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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan Rush, before
the Big Beautiful Bill, our healthcare system was a disaster.
It is this functional, and Democrats have got to deal
with the fact.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Kelly Nash, you know that insurance company stocks have gone
up sixteen, seventeen, eighteen hundred percent over a short period
of time. I want to pay the money directly to
the people. And Kelly Show.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Last night he was in Pennsylvania talking about affordability. I
wasn't really look, I'm a huge Donald Trump fan. I
thought he probably. I was thinking he was going to
give a more pointed message repeatedly than he ended up doing.
He ended up being as MSNBC excuse me, as MS
now more socialism now. They described it as Donald Trump's
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greatest hits, which is not a bad thing to get
on the stomp and talk about, because he's got some
greatest hits to brag about.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, you know, I don't want to say it's a
problem with Donald Trump, but if you're talking about messaging.
So one of the things that I think may Donald
Trump very successful at life is his optimism and he
is a for me, one of the early believers and
adapters at least that I saw in life of someone
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who could speak things into existence. And we hear a
lot about visualization and affirmations and all those types of things.
That's who Donald Trump just naturally is. Is when I say,
I'm like when he says that Trump Tower is the
greatest apartment building or whatever in New York City. It
wasn't when he built it, but he said it enough
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and then people would say, well, it would be if
it had this, and it would be, and so he
made it into the greatest apartment building in New York City.
What he just says things enough times that he believes it.
I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this,
I'm going to do I'm going to be the president,
and people laughed, laugh all you want. I Am going
to be the next president and there's nothing you can
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do to stop me. So he has this attitude. He
tells you that the economy's great, he's not. He doesn't
want to acknowledge the affordability issue that's happened. And you
would be dead on if you said it was caused
by Joe Biden. When inflation went up eight percent in
twenty twenty one nine percent in twenty twenty two and
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another eight percent in twenty twenty three, So combined, it's
an unparalleled three years. Went up more in three years
that it typically goes up in fifteen to twenty years.
Typically inflation is two to three percent a year. Joe
Biden had fifteen years of inflation over a three year period,
and unfortunately, at the same time, not only were wages flat,
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they were actually going backwards. So yes, there is a
massive affordability problem in America. If your middle class or
lower middle class, your life hurts in an incredible way.
If you're upper if you're rich, you don't care. If
your upper middle class, you're like I can see it.
Trump is taking pride in the fact that gas is
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the lowest it's been in a long long time. There's
three states now below two dollars a gallon. There was one.
This is incredible. I saw this news clip. I don't
even remember which state it was in, but they showed
the news clip from the year I think two thousand,
when people were upset in two thousand that gas had
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hit a dollar seventy a gallon. They were upset and
people were being and they showed that news clip and
they said, these people are back today because this same
gas station is now running gas at a dollar seventy
a gallon today, Yes, a dollar seventy.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
There was one of the dollars sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I mean, that's unfreaking believable and that will have a
long term benefit for all Americans, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And there was a little pushback I heard from surprisingly
somebody on Fox Business out the thousand dollars child bonus
that they're going to be and it's send the big
beautiful bill to start next year having to do with
kids in particular kids that are born. Is the way
that's going to be. I guess set up in like
a five twenty nine plan or whatever the plan number
is going to be, and how it's going to be structed.
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And Scott Best is a big fan of this, and
I get it because you're basically handing out money that
you don't have. And we talked about the fact yesterday
we talked about was setting a mark here for our
outstanding national debt. Even though our budget deficit is going
down under Trump as well, our debt is growing as
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fast as interest will grow. And it's kind of scary
to watch it tick the way it does, second by second.
But I do believe if we're able to and Scott
bess And apparently is a very smart man, and I'm
sure he's talked to sociology sociologists and psychologists about giving
money that would be in the market so that people
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can own some of the market, and that will not
only encourage them, it will instill in them that there
is a long term ramification for investing money wisely and
then holding it and saving it, which is something Americans
don't have a great history of doing. And there must
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be something to that, because I'm seeing more and more
commercials that are targeted specifically, it would seem to African
American females about taking control of your retirement and how
to invest and make sure that you're saving money. So
there's got to be something growing here that's just beneath
the service surface of bubbling, so that maybe there's a
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study out that shows that that is exactly what America
needs and this is a way to help us grow
persons saving money and actually handling their money more wisely.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Financial literacy has been something that has evaded most Americans
for most of my life. And you know, I was
talking new or earlier today about Mackenzie Scott, the lady
who divorced Jeff Bezos back about I don't know, eight
ten years ago now, and she has four percent ownership
of Amazon, which doesn't sound like much, but it makes
her like the fifth richest person in the world. That
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four percent, and she was worth twenty seven billion dollars
I think it was when she got the divorce. She's
since given away twenty billion and today is worth thirty billion.
She gave away ninety percent of the money and is
worth even more today because of investing. Investing is the secret.
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And so if Americans were able to understand, the rich
get richer because they invest in assets, while the poor
get poorer because they continue to buy these liabilities. You
buy something like it's like I remember years ago, who
was it? My mother was telling me a story about
somebody who had won the lottery, and and he's talking
to somebody I guess she knew or something. I can't
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even remember the details of the story, but he wanted
to quote unquote invest in like a ferrari uh huh,
Like you got five hundred thousand dollars, Like what are
you gonna do with that five hundred thousand dollars. We've
got to invest it. I want to invest it in
a ferrari And they're trying to explain to him that's
a liability, that's not an investment. You're purchasing something that's
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going to cost you money over the long run. And
they're saying, invest it in property. And he's like, well,
don't have to pay property taxes. Don't And they're like, yes,
you do pay property taxes, but you can rent that
property out for a profit. You want to be able
to make a profit while it's paying for itself. And
it doesn't have to be just be property. It could
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be stocks, it could be intellectual property. There's all kinds
of things you can invest in that are not liabilities,
that are actually assets. But if you have money in
an asset, that's how you make money, and you make
more money. The tougher the times get, the worse the
economy gets, the more the assets pay off. That's the
way things typically work, and so the rich we'll always
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get richer. And this idea of helping young people learn
that is a very valuable tool. Obviously, it doesn't help
Donald Trump. How does this help Donald Trump? Donald Trump
will be dead before any of these people can collect
on any of this money because it'll be eighteen, well
nineteen years from today. Donald Trump's seventy nine, so the
first he'd be ninety eight years old, the first time
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anybody can benefit from this. And who's complaining about giving
money to people who is not Democrats? Well better democrats.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Her point no. On the Fox Business Network, her point was,
and I couldn't see who was speaking because I was
listening to it just the audio while I was in traffick.
Her point is, we're in debt. We don't have money
to just subsidize people individually. And she was pushing back
on it. But and I get it. I just don't
know the studies. And I'm sure there were studies out there.
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Two examples that I mentioned, there's got to be. And
then the other thing that was mentioned yesterday, because he
keeps touting the fact that the market's up, the markets up.
If you looked at your four oh one K, is
that apparently we're about to set a record with a
number of people who had invested in the four to
one ks obviously for years, but in the past year,
year and a half or however long, they've been able
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to actually hit the million dollar mark. We have like
a record number of what they call moderate millionaires.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, a moderate millionaire would be anybody under five million.
Now because there's so many millionaires in America, it seems
that just about everybody over the age of fifty now
is a millionaire. So it's like I shouldn't say that.
It's like literally twenty seven percent or something of people
over the age of fifty or fifty five are now millionaires,
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which is that's why it's just called an everyday millionaire.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And one of the reasons why they are in some
cases antecdotally speaking, is because they are now still but
they did when the Baby boomers started to pass away
inherit the largest amount of money in the history of currency.
So they were getting money from people who had spent
their life because a lot of them lived either right
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after the Great Depression or during it, spent their life
saving their money, and they had that much money to
hand down. And now these persons are obviously the benefactors
of the lifestyle that their parents had.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, I was talking to somebody just the other day
who literally bought a house for two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars in nineteen ninety five on Long Island. He
just sold that house, sit down two point three million dollars.
He made over two million dollars cash, walked away with
two million in his hands, came to Lake Murray, bought
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a gorgeous estate for seven hundred thousand dollars right, way
better than the crap hole he was living in Along Island,
and put one point three million dollars into his bank account.
He will he's fifty nine, sixty years old, whatever he is,
He's never gonna have to work. He's never gonna have
to worry about money ever again. That money will be invested.
It's not sitting in a savings account. That money's invested
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in the four one ks or whatever else. He will
have plenty of money for the rest of his life
as long as the entire economy doesn't go to hell.
If the entire economy goes to hell, then your cash
is worthless anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah, then you invest
in chickens.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yes, hopefully you've invested into the black powder to protect
your chickens.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yes, I need chicken and guns.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh wait a minute, hold on, speaking of guns, Let's
let's bring in the law man Kelly Nash welcome back
in the studio originally County Sheriff Leon Lie. Good to
see you, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
How are you great to be with this cold outside?
Winners here? Yes, and you are.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Just in the Blithewood Christmas Parade. And my wife, who
was in the float in front of you, said truck.
She was in a big old army truck and I'm
out there walking.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You were walking.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But she said that from her vantage point, she was
shocked at the amount of female attention that Leon Lott gets.
She says, the women of Blathwood were going. It was
like beatle Mania. They're screaming and that's my god. I
love Leon.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's fun. That been in the Blackfood Parade, and it was
in the Columbia Parade the day before. I was honored
to be the Grand Marshal in the Columbia Parade. That's wow. Yeah,
I walked in that one. Also. I walk in parades.
I don't ride in the vehicles and back of trucks
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'll tell you that's some sort of side shot. You
just took at it right there about riding.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That wasn't her. But that's just something I've always done.
Is I feel like I walk so I can interact
with people a little bit better than riding in a
car convertible and waving at them and doing the little wave.
I go talk to people, see some people I know,
will go give them a hug, kiss a baby, you know,
things like that. That's what you got to do. That's
what you gotta do. But the parades are fun. I
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love going to the parades. Uh and Blackewood is was
a lot of people they had. I'd say Blackwood probably
had more than Downtown Columbia had. Did it really Yeah? Yeah,
that Saturday of the day before was a little bit dreary,
little bit of rain mixed in, so I think that
kept a lot of people in. But b Lifewood was
just cold. It was cold, but they had a good crowd.
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A lot of people showed up for it. So and
Blackwood's always done a great job with the parade. This
is a parade season. Gadson's had their parade, East Owers
had to parade, Lection has had to parade. Everybody's had
to pray. M had to parade for the very first time. Nice.
Everybody's having parades, which is which is good. Gets people out,
that's right. Now.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Everybody and their brother is reporting on this, so I
got to bring it up right now. First, first thing
on the agenda. What the heck happened on on Patrol Live.
It embarrassed Richland County, embarrassed the state.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm not gonna say it's embarrassing when somebody's fighting us
and kicking at us and resistant arrest like this guy
was doing well.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The woman in one of the articles says she almost
threw up watching it. She was so so appalled by
the overreach and the strong armed tactics of Richland County.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I know, it's terrible, and you know what's just awful terrible.
Back in March of this year he fought us then too,
and guess what to inside of my patrol car when
he was finally put in there after he fought the
deputies again. So this this guy's not news of fighting deputies.
He's got a very lengthy record convicted breaking in and
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commit murder and rape in Virginia. Serves some lengthy time,
like seventeen arrests and stuff. You know, the taser did
not work on him. Why did the taser not work
on him? Well, he had mushrooms, which is a luciditic
drug which will give you superhuman powers. We actually found
out out the next the same week we found out
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out when a hospital call us and said we've got
a guide that's been on mushroom in the hospitals and
took his clothes off. He's fighting everybody. It took two
deputies to get him under control. So what people have
seen as a snippet, just a little small part, didn't
see the whole interaction with this six foot four, two
hundred and forty pounds guy high on drugs who were
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fighting our deputies like crazy. No fights are going to
be pretty right, but we don't determine that fight. You know,
he got stopped, he gave he had drugs in his
and had drugs. He gave the drugs up. He was
asking to out of the car. He refused, tried to
shut the door, and then tried to kicking out the
deputies and the fight was on. We had to. You know,
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our job is to arrest someone. It's not just oh,
I'm sorry so, but.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You did say in your press conference, you're going to
have what.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We we do that anytime, anytime there's any use of force,
So it's not just case, it doesn't matter, that's just
routine for us, for the Training Division, our Professional Standards,
and the Citizens of Ivory Council. They review all uses
of for so this is nothing to abnormal or different
that we're doing for this case. Again, you got haters
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out there who are going to hate cops for anything
that you do. And again a fight looked back. I mean,
he's he has got his arm wrapped around the head
rest and he's big and he's strong, and he won't
let go. We couldn't get him. It took a while
to get him out. Taser Hay's interffective. They're pulling on
his legs, he's kicking his pants come off. Oh my god,
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his pants come off. Isn't that terrible dignity? Yeah, we
put his pants back on once we got him under control.
But he had a gun in the car too, which
is a convicted felon, So he can't have a gun
in the car. Uh So people need to look at
the whole picture, the whole video, and and not just
gauge it on one thing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So you're saying that driving an automobile and then being
pulled for whatever reason, being asked to step out of
the car.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Actually already have the drugs and showed the drugs and
showed the drugs the mushrooms to the deputy, which is illegal.
He gives them to the deputy. Warry.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Isn't it my right to be able to drive a car.
I'm a I'm a citizen, I'm an independent. Is it
my right or is that a privilege?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's a privilege. It is a privilege to drive that car.
And you got to drive it legally, and you can't
drive it in paired and you can't be a convicted
fela with a gun. You have to get show your
identification if you're driving a vehicles and if you ask
you get out of the car, you have to get
out of the car. He's the one that escalated this people.
I've heard people said, well, y'all didn't do anything to
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de escalate it. I don't know what you can do.
Please sir, please, please, please pretty please. And I mean
they kept asking telling him to get out of the car.
And a fight never is going to look good. And
when you have to go hands on with someone, and
then yes, that's now, I will say this. He's got
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a big old goose egg on his forehead that didn't
come from us, didn't come from us this time, it
didn't come from us. In March, he has a permanent
goose egg on his forehead. I don't know where he
got it, but we didn't call it that of course.
Oh god, my god, look at him. He's got a
gooseleag on his head. They beat him so bad. He's
got a big go not on his head. That didn't
come from us.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Interesting. So you know what I'm hearing is that when
people are pulled over, you have to submit to law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's show driver and yes and so.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Like we see these videos now where like with ice
and Border Patrol, where people are refusing to show their
IDs and then the law enforcement ends up dragging them
out of the vehicles. That's actually what law enforcement is
supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We're supposed to do. I mean, it's simple, show your
ID and get out of the car when you're requested
to get out by law enforcement. As Jonathan said, it's
a privilege to drive a vehicle. And if you're operating
a vehicle on the streets and roadways of South Carolina,
you have to show your driver's license. Period. That's no
if and he's about it, you go get your driver's license.
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I think that's one of the probably one of the
questions on the tab and stuff that everybody knows that.
But you know, you have people who when they're impaired
act differently. You have people when they're impaired, we'll have
superhuman strength. And again, I'm gonna go back. He's well
over six foot tall and two hundred and forty pounds.
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He's not you know, these deputies were no big They
wasn't Gary Brown wasn't there with him. There wasn't somebody
big and muscular like that. But it didn't matter. He
actively resisted and you can see him kicking out the
deputies and actively resistant not to get out of that car.
And we eventually got him out of the car, got
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him handcuffed, gave him, took care of him, had to
take him to the hospitals and make sure he was okay.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Has anyone ever fought the law and they won? Or
is it always the law wins?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Eventually the law is going to win.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That's what I was thinking. You can fight the law
you want, but you're eventually gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Eventually gonna lose. And you know, and he kept saying,
what are you stopping me for? What do you get
me for he'd already gave them the illegal drugs. He
knew what he had done. But he also knew he
had a gun in the car by him, He had
a gun right next to him. He knew that he
was not supposed to have that gun also, So yeah, again, people, whatever,
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we'll go through exactly what we normally go through with
every case. We've released some information, we'll you know, need
to release anymore, he says. But then you know, not
even a couple of days later, you have somebody who
is high on mushrooms and the hospital goes crazy and
we have to go hand on with them. Also, that happens.
That's that's part of this job, is that we arrest
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people and hopefully we don't have to fight anybody, but
if we have to, then we have to. And there's
never going to be a pretty fight.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No. Most of our citizens, thankfully don't have a criminal
fault process. So we read articles and we go way amute,
why would you do that? So I have to ask
this question, why did we have a string of burglaries
and dentist office money money? There's money in dentist office.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Any money in dentist's office. Not anymore cash cash, not anymore,
but there would did some of our dentists tend to
leave money into their offices. And then we had this
guy that was going around breaking in multiple dentist offices,
and I think we're up to maybe nine or ten
that he broke into, but we caught him again. We'll
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catch him. He leaves, he leaves some blood there and
he's a convicted fell into and he's in the system,
so we're resting.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay. Well, then I realized that there would be an
opportunity for cash to be at a dentist office.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, there is, there's there's there's there's cash. And people
didn't think he wasn't stealing drugs. He was getting getting cash, gotcha.
I was surprised it didn't help him out to get
bond because he already blew all the cash.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I was surprised that people would rob post offices. Are
you guys involved with the eau Claire post Office.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We're not doing that case City Columbia and the Postal inspectors.
Are there's money in post office too? In old days,
post office used to be robbed a lot. Yeah, but yeah,
that's that's money.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That I understand.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But Dennis's office and people people pay money for get
dental work done. Not everybody deals with credit cards. Interesting,
so there's there's cash now.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I don't know if these if the Holidays is associated
with an article that I continue to read, not just
from your office, but from other law enforcement officers that
apparently there's a lot of scamming.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Damn on.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And one of them, me E, said that they were
calling me because they were with the Richland County Sheriff's
Department and I was supposed to show up for a
federal jewelry call. There's a tip. And then I asked him,
I said, well, can you let me ask you a question?
What is the name of the sheriff of Richland County?
And he said, oh, wait a minute, and then he
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came back on. He said, my headphones went out for
a second. What was your question? Who's the sheriff of
Richly Counting And he gave me this answer, that would
be mister Leon Lott. Nobody who the hell calls Leon Lott?
Mister he's been known as sheriff or commander for the
past fifty years.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well, it took him a little time to google to
find out what it is and it does. The scams
are just widespread right now, and unfortunately, we've had quite
a few people that's been victimized by him. I know
one individual lost twenty thousand dollars to them and was
about to lose twenty thousand more before he made a
phone call to me to ask me or if I
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was really looking for him. And he's a friend of mine.
Oh no, he's a friend of mine, somebody I know
and he uh. And they tend to prey on senior
citizens a lot too, you know. So the scams that
you know you're getting is that you didn't show up
for jerry duty, or you were a witness in a
case and you didn't show up, and you know, Deputy
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so and so's here gonna come pick you up unless
you get the judges already in seat of fine to you.
And people people believe it, and they can and they'll
use real names that they can google my name, they
can google other people who work at the Shriff's parment. Dies,
isn't it? And they can also were called spoof their
phone the shows where uh you call the ID, we'll
say Rich and Kenny Shriff's apartment when it's really not.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, It's some scary times that we live in with
these digital breakthroughs and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But still hit AI on This is two AI is
being used to You've actually taken my voice from press
conferences and used it through AI to be part of
these scams too, So some people do recognize my voice.
So you gotta be real. What should we do?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Call the Richmond County you call it rich.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
And Kenny Shriff's partment. But I also realize this, if
I got a warn on you, I ain't gonna call
you and tell you I got a war, got a war,
We're just gonna kick your going in about four o'clock
in the morning and tasion put you in jail on mushrooms.
We're not gonna I'm not gonna call you until you
have a warn on you. And again, Shares Department. Local
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agencies don't have anything to do with federal court, anything
to do with federal So that's a tip off. These
stupid people making these scams hadn't realized that yet.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
But these scams that we're talking about, they're the new thing,
but the old thing still works, where people are robbing
people and drawing parking lot and you're always telling people
especially around the holidays. Be on the lookout, be aware
of your surroundings, keep an eye on who's around you.
And nowadays you got to watch your porch too.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You have porch pirates full of blast and you got
porch by. Everybody's on ordered stuff. Everybody's Jonathan know you
ain't done no shopping. You'll just order it in order
and have it delivered to your house.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Sally's got ten boxes out there.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And we tend to leave them there, and the porch
pirates just follow the truck around and when the EPs
man drops it off and pulls off, whoever it is
steals them goes get and they don't care what it is.
You know, they'll open it up and it may be
you know, some tidy whities that Jonathan's over don't fit them.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I like multi colors, so.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You know they won't use them. They'll throw them away.
But they still whatever's left on the porch.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I know you've seen the porch pirates where they pick
up the exploiting packages. If I had time just to
play around and I made an exploding package, because a
lot of these people are falling off of the porches
on the concrete. I mean they look like get injured.
Not a shame, yeah, but is there a way for
me to get get sued in fact by if I
cause an injury for someone, because I.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Sued for anything that's right now, win win in the lawsuit.
Maybe against you, maybe a different story. But you can't
use anything that's deadly forced, Like you can't fix a
gun up to shoot them. But I've seen exploding paintballs
and paint cans fall off and stuff like that and
mark them up. I think that's cool. I think that's cove,
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says the sheriff. I love it.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I love it well again, you know, I know this
is our last discussion before twenty twenty six. Any New
Year's warnings or New Year's salutations.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Now, I think again, We've We've done a great year
working together. We've solved every murder that we've had. We
had three murders you were talking about the dentist's office
is getting broken in during that same period of time
we had that. We had three murders, three separate murders.
We solved every one of them. We do not have
a murder in Richland County in the last three years
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that we haven't solved. That's us and the community working together.
So you know, you Jonas you talked earlier about how
embarrassed people were, you know, those few just attractors out there.
We have so many more people that support us, and
people are fed up with crime, so the community helps
us soft crime. So you know, it's been a good
year and I think it'll continue to be a good
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year because people are sick and tired of crime. They
just they're sick of it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
You'll love this. And that scam phone call. After he
came back and told me your name was mister leon Ed,
I said, oh, okay, that's okay. Well, let me ask
you this. Ask him this question, win is what date
is the end of the year awards banquet for the
Richland County Sheriff's Department. And he said to me, sir,
(28:16):
I'm going to need you to stay focused on the
questions that I'm asking you and repeat the information after me.
And that's when it dawned on me. He's recording my
voice like he was recording yours, and he couldn't tell
me when the awards bank what was coming up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Well again AI has got some good uses, but it's
also being used in bad ways too. Yeah, So but
it just go back to you, Kelly. It's been a
good year in a lot of ways. I think we've
made a lot of progress getting parents to be parents.
You know, we've held I thank you, seven or eight
parents we've arrested. But what the positive out of that
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is is we've had so many more parents call up
and are you service and say, look, I need help
with my child. Can you help me? I need to
be part of a parent support group. So that's that's
what the goal was was to make sure that we
had parents being parents. And fortunately it took some of
us lock some of them up, but this got the
positive results, which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
By the way, can you tell me when is the
end of the year awards banquet now? At the Christmas party,
the awards.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Banquet, it is always the last Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's right. And if you'd like to be a part
of that in that you if you're a business or
if you're a private citizen and you like to make
a donation to the Recent County Sheriff's Foundation, which is
separate from the Sheriff's office correct and collects all the
money to make sure that we answer correctly to the
Secretary of State's office, and yes we're on the Angel List.
So the money that you give gives goes directly to
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the deputies. There you go.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
There's no overhead, and Jonathan can talk about it because
Johnathan's been on our board for many, many many years
and he knows that nobody on the board gets any money.
There's no overhead, there's no ministrative calls than every penny
that people donate to the Sheriff's Department and go to
the foundation, it just straight to the deputies that are
in need. The ones we've recognized with scholarships. This year,
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We've got ten deputies that are continuing their education and
are getting scholarships. We recognize those who've done outstanding jobs
doing the year and performances, so you know, it's the
time to recognize this. And the foundation pays for pays
for all of that, so it is it's not a part.
It's an awards banquet and we give out lots lots
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of awards, and almost every ward that we give out
its name for our deputy that we've lost at the
Sheriff's Department. You know, the Joe Police Award, the Ryan
Raw Award, et cetera. And you know the Donnie Weishton
Athlete of the Year award. All of these are our deputies,
are volunteers that we head at the Sheriff's Department that
we lost and we remember them that way. We recognize
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our retirees, we recognize our ones that we have lost
doing the year. So it is an awards banquet. It's
not a Christmas party. It's an awards banquet.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Thank you for your service stand for this year, and
we continue praying that you will be at the originally
county Sheriff's coop. I know you've set a record as
being the sheriff for the longest. Now we're going to
go for you setting a record as being the longest
serving sheriff in the history of the United States, because
we don't ever see you step down.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
No plans to do that. I still enjoy it. Kelly
was talking about me walking in the parade. One of
the reason I walk and paryed is that I think
that shows people that I'm physically able to do stuff
like that. So I mean laws, God's blessed me with
a good mind and a good body, and as long
as I keep that and it's fun and I enjoy
every minute of it.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Now, ladies agree in the body.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I had a lady last week reminding me of a
parade that you were in where you were marching in
high heels raising money for I think it was breastcatcher awareness.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
No, that's a walk a mile of my shoes. That
is for pathways to heal, and that's for sexual assault victims.
Let me tell them. Became high heels hurt too, I said,
you look good. I might look good in my feet
hurt because I did walk a whole mile and some
big oo stiletto heels. I don't see how women do that,
my lord, I had great appreciation for ladies who can
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do stuff in them high heels. You get your calves
in shape, won't It will get your calves in shape. Absolutely,
squeeze your toes carefully. All thank you for your service. Hurt,
All right, thank you' all
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan Rush, before
the Big Beautiful Bill, our healthcare system was a disaster.
It is this functional, and Democrats have got to deal
with the fact.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Kelly Nash, you know that insurance company stocks have gone
up sixteen, seventeen, eighteen hundred percent over a short period
of time. I want to pay the money directly to
the people. And Kelly Show.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Last night he was in Pennsylvania talking about affordability. I
wasn't really look, I'm a huge Donald Trump fan. I
thought he probably. I was thinking he was going to
give a more pointed message repeatedly than he ended up doing.
He ended up being as MSNBC excuse me, as MS
now more socialism now. They described it as Donald Trump's
(00:47):
greatest hits, which is not a bad thing to get
on the stomp and talk about, because he's got some
greatest hits to brag about.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, you know, I don't want to say it's a
problem with Donald Trump, but if you're talking about messaging.
So one of the things that I think may Donald
Trump very successful at life is his optimism and he
is a for me, one of the early believers and
adapters at least that I saw in life of someone
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who could speak things into existence. And we hear a
lot about visualization and affirmations and all those types of things.
That's who Donald Trump just naturally is. Is when I say,
I'm like when he says that Trump Tower is the
greatest apartment building or whatever in New York City. It
wasn't when he built it, but he said it enough
(01:36):
and then people would say, well, it would be if
it had this, and it would be, and so he
made it into the greatest apartment building in New York City.
What he just says things enough times that he believes it.
I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this,
I'm going to do I'm going to be the president,
and people laughed, laugh all you want. I Am going
to be the next president and there's nothing you can
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do to stop me. So he has this attitude. He
tells you that the economy's great, he's not. He doesn't
want to acknowledge the affordability issue that's happened. And you
would be dead on if you said it was caused
by Joe Biden. When inflation went up eight percent in
twenty twenty one nine percent in twenty twenty two and
(02:18):
another eight percent in twenty twenty three, So combined, it's
an unparalleled three years. Went up more in three years
that it typically goes up in fifteen to twenty years.
Typically inflation is two to three percent a year. Joe
Biden had fifteen years of inflation over a three year period,
and unfortunately, at the same time, not only were wages flat,
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they were actually going backwards. So yes, there is a
massive affordability problem in America. If your middle class or
lower middle class, your life hurts in an incredible way.
If you're upper if you're rich, you don't care. If
your upper middle class, you're like I can see it.
Trump is taking pride in the fact that gas is
(03:05):
the lowest it's been in a long long time. There's
three states now below two dollars a gallon. There was one.
This is incredible. I saw this news clip. I don't
even remember which state it was in, but they showed
the news clip from the year I think two thousand,
when people were upset in two thousand that gas had
(03:29):
hit a dollar seventy a gallon. They were upset and
people were being and they showed that news clip and
they said, these people are back today because this same
gas station is now running gas at a dollar seventy
a gallon today, Yes, a dollar seventy.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
There was one of the dollars sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I mean, that's unfreaking believable and that will have a
long term benefit for all Americans, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And there was a little pushback I heard from surprisingly
somebody on Fox Business out the thousand dollars child bonus
that they're going to be and it's send the big
beautiful bill to start next year having to do with
kids in particular kids that are born. Is the way
that's going to be. I guess set up in like
a five twenty nine plan or whatever the plan number
is going to be, and how it's going to be structed.
(04:16):
And Scott Best is a big fan of this, and
I get it because you're basically handing out money that
you don't have. And we talked about the fact yesterday
we talked about was setting a mark here for our
outstanding national debt. Even though our budget deficit is going
down under Trump as well, our debt is growing as
(04:38):
fast as interest will grow. And it's kind of scary
to watch it tick the way it does, second by second.
But I do believe if we're able to and Scott
bess And apparently is a very smart man, and I'm
sure he's talked to sociology sociologists and psychologists about giving
money that would be in the market so that people
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can own some of the market, and that will not
only encourage them, it will instill in them that there
is a long term ramification for investing money wisely and
then holding it and saving it, which is something Americans
don't have a great history of doing. And there must
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be something to that, because I'm seeing more and more
commercials that are targeted specifically, it would seem to African
American females about taking control of your retirement and how
to invest and make sure that you're saving money. So
there's got to be something growing here that's just beneath
the service surface of bubbling, so that maybe there's a
(05:42):
study out that shows that that is exactly what America
needs and this is a way to help us grow
persons saving money and actually handling their money more wisely.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Financial literacy has been something that has evaded most Americans
for most of my life. And you know, I was
talking new or earlier today about Mackenzie Scott, the lady
who divorced Jeff Bezos back about I don't know, eight
ten years ago now, and she has four percent ownership
of Amazon, which doesn't sound like much, but it makes
her like the fifth richest person in the world. That
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four percent, and she was worth twenty seven billion dollars
I think it was when she got the divorce. She's
since given away twenty billion and today is worth thirty billion.
She gave away ninety percent of the money and is
worth even more today because of investing. Investing is the secret.
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And so if Americans were able to understand, the rich
get richer because they invest in assets, while the poor
get poorer because they continue to buy these liabilities. You
buy something like it's like I remember years ago, who
was it? My mother was telling me a story about
somebody who had won the lottery, and and he's talking
to somebody I guess she knew or something. I can't
(07:03):
even remember the details of the story, but he wanted
to quote unquote invest in like a ferrari uh huh,
Like you got five hundred thousand dollars, Like what are
you gonna do with that five hundred thousand dollars. We've
got to invest it. I want to invest it in
a ferrari And they're trying to explain to him that's
a liability, that's not an investment. You're purchasing something that's
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going to cost you money over the long run. And
they're saying, invest it in property. And he's like, well,
don't have to pay property taxes. Don't And they're like, yes,
you do pay property taxes, but you can rent that
property out for a profit. You want to be able
to make a profit while it's paying for itself. And
it doesn't have to be just be property. It could
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be stocks, it could be intellectual property. There's all kinds
of things you can invest in that are not liabilities,
that are actually assets. But if you have money in
an asset, that's how you make money, and you make
more money. The tougher the times get, the worse the
economy gets, the more the assets pay off. That's the
way things typically work, and so the rich we'll always
(08:08):
get richer. And this idea of helping young people learn
that is a very valuable tool. Obviously, it doesn't help
Donald Trump. How does this help Donald Trump? Donald Trump
will be dead before any of these people can collect
on any of this money because it'll be eighteen, well
nineteen years from today. Donald Trump's seventy nine, so the
first he'd be ninety eight years old, the first time
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anybody can benefit from this. And who's complaining about giving
money to people who is not Democrats? Well better democrats.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Her point no. On the Fox Business Network, her point was,
and I couldn't see who was speaking because I was
listening to it just the audio while I was in traffick.
Her point is, we're in debt. We don't have money
to just subsidize people individually. And she was pushing back
on it. But and I get it. I just don't
know the studies. And I'm sure there were studies out there.
(09:00):
Two examples that I mentioned, there's got to be. And
then the other thing that was mentioned yesterday, because he
keeps touting the fact that the market's up, the markets up.
If you looked at your four oh one K, is
that apparently we're about to set a record with a
number of people who had invested in the four to
one ks obviously for years, but in the past year,
year and a half or however long, they've been able
(09:20):
to actually hit the million dollar mark. We have like
a record number of what they call moderate millionaires.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Well, a moderate millionaire would be anybody under five million.
Now because there's so many millionaires in America, it seems
that just about everybody over the age of fifty now
is a millionaire. So it's like I shouldn't say that.
It's like literally twenty seven percent or something of people
over the age of fifty or fifty five are now millionaires,
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which is that's why it's just called an everyday millionaire.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And one of the reasons why they are in some
cases antecdotally speaking, is because they are now still but
they did when the Baby boomers started to pass away
inherit the largest amount of money in the history of currency.
So they were getting money from people who had spent
their life because a lot of them lived either right
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after the Great Depression or during it, spent their life
saving their money, and they had that much money to
hand down. And now these persons are obviously the benefactors
of the lifestyle that their parents had.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, I was talking to somebody just the other day
who literally bought a house for two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars in nineteen ninety five on Long Island. He
just sold that house, sit down two point three million dollars.
He made over two million dollars cash, walked away with
two million in his hands, came to Lake Murray, bought
(10:53):
a gorgeous estate for seven hundred thousand dollars right, way
better than the crap hole he was living in Along Island,
and put one point three million dollars into his bank account.
He will he's fifty nine, sixty years old, whatever he is,
He's never gonna have to work. He's never gonna have
to worry about money ever again. That money will be invested.
It's not sitting in a savings account. That money's invested
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in the four one ks or whatever else. He will
have plenty of money for the rest of his life
as long as the entire economy doesn't go to hell.
If the entire economy goes to hell, then your cash
is worthless anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah, then you invest
in chickens.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yes, hopefully you've invested into the black powder to protect
your chickens.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yes, I need chicken and guns.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh wait a minute, hold on, speaking of guns, Let's
let's bring in the law man Kelly Nash welcome back
in the studio originally County Sheriff Leon Lie. Good to
see you, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
How are you great to be with this cold outside?
Winners here? Yes, and you are.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Just in the Blithewood Christmas Parade. And my wife, who
was in the float in front of you, said truck.
She was in a big old army truck and I'm
out there walking.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You were walking.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But she said that from her vantage point, she was
shocked at the amount of female attention that Leon Lott gets.
She says, the women of Blathwood were going. It was
like beatle Mania. They're screaming and that's my god. I
love Leon.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's fun. That been in the Blackfood Parade, and it was
in the Columbia Parade the day before. I was honored
to be the Grand Marshal in the Columbia Parade. That's wow. Yeah,
I walked in that one. Also. I walk in parades.
I don't ride in the vehicles and back of trucks
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'll tell you that's some sort of side shot. You
just took at it right there about riding.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That wasn't her. But that's just something I've always done.
Is I feel like I walk so I can interact
with people a little bit better than riding in a
car convertible and waving at them and doing the little wave.
I go talk to people, see some people I know,
will go give them a hug, kiss a baby, you know,
things like that. That's what you got to do. That's
what you gotta do. But the parades are fun. I
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love going to the parades. Uh and Blackewood is was
a lot of people they had. I'd say Blackwood probably
had more than Downtown Columbia had. Did it really Yeah? Yeah,
that Saturday of the day before was a little bit dreary,
little bit of rain mixed in, so I think that
kept a lot of people in. But b Lifewood was
just cold. It was cold, but they had a good crowd.
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A lot of people showed up for it. So and
Blackwood's always done a great job with the parade. This
is a parade season. Gadson's had their parade, East Owers
had to parade, Lection has had to parade. Everybody's had
to pray. M had to parade for the very first time. Nice.
Everybody's having parades, which is which is good. Gets people out,
that's right. Now.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Everybody and their brother is reporting on this, so I
got to bring it up right now. First, first thing
on the agenda. What the heck happened on on Patrol Live.
It embarrassed Richland County, embarrassed the state.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm not gonna say it's embarrassing when somebody's fighting us
and kicking at us and resistant arrest like this guy
was doing well.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The woman in one of the articles says she almost
threw up watching it. She was so so appalled by
the overreach and the strong armed tactics of Richland County.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I know, it's terrible, and you know what's just awful terrible.
Back in March of this year he fought us then too,
and guess what to inside of my patrol car when
he was finally put in there after he fought the
deputies again. So this this guy's not news of fighting deputies.
He's got a very lengthy record convicted breaking in and
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commit murder and rape in Virginia. Serves some lengthy time,
like seventeen arrests and stuff. You know, the taser did
not work on him. Why did the taser not work
on him? Well, he had mushrooms, which is a luciditic
drug which will give you superhuman powers. We actually found
out out the next the same week we found out
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out when a hospital call us and said we've got
a guide that's been on mushroom in the hospitals and
took his clothes off. He's fighting everybody. It took two
deputies to get him under control. So what people have
seen as a snippet, just a little small part, didn't
see the whole interaction with this six foot four, two
hundred and forty pounds guy high on drugs who were
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fighting our deputies like crazy. No fights are going to
be pretty right, but we don't determine that fight. You know,
he got stopped, he gave he had drugs in his
and had drugs. He gave the drugs up. He was
asking to out of the car. He refused, tried to
shut the door, and then tried to kicking out the
deputies and the fight was on. We had to. You know,
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our job is to arrest someone. It's not just oh,
I'm sorry so, but.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You did say in your press conference, you're going to
have what.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We we do that anytime, anytime there's any use of force,
So it's not just case, it doesn't matter, that's just
routine for us, for the Training Division, our Professional Standards,
and the Citizens of Ivory Council. They review all uses
of for so this is nothing to abnormal or different
that we're doing for this case. Again, you got haters
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out there who are going to hate cops for anything
that you do. And again a fight looked back. I mean,
he's he has got his arm wrapped around the head
rest and he's big and he's strong, and he won't
let go. We couldn't get him. It took a while
to get him out. Taser Hay's interffective. They're pulling on
his legs, he's kicking his pants come off. Oh my god,
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his pants come off. Isn't that terrible dignity? Yeah, we
put his pants back on once we got him under control.
But he had a gun in the car too, which
is a convicted felon, So he can't have a gun
in the car. Uh So people need to look at
the whole picture, the whole video, and and not just
gauge it on one thing.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So you're saying that driving an automobile and then being
pulled for whatever reason, being asked to step out of
the car.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Actually already have the drugs and showed the drugs and
showed the drugs the mushrooms to the deputy, which is illegal.
He gives them to the deputy. Warry.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Isn't it my right to be able to drive a car.
I'm a I'm a citizen, I'm an independent. Is it
my right or is that a privilege?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That's a privilege. It is a privilege to drive that car.
And you got to drive it legally, and you can't
drive it in paired and you can't be a convicted
fela with a gun. You have to get show your
identification if you're driving a vehicles and if you ask
you get out of the car, you have to get
out of the car. He's the one that escalated this people.
I've heard people said, well, y'all didn't do anything to
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de escalate it. I don't know what you can do.
Please sir, please, please, please pretty please. And I mean
they kept asking telling him to get out of the car.
And a fight never is going to look good. And
when you have to go hands on with someone, and
then yes, that's now, I will say this. He's got
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a big old goose egg on his forehead that didn't
come from us, didn't come from us this time, it
didn't come from us. In March, he has a permanent
goose egg on his forehead. I don't know where he
got it, but we didn't call it that of course.
Oh god, my god, look at him. He's got a
gooseleag on his head. They beat him so bad. He's
got a big go not on his head. That didn't
come from us.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Interesting. So you know what I'm hearing is that when
people are pulled over, you have to submit to law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's show driver and yes and so.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Like we see these videos now where like with ice
and Border Patrol, where people are refusing to show their
IDs and then the law enforcement ends up dragging them
out of the vehicles. That's actually what law enforcement is
supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We're supposed to do. I mean, it's simple, show your
ID and get out of the car when you're requested
to get out by law enforcement. As Jonathan said, it's
a privilege to drive a vehicle. And if you're operating
a vehicle on the streets and roadways of South Carolina,
you have to show your driver's license. Period. That's no
if and he's about it, you go get your driver's license.
(18:57):
I think that's one of the probably one of the
questions on the tab and stuff that everybody knows that.
But you know, you have people who when they're impaired
act differently. You have people when they're impaired, we'll have
superhuman strength. And again, I'm gonna go back. He's well
over six foot tall and two hundred and forty pounds.
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He's not you know, these deputies were no big They
wasn't Gary Brown wasn't there with him. There wasn't somebody
big and muscular like that. But it didn't matter. He
actively resisted and you can see him kicking out the
deputies and actively resistant not to get out of that car.
And we eventually got him out of the car, got
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him handcuffed, gave him, took care of him, had to
take him to the hospitals and make sure he was okay.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Has anyone ever fought the law and they won? Or
is it always the law wins?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Eventually the law is going to win.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That's what I was thinking. You can fight the law
you want, but you're eventually gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Eventually gonna lose. And you know, and he kept saying,
what are you stopping me for? What do you get
me for he'd already gave them the illegal drugs. He
knew what he had done. But he also knew he
had a gun in the car by him, He had
a gun right next to him. He knew that he
was not supposed to have that gun also, So yeah, again, people, whatever,
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we'll go through exactly what we normally go through with
every case. We've released some information, we'll you know, need
to release anymore, he says. But then you know, not
even a couple of days later, you have somebody who
is high on mushrooms and the hospital goes crazy and
we have to go hand on with them. Also, that happens.
That's that's part of this job, is that we arrest
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people and hopefully we don't have to fight anybody, but
if we have to, then we have to. And there's
never going to be a pretty fight.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No. Most of our citizens, thankfully don't have a criminal
fault process. So we read articles and we go way amute,
why would you do that? So I have to ask
this question, why did we have a string of burglaries
and dentist office money money? There's money in dentist office.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Any money in dentist's office. Not anymore cash cash, not anymore,
but there would did some of our dentists tend to
leave money into their offices. And then we had this
guy that was going around breaking in multiple dentist offices,
and I think we're up to maybe nine or ten
that he broke into, but we caught him again. We'll
(21:28):
catch him. He leaves, he leaves some blood there and
he's a convicted fell into and he's in the system,
so we're resting.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay. Well, then I realized that there would be an
opportunity for cash to be at a dentist office.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, there is, there's there's there's there's cash. And people
didn't think he wasn't stealing drugs. He was getting getting cash, gotcha.
I was surprised it didn't help him out to get
bond because he already blew all the cash.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I was surprised that people would rob post offices. Are
you guys involved with the eau Claire post Office.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We're not doing that case City Columbia and the Postal inspectors.
Are there's money in post office too? In old days,
post office used to be robbed a lot. Yeah, but yeah,
that's that's money.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That I understand.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But Dennis's office and people people pay money for get
dental work done. Not everybody deals with credit cards. Interesting,
so there's there's cash now.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I don't know if these if the Holidays is associated
with an article that I continue to read, not just
from your office, but from other law enforcement officers that
apparently there's a lot of scamming.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Damn on.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And one of them, me E, said that they were
calling me because they were with the Richland County Sheriff's
Department and I was supposed to show up for a
federal jewelry call. There's a tip. And then I asked him,
I said, well, can you let me ask you a question?
What is the name of the sheriff of Richland County?
And he said, oh, wait a minute, and then he
(22:59):
came back on. He said, my headphones went out for
a second. What was your question? Who's the sheriff of
Richly Counting And he gave me this answer, that would
be mister Leon Lott. Nobody who the hell calls Leon Lott?
Mister he's been known as sheriff or commander for the
past fifty years.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well, it took him a little time to google to
find out what it is and it does. The scams
are just widespread right now, and unfortunately, we've had quite
a few people that's been victimized by him. I know
one individual lost twenty thousand dollars to them and was
about to lose twenty thousand more before he made a
phone call to me to ask me or if I
(23:36):
was really looking for him. And he's a friend of mine.
Oh no, he's a friend of mine, somebody I know
and he uh. And they tend to prey on senior
citizens a lot too, you know. So the scams that
you know you're getting is that you didn't show up
for jerry duty, or you were a witness in a
case and you didn't show up, and you know, Deputy
(23:57):
so and so's here gonna come pick you up unless
you get the judges already in seat of fine to you.
And people people believe it, and they can and they'll
use real names that they can google my name, they
can google other people who work at the Shriff's parment. Dies,
isn't it? And they can also were called spoof their
phone the shows where uh you call the ID, we'll
say Rich and Kenny Shriff's apartment when it's really not.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, It's some scary times that we live in with
these digital breakthroughs and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But still hit AI on This is two AI is
being used to You've actually taken my voice from press
conferences and used it through AI to be part of
these scams too, So some people do recognize my voice.
So you gotta be real. What should we do?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Call the Richmond County you call it rich.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
And Kenny Shriff's partment. But I also realize this, if
I got a warn on you, I ain't gonna call
you and tell you I got a war, got a war,
We're just gonna kick your going in about four o'clock
in the morning and tasion put you in jail on mushrooms.
We're not gonna I'm not gonna call you until you
have a warn on you. And again, Shares Department. Local
(25:03):
agencies don't have anything to do with federal court, anything
to do with federal So that's a tip off. These
stupid people making these scams hadn't realized that yet.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
But these scams that we're talking about, they're the new thing,
but the old thing still works, where people are robbing
people and drawing parking lot and you're always telling people
especially around the holidays. Be on the lookout, be aware
of your surroundings, keep an eye on who's around you.
And nowadays you got to watch your porch too.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You have porch pirates full of blast and you got
porch by. Everybody's on ordered stuff. Everybody's Jonathan know you
ain't done no shopping. You'll just order it in order
and have it delivered to your house.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Sally's got ten boxes out there.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And we tend to leave them there, and the porch
pirates just follow the truck around and when the EPs
man drops it off and pulls off, whoever it is
steals them goes get and they don't care what it is.
You know, they'll open it up and it may be
you know, some tidy whities that Jonathan's over don't fit them.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I like multi colors, so.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You know they won't use them. They'll throw them away.
But they still whatever's left on the porch.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I know you've seen the porch pirates where they pick
up the exploiting packages. If I had time just to
play around and I made an exploding package, because a
lot of these people are falling off of the porches
on the concrete. I mean they look like get injured.
Not a shame, yeah, but is there a way for
me to get get sued in fact by if I
cause an injury for someone, because I.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Sued for anything that's right now, win win in the lawsuit.
Maybe against you, maybe a different story. But you can't
use anything that's deadly forced, Like you can't fix a
gun up to shoot them. But I've seen exploding paintballs
and paint cans fall off and stuff like that and
mark them up. I think that's cool. I think that's cove,
(26:51):
says the sheriff. I love it.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I love it well again, you know, I know this
is our last discussion before twenty twenty six. Any New
Year's warnings or New Year's salutations.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Now, I think again, We've We've done a great year
working together. We've solved every murder that we've had. We
had three murders you were talking about the dentist's office
is getting broken in during that same period of time
we had that. We had three murders, three separate murders.
We solved every one of them. We do not have
a murder in Richland County in the last three years
(27:28):
that we haven't solved. That's us and the community working together.
So you know, you Jonas you talked earlier about how
embarrassed people were, you know, those few just attractors out there.
We have so many more people that support us, and
people are fed up with crime, so the community helps
us soft crime. So you know, it's been a good
year and I think it'll continue to be a good
(27:50):
year because people are sick and tired of crime. They
just they're sick of it.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
You'll love this. And that scam phone call. After he
came back and told me your name was mister leon Ed,
I said, oh, okay, that's okay. Well, let me ask
you this. Ask him this question, win is what date
is the end of the year awards banquet for the
Richland County Sheriff's Department. And he said to me, sir,
(28:16):
I'm going to need you to stay focused on the
questions that I'm asking you and repeat the information after me.
And that's when it dawned on me. He's recording my
voice like he was recording yours, and he couldn't tell
me when the awards bank what was coming up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Well again AI has got some good uses, but it's
also being used in bad ways too. Yeah, So but
it just go back to you, Kelly. It's been a
good year in a lot of ways. I think we've
made a lot of progress getting parents to be parents.
You know, we've held I thank you, seven or eight
parents we've arrested. But what the positive out of that
(28:53):
is is we've had so many more parents call up
and are you service and say, look, I need help
with my child. Can you help me? I need to
be part of a parent support group. So that's that's
what the goal was was to make sure that we
had parents being parents. And fortunately it took some of
us lock some of them up, but this got the
positive results, which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
By the way, can you tell me when is the
end of the year awards banquet now? At the Christmas party,
the awards.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Banquet, it is always the last Saturday before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's right. And if you'd like to be a part
of that in that you if you're a business or
if you're a private citizen and you like to make
a donation to the Recent County Sheriff's Foundation, which is
separate from the Sheriff's office correct and collects all the
money to make sure that we answer correctly to the
Secretary of State's office, and yes we're on the Angel List.
So the money that you give gives goes directly to
(29:43):
the deputies. There you go.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
There's no overhead, and Jonathan can talk about it because
Johnathan's been on our board for many, many many years
and he knows that nobody on the board gets any money.
There's no overhead, there's no ministrative calls than every penny
that people donate to the Sheriff's Department and go to
the foundation, it just straight to the deputies that are
in need. The ones we've recognized with scholarships. This year,
(30:11):
We've got ten deputies that are continuing their education and
are getting scholarships. We recognize those who've done outstanding jobs
doing the year and performances, so you know, it's the
time to recognize this. And the foundation pays for pays
for all of that, so it is it's not a part.
It's an awards banquet and we give out lots lots
(30:32):
of awards, and almost every ward that we give out
its name for our deputy that we've lost at the
Sheriff's Department. You know, the Joe Police Award, the Ryan
Raw Award, et cetera. And you know the Donnie Weishton
Athlete of the Year award. All of these are our deputies,
are volunteers that we head at the Sheriff's Department that
we lost and we remember them that way. We recognize
(30:55):
our retirees, we recognize our ones that we have lost
doing the year. So it is an awards banquet. It's
not a Christmas party. It's an awards banquet.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Thank you for your service stand for this year, and
we continue praying that you will be at the originally
county Sheriff's coop. I know you've set a record as
being the sheriff for the longest. Now we're going to
go for you setting a record as being the longest
serving sheriff in the history of the United States, because
we don't ever see you step down.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
No plans to do that. I still enjoy it. Kelly
was talking about me walking in the parade. One of
the reason I walk and paryed is that I think
that shows people that I'm physically able to do stuff
like that. So I mean laws, God's blessed me with
a good mind and a good body, and as long
as I keep that and it's fun and I enjoy
every minute of it.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Now, ladies agree in the body.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I had a lady last week reminding me of a
parade that you were in where you were marching in
high heels raising money for I think it was breastcatcher awareness.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
No, that's a walk a mile of my shoes. That
is for pathways to heal, and that's for sexual assault victims.
Let me tell them. Became high heels hurt too, I said,
you look good. I might look good in my feet
hurt because I did walk a whole mile and some
big oo stiletto heels. I don't see how women do that,
my lord, I had great appreciation for ladies who can
(32:18):
do stuff in them high heels. You get your calves
in shape, won't It will get your calves in shape. Absolutely,
squeeze your toes carefully. All thank you for your service. Hurt,
All right, thank you' all
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