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Show Rewind 9-29-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson back to play our dangerous game. weaving,
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  Speaker 2: bobbing and weaving through the news of the day and
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  Speaker 2: trying not to step on landmines. Good morning, Christopher. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: nobody told me this was going to be dangerous. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God. You're talking politics, brother. Do I need to
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  Speaker 2: put the pads on tonight, this morning? And keep our
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  Speaker 2: heads on a swivel out here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot of people who get very sensitive
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  Speaker 2: about politics. And, you know, I understand. It's... clearly affects
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  Speaker 2: all of our lives, how political decisions are made and
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  Speaker 2: how they're implemented and all that sort of stuff. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of passion in politics, especially amongst
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  Speaker 2: people who listen and follow and consume conservative or liberal outlets.
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  Speaker 2: And we certainly appreciate you choosing to start your day
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  Speaker 2: with us. Lots to get to, as always. Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 2: yesterday beginning her campaign statewide. We'll talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on with the Richland County nightclubs? It's like
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  Speaker 2: another night, another shooting. We're getting out of hand over here.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe a little bit later on locally, Christopher can
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  Speaker 2: explain to me the difference between the suspension and the suspension.
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  Speaker 2: We've had two suspensions. He's on double secret probation, Dylan Stewart.
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  Speaker 2: We'll try to break that down a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 2: And then did you see the story in Charleston about
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  Speaker 2: the guy from Texas? This is a crazy story. He
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  Speaker 2: moved specifically to South Carolina because he has two kids.
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  Speaker 2: And he wants them to go to South Carolina schools.
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  Speaker 2: He got one into Clemson, but the other one did
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  Speaker 2: not get the in-state into Charleston. So what a huge
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  Speaker 2: difference that makes. And we'll talk about that maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on for in-state tuition versus out-of-state tuition
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  Speaker 2: and maybe who should be eligible, who shouldn't be eligible.
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  Speaker 2: On the national scale, the polling for Donald Trump continues
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  Speaker 2: to get worse and worse and I have an idea
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  Speaker 2: that I am going to steal from the 1970s. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like the idea. I actually hate the idea. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't old enough to really know that I hated the
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  Speaker 2: idea in the 1970s, but I will bring that 1970s
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  Speaker 2: idea to the forefront again and say, this could be
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  Speaker 2: your only hope at this point to saving the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that coming up a little bit later on. Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: anything exciting this morning that you wanted to get to?
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  Speaker 5: Way to put me on the spot there, pal. No,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, not right off the bat. I'm curious as
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  Speaker 5: to what you're going to say about the 1970s. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I lived through those, too. You're not going to trot
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  Speaker 5: out a Jimmy Carter campaign promise, are you?
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter did it. Gerald Ford did it. Oh, boy,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm really curious. And Richard Nixon did it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm super-duper curious. Ronald Reagan ended it in 1981.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, I hate the idea. I absolutely
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  Speaker 2: hate the idea. It actually turns my stomach to say it.
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  Speaker 2: But when I give you the polling and then I give,
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  Speaker 2: this could be the only answer. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? We'll go into a break early here
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  Speaker 2: so that we'll have time to come back and set
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  Speaker 2: that up. We're going to take, well, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go back in the way back machine to Richard. I
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  Speaker 2: am not a crook. We're going to get Richard Nixon's
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  Speaker 2: idea that he implemented in the 1970s. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to do it for nine years or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Like they, well, it'd be, I think 10 years they
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  Speaker 2: went with that. But we will roll that out and
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  Speaker 2: see if Donald Trump has got the cojones to do this.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a lot of pushback, but I say it
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  Speaker 2: will win the midterms for all Republicans. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that next. And any of your thoughts as well. We
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  Speaker 2: want to hear what you want us to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: things that we've already talked about that you want to
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  Speaker 2: give us feedback on. Use that talkback feature. That's how
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  Speaker 2: you get plugged in with the show. It's the microphone
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  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. It is now 6.06.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And Harry Enten on
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  Speaker 2: CNN broke down the polling yesterday. And as it's been going,
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  Speaker 2: it's just continually getting worse for Donald Trump and his
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  Speaker 2: personal polling numbers at historic lows, 36% approval ratings. If
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at MAGA Republicans, and I've never actually asked anybody,
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  Speaker 2: are you a Republican or a MAGA Republican? Apparently they
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  Speaker 2: do ask these polling questions at Fox and other places.
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  Speaker 2: Amongst MAGA Republicans, he's still polling at 98%. However, with
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  Speaker 2: other Republicans, when he went into 2025, he came in
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  Speaker 2: polling at about 78%. He's now at like 42% with them. Independent,
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  Speaker 2: it's even worse. Here's a little bit of Harry Enten's piece.
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  Speaker 6: Pure independent voters, that is those who don't lean towards
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  Speaker 6: either party.
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  Speaker 7: In the 2024 election....
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  Speaker 6: Trump won him by 15 points over Kamala Harris. Look
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  Speaker 6: at his net approval rating now. His net approval rating
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  Speaker 6: now among pure independent voters is minus 71 points. That's
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  Speaker 6: an 86-point difference. That is a huge difference. And the
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  Speaker 6: same thing that is bringing Trump's approval rating down with
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  Speaker 6: Republican voters is what's impacting him among independent voters.
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  Speaker 7: You can see it here. I mean, it's the economy.
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  Speaker 7: It's the economy. Pure independents, Trump and the economy. Look
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  Speaker 7: at this.
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  Speaker 6: In the fall of 2024, Donald Trump, among pure independents,
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  Speaker 6: was trusted more to handle the economy than Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 6: by a 22-point margin. His net approval rating now is
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  Speaker 6: minus 77 points.
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  Speaker 7: And what's driving that?
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  Speaker 2: It's the gas prices.
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  Speaker 7: It's the gas prices.
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  Speaker 6: Pure independents, 92%. That is more than 9 in 10
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  Speaker 6: pure independents disapprove of Trump on gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gas prices. And ironically, the economy, because when
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  Speaker 2: you look at the Trump economy— Under Joe Biden, you
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  Speaker 2: had $ 1 trillion invested, a little less than $ 1 trillion invested.
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  Speaker 2: So far, two years in, Trump's got over $ 21 trillion invested.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at median income household, it's the highest
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  Speaker 2: buying power on record. They started that in 1967. So
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  Speaker 2: the American family has more buying power today than at
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  Speaker 2: any point in my life. So the economy is actually good,
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  Speaker 2: but you're not going to convince people of that. because
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  Speaker 2: of the gas prices. So here's my suggestion. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, only 1% of GOP ads reference Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: All the candidates are trying to get away from Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want to be with him right now because
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  Speaker 2: of these polls. If it's all coming down to gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: I hate this. I actually hate my suggestion. But in
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  Speaker 2: order to win the midterms, I am suggesting you do
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  Speaker 2: what Richard Nixon did with Executive Order 11615. Set the
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  Speaker 2: national gas price.
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  Speaker 7: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: The new gas price is $ 2. 95 a gallon. Richard Nixon
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  Speaker 2: did it for 90 days. It then got extended by Congress.
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  Speaker 2: It then got extended. It got extended. It got extended
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  Speaker 2: all the way to 1981 when finally.
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan came to his office and had sense. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, if you look at what happened in
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  Speaker 2: 1971 when he said this, Milton Friedman said, I regret
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  Speaker 2: exceedingly a 90-day freeze on anything from the government. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of those very plausible schemes with very pleasing
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  Speaker 2: commencements that often have shameful and lamentable conclusions, which it did.
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  Speaker 2: Long gas lines, for starters. Ayn Rand, two-part series, the
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  Speaker 2: moratorium on brains has arrived in D.C., Murray Rothberg wrote
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  Speaker 2: on August 15th, 1971, fascism has arrived in America, but
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  Speaker 2: the public believing that this would check inflation, generally supportive.
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  Speaker 2: So Americans, as far back as 1971, were willing to
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  Speaker 2: have socialist, communist, fascist policies, as long as they thought
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  Speaker 2: they would benefit from it. I'm sure that still rings
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  Speaker 2: true today. So if we were to tell you, and
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  Speaker 2: by the way, in 1971, we were importing like 80%
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  Speaker 2: of our oil. Today, we don't have to import any
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  Speaker 2: of it if we don't want. We're an exporter, thanks
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  Speaker 2: to Trump's policies. You could, for 90 days, say we
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  Speaker 2: are not selling oil to any other nations. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to keep it all for ourselves, and we're setting the
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  Speaker 2: price nationally at $ 2. 95 a gallon, and that includes the
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  Speaker 2: state taxes. You have to figure out how to keep
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  Speaker 2: it under $ 3 a gallon. And then That is something
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  Speaker 2: that would instantaneously be affected. The Americans would feel it
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  Speaker 2: like that. If gas prices is all they care about,
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  Speaker 2: set it at 295. I understand your point.
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  Speaker 5: But what is the one thing we always argue about
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  Speaker 5: when we talk about deregulation, getting government out of the way?
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  Speaker 2: What is this going to do to oil producers?
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  Speaker 5: It's going to tell them, well, we can only make
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  Speaker 5: so much money because the government's setting the rate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to stop making oil.
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  Speaker 7: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to totally backfire. It's going to blow up
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  Speaker 2: gas prices after the midterms. But from now until December,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be at $ 2. 95 a gallon. And Americans
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  Speaker 2: are that short-sighted. I hate to say it because what
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at right now, look, what's happening in Iran
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  Speaker 2: right now is unbelievable. Meaning this is the biggest historic
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  Speaker 2: thing that's happened in our lifetimes. This will be bigger
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  Speaker 2: than the Berlin Wall coming down. When Iran falls, which
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  Speaker 2: it will fall soon, I don't know what soon means.
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  Speaker 2: Could be six months, could be a year. You have
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  Speaker 2: already made and Iran has enemies now because of the
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  Speaker 2: United States with Kuwait, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates. They've
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  Speaker 2: always had the battle with Iraq, but this will be
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  Speaker 2: the first time they're now part. Those countries, those Middle
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  Speaker 2: East countries are now partnering with Israel. We've never seen
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  Speaker 2: anything like this. Once Iran falls, the Middle East will
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  Speaker 2: have peace for the first time in our lifetimes. We
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  Speaker 2: will see record low gas prices because there will be
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  Speaker 2: nobody messing with the Strait of Hormuz. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be an unbelievable era of prosperity. And if we've got
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  Speaker 2: to get to it by doing something stupid, if that's
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  Speaker 2: what the American people are demanding, then do it. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I look at. And we'll pay for the price
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later on down the road here. And
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  Speaker 2: when I say down the road, I mean like literally
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  Speaker 2: in January.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do you announce that it's only for 90 days?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yep. We have a 90-day moratorium. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: see what it looks like. And the American people demand
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  Speaker 2: lower gas prices. Today, we're delivering that. And it's now
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  Speaker 2: set nationally at $ 2. 95. That includes all local sales tax.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever your sales tax is, that stays the same.
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  Speaker 2: And just announce it.
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  Speaker 9: Like.
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  Speaker 2: Dopey Nixon did in 1971 and drive chaos into the market.
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  Speaker 2: But the chaos didn't arrive until really 1973. That's when
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  Speaker 2: it really hit. So, I mean, we could buy six,
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  Speaker 2: eight months of this if we needed to. But, again,
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  Speaker 2: you just need to get through the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: You're creating chaos long term, but I see your short-term point.
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  Speaker 2: How about you, listener? Would you like to see Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump set the national gas price? And, again, we're not
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  Speaker 2: importing it like we were in the 1970s. We weren't
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  Speaker 2: going to– Iran was not a terrorist nation at that point,
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  Speaker 2: but Iraq was kind of out of control. We're not
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  Speaker 2: going to the Middle East to get the oil. This
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  Speaker 2: is all coming from us and Venezuela. Thanks, Venezuela. But
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  Speaker 2: if we set the gas prices at $ 2. 95 a gallon,
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  Speaker 2: would you like that for the next 90 days, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that it's basically just now until the end of the year?
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to see that happen? Tell us on
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  Speaker 2: the talkback feature. I'd be interested in knowing what you
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  Speaker 2: think about that. It's a crazy idea, but it was
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  Speaker 2: done for a decade in the United States. They did
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  Speaker 2: it from 71 to 81, which is, for those of us,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I was alive. but I don't really, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that that was what was happening. I was
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  Speaker 2: in like middle school. You weren't shelling out at the
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  Speaker 2: pump back then. Yeah, no, I don't know. I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what economic policy looked like, you know, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about Ford's economic policy. I wasn't doing that back
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  Speaker 2: in the day, but we are today and you can
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  Speaker 2: let us know on the talk back feature. It is
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  Speaker 2: now six 19.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: We are in the kind of uncharted territory for, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the suspension of Dylan Stewart and, uh, Christopher, yesterday we
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  Speaker 2: had like another suspension announced. What happened yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: Well, a joint suspension announced. The SEC made an announcement
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  Speaker 5: that it was jointly, along with the University of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 5: suspending Stewart for one game for punching that Alabama player
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  Speaker 5: on Saturday night in Tuscaloosa. Now, USC had already, or
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  Speaker 5: Shane Beamer had already announced Sunday night that Stewart was
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  Speaker 5: indefinitely suspended from the team and that he would be
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  Speaker 5: having discussions with with Stuart about Stuart's future over the
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  Speaker 5: next few days, I would expect Shane Beamer to address
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  Speaker 5: that fairly quickly as soon as today at his press conference.
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  Speaker 5: You can't afford, if you're Shane Beamer right now and
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  Speaker 5: you're dealing with everything else that's going on, you can't
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  Speaker 5: afford to have that cloud lingering over your program too.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting reporting going on regarding like, because this is NIL era,
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  Speaker 2: which is we've never been in this. Like when Steven
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  Speaker 2: Garcia was playing, He was suspended. Five times.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Five times by Spurrier, yeah. And then he was eventually
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  Speaker 2: dismissed from the team. But in an NIL era, I
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  Speaker 2: was reading one of your friends there, Jordan Kaye, has
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  Speaker 2: an article, I think maybe yesterday afternoon or something, about
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Stewart. Can they stop the NIL money going towards him?
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  Speaker 2: And he said, short answer is yes.
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  Speaker 5: Well, long answer is we don't know for sure what
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  Speaker 5: any of these contracts say because they're kept private. However,
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  Speaker 5: most college coaches have at least alluded to the fact
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  Speaker 5: that if these players aren't playing, it can't be pay
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  Speaker 5: for play. But they've alluded to the fact that if
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  Speaker 5: the player's not playing, then, yeah, his NIL money gets frozen.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, that completely goes against what I think
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  Speaker 2: most fans' understanding was when this NIL stuff was passed,
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  Speaker 2: which would be, That the players could actually use their name,
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  Speaker 2: their image, and their likeness to make money, meaning I
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  Speaker 2: can be in a TV commercial. Previously, I couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: in a TV commercial. It would have ended my, what
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  Speaker 2: do they call it again? Your amateur status? Yeah, my
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  Speaker 2: amateur status would have been lost if I was paid
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  Speaker 2: to be endorsing a plumbing company or something. But now
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  Speaker 2: they could. But really what NIL seems to have become
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  Speaker 2: is just basically a way for the universities to pay
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  Speaker 2: these guys.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's revenue sharing in addition to the NIL money
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  Speaker 5: that these players are paid separately. So you're talking about
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  Speaker 5: two different topics here, but usually it's all drawn together
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  Speaker 5: in a big contract. And, of course, when Dylan Stewart
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  Speaker 5: came back to South Carolina and announced he would play
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  Speaker 5: again another season– They put together a sweetened deal for
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  Speaker 5: him to make sure he stayed in place.
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  Speaker 2: According to The Athletic, again, no numbers are known, but
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  Speaker 2: they think that Lenore Sellers makes the most, which they're
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  Speaker 2: putting at 2.5-ish, and they're putting Stewart at about $ 2 million.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess there would be a possibility of fining him,
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  Speaker 2: because you are a professional.
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  Speaker 3: Now, right?
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  Speaker 2: If you're getting paid... Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you call it a fine or
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  Speaker 5: just simply freeze the funds that he's supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: paid for this month if he's not playing. And we
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  Speaker 5: don't know yet how long that suspension will last. Again,
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  Speaker 5: I expect to hear Shane Beamer address that later today.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure you'll have the scoops on that. Always
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  Speaker 2: stay tuned to WVOC on social media. Christopher posts things
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  Speaker 2: there as well on our social media pages. But Yeah,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: the best Gamecock coverage coming up this weekend, Saturday. I
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: guess kickoff's at 4.20, I think I read, so about
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  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock. 1 o'clock, yeah. And just incredible times that
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  Speaker 2: we're living in with this NIL stuff. Maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later on, definitely a little later on. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to talk about the Save College Sports Act
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  Speaker 2: and the latest on that. Man, we're running behind again.
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  Speaker 2: It's 629.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: So we were just talking about the University of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's take our attention to the College of Charleston
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  Speaker 2: and Clemson University, who are in the news today. According
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  Speaker 2: to former Senator Wes Hayes, says it is concerning that
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  Speaker 2: state agencies can look at the same problems case and
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  Speaker 2: come to different conclusions. Nathan Ballantyne also says if two
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  Speaker 2: schools are now looking at the same law and coming
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  Speaker 2: to different conclusions on the same situation, we as lawmakers
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  Speaker 2: need to take another look at this. And so we
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  Speaker 2: present to you the case of what's this guy's name?
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  Speaker 2: Carl Salvato. And Carl Salvato has two kids. Now, his
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  Speaker 2: main residence had been Texas. He had bought a condo
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  Speaker 2: in Charleston, I guess, about five years ago. And then
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  Speaker 2: when his two kids, one of whom had already risen to,
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  Speaker 2: I think this was his senior year at the College
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  Speaker 2: of Charleston, and he had a daughter who was going
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  Speaker 2: to Clemson, he decided to become a South Carolina resident
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: to take advantage of the in-state tuition. College tourism. Yeah.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: So here's what you got to do in order to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: get this. According to South Carolina law, you have to
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: have a South Carolina driver's license. You must file your
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: income taxes in the state of South Carolina. You must
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: register your vehicle in South Carolina. You must have a
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: primary residence in the state either rented or owned. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: according to Carl, he did all that. And Clemson agreed.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And he got the in-state tuition for his daughter. However,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: College of Charleston said, because you still own the property
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: down in Texas, that's your main residence. That's that's you're
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: not paying. By the way, he was paying a higher
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: rate in Charleston for the condo because it was being
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: listed as a vacation home at that point. So he
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: had to pay more money for that. Oh, so he
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: was still listing Texas as his primary residence because he has. Well, again,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: he's paying his taxes in South Carolina. His driver's license
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: is in South Carolina. His vehicles are registered in South Carolina.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: But he had a what's described in the story as
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: a partner. I don't know if this is whatever this is.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: But they were still living down there, so he couldn't
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: get off of that one. But how is it that
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: it ended up costing him an extra $ 27, 500? And by
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the way, Carl is going to stay in South Carolina
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: moving forward. He says his son has already decided that
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: once he graduates, he wants to move to the upstate. Oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: excuse me. This is a third son, I guess, graduating
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: high school. They're going to come up and go to Clemson.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: And he'll end up living in the Clemson area to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: be close to two of the three. And maybe that
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: son in the low country might be moving up to
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that neck of the woods as well. They love the mountains.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: They love the lakes. They love, you know, a lot
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: of things that people like about that area of South Carolina,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: as well as the low country. They also love the
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: cheaper tuition up there. Well, yeah, but I'd say this
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: is going to be his new permanent home. He's becoming
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: a South— well, he is a South Carolinian. He's been living
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: here now. He's had a home since 2020, I think
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it was, they said. But either way, the whole family
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: is migrating from Texas to South Carolina. And I think, A,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: kudos to us. I think his daughter says she's already
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: landed a job at BMW when she graduates from Clemson.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: So that's fantastic. We've got the kid at the College
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: of Charleston. That's fantastic. We've got another kid who wants
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to get into Clemson or maybe Furman or one of
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: those things. That's fantastic. South Carolina is moving in the
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: right direction. But we certainly, according, you know, when you
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: have our lawmakers pointing it out, they are correct. If
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you can have two state universities looking at the same
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: exact requirements and then coming to two different conclusions, We
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: need to do a better job of tightening up our
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: regulations so that people know. You shouldn't have to guess
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: as to what's going on. So we've had some problems
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: with interpretations of our laws in the past. Sometimes I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: think that's by design. We have a lot of lawyers
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that actually write these bills, and they want to figure
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: out backdoor ways to benefit themselves and their clients. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that was the case going on
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: here or whatever, but hopefully they'll fix that up. But, yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: so now we've mentioned pretty much every major university. We'll
• 20:33
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• 20:36
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• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Hi there.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash admitting to one of my many bad habits.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I doom scroll is what they call it. Before I
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: go to bed, I don't know why I do this
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to myself. It's not healthy. It's not helpful. I will
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: take a final look at X and see what's happening.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And last night, just before I went to bed, if
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you follow me on X at Kelly Nash Radio, you'll
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: see that I reposted this video. And just basically said,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: what a vile human being that these people are the reason. Well,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: not an exclusive reason, but one of the reasons that
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: people don't want to run for higher office. This is
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: a reporter named Patrick Howley who works apparently for some
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: sort of a gay magazine in DC. And his only
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: job apparently is to harass legislators in the hallway. So
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: he's in Congress and, walking down the hallway when he
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: sees Darlene Graham, and this is his question.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Darlene, can I ask you a quick question?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Some allegations have come out about your late brother using
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: gay escorts.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Have you heard about that? I mean, there have been many,
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: many allegations, many men escort.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I'm not even going to entertain that question.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, how could this be of relevance to anything?
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I don't even like the fact that he called her
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Darlene instead of Senator Graham. He's addressing her directly.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? Here he is just a couple
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: of months before Lindsey Graham died. He caught him in
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the hallway.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Hey, Lindsey, why don't you just admit that you're gay
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: and then people won't blackmail you anymore?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And Lindsey had no response and he just walks by.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the kind of harassment that. It's dehumanizing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know what Lindsey Graham's sexual preference was. He
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: may have been asexual. I have no idea. We never
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: discussed it because it didn't affect policy. If his policies
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: were affected by it, we would have talked about it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: But I interviewed Lindsey Graham probably 50 times in my life.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: We've never brought that up. There's no point to it,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: nor have I brought up the sexuality of Ted Cruz
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: when I interviewed him. I mean, why would we bring
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: this up? And yet this guy promotes himself as a
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: gay reporter and apparently has some sort of ax to
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: grind with people that he feels are gay and don't
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: want to talk about it and or The sisters, like,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: for God's sake, man, she's the sister. She has nothing
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: to do with any of that. And how come Capitol
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Police don't throw this guy out of the hall? They
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: should give them a little bit of a room. And
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to Trump's point earlier, this is fake news. This guy
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be allowed in here. Do you think, should we have,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and maybe we'll go as far as the libs. You
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: want credentialed media?
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Only?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And we decide who's credentialed? That's what they want to do.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: They want to just say that people like Nick Shirley
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: can't be allowed to interview people. This is the guy
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: you should be worried about, not Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: is actually getting real information about real crimes, real corruption.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: This guy just wants to harass people. And it is
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: disgusting that he's doing it. So wishing nothing but bad
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: things today for Patrick Howley. And, again, if you want
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: to see that video and boo him, you can do
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: so on my ex-account. If you've got thoughts on these
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• 24:31
  Speaker 2: You know, if you watch the Pelosi tracker, I think
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: is the name of it, it'll show you not only
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: where Nancy Pelosi invests, but where other legislators are investing. And,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, she could not care less. August 27th, Nancy
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Pelosi pushes in her chips, $ 12 million on something called
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Bloom Energy. That was August 27th. Today, we're on September 29th.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: That stock has now risen 57%. Wow. You think she
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: knew something? Or do you think that she just got
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: lucky with a $ 12 million bet? She's pretty shrewd. Yeah,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: that's right. She's shrewd. She's shrewd. It's crazy how these
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: people continue to just beat the system, and it's disgusting.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: But it is what it is, and until somebody can
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: stand up to them and change the laws, I guess
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: we're going to have to maybe just continue to do
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: what they do, just bet how they bet. You see
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: they make a bet, you make that same bet. It
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: is 6.55, back with more in a minute on South
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Carolina's morning news.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 25:38
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• 25:45
  Speaker 2: One of the things I believe that most Americans struggle
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: to understand is that culture varies by nation, and that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of the world does not have a culture
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: like ours, and they don't want a culture like ours.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: There may be people inside that culture that would like
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: to see it change to like a more pro-Western, pro-democracy
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: type of environment, but that's not the majority of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: people around the world even. And it's kind of like
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: saying here in America, we are pro-Western and pro-democracy and
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: pro-freedom and all those types of things. But that's not
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: true of everybody in our culture. We have socialists in
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: our midst, communists. We have all kinds of people, anarchists. So,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: you know, all cultures have a broad spectrum of belief systems.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: But once you have a culture, that is the culture.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: And so I'm looking at this story today in the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: BBC and I'm saying to myself, hmm, where is the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Free Free Palestine crew on this? So according to the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: BBC headline, reports of violence against women in Gaza has surged,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: according to the United Nations. Now, they're blaming the fact
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: that there is a war happening. So they're just documenting
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: since the war on what has happened in Gaza. It
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: is horrific what has happened. And currently what they're reporting
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: is a forced marriage increase by 123%. with the average
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: age somewhere between 12 and 17. Women or children who
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: decide to not get married are publicly stoned to death.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: This is the Free Free Palestine crowd. This is their
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: culture in Gaza. This is how they choose to live. Now,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I understand that they're in a war and there's all
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: these problems and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: has happened is you are now seeing more of who
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: they are in their culture. Most girls are no longer
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: allowed to go to school. At one point, in the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: not-too-distant past, there was actually more girls than boys going
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to school. Now that's not the case. Here's a story.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: One woman in Gaza's city camp interviewed by this reporter
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: says that she attended the wedding of two of her friends,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: one 14, the other 15. Their uncles married them off
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: and married. When we asked why, she said it was
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: because their father and mother had been martyred and their
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: uncles wanted to get rid of the responsibility and the expenses.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: They have no understanding of what a marriage or life
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: really is, nor will these girls ever.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: So when you're talking about the Free Palestine Movement among
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: young people, especially here in America— It's an all-male movement, right?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: No woman could support that, right? Isn't that what you
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: would think? They're not talking about this. That if you
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: were to go to Palestine as one of these college
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: co-eds right now, first off, you'd be considered an old
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: maid at 19. How have you not been married? Let's see.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: The latest analysis by a UN-led task force states that
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: incidents of sexual violence have now risen... 27% in the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: last month, 61% since the war began. The rise is
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: being linked to efforts to raise awareness and provide better
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: ways to make confidential reports. Demographic data indicates that the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: majority of survivors are women under the age of 40,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: followed by adolescent girls. Adolescent girls? That's horrifying. It's barbaric.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: And then, again, public stoning, still a thing. For those
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: of you who are talking about we need peace and
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: all this other stuff, this is their culture. And it's not,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: they don't want a job. All right. They don't want prosperity.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: They don't want what you want. There are different goals
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and lives for people. And so again, I guess part
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump's mindset is he likes to give people
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: an opportunity to continually prove who they are, I'm pretty
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: sure I know who the Palestinians are. I don't need
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: to see it anymore. I don't need to see over
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: and over and over again Iran tell us to kick rocks.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And that's what they're telling us. I don't need to
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: see when a culture has been who they are for
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: decades and there's no uprising to stop them. Now, there
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: has been uprisings in Iran. I'm not seeing anything in
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Palestine to indicate. The UN is not reporting that we're
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: seeing a movement to change this culture at all. But
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: the Iranians, they're not going to change. The Iranian leadership
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: will not change. And so... Whether it's in Gaza, whether
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: it's in Iran, wherever it is, until they start to
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: indicate that their culture has changed or is moving in
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: a new direction, you have to treat them as they are.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: You can't say like what Obama used to say. He
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: used to, well, the reason ISIS is they didn't have
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: good jobs. They just needed some opportunity. That's not why
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: you behead people. You don't become some sort of radical
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: terrorist because you didn't get an opportunity for mid-level management somewhere.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: That's not why you stone women publicly.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Exactly, Christopher. Thank you for making that point. These are
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: people who are not like you and I. And you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: can't treat them like you and I. It's kind of
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: like the difference between a feral cat and a house cat.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: We have some feral cats out here. Guess who don't
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: want to get petted? We have feral cats. And I'm
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: telling you, there's a big difference between a feral cat
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: and a house cat. There's a big difference between somebody
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: who was born and raised in the Palestinian or the
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Iranian culture of today and say, I know for Iran,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: go back to 1979 previous, it was a completely different culture.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: That's not the culture they're in today.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: I'd love for that woman who you played the clip
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: yesterday of her introducing AOC on the Cornell campus and,
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: you know, From the river to the sea and all
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: the chants, I'd love for her to hear some of
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: those statistics.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Globalize the Antifada. Well, there it is. And so if
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: you've got thoughts on that story from the BBC or
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: any of the other stories we're talking about, I think, Christopher,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: we're going to have to talk about the Save College
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Sports Act that had some big news yesterday. We might
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: get into that. Tim Scott singing its praises on social
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: media and others. What do you got thoughts on those
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: or any other stories today? Use the talkback feature. It
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: is now 709.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: If you happen to read sports journalists, they were shocked
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: at how long it took to get a vote yesterday
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: because they were up there following the Senate as they
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: were trying to pass the Protect College Sports Act. It
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: did finally pass last night, 77 to 22. So I
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: congratulate the senators who were able to stare down the
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Congressional Black Caucus because the Congressional Black Caucus has come
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: out and said, overwhelming, this is a racist act. Now,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: in the Senate, you have people like Cory Booker, Raphael Warnock,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Lisa Blunt Rochester, Angela also Brooks. They're all Democrats that
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: are black who caucus with the black caucus down at
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: the house level but then you also have i don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: know why he's suddenly the spokesperson the whitest of white
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: people chris murphy from connecticut is the like i guess
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: the spokesperson for the senate black caucus ironically and uh
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: he again was bemoaning it and crying on television we're
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: gonna do irreparable harm to black athletes by passing this
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: And they said, no, we're not. We're actually going to
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: help them. We're going to help everybody. So they were
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: not shamed out of it, Christopher. And I know we're
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: not going to get a House vote on this.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: For probably until after the midterms and maybe not even
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: before a new Congress comes in, which at which point
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: we start all over again.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Golly, that is frustrating. But if it was enacted, OK,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: have I mean, you've been studying these this thing. How
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: do you see it? helping college sports?
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Well, it certainly helps that it gives the NCAA an
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: antitrust exemption so they can start enforcing their rules. They're
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: no longer just this organization that says, you shouldn't do that,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: but we can't tell you what to do. Or either
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: that or a judge says, well, they really can't tell
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: you what to do. They would have the power at
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: that point to enforce rules. The transfer rule, which has
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: frustrated a lot of people, I think, because you've got
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: kids playing for different school each of their four to
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: five years. Now it's five years. You would only get
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: one transfer. After that, you've got to sit out a year.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: So that would enforce that rule. There is a little
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: bit of a bigger cap, but they're also considering more
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: money would be devoted towards women's sports and Olympic sports.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Because right now, the House settlement that got us to
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: a certain number A lot of schools, especially the big schools,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: are circumventing that cap. This would make it official and
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: say you can only spend this much money on sports
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: and a certain amount of that money has got to
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: be devoted to Olympic and women's sports.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Well, it'll be very interesting to see how this progresses.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I like Ted Cruz's answer when they asked why would
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Congress get involved with this? And he said because Congress
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: is the one that screwed it up. As you're to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: your earlier point, every time they bring it forward to
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: a court case, it's because of the congressional antitrust laws
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: that were written in a way that could be applied
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: here and has been kind of exploited. And by the way,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I would say to the detriment of some of the athletes,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: some of the athletes are transferring are actually being hurt
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: by those transfers. Obviously, they don't think so, but that's happening.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: And the congressional black caucus, they want the ability for
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: these kids to unionize. They want them to organize, unionize,
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: and they want to make sure the kids are making
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: as much money as the coaches and the administrators.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it went so great for the Starbucks union,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: didn't it? Uh, maybe there'll be just as lucky to
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: put a bunch of college athletic programs, just shut them down.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what would probably happen for the mid majors.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: They would be in a world of trouble. Um, Again,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: free market, capitalism, I'm all for it. What we're talking
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: about here, we've had lunacy happening here. This is unchecked, unbalanced.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: And by the way, whenever we talk about free market capitalism,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: we do talk about putting restrictions on it. You must
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: have restrictions. Otherwise, you go back to the Vanderbilts and
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the Rockefellers era when that was crazy. Anyway, good to
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: see that they got that done. Oh, by the way,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: let me just play. Do I have this little snippet here?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I thought that I liked... Tim Scott got an amendment
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: unanimously passed.
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: If a college, conference, or athletic association receives significant funding
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: for college athletics from a foreign government, foreign adversary, state-owned enterprise,
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: or sovereign wealth fund, it should disclose that funding. Any
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: funding exceeding $ 600. I did not know that that was happening.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: So that was passed unanimously last night into part of
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: the Save College Sports Act. So congratulations, Tim Scott. We
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: celebrate with you. It is now 719.
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I am Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson, and we are,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak for you, Christopher, but I
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: believe that you are a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: And this is an interesting development happening in our backyard.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Lexington Richland Five apparently voted last night to approve the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: idea of moving forward, they're going to have another vote
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: in October on this, that teachers that are certified by
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: SLED and were to wear like a certain, I guess
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: like a badge or something that would allow, so people
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: would know that these people are packing, we could have
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: school teachers carrying weapons into the schools. Pretty sad we've
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: gotten to that point, but we have. I'm all for
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: it in the sense, again, these people, these are not just,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: you know, Joe Schmoe. It's not being forced upon any teacher.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And it would allow people who are certified by SLED
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: and they have to continue to go back and get
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: practice rounds. Remedial training consists of methods the lead security
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: officer deems appropriate, up to 200 practice rounds. If additional
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: practice is necessary, the employee will be responsible for furnishing
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the additional practice ammunition. So if you are a teacher...
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: who wants to carry a weapon because you... Is it
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: just teachers? I think it was staff members. Well, staff members, yeah.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if the custodian would qualify or whatever.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the idea that you have the pistol pack
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: and mamas. People who... So that if you were... I'm
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: one of those people who believes that if we know
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: there are guns being held by good people... Less crime
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: will take place. I believe that. And I understand that
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: we can argue about statistics and things of that nature.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: That's just one of my beliefs. And again, you can
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: argue either side of that equation. I come down on
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: if we know if I walk into a building and
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: there's 10 armed people in there and I'm armed, probably
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: none of us are going to pull our weapons. That's
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: probably how it's going to go. But if one person
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: is armed and they're the bad guy, they have no
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: reason to not pull the weapon. Now, at schools here
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina, we've done a really good job, it seems,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: of making sure that we have resource officers at, I think,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: just about every school now. But that's one individual. This
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: would certainly up that ante. What do you think about
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: that idea? They're going to have a vote on it
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: October 27th, I think, October 26th. I wonder how many
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: school districts will follow if this passes there. I didn't
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: see any other school districts have this yet, at least
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. So this would be a first, and
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: it would be coming out of Lexington-Richland 5. So we'll
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: see how that goes. Keep an eye close to that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Thoughts on that? Use the talkback feature. It is 727.
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson, and one of the
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: most frustrating things for me is listening to politicians talk
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: about what they'll do if they're elected, and yet the
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: office that they're running for doesn't give them that type
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: of power. Like we're talking about Annie Andrews and what
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: she wants to do for the roads or whatever in
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. That's not your job. You should be running
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: for a state office then. You're not a senator. There's
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: a story today in the state newspaper talking about we
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: have a race between Mark Hammond and a guy named
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Jason Belton, both running to be the South Carolina Secretary
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: of State. Mark Hammond's been there since 2002. This would
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: be his seventh term if he was to win. Now,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Secretary of State's one of those jobs where I think
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: 95% of South Carolinians don't even know what it is.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: And even if you do know, it sounds like a
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: lot of paper pushing. I mean, that's what you're doing.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: You're registering businesses and et cetera. Yes.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: That's it. And, you know, you're like Marco Rubio is
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: the secretary of state. You're like, oh, is this guy
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: negotiating treaties or what? No, this is for the same.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: The secretary of state is responsible for maintaining South Carolina's
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: business and nonprofit records. And unlike other states, South Carolina
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: secretary of state does not deal with the election administration,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: has nothing there. Now, Jason Belton is a Democrat who
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: is running, and he says that he has two goals. One,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: I like this, businesses need an advocate. Okay. As it
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: comes with the General Assembly, there's so many things that
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: are happening that are plaguing business owners across the state.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: He points to small businesses. I will say that I
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: looked it up, by the way. South Carolina has 99.4%
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: of the businesses in South Carolina are considered small businesses.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: And the workforce is about 863,000 people, or 43% of
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: South Carolinians that are employed are working in small businesses.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: That is slightly below what's going on nationally, where it's 45.9%
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: of private sector workers work in small business. I mean,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: we're a little bit behind the national average, certainly a
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: little bit of room there possibly for improvement, and I
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: believe that it's coming. I don't know how much of
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: that the secretary of state would have. But then he
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: goes on to say his other main issue is that
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: he wants– he also wants the office to have oversight
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: over the state election commission. Elections should be overseen by
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: the folks who are accountable to the voters. Well, then
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: run for the statehouse so that you can change the laws.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: You're running for the wrong position. You are not going
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: to be able to do this. You're not going to
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: have the oversight that you're asking for. It's not like
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: you just say, and I want that, so I'm just
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: going to take it. No, that's not how— you' re running for
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: the wrong office. If you want to have that kind
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: of power, you need to be a state senator or
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: something in that line. But again, can anybody tell us
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the last move that Mark Hammond made? Does anybody know
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: what the Secretary of State's doing?
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Not taking anything away from him, but yeah, it's not
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: a job that gets a lot of publicity around here.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. So we'll see how that goes. I'm always
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: voting Republican, so that's just the way I come down.
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: Republican?
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll vote for the Republican. But again, the Secretary
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: of State, one of those jobs that maybe, perhaps, that
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: should be something that in the future is assigned to him. by,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: you know, the governor or somebody like that, that might
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: be something that we could just say, we don't really
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: know the good qualifications of a secretary of state, but
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: you in government probably should. And we'll hold you accountable
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: if they suck, but that's, that's for a debate at
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: a later time. So right now we'll take a break.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: If you've got thoughts on the secretary of state, maybe
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: you've got some insights on the secretary of state. We'd
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: love to know about that. We actually have it already.
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, we, yeah. Do you, We have some insights.
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: The South Carolina Secretary of State also handles the certification
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: and the voting of the Electoral College.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Of the Electoral College. Correct. Has nothing to do with
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: the Election Commission, though. And that's what this guy wants.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: That's what the fellow Jason, whatever his name is, wants
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: to oversee the Election Commission.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Again, running for the wrong office. That's not what you're
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: going to get. But thank you for the talkback. Do
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: we know who he was? No, no idea. But thank
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: you for using the talkback. And look at Christopher turning
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: it around lightning quick. Somebody just hit that talkback and bam,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Christopher got it on the air. Maybe we'll do the
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: same for you. Hit that microphone off the iHeartRadio app.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: It's 737.
• 44:47
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• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash in the air chair with Christopher Thompson next
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: door in his studio. We were talking earlier about Lexington
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Richland 5 and their school board vote, I guess, last night,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: talking about the possibility of now arming staff at their
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: schools and the you know, what they would have to
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: go through in order to get that certification, it'd be
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: pretty rigorous. I'm all for it. I know that when
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I mentioned it, Congressman Joe Wilson sent me a text
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: reminding me that he was one of the original co-sponsors
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: of the HR 4635 Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act, which
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: passed back in 2002. And so, you know, I, like
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Congressman Wilson, like so many other Republicans, strong believers in
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: the Second Amendment. Christopher, you're getting a bunch of talkbacks
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: as well. What do we got?
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: One responding to the fact that, you know, we were
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: talking about teachers and staff and you said, well, maybe
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: not custodians.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: One listener disagrees.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Custodians should be the ones with the weapons to include
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: with the mama bears packing inside of the classrooms. They
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: are the outer perimeter. They are the roving patrols. They
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: will stop anybody coming in there. Same thing as the
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: secretaries at the front door where they have people have
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: to use those main egress routes.
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: This is Jay in Columbia, South Carolina. I just heard
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: your report on putting guns in schools. Why is nobody
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: thinking about using non-lethal methods such as the Burna chemical
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: launchers and there's a couple of other national brands that
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: use non-lethal? Why don't we think about giving those to
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: our teachers and to our staff so we wouldn't be
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: risking anybody's lives?
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: Just a thought.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. And that could be a Sean Hannity
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: endorsement right there. Isn't that his big product? Yes, it is.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: And I'm not opposed to it. Again, Anything further would
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: be better. I mean, if we go to the non-lethal, great.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I prefer lethal because the attacks that are coming from
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: the outside in are usually very lethal. The school shooters
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: are not coming with non-lethal. They're coming with lethal. And
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: they need to be put down quickly. And a bullet
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: does that. I'm not sure about the effectiveness of a burna.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: How close do I have to be? I hear some
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: of the commercials and stuff, but I know that a
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Glock is pretty effective from a pretty safe distance. I mean,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: you can be hiding behind a desk or something and
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: get off some good shots at somebody. Plus just the
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: sound of the, I mean, preferably I'd use a shotgun.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: I think, I mean, that's what we use at our house.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: If somebody's in the hallway and they're not supposed to
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: be in the hallway, I don't have to aim. I
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: just boom, right down the hallway. And that clears the
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: hall pretty quickly. Sometimes just the is enough. That's all
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: you need sometimes to get people out of your house.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of weapons they'd be using.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: It looks like they'd be using pistols and things of
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: that nature. We can look into that a little bit further.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: But it seems like most South Carolinians are for the
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: idea of what Lexington and Richland 5 would be doing, which, again,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: I think is the first school district in South Carolina
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: that is at this level now where they're actually they've
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: already had one vote. They're going to have another vote
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: next month on this. And they'd have to go through
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: sled training. And I think they have to go to either,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: depending on where they live, Richland or Lexington County Sheriff's
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Department would train them as well. So, again, more people
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: understanding their weapons, people who want to do it. Nobody's forced.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: If you don't feel comfortable around a gun, you don't
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: have to carry the gun. You don't have to be
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: involved in any way. But you will be safer, we believe,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: by having people who know what they're doing with weapons
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: around you to protect the schools. And I like the
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: original talk back. Yeah, I'm not against the janitors. I
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: don't know that they were considered or not considered part
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: of the staff. But definitely the secretaries, if they're interested
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: in being armed, absolutely. That is usually who they first meet. Yeah,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: that's the first line of defense. Absolutely. So we'll take
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: a look at that a little bit more as they
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: get closer to their next vote in October. In the meantime,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: more talkbacks coming up. It is 746.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina.
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: Morning News.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: I love capitalism. It makes us all better. Everybody gets
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: to perfect their skill set. And usually the community benefits
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: from it. Sometimes, though, Sometimes, oh, it's painful, Christopher. There's
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: an attorney up in New York, Reza, is that how
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: you say her name? Reza Cohen. Reza Cohen has a
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: law firm that specializes in immigrate. If you're an illegal alien,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: she says she has found the loopholes to keep you
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: in the United States. And as a matter of fact,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: she's just hired two former prosecutors who For ICE, these
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: were ICE prosecutors, the Honorable Maria Lurie, retired, and Honorable
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Mimi Sankoff, I think is how you say her name.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: These two ladies say that there are loopholes in the
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: law that most defense attorneys don't know about that can
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: keep every illegal here forever.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: So if they're successful once, then hopefully our government quickly
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: closes the loopholes.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: They've been doing their, they started this training courses for
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: illegal aliens to know how to represent themselves in case
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: they couldn't afford. Because again, Riza or Reza, whatever her
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: name is, is not in it for the money, apparently.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: She's in it because she wants to take down America.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: So this is free training. The first free training course
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: was on May 6th and apparently attended by about 400
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: illegal aliens. We should have had ice just come down
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: on that like a ton of bricks. So the next
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: time that they have one of these meetings, I would
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: love to see. I know we just talked yesterday. They
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: were talking about there's going to be a surge in
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: some of these sanctuary states. There's 11 states, I think,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: in D.C. where they're planning an ice surge. This has
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: got to be like target number one, I would think.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: These are known illegal aliens. They know they're not supposed
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: to be in the country.
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: And now they've got a lawyer telling them how to
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: stay in despite the fact that they are illegal.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Including two former ICE prosecutors who say, we know the loopholes.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: We found the loopholes. Thankfully, we were able to– they
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: successfully prosecuted many people and got them kicked out of
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: the country. But RISA was able to buy these people
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: off apparently and say, let's help destroy America. How can
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: we help destroy America? Can we keep people here forever?
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Can we make sure, especially the people who are on
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: the social services, that's who they're targeting. The people who
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: are not working, the people who are just here to
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: take advantage of the system. Can we keep them here forever?
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Because again, if you're indebted to the system, you're going
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: to vote that way. You're not going to vote for freedom.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: You're going to vote for more public assistance. And so
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: that's who they're trying to help. You're certainly not going
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: to vote for the guy who shut down the border.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: That guy's gone. Yeah. That guy's gone. And anybody who
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: says that we're going to kick illegal aliens off of our,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: you know, social service programs, you're not going to win
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: any elections if these people are around. Voter rolls.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: That's what they're trying to do. So very, very. Again,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I love capitalism. And I guess, you know, somehow she's
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: making some money somehow. But it is makes me to
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: my stomach. All right, thoughts on that or other things,
• 52:48
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• 52:49
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• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Hi there, this is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson, and
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: it's like a water, it's like a fire hydrant. When
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: it just sprays water, it's hard to gather all the
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: information and then decide what are you going to talk about.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: I was going down one... path. And then just a
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: moment ago, I decided to switch paths. Candace Owens is
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: a very big name in conservative circles and has been
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: for a while. She has been in a weird space
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: the last year or so. Since the Charlie Kirk assassination. Yes.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: She's been trying to create some sort of narrative where
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the Israelis or other people.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: And She keeps claiming to have proof. At the same time,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: she then said that the president of France's wife is
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: a man and she has proof. And now that's gotten
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: her into a lawsuit. She has a lot of, I
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: don't know, issues, we'll say. Maybe that's what I'll say.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: There's a story today in Yahoo News headline. Candace Owens'
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: family reportedly wants her to, quote, just disappear. Now, what
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: they mean by that is not disappear in the sense
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: get out of their lives. What they're saying in this
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: story is that she has become so toxic. She has
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: so much support and hate that she's generated that it's
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: now becoming dangerous. According to an unnamed person who works
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: on her security detail, it's like nothing we've ever seen before.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: We don't know how to keep her safe anymore. And
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: so the family members are saying, just stop talking. Now,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: she can't stop talking because she's in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: with the Macrons, and if she loses, she needs to
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: keep talking to pay for it. At the same time,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: now the Internet is– and I say the Internet like
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: the Internet's a person. There are– people on the internet
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: who want to take her down. So they're going back deep,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: deep dives in getting things that have been deleted and
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: bringing them back up. Now, a lot of people don't
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: know this about Candace Owens. This is actually public knowledge
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: that when she was in high school, she allegedly slept
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: with a girl's boyfriend and then that girl beat her up.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: and used some racial slurs in leaving her a voicemail message.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Candace used that to call the NAACP and other organizations
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: in order to say that she was the victim of racism.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: You were actually the victim of sleeping with somebody's boyfriend.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: That's what that was. But that started her down this
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: path of what appears to be she's the victim, always
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: the victim. There is a lawsuit that she lost where
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: she stopped paying her rent. and said that there was
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: mold in the building. She never produced any evidence that
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: there was mold in the building. She was paying $ 3, 500
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: a month. Obviously, she was doing pretty well at that
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: time if you're paying $ 3, 500 a month. And she ended
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: up losing in court and was supposed to have paid
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: the guy $ 20, 000 and apparently still hasn't paid the guy.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: At the same time, now it's getting ugly. Here's somebody
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: who has.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Going with an unnamed Twitter account has a very weird
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: blog called mystery machine news, but it seems to be
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: very real. The stuff that this person has found and
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: posted yesterday would be Candace Owens profile on dating apps,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: specifically targeting women. You've heard about this?
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 56:53
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you, you couldn't be on social media
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: yesterday and not have seen that. And, the allegations are
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: that not only was she gay, but that her husband
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: was gay as well.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: And the whole marriage was just a sham. Yes. And
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: so this is what, when you, when you do ugly,
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: the ugly comes back. That's what I'm saying about this.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Candace Owens has made a career and a very apparently
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: lucrative career in painting very ugly pictures of certain people.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: And now it's coming back. Now, I don't know if
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: this is true. I don't know if that's her, I mean,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: could AI have created this?
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Does that girl look like the one named Candace Amber?
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Does that look like her? Absolutely, it looks like her.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: Is this woman targeting women in her profile? Absolutely. That's
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: all she's looking for. I won't even go through the
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: names of some of the other accounts that she's used, allegedly,
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: because I can't say them on the radio. But these
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: accounts go all the way back to, let's see, members
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: since October 22nd, 2008. Gender, woman, looking for, woman, birth date,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: March 29th, 1988, 5'5. I mean, she's basically laying out
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: who can't. Now, if this was created in 2008 by
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: somebody who decided to use the profile photo that looked
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: like Candace Owens, who was not a celebrity in 2008,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: that would be very bizarre. Yes, it would. So, and again,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: her interests in dating, not dating, that has nothing to
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: do with anything. But if you're going to make accusations
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: like that woman's a man and I can prove it,
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: there are people that will come back on you. And
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: now I think she's kind of reaping what she has sown.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: So sad times for Candace Owens, especially if she's not
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: able to get the protection and security that she needs,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: because there are a lot of people who are very
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: upset with her right now. Also saying that Russia is
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: a much better country than the U.S. didn't make so
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: many of her fans happy. Yeah. It's a very bizarre story. Now,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: what I had originally planned on doing was just a
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: fun little, you know, ha-ha segment here. And so I
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: will get to the fun ha-ha little segment about somebody
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: going to climb a mountain. Now, how they're going to
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: climb the mountain and the reason they're going to climb
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: the mountain is the ha-ha part. We'll get to that next.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: It is 8.09.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: You know, I read this story. I said, am I
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: being punked here? Is this a real story? This is
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: a real story out of Ireland where a drag performer
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: who goes by the name Crystal Queer... is announced on
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: social media that next month they will climb, is it
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: pronounced Carentu Hill, which is the largest mountain in Ireland
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: at 3,400 feet. Crystal Queer has announced they're going to
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: climb Carentu Hill in full drag in order to bring
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: glamour to one of Ireland's most difficult hikes while at
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: the same time raising money for the people of Gaza.
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: Oh, boy.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: That's a lot to unpack. Isn't it, though? Yeah. Isn't it?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Starting with the fact that that sounds pretty dangerous. You know,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: I wonder, are they going to wear the heels? How
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: high are the heels when you decide to climb a mountain?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: I mean....
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think Tom Cruise has ever tried it. I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: know Tom Cruise has climbed mountains, but he's never done
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: it in high heels. Has anyone ever done that? But yeah,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: this is craziness. Don't tell me mental illness isn't a thing.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: This is totally insane what's happening here. Climbing a mountain
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: in full drag to bring glamour to not only one
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: of the most difficult hikes, but also help raise glamour
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: for the people of Gaza. Now, I don't know what
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: happened in Ireland like 10 or 15 years ago. But
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: they started getting crazy early in Ireland. And I don't
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: know why, but I'm looking back at Ireland right now
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: in 2015. So they were way ahead of the curve.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: And Ireland in 2015 passed the Gender Recognition Act, which
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: allows you to change your legal gender by signing a certificate.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: You can change it back and forth as often as
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: you'd like. You have to be identified by the state
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: as the gender that you prefer. At the time. At
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: that week.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: And I guess you would have to get a new ID.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: So maybe it discourages that because people probably have to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: pay for the ID, which again, eventually that would become,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: why do I have to, in one of the richest
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: nations on earth, why do I have to pay for
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: my ID? They obviously have the DEI rules in there.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: They talk about how they, in some parts of Ireland,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: they have banned the Catholic church, just completely outlawed it. Now,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: thank God. They almost, I shouldn't say almost, 32% of
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: Irish voters in 2024 voted to change their constitution in
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: order to remove the word mother.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 9: No.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: It wasn't almost passed, but 32% of Irish people who
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: voted said mothers is discriminatory. It has to be birthing people.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: And you have to widen the definition of family to
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: whomever chooses to live together. That's a family now. These
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: people are off the deep end, and I present no
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: better example than Crystal Queer, who's going to climb the
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: highest mountain in Ireland in full drag, specifically so she
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: can help the people who would absolutely murder her if
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: she showed up. I say her. Now, I'm recognizing, I guess,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: her preferred pronoun. At the time, because when she comes
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: out of drag, I think she's a man. She goes
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: by some other name. You're so progressive, Kelly. I am
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: a very progressive person. I'm doing the best I can.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Who wants to see Crystal Queer climb a mountain in
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: full drag?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: Let us know on the Talkback feature. It is 817.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: I know most Americans are geographically challenged when it comes
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: to other nations. And so I will not just give
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: you the names of the countries. I will actually kind
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: of try to paint a picture for you. So we
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: know about Russia, Ukraine, and that has been a bloodbath.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Russian forces have now lost an estimated one and a
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: half million people in this war. The Ukrainians have lost
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: up to 500,000 themselves. This is a total bloodbath. what's
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: been happening between these two countries since, what was it, 2022?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: The whole thing got started. So for four years now,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: we've been dealing with just unbelievable amounts of death in
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: that part of the world. Now, Russia has apparently decided
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: to become more of a pariah. They don't want to de-escalate.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: They are escalating, apparently, according to this story out of Newsmax.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: There's a country, you've probably heard of it, called Estonia. Now,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Estonia is not next to the Ukraine. If you were
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: to look on a map, there'd be the Ukraine, then Belarus,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: then Lithuania, and then another country. What's that one? I'm
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: trying to think of the name of that country. Latvia. Latvia.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: So we're four countries away. And Russian forces apparently targeted
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: a warehouse or a factory that makes military equipment That
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: is being bought by the Ukrainians. So on August 15th,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: they went in and just on the ground, set things
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: on fire. It tried to now it didn't end up
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: going up in smoke the way they had hoped. They
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: ended up arresting the people involved. The I like the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: statement from the Russians. Dmitry Peskov says such statements are unfounded, ill-considered,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: and absolutely not reflecting the reality, not containing any substationation
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: of whatsoever of what's reality. Okay, come on. We don't
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: think that you guys would do this? Let's go ahead
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: and take a look at what they're being reported here
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: by the Associated Press, who says there's now 200 incidents
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: of sabotage in other countries. This is not sabotaging the Ukraine.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: The most recent one happened in Germany. So now Germany's saying, yeah,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: you guys attempted to attack our dang airport with drone-laden explosives.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: So the Russians are like the— it' s kind of like what
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: we see in Iran, where Iran is just firing off
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: at all the Gulf nations. We're just so angry that
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: we're going to lose this thing. The Russians are now
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: firing off at just about anybody they can get their
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: hands on in Europe, including this poor— what' s the name of
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: the country again? It's like Estonia. I mean— You're not
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: going to affect the war by shutting down whatever the
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Estonians were making for the Ukrainians. You've got to actually
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: defeat the Ukrainians. But they can't do it, Christopher. This
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: has been one of the most incredible things that I
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: think we've seen in war in our lifetimes. The Ukrainians
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: are now on the offensive versus the Russians. Nobody saw
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: that coming.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: And I've seen a lot of people suggesting, okay, and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: you mentioned Trump's numbers being underwater earlier this morning. I've
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: seen a lot of people mention if he could get
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: that war stopped, even if the conflict in Iran continues
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 5: through the midterms, if he could get the Russians and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: Ukrainians to stop, that might be a difference maker in
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: this election.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? You brought up the numbers. We'll
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: go back for those. That was in the six o'clock hour.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: We'll kind of revisit those numbers. And Christopher, Are you
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: going to pass judgment on my idea? I'm not passing judgment.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: I'm just surprised it's coming from you.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: We will give you my out-of-left-field, but it's already been
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: done before by a Republican president, my idea to maybe
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: save the midterms. We'll get into that and more. It's 827.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Hi there. This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. Earlier
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: this morning, I brought this up. The numbers for Republicans
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: in general are not going well in the midterms. And
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: we've detected that only 1% of candidates are even referencing
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump in any way. And that's pretty obvious because
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's underwater. He's now polling at 36% approval rating,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: which is pretty bad. Even amongst Republicans, if you look
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: at people in their second term as a Republican... whether
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: you're looking at W or you're looking at Reagan or,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: you know, you can go back as far as you want.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: I think Eisenhower in their second term, Donald Trump is
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: polling is the lowest point for any Republican in their
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: second term at this point. So even amongst Republicans, it's
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: not going well. The MAGA Republicans love him. And I
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: didn't know that we had two distinct bodies, but apparently
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: pollsters will ask, are you a MAGA Republican or a
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: generic Republican? And amongst the MAGA Republicans, he's still polling
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: at like 99%, but it's the non-MAGA Republicans that have drifted.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: Harry Enten at CNN had some more of the news.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: Pure independent voters, that is those who don't lean towards
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: either party. In the 2024 election, Trump won them by
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: 15 points over Kamala Harris. Look at his net approval
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: rating now. His net approval rating now among pure independent
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: voters is minus 71 points. That's an 86-point difference.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 7: That is a huge difference.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: And the same thing that is bringing Trump's approval rating
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: down with Republican voters is what's impacting him among independent voters.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 7: You can see it here. I mean, it's the economy.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 7: It's the economy. Pure independents, Trump and the economy. Look
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 7: at this.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 6: In the fall of 2024, Donald Trump, among pure independents,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: was trusted more to handle the economy than Kamala Harris—
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: by a 22-point margin. His net approval rating now is
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 6: minus 77 points. And what's driving that? It's the gas prices.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 6: It's the gas prices. Pure Independence, 92%. That is more
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 6: than nine in 10 in pure independence disapprove of Trump
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 6: on gas prices.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: So it's the, cause when you say the economy, um,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: actually the economy is significantly improved in the last two years.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: And you can look at it, whether it's investments in
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: the economy, we have 21 trillion invested in the Trump administration.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: You had less than a trillion under the Biden administration.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: You can look at the stock market. You can look
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: at your buying power. Median household income right now has
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: never had more buying power since they started keeping this
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: record in 1967. So by every stretch of the imagination,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: the economy is significantly better. It's the gas prices. Every
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: time people go to the pump, they get frustrated. So
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: I am suggesting that Donald Trump borrow from one of
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: the great failures in Republican politics, Richard Nixon. The 37th
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: president of the United States was the guy who signed
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: an executive order back in– it was August 15, 1971.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: And as one of the leading conservative economists of the time,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: Murray Rothbard, wrote, August 15, 1971, fascism came to America.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: But the public, believing that Nixon would check inflation with it,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: was generally supportive. And the American people celebrated it. When
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: he said we're going to put a freeze on gas prices,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: you can no longer raise the gas prices. The government
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: was taking over. We're going to take over and we're
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: going to fix it. It was only for 90 days.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: That is anti-everything Kelly Nash believes. The government. Milton Friedman said,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: this is one of those very plausible schemes with very
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: pleasing commencements, which often have shameful and lamentable conclusions. He
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: also went on to say, nothing is as permanent as
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: a temporary government program. And by the way, he was
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: not wrong there, as that program lasted 10 years. It
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: ended in 1981 when Ronald Reagan restored sanity. But If
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: you want to win the midterms, it appears to be
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: the only issue is gas prices. I mean, you do
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: have the power. We already saw it demonstrated back in 1971.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: You could sign an executive order. And unlike 1971, where
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: we were importing so much of our oil, we don't
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: have to import it. We already have it. We're here.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: It's our oil. You could actually say we're not allowing U.S.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: companies that are pumping their oil here to sell to
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: foreign countries. That's why the gas prices go up. It's
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: because it's a global commodity. We're not going to allow
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: you to partake in that market for the next 90 days.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to sell it here, and you're
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: going to have to sell it at this price, $ 62
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  Speaker 2: a barrel or something like that, and that the gas
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  Speaker 2: stations can't charge more than $ 2. 95 a gallon. If the
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  Speaker 2: American people next month, or excuse me, next week, walked
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  Speaker 2: into the gas station at 295 a gallon, they'd be shocked.
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  Speaker 2: And then to be shocked again when they went back,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd be shocked again when they went back. And
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  Speaker 2: that could be enough to win the midterms.
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  Speaker 5: But that's a temporary solution. And then what kind of
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  Speaker 5: permanent problems would you get after the midterms?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? That's called kicking the can down the road.
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  Speaker 2: You kick it down the road. Now, I will say
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  Speaker 2: that I believe that the Trump administration is correct, that
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  Speaker 2: the oil prices will drop, like he said, like a
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  Speaker 2: rock once the situation with Iran is handled. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that we're getting close to the end with Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They are now in a stranglehold, as Ted Nugent sang.
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  Speaker 2: Got you in a stranglehold, baby. They cannot get out
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  Speaker 2: of this thing. That's why they are. You're seeing them
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  Speaker 2: publicly beg for negotiations. They want something. Please don't continue
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  Speaker 2: to strangle us. We're strangling you. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC is ripe for the taking. I think that
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  Speaker 2: that will happen sooner rather than later. But is sooner
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  Speaker 2: three months from now? Is sooner six months from now?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when it'll happen. But once that happens
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  Speaker 2: and the Strait of Hormuz is open and the global
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  Speaker 2: supply can get back out in there, the prices will
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  Speaker 2: drop like a rock. But that will help whatever damage
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  Speaker 2: is done by setting the prices here.
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  Speaker 5: Because the oil companies, as soon as you do that,
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  Speaker 5: the oil companies are going to say, well, what's our incentive?
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  Speaker 5: Why would we produce a single barrel more at this point?
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  Speaker 5: If the government's fixing the price, they're taking our profits away.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that's what we're doing. Same thing that they were
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  Speaker 2: doing it in Venezuela. Same thing that they've been doing
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  Speaker 2: in Iraq. I mean, this is the price that you've
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  Speaker 2: got to pay to do business. Trump said he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to tariff the world. He said you want access to
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  Speaker 2: the number one market? You've got to pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: There's a premium. If you want to go to Sam's Club,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: you've got to pay a premium to get into Sam's Club.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to be in the U.S., you've got
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  Speaker 2: to pay a premium. And this would be the premium
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  Speaker 2: that you got to pay. 90 days, we're fixing the prices.
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  Speaker 2: And that is enough, I think, to win the election.
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  Speaker 2: Because again, the number one issue, according to all the pollsters,
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  Speaker 2: is gas prices. I don't know how Americans became that
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  Speaker 2: fixated on it, but they are absolutely obsessed with the
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  Speaker 2: gas prices. And until they're below $ 3 a gallon, it's
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  Speaker 2: like the world is ending. The world is falling apart.
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  Speaker 2: So address that issue. for 90 days that I, I
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  Speaker 2: think it'll work. I think it'll work. But what do
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: you think? Let us know on the talkback feature. We'd
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  Speaker 2: love to hear your thoughts on it. Or is there
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  Speaker 2: some other crazy out of left field plan that we
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  Speaker 2: can do? I think it's better than the $ 5, 000 check
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  Speaker 2: for every American. If you get, if you went about
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  Speaker 2: the house and the Senate, but.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll rank who's got the better ideas and get to
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  Speaker 10: I was just recalling the 71 freeze by Nixon was
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  Speaker 10: on all prices, and Also on wages, if I recall,
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  Speaker 10: do you propose this as well?
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the talkback, and you are a very wise historian,
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  Speaker 2: whoever you are. I wish I knew his name, but
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: thank you for using the talkback feature. Yes, I do
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  Speaker 2: not propose this, by the way, but August 15th, 1971,
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  Speaker 2: this sounds like something that President AOC would write. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: in order to stabilize the economy, reduce inflation, and minimize unemployment,
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  Speaker 2: it is necessary to stabilize prices, rents, wages, and salaries.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas the present balance of payment situation makes it especially
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  Speaker 2: urgent to stabilize prices, rents, wages, and salaries. in order
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  Speaker 2: to improve our competitive position in world trade and to
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  Speaker 2: protect the purchasing power of the dollar. Now, therefore, by
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  Speaker 2: virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
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  Speaker 2: of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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  Speaker 2: as follow, that all rents, wages, and salaries shall be
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  Speaker 2: stabilized for a period of 90 days. That was the
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  Speaker 2: original Richard Nixon executive order back on August 15th, 1971.
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  Speaker 2: Part of that, obviously, froze gas prices. And the government
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: took control of that. And, again, I hate this idea.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like that– when you see the people, I just
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  Speaker 2: kind of– in my mouth. It makes me sick. Because,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, did any of that stabilize? No. It
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  Speaker 2: was a total– feces show is what happened and they
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  Speaker 2: kept extending it and extending it and extending it and
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  Speaker 2: if you look at the inflation rates of the 70s
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: you know ronald reagan came to power because of jimmy
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: carter and what something they created called the misery index
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: what is the misery index for the united states and
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: he would combine i'm trying to remember what it was
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: it was like inflation versus wages versus unemployment or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And this misery index that they created showed that we were,
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  Speaker 2: it was the highest it had ever been in like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, 50 years since like the great depression. Um, no,
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  Speaker 2: I do not prescribe that we freeze all those other things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying for 90 days, if Donald Trump wants to
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  Speaker 2: get to the house, maybe, and definitely keep the Senate freeze,
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  Speaker 2: the gas prices, freeze them below $ 3 a gallon for
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  Speaker 2: 90 days. It's crazy. I hate it. I don't, I
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: wouldn't recommend it in a real economy, but we're in
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: desperate times right now. So, yes, I'm two-faced. I'm saying
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: get more government control in order to win an election.
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  Speaker 2: A little while ago, we were talking about the story
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  Speaker 2: out of Ireland where a drag queen named Crystal Queer
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: has announced that he, she is about to climb the
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: highest mountain in all of Ireland in full drag in
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: order to bring glamour not only to the mountaintop, but
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: also for the people of Gaza. And we got to
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: talk back on this.
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  Speaker 8: Hey guys so i gotta know is he dressing up
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  Speaker 8: in drag like robin williams dressing up in drag or
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 8: dressing up in drag like he actually believes in it
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  Speaker 8: uh you know because i'm all for fun and games
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  Speaker 8: if he wants to climb a mountain dressed like a
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  Speaker 8: woman that's that's you know more power to him i
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  Speaker 8: don't want to see anybody get hurt no I got
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  Speaker 8: to know, is there any chance that he may fall
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  Speaker 8: down the mountain?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just asking. Yeah, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the chances are. For a friend. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: What are you thinking, Pral? We've got, I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you in the promo photo, Crystal Queer is wearing. like
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  Speaker 2: red vinyl gloves that go up past the elbows and
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: a feather boa and like red tights. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what kind of shoe wear you wear on a mountain
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  Speaker 2: climb when you're in drag. Or what you would wear
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  Speaker 2: in drag anyway, because I've never been in drag.
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  Speaker 5: Is she going to be a safety conscious in drag
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  Speaker 5: or is she just going full out? Yeah, I've got
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  Speaker 5: the same questions our caller did.
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  Speaker 2: You know, well, I guess we can tune into Crystal Queer's,
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  Speaker 2: I think most of this will be covered on their
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  Speaker 2: Instagram account if you're interested. That's okay. Christopher and Crystal,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: we're not going to have a... I just lost interest
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: right there. I mean, if you were really interested, you
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: could go to Crystal Queer's IG account there and keep track.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: You tell us what happened. All right, I'll let you
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: know how it goes. Now, again, this is happening next month. So, including...
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: By the way, is it dangerous? According to this story
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: that's printed in Ireland, that includes going over what's called
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: the Devil's Ladder. which is one of the more dangerous areas.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: So I'm assuming that we're going to be wearing flats.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: We're not doing like thigh-high boots for this. But again,
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  Speaker 2: for the Palestinians, queers for Palestine. People don't understand what
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: they're saying when they say these things. But best of
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: luck to Crystal Queer. Obviously, we don't want you to
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: get hurt in your endeavors to bring glamour to the Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: It is now 8.55. We'll see you tomorrow morning.