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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan Rush, I
need to ask you an issue that no one's brought
up and that has crashed your four A one case.
Your tariffs.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Stock market is way down.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It needed a correction. Kelly Nash, Oh, so you support it?
You bet? Yep.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
No one's upset over this, No, nope, no, nobody.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And Kelly Show. This is why I'm glad we have
Frank onz No one has brought up, to my knowledge,
anything to do with the stock market, says Donald Trump
initiated the tariff.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Dog boy, he was flabbergasted if he couldn't get somebody
to go, uh, look, I'm for the president, but I
really don't like the fact that my stock market's take
tanking or whatever. And by the way, I don't know
if we played the clip, but there's a lot of
people who are pointing out right now the worst that
the stock market has done for twenty twenty five is
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down ten percent. Currently, we're down I think six percent
for the year. For the year twenty twenty two, I'm
just looking at historical s and P. Five hundred, they
were down twenty four percent for the year. You lost
twenty four percent in the stock market. If you were
in the S and P five hundred for the year
of twenty twenty two, if you were in it in
twenty eighteen, you lost nineteen percent. If you were in
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it in two thousand and seven, you lost fifty five percent, Yes,
fifty and we're talking, We're sitting here like six percent
is like the end of the world.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
They're showing it right now. Sm pisis inauguration day is
down seven point.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Eight percent, Okay, seven point eight as opposed to two
thousand and seven, when you lost fifty five percent or
nineteen percent in twenty eighteen, or thirty four percent in
twenty twenty or twenty four percent in twenty twenty two.
I mean, this is a literally, this is the media
hyping up something that's not even a big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Frank Letz says, well, Frank Letz don't know what to
say because he just heard what he had, like twelve people,
all Trump voters don't give a damn don't want Chinese crap.
I'll pay more for American stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That was the thing that really bothered me, that hacked him.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I told and I remember bringing to the both of
the podcasts where Kelly brought up this morning. I remember
ranting about this for weeks. I spent literally weeks looking
for a drill, just a black and decker hand drill.
I've got one from when I was like sixteen years old,
and I went back and found it in Saluda because
I could not find a hand drill made in America. Milwaukee.
(02:27):
Hand drills, for God's sake, were made in China. Black
and decker made in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Those jobs are coming back.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're caught a black and decker weed eater. And I
bought it because it was a black and decker and
I got it home and the damn thing worked like crap,
and I ended up getting so irritated with it because
it wouldn't bump and run. It's a real easy, like
twenty year old technology process, bump and run. You bump it,
more line comes out and you keep going. It's called
a bump and run. I bump a bump, a bump,
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it won't run. I finally brought it up over and
one of my neighbors saw me do this. Okay, I
brought it all the way up over my head and
bumped it hard enough to bend it in half.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That should do it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That was the intention, and then I just threw it
in the damn trash on the side of the road
where all the yard clippings were. Threw it right in there,
piece of crap.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know, when I think about what we're doing with
the tariffs, and this is a really big picture to
try to grasp in a couple of minute conversation here.
But you go back to what happened in July of
nineteen forty four, there was a meeting where the global
powers met and said what we have going on economically
is not sustainable. We have to have a world order.
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And they were talking about people weakening their dollars, which
is exactly what China does right now. We have to
have fair trade for the world so that somebody like Germany.
Germany got screwed after World War One, which helped lead
to World War two. Absolutely, so they're like, we can't
have this kind of attacks again countries and stuff. So
(04:01):
they invented the IMF and the World Bank, and they
said we're going to look out for the best interests
of the war world. What people have been I saw
an article from two thousand and eight Sarcose, remember him
from France. He was saying that the World Bank and
the IMF have lost their way. In two thousand and eight,
he was saying it, and we've had numerous global leaders
speaking out against this since at least two thousand and eight.
(04:24):
We need to get back to the core mission. And
this week Scott Bessett gave another speech where he's in
front of those people and he's saying, you've had what
he called mission creep. You have lost your way, and
suddenly for the last ten or fifteen years, they've been
more concerned about climate change and equal representation of gays
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and lesbians and blacks and minorities, and not focused on
the mission of making sure that nobody's screwing anybody. And
he calls out China again in front of the world
and he says, they have been devaluing their currents. See,
they have been stealing intellectual property, and the World Bank
hasn't done anything to call them out or punish them.
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They must be punished for the good of Europe, for
the good of Australia, for the good of Vietnam, for
the good of Korea, for the good of the world.
China must be stopped. And America is putting a stop
to it right.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now, there are two teats on a boar, one of
them statues. One of them is statooed with the World Bank.
The other ones the un Two teats on a bore worthless.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So far they've been worthless. But they need if they
get back on mission and start well and again. The
United States is Donald when I think about the magnitude
of what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish, because China
doesn't have like elections, like an election cycle, like she's
not worried, like if the economy sucks, what does he care?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean, didn't go. Bloom said he had to answer
to his constituency.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
What's his name the Bloomberg?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Bloomberg?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, Bloomberg said Bloomberg. He has constituents he has to
answer to the answer to them. No, he does not teach.
He kills them if they don't get in line. But
the reality of is that China has had the Communist
Party in control for you know, one hundred and fifty
years or whatever now, but they are set on being
the global leader. Currently, depending on who you ask and
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how you measure it, China is either the number one
or number two economy in the world. We are either
number one or number two, depending on how you measure that.
But China currently at the World Bank is getting what
they call emergent country status. Maybe they get special funding
because they need special help. That is insane that they
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get that, and that's one of the many reasons that
they are, you know, still able to prosper.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're cheating their.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Way to the top.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The World Health Organization, anything that has an acronym with
the W or they actually pronounce the world. Anything with
an organization like that is Chinese.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
The point I was trying to make is that for
a hundred years they've been doing this scheme. Donald Trump
is going to try to fix it in less than
eighteen months because he's got to still win the mid term.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
See. Yeah, he's not just resetting individually the terroriffs with countries.
He's resetting the world. Now. He didn't have a little
reset button like Hillary Clinton had, let me put it
in a let me put let me put it in
a in a rocketman contact. He's got a reset button
that works. And this is going to be painful because
we have allowed I have to thought about this this morning.
(07:25):
I don't know what time was. I think it's like
one o'clock in the morning. I got it to go pee,
and I'm standing there, I'm thinking about Donald Trump and
the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
My god, man, one o'clock in the morning, one o'clock
in the morning, standing there, urinating, thinking about Donald Trump
and tariffs.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Now, might when you love to be to have a
conversation right now with a not Joe Biden, Barack Obama,
George W. Bush, George HW Bush even and go back
even too, because this abuse of the American dollar has
been going on to a blind eye supposedly all of
these decades and decades and decades an American presidents enabled
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it by not fighting it. And you finally got somebody
who's going to stand up and fight it. And we're
worried about three or four months of a little bit
of financial pain. Now, I get it. Americans don't like pain,
totally understand, especially the liberals. Everything's supposed to be just
soft and comfort for you. But you know, even when
you look at the Trump tax bill that we went
through in the first administration, a lot of us ended
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up paying a little more tax ares lost of a
lot of availability of different deductions and write offs and stuff. Okay,
but you don't mind it because in the end, this
is going to be a better plan for America. And
all boats rise with a rising tide. But we're seeing
how even that analogy can be shifted if you just
talked to Democrat socialists, because they understand how to get
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more tied under their boat. Bernie Sanders, We've got a
multifaceted front war going on here, and half of it
is internal.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And it's interesting. You know, Jonathan has the MSNBC on
every morning here, so I see the breaking news that
they've been scrolling about the White House coming out very
strongly this morning against Amazon, and so I just had
to look it up because we don't have the volume on.
So it says that Carolyn Levitt at her daily briefing
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calls out, quote, this is a hostile and political act
by Amazon, and then holds up a photo of Jeff
Bezos and says he is attacking this country. Why didn't
Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to
the highest level in forty years. This is another reason
why Americans should buy American and American only. Upon that announcement,
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Amazon stocks dropped two percent in the first hour. So
the Trump administration is fighting anybody and by the way,
what she's upset about, and what Donald Trump is upset about,
is apparently that Amazon announced that they were going to
start showing the increase in prices and saying which percentage
of that is based off the tariffs? When when you
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go to buy something, Okay, this was going to cost
seventy eight dollars, it's not going to cost ninety seven dollars.
This part is all terriff, and it's like, well, you're
just being jerks. Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Absolutely, yeah, totally. Now they would say, is to make
sure that our customers understand that we're doing the best
we can to hold down prices. Now, do we have
to point out who's increasing the prices, Yes, we do,
but we're protecting our brand. I can hear that bullet
rolling out of the White's mouth. Probably Jeff Bezos, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But it's interesting because Bezos has shown, I don't know,
a willingness to go along with this. He was at
the inauguration, He has made some statements that have really
ticked off the left lately, the Washington Post, he's kind
of revamped the Washington Post. So I don't know, I
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don't know if this was a Bezos idea. He shouldn't
have approved.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It, though I'm sure nobody's going to do anything that bold.
But talking to Bezos, Bezos is proving that he's not
an American. He is a citizen of the world. More pointedly,
he is now Bill Dollar. I just renamed him. He'll
do whatever it takes to get another dollar, period. He's insatiable.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
He's got plenty of him.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But he has no allegiance to this country.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You know, I thought when in Scott Bessen's speech that
he gave in front of the world banking those people.
One of the things that he said, which certainly pushed
some people the wrong way, but I loved it, he said,
an America first policy actually is the only policy that
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benefits the world.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
True.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And I know that there's like, there's got to be
Europeans who are like, if you America first, why do
you have to be the world leader? But because you
couldn't be well, And the point is is that, Look,
I understand that we benefited from World War Two in
a big way because we were the manufacturing hub of
the world. We had all this manufacturing that we had
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already set up for cars and tires, and we just
turned it all into a war machine, and because of that,
we were able to win the war and nothing was
attacked in the United States. All the damage happened in Europe.
So you had to rebuild Europe, you have to build,
rebuild Japan, you got to rebuild all parts of the world,
and we ended up funding that. But in exchange, we
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are now the world leader. Everybody acknowledges that, and we
were a world leader for good. That's the big difference
right now. It's between US and China. What do you
think happens if China becomes the undisputed world leader?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You begged us to get into World War two? You beg,
you beg, you begged, you beg, you begged. Finally they
attacked us, we get into World War two. We come
over to save your q. Then you want to about
the fact that we saved your end and why do
we do that? Because you didn't do it for yourself.
And now what are you doing. You're allowing all of Europe,
all of Europe is being overtaken by and you've actually
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introduced sharia law in most parts of Europe. So now
what do you think is going to happen. It's going
to be like a crystal clear Tuesday morning, like nine
to eleven west for us, and then boom, out of nowhere,
yours is on fire? And why because you allowed it
to happen?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, and you know you hear Tom Holman saying the
same thing about us, you know, regarding the hundreds of
thousands of illegals that we know about that we're coming
across every week and month and whatnot. Yeah, and he's like,
how many of the unknowns are here? And how many?
Like I think they said that right now. I might
be misquoting the figure, but it was a shockingly large figure.
(13:35):
It was like, eighteen thousand known terrorists we know of
are in the country. Now, that's right, we know that
they got in here. Eighteen thousand. It's like, good god, man,
it only took what twelve to do nine to eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And I know if you got your history lesson the
other night from Joey Reid on the Rise and Fall
of the Roman Empire.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Boy, that must have been a fun class, Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It had to be. I didn't even turn the volume
when Professor Reid if her lips are moving, I got
no ears to hear. But from what I could glean
from the combats. She was rewriting history to tell you
that if you continue to keep all white men in charge,
you're going to have nothing but the fall of the
Roman Empire here in America. I'm doing this off of
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the top of my head if I remember correctly, and historians,
of course, are going to be all over the spectrum
what was the fall of the Roman Empire? But if
I remember correctly, there are a couple of threads that
are common amongst all themes. Number one tribalism. What do
the Democrats love more than anything else identity politics? They
live on tribalism. They try to get fifty five tribes
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under one umbrella. Tribalism was one of the things that
brought down the Roman Empire, partly because they expanded that
took over so many countries. Those countries much like Canada.
Big salute to Canada. I'm proud of you. Really, you
got some Canadian pride. Yes, you want to be your
own country, I got it. Do I agree with your leader, know,
but at least you're starting to show a little spine. Now,
good for you. I'm over. You'll demonstrate that by like
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protecting your border so we don't have all this crap
coming across a northern border that you just allowed freely
to come across your southern border because you don't give
a crap.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's going to be interesting because, like you said, they
did vote liberal again last night. For those of you
haven't heard that story. The interesting thing to me is
the reason that you ended up losing your last prime
minister is because he told the world we can't survive
if we're not ripping off the US to the tune
of a couple of billion a month.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And we all knew that to be the case. I'm
just surprised that you actually came out and said it.
But we also know you're sucking on a juicy tea.
So if you want the juicy ta shut down your border,
we're happy to pay you for that. It's extortion, but
that's okay, and you're pretty cheap with it, by the way,
so we can afford you. The other thing that brought
down Rome, if I remember correctly, the lack of a
strong military. What have we done every time a Democrat
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gets an office, we either weaken the military by taking
away all the armament and the bullets, or we start
inducting all kinds of people who aren't fit enough to
be in the military. We weaken our own military under
Democrat leaderships, and it's not because of misguidance, it's because
of the inability for the Democrats to stand up and
actually give it. I'm sorry for the curse in today.
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I can't handle it anymore. Not today. I'm had it
up to hear with Joey read or horse crap, and
I will go back and ed it out of the
cust words. I'm being disrespectful, not to Joey Reid. But
so we had a weekend economy. Oh, the weekend economy
was the other thing. Rome had a weekned economy. So
you can't live in a large country, certainly not as
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large as the Roman Empire. Guy, when you had tribalism,
you had a weekened economy, and then you had mercenaries
who when you're fighting because you had such a weak military,
your mercenaries actually turned on you. That the Germanic tribes
turned on you and took you down. Now, I did
all that off the top of my head, but I'm
sure what Joey Reid's history lesson was was one hundred
and eighty degrees different from them, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
If you're ever out late at night listening to our
sister station, WVOC. There's a guy named Jesse Kelly on there.
And Jesse Kelly was doing something the other night. I
thought it was interesting. He was talking about, imagine you're
playing a Monopoly game. Everybody's played Monopoly. You understand the rules.
But imagine if like I'm the guy who's supposed to
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enforce the rules, and you are playing against somebody else,
and that's somebody else. When it gets to the whatever
you don't pass go, you gotta pay five hundred dollars.
That guy says, I don't feel like doing that. I'm
gonna roll my dice again, and I, the enforcer of
the rules, says it's fine, go ahead, roll again. And
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he gets to roll again, and he gets a better
role and he doesn't have to pay the five hundred dollars.
And then something happens to you and then you say, well,
I want to roll again. No, no, no, the rules
are the rules. That's what we have happening in America
right now, exactly where when Joe Biden is importing one
hundred thousand illegals a month or whatever it was, and
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the Republicans are going in front of judges. They cannot
get a district cour to say this must stop. As
a matter of fact, they had district courts saying you
cannot stop them. Texas, you cannot stop them, and that
is wrong. And then when we start evicting people, now
the judges step up and say you gotta follow the
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rules due process. It's not a fair system. It's been
rigged by the liberals against the United States of America,
and it's beyond infuriating. It's deadly.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well. In South Carolina, we talked about it in our
rasthalf for today. We had a real interesting article here
that was written by a. I.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It is hysterical. This article is created by AI using
key topics of the bill. It summarizes the key points discussed.
But it came from a forgotten something portal. I'll try
to find the web page you call, like.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The Citizen's portal or something.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I think that's right, Citizen's portal. Now, I think you
must have been referencing, and I've got to get a
FITS newsscription. You must have been referencing a FITS News article.
South Carolina Men's law to credit prior work experience for
teaching certificates. The bottom line basically is is that we're
going to be able to open it up now because
we are in desperate need of teachers and also teachers,
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helpers and the like to work in our public school system.
And we do have a lot of experience of persons
who are coming from the real workaday world, and these
kids will be entering the workaday world, So why not
have some of that experience shared in the hallways and
certainly in the classrooms of our public education And this
is an opportunity for persons to be inspired, motivated, or
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if they have an inclination or a motivation to get
involved and help young persons. And we know a lot
of people do, particularly people who have been in a position
for many years, to help bring them back in to
the public education system. So there's two separate bills, seventy
eight and seventy nine. Seventy nine is going to give
the schools the availability of bringing in persons they typically
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would not be able to bring in because they don't
have a teacher your certificate, but only to the total
of about ten percent of their teaching staff. So it's
not like you're going to have a wholesale implux of
people who don't know how to teach. And we recognize
teaching is a profession and you need to be trained
in it. So collegiateally you've been trained or studied and
then you were certified with your certificate. But it gives
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people an opportunity to get in the door. Now, Bill
number seventy nine, I believe or seventy eight is the
one that's actually going to transfer the years you have
in the private sector into gaining credits for working in
the public sector at a public school system.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, I think that that's great. I mean, because you
want children to be prepared for life. That's the goal.
It's not to make sure that they understand that they've
been discriminated against and that America sucks. It's actually, how
are you going to live your life in this country
and be successful? And so a lot of people who
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have had a lot of life experience maybe in those fields,
even particularly like if you worked as a scientist, then
you should be eligible to teach science, but you don't
have a teaching certificate yet or something like that, but
you're willing to go back and teach. They're going to
allow you to not only come back and then you
have to apply to get your certificate, but at the
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same time they're going to give you two for every
two years you had of real life experience, they will
credit you as a year as a teacher, so that
you can come in Like you and I, Jonathan, we'd
have each like more than forty years of radio broadcast experience,
so we'd go in with twenty years of teaching experience.
So day one, we've got twenty years of experience that
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gives us some tenure, that gives us the highest pay
scale and all that.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But of course, if because of what we've done for
the last forty years plus, we're able to teach kids.
We know how media works. I understand television production, I
understand how shoots work. I under stand radio, I understand
even print media. I could teach a good class on this.
If I was willing to stop doing radio and actually
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do that, I could be a valuable teacher. And there's
people right now who are in that position that can
do it. Whether it's for mathematics, whether it's for English,
whether it's for science and social studies. They would be
great teachers, but they just need a little extra incentive
to get into the game. They don't want to start
on the bottom. Wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm a big proponent of this. I've often wondered, even
when I was in school. You're going to call BS
on this, But I wondered it we would have career day. Okay,
remember career Day?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I see, I don't remember it in my school. I
do see the commercial with Derek Jeter getting passed up
by the guy from the credit card company.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
That happened in me. No way, it was in the
Bank of America commercial you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, I just remember it's the credit card.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No, yeah, credit it's a but it's for a bank.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, it's like an astronaut Derek Jeter and the credit
card guy or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yep. So, but I wondered, why will we have career
day once a year, okay? And it's like an hour.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's like winklos, it's not even the whole day.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And I'm like, you know, we're all here to gain
a career, but we only have like two hours. We
listen to people speak and then you got a little
bit of Q and a session, And I said, why
don't we hear from these people more? Because we're here
to gain a career. I'm more interested in which of
these guys I would best associate with, or where's my
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natural bend? And if I don't have an opportunity to
be exposed to that, how would I possibly know? I
know it's I got to go to recess next period
and then I'm going to have a history class. Okay,
But nonetheless, I've often wondered why we'd have more career
days and get careers. And I'm hearing CEOs talk about
how they want to get more involved in schools because
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their biggest concern is is that it's not that we
don't have the opportunity to have a captive audience inside
the hallways and kids get a little more exposure, and
they're trying to get more and more exposure having to
do with AI in particularly, robotics and the other exciting
things in STEM in particular. But they want to be
able to paint a bigger picture for the parents. They
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want to be able to get the parents involved because
kids don't fully understand, because their parents don't help them
understand that there's a gigantic world out there and you
literally could leave it if you would like. In the future,
there will be your time for you to go to Mars.
You could leave this world, unlike what's her name from
Good Morning America, Gail King, Gail King, who said she
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had an out of this world experience. No, you really
never left the gravitational pull of Earth, so you never
really left this world. Now. I know you don't understand
that because you didn't have career day where you could
talk to an astronaut.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I had a ride. Huh, don't call it a ride. Remember,
she got very upset about that you called her. You said,
they never said that when Alan Shepherd did it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
For God's sake, When you can't go in a in
a capsule or a rocket that has its own propulsion system,
that means you have to be able to come back
before you go out, because if you go out of
this world, you just float into space. And believe me,
there's nobody who would pray harder that you would go
out of this world and would float off like Darth
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Vader in the first Star Wars movie, just float off
into space forever and be gone. But nonetheless, that did
happen to me in Salem, South Carolina, at a high school.
I was on stage. I kid you not. I was
on stage with an astronaut. This man had orbited the moon.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I was also in stage with a CEO of a
company that did some they would do it like a
banking ceo, kind of sec regulated kind of thing. Okay,
we got to the question an answer session and they
only had questions for me, a radio disc jockey.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You got the glamour gig.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And I actually, I actually started asking questions of the
astronaut and the guy who worked in these securities in
the Change Commission because I wanted the kids to hear
more about what they had to say. But here's the thing.
They were like horses with blinders on. It was even more.
It was even more blinding. They were blinded. They knew
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because they had a local radio station that they could
work there, but they couldn't picture themselves actually orbiting the
moon or going to Mars. They couldn't picture themselves in
New York City working for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Because the parents, and it's not their fault, we grew
up in the South in particular, with this idea that
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you're going to work on the farm, or are you
going to go to work for Duke Energy? Or are
you going to work for the phone company. You know
only the people in your neighborhood. This is where you
live in your neighborhood. Well, there's a whole world outside
of your neighborhood. I'm very excited that. No, we're going
to be bringing in people from all walks of life,
and I hope we do have astronauts of a comeback.
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We got several from South Carolin. I hope we do
have people that came in who worked in the Security
Change Commission, people who worked in different areas around the world,
to show these kids that you can grow up in Landrum,
South Carolina, or in Blythewood and end up walking on Mars.
We don't paint that picture for kids enough. So I'm
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excited about these two things.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh yeah, again, I think it's fantastic because, as you said,
it's got a broadened kid's minds. But we're also going
to get some really qualified people who might not be
qualified by the current standards as educators, meaning they didn't
go to college to get an education degree, they don't
have an education certificate per se, yet they can get
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that later. I'm sure they're very smart people that it's
not like they can't pass the tests, they just haven't
done it yet. But why would you prohibit them from
coming in? Let them get in see if they like
being teachers. What if they get in and they hate it,
then they wasted two years getting a certificate and then
they hate the job. So they're like, well, well i'd
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even bother. I'll just not do it, And then we've
lost out on some great wisdom and kids have lost
out on a great opportunity. So I again, we very
rarely salute the South Carolina legislature, but I think that
was was that one drawn up in the Senate and
then brought to the House.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Center Bill seventy eight is the one that would allow
people to be able to actually gain a certificate while
in the classroom and use your work experience to actually
translate into experience or credits for being a teacher. That's
great in the state of South Carolina, and Kelly and
I do qualify. I looked it up. South Carolina high
school course focused on mass media can be found through
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the media technology programs, So one of those things would
be the curriculum extends beyond basic production, exploring related areas
like graphic design, broadcast journalism, animation and online media development.
I'm not so good with the animation, but there's two
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of them. You call up it, that's right, so it
would give you the opportunity. Now, in full disclosure, I
was kicked out of the University of South Carolina before
the fall semester even began. That's another long story, rough
and I ended up getting a two year degree in marketing,
but nonethe because I couldn't step on campus anymore. I
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was banned, but I wasn't banned from campus, but I
wasn't allowed in the classroom, not in Jay school. Thank you,
doctor Uray. So I got kicked out of USC, ended
up getting a two year degree. Wanted to come back
to Columbia, but it wasn't able to get a job
at then Okay where I really wanted the works. I
had to go to work in Augusta. Well, there's no
place in the Augusta go city broadcast journalism. So then
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I ended up going to the upstate Clemson didn't have anything.
So then I ended up by that time he got
I'm already four jobs into it. Now I'm on my way.
I don't need to go back.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and back when we started college degrees were a
lot less needed, so to speak. Like nobody said on
the app plication, like you must have a four year
degree to even apply. Sure, that didn't become a thing
until like the nineties.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Something like that. So you know, I'm not saying I'm
qualified to do that, but I know people who are,
and I'm hoping that we'll have people who will step
into this kind of role because we do need to
have more than just career day, which really was just
career morning.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
How about an internship thing and they could rotate the internships,
like do a week with like a heating and air company,
do a week at a more you know down here
at like flock and rally or something like that. For marketing,
there's all kinds of jobs where if you just hung
around for and again, this would have to be older kids.
This can't be third graders, right, This has to be
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you know, maybe a freshman in high school. Uh, they
could kind of hang around. They're not actually working on anything,
You're just seeing what a work day looks like for
these people.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We didn't get an opportunity to do my I wanted
to do my little thing today. This would be a
perfect sign. This would be a perfect classroom project. You
got one, what is wanted? I've got this idea, So
we got to storyboard kind of bouncer around my head,
a couple of lines of the dialogue and a sixty
so maybe a thirty second commercial for television. Okay, our
pro excuse me, our anti abortionist position. Oh wait, wait
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to bring that to the table.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Are you talking about the pill and the new report
that came out yesterday?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
No, no, no, no, no no no oh. This is
just the mindset. This is just to help people think
about what we're actually saying when we are against abortion,
what the implications are for life and that.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Okay, well maybe.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We can do that tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Boy. And the news that the I don't know even
knew who broke it, but they did a study of
eight hundred and sixty five thousand abortions, and that news
came out yesterday. The abortion pill is like playing Russian roulette. Apparently,
it's unbelievable what the FDA missed? They missed that the whoops,
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that's a total whoops.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I dis missed that.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Oh my gosh, so I get it. Tomorrow could be
abortion Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I would love to share this because I'd like to
have input. I would. I'd love to hear Kelly's input
on it. We could create a whole commercial and we
would do it in a way so it's a sixty
second commercial, okay. We have to write in such a
way that it's edited, so it could be a thirty okay,
or it could be a fifteen. We've got a lot
of options. It's like my favorite commercial right now with
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the Liberty EMU. Oh the bird, Yes, the long version
when he's leaving the farm.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You can't help people. You're just a flightless bird.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
No, he's a dreamer, Frank. I mean, you get the
whole thing right, and then you get the thirty second version,
and then because you edited, you wrote it correctly so
you can edit it, you get the fifteen second version.
So after people get the entire message in the sixty
you can use it as a reminder for the thirty
and you can also get the quick kick on the fifteenth.
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So we will. I'd love to see this message. I've
never seen a message for abortion shared like this, and
I would love to see this come to fruition.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, this is I mean, this is exciting. I mean
you and I both kind of do some stuff for
sc for life and perhaps they might have some funding
to to do this commercial.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I think that this could be I think I think
setting as much pride aside as possible. I think this
could be an award winning campaign.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
To clear out the shelves. Here they come.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
But we need we needed to be a group session.
We need to have We need to have a Jonathan
and Kelly podcast group contribution towards this.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You all got the group me app maybe well we'll
just jump on there.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
We need we need, but look at what we need.
We need an animator because we're gonna have a storyboard.
We don't know how to do that. Okay. Then we're
gonna need some broadcast journalism obviously is going to come
into play, okay, Graphic design, sure, and online media development.
We need all of this right here as a perfect
example of how we could share this and include students
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in it if we were doing it in the classroom.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Man, a class project that saves lives. What's better than this?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Tomorrow
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan Rush, I
need to ask you an issue that no one's brought
up and that has crashed your four A one case.
Your tariffs.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Stock market is way down.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It needed a correction. Kelly Nash, Oh, so you support it?
You bet? Yep.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
No one's upset over this, No, nope, no, nobody.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And Kelly Show. This is why I'm glad we have
Frank onz No one has brought up, to my knowledge,
anything to do with the stock market, says Donald Trump
initiated the tariff.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Dog boy, he was flabbergasted if he couldn't get somebody
to go, uh, look, I'm for the president, but I
really don't like the fact that my stock market's take
tanking or whatever. And by the way, I don't know
if we played the clip, but there's a lot of
people who are pointing out right now the worst that
the stock market has done for twenty twenty five is
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down ten percent. Currently, we're down I think six percent
for the year. For the year twenty twenty two, I'm
just looking at historical s and P. Five hundred, they
were down twenty four percent for the year. You lost
twenty four percent in the stock market. If you were
in the S and P five hundred for the year
of twenty twenty two, if you were in it in
twenty eighteen, you lost nineteen percent. If you were in
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it in two thousand and seven, you lost fifty five percent, Yes,
fifty and we're talking, We're sitting here like six percent
is like the end of the world.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
They're showing it right now. Sm pisis inauguration day is
down seven point.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Eight percent, Okay, seven point eight as opposed to two
thousand and seven, when you lost fifty five percent or
nineteen percent in twenty eighteen, or thirty four percent in
twenty twenty or twenty four percent in twenty twenty two.
I mean, this is a literally, this is the media
hyping up something that's not even a big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Frank Letz says, well, Frank Letz don't know what to
say because he just heard what he had, like twelve people,
all Trump voters don't give a damn don't want Chinese crap.
I'll pay more for American stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That was the thing that really bothered me, that hacked him.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I told and I remember bringing to the both of
the podcasts where Kelly brought up this morning. I remember
ranting about this for weeks. I spent literally weeks looking
for a drill, just a black and decker hand drill.
I've got one from when I was like sixteen years old,
and I went back and found it in Saluda because
I could not find a hand drill made in America. Milwaukee.
(02:27):
Hand drills, for God's sake, were made in China. Black
and decker made in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Those jobs are coming back.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're caught a black and decker weed eater. And I
bought it because it was a black and decker and
I got it home and the damn thing worked like crap,
and I ended up getting so irritated with it because
it wouldn't bump and run. It's a real easy, like
twenty year old technology process, bump and run. You bump it,
more line comes out and you keep going. It's called
a bump and run. I bump a bump, a bump,
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it won't run. I finally brought it up over and
one of my neighbors saw me do this. Okay, I
brought it all the way up over my head and
bumped it hard enough to bend it in half.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That should do it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That was the intention, and then I just threw it
in the damn trash on the side of the road
where all the yard clippings were. Threw it right in there,
piece of crap.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know, when I think about what we're doing with
the tariffs, and this is a really big picture to
try to grasp in a couple of minute conversation here.
But you go back to what happened in July of
nineteen forty four, there was a meeting where the global
powers met and said what we have going on economically
is not sustainable. We have to have a world order.
(03:40):
And they were talking about people weakening their dollars, which
is exactly what China does right now. We have to
have fair trade for the world so that somebody like Germany.
Germany got screwed after World War One, which helped lead
to World War two. Absolutely, so they're like, we can't
have this kind of attacks again countries and stuff. So
(04:01):
they invented the IMF and the World Bank, and they
said we're going to look out for the best interests
of the war world. What people have been I saw
an article from two thousand and eight Sarcose, remember him
from France. He was saying that the World Bank and
the IMF have lost their way. In two thousand and eight,
he was saying it, and we've had numerous global leaders
speaking out against this since at least two thousand and eight.
(04:24):
We need to get back to the core mission. And
this week Scott Bessett gave another speech where he's in
front of those people and he's saying, you've had what
he called mission creep. You have lost your way, and
suddenly for the last ten or fifteen years, they've been
more concerned about climate change and equal representation of gays
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and lesbians and blacks and minorities, and not focused on
the mission of making sure that nobody's screwing anybody. And
he calls out China again in front of the world
and he says, they have been devaluing their currents. See,
they have been stealing intellectual property, and the World Bank
hasn't done anything to call them out or punish them.
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They must be punished for the good of Europe, for
the good of Australia, for the good of Vietnam, for
the good of Korea, for the good of the world.
China must be stopped. And America is putting a stop
to it right.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now, there are two teats on a boar, one of
them statues. One of them is statooed with the World Bank.
The other ones the un Two teats on a bore worthless.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So far they've been worthless. But they need if they
get back on mission and start well and again. The
United States is Donald when I think about the magnitude
of what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish, because China
doesn't have like elections, like an election cycle, like she's
not worried, like if the economy sucks, what does he care?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean, didn't go. Bloom said he had to answer
to his constituency.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
What's his name the Bloomberg?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Bloomberg?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, Bloomberg said Bloomberg. He has constituents he has to
answer to the answer to them. No, he does not teach.
He kills them if they don't get in line. But
the reality of is that China has had the Communist
Party in control for you know, one hundred and fifty
years or whatever now, but they are set on being
the global leader. Currently, depending on who you ask and
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how you measure it, China is either the number one
or number two economy in the world. We are either
number one or number two, depending on how you measure that.
But China currently at the World Bank is getting what
they call emergent country status. Maybe they get special funding
because they need special help. That is insane that they
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get that, and that's one of the many reasons that
they are, you know, still able to prosper.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're cheating their.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Way to the top.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The World Health Organization, anything that has an acronym with
the W or they actually pronounce the world. Anything with
an organization like that is Chinese.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
The point I was trying to make is that for
a hundred years they've been doing this scheme. Donald Trump
is going to try to fix it in less than
eighteen months because he's got to still win the mid term.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
See. Yeah, he's not just resetting individually the terroriffs with countries.
He's resetting the world. Now. He didn't have a little
reset button like Hillary Clinton had, let me put it
in a let me put let me put it in
a in a rocketman contact. He's got a reset button
that works. And this is going to be painful because
we have allowed I have to thought about this this morning.
(07:25):
I don't know what time was. I think it's like
one o'clock in the morning. I got it to go pee,
and I'm standing there, I'm thinking about Donald Trump and
the tariffs.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
My god, man, one o'clock in the morning, one o'clock
in the morning, standing there, urinating, thinking about Donald Trump
and tariffs.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Now, might when you love to be to have a
conversation right now with a not Joe Biden, Barack Obama,
George W. Bush, George HW Bush even and go back
even too, because this abuse of the American dollar has
been going on to a blind eye supposedly all of
these decades and decades and decades an American presidents enabled
(08:01):
it by not fighting it. And you finally got somebody
who's going to stand up and fight it. And we're
worried about three or four months of a little bit
of financial pain. Now, I get it. Americans don't like pain,
totally understand, especially the liberals. Everything's supposed to be just
soft and comfort for you. But you know, even when
you look at the Trump tax bill that we went
through in the first administration, a lot of us ended
(08:23):
up paying a little more tax ares lost of a
lot of availability of different deductions and write offs and stuff. Okay,
but you don't mind it because in the end, this
is going to be a better plan for America. And
all boats rise with a rising tide. But we're seeing
how even that analogy can be shifted if you just
talked to Democrat socialists, because they understand how to get
(08:44):
more tied under their boat. Bernie Sanders, We've got a
multifaceted front war going on here, and half of it
is internal.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And it's interesting. You know, Jonathan has the MSNBC on
every morning here, so I see the breaking news that
they've been scrolling about the White House coming out very
strongly this morning against Amazon, and so I just had
to look it up because we don't have the volume on.
So it says that Carolyn Levitt at her daily briefing
(09:14):
calls out, quote, this is a hostile and political act
by Amazon, and then holds up a photo of Jeff
Bezos and says he is attacking this country. Why didn't
Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to
the highest level in forty years. This is another reason
why Americans should buy American and American only. Upon that announcement,
(09:38):
Amazon stocks dropped two percent in the first hour. So
the Trump administration is fighting anybody and by the way,
what she's upset about, and what Donald Trump is upset about,
is apparently that Amazon announced that they were going to
start showing the increase in prices and saying which percentage
of that is based off the tariffs? When when you
(10:00):
go to buy something, Okay, this was going to cost
seventy eight dollars, it's not going to cost ninety seven dollars.
This part is all terriff, and it's like, well, you're
just being jerks. Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Absolutely, yeah, totally. Now they would say, is to make
sure that our customers understand that we're doing the best
we can to hold down prices. Now, do we have
to point out who's increasing the prices, Yes, we do,
but we're protecting our brand. I can hear that bullet
rolling out of the White's mouth. Probably Jeff Bezos, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But it's interesting because Bezos has shown, I don't know,
a willingness to go along with this. He was at
the inauguration, He has made some statements that have really
ticked off the left lately, the Washington Post, he's kind
of revamped the Washington Post. So I don't know, I
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don't know if this was a Bezos idea. He shouldn't
have approved.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It, though I'm sure nobody's going to do anything that bold.
But talking to Bezos, Bezos is proving that he's not
an American. He is a citizen of the world. More pointedly,
he is now Bill Dollar. I just renamed him. He'll
do whatever it takes to get another dollar, period. He's insatiable.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
He's got plenty of him.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But he has no allegiance to this country.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You know, I thought when in Scott Bessen's speech that
he gave in front of the world banking those people.
One of the things that he said, which certainly pushed
some people the wrong way, but I loved it, he said,
an America first policy actually is the only policy that
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benefits the world.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
True.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And I know that there's like, there's got to be
Europeans who are like, if you America first, why do
you have to be the world leader? But because you
couldn't be well, And the point is is that, Look,
I understand that we benefited from World War Two in
a big way because we were the manufacturing hub of
the world. We had all this manufacturing that we had
(12:05):
already set up for cars and tires, and we just
turned it all into a war machine, and because of that,
we were able to win the war and nothing was
attacked in the United States. All the damage happened in Europe.
So you had to rebuild Europe, you have to build,
rebuild Japan, you got to rebuild all parts of the world,
and we ended up funding that. But in exchange, we
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are now the world leader. Everybody acknowledges that, and we
were a world leader for good. That's the big difference
right now. It's between US and China. What do you
think happens if China becomes the undisputed world leader?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You begged us to get into World War two? You beg,
you beg, you begged, you beg, you begged. Finally they
attacked us, we get into World War two. We come
over to save your q. Then you want to about
the fact that we saved your end and why do
we do that? Because you didn't do it for yourself.
And now what are you doing. You're allowing all of Europe,
all of Europe is being overtaken by and you've actually
(13:01):
introduced sharia law in most parts of Europe. So now
what do you think is going to happen. It's going
to be like a crystal clear Tuesday morning, like nine
to eleven west for us, and then boom, out of nowhere,
yours is on fire? And why because you allowed it
to happen?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, and you know you hear Tom Holman saying the
same thing about us, you know, regarding the hundreds of
thousands of illegals that we know about that we're coming
across every week and month and whatnot. Yeah, and he's like,
how many of the unknowns are here? And how many?
Like I think they said that right now. I might
be misquoting the figure, but it was a shockingly large figure.
(13:35):
It was like, eighteen thousand known terrorists we know of
are in the country. Now, that's right, we know that
they got in here. Eighteen thousand. It's like, good god, man,
it only took what twelve to do nine to eleven.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And I know if you got your history lesson the
other night from Joey Reid on the Rise and Fall
of the Roman Empire.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Boy, that must have been a fun class, Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It had to be. I didn't even turn the volume
when Professor Reid if her lips are moving, I got
no ears to hear. But from what I could glean
from the combats. She was rewriting history to tell you
that if you continue to keep all white men in charge,
you're going to have nothing but the fall of the
Roman Empire here in America. I'm doing this off of
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the top of my head if I remember correctly, and historians,
of course, are going to be all over the spectrum
what was the fall of the Roman Empire? But if
I remember correctly, there are a couple of threads that
are common amongst all themes. Number one tribalism. What do
the Democrats love more than anything else identity politics? They
live on tribalism. They try to get fifty five tribes
(14:40):
under one umbrella. Tribalism was one of the things that
brought down the Roman Empire, partly because they expanded that
took over so many countries. Those countries much like Canada.
Big salute to Canada. I'm proud of you. Really, you
got some Canadian pride. Yes, you want to be your
own country, I got it. Do I agree with your leader, know,
but at least you're starting to show a little spine. Now,
good for you. I'm over. You'll demonstrate that by like
(15:01):
protecting your border so we don't have all this crap
coming across a northern border that you just allowed freely
to come across your southern border because you don't give
a crap.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's going to be interesting because, like you said, they
did vote liberal again last night. For those of you
haven't heard that story. The interesting thing to me is
the reason that you ended up losing your last prime
minister is because he told the world we can't survive
if we're not ripping off the US to the tune
of a couple of billion a month.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And we all knew that to be the case. I'm
just surprised that you actually came out and said it.
But we also know you're sucking on a juicy tea.
So if you want the juicy ta shut down your border,
we're happy to pay you for that. It's extortion, but
that's okay, and you're pretty cheap with it, by the way,
so we can afford you. The other thing that brought
down Rome, if I remember correctly, the lack of a
strong military. What have we done every time a Democrat
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gets an office, we either weaken the military by taking
away all the armament and the bullets, or we start
inducting all kinds of people who aren't fit enough to
be in the military. We weaken our own military under
Democrat leaderships, and it's not because of misguidance, it's because
of the inability for the Democrats to stand up and
actually give it. I'm sorry for the curse in today.
(16:11):
I can't handle it anymore. Not today. I'm had it
up to hear with Joey read or horse crap, and
I will go back and ed it out of the
cust words. I'm being disrespectful, not to Joey Reid. But
so we had a weekend economy. Oh, the weekend economy
was the other thing. Rome had a weekned economy. So
you can't live in a large country, certainly not as
(16:31):
large as the Roman Empire. Guy, when you had tribalism,
you had a weekened economy, and then you had mercenaries
who when you're fighting because you had such a weak military,
your mercenaries actually turned on you. That the Germanic tribes
turned on you and took you down. Now, I did
all that off the top of my head, but I'm
sure what Joey Reid's history lesson was was one hundred
and eighty degrees different from them, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
If you're ever out late at night listening to our
sister station, WVOC. There's a guy named Jesse Kelly on there.
And Jesse Kelly was doing something the other night. I
thought it was interesting. He was talking about, imagine you're
playing a Monopoly game. Everybody's played Monopoly. You understand the rules.
But imagine if like I'm the guy who's supposed to
(17:14):
enforce the rules, and you are playing against somebody else,
and that's somebody else. When it gets to the whatever
you don't pass go, you gotta pay five hundred dollars.
That guy says, I don't feel like doing that. I'm
gonna roll my dice again, and I, the enforcer of
the rules, says it's fine, go ahead, roll again. And
(17:34):
he gets to roll again, and he gets a better
role and he doesn't have to pay the five hundred dollars.
And then something happens to you and then you say, well,
I want to roll again. No, no, no, the rules
are the rules. That's what we have happening in America
right now, exactly where when Joe Biden is importing one
hundred thousand illegals a month or whatever it was, and
(17:55):
the Republicans are going in front of judges. They cannot
get a district cour to say this must stop. As
a matter of fact, they had district courts saying you
cannot stop them. Texas, you cannot stop them, and that
is wrong. And then when we start evicting people, now
the judges step up and say you gotta follow the
(18:16):
rules due process. It's not a fair system. It's been
rigged by the liberals against the United States of America,
and it's beyond infuriating. It's deadly.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well. In South Carolina, we talked about it in our
rasthalf for today. We had a real interesting article here
that was written by a. I.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It is hysterical. This article is created by AI using
key topics of the bill. It summarizes the key points discussed.
But it came from a forgotten something portal. I'll try
to find the web page you call, like.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
The Citizen's portal or something.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I think that's right, Citizen's portal. Now, I think you
must have been referencing, and I've got to get a
FITS newsscription. You must have been referencing a FITS News article.
South Carolina Men's law to credit prior work experience for
teaching certificates. The bottom line basically is is that we're
going to be able to open it up now because
we are in desperate need of teachers and also teachers,
(19:14):
helpers and the like to work in our public school system.
And we do have a lot of experience of persons
who are coming from the real workaday world, and these
kids will be entering the workaday world, So why not
have some of that experience shared in the hallways and
certainly in the classrooms of our public education And this
is an opportunity for persons to be inspired, motivated, or
(19:36):
if they have an inclination or a motivation to get
involved and help young persons. And we know a lot
of people do, particularly people who have been in a position
for many years, to help bring them back in to
the public education system. So there's two separate bills, seventy
eight and seventy nine. Seventy nine is going to give
the schools the availability of bringing in persons they typically
(19:57):
would not be able to bring in because they don't
have a teacher your certificate, but only to the total
of about ten percent of their teaching staff. So it's
not like you're going to have a wholesale implux of
people who don't know how to teach. And we recognize
teaching is a profession and you need to be trained
in it. So collegiateally you've been trained or studied and
then you were certified with your certificate. But it gives
(20:20):
people an opportunity to get in the door. Now, Bill
number seventy nine, I believe or seventy eight is the
one that's actually going to transfer the years you have
in the private sector into gaining credits for working in
the public sector at a public school system.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, I think that that's great. I mean, because you
want children to be prepared for life. That's the goal.
It's not to make sure that they understand that they've
been discriminated against and that America sucks. It's actually, how
are you going to live your life in this country
and be successful? And so a lot of people who
(20:59):
have had a lot of life experience maybe in those fields,
even particularly like if you worked as a scientist, then
you should be eligible to teach science, but you don't
have a teaching certificate yet or something like that, but
you're willing to go back and teach. They're going to
allow you to not only come back and then you
have to apply to get your certificate, but at the
(21:20):
same time they're going to give you two for every
two years you had of real life experience, they will
credit you as a year as a teacher, so that
you can come in Like you and I, Jonathan, we'd
have each like more than forty years of radio broadcast experience,
so we'd go in with twenty years of teaching experience.
So day one, we've got twenty years of experience that
(21:42):
gives us some tenure, that gives us the highest pay
scale and all that.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But of course, if because of what we've done for
the last forty years plus, we're able to teach kids.
We know how media works. I understand television production, I
understand how shoots work. I under stand radio, I understand
even print media. I could teach a good class on this.
If I was willing to stop doing radio and actually
(22:07):
do that, I could be a valuable teacher. And there's
people right now who are in that position that can
do it. Whether it's for mathematics, whether it's for English,
whether it's for science and social studies. They would be
great teachers, but they just need a little extra incentive
to get into the game. They don't want to start
on the bottom. Wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm a big proponent of this. I've often wondered, even
when I was in school. You're going to call BS
on this, But I wondered it we would have career day. Okay,
remember career Day?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I see, I don't remember it in my school. I
do see the commercial with Derek Jeter getting passed up
by the guy from the credit card company.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
That happened in me. No way, it was in the
Bank of America commercial you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, I just remember it's the credit card.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No, yeah, credit it's a but it's for a bank.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, it's like an astronaut Derek Jeter and the credit
card guy or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yep. So, but I wondered, why will we have career
day once a year, okay? And it's like an hour.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's like winklos, it's not even the whole day.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And I'm like, you know, we're all here to gain
a career, but we only have like two hours. We
listen to people speak and then you got a little
bit of Q and a session, And I said, why
don't we hear from these people more? Because we're here
to gain a career. I'm more interested in which of
these guys I would best associate with, or where's my
(23:24):
natural bend? And if I don't have an opportunity to
be exposed to that, how would I possibly know? I
know it's I got to go to recess next period
and then I'm going to have a history class. Okay,
But nonetheless, I've often wondered why we'd have more career
days and get careers. And I'm hearing CEOs talk about
how they want to get more involved in schools because
(23:44):
their biggest concern is is that it's not that we
don't have the opportunity to have a captive audience inside
the hallways and kids get a little more exposure, and
they're trying to get more and more exposure having to
do with AI in particularly, robotics and the other exciting
things in STEM in particular. But they want to be
able to paint a bigger picture for the parents. They
(24:05):
want to be able to get the parents involved because
kids don't fully understand, because their parents don't help them
understand that there's a gigantic world out there and you
literally could leave it if you would like. In the future,
there will be your time for you to go to Mars.
You could leave this world, unlike what's her name from
Good Morning America, Gail King, Gail King, who said she
(24:26):
had an out of this world experience. No, you really
never left the gravitational pull of Earth, so you never
really left this world. Now. I know you don't understand
that because you didn't have career day where you could
talk to an astronaut.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I had a ride. Huh, don't call it a ride. Remember,
she got very upset about that you called her. You said,
they never said that when Alan Shepherd did it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
For God's sake, When you can't go in a in
a capsule or a rocket that has its own propulsion system,
that means you have to be able to come back
before you go out, because if you go out of
this world, you just float into space. And believe me,
there's nobody who would pray harder that you would go
out of this world and would float off like Darth
(25:10):
Vader in the first Star Wars movie, just float off
into space forever and be gone. But nonetheless, that did
happen to me in Salem, South Carolina, at a high school.
I was on stage. I kid you not. I was
on stage with an astronaut. This man had orbited the moon.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I was also in stage with a CEO of a
company that did some they would do it like a
banking ceo, kind of sec regulated kind of thing. Okay,
we got to the question an answer session and they
only had questions for me, a radio disc jockey.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You got the glamour gig.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And I actually, I actually started asking questions of the
astronaut and the guy who worked in these securities in
the Change Commission because I wanted the kids to hear
more about what they had to say. But here's the thing.
They were like horses with blinders on. It was even more.
It was even more blinding. They were blinded. They knew
(26:16):
because they had a local radio station that they could
work there, but they couldn't picture themselves actually orbiting the
moon or going to Mars. They couldn't picture themselves in
New York City working for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Because the parents, and it's not their fault, we grew
up in the South in particular, with this idea that
(26:38):
you're going to work on the farm, or are you
going to go to work for Duke Energy? Or are
you going to work for the phone company. You know
only the people in your neighborhood. This is where you
live in your neighborhood. Well, there's a whole world outside
of your neighborhood. I'm very excited that. No, we're going
to be bringing in people from all walks of life,
and I hope we do have astronauts of a comeback.
(26:58):
We got several from South Carolin. I hope we do
have people that came in who worked in the Security
Change Commission, people who worked in different areas around the world,
to show these kids that you can grow up in Landrum,
South Carolina, or in Blythewood and end up walking on Mars.
We don't paint that picture for kids enough. So I'm
(27:20):
excited about these two things.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh yeah, again, I think it's fantastic because, as you said,
it's got a broadened kid's minds. But we're also going
to get some really qualified people who might not be
qualified by the current standards as educators, meaning they didn't
go to college to get an education degree, they don't
have an education certificate per se, yet they can get
(27:43):
that later. I'm sure they're very smart people that it's
not like they can't pass the tests, they just haven't
done it yet. But why would you prohibit them from
coming in? Let them get in see if they like
being teachers. What if they get in and they hate it,
then they wasted two years getting a certificate and then
they hate the job. So they're like, well, well i'd
(28:05):
even bother. I'll just not do it, And then we've
lost out on some great wisdom and kids have lost
out on a great opportunity. So I again, we very
rarely salute the South Carolina legislature, but I think that
was was that one drawn up in the Senate and
then brought to the House.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Center Bill seventy eight is the one that would allow
people to be able to actually gain a certificate while
in the classroom and use your work experience to actually
translate into experience or credits for being a teacher. That's
great in the state of South Carolina, and Kelly and
I do qualify. I looked it up. South Carolina high
school course focused on mass media can be found through
(28:41):
the media technology programs, So one of those things would
be the curriculum extends beyond basic production, exploring related areas
like graphic design, broadcast journalism, animation and online media development.
I'm not so good with the animation, but there's two
(29:01):
of them. You call up it, that's right, so it
would give you the opportunity. Now, in full disclosure, I
was kicked out of the University of South Carolina before
the fall semester even began. That's another long story, rough
and I ended up getting a two year degree in marketing,
but nonethe because I couldn't step on campus anymore. I
(29:23):
was banned, but I wasn't banned from campus, but I
wasn't allowed in the classroom, not in Jay school. Thank you,
doctor Uray. So I got kicked out of USC, ended
up getting a two year degree. Wanted to come back
to Columbia, but it wasn't able to get a job
at then Okay where I really wanted the works. I
had to go to work in Augusta. Well, there's no
place in the Augusta go city broadcast journalism. So then
(29:44):
I ended up going to the upstate Clemson didn't have anything.
So then I ended up by that time he got
I'm already four jobs into it. Now I'm on my way.
I don't need to go back.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and back when we started college degrees were a
lot less needed, so to speak. Like nobody said on
the app plication, like you must have a four year
degree to even apply. Sure, that didn't become a thing
until like the nineties.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Something like that. So you know, I'm not saying I'm
qualified to do that, but I know people who are,
and I'm hoping that we'll have people who will step
into this kind of role because we do need to
have more than just career day, which really was just
career morning.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
How about an internship thing and they could rotate the internships,
like do a week with like a heating and air company,
do a week at a more you know down here
at like flock and rally or something like that. For marketing,
there's all kinds of jobs where if you just hung
around for and again, this would have to be older kids.
This can't be third graders, right, This has to be
(30:42):
you know, maybe a freshman in high school. Uh, they
could kind of hang around. They're not actually working on anything,
You're just seeing what a work day looks like for
these people.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We didn't get an opportunity to do my I wanted
to do my little thing today. This would be a
perfect sign. This would be a perfect classroom project. You
got one, what is wanted? I've got this idea, So
we got to storyboard kind of bouncer around my head,
a couple of lines of the dialogue and a sixty
so maybe a thirty second commercial for television. Okay, our
pro excuse me, our anti abortionist position. Oh wait, wait
(31:13):
to bring that to the table.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Are you talking about the pill and the new report
that came out yesterday?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
No, no, no, no, no no no oh. This is
just the mindset. This is just to help people think
about what we're actually saying when we are against abortion,
what the implications are for life and that.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Okay, well maybe.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We can do that tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Boy. And the news that the I don't know even
knew who broke it, but they did a study of
eight hundred and sixty five thousand abortions, and that news
came out yesterday. The abortion pill is like playing Russian roulette. Apparently,
it's unbelievable what the FDA missed? They missed that the whoops,
(31:58):
that's a total whoops.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I dis missed that.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Oh my gosh, so I get it. Tomorrow could be
abortion Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I would love to share this because I'd like to
have input. I would. I'd love to hear Kelly's input
on it. We could create a whole commercial and we
would do it in a way so it's a sixty
second commercial, okay. We have to write in such a
way that it's edited, so it could be a thirty okay,
or it could be a fifteen. We've got a lot
of options. It's like my favorite commercial right now with
(32:29):
the Liberty EMU. Oh the bird, Yes, the long version
when he's leaving the farm.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You can't help people. You're just a flightless bird.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
No, he's a dreamer, Frank. I mean, you get the
whole thing right, and then you get the thirty second version,
and then because you edited, you wrote it correctly so
you can edit it, you get the fifteen second version.
So after people get the entire message in the sixty
you can use it as a reminder for the thirty
and you can also get the quick kick on the fifteenth.
(33:00):
So we will. I'd love to see this message. I've
never seen a message for abortion shared like this, and
I would love to see this come to fruition.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, this is I mean, this is exciting. I mean
you and I both kind of do some stuff for
sc for life and perhaps they might have some funding
to to do this commercial.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I think that this could be I think I think
setting as much pride aside as possible. I think this
could be an award winning campaign.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
To clear out the shelves. Here they come.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
But we need we needed to be a group session.
We need to have We need to have a Jonathan
and Kelly podcast group contribution towards this.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You all got the group me app maybe well we'll
just jump on there.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
We need we need, but look at what we need.
We need an animator because we're gonna have a storyboard.
We don't know how to do that. Okay. Then we're
gonna need some broadcast journalism obviously is going to come
into play, okay, Graphic design, sure, and online media development.
We need all of this right here as a perfect
example of how we could share this and include students
(34:09):
in it if we were doing it in the classroom.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Man, a class project that saves lives. What's better than this?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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