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0:00This hour of the Bill Meyers Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Closer Drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon Well Drilling for more than 50 years. Fight out more about them at CloserDrilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyers. Welcome to Monday morning March 16th, 2026. How are you doing this morning? Join the conversation at 7705633770KMED. My email bill at BillMeyersShow.com. Do you think we're winning? Really winning over in Iran right now? How would you evaluate it? It kind of looks a little bit of a mixed kind of a mixed bag to me. And this was the first thought that I that came into my head that popped through my head. Yesterday morning when the president said we're looking for this coalition of the willing or the unwilling or whatever kind of coalition it is to try to keep the straight and horror moves open. Now the straight and horror moves is that like 22 mile wide shipping channel

1:04right by Iran, Iran's able to control it relatively easily. And there's a two mile wide shipping channel through this. Some of the biggest tankers can go through it very easily. It's quite deep in there, but it's 22 miles overall. And around 20% of the world's oil goes through that section. And the president is asking for help. And if the United States of America is asking for help keeping the straight and horror moves open, to me, that was an indicator of it may not be going quite as well or swimmingly as it's being that talked about in the in the press conferences. Is that a fair kind of just gut thing? Because frankly, none of us, I think, really know what is going on there. Do we really know what's going on? No, we can just see what the what the news reports come in and the news reports are restricted and polished and this is everywhere where you're talking about the Israeli news,

2:08but you're talking about Iranian news, but you're talking about the United States news. This is what happens during war. I don't necessarily know what to trust. Homeless, but the one thing that I can pretty much guarantee, if you're asking for help, that means that you don't have really control of this because here it is. The reports have been that we have just pounded Iran to within an inch of its life. This is the way it's been getting reported. And like we're practically having no military targets left to hit. Like we don't have any military targets to hit. And yet at the same time, Iran is apparently able to send tons of drones in there and knock out oil tankers. And so Lloyd of London then says, no, we're not going to, we're not going to ensure this anymore. And so traffic oil traffic grinds to a halt. And I know that there is talk that we are supposed to be escorting ships here pretty soon.

3:08Of course, that's going to be really expensive to do it with our military too. But you know, this is one of those things that I just don't know because President Trump has really good instincts, very good instincts. I mean, that's probably his greatest strength. If you want to talk about Donald Trump's superpower, it is instinct. He's an instinctual president. Would you agree with me on that? Probably his greatest superpower of all is his instincts. But you know, there, there's tactics and also supply chains and also other things that have to be, be considered before you go off and you do things like what happened in what, what's been going on in Iran. It's one thing to decapitate the government, but it appears that there's a lot of decentralization of the Iranian Republican Guard, they wish they're able to kind of keep things going even though they're not technically the guy. So to speak, in charge these days, and I don't consider myself any expert on foreign policy.

4:12Please understand, but there are a couple of things that I found out over the weekend that as I'm reading some of the analysis of it and going like, why would you have done this? And this is one of them. All right, when you know that you're going to be doing something around the straight of a Hormuz, where 20% of the world oil supply flows through it and can be attacked or pinched quite easily, that little narrow area controlled by Iran, wouldn't control of the straight of Hormuz been a job one first and foremost. That's what came through in my mind and second also what's in my mind is why would why would we have done this without our strategic petroleum reserve absolutely filled to the brim? That just makes no sense to me. That made no sense to me unless you really didn't think it was going to be four or five days.

5:14And four or five days, all the naysayers of the war were indicating that this was going to take more than four or five days. No contingency plan. Now, maybe it's going to be okay and I hope it is going to be okay because you know, the way things are looking at the moment, it could be getting dicier that midterm election is looking dicier in dicier all the time. Price of crude is over a hundred bucks, 105 this morning is what we were looking at for Brentwood crude. I don't know exactly what it is at the moment, but it's in that it's in that trading range. And this is serious stuff. And then you have President Trump asking for help. Now, I'm sure asking for help is trying to get in more people. Hey, but he asked Japan. Now, Japan gets almost all of its oil through the straight of Hormuz. If it's not getting anything right now, Japan gets 95% of its oil through the straight of Hormuz. And President Trump asked them, well, would you send some ships to help

6:18patrol the straight of Hormuz? And they said, no, Japan said no. Now, maybe they don't have any oil to send the ship. It could be part of yeah, send me some oil. Then maybe we'll send a ship. But yeah, yeah, everybody has a plan until what was that famous thing? Everybody has the plan until that famous Mike Tyson that Mike Tyson plan everybody has a plan until you're punched in the face. Some words to affect. I know that's been, you know, exaggerated. But I don't know, it's on, but anyway, President Trump is putting fire under the broader community of concerned nations about this now. And the countries of the world, he's saying that receive oil through the Hormuz straight must take care of that passage. And we will help a lot, he said. This is from his a truth social post. The U.S. will also coordinate with those countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly and well. This should have always been a team effort. And now it will be

7:19as is from truth social accepted will be only if the other people want to join the to join the team. And so far, big people who depend on the oil like a Japaner saying, no, thanks. You broke it. You bought it. I think is is kind of what some of them are saying. And you got to pick it on that. I don't know. But when I heard about him asking for help on trying to secure the straight of Hormuz, at times thinking, it's not going so well. That's what I was thinking at least, or at least there are more problems than they perhaps anticipated. What do you say, 7705633? Because I'm thinking like, well, we smashed everything, we destroyed everything. And well, I know. But anyway, what you think in this morning? Hi, good morning, KBD KBXG. Who says? Good morning, Bill. It's still a rogue river. Hey, Phil, what do you think of this morning, huh? Well, I think the president is just asking for somebody else to help carry the load because we've been patrolling the Persian Gulf for like 45, 50 years. I did 10 deployments out there on Navy ship.

8:21And we never saw any other foreign naval ship out there to help us. So he just wants to find out who is actually going to help do this. We can't carry the whole world's load forever. Well, I certainly agree with you on that, but it seems to me that you make those kind of contingencies you get that prepared before you do stuff, wouldn't you? Well, true enough, but I mean, granted, even though they were saying that they could have a nuke within two weeks, you don't have a lot of time to do stuff like that. And as far as our reserves go, I mean, we really don't rely on that part of the world's oil. It's just the global market. So we're just trying to ease it. Well, yeah, but still, but still, we, I mean, you know, you're sending your sending ships over there. We didn't fill up the gas tank. What the hell? That's what I'm thinking though. Well, true enough, and that's because Biden emptied it needlessly

9:24in my opinion. Yeah. But it takes a long time to fill up that oil and you need congressional improvement to start filling it up. Ah, there you go. It's a very good point, very good point, Phil. So you're not thinking that this is indicative of problems. This is just trying to get the world to help out. Yeah. I mean, they rely on that global market. This is much as we do. And I think everybody should lend a hand supporting that. Okay. All right. Hey, Phil, I appreciate the call. Thank you for that too. 7705633770KMED. Now see, it struck me differently from Phil. I'm thinking like, yeah. Because President Trump is very big on, on, hey, you know, our military is the most fabulous thing. We can do it all. We can smash and grab and then keep the, you know, we can rub our tummy and pat our heads at the same time. I would have thought that this would have been a cakewalk, so to speak, for the US military on keeping the straightal hormones open. Hi, good morning, KMED. Who's this? Morning, Bill. Tom. Tom, what do you think in this morning?

10:26Well, you know, John B. Wells had a very interesting interview with a military man over the weekend Saturday. And this man claimed that Iran was preparing to execute by hanging 8,000 of their own citizens just before the invasion. They were, they were planning on what have already happened. There hadn't been an invasion. He also claimed that Iran had killed 35,000 of their own protesters there in the country. And then he also claimed that, that they were having protests against the government in the hundreds of thousands. They said not the tens of thousands, in the hundreds of thousands. I don't know how you can verify any of that, but that there's pretty startling claims there. And I just, like I said, we don't really know what's the health going on over there at all, because we have a media that is totally uncrusty. Well, the media,

11:34the media that happens these days is pretty much a working via government press release. I mean, that's kind of the way the media doesn't know even on the national. Like the old Russian problem, I think in Russian meets truth. And I can't tell you how uncrustworthy I think our media is. I mean, I've had that opinion for decades. I don't even watch the mainstream news any for decades. Okay, but just let me ask you though, asking for help is that a sign that we just want to spread the load out there on people, you know, and it feel makes a good point about that. Where's this indicative that there may be more challenges that we may have anticipated there? Well, I kind of also have to ask the question, what the hell are we doing over there in the first place? I mean, where's the terrible way to settle differences and so forth? You know, the United States has something like 800 military bases around the world. I mean, it's just not what we're doing with our resources. You know, one of the things that got my attention about

12:39Trump is when he walked out of these towers there in New York and said, well, what would America look like if we weren't spending all our blood and treasure in the Middle East and now look at them? So I don't know. Well, you'll see, you know, maybe ultimately, Trump has an amazing ability though. The one thing, like I said, one of his main superpowers, like I'd mentioned when I first opened up though, is that he has very good instincts, right? He has usually very good instincts and that's a big superpower of his and he also has an amazing ability to pull rabbits out of a hat that that you'd never think could could possibly be pulled off. So I'm not I'm not bagging on on things right now, but I'm just saying that when I hear him asking for help, that struck me as it's not going so well. That's all. That's that's that's the way I interpreted it. Yeah, it's certainly, I mean, his ability to survive everything that's been thrown out of just been nothing short of totally amazing. Yeah. I should have been toast in any other

13:45anybody else would have collapsed long ago. Yeah. I mean, that's true. I mean, point well take. I appreciate your call. Thank you for that, Tom. And we're just kind of taking around and you know, how are you feeling about the way things are looking right now? Now that we're going into the third week. Hi, good morning, KMD. Who's this? Who's your minor Dave? Hey, Dave, what you think? Well, this weekend, I was in my brothers for celebration of life for my sister while passing away. Yeah. And I watched Fox News. And I can't believe anything they say because it's rar, rar, rar, rar, war, war, war. And you know, I'm not saying that Trump is has any problem, but to get anything that isn't propaganda, I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea who to believe or what to believe. I feel that way myself sometimes. Appreciate the call there. Thank you very much. Let me go to next call. Hi, good morning, KMD. Who's this? This is Wayne. Hi, Wayne. What do you

14:47think in this morning? What's up? Well, we'll try into what Tom was talking about on that John B. Wells interview with that military guy. The one thing that was brought up is Lloyd the London insurers, all those tankers going in and out of the past. Yeah. And they pulled their coverage. So they did. Yeah. And then the interesting thing is I don't know if our government took that contract over or somebody else here in America, but what it did is it siphoned off a lot of money that the royals received. And without that, the shipping revenue that they would receive on that insurance, that dried up one of their funds. And that goes clear back to gosh, like the 15, 16 hundreds, I think guy was talking about very interesting guy. Didn't hear that interview Saturday night. I had missed that doing some other things, but I'll go back take a listen.

15:48All right. Thank you. Yeah. I thought it was quite fascinating. All right. Yeah. I'll tell you, um, John B. Wells was a great addition here. And we have him here now having replaced ground zero Monday through Friday. Well, actually, now it's Monday through Saturday. Let's see. So Saturday night, it is seven to nine and Monday through Friday, it is eight till 10, right? Arctin, arc midnight or caravan to midnight's what it's called. It's arc midnight on Saturday night. Hi, good morning, KMD. Who's this? Hey, Bill, David. Hey, David, what's on your mind today? Yeah. Well, something that people should consider when they, you know, are always surprised that the globalists go into a country and have a hard time. I want to tell an ASOPs fable. Is that okay? Do I have time to do that? It's a quick one. Okay. Sure. Go ahead. There's a crow sitting in a tree and the crow is watching as a fox chases a rabbit through the forest and the rabbit goes around the tree and through a briar patch and out through a field, and the fox is just chasing the whole way. And finally, the rabbit escapes and the fox is walking

16:49back and the crow says, you're a fox. You're so much faster than a rabbit. How did you let him get away and the fox says, I was only running for my dinner. The rabbit was running for his life. You know, and when we think about these countries and, you know, we're always so surprised that these issues, you know, we're the globalist, man, we're the globalist to be able to go in there with all this money and technology and we should be able to, you know, push Russia around and we should be able to just take over any country in the Middle East. We want blah, blah, blah, you know. In other words, the Iranians have a vote on that, huh? Well, just remember the ferocity that these people have, you know, we're just sitting back, you know, yeah, our gas is expensive, you know, even though we don't rely on Middle Eastern oil, our gas is somehow so expensive now. We're sitting back, you know, watching the news and every American, those are the straight to hormones is, you know, magically, we all know where that is somehow because we're going to be given this explanation of why our gas is expensive. But yeah, other people in other parts of the world that don't have it like we do here, you know, they're pretty vested in their survival,

17:50you know, we're just watching TV right now. And I guess I pray it stays that way, but you know, I suspect people are going to have a real different opinion of the globalist agenda when it finally ends up in their front yard, you know, and what you did, what you did in different ways. But I mean, the actual, you know, military drones and bombing, all that stuff, you know, we all, we all think it's great. I knock over Syria, knock over Libya, you know, knock over Gaza, knock over Iran, you know, besides the oil price, watch the number one, worst part about living in the United States right now, long aircraft lines or long airline lines, right? Yeah, you know, I mean, I just think people that like war need to reality check sometimes, you know, all right. Hey, appreciate your call as always. Thank you, David. 629 to KMED. Oh, by the way, speaking of the airlines, the airline lines, you know, for years, I've been saying, why do we have a federal employees as TSA? Why should that be at the, at the whim of the Democrats in Congress? That never made sense to me.

18:54There's never any reason to have to have Department of Homeland Security. Well, of course, airlines could actually do something the way they used to would be provide their own security. Something tells me that their insurance companies would be way, way, way interested in making sure that they don't bring terrorists on board. Wouldn't you think? This is the Bill Meyers show. Kelly's on a motor service. When you have our platinum fuel system cleaning done, you'll receive a free bag with your help. St. Jude continues its mission, finding jures, saving children. Good morning. This is Use Talk 1063 KMED. And you're waking up with the Bill Meyers show. 637 Paul Ronco joins me. Paul Ronco is the senior director of strategic initiatives at defending education, defending education, defending, I believe it's defending ed.org, isn't that your website, Paul? Welcome back to the show. Yeah. Good morning, Bill. Thanks for having me. You are an educational watchdog. And boy, we need more than ever. It's been ever,

19:58rather. It's fascinating to watch the school walk out and protest rackets in my opinion of what have been going on here over the last few weeks here. Oregon seems to be a hot bed of all of a sudden, you know, we have especially K through 12 kids, especially middle school kids here in Southern Oregon, most recently. And I remember as a middle school child that, you know, I didn't know a whole lot. Certainly about geopolitics skulls full of mush as the light rush limbaugh used to talk about it, right? You know, and and then it's just interesting that to all of a sudden when it comes to immigration and custom reinforcement, gosh, you know, the kids are active and they want to be out there. And it's a grassroots student led movement. Now, twice they've walked out here over the last last couple of weeks at Oakland or Oakdale Middle School here locally. How is that looking around the country? I have a feeling there's a lot more of this going on and it's all just been popping up recently. What's a you? Absolutely. After the anti ice protests started in Minnesota earlier this

21:03year, my organization defending education, we started hearing from parents all across the country of their districts, this happening in their district students walking out of class, walking out of the school doors to protest ice and immigration enforcement efforts. And so we looked into this and we want to know, you know, is this a phenomenon that's just a few random schools in, you know, blue states or was it a little bit more pervasive than we were thinking? And what our investigation found was that these political student walkouts have occurred over 500 times in the past five years, 350 times this year alone. And it's in 48 states across the country. And like you mentioned, it's not just high school, it's middle school students who may not, you know, they probably don't have a great grasp of these, you know, geopolitical issues. And parents are rightly asking, why is this happening and how did we get here? What have you been able to figure

22:03out as far as the organization of it? Because the one that happened at the middle school here that I was referencing Oakdale, the news reports came out there and talked about these were student led. But there were some parents, there were a parent or two that was involved in this too. Yeah, it's a combination of outside groups, third parties and the schools themselves, a lot of the time sanction these events. So, you know, you probably noticed for a long time and your listeners are probably, you noticed for a long time that schools have an ideological bend. And so, we see schools either, you know, endorsing these or passively allowing them to happen or at a minimum, they waive the consequences for students who walk out to protest ICE. And as you can imagine, we certainly don't see the same support either by adults outside or the schools themselves, the same support for students who, you know, would support ICE or immigration enforcement efforts. So, the first real big issue with these student walkouts and the student

23:08process is viewpoint discrimination. You know, if schools are going to allow these, which I would argue they shouldn't, for, you know, to protest ICE, they should allow students to protest other things on the other side of the aisle. Are any of these of these almost 500 protests where any of them, what could be construed as right wing or conservative issues being protested in the school or any of these in your study? The only ones you can maybe make an argument is school funding that we've seen a couple of those where they need to build a new school perhaps. You can argue that those are nonpartisan at best, but these are for, you know, to protest ICE, to protest in support of transgender ideology or against Israel or climate change, things like that. Okay. Now I'm looking here on the tool. By the way, this is the tool that you were talking about over on defending ed.org and it shows all of the protests that have happened in the state of

24:10Oregon and all the other states here too. So you're right. And you caught them too, January 30th, North Mefford High School, anti ICE, then March 2nd Oakdale Middle School, anti ICE. They also had another one from Oakdale a week or two later in which they, but they did that on, on their own time, which I would have thought would've been the best way to have done it in the first place, but that's not nearly as much fun, right, Paul? You know, doing it on your own time. Well, and you bring up another point is, you know, if students are walking out of school off campus without permission during the school day and if there's no consequences, I mean, it's essentially a field trip, right? True civil disobedience, like ones we've seen in the past with the civil rights, you know, movements and things like that. True civil disobedience requires sacrifice. And I think most parents would agree that, you know, if your, your students breaking the school code and the school policies, there should be consequences for these. Well, they, they charge them a day off, or not a day off, I guess they call, they suspend them for a day, which is, give them another day off,

25:13right? From classes. Well, there's a, in some cases, that's the case, but in most cases, it's, you know, I know it's state law in Virginia that students be given a day to, you know, participate in civil discourse or something like that, but give them a path to do these things. And so this is where parents really need to be involved and alert to not only understand that these things are happening, but what the consequences are for their students, not just for attendance, but for their academics. I mean, every hour that the students are outside the school protesting ISIS, you know, they're not learning math. They're not learning reading. They're not learning writing and the nation scores on those subjects are not good. I wonder if Oakdale Middle School stood this figure. And I mean, I suppose protest ICE because we're not learning anything anyway here. You know, you know, you know, how Oregon's teaching or Oregon schools ratings are not all that great overall. I'm sure you've read about that. Well, there's a great video. I saw recently

26:15of a mom who, you know, saw the anti-ice, the school sanctioned anti-ice walk out happening at her daughter's middle school. And in the video, she marches right up to the main office and demands, you know, that her child be pulled from the school all together. And so, you know, parents send their kids to school to learn, you know, reading, writing, math, science, history. They don't send them to participate in the coordinated political protests. Is there any evidence that there are actual political parties or political organizations that are through the back door organizing these walk outs out of K through 12 schools? What's a youthful? Yeah, it's sometimes it's organized. Sometimes it's a little bit more, you know, an individual, maybe an activist in the community. It really depends on your area. But this is where parents really need to dig. And, you know, sometimes your student could be in a group chat on their phone who's coordinating this. And it's important to know who people are that

27:19they're talking to about these. Like you mentioned at the beginning, they're talking to some adult, it's very rare that these are really student-led and organized. And so that's not anything for parents who has access to my child and who's getting them to do these things that I probably don't agree with. I noticed that in the Portland Public Schools and your group defending education ended up getting to the bottom of what organized those school walk outs. And that's the party for socialism and liberation and the take action, McDaniel Club. But we're not seeing anything for the Medford classes. So thinking it could be just an adult or two, maybe a family member, you know, affected by the ice walk outs. And then they maybe maybe it was a little bit of a of a grassroots or more of a grassroots or it does the lack of a group name mean that there was no influence. What would you think? Not necessarily. We try to go as deep as we can on these resources, but parents also ask us all the time. You know, I want to know what's happening across

28:22the country. And so we do a thorough investigation, but oftentimes it's just the tip of the iceberg. And so yeah, if you're on our K-12 student walk-out tracker on our website, DefendingEd.org, and you don't see something, you know, please shoot us an email and let us know you're seeing in your district and we'd be happy to look into it. So there are a bit about 500 of these over the last few years here, but 360 or so of that 500 just in the last couple of months this year. Right, Paul? Right, absolutely. So we've seen a high uptick. And like I said, it's probably a tip of the iceberg. We could spend days, weeks, months digging back into the past. But you know, it's interesting. We're starting to see these student walk outs of schools, student protests go from specifically anti-ice. So, you know, their issue-based immigration enforcement. And now they're just generally anti-Trump administration. And so it starts to become very obvious. These aren't about, oh, we care deeply about this issue. It's just using students

29:26as political palms. What about the evidence of teachers, unionized teachers sort of leading this through the back door through classroom instruction? Any evidence of that or do you go into it or not? Absolutely. One of the things that we focus very heavily on is course instruction under the guys of what they call ethnic studies. And it doesn't have to be a course titled ethnic studies. It could be really anything, but specifically in those classes, which would become very popular in states like California, Minnesota, Boston, Massachusetts, where they encourage students to be civically active. And where you and I might think that's, oh, go vote. Go maybe right to your your congressman about an issue. They really push this idea of you need to be out in the streets, you know, causing chaos and being loud and having this sort of leftist, you know, rhetoric. And so they're teaching that in schools. And it is pervasive in a lot of what they're teaching

30:32our students, particularly in the high school level. And so, yeah, it's not an accident that these students are out there doing this. Although I will say, you know, if you look at the videos of these students protesting, a lot of them are probably just out there because I don't want to be in school. So I might as well go join this, you know, group that are leaving. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I've always kind of wonder that too. Oh, a free guy at a school jail, get out of school jail free, you know, fine, you know, do that kind of thing. You know what I am kind of curious about though, what is coming out of the teaching colleges today, you know, the K through 12 education colleges. And is it as as progressive and left willing as left leaning as Oregon schools would tend to indicate that or is it different in different areas of the country, do you know? Yeah, that's a major issue that parents and grandparents are starting to grapple with and really push back on. Unfortunately, a super majority, if not most of, you know, all of them,

31:34the teachers colleges, these future teachers just marinate in things like critical race theory and gender ideology and, you know, these ideas that come from a certain political perspective, they just marinate in them for four years and then, you know, you have to assume that they bring that into the classroom and even teachers have publicly said this. And this isn't all teachers, obviously, but some of the more radical teachers have said, you know, it's my job to some awaken these students and make sure that they believe my political ideology, the ideology that I believe is true. And so the teachers colleges are a huge, huge challenge and I don't know that there's been a great solution posed yet for that. Yeah, I'm kind of curious. Do you think the Trump administration might be, you know, what course has been quite noisily going after educational institutions or for DEI programs, you know, they don't want this and also trying to enforce title nine, the way it was intended about your actual sex, not your gender identity, you know, all these

32:37kind of things. I'm just kind of wondering if maybe the Trump administration should really be focusing on what's going on in the teaching colleges because like you had said, it's just in the mother's milk of the teaching world right now, not all, but I'd say 90 to 95% of them from the looks of it. Yeah, I think this solution is probably twofold. One, you know, parents have really been refreshed to see an administration in Washington DC have their backs, especially on these types of issues of DEI, racial discrimination, title nine, you mentioned. So it's nice to have an ally in Washington DC fighting for parents and students on that front. But I also think it, you know, some states are looking into alternative pathways for certification. So Oh, now that would be something. That would be something. If the certification could be taken away from the from the woke academic, you know, credential, credential folks, that would be very helpful in the long term. Right. And there's plenty of smart people who have degrees in, you know,

33:40science and math that they have to go earn a master's in education just to be a teacher. And there's tons of veterans that are highly qualified to teach in schools that can't currently. And so yeah, I think there's some creative solutions that states are exploring there. Paul Ronco wants again from defending education defending ed.org. They have the K through 12 student walk out and protest tracker. It makes for very interesting reading. And I really appreciate you coming on here. What do you think is the number one effort that defending ed is focusing on at this point? Because there are so many lines of bad influence in public education right now. These days, Paul. Yeah. Our number one goal is just to get parents knowledgeable and active. And so we have also a resource on our website of questions parents can ask their school about these walkouts. And so if it hasn't happened in their school yet, they'll at least know how their school will respond if it ever does happen. So we encourage parents to know what's going on in their schools. And they can let us know about anything concerning that they do find it.

34:42Paul, I'm kind of curious. Is one of the biggest challenges that parents have the normalcy bias in which yeah, I know in Chicago, the schools are really bad, but my public schools are just fine. Do you work that a lot in the organization? Yeah. One of the things I personally love to highlight in my work as the director of the K-12 initiative is highlighting, you know, these efforts going on in, you know, what would be constant. Yeah. What was that? What was that? What was that Paul? We just lost yourself for just a minute. What are you working on there? Try it again. Yes. Yeah. So highlighting these things going on in red states, right? Or Republican states. So the first few states on this tracker are Alabama and Arkansas. And so I think parents do sometimes think, Oh, I live in, you know, a Republican state. And so this, this can't be happening. And yeah, I'm living in Tennessee. Everything's fine, right? That's sort of thing. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. I appreciate the take and thanks for sharing the results of this.

35:46The K-12 student walk on and protest tracker. Learn the truth about this. Defending ed.org. Paul pleasure. And thanks for talking with us this morning, okay? 654. And you're on KMED and KBXG. Solar energy companies. 3 KMED. Call Bill now. 541-770-5633. That's 770-KMED. Great to have you here. Monday, March 16, 770-5633 to join in. Terry, Terry, you wonder the way in on that conversation of the school walkouts I was having with Paul, Paul Runko from Defending Ed. Yeah, good morning, Bill. Yeah, I was wondering, you know, I think it doesn't know we're going to have one of the highest funding for students. It's a pretty high, if you were to go on an average, now going on average, of course, is difficult. But anywhere from the numbers I see bandied about from 15 to $18,000 per year. So it's pretty good money. Not bad. And our graduation rates are horrible. Our testing rates are not rates, but our testing scores are horrible. I wonder how the

36:48schools would think about the kids protesting the education we're getting, you know, in the state from the schools? Would they be as supportive if they were going out? Well, let's go out there. You know, if I would imagine they would be supportive of it. If it was structured around me, we're getting out and protesting because the state of Oregon is not giving us enough money. There's not enough money for us to do our job. Maybe they would be okay with that. What's are you? Yeah, I agree with that. That's crazy though. Yeah. Did you ever walk out of school when you were a kid? I'm sorry. What was that? Did you ever walk out of school when you were a kid? Because I mean, in my 12 years of it, I never remember once walking out of anything other than a field trip. That was it. It was the bottom line. I probably would have, you know, I thought I Bill Clinton was awesome when I was a kid and I was in my team. So I thought that was, I probably would have, but, you know, looking back now, I shouldn't have. And the only reason we ever got to get out of school one and I grew up in Gold Beach is because we had a bomb threat. Oh, okay.

37:52You know, I remember getting out of school for a fire, someone pulled the fire alarm. Wasn't a bomb threat, but a fire alarm. Yeah, but that's kind of different, right? It's a different sort of thing. Somebody did it. It was a fake one. All right. Thank you, Terry. 770563377, okay, MED 658 emails of the day. It was sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson in Central Point family dentistry central point family dentistry.com and while you wait crowns, especially I had one put in number of weeks ago. Dr. Steve is my dentist and I really enjoyed. I think you'd like them too. It's on Freeman Road right next to the Mazda lawn Mexican restaurant. And I'm going to give an email of the day to Douglas Dean and Douglas Dean writes, hey, Bill, when it comes to all this gender affirming care that Oregon is paying for and putting out and promoting, how come there are only two genders? You know, some Doug, you are right above that as far as gender affirming care,

38:53there's only two, right? You know, the steak doesn't go out there and say, okay, we're going to perform surgery on you and and work this into the Oregon health system and you are two spirit. We are, we now deem you two spirit or whatever the the various forms of nonsense that that come forth. That's a good point. Thanks for making that. Jerry writes me this morning. Hey, Bill, I've heard three sources mentioning a potential false flag in our near future Gerald Cilente and Michael Yoon and the Iranians themselves. John said that a nuke could be set off and then blamed on Iran. Let us hope that they are incorrect. I would agree with you. Granny writes me about the straight-of-hormos, straight-of-hormos block A could trigger a global food crisis. Quite possibly this is one of the reasons the straight-of-hormos was not secured, Bill, as it should have been in the first place. Yes, when it comes to logistics, logistics,

39:54granny, that's something that it's kind of running through my head. It's like, you know that, yeah, 20% of the oil and a lot of gosh, a great percentage of urea. Of course, urea being a feedstock for a fertilizer. That's a big part of that. You know, ammonia, urea, and of course, when we think about urea, we're probably thinking about those DEF things. We dumped into the diesel tanks of the of the newer vehicles like that. You know, there's another part of the straight-of-hormos. I think it's one third. I've got to look up that number. I think it was about a third of the world's helium goes through the straight-of-hormos. And that is a critical gas. Yes, indeed. Yes, it is more than just blowing up balloons at birthday parties. But yeah, that has put a crimp on that. So there are a lot of things urea and natural gas, oil, helium. And if I understand correctly, also, I know, helium is part of that. That's right. It's also being used for

40:59integrated circuits. In other words, a computer chip manufacturer. So you need good helium. And they have a lot of that in that neighborhood that goes through there in the tankers. So something else to keep in mind. But well, President Trump is looking for additional help on that one. That is for sure. Virgil writes me, hey, Bill, I was wondering about this as well. If someone is in the United States legally with temporary or permanent lawful status, Oregon can issue a limited term real ID driver's license or ID card. These are marked limited term and expire when the person's authorized stay in the United States ends or after one year, if no specific end date is listed in their immigration documents. In contrast, non citizens without lawful status can still obtain a standard non real ID Oregon driver's license or ID card, but they are not eligible for a real ID compliant card, which requires proof of lawful presence. Now, Virgil, the way that I'm looking at at those that Oregon got squishy on its real ID and does not make the real ID indicative of

42:09being a United States citizen. Now, I have not been able to find anything which says differently, but that Oregon is one of those states and there are a handful of states that did not lock down their real ID only for citizens and for citizens only, okay. And leaving the other forms of ID for the other people like the non compliant ID and or driver's license card, okay. Appreciate the call. 7705633 and oh, Richard Blanco writes me. He wrote me over the weekend here and this is about the involuntary VA commitment of veterans with substance abuse and issues. And Richard writes, Bill, one of your callers simplistically suggested that anyone getting government funds should be drug tested just like him. Okay. Why just veterans? How about Israel, Ukraine, Mexico, etc. Congress too. I've wanted for years. Why someone working on a mindset or Amazon in the Amazon like I was or was subject to drug testing, but not Congress. Let's test them randomly for drugs and alcohol.

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