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Friday October 17, 2025 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute
This weekend, millions of left-wing activists will descend on American cities to demonstrate against the Trump Administration in their “No Kings” protest. While “No Kings” has been billed as an organic grassroots movement of concerned citizens, the organization’s long list of financial “partners” reveals that “No Kings” is actually funded by the CCP and a panoply of leftist climate loon special interest groups.
Among the donors are radical climate organizations such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, who are funded by a complex web of liberal dark money and have spent decades OPPOSING nuclear energy and fossil fuels on behalf of their donors. Joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in funding “No Kings” are other alarmist groups like the Climate Museum, the International Center for Environmental Law, and Climate First! “No Kings” is another example of well-funded and well-organized liberal activism seeking to force radical climate policies on everyday Americans.
The “No Kings Day” protest movement also has connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with allegations of funding and support from individuals and organizations linked to the CCP.
7:10 Greg Roberts, “ Mr. Outdoors” from www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor Report (and homage to the late KISS guitarist Ace Frehley!)
7:35 Brad Hicks, candidate for State Senate District 3. We talk about his entry into the race and a bit of his history.
8:10 Medford City Countilman Nick Card, this time representing the Creekside Quarter PAC – www.CreeksideQuarter.com and dig into the half billion dollar redevelopment plan, asking a lot of questions.
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Wednesday October 15, 2025 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Eric Peters, www.EpAutos.com with today’s wheels up Wednesday talk on cars and transportation.
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/10/15/back-to-the-future/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/10/14/but-they-said-wed-save-money/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/10/12/2025-hyundai-ioniq-5-xrt/
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7:35 Todd Sheets, author of the Newsletter, On Wealth and Progress, currently available free of charge on Substack, which is also available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple… and the book, 2008: What Really Happened.
Gold $4K – Canary in the Gold Mine
By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened
This past week, gold surpassed $4,000 an ounce for the first time, which raises the question: what are we to make of this historic development? Commenting on gold as an investment, Warren Buffett once observed, “I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won’t do anything between now and then except look at you.” Buffett’s remarks highlight gold as a speculative investment, as opposed to other “productive” investments, like companies, that make products people want and/or need and, by growing their sales and earnings over time, steadily increase in value as they make ever greater contributions to our economic well-being. So then, what are we to make of Gold $4K? [more…]
8:10 Captain William E. Simpson, ethologist and founder of the Wild Horse Fire Brigade www.WildHorseFireBrigade.org
We dig into the firefighting capabilities of posting wild horses in particular environments. Governments have shied away from this so far, but Capt. Bill talks about private landowners that are adopting his techniques.
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Tuesday October 14, 2025 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Tony Lyons, Director of MAHA Action, is an attorney and president of Skyhorse Publishing, the independent publishing house he founded in 2006. At MAHA Action Lyons leads a national campaign to confront the chronic disease epidemic and reform public health policy, aiming to make the U.S. “the healthiest people on Earth.” As a publisher, he continues to champion a broad range of voices and ideas, including his book with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race.
CDC Rewrite of Vaccine Guidelines Is a BIG Win for Medical Freedom
CDC: Getting a COVID-19 Jab Now Your Choice
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly made one of the most significant changes to U.S. vaccine policy in recent memory — backing away from its previous blanket endorsement of COVID-19 shots for all children and adults. In a shift with far-reaching implications, the agency says decisions about whether to vaccinate against COVID-19 should now be made on a case-by-case basis, between patients and their healthcare providers.
ORGANIZATION: MAHA Action
Empowering Americans to Reform Public Health Policy and Reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic…
America is now the sickest developed nation in the world. Chronic disease rates are soaring. The numbers are staggering. But with the right leadership and unified public support, we can change course and fast.
MAHA Action is a movement committed to empowering Americans to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity: to reverse the chronic disease epidemic and make the United States the healthiest nation on Earth. With your help, Make America Healthy Again can become the most dynamic and impactful effort in modern history to bring lasting reform to our public health policies.
- Initiative One: A Clean, Safe, and Transparent Food Industry
All Americans deserve access to clean, healthy, organic food. Major food corporations must be held accountable for the ingredients they use and the way they market to families. It’s time to demand transparency and responsibility from the food industry to protect our children and communities. - Initiative Two: Reforming the Pharmaceutical Industry
The current system is riddled with broken incentives. Pharmaceutical companies fund nearly 75% of the FDA’s drug approval division through application fees, creating conflicts of interest and barriers to innovation. We advocate for bold reforms, including changes to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, to restore integrity and put patients before profits.
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7:35 Former Senator Herman Baertschiger with our political talk, Trump Middle East Deal, Naked Bike Rides and other insanity!
8:10 Michael Morris, Director, MRC Free Speech America
Guess who deserves credit for negotiating peace in Israel? It’s a mixed bag for the AI chatbots, but one even gave credit to former President Joe Biden.
Question: The Media Research Center’s (MRC) Free Speech America team asked the AI platforms, “Who is responsible for the peace deal between Israel and Hamas?”
Answer: OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot completely ignored that Trump was a key actor in the signing of the deal until the very bottom of its response, and Meta AI downplayed his role and even suggested Biden deserves credit.
WHY THIS MATTERS?
Across several countries, information-seeking has become the leading weekly use case for generative AI, surpassing tasks like media creation. Weekly usage for getting information has more than doubled in the last year (from 11% to 24% weekly use in one study).
The proportion of people who have ever used a generative AI tool jumped from 40% to 61% in one year, with weekly usage nearly doubling from 18% to 34%.
43% of people who use AI search tools are now using them daily or more.
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Monday October 13, 2025 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Dr. Jane Orient M.D. , Executive Director at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons – www.AAPSonline.org
October 7, 2025
Health Watch: What to Do about ACA Subsidies
A major sticking point in reopening the government is the extension of expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. Without these subsidies, insurance premiums will double for those receiving them. Because of this, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is breaking ranks with the Republican Party.
It should be obvious that government benefits, once granted, are virtually impossible to take away, and a subsidy “cliff” will be politically disastrous. The subsidies were necessary to mask the fact that affordable options were being taken away, and extremely expensive coverage mandates were being imposed. The cliff was needed to mask the long-term cost of the bill.
So, what can be done now? One suggestion is a conditional extension of the subsidies combined with measures to reduce costs, based on an understanding of why costs are outrageous. The graph below shows the enormous increase in administrators, and the legislation associated with it.
All that administration is supposed to decrease “unnecessary” care. It is time to ask how many tests could be bought for the price of the staff used to deny them. For the price of a $1 million administrator, 2,000 CT scans @ $500 (possible in independent facilities) could be obtained, or 82 spine surgeries (lumbar laminectomies @ $12,230 at Surgery Center of Oklahoma).
We don’t know how much time is wasted by physicians and nurses in documentation that serves no purpose except to justify billing—but it may eat half their time.
Republicans reneged on their promises to repeal ACA. So, how about promising that “if you like your ACA plan you can keep your ACA plan,” but the following changes will be made to allow affordable alternatives to arise:
- all federal insurance mandates are repealed, so you can buy an affordable catastrophes-only plan;
- the ban on physician-owned hospitals is repealed;
- payments are site-neutral;
- all medical payments including individually owned insurance (not just employer-owned insurance) are payable with pre-tax dollars; and
- other freedom-expanding measures are actively explored.
Additional information:
- AAPS reform proposals
- “Making American Medicine Great Again” (2016)
- “MUDA: The Cause of Medical Cost Increases” (2001)
Jane Orient, M.D., Executive Director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, jane@aapsonline.org
7:10 Andre DiMino (De MEAN-no) is an engineer and the CEO of a medical devices company. He is also the president of the Italian American One Voice Coalition. He is regularly called upon to discuss issues regarding Italian Americans. He has been seen on CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, CBS, NBC and other national networks and shows, as well as stations in all the major markets.
https://www.iaovc.org/andre-di mino-communications-director/
Italian Americans are applauding President Trump’s signing of a proclamation reaffirming the second Monday in October to be Columbus Day. The president’s proclamation attempts to “reclaim”, what Trump calls, the famed explorer’s extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue. In recent years, many states and cities have ignored the federal holiday and instead have celebrated Indigenous People’s Day recognizing the contributions Native Americans have made to the country.
“This does not have to be an even/or proposition,” says the president of the Italian American One Voice Coalition Andre DiMino (see short bio below). “We applaud the president for recommitting to the Columbus Day holiday while also understanding that our Native American friends need their own day to celebrate their many achievements. In fact, that is what One Voice’s new alliance with the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA) is all about.”
For more than a year now One Voice has been regularly meeting with the prominent Native American group in order to bridge the cultures instead of pitting one against the other. Many members of NAGA support Columbus Day while also understanding that both cultures are part of the great American mosaic of peoples. President Trump declared that the second Monday in October is officially “Columbus Day”—as it’s been since 1934— during a Cabinet meeting late last week.
So, what does the proclamation mean and how can the news of One Voice’s alliance with NAGA finally end the war over Columbus Day?
7:35 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firerams Federation www.OregonFirearms.org
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, www.DennisPowersBooks.com with today’s “Where Past Meets Present”.
The Talent Irrigation District
By Dennis Powers
Residents long ago realized the value of water for this Valley and its economy. Jacob Wagner in the early summer of 1852 diverted some of the creek water (which now bears his name) that ran through his property, thus introducing irrigation. It wasn’t until 1916 that the Talent Irrigation District (“TID”) was formed as a Quasi-Municipal Corporation and under contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”). A board of three elected directors governs the district, has the ability to issue bonds, and is the largest irrigation district in Southern Oregon.
In March 1920, the first organized area, named the McDonald Unit, was completed at a cost of $250,000. The construction built a needed diversion dam and canal. This comprised 1,600 irrigable acres, with the water supplied from McDonald creek, a Little Applegate River tributary, and from Wagner Creek, a Bear Creek tributary. Shortly thereafter part of the Talent Lateral was constructed to bring water from Bear Creek. Irrigation was not only needed for homes, but for the acres of pear, apple, and other fruit trees.
The land for Hyatt Reservoir was acquired by 1923. The capacity of Hyatt Dam is 16,000 acre feet of storage, impounds Keene Creek, and is at the southern end of its created Hyatt Lake. Additionally, construction of different siphons (large steel pipe), a water tunnel, and lateral canals to bring this water to the first area (and later Emigrant Lake) began.
The TID in 1920 began purchasing the necessary land for Emigrant Reservoir, located just south of Ashland, but the work didn’t start until 1929. The dam had a capacity of 8,500 acre feet, drained approximately 58 square miles, and flooded a maximum area of 230 acres–thus creating easily accessible Emigrant Lake for boating, swimming, and fishing.
The Great Depression caused the TID to be reorganized due to the bankruptcies of farmers and irrigators; World War II halted all construction but for maintenance needs. In 1956, a new reservoir at Howard Prairie was constructed with a normal surface area of 2,000 acres, being 4- miles long and 1/2- to 1-mile wide.
A much larger earthen dam by Reclamation, nearly doubled to 204 feet high, greatly expanded Emigrant Lake in 1960–with continued construction of laterals to bring water to where needed. Water from Hyatt Reservoir, Little Hyatt Reservoir–further downstream on Keene Creek–and Howard Prairie Lake, the larger reservoir 3 miles to the east, is carried by the Ashland Lateral Canal to Emigrant Lake, the storage reservoir near Ashland.
At this time, the project area includes land in and around the cities of Medford, Phoenix, Talent, and Ashland. The TID has 3,530 accounts with 3,000 land owners, both commercial and residential, that provides irrigation water to 16,300 acres of land in its district.
With its water supply from a number of creeks emptying into the three lake-storage reservoirs, TID’s system consists of 230 miles of siphons, canals, and lateral distributions, all of which need to be maintained year-round. Although a normal irrigation season begins in mid-April to early October, transferring needed water to growing seasons, the irrigation season under drought conditions starts later and ends earlier.
In 2021, owing to drought conditions, TID cut the water supply off in mid-July. Even if water is not delivered, customers must still pay, as water usage is not metered: Users pay for the maintenance of this complex irrigation system, regardless as to how much is available. (Note: The City of Talent purchases its water from the Medford Water Commission by a 24-inch water main; this currently provides water to the cities of Talent, Ashland, and Phoenix.)
Unfortunately, the water supply situation did not improve in 2022. The reservoirs were extremely low: Hyatt Lake (14% of capacity), Howard Prairie Lake (11%), and Emigrant Lake (12%) respectively, in April. However, owing to stronger, longer winter rains and snowpack for the streams and reservoirs, this improved each year to where in September 2025, for example, all lakes were greater than 70%.
Notwithstanding these fluctuations, what life would have been like without the TID is not measureable.
Sources: Patrick Lynch, “Research Paper on History of Talent Irrigation District,” March 1959; Talent Irrigation District Website at TID Website; Holly Dillemuth, “TID Water ‘more than likely’ to turn on for Limited Time,” Ashland.News, April 6, 2022.