Friday 6/26/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:15 Sam Dorman is the Legal Editor for the Epoch Times and we discuss the latest Supreme Court decisions this week:
7:10 Greg Roberts from Rogue Weather.com with Today’s Outdoor Report
7:35 Bob Haworth – Performing in Shady Cove this weekend, Saturday 2-4 at the Shady Cove Library.
7:45 Luis Cornelio, Associate Editor, MRC Free Speech America – is your Chatbot hating on the United States? Probably:
As the United States approaches its historic 250th anniversary, new research from the Media Research Center reveals that popular artificial intelligence chatbots are being programmed to push an anti-American narrative.
MRC researchers tested the world’s leading AI models to see how they view this milestone, uncovering a stark divide in how technology is shaping public perception:
- Anthropic’s Claude AI cast doubt on celebrating the nation, echoing the controversial 1619 Project and claiming that “gratitude” is the wrong frame for the anniversary. The chatbot only changed its stance after researchers explicitly confronted it about its logical inconsistencies.
- Elon Musk’s Grok AI stood alone with an unequivocal, pro-American response, detailing how the American experiment has elevated global living standards and defeated totalitarianism.
- ChatGPT is the most widely used AI chatbot worldwide. It’s response fell somewhere in between Claude and Grok, saying that many Americans do celebrate, although it is ultimately a personal choice:
8:10 Steve Vincent is the Oregon Community Relations Manager – Local Business Manager for Avista Utilities and we spend the hour discussing the need for natural gas, and the politicized attacks on natural gas use that have no basis in fact. (Thank you politicians from Ashland and Talent/sarc )
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Thursday 6/25/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Wayne Barnes – author of A Traitor in the FBI
Wayne is the 29-year FBI counterintelligence agent who recruited the source that exposed Robert Hanssen.
Wayne and I discuss the case last week when the FBI seized 13 fake consulting websites suspected Chinese intelligence used to recruit Americans with security clearances. No hack, just fake firms, fake personas, and cash for insider reports. That’s the exact playbook Wayne ran from the inside.
7:10 Todd Sheets is the 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
More on Todd: Todd Sheets / Politics, Economics, and Well-Being
Iran Peace Talks – The Fat Lady’s Still Warming Up
By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened
President Trump wants out of Iran so badly he may be willing to live with otherwise unacceptable terms. While potentially far-fetched, there is also another plausible explanation that is entirely consistent with the Trumpian character – that he was willing to give Iran what it wanted in order to get the Strait opened, with the intention of then dragging out negotiations until after the midterms before returning to a much harder line with respect to any final, legally binding, agreement; or, if needed, a return to more forceful action. Only time will reveal whether there is method in the preliminary madness of this evolving drama – but stay tuned, it wouldn’t be the first time Trump’s critics wrote him off before the fat lady finished her warmups. [more…]
8:10 Dr. Merrill Matthews is the Texas state chair of Our Republican Legacy. Here’s his op-ed that ran yesterday in The Hill.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5935317-sanders-socialist-democrats-rise/
We kick around how Mamdani emerges as kingmaker, and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries.
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Wednesday 6/23/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information Podcasts on www.BillMeyerShow.com Facebook – www.Facebook.com/billmeyershow
6:35 Wheels Up Time with ERIC PETERS, automotive journalist from www.EPAutos.com
Some of our topics today include:
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/06/24/too-good-to-be-true/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/06/23/underpowered-under-stressed-and-over-built/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/06/25/ev-epitaph/
7:35 John Hart, CEO, Open the Books – the world’s largest private repository of public spending with over 10 billion individually captured transactions from nearly all levels of government. Our mission is to post “every dime, online, in real-time” in order to empower citizens with information to hold the government accountable. Learn more at www.openthebooks.com.
TOPIC: The Feds $6.5 Billion Fraud Bust
DOJ Announces Largest Healthcare Fraud Takedown in U.S. History
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John Hart, CEO, Open the Books
The Department of Justice today announced charges against approximately 450 defendants in a sweeping $6.5 billion healthcare fraud crackdown spanning 41 states, targeting Medicare, Medicaid, hospice fraud, kickback schemes, unnecessary medical procedures, and organized criminal networks.
Recent Open the Books Investigations
- Hidden Fees: Taxpayers on the Hook for Foreign-linked Healthcare Fraud
- Hidden Fees: Taxpayers on the Hook for Autism Fraud through Medicaid
- Medicaid Data Dump: Billing Codes Explode up to 10,000% – LA Mental Health Dept. Highest in Nation
- A Trillion Dollar “Advantage”: How Private Insurers are Bilking Medicaid & Taxpayers
8:10 Delaney Richmond, Jackson County’s Emergency Manager is here for a discussion on the Emergency Alert systems and procedures and addresses suggestions some listeners have made to improve “fire zone” mapping and clarity.
Delaney suggested if you want to receive ALL the fire notices to make sure and text Jacksonevacs to 888777.
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Tuesday 6/23/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:40 JAMISON FIRESTONE, author of RULE OF LIES: My Wild Ride Through
RULE OF LIES: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin’s Russia by Jamison Firestone (Harper; June 23, 2026) is a true story that reads like a spy thriller-darkly comic, violent, and unnervingly real. Rather than explaining Russia’s destruction of rule of law and democracy through politicians or oligarchs, the book tells it from the inside out: how an American lawyer walked straight into chaos and managed to live long enough to expose it.
Raised by a multimillionaire conman and crack addict who hung out with mobsters and owned Manhattan’s most expensive brothel, Firestone learned early on how to deal with criminals. At twenty-four, fresh out of law school and desperate to escape that world, he struck out for the Wild East, the disintegrating Soviet Union. In 1991, as Russia slid into lawlessness, he founded the country’s first independent foreign-owned law firm-an act his law school equated with insanity.
What followed was out of the frying pan and into the fire. For nearly two decades, Firestone lived in the maelstrom of post-Soviet Russia, defending himself and his clients against mafia attacks, corrupt police, and armed commandos who raided his office. He was threatened, surveilled, extorted-and at one point forced to raid his own offices with a SWAT team and bug the offices of the Russian police just to stay alive. In a system where the law was a weapon, survival meant learning how to fight back.
Firestone soon found himself at the center of Russia’s most explosive scandals. He employed Sergei Magnitsky, whose exposure of the largest tax theft in Russian history led to his imprisonment, torture, and murder. Refusing silence, Firestone joined Bill Browder and teamed up with Alexei Navalny to expose Magnitsky’s killers and take their blood money.
Along the way, he inadvertently inspired Navalny to develop the corruption-exposing videos that would later threaten the Kremlin-and helped trigger an open war with the Russian state over the Magnitsky Acts, legislation threatening sanctions against Russia’s most powerful figures.
RULE OF LIES is both an adventure and an indictment: how a fragile democracy was hijacked by criminals and KGB spooks and transformed into a true mafia state. And how a small group of people decided to hit back. Darkly funny, often horrifying, and deeply personal, it is a warning about what happens when corruption hardens into governance-and what it costs to resist.
7:35 Herman Baertschiger Income Tax – Merk says people are telling him to make the “rich pay”. Yeah, the income tax started that way, too, and Herman and I discuss a history of the dreaded income tax.
8:10 I talk about a new op ed from Ken Davis, a former finance executive for a Fortune 500 company and former Deputy Attorney General for Virginia, and it’s abouts how Republicans can ease the cost of living by providing interest payments to taxpayers on their wages withheld and advanced to the government as part of their third budget reconciliation package.
Current pay roll deductions do not earn interest or allow the American people to invest, draining from the private economy. This solution would be practical way to ease economic burdens and give Republicans a huge win heading into the November election.
Friday 6/19/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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