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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. It's a minute after eight. We'll check Town Hall News here in just a moment. And anytime you hear the Fifth Dimension, you know, it's Lucretia. Lucretia, you had your own theme. There aren't many listeners to do.

But I'm glad to have you on. So anyway, how are you doing this morning? What is troubling you? What is troubling you today, huh? it's incredible bill do you remember what i i think it was steve but also um eric might have said regarding the case with alex jones and getting sued for 1.43 billion and and why that was a ridiculous lawsuit that he got in do you remember what he said no i don't but i'm sure you're going to remind me go ahead well it appears that Alex jones is doing

deep state. Greg Reese, who worked for him for well, said he is a little crazy or a little autistic, but he said that Alex even admitted he was, his family was deep state, but they were good deep state going against the dark deep state. But Greg said he thinks he's also MK Ultra. I could see that he definitely was when he wouldn't even bring up duty wood regarding 9-11, which is obviously the real way the buildings came down. But now what he's doing with this whole Sandy Hook thing, that if people go and watch Sophia Smallstorm, she covers... Okay, I'm sorry to go watch and try to narrow the number of sites, though, so we can all follow you, okay? Well, a lot of people don't know that Sandy Hook was totally fake, that there wasn't 26 children killed. Yeah, I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to go there. There are an awful lot of funerals and an awful lot of lawsuits over this. If it is true, Lucretia, that's, you know.

Right. But the point is what he's done is he's showing the situation because he made, a lot of people went to his site, and so he made millions of dollars off of the nutritional supplement. So what they're trying to do now is literally with this case because he did not establish his First Amendment rights or even ask for a single death certificate. Okay. And because of that, they're now going to take away our buildings for free speech. Okay.

How is Alex Jones not finding going to lead to our freedom of speech collectively going away? How do you figure that? Well, a lawyer that's talking about it that they threw the case, literally are making it so that the case is thrown. Well, maybe you're right about this, Lucretia. I don't know. I don't want to go down to the Sandy Hook rabbit hole, okay?

It's not something that is part of my wheelhouse, all right? I have had mixed emotions about Alex for a long, long time, okay? And it's not that, and I'm just saying, I'm just talking about what my gut has said. I've always felt that a bit of Alex was about managing the sheep. How do I put this maybe, you know, kind of an intelligence agency limited hangout? Do you know what I'm getting at here on something like that? Right, right. Yeah.

And so I don't know if I ever really trusted about that. But even your last guest talked about the actors that were paying for, you know, coming into protest. Well, you know, like David Wheeler, who was part of the Sandy Hook, he was also brought in acting as an FBI agent. All right. So you're thinking that if we can bring in actors as protesters, why wouldn't you bring in actors as crisis actors to pretend to be victims, right? Right. Okay. Well, Mr. Wheeler was an advocate for gun control. He was also, you know, one of the grieving fathers.

He was also flying on Air Force One with Obama, you know, and here you can see him carrying a A150 or A1, what is it, A15, whatever F, I forget. Okay, well, see, now you're starting to spark on the ground a little bit, but it's okay. I'll take your main point on that one, and I will crunch it in my head overnight, okay? Well, Bill, I'll resend you the thing, but, God, this is huge. They're really working hard to stop there. And you wonder why I wake up tired because I can't sleep? The stuff you say, it's your fault. It's your fault, Lucretia.

That's what it's... Okay. Thanks for the call, though. KMED, KMED, HD1, Equal Point, Metford, KBXG, Grants Pass. We'll catch up on the rest of the news without going down in the rabbit holes, hopefully. And then Dr. Dennis Powers joins me where Pass meets present. We talk about some local history and some other good stuff here. going on to.

Breaking news is that tonight, 75 Tuesday, 76 on Wednesday. We're at 68, beautiful start of the day here. And we have Al in the Applegate. Hello, Al. How are you doing this morning? Welcome. Hey, I'm doing fine. It's my opinion.

I realize it's not a conspiracy theory Thursday. Right. It's my opinion that Lucretia is a Chinese AI bot that is sent to discredit and delegitimized. conservative talk radio. Gee, I don't know about... Well, you see, you're going from the position that somehow I am delegitimized by taking and talking to someone with a alternate point of view far divorced from my own, okay?

So I don't know about that. But as far as being a bot, I don't think she's a bot. But that might be something worthy of investigation here, Al. It could be. I would check into it. All right. All right. In fact, in fact, we should tag.

ask you. Again, we have to go out and you get together and you go to lunch with Lucretia and find out, is it a bot or not? Is it a bot or not? But I'll tell you, on the web, about half of what you're watching these days. About half of what you're watching these days on the web seems to be a bot, and, or something. I ended up putting out something over the weekend. I ended up putting out, oh, yeah, I was talking about the, you know, these horrible car crashes that we had here in Southern Oregon, in which two young people, one over on the Highway 62 near the Rogue Valley Expressway, going too fast, left the road, couldn't keep the car on the road. A passenger in that died at the scene, and then there was another one over by, what was it, Callahan's, by Callahan's on Highway 99.

Another one going too fast, and another young person, about a 20-year-old, ended up, you know, dying in these crashes. And just by putting that up, you immediately get the bots coming on to the post. and showing, oh, you have to see it. We have video of it here. It's all fake. It's all fake. I would be curious to know what the actual percentage of the Internet traffic being carried is, A, not porn, and B, actually legitimate. I think that would be an interesting study. I'm going to put Scuba Steve in charge of that coming up.

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So good to have Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of business law at Southern Oregon University here for where a past meets present. Doc, it's been a few weeks. It's on vacation. Then it was Labor Day. And now, well, you're laboring again. Good to have you back.

Morning. That's good to be back. And everything is, again, we're just off to the moon. All right. Before we get into the other legal news and, gosh, there's so much legal news going on these days. Lots of, lots of different things where you want to go. Let's talk about a little bit of history, kind of a pallet cleanser this morning. We're talking about Jim Parsons and Parsons Pine Products.

That's a part of our Southern Oregon and Northern California history today. What do you got going on? Well, you know, Bill, some of the listeners will certainly remember Jim Parsons because, in fact, he was raised on ranches in Montana and Oregon. He actually graduated from Ashton High School, attended Southern Oregon Normal School, even appeared in early Shakespeare Festival Productions. But in fact, he eventually graduated from the University of Oregon with the BA in Broadcasting into World War II.

In the South Pacific, he served in the Philippines and commanded landing craft, came back. But you see, broadcasting, and this is what really stands out, meant that big money and living in big city and no hunting or fishing. So he said, no, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, he didn't like that idea, did he? I love that. So what does he do?

He starts up a business with his wife that's wood remanufacturing, recycling in Ashland, and he goes around to get the trim ends from local mills. And his business provides packing boxes for the orchards. He then builds a plant on Helmand Street. And amazingly, he creates product lines such as Louverslats, Lincoln Logs. I remember, you know, as a kid growing up with Lincoln Logs, not knowing that Jim Parsons was producing them, mouse and rat trap blanks with Fisher Price and Mattel his major clients.

He even built much of the machinery. And you know, Bill, he really stood out because he did, you know, Stanford Business School type of now what they teach at their business school, innovative incentives. He did well pay, safety pay, retro pay, profit sharing, all these different things. he went on for 45 years in Ashland. Employed more than 100 people in one point, didn't he? Oh, I've got to tell you, what's amazing, though, is that with 100 people that he went

ahead and employed bill, then we had Judge William Dwyer. Uh-oh. Yeah, you're right. And this was, and I remember this so well, 1991, district court judge, rules in favor of the Sierra club legal defense fund, haughts all logging for the spotted owls, habitat region, and that was the kibosh on his business, virals, you know, volumes spiraled down. In other words, he didn't get his timber supply because of that, right? That's right, because the mills couldn't get their logs.

And I remember, you know, in teaching at SOU, Bill, the way that I would be working with the families. It could be the wife. It could be the husband that was displaced by the spotted owl. It really affected this entire region and it destroyed a number of businesses. But then I was really curious, and I thought, well, okay, what has happened? to the spotted owl. You know, there are a lot of jokes on that one. What happens this is that it's still labeled as problematic and could be, quote, unquote, distinct.

Yeah, let me ask you as a point of law, though. It is well known now that the entire spotted owl issue was fabricated. It was a fake-up job, Dennis. I mean, we know this. and which is why the Forest Service ended up having to go out and then they hire people to then kill the bard owl. The bard owl was the one that was killing the spotted owls because the bard owl was a tougher competitor and actually doing a better job of living within the forest at that point. You're familiar with that, correct? Oh, that's absolutely right because I was going to add on.

It was not only the bard owl, a competition between owls, but also fire. and drought and all the fires that were destroying the timberland, you know, such as, what, 500,000 acres in 2001, it was a natural event, and here we had a situation that's being done now where far-left judges go ahead and put in a temporary restraining order that they keep renewing. Yeah, now let me ask you, though, as a point of law, once it came, once it was known, that the entire, the entire case of the spot in Al's situation was a fraud from the very start. And the biologists and everybody else, you know, essentially fabricated this up in order to have this outcome. Why couldn't Judge Dwyer's ruling be vacated and had it go back?

Now, maybe that's a really dumb question. Oh, it's a very good question, Bill. Two reasons, two major reasons, was despite the damage that was done by this rule, ruling, there were a number of different legal battles over the same issue before it finally was ended in the favor of the environmentalists in the spotted owl. The second reason is the fact that underneath the Obama regime, you know, you had this total far-left hidden radar that happened underneath that the public had no idea about where he was going ahead and getting monies into these environmental groups, and that money was being used for being sure that

even when with George Bush's term, recalls, as you probably do so well, the fights of the environmental, even to reduce the, to take out logs from the burned... from the burned areas. But what I'm saying, though, is that the entire lawsuit was underpinned with a fraud. And you know how you talk about it's the fruit of the poisoned tree, I guess, or the branch, or the fruit of the, of the, you know, and it's like when you have everything that has been so destructive of our area and destructive of people in their livelihood and economic activity. and it was built on it was built essentially on top of a fraud it would seem to be at some point you know there there'd have to be some way to roll that back and set things back to a more even legal key and if i'm wrong why am i wrong well it's it's very frustrating because i saw also as you did the effects in our region

but legally speaking politics ruled okay and and in the politics that came in, it was impossible to go ahead and to go after that decision, because actually then the argument comes in with the management, force management service in terms of logging. And so the environmentalists flush with cash and really flush with cash after, you know, the Biden era. And they end up getting Ron Wyden and Merckley elected. and Gordon, and what was the former senator, former Gordon, gosh, I just forgot his last name. But the last time we had a Republican Senate was a number of a senator, rather was a number of years ago.

Oh, Packwood, but yeah. No, not Packwood, but anyway. But the key thing that you're bringing up is the fact that the politics with all these different legal issue details politicians put the Kabash on trying to take care of this horrid decision. And you can even see now what's happening with the use of the law against the Constitution and every far left. And it's interesting because when you look at these judges, they are all who were appointed. I mean, it's a 98% probability they'll rule for Biden. Yeah. And against Trump, I would say, at this point, and we'll continue that conversation.

By the way, it was Gordon Smith, was the senator I was thinking of. Oh, right. Senator Gordon Smith, Ann. Yeah, and it really is a shame because now, you know, you have a party that is funded by Soros, funded by corrupt Biden, funded by his corrupt minions, that has put monies in, and I really hope very, I really hope that they go after RICO on Soros, who is deftly behind and was behind the firebombings at the Tesla. Now, no, when you said, oh, you're talking about a RICO, a RICO lawsuit, so you think there's honestly a real good chance of that moving forward?

A RICO lawsuit against a... I think that that is one of the legal ones you can use, and the reason is, is the fact you got a hold of the firebomb terrorists, or you have the illegal immigrant killer, and then you're able to find out where the money is coming from. Let's say a Soros nonprofit, quote-unquote nonprofit. It's not a nonprofit. You know, it's a revolutionary party. And then the way of bringing in the funding, which is what you've got to do, that's where these people are doing these crazy things, and all of them come together in a communist type of approach.

It really does. Every single one, they have all these different reasons for why they're milling around and throwing fire bombs on the streets. They're doing it they're doing in Portland. All right. So we sort of mixed up our historical stuff with some of the present stuff, too, you know, in this one. Oh. I know we were talking about all the stuff about Jim Parsons.

But the reason I brought up, though, is that, you know, what put Jim Parsons out of business and everybody else was a fraud, and it still irritates me to my court, you know, even today. And when you look at what Jim Parsons and his wife had done, in Ashland, and in the fact that he lived and died at age 95 in 2014, and his wife and he had been married for 73 years, and then Ellie died about the same age three years later. So we're talking about a very recent time as to where – and I can even remember driving by where a friend said this is where Jim Parsons is on Helmand Street here in downtown Ashland. And they said here's where Jim Parsons established this marvelous plant. But he also designed all the machinery build that was used and employed 100 people in Ashland. So broadcast losses end up being the timber industry and the local communities gain is what happened, ultimately. And, you know, what was amazing was that I would talk to old timers when I came up here over 35 years ago,

and I remember them saying, you know, you should have seen Ashland just 10 years ago or 15 years ago. We had sawmills. Omar's was not a place where leftists would go to have their glass of sherry or their glass of wine, But it's where loggers went to go ahead to drink their beer after hard days work. And get a good steak. And get a real stake, for that matter, too. Hey, Doc, we'll get that all up here today, though, about Jim Parsons and Parsons Pine Products, okay? And I'll tell you what, let's hang on through news here.

And then let's have a consideration. Oh, have you heard what the unions are up to here in the state of Oregon as far as a ballot measure? Have you heard about that? Just broke over the weekend. Just barely. The other thing is, this is the fifth year anniversary. of the Almeda fire. This is the week, huh? Wow.

Yeah, it's actually tomorrow. All right, we'll have to have a little conversation on that here coming up with Dr. Dennis Powers. Retired Professor of Business Law will continue that afternoon. By the way, Diner 62 Quiz, we'll have that before the wrap of the show. Two Dogs Fabricating has a great selection of work trailers, but if you desire a different breed than Earth. News Talk 1063, KMED. This is the Bill Myers Show. Dr. Dennis Powers back with me.

We're now talking to the present, Doc. Have you heard what the Oregon unions are wanting to do over at the AFL-CIO? Did you hear about that? Before we talked about it off the air, no. Okay. Well, I haven't told you the whole story yet. I'm going to give it to you right now. I'm looking at it.

It was the 2025 Oregon AFL-CIO convention. Union delegates, this reported on K-2 television, by the way. Union delegates from across the state voted over. overwhelmingly to endorse the equal rights for all ballot measure. Now, what this means is that they want to amend Oregon's Constitution to explicitly protect sexual orientation, gender identity. So, in other words, if someone is crazy, we have to believe and bend the need to their craziness, right? also the right to make personal decisions regarding marriage reproduction health in health care

the secretary treasurer of the organ afl cio emphasized the importance of this measure dr powers by stating and you're going to love this one we know that when we as workers do not have control over our own decisions in bodily autonomy it affects our ability to work and organize effectively for the best working and living conditions. I have no idea why you're laughing. Well, the reason is that this state is so liberal that, you know, the only way to look at how it has slid and has been californicated, including Democrat friends of mine who have left the state, is to laugh at it because this whole thing would do exactly what the Communist Party would want to do.

that is so active with the far left here in Oregon. Yeah, yeah. I love this how we can't organize effectively as a union without the ability to have taxpayers pay to cut off our organs. And when they talk about medical or health care, that's what they mean, isn't it? When they talk about, well, you know, you have the right to love who you want, to be who you are

and essentially have taxpayers pay for it. Isn't that really what they're talking about? I would imagine this is where they're going. Yeah, but when we look at our representatives, while they're under the radar pushing all this nonsense, we have SOU that has had to declare a financial emergency, where to the last time it had not even a declared financial emergency, but had some cash problems, the fight was to make it the University of Oregon, Ashland Campus. These representatives who are voting for this, this idiotic nonsense, and letting the education that is so important slide, it's just passed wrong, and I'm still close to, you know, the university and Bill, I'll tell you,

with the state monies that are not going into education, it's actually turned around where the great majority is not going in from the state as it was when I first started teaching there. Yeah, well. Tuition went up. But anyway, we're seeing it here with bad roads as they're worried about transgender hospitalization. Oh, yeah. Well, check this out.

This is another story from the K2 or another aspect of the K2 story. It says, Evelyn Coker, a chief petitioner for equal rights for all, said, working people, working people, this is the union connection, right? Working people can't always afford to pay out of pocket or travel long distances for health care. And each of us should be able to marry who we love, access the health care we need, and be who we truly are without fear of discrimination. So that sounds to me, Dr. Powers, like this would force everybody in Oregon then to buy a ticket to the crazy circus that the LGBT community has been pushing for a while, at least the trans side of this? Would that be a fair assessment of what they would do with this? Oh, yeah. And you see, we talked about the spotted owl fraud.

Yes. This is a horrid fraud. And what it really means is there is a net loss of population here in beloved Oregon because it has gone down the slippery slope with our governor and the far left into where, you know, the AP always includes, which is the associated press, which is so biased towards socialism. And any time you read in any paper about Oregon, they have joined California in some nutty use of monies. Yeah. Okay, so I guess what, Oregon and California and Washington and now Hawaii.

Now, I understand that you do understand that Oregon ended up joining that health compact here with the other states. Yeah, which is not surprising. They've been californicated. Now, is that a – that's something which is legal for them to do to come out with her own vaccine schedules, I suppose. But can they force insurance companies to pay for vaccines that the federal government doesn't have on the vaccine schedule? Do you know? I'm just curious.

No, but you see, the problem with straight law and legal that, you know, only a long-time attorneys suddenly see is that what the law says and what the politicians do through their attorney friends and their judges who. they contribute to when they're running for office are two different things. Yeah. And that's why you're seeing this abysmal approach by common. It really are communist judges. And the reason for this and the reason why I'm going to come out and say this is the fact

that those that have jobs outside of this state, take it. Okay. Dr. Dennis Power is retired professor of business law. Hey, Doc, what is probably your biggest take on any national news involving Trump administration recently? Anything jumping out at you today? Oh, yeah. Oh, it really does, Bill, because, you know, in terms of Trumpisms, I just love his one about where he went ahead and put on X. I love the smell of deportations in the morning, which was, you know, from the 1979 film Apocalypse,

now. You have a take on the napalm, yeah. That's right. I love the smell of napalm. The other thing is that we saw here is that the study that said the Democrats, far left, Soros, Obama, Biden, the fraudulent ones, attack on Christians. No kidding. We saw that here, in terms of Cascade Christian, which plays sports against SOU, was the one that with the Biden administration, had about a $50 million FTC fine, logged against them, based on this squeezy thing that was totally wrong. The what now? Based on what? It's a sleazy attack on Cascade Christian that was wrong, that the Bay Cascade Christian was going ahead

and misleading their doctoral students as to length of time. to complete their doctoral program online. I've never heard of such baloney in my life. I'm not even familiar with this case. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's a lot of things that we have talked about, but, you know, I'm only one, and you talk with thousands. Yeah.

But that is one, Bill, where I saw the find, and I knew about the connection here, and it's horrid because... What is it done to Cascade Creek? Christian, though? What is he done? Cascade Christian was forced to go ahead and to hire attorneys to start fighting that. And finally, with Trump's election, now they would have been probably put out of business as the chameleon got in there. And this is not biased propaganda.

It costs Castaid Christian, a Christian university. It cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight it until just recently it made the national news that Trump, through its FTC, said, no, there's no case here. We're not going to go after the fine. The attacks on Christianity is exactly what happens in communism. You need atheism. We're seeing it here in Oregon. So actually, you have young kids in a family.

I would suggest to get out of the state. All right. Appreciate the call here, as always, Doc. We will talk more next week, okay? And actually, aren't you talking about Grand Canyon University, though? No. And actually, yeah, it's Grand Canyon, and there's a second one that's in there. So in all the details, the concept is the fact that there was an attack on Christianity,

that's the reason why today, my friend, on national news, you have Trump talking about the fact that the Bible is where we can get the basis of our law and why you have far-left Democrats going ahead, my friend, and saying that the freedoms come from government, no, government is to safeguard freedoms, it's not to take care of and regulate and pull away freedoms, which is what was happening, and we saw that with the Biden administration. All right, very good. All right. Doc, we'll talk next week, and before we take off, what does your gut say about tariffs?

And I was talking with John O'Connor, another legal mind about an hour ago, and we were kicking around some of the tariff issues. Easy or strict reading of the Constitution says that the president doesn't really have that unilateral terrorist. power. But yet at the same time, we're kind of wrapped into it right now. Do you think Scotus finds a way to maybe not pay back the tariffs if they're, you know, found illegal, you know, at the Supreme Court? Or do you think they kind of get us into a pickle in one form or another? How do you see that playing? Have you given any thought? Yes, because I think bill on that one, that it was a political decision. It really looked narrowly at what a president

can do underneath the act that it was then, quote, unquote, clarifying. I believe that SCOTUS will go ahead and uphold Trump's position. But for anything that we get, there's something that lose. And so in that negotiation, because it's a negotiation by our chief justice, quote-unquote, we will have probably a couple of decisions that will go against Trump in terms of his ability to stop authorized funding by Congress that he then has said, no, there are reasons why it shouldn't go through. And we may... And so it'll probably be an okay on that, and maybe the tariffs do get trounced or not? Tariffs getting trounced.

No, the tariffs should not be trounced, but it won't. It's one opinion. Okay. But what happens when we have that win by the Supreme Court, typically you're going to find in the negotiations, especially one other quick thing is 12 anonymous district court leftist judges. have gone ahead and sent a statement up to the Supreme Court saying they're very disappointed. Anonymous judges as to the way the Supreme Court is not following up and supporting them in their national injunctions to give due process rights to criminals and illegal aliens.

I think the problem that will have, my friend, is that there would be an upholding of Trump's ability with the terrorists by the Supreme Court. But on the other hand, my friend, we're going to see a couple of other decisions where it goes 5-4 in terms of against the Trump's ability on this stopping of the illegal transmission of cash to overseas trans non-profits. All right. All right, Doc. We'll talk to you next Monday. Okay. Be well.

Oh, listen, it's always a pleasure. and, you know, we can talk about, you know, one thing I'll go off with, my friend, and it's always good to talk with you. It's the fact that one of the Trump's best lines is the name Trump is synonymous with excellence. Just ask my kids. I did like that. That was pretty, he's pretty charming in that respect. Thanks, Doc.

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Hi. John, it was last Friday in history, September 5th, 1836. Sam Houston elected as president of Texas, and he's elected as president of the Republic of Texas, and Houston arrives in Texas during a time of rising tensions between the U.S. settlers and Mexican authorities. He soon emerged as a leader among the settlers. In 1835, Texans formed a provisional government, which issued a declaration of independence from Mexico the following year, and at that time, Houston appointed military commander of the Texas Army. He was born in Virginia, and Houston moved with his family to rural Tennessee after his first.

father's death. As a teenager, he ran away and lived for several years. With which Indian tribe, John, that's the question. Was it A, Apache, was it B, Cherokee? Was it C, Kickapoo? Was it D? He lived with the Comanches. Or did he E live with the Caddo or Caddo? I don't know how you pronounce it, but I probably messed it up one way or the other. What do you say? A, B, C, D, or E? I'm going to say Comanche. say Comanchee. It sounds like a tough group, right? No, it's not the Comanches. I appreciate you trying, though. Okay, so let me get rid of that one here. So we go to Tim.

Hello, Tim. How you doing? Hey, good morning. Apache, Cherokee, Kickapoo, or the Cado? Which one? Or the Cadoo, maybe. That's how you pronounce it. Well, I don't know. I think maybe the one you can't pronounce. You're thinking that it's the Caddo, the Caddo, whatever. Uh-huh. Was that the one survey? He said, where's my button going? No. Sorry. It wasn't that either. Okay, so we got that and wiped out.

So we got the D&E take it out. And, uh, hello, David. How you doing? How are you, Bill? Doing great. I'm going to say kick, I'm going to say kick-a-pooh. Kick-a-pooh. Because it's just fun to say, isn't it, right?

Yeah. No, it's not that one either. It is fun to say it, though. I know that. Let me go to Tom. Hey, Tom, it's Apache or Cherokee? Which tribe did Sam Houston, President of Texas, go live with a few years when he was a kid? Call a guest to Apache.

You guys say Apache. No, wasn't that either. Let me go to the next one. Whoever gets it next. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello.

Hello. Who's this? This is Dana. Dina? Yes. All right, Dina. Did Sam live with the Cherokee or the Cherokee? What do you say?

Well, I have to say the Cherokee. You're right. Houston lived with the Cherokee people between the age of 16 and 18. After running away from home, he was adopted by a Cherokee chief and given the Indian name, The Raven. So an interesting little bit of, well, American and Indian history. So there we go. And I'll tell you what, we're sending you to a diner, 62. Hang on, we'll get you all set up.