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Episode Date: July 27, 2026

Morning News, Kendyl Byrna joins me from the Discovery Channel and tonight it is THE BIGGEST MAKO special on at 10p, other news of the morning...I share a post from State Rep. Yunker, he nails the progressives to the wall re unions ONA and AFT.

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Hey, coming up, I'm actually looking forward. I know nothing or very little about sharks other than that I don't really want to run into them. All right, that's kind of my basic thing. But the biggest may go on Earth is premiering tonight because it's Shark Week, rather, over on Discovery. And Kendall Burnah is going to join me here in the next few minutes. We're going to talk a little bit about that. I always wanted to ask a few questions of someone who is a marine biologist that understands this sort of stuff. I find them fascinating creatures.

And from what I understand about sharks, sharks really have not evolved at all, according to the theory of evolution, rather, because they just haven't needed to. They just haven't needed to evolve because they've been kind of perfection. Boy, if only we humans could do that. Oh, that's what the AI is about? I don't know. I hope not. Anyway, we'll have good conversation with her for a few minutes. And I want to take more a little bit later this hour into a post that State Representative Dwayne Yonker got into.

Dwayne ended up, he is in this dust up now with the Oregon Nurses Association. They're going after him. And of course, Oregon Nurses Association is decrying Asante shutting down these physical therapy places here, both in Grants Pass and in Medford. And it's about cost cutting because they have to because Asante has been losing. money on these kind of places. And naturally, Oregon Nurses Association, given that the heads of the nurses' unions, and actually most of the public employee unions, are pretty much Marxist-Leninist in their economic outlook.

It's like, they're taking their paycheck and moving. They're just getting big paychecks and hurting the patients. And Dwayne put out a post over the weekend that I thought was just so spot-down because he just pointed out how the, Oregon Nurses Association, unfortunately, and is openly partnering with the American Federation of Teachers. And they all kind of go hand in glove when it comes to the various hard left-wing political activism, which goes on, and which colors their talk and their issues. All right. So I'll go into that in just a little while.

All right. All right. Meanwhile, the market is, I guess, is prone to be going up big time in the next thing. 15, 20 minutes when it opens because oil prices have been plummeting because Iran and President Trump have appeared to be just wanting to back off from this a little bit. And so oil prices sank about 7, 8 percent overnight. Price of fuel, though, in southern Oregon, I was checking that with AAA. It's been pretty steady, you know, within about 5 or 10 cents. I think we're about a nickel, maybe 8 cents higher this week than we were a week ago. and still a little bit below there where we were a month.

We're still in that neighborhood of 460 or so on average for a gallon of gasoline. Okay? All right. That's where we are. Meanwhile, though, Pacific Power does want your public input tonight. They're having a public meeting, and this is going to be a virtual meeting on raising your power. They want to go up about 8.6%. Now, that doesn't mean your bill particularly would go up 8.6%.

But that's what they're shooting for. All I will say, as I reported in the news, as I talked about this story, is your silence is your consent. All right, all right. Let me go to the phones here. Jane, how are you doing this morning? I think I recognize you on the caller ID. How are you doing this morning? Well, I've messed up when I called the first time about the fire on my property.

Yeah. I forgot to mention very important things. Crystal Rainey's down from Rainey's Market. just happened to be going by, and she's seen the fire going over here. So she's the one that come in the house, drug me and my mother out of the house, and the fire department showed up almost instantly. That's great. There was a truck, pumper trumps and everything else out here,

fighting this fire, and the only reason I'm still talking to you from my house is because they put the fire out before it burned down. Well, how about a salute to Crystal? How about a salute to the fire department? and you and your mom getting out and being able to fight another day. How about that, Gene? All right? Like that.

That sounds wonderful, Bill. Thank you very much. All right. I'm glad you're here. See, it's nice to be able to report a happy story from a caller rather than what's bugging him, all right? Now next, though, let's talk sharks in Shark Week. And we're going to have a, well, a marine conservationist and documentary filmmaker joining me here shortly. It should be fun.

Malek Construction thinks, don't you forget about me, recorded by simple. minds for the Breakfast Club soundtrack in 1985 is it gone. Hi, I'm Cassie from Clauser drilling and I'm on KMED. I am so proud to get the opportunity to bring on Kendall Burna. Kendall Burner is a marine conservationist and documentary filmmaker who co-founded the nonprofit beyond the reef in the British Virgin Islands. She's forgotten more about sharks that I'll ever know because, well, this is Shark Week. Shark Week, which has returned to the Discovery Channel.

And tonight it's going to be the biggest Mako on Earth, which premieres tonight 10 o'clock, and this is Eastern and Pacific Time on Discovery. Kendall, it's a pleasure having you on. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to talk to you about Mako sharks. Yeah, and I don't even know what a Mako shark is.

And so I was hoping that maybe you could enlighten me and also listeners right now. What is a Mako shark? What's unique about them? And where do you find them? What makes them so special that you're doing the show tonight? So Makos actually. So they have a big geographic range. They're short fin and longfin makos.

What we're studying are the short fin makos. And they exist anywhere above 61 degrees Fahrenheit, basically. They tend to be in areas that humans really aren't. They're pelagic, meaning that they like deeper waters. And so many people just aren't having interactions with makos. I think that if makos were in more coastal, shallower areas at beaches, we would maybe be more afraid of macos. They're not quite as big as white sharks, but they are much, much faster and thought to be much more aggressive. So they can travel 35 miles an hour and do bursts up to 40 miles an hour.

They look like little rockets in the sea. And I know that this is all audio right now, so I'm going to have to do the best job of trying to explain them visually to your listeners. But everyone should go look up a maco shark's teeth because they're incredibly intimidating. It almost looks like blood is kind of coming off of them at all times. Yikes. If a white shark is meant to, like, cut through something like butter with its teeth, a mako has to grab on and toss it around.

And so their jaws are quite interesting because of that. Yeah. So in other words, we should probably feel pretty fortunate that they're not in the coastal zone, right? Is that kind of what you're intimating here, given their aggressiveness that you talked about? Yeah. Yeah, potentially. I think they're a little more psycho than a great white, actually. Oh, a psycho shark.

Got to love it. All right. That's the best way to put it. Okay, so now you're out there with, how many people you share that boat with, by the way, when you go out on Discovery, you know, to see this? So I've always actually said that the part of the show we should be filming is the crib style version of our live-a-board, which is like usually we're sharing a bathroom with like 15 dudes about. Oh, great. It takes a fair amount. But we then go on to a smaller boat every day to do the actual film.

This year in particular, it seemed like the Makos had a dinner bell. Every night around 6 or so p.m., they would start to show up. So as the sun was setting, the Makos came. They were very, you know, it's really hard to do any sort of filming schedule with wild animals because they're just not on your production timeline. But this year, they happened to be on a bit more of a schedule, which was nice for us. So we have, yeah, we have a fair amount of crew, and then the crew usually gets smaller to go over and actually do some diving with them.

Very good. Yes. Sharing a bathroom, that ought to be fun. Anyway, the mako shark, back to the maco shark. I'm kind of curious. Do maco sharks have any natural predators out there, maybe even sharks in general? I'm sorry to be such an ignorant, you know, about this, but this is your wheelhouse, really. Yeah, so in theory, a white shark could be a predator to a maco because a great white is going to be bigger. I've only ever seen a white. great white leave when a Mako showed up. But I've only ever seen more of a juvenile great white around a Mako. But usually if the white shark is leaving when the Mako shows up, it means the Mako is a bit

more dominant. But again, that was a juvenile. The other thing that could be a predator to them is an orca whale. Orcas are known to eat sharks in certain parts of the world, even just for their liver. They'll kill an entire shark just to get the fattiest part of it. So they do definitely have some predators out there. Oh, okay. I'm just kind of curious about this.

You talked about the orca whale being possibly a natural predator for a mako. Out of curiosity, there's always talk about the intelligence of whales. And I'm wondering with you, you know, being a marine conservationist, can you attest to this? And is a whale smarter than a shark, but a shark is maybe just more naturally adept at just being a pure killing machine? I'm kind of wondering, how would you evaluate the two species? I mean, yeah, an orca is going to be a much smarter animal. They have different senses, so a shark might be more attuned to certain things, but overall an orca is going to be much smarter than a shark. And have organized hunting in a way, like, orcas can be so effective because they have a language system with each other.

and so you can often see, you know, three orcas, for example, teeming up to attack a shark in a specific way, whereas a shark really, to our knowledge, isn't doing that coordinated of a hunt with other sharks. They're more going to be doing their own thing. They're kind of a lone wolf, the lone wolf of the sea, so to speak. That'd be fair? Yeah, so Makos do have one of the largest brain-to-body ratios of a shark. So they are considered quite an intelligent shark, but that's not going to compare to an orca. Yeah, but they're pretty effective killing a show.

I remember reading once that sharks have not really evolved. Is that true? That they pretty much stay the same for just ages and ages because they're so good? I mean, look, they're the cockroaches of the ocean, for sure. Like, they are older than dinosaurs. They're older than trees. So, yes, they have evolved. at this, you know, at the species level, but sharks have been around for a very long time.

So they've definitely gotten something, right? And whenever I look at a shark, I'm like, that's a dinosaur. I get it. Yeah. It's been around for a long time. Something's working. Yeah. It doesn't change much.

It doesn't have to. All right. Now, this is going to be going on. It's the biggest make-go on Earth premiering tonight, 10 o'clock on Discovery, both on the East Coast and the West Coast. here. And when I was rather curious about is that if, you know, you talked about these sharks being in warmer

waters when it's above, I think it was 61 degrees that you were talking about, are we starting to see that El Nino set up out in the world's oceans right now? Just wondering if you've been able to observe that and what are you thinking about maybe what it changes for marine biology?

Are you a marine biologist? You're on to this. Not really, but I read a little bit about it. That's all. Yeah. So, yes, that's one of the things that actually made, you know, I wouldn't say these are naturally occurring systems that happen, is the El Nino and La Nina. But it was convenient for us for filming Shark Week this year because because of the marine heat wave and everything that's happening, we happen to get the Makos in abundance earlier than we usually do. So yes. So the El Mino potential is starting to show up and affect this.

Kendall Burnah. And once again, she is the host star of this tonight. The biggest Mako on Earth on Discovery, it's all part of Shark Week, starts at 10 o'clock tonight. Kendall, a pleasure talking with you this morning. Be well. Thank you. Thank you.

You too. 630 at KMED. We'll catch up on the rest of the news here too in just a moment. And then more of your calls. And by the way, coming up after 7 o'clock, George Kramer is going to join me. George Kramer is doing something that I am very much an admirer of, admirer of. That's what I'm trying to say. But what he's doing is trying to get a ballot measure put on there or a citizen ballot

that would allow them to vote on city fees. He's doing this within the city of Ashland, rather. And George is going to catch us up on this process and what happened last week. So we'll have that good conversation too. Nils Gravilius will be joining me. Great detective, wonderful book. I only have just a few pages left of reading The Last Lawman. In fact, I've even gone back and re-read portions of it because I've enjoyed so much of it.

But Nils is an L.A. area detective, and we'll talk about the book. And also maybe a rise in marijuana psychosis that he has been observing, some stories out there and a bunch more. Along with your calls and opinion, Dr. Dennis Powers will also join me, where Pass meets present with local history, too, on KMED. Hi, this is Lisa from Kelly's Automotive Service in Grants Pass in Medford. I asked my staff what was the one thing they wish more people would... America's listening to Fox News. You're here in the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED.

So how you feeling this morning? What's going on in your world today? 7705-633-770 KMED. I'm going to continue to noodle through the news as I see Fit, but I'm always, well, always happy to have you on too and talk about what's going on in your world. For me, personally over the weekend, it was a pretty, it was busy,

but it was busy for a different thing. Had a bunch of family members over on Saturday, and that was on Linda's side of the family. They do a little family get together at least once a year. It's been a while since we'd really gotten together. So we were having barbecue beef sandwiches and talking in conversation and having a beer or two around the island in the kitchen.

And so that ended up being really good. And then Sunday, I think Linda and I were just kind of like, oh, okay, after all that worked, because it's amazing. We go through a lot of work just to do a little family get-together, but it's nice to be able to help things out. And now I'm going to take some of those wonderful beef sandwiches over to my mother. I'm sure, sure really appreciate that, too. All right.

some of the top news stories worldwide over the weekend. First off, oil prices went down sharply overnight, and that was mostly because it looks like they're trying to take a break or a break from hostilities in Iran and President Trump and Iran. I don't know if they're going to be talking. Who knows? It is so fluid. It's difficult to really figure out where we are here.

But like I mentioned, even in the news, the gas prices still continue to go up a little bit. There's whatever happens with oil, that's several months in the future really before you probably see a lot of that in the final costs of the of the petroleum finished products, I guess. But we did have an Islamist slam his car into the Berlin Pride Festival. Yeah, that happened. German police shot and killed a member of the Religion of Peace after an intensive manhut and slammed into, slammed his veins. rather into a pride festival. And he left the vehicle with a machete to stab people.

And, of course, he ended up saying, Alahu Akbar. The interesting thing is that the early reports that I saw of it coming out were talking about. They suspected that the man had mental illness problems. You know, same thing happened with another one. Like a stabbing, was it in New York City? New York City, somebody ended up saying, aloh Akbar, and then started stabbing people. And they said, well, we think that he has a mental health problem. Okay, I don't quite grab that.

But anyway, one person was killed, 29 injured, and he was a known lone wolf, apparently. No point to talk about his name. He's gone now. But the fascinating thing is that the gay community is rallying around the Muslims in Germany because, well, I guess you don't want to be called a bigot or racist or whatever.

It's just very, very odd world. in my opinion. New Jersey admits that there are thousands, thousands of illegal voters on the rolls. And the thing that supposedly never happens just keeps happening, I guess. But Fox News reporting, Democratic lawmakers telling Fox News Digital, they agree that New Jersey's voter registration error demands accountability, but they say it doesn't justify claims of widespread election fraud. The governor of New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill, on Tuesday saying this is a serious, software error leading to the mistaken registration of 6,600 non-citizens through the state's motor vehicle system.

Now, the maker of the software system says, no, it's not a problem with the software. It's a problem with, you know, your rules, I guess, behind the software, you know, that sort of thing. But 6,600 non-citizens, and I imagine a few of them must have. But, you know, it's never enough to really change it. Isn't that what we always hear from our Democrats? Of course, Oregon had pretty much the same thing. What we found, 1,500 that had been registered or so, maybe around 15,600.

But then they stopped looking. And then the Secretary of State says, we've got it all fixed. We've got it all fixed. What I find interesting is that New Jersey, just like the state of Oregon, refuses to hand over voters' lists to the Department of Justice so this sort of stuff could be checked out. And usually when the data supports your point of view that everything's fine, nothing to see, nothing, and let's just go ahead and move along, you're happy to give up the information because this way it kind of proves your case. But state of Oregon and New Jersey now doesn't want to do this.

So very interesting. I think what's going on there. Like I mentioned starting off, Trump pauses the Iran bombing campaign after military recommendations. Of course, some critics are saying that the president's also pausing because we're running low on various missiles and you don't want to completely drain the supplies. Minnesota handing out gender-swapping dolls to four-year-olds. New York Post reporting this one, they're dolling up the transagenda. Taxpayers footing the bill first of their kind, transgender dolls, complete with removable genitalia. We'll debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to children as young as four years old.

The paper dolls with gender-neutral names like Sam, Rory, Avery, and Parker have removable internal and external genitals, along with more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing. It's kind of like a transmister or Mrs. Potato Head. The goal is for kids to learn about the different options that exist for who they can be. This, according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, spent over a half decade developing this project funded by Tim Walts, you know, the everyday dad running for president. Remember him? The Medical Schools Institute for Sexual and Gender Health Researches over six years included paying $20 to $60 for trans and gender diverse children

and their parents to play with the dolls and talk about gender in bodies. So once again, if you want to help kids in the future, you join the school board. if you want to help your kids right now, you might consider getting them out of the government schools, just saying. And this takes us to state representative, Dwayne Yonker. He was on the show on Friday,

and we were talking about the Asante, physical therapy places, which ended up shutting down. And there's kind of a connection with that trans agenda and even what Dwayne was talking about just a few minutes ago, or just on Friday. show, I should say. And I'll get to that in just a few minutes, all right? 770 KMED. I always want to go to your calls first here on Monday morning here, see what's on your mind. Hi, KMEDE. Good morning. Who's this?

Good morning, Bill. This is Vicki from the Applegate. Well, Vicki, you're a member of the early morning commenters club. What's going on in your world out there, huh? Well, I just have two comments this morning for the one that ran down the people at the Pride, or whatever it was. Yeah, at the Pride Festival in Berlin. Yeah. Well, first of all, if they're saying it, the people in Medford that are walking around in a coma from drugs and alcohol, those people have mental problems.

The people that are purposely running people down and screaming whatever it was that he still. And what is that phrase? Aloha Akbar, God is great. Okay, well, if anybody knows God, he knows that it's not proper to run down people. with your vehicle. Well, not according to the religion of peace, apparently, at least in some minds. Okay, well, I think they're all, they're not mental, they're terrorist extremists, okay? They have a purpose.

Most mental people don't have a purpose. They're just kind of out there. And second, the dolls, the paper dolls that they want to bring, these kids are four years old. They don't know anything about that. They, and the people that are... Oh, no, you don't understand. The government school systems want to make sure they know about that, Vicki. Oh, my God.

They do. What does this world coming to? It's like they're four years old. They don't... They can't decide even which toy to play with. And thank God, hopefully they don't play with the paper dolls, but... Well, no, actually, these are more than paper dolls. It's like, you know, there's like Mr. and Mrs. Potato-head type things.

They don't even know what private parts... are yet. They're, I'm, it's so ridiculous. Well, they're, they're going to, they're going to know more after your hard left American Federation of Teachers, a union member gets to them. You know what? I would pull my kid, my grandkids, somebody else was kid out of any school, if they're going to be promoting that. I'm sorry. I understand. I completely understand. This is not, you know, this is something that just a few years ago, and not that many years ago, I would say that real men would go down to government schools and start punching out people that used to bring this kind of nonsense into their children's lives. But somehow, I guess, everyone's kind of afraid to confront it.

Well, people need to not be afraid and save your children. Yeah. Okay. And by the way, am I advocating violence, but I would dare say that the system is certainly advocating violence against your children, physical violence under the gyes of gender affirming care. I wanted to address that here, just a moment, okay? And this has to do the strange unionized bedfellows that go through our medical system in the state of Oregon. And, of course, most famously heard recently by complaints from the Oregon Nurses Association over what state representative, Dwayne Yonker, was talking about on my show Friday. And I'll share a little bit of this Daily Courier story.

Chrissy Ewald was writing. after Asante announced its latest cost-cutting measures, including closing its outpatient physical therapy program in Grants Pass in Medford, Representative Dwayne Yonker and his Democratic opponent pointed fingers in largely opposite directions. Asante said inpatient physical therapy will be closing in face of a $50 million shortfall for 2027. Younger said in his statement, and he talked about it on my show, it's playing out right here in Grants Pass in Medford are access to health care, is crumbling when a vital community safety net like Asante is forced to slash core outpatient

services just to survive the state-generated financial headwinds. It is the patients in Southern Oregon who ultimately pay the price. And you had the Oregon Nurses Association that came out and, well, it's just all about, you know, the billionaire. It's almost like a Bernie Sanders statement that they put out. almost under the guys of this is just about padding the paychecks of Asante's upper management. That's why they're closing the $50 million. Or you're trying to close that $50 million gap.

All right. Dwayne ended up doing a social media post over the weekend that I saved this. And it says, Oregon Nurses Association just admitted what I had been saying. This is bigger than nurses and wages or hospital staffing, because you know it's what the ONA will come out and say. ONA proudly announces its leaders attended the American Federation of Teachers National Convention and explained that AFT is its National Union advocating in Washington, D.C., and supporting organizations like ONA. Representative Younger continues, thank you for finally making that relationship clear. The American Federation of Teachers is not simply an organization helping nurses negotiate wages and lunch breaks. AFT is a 1.8 million-member national political operation representing teachers, government employees,

college faculty, health care workers, and other public sector employees. AFT openly states that it advances its mission through political activism. Its national convention sets union policy and its resolutions direct the organization, to advocate, organize, pressure governments, influence elections, and advance a sweeping ideological agenda. That gender-transition policy and children. I was just talking about over in the state of Minnesota with their gender transition dolls that they're going to be handing out to the kids, the four-year-olds. American Federations of Teachers has formally resolved to advocate for the ability

the availability of gender-affirming medical care, regardless of the state in which a person lives, and do require insurance plans to fully cover it. Now, you might wonder, just as an aside here, why would the American federations of teachers be promoting trans surgeries? What does this have to do with actually teaching

and educating the future children here? AFT also pledges to defend school employees and health care workers who support LGBTQ identifying youth, promote LGBTQ safe space training, and encouraging LGBTQ history in school curricula nationwide. AFT has supported federal policies, preventing schools from categorically excluding biological male transgender students from competing in girls' athletics. This is not simply opposing discrimination. It is a national labor organization using its political influence to shape children's health care, school instruction, bathrooms, pronouns, and athletic policies. Political ideology in the classroom.

AFT, American Federation of Teachers, by the way, this is the Oregon Nurses Association National Union. They've said this. They admit this. AFT doesn't limit itself to reading math and academic achievement. Its materials promote climate justice, racial equity initiatives, gender identity policies, and other activist causes. AFT resolutions encourage incorporating LGBTQ history into the school curriculum. Its publications frequently criticize parents and organizations challenging controversial classroom content, often portraying them as extremists or censors.

parents who question age appropriate material, gender ideology, or political content are too often treated as obstacles rather than partners in their children's education. That is an extraordinary position for a union whose members spend every day influencing America's children. AFT has also stopped resolutions supporting organizations, has adopted, rather, resolutions supporting organizations such as Black Lives Matter, and promotes implicit bias training. In other words, you can't help it. You are automatically biased. You cannot be fair until you have the Marxist struggle session, I guess, supposedly, run by the AFT. They also promote diversity initiatives and activist partnerships throughout schools, government agencies, and health care institutions.

Dwayne Yonker says people are free to support or oppose these causes, but none of this has anything to do with, negotiating a nurse's wages, staffing level, or meal breaks. It is political activism. Influencing public policy in corporate America. AFT also advocates for environment, social, and governance priorities, diversity policies, and broader social objectives through public pension investments and corporate governance. It goes well beyond representing employees at the bargaining table. It is an effort to influence how institutions, corporations, and government operate.

AFT is associated with the AFL-CIO, part of one of the largest organized political networks in America. Its own mission includes political activism. Pardon me. Its conventions adopt positions on presidential elections, Supreme Court decisions, immigration, abortion, climate policy, LGBTQ, health care, and economic policy. This is not a narrow professional association. It is a national political movement. Oregon Nurses Association, Younger says, is not an innocent bystander.

ONA chose this affiliation with the American Federation of Teachers. ONA proudly calls AFT, American Federation for Teachers, its National Union. So when ONA spends hundreds of thousands of dollars helping elect politicians in Oregon is entirely appropriate to examine the larger political organization behind it. When ONA attacks elected officials for questioning health care policy, it's fair to ask whether it's defending nurses or defending the political agenda that ONA and AFT have helped build.

When ONA supports legislation that increases costs and mandates on hospitals, it cannot later pretend it bears no responsibility for the financial consequences facing Oregon's health care system. And I think that's what Dwayne was getting at. That's the crux of the matter with Asante closing this. their physical therapy, outpatient facilities. And when ONA says it's simply about wages and staffing, its own affiliation tells a much bigger story. I'm not going to claim that I know what is in Randy Weingarten's heart.

I don't need to. I can read AFT's Revolutions. I can examine its political agenda. I can see the policies it promotes. And I can conclude that it is a vision for America. It is fundamentally different from one centered on parental authority, free enterprise, limited government, biological reality, and political diversity.

Younger continues. Call it progressive activism. Call it democratic socialism. Call it whatever you want. But don't pretend it's simply a nurse's union fighting for better pay. ONA belongs to a national political machine whose agenda reaches far beyond hospitals

and far beyond nursing. Oregon nurses deserve to know exactly what is being advocated in their name. Oregon patients deserve to know who is shaping health. care policy. And Oregon parents deserve to know that the national organization behind ONA is actively working to influence schools, health care, government, and elections across America.

That was a social media post from Dwayne Yonker. I would normally not take that much time to read someone's social media posts, but I thought it was well written and well thought. And he is absolutely spot on. This is not, you know, gosh, wouldn't it be great if AFT and ONA did just worry about nursing wages in working conditions or teacher wages and working conditions. Rather than this entire situation that your child is ours to mold and to give them little transgender educations and to, you know, as soon as they feel, you know, I know I was born a boy,

but I feel like a girl today. Well, let's get them right into OHSU. Yeah, there's a real problem there. It's time to stop looking at these public. employee union says, well, you know, they're just there negotiating for the kids. Oh, yeah, they're negotiating for the kids all right. Yeah, for taking over their life and destroying family structure. It's the way I kind of look at it.

I think Dwayne was spot on. No wonder they hate him so much. 6.58. This is the Bill Meyer show. As the Montana roofing crews travel around southern Oregon, they like to keep things interesting. You know, we've been doing so. Thank you.