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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. And you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. We'll check Fox News here in just a moment. Wild Sam and Steve, you used to run cattle, huh? What's your story? What do you think about that talk with Herman on the beef price and more?

Well, I just think about the infrastructure that we used to have. We had the cattle auction that was there at four corners. Four corners, yeah, back in the day. Yeah, and I would raise three to five head a year. We had a small place on 11 acres, and I had a couple acres of pasture. I used to water from a well, and we were paying $75, $80 a month for water in the summer for electricity in the summertime back when it was, you know, I don't know, $0.6 or less a kilowatt.

So everything is conspired against that type of situation, and we used to sell the beef directly to people, and they would go to Steve's market or that outfit and Eagle Point. Shouldn't we be crafting a way to facilitate that kind of dealing that we once had? Shouldn't we be working on that side of it? What seemed to me like it would make sense, because, you know, but now there's no, I don't know where you would buy cash. You know, I would buy 300-pound wean calves in the middle of the summer and feed them through the next the winter on hay, which I had a small hayfield, and then butcher them the next fall. So you butcher them in the time frame that is most advantageous to growing cattle. They're naturally going to be fattest and in best shape in the fall because that's just the way.

just the way it goes. You know, when I was thinking about this, I saved a bunch of ads. I still have the box of newspapers from the 1950s and 60s underneath here, you know, Mail Tribune and Oregonian and various others. And the part that was really interesting, Steve, is that back then food was more expensive. Food was much more expensive as a percentage of your income than it is today, even though, you know, we're looking at food prices rising. And homes were cheap. Now we're at the point where homes aren't cheap and food is no longer cheap and getting pricier all the time. And I wonder if this, what we're really experiencing is the end result of decades of fiat

currency, printing the money, being the world empire, exporting our inflation, and then hollowing us out at the same time. I know maybe I'm combining a lot of things all the ones, but I couldn't help but notice that, you know, now it's all expensive. The only thing it's cheap now is maybe some electronics. That's really what we're talking about, electronics and some electronic services. That's the only cheapness I see it. But it's all been the growth of government, and in Oregon it's really been mail-in voting

because nothing has happened any way conservative since we've gone away from voting in person. Yeah. You can't help but notice that. connection. Is it a correlation? I don't know. Correlation causation. Appreciate the call there, Steve. We'll catch up on the rest of the news here in just a moment. Speaking of the mail and voting, we have someone who wants to bring some reform to some of the voting here, at least locally, and we'll talk with her, throwing her hat in the ring to be Josephine County clerk. We're coming up. Honey, we're out of water again. Did you call clouds or drilling to

The dry conditions expected. 68, Wednesday, 66, and dry the rest of the week. 16 after A. Chris Kirby joins me in a few minutes. We're going to talk things. Scott's right now in Eagle Point. Scott, you want to the way in on the conversation we were having about beef cows and raising beef here in the Rogue Valley. What was your experience, huh?

Well, growing up in Eagle Point, in the 80s, I had friends that were in the cattle industry, and we were in the horses. We had 14 horses, mainly Morgan, raised Timothy Grasset, You know, you've got to feed the cattle, you've got to feed the horses. The cost of everything is just ridiculous. It's a lifestyle. So that lifestyle is over now, in your opinion? Do you think it could be revived even in the southern Oregon of today?

What is your opinion? Well, you know, it's been glorified with Yellowstone and Kibben Kozner, but I think that you've got to really want that lifestyle. Well, you get up really early in the morning. You gather eggs, you know, because a lot of us will supplement our food with, you know, beef with eggs. So, yeah. Hmm. Okay.

There is something rather romantic about it, isn't it? Or isn't there? I think so. I think you're going to live a healthy life living that way rather than living in a city, for sure. Yeah. And yet the climate-friendly, equitable communities, Scott. Come here. We'll have your AI Johnny Cab here to whisk you over to the baseball stadium where you could enjoy tourism.

I know, I guess. Right, right. Just having fun with you, Scott. First day of the call. Chris Kirby. What's going on next? Wants to be Josephine County Clerk. Pick that around next.

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Joining me right now is Chris Kirby. Chris Kirby wishes to run for the clerk of Josephine County, Oregon. Chris, how you doing? Welcome. Good to have you on. I'm good, Bill. Thank you for having me. Okay, now, why in the heck do you want to get involved

and be a county clerk here? Well, I've moved here over a year ago from Santa Cruz, and I saw a lot of different things with our county clerk there. In Santa Cruz, they fought bonds, or we fought bonds a lot. So I got to know the group down in the courthouse, and this clerk here is just so different. I mean, they have bulletproof glass in the clerk office in Josephine County, which really surprised me. Well, you have to understand that politics is pretty much a fighting sport in Joe County. You do know that, right? Yeah, I do know that.

I've seen that in the last year. Yeah. I feel that the clerk now, she's been there for quite a while, and we might need somebody new. There's a lawsuit. John West is by the lawsuit against them for the way they counted the signatures for his recall. And I'm not sure if that was the way it was done was fully legal. But it's costing the county tens of thousands of dollars. to fight this lawsuit.

And that's not necessary. It needs to be done right from the start. Election integrity is very important to me. And obviously no mail-in voting could happen, but that's obviously at a state level. Yeah, and you can't really make any kind of decision as the county clerk. But, you know, it is interesting, though, that some rules have come down that have made it much easy, I guess, relaxed, I guess, is the term that I was looking for.

here, Chris, that you only have to count a certain percentage or we take a, you know, a percentage and then we assume that if we take a percentage of petitioner signatures, that everything else is going to match that percentage? And what percentage do they do right now? Do you understand those rules? It's a little arcane and makes my eyes glaze a little bit. I thought it was about 10%, but it's based on some other calculations. We just moved here a year ago, September, when the recall was going on for John West,

and I came out of the post office, and they tried to convince me to sign it, and I didn't know anything from anything. I didn't know John West. I didn't know what he was being accused of. I didn't know what the truth was. And the gal told me, well, didn't just find Santa Claus. And I thought, just find Santa Claus. What are you talking about?

That was the lax of it, and that kind of concerned me at the time. So who knows how many of those signatures were real and how many weren't? And with the recall going on now, I've been out listening to people, and I don't know what's going on is real or fake or, you know, lies. I'm really concerned. But as it is in Oregon, when we have petitions, we're only counting a percentage, right? And that is permitted. It's a Secretary of State ruling, I guess, or rules along with legislation.

I guess my question, since you're running for county clerk here, Chris, are you, do you have, would you have the power then as a county clerk to then say, I know that I only have to count a certain percentage of people who sign the petitions and then we assume that the rest of them will match and they want percentage of yay or nay or whatever.

Are you... They're not taking a full sheet and counting all the ones on one sheet. They're picking, well, this one's good, this one's good on this seat. So it means the other ones aren't good. And that needs to be done. We need to clean up the voter rolls. I mean, how many... I've heard from many people that old...

Oh, yeah, no, I get that. I've heard this. Dr. Franks talked about this before. I guess I didn't get to my question here, Chris. I guess... I always kind of going around about. and I apologize for this, but I know that the rules say that you only have to count a percentage of these signatures in order to come up with your determination on whether the petition is good or not, okay? I get that.

Are you required to count only a percentage, or is there discretion to your knowledge that a county clerk can then say, you know, I could count a percentage, but we're going to count them all every time. What do you think? I am not sure about that. I'm new to this whole thing, and I'm sure you only have to count a small percentage, but when there's... I don't know. Yeah, maybe you can look into that, because that's just it, because I wouldn't be surprised if wascally Democrats in the state of Oregon. Of course, I'm teasing here, wascally Democrats, but have said that, you know, we know that you could count all of them, But we don't want you counting all of them.

We only wanted you counting a certain section of them. And gosh, aren't it, that's the rule. Only a section. We do an algorithm of our votes. That will be coming next, Chris. You know that. In which we're not going to... Yeah, we don't have to count all the votes.

We'll just have an algorithm. We'll run it through chat GPT, and chat GPT will determine, you know. That's the whole scary world coming our way. Yeah, I'd like to be able to count all the signatures and verify them. I think that's the right thing to do. I think legally you can't take a percentage, but that scares me. So this would be then a big part of a campaign, of your campaign then, is that you want to count all the votes or all the people signing up for petitions. So that way we know if they are truly legitimate or they are not legitimate, not all, not just a percentage.

Yeah, I've heard there's a lot of signatures that are going in on this current recall that are from different counties. And those should not be counted, but if it's still in a percentage, then they are being counted. and that's wrong. Okay. Now, you've already filed for this, right? Yes, I did yesterday. Okay, all right. Just want to make sure that we're not talking about a theoretical campaign.

Okay. No, no, I'm in it to win it. I think things need to change. Coming from a different county and watching how it was done down there, I have a little bit of experience. So I don't know. I was very involved in Santa Cruz, and I hope to get involved here. Okay, well, tell us a little bit about your past experience

in what you're doing now, besides running for office. I had a small business for 24 years in Santa Cruz in Aptos, actually. I was involved with Santa Cruz Republicans for over 12 years, holding many positions. I had a radio show also. Oh, yeah. I called The Elephant in the Room for three years. The Elephant in the Room, I like that name. That's great.

I know. With my past chair in Santa Cruz, Kristen, we had a great time doing it. And think about that in Santa Cruz, it's mostly Dems. And we had a great time doing it. Oh, boy, I'll bet you have. some hate calls there, huh? You know, we had a few, but we weren't really that controversial. We were just pointing out the differences and the good things Republicans did,

and we had a lot of Republican candidates on our show. It was a lot of fun. Now, was that a KCSO, that station down there? Yes, yes, you remember. Okay, now, I lived down in San Jose area when I first got in the broadcasting, right before I got in the broadcasting, 1980, and I remember going out there, Was that the station that was like using a flagpole for its antenna? Or was that like Aptos Capitola or something like there was like a flagpole out front?

Yeah, it was in the Pleasure Point area. Yes, it's right there on the ocean. It was beautiful. Oh, okay. It was a great, it's like from the 50s. Yeah. It was like a Happy Days building there. Exactly.

Yeah. The designer kind of. Uh-huh. The gal that started it, because Santa Cruz used to be all Republicans until UCFC came in and turned them but yeah it's still going

and still functioning all right so do you have a website at this point you're going to start walking the neighborhood what are you going to do we got some time here and is this

is this like for May of next year or when? What? Yes yes I need to get my statement in by March so yes May is the primary you know election integrity

is big and I think did our voters to be able to trust the votes and what's going on. And I just, I don't know. I just felt like we needed to shake things up and make things happen, only because, you know, the county is getting sued by John West because of the way she counted the signatures. So that kind of stuff, that's wasted money.

And I don't know who could be upset at saying, hey, we're going to count all the votes or count all the petitions. I don't, I would love to hear what would the logic being, no, we don't want to do that. I don't know why. Could you explain? That's exactly right. I mean, in cleaning up the voter rolls,

how many people are getting ballots for people that are dead or have moved away when they sold their house? Do you have discretion, though, as a county clerk? Because if I understand it correctly, that a lot of this has been the rules coming down from our so-called Secretary of State. Correct. Correct. But I still, I mean, nothing says you can't count all the signatures. All right. Very good.

Well, Chris, keep me in the room of your candidacy, all right? And I think this is... Like I said, I just did this yesterday, so I've got to get an email and a website. More than likely will be maybe Kirby for clerk at gmail.com. I will try for that. Okay. Now, just be prepared. You may have given Scott's daughter some indigestion.

I don't know. We'll see what happens. I just have fun with Scott. All right. That's okay. Well, thank you. Thank you for having me on. All right, Chris.

Take care. Good luck on that. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Lauren. Don't know if you're getting your steps in the Eagle Point this morning.

How are you? I'm doing okay. Got my two and a half mile walk in, and now I'm getting ready for the day. And yep, I'm okay. Good for you, Lauren. You'll outlive us all. What's on your mind, huh? Well, basically, the lady that was just on, I appreciate her wanting to be involved in local politics.

And I personally have a great appreciation for Chris, our present clerk. I've sat in down there and watched her count all the ballots a year ago, and it was amazing. But anyway, but I think the lady there was a little naive in that petitions, like recall petitions and such as that, the county clerk here doesn't deal with them if they're for state issues, at least. Oh, no, yeah, for state issues, no, you're right. that would go to the Secretary of State, but I do believe that when you're talking local recall, which is what she was referencing, you know, with the John West recall from things like that, that that might be different.

Well, could be. I'm not real smart about it. I just kind of dipping my toe in that water recently as far as the recall stuff. And let me tell you, Lauren, that water is cold, as you well know in politics, right? Yeah, I know. Hey, appreciate the call. Thanks for that. 770. Okay, MED, let me go to the next call. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this?

Good morning, Bill. Hey. Hey, how are you, then? How are you? I'm checking. I'm doing fine. All right. Thank you. Yesterday, we ended up talking quite a bit about the grid, and I just want to ask people, we sent enough money to Gaza and Ukraine to totally rebuild the electrical grid system here. So I'm asking people, do you ask your neighbor, ask yourself, do you think that was the wisest expenditure of money? Is your life better because we sent those billions upon billions of dollars for war? So what do you want? Do you want to continue war or do you want to fix the grid?

So we blew all that money away. Yeah, what are you advocating then? Well, you just had a discussion with Herman about Republicans and Democrats, and I would say that there's not that much difference between Democrats and Republicans at a certain mega level. Both the Democrats and Republicans are war parties, and I didn't hear a peep out of them about, hey, let's not go to war, let's rebuild the grid. And so I don't see that much difference in the big scope of things. You know, the Republicans are all in it for the federal reserve system, the income tax, the federalized education of our kids and so forth. So we've got so far a communist that...

Yeah, I know. But you're advocating for something. You must be advocating for something then, because, you know, when you go and you, you vote for something to happen in Oregon, that's not on the ballot, okay? Whether it's going to be war or whether it's the Federal Reserve system, that's not on the ballot. It never is, and nor is do you consent to this government ever part of the vote. You'll agree with me there, right?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're right. But I just want people to start thinking about what would a real constitutional look like as compared to a Republican as compared to a Democrat. And, you know, we have this whole idea of this, because of the Great Depression of World War II, government expanded its size, power, and scope to insane levels. And now the insane levels have been normalized.

And I would really like to see a movement to really roll back the size scope of government. Well, nothing would probably do it faster than, than a financial crisis. Well, you know, it just might be where we're headed, and it may not be the worst thing in the world. All right. Appreciate the call. Tom, thank you.

Tebbled in your shoe Tuesday. Let me grab one more for news, and we will continue. Hi, who's this? Hey, Bill, it's your friend, Brad. Good morning to you. Morning, Brad. So, with your permission, I wanted to say a quick word about Christine Dres and then talk about something that I think is really funny.

Okay. So we know that Christine Dreson is running again, and for some people who say, well, boy, you know, she's not conservative enough for me. I just want to remind everyone, last time it was a three-way race, this time there isn't going to be a Betsy Johnson. We have an extremely unpopular governor, even most of the Democrats don't like Tina Kotech right now. That will make no difference, though. And the Democrats are not going to have nearly as much money to fight with in this election cycle as they have in others. So you got Christine Drazen, she has the organization, you know, she's up there in Canby, which is, you know, right there on the edge of Oregon's largest population base. So she has the standing, she's got the horsepower, and she is the only Republican that can raise enough money to really make a run at Tina Kotech in this cycle.

So just kind of remember those things, you know, if you're thinking about that. Okay, so this is what I think is a funding bill. I think it's absolutely hilarious that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is getting sued. NPR alleges that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave into political pressure, and they are suing them. So here are two of the most left-wing organizations in the United States. and one is suing the other saying, well, you gave in the political pressure. I just think that's absolutely hilarious.

Well, no, it's not a dad joke, but we can laugh at that, okay? Thanks, Brad. Don't you think that's funny? A little bit, yeah. Yeah, I do. You got a dad joke, though? You got a dad joke, though? You got a dad joke? A dad joke.

Oh, my gosh. A dad joke. Bill, I don't. I wish I did, but I don't. Okay, well, okay, we're going to take your political joke and then move it into the dad joke deal, okay? All right. Thanks, Brad.

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because they are looking for volunteers and we're getting into that time of year in which starts getting cold people start looking at at holidays and gosh we need we need our turkey we need our housing we need frankly a lot of people need assistance i guess is really what we're talking about right now and joining me in studio you can see them on the facebook live we have they have sherry witson oh sherry good morning so sherry you are official rainmaker the uh the fundraising expert right that's sort of thing and we have uh lauren hapterson hey loren how are you doing and you are the volunteer coordinator, so you are the, so she's the rainmaker, you're the cat rustler, or the cat wrangler, you know, that's right. Yeah, wrangling in here. What kind of need

are we talking about right now for Salvation Army? As far as services you'll be providing this holiday season, I know that it tends to be going up each year. Yes, it is. Right now, we are, our highest need is we need bell ringers to help support our Salvation Army kettles. We have bell ringing opportunities all over the Rogue Valley in 17 different locations. It's registered to ring.com. We like to invite the community groups, individuals, businesses to sign up to ring the bell. And that really does work, though, doesn't it? I mean, I know that I feel guilty like, you know, God's watching me if I walk past the red

kettle and I'm not shoving the money in there. It's just like, come on, Bill, you know you have it. You can do this. All right. I don't know that, but actually it is a big part of your fundraising, isn't it? It is. And the big thing about that is that every dollar donated into that kettle goes right back to meet the critical needs right now in our community.

Salvation Army has transitional housing for homeless families. Tell me a little bit more about that. That's a big deal right now. Yes, yes. We have a, most people don't even know this, but in Jackson County, we have 3.5 acres with a very large transitional housing, the only transitional housing for families in the community that keep the families together. Yeah, what neighborhood is that in? Just curious. If you were to stand in and out and look across the road, you would see these apartments and buildings. That's transitional

housing? That's the Salvation Army Hope House. Didn't know. And then we also have one of the largest social service centers. Last year, the Salvation Army served over 14,000 people, and the need continues to grow. And that's where your money in the kettle goes. That's where when you volunteer your time, the difference that you're making is that you're truly impacting kids that are hungry, families that are homeless. And they just need a hand up. How many years or how many a year rather are you serving? I'm sorry. That's what I meant to ask. A year right now and we're seeing unprecedented numbers and growth and we know is going to increase. Last year we saw 14,700 unduplicated individuals. Okay. So that's pretty good percentage of the population, I guess, here. Lauren,

let me head over to you then. So you're the one that's in charge of whipping us all in the shape and getting us as part of the volunteers. Now, are you only looking for the bell ringers right now, or do you need other volunteers to help out with other Salvation Army tasks? I don't know what those might be. Maybe you can enlighten me. Yes, we are always in need of volunteers. We have a very limited staff. So we rely highly on our volunteers. We need volunteers at our thrift store, helping to sort and tag donations. We need volunteers at our food pantry to help provide food bags to our clients. We need volunteers at our Hope House to help with restoration projects, beautification projects, serving a meal, all those things. Okay. And so we're talking to

things that just about anybody could do. Absolutely. All right. How do the they get in touch with you again? What do they do? They can reach out to me at the Salvation Army 541-773-6-9-65 or you can sign up to ring the bell. Register to ring.com. Registered to ring.com. Okay. That's going to be easy. Well, count me in on that one. I guess there's going to be a crazy media day in which all we media big stars, you know, go out there and do our bell ringing best, huh? Yes. That our official bell ringing kickoff. is going to be on November 14th at Fred Meyer, and you will meet your favorite personalities and vote for your favorite personality by putting money in his kettle.

Okay, so Scova Steve is going to be out there competing with me. I've got to kick him. Okay, we've got to kick you. You're going down, buddy. Yes, Steve's giving us the thumbs up through the window, the next door officer. But all right, but for the rest of us, just register to ring.com. Register to ring.com. And what's great about it is you just go to that website.

You can create a profile. You log in. You can see all the days to ring. You can select your location. You can even get your family. You can get the whole family involved too, can't you? Yes, absolutely. You can adopt a day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at one location and then divided the hours up amongst your group.

All right. Well, I have a feeling that we're going to have to all work to dig a little bit deeper this time around. Yes. And I think that's very important. I appreciate the work that the Salvation Army has been doing for a long, long time. And also, frankly, the low expenses that you do, too. Would that be a fair assessment of the way? Yes.

We probably have one of the lowest expenses of nonprofits, and that's why we need the volunteers, because we want to make sure every dollar donated goes directly to helping those in need. And that's what the Salvation Army is known for, doing the most good with what we're given to make the biggest difference. Sherry Whitson and Lauren Haperson, you want to add anything to that, too? You didn't know if there's anything else. Is there anything we've forgotten about on what you need?

You know, I just, I feel like it's important to touch on. There's this common misconception that people need to guard their cup, their cup to give. They don't have the time. But really, the more you give, the more filled up your internal cup gets. So. Okay. I think that's okay. Yeah.

That's all right. I like that. All right. Very good. It's great seeing you both again. We'll have you back in. And let's see if we can all get, let's ring those bills. let's fill up the kettle and remember and remember someone's watching you okay even if you

don't see him or they're watching over your shoulder okay so you know about be generous there thanks so much thank you it is 853 and chains on KMED and KBXG the purchase of another gutter me and I'm on 106.7 KMED Hey anytime you want to email me just build of Billmyershow.com we're going to work on getting the website fixed again. You know, we have a new company, and we haven't gotten all the keys yet. But if you're having trouble streaming, I have a direct link to get to the stream since the website's being a little recalcitrant. Just email at Bill at Billmyers Show.com.

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We just become best friends. Yep. Making sense of it all. Now I get it. And having some fun. Lighten up, Francis. This is the Markley, Van Camp, and Robbins show. Right, let's do it.

The Markley Van Camp and Robbins show. Jamie Markley, David Van Camp, he's got Robbins. Okay, it's starting to hurt now. The big government shutdown. A lot of talk about it. Snap benefits. Oh, goodness. Oh, yeah, because, well, the government is still shut down

because Democrats are big fat cry babies, and, well, that means food stamp benefits are about to go away. And Democrats are demand. that Trump keep that funding going, even if the government is still shut down. This comes after they threaten to sue him for finding a way to pay military person. Yeah, right. Yes, yes. What's the deal, man?

It's every losing issue. They want to get behind. That's the strategy, it seems. Well, it's, you know, and Republicans are like, we don't want to get rid of SNAP benefits for the people who are eligible for it either. Right. So vote to open up the government. Yes. Pretty simple.

Josh Hawley. Pass the CR. Yeah. That's it. Josh Hawley of Missouri, he's out there leading a coalition of Republicans who want to have just basically a one-off bill that would fund SNAP benefits. And again, to me, politically, it's brilliant. It's a total trap because Democrat leadership aren't interested in doing this. Unless you're good morning, America, and then you actually report that, well, a lot of Republicans don't want to go along with that.

That's how they frame it. But it is. When you see all the polling, it's not good for Democrats. No, it's not. So Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar whined about this on CNN. Okay. They know they have the funding to do it. It is very sad that the president has decided to turn his focus to raising money for a ballroom that's going to cost 300 million or more dollars

instead of coming to the table and negotiating, as every shutdown has ended, with compromise, with a negotiation. but you asked before we got to this segment if there's going to be a negotiation well not unless he is serious about it and comes to the table because the House isn't even here because they're afraid of voting on the Epstein files he has to demand the House comes back and he has to come to the negotiating table

okay no Trump doesn't have to do anything this is a strictly legislative issue and I mean I know that the President often gets involved in these types of negotiations, but he's also out there inking a, what they call it, a framework trade deal with China. Sort of a cooling of tensions. It's not like he's just sitting there talking about the ballroom 24-7. David, he is in Malaysia dancing right now.

Well, he did do the dance. While Congress is feverishly.