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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show, Jonathan Rush.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So that Donald Trump can construct a ballroom where he
will be celebrated like our kam At the same time,
Trump trying to rop taxpayers of two hundred and thirty
million dollars, Kelly Nash, of all places to do, construction
is happening right here the front lawn of the White.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
House estimated costs three hundred and seventy six million dollars
the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Now, to be clear, the
first audio from Hakim upset that Donald Trump was building
a ninety thousand square foot ballroom and now it's actually
starting to encroach into the east wing as they tore
down a wall. Now, the second piece of that video
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was the celebration of Barack Obama doing some renovations for
three hundred and eighty six million.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It seemed like they were excited in that way.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
They were very excited about it. She had her hard
hat with her name on it, so plainly she'd be
going to be there for the duration of report for
CBS on the site where the Obama remodeling was going
to be going on. Anyway, It's just funny how the
differentation of the coverage. I did think it was very
awkward this morning, But I do give props to Ali
(01:11):
Batally this morning on NBC News for MSNBC at this
point because they're still attached until the end of the year, right,
I believe you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Know, I've never seen an official announcement from MS thirteen
now as to when they actually become MS thirteen now,
but they will be MS thirteen now soon enough.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She did point out that there was outside funding, so
this would not be as according to or alluded to
by Hakim. These are not public dollars. There's outside funding,
and she did say, in an effort of full disclosure, Comcast,
owner of MSNBC or MS thirteen now or NBC or whatever.
(01:52):
Comcast is one of the donors. Yeah, I mean their
umbrella organization is actually making attributions to the outrage that
you're seeing covered today on NBC News. Donald Trump's tear
the whole damn thing down.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, I mean, look, under Barack Obama, you just heard
the three hundred and seventy six million dollar project, and
that was mostly from what I'm told UH to upgrade
the utilities, so they had to dig out large swaths
of the White House grounds to get to the underground wiring,
and then they had to knock down some you know,
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go into the floors of the White House and do
all those types of things. They had to tear out
some walls to re update all the stuff inside of it. Again,
I don't know why it costs three hundred and seventy
six million dollars. That seems insane, but whatever, but that
was paid for by you and me and the US taxpayers.
At the same time, barac also spent fifty million dollars
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to redo the White House situation room, so he wanted
that upgraded, and I don't begrudge him for that. I mean, look,
the White House should be the greatest thing we've got.
It should be, you know when you have foreign dignitaries
coming here, but we also have tourists that visit it.
We should be very proud of the White House grounds.
And one of the things that Donald Trump's gotten criticized
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over is his improvements of it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
For example, some people are very upset about the lawn
parts of it being paved over because Trump said that
women in their stilettos are complaining that they get stuck
in it, especially if it's been raining and they have
to walk across that that, so he he built a
patio outside so that they could be outside. People hate that. Okay,
you want you're you're suddenly a traditionalist, got it?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm sure you're also pushing hard to get the Confederate
statues put back in place.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yes, but well they hate it because it looks like
the the patio area or the garden area off of
mar Lago. You're trying to recreate the White House to
look like mar Laga.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay, I mean you know, look, wasn't it Richard Nixon
who is like I like bowling, So tear out part
of the White House and put in some bowling alleys. Yes,
I mean it's their house one two. They're in charge
for you know, four to eight years. And this is
this is what did we read yesterday. Every president since
nineteen fifty two has done some sort of major renovation
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at the White House.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Major.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So it's not a it's not something new. This happens
every three, four, five years.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And I know they say, because he's going to be king,
he's never going to leave. But when he leaves, it's
not like he's going to tear down the ballroom. I
don't know, would be funny if if the Democrats were
to take it back to the White House, will they
tear down the ballroom and protest to Donald Trump's building
of the ballroom.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We're going to try to recreate the leaky East wing here,
the one, the one that you know according to people
who lived and worked around the White House, they said
that the East Wing had had multiple additions put onto it,
some of them rather shoddily. And so what happened is
there's leakage, there's there's all kinds of problems in that
section of the of the building. So Trump did you
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a favor.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And we heard from the foreclosure queen that she's outraged
by it all.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
They're crying. They're crying as if they had some sort
of monument to the East Wing of the White House.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Never seen anybody going to make any kind of rento
before you go. She did lots of rehnos on the property.
She bought for nothing and flipped and made millions.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
She probably just did cosmetic. Now that you mention it,
you know what, You're probably right. There was cracks in
the foundations and all that, and she said put some
paint on it. She probably did put some paint on it.
Don't we have wallpaper that'll cover the cracks.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And what an outrage the man is going to be there.
I remember I rented the property one time to a
woman who had a dog, and she saw the property
before it was ready to be moved into, and she
mentioned the floors had hardwood floors, and I said, well,
I was going to redo the floors or put the
carpet down, still deciding what I want to do. But
if you get a dog, I'm not going to redo
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the floors. I mean, I'll let you move in with
the dog. You're got to pay the pet fee, but
still dogs are hard on floors. And she said, well,
I'll tell you, what would it be okay with you
if I am allowed to bring my dog if I
have the floors redone? And I said, yeah, that's fine
with me, okay. So she rented it, didn't move in
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for another three weeks because she had the floors completely redone, sanded,
stained polyurythane.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, floors look great.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So she ended up staying there like a year and
a half and then she had to move on because
their job moved her. So I got a brand. I
mean to this day. The floors look great in that property.
I got brand new floors. She was only there for
a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Now, to get back to some of these Democrats concerns
that Trump is taking private funding sponsored He's now beholden
to big industry for this BombCast. Yes, I'll point out
Comcast and Spectrum and all those groups also donated to
Barack Obama so that they could redo the personal residence.
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So that cost thirty eight million dollars to redo the
personal residence. But again I salute Obama in that instance
because he said, this is for me and my family.
This is not for the American public, unlike the rest
of the White House, which is for the American public.
So it's beholden to us to come up with it.
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Michelle Obama said it was a three year refurbishment of
the State dining Room as well, which also was privately funded.
Now did they get Were they in somebody's pocket because
of that? I don't know, But nobody made a big
deal about that at the time. So when the fact
that Trump has got this covered, whether it's out of
his own pocket, or he's getting people to donate to it,
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or however, it's happening. It's the exact same thing that
Barack Obama did, and you should have made a big deal.
Then if it was a big deal when it's all.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Said and done, unless you're buying through the king theory,
he's never going to leave. You got a ninety thousand
square foot ballroom a day on the White House privately funded.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I bet you any sweet deal. I bet you. Look,
if we were to have an honest conversation with Donald Trump,
I I feel rather assured that he would say I'd
rather live at Marlago.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
If I'm going to be the king, the castle is
going to be in Florida, the Southern Castle. Yeah, that's
going to be the real castle is the White House
doesn't hold a candle to mar Alago. You think they
got enough marble. They don't have enough marble at the
Capitol to make them happy, never mind in the White House.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's funny because I just went over just for grants.
Sometimes I go to the Drudge Report. Now, so we've
got Trump says he wouldn't touch thesewings. He tore down
the wall, destruction echoes tactics from Marlaca.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Erry concerned all the science, says he has no intentions
of ever leaving the damn The headlines are just hysterical.
Who's paying for the ballroom? Well, ikey would tell you
the American tax experience.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well acheme, to use one of Joe Biden's favorite words,
conflated the fact that Trump is going after the Justice
Department for two hundred and thirty million dollars. That is
what he said. His legal fees were to defend himself
from all those bogus allegations that we now know were
bogus that we now know they made up the stories
at the Justice Department in order to prosecute him. They
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created the narrative, they created the story, and it cost
him two hundred and thirty million dollars in legal fees.
He wants that money reimbursed to him. That has nothing
to do with this entire two hundred and fifty million
dollar ballroom.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
President's cognitive collapse is clear, says one psychologist. The headlines
of this web page are just laugh out loud funny
and here again half truth, no truth's misinformation. Disinformation is
the Drudge Report. But all the all the collective headlines
that you need found on one web page for you.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I was listening to a news report, somebody decided to
go and get it from I think it was June
or July of this year, and it was a CBS
News report, and the person reporting for CBS News was saying,
Donald Trump has announced plans for a massive new ballroom
to be put onto what was formerly the East Wing
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that will be taken down and they will then build
out a ballroom. So they knew in June. Nobody was
crying about it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
In June.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No one is shot, nobody, nobody should be shocked. He
told you four months ago what he was going to do.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And then the new outrage is, and MSNBC's been covering
this extensively today, is that ICE is not vetting the
person's they're allowing to don a black suit mask and
then give them unmarked vans to wrong them around America
and just pick up whoever they like and deport them
to and to O Salvador.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'll put that in the if this is true category
and we're all screwed that that you should be rightly
concerned if we're not vetting the ICE agents. Jonathan just
anybody can pick up a gun and a badge and
just start doing whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So I did what Drudge Report loves. I clicked on
the headline and read it. Yes, there have been problems
with persons three hundred people who have walked in to
the front doors of ICE to be trained, vetted, trained,
and then hired by ICE. There have been either two
or three hundred that have been kicked out because of
former charges. That strong arm robbery was one of them.
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I think domestic violence, drug usage. These are people that
are coming to work for the federal government. And, by
the way, who wouldn't want to go Pete's sake if
you're looking for a job. Look at the some of
the incentives they had if you wanted to go to
work with ICE, pretty dank.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I'm good incentives, But I just want to make sure
I understand they were ICE agents or they never actually
got to become ICE agents. Now they were not, So
then what is the problem.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, the problem is how many of those people actually
slipped through the cracks?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh, you mean like illegals?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
How many people in the vetting process slip through the cracks?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'm hopeful none. I would think that the vetting process
that the Trump administration is using, it'd be pretty thorough.
It's caught all of these people.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean, they kicked out three hundred of them.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what, so you're just
creating a this is the straw man argument. But what
if so? I guess the answer would be, out of
an abundance of caution, we should close the ICE department
so that we don't have.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Any problems distracting criminals.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
For god, I gotcha, I understand.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I wonder how many people have actually applied. I know
there were tens of tens of thousands of people who
applied for jobs with ICE when they have first announced
the positions and then the incentives.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
By the way, a note to whomever needs to hear it,
don't apply for a federal job if you're a criminal.
They tend to catch those things. Now, if if Biden
was the president, maybe they just overlook it. Look, I'm
sure you're sorry about that, pal, Come on.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The Biden administration would tell you, and I'm sure that
you'll hear it again from Jen Psaki as she lays
out the blueprint, because she was part of that for
a while. And we've got Binder, as she's being called
by some news outlets.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
We have her out.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I got to tell you something. I'm disappointed in her hairstyle.
I think she should that was like her trademark.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look, but that's when she was a Democrat. She had
to show there's a new Oh that's right, I've left
the party. I've left the hairstyle.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Now she's out there saying there was absolutely no indication
to her and she met with Joe Biden daily that
there was no cognitive decline, and she thought it was
very unfair the way he was being portrayed in the media. Now,
the Biden administration certainly knows how to vet people, so
we've seen that just with their Southern border process.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So yeah, vtting very carefully.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The Joe Biden kool aid is strong.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So we headed today twenty three. We did, we did
get the twelfth vote yesterday that was denied. We're trying
to get the government opened. And now the Democrats are
upset fedterman, by the way, is I don't know this
man's kind of a target on his back. The Democrats
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are just outraged. But it's funny when you click on
any story of him on social media. Yesterday late in
the day, he was like the top three trender on
X the praise this guy was getting from everybody. I mean,
I had to scroll down like twenty different responses before
I hit a negative one. A lot of people are
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coming out of the are going out of the way
to say, thank God, somebody on the Democrat Party is
actually speaking in such a way that we can agree
to disagree, but we can still get the American people
back to work, at least the federal workers, and help
America work for the betterment of the public. I can't
believe that we don't have I was reading about the
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security detail for some of the Democrats. If I'm federal now,
I want to get my security detail up before I
go back to Washington, or as I continue to stroll
through Washington because his own party is going to try
to offer.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, it's great that John Fetterman understands the problem.
He understands I guess that this is not shutting down
the government only brings pain to people who shouldn't be
experiencing the pain. There's other pain that, according to Bernie Sanders,
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is going to be coming with the Obamacare disaster that
is slow rolling towards us. That old phrase two wrongs
don't make a right, you know, so if all those
people are going to be hurt by what's going on
with the Obamacare. Let's just take the worst case scenario.
Nobody changes anything under the rules, their premiums double in
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the next eight weeks or whatever it is. You know,
as soon as we get to the new their premiums double,
Millions of them come off the rolls, and fifty thousand
a year die for no reason other than they don't
have health care insurance. That's the worst case scenario. And
there's probably hundreds of thousands of other people who suffer
with diseases they can't afford to fix. Okay, that is
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a serious concern, totally understand it. But in order to
try to fix that problem, you're now kicking well, like
John Fetterman right here, he's just posted this yesterday. Pennsylvania
snap benefits halted beginning the first of the month, and
he says, food insecurity is real for many Pennsylvania families.
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We will have people who are literally starving to death
if we cannot figure this out. The food shelters have
already been overrun. This is one of the reasons I
could never vote for shutting our government down. You are
hurting a group of people. You're hurting the mothers that
the low income mothers, Bernie Sanders, They're not going to
be able to get diapers, They're not going to be
able to get whatever supplements they need. You're choosing to
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hurt people to try to save other people, allegedly, but
in reality, we've all been hurt by Obamacare. Every American
has been hurt by this. Whether you've got a program
through the Affordable Care Act or not, everybody's health care
has been diminished by that program. We need as a
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country to reshape it, refocus, rework it. And I understand
that my dreams of just market driven answers is going
to be the answer. There's going to have to have
some sort of role in government that's going to have
free health care for certain American citizens. But I think
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most Americans, if you agree with the idea that you
need to give free health care to certain Americans, okay,
I think a lot of people would agree with that,
Very few would agree that we deserve free health care
for people who are not US citizens. The idea that
you're going to spend over a trillion dollars coast to
coast to provide healthcare for people who are not born here,
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who are not pledged allegiance here, who are contributing nothing here.
That is sheer insanity and nobody agrees with that. So
you're hurting the US citizens who are low income to
save people who will never help America.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Speaking of healthcare, I was getting very upset last night
just watching all the commercials come home for these Medicare
sign enrollees. And if you have an elderly person in
your family, please help them understand whether they're purchasing, or
get them with someone who is an expert to help
them understand what they're purchasing, because the misrepresentation. Now they're
not saying anything that is untrue, but they're certainly not
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absent malice. The different insurance companies that continually advertise and
they're spending a tremendous amount of money on cable television. Now,
the Medicare we know is the sign up for that
you can do on your own. You can do it
on the government web page. But what they're trying to
do is make sure that you sign up for the
gap plans. That's where the different insurance companies make all
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their money. So they're going to help you sign up
for Medicare A or C, which is Medicare advantage. Please
read the Medicare advantage and you're at least a pamphlet
of it and a comparison somewhere online, because you need
to know the difference between A and C, particularly with
the healthcare availability, what it covers, what it doesn't cover.
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But and then the B plan is for your doctors pay,
the D plan is for your drug and then there's
a whole list. It goes, it goes from F through
zzzzz of all these gap plans that these insurance companies
want to sell you. Now, I get it. Some of
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those gap plans good idea, some of them not really
good use of money. But please help find someone to
help your senior citizens before they fall into traps calling
these eight hundred numbers for these misrepresentations on television about
what Medicare C does and versus A, and then what
the gap plan will do.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I like the idea of the gap band having a plan.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Look, everybody needs to have make sure that they get
a gap plan because there are going to be associated
expenses even with Medicare, unless, of course, you fall and
what Kelly's talking about, then you're going to get the
absolute best plan available through Medicare, and it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Going to cost you a damn dying Mmm. I like that. Yeah,
that's what everybody wants.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So anyway, I just got I got myself all worked
up listening to these commercials last night because I have
read these plans. I had to go through it with
my dad and my mom's absence. My dad never had
to do it before. She was preaching to me ten
years before she passed. Do not let anybody get the
Medicare advantage plan. There is no advantage in the advantage plan,
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and you'll read the differences when you go and search
it out. Now, maybe suits your lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm not saying everything is bad for everybody, but everybody's
deal is a little different based on your health or
the history of your health, or if what you anticipate
to be the future of your health as you get
older and older, which is where most of these people
obviously fall in with the Medicare.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well. Again, the more you rely on government, the worse
your life will be.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Exactly all right, Otherwise, things going on in the state
of South Carolina, I have decided I'm going to make
it a personal mission. No, I don't give a damn
what the fee is. I really want to start stealing
some skeletons out of people's yards. After Halloween is over,
let's get that behind us. But I want to start
stealing skeletons to start propping them up on potholes. For
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the life of me, if I were h Mac and
I traveled anywhere in this state and my suv, which
I think is what he travels in, my suv hit
as many potholes as South Carolinians are hitting every day,
and we pay out the amount of money that we
know we pay out. It's been a while since they
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actually published a report. I need to look it up.
I try to look it up. Even AI couldn't present
it for me. The amount of money we pay out
every year is the state the person's vehicles that damaged
because of our deteriorating road conditions. But I'm decided I'm
not going to steal. I'm not going to steal the skeletons,
but I am going to go to home depot and
buy some yellow paint and I'm going to start painting
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huge yellow circles in the road. I hit one again,
yet Sally hit it actually she was driving. She hit
it again, and she immediately apologized because every time she
hits that damn pothole and she knows where it is,
but it sneaks up on you. So I'm not really
angry at her, but I mean it is jarring. I
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don't know why we don't have more people whose actual
traffic fatality was written up because of the deterioration of
our roads, and we've had Kelly was talking about a
bridge not far from where he lives. It was shut down.
So we've got more bridges that are going to be closed.
Ralph Norman's one of the candidate's bringing this to the
table a general Assembly. I've said it before, I'll say
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it again. They do not give a flying rats ass
whether you live or die. If they did, they would
have done something about the roads, and they would at
least listen to their own South Carolina. The poverty transportation,
with a number of bridges that are in serious deficits
of structural decay.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm wondering if I don't know what kind of suv
Henry rides around in.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I believe it's a chebby suburban.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I wonder if those because they're a luxury vehicle do
they have. Twenty sixteen is when Mercedes came out with
their pothole technology. So if you get I think it's
the higher end Mercedes and I'm reading about it here.
It will detect a pothole and when so it's got
a key on the bumper. I guess that can detect
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the potholes coming up. What it will do is then
shift the weight of the vehicle to the other three wheels. Wow,
so that you don't actually hit the pothole. And then
it says the cars the vehicle's car to X system
then sends signals in a cloud based server run by
Mercedes Benz including the GPS location of the potholes, and
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then other vehicles with similar systems are alerted as well,
so they know before they get there that they're going
to have to shift the weight in the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Fascinating.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So that's been out for nine years now.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'd love to be able to thought of somebody from
Mercedes and say, how many GPS potholes do you have
just for the state of South Carolina already registered in
your system?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah? Oh yeah, and they were talking about there. I
guess you can turn it on or turn it off.
There's like an audible thing that says, warning, pothole ahead.
You never it would just be on the whole time
if you were in South Carolina. Warning warning, warning, warning warning.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I don't know why it drives me so nuts because
I haven't had although I got to tell you, I
think it's what caused one of the shock absorbers on
that Chevy Tahoe to fail. But it was covered by
the warranty. Think goodness, so I didn't have to pay
out of pocket. But it's amazing how much money we
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spend with the damages to South Carolinians who actually take
the time.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And you may not even know this.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You get a crack wind shield because you had a
rock fly up in one of the construction sites we
got going on. I have done it once because I
paid for the first three windshields out of pocket, because
I don't want the taxpayer to pay for anything that
I for any expense for me, period not gonna do.
It's why I didn't take advantage of Obama's what.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Was that junk clunkers for junkers or cash.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I didn't take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
When I had an automobile that fit the qualifications, I
don't want your extra five thousand dollars American taxpayer for
God's sake. But you get to a point where there
is an availability for you to go to the South
Carolina dot web page, fill out a form and it's
not overly extensive, but they ask you a lot of
questions and then you have to turn in the receipt
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for the damage and we will refund persons who have
had damage to their car from these unbelievably bad roads
in the state of South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And by the way, the bridge that Jonathan was referencing,
it's the bridge if you're pulling into Wood Creek Farms,
if you're coming in off of Spears Creek Church Road.
So that main entrance into Wood Creek Farms, which is
if you're not familiar with Northeast, that is probably the
most expensive neighborhood in Northeast for sure. That's where Steve
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Spurrier lived, and lots of other wealthy, wealthy folks that bridged,
Like right after you pull in, that's the one that's closed,
and it's going to be closed. I was talking to
one of the guys who lives there. They said the
whole inspection took five seconds. The State Department or whatever.
Dot walked up, looked at the crack and said, my god,
I can't believe this thing's still open. And they shut
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it immediately, and he said it's probably going to be
closed till late summer next year.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And we got people listening to the podcast probably thinking, well,
my bridge over here near my house have been closed
for three I'm thinking of a bridge right now about
five miles from my house. I don't think that road
has been open for a decade, because there's a bridge out.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I know that. I know it's more than five years.
I'm going to say it's a decade because I know
someone who lives in that area, and if I go
to their house, I can't go down that road. I
have to turn off and go around this long detour,
which is it's not like it was a highly travel bridge,
but what an embarrassment you get a bridge that Look,
(27:57):
it was important, that enough to build the first time,
and I realized in nineteen forty seven they built it
the best they could. But hello, we got bridges in
our state that are pushing eighty years old. Eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I'm looking up how much does South Carolina pay out
in pothole damages to vehicles, and there's nothing specific. Like
the year twenty twenty, they paid out six hundred and
twenty seven thousand, six hundred and fifteen dollars to thirty
one hundred people. Twenty nineteen it was nine hundred and
sixteen thousand, seven hundred and forty three dollars. So it
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looks like it's somewhere between a half million and a
million a year is what it costs the state to
pay to get people's vehicles repaired. But those are the
only ones that people apply for, right, There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Of people don't even know this in availability. Yeah, so
I just every time I drive and hit a pothole,
I think if I were the king of the forest,
if I were the governor's state of South Carolina, I'd
be damned embarrassed. If I were even the House of
the Senate. Just a taxpayer, and I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We can't have a road according to this. Now, this
is from a law firm. They say that sixty percent
of claims are denied as well, so they find a
loophole about their pothole and they don't.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Pay out whole Transparency I did say, I got paid.
It was one hundred and twenty nine dollars for a windshield.
It was thankfully not in a newer car. They're much
more expensive. But I had another windshield that got chipped,
and I filled out a form and I never heard
back from So I did apply twice. I got paid once.
Oh ok, I can promise you now you can check
(29:37):
with Tyler Ryan again. It'll be a coal, it'll be
a hill, will freeze over before I ever ask the
taxpayer for a frigging dime. I'll just keep bitching.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They're a good plan.
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show, Jonathan Rush.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So that Donald Trump can construct a ballroom where he
will be celebrated like our kam At the same time,
Trump trying to rop taxpayers of two hundred and thirty
million dollars, Kelly Nash, of all places to do, construction
is happening right here the front lawn of the White.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
House estimated costs three hundred and seventy six million dollars
the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Now, to be clear, the
first audio from Hakim upset that Donald Trump was building
a ninety thousand square foot ballroom and now it's actually
starting to encroach into the east wing as they tore
down a wall. Now, the second piece of that video
(00:42):
was the celebration of Barack Obama doing some renovations for
three hundred and eighty six million.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It seemed like they were excited in that way.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
They were very excited about it. She had her hard
hat with her name on it, so plainly she'd be
going to be there for the duration of report for
CBS on the site where the Obama remodeling was going
to be going on. Anyway, It's just funny how the
differentation of the coverage. I did think it was very
awkward this morning, But I do give props to Ali
(01:11):
Batally this morning on NBC News for MSNBC at this
point because they're still attached until the end of the year, right,
I believe you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Know, I've never seen an official announcement from MS thirteen
now as to when they actually become MS thirteen now,
but they will be MS thirteen now soon enough.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She did point out that there was outside funding, so
this would not be as according to or alluded to
by Hakim. These are not public dollars. There's outside funding,
and she did say, in an effort of full disclosure, Comcast,
owner of MSNBC or MS thirteen now or NBC or whatever.
(01:52):
Comcast is one of the donors. Yeah, I mean their
umbrella organization is actually making attributions to the outrage that
you're seeing covered today on NBC News. Donald Trump's tear
the whole damn thing down.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, I mean, look, under Barack Obama, you just heard
the three hundred and seventy six million dollar project, and
that was mostly from what I'm told UH to upgrade
the utilities, so they had to dig out large swaths
of the White House grounds to get to the underground wiring,
and then they had to knock down some you know,
(02:29):
go into the floors of the White House and do
all those types of things. They had to tear out
some walls to re update all the stuff inside of it. Again,
I don't know why it costs three hundred and seventy
six million dollars. That seems insane, but whatever, but that
was paid for by you and me and the US taxpayers.
At the same time, barac also spent fifty million dollars
(02:51):
to redo the White House situation room, so he wanted
that upgraded, and I don't begrudge him for that. I mean, look,
the White House should be the greatest thing we've got.
It should be, you know when you have foreign dignitaries
coming here, but we also have tourists that visit it.
We should be very proud of the White House grounds.
And one of the things that Donald Trump's gotten criticized
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over is his improvements of it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
For example, some people are very upset about the lawn
parts of it being paved over because Trump said that
women in their stilettos are complaining that they get stuck
in it, especially if it's been raining and they have
to walk across that that, so he he built a
patio outside so that they could be outside. People hate that. Okay,
you want you're you're suddenly a traditionalist, got it?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm sure you're also pushing hard to get the Confederate
statues put back in place.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yes, but well they hate it because it looks like
the the patio area or the garden area off of
mar Lago. You're trying to recreate the White House to
look like mar Laga.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay, I mean you know, look, wasn't it Richard Nixon
who is like I like bowling, So tear out part
of the White House and put in some bowling alleys. Yes,
I mean it's their house one two. They're in charge
for you know, four to eight years. And this is
this is what did we read yesterday. Every president since
nineteen fifty two has done some sort of major renovation
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at the White House.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Major.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So it's not a it's not something new. This happens
every three, four, five years.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And I know they say, because he's going to be king,
he's never going to leave. But when he leaves, it's
not like he's going to tear down the ballroom. I
don't know, would be funny if if the Democrats were
to take it back to the White House, will they
tear down the ballroom and protest to Donald Trump's building
of the ballroom.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We're going to try to recreate the leaky East wing here,
the one, the one that you know according to people
who lived and worked around the White House, they said
that the East Wing had had multiple additions put onto it,
some of them rather shoddily. And so what happened is
there's leakage, there's there's all kinds of problems in that
section of the of the building. So Trump did you
(05:04):
a favor.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And we heard from the foreclosure queen that she's outraged
by it all.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
They're crying. They're crying as if they had some sort
of monument to the East Wing of the White House.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Never seen anybody going to make any kind of rento
before you go. She did lots of rehnos on the property.
She bought for nothing and flipped and made millions.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
She probably just did cosmetic. Now that you mention it,
you know what, You're probably right. There was cracks in
the foundations and all that, and she said put some
paint on it. She probably did put some paint on it.
Don't we have wallpaper that'll cover the cracks.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And what an outrage the man is going to be there.
I remember I rented the property one time to a
woman who had a dog, and she saw the property
before it was ready to be moved into, and she
mentioned the floors had hardwood floors, and I said, well,
I was going to redo the floors or put the
carpet down, still deciding what I want to do. But
if you get a dog, I'm not going to redo
(05:58):
the floors. I mean, I'll let you move in with
the dog. You're got to pay the pet fee, but
still dogs are hard on floors. And she said, well,
I'll tell you, what would it be okay with you
if I am allowed to bring my dog if I
have the floors redone? And I said, yeah, that's fine
with me, okay. So she rented it, didn't move in
(06:20):
for another three weeks because she had the floors completely redone, sanded,
stained polyurythane.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, floors look great.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So she ended up staying there like a year and
a half and then she had to move on because
their job moved her. So I got a brand. I
mean to this day. The floors look great in that property.
I got brand new floors. She was only there for
a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Now, to get back to some of these Democrats concerns
that Trump is taking private funding sponsored He's now beholden
to big industry for this BombCast. Yes, I'll point out
Comcast and Spectrum and all those groups also donated to
Barack Obama so that they could redo the personal residence.
(07:02):
So that cost thirty eight million dollars to redo the
personal residence. But again I salute Obama in that instance
because he said, this is for me and my family.
This is not for the American public, unlike the rest
of the White House, which is for the American public.
So it's beholden to us to come up with it.
(07:23):
Michelle Obama said it was a three year refurbishment of
the State dining Room as well, which also was privately funded.
Now did they get Were they in somebody's pocket because
of that? I don't know, But nobody made a big
deal about that at the time. So when the fact
that Trump has got this covered, whether it's out of
his own pocket, or he's getting people to donate to it,
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or however, it's happening. It's the exact same thing that
Barack Obama did, and you should have made a big deal.
Then if it was a big deal when it's all.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Said and done, unless you're buying through the king theory,
he's never going to leave. You got a ninety thousand
square foot ballroom a day on the White House privately funded.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I bet you any sweet deal. I bet you. Look,
if we were to have an honest conversation with Donald Trump,
I I feel rather assured that he would say I'd
rather live at Marlago.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
If I'm going to be the king, the castle is
going to be in Florida, the Southern Castle. Yeah, that's
going to be the real castle is the White House
doesn't hold a candle to mar Alago. You think they
got enough marble. They don't have enough marble at the
Capitol to make them happy, never mind in the White House.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's funny because I just went over just for grants.
Sometimes I go to the Drudge Report. Now, so we've
got Trump says he wouldn't touch thesewings. He tore down
the wall, destruction echoes tactics from Marlaca.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Erry concerned all the science, says he has no intentions
of ever leaving the damn The headlines are just hysterical.
Who's paying for the ballroom? Well, ikey would tell you
the American tax experience.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well acheme, to use one of Joe Biden's favorite words,
conflated the fact that Trump is going after the Justice
Department for two hundred and thirty million dollars. That is
what he said. His legal fees were to defend himself
from all those bogus allegations that we now know were
bogus that we now know they made up the stories
at the Justice Department in order to prosecute him. They
(09:23):
created the narrative, they created the story, and it cost
him two hundred and thirty million dollars in legal fees.
He wants that money reimbursed to him. That has nothing
to do with this entire two hundred and fifty million
dollar ballroom.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
President's cognitive collapse is clear, says one psychologist. The headlines
of this web page are just laugh out loud funny
and here again half truth, no truth's misinformation. Disinformation is
the Drudge Report. But all the all the collective headlines
that you need found on one web page for you.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I was listening to a news report, somebody decided to
go and get it from I think it was June
or July of this year, and it was a CBS
News report, and the person reporting for CBS News was saying,
Donald Trump has announced plans for a massive new ballroom
to be put onto what was formerly the East Wing
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that will be taken down and they will then build
out a ballroom. So they knew in June. Nobody was
crying about it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
In June.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No one is shot, nobody, nobody should be shocked. He
told you four months ago what he was going to do.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And then the new outrage is, and MSNBC's been covering
this extensively today, is that ICE is not vetting the
person's they're allowing to don a black suit mask and
then give them unmarked vans to wrong them around America
and just pick up whoever they like and deport them
to and to O Salvador.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I'll put that in the if this is true category
and we're all screwed that that you should be rightly
concerned if we're not vetting the ICE agents. Jonathan just
anybody can pick up a gun and a badge and
just start doing whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So I did what Drudge Report loves. I clicked on
the headline and read it. Yes, there have been problems
with persons three hundred people who have walked in to
the front doors of ICE to be trained, vetted, trained,
and then hired by ICE. There have been either two
or three hundred that have been kicked out because of
former charges. That strong arm robbery was one of them.
(11:29):
I think domestic violence, drug usage. These are people that
are coming to work for the federal government. And, by
the way, who wouldn't want to go Pete's sake if
you're looking for a job. Look at the some of
the incentives they had if you wanted to go to
work with ICE, pretty dank.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I'm good incentives, But I just want to make sure
I understand they were ICE agents or they never actually
got to become ICE agents. Now they were not, So
then what is the problem.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, the problem is how many of those people actually
slipped through the cracks?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh, you mean like illegals?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
How many people in the vetting process slip through the cracks?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'm hopeful none. I would think that the vetting process
that the Trump administration is using, it'd be pretty thorough.
It's caught all of these people.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean, they kicked out three hundred of them.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what, so you're just
creating a this is the straw man argument. But what
if so? I guess the answer would be, out of
an abundance of caution, we should close the ICE department
so that we don't have.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Any problems distracting criminals.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
For god, I gotcha, I understand.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I wonder how many people have actually applied. I know
there were tens of tens of thousands of people who
applied for jobs with ICE when they have first announced
the positions and then the incentives.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
By the way, a note to whomever needs to hear it,
don't apply for a federal job if you're a criminal.
They tend to catch those things. Now, if if Biden
was the president, maybe they just overlook it. Look, I'm
sure you're sorry about that, pal, Come on.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The Biden administration would tell you, and I'm sure that
you'll hear it again from Jen Psaki as she lays
out the blueprint, because she was part of that for
a while. And we've got Binder, as she's being called
by some news outlets.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
We have her out.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I got to tell you something. I'm disappointed in her hairstyle.
I think she should that was like her trademark.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Look, but that's when she was a Democrat. She had
to show there's a new Oh that's right, I've left
the party. I've left the hairstyle.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Now she's out there saying there was absolutely no indication
to her and she met with Joe Biden daily that
there was no cognitive decline, and she thought it was
very unfair the way he was being portrayed in the media. Now,
the Biden administration certainly knows how to vet people, so
we've seen that just with their Southern border process.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
So yeah, vtting very carefully.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The Joe Biden kool aid is strong.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So we headed today twenty three. We did, we did
get the twelfth vote yesterday that was denied. We're trying
to get the government opened. And now the Democrats are
upset fedterman, by the way, is I don't know this
man's kind of a target on his back. The Democrats
(14:12):
are just outraged. But it's funny when you click on
any story of him on social media. Yesterday late in
the day, he was like the top three trender on
X the praise this guy was getting from everybody. I mean,
I had to scroll down like twenty different responses before
I hit a negative one. A lot of people are
(14:34):
coming out of the are going out of the way
to say, thank God, somebody on the Democrat Party is
actually speaking in such a way that we can agree
to disagree, but we can still get the American people
back to work, at least the federal workers, and help
America work for the betterment of the public. I can't
believe that we don't have I was reading about the
(14:56):
security detail for some of the Democrats. If I'm federal now,
I want to get my security detail up before I
go back to Washington, or as I continue to stroll
through Washington because his own party is going to try
to offer.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, it's great that John Fetterman understands the problem.
He understands I guess that this is not shutting down
the government only brings pain to people who shouldn't be
experiencing the pain. There's other pain that, according to Bernie Sanders,
(15:31):
is going to be coming with the Obamacare disaster that
is slow rolling towards us. That old phrase two wrongs
don't make a right, you know, so if all those
people are going to be hurt by what's going on
with the Obamacare. Let's just take the worst case scenario.
Nobody changes anything under the rules, their premiums double in
(15:56):
the next eight weeks or whatever it is. You know,
as soon as we get to the new their premiums double,
Millions of them come off the rolls, and fifty thousand
a year die for no reason other than they don't
have health care insurance. That's the worst case scenario. And
there's probably hundreds of thousands of other people who suffer
with diseases they can't afford to fix. Okay, that is
(16:17):
a serious concern, totally understand it. But in order to
try to fix that problem, you're now kicking well, like
John Fetterman right here, he's just posted this yesterday. Pennsylvania
snap benefits halted beginning the first of the month, and
he says, food insecurity is real for many Pennsylvania families.
(16:38):
We will have people who are literally starving to death
if we cannot figure this out. The food shelters have
already been overrun. This is one of the reasons I
could never vote for shutting our government down. You are
hurting a group of people. You're hurting the mothers that
the low income mothers, Bernie Sanders, They're not going to
be able to get diapers, They're not going to be
able to get whatever supplements they need. You're choosing to
(17:03):
hurt people to try to save other people, allegedly, but
in reality, we've all been hurt by Obamacare. Every American
has been hurt by this. Whether you've got a program
through the Affordable Care Act or not, everybody's health care
has been diminished by that program. We need as a
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country to reshape it, refocus, rework it. And I understand
that my dreams of just market driven answers is going
to be the answer. There's going to have to have
some sort of role in government that's going to have
free health care for certain American citizens. But I think
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most Americans, if you agree with the idea that you
need to give free health care to certain Americans, okay,
I think a lot of people would agree with that,
Very few would agree that we deserve free health care
for people who are not US citizens. The idea that
you're going to spend over a trillion dollars coast to
coast to provide healthcare for people who are not born here,
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who are not pledged allegiance here, who are contributing nothing here.
That is sheer insanity and nobody agrees with that. So
you're hurting the US citizens who are low income to
save people who will never help America.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Speaking of healthcare, I was getting very upset last night
just watching all the commercials come home for these Medicare
sign enrollees. And if you have an elderly person in
your family, please help them understand whether they're purchasing, or
get them with someone who is an expert to help
them understand what they're purchasing, because the misrepresentation. Now they're
not saying anything that is untrue, but they're certainly not
(18:43):
absent malice. The different insurance companies that continually advertise and
they're spending a tremendous amount of money on cable television. Now,
the Medicare we know is the sign up for that
you can do on your own. You can do it
on the government web page. But what they're trying to
do is make sure that you sign up for the
gap plans. That's where the different insurance companies make all
(19:05):
their money. So they're going to help you sign up
for Medicare A or C, which is Medicare advantage. Please
read the Medicare advantage and you're at least a pamphlet
of it and a comparison somewhere online, because you need
to know the difference between A and C, particularly with
the healthcare availability, what it covers, what it doesn't cover.
(19:27):
But and then the B plan is for your doctors pay,
the D plan is for your drug and then there's
a whole list. It goes, it goes from F through
zzzzz of all these gap plans that these insurance companies
want to sell you. Now, I get it. Some of
(19:49):
those gap plans good idea, some of them not really
good use of money. But please help find someone to
help your senior citizens before they fall into traps calling
these eight hundred numbers for these misrepresentations on television about
what Medicare C does and versus A, and then what
the gap plan will do.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I like the idea of the gap band having a plan.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Look, everybody needs to have make sure that they get
a gap plan because there are going to be associated
expenses even with Medicare, unless, of course, you fall and
what Kelly's talking about, then you're going to get the
absolute best plan available through Medicare, and it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Going to cost you a damn dying Mmm. I like that. Yeah,
that's what everybody wants.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So anyway, I just got I got myself all worked
up listening to these commercials last night because I have
read these plans. I had to go through it with
my dad and my mom's absence. My dad never had
to do it before. She was preaching to me ten
years before she passed. Do not let anybody get the
Medicare advantage plan. There is no advantage in the advantage plan,
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and you'll read the differences when you go and search
it out. Now, maybe suits your lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm not saying everything is bad for everybody, but everybody's
deal is a little different based on your health or
the history of your health, or if what you anticipate
to be the future of your health as you get
older and older, which is where most of these people
obviously fall in with the Medicare.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well. Again, the more you rely on government, the worse
your life will be.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Exactly all right, Otherwise, things going on in the state
of South Carolina, I have decided I'm going to make
it a personal mission. No, I don't give a damn
what the fee is. I really want to start stealing
some skeletons out of people's yards. After Halloween is over,
let's get that behind us. But I want to start
stealing skeletons to start propping them up on potholes. For
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the life of me, if I were h Mac and
I traveled anywhere in this state and my suv, which
I think is what he travels in, my suv hit
as many potholes as South Carolinians are hitting every day,
and we pay out the amount of money that we
know we pay out. It's been a while since they
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actually published a report. I need to look it up.
I try to look it up. Even AI couldn't present
it for me. The amount of money we pay out
every year is the state the person's vehicles that damaged
because of our deteriorating road conditions. But I'm decided I'm
not going to steal. I'm not going to steal the skeletons,
but I am going to go to home depot and
buy some yellow paint and I'm going to start painting
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huge yellow circles in the road. I hit one again,
yet Sally hit it actually she was driving. She hit
it again, and she immediately apologized because every time she
hits that damn pothole and she knows where it is,
but it sneaks up on you. So I'm not really
angry at her, but I mean it is jarring. I
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don't know why we don't have more people whose actual
traffic fatality was written up because of the deterioration of
our roads, and we've had Kelly was talking about a
bridge not far from where he lives. It was shut down.
So we've got more bridges that are going to be closed.
Ralph Norman's one of the candidate's bringing this to the
table a general Assembly. I've said it before, I'll say
(23:13):
it again. They do not give a flying rats ass
whether you live or die. If they did, they would
have done something about the roads, and they would at
least listen to their own South Carolina. The poverty transportation,
with a number of bridges that are in serious deficits
of structural decay.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm wondering if I don't know what kind of suv
Henry rides around in.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I believe it's a chebby suburban.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I wonder if those because they're a luxury vehicle do
they have. Twenty sixteen is when Mercedes came out with
their pothole technology. So if you get I think it's
the higher end Mercedes and I'm reading about it here.
It will detect a pothole and when so it's got
a key on the bumper. I guess that can detect
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the potholes coming up. What it will do is then
shift the weight of the vehicle to the other three wheels. Wow,
so that you don't actually hit the pothole. And then
it says the cars the vehicle's car to X system
then sends signals in a cloud based server run by
Mercedes Benz including the GPS location of the potholes, and
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then other vehicles with similar systems are alerted as well,
so they know before they get there that they're going
to have to shift the weight in the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Fascinating.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
So that's been out for nine years now.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'd love to be able to thought of somebody from
Mercedes and say, how many GPS potholes do you have
just for the state of South Carolina already registered in
your system?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah? Oh yeah, and they were talking about there. I
guess you can turn it on or turn it off.
There's like an audible thing that says, warning, pothole ahead.
You never it would just be on the whole time
if you were in South Carolina. Warning warning, warning, warning warning.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I don't know why it drives me so nuts because
I haven't had although I got to tell you, I
think it's what caused one of the shock absorbers on
that Chevy Tahoe to fail. But it was covered by
the warranty. Think goodness, so I didn't have to pay
out of pocket. But it's amazing how much money we
(25:27):
spend with the damages to South Carolinians who actually take
the time.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And you may not even know this.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You get a crack wind shield because you had a
rock fly up in one of the construction sites we
got going on. I have done it once because I
paid for the first three windshields out of pocket, because
I don't want the taxpayer to pay for anything that
I for any expense for me, period not gonna do.
It's why I didn't take advantage of Obama's what.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Was that junk clunkers for junkers or cash.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I didn't take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
When I had an automobile that fit the qualifications, I
don't want your extra five thousand dollars American taxpayer for
God's sake. But you get to a point where there
is an availability for you to go to the South
Carolina dot web page, fill out a form and it's
not overly extensive, but they ask you a lot of
questions and then you have to turn in the receipt
(26:20):
for the damage and we will refund persons who have
had damage to their car from these unbelievably bad roads
in the state of South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And by the way, the bridge that Jonathan was referencing,
it's the bridge if you're pulling into Wood Creek Farms,
if you're coming in off of Spears Creek Church Road.
So that main entrance into Wood Creek Farms, which is
if you're not familiar with Northeast, that is probably the
most expensive neighborhood in Northeast for sure. That's where Steve
(26:52):
Spurrier lived, and lots of other wealthy, wealthy folks that bridged,
Like right after you pull in, that's the one that's closed,
and it's going to be closed. I was talking to
one of the guys who lives there. They said the
whole inspection took five seconds. The State Department or whatever.
Dot walked up, looked at the crack and said, my god,
I can't believe this thing's still open. And they shut
(27:14):
it immediately, and he said it's probably going to be
closed till late summer next year.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And we got people listening to the podcast probably thinking, well,
my bridge over here near my house have been closed
for three I'm thinking of a bridge right now about
five miles from my house. I don't think that road
has been open for a decade, because there's a bridge out.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I know that. I know it's more than five years.
I'm going to say it's a decade because I know
someone who lives in that area, and if I go
to their house, I can't go down that road. I
have to turn off and go around this long detour,
which is it's not like it was a highly travel bridge,
but what an embarrassment you get a bridge that Look,
(27:57):
it was important, that enough to build the first time,
and I realized in nineteen forty seven they built it
the best they could. But hello, we got bridges in
our state that are pushing eighty years old. Eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I'm looking up how much does South Carolina pay out
in pothole damages to vehicles, and there's nothing specific. Like
the year twenty twenty, they paid out six hundred and
twenty seven thousand, six hundred and fifteen dollars to thirty
one hundred people. Twenty nineteen it was nine hundred and
sixteen thousand, seven hundred and forty three dollars. So it
(28:32):
looks like it's somewhere between a half million and a
million a year is what it costs the state to
pay to get people's vehicles repaired. But those are the
only ones that people apply for, right, There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Of people don't even know this in availability. Yeah, so
I just every time I drive and hit a pothole,
I think if I were the king of the forest,
if I were the governor's state of South Carolina, I'd
be damned embarrassed. If I were even the House of
the Senate. Just a taxpayer, and I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
We can't have a road according to this. Now, this
is from a law firm. They say that sixty percent
of claims are denied as well, so they find a
loophole about their pothole and they don't.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Pay out whole Transparency I did say, I got paid.
It was one hundred and twenty nine dollars for a windshield.
It was thankfully not in a newer car. They're much
more expensive. But I had another windshield that got chipped,
and I filled out a form and I never heard
back from So I did apply twice. I got paid once.
Oh ok, I can promise you now you can check
(29:37):
with Tyler Ryan again. It'll be a coal, it'll be
a hill, will freeze over before I ever ask the
taxpayer for a frigging dime. I'll just keep bitching.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
They're a good plan.
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