Friday 7/17/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Luis Cornelio, associate editor at MRC Free Speech America Graham – talk of their Platner Study
One of the world’s largest tech companies just picked a massive fight with the Media Research Center—and it is a war your audience needs to see.
Following a devastating MRC Free Speech America exposé, Google broke its usual silence to issue a direct, frantic counter-attack against the MRC. Why? Because the MRC caught Google’s trillion-dollar information monopoly red-handed running a dual-track election manipulation scheme.
Their data caught them rigging the news on both ends:
- The Protection Racket: Google News promoted exactly ZERO stories about left-wing Senate candidate Graham Platner’s scandals while he was useful in the polls, willfully hiding 112 articles from conservative outlets like Fox News.
- The Trump Blackout: Conversely, out of 37 Google News stories tracking the surge of Trump-backed primary candidates, 28 (76 percent) were explicitly weaponized as “doom” headlines and threats to democracy, while conservative news visibility was squeezed down to an all-time low of just 2 percent.
When caught, Google panicked, publicly trashing the MRC’s research and hiding behind the excuse of “personalized” algorithms.
MRC POV:
Google wants us to believe that checking their platform once a day missed the magic window where they actually allowed negative news about Graham Platner to exist. That is an insult to the intelligence of every consumer and investor.
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report and Outdoor news
8:35 Lee Ramage, Formerly with Ericson Air Crane, believes we’re not doing all that can be done to put fires out quickly re E. Evans Creek fire response. ______________________________________
Thursday 7/16/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Sam Dorman legal editor of the Epoch Times is here and great conversation about the Todd Blanche confirmation hearings Day 1. https://www.theepochtimes.com/author/sam-dorman
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/key-takeaways-from-blanches-confirmation-hearing-6062432
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report
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Wednesday 7/15/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Sam Dorman legal editor of the Epoch Times is here and great conversation about the Todd Blanche confirmation hearings Day 1. https://www.theepochtimes.com/author/sam-dorman
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/key-takeaways-from-blanches-confirmation-hearing-6062432
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report
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Wednesday 7/15/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist from www.EpAutos.com for Wheels Up Wednesday!
7:15a – Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com – Mr. Fire Report
7:35 Dr. Steve Bonta – Publisher of the New American www.TheNewAmerican.com We discuss Mitch McConnell’s disappearance and reappearance and other news of the day. New Americanb is the publishing arm of the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY, and we talk its history, too.
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Tuesday 7/14/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Mr. Outdoors with another fire update FROM WWW.ROGUEWEATHER.COM
7:35 Bruce De Torres, Director of Communications for the American Small Business League and the Don’t Cheat Woman project that supports advocacy work that aims to elevate women-owned small businesses in federal contracting.
AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS LEAGUE
More than 3 million Americans have filed for a new business
What’s driving the sudden boom?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2026/07/13/business-creation-booming-workers-become-own-boss/90859775007/
We talk about that and, why Oregon comes up short in such matters.
Don’t Cheat Women Project
Don’t Cheat Women is a project of the American Small Business League.
The Small Business Administration launched its Made in America Manufacturing Initiative.
Women are 50% of population and they own 43% of the businesses in America and yet, for over 30 years firms owned by men have received over 95% of all federal contracts and spending.
8:15 Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Jr., PharmD. is Senior Science Adviser to the Men’s Health Network and a Past-Chair/Chair-Emeritus of the American Public Health Association and former Alumni Association Board Member of Columbia University School of Public Health.
Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni: Sen. Graham’s Death Is a Wake-Up Call for Every Man Who Says, “I’ll Deal With It Later.”
In the wake of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden passing at age 71 from an aortic dissection, reports indicate he felt unwell but delayed seeking medical attention until after a scheduled television appearance.
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ABOUT: Men’s Health Network (MHN) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to reach men, boys, and their families where they live, work, play, and pray with health awareness and disease prevention messages and tools, screening programs, educational materials, advocacy opportunities, and patient navigation.
8:40 OPEN FOR BUSINESS – CHERYL HARRISON, LONG TERM CARE SPECIALIST WITH FUTURITY FIRST.
Tonight, Tuesday evening 6pm Cheryl is hosting an “Extended Care” (aka long term care) workshop with Melanie Madden, at the Talent Library starting at 6pm!
Spots are limited, reserve your spot at www.LTCthetalk.com
or text 541 621 8219.
Extended care is a huge part of healthcare planning that is overlooked. Anyone can health qualify today! Medicare and health insurance do not cover these costs.
There are plans where if you don’t need care, you don’t lose what you paid in.
Cheryl Harrison, long term care specialist and financial representative Melanie Madden.
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Monday 7/13/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Kenneth Abramowitz, author of The Multifront War: Defending America From Political Islam, China, Russia, Pandemics, and Racial Strife. Kenis the founder of savethewest.com, a website dedicated to saving Western Civilization from itself.
Ken has been a staunch supporter and contributor to various organizations that are fighting to preserve liberty and to protect Israel and America from Political Islam and the radical left. Mr. Abramowitz serves on the boards of the Israel Independence Fund, American Friends of Likud, and Israel Center for Social and Economic Policy (ICSEP). He is also active in 25 pro-Israel/America/Western civilization organizations.
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7:15 Greg Roberts from Rogue Weather www.RogueWeather.com E. Evans Creek Fire info – Mr. Fire
8:15 Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of Business Law at SOU with today’s “Where Past Meets Presence”. www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The Mean, Stream Machine
By Dennis Powers
In the late 1980s, three young rafting enthusiasts—Bill Bednar (Medford financial planner), Dorian Corliss (Grants Pass banker), and Michael Neyt (Medford banker)—were enjoying a raft trip in Northern California. On the trip they spotted a crude device looking like a “homemade syringe” that shot water for a distance and thought that using one would be fun. Corliss built a four-foot-long “tube within a tube” as an experiment. With a hole in the front and plug in the back, the two PVC telescoping tubes could produce a distant water stream.
On a later trip in 1990 down the Rogue, the group was camping across from Zane Gray’s cabin at remote Winkle Bar in the lower Rogue River canyon. When another raft floated by, one of their group grabbed the soaker and shot water over the passing boaters. With everyone laughing, the threesome felt that they had a great idea. Neyt and Bednar built their own prototypes at home to compare with Corliss’s one.
As they experimented, they found that a 1-inch diameter pipe fit just right inside a larger 1-1/2 inch one. A groove on the inside PVC, an O-ring around the groove to keep compression, holes, and a cap on both ends did the trick. Forming a partnership, they hand-built 300 of the devices that could shoot water up to 70 feet. Outside Grants Pass over one weekend, Neyt and Bednar sold all of their devices for $20 each. They knew they had a money winner.
Incorporating their venture as Water Sports, Inc., the three men invested $10,000 each and got to work. They built the squirt guns inside Bill Bednar’s garage over weekends, and over the next year, sold some 5,000 of them, which they named “Dipstiks.” As all had demanding jobs, they next contracted with a Grants Pass company, SPARC Enterprises, to manufacture their product.
When Bednar wanted to step up marketing and sales, Dorian Corliss decided he would rather concentrate on his profession (followed by Michael Neyt) and later sold his interest to Bednar, who by his own admission was the “ultimate dreamer.” Corliss sold his one-third interest in 1992 for $170,000, and Bednar obtained the money by a loan from a friend.
When the “Dipstick” name turned out to be trademarked by another, the company needed a different name. Portland’s Terry Whitlock later ventured down and said that he had developed a streamer named “the Stream Machine.” This soaker was built in bright colors with a pistol grip handle, whereas the Dipstick was constructed from white PCV pipe. Whitlock said the decision was theirs: They could either take him into the company or he would compete against them.
Naming Whitlock as president in charge of marketing and sale, he was offered a 25% interest. Not wanting to be a minority owner and concentrate on his job, Neyt sold his interest back for $50,000, plus a 5% royalty on each unit produced. Sales grew from $600,000 in fiscal 1992 to $1.5 million in the following year. The sales volume didn’t match up, however, with the much larger inventories built up later, and the company ran into financial difficulties that included lawsuits and bankruptcy. At the same time, a patent was issued on their device.
When the financial problems and litigation were settled with Bill Bednar in control of the company, sales again took off with major customers involved such as Bi-Mart, Fred Meyer, and Costco. At its highpoint when manufactured at its Medford facility, 160 people were employed that produced 1000 Stream Machines every hour. When its sales volume increased to $3 million annually, Bednar sold the business for $2.4 million in 2000 to his Chicago-area, brothers-in-law. With the patent having expired later, different companies now produce and/or sell the soaker without restriction.
Dorian Corliss, Michael Neyt, and Bill Bednar brought about the universal squirting device seen on the Rogue—and rivers around the world—along with money in the bank. Not bad for three rafting friends who were just having fun all those years ago.
Sources: Paul Macomber, “Dip Stick Dream dries up in fight over bankruptcy,” Mail Tribune, July 2, 1994, at Financial Background and History; “U.S. Patent Office: Patent USD351007 S, water squirting toy” at Patent; Frank Silow, “A Splash in the Market,” Mail Tribune, April 14, 2010.