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Show Rewind 10-1-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if things are not working well enough for you
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  Speaker 2: this morning, I noticed a poll yesterday. The Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 2: was leading the doctor only by one point, which does
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  Speaker 2: not surprise me since I'm calling from Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: And I see Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews' ads on virtually every time I turn on
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  Speaker 2: the television.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen one.
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  Speaker 2: Ad for Darlene Graham, the worst run Senate campaign ever
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  Speaker 2: at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Oof, the frustration is pouring over out of Charleston. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for the talk back. Really do appreciate you starting
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  Speaker 4: your day with South Carolina's morning news and engaging with
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  Speaker 4: us and let that frustration be heard. I know a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people turn to social media and that's one
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  Speaker 4: way of doing it. And that would, you know, be
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  Speaker 4: something that you could voice to all of your friends
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  Speaker 4: or whoever's following you on social media. Here you get
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of a different audience, hopefully bigger than yours.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. We'll find out, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: when the ratings come out. But in the meantime, we
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  Speaker 4: have heard that complaint, Christopher, from a lot of folks
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  Speaker 4: that they do not see enough of Darlene Graham's media.
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  Speaker 3: I'm starting to wonder.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Today is October 1st. As you mentioned, the countdown is on.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, until early voting period, much less the primary
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  Speaker 6: day or the election day itself. And yeah, if you're
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  Speaker 6: going to start running some ads, if you're going to
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  Speaker 6: start a media blitz, it's time.
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  Speaker 4: And the Trafalgar poll is, I think, what he's probably referencing.
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  Speaker 4: That came out, what, three days ago now, two, three
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  Speaker 4: days ago?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was late Friday, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Was it that far back? My gosh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it was Monday.
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  Speaker 4: It was, like he said, about a little over a
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  Speaker 4: one-point lead, if I remember right, which is within the
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  Speaker 4: margin of error. I would be saying that if I was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if it was a Republican within one point,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be basically making the point it seems like it's
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  Speaker 4: a dead heat. And again, the Trafalgar poll typically had
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  Speaker 4: poll been, I would say, more right-leaning, meaning not saying
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  Speaker 4: that they favorited the right, but usually gave you a
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  Speaker 4: better picture of where the right is. Polling traditionally underpolls
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  Speaker 4: Republicans and or just does not get the type of
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  Speaker 4: polling that gives you an accurate picture.
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  Speaker 3: Trafalgar Group's been dead on.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, if they've got it within a point or,
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  Speaker 4: you know, about a point, that's probably pretty close to
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  Speaker 4: where it is right now. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: the Graham campaign is just banking on the fact that
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  Speaker 4: a lot of South Carolinians don't even go through it.
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  Speaker 4: They just straight ticket it. boom, Republican.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe, or maybe they felt like they were getting a
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  Speaker 6: little candidate burnout after the special runoff and the primaries
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  Speaker 6: they held, the special election. Maybe they thought they'd take
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  Speaker 6: a step back for a little while. I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: but it doesn't make sense to wait any longer. You
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  Speaker 6: can't afford to keep your powder dry at this point.
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  Speaker 6: It's time to start.
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  Speaker 4: It's get up and go time. And You know, when
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  Speaker 4: I think about the messaging from what, if I was
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  Speaker 4: advising the Graham campaign, which I am not, I have
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  Speaker 4: no input at all, or I'm not even really talking
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  Speaker 4: to anybody right now at the Graham campaign, but I
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  Speaker 4: would think that you would have a double message. One,
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  Speaker 4: I hate negative ads, but I think it's important that
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  Speaker 4: you make the distinction that there are no such things
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  Speaker 4: as moderate Democrats in this election because you're empowering the
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  Speaker 4: farthest to the left who are going to be in
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  Speaker 4: the leadership positions. The Rojanas, the AOCs, these are the
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  Speaker 4: people who are going to be in leadership if they
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  Speaker 4: are able to take over the Senate and or the House.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're voting for Annie Andrews, you're voting for
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  Speaker 4: Elizabeth Warren. It doesn't matter how moderate she positions herself.
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  Speaker 4: That's who's going to get the power is Elizabeth Warren.
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  Speaker 4: So I would make that point. And I would also
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  Speaker 4: make the point that Darlene Graham is going to be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a reliable vote for the things that you want,
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  Speaker 4: the things that if you, again, Trump won this state
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  Speaker 4: by what was it like 14 points, something like that,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you wanted, you may not be exactly thrilled with
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  Speaker 4: the way things have been going as of late with
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump and or the MAGA movement and or just
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  Speaker 4: the Republican party in general, but the alternative is horrific.
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  Speaker 4: So It's like I saw somebody with a post the
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  Speaker 4: other day. High gas prices are temporary. Socialism is forever.
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  Speaker 4: Don't go down that path. Don't empower the left to
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  Speaker 4: just kind of seize everything and then start. As they
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  Speaker 4: have claimed, they're going to change the Constitution. They are
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  Speaker 4: going to change it. They're going to vote on it.
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  Speaker 4: And if they have the votes, they will then start
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  Speaker 4: dismantling the Constitution. And you will have no president. You
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  Speaker 4: will have no Senate. You will have I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: all going to change according to the DSA, no prisons,
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  Speaker 4: no more prisons. It's going to just be, it will
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  Speaker 4: in their vision of the new America. It's not like
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  Speaker 4: anything we've ever, I don't think anyone's ever even contemplated
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  Speaker 4: what they're talking about nor wanted that, which is so
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  Speaker 4: odd to be like, this is what we're arguing against.
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  Speaker 4: We used to be talking about like percentage, like tax rates.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Should it be maxed out at 32% or 38% or whatever?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that used to be the types of debates
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  Speaker 4: we had in this country.
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  Speaker 6: Incremental changes, not upsetting the apple cart altogether.
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  Speaker 4: With this one, they set the apple cart on fire,
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  Speaker 4: throw it into a dumpster. I mean, and then they
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  Speaker 4: replace it with something that's not even an apple cart.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what we're talking about anymore,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah. So unfortunately for Annie Andrews, you picked a
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  Speaker 4: bad year to run. She's a she's a very eloquent
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  Speaker 4: person who can position herself as a moderate, although her
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  Speaker 4: past would, you know, and they're going to make a
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  Speaker 4: more of a, a deal out of that. I don't
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  Speaker 4: even think you have to really push her personally, you know, her,
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  Speaker 4: you know, her positions on transgendered kids and that sort
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  Speaker 4: of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That will resonate with some Republicans, but if you're just
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  Speaker 4: trying to appeal to the moderates in the middle, which
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  Speaker 4: is who you need to win races and, Just point
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  Speaker 4: out the fact that it's, again, Bernie Sanders is going
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  Speaker 4: to get the power if she wins. Those are my thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts? Use that talkback feature like our
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  Speaker 4: friend in Charleston just did. And if you leave your name,
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  Speaker 4: I'd appreciate it as well. I'd like to call you
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  Speaker 4: by name. Christopher Thompson, we seem to be working things
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  Speaker 4: out here with our computers. All right. Looks good. We'll
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  Speaker 4: take a break. It's 619.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News. You can vote your
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  Speaker 1: way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
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  Speaker 4: That's the whole talkback. We don't get a name or
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  Speaker 4: a town, but we do get some. That was wisdom
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  Speaker 4: being dropped on us there, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: for using the talkback, whoever you are, wherever you are.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Yeah, we were talking earlier about the first
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  Speaker 4: talkback of the morning with somebody very frustrated in Charleston
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  Speaker 4: about the fact that they're seeing a ton of Annie
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  Speaker 4: Andrews stuff everywhere, and they're not seeing a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham stuff. And matter of fact, I think we're at.
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  Speaker 4: from their perspective, they had seen one thing and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: thousands of things from the Andrews campaign. And then the
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  Speaker 4: Trafalgar poll comes out and you've got Darlene Graham basically
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  Speaker 4: with like a one point lead over Annie Andrews. And
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  Speaker 4: we're not sure what's going on as far as like,
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  Speaker 4: when are they going to start really hustling? Because the
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  Speaker 4: definitely the Senate, the South Carolina Senate race is legit.
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  Speaker 4: But also the national Senate race is legit. It doesn't
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  Speaker 4: take a lot. Like if Susan Collins loses, and I
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  Speaker 4: know a lot of you don't consider Susan Collins a Republican,
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  Speaker 4: but she votes with the president about 75% of the time.
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  Speaker 4: If you were to get that guy, what's his name?
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  Speaker 4: Troy Jackson. By the way, I love the fact that
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  Speaker 4: the left is coming after him right now because he's
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  Speaker 4: got a ad up where he's sipping on a bubble tea.
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  Speaker 4: And they're like, you know, you can't drink bubble tea.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: OK, I guess it's a little too bourgeoisie for them.
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  Speaker 4: But if he wins, he'll go. He's pretty radical. He'll
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  Speaker 4: go to the left as far as you want him
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  Speaker 4: to go. And when we start talking about the DSA,
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  Speaker 4: you know, one of their stated goals is to abolish
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  Speaker 4: the U.S. Senate, expand the size of the House of Representatives,
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  Speaker 4: replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote, which, again,
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  Speaker 4: we have been warned from the founding fathers on that
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  Speaker 4: becomes mob rule. I love this. Extend full voting rights
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  Speaker 4: to all non-citizens. So if you just happen to find
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  Speaker 4: yourself in America, maybe even on a vacation. Hey, I
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  Speaker 4: just happened to be vacationing there. I thought it'd be
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  Speaker 4: fun to vote in a U.S. election.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Why not?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe we'll mail in some ballots to send them over
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  Speaker 6: to Estonia, some of the Baltic states.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you vote in our election? This is on
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  Speaker 4: their platforms. Social and criminal justice. Defund and phase out
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  Speaker 4: traditional police departments, prisons, and end ICE. Community care. Invest
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  Speaker 4: heavily into social safety nets, community-led care programs. Military spending.
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  Speaker 4: Completely cut the U.S. military budget. Close military bases around
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  Speaker 4: the world.
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  Speaker 3: I feel safer already.
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  Speaker 4: This is what they're running. So again, when you vote
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  Speaker 4: for Annie Andrews, even though she's not for any of this,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter what she's for because she's running as
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  Speaker 4: a Democrat. She's not running as an independent. If she
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  Speaker 4: was to run... as an independent, first off, all these
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  Speaker 4: ads you'd see would go away because that's who's paying
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  Speaker 4: for it. The Democrats, not her. Then because she's running
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  Speaker 4: as a Democrat, that gives the power to the the Democrat. Again,
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  Speaker 4: it's a team sport. It's not individuals. I know that
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  Speaker 4: that's what we would like to say is happening, but
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  Speaker 4: that's not what's happening. If she wins, the DSA starts
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  Speaker 4: to take control. It's a very dangerous time in America.
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  Speaker 4: And if you've got thoughts on it, let us know
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  Speaker 4: on the Talkback feature. I guess we'll get into some
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  Speaker 4: of that other stuff that we hope to talk about
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  Speaker 4: coming up in just a minute. But again, if you
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  Speaker 4: have talkbacks, we love them. Use them up right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 4: And good morning. I'm Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson with us.
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  Speaker 4: Christopher is the sports guy. I am somewhat of a
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  Speaker 4: sports guy, but not the sports guy like Christopher is.
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  Speaker 4: And it was interesting yesterday to go through my Gamecock
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  Speaker 4: Twitter X, whatever you call it these days, because I
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  Speaker 4: do set up little lists on that social media platform.
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  Speaker 4: So I can follow certain things like I have, like
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration list. So I can just, if I
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  Speaker 4: go on that list, all I'm seeing is posts from
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration on this one, it's a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: Gamecock media and, or just super fans that I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 4: And they were in the first off Gamecock nation is
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  Speaker 4: in a very, sour mood right now because of the
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  Speaker 4: football program. But then one of the things that game
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  Speaker 4: pack nation takes pride in is their women's basketball team.
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  Speaker 4: I unfortunately don't really watch women's basketball, so I don't
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  Speaker 4: know enough about it. I can't even really intelligently comment
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  Speaker 4: on women's basketball. Uh, but I know enough about basketball.
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  Speaker 4: I used to play at the division three level. So
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  Speaker 4: I know enough about basketball to understand what a foul
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  Speaker 4: looks like. I know when somebody is out of line. Um,
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  Speaker 4: and if you, I guess right now, what we're looking
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  Speaker 4: at is the Las Vegas aces versus the Indiana fever.
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  Speaker 4: And they're in the W first round of the WNBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously the fever, that's the team with Caitlin Clark
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  Speaker 4: and Sophie Cunningham. Those are the two biggest names right
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  Speaker 4: now in WNBA. Uh, Some people say it's some sort
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  Speaker 4: of white privilege that got them there, whatever. I would
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  Speaker 4: point out that Diana Taurasio, I think, is still the
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  Speaker 4: all-time leading WNBA scorer who was white and had no
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  Speaker 4: fan base. Nobody really cared. Sue Bird was a very
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  Speaker 4: attractive white female basketball player who was a star who
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  Speaker 4: was also dating Megan Rapinoe for years. And I think
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  Speaker 4: they did a podcast until recently when they broke up.
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  Speaker 4: Had no fan base. Asia Wilson, I think, is probably
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  Speaker 4: acknowledged as the best basketball player right now in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 4: I could be wrong on that, Christopher.
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  Speaker 6: She may be the best of all time before it's
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  Speaker 6: all said and done. I mean, that's what kind of
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  Speaker 6: career she's had.
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  Speaker 4: But not a very flashy style of play. She overpowers people, typically.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And again, that's not flashy. It's not, you know.
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  Speaker 3: She's just good.
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  Speaker 4: She's just good.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: She's just good. Now, Caitlin Clark lights people up because
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  Speaker 4: it's almost like Steph Curry-esque. And Steph Curry with the
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  Speaker 4: dribbling ability and then the amazing three-point jumpers, that's kind of,
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  Speaker 4: I think, more of her bag. And it got people
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  Speaker 4: excited for whatever reason. So now here we are with
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  Speaker 4: these two teams. And the Fever are the television phenoms.
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  Speaker 4: Their games typically go up as far as TV ratings.
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  Speaker 4: More than double any other WNBA games. So whoever they're playing,
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  Speaker 4: if it's on television, the fever just bring the people,
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  Speaker 4: the eyeballs to the set. And there's been obviously, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to say obviously, it appears there's been some
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  Speaker 4: WNBA players who are not happy with this. They would
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  Speaker 4: rather the attention go elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: They resent the new kids on the block.
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  Speaker 4: Quite likely. That's the way it's being interpreted. I should
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  Speaker 4: just say that's the narrative that I've been fed. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if it's a true narrative or not.
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  Speaker 6: They should be. It's kind of like Tiger Woods when
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  Speaker 6: he came along. They should be thankful for Caitlin Clark
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  Speaker 6: for what she's done. I mean, she's brought women's sports
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  Speaker 6: to the forefront.
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  Speaker 4: And we can watch on social media montages of Caitlin
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  Speaker 4: Clark getting abused. It's almost the kind of style of
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  Speaker 4: basketball I grew up loving. You know, I'm a New
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  Speaker 4: York Knicks fan from the, you know, go back to
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  Speaker 4: the eighties. And, you know, when we had like Oakley
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  Speaker 4: and don't come in the paint, that's the last thing
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  Speaker 4: you want to do is come in the paint. And
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  Speaker 4: I often say if Steph Curry was playing in that era,
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  Speaker 4: there'd be no threes. Cause he'd, he'd waved that finger
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  Speaker 4: up one or twice and then he'd get punched in
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  Speaker 4: the mouth. But that's not the style of basketball today.
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  Speaker 4: So she does get very hard fouls and sometimes they
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  Speaker 4: don't even get called. And some people are critiquing the referees,
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  Speaker 4: all that to say, that the Aces won the first game,
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  Speaker 4: Asia Wilson's team, very decisively. 102-85. That was a home
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  Speaker 4: game for them. The second game was played in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 4: That was the most recent one. The Fever won that
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  Speaker 4: one pretty convincingly by 10. I don't know what kind
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  Speaker 4: of game Asia Wilson was having, but there was a
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  Speaker 4: thing where she ran over a player, basically.
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  Speaker 3: Sophie Cunningham.
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  Speaker 4: But I think... Did they give Cunningham the foul on that? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And then... One of the fans courtside stood up. He
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  Speaker 4: was like in the second or third row and he
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  Speaker 4: pointed at Asia Wilson. Now, again, he is a fever
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  Speaker 4: fan pointing at an aces player and he says, that's
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  Speaker 4: on you. Well, she did not like that at all.
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  Speaker 3: She went into the stands, went after him.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. And, you know, that's one of those things where
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  Speaker 4: that is a huge no, no. She, I think she
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  Speaker 4: had expected him to be kicked out of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of like, what's his name, Freedom there. And it's
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  Speaker 4: Freedom when he stood up. He never crossed the line,
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  Speaker 4: but they still ejected him. Is he still suing the
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  Speaker 4: WNBA for that?
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: This guy never, he only took a step basically to
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  Speaker 4: get into the aisle. It wasn't like he was coming
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  Speaker 4: towards the court.
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  Speaker 3: No, he wasn't charging her.
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  Speaker 4: No, he just stood there and said, that's on you.
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  Speaker 4: And she, I don't know what she said to him,
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  Speaker 4: but it was a mouthful apparently. And then there was
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  Speaker 4: a quick investigation. And, you know, they apparently there was
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  Speaker 4: within minutes security was able to say he was not
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  Speaker 4: threatening anybody. He didn't use foul language. There was nothing
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  Speaker 4: wrong with what he did. He stays. And now she
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  Speaker 4: was giving press conferences saying, I don't care what he said.
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  Speaker 4: He was aggressive. And so Gamecock Nation is very torn now.
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  Speaker 4: I've noticed this. They don't know whether or not to
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  Speaker 4: come to Asia's defense. But some of them are like,
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  Speaker 4: she was kind of out of line here. What do
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  Speaker 4: you think, Christopher? Is there going to be any disciplinary
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  Speaker 4: actions against Asia Wilson?
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  Speaker 3: I doubt it. I doubt it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they may tell her not to do it again,
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  Speaker 6: but I don't know that you punish her. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: she's on the defending champs. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 6: you've got this crowd who's into WNBA basketball more than ever,
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: and you can't have star players trying to eject fans
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: who get too into the game.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if the fans are not involved, meaning physically involved,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: if they're yelling, insulting things, that's typical sports behavior.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Just passionate.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, and you should be thankful, as you said, that
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: you have a passionate fan base. You haven't had one
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: for decades.
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: So you have some fans that are very passionate, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: it seems as if it's coming down to the final
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: game tonight, 9 o'clock. I imagine this is going to
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: help ratings.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: You would think so.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: You've got the two best teams, it seems, in the WNBA.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Are there other teams that are considered?
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, the defending champs you're saying are the Aces
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: and the Fever are the hottest television ratings thing. So
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: this would seem to be a big game, especially with that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Sophie Cunningham, by the way, trolling Asia Wilson yesterday, saying,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be controversial. But who would have
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: ever thought that this would be the year of the
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: comeback for the point? Because that guy was pointing at her.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And remember, Sophie Cunningham is the one who went viral
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: with the pointing at the other lady thing. That was
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: a classic moment. And I don't even watch WNBA. And
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I knew all about that one. And I thought it
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: was hysterical. But anyway, do you have thoughts on Asia Wilson?
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Do you have to come to her defense just because
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: she's a Gamecock?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: She's from Columbia.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: She's from Columbia. Her parents are from here. I doubt
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: that they're listening to us this morning. But if they are,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: good morning, Wilson family. Uh, she's got a lot, she's
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: got a statue here. So do we just side on
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: her side because she's one of us? Or do you
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: say she might've been a little bit out of line there. And, uh,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: if she wasn't such a big star, there'd probably be
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: some disciplinary actions probably, but, uh, maybe we get a,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: get a little slide, a little, little favoritism because she
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: is so good and has meant so much to the WNBA.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Any thoughts on that? Let us know on the Talk
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Back feature. We'll take a break at 642.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: I was absolutely fascinated to read what I could see
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: yesterday about the The two pilots, well, actually the one
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: pilot who apparently was trying to kill everybody in Israel,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: the Israeli jet airliner yesterday, and the people who stepped
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: up and saved everybody's lives, and the one guy who
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: was like a plumber who was, I think it was
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: the plumber who ended up flying the plane for a
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: little while. He said he was watching some sort of
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: mini-series and learned how to fly a plane that way.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: It was an unbelievable scene. And then they get to
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: meet Benjamin Netanyahu still covered in blood. It was just unbelievable.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: We're still talking about that Asia Wilson story with the fan.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: And first, more from Asia.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: And then a talkback.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Alright.
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: If I'm Just walking because I just got the foul.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I'm chilling.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: And if I see a man come at me, taking
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: steps towards me and pointing at me, I don't give
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: a damn what you said. I don't give a damn
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: how you said it. The tone that is unacceptable. You
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: don't step towards me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: This is Peggy from Summerville regarding the WNBA. The reason
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: the fans are upset is because the rules clearly state
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: that Asia Wilson should have been ejected as well as
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: any players that left the bench.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: She's not wrong. Peggy's not wrong.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Peggy.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Asia got a technical foul, but did not get ejected.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And we'll be following that story and others coming up.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one Oh three,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: five FM and five 60 AM WVOC Columbia and 94,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: three WSC Charleston.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I just heard Alan Wilson's name being used
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: there in the news update for South Carolina. You know, Christopher,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: we missed it yesterday. It was Alan Wilson and Jennifer
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Wilson's 20th anniversary. We should have been all over that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: We're their favorite morning show. What's going on? How did
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: we miss that one? I saw it on social media yesterday.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, we totally blew that one. But anyway,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I hope they had a fantastic anniversary. And that's an
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: interesting update, talking about the idea that you could be
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: entitled to some extra money. because you were overcharged for
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: drugs here in South Carolina. That's the first I'd heard
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: of that. Is that something you'd heard of earlier?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: So that is good. Again, I think the website was
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: like agdrugs.gov or something like that. I'm sure if you
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: just went to Alan Will, the AG's website, you could
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: learn more about that. The story out of Latson is
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: very upsetting. If you haven't heard this yet, there's a mother,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: 31 years old, uh, has now been charged yesterday. And, uh,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: her name is Justine May, I think. Uh, according to
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: the authorities in Lansing, uh, she's now being charged with
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: two counts of homicide by child abuse. According to the
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Charleston County court records, law enforcement took, took her into custody.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: September 29th was that two days ago now. Um, Yesterday,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: they had a bond appearance. Initial court appearance is now
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: scheduled for November 20th. What she told the authorities was
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: that it was just a blur, and she doesn't remember
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: if I fed the kids. I don't understand how that happens. Like, apparently,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the neighbors, including a local pastor, started reaching out to
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: the authorities, says that the family was very quiet. but
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: it made me wonder what was going on in that house.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: And it just, now that they know that what was
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: happening in that house was the children apparently were not
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: being fed. I'm not sure what the community could have
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: done differently. Like, is it your job to go? Is it,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: would it be intrusive if I started going around and
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: knocking on my neighbor's doors? Hey, you feeding your kids?
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, probably would be bad. I would put more responsibility
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: on the family members. I understand that Justine May was
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: isolating herself and her children from everyone around her, including
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: her family members. But it sounds like she had said
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: enough on social media to where a welfare check would
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: have been extremely justified.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, so in 2024, the last year for which data
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: is available, the Department of Child Fatalities investigated 328 child fatalities,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: opening 326 new cases. The unit investigates 25 allegations of
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: child abuse or neglect during that timeframe. Charleston County Coroner's
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Office hasn't released the names or ages of the individuals
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: found dead in the home. But, yeah, she was saying
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: things on social media that made her sound crazy. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I would think that her family would have been the
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: ones that were calling for, like, welfare checks.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Apparently the father was concerned, too, who was not living
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: in the residence, but the father of the children was
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: concerned enough to, you know, constantly try and get in
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: touch with her and say, I want to see the kids.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: In one of her posts from September 13th, she said, Yes,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: my mom called the police and told them that I'm,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: would you pronounce that? Nyx, N-Y-X, the goddess of night.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: That's how crazy she is. Now they're trying to stick
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: their lies to save face. But like I said, I
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: have nothing to hide. I don't know what she's talking about,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: who Nyx, the goddess of night is. But if that's,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I would think then that what we're going to find
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: out is that the reason she would know that would
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: be that the police came to the house. Or maybe
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: they didn't. And she just assumed that her mom said
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: that to the cops. I don't know. But this is
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: just a heartbreaking story on Flatson. And a reminder that
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: we have no idea what's going on next door. You
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: literally have no clue what's going on in the house
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: next door. And many of us find ourselves shocked to
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: find out that there's really crazy things happening. I live
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: in a relatively nice neighborhood. Um, the lady across the
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: street from me bought the house from our old boss.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: You remember LJ?
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: That's if you ever went to any of the parties
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: that he had at his house, that is across the
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: street from the house that I ended up buying about
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: nine years ago. Well, the lady who bought that from
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: him was a nice enough lady. I didn't know anything
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: about her. Really. I met her several times. She seemed lovely.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: She wanted her children. She, that's a very big house
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: that she bought. It's the biggest house in the neighborhood.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: It's like 6,000 square feet. She bought that house. She said,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: cause I want my kids and my grandkids to spend
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: a lot of time here. Well, she got what she wished.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: The kid, one of the kids moved in and brought
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: the daughter with her. And one night that lady, the
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: daughter went crazy and murdered the mother. Oh my goodness.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: My wife calls me and said, there's cops all over
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: the neighborhood and, it appears pulling a body out of
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the house across the street. It's like, what? And then
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: of course, my wife, who is very into investigations, did
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: a deep dive on all kinds of social media platforms
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: and found out everything she could find out. But I mean,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: there was all kinds of warning signals online if you
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: were to look at their social media posts. And we
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: weren't friends with them on social media, so we weren't
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: looking at those types of things. But now that we've
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: seen it, it's like, oh my gosh, there were red
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: flags all over the place.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: And apparently there were red flags all over the place
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: in this one down in Latsin. And what a tragedy.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Two children who apparently died, I would assume, very miserable, long, slow,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: torturous deaths because nobody was there to keep an eye
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: out on them. And I'm assuming not of school age either, right, Christopher?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: That would be the implication?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I don't think we know for sure,
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: but it doesn't sound like it. I guess the father
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: of the children had had a previous domestic violence situation
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: with this woman. So when he was calling police and
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: calling DSS, they actually accused him of harassment.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: And, and that's a very unfortunate thing where, you know, I,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: obviously nobody knows what really happened between him and her,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: but it would seem now that she was using the
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: system to keep him away when in fact he may
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: have been the only hope that they had. Yeah. Oh, heartbreaking, heartbreaking. Well,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: We'll get you some more happy news. We're going to
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: get the vibe back up and running. But that was
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: one of those stories that's going to go national, I imagine.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: That's going to be one of those stories that broke
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: yesterday afternoon for most of us. And I imagine you'll
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: start seeing that on Fox News or those types of
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: outlets by the weekend.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: The next Lindsay Clancy.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. Let's hope not. Let's hope not. And
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: that case continues to get more and more bizarre with
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: the Reddington guy saying, now I don't know that she
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: did it. We might have to retry this thing and
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: find out that she didn't actually do anything. What are
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: you talking about, you nutjobs? Don't tell me liberalism is
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: not a mental illness. Anyway, we'll take a break and
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: back with more. It's 710.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: One of the things I look at is this job
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: is I'm like a chiropractor. I am adjusting you after
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: the wear and tear of being exposed to the mainstream media.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: They don't. they'd get you out of whack and you
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: need a realignment just to be aligned with reality. So
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: the story out of Texas, I think it was a
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: week and a half ago where the illegal alien, he
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: didn't know what was happening, why these people were trying
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: to pull him over. And then they ended up ramming
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: his car and then they shot him and then they
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: didn't do anything nice to him. And then they dragged
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: him off to prison. And it was only there that
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: he found out while he was, you know, hooked up
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: to an IV or something that, You were supposed to
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: have been deported a year ago. That is the story
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: that the mainstream media told at the time. That is
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: what was put out on social media. And that's why
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: you had hundreds, if not thousands of people protesting and occupying.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Texas over this, you know, they're targeting Brown people. Let me,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: you know, let me play you his attorney. This is
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: his attorney yesterday. This is on MS. Now we'll give
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: you the rest of the story in a second, but
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: here she is talking about the, the illegal story. who was, again,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: just a DoorDash delivery guy trying to make his way
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: here in America the best he could, and the very
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: rude treatment that he got. And by the way, yesterday,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: charges were filed against him.
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: Instead of pursuing him or talking to him in a
• 30:13
  Speaker 12: nonviolent way, two agents went out on the road, rammed
• 30:16
  Speaker 12: him with their car, shot him in the back, pulled
• 30:19
  Speaker 12: him out of the vehicle while he was still bleeding,
• 30:22
  Speaker 12: pressured the doctors to discharge him from the hospital within
• 30:24
  Speaker 12: four hours, did not give him pain medication for nine,
• 30:28
  Speaker 12: now going on 10 days. And rather than defend what
• 30:31
  Speaker 12: their actions in a habeas hearing, they have issued a
• 30:34
  Speaker 12: surprise criminal complaint and transferred him to another city, forcing
• 30:38
  Speaker 12: us to defend him in this criminal case.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh. What a horrible place we are to
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: do all that to this poor, innocent brown person who
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: just wanted to be a DoorDash delivery guy. That's all
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: you're hearing on MSNOW. Now, let's go to This Is
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: News Nation delivering the actual news about what happened yesterday.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: Newly released sworn affidavit today, the 28-year-old was first pulled
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: over by ICE officers, identifying him as having an existing
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: order for deportation. Now, a criminal complaint states... Garces Perez
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: ignored the officer's commands, and then he took off. It
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: states as he tried to drive off, the driver's side
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: mirror hit one of the officers in the torso. It
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: also details a brief car chase that ensued before that
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: officer shot into the car, hitting Garces Perez in his back.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: The story dramatically changes. Once you understand that he, when
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: you see those chases, first off, we always saw the
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: chase with the blue lights.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: He said at first that there were no blue lights.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: He didn't know who was chasing.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: I'm just being chased by these random dark vehicles. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: don't know what's going on. I could be in the
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: middle of a bond movie. Um, But now that we
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: know that that chase started after he had been pulled over,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: after he had talked to the cops, and then actually
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: hit the cop with the car. Yes, they're coming after you.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: And then when they finally rammed the vehicle, he still
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: wouldn't stop. And that's when they shot him. And then
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: when you see the video, the body cam footage of
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: him being, he was not aggressively pulled out of the vehicle.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: They gave him time. He actually sat there and talked
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: to him for a minute while he gathered himself. Now,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: the cops have their weapons pulled on him and stuff,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: but they're not dragging him out. I like the defense attorney.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: They spoke to him in a violent manner. What do
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: they say? Violently. You're being deported. That's violence. That's violence.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: You can't tell me I'm being deported.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Step out of the car.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: That's violence. And then they chased him in a violent manner.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Is there a way to chase somebody, Christopher, in a
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: nonviolent manner where I'm just creeping behind you?
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: I'm peacefully behind you. After he used his car as
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: a weapon. And, you know, who knows how many people
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: he could have killed in that chase.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: And that's the other point. You know, when you're here
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: as a... You're applying to be a citizen. Okay? He,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: in 2025... his attorney originally said he's here on a
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: work visa. No, he wasn't. He was here. He had
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: a work visa that work visa expired in the middle
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: of last year. And that's when he was contacted by
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: department of Homeland security and said, Hey, just so you know, if,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: If you're still living at that residence, you're not supposed
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: to be here anymore because your work visa has expired.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Your application for another has been rejected. You have now
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: been taken to court and a federal judge has ruled
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: you are to be deported. So take us up on
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: the offer that we were talking about yesterday, $ 3, 000. We'll
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: pay you $ 3, 000 and give you free airfare home. He
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: instead chose to stay here. And when he stayed here,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: he was, again, this is me trying to be on
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: my best behavior. This it's like what I was saying earlier,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: if you're going out on a date, the first couple
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: of dates you have with somebody, that's the best it's
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: going to get. This is the best he's going to be.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: He's guys never going to be any better than he
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: was this week when he ran over a cop and
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: ended up in a high speed chase in the middle
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: of like residential neighborhoods going 80, 90 miles an hour.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: It was insane. So no, I, by the way, he's
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: not being deported right now. Now he's looking at 20
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: years in prison.
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: So.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Maybe 20 years in one of our prisons is better
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: than going to wherever he's from. But I hate the
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: fact that we have to pay for it. So there
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: you go. You are now readjusted back to reality. That's
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: the reality of what happened in Texas with that illegal alien.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: The reality that happened in Tennessee, Christopher, I think we've
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: got to talk about that next because that is just unbelievable.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: It's 721.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News Network.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: All right, the lady in Tennessee, I use the word
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: lady very loosely there. Her name is Krista Gail Pike.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: And in 1995, when she was 18 years old, she
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: murdered a 19-year-old woman named Colleen Slimmer in Knoxville. She
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: admitted to it, and it was not really in dispute.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: She said what happened was things got a little bit
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: out of hand. She was only trying to scare her. Um,
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: according to the others who there was one lookout and
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: there was another person involved, what actually happened was over
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: a 30 minute period, they had already planned to get
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: this woman isolated out in the woods. And then, uh,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: this individual Krista Gail Pike then tortured her, uh, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: basically was cutting her up alive, uh, carved a pentagram
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: into her chest while she was still alive. And then, uh, just,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: had enough and then picked up some concrete and crushed
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: her skull. And then bizarrely took pieces of the skull
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: to show kids at school and was arrested within 36 hours. Horrific.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Horrific.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Horrific murder, completely out of her mind. Just a nut job.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Now she was supposed to have been, originally she was executed,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: scheduled to be killed in the electrocution chair. That didn't happen,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: and things changed in Tennessee, and everything got pushed back
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: and pushed back and pushed back. So here she is.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: She was, what, 19 at the time? She's now 50
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: years old. She's been, you know, awaiting death forever, it seems.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: And there was so much movement yesterday and the day
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: previous regarding, are we actually going to execute her?
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: It didn't look like they were going to.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: She got like a stay in the middle of the
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: day or something yesterday. She had been scheduled originally for
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: 10 a.m. execution. She had committed it at 18, was
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: sentenced at 19. Be the first woman executed in Tennessee
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: in more than 200 years. An appeals court stops the
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: lethal injection just an hour before it was to start.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Then it goes to the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. Yesterday,
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: they overturned the stay. So now she's going down, correct?
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: But I don't know how this happens now. She survived.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: According to the authorities there, she got lethal injection, I
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: think two.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Two.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Two doses of phenobarbital.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: And was snoring loudly like 15, 20 minutes later. Snoring
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: loudly as they took her to, then they took her
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: to the hospital. I don't know why they took her
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: to the hospital. We're trying to kill her.
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: Apparently protocol only allows you. At least in Tennessee. I
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: don't know what our protocol says in South Carolina, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: protocol only allows you to do this twice, to administer
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: it twice.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: And then are we, is it like we're on a
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: shot clock? Like, what happened? We're going to try to
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: save her? So then they did take her to the hospital,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: and now the governor of Tennessee says she will not
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: be executed this year. So she's definitely going to make
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: it to the end of the year now. Um, no
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: one's going to be executed.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: We're, we're just pausing everything. Uh, we're going to review
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: everything that happened and I guess we'll try to get
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: her back on the docket. But this is one of
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: the most bizarre stories I've ever seen where I've never
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: heard of somebody surviving the lethal injection. And then we
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: rushed them to the hospital via ambulance in order to
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: save their lives.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Make it make sense.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 38:14
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: If you've got thoughts on that story, we'd love to
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: hear them. I'm sure you've got some smart aleck comments.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Please add them on the Talkback feature off the iHeartRadio app.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: We'll try to get to those soon. It's 7.30.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Morning, gents.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: This is Berger.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: I live in Charleston. I fly here with cargo. I'm
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: currently in Hanoi, Vietnam. I listen to the show every.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Day, but currently it's 6.30 at night, and I'm listening
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: in Hanoi.
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: That's amazing. Thank you. Did he say his name is Burger? Burger. Hello, Burger.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Burger from Hanoi.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: He's from Charleston.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: From Charleston, but he's in Hanoi now.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: That is fantastic. And so he's listening to us live
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: at like 630 at night in Vietnam. Should we say
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: good evening, Vietnam? Um, but, uh, Christopher, you were telling
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: me a couple of days ago because Christopher works very
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: hard on putting together a daily podcast of South Carolina
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: morning news. So that is up usually within about 20,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: 30 minutes, I guess, of the ending of the show.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Give me 30 minutes, 30 minutes. Um, and he just
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: puts it all together. And then for those of you
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: want to either go back and maybe hear parts again
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: that you, what the heck? did those two guys say?
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Or you missed something, you wanted to hear it, it's
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: there for you. And I'm surprised at how many people
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: actually go and actively search that out and download it
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: every day. But you were telling me the other day
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: that like we've got some sort of like where are
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: the people checking in from now?
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's all over the world at this point.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: The number of countries globally where people and it used
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: to be I could tell if somebody was traveling, a
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: loyal listener was traveling and you might show one download from, say,
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: France or England. It's I mean, we've got a number
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: of downloads from all over the world.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Can you think of any countries off the top of
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: your head that we could just give a shout-out to?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: We're giving a shout-out to Vietnam, first and foremost.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: What's up, Vietnams in the house? Who else is in
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: the house?
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: All right, you're going to put me on the spot,
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: so I'm going to actually look and see the statistics
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: from the last month. We have had, for example, geolocation
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: of 49 downloads from Singapore.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Singapore. Whenever you're listening to the podcast, if
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: you're listening to the podcast, it could be anytime. Now, obviously,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: in Hanoi, we just said it's 630, I guess, 638
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: probably there in Hanoi. But if you're listening to the podcast,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: you could be listening to it in the middle of
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: the night. You can be listening to it whenever. So, yes,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Singapore's being represented.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Kelly Nash is huge in Singapore. Japan, Austria, Brazil, Turkey, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Italy, Mexico. Pakistan, Vietnam. Okay,
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: I bet that's burger. United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I could keep going.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, it is insane. Suddenly our little South Carolina
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: morning news show has a global footprint. Well, thank you, Earth.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: And, you know, we're company men, but I should say
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: the iHeartRadio app is a pretty amazing thing.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. When they first rolled that thing out and said
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: you could listen to radio stations, any radio station, wherever,
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: I was fascinated by that technology. And they continue to
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: improve it. And so when I say improve, what I
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: love about it is the presets. So there are like,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I'll give a shout out to one of our sister stations.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: I get to fill in every now and again on
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: KFYI in Phoenix. And I actually have a weekend show.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: that airs Saturday nights in Phoenix. But I'm a big
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: fan of their morning show. So a guy named James T.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Harris hosts the conservative circus is what they call that show.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: And so that's one of my presets. It was like
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: your old school radio dial. You can have presets. So
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I have KFYI on there. I have WSC on there.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: I have WCOS, the country station on there. And then
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I put on some other stations like for my home
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: state of Connecticut. Sometimes if I want to hear some
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: liberal music, lunacy i'll go and listen to some of
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the news talk stations up there whatever uh or your
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: favorite talk stations or your sports stations i should say
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: whatever you're into and nobody's into just one thing right
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: it's like you're a news talk person obviously you're listening
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: right now but you're probably into other things as well
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: maybe you like classic rock well they have classic rock
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: formats that you could just listen to non-stop classic rock
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: songs or if you can listen to live classic rock stations.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: You can do all those types of things. Or sports.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Or sports. Like I said, a lot of people are
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: from the Midwest, so maybe you're a Cleveland fan. I
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: worked in Cleveland briefly. I say briefly. Did I ever
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: tell you that was my first job? My first real job?
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: No.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: It was Cleveland, Ohio. I broke my mother's heart. I
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: played one year of basketball at Manchester was the name
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: of the school I went to. It was a division
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: three school. It doesn't even have a basketball team anymore.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: That's how bad we were actually, but that year they
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: were really good. So when I got there, I did
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: the one year I was shocked that I basically never
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: saw the floor. Like when I went in, I thought
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I was really good. And then we got to practice
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: and I realized I wasn't that good. And then I
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: was shocked that they never used me. So I was
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: riding the bench on a Division III team, realizing these
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: false dreams of NBA greatness are quickly evaporating. And what
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: am I going to do? I hate college. I hate
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: going to school. I had already been dabbling in radio.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: And one of my friends that I had been staying
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: in touch with had a job. He had moved to Cleveland.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: He'd been doing the afternoon show. They moved him to
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: the morning show. He said, do you want to be
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: the morning show producer? I was 19 years old, I think.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: And I said, yeah. He goes, you don't know anything
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: about it yet. And the other problem is you'd have
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: to be here next week. I said, I'll be there. Like,
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know how long it takes to drive to Cleveland,
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: but I'm going to drop out of college right now,
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: put whatever I can fit into my little Honda Civic,
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: and I will be driving to Cleveland. And that's what
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: I did. And I was in Cleveland from like, I
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: want to say February of 87 till it was literally
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Christmas week is when they fired the entire staff. Back
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: in those days, they used to just wipe out entire
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: air staffs. And so I was one of the... people,
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: I was young and green. I didn't realize that that's
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: how radio worked. And, uh, like they, the new owners
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: came in and said, you guys are doing great. We
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: just need to put a little more money behind you
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: for promotions and let everybody know what you're doing and
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: how great you are. And I'm like, yeah. And all
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: the veterans were like, they're totally firing us. I was like,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: what are you talking about? There was like the next
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: day I walked into the office and the guy was like, Hey,
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: I was like, what are you doing here at four
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: in the morning? Cause I was the producer for the
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: morning show. He's like, we need to have a talk.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: I was like, Oh my gosh, I got fired. So
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: that was how it all started. But if you're like
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: a sport that Cleveland sports fans are very passionate. So.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: We have Cleveland Sports Talk, whatever you like. It's all there,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: and it's a free download. Wherever you get apps, just
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: look for the iHeartRadio app. It's 742.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: All right. Is Georgia leading the way? It looks like
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: South Carolina falling behind when it comes to this big
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: I hate to say it because it's so sensitive. Gas prices.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: Gas prices. And Georgia just suspended their gas tax for
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: 30 days. We sit here with our people trying to
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: figure it out. Are they going to do anything about it?
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: We'll talk about that. Do you have thoughts on should
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: we suspend the gas tax? Would it help you if
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: they just said we're going to, what is it, 28
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: cents now? If we got rid of that for the
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: next 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, would you be
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: for that? Love to hear your thoughts on that. We'll
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: take your talkbacks on that and other issues. We'll take
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: a quick break. It's 748.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: It was a wild day in Tennessee. Yesterday, we had
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Krista Gale Pike was supposed to be executed. Then she
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: got a stay. like an hour before the execution. That
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: was then sent to the Supreme Court and they overruled
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: the stay. So she was supposed to be executed last
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: night at about eight o'clock. They gave her two injections.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: She survived both. And then as she was loudly snoring,
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: they then rushed her to the hospital to bring her
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: back to life. And Christopher, you're saying we're getting talkbacks
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: on this. Bob from Mount Pleasant.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Gentlemen, about that prisoner they tried to put to sleep,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: you missed the obvious reference to Nancy Pelosi.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: They had to save her in order to kill her. Yes,
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi, for those of you new to politics, famously
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: said back around 2010, 2011, I can't remember exactly what
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: year it was, but we have to pass the Affordable
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Care Act in order to see what's in the Affordable
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Care Act. Some great legislation changes. Right there. That's fantastic
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: work from Bob. Was he down in Charleston?
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: Thank you for reminding me of Nancy Pelosi and that
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: fantastic insights as to how legislation is passed. You just
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: got to pass it. And then we get to see
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: what's inside of it. It's like a Christmas gift. You
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: unwrap it with this young lady. So we've canceled all executions.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: I say we. The state of Tennessee has now canceled
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: all executions until the end of the year.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Trying to figure out what went wrong there.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: And again, for the life of me, never understand. You
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: have decided as the state that this woman is to die,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: and then you've given her two doses of whatever that
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: drug is, and it just made her snore. Why not
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: give her some more? Why say we have a limit
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: of just two injections? Why not three? Why not four?
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Why not 10? Do what it takes. And by the way,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: when you're asleep like that, have you ever had like
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: a tooth, you know, or some sort of dental surgery
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: where they just numb everything? Or if you've been put out,
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: you don't know what they're doing. You're not suffering anything.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: I had part of my jaw removed once. I didn't
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: feel a thing. So anyway, we'll continue that debate, I suppose,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: for more passionate ways of killing people. Got to be
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: nice about it.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: And good morning, Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. We mentioned
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: briefly before the top of the hour that Georgia announced
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: that they're going to do a 30-day suspension of their
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: gas tax. Briefly, some local leaders like Representative Brandon Newton,
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Republican Lancaster, and says that he's not for suspending the
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: South Carolina gas tax because it would impact the ability
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: for us to repair our roads and points to the
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: fact that we just got a D plus on our
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: roads in South Carolina. So we need to continue to
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: maintain that. However, you've got like the state Senate minority leader,
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Brad Hutto, Democrat, Orangeburg says we absolutely need to do this.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: And we have emergency funding available if we want to
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: continue with the roadwork. So those are some of the
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: opinions of the leaders, but Christopher says we've got a
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: bunch of opinions coming in on the talkback feature as well. Hey,
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: it's Scott in Columbia.
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the suspending of the gas tax would help people
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: a lot.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: Whether it be five.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Cents, any little bit of savings.
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: of consumables that people use and they could save money
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: on it would help people tremendously.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Good morning!
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: From Newberry here.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: As someone who drives from Newberry to Columbia almost every day,
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: they should have suspended that gas tax from day one.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: This is Steven from Reesville. I do not think they
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: need to suspend.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: The gas tax.
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: Everybody complains about the roads, but nobody wants to pay
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: for it.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: How do you think that stuff gets done? The road
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: in front of my mom's house just got paid for
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: the first time in 48 years. Good morning, guys.
• 50:14
  Speaker 14: The suspension of the gas tax needs to happen. This
• 50:18
  Speaker 14: is Kevin Hunter from out in the Ballantyne area. What
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: it does is shows every single person out there, regardless
• 50:26
  Speaker 14: of where you are socioeconomically, that your politicians are with
• 50:29
  Speaker 14: you and they're willing to share the burden and let
• 50:33
  Speaker 14: the state take a little bit of a haircut when
• 50:36
  Speaker 14: it comes to money available. Thanks.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: All right, man. We did get some wide and varied
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: opinions there, Christopher. Yes, we did. You know, one of
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: the things that I think is lost in this whole debate,
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: and it's been an issue that when I was doing
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: the afternoon show on WVOC years ago, I started making
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: this a talking point for the show. Never went anywhere.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Maybe now's a good time to bring back that talking point.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: If you were to compare South Carolina to Georgia, Obviously,
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Georgia is a much larger state, just mass-wise, geographically-wise. They
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: are huge. If you were to look at the amount
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: of roads in Georgia, it's about 128,000 miles of roads.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: And then if you would look at the amount of
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: roads in South Carolina, it's about 62,000 miles. So again,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: we're half the size of Georgia when it comes to roads.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: The question then becomes, how is it possible And I
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: have the answer. How is it possible that Georgia only
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: has 18,000 state-run roads, 18,000 miles of state-run roads, and
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: South Carolina has over 41,000? And the answer is rather obvious,
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: that the South Carolina legislature for years wanted more and
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: more power over the roads in order to tax you
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: more and more and then distribute it however they see fit.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: This policy of the South Carolina legislature has been a
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: total crap fest since they started it. If you were
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: to look at states and what they spend per mile
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: on maintenance, the top states, obviously going to be liberal. Massachusetts,
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: New York, New Jersey average 250,000 miles per mile on
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: what they have on state roads. South Carolina is less
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: than $ 30, 000 per mile. We need to let the states
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: or the state needs to give these roads back to
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: the counties. Let the counties and the towns, like Georgia does,
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: like North Carolina does, like all sane states do, they
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: don't want to be centralized government power brokers over our roads.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: They actually do, but they shouldn't be. This should be
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: something that we talk to our representatives here in the
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: statehouse about more often. And so I think that this
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: time that we're in where we're looking at a gas tax,
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: maybe suspending a gas tax, people bringing up great points.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: That young man said that his mother just had her
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: road paved for the first time in like 40 years.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: It's probably a state road. Probably shouldn't be a state road.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: I don't know where she lives exactly, but... if Georgia
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: has 18,000 miles of state roads, we should have half
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: of that. So we should be at 9,000, but yet
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: here we are at 40,000 plus.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, if the counties are going to assume responsibility,
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: the state's going to have to provide some money. It's
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: going to have to come out of the state coffers
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: to the counties. And some counties are more equipped to
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: do things with the roads than others. I mean, your
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: larger counties have transportation departments and they're used to doing
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: this kind of thing. Some of the smaller counties probably
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: couldn't handle that.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, if they were given the opportunity, they
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: would work it out. And again, when I, when I
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: think about government and I'll, this is one of my just,
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: you don't like to make just blanket statements, but this
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: is a blanket statement. Government works better when it's closer
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: to the people.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: That's why the federal government is the worst form of
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: government because they're as far away from you as possible.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: Then you've got the state government, which is closer, but
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: not close. Then you get county, which is much better
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: because you're in the county and you can actually probably
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: go to a county council meeting and those types of things.
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: And then you get town meetings. And that's really where
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: people can interface with their towns and talk about their
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: actual problems and roads, no matter where you live. I mean,
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: I don't care if you live in New York, New Jersey, whatever,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: but you can live in South Carolina, which is rated
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: one of the worst road States in America. Uh, It
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter where you live. People always complain about the roads.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: And when your legislator lives, the person deciding where to
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: spend the money actually lives in the same town as you.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: You're more likely to get that road fixed because they're
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: aware of it as well. And when you start talking
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: about like we were mentioning Ladsen earlier and one of
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: the how many. State representatives have ever even been to Latsen.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: They don't know what's going on there. They don't care
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: what's going on there. But the people in Latsen care.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: The people in, you know, insert the name of the
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: town that's not a big town in the upstate, midlands,
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: or low country, it doesn't matter. Those people care. And
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: they should have available representation that can actually make an
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: effect instead of being just outvoted by the big state
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: bureaus up here. That's my thoughts on that. Do you
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: have thoughts on whether or not we should start giving
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: the roads back to the counties and towns? Let us know.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: By the way, this is a really crazy conspiracy theory.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: If you love conspiracy theories, we're going to get into
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: that next. But we'll take more of your talkbacks as
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: well off the iHeartRadio app. It's 810.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: Well, the Free Free Palestinian crew has got a hot
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: new conspiracy that they're rolling out today in response to
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: what happened yesterday with the Indian pilots. We know at
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: least the main pilot was an Indian because India is
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: like having parades today to celebrate this guy. But she says,
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: and this video has now got over 4 million views,
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: she's got a hot new conspiracy to roll out.
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: Zionists have consistently been saying that there is going to
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: be another 9-11 style attack. A pilot somehow is able
• 56:46
  Speaker 8: to sneak a knife onto an airplane. Then they say
• 56:51
  Speaker 8: that the passengers were somehow able to break into the cockpit,
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: which is impossible. And when they realized that this is impossible,
• 57:02
  Speaker 8: they changed the story to the pilot who was stabbed
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: somehow in a miraculous James Bond type of move, used
• 57:11
  Speaker 8: his leg to let the passengers into the cockpit, allowing
• 57:16
  Speaker 8: them to overtake the so-called hijacker.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Her basic theory is that Israel somehow, I guess, paid
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: somebody to try to fly the plane into the ground
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: and kill everybody and or That guy was just willing
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: to pose as a terrorist and then face life in
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: prison for the cause of the Zionists.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: So to turn Israel into a martyr in the world's
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: eyes and look, we've been attacked.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes.
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: I don't think Israel needs to do that. They're attacked
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: practically every day.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, but this is now being spread. So when
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: you talk to people on the left, realize you're talking
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: with people who are suffering a mental illness. When this
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: passes as, you know what, I hadn't considered that. And
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: then it would have been a miracle for the guy
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: who'd been stabbed to actually open up the door. No,
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: it wouldn't.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: He explained how he did it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: And at no point did he ever say they kicked
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: the door in. And why is it so hard to
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: believe that somebody could smuggle anything onto a plane? We
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: have people every day in America, which has some of
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: the tightest security, getting arrested after they found out that
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: they smuggled something inadvertently into a plane. Even TSA misses
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: things from time to time. And if it's a pilot
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: who knows what he's doing, I don't have a hard
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: time believing at all that he could smuggle a knife
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: onto a plane. Goodness gracious, this lady's imagination is fantastic.
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: I give her an A for effort, but the fact
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: that there's so many people retweeting this and going, see,
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: I knew it was Israel all along. The Jews are
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: behind all of it. It's crazy how far gone these
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: people are. All right, well, if you have thoughts on
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: that story, I'm going to still treat it as the
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: plumbers of a hero, as are all the people who
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: overtook the would-be assassin, who was willing to kill himself, apparently, in.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: The whole thing.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: A hijacker. Not just two pilots scrapping, as we were
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: originally told.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. One of the pilots, the co-pilot, tried to kill
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: the other pilot and then tried to drive the plane
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: into the ground and kill everybody on board. but he
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: was doing so under some sort of orders from Israel. Okay.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: All right. If y'all want to buy that, uh, let
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: us know what you think on that or other stories.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: We'll take your talk backs off the I heart radio app.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: It's eight 18.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's interesting when you follow the economy. Um,
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: is it good? Is it bad? What, what, what makes
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: it good? What makes it bad? So according to the
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: report that came out yesterday, uh, You people got a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: lot of money. That's what it says. It says the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: increases in consumer spending were driven mostly on recreational goods
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: and vehicles. That's where the money was going. So we've
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: got too much money. We're enjoying ourselves too much. Now,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: the inflation continues to be about 3%, a little over 3%,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: back to 3%, I think, on core inflation. So if
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: you look at people, you know, they bet on everything.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: Before that announcement yesterday, the idea that the Fed was
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: going to raise the interest rate again in October was
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: at about 70.9%. It is now dropped down to 58.5%.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: So it's still above a 50% chance that you're going
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: to get another rate hike because we have too much money.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: And yet people complain that we don't have enough money.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: And so how do you win? This is what Trump's
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: always talking about, right? We got a great economy, and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: they just keep punishing us. We should be at 1%
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: should be the Fed rate. That's what we should be at.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: But if the people have disposable income and or access
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: to relatively inexpensive credit, they're going to spend it. And
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: we are spending, and we continue to spend, which is
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: a sign of a very healthy economy, but it drives
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: up the inflation rate, which then gets us another... Fed hike.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: Well, just going back to the conversation that you had
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: at the beginning of the hour talking about maybe suspending
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: the South Carolina gas tax, that seems to be the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 6: one that's resonating the most. Gas prices, right? No matter
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: what you tell people, the economy is great. You've got
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: more money than you've ever had.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: There are more.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, people have more wealth than they've ever had.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: People are fixated on the price of gas. They're going
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: to the pump once a week or once every two weeks,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: and it's hitting them hard. I think not only if
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: South Carolina suspended the gas tax, I think in addition to,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: you know, just simply helping residency or people might see it.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: Most people don't know what they're paying for and don't
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: know all the prices and all the add ons at
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: the pump. They might actually credit Republicans and Trump ultimately
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: for that. I think it's it's probably a smart move
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: if you were to do it before the election anyway.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: Talking with Brett Krenwall, he's a U.S. investment analyst. He
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: says that the economy is holding up, but the momentum
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: remains modest. But the bigger takeaway is how much better
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: would the economy have been without the disruptions pointing specifically
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: to Iran, specifically to gas prices? How much better would
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: it have been? Now, I have a shocking update on
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: that that I will get to after the bottom of
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: the hour news break. And when I saw this statistic
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: last night, my jaw literally dropped.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, I think I saw the same thing you did.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: We're going to talk about that, maybe get some of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: your talk back. If you know what I'm alluding to,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: maybe you can get an early talk back in, and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 4: we'll get to that next. What do the U.S.— voters want.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: We'll talk about it coming up on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: If you're like me, by the way, I'm Kelly Nash.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: That's Christopher Thompson. I think we're pretty close politically when
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: it comes to how we look at the best policies,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: which would be conservative policies, which for the most part
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: include competition, drives down costs. and makes services and goods better.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: That's typically the way most conservatives look at things. Liberals
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: typically look at things as we want more government control.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: We want to have more social services and those types
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: of things. There was a poll about three weeks ago
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: from CBS News, which I tried to fluff that off.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: In my heart of hearts, I wanted to say it's
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: not real. And then we got a new poll yesterday
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: from the Wall Street Journal. And so the Wall Street
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: Journal combined with the CBS News poll makes me think that,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: you know what, I can't fluff it off anymore. That
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: Americans are now at the point of desperation. And I don't,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: you know, we can credit it to we're soft. We
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: can credit it to whatever. I don't, it doesn't matter
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: why we're at where we're at. But the majority of
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: Americans want government price controls on a lot of things.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: For example, they agree with Elizabeth Warren that there should
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: be a max that you have to spend annually on medicine, operations, whatever.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: They want child care. Ironically, they hate Mamdani's idea of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: government-controlled grocery stores. They also hated Donald Trump's idea of
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: the $ 5, 000 check. Only like 25% of people approved of
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: that idea. But when it gets back to Gas prices,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: drug prices, even, I was shocked at this one, credit cards.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: They want that capped at 10%, that the most interest
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: you could pay on a credit card is 10%. If,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: I hate to say this, I mean, I have good credit,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: so I would get approved. But the vast majority of Americans,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: you would then lose access to your credit cards because
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: they would say, well, we don't, there's no way we
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: can believe that they're going to make annual or monthly
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: payments on time. So no, you don't get one. We're
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: going to destroy ourselves in order to try to give
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: ourselves a sense of comfort.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: Destroy any private businesses, certainly, when you put fixes on that.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: And again, fixes on everything. I was not joking when
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: I offered the idea that Trump set the gas prices
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: at $ 2. 95 a gallon and do it for 90 days,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: kind of similar to what Richard Nixon was trying back
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: in 71. That's overwhelmingly popular. About 80% of people think
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: that we shouldn't have to pay more than $ 3 a
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: gallon for gas, ever.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: But do they think the government should fix the price,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: or do they think that's the way the price should
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: always be?
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: No, they want the government to step in. 30 policy
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: proposals that are being debated by lawmakers of 16, including
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: all government assistance for living costs, health care, taxation, 14
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: received majority support, including 10 that were backed by two-thirds
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: of the voters. 78% of voters said you need to
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: cap child healthcare or childcare costs for any working mom
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: and or family cap it. So make it like a
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: hundred dollars a week, whatever else is, if they're going
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: to get any more, they're going to have to get
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: it from the federal government. They're not going to get
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: it from a family. Similar share the same supports about
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: creating a government website for help consumers find discounted prescription drugs,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: which is Donald Trump is trying to do the Trump
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: RX thing. They love that idea. Four and five voters said,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: cap credit card interest at no more than 10% for
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: any American. Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley have
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: backed legislation establishing a cap, while Trump has also called
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: for the 10% limit. The survey also found broad support
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: for measures outside the traditional economic policy divisions between Democrats
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: and Republicans. Large majorities. So Democrats, Republicans, moderates want what
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: we've got right now with a strong border. They want that. Mm-hmm.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: They also want the people that are here illegally, that
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: have not caused any troubles, to be made citizens. That's
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: the majority of Republicans, the overwhelming majority of independents, and
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: of course, 100% almost of Democrats, want all illegals who
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: have not committed a crime to have an opportunity to
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: become a citizen.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: But they have committed a crime. They're here illegally.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: Now, technically, Christopher, that's a misdemeanor, so... Again, I'm one
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: of those people who say Congress should go back and
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: make it a felony, but that's neither here nor there.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you what the will of the people is.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: The will of the people, as the Democrat pollster, John Anzalone,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: working with Republican pollster Adam Geller said, we need to
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: start thinking about the world more as populism is the
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: dominant ideology. Democrats are getting our butts handed to us
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: when it comes to the Trump policies, but Republicans are
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: missing out on a lot of great Democrat policies. Thoughts
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: on that, everybody? Wow. Thoughts on that? How do you
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: feel about that? I was shocked about the 10% interest
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 4: rate cap because, again, that's going to destroy the credit market.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: But the idea that you should never have to pay
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: more than $ 100 a month for childcare or you shouldn't
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: have to pay more than $ 3 a gallon for gas, whatever,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: that you as an individual will have all of your
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: needs met at a very affordable cost because the government
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: is stepping in to make sure that it happens. You know,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: that there should be like when they're talking about housing.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: they're talking about maybe in certain neighborhoods, you just cap
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: the price. It could never go over that. That house
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: could never sell for more than $ 300, 000. You bought it
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: 15 years ago at 300 grand, it's still 300 grand today.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: What do you think of these ideas? It would certainly
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: make housing more affordable.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: And Most builders would say, I'm not getting involved with that.
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  Speaker 6: You might have a housing shortage in the future.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe we would force the government to
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  Speaker 4: build more houses. Would you like the government to get
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  Speaker 4: into the building industry? Do you think that they would
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  Speaker 4: make quality homes for you? There's a lot to explore here. Again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you what the polls are saying. It's,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, too late to debate it now. How much
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  Speaker 4: do we adjust to it in order to win elections?
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  Speaker 4: Hi there. I'm Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. We're talking
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  Speaker 4: about that Wall Street Journal poll that was done yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: And for those of you wondering, it's bipartisan. 60% of
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  Speaker 4: the people in that poll had negative thoughts about the
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  Speaker 4: Democrat Party. 50% have negative views on the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 4: 36% say that they look at the Democrats favorably. 45%
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  Speaker 4: say they look at the Republicans favorably. And They don't
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  Speaker 4: like either party, really, but they do like parts of
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  Speaker 4: each party. And one of the things that they were
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  Speaker 4: surprising us on was the economy and what they want capped.
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  Speaker 4: They want the government to control a lot of the things,
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  Speaker 4: including housing prices, gas prices, credit and stuff. And somebody's
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  Speaker 4: got to talk back on how to fix this or
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  Speaker 4: what we should do.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 13: This is Chip and Swansea. I really think that if
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  Speaker 13: you did away with the lobbyists and how much money
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  Speaker 13: they can pay off our government officials to either one,
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  Speaker 13: keep them in office, or two, get them to vote
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  Speaker 13: a certain way because they want to stay in office,
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  Speaker 13: get those term limits in and get some things turned around,
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  Speaker 13: and you wouldn't have to worry about the government setting
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  Speaker 13: our prices.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Chip. Appreciate it. Another part of that poll
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  Speaker 4: was that the overwhelming majority, it was like 80 percent,
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  Speaker 4: love the idea of a strong border, which we've already got.
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  Speaker 4: So they give the Republicans credit, but they don't like
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans plan of deporting illegal aliens who are have
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  Speaker 4: not committed any other crimes. To your point, Christopher, no
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  Speaker 4: further crimes. They overwhelming majority of them want a pathway
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  Speaker 4: to citizenship for them. And we got a thought on that.
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  Speaker 4: Ron from Columbia, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: In regards to the illegals, they can join the military.
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  Speaker 5: If they put four years in the military successfully, they
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  Speaker 5: become automatic citizens. Or they have no voting rights for
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  Speaker 5: 50 years. Those are two points.
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  Speaker 4: Ron is already crafting legislation. I appreciate that. Ron's hard
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  Speaker 4: at work over there.
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  Speaker 3: And pretty hardcore, too.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Thank you for your talk, Bax. The more I
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  Speaker 4: sit here in this chair, I realize we have a really... Interesting,
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  Speaker 4: diverse group of people, but some pretty intelligent folks as well. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 4: Carl from Charleston.
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  Speaker 9: How about we stop using polls to set permanent public
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  Speaker 9: policy from people that don't pay attention and are temporarily
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  Speaker 9: emotional about the last headline they read?
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  Speaker 4: Tom from Charleston. Thank you for your talk back.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Carl.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it was Carl. I thought it said Tom. My bad.
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  Speaker 4: Carl from Charleston. Thank you for using the talk back
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  Speaker 4: feature to let us know what you're thinking. And I
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  Speaker 4: struggle here because I see his point and that usually
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  Speaker 4: most people are uninformed and don't know how to actually
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  Speaker 4: They just know what they want. And in America, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to probably have this interview. I'm going to do
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  Speaker 4: an interview today with a guy who's an Iranian, and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to talk about Iran. And I'll probably end
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  Speaker 4: up airing parts of that on the show either Friday
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  Speaker 4: or next week. But I was talking to him yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: and he grew up in Iran and left in 1979
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  Speaker 4: when he was a teenager. His father worked for the
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  Speaker 4: security of the Shah of Iran. And obviously, the country
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  Speaker 4: was falling. But he was talking about how he came
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  Speaker 4: to America, started as a dishwasher in Chicago, moved his
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  Speaker 4: way up. He's now a multi, multi, multimillionaire. And he
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  Speaker 4: was just talking about, I'm not blaming Americans for being soft,
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  Speaker 4: but we are incredibly soft people. And that we are
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  Speaker 4: willing to vote away freedom in exchange for lower gas prices.
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  Speaker 4: He can't fathom it. This guy's in his 60s now.
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  Speaker 4: And he's done really well here in America. And he
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  Speaker 4: loves America. And he You know, he became a U.S.
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  Speaker 4: citizen at the same time giving up his Iranian citizenship.
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  Speaker 4: But he talks about how the people in Iran, how
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  Speaker 4: tough they are and how he's like, you don't understand
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  Speaker 4: how those people are willing to die for certain things
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  Speaker 4: that they believe in. Most Americans are not willing to
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  Speaker 4: die to protect America. Most Americans are not. Most Americans
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  Speaker 4: don't even understand what is our government structure. I'm always
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  Speaker 4: dumbfounded when I see people like, you can't name the
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  Speaker 4: three branches of government in the United States? How did
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  Speaker 4: this happen that our people became so uninformed? And yet
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  Speaker 4: these are the people, to Carl's point, the politicians have
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  Speaker 4: to pay attention to these things if they're going to
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  Speaker 4: continue in power. They need to figure out ways to
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  Speaker 4: craft messaging and or policies that will get them elected. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: you can have all the principles you want and be,
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  Speaker 4: you know, doing your podcast. But you're not affecting policy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we tell them we want them to act on
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  Speaker 6: our behalf. And yet at the same time, we expect
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  Speaker 6: them to be smarter than us and realize they are
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  Speaker 6: smarter than us. And they need to do what's right
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  Speaker 6: for America, period. Not necessarily what's the public whim.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that Wall Street Journal poll that we were talking
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  Speaker 4: about had 1,500 people in it, plus or minus two
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  Speaker 4: and a half points. And that was ended on September 21st.
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  Speaker 4: So that is very fresh data. Maybe we'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: more of that tomorrow. Whatever else you want to get to,
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  Speaker 4: use that TalkBack feature. We'll check you out tomorrow morning.