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Episode Date: September 24, 2025

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The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Great to have you here on Wheels Up Wednesday. That means about 20 minutes from now we're hitting the open road. Well, we're not wanting to speed too much. Eric's lead article today, one of them at least was talking about how is it,

or pretty soon, is it going to be impossible to speed? I think this has to do with the rise of the speed camera, America, and I think of the freedom that I used to do on those back roads in Ohio back when I was a kid. I don't know, maybe in the cities it's already at the point where you really can't do that. I know not that I'm advocating being unsafe. That's all right. But we all know, though, that when it comes to driving fast, police always do it the best, right? All right. But we'll have a little talk about that.

also some of the latest reviews that he has going on, and your calls and opinion. So we get into cars, trucks, vans, keeping things running, reviving old ones, which new ones to buy. It's always a lot of fun. All right, so we'll have that. Herman Barrett Sugar was going to talk with me yesterday. We're going to have him on this morning, and Herman was telling me that what happened is that why we lost his normal Tuesday session was that his cows gone out. and they were wandering on the road. You've got to go out and get the wandering cows and get them back in.

Get them off the road and get them penned in. So that's what happened. It was just the timing on that one. Kevin Starrant and I are actually in a disagreement about the Jimmy Kimmel thing and what government should be doing, if anything, about it. So we're going to kind of hash this out. You know, Kevin and I don't find ourselves on the opposite side of an issue. But I am regulated by the FCC.

I've been living under that. And I'm always very careful with calls that the government to the FCC should be cracking down on broadcast facilities. Now, maybe that's self-serving on my part. But Kevin's taking a point of view sort of along the line of, well, you know, the Democrats are already bashing us, you know, when they're in power. Why shouldn't we be taking advantage of it and using these airwaves in the public interest? So, you know, anyway, we're going to hash that out. We're going to hash that out. Congressman Cliff Benz will also be joining me in the last half hour of the program.

And if you have a question you would like asked of the congressman, just email that now. Okay, email at Bill at Billmyershow.com. And we'll try to get it asked along with the rotation of things that I'm, you know, kind of curious about. and, you know, are we going to have the government shut down? Democrats seem to be actually pushing that around this time. Okay, so that is what we have on the rundown coming up on wheels up Wednesday. The breaking story this morning, at least three people shot at the Dallas Ice Facility. At least three, probably more.

We know that the shooter hated up by killing himself, apparently, self-inflicted gunshot wound. at the end of it. And so the early report's active shooter. Supposedly this shooter is down. And so the suspect was a sniper, this according to Fox News 4 in Dallas. Suspect was a sniper on a roof armed with a rifle. And cops identified him as a white guy, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head as the agents approached. Three victims were detainees in ICE custody. one of the victims confirmed dead so one of the victims

is confirmed dead there may be more Christine Nome the Secretary of Homeland Security is in the process of getting more of this information out dozens of police

multiple ambulances it's just a mess ended up happening about 5 o'clock our time this morning in Dallas so at least three people shot probably more

and the details are kind of sketchy at this point so this facility has actually been actually it's been a lot of protests going on down there there was a bomb threat at that same ice facility in August man it's been a real hot point

now we don't know what the motive of this but like I said what was interesting is that three detainees three people being brought in were shot and killed or shot rather in least one of them has died. This is what we know so far. As far as the other at the facility, we don't know yet. It's kind of a developing story. Other news this morning, Trump delivering rather a blistering rebuke at the United Nations yesterday. The

escalator for him didn't work, and the teleprompter didn't work for a while. And so he ended up riffing for quite some time on it too. And one of the quotes here, America, blessed with the strongest economy, strongest borders, strongest military, strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any nation on the face of earth. This is indeed the golden age of America. We are rapidly reversing the economic calamity we inherited from the previous administration, including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation, inflation like we've never had before. Okay. Still an open question? We'll see. I hope the president is right that this is a golden age. Well, I know it's been a golden age in my stock market because it

It has been heavily weighted to gold and silver miners. And so it has definitely been a golden age for me, at least personally, in my little baby 401k in 2025. The U.S. dollar went down, gosh, 10, 12 percent so far this year, while gold and silver mining stocks that ended up picking up, ended up sometimes doubling and tripling. because there's just a piling in to that right now. By the way, I'm not giving any advice. I'm just saying that's what happened. So I kind of chuckle when I hear President Trump says, yeah, it's going to be the golden age.

It may be a different type of golden age. We don't know. All right. So we got the shooting at the ice facility. Meanwhile, Fox News reporting that Portland is moving toward further cementing its sanctuary status. It's going to consider some new legislation that would further strengthen the city's sanctuary policies and limit cooperation with the federal immigration authorities because Portland loves everyone except the actual native citizens.

You know, they don't like citizens. That's why you'll always hear this kind of talk, even when they're talking about the Medicaid cuts, the Medicaid cuts, the Oregon Health Plan cuts for people, for people living in Oregon. You notice they never say citizens. See, that's when you know you're being snowed on this kind of stuff. Cliff Bence will probably talk about this. Again, he's been reiterating that a lot of the so-called,

he cuts the Medicaid, health care. A lot of this is being done to people that had Oregon Health Plan expanded on them, and Oregon took every grandstream funding to expand them. They were never really supposed to be on it in the first place. But Portland's going to double down on this one. Draft ordinance prohibits the use of city resources to enforce federal immigration law and would bar employees contractors and police

from helping federal immigration officers looking to investigate or detain even to investigate or detain suspected illegal immigrants so nothing to see move along this is Portland also blocks city agencies from collecting or sharing information

with ICE 2 and less compelled by a court order I don't know why they're doing this given that if I understand it correctly state law pretty much already requires this because of the sanctuary status. All right.

A couple other stories here. He had a car, a truck fire, rather. Interstate 5 around mile post 12 yesterday, had things gummed up there for a while, caused some grass fires to the side of the road. They got that out, but that was pretty wild. Daily Courier reporting this morning that Chris Barnett awarded $100,000 in the libel lawsuit against John Riccio. That's the guy who runs the Grants Pass Tribune news website. And Josephine County Judge has signed a judgment ordering online publisher John Riccio to pay $100,000 to Josephine County Commissioner Chris Barnett plus 9% interest for every year the debt goes unpaid. The

ruling signed last week also awards attorney fees and costs daily courier reports, daily cost to Barnett, and dismisses the liable false publication and tortious interference case. Barnett filed against Rikio back in October of 2024. Now, the thing is, all of these lawsuits being dismissed, and by the way, just in full disclosure, I was sued by Rikio last year during the John West debacle. They had, he had sued me for a half million dollars. I didn't talk much about it because, you know, you don't talk about lawsuits that are active. You just can't, you know, do that kind of stuff.

and it ended up being dismissed in May. And that was, you know, that's kind of scary time when someone says they want to sue you for a half million dollars. And it had to do with a conversation that John West had on my show back in October of 2024 and in which, I don't want to revisit that necessarily, but John said that Riccio said that we had defamed him. but he didn't end up a serving, didn't file the lawsuits properly,

and the judge ended up throwing that out. I don't want to re-litigate this thing, but there's been a lot of this going on with John Riccio, and it has nothing to do about merits on the case with Commissioner Barnett. It's strictly that John has not been doing John Riccio, that is of Grants Pass Tribune, apparently has not been working the case properly. It's not about the merits of the case. It's just procedures have not been getting filed and followed, et cetera, et cetera.

This is the problem, though, when you are your own attorney. And I think that's what is going on. But anyway, that was what is going on in the Daily Courier. They're reporting that their lead story this morning. Another story that I find really interesting, this was in the Rogue Valley Times from last week. And I had saved it. And I had talked about, you might remember, what I was, you know, have joking about Michael Williams, Michael Williams, the, well,

formerly embattled school board member, Medford 549C, and they removed the censure at that one retreat back in early September, and I was kind of teasing and joking around. I think he got the joke, too. Michael Williams, free at last, free at last, free at last, the school board masses have let him be free at last. But what they have done, and this was, like I said, reported in the RV Times, Rogue Valley Times, is that they ended up coming up a decision they have operated or adopted, rather, a new board operating agreement that establishes restrictions on members who visit school district campuses and set time limits for visits. And they voted 5-2 in favor of this agreement after some internal debate. There was some disagreement about this.

The updated board agreement, in addition to school visit restrictions, includes language directing board members to refer media inquiries to the school district administrators, the hired help, right? Another item suggesting language that board members who are censured in the future be identified as censured board members while conducting board business is being brought back for further review. Now, these changes coming a few weeks after a September 5th board retreat when the board members voted to lift the restrictions, free at last board member, Michael Williams, like I was just mentioning. Williams coming under fire last year speaking out against an SRO, school resource officer reassignment. Remember, we had talked with him on the show a few times about that. This is what I find interesting. The new guidelines for board member school visits call for a buddy system, meaning school board members are not allowed to visit the schools alone, and it limits visits to an hour and a half.

Board members Angela Zbikowski, McCowski, rather, and Eric Johnson were opposed to the new rules, with Bikowski suggesting postponing approval and Johnson entirely opposed to the changes. I think this board showed a tremendous amount of grace at the last meeting and repealing the censure from last year. I know it probably took a leap of faith that it might be a little unsettling to remove procedures and backstops that were put in place. But Johnson said, I sense General Goodwill will in trying to turn the page and create a

fresh start. I am really concerned about the continuing effort to fence off the public schools. from the school boards, from the school board members who are the elected representatives of the parents. The way they continue to try to take school board activity is to, once again, just you are there just to rubber stamp what the hired help tells you, rather than going and look at things yourself. And now, we don't want anybody going there by themselves. Why not?

Couldn't a parent go there? I mean, these people are as close to the parents' representatives as we'll ever get. We are forced to pay millions of dollars to these school districts. As far as I'm concerned, as long as they're not disrupting the class or being disruptive, shouldn't school board members be able to go through any school, any class, any time they wish to? What are they so afraid of? they're so afraid that you know someone will see more of the

the woke crap that we've been learning more about ever since COVID the school board members you know we're told that good people good type 8 personalities that are going to to whip these schools into shape join the school board make a difference right

and then we don't want you going to the school much we don't want you being there too long might be getting up to me about some of the stuff that the teachers union might be going in or some of the crap coming in for the Oregon Department of Education we won't want you we don't want you go into the media we don't want you actually telling the parents what's going on I mean am I wrong about this or am I just looking at this incorrectly you know I remember when Julie Niles Fry from the formerly of the Rogue River District was talking about being on the

When she was on the show a few years ago, and she was telling me about, oh, no, you just can't walk into the school. I said, well, why the hell not? You're the representative. If you're the person that's supposedly here to translate what's going on in the schools to the people who are forced to pay for them and also send their little kids on the yellow friendly school bus to be getting their good dose of daily progressivism. I'm being a little sarcastic. I can't help myself. Any limitation, in my opinion, like I said, if all they want to do is just,

check in with the principal and say, hey, I'd like to, I'm just going to sit in on today's math class. I want to find out if they're teaching math or if they're teaching that math is racist today. Okay. Well, just sit at the back. Just say hi. Just say you're there as an observer. This idea that we need limits on when the school board members can be in the school. To me, this is absolute nonsense. Another example of what is Medford 549 C's superintendents or anybody else that happens to be there in charge, what are they afraid of? Why would they be afraid of school board members wandering around observing, being parted, and just observing classes and such, as long as they're not disruptive?

Why would we care? It's a question I'll pose. Maybe I just don't understand how the progressive education world works, but you can tell me if you know. 770-KMED, you're on the Bill Maher show. Wheels up Wednesday, and I appreciate you waking up here. Getting ready for an autumn road. 25 cents per gallon bonus. Hi, I'm Dwayne Barclay with American Ranch Garage, and I'm on KMED.

630 on the Bill Myers Show. We'll break for news here in just a moment. We were talking about education a moment ago, how I was kind of irritated that there's any talk and even approval of limiting school board access to schools, to actually going into schools. they are the last line of defense other than the parents really and I know they're always talking about separation it's almost like a separation of church and state kind of thing that they you know that they're that they're dealing with they don't want school board members going in there

and interfering with operations and running things I get that that's what you have the superintendent and the principals but what is wrong with him going wherever they wish to be eyes and ears of the parents to observe what's going on. The public school system is usually so proud. We're just doing such incredible work. Don't look at the test scores.

I know. I know. Don't look at the achievement scores and everything else. We don't want you to look in too closely because you know what happens is that every now of those school board people, they'll say the wrong thing and they get out of their lane, out of their lane. They want the school board people to stay in their lane, which means rubber stamp, what official dem says.

That's my suspicion of what's going on here. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm willing to be educated, no pun intended on this. But there is a little bit of interesting news. In fact, I think I'm going to call up the Freedom Foundation tomorrow. They popped me a note overnight that Oregon teachers in Powers, Oregon. It's a tiny little school district in Coos County. 689, about 700 people, you know, live there. Teachers in Power School District number 31 have voted unanimously to decertify.

They have cut ties with the Oregon Education Association. They have dumped the woke progressive teachers union. Now, it's only one little tiny school district. like I said, Coos County Powers but it's a start if powers can decertify from the from the wokedom

maybe some other school districts will too one never knows a felican dream right I'll see if we can get the Freedom Foundation on tomorrow maybe you can tell us how this works but anyway I thought that was reasonably good news

getting out of the grasps of the bloodthirsty, progressive. All that matters is, okay, what's our next raise? What's our raise? What's in it for us? We'll care about the kids when the kids are paying union dues. I'm exaggerating a little bit. I can't help myself.

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And it was a perfect encapsulation of the American freedom, the American freedom out there on the open road. Eric Peters joins me with Wheels Up Wednesday. I guess pretty soon the car is just going to stop you from speeding. is that the deal in all for our safety, all for our own good, Eric? Welcome back. It's always for our safety. And yeah, that was one of the greatest protest songs ever, in my opinion. It's not acknowledged as that, but it was. You know, it was a thumb in the eye to the old 55-mile-an-hour speed limit. For people listening who are under 30, they won't remember that for about 20 years in this country, the federal government imposed a 55-mile-an-hour national maximum

speed limit. Originally, as an energy-shaving measure, which quickly morphed into a safety measure. And so for 20 years, people were pulled over and ticketed and harassed for driving at entirely reasonable speeds. In fact, at speeds it had been legal, 70, 65, 70 miles an hour before they imposed the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit. And arguably on roads that were designed to do 70, 75 miles an hour with the vehicles of the day that are arguably considerably less, safe than the ones we have right now. Just saying. Yeah, actually faster than that. The interstate system was modeled on the German Autobahn, and the Autobahn envisioned speeds at 80, 90, 100 miles an hour. And certainly,

if a car built in the 50s and the 60s, when the interstate system was built, is capable of safely operating at 70, well, you think surely that a car that was made in, say, the 70s or the 80s would be at least as safe to operate at those speeds. But all of a sudden, it was unshaved. And it thoroughly corrupted. It really did corrupt, you know, what they like to call traffic safety enforcement in this country. It became an overtly cynical, mullting regime designed to just separate people from their money on two levels. First, by the government, of course, which used it to fund the police, which give you a ticket. And then also to mulk you via the insurance moppy, which even if you had a spotless driving record, you never had an accident, none of that, you got a ticket for going 62 and a 55 and all of a sudden, all you're an unshaved driver, and they, you know, jack up your premium. 30%. Yep, pretty much. And what you were talking about in this latest article, it's called

the Freedom to Speed Remembered. And of course, I wax poetic. I talked about, now, I used to take it to an extreme, routinely 100, 120 miles an hour as a 16, 17-year-old on the back roads of Ohio in the cornfields, okay? Of course, very lowly populated area, very thinly populated, I guess I should say. And I'm glad I survived my stupidity because I wasn't smart. about it. They're probably smarter ways of going about it than I did. But be that as it may, I remember that for your time in which there wasn't a speed camera hiding around every corner, and there wasn't a, well, of course, there still aren't cops hiding around every corner, but their cameras and the various other electronic helpers are these days, at least, huh?

Yeah, the real problem is that it's still quite feasible to, as they put it, get away with driving faster than whatever the speed limit is, you know, provided that you don't stick out from the crowd and you, you know, you maintain a speed that roughly comports with the flow of traffic and pretty much everybody's speeding, right? Sure. On any given road, pretty much everybody's going somewhat faster than whatever the speed limit is. Yeah, generally speaking, even on Interstate 5 here between, let's say, Mepford and Grants pass, it's kind of curvy, and you do have to pay attention, but rarely is the flow of

traffic at less than 65 miles an hour. That's the limit, and it's usually closer to 70, 72, usually. Yep, so naturally the weevils can't stand that, and of course, more fundamentally, they can't stand the idea that we are still largely free to drive wherever we like on our own schedule. So they've been working to eliminate that problem from their point of view. And with regard to the speeding thing, they are embedding technology in vehicles that will make it impossible for you to speed.

You know, I posted a video that goes with the article. People can view it if they like that shows what their marketing as speed limit-assist technology, as if people needed assistance, if they didn't know they were driving faster than the speed. Oh, okay. So another one of these features, so to speak, that we didn't ask for getting included in the software package. Yeah, and it's very subtle. And again, it's sort of like baby in socialism. They understand the process of doing things slowly rather than all at once, so it's not to alarm the frog.

you know, so he doesn't notice that the water is getting warmer. So what they've done is to put this speedy, I make a shift in technology, and it seems innocuous, oh, it's just assistance. And all it is is like a little sign in the dashboard that tells you, oh, look, I'm driving faster than the speed limit and a little light that blinks and so on. But the next step, after people get used to being assisted in that manner, the next step is going to be making it so that you can't drive faster. That's very easy to do.

You just simply tell the car to dial back with throttle or apply the brakes. which all new vehicles and vehicles made over the course of roughly the last five years can do because they're drive by wire and the throttle and the braking are controlled by the computer to a great degree. And so that's all they have to do is enable this. And so if you want to drive faster than whatever the speed limit is, the car knows what the speed limit is, and it recognizes that you're driving faster and it just cuts back the problem. You know, it's essentially an intelligent speed governor such as the ones that are commonly used in over-the-road trucks and commercial vehicles already. What is the technology that is used?

to actually tell the car what the speed limit is? Is there a nationwide database? Is there something electronically tagged on roads that I'm unaware of as we drive around town that would tell? It's chiefly two things. You know, all the new cars have a bevy an array of cameras, external and internal, and the external cameras pan the area around the car, and they can see the speed limit sign. Oh. And they register what the speed limit is. And if they don't do it that way, then they do it by GPS mapping. You know, if you pull up the GPS map, it'll tell you, what the speed limit is on the road that you're driving. And, of course, the car is constantly, you know, receiving and sending information.

All new vehicles now are connected. So it's not like you're separated and discreet and on your own when you're driving, even though it may feel like it. You can't see the invisible threads that are connecting you to this high. So all they have to do at that point is either program the car or, you know, send out a directive that says no faster than 56 and a 55. And, you know, once the car registered says you're driving faster than that, it just prevents you from driving any faster than that.

Okay, I'm going to play what is, oh, what aboutism, okay? You know, a little bit of, you know, if you could just indulge me here for a little bit, Eric. By the way, I'm talking with Eric Peters. We're talking about the freedom to speed remembered and this push to have cars that will force you to go more slowly, if you wish. Let's say that I'm on the Interstate 5, and we got a road rager behind me who wants to just shoot my head off, okay? Things like this have happened, right? the limit is 65, I need to go as fast as I can to get away from the murderous dirt bag behind me that would like to do something like this. We've had issues like this happen, okay?

Yes, and it'll continue to happen. What happens then when you're trying to get away, but your car says, I'm sorry, the limit is 65 and we'll let you go 66, but that's enough. I mean, what? What happens then? Well, you know, essentially, it's not any different than what happened in that the bus to that poor woman who was, Nice to death by that violent thug. You know, people in that train were disarmed. They had no ability to fight back against somebody like that who was armed psychotic and didn't want to get involved themselves.

Exactly. Well, the reason I bring this up, though, is that sometimes there are points that speeding can get you out of trouble. Sure. How about, you know, you pull out in a road and let's say there's a big truck coming that you perhaps didn't see in time. And the truck, you know, it's a big, heavy over-the-road truck. weighs 70,000 pounds and it's barreling down on you. You need to get out of the way right now. And, you know, you pour it, and it won't let you do that because that's aggressive acceleration.

That's kind of what I was getting at. And what happens then? Do you have a duty to get crushed by the truck, or do you have a duty to be shot by the road rager it killed? Well, you know that old story about how if you want to make omelets, you've got to crack some eggs. And fundamentally, all of these considerations are secondary to the prime goal here. And the prime goal is piece by piece, get people out of cars. You know, I hammer on this a lot, but I think it's important because it's the fact. They don't want us driving. They don't want us in control.

And those two things work together. You know, you take the control away from the driver, and after a while, why do I want to deal with this? Why would I want to sign up for six years of $800 a month's payments for a vehicle that I don't even control anymore? The hell with it. I'm just going to download the app, and I'll pay for my transportation as a service, and I'll get Uber to wherever I need to go. Yeah, but that also means you are a less free person over time, which is most likely the design? Well, absolutely.

You know, again, it gets back to just etymology. Why do they refer to these things as assistance? They do that because it's this cloying language trying to get you to believe that it's something that's in your interest, and how could anybody object? Well, why would I not want to be assisted with monitoring my speed, right? Well, why don't they just forfeitly call it then? Why don't they call it a speed limit monitor? And more to the point, why don't they make it optional so that if people desire that,

oh, you know, assistance implies you need it, right? So, you know, if I'm somebody who is in need of assistance, let's say I have trouble walking, so I need a cane or a walk or a wheelchair, fine, I'll go out and get a wheelchair. But don't tell me to buy a wheelchair or make me buy a wheelchair if I'm perfectly capable of walking on my own, and that's, I think, what the issue is here. Eric, you have talked about before that the speed limit assists and all the various other things are coming through the more modern cars, which are connected, okay, the connected car. Now, the connected car, is this something that you are forced to accept?

Seriously, are you forced to accept the car that is new being connected? And what might not be available if you did? Effectively you are, yes, you know, in the sense that you're free to not buy it. But if you do buy it, the systems are integrated, and there's no realistic way to to disengaged or disconnect it. Does this mean that every month you have a data charge, in a sense it's an internet charge for your vehicle in the modern world? Oh, no, no, no.

It's entirely free, just like those flu shots at the pharmacy. And, you know, it's free for a reason. Well, but data connections are not free. Who's paying for the data connection? Well, you know, it's a complicated thing. You know, back in the day, back in the day, 10 years ago, remember when cars had antennas, you know, for the radio? They now have this much more complicated shark-fin transmitter receiver thing, which you may, if you look at a new car, you'll see it.

You don't see antennas anymore. You see the shark-fin thing that's painted the body color. It's typically on the roof. And, you know, that's the thing that is sending and receiving the signals from the hive mine, from the dealer, from the manufacturer, sending updates to the vehicle. And that's just how they work now. And it's essentially impossible to disentangle that. The only way to avoid it is to not buy one of these vehicles and to drive something that doesn't have it. Is there a way to drive these vehicles and disabling the antenna so that it can't actually connect?

I doubt it. Everything's interconnected now. And if you do that, you buy the new vehicle, and it's under warranty. If you do something like that, they're probably going to say, well, you've just avoided your warranty coverage because we can't send necessary updates to the vehicle. Okay. I never thought we'd have it. day in which we were talking about software updates for the car, you know, and the blue screen of bread. I mean, we make a joke of it, but it's actually quite accurate to say that cars are now essentially smartphones on wheels. They're big, heavy smartphones, and they work pretty much the same way.

You'll get into one, and you'll see one of the first things that happens when you start the engine is you get the screen, and the screen asks you to agree to whatever the terms and conditions are, and sometimes it'll take a minute to boot up, just like your computer, because it's, you know, it's receiving something. something or it's sending something. And it's just the way they are now. You know, it's kind of like your phone when you wake up in the morning and it's got a new app on it that you didn't ask for it. It's just there all of a sudden. That's basically how it will be. Yeah, this is really interesting. There's a part of me that, you know, that my mind kind of runs wild with

a little bit of creative thought that wonders if as we slide into this total connection in that insurance mafia and governments and everybody is sitting there. in micromanaging and micro digging into your data, into this soft and hardening technocracy, okay? That the real rebels will be the hackers that end up digging into all of these cars and finding a way to perhaps get them on a VPN or fake out the system

so that it thinks that it's connected, but yet it's really not. Could you see a day like that coming where it's going to be the hackers, the white hat hackers, that really give us some motoring freedom back in some form? No, I don't. I think white hat hackers, as you put it,

will be able to do it for themselves. There's always ways around things. The question is what the bulk of the people will be able to do, and the bulk of the people are just going to be out of luck on this one. They're going to be carried along by it like a rip tide. You know, it's an alicus, I don't know whether you had this happen to you, but one day I looked outside in the back of my house, and I had a smart meter put on my house,

and there's no recourse. I can't do anything about it. Yeah, I had one when I bought the house. You know, it was there when I moved in. I couldn't do anything. Yeah. So it's just like that. You know, they have decided, you know, we now live in this corporatist age where we've got

these giant cartels that essentially control everything. And when they decide to move in a certain direction, they just sort of by force of the inertia carry everything else along with it. And the only power that we have right now that I believe is worth anything is simply to refuse to go along with it, to opt out ourselves. They won't let us opt out, but we can still just say, nope, I want no part of that. Just like during the pandemic, I refused to put on the stupid face diaper. We still have that power, and we should exercise it.

And you also have other people who are rebelling in different ways that are taking maybe a 15- or 20-year-old vehicle, and even though it used to be that you would look at a 15- or 20-year-old vehicle and say, it's not worth rebuilding the engine or the transmission or various other things. Maybe you're thinking about in order to still keep my transportation off or operating out there, but not sharing absolutely everything with the hive, so to speak. You start thinking that way. There are a lot of people that are going in that direction, I guess. Well, sure, and it's not just because of the data mining.

It's also because of the unrepairability of the new vehicles and the cost of repairing. They're essentially beyond the abilities now of anybody except a professional technician who has access to very expensive diagnostic equipment, which typically means a dealer. And even the parts have become ludicrously expensive. As you and I have discussed, it's now common. or a compound LED headlight assembly or K-light assembly on a modern vehicle. It costs $4,500 for one. Man, that's a lot of money.

A lot of money. It's a lot of money. People don't recognize it. So when they do recognize it, they think, you know, putting $5,000 into my current vehicle, which I'll probably be able to get another 10 years of driving out, it makes a whole lot of sense. And then they'll probably attack it through the motor law, right? Like the Red Bart Chattas song from Rush. I think so.

Yeah, inevitably that will have to. to happen from their point of view because as long as there is a way for us to opt out and to get away get away with not participating in it that's a threat to them and i think as more and more people do this and i think they will for a variety of reasons and the other reason is simply the affordability even people who don't really mind being data mine and can afford all of the others or can you know can deal with the other things they don't have 50-60 thousand dollars to spend on a new car so they just can't it's so we're going to get to a point where there's going to be two classes of people you know They're going to be the people who can afford it and want it, and then there's going to be the rest of us with deplorables who can't and want no part of it.

And there's going to have to be something done about us, isn't there? And a lot of this thinking comes from West Coast blue hive mines. And yet, ironically, West Coast areas like Southern Oregon is an example, rural, semi-rural, with some cities, though. But we have a lot of space to cover in many cases. You know, the idea that we're all going to be forced out of cars and join RVTD that may work for an inner city hive mine, but that's about it, really. Yeah, but that is their plan. They don't want a disparate, you know, diffuse population out of their control. They don't want that. They don't want us living in single family homes in the suburbs or heaven for fend out in the country. They don't want that. They want pressure to be applied to kind of cajole and wheedle and force us ultimately to move back toward the cities where they have, you know, essentially de facto complete control over everything. So you have no freedom anymore when you're living in your little apartment and you're relying on government transportation and maybe. You're only allowed to buy something, you know, using your digital wallet and your CBDC if you're a good social integer and haven't done anything impertinent or obstreperous. Yeah. Talk with Eric Peters this morning. Wheels up Wednesday. The Freedom to Speed, remember, great article on EPNos.com.

You want to talk with Eric? Got a comment on this or something else. Maybe a question about a vehicle 770563. I'll continue with him next. Millet Construction has been a general contractor for 40 years for the last 12. You're here in the Bill Myers show on 1063, KMED. All right. Come on now. A different Sammy Hager's song. Someone said, I like it when you play Montrose. Okay, we'll do that too.

Bumpers with Eric Peters. And it is wheels up Wednesday. And I got a bunch of people lined up for you, Eric. We've been talking about speeding. The Freedom to Speed, remember it. And Keith's in Cave Junction before you head into the canyons on 199. What's your take on it, Keith? Go ahead.

Already there, and I'm going through Gasky right now. I have noted all these reduction in speed limit signs that have been putting out, especially on the 199, and it's my observation, and it's a little different, that everybody is now going the previously posted mark, or the previously posted speed, with no reaction from law enforcement. Used to be 45, reduced to 40. Everybody used to do 50, 55, now they're doing 45. It's all, like you said, plan.

Huh. What do you think about that, Eric? Well, yeah, I mean, speed limits are largely ignored. Everybody knows that. There's actually an engineering principle called the 85th percentile that they used to use is the basis for a staff. pushing speed limits. And basically, it was to observe a given stretch of road and determine what the bulk, the majority of drivers were doing naturally in terms of how fast they were

driving. Because most of us have sort of a sense of, well, okay, this is an appropriate speed for the road, for conditions. People don't just go, oh, what speed should I drive? I have to look at that sign. That sign tells me how fast to go. They don't do that. They just adjust their driving according to what feels right. And that comports with reasonable speed for most people. All right. Hey, I appreciate you checking in from the canyons there. All right, let me grab. You got Jeff and Selma. Hey, Jeff. How are you doing? What's your take? Hey, Bill. Well, I'm out here, you know, on $199 as well. And, you know, it's not a bad thing to reduce that because $199 is the most dangerous stretch of road in the state of Oregon. It is true. It is arguably, and especially through the canyon, some of the most dangerous curvaceous roads that we have around here.

I will give you that, and also very narrow. So I get a little bit of that. The speed limit's not that bad. But anyway, I've got that 1967 Cadillac convertible. Man. And the cruise control on that, when you turn it on and set the speed, that's one thing. Or when you adjust the speed, that's one thing. But when you set it, that's when the cruise operates.

But if it's on and the speed is set to 65, if you exceed 65, the cruise control will actually push the accelerator back against your foot and slow the car down. Yeah, and that's a mechanical iteration of what they are going to impose, in my opinion, except they'll impose it by electronic means because in a modern vehicle, you have drive-by wire. So when you're pushing down on the accelerator pedal, you're no longer pushing on a cable system, as in your Cadillac, that directly controls the throttle on the carburetor. Yeah, that's a pretty cool thing. I yield my time. And the computer then tells the engine to increase its RPM or increase its speed, and that gives you the sense that you're controlling the speed of your car, but you really aren't the computer is. Yeah, but still, treasure your Cadillac, my friend, all right? It's a beautiful car.

I shall. All right. Thanks for the call. 7705-633. Wheels up Wednesday. We're talking with Eric Peters. By the way, this is KMED, KMED, H.D-H1 Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Hello, caller. You're on with Eric. What's up? Good morning. This is Carol Ann in the Applegate. Hi, Carol Ann. A long time ago, well, six or eight months ago, I called and was talking about having my car stolen. My old Santa Fe, it was a 2011 Hyundai. It had 244,000 miles on. it. God was so good to me because I ended up finding on a Facebook marketplace a 2011 Hyundai Tucson that only had 52,000 miles on it. Oh, that's barely broken in. Right now it has 64,000 miles on it in a little less than a year because I live in the Applegate and I believe we have a dangerous road

238, which is a wonderful road to drive, full of curves, full of beautiful views, and you can go 60, the whole way almost. And I just wanted to give a little praise report that this little car is wonderful. It's cute, and it goes, and it's got plenty of room, and anywhere, I'm a happy camper, and I'm glad I didn't end up buying something new like three. of my grandchildren who inherited some money, all went out and bought brand new cars. My granddaughter bought a Toyota Celica with a race package in it and all this crazy stuff. I like my older car. It's beautiful. It's like a brand new car. It was garaged even.

All right. Well, I have oxidized headlight. I'm so glad that worked. Okay. Great here for you, Carolyn. Let me grab another one. We're with Eric Peters this morning. Hello. Who's this? Good morning. This Kathy from Butte Falls. Hi, Kathy. What's going on in Butte Falls this morning? Eric's with you. Question or comment for him?

This is anecdotal, but I've been noticing I go to Medford every day that the people are stopping like three car links behind the people in front of them. And I remember reading something about insurance companies like putting something in the cars to, if you get too close, they get dinged. but is this something that Eric has noticed because I had a friend who did the monitoring for the electronic you know when the lights changed and he said it's all back east and they like do these pods and they monitor our traffic oh yeah yeah the little uh dongles that that plug into your car computer making that space so much more in between then is that going to

to screw up having the lights synced? You know what I mean? I don't understand why they're doing it. It's kind of I want to go knock on their window and say, what the hell? Move up. What do you think about that, Eric? Certainly. Well, it's certainly making traffic worse because you're spacing out the cars. So, you know, it bears that much more of a line at a light, let's say. And so when the light turns green, it takes a little bit longer for the Congo line to get moving, and you might get stuck at the next red because there was that additional space that was lost to nothing. There was no car there, but nonetheless, I think it's a common. I think it's a common of factors. I think one of them is the proliferation of this parking and shishkin technology,

you know, that's been around now where it beeps at you. Like, I recently had a, what was it, I have a Ford expedition. And I know my driveway. I've lived here for 20 years. I know exactly how much room I've got because there's a bush at the edge of the driveway that I can get real close to. And I, you know, I'm a Gen X guy, so I was trained to use my eyes to look and see and develop a sense of spatial relationships. But anyway, the four things I got to close to the bush, and it literally slams on the brakes. And if you get out and look, you know, you've got feet, many feet before you would hit the bush. So, you know, these systems are now embedded in cars, and a lot of drivers have become reliant on them or conditioned to drive this way. And so I think that they naturally just leave that big gap in front of them. It's a, it's kind of an elaboration of this, in my opinion, absolutely deranged neurotic obsession with safety. Yeah, so that's a good question, though. I appreciate you making it. You know, there is another side of that, that that because I was raising this on the year one time, Eric, and people had told me that, you know, I actually want to leave some space to that I could get out of that lane if I had

to. And that makes sense. That's not reasonable. You're right about that. Absolutely. But I think what the caller is talking about and what I've seen is like just an exorbitant amount of space. We're not talking about enough room to maneuver, which is half a car length is plenty.

If you need to be able to, like, slot out of the way because in other cars barreling down on you and is about to rear end you, that's plenty of room for you to get. out of the way. Okay. We're talking about, you know, a car length or more between your car and the car ahead of you. Well, you have a lot of great news out there, a lot of great reviews and everything else, and I just highly recommend head over to e.p.otos.com. You know, I'm going to remind you next week, there is a lot of talk there, you know, especially since the Charlie Kirk assassination. You get a lot of people that are saying, well, you know, they're talking civil war. They're talking civil war. You'll hear those kind of things. I don't think that's it. I think

we've been in a soft civil war for a long, long time. But you raise an issue that I think I'd like to talk with you about next week if we could, and that is peaceably separating. If there is a way to do this. I know southern Oregon and Northern California have been talking for decades about wanting

to peacefully separate from the urban hive mine up in Portland and or Sacramento, you know, that kind of thing. And we're always told, yeah, you can only do it, but you can only do it with the permission of your slave master. You know, that's the way things are set up right now. And I just wonder if there's, maybe there's a way to change that

over time. Maybe we can talk. Well, sure. I mean, politically, we're caught up in a bad marriage. You know, it's interesting to me that in the context of our personal relationships, if you're in a bad marriage, you can't fix it, you have a reconcilable differences. Nobody, almost nobody that I'm aware of would contest it if you said, you know, we have to separate. You know, this is bad. The two of us can't live together any longer. It's best if we separate. Everybody accepts that as being reasonable, but somehow that's considered something that's unreasonable in the political context. And, yeah, I'd love to talk about it with you next week. Yeah, well, dig and leave a little time for that, then, for sure, along with the regular reviews.

And, by the way, the latest review is, what, the Kia Sportage hybrid, right? The Sportage. Yeah, which is the only vehicle just about in its class, which is, you know, compact crossovers that are under $30,000. That still comes with an appropriately sized engine that doesn't need a turbocharger to make up for it. And it doesn't have a CBT transmission. And that's a really refreshing thing to find in this class. You know, if you want something that's probably going to last you for 15 or 20 years without hitting you with some huge bill for a blown turbo engine or a croaked CVT, it's one to look at.

All right. Point well taken. What's you reviewing? What's in the driveway for next week? Well, what's coming is a Toyota Sequoia. Oh, my God. Would you believe? Yeah, the one they're sending me is a 1794 edition.

It's named after a ranch in Texas. And the starting price is $82,000. I'll bet it's beautiful. You can tell us all about it next week. Okay. It's beautiful, just like the orange man. That's right, beautiful. Thanks, Eric.

We'll talk then, all right. Be well. Thanks, Bill. Help you know. Epiotos.com. We talk with Eric every week. Five minutes after seven. Ran a little bit long with Eric.

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