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Episode Date: September 20, 2025

09-19-25_FRIDAY_7AM

Here's Bill Meyer. Looks like it's going to be a great weekend. Let's find out just how great it's going to be where the weather's headed to, where the outdoor places we should be visiting are, and what are the conditions, okay? Fishing, going out to the coast, whatever. Greg Roberts joins me from rogueweather.com. Every Friday and about this time, we like to do the outdoor report. That is powered by Oregon, truck, and auto authority, your Department of Adventure,

off Vilas Road, off of airway drive. Greg is over at rogueweather.com, holding down the fort there. Greg, how are you doing, and how are things looking here for the next few days? Well, you know, just getting rolling on the day here. So drinking coffee, trying to get engaged on it, but how it looks, you know, it's kind of interesting. Watching last night didn't think we really had much chance for, you know, thunderstorms to develop up here. But we definitely got a very organized storm, came over the border, and got into the Applegate Reservoir area.

Not too concerned about fire starts because these storms that are forming, the showers that are forming, it's in a very tropical air mass. These are the remnants of tropical storm Mario. So where they do happen, they're putting rain down. So that's kind of the great news and not too concerned about that.

but it was how far north we did wind up seeing thunderstorms develop last night that was the surprise. Like I said, we had that very well-organized storm that came up into the Applegate Reservoir area. We also had a couple isolated flashes of lightning. I was just watching the time loop on that that came up through Josephine County. And we've got some pretty active thunderstorms right off the coast this morning, including at Brookings Harbor and also down at Eureka, definitely seeing a lot of lightning action. That's where it is right now. As we get through the day-to-day, honestly, we could see isolated to widely scattered storms

pop it up pretty much all over Northern California, Jackson, Josephine counties. It's pretty interesting when I'm looking at what Medford National Weather Service has for a forecast, and then looking at what's really going on out there in the atmosphere. I was a little surprised they didn't even put slight chance of showers and storms in in Medford and Grants Pass today. I really am. So you're thinking that even though it's not mentioned in the main forecast that there will be. You're thinking there's a good chance. You know, people, I hear people all the time go, well, you just say what National Weather Service says.

Well, here's a prime example of a time where I don't because the potential is there. Okay, very good. So chance of that happening here, it's like all of a sudden the fall forecast or the fall weather feel just kind of kicked in. Is that fair? Is that sort of like a – we didn't ease into it. It was like flip a switch. Boom. Here we go. Yeah. And it was very noticeable for me Tuesday night because I went on an outing with a friend of mine. And where we were at, we were just under 7,000 feet. And it got – cold. I mean, really cold. I thought I had, quote, warm clothes with me, and by 10.30 realized I don't have warm enough gear. I literally wound up sitting in the cab of the pickup with a sleeping bag kind of pulled over me, and then I stayed warm enough, but, yeah, it was probably, you know, 30s for sure. Yeah. It was cold. And that's the coldest night I've had, and I've been in this spot three times since August. And, yeah, you definitely felt the change of the season coming Tuesday night without any doubt.

All right. Now, Scott from Eagle Point, he called me up a few minutes ago. He said he was going to try calling during our segment with you because I guess he had gone out on one of those, I don't know what you called it. Maybe he came to see you at the Butte Falls Library when you had that Bigfoot talk. Yeah, that's where it was. We did a two part there. We, you know, I did a discussion at the library. And then for people who were interested, took them out to a spot literally right on Prospect Butte Falls Highway, where within about a mile, mile and a half stretch, Bigfoot Field Researchers organization has had six reports.

come in from this general area, three that were road cross sightings, one of which they investigated enough, they put it up on their website, you can go and read it, you get to BFRO.net, you look for reports, pull up Oregon, pull up Jackson County, and you will see the one road cross siding documented. But talking to guys who do the investigations of citing reports for BFRO, they said there were five others that they had had from that general area. Two more road cross sightings and three vocalizations heard. And I don't know what all meets the criteria for them to publish a report. I was looking at something last night that said, Oregon historically had only had 254 reports. Well, you know, I don't know what these websites do to classify that, but I guarantee

Oregon has had way more than 254. Now, I'll be the first to say when I first started reading a bit about Bigfoot, that's kind of going, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, right? And I think what changed over the years is how many people who have been, you know, sheriff's deputies, law enforcement types, folks that I've talked to, not on the air, because most of the time they won't talk about it on the air, but they'll... Oh, heck no.

But I'll talk with, you know, people who I know to be. be really sober left brain feathers, you know what I mean? You know, that sort of thing. The ones that are not, you know, going to come out there, he says, he says, and I remember the common thing is, you know, I've been working out in the woods now for 30, 40 years. I talked to a lot of timber fallers that, or fellers that tell me, you know, would say things off the air, said, yeah, if you were out here long enough, you will definitely see and hear things that that push it into the into the bigfoot world and and most people do not go out

and talk about it openly because well you know you're you know coast to coast a m kind of junkie you know that sort of thing but there there must be something there's way too much of it out here in southern Oregon there may be there must be more to this about crypto zoology stuff we just don't know about about the world and it doesn't surprise me what I met Cliff Berrickman who later would become really famous and well known because of finding Bigfoot, and of course now owns North American Bigfoot Center east of Portland on Highway 26. The very first time I ever met him was at Taylor Sausage in Cape Junction. And BFRO wanted to do what they call an expedition here in Southern Oregon, and they decided on Josephine County, and part of that

also factored into the very well-known incident with psychologist Dr. Matt Johnson and his family up at Oregon Caves on the Big Tree Trail. And so they were scouting for locations. I actually, I had applied to go on this thing just as a regular person, but they started reading my bio and what they were seeing on their former wildland firefighter, hunter, hiker, know the area extremely well, they actually reached out to me and said, hey, how would you like to come on this thing and it won't cost you anything? And I'm like, oh, do tell.

Yeah, you were on that one, sure. Yeah, and they said, here's what we need. And they said, we've got an advanced guy who's going to be there. And would you please help him scout for locations? Said, sure. Well, that turned out to be Cliff. And we're sitting there at Taylor Sausage, and I'll never forget, he looked at me and he said, man, he says, I've never been any place like this town. I love this town. Well, of course,

being a local, knowing Cape Junction, I know that could be going any number of directions. And they said, well, what do you mean? And he goes, Bigfoot, this place, it's not even a question to anybody. Everybody's just like, oh, yeah. And he said, and every person that I have talked to. Yeah, it's just part of the environment, right? It's just part of the environment for a lot of folks in the cave junction area, right? So yeah, yeah, we know. Yeah, we get it. Yeah. Okay. But the same is true up in the prospect area. Same is true in the Butte Falls area. That's just such a fact, and they see them, and it's just like it's not even a question, but they don't do. They don't, you know, call a lot of attention to themselves. They won't make a report. They're not going to say anything

publicly, but when you start talking to them privately, oh yeah, no, we got this. going on or I know this person has them coming on to their property frequently. There is a property on Red Blanket Road in prospect where it's pretty well known. These people have their property and on the property, the Bigfoot's are pretty much present with them all the time, meaning they're living there. It's a cohabitation thing. Really interesting. I'd love to learn more about that at some point. So anyway, just glad to get that report here. I'll, uh, We'll kind of set that aside here at the moment. I want to make sure I don't run out of daylight on the other things I want to talk about, too,

because I could go with the Bigfoot stuff for a long time. Even though I know I'll get some hate mail. It's like, okay, you don't have to listen during the Bigfoot talk. Okay, I get it, all right. Now then, what about as far as fishing and doing other outdoor camping sort of things, any good suggestions for this weekend on where we're looking with the storm activity you're talking about on the coast? Is that kind of take the coast out of contention? I wouldn't say it's taking it out of it because,

You know, the type of storminess we're seeing right now isn't the winter-level storm. It's not going to generate a lot of, you know, stormy conditions on the surface of the ocean. We might be getting some small craft conditions in the afternoons and evenings. That's actually fairly typical. Mornings are definitely going to provide a window to get out. And when people are getting out, bottom fishing is really good. Crabbing has been good. crabbing's been good in the bays and estuaries because, let's face it, when you're not getting rain and the river levels drop out, and the bays and estuaries get more salinity in them, the crabs come in.

So crabbing has been really good right now on the coast. Bottom fishing has been great. In the lakes, the trout bite is definitely snapped on. They're very aware of what's coming and been seeing a lot of good reports of success pretty much. all over our local area up in the Cascade Lakes. You know, it's just, it's that time of the year. The trout are bulking up, getting ready for winter coming. So if you hit it, I'm going to say probably 10 a.m., 3 p.m., somewhere within that window,

there's going to be a really good bite come off. And when people are hitting that, yeah, there's been a lot of success on fishing. How quickly do you think it'll take before we're hitting into the, you know, 40s and 50s here in the valley as far as temps? I didn't get a chance to go out camping this summer. I'd like to do maybe a little bit of fall camping in the van again before. Yeah, I think you're going to have your windows where you can do that. And honestly, historically, you usually are not seeing 40s and 50 showing up for highs until we get closer to Thanksgiving down at the, you know, latter part of November. We can get cold spells. It has happened where we can get 40s and 50s for

highs in October. That's not typical, though. And also with the way things are shaping up right now, at least as we look at the 30-60-day time frame, I don't think we're really getting a good look yet at 40s and 50s settling in for highs. Certainly not west of the Cascades. Definitely in October. That's why I'm saying I think you're still going to have that opportunity. The way it looks right now, we're probably going to be about where we normally would be that latter half in November before I think we're going to be seeing 40s and 50s for highs commonly. All right. Very good. And when does hunting, when's the first hunting season, kickoff. When is that coming?

Oh, man. I'm thinking so many things, including one thing I thought we were going to be discussing. I don't remember if it's the last weekend of September or first weekend of October. We're getting close. Yeah, we're close. I mean, honestly.

Well, what was the other thing you were thinking about digging into and then we'll let you do? We were talking about what I did on Tuesday night. Oh, yeah. We forgot to get the whole story. on Scott possibly calling. Yeah, I don't know if Scott's there or not, but we'll grab a call here. You are on with Mr. Outdoors on the Outdoor Report. Who's this? Welcome.

Good morning, this, Todd. A quick question about, I was listening to the Victor Control guy since we're talking about outdoors. Yeah. And he was talking about how we're now seeing in Southern Oregon the Egypti mosquito, which is a really nasty one. And it obviously came from Africa. and it was well established in the San Joaquin Valley, but I don't know if Greg seen them or heard them. They're active during the day, and they were, they're actually designed.

They grew up feeding on people, unlike most mosquitoes, which, you know, have certain animals that they go for. These ones are active, aggressive during the day, and they go after people specifically. has you heard anything about that? Have you? That, no. That one I had not, but there are, I don't even know how many varieties of mosquitoes around the planet. Do know that there are African varieties, there are also Asian varieties that, yes, will be active in the daytime. And yes, definitely do seem more inclined to come after us, come after humans. Hey, Todd, Todd, that's a bummer, man, just a mosquito that specifically likes us more than anything else.

And elsewhere in the world, it's those types of mosquitoes that just spread disease like crazy. That's why malaria, dengue, I can start running off a list. Mosquito-borne illnesses are still so prevalent in so much of the world. Now, ironically, those mosquito-borne illness, how they handle that, they give out large quantities of things we were told were not effective with COVID, and then turned out to be, and in those places where people are definitely taking those things, COVID was never a major issue. Oh, yeah, the Iver.

You're talking about Iver and all the rest of it. Yeah. Okay. Hey, Todd, I appreciate that. So I guess, you know, I might have to get in touch with vector control on that. I didn't realize. So it's the egypti mosquitoes, what you're talking about there, specifically? Yeah, it was a very interesting talk that he gave.

And, I mean, I hate to be a downer on a Friday, but unfortunately, what Greg said is true. If there is a certain kind of virus or, I should say, disease present, they are very good at transmitting that. And so have a happy Friday. Okay, we will in spite of it, but yeah, I'm going to put on the adit, okay? Thanks for the call. Let me grab another one here. Mr. Outdoors High, good morning. Who's this?

Hello. Hello, this is Scott. Hey, Bill. Hey, Scott, you're on with Greg. What's up? Hey, Greg. Hey, Scott. Just wanted to, let me turn my radio down.

I have to take care of some methane issues this morning, you know, and whatever. But anyway, so, yeah, definitely. I want to, the other caller about mosquitoes, definitely get you that Chrysanthem. them wristbands because more people die for mosquito bites, anything else in the world. So get those little bands. You know, honestly, that is probably still very true, especially places like Africa and portions of Asia.

Yeah, people are dying in big numbers out of things that were transmitted via mosquito. All right. Did you want to add something about the talk that Greg gave before we take off? I'm running out of time, though. I just want to make sure you get a good shot. I know it's all about time. Out at the Siski Research Center, I called earlier from Eagle Point, Scott, from Eagle Point. And also I do professional driving.

Great, great talk out there at the library. A lot of good information. I went even further up on the Blue Ridge, up on Blue Rock, and had some vocalization up here that evening. But me and my wife, we went up on the Ciscus off of 20 up there and let her dog go for a little bit, and he scared out of black bears. I want to remind people that where the sightings most happen are around black bears. So if you see a black bear, be even a little bit more cautious out there.

You know, bring food and water when you're out there in clothing, protect yourself. Yeah, just a great time, Greg. Now, do you have another one coming up? I don't have another talk coming up right now. I also don't have another outing that I've gotten scheduled yet. I haven't had anybody reaching out about those. And my window of opportunity in the area where I know they're going to be where we are having our encounters again this year,

that window basically 1st of October, and then they move out either because of the increasing amount of human hunting pressure or, and I think this is far more likely, it's just the berries, they pick through the berries, the berries have ripened up, and then they're done, and then they move on, and they go to different areas, but like I said, into July to the 1st of October, this area that I've been going out into, I pretty much got it figured out. This is where they are, and this is why they are there. All right, very good. Hey, Scott, I appreciate the call. I always appreciate you talking every Friday here, too. And maybe what we can think about here, especially because the politics in the news, it's been rough, and it's been rough for more than just

the last week with the Charlie Kirk thing. There was something that is soul restoring, though, to get out in nature, get out in the quiet, leave the cell phone behind or turn it off or, you know, whatever the case might be, and just reconnect to humanity and Mother Nature, I think, too. I just think it's a good idea right now. The humanity part is why you want to get out. I mean, that outing I did on Tuesday night with my friend Bart, that was so perfectly timed and it was so beneficial

and we did have one brief Bigfoot thing happened very early on but the majority of the night was spent just looking at the stars watching the meteors fall including a very big bright green

one at about 3.45 10 to 4 in the morning on Wednesday that thing it was bright as a flash of lightning. It lit everything up and I was like oh that was awesome and i was happy i was up there and i was awake and got to see that and then wednesday morning when dawn's hitting it's hitting enough that you can now really make out trees

you can see the distant hills and right at that point had two owls just downhill from where i'm sitting hear these owls talking back and forth to each other for about five minutes i mean barred owls because they're doing the whu-w-woof-w-w-w-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hall. And I came out of that, coming back on Wednesday, I just felt better in the heart and the soul. And so I'm going to recommend to people, now more than ever, just disconnect out of the human world,

get back to the natural one, quit dwelling on the news, quit dwelling on this, just go back, spend some time, watch the deer moving through the forest look at the stars watch the meteors listen to the owls and get yeah yeah get connected some of my favorite activities and i'm thinking about this now i usually camp by myself linda's not much of a vanigan camper right it's just not the right it's

not her thing but what i miss most about going out there now um the last few times i would go up by meridian overlook on the on the forest road up there past uh and and I don't know. Did they fence that off because for the longest time, people were able to go behind the trees and camp back there. I heard rumors that they were going to fence that off. Have you seen it by chance? I know. I have not been by that in, oh, man, I don't even remember how long I don't recall fencing being there. But I know they did a number of projects up there, so that might have been one of them. Yeah, it tells you how long it's been since I've been up there and I've wanted to go there because there is nothing that is more. beautiful on a nice fall night than to, you know, I'll be out there, I'll be reading a book

a little bit of the evening, have a little coffee, whatever it is, I'll open up the back of the vanigans, you know, drapes out there or the curtains, and I will just look at you, it's like, until you're out in places like that, you don't realize how many stars there are and how you never see it in the city. You just never see that in the city, and there's just such a beauty to it. I can't say enough. And honestly, on Tuesday night, I think part of why I was seeing so many meteors. It was like almost Perseid level. The moon phase was a crescent, and it didn't rise until probably about 430. So prior to that, like from darkness to 430, there was no moonlight which made the stars even more vibrant, stand out more. You could see

more of them. There was nothing to eliminate what you could see with the naked eye, never mind looking up there with like binoculars. It just, it was incredible. And you know, you're just sitting there and you're looking right at the Milky Way. You're looking at just the vast expanse of the stars in space. And you just look at that. At least I do. And it just blows you away. I do, I do, too. It's a, there's something so primal about that, something very primal, all right. Okay, I got time for maybe one more quick call here. We'll grab it then.

I got to cut loose here, but hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hey, this is Scott from Eagle Point. Scott, I already had you on. The Overlook has the fenced off, yeah. Oh, it is fenced off now, huh? Yep, okay.

It is fenced off up there. Oh, okay. Well, Scott, thanks for letting me know. I just didn't. Oh, boy, that disappoints me. Yeah, anything which was nice that doesn't have an official fee box in front of it is fenced off. Great. Good to know. All right. Well, on the other hand, it may also be that people were not being respectful and they were trashing it. And more often than not, because there is no budget for maintenance, if it just becomes too much of a headache because of thoughtless individuals, they'll just close it off. Okay. All right. Well, I have wire cutters. I'm just

kidding. No, I'm not going to go there. All right. A, thanks, Mr. Outdoors. We'll talk next week, okay. Thanks, Greg you got it, Bill. No, I would not do nasty things on public lawn. Okay. Great Robertsrogweather.com Outdoor Report and more sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority. You're a Department of Adventure on Violence Road off of airway drive. It is 737. I ran a little bit long. It's fine. Let's talk about some other good things coming here to Southern Oregon. That is a job fair. We're looking for ways to get people employed not requiring a four-year degree and lots of college debt. This is a good thing. We'll tell you more about it next. Are you, or do you know an adult 55 or older with low income looking for accessible housing? Or of best suppliers of goods and services?

You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. 742. Proud to have Jerry Flores on. Jerry Flores. Now, what part of the, is it Workforce Oregon? What is your title there, Jerry? It's a good to have you on. Morning. Hey, good morning, Bill. Thank you. I am with Workforce Oregon, part of the Employment Department.

Okay. And I participate in the Veterans Program. All right. Very good. And you are involved along with a bunch of other people. This is the Southern Oregon Trade Careers Expo. This coming, what, it's going to be a week from this coming Tuesday over at the Seven Feathers Convention Center, up Canyonville

and this is I'm real supportive of what you're all trying to do there's a bunch of people involved maybe you can tell me how this ended up getting together but it's about

getting people into living wage jobs without having to have an expensive four year degree and lots of debt isn't that what this is all about and there's more of it

going on than you think that's exactly what it's about bill and yeah on the 30th we're going to be there starting at 8 a.m. And what this does it started back in 2017

and Christy Mietram, she's the driving force behind this. But the goal is when people think about the traits, right, you think about maybe plumbing or construction workers, but there's so much more, you know, drone operators, the cablemen laying our electric wires, right, servicing electric panels. I could even add this into what we see in the neighborhood right now. You got the hunter fiber and spectrum installers, people going out there running wires and connections and Internet everywhere. You see this all the time. It's all part of the trades, isn't it? It's all part of the trades.

You know, we're going to have the aviation industry there. If you want to get up close to a helicopter and touch one, they're going to be there. And the biggest thing, what makes this a special event is that you actually get to see demonstrations of the work being done, the tools they use. If you want to use the jackhammer, you know, they got them there. We have the trucking simulators are going to be there. So if you ever wonder what it's like to be in the semi, we'll have a couple of those there. A semi-simulator, okay. I didn't know they had semi-simulators.

I knew about the airplane simulators for, you know, training at pilots, but they do that with the truckers too. Okay. Yes. Yes, you sit there and there's a wheel and you got all the screens in front of you, and the goal is to get from point A to point B without getting other vehicles. It's a lot of fun. I've done it. Okay.

All right. Well, it's good to know that the truck. are trained this way because I'll tell you, you know, 50, 60, 70,000 pounds at 60s. Well, I guess you're not supposed to do more than 60 in Oregon, but now, who knows? We'll just set that aside right now. And now, does it cost anything to go to this event, this big event over at Seven Feathers? The only thing you need to come to the event is the willingness to talk to people, leave your resume there with us. We just want you to come in.

And anyone who's looking for that job, no matter veteran, non-veteran, we're going to have a lot of high school folks there. Yeah, but you're not, but this is not, well, exclusively for kids. We're not talking about just kids in school, though. It can be everybody, everybody of employable age, right? That might be looking for a change, perhaps? Yeah, this is for transitioning service members, people in the community that are looking to change careers, for example, someone who's just unemployed, right?

we want them all to come over totally free and see what it's about, talk to the people, find out, you know, you can make a lot of money and a lot of these jobs without having the college debt at the end or, you know, a big plug that we like to do is for the apprenticeship programs. You're not going to school and learning something and then hoping to get a job here with an apprenticeship. You get there, you start working from day one and while they train you, you're being paid. Yeah. Now, Randall is a friend of the show over here at Advanced Air, you know, advanced air here in Southern Oregon. And he talks about that all the time in which, you know, hey, we bring you on here. We have positions and you get to learn and you're trained and you're getting paid. It's kind of the best of all worlds. And then, man, you can write your own ticket as time goes on. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, and again, you could do that for electricians. You could do that.

has apprenticeships. So it's all over, but we really want people to come out and see, and we have to thank seven feathers, man, that, you know, nine acres worth of trucks, and we filled up. The inside the convention center is going to be a lot of the employers that don't have their trucks and demo stuff there. But outside, you know, we'll have fire trucks, police cars, anything you could possibly imagine that you could get hired onto, we're going to have there. All right. I'm looking here at the industries you've got. Everything from Ag, automotive, and mechanical, the

aviation like you talked about, certainly building and construction, engineering, environmental, fire, forestry, timber, and wood. Healthcare is in there, too. So if you're looking for finding out more about getting a health care gig, and there's a lot of that here. Manufacturing,

law enforcement, military, professional, public safety, robotics, transportation. Transportation and rail. Now, I don't know if you're getting into rail, though, you're probably going to relocate a little bit. I think we only have one short line here in Southern Oregon, but you can go to work for Union Pacific over on the east side, right, of the state, that kind of thing. Yeah, I happen to be sitting in Bend right now for work conference, but we have connections up here with the railroad. So, you know, our program with Workforce Oregon, and this is for everyone, not just veterans. You come into one of our centers, tell us what you want to do, and we're statewide, so we could connect you all over the place.

And we're going to have a table at the event as well next week. We're going to talk to us. We're all going to be there. It's a really good event. Do you think that, Jerry, I want to ask a philosophical question about this because do you think that we're entering a time in our culture in which there could be more respect applied to the trades? Because I know that one of the issues that I think was driving, and by the way, there is nothing wrong with a college education. If you have a gig or a position that you're looking that requires that, I understand you going.

there but kind of what was driving the college of the college drive for a lot of times is that we had females a lot of women there are more women than men right now in most universities in university systems men were not finding what they need what they felt comfortable doing I'm just generalizing of course not all men but a lot of men just didn't see the value in this but then you had women that wouldn't want to get married to anybody who didn't go to college. Do you know what I'm getting at? And yet, at the same time, and yet at the same time, that tradesman, let's say, might have a much better situation going for him, assuming it's a male, doesn't have to be a male, but much better situation than the guy that's in college with

the, with a woman. I don't know. Any thoughts on this? But it's about the respect then. It's been kind of, it was given short shrift for a long time. I'm just wondering if that is being changed these days. You know, a really good friend of mine, I live in Newport, he was an electrician. He said, nobody loved him more than when they called him on a Sunday evening because their power went out. Right. Same thing with a plumber, right? We don't think much of plumbers until we're sitting there with a flooding house. These jobs are never going to be replaced by AI.

These jobs are never going to be sent overseas. These are jobs where you can stay in your community, earn a very good living, and be part of change, right? That's what drives us. And like you said, some of us go to college early, some of us go to college later in life, and it's good for some people. But specifically those of us that had a tough time in high school, for example,

we don't need to struggle in college and end up in college debt. We could go into a trade. Yeah. Or we could pivot, right? We're losing a lot of jobs all over the place. Now's a good time to come down here and see all the other opportunities. Because you might see a job you never thought existed. it is going to peak your interest, and there you are.

Yeah, yeah, and then you find, hey, I'm happier going to work, and I'm not worried about AI. The AI thing is real, because there's not a week that goes by that I don't see headlines coming out of the financial papers about companies that are... It's very real. Hey, companies that are saying, hey, you know, because of artificial intelligence, we're going to lay off 15,000 white-collar workers, and they're thinking, oh, boy, white-collar workers.

Middle managers, right? Yep, yeah, middle managers, all those kind of things. It's real. and it is something to consider when you're in the process of making a change or maybe doing better. So once again, this is going to be a week from Tuesday when this is going on. The Southern Oregon Trade Careers Expo, Living Wage Careers, September 30th over at Seven Feather's Convention Center. It's going to be huge. And like I said, this has been going on a number of years.

This is big what you're all trying to do here to help not just the Southern Oregon community, the entire state, the entire economy. And Jerry, I appreciate that. Is there a place to go to actually find out more, you know, about this with all the details? Where are you ahead? Our website is www. Empowerthepossible.org. Okay. Empowerthpossible.org.

All right. Empowerthopossible.org. Tuesday, the 30th, 8 to 3.30. It's going to be an all-day event there. Jerry Flores. We appreciate you coming on. Thanks for the tip. Okay.

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Millet Construction has been a general... 63, KMED. This is News Talk 1063, KMED. And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. Open phones at 7705-633. Find your phone Friday. We'll also have a Diner-62 quiz coming up after the 830 news and maybe some more phones and various other things.

I just love kind of getting together and we can converse. I know that there are all sorts of events going on this weekend. the Charlie Kirk ride, that one is going to be happening. Now, let's see, I think it was, gosh, and I didn't write that down. I think it starts at, wasn't it at 1.30? Wasn't that 1.30 on Sunday is when that was going to be going on over by where the old Costco used to be on Highway 62 in that neighborhood in Learway. That Learway neighborhood is where they were going to start that.

And that's going to be, once again, a driving deal. Sunday is the day that they're doing Charlie Kirk's funeral. And I know that Josephine County is doing a streaming and getting together with the funeral. That's happening at 9 a.m. at the Josephine County Republican Party, they're doing that. And if there's anything else, just let me know. There's anything else going on that we know about it. Okay, 7705653-3-770 KMED. Before I get to the phones, I was going to mention that the other week,

City of Metfrey ended up endorsing that measure, you know, to go. go with a ballot measure that would increase the transient lodging tax. You know, we know about this one. And it was about helping fund this big Creekside Quarter Project. And that's the one with hotels and also conference rooms, you know, that sort of thing. Not a conference center per se, but, you know, they're trying to do something with that area out there by Medford Center. You know, where do they go? But also part of this was the ball field, right?

the ball stadium and anywhere between $90 and $100 million has been talked about for a ball stadium to entice the Eugene Emeralds who are leaving Eugene because the taxpayers didn't want to pay for a $90 million. I think they wanted to pay for a pay, they wanted us to pay for $100 million one at that time. But anyway, taxpayers wouldn't go for the new ball stadium and so they come shopping here. and I've had a lot of people say, Bill, you know, you've got to get all over this. And one suggestion was that I talked with Fred Herman. Now, Fred Herman used to own and run the Southern Oregon Timber Jacks when they were Southern Oregon. They ended up moving that team to Vancouver, apparently. And if anybody knew, Fred, and if anybody knows baseball, though, and how to make this work or not work, I'm sure he would.

And I reached out to him the other day and did call him, and he has agreed to come on the show. and I'll just give you a little foreshadowing. He says he loves the idea of the Eugene Emeralds coming here, but he thinks the stadium idea is a bad idea, real bad idea. But I'll let him speak for himself when the time comes. But he likes the idea of the team coming. He doesn't like the idea of the plan of the stadium downtown. And that's coming from someone who used to own a team here.

But we'll see where that goes. Okay. All right. I'll keep you in the room when Fred agrees to come on. He was getting busy moving to another home of some sort, and so he was busy, all right? Let me go to the phones. Hi, good morning. KMEDE.

Who's this? Welcome. Good morning, Bill. You were questioning the time a little bit about our event this Sunday, so I just want to confirm it is 1.30 at 3 over there. Okay, by the old Costco location. So, in other words, really where Hobby Lobby is now in that neighborhood. Essentially, yeah, you won't miss us over there. The distinct, the different one way we're doing this event is if you don't have a vehicle,

or a car and you want to be involved, we are going to be cruising all the way down Highway 99. So we'd ask that residents of Talent, Phoenix, Ashland, if they can't get all the way to Metford, just come down to the driveway, come to bring a chair down to the highway with the flag and just support us as we drive through. It'd be great to have everyone lining the Highway 99. We're going to go all the way down to Ashland and bring the love down there, turn around and come all the way back up through every town on Highway 99, all the way to Central Point. to hear what the reception is like in Ashland? Oh, they love us, Bill.

You know, that's the group of love down there, don't you know? Okay, well, tell me about it Monday, okay? Make sure and call with your report. Well, I'll let you know. When I drove the Trump train down there during election season, I was immediately pulled over by the police. You can actually see all those pictures and all those videos that God will be done. Okay, now what?

No, hold on. Hold on. Why do they pull you over? they wanted to see who they wanted to see who's leading the train oh okay uh they want to they want to know they want to know who public enemy number one is he bill they don't want people standing up they want people just to continue to sit down okay no no and i'm just like wondering under under uh what what was the probable cause for stopping you uh he tried to say that we were going too slow but fortunately i had about a long line of car of witnesses so he wasn't even thinking about arresting me

It would have been great if they would have tried to pull me out of my truck. Well, no, I'm not going there, all right. All I'm saying, though, is that when someone said, well, they arrested me because I'm public enemy number one. Well, that's BS. I call BS on that. I have a feeling that it was probably gumming up traffic down there. Oh, no, no, no. They didn't arrest us.

They just pulled us over. They literally want to pull us over just to see who we are, and then they let us go. Oh. Oh, okay. Well, if they let you go, I suppose it's okay. All the videos and pictures on are on God's will be done. It's turning point Southern Oregon chapter that's going to be putting this on. And so, yeah, I mean, we've launched a turning point, southern Oregon.

The change is coming. There's nothing that the powers that are here, powers that be here can do to stop it. We, the people are rising up. It's time. It's a turning point. All right, we shall see. The only thing I would say, though, is that, you know, the real change is going to be coming from the youth. And unless the youth is really involved in this, it's got to be the youth.

If you can't get the kids' hearts and minds, where do you go at this point? Agreed, Bill. And, you know, we launched our turning point Southern Oregon page yesterday. We are already over 700 members in just a little over 24 hours. All right. Good for you. Hey, good for the here. And we'll see you. So Sunday, 1.30 is when that starts. 1.30 off a Learway. All right. It's a minute after 8, KMED, KMED, H.T.1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Captain Bill will be joining me here in a few minutes. I want to get a couple of emails of the day. Emails of the day are sponsored by Dr.

Steve Nelson in Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point Family Dentistry.com. Earlier this morning, I was opining on not being real happy. In fact, I think the Trump administration is stepping into a free speech trap in which, you know, they're openly talking about things that really they shouldn't even be going there. I dealt with left-wing speech and speech repression to the attempts at this. Oh, we're going to bring back the fairness doctrine and all the around. rest of it. And I think it would be unwise for President Trump to attempt a tit for tat kind of

thing. All right. Now, Patrick writes me about Bill. Just a thought to consider, President Trump says a lot of outrageous things. But does he ever act on the outrageous things he says? Okay, don't be a Trump apologist, Patrick. Brendan Carr has been sort of, and has been openly discussing this. And remember, he likes Brandon Carr. He said he likes Brandon Carr. I say I like Brandon Carr. President Trump talks about that maybe some broadcast licenses should be pulled on something like this. Brendan Carr is openly talking about the broadcast licenses be pulling. So, yeah, I think there's a connection. All right, I don't think this is something that I'm just making up out a whole cloth here. But anyway, Patrick says, I believe he says

outrageous things in order to live rent-free in the heads of the lefties, simply because it is so much fun to watch them meltdown. That may be. But as president, you're supposed to be president of everyone okay all i'm saying is that don't go down the free speech thing you have bondie out there talking about hate speech we dealt with this already okay he should not be uh well i'll tell you this is what he was talking about uh on the on air force one yesterday with the reporters you know when a late night host is on network television there is a licensing i'll give you an example i read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me. I get 97% negative. And yet I won easily. It won all seven

spring. States popular. I won everything. And if they're 97% against, they give me only bad publicity or press. I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr. I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He's a patriot. He loves our country. And he's a tough guy. Now tell me that that is not trying to push the thumb, put the thumb on the scale, Patrick, or anybody else that's thinking this. I disagree with him completely on this kind of stuff. I don't want to go from the left-wing speech police to the right-wing licensing speech police, okay? I'm just not.

And by the way, to more of my point, Fox News.com, FCC chair thinks investigating the view worthwhile after the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, whether ABC's daytime talk show host is violating or violating broadcast rules. Now, this has to do with equal time, all right? And whether it's a news show. Of course, it should be just out there as an opinion show, in my opinion. Trump suggests FCC should consider revoking TV licenses over negative coverage of him. That's what I was talking about. The news is not there to reflect the polls or the popularity or of any president.

And, of course, every president complains about press coverage, usually, maybe except for Obama. I don't know. how Brendan Carr, the Attack Dog FCC chair, helped take down Jimmy Kimmel with words, not actions, because he was on that podcast openly saying, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Folks, that is coercion. Now, I think Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talant scum, okay?

We're going to tell you that right now. But it's not my business. But when you tell ABC and the ABC affiliates that we can do this the easy. way or the hard way. I assure you that the executives that run various television stations, and by the way, networks don't have licenses like President Trump was alluding to a little while ago, but television stations and the radio stations do. All right? So don't tell me that that's not having some undue influence in chilling. And that is not defending Jimmy Kimmel's

idiocy, all right? Just understand. We don't want to go down that road either with all you, you know, the communists that are on the other side of this aisle or the right. That's how I see it. Good morning. Hi, KMED. Who's this? This is Minor Dave. Yeah, Dave. To change the subject, because I commented on free speech yesterday, it revolts me to think that he would do that after they shut him down.

But I wanted to talk about the terrorism declaration by President Trump of Altifa, Antifa. Yeah, the declaring, declaring them a terrorist organization, yeah. Okay. Well, you know, because that opens up a lot of things. They can do a national security letter. You know, they don't need a warrant to tap into this stuff. They can just write a national security letter and get everything on anybody that's associated with Altyfa,

and they can go into archives that they may have picked stuff up that, you know, they never did anything about, but they can now, you know, through the NSA, and, oh, they can go after their funding sources. And that's probably going to be the most important thing. Antifa, of course, has demonstrated itself to be a very dangerous organization the way it does. Oh, yeah, by far. Yeah, and so I think it's, this particular case is long overdue, and it's not because, their leftist. I'm talking about their actions, what they have done in various cities. And see, that's where I get with freedom of speech is you have a right to say something.

If it leads to a bad action, then you should be held accountable. You know, like it leads to violence. Yeah. Thanks for the call, Dave. I'll grab one more call before news and running a little bit behind here. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is me. Hey. Oh, it's Bill. Okay. All right, Bill. I didn't realize you were calling in that early. That's great. Hang on. We'll put you on hold. We'll get to you. Be right with you. Let me grab one more. Hi. Good morning. KM.E.D.

Oh, good morning, Bill. It's Francine. Francine. Go ahead. Yeah. I just wanted to have some comments about Charlie Kirk. And I'm not going to get into, there's a lot of, you know, different opinions about what was really going on. you know, Israel connections, Israel, blah, blah, you know, all that stuff. That's not where I'm going to go. Oh, yeah, there's about a thousand conspiracy theories about that. One that I would like to know, though, is where's the bullet?

I'd like to know, but I'd love to see a bullet ballistic examining. There's a whole lot of things that are wrong with this. You know, like getting hit in the left side of your neck and then falling to the left, that doesn't make sense. There's a whole bunch, okay? But that's not what is bothering me really about no matter which of the conspiracies might be true. is how much attention. It's like he was the president, you know? Everybody's just going all in on this, you know, celebrating his life and honoring him and all the stuff.

I mean, it's starting to creep me out because it makes me feel like there's something else they're going to be doing and using this to get that, to get that, whatever it is. That's interesting. as far as the getting hit in the neck and falling to the left, right? So he's hit from that side and he falls, well, he falls to our right, but he gets hit on the right side. No, no, he falls, he gets, the video I saw, there's a red circle just suddenly appears on his throat to the right, to the left of his Adam's apple, and then he falls to the left. and this big glob of blood comes lorked out of his neck. I think it is perfectly explainable. Here's why the bullet did not, the bullet was not a full bodily impact.

It was a clip through the throat, right? It was actually not a great shot. I think, I'm sure he probably intended, whoever it was, intended either for a head shot or a chest shot, all right? So it clips that. It's not a lot of mass impact to the body. It's not like it's going to shove the body back, right? It was kind of a through-and-out kind of thing, clipped that out.

And he's naturally... What's that now? His head would have responded with the right direction. I remember what... No, because it wasn't a headshot. And then where did the bullet end up? It went into his neck. No, no, no, no.

It didn't end up anywhere. They don't know where the bullet has ended up. It's not anywhere yet. Right. Right. There you go. But no, it goes through. It's like, you know, it goes through the... It went through the throat or through the... side of the throat there.

That was a right side of that, from our view, right side clip. But anyway. No, it was on the left. It was Adam's Apple. No, you're talking about it from his viewpoint. I'm talking about from our viewpoint watching the video. Right side. Oh.

You know, from our view, right side, he has a minor impact to the left because it wasn't a full body impact because there wasn't a lot of mass in the throat to stop it. It's not like a hit bone or anything like that, okay? That's what I'm getting at. I think you're listening to a bunch of opinions that are trying to explain it away. No, I'm not. I'm just actually observing it, and it's not, you know, something going through the throat is not, it's not, you know, you've watched too much Hollywood or watch too many people Hollywood in which the bullet hits and the body goes flying through the window, okay? No, no, that's not what I'm basing this on, Bill.

Okay, well, I'll disagree with you on this particular one. The point I'm making is, you know, they're turning him into this great martyr figure of, there's something else coming from this. Well, he's the Martin Luther King for the right wing now, okay? There we go. All right, there he go. Set it. Thanks for the call there, Francine. KMED, KMED, H.T1, Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass.