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Episode Date: November 26, 2025

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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. Happy Wheels Up Wednesday, Conspiracy Theory Thursday, and Find Your Phone Friday. We'll kind of combine all three. You got a good conspiracy. You got something on your mind here. Whatever it is, 7705-633-77-K-M-ED.

We're not only going to have Eric Peters here with the Wheel up segment on transportation and more in politics. We have Mr. Outdoors. We have Mr. Outdoors that's going to be talking about the free stuff going on this weekend and also the FBI releasing of the Bigfoot report. Maybe I mentioned that yesterday. We got to dig into that a little bit. That ought to be fun, okay? And we also have Steve Malloy, Steve Malloy from the CO2 Coalition, no, junk science.com and CO2. Well, anyway, he's one of these people that is just calling nonsense on this. The latest globalist deal now is to intentionally dim the sun, and they're doing it out in the open. It always used to be something which was kind of a Lucretia kind of conspiracy theory from the background.

And, well, talk to Dane Wigington or whoever it is, whoever had the climate change books out there and their websites. And now we have globalists that are saying, well, we just need to dim the sun. We need to dim the sun, cool us down. of course have the crops of you fail and then when we get into another ice age much more quickly what did do we do we sue the globalists that are behind this so that's kind of the conspiracy theory Thursday guest we'll have a little conversation about that along with your calls and opinion here all right looks like the long knives are out for cash Patel FBI FBI director now this is from MS now it's also in the

New York Times, so take it for what it is, but I at least have to mention this. President Donald Trump considering removing Cash Patel as FBI director in the coming months, he and his top aides have grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines that Patel has generated, this according to numerous people who requested anonymity in order to speak freely. I always question, though, sometimes, you know, you get the real story, but take it for what it's worth. Mattel coming under scrutiny for his stewardship of Bureau resources, they write, including his girlfriend's security detail. That's a country singer, from what I understand, a country singer, and a use of a government jet, and for his squabbles with other Trump loyalists. Trump and White House aides have confided to allies that the president is on removing Patel and is considering top FBI official Andrew Bailey as the Bureau's new director.

According to these same three people, Patel being described as on thin ice, his ouster appears closer than ever. Bailey, the logical replacement, rather. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responding to this report saying that President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive administration in history. They're doing an excellent job carrying out the president's agenda. Okay, so there we go. Now, one of the things I guess they're concerned about is that Cash Patel ended up using FBI resources to protect. the girlfriend and not a spouse, and so they're saying, well, they shouldn't be using SWAT and FBI resources to guard her, I guess, as, you know, coming in and out. That's one of the claims, at least.

I just wanted to keep you in the room on something which is going on here. Now, Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, is saying that it's completely made up. She said that when the fake news was published, she was in the Oval Office when Trump was meeting with the law enforcement team, including Petty. tell. But we'll see. Now, the reason I say we'll see is that President Trump can say one thing, and then when the headlines get too weird, people get moved out. That's just kind of looking at the past pattern of this. We'll see. I just want to let you know what is bubbling behind the scene. You know, Cash Patel, FBI director, Crazy Eyes. He can't help it, though, right? He does have

crazy ice, doesn't he? I'm not saying that he's crazy, but he always looks like he was just caught like he was just caught doing something. He's just a physical characteristic, all right? All right. What else do we have going on here? By the way, I forgot to mention this yesterday. You know how last week the city of Medford manager, Rob Fields, ended up quitting. I'll put it up in scary air quotes. You know, yeah, they quit. And of course, nobody will say why he quit. and, of course, quitting right after 15-238 passes. And then this is supposedly going to lead to the greatest utopia of development and sustainable tourism. And the money will just be rolling in, and everybody will be working for sustainable tourism in downtown Medford

and filling the motel rooms and the hotel rooms and we'll just all be getting wealthy. And it's being a little sarcastic. All right. That is kind of the economic development world for. Southern Oregon, I guess, because you can't do anything actually productive. It has to be dependent on discretionary stupid money. But I digress about that. But they did appoint an interim city manager.

And who else? But, you know, this guy tries to retire and he keeps being dragged back in. He's like, you know, the next thing, the next best thing to Randy Sparicino. When Randy Sparicino retired from the city police. And then ended up coming back as mayor, now county commissioner, of course. But John Vile, John Vile, of course, always seems to pop up in a crisis. He has an amazing capacity to be pressed back into his service in some kind of capacity. This is not a criticism.

I'm actually admiring this guy the way he's able to pop up during things. So this is going to be during the interim. John Vile's going to be running it. And I remember to see John was with, was he with Jackson, County Parks, no, Jackson County Roads, right? Jackson County Roads back of the day. Almeida hits, and then you had the blithering idiot who was the emergency manager of Jackson County at that time when the Almeida fire hit and just totally, totally unprepared for what had happened. And that emergency manager is out. And John Vile kind of ended up taking over that

situation. Then he ended up doing roads and such in city of Medford and retiring. And now it's going to be city manager. Basically, yeah, he knows the secret handshakes and understands how the system works. And so it'll be a perfectly competent hand while they end up looking up for a permanent replacement. But it always cracks me up. If somebody gets fired, somebody gets moved out, some kind of crisis. Hey, do we have John Vile on speed dial? It just always seems to be that way. Good for you, John. I don't think John wants to be there a long, long time, but John, could you just put back Main Street the way it was before? Okay, can we do that? Yeah, that's all we have to do, okay? Yeah, yeah, the city council was stupid to take the

grant stream funding the first time to make it look stupid like it is now. Okay, can we agree on that, John? Maybe while your interim city manager, you can fix that, okay? This is the Bill Meyer's show on KMED. As you travel during the holidays to visit family and friends, Lithia Body and Paint knows you want your vehicle looking on KMED. Good to have you here, 21 minutes after 6. Joining at 7705-633-770 KMED. Good news on the gun rights situation, licensed gun owners in Hawaii,

which I think there's like two. I think there's only like two of them. No, there's more than that. Hawaii notoriously anti-gun. Now, I know that when you would watch the old Hawaii 5-0 TV series and even the reboot of it a few years ago on CBS, they always made it look like there is nothing but cartel violence and machine gun shootings in the middle of downtown Honolulu.

It was just fascinating the way they did that. Hawaii really isn't this way, but trying to get a gun is usually, who do you know? And are you good friends with a governor, something like that? Are you good friends of the Democratic power structure? Maybe you'll get your gun permit. But it's been pretty tough. And I was reading Fox News here that licensed gun owners in Hawaii could face criminal charges for carrying firearms at gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores.

Under a law that the Justice Department, you know, with Pam Bondi, this, is calling blatantly unconstitutional. Setting up a Supreme Court showdown could affect millions of residents. in blue states. So this affects the state of Oregon, too. And this has to do with a law they passed in Hawaii that says that in order to carry, in order to carry your licensed permitted pistol, of course, licensed and permitted, once again implies that, you know, is it a right if you have to have a license? You know, kind of like, gee, why don't we have voting licenses? But I don't guess, you know how that goes. But they have a law that was passed in Hawaii. that to be able to carry in the restaurant or whatever it is,

they have to put a big sign out there that says that you're welcome to carry. And Pam Bondi is rightly saying, hey, Supreme Court has said you don't have to jump through these hoops to end up doing something like that. So it looks like it's setting up a sign. Now, it's one thing if you put up a sign that says, all right, you're not welcome here. but to have to put up the sign embracing the right, they're saying that's not right.

So they might be challenging Hawaii in court on this one. There's some lawsuits filed on that one. War Secretary Hegset, pressing for a hearing on Senator Mark Kelly. Hegsteth's serious. He's upset. He's recognizing what he calls a clear effort to foster insubordination from our armed forces. This is where I'm going to break with MAGA. I don't agree with this.

I don't agree with this whole thing of going after the Democratic clowns. And, you know, okay, yeah, they're using their military service to give some cachet to this. But the fact of the matter is, I wish that the opposite party would remind people in uniform every time when the Democrats are in control. I would love for Republicans to remind them. Oh, by the way, you're supposed to follow lawful orders. And you're supposed to ignore the illegal ones. That's really the way I'm looking at this stuff. I'm completely against this sort of stuff.

And this nonsense that orders are always presumed to be lawful is total BS when you see the way that the United States has been operating, has been operating for. a long, long time, whether it's Obama droning an American citizen and all the rest of stuff. Constitution's kind of an afterthought. Now, I know, you know, Mark, over in Arizona, Senator what's his name, Mark, Kelly, very popular, you know, the former astronaut,

et cetera, et cetera. It's not that I'm supporting these people. I'm supporting the principle behind this. This nonsense that just because someone gives the order that it's presumed to be lawful, we've had trials about this.

my massacre back when I was a kid, et cetera, et cetera, just because you're told you're given orders, the Nuremberg trials. Have we forgotten all this kind of stuff? Now, the thing is, though, Trump, like every other administration, they don't want

anybody questioning them. I get this. And the Democrats are no different. I'm not picking on Donald Trump or the war secretary, Heg-Seth, et cetera, et cetera. It's the same thing. It's just a different party. I would love for the when the Republicans are in, I'd like the Democrats reminding people about the Constitution.

See, that's about the only time that Ron Wyden or Jeff Merkley remember the Constitution when there's a Republican in power, just like the only time Republicans tend to remember constitutions, or when we have Joe Biden's in power. It just seems to be the natural way that is going. All right? I have no problem with this. Now, no, they didn't point to any laws that President Trump may have broken. Yeah, they don't want to get themselves in trouble at this point,

but it looks like they're going to get themselves in trouble anyway. I don't like the way this kind of stuff going. It's like the chilling effect on things. Now, here's an example of the BS, which passes as constitutional jurisprudence in our country. Now, you may get angry with me, and I'm sorry if you do get angry with me. But, you know, we're told we have to bomb the drug boats, the alleged drug boats, out of international waters, because these are narco-terrorists, okay? Narco-terrorists. Remember, narco-terrorists, very, very bad people, it's probably more likely a bunch of very poor losers trying to make money in Venezuela. I'm not excusing that, but that's probably the reality of it.

It wasn't that long. I think it was a couple of weeks ago when they had another one of those so-called narco-tolerance. terrorism boats bombed out of the water. And remember two people survived it? Remember that story in which there were two people that survived the narco-terrorism bombing? Now, were those narco-terrorists then arrested and put in Guantanamo and then give an enhanced interrogation so that they give up the terrorism, all the knowledge on the narco-terrorism that they know. Because remember, these two people survived the bombing of the narco-terrorism boat. No, they did not. In fact, the narco-terrorists, the so-called narco-terrorism on the

narco-terrorism boat that we all know is filled with narco-terrorists because we're told this in the news every day. What happened to them? They were let go and sent back home to their home country. Now, if they were truly narco-terrorists, which is what we're told, narco-terrorism, they'd be in Gitmo or they'd be in jail right now. That kind of exposed to the administration for lying about that, or shall we say, exaggerating it. Now, you want to catch these people when they're within our territorial waters.

I get it. I'm fine. board them, seize it, show the drugs for everybody, and then the Democrats shut up, okay? How about that? Really, I think what's going on is that this is an attempt to trip us into another foreign intervention war. We've got to replace the regime in Venezuela. That's the next one. That's kind of what I'm thinking.

That's my conspiracy theory Wednesday wheels up whatever you want to call it, find your phone Friday type thing. Anyway, that's my latest. Let's be honest and let's follow the Constitution, no matter whether we have a Democrat or Republican in office. But I know that Republicans only care when the Democrats in and Democrats only care right now because there's Trump. You know, well, of course, they just hate Trump. I get that. But occasionally, they might be right. 629.

This is the Bill Meyer show. We'll catch up all the rest of it. Wheels up with Eric Peters coming up. From the KMED News Center. Here's what's going on. Guests. Terry's in Selma. Terry, how you doing this morning? You're on the road someplace? What's going on? I am, Bill. I'm on the way to work. Thank you. What's on your mind, huh? I just wanted to say thank you for that bit about anarcho terrorism and blowing boats up in

international water. And you're the only guy in the radio that says this stuff. The only conservative talk to hosts I know. It'll say that. I know. I don't understand why there is such a A tone deafness on this one, Terry. Do you? It's just, it's not that I want drugs coming in here. I think there are ways to take care of it, but I think this is about provoking more than anything else right now. I think there's no due process. We're killing people.

Yeah, the drugs are bad. I get it. But there's no due process. It's not right. It's not what America is about. Yeah. And if they're really narco-terrorists, they wouldn't be getting sent back if they survived the bombing. That's the way I'm looking at it.

You are dead right. absolutely true. Appreciate the call. Thank you for that, Terry. Be well. Good hearing from you in Selma. You'd be well today. We got Eric Peters joining me here in a couple of minutes. Back into the politics, too. Hi, this is Charlene at American Industrial Door. November is the traditional service not provided by dish.

You're here in the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. You know, this is appropriate. This country was started by a bunch of rebels. Let's have Tom Petty be the bumper going into wheels up Wednesday this morning. I'm a rebel. Port of Alabama or wherever he was in Florida. But anyway, how you doing this morning, Eric? EPATOS.com.

Great to have you on, sir. Oh, thank you, Bill. I always look forward to our chats every week. I'm sitting here at my desk working on an article about the latest train wreck. You know, the interesting thing about train wrecks is that it takes a while for the wreck to hit the caboose, right? Yeah. And in this EV thing, you know, it's obvious it's a train wreck, but some of the vehicle manufacturers are continuing to think that the thing hasn't gone off the rails. Have you heard about the electric Jeep Wrangler, what do they call it, RECON?

You know, of all the electric vehicles that have been put out there, Eric, I've never heard of the Jeep Recon. Nothing. Okay, well, it's basically an electrified version of the Wrangler Rubicon. So it's got all the off-road gear, but it doesn't have an engine. And it only costs just shy of $67,000 to start. Okay, just another economic. vehicle for the average middle class family, right? Sure. Okay. Exactly. You know, they just, I mean, what, what, what do you even say about this? At what point does the, the realization dawn on

these car companies that regular Americans just can't afford to spend 70K, 50K, frankly, even 40K on these things anymore. Well, the thing is at 67, you know probably the out of the door prices closer to 75, wouldn't it be? Absolutely. Oh, absolutely. And then tack on the insurance. you imagine what it would cost to get a full coverage policy on a $75,000 vehicle, irrespective of whether it's electric. The other thing is that it also raises the cost for everybody else's insurance, because even if you're driving a junker, you have to have liability insurance to pay for the $75,000 or $100,000 EV, right?

Absolutely. You know, I got into something the other day. I posted a video rant of mine, more so than a written article about modern headlights. And I asked people whether they, on the one hand, thought that they're a bit too bright. You know, a lot of people have complained to me about the fact that they are a bit too bright. But a peripheral aspect of the debate was how much they cost and how much we're all paying for it. You get into a little door ding type scenario in the supermarket parking lot. And instead of spending $30 to replace an LED, a halogen glass headlight, you're now looking at $400, $500 to replace one of these plasticized, elaborate headlight assemblies.

And as you say, we are all paying for that. Even if you don't own one of these vehicles, these costs are being transferred onto everybody who has to buy insurance. It's seriously, $4 to $500 for a headlight damage, really? Oh, absolutely. These assemblies, and a lot of them now are computer linked to the rest of the car systems. And they have to be synced at the dealership. You can't just unscrew it and replace it. You have to sink it because it's a component of a safety system in the vehicle.

Okay. Boy, I'm just thinking about that old van of mine, even the PT and even the other Volkswagen. I just go down to the car parts store and I think it's like, you know, $20 a bulb or something like that. That's about it. And turn it out, you know, a few screws and then in easy peasy. I guess that's all over now, huh? It is. And the thing that gripes me is that we're forced to pay for it, even if we don't buy into it. I think, you know, it's one thing to say that maybe people who drive on the so-called public roads, ought to have at least a liability policy. But I think at a certain point, if people are going to choose to go out there and buy $75,000 vehicles that have, you know, four or $500 a piece, headlight assemblies, maybe they should have to pay a surcharge for that and leave the rest of us out of it. Maybe liability should be capped at, say, $30,000. Yeah, I think that would be reasonable, you know, 30,000 so that, because stuff happens out on the road because we're humans. Of course, they want to get rid of the humans too, but, you know, I won't get into that conversation.

right now. Yep. But, yeah, they would prefer to have, of course, if the computers screw up and we have car wrecks, who do you sue? That's the question I would wonder. I mean, does the insurance then have to go onto the computer company writing the software for the self-driving vehicles? I'm a little curious about that, you know?

Yeah, absolutely. And that has not been fleshed out. You're right. You know, the issue of responsibility gets really murky when, for example, you're having, you're a passenger in a self-driving car, and the self-driving car doesn't notice that a kid ran out in the road and the car ran over it. Well, who's accountable for that? At least when a human driver is the one behind the wheel, it's very clear, well, you know, the driver didn't see, didn't pay attention. But how do you assign blamed to a driver who simply uses the technology, engages the system,

and then the car kills somebody? Who do you blame? The computer, the company that wrote it? Where do you go with that? I do like the idea of what you're talking about, though, with a liability cap on the property damage for the actual vehicle in which, because what it does is that it prices people of modest means out of the ability. It's like, okay, I have a paid for used car. It's in fine shape, but I know it's worth maybe $3,000, and that's all, you know, that's all it is. But you have to ensure it as it, you know, to the same level to be able to replace a $150,000 insane expensive car or at 100,000, that is, it's just kind of soaring out of sight. So it would seem to me that if you're driving the expensive car, you take on the liability of ensuring the excess aspect of your

property. Is that kind of what you're getting at that you want to drive around? And again, the key thing here, it's a choice. Nobody is compelled or coerced into buying a $75,000 vehicle. I mean, Godspeed, if you're, you know, affluent enough and you want to buy something like that, that's you're right. I defend that. But. you don't have the right to offload the expense onto me. And that's exactly what's been happening. I drive an old truck and my insurance costs have literally tripled in the course of the past two years. Notwithstanding that I'm a middle age guy with a perfect driving record, perfect credit score, zero claims filed against me. No tickets, no nothing. So why? Well, the reason why is because

hypothetically, I might be out driving my old truck and I might bump into somebody's new Rivian, you know, and incur many thousands of dollars worth of damage. That's the pretext. That's the reason why myself and other people who are trying to keep our costs low are being put in the position of having to pay more because of the choices made by other people over whom we have no control. Something I did want to ask you about, though. By the way, Eric Peters with me, E.P.O.O.com, automotive journalist,

about the old versus new headlights. There is an issue that I'm hearing for more and more listeners about the eye-piercing glare that seems to come from the more modern cars. Is that something which has been required by federal transportation safety standards, or is it just technology? What has changed in that world over the years? Could you explain that? It's brightness.

It's luminosity. There's no question that the modern headlights and modern cars can light your way for half a mile down the road. If you've driven anything new, you'll have experienced this. The problem, or at least it's a corollary problem, is that typically, these cars have automatic headlight systems, which will automatically, supposedly, dim the lights when they sense oncoming traffic. The problem is that by the time they sense it, that traffic is already probably in the line of sight, whereas, you know, you and I can remember, we still

know this. You know, you can tell there's a car coming. It may not be directly yet in your line of sight immediately. Yeah, you would see the glow coming over the hill and you know something's coming at you soon, right? And we learned, we developed the habit of, you know, being aware of that and dimming the lights on our own, taking that initiative to do it. Now it's about technology and people, as we've talked about many times, are being conditioned to be passive. Oh, well, the car will do it. So, you know, the car dims the light. And it does dim it, but it's still bright. But the point is, by the time it's dimmed, that person is already blinded. And the other issue is how bright do they need to be? We're at the point where cars have effectively got like 747 landing lights on

them. And, you know, if you really have trouble seeing at night to that extent, maybe you need new glasses. Maybe there's a reasonable middle ground. I upgraded the original headlights in my old car to halogen sealed beams, and they're perfectly adequate. I can see where I'm going at night because my eyes are okay. Maybe that makes more sense. I don't know. You tell me. Yeah, well, going to halogen sealed beams from the standard old filaments of the 1950s, 60, 70s, even in the early 80s, that does make sense. That is a market improvement there. I guess what I'm concerned about is people complain about almost like this this purply violet eye-piercing laser type being. Is it, are they coming from the factory that way or is it people doing aftermarket kind of

headlight? It's from the factory. The incandescence of it is really remarkable. Now, there are some aftermarket systems, but by and large, I think what most people are seeing are the factory systems. And they are extraordinarily powerful, some of them. I mean, I'm not exaggerating when I say that you can see half a mile down the road as if it or, you know, game night. And they, you know, they threw on the Kleege lights so to illuminate the

field. But are there not regulations that require that that beam be tightly controlled when it's that bright so that it stays within its lane, so to speak? Well, yeah, but, you know, then you have to take into account the undulations of the road, for example. You know, the vehicle moves and, you know, you're going to get that going on. Yeah, they try to, but nonetheless, it doesn't take much to blind you. If you've ever had somebody just quickly shine a quick, a bright light in your face, it just takes that second. And when you're out on the road and you're driving 60, 70 miles an hour and all of a sudden, boof, you know, you get hit in the face with this light, for that moment, you know, you can't see. And it's not pleasant. To your point, though, about the cars doing it automatically, I was talking

with my brother, Mike, who lives back east down the south. And he was talking about his Tesla super truck that he ended up getting a few weeks ago. And he said that he's having to read the manual a lot because the car automatically does things and trying to figure out how to stop it from doing things automatically, like even when it comes to, you know, the wipers are automatic. The headlights are automatic, you know, and everything. And so they're not particularly programmed with as good a reaction as a good human would paying attention. Well, and there's a peremptory aspect of it as well. You know, you're being programmed according to somebody else's parameters rather than your own. That's the part that shapes for me. You know, everybody's got their own particular differences about

what they'd like the car to do and how they'd like the car to do it. And I get aggravated when I'm in a new car and the thing is basically deciding for me how the various systems are going to operate. I'm the driver. I own the car. I want to be in control of the car. Eric Peters, Automotive Journalist at E.P.onos.com. It's our pre-Turkey Day wheels up Wednesday. 7705-633. And you have a comment on this or something else involving the open road. Hi, good morning. You're on with Eric. Who's this? Hey, Bill. It's David. David. What's going on, buddy? Hey, well, a couple of things, though.

First of all, I like to be a libertarian, but I have to say, when it comes to the things like you guys are talking about, you know, when you got a $700 headlight assembly on an entry-level sedan, okay, and that's not a joke. There's a Subaru I just worked on, I think it was a 20-23. You know, when you have a set one headlights, that's $700, okay, the car companies need to, A, be required to keep product lines available for X amount of years for X amount of vehicles. And you could probably get the environmentalist to help with that, you know, because it keeps cars on the road longer. But secondly, they need to be required to sell the parts closer to what it cost them to manufacture the car. Because you know they're not building an mid-level sedan with every lens costing $700. Yeah, so common crash parts, then common crash parts should be sold at their cost then for common crash parts, right?

Is that what you're getting at or close to it? Yes, I think so. And they should have to keep X amount of percent of parts available for years. You know, had a 2013 Chevy come in. The seat had to replace the whole seat in the car for something electronic, if you can imagine that. And the dealer has discontinued the seat. So now what do you do?

You're forced to pick through wrecking yards. And now that's good for, you know, the immediate future. But in 10 years from now, obviously there aren't going to be any seats available for your Camaro. So what the hell are you supposed to do? And, you know, one other thing I'd like to just add quickly because it seems relevant is the car companies should absolutely do the collision avoidance much better. But I think it ties into this whole thing about selling cars and selling car parts. And, you know, if anybody, you know, wants to think about it. And it actually gets a little creepier than that, which is that the cars could actually at this point have pedestrian avoidance too.

And they don't to the best of my knowledge. But that's easily implemented software as far from my research. But, you know, the car companies are, you know, kind of creepy, and they're just kind of interested in selling parts and selling cars, you know. Would you agree or concur with what David, the mechanic's saying, or something different, Eric? What do you say? No, no, absolutely. I agree with them completely. And I'd only add this.

I would like to see disclosure. I think the people outside of the industry, people who don't work on cars or cover the industry like we do, are completely unaware that, as in the caller's example, a car like a Subaru. You know, we're not talking about a Ferrari has a $700 headlight assembly. I'd like to see these things put on the table so that when you go to buy a car, I'm sure the average Subaru buyer would be kind of chagrin to learn that the Subaru that they're thinking about buying has a $700 headlight. Well, it's love. It's a Subaru. We love you so much that will ding you $700 if you crack this headlight assembly. Yeah, I can tell you how many times I get, I get communications from people who tell me, you know, they took their car in for service or they were in an accident and they're finding out the hard way about the cost of. of these parts. And as the caller says, sometimes, the unavailability of these parts, which can be catastrophic. You've got an otherwise good car, but it needs some critical component that is now

unavailable unless you can find one in a wrecking yard somewhere. What would you think, then, about disclosure of common crash parts as part of the sticker? You know, the sticker like, okay, the front clip is so much. The headlight assembly is so much, because these are very commonly replace parts on a vehicle. I think that's exactly one of the pragmatic reforms that could be implemented right away that would at least give people knowledge. You know, it's interesting that all these so-called consumer advocates never touch on this stuff, never talk about, well, maybe people ought to know what they're buying into and what it's going to cost them. Good point. Eric Peters, automotive journalist at E.P.O.O.com. 649, let's grab a few more calls here. Hi, good morning.

You're on with Eric. Who's this? Good morning. It's Peter. I was just commenting on the headlight thing. Sure. I have a Subaru also as well, that I had to replace a headlight, and I thought, well, I thought, well, smarty me, I will avoid regular headlights and get, well, first of all, my question would be whether or not halogen, just given the fact that they burn so damn hot that they're a lot. foolish thing to put in a in a headlight versus an LED. Well, I ended up replacing that one with an LED. And now what I find is that if I have the regular lights on at night, I don't even drive at night anymore, but I can't see anything. And then I turn the bright, you know, I turn the one with the, I guess it's the LEDs on and I can see. So as soon as I turn it, I turn,

my brights off when a car's coming. I can't see anything. Huh. Yep. It's a little bit of a pickle. Something that's simple has been complex. Yeah, yeah. Hold on a second, Peter here. What were you saying, Eric? I want to make sure Peter hears you. Well, something that was simple has gotten to be complex. And you have to be careful with later model vehicles as far as taking out what they came with and putting something else in because there could be compatibility issues. There could be safety issues. And I'm not talking about, you know, the kind of stuff that we make fun of. I'm talking about potentially, you know, problems, even fires potentially because of the whole integrated system that you're dealing with.

So, you know, be careful. And if you don't know, talk to somebody who does know about your particular car and, you know, can help you with maybe swapping out the headlights that you've got for something different. Yeah, you talk to David as an example, seems to be pretty experienced on that kind of stuff. Peter, thanks for the call. I'm speaking with Eric Peters this morning. And hello, caller, you're on with Eric. Who's this? Good morning. This Paul Williams. Hi, Paul. What are you thinking? Yeah. Well, I was going to call last week. We had a long time ago in the mid-50s in 1951, the Studebaker overhead valve V8, but it had a Borg-Warner automatic transmission in it. It had a hillholder, and it had a lockup torque converter. And, of course, my dad was a mechanic, but it made 178,000 miles on the engine and the transmission before he got rid of it. Why can't they, I know they make 200, 250,000 miles. I've got to die. 12 valve, and it's going to last longer than me.

But that transmission was terrific, and I don't know why they can't do something like that today at a reasonable price. I wonder, Eric, is what Paul's talking about referencing that, you know, the transmissions and everything else, it tends to be much more complex than what his Studebaker transmission was, perhaps, just saying. Yeah, and the question that's kind of begged there is, of course they can. they just don't. And the reason that they don't, well, there's a variety of reasons, you know, they actually don't want a transmission or an engine to last essentially indefinitely

because they want you to buy something new. And they are more complicated now. So it's not like back in the day when GM was selling Turbo Hydro 350s and 400s and the Chrysler Torque Flight, which was unkillable, you know, simple basic transmissions that didn't have a lot of electronic components. In fact, didn't they take the torque flight or which one did they usually put in the two speed they would put in dragsters. Do you remember which one that was? Oh, yeah, that was the Powerglide. Oh, the Powerglide. Oh, the Powerglom. Oh, the Slipomatic. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, but you know, people made fun of it, but they were very durable, very rugged

transmissions that, if decently to cared for, it would last as long as the car. And they were also relatively inexpensive to replace. Even today, you can still get a replacement GM Turbo 350 from Summit or Jigs for, you know, $5,600, if you can imagine that. No kidding. No kidding. We'll be back with Eric. Peter's taking more of your calls here. It's Wheels Up Wednesday. We haven't even gotten into the review yet, but hey, we'll get to that here shortly too. 770-5633. It's the pre- Thanksgiving Wheels Up Wednesday. If you're remodeling your house, start with the foundation. News Talk 1063 KMED. This is the Bill Myers Show. Eric Peters is back with me, E.P.O.com for Wheels Up Wednesday. Taking your calls at 770KMED.

And let's go to Bruce, who is calling from Michigan this morning. Hello, Bruce. What's on your mind with Eric Peters? Go ahead. Well, what I find myself doing at night, especially with these lifted trucks that have the bright lights that don't adjust them down, is I hold my left palm out in front of me in a position that blocks just the headlights of the oncoming car. So that, I mean, it guards my vision because if you absorb that much light, it's like snowblind. And you can't see for about 10 seconds or so if you don't do something like that, at least for me.

You know, Eric, Bruce brings up a pretty interesting point there that if you lift the vehicle, aren't you supposed to get those headlights dialed back down so that they're at the normal level on the road? And what's the story there? Thanks for the call, by the way, Bruce. You know, obviously, I think you ought to, you know, if you're aware of the effect that it's having on other people. And in states where they have safety inspections, they're going to look at this. that and probably, you know, make you adjust them in order to make it compliant. But, you know, there's a lot of leeway there for people who don't know. And I'm not, you know, I'm not saying

that these people are deliberately malicious. They jack up their trucks. They, you know, they want to lift them. And it just hasn't occurred to them that by doing that, you know, they're altering the geometry of the headlight pattern. But maybe they should be thinking about that. And I think, you know, just to be courteous and decent to other people, they should take the time to adjust their headlights. Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, I remember back in the days of the sealed beam headlights, back when I was a kid, young man, I used to have a set of these levels of some sort or whatever is. You'd clamp them on the headlights and then you'd go so far back on in the driveway. You know, you'd have to measure it out. And then you'd look for a certain pattern.

Then you would tweak the headlights in to get them where they should be. It's pretty good. Sure. Any shop can do that. It's not complex. It's not complicated. So, you know, it's just a matter of getting it done. And I think people should do it. Let me talk with Francine. You're on with Eric. Go ahead. Yeah, good morning, Eric. I just, you know, all this automatic, the car does this for you. The car does that for you. You don't have to do anything.

I think it's all part of the great sci-op, as I call it, to get people so they're dependent upon things and stop thinking for ourselves because it makes us more compliant, and it is all pushing us towards the new world order. Well, I appreciate it. I completely agree with that. I think that there is a deliberate sub-Rosa agenda here to inculcate passivity in people. And what's happening with cars is just one example. But it's a pretty evident one.

You know, when you look at the pattern and try to understand, well, why are they doing this? And the answer that makes sense is, yeah, they're trying to get people into kind of this stasis of where, yeah, just I'll sit here and I'll have technology, do things for me. And I'll wait to be told what to do. And it really grinds my gears. Yeah, and I don't really know what to think. So I better ask the artificial intelligence chatbot that's on my phone. And then, you know, and then I'll wait for my universal basic income to come. Because, you know, I'm just going to have a great life staring at my screen.

Well, yeah, when, you know, they're putting computers and cars and everything. I mean, when people are reduced to having conversations with inanimate objects or, you know, machinery. fed of each other. We're in really big trouble. Good point. Good point. Let me go. Boy, lots of calls this morning on pre- Thanksgiving Day. And let's go to line two. Hi. Good morning. You're on with Bill and Peter. Who's this? Hey, Bill. I'm sorry. Eric, rather, I think Eric Peters. Go ahead. Go ahead, Steve. Yeah. One thing about headlights that you guys been talking about is the headlight filament as it ages corrode and it loses its brightness. So if you've got a car that's more than

10, 12 years old, you could probably replace the headlights with factory standard headlights and improve your vision quite a bit. That's actually a pretty good point. Yeah, you're right about the filament. Isn't that the case, Eric? He's right. Yep. And another thing, too, is everybody knows probably who's listening to us. Modern headlight assemblies are all made of plastic, and that plastic tends to yellow out over time. And if you're feeling like you can't see as well as you used to, well, that's probably contributing to it. And you can get kits or you can just use a rubbing compound to polish the surface and to get the yellow off so that you have clear lenses again and you'll be able to see better. Does anybody actually have a glass headlight assembly at this point or are they still all polycarbonate of some sort or another?

I don't know of any. I'm pretty sure that they're all made of plastic now because there are all these non-standard shapes. It used to be that they were round or square, kind of universal. they're not anymore. They're very vehicle-specific. And it's one of the ways that they are able to express a design language, as we say in the business. Well, you know what that design language is for the front-ended cars. It's like, how angry I am and I'm going to eat you. That's what it is. Yeah, it's like samurai kabuki, right? You know, the wearing face, you almost expect the katana blade to come out of the flanks and cut you in half. Yeah. Well, you know, it's so different. You look back,

And I think that's why people sometimes smile when they see like those 1950s-era Ford or Chevy or GMC pickups like the Timmy and Lassie cars back then because they had friendly faces and round headlights. And there was kind of a friendly human look to them. Like, we're going to go to work, but we're happy at the same time. Kind of funny. Absolutely. All right. Let me keep going back to your calls here. Boy, a lot of them this morning.

Good to have you on. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is Driving Ivan from Central Point. Drive-at-Ivon. What's you got going on with Eric? Go ahead.

All right. Well, I'm just going to comment on a couple things. First was on the headlights. So when you went to school back in the 70s, they taught you how to drive with headlights at night. An old trick is just when you see a bright light coming and you can't do anything about it, just look real quick to the right. Look at the white line on the shoulder there. Yep.

And use that as your guide as you're driving. That works really good. And then I've got a Chevy Traverse, and I had to change the headlights on that. And that is such a nightmare. You've got to go through the wheel well. You can't go through the engine compartment. No kidding. Man, I'll tell you, that's a piece of work there.

Man, I'll tell you. One other thing I got is on seat. Yeah. And it's upholstery. So here's one of these high-tech things. So I've got the same Chevy Traverse, which has been costing me a lot of money, just replaced the transmission on it. But I had a cut on my driver's seat.

seat, and I have to get that repaired as part of my work because I can't have cuts in my seat. So I took it to a local upholster, and I got a quote of $850 to do a patch job on that because it's got a perforation in the seat. I didn't know, I didn't even know my seat had a coal blower along with the heater, and he said, you can't patch that because it could cause a fire if you were to do that. So that's sticker shock there. I'll tell you that. No, no, that's private. Ivan driving or driving Ivan, that's progress, my friend. That's progress. Yeah, it's going to progress me into the poorhouse. Thanks. Thanks for the call. What do you think about that, Eric?

Yeah, well, remember back in the day where if you didn't like the seats, your car came with, you could undo four bolts on the tracks, pull it out, and put in a new seat, forget about that. You know, a lot of cars now have airbags built into the seat in addition to the other electronics, and it's all part of a system and there's a wiring harness, and it's just a big debacle. caller says. So something that used to be simple, inexpensive, accessible that you or me or me or anybody else with a crescent wrench could deal with, now is an elaborate and extraordinarily expensive project. Let's see, airbags in the seat. Does that mean that it's like an ejector seat? It'll throw you through the sunroof. I mean, what? No, no, it's on the side cushion. Oh, you know, it's part of the side impact cushion airbag restraint system. Oh, got it. Okay. We'll take three more quick calls, and then we've got to get a quick review out of the latest that you've

been driving. Hi, good morning. You're on with Eric. Who's this? This is Doug. Hi Eric and Bill. I've been going and seeing these blue headlights coming at me sometimes. They're blue. They're not white. Do you know anything about what's going on with them? It's a good question. Thanks. Yeah, we've got, there's a combination of lights now that are out there. There are the projector beams. There are the LEDs and there's various permutations in between in addition to the old style lights. So, you know, what you're seeing is just one of the varieties of that. some of them have a really clean line of separation, which is just interesting from a technological point of view. I mean, literally, there's this sort of border between what's dark and what's light as you drive. And you can see that as you go down the road. And they will also illuminate peripherally in an amazing way, which that's helpful. Because you can, you know, in my area, you can see a deer bound

out before you might otherwise have. But it's, you know, you pay a price for this. Everything's got its pros and its cons. All right. Let's grab call or one. Hello, you're on with Eric. You be a quick one, Uh? Luminotic efficiency, if you want to put it that way, the human eye can see the best at 550, or most sensitive, I'm sorry, most sensitive to 550 wavelength. Oh, is that like 5,000 Kelvin, you know, that temperature? Is that what you're talking about? I don't know what it is per Kelvin, but lumina, luminotic efficiency, if you want to put it that way, the watt per lumine, Right? So since you can see your eyes most sensitive to 550, so if we put most of our energy into the 550, that means you get more lumens per watt. Ah, okay. All right. I appreciate the call. Thanks for you. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. They will take one more. Then we get to the review before we wrap for the holiday. Hi, who's this? Good morning. Hello. From the apple gate. Yeah, Vicki, give you a quick one here with Eric. I'm almost out of time.

Okay, yeah, I just wanted to comment on the yellowing of the headlights. They have a kit that you can buy, and after you do the rub on, rub off, they suggest that you spray your lenses with clear feeling to keep them from re-yellowing. And I've had a terrible time with my IKEA. I've had it about 10 years, and my husband bought the kit, and we sprayed it. And, oh, my gosh, what a difference it made. Hey, what's the brand name, do you know? Of the kid? Yeah, yeah, there are some brand names of them, like, Sarah Cote is one I'm hearing good things about.

Eric, have you heard any good things about that or any of the other ones? Yeah, boy, I wish I'd anticipated this call because I would have jotted down the name. I can't call it to mind right away. But, yeah, you know, this is a great way to avoid having to spend a fortune replacing a yellowed headlight, because the kid is, you know, very inexpensive relative to the cost of having to replace one of those assemblies. Very good. Hey, Eric, we got about four minutes left on the Zoom, and then you turn into a pumpkin, huh? That's right. 2025 Ford Bronco, you've been driving that. What do you say about that?

You know, it's, boy, it's the best of times and it's the worst of times. You know, back in 66, you get a Bronco for $2,500, if you can imagine that. And today's Bronco costs $40,000 to start. The one they sent me was the Strapped Edition, which had all the Sasquatch off-road gear and everything, and it was $75,000. Great vehicle. But it just makes me sad to think that these are becoming old men's vehicles. You know, back in the day, a Bronco was the kind of thing that a young guy would be able to afford. Young guys can't afford these things any longer. It's like so many things that are nice, they're out there, but they're only really accessible to the people who've got the means to afford them.

Yeah, but other than that, it was a pretty impressive vehicle from the looks of it. Oh, incredibly. For one thing, it actually looks different than everything else on the road. They, I think, have done the finest job of any manufacturer. in reconjuring the original. If you look at a 66 first generation Bronco and then look at the new one, the 25, it's really hard to tell at a glance which one is the 66 and which is the 25. It's that good a job. And they faithfully replicated the experience, the feel, all of it. It's just tremendous fun, tremendously capable. I took it over to my buddy's place and we did a grade that

was, I think it was 25% grade. That's a steep grade. And it went up that thing without even spinning a wheel at all. It was not even a challenge for it. You can rate up on this on ePotos.com, the 2025 Ford Bronco. Now then, for next week, what are they going to give you then? Well, I've already got it. The Bronco went back yesterday and they dropped off the BMW 2 series Grand Coupe. Well, the thing about it is, it's BMW's least expensive model. It's in the entry-level model, but it doesn't look entry-level. It actually looks like it might be a pricier car than the 3-series, which more people know about. So I like that. And they've done something else, which is remarkable for the current situation.

It's a 26 that they sent me, and it's actually less expensive than the 25 version of the same thing. And I'll have more about that up on the site. Can't wait. EPados.com. Happy Thanksgiving, Eric. Always appreciate the talk, and we'll catch you next Wednesday, all right? Be well. Sounds great, Bill.

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