Health and Wellness Show 09-13-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning. Now it's time for the Health and Wellness
Show on one of three point five FM and five
sixty AM WVOC. It's fantastic to have you join us
this morning. Appreciate that for this thirteenth day of the
month of September, and the reminder, our best gamecat coverage
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(00:56):
up with the postgame Collins Show right after that final
whistle blows. All right, if I haven't produced myself yet,
if you're just joining us, I'm Gary David. Many of
you I got with this last hour, I appreciate that.
For the Home Improvement Show of the Midlands, Larry Harris
from Classic Systems will be on the program today. We'll
also be talking to Jim Snell about matters concerning the
law from the Law Office of James Snell. But let's

(01:17):
start with the fun stuff. Huh, Matt Lyons is here.
Good morning sir, care Free Boat Clubs out of Lake Murray.
Good morning to you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
So you mentioned the game Cocks real quick, and I
want to let you know that in the care Free
fleet we have one boat called Kaki. It's a trytoon
tahoe trytoon twenty three footer that's Gamecock.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Colors, which I have yet to take out.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yep, you're not allowed to.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
And then we do you want to give me the
Clemson boat.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, what's funny is we don't have a Clemson boat,
but we're twenty twenty six. We are adding a Clemson boat.
It will be a scare of Jet boat, so it
looks super super sexy, super cool. And we are adding
a second usc colored boat, which will be a Sting
Ray as the folks there love there. They're local South
Carolina company and they're big game Cock fans as well.

(02:06):
So we continue to move through an adding fleet. We're
going to add them as many local colors as we can.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
You know, you bring up Sting Ray and and I
we used to own a sting Ray.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh wow, life that boat it really I got to
tell you we have one. It's got a one fifty
horsepower on it and it'll do over forty three miles
an hour, which is really fast for a twenty two
foot with a one fifty on it. But they designed
the halls really great and that helps it more fuel

(02:39):
efficient and faster. It sounds like sales bs, but the
simple truth is I've been in him a number of dimes,
and they do get better gas mileage, and they do
move faster for what the engine'es on there should be
putting out. So I'm a big fan.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, and I noticed I said I used to own
a sting Ray. I don't own a boat now because
I'm a member of Carefree, bok CLB and Lake Murray.
So because I can take out Wisdom absolutely right. Yeah,
I can take out the sting Right, I can take
out the try Tune. I could take out the jet boat.
I don't know you've been out. Let me do that.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
We'll let your wife drive the jet boat.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, right, I could take out the center line consoles.
You got the.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Double decker and going down the slide.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, I'm not going down the slide.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, this weekend, Hurricane Harbor comes see Gary on the
slide and then Tipsy Turtle.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
But that's the point that the variety they say is
a spicy life, right.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yep, we try to keep life a little bit spicy.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
So you have, gosh, how many different your flee the
thirties five some odd boats.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's currently thirty five boats right now, with four wave
runners in there as well. And it's a full variety
from two really nice twenty foot bass boats fully tricked out,
to a couple center consoles, to three double deckers, a
whole fleet of trytoons. Lowest engine is a one to fifty,
highest engines a two fifty in the Try two range,

(03:57):
and then a number of bow riders, ski boats, wakesurf
boat and things like that. So really I'm having a
hard time figuring out what type of boat we don't have.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, right at last time, we a couple of weeks ago,
we went out and I'm trying to remember what the
name of the boat was, because if you don't know
all of Matt's boats, have you know catchy names?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
We try? Yes, from the Tipsy turtle to the great
White to three boats that look similar named after the
three sharks from Nemo.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think it was the blue sturgeon.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Blue sturgeon would be the fishing trytoon. That was brand
need of that season, and that was the love that boat.
It goes out quite a bit, So it was one
of those boats. I bought a different layout. I try
to do that every now and again to try to
get feedback. If members like it, so we get more
of that layout, or if they hate it, so we
get rid of the little quicker or what the case.
And that one's gone out quite a bit. It goes
out of our Lakeside location right on three seventy eight,

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about fifty yards west of South Shore, twenty five yards
east of Lakeside Restaurant. But your favorite place dat.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh yes, yes, the old fish Shan's Charlie's Fisherman's War. Yeah,
and they've kept the old flare.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
They've kept the flare and it's kind of awesome.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I love it. Uh but yeah, that's the first And
I didn't even really realize when we first got on
that thing, and uh, you know, we backed it out,
we you know, heading out and onto the lake and
I turned around on it. Well, dog, oh, this thing's
got fishing chairs on the back of it.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
It does it doesn't happen. Yeah, it's also got a
live well. Uh so forth, and we're debating on adding
a trolling motor to it. We're trying to get feedback
if we need it or not.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
There's a few different type of fishing here on Lake Murray,
so we're trying to cater the boats to as many
different types of fishing that we can.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
And I should be I should be very clear here
on this too that I didn't realize that it was
a fishing pontoon because at the time, when you know,
y'all were explaining all the features of the boat, I
was busy doing other stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sure, sure you have a d D. I get it.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I do.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah. Realize when you when you hop on, it doesn't
matter how many times you've been out. Your folks are
always say, Okay, here's this, here's that, here's what this does?
You know? Here, here's this feature, here's that feature. I
did hear mention the live well, but I just didn't
notice the fish and chairs on the back of it.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
And we do want to make sure that now we
get to know our members pretty well, and oftentimes they're
going out on the same boats and they need less
of a walk through. But if it's your first time
going out on a certain boat, we always explain where's
the radio, what's the Bluetooth connection, where's the USB port,
all the really important going out on the lake things
that make it a little bit more fun that if

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it was your boat, you would know the name of
the bluetooth you know you need to connect to. You
would know where the battery disconnect is, you would know
where the anchor is, all that fun stuff. So we
make sure we acquaint everyone with each and every boat
when they go out so that they can just have
more fun on the water and less time trying to
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
And I don't know over the course of the last
three seasons how many times we been out, it's been
a bunch. I only recall maybe once that we took
the same boat out a second time. I mean, because
you have somebody to choose from, it's it's pretty cool, man.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I like it quite a bit. The problem is
when you find one that you really like for whatever reason,
the seats come more comfy, the steering wheels in the
right place. Whatever the reason might be. A member likes
a boat and it becomes their favorite, then they're always
trying to get the same boat, and it's not always available.
I tell members, if you plan your boating life two
weeks out, you'll always get the boat you want on

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the day you want it. If you wait till the
same day you want to go out, you'll get a
boat with care Free. It just may not be the
exact one you wanted. It might be a bow rider
instead of a try Tune, or it might be a
try Tune instead of a double decker. But I always
look in and say, for spur of the moment use
which which we allow unlimited spur of the moment use.
Literally you could call every day and get a boat.

(07:42):
You got to kind of be happy taking what's available.
They're all great boats, they all float great, all motors
are fully tuned and ready to go. They're all great boats.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Another of them are more than two years old.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right, not currently, No, Yeah, And we're actually right now
in the process of what I call flipping the fleet.
So we have every boat but for available for sale,
actively marketing locally, marketing nationally as well, and that's only
to replace with new. We've got a whole process in place.

(08:13):
We're opening up Lakeside Marine over at the old Chile's landing.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right, yep, it's over on the Irmo side.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Correct, correct, real close to Liberty over there, kind of
the north. I call it the northeast corner of the lake,
which is great, close to population, easy to get to.
It's the closest location of my house. We'll be operating
Carefree Boat Club out of there, and we'll also be
doing boat repairs out of there because we've got a
big enough fleet. We got to take care of ourselves
and keep them on the water. And then we'll be

(08:42):
selling new boats, and any boats we don't sell to
the public, we'll just put in the fleet.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Wow. Yep. So we've got tell you you're getting a
corner on this market here, mister Allions.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, we're having fun right now. We've got fifteen fiberglass ordered.
We've got what they're all grub jet boats to sell
to the public. And again, if we don't sell them
or rolling them into the fleet, we've got twenty five
trytoons ordered.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
If we don't sell them or rolling them into the fleet,
and then we've got half a dozen center console dual
console fiberglass boats coming in as well. So we I've
got to sell my used fleet to make room for
the new fleet because I can. What I've learned in
the last three years is I can always buy more. Yeah, right,

(09:28):
which has been my biggest day to start, like five
or six, right, exactly thirty five.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Now, now you talk about boats sails, is that already
up and running.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
The new boat sails not yet? Well, I just had
to go through the process of getting the new entity
lake Life sc is the is the website that'll be
up and running and available by November seventh, probably just before,
so not too far from now, and at that point
we should have about twenty boats in as well.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, so we're right around the corner from yep, I'm
being able to buy a boat from.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Him, and we're going to do no haggle pricing, very
transparent with everyone with everything the same way we operate
care Free Boat Club that we make the program really is,
when someone asked me the cost, we actually tell them.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Let's talk about the boat club here for a few minutes.
Because again, for long before you came to town, you know,
when we were in the middle of you know, buying
and selling boats. You know, I entertained the idea of
joining a boat club. I never really looked into it,
but you know, thinking back at the time, I mean,
I was thinking a couple things. Number One, well, I'm

(10:35):
going to pay every month, and I'm going to have
these times when i want to go out in the
summer and there won't be anything available, and I'm going
to be ticked off because I'm paying to be a member.
I'm not getting a boat. Maybe I can, but they're
going to limit me on how many times I can
get a boat. All these things. That is somebody who
had never really investigated These are the thoughts you have.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Those are extremely legitimate concerns, and it should be for
anyone looking to join a boat club. So that's that's normal,
and that's that's part of the process, and that's part
of what we show people and walk them through. So
I'll begin by saying, you've worked with me now for
two two and a half almost three years, three years.
Have you ever not gotten a boat?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Never happened, even on those days when I called on
a Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Which you do not often, but on occasion, you're like
every other member where sometimes you plan a week or
so out. Sometimes it's last minute you wake up and say, hey,
we're not going to do what we were going to do.
We now find ourselves with a free day, I could
mow the grass and paint the deck and clean the grill,
or I can maybe go out on a boat.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
So yeah, So that the key thing is we haven't
had that problem. So I can always talk to our
history and how we we we've operated and what we've done,
and I can always say, talk to any of our
current members. Most of our new members come from referrals
from current members who have had a great experience. And
then we've we've finally talk about the member to boat ratio.
Because at the end of the day, everything else we

(12:04):
say in the world is either something you'll learn once
you're here or sails junk. But with the member to
boat ratio, it's a hard number. It's black and white,
black and white. Currently we are five members per boat,
which is an extremely low member boat ratio, and more importantly,
we make that number available daily and it's a live number.

(12:27):
If I down a boat because I sell it, or
I down a boat because it needs maintenance, or whatever
the case. Might be that member to boat ratio fluctuates
the moment I down a boat. When I add a boat,
it fluctuates again the moment I had a boat. When
I add a member, it fluctuates again. So it's a live,
constant number that we make available. And it's not sales bs,

(12:49):
it's not stories. Every boat in our fleet. We can
walk you out to the dock and show you it's not.
They're not hidden somewhere in a cove that no one
knows are and I can get them here in the
next thirty minutes. There literally on the lake at one
of our currently three locations, soon to be four location.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, and you addressed this earlier. You said you got
members who could take it out every day if they
wanted to. There are no limits and stuff. How often
you can go out.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right, There is absolutely no limits at all. We also
let members keep boats out late, so there's no limits
to the time. We operate during certain operating hours. Right
now it's nine am to seven pm. But we have
fishermen who want to go out at four am, and
we make that work. We have couples that want to
go out and watch the sunset, and we make that work.
We Really, the goal with Carefree on Lake Murray from

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day one has been to help more people enjoy this
wonderful lake, to do it in a cost effective manner,
and really to make it as much like owning a
boat as possible with none of the downside.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
So let's be transparent here, and you always are when
it comes to this the cost factor. Yep again, you
would think, well, if I own my own boat, I
own it, even if I paid cash for it. Especially
if I paid cash for it, then you know I
got a paid for a boat. Why would I want

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to join a boat clop.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
You own a depreciating asset, So every year you own it,
it's going to be worth less than the year you
bought it. That's one thing. So and in some ways
with taxes, it's great to have an appreciating asset. Maybe
there's a way you can.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Write that off. Who knows.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
In addition to the cost of the boat, which is
a substantial cost, you've got the cost of a slip
that on Lake Murray is three hundred bucks a month.
Anywhere you look, you might say, I'm going to keep
it in my driveway. Okay, then you've got to deal
with the hassles of launching it and not launching it.
So every time you go to go in the water,
you've got to deal with where do I park my car,
my trailer, what ramp?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Do I tell you what? I owned a boat? How
many times we the last year we owned like we
slipped it? But before that that, how many times that
kept us off the lake?

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Was?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Do we really want to go through that and deal with?

Speaker 2 (14:58):
The cheaper lunches you'll find are the busier launches you'll find,
and the more of a not a great show.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I mean, you can sit there all day in video
people doing, you know, on YouTube, foolish things and putting
on YouTube and maybe make a couple extra bucks. And
so in addition to the cost of the slip, you've
got insurance. That's a cost that you can't get away from. Right,
You've got the cost of your registration. That's a cost
you can't get.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
All the way.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
And not just one two yep, your motor and your
and your boat.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
And you're paying property tax on each one of them.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
You're paying an annual property tax on each one of
those things every year in the state of South Carolina.
In addition to that, you're going to have all your
routine maintenance, your twenty hour service, your hundred hour service,
your two hundred hour service, and you're gonna have any
repairs you've got to deal with. So you've got in
owning your own boat, which I have own boats. I

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love boating more than everything but my family. So I'm
a fan of owning. I'm a fan of being part
of a club. I'm a fan of anything that gets
people out on the water, enjoying themselves and their time
alone on the water, or enjoying their friends and family
and social time on the water. Right, I'm a big
fan of that. But in owning your own boat, it

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is substantially more expensive than joining any boat club on
the planet.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Not to mention the hassle, and it's a.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Lot more work. So if you enjoy working and you
enjoy being able to say you own a boat, and
by all means buy a boat, we'll sell you one.
I got thirty two used ones for sale that are
in great shape. I've got new ones coming in. I'll
sell you tomorrow. And here's the truth. If I lived
on the lake and had a dock, I'd probably own
a boat and keep it at the end of my dock,

(16:44):
because nothing in the world's better than just rolling on
a bed whenever you want and hopping on your boat.
We have members who have a dock and they live
on the lake and they're still members of the boat
club because they don't want to deal with the hassle
of how do I get the repeller fixed? Where do
I get my service done? I don't want to pay insurance.
I don't want to do any of that. So again,

(17:04):
I'm happy if people want to buy a boat, but
my opinion, for ninety five to ninety eight percent of
the public that wants to go boating, a boat club
membership is substantially better than owning a boat and substantially
less expensive.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Carefree boat clubs at Lake Murray with three soon to
have four locations, and I think last time you hear
you handed it. At some point you're going to have
a membership special going on again.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
For we are we're always aggressively priced on our membership.
We always deal match anyone on the lake, so you're
never paying more with Carefree. If you went somewhere else
and you they were having some crazy special, we can
match any deal on the lake at all. Come November seventh,
when we officially launched Lakelife Marine and the website Lakelife

(17:48):
sc dot com. We will have a truly remarkable new
member special that we will be promoting. I will talk
about that soon then between now and then, it'll be
very fairly priced as well. Won't lose out, but it'll
be pretty substantial for those who want to give the
gift of Lake Murray for the Christmas season.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Though now there's an idea that you just can't put
it under the tree. That's sure you could.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
We got a really tiny boat.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
All right, Matt? How to post reach you, my friend?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
They can get us at carefreeboats dot com. That's boats
with an S. They can call us at eight three
three four Boat four four or email me at Matt
Matt at carefreeboats dot com.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
See you on the lake.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1 (20:35):
And welcome back to the Health and Wellness Show on
one O three point five FM at five sixty am
WEOC and welcome in Larry Harris from Classics Systems. Good morning,
my friend.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Good morning Gary. It's a blessing to be here. It's
a blessing to be anywhere these days. And heymen, that's
good to see you.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Bet you brought I was looking over he uh, I
think I had a copy of this one time. You're
your CV which stands Latin for coricavitate. What is that?
Something like that? Anyway, your a resume Now you're you're
you know and I knew you have a lot of
letters you can put behind your name if you wanted
to a lot of letters. But you know, it kind

(21:12):
of sums up what it is you do over classic systems.
You're a certified indoor air quality specialist, a certified mold inspector,
a certified mold remediator. Done you any good? I know
you got mold unless you get rid of it, right,
A certified environmental evaluator, certified indoor environmental advisor, all sorts
of certifications. And yeah, if you want to pull these

(21:36):
letters behind your name, it'd be a lot to put. Yeah,
you've been doing this for a long time, my friend.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yes, it's nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Ninety two. Wow, And I don't know. I mean, gosh,
that's been what thirty two thirty three years now? That's right?
Have you found Larry that over the course of those
three decades or so that the problems getting worse better
about the same when it comes to indoor air quality,

(22:03):
I mean, the thing's changed.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
There's always some possibilities of issue, particularly with the relative
humidity of both sixty percent, and I run into that
a lot where there's not adequate airflow, and if you
don't have your air conditioning running correctly because an air
conditioning is a dehumidifier and it removes hot humid air

(22:24):
and it reduces the relative humidity. So a lot of
people don't use that to be effective as it is needed.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, let me stop you right there for a second,
because what you just said, if you're not using your
air conditioner effectively, absolutely, so what is effective use of
an acuit.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, you want your air conditioning to keep the relative
humidity between forty and fifty percent. If it gets higher
than that, you can have mold growth. And I've seen
that right on for your walls or ceilings. And I've
been in some homes with peak ceilings that have mold

(23:01):
issues on the top of the peak and that's because
of high relative humidity unless there's a water leak in
a roof, and that can be shown up with a
infrared camera that I'm also certified to use.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
So how do you what was the best way to
run your ACE unity to be sure you're keeping that
humidity level?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, I did below.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
In my home, I keep minded at about seventy nine
degrees and so if it gets hotter than that, it'll
come on. But I know one time I was running
it at seventy two and boy that Jacksie elections.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well then there's that.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
I just realized this the other day, just as a
side here that ours has been set on seventy three
probably for the last three months. We haven't touched it. Well,
we have touched it.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
And then you've got good insulation in your home obviously.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
I think that's probably what it is that you know,
all that goes into the big, the big equation right
just to absolutely is your air healthier not inside a home.
And I think we've talked about this before, my friend.
You go out all the time, do mold inspections, air
quality inspections and such, uh, and then then have remedies
for issues. But I mean, you almost never go into

(24:21):
a place where there's not at least something that needs
to be done.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
And it depends on the level of the airborne mold.
We did an inspection where they had two toxic molds
that were like fifty one spores. That's not an exorbitant amount,
but it depends on an individual because anything this airborne
can cause a problem if people react to it, and

(24:45):
so you don't know unless you find out what's going
on with.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Could affect you and not me, or vice versa, or
exactly this situation.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I was reading an article in LinkedIn about the Health
Organization saying that it is a human right to have
clean fresh air, a human right. That's kind of a.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
It's a little strong.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's sad when you think you're entitled to everything, because see,
people don't realize that the sunlight, the ultra violet rays
from the sun photo electrically coming into that stratosphere creates ozone.
And a lot of people don't know why the sky
is blue. I love to ask that question and see
what kind of response I get. But the reason the

(25:29):
sky is blue is because that's the ozone layer that
protects protects you and I and everyone from the ultraviolet
radiation that could kill us if it wasn't from the
ozone layer.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, everybody has a right to clean it. Well, you know,
in a perfect world, wouldn't that be great? But we
don't live in that perfect way, sir. And yeah, as
long as you step outside, you got it right. I
meanas may have more smugg we'd want to live in
la or somewhere like that, or by a big industrial
plant that has its own issues. But if you step

(26:03):
outside on your back deck, and maybe this is why
you hear so many people talk about how much better
they just feel when they when they go out. And
we always thought, well, you're just feeling good because you're outside,
you know, interacting with mother nature or whatever. But it
actually is a air quality.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Difference, absolutely, because in California they take readings on microscopic
particles like a PM two point five particle, and so
you're always going anything under three microns is not going
to settle out of the air. So if you go
in a home or an office at nine o'clock at
night and take a Haligen light and shine it across

(26:42):
the room, it's going to look like a dust storm
because eighty percent of everything floating in the air is
dead skin cells and their microscopic their three microns are smaller,
and so air quality is a situation that is depending upon.
Like you said, in California, when they have small that'll
ride up about six hundred feet, it won't go over

(27:02):
the San Gabriel Mountains. But if there was sufficient airflow
for ozone that comes from the sunlight come down to
oxidize all that, It's like in the mountains when you
go to the mountains and you're near a waterfall, you
smell how clean and freshet areas. It's because the water
rushing over rocks creates static electricity and makes ozone. So

(27:22):
nature has been created for our healthy living environment. But
inside air is also according to doctor Larry Ireland at
Right State University, it's eight times worse than outside air.
That's because the air is trapped inside and you don't
have enough free flow air to come in.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
I was thinking about this the other day earlier the week.
Is it's such wonderful weather, and we've been fortunate of
the last last little while. Right this is, you know,
with the temperature that we've had and I got over
work and my wife Anne had screens on, window is open,
and we live that way all day long, and it's

(28:05):
just so refreshing it everybody loves to do that. If Larry,
if we live in an environment, in a climate where
you could do that basically every day, you know, if
we had that San Diego San Diego like weather we
always hear about, you know, highs in the seventies and
all that lows in the seventies. I mean, it's just
the same thing all year round. If we could leave

(28:25):
those windows open and get that air moving through, would
we be able to get rid of indoor air.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Cons Absolutely, because see people don't understand that there's wind,
and it's very clear that wind comes from a direction
that we have no idea where it comes from or
where it's going, but that movement of air circulating in
an environment is going to.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Make it better.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Airflow is very critical to healthy living, proper airflow. So
we have no idea of where the wind comes from
or where it's going, but it is there and it's
very beneficial.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Now I'm looking to get at the sheet you dropped
off here to me today certified for maldehyde screener for maldehyde.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
See, people don't realize that paneling has a glue in it,
and the glue that holds that paneling together Geary has
for maldehyde in it and it'll off gas for ten years.
And so there are tests that we can do to
see if there's airborne formaldehyde in that environment.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Is that the same thing with new cars and new
car smell?

Speaker 4 (29:27):
It's a little different, But I don't think they use
formaldehyde in the seats of the fabric or the rugs anymore.
They used to, but there is a new car smell.
That's absolutely wonderful.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Everybody loves the new car spell, absolutely, But haven't I
read in the past that that could be somewhat It's
almost not like kill your toxic, but somewhat toxic. It
could cause is ues.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
There's always a possibility. Here's another scenario when you go
to a dry cleaner's and you get a pseuit of
clothes or a dress and it has a plastic bag
on it. The EPA says you're supposed to take that place,
stick bag off and hang the clothes outside in fresh
air for at least an hour to let those chemicals
from dry cleaning solution off gas. But who does that?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Who even knows to do that? Right? Amen? You had
mentioned that about a year ago, and that's the first
time I'd ever heard that. Yeah, and you know that smell.
You all going to dry cleaners, you know that smell, right,
It's unique.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
So a lot of things that we bring into our
home can can become airborne toxins, and people don't realize that.
So the best way to do that is have something
that we have is an air purifier that you and
your bride bought to clean the air and duplicate outside
clean fresh air.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
So how does this thing work, Larry, Well.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
It, first off, it creates six thousand negative ions per
cubic centimeters four thousand positive. That's exactly what nature does
in a thunderstorm. So if we can create negative and
positive charges, it makes all the particles in side clump together,
get heavy, and settle out of the air.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Okay, So all the stuff you don't see mcros yeah, uh,
and stuff that people think they're getting some sort of
an air filter kind of thing and taken care of.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
That won't do it an air filter. You've got to
suck the air to it. You got to draw all
that air to it. And in the corner of every
room is dead airspace, and you can't you can't grab
air and take it anywhere. But if we can send
out negative positive charges. We also have a UV light
in our air, purefier that creates a plasma of hydrogen peroxide,

(31:34):
and that's been proven to sanitize surfaces and to get
rid of bacteria and microbials. Then it's got ozone. Ozone
will oxidize eighty percent of the dust out of your environment. Now,
ozone a lot of times you'll look that up and
it says ozone is very negative because at ozone at
a high level can cause rough shory problems. But our

(31:57):
purefier cannot create greater than point zero four parts from
me in a mozone. The FDA says a safe level
of ozone twenty four to seven is point oh five.
Uh EPA says point eight. OSH says one point oh.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
So we're way.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Below most of these.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
And it duplicates exactly what nature does outside.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
If you cook that puppy, if you can smell it, Yeah,
and that that could be very useful for a lot
of things. Uh I think I mentioned before years back,
we had a cat that was getting old and had
an accident on a on an area rug right and
uh I took that pure air unit and brought them

(32:38):
into the rug and propped it up under there and
cut it on full blast ozone and let it go
for about an hour. And wow, that works absolutely.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
We've had car dealers that had cars with fish that
left in the floorboard and on the carpet. And we
have a we have what is called an ozone blaster
that's not used for indoor environments, but it's used to
eradicate odors and We even had an upholstery business that

(33:09):
they had a car that they could not get the
odors out, so she rented an Ozone blaster from US
and overnight it got rid of all the odors. And
the individual actually bought one of those from me to
use in different situations to eradicate odors.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
And it's very effective, So you do sell those.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yeah, we even have a dog pound in the Columbia
market that had eight of our air Pure fires to
eradicate dog and cat odors.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well ozone blaster, well.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Not the ozone blaster in a living environment, but the
pure are three thousand.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Sure, yeah, yeah, So the unit's come in a variety
of sizes for a variety of area needs. But what
about Okay, where's the best place to pull one.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Let's list in an area where you and your family
spend the majority of your time. And the Pure fifteen
hundred is only eight inches square and weighs two pounds.
You can move that around and experiment with it. The
higher you get it off the floor, the faster it
will circulate air. Because all air rises, heat, heat rises,

(34:14):
cold air falls, so air circulates in a room by
this ceiling. It comes out of a room at the floor.
So the higher you get an air pure fowre off
the floor, the faster it's going to circulate.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Okay, these are small. That's a small, right, I mean,
I'm trying to equate it to this, but it's not
large at all, so lightweight, easily moved around.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
We had some clients a couple of years ago, Geary,
that heard me on your broadcast, and that's a blessing.
And one of the first client bought the big Pure
three thousand and referred to a relative, and the relative
bought one of the Pure Air three thousands and several
little Pure Air fifties. Because of the square footage in

(35:01):
the home that those little Pure of fifties do three
hundred and twenty five square feet, they're very effective.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
But the fifteen hundred we were just talking about is
designed to do about.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Fifteen hundred square feet.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
So how does it work if you've got to say,
in a family room, and how it does it have
an effect on the other side of the house or
the master bedroom.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Well, the negative and positive ionizations go through every wall,
and so it get the dust out of the air
in a closet, under the bed, wherever the particles are
it's going to send negative and positive charges throughout the
environment sixty feet in any direction?

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Is there I only I've ever ask you this, I mean,
is there any instance where this sort of technology could
could be even remotely harmful to negative anybody of human.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Not at all, because it's duplicating exactly what's created outside.
A thunderstorm creates negative and positive ionization, the waves that
the beach pounding on the sand creates static electricity that
makes negative and positive ionization, The waterfalls in the mountain,
the sunlight, all of these are duplicated by nature. This
is how it was created. And that's one way that

(36:07):
See in California, when you have you talked about the small,
it'll only go about six hundred feet off the ground.
But if there was enough airflow to allow the ozone
and negative positive ionization to settle to the ground, it
would oxidize.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
All that and get rid of it.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
But see, you don't have a lot of airflow because
that smoke and small won't go above six hundred feet
off the ground.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah all right, so uh well, final question, if folks
want to get more information, Larry about these systems, the
pure systems. How to get a hold of them, how
to get a demonstration, what should they do?

Speaker 4 (36:41):
They can call me at eight oh three six two
six two seven four eight eight oh three six two
six two seven four eight and we'll be happy to
answer any questions. And our main mission is to educate
people on indoor air quality.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
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always good to see you, mar Thank you.

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Speaker 1 (39:09):
Our friend James Snoll from the law office of James
snow He ain't good morning to you.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Good morning sir.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
We you know, I would think Jim that well, actually
I know better, But you'd like to think that when
it comes to matters pretending to the law, that things
would be black and white, cut and dried, precedent said.
But nothing really could be further from the truth. I'm
guessing right. It's all over the place. It's all over

(39:36):
the road. Uh, A lot of gray areas, yes, when
it comes to such things. And so this morning we
wanted to talk about when it comes to personal injury law, Yes,
and settlements just things maybe even we might considers lay
folks to be just random things that can actually affect

(39:59):
the value you of a settlement in a in a
personal injury case.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Absolutely, and they're and and they're out there therese there
are these things that can be It just seems so
at first they can seem so subjective that they really
do kind of strike people as being unfair. Uh, are
are kind of baseless, But I can tell you absolutely
do effect. You know how insurance companies are potentially even

(40:25):
courts how they may evaluate or what they may do
with a given situation.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Hmm, let me ask you this before you get started. Yes,
and and I don't know if this applies or not.
And I meant to ask you this a few weeks. Well,
I guess it was. I don't think we've I guess
we have maybe, And chattis this has happened?

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Back during the Republican primary, there were non binding ballot
questions on that ballot. One of them had to do
with UH settlements and lawsuits. The question was, well, should

(41:02):
you know a settlement be based on let's say a
party's participation in whatever took place that that that led
us something happening a non binding referendum?

Speaker 5 (41:15):
That was.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Most everybody who answered that question answered yes, they should be.
Now again non binding, but just because they put it
on the ballot, we make you think this is somewhere
where they're heading. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Speaker 6 (41:35):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Well, I was gonna say for you know, of course, yeah,
the the Sales Republican primary, right right, Okay, so how
did you know I would be familiar?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
By the way, Jim may be the only Republican a
lawyer out there.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
In the world of personal injury litigation and claims, like
I go to these national legal conferences and they are, uh,
they are all on I mean kind of left leaning Democrats.
Law school was like that, right, I mean all the
everybody's like kind of I didn't, you know, left leaning
and all that. Yes, I was very happy to go

(42:19):
to h to my precinct in Lexington and uh and
cast my ballot for for Trump.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
All right, I'll just say it now, I'm happy to
do it.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Okay, So I'll tell this.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Okay, you hit me with that, by surprise, right, Typically
I would, I would, I would, which is fine. I
would typically, But I want the question I think you're asking.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
It's something that was put together I think by uh.
And this is just my if I remember the question correctly,
or a question similar to that. It was something to
do with the proportionality damages after yeah and if and
I'm happy to do a little research and follow back up.
But typically stuff like that is and without commenting on

(43:01):
that specific ballot initiative directly, but just generally in that world,
it's typically insurance companies and our lobbying groups or specific
industries that are advocating for legal changes to minimize what
they would be responsible for in the event of typically

(43:23):
a catastrophic or major incident.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Right, and so.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Because sometimes in especially in a we talked about this before,
in a catastrophic case, right where someone is going to have,
you know, maybe massively injured, maybe they're going to be
permanently injured, have a brain injury, or be paralyzed, or
there's a death.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Right.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
One of the things we've covered, I think extensively is
the typical motorist in South Carolina has a twenty five
thousand dollliability po So that means that driver hits and
kills your loved one are hits and kills are sorry
hit hit hits, hits you and puts you in a
wheelchair for life. The most their insurance pays twenty five thousand, okay,

(44:08):
which is completely inadequate. And we've talked before about how
people can protect themselves against that possibility by acquiring underinsured coverage.
But frequently what happens as a as a lawyer when
when these cases come in you you begin looking for
other possible recovery sources, okay, Right, and like a real

(44:32):
common is something called dram shop or was it an
alcohol impair driver that that caused the.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
This case down in a Volley Beach from from last
year with a bride of the groom.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Yeah, because what what what you can if if you can,
if you have the correct facts, you can make an
allegation that the that the bar restaurant oversold, somebody basically
got them so, you know, to so drunk they couldn't
drive right. And you know all these bars have parking lots.
I mean, they know how these people get there. They drive,

(45:05):
and if you're going to keep pouring them till they're
unsafe to drive, and that's how you you know, that's
that's how you make your money, is you know, you
profit off getting people to drive to you, getting them
so drunk they can't drive, and then watching them drive off. Right,
you can make a claim saying hey, you're you're you're
on the hook for this injury right that it's called

(45:27):
dram shop. That's just one example. So you look for
those situations and then you say, hey, you're you're on
the hook. So we've got you know, three million dollars
in medical bills, a twenty five thousand dollar liability. We're
coming after you for the for the balance. And so
I think some of these lobbying groups, special interest groups,

(45:47):
insurance companies look in those situations for ways they can say,
hold on our guy, just poor drinks. They don't have
a breath machine, they're not what do they know. And
besides the guy who actually swallowed the liquor and then
drove and then ran the red light. You know, that's
who's they are so much more at fault. That's that's

(46:10):
that's who should should pay. Like basically, our our insured
or our companies are you know, the businesses we advocate for.
You gotta let them slide. I think that kind of
question seemed to me in that vein, and it's one
of one of.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Those poses going after those with the deepest pockets. Craig.
An unfair proportionality of a settlement. It seems like, as
I recall that the way it was written.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
And and one thing in particular, and I've I've heard
this before when tort reform kind of has come up
as a topic for discussion.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
In the world of.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Compensation for people who are injured or killed and and
and you know, in accidents are are through negligence, right,
the general public, right, No one imagines it will be
it'll happen to them or their family. No one ever,
just no one ever assumes. Nobody actually ever assumes or

(47:09):
thinks about that possibility. Right, So the general public really
has no interest in that world as far as the
process unless they're involuntarily thrust into it. So the repeat
players are going to be the insurance companies, the companies

(47:31):
themselves that are regularly sued, maybe their lobbying groups. Right,
those are the folks who are all the time participating
in the world of compensation for accent of victims, right,
and the people who are in that world and who
can sort of advocate our lobby for the rights of

(47:54):
the injured people. That really falls down on personal injury
or you know, personal injury attorneys, because we're in that
world constantly. But from the side of the injured person,
there's there's not another advocacy group other than the lawyers.
So when you see people malign trial lawyers are taught

(48:14):
bad about the planes bar, that's a lot of it.
These insurance or these special interest groups trying to basically
be dismissive of you know what side actually can raise
the other point because again, you're not gonna have a
grassroots group of public advocating for the rights of the injured,
because they just they're not in that world. Hope, I'm

(48:36):
answering you.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry it's gotten off track here, but
they just popped into my head. Things weirdly do that
sometimes they just pop it into my head. Right, Yes,
you know, there you go. All right? So things that
can affect the value of a settlement.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Just yeah, just just to kind of go through a
few and this is I'm just trying to you know,
And of course, you know, I worry. You know, I
do this program every whatevery couple of weeks, and you know,
I always worry.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
I'm going to bore the audience to death if we believe,
if we keep going on about you know, no fee
nless we win free compultations. All right, Okay, so here's
what I'm gonna say. But you got that in very definitely, there,
I got it in very definitely.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
All right.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
One thing isn't in a state like South Carolina, you
have every county has a county courthouse, and every county
potentially you know are you know, has civil lawsuits that
are brought in it.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Okay, and.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
One of the phenomenons about a state like South Carolina
is the counties themselves are very different.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
For example, Lexington County, our good gosh, Pickens County up
in the upstate, right, is going to be very different
than say Charleston County as far as the people who
live there and the people who would get called jury
duty to decide a loss it okay. And there are
databases that track the outcomes of different kind of cases

(50:08):
in different you know, and can compare to different counties.
And you know, so there there's a lot of at
least anecdotal and some documented you know, data to show
that similar cases can have different court outcomes in different counties, Okay,

(50:28):
And and that and that's by and large due to the.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Type of people that would show up for Jerry Diddy, Okay.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
And so when you get in a collision or say
you get in a car wreck and and it's a
it's a case that could be brought. I'm just gonna
make this this this up, but you know it's hypothetically.
But if you get an erect from somebody from say
like Allendale County, right, which I think has a reputation

(50:58):
as being a very sort of pro plaintiff sort of area.
Insurance companies may think that that case has more value
than if the case was safe from Anderson County or
Greenville County, right, so.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
More conservative counties. Yes, we have anecdotal elements at least
that they're it's there's data, there's documented data, okay, And
and the insurance companies all track the stuff and they know,
I mean the insurance companies know every single every time
the courthouse doors open and they decide see a cart case.
Insurance baseball statisticians they can keep up. But yeah, they

(51:34):
know all the numbers.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
And so if if a if a if a wreck occurred,
say in in say Pickens County, or uh, the the
at fault driver was from Pickens County or whatever the
situation would be, they would know. They would take that

(51:55):
into account and say, well that that case may have
less value. We think it's gonna have less value than
if it was somebody say from Allendale County or you know,
Orangeburg County or something like that.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
So then what do they do with that knowledge? Are
they do they try to offer a lower settlement to
begin with, Yes, to try to keep it out of
court totally, I guess, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
They try to offer a lower settlement, and you know,
I'll be on the you know, I've certainly had I
don't even know how many I can't even count the
number of times I've been on the phone with an adjuster,
speaking to an adjuster or a lawyer for an insurance
company and they've said, you know, hey, Jim, this this
is you know, this case is going to be in

(52:39):
you know, Newbury County, or this is going to be
in Spartman County or whatever they'll say, whatever, whatever it
is thinking, you know, just pointing out to me that, hey,
we know this is a conservative venue and you've got
a factor that you've got to be realistic in what
you think this case is worth because it's in a
place where you know, our data or our belief is
that just to give us a call. They can reach

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us at eight zero three three five nine three three
zero one or online at Snell Law dot com. That's
three L's spell law dot com. All right, JA, boy's
good to see it, but we're out of time. Thanks man.

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