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Show Rewind 9-23-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're up. We're here. We're present. We're ready for
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  Speaker 2: the day. Good morning. This is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: How are you today?
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Kelly. Good.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 3: A little cooler?
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  Speaker 2: A little, yes. And I was looking at the overnight
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  Speaker 2: lows moving forward. I think it was like Saturday. They're
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  Speaker 2: talking about maybe 49 on the overnight low for at
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  Speaker 2: least the Midlands. That's... That's a bit aggressive. That's usually
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  Speaker 2: like a late October type of overnight low. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, what is it? El Nino is having effects
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  Speaker 2: on the weather this year. So we have that. And
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I haven't checked, but now that
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  Speaker 2: you brought it up, I may be mistaken and you
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  Speaker 2: might have to, you are the facts guy. So perhaps
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  Speaker 2: you can correct me if I'm wrong. But I think
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  Speaker 2: that on September 21st, if my memory serves, we broke, well,
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  Speaker 2: we tied the record from like 1914 or something of
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  Speaker 2: having a hurricane season with no hurricanes in the Atlantic. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize that. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I was talking about it like a week
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  Speaker 2: earlier and they're like, if we can make it six
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  Speaker 2: more days. And I thought that the date was September 21st.
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  Speaker 2: If I, if we could make it without any named
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  Speaker 2: storms for the year, it'd be the first time since
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  Speaker 2: like 1914. So we've gone more than a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a hundred year record that we tied. You
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  Speaker 2: can't beat it. But we did do that. I'm pretty sure,
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  Speaker 2: but you might want to fact check me on that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. Lots of stuff to get to this morning.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about that ACLU suit. We started talking about
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  Speaker 2: that a couple of days ago, but that's big in
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  Speaker 2: the news today. Also magistrates, apparently the, Magistrates all across
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina are now resigning or threatening to resign after
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  Speaker 2: some changes have been made. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to push back on the magistrates and make
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  Speaker 2: it tougher to become a magistrate. We'll take a look
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  Speaker 2: at some of that. Austin, Texas, yesterday, the truth was
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  Speaker 2: revealed and the people do not like the truth. including
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders. He doesn't like the truth. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to hear the truth. But we will give you the
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  Speaker 2: truth on what happened there. And boy, oh boy, the
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  Speaker 2: Shane Beamer press conference continues to resonate, at least on
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  Speaker 2: social media. His voice seems shot. Is he just tired
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  Speaker 2: of talking?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's tired of talking about Mississippi State, and
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  Speaker 3: he was trying to make that a that point yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: we'll have some of that audio coming up in sports.
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  Speaker 2: I figured you would.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I figured you would. But yes, right now Gamecock nation
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  Speaker 2: does not seem to be cottoning to Mr. Beamer and his,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're fixing it. We're cleaning it up and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go after Alabama this week. And he
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  Speaker 2: made the point we might lose. You think the, the
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  Speaker 2: experts have you as like a two touchdown underdog. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: you might lose. um but uh i don't know it
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  Speaker 2: seems like there's a lot of angst in columbia which
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  Speaker 2: is so what a difference a couple of days makes
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  Speaker 2: christopher if we even a couple of hours if you
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  Speaker 2: had gone and looked like i said on saturday in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter clemson was the clemson nation felt like
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  Speaker 2: it was the end of the season they were they
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  Speaker 2: were heartbroken distraught fire dabbo chance were firing up and
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  Speaker 2: A couple of minutes later, after the rain delay, they
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  Speaker 2: won the game. Everything seems all right in the world.
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  Speaker 2: They were getting back on track. At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: we'd had some of the two best weeks we'd ever
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  Speaker 2: had in South Carolina offensively. We went into this game
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  Speaker 2: and didn't go that... Even at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: first half, you felt like, okay, South Carolina looks like
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  Speaker 2: they've got a great football team. But now... everybody's in
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  Speaker 2: the muck and the mire over here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a loss will do that, especially in an SEC opener,
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  Speaker 3: especially with a coach who has not had great success
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  Speaker 3: at winning that third game. In fact, he's had no
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  Speaker 3: success at winning the third game, and it just seemed
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  Speaker 3: like a tone setter, and Carolina fans are worried that
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  Speaker 3: the tone has already been set for the upcoming season.
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  Speaker 2: The last time we won in South Carolina three in
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  Speaker 2: a row to start the season was 2012, and I
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  Speaker 2: remember that season because the We actually went 6-0 to
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  Speaker 2: start that season, and we were, I think, No. 6,
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  Speaker 2: taking on No. 5 Georgia at home to get that
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  Speaker 2: sixth win. And that's one of those things. I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe that was 2012. It doesn't feel like it was
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  Speaker 2: that long ago. But I remember all the hype going
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  Speaker 2: into that game, and the stadium was just on fire,
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  Speaker 2: and we beat Georgia, and all was right with the world.
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  Speaker 2: And then we lost to, I think, LSU the next week,
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  Speaker 2: and then it wasn't so right after that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: part of that big team was Stephen Garcia. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of prayers going out today. and yesterday for Stephen Garcia,
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  Speaker 2: who had his big surgery yesterday. So if you're a
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  Speaker 2: praying person and you're looking for somebody else to put
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  Speaker 2: on the prayer list, Stephen Garcia trying to recover from
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  Speaker 2: a massive surgery yesterday. So he is in our thoughts
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  Speaker 2: and prayers as well. So what do you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about today? You've got issues that you've been batting around.
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  Speaker 2: I got a couple of text messages here. Maybe we'll
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  Speaker 2: take a look at some of those things that people... Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: we have not yet covered, Christopher, including the deficit being
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  Speaker 2: run at Clemson. I have some people who have been
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  Speaker 2: hitting me up about that and other news stories. We're
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  Speaker 2: wide open on the Talkback feature. You just hit that
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I should mention that you can also get a hold
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  Speaker 2: of me on social media at Kelly Nash Radio, which
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  Speaker 2: is what some of you have done when I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the Clemson debt story. Several of you wanted me to
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  Speaker 2: comment on the Nancy Mace retweet of Libs of TikTok yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And if you haven't seen that, some student at Clemson yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was yesterday, posted a photo of of
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  Speaker 2: what's on the screen when they walked into the classroom,
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  Speaker 2: and they just put WTH, which means what the hell
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  Speaker 2: was the class talking, or was the class before talking about?
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  Speaker 2: So they're walking into a class that was previously being
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  Speaker 2: run by a different professor, apparently, and on the board,
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  Speaker 2: the big question is, is pedophilia a sexual orientation? And
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  Speaker 2: then it cites CETO 2012, which was apparently a paper
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  Speaker 2: written in 2012. And then it gives you early onset
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  Speaker 2: in life, stability over time, high degree of correlation between
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  Speaker 2: sexual and romantic interest. And so that's apparently what they
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  Speaker 2: were studying at Clemson. And a lot of people were
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  Speaker 2: upset to see that that is something that they were
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  Speaker 2: even discussing at Clemson. Then the fact that Nancy Mace
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  Speaker 2: retweeted it. You got Libs of TikTok and Nancy Mace
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  Speaker 2: retweeting the same thing. And now you've got a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of highly educated people coming back at it saying, this
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  Speaker 2: is a forensic psychology class, you idiots. They're discussing a
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  Speaker 2: research paper on how pedophilia is classified, but you are
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  Speaker 2: a blithering moron. You think that they're trying to justify pedophilia.
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  Speaker 2: All Nancy Mace said is, Clemson, we have questions. That's
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  Speaker 2: all she said. And I don't think that you're an
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  Speaker 2: idiot or a moron or a blithering, whatever else this
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  Speaker 2: person said for questioning. Why would that be an actual
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  Speaker 2: question at any class at Clemson? It's not as if
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  Speaker 2: we haven't seen in the halls of higher education, a
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  Speaker 2: whole movement regarding this, you know, the, they created the
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  Speaker 2: phrase map. And for those of you who don't know
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  Speaker 2: what map is, it's a minor thing. attracted person. You
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  Speaker 2: are attracted to minors. This is not your fault, according
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  Speaker 2: to some in academia. This is how you were born.
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  Speaker 2: This is who you are. You hear this about a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sexual deviancy, that it's just who you are.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you were created, which obviously as a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: you would say absolutely not would God ever create anybody
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  Speaker 2: with this kind of perversion in them, but that's a
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  Speaker 2: result of sin in the world.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at that 2012 paper right now, by the way.
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  Speaker 6: Are you?
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  Speaker 3: I hope I'm not going to get in trouble with
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  Speaker 3: our headquarters for Googling it. But, yeah, this psychologist proposed
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  Speaker 3: that pedophilia can be conceptualized as an age-based sexual orientation
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  Speaker 3: rooted in biology rather than as a mental health disorder.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know why you would think that we're
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  Speaker 2: a moron or whatever for questioning why would Clemson even
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  Speaker 2: bring this paper up. Just because it was written by
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  Speaker 2: somebody who is either a grad student or perhaps a professor,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't read the paper, nor do I plan on
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  Speaker 2: reading the paper. Anytime you're trying to justify any kind
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  Speaker 2: of perversion and give it some sort of a category
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  Speaker 2: and it's, you know, I hate the phrase, the slippery slope,
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  Speaker 2: but that's what we're on often. And you look at,
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  Speaker 2: you know, here's the facts. A mother planned to murder
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  Speaker 2: her three children. She murdered her three children. And now
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  Speaker 2: we can somehow justify it as postpartum depression. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Someone is attracted to children. They then have some sort
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  Speaker 2: of relationship with a child that is obviously not above board.
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  Speaker 2: And then you can justify it by saying, well, that's
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  Speaker 2: who they are. No. And it's a perversion. It's a
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  Speaker 2: disgusting thing. I mean, again, Christopher, we're at a point
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  Speaker 2: where people are figuring out ways to justify murdering children.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind having relations with children. I mean, in academia,
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  Speaker 2: we have a problem if this is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff that they want to research.
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  Speaker 3: Academia justifying biology made them who they are unless biology
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  Speaker 3: made them a man and they wanted to be a woman.
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  Speaker 3: Then biology goes out. the window.
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  Speaker 2: Biology got that one wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, again, thank you to those of you who wanted
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  Speaker 2: me to talk about that. I appreciate you hitting me
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  Speaker 2: up at Kelly Nash Radio, but I'd love to hear
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  Speaker 2: your voice on this. If you've got thoughts about this
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  Speaker 2: course or anything else, you can let us know on
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• 10:37
  Speaker 2: In case you missed the story out of Austin, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: a few days ago, they shot an illegal alien. And
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: the original story that was given by his attorney was
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: that he was just doing DoorDash. He's a DoorDash delivery driver,
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: has a work permit to be in the U.S., and
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  Speaker 2: for some reason... ice in an unmarked vehicle, rammed his vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: They just rammed him, then shot him, then dragged him
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  Speaker 2: from the vehicle and never told him at any point
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  Speaker 2: what was happening. That seems like a very bizarre story,
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  Speaker 2: but that led to some mass protests in Austin, Texas. Well, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: the Austin Police Department, not the Department of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: released the actual videos of what they had, which showed
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  Speaker 2: a many-mile high-speed chase of with a guy who does
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  Speaker 2: not have a work permit. That was a lie. He
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  Speaker 2: had a work permit. It's like if I had a license,
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  Speaker 2: but it expired two years ago, I don't have a license.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't have a license. He also had already been
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  Speaker 2: a final order of deportation last year. So ICE was
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  Speaker 2: targeting him. It's not a surprise that they're going after him.
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  Speaker 2: And they also had multiple vehicles with multiple sirens, which
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  Speaker 2: he refused to stop and was driving at a Very
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  Speaker 2: crazy rate of speed through residential neighborhoods. Could have put
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people in jeopardy. That doesn't mean the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they're going to stop the protests. As a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, thankfully for them, they found a judge
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  Speaker 2: yesterday who said you can't deport him now. Even though
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  Speaker 2: he had a final order of deportation last year against him,
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  Speaker 2: now you certainly can't because he's been shot. And as
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  Speaker 2: his attorney says, there's some swelling there. So he needs
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  Speaker 2: proper medical attention. So, again, the will of the American
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  Speaker 2: people being denied by federal judges who are– this one
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  Speaker 2: was appointed by Clinton down in Texas. But let's go
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  Speaker 2: to Bernie Sanders with the most bizarre explanation of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Why are Americans overwhelmingly for deporting illegal aliens?
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  Speaker 4: This is what demagogues always do. You pick a powerless minority, OK,
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  Speaker 4: and you go after them and you blame them for
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  Speaker 4: all of the problems. Throughout American history, it has been blacks.
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  Speaker 3: It's been Asians.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had an Asian expulsion act in America.
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  Speaker 4: You pick a minority and you say, hey, you can't
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  Speaker 4: afford to feed your family. It's the undocumented people who
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  Speaker 4: are doing that. You can't afford to send your kids
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  Speaker 4: to college. It is transgender people. You come up with
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  Speaker 4: your group of people.
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  Speaker 2: I have missed the point where we started a deport
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  Speaker 2: the transgendered movement. When did that begin?
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  Speaker 3: Because I can't afford my kids college. It's transgender's fault.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to blame the transgender. And of course, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to deport the blacks and we're going to deport.
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  Speaker 2: What the flip is this guy actually even talking about?
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, if you're looking for a silent
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  Speaker 2: group to pick on, Bernie, I think you found them.
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  Speaker 2: They're called white conservative people. They don't typically get on
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  Speaker 2: social media and make a whole lot of noise. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's a pretty easy target, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: to pick on conservatives and say they're the reason that
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  Speaker 2: everybody in America is having problems. It's all the white
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  Speaker 2: males who are starting all the wars. It's the white
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  Speaker 2: males who are driving up oil prices. It's the white
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  Speaker 2: males who make groceries so expensive. This guy is a
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous politician, not serious at any level. And when you
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  Speaker 2: show him the video of the guy running through the streets,
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  Speaker 2: he goes, still not his fault. It's not his fault
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  Speaker 2: because how would he know why are they chasing him?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter why they're chasing you. Part of being
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  Speaker 2: a civilian, you understand that when you see blue lights,
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  Speaker 2: you pull over. Even if you're not the one that
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  Speaker 2: they're looking for, you get out of the way of
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  Speaker 2: the cops and they can go after the people. That's
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  Speaker 2: just part of being a civilian, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, he just talked in a cloud, though, and made
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  Speaker 3: you forget the facts of the case. Oh, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about an illegal who's here and running from police.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about transgenders getting in the way of your
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  Speaker 3: kids going to college.
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  Speaker 2: Your kids are not going to be able to go
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  Speaker 2: to college because there's transgenders, according to MAGA. What an idiot. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I did a further deep dive on
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  Speaker 2: that story. If you want to get that on the
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  Speaker 2: national briefing podcast, that's available on the iHeartRadio app. It's 628.
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  Speaker 7: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 7: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: So the headline says that we are bracing in South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina for a wave of resignations as the South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: Statehouse has cut health insurance for part-time magistrates.
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  Speaker 3: Not just them. Other part-time officers as well in the state.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the headline.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I moved to South Carolina in 2003. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I found shocking was that the
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  Speaker 2: requirements to be a magistrate don't include having a law degree.
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  Speaker 3: Which we've tried to change that over the years, and
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  Speaker 3: that is met with stiff resistance from the statehouse.
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  Speaker 2: We used to work with a guy here, Matt. Matt
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  Speaker 2: hasn't worked here for years, so I feel comfortable talking
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  Speaker 2: about Matt. Matt, his— you remember Matt, though, right?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, his office is right across the hall from us.
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  Speaker 2: Matt's father-in-law. owned a garbage disposal company, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: honest work, great thing, blah, blah, blah. Made some donations
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  Speaker 2: to somebody somewhere in the low country. Ends up getting
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  Speaker 2: appointed as a magistrate. This guy was so into being
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  Speaker 2: a magistrate, even though he didn't know any of the terms,
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  Speaker 2: he actually... Matt said that the officers would often have
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  Speaker 2: to explain to him what the legal terms meant that
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  Speaker 2: they were using in court. He didn't know what they meant,
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  Speaker 2: but he made Matt and his wife refer to him
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  Speaker 2: as his honor. This guy was such an arrogant fool.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, if you want to be a magistrate in
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, the current requirements are you've got to be
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  Speaker 2: 21 years of age, a U.S. citizen. You must live
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina for a minimum of five years. Typically,
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  Speaker 2: but not always, reside in the county in which you
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  Speaker 2: will serve and hold a four-year bachelor's degree in any subject.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter what the subject was. And then you've got
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  Speaker 2: to pass an eligibility exam and get some recommendations, and
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  Speaker 2: then you'll be nominated and appointed. by the governor following
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  Speaker 2: a confirmation from the South Carolina Senate, and you'll get
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  Speaker 2: a four-year term. Now, I don't know what they make.
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  Speaker 2: It says, if you just Google it, it says typically
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  Speaker 2: it's about $ 88, 000 a year for a full-time magistrate. And
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  Speaker 2: I asked, what about part-time? And they said, basically, they
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  Speaker 2: would just take that hourly and cut it in half.
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  Speaker 2: So if you work 20 hours, you'd make $ 44, 000 a
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  Speaker 2: year to be a part-time magistrate. I don't know of
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  Speaker 2: any part-time jobs, perhaps I'm wrong, where they actually provide
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  Speaker 2: health care But this one did.
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  Speaker 3: It did.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's not going to move forward. We've already
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: got two resignations in direct relation to the health insurance change.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Others are resigning because of the increased workload created by
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the departure of their colleagues, they say. Hopeful that in
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Clarendon County, it's an outlier. Because in Clarendon County, I
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: think you've already had five resignations. And so... At the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: bottom of the story, it talks about critics include Governor McMaster,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: who've argued for numerous fixes, including the requiring the magistrates
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: to have a legal degree in order to hear legal cases.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Makes sense. But legislative efforts to change the system have
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: faced headwinds. A comprehensive magistrate reform bill has failed to
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: pass the House, most recently in the 2026 legislative session,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: which are while previous efforts to include magistrates and larger
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: judicial reform packages have also gone nowhere. I don't know
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: why this is such a hard thing in South Carolina.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Why can we not just get it so that we
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: have people who understand the law hearing the cases and
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: not somebody who's got a four-year degree in business or
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: poetry or whatever they've got their four-year degree in?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Your honor.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to wear my robe wherever I go. That's right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I'm your honor.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so big, big changes coming. And I don't know...
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about this, Christopher, that they're taking
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: away health insurance from part-time employees?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: You're right. There are very few, I don't know of
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: any jobs where you're a part-time employee and you get benefits.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Unless you've got a very nice boss, usually it doesn't
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: work that way. If you're part-time, you're kind of on
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: your own when it comes to health care and you
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: don't really get vacation time and things like that. Those
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: go to full-time employees.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. It seems like we were bending
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: over backwards for the wrong reasons in South Carolina, but
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: if you're maybe, maybe you are a magistrate, maybe you
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: want to push back on this. Maybe, you know, somebody
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: who's a magistrate or perhaps you have a fix to
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the problem. How can we get, don't we graduate enough
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: people with law degrees around South Carolina that some of
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: them could be magistrates? I would think, but perhaps they're
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: already making too much money as attorneys. I don't know. Yeah.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Pay cut for them.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Apparently so, but that's what public service is about. Anyway,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: let us know your thoughts on the talkback feature on
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app at 638.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump spoke for about 40 minutes yesterday up
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: at the U.N., And we'll say mixed reactions, depending on
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: where you're seated in the world. Called out Iran again,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: number one sponsor of terror. Reiterated they're never going to
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: have a nuclear weapon, all that sort of stuff. Says
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Tehran is weak and desperate. Ultimatum, a deal will be
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: made or we will annihilate the Islamic Republic. send them
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: into hell, I think is another line that he used.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Then started talking about the Western Hemisphere. I talked about
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the 65 billion barrels that we're going to be getting
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: from Venezuela. Use the line that ticked a lot of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: people off, to the victor belong the spoils. I do
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: love the fact that he said something along the lines of, socialism,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: communism will never be coming to America again. but freedom
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: will soon be coming to Cuba. And you could see
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the celebrations yesterday in South Florida over that line. Talked
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: about the UN has the potential, but must stop imposing
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: far left agenda on the globalist bureaucrats who nobody ever elected.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Touted the UN budget. It cuts 15% in 2026, thousands
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: of staff reductions. There is no global government. And while
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I am the president, There will be no global taxes either.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: There is a move amongst the people who support the
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: UN to try to push for a global power. You
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Someone who would just be like
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: all the, like basically what they would like, it would
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: be like Western Europe, the United States, maybe cherry pick
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: a couple of others like Australia or somebody like that. Canada,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: of course, would have to be in there. And then
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: they would decide what's best for the rest of the world. Um, I, I, I,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I reject it outright.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Not interested.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Not interested. Let the United States worry about the United States. Um,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and we worry about our business. Y'all worry about your business.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: We're not trying to mess with you unless you're trying
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to mess with us. Uh, also came out, talked about AI. Um,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I like this. He says, I'm changing the term. So
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: AI is now called super intelligence. Also, like we have
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: the Lake of America and it's the word artificial. It
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: makes it sound fake. It's not fake. It's real. It's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: totally real. Says the U.S. leads China by a lot.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Calls the AI safety warnings a hoax. says that the U.S.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: law enforcement can police the sector if needed. This is
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a great line, the way he closed it. America does
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: not retreat from frontiers. After 250 years, freedom is not
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: one that we will ever, ever surrender. So a lot
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: being said yesterday, Christopher, did you happen to see any
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: of this?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I've seen highlights. I like the fact that, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: he talked tough about Iran and Iran's delegation was in
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: the room. So they heard it. They heard every word.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Said it right to their face.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But at the same time, he had his delegation
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: of peacemakers meeting behind the scenes with their delegation. So,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's the typical Trump talk tough in public.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: And at the same time, we're trying to make peace
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: behind the scenes.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Also said, and I mean, I don't know, again, I'm
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: sure there's some sort of fact checkers who will say
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that this is not accurate, but he says that those
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: strikes that we've seen happening on boats, those drug running boats,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: has destroyed 97, or we're down 97%, is what he says,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: of the drugs coming in this year.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: If that's true, we're saving thousands of American lives.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: That is tremendous.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So... There was a lot there. If you have any
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that U.N. speech, we'd love to get your
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: input on that as well. Just use the talkback feature
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Hello, gentlemen.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: This is Bob from Mount Pleasant. One question about the U.N. People,
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: name me one major thing the U.N. has accomplished this
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: year or last year.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And I'll bet you can't. Bob has issued the challenge
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: from Mount Pleasant. Good morning, Bob. Thanks for listening. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see if anybody wants to take
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you up on that offer. And maybe they're hitting their
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Google machines right now trying to find out what can
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: we brag about the UN, particularly in the last two
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: years that they have done. Some would say put that
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: challenge to, you know, what have they been in business,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: like 80 years? Since 1948, I think, is when they
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: came into fashion business. The United Nations has always been
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: a globalist, obviously. United Nations, that's the designation. So as
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the world superpower, we typically don't like what they do
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: because they usually are against us.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: And there's usually a stalemate in the Security Council between
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: us and Russia or China. Nothing ever gets accomplished.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Another good point, Christopher. Thank you. But if people want
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: to thank Bob from Mount Pleasant up on his challenge,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear what you are excited about the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: UN accomplishing in the last two years. We'll take a
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: break now for top of the hour news and back
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: with more just after this on South Carolina's morning news.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: All right. So if you look at live five, they
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: have a story down there about Colleton County and the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: residents were invited last night to come with their questions
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and They did. They came with their questions. This is
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: one of those things, though, I'm like, why now? At
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: this point, to paraphrase Hillary Clinton, what difference does it make?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: The Colleton County Council had already approved unanimously a zoning
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: change that will now allow for a data center. Now,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: people came with their questions, and the answers, by the way,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: sound great. If you're wondering, does the Colleton County Council
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: data center, does it sound like it's going to be
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: a good deal for the people? Well, yeah. If you
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: ask the Colleton County Economic Alliance, which hosted this thing,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: what you're going to get is a single user, large
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: hyperscale campus. So this is 10 data centers and two
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: substations sitting on 1200 acres in Colleton County. So this
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: is going to be right off I-95. Mount Caramel Road,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with that area, but either way, it
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: will be below the 65 decibel noise limit, but it
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: will also be far from any people's homes. It will
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: also be behind a tree buffer. So as this guy says,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: we're building a $ 6 billion project that literally no one
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: can see. It's also going to bring in 500 permanent
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: jobs and the median incomes will be between ninety five
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: thousand and one hundred and five thousand a year, which
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: is double the median household income for Colleton County, which
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: that sounds great. Also, when you're talking about, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: power and all that sort of stuff, according to them,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: has no effect on your power. water will be the
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: kind that we talked about, the recyclable kind. So it's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: not going to have any effect on your water.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Closed loop. It just goes through the system and then
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: back through the system again.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: So everything sounds fantastic. And yet there are people protesting.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So they're very upset. And I'm not sure. So they
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: had the information meeting yesterday. They told you the information
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: that they have. They don't know who's taking over. They're
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: building the data centers online. for people to come in
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: and either, I guess, rent, I guess would be the
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: way it would be looking at. Cause like one of
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the people is upset that they're not going to, they,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: we don't know who's coming. Is it meta? Is it Microsoft? Who's,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: who's going to be in these buildings?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: It's not China.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Is it, is it China? We're not going to let
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: the Chinese in here. Are we? I don't know. I
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: don't know who it is, but they don't know either.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: But you know, again, It's already been approved by your
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: county council. Now, this is the way local government works.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: If you're upset with your county council members, then you
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: need to talk to them and or not vote for
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: them moving forward. But you're getting this data center, which
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: sounds like it's going to be a boom for for
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the community, Christopher.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: This controversy has ultimately paid off for the public because
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: we know there are cases out there of these data
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: centers which were in fact sucking up all the water,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: which were in fact taking a lot of electricity, which
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: were in fact bothering the community with their noise and
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: weren't bringing in anything because a lot of these community
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: leaders before the public light was shown They were making
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: deals for virtually nothing. Oh, you want to come in
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: and build something? We're going to get a little bit
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: of a tax base off of it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Come on in. Now, under the spotlight, these counties are
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: being a lot more that I mean, they're very shrewd
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: now about these deals they're cutting because they know they're
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: going to be analyzed and scrutinized by the public. So
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I think it's been great.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: It's it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: The public ultimately wins now.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: As any good business would do, you are contributing to
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the benefit of the community in which you're located. I mean,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: when people talk about companies, there are local people who
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: work in those companies and they want to live in
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: nice neighborhoods. and they want to have good schools and
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: they want to have low crime and all those types
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: of things. So it's incumbent upon the leadership of the
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: companies to make sure that the communities are doing well
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: for their employees, which also is, as we talk about,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: trickle down or however you want to phrase it, that
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: benefits everybody in the community. or at least it's supposed
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: to if it's being done right. So it looks like
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Colleton County's got a great deal. And apparently none of
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: us will ever see that building because it'll be behind
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of trees and other things. Well, that's
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a good thing. That would be a good thing. Not
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: that I want to see it. You're right. What do
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I care? It's probably a windowless, almost like working at
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: iHeart in Columbia. Anyway, if you have thoughts on that
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: data center or other concerns about AI? Or do we
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: have to start calling it, what is it, SI now?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump gave the mandate yesterday. We're not going to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: call it artificial intelligence. It sounds fake when you call
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: it artificial. It's super intelligence. It's kind of like me, DJT.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: He's super intelligent. Just ask him. Okay, we'll take a break.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Be back with more, including your talkbacks. Use the microphone
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. It is 7.08.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: With Christopher Thompson and I'm Kelly Nash. Boy, so much
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: happening in New York right now. I mean, the last 24,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: 48 hours has just been so I mean, it seems
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: like a thousand years ago that he that Donald Trump
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: was meeting with the mayor of New York. And that's
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: led to protests and that's led to people now on
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: both sides of the aisle saying that's going to throw
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the midterms into chaos because Donald Trump is undercutting the message.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that the socialists are dangerous people. I don't agree with
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: that assessment, by the way. I think that it shows
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump and Republicans are trying their best to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: work with whomever the elected officials are. However, the Iranian
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: president arrived yesterday for his big general UN assembly speech
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that's supposed to be happening later on today. We see
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of protests in America, most of which, unfortunately,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: are fake. They're totally fake. They're fake because they're paid for.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: And you can tell that they're fake and they're paid
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: for because they have all kinds of pre-printed signs. And again,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: not that this proves that they're fake, but they're usually
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: younger people. They're people who could use a couple extra bucks.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: And so they go on out and they do these
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: types of things. But I'll grant you that typically the
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: most motivated people for a protest would be the younger generation.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: But this protest that was out in front of the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: UN yesterday, when the president from Iran touched down, that
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: is about as organic of a protest as I've ever seen.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: And there were literally hundreds, maybe even thousands of Iranians
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: who live in America now waving their old school Iranian flags.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: You know, the ones that before they put the stuff
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: on it, changed it up after 1979. They're going old school.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: They're waving their flags. and they're protesting this guy, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: they want their country back, Christopher. I think that something's
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: going to give here in the not-too-distant future.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Let's hope so. I wasn't even sure the Iranian president
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: would be allowed to land. I guess they gave him
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: rights because, you know, Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, said
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: a day earlier, our next economic weapon, we're shutting down
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Iranian airlines. If you land a plane anywhere else that's Iranian, and...
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: If you're an ally of ours, you're not allowed to
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: fuel it. You're not allowed to roll up a ramp
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: to it, etc. You're not allowed to touch it.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: This guy may have had to take like an Uber
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: to like the UAE to catch a flight over here.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how he got here, but he got here.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Diplomatic relations get you anywhere in New York, I guess.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a pretty awe-inspiring presence these protesters had.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Yes. And again, organic is all get out. And of
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: course they're furious. It's kind of like when we saw
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: the Cuban protesters or people celebrating yesterday in South Florida
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: over the fact that Trump said, we are not ever,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: ever going to have communism in the United States, but
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the Cubans will soon experience freedom. They had freedom. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: then there was a communist revolution. And those people back
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: in 1959, whatever, they thought they were doing the right thing.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Those people had been sold a bill of goods that
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: all of their– that all the ailments of their society
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: could be fixed with communism. And it's the same sort
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: of crap that you hear today from all of the
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: DSA members, that it's– oh, it's the corrupt– people who
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: are just, you know, they're abusing the people and we
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: need to protect the people. And the way we'll protect
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: the people is we all get together and it's a collection.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: It's the warmth. It's the collective warmth. Get ready for
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the warmth. Well, it's not so warm after you run
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: out of money. It feels like a good idea for
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: maybe six to maybe, maybe, I don't know, maybe it
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: goes a year or two before you realize, oh my gosh,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: what have we done? But by then it's too late
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: because you've now got somebody enthralled with power. They're entrenched
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: in power. They've built up a military around them. They've
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: de-armed you. And that's exactly where the Cubans found themselves.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: And they've been there. And the Iranians are in the
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: exact same position right now. They have no weapons. They're
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: just being abused. And it's not the U.S. 's job.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: To go around the world and set people groups free.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: That's not our job. And for a lot of you Republicans,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: and I hear from you people, you're like, why are
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: we getting involved in these? We don't want to get
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: involved with certain things. Cuba is 90 miles from our coast.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: So it serves us well to make sure that Cuba
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: is in a good place. And that can't be used as, well,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: as Kennedy found out for launching grounds from the Russians.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: But we just want to make sure, like, that's why
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: we got Greenland now. That's why we're making sure Cuba's
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: in a good spot. We want to protect the Western Hemisphere.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: And then when you talk about Iran, I mean, again,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: this is not a humanitarian effort that we went out
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: there for. It was our human— we were looking out for us.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: That's the only thing that— America looks out for America. And
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: its allies. And its allies a little bit as much.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: But if it didn't affect us, if we didn't think
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: that Iran was a threat to the United States, it
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: was only a threat to Israel, we'd say, Israel, you
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: handle it however you see fit. But they were a
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: threat to us as they started to develop a nuclear weapon,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and you can see their ballistic missiles were gaining in range. So, yeah,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: we're looking out for us. We're not looking out for
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the Iranian people, as much as people might want to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: tell you that. Now, unfortunately, the Strait of Hormuz thing
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: has become a problem, so we may have to actually
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: do the overthrow. We didn't want to have to overthrow
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the regime, but we may have to do it. But
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: it's not for them. It's for us. It's to make
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: sure that we are safe, that you and I and
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: everybody in America— can continue to live the American dream
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: without fear of a nuclear weapon being fired our way
• 36:42
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• 36:46
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• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson, I want you to know I just received
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: a text from our congressman. Because you live in Lexington, right?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I do. And I live in a part of Richland
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: County that is also represented by Congressman Joe Wilson. He
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: sent a text that said during the speech yesterday when
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Trump was speaking. the Cuban delegation arose and quietly departed,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: a symbol of ultimately communism departing the stage. So I
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: like that. I like that symbolism there, that the communists
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: are walking out, and that's going to be the end
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: of communism in China very quickly. We're talking about, Christopher,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: this story. I think it's pronounced vibriosis. Vibriosis, apparently we've
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: had three cases in South Carolina, one deadly. And vibriosis is,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: you can get it apparently by exposing yourself to contaminated
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: salt water, if you have like a cut or something apparently,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: or you eat raw seafood. According to the Post and Courier,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: they are talking with people and they want you to
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: know that Dr. Paul Richardson, The chief medical officer for
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Conway Medical Center cautioned state residents against panicking or even
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: avoiding seafood. The risk is very, very, very, very low,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: especially when you're cooking or preparing seafood. It's extremely low.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: You're talking about just a few infections, but definitely not zero.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: The slight uptick in cases as of September 17th will
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: line up with the start of Palmetto's state oyster harvesting season,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: which commonly occurs during months with the letter R.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was always the common thing. I mean, everybody
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: said that. You eat oysters only in months that have
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: R in them. So you get to May, June, July, August. But,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: you know, restaurants these days, they get their seafood from
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: cooler waters during those summer months. So it's always safe. Well, almost.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, unfortunately for one person.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I'm knocking on wood here.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Unfortunately for one person, it was not. And
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: they do point out that typically most of these cases
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: happen more in the Gulf. So far, we've had a
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: bunch of cases, I guess, in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Um,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: but just three in South Carolina, one of which someone
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: has passed. Um, so, you know, just some, a word
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: of caution.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: And I wasn't making light of that. I'm just, I'm just,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's, you know, we, we eat a lot
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: of seafood here in South Carolina. Seafood's very important to
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: our tourism industry and to, I mean, there are a
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: lot of people who make their living from it still.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: And yeah, it was always a rule of thumb. You,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: we're a little more careful during the hot summer months.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Well, Dr. Richardson says, be careful. If you're eating something
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: like a raw oyster, if you hurt your hand harvesting
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: seafood and you see redness, you need to get yourself checked.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: And if you don't feel quite right, immediately go see
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: somebody at a doctor's office because the take-home message is
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: by no panic, but be cognizant. That's his takeaway message.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: No panic, but be cognizant that there is a thing
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: that I'm probably mispronouncing. Vibriosis is how I'm pronouncing it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: If you've got a pronunciation guide for me, use the
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: talkback feature. Get ready for oyster harvesting season. We're ready
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: to start eating some oysters around here. It is 728.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 40:39
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• 40:40
  Speaker 2: All right. I am Kelly Nash. And as we get
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: to learn who I am, because I'm still relatively new here,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I am a very competitive person. And I have to admit,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: sometimes I am jealous of other people's success. I'm not
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: happy that that's part of who that's one of my
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: character flaws. I was originally very excited that we were
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: going to be the first conservative news leaning party. radio
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: station that was going to interview Annie Andrews. And then
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: something happened with the Andrews campaign and she wasn't able
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: to make the interview. And that was supposed to have
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: happened about, uh, I guess like 10 days ago now.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: But, uh, I have to tip the hat, uh, in
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the upstate. I wouldn't call her a competitor because we're
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: not in the same markets, but Tara does a very good, look,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: she does a great radio show in the upstate. Congratulations,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Tara on landing that interview. with Annie Andrews. And yesterday,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the fallout began from the interview. This was sent to
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: us from the Darlene Graham campaign, an excerpt of the
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: interview where Tara has asked Annie, do you support packing
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court?
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: So I think everything is on the table right now.
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: You know, the court is currently packed. The court is
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: currently politicized. They are infringing on freedoms. And, you know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: I know a lot of my Republican friends, my dad
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: here in South Carolina, who is a Republican, who is
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: very prideful about the fact that Republicans are the party
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: that stand for freedom. But I've watched as the SCOTUS
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: has tried to infringe upon some of those constitutional freedoms.
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: And that's concerning to me. And I do think one
• 42:21
  Speaker 9: of the options on the table is unpacking the court
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: by expanding the court. And if we don't do that,
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: I'm concerned about further infringement on my daughter's rights and
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: other vulnerable members of our community's rights.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: OK, I don't even know what the hell she's saying.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, we're going to unpack the court. By
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: packing the court only in a Democrat's mind, could that
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: possibly make sense that we're going to go from nine
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: to 20, whatever the number is? Well, I think, is
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: it currently 13? Is that the proposal that they're going with?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: That's usually the number you see, yeah. But she's suggesting
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: the court is packed now.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: The court has nine justices, as it always has.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Does she mean packed with conservatives?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: And she also means, and you know, if you listen
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: to the entire interview, there's parts where she's saying something
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: along the lines of, the founding fathers never intended for
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court to be this way, that it was
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: not supposed to be political. Look, people who say things
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: like that are disingenuous because politics has always been a
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: part of the American landscape. And if you include politicians
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: to make decisions, then you expect it to be political.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: So don't lie and say at some point there was
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: a purity test in the past where It was, you know,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: do you swear no allegiance to either party? No, it's
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: how do you interpret judicial precedent? Are you like, and again,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: if you're a conservative, you believe you want an originalist.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: You want somebody who says, this is what was written.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I take it to mean what it's always meant. I'm
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: not looking to grow it. I'm not looking to reinterpret it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that the times have changed. Hence, we
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: have to change with it. If Congress wants to change
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the laws, Congress can change the laws. And then later on,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: somebody will challenge the laws and the Supreme Court will decide,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: does that align with the Constitution, yay or nay? But
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: what we have on the left is a bunch of
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: people who When they get into the Supreme Court, they
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: reimagine and they don't really care. How could the founding
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: fathers have known anything? Or how could even the congresspeople
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: of the 1800s or even the early 1900s or maybe
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: even the early 2000s? Did they know what they were?
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Because they weren't living in today's times. That's not your
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: job to reimagine it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: If she's going to or if Democrats are going to
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: unpack the court by packing it, who appoints those people?
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I guess Annie Andrews. Or, you know, her proxy, which
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: would be, is it Gavin Newsom? Who's going to be
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: the president? Yeah, that's a separate question. So what if
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is still president? Oh, no, no, no, no.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: No, okay. So it's maybe not the current or not
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: the sitting president?
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: No, not that guy.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: It can't be him.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: It's if the Democrats win in two years, then we'll
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: pack the court?
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: As long as we have the Senate. The Democrats need
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: the Senate and the presidency. And then if we have that,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: then we'll pack the Supreme Court and then we'll start
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: working on outlawing the Senate so that nobody could ever replace...
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: And then we'll get rid of the Supreme Court eventually.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: We'll get rid of everything. And then it'll just be
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: under the power, I guess at that point, future president AOC.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, does she realize how crazy that sounds? Because
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: she's desperately trying to sound moderate.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it when they have to bring out like...
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: When you say my father's a Republican, that's almost the
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: equivalent of a white person saying my black friend.
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: That justifies everything. I've got a Latino friend. I've got
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: a black friend. I've got a Republican father. So I
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: can now speak into that community. No, you can't.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: You have.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: And when she says something about my I've heard my
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: father and other Republicans proudly boast of how they love freedom.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: But now I'm very concerned about the freedom. You never
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: were concerned about the freedom. That's why you weren't a Republican.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: That's why you went against your father. I'm assuming I've
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: seen a commercial. I haven't been. had the audacity to
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: turn it up where I'm assuming that's her and her
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: father sitting there in the commercial and I'm working out
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: at the gym and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: can't even imagine that guy looks soft as tissue. I
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know anything about that guy, but
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: he looks soft as tissue. So I don't know. But anyway,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: thoughts on Annie Andrews. Congratulations, Tara on the upstate. You
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: did a great job getting that interview. It's a, but
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: let us know on the talk back feature. It's seven 39.
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Calling from Columbia, South Carolina, Richland County. Annie Andrews, unpacking
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: the court to pack the court means.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Remove who's.
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: There that they don't want so they can put in
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: who they want.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, thank you for the call from Columbia. Although,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: you know, we call it a call. It's kind of
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: like when I'm on music radio, we still call them records.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: They're not calls and they're not records. They're talkbacks and they're,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I guess, digital music at this point. MP3 files, maybe.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what we're even playing on music radio
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: these days. So just to clarify, what Annie Andrews said
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: in that interview, that we played an excerpt from, that
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: she was on the Tara show in the upstate. I
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: think it's Word FM that she works at up there.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: What she's saying is in order to unpack the court,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: we have to, by Republican standards, pack the court. And
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: so she's not calling for the removal of the conservative judges.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: She's saying we'll neutralize them by adding to it. She's
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: removing their majority. Yes, we're going to add four liberal
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: judges to get us to 13 plus the three that
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: we have. So we'll be at seven. So we will
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: have the majority. And then that's fair. That's the fairness
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: that she's looking for. In other words, one party rule.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I would also point out that is the same mentality
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: that Democrats use when they talk about allowing illegals to vote.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: that it neutralizes Americans' votes. And if you get enough illegals,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: you can overrule the Americans' will and get whatever it
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: is that you're trying to get passed, passed. So Annie
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Andrews has exposed herself as a dangerous person, at least
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: on that level, when it comes to the.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court, Christopher. That's a Kamala Harris. I mean, that
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: was one of her policy points when she ran for president.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: And it's just shy of the DSA, which would not
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: only neutralize the Supreme Court, but would eliminate it altogether.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: There's no need to when you have a supreme leader, right?
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you have an Ayatollah or somebody, like,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: why would I need a Supreme Court? I've already got
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: the guy. I got the guy. So, yes. But, again,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews. Look, this campaign, which had so much promise,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: is derailing early in the process right now because you
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: can't come out and say that. You have to do
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: more lying. In order to be elected, we talked about
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: that the other day, you must lie to get elected
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: as a Democrat. And you almost exposed yourself a little
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: bit by saying we're going to pack the courts to
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: unpack the court, which is, again, a word salad that
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris would have came up with. And nobody wants that.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: So.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: But there's obviously more things that we'll get to about
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews as we get closer to the election. But
• 50:00
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• 50:04
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• 50:05
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• 50:09
  Speaker 7: From the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I did not become a Christian until I was 36
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: years of age, so I hadn't read the Bible. And
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: then when I started reading it, there were obviously a
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: lot of stunning things in there, including the fact that
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: they used to pay people... To be professional mourners. I
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: was like, what? It seems crazy. Who could get paid
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: to do something like that? And then I realized, as
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: you looked at the politics of today, we have professional
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: protesters as well. Both are to try to imply something
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: that's not real. The professional mourners were to imply that
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: these people had a bigger following than they really did.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: A lot of the community loved them when they did not.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Same thing with the protesters. So we now see literally
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: thousands of pro-China protesters flooding D.C., New York right now,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: trying to make Xi feel very welcome when he comes
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: here and make it seem as if America wants what
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: China already has. It's all coming from one guy, basically.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Singham's his last name. Singham is an American who moved
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: to China years ago. He is spending hundreds of millions
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: of dollars. According to this, Singham gave Code Pink $ 1. 3
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: million and then doled out $ 22. 4 million to the People's Forum,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: which the People's Forum is the group that actually organizes
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: these protests, and another $ 1. 1 million to Breakthrough Media in
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: order to make sure that the social media pages are
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: flooded with with these types of things. So when you're
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: seeing all these people in America who look like Americans,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: who are begging, we need Xi, we need China, that's
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: the kind of government we want, know that it's all
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: been bought and paid for by an idiot who happens
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: to be a billionaire who hates America and lives in China.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: His name is Neville Roy Singham. It's not real. It
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: is fake. totally fake. Christopher, this stuff that kind of
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: disgusts me.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: That's incredible. I can't imagine having that kind of money
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: and thinking that's the way, if you're an American, if
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: you're an American citizen, I don't care how long you
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: lived over there, thinking that kind of money, all right,
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: let's just throw it here and let's blanket my own
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: people with propaganda. Just doesn't make sense.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: They desperately want the world to go communist. And, you know,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: he got his wife out there yesterday. She's got her
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: fuchsia straw hat on across the street from the United Nations.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Can't wait to turn us Chinese. I think, I think
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: we're turning Chinese. No, we're not. We're not turning Chinese.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Are we?
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: We'll be back with more. If you've got thoughts, use
• 52:42
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• 52:44
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• 52:46
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: You can claim to be the most middle of the road,
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: decent human being there is. And maybe you are. But
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: if you associate with criminals, liars, cheaters, and the scum
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: that's on the Democrat side, I'm not voting for you
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: because you choose people of low moral character to be
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: involved with, regardless of who you are.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Was that the signal thing that I heard going there, Christopher?
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: He was driving.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: It sounded like that.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Hands-free driving.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: He was waiting to make his entrance into his workplace,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: I guess. Thank you for using the TalkBack feature. Do
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: appreciate that. And I assume that the unnamed TalkBack is
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: referencing our excerpt of the Dr. Annie Andrews interview that
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: was done by Tara in the upstate on Word FM
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: and put out, it's being distributed now, excerpts of it
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: are being distributed by the Darlene Graham campaign, pointing out
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: that Annie Andrews has now openly saying that she is
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: for her phrase, in order to unpack the court, we
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: have to pack it further.
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  Speaker 3: Which collides with her big picture campaign, which is going
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  Speaker 3: on right now, which is saying, I'm a moderate. See,
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: even my dad's a Republican.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Now, here's the last two tweets from Annie Andrews. The
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: last two would be, let me see if I have,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: the page just jumped. All right. One, this was on
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: September 21st. Republicans and Democrats both got us here. Oh,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: so she's a moderate. She doesn't like the Republicans, but
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: she doesn't like the Democrats either, although she's running as
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: a Democrat. I'll work with anyone in Congress to help
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: rein in our debt in congressional stock trading, cut taxpayer-funded pensions.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Taxpayer-funded pensions? Oh, interesting. Also, health care for members of Congress.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: She's going to cut health care? Did I just read
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: that right? Annie Andrew wants to cut health care? Oh,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: it's just for members of Congress. Okay. She's going to
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: pass term limits.
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, there's no possible way you could make that promise.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: You don't have that kind of juice. And I will
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: cut taxes for South Carolina families. Is there a way
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: that as a federal officer you can somehow cut taxes
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: for just one state? I think you should be thinking
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: about running for a state office then if you're trying
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: to cut taxes in South Carolina. But the time has
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: now come to hold Congress accountable.
• 55:20
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Again, trying to position herself as a moderate and doing
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: an okay job. This is Dr. Oz, though. She retweeted this,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: and her tweet says, quote, you think my comms team
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: is going to be excited when I try to explain
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: risk pools in every interview I do? And then the
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: hand to the eyes little meme there or whatever. But
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: this is Dr. Oz, and she's retweeting a liberal who's saying, Dr.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Oz is is going to kick a million people off
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: health insurance because some of them have, quote, never filed
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: a claim. That's not what Dr. Oz is saying in
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: the actual tweet that you're tweeting.
• 55:53
  Speaker 11: Beautifully stated that 760,000 people, we call them phantoms because
• 55:58
  Speaker 11: we believe most of them either don't exist.
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  Speaker 2: Or had no idea they had coverage.
• 56:01
  Speaker 11: We believe that because we have been writing them, telexing them,
• 56:04
  Speaker 11: you know, walking to them, FedExing, whatever we could possibly
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: do to get in touch with them. They won't answer
• 56:11
  Speaker 11: and they have never filed a claim.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: That's why they're thinking about kicking these people off because
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: they don't exist because they appear to be phantoms. They
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: don't actually, they're not humans right now living in America.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe they've died, whatever, but Dr. Annie wants to, uh, to,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: to defend them. Uh, look, we've, we've said it. Every
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: politician has to run to the center in order to
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: win a primary usually, because even in the left, Well,
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. It depends on where you're running. Remember
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: up in New York, what was that guy's name? Dan,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: the Jewish guy. He lost his primary, got absolutely spanked.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: And then just before the primary, he went into a
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: coffee shop, and they wrote, like, you filthy Jew on
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: his coffee cup and all that sort of thing. Dan Goldman,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I think, was his name. Dan Goldman lost his primary
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: because he couldn't get left enough because, unfortunately for him,
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: he was a Jew in New York, and New York
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: hates Jews right now. That's the new wave right now.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: They don't like Jews. And so if he had anything
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: nice to say about Israel at any point in his career,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: he was cooked. And they overwhelmingly elected a DSA member
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: to replace Dan. So there's that going on. But in
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: most places, like if you're a– well, I guess in
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, most South Carolinians are pretty to the right.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: They don't want the extreme right. They want very fiscal
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: conservative people to be their politicians. So we have some
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: people who run further to the right than they actually are.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: And we definitely have some Democrats who run way to
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: the right of what they really are. But the bigger
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: picture is it doesn't matter if, like, to the caller's point,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: or I call them a caller, the talkback person's point,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter what you are. What Dr. Annie
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: feels doesn't matter. What she thinks doesn't matter because she
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: is a Democrat. And the way politics is done in D.C.,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: it's a numbers game. If they have more Democrats than
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: there are Republicans, then all leadership changes. You get a
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: new speaker. You get a new majority leader. You get
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: all of that. And then so they're the ones calling
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: the shots, as you can see. I mean, as best
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: they can. Mike Johnson is doing the best that he
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: can to implement a Republican agenda. Not going as well
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: as we would have hoped, but it's certainly going better
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: than what John Thune is doing at the Senate level. However,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: take out Thune, put in Elizabeth Warren or somebody like that.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: What kind of legislation comes out of a Elizabeth Warren,
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders run Senate? It's going to be a hell
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: show for America, and that has nothing to do with
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews except the fact that she is associating with them.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: She will be a Democrat giving the power to those people. So, again,
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: I think it's a big uphill climb. I don't think
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: she has much of a chance. And then yes yesterday's
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: excerpt where she says i want to unpack the court
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: by packing it further okay kamala kamala said what anyway
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: if you have more talkbacks please use the talkback feature
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: we'll take a break it's 809.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: You're listening to south carolina's morning news.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Apparently right now, just wrapped up, I guess, over on
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Fox News, an interview with Melania Trump. And I am fascinated.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I hate to be like one of those like, you know,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: TMZ gossipy kinds of people. But I am fascinated by
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: that relationship. I wonder what is it really like between
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: those two? What kind of communications do they really have?
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: really have. This is a little excerpt from the Fox
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: and Friends interview with Melania that just happened, like I said,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: about 15, 20 minutes ago.
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  Speaker 12: I told him he had a great delivery. He did
• 59:58
  Speaker 12: very well and a great speech. So I tell him
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 12: the truth. Sometimes he doesn't want to hear it, what
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 12: I tell him, but that's okay. I always say the truth.
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  Speaker 2: So And if you've seen the movie Melania, then you
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: saw one of the excerpts, which I think they stopped
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: using it in the promotions because I think it made
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Trump angry, was that there was a clip where he
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: had just given like a speech or something and he
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: had just won the presidency or something to that extent.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: And she picks up the phone and it's him. And
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: she says, well, congratulations, Mr. President. And you can hear
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: him speaking and he goes, did you see it? Did
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: you see what I said? Like, and again, every guy
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: in the world really wants the respect of their wife.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: That's a biblical principle, but that's just a human nature thing.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: We want the respect of our wives. And she said,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: I did not see it. I'll see it later on
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: the news or something like that. And you can tell
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: he was like crestfallen, like his wife did not watch
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: his speech at.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: You got to watch it, don't you? But he does
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: look to her for critiques on his speeches. And she
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: liked the UN speech. We talked about the UN speech.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: He talked about 40 minutes yesterday. And some big, big
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: things came out of that, including the fact that the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Iranians were called out to their face. The Cubans were
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: called out to their face. Trump said that communism will
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: never come to America, but the Cubans will soon experience freedom.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: which that set off a whole bunch of celebrations in
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: South Florida. A bunch of former Cubans living there now
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: can't wait for their homeland to be set free. Iranians
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: are doing the same thing in New York right now,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: celebrating the fact that It appears that we're getting near
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: the end. The Iranian president, as you made the point, Christopher,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: we're not even sure how he got permission to get
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: out of Iran. Did you have to borrow a plane
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  Speaker 2: or something? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But Scott Besson has said the Iranian airlines, they're shutting down.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: They're going to be shut down because that's our next
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: economic step against them. That's our next economic weapon.
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  Speaker 2: How bold do you expect the president of Iran to
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  Speaker 2: be today when he talks at the U.N.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's not speaking to that audience. He knows
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  Speaker 3: he's speaking to the folks at home, the Revolutionary Guard.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, and not the folks at home,
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  Speaker 2: just the IRGC, because the folks at home don't even
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  Speaker 2: have power at this point.
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  Speaker 3: They're the ones who are parsing every word he says,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: so he could care less about his global audience. He
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: just wants to make sure he's got a place to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: come home to safely. Maybe ask them to write it
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: for me. I'll just read what you write here, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you say, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. But, well, this could be interesting to see.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: And so, you know, I feel like, you know, when
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: I do the show with you on Saturdays and we
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: talk about what are the Gamecocks going to do today.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: And Christopher has the best Gamecock coverage. If you're looking
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: for insights as to what's happening before a football game starts. Uh,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: this Saturday is Saturday. It's Saturday night, right? Seven o'clock.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: I think something like that.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: So we'll be on the air at four o'clock Saturday afternoon.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: We always have a good time.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: That'll be here on South Carolina's, uh, excuse me, Columbia's
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: one Oh three, five FM and five 60 AM WVOC.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: You people in the low country, you can hear it
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: on the I heart radio app, but it's always about
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: predicting what's going to happen. What are the keys to
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: success and those types of things. And I feel very similar.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Like when I'm looking at this, we don't know what
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: he's going to say. We can make predictions, but Christopher,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: you're all in on he's just talking to the IRGC.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: So whatever he says today, understand he's not trying to
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: influence the United States. He's not trying to influence anybody else.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: He's just trying to make sure that when he gets home.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: he'll have his head for 24 hours or more.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: Important speech for this guy today. So we'll see how
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: he handles the pressure at the UN. But if you've
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: got thoughts on that or other things, go ahead and
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: hit us up on the Talkback feature. It's 818.
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  Speaker 7: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 1:04:05
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  Speaker 1: Never, ever.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Doubt that a Democrat can just literally go into their
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: tush and pull out a statistic that they've made up
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: on the spot. They are fantastic at that and Jayapal
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: is doing it yesterday.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 13: War and the burdens of war fall primarily on women
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 13: and families. And the research shows that if we had
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 13: more women diplomats, peacemakers, women were more involved in the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 13: peace process. The research shows that peace agreements lasting more
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 13: than two years goes up by 20 percent just by
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 13: having women negotiating those peace agreements. And it's why I'm
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 13: so thrilled to see this room, because I do think
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: that this is we need better negotiators at the table.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 13: I think women tend to be much better negotiators.
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  Speaker 2: So women are better negotiators. And the research shows that
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: the peace agreements go up by 20 percent when you
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: have women negotiators. Now, what research is that? Does she
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: ever cite that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think she cited a source for that.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was directly from her tuchus. I'll also
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: point out that if Jayapal believes, as she said right there,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: that women are better negotiators, then she should immediately delete
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: what she has on her House website, which is, quote,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: This bill is a no-brainer. Speaking of the Paycheck Fairness Act,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: says Representative Jayapal, women are being paid currently 54% to
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: 80% of their male counterparts for doing the exact same job. Well,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: if they're such great negotiators... Well, it should be the
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: men who need help, right? If the women are so
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: great at negotiations, Jayapal, why is it that they're receiving,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: according to you, 54% to 80% of their male counterparts?
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: It seems like the males would be a better negotiator.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: They're getting the most money. I don't know. Make it
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: make sense. Can somebody make it make sense? I don't know.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: If you can, or even if you can't, if you
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: just want to laugh at Jayapal or another Democrat, I'm
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: open to that. Or if you want to attack me,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: you sexist, you are afraid of women having the power. Okay,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: I'll take that too. Go ahead and use the Talkback
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app. It is 826.
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  Speaker 7: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 7: Morning News.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Well, we're moving in the right direction in South Carolina today.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: We're up to a C minus. My parents would have
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: gotten the belt out for a C minus, but at
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: least I still be allowed to play sports. I had
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: to have a minimum of a C average, according to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: my parents in order to remain athletically on a team.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: So there was a couple of years, uh, where I
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: would miss out on a sport because they, Oh, Oh,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: you had to D average there.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry, champ. No, uh, no basketball this year, no baseball
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: or whatever it was that, that season. But C- is
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: where we're at according to the infrastructure of our state,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: according to a new report card from the American Society
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: of Civil Engineers. And that is a step up for us.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: We were at a D +. So we're going in
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: the right direction.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: Infrastructure meaning bridges, roads, grid.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Drinking water, dams, transit, everything. Okay. All of it. Wow.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: The highest grade goes to the ports, got a B +.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: and Charleston Harbor Deepening Project, making it the deepest harbor.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: That's like almost an A.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: That was a huge deal.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: They love that. Now, how are we doing otherwise? C-
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: for your dams, roads, transit. When we say transit, I mean,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: what are they talking about? I guess railroads? D-plus for that.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Bus systems, maybe? Drinking water and waste water. So we're
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: not doing so good with the water. We're almost at Flint,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Michigan category here. But if you read into this thing
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: and you go down to where they start breaking down,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: to your point, you were talking about bridges. The report
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: sounding the alarms on the aging bridges and dams, South
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: Carolina has about 3,000 bridges that are more than 60
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: years old. 34% of our bridges are considered in good condition. 34%?
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: But the whole nation has trouble with bridges. The national
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: average is 44%. We have 2,400 dams with an average
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: age of 68 years. Now, I don't know, do they
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: include like the refreshing of the dams, the building up
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: the dams, or are they just saying that they built
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: these things 68 years ago and that's just the way
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: it's been and that's the way it's going to be
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: until they break? And for those of us who live
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: in Columbia and can remember the horrors of that flood
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: that we had, it only took one little dam to
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: go and then they all started going.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess that includes private and public dams because
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: a lot are privately owned and maintained and some don't
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: get maintained.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: 2,400 of them. Yeah, I guess that would have to be,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: including the privately owned ones. And they say that right now,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: South Carolina has about 5.6 million people, but by 2035,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: so roughly nine years into the future, they expect us
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: to be at 6.2 million. So we have to kind
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: of shore up what we have here, which is I
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: guess what we're doing over here at the what will
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: be formally called the Malfunction Junction, future called the Carolina
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Crossroads Interchange. They've been spending billions on that thing, and
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: that'll be done around 2035, I think is when we're
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: finally going to be done with that whole intersection there.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: It takes a little while to get these things done,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: but at least we'll be ready for that time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I saw a couple of lawmakers being quoted in this story.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Kimbrell, Spartanburg, says he believes the recently enacted SCDOT
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  Speaker 2: Modernization Act will help accelerate our road projects and improve efficiency.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Kimbrell continues to say, the biggest obstacle in South Carolina
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the funding. We don't have
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: a money problem. We have a contractor problem. And so...
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: The competition with the neighboring states for qualified construction firms.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: We need more contractors. There you go. Another opportunity. We
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  Speaker 2: were talking about, what was it last week? The worst
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  Speaker 2: rated school in like America. No, number two behind a
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: barbershop in Texas was some sort of construction job school
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  Speaker 2: we had here in Columbia. We need people to work construction.
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  Speaker 2: We need contractors. We need more of those types of people.
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  Speaker 2: And we are willing to pay lots and lots and
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  Speaker 2: lots for it. As a matter of fact- Just speaking
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  Speaker 2: about drinking water, the report estimates South Carolina faces an
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: $ 8 billion in drinking water infrastructure need over the next
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: 20 years. $ 8 billion we're going to have to spend
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  Speaker 2: to upgrade our drinking water in this state.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you've got a kid in high school right now,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is your plan. You just talk to
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  Speaker 3: him or her and say, look, you've got a job
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  Speaker 3: practically guaranteed the day you get out. If you get
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: the right training and go to the right place, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you've got a salary that's probably going to eclipse all
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: of your friends. All you have to do is target
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  Speaker 3: the right direction. And right now, South Carolina needs contractors.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina needs people who are experts in how to
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: improve our drinking water.
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  Speaker 2: And even our wastewater. Wastewater systems face similar pressures. Engineers
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: reported sanitary sewer overflows increased by 346% since 2022. driven
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: in part by the aging system, the population growth. My gosh,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: fix the... I don't want that out in the streets.
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  Speaker 3: That's why our statehouse has been so hyper-focused on infrastructure lately,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: because they know. It's not just the roads. I mean,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: the traffic's the obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But they know that we're outgrowing things in a hurry.
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  Speaker 2: And we haven't maintained.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And we talk about that with the power grid and
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: other things as well. So America has a situation on
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: its hand where we need to really focus on the
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: stuff that matters. And that's infrastructure. Ironically, remember the, didn't
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: we do like a trillions of dollars with Joe Biden
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: with infrastructure and only like about 1% ended up actually
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: on real infrastructure. And most of it went to like NGOs.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. Surprise, surprise.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Thoughts on the infrastructure situation or other things, you can
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: use the TalkBack feature. It's 838.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 7: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: We brought it up a little bit earlier, and I
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: did a further deep dive this morning on my national
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: briefing podcast, which you can find on the iHeartRadio app,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: and you spell that like my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L, the national
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: briefing podcast. A guy was arrested after, well, there was
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: some confusion here. According to his attorney, he did not
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: know what was happening. His name is Garcia Perez. He
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: is down in Austin, Texas. He's just doing his thing.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: He's a DoorDash guy. He's delivering food and He saw
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: an unmarked vehicle start to ram his vehicle. And so,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: of course, in that instance, if you were just driving
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: on Two Notch Road or wherever you are and some
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: unmarked vehicle just started ramming you, you would try to
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: get away. That would be the only, according to his attorney,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: the only thing that any of us would do. And
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: then it escalated. ended up getting shot. That's ugly. Then
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: he didn't even know who these people were. They just
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: dragged him off to jail with a gunshot. And they, as,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: as she said, they wouldn't even take the bullet out
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: of his back.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: And yet that led to some big protests down in Austin, Texas,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: where it all took place.
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  Speaker 1: Enchanting abolish ICE.
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  Speaker 10: I want to see that ICE agent be charged with
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 10: attempted murder. I want the deportations to stop completely because
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 10: these murders will continue to happen unless the deportations stop completely.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we got to abolish ICE.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, he was murdered?
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: Well, attempted murdered.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: Attempted murdered, according to the young man there on the street. Okay. Now,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: that young man, by the way, is on the payroll.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: as are thousands and thousands of other Americans on the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: payroll of a Marxist named Neville Roy Singham. And that's
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: who's doing the protests. And they had printed signs. They
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: had buses out there in order to make sure that
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: their protests were loud and proud. And then they were
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: spread all over social media by Neville Bingham. And then
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: they were also obviously made the local news. I think
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: that's KTVU or something like that up there in Austin.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: Either way, yesterday, Austin had a the police chief had
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: a press conference.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: Whereas Paul Harvey would have said, we learned the rest
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: of the story.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: It turns out that the guy knew exactly why he
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: was being pulled over because he'd been hiding from authorities
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: for a while because they had contacted him. And to
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: remind him last year, you no longer have a work
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: visa in this country. You no longer have any reason
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: to be in this country. You have been found by
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: a judge who, in violation of your stay here in
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: the United States. And we have an immediate removal from
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: this country process order to deliver to you. And he's
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: been bobbing and weaving since last year. So he knew
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: very well why he was being chased. It was a
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: targeted move by ICE to get him out of the country.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: He then went on, by the way, blue lights blaring.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: You can see now with the Austin Police Department releasing
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: their videos. Again, they're not the one, but they got
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: involved once they started seeing somebody going 100 miles an hour.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: They got involved. And the ICE agents, they had sirens
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: on their vehicles as well. So he was chased by
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: like four cars and then ended up getting shot when
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: he wouldn't pull over and he'd almost killed a couple
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: of people. Then they told him exactly why he's being arrested.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: You can see that on the body cam footage. And no,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: ICE agents didn't take the bullet out of his back.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: They left that for the people at the hospital, which
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: is where they took him to. Can you imagine an
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: ICE agent just like getting a knife? Let me just
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: get that out of your back. Anyway. It's just this
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: fake outrage in the U.S. It just drives us crazy.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: If you have thoughts, you can let us know. Use
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: the Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app. We'll take
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: a break. It's 846.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 7: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I just wanted you to know a little
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: bit more about this guy, Neville Roy Singham, the guy
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: who's funding all these protests around America. He is a billionaire.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: They don't say anything bad about him. He was, like
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of liberals, very wealthy. He was born pretty wealthy,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: I would think. It says, according to his Wikipedia page,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: that his father, Archibald Singham, was from Sri Lanka. But
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: apparently he was born in Connecticut, not too far from
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: where I was born. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: They had a hospital back there. He's now currently 72.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I wonder if the Middletown Hospital is
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: still there. I don't know. But anyway, that's where he's from.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: He then identified, self-identified as black. I'm not sure how
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: they let him get away with that. He joined the
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a black nationalist Maoist group.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: He also then went to Howard University. So he was
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: a black thought leader who's not black and then launched
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: something called ThoughtWorks, which was at the time Chicago-based IT company.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: That's how he became a billionaire and moved that corporate
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: headquarters to Shanghai in 2005 and has been pretty much
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: living there ever since. His wife is the founder of
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Code Pink. And together they do whatever they can to
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: destroy democracy. They hate it. He's given large donations to
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: Hugo Chavez. And anybody who wants to reign terror in
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: the world is a friend of Neville Roy Singham. And
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know how this guy just goes unchecked and
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: why more people don't know who he is. It seems
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: like a very dangerous person to me, Christopher.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: And Code Pink in the family, too?
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's his wife. Jody Evans is her name. His son, Nathan,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: works for something called Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research, which
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: is funded exclusively by his father.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: Why go out and get a job? I'm going to
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: study something, Dad. Okay, here's a million dollars.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Well, as long as you're doing some sort of
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: social research to figure out how we can manipulate freedom-loving
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: people into wanting to be controlled. And they can be
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: controlled by people like Neville Roy Singham.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: I love the name of the company, ThoughtWorks.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: Yes. ThoughtWorks.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: And so they're working on your thoughts. They're working very
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: hard to change the way you think right now. And again,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: when people recognize the playbook, it's harder to run the
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: play on you. So when you see a bunch of
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: protesters who all have professionally printed signs, you have to
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: know that that protest didn't just grow organically in the
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: last 24 hours. Somebody printed those signs in anticipation of this.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: So that is Neville Roy Singham. He's got all kinds
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: of signs ready for, I'm sure, Charleston or Columbia. If
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: something was to ever happen here, he would have those
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: signs immediately shipped in and bus in the protesters. We
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: don't even need the people who live there to get involved.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: We'll take care of it for you. It's just money
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: to burn.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Well, he would look at it as an investment, I guess.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: He's trying to make the world a better place. And
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: a better place means you shut up and just do
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: what you're told. Gosh, it's infuriating to see this thing
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: being run right in the open and people don't call
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: it out. Well, we're calling it out right here on
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning News. We have to stop calling it
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: out right now, though, and we'll be back tomorrow morning
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: after 6. Have a great day.