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It's a boulder, but I still walked my two and a half miles this morning as I boulder in my shoe. Good for you. Here's a deal. I got a statement. I got a letter yesterday from the Oregon Tax Department, I guess it's called, telling me that I owed $127.57.522 cents, which included $3.52 interest for taxes that I did not prepare properly for that last year. What do they claim he did wrong? Did they give you an example? Oh, yeah, they gave me all kinds of paper. I mean, all kind of statement. I had no idea what they mean.

Because I've always done my, well, I haven't always. One time I used the guy you recommended, now he's not in business anymore. and he took there my taxes from a couple years ago. But anyway, but I never make enough money, and I always have enough deductions, even with just tithing to my church. And I never made, and all of a sudden out of the blue, I got a bill for $127.52. I don't know what to do exactly.

I guess, first off, I better pay it, or they're going to charge me more interest, but do I appeal it and then try to get some meetings, and I don't know, maybe somebody out there can give me some advice, but that's the pebble in my shoe this wonderful morning. Yeah, you know, there is a fellow who has advertised for time with him, Jake, Jake out in Eagle Point. I wonder if he could do a telephone consultation. Let me look in my records here, Lauren, okay?

And see you. Of course, I'm out here. I'd be happy to go see him whenever he's available and see you. Just showing what I got and see how he can help me. You can show him my paperwork. I actually had it done by a friend of mine who's an accountant, and she's the one that prepared it all this time for me. because I couldn't understand that's crazy Oregon forms. I do the federal real good.

Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, that's really interesting. I'd be curious to find out what is really going on here. I know that if you were to call the tax hotline in Washington, D.C. as an example, and you'd get three different people, and sometimes you get three different numbers of the tax owed. And I'm wondering if the same is happening here in Oregon. Good luck on that, Lauren. stand that pebble for sure hello jean how are you i'm pretty good i was wanting to talk to you a few minutes

off the air oh okay well anyway i got a few points to make besides that okay uh i talked to a person and eugene evidently the democrat side of the state doesn't know a thing about the tax increases because they hadn't heard anything about it so they have no idea idea what's coming, August 29th through about September 5th or so, huh? Nothing. Well, they don't know anything about it because evidentially we're the only ones getting taxed, the Republican areas. Well, now, we're all going to be taxed. But I have a feeling, though, they're just not covering it. They're saying, oh, we have a special session, and it's to balance the ODOT transportation budget, right? Which, of course, is balanced on the backs of

people who actually work for a living, that kind of thing. Well, I work for a living are now retired. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. I'm sure the Democrats will talk about how sympathetic they are to, like, Gene over in Wilderville, who is on a fixed income, right? There's a lot of money to pay for anybody who doesn't call them NASA. There you go. Now you got, that's the spirit, Gene. Thanks with the call.

Hang on. Hang on. I'll get your thing off here if I have time, all right? Okay, let's break with Town Hall News here in just a moment, and then we're going to be talking about the takeover of D.C., the legal aspect of this with Landmark Legal's Mike O'Neill. I always enjoy talking with him. Breaking news this hour from Town Hall. I'm Rich Thomason. We dropped to 66 tonight, 99 on Wednesday, dropping to 92 on Thursday.

Bevel in your shoe Tuesday, and Dave is here. Dave, you wanted to comment on the pay for alignment that you were hearing why. We had that Pacific Power conversation, right? Back in 9-11, they were making $35 an hour, so they could be easily doubling that. And then, like, a tree trimmer, a journeyman, make 37-something an hour, and probably operators that operate the big heavy equipment, like that masticator, probably make $50 an hour. And there's no such thing as time and a half.

It's all double time. Oh, well, I ended up looking this up just while you, I knew you were coming on. let's see IBEW local 125 that's out of Portland okay I was out of 6-5-9 out of Central Point

okay so the pay may be different this is what a Portland line they're the same okay the yearly salary based on a 40-hour week is 134,000 okay 135,000 for alignment the hourly rate is

6738 the total package is $92 an hour and so that's defined pension 15 bucks an hour in pay going into that so yeah it's pretty but now it's dangerous work but it's pretty good pay too no doubt and so it's even more than you thought now I guess the union's been doing their thing let me go to Kathy Kathy you have a pebble in your shoe regarding a roundabout huh in that right I guess I'm apparently the only person that wasn't aware of it

But it's so indicative of what's going on with ODOT. It's not necessary at that junction. I drive that at least twice a day, sometimes four times a day. This is Highway 62 and 234, coming from Sam's Valley, right? It's not even four streets. It's just a T. And it's beautiful pasture land. It's elevated.

It's going to cost millions of dollars to make it work. It's ridiculous. And I would rather deal with what we have. and take that money and pay the darn snowplow drivers. This is what's wrong. They're doing these projects that aren't necessary to hurt us as citizens. They had a meeting about this public meeting the other day, and now I didn't go to it, but the point being is that they're saying that there are a number of people who continue to get killed at that T intersection.

There's not been one, there's one now crystal and 62, people get killed. killed, and that has a light. But you can't fix stupidity. People are going to get killed. People are still getting killed on 140. Well, not according to Oregon Department of Transportation. You can fix stupid. You can fix stupid. They know how to, okay, I'm just kidding you, but point well taken, Kathy. I get it. Thanks for the pebble. All right. This hour of the Bill Myers Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing. For roofing gutters and sheet metal services, visit Fontana Roofing Services.com. Hi, it's John at Wellburn's Weapons. The only thing better than shooting is shooting with a suppressor.

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I am. Mike, I wanted to talk with you about what's going on in D.C. here because President Trump is going to be taking over D.C. police, and there was a lot of news yesterday on this, and there is a statutory authority for it. The mayor is not real happy about this. The police union in D.C., though, is actually supportive of this. And what act did the president use to do this again? Right. Under the D.C. code, under the Home Rule Act, there's a provision, Section 40, which permits the president to declare a state of emergency, and that an emergency nature, once that's declared, once that's recognized by the president. Again, that's his authority to do that. He can federalize the police apparatus, again, in this case, the Metropolitan Police Department. And so that's applicable for 30 days, and it can be extended. But initially,

the president has a 30-day window where he can federalize law enforcement in Washington, D.C. And, of course, this all makes sense. Let's keep in mind, Bill, that Washington, D.C. is the state of the federal government. It was conceived under our constitution as a federal jurisdiction with federal authority. So it was never meant to be a town, just a separate town, so to speak, right? A regular city. No, exactly. It's its own federal entity. And again, Congress has jurisdictional authority over it because, again, federal authority. Now, the law passed in the early 1970s home rule of permitted D.C., established a D.C. council, a mayor, et cetera, so that state so that D.C. could operate in the fashion it's currently operating under,

but ultimately the federal government retains jurisdiction of a Washington D.C. Okay. Now, Home Rule has been, well, has led to some quite interesting, colorful characters that have been mayor in the past. I'm thinking of Marion Berry. That's what that comes to mind. And I know that the current mayor is not real happy about this. Is it cutting her authority off at the knees or just like, Hey, this is just about the police and the police only?

Look, she's stuck between Iraq and a hard place because the mayor, she recognizes the gravity of the situation, despite reports to the contrary and what you would have the legacy media tried to report to try to sell this false bill of goods to the American people in Washington, D.C., his crime is really at a very, very high level in D.C. I don't necessarily want to say unprecedented because back during you referenced Mary and Barry during the crack war epidemics of the late 80s, early 90s, Washington, D.C. was pretty rough place. Let's be clear about that. Certainly crime, post-COVID has really risen in Washington, D.C., to an intolerable level. Look, if you walk out of the Union Station, that's the famous train station, you come out of Union Station, you're assaulted with, you know, feces, homeless, vagrants, you've got mentally ill people, you've got crazy people walking around, you've got marijuana just hitting you in the face. Wow. That isn't an image we want to present to the world. Yeah, well, I was, the last time I was in D.C., I stayed several days over at the Phoenix, which is right by Union Station. Right, exactly. So we knew that it was not a great place to go at nighttime, and you stayed out of it, right?

But so it is deteriorated over the last three, four years, is what you're saying, is what they're saying. You just don't, there's just no excuse. It shouldn't, yes. And I'm not saying, look, the Phoenix around that Capitol Hill area, it's not, it's not deadly. Look, it's not a no-go zone, but it's not, it's not what it should be. Washington, D.C. should be the shining city on the hill, right? There's no excuse for it not to be a welcoming, wonderful, beautiful place. It's safe for everybody all the time anywhere.

Really, when you think of the context, and President Trump touched on this, the degree, the extent to which there's law enforcement in Washington, D.C., it boggles your mind. You've got FBI headquarters, secret service headquarters, you've got the Park Police, you've got the DEA, you've got the military police, you've got the D.C. Metropolitan Police. I mean, there's so much law enforcement in the locale. And, again, Washington, D.C., when you think about it in terms of square mileage, it's not really that big. It's not like Houston or another city, which is sprawling Los Angeles.

it's really fairly compact. It doesn't take long to get from one end to D.C. to the other. So it really is no excuse for rampant crime being tolerated and being president in D.C., simply by the fact that this should be our seat of our government. This is our seat of our government. This is the most powerful, richest country in the world, and our capital should reflect that. You shouldn't feel unsafe going anywhere in Washington, D.C., especially if you're walking around Capitol Hill, if you're walking around the mall, if you're walking around the waterfront, it should be a welcoming enjoyable experience. Now, Mike, we're not talking about, by the way, Michael O'Neill, Landmark

Legal Foundation, Landmarkleagel.orgie. Mike, we're not talking about taking Washington, D.C. and going Singapore, right, where you're going to be caned in the public square for dropping, you know, a candy wrapper, right? We're not talking about that. We're just talking about just restoring what

used to be in Washington, D.C. Yeah. I think so. I mean, if you could go back, go back to 2007, 2003, 2005. I mean, generally speaking, you had a very pleasant experience. It wasn't, I mean, there's some underlying things that have happened in the last 10 years that have kind of created this environment where crime has been able to thrive. Again, you've had this decriminalization or you're treating 16, 17-year-olds, 15, 16, 17-year-olds, understanding that there's not inflicting any kind of punishment for serious crimes that they may commit aggravated assault, for example. If you commit an aggravated assault, and you're a juvenile,

Now, you can be out of jail or you could be back on the streets within 24 to 48 hours. Boy, is it any wonder then that there's a crime problem, specifically in D.C. too, right? Wow. Right, exactly. Exactly. And again, another one, again, quality of life crimes that are just tolerated. This is this broken windows to remember what was perfected back in the mid-early 90s back with Rudolph Giuliani. If you tolerate, you know, vagrants, if you tolerate homeless individuals committing feces on this, you know, in public, or, ranting and raving, and you don't address it, or public drunkenness, public intoxication, widespread drug usage, if you permit that sort of activity to occur out in public and you allow it to go, it metastasizes into bigger and bigger crime, and that's exactly what has happened.

But we know there are proven tactics that can address this, that can make D.C. a livable city, safe city to visit. And I think the president recognizes that. But again, there has to be, obviously, we see the federalization of the police department. You're going to see a greater police presence. But there has to be some underlying changes to some of these systemic laws that have been enacted in the past five years. And that, of course, it has to do with no cash bail, juvenile offenses, a quality of life, enforcement of quality of life crimes, actually prosecuting and committed to distracting or to addressing these systemic crimes. All right. Maybe we should commit to caning.

Well, probably unconstitutional, right? No, I don't think we don't have to go to Singapore. We know what works. And, again, this is what's kind of sad, is that we allowed this to happen. Remember, again, in the 90s, D.C., in the early 90s, lady, D.C. wasn't a great place to visit. It got nice. Just go back to what we were doing that we know works. Okay.

Now, for 30 days he can do this to extend it beyond that, that requires congressional approval? I think so. I think he can, I think you want to have a role of Congress here, step up to this. And I think he could continue. He can seek to extend the emergency conditions. and then taking another 30 days, but the initial point is 30 days to get a hold of this. But again, we want to see Congress and we want to see the Legislature Act here. We want to see that the D.C. Council takes this matter seriously.

Obviously, look, the mayor, she recognizes, and the police recognizes too. And anybody who lives in D.C. recognizes the severity of this. There's no excuse for D.C. not being a wonderful city. And it is still a wonderful city, but there's no excuse for any of this rampant crime that people are having to experience, the vagrancy, all the problems, the quality and life problems that Donald Trump was talking about yesterday. Yeah. All right.

30 days. Okay, 30 days. 30 days in the, in the D.C. hole here. We'll see where this goes. Hey, before we take off, as a point of law, federal judge denied the Justice Department's motion to unseal grand jury materials yesterday related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking cases. And how do we understand that? Any point of law that it was raised that you would find interesting?

Yeah, I would think that, well, you see, first of all, the Department of Justice is moving to unsealed this. So any efforts to allege that the Trump administration is not somehow trying to be transparent about what's going on, I think that kind of shows that it's not necessarily the Department of Justice or the Trump administration. It's judges who are bound by laws of confidentiality. And I would presume, again, I haven't seen the records, and I haven't read the opinion, but I would presume that revealing that declassifying or revealing these grand jury transcripts that, again, are under the presumption of secretive, would inflict damage on non-culpable parties. And so somehow individuals who would see this would, their reputation would be damage.

And although they don't have any kind of criminal exposure, they would suffer damage in embarrassment and civil problems. Kind of like the guilt by association sort of thing just because you were, you know, part of the investigation? Yeah, exactly. No plausible connection to the greater underlying crimes, the Jeffrey Epstein actual action, but somehow there's some sort of embarrassment that confidentiality rules will prevail here to ensure that innocent interests are protected. And again, I'm not making any assumptions. I'm just assuming that that would be the rationale that a judge would apply and not disclosing these grand jury. Now, this was done by an Obama-appointed judge. Do you think that has any influence at all? I really, I couldn't say, I don't necessarily, I wouldn't go that far. I just, again, off the cuff, I would think this, I would want to say that the rules of confidentiality and the presumption of confidentiality afforded to grand jury evidence that they collect is enough to override any kind of underlying public interest in disclosing this.

That would probably, again, that's a ruling of a judge. I don't necessarily would think that any kind of, whether an Obama judge or a Biden judge or a Clinton judge or a Trump judge would have any kind of effect on that. Again, I'm not predisposed to know whether that would affect it. All right. Hey, Mike, I appreciate the update on this one and the analysis on it. And I will certainly link to landmark legal and, of course, your information, the opinion on the D.C. police takeover. And so we'll be watching and waiting. And given that you're in the area, hey, we'll touch back in and see if it gets any better over the next month.

I think it will. I really think it will. Simply a greater police presence on the street and a more active police presence and knowing that the police are able to enforce the laws and are going to have the backing of the U.S. attorney is enough to, I think, take some initial steps to improve things. All right, we'll see. Thanks so much from Landmark. Good having you on, okay? Take care, Bill. Have a great day.

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The intelligence scandal. Part of this was Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant. It was essentially a years-long coup that was launched against President Trump. How deep does it go? They were looking for the intelligence community. investment. That's why they rated Harlow. I believe it had to be one of the things that they were looking for. It doesn't have teeth. I don't think statute of limitations are going to impact. Talk about it here. That report is pretty Tammy. On News Talk 1063 KMED. You're hearing the Bill

Myers Show on 1063 KMED. 829 and change is pebble in your shoe Tuesday. Also have some emails of the day. In order to touch on right now, and I'm also happy to take your call. So if you're Calling, just hang on. Be right with you. 7705-633, and I'm ready to cough again. Just a little tickle. Just that little tickle. I don't know if it's the, just a little bit of wildfires, smoke, a little bit of dust.

Or what was it in the Christmas carol? A bit of bad potted meat or something. I don't know. But some emails of the day are sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson's Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point Family Dentistry.com. While you wake crowns, that is. a big deal there i had one just a couple of weeks ago love it love it love it i love the fact that uh you know they take the pictures with all the computers in your mouth and then they go in

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Second, Trump ran on the very issue of the release of them. Then Bonnie says that they're on her desk. We're perpetually lied to, and at some point this has to stop. Lastly, the public deserves to know who the pedophiles are. Then we have a chance to understand where the enemies lay. When will the accountability start with this? the Republicans, quote-unquote, have control of the Congress. Have we seen any reform at all come out of them?

When will we? That's a question to ask Mr. Bentz when he comes on your show again. We have to start somewhere. Sorry, but the comments like those above, make me second-guess your program, even makes me think of some sort of mockingbird association. Are you an Intel-up? D-L-D-L, truth be told, if I was an Intel-up, I would be making a hell of a lot more money than I am right now, okay?

not that I mind my salary, nothing wrong with my salary, but I'm just saying, no, I can assure you that. I am a bit pragmatic, more of a pragmatist on this one. There is a reason that this has been kept secret for so long, and I'll just give you my opinion about it, is that it would tend to embarrass some of our biggest allies, many of them in the Middle East. Let's just kind of leave it at that. It's too much of an Intel operation, I think, to just blather it out there on Breitbart or, you know, gateway pundit or something. Now, I could be wrong. And yes, I agree with you.

It should be out. But it should have been out a long, long time ago, too. It must be darker, deeper. Why would people be so concerned about letting it out? Now, I know that Mike was just talking about landmark legal, saying that they're not going to let out the grand jury because of the, well, this is supposed to be secret testimony. And I understand that part as a point of law. But Pam Bondi, rather, did say she had the list. Have it on my desk.

I don't know. Maybe we are just being BS. You could be right about that deal. And in a perfect world, we would not be biased. I do think we are making some progress in some areas in its baby steps at this point with reform. Trump, not the paladin in this particular case that I would have thought he was going to be, given the rhetoric on the campaign trail. But you know, the campaign trail is one thing, actually governing is another.

not the way I want it to be, just the way it is. 770563. Let's talk. It's pebble in your shoe Tuesday. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hey, Bill. It's Steve and Medford. Steve. Good to hear from you. What's up? Good covering the Pacific Power thing. I'd just like to add a little commentary to that. Please. A lot of the changes that have happened have been the result of what happened in Washington, D.C. with the federal energy regulatory commission and and as all plumber knows stuff runs downhill but there's layers

to it above us above the Pacific powers the Pacific Northwest Power and Planning Council and then it goes to FERC so now FERC is starting to loosen up on things in fact they just had it I sent you a deal about they're having problems with maintaining the grid because the windmills use inverters to convert the D.C. power that they make into AC, and the frequencies are not always syncing up correctly, and it has to be. It's critical that it is, right? Well, yes, but not only that, the windmills trip if the voltage goes, just spikes. So what's happening in, if you're using normal power that goes through transformers, the transformers absorb some of the energy that protects the grid, but the inverters don't.

So we're finding another weakness in this, and is FERC, FERC is actually loosening up on wanting to get more steady-based load power? Isn't that the case from what I read? I read that report you sent to me. Yes, yeah, they're working on some real stuff instead of pie in the sky kind of things. Now, to go to your thing about the generation, the Pacific, Pacific Core East, no West, it's the grid that we're on. On the EIA webpage, it says we are using 2,320 megawatts of electricity. If you scroll down a little bit on that web page, the real-time grid monitor, it says we're producing 214 plus 20, so that would be to about 260 megawatts.

from wind, solar, and hydro. But it doesn't say where the rest of the power comes from. That's why I say they lie to us. And they used to tell us where that came from. And they used to be very truthful about it, that about 60% came from coal a lot of the time, sometimes 70%. Yes, depending on what's going on with the other generating capacities.

And since they've taken out the coal-fired plants in Oregon and Washington, it's, you know, there's another risk is the transmission lines are so long. In order to get it here, we have risk of things happening in the transmission lines that could theoretically interrupt our power for a significant amount of time. So is FERC, in your opinion, going to get serious, though, about resiliency and getting real power rather than intermittent and chaotic being exclusively at it, do you think? Well, it's a swamp, and all kind of people have, different ideas and are tied into what's going on.

So, you know, when you get down to state politics and the state of Oregon and the public utility commission, who knows what the evil lurks in the hearts of men as far as that goes. Okay. But what I can do is look at their reality. And reality is we are significantly at risk because of their strategy. Agreed, agreed. And we've been talking about this off and on for years, and you hate to be one of these people saying that, you know, told you so, told you so, told you so, told you so. But the ideology, the ideology is all thumb on the scale of gangrene, reducing carbon and putting, you know, if we just have enough, if we just have enough intermittent and chaotic power put onto it, if we just, you know, put a million windmills on it, that'll keep us going 24-7. That's kind of the attitude coming from Oregon, isn't it? Yeah, and the problem of that is the windmills are on the east side of the Rockies,

where the wind slides down and blows all the time, you know, into the plane state. But that's not where people are. Oh, yeah, and so then you're trying to put in long extension cords, so to speak, for it. Appreciate the update on that, and I appreciate you reading that because those reports make my eyes glaze over and head hurt. But thanks for making it understandable, Steve. Wild Sam and Steve there. It is 837. I'll grab one more call, maybe a couple more calls before news.

Hi, who's this? Welcome. This is John. Hey, John. What's going on? Well, the pebble on my shoe is when I read in the papers or, you know, online about people who get picked up and they're here illegally and they're going to get deported. I just don't, I can't get my head around that at all. I mean, they're here illegally, so what do they expect? I mean... Oh, okay.

You're surprised that there is... They're whining. Complaining, all right? They're complaining that they got complaining because they get picked up because they're here illegally. They came here illegally, and now they're picked up, and now they're whining that they've been here for, you know, five or ten years. Well, as long as you've been here five or ten years, you got away with it. than groups such as, there's one nonprofit, I think I was reading about, Oregon for All. Oregon for all.

In other words, Oregon should be for anybody, everybody who comes in. You know, they're an open borders kind of group. They've been able to hide behind sanctuary city laws and sanctuary state laws for quite some time. But I know that they ended up picking up some berry pickers over in the northern part of the state. Yeah, that's what they say. Yeah. And that is going to be the future. I don't know if we're going to see more of that

or if there's going to be some kind of backing off of sanctuary state. There's a possibility. You know, the state of Oregon may actually want the money from the feds more than it wants the resistance to sanctuary law here. I'm just saying it could be. We don't have a conclusion on that yet. Appreciate the call. And one more.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hey, Bill, it's Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia. It's all your mind. You had a friend or a guy call up. It's after the MD that you had on saying we just need to test for what kind of drugs people need, you know, what to put them on. Oh, it was Dr. Carol Lieberman, the psychiatrist, yeah, America psychiatrist, terrorist, terrorist, yeah.

Yeah, there's a lot of people in the Army that are really going, having an incredible terrible problems with all. the psych meds they're putting them on, and they're not watching that. You know, for people with depression and anxiety and all, they're now finding out that it's causing all these birth deformities in their children, and then on top of that, only 10% of those people get any help. Now, schizophrenia, four out of 6,000 getting any help. But Dr. Johnson, if you would have this doctor on, he's the doctor that wanted to commit suicide when he was in high school.

He had metabolic syndrome. Okay. What kind of a doctor? He's a psychologist from Harvard. Okay. And what happened is he got on the Atkins diet and cleared up his metabolic syndrome and his depression. And he has now written a book about the mitochondria. All right.

I will look him up here because that could be interesting. I don't have a lot of time to delve into this, but do you ever read a Midwestern doctor substack? Oh, absolutely. Okay, yeah. What are the more interesting doctors, medical doctors on Substack these days? I don't know who this individual is or if it's male or female. I don't know. They're keeping the identity of this doctor under wraps, I suppose,

probably to make sure that he or she can continue to work, you know, out there. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but they were talking about, well, the reason I was bringing that up, though, is that you were talking about metabolic syndrome, right? You were just mentioning this. This is a big deal. And the doctor, the Midwestern doctor was talking about something, a nice little nugget that came out of the post over the weekend, was that metabolic syndrome, in other words, the getting, getting fat and having problems with gluten and various other issues is unknown in Italy where they use more or older non-GMO, more ancient form. of grain to make their pasta.

Exactly. Yeah, and I thought that was, and I ended up finding that out for myself just accidentally by getting a imported pasta with organic and GMO and non-GMO wheat on it, not having Roundup being sprayed on it to dry it during harvest like a lot of American wheat is before it ends up going into bread and cakes and various other things. That is like an atom bomb to your intestine as far as your bacteria, and we know when the glyphosate at 1, what it was at 180th, part per billion will destroy your gut flow. Now, what was that doctor again? What's the name?

Dr. William Davis, Wheatbelly. Dr. Wayne. Oh, the Wheatbelly guy. Okay. All right. I'll just look up wheat belly. I'll find him. I'll get him on.

Thanks for the call, Lucretia. I got to do it. I got to go, though. Okay. All right. Wheat belly. Yeah, the wheat belly. I've always wanted to talk to that.

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Text message, copy of your bill, right? Yes, or give me a call or come to my showroom and meet me in person. That's the best. Okay, that's the best way. And you know where I'm at. Oh, yeah, 1560 Biddle Road, Sweet Bee in Medford. And what are your normal hours there? When are you normally there with the dogs?

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Talk with Cherise over no wires and get the details on this. I think we want to keep in mind on the cell phone deal is something where you have to have spectrum internet in order to get that deal? This is the deal we're talking about, like the one I have. Yes, but now I have even a better deal. Oh, yeah? DISH just came out with $15 a month, unlimited, talk, text, and data per line. DISH.

You just have to own your phone, and you have to own your number, and $15. Okay, now, hold on. I just want to make sure you're telling me, DISH, satellite television company. Yes, they own boost. They own a huge portion of, uh, You know, they own all a boost, actually. So, you know, there's so much competition out there. If you go to the regular booth store, I'm not bagging on my neighbor, but you don't get that deal.

Him and I talked about it yesterday. You got to come into my store because I'm a premier dish retailer. I can get you the best cell phone deal to $15 a line. So you score a good deal on the TV, if you're looking for that and get the hopper and everything else, and then you can score a cell service for $15 a month. Man, I'll tell you what's happening. If you're paying a lot for a cell phone, there's a problem then, isn't there? So basically, okay, the majority of you all are my clients already.

So if you guys are on spectrum and your free deal went away, come back in and I'll get you the $15 deal. I can do the switcheroo every year. That is, man, it's just always always working that, work in that angle. Heck yeah, heck yeah. You know, the other thing about this is that as you help get people less expensive internet and telephone and, of course, television, whether it's, you know, cable, whether it is a saddle. Yep. You work this, and you will take the equipment back.

This is something that a lot of places will not do. I mean, you're the one that does this negotiating, right? In fact, I know that Spectrum must cry when you call them. And they, okay, I'll just give you. Well, you know, I sell Spectrum. So I sell everything, so I'm not biased. So whatever your situation is, I mean, even if you have dish and your dish bill has gone way up, There's other things that I can get for you for, you know, I can switch you to a streaming service or I can switch you to Zoomo.

And it's only 80 bucks for your locals and 15 channels. Wow. 80 bucks. And most people probably only watch a few handful of channels, really, when you look at a grand scheme of things. Whatever your situation is, just come and talk to me. I'm going to help you save money. Probably a lot more than you're going to realize. Probably $2,500 a year is the average person I save.

are the gun slinger then, right? You're the hired gun. You're going and do battle. And it's interesting because, like I said, she sells all these different services. You market all these different services, and some may work for others or for some people better than others, right? That's fine works. So here's the other thing you've got to think of. If you're in an area that doesn't have spectrum internet or hunter and they're coming to your area, please call me. I'm going to give you way better service. I'm going to take your old equipment back. I'm going to be there for you when your bill goes up. If you go, if you sign up with the person that comes to your door, they're not going to do any of the extra things that I'm going to do for you. So just keep that

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let you know exactly when it's coming out. A lot of times they'll say, oh, we're going to be in your area next month. And then it really takes six months. you know, three months. So they don't really know. They just know they're running, you know, the lines down your road kind of thing. Okay. Yeah. So that's how that part works.

All right. Well, Charisse, I appreciate the update here on Open for Business. Always good to have you here. Put your information up. And I have to tell you, of all the clients we have, I probably, I probably hand out your phone number to more people than ever, you know. And I do want to say for our special, mentioned Bill Myers. I'll give you $100 visa card if you switched a dish.

Plus, you get three months free. So that's basically four months of TV for free. All right. Keep that in mind. All right. Very good. Hey, we appreciate the take. And thank you, Cherise.

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Yeah, 550 megawatts of power went online in 1975. It was put out of business by the Oregon State Legislature. The Oregon State Legislature arbitrarily raised emission standards and made it impossible to run the plant, so it would have to be shut down. So the state of Oregon would have to find other ways to get electricity for the people that live here, most of which comes from buying electricity at market rate off the grid. And that's how we are planning to keep the grid happy, not by really having baseload power, but by hoping that there's spare baseload power from other states to send to us.

That's exactly right. We're buying our base load from other states at market rates, which is crazy. So, Bill, what has changed? what changes is that the EPA is in the process of saying that carbon is not harmful for the planet. So this is going to be – so what this means is that the entire reason that the Oregon State Legislature shut it down on the first – or raise their standards so that it couldn't operate are going to be completely turned on their head, and the state of Oregon will be unable or unable to defend the closure of that plant. Well, well, no, they can be, okay, you're right, though.

I mean, when it comes to logic, they'd be unable to defend it. Yes. But that doesn't mean that they're going to reverse course. Is that what you're trying to make the case for? I don't see. Well, it'll take a lawsuit. It'll take a lawsuit. But all of these good time rock and roll subsidies that are building these windmills and

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