Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 08-22-25_FRIDAY_6AM

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

08-22-25_FRIDAY_6AM

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 Klausor drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Great to have you here. It is Find Your Phone Friday, which means happy to take your call. 770-KMED. Email us on Bill at Bill at Billmyershow.com and work course on 1063KMED in Jackson County,

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We have a little bit of open phone time here in the early part of the show if you wanted to talk, once again, 7705, 633. to join in. Top national story right now. Wow, this is this is breaking on a Friday morning and John Bolton's house, John Bolton's house, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, remember the guy with the Walrus mustache and was kind of a fan of President Trump at first. It is now one of the most well he's a big Trump derangement syndrome kind of guy at this point

and there's been a falling out between the two of them but the FBI rated his home this morning, and this is in Maryland, is when this was going on. This happened a couple of hours ago, is when this story broke Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, this according to Fox, I believe that Bolton may still possess classified documents. So it is a classified document search here, and the feds have raided that home. They busted in about 4 o'clock, 4 o'clock. Just as I was waking up, this story ended up breaking.

So FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, we haven't heard much from him recently, huh? But he shared the post and wrote public corruption will not be tolerated. So we'll just have to follow this story and see where it goes. Oregon has responded to the Trump administration. In fact, Secretary of State Tobias Reid, rejecting Trump's Justice Department demands for voter data. Now, the Trump administration is upset with Oregon because they look at our vote by mail system as being a bit hinky. Of course, there's some strong evidence for that. But, you know, Oregon, we have a faith-based voting system that you can not demand voter identification in any way

and just give everybody who has a driver's license, a ballot, you know, all these kind of things. But I digress. OPB reporting Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Reid yesterday, flatly rejecting the the demand from the Justice Department to turn over voter data and claiming that to do so could violate Oregonians' privacy rights. Isn't this a state has had some data breaches and things like that from? I mean, since when is the state of Oregon all that worried about our privacy? Okay, I'll just let that go for right now.

But U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi last week and DOJ asking that all sorts of information including full name, date of birth, residential address, and driver's license numbers, or partial social security numbers for every Oregon voter. I guess the point is, that's a public record. And if you're talking about a government-to-government transfer, I'm not sure what the problem is. Well, I think you can pretty much figure what they think the problem is, that there is loosey-gooseiness on the Oregon voter rolls.

and Oregon doesn't want to give up that information because the Democrats that are in charge probably like the system the way it is. I'm just engaging in a little conjecture. We are talking about pure power politics, really, at this point. Trump administration is on the war path against vote by mail. Don't blame them for doing that too. And so this is, I imagine he's probably fishing for a little bit of information that could make the case for maybe changing the law.

laws and maybe imposing or getting rid of vote by mail. Now, that doesn't mean that we would get rid of absentee ballots. I was talking about that yesterday. Some people just completely coming unglued. Even with them in my own family, they're not real upset. They're really upset with the hair. Gosh, I'm kind of homebound. I can't do it.

Listen, you know, before we had to show up in person to vote, we still had absentee ballots that were sent out. It would just kind of go back to the way it was before, and somehow the Republic survived. okay okay let's see what was a good day for Trump yesterday New York State Appeal Court yesterday tossing out that half trillion

no they half billion dollars it's going to say 500 million that's half a billion or half a trillion rather five hundred half a billion dollars yeah half a billion dollar civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and they ruled that it violated the Constitution's ban on excessive fines

This is the so-called fraudulent mortgage thing when they said that he valued the New York properties, the big towers, you know, more than they should have been, and that banks somehow got ripped off, even though no banks reported losses, and everybody got paid and everybody was really happy. They would have been happy to go back and work with the president again. They were even on the record of that, but they're saying, but they're going to go there's, anyway, court said that the judgment that Trump and his company overstated. asset values to get sweetheart loans and insurance, but the state could not justify a half-billion dollar financial penalty. Yeah, because that's parts against the Constitution. Now, the sanctions limiting Trump, and I think parts of his family and other top executives to run New York businesses, that still is in effect. Attorney General Letitia James says she plans to appeal that decision to the state's highest court. So Latisha got smacked down hard yesterday.

Donald Trump, pretty darn big win. This is going to be a big financial day. The markets are kind of mixed at the moment. Maybe they're going to go up a little bit. Who knows? The markets go up based on what people want. But today is the day that Jerome Powell is going to talk over at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Or all those Jackson Hole are sitting around there deciding what they're going to do with the Federal Reserve interest rate.

Are the interest rates going to hold steady where they've been for a while, or are they going to cut? The markets are hoping for cheaper money. Frankly, President Trump is looking for cheaper money, too. You realize with the interest rates the way they are right now and you have a 37 on our way to a $38 trillion national debt, that just servicing the debt, just paying the interest on the national debt right now, is taking more of your tax money. than what goes to the military right now. It's more than that.

Yeah, the interest rate is a serious situation. However, you cut the interest rates, and then people start looking at the United States is maybe it's worth putting money into the United States debt. Will they be able to sell treasuries? I don't know, but the interest rate would go down. So we'll see what happens. The Wall Street Journal this morning is saying, Aaron Bax has a column, he puts out in the morning.

It says, brace for disappointment from the Fed. So the Fed might be looking at what's been going on with especially those hot producer price indexes or the wholesale prices that came out. Remember that a few days ago we were talking about that, and inflation was running hot. If you were just to take last month's inflation rate on producer prices, that would be running about 10, 11% inflation with price increase. increases and so the Fed's price saying, well, we've got to keep that high. Then, of course, you keep the interest rates high. A savers like that, I would imagine, sure. President Trump would not like that. Congress wouldn't either because national debt costs servicing that debt. More expensive. Putting money into paying the credit card interest. In fact, that's all we ever do.

We don't pay the debt down. All we ever do is pay the credit card interest. Isn't that great? Yeah. Great story. Interesting story in the Daily Courier this morning That is worth getting And Julie Anderson writes I'm just going to touch on kind of a highlight there Josephine County's new treasurer A little bit of a sideways

Kind of getting sideways with the county board commissioner there Treasurer Dustin Calvo It's been on the job about a month or so But it's getting a little tumultuous there getting some resistance from the Josephine County Board of Commissioners over how he wants to run the Treasury and the tax offices. And the quote in the story here, even though I was appointed by the board,

I don't work for the board. He says, I'm doing what's best for the county. Sometimes that doesn't align with what the board wants to do. And Calvo Tuesday is meeting this week, according to this daily courier story, he spent a half hour convincing the commissioners, particularly board chair, Andreas Bleck, to approve a resolution giving Calvo's chief deputy

the authority to take over his responsibilities when he's gone or in the event of an emergency. And that was considered kind of controversial. Black didn't like that idea. Commissioner Barnett and Commissioner Rod Smith, they ended up voting to okay that. But I don't know. That seems to me honestly just to be sort of a routine thing. You have a treasurer and you have someone who is able to fill in and take care of business when you're gone sick on vacation, hit by a bus.

You know, everybody has to have some kind of contingency plan. But anyway, it's worth taking a look at in today's daily courier. Daily Signal has an interesting story, too. This one of more national import. The father of a high school boy punished by the school district, this is Loudoun County. This is the Loudoun School District, right? Okay. Punished by a school district for being upset at seeing a girl.

in the boy's locker room says that he would take his son's case to the Supreme Court if need be because there appears to be blatant religious discrimination in who they're going to punish they're punishing the Christian boys and they let the Muslim boy go

this is interesting and what happened is Sean Wolf is the punished boy's father and he was interviewed at Stonebridge High School on Wednesday of this week. Daily Signal reporting, Wolf had spoken during a press conference at the school organized

by the Family Foundation of Virginia founding Freedom's Law Center. The Family Foundation's legal arm is representing his son, one of three boys who were upset at seeing a girl in the boys' locker room. This is the transgender thing, the girl identifying as a boy

and she, he, whatever this diluted individual is walking into the boy's locker room. And his filming them or is video retaping them with the phone. And of course, that violates all sorts of laws and privacy, too, right there. But they ended up charging the two Christian boys with Title IX violations, which is that federal law banning discrimination on the basis of sex.

And then they drop the charges against the Muslim boy. There was absolutely no difference between the words. way all three were reacting there. Two were Christian, though, one Muslim. Well, you kind of know what's going on there. A Muslim community, if you want to say that, it tends to be pretty muscular in defending their faith if you get my drift. You think that's what the school district is thinking? That's what I'm thinking. Oh, we can't do something to a person of color Muslim in there. We can't do that. We have to, you know, that person is extra special. A couple of white boys, charge him. Now, of course, the charges are BS, like

we know. But just blatant religious discrimination is the appearance of it. I just think that's a very interesting story. You'll find that on DailySignal.com. There's other stories we need to talk about this morning, too. We'll get to a bit of that here just a bit. This This is the Bill Meyer's show, and you're on KMED and KVXG. One of each K4 VIN 168-8-90 MSRP. 24 minutes after six. Oh, by the way, vector control in Jackson County discovered in one of their mosquito pools. You know, they're always testing.

They found West Nile virus in one of the pools this week. So this is the time of year that that normally starts cropping up. So watch it. They're always suggesting put on the mosquito spray and long sleeves, I guess I'm set for that, wearing long-sleeves shirt today. Yeah, even if it is going to be 105, what was I thinking? Let me go to Dale. Dale's an Eagle Point.

Hey, Dale, how are you doing this morning? Welcome to find your phone Friday. What's on your mind? Well, what's on my mind is I remember back in 2008 on the Olympics, they had a drone show. It was quite amazing to see. There were literally hundreds of drones making pictures up in the sky with lights and everything. And that was like, you know, 15 years ago or whatever it is. And I always thought that drones could be used to fight forest fires.

Even though they can't carry a whole lot unless they're very big, it could form a bucket brigade and bring water from a dipping pool up to the fire around and around it goes. So even if it could only carry 20 gallons or so, if you have a 500 drones, that that could be a lot of water on the fire. Yeah, there would be a lot of, I guess it would have to be one of those things where you'd have to have software, they would be able to kind of control and do the little roundy, roundy bucket kind of thing like what you're talking about.

Well, exactly right. Now, what prompted me to call is I'm reading through some aviation trade journals, and it says here the title is Oregon, sitters, uncrewed, it should be unmanned, but uncrewed helicopter to help mitigate wildfires. And what it is, is Oregon's inked a document with Yamaha to develop firefighting drones. So this is what I have always been hoping for. They might finally be doing it to develop exactly the software, the process, the hardware, where, you know, and their idea is, you know, manned aviation kind of stops at dark, usually.

And these drones can then pick up and fight the fire all night long, and then when the daylight comes, they could turn it back over to the, you know, manned aerial firefighter. Maybe you're needing a little more precision. That's actually pretty interesting. So where did you find that story? Just curious. Well, the place I was looking is simpleflying.com. Simpleflying.com. Okay, that's really interesting. Now, are those drones, electric drones,

or are we talking about perhaps internal combustion powered? Is there any indicator of what type of tech? Well, they'll develop that, but the ones I see in their pictures are gas powered, and they're probably 10 feet long. I think two people could probably carry them around, and they just look like a miniature helicopter. Yeah, all I was mentioning, though, is that if you were going to be, let's say you were going to actually dip and carry water, water is surprisingly heavy if you've ever carried a few gallons of it for any appreciable distance of what about eight, is it about eight pounds a gallon, roughly speaking. It is over eight pounds a gallon.

Yeah. And so you want to drop 20, 25, 30, whatever it is, you know, a 240 pound payload picking it up and dropping it and going back and picking it up. you'd probably need more than just your standard lithium ion or lithium iron oxide battery, you know, to, or phosphate battery to do it. Well, exactly right. Now, what I was thinking is, you know, you can fly up and until you run out of water, come get some water. Then you can get some, you know, this detachable fuel tanks, and then it can collect a full fuel tank. Oh, okay.

Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. This could be a really, really interesting development in there. Yeah, well, at first I thought that maybe they were going to be using drones just for detection, but this would be actually using them for the actual fighting of it, is what you're saying. Well, the article doesn't say, I'm speculating. I'm sure at first it'll be for reconnoiter purposes following the fire, but, man, you've got to start fighting it, don't you?

Yeah. Dale, appreciate the story, and thanks for sharing it with us this morning, okay? be well 7705-633 let me grab another call here on find your phone Friday good morning hi this is bill who's this good morning bill sir hi Terry what's up well didn't our state say they'd give up the voting info if they paid like a million dollars or something if somebody paid a million dollars or whatever it was so can't the feds just pay that and and get the voting info well I don't think this I think okay what you're talking about was a complaint that people were making about Jackson County and wasn't something specific to

Jackson County, but the rules from the democratically controlled secretary of state office make it, they have very, very high bars for privacy. And so people wanted to, and if I recall, it was a former state senator Lymphicum, and also, gosh, I forget the other state senator's name. I know it'll come to me right before I talked to Noah Robinson this morning, probably. But what they were trying to do was audit the ballots in an election, and they wanted to go to the Jackson County ballots and other county ballots. But what Jackson County said is that, well, you know, the rules from the Secretary

State says that there can't be any personally identifiable information on these ballots. Right. They had to look at like each ballot. Yeah, Jackson County would have had to hire a whole bunch of people to look at all the, you know, a couple hundred thousand ballots or whatever it is and make sure that there's nothing identifiable on it before anybody else could look at it. It's sheer nonsense, but that is the rule of the Secretary of State's office. Right. Okay. That's what I was... Yeah, so it wasn't the voter information necessarily.

They wanted to make sure that you couldn't tell anything about this. But as far as I'm concerned, if someone's dumb enough to put their name on the ballot, well, fine. You know, tough. Well, I guess my question is that what voter info will the state not give up then that the feds want, you know? Well, they wanted driver's license information for these people and maybe partial social security numbers. They're just trying to find out just how Lucy Goosey Oregon's voter roles might be. And arguably, given the fact that we have registered illegal immigrants and people who are non-citizens to vote, I can see why the state or federal government would like to find out more about it.

But the state says, hey, we're perfectly fine. It's about privacy. And nothing to see here. These aren't the drones you're looking for, Terry. Got it. Thanks, Bill. Okay. Thanks.

Kim Thatcher. That was the name of the senator I was thinking. I just came to name. Senator Kim Thatcher and former state senator Dennis Lentickam. That's who I was thinking about. They had that deal out there. Good morning. This is Bill.

Hi. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. This is Bill. And, you know, Mark Twain said everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it referring to weather. Sure. But I would say the same thing about the drug addict homeless.

And I'll just relay quick stories. So I'm driving to the growers market in Hawthorne Park yesterday morning, 9.30 in the morning, sunny, beautiful day. And I'm driving on Jackson, you know, just about going over Bear Creek. And the four guys in one of those little push-out, a little bench so you can relax and enjoy the beauty of Bear Creek below you. That's four young drug addict types. And, you know, right out there for everybody to see, guys got his arms stretched out and he's jamming a syringe in. it and then you drive another half block in their families in a little play area with the kids and all like that and the just position between the two and you know something kind of wholesome

and people pushing their kids around at the growers market and people doing drugs openly it's an open drug down around there and from what I recall even though we may not be getting massively criminal penalty penalty like on such people according to the law that I'm aware of it's still not legal to just sit out there in the open and shoot up, is it? Yeah, and then they kind of modified measure 1-10 a little bit, put a little more teeth into it.

I haven't seen any effect of that. But I wanted to put a plug-in for Lars Larson's show and before he purges it from his podcast back on August 7th, he has a reoccurring guest, Kevin Doldron, who's a drug counselor and activist on behalf of the homeless, but he's a tough love kind of guy, and I encourage people to go back and listen to that, and they talked about how he worked up with the Gresham city people on a project that sounded identical to Bear Creek, and the problems we have Bear Creek up there,

they have a thing called the Springwater Trail, which is about 22 miles long, all the same things that we have going on in Bear Creek. And he said, even though it's close to Portland, the Gresham authorities, it's kind of the broken window philosophy of law enforcement. If you see a violation, you deal with it immediately. Otherwise, you know, the camel gets its nose under the tent. And if a homeless person sees, oh, well, they're not doing anything to that homeless guy who's got his broken down RV or his pile of garbage, you know, right where everybody can see it. Do they take them into custody? How do they deal with it in Gresham? You know, it was just a short segment, but it sounded like whatever laws they could apply.

And I know that, you know, obviously, Grant's Pass has been battling this all the way up to the Supreme Court. Well, Grant's Pass has been specifically targeted by the left for elimination, though, in this particular issue. And that's when one of the challenges, I'm sure Gresham was probably not targeted the same way Grant's Pass was. Yeah, you think, though, that Bresham, you know, it's almost a suburb of Portland, that they would be, you know, just as tough. But, you know, they have a special hatred for us in the South. But I was just hoping that people would take advantage of that. Look, apparently, they made progress with it. And, you know, when the homeless drug addicts feel so confident that they can just stick their arm out there for everyone to see and know that no one's going to stop them but do anything about it.

Nothing changes, yeah. tell you what, I'm going to look that up. I'm going to see if I can get that person on to talk about it here and talk about it on the morning show sometime, and we'll see if we can do that, okay? Have a wonderful week off and don't think about it. I'm going to do my best. I'm just going to kind of ignore

things just for a few days, all right? This is the Bill Meyer's show. KMED. Stephen Westfall roofing is growing. Now, but take care of you. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. By the way, my number is 770.

5633. I'll be back to your calls here in just a few minutes, just a few minutes. And we'll get back to find your phone Friday. So I can call that. Joining me right now is Kathy Haddam, and she found her phone. She's the director of communications in partner relations at Enough is Enough. And she wanted to bring some attention to an online slash artificial intelligence growing, well, potential issue that we need to keep an eye on. Kathy, welcome to the show. Good to have you on. Good morning. Thanks so much for having me. Before we get into this, what is enough is enough? Enough is enough about what?

There's a lot. There's a lot of targets out there right now, so tell me, huh? There sure is. So enough is enough has been around since 1994 and dedicated to protecting children and families from the dangers of online harms. And so our focus is really helping to prevent the online exploitation of children. And, you know, these days, there's so much of our life which is online now, social media, wet blogs and things, everywhere you go and we're all walking around with video cameras and pictures and such. And parents and grandparents are now being warned, don't post pictures of the kids online. And what's this latest one?

It was an interesting story in the New York Times that you're talking about. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Just when you thought you've kind of seen and heard it all. So now we're talking more and more about what's called nudified apps. And these apps are really used by platforms that use artificial intelligence. Now, we know that this technology can be good, but it's also unfortunately to exploit children. And in this case, we're talking about through the generation of sexually explicit material of children, whether they're real or not. So the amazing thing, I shouldn't say amazing, but the haunting thing about these types of

Nudified apps is that they can take a picture of a child, whether it exists on a social media, maybe you posted it, maybe a family friend posted it, and use it on this app, which will digitally strip someone and create non-consensual image abuse material of them. And it's absolutely horrific. And sadly to say, we've seen that one in 17 kids have prone victims to these types of deep fake images. One in 17, that is a massive, a massive amount of kids out there. And so essentially your kids or the grandkids star in an involuntary fake, artificially intelligent, created a porno picture or video, right? That's absolutely right. And when you think about one in 17 number, I mean, just consider like an average classroom size in the U.S. is around 18 kids. So that means the chances that one of those kids in every classroom are going to be victimized. And these are children that have previously never been victimized in some cases, but their faces are still used to create this image without their knowledge or consent. And sadly, this is happening in schools across the country.

And it's a horrifying experience for these kids. And what's really difficult is it's just as traumatizing for these kids to become victims of these deep faked or these nudified pictures as if their photos were actually, if this was actually a real photo of them. Now, I know that for a while there has been this trend of deep fake celebrities in which a celebrity face is used to. to make something like this, but when you're going off into the kids thing, it's even worse. What I'm kind of curious about, though, are the social media places interested in even cracking down? And I'm going to give you an example. This is just something. It's so interesting you're coming on my show today, Kathy, because just yesterday afternoon, yesterday afternoon, my wife Linda, I don't know if she was on YouTube or if she's on Facebook or whatever it is.

She's going through the shorts that was there, and what kept popping up was this video, this deep fake video of, was it Prince Harry and Prince William, nude, and rubbing each other's chests, like in a sexually suggestive manner. And she says, I report this stuff to the social media company, and then they send me more. because what's going on is that the algorithm, the system then says, hey, you're interested or engaged in these things, and that's all the social media outlets are caring about. Even if you're angry about it, as long as you're engaged, well, so what? Still more clicks, more advertising, I guess? Have you heard about things like that going on?

Just curious. Yeah, you're absolutely right. And whether it's celebrities, whether it's politician and now tragically, our own children, you know, no one is immune from this. And we are seeing movement among a lot of the social platforms or, you know, big tech companies who are trying to make, to implement measures to help prevent some of this, but honestly, it hasn't been enough. Recently, we had a bipartisan law signed in the Take It Down Act, which criminalizes the publication of this type of non-consensual imagery, these deep fake. But you also know, though, that once something is out there and spread around, it's next to and impossible to get rid of, isn't it?

And that's exactly the problem. And so sadly, these victims continue to get traumatized over and over every time these images are downloaded or shared are stored on our hard drives. So it really is an extremely difficult task to remove or permanently remove, if you will, this type of imagery can unfortunately live on. forever. What would you suggest we do next because obviously take it down is probably not going to be enough? Don't we already have age verification or some ways to make sure that that kid stuff doesn't get on? Well, yes and no. So political pressure has definitely been on from parents' advocacy

groups throughout the country to implement age verification technology, but we're not seeing it. We're not seeing it mainstream yet. And so we've had things like. DAPSdoor Accountability Act, which was signed out of Texas. And then we've got even the U.S. Supreme Court who recently ruled upheld the Texas law back in June, preventing minors from getting online to watch internet pornography by having to verify at their ages. So things like this are happening, but we're nowhere close to where we need to be. So what do we do? We've got to continue, number one, to advocate for the aggressive passage of these laws

and the prosecution of offenders. But also just as important, you know, parents really continue to shoulder the burden of this type of crimes against, you know, the children, they have to shoulder the burden of protecting their children on devices and platforms. So while this, you know, age verification technology is encouraging in a much-needed step, we need tech companies to be proactive and start turning on safety defaults, right at the get code, right out of the gate. Children under 18 should never be exposed to this to begin with.

And so that needs to happen. And parents really still have to play that proactive role by doing things like, you know, setting filters and monitoring tools and time limits, whether it's on devices or social media to protect their kids. Well, that's key. They also have to continue to have these ongoing conversations with their kids about what they're,

experiencing and seeing. Okay, maybe what we can do then. The only way we escape the deep fakes and the artificial intelligence, let's see, we disconnect, we disconnect the internet, we get rid of that, and we move into the middle of a national park somewhere, like 500 miles away from any cell phone tower. What do you think? That may be at the end of the day, the solution, but in the meantime, sadly, we are dealing with the technology that the majority of our children are using. And we're just going to keep pressing for, I guess, aggressive laws and enforcement and safety features that are going to keep our kids safe from this type of exploitation. Oh, by the way, Kathy, I forgot to mention also join the Amish community. Okay, that's what we need to do.

Kathy Haddam is with me, Director of Communications and Partner Relations. Yeah, being sarcastic, but yeah, you start to wonder when you have this growing tide of artificial intelligence taking photos and then and then just creating them into sexually exploitive form enough is enough is the group and the website you have is enough.org

enough.org certainly easy enough to find and you got a bunch of tips out there to help parents, grandparents dealing with online threats with children now first off you're going to say that if you really want to try to avoid your children being exploited

is first don't post pictures of them on the socials. But isn't that one of the issues, one of the main reasons why the socials were created? That's exactly right. And the companies know that and they know that that's how they're going to make their money. The more that they can get

users to engage that that's how they're going to profit. So yes, we do encourage parents and families to be very careful about what they post, but when they do only post to friends and family that you know and trust and set your account to

private. Okay, so the public post, having your accounts open publicly viewable, forget about that then. That's what you're saying. Okay. Yes, but, you know, even so, that these privacy settings are still not foolproof. We know that predators can still get on and go to one's profile and pull a picture. Honestly, they can go out in the public and snap a picture of your child and do the same thing that we're talking about, which is create deep fake imagery. So at this point, you know, we are at a point that I've never thought I'm a parent. I've never thought we would be in a position like this where we're having to guard our children against this type of imagery that they haven't even taken part of in any fashion or form.

But that's our reality right now. And so, like I said, we have to be the first line of defense in terms of doing all we can online to set those controls, set those filters, but like I said earlier. Yeah, no one's coming to protect your children is what you're telling me, Kathy. So it's up to parents to protect them in the online world. You're just bottom line here, right? That's absolutely it. That's absolutely it. We can't count on big tech to do it for us. Kathy Haddam, once again, Director of Communications and Partner Relations,

enough is enough, enough.org, and that is where you can find their new safety guides for online video games, smartphone, social media platforms. You kind of put it in the in a big check, I think it's like three, four pages, isn't it? Three, four pages of information there, if I recall. Yes, we do have a whole page that is filled with online safety quick guides, and they're also available, I will say, at our site at Internet Safety 101.org, where parents and anyone can just go to find information on all these topics that we've discussed and additional resources and places to go for help.

Good work on that. I'm glad someone's working on it. and thank you, Kathy. We'll have you back. You take care. Be well. Thank you. Thanks for sharing this important topic. Absolutely. This is the Bill Myers Show, KMED, 993 KBXG. Have it your way. Have it your way. ZipRecruiter.com slash free. This is News Talk 1063, KMED.

And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. 7705663. A little bit of open phone time until the rest of the news. And then State Senator Noah Robinson will join me. It's going to be a week from today that they're supposedly going to do that special session. If enough Republicans show up, I think all it takes is like four from each. I'll talk with Noah about that, if there's any work on trying to stop them from raising your taxes, because if the Republicans show up, it's a foregone conclusion, taxes will go up. Let me go to Brian Weldon.

Hello, Brian. What's going on in Grants Pass with Devil's Slide? Tell me about it. Yes, so we have a group of people here at Parkwatch, and we got a lot of the city involved in this, the mayor of Grants Pass, the council. We got a county commissioner, Chris Barnett, and we have a wonderful man in this town, Jeremy Ford, and he owns you turn for Christ. Yes. And his deal for many years now has been getting men clean and sober from their addictions, getting them to a better life, a job, and all that.

And so we had a meeting the other day with Chris Barnett, the county commissioner, the mayor, and Jeremy Ford, of due turn for Christ, to talk about this problem up on Devil's Light. It is a fire nightmare ready to happen. Now, Devil's Slide is part of Dollar Mountain, which the county purchased not that long ago, right? Yes, and it's right alongside the railroad tracks. So we all went up there Wednesday, and one of the homeowners that lives right below it, he opened up his dates, and we went up there with our vehicles, and we inspected this area. and I'll tell you, Bill, there's several large, large dumpsters of trash up there.

There's probably a hundred-tenths. There's needles everywhere. I think I got probably counted 25 propane bottles. So anyway, Jeremy Ford said, you know, I'll round up 20, 25 men. We'll come up here tomorrow morning, Saturday morning, at 8 a.m. with trailers, park along the tracks here, and clean this entire mess up free. Unfortunately, though, that mess will come back, though. I mean, this is wonderful.

Now, hold on just a second here, Brian. This is wonderful that they're doing this, but that doesn't fix the root of the problem that we have a bunch of dirtbaggy communities set up there. They're just not supposed to be there, are they? There's no camping allowed on Devil's Slide. But the homeowners, the homeowners are very upset because of the fire risk, and their children like to play up there and ride their bicycles and, you know, a little motorcycles and things. Anyway, so we had a plan to go up there tomorrow morning with a whole crew of people clean it all up and keep it clean. Oh.

Oh, those words, don't allow them up there. Okay. So, Chris Barnett, what does he do? He calls the railroad company owns the land around the tracks. what did the railroad say sorry you have to get a permit it takes us six to eight weeks to verify your permit and give you permission and you are it's against the law to do anything up there until we approve it is there a possibility of um just ignoring what the railroad says well because i mean doing this under under if the county commission

Is this county land or city land? It's actually railroad-owned land. Well, no, is it in the unincorporated county or is it in part of the city? Well, they say they keep pointing the fingers at each other. I think below the tracts of city land, above the tracts is county land, and the railroad owns a big section of the area called Devil's Slide. All right. I can't help but now I'm just spitballing here is there a possibility that there could be emergency authority that a county commission could say under health and safety under the community's health and safety that we are ordering this to that we are going to take permission because the railroad's obviously not going to go up there and take care of it you know that no they get care less there's so many homeless living along the track all the way down to Medford through grants pass. It's unbelievable.

Yeah, well, tell you what, press Chris Barnett for looking for emergency health and safety authority and statutes within and seeing if there can be something done with that. That's what I would suggest, okay? Thank you for the suggestion for, let me know about that, Brian. That's that's really irritating. Yeah, health and safety. Yeah, we won't grant you that, but of course the railroad would then be responsible, partially responsible then, if the place catches on fire then. Do they really want that? Maybe someone needs to do that. Maybe Wally Hicks needs to make a call over to Corp, you know, the railroad. Let me go to Michael. Michael, you're on. Welcome. Good having you on. Hey, good morning. Morning. Yeah, I was kind of shocked when I heard the,

there was a court decision last July, last year, that required the EPA to reassess the fluoride in the water. And they got a couple extensions, but on the 18th of July, the Trump administration, the EPA, basically appealed the whole decision. So I was just kind of curious and confused and kind of angry. about it. Yeah, what I noticed here, yeah, from what I understand, Michael, federal court in California ruled in, gosh, when was this, September of last year, against the EPA ordering officials to take actions over health risks, ordering officials. Now, that was back during the Biden administration,

but was there a more recent court activity that you were aware of? I'm not sure exactly when it was it said, I thought it was July of 2024 when the court ordered them to reassess it at least or something like that. Now has that been stopped? I have not kept track of the fluoride of the fluoride story.

Well, anyway, the 18th of July they just filed an appeal so it's basically off the table. And that was, I'm reading up the children's defense. Oh, let me go to that and then because you're catching me a little cat,

flat-footed on this one here, Michael. Children's health defense.org. Okay. I'll take a look at that and see if I can bring it up and draw a conclusion. I have not heard of that, but yeah, they would probably be the people that would be right on top of it. I appreciate the call. Thanks for let me know, okay? So something has stopped the investigation of the safety floor on, I guess.

Anyway, hi, KBD. Good morning. Who's this? Yeah, Ron Grant's Pass. Hi, Ron. Morning. Hey, I got a couple of ideas that might be considered by, the platforms that utilize these pornographic and or AI type of deals for money.

Maybe the platform could come up with an AI that blurs as significantly and into oblivion. The pictures that are considered pornographic or unapproved or unapproved. Well, I'm sure that exists. Here's the thing, though, is that pornographic pictures are what a lot of the people click on. they like that. And as long as it draws engagement, the online platforms don't seem to be really wanting to do much to rein that in. Well, then there might be another alternative, and that is that the government could charge 100% tax on any of the profits that are made by soliciting and or promoting these pornographic and or unapproved. That could be interesting. How about this?

this one. Would you like my now? I am not elected the benevolent dictatorship yet, but could I just pull out like a, could we just, you know, cane the morons, cane the perves? How about that? You'd be okay with that? Yeah, I like that, but I like feeding them to the sharks. Okay. All right. Thank you, Ron. I'll take one more call before the rest of the news, and Mr. Outdoors will be joining us here in a few minutes. I always look forward to the Friday Outdoor Report. Hi, who's this? Good morning. Welcome. Hello. Hey, Bill.

This is me. Yes, it sure is. Go ahead. Hey, Bill. I used to work for the Corp Road. They definitely could do something about all of that. And all it takes is one tie fire. And then suddenly they're all over it.

And they don't have a two-week waiting period. It's there right away. They have their own federal, federally approved police force. And if they don't have enough of them, UP would be happy to help. When I was working for the U.P, there was a large homeless encampment near Sacramento. Yeah. And they just got bulldozers one day, and they didn't wait 24 hours. They just went in and took them out.

And... So if I had to understand, then, the problems with Devil's Slide on Dollar Mountain, then, is to put political pressure on the Corp Railroad. It's what you're saying. Yeah. Well, it doesn't even take political pressure. All I need to do is understand that their risk of losing... Using the rail for any length of time is way greater than the cost of getting rid of the problem. Well, all they're trying to do, and what Brian Weldon was saying a few minutes ago,

all they're looking for is permission to be able to go up there and clean the property. And you would have thought that Corp would just look at this and, hey, this is wonderful, because it reduces their liability, doesn't it? They can arrest anybody on the right away. anybody you walk down the tracks you're on the right away you can get arrested for trespass so it doesn't happen uh i don't think that happens very often unless you're causing trouble oh yes it does i've had to stop my train several times so the the bulls could get a trespasser off no kidding oh oh yeah and not only that but you cannot release them to on their own

recognizance once they're arrested they have to be prosecuted interesting hmm so the railroad is the uh is the key here is what you're saying. So I just want to make it clear, though, you're saying that the railroad corpse, you know, right-of-way, which is near, you know, and part of that devil-slide area, that's the key. That's the key, yeah. The railroads can do whatever they need to on their right-of-way. But do you think that corp would be willing to do this?

I don't think they're running a whole lot of trains through that area these days. There's not a lot of them. I hear, what, maybe one a day? It's all I ever here? I could be wrong. They run one between Medford and Glendale every night, and then they run one, once they fix the tunnel, I think they're running one down to weed once a week. Oh, is the tunnel broken? I didn't know that. It was broken, but I think they got some tax money to have it fixed.

But this all happened since I left the railroad, so I'm not sure on that one. Okay. Steve, thank you for letting me know about that. So the key is the railroad. The railroad could be more helpful. And wouldn't you suggest that, you know, if the corporate, if a Corp Railroad was actually kind of smart about this, they'd just let them clean for them? We'll be wrong with that. Yes, they would. And if they didn't just let them clean for them, they'd get up there and they would do it. Not gently.

Not gently. All right. Steve, thanks for the call. Appreciate that from a perspective of a former railroad worker. This is KMED, KMED HD-1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG Grants Pass. Town Hall News is coming up. Mr. Outdoors joins me then after that with the Outdoor Report, and he has promised that we're getting ground-pounding Bigfoot action today.