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Show Rewind 9-17-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
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  Speaker 2: AM WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, people of the Palmetto State.
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  Speaker 3: This is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson. Good morning to you, too.
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  Speaker 4: Morning to you, Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: I was, by the way, I have good personal news
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  Speaker 3: that apparently the host that I've been filling in for
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  Speaker 3: out in Iowa in the afternoons, early evenings. which has
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  Speaker 3: been getting me to bed around 10 o'clock each night.
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  Speaker 3: He came back yesterday. He'll be back on the air today.
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  Speaker 3: That is good news. I got that in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the show, and I was like, are you serious?
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  Speaker 3: I can go home and go to sleep tomorrow? I
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  Speaker 3: have been absolutely exhausted. But because I was doing that
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  Speaker 3: show yesterday, and I haven't really been awake yet, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: although I mean, I'm here physically in the building, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not awake. Um, I didn't get to see much of
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  Speaker 3: anything about the Trump rally just up the road last
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  Speaker 3: night in, uh, was it Gastonia? Is that where he was?
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  Speaker 4: Gaston County.
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  Speaker 3: Gaston County. Um, he was there, he's campaigning obviously for the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Republican and I'm drawing a blank on his name, but
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  Speaker 3: I did see that he was closing in the polls
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  Speaker 3: up there that he'd gone from like 11% up to
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  Speaker 3: like 8% and some of the differences between him and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: The former governor, Cooper. So maybe I think that I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to try to interpret that as a good sign
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  Speaker 3: that Trump showing up for a rally in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: He believes that they can save the Republican seat because
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  Speaker 3: Tom Tillis has been a disaster. But the the the
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  Speaker 3: state of North Carolina is definitely a very purple state
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  Speaker 3: right now. And it's expected to go more blue. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking the fact that he invested that time yesterday
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  Speaker 3: means that he thinks that he can flip it.
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  Speaker 4: It's in play.
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  Speaker 3: It's in play.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling me we've got a shot.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but the whole thing about Kevin Warsh and the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: raising of the, um, The interest rates. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: funny because at the top of the hour, Fox News
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  Speaker 3: was talking about how, whatever, it's like the majority of
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  Speaker 3: Americans think that the economy is bad. The problem, the
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  Speaker 3: reason they raised it a quarter point yesterday is because
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  Speaker 3: it's too good. That is the actual problem. And it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to explain that to Americans, that what's happened is
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  Speaker 3: the inflation rate continues to hover at 3% to 4%.
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  Speaker 3: They want it down below 3%. And if they did
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  Speaker 3: what Trump had requested— I want it at 1%. We're
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  Speaker 3: the best country in the world. And he's right. We
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  Speaker 3: do carry the world's economy. All of that is factual.
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  Speaker 3: But if you were to lower it to 1%, well,
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  Speaker 3: the good news would be right now we're paying $ 1. 3
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  Speaker 3: trillion annually to service our debt. That is a lot
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  Speaker 3: of dough, $ 1. 3 trillion. If you cut it down to
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  Speaker 3: 1% interest rate, we'd only be paying like $ 400 billion.
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  Speaker 3: That would be fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: That's a huge cut.
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  Speaker 3: That would be huge. And Trump's right. It would certainly help.
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  Speaker 3: But it would also, in all likelihood, put more money
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  Speaker 3: into Americans' pockets. And that's what you can't have because
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  Speaker 3: then we would be spending it. And then we would
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  Speaker 3: be driving up inflation. And then everybody would be complaining
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  Speaker 3: because your dollars don't buy anything. Gas goes to whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and a loaf of bread is $ 30 or something stupid.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're like, well, how are we going to
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  Speaker 3: fix it? Well, the only way you could fix it
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  Speaker 3: at that point would be to then start lowering. There's
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  Speaker 3: nothing left to lower. So the only thing they could
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  Speaker 3: do is then double down and raise the interest rates again,
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  Speaker 3: and then you've got a double whammy, and then you're
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  Speaker 3: in a depression. So Kevin Worsh and the Fed trying
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  Speaker 3: to walk that fine line What did, what did, what's
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  Speaker 3: her name? Call it the, the old fed lady. I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to remember her name. She had that weird boy haircut.
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  Speaker 3: And she was like, inflation is transitory. That lady, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And then she said, we're looking for a soft landing.
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  Speaker 3: And then Joe Biden started using that phrase. We're going to,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to get a soft landing. Well, no, it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to get a soft landing. We're still possibly going
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  Speaker 3: to land the economy in a soft way, but usually
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  Speaker 3: it takes some pain. And right now, I think Americans
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  Speaker 3: are in that pain. So the soft landing has been,
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  Speaker 3: it hasn't arrived.
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  Speaker 4: In that feeling some pain, but as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 4: you told us a couple of days ago, we're making
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  Speaker 4: more money now than we ever have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Americans are. But again, I wonder, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 3: a study. If whatever the median income is right now,
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  Speaker 3: it's like $ 85, 000 or something, whatever it is. It does
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  Speaker 3: that by as much as the median income of let's
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  Speaker 3: not use the Joe Biden era because that era sucked.
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  Speaker 3: But if you go back to, say, the George W.
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  Speaker 3: Bush era or is there an era by the is
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  Speaker 3: there an era in the last in this century since
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  Speaker 3: 2000 where Americans were like, no, everything's really good. I really,
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  Speaker 3: really like it. I mean, I guess, well, Obama, you'd
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  Speaker 3: have to say they must have enjoyed it because they
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  Speaker 3: reelected him. Maybe if we went back and looked at, say,
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  Speaker 3: that 2011-2012 economy, do people look back at 2013-2014 and say, man,
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  Speaker 3: those were the good old days? It'd be very fascinating
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  Speaker 3: to see what your dollars today, how it lined up
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  Speaker 3: with that time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they say adjusted for inflation. We're making more now
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  Speaker 4: than we have since 1967. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Good research, Christopher. You are the research expert. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you what the census is reporting. We
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  Speaker 4: made $ 87, 460 last year, median households.
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  Speaker 6: $ 86, 000?
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  Speaker 3: $ 87, 000. I was in the ballpark by just $ 85, 000. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's a very interesting stat. Of course, the left would
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  Speaker 3: push back and go, you can't trust that. It's Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump's putting that information out. Oh, my gosh. We'll divide
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  Speaker 3: ourselves and fight over anything if we can't. All right,
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  Speaker 3: Statehouse News, we're going to get to that. Also, some
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  Speaker 3: interesting polling that's come out. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: stuff to get to, and any of your thoughts, you
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  Speaker 3: can use the talkback feature. We'd love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: From the Midwest to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there. It is 614. I was stunned when I
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  Speaker 3: read this this morning. I'm reading this from WLTX. South Carolina...
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  Speaker 3: does not currently have a law defining what our artificial
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  Speaker 3: intelligence is. Most other states do. We're like in that
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  Speaker 3: awkward position where can you define a woman? Can you
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  Speaker 3: define what artificial intelligence is? So right now we're at
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  Speaker 3: the state house beginning to develop like definitions. We're at
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  Speaker 3: the starting point, it feels like, of trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out what AI is and and how it will be
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  Speaker 3: implemented regarding our state government. A guy named Bryant Walker Smith,
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  Speaker 3: University of South Carolina law professor, who also works with,
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  Speaker 3: it just says governments. I don't know which guy, is
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  Speaker 3: he working with us or is he working, it just
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  Speaker 3: says with governments on AI, said that government agencies are
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  Speaker 3: already using AI in ways that aren't obvious to the public.
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  Speaker 3: For example, The Department of Motor Vehicles receives automated calls
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  Speaker 3: from people using AI tools to contact the agency instead
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  Speaker 3: of waiting to speak with a representative. I suspect it
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  Speaker 3: will happen to your individual offices soon after the constituents
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  Speaker 3: place the call. And you may know it, but you
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  Speaker 3: probably will not know when it is happening. So AI
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  Speaker 3: is starting to be used publicly. with government agencies, for
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  Speaker 3: government agencies, and we don't know what we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do with it here in South Carolina. And it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like from this article, they're going to take about two
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  Speaker 3: years to work this out, Christopher.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to do a study, and that's going to
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  Speaker 4: cost some money, taxpayer-funded, of course, and figure this out.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like we're a little behind the curve here.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I'm just basing that off of the article
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  Speaker 3: that says the meeting is the first step in a
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  Speaker 3: two-year process. focused on developing guidelines for the use of
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  Speaker 3: artificial intelligence in South Carolina state government. I hate to
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  Speaker 3: say this, but I think AI will be, in two years,
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  Speaker 3: it won't be anything at all like what we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about right now, will it?
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  Speaker 4: We wouldn't think so. I mean, it's already taken off
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  Speaker 4: at a rapid pace. We still haven't figured out what
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  Speaker 4: we're doing with data centers yet. I mean, we were
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  Speaker 4: supposed to get some kind of state guidance when it
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  Speaker 4: came to data centers. You know, with all these counties
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  Speaker 4: making their own decisions, we were supposed to get that
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  Speaker 4: last legislative session. Didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: I do like this guy's analogy. Smith says a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people are afraid of it and yada, yada, yada.
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  Speaker 3: If we brought a toaster with us back 5,000 years ago,
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  Speaker 3: people would worship it as a god. But when that
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  Speaker 3: toaster burns down the house today, we don't put the
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  Speaker 3: toaster in jail. We don't find the toaster. We make
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  Speaker 3: a better toaster. That's his analogy of if you're afraid
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  Speaker 3: of AI and what it– because we do have some
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  Speaker 3: people who work in the AI industry saying it may
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  Speaker 3: actually kill off the human race in the next 10 years.
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  Speaker 3: And he's comparing it to a toaster.
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  Speaker 4: These are the people that are working on the problem?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently so. Look, I would say you don't have two
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  Speaker 3: years to figure this out. There's no way. If you
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  Speaker 3: go two years trying to study this thing, this is
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  Speaker 3: not like trying to figure out a traffic pattern or something. Maybe, I,
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  Speaker 3: this is crazy. Now, now I'm putting the, what did
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  Speaker 3: they say? The inmates are running the asylum. Maybe use
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  Speaker 3: your AI to start trying to come up with responsible
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  Speaker 3: AI policies and then vote on it. Then you guys
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  Speaker 3: take a look at the policies and let's get this
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  Speaker 3: thing done sooner rather than later. We can't wait two
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  Speaker 3: years to figure out to, decide what kind of parameters
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  Speaker 3: the state of South Carolina is going to use on AI.
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  Speaker 4: Two years from now, whatever they decide will be obsolete.
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  Speaker 3: That is a great word, Christopher. It will be obsolete.
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  Speaker 3: So South Carolina, you are certainly behind the ball at
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  Speaker 3: the state house. Thankfully, we've never said that before. All right,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be back in a minute at 618.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: I think J.D. Vance just called me a moron.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Was he talking about me? He might have been talking
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  Speaker 3: about a lot of us. Hi there. Welcome back. This
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  Speaker 3: is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson. And one of the things
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  Speaker 3: that I have been saying, and I'm certainly not alone
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  Speaker 3: in this, is that one of the options on the
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  Speaker 3: table for the president when it comes to Iran is
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  Speaker 3: to just say, we actually get the George Bush banner,
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  Speaker 3: mission accomplished. We wanted to make sure that Iran didn't
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  Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon. They're not going to have one
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  Speaker 3: at least for the next 15, 20 years minimum. So
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  Speaker 3: mission accomplished. And the problem with the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 3: that is a world problem. not an us problem. We
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  Speaker 3: will never run out of oil in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you to Donald Trump for increasing the drill baby
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  Speaker 3: drill movement. And so we're an exporter of oil. We're
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  Speaker 3: also completely non-reliant on the Middle East in any way.
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  Speaker 3: Also cognizant of the fact that since it's a global commodity,
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  Speaker 3: as the prices go up around the world, that affects
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  Speaker 3: our market here as well. We're not insulated, I get it,
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  Speaker 3: but we're going to have oil. The Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 3: supplies about 20% of the world's oil. We're currently, apparently,
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  Speaker 3: getting about 50% out through the other countries in a
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  Speaker 3: different shipping lane. That was a last week statistic. It
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  Speaker 3: might have changed since one of those pipelines was hit recently.
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  Speaker 3: But J.D. Vance yesterday warned that a U.S. withdrawal from
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East would trigger a worldwide energy crisis. What
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  Speaker 3: I would say to anybody who's frustrated right now is
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  Speaker 3: the alternative here, which is the United States effectively says
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East, you're on your own, would mean necessarily
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  Speaker 3: a worldwide energy crisis so long as the Iranians keep
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  Speaker 3: on shooting at shipping, which we know that's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: they would do. The president came in, and yes, he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to keep the United States out of foreign entanglements.
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  Speaker 3: He's also said that he's committed... to Iran not having
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. And I think wanting to keep the
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  Speaker 3: United States out of foreign entanglements does not mean that
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  Speaker 3: you can never use the military. I think the president
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  Speaker 3: has done the responsible thing here, which is to ensure
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  Speaker 3: that the world energy markets, despite the Iranian terrorism, continue
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  Speaker 3: to get that flow of oil and gas, says Vance.
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  Speaker 3: I completely disagree with J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because unless I'm misunderstanding the way Iranians think,
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  Speaker 3: they would like to sell their oil.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: They want to sell it. They desperately need to sell it.
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  Speaker 3: So if we were to back out, they would resume
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  Speaker 3: getting their oil to the market as soon as they
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  Speaker 3: possibly could, which would actually drive down energy costs.
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  Speaker 4: And then their economy gets, I mean, I won't say booming.
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  Speaker 4: It's never been booming, but at least their economy gets
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  Speaker 4: a not much needed injection of cash and they keep
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  Speaker 4: going with their line of terror.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. I mean, if you want to, if, if JD
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  Speaker 3: Vance wanted to make that argument, that what we're doing
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  Speaker 3: is we're trying to starve Hamas and Hezbollah and, and,
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  Speaker 3: and the hoodies.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If you, if that's the argument, I, I understand it.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're saying it's energy crisis, there's no energy crisis.
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  Speaker 3: There's plenty of oil. It's more expensive now because as
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  Speaker 3: we pointed out that the straight of four moves, 20%
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  Speaker 3: of the oil comes through there. And right now it's
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  Speaker 3: not coming through very easily, but, um, there's no energy
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  Speaker 3: crisis and, and, and prices may go up and stay
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  Speaker 3: up until we figure this thing out. And, but again,
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  Speaker 3: I still think it's a viable option for the Americans
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  Speaker 3: to just say, Hey, we did our thing. The Europeans,
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  Speaker 3: you're not interested in engaging in this, that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we can't get other nations who want to partner with this,
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  Speaker 3: send in your military and help us finish this thing off.
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  Speaker 3: Then that's fine. Then everybody pays more oil prices. That's,
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  Speaker 3: that's okay with us. And then just walk away. And
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  Speaker 3: I bet you they would start selling their oil. And
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  Speaker 3: then like you said, Terrorism would rise, but oil prices
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  Speaker 3: would go down. Trump could get the oil prices to
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  Speaker 3: go down right now.
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  Speaker 4: I think the fear is, and it's way too fresh
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  Speaker 4: in people's memories, is the Biden capitulation and withdrawal from
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  Speaker 4: Afghanistan and what happened there when we just stood up
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  Speaker 4: and said, all right, we're leaving, and telegraphed exactly when
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  Speaker 4: we were leaving and then left all our stuff and
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  Speaker 4: went home. And people looked at that as a failure,
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  Speaker 4: and it wound up costing us lives and equipment in
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  Speaker 4: the process. And people are wondering, how can you pull
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  Speaker 4: that off in Iran and not look like a failure there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't imagine we would leave any of our
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  Speaker 3: military equipment behind.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hope not.
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  Speaker 3: You guys just keep that tanker. Keep this whatever. No,
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  Speaker 3: I understand your point, Christopher. It's a good point, but
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  Speaker 3: I just don't. think that we would be run as
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  Speaker 3: incompetently as well. But again, maybe I'd be surprised. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: we would be that incompetent. I doubt it, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that we would be, Donald Trump is always going
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  Speaker 3: to try to project strength. He's never not going to
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  Speaker 3: try to project strength. Even in his words, even when
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't hold the cards, he's going to try to
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  Speaker 3: project that he's holding the cards. In this instance, Again,
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  Speaker 3: and that's not my favorite option, by the way, is
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  Speaker 3: pulling out of Iran or out of the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: I just said that that is one of the options.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a bad option. A better option would be
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  Speaker 3: to arm the people on the ground, let them clean
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  Speaker 3: this mess up with their own stupid IRGC that's holding 180,000 people,
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  Speaker 3: holding 90 million people hostage, basically, and or just go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and take the chains off the Israelis. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: that's becoming a lot harder as the Democrats say we
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  Speaker 3: can't trust them to even buy our own military weapons anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So they've declined the ability for them to buy, like,
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  Speaker 3: what was it, $ 2 billion worth of bombs the other day? Ah, frustrating, frustrating.
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  Speaker 3: But we've got to take a break. Back with your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: You can hit us up on the iHeartRadio app using
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  Speaker 3: the TalkBack feature at 629.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Kelly Nash. That's Christopher Thompson. And seven House Republicans
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  Speaker 3: voted against the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act
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  Speaker 3: of 2026. And let's see. I don't know who Warren
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  Speaker 3: Davidson of Ohio is or Tom McClinick of California. I've
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  Speaker 3: heard of Keith Self of Texas, Andy Harris of Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: certainly familiar with Chip Roy of Texas, Thomas Massey of Kentucky,
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  Speaker 3: and we're very familiar with one Ralph Norman of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: In the Senate, Rand Paul was the only Republican to
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  Speaker 3: vote against the Lindsey Graham sanctioning Russia and Iran Act
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  Speaker 3: of 2026. Any initial thoughts when you read that Ralph
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  Speaker 3: Norman voted against it?
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm guessing some kind of fiscal... I know Democrats
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: were against it because it gave Trump more power to
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: issue tariffs. And they are against any Trump tariffs at
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: this point, even if it winds up punishing Russia. So
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I know why Democrats were against it. I assume if
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Norman was against it, it has something to do with
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: fiscal responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always going to say that. And, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: it's like... Yes. So there were some Democrats. Well, actually,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: the overwhelming majority of Democrats either sat on their hands,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: you know, voting present or whatever. I think there was
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: one Democrat in the House that voted with the Republicans
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: on that one. I'm trying to remember his name right now.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: It doesn't doesn't matter. He's not from South Carolina, so
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: we won't have an opportunity to vote for or against
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: that individual. But I'm just going to put out a
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: blanket statement and blanket statements gets you in trouble, but
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: this is a, this is my blanket statement. I, as
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: a Ralph Norman supporter, that's who I did vote for
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: in the, um, Senate, uh, primary that we just recently
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: had the, the big knock on Ralph from we'll say
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: the mainstream is exactly something like this. He is a
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: very principled person who, uh, I don't believe that Ralph
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: would have changed his vote had he been like the
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: sole decision maker at that point. I think he would
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: have came down and said, fiscally, we can't afford this, blah, blah, blah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: And I'm voting against it. And I think a lot
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of Republicans in this state and around the country just want,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: there should be a very clear line in your mind
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: as to what's right and what's wrong. And if it's,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: if it costs us money to do the right thing,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: even if we're in debt, I think most Americans would say,
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 4: And, but that was the problem that Republicans had with
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: this bill is it is going to maybe cost Americans
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: more money, you know, when they go to the grocery
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: store or when, when they buy goods, et cetera. And they're,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're worried about the affordability issue leading into
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: the midterms. I'm not saying that's why Ralph Norman voted. No,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: but that was the concern of some Republicans with this bill.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yes. But again, To the bigger point, I think most Republicans,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: if here's the thing, does it cost you as an
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: American more money? to end the reign of terror that
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin has had on not only his own people,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: but other people? If that's the price that we have
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: to pay, a lot of Americans are willing to pay
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: that because it makes America a safer place. Same can
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: be said about Iran. If you could... sanction iran into
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: extinction and i don't mean as a country i mean
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: as the regime a lot of americans would say that's
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: a clear line for us that that we're willing to
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: go in debt for that now we're not willing to
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: go in debt to fund drag shows in columbia but
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: we are willing to go in debt to help end
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: the murderous regime of the iranians but but that's where
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and again ralph norman probably one of the bravest political
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: people out there a very principled man but i think
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: that that's That vote yesterday or whatever, was it yesterday
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: that came down? I think that was like the last
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: vote that they had before. And by the way, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: guess we'll have to talk about Mike Johnson coming up
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: in just a minute. Completely, I hate this idea of
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: sending people home. But as far as the Ralph Norman vote,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I think we just saw a great example as to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: why so many Republicans were like, oh, I love his,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I love the way he thinks about things, but Sometimes
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: he's just a little too conservative. If that's a word
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I can use, it's a little too conservative that you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: not willing to try to punish Putin and the Iranians
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: in order to save money. That was just a little
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: too much for a lot of us, I think. Again,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I'm saying that as someone who voted for him, knowing
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: that that would be the situation. What do you think?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: use the talkback feature. We'd love to get your voice
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: on the air. That's Christopher Thompson. I'm Kelly Nash. It
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: is 639.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Good morning, this is Wayne. I listen on the iHeart app.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: I respectfully disagree. Trump has to get control of the streets,
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: and he has to bring gas prices down at least
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: $ 2 or under. Gas prices was not this high. It's
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: going to look like he started something, made a bunch
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: of threats about ending civilizations and blowing up power plants
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: and didn't follow any of it up, and then brought
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: along high gas prices. He has to get control of
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: the street and bring gas prices down to $ 2 or under.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Wayne, on the iHeartRadio app, and appreciate your insights.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about J.D. Vance's position, which is
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: different than my position. I have suggested that one of
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: the options on the table was that Trump could just say, okay, America,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: mission accomplished. We wanted to get rid of the nuclear capabilities.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: We also wanted to make sure that the ballistic missiles
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: weren't at a level where they could threaten the rest
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: of the world if they wanted to investigate their nuclear program.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: That has been accomplished. What has not been accomplished is
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: what everybody knew was going to happen. I laugh when
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Democrats act as if this caught the Trump administration off
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: guard because it's not the Trump administration. It's the military.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: The military has been planning for this literally for 40 years.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: They've always known that the thing that the Iranians would
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: do is try to control the Strait of Hormuz in
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: order to affect world oil prices and and then put
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: enough pressure on whoever was threatening the regime that they
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: would back off. And again, what would happen if, to
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Wayne's point, I don't know, $ 2, $ 2. I mean, we're
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: at four, what are we like, 408 or something this
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: morning in South Carolina. I don't think you're going to
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: get it down to 208, but could you get it
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: back to three or under? I believe if Donald Trump said,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: The U.S. military is withdrawing right now. We are heading
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: home and the straight is going to be whatever the
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: straight is going to be. It'll be up to, I guess,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: the Iranians, the UAE, the Iraqis. The people who live
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: there are going to decide how they want to get
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: their oil out to the market. We have our own
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: ways here in the United States. There's other countries that
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: export oil. They have their ways. I think you would
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: see a dramatic drop in oil prices. And I mean,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: when I say dramatic, I mean, Like if he announced
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: that this morning, I think that by the end of
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the weekend, we'd be down 50 cents. And I think
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: that if you just played it out over the next
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: few weeks, we could drop a dollar. Possible. But again,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: to Christopher Thompson's earlier point, then you're funding terrorism again.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: That's just an option you have to weigh. But yes,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: gas prices would come down if we pulled out.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I got two shocking to me updates yesterday. The
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: first was that Abby Zilch, who I think people in
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: the political world have known as the first Lindsey Graham's
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: spokesperson and most recently Darlene Graham's spokesperson, is leaving. So
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: tomorrow is her last day. She's going to get married
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: and they've got a new communications person coming in and,
• 24:56
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• 25:02
  Speaker 3: and congratulations to her on her upcoming wedding, but surprised
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: to see her go.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Awkward time to make a change there.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: And also Autumn Phillips, only 52 years old, has been
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the executive director, I think, of the Post and Courier
• 25:17
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• 25:21
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• 25:26
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• 25:28
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• 25:34
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• 25:38
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  Speaker 3: Hey there, welcome to it. Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, looking
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: at the news of the day. According to the state newspaper,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: 81% of South Carolinians, that's a lot. Boy, oh boy,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: we don't get that kind of bipartisan support on anything.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: 81% of South Carolina employees, all right, well, we've already
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: divvied ourselves up there because only about 60% of South
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Carolinians of working age are working. But okay, of that group,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: 81% say that they are actively searching to work extra
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: hours at their companies to avoid being seen as replaceable
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: by artificial intelligence.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: What do you think of that, Christopher? Throw that at
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: me one more time.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Okay. State newspaper reports 81% of employees in South Carolina
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: are working extra hours to avoid being seen as replaceable
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: by AI.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Well, I guess it's just, it's a bit disturbing on
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: the face of it. Although I give, I give those
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: credit who want to, you know, keep working to show
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: their worth, but ultimately, are you going to be able
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: to do that? If you're having to work extra hours,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: isn't that proving that AI is more efficient at your
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: job than you are?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Now, this is an interesting statistic that they threw into
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the story, and I'm trying to grasp how they've come
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: with this because they're talking about their methodology. They used
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics to calculate
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: the percentage of each state's workforce employed in the 26
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: positions of classified as the highest risk of potential for
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: AI disruption. In South Carolina, there's only 2.3% of our
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: workforce faces that high exposure of being replaced by AI.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: In case you're wondering, number one job in America that
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: is probably going to be replaced, again, this is just
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: an assumption, nobody guarantees anything, would be a mathematician. You're
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: will be proofreaders. I guess somebody makes a living as
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: a proofreader.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: I was going to say logistics. Anybody who deals with logistics, probably,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know there are a lot of moving
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: parts there, but you would think AI, with its capacity
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: for intelligence, would be able to figure all that out
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: quicker than a human being would.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I think you and I made the top five, by
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: the way. Court reporters are in there, and I could
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: totally see where they would just say, oh, no, the
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: chat bot is listening, and the chat bot is transcribing.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I've been in numerous meetings. What's the thing that we use? Teams.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: And then I'll get like a follow-up email of everything
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: that was said on that thing, like within a minute.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Like as soon as that Teams meeting is over, boom,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: there's that email.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Of course, it's not always accurate.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I was going to say I never read them,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: so I'm assuming that they're not accurate. But either way,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: they're working on it. But number five, this is a
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: very broad thing. Number five, media and communication workers. I
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: don't know what they mean by that. We are guaranteed
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: human at iHeartRadio, so I don't know what they're talking about.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Well, the local newspaper, the state newspaper in Columbia, which,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: by the way, McClatchy, who owns that, just cut more
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: reporters last week across the country. including at the state newspaper,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: but they've published in recent weeks a number of articles
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: which were AI compiled based on what a reporter had
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: fed into the AI.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: That's the amazing thing about where we're at in this
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: artificial intelligence thing, is that you still need human beings
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: to feed stuff into the system. the system. If there's
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: not like, and again, when I'm talking about news, this
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: is what I have a lot of problems with media and, and,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: or I should say news outlets across the country, um,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: who have for decades actively been cheering for one side
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: over another, trying to change the narrative. So I I'm
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: with a lot of people who, um, recognize media bias.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: That being said, somebody needs to do the reporting and
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: then you and I can decide, is it fair and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: balanced and all that sort of stuff. I guess what
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: we're seeing, if you're just looking at the news space,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: would be the rise of what we're calling independent journalists,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: like the And California's trying to stop it. They've got
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: the Stop Nick Shirley Act, which, by the way, I
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: saw a Nick Shirley post the other day, and I said,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: he's reporting from California? I thought they outlawed Nick Shirley.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: They specifically named the law Stop Nick Shirley, and there
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: he is in California reporting. But apparently that does not
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: get implemented for some reason, I think, until January of 2028.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: So he's got a little window.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Yes. He and all independent journalists, people who are not
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: working for what the state of California recognizes as a
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: legitimate news source. That's the way they're looking at it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: If you're not working for a legitimate news source, you're
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: exposed to all kinds of lawsuits from the state. If
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you report, I guess, negatively on the fact that they're
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: ripping people off. So that's a good idea. But yeah,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: this AI thing, they can't do any, it can't go reporting.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: It can only process what reporters put into The data sphere.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: This reminds me of the old argument when computers first
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: started coming into the forefront in business. Everyone said, well,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: somebody's got to program them. And it's garbage in, garbage out.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: If you put garbage in, that's what you're going to get.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: So somebody's competent is going to have to be there
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: at the start to input the right data. And you're
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: saying essentially the same thing when it comes to media
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: and AI.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Somebody's got to report. AI doesn't have a robot
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: yet that can go out on the streets and try
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: to get the local responses and all that sort of stuff.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Not saying it's never going to get here, but just
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: saying it's not here and I don't see it happening
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: in the next couple of years where we can just
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: start replacing reporters with chatbots. But what do you think?
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Are you scared about AI? Are you actually working extra hours?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: They say 80% of South Carolinians are working extra hours
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: to prove to their companies that that they are not
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: replaceable by AI. That's a lot of people. If that
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: is an actual thing, did AI come up with that stat?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Let us know on the Talkback feature.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 32:28
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, guys.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: It's Donna in Columbia.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about chatbots. I used it for our meetings
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: and it's hysterical when you read the transcription that we
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: need one that speaks Southern, that's for sure. Hope y'all
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: have a great day.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Donna. And I understood every syllable she said,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: even though I don't have a Southern accent. I worked
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: very hard, Christopher, maybe you did too, to try to
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: have a nondescript accent when I started in radio. That
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: was one of those things. I think they said that
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: it was like, ohio or someplace like that that was
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: like the perfect american accent and so you didn't you
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: didn't want to talk like you a little bit too
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: much like new york that was kind of more of
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: i guess my initial uh speech patterns was a little
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: bit northern right a little um and the southerners and
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: there's a whole wide variance on southern uh you know
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: sure the very genteel you know savannah or whatever and
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: then you've got the You get some back-in-the-woods kind of Southern,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: kind of like the British. Sometimes you'll see the British
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: on the BBC or one of those types of networks,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: and you're like, wow, that sounds so amazing. And then
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: you'll hear another Brit, what do they call them, the
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: football hooligans? That's an ugly language suddenly.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: If I'm watching something like that, that's where I put
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: the captions on at the bottom of the screen, so
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: I'm sure what they're saying.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: And hopefully that's not an AI caption.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: And Donna is absolutely right. Look, we're not close yet
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: to getting this thing perfect. We were talking earlier about
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: the state reporting that like 80% of South Carolinians are
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: working extra hours to try to make sure that AI
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: can't replace their jobs. They want to seem valuable to
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: their bosses. And we were talking about the top five,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: you know, court reporters are in there, proofreaders, mathematicians. These
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: are around the country, the jobs that seem most valuable. um,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: likely to get replaced by AI, but then you go
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: down near like the bottom is because you only have
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: 25 here or whatever. So like telemarketers, I could absolutely
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: see a telemarketer being replaced. Sure. I, by the way,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I was a telemarketer. That was the worst job. Um,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: and I was a telemarketer back in the eighties, um, Christopher,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: you remember what was called equal access when Congress ruled
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: that AT & T had a monopoly?
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And then Sprint and MCI were the two phone companies
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: of the day.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Broke up the bells.
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: And they were given what was called equal access. Even
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: though AT & T had paid for those phone lines,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Sprint and MCI were going to have access to them.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: And so that was a big push. So I wasn't
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: actually working for AT & T. I worked for American Airlines.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: But the... telemarketing department was hired by AT & T.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: And so for like a year, our job, we had like,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know, thousands of telemarketers that were all working.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: We had taken over like an entire office building. And
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: we were up on like the 16th through the 19th
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: floor of a high rise in downtown Hartford. And we
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: had to call every home in America. Every single home
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: had to get a phone call. And the pitch was
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: something along the lines of, you may have heard about
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: this However, if you want to remain with AT & T,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: who has always provided you with your long-distance service and
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: have your service uninterrupted, we kind of threw that introduction
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: into it. Like, it might be uninterrupted if you went
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: with MCI. We don't know. And I'd like to sign
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you up right now to continue with the great valued service.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: But so many people were like, how did you get
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: my phone number? It's unlisted. And I would say, again,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: this is Kelly calling from AT & T. The people
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: who gave you that number. We have every phone number.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: That's AT & T' s job to have every phone number.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And then I got in trouble with that job because
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: I noticed that nobody paid attention when I would say
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: who I was. Like you'd start off by, hi, it's
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash calling on behalf of AT & T, your
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: long distance provider. I'd like to talk to you about
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: your long distance service. And invariably you'd get like a,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, who is this? What are you calling about?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: What's going on? So I was like a jokester and I'm,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm a teenager and I'm trying to impress
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: the other teenagers that was the rest of the telemarketing
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: staff that were sitting there with their little headsets. So
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: I started using fake names. And then I started going
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: to– I was getting ridiculous. Like, hi, this is the
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Easter Bunny calling from AT & T or whatever. And
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: then you hear in your headset after I got off
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the call, the lady was like, Kelly, can you come
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: to the desk now? Oops. Oh, I was so busted.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: But I did get to call some celebrities. Which was interesting.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Very cool.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Not, not big names that people would know today, but
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: we knew who they were back in the day. Like, uh,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember the guy's name who was on
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: a W what was channel nine when it was a
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: national thing. Like, remember like when channel 17 in Atlanta
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: was the super station channel nine was one of them too.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: And there was a guy, Bill, Bill Boggs. I got the,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: I got to talk to Bill Boggs once and he
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: was very upset. Why are you calling me? So telemarketers,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: you might be appreciative of the fact that your jobs
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: are going away. I don't know.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Think about how many computers we deal with now. Just
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: if you call anything, any service provider, and you're on
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: the phone forever, I want to talk to a service representative.
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: I want to talk to a live human. And you
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: go through mail after mail, choice after choice. Press 1
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: if you are doing this, and it takes forever to
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: get to an actual human.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Did you know that you can answer most of your
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: questions on our website?
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: And then you're like, human. And they're like, okay, please
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: stand by. Before we go, would you like to take
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: a service? Shut up. Just let me talk to a person,
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: for God's sakes. I think that's never going to go away.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I think that human beings are always going to want
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: to deal with human beings, no matter how efficient a
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: robot is. Even if the human being is working with
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: the robot and then just talking to me. It's like
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: you're the person in between the robot and me. I
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: think that that will be a thing coming forth. But anyway,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: what do you think about AI? Or we're talking about
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: the oil prices and getting out of Iran and all
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: these types of things. Maybe we'll take another look at
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: that gas tax proposal that's being made here in South
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Carolina by several companies. High-profile politicians, it's 720.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: You're talking about AI taking jobs. I work for a
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: large brown logistics company, and I used to get told
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: what to do in the morning by a supervisor. Now
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: I have an AI agent. image on a TV screen
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: that tells me my job assignment, my trailer.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: And everything else.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, and it ended.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: I was wondering how he felt about that. Is it
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: more efficient? Is it less efficient?
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: And, uh, obviously his employers think it's more efficient and
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: it probably cut some people out in the process.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. But thank you. Thank you for chiming in.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe he's on his way to his big brown logistics
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: company today.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: I have a feeling I know which company that is.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: I wonder if he's wearing shorts and all. And I
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: don't know how many office ladies still get to sit
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: in their office and and. kind of flirtatiously accept the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: packages from the Brown Logistics Company. That was like a
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: big thing for years. There was like talks of putting
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: out like a calendar of the hottest delivery guys and stuff.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: So calendars, now that's a thing from the past too,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: isn't it? My gosh, things are changing quickly. But yeah,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: AI is changing things. Who was I listening to the
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: other day? Maybe it was Scott Jennings on CNN was
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: just talking about how everything is, is always afraid. You're
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: afraid of it until you go through it. And then
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: once you're on the other side of it, you're not
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: afraid of it. And he was talking about, I guess yesterday,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I think it was, was the anniversary of the birth
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: of General Motors. And it was the birth of General
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Motors was seen at that time as an assault on
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: the workforce and all these types of people who are
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: making wagons and everything's changing too quickly and we're speeding
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: up too fast. And He's like, no, the future is
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: going to be automobiles, and it's going to be a
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: good thing. And people, they didn't have a green army
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: back then. They go, no, it's not. You're going to
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: kill society with the environment or whatever. But anyway, look,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: it'd be interesting to see where we're at in 20 years.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Are we still afraid of AI in 20 years? Or
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: has AI killed itself.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: In 20 years?
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Are we still around? I guess that is still to
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: be decided. And I do it with just the assurance
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: that God is in control ultimately. If you don't have
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: that assurance, I pray for you because life gets very
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: difficult really quickly because we live in some very challenging times.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: But anyway, it is currently 729.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Hi there, 734 Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And on
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: the National Briefing, my 10-minute podcast that we get up
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: every morning by 6 on the iHeartRadio app. And again,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: you spell national like my name, N-A-S-H. We were talking
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: about a recent case that was happening, is happening, in Massachusetts.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: This is Fox News talking to Joe Kutzkin, I think
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: is his name, and his attorney there. Bernadette Broyles.
• 41:52
  Speaker 10: Joseph and Arlene Kutzko haven't spoken to their daughter since
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: the end of 2024 after the Department of Children and
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: Family Services removed her from their home. Family claims it
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: was because of their Catholic faith that would not allow
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: them to affirm their daughter as a boy. An emotional
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: Joseph Kutzko reading the birthday card his daughter Sophie gave
• 42:11
  Speaker 10: him in October of 2024.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Without you, I would have nothing. So wholeheartedly, fully, sincerely,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I love you with no end.
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: Less than three months later, child services removed Sophie from
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: their home and accused them of abuse. The Kutzko say
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: their daughter's school, Algonquin Regional High School in Southboro, Massachusetts,
• 42:32
  Speaker 10: exposed Sophie to a culture steeped in gender ideology. blame
• 42:36
  Speaker 10: a school counselor for socially transitioning their daughter to becoming
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: a boy.
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: You start with school policies that refuse to inform parents
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: when a child rejects their sex and claims another identity.
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: That's part of a system that starts everything down the
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: rabbit hole. Now, in this case, the school then reported
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: these parents to DCF. So there was a direct school
• 42:59
  Speaker 9: to DCF pipeline in this case, as we have seen elsewhere.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: So what we have in Massachusetts is the school system
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: introducing trans ideology, glorifying it, bringing in trans dancers, drag queens,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: talking to the children. And I can even understand where
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: a 10 or 11-year-old child would meet a transgendered person
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: and say, well, this is a fascinating individual. And the
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: school is pushing this. And then the counselors are pushing this,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: that this is a better way of life, possibly. And
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: the parent, when they find out about it, is in
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: this instance here, that young woman, she loved her father.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: She loved her mother. But then when they go back
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: into the school and they say, well, my parents don't
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: agree with this, then they call social services and they
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: pull the child from the home and you don't have
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: access to your kids anymore. I wish I could say
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: this was the only place that this was happening.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Indiana in 2021 had a case and that case, they lost,
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: the parents lost. They were, they refused to call their
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: child a she and they lost and And the state
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: later admitted at the Indiana Supreme Court level that they
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: had lied. The Indiana authorities were lying when they made
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: up an accusation of physical abuse against the parents. We
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: overstated it. And the Indiana Supreme Court ruled with the
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: school district and the idea of keeping that kid away.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: They appealed this all the way to the Supreme Court,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: and the Supreme Court in 2024 said, the kid's already
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: over 18, so we're not even going to hear the case.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Massachusetts has laws on the books that do this. Minnesota
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: has laws on the books that do this. Washington state
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: has laws on the books that do this. You are
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: seeing the left in real time. This is not like,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: you know, some sort of theology where what if they're
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: doing it, they are telling you that we can implement
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: whatever thought patterns we want into your children. And if you,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: as the parent disagree with that, We will just take
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: the kid from you. And I don't know why alarm
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: bells aren't going off all over this country. But when
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: I saw that story yesterday on Fox, I'm like, didn't
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: I just hear something like this? Yes, you're hearing about
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: it more and more and more. And thankfully here in
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, we've ruled against this. You can't do that
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina. So thank God we live here. But
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: in other states, this should be a national emergency. And
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: if you just put it on the other shoe, by
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: the way, I wouldn't be cool with it if we
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: had a whole bunch of right-wingers coming in and talking
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: to the kids about how the Democrats are horrible people
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: and blah, blah, blah, basically just rebroadcasting my show and
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: just putting it into 10-year-olds' ears every day. That would
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: not be a good thing. And then if the kid
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: goes home and tells their parents, hey, I really love America,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: I understand why all Americans don't love America. Even if
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: you just look at the last 20 years of our history,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: you can see where they have Some, not all, some
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: have legitimate concerns about how we conduct our business internationally. OK,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: that's their right as Americans to question the government, to
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: question whatever. If you start pushing one narrative and saying
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: this is the official position of the state of Indiana
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: or the state of Massachusetts or whomever, and any variance
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: means you lose your child. somebody on the left needs
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: to speak out and go, this is crazy. Yeah.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Kelly, this is why we had the story earlier this week,
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: I think about moms for Liberty and some of the
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: local chapters have gone under and, you know, there was
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: a question, but maybe it's not that group, but any
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: group that pushes parental rights is very valuable right now.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Great point. Parental rights. You have autonomy in your family
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: or you should, that's the way it was designed. That's
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: the way America was drawn up. And, I always go
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: back to 2008, Barack Obama saying we are just days
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: away from fundamentally changing America. And there was a dramatic
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: shift beginning in 2009 when he took office. And that is,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: we are going in the wrong direction. If you're talking
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: about just, for those of you who miss normalcy, this
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: is not normal, what's happening right now. And it's mostly
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: from the left. I'm not saying that the right is
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: not involved in any of the weirdness either, but mostly
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: on the left. All right, it is 740.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's funny. I get all kinds of
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: interesting text messages and whatnot throughout the day. And one
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: of the friends of the show, Steve Michael, texted me yesterday.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: The viewers of WIS, that's in Columbia Channel 10, are...
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Let's take a look. He gave me the WIS poll.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: WIS ran a poll. Should South Carolina... suspend its gas
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: tax currently in that poll 77 say yes 23 say
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: no um christopher you have any thoughts on should we
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: actually suspend the gas tax.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah i mean i i've said i think it's a
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: it it's long overdue that when that when world events
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: started driving out the price of gas we should have
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: all been given at least a temporary respite from it
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: and instead i mean lawmakers just decided against even talking
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: about the issue. Never came up.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the statehouse dropped the ball completely. And now we're
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: kind of in a scramble mode trying to figure out
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: what we can do at this late hour to try
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: to get things under control, at least in South Carolina.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I think a better, well, not a better, but a
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: more important part of that would be at the federal level.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: We had Russell Fry on earlier talking about that. I
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: was surprised to see Annie Andrews came out in support
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: of Russell Fry's proposal. She's doing everything she can to
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: try to appear Republican friendly. Um, by the way, you
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: know what the, the Darlene Graham campaign put out some
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: stuff yesterday on, uh, Annie, I might be able to
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: get some of those audio clips ready, and we'll play
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: some of those coming up in just a few minutes.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: In the meantime, we'll take a break. It is 747.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: All right, 751. Kelly Nash here with Christopher Thompson. Yesterday,
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: I got an email. All it did was direct me
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: to go look at a podcast. Now, this podcast is
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: called When We Disagree. And this was recorded in 2025.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: The host is Michael Lee and the guest is Annie Andrews.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: And the discussion is her frustration with the Medical University
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: of South Carolina because they were not, not coming out
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: in support of the idea of doing surgeries on trans children.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: And he talks to her about that. And this is
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: what she was saying at the time.
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: All I was searching for was a public statement saying
• 50:15
  Speaker 11: that as a children's hospital, we are tasked with serving
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: all children in South Carolina. And part of that includes
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: serving transgender youth in South Carolina. And we follow evidence-based
• 50:26
  Speaker 11: practice when we treat these youth, just like we do
• 50:30
  Speaker 11: for all the other youth.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: It sounds so normal, right? We're following the science. Now,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: what does the science say on the trans kids? The
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: science says that they have skyrocketing suicidal rates, that they
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: face skyrocketing depression rates, that they have skyrocketing drug addiction
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: problems after they have the surgeries. That's what the science says.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: And oftentimes regrets about having the surgery.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: And then you've got the medical issues with you trying
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: to reverse, which you can't really reverse what they do.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: No, once you're sterilized, that's a for life decision. And
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: if you've taken a body part off, we don't have
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: a reattachment process that works. These are lifelong decisions that
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: are being, again, people who aren't old enough to get tattoos,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: people who aren't old enough to drink, buy cigarettes, any
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: of that sort of stuff, because that could be a
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: big damage to them. You're allowing them, you're actually empowering
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: them and oftentimes encouraging them to make a decision that
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: will affect the rest of their lives. And I'm not
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: going to say it's always a bad thing. How about that?
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: I will try to take a moderate position, which is
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: difficult for me sometimes, but I'll take a moderate position
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: that at the very least, at the very least, let
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: them go to 18 or 19 or maybe make it 21.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, you can't you can't even rent a
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: car till you're 26, right? Because they understand that the
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: human brain is not really developed completely and you're still
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: making crazy decisions in your early 20s. So 26, but
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: they would push back and say if they're old enough
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: to serve in the military and all these types of things.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: And I understand that argument. But for Annie Andrews to
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: now try to distance herself from this position when you're
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: on the record last year saying that you wanted trans
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: surgeries for the children. You thought it was an ethical
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: duty to give these things up. That's a bit of
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: a stretch.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: And that's what Darlene Graham is going to be reminding
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: you over the next two months.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Yep. All right, thoughts on that or anything else we've
• 52:47
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• 53:05
  Speaker 3: 803 with Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson reporting for Swamp Watch. Yes,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: we're looking at the swamp. And if you missed it
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: earlier this week, Chuck Grassley from Iowa released an email.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: And this email was sent by an FBI agent. So
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: I just want you to think about what we're saying here.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: The email from the FBI agent dated February 22nd, 2025.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: That is, I think if I'm not mistaken, Christopher, Pretty
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: much February of last year, we were kind of all
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: done with Doge, weren't we? That was a 2020... Well,
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: maybe not. Maybe we're still in the middle of Doge.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: It feels like a thousand years ago that the Doge
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: experiment happened. But, okay, we'll just say it was still
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the Doge experiment. Okay. He's sending
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: it to his commanding officer, I guess, at the FBI,
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Stephen Dunn. I'd like to recommend the opening of a
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: criminal matter on the person... the OPM, who had proved
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: the transmission of an earlier email. The person is involved, obviously,
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: in a conspiracy with Elon Musk. In addition to wasting
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: a colossal amount of official time, is encouraging, abetted, aided,
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: et cetera, and they use the word et cetera, et cetera, thousands,
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: if not tens of thousands of government employees to violate
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: government-wide security policy and transmit sensitive governmental information outside of
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: a strict need-to-know basis. Furthermore, Musk used a non-government system, Twitter.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: By the way, he didn't pay $ 44 billion for you
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: to call it Twitter. He changed it to X in 2023.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: You're the FBI. You should know that. And he goes
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: on to say, Elon Musk needs to be brought down.
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: He goes on and on. He talks about how there's
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: a comparison between Elon and Hillary Clinton's use of a
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: private email, yada, yada, yada. It's in violation of this
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: code and that code. And then he finishes his long email.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Happy to write the case opening and find a prosecutor. Alternatively,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: I am happy to report this to the OPM or
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: to Congress. And no, I am not kidding.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: So.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Again, when we talk about the swamp... That's.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: The kind of pushback that Doge was getting at the
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Washington level. Everybody in America was saying, thank God, somebody's
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: finally going to do something about the waste and fraud
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: in our government. And the government itself was saying, wait
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: just a minute.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, the FBI wanted a criminal investigation into Elon Musk
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: sending out an email saying, And if you remember the email,
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: it was, can you name five things that you have
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: done in your job this week? And if you don't
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: answer this email, we will assume you don't have an
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: answer or you are intentionally avoiding answering the question. So
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: you're not in compliance with your contract and you will
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: be fired.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Most of us can name five things we've done in
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: the last 30 minutes in our job. You're talking about
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: an entire week.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: And that was worthy of an FBI investigation, according to
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: this guy.
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: By the way, his name is Kevin Gounard. G-O-U-N-A-U-D. I
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: think that's how you spell that. I can see it
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: on his... I'm a little bit far from the screen here,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: but just the way the studio is set up. But yes,
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: you can see that on Chuck Grassley released that, I think,
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: on Tuesday. But again, when we talk about a swamp,
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: The FBI has agents who are requesting the availability to
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: open up congressional cases and or federal cases against somebody
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: who is just trying to get you to justify why–
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: to paraphrase the old classic cult movie Office Space, what
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: would you say you do around here? Why are we–
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: why are the taxpayers paying you? Do you do– is
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: there a service that you're performing or are.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: You just– Taking up space and getting a check.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Amazon shopping the day away. It's your computer, which
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: is I'm under the belief there is a great deal
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: of federal employees. Not all. Obviously, we need a federal workforce,
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: but it's grown by like 70% in the last 30 years.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: It doesn't need to be that way. A great use
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: of AI may be to replace most of those people.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: And I hate to say that if you're a federal employee,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: But I think that that's probably coming your way. A
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: lot of us, we were talking about AI in the
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: last hour. A lot of us need to brace ourselves
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: for what does the new workforce look like. There is
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: going to be a change on the work landscape here.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: But one of the great benefits may be we could
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: reduce our federal workforce by maybe 70, 80 percent and
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: not notice, not even notice that it's changed. Oh, it's
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: just working as before. crappy as it always has. I
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: And I love that FBI official saying he even offered
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: to help find a judge.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Well, he said, I'll help you find a prosecutor. Okay. Alternatively,
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to report this to the OPM or Congress.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: And no, I'm not kidding, KG. Well, KG, you are
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: a piece of, I'll just use the rock, monkey crap,
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: piece of monkey crap, because you didn't want America to
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: get better. You wanted us to stay bloated. And it's
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: not a colossal waste of time when people are asking you,
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: what do you do here? It only takes 45 seconds.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: What do I do here? I try to entertain people
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: on the radio with insights and information that they can use.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: And then I also cut commercials, try to help clients
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: market themselves to this audience. What have I done today?
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: I've already done it. You can name all the things
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: that you do. Like you said, you can name five
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: things that you did in the last 30 minutes. We're
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: asking a federal employee, can you name five things that
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: you've done in a week? That's too much. That's too much.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: Get out of here with that. All right. Thoughts on
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: those things or other things. You want to get back
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: to the AI conversation, we can do that. You want
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: to talk about the gas tax proposals that we were
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: referencing earlier, we've got that. We've got the Annie Andrews
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: thing with the trans kids. We've got so many things
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: that you can talk about, but you've got to talk
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: about it by using the Talk Back feature on the
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. It is 8.09.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Hi there. Kelly Nash here. By the way, thrilled to
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: be on In Charleston specifically. Just wanted to mention the
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: fact that I got a text message here from a
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: guy named Greg Sandler. And Greg and his family used
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: to run a jewelry store here in Columbia years ago.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: And that's where I bought the engagement ring for my wife.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: And so I think fondly of the Sandler family when...
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: Whenever I look at her diamond ring, I go, my gosh,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: that cost me a lot of money. But she certainly
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: loves it. And the Sandlers, by the way, they're doing fantastic.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: They're in Mount Pleasant now. I was asking about his
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: dad because his dad is obviously older than him. But
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: he said his dad is doing great and just decided
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: to retire to the Lowcountry, which is a fantastic move.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Moving down to the Lowcountry is always a great idea.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: And he says, just wanted to send you a text.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Said been listening to you on 94.3. Mornings here in Charleston.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: You and Christopher do a great job.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: Very nice. Thank you, Greg.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: And don't forget, iHeart's looking for advertisers to support this show, Sandlers. Anyway,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: in the meantime, let me just point out that there
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: was an eye-grabbing headline in the state newspaper. Do you
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: drink energy drinks, Christopher? You're pretty much a tea guy,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: aren't you?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I try not to. I have in the past.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: They're not healthy.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: And yet I drink them. I drink them to try
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: to stay awake because I... feel like I don't get
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: anywhere near enough sleep. And so I am one of
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: those people who do drink energy drinks. And the headline
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: said that they had pulled Red Bull would not be
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: available at Kroger's. And the reason, if you delve into
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: the story at the state newspaper, it's because, quote, Red
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: Bull is pulling, excuse me, Kroger is pulling Red Bull
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: off the shelves, comes down to basic shelf math. Red
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Bull is trying to raise their wholesale prices and Kroger
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: refuses to pay it. So you're not going to be
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: able to buy it there. And then it goes on
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: to say, by the way, that is also happening with
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: Boar's Head. Deli meats are being removed from a lot
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: of the Kroger stores as well. And they're just, again,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: this is how capitalism works. If you think, if the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: market isn't there for it, then they would rather market lower,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: you know, priced things than Boar's Head and Red Bull.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: Red Bull used to have a monopoly on the market.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: No longer. There are lots of other choices out there
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: for energy drinks.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: And yeah, the guy in the story is referencing you
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: can get Monster or Celsius. They have lots of different
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: energy drinks. And so they're going to save their self.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: But again, I'm sure there's other stores that will go
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: and market more of the Red Bull. Like this is
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: not available everywhere. This is a premium drink or you
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: want premium deli meat with Boar's Head. And so it's
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: just interesting to see how it plays out as we
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: watch the market battle over certain products. And then people
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: get their feelings heard about it. There's no need to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: get your feelings heard about it. The people at Red
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: Bull will be fine. The people at Kroger will be fine.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: They will adjust to the market. If Red Bull feels like,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: you know what, we really need Kroger, they'll lower their
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: prices again. If they don't, who knows, they might go
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: more expensive. They might look for a more, we're just
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: trying to sell less volume at a higher profit margin.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they're going to do at Red Bull.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: And if Kroger finds out they're losing sales big time
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: because they no longer carry Red Bull, they'll pick it
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: back up again.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: That's right. That is exactly the way it works. And so, again,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: for those of you who aren't sure how capitalism is
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: supposed to work, we're seeing it right here in South
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: Carolina play out. with several major companies, Boar's Head, Red Bull,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: and Kroger. Anyway, we're going to take a quick break.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: If you've got thoughts on that story or others, please
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: use the iHeartRadio talkback feature. That way we can get
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: your voice on the air, get your opinions expressed with
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: all the listeners. I appreciate it. It's 818.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and 560.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: There were some people that have the Trump derangement syndrome, unfortunately.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: I hate to see people get infected with that. But
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: yesterday they overcame their TDS here in South Carolina. So
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: I'd like to congratulate those who gave Henry McMaster a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: standing ovation for his efforts on conservation in the state.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: As it's quoted in the state newspaper, quote, This has
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: been a challenge. Some conservationists say it has been a
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: challenge to align with McMaster considering what they view as
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: Trump's disdain for environmental protection. Donald Trump hates the environment.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: I want to kill everybody. I want the dirtiest water.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: But Henry McMaster, still a proud Trump supporter. and still
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: standing strong for our environment. And, you know, Henry makes
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: a good point. Um, he didn't use the phrase touch grass.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: You ever use that phrase, Christopher, you got to get
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: out and touch grass every now and again. Um, but
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: he was talking about, you know, we got some beautiful
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: forests here. And, uh, by the way, they said, uh,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: we have, what are we at 19 million acres overall
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: of protected land right now. And I think McMaster is
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: responsible for like 7 million of that. Um, But he says,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: your own good health is dependent upon this environment. If
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: you're not going out into the woods every now and then,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: you're missing a whole lot of life. That's Henry McMaster's
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: translation of touch grass.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: I don't disagree. I mean, we could all use a
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: little more outdoor than we get.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. And so, you know, is he going to go
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: down as the greatest governor of all time? Who am
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: I to say? But I can tell you that he
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: has got a little bit of Teddy Roosevelt in him,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: that he loves the environment, he loves being outdoors, and
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: he wants other South Carolinians to get outdoor, and he
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: wants it to be here for future generations. And he
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: has fought very diligently to try to clean up the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: water in South Carolina, which has had problems. We've had
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: lots of discussions about that. And I think that as
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: Henry McMaster exits the stage here, over the next few
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: months as our governor, as the longest serving governor in
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's history. I think one of the proudest things
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: that he can say is I left South Carolina environmentally
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: better than I found it. And others can debate that
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: and others can discuss whether or not, you know, economically,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: how are we and all those types of things. But
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: He's done a wonderful job with the environment.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: We would love to grow and continue to grow the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: economy and continue to welcome people in, but we're struggling
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: with growth right now. So why doesn't it make sense
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: to set aside land for recreational purposes rather than for
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: more development?
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to be very intentional about your growth.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: I would caution cities across this state. You do have
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: opportunities to grow.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 10: Oh, sure.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: But choose... how you want to grow. What do you
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: want your streets to look like? What do you want
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: the schools to look like? Get that stuff settled now
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: before the population boom. I say before the population boom
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: has already started. But moving forward, don't just be eager
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: to welcome a new business, not understanding what kind of
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: environmental changes might be taking place, what kind of impact
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: it will have on your tax burdens. Sometimes you It
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: ends up hurting your tax wise. So, I mean, just
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: you got to get you got to make sure that
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: your politicians know what they're doing and that they understand
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: and present to you the options in a way that
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: you can vote on it in a positive way so
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: that you vote so that everybody wins. There are there
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: are scenarios where everybody can win in this and hopefully
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: we'll get more and more of those. and fewer of
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: the kind that some people in the Midlands are currently
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: complaining about certain deals, and I don't want to bring
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: them up right now because I'm up against a break.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: It is 828.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. You know, I got the trolls up
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: and running this morning over here on Facebook, Christopher. They
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: are– they– I don't know what I do to wake
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: these people up, but they just come pouring out of
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: the woodwork and they want to fight me on every
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: statistic and data point known to mankind. It's exhausting.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: What are they fighting you about this morning?
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: So yesterday, I think it was that we were talking about.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: We had a case where you remember this story. There
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: was a illegal came across the border in Arizona in 2023.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: Then he was. Charged with stalking a woman in California
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: in 2024. He was working as like an Uber driver,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Uber Eats person. And he met her. She was a
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: waitress at the IHOP. And then he got the restraining order,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: which is cause for immediate removal from the country. But
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: they didn't. They would not turn him over to the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security ICE people. And then eight separate times,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: she and her mother called and said, he's violating the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: restraining order. And at no point did the police do
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: anything to help her.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: He was buying things for her and dropping them off
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: at her doorstep. He broke into her apartment at one point.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, got the key to her house, slashed her tires,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: and offered to be the knight in shining armor to
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: fix it. I mean, the guy was a crazed kook
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: who didn't have to live in America. He should have
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: been removed.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: And someone's defending him?
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Well, here's the problem. So with the kooks on Facebook
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: with me right now. So when we make the bold
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: statement that this could have been prevented had the law
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: been followed, they want to now turn that into, so
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: you're saying all illegals should be deported and I'll die
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: on that hill? Yes, I am saying that. I am
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: not saying that all illegals are murderers, nor are they
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: all violent offenders. You go through whatever the list is,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: but they're upset with the fact that I'm reminding people
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: that we now have over 51 million, 51 million people
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: here that are either born in another country and have
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: become citizens or are in the process of becoming citizens
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: or have some sort of legal visa to be here.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: And then they want to nitpick inside those numbers. By
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: the way, the second most welcoming country on earth was Germany,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: and it had like 16 million. So we are more
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: than double. And by the way, that would make us
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: the most welcoming nation in the history of the world.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: And what happens is Democrats want to continually make You
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: and I and anybody who says enforce the border patrol
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: feel like we're bad people. Like, you don't want to
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: welcome immigrants. We welcome tons of immigrants. My grandparents were immigrants.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: But you've got to do it the right way.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: And you certainly can't invite criminal illegals into your system. Otherwise,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: you're inviting chaos. And so many of these illegals that
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  Speaker 4: we're finding committing crimes here were also criminals from where
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  Speaker 4: they started.
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  Speaker 3: And the other thing that we don't know, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people want to point to, well, some of
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  Speaker 3: them were vetted, blah, blah, blah. There's about nine countries
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  Speaker 3: currently that refuse to share any information regarding the legal
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  Speaker 3: status of their immigrants. So, like, if somebody's coming up from,
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  Speaker 3: I think, like, Colombia or one of these types of countries,
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  Speaker 3: we have no idea. Did they escape from a prison?
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  Speaker 3: We don't know anything about them. So I'm sure, to
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  Speaker 3: your point, a number of them would have been stopped
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  Speaker 3: had we been enforcing Border Patrol as soon as we
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  Speaker 3: got their papers and looked at them and said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: wait a minute, you're serving time for sexual assault down there.
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  Speaker 3: You can't come in. No, go home. But, no, we
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  Speaker 3: have roughly an estimated, and nobody knows for sure, but
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  Speaker 3: I think that the general figure that most people have
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  Speaker 3: landed on is about 20 million people here. Although that
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  Speaker 3: should be shrinking because the ICE people have now, between
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  Speaker 3: voluntary and or enforced deportations, I think we're at about 2.9 million.
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  Speaker 3: that have left the country since Trump became the president,
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  Speaker 3: which ironically has also somehow miraculously coincided with the biggest
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  Speaker 3: drop in crime in American history. But don't put the
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  Speaker 3: two together. Don't do that. Anyway, I got to get
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  Speaker 3: off social media, I think. I can't with these people.
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  Speaker 3: They're soul-sucking. But you know what? If they want to
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  Speaker 3: talk to me on the Talkback feature, I'd love to
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  Speaker 3: hear from you. you disagree with our positions or you
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  Speaker 3: Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app. It's 838.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: This is Brian in Lexington. Just wanted to comment on
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  Speaker 7: the illegal alien comments you guys were talking about.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not sure how.
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  Speaker 7: People can defend illegal aliens, hence the term illegal. If
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  Speaker 7: you're in this country illegally, you're breaking the law whether
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  Speaker 7: you've committed another crime. And that in itself warrants deportation.
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  Speaker 7: Send them all back.
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  Speaker 12: Look, it is really hard to keep winning an argument
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  Speaker 12: over immigration when we just talk about people and numbers.
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  Speaker 12: The bottom line, it's about the census. We have to
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  Speaker 12: count warm bodies. And when warm bodies are packed into
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  Speaker 12: liberal cities and liberal states, they get more voting power.
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  Speaker 12: It has nothing to do with people coming from a
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  Speaker 12: foreign country. They don't care about the people.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, he is fired up. I appreciate the talk.
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  Speaker 4: That was a lot of passion.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's also right in the sense that not
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  Speaker 3: only does it, when he talks to him about the census,
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  Speaker 3: whether you're a legal or illegal person in the country,
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  Speaker 3: you still get counted in the census, which means that
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  Speaker 3: you can get extra votes, like for, like you say,
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  Speaker 3: in California. They think there may be as many as
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  Speaker 3: three districts that get shrunk out of California based on
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  Speaker 3: the removal of illegals. which would give them a lot
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  Speaker 3: less power at the congressional level. So there's a lot
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: to be said for that. But yeah, hence the term
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  Speaker 3: illegal is still going to be a powerful one. You
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  Speaker 3: have another talk back here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking about Henry McMaster and his legacy earlier.
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  Speaker 6: Hey guys, so I guess I'm a little new when
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  Speaker 6: it comes to politics. I didn't really get interested in
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 6: it until Trump ran for president and that made it entertaining.
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  Speaker 6: And then Biden came along and made it stupid entertaining.
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  Speaker 6: And then Trump came back. When it came to McMasters though,
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  Speaker 6: You can tell that he cares about South Carolina. You know,
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  Speaker 6: regardless of what the federal government says, you learn from COVID.
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  Speaker 6: He does what he thinks is right for the people.
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  Speaker 6: I remember he stood up to the government when they
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: were trying to shut everything down. The man cares.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I had his name. Great call, though, or
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: talkback feature. Fantastic. And welcome to the world of politics.
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  Speaker 3: It can be entertaining. Now, look, obviously, you've come at
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  Speaker 3: what some would call the golden age of just political
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  Speaker 3: talk because Donald Trump, with such a bigger-than-life personality. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to say was like past tense. He's still
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: obviously at that category. But what is it going to
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  Speaker 3: be like moving forward after Trump exits the stage? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. But yes, Henry McMaster, very good governor for
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  Speaker 3: 10 years. We got another one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kelly, you were talking earlier about there are three
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  Speaker 4: options in your mind when it comes to ending this
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  Speaker 4: conflict in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and one of them was the ability for Trump
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  Speaker 3: to say, we've accomplished the mission that we set out for,
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  Speaker 3: which was to make sure they never have a nuke.
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to have one for the next 15
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  Speaker 3: or 20 years minimum. We could say we're done dealing
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  Speaker 3: with the Strait of Hormuz. Let the world deal with it,
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  Speaker 3: or whatever happens, happens. We're independently, we're okay oil-wise. But,
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  Speaker 3: of course, it does drive up oil prices until it
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  Speaker 3: brings it down. I think that it would actually bring
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  Speaker 3: down the oil prices. Not my number one option.
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  Speaker 10: J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance said I was wrong yesterday. Somebody else telling me
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  Speaker 3: I'm wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Kelly.
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  Speaker 13: From Irmo, I think the U.S. pulling out of the
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  Speaker 13: Strait would probably have the opposite effect because Iran would
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  Speaker 13: be running the Strait of Hormuz, charging people, still terrorizing
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  Speaker 13: the Houthis would be funded.
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  Speaker 3: I think the big picture would be worse. Also, I
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  Speaker 3: think that.
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  Speaker 13: It's kind of sad that the focus of the American
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 13: people is just on the price of gas, not the
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  Speaker 13: bigger picture.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the place we're in. Thanks, Spike. Certainly appreciate
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  Speaker 3: that talk back. Again, I think that the oil prices
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  Speaker 3: would kind of return to where they were because they
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  Speaker 3: have always been in control of the strait. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: they're just trying to figure out a way to get
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  Speaker 3: their oil to market. Right now, it's not coming to
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  Speaker 3: market because the U.S. is blocking that. And then there's
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  Speaker 3: also the slowing down of the other Gulf nations getting
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  Speaker 3: their oil to market. But we could debate that all day.
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  Speaker 3: And more importantly, thanks for engaging. That's really what this
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  Speaker 3: is all about. So much chit-chat going on this morning, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: We're knocking it out of the park with the talkbacks.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: Let's see if we can get some more on the
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  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. It's 847.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're about ready to wrap things up. Christopher Thompson
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  Speaker 3: and myself. Christopher, did you happen to see that interview
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  Speaker 3: that Craig Melvin did with Stephen Garcia?
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  Speaker 1: Did not.
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  Speaker 3: I think that aired maybe yesterday or maybe even the
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  Speaker 3: day previous on the Today Show. Good stuff. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how to say Stephen's wife's name. Is it Masha? M-A-S-H-A?
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  Speaker 3: Either way, he's crediting her. with saving his life. And
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: how many guys have that story? If you're not a
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: married man, you are at a huge disadvantage in this
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  Speaker 3: world because women care more than you care about you.
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  Speaker 3: And he was saying that what was happening was he
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  Speaker 3: was going to the bathroom a lot. And his wife
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  Speaker 3: was like, what are you doing? Are you okay? Like
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: what's happening? So she kind of said, go get yourself
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: looked at. If you have to go to the bathroom
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: this much, and he did. And then they said, you've
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: got stage four cancer. And She said, what? And he
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I was like, man, what are we
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  Speaker 3: going to do? And she's like, well, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: what I'm doing. I'm taking your phone and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to call the doctor and I'm going to get everything
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  Speaker 3: in order. And we're going to figure out how to
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  Speaker 3: get a solution.
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  Speaker 4: Put together a plan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's what women do. And, and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the Bible, it talks about the woman is the helper,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: but she's more than just a helper. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's also, it's just amazing how guys can ignore things
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  Speaker 3: and And women won't. And thank God that we have
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: them in our lives. For those of us blessed to
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  Speaker 3: be married, if you're not married, you should look strongly
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  Speaker 3: into that possibility. I know there's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: got a lot. of divorce baggage and those types of things.
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  Speaker 3: And I totally understand that. But going through life with
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  Speaker 3: a woman who loves you and is looking out for
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  Speaker 3: your best interest makes life so much better.
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  Speaker 4: And we try to return that love.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're the grunt.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: You go to work. That's what you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: You're supposed to put your nose to the grindstone and
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: do it all day and defend the family. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, was it Chris Rock had that old joke
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  Speaker 3: about if you come home and the kids can't read,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: that's mom's fault. But if you come home and the
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  Speaker 3: kids can't read because there's no electricity in the house,
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  Speaker 3: that's dad's fault. And it's a comical way of saying
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  Speaker 3: that the women are there to nurture the children and
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: to help raise them. The father's there to defend them
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  Speaker 3: and to basically make sure that everybody has enough to
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: eat and all that sort of stuff. And it works
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  Speaker 3: beautifully when it's working together. Obviously, if it's not working together,
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  Speaker 3: then you've got a big problem. But Stephen Garcia, they
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  Speaker 3: said in the story that I think that he's raised
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  Speaker 3: or Gamecock Nation has raised basically $ 250, 000 or so. to
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  Speaker 3: help Steven, because he's such a huge influence. Not an influence,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: but just a great, maybe not so great memory for
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: a lot of Gamecock fans. A lot of frustration with
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: Steven when he was here. God, I went to that
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: Chick-fil-A bowl game back in the day, and I was
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: so ticked off at him. He's grown up since then.
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  Speaker 3: He has grown up a lot. He's a wonderful man.
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  Speaker 3: All right, wishing nothing but the best for him, and
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  Speaker 3: wishing nothing but the best for you as you take
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  Speaker 3: on your Thursday. Thanks for starting it with Christopher and I.
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  Speaker 3: Be back tomorrow after 6.