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Episode Date: August 21, 2025

Gene Steinberg, COO of Marguee Broadcasting, which just purchased all our southern Oregon radio stations...We talk about what happens next and Fox 26 is moving into our building! More news and calls follow.

The Bill Myers 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 Klausurrilling.com. Ashland. Seven minutes after eight, and joining me, you may have read in some of the local news reports around here recently that by coastal media's Medford stations have been sold, and we have been purchased by marquee broadcasting. And we just found out, I found out Monday, like right after I got off the show,

it's kind of like, all of a sudden, oh, by the way, been sold oh great okay uh who is it marquee broadcasting well know much about them well let's find out more about them now jean steinberg is the chief operating officer who has been with us all this week how you doing jean i am great great to be here okay what was it about uh well first off why you tell us a little bit about marquis broadcasting a little bit about uh you know how big how many stations well we're actually you know in the in this day and age where you know maybe you're reading about consolidation of these big giant groups you know we are at family-owned company. We're owned by Pat and Brian Lane, and it's, you know, mom and dad

own the place, and which is a great way to run a railroad. I know we are, we are just a family-owned company, and ITs that we're, we cover the, the country from A to Z. We're literally in Atlanta, Georgia, and we're in Zanesville, Ohio. So we go from, from A to Z. In Atlanta, we have just a me TV station like, like we do here in all of our other markets. We're either, one of the big four so either ABC NBC CBS or or Fox yeah what attracted you to to set up shop in southern Oregon because it was just recently a few weeks ago from what I understand that you had purchased or taken over KMVU Fox 26 you know earlier earlier in the year so earlier in your pardon me right so we've been here for a few months we we love you know we love the market we

love the you know the energy here and so we we know we started with Fox and our little campaign as we've come together is better together. And so having TV and radio together for the audience, in all honesty, for our clients, is a perfect opportunity where we can offer, you know, the triple play. You know, if you're, if you want to get your message out, whether through your show or through television, so now we can offer radio, we can offer television, and we can offer, uh, digital. Okay. Yeah, so a multi-pronged approach here.

Just, just curious, I remember it, well, I was just talking about, uh, a big, merger or a big purchase that went on in in Portland that was just announced the other day with a coin and kGW the two companies so take um next star uh in theory is buying tegna which are two giant groups so when they're done they're going to have like 225 television stations across the country massive massive uh we are we are the little kids down the street and uh and and we like it that way well i'm okay with the little kids down the street you know you know the nice part And you'll find out, you know, working with us is, you know, there's not layers of bureaucracy. You know, if you want something you call Jean, I call Pat and Brian, we're done. You know, there's no, I got to call the senior vice president of blah, blah, to get something accomplished. It's just us. And please take your request in triplicate and send it to this department and that department. And wait a month or two, okay?

No, we make decisions quickly. I mean, this whole thing came together with Bicostal in the last few months, well, maybe eight, weeks. I mean, we thought about it. And Mike, who's your COO, we hooked up with him. And, you know, bicultural is wonderful. And it's not like bicultural had any great plans. You know, they didn't reach out to us and say, ooh, you want to buy our radio stations? It's like, we reached out to them. So you made the choice. Yes. And we went after us. We reached out to them. You know, they're not looking to divest. But when someone knocks on your door and says, hey, you want to talk, you talk. And that's, and that's how it happened. Well, you know what happens immediately. Anytime

there's a talk of a sale coming in here. Listeners write me and I get the text messages. My phone explodes and like, are they firing you? Is everything going away? And is all of a sudden? No, I think the Rogue Valley is stuck with you. No. We, you know, my kind of, you know, silly line is, you know, we don't buy things to screw them up.

We buy them to find success and then use the synergies to grow that success. So, no, the Bill Meyer show isn't going anywhere. As a matter of fact, maybe we can find. other things to do to maybe expand your empire. How does that sound? Oh, I like the sound of that. Yes, I would be the benevolent dictator. That's it.

That's it. In all seriousness, though, going back to that KGW and K2, merger or the purchase that we were just talking about a moment ago, a lot of this sort of stuff seems to be happening right now. Is there an assumption that the current administration, Trump administration, is much more open to more of the, mega merger deals is that what's going on is it kind of an assumption that all this yeah i i think the mega mergers are coming out of the fact that um just kind of taking a look at

the rules that broadcasting had to live under that were very antiquated you know now the world is so different from streaming services from digital aspects from streaming services you know Broadcasting, you know, when we grew up, you know, you got up and changed the channel and, you know, mom and dad made you get up and change the channel. You had four things to watch. That's what you had kids for. Yeah, exactly. You have four things to watch and, you know, everybody did a 20 rating or a 25 rating. You know, now television, if somebody, you know, outside of the Super Bowl, if, you know, if someone did that in a primetime show, they would probably wake up in disbelief. So, you know, the world has changed. Much more fragmented. Very fragmented, and the FCC hasn't done a great job of saying, you know what, the world has changed. We need to help you change. And so the duopoly rules have changed where it used to be that you couldn't own, so you couldn't own two big fours. So ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox. You could own an NBC and a CW or something like that, but you couldn't own big fours. Well, they've changed that rule where you can own two big fours. When we acquire, Medford, we also acquired a TV station in Eureka, and we have NBC and CBS, and in all of our markets. We have dual affiliations everywhere, because again, in this day and age, you need a

couple different pipelines to succeed. Yeah, they used to really be restrictive. You know, a newspaper couldn't own the radio station. You know, everything was about monopolies, but with the infinite dial and streaming, the internet, and various other ways, satellite, all of these different combos, it's next to impossible to get a monopoly on much of anything these days, isn't it really? Yeah, and, you know, and Medford is almost a prime example of how the world has changed. And, you know, on the television side, you have Sinclair that owns the CBS station here in town. But, you know, they basically got out of the news business because economically, It didn't make sense.

The Allen station, the ABC station, you know, they're running a lot of it, I understand, out of their Eugene station to try to get some sort of synergy and so forth. On the radio side here, it's very interesting because there are no, you know, there's bicultural, which is now part of marquee, or marquee broadcasting West, which is the actual company that owns this. Duly noted. And you have, you know, two other, you know, Opus and Stevens that are small operators, you know, the big guys are not here.

So it's very interesting that the playing field is kind of level, so you don't have the giant radio group, you know, breathing over the shoulder of the little guy here is kind of all equal. And now we are all equals because, you know, we're no bigger than anybody else. Yeah. And there was a time when there was just a feeding frenzy, I want to say late 90s, you know, into the early 2000s in which, well, Clear Channel as an example, which is now IHeart used to own us years ago. And that was the example of, okay, send it up. up the you know in triplicate and and maybe you can get a you know windshield wipers for your vehicle you know for the station vehicle just kidding it's not that bad but you understand what i'm getting at so it's a different world and you're still wanting to focus really on local programming

is what you're hoping to do here what i well you know inter you know our our motto shall we say is you know marquee broadcasting you know because local matters and you know that's our mantra and we believe it. So we want to, you know, grow your show. We're going to add some local content to our Fox station. We, you know, we've teamed up with our friends over at NBC5. You know, we now have a 10 o'clock news back on Fox that went away under the previous ownership before we bought it. So, yeah, our goal is to be as local as we can. Because in this day and age, in terms of syndication, you know, I love us dearly. We run Big Bang Theory. If you don't want to watched it on us. You know, sometimes my line is, if you haven't seen it, it's not our fault.

There's all kinds of places where you can watch things on streaming and so forth. But local, only local people can do it. And on the television side here, you know, we're excited to see what we can do because, you know, there isn't much local left. I mean, Sinclair isn't doing anything with CBS. And again, ABC, you know, they do a great job. Their numbers are good. And I have nothing bad to say about the ABC station here. But, you know, they're looking at at ways of being economically responsible and maybe teaming up with Eugene helps them be economically responsible. But that is the challenge in today's media world.

And I've tried to explain this to listeners over the years is that news is very expensive to do, especially television news when you're, you know, talking about getting people out and crews and interviews and you bring it all back. Now, I suppose we could just do everything where everybody's on a Zoom call every time. And that seems to be the way they're doing it now. And starting a news department from scratch is millions of dollars. And just realistically, in the day that we live in today, not sure it's a practical application to be smart about it. You know, heck, it's even, you know, it's hard to just find folks who want to work and, you know, you put a posting and looking for reporters and producers and anchors and editors.

It's hard. In all of our markets, one of our biggest challenges is just, you know, finding people who want to do the job. I've been kind of curious. I don't know if you can speak to this, Jane. Jane Steinberg is with me. He's the chief operating officer of Marquis Broadcasting. And we are what?

Marquis Broadcasting West. All right. So I'm being a little indulgent, but people were wondering, okay, you got bought, who were you bought by? And so I wanted to make sure you knew about this. What do you think when it comes to the digital world, the digital advertising world, might be going on overtime, is are we entering a time in which the the hammer lock on community advertising by Google

may be coming to an end? Is there any evidence that could you speak to this? Because one of the concerns in, and one of the things which has hurt a lot of local media outlets over the years is that essentially you have the big Borg that comes in and essentially eats everybody's lunch, everybody's lunch and then your uh your local communities and your local news you know whether it's newspaper whether it's a radio tv whatever ends up being hollowed out over over time and i'm just kind of curious because i'm here i was reading something the other day was intriguing me that that google is starting to lose its uh its ability to do this in the era of a i don't know if there's something you can speak to or not you know i'm not a total expert on that but i'll say that you know

in the media landscape, just as you said, is kind of the same thing. You know, roll the clock back 20 years and, you know, towns had their nice, you know, local five and dime or whatever. Then along came Walmart, right? And then the big box stores took away all of, you know, a lot of the local businesses. And that's what, you know, AI and digital is trying to do. So what we need to do is just focus on local, local, local. Right.

And, you know, it's funny. I can, you know, sit on my iPad at home and, you know, play a silly video game or something, and up will pop an ad, and, you know, it'll be an ad for a car dealership in Des Moines. And it's like, you know, it doesn't make sense. So, you know, our goal is just to find a way to, you know, A, help our viewers and listeners and also help our clients. I mean, you know, we... Nothing happens until something is sold, Jean.

Yeah, we sometimes don't like to say it, but you know what? We're a business. You know, we need to make money so that we can put it back into our stations and pay the bills and pay our folks and do good for the community. So, yeah, we need advertiser support. We are a for-profit company and we just have to figure out new ways. And digital has been helpful, but it is spreading the pie out a little bit. And that's why, you know, I'm standing here in the studios now is that we realize that, you know, just having Fox and MeTV and Telemundo and, you know, My 48, not that there's anything wrong with any. of that, but, you know, my old Hackney line is if one plus one can equal three, it's a good

thing. And so by adding all of these radio stations to the TV stations, it should be a win for everybody. All right. Very good. Hey, Gene, I appreciate you coming in. My pleasure. Other things to do here. Gene Steinberg is the chief operating officer, Marquis broadcasting. And like I said, nothing's going away. Just wanted to let you know because people always panic. And I get that. I understand. Absolutely. Because we've all seen the stories in which taken over everybody's fired right we we've all seen stories now you're stuck here okay well i'm stuck there you're stuck with you thanks good talking with you all right it's a 21 minutes after eight this is kmED and 993 kbxg on the bill mire show your smile

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you feel like discussing this morning, 770 KMED, by email Bill at Bill Myers Show.com. Miter Dave is here. Hello, Dave. Good to hear from you. What's going on? Well, first off, I want to congratulate you because with this new buy, this is going to give you personally a chance to expand digitally and television-wise because they could, well, they could take part of your show and air it with your camera that you got that you're on Facebook. This is actually better than Facebook. I think it's great opportunity for you, and I'm happy for you.

Well, I'm happy for the situation, too. Right now, we're just all trying to figure out how the pieces are going to fit together. And we're working with Fox 26's engineer, Eric, great guy, by the way. And you're going to get master controls and studios in here. There's a lot of moving parts to it. But once we get it all together, I think it's going to be pretty cool, Dave. Once we get in the old again. I've been into your, into your studio, and it's pretty crowded.

I don't know what kind of space you have at that building, but it's jam-packed. It's going to get really packed. But, and then my pet peeve I didn't get to talk about yesterday is we had a fire here at my neighbor's ranch, which had their dead ends in it, and that's the only way out, until we can get, until we can get the Lakeview road open. And the way they did that is the old bridge, they blocked it off from going up the road. They have a new bridge in there, but it's behind a lock gate with a key code and an alarm. Now, what kind of a, I'm not a legal guy here, Dave, so I'm trying to understand this.

what kind of easement is there for your ability to get in and out of the Iron Gate Estates? There's two easements in here to get in here. They were put in when this was a ranch, even before they had the dams in. So that road, we've got over 100, more than 150 years of easement rights there to get in there. because this was once a ranch. Now, how is it, though, that they can lock one side of it and keep you in the point where, you know, one road gets flooded or they're, and then you're kind of landlocked there?

We're going to have to probably, see, they told us they'd reopen it once they were done with, you know, removing the dams. They haven't opened it. I could see where maybe for construction-wise, they didn't want the traffic, but now there's no reason why they shouldn't open it and, you know, give us access to the new bridge that they put in there. And, you know, somebody's going to die in here if we don't get that open. And I don't want it to be me.

All right. So we got to sue him. Kirby Jackson, he owns a lot in here. He said he would write the board a notice to open that. Now, we're not seeking money. We're just seeking the road opening, so this would have to go to state court here. Yeah, I really think that that Siskue County, unfortunately, in Northern California, has been rolled by the KRC folks in RES. And, you know, the Cal Fire here wants it open, but, you know, the higher-ups won't let them open it, enforced the opening because, you know, the Cal Fire or Hornbrook Fire,

could force them to open it. But, you know, so far, no action that way. All right. Sorry to hear that, but, yeah. I understand then why some people are talking about a big set of bolt cutters. But you didn't hear me say that, okay? Right. Well, we probably need a cat.

All right. What now? You know, a big bulldozer. Oh, oh, that kind of, oh, that one. Oh, what was that? Gosh, what was that? Was it Heemeyer? Heemeyer, the guy, remember he had the killdozer?

What was that, 30-something years ago, went crazy and just was driven crazy by that local government someplace. And then he took the cat and then put armor on it and everything else and just went rampaging through the town. Remember that story? Yeah, I think he ran over their little jail. Yeah, yeah, he ended up knocking down City Hall for what I recall because he was so upset with him. I appreciate the call, Dave. Speaking of upset at City Hall, on tomorrow's show on Conspiracy Theory Thursday, Mark Huddo, and you know him of Jay Austin.

We talk about he's one of my sponsors, Jay Austin. He has been working with Jackson County for months. And I mean, it's been months about trying to be able to work with some property that he has up on Dead Indian Memorial Plateau. You know, up on the plateau up there. and the process here with Oregon State land use and all the rules and the regulations and the hearings and it all seems designed to keep people locked up and unable to use their properties. No question about that. These sort of things we've been talking about it off and on for years.

But he's going to be coming in studio and we're going to talk for maybe a good hour. And if you have any issues involved with land use planning and some of the inability to use your property that you supposedly own, I'll put own in scary air quotes, he's going to tell us the story because he's been hearing over the last few weeks. And it's been a very frustrating process. And I don't know if it's, and I don't think it's necessarily something through the county commission. It's almost through the planning industrial complex and various people. So we're going to have a conversation about that tomorrow. And Mark's going to join the show around 730 on Conspiracy Theory Thursday. I think this is the conspiracy hiding out in plain sight.

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Oregon-Trump. Hey, 35, it is open phones. We'll check out the latest news here in just a moment. But I want to make sure we squeeze Gene's call in because, Gene, I don't want to keep you waiting, all right? Because I do not want you to slide back into grumpiness, okay? Because, you know, you hold a lot of sway around here. I just want to let you know, okay? I'm not grumpy, but I have a few questions for you.

Okay. Besides, where is town hall on Saturday morning anymore? Okay, the town hall, you're talking about the weekend review, that sort of thing? Well, it gives the only news that you get on the weekend. Yeah, well, there's also the weekend, 4 to 7 in the afternoon there with Michael Brown. You know, a guy used to work the EPA. He's pretty good. I have listened to it a few times, but they don't give the...

But local news, they don't give the weather report, or... I mean, the weather report is for Medford because on weekends, according to the TV, Grant Pass and Roseburg vanish. Oh, okay, well, I do the weather forecast on the weekend. I don't know if you do that. I do those. Yeah, but it's from Medford. No, I don't say Medford, because generally speaking, I'm giving a generic one

because if there's a difference between Grants Pass and Medford, it's usually only sometimes Grants Pass is a couple degrees cooler, right? And I will note that if that's what's going to happen. But in Grants Pass also it gets more rain, considerably more rain than Medford. And when we get storms, that tends to be a difference. Other than that, there's not a huge difference right now, this time of year, usually, between Josephine and Jackson County. It just depends.

Now, you go further west. Now, you're in Wilderville. You're getting into the west side. you're going to be heading into more rain next week is when we're going to be seeing more talk about that and then I'll break it down that way when I do the weekend forecast okay more rain next weekend maybe it isn't going to be so hot

but anyway oh it's going to be about 100 about 100 or more it's what we're hearing right now I don't like that okay well see I'm trying to not keep you grumpy okay see I'm getting you grumpy already sorry about that but as far as you were asking me

about Judge Janine Piro I'm not sure what happens with the Judge Janine Piro show and I will in fact I was going to call those people today because she joined the Trump administration and I don't think she's coming back at first

there was some talk that this was only going to be a temporary deal and she would go back on the radio show but I think she's going to be gone for the duration for right now and so I'll try to have more information on that tomorrow what happens with that slot okay according to the news

she's going after that one guy on a federal offense, which is great. Mm-hmm. But also, what TV station are they having now? Well, you can actually maybe see something besides sports on Weekend? I don't know. I think weekend only exists for sports. Isn't that what all it is for?

I'm glad I got a lot of DVDs. All right. See, there it is. I'm trying to keep you. I'm trying to not. and make sure that you don't get grumpy, all right? But I'll tell you more about Judge you need tomorrow, okay? Gene, thank you.

Okay, what I want to know is those guys that are banging, pants and stuff and being idiots at the town hall. Yeah. Has the people ever thought about asking, how much are you paying for me not being able to speak? Yeah, if I were widened, I just would have had their butts thrown out. But you see, the unspoken aspect of this, Gene, is that, Ron Wyden was essentially attacked and silenced by his own radical base,

the most radical extreme side of the Democratic base. And maybe that's why he didn't want to throw him out. I don't know. Well, what I'd like to know is why don't the people sitting there trying to ask legitimate questions? How much are you paying for me not to be able to ask questions? Point well taken. Gene, thank you. I'll try to get all your questions answered tomorrow.

But tomorrow's show, I have more calls to make. Calls to make, people to meet, and things to do. Let's catch up on the rest of the news now. From the KMED News Center, here's what's going on. Is the difference? This hour of the Bill Myers Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing. For roofing gutters and sheet metal services, visit Fontanarroofing Services.com. About 10 minutes left in the program here, if you had a opinion on any of the news we've been talking about this morning,

whether it is the challenges with town halls here in southern Oregon. would you want to see town hall still being conducted and just having the well the disruptive dirt bags thrown out are you okay with maybe pushing this into the electronic realm and having Zoom meetings now I know Cliff Bentz did that a few weeks ago when he ended up getting shouted down to the point

nobody wanted to discuss things you know they just wanted to bang drums and and interrupted and keep other regular folks from being able to speak, from being able to speak. And to be, I'm hoping that essentially, essentially Congress and Bentz and Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Jeff Berkeley, whoever might be, just ends up growing a spine and then setting out rules that, okay, you know, if you're acting improperly, no, it's not a matter of what question you're asking, it's, you know, how you're trying to do it, you know,

time, manner in place, because time, manner in place, you can put, restrictions on time, manner, in place, and throw the jerks out. And I think that's what needs to be done. What concerns me is that, oh, okay, well, we'll just have town hall meetings then be nice and sanitary Zoom calls, Zoom calls. And then you hope that they will unmute your camera and microphone and bring it up on the screen so you can actually address your congressman or your senator and i know that gets rid of the they gets rid of the problem of anybody you know banging drums and doing their things

but boy talk about a real restriction you know then you of course uh the only people who are able to really uh get a redress of grievances or are people who are connected to the internet get their laptop camera or whatever it else and are also willing to to, you know, go on camera for the group. You know, that kind of thing. I think something would really be lost, don't you? How would you handle it? I'd love talking with you about that.

7705-633-770K-MED. I think it is a big deal, a bigger deal than is being talked about in our, you know, local news out there. Oh, he had to stop. They were being mean. And, frankly, I would be getting a little tough, but I don't know how you feel about that or not.

770563. Good morning. Hi, who's this? And welcome to the show. This is Ed, Bill. How are you? Ed, a pleasure. How are you doing, Mr. X?

Good to hear from you. Well, I sent you an email. I did a little research dive on it. And, you know, from the general part of it is basically common sense. These town halls are considered public meetings. Yes. And what I took you to is the actual law, and then let's go to relationships with actual occurrences. Let me go to this because I hadn't had a chance to go over the actual.

You know, I get so many emails in in the morning. A lot of times I don't get a look at him until I'm off here. But could you kind of give me a thumbnail sketch on so we can understand the laws surrounding this? Well, I went first to a question of logic. Is a town hall meeting considered a public meeting? And absolutely. Absolutely. It's a public meeting. So let's go to the precedent. Okay, our, you know, like I remember Josephine County called in police officers to escort people out of there, okay, at public meetings. Okay. So, you know, the precedent for removal is basically a judgment call upon who's giving the meeting or who's conducting the meeting and the purpose of the meeting. So this is up to Senator Rod Wyden or Senator Jeff Merkley or Congressman Bent. as an example to make a judgment call, right?

Right. Right. And I believe that what it comes down to is a fortitude thing within them, that they don't want to give an impression that they were going to force the issue or something or let the left media paint it as a broad disruption of private rights and things like that, but they don't have the right to demonstrate inside that meeting because that meeting is conducted for public input. We live in a representative republic. I get so tired of hearing these people referring to democracy all the time.

Yeah, democracy. Well, democracy is the system in which two wolves decide to vote and eat the sheep. That's essentially what it means. Well, you've said it several times this morning, okay? Our, you know, our representatives have to perform to what we want. Well, how can we interact and inform them of what we want by letting a bunch of. a clowns come in there and demonstrate. This is a harm

to me. I don't have the ability to say what I came there to say or ask the questions to find out what his position is and make a decision whether or not I want to vote for this guy again. Yeah. Now the clowns that disrupted the Ron White

and Town Hall the other day in Josephine County they were about they were promoting in favor of putting attention on Gaza. And what I don't understand, Ed, is that I would have loved to have had one of them just formulate a question and then directed to Senator Wyden, I would have liked to have heard his answer in his policy, his point of view on something like that. That would have been useful. Shutting down the meeting didn't do anything, didn't

help, you know? I have a different take on what they were there to do, Bill. Oh, yeah? Okay, it's immaterial what they claimed they were there to do, like putting pressure on them for Gaza. That was ridiculous. What they're doing is, trying to put a perpetual intrusion into our ability to communicate with our elected representative. Ah, okay. That's the goal. That's the art of war thing that they practice, okay?

They want to disrupt, and they want to consistently disrupt every aspect of our interaction with our elected leadership. And then to go to an electronic gatekeep to online meeting, that restricts it even further, doesn't it? Exactly. Exactly. And I want to be able to publicly go into a place and feel like the issues that we came there to discuss, you know, or listen to or listen to rationale positions are publicly disclosed. And what they're doing allows that not to happen. Okay. And what we have to do is exercise just literal judgment and then use the law. And they need to use the law. And these formats, needs to be protected for us. Ed?

And it's, you know, you go back. Ed? I'm sorry. Ed, I was just going to say, I'm giving you a real American solution on that, okay? I appreciate you just taking, I appreciate you taking us to the law, okay? That's it. You know, you always talk about. Well, that's the thing.

And we have to do this to protect ourselves. We have to take this logical step and say, okay, what right do these people have to harm me? Now, when I get back from vacation here on the second, I just want to let you know that Congress in Benz has wanted to come on the program, and it's probably going to be on the second. Right now, he's going out to various different districts around here, doing that right now, doing other town halls, et cetera. And I think what I'm just going to talk to him about is that, Cliff, you're just going to have to get tough.

You're going to have to get tough, set some hard, fast rules, and have security escort people out who are just doing it. nothing but stopping the input from all the other citizens from taking place. We're just going to be tough on Cliff. Cliff is going to have to be tough on the disruptive dirtbacks. That's all there is to it. And take the consequences, I suppose, huh? Well, you know, we have to start becoming less powers of it, not in a violent way,

but also look at it with disgust. Look at it as what they're stealing from you. Point well taken. Ed, thanks for the call. That's it. Do we have a Hell's Angels chapter here in Southern Oregon, and we'll have them do security? Just kidding. Wouldn't that be wild, huh?

Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Greetings, Bill. This is Brad with the SLM. Oh, Brad. How you doing? Great to hear from you.

Hey, I did have an opportunity, well, not an opportunity, but I did have an opinion, I guess, of the town hall meeting culture. I've been to two, one with Ron Wyden, and before him, when Greg Walden was still representing us, and it was a very large meeting at one of the high schools. Yes, I was at that one, and you had the gray hairs that were hissy-fitting the whole time. Oh, my God, I couldn't believe the behavior. And it was really one side of the political spectrum that was really, you know, making an ass out of themselves and not letting the individual taxpayers have an opportunity to communicate. Do you think that getting tough is the way it's going to have to be?

You know, what other choice do we have? We've got to start making some exceptions to the way things are happening. Otherwise, nobody's going to get representation. Appreciate the call. Thank you for that, brother, Brad, and I'll grab another call. Hi, this is Bill. Who's this? Good morning on K&D.

Hi, this is Nancy in Grant's Pass. Hi, Nancy. So I'm calling about this town hall meeting. I was really appalled at these students, but I saw something, maybe saw something different. Because Whiten is Jewish. Could this have been more anti-Semitism? And if it was, wouldn't Rogue Community College lose their government funding, the federal government funding, if that was the case? You know, I don't know.

of course I'm not a fan I'm not supportive of the kids where they're coming from but on the other hand I'm also not a fan of conflating that every criticism of our involvement with Israel is somehow related to anti-Semitism

I mean both extremes of that I have problems with you know okay well that's that was my thought that under underlying that might be the real issue you know because it is going around with the colleges and there's problems with the funding stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That was my first thought. I thought, well, he, I think he's, and I looked

it up, and he is, that is his belief. He is Jewish. But I thought, well, I wonder if that's the real, the real, you know, the real issue about this. I don't know. I'm not convinced that it's not, that the real reason is not because, is, is not because of that as much as the fact is Ron Wyden expects support from people on that hard left, but yet there's some of the most difficult to control or placate, I guess, if, you know, if we're honest about where that's going. Right. Well, I just think these kids are, I'm not stupid. They're uneducated because it starts with, you know, Palestine and Israel. It starts way back in the Bible. So, yeah, and they've been at each other's throats for a long, long time, Nancy. Appreciate the call. Thanks for that. 857.

For over four. Good morning. This is News Talk 1063, KMED. And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. State Representative Dwayne Yonker popped me a message a couple hours ago, and I hadn't had a chance to read it yet. I want to make sure you knew about it because I was talking about, hey, Republicans just need to be away and not let the session go in if they really care. If they care, don't be there is what I'm going to be saying. And Dwayne says, Bill, we have a handful of Republicans that want to be there,

so the Republican leaders have no power. Representative McIntyre is wrong. if they can't open the session because they don't have quorum enough for Republicans there, the actual session never starts. That's the argument that I was raising with Representative McIntyre, but she told me that legislative counsel insists that the absences would still count. But maybe we talk more about that tomorrow, Dwayne. Be well. See you tomorrow.