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Episode Date: December 3, 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 Klausor drilling.com. Hi there. Hi, who's this? This is Kim, Stella. Hello, Kim. How are you this morning?

I'm okay. How are you? Great. What's on your mind? How can I help? Well, I wanted to come on and clear the error regarding the bear attack. Oh. That everybody seems to be talking about and that you were discussing yesterday.

Were you the bear attacker? no okay so you were not there at the bear attack okay what happened then because i know that three people have been charged with harassing said bear and the bear and that's and hang on because that's right where i want to correct you that is fake news nobody has been charged with anything that is false uh okay well i know that that article came out in the rogue telly times and that is not true i was just speaking with the lieutenant yesterday after that came out asking him is this true? And no, it's not true. Oh, really? Really? So that, let me just get out what happened, because she was not feeding the bear.

She was not feeding the flipping bear, okay? Okay, so this whole thing about the dog tree, you're saying that's not true, Kim? She was out there looking for her dog so she could go to work. The bear had charged one of their elderly neighbors that was, and they live right there. They weren't one of the people that were stopped looking, taking photos and videos of the bear. It just happened right in front of their house. And so her husband had told her, get Duke inside before you go to work, because she was just trying to go to work. And they have a ritual for the dog because he has a little bit of separation anxiety.

She has to give him a biscuit to distract him when she leaves. Otherwise, we'll go out and bark and howl. So somebody had called her saying the bear is over at so-and-so's house, please help. She tells her husband, go down there. He says, okay, put the dog away. She grabs the biscuit, goes to go out the back door and call the dog in and realizes that their back gate is open. She's like, oh, no, I hope that Duke isn't out there out front with the bear. So she goes out front to look.

Her immediate comment is, oh, my God, look at all these cars. There was like 10 cars lined up on each side of the road. And so she starts walking down there and she's hollering for her dog, still with the biscuit. it in her hand, looking for the dog so she can go to work. And she's hollering at her husband. They're hollering back and forth because there's so many cars. And yes, the bear is agitated because the woman that took the video is blocking the bear. As you can see in the video, that's from the girl, the online influencer that's craving

followers. Well, you know, I was wondering about that, and I even met it. It's just like probably if you're taking videos and pictures, you're trying to get social media presence. Okay. So that part about it was true. Exactly. All right.

Yes. And boy, she sure did pick up a few followers on this. But, you know, negative attention or positive attention. Some people just want attention. Sure. So, so anyways, she's walking down, hollering for the bear, and her husband yells back. I put him in the truck. She goes, oh, okay.

Well, I guess I'll just feed this to the bear, making a terrible joke at the wrong time and tosses the biscuit as she's turning and walking back to her house. the bear turns and rushes her. Oh. All the people on the road were closer to the bear than my girlfriend was. Was it your girlfriend, the one that was bitten? Yes. Is she okay? Still in the hospital.

Still in the hospital? Yeah. Okay. Because she has to have a special vacuum pump bandage on her arm and insurance reasons. I don't know if they can let her leave with the hospital, yada y'all. Yeah. So she's still in there. Her daughter and husband called me right after the incident.

They actually found the chunk of flesh that the bear chewed off. Aye, aye, y'allie. Yeah, it took it to the hospital, but they couldn't put it back on, I guess it's a little different than a limb. All right? So the victim was not involved in trying to corner the bear or anything like that, right? Absolutely not. Okay, so she's not in trouble then. She's not going to be in trouble.

There's no way then, right? No. What about the influencer, the stupid one with the camera? What about that? I don't know. The officer told me yesterday that she was claiming. that she had a video of the attack, and I have spoken with her on the side, and I asked her flat out, and she said, no, I don't have that. And the officer said that they were trying

to track that down, and they realized that was likely not true either. But I want to point something out. That girl, she said, you know, and right after this happened, after the bear was on my girlfriend, and then she rushed over and got her husband and got, and he was down on the ground and the bear was jumping on his chest, biting in his face. And I mean, it was a terrible situation. And so then he finally gets up and, you know, after the bear is taken care of, and this girl, that influencer and her little Tesla starts going, it didn't need to end this way. You didn't need to do that. Yeah, with the shooting of the bear, right? With the shooting of the bear? Well, you know, you and all the other 15 freaking cars sitting here upsetting this bear didn't need to sit there and videotape it

either, but you did, didn't you? You agitated the bear, and then my friend was coming out to just try to find her dog and got the brunt of the situation. And then they were concerned that nobody knew that, you know, this happened. So I posted in the Jackson County group, go to bed, wake up, oh, my God, to all this BS tomorrow, people are wishing her death, saying that it should be her in the ground instead of the bear, all this terrible things. And I just want to say, my girlfriend, she's a cancer survivor. By the grace of God, she is even here today. And to have her daughter see the horrifying comments of people online about her because they just heard a story and jumped on it because they need their dopamine fix for the day is repulsive. And this woman I saw yesterday

online taking the story and blasting it on all these groups saying, you know, what happened to common sense? And I'm so glad these people are being prosecuted and can't fix stupid. All right. Now, to be fair, though, Kim, we don't know where it's going to go. So it's not the bite victim that is most likely going to be in trouble from the sounds of it, the way you've described it, assuming that it is the way you describe. Okay, all right? Uh-huh. Okay, so we know that much.

Is there talk of maybe the, you know, the videographers, if you want to call it that, people trying to get the dopamine hits out on their social media. What about them? Well, I don't know. Like I said, the officer yesterday stated that I spoke with the lieutenant. One of the officers that was there on scene was off, and he's back in today. But he said that, like, you know, they had tried to catch her or find her, and they couldn't locate her. So I don't know if they're going to take it to that extent.

But the ODF officers that were there told my friends, this bearer isn't sick because that was the first thought. People thought that maybe the bear was sick the way it was behaving, the elderly neighbor that had called my neighbors for help to begin with. and the officers said, no, the bear isn't sick, likely the first year away from its mother, and it's very anxious because of all of these people. But now it's dead because of all those people, probably, right? Right, right. And because there was nowhere to go. If you saw the video, it's pacing back and forth the fence.

Yeah, I never saw the video. Okay. So I didn't see that. Kim, thank you for that. And all the best of your friend's recovery over there. And boy, it sounds like she's got a word. world of hurt there. So that was just a joke about trying to feed the bear. It wasn't actually feeding the bear, just so you know, right? No, it was not. Okay. And one thing that I wanted to point out

is that, that girl, that influencer, she was saying, I have bear blood on my car, you know, the drama effect. The bear was shot to the north. Her and her car were on the road to the south. It's physically impossible for blood sputter to go backwards like that. She's just, people need to stop and think, there might be two sides to a story and look and see who's trying to get attention and followers. All right. I mean, everybody needs half a brain. All right.

Appreciate the call there, Kim. Thank you very much. Okay. All right. Okay. Yep. Always welcome. Wow.

Interesting story now. That is, you know, the victim's side of that through Kim, Kim, Kim, Phella. KMED, KMED, H.D. H.1.E.G.G., Grant, Spans, is where you are. When your neighbor tells you, call Fitzgerald gas services. It's because they know Fitzgerald. delivers value from gasline installation to kitchen ranges, dryers, backyard barbecues, that's privacy kim.com.

One of my favorite legal analysts and legal brains out there is John O'Connor, and he's the author of Postgate, how the Washington Post betrayed Deep Throat, covered up Watergate and began today's partisan advocacy journalism, which in many ways, John, I think, is getting worse. Just me? Oh, it's getting much worse, Bill. Much worse. Okay. Hey, glad to have you here, and I know.

Now, you are a former federal prosecutor, are you not? That's right. All right. That's right. I am. And I wanted to kind of have you, you know, pick your legal brain a little bit for a lot of what is going on right now in the news. And especially when he comes to President Trump and what's going on with the conversation over eliminating all of the auto-pen executive orders and clemencies. And he is all over this in today's news cycle. and I'm just kind of curious when you look at the laws and the statutes involved, is this a possible thing or is it just something that will be automatically challenged? Could you lay it out for us here from the legal side of things?

Yeah, I think you're getting into, and Trump is getting into something that should be a shield for him in other cases. That is to say, when an executive acts, and by the way, as commander-in-chief blowing Venezuelan boats out of the water, he has an awful lot of power. And that power is paramount and cannot be really challenged, shouldn't be challenged by judiciary or the legislature. Now, when you now talk about the auto pen and things that, well, you know, I think it's rough water form. You do. Because no matter what you say about Biden, if he authorized something specifically, and he's not going to come in to court and say, you know, oh, by the way, I'd never really authorized this. You know, he's going to say, well, I told Joe Blow that he could do this. I told Joe Smith he could do this. And the fact that one authorizes informally doesn't mean that the people,

president can't do it. The president can informally say, in fact, often does off the record say, I want you to go kill this guy in communist China. That's something the president does and oftentimes does not want there to be a trail of it. So the fact that Biden did some things, we all know, look, we all know the guy's demanded. Sure. I know that the guy, probably there are cowboys running loose there. There are a lot of people that made a lot of money on these pardons. I'm not naive. I think there's an awful lot of pardons that Biden had no idea he was giving.

But all that being the case, it's a very, very tough lift for Trump to prove that. Who is going to come in and say, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I did this without authorization. And is Biden going to say that, no? So Trump's, you know, he's got common sense. The legal system is something that he's not good at. And he doesn't think through the fact that, hey, it's one thing to make a claim. It's one thing to say we all know that something happened. It's another thing to prove it in court to a degree that a judge is going to say,

no, wait a second, I don't want just some allegation that probably makes some sense. you've got to really tie this down for me because you're asking me to do something. And by the way, you're asking me as a judge and maybe to do something that in another day, you're going to say, I don't have power to do, you know? Now, truck could come in and say, okay, it isn't a question of judicial car. I don't need to tell a judge. I'm doing it myself. I'm the executive now.

I don't need a judge, and I'm just going to go do it. Well, okay. Now, I guess do you have the statute then to take someone's pardon and the pardon power, from what I understand, is inviolate? Is that true? That's right. See, that's the thing. I think once Biden, if Biden really did pardon him, and that's a question of fact, that I don't think a court can review. I don't even think if I were Trump's lawyer and he asked me, I'd say, look, Mr. President, I don't think you want a court to go in there and start reviewing what executives do within the sole and exclusive domain of their executive power. Because you could get in the situation where someone starts questioning President Trump's pardoning power, right? That's right. Exactly. Or President Trump's power to blow people out of the water in the Caribbean. that's the same, it's all part of the same concatenation of powers that the Constitution

gives the chief executive. So I don't think he has the power to override what Biden did. I think it's fun for Trump to muse like this. And I think it's good politically. I've actually nothing wrong with it politically to just emphasize. bad the prior regime was. And I think he likes to do that at every turn. And I think that's fine because I think Biden got away with the lot. It was very much unexamined. You and I've talked about this, unexamined by the press. And so I think if Trump gets publicity because of this, and we shine a light on Biden, I say, great. But that's all. That's all we can do, really. I don't expect anything else can be done.

All right. I was wondering about that. So once again, John O'Connor is an attorney and a former federal prosecutor, too, author of Postgate. Now put all that information up here. I want to ask you, though, could the president be getting himself in a bit of a pickle here on the boat blow-ups? Because I've not been a fan of the boat blow-ups, not that I'm a fan of drug running, okay? I am a big fan of avoiding additional political challenges that any Republicans is just going to have trouble navigating in the first place. But what about the law of war in which you are not supposed to shoot the survivors, so to speak?

Any thoughts about that because that's the second strike that seems to be the latest, the latest burble in this controversy? him. Well, once again, you get into, he said, she said, and you do get into the fog of war. Look, I think Barack Obama had a lot of people killed through drone strikes. Especially American citizens, and I called him on that at the time, it's horrible, really. Yeah, yeah. Now, I think the president has power to do it. The real question is political. Does he look good or bad doing it? I think he has power. I mean, to shoot somebody, If he decides he needs to shoot Bill Meyer for national security purposes, I think he can do it. I think politically...

Okay. Could you pause just for a second? I'm going to go over. I have a bulletproof vest over in the corner that I'm going to go put that on if you don't mind, all right? No, I've recommended, Bill, that he'd take you off the list. Okay. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

But my point is that the president does have very wide-ranging national security power. hours, which include, you know, in some cases, assassinations. Obama did it. I don't say it's good. I think it has to be – it should be a political matter, and others we should, you know, sort of have an eye on it. And if we think through the press and the press should be a watchdog, they weren't on Obama, they weren't on Biden, they are on Trump.

But I do think that's healthy. And I think it's healthy for people to be questioning this. I don't think it's terrible to question it. Now, I think it's quite another to assume all facts against the president and say, oh, okay, this is necessarily wrong. This is a war crime. Boy, I can tell you right now it's a war crime. No, I think they're going a little too far. Okay.

What exactly happened here is very, very unclear. And, you know, you get into the, you know, the Geneva Convention and all that. And I think the New York Times actually came to Higgs-Seth's rescue, I think, by saying, look, there's no real evidence that HECSeth had these two guys taken out after the boat had. Yeah, that essentially was blowing the Washington Post, ironically, Washington Post story out of the water, didn't it? That's right. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, you know, these people think they have a hot leave. they get some guy to go a little bit over his ease as to what he really knows. Everybody loves to say they really know what the opposite. And when you really get down to it, who really knows about these things?

Pete Hicks, S. and maybe one or two other people. But the other people that kind of have some knowledge of it that are in somewhere along the chain, you know, they may not. And so every reporter likes to act like he gets a scoop and so forth and so on. but it's quite another to say that you really have the goods. And I think this shows it right here. This is one of the problems with taking this stuff too literally to say, boy, I know that there's a violation here of this or that. Now, it's also, of course, completely hypocritical that all of a sudden these folks care. Yeah, you know how it goes, John. Republicans care about the Constitution when the Democrats are in power and Democrats care about the Constitution when it's a Republican. You know, wash, rinse, repeat. I swear. That's the way it is. Okay.

Well, that's true, although I think that's absolutely true, although I think the media is one-party media, so you don't get the same. Well, yeah, you don't get the same media attention, as you well know. Okay, and I'll concede your point there for sure. Final question I had for you this morning, John, and thank you for letting me pick your brain. Might it be time to actually revisit the AUMF, the authorization for use of military force? Because that was a post-9-11 job law that ended up coming out. And everything, every president's adventures, foreign, you know, adventurism, whether it is Barack Obama, whether it's George W. Bush, whether it's Joe Biden, whether it's President Trump in both. and it all stems from this. It's really kind of a loosey-goosey thing. It's kind of like, all right, yeah, you do what you want.

And it's starting to feel, is there any control from Congress? Well, you know, question whether there should be. There's a wonderful book out by John Yoo, who was a professor who's a professor at Berkeley, and he was instrumental in some of the 9-11. Well, yeah, he was the one that wrote all of the, you know, essentially, yes, this is the excuse this is we need to do. this and yeah he he was the apologist for all that though wasn't he wrote a book called crisis in command which is a masterly uh recounting of the president's national security power since

the time of george washington and the fact is you know uh when the whiskey rebellion comes george washington get on his horse and go open up a can of whoop ass on the whiskey rebels who are american citizens uh there's a wide swath of power And I'm not sure that when you're talking about a police action like Vietnam, this is very much a gray area, Korea or Vietnam. And you could say Venezuela right now, too. Do you need congressional authorization? I say no. I think it's a good idea politically to get it.

And that's why the authorization for military force is so important because it does give the color of sanctioned by the legislature. It's good in these gray areas to get a buy-off from the legislature. But that's a political thing. You're right at this point where it's not clear where the political lines are. And the Constitution was drawn up in a very, very, with very gray areas around the borders. Thomas Jefferson talked a lot about it. Thomas Jefferson didn't think he had authority to do the Louisiana purchase. But he did.

So I'm going to do it anyway. Yeah, yeah. You know, so we have, so I think I'm not against a muscular foreign policy. If you got down into a Hitler thing, yeah, you've got to say, wait a second, this is not in keeping with American values. But beyond that, if the president is legitimately trying to protect us, you don't need, you can't get a doubt. Declaration of War every time, and you can't convene, you know, all these cats and try to corral these cats into one place and get a vote on everything. You can't do it. And so that's why our system is what it is. So I'm in favor of allowing a nice birth to the executive. I think

we ought to watch him. And politically, he should be hurt if he does something that is opposed to our values. It seems like it's a bit nauseating, but that's the way I think it should be. Just what we're doing now is the way it should be. There should be people questioning whether headsets that did this right, but that's where it should be. It should be in the public domain, and it should have political implications if the president goes too far. And that's the way I think the system is meant to work. It's a political thing, and it's a political question. John, it's a great answer, and I thank you so much for your analysis on this. John O'Connor and a former federal prosecutor, still an attorney, he's getting ready to go to court this morning.

He's author of Postgate, how the Washington Post betrayed deep throat, covered up Watergate, began today's partisan advocacy, journalism, postgatethebook.com. I highly recommend the book. John, thank you so much. I know you've got to get back to the day job. Thanks for taking a few minutes with us, okay? Great talk to thee, Bill, as always. All right, pleasure.

832. This is KMED and KBXG. So Pure Talk is dot com, Sundays at 2 on KMED. 35 at KMED. I appreciate you being here. John writes me this morning. John Woodle and my email, by the way, Bill at Billmyershow.com. Bill, from what I know, or maybe what I've been told about the lethality of fentanyl, I don't see how anyone can survive on those boats, whether it be the blast or the fentanyl cloud. Yeah, that one got me stumped. You know, I hadn't even consider that. You know, assuming that it is fentanyl, yeah, blows up, boom,

a little bit of inhalation, and down you go for the count, eh, John? I appreciate it. the email. Emails of the day sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson at Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point

Family Dentistry.com. All right. Say 35 a change. We'll catch up all the rest of the news and then more. From the KMED News Center here as well. America's listening to Fox News. And now the Democrats have been trying to make a big deal

about the affordability thing. Of course, they're borrowing that because they saw, I think Mom Donnie was so successful on preaching this. And yeah, something to be talked about when it comes to affordability, especially insurance. Yeah, I know

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You know how Big Lou, that life insurance guy? He's on wife number two, or he's on meds too. It cracks me up. I always think about that. Big Al the Trade Man. That's a great nickname. Reminds me of my kid growing up in Logan's Ferry Heights is where I lived when I was a little kid. And one of my dad's friends in the neighborhood, Big Pete.

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another great guy. I don't know if you have hair chest that's growing through your shirt or not, but how you doing, Lauren? What's up? Well, since I was born in Pittsburgh, but I'm not your nationality, so to speak, I do have a lot of hair on my chest. Oh, good for you. Go out of here. Anyway, the reason I'm calling is, first off, I want to say, give a kudu to a completed electric. They've done two jobs for me, and they're doing a magnificent job. Great sponsor, yeah. recommended. And of course, Steve's my insurance man, too, so I guess I'm supporting your program there.

But anyway, that's not really the reason I called. The real reason I called was you're talking while I was out walking about 78, 79 interest rates and such as that. The inflation, yeah. Yeah, inflation. Well, I happened to have sold a house in San Jose, California, in 78, and then moved up here to Clameth Falls. And in the process, I was renting for a while, so I put the money in the savings and loan at 15 and a half percent interest. That was the interest at, in the account, right? Yeah, that was it, it was, yeah, I don't remember what I told, but it gave me several thousand dollars more, and it helped me get into a house when I bought it there in

Klamath Falls back in, in October 79. You know, people would listen to that and see the interest rates being paid at banks right now. They think you were crazy. That couldn't be true, right? But it's true. You know, you can trust me, buddy. You got it God takes care of us when we trust him

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Well hold the calls here for just a couple of minutes Because we're going to do an open Speaking of people That we love we do a lot of business with Open for Business And open for business Randall Lee is here Randall of course with Advanced Air

MyAdvanceair.com You can call them at 772-6866 How are you doing this morning, and I guess we're getting into heating season. Is it going nuts with repair calls at this point? Yeah, good morning, Bill. You know, not too bad. There's been a lot of people that have waited to turn on their heat, and I know we have been one in my home, but it's going to start here.

We're getting colder, getting into the below freezing temperatures, and so people are starting to turn on their heat. Don't wait until we have that week of 20-degree weather to try out your heat to see if it work. Yeah, turn them on if you haven't done so. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And the best way to maintain temperature, especially with heat pumps, is to leave them running. If you're waiting until it's really cold and you're like, hey, I'm going to take the edge off. I'm going to turn on the heat pump. You're using more electric-resistant heat if you are turning your heat pump on and off. So the best and most deficient way to use a heat pump

is to leave it running, particularly during the heating season. I really appreciate that. And to your point, I talked about that earlier this morning. Not really isn't going to talk with you. I'm glad you're here. But we figured out that just leaving it on 68 instead of taking it up or taking it

down, we just leave it on 68. Now, my heat pump is more than 20 years old. It's still working fine. It's been maintained real well. You guys know it. You've worked on it. Okay. Yep. But you just leave it on and that way it's never more than one degree away from the set point. And so I think it's a minimal use of the strips. And so it may take a while, or it has to run a lot, but it runs

and it works. Yeah. And once you achieve temperature, you don't want to get off that temperature because, yeah, it takes forever to get back to that temperature unless you're using electric resistant heat and then you're spinning the meter. Yeah. Darn straight. Now, are there any deals right now, any kind of rebates left as we're getting in and ready to wrap up 2025? Yes. Yeah. Energy Trust of Oregon still has some great incentives, and you can save several thousand dollars. Some of them are income qualifying. Some of them are equipment, efficiency qualifying. So Energy Trust of Oregon on their website, you can click through their HVAC program. And our sales staff and office administrators help our clients walk through all of

that and tell them what they're eligible for and whatnot. But there's still some great deals there. Our factory, the Bryant Factory, authorized dealer allows us to extend rebates on qualifying heating and cooling equipment that is usually efficiency qualifying, so the high-end stuff has the greatest savings there. And, you know, that's about it. Some of the rebates are falling off at the end of this year. geothermal being one of them. So we've been talking to a lot of geothermal client because that

30% tax credit expires at the end of the year. So there's some big savings there if you want to move a project forward before that time. I was wondering, Randall, what kind of warranty does a Bryant have? Of course, you really hang your hat on being a Bryant factory authorized dealer, and there must be some real privileges that come with that, and also responsibilities on your part, too, I guess. Yeah. Well, so there's a A one-year satisfaction guarantee when advanced air installs a new Bryant system. Okay. And what that means is for a client, like maybe just a homeowner who says,

hey, we need to change out our furnace and our air conditioner. And maybe they're not satisfied with it after, you know, a few months. We can, there's a few things that the factory can do. Generally, they try to replace equipment if possible. But if they're not satisfied, there is a guarantee. that they can walk through to, you know, make sure that they're satisfied, which is really, which is really cool. Beyond that, there is a 10-year parts warranty, and, you know, we work closely with our distributors to make sure that all of the parts are OEM and, you know, in good

shape and can fix those problems. Oh, so you're not buying compressors, replacement compressors on Amazon, right? Yeah, no. No, we'd get them OEM to the extent possible. And, you know, on some of the, on some of the older equipment, sometimes we've got to get creative and look at the secondary market. But, you know, which reminds me, you know, some of these old commercial buildings in particular that are still on like R-22 refrigerant, you know, those are, those are, that's old technology and to replace some of those things, those systems are hundreds of thousands of dollars. And sometimes we've got to get pretty creative in how we're going to sustain those systems without having the building owner, you know, be liable for a huge replacement cost. Okay. Well, I'm not going to –

The reason I asked you about warranty, I'm not going to name names because this is not your brand. It's a competitor, you know, out there in the world. And there are a lot of them out there. And my sister-in-law dealt with one, probably about. about six, seven, maybe eight years ago. And it was a system that was, it had been nothing. I forget the brand, it's not yours, but it was nothing but trouble. I mean, every year, the compressor goes out.

Every year there's another problem. And it's like, yeah, there might be a warranty. But every time they'd have to come out, and then she'd have to pay hundreds of dollars for the refrigerant, too, you know, every time that this would happen. And, of course, when you hear 10 years, and then they start saying, well, we're not going to support this. The factory doesn't support this anymore. So the factory must have known they have a lemon, right? Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Yeah, so for us, the factory will stand by us if there is such an incident. And trust me, I mean, we see it even within our own brand where, you know, some of the stuff from the factory maybe isn't up to snuff. And so we do run across those issues. But fortunately, Bryant is right there with us as we make it right for the customer. Because every brand has trouble at some point. Nothing's perfect. But it's a matter how it gets handled. That's why I was wondering what the policy was.

Exactly. And generally, outside of the first year, when equipment is still under warranty, the parts are under warranty, but the labor and the refrigerant is additional. in those situations. Yeah, but when you have a situation like she was having, which every year it was like predictable, it's going to explode. That's not real confidence-inspiring.

No, it's not. And you wonder about, you know, potential sizing issues or other mechanical, you know, reasons for the failure. And, you know, and if that's our project, we're looking pretty closely at that. And we wouldn't allow that to happen.

And that's why you say it's very important that someone just come out, like you, you know, over at advanced air, your crew comes out and you properly size it so that way it's perfectly suited. It's not running too much. It's not running too little and cycling, you know, too much, right? There's a reason why you get it sized right. Okay. Well, and to that end, you know, if you're doing a remodel or adding on to your house, maybe finishing out a basement or an attic, consider the HVAC sizing because then all of the sudden if you're trying to condition additional space with an existing unit or an existing system, it wasn't sized for that.

So you're going to have a capacity issue and mechanical failure as a consequence. Yeah, you build an attached garage or a shop or something onto the house, right? It wasn't meant for that. Yeah, good point. Right. Good point. Myadvancedair.com is where you go, and you can call Randall and his crew 24-7. It's 772-6-86-7-7-2-6-86.

A lot of deals still there. And we have not gotten into the prime. Everything blows up heating season yet, so get it started, check it out, and filter, filter, right? Anything else you want to add to it? No, and just keep it running, keep it on set point, and let your system do the work and maintain temperature rather than trying to take corrective actions. And if you go out of town for the holidays and then you come back and you try to recover

20 degrees on a Sunday night or on Sunday, you're going to pay for it. and it's going to take a while. So have reasonable expectations on your equipment as well. Gas heat is a little bit different. You can recover temperature more rapidly when you're adding heat to the space rather than when you're mixing air and exchanging air. Final question I had for you here, and this is just out of a personal thing, is there much call for the dual fuel in which you can have like a heat pump and gas furnace?

Can you do those now? Yeah, we do those and we've done them for 20-plus years. They're not as – they made a big splash. in the early 2000s, and we installed a lot of them. It is a good way to go. It's a little bit more expensive entry point when you're changing at your equipment, but if you have gas and electricity at your property, ask about it. I mean, it's a great solution.

A lot of our maintenance customers are on dual fuel, and what happens is it changes over usually about 35 degrees to gas heat rather than electric. Yeah, and that way, you know, it's like the heat pumps work really great. down to about 36, 35, and then below that, when it was 28 this morning in my house. They don't work so well. Yeah. Yeah. And then it can change over. One other quick thing I would also like to say to the audience is if you have a mini-split, they've become a lot more common over the last few years. Those have washable filters in them. A lot of people aren't aware of that. And, you know, they'll go years without washing a filter. They're not on a plan maintenance agreement. There's a little

cabinet, a door, usually on the top of the unit, you can flip that door open and slide a filter out, and you can wash that. If you're having trouble with your indoor wall-mounted air handler on a mini-split, oftentimes it's because there's a filter that somebody didn't know about there. Good point. I didn't know. All right. Yeah. Myadvancedair.com, Randallee over at Advanced Air, 772-6-866. Thanks for being on Open for Business. Okay, be well. Thank you, Bill.

854 and change. This is KMED. For precision and perfect R-X is not insurance. Hi, I'm Paul Strander with Valley View Nursery and I'm on KMED. Hey, Adam, you were calling about the friend of the bear attack victim in Gold Hill, who was painting a different picture of what was going on. What was your thought about that? I got about a minute and a half left, so we'll have to kind of make hay here with

go ahead okay uh so my thought was and she seemed a little confrontational which i understand because sometimes the news paints bad picture yeah um but also the start of the story where you know you let your dog out you live in goldhill your fence isn't your gate's not closed you know there's a bear around uh you let your dog out and then you go out searching for your dog with food in your hand and you don't have a firearm i just don't understand that what was going on. I don't, that story just seemed like, it didn't make, didn't make a lot of sense. Well, they're on each other. Yeah, well, it could be, like I said, it's just their side of the story. The newspaper story, of course, said something rather different, and maybe things are being

revised right now. And, you know, it's, well, it's kind of like even the reporting that comes out of Venezuela, right? You know, here about, you know, was there two missiles, whereas or not who ordered it? There's the fog of war. And I guess there's the fog of social media. and everybody else after that. Exactly. So I don't want to, you know. Yeah, I don't want to blame the victim here on something like that, but I just know that, frankly, if you're in bear country out there,

it would most likely be wise if you're in rural Gold Hill to be carrying. I would agree with you on that, but not everybody is, you know, capable or emotionally set up for that. So I don't want to blame them too much, Adam. Okay. And, yeah, I'm not, I'm not upset with her for going to find her. dog and you know and not carrying a firearm no one not not everyone has to carry a firearm but you know I think just you got a little smarter about what situation you're walking into yeah it's a very good

point maybe we'll talk more about it tomorrow but thanks for wrapping up the show this morning Adam be well okay uh when it comes to buying or selling a house you don't take advice from artificial intelligence hey it's Lars a good local human real estate agent knows your neighborhood inside it out from property values to hidden issues to school's traffic patterns and