WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:08.919 Iesuous right. He yea s America and Jery Holland for 2 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:14.839 regious for nation. I God invasi. 3 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:23.039 And this is wrong. This is Columbia's Morning News with 4 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:26.160 Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one O three point 5 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.480 five FM and five sixty am w VOC. 6 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.600 It is fifteen minutes after six o'clock. Good morning and welcome. 7 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:37.079 We finally made it to Friday. It's February fourteenth. It's 8 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:42.439 Valentine's Oh you did not, sir, forget. I didn't. I 9 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.600 can promise you your significant other did not forget. You 10 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:50.320 said you're ready. I'm good as ready as I need 11 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.000 to be. Like I mentioned yesterday, my wife's down with 12 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.320 the flu. So oh yeah, it's not feeling it better 13 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.520 huh a little. Yeah, she's she's on the mend. Okay, good, 14 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.560 but won't be doing anything special tonight. So just hopefully 15 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:05.000 you're gonna be giving you the flu. Yeah. 16 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.640 I kept it to the bare minimum. 17 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.879 Yeah all right. So, uh, this week for me personally, 18 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:13.879 I mean usually man, I come back from vacation. It 19 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:18.439 seems like that first week back is last forever. This 20 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:22.239 one's kind of fown on by here. Whatever your plans are, 21 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.560 if you need to do anything outdoors. Yeah, you're sir 22 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.439 tired to forecast? Do it today because after the day 23 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:33.000 it's just nasty. And oh, hang on a minute, wait 24 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:37.560 just a minute. What now the model is starting to 25 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.480 ramp up. We have more winter weather on the way. Really, yeah, 26 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.159 potential of a some models calling for a wintery mix 27 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:50.680 for us come Wednesday night into Thursday morning. I just 28 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.680 saw a couple of runs of the UH, the the 29 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.680 euro and the GFS and yeah, they're they're showing the 30 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:04.120 potential for snowfall for the Midlands the Columbia area next Thursday. 31 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.519 When model says it could even be maybe like two 32 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.599 inches of snow. Wow. Yeah, so we may not be 33 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:13.240 done with winter weather, ye or sortatly. I done with 34 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:17.199 the colder air. But do we get more snow? Hopefully 35 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:23.199 no ice? And again depends on what mode you're looking at. Wintry, mixed, sleet, 36 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.879 freezing rain. We don't want that. But are the models 37 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:27.919 calling for just some snow possible for us? 38 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.039 All right, but let's get through the weekend and then 39 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.039 you can tell us what it looks like on Monday. 40 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.439 I'll just this weekend looks to be a looks to 41 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:35.840 be a wash out at least, but you know how 42 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.960 that goes. That stinks. Yeah, it's opening weekend for college 43 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.400 baseball the D one level across the state. Yeah, this 44 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:42.960 is gonna be hard to get them all in. I 45 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.879 guess all right, the rundown the big stories of hot 46 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:50.280 topics for this Valentine's Day doze in SC. Well, there 47 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.719 are some leaders over the state House Republicans who think 48 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.800 that's a good idea. They want to establish a Department 49 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.439 of Government Efficiency in South Carolina. It's hard to disagree 50 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:01.560 with that concept, right. 51 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.080 And yet at the same time, it just seems like 52 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.000 a bit of a stretch. I mean, if we're that 53 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:11.520 bloated at the state government level, then I mean there 54 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:16.599 just aren't nearly enough agencies and organizations for it to 55 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:20.120 get that point like it is federal. No. No, I 56 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.520 mean I absolutely agree. If if we've got that kind 57 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.680 of bloat, then then go to cutting. Well, but of course, 58 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.840 you know, with the Republicans, if there's bloat, you're the 59 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:30.039 ones who created. 60 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:33.039 Exactly right, you can't blame that on the Democrats. Well, 61 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.840 we do actually have bodies that are in existence right 62 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.560 now here in the state that that served as somewhat 63 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:43.680 the same function. But anyway, it's you know, it's a hey, 64 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:47.240 it's it's the shiny new object exactly. And uh, you know, 65 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.319 some folks over there want to say, hey, I have 66 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.080 no issue. I don't think any of us do with 67 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.080 making sure that that our taxpayer dollars aren't being unwisely 68 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:02.039 and frivolously distributed here in South CARELA. And yeah, there's 69 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.159 some of that, you know there is. 70 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.960 Oh, I'm sure there is. But is it worth spending 71 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.960 a lot of time and effort and money. 72 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:12.599 I don't know. 73 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.920 This seems like one of the usual state House suspects 74 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.560 when they get to a point where they don't want 75 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.720 to tackle what they need to tackle, they see what's 76 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.160 up in Washington and then they recreate those headlines in 77 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:23.920 South Carolina. 78 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.319 But now, if if you're if you're serious about it, 79 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.439 you want to do it, then sign me up to 80 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.639 be elon musk. Okay, yeah, I'll be happy to yeah, 81 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.040 be happy to. Yeah. We also have some over the 82 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:40.360 state House that are pushing for a change to the 83 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.600 US Constitution as it pertains to term limits. You know 84 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:47.040 that that would be a constitutional change. It would require 85 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:52.360 thirty four states to all sign on, and there's a 86 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.920 resolution over the state House that says what we should 87 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.240 sign on to that here in South Carolina. This again 88 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:03.240 term limits. You know, uh yeah, this pops up all 89 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.199 the time, and people get excited about it when they 90 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:06.920 hear about it, and then it just kind of goes way. 91 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.839 This will always be in the discussion and we'll probably 92 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:10.879 never happen. 93 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.720 I don't mean it in terms of how he's voted 94 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:15.959 the last couple of days. But you turn on a 95 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.199 TV and you look at Mitch McConnell and same on 96 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.199 the other side, you look at Nancy Pelosi and you think, yeah, 97 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.279 term limits need to be instituted. 98 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.600 Yeah, I mean there are very very good arguments for that. 99 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:33.839 Certainly now you mentioned the fluorting through your household right now, 100 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.480 d heck. They're no longer d heck are they? The 101 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:41.680 Department of Public Health. It's going to take me a 102 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:43.680 long time to get used to not saying d HACK anymore. 103 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:46.040 I wasn't sure which what to call it, and I'm glad, 104 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.759 you know, I guess we'll call him DPH anyway. One 105 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:59.360 and thirty influenza hospitalizations this past week alone. Hospitalization so far, 106 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.600 we've had close to fifty five hundred people hospitalized and 107 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.680 thirty seven people have died as a result of the 108 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:10.279 flu here in South Carolina. Hey, good news, Northeast Richland 109 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:15.600 County travelers. The hard Scrabble Road project, the project that 110 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:21.639 seemed like it would never end. Maybe Devin here, but 111 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:26.480 maybe getting close to wrapping up here. Give him a 112 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.560 couple more months, as Dot to complete the last two 113 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.639 miles of this. This has been going on since twenty seventeen. 114 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:36.680 This is crazy. 115 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.439 That's a long drawn out project. 116 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.959 But Dot says, maybe months away from getting it done. 117 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:49.639 All right, Well, he's in or FK Junior confirmed as 118 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.079 Trump's Health secretary. That vote fifty to forty eight yesterday. 119 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.360 So let the fund begin here Maha for everybody. Matter 120 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.040 of fact, it looks like Trump's establishing a new AMU 121 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.519 Maha Commission. Of course RFK Junior will head that up. 122 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:08.160 I don't know how to any different from what he'll 123 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:14.920 be doing at at at DHS. But but whatever, Cash 124 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.560 Battel has cleared a key confirmation hurdle. He got out 125 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:26.720 of the Senate Judiciary Committee party line vote. Duh. Really yeah, 126 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:31.759 so uh, this nomination moves on, and really I'm you know, this, 127 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.360 this is going to happen with cash battel and you know, 128 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:36.800 one of the one of the things that's got to 129 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:40.040 a lot of people in DC apparently calling defense attorneys. 130 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.600 Is is he going to release the Epstein files? I 131 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:44.319 bet he will. 132 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:45.560 Uh. 133 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:48.439 Trump came through with it yesterday. He talked about it 134 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.519 this past Sunday on Air Force One heading down to 135 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.800 the Super Bowl, that he would do it sometime this week, 136 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.199 and he has now done it's signing a memorandum yesterday 137 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:57.160 reciprocal tariffs. 138 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:58.040 Uh. 139 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.959 Now, there's a lot of handwringing over this one. Main 140 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:08.360 Street is concerned, National Retailers Federation warning of higher prices. 141 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.519 Trump even himself saying, yeah, that could be higher prices 142 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.279 in the short term, but long term is the payoff. 143 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.040 Wall Street didn't seem bothered by this. Yesterday, stocks on 144 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.360 the brink of new record highs futures pulling back a 145 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.920 little bit this morning. We could spend the whole morning 146 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.600 and then need more time talking about how many times 147 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.120 now in the last couple of weeks judges have got 148 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:34.559 involved in at least temporarily halting Trump executive orders here. 149 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.000 I mean, the list goes on and on and on 150 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:41.600 a federal judge late yesterday issuing an order compelling the 151 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.039 White House to lift its three week funding on a 152 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:47.159 free funding freeze, I should say on US foreign aid 153 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.840 Biden appointee I think was responsible for that. Yeah, you 154 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:57.480 better believe it. Meantime, another Biden appointed judge directing the 155 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.600 White House to keep funding hospitals that performed child sex 156 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:01.639 change operations. 157 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.919 Okay, you know, I don't understand this, this whole brewhaha. 158 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.279 I mean, on the one hand, you've got Democrats yelling 159 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:14.360 out this is a constitutional crisis. The you know, Elon 160 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:17.120 Musk and Donald Trump are running wild, and then at 161 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:22.960 the same time they're celebrating these judges who are executing well, 162 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:27.279 they're doing things that obviously the Republicans don't agree with. 163 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.440 But at the same time, it is the balance of power. 164 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.519 You've got the judicial branch versus the executive branch, kind 165 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.960 of one balances the other. It can't be both. It 166 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.320 can't be a constitutional crisis and you think the system 167 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:39.519 is working at the same time. 168 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:44.519 That's talking about both sides. You mount exactly, exactly, U. Yeah, 169 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:49.000 you got fourteen states attorneys general suing Elon Musk over 170 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.519 what they're calling unchecked government power. 171 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:55.279 Have you seen the doge clock? No, Oh, it's awesome. 172 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:57.519 I mean it's it is. Let me let me see 173 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:01.120 where it stands right now. You, you personally, you as 174 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:06.799 a taxpayer, you've already saved three hundred three dollars and 175 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:10.799 ninety two cents just individually, just individually, and each have 176 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.840 said every US taxpayer. Yes, Wow, they have saved forty 177 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.919 five point five nine billion dollars so far. They are 178 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:21.559 two point three percent toward their goal. 179 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:23.639 Well, they say they save that, but the problem is 180 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.759 judges keeps saying no, you can't do that. Well, it's 181 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.200 still working, all right. That more coming up here on 182 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.519 this the Friday morning Valentine's Day edition. Love is in 183 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.000 the air, No Columbus, Well love it. It'll be his 184 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.279 morning news now hear about it. We've had multiple Democrats 185 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.279 politicians talk about it, threven people and incited violence. 186 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.399 One on three point five FM and five sixty am 187 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:56.159 w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David 188 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.200 and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM 189 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.799 and five six w VOC. 190 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:03.919 It is six forty one. Good morning, and good to 191 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.000 have you along for Valentine's Day, Friday, February fourteenth. I 192 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.720 am Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson right over there. 193 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:12.360 So much going on, I mean, so many things to 194 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.559 talk about, and we'll be talking about a lot of 195 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:21.399 them today. Doze in South Carolina. We'll get to that 196 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:23.960 a little bit later on this morning. This this this concept. 197 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:30.200 RFK Junior confirmed by the Senate fifty to forty eight 198 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:35.440 as the next Secretary of the Department of Health Human Services. 199 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:41.679 The list goes on and on, the reciprocal tariffs from 200 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:46.840 imposed as of yesterday, and and what that effect is 201 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.080 going to have on on on all of us. So 202 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:55.720 big stuff, but you know what, all of that really 203 00:11:55.799 --> 00:12:01.240 pales in comparison to this topic we're going to spend 204 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:07.159 a couple of minutes on right now, artificial intelligence. So 205 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.879 Vice President Vance was in France earlier this week and 206 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.000 it was a big symposium. They were talking about artificial intelligence. 207 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.279 How many times have you, I know, I've done it 208 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.240 a bunch. You think about AI and the machines and 209 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.799 all this, and the image conjures up in your mind 210 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.519 of the Terminator movies, right little, yeah, yeah, Oh, I 211 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.879 do it all the time. James Cameron, who directed that 212 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:43.240 first Terminator moving back in nineteen eighty four, is actually 213 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.679 a part of a group of people that are studying 214 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.919 and you know, consulting and talking to people about all this. 215 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.000 And he was talking recently at the Special Competitive Study 216 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:07.519 the Projects AI and Robotic Summit. He made the argument 217 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.159 that AI today is a scarier scenario than what he 218 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.320 presented in The Terminator forty years ago. He says that 219 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.559 for no other reason, it's no longer science fiction. It's happening. 220 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:28.519 He's sounding the alarm. He's part of the board of 221 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.320 Stability AI, which is a UK based artificial intelligence company, 222 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.919 and he's issued to warnings now not about rogue AI 223 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.519 launching missiles. Remember that was a whole the backdrop what 224 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.399 Sky now was called sky now. I think in the 225 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:49.320 in the Terminator movies, the machines took launched a war 226 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:56.600 on the humans. He fears though, that the emergence of 227 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:01.639 an all encompassing intelligence system embedded within society, one that 228 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:08.080 enables constant surveillance, manipulates public opinion, influences behavior, and operates 229 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.559 largely without oversight, is a scary prospect. That is scary, 230 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:16.519 very much so. And he says it's it's happening, he said. 231 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:18.519 You'll be living in a world you didn't agree to, 232 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:23.240 you didn't vote for, and you're being forced to share 233 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.200 with a super intelligent entity that allows the goals of 234 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.960 a corporation. He points out, in this case, an entity 235 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.759 will have access to your communications, beliefs, everything you've ever said, 236 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:38.679 and the whereabouts of every person in the country through 237 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.320 personal are that's happening right now. 238 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:45.480 Well, the influencing on the public, I mean we saw 239 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.320 that during the election. I mean, you've got all these 240 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.759 bots out there, the algorithm algorithms that you know, read 241 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.320 your behavior and then send you certain things to make 242 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:55.240 you think something else. 243 00:14:55.440 --> 00:15:00.279 Sure, but let's let's let's bring this to on to 244 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.360 just the level of Okay, what do you do when 245 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:13.799 this happens? One example, here in this country, our government 246 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:20.480 operates on getting taxes from working individuals. Right, So now 247 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.120 the talk is what happens. James O'Brien wrote an opinion 248 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:27.240 piece on foxnews dot com. What happens when so many 249 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:32.559 jobs are eventually taken over by AI. You got people 250 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:38.200 that aren't working and needing what government benefits, but so 251 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:41.840 many people aren't working, what happens to the tax base 252 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:47.480 in this country. I mean, the way our government makes 253 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:53.960 money is to get taxes from working human beings. Well, 254 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.919 what if that job is replaced by artificial intelligence? Where 255 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.120 does the tax money? Where? Where does that Where does 256 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:06.600 that revenue generating tax base come from? This has to 257 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:13.240 be considered. No one idea is that, well, companies, corporations 258 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:15.919 that employ this AI that somehow they're they're they're they're 259 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.799 they're levied more taxes on it. But this is something 260 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:26.759 I hadn't thought about. And yeah, and worst case scenario 261 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.919 here is is that a lot of people lose their jobs. 262 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.519 And so it's it's it's a double edged sword. Not 263 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.919 only does the tax base start to dry up, but 264 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.240 now these are folks who are going to need government 265 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:48.559 assistants more than likely some of them at least. That's 266 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:57.120 a double a double whammy right there. Man. If we 267 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:03.399 see widespread unemployment as a result of this, what do 268 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.880 we do and what do you do? In the tax 269 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:12.440 base shrinks so much that now we've got people who 270 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:19.640 who can't even get government benefits that would maybe deserve them. 271 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.960 This is just a this is not a good scenario, man, 272 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.880 not good at all. So of everything that we talk 273 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:36.839 about here, everything going on in the world today, Quite honestly, 274 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.119 what's all said and done, it all does pale in 275 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:46.319 comparison to this issue. And how many times have we 276 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:47.880 said this. You can even talk about it all you 277 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.559 want to. You could talk about putting restrictions on it 278 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:55.519 and this and that, but it's already out there. It's 279 00:17:55.519 --> 00:18:00.960 already out there. You don't put that cow back in 280 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.400 the barn. And yet it has the ability to bring 281 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.480 a lot of good things. You know, is AI the 282 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.200 way we cure cancer one of these days. 283 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.599 AI is working on doge now now. 284 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:20.839 But the downsides are potentially very, very devastating for the 285 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.000 of the entire planet, for the human race. I mean 286 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:27.960 not trying to be hyperbolic here, but we again part 287 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.880 of the problem. We just have no idea. But how 288 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.200 rapidly it is advanced in such a short amount of 289 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:41.880 time is really stunning. Okay, So that's something else somebody's 290 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.240 got to work on. You know, if so many people 291 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:48.559 lose their jobs and suddenly, you know, don't pay taxes anymore, 292 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.839 but but need government benefits because they've lost their jobs 293 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:57.039 to AI, what do you do? Then? Hopefully there are 294 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.400 much brighter minds than mine working on those sorts of 295 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:01.440 issues right now and trying to figure it all out. 296 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.640 You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three 297 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:12.640 point five FM on five sixty am w VOC. Once again, 298 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:14.839 here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson. 299 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:17.880 What Tyler didn't mention there, he stopped it next Wednesday 300 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.279 because next Thursday is kind of iffy right now. There's 301 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:24.960 a chance of either a frozen some mixed precipitation, or 302 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.559 maybe just some plain, good old snow for us. Next 303 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.839 Thursday is the day that some of the models are 304 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:32.480 calling for that, so we'll be keeping an eye on 305 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:35.160 that over the next couple of days. Morning, Tallia, It's 306 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:39.720 fifteen after seven o'clock is Valentine's Day, Friday, February fourteenth. 307 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:41.880 I've already been chastised once for singing this morning, so 308 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.839 I won't do that again. I didn't chastise you. Oh 309 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:47.240 it was a severe chastise version, I guess I did. 310 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.079 We can go back to the table, go on, No, no, no, 311 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:52.279 that's okay, because then we'll walk to hear your singing again. 312 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.759 Real right, when I was younger, I could sing, I 313 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.200 think when I hit about twenty three, I suddenly couldn't 314 00:19:58.200 --> 00:19:58.799 sing anymore. 315 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.920 Just sing it chake when you performed there back in the. 316 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:05.240 Day, of course I did. Of course you did. Ill 317 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.559 to go back in time. Oh the good old Shaky's days. 318 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.680 Uh all right, do we need doge in South Carolina? 319 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:16.160 Well you've got some lawmakers in both chambers that are 320 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:21.319 talking doze, yes, c all right. So again it's we've 321 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.240 been in the rundown last hour. You know. Dose thing 322 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.359 is the is the bright shiny object, and uh hey, 323 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:31.680 you know I'm I'm all about I'm all about getting 324 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:36.599 rid of government inefficiency. I think everybody is. You're not 325 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:38.160 gonna find too many people to say, yeah, no, I 326 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.039 just love giving my money to the government at all 327 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:41.559 levels to just go ahead and waste it. 328 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:42.759 You know, nobody wants that. 329 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:45.680 Nobody wants that. But do we have that big of 330 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:47.799 an issue here in South Carolina? Is the question that 331 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:52.680 we need something like doge here? I can't believe I 332 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:57.279 actually heard a TV reporter talking about this, and a 333 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:00.720 very good TV report too, and called a dogie. Yes, 334 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:05.759 Oh my gosh, yes, call it what you want. It's 335 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:10.039 got everybody, everybody's attention, certainly so you have on the 336 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:15.440 House side, excuse me, on the Senate side, Stephen Goldfinch. Okay, 337 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:20.720 stop right there, Yeah, yeah, okay, he probably only wants 338 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:23.799 a certain number of government regulations cut and they all 339 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:25.519 relate to sea walls on the coast. 340 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.119 I mean, he's a one trick pony. 341 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:34.319 Yeah, Goldfinch yesterday saying what you will find at the 342 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:40.440 state level burden over burden, some regulations, duplicated regulations, regulations 343 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:42.599 that are hurting our business and our families and friends 344 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:47.480 here in South Carolina. Okay, regulatory reform is one thing. 345 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:54.559 All about that. Absolutely, do we have a I. 346 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:56.720 Mean, we're looking at doing that right now. You just 347 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.240 told us yesterday. They're talking about taking out some of 348 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.279 this speed bumps that are in place right now for 349 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:04.960 us to build a new energy plant. 350 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:11.640 Exactly. You've got a companion building the House of Representatives 351 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.599 with a proposing a similar commission that the Senate's idea 352 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.079 is a commission of ten members appointed by the House, 353 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.160 the Senate, the Governor, and the Department of Administration. None 354 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:24.799 of these members could be lawmakers, right, so there'd be 355 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:30.200 no lawmakers involving all that, thank you. That'd be defeating 356 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.119 the whole purpose from the get go with yes, it would, 357 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:35.039 So you bring it outside, folks, I've already volunteered my services. 358 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:43.400 The commission would assess state spending, determined potential spending cuts, consolidations, 359 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:45.680 or regulatory streaming. And I assume this would be much 360 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:49.480 like the those commission in d C. It doesn't actually 361 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:53.279 have the power itself to make these cuts. It just 362 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:56.880 has the power to point them out. Oh wait a minute, 363 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:01.200 then who makes the cuts? Back in the state House? Again, 364 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:04.440 we are okay, I'm not sure that would work out. 365 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.880 You know, do we have an overburden or over bloated 366 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:13.240 workforce when it comes to the state. I don't know. 367 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:17.440 But again, this is this is something that's got everybody's attention. 368 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:23.440 They should always be focused on what makes government more 369 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:27.720 efficient and and you know, for us as taxpayers, they 370 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:30.920 should always be worried about, you know, what works best, 371 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:36.519 and what's what's not wasteful, and what regulations don't stand 372 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.559 in the way of our state's success. I just I 373 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:40.519 just don't know if there's that big a problem at 374 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.200 the state level versus you know what Elon Musk is 375 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:44.359 tackling at the national life. 376 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:48.839 Oh, it's it's it's it's it's not even apples and oranges. Now, 377 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:54.799 we do have already some some institutions in size state 378 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:56.960 government that are tasked with this sort of thing to begin. 379 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.680 With, the oversight commissions and committees. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 380 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:03.440 Yeah, So yeah, we're already doing this how successfully I 381 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:11.039 couldn't tell you. Now. Democrats critical of this, and they 382 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:15.440 got a point. They say, hey, you Republicans, you you 383 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.400 already oversee state financial management and have for a long 384 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:21.160 period of all the time. Yeah, and if there's any 385 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.319 you know, if there's any waste and inefficiences going on, 386 00:24:23.359 --> 00:24:27.839 and it it's your fault to begin with. Very again, 387 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:32.480 very different than Washington d C. Although hey, it's not 388 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:34.960 as though Republicans in Washington d C. Aren't responsible for 389 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.400 a great deal of waste and egregious spending as well, 390 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:42.640 because they are all right, So this this, this is 391 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:47.359 this idea the Senate build at least is right now 392 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:51.680 headed to the full Senate Finance Committee, and if approved, 393 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.880 the report would be due in October, but would not 394 00:24:56.960 --> 00:24:58.640 impact it until the next budget cycles. 395 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:01.720 So is this going to cost us money? Eli's doing 396 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:04.519 this for free? Is this going to cost us money? 397 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.000 Here in South Carolina to do this report and involve 398 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:09.359 all these other people. 399 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.640 And I just changed my mind. I don't want to 400 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.119 be on the scene. 401 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:13.480