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The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausordrilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. So great to have you here on Find Your Phone Friday, 7705633 to join in. The email bill at Billmeyer's Show.com. We'll have a diner 62 quiz a little bit later on in the program, too. A lot of great people we'll be talking with.

And I have people from Concern Women for America, and they're working on some, you know, You know how President Trump has ended up saying that, hey, listen, we don't want dudes and dresses and competing and killing women in female sports, you know, that kind of thing. And is it actually being followed? Some places are saying that they are, but the concerned women folks are saying, it's a bit of a fake job. So we'll talk with one of those folks here just a little bit. After 7 o'clock, of course, Mr. Outdoors, Greg Roberts here, it's going to be a hot weekend, could be up in the, well, not could be, will be. up in the triple digits or so and rising fire danger too for that matter.

But no worries because Pacific Power has its wildfire intelligence center open on foothill. Actually, a pretty cool place, but yeah, once again, it'd be nice if we could just find a way to maybe clear everything out around the wires so we don't care if it gets Wendy. Windy rather, not Wendy, like the name. Windy. But that is an expensive, longer-term situation. You know, speaking of which, Herman Berchiger called me up yesterday and said, Bill, I just about fell out of my chair

when you had said that you were feeling that sometimes you were sympathetic to Pacific Power. And then he prepared to, then he just kind of gave it to me for a few minutes. We're going to talk about a Tuesday when he comes into this regular political talk that we do usually about once a week. And he's going to talk about all the way that,

all the ways that Warren Buffett's folks have been twisting the arm of the state legislature for quite some time. And, of course, he was in there when they would come in and lobby. So, well, I have a little talk about that. It's okay, well, it wasn't like I was feeling sorry for it, but I'm just saying that, hey, listen, anything that Pacific Power does usually, even before it wipes its behind, it has to get approval by the Public Utility Commission. But anyway, Herman was dressing me down gently.

But anyway, we'll talk about that on Tuesday's show. I think that'll be really interesting, too. Doug Gould coming in from Rock Recovery, doing their best to get people off the drugs and the alcohol, and they have an event coming up. We want to make sure, give them some love. And David Bonson, great economic mind, and he's from the Bonson Group. He's an economist, and he does a lot of work on Fox News, various other things. He's written some books, too.

And we're going to be talking a bit about the market and tariffs and everything else coming in. there is more of a of a talk out there within the general world that the markets are looking very frothy kind of topy and sort of in a euphoria thing and now could this be another one of those dot com kind of blowoffs or a 2008 sort of thing we'll talk with him about that

speaking of the markets the gold markets have been surging have been just going nuts futures went up about 50-60 bucks overnight because President Trump I guess it has announced that tariffs are coming in on all gold imports, gold bullion. So gold bullion. Is it bullion or bullion? Now, bullion is that the soup in bullion?

Yeah, gold bullion. I'm going to make sure and get that pronounced. It's very easy to slip into one or the other. But yeah, gold bullion of like over a kilogram, you know, those sort of things. Hey, nothing like putting a tariff on real money, huh? I don't know. There's also talk that the federal government might be revaluing its own multiple tons of gold to its market value in order to help make the deficit look a little bit better, you know, that kind of thing. It's a real asset.

The fact that they still have gold valued in Fort Knox, well, supposedly at Fort Knox, I'd like to see the pictures. But let's just assume it's still there. $42.20 an ounce, right? It's been that way by statute for quite some time. all right other news around here around town this is the part we i was trying to get to this story yesterday and it kind of got flush no pun intended but uh gold hill have you heard of what's happening to poor little gold hill all sorts of things uh going on with various federal grants of course going away

things are happening you know everyone's running out of other people's money all right and so we're now looking at costs to have a sewer connection in gold hill $153 a month for just the sewage. And only about $30 or so is actually the sewer service. But it is all about the city's wastewater infrastructure. They've not been able to get their city wastewater treatment plant approved their. The DEQ has been upset with them for a number of years. And this is one of the challenges when you are a small town in a very highly

regulated state like Oregon. You have all sorts of hoops that you have to jump through. But according to a Buffy's story, Buffy Pollock story in the Rogue Valley Times, Rogue Valley Sewer Services District Manager Carl Tappert, working with the city officials to get that plan to decommission the wastewater treatment plant in Gold Hill. And then the voters ended up voting a couple of years ago to go with just putting a big pipe to the the to the road valley treatment plant to the road valley treatment plant eight mile pipeline so an eight mile pipeline is going to cost essentially the citizens of gold hill residents there 130 dollars a month for many years just for the bond i'm talking like 153 for the sewer bill

but maybe 120 bucks just to pay for the pipeline to get it all there absolutely incredible initial costs were just over 10 million and then the pipe cost went up thank you inflation three million to five and a half million unplanned engineering costs one of the half one of the half million and also they're having to spend more to redo the pavement after they get done putting in the the poop pipe so to speak that's up to a million dollars so just insane and you only have what about 1,200 people to spread all. all these huge costs. So, yeah, that is a big bill. I can't help but wonder what that might do to the value of real estate in the city of Gold Hill. Because you would have to look at anything,

you know, when you're going to go buy a house someplace, everybody else, you know, is paying maybe 50 bucks a month, 60 bucks a month, 70 bucks a month. What is it, 67 for the utility fees for the most part in the city of Medford? And that includes the sewage. And also parks and whatever other nice project or service that the Bedford City Council wishes to throw on it at some point. Depends on the mood. Rogue X, that's an example. Yes, we have to pay. We have to get everybody else to pay for everybody else's entertainment for certain people.

But I digress. But, yeah, you don't have a lot of people to spread that. So if you're trying to sell a house in Gold Hill in the future, you would have to take. making a consideration that, you know, it costs about another hundred bucks a month just to live in Gold Hill because of the sewage costs. That is just amazing. That's big. Big, big deal. There's another interesting little bit of economic news, which is coming in this morning. Yesterday it was announced that Providence Health Services, that includes Providence Medford. Providence, Grants Pass. Is there one in Grants Pass? Well, yeah, there's all sorts of clinics all over.

But anyway, Providence is laying off 128 employees across the entire state this week. And it's the latest in a series of budget cuts as the state's largest health system grapples with big money challenges. And the industry is also restructuring at this point. Now, I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. My boss and I, George and I were talking about this. And I said, you know, you couldn't have predicted this. Oh, we were only talking about this a few months ago as the Oregon Nurses Association had been giving Providence pretty crippling strike there for a while, and they ended up winning some concessions and some big raises. And the question that never gets asked is who or how is this going to be paid?

It never happens. That's nothing. No, it's just like, I want more. Everybody wants more. Oregon State Union workers. more money they don't even know what the inflation rates are going to be but boy they just negotiated the huge contracts it's everywhere

we're looking for everyone and of course this is the way unions work unions don't work because they're thinking about what might happen to the hosts that they're a parasite on all they're thinking about is I want my benefits and pay and I understand yeah you all work for what you can but wasn't I saying a few months ago you know I understand why the nurses would like to get more pay. I get that. I understand it. But what's going to happen to Providence long term? Well,

this is the response. I mean, this is predictable here. I get a news release last night and I'm shaking my head because this is just what I was talking about. Oregon Nurses Association, Providence layoffs undermine health care and patient safety in Oregon. Providence announcement today about their latest rounds of layoffs marks another step in its troubling pattern. of disinvestment in Oregon's health care system. These cuts don't just affect workers. They directly threaten the quality and safety of care in our communities. Layoffs will worsen Providence's ongoing staffing issues,

which leads to unsafe patient loads and burned out caregivers. At a time when our health care system is under immense strain, Oregon needs bold investments in patient care, not more cuts. Providence's attempt to justify these layoffs in part on, quote, labor costs is dishonest, unfair, and dangerously misguided. The Oregon Nurses Association recognizes that Medicaid cuts and broader attacks on our health care system from the Trump administration are serious issues, but Providence must also confront its own priorities as a profit-driven business model that doles out lavish executive salaries. What a bunch of morons. What a bunch of liars in the Oregon Nurses Association writing this press release.

Now, you may call it lavish salaries, and that could be for some cases, but that's a handful of lavish salaries compared with thousands of doctors and nurses. Now, this is where they continue. Again, Oregon Nurses Association Union people must be really, really good. good negotiators for pay, but they don't know how to run businesses, I don't think. It says Providence is a $30 billion corporation whose top executives take home millions each year. Yes, there's a handful of those. It's a big business. There's a lot going on there. Patients and caregivers should not be forced to pay the price for corporate greed or political

decisions beyond their control. Okay, who should? who should pay it Oregon Nurses Association you got yours I just can't believe it yeah I don't corporate pay at the upper echelon is higher than I might like it too okay it's kind of what it takes to get good people in apparently

the part that Oregon Nurses Association didn't mention and I did mention to you a number of months ago when this uh with i was about a year ago wasn't it yeah quite anyway numerous months ago when the strike was going on earlier this year maybe that's what it was earlier this year i was mentioning that providence doesn't make money on providing medical and hospital care in fact it loses money on the patients it loses money on the care it provides in the medical world. It was losing money on the medical care that it was providing before the nurses went on strike. Now, granted, they're losing less money recently than they were four or five years

ago when the real alert went out there. They're losing less money right now. I don't know what it's like ever since the union contract went into effect what that ended up doing to the balance sheet, but still Providence loses money providing medical care. And when they talk about a $30 billion corporation, yeah, the value of all the equipment, the buildings, et cetera, et cetera, and also a big investment fund that is there for capital expenditures, buying new MRI equipment, you know, all those kind of things. And I remember the Oregon Nurses Association was talking about the investment fund as if that is something that you're supposed to take the investment fund, which is the C. corn, kind of like the company's savings account, to be able to keep going no matter what. And, well, you should be sharing that investment fund with the nurses or the employees or something. And no, no, no, this is something that they have to try to make sure that there is seed corn to keep things going so that the business can keep as a going concern.

But when it actually comes to the medical care provided, they lose money. they've kept it going and just because the Oregon Nurses Association got raises doesn't mean that the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Health Plan are paying Providence more money to provide that care. In fact, if I understand correctly, Oregon Health Plan is paying somewhere from 50 to 60 cents on the dollar

of what have actually cost the hospitals around here to pay, you know, to actually provide the care. And so the Oregon Nurses Association takes the Bernie Sanders approach. Well, it's because of the millionaires in the top of the corporation. That's why they have it to lay these people off. No, Providence was losing money before. So the Oregon Nurses Association, they may be able to spend a great story and get a better deal for the nurses.

And I'm not criticizing for that. That's the purpose of the union. But then what do they think was going to happen? If not more money is coming in from the state of Oregon to pay for health care provided. And Medicaid is being cut, especially for illegal aliens, that I'm sure end up going in a lot to Providence, In Asante, and everybody else. And insurance companies are screwing down and not paying as much. and the nurses are costing more, what do they expect?

Is there like a magic pile of money? Well, I know the progressives always think there's a pile of magic money for somebody else to pay it. But, yeah, it's a $30 billion corporation as if there's $30 billion in money to give to nurses and doctors just sloshing around. It is so disingenuous and such the big fat, Bernie bro kind of lie. I would expect better from the Oregon Nurses Association. I really would. Yeah, they're complaining about this investment in Oregon's health system,

and they're expecting the actual hospitals and the various providers to do the investment for them with no hope of getting paid back by anybody. I don't get it. But anyway, so that's my guy. I almost could have used this for a pebble in your shoe moment here. Pebble in your shoe Friday in this particular case. So, hey, I'm happy that the nurses got their pay. But I was also saying, gee, what happens to Providence after they get their raises?

It's not just because of the nurses getting their raises. It's everything. Less money coming in, increasing costs. And something's got to give. And so they end up laying off people. It comes under the, what did you expect? Or another way of looking at it is, Stimpy, you idiot!

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Live 6 to 9 weekdays on 1063KMED and 993KBXG. I'm here for you. But life has a way of getting busy, so if you miss a show and you want to catch up or you just have a different schedule, well, that's what my podcaster for. The last three months or so of my shows available for free download and sharing on KMED.com or Bill Myershow.com. Podcasts are sponsored by Klausor Drilling. They're helping keep you current. Find out about their services on Klauserdrilling.com. This is Insurance Agent A. He sells for one company only. It's the absolute best. To my right, an exemplary insurance agent, an independent, which means, I can help you research multiple insurance

plans, giving you a much better look at who actually has the better coverage. Well, that's not fair. That's not what our customers say. Oh, I can't compete with that. Home, auto, health, life. Skypark insurance is your local, independent agency that shops for the best coverage for less. Steve makes insurance easy. Hi, I'm Matt Stone with Stone Heating and Air, and I'm on KMED. 29 after 6. Hey there, Vicki. How are you doing this morning? You wanted to talk about the hospital thing. Yeah. Well, I know from personal experience that, like, for instance, the Southern Orthopedic,

the surgeons there, they use the hospitals, both Asante and Providence. Providence, I know, has a robotic thing that helps with hips and knees and probably shoulders. And I'm just wondering what percentage does the hospital get from the surgeons that have to rent the operating rooms with all this fancy equipment to do these surgeries, they must be getting something from them. The Oregon Health Plan doesn't pay for that, too, I don't think. Well, the Oregon Health Plan overall doesn't pay the full cost of anything which is provided through Asante, through Providence or anything else. It's about 60 cents on the dollar, depending on who you talked to.

Last time I checked, I'd have to go do a little more research on that. but that's the last that's about the figure that I see so whatever if a you know if if Oregon Health Pair if Oregon Health Plan that pays 100 bucks for something over at Providence because you know somebody comes in and gets treatment at the emergency room etc etc it probably ended up costing more like 150 bucks yeah right but what I'm talking about is these surgeons can't do they can do a limited um surgeries from their outpatient outpatient, like, little surgery place next to Southern Orthopedic. But most of the big surgeries, they have to do at one of the hospitals.

So the hospitals must be benefiting from the surgeons being able to, I mean, don't they have to pay to use those services? I mean, you would think that, I mean, that's, that's, and. But what is your point? Okay, so the surgeons end up doing outpatient and they pay rent. Okay, yeah, they pay rent. What is that? How does that affect the overall world, though?

Well, as they do, and believe me, in the last three years, I've been at Southern Orthopedic more than I care to admit, and there's people in there with shoulders, ankles, knees, hips, back, and so they're doing massive amounts of surgery on people. So these hospitals must be benefiting a little bit from all of that. that's my point. They're saying, oh, we don't, you know,

we don't have the money. Well, okay, well, they're benefiting a little bit. The fact of the matter is they still lose money providing medical care. Well,

right. Once the initial, you know, surgery's done, then yes, the hospitals take over, the nurses take care of you. But nowadays,

they just like knee replacement, hip replacement. They don't even keep you in the hospital overnight. They send you right home. No, I don't, I think we're having a failure to communicate.

here, Vicky. It doesn't matter if they go home right away or if they stay there a week or whatever it is. Whatever Providence does, any service they do, and I would imagine Asante not a whole lot better, everything that is done is, well, there may be some cash pay, cash patients who are maybe paying the full, you know, the full bore, that sort of thing. But when you added all up, Total costs versus total income coming in, whether there are knees being replaced on a particular day or whether it's gallbladder is being replaced another day, the system is not making money, providing anything with medical care by the time you add all the costs up and all the other expenses and all the union salaries and all the doctor salaries and all of the building expenses and all the power bills and all of the malpractice insurance and all these other. things. They still don't make money and they haven't made money for years this way. They've been working off of reserves to try to fill in the background. Okay, that's all I'm getting at. Look at the whole picture. It's much more. Yeah, I'm looking at it as a broad 50,000 foot

deal and you have the Oregon Nurses Association that takes a very facile look at it and says, well as a $30 billion corporation, and they're counting an investment fund, which is there to be their seed corn, to make sure that they're always able to be a going concern. The point is you can't continually go to your reserve funds without affecting the health of the corporation, and Providence is better than it was a few years ago, but I was always concerned that the nurses, you know, the nurse's settlement that came from ONA was going to put additional stress on the system. And you can't ignore that when you look at the latest announcement that they're going to, you know, lay off 128.

Right. So what was the point of the strike? I mean, they got more money, but in the end, a lot of them are not, they're losing their job. But you see, that's just it. That's the whole point of the unionized workforce, just like the state of organ workers, SEIU, whatever union you're talking about, it is never, how it gets paid is not of their concern. All that matters is that they get paid. And then these people get to go on, like during the strike or do they, like they don't have to look for work or now they're basically out of a job and they have to go out and look for work? Now, I don't know. I can't answer that right now. They weren't being specific about it. All I was is that all I'm saying

is that this was very predictable. That's all. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well, you have a good morning. All right. You too. Me too. Hi, K&D. Good morning. Welcome. Hey, Bill. Swale, Samin. Hey, Steve. Go ahead. Vicki, if you have surgery in a hospital, you get a bill from Southern Northern Orthopedics, and then you get the bill for the hospital that includes the surgery and whatever else. went on there. So while the orthopedic surgeons make money, they build an insurance company differently, separately from what the hospital. So I guess it does make the hospital some money, but it's the whole health care system that's that's in trouble because of government intrusion.

Yes. And nothing about it is, I mean, it's really one of the few businesses. And believe me, Not that I'm happy about the $1,000 Tylenol pill. You know, you see those kind of stories how things get finagled within it. And the grift that goes in here, it is the only business that I'm aware of in which you have the government telling you that, well, I know it costs you this much to provide the service, but we're going to give you 60 cents on the dollar, right? Yeah, well, and all the crazy stuff they have their protocols and all that stuff that doesn't make. any sense. So it's the government intrusion in the operation of a health care system that's causing all the problems. And it's not just the hospitals. You know, my wife passed away

a couple months ago. She was in a rehab facility and they couldn't even get the air conditioning to work. I was amazed. I went to Costco and bought a room air conditioner for $450 bucks, at least to keep her cool in her last days that she was in there. And they kept saying, well, we're working out. We've got contractors, but it never did get fixed. And the nurses were wearing SEIU shirts. Interesting. Well, I'm, I guess what can we say?

What can we say, Steve? And remember, and remember, I will remind people, though, that the, Oregon Nurses Association on this layoff thing essentially did the Bernie Sanders statement. It is a big corporation. They should be investing more in it. In other words, losing more money. And there's never any consideration given to the responsibilities of the nonprofit sisters of providence to make sure that everything adds and subtracts properly and that they don't

lose more money than they have to, I guess. I got a roll on this. We can talk a bit later on it. but I appreciate your experience, Steve. And Vicki's, you know, questions about this, too. It is big. It is a big deal. It's just another symptom of that system, that systemic collapse.

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Accessory and Protection Shop. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. President Trump ended up putting out a executive order not too long ago saying that, hey, you know, women are women, essentially saying women are women and men are men, and we really shouldn't have men competing against biological women, biological men competing against women, even if they do identify as women. And is that really being followed? And now there's been a lot of knuckling down on various college sports teams.

And I know the state of Oregon is practically decided it's going to double down on the transgender ideology issue. And I wanted to talk about this latest with Macy Petty. And she is the legislative strategist, Concern Women for America. What is Concern Women for America here, Macy? Welcome back to the show. Hey, thank you so much. Yeah, Concern Women for America is a grassroots organization. We are Christian conservative women fighting for biblical principles and constitutional

constitutional principles in public policy. So I work as our legislative strategist here in Congress and represent women from all across the country who believe in God, believe in the principles that built this country, and want to see that preserved in public policy. All right, Macy, do you have pronouns on your email signature? I have to ask you first off, all right? You can bet your bottom dollar. I do not have pronouns on my email. Okay.

All right. First off, I give you a real American salute for this because every time I see pronouns on the email, my eyes glaze. My eyes glaze. But, you know, it's one thing I'm thinking, all right, Macy Petty, we know female. Here we go. But also, you are a former NCAA volleyball player, right? That's right. That's actually how I got involved with Concern Women for America. I was just a volleyball player, had no real interest in politics. I just was this middle school girl who wanted to. play college volleyball one day, had this dream set out and continued training for several years. And then in high school, finally had the opportunity to play in front of some college recruiters. And I got to the court, looked in my competition, and it was a boy who was dressing like a girl in most ways. Obviously, he wasn't wearing spandex. But Phil carried all of his biological advantages, was playing on a net seven inches shorter than he should have as a man. And so it was humiliating for me. It jeopardized my opportunity to.

to play college, which was something that I had been fighting for my whole life. Yeah, did he kill your team in the game? I mean, you know, this guy, this dude and pretending to be a woman. Oh, it was humiliating. It was humiliating. Not only did he make us look weak and, like, you know, less than skilled volleyball players by comparison, but also it was just humiliating as a woman to see this organization, USA volleyball that I had committed my entire life thus far just kind of facilitated.

this, let it happen. And at the time, I just assumed that this was flying under the radar. They didn't know it. It's obviously cheating. And they would work it out. And that could not be more incorrect. And we're seeing that play out now. I mean, it's been eight years since this. And USA volleyball has only continued to dig their heels in the ground and just continue this discrimination against women. Macy, isn't volleyball that sport, wasn't there another transgender In other words, trans woman, in other words, a fake woman, you know, on another volleyball team that did a spike so hard that it fractured the skull or knocked somebody out on the female side? It's true. It was in North Carolina.

A dear friend is mine. Her name is Peyton McNabb. She was playing high school volleyball for her local public school, and they allowed a boy on the other side of the other side's team. And this boy spiked the ball in her face, and she was partially paralyzed from it. I mean, just horrifying head and neck injuries that continue to play a devastating effect out in her life. So the North Carolina State Legislature finally decided to act on this and pass their women's sports law. And even though these women were facing these devastating injuries, the North Carolina governor still vetoed anyway. So like I said, we're just seeing people dig their heels in the ground and show that they have no.

regard for female safety when it comes to athletics. Yeah, and we're not talking about whether a female or a male volleyball athlete are skilled or unskilled. It's about the innate physical advantages, the physical advantages that biology benefits men when it comes to physical activity, taller, bigger, stronger. Generally speaking, the typical male is just bigger, taller, stronger than your typical female that they would be opposing in a sport, right? That's really what we're talking about. It's true. And yeah. And this is self-evident all around us. And even our sports reflected.

Like I said, a men's volleyball net is over seven inches higher than a woman's volleyball net. That's not to change any, you know, core facet of the game, but that's just how our bodies are different. And it keeps it fair by letting the game play out differently with different height nets that reflect are the ability of our body. And that's why they ended up having women's and male sports in the first place, you know, separated by sex. Okay. Okay. So what is USA volleyball doing now as far as there, I guess, what do you want to call it? What's the proper gender competition policy, whatever that might be. Right, right. Well, so as you mentioned, President Trump kind of led the way in this and signed an executive order earlier this year called Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports.

I was honored to attend and stand on the stage with him as he was signing it. And it was a great day for female athletes. And he really laid out how we can protect me. female athletes in the United States, things like how we should be interacting with the Olympics Committee and how the Department of Education should roll out their civil rights complaints. But in accordance with the U.S.OBC, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, they certify these national governing bodies, things like USA volleyball, USA swimming, USA fencing, what have you.

There's something called the Ted Stevens Act. And so it simply said the United States Alumni Committee can't certify these organizations unless they are protecting female athletes and putting their safety first. So they clarified, the U.S. OPC clarified last month, this does mean that these NGBs, national governing bodies, have to comply with its executive order, including USA Volleyball. All right. Now, are they? The U.S. Yes. They are.

Well, USA – no, no, sorry. USA volleyball then said, okay, fine. will clarify that our athletes who are playing under USA volleyball have to play on teams according to their birth certificates. Their sex assigned at birth, according to their birth certificate. According to their birth certificate. Let me tell you, there is probably an exception. Some states allow you to change that after the fact.

Just curious. Most states allow you to change it. And this whole idea of, first of all, gender assigned at the time of birth on their birth certificate is making it sound like it's some kind of arbitrary note on a birth certificate and not anything having to do with reality or biology. It doesn't acknowledge anywhere in the policy that women exist, that biological sex is a thing that there's any kind of binary of male or woman. It's simply saying, oh, this president is forcing us to determine your eligibility based on whatever

doctor put on your birth certificate. And like you said, this can be amended. So they're saying, they're, first of all, doing the least that they absolutely have to. And even that is still illegal because you can change your birth certificate in most states. In fact, the USA Volleyball website has links to this documentary that features a child who changed his birth certificate. So it's ridiculous. They're showing their cards right here saying that they honestly still hate women and they're going to do the least that they possibly can to protect them to affirm their dignity, what have you. Okay.

What is the advantage for USA volleyball to have dudes competing as women? Where is the advantage for the actual sport? I'm trying to understand where is the thought process that brings them to this because most people, if they're going to go watch female volleyball, rather, they want to watch women compete in volleyball. They don't want to watch dudes competing in volleyball. Otherwise, they go watch the male team. It may be a dumb question, okay?

I get it. Well, I mean, honestly, this is politics. We're seeing it all around us, and this is this ideologically captured governing board who is hating biology, hating women, what have you, but honestly, it's politics. Where are we not seeing this, this fear of acknowledging reality? And clearly it's got the board of USA volleyball captured.

Yeah, all right. I'm speaking with Macy Petty with Concern Women for America. She's a former NCAA volleyball player. I have to ask you, Macy, does it ever seem to be that life is now imitating art in many ways? Do you remember, you ever watched that South Park episode a number of years ago with strong woman competing with, you know, the other, the guy who is claiming to be a woman. And they were making fun of it back then. This was about eight, nine years ago. And the guy had hairy chest and huge muscles like a big wrestler type.

He goes, I'm feeling my feminine side. And I can't wait to go compete. And do you ever feel like that world is what we're living in right now? I totally do. And I know what you mean. It seems so silly that we're even having these conversations. But this is what happens when you deny God. you deny that we have a creator, you inevitably end up denying that his core facets of his

creation. And when we refuse to believe things that are just evident all around us, things like humans are created, male and female, it seems like the rug is pulled out from you in society, falls out, things that we maybe took for granted, things that we built our society on, things that we built our public policy on. I mean, our founders never envisioned that we would have to define male and female in public policy. But here we are. We must have taken that for granted because, you know, Title IX was just a couple of simple words saying you can't discriminate based on sex. And that seems so clear at the time that here we are over 50 years later. And we're having an argument over what that word sex. Yeah, yeah, what words mean.

I want to ask you, though, you've done some research. How many medals in women's volleyball? have been stolen by the dudes in address culture out there right now that's still able to play volleyball against women? Right. We have done some research on this that Concern Women for America that just released a couple weeks ago. And men who identify as transgender have stolen over 1,941 gold medals in the United States. So that doesn't even include silver and bronze and other international competition. This is in the United States. That's almost half a million dollars in prize money.

And, I mean, you look at California in one single state, over 500 medals have been taken by men. So it's completely ridiculous. But I'm really grateful because President Trump does have some strong attention to this issue. He even released not too long ago. I think it may have actually been in the last day or two that we won't even allow this to happen internationally. If a man is coming in our country to beat up a woman on a national stage in some kind of athletic competition, and he can't come in our country to do that. That is not what we're facilitating here. Oh, so they're stopping the visa. They're not going to give the visa

then for the fake woman. And this is part of the executive order because, you see, we're hosting the Olympics in 2028. And so this is our opportunity as a country to show that we still stand for opportunity and fairness. Those are core principles of our country. And that, will be reflected in how we facilitate the Olympics. All right. Macy, what about the, back to USA Volleyball? So they're using this canard about what's identified on your birth certificate, which we now know that the trans people will just go and change their birth certificate.

Obviously, we're going to have to go to a genetic component, or are you X, X, X, or X, Y chromosome. Isn't that where it's really going to have to go to get rid of this nonsense? sense? It will. And honestly, it's so simple. World Athletics just released their policy not too long ago also. And they said, just a one-time cheek swab. That's all it takes to verify your sex. And honestly, as a female athlete, I had to do so many different tests and physicals and things like that, that a one-time cheek swab is more than reasonable for athletes to have to do, you know, keep fairness as the guiding principle for these athletic organizations. Could you see the time

coming in which instead of trying to shoehorn trans athletes of either identified gender into respective sports, that you end up just having trans competitions? Did you see that happening? As in another category? Yeah. I could see that, and we are seeing international competitions like cycling and things like that, hosting a third category that is an open category. I do have concerns when it comes to maybe high school sports, anything that's

Title IX compliant because that's essentially just another category for male domination. So you would have twice as many opportunities for men than you would for women. But it's certainly a conversation worth having, and it would still, of course, protect the safety for female athletes by giving them an opportunity to compete in a category where there is no male domination. Macy Petty is the legislative strategist for Concern Women for America. You can find out more about this particular issue. I don't think this is the last we've heard about the, what a lot of people would think of

as just kind of nonsense being held up as truth. But anyway, you can find out more at concernedwomen.org, concernedwomen.org. Anything else we've forgotten to touch on here before we take off, Macy? I think that's it. Thank you so much for having me on the show. All right. I appreciate your take, and thanks for having joined us. 656. This is KMED, and you're on the Bill Meyer show.

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Granny writes to me about the women's sports conversation we had. Bill, DNA, DNA, DNA. Women walk off the playing field. Good point. Thank you, Granny. Jim writes in here about homeless and pets. Good morning, Bill. I wanted to touch on something the director of the gospel rescue mission stated a couple of weeks ago. I've had two homeless people I know stopped by the house this week. They were letting me know that they are getting dogs, and I asked them why. They both stated, so I don't have to go to a shelter because the shelters don't allow pets. They both also stated they were getting them from someone for free, would not provide the name of the individual.

It seems to me that this should be or could be illegal. If a homeless person can't take care of themselves, wouldn't that be, you know, this is interesting. Wouldn't that be animal abuse is what Jim is saying? Wouldn't that be animal abuse? And the animal shelters could impound the animals. Have a good day. You know, it's an interesting, that's an interesting take on that, Jim. I hadn't considered this.

You know, on one hand, you have a bunch of people don't have their own homes. They're not able to essentially take care of themselves without a lot of help. without working, sitting around all day with a sign, anything helps. Is that a way to look at that in which are you say, hey, no pets? You know, you're homeless and not without, if you don't have a conventional home that we impound the pet. Is that an angle to go after it? Yeah, you're right. Brian Boteller did say that they have the evidence that there are people that are

being given these dogs. All you have to do is ask for it. And I couldn't help but think about that. There was a story. I think it was in the daily, was it in the Daily Courier? I've got my big stack of paper here this morning. But it had to do with the city of Grants Pass entered into a consent decree. I can't find the story.

I'll find it here in the next few minutes. But they entered into a consent decree or they said, settled with disability rights, Oregon, that has been suing them over the, you know, the homelessness conditions. And I guess this is just more of that lawfare. I'll find that story during the break here and, and dig it up again. But yeah, disability rights, the city will have to provide more things, potable water, et cetera, et cetera. And I would be curious.

I mean, wouldn't it be interesting if it were actually found? found out that homelessness so-called community organizations such as disability rights Oregon are involved in getting pets handed out, getting pets handed out to people so that they don't have to go to a shelter that would be available to take them, right? You know, you get the dog and all of a sudden then you don't qualify for the shelter. But then should you, I mean, honestly be having pets in the homeless community? Now, I understand why they like it, why they want it, because sometimes it's kind of dangerous out there on the street.

Right? We get that. And so you have your dog, you know, you have your pit bull, and the petty will bark and take care of any business if there is, you know, someone coming after you, I suppose. How would you see that? Impounding the pets of the homeless because they're not able to provide a proper home? What do you think?

I don't know. Maybe we talk about that sometime. is the Bill Myers show on KMED, KMED, HD1, Eagle Point, Medford, KVXG, Grants Pass, Town Hall News, and more coming up. If you're remodeling your house, start with the foundation.