The Charlie James Show Podcast

Well, it's time for the 06:00 club. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Let's go to Richard in Dallas.

Richard, you you got some information about, some of those solar panel farms. Right? Well, that's what the chat a minute about. That young man was on the phone a while ago. I'm sure he has a firsthand experience because he said he lost some acreage in his hunt club to a a a a some Solar fire.

Yeah. Installer. Yeah. Okay. And I'm sure the numbers he told out there were true and accurate because he was probably sent in on the meeting of the landowner and the hunt club president, and the landowner said, listen, guys.

This is what's happening. Now I gotta take this deal. The thing about it is the property and I didn't know this. Well, I didn't but I didn't know that this panel wore out in fifteen years. But the problem is, in my opinion, the landowner still owns the land.

They may have got a $2,000,000 upfront payment, but they still I know a guy that But it's leasing land Yeah. To a farm. Okay? Solar farm. He got a big deposit, and he's got about 80 acres, And he gets a check every quarter.

Yeah. And every every 12 months, that goes up 6%. Wow. Okay? Yeah.

6%. That's not bad, man. That's why these other that's why these land owners that own this property, what, 400 acres that we're talking about earlier? That's a lot of money. That's why they wanna get rid of it because it's flat in their own pocket.

Yep. You're right. But they don't realize in fifteen years, if that's true, what they got is a mess on their hands that supposedly is no way to dispose of. Yeah. What are they gonna do?

Just dismantle them, take them all out, and replace them? I don't know. They don't know. They're just gonna move on. They're just gonna move on.

Yeah. You're right. How about that? Appreciate it, Richard. Let's go to Jeff.

He's over in Commerce, Georgia. Jeff, tell us about those solar farms over there, pal. Hey, Charlie. I'm in Comer, Georgia, C 0 M E R. Oh, you're in Comer.

Okay. Great. What's up? Yeah. We we live in Oglethorpe County.

So we just had a situation here where they came in with a solar farm, bought it from a timber company, 3,000 acres. Wow. So where are you gonna put 3,000 acres of solar panels in fifteen years in your landfill? It's gonna be classified as hazardous waste, but that's not the main problem. They they touted us as, oh, it's gonna bring in jobs to your county, which is a very rural county.

Yeah. Yeah. It brought in jobs because I sat down on the road and watched them when they were doing it multiple times. The jobs, the count the the tags were from Texas Yeah. Colorado, Arizona.

We had one job as a security guard on that road, but that's not the main thing. The main thing is the runoff from that solar farm Yeah. Devastated everybody, their farms, their their lakes, their streams, and it's a major environmental problem. Yeah. You're right.

I mean, that water, when it hits those solar panels, where does it go? Yeah. And they took out 3,000 acres Wow. Of pristine, beautiful trees to put up a solar farm. I'm just gonna imagine looking for us?

I'm just gonna imagine since it's Georgia, though those are pine trees. So I'm just kinda wondering. I mean, that's 3,000 acres off the market for all of that really renewable resource that is our trees. This wasn't just pine trees. This was a hardwood forest.

Oh, really? That's even worse. Which even which even made it worse. Yeah. Yeah.

So o Oglethorpe County, Georgia, county seed is Lexington. Somebody wants to give the county commissioner a call and ask him, hey. Would he do that again? I guarantee you, he's screaming about it right now. Yeah.

Probably so. All the jobs all the jobs came from Texas. Such regret. Such regret when they when they chase after that dollar. Jeff, I appreciate it, man.

Thank you so much. That's so you folks out there with that 400 acre solar farm, what's gonna happen to everything around it? It's not gonna be good. It never is. All of this gr ...

I know we talked about it a little bit before, but let's do it again. Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carol South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida all have banned abortion at conception or after six weeks. Well, the South Carolina Supreme Court recently upheld that here in South Carolina. Joining us right now is representative John McCravey, who is, very excited about this bill. Representative McCravey, welcome to the program.

Hope you're doing well. Thank you, Charlie. Thanks for having me on. So it was I mean, that was good news from the Supreme Court, five to zero, upholding it. Right?

It was. And and it was a good common sense opinion. It took them 27 pages to say that if you hear the heartbeat, the baby is protected. So so but but it was a good decision. And, you know, one of the things that the family caucus and I have worked hard on is to make sure we get conservative judges Right.

Who don't don't replace their opinion for our constitution and for for law. Is it let me ask you something. I mean, is are there changes that need to be made to the South Carolina constitution about abortion? You know, that's a that's an issue. We we don't have in South Carolina.

We do not have, that type of those type of laws that they have in California where they just willy nilly change the constitution. We have to have a two thirds vote of both bodies to even get to that. But we're elected and we're supposed to go down there and do what our people elect us to do. And so that's what we we try to do, you know? And and I wanna say this, Charlie, and I I know, you know, I I I was the author of the heartbeat bill originally, and I I authored a lot of the changes to it that that are in there now.

But I wanna say this, the heartbeat bill was never written to be the final bill for South Carolina. The final bill that we wrote for it and represented Magnuson was on the committee, that you had on earlier. He's been a a staunch supporter of life from day one. But but we wrote something called the Human Life Protection Act that is that is still sitting in the house judiciary along with about 10 other good bills. So we've we've got we've got to keep fighting because we're still having 2,000 babies a year aborted for birth control in South Carolina.

Right. So it's it's a time to say, okay. This is great, but we can't stop there. We can't we can't allow that many children to be killed in South Carolina. And so we're gonna continue to fight for that.

I'm never gonna give up fighting for that. You know that, Charlie. Oh, I absolutely know that. So let me ask you something. What is the difference between the bill we have now and the Human Life Protection Act?

The Human Life Protection Act will protect babies in the womb. If if a woman is pregnant, that baby is protected. Mhmm. So it would take it back basically to conception, but but at least it would protect any baby that is in the womb. So now for birth control.

Now, you know, the whether the exceptions come in, that's another issue, by a lot of different things. But but we don't want birth control to be applied to living babies. Like the abortion pill. That's right. And and and all other types as well.

That's right. That's right. Charlie, they they're sending those things in. That's another whole story I could talk about for an hour. Yeah.

But but we have a lot of bad things going on. But but, you know, what I wanna emphasize is let's please get the Human Life Protection Act out of that house judiciary committee along with a lot of other good things that need to come out, like closing the primary is house judiciary. Right. Right choice voting house judiciary. Student privacy act.

Keeping men out of girls' locker room. House judiciary. Punishing preventing parents from being punished from affirming their own biological sex with their child. Yeah. House judiciary.

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I know we talked about it a little bit before, but let's do it again. Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carola South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida all have banned abortion at conception or after six weeks. Well, the South Carolina Supreme Court recently upheld that here in South Carolina. Joining us right now is representative John McCravy, who is, very excited about this bill. Representative McCravy, welcome to the program.

Hope you're doing well. Thank you, Charlie. Thanks for having me on. So it was I mean, that was good news from the Supreme Court, five to zero, upholding it. Right?

It was. And and it was a good common sense opinion. It took them 27 pages to say that if you hear the heartbeat, the baby is protected. So so but but it was a good decision. And, you know, one of the things that the family caucus and I have worked hard on is to make sure we get conservative judges Right.

Who don't don't replace their opinion for our constitution and for for law. Is it let me ask you something. I mean, is are there changes that need to be made to the South Carolina constitution about abortion? You know, that's a that's an issue. We we don't have in South Carolina.

We do not have, that type of those type of laws that they have in California where they just willy nilly change the constitution. We'd have to have a two thirds vote of both bodies to even get to that. But we're elected and we're supposed to go down there and do what our people elect us to do. And so that's what we we try to do, you know? And and I wanna say this, Charlie, and I I know, you know, I I I was the author of the heartbeat bill originally, and I I authored a lot of the changes to it that that are in there now.

But I wanna say this, the heartbeat bill was never written to be the final bill for South Carolina. The final bill that we wrote for it and representative Magnuson was on the committee, that you had on earlier. He's been a a staunch supporter of life from day one. But but we wrote something called the Human Life Protection Act that is that is still sitting in the house judiciary along with about 10 other good bills. So we've we've got to we've got to keep fighting because we're still having 2,000 babies a year aborted for birth control in South Carolina.

Right. So it's it's a time to say, okay. This is great, but we can't stop there. We can't we can't allow that many children to be killed in South Carolina. And so we're gonna continue to fight for that.

I'm never gonna give up fighting for that. You know that, Charlie. Oh, I absolutely know that. So let me ask something. What is the difference between the bill we have now and the Human Life Protection Act?

The Human Life Protection Act would protect babies in the womb. If if a woman is pregnant, that baby is protected. Mhmm. So it would take it back basically to conception, but but at least it would protect any baby that is in the womb. So now for birth control.

Now, you know, the whether the exceptions come in, that's another issue, by a lot of different things. But but we don't want birth control to be applied to living babies. Like the abortion pill? That's right. And and and all other types as well.

That's right. That's right. Charlie, they they're sending those things in. That's another whole story I could talk about for an hour. Yeah.

But but we have a lot of bad things going on. But but, you know, what I wanna emphasize is let's please get the Human Life Protection Act out of that house judiciary committee along with a lot of other good things that need to come out, like closing the primaries, house judiciary Right. Ranked choice voting, house judiciary, student privacy act, keeping men out of girls' lives, house judiciary, punishing preventing parents from being punished from affirming their own biological sex with their child. Yeah. House judiciary.

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Yes, sir. Welcome back to the program. Alright. Idaho, South Dakota, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina all have something in common. They ban abortion at either conception or after six weeks.

Well, the South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld that in the courts. Let's talk with South Carolina state representative Josiah Magnuson, right now. Josiah, welcome to the program. This is a pretty big deal for the Supreme Court. Right?

Thank you, Charlie. Yes. Absolutely. This is a big win. And, you know, I think those that were paying attention knew that we had to uphold it.

You know, this was so important that we, you know, not go with what planned parenthood was saying. Planned parenthood, you know, I think their arguments were just really illogical, but we have, fortunately, a pretty conservative supreme court, now, and they upheld the state law. And, you know, we're gonna continue to protect unborn babies, beginning about six weeks, you know, when the heartbeat can be detected. Yeah. Now they say, you know, planned parenthood's argument was like, yep.

That's not a real that's not really a heartbeat. That's not really a heartbeat. Heart doesn't form until nine weeks is what they were saying. Right? Yeah.

So they're trying to say that the law can only take effect once essentially, the the baby's heart is fully formed, which is around nine weeks. But there is cardiac activity Yeah. Beginning around six weeks. And so that was pretty clear that that was the intent of the law. And this is where it's really important that we have good debate and articulate things correctly when we're talking on the floor of the house because it affects what we call legislative intent.

Mhmm. And that's what the Supreme Court looked at was the legislative intent. What did the legislature intend to do? It's very clear that the that the legislature intended to prohibit abortion as soon as that cardiac activity can be detected because you can hear the heart, you know, beating even though it's not fully formed. You can hear the heart beating beginning at six weeks.

That was what the law, said, and so that was what the Supreme Court upheld. In this article that I'm reading, it says, if the Supreme Court sides with South Carolina, which they did, its decision could pave the way for other registry states to cut Planned Parenthood out of their Medicaid program. Is that the plan? That would be the hope. That's a a court case that's at the federal level right now.

Right. But we haven't seen the results yet. I've been proposing, I think, you know, Charlie, you know, to try to take the planned parent funding out of the state budget. Mhmm. And that's been, you know, not, adopted, unfortunately.

But McMaster has some executive work that he's been doing an executive action to take, Planned Parenthood out from being a Medicaid provider and just say they're they're they're not counted in that system. And so that's been challenging court. So that's what now is gonna come back from the from the US Supreme Court hopefully pretty soon. Right. We're talking about Josiah Magdiss and South Carolina representatives.

So what was the what was the amendment that was put forward? Was it Jordan Pace that that put this forward the other day on the last day of session? So that is something that would have allowed us I'm I'm glad you're bringing this up because that would have allowed us to actually come back and deal with a pro life bill again in the off season. We have something called sine die Right. Which is the law that determines wha ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the America is back. Yes, sir. Welcome back to the program. Alright. Idaho, South Dakota, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina all have something in common.

They ban abortion at either conception or after six weeks. Well, the South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld that in the courts. Let's talk with South Carolina state representative Josiah Magnuson, right now. Josiah, welcome to the program. This is a pretty big deal for the Supreme Court.

Right? Thank you, Charlie. Yes. Absolutely. This is a big win.

And, you know, I think those that were paying attention knew that we had to uphold it. You know, this was so important that we, you know, not go with what planned parenthood was saying. Planned parenthood, you know, I think their arguments were just really illogical, but we have fortunately a pretty conservative supreme court, now, and they upheld the state law. And, you know, we're gonna continue to protect unborn babies, beginning about six weeks, you know, when the heartbeat can be detected. Yeah.

Now they say, you know, planned parenthood's argument was like, yep. That's not a real that's not really a heartbeat. That's not really a heartbeat. Heart dog doesn't form until nine weeks is what they were saying. Right?

Yeah. So they're trying to say that the law can only take effect once essentially, the the baby's heart is fully formed, which is around nine weeks. But there is cardiac activity Yeah. Beginning around six weeks. And so that was pretty clear that that was the intent of the law.

And this is where it's really important that we have good debate and articulate things correctly when we're talking on the floor of the house because it affects what we call legislative intent. Mhmm. And that's what the Supreme Court looked at was the legislative intent. What did the legislature intend to do? It's very clear that the that the legislature intended to prohibit abortion as soon as that cardiac activity can be detected because you can hear the heart, you know, beating even though it's not fully formed.

You can hear the heart beating beginning at six weeks. That was what the law, said, and so that was what the Supreme Court upheld. In this article that I'm reading, it says, if the Supreme Court sides with South Carolina, which they did, its decision could pave the way for other registry states to cut Planned Parenthood out of their Medicaid program. Is that the plan? That would be the hope.

That's a a court case that's at the federal level right now. Right. But we haven't seen the results yet. I've been proposing, I think, you know, Charlie, you know, to try to take the Planned Parenthood funding out of the state budget. Mhmm.

And that's been, you know, not, adopted, unfortunately. But McMaster has some executive work that he's been doing, an executive action to take, Planned Parenthood out from being a Medicaid provider and just say they're they're they're not counted in that system. And so that's been challenging court. So that's what now is gonna come back from the from the US Supreme Court hopefully pretty soon. Right.

We're talking about Josiah Magnus and South Carolina representatives. So what was the what was the amendment that was put forward? Was it Jordan Pace that that put this forward the other day on the last day of session? So that is something that would have allowed us I'm I'm glad you're bringing this up because that would have allowed us to actually come back and deal with a pro life bill again in the off season. We have something called sine die Right.

Which is the law that determines what topics can be addressed when the legislature is not technically in session. Mhmm. And our position my position, the Free ...

And welcome to the program on your Wednesday afternoon. Glad to have you along with us. Well, there's been a lot of talk today about the Greenville County budget and how it's going to affect Greenville County schools. Well, I figured we would go right to the horse's mouth, so to speak, and talk with the chairman of the Greenville County Council. Benton Blunt is joining us.

Benton, welcome to the program. Hope you're doing well. I'm doing pretty well, but I'm glad you said from the horse's mouth, because I have two feet pulled, and that's what I feel like today. Oh, boy. I bet.

Yeah. Well, thanks for joining us, and fighting through the pain there. So what is going on with the budget, and and how is it affecting the Greenville County Schools? Alright. I'll try to make this as quick as I can, but it's pretty complex.

So from a 30,000 foot view, the new upcoming Greenville County budget, lot of different things happening that people seen in the past. We're going to a one year budget, so there's no more two year budgets. It's just the fiscal year 2026. Right. We have a 1.5 reduction in property taxes, which is a mandate from the new members of council who came in, under that mandate.

We have increased our roads budget from 13,000,000 to 40,000,000, which puts us up there where we're supposed to be or at least close, to Charleston County and some of the other counties like that. We're fully funding our public safety through our sheriff's department, EMS, and other services. But the way that we got to this place was from a unique situation with Filo agreements. And Filos are obviously where, new manufacturing jobs come to Greenville County. In the first five years, if they don't go into a Filo agreement, we receive no income at all.

We receive no revenue at all. Yep. But through a Filo, we get money upfront, which is what this program is for and also to to bring high quality jobs to the Upstate. When we started this budget out, I spoke with the administrator, and I asked about how these funds were allocated. And, you know, I said it would be wonderful if we could use this system that's sometimes controversial in the public to do something good with it, which is fund our road system.

And he looked into it and he said, you know what, Benton? We do have the ability to do that, and, let me see what we can do, which brought us to today. Now where the school board comes in, the Greenville County School System does get a portion of these Filos, which I still have a lot of questions as to why this money was ever allocated to them when they operate off residential, and this is solely manufacturing jobs Yeah. Right. Specifically in the southern part of the county.

All that to say, we made those adjustments. We didn't know the specific numbers, but we knew that we would be sitting somewhere around 40,000,000 with the additional c funds we did thankfully receive from the state. We received more state money finally for once, and so that's what totaled the 40,000,000. The estimated amount that would be lost by the school system from reallocating the FELO percentages was at first around 8 to $10,000,000, but we found out as of yesterday, because we just got the numbers back, that it's actually $14,000,000. Along with that, our municipalities would be losing, up to a million dollars.

We have some fire districts that will be losing up to a half a million in the southern part of Greenville County. So that, of course, started a big conversation. School system definitely felt like they were caught, you know, after they had already decided not to increase taxes, they were caught blindsided. Right. While I do take that into account, we we have a job as county council for core funds of govern or Oh, are you there?

Yeah. There you go. I'm sorry. You gotta go back to and and start where you, left off just a few seconds ago as a a core value of county government. Yes.

Our sole responsibility we have core functions of government that we have to ...

And welcome to the program on your Wednesday afternoon. Glad to have you along with us. Well, there's been a lot of talk today about the Greenville County budget and how it's going to affect Greenville County schools. Well, I figured we would go right to the horse's mouth, so to speak, and talk with the chairman of the Greenville County Council. Benton Blunt is joining us.

Benton, welcome to the program. Hope you're doing well. I'm doing pretty well, but I'm glad you said from the horse's mouth, you're ass too peaceful, and that's what I feel like today. Oh, boy. I bet.

Yeah. Well, thanks for joining us, and fighting through the pain there. So what is going on with the budget, and and how is it affecting the Greenville County Schools? Alright. I'll try to make this as quick as I can, but it's pretty complex.

So from a 30,000 foot view, the new upcoming Greenville County budget, a lot of different things happening that people seen in the past. We're going to a one year budget, so there's no more two year budgets. It's just fiscal year '20 '20 '6. Right. We have a 1.5 reduction in property taxes, which is a mandate from the new members of council who came in, under that mandate.

We have increased our roads budget from 13,000,000 to 40,000,000, which puts us up there where we're supposed to be or at least close, to Charleston County and some of the other counties like that. We're fully funding our public safety through our sheriff's department, EMS, and other services. But the way that we got to this place was from a unique situation with Filo agreements. And Filos are obviously where, new manufacturing jobs come to Greenville County. In the first five years, if they don't go into a Filo agreement, we receive no income at all.

We receive no revenue at all. Yeah. But through a Filo, we get money upfront, which is what this program is for and also to to bring high quality jobs to the Upstate. When we started this budget out, I spoke with the administrator, and I asked about how these funds were allocated. And, you know, I said it would be wonderful if we could use this system that sometimes controversial in the public to do something good with it, which is fund our road system.

And he looked into it and said, you know what, Benton? We do have the ability to do that, and, let me see what we can do, which brought us to today. Now where the school board comes in, the Greenville County School System does get a portion of these Filos, which I still have a lot of questions as to why this money was ever allocated to them when they operate off residential, and this is solely manufacturing jobs. Yeah. Right.

In the southern part of the county. All that to say, we made those adjustments. We didn't know the specific numbers, but we knew that we would be sitting somewhere around 40,000,000 with the additional c funds we did thankfully receive from the state. We received more state money finally for once, and so that's what totaled the 40,000,000. The estimated amount that would be lost by the school system from reallocating the FELO percentages was at first around 8 to $10,000,000.

But we found out as of yesterday, because we just got the numbers back, that it's actually $14,000,000. Along with that, our municipalities would be losing, up to a million dollars. We have some fire districts that will be losing up to a half a million in the Southern part of Greenville County. So that, of course, started a big conversation. School system definitely felt like they were caught, you know, after they had already decided not to increase taxes, they were caught blindsided.

And Right. While I do take that into account, we we have a job as county council for core funds of govern or Oh, are you there? There you go. I'm sorry. You gotta go back to and and start where you, left off just a few seconds ago as a a core value of county government.

Yes. Our sole responsibility we have core functions of government that we have to focus on, and one of ...

It's Donald Trump. We're having a lot of fun doing a good show with Charlie. Thank you very much, sir. We really appreciate that. Let's go to the PhD weight loss talk line.

We'll talk to Janet in Gastonia about that big, old, beautiful bill. What's on your mind, Janet? Hey, Charlie. Hello? Wanted to know if it's true.

I've been hearing a lot of, different stories claiming that the big, beautiful bill does not contain no tax on Social Security. Have you heard anything about that? I'll be honest with you. The only thing that we've heard about this bill is what the different committees have been saying. So I don't know if it's in there or not.

I'm not sure. I hope they get it in there because I hate for the folks on Social Security to pay taxes again on something that they've earned way back when. Ain't that the truth? You're exactly right about that, but we'll see what happens with that bill, Janet. Appreciate your call.

Well, one of the things that the Trump administration has really been working hard on is eliminating all of these ridiculous regulations from the Biden administration. When you look at the cost of all the things you have, there are regulations tied to that. I mean, just what look what they wanted to do. They wanted to do away with your gas stove. They wanted to do away with that.

They wanted to do away with your gas dryer. I've never even known anybody that had a gas dryer, but the people that have talked about them have said they're wonderful. They wanted to do away with your gas water heater. They wanted to do away with natural gas altogether. Now it was pretty hypocritical, especially since there were pictures of, Nancy Pelosi and, and and and Elizabeth Warren and, Kamala Harris all standing in front of their beautiful gas ranges.

But they wanted to do away away with all of that. Look at how many regulations. Look how many regulations the government has imposed on Americans. How may how much water your toilet can use. Right?

Your ridiculous gas cans that they make you use now, I don't even bother with them. I just go buy me an aftermarket funnel attachment for my gas can. I put the little vent valve on there, and I'm good to go. I take that piece anytime they put a valve on a gas cap on a gas can that you have to go to the website to find out how to use, it's a bad idea. It's literally pouring liquid into a container.

Now they wanted to come along and talk about it with safety issues. No. It's not. It was all about the the environment, blah blah blah. But that's where they've been primarily focused.

All of these things in the Biden administration, it's all been about that's that's all these so called inflation reduction act was about. And even Joe Biden admitted that that wasn't even the real name of the bill. It was the Green New Deal. Was another regulation that they've had, maybe you've had to deal with it. It was a few weeks ago.

My wife and I went up to Rhode Island to visit my mother-in-law, and we rented a car rented a car. So we're driving out of the was it Hertz? Driving out of the Hertz lot, and we come to a stop sign. And I stopped the car, and the car shuts off. And my wife says, oh, no.

What happened? And I said, it's a new thing. It's a new thing, honey. So then I stepped on the gas, but a boom, car starts back up. It's that auto stop auto start thing, the start stop technology that they put into these cars.

And a lot of people, not surprisingly, hate it. They can't stand it. Now you can disable it, but you can only disable it for that trip. So let's just say I don't know. Let's just say you're going to Golden Corral, get you some breakfast.

You can disable it in your driveway, drive to Golden Corral. But once you get back in and you're all full as a tick and you're going back home, you gotta disable it again. People loathe it. Well, the US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin said and and by the way, isn't it funny that we just completely forgot about there ...

It's Donald Trump. We're having a lot of fun doing a good show with Charlie. Thank you very much, sir. We really appreciate that. Let's go to the PhD weight loss talk line.

We'll talk to Janet in Gastonia about that big, old, beautiful bill. What's on your mind, Janet? Hey, Charlie. Hello? Wanted to know if it's true.

I've been hearing a lot of, different stories claiming that the big, beautiful bill does not contain no tax on Social Security. Have you heard anything about that? I'll be honest with you. The only thing that we've heard about this bill is what the different committees have been saying. So I don't know if it's in there or not.

I'm not sure. I hope they get it in there because I hate for the folks on Social Security to have to pay taxes again on something that they've earned way past when. Ain't that the truth? You're exactly right about that. But we'll see what happens with that bill, Janet.

Appreciate your call. Well, one of the things that the Trump administration has really been working hard on is eliminating all of these ridiculous regulations from the Biden administration. When you look at the cost of all the things you have, there are regulations tied to that. I mean, just look look what they wanted to do. They wanted to do away with your gas stove.

They wanted to do away with that. They wanted to do away with your gas dryer. I've never even known anybody that had a gas dryer, but the people that have talked about them have said they're wonderful. They wanted to do away with your gas water heater. They wanted to do away with natural gas altogether.

Now it was pretty hypocritical, especially since there were pictures of, Nancy Pelosi and, and and and Elizabeth Warren and, Kamala Harris all standing in front of their beautiful gas ranges. But they wanted to do away away with all of that. Look at how many regulations look how many regulations the government has imposed on Americans. How may how much water your toilet can use. Right?

Your ridiculous gas cans that they make you use now, I don't even bother with them. I just go buy me an aftermarket funnel attachment for my gas can. I put the little vent valve on there, and I'm good to go. I take that piece anytime they put a valve on a gas cap on a gas can that you have to go to the website to find out how to use, it's a bad idea. It's literally pouring liquid into a container.

Now they wanted to come along and talk about it with safety issues. No. It's not. It was all about the the environment, blah blah blah. But that's where they've been primarily focused.

All of these things in the Biden administration, it's all been about. That's that's all the so called inflation reduction act was about. And even Joe Biden admitted that that wasn't even the real name of the bill. It was the Green New Deal. Was another regulation that they've had, maybe you've had to deal with it.

It was a few weeks ago. My wife and I went up to Rhode Island to visit my mother-in-law, and we rented a car rented a car. So we're driving out of the was it Hertz, driving out of the Hertz lot, and we come to a stop sign. And I stopped the car, and the car shuts off. And my wife says, oh, no.

What happened? And I said, it's a new thing. It's a new thing, honey. So then I stepped on the gas, but a boom, car starts back up. It's that auto stop auto start thing, the start stop technology that they put into these cars.

And a lot of people, not surprisingly, hate it. They can't stand it. Now you can disable it, but you can only disable it for that trip. So let's just I don't know. Let's just say you're going to Golden Corral, get you some breakfast.

You can disable it in your driveway, drive to Golden Corral. But once you get back in and you're all full as a tick and you're going back home, you gotta disable it again. People loathe it. Well, the US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin said and and by the way, isn't it funny that we just completely forgot about the ...

And welcome back to the program. Let's go to the PhD weight loss talk line. We'll talk to Ponda in Spartanburg. How you doing, Ponda? I'm doing good.

This is my first time calling into your show. Well, then you get the bell. You get the bell. In my personal opinion, if these immigrants do not want ICE to decide what prison they're gonna be taken to, then they need to take the thousand dollars that president Trump is offering them Yep. And get the heck out of Dodge.

I agree. He's given them an out. Yeah. Exactly. So what's the problem?

I don't You know? Well, I don't I don't see a problem with it. And, Ponda, I appreciate it. Thank you. I mean, it's a brilliant idea.

Take that one app that allowed them to get in under the Biden administration. They flipped it around and said, hey. We're gonna give you a way out. You click that self deport tab on your phone. Go to an airport, they will fly you back to your home country, and once it is verified that you have left the country, they're gonna give you a thousand bucks.

Now I know a lot of people we've had a big discussion about this a few days ago, but it cost an average. This is just for a basic deportation, like the base model deportation. It costs 17 it costs American taxpayers $17,000 per deportee. That's just a routine one. Let's go to Chuck in Mills River.

Chuck, what did you think about my conversation with Mary who is more famous now than she ever thought she would be? That's why she called Charlie. She knows, man. You're, like, big time. She she's made the big time.

I I hate to jump on this bandwagon like my butt's on fire and my head's catching. But Yeah. I any anytime anybody tells you that they're a good Christian Yeah. Chances are they're not. I'm not I'm not calling into question her faith or anything, but I wonder how she feels about vouchers for kids going to Christian schools that their parents want them to because they were we were instructed to raise our children in the ways of the Lord.

Yeah. I wonder if she believes in selling her cloak to buy a sword. No. I wonder it's it's just to listen to that, this is what we're up against. And this is why I think eventually it's gonna come to a fight is because these people just and I'm the same way about how I feel, but I can back my stuff up with with proof.

I can back my stuff up with facts. And, again, you know, I've said on your show, there's things I don't like about Trump, and I'll tell you all about him. Yeah. But right now, he is the man for the job. He's the man we need.

And to stick your head in the the sand and pretend that that the Democrats are just being good Christians? Right. Really? Exactly. Is she is she pro life?

Is she, you think? No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

No. I I I I checked out her Facebook page, and it is just nothing but liberal propaganda, Chuck. It it really is amazing. Don't wash up, Charlie. Yeah.

I need to. I appreciate it. Get some anti taking my dog off. Disinfectant. I appreciate it.

Sean is at 96. Sean, what's going on out there? Hey, Charlie. Hey, bud. How are you doing today?

I'm great. What's going on? Hey. Just a little about the the immigrants you're talking about. When I was at the post courier printing newspapers in '95, I went down to Jacksonville because I thought about relocating.

And I got down there, and they left my application. And before I left, the foreman down there, the pressroom supervisor said, your resume looks great. We'd love to have you here, but you'll never be hired. And I said, why not? He says, you're the wrong nationality.

Yeah. Yeah. So I spent the next twenty five years at Post and Courier printing newspapers, listening to you down there. Yep. I well, I appreciate it, buddy.

I thank you very much, but you're right. I mean, it's that's going on all over the place. Let's go to Richard in Dallas. Richard, welcome. Hey, Charles.

You doing alright? I'm doing great. What's up, man? That girl, Mary, I bet you a hundred dollars, tha ...