Wednesday 02/25/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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7:10 Chad Hansen candidate for Josephine County Commissioner discussing the race and issues of the day.
8:15 Brad Hicks – candidate for State Senate www.hicksforsenate.com and right now through the end of the month a donation is doubled. This is an important race.
8:35 Chick-Fil-A Chris Peyton on OPEN FOR BUSINESS and we talk about how the app give you free food offers, their catering, so much more going on including the new south Medford location.. Breakfast…most West Coasters don’t think of chicken for breakfast but we serve breakfast daily from 6:30am-10:30am and offer fresh-made biscuits, muffins and burritos with regular or spicy chicken as well as bacon and sausage.
If you download the Chick-fil-A One app you will receive a free Chicken Biscuit to redeem prior to 2/28 and, at the north store, we are featuring a breakfast item giveaway every Wednesday during the month of March, starting with an egg white grill sandwich.
We’re planning on some fun community partnerships in this first half of the year, beginning with free kids meals with Rogue X wristbands (turn in the band with the QR code) that will run for the next couple of months, we are sponsoring the Central Point Rodeo in May and a Fireworks Night for the June 12 Medford Rogues game.
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Monday 02/23/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:30 News Bias in the Hi Tech World. Christine Czernejewski, President and CEO of MediaPedia and we discuss the bias in legacy media and the issues with the lack of transparency when covering the news. MediaPedia is a one on a kind platform that uses an algorithm to rate journalists, articles and outlets to expose media bias.
7:10 Outdoor Report
7:35 Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. known world-wide as America’s Psychiatrist is the host of Dr. Carole’s Couch on VoiceAmerica.com, and The Terrorist Therapist® Podcast. She is a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, bestselling-award-winning author of 4 books – 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships.
Austin Tucker Martin, the would-be assassin who breached Mar-A-Lago, ‘would-be’ in a psychiatric hospital if Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., America’s Psychiatrist, is successful in getting the American Psychiatric Association to accept her proposal for Trump Derangement Syndrome to become an official DSM diagnosis.
“I’m putting Austin Martin in the Severe category of TDS, along with the prior would-be assassins, and many others who will be acknowledged as fitting this category. There are also Mild and Moderate categories of TDS. I will soon be unveiling the whole lot. But, each week there’s someone new who I must be include in order to prove to the APA that this category belongs in the DSM, so these people and those around them can get treatment.”
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BIO: Carole Lieberman, M.D., known as America’s Psychiatrist, is a Board-Certified Beverly Hills psychiatrist. She is also a bestselling and award-winning author of several books and has written chapters and forewords for books including Missing Without a Trace, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Tragedy in Sedona and Divorcing a Narcissist. She is also the author of the upcoming book, Murder By TV: A Descent into Madness, the story of the Jenny Jones Talk Show Murder for which she was the defense psychiatrist.
8:15 Dr. Dennis Powers “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com
Films made in Southern Oregon
By Dennis Powers
Southern Oregon has had its share of feature films, independents (“indies”), and made-for-TV filmed here. In the 1975 film, “Rooster Cogburn,” John Wayne played the one-eyed, alcoholic, out-of-shape federal marshal who met and was won over by Katharine Hepburn’s tough, New England schoolteacher character. The river float scenes were filmed on the Rogue, and dating back to this film, John Wayne made Deer Creek Ranch, located one mile west of Selma, his private hideaway.
In 1960, the TV show “Route 66” televised two episodes set in Grants Pass, Merlin, and Wolf Creek. As Marshal Matt Dillon in “Gunsmoke,” James Arness dove into the cold Rogue River waters to escape outlaws; this series was the country’s longest-running, prime-time, live-action drama that ran for over 20 seasons. The 1994 film, “The River Wild,” was filmed on the Rogue and with film stars Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep.
Despite these well-known features, it turns out that the famous cliff-diving scene in the 1969 film, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” did not happen at Hellgate Canyon. The Rocky Mountains provided the cliff and river scene with the precipice duplicated on a Hollywood soundstage. The filming of two stuntmen jumping from a crane into a water tank was combined with a painting of the river and bluffs on glass.
Jacksonville with its turn-of-the-century buildings has been another favorite. For example, “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid,” was filmed there in 1970 and released two years later. Universal Pictures had the town appear like the 1870s where Jesse James and his gang had tough problems robbing a bank, including when an outlaw was locked inside the vault. Planks were laid over concrete sidewalks, telephone poles removed, and streets covered with dirt; when the producers asked for extras, needing only 200, thousands of area residents showed up with many in western garb. In addition, a prior remake of “Last of the Wild Horses” (1948) and a made-for-TV rendition of “Inherit the Wind” (1987) were also filmed in that town.
A lifelong Rogue Valley resident and avid outdoorsman, Art Dubs received eleven credits overall as the producer, four credits as director, four as the writer, and two as editor, numbers of them for the same film, for his productions. He produced the film “Windwalker” (1981) that was nominated for an Academy Award, and “Sacred Ground” (1983) highlights a mountain man and his Indian wife who live in a cabin built on a Paiute burial site, leading to a violent dispute with the local tribe; it starred Tim McIntyre, L.Q. Jones, and Jack Elam. In “Dream Chasers” (1984), Art shut down the streets of Jacksonville to film the movie.
Owing to a favorable movie-making climate, more Indies are being filmed in this area now and with well-known actors and actresses. The great majority of the near–fifty productions filmed in part or their entirety in Southern Oregon within the last fifteen years are Indies. Two so made were “Redwood Highway” and “Night Moves.”
In late 2012, crew members in the movie, “Night Moves,” came to eat at Porters restaurant in the historic Medford downtown railroad depot. Liking the setting, one of the members approached a co-owner and asked if they could shoot a scene there. Porters agreed and later could add a film credit to its list of TV commercials. The movie is about three eco-terrorists who conspire to blow up a dam, and the production was filmed from Roseburg to the Applegate Valley, Medford, and Ashland. “Night Moves” features Jesse Eisenberg, who had the starring role as Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in the box-office hit, “The Social Network,” as well as Dakota Fanning, who has appeared in dozens of movies including “War of the Worlds.”
“Redwood Highway” is about a woman (Marie) who was living in a retirement community in Southern Oregon, but embarked on an 80-mile journey on foot along the Redwood Highway to the Pacific Ocean. Premiered in 2013, Marie is played by Shirley Knight—a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner—who was twice nominated for an Academy Award. Tom Skerritt, who acted in “Alien,” “Top Gun,” and “A River Runs Through It,” is in a supporting role. The locations ranged from Cave Junction and downtown Grants Pass to the Applegate River Lodge, Talent, and Ashland.
The local, Ashland producers of this film–Gary and Anne Lundgren–also created and produced “Black Road,” “Calvin Marshall,” and “Phoenix, Oregon” under their Joma Films credit. “Black Road” (2016) is a science fiction movie filmed in Southern Oregon and the Oregon Coast from Gold Hill northward. “Calvin Marshall” (2010), starring Alex Frost and Steve Zahn (of “Sahara” fame), was an award-winning baseball comedy and filmed in Ashland, Southern Oregon University, and Central Point. “Phoenix, Oregon,” is about two friends who battle midlife crises and open a bowling alley/pizzeria; filmed in Klamath Falls (2019); it was the number one movie in America for three weeks in 2020 “when producers shared streaming profits with shuttered cinemas.”
Joma released “Above the Trees” (2024) that’s about a murder in a small town when a local boxer is charged with committing the crime. Filmed in the Rogue Valley, the criminal trial unfolded in Jackson County and the actors were primarily starring from Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions. Gary Lundren also produced “Pelican” (2026) now in post-production; It’s about two old, life-struggling friends who spend a weekend with their therapist on the Oregon Coast where they had been commercial fishermen.
Plus, Bruce Campbell–known for his role as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” horror series and of “Burn Notice” fame—premiered his film “Ernie and Emma” (2026) at the Holly Theatre. This comedy is about a retired pear salesman, who fulfills his late wife’s wishes to spread her ashes in very specific places throughout the Rogue Valley. He comes to grips with his marriage, his career, and new life ahead from past memories.
With the outdoors and amenities of this area, the snap of a scene set with the shout for “Action!” is heard very often.
Sources: Bill Miller, “Hellgate Canyon Rogue River landmark is a Hollywood favorite,” Mail Tribune, June 21, 2009; Ryan Pfeil, “The Stars Were Out,” Mail Tribune, October 23, 2012; Nick Morgan, “Redwood Highway,” Mail Tribune, May 23, 2014; see Joma Films at https://jomafilms.com/ and https://www.garylundgrenfilm.com/; for more, generally, use an Internet search engine.