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Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Mr. Outdoors joins and we dig into outdoor news, other stuff. D62 quiz, open phones and other topics

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Minor Dave. Hello, Minor Dave. So we're looking for something to put under your Christmas tree this year, and that would be a new transmission for your Ford F-150, right? Or your F-250, right? Or your F-250? Yes. And it's a Type-E. Type-E.

So if anybody has a Type-E transmission, they'd be willing to part with. That's what we're looking for on Bill's List. This is Bill's List on the radio, okay? Not Craig's List. Right. Bill's List. I wish every Merry Christmas. All right.

Now, is that a Mazda transmission, like some guy said, yesterday? You know? It doesn't appear to be. Okay. It's not a five-speed. It's a four-speed. Oh, it's a four-speed. Stick-shift, right?

Because it has one-two-drive, you know, and then it's got the overdrive. Okay, so it's one through three and an overdrive or one-through-four in an overdrive? It's one-two-three. One-two-three and then an overdrive. Okay, so it's got the overdrive. Gotcha. And duly noted type E for the Ford, okay? Thank you.

Yeah, type E like in Everest. All right. Well, I'll see. There we go, Dave Everest. I'll remember that. Thanks, Mider, Dave. Appreciate the call. So that's what we're looking for on Bill's list. In fact, maybe we should do that on Friday. We'll just have like, you know, the old, my boss and I were talking about the old Tradyo programs that used to happen years ago. And Mr. Outdoors would remember that. Greg Roberts over atrogweather.com. How are you doing, Greg? I'm doing good, Bill. Yeah, I definitely remember Tradio. I worked at, um...

Was it Casey MX back then when you were working there? Yes, I did in playing, Phil. Yeah. Well, because I was thinking that, all right, maybe Friday, 8 o'clock, my boss and I were talking about this the other day, and I was wondering if people would be interested in like the old tradeo in which we just throw out the regular talk on Friday, maybe 8 o'clock, 8 to 9. I'm just thinking about.

And then we just say, okay, what do you have to sell? What would you trade for? You know, all those kind of things. And we will continue to, you know, do that kind of stuff and get into the weekend. You think that would work? Would people be interested in that, you think? You know what? Honestly, I think they would. And, you know, what probably killed that more than anything else, number one, automation in the station. Number two, all the online sourcing. But I'll tell you what, there is a radio station here in Southern Oregon that I think is still doing it.

And anytime I get within range of their signal, I actually love listening to it because you'll be listening along and sometimes you'll hear a great deal pop up. Yeah. And I don't know if these people don't know what their item is worth or if they're just truly wanting to unload it. But Tradio, the greatest part about it was you used to find the most amazing buys. and I found on this station one day I was listening, and this guy called up and said, I've got this little chief smoker described what he had, and he said, I'm selling it for 25 bucks,

which was a screaming deal. Oh, it's a screaming deal for a little chief smoker. And I called him immediately and got in touch with him right away and wound up buying that little chief, and I gave it to my dad, and my dad had that little chief. until he passed away. He had his Trager, and he loved his Trager, but he said sometimes you just can't beat the little chief. Exactly. Well, I was wondering about that, maybe what we could do,

and I do, now, of course, me having some ego here, we can call it Bill's List instead of Craigslist, right? Bill's Radio List. Yeah. I think that actually be a great idea. Well, okay, I'll be like Donald Trump. I have to put my name on it, right? You've got to do that. Well, yeah. Oh, by the way, speaking of ego, and, you know, cool things. Congratulations again on your recognition from Jackson County. I thought that was a very cool thing. Yeah, that really was.

Thank you very much. And it's quite the honor, and I hope to continue to, well, be worthy of that in the future. And maybe Tradyo and Bill's List on a Friday, maybe we can do that. Maybe we will start small, maybe 830 to 9. Maybe we'll start that way. Yeah, do it in baby steps, watch and see how it goes. But, you know, honestly, it's one of those things that people just intrinsically love. And for older people who can't figure out eBay, who can't figure out Marketplace,

who can't figure out Craigslist, any of that stuff, and there is a lot of them out there, believe me when I tell you, they're going to love this because what's easier than making the phone call and going, Yeah, I got this little aluminum car topper type boat that's got a trailer. Yeah. If you can have it for 500 bucks, that kind of thing. Well, I'll talk with the boss about it. Maybe we'll formulate and see where we go with this because I'd like to do this. Because my issue is I no longer – you know, I even have worked with old stereos, old tube radios.

You know I do that stuff for fun just at home. I don't do it to make money. And the thing is, if I try to sell stuff on eBay – the percentage that they're taking now, along with the postage, doesn't work. But on the other hand, I could say, hey, I have a vintage radio here, and for me, you know, 20 bucks. 20 bucks, I'm happy to see it have a new home, and it goes to somebody that likes it, and, you know, and I don't have to ship it to anybody, you know, those kind of things. I can see how that would be valuable, you know. Believe me, Bill, you're not the only one like that.

Like I said, there's a considerable portion, especially of this audience. that just flat doesn't know how to deal with what I'm going to call the cyber marketplace and doesn't want to. And this kind of thing, this tradeo idea, is perfect for them. Yeah, I was doing tradeo in Barstow, my very first radio job, and that was 1980, 45 years ago, September of, because I was doing the morning show. And so I was doing morning news, rather. And then once the morning guy was done, then at 9 o'clock, I would take over and do tradeo. to start off. And, of course, the first thing I bought was a...

Gosh, what was it? It was a little Honda, not a moped. No, yeah, it was a little Honda moped at that time because the car that I was driving at that point, and you're going to laugh when you hear the car that I drove into Barstow for my first radio job. 1961 Sunbeam Rapier. Do you ever remember those calls?

Oh, my goodness. That old British car? Yes. With the Lucas Prince of Darkness electrical system, you know wow and so what happened i pull into town and it threw a rod and just punched a hole in the block and it was just dead and you know a 1961 car for a sunbeam rapier that didn't have a lot in the united states in the first place you try to find there was no there was nothing for a poor dj at that time to uh to find oh yeah no but the rapier yeah i've only seen one of the

those directly in person ever. Yeah, it was like, it looks like one of those Inspector Clouseau kind of cars. You would see anyone to go, me, me, you know, that kind of thing. You nailed it. Yeah. Seriously, as soon as you said that,

I go, oh, that's a perfect description. It looks like it should be in a Peter Sellers, Inspector Cluso movie. Yeah, and it was an interesting car. I never told you the story about this, Greg, but after the block, it sat in the backyard. of the radio station for a while because there was no way it was going to be fixed.

Well, I ended up getting my 77 Impala back from my mother. The rapier was actually my mother's car and she bought from her boss. And so I ended up so I ended up getting my 77 Impala back from Mom and then brought it down to Barstow, hitched the rapier up

and then towed it back to San Jose in 81 where my mother was living at that time. And so we ended up selling that that run, that Sunbeam to some collector for just maybe 50 bucks, a hundred bucks or something like that. It was like, hey, it's parts. Go ahead and you do with it what you wish.

Yeah. You'll ever believe what happened a few months later. I'm driving down, was it 605, the 605 freeway in that area? And I'm looking at this, that's a Sunbeam rapier on the side of the road. DQJ 715, yeah, that's it. And then it was, whoever, whatever Schmo ended up buying it, he couldn't keep it running either. It was sitting on the side of the freeway. just crack me off. I said, poor guy.

No, they were kind of notorious that way, but yeah, I'll tell you what, that doesn't surprise me, you know, that you encountered it again because there's only so many of those in this part of the world. But you brought up another car that, oh, my goodness, right now, if you had that thing in mint condition, you've got something worth a ton of money. And that 77 Impala, If that's the one I'm thinking it was, yeah, for kind of a tail end of the hot rod craze of the, you know, the muscle car kind of era, I've seen some of those Impala's from mid, later 70s that fully restored, you drop the bigger block in there. Yeah, you wouldn't want to keep the stock 305 was anemic, you know, but yeah. was but you yeah you if you drop the bigger block the you know the eight probably at least the 350 if not a little bit bigger because that engine compartment definitely could accommodate it

oh have plenty of room thing else and some of those impolas just go i watch me come every once in while just for fun and you'll see some of those even the mid to late 70 impalas um can go for big money. Yeah. Well, you know, would it could, it should have, but I let it go. Well, I ended up selling the Impala to buy a 1983 Chvette brand new. Boy, that was a bad trade. Boy, yeah, that was definitely

downward mobility. All right. Yeah, so anyway, so enough about my poor automotive choices as a 20-year-old theater here. And why do we shift it into what are we looking at here? Because, man, it has been a drive. And by the way, the

outdoor report now we're going to get into, and that sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. And now, what I'm wondering here, Mr. Outdoors, is it ever going to get wet because it has been so dry and relatively mild. Now, it's been nice on one respect, but, boy, if you ever want to do some skiing or get up in the mountains and do some playing around, gosh, it's got to start snow and quick. Yeah, and if you're that person, this is flat depressing. But, you know, yesterday I'm sitting here at the house, we've got a plumber in doing some minor repair. but things that needed to get done, we'd been putting off for a very long time. We finally were getting it all accomplished.

And I'm sitting on the computer just idly looking through stuff coming in, filling up my feed on rogue weather. And a forecaster in the Midwest puts this post up and tells everybody, get ready for heartbreak. We're having cold and snow right now. But come Christmas, look at what happens. We've got no chance for seeing a white Christmas. and he's explaining it, and he's put this graphic up from pivotal weather,

showing all this unseasonably abnormally warm weather over the center part of the country, and he's laying it all out and talking about what comes out of the sky is going to be rain, not snow, and the snow that we do have right now is going to be gone. And I'm looking at this, and then all of a sudden I notice over on the left-hand corner, I can see the far-eastern portions of Washington and Oregon, and they're dark blue. And I went, ooh, that's attention-getting. Okay, so I go, he's using Pivotal, he's using the European model, which is the main forecast model right now. Okay.

Because there used to be two, European and GFS. And this year, nobody knows the why. Nobody can explain it. But the GFS is suddenly becoming, well, to use a phrase, unreliable. So I pull up the European from Pivotal. Yeah, and what is it looking like then? What are we going to get to? Just cut to it.

Okay, so here comes the shocking part. What I saw that was deep blue and far eastern Oregon and Washington, it didn't stop there. The weird part is it actually got bluer and colder directly over the top of us. No kidding. Yeah, we have an overnight temperature, according to the European coming up on the 22nd, or correction, the 23rd going into the 24th Christmas Eve Day, 8 degrees. in Medford. Well, that's a little bit of a change, all right? Yeah, as soon as I saw that, I went, holy cow.

Yeah, so maybe, now, if we get eight degrees in the valley, boy, that means up there, they're going to be getting snow out of that. They have to be, wouldn't they? That, well, here comes the big part. So as soon as I'm looking at these temperature profiles from the 22nd to the 25th, and my jaw is sitting on the ground, when I saw the temperature profiles, Then I'm like, wait a minute. Yeah, what about the moisture, though?

The moisture are we going to be seeing at this point. National Weather Service and NOAA are putting out tons of information saying, we're going to have atmospheric river events coming right across Southern Oregon and Northern California through Christmas Day. No kidding. So I immediately look at the moisture side of it, and I didn't look any further than the 21st, but I start looking from the 21st to the 25th, there is a pronounced drying trend that develops on Christmas Day and goes into the day after Christmas. But the funny part was at the very last thing I could get pulling the data, the end of the run, it shows a massive front all along the Pacific Coast just offshore coming in at about, probably 11 p.m.m. to 5 a.m. on the 27th.

The bottom line, though, is that it could be a winter sports saver, is what you're saying. Oh, here's the good news. This is what I'm building to. I start building back, looking back from the 25th Christmas Day to the 21st parade of heavy, wet, major precipitation coming over the top. of us, basically from early Christmas morning all the way back to the 22nd, co-arriving with all that cold air. When you look at that, there's almost no way with that, with the temperatures, with the moisture that we avoid major snow dumps, certainly in the mountains. But I'm suspecting we probably could wind up seeing it here in the valley if that

that holds. We're two weeks out. That's a long way to go, especially at this time. But it's looking guardedly optimistic for some changes into real winter. Everybody who's paying attention is seeing this. Now, we've got all kinds of people around here who proclaim themselves forecasters and whatnot. Even Medford National Weather Service, I don't think they're really looking that far out yet. None of the TV meteorologists are. What I'm building to, you go to the Rogue Weather Facebook page. You look at the live I did last night. You're only going to see that from me, or maybe others are copycatting it right now.

I don't know. I don't look at others, but I know last night when I broke all this down, I was the first one to see this, and I'm the first one alerting people to this, and I definitely tagged Mount Ashland, Mount Chastas, Ski Park, Will I'm at Pass, Mount Bachelor, and Warner Canyon, because this is the first blast of good news those ski areas have had in weeks. And based on what I'm seeing, and especially when I look just at the mountains, we may literally flip the switch and go from having no snow to having a ton of snow and ski areas being open on Christmas vacation like they plan to be. And I said it in the live last night, if part of what you were planning to do for Christmas vacation was skiing,

I got great news for you. It looks like you're going to be able to keep your plans. because it certainly does right now based on what the European is showing us, but also what NOAA and National Weather Service are putting out talking about these events. And the big thing is all the headlines you're seeing about the flooding and the rain and everything up to our north, that storm track is now going to come south, and it's going to come far enough south, that the cold air side of it will be with us. The warm air side's going to be down in California, but both Southern Oregon and California are now definitely going to be getting the heavy rain and snow. We've been missing out on right now. When do you think the rainy

period starts? Because I want to get up and do a bit more of the wintertime buttoning up of transmitter sites before it gets really bad. It begins Monday, Tuesday next week, and it just gradually ramps up an intensity from there. Okay, all right. Hey, Greg, I appreciate that, and we're going to call back the Outdoor Report, sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority on Airway Drive in Medford. Hey, Greg, I know you wanted to talk about the mule deer in ODFW. You want to hold that off for next week, maybe? Can we do that then? Well, yeah, and I mean, you know, here's the thing, and I may even get, I've already gotten into it post of rogue weather. Okay. What you're going to see is one of the most stunning examples of the failure of ODF and W, and honestly, you can't blame the people who've christened the department, Oregon Department of Fraud and Waste, because this is nothing but a catastrophic example of their failure to do meaningful predator control with cougars and wolves, and they're going to eliminate 50 mule deer in the city limits of Union in northeastern Oregon. Why?

And I'm going to make the case. We honestly, that's 50 mule deer. We really can't be sacrificing because mule deer numbers are declining. Yeah, why are they sacrificing them? Why are they killing the mule deer? Because people in town are complaining about the damage the deer are doing to their vegetation. Then they have fons, and they attack dogs, and they attack people. Oh, so it's an eastern Oregon-Jacksonville.

It's an eastern Oregon-Jacksonville. Okay, or Ashland. And so they're going to eliminate these deer, and these are 50 mule deer. Honestly, we can't afford to eliminate because I see the day coming in Oregon. We may not have 100% mule deer in Oregon anymore. The species of purity may become extinct, and I lay out why. Okay, and that's on rogueweather.com. Greg, I appreciate it.

We'll catch you soon. If anything else breaks, and we have snowmageddon coming. Let us know, okay? Yeah, and we'll probably have a far better idea on that next Friday as well, going into that time period of the 21st to the 25th. All right, very good. Hey, Greg, I appreciate the call this morning, and thanks for the look back of the cars, too. That's always fun.

Yeah, no, that was awesome fun. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. I completely forgot about that old sunbeam rapier until I'm saying, oh, yeah, that's what I drove into town at that time. But, yeah, good stuff. Greg Roberts over to rogueweather.com. It's 732 at KMED. The Bill Meyers show is where you are.

The Montana Rupi Marketing Department is always looking for new ideas, but they're not always good. Matters. This is the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. Got something on your mind? Give Bill a shout at 541-770-5633-770 KMED. So I'm going to take your calls. We'll have news coming up here just a moment. Hey, what do you think about tradio?

You know, doing a maybe half hour, one hour, what do you have to sell and or trade, a section of the program maybe? Last hour, maybe last half hour on Friday. And I just think I'd be kind of fun. I know it's sort of an old school way of looking back, but I remember having a lot of fun with it. And you'd be amazed at some of the stuff people have that they want to get rid of.

That's always a lot of fun. I don't know. But anyway, hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. This is not so crazy. Not so crazy, Gene. Hello.

We're not coming to take you away, ha-ha, today. All right? What's up? Well, I did want to leave. But I'm calling to talk about the Archons that they love that. Well, what is called is luch. It's emotional energy from some of your lower emotions is always tastier. It's kind of a drug, and it's also life force.

to them. Oh, okay. Is this kind of like going down the Alex Jones, Dina Chrome, and Pizza Gate kind of stuff talk, or is that something different? No, no, you pretty much thumbed it up. All right, so that there are, so there are scaly people, scaly people that profit off of us being all upset and in tumult in conflict, right? Yeah, this is the best place. I get people or upset. It's not everybody upset anymore, and and, yeah, they feed off of it. It's some kind of a drug and a food boat to them. And by God, they depend on us to supply it because we get to come around and do it again when we die.

Okay, well, let us just, let's just relax then and starve the Archons. Is that what you call them, the Arcons? Is that it? Yeah, Arcons. Okay, well, you're not, you're only semi-crazy today. What? You're semi-crazy today. You're getting a little crazier.

It's like the Q-quotion or the K, you know, the C, quotient, the crazy quotient, CQ, is going up a little bit today. Just a little bit. Don't, don't let me drift. I mean, crazy is the way to be down there, and I want to stay right with it. Oh, a delight. Have a great weekend, Gene. All right.

Okay, how do we top that? Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Bill, this is Francine again. The reason I'm calling twice is I love the idea of the on-air trading. thing, what do you call it again? Yeah, in the industry,

we always nicknamed it Tradio. Yeah, you know. Yeah, I love that. There have been so many times when I've had something I would have loved to have shared with everybody, but I felt it was, you know, an inappropriate direction to be leading, you know, trying to take the conversation. So I just went about my normal, whatever, you know, route trying to deal with it. Yeah, and that got me thinking about Minor Dave's problem.

You know, he's got his broken truck and he needs a Ford, a Ford type. e-transmission is like you toss it out there and people know maybe somebody has one you never know right you know and somebody needs a certain kind of work done they don't know who to go to and they put it out there and somebody has to hey i know a god sure i mean really i think it's excellent and i think it should be more than a half hour a week okay well maybe we start with a half hour and see how it goes how about that yeah well maybe or maybe how about two half hours at the end of two different shows or something like that you know give people because you want to catch up but the step from the week before, right?

For a few days before you want to, oh, hey, I heard this two days ago. Tell the guy to call me, you know. Yeah. I don't know. I think it's great. Okay. All right. Well, take that as a vote for it.

Unlike the city of Medford, I will actually pay attention to your survey. Okay? Thank you. Good job. All right. I got to talk about that sometime, too. Hi, good morning. This is Bill.

Who's this? Welcome. Hello? Hey, Bill. It's Steve. Hey, Steve. What do you think? I just wanted to comment on the weather.

I've been here a long time, as you know, and the first two weeks of December in 1972, it snowed about six to 12 inches here in the valley. Right. And then it went down to six below zero and stayed below freezing for two weeks. Boy. So maybe we're being set up for that kind of thing. Well, I don't know, but it's happened before. It froze lots of water lines and a lot of bushes and things died because of it.

I remember it was just a few years ago. Wasn't it like I was still living in Jacksonville? We had some zero-degree, a string of zero-degree days around here. Is that the time you're talking about? Not that long ago? No, no. This is late, 1972. Oh, 72.

Okay. I want to say this was moved over to our... place in, what, 2013? So I want to say it's 2010. That that probably happened. But yeah, point well taken. Appreciate the call. Thank you. Let me go to the next call. Hi. Good morning. This is Bill. Yes. Tim. Morning. Yes. Good morning. I like the idea of Tradyo. They had the bargain roundup on Kjo. And I don't really listen to Kajo much. They have some really good local news reporting, though, in the morning. But everything else, you know, I like your show bit much better. But I missed that. I missed the, they called it the bargain roundup. And it was

free. You'd go down the station, drop off the list for certain businesses, and then they would read it over the radio for about maybe three, for about a week. Yeah, I don't know if we're going to go to that, you know, to that extent of it. I want to do an actual segment in which people, you know, actually do their ads live. They call. We talk about it and so-and-so has this and yada-y-y-y-da-has that? I think that'd be more interesting. Yeah. It's interactive. The other thing I want to ask is, do you have time

for a dad joke? Do I have time for a dad joke? Of course. Sure. Let's hear it. This is a little, this take about a minute. Oh, no. Dad jokes are usually short and pithy. No, this isn't. This isn't. So, care with me.

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Not very well. I try to keep away from this stuff. Okay. Well, you might have trouble then, but we'll see. It was this week, in fact, actually December 10th, 1974, Representative Wilbur Mills, naturally a Democrat from, naturally, Arkansas. Okay. It's kind of foreshadowing future Democratic politicians. Well, he ends up resigning as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the aftermath of the first truly public sex scandal in American politics.

Mills was stopped by Park Police. He's driving at night. He's an influential congressman. visibly intoxicated when stopped, and the congressman had been involved in these type of circumstances before, but it was generally kept quiet, Lauren, okay? Now, the question was, who was in the car with him when it was stopped? Do you remember? It was either A, a young intern, B, a stripper, C, an ex-wife, D, a prostitute, or E, a fellow congressman's wife. Of those five, What do you think makes the most sense?

Oh, brother. Young intern, stripper, ex-wife, prostitute, or a fellow congressman's wife? I'm going to go with a fellow congressman's wife. A fellow congressman's wife. No. No. I'm so sorry. See, but it's okay that you don't remember this scandal.

It's all right. Thank you. All right. Let's give a shot here to Dodd. Hello, Don. How are you doing this morning? Welcome. Doing well. Thank you.

All right. So it's not a fellow congressman's wife, but Wilbur Mills. Was it a young intern, a stripper, an ex-wife, or a prostitute? It's one of those four. Let's go with a young intern. Young intern. Yeah, that would be done by Bill Clinton a little bit later, but no. Wasn't that either. Let me go to Mark. Hello, Mark. How are you? Welcome. Doing good, Bill. I think I got this one.

Okay, now, so we have either a stripper, an ex-wife, a prostitute. one of those three? I'm pretty sure it was a stripper. You think it was a stripper? Really? A Congress critter? Partying with a stripper? Really? Wilbur. Yes. Wilbur Mills was a married man, not only intoxicated, his face was scratched up to his companion, by the way. Annabelle Batastella had bruised eyes.

Batastella then proceeded to jump into the title basin near the Jefferson. in Memorial had to be pulled out by D.C. police. She was later identified as a popular stripper. Do you remember what her name was? It was, I'm right there, but she was famous. You know that. Fanny Fox, right? Yep.

Fanny Fox and the other thing, do you remember what her nickname was, too? This is kind of funny, too. You got to love it. The Argentine, well, no, the Argentine Firecracker was her. nickname. Okay? Ooh. Yeah. Needless to say, on this occasion, the story of Representative Mills sort of the fare with the strippers heavily publicized. At first,

Mills denied it and later admitted he had joined a party. Battistella was president. After a few intoxicating beverages, Mills subsequently re-elected to Congress, but because of the scandal, he was forced to quit his chairmanship, and he would not run for re-election. He died in 1992, by the way. So there we go. Our first really, really, really super, super big sex scandal reported in the media this time. So there you go. Hang on and

we're going to send you to the diner 62 folks in. You're going to have a great time, okay? It's the holiday love celebration at Mercedes-Benz of Medford. Celebrate every... 1063 KMED. You're hearing the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED. Now Bill wants to hear from you. 541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. 757 and change coming up about 8 o'clock about two three minutes from now I'm going to have the opportunity to talk with an interesting I don't go off into the musical side very often but he's an award-winning musical journalist and it's Alan light and he wrote a book about Fleetwood Mac and I was reading some stats about the

rumors the rumors album and my gosh I the rumors album, probably one of, in my opinion, the most perfect albums ever. When I say perfect, it's not that I like the people personally or anything. I'm just talking about the actual art of this. And the stories that came out of this book, you know, things that I thought I knew a lot, having been a radio DJ back in the day, you know, 20, 30 years back, was the last time was a DJ. But the stuff that came out of there was really interesting and why today it is still one of the most influential albums today. And what was special about that particular time? It had to be more than just the drugs. Okay. At least I hope it would be. But we'll have some of that coming

up and then we have a whole bunch of open phones and we'll talk with the Salvation Army people too because they're looking for your help. And one more thing that we're looking for some help this morning. At 10 o'clock, I'm going to be out at Eagle Point National Cemetery because today is Reaths Across America. My wife, Linda, and I are going to head out there and try to help do some of the reefs, or the wreaths rather, and put those on some of the military graves specific. It's going to take many hands to make this happen. And if you have the opportunity, we'll see you out there at the cemetery office.