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Episode Date: November 13, 2025

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The government has opened up. The government has opened up. we're saved we're saved actually I haven't noticed much about the government being closed because I guess I'm not on snap benefits I'm not on any Obamacare subsidies

so I guess I just really hadn't noticed a whole lot about the only way the government shutdown the partial government shutdown affected my life is that we have still not uploaded the quarterly reports to the Federal Communications Commission here which is which I saw dearly love. It's like, you know, I love federal paperwork, and we haven't been able to do

that. So now we're going to have to upload it today now that the office is open. So it's a little inside baseball. That's what we broadcasters are going to be busy doing today. Now that the government is open. The government is open. All right. And the price of gold has been soaring. I think they know what's going to be happening with the dollar and the spending deal. We'll talk more about that. Dawn's here, Don. Don, it's Conspiracy Theory Thursday. You want to talk about something. I'm happy to take your call early, and then we'll get to some of the headlines. What's going on, huh? Exactly. Do the FTC reports because you don't feel appreciated enough. Absolutely. Absolutely. In fact, it is, in fact, I would forgo vacation in order to

do my federal, my, no, no, no, Bill Meyer. You'll have your reward. You'll have your reward. That's where you're afraid of. Now, I would like to address, if I may, multiculturalism. Okay. Anytime you find an ism on the end of something, I don't care if it's Mormonism or capitalism, communism, communism. Yes. It carries all the tenets of a religion. And that's how he identifies after all to it, ism. Yeah, okay, you're true.

There is a certain amount of a faith in everything, yes, even the so-called capitalism, communism. Yeah, yeah, I'll concede that point for you, okay, or with you. It's not a very deep point, but as we look at the government's open again, well, that's all about religion, because the real stumbling block, the linchpin for the Democrats, was health care. Now, there is no ancient eternity of health care in history or the world. It's just new. And certainly no constitutional right to it, but they're quickly creating one. At least it feels like that. Now, we dedicate twice as much of our gross domestic product to health care, pursuit of wellness, than any religion wants from its adherence.

So that makes it a certified religion, if you will, and we believe in medication. We believe in doctors. But multiculturalism back again, because in your business at KMED, you need advertisers. that's the uh that's the milk of your operation true so oh the life's blood that said uh how many of your commercials are in spanish uh none that i'm aware of why don't you believe in multiculturalism well i i have to pick a culture and stick with it how about that okay here's where we're going and this this i've shared with so many people i bump into because if i'm watching news. I'm watching a movie. There's a commercial. I love commercials. I saw commercials give us

the hula hoop after all. You never needed the hula hoop, but there was the market demand after. Well, and that's what we have been doing for a long, long time. Yeah, marketing, creating the desire, that kind of thing. Sure. All right, so where are you going with this point here, Don? So all the marketeers from selling widgets or cars, for example. And I'm thinking of one local dealership, and they'll run multiple commercials in Spanish, in the middle of an all English movie or newscast, what have you, the daily run. And now, am I supposed to imagine now we need Spanish commercials, not in English programming? Cantonese, yeah, Spanish.

And you see, that is kind of odd, you know, when you think about it, because is the assumption then that, you know, that person who speaks Spanish is watching a movie in English? Maybe, of course, I don't know, maybe they're watching it on the second audio program, you know, the SAP button, and they're actually getting it in Spanish. But the Google ad placement or whatever it is that they ended up using to get into the streaming service or on the television station, whatever. When I buy the new car. No, all I'm getting at, though, is that we're trying to say, hey, listen, we're down with your culture, okay? We only want dumb buyers that will sit and watch an all-English program waiting for a Spanish commercial.

See, now you can be, you can now be a marketer. You now understand the marketing in multicultural America. How about that? All right. I am consciously boycotting certain, even local businesses who are, who are in, sizable chunks of their, of their, of their net proceeds into advertising that really is a dead end. Okay.

And I don't want to do that. I'm opposed. And also. So you are going to buy, you are going to boycott the places that are putting the Spanish language ads into your English program. I do. And by the way, if you want hardware supplies, there are alternatives. All right.

All right. Advertis. Okay. Well, thank you very much for the conspiracy theory story. Now, what is the theory that you have going with this practice? Oh, he took off. All right. So he kind of flies in and then like a bird.

Boom. All right. That's a great start, right? 18 minutes after 6-7705-633-770 K-M-E-D. All right. Speaking of our various cultures and such, it's all right. What are our top headlines this morning? Central Point Man arrested for sexually abusing.

This is not funny, though. Trust me. Central Point Man has been put in Jackson County Jail, arrested for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl he met on Snapchat. This is coming from the Jackson County sheriffs. They had reports of a guy sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl the other night in a truck parked on the side of Hillcrest Road in Medford on the side of the side of the road. And so sheriff's deputies show up, Medford police show up, and this is just before midnight yesterday morning, and they found the suspect's truck speeding away on the Gandrews.

And so sheriffs and Medford police stopped the vehicle, and they have arrested the suspect. Juan Jose Ramos Argea, a 22-year-old from Central Point, Ramos Argea, charged with first-degree sexual abuse, driving under the influence of intoxicants, marijuana, unlawful delivery of American. marijuana item. He is in Jackson County Jail. And yep, the sheriff's deputies ended up learning that he met the victim on Snapchat. So we have the Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare Division now involved in this one. But you know, you have to have the free speech. Kids have to have Snapchat. They have to have the cell phone and the Snapchat because that is just necessary to be human. So, I mean, what are you going to do? What are you going to do about such a thing. Let's see. What else? City of Metford considers redesigning Main Street downtown after

having redesigned it stupidly. A little while back, right? You know that story, right? K-OBI5 has that story this morning. According to a survey conducted by the downtown Medford Association about two-thirds support changing the current bike lane design. Oh, with the bollards and the ridiculous parking sort of situation. The very regular driver and passenger car or anything kind of unfriendly kind of thing, which is what they've done. So, the city council has deigned to have four possible options. Number one, keep the current layout.

You're insane if you vote for this, by the way. restore the street to its previous design and a standard bike lane on the right side of the roadway because after all the bombs and of course the I don't know metford and Jackson County planning officials who actually ride bicycles to work there's probably two or three of them they they need a way to get to work also and also the fourth option convert main street into a two-way road with bike lanes on both sides bike lanes on both sides so that way that But, you know, for three months out of the year, there will be a way for them to go. And the other nine months, well, I guess it'll be, you know, some homeless person in the bike lane with a rain poncho over his head, probably stolen from Bymart.

But anyway, they have an online survey on the city's website through the end of the month. I'm going to weigh in on this one. Now, you can do what you wish. I'm going to tell them, restore the street to the way it was before. there was nothing broken about Main Street. As it is right now downtown, and the main street is about saying, we want to walkable space. And, of course, what?

Is the average demographic in Oregon, in Medford, Oregon, what, 55 plus? You know, that kind of thing? Oh, yeah, you're going to get people to ride their bike from East Hillcrest. And after they end up going past the Central Point suspected man, you know, abusing the 13-year-old and getting down the hill and then they'll make it into town and then they'll go visit a restaurant. Yep, that's what they're going to do. That's what they were trying to build it for, apparently. I would just say, put it back to the way it was. Mother, make it stop. 7705-633, if you have an opinion on that. Just mother, just make the gangrene

stuff. Stop. Make the nonsense. Stop. You don't have to have bike lanes on the main street they don't have to be on every street in fact it's downtown there are many alternatives put them on alternatives this idea that everything had you know everything has to have a semi and a bike lane you have to be able to drive semi trucks and bike lanes all in the same place everywhere no matter what knock it off oh at twenty miles per hour maximum had they stopped any of the e- scooters though that are doing about forty miles per hour through through town i don't know

And that's something else, but a different question for another time, I suppose. Good morning. It is Conspiracy Theory Thursday. Hi, who's this? Welcome. Hello. Hi. Morning.

Did you read the Daily Courier about Dwayne Yonker using his position to pay his wife? What do you think about that? What do I think about that? I think it is a bunch of nothing. It's a bunch of crap. And this was something that was already talked about before. These are the rules that they have. in the state legislature.

You do know that the state legislature is paid crap, right? Yeah. Okay. And one of the ways that they get around this is that you end up hiring your family of staff, just like State Senator Robinson back in the day, had his son Noah in there and his other son. This is how they do that. This is what they do.

And... Just saying what you think about it. What do I think about it? I think it's a bunch of crap. I think it's a hit piece. Okay. All right. You know, that's what I think. You asked what I thought. And it comes right down to it. You want to know what the real corruption is that the Daily Courier and the Oregonian, which also did this story. In fact, the story may have come from the Oregonian. I don't know. I have not read the version of it in the Daily Courier. But you've noticed that they went only after Republicans. Did you notice that? I did notice that. Okay. Yeah. See, that's what we call in my business a clue. Okay.

I know, but it's called it. It is a symptom of that people seem like they want to just get what they can get to love their country more. That's the way I look at it. What do you mean? They figure out what they, what the rules are, what they can do to get more for themselves to just go there because they love their country. Okay, obviously, you really have no idea what it takes actually, what it takes actually be a state representative or a state center. here, okay? No, I have no idea. Yeah, you're getting paid like $36, $37,000 a year.

And there's a lot of time involved if you're doing your job. Now, there are a lot of the estate reps and senators that do nothing, and all they'll do is just show up during the session. You have people like Dwayne, and there's a handful of others that actually work it, for the most part. And here's the deal. They're trying to make this a big scandal, blow this up a big scandal. Now, Dwayne has talked about this before.

You've got to remember that they're going after the Republicans in the rural areas. The Republicans in the rural areas have to spend more when they go to the state legislature, when they end up going to there because they don't live around there. So they're always driving back and forth. They're always staying in motels. They're always doing these other things where all the liberals living up north in Portland and Salem area don't. Okay? I do get that part, but they do take.

the job or apply for the job or run for the job to make a difference. Yeah. At any cost, make a difference. Okay, but on the other hand, you also have to be able to pay your bills, too. Unless you just only want wealthy people doing it. Now, would you just prefer wealthy people doing it? Well, we do. We live in an oligarchy society.

We do. Well, I assure you, Dwayne Yonker is not an oligarch, okay? I know that. Okay, now, here, you got to understand. is crap, all right? And there was someone else, I think it was Jay Meredith Robey about this, because he was kind of irritated about the same sort of thing. We're in a state of

Oregon in which the head clown of DEI, the DEI head of the state of Oregon, is making three times the amount of money plus of what the governor does. And it's like eight, nine, ten times more than what state rep Yonker

or any of the other state reps are making. And to me, that's the real corruption, Chris, okay? Yeah. It's not how much a family member is making being your aid or your advisor or whether they're, you know, punching in a clock to satisfy the Oregon Live or satisfy the editor of the Daily Courier. That's not it. The real, to me, the real corruption in the state of Oregon is that the non-elected hired help outside of the state legislature is unionized. They're

very politically organized, a lot of influence over the whole system, and they're fattened by your tax money, a lot more. And so the elected ones, especially the rural reps and the senators, are kind of scraping by and trying to find a way to make it pencil, all right? And so... I get it. It's fine. It's fine. Yeah. The last point you made, yeah. Yeah. Just like another talk radio saying, hey, I can make a great living. showing up the hospitals, working for the government, saying what a male, what's the difference between a male and a female is when the babies are born? Because the doctors and nurses,

they just don't know what a male and female is. Yeah, okay. So that's my take on it. And it is just designed. They are, all they're doing is essentially harassing this, you know, harassing these people. And frankly, I think they should be ashamed because it's the same rule. It's the same rule that's in this way for years. Now, you want to change the rule. You can change the rule. And it is just a rule. There's no law breaking going on. If you don't like it, I don't know. Frankly, I think that the governor and the state legislators and senators should be paid more. And then if you want to have a tight control on every single penny going in and out of their office as they take care of help or whatever, then maybe we have a conversation. Until then, I think we just got to shut up about it.

Okay. Thanks for the call. Let me grab one more before news. Hi, good morning. Hello, this is Minor Dave. Yeah, Dave. Go ahead. Yeah. Well, the one good thing about the government reopening is now they reopen the pardon office, so maybe they can start working on my pardon. But what I thought was odd is Trump signed a bunch of pardons when the government wasn't even open. you know, makes me feel like, you know, do I really matter? Well, you're a different kind of pardon, I would imagine. Yeah, well, he was pardoning January 6 people and some people with the...

Yeah, he was pardoning people with higher political profile, I think, is what was going on. Maybe just noticed. Yeah, that's the point I would say. Well, I'll tell you what, maybe when we get our FCC reports in today, they'll finally take a look at your pardon, too. Okay, Minor Dave? Yeah, I'd like that. All right. Good for you.

Thanks for the call. Ken Raposa is going to join me here in a couple of minutes. And he says that he's trying to get the president to actually focus back into America, says there's been a little too much focus overseas. We'll talk about why he thinks that, and that'll be all coming up on the Bill Myers Show on KMED. Your quest for driving excellence leads to Mercedes-Benz of Medford. Celebrate the Pinnacle of Elegant. The Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED.

635. Ken Raposa joins me, long career in the press, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Brazil for six years. Oh, so you were out hanging in a carnival in all those kind of places for all those years. Oh, that's a long story. I wanted to do carnival, but alas, I never got to do it the way I really wanted to. Oh, okay. I was thinking like you were knee-deep in tequila and carnival costumes.

No, tequila. Tequila is Mexico, Brazil would be Koshasa. Oh, but thank you. Thank you. I'm not multicultural enough, okay? But you've been all ever. Currently, though, you are an analyst at the Coalition for a Prosperous America. So you're a trade association, right? You're working on company strategy, that sort of thing? Correct. So we're a member organization, and our members are interested in keeping their business alive in the United States. So we advocate for them on Capitol Hill to make sure that there are policies in place so that they're not replaced by imports from China or unfair competition. Now, you had a piece in The Daily Caller that is making the rounds.

And it's going everywhere. That's why I invited you on. And you're hoping that the president is able to turn attention back to the United States. And I was thinking that, you know, after what's been going on the last few weeks or months, I guess, in Ospozo, after Mom Donnie's election and these shall be. lacking the other week of Republicans over on the East Coast. There's a part of me who was thinking that maybe we just need a really hot chick that says USA and say, President Trump, look over here. You know, that kind of thing.

Look over here. Yeah, I think the story has been over the last two weeks and not, and it really spiked because of the election, even though those elections in Virginia, New Jersey, in New York City, were no surprise, right? Yeah, but the margins were, the margins, I think, were a lot wider than they were expecting. That is true, you'd have to admit. Okay, right. So the margins were a little worse, but the winner was a predictable winner.

Sure. And so then, since that, it's really exploded, but it's been happening since the, probably late summer where a lot of the MAGA base was saying, you know, I wish Trump would, as you say, look over here. It's become a little bit too much of the old-style Republican view on Capitol Hill, where you're just really focused on your foreign. subjects abroad. You're not really focused inward, and that's not what Trump was elected for. Trump was elected on America First agenda. He was elected to promise to focus on issues related to, you know, the American working class, and he had a grand coalition that supported that. And I think that coalition is feeling a little shaky at the moment, wouldn't you agree? Absolutely. Absolutely it is. And it is because of the cost of living issue, which is one of the

reason why, of course, Mom Dani was able to get his message across so easily in New York City. So I think that what Trump really has to do and his surrogates have to do is they've got to come out swinging against the Democrats to explain to his supporters and independence that the cost of living narrative is really a, is more, you know, it's across all 50 states, obviously, but it's particularly difficult in blue cities and blue states. So he really has to do something to put. back against the cost of living narrative, and he has to show, he has to explain to the people, he and his surrogate have to explain to the people what the America First agenda is all about,

because as I say, the Daily Caller piece, that the America First trade agenda is a domestic agenda, but he has to come out and his team to explain it to people. People aren't going to see the results of this overnight, but they're going to get impatient, and if he doesn't address this cost of living issue, we're going to have a problem. He's going to have a problem in the midterms, and he's that party's going to be wiped out in the house. Yeah, and the one thing, I think the one thing that the president can do is talk about, you know, it's really funny. In the first Trump term, he rightly said that the stock market was not the economy.

He says, you know, I don't care what the stock market economy was. And he's right to a certain extent, it's not the real economy, per se. And now that it's been doing so well, and is at these historic highs, well, now he's talking about that all the time. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. You know, a lot of folks in that Trump coalition, they don't really have those assets, do they? Let's be honest about it. Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. And, of course, the stock market is not the economy. And if it was, the stock market's overcharge. You've got stocks like Nvidia, for example, that are trading it 20, 30, 40 times earnings, Palantir, 400 times earnings, unrealistic. In other words, companies that make no money but the speculative, you know, fewer is just there. It's just insane. And, hey, and maybe it will work out. Okay, I'm not knocking, you know, what they might be doing with that someday.

But that's where we find ourselves right now. In fact, a lot of people being forced to pile into the market because of inflation, which is still in the economy. We haven't washed it out for sure. Right. We need deflation. When Americans hear stories like, you know, inflation is only a 2% now. Okay, but that's 2% on top of the 2%, on top of the 9%.

So everybody knows that their electric bill has doubled, especially in blue states. You're talking to me in Massachusetts, my electric bill has risen dramatically. Food costs, of course. We know what's going on with beef prices now. We see what beef prices are up 14 percent over the last 12 months. This is something that happened on the Biden. Now it's happening again on the Trump. But it's numerous reasons for that, of course, related to the supply chain and related to the sanitary issues in Mexico,

so we had live cattle bans. and related to the fact that the United States is important dependent now on beef. Yeah, and there's another one, too, that struck me. Price of new cars has continued to soar, and a lot of that still continues to be based on the federal regulations that require certain things in there, and this is what you've got to do. It has to get so many miles per gallon. It has to yet, yet it's going to be really heavy because it has to be roll over.

I mean, all these kind of things. and there has really been no attack done on the regulatory load on the United States that I'm aware of, unless you do you know, has that been attacked yet? Well, there has been on some levels, you know, in some particular sectors like mining, for example, right? But Scott says keeps talking about, you know, deregulation, and we're not seeing it. Now, on the auto industry, the auto prices, I don't know how much the auto prices have gone up. This might be a relatively new phenomenon on, because earlier it was. And later in the spring and early summer, new car prices were flat.

So I don't know if they're up above inflation. And some of this could be because of tariffs on cars coming in from... And it could be, but, you know, $25,000 is now considered the affordable entry-level car, except there's only a handful of those at this point. Yeah, right. Toyota Corolla with crank windows or something. Yeah, yeah, exactly, that sort of thing. And so there still is an issue, but here, and yet the other challenge,

though, we also know, is that this is like kind of turning, trying to turn the USS Titanic away from the iceberg that we've been heading to for 100 years, wouldn't you say? Isn't that? Oh, absolutely. Yes. I agree. And so back to that, back to the America First agenda, which is, which is about turning the ship away from the iceberg. That is slow, and it's going to take time. But Americans are impatient, and we don't have a lot of time. So We have to have the Longview, which the American First Trade Agenda, using things like sectoral tariffs and trying to encourage investment in the United States to create jobs and protect labor. That's what the America First Agenda is really about. It's about protecting labor, and that's why he got this grand coalition of the working class, right?

Now, wouldn't you say, speaking of protecting labor here, Ken, Ken Raposa once again with me, wouldn't you say that that was a rather serious misstep to get into a dust up with Lori? Ingram on Fox, you know, over the H-1B, 600,000 Chinese students in that, and that if we, and we have to do it because there's no talent here, we don't have talent, we don't have this talent. It's like, oh, my gosh, my jaw dropped when I heard that. Yeah, I did not see the, I did not see the episode. And of course, as we know, someone who's worked in media, like, you know, you work in the media, I work in the media, we always, once we see it, we hear about it, and then taking out of context, and we don't know everything how it was said.

What I heard later on, actually, was that what he said was that we need to bring in H-1B because there are some jobs, you know, Americans can't fill, right? But he wasn't saying all of it. But I will say this. It wasn't bad. It was a bad look for sure. Yeah. Well, the other thing, though, is that.

But the H-1B visa is a scam, Ken. It is a scam because the part that they don't talk about here, and even Laura Ingram didn't mention this. it's a lottery. It's not the H-1B, which is like the best and the brightest. It's, you know, a pool of people from Bangalore and China, you know? Absolutely, absolutely. And he's not being told this.

He's not being told this by the likes of guys like Elon Musk and all the Czech bros that surround him. He's being told that we need to import Sheldon Cooper's. We don't have enough Sheldon Cooper's, you know, the Big Bang guy, right? We don't have enough Sheldon Coopers. We need more of them, and they're all in Bangalore, and they're all in, all in Asia. But the reality is that Americans might not mind if we're importing Sheldon Coopers, but we're not importing Sheldon Coopers. We're importing NGO finance directors. We're importing marketing specialists. We're importing low-level IT solutions guys. These are the guys who are

not H-1B visas, not the rocket scientist that we don't have enough of in the United States. But we're told, we're sold that we're getting the rocket scientist. You know, there's a separate visa for those rocket scientists, the people who are truly superior, and those are the ones we should be bringing in. I'm good with that, really. I think all Americans are good with that. There was a video circling the other day at Palmer Lucky on that I saw on X, where he was talking about what he saw onto the H-1B visa scam in Silicon Valley

and who they're hiring. And again, they're just hiring, you know, mid-level to low-level, you know, computer scientists, right, coders and so on. And that is about Chinese and Indian tribes being developed in the United States and, you know, Silicon Valley is an example, has turned into that. And there is an ethnic tribalism to it. You can't deny it. And I don't know why we're supposed to deny this, what we're seeing.

Well, if you walk around Wall Street today, it's very different than what it looks like, but it looked like even in the early 2000s. I mean, it's loaded with Chinese and Asians of all ages, you know, ages. And, you know, they're working in all the big investment firms there. So they're probably not traders. that they're probably working on the IT side or their algorithm fund, no managers, and so on. But it's – Yeah, and meanwhile, MAGA's STEM graduate that they spent tens of thousands of dollars putting through college

is working as a barista for Starbucks someplace, right? Right, and that is going to really take people off, and it is taking people off. NAPE visa has been an issue for a long time, and Trump, you know, these are things that Trump has to watch out. Is surrogates have to come out and say, hey, look, yeah, maybe he, maybe he sort of said this. But, you know, it's hard to say that against Trump, because Trump's an alpha, and he's going to come out and say, no, that's not what I meant. I meant this exactly, you know, he's hard to correct. You know, when Trump is the, when it comes to politics, Trump is obviously the head of MAGA. So it's very, he doesn't have a lot of surrogates that can come out and say things.

Because if they say something that Trump disagree with, then he'll just come out and say, you know, they're wrong. They're a kook. They're crazy. Look at MTV, Marjorie Taylor Green, for example. She's, you know, a very outspoken critic of Trump, but she's a big supporter of the America First Agenda. Don't you find it interesting that the ones that are being, well, don't you find it interesting, though, that the ones that are supporting, truly supporting the American First Advisor or agenda are the ones being targeted for being primary. Exactly. Exactly.

This is a losing strategy. This is a losing strategy. And it's unfortunate. And it's unfortunate. And there's a lot of Republicans we know on Capitol Hill that are fine with it. They're just waiting out Trump, been waiting out Trump for years. And he's not going to, you know, as much as some of his acolytes say, he's not going to run for office again three years from now. And so, you know, these guys are just waiting him out and hoping that, you know, the replacement is bombastic as Trump.

Okay, so are you telling me, I'm going to use a stereotypical, you know, a deal from the 90s in 2000. So is the kind of squishy country club Republicans, so to speak, or? Chamber of Commerce Republican. They're just trying to weigh him out, essentially, which is why there's not as much pushback. Is that what you're telling me, Ken? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. They're trying to weigh him out. You have, you have, you know, the Republican Party right now is, realistically, is the MAGA party. It does not win without MAGA. Right. Right. No one is voting for the country club Republican. I mean, they will, of course, they will, but that's a vote against the Democrats, right? Those are the guys who are just voting against Democrats, realistically,

or they are part of the country club set. So, you know, but the MAGA coalition, the people who really bring Trump in and get historic victory when he won last year, those guys aren't going for the country club Republican. They don't want to hear about ballrooms. They don't want to hear about Trump's dinner last night with the heads of KKR and private equity in Manhattan. That's not of interest to them.

Yeah, and nor do we care about him standing on stage with Larry Ellison and all the other tech bros that want to. slice and dice us up for tech surveillance. You don't get in that? Correct. Of course. Yes. That's not an attractive look. But he can do those things, and of course the president has to do those things because this is the

donor class you're dealing with, right? These are the power structure of the United States, and it's hard to just ignore it. But on the other hand, while he's doing those things, he has to give wins to his base, big wins. And he has to talk about what he's doing. And again, that's where his surrogates come in, like James or even, you know, Marjorie Taylor Green, right?

If he's not going to pick on her and explain, we understand the cost of living issue. This is a big, big issue. We understand this issue. Here's, you know, here's where prices are rising. That's not our fault that electricity prices are rising in Massachusetts or New York City. That's not a federal issue. That's the state. Housing.

Okay. We have to do it. We have to get a lot of these immigrants out here, honestly, because they're all competing for housing. They're competing for housing. That's something that doesn't get mentioned very often in the blue hive mines. It doesn't. Well, you can't be, you can't be worrying about cost of living, but at the same time, be a fan of open borders, which has you compete with imported labor for housing. You can't be all in favor of the old 80s free trade, which has your labor competing with imports, competing with labor in Mexico and Asia, which you will never compete with them because. They make $10 to $20 an hour less than you. So, you know, you can't – if you want to have costs come down, and that might not ever happen, then you have to be supportive of product policies that make wages go up. Okay.

What is an example of a – the America's the first agenda. Yeah, wages going up, not just the market going up. Yeah, yeah, exactly, wages going up for a reason here. So what do you think is the – would be the – easiest win that is attainable by the Trump administration over the next few months, because pretty soon you know we're going to be shifting into midterm election mode. And unfortunately, nothing big tends to happen during those kind of years, right, when people are running for re-election. Right. Wow. Well, I think one of the easiest wins right now is going to be to

address the issue of cost of living and put the Democrats up. on their back because they're, the cities and states that they govern are the ones where the cost of living is highest. He also has to address that a lot of the cost of living is related to services, and that's not stuff that's really in the hands of Washington. But it's going to be tricky because one of those services that is a problem is health care and health insurance. So I really don't have a solution for him in the near term, like some magic button that he

could push that all of a sudden the cost. loss of living issue is going to disappear. It's not going to disappear. But so what he has to do is he has to explain why prices are rising, where they're rising, and what he's doing to counter it. Okay. And not make it just, and not make it so that, oh, this is only a Democratic city problem. Right. Because the guy who lives in. Yeah, you don't want to blame the Democrat victims, right? The victims of Democrat policy. Exactly. You can't just do that. Because again, like I said, the person who's listening to this, to this show, who's in the interior of Oregon, probably a very red part of Oregon. They're going to say, well, it's rising for me, too, and I'm surrounded by Republicans

over here. My governor or my mayor is, so, you know, you have to explain to them what's rising, again, services, right, not related to the America. So in other words, you can't make it, you have to fight back against the idea that it's because of the America First policy, the tariffs, right? You've got to fight that, because that's going to be, that's going to be a narrative. Yeah, that will be held up as the reason for it from the other side. So you've got to push back against that, and you're going to explain where the costs are and what you can do to fix it. I mean, it's not going to be something that can happen quickly overnight. There's a lot of regulatory moves that have to be made, and, you know, you have to hope on things like markets going in your direction, like oil and gas prices coming down, but that's not going to change electric rates in Massachusetts, for example.

You know what I mean? So it's, it's, you know, you've got an investigation going on now into beef companies about cartelization of beef. So I suspect beef prices will have capped and probably start coming down. So that'll be some relief. But, you know, there's this, the issues, like I said, of health insurance and car insurance. And, of course, if you're living in blue cities and blue states, you've got all these taxes and regulations that are rising. And those are, you're being nickel and dined that way, too. So that all adds to the, that quietly adds to the cost of living.

Yeah, I will, can talk about often. And to your point, though, about health insurance, I was digging into the hard numbers in Oregon for, you know, those Obamacare subsidies that are expiring the end of this year, that the Democrats were supposedly, you know, dying on this hill, you know, shutting down the government for this purpose. I have to tell you, those were huge subsidies. Huge. I couldn't believe it either. You know, and they took off, they took all of the income caps off of them when they passed that law during a. COVID a few years ago, and you could have a family of four making $90,000 a year in Oregon, and they would be getting $15,000 of tax credits back for buying an Obamacare deal.

So all that was doing was just covering up the fact that Obamacare is a dead issue, man. It ain't affordable, you know, unless the taxpayers are writing huge checks for it. I mean, a $90,000 family was getting that. much money back. I couldn't believe it. It's a while. Right. And yeah, so that that's a problem. And I don't, honestly, I hold up no hope that that is something that gets fixed by the Trump administration. Because again, look, even imagining a Gavin Newsom White House, let's assume he does exactly what, he's just going to do exactly what Obama did, which is where we are now, which is the 15, which is, in other words, just keep doing the, uh, the substance.

then, which we can't do. Well, I think we know now why the price of gold and silver has exploded since the governor, since the government has announced it, it's reopening, because they know what's going to happen with the spending. They know that, don't they? Don't they can? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. By gold or by Bitcoin or whatever it is. I guess so. We have, we have to figure out a way to cut government spending. Of course, that's an old Republican talking point, but Americans need to, Americans can handle inflation if their wages are up. No one in America cares if beef costs $8 if they went from making $50,000 a year to $60.

But if they went from 50 to 52 and beef now costs $8 and insurance is up from $200 a month to $500 a month. Yeah, then it's a problem. Freeing services are $90 to $150 and their cell phone was $90, now is $150. No, that's not. That's not success. Indeed. And it's not America first. And it's stagnation.

And it's a big problem. It's a big problem politically. and it's a big problem for, you know, social economic stability in the United States going forward. I'll be curious to see how they end up threading this economic needle in 2026 for sure. Ken Raposa, great up, and I'm going to link to this. I'll have you back there from the Coalition for Prosperous America. And what's the website for the coalition, by the way? And we are at prosperousamerica.org.

All right. Ken, thanks for the talk. Good one. Good having you on. Thank you. Be well. 657, KMED, KBXG, and you're on the Bill Meyer show. Hi, this is Lisa from Kelly's Onomot Service.

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Oh, by the way, I had a Rogue River school district mother reach out to me overnight. We're going to talk with her a little bit later around the... 30 and apparently rape scene cartoon history or something like that being taught in a seventh graders classroom. Mother's really upset about this

and we'll get her story coming up and I watched the video in question. It was actually on YouTube. You actually see it on YouTube and it was kind of like animated like a bad episode of The Simpsons. You know, it was

That was kind of the animation of it, but yeah, you know, naked guy, rape scene with a female. It was illustrating an old German myth in history class, and I don't get it, but we'll see what the school district says about this. I know they're already doing an investigation, but we'll have more on that story coming up at 830, okay? Crazy Gene, it's conspiracy theory Thursday. It's your day. Morning. Well, by God, it is a good morning, I guess. I haven't really looked out the window yet.

Yeah, give you your hot take of the day, huh? Well, I was just thinking that the Piat money system, the fake money, is dying, and I think we got maybe six more months, and then none of it will work, and it will be worth what it really was all with us, all the time is nothing. Well, the main thing is, though, will they end up going to tokens, a central bank digital currency type of thing, programmable money? That would be the danger coming out of any crisis. But, you know, people have been saying the Fiat system would just, was going to die for, oh, I don't know about the last 100 years.

So maybe they'll be right. But I don't see that happening quite yet. Thanks, Gene. Let me go to Matt. Matt, good to having you on. What's up? Hey, well, great interview. You know, I would say on prices.

You and I touched on this, I think, yesterday. But the thing on prices, you do have structural issues like the Packer Cabal. for beef. I have an acquaintance who owns two rather large cattle ranches, one in Texas, one in New Mexico. He's been talking about this for five or six years, that there was too much consolidation in that business that it allowed for price controls. Anytime you have too much consolidation, that's what you end up with. I remember back in, I think it was the 80s, when oil companies began buying each other and snatching each other up. I'm seeing the same thing with cell phone companies, by the way. We have, there is a lot more monopolistic behavior in our economy

today than there was when we were growing up. And I don't know what changed to do that, Matt. And whether it's, you know, social media companies, internet providers, it's, it feels like we're continuing to kind of stumble toward the, I know, the universal, there is just one giant corporation overall. And I don't want to sound like Bernie when I say this, but you can't help. but notice that, can't you? Hey, listen, I've said this for decades. If you get the extreme left and then you get the extreme right and you were to make a ring on your death,

they join each other at the back end. Yeah. And that joining is with, you know, people saying, hey, we need a living wage. We need to have affordable housing. We need to have all of these things. Because that's about societal stability is what you're talking. talking about, right? That's right. And there's a lot of agreement there, which is why you had guys

like Joe Rogan go from being a Bernie supporter to a Trump supporter, right? So there was a lot of crossover there. You had the Bernie bros where all of a sudden voting for Trump and people like, what are you doing? And these guys are saying, look, you can't afford anything. Everything's expensive. But on that topic, ultimately, consumers are on the front line of defending prices. I mentioned this the other day. If beef is too expensive, you move to another protein source. But you see, what you're doing, though, is that you're doing what the Fed likes to do to us when they calculate the cost of living. It's like, well, it's substitution.

So inflation's really not that bad because that grocery didn't really go up because they took the steak they were going to buy and replaced it with an Oscar Meyer turkey weiner. You know, that kind of thing. Well, both things are true, though. both things are true you can see the price of things overall if you look the price of beef yeah it's gone up but if you look at the price of protein overall maybe not so much or maybe the prices have actually come down i know eggs are a lot cheaper now than they were two years ago so this is this is how consumerism works this is how well i'm not going to call it a free market because i'm not sure how much of that we have but consumers are in control if you look at cell phones

I've been shopping around for a new cell phone plant. Obviously, I'm talking to you on my phone now because I went and got a new phone. And by the way, thank you for getting that because you sound great. All right. My wife said the same thing, by the way, on that. But the way I see it is T-Mobile owns SprintMobile, MintMobile, and now U.S. cellular. But you have companies like Pure Talk, and within T-Mobile, MintMobile, you can buy a year's contract with Mitt Mobile for $20 a month with 15 gigs of data.

So if people, I said this with health care when I mentioned the MRI I had to have, $1,500 at the hospital, $9.50th, at the surgeon, $780 at the Radiology Center. If people know what their options are, in fact, I would take it to baseball cards. I used to be a collector and a buyer and a seller. Once you had eBay, it made it tougher because you knew what a Ken Griffey working card was worth by looking on eBay. There was no gray market there where people really weren't sure what that's worth today. You put it on an exchange like eBay, and now everybody knows exactly what it's worth. Yeah, but we don't have that really with health care like we should.

That's right. We need price transparency. People need to know. Well, first of all, you can shop. People don't know it or they don't know how to go about it. And it's also, and frankly, it's a lot of work, I must tell you, you know, if you've ever tried to get into this. And if you have have insurance, you are limited in your ability to go outside of those networks. And one of those challenges, I think, comes from the racket of the health care providers and the benefit managers. When they have, they'll cut a deal for a special rate for the MRI with the hospital system, but you don't get that. You know, to me, the price should be the price. If you're charging it for this, it should be that way for anybody who's paying cash.

No, you know what I'm getting at. Maybe you have to charge more for insurance, you have to charge more for insurance because there's paperwork involved that's not there for, for a cash patient. But you see what I'm getting at, you know, the... A few years back, I went through a bit of a health issue, and it lasted for months. I had to have a cat scan for my body to check for something. And they said you get a, I think it was a 10 or 15% discount at the hospital if you pay on the way out the door. Right. And it was a pretty sizable bill.

I offered to pay. They said, oh, we don't know how much it's going to cost. We won't know for a few days. So I called a few days later. And I said, hey, I want to go ahead and pay that bill to get that discount. And because I have high deductibles like a lot of people do. And they said, oh, we're not able to offer that discount because you had to pay on the way out. But you wouldn't let me pay on the way out. Exactly. The whole system, I'll leave you with one more thing here. I actually call the talk about some irony with Chuck Schumer and his seat. But I remember I got a concussion once, and like I said, I told you this yesterday, and it cost my parents $20. And I remember the doctor, he was a little short Jewish guy, sweet as could be. They got right in.

My mom got me there as soon as I woke up, she had me in, and it was all taken care of. I heard somebody talking the other day on TV about, remember house calls, well, I'm not old enough to have experienced a house call. Yeah, me too. We need to re-engineer, go back, and look at, okay, we were here at one point, how did the medical system operate, and then how did we get here? I mean, you have private practices. They're all being funneled in the hospitals. It's the same thing you just said. It's all about, you know, all these things coming together, putting it under the single lever of power, as I like to call it.

Yeah. You know, there's something else that wanted to mention here. I got a role right now. I'm running a little late, but I appreciate this. You ever read Lou Rockwell? No. Okay. You should.

There is an article that goes right down to what you are talking about. And I was going to mention this. And it was from a guy who I spoke to a while back. But he's in Hawaii, so the timing is really bad to do the morning show for me, right? His name is Charles Hughes Smith. He has an article up there today on Lou Rockwell.com. Did the solution solve the problem or did it just make somebody right? rich. And he was talking about, well, he was just using today how our economy is dominated by

marketing and monopoly because that's what generates big profits. Now, did the solution solve the problem, were to make somebody a lot of money? And he goes into the overweight obesity kind of situation, and that it was rare in the 1960s. And now you got about 70% of the people, you know, fat is houses. Okay? That's the way it goes. And so the solution being offered is the GLP or those drugs, you know, the OZEPA-type things. That's the solution they're talking about, oh, $149 a month or something, lots of side effects. But is it the best solution, or is it a solution to the problem of how to generate higher medical profits? The obvious line of inquiry, he writes in this, and that's why I want to suggest this to you, is to ask, why were we healthier 60 years ago, and then try to replicate those conditions.

See what I'm getting at? Yeah, reverse engineering. Yeah, exactly. Bill, I said this, I'll leave you this. I said this about the county, Josephine County. They should go back and look at why we formed the county, what were the initial services provided, and let's start from there and say, did we really need all the things we've added since then. Yeah, unfortunately, a lot of those may have been added by state Fiat, but yeah, point well taken to that.

Matt, appreciate the call. Thank you for that. We'll have you back, as always. This is KMED, KMED, H.D1, Eagle Point, Metford, KBXG, Grants Pass. Speaking of surviving the insurance world, If you are in Medicare, you know that annual enrollment.