Host Charlie James and callers slammed a local Republican for backing data centers and surveillance.

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00:00 All right, so we are in full blown rhino season. This is the time where the rhinos start growing back their horns. Now you hunters know out there, the deer lose their horns every year and they grow them back. Pretty much they start growing back immediately and they do with the rhinos as well. But every election season, the rhinos will shed their horns, pretend to be normal, good Republicans. And then once it's over, 00:30 They grow their horns back and they are growing their horns back right now. So one of the things I'm telling you, you need to watch out for is the data center debate. All right, so listen to this. This is from, uh I believe, Eric Allison over at No Data Centers in Spartanburg. We are here at the public hearing at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium for the data center. 00:58 at the old Kohler plant on South Pine Street. The candidate for Spartanburg County Council District 6, Alex Turner, is at the microphone. He just turned to face the entire gallery of residents, about 400 of Spartanburg County's finest, and made one simple request. Alex Turner, everybody please stand up that does not want this data center. If you do not, 01:26 want this data center, please stand up. Everybody stood up, unified opposition except for one person. One person remained seated. So who was this mysterious person that did not stand up with all of the other residents? Oh, it appears that this person is your 01:56 Republican candidate for the chairman of Spartanburg County Council, William Crawford. William Crawford sat stoically and he remained seated. As residents, he said, ran to represent, all stood up, all stood up their seats from their seats together against the data center. William Crawford did not. I would like to know why William Crawford did not stand up. 02:23 along with all 400 people there at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. That's a good question. Why remain seated? Yeah, I'm telling you. Rhinos season in full swing. Let's go to Wes in Greenville. How you doing, Wes? I'm fine, Carl. You know, we can just refer to this as Lindsey Graham and, you know, tell you one thing one minute, get elected and it's basically flip you off. Yeah. The minute the ballots are counted. Yep. 02:55 I mean, you know, I've been here a long time. This is our problem. I mean, you know, the Lindsey Graham still there. I mean, I truly don't know how we fix it. You know, I was a kid and I went to Washington the first time. think I was 12 years old, like 1980. And they let Strom Thurmond, you know, we were, we were up there on the class, school class. So Charlie, I'm telling you, they rolled the man out on, he was worse than Biden. He was, he was absolutely senile. I mean, they had to, 03:25 and i remember him i did the kid going with me this country center right like what what is going on but that's that's just part of it but i want to me say that thing the you know more law in in reference to computing uh... you know how smart they will get in and we could look at it like they would exponential growth okay yeah well more of all talked about that and then so did some of the people that were that laid out computer 03:54 Okay. And what they said is for the first, you know, let's first 50 years, the computer is going to act like an infant crawling across the floor. Yeah. Okay. But on the 51st year, it's going to be able to go 10 million miles an hour. And that's what we've reached. Okay. So what these data centers are is their surveillance system. And I don't know how they're going to ever defeat it. It's going to happen. Republican, Democrat. I will say this. I was 04:22 I enjoyed that the Christian news broadcast came out two weeks ago, unbelievably against this, unbelievably against these flock cameras that are recording everything you do. The newest regulation with these flock cameras are, whoopsie. Oh yeah, yeah, the microphone that's in those cameras, helps them identify where gunshots come from that ...

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