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Episode Date: December 16, 2025

12-16-25_TUESDAY_8AM

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. This is KMED, KMED HD-1 Eagle Point Mepford, KBXG Grants Pass. Mr. Outdoors is here. So we got some pretty heavy stuff coming. Is that the deal here? Go ahead, Greg.

Yeah. And it's one of these things that, you know, yesterday we were looking at it. It was like, okay, we may see a thunder. storm or two pop up and cold front moves in tonight. All right. Well, this morning, that's gone full blown to a severe weather threat overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning in Jackson County, basically Medford West, but it will include all of Josephine County potential for severe thunderstorms producing wind 60 miles an hour or more. And of course, they will also produce heavy downpours, but the wind is the big thing. And when you combine that with the time of

year we're at, with everybody with all of their outdoor Christmas decorations, yeah, you probably want to make sure today you've got everything good and secure if you have inflatable decorations in your yard or at your business, I would not leave those up at all. So that abominable snowman from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is probably going to go flying if you don't take it down then, right? Yeah, exactly. And, you know, it's kind of funny. I actually saw a post pop up two weeks ago that showed a Santa and Reindeer. This is an inflatable, and they got hit by strong winds in New York, found out the winds were 40 miles an hour.

It literally ripped the inflatable Santa and reindeer out of the ground. and sent those things flying, and the caption on it said, Santa and the reindeer really do fly, and it was pretty amazing to watch those winds, hit that inflatable, keep working at it, and they had it anchored, and eventually the anchors came loose, and poof, Santa and the reindeer were flying. All right.

So, Greg, if we were to talk about then, this is going to be hitting later today is when that storm cell moves in. night into early Wednesday. Okay. This is probably something that will hit us when most people have already gone to bed. Oh, okay. And if it does hit us, you're not going to have any time to do the things you need to get done today, like securing your outside Christmas decoration.

Yeah, well, all I have is just the Christmas roadie, the rhododendron. That's all I have, the rhododendron. It's just a Christmas roadie. It's very small. By the way, Bill, what we're talking about here, this is a, term you may not have heard much of since you left North Dakota. This is a squall line situation. Storm Prediction Center is talking about developing,

and that's where you get this line of strong to severe storms that comes racing in right on the leading edge of the cold front. It's going to hit fast. It's going to move through fast. But while it's hitting, you could get winds to 60 miles an hour, and you're definitely going to get the heavy downpours. and both of those things are bad news, again, especially for outdoor Christmas decorations. The other aspect we could consider keep the solar back up or your energy batteries

or whatever it is or your generator sources, keep them handy too because we could get some outages on this kind of wind, right? Oh, yeah, without any question. The winds alone typically can take weakened wire connections, drop wires on the ground, but, of course, you get trees start going down with this. they're going to start hitting power lines, and yeah, this could wind up being a very high-impact situation. And again, the worst part of it is it's going to hit overnight into early tomorrow morning when most people are probably going to be in bed.

All right, very good. Keep up with that. Greg Roberts at rogueweather.com, rogueweather.com on Facebook and other social media. Greg, thanks for the update. And keep us in that room, okay? Thank you. We'll do, Bill. All right. KMED, KMED, H.D. H. Eagle Point, Medford, KBXG, Grants, Fast Fox News now. Nick Reiner may soon be in court in Los Angeles. I'm Dave Anthony Fox News to face murder charges in the stabbing deaths of his parents, famous actor and movie director Rob Reiner and his mom, Michelle.

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but increasing rain later this afternoon through early Wednesday. We'll see another round into Thursday and Friday with heavier amounts. Highs will be in the lower 50s this afternoon, dropping to 42 tonight. 13 after 8, Paul French joins me in studio here, and the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers are going to be belting it. I don't know if it's belting. It's fine. What is that now?

Belting sounds fun. Will Belting be part of that, you think? Well, you know, we end with a gospel setting of the Handel, Hallelujah Chorus, which is definitely belting. Yeah, yeah. The Hallelujah Chorus is not something that you just do meekly, right? Well, yeah, but this is a gospel version based on it. And you know what? I think Handel would love it. It's super cool. You know, a gospel version of this, so I'm thinking about like the hand clap, And all that happened? Oh, yeah. Really? Oh, yeah. Improv over the top. You know, Handel was one of the first composers in history to write directly to the public. He didn't work for the church. He didn't work for the court. He wrote for the people. And he was so popular, a rehearsal had something like 23,000 people came to the rehearsal. What would a classical musician today have to do to get that?

I know, but 23,000, but that well, that was, he was the rock star of his era. He was. He was, he was. exactly a rock star, and I think he would love this gospel Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus. So that's how you're going to wrap it up, or to wrap it up then. By the way, I was in the holiday for the first time yesterday since the rebuild. Yeah. And I don't know how I avoided it all this time, but a beautiful interior. It is. And I think, so you're going to be able to fit everybody on here? Well, yes. Because you're telling me you're going to have a high school choir join you too. Yeah, Grants Pass High School. We always have one of the top high school. choirs in the region, join us, and they'll sing a piece on the Rona, then we'll all sing

together. It's just such a nice holiday tradition. Yeah, we're going to make it. It's not spacious, but it's a beautiful hall. And I would say here, if people are thinking of attending, you should get your tickets now. It seats a thousand, twenty-four, and there's only about 40 tickets left. Only 40 tickets left. That tells you what people are thinking, and that is real demand for what you're serving up. Well, it's exciting for Medford to have this beautiful space open, and we are excited to be in Medford, and it's making it possible for us to be more present in Medford. You know, last time I was here, you said, wow, you know, I don't know much about you, and that makes me sad. So now we're hoping to have more of a presence in

Medford, an important part of the region. And when you give us a little bit of a history for those that maybe missed the last talk on the Southern Oregon Repertory singers. This is our 40th year, which is hard to do in the not-for-profit sector. We have singers that come from all over the region over my tenure there, the last 2,000 years. We've had singers from... Or does it just feel like 2,000 years? types. All over the valley, and Klamath Falls, Roseburg, Cave Junction, Wyrika, people.

Singers will drive to get to sing high-quality choral music. So this is our 40th anniversary year, and it's very special and exciting. All right. So the special event is going to be this Friday night. There is, it is, let's see. Now, is that, okay, this is the ceremony of carols, is what this is. Yeah, that's the title of the concert. It's also the title of the feature piece, which is composed by Benjamin Britain, in my view, the most important vocal composer of the 20th century. It is a completely, it's a magical piece.

It's set for choir and harp and soloist, I mean harp and Christmas time. So do you have a harpist? Oh, yeah, we brought a harp, a wonderful concert harpist down from Eugene, who I've worked with several times. It's the kind of a piece that makes you feel a better world as possible. Right. It's so beautiful and optimistic and transporting. It's really what we need because all we hear is the bad stuff, right? So we forget that good people all over the world are working for peace and making the world.

and making the world better. Now then, this is going to be Friday night, 7.30, historic holly theater. There's only about 40 tickets left. That's all at this point. How do you get them? Through the holly theater. So there's two more performances, Saturday and Sunday at the SOU, Recital Hall, and those are just about sold out as well.

There's nine tickets left for Sunday and like 15 left for Saturday. And those you get through the Repsingers.org, our website. But if you're planning to go to the Holly, go to the Holly website. Paul, I will be happy to, and I want to make sure that we're going to get a couple more people in there with you because I have a couple of tickets that we're going to be giving away for this right now. Fantastic. Perfect time to do this. So does that already count or does it mean there's only going to be 38 or 36 tickets left?

Probably that. It's already been counted in. Yeah, I checked how many tickets are not accounted for. Okay, very good. Well, I'll tell you what, we're going to do that right now, and I just want to thank you for coming in. It's going to be a beautiful show this Friday night, Historic Holiday Holiday Holiday, a holiday, a theater once again. And remember, SOU Music Recital Hall in Ashland, still some tickets available for that, 2 o'clock on Saturday and Sunday. Right, 2 o'clock.

Got that? All right, very good. Yeah. I appreciate you coming in. Let me say one thing. We're doing a food drive at all three concerts. where that Harry and David and Access is helping us out. And if you bring us a non-perishable food item, it'll be collected, and we'll have two winners,

a big gift basket from Harry and David every night. And it's the holidays. Be generous. Bring something to share with people who have less. Paul French, a pleasure again. Yeah. Have a great show. Have a great show.

I should say. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Sunday for that matter. 7705633-7-O-K-M-E-D. And if you would like to go, jump on. And we'll give it to a couple of callers next. This hour of the Bill Myers Show is sponsored by Fontana Roofing. For roofing gutters and sheet metal services, visit Fontana Roofing Services.com.

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Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning. This is Herb. He said Herb or Herman? Herb, A-T-R-B. Oh, okay, very good. Hey, did you want to go to the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers this Friday night? There's only a handful of tickets left, and I'm happy to get you on. Absolutely, Bill.

All right. You hang on. I'm going to keep a pair in reserve for you. And let's see. Thank you. Now, just hold on. Hold on. I'll get to you in the break here.

We'll get to all your information here. Let me grab another call here. Caller 10 is here also. Hi, good morning. Who's this? I'd help if I hit the button. Hi, call her 10. Who's this?

Hello. Hello. Hi, who's this? Hello. This is Maribeth. Maribeth, would you like to go to the Southern Oregon Repertory Singers this Friday night at the Holly? It's going to be a great show. All right.

You're going. Caller 10. You get a pair of tickets. You hang on. There's only a handful of tickets left. Only about 40. And I have one more pair. And let's see which deserving listener this one might be.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Hello. Hi, this is V. Are you talking to me, Bill? Yeah, V. How the heck are you? How's it going? Yeah, you want to hear some great Christmas singing Friday night? Yes, I do. All right. You hang on too. We're going to take care of business.

Get all three of you here. Let me get your information in just a moment, and we will have a little more conversation about that. We're going to now open phones up to the Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday variety, if you want to to because we have three people who are very happy here with their gift, and we'll have that coming up. Oh, also, Diner 62 Quiz before we break the show down tonight, okay? I know that hiring can be challenging. You need someone to match your role perfectly. Well, now you can meet them fast. News Talk 1063, KMED, and you're waking up with the Bill Myers Show. Diner 62 Quiz coming up here at about 15, 15, 20 minutes. Of course, that'll be a lot of fun here. Right now, it is Pebble in Your

shoe Tuesday. 7705633-770KMED. There was anything on your mind. We haven't really had a chance to get to many of the pebble calls as usual like we would. We've been a little bit guest-heavy, but we've been guest-heavy with a lot of stuff. And a real pebble in southern Oregon's shoe, I think, has to do with the closure of the Ashland Community Hospital. And I know that former Senator Alan DeBoer was talking with me about this about an hour ago. And some are claiming that the hospital is actually profitable. That's pretty easily disprovable once you include the corporate costs. But you're the benevolent dictator.

What do you believe is the solution for the closing of this hospital and once again the reduction in the consolidation of these health care services? And now that, and another listener that was mentioning that Providence is also closing their Ashland Clinic. So they're closing the Ashland Clinic and then everybody will have to go over to Stuart Meadows at this point. And this is the, you know, the flying saucer. Do you have a take or is it just one of these things where we're just going to react and just take it right now? I'm happy to take your call on it, though, on that and other things on your mind. 770KMED. Dave's here. Hey, Dave. What are you thinking, huh?

I'm thinking about the government statistics on unemployment. Okay. So this is a pebble in your shoe, the employment statistics. How's that? Because they count government employees and they're nonproductive. And if anybody ever done the ratio of how many private sector people are working to support the government people, working. I've never seen those numbers. And that'd be interesting. You know, I think probably Biden was probably... What was that, Dave? Over time? I said probably during the Biden administration that you had two private sector worker guys paying for like, you know, five or six government employees. I don't know what the ratio is because nobody ever comes up with that number.

But, you know, when... I'll see if I can do a little research, put a little research pencil on that, okay? What is the actual... I'm nonproductive. I'm retired. I don't work anymore. But it matters because when you have a big layoff, like Trump is done with the government employees, those numbers should be excluded.

So when government people get doged out, like in Washington, D.C., which is what has been happening, that shouldn't then count as unemployment. No, because they're government employees. Okay. The only problem is that here is the way that unemployment is calculated. It's not about how many people are actually out of work. It's about how many people are collecting unemployment. What's that percentage rate who are collecting unemployment?

Government people, they don't collect unemployment. What's that? Government people, they get laid off. They don't get to collect unemployment. Of course they do. No, they don't. I've known so many people that work for the third. beds when they got laid off, they didn't get unemployment.

I have not heard that. Right. It depends on your job or whatever, but not every government employee gets to collect unemployment. Okay. Well, not every government employee. Maybe not. Maybe not. But, yeah, I've not heard that one. All right, Dave. Appreciate the call. That's his pebble. They go to line two. Hi, good morning. This is Bill. Who's this? Hello? Hi, my name is Lona. Hi, Lona. How are you today?

I'm good. How about you? Doing fine. What is on your mind today? Thanks for asking. The insurance situation we have with the Obamacare and funding it. I heard this morning about they're going to be investigating different parts of it, but for the joint employee plans. I was a school bus driver for over 20 years. And right at the end, about, I don't know, 12 years ago or more,

I was on an insurance committee for the union for our insurance when Obamacare came in or was coming in. and our actual personal insurance, through our employer, increased by a certain percent. And it was going to increase for the next five years in order to cover Obamacare when it was supposed to be self-funded after that. And I'm wondering if anyone's researched that or knows anything about how that stands. Who's actually paying for this? Because it came out of our own health insurance increased in order to pay for that.

as a union employee. I would say that you're paying for it, or the union members. I was just mentioning how. Yeah, yeah, because everyone who has insurance, who has purchased insurance like your union, or like my employer, as an example, pays an abnormally higher rate, in my opinion, at least from what I've been able to figure out,

so that there's the ability to have all that Oregon health plan. And frankly, to a lesser extent, Medicare, too, because Medicare doesn't pay the whole rate for a lot of, for most of the care which is provided, which is why the doctors are saying, well, I can only handle to have so many Medicare patients on my practice because otherwise I'd go broke, you know, that kind of thing that tells you, you know, what's going on. And so, yeah, if it was going up 5% a year just to take care of Obama, that was to take care of the people, well, it was those who have insurance paying for those who have not. I guess that's really what we're talking about, isn't it?

Yeah, and my question then is, if that is not going forward, Obamacare, do you think the insurance companies are going to stop charging us those prices? Pulling ObamaCare out, that would be such an unwinding of monumental proportions. I'm not even sure how that would look, do you? Well, that's what I was wondering, how they're going to fund it in the future and why. what their plans are with it, and those that have been paying for it for all these years have had an increase every year on their own insurance to pay for someone else. Yeah. So that's why our private and group insurances are so expensive if they want to really say

what's fair or not fair. We pay taxes for so many other things, and then they just set aside and say, we're going to tax you this extra because we want to let in so many thousand and millions of illegals, and we're going to cover them too, and your taxes are going to pay for them. Pretty much. It would seem to be... That's not just a pebble in my shoe. It's a rock. Oh, yeah. No, I don't blame you. I don't blame you here. You know, we're entering uncharted territory right now

because I think we're finally in that process of the collapse of... You know, collapse is a process. It's not an event. And Obamacare seems to have been designed to overload and collapse, almost like a clowered pivot of the health care system. And maybe that was by design with President Obama's people that eventually there is no way that it was going to pencil in pay and that it collapses and then we're forced to go with universal health care

for universal misery for all. How about that? Maybe that's the way it's going to look. Then we'll still be paying for it and they'll just tax us another way and we'll still be paying what we're currently paying for our insurance. Or there will be a severe cutback in what is considered health care. Well, yeah, and it's already there. Yeah, I would highly recommend that if you can still,

healthy. Well, it's always a good idea to stay healthy if you can, but I think in the near future in the coming year is probably even more important. Would that be fair? Yes, I'm 72 without any medications or medical situations I'm very thankful for. Yeah, I have one. I have one minor medication that I've taken and paying for it out of pocket is not a big deal. It's not that pricey. So it's not that sort of thing. Hey, appreciate the call. Thanks for making it. 770 KMED. And we're sort of noodling around here with Pebble in your shoe Tuesday. A lot of conversation this morning on health care, especially.

Hi, good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Pat. It's deplorable, Patrick, here, Bill, and thanks for the chance to be deplorable. Thank you, D.P. Yeah, hey, not to be contentious, but to be responsive. I'm a calling in response to something you said earlier. What's that? Yeah, you and I agree on almost everything. Maybe a couple things we don't.

But you mentioned that Erica Kirk, I guess I got the feeling you were saying she was making too big a deal out of Macron's... No, that was actually... Candice Owen. I'm not a fan of Candice Owen. Yeah, I didn't know the controversy about Candice Owens. I've got to get updated on that. But that's okay. Other people like Candice Owen, it's fine.

Uh, Candice Owen to me is, uh, is just, it's a bizarre way of looking at the world, in my opinion. Now, Erica Kirk, I'm not a fan of because there's just too many things creep me out about the woman. I don't know why. It may be totally irrational. But, you know, the, the hugs and the grabbing of heads and drawing a J.D. Vance in and, and frankly, the eyes look, the eyes look odd to me. You know, something's off to me. and maybe it's just the grief, I don't know, but I've just said it. Maybe I've just really stepped in it by saying this, but, you know, I don't know. Well, I don't, I don't totally disagree about, now I like Erica, but I see that there are some things you say, well, what's this about?

However, back to the main theme of the call, if Macron's wife is a guy, we should not just say, oh, who cares about that? No, the thing is, though, is that she's setting herself on fire over it. It says it's a nonsense issue to be doing, in my opinion. Okay. Yeah. Well, I guess I've got to. Well, no, I mean, you know, what? is it? Why would we care? Why should we care about the French president's wife?

Because we care about the things that God cares about. I'm hardly recommending we wind up on the same side of an issue that God is on, and he totally doesn't approve. No, I worry about things that maybe we can change something about. I don't think anything we say would have anything to do with McCrone's wife. Well, yeah, I agree with you. We're not going to be able to change it, where we can, we can, you know, state our position. My position is I'm in opposition to homosexuality. Okay. All right.

But you say, you're assuming that it's true, and the thing is that if you're going to make that claim, there'd be big claim, and big evidence, rather, of it. That's all I'm getting at. It's kind of like the big Mike thing with Obama back in the day, too, remember? Michelle's a tranny, remember? Remember the stories? Yeah, I'm aware of that story. And so whether it's McCrone or anybody else,

God is on the side of not having homosexuality there. Okay, fair. You can go there. Thank you. 770KMED. I don't want to dwell on this. This is just a feeling. I'm just not a fan of Erica Kirk.

I was a fan of Charlie. but it's just the way things have been going ever since the assassination. Something about it just doesn't strike me well. I'm not exactly sure what it is. I'm going to have to put my finger on it at some point, but I don't think too much about it. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Welcome. Hey, Bill. This is Michael again. Michael, go ahead. Couldn't agree more with you on that. Oh, really? Yeah. No, I couldn't agree more.

Huh. And also, you've been right 100% this morning. Anyway, I was talking to you about the diesel issue last week. I did a little research on it, and, you know, we went from 5,000 parts per million to all the way down to 15 parts per million. Oh, that's parts per million of sulfur, right? Yeah. Okay. Which is, you know, it's great to reduce the, you know, carbon.

I mean, it's great to reduce the sulfur in the atmosphere. Yeah, sulfur dioxide is what they were looking at, I'm sure, acid rain. but it also eats up petroleum producing that product to a ridiculous amount. You know, they're not even getting as much diesel out of a barrel of oil. Is that why it's more expensive, too? It's way more expensive. It costs a lot of energy, uses up BTUs to create that product. But my point is, we didn't need to go down to 15.

Like, you don't take into any account at all, the economy at all. They just go, we're going to go from $5,000 down to $15,000, pat each other on the back as the world goes bankrupt. Anyway, I just... Well, what you're looking at right now is that cost versus benefit is never brought into the equation with anything, whether it's the gangrene, whether it's the EV. Well, it doesn't matter how much it costs. It's going to save the planet, you know, that kind of thing. Thank you, Michael. I will take three more calls.

Hi, who's this? Good morning. Hey, Bill, this is your, this is Brad wishing you a Merry Christmas, my friend. Thank you, Brad. What's up? Lots of stuff going on. So, pick one. The state of Oregon is among the highest for unemployment. We know that property values are plunging in Portland.

The commercial real estate market is in free fall. We see all kinds of difficulty across the landscape here in Oregon. And on top of all that stuff, we're in an election year. coming up. So remember back in the doctor's offices, you'd have those little magazines with the pictures and you connect all the dots. When you connect all the dots, you get a picture. Yeah. Bill, when you connect all these dots of all this troublesome stuff that's going on, what kind of a picture do we see going on here in Oregon?

It's, well, the picture would be slow-mo. Slow-mo collapse? It, well, you know, it might be so, but you know, you go back to 2014, 15, and 16, Portland was one of the hottest markets in the country. And the report that just came out a couple weeks ago, Portland is 80th out of 81 markets. The only one that's worse is, I think, Newark, New Jersey. Well, that's why we were going into the fact that this process is so far along. It's doubtful. I think I was talking with Eric Fruits about that, that according to his reason,

research that Portland is just going to have to go down to hit bottom. And Portland's not going to hit bottom yet. In fact, Portland has farther to fall, but it's a self-reinforcing mechanism here. People moving, businesses leave, crime moves in, services are cut, taxes are raised, property values plummet. That kind of thing. Right. And most important about everything you just said is the institutional money has decided to leave. That's the big money, the institutional Yeah. And so that's where, well, I imagine they're going to be facing this in the upcoming legislative session. Got a roll here right now, Brad. Appreciate the call. 845 at KMED. Hi, this is Bill Meyer, and I'm with Cherise from No Wires Now, your Dish premier local retailer. It's time to switch to DISH.

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Hey, Matt, you have a cohort there with you this morning, right? Who's there? Yeah, good morning, Bill. Yeah, I brought Tony over. He's here from Dusty's. He's a manager over there, and I just thought I'd introduce him. You want to say, hi, Tony. Hi, Bill. I've been listening for a long time. It's a pleasure to speak with you. Hey, Tony, good to hear from you. What are you up to there at Dusties right now?

Any particular specials or things we should know about your side of it? We've got some really exciting specials that you can see on our website for service and maintenance when it comes to vehicles. We've got several new customer discounts as well. And we're also just preparing for the holidays with our Toys for Tots Drive, where if you do bring in any kind of toy for a donation, you do get a $50. gift card as well towards any kind of service or maintenance. Yeah, glad to hear that. You know, Tony, something at, are you able to, this is something that I've been wanting to do

with my wife's car, which is a 2006 Volkswagen, right? And there is no dipstick on that transmission. You cannot look at anything as far as I know. And they say it's lifetime, but I don't believe them. You know, lifetime transmission fluid. Now, she only has 46. It's too good to be true. Yeah, she only has 46,000 miles on this vehicle, okay?

Can you do something with that? There's no dipstick. Absolutely. You can. No, we can definitely go through and do an inspection. We can definitely go through, do an inspection on it, and also perform service. With it being at 46,000 miles, you are due, I would say, be pretty close. The manufacturers like to take away the dipstick so that it's a little bit harder or check your own oil,

but we like to always go through, and with any kind of a courtesy inspection that we do at no cost, we can always take a look for anybody. Okay, because I wanted to go find a Volkswagen engineer and smack them, you know. What do you mean? I think the only thing I would say about why they might have did that is so many units right now are thermostatically controlled. You have to have them at temperature specific. The fill procedures are a little more complex with the newer vehicles.

So they basically are just making it all happen from underneath the vehicle, which is obviously probably not the safest thing to do in your garage. No. No, not really. I don't know. I still think there should be a dipstick in my opinion, but, you know, we're not the engineers. Well, yeah, I know, but this idea, but they actually called it. I remember I looked it up on the sticker, Lifetime Transmission Fluid.

Yeah, Lifetime, what, until it blows up at 80? I think that's accurate. I think Lifetime is based on when they want to start selling new cars and parts. got it in my opinion all right well tony i'm glad to hear that you could you could handle that that that sort of thing so matt let me just uh you know talk about the actual rebuild because things have changed around there a little bit at at dusties and you've done some uh some shifting around of where the lifts are and where the emphasis is being placed tell us about that please well yeah we did we uh you know we're really busy this year and we're trying to

service our customers as fast as possible that's really important to us uh so one of the reasons we try to, we stock transmissions. We have full remanufacturing on the back side and testing. And so we're trying to move quickly. We ended up our remanufacturing company relocated into a 32,000 square foot facility, which is pretty full already. And basically that allowed us because our old facility was so close to Dusties, it was just a half a walk away. We were able to add four more lifts. So we went from 10 lifts to 14. What was that? Two, three months ago, Tony? About two or three months, yeah.

And we were able to increase staff so we could actually move things a little bit faster for our customers. And so this means that not just transmissions, you provide all sorts of car service right now. Is that fair? Right? Yeah, it is. I mean, we're still gear train focused as far as transmissions and differentials and transfer cases and clutches. That's our, we're considered a heavy line shop, so that's our main focus. but we had a lot of customers talking, you know,

and asking us if we could do full servicing while we were doing these, even a major repair instead of having to go in other facility, just the downtime and is inconvenient to them. So we went ahead and tooled up for full servicing of the vehicle, and we do, you know, minor general, you know, we do some general repair work as well breaks and systems and things like that along with our heavy line. It just seems to be much more convenient for our customers,

and we've had really good feedback with that. Okay, glad to hear that. Now, this is actually Christmas holiday season is actually a really good time to get on one of those lifts. Isn't that right? It's just the way it works for people. Oh, absolutely. Well, what we see through the wintertime typically, I mean, the fleets around our area

take advantage of this because it's a little slower time of year. So they usually try to get all their maintenance through, all the first. fleet maintenance, yearly maintenance, things like that completed, so it's not landing in the middle of the busy summer period. And we see a lot of families doing that also. I mean, a lot of families have several cars, and they'll start moving through and servicing them through the winter months, first of the year, and just getting ready for the rest of the year. When you talk about driveline servicing, does that also mean things like axles and CV axles, you know, constant velocity joints? You do all that kind of stuff there at Dusties, too.

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, we see a lot of that kind of work because, you know, all front-wheel-drive vehicles and all-wheel-drive vehicles, you know, that are on that front-wheel-drive platform, you know, run CB axles and things like that. So, no, we do a lot of axle work and drive-shaft work and hub work and break work because it all comes apart when we're doing major repairs. I mean, a front-wheel drive is very invasive when you're doing a transmission. You're pretty much with a fixture holding the engine in the car, dropping stuff. frames, a lot comes apart. So we want to make sure we inspect everything. And, you know, we just give options. It's not, we don't have to, you know, it just depends on what the customer wants to do. So we just like to present the information and they get to make their own choices. Okay. We can do it then and maybe save them some money. If it's half a part, sometimes you can also save a lot of labor doing it, right? Yeah. Well, the reason I was asking about that is that I've

noticed that the replacement constant velocity axles seem to be very poor quality. Is it just me what's going on these days you know coming out of the manufacturers i think a lot of you know through covid times uh what we're seeing with parks is is there's less on the shelves and it's getting sourced from i don't know fewer places and a lot of us overseas yeah um we're all hoping obviously more manufacturing comes back to the states and i think think that will happen in time um but it has has decreased quality in some ways and i don't think we're getting quite the mileage out of all components so it's important The vehicle inspection is important when you're having anything done.

If you can catch things earlier, sometimes, one, it keeps you from having a failure, which always happens at the worst time, right? Murphy's Law, it seems like. But we do need to inspect all these components to just make sure everything's okay. It is also a safety concern. Yeah, the only reason I bring that is I'm sorry to, but I love it when a car park store will say, hey, lifetime warranty on something, right? But if you've got to take it in and out two or three times, is that helpful?

Yeah. Yeah, there's still a timeline on everything. And, yeah, Lifetime, I think that's something that gets created in the accounting office, not necessarily when you're working on the car, right? It could be. It could be. With manufacturers. All right.

Well, it sounds like, and of course you're rebuilding your own transmissions once again, and you've been doing this for years. And what is your warranty on that if somebody does have a problem with, you know, You see, your constant velocity transmission just blew up, okay? Now what do you do? Yeah. What do you do? Yeah, I mean, CVTs, it kind of depends on the make and model.

I mean, we're very specific on what we're doing. We do a lot of diesel performance work too and trucks. But when you get into diesel performance and some others, we'll have a two or three-year up to 100,000 mile warranty. We also have a five-year up to 100,000 mile warranty for all common things. your, you know, Yukons and trucks and caravans and all your standard vehicles,

standard use vehicles. We have a five-year warranty on all of those. And basically, you could pick what works for the customer and the situation. I mean, you know, depending on as an older vehicle, new vehicle, vehicle value, we try to present something that works for everybody in their situation

and just to make sure we can help everybody we can. And what does it take then to get an appointment? Where do people get in touch with you? Just give us a all the particulars, even the address to it, in case they don't know. Well, Dust is, you know, it's been located there in Central Point, 50 North Front Street, right on Highway 99, and Central Point is Sprunt and 99.

And you could call us 541, 664-6-5-61, and honestly, we can get you in usually same day or very soon. We like to let the customers let us know what they need, and we really try to get a everybody in and move them as quickly as we can. Obviously, we get busy as well, like anybody, but that's a primary concern for us. I know it is for our customers. You bet. Matt, Tony, I appreciate you being on Open for Business. Happy Christmas or Merry Christmas and everything else you're doing. We'll put all your information up, and we'll catch you in 2026 for sure, okay? Be well. All right. Merry Christmas, Bill, and everybody out there. Thank you. Thank you.