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Episode Date: November 21, 2025

11-21-25_FRIDAY_6AM

The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Good morning. Chili start to the day. Yeah, it's freezing. Give yourself a little bit of extra time this morning. This was the first time coming out in the front yard and going and getting into the truck this morning.

That, yeah, it was icy. And, you know, it was one of those things where, okay, where did I put the stupid scraper? You know, the scraper gets, you know, shoved in the side pocket there for a while, and you're using it all winter, and then summer comes, and it's taking up space, and I think I threw it in the back someplace. I'll have to dig that out, but yeah, you'll have to dig it out this morning, and maybe even a little bit of fog where you are, and it is definitely a chilly start. And we've actually, in our neighborhood, by the way, is we have taken on a couple of cats that are neighbors. neighborhood strays and ferrels, because for some reason, our area, East Medford, tends to, I don't know if people think that because we're close to Roxy and the parks or the open space that people dump cats. And I don't know who these people are that dump cats and dogs. I don't see the problem with the dogs as much. It's mostly the cats. Maybe the coyotes in the neighborhood end up taking out the dogs or maybe animal control ends up taking care of that.

but we have them and so we have a couple of them one's named Bell and she's pretty strong and young and a female someone had fixed her at some point though we called her Bell because she had the cone on her head but we know that she was obviously fixed by somebody and then just still released out there

has the clipped ear and everything like that and so you know she's feral but you know doesn't have a home so yeah we'll feed them a little bit And then there's another one which has come by recently, and we call him punky. He's a young male, obviously not fixed, though, but he got into some horrible fights who look at it. It looks like a dog fighter, a coyote bike.

We have a lot of coyotes in our East Netford neighborhood, rather. And so he's been hanging around the back. And I guess for some reason they know that, you know, the Cat Socialism Club, you know, At our house, I think the note went out somehow the way cats communicate or whatever. So punky ends up showing up. And, of course, you go out there and he's hissing and hissing and hissing at you, right? He say, wait a minute, I'm here to feed you, idiot. But, you know, this is what they do.

But he's hurting. And so we ended up getting one of these cat houses. And we have another one coming probably for Bell just in case, you know, because we just don't like seeing animals suffering if we can help. But we feel the same way about humans, too. But, you know, you take care of what you can. And so we ended up getting one of these houses that has a low-watt heating pad in it for this cold weather. And we sat up the other day.

And Punky, the male, has actually been bleeding. And you could just tell that he could actually use some veterinary health. But there's no way you're going to get him, right? You don't ever have those kind of things. And so we ended up putting out a box with a cat bed in it and just a towel in it. And then he was sitting in that at first. And then the cat house came. And so we set the cat house up on a table, you know, behind the kitchen window.

And we didn't know if either of them were going to use it. And then yesterday morning, when it started getting cold in the morning, we're going out there and Punky figured it out. and Punky didn't just stay in there all night. Punky stayed in there all day, only getting down to eat a little bit of food, eat some food, drink some water, and then he was right back into the heating pad on that. So, you know, it's one of those stories where you can't take care of all the problems in the world and you try to take care of the problems that you can. It's like that old parable about the starfish, you know, the guy out on the coast,

and there's all these starfish that have beaten. themselves and there's one guy's going and he's throwing each starfish back in and one person say what are you doing there you know you can't save these people it just doesn't matter and he says well it matters to this one boom and maybe that's the way we have to you know to look at whether it's wildlife uh showing up in our backyard or whether it's a a homeless person that you get to know a little bit and um and you give her or him a meal and talk and find out what's going on and Maybe you get him a motel room. I remember I used to do that.

There was the very famous elderly homeless person. This was back before the homeless crisis was a thing, maybe about 10, 15 years ago. They had been longer than 15 years ago, but Jeanette Royer was her name. You may remember her elderly woman. They called her the white glove woman. And she had a bit of a mental problem. You knew she had that. and she would come up and say, hey, could you buy me a meal?

She'd actually ask for food. She was an elderly woman, but she was always kind of elegantly dressed for a homeless person. Always had these white gloves. That's why they called her the white glove lady. And so, yeah, I'd be in Burger King or McDonald's or something. Sure, come on in. She'd have a cup of coffee, and we'd sometimes shoot the breeze. And I'd say, Jeanette, do you have any place to live?

well no I'm out of my social security this month and then there was the cheap motel across the street from McDonald's there's Barnett at that time and so I'd buy her a room and then other people would buy her rooms all sorts of things she was kind of like the the stray human you know at that point it was being adopted by all sorts of folks around southern Oregon when she passed away there at one point she passed away and I remember went to the church downtown Medford they had her a few funeral and there's probably a hundred people there that had talked about how they had all been off and on we had all been contributing to this this one elderly woman who was uh was homeless and was just a a sweetheart and she was like our stray cat you know the and everybody was chipping in and everybody thought that they were the only one that was uh was helping out and oh okay you helped too you helped too really funny story i remember you know jeanette royer was her day Actually, I guess she had originally come from Seattle, but I've been down here for quite some time. But between that and Punky and Bell and all the rest of it, now that it's cold, well, try to stay warm and stay fed, especially as we're heading into Thanksgiving week.

Linda's already starting to do that by, you know, this is like Linda's Super Bowl. When someone's a foodie and someone's a great cook like Linda is, I mean, that's the whole thing. Okay, where's the turkey? Where's the cranberry? The main thing is cranberry. And Linda hates turkey. Linda hates foul. She does not like foul, but she knows she has to cook for the folks.

We're going to get ready for that. And a lot of that prep will be done this weekend, no doubt, getting ready for my mother coming over next week. And speaking my mother, she's going to go to get cataracts on Monday. So I'll tell you how that ends up working on Tuesday, one eye at a time, right? So maybe she'll be able to see the turkey. I'm hoping for the good stuff. All right. Let me see.

What do we got going on? And wow, we had a carjacking downtown Medford yesterday, North Riverside, about 1130s where this happened. And Medford police reporting a young guy approaches a woman. He's armed, has a gun, demands the car. Fortunately, the woman wasn't hurt. And then the cops found the stolen vehicle abandoned near Riverside and McAndrews. So they got a description to the suspect and got a perimeter around that area. they found the kid, the alleged kid, you know, entering target.

And then they say that he discarded evidence there. This is the claim, Rogue Valley Times and other news stories reporting that this morning. Officers recovered the firearm, additional items inside the store. Image from surveillance were distributed. And so they ended up picking up this kid, this juvenile. And, yeah, he's in lockup right now. Don't know the whole story. And, of course, you're not going to know as much because for some reason,

when you commit bloodthirsty crimes or potential bloodthirsty crimes as a kid. We're not supposed to know because, you know, reasons. All right, so we have that story going on. What else do we have happening? State election officials, this is in Capitol Chronicle, this one making me chuckle a little bit. State election officials in letter ask if they were misled by the Trump administration. These secretaries of state, that would include our secretary of state.

Tobias Reid in a letter to top Trump administration officials say they're concerned that the administration must led them about how it would use voter data collected from their states. The letter released this week is addressed to Pam Bondi, USAG, Christy Noem from Department of Homeland.

Department of Justice overseen by Bondi in recent months has demanded voter information. The information would allow the DOJ to evaluate state compliance with federal vote. voting laws. Now, federal officials later acknowledged that the DOJ shared voter role information with Homeland Security to search it for non-citizens as a way to scrub aliens from the voter roles. Now, these secretaries of state, including ours, expressing immense concern about how this information is being shared and they see clarity on whether DOJ and DHS actively

misled election officials regarding the use of voter data. Now, I would ask you, is this actually misusing the data? Because federal election law is very clear that you have to be a American citizen. You have to be here legally an American citizen to be able to vote in elections. They've made that pretty clear. But if you happen to notice that they're not supposed to be on the voter rolls and that they are illegal aliens and not here presently, You're not supposed to share it with anybody else, right?

You know, that's the, you know, the conceit that the Secretary of State just like, well, you know, yeah, you could use it to change that, but don't use it to sick ice on them, essentially, is what they're saying. Once again, our Secretary of State and all the other Democratic Secretary of State are in love with the wrong demographic group, in my opinion. Grants Pass Daily Courier, all Medford Police officers. officers will be wearing body cams, carrying tasers. Metford City Council approved a $7.5 million, $10-year contract with Axon Enterprise.

This includes non-patrol officers, so don't lip off to the community service officers. They could tase you, okay, and they'll have a camera. So if you're behaving badly, not that you would do this. I know that you wouldn't do that. But just in case, so we're going to spend some more money on that. Shady Cove, this in Rogue Valley. times. Shady Cove Interim City Administrator quits after only one month on the job. Now, it's not quite as much as

Rob Fields. Rob Fields is here 14 months and then quits, but wow, one month gone. Looks like there's a little bit of drama going on down at the city of Shady Cove. They hired an interim city administrator for the second time in the past month following the November 16th resignation of city administrator pro tem Dale Shattuck. So Dale's the one who quit. And Shadax was a career government employee hired in October to keep the city running after

Michelle Perry, who was the city administrator, placed on leave October 17th, third-party investigation there. And apparently there, well, Shattacks ended up telling Rogue Valley Times, apparently there's kind of alluding to a lot of personnel problems or a lot of personal problems. In other words, I guess the city council in Shady Cove is really just a grown-up version of, what is it, 7th grade student council, that kind of thing. That person was mean to me. I don't know if that's the case. I know that former mayor John Ball, you know, he's, I said, John, could you talk to me about what was actually happening in the city cove?

And I think he's just trying to stay, just stay out of it because, you know, he's gone and he doesn't. I don't blame him, but, you know, we see a little bit of this in many of our political structures here in Southern Oregon, don't we? Let's see. Who else has quit lately? Well, okay, well, here's one who was forced to quit. Oregon Live reporting. City of Portland is paying the once celebrated housing director. The housing director, and her name is Helmy Hissarich, director, director, director.

the Portland Housing Bureau. This is the person making sure that people weren't going to be unhoused, that sort of thing. By the way, there's a picture of Helmi. I'll hold it up to this Facebook Live. She has the classic liberal, shall we say, the uniform. There's the smart girl, big glasses, the ones that look like you took Plato, multicolored Play-Doh and formed it into really thick glasses. You know, that seems to be the really look that the liberal women are wearing right now.

really, really thick affected. So this way, it's almost like, you know, it's even better than a Subaru for visualizing or sending the visual thing like, yes, I am a progressive. But there she is. She's out. And they're paying her $241,000 to quit. I couldn't even imagine being paid $241,000 to stay. But, boy, to get $2.00, to get a quarter of a million dollars to quit.

Isn't that cool? Man, that is great. It's great to be a progressive in Oregon, that's for sure. This is the Bill Meyer Show, 626. Hi, this is Lauren Hap 28. This is Randall with Advanced Air, and I'm on KMED. All right, as we're getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, new report exposes Muslim Brotherhood plan to infiltrate the United States.

Oh, you don't say, right? After that, those reports I was talking about yesterday with their Bournistan, how people are getting a little concerned about the takeover. Fox News reporting a prominent global research center, releasing a comprehensive report on what it says, is a multi-generational campaign by the Muslim Brotherhood to transform Western society from within and covertly infiltrate the United States.

I don't know if it's all that covertly these days, do you? 200-page report released by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy this week, draws from internal Muslim Brotherhood documents, such as the 1982 project and the 1991 explanatory memorandum. It makes the case that Western freedoms have been systematically, systematically, rather, leveraged to advance Islamist ideological goals as the group continues its five-decade plan. Do you think you could imagine, would you have ever imagined, I guess, if you had even been talking about this back in 1990 or 1980,

probably people would have been calling you, well, you're just an Islamophobic, you know, something like that, right? That's probably be the way it would be done. You think anyone could have imagined that a good portion of one of our states, actually multiple states, are now becoming, you know, essentially Islamic outposts, Minnesota, Minnesota of all places. That's the Somali presence, right? And by the way, the Somali presence now, we're trying to understand, you know, ripping off the welfare programs, too, on that matter.

But they're Bornistan and Michigan, various other things. You know, immigration policy ends up being your demographic future. You import the third world. You're importing the third world and it's various takes on things. But I know that will we figure this out completely? will even are our left-wing folks that run the state of Oregon, the ones that have those big Play-Doh glasses like I was talking about. All cultures are perfectly and equally valid.

Will they come to their senses before we end up hearing the stories here in the state of Oregon that are much like what they're dealing with over in Switzerland, Sweden, various other Nordic countries in which they were holding up their signs. Migrants welcome! of them, and then the rape gang start, right? Hopefully we figure that out and we're a little smarter about it. I don't know what we do with what's here right now, though. 631, we'll catch up on the rest of the news here in just a moment.

Oh, big tech. Big tech tried to keep the kids, well, continuing to keep them on the progressive plantation with the indoctrination and censoring other views here, too. We'll talk about that here a bit from MRC folks. If you're looking for a new vehicle that is the epitome of driving excellent. KMED. 637-7-0-6-3-3 to join in. It is a bit of open phone time.

You know, find your phone Friday kind of thing. Keeping up the rush tradition, too. On top of the other news going on, 7705633-770 KMED. People riding me this morning, you know, I was just talking about, you know, putting up a cat house and waiting for another cat house to come in for the feral cats in the backyard because it's getting cold. and we don't like seeing any of the animals, whether they're dogs or cats hurting, but it seems to be cats that wander our particular neighborhood. And I guess maybe there's less dog dumping than there is cat dumping that is going on.

At Tanya writes me about that, it says, Hey, Bill, I have five feral cats hanging around my house. I'd love to know where you got your cat house from. Well, I'll try to get that specifically at Tanya. I ended up just getting a couple of them in various online sources, just trying to find a good price because, you know, we didn't want to break our bank here. It's amazing how much you can spend for some of these feral cat houses.

And maybe what I'd like to do is try to find if there's anybody making them or producing them here locally. I would much rather buy it local than, hey, hey, China. Okay, Yankee boy, here's your China house cat. Has AI chip embedded to surveil you? I don't think my cat house is surveilling. It looked like a pretty plain, just every day, you know, kind of heating pad in there. You know, a little heating pad with the cover on it.

But, yeah, I would much prefer to buy them locally, and I would prefer not to have to pay $100 for them, which is where some of the pricing that I would see is like, okay, wait a minute, a couple. Maybe I'm just going to have to start building some. That could be the next thing. Maybe that's the next thing. Maybe I should actually get the saw out and get a little bit of lumber.

But anyway, Tammy also writes me this morning, too. Morning, Bill, I heard this morning about you taking care of a couple of feral kitties. I just wanted to say, I appreciate you doing that. I volunteer for rogue community cat rescue, and it truly does take a village for these cats. There's a lot of people trapping and dumping cats. The feral cat population in this valley has just gone absolutely nuts. the good about your kitty with the clipped ear is

and that way it cannot contribute to the population any longer I appreciate that Tammy so somebody actually spent the money and clipped this female cat and we called her bell because she had the cone around her there for a little while oh it's bell you know like the bell around the head

but I know she doesn't have a home because she hangs out around our place all the time and you know they figure out like I said I guess it must be like a little cat, a little bit of a cat party line type thing or cat info there. Hey, you know, good meals over there. Although we buy the cheap cat food, I will confess about that. I used to joke about one cat in our neighborhood, not so special kitty. You go to Walmart, they have special kitty.

Well, we call it not so special kitty. And then we gave it to the cat over in Jacksonville, Boswell. We fed that cat for 10 years. He finally ended up passing away. We know during one of those zero-degree kind of nights that we had. Remembering one of those winters about eight, nine, ten years ago. And we know he passed away at that point. He was sick.

You could tell. But, you know, something was going to get him at one point. We gave him a whole bunch of other years. But if anybody knows where they're making good quality cat houses locally, just let me know. 7705-6-3-3-7-70 K-M-E-D. Let's see. Some of the other news going on this morning.

Hmm. Mamdani is going to meet with Trump today. Oh boy, that ought to be a pretty interesting thing here. Trump calls him the communist mayor of New York City. Mr. Mamdani, a Democratic socialist. I just want to speak plainly to the president about what it means to actually stand up for New Yorkers in the way in which New Yorkers are struggling to afford this city. And, of course, you know, New Yorkers usually means a lot of illegal aliens, too.

and I'm sure Mom Dani is, you know, perfectly happy with this one. I'll be curious to see where this goes because when it comes right down to it, Mom Dani can talk big, but I don't know if he could actually tax his people any more than they're already being abused by the New York City system, that kind of thing. And so he's definitely going to be looking to mend relationships with President Trump because President Trump representing Uncle Sugar, you know, Do you really want to screw up with the grant stream funding, which probably goes to backfill a lot of what happens in the New York City budget? So that'll be an interesting story to watch. All right. This is the one that really, this is the one that really has me going this morning.

I'm kind of wondering about this. Group of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence background, release of video this week urging service members, to refuse illegal orders. Now, Fox News reporting that conservatives are blasting this message as a call to defy President Trump and Secretary of War P. Hexeth. It's a one-minute video posted by Senator Alyssa Slotkin viewed more than 1.6 million times.

They're talking about their prior service in telling members of the military and intelligence community that the threats to our Constitution are coming from right here at home. Slocke in and her colleagues spent weeks of introducing legislation. They want to limit President Trump's ability to deploy National Guard members domestically or launching military action against the narco terrorists, that kind of thing. So stop the bombing.

That's kind of what I was wondering if this had to do with the bombing of the drugboats there. One thing that more than one listener has suggested to me, I think Randy from Ashland suggested this one, so I'm going to give him credit for it. instead of us talking about whether or not these are alleged narco-terrorists, that part has kind of concerned me too, all right? And I throw open my mouth a little bit to think that I'm agreeing with some congressional Democrats, but, you know, sometimes they, you know, they can be right about something. It's not often, but that does concern me.

The drug boats concern me, and I think that the way to make this happen is what Randy and Ashland suggested. And he said, all you got to do, don't blow it. them all out of the water. Stop a few of them. Stop a few of them. And then expose it to the media. Okay, look at what's inside here. Oh, here's fentanyl. Oh, here's cocaine. And now the thing is, though, I've read some other reporting that says that most of what could be really coming out of that is the marijuana trade. Now, if that's true, that would tend to probably get people looking a little bit cross-eyed. It's like, oh, wait a minute. We got dope in our own backyard. Why are we worried about the cigarette boats bringing dope in? Dope is healthy. Marijuana is healthy.

You know, the state of Oregon. We know that. Being a little sarcastic, a little flippant. Sorry about that. But, yeah. I want to talk more about that here in just a little bit. Maybe we'll pick that up after the outdoor report. The reason I wanted to pick that up is I thought that it's always the duty of someone in the military to refuse to obey an unlawful order. That's what I've been told, at least, that this is the rule. You're supposed to do it. I was looking that up, and yeah, it's true. Now, I also remember President Nixon back when I was a kid in middle school,

and, well, the president does it, that means it's not illegal. and all presidents kind of think that way even you know Obama with his phone in his pen President Trump with his executive orders President Nixon everybody it's pretty heady when you're president let's admit this and be honest to ourselves right

well the president does it that means it's not illegal I think that was a famous interview from David Frost we'll talk show host David Frost back in the day but there is a legal foundation to disobeysible on lawful orders. U.S. military law. It's right there in the military code of justice. Uniform

code of military justice. Article is 90, 91, 92. It makes it a criminal offense to disobey lawful orders. So in other words, you have somebody give you a lawful order, you have to do it, or else you're committing a crime. But the word is lawful, meaning that if something is illegal, the illegality of something, if something is illegal, that it's absolutely okay to disobey it. Military courts have affirmed that no one is obliged to obey an unlawful order. Now, we know about this. Now, back in the early 70s, you had the Mili Massacre, Vietnam era, and Lieutenant William Kelly. That was his trial, and he was convicted for that.

And they said that he was following an unlawful order to murder civilians. That's one of the things you're not allowed to do. An unlawful order to murder civilians is criminal. You can't defend that in a court marshal, court martial rather. And then there was another case back in the 1950s USV Kinder, looking up some research on this one. The court ruled that military subordinates must make reasonable judgments.

Now, of course, the term reasonable, there's a lot of wiggle room in that, but reasonable judgments about something. being legal, meaning that just following orders is not an excuse, and that it was also something which came out of the Nuremberg trials, too. Well, I was ordered to do so. It's not enough of a defense. So, now the thing is, though, is that the Congress critters that put out that video disobeying, hey, disobey unlawful orders, they didn't actually specify what the unlawful orders were. So I guess they're just trying to say, hey, you know, you make judgment. Now, it could be about the National Guard deploying and various other things. I don't know. I think the National

Guard deployment, that one's going to be thin gruel. I think there might be thicker gruel when it comes to bombing boats out of the international waters. My concern about this is the Trump administration should not just be saying, hey, trust us. These are drug dealers. These are big things. Stop the boats. Show them and say, hey, see, we're telling the truth. That's what this is all about. But they're not doing that. That's my opinion. But you can give me your opinion to 12 before 7. Hi, good morning. This is Bill Meyer's show. Who's this? Welcome. This is 7.

Hey, Kevin. What's going on? Oh, not much. I just wanted to vent a little bit about ODFW raising all their prices on tags this coming for 2025. How much is it going up, Kevin? Oh, quite a bit. The sports pack. that's normally we'd see here 296 it's going to go up

65 bucks and then over a three year or over a few year period so 196 50 right now next year is going up 253 but aren't you getting value for that

aren't you getting wildlife value for your tax fee there absolutely not I can tell you that that's why a lot of people We'll go to Idaho and Montana, I'm still on. Oh, really? So people aren't hunting as much in Oregon for that reason?

No, the numbers just aren't that good over here, and their management's terrible. Oh, okay, so you're paying more for even getting worse management then, huh? It's just a nickel and dime. They're no better than Tina. Maybe what they're using with the extra $60, maybe they'll kill the few Bardell's. What do you think about that? Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.

Yeah, well, we feel your pain. We feel your pain about that. By the way, did you get your buck this year? I did. Good. My wife, I both got our buck this year. But, you know, hunting should be something everyone can afford. But they're starting to make it to where you can't even afford it.

Yeah. Yeah, 256, that does sound. Now, when you get that package, how many tags do you have? And I'm not a hunter, so pardon my ignorance about what you do, okay? Well, by 2030, it's going to be $311. But you get your Tugre, Bear, Turkey, Upland game, deer, elk. You get the whole kitten caboodle, but, you know, you also got to fill them, too. Yeah.

Okay. Well, I'm glad that you were successful. Now that you have actually got your bucks, though, where did you get them? Because we're not telling anybody anything out of school now. It's not hunting season. Nobody wants to give away their favorite spot. Over down in Seeker Creek, that's where I got out. Now, I got him out. I live out in the Wolf Creek, Sunny Valley area, and I got him out that way. All right, very good. Hey, I appreciate the calls. Sorry about the deal. Of course, you could change the governor. You want to try to change the governor next year?

Oh, yeah, I'd love to. I think the whole state would love to change the governor. But, you know, it's just getting old. Everything. We're getting priced out of everything. Yeah. And, California is 2.0. Do you think that, are we getting past the point where that the hunting package actually costs more than the value of the meat? I'm just kind of curious, do you know? Is there a way to calculate that? I don't know. You know, that good wild game, you know, there's no hormones, no nothing. Gosh, these days that's kind of priceless, isn't it?

Yeah, it's good red meat, you know. Even the beef in the store still got it. Yeah, I love medicine. I love venison. and I love game meat. I know a lot of people don't like that gamey taste, but I like that for some reason. I bet you do too then.

Oh, yeah, definitely. All right. I like elk a little better. I've never had elk. How would you describe it? Oh, it's good. They're more of a grazer like cows, so it's not as gamey,

but it makes some great burger and great steaks, too. All right. Hey, good hearing. Good luck. Thanks for letting us know about your hunting. pebble. Thanks, Kevin. 652-7-0-633. Speaking of the hunting pebbles, we're going to be talking about those barred owls that

program. They're going to spend a billion and a half dollars. Now remember, the spotted owl is what we were told was the stalking horse, no pun intended there, to kill the timber industry, right? And we weren't supposed to be doing anything productive. And so we were supposed to be, you know, sitting and staring at ourselves and sustainable tourism and putting up ball stadiums, I digress. But remember, that was the whole reason. The whole reason was because the spotted owl. Spot it out, and then they find out that, no, it wasn't the timber industry.

But the timber industry is already dead or in a lot of places, you know, that sort of thing. It was actually the Bardow. The Bardell is the one that was killing all of the spotted owl is because it's a much more aggressive owl and much more successful species. But, you know, our Endangered Species Act apparently says that we have. have to save the losers by shooting the winners. Well, that kind of sounds like our economic system in some ways, the way people have. Who's the winner?

Shoot that winner so this loser could make it. Oh, I'll grab one more phone, Nicole. I'm sorry, I can't help myself. I'm in a good mood today. Really, I am. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Hi, good morning. This is Lori and Talent. Hey, Lori. How are you this morning? What's on your mind? I'm very well this Friday. morning. Thank you. Good. On the cat houses, my granddaughter taught me this trick, and it worked so well, and I've used it for years. Just take a rubber-made tote with the lid on it, with the lid upside

down. Okay, put the lid upside down. Okay, all right. And at the bottom, cut an opening in it. And that's it. And on mine, I put one of those real small, fluffy dog beds in it for the cat, and she loves it. And it keeps her out of the rain and wind. and she's been there all the time. Okay, so I don't have to spend a lot of money to do this is what you're telling me, right? Correct. Right. Now, were you able to find a low wattage heating pad, though, for the really cold nights?

Do you use one? One? I don't. I have it up in a corner up real close to my house. But they do make those. If somebody wants to get one, that would be easy enough to do. Yeah, you don't want to do just a standard heating pad that, you know, a paw could poke into and then, you know, zap something you don't want to do that so they make them for animals they make them for livestock too

yeah i've never bought one i imagine so i'm sure then if i start using more of that pacific power will send me a little nasty gram saying you know we have wasted you know we've noticed that your uh your use has ticked up four kilowatt hours a month and uh have you tried a have you tried a eco-friendly solar powered cat house i don't yeah that's what they'd want you to do next yeah anyway Now, I just wanted to ask you that. I just want to make sure, so you take a standard container, right, and you try. Rubbermaid or whatever you can get your hands on. Mine's just an El Chippo Deluxe Rubbermaid.

Now you cut the hole in the top or on the sides? You cut it at the bottom. Well, it depends on how it's sitting, but you want the opening close to the lid. Okay. So if you had it upright without the lid on it, you'd cut it up at the top. The reason I was asking about how you're cutting the hole is that a lot of the prefabricated or the pre-made ones that you get, you know, the cat houses, they have an opening on each end, and I think it has to do with the real possibility of a predator coming in on one side, and so that way there's an escape hatch going out the other side.

We have a lot of raccoons and skunks and things that come up And that's what I was getting at You know the raccoons because we've got the raccoons in the neighborhood too They don't go in there She can see them coming and you can hear a ruckus She runs them right out as soon as they come up there Oh You know what we found out the other day

I think you kind of laugh about this When we first started putting out food for the ferrels We were just amazed at how quickly it was going down And then we found out what was really eating all the food. It wasn't the catch. You know, it was this immensely fat possum that had figured out that there was food. Yeah, in our neighborhood, we're all guilty of that. Oh, yeah? Yeah, so we elevated the food and put it up there, and apparently the 25-pound possum is not able to climb, so he's been put on some intermittent fasting right now. So that's what we're

doing. We're trying to help the wildlife, you know, slim down a little bit, okay? All right? Okay, great. Thanks. 656 and change at KMED. It's find your phone Friday, 770-563-3-3-770 KM-E-D. Okay, coming up, we are going to be talking about the Bard Al controversy. I'm really looking forward to getting that along with the outdoor report, Mr. Outdoors. Maybe we'll continue with cat houses, expensive tags, all sorts of other things. and I'm going to open up the phones, especially around 7.30 this morning, and I want to talk with

military veterans, and it has to do with this not following, not following illegal or unlawful orders. And if they've ever had any experience with this, I know that the Democrats are saying, okay, President Trump, they're alluding that he's issuing unlawful orders, but they won't be specific about this. President Trump, meanwhile, says, hey, seditious activity, this is punished by death and they get all hot and bothered about it. Of course, he's telling the truth about that, but I think we all know that there are no Congress critters who are going to be arrested and then executed

on the, in the Rose Garden, or what was the Rose Garden? Okay, whatever it is, okay? Yes, yes, we will execute them in the big, beautiful ballroom. No, nothing of the sort is going to happen. But, you know, President Trump engages in pretty, he's pretty good at the rhetoric, right? You got to hand him to that, right? He knows how to get their goat for sure.

But there is a point, and it's already well-established in military law, at least my reading of it, that anytime a soldier or a military person can refuse an unlawful order. Now, are they trying to get him to stop bombing the drugboats because there's, you know, nothing lawful behind that, in some people's opinion? Is that what they're going for? Or is it about just the National Guard kind of stuff? I don't know. I don't know. But I would really like to hear from military people if they've ever come up against something like that. And they've considered just saying, hell, no, this is not the right thing to do.

Could be an interesting talk. It's there. You know, and I know that a lot of times we're used to the world in which if the president says, do it, do it. And, well, there are limitations there, even in the courts. Hi, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Who's this? Welcome.

Good morning, Bill. Well, hey, it's Scott from Eagle Point. Scott, how are you doing this morning, buddy? I'm doing pretty good. I was hoping to get on with Greg, Gregory Roberts. Well, you're calling about 10, 12 minutes early. That might be an issue, okay? Well, just, you know, the owl issue,

experience it myself with big old white owls and in those areas that are old growth. Well, I'll tell you what. Why don't you give me a call in about 10 minutes? And I'll see your number, sure you're there, you can talk about it, okay? All right. Hey, thanks. I'll appreciate. You bet. We're going to do that in the outdoor report coming up. We're here real soon. A Friday morning tradition. It's back at his normal time.

Good morning. Hi. Who's this? It's Monica. Hello, Monica. How are you today? I'm fine. I wasn't expected to be on the air. Oh. Can I call you back in a little bit? Sure. Go ahead. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Now, is this like super secret private? thing? Sort of. Oh, man, I can't wait. Okay. I love super secret private stuff. I'm just kidding, all right. We'll catch up on the rest of the news, and then I'll get past my super secret

private stuff, and then the outdoor report, and then more of your calls will talk about unlawful orders or anything else that's on your mind to, cat houses, tags, expensive, all that kind of stuff. If you were a medal winner...