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Episode Date: November 5, 2025

Michael Letts joins me from InvestUSA and he works to help get ballistic vest to police. Discussion on thwarted Islamic attack in Michigan. Open for Business, Randal from Advanced Air. Open phones, emails of the day

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 Klausordrilling.com. Michael Letts joins me right now. Michael Letts is an interesting guy. Runs a nonprofit calling Invest USA, and we want to talk a little bit about that sportiness going on in Michigan when it comes to thwarted terror attacks. Not a lot of people talking about that.

Hey, Michael, how you doing? Doing great, but I appreciate the opportunity to be with you, and thank you for what you're doing for our country. You bet. Tell me what you're doing then for law enforcement officers with your nonprofit. Give me more about that. Give us the lowdown, okay? Well, we have urgent need across the country. As you know, the southern cartels of Mexico have put a $10,000 out of head premium on every officer killed, ice agents especially. You know where things are heating up with the leftist liberal progressives. They're trying to attack ice, shoot ice.

I mean, go after them. We're just simply doing the job of arresting illegal immigrants, which, you know, very simple, Bill, if you're here illegally, you're a felon. And then these are felons that are also doing felonies as they're living here. And so they've got to go. And ICE is doing what we charge them to do. And now you've got people trying to go after their heads and knowing that they don't have their necessary protection, it makes it even worse. So we're trying to make sure every officer, whether they're ice, whether their state,

whether they're local, has the necessary equipment. They have a fighting chance to come home to their kids. What you have to talk to me about in the past here, and by the way, what is your website again, Michael? I-N-V-E-S-T-U-S-A.org. Invest-U-S-A-O-R-G, okay. You were telling me in the past that most departments do have, you know, some kind of ballistic protection for their people.

But what you're talking about, though, is kind of the upgraded, maybe rifle, capable. Yes. It kind of the plate type of technology. Is that kind of what you're getting at here? Where can you get more of this in various police departments around the country, especially small town police departments? We do. We have a little of, let me be very clear.

I'm glad you brought this up because we haven't talked about it in a while across the country. 20% of cops have no protection, period, still in this country. 80% have concealable vests, and not as a vest you wear under the shirt. Sometimes you wear it over the shirt, but it only will stop a pistol, a side off, and that's it. 90% do not have active shooter vests, which is what we're providing. The active shooter vests is taking place in them, and they make sure that it will stop anywhere round tying it in what we were talking, what you're going to discuss about Dearborn, Michigan.

Yeah. Yeah, this was a Halloween terror plot that had been foiled, and are you surprised it's getting so little little play right now, especially with a Islamist mayor being elected in New York? What could go wrong here in such a world here, Michael? I'm surprised. Well, I am and I'm not.

I'm not surprised at the mainstream media doesn't want to play. How are they trying to get away with it? They're trying to tell you, oh, this is an overblowering situation. The FBI got it wrong. They weren't doing no terrorists. They were talking about playing our Internet game. Somehow the communications got misconstrued. Yeah, and this one, by the way, this Internet game, if you want to call it,

that was code-named Pumpkin, right? The whole idea was to go out and shoot up Halloween festivities is what they were doing. Exactly. But here's where their rhetoric falls short. part of what caused this to be moved upon to move in ahead of time and make the arrest was that the language that was intercepted to communications were we're going to meet ahead of time we're not talking about meaning five or ten minutes at a time we're talking about days ahead of time yeah the range and practice being able to quickly load and reload

AK-47s uh-huh AK-47 is a long-range rifle and legally you can own one if it's a single shot, but they're easily converted to fully automatic. And so that was the thing. Why are they going to practice reloading for an operation they call pumpkin? Well, they're simply saying, oh, well, you know, that was two separate conversations. We were just going to have some fun at the firing range. Had nothing to do with what we're doing with Operation Pumpkin. Well, when we made the arrest on Friday, we didn't actually charge them until Monday.

And so their defense lawyers were saying, oh, look here, it just proved you. This is a, what was a farce? There's nothing there. They couldn't find anything to charge them with. No, we made the charges on Monday. During that weekend, the intel we received, the interrogation of the people that we had arrested, we discovered that they had a storage unit that they were renting. So we rated it.

And what did we find? Toppiles of AK-47s, 1,500 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, you know. Well, you know, they were just going out, well, this is going out to the gun range. It's peaceful purposes, really. Yeah. Peaceful. Everything is born. Everything is born, Michael Letts. Go on.

What are you worried about? Oh, man. It just validated what we were doing, Bill. It validates the whole issue that I realized that would go to court and all that kind of thing. I made this final comment. I'd much rather be arguing about the validation of our data than I would be talking about 50 or 100 people did and why didn't we do more to prevent it. Agreed. Agreed.

And certainly a good point. Now, I was actually happy with this buster, you know, seeing this or reading about it, because one of my concerns has been, at least in the past with the FBI, that a lot of the so-called foiled terror plots, and I'll give an example of one that happened in Portland a number of years ago, we're kind of designed and fomented by FBI agents. And I know it doesn't sound great to say this, but essentially, FBI would go into the mosque and find the dumbest, dim-witted, you know, a kid, that they could kind of groom and say, oh, here's the guns and here's the bombs. And then they swoop in and arrest people and then claim that they stopped you from a terror plot that FBI agents had thwarted.

That wasn't this case at all at the Michigan gun range, right? That's not what happened at all. That's correct. And this was legitimate. And I'm glad to see more of that being done by the current FBI under Cash Patel, I guess. Yeah, it is time we become pro. if they're not reactive.

Yeah. And this was a case with they were being proactive. They've got a long way to go, but people will say, well, why were you even checking intel? Look here, folks, if you don't realize that Dearborn, Michigan has more Muslims in it, than they do anything by any place else. That's a hotbed for Islamic jihadists. They're calling it, well, that's why they call it Dearbornistan instead of Dearborn, Michigan, what they're claiming.

And now we're at the point in Dearborn where the claim is that I was reading about here, Michael, that we're getting to the point where there are no-go areas in which, you know, hey, it's Sharia law on American soil. That's correct. It's a little bit, getting a little bit sporty with the system, wouldn't you say? Well, you know, it's very clear. We should be having a national law, but Sharia law is not recognized anywhere in this country. Mm-hmm.

Period. Yeah. And here's what we've got to start doing, Bill, and I know it's an uncomfortable discussion to have, but it's what you just saw in New York. the Muslims perfected their methodology of conquering a long time ago. Instead of bringing in a warriors, shall we say, and trying to fight it out on a battlefield, they now figured out how to do infiltration.

Yeah, you bring in the beard, and that's what we're going to call Mom Donning as an example, the beard. I don't think he's actually running the show, in my opinion. I think that when your first congratulations comes from Alex Soros, Gee, what could that possible be all about, right? And the deep state has gotten tied in closely with the Muslim Brotherhood. And they use each other for their purposes.

And they've teamed together to do what they can to, you know, America is the last bastion of hope for the world, or the last castle of freedom, shall we say. And they've got to defeat that because we have so much influence globally. And they realize they couldn't do it on the battlefield, so they're trying to do it back they did Europe. Well, they're using political insiderism as the battlefield right now. They're using the political process as part of this. And they're doing a very good job of it, Bill.

So far, so good, on their side, at least. Yay, team, said no Bill Meyer ever. Michael, I appreciate you joining me and tell us more about this. But, yeah, you're right. They did charge those people on Monday, and it was a lot more than what was being talked about over Halloween weekend. So the pumpkin papers, a different type of pumpkin paper. this time around.

But invest USA.org. If you want to help the law enforcement folks in smaller towns and, you know, get their proper ballistic vests if the area can't afford it, that's what you do. That is your reason to exist, right? Invest USA. Okay. Thank you so much, Michael.

Good talking with you. Be well. God bless and God bless America. Take care. We could use that blessing right about now, my friend. It's 824 at KMED. Please, man, no one deals like they... Quote leaders.

Talk about it. Boy, they're going to have a lot to reconcile at the pearly gates. On News Talk, 1063, KMED. The Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. 7705632. Join the conversation, 77056633. Garth Harrington called me during the break, and I didn't have time to address his question on air.

But he said, Bill, has anyone actually done any figuring about what, you know, the city of Mepford actually gets from the... the transient lodging text, the TLT, which will be going up from 11% to 13% in order to pay for at least kickstart the Creekside Quarter Development. It does appear that that's going to win about a 500 or so winning margin here so far. That's the way this is looking now. I don't know, maybe a whole bunch of no votes come in over the next week or so because, you know, we don't have election day any longer. we have election week because reasons, in other words, reasons being that we're Oregon, all right? So, Garth was asking, well, you know, how much do we actually get from this right now?

And so I did a little look up of this and frankly used a little bit of AI help on this one just because sometimes it's a little obtuse trying to or a little difficult trying to find in all the various city reports where all this money is. So the transient lodging tax, they have it going back from 2018 to 20, 2019. It was a 4.8 million that came from the 11% that year. 4.2 during COVID, 3.5.5. And that was the lowest recent year, 3.5 million a year. That was during the height of COVID when nobody was going anywhere, but, you know, hiding at home and, you know, sitting with our masks and masking ourselves as we were driving, as you remember those dark days. Okay. Let's see. Then we had 6.3 million, 22 to 23, 6.8 million from 23 to 24. They're estimating 7.2 million for 2024 to 2025.

Now, I don't know if that is after Travel Medford, the Travel Medford racket ends up getting its cut of it or not. That's the part I've not figured out yet. So I'm going to assume this is before Travel Medford. Well, maybe it's after Travel Medford. I don't know. I'm engaging in a little bit of spitballing at the moment. every point, let's see, seven, we're just do a little bit of math here.

Okay, divided by 11. Okay. So every percentage point of the TLT at this point is generating about $650,000 a year. I'd spitballed with Garth. It was about three quarters of a billion dollars, but it could be about $650,000 is what it's looking like right now. So another couple of percentage points that would be three, million so you know or no one point two million one point two one point five million so is that enough to wash out you know a 50 million dollar deal I I don't know but maybe the assumption

though is that the transient lodging tax will go up continue to go up and then it will wash in more income into the city of Medford so these are the kind of questions that will be asking people like Nick Card and Kevin Stein you know over the coming weeks and months because They were the face, I guess, on this measure of 15-238. So, like so many other things here, we'll see, all right? It's 8.30 at KMED. This is the Bill Myers Show. Hi, this is Bill Meyer, and I'm with Sharif.

Thank you for helping to keep our roads safe. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. Yeah, ODOT talking about road safety. I'll just cut to the chase. Don't be stupid, okay? Maybe that's neat to say that. Don't be stupid. This message brought to you by ODOT.

Where's this coming from a guy that almost had a head-on from somebody who turned and went the wrong way on Highway 62 on Sunday morning? Man, that was scary. Time are open for business. You talk with locally owned operated businesses, say, hey, you need services, you need stuff. You need to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Well, talk with Randall over at Advanced Air. MyAdvancedair.com. How you doing, Randall?

Welcome back. Hey, good morning, Bill. Thank you. We're doing well. It's that time of year. colder weather, colder air. Got to get ready for heat. All right.

Have we started the compressor explosion season yet, which people haven't turned anything on for months? And then all of a sudden, they turn it on. Randall, it blew up. It threw up its guts in my backyard or whatever. What happened? No kidding. On the heating side, a lot of times,

it's related more to the rollout and residue on the burners, you know, kind of emitting an awkward smell. and people, just because it hasn't been used for a while and it hasn't been cleaned if you're not on a maintenance plan. So sometimes that's concerning for people. It's typically pretty normal. It hasn't been used for several months when you first light off your furnace and you get kind of that burning, oily smell. That's just the residue, you know, flaming off. It's completely normal, nothing to be concerned about, right? Yeah, usually that after a couple of uses, that that'll clear off and, and it's

should be normal operating procedure there, but it is a concern, and you do want to clean your equipment. You know, breach heat exchangers are another thing that can be a problem on the heating side, and that what happens then is basically the elements that are controlling your gas fail, and potentially you can have gas, natural gas leaking into your home. And so if we come across that, then, you know, we have to replace that equipment right away. I'm kind of curious Do the furnaces have some kind of detection for when those heat exchangers fail and they start letting combustion gases into the home? Should you have a natural gas and or carbon monoxide detector in your house? How do you see that?

Yeah, you definitely want detectors in your home, particularly if you have a gas, heat. Typically, you know, there's some flame irregularities that would distinguish that there's a problem with the heat exchanger. and they do fail like over time. So oftentimes it's not an immediate like failure that's super obvious. And so that's where inspections and maintenance can really come in handy. Yeah, so you can take a look at it because it probably starts as a pinhole, right? A pinhole leak. Yeah, exactly.

And then it gets worse. Okay. Yeah, this is the time to do this before we get into the really cold weather. And it's pretty reasonable cost to come to have, you know, advanced air folks come out to take a look at all your equipment. Isn't that right? pretty much yeah absolutely you know for a couple hundred bucks we come out twice the year gives you priority service during extreme weather um it gives you discounts on part gives you access to a whole uh service log you know we have meticulous uh notes details performance data

photos on on the equipment that we service so we can trend uh you know equipment behavior and and there's a lot of virtue to some of those things i have to have you come over and take a look at my old beast because what you have done in the past is that you'll put the meters on it and you'll say, okay, it was drawing 30 amps of current in 2000 and 23, and now it's at 32 amps of current, let's say, something like that. I'm just spitballing. I don't know what my report said, but what you do, though, is that you have a list of that and you're able to see the compressor aging and perhaps getting closer to failing, right? Yeah, absolutely. And that's true.

And equipment becomes less efficient over its lifetime. You know, like, for example, fear ratings, there's studies that show how it goes down a point or two every year with extended use and extended life. And so, yeah, you're – and not only that, the repair cost. Yeah, let's talk about that. What is a good rule of thumb, you know, to bring this up that – because, you know, you're talking about a brand new HVAC, what? Maybe 10,000 around the neighborhood, 10,000, you know. Man, yeah, about 8 to 15. Eight to 15.

You're going to get a, yeah, you're going to get a good piece of equipment. That's efficient. You know, when you're, if you have a 10, 15-year-old system, you know, it's meeting, it's expected, serviceable life. And, you know, if you start to see expenditures that are like $2,000 or $2,500, you know, if you have a compressor failure, things like that. that you really need to think about replacing at that time. Because let's face it, even if you spend $2,300 to replace a compressor,

rather, on a 15-year-old unit, you still have a 15-year-old unit afterward. Yeah, and you don't always know why the compressor failed. I mean, sometimes there's a smoking gun, and you can distinguish what exactly happened, but there could be other things that are failing that cause the compressor to fail, and you don't know that until you replace the compressor. So all of a sudden, you start at $2,500 for a new compressor, and then next thing you know, oh, you know, there were a damper, if it's a zone system, maybe the dampers had failed.

Yeah. Then you have to get into this whole control expenditure that you weren't planning on either, and all of a sudden you're into $4,500. Oh, and then the copper line fails, right? The copper refrigerant line fails. And then, yeah, it's just, that's kind of a nickel and dime. There is a serviceable life on these things. So that's a good rule of time.

You're getting at about $2, $3,000, then you've got to start thinking about that. Any deals available, though, as we head into the heating season, though? I've got to ask you, all right? Yeah, absolutely. Energy Trust of Oregon has some great rebates that are still available. You know, it can be a few thousand dollars, income-based, equipment-based. So there are some criteria that need to be met on that. We can walk you through that.

There's a 30% federal tax credit for geothermal equipment, new, replacement systems. That's falling off at the end of the year. And that can be like a $10,000, $15,000 tax credit. And just be aware, you know, I know we have a lot of, we service most of the geothermal homes in the, in the valley. So be aware if you're kind of getting to that age where it needs to be replaced. You got a couple of months here to capitalize on, on that 30% federal tax credit before it goes away. Bryant right now has a great rebate, well, it's either a rebate or you can get 0% financing for five years. The 0% financing for five years is a better incentive for the end user. So talk to us about that

if you're in replacement mode. Okay, pretty cool. Now, I have an older unit, and you guys come out and you take a look at it. In fact, I think we need to do that this year. It's working fine, and we keep it clean and it's been working. I'm kind of, do they size them differently now? Because you talk about how sizing the HVAC unit is very important. The one that I have, I'm just going to use mine as an example since I know it, okay? It's a five-ton, okay? It's a five-ton unit. Yeah.

And it has been fine. Even in the hottest weather, I'm able to, you know, keep it at like 72, 73. Yeah. And you talk about how they're really not designed when it's 115 to be able to keep you at 72, but yet I've been pretty lucky about that. Did they oversize my unit? and I actually should have a smaller one, or how does that work now? Yeah, great question.

Yeah, so typically sizing, equipment sizing is influenced heavily by the square footage of your home and also our value of insulation and windows and all of that. So sizing is super important when it comes to HVC equipment. And what happens a lot of times, sounds like they got the sizing right on your project, and all of the duct system is, you know, while it's, you know, It's connected to the equipment. It's kind of a different system. And all of the ductwork sizing is also relative to the equipment sizing.

So everything matches in your place, it sounds like, and everything's working appropriately. Where things get interesting, particularly on older homes, is when people start adding on or finishing out bonus rooms or reason. And they don't give any thought for that additional square footage with their HVAC system. And then all of the sudden, their equipment isn't keeping up. and they're like, well, what's going on? It must be broken. Well, you've expanded your square footage, your... Yeah, you're asking more of it. Yeah, you're asking more of a system.

You're looking for more horsepower than you bought originally. Yeah, that makes sense. Exactly. So make sure if you're finishing basements or adding on to a home that you think of the HVAC system right away because you're going to need to expand that as well, it can be a separate system, or sometimes we can upsize the equipment and the duck work fairly easily, but it is necessary to do that. Otherwise, if you have too small of equipment, it's always going to be running, and it'll reduce the serviceable life of the equipment.

It will fail sooner. There will be more repair costs. So you want appropriately sized equipment for mechanical reasons, but also for comfort. Very good. Call 772-6866, 772-686, Myadvancedaer.com. Randall and the crew, of course, good friends of you. the heating and air conditioning world. Appreciate it's coming on.

Hey, I wanted to ask you before we take off because we have these tax credits expiring. You've got the Brian deal going on, so that's helpful right now. Call, get your appointment, and get this all sized up. But I was talking with Eric Peters earlier this morning about challenges in the car part world.

And I had a listener call in and say, getting quality parts has been a tough thing. And I was wondering, is it this way in the HVAC world too? Because even going with OEM, there were problems with OEM. Yeah. Now, what about you? What's your experience there? I'm just curious. Oh, wow. Yeah, no, that's a great question. And I wish we had time to talk about it at length.

But basically, yeah, parts aren't as high of quality as they used to be. You've got to pay more for better parts. But sadly, even on new equipment, we see stuff fail from the factory more often than it should. Fortunately, we're a Bryant factory authorized dealer. So we have Bryant and our distribution chain. standing behind us and making sure that customers are satisfied and that their equipment is working. Yeah. And so that's why it's super important to hire contractors that are representative of a brand and have a support system and a warranty behind them because, yeah, man, mechanical parts,

they're not what they used to be. Yeah, well, that's the challenge when you're talking about if you call up somebody's like, you know, two guys that pick up truck and HVAC gauges.com. You know, that kind of thing. Nice guys, don't get me wrong, but you don't have the connection, right? Well, and there's a lot more electrical components to modern equipment. There's more sensors, there's more boards, there's more things that can fail and that can go wrong. Man, hire somebody that has a support system behind them.

All right, very good. Hey, Randall, I appreciate that. 772-6866. Thanks for being on Open for Business. Okay, you'd be well. Thank you, Bill. Take care. It is 849 on KMED. The Bill Myers Show.

Claudia, kind of a post script to our Open for Business with Randall. What's on your mind? Hello, Claudia, it might help if I push the right button. Operator error. How you doing? Welcome to the show. Morning. Do you hear me now?

Yep, I sure can. That's my fault. Okay. All right. Okay, thanks. So last spring, they come twice a year and they check my systems out to make sure I'm to have air conditioning and heat when the needs the rise. They came last spring and found a faulty or worn out.

part in my air conditioning system, replaced it before the heat came, and now today I'm waiting for my winter checkup to make sure the heater is on full gear, so it'll operate properly all through the season. So that service has saved me. It saved me a whole bunch of worry time when it was 110 degrees here in Eagle Point for how many weeks. So I thank him. The service is good. The people that come are really, really capable and also just really nice. people. That is really nice to hear. Do you know how great it is to catch people doing the right thing, Claudia? I do. I do. I owned a business for many years in California. I know what it's like to have a business and to be thanked for what you do. All right. Thank you very much

for the call. Let me go to Gregory, too. Gregory, you're on. What's on your mind today? Gregory from Shady Cove. There we go. Thank you. About the baseball field. Yeah, yeah. It looks like we're going to get the 15-238 passing, and one way or the other, we're going to have to figure out now what's next. Well, here's another point. When they recently had trouble with the traffic light, did that ever get solved? And are they thinking about putting controlled traffic there? So that might pay for part of the baseball.

That's a really interesting question. Yeah, they're going to put more speed cams up there. As far as the red light camera situation, I have not talked with the doctor, the chiropractor, who is involved in this, and I will reach out. I know that there was some legal wrangling going on. I know that the red light camera over there in South Medford was fixed, and they put the timing to a more tolerable level. It was not the speed trap that it was.

But that doesn't negate the fact that a whole bunch of area residents were hosed at that intersection. Big time, all right? So I don't know what happens with that. I will reach out to the doctor, okay? Deplorable Patrick. Hello, Deplorable Patrick. Good to have you back on. What's up? Hey, good morning, Bill. I hope I don't embarrass myself excessively by being the last one to know. But I have to be out in Eagle Point on several occasions recently, and I see these bus stops with the signs, with the schedule signs up there, covered with white bags. I thought, well, I guess they're going to change the schedule or something. And then I found the same thing.

in White City, the signs are covered, and I thought, what the heck? And so subsequent to that, I was driving down Table Rock Road, and I saw these buses parked inside of a chain-link fence area. And I thought, well, this is really, maybe they pulled the whole thing out. Well, it was grant stream funding. It was grant-stream funding from the federal government that ended up not being coming through. and so services had been, it has been cut for that reason of RBTD. I was wondering if it had, if it has any impact on this thing about having buses that are running around empty all the time and then they want us to all ride buses.

Is that, because I want to keep driving my car. Okay, well, you can go ahead and keep driving it for right now until the, you know, Oregon governor decides that you're not qualified to any longer. Okay? Okay. Thanks. I'm being a little sarcastic. I can't help myself. Let me go to another phone.

Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Welcome. Is this me? Yes, it sure is. Who's you? Hey, Bill.

Scott. Hi, Pat. I'm on I-5 hitting toward Medford, and there's a pretty horrific accident on just north of Blackwell Road. Oh, boy. Yeah, there's a couple overturned vehicles and several on the side of the road. Just thought I'd let you know. Yeah, and now this is by Blackwell.

Is it northbound? southbound going towards grass passer away it's northbound it's northbound so it's getting out of town so is it pretty much a gummed up at the moment yeah multiple uh emergency vehicles still responding so okay man uh try to avoid that area and uh thanks for the tip on that and we pray for the people hope everybody's okay all right thank you yeah there's a couple over turned cars yeah all right all right thanks again it's a 855 and change some emails of the day emails of the day are sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson and Central Point Family Dentistry.com. You know, if you, even if you're not a patient of Dr. Steve, and of course I am, but I think

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Measure 15-238 puts the cart before the horse. Their hope is that the proposed building projects will stimulate interest in conventions here. The private sector would do this with their own money if Medford created an environment for growth. Medford's building department has a reputation of being almost impossible to work with, and when you combine that with drugs in crime downtown, it's not a place where someone with money wants to really take that chance. the druggies won't drift away because you build a stadium in a conference center. I've spoken to many small businesses that have relocated from downtown Medford to Central Point,

and they tell me they're happy with the move. The safety of their employees was the major concern. Todd, that's a very interesting observation. Well, you can even look at how the Jackson County Republican Party moved its office from downtown Medford, where there were problems with vandalism and the bugs and the abums, rather, and danger and moved over to Central Point. Maybe we're looking at a bit of an exodus, but, hey, they're trying to make it happen, okay? Let's see, what else do we have here?

Oh, Richard writes me this morning, hey, Bill, Portland's been full commie for years. How did that work out for you? All right, Richard, yeah, that was me half joking yesterday, but, okay, well, maybe you give them the commie mayor in New York City, and then we'll never have another commie mayor. It could be, all right? Dennis writes me, Bill, Matt, your recent caller is 100% right on. His experiences from traveling around the country to seminars and conventions matches my own. We have no Tiffany's, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Empire State Building, 40 Broadway theaters,

125 museums for tourists to visit outside convention hours, as the Big Apple does. Nor do we have boat rides through the city of Chicago, plus the great museums like the Art Institute Museum of Science and Industry, shed aquarium, et cetera, as Chicago does. There's no reason for conventions to come to Medford, especially when most of our attractions such as fishing, hunting, and hiking, and snow, shoeing, et cetera, are seasonal. The crowd with useless shopping, discouraging bike lanes,

Main Street is repulsive, not attractive to the majority of individuals with cars. All right, Dennis, I appreciate you emailing. We'll talk more about this. The email, Bill at Billmyers Show.com. We're going to figure out how to do this the best, though, Dennis, okay, because we're going to get it one way or the other. More on conspiracy theory Thursday.