Trump stole the 2024 election with the help of Elon Musk. So this is beyond just different opinion they are creating these whole other universes of information. No, no it's an alternative universe is really what it is.

An alternate universe. Yeah. That's not based in reality. Of course, you know, that's sort of the media landscape we all retreat to our bubbles to a certain extent, don't we? All of us? Exactly. That's sort of like, I sort of equate it to, why do people revisit certain restaurants that they like? It's because you get the service that you like, they prepare the things the way you like it, and they treat you well. Right? So it's sort of like that a la carte way that people pick their favorite restaurants.

Okay. So there's no talk about regulation at this point. This is more or less, hey, this is something that the news organizations need to do for the good. But when they start talking about returning to serving the public interest, see, those are code words that to me screams FCC regulation in the future. And I was wondering if you could comment on that, if there seems to be any evidence of that. So far, there doesn't seem to be any sort of evidence that they're going to go that

way. Although with sort of like the view and stuff like that. They, at least personally, like on like more of like the local level of just ABC, the view does seem to be, which is what they were, which was what sort of he was commenting on and then what the White House was commenting on, that sort of brought about this whole conversation. The view is definitely a legal liability for the network because there have been several instances where they have at least toyed with promoting political violence. You had Sonny earlier this year saying that she was upset that Democrats aren't, quote, willing to fight and die, end quote, for their policies like other people have done in other

political movements. In other words, we're going beyond just a mere, hey, this is my political opinion on a particular issue, when you're actually being activist and trying to do that, you're crossing the line then in the news world? Exactly, exactly. You had Joy Behar after it was leaked that the Dobbs decision was coming down from the Supreme Court.

They were actively telling people and encouraging people to go to the homes of conservative judges. Supreme Court, they were actively telling people and encouraging people to go to the homes of conservative judges and Joy Behar was like getting excited that the conservative justices would feel uncomfortable and almost unsafe to leave their houses. The fact of the matter is though, and by the way, Nick Fonicaro is associate editor of News Busters, he's with me here for another couple of minutes here, the fact of the matter is though I know that the FCC, the, the feds are saying, okay let's do a news more in in public interest in the public interest. But the fact of the matter is is that even the so-called

good old days in which you know Walter Cronkite, the Huntley and Brinkley's back with my parents and everything else, they were all left. All of them were hard left even though they had it. Walter Cronkite is an example. Pure Commie, you know, really, it comes right down to it. We found that out later. But they at least play acted at playing it straight. Is that kind of what the FCC is hoping? That we go back to pretending again? And we'll pretend to be fair? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. The MRC started in 1987, so like basically the late 80s. So we were seeing it, our founder, Brent Boazel, seeing this decades ago, long

before the media got as rabid as they are now. And I think there is sort of like a hope that go back to how they were at least pretending to be nonpartisan like before 2016. Because once Trump got into the mix and that is because like I've been with the organization since 2016 and those of us who have been here much longer than I have, they have said that once 2016 happened there has been just an unleashing of the political bias where Trump has sort of broken these people and they have been more overt and you, and you can see it how things are developing coming out of like journalism schools where they're being taught and you see like the Brian Spelters of the world and

like the media journalists who are calling on their fellow journalists to be like, hey, you have to be the defenders of democracy. You are the ones that are going to save the world where they're there they're they view themselves as like these paladin that are going to almost like the superheroes in movies that are going to be the ones to save the day because of that anything now on the table but ends justify the means we're gonna become

more political more activists and more uh... fanatical in how we cover politics because our way is the morally right way. We are the saviors of humanity. Nick, I really appreciate you coming on. Interesting take. Do you have something up on Newsbusters about this? Do you have a story or something people can read? Yes, at Newsbusters.org I have a piece that's probably got pushed down because it was early yesterday when the car news broke, but you can go over to Newsbusters.org, check out my byline. I have a piece over on car and stuff.

And then there was a bit of confusion with the view yesterday where people thought they might've gotten canceled, but it was sort of a miscommunication, a misspeaking by Joy Behar because of a whole perfect storm of like the car comments and then her comments. They're not canceled, but there was a lot of hope and prayer. All right. Now, you better get a good breakfast in you this morning, young man, and make sure and watch the review. You have to be able to fortify yourself or be thoroughly fortified to be able to do that. God bless you. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Thank you, Nick. Nick Fondacaro, Associate Editor, MRC News Busters, newsbusters.org. Joel here from Butler Ford and Truck Center. Hey, I've got 74 new and used trucks in my inventory, including a brand new Ford Super

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And by the way we will have a Diner 62 and I'm on KMED. And by the way, we will have a Diner 62 Real American Quiz sometime early in the 8 o'clock hour. I think we're going to do it then. Great, great question. A bit of musical history we're going to go into. A big American musical history, that's all I'm going to say. It's multiple choice and now I knew the answer of it

just because I'm a big music dog. You know, I can't help myself and you know, knew a lot of that, but I don't know. It could be a tough question for some people, but a Diner 62 quiz we are going to have for that. That'll be a lot of fun. Mr. Outdoors is also going to join me after seven o'clock. And we also have a little bit of open phone time here on Find Your Phone Friday, 770-5633-770-KMED. I was talking with Dick Fondacaro at News Busters. I found the story really interesting because the FCC chair who is in charge,

and let me tell you, when you're in television, broadcast, radio, involved with networks, et cetera, cell service, whatever it is that you're doing, you pay attention. And when the FCC burps, you say, well, excuse me, I'll excuse you for you. That's just the way that goes. And when he says it's time to have news return to the public interest or to go back more to the public interest, I was wondering where he was going to go on something like that. Because when the left has been in control of the FCC, they always want to go after

talk radio. That's the first thing they always want to do. And if you are in this situation where we're going to be in a more muscular FCC, what happens? Because what might go after your enemies right now ends up coming after you. And I always get concerned about government and wanting to put their thumb on what they consider news, although a lot of what comes out of the news world is not really news, but it is advocacy journalism. I understand that. That is a critic. That is a good criticism, an honest criticism of it. But does that mean the feds should be involved? We can talk about that if you want. Let me talk with Vicki. Vicki's out of the Applegate.

Vicki, now do you watch The View every day like poor Nick Von Decaro does? Poor guy. He does that every day, apparently, as part of his job over at News Busters. That's a tough one. But what are you thinking? I don't have TV. I listened to you on the radio and I'm actually glad I don't have TV because it is so biased and corrupt anymore. The view, I think when Barbara Walters was in charge, she was an awesome journalist. She knew how to be biased. She kept her... she expressed her opinions but she didn't overrun anybody else with her. I would agree with you. It was certainly a more responsible and just, you know, kind

of a news and chat show. I think they did a better job in the earlier part of it. And Barbara, say what you will whether you liked her or not, but I think they did a better job in the earlier part of it. And Barbara, say what you will, whether you liked her or not, but I think she did a much better job of directing. I think that was a very good point. I kind of forgot about her. God, it's been years, right? Yeah, and well, as soon as Whoopi came on board and kind of took over that narrating position

that Barbara used to have before she retired, you could just I mean you could just see the pain on Barbara's face when they're going off on tangents of this and that and the other thing and she just you can just see on her face this is not what we're here for do you think though you it's the view and when with whoopie and Rosie O'Donnell, and they actually, I remember the last, this is decades ago, but when they had somebody who was not the same of their thinking, they ran them out. I mean, they made their life miserable if they tried to express their view.

And I think it's just another way of keeping that brainwashing kind of thing going on with the people that do watch that show. I think originally it was a great idea to have a group of women express how they feel about different things, children, schools, you know. But then, and I totally agree with Dick, as soon as Trump ran for presidency, that's when it all stopped. It just broke him, huh? Okay.

Well, anytime, the few times I've watched the view, it makes me regret that women got the right to vote. Oh my God, Bill. You can't come to system with those crazy women. You know what I mean. I'm just having fun with you on that a little bit. It makes me reconsider that amendment, you know? But anyway, I appreciate your opinion. Thank you very much for that. And do you think though that the federal... should the government or the FCC

get involved with the broadcast news departments to force a fairness on it in some way because when they talk about doing things in the public interest that's usually a code word that Washington wants to get involved and put a thumb on things. What do you think? Well I think that there, I don't know about the government being involved but I definitely think that people higher up with the broadcasting should be taking these people that are trying to, you know, have their own narrative and lying. They're blatantly lying. I don't think they should keep their job.

I think that there should be some, some kind of, well, they should get fired. I mean, I don't think they have a right. They're going above and beyond what their view is. They're actually like spreading rumors, spreading lies. Yeah, and I also noticed that a lot of what's happening on The View and various other more left-wing oriented shows is that they're conflating what happened with with Stephen Colbert with somehow a first and I have to tell you many people online in my Facebook feed now I don't know if you're on Facebook if you have a computer or not but yeah but it astounds me how many people how many Americans you know Americans that I would think would know the difference think that somehow a company

firing one of their people who is losing them 40 million dollars a year is somehow censorship against the First Amendment. And it's like... Well, see, that's the whole thing, Bill. They're using the First Amendment to push their ideas, their agendas... Which is the purpose, though. I don't think that's right. Well, no, it is the purpose. The First Amendment leaves it all open.

In fact, I'm going to talk about a story which is starting to gain some traction here in just a minute here, Vicki. But I appreciate the call. But South Park has a new season this week. Thank you for the call, Vicki. South Park has ended up coming out hard against the president, really hard against the president, and the White House rose to the bait. I was hoping that the White House would have just ignored South Park.

But I'll tell you more about that story here in just a little bit. But do you believe then, and like I say, when the FCC's chair says that we're wanting to nudge the news networks back to serving in the public interest because you know using public airwaves etc etc you know licensed facilities and such should they do that I mean should they do a little bit of a crackdown do you think there should be almost a forcing when it comes to news coverage. I mean, that may be really nice right now. I could see a problem in the future. I'll be happy to take your calls on that and anything else on your mind too.

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real justice first in the state of Oregon and also on the national stage. And the first one comes from KGW Channel 8 in Portland. An appeals court sided, let me say this again, an appeals court panel sided with an Eastern Oregon woman who was blocked from adopting foster children after she said she would not comply with a state policy requiring support of a child's LGBTQ identity. This is an amazing story, folks. Now I know you would think that, what, the state of Oregon actually does that.

Yes, yes it does. The decision means that Jessica Bates will now be able to move forward with being a foster care parent, a foster care parent in Oregon, while a lower court reconsiders this case. Kristen Wagoner reporting that the Ninth Circuit ruled that Oregon's policy likely, likely violates Jessica's First Amendment rights to free speech and religious liberty. The state must immediately stop enforcing this unconstitutional policy against her because it served as a de facto ban on parents of faith from Oregon's adoption and foster care system.

We're thrilled that Jessica's courageous stand has resulted in this win at the Ninth Circuit. We pray it will lead to more victories for children and families." So in other words, the way it was working in the Oregon system was that if you were going to be a foster parent, you had to bend the knee to the LGBTQ agenda. That was just all there was to it. You either did that or you weren't considered qualified. You had to either be, you know, a total prog or no foster care for you. Okay? Parents, where we go? That's one story, and I'm going to give that one real American salute. It's nice to be able to say something good occasionally about the Ninth Circus Court

of Appeals, but they certainly got that one right. Just a cursory reading of the Constitution. Okay. Another story, this is going back to a man who I interviewed, I want to say, two, maybe three years ago, and I was never able to get him back on the show afterwards for a follow-up. This story happened yesterday. President Trump ended up nominating former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer.

This is the man I interviewed, I want to say January three years back. But he's now going to be the Air Force's next undersecretary. And what he's going to be doing is rooting out policies that Trump refers to as damaging and woke in the military. And the former Space Force Lieutenant Colonel, who was relieved of command after publicly blasting the military's diversity programs and alleged Marxist ideology, this is being reported by the way in military times, was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as the Air Force's next undersecretary. Now as good of the news that is, what's really scary is that the confirmation vote was 52 to 46. There were 46 senators who voted against him, but this is mostly along party lines. But the fact of the matter is, Lohmeyer wrote a book about

this. It was like an unfit for command or something. I forget whatever it was. It was a really good book, but he was going in how the DEI deal was just completely destroying the military and military readiness. Now, Lohmeyer was fired from commanding space squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in 2021. Okay, so it was four years ago. My gosh, how time flies, right? It was in the, yeah, the Biden administration. It was the early part of the Biden administration. After appearing on a podcast to discuss his book, Irresistible Revolution, Marxism's Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military. And during that podcast, he decried diversity

initiatives, etc., various other things like that, that he thought was just really screwing with military readiness. He said the same thing on my program. In fact, the podcast that he ended up getting busted for was like, I think the next interview or two, after he got done talking with me that day. So I'm talking with him, you know, on like, let's say Tuesday, and then the next day he's fired from the Space Force. And I had his cell phone number and I called him numerous times over the years during the Biden administration, trying to see if I could get him back on. I guess he was still in the military, but he was no longer in command. And I had a feeling it was one of those things where you just have to shut up, put your head down, and do what your superiors in this particular case,

the inferior Joe Biden's people, would tell him what to do. But he is now going to be the undersecretary in the US Air Force. And he's going to be working to root out the woke and the DEI. Really good news. I think that's a couple of great stories that give me a little bit of hope on what's going on. The fact that we could have a non-woke person of Christian faith saying, yeah, I would like to provide foster care services, and the state would say, well, you have to sit there and kiss the behind of the LGBTQ agenda. You better be down with this. And these parents said, no, I'm not going to do this. This is not part of my faith. Well, the Ninth Circuit said, yep, it doesn't have to be. you know, your faith has to be respected and the state can't make you do this

in order to provide foster services. So it's going back to a lower court. Hopefully the lower court will sort out their brains. So a couple of great stories between that and the Space Force commander, former Space Force commander now being the undersecretary of the Air Force. So revenge, revenge, a dish best served cold I would imagine, huh? Hope he does well. Yeah, maybe I want if he still has that same phone number. I still have it in my contacts. I'll call him up. Maybe he'll be

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day, but Governor Kotech signed this bill now to do this, put all this money into these shelters in the state. And on the same day yesterday, Donald Trump signs an executive order that state cities that cities now have the right to remove homeless from public squatting areas and so on. My number one question that no one seems to be able to answer is, will this override our nightmare of HP 315? No, I do not believe so, but this is where it may affect that House bill that you referenced. President Trump's order, now remember it's an executive order, it really has more to do about where federal funding may or may not go, really. That's where it may have some effect.

If we have homelessness money coming from the Fed, cloaca plopping out into our into our gullets down here in Oregon, it may be affecting some of that. And it could be one of those things where you get them off the street, you get them into treatment, or else they're not going to support that. I have a feeling that the Trump administration would not be wanting to send a lot of federal money into a place like the Stabenwagen to provide needles so that drug-addicted homeless can remain drug-addicted homeless and make it easier to be that way. So that's kind of how I think we'll see it this way. Frankly, the city of

Grants Pass has these rights already, same with Medford, Ashland, everywhere else, but they have, and this was through the the Supreme Court decision last year, right, that one that that happened, the Supreme Court case involving Grant's Pass, but the state law has more or less negated that Supreme Court win. This is all state problem they were dealing with here. Right, and so we're just waiting forever for this injunction to be removed. Yeah. And I think a lot of it will depend. You know, Governor Kotec is out of money right now.

We know about that. He's just searching for money. And to have yet more strain placed on any funding coming from the federal government may sharpen her thinking. I'm just saying may sharpen her thinking. That's all I'm willing to say. Okay? Yep.

All right. Thank you, Brian. 770-5633. Lynn, I was talking about you a moment ago. Your ears must've been burning, but welcome to the show. Glad to have you on. What's up? Hey, good morning.

I was just listening to you talking about the mom who won in court that she cannot be discriminated against and forced to pretend basically that boys can become girls and vice versa. Exactly. This was a Ninth Circuit Court decision and it went against the state of Oregon and the foster system in Oregon. So Oregon can't do this. Yeah.

Well, it'll be, it'll still be a fight. It'll be interesting to see if she's actually able to do it. But it's certainly exciting. And I wanted to point out that this and many other situations that we're seeing, like Bobby Kennedy at the top of HHS and McCarrey, I think he's FDA, many of Tulsi Gabbard, head of Defense Intelligence... Department of D&I. Whatever. I get mixed up on her position too. I get it. Yeah. Okay. What is it? It's D&I something, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah. The point is the value of standing for principle, even though it costs you upfront.

I'm seeing this happening over and over and over again that the people that were being oppressed and abused by these tyrants, now these people have been given places of influence and real power. And it's not really revenge, it's just justice. It's so exciting and wonderful. It's not guaranteed, but it just tells me that the spirit of liberty in America is still alive and it's so important to stand for a principle, even if it costs you, and to just trust in the long run things are going to work out and may be better than you ever imagined.

Oh, Robert Malone, he's on the ACIP team. Just so many people. What is that team? I'm sorry, I don't know that acronym. Which one is that? That has to do with the committee on immunization practices. And for decades, they've just been a rubber stamp. They've never denied any vaccine. They always pass it through no matter how risky it is. And so, you know, Bobby fired all those people and then brought on a new team of people who are more objective. And, you know, some people are not happy, they're moving too slowly for their taste, but I think Bobby's being very strategic. And Robert Malone was one of those people, you know, who's been abused by both sides. Oh, you know, he's just a secret government operative because he, you know, was working on

this type of technology for, in fact, he invented the mRNA technology and, you know, he's just, you know, he's a controlled opposition. Yeah, but he never wanted it being used for the purposes that they're using it right now. In fact, he said you shouldn't use mRNA the way they've been using it, isn't that right? In the vaccine world? Right. No, he's a wonderful man and he paid a heavy price, but now he's sort of being rehabilitated. Peter McCullough, can't remember the good news on Peter McCullough, but anyway, there's

just a lot of good stuff happening. And I just wanted to point out that this is what happens when people of integrity stand for what's right. It looks like they lost in the short run, but in the long run, these people are all ending up rehabilitated and on top of things rather than being crushed under the boot of the tyrants. Now, there's still crushing going on when it comes to the COVID vaccine mandates. I know that in Oregon, the Asante case, I read coverage that the judge ended up ruling in favor of Asante in this particular case, that the traveling nurse's religious exemption that was requested was not denied or, you

know, it was... She didn't really prove the case, I guess. I don't know how you could say that, but I would imagine they're going to continue to move forward on this. It's really hard to beat the medical system. I know personally of someone who had a surgery that was botched and it literally destroyed her life in her 20s. And she lost in court for the medical malpractice suit and they bring in expert witnesses and they're all against the individual. I don't know

what happened in this case, but Grace Sharrah was a young woman with Down syndrome during COVID and she was hospitalized, and her parents were not allowed to come in to be with her, and they literally killed her. They gave her, put in a do not resuscitate order, and gave her all these drugs that were calculated to kill her, and she lost, and they lost in court recently. It's really hard to be the medical system. Yeah, it does seem that way. What did you think about that talk yesterday? I know you sent me something. I hadn't had a chance to read it yet, but it had to do with Dr. Jane Orient, MD, and I were talking about

the DNRs and how the surveys are... they're now starting to find out that, and they're really suspicious, that there are a lot of people who are donating organs before their time so to speak and that people who really are dead are being operated on. What do you think could be done about that? Well Bobby is going to reevaluate the whole program and see if there's a way to fix it. The problem is that the organs really aren't any good if the person is completely dead. So they have to keep the heart going and the oxygen going into it in order to preserve them then, right? But here's the rub. Brain death is not necessarily dead.

There have been several occasions where people were declared brain dead and later recovered. So that's turning out not to be a good indicator of death. So this is really a hard one. I know of someone who personally who's going to need a kidney probably at some point. Of course some people can donate one kidney and not their whole entire life but it's really a problem and I thought your interview was great. She brought up so many important considerations. I also knew a young woman decades ago who got a heart lung transplant. She was only about

30 and she was going to die. I don't know if you remember a number of years ago, this was going back four or five, maybe even more years because I've been doing this since 2003. So a lot of time to think back on. But there was a doctor who I interviewed who had been operating on someone who had died on the table and they had to work with this person for years and years and years and technically brain dead, all the rest of it, all the signs of death. And they worked and worked and worked on this person. The doctor was telling the story in his book. They finally, after many, many minutes of work, brought this person back and it ended

up recovering. The patient talked about having died on the table and then was watching them do the work on her in spirit you know, in spirit watching this. And of course, the doctor, the doctor is kind of one of the standard doctor, you know, very, very left brained person logic. No, that can't be. This was something it was the oxygen, lack of oxygen. It was causing problems in your brain and you were doing all of this. And and yet technically brain dead, declared dead during this time.

And then the patient says, well, you know, I saw a quarter, there was a coin up on the top of this cabinet in the operating room. And so this was one of those things where it made the doctor, well, could there be? Because nobody could get it, it was a very, very high cabinet. Then they had a hospital worker go there and get a ladder and went up there. And just like what the patient had told the doctor, there was the quarter sitting on top. There's a lot of stories like that and books have been written. So yeah, I mean there's more going on than people with a materialistic view of reality understand. And yeah. Yeah, unless science can put the soul and spirit into a test tube, it doesn't want to acknowledge its existence, but there's more to life than what can be put into the test

tube, that's for sure. We are more than machines. We're more than meat robots on sticks. Yeah, which is why this whole concept of the singularity, downloading our brains into the robots, yeah, boy, I don't think so. Not going to work. Nope, agreed. Hey, I know longer than you probably thought you're going to talk, but I always appreciate you

checking in, all right, Lynn? Oh, thank you. All right. All right. Thanks so much. Thank you. This is KMED, KMED HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG Grants Pass on the Bill Meyers Show.

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