Tuesday 9/15/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 David Jenkins represents Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship
In August, the US Dept. of Agriculture announced it would repeal the Roadless Rule. Implemented in 2001, it is meant to protect 368,000 miles of wooded areas.
Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship President David Jenkins argues that the USDA does not have the budget to maintain the roads in national forests.
There is a public comment period between now and October 6.
Here’s more of what he’s thinking:
Roadless Rule rollback will be a fiscal nightmare
by DAVID JENKINS
| August 21, 2026 7:00 AM
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins just announced that the U.S. Forest Service has filed a proposed rule to “rescind in its entirety” the national 2001 Roadless Area Conversation Rule.
Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship (CRS) President David Jenkins criticized the move, saying: “This is one of the most boneheaded and fiscally irresponsible actions this administration could take. The agency doesn’t have the budget to take care of the 368,000 miles of roads already riddling our national forests. In fact, there is currently a $10.8 billion maintenance backlog”
Jenkins also challenged Rollin’s claim that the Roadless Rule “exacerbates” wildfire risks, adding: “The truth is that roadless forests are our greatest defense against wildfire. Not only are old growth forests naturally resistant to fire, but 90% of all wildfires in the U.S. occur within a half mile of a road. Any claims to the contrary are demonstrably false.”
“We need to call this out for what it is, one giant taxpayer funded subsidy for commercial logging operations that are otherwise uneconomical. This will only worsen our national debt and end up fleecing American taxpayers out the wazoo.” Jenkins said. “It is swamp politics at its very worse.”
Speaking about America’s great forests and mountains, Ronald Reagan once said, “This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it to them either as we found it or better than we found it.”
Reagan understood that the responsible stewardship of our natural wealth and fiscal health were core tenets of conservatism. Secretary Rollins would do well to remember that and abandon her ill-conceived effort to roll back the Roadless Rule and eliminate common-sense forest protections that benefit us all.
Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship is a national nonprofit grassroots organization founded on the premise that environmental stewardship and natural resource conservation are inherently conservative, and that true conservatives endeavor to be good stewards of the natural systems and resources that sustain life on earth.
Learn more about CRS at the organization’s website: https://www.conservativestewards.org.
Jenkins is a lifelong traditionalist conservative, has worked for CRS, or its predecessor organization Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), since 2005. He served as Vice President for Government & Political Affairs for REP until taking the helm of CRS in 2012.
7:35 State Senator Noah Robinson digs in and discusses not just the roadless rule, which the previous guest was on, but what appears to be a great injustice being done to irrigators because of the pending removal of the Murphy Dam.
8:10 Ryan Steck, editor, author and founder and editor in chief of the REAL BOOK SPY. www.RealBookSpy.com and his latest novel is TARGET DOWN, the latest in his Matthew Redd thriller series. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHT4TFZH?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
The Real Book Spy: https://therealbookspy.com
Note from Bill: Highly recommended, Ryan delivers another great thriller.
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Monday 9/14/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 John O’Connor, is author of Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism
He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases.
DOJ cracks down on CA city charging 2k for concealed carry license and violating second amendment rights
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7:10 Rick Nelson, member of the Three Rivers School District school board. He’s under investigation, from my POV it’s all about not bending the knee to “The Agenda”. Rick explains what’s up.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, www.DennisPowersBooks.com with today’s “Where Past Meets Present”.
Bill Pearl: Mr. Universe
By Dennis Powers
Bill Pearl was born in 1930 in Prineville, Oregon, and the family moved to different places before finally settling in Yakima, Washington. He had an intense desire to be strong and well built, and as early as age ten, Bill looked for the hardest neighborhood jobs to build his strength and body. A wartime copy of Strength and Health magazine focused his desire when he saw the pictures of “iron men” such as Steven Reeves: He wanted to have his picture in that magazine. Athletically inclined, he ran track, played football, wrestled, worked on weights, and was on his high-school swimming team.
He joined the U.S. Navy in 1950 for four years, where he discovered he could work out in gyms and receive the property training and equipment when stationed in San Diego. Bill entered his first physique contest in 1952 and placed third in the annual Mr. San Diego contest. One year later, he won the titles of Mr. Oceanside, Mr. Southern California, Mr. California, Mr. America, and Mr. Universe (besting a 23-year-old Sean Connery in this amateur contest) all in one year.
In 1954, Bill Pearl moved to Sacramento, California, and opened his first gym with the money he had saved for the years he was in the U.S. Navy. Although he built this to a chain of nine gyms, he cut back to one owing to the time demands and to keep training. As Pearl trained hard and smart, he won more titles: the Mr. U.S.A. contest in 1956 over the top 35 physique men in the country; the 1961 Professional Mr. Universe contest in London, England, where he was the unanimous winner, receiving every first place vote.
During the 1960s, Pearl performed as a “showman” guest poser, as well as a strength act which included spike bending, chain breaking, tearing auto license plates in half, and blowing up hot water bottles until they burst. He was also performing by bench pressing 450 lbs., front-squatting 500 lbs., and full squatting 605 lbs. at a body weight of 218 lbs.
After winning the professional Mr. Universe title in 1971, Pearl finally retired from active competition, having won 4 in the past 18 years. At age 41 then, he weighed 242 pounds with a height of 5’10” and his arms measured 21 inches. Bill was a perfectionist, driven, a vegetarian (at age 39, but eating eggs and dairy products), a showman, and a master of technique. He refused to use anabolic steroids.
Pearl had his own monthly columns in bodybuilding magazines during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the first professional bodybuilder to pose to music, as noted in his performing exhibitions, and the first to author bodybuilding training courses/booklets. In 1979, he published “Keys to the Inner Universe”–640 pages and weighing 5 pounds–which was a bodybuilding and weight-training manual for coaches, trainers, and professionals (even amateurs). In 1985, he published the exercise book, “Getting Stronger: Weight Training for Men and Women,” which sold over 350,000 copies.
Pearl retired from bodybuilding and settled in Phoenix, Oregon, in 1978, where he operated Bill Pearl Enterprises. He published his autobiography in 2003 (“Beyond the Universe: The Bill Pearl Story”) and was awarded the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. A marketing master, he brought out more physical-training books, was a consultant for Life Fitness (with equipment such as stationary bikes and treadmills), had a home gym for trainees, continued to accept awards, and was a long-time resident of Phoenix.
Bill would arise regularly at 3:00 a.m. to train six days a week; he worked on his antique automobiles in his spare time. His website stated: “In short, Bill and Judy have found the best of two worlds through their move to Oregon: peace and tranquility at home, and challenging new opportunities and ways to pass his knowledge and experience of the sport of bodybuilding to others.”
Bill Pearl at his Phoenix home passed away in 2022 at age 91.
Source: Jamie Verner, “Bill Pearl (1930-2022),” Oregon Encyclopedia at Bill Pearl Background; Wikipedia: “Bill Pearl” at More Background; see “Bill Pearl: The Greatest Bodybuilder” on YouTube at Bill Pearl Video.