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Episode Date: December 6, 2025

Dr. John Lott, founder of Crime Prevention Research Center - 7-11 fires a female clerk who chose defending her life over company policy and got fired. What do the stats say?? D62 quiz follows, open phones and more wrap the hour.

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. Well, I want to know more about crime, especially crime statistics. Well, I go right to the guy who is all about crime, and that is Dr. Lott, Dr. John Lott, Jr. And, of course, he's the founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Crime Research.org. He's also a world-recognized experts on guns and crime.

Doctor, it is a pleasure having you back on. Welcome, sir. Oh, well, thanks. It's great to talk to you again. You have a story that a commentary that was put out in real clear politics the other day about a 7-Eleven employee or a former 7-Eleven employee who ended up getting sideways of the corporate masters and had to do with Second Amendment rights and defending life. What happened?

Can you tell us? Yeah, there's this 25-year-old. old woman who was working the night shift from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. at 7.11 in Oklahoma. And a man came up, tried to pass a $100 fake bill. She refused to take the money. He got upset, started throwing things at her, threatened to cut off her head. Yikes. She tried to call the police at that point on him. And he came over, grabbed her, started choking her.

And at that point, she pulled out her a concealed handgun and shot him. So, you know. Was he dead right there? One of those kind of situations, like boom, gone at that point, you know? Yeah. Okay. And he was an individual who had outstanding felony warrants. Imagine that.

And had apparently a long, long list of crimes that he was accused of or had been convicted of in the past. And this woman had three kids at home. And so she was basically saying that she's glad that she's going to be able to go home to take care of our little ones. that was going through her mind when this guy was threatened to kill her and choking her. But 7-Eleven has a policy that

employees are supposed to just behave passively and not have guns for protection. This is a clear case where she would have died or at least been extremely seriously injured if she hadn't

had the gun there. And And so the piece that was wrote up basically goes through the numbers just saying that it's a real misnomer, real kind of statistical malpractice for people to go and say that passive behavior is the safest course of action for somebody to take. Yeah, I was wondering about that if you're in a situation because you see that happens so often. So many of the major corps are going, oh, no, don't fight, don't chase, don't do anything. Well, I can understand don't go chasing anybody down the street or something like that. that, then you're kind of asking for trouble. I get that. But if you just do what they say at all times and just, what, did she have a duty to die according to the Southland Corporation or 7-Eleven, whoever owns them now? Is that what was going on?

I mean, so there's something called the National Crime Victimization Survey, which surveys about 240,000 people each year. And that survey goes through all sorts of aspects about crime victims, you know, characteristics of the criminal, how you responded, what the outcome was. And what they find is that if you lump all forms of active resistance together, past behavior is slightly safer. And that's kind of the basis for this policy. The problem is, in that when you're lumping together all forms of active resistance, there's

many of them which are much more dangerous than passive behavior, particularly for women. But one, having a gun, is much safer. So, for example, for a woman, you're almost always talking about a male criminal doing the attack. Usually a larger, a larger criminal, right? Usually larger and stronger than the female. Men are larger on average and stronger, physically, on average. And what you find is that the most dangerous course of action for a woman to take, if she's confronted by a criminal, is to use your fist.

Because if she uses your fist, it's very likely to get a physical response back from the attacker. The second most dangerous course of action is to run away. Now, if you can run away and escape, that's great. But women tend to be significantly slower runners than men are in the process of being tackled and subdued. There can be serious injuries that occur to the woman. And then there are other things like using a baseball bat or a knife.

The problem with that is that for a woman to use those, she has to get into close physical contact. And the problem with being up close and personal, if you don't mind me jumping ahead there, is that guys going to grab her, smaller, or maybe stop the attack because she's right there against him, right? If you're up close and personal with a gun or with a knife, like you would mention, or a bat. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, if you ever take a concealed carry class, one of the things that you're told is, look, you're not the police. Your job isn't to go and arrest somebody. The benefit that you get from having a gun is to try to keep the criminal away from you. So a woman in particular doesn't have to get into physical contact with the attacker.

And if you look at the data, what you find is that women who behave passively are about 2.5 times more likely to end up being seriously. injured than a woman who has a gun. Men also benefit, but on average, there's a much larger strength difference that exists between a man and a woman than between two men. So if I were to understand your crime statistics, Dr. Lott, then if you have a male attacker, a potential male victim, sometimes maybe the male victim can get away with just, hey, do what the guy says and move along right but when you have the female victim it's really bad idea is what you're telling me when you look at the statistics of what happens

I think it's a bad idea for any I think it's a bad idea for any of the victim male or female but it's particularly bad for women that makes sense so and uh um you know it's just unfortunate that many of these companies don't understand the data that's there. Are they doing this out of fear of liability if they don't prohibit the carry of a personal firearm of their employees? Is that what they're doing this for? Is it about the liability aspect or implied liability? I think that's related.

I think that's related to it. But that also gets back to the data because they think the case that they can make with regard to that you know they can't make a good argument for why somebody should be able to go and protect themselves you know in this case this woman clearly would have been in really bad shape if she hadn't been able to protect herself she tried calling the police she she would stop before she was able to get a hold of the police uh the guy was strangling her which had made explicit comments that he was going to kill her. Oh, wow.

Well, he talked about cutting her head off when she wouldn't take the $100 bill or whatever that money was that she was handing her. By the way, we're talking about the woman's name is Stephanie Dealliard, is the person we're talking about. And she did survive this, but it's because she had her firearm and took care of business right then as he was strangling her. The guy was strangling her, and then she pulled the, boy, I'll tell you. you know if it had been waiting for the police to show up she mightly or rightly would have

been dead by that time i would imagine wouldn't that be fair you've been able to successfully make her call to the police it's not like you could always go and tell the criminal could you please wait before attacking me so that i can go and call the police and let them know that you're threatening me that they're not you know she just wasn't able to complete the call Are there any major employers in the United States that do recognize this right and don't explicitly tell their employees, hey, don't resist, whatever you do, don't use a firearm or whatever it is. If they're attacking you, well, just call police and probably they show up in time. Is there anybody that's actually smarter about this than 7-Eleven is, apparently? Yeah, I mean, look, I don't have a systematic list of them, but you hear robberies at jewelry stores.

or other things where employees, you know, have used guns to try to thwart the attack in those places. You know, there are a couple of things here. One is the fact that certain places have reputations for not allowing their employees to resist or protect themselves, you know, you think that those make them better targets, you know, that they're more likely to have crimes committed against their employees in those places. and not only that, but they're obviously going, from what we were just talking about, be more likely to end up being injured.

Dr. John Lott, Jr., Crime Prevention Research Center, crimeresearch.org, we're talking about this case and also his op-ed piece, which is on real clear politics. She saved her life, 7-Eleven fired her, and I've heard stories like this before. Your takeaway, though, according to the crime statistics, is that, is that the most dangerous form of resistance is to fight with fists, right? That's the one thing that you're... For a woman.

Yeah, for a woman. Okay. And the safest option for a woman confronted by a criminal is to have a firearm. That is the bottom line. That is what the crime statistics end up bearing out over the research you've been doing all these years. Right. Well, I mean, there's a lot of academic studies that look through the national crime victimization survey data and that's what they consistently find and you know this this has been

basically true over the 52 years that the uh department of justice has been putting this data together for i guess the policy then uh if if you're going to be smart about it protecting your own life it's like okay and maybe you carry even if your employer doesn't like it the whole idea is uh better to lose your job than to not be around anymore to see your family huh right Well, I mean, that's exactly what this woman said. She said, you know, obviously she's a single mom, taking care of her kids. She worked during the night so that she could be with them during the day. And, you know, but the thought that kept going through her mind is that she had to stay alive

to be able to go back to take care of her kids. That's kind of curious here, Dr. Lott. I don't know if you investigated this as part of any of the story, but would 7-Eleven have been liable to the family, to the estate of her family, had she been murdered by the dirtbag that took her on at the 7-Eleven? Do you know? No, I don't think so. And the problem is that this is standard practice in much of the industry, and that's basically the defense that they have. but they tell you not to fight don't fight back don't have a firearm but then we're also not responsible

if you are murdered because you're passive and then someone who's bigger and stronger takes you down boy that's not a great employment agreement is it no and of course as we just said it probably increases the probability that you're going to have robbery attempts at those stores because they know that it's relatively easy to go and commit the crime there. They don't have to worry about the employees stopping them because the employees will just comply with them. Dr. John Lott, Jr., once again, he's the founder of Crime Prevention Research Center. He's also an economist, worldwide recognized expert on guns and crime.

He just crunches these numbers all the time. Dr. We may have a question here for you. I'm just going to go live without a net. Hi, good morning. You want to ask a question of Dr. Lott? Go ahead. Yeah, I wonder why we don't have preemptive, safe waste, like an alarm, a very loud, audible alarm boats in the store and outside the store,

which the person who has access to from a pendant, which they could wear around their neck, which would scare the burglar and or the robber away, because it would be so loud, it would be heard outside as well as inside, would automatically dial the police, and so that enunciation could come over to a loudspeaker inside, side of the store that said police are on their way and give a little notice to runaway. Yeah, kind of like I've fallen and they can't get up sort of penned, but this time for calling

the police in this particular case. Dr. Lott, I don't know, is there any talk about that kind of stuff? You ever hear about that? In the crime of stores have, you know, like under the counter will have a button or something that you can press to do that. Those are usually silent. I don't know any that make a large, long, loud, a long, alarms. All right. But, you know, the thing is, you may be talking about a police response time of six minutes or something on average, you know, if it's good. Yeah, and you could be murdered in that six minutes of time, right? Right.

I mean, the criminal can finish committing the crime and leave easily within that period of time. Our bottom line, though, is that the statistics show you're better, especially if you're a female there. Well, it's good for a guy, too, but trying to confront the man directly is probably not a good winning strategy, according to the statistics. And the firearm is the better choice in this particular case. I appreciate that story. I'm going to share that. And while I'm going to add it here, Dr. Lott, I want to ask you about a different story. I know that gun owners of America is suing the United States.

are suing the administration, I don't think it's the administration, could be suing the ATF, I forget. But they're now saying that since the tax was removed from suppressors, sometimes called silencers, but actually a firearm suppressors, since the tax was removed, there's no reason to have to register them or do a background check or all that other sort of stuff. I'm kind of curious, since you are into all of these crime statistics, how many crimes are committed with people carrying around fire, arms with suppressors. How many criminals are doing that? Do we have any stats on that? Do you know? Sure. They're about 3.5 million legally owned suppressors in the United States. And if you look over the last decade, there's something like 44 crimes that were committed with with suppressors on the guns. So it's, you know, a tiny, tiny fraction of 1%. Boy, it's like a rounding error. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So the whole thing. idea, so this whole idea of Hollywood conditioning us to think that suppressors are about snipers and assassins and criminals that are going ready to do their bad stuff just doesn't play out that way in real life, does it? Yeah, you're talking about about four cases a year, basically, and Hollywood makes it seem like these are silencers, that they actually silence the gun, and that's not true. It's still about as loud as a jackhammer, basically, or like, if you're... It's just less damaging to your hearing.

It's less, you know, you could, many cases you can have or not use hearing protection depending on what caliber you're talking about, but it reduces it to the point where maybe it's not damaging, but it's still loud, right? Yeah, exactly. All right. Point well taken. Crime Research.org, read up on this, and I'll also link to the real clear politics op-ed here with Dr. John Lott.

Doctor, you are always welcome back, and I thank you so much for telling some truth about this, crime statistics. Well, thank you for being there. I appreciate it. You bet you. You'd be well. And Merry Christmas, okay? And I'm glad that Stephanie, the woman we were talking about, is going to be able to

have a Christmas this year. That is for sure. This is the Bill Myers Show. It's KMED, 831. For reliable well-water service. Our key broadcasting family, because local and family matters. News Talk 1063 KMED. This is the Bill Myers Show.

It's 833. I appreciate you being here. We'll kickoff, find your phone Friday. Happy to take your calls at 770-K-M-E-D. Okay. Now, is it Brian? Brian and Robriver? Yeah.

Okay, Brian, I didn't write your name down as we're getting ready to do our stuff. You have a question you could have asked Dr. Lott, but I was wrapping things up with him. And what was that? It's a good question. Is there any statistics regarding less than lethal? Kind of like what you said, the burner, stuff like that. Yeah, the burner. And I don't know off the top of my head, and I haven't read an article on that with him.

What I'm going to do, though, is that every time I talk with him, I always send him a copy of the interview, and he likes that. And I have his email, so I will ask him that question. I'm going to tell you, I know that there are a bunch of people pushing it right now, Hannity and others, I'm kind of of the opinion that if it gets to the point serious enough that I have to pull something to defend myself, as far as I'm concerned, if the person is dead right there, I don't care. It's kind of where I am, but, you know, your mileage may vary. Yeah. I mean, I was already presented with a situation a year ago that I told the guy I had

gun if he had closed the distance anymore, I would have had to use it. The burner may have helped the situation. Maybe not. But thankfully, the guy backed off. Well, that's good. I'm glad to hear that. I mean, the best gunfight that you can have is the one that's avoided, right? Yep. And the real joke about that 7-11 employee, if she had given the money to the perm, she would have been fired anyway. You know, you're right. Yeah. I bet you're right.

Man, irony. You know, heads, she loses, tails 7-Eleven wins, right? Yep. Oh, boy. I appreciate the call. Thank you for that. 770KMED.

Hello, Matt. How are you? What's on your mind? The narco boats. Okay. We're talking the drug boat blowing up hers. Let's hear it. So I've been listening to the debate on both sides, and then I heard some commentary from politicians after they saw the videos where they hit the same boat twice.

And I've come to the conclusion that I'm for it. Because yesterday, it hit me. I said, you know what? What if those were canisters of poison gas that were being used to poison Americans? Forget it being drugs. What if it was poison gas? I looked this up. In World War I, about 90,000 soldiers from all sides were killed, mostly from fosgene or chlorine gas and some from mustard gas.

So those are chemicals of mass destruction. We've lost 300,000 Americans on drug overdoses, and the number came down a little bit because of Narcan. But what we're really arguing about here is the method of murder. That's what we're debating. But I haven't heard anybody point this out. It may be just because I came to it myself yesterday, but that's really what's being debated. It's like, well, if it were chemical gases that were being used against Americans and killing 100,000 Americans over the last three or four years, we would obviously be taking these boats out. And no one would say anything.

But because it's a gas Well, no, I don't know if it's an exact, I don't know if that's as clean an analogy as you may think because the point of, the fact of the matter is the one thing we can't get past is that nobody forces someone to take a drug. Well, that was the point I was about to.

Yeah, which is not what happens when you're talking FOS gene and attackive gases. But it's similar, but it's not. may not a perfect, not a perfect analogy. Okay, but you've got to consider this, though, whether it's voluntarily taken or it's forced upon you, the result is the same. So what we're saying is, well, we recognize that poisonous gas or weapons of mass destruction, but because somebody came up with a better mousetrap, which is to get Americans to gas themselves

because they're a bunch of drug addict, that that somehow takes the second seat to something that, you know, oh, well, because I take it, it's not murder, because I'm taking it. But if it's forced upon me, then it is murder. If the result is the same, because I think what we're arguing here is war tactics today versus war tactics a hundred years ago. Yeah. Well, no, I see where you're coming from. I really do. Yeah. My point, my, I guess my point about this, though, is that you volunteered to take it. Gosh, you know, it's the same kind of logic that was used to push prohibition

in the United States too, though? Because people died and... That's a different argument, though. They were making a different argument. All I'm saying is you have outside forces saying if we want to kill a lot of Americans between 18 and 44 years old, we know Americans

have drug abuse issues. We don't have to out and out gas them. And I will tell you this. When we take a jet and we bomb something, something, that gets way more attention than when we use a drone. Okay, fair enough. All right, Matt, hey, I appreciate the opinion.

Like I said, I don't think it's a perfect analogy, but I understand where you're coming from. Appreciate your call. 7-70KMED. Let me grab another one here. I want to make sure to get everybody in. Hi, who's this morning? Hey, it's Logan, Bill.

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Okay. Now, what is that? Nobody knows what you're talking about. That's the Bank of England. They control the price of silver and gold for the world. Yeah, they, oh, that's right. They claimed that there was a problem in the cooling system, right? It's a horse pucky. It is what it is. I mean, how long have we been mining for gold and silver bill? Forever. That's correct. For every ounce of gold, you get out of the ground, how many ounces of silver do you get? Sometimes 20. Depends. Wow. Yeah, that you're on a good claim. Well, the majority of the silver deposit,

they sit closer to the top of the earth. That said, the historical average has been one to nine, one to seven. Okay. Throughout history, the, the main GSR gold to silver ratio has been one to 16. It's the historical, the most historical average. We're at 71, the last I checked, 71 to 1 now, Bill. Yeah, I know. You're trying to make the case then that the price of silver should soar much higher because

of that ratio. And I get that. I don't know if any price is automatically going to soar because of that. it's still going to be based on demand, but the one thing I'll say is it, demand has sword. Okay. Appreciate the call, Logan. 770KMED. I want to keep going with everybody else.

Get your stuff in here on Find Your Phone Friday. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Hello. Hey, Bill, it's Brad. Good morning. Brad, go ahead.

Bill, good morning to you. Hey, so, you know, the day after tomorrow, believe it or not, is the 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Can you believe that? Yeah, I can because it's. December 11th. Yes. December 7th, so yeah. December 7th, pardon me. December 7, 1941, we were attacked, you know,

Roosevelt said the day that it'll live in infamy. And yet the United States who started that war with a lot of our army, believe it or not, on horseback, built with the help of the American industrial machine, our greatest generation, mounted an unbelievable offense, got into World War II, and the Japanese had to sign a true September 2nd, 1945. It's easily one of the most magnificent feats of manufacturing and military might in the history of the planet. And the reason that's kind of important to me is my dad served in World War II. My dad's birthday was yesterday.

He would have been 100 years old yesterday, and he enlisted and served mustard out in 1946. But I just, every time I think about that, I'm just so impressed with what America's greatest generation did and how it changed the course of history for the entire planet. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, I would. I would agree with you. My grandfather, though, always told me, William, you do know that FDR knew about this. And he served under patent, so he was involved in this thing.

Does that change your opinion about what happened about that? What led up to this? Right. Well, what your grandfather said has been debated by a lot of people was Roosevelt an accomplice and allowed it to have it on purpose to drag the country into the war? I don't know. I think it was. I think he did. Yeah.

I think, you know, this whole, well, this whole concept is conceit that we have that our federal government, that our government or any government for that matter truly cares about its people can always be discounted, in my opinion. But here's a question. is there any doubt that without the United States, the outcome of World War II would have been entirely different if we wouldn't have gotten involved when we did. Yeah, I would guarantee that it certainly would have been different. I have no doubt about that. But, yeah, you know, FDR, no different than Stalin, you know,

when you want to do something, you've got to break a few eggs. And, of course, if it's your family's eggs, I guess that she's too bad, hey, Brad? I'm just glad your father survived it, okay? Yeah, he did. All right. It's good to remember, and I remember the sacrifice that was made that day. Appreciate the call. KMED, good morning.

Who's this? Hey, Delitz, Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia. Hey, there's an incredible film out called Lookup. And just Lookup, excuse me, if people type that in or if they want to email me, I'll email them the link. But Patrick Woods in it and his good friend, who's a Ph.D. in Forestry, Dr. Michael Kaufman.

And he saw the top of the trees were dying, so they got up there and they found all these metals that Patrick, bottom line, says there's no way those just got there. These are all being sprayed on us. And there was also a NASA study from 1975 to 1994. The clouds were the biggest cause of the global warming. And also a NOAA study in 1995 to 2007, that they were accidentally creating greenhouse gases reflecting sunlight. They have a program called Satan, Stratosphere Air Self Transport and Nucleation Program. People deny that they're spraying us. The last point I want to make, those are stratosphere clouds.

Those are plasma clouds. They contain no water. That's why they do not look like cumulus clouds. They have no water in them. Okay, well, thank you for the meteorological update there, Lucretia. And now you're going to make me want to look up Satan for a different reason. Appreciate the call. Okay, 770-5-633. It's open phones.

I'll grab one more, and then we're going to have to break for a diner's quiz, and then we'll go back to some phones and we've got some time. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning. This is Jerry. Hi, Jerry. I just had a little quick comment. If this war on fentanyl and the Caribbean is being effective, the price on the street, the fentanyl should be getting very much higher.

Do you know if it's getting higher? Just curious. Well, but the price should be going up. Yeah, is the price going up, do you know? I don't buy fentanyl, so I couldn't tell you. Well, I don't either, but that's, you know, that's one real solid indicator that it's working. Yeah, we'll see if that ends up happening, and if all of a sudden our addicted homeless end up having to steal two or three times as much, we'll know it's a success, I guess, huh? Yeah, that's pretty much it. Okay, appreciate the call.

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There's the turkey and the hot, the pot roast sandwiches, all this. This kind of, it's all going on there right now. Let me see if I just lost my quiz. Ah, here we go. Here is the quiz. Hot open face sandwiches are back there. You got to check that out. And remember today is Clam Chowder Friday.

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Welcome to the Bill Meyer Show. on 1063 KMED. Give Bill a call at 541-770-5-633. That's 720 KM-E-D. I couldn't help myself. I did take a bite of breakfast burrito a little bit early during the break. I was just too hot. It just was too good.

All right. Diner 62, Real American Quiz. You can get that breakfast burrito special or anything else you want, okay? Let me go to Calvin. Hello, Calvin. How you doing this morning? Couldn't be better, Bill. Glad to hear this.

Calvin, let's see if we can make you a word. winter. It was yesterday in history, December 4th, 1982, that President Bush ordered U.S. troops to Somalia. Somalia is in the news cycle right now, certainly for a lot of corruption out of Minnesota and a bunch of other things. But, yeah, George H.W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia, where rival warlords were stopping the distribution of humanitarian aid to thousands of starving Somalis. In a military mission, he described as God's work, President Bush said that America must act to save more than a million Somalis, but reassured Americans that this operation is not open-ended and that we will not stay one day longer than absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, the troops became embroiled in the conflict, and that mission stretched on for 15 months before being called off by President Bill Clinton after the Battle of Mogadishu, October 3rd and 4th, which is better known now, is Black Hawk Down.

The question this morning, Calvin, how many soldiers died during that battle? Was it A, three, was it B, six, was it C, 12, was it D-18, or E-24? How many died on what we now know as Black Hawk Down? What do you say? I think it was 24. Was it 24? No. It was something, but it was not that.

I appreciate the call. Let me go on to the next person. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Welcome. This is Lauren. I need a point. Hey, Lauren. How you doing this morning? Was it 3, 6, 12, or 18? How many soldiers died in that battle, Black Hawk Down? We know better as now. I'm going to go with three. You're going to go with three. Is it three? No, it's more than that. Thanks, Lauren.

Hello, caller. Who's this? Yeah, this is James from Grants Fast. Hey, James, we got 6, 12, or 18. How many soldiers ended up dying in that battle? I'm going to go with 18. 18. Yeah, you're right. When President Bush ordered a large U.S. military force to the area, it was the first phase of Operation Restore Hope. And like his predecessor, Clinton anxious to bring the Americans home in May, the mission formally handed back to the U.N. by June of 1993,

only 4,200 U.S. troops remained. However, on June 5th, 24 Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers were ambushed and massacred by Somali soldiers under the warlord General Muhammad I did, or I did, okay? But that's anywhere what ended up triggering all of that. We're going to send you to Diner 62, and I would try that breakfast burrito if you haven't done so. You ever had that? Ever had that there? Yeah, I have, and the chicken, bright steak and eggs is amazing.

Oh, absolutely. God's food, as far as I'm concerned. Hang on, and we'll get you all set up here. Another Diner's 62 quiz. We will have that next week. 770 5633-770 KMED. This is the Bill Maher's show. Happy to take it.

Vote for you based on this alone. How are we going to punish people who are caught with an illegal weapon? Five years automatic. There you go. I guarantee you that would put a big dent in it, if not take it all the way out. Think of how many black lives would be saved if that happened? Yes. Weekdays 9 to noon on 1063 KMED.

Hi, I'm Corey with Patriot Electric and I'm on KMED. Don't have a lot of time left. We'll try to squeeze a couple more calls in on Find Your Phone Friday. Hello, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Welcome. National finals rodeos on.

Oh, yeah? How do you see it, horse lady? Oh, boy. Cowboy Channel in the evening. So this is your thing. This is like your event, huh? Well, it's pretty darn good. This is the Super Bowl of rodeo.

Boy, I'll tell you, those are some crazy people. They're really something to watch, aren't they? Oh, boy. How they do it, I'll never know. What is that channel again? One more time. It's on Cowboy Channel. Oh, the Cowboy Channel.

Okay. I didn't know the way. Yeah. You know, there are so many. There are things on my dish that I don't even know what they are. I've never even looked at them, so I'll have to look that up. Okay. Cowboy Channel is 232.

All right. Appreciate the tip. On dish. Thank you. Happy rodeo. All right. Well, you know what the horse lady is going to be doing, huh? Hi, good morning.

This is Bill. Who's this? Hey, Bill. It's wild salmon. Steve. It's on your mind. Well, yesterday we were talking about cameras and why the police were wanting him to be up and how everybody's against them. I had another thought that my old 1947 brain took a while.

My processor's old and slow. On one of the news channels, I had a guy that was pushing AI, and he was pushing the digital currency. And the reason he was pushing it was because he said, the AI needs more input, more data. So if you cross-reference that with cameras and AI, it's more data. Oh, and so that way they have more information about your purchasing habits, also where you are spending it, where you are traveling, et cetera, that kind of thing? Yeah, technocracy is creeping.

Yeah, and we're not really being as permission, are we? Yeah, absolutely. They don't care whether you want them to do it or not. I'm starting to think more and more that AI is really a malevolent thing. We're going to have Judge Dredd one of these days. Yes, the AI, I am the law. All right, maybe he should have Sylvester Stallone's voice from that movie. I am the law. Thank you, Steve. I'll grab another quick one, hi. And then I have a great giveaway. here to wrap the week. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. It's Francine. Hi, Francine. Can you give me a quick one here? Yeah. I wanted to mention something. You mentioned cholesterol earlier this morning.

Yes. And that you're having, the doctor says you have issues. You have to remember that if you look back, do some research, if you don't believe me, they keep lowering the number. I know. Okay? Okay. So it's like they're doing everything they can to keep people, to get people to get on these statins. Go look up some information. Look up cholesterol with a Midwestern doctor. I have a friend of mine in which the doctor is claiming that she needs to get her cholesterol down to 90. Oh, that's insane. I know. Look, I'm telling it. Okay, look it up. A Midwestern doctor,

he's got a fabulous article about it. All right. I certainly will. Francine, thank you for the weekend, for the weekend send-off. Okay. Now then, tomorrow, We have, tomorrow and Sunday, the 34th Annual Safeway Providence Festival of Trees is back. All sorts of sponsors have been doing. This is great fun. This is non-political. You just go out there, Providence Festival of Trees benefiting the Providence Community Health Foundation, and it's just going to be an incredible deal at the Medford Army.

It's beautiful. Everybody loves this. You want to take the family. Well, I'll tell you what. If you are caller 12 at 770-5633-770 K-M-E-D, I will give you a pair of those tickets. It would be like 12 and 13. Caller 12 and caller 13, 770-5633-770 KM-E-D, and have a very merry Christmas, and you'll certainly do that this weekend at the Medford Armory with the Providence Festival of Trees.

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