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Episode Date: September 20, 2025

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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 Klausor drilling.com. Yes, Ashland. Captain William Mies Simpson from the Wild Horse Fire Brigade joins the show. Captain, welcome back. It's good to have you on. This is a different kind of call because I don't play a lot of music on the show

other than, you know, for bumpers in and out of there. But you ended up thinking about what's been going on with wild horses, even just natural resources in general, right? This is something that you have written a lot about over the years with wild horses and other things, too. It's not just wild horses. Yeah, I appreciate it. Good morning, Bill.

And, yeah, I'm concerned about the future. If we don't start preserving what we have, the important things, our forests, our wildlife, and the horses, because they're so, we built humanity on their backs, and our civilization wouldn't exist without them. So, yeah, this is honoring all of those things. This song came from a poem I wrote a few years back, and I took those lyrics, and I created this song. And this song that you created, what you fed it into, what did you feed it in the chat, GPT? I'm kind of curious how you did it.

No, I took my poem, and I took the lyrics, and then I put it into a computer program that, where it's for music, where you can go ahead and you can decide male-female, the tempo. Do you want rock? Do you want country? Do you want, you know, alternative? And so you direct the computer and how it's going to create the musical arrangement around your lyrics. And then at the end of it, it cranks out something and you can review it. And if you say, no, that's not it. And you change it. I want to do this. I want it faster tempo. You know, so, yeah. So it, you direct it. And it comes up with some pretty good stuff. And this song, I think, turned out really well. It took me about an hour. Okay. But I think it was well worth it. All right. Well, I'm going to punch it up here. And what's the name of it now? Wilde, Wild Stallion.

I was born where the sky meets the mountain winds. Two million years running free with my ken. On the land where the fossils of my kind still lay. But no bones of the cattle. they graze here today still they call me invasive like I don't belong but my spirit's in the earth

in the wind in this song I am a wild stallion carved by God's own hand with a heart full of thunder and hooves in the sand I've raced with the wind with the wind

and I've watched the stars fall I've seen heaven's beauty and I've heard it's called you can brand me a ghost or a fading flame but my soul rights proud and I won't be tanged

Well so far so good Here the next verse I was raised by a queen strong and wise as the stone With her eyes on the heavens At her heart full of her own I've crested the peaks in the black before dawn to greet the red fire as a new day is born

I've heard angels sing when a newborn cries and watch no touch an eagle under moonlit skies I am a wild stallion carved by God's own hand with a heart full of thunder and hooves in the sand I've raced with the wind and I've watched the stars fall I've seen heaven's beauty and I've heard it's call you can brand me a ghost or a fading flame but my soul ride's proud and I won't be tamed can fall to steal and flay by the hands of the ones who now curse my name but I wear the scars

of battles I've won a father a leader a wild chosen won by honor I live by truth I stand guided by grace through the this sacred land

I am a wild stallion carved by God's own hand with a heart full of thunder and hooves in the sand I dance with the stars and I've wept with the trees I've whispered the spirits on the midnight breeze you can chase me down but I won't be

shamed for I am the spirit that can't be claimed. I am the vanishing spirit of America, untamed, unbroken, still free. Wow, there we go. The broadcast debut, Wild Stallion. Captain Bill, that was really thought-provoking. Thank you, yeah.

Yeah, I put the demo out to a friend of ours, our Fred Ed, and Mr. X. And I got an email in the morning that he said he was just blown away by it. And, of course, Ed, you know, being the former owner of the Palomino Club, where Colan Eastwood did a lot of movies, he's seen a lot of bands with a lot of music. And I thought that was a pretty high compliment from him. Yeah, I think that I love it. Because the thing is, it's wild stallion. You know, we even have some listeners that I've referred to as, well, Steve as an example, who calls?

And I termed him wild salmon because, you know, there are wild salmon humans and then, and then I guess wild stallion in this particular. I look at this as the American spirit. It can count for both the horses and for America as a going concern, so to speak. Do you agree with me on that? That's how I felt it All the early cowboys Their horse was everything And we built this whole country

On the backs of horses We've got to get back to our value system We have to show that we still have integrity And compassion For these animals that You know, made America great I mean Trump wants to talk about In America great

But he's leading the charge On decimating the wild horses I mean what's with that I mean You know what is the official policy right now what is it um the official policy is to to create more economic income from public land and eliminate all wildlife if possible including get rid of elk get rid of horses get you know they don't care about deer anymore it's just about okay lithium gas oil minerals and livestock we can't

run the country like that we have to have balance and when you lose balance and you lose centers then you fall well back to the song though uh how can they get a hold of that As I imagine, do you have that up on Wild Horse Fire again? Yeah, we have it on our YouTube channel, but we are making a video. We had a lot of people get a hold of us, and so I have the team working on that now. They said, gee, this would be a great music video, and we want to get it out there. I'd like to have some country western channels play this song. Yeah, this is what I would suggest, though, because you're not going to get that song played as it is, and here's why.

And here's why it. Because the vocals are obviously AI. What we need to find is a good country singer here in Southern Oregon or Northern California that's willing to help you and re-sing the vocals in the analog 3D world. Okay? That's what I would suggest as just because even I can hear the artifacts of the AI, of the artificial intelligence or the ghost singer as you termed it. I think that might be a possibility. Do you have just like an instrumental version of it that a singer around here could re-sing it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have the musical arrangements, and so, yeah, we could find somebody could do a cover, you know, a live, a quality country singer that could do it.

I've had a couple of female singers get a hold of me. I think it's nothing against female singers. I think it needs a male voice. I think it needs a male voice. I do, too. You know, most cowboys are men. and I think it's a song that really speaks to the tradition and the heritage of our country and the wild spirit that doesn't, you know, we do not surrender.

Yeah. So that's the only suggestion I would have, but I tell you, I kind of tear it a little bit. I hate to admit that, but just a little bit. Of course, I'm reading the lyrics on the video as I'm playing it out of your MP4. but do you mind if I share that somehow I can post it on KMED.com? Absolutely share it. And then we encourage everybody to share it. And, of course, it's copyright, and I give permission for that.

But what we, I do want to follow up on your advice. I think we need to find a singer who's capable of putting that out there with the right energy and the right heart. Because that was the right tone and the energy of the field, but I think it just needs a real, a real sing on it. A human voice, yeah, I agree. Okay. I agree.

And, yeah. I just wanted to say, great job. And not only for the spirit of the wild horse is the wild stallion, but also the spirit of America to me is what I kind of felt through that. And I just got a great poem. Great poem put to music, okay? Really was. Thank you. I appreciate it.

Thank you very much. All right. Captain William E. Simpson, Wild Horse Fire Brigade. dot org and i will put up wild stanion a little bit later on this morning on the show blog okay hey thanks cap and bill always good okay thank you all right it is 832 at km ed are you or do you know an adult 55 just south of white city sunday 11 to 2 on kmedy this is the bill mire's show on 106 3 km ed got something on your mind give bill a shout at 541 770 533 770 5 633 770 7-0, KMEDE.

I've got to tell you, I like this song. I really do. I love the sentiment. The imagery is something. Jim, wanted to get your take on it because I was looking for maybe an appropriate artist that might be able to do justice to singing that song. and making it just a little more human and pushing it up the, you know, in other words, raising the level of it.

What say you, huh? Well, I have just the band, and his name is Marty Haggard, one of Merle's son. Oh. And he's got connections. That family has connections all over the country. And I think that he has the capability of doing what you have in mind. Okay. Hey, I really appreciate that. So is Marty Hager available? Can I just find him online someplace? Well, he lives in Shasta County.

Oh, Shasta County. Oh, okay. All right. So he lived, they might still be in Palisadro. You know, of course, his dad lived on the biggest houseboat in Lake Shasta for years. But he's up there somewhere. All right, very good. Hey, appreciate the suggestion, Jim. Let me go to Sylvia. Sylvia, you had to weigh in on an artist, too. Go ahead. Yeah, I wanted to suggest a guy named Doug Figgs.

He has several albums out, and one of the songs on a cowboy like me, CD, is called Wild Horses. He has a song out about Yellow Horse, which was about a wild Mustang. So he's familiar with the genre, so to speak. Now, is Doug Local, Doug Figgs? He lives in New Mexico. New Mexico. Oh, okay. Yeah, and actually he does a live Facebook feed on mostly Thursday nights.

But he's the real deal. I mean, he actually is a farrier. He, you know, he shoes horses and he grows hay. Does he do those kind of videos in which he's showing, you know, cutting the hoof open and getting all the bad stuff out of it? Is he one of those guys? Yeah, you know, I am completely, I am completely fascinated by those ferriers that work on the hooves, and you'll see them take the infections out and carve things down.

I am totally fascinated, but on the other hand, I also like pimple-popping videos, too. So I'll admit that. There you go. But his name is Doug. His name is Doug Figgs, F-I-G-G-S. Okay. He has several albums out. Okay, yeah.

I'll try to find him then, all right? I'll send all these over to Captain Bill Sylvia. Appreciate the call, okay? All right, I got Matt. I'll get right to you here. Chris, you wanted to weigh in on what Francine was talking about with the Charlie Kirk shooting, though, on the other side that people have been talking a lot about. Go ahead. Good to have you on.

Yeah, Bill, there's a couple of YouTubers out there really credible. One's Paramount Tactical. Gary with Paramount Tactical. There's a video with at Heavy Duty Country Podcast. That's at Heavy Duty Country Podcast. Yeah. They've got a new shooter, and no one's talking about it. Cash potato heads, not talking about it.

The FBI is lying to the public. Huh. Okay, so you're going, so you're saying ignore Occam's Razor? I don't know. I don't know about what that is. I haven't reviewed that yet. Okay, no, all I'm saying is that ignore the guy who is already half admitted to it. He didn't do it.

Okay, all right. Just appreciate you calling. All right. I don't know. There's probably a million YouTube keyboard and video warriors out there with some alternate theory. So I guess, hey, I don't know if I want to bother, but, um, hello, Matt. How are you doing? Good, Bill.

I just want to touch on a couple things. First of all, I want to remind you what I said the other day about the Charlie Kirk assassination. I call him murder. Is that the bullet actually hit his best first and then came up and hit his neck? Is that confirmed, though, because there is no talk. I have seen no talk except for a few keyboard warriors that have talked about a bull to proof fest. Am I wrong about that? I don't care about the YouTube, whoever.

Well, no, I don't either. But what I'm getting at, though, is, you know, I was just watching that, even watching the video. If he had, and he was wearing a T-shirt, if he was wearing a t-shirt, if he was wearing a vest underneath it, it must have been a pretty thin one. Yeah, he always has the best. You can tell on various videos. Okay. I don't know if he did that based upon where he was. was, you know, actually having one of his conversations or not.

I didn't want to get too stuck on this. I just wanted to remind you that, you know, John Solomon's a pretty solid guy. He's not a cuck, you know. Oh, you got that from Solomon, just the news? Yeah. Okay. Well, he's a credible guy. You're right.

Okay. He is. It was right after the shooting. And, you know, it's interesting, Bill. My wife called me because she was listening to the radio. She was in the car, and she said Charlie Kirk got shot in the neck. As soon as I went to X and looked it up, I was saying, like, the original uncut videos because it was, like, minutes after it happened.

So there wasn't a lot of time to really monkey around with stuff. You can see his T-shirt moves up. Yeah, I saw that, too, from the blast. Yeah, and his T-shirt moves up. But, you know, you also have to remember, though, that that T-shirt going up, though, is not necessarily the bullet hit, though. That could be the shockwave of the bullet, you know, coming to it because you could be. I try to figure out, look, I watch Hollywood movies too, you know, but I try to, I'm looking

at it and I'm saying, you know, it seemed like a lot of blood when it hit, and to me it hitting the best. When he said, I go, you know what, that makes sense? Because it would have caused the bullet to fragment a little bit as it, when it hit him. And frankly, it could have been, it could have been a fragment. That's just it. Now, they have not released. There will be a release at some point of the autopsy. But what we have to remember is that, obviously that the jugular or that vein or maybe was that arterial that looked like arterial blood actually it did to me too yeah okay so arterial and by the way i am not a medical or ballistics expert just a guy like you you know we're sitting around here talking about it but yeah that is under that's under

pressure huge pressure and to nick that and to have it spray out from the top and from the bottom like it did is perfectly reasonable to expect that and you know I don't think the medical people would disagree with that under pressure and that's going to go spraying and it was lights out for Charlie within a second or two at that point with consciousness he's not anybody who saw the original video that thought he survived that yeah and I said right from the beginning that it didn't look good because I didn't think there was I don't think there are enough fingers to be able to, and I'm sorry to be gross about it, but there aren't

enough fingers to, or hands to cover up that kind of a wound and keep the blood pressure up. There's no way. They did restart him. Now, from what I do understand, they did restart his heart briefly in the hospital, but that was a 10-minute travel to the

hospital at that point. He probably would have needed a full-blown surgical team right there, right after it happened, because it was such damage to the vein, or to the artery, rather. I didn't want to get too stuck on this, actually, because really I called about this Kimmel thing. Do you remember Harry Reid? He was a senator from Nevada?

Yeah. Do you remember when he decided to get rid of the 60 votes for electing judges and Supreme Court justices? I do. What is happening with Kimmel? Okay, and I'm with you on that. I don't want the government getting involved on what appears on my television set. And I understand, you know, there's the whole thing with the licensing for the local. affiliates or whatever else.

If the Sinclair, and I forget the name of the other one, if they decided that... Next star. Yeah. If they found they were too distasteful to have Kimmel on the air, at least... Look, he's going to come back. I don't think he's on forever. Well, I would say coming to a podcast near you. Well, maybe.

He doesn't need the money. So he can do whatever he wants. He was making, I guess, 17 mil a year or something like that. But anyway, to me, what happened here? things are starting to happen that should have happened a long time ago. And the Supreme Court justices, people are mad that Trump got to appoint three of them. And he got one good one out of the three. But this is what happens when you have mutual destruction.

Harry Reeve removes a rule. And I can't remember if it was the senator from Iowa told him, don't do this. You're going to regret this. this is going to come back to haunt you and then Trump gets Bing, Bing, Bing. He gets three justices. The restricting is another good example, right?

So you can see that you have in Massachusetts, I guess they have no Republican congressmen. And then you look at California, they have 40% of the vote Republicans do, but they had what, 17 out of 50-something

congressional seats and then they want to undo that. this is what happened and actually i'm glad to see that republicans this is when people look at the polls that say the republican voters were unsatisfied with republicans it's because they felt they weren't doing enough and and so now these things are happening you know and so people are upset about the first amendment the free speech i don't like it either i you know the cc chairman i don't know the guy um i saw the and hey brenden car has done some great things, and I've said that, especially in the first Trump administration with

deregulation, and that's good. My point is back off of this talk, because there was a lot of that Godfather kind of talking in which, you know, when he said we can do this the hard way or we can do this the easy way, that's kind of like, hey, nice television stations you have there. Be a shame of something happened to the license. I don't like that kind of stuff, you know? You know what I'm getting at, though. Bill, I like your analogy. So, yeah, so this is what happens. is when if the Democrat Party is going to do all this stuff, look what happened with Roseanne Barr. Look what happened with Tucker Carlson. Yep.

There are so many examples of where the left bombarded somebody who was conservative, even if they were just barely conservative. Listen, Roseanne Barr is not a Republican. She's a Trumpian. She hated Republican, but she loves Trump. And when somebody else who's not Trump runs, she's not going to be jumping in line. I appreciate. I appreciate the call, as always, and very thoughtful. Matt, and I gave you a real American salute just because. I just think you deserve it. All right. Real American salute. There we go. Here's Matt. I had to give Matt his own show. Hi. KMED. Who's this? Welcome. Hi, Lucretia. Hey, Lucretia. Hey, can you get off the speakerphone?

I can't in more than this. Oh, no, you sound like you're in the dungeon. You're in the Lucretia dungeon. Now, come on. Now, come on. Did the Trump, did Brendan Carr put you in a dungeon for what you said? What? No, no, I'm in a bathtub.

What's that now? What's that now? Depts and salts and baking soda, borax, and all these things that take out of the poison from the to geoengineer. Hold on. Hold on. are you taking a bath right now? Yes.

All right, here's a first. Here's your theme. Yeah. I thank her so much for finally coming around and saying something. But I would like you to go to Paramount Tactical. They're a high-end training. And this guy, there's no way if it hits me, a bullet from an AR-15 hit his chest.

My friend, but he's former sheriff, he said it would be like a four-by-eight hitting you. It just drove you back. So it did not hit the chest and fly up. There was a huge exit room. There was no crime scene. There was no bullet sound. And there was no blood going to the car. That we don't have any doctor that we have any report from any doctor.

Not yet. Not yet, though. Supposedly that is coming. That is coming. He also has a key on him. his ring, also the bodyguard, his wife, when you look at them, you never see their children's cases. He's holding the baby up.

He's the doler girl. And there's the only eye on the shoe. She's involved with the seventh day of dentist, also doing talks to them. She's hiding back and forth. It's a seven day of dentists against Christianity. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, you're going to have to talk to me more about the Seventh Day at Mentist and the other things another day.

Unfortunately, when you're taking your bubble bath in the detoxing bubble bath, unfortunately, it's just a little too hard on the phone radio thing, okay? But anyway, thank you for having a more entertaining location for the Lucretia call, for sure. Now then, Diner 62, Real American Quiz. All right, anything can happen here on live, local talk radio, okay? A 7705633-770 KMED, jump on it, and it's a really interesting question about another death, not Charlie Kirk, though. But it's an anniversary of it. 7705633, jump on. This hour of the Bill Meyer Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing for Roofing, gutters, and shop.

It's the Bill Meyer Show on KMED, Southern Oregon's Place to Talk. the Diner 62, Real American Quiz. And boy, we have a doozy of a story here for September 19, 1973. By the way, before we get to that, great story when it comes to fill it up your belly with great food at Diner's 62. Today is Clam Chowder Friday. It's so good you'll think you're out on the Oregon coast, all right? Two pork chops and eggs are eight-ounce New York steak and eggs. Really good New York steak, by the way, on special right now on the weekends at Diner's 62, just south of White City.

Hello, Jack. How you doing? Hey, Bill. How are good? How are you? I'm great. Hey, it was today, 1973. 26-year-old musician Graham Parsons dies of multiple drug use. It was morphine and tequila. He was in a California motel room. Now, his death inspired one of the more bizarre automobile-related crimes on record. Two of his friends stashed his body in a borrowed hearse, and they drove it in the middle of Joshua Tree National Park,

and they doused it with gasoline and set him on fire. and Parsons just amazingly, amazingly influential in country and country rock, gosh, everywhere from the birds, flying burrito brothers, and Emmylou Harris singing back. It's just a lot of influence here. But here's what happened. At a friend's funeral a few months before he died, Graham Parsons made a drunken pact with his road manager, Phil Kaufman. He says, if anything should happen to one of them, the other would take his body to Joshua Tree and cremated. And so, after Parsons' overdose, Kaufman and a roadie, Michael Martin, met his coffin at the L.A. airport, and they were in a borrowed hearse with a broken window and no license place. The hearse belonged to Martin's girlfriend, who used it to carry tents and other camping gear, all right?

They convinced the airport staff that the Parsons family had changed its mind about the flight. They loaded the coffin into the car, drove 200 miles to the Mojave, stopping to fill a five-gallon tin with the car. gasoline, they drove to Joshua Tree, they dragged the coffin to the foot of majestic cap rock, they douse it with gasoline, and toss a match. And so they've done all these crimes. So the question this morning, Jack, how much jail time did the mastermind of this caper Phil Kaufman get for stealing the body and burning it at Joshua Tree National Park? It's either zero. Did he get two hours, two days,

two weeks, or two months of jail time? What do you say? I'll say zero. You'll say zero. You are absolutely right. Another winner. But what a bizarre story. After being caught, he and his

accomplice given a 30-day suspended jail sentence instead of jail time. Kaufman faced a $300 fine for misdemeanor theft. At that time, California had no specific law against stealing a dead body, so they were charged for stealing the coffin, which I thought it's kind of interesting. Yeah, you stole the coffin. They also paid an additional $708 to cover the funeral home expenses and to pay for their fines. Kaufman organizes a benefit concert, he called Kauffman's Coffin Caper concert.

So there we go. Awesome. That's right. Yeah, that's one of the weirder stories of the country in Rockport. world of the 1970s with Graham Parsons' death. It is 855. Hang on, buddy. One of each K4 VIN,19. Hi, I'm Deb with Father and Son Jory, and I'm on KMED. Okay, another email of the day, sponsored by Dr. Steve Delson's Central Point Family Dentistry.

I'll give one to Garth Harrington. I disagree with him, but I'll give him an email anyway. Says, Bill, keep your eye on the ball and the issue. The FCC Trump administration did not make rulings to cause the dismissal of Jimmy Kimmel. Two large groups of privately owned TV stations told ABC they did not wish to carry the Kimmel show. This was a business decision. Garth, yes and no. It was a business decision partially, and also all you have to do is look at the coverage and the language coming out of the FCC.

Hey, we can do things the easy way or we can do things the hard way. And so, yeah, that is the bigger business decision. Nobody wants to actually risk an FCC problem when it comes to license renewal time because without license, no TV, no advertising or anything else. So, no, it was not direct. It was in through the back door. So was it a marketplace decision? Yes. Was it also, shall we say, helped in my opinion from FCC and Trump talk and maybe it was loose talk, whatever it is?

Like I said, what you're saying, we can do things the easy way or we can do things the hard way. I don't know. That speaks very loudly to most anyone in the corporate world, just saying. Have a great weekend. We'll talk more on Monday. Email Bill at Bill Myers Show.com. Take care.