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Show Rewind 10-9-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 2: and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: And here we go into Friday. This is Kelly Nash
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  Speaker 3: with Christopher Thompson. And we're getting ready for the storm
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  Speaker 3: that I'm just calling that there cane. Because I cannot,
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  Speaker 3: is it Isaias or something like that?
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  Speaker 4: You say it right, Isaias. Yes, you say it right
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  Speaker 4: every time, and then you act like you don't know
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  Speaker 4: how to pronounce it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just was on another show, and they were
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  Speaker 3: saying it, and I think they might have even said
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  Speaker 3: it in the top of the hour news break when
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  Speaker 3: I was walking in. The storm has already canceled Darius
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  Speaker 3: Rucker's big North Charleston event. Well, the Saturday portion, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very sorry to hear that. I think his daughter
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  Speaker 3: was scheduled to perform. They bumped her up to today. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so she will get a chance to be on stage.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're kind of abbreviating the schedule to today.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, you know, there's something. I guess you'd have
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  Speaker 3: to get the day off from work possibly to head
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  Speaker 3: on down and be a part.
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  Speaker 6: Of this, right?
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  Speaker 4: And I think she's playing Fall for Greenville this weekend, too.
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  Speaker 4: So she's a busy young woman.
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  Speaker 3: Is Fall for Greenville? I haven't looked to see. Are
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  Speaker 3: they being affected by the weather? You would think if
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  Speaker 3: Charleston is, you would think that Greenville would be.
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  Speaker 5: I have not looked. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: We're... They started the evacuations yesterday down in, like, Alabama, now, like,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, parts of Mississippi and Florida. And even Georgia's
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  Speaker 3: now declared a state of emergency as we head into this.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you got some friends visiting. I know Tumbleweed, our
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  Speaker 3: traffic guy here in Columbia, I guess he's got, like,
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  Speaker 3: four or five family members from the panhandle that have
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  Speaker 3: come on up to evacuate with him.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty smart.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Infected our college football schedule, too.
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  Speaker 3: So what's going on, Christopher? Talk to us about it,
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  Speaker 3: because this is probably the most important thing to a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Charleston Southern's game tomorrow was tomorrow night against SC State.
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  Speaker 4: They've moved that up to noon.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And then everyone's keeping an eye on that Georgia-Alabama game
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  Speaker 4: now because the way the storm is moving so quickly,
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  Speaker 4: they think it's going to be well past Tuscaloosa by
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  Speaker 4: the time tomorrow night's game rolls around. So they've done
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  Speaker 4: some things. College game day, ESPN's big show is there.
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  Speaker 4: They've moved that indoors to the basketball arena. They've said
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  Speaker 4: tailgating can only start at a certain time and without tents.
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  Speaker 4: But for now, the game is on as scheduled.
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  Speaker 5: Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: We love football. We love it. We love our, and
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be, that is a humongous game. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I was talking to one of our former coworkers. Well,
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  Speaker 3: actually still one of our coworkers. He just doesn't live
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  Speaker 3: in South Carolina anymore. A guy named Bobby. And Bobby's
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  Speaker 3: a huge Alabama fan. And I was like, I hope
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  Speaker 3: you get the game in. He's like, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that I want to get this game in. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, man. When you got an elite program, you
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  Speaker 3: want to play the best. I remember what it was
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  Speaker 3: like in 2011, 12 and 13 when we were elite.
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  Speaker 3: And we loved playing Georgia in all the big games,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe we'll get back there soon. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Florida this weekend, South Carolina's what, like a two-touchdown underdog?
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  Speaker 5: Something like that, yeah. Yeah, and there's going to be
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  Speaker 5: rain there.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be wet there, and it's breezy, too,
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  Speaker 4: but not expecting any delays.
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  Speaker 3: Could that help us?
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  Speaker 4: You've got two teams that love to run the football,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, it may be a ground game.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Hopefully we can hang on to the football.
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  Speaker 3: No turnovers this weekend. That would be great. Maybe Florida
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  Speaker 3: will cough it up a little bit. Clemson's taking the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: Off, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they are.
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  Speaker 3: Lucky dogs. All right. Well, looking at some of the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that we've got coming down here today, Christopher, when
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  Speaker 3: we come back, I just want to talk about this
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  Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth announcement from yesterday. That is, I did not
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  Speaker 3: expect that.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't either.
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  Speaker 3: That one caught me off guard. Yeah. Also, maybe we'll
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  Speaker 3: take a look at the debates down in Georgia last night,
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  Speaker 3: also in Michigan. And then you heard on the top
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  Speaker 3: of the hour news break what was going on with
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  Speaker 3: Mamdani and ICE. There's a lot going on. And if
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  Speaker 3: you've got thoughts on any of those subjects or anything
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  Speaker 3: else you'd like us to talk about. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: Casey Whitener, we will talk to the Libertarian candidate. She's
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  Speaker 3: getting ready to be on the stage Sunday against Annie
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  Speaker 3: Andrews and Darlene Graham. So many things to get to today.
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  Speaker 3: We're just getting started. Thanks for listening to South Carolina's
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  Speaker 3: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there. Welcome to Friday. It's Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: And Christopher, you and I have not spoken about this yet,
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  Speaker 3: but apparently we were both a little surprised yesterday at
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  Speaker 3: the announcement from Pete Hegseth. Not that they were going
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  Speaker 3: to carry out the execution. And again, the guy who's
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  Speaker 3: dying here should have been dead a long time ago.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And for those of you maybe not old enough to remember,
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  Speaker 3: because I mean, gosh, this was 2009. Nadal Hassan, who
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  Speaker 3: was an army psychiatrist, ironically, was a mental case and
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  Speaker 3: a radical Islamist who down in Fort Hood killed 13
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  Speaker 3: and wounded 32 more at Fort hood. Uh, as he said,
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to stop them from going and killing
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  Speaker 3: any Muslims. Um, this guy, you know, hiding behind the uniform,
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  Speaker 3: killing people in a place where they felt like these,
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  Speaker 3: everybody here's on the same team. We're all on the,
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  Speaker 3: that is the worst kind of, uh, attack from within.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, he should have been put down a while ago.
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  Speaker 3: He was sentenced to death in 2013, uh, It's here
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  Speaker 3: we are. What is it? 13 years after he's been
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  Speaker 3: sentenced to death. Finally, it's going to happen. What is it?
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  Speaker 3: December 3rd, I think. And they're scheduling it for 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 3: because it was the one o'clock hour that he did it.
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  Speaker 3: Now he did it in November. So it's not quite
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  Speaker 3: the same time. November 5th, I think, is when he
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  Speaker 3: had the attack. December 3rd will be his assassination. Well,
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  Speaker 3: not assassination. His I almost call them an extermination. His
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  Speaker 3: execution is going to happen on that day. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: firing squad, I'm actually cool with the firing squad as well,
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  Speaker 3: because I've heard people who are in the medical field
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  Speaker 3: talk about how this is actually a cleaner way, a
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  Speaker 3: more assured way. of ending someone's life, it takes a
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  Speaker 3: lot less time than the drugs. Although I personally would
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  Speaker 3: opt for the drug route. I would be like, whatever
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  Speaker 3: they give me at the dentist, give me that before
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  Speaker 3: you kill me. But, you know, some people say that
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  Speaker 3: it's more humane to just shoot them and get it
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  Speaker 3: over with. But this idea that Pete Hexeth announced yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: that the public is going to be not only able
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  Speaker 3: to watch it, it sounds like he's encouraging people to
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  Speaker 3: watch it on a live stream.
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  Speaker 5: That sounds a little barbaric for the United States.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what the purpose of it could possibly be.
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  Speaker 4: I think his point was this is going to show
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  Speaker 4: traders that if you turn on the United States, this
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  Speaker 4: is what you'll get.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very fearful that what we're going to get out
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  Speaker 3: of it is more radicals who see these videos and
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  Speaker 3: there'll be sharing them with each other and getting each
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  Speaker 3: other further and further radicalized. And we stopped public executions.
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  Speaker 3: I think we were just talking about this the other
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  Speaker 3: day for some reason. It was like, I think the
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  Speaker 3: last one was in West Virginia, I want to say,
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  Speaker 3: and it would have been around somewhere in the mid
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  Speaker 3: thirties and the United States general public saw pictures of it.
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  Speaker 3: And there was a bunch of people like It was
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  Speaker 3: a carnival. Yeah, having like a picnic and stuff and
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  Speaker 3: having a big time out there. And they were like,
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  Speaker 3: what are we doing? And so it was Kentucky, now
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  Speaker 3: that I think about it, Kentucky. And then they outlawed
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  Speaker 3: it in Kentucky. They outlawed it throughout the country. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: wanted to see that publicly. And the countries that do
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  Speaker 3: this sort of thing are really the kind of countries
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  Speaker 3: that we kind of point at and go, that's not us, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like Iran and those types of places.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I don't think that it serves as a deterrent.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing that he's dead is the deterrent. Seeing it happen,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just, in my mind, I'm imagining, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what they're going to do with this guy,
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  Speaker 3: Nadal Hassan. Is he going to be... strapped to a
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  Speaker 3: chair is he going to be tied to a wall
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be somehow unable to move and then
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be armed u.s soldiers pointing weapons at
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  Speaker 3: him and they're going to kill him.
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  Speaker 4: There'll be a target taped well if they do it
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  Speaker 4: the way states do it with the firing squad there'll
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  Speaker 4: be an actual target taped to his chest near his
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  Speaker 4: heart and that's what they'll take aim at i i.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Totally against this. I don't think, I mean, I'm not, again,
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  Speaker 3: I'm for the execution.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I am not for it being live streamed so that
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  Speaker 3: it's available for our enemies to use to make propaganda
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  Speaker 3: videos about us. What do you guys think? Do you
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  Speaker 3: think that this is actually serving as a deterrent, as
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  Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth says, that it'll show traders what they get?
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  Speaker 3: Or are you more in line with Christopher and I
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  Speaker 3: this morning? Let us know. Use that talkback feature. Let
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  Speaker 3: your voice be heard off the iHeartRadio app. We'll be
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  Speaker 3: back in just a moment. It is now, what time
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  Speaker 3: is it? 617.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: 560 AM. WVOC, Columbia and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Friday to you. Coming up Sunday night, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have three ladies on stage. one of whom will
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  Speaker 3: in all likelihood be the next senator from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, we had Dr. Annie Andrews on the air.
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  Speaker 3: We have not had Darlene Graham on the air, but
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  Speaker 3: we did have yesterday. a visit from the libertarian Casey Whitener.
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  Speaker 3: She's talking here about her idea of cutting just 5%
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  Speaker 3: of the budget across the board.
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  Speaker 8: Well, the challenge that we have is our national debt.
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  Speaker 8: It's $ 40 trillion. It's eclipsed GDP. It is driving us
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  Speaker 8: over a financial cliff. It is not only a national
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  Speaker 8: security threat, but it is a tremendous burden to the
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  Speaker 8: generations that come after us. So you can fix the
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  Speaker 8: national debt three ways. You can cut spending, you can
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  Speaker 8: raise revenue, and you can grow the economy. In previous administrations,
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  Speaker 8: they just keep trying to grow the economy without doing
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  Speaker 8: the other two things.
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  Speaker 9: So we have to cut spending.
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  Speaker 8: And one of the places we can cut spending, Social
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  Speaker 8: Security and Medicaid, these are Medicare, these are two programs
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  Speaker 8: that could use some significant reform. So we need to
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  Speaker 8: reform those programs and slow those growth, right? That's part of,
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  Speaker 8: they are the biggest contributors to the national debt. But
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  Speaker 8: the other way to do it is to cut spending
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  Speaker 8: in all of our discretionary spending. which is on the
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  Speaker 8: annual budgetary process. If you go 5% across the board,
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  Speaker 8: then you're not picking and choosing. You're just saying the
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  Speaker 8: entire federal government, everybody needs cuts. We're going 5% completely
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  Speaker 8: across the board.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm not new to that.
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  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, Rand Paul has a six
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  Speaker 8: penny plan. He's a current senator from Kentucky. And he
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  Speaker 8: is already saying six pennies for every dollar we spend,
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  Speaker 8: we've got to save. So, you know, I'm on this
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  Speaker 8: train as well. Another one of these budget hawks that
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  Speaker 8: would get into the Senate and say, we've got to
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  Speaker 8: reduce our spending. That's one of the three ways that
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  Speaker 8: we're going to be able to address the national debt.
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  Speaker 3: Does that address Social Security in any way or no?
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  Speaker 8: No, the 5% is mostly for our regular departments, right?
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  Speaker 8: So the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and
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  Speaker 8: Human Services, things like that. That's regular executive branch departments.
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  Speaker 8: The Social Security reforms that we need would be more
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  Speaker 8: than 5%. More than likely what we'll have to do
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  Speaker 8: is restructure the way the benefits are paid. Now, current
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  Speaker 8: Social Security recipients... are not going to see their benefits reduced.
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  Speaker 8: We've already made a promise to them. They're already receiving
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  Speaker 8: what they need to receive. We know that that's true
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  Speaker 8: for probably the next five years or so, but there
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  Speaker 8: are different models that say the folks that aren't going
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  Speaker 8: to get in for the next, until 10 years from now,
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  Speaker 8: the folks that aren't going to get until 15 years
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  Speaker 8: from now, let's adjust the benefits so that it's a
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  Speaker 8: reasonable way that we can pay these benefits out.
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  Speaker 3: So you're proposing, I'm assuming not, eliminating Social Security for
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  Speaker 3: the people who've already paid into it, but maybe changing.
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  Speaker 3: Are we thinking means test? Are we thinking lower benefits?
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  Speaker 3: What are we thinking?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a little bit of all these things, right?
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  Speaker 8: There's a number of different plans out there, but the
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  Speaker 8: way we get to the right plan is by forming
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  Speaker 8: a BRAC commission. So the BRAC commission was the Base
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  Speaker 8: Relocation and Closure Commissions. It was a nonpartisan committee that
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  Speaker 8: got together and said, these are the things that we
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  Speaker 8: need to do to be able to fix base closures, right?
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  Speaker 8: And what it did is remove the political pressure from
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  Speaker 8: the elected officials for agreeing to these changes. So the
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  Speaker 8: first thing we do is create this BRAC commission. The
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  Speaker 8: commission then says, these are the things we have to fix.
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  Speaker 8: There's a lot of work being done at the Cato Institute.
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  Speaker 8: I follow a woman named Romania Baccia that wrote a
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  Speaker 8: book called Reimagining Social Security. If we want it to
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  Speaker 8: be a program that sticks around for generations, It needs
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  Speaker 8: to be restructured. And so we've just got to be
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  Speaker 8: really clear about how do we do that and how
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  Speaker 8: do we minimize the impact on existing recipients?
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  Speaker 9: But how do we set it up for long?
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, we'll have more with the libertarian candidate
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  Speaker 3: for Senate coming up in just a little bit. But
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  Speaker 3: if you've got thoughts on what she's saying already about
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  Speaker 3: cutting into how Social Security gets distributed in the future, 10,
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  Speaker 3: 15 years down the road. or maybe this idea of
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  Speaker 3: just cutting across the board, 5% military spending. How does
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  Speaker 3: that affect South Carolina? By the way, we have the
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  Speaker 3: entire interview up right now. You can listen to that
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  Speaker 3: on the National Briefing Podcast. The National Briefing, spelt like
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  Speaker 3: my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L. The National Briefing Podcast has that interview
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  Speaker 3: and the one that we had with Dr. Annie Andrews earlier,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll be back with more. It is 627.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, this is Alan from Columbia. And I agree that
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  Speaker 5: that should.
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  Speaker 7: Be televised on television, not just so they can see
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  Speaker 7: that we will do this to you, but the services
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  Speaker 7: themselves will see that, uh, you don't come into this
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  Speaker 7: man's army and pretend you're somebody else.
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  Speaker 6: So, uh, Turn the channel if you can't bear to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Alan, for your talk back. At first, I
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  Speaker 3: thought he was talking about the South Carolina Senate debate
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  Speaker 3: that he agreed that it should be on television. I
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  Speaker 3: was I was like, was there some sort of pushback
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  Speaker 3: on that? But now he's talking about what we were
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  Speaker 3: talking about in the second segment this morning about the
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  Speaker 3: announcement from Pete Hegseth yesterday that they are going to
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  Speaker 3: live stream. So it's not going to be on television again.
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  Speaker 3: Unless Fox or Newsmax decides to pick up that live stream.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't see any major network doing that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I couldn't see a secretary of war
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  Speaker 3: announcing that we're going to have a public execution either.
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  Speaker 6: True.
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  Speaker 3: So we are in previously in our lifetime uncharted waters.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had a public execution in America since the
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  Speaker 3: mid 30s. And, uh, Alan agrees with it. Again, Pete
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  Speaker 3: Hegseth making this the case that he wants people to
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  Speaker 3: know that if you're a traitor inside the U S military,
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  Speaker 3: that you will be executed. And, um, to me, the
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  Speaker 3: fact that he is executed, I don't need to see
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  Speaker 3: it to understand that he's been put down. Um, I,
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid that it's going to lead to further radicalization, um,
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  Speaker 3: You know, like, for example, the guy that we didn't
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  Speaker 3: talk about it on this show, but there was a
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  Speaker 3: story that broke this week about a kid, a kid.
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  Speaker 3: He's like 18, 19, something like that, if I remember right,
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  Speaker 3: who was arrested after dealing with federal agents who he
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  Speaker 3: thought were radical Islamists talking about attacking the Mall of America.
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  Speaker 3: And he wanted to kill a bunch of people, go
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  Speaker 3: out in a blaze of glory. was willing to die, said,
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  Speaker 3: I want to hurt the Jews because the Jews are
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  Speaker 3: the ones who own that mall. I want to hurt
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  Speaker 3: the Jews. I want to make people afraid to go
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  Speaker 3: shopping there for a long time. And he was incentivized
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  Speaker 3: by watching the guys in Australia on the beach. He
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  Speaker 3: thought that that was it. a fantastic way to die.
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  Speaker 3: He thinks it's great. So when you see somebody like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this military guy getting put down in a
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  Speaker 3: twisted mind, they're going to say, that's fantastic. I hope
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I can die like that someday. That's the way I
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: look at it. Christopher, thoughts?
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I just, I think, again, it aligns us more, and
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: you've made this point in the last half hour, it
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: aligns us more with countries that we turn our nose
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: up at. You know, countries that are barbaric, countries that
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: have no respect whatsoever for human rights. You know, the
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: death penalty is one thing. You can argue that all
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: you want, but a public execution, that's.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: A very different story.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: And again, it puts us on almost an even playing
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: field with people like Iran.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll argue the other side. How's this?
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: What about the idea that it's very easy for a
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: lot of Americans to say, yes, I'm for the execution, but.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: But you don't actually witness it. Now, if we're all
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: watching it, maybe that, that would change some minds.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: A bigger impact.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Maybe some people would start to go, Oh, you know what?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Maybe I, maybe I'm not for, for executions now that
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I'm actually seeing it happen in real time. Maybe I
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to play, uh, you know, both sides here, but, uh, I'm, um,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Alan says he's for it. He thinks it sends a
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: strong message and, uh, I guess it's kind of out
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: of our hands, right? December 3rd, it's coming down. When
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: they live stream it, I mean, what is that on?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Like their YouTube channel or something?
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: The Department of War, I guess, yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess we'll get further details if you want
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: channel information. Kind of like when they put out how
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: to watch the Gamecocks this weekend. How to watch the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: execution this weekend. Actually, it'll be on a Thursday, if
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, about 1 o'clock. Maybe you can schedule
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: your lunch break around it if you're into that sort
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: of thing. We'll take a break, be back with more
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: of your talkbacks. Just hit us up on the iHeartRadio app,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: and we'll hear more from the Libertarian candidate who is
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: running for the Senate, getting ready for the big debate
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Sunday night on ETV. Christopher Thompson and Kelly Nash together
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I was just reading about ETV. They're getting set for
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: their Sunday night debate, 7 o'clock, Annie Andrews. Darlene Graham,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Casey Whitener. Those are the three ladies that are going
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: to who've made it to the stage. I don't know.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Maybe they did reach out to the constitutionalist. What was
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: his name? Mark something or other. He's currently pulling it,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I think, three percent. But he didn't get back to them,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I suppose. So it'll just be three ladies on stage.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: But I like the fact that it says that nobody
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: will have any insights on the questions and that I'm
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing right now. that Darlene Graham is just basically praying.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Can you please ask me about the South China Sea
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: and Taiwan? Please ask that question. But either way, we'll
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: see what those three ladies have to say. We were
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: talking yesterday with Casey Whitener, who is the Libertarian candidate,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and she was kind of discussing some of the positions.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: We were asking her about Annie Andrews' position regarding— we've
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: got to pack the Supreme Court in order to unpack
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court. What do you think about that?
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: Not necessarily thoughts on her position, but in terms of
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: adding additional judges, I'm against that. When we think about
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: three branches of government that have equal power— None of
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: these branches is stronger than the other. That's the reason
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: that we have the process that we have where the
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: president nominates, the legislative branch agrees to it, and then
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: they go to work in the judicial branch. I don't
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: think the legislative branch should be taking away the power
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: of the judiciary and vice versa. Somebody mentioned something about
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: overturning particular rulings coming out of the Supreme Court. You
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: just make better laws in the legislature. Our legislature, our
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: job is to make laws. So we'll do that. And
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: then the executive branch is supposed to enforce those laws.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: So let's oversee that and make sure they're doing that
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: to the way that we expect them to be doing.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: But let's keep that balance in place.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: I think the reason that it's become so politicized is
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: that we've given too much power to the executive branch.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: And we've expected that the legislature will go along with
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: whatever the executive branch says. We need to take back
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: our power. And a big part of that is the
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: purse strings. That's why I'm so focused on the budget
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: and so focused on fiscal responsibility.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Casey Whitener, who will be on stage, right? Sunday, you'll
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: be there. This will be an opportunity for South Carolinians possibly, uh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: who don't listen to news talk radio and stuff to
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: actually hear you for the first time. This is a
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: big opportunity because you are considered a third party candidate
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: as the libertarians always are going to be for the
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: foreseeable future. They're going to see you and maybe a
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: bunch of people are going to say, you know what?
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I really like her. I like that lady. She talks
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: like I talk. Um, But then there's also the fear
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: of if I was going to vote for Darlene, that
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: if I vote for you and not her and then
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Annie wins. And next thing you know, the Senate is
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer's in power again. And here comes the craziness.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: Let's let's do the math.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Ready?
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: So 25% of South Carolinians see themselves as Democrat, 25%
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: see themselves as a Republican, and in the middle is
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: this 45% who don't really identify with either side. That's
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: the pool that both Dr.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Andrews and I have been going after, right? We've been
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: trying to sway those independents.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: A lot of times they end up voting Republican because
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: they are aligned values-wise with a conservative agenda, right, that
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: really speaks to things like small government and And fiscal responsibility,
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: no foreign wars, protect our military and our veterans, things
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: like that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: So all of those kinds of things is the reason
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: people think that people who would traditionally vote for the
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Republican candidate would vote for me. But a lot of
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: those people are also tired of government meddling in their businesses.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: They're tired of government having fights over social policies and
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: ridiculous concepts of democracy.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: Anyway, all that to say they're sick of the two-party system.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: So those 45%, that makes up enough voters to elect me.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: And if all of them decide, look, we don't like
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: our choices on either side.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Both sides have driven us into terrible financial circumstances. Both
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: sides are responsible for endless wars. The problems that we
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: have right now have been caused by those two parties.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: And I'm sick of it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: I'm tired of it. Now you've got a legitimate candidate.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: I have a PhD in organization and management. I've helped
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: entrepreneurs build businesses all across the state. I've run two
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: statewide organizations. I'm somebody who is eminently qualified for this
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: particular job. And I'm willing to go and do it
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: and work for you, not for the political parties.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: All right, there you go. Casey Whitener, the libertarian getting
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: ready for the Sunday night debate. I think her math
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: was a little bit off because I think, Christopher, that
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: about 40 plus percent of South Carolinians identify as Republicans.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: But still, the idea that she could win All of
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the independents and maybe still a few Democrats. I mean, mathematically, yes,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I guess it would work. I don't know that it
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: alleviates any of the fears that Annie Andrews might win.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: It also it's that's that's a an uphill battle when
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: you think about the name recognition that Annie Andrews alone
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: has carved out in the last two months.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: That was quite a hefty bill she's been paying for
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: that in recognition. That didn't come cheap. Anyway, if you
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: have thoughts on Casey, you can hear the entire interview
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: on the National Briefing Podcast. Let us know if you
• 24:05
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• 24:08
  Speaker 3: that talkback feature.
• 24:09
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• 24:13
  Speaker 3: All right. I'm looking at the hurricane, Isais or whatever.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: It's now a Category 2 sustained winds at 110 miles
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: per hour. Right now, looks like it's going to hit
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: somewhere very close to the Florida-Alabama line. About 7.30-ish tonight
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: is what it's scheduled for, but there's still a lot
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: of wiggle room in there, according to the Hurricane Center.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Its projected path has it Saturday night at 7, just
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: in the very north part of Alabama, near the Tennessee line.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: By Sunday morning, it's kind of bearing to the east
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: and moving up towards Kentucky. And then by Sunday night,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: we're into Kentucky, the West Virginia line. So just kind
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: of skirting past South Carolina, but certainly some heavy rain
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: this weekend, Christopher.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and may get up to a Category 3 before
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: it hits land.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: This thing is strengthening. Yes.
• 25:16
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• 25:19
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• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Hi there. Good morning. It's Friday, 7.03. Kelly Nash here,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson with us, and... You know, we're talking about
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: live streaming. We've been talking about the Pete Hegseth announcement
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: that we're going to live stream the execution of the
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: traitor down at Fort Hood coming up on December 3rd.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I don't want to see that. But what I do
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: want to see is if there was a live stream
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: of the Mike Rogers, Abdul El-Sayed, debate because apparently the
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: best parts of these debates happen during the commercials.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: The moderator, somebody named Rick Alban, throughout the debate, he
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: had to keep interjecting, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. He says,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: here's the situation. We have dozens of questions we want
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to get to. You can't litigate all of these with
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: 14 different rebuttals, please. Well, then after one of the
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: commercial breaks, he comes out and he says, I have
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: been doing moderations for 30 years, and I have never
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: witnessed what just happened throughout that commercial break. You two
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: need to be separated.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So they have a genuine dislike for each other. That
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: is not like the pro wrestling dislike. This is a
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: legit dislike for each other. Now, when you get into
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: the meat of their debate— Obviously, Iran is a big deal. Iran, Israel.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: That's kind of the hot topics. El-Sayed refuses to say
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: which one of them is more dangerous. The moderator pushed
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: him a couple of times on that. He had heard
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: that question, was it like three days ago? And he said,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: it's a stupid question. He says they're both dangerous. I
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: think that both of them have proven dangerous in their
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: own way. One, at the risk of attacking us. The
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: other one, by getting us into wars that we have
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: no business fighting. That's his position. They also differed on
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: whether or not we could have avoided going into a
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: war at all. El-Sayed apparently says that he thought, where
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: is this quote again, that we could have gotten out
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: of getting into a war if we had negotiated properly
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: with Here we go. Rogers counters that the nuclear capabilities
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: have been significantly diminished, said that the war should end
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: while maintaining that Iran should never be allowed to obtain
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. El-Sayed, however, said whether they had a
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon or not, I think we could have negotiated
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: with them. Die, die, die, die.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Because that's worked so well in the past? Because even
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: world powers, peacekeeping organizations like the United Nations have had
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: so much luck. in making sure Iran didn't have a weapon?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I think that El-Sayed lost last night. And when I
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: mean lost, I mean lost the election. I think it's
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a wrap. He was polling at 50 to 49. That
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: is extremely tight. However, when you look at the DSA
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: candidates across the country, not just in Michigan, across the country,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: they usually poll three to five points higher than their
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: final results. As a matter of fact, he was polling,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I think, 8 to 10 points ahead of Haley Stevens,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: who is the Democrat, the more moderate Democrat. And he
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: won that one by the skin of his teeth. So
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: if he's in a one-point race and then he's talking
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: about Iran would be cool with a nuclear weapon, I
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: think most people who were on the fence about him
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: last night, they jumped off of it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Let's hope so.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: So that was the big Michigan debate last night. You
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: heard Sean Hannity talking about the fact that Michelle, what's
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: her name, Talifo?
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Tafoya.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Tafoya, the lady who used to be on ESPN. That's
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the only way I ever heard of her. She is
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: apparently with ESPN. like a point or two now of
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: the lieutenant governor who seems completely radicalized, like pro-Hamas radicalized,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: who is running for the Senate seat. So surprisingly, Minnesota's
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: in play. I think you're going to, look, you could
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: end up flipping Michigan, Minnesota. I know Texas is not
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: looking good yet. Last night, Willie Nelson came out with
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: a commercial for Telefrico. So I don't know if Willie
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: has a lot of clout. And did we find out
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: where Telefrico has been the last week?
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, we've heard the flu. That's what we've heard.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: You'd think it's almost like a Mitch McConnell, we want
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: a proof of life type of video. Like, just show
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: yourself sniffling on the couch.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Nobody disappears off the campaign trail in a race this
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: big and this contested this close to Election Day without
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: a good reason.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: That is odd.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, if you're missing work, you would have
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: to call in and say, I'm still not quite better.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I hope to be binned by Monday, though. You know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: something like that. He's not even given us that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: No.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: That is all right. Well, Tallarico missing in action right now,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: but coming back, we're going to talk about what happened
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: last night in Georgia because they had their big debate
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: as well. And I think that that was somewhat surprising
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the way it played out down there. John Ossoff seems
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to have the race in hand or does he after
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: last night? We'll talk about that. Maybe get your feedback
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: as well. Thoughts on any of the races that you're
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: watching coast to coast, Susan Collins, whomever, let us know
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: on the talk back feature. We'd love to hear from you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: That's Christopher Thompson. I'm Kelly Nash. You're waking up with
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's morning news.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: morning news.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Boy, if I was advising John Ossoff, I'd advise him
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: to get out of the race. But that's because I
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: don't like his politics. John Ossoff is winning rather handily
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: in Georgia, which is why a lot of the PAC
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: money is drying up for Mike Collins. In the most
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: recent polls, we got Ossoff with an 8.5-point lead. Even
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the Trafalgar Group has him with a 6.5-point lead. So
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: it's outside the margin, and we're coming into the final
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks here. You would think that John Ossoff—
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: If he was confident in his position, that he would
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: debate issues. That's what they always say. If you're confident
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: in your issue, if you think you have a better
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: position than your opponent, debate the issue. If you don't
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: have a better position than your opponent, attack your opponent.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Let's take a listen to Mr. Ossoff last night. This
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: is his opening statement. This is how the whole dang
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: thing started last night in Georgia.
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: Well, Rick, thank you so much for bringing us together.
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: Thanks to Gray Media and Congressman. Good to be here
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: with you.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: 22 seconds later.
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his
• 32:45
  Speaker 11: personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: White nationalists. This is where we're going. This is the
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: route that Ossoff is taking. He's going to take Mike
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Collins and put him in a hood and make him
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: part of the KKK.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: This is because Collins had a former aide who apparently
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: had ties at one point.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: That's the story?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: No, he's going to make it even worse.
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: Mike Collins is attacking your voting rights, but that's not
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: a surprise. If John Lewis were marching today from Selma
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club.
• 33:23
  Speaker 11: His office has been in cahoots with some of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 11: most notorious white supremacists on the country. He himself has
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: amplified neo-Nazi propaganda.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's laughable because it's so not true. And yet.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I wonder how well that's going to play in Georgia.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: How well does that play? Do people believe John Ossoff
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: when he says that Mike Collins is a neo-Nazi who
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: would club John Lewis?
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Brought the Klan and Nazis in in the same breath.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's why he's a professional. You and I
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: don't have that kind of skill set where we could
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: tie the Klan to the Nazis and then make Mike
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Collins the poster boy for both of them.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: How did Mike Collins do last night, by the way?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say great. I mean, like after that, when
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: he slams him with the he would attack John Lewis line,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I would have assumed. I mean, if you look at it,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Mike Collins is like writing notes. He's furiously writing notes.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: And then he looks up after it's, you know, it's
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: his turn now. And I would have thought the first
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: thing he would have said was something addressing that point.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I have never engaged in violence, whether political or otherwise.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: The last, you know, the last time I was in
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: a fist fight was middle school or something like that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: He didn't even address that. He just moved on to
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: his position regarding like, I think that they had, that
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: had started something to do with like gas taxes or something.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And he just kind of brought up his point about,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: you know, I think that Georgia deserves lower gas prices
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: and we're going to do this, that, and the other thing.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: The talking points that he had been prescripted for were fine.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Mike Collins is not a skilled politician. John Ossoff is,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: but that's why it's so surprising that he made it
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: such a personal, ugly attack last night. Many political outlets
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: talking about how ugly John Ossoff made it, which... suddenly
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: gives life to commons you're giving him life by coming
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: up with these crazy personal attacks and you know the
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: one the litmus test that the democrats love and he
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: asked it again last night did joe biden win the
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: 2020 election the response is of course he was the
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: president for four years let me ask you a question
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: did donald trump invite iran to wipe la and san
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: diego off the map You know, just any of these,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: because there's a dozen or more of these. Did Donald
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Trump say that there's very fine, good people that are
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: white supremacists? Did he say that? What do you think
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: he said? You know, because if they if they want
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: to play that.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Little stupid game, a little litmus test game.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can is, you know, was I mean, there's
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: a long list of those types of games that they
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: like to play. We should start playing it back. That's
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: my recommendation for the Republicans. I'd like to see you
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: play the litmus test game back with them. If you've
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: got thoughts on that, let us know. Hit us up
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: on the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Christopher Thompson,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash, getting ready for the big E-I-C-I-E-S.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: All right, now you're getting worse.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Because nobody said it lately.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: You've nailed it a couple of times, and now you're drifting.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: E-C-I-E-S. E-C-I-E-S.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: See, when you say it, I can say it. E-C-I-E-S
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: is coming with a lot of rain.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: That darn cane.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: That damn dare cane is coming this weekend. Look out
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: for it. We're tracking it. It is 719.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I just know it was in North Charleston. I can't
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: find where exactly it took place, but Todd Blanche was
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: in town yesterday, and he was there with Russell Fry
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and Darlene Graham talking about Logan's Law and Mr. Stephen Federico,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: the unfortunate father who had his daughter, Logan, murdered here
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: in Columbia. Was that two years ago now? It was
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: a very unfortunate event where a guy who should have
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: never been on the streets gets out and he breaks
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: into a house and she was just visiting a friend
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: here and For no reason, apparently, he ends up killing her.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: May of 2025. May of 2025, so a year and
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: a half ago. And by the way, Post and Courier,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: do better with your photographs. You know, you got Stephen
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Federico in the photograph, and the description says, Stephen Federico
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: discusses how his daughter Logan was shot and killed in
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: a home invasion in Colombia in 2025. And you I
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: don't know what was being said then, but he clearly
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: has a big smile on his face. Why would you
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: run that photo? That is insensitive at best or bad editing.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: But anyway, Logan's Law, according to Russell Fry, he thinks
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: that they're going to get Democrats to vote for that
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: in the House. Darlene Graham promises to do her best
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: in the Senate to get.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: It to pass.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: We've also had a bunch of, I guess, police chiefs
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: were in town. The Charleston County Sheriff, Carl Ritchie, was there.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: And as they point out, Mr. Ritchie had just been
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: criticized for hours earlier about the two young girls who
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: had been found dead from neglect at their parents' home
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: after numerous, what do they call them, welfare checks.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Right, by his deputies.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: And they wind up arresting the estranged husband or partner,
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: and that's a whole mess.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: That is a mess. That is a mess. But do
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: you believe Todd Blanche when he says that this has
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: nothing to do with trying to help in the midterms?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, he's gone to a lot of different states,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: some of which have contested races, some of which don't.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, it seems on the up and up.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: But it certainly didn't hurt Darlene Graham to be pictured
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: front and center with the U.S. Attorney General talking about
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: something that we're all concerned about in the state of
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: South Carolina, and that's crime.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: They did ask. Blanche about something else, the openings that
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: they currently have. And apparently the reporters were trying to
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: make a big deal out of something, saying that there
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: are thousands of vacant attorney positions across the country. Blanche
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: said that is not accurate, and numbers provided at the
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Post and Courier show that the vacancy rate of about
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: 10% is actually similar or lower to the numbers under
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I like that. Recent Democrat administrations. Under Obama and Biden?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Is that what you meant to say? You didn't want
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: to put it in there? Also, U.S. Attorney Brian Sterling
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: down there for South Carolina. tells the Post and Courier
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: that they are down here in South Carolina. We're not
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: as stocked up as we should be. So we're at
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: about 15 percent right now. But yeah, this was a
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: this was, like you said, a great photo op. I
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: didn't hear anything like on the media from Darlene Graham
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: at this event.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there weren't a lot of sound bites that floated
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: out featuring her. So I don't know how much she
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: had to say at this event.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Well, the Logan's Law, I think, is a fantastic thing.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: And who was it? I guess it was Todd Blanche
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: made the point. If we were doing our job properly,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: your daughter would still be here. That guy should have
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: never been out. Logan's Law is designed to make sure
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: that this doesn't happen again. So that's a good thing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: We're praying for that law to get passed relatively quickly.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: We'll see if— can Congress do anything? It doesn't seem like it.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: But on this one, maybe we have some bipartisan support.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: We can get this one rolling. If you have thoughts
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: on Logan's Laws or other things, we're here for you
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: with the Talkback feature. It is 729.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Christopher, I was just reading this story in the Post
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: and Courier about the city of Charleston has, I guess
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: they're called parking cameras. Did you see this story?
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out, is this not AI technology?
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: It would seem like it's got to be some sort
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: of AI technology because according to the story, although the
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: words AI or SI per Donald Trump's request, they're now
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: able to quote, it allows the city to check 600%
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: more license plates each day than was possible when the
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: option was for employees to scan each plate. It sounds
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: like it's got to be some sort of AI technology.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's cameras mounted on a car that's being
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: driven around. I think it's just, you know, it's technology
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: being able to do it better than humans. Is that
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: super intelligence?
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: The city of Charleston is asking for $ 117, 000 next year
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: so they can get more. And they've already paid a
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Delaware-based company $ 56, 000 to enter into the contract for the
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: mobile automatic license plate reader technology. It'll spend another $ 25, 000
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: or so in the next year. two years of that contract,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: and they're saying that they're crushing it. They're going to
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: be bringing in so much money with the parking problems.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: How many did they say they brought in? It was
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of cars that they were, what do they
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: call them, immobilizing?
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: Does that mean putting the boot on?
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I believe that's exactly what that means. The city immobilized
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: 430% more cars with boots and windshield devices than during
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: the first few months than it had compared to the
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: same timeframe in 2025. Also 19% increase in citations, increasing
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the revenue by 30%. So this is one of those
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: things where I'm wondering if you have a problem, if
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: you're an anti-flock camera person, do you have a problem
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: with this?
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, because if you've ever lived in
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: a residential section where there's street parking and you pay
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: for a permit and, You can't even get a spot
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: anywhere near where you live, and you're looking up and
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: down the street, and you're seeing all these cars without
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: permits parked illegally. You've probably felt enough frustration that you're
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: welcoming this, unless, of course, you're one of the cheats.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Well, in the photograph, one of the photographs that they
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: use in the story, this is showing people in a
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: parking garage, which I'm confused. Is it one of those like...
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: you're on your honor type of thing. Like I put
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: in a ticket or something and I pay for an
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: hour and I stayed for two. I'm not really sure,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: but it shows the, I'm just reading the description, a
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: mobile license plate reader car parked. It's parked in the
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: garage and, Technology helps staff identify vehicles who are violating
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: parking regulations. Maybe you're parking in a handicapped spot. You
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: don't have the thing there. I don't know. But this
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: is the wave of the future, and they're bringing in
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: lots of money off of it. They're catching the people
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: with the bad parking habits down in Charleston. No word
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: on Columbia getting this yet, so I guess we're still
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: free to do what we'd like around here.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Look, nobody likes these if you're caught. parking illegally, but
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: everyone likes them when you're trying to find a space
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: and you've got the legal permit to park there and
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: you can't get a space because everybody else that's parked
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: illegally is taking up your opportunities to park.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of this is just kind
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: of overstaying your, at the meter, you know, and like
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: you say, if you go to the meter and you
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: pay for an hour and you're not even supposed to
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: be able to pay for more than an hour, Meaning,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: what do they say, don't refeed the meter type of thing?
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: If they drive by and they say, oh, he was
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: there at 10 a.m. and he's there at 11.30 a.m.,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: give him a ticket. So that's part of it as well.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: So it tries to keep everybody moving downtown. I wonder
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: how the local businesses feel about it. Maybe they like it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Maybe they don't because sometimes people who are overstaying on
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: their parking, they're doing it because they're shopping. So it'll
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: be interesting to see if it has an effect on
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: the downtown shopping community. businesses at all. But thoughts on
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: what they're doing in Charleston? Would you like to see
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: it in Columbia? Would you like to, like Christopher says,
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: if you're supposed to be getting that spot and you
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: can't get it because somebody's overstaying or not even supposed
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: to be there to begin with, you're probably going to
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: love this technology. I'm thinking that some of the AI
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: people who have the fears about this sort of stuff
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: are probably reading into this like, okay, so now they're
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: tracking my license plate, where I parked, when I parked,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: why was it, they got all that. Now, in some
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: sort of data center forever. Uh, let us know we're
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: using the talkback feature off the I heart radio app.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: It's seven 39.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Boy, these are, these are the stories that I think
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: really show where Americans hearts are. Which side of the
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: aisle do you come down on this one? So some
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: of the facts are not disputed. Okay. Uh, yesterday, just
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: after four o'clock, uh, there was a man who's, uh,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Had been wanted. He's a member of something I had
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: never heard of called the Trinitarios gang. Federal law enforcement
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: had a tip that he was going to be in
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: a certain area. He was driving his Honda, a gray Honda,
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: and he was backing into a parking spot when he
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: was approached by a plainclothes individual who had a gun out. Now,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: I can understand you might be, if you don't know
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: who this individual is, you might try to hit the
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: gas and take off, especially if you're a gangbanger. I
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: don't know who this guy is. He's got a gun.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to try to leave. At the same time,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: another federal officer was standing in front of the vehicle
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: by the driver's side headlight is how it's described. That
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: guy basically sidesteps the car. At the same time, the
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: other officer shoots him in the neck, the driver. Thankfully
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: he's not killed. As a matter of fact, he looks,
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: when they say shot in the neck, I think they
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: mean like, it looked like he was skimmed in the neck.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I don't even see any blood here when they have
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: him on the ground. Um, so we know that he's
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: in the member of a gang. We know that he's
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: been wanted for certain crimes. We know that the New
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: York police department was aware of his activities as confirmed
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: by Jessica Tish, who is the, uh, NYPD, um, What
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: do they call them up there? They're not the chief
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: of police, are they?
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: Commissioner.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: The commissioner. Commissioner Gordon. Commissioner Tish. But here we go.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Mom Donnie.
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Did you say he was illegal? Because he is.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: And that's why ICE stepped in. Because they had already
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: contacted the New York Police Department and said, here is
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: an illegal who is already wanted for crimes. Can you
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: go get him? And they said, we're not allowed to.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: And that was her big statement. At no point did
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: the New York Police Department cooperate in any way with ICE,
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: just so, because we don't want you to burn down
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: City Hall or whatever. Mamdani is outraged. What does Trump
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: have to say about this? I've made it clear to
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: the president, to the secretary, that ICE agents must leave
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: this scene entirely. I demand that ICE stop enforcement actions
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: in New York City immediately. So you are citing, as
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: he keeps calling him a New Yorker, he is not
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: a New Yorker. Although people, I get, you know, when
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: you look at like Minneapolis and some of these liberal cities, they,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: if you happen to arrive there, then they consider you
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: part of the community. Which is a bizarre— that' s the threshold?
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: Because I'm sure if I crossed your border— when I say
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: your border, I mean whatever it is that ticks you off.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: What if a Klansman was an illegal alien, was in
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: New York, and the feds came in and arrested some
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Scottish white supremacist who happened to be there? I think
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: there'd be cheering. There'd be, yes, get him out of here.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: We want nothing to do with him. He's not a
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: New Yorker.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: He's the wrong kind of criminal. So you're picking and
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: choosing your favorite kinds of criminals who you'd like to
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: stay in your city, which is so odd to me
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: that you would want any criminals in your city. Why
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: would you be fighting for this? Why would you be
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: demanding his release? Mamdani said, I negotiated. This has got
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: to be an exaggeration. I can't imagine Donald Trump was
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: on the phone with anybody for two hours. He said,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: for two hours, I argued with the president about this,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: and he demanded his release. He didn't get it, though.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: So the guy is apparently still in ICE detention and
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: is probably going to be deported out of here relatively quickly. Again,
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: when they say shot in the neck, you can see
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: him sitting with handcuffs behind his back, and I don't
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: even see any blood.
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: He looks okay.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks fine. So I think he was skimmed
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: a little bit. He's got a little neck right there.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: And so much is being made of the fact that
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: he had his five-year-old in the car with him. That
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: didn't stop him from— from trying to drive over an
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: ICE agent as he was trying to get away from
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: these agents.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: You are correct, Christopher. Thoughts on that? Let us know
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: on the Talkback feature. It is 748.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 51:07
  Speaker 12: Hey, it's Scott in Columbia. Every time we go down
• 51:11
  Speaker 12: to Charleston and go down towards the market area or
• 51:16
  Speaker 12: areas of shopping and restaurants, we always find one of
• 51:19
  Speaker 12: the public pay lots and just pay for the day
• 51:22
  Speaker 12: to park there and just take our time.
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: Never.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, we can, I guess the 30 seconds clipped them.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: But yes, that's probably the best way to handle parking
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: in Charleston. We were talking earlier about the cameras that
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: the city's now got. And they are, what did we say,
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: was a 600% increase or something?
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: They're making buck off of that.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, they are more than paying for those $ 50, 000 cameras
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: or whatever it was that they bought a couple of
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: years ago or a year ago.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: I thought they were using them more in residential areas, though,
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: as opposed to patrolling some of these parking lots.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: I think that they're patrolling. Well, for him, yeah, it's
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: a pay all day type of thing. So that's great.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: But there are those parking lots where you're paying for
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: the hour or whatever. And then there's the meters. Obviously,
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: the meters are a huge issue because people pull in,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: they pay for an hour, and then they come back
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: three hours later and the city's missing out on the revenue.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: And then you've got, like you said, Christopher, people living
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: in the residential areas, and they've got passes or whatever
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: you know that this is only for the people who
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: live in this neighborhood.
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: They've paid for those permits.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: Yes they paid uh lots of money in order to
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: park there and then they come home and there's somebody
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: who doesn't uh live in that neighborhood and then all
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: of a sudden where am i supposed to park so
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: now they're uh getting extra boots out and all kinds
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: of stuff to stop these vehicles get them towed and
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: raising all kinds of money for charleston All right, we'll
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: take a break, be back with more. It's the Friday
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: edition of South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Charleston. Good morning, Columbia, and all points in between.
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  Speaker 3: On the phone, it is the congressman, Russell Fry. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning. Good to be back on the show.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: I know. You know, when you were running for Senate,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: I think we, you and I clicked. I feel like
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: I've got a friend in Russell Fry.
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: Well, you do, and we did. If you remember, we
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: were getting fussed at in a nice way. It was
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: funny by Congressman Wilson's wife. I think we were taking
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: a picture wrong or something, but she's such a great lady. Yeah,
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: we clicked in that moment.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: Roxanne Wilson does not like thumbs up. Everybody know that
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: if you take a photo near Roxanne Wilson and you
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: put in the thumbs up, she's going to boo you
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: and tell you to get it down. So I guess
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: I guess if Congressman Wilson is out at the Freedom Fry,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: he will make sure to not have his thumbs up
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: when he poses for photos. But you've got a big
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: event coming to the Grand Strand with Jim Jordan.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: Yes, yeah. So the Freedom Fries, this is the third
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: year that we've done this. It's all of the who's
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: who of politics in South Carolina, but we always have
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: a special guest or a keynote. This year we might
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: have a couple, and to be announced on some other
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: names that sounds like they're coming down the pipeline. But
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: this year, Chairman Jim Jordan's coming, and so it is
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: a big event. And particularly right now, it'll be a
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: week out from the election. It's October 26th. There's media there.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: We'll feed you. It's a great event. And really, the
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: timing couldn't be more perfect given the election that all
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: of the Republicans in the state that are running statewide
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: for governor, Senate, members of Congress, and all the constitutional
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: offices will be there with Jim Jordan. It's a great engagement.
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: It's a lot of fun. People have a great time.
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: And I think it really celebrates, too. One of the
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: things that we try to do is celebrate... They celebrate
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: the country. This is a special place. And so the
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: program is going to be action-packed from start to finish.
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: So we'd love to have your listeners come on over.
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: Come see us. Come meet Chairman Jordan and some of
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: the other special guests that.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: We'll have in the room.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, so this seems like it's
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: also a networking opportunity for people to kind of, you know,
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: meet other conservatives in the state, but also meet some
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: of your elected officials, maybe some that don't even represent you.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: Perhaps other House members will be in the House.
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely. I think most, if not all, of the
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: people who are running for Congress in South Carolina will
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: be there. Certainly Alan Wilson and Darlene Graham and Ellen
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: Weaver and Mike Brickenbaugh running for lieutenant governor. So it's
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: going to be great. And, of course, we've got Jim Jordan.
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: Last year we had Scott Jennings from CNN. So you're
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: going to have some media types that will probably be
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: there too. And, you know, there's some other names that
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: will be announced soon. But I'm really excited about it
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: because it is a lot of fun. It's not a
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: boring just like speaking engagement. There's a lot of action
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: and opportunity to meet and mix and mingle. And, of course,
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: I've got a fry bar, a French fry bar, with
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: all the toppings that you can think of to put
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: on your French fries. In every which way we were
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: playing on my last name, And I'm a walking dad joke.
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: So if it works, we're going to use it.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: All right. Russell Fry getting ready. Now, this is happening on,
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: what is it, Monday? I'm trying to remember the date.
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: October 26th. Yeah. And it's in Myrtle Beach. And so
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: we've got people traveling and have historically traveled from around
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: the state to come to this event. It's a great time.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: So we welcome your listeners and everywhere in between. Come
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: to Myrtle Beach on Monday. It's a week before the election.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: It's a good time to be a Republican in South Carolina,
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: and I'm looking forward to the event.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: You mentioned Darlene Graham. She was with you last night,
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I saw, in the paper. That was a great thing
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: that you guys are trying to get done with the
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Logan's Law.
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Kelly, this is Stephen Federico. Everyone has heard this case.
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: It's such a tragedy about how his daughter was murdered.
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: but it was preventable, right? And so one of the
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: things that Lindsey Graham and now Darlene Graham and I
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: are trying to fix is what was the systemic failure
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: that failed Logan, that failed the Federico family? And that
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: was a judge that wasn't looking properly at the records.
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: That was a prosecutor that wasn't looking at this guy's background.
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: And this guy had 37 prior convictions, over 20 of
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: them felonies. He should have been in jail for 150 years.
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: Somehow he was back out on the street and for
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: $ 200 or $ 130 roughly murdered this girl while she was
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: sleeping in Columbia, South Carolina. It's a tragedy that could
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: have been preventable, and that's what we're trying to do
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: is prevent it from happening again.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great effort, and I was encouraged to
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: read your comments from last night that you believe that
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: you're going to get some bipartisan support in the House
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: from this, and hopefully the senators will feel the same way.
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, too. I mean, the underlying crux
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: of the bill is, hey, we have a sexual abuse registry.
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: Why not one for violent crimes that's easily searchable, that
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: the public can search it, that a prosecutor can search it,
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: that a judge can search it? That's very important that
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: you kind of assemble all these data sets from the
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: different states and, of course, the federal government into one
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: place so that you can You know, if somebody commits
• 58:44
  Speaker 6: a crime in Montana and they're picked up in South Carolina,
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: you're able to see that in a way that prevents
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: like what happened in Columbia, South Carolina with Miss Federico
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: from happening again.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Makes a lot of sense. That means it'll probably be
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: blocked by some liberal judge somewhere. But this is true.
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Too much common sense for everybody.
• 59:06
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Well, Congressman Russell Frye, best of luck with the Freedom Frye,
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: and thanks for checking in with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. Thanks for having me.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: Be back in a minute. It is 8.09.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: Did Barack Obama just show the hand? Who does Barack
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: want to be the next president of the United States?
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: I think we're starting to see it right now, because
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: if you were to look around the country, he's going
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: to be, by the way, on the campaign trail with
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Abdul El-Sayed, which is an interesting partner for him.
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: The guy who blasted him when he was president.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Exactly. And who is the guy who said something about, well,
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: that's how liberal politics work. Obama took it as far
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: as he can, and now you take it further. And
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: then so this is not a gotcha. This is just
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: how liberals work. That's right. Continue to push the bounds
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: of decency. Or what we would call freedom also. I mean,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: that's Barack Obama pushed against that very hard with his
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: Affordable Care Act. And now El-Sayed is going to take
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: it even further if he's fortunate enough to win. But again,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: I look at Obama coming in from the bullpen. Who's
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: he replacing again? Oh, the Twitch streamer guy. Remember, that
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: was his running mate for the first half of the primary,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: the guy who said we deserve 9-11. The guy who
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: said America is the worst blanking country on earth. That
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: guy is now being replaced by Obama, who feels similar,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: but just doesn't say it that loudly. Anyway, Barack Obama
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: cutting an ad for a guy here today who has
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: a current 25-point lead in his race to be the
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: governor of So let's take a listen to Mr. Obama.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: We'll just pick it up in the middle of the commercial.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 10: As governor, he has stood up to the chaos, cruelty,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 10: and corruption coming out of Washington. And he's gotten stuff
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 10: done for the people of Pennsylvania, like delivering free school breakfast,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 10: safeguarding health care, cutting taxes, and protecting our freedoms. Pennsylvania,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 10: Governor Shapiro has your back. And in this election, I
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 10: am asking you to have his. Why would they need
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 10: Barack Obama? We're a week away from the election, or
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 10: a month away from the election. The guy literally has
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 10: a 25-point lead. Why would he run this commercial? Why
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 10: would he need Barack Obama?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: The obvious answer is Josh Shapiro is the candidate of
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: choice for Barack Obama.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: The hand-picked candidate. We know Barack Obama does not want
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: any part of Kamala Harris.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: So she's out.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: And Mark Kelly had been his choice. So I wonder
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: how Mark Kelly is feeling right now, seeing this commercial
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: coming out today. for Josh Shapiro. I, I would think
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: that Mark Kelly is puckering up right now and trying
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: to figure out how to get, did I do something wrong, sir?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Was I, did I, was I out of line at
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: some point? Don't you, I'm still, I'm still just as likable,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: aren't I? Um, but yeah, I think you're going to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: see a big push for Josh Shapiro to be the
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: next president, at least from that wing of the party,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: which is an interesting move because again, Josh Shapiro is
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Jewish and that if you read the Kamala Harris book,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know who did, I read the excerpts. She said,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: I would have picked Josh Shapiro, but he was Jewish.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: We can't have a Jew in Democrat politics. And they
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: proved that again, you know, in the most recent elections
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: when they got rid of Dan, whatever his name was
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: up there in Brooklyn. He had been a very popular
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: House member and he'd led the impeachment against Donald Trump
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: and he was replaced on one issue. You're a Jew.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: And they wrote it on his coffee cup. Bye-bye, Jew,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: the day before the election. So they hate the Jews
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: in the Democrat Party. Barack Obama is picking one, it
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: would seem, to be the heir apparent to the mantle.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: Wonder how this is going to play out with the Democrats.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: Because they're trying to say, no, no, we're not that way.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe this is why Obama's making that move, to let
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: them know, hey, hey, we're going to support some Jewish
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: politicians as long as they vote against Israel.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: There's your litmus test.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: There's your litmus test. We'll be watching that. If you
• 1:03:24
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  Speaker 3: I really don't like it when people don't like America.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: And there is a group of people, I guess you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: pronounce it Gaia, G-A-I-A. The Gaia fundraising group hates America.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Grassroots Activist International Association describes itself as a federation of
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: local organizing offices started in 2018 as a shared vision
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: of many organizers. Now, what do they actually do? Well,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: currently they have ads out in the Los Angeles area
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: where they're looking for protesters. And by the way, it
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: pays well. Depending, I guess, on what your experience level is,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: it's $ 23 to $ 36 an hour to be a protester.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: But you don't just get paid to actually go and protest.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: They have rehearsals. You're going to get paid to go
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: to rehearsals. And so... Their main goal is to, on
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: one day, it's a six-month organizing effort. We will shut
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: down every Los Angeles area Home Depot for a day.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: So we need a lot of people to do that
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: because we want Home Depot to sever all ties with ICE. Now,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: the other company that they're upset with is the Hilton
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Hotels because Hilton Hotels still allows ICE agents to stay there.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: So on October 24th and 25th, They're scheduled a two-day
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: organizing summit, and there they're going to practice. Quote, attendees
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: will rehearse a fictional campaign against Stilton Hotels, a company
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: that profits from the relationship with an immigration enforcement agency
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: that we'll call FICE, F-I-C-E. Teams will practice choosing targets,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: building coalitions, and adapting their tactics as simulated campaign unfolds. So, Christopher,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: we're missing out on like a $ 30 an hour job here. Wow.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, rehearsal alone could pay a day's rent.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a great opportunity for somebody who's
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: not working.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: What are they going to do to Stilton?
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: Is this going to be just standing in front of
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: it and protesting, or are they going to Because I've
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: seen campaigns before where they make reservations, then they cancel them,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: they try to tie up the reservation lines.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, they'll be doing all of that, I'm sure. Because
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: they do mention the fact that Hilton does allow people
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: to cancel orders. So I'm sure they'll be flooding Hiltons
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: with reservations and then canceling. But of course, they'll also
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: be for anybody who's unfortunate enough to be at a
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: Hilton when they finally launch their protest. I'm sure that'll
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: be a nightmare getting in and out of there. Um,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, you clearly hate America. If your big thing
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: is we want to keep as many illegals here as possible,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: especially like that piece of monkey crap that they shot
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: in the neck yesterday, who's in a gang. So you've
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: got a gang member who's already wanted on certain assault
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: charges and you're, that's who that, so we're going to
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: shut down Hilton for that.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: We're going to, that's your poster child.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's, that's who these people are. The Grassroots Activist International
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: Association started by some guy named Chris Abramson, who is,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: I guess he was a big deal with Doctors Without
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Borders at one time, but also with the ACLU. He's
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: been a part of the San Diego Psychedelic Society. That
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: sounds wild. Yeah. But I think he got his start
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: with Greenpeace. So there's, I mean, they look and sound
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: the same. They smell the same, which is usually some
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: sort of odor of marijuana. And again, their goal is
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: to obstruct business and just normal people until the normal people.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: And again, this is, I always say this, this is
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: the policy of the Democrats. Put Americans, everyday average Americans
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: in some sort of compromising, difficult position. and then say
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: the only way it'll stop is if you elect us.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: The only way it'll stop is if you end ICE.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: If you end ICE, then we'll stop doing all these
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: crazy protests. If you stop voting for Republicans, then we'll
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: stop closing your streets with protests. They were closing down
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: the streets yesterday, calling Trump a pedophile and saying that
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: Trump is to blame for the Cornell issue. And so
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: they had somewhere around 1,200 protesters trying to block Constitution Avenue. So, again,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: this is— you want all that to go away? Elect Josh Shapiro.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: You want it to go away? Elect Democrats, and then
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: it'll all go away. Of course, at that time, they're
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: also giving you all the power so they can do
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: whatever they want at that point. Whoever said it once before,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: you can— what is it? You vote for socialism? You can
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: vote it in or you've got to shoot it out
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: or something like that? I mean, it's crazy what's going
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: on right now. But yeah, paid, organized protests, $ 30 an
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: hour or so. If you've got thoughts on that, hit
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  Speaker 3: us up on the Talkback feature. It's 829.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: And good morning. We were talking about the South Carolina
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: State game getting moved. We talked earlier about the Darius
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: Rucker Festival for tomorrow. They're trying to squeeze it all
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: in today. I guess. Also, here in Columbia, the Italian
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: Festival that was supposed to take place tomorrow down at
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: Findlay Park, that's been moved to next Saturday.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this was a big deal because this was coming
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: back after being out for a number of years, and
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: they were taking advantage of the new and improved Findlay Park.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: So they're going to be there next Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Isaias is taking us out with the rain, getting all
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: of us this weekend, it seems, even though thankfully the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: winds will not be hitting us anything like what it's
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: currently at 110 miles per hour as it gets ready
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  Speaker 3: to make landfall tonight sometime somewhere around the Florida-Alabama line
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: is what they're guessing at this point. So yesterday, I
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: think J.D. Vance made an announcement that if you have
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  Speaker 3: a college age student in your life, or maybe you're
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: somebody who's under the age of 27 and you're struggling
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: to find work. This is fantastic news. So the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration is suspending for Microsoft specifically their use of the
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: H-1B visas. And they talked about how the law is
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  Speaker 3: you're supposed to advertise the job And then if you
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  Speaker 3: cannot find an American to do the job, then you
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: apply for the H-1B visa. And then you can go
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  Speaker 3: out of the country and bring somebody in to do
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  Speaker 3: the job. What seems to be happening is people are
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: coming from other countries where a $ 35, 000 a year job
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: is amazing to them. And to a college graduate, it
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: is not amazing to get a $ 35, 000 a year job.
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  Speaker 3: So many people are not that excited about even applying
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: for these types of jobs. And then as JD Vance says,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: what they're doing is they're advertising their jobs in like
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: one small town newspaper for a few weeks and then
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  Speaker 3: saying nobody wanted it. So we have to go and
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  Speaker 3: get more people. So thousands and thousands of people are
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  Speaker 3: coming from foreign countries to do basically entry level types
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  Speaker 3: of positions that Americans could and should be doing and
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  Speaker 3: but they're not able to because, again, they're being advertised
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: as something that there shouldn't be. These jobs that we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about would typically pay, according to J.D. Vance, somewhere
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  Speaker 3: around $ 60, 000 to $ 75, 000, and they're being filled for $ 30, 000
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  Speaker 3: to $ 35, 000 because you won't allow Americans to apply, basically,
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  Speaker 3: because you put it out there as a $ 34, 000 job,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody's like, well, And I got to have a
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  Speaker 3: degree and I've got to have this. And I can't
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  Speaker 3: work for that little amount of money.
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  Speaker 5: How am I going to pay my student loans if
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  Speaker 5: I'm taking that job?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. So they've been beating the system and destroying the
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  Speaker 3: future for young Americans. When you hear young Americans talking
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  Speaker 3: about how tough it is right now, this is a
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  Speaker 3: big part of the reason. There's other reasons, obviously, but
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: this is a big part of it. Corporations have figured
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: out a way to basically eliminate us labor eliminate competition.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: They're getting rid of it. And they're just saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll just go get somebody from India or we'll get
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  Speaker 3: somebody from central America. We'll bring them in and they
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: can have 10 or 11 people living in a one
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: bedroom apartment. They don't care. And that will be their
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: lifestyle for 10 years. And then they'll go home and
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: be like millionaires in their homeland because they were able
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: to save $ 40, 000 or whatever. So this is, I think,
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  Speaker 3: great news. And, um, I'm looking forward to seeing how
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  Speaker 3: this affects the work market here in the next couple of, well,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: it's probably about six to eight months before we really
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: start seeing anything. But, Christopher, any thoughts on the H-1B
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: visa abuses we've been seeing?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, it's, and what stinks about all this
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: is it's prominent companies, companies that, you know, Donald Trump
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: has tried to have good relationships with. I mean, he's
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: held all these summits with these major tech companies. Microsoft
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: was represented. And yet here they are gaming the system
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: on the backside.
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  Speaker 3: Also talking about international students coming into the U.S., that's
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: called a J-1 visa, and he specifically called out his
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  Speaker 3: former school. Wasn't he a Harvard guy, J.D.
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  Speaker 6: Vance? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, California, Davis, CIT, Caltech,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: Arizona State, MIT, Stanford, those are the ones that are
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: most abusing the J-1 visas. bringing in international visitors to
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: temporarily come to the U.S. for study exchange programs. Take
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: all of our stuff and go back to wherever they're from.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: Steal our technology if you're China.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. Exactly. Glad to see University of South Carolina
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: and Clemson and College of Charleston and all them not
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: on that list. So anyway, some big news yesterday out
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: of the vice president. And I, for one, am celebrating it.
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  Speaker 3: If you have thoughts on that or any of the
• 1:13:55
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 3: And guys, in regards to the execution live stream that
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: you talked about.
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  Speaker 5: Earlier, I am 100% against that.
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  Speaker 7: If they were going to do that, they should have
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 7: done it in the first few years while it was
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 7: still fresh.
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  Speaker 5: In everybody's mind and we were angry.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's way too late now.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm with you.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's just going to stir up more propaganda
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 9: and cause a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, gentlemen. This is Jim Marr from Columbia.
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  Speaker 7: This idiot Nadeau does not deserve a variety of a
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 7: public execution.
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  Speaker 3: Let him just vanish into obscurity. Announcement yesterday, Pete Hegseth
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  Speaker 3: made that they're going to live stream the first military execution.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had a execution since 1961. That was a
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: guy who was a very young guy. They executed him,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: I think, three days after his 25th birthday. But you'd
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: have to he must have been a teenager because it
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: was 1954 Christmas Eve in Austria that the private went
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: out and assaulted an 11 year old girl. And then
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: apparently tried to murder her after that. And so they,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: Dwight D. Eisenhower approved that death sentence in 1957. It was,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: you know, sitting there on appeal. Even back then, nothing
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: happened quickly. John F. Kennedy was asked to stop it.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: He did not. And they hung him. But that wasn't
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: publicly approved. The last time we used a firing squad
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: would have been World War II. Pete Hegseth said, I
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: like the attitude that we had in World War II,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: the mindset. We were winners in World War II. But
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: even then, World War II was not doing it publicly.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: They had a firing squad and they kept it inside
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: the military. This is the first public execution, if it
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: is to happen on December 3rd, will be the first
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: one since the mid-30s. Kentucky, I think, is where the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: last one took place. And then America saw it and
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: was outraged.
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  Speaker 4: I think you can make an example out of this
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: guy without live streaming it. That still strikes me as
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: too barbaric for the United States.
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  Speaker 3: And to my point of view, it becomes a martyr video,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: that this is something that If it's put out there,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: they're going to share that amongst all the radicals, and
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: they're going to celebrate this guy. You're making him a hero.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: To the second caller on the talkback point, he doesn't
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: deserve the notoriety. Just let him just execute him and
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: put him in an unmarked grave or let his family
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: come and get him or whatever. I mean, this guy
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: is a monster. He killed 13 and wounded 32 at
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: Fort Hood, and that was back in 2009. Should have
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: already happened. Well, again, nothing happens quickly, right? with these
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: types of things. But yeah, if you have thoughts on
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: that or other things, we always love your talk backs.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take a break now. It's eight 47.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, this is.
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  Speaker 1: Eldon from Charleston.
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  Speaker 12: I like to say that they could actually live stream
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 12: it on pay-per-view and I will pay the 1995 to
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 12: watch it because criminals deserve what they get.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, what's his name? Elvin?
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  Speaker 11: Elvin.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: Elvin. With a little different opinion than Christopher Thompson and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: myself regarding the public execution that is now scheduled for
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: December 3rd with Nidal Hasan. It's going to be live streamed,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: according to Pete Hegseth. I don't like it. I think
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: that it just gives the radicals an opportunity to make
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: a martyr out of them and get more radicals. But
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: I also understand the sentiment about pay-per-views. And I remember
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: years ago, there was some comedian who said that as...
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: CGI was getting better and better. He thought that with
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: people with death sentences, they ought to sentence them to
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: the next Bruce Willis movie. So we're literally going to
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: throw you out of an airplane or whatever this stunt
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: is required. But anyway, that's on the docket. You know
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: what else is on the docket? I just saw the
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: baseball coach for The Gamecocks was tweeting out, what did
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: he say? He said they got, I think, a 4
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: o'clock scrimmage that they're trying to get in today.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: Against High Point, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, we need you. We've got a Gamecock
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: Hall of Famer and a national champion in our dugout Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Both are former major leaguers. Let's show them how Gamecock
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: Nation sounds in October. So that's a free thing if
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: you want to go to that. He doesn't say who
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: those people are, but, you know, if you're looking for
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: something to do this afternoon, early this evening, there you go. Also,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: we got the best Gamecock coverage starting early.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow, right? 9.30 tomorrow morning for a 12.45 kickoff, yes.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: Wow, 9.30. Hard to tailgate at 9.30. Not impossible.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not tailgating.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, not for you. I'm saying for the fans.
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  Speaker 3: those who are trying to what they call pregame. You
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: got to pregame.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there are new rules.
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  Speaker 4: We mentioned this earlier, but new rules in effect for
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 4: the Alabama-Georgia game because of the storm that's coming through there.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: And they're moving things indoors in some aspects. And then
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 4: in others, they're saying, all right, you can come, you
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: can tailgate. But you can't come too early and you
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: can't bring a tent because it's still going to be
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: pretty breezy even after that storm passes through.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that game is scheduled for, is it 7 o'clock tomorrow?
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  Speaker 5: 7.30, I believe.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: 7.30, so yeah. They're hoping that by then the storm
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  Speaker 3: for the majority of it has gotten through.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully they'll be able to play that game because
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: that's like the game of the week by far.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: And then Clemson's got this week off yesterday. Gosh, I
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: don't know. It's probably because I grew up as a
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: New York Giants fan. But I take special joy in
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: the misery of Cowboys and Jerry Jones when he lost
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: that game and he's like punching the thing last night
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: and they lost to the Bucks who hadn't won a
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: game all season.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: They were winless until last night.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: They came into Cowboys Stadium and punched him right in
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: the mouth and they threw that interception to lose the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: game and everybody was going nuts. I don't know. It's
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: fun to take joy out of your opponent's misery, isn't it?
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't admit that. Maybe it's
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: just me.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm the only one. Anyway, I hope whatever you
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: got going on this weekend, you're safe. Keep dry. We'll
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: be back Monday morning after 6 with South Carolina's Morning News.