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Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Diner 62 quiz on Dylan...fun one, open phone calls and discussion for the rest of the hour.

The Bill Myers 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 clauserdrilling.com. Time for the Diner 62 Real American Quiz. Amazing breakfasts, amazing lunches, clam chowder Friday. And we're going to have a quiz question. Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime. Yes, it's about Dylan didn't you okay all right we'll just that's enough people yeah i'm kind of wondering when bob dillon first went into the studio someone's going like yeah man that is a voice we need that voice yep you got it nailed it bob okay uh let me let me go here for a

twenty dollar gift certificate certificate to Vicki. Hello Vicki, how are you doing? Good morning. Oh no, I'm the first one, not okay. Yep, you're the first one, sorry. Someone's got to be first and it's you, okay? So here's the story. It was today in 1965, Bob Dylan appears at the Newport Festival, Folk Festival, and performing to a chorus of shouts and boos. Everyone is teed off at him. They're just yelling at him, screaming. The folks at the festival were not happy at all. What did Bob Dylan do this day in

1965 that got them so teed off at him? Was it A, he was sloppy drunk on stage, just a mess? Was it A? Was it B, he played an electric guitar? Was it C, he expressed support for the Vietnam War? Was it D, he canceled his appearance the night before? Or was it E, he had an unpopular musician in his band? It is one of those five. Take your pick. Why was it, why were they booing Dylan? Okay, can you do the choices one more time? I'm sorry, Bill. Okay, the first one is that he was hopelessly sloppy drunk on stage and just a bad performance. B, he played an electric guitar. C, he expressed support for the Vietnam War. D. He canceled his

appearance the night before so they all teed off. I didn't know about that. Or was it E. He had an unpopular musician in his band. It's one of those five. I think it might be the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War. That's what I would have thought too. No. It's not. Sorry Vicki. All right. All right. Let me go to Jerry. Jerry the Bull. Jerry, you need to be fed over at Diner 62, don't you? Yes, I do, Bill. All right. So it's not the Vietnam War one. Was he hopelessly sloppy drunk on stage, which happened a lot, I think, back in the 60s and 70s. We heard a lot of those stories, right?

I can't help but think of Ozzy Osbourne, the late Ozzy Osbourne about this. But okay, so it's either sloppy drunk, he played an electric guitar, he cancelled his appearance the night before, or he included an unpopular musician in his band, one of those four. I'm going for the last one, Bill. He had an unpopular musician in his band. No, it wasn't that either. Let me go to Phil. Phil, you're going to take a stab at this. How are you doing this morning?

Good. How are you? I'm doing great. Now, Phil, Bob Dylan booed. It was just a miserable night for him. So was he sloppy drunk? Did he play an electric guitar or did he cancel his appearance the night before? So was he sloppy drunk? Did he play an electric guitar or did he cancel his appearance the night before? I'm trying to keep my answers right here.

I'm going to go with B played an electric guitar. Played an electric guitar. Something that silly. Yeah. That was what did it. He came out, he went, this was the day in history. He went electric and gosh even that song that I was playing like a rolling stone, there's an electric guitar, there's the organ, Paul Butterfield. Blues band was backing him six weeks before he had recorded the single Like a Rolling Stone, which I was just playing. It had only just been released. So most of the people in the audience had no idea that he had changed his sound.

It was no longer Bob Dylan up with an acoustic guitar and the stupid harmonica thing in front of him going, hey Mr. Tambourine man, you know, all that kind of stuff. He wasn't doing that. And needless to say, they felt betrayed. And so they were booing him. It was a rough day. And what did the man himself think?

Well, I'll tell you more about that. But here's the deal. So Phil, I'm going to send you to Diner 62. I'll get some information from you in just a moment. All right. Thank you. All right. So smart. He's going to go to Diner 62. Now, what did Dylan actually think about that unfriendly reception he got? What people thought would have been a friendly audience over Newport Folk Festival.

Some say that he was really shaken up at the time, but with four decades of hindsight, Dylan's feelings were clear. He was reflecting on Ronnie Gilbert's take on his yours comment. Dylan wrote, What a crazy thing to say. Screw that. As far as I knew, I didn't belong to anybody then or now. And yeah, Dylan was kind of like, Oh, yeah, they didn't like me. Fine.

Get in line. Get what you paid for. Whatever. That was kind of a 1960s version of whatever, I guess. 22 minutes after 8, this is the Bill Meyers Show. 7705633. It is now into open phone time and news that got lost in the shuffle. I'll share some of that too. 7705KMED. Hey ladies, come in and take a look at our Anna Zuckerman collection at Father and Son Jewelry.

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earlier this week that you would like to converse about, or maybe something that got lost in the shuffle. Here's a story that I think is, now I'm going to take this listener's email for its own value. We're just gonna take their word for it here. Jeff writes me this morning, Bill, do you remember many months ago that you reported on the Oxygen Park on Orchard Home Drive?

The city made a big deal about it and they put signs up. They are down there today chopping down all the trees. Really, Jeff? I'm going to have to go over there and take a look at it, because I dug up the Rogue Valley Times story, and let me see, when did this story come out? Yeah, it was a year ago. It was a year ago that this story came out here. First in the nation, Oxygen Park in Medford is a model for new nonprofit. Damien Mann wrote this story.

Oxygen Park in southwest Medford is more than just a lush oasis fed by elk creek and home to turtles, deer, and the cheerful chirps of birds that roost in the marsh grasses. The brainchild of Medford residents Buzz Theelman and his wife Sherry, the park is a model for a new nonprofit that hopes to attract corporations wanting to burnish their green credentials. It is the first in the nation said Theilman, an author and past owner of RHT Energy, a Medford company that pioneered alternative energy. He estimates that the 5.8 acre park located at the corner of Lozier Lane and Arlington Drive and filled with cottonwoods and willows generates 48 metric tons of oxygen a year. Now, corner of Lozier Lane and Arlington Road. Now is that by Orchard? By Orchard? Where... let me just... I want to say here...

Orchard Home Drive. Now, that's kind of the same neighborhood. I wonder if we're talking about the same... the same patch of ground. Can anybody get eyes on the so-called scary, air-quote, oxygen park, which in other words is just known as a marsh or a wet spot in the ground, you know, anywhere else? But, you know, hey, you know, when you have the green grift out there and people are finding some kind of way to, to make an unproductive piece of land productive, I understand. And that's the incentive that we have these days.

Is it true that they're cutting down the trees on oxygen park? If so, that would be, I don't know, maybe they're doing sustainable timber yield on the Cottonwoods. It could be. We'll see. 770KMED, we'll take your calls. That's two days in a row. I don't know if I can handle two days in a row from Lucretia, but Lucretia, here you

are. Welcome. Thank you. You were talking about education earlier this week. Yes. And I came across something by Charlotte Isby that literally they started planning this in 1934 in Carnegie, who you had on as well, and Brad said, I wouldn't trust them. They were involved in 1934 with basically turning our education into a communist type of following.

Well, it does appear that the elite really didn't want a thinking populace. They really wanted people who were pliable and would be good little worker drones. That was really what it was about, it seemed to be. 60% is all that could understand anything going on. Of course, you have also the Thomas Jefferson back in 1806, I think it was, that he said, people think that they read the newspaper and they know what's going on, they know nothing about what's really going on. So even the newspaper, the media, because they took over the media and total control. So when you ask that question, can we now trust the media? Are they going to go better?

No way. They literally like... Remember Joe Skousen's cousin Leon Skousen? Yes, yeah, Leon Skousen wrote the Naked Communist. So number 20, 21, 22, the last one, discredit the family as an institution, encourage promised duty, and needs divorce, that's what we're seeing, emphasize the needs to bring children away from the negative influence of parents, them sides that needs to bring children away from the negative influence of parents, attribute prejudices, mental blocks, and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. Yes, the parents were looked at as the problem. In other words, parents that actually had some values to them. It's a very good point to bring up here is I don't think there's any way government that government reforms this because government pushed this system really.

Absolutely. They want a socialist, total mind control like the hives, you know, the bees in the hives, just workers. They don't want us thinking at all. So this, we've spent four times as much money, John Taylor Gatto. I wish you would read this whole article, Bill. It's just incredible. Well, I read his book. Yeah, but you've read the book? Yeah, but this article just kind of sums it up. Everybody should read it. Okay, send it to me and I'll post it. I promise. I'll put it on social media. Okay? Do that, okay? All right, LaCrescia, I will do that. Thank you very much, and I'm glad you're thinking and not sucked in, even if we agree with one another's thoughts from time to time or disagree I should say.

Okay? We can agree on that. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Yes, this is Greg out of Shadyco. Hello, Greg. Welcome. Two questions.

Sure. And then a remark. Well, the first question is who won the county fair talent show and what act was it? Okay, I was not there for the second day. Scuba Steve, I'm looking at him. That was a country singer who was singing a very slow song. That's the person who won the talent show. Do you remember his name, Steve?

You don't remember the name? Doesn't remember the name. It was a... Was it a man? Woman? Man? Okay, it was a man. He's mouthing at me through the window next door. It was a man who sang a very slow country song. Okay? That's right. Yes. And I guess that Orchard Park thing, we're glad that it's not going to be designated some sort of site that would keep the green frogs or the blowworm flies. Well, you know, how about a United Nations heritage site? That's the other thing that I'm terrified when I see those signs pop up around here. Thank you, Bill. All right. Thank you, Gregory.

770 KMED. It's open phones and news that got lost in the shuffle. By the way, I can't confirm that Oxygen Park has been cut down. I'm not so sure that perhaps Jeff may have looked at a different piece of land, but if somebody can confirm if Oxygen Park still exists, let me know, okay? Let me go back to the phones. Hi, who's this? Good morning. On the road. Good morning, Bill. This is Dave. How are you? I'm fine, Dave. What's on your mind? Well, Bill, if you would indulge me for a minute, I would like to follow up on

the quiz question this morning. Sure, and this was Bob Dylan was booed for going electric. Yeah, so I know something about this, Bill, and I detected just a little bit of animosity towards Bob Dylan, you know, when I was listening to me. Maybe, maybe... Oh no, I like Bob Dylan. I like Bob Dylan a lot actually, all right. But all I'm just saying is that my only thing about Bob was that I just don't know who, what record person put him in before a microphone and said, hey, that's a great voice. Let me do my little thing here and you tell me what I think. All right. So, but and that this was an incredibly important day in popular music and rock music.

Many think it was the most important day and I will tell you why. Okay., Dylan moved to New York City, Greenwich Village in the early 60s, and by 1965, he was the most important folk artist on the planet. He had written music, he had performed at the Newport Folk Festival several years in a row before this. And he was the darling of the university set and the intellectual set because he was this kind of young, poetic guy who just burst onto the scene. So as the story goes, Dylan, there was a famous meeting with Dylan and the Beatles right before the Monterey Folk Festival, okay? And Dylan's remark to Lennon McCartney was, your songs don't mean anything, okay? In other words, they're empty. And yet, Bob Dylan was fascinated

with their instruments. He was fascinated with the electric guitars and the sounds that they made. So when Dylan, again, at that time, the most popular folk artist worldwide, when he stepped on stage, and again, this was the most important event in folk music, when he stepped on stage and again this is the most important was the most important event in folk music When he stepped on stage in Newport and went electric It was heard around the world and they all hated it Pete Seeger was there and tried to get it tried to unplug his amps It was so loud and it was just completely You know anathema to everything that folks stood for. But that

was Dylan in their face saying, I'm taking this step now away from you. And if you look at the song, that's what the song was telling them. How does it feel? Yeah. Yeah. How does it feel? And by the way, I would dare say... That's why it was so important. Okay, well I will agree with you on that. The one thing I would add though is that I forgot about that meeting with the Beatles, and I remember having read about that earlier. And I would dare say that Dylan's take in telling the Beatles that, and Dylan being the legend even then that he was, I have a feeling that is where we ended up getting the more mature, definitely more musical complex Beatle albums, which ended up coming later, which including Rubber Soul, Revolver, and

then going into Sgt. Pepper's in the White Album, etc. I think that ended up probably having a lot of influence on them. Like we want to do something other than she loves you yeah, yeah, right? I think that ended up probably having a lot of influence on them. Like we want to, we want to do something other than she loves you. Yeah. Yeah. Right. You're absolutely right, Bill. And again, look at music, look at rock music before that time.

It was all the same thing. I love you. I want to hold your hand after that songs started to mean something. They delved into social issues. They delved into drugs. They delved into protests and, andved into protests. And many, many people, including myself, think that that moment at New Port Folk, when Dylan plugged in, was the moment where everything swung. But it still

really kind of cracks you up to think that you get booed for playing electric, right? Now it just seems so. But again, he could have, Dylan could have kept doing what he was doing and been wealthy and been, and yet he, he, it was, he ventured into something that was completely, completely foreign to him and his genre. And that's, in my opinion, is just one of the reasons why Dylan was so great. Thank you very much, and I appreciate your call. Great one, okay? Good call. Kind of putting it in context, even though I'm just always having fun with Dylan's voice. Can't say anything wrong about the writing, though. The writing was something. Gosh, I remember there was that...

who was that? There was a...oh, I know who it was. Kevin Sterritt. I'll get to your...there's another caller. I'll get to your call hearing in just a second. Kevin Sterritt was telling me that he saw that Bob Dylan movie, the biopic that I think came out a few months ago, and he said that what he appreciated about it is that Dylan was actually involved in this. Kevin Sterritt said it was absolutely a wonderful movie, great movie, but they let him be a

jerk because Bob Dillman, by all accounts, was very intelligent, very artistic, very creative and an absolute jerk of a human. So that's good to know. And it's great that even Bob Dill well, yeah, I've got my issues. I think he'd probably be the first one to say that he's got some interpersonal problems, you know, meeting with people. So that's good. But he didn't whitewash it. That's good. Kevin said that was great. All right. Hello, caller. Sorry I kept you on hold there for a little bit. Who's this? This is Jerry.

Hey, Jerry. What are you thinking hold there for a little bit. Who's this? This is Jerry. Hey Jerry, what are you thinking? Good morning. I'm wondering how long it's been since you broke out your pocket constitution and ribbed the part that defines treason. You know, it has been a little bit of time. It's been a little while here. Let's find treason in the constitution. And by my way of reading it, it doesn't really speak to what Obama was up to,

but it absolutely typifies or illustrates Joe Biden in Afghanistan. And what part of that? Let me just look up that part. I wish I could say I have memorized my pocket Constitution, but let me just do a quick definition of treason in Constitution. I'm going to actually go to the hive mind for this if you don't mind. Now, this is something that Lars does all the time, but you know Lars as a producer, I don't, I'm me, you know. So here we go. Now see, here we go. Treason, I knew about this part. Treason defined in the US Constitution as levying war against... actually, I think they say the United States, but I actually think it's these United States, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Wouldn't

what happened, what Obama was accused of doing, the levying war against these united states in other words taking down doing their best into take out a lawfully elected president from these united states community kind of stretching it is using a stretching a comfort to the enemy uh... home giving them it what eight eight billion dollars Giving aid and comfort to the enemy, giving $80 billion to the guys in Afghanistan and turning over all their enemies to them, to me, how could that be less treasonous? That's a reasonable theory. How about that giving aid and comfort to the people

on MSNBC? How about that? You know, if you're giving aid and comfort to the enemy, that's the enemy, isn't it? They're kind of enemy-ish. They are within the idea that this country is built on countries are built on various opinions and you don't have to tell the line. You can be a respectable person and not follow the government's theory of order. Agreed. And that's why, by the way, I know they're making a big deal about how disrespectful the South Park article was this week to President Trump. And believe me, it's about as rude and crude as it gets. I don't even want to go into it. But I would hate to be in a country that would require that we sit around and salute and never say anything wrong about our leaders. That's something that we still have for right now and I want

to keep that going, wouldn't you? Yeah, until you're drawing blood like that one guy did, you're really not waging war. All right. I appreciate your call and opinion and thanks for checking in. Really do. 770-5633. If you are on hold, I will get right to you. Give me just a second on the Bill Meyers Show.

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You drove by it. What happened? Absolutely nothing is going on. Literally drove by it the other day, but I was like, you know what? I drove by it a couple days ago and it looked fine. And then I was like thinking maybe something was going on there. And because it's just off the road from my work, I just drove by it. There's absolutely nothing going on. All the trees are still there.

It's still oxygen part. All right. So the oxygen is still being produced and the world is being saved by the latest green nonprofit, right? We can just... Yeah, it is. The world is being saved by the latest green nonprofit, right? We can just... Yeah, it is. Basically, it just looks like an overgrown patch of trees and shrubs on the side of the

road. Oh, in other words, it's my backyard. Got it. Appreciate the call. Thank you, Jackson. No problem. Hey, that's it. I can just let the...

I've already half let my backyard go to hell. If I let it complete, then I can say it's like Oxygen Park East Medford, you know, and then pour water on it and let the the slime build up and yeah that's all it would take and then the neighbors complain. No, no, no, this is an Oxygen Park. It's putting oxygen into the air. 770 KMED. Hi, this is Bill Meyer and I'm with Charisse from No Wires Now, your Dish Premier local retailer. It's time to switch to Dish. If you have DirecTV or CableTV call me today to see how I can save you money. Plus I'll lower your internet and cell phone bills. And those offers in the mail from Dish you can go

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but they write me now and then. Bill, there is a pretty significant cultural exchange event regarding football happening this evening at Ashland High School. And it's the annual Pacific Rim Bowl game with Ashland hosting the travel select team from Japan. Kickoff time is set for 6.30. It's an international exchange that started approximately in 1988, where the teams alternate travel to their respective countries every other year. Very cool. And thank you for letting me know that.

So that is happening tonight. Ashland High School, the team from Japan kick off at 630. Appreciate and duly noted. Good morning. This is Bill. Hi, who's this? Hi Bill, this is Tony K. How are you this morning? I'm doing fine, Tony K. Doing great. Looking like we may escape smoke and maybe even lightning storms this weekend. I'm hoping. What's on your mind, huh? I certainly hope so. Just a big filling on what Jackson said. I drove by Oxygen Park yesterday, actually, and there was some cutting, but it looked like all

they were doing was just trimming back the overhang from the sidewalk and kind of over the street. Oh. That was it. Okay, so there was some cutting there, but it might have looked to someone just driving by. Oh, they're cutting the trees down, so it's just a trim job on it. Okay. Yeah, it didn't look like they were going full lumberjack on it. Just cutting back the overhang. Hey, I appreciate that, but still is... the overhang. Hey, I appreciate that but still is, but for the most part, Oxygen Park is still continuing to park oxygen into the atmosphere and we have to make sure that we're still saved.

I noticed an extra boost of oxygen as I was slowly driving by. I'm glad. I'm glad that the nonprofit is doing good and doing well at the same time. Thank you. All right. Have a great weekend. You too. I appreciate the call. Good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Hi. This is my name, Dave. Hey, Dave. What's going on? I want to just say is the Federal Reserve, if it's a government agency, then the chairman of that agency under the Constitution is subject to the administration and he can fire him. I think it's an independent agency. Well, I think it's a government agency in name only here, Dave. Dave, I think it's a government agency in name only, really. But what I'm saying is, if they're truly a government agency, they can't be

independent of the administration. And then I would fire him. I'd fire him and then test it in court. Okay, why would you fire him though? Because he's actually not working in the interest of the United States because it's fake. It's a fraud. We need to close the thing down. Oh, I would certainly agree with you on this, but you know what happens? That if Trump were to fire... Now listen, if Trump were to fire, fire Powell, Scott Besson has more or less admitted that the actual interest rates would end up soaring. And that could cause real problems. What the markets are looking for right now, especially when it comes to buying government

debt. And this is the real issue. If he were to take the interest rate and make that 1%, let's say, like President Trump had talked about, well, you know, the one person would be happy. I might be happy about that only because I would have a $5,000 gold, you know, because that's what we would be looking at, Dave, and you having been a miner would know, right? No, I wouldn't do that. Because that's what we would be looking at, Dave, and you, having been a miner, would know, right? No, I wouldn't do that. Right now it could be $5,000 because they could reevaluate the gold they got in reserve.

And that would... Well, I'm talking about free market gold here. What I'm saying, though, is that the reason why interest rates have been high has been the fact is that they're still looking at capital flows out of the country. People are not buying our debt to the extent that we were before. And so they're having to have a high enough interest rate to be able to get someone to catch a bid on buying the... No one would buy American debt at 1%. You would have to admit that, right? Well, probably not. That's why they're not doing it. That's why Powell's not doing it. Do we...you see? So, President Trump can sit around there and say,

hey, I want 1% deal so I can goose the next real estate bubble or something like that but No that Scott is in what if we took it under the Treasury Department and ran the Federal Reserve out of the Treasury Department You know, they're only part-time guys. Yeah, I know it's a lot of what ifs that are not on the on the docket right now There's all sorts of things. I would love to end it too. I would love to end it too. But a real free market in debt would probably have interest rates even higher because the United States is a huge debtor nation. Right, but you can settle the books by the reserves by evaluating the gold at $5,000 instead of $41,000. Well, they could, they could claim it's worth $5,000, but if the market is not...

No, they can show that it's worth $5,000. Okay. Okay. I don't get that, but you know, if the rest of the world considers gold worth a, you know, $3,400 right now, I don't think Trump could say it's worth $5,000. I mean, he could, but he'd be pretty dumb. And the rest of the world would say, yeah, you can claim it's worth $5,000. I mean, he could, but he'd be pretty dumb and the rest of the world would say, yeah, you can claim it's worth $5,000, but it's not.

It would go to $5,000 right away. Oh, well, that could be. If that's what the government would have to pay to buy the gold they make the coins with, they're collectibles. All right. Well, that could be. That could be, Minor Dave. And so thank you for the call. And this argument about gold, and you can have these kind of arguments too, with my sponsor, Jay Austin and Company, Gold and Silver Buyers in Ashland, 1632 Ashland Street, and 6th and G in downtown Grants Pass.

Like I said, there's this balancing thing. On one hand, President Trump likes cheap money, because all politicians like cheap money and all real estate developers like Donald Trump like cheap money. Of course that is crushing savers. And that's been a problem here. They've had financial repression for a number of years. And then the federal government likes really cheap interest rates too, because that way it continued to spend profligately on all sorts

of bullstein and politicians are able to say, look what we brought home for you, the little people, and it didn't cost you anything except the inflation. Yeah, so Powell has a thankless task at this point in time. The markets would probably prefer that he just stay there for right now. We will see. But as far as the gold and silver, if you wanted to add to your portfolio or sell, talk to Jay Austin, Ashland Grants Pass, FortuneReserve.com. And Mark and Andrea are happy to talk with you about these various issues on where gold

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I'm just, you know, just kind of staring aimlessly out the door or out the window for a half hour. It was that quick. centralpointfamilydentistry.com. Bob Hayworth writes me, Bill, regarding the when are you dead? This is the organ donation question we were talking about yesterday. When I was five, I had my tonsils removed. I have never lost the memory and the vivid image of hovering over the operating table and watching the doc work on me. Was I dead? The doc did not react to my absence and I did get back into my body. But because of that experience I know that I have a conscious soul that is for now occupying

this body but has the ability to leave it. Could be some of those not dead organ donors are hovering over their body screaming, hey I'm still here. It could be Bob. Yeah it's just chilling that whole issue. Let me grab Jake. Hello Jake, quick one here. How you doing? We're almost out of time. Hey Bill, a couple of technical details I hope I can stumble and stumble around. I'd love to share them with you, but I'm a digital dinosaur and it's not the working good for me. The IRS and the Federal Reserve are likewise a private corporation, and the IRS is domiciled

in Puerto Rico. And the money they get goes to the seniors for executive services. Doesn't go to pay down the debt. The debt is owed by a fiat currency and therefore not really ours. And this can be, that's what Trump's working on is moving stuff around tariffs and juggling things until he can get some reasonable playing field. That's why he did the digital currency to kind of run some interference around and the constitutional dollar, which the Federal Reserve is not, would become revalued and

then Jim Rickards, the Wall Street guy, has said the only way to ever do this, you got to do it right. If you don't hit the number right, it's going to really screw up and it's more around 10,000. All right. I appreciate the call, Jake. Thank you for the information there. Tom, we got about 90 seconds. Normally I can give you more early in the morning, okay? Tom, we got about 90 seconds. Normally, I can give you more early in the morning, okay? Okay. Well, following up on Lucretia, what she said about the news, and the first article on Lou Rockwell today is by Doug Casey. And he says, the fact is that all any of us know or think that we know is what we hear, read, or see in the news. Most of that is propaganda, lies, half-truths, conjectures, PsyOps, or just plain stupidity. I have to say that's kind of the way I look upon the news myself is that I know that I

don't know if I'm just getting it from the news. So I have... I put everything that I see, think about the news on a scale of zero to a hundred of likelihood of truth or not truth. And it's almost as if right from the moment you hear something you have to doubt it and double-check it because otherwise it's all just part of the narrative I guess. It's kind of where you're going. Just double check it, Bill. It has to be maybe a dozen times depending on what you're hearing.

So whether it's Epstein, World War III, Ukraine, Gaza, I know that I don't know. All I know is that the government's saying this. All right. On that note, since I don't know either, the one thing I do know is that you and I and everybody else will be back on Monday morning, okay? And thanks for the call. Email Phil at BillMeyersShow.com.