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Show Rewind 8-28-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I am hot this morning, Christopher. I'm coming out
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  Speaker 2: the gate hot. Or they say coming in hot, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What's got you all riled up this early?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. All right, headlines. Snap restrictions on candy
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  Speaker 2: and sodas now delayed in South Carolina after court ruling.
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  Speaker 2: According to this, the USDA requested the delay on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: saying that the states don't have the right to change
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  Speaker 2: the definition of food to food. In other words, yes,
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  Speaker 2: candy is food. And if the person getting the SNAP
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  Speaker 2: benefits wants nothing but the highest of sugar candies and,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, well, then hell, why don't we just sell
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  Speaker 2: them cigarettes, too, and say that's part of this SNAP program?
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  Speaker 2: This is craziness.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. I think that's going to change. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to have a period where the public can respond.
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  Speaker 3: You get a public notice. You get a certain amount
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  Speaker 3: of time. for the public to weigh in, and then
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  Speaker 3: you put in the restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they point out that the USDA requested the delay
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday as the Office of General Counsel and the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Justice review a recent court order that vacated
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  Speaker 2: the Food and Nutrition Administration's food restriction waivers in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: and West Virginia. And I remember watching On TikTok, the
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  Speaker 2: weeping and gnashing of teeth of people who were going
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  Speaker 2: to buy, for the final time, Oreo cookies and Reese's
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  Speaker 2: peanut butter cups. And they were coming out legit with
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  Speaker 2: entire bags filled with cookies and candy and saying, this
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  Speaker 2: is what we'll be living off of for the next month.
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  Speaker 3: They can still do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at that time they could. That was their last
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  Speaker 2: day that they were allowed to do it. Now it gets,
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  Speaker 2: what do you want to call it, rescinded.
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  Speaker 3: They can do it as long as they want to,
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  Speaker 3: but not with our tax dollars.
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  Speaker 2: But as they pointed out, I can't work because I'm
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  Speaker 2: morbidly obese. So how can you expect me to work?
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  Speaker 2: I'm 440 pounds. I'm not allowed to go into an office.
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  Speaker 2: They don't allow me. They don't even have enough. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have the reinforced chairs for me to sit in.
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  Speaker 2: And it's too much effort for me to get out
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  Speaker 2: of bed.
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  Speaker 3: But instead of buying the lean, skinless chicken breasts, you're
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  Speaker 3: loading up on Oreos.
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  Speaker 2: I love Oreos. And I love ice cream. And I
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  Speaker 2: love cake. And why isn't that part of a nutritious breakfast?
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  Speaker 3: That's not feeding your body.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness gracious. But you know, look, in all honesty, when
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  Speaker 2: I look at some of these people, and if you've
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  Speaker 2: seen them on social media... Perhaps your heart broke like
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  Speaker 2: mine did, because I recognized that a lot of these people,
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  Speaker 2: this is a generational thing. This is like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: their mother served them pop tarts and cookies and cake.
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  Speaker 2: That was the diet. And, and, you know, so this
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  Speaker 2: is a, and, and their parents encouraged them, or they're
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  Speaker 2: probably in all likelihood, their mother, because their father's probably
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  Speaker 2: not around because that was by design. So their mother
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  Speaker 2: encouraged them, knock out some kids while you can, and
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  Speaker 2: then get more money into the house. And so this
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  Speaker 2: is just the way they were raised. If you had
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  Speaker 2: good parents in your life, you don't even comprehend what
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  Speaker 2: they're talking about. But to them, that is the reality,
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  Speaker 2: that the government is supposed to provide food and shelter
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  Speaker 2: and all my comforts should be... And it's like, gosh...
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how much human potential is being wasted
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 3: And not just food, but the foods that we want.
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  Speaker 3: Comfort foods instead of genuinely nutritious foods.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not, I'll paraphrase Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton,
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  Speaker 2: one time I said on a talk show, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to use a slight curse word right now.
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  Speaker 2: So heads up on that. And I am quoting Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: She said, I was so chunky at one point in
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  Speaker 2: my life that when I wanted to haul ass, I
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  Speaker 2: had to make two trips. And that was me. I
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  Speaker 2: was well over 300 pounds at one point. So I
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  Speaker 2: understand what it's like to be morbidly obese. I understand...
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  Speaker 2: the prison that you feel like you're in. Your body
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  Speaker 2: becomes a prison when you're 300 pounds and you can't
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  Speaker 2: get off the couch easily and you can't walk around
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  Speaker 2: the block. There's so many things that you're restricted on
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  Speaker 2: and it takes a lot of work and effort to
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  Speaker 2: get out of that. That is a downward cycle to death,
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  Speaker 2: the morbidly obese person. But we're not doing them any
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  Speaker 2: favors by continuing to just allow them to buy all
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  Speaker 2: the cakes and sodas and whatever. We're actually... We're further
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  Speaker 2: imprisoning them while at the same time we're paying for it.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And we're not just paying for their food. We're paying
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  Speaker 2: for their medicines. We're paying for their blood pressure medication
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  Speaker 2: and diabetes medication and insulin and then whatever else comes
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  Speaker 2: along with all those problems.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all the health care costs of being obese will
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  Speaker 3: saddle that too.
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  Speaker 2: This is such a sad ruling. What kind of a
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  Speaker 2: judge would sit there and say, no, no, no. When
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  Speaker 2: I look at something called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
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  Speaker 2: that has to include, you know, desserts and potato chips.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they even relaxed the rules a little bit. Originally,
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  Speaker 3: it was no soda. Now it's low-calorie and diet soda
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  Speaker 3: and zero-calorie sodas, I think, are allowed. But again, how
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  Speaker 3: much nutrition are you getting out of a soda, period?
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  Speaker 3: But nobody's saying you can't buy those. It's just going
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  Speaker 3: to have to be with your money, not with government money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like when they talk about book
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  Speaker 2: bans and they say, well, you know, all these Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are banning books. No, they're not. They're actually still in
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  Speaker 2: the public library and available on Amazon and available at
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  Speaker 2: Barnes & Noble. They're just not available for the K-5 kids.
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  Speaker 2: in their school library. That's not a book ban. That's
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  Speaker 2: saying we're going to just put in the mentally healthy
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  Speaker 2: things for children to read in a school library. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a book ban. We're cherry picking the best of
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  Speaker 2: the best to fill the young minds with good, nutritious reading.
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  Speaker 2: We should be filling the bodies of especially the kids
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  Speaker 2: who are being raised in these types of environments so
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't continue this cycle of morbid obesity and laziness
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  Speaker 2: and dependency on government. But the judges don't want that.
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  Speaker 2: The judges want them to be able to classify I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Slim Jim's even. I'll even go that far.
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  Speaker 2: Slim Jim's is now a food product. Goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 3: It's a meat.
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  Speaker 2: It's a meat, yeah. Okay. Anyway, maybe you've got thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that. Maybe you're coming in hot like I am
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  Speaker 2: and talk to Christopher Thompson and myself. This is Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there. 614, Friday morning. Hopefully you're in a good mood.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson, I'm Kelly Nash. We're looking at the story
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  Speaker 2: in Mount Pleasant this morning. The talk on restrictions on
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  Speaker 2: data centers growing as a number of South Carolina counties
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  Speaker 2: ban them. This, to me, Christopher, is becoming like a
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  Speaker 2: form of paranoia because we have a group driving this
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  Speaker 2: fear that the data centers are going to take up
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  Speaker 2: all the electricity, they're going to take up all the water,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just a blanket statement. And if you hear that,
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  Speaker 2: if that's your basis on it, then of course you're
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  Speaker 2: going to say, why would I want that here? If
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  Speaker 2: they're going to just take up all of my energy
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  Speaker 2: and take up all of my water, no, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want that here. And so everybody's saying that. And Mount
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  Speaker 2: Pleasant joins that list right now. After seeing some of
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  Speaker 2: the issues with data centers popping up in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: it started as an honest or simple question to the
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  Speaker 2: planning department. Could a data center open in Mount Pleasant?
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  Speaker 2: I was a bit surprised by the answer, says Councilman
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Brownstein. According to them, yeah, they could build in
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  Speaker 2: Mount Pleasant. I'll point out, I don't think that a
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  Speaker 2: data center wants to be in Mount Pleasant because that's
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  Speaker 2: some of the most expensive real estate in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be hard to find a place to put one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would take another good point.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you going to put this thing?
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  Speaker 2: But I just feel like there's a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: going on here with data centers that maybe the general
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  Speaker 2: public's not considering. And one of those things would be
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  Speaker 2: the people who own AI, the big mega companies currently
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  Speaker 2: are running fear campaigns about AI. You might not think
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  Speaker 2: of it that way, but that's exactly what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They want the general public to be afraid of artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason they want that is because they're hoping
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  Speaker 2: that the federal government will step in and then put
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  Speaker 2: in some severe restrictions for anybody who wants to try
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  Speaker 2: to start another competition. They're trying to limit it so
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  Speaker 2: that we're the only companies. That's their actual goal. And
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  Speaker 2: that's not like even really hiding the ball.
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  Speaker 3: They're pretty.
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  Speaker 2: obvious the way they're presenting their, their fear campaigns to
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  Speaker 2: the general public. Then there's also, you know, obviously environmentalists
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  Speaker 2: are going to get involved and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at some of the surveys that
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  Speaker 2: are coming out now, they're talking about like, they'll just
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  Speaker 2: run a poll. Would you rather have an Amazon warehouse
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  Speaker 2: or a data center? And it turns out that like
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  Speaker 2: in most of America, it's like, 68% say, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to have an Amazon warehouse as opposed to like 5%
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  Speaker 2: are saying, we are willing to have a data center.
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  Speaker 2: But the data centers are going to be a lot
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  Speaker 2: easier on the community if you consider the roads that
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  Speaker 2: you need to build for the Amazon things, the amount
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  Speaker 2: of traffic that's going to be coming in there. Even
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  Speaker 2: in some instances, the amount of electricity being used. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going off misinformation. We're going off of a fear campaign.
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  Speaker 2: And Ultimately, if we fall behind on artificial intelligence, once
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  Speaker 2: you get behind in that, if China isn't actually in
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  Speaker 2: the lead, then that's a wrap the way I look
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 3: Agreed. But there's been a bait and switch going on
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  Speaker 3: with these data centers the last couple of years. That's
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  Speaker 3: what's got most citizens upset. You know, the fact that
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  Speaker 3: these secret projects have been planned in conjunction with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: county councils, city councils, etc. And then all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden you've got this loud... data center, large scale that
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  Speaker 3: you didn't realize was going to even be that big
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  Speaker 3: popping up in your backyard and sucking up the water
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  Speaker 3: and the energy. If, if there was a little more,
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  Speaker 3: you know, full disclosure in advance of these data centers,
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  Speaker 3: and if they're put in the right places, you can't
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  Speaker 3: have one in the neighborhood. There's plenty of industrial parks.
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  Speaker 3: There are plenty of, you know, other areas that aren't
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  Speaker 3: zoned for residential. They'd be perfect for those. they don't
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  Speaker 3: belong in some of these cities where they popped up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I'll point out that, you know, in full disclosure,
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  Speaker 2: I did do some work for Google a few years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're biased.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they, they hired me to come and do
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  Speaker 2: like some educational videos. I was shocked.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, really?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And I was, you're bigger than I thought, Kelly. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's actually, it's, it's, I, they could probably hire you too, Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just went there for like four days and,
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  Speaker 2: Every day after I got off the air, I would
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  Speaker 2: drive down to Berkeley County and go to the Google campus.
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  Speaker 2: And then they would just put me in a room
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  Speaker 2: with a cameraman and I would just read what was
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  Speaker 2: ever on the teleprompter and try to. And then I
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  Speaker 2: guess Google would show these or make these available to classrooms.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was talking to like fourth and fifth
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  Speaker 2: graders or something like that. And that was a number
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  Speaker 2: of years ago. I'm sure they're not even using those
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  Speaker 2: videos anymore. Um, but when you go, if you've been
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  Speaker 2: on the Google campus, that's a perfect example. It was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever was built around the Google campus came
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  Speaker 2: after the Google campus, right? They, they basically went in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere and said, we're going to plop
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  Speaker 2: this thing down. And that's what they should be doing
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  Speaker 2: with these data centers. And if there's people who want
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  Speaker 2: to live nearby because they're going to work there or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: then we can build some communities around it. And there's
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  Speaker 2: plenty of land in America. to do these types of things.
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  Speaker 2: And I, look, I'm not even fully informed. So when
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  Speaker 2: I say this, I don't know what I'm saying. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying it seems though that you could build it far
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  Speaker 2: away from population hubs. I don't know that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: does it become harder for the AI to work if it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, 500, a thousand miles from the people who
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  Speaker 2: are basically using it? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Not if they've got their own power plant. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's all they need.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I have heard Elon Musk talk about
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  Speaker 2: the idea of building the data centers on the moon
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  Speaker 2: at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, in space and under the ocean. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Beam it back that way. It's always cool up there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If they do make noise, which apparently there's some sort
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  Speaker 2: of differences. Some make a lot of noise. Some don't.
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  Speaker 2: If they can make all the noise they want on
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  Speaker 2: the moon. I shouldn't say all the noise they want.
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to Scott Jennings yesterday. And he was telling,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was like the anniversary of, I'm trying to, it
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  Speaker 2: was like the loudest that they think ever happened in
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  Speaker 2: history in like 1837 or something. There was an explosion
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  Speaker 2: of a volcano and it was so loud that 3,000
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  Speaker 2: miles away, people thought that they were hearing artillery fire.
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  Speaker 2: And they said that the sound boom went around the
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  Speaker 2: earth three times. So three times people were hearing this
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  Speaker 2: and they were saying that sailors at sea that were
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  Speaker 2: like 400 miles from there, some of them actually popped
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  Speaker 2: their eardrums. I was like, this is, I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know that story. That's insane. So I, again, maybe there
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  Speaker 2: could be enough noise on the moon that it would
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  Speaker 2: affect this here on earth. I don't think so. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I love the idea of building it on the moon,
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  Speaker 2: but in the interim, until we're able to do something
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  Speaker 2: like that, I just feel like there's, a fear campaign
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  Speaker 2: that's being run, but it's being run by the actual
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  Speaker 2: AI people to try to get us to limit. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that we're in a race. I look at
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  Speaker 2: it like an arms race against China. That's the way
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it. Maybe you guys feel differently. I
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  Speaker 2: know AI centers have become, or the data centers have
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  Speaker 2: become a real hot topic. That was a big deal
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate race here in South Carolina. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal all over the country. You see in Texas,
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to figure that out and other states as well.
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  Speaker 2: If you have thoughts, use the talkback feature. It is
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday, and I love Fridays, especially in the fall,
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  Speaker 2: because that means tomorrow is Saturday, and we got football tomorrow, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: We do. You're anticipating the sports report, which is coming
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  Speaker 3: up in just moments, but yes, we had football last night. Now,
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  Speaker 3: are we talking about the Browns, or what are we
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  Speaker 3: talking about? We're talking about college football last night.
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  Speaker 2: Who played last night?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for one Charleston Southern played.
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  Speaker 2: Did they really?
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  Speaker 3: They did.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So they're even ahead of week zero Furman play as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, week zero is officially started last night.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. And there are more games today and then more
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  Speaker 3: games tomorrow and tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: I know that everybody's talking about the game in Dublin.
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  Speaker 2: That's North Carolina versus TCU. And I think the TCU
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  Speaker 2: comes in as about an eight point favorite in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Belichick is, is he on a hot seat this year?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, nobody knows why he would want to stay.
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  Speaker 3: If he has another season like last season, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: No one's still sure why he's in college football to
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  Speaker 3: begin with. Wow. But don't sleep on Memphis UNLV tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to watch that over Hawaii Stanford?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: And then the midday game is what? NC State, Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: And Southern Cal, 14th ranked Southern Cal playing tomorrow too.
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  Speaker 2: Are they playing a good team?
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  Speaker 3: They're playing an average team.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. So, I mean, again, I try to get my
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  Speaker 2: stuff done during the weekends, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to schedule football in at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: It becomes a juggling act. So, hopefully, I'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to get some football in this weekend, and you will
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  Speaker 2: as well if you're a college football fan. We'll take
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  Speaker 2: a quick break and be back at 6.30.
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  Speaker 4: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 4: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: 6.35, and this is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. I
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: don't put a lot of stock in, like, calci, poly
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: market gambling things.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: The predictions market.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: The predictions market. I know that, like, Clay and Buck,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: they seem to put a little more weight into that. They,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: you know, they look at it almost as if, like,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: when you look at the odds, like, tomorrow. We were
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: just talking earlier before the break. Is TCU going to
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: beat UNC in football? Well, the odds are set that
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: way for two reasons. One, a bunch of professionals who
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: study and that's pretty much all they do. They can
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: tell you like who the backup to the backup, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: left guard is. Those people say this team should win,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: but then they also tweak the odds based on how
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: can we get more money into the market.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: They're encouraging more gambling.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Exactly. We're going to put a point spread like this
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: in order to get more people to bet for the
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: other team, so on and so forth. I think it's
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: very similar here, although we don't have, there's no, we
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: have not yet had a polling system where it's like, Oh,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: 98 percent of the time they're within like two points.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? It's like you can get
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: polling all over the road. By the way, speaking of which,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Jermaine Johnson put out a poll yesterday, which is complete crap.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: And we're going to talk to some people about that
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: coming up in the next hour. But right now, the chances,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: according to the poly market of the Republicans hanging on
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: to the Senate is in free fall. um according to
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: them it since basically the beginning of the year the
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: beginning of this year it was like a 75 percent
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: chance that the republicans would hang on to the senate
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and now it's like a 50 50 toss-up according to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: polymarket um i don't i don't put it there however
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: mike lee retweeted that the the senator and And he said, quote,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: we'd increase our odds of keeping the Senate GOP majority if,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and then he tags, leader John Thune would call us
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: back into session immediately, announced his intention to keep us
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: in continuous session until we pass the Save America Act
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and required filibustering senators to speak. I don't have a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: problem with any of that.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with any of that. But Kelly,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: while you were out last week, we had a story
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: that said republicans have apparently polled issues and gotten some
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: internal numbers and now that they've seen that they are
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: showing that insurance that attacking health insurance companies for higher
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: rates and you know insurance issues that people have that's
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: that's a better polling issue right now than the save
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: america act with republican voters.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I i'm I would agree.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: And here's why I agree. Because the Democrat Party and
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: their assistants, a.k.a. the mainstream media, have done a wonderful
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: job of covering up the real scandal with health care.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: The real scandal with health care, if you go back
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and look at what was put into that, because we
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: had to pass it to find out what was in it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Once we passed it to find out what was in it,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: there was this little caveat that Barack Obama got to
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: stand there and grandstand over, and we're going to cap
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: the profits. They're not going to be able to make
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: more than 20% anymore. No more of this outrageous 40%, 50%,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: 60% profits. Well, what that did was, because again, if
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I can only make 15%, And let's just say I
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: was charging you $ 100 for that before. Okay. And I
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: was pocketing, say, $ 40. So it was $ 60. Well, now
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: that bill went from $ 100 to $ 300. So I can
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: still just off of my profit percentages make the same
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: amount of money. And the good news is the federal
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: government is going to pay for it all. through your
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: tax dollars. And for those of you who are under
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the cap, you're going to get that subsidized for you
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: by the federal government for a period of time. Then
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: as the period ends, what they were hoping was they
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: were going to have Democrat control of everything. And then
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: they could just say, Why don't we end the pain?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. That a family could be destroyed by this.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Some sort of cancer diagnosis or whatever. No family should
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: be destroyed in America. America is the wealthiest nation on earth.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: We should be able to cover this. Let's just go
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: to single payer. Do you want the pressure off the families?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Let's just go to single payer. And then America would
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: give in to completely socialized medicine. You have partially socialized
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: medicine now. Then once you get all of it for free, then...
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That's when they got you, and that's when they get
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to decide, oh, well, you know what? You're 60. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: don't think you're really going to be producing a whole
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: lot more in the job market. I don't think we're
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: going to do that anymore. We're not doing that surgery.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And then we go to where Christopher was talking about, well,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you can get it done if you can pay for it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And who can afford that? Yeah, now who can afford
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: it now that you've driven up the cost through the roof?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Obama and Obamacare forced the prices up. They subsidized it
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: for the people, and now that the subsidies have ended–
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and again, they're the ones who passed when the subsidies
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: would end, not the Republicans. The Republicans need to come
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: up with a better health care plan more than just
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: repeal and replace. And I think that we've had some.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: They just haven't really gotten a lot of traction. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: in order to just save the election, we already know
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that they're rigging the election. We already see what they're doing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And so, yes, the Save America Act would be very
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: important to hang on to it. And it wouldn't be
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: to win votes. It would be to prevent illegals from
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: voting and prevent, you know, as my wife and I
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: were having a discussion yesterday and we were talking about
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: some people in Richland County and some politicians in Richland
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: County and, you know, they're obviously in Richland County, it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: pretty much Democrat dominant. And, uh, you know, she's like, well,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of those people are going to be dying
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: off pretty soon. And I said, well, you know, as
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: good Democrats, they should vote for another 30 or 40
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: years after that. So anyway, what are you thinking? Hit
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: us on the Talkback feature at 641.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: We don't talk a lot about it on this show,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: but I know America has been talking about the Lindsay
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Clancy case. And one of the more stunning things said
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: yesterday was her defense attorney in the closing arguments says, quote,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: you know from looking at the objective evidence in this
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: case that this young lady did nothing wrong in her
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: entire life. She's a nurse, a daughter, a wife, and
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a darn good mother. That's an ironic thing to say
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: when the woman admits that she tracked down her own
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: three children and strangled them to death, including one who
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: was trying to run away from her.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, put together a plan to send her husband out
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: for precisely the amount of time she needed to pull
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: off these killings.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: So that would prove that she knew what she was
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: about to do was wrong. Now, whatever else is going
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: on in her mind, she knew that that was wrong. Anyway,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the defense has rested. The jury has it. And I
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: guess there's three different possible outcomes. We know that she
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: did it. She admitted to it, and it's pretty obvious
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: that she did it. Then she paralyzed herself from the
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: waist down when she tried to jump out the window.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: but she'll either end up in an institution, she could
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: end up doing 20 years, or she could end up
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: doing life. I guess those are the three options.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: The last time we saw Barron Trump in public was
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: at the World Cup over a month ago. And I
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: don't know that we'll ever see him again in public.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: The Iranian state television running a video on where to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: kill Barron Trump and putting a $ 10 million bounty on
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: his head broadcast that to the entire nation. And it
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: showed his Xbox account, FIFA video game account, Discord account,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: as well as naming two of his classmates who you
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: could put pressure on to get closer to him. And again,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: if you're successful in assassinating the president's son, they got
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: $ 10 million for you. These are the people we're quote-unquote
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: negotiating with?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And they deny doing it now, which... It's on your television. Exactly.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: We have screenshots of all this. Come on. These people
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: are lunatics. You can't negotiate with them. All right, we'll
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: be back with more. It is 6.55.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Hi there. It is 7.03. This is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and both Christopher and I have children, but like my
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: son is in his 30s. Yours are pretty adult as well.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, over 18.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Over 18. And so we don't have to deal with
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: children's programming. Now, when my son was young, there was
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: one pretty outspoken liberal that my son liked in Bill
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Nye the science guy who was trying to convince children
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: that the earth was going to explode due to global
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: warming if dad wouldn't stop you know driving the SUV
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: or whatever but that was basically the extent of the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: liberal nut jobs that I had to deal with while
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: trying to explain to my son who was you know
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: autistic and like seven eight years old that okay, this
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: guy's wrong on his data. But that is neither here
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: nor there because today's crop has to deal with, if
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you're a parent of a child who's in that like four, five,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: six-year-old range, I'm assuming you're very aware of Miss Rachel. Now,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Miss Rachel has come on out and called for the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: evaporation of Israel. Miss Rachel also is now trying to
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: stir the pot, so to speak, Over this case in Raleigh,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, where, again, tragedy, young man took his life
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: and hung himself in a tree somewhere in downtown Raleigh.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Miss Rachel gets on her social media page and goes
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: viral after. And by the way, I'll play. This is
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: somebody reposting Miss Rachel because this is the kind of
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: encouragement she's getting. Miss Rachel, we love you and we
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: appreciate you. This is a real American.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Please listen to the black community. Black people don't hang
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: themselves from trees. There's been at least seven black people found.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Hanging from trees.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: So she's kind of resurrecting the ghost of Jesse Helms.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I guess, North Carolina, that there's a rat. She doesn't
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: name any of the other people who were found hanging
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: in trees. She just posted that like three or four
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: days after this story broke in Raleigh. The police chief
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: felt it was important to have a press conference about it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: At 1.59 p.m., video shows the young man carrying an
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: electrical cord walking towards the tree by himself. Between 2.06 p.m.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: and 2.07 p.m., video captures... actual incident taking place. No
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: one else is seen in the area when this incident occurred.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: At 2.25 p.m., a witness who worked near the location
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: reported seeing someone hanging in a tree to a supervisor.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: So the NAACP in Raleigh basically said, we don't believe you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Even though there's video evidence.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Black police chief, black police officers, we don't believe you.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, the video was shown to the mother.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: The mother also said, my son has been struggling with
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: suicidal thoughts for years. And then now we've got, believe
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: it or not, we've got there. We've got a group
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: of people out here having press conferences by the tree.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: This is why I believe the accountability community task force,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: because the community needs our own investigative team.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Because we cannot.
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: Trust Wake County or any police department that is under
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: this sort of systematic racism.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: We'll give her a pass on the systematic racism. But,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, so there's nothing you can say to these
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: people now. Because they've been riled up to the point
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: where we can't trust anything unless it aligns with the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: narrative that we want. And this is, and by the way,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: this is not just a left-wing thing. You can take
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: a look at all the people on the right wing
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: talking about Charlie Kirk. They don't want to believe the video.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: That's not. what happened. Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk or some
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: members of Congress who were frightened by him holding them
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: accountable murdered Charlie Kirk. We live in a very sad
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: society where Video proof is not enough. The testimony of
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: the parents aren't enough. Nothing is enough for these people
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: unless it aligns with their narrative, Christopher.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Well, for starters, you made me feel old. I had
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: no idea who Miss Rachel was until you started this story.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: But I'm looking at some of the things she's advocating now,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: and yeah, I can understand why conservatives... are very upset
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: and wouldn't want their children to see some of the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: things that she posts.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Yes. On her social media, she'll be a lot more
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: liberal about what she's into. But know that that narrative
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: weaves itself into the stories that she's going to put
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: on her shows and that she's going to do in
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: her live performances. There are certain, like, could you trust
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Fred Rogers?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: With beyond a shadow of a doubt. former U.S. Marine,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: a man who just loved children and wanted the best
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: for all sides, liberals, conservatives, everybody. You could trust Fred Rogers.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: These people are making it more and more clear, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: have a certain bias that doesn't align with the American
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: way of life, and I want to influence children for
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: what they believe is the good. And if you're a
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: parent or a grandparent, you need to be aware of
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: these types of things because these people are part of
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: the problem. of pushing a narrative on children. And then
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: when they're like 14, 15, you wonder where the heck
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: did all this come from? It was put into them
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: by the children's programming that they started watching when they
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: were four, five, six.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Wow. Never had to worry about that with the wiggles
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: and my daughter. The wiggles.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: That's a good one. The wiggles.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, they just sang silly songs. Yes.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Do you have a, maybe you guys have recommended children's
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: programming or you have thoughts on miss Rachel and the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: fact that we can't even agree on video evidence anymore.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Let us know on the Talkback feature. That's free off
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. It is 7.09.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: My head is spinning. I'm trying to figure out what
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: in the flip is happening around here. Monday, the Supreme
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Court put out a ruling saying that Judge Tolwani did
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: not have the right to block the Trump executive order
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: that would stop mail-in ballots in states that did not
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: submit their voter rolls. So that obviously wouldn't affect South Carolina.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: We did submit our voter rolls, but all the liberal
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: states did not. So that came down Monday. Well, now yesterday,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Tawani is back. And Tawani is saying that now is
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the time for me to make this ruling, because originally
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court said no one had been affected by
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: it yet. So you were premature. But now that we're
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: getting to this area, we're going to say that the
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: that the. The executive order is unconstitutional because it's putting
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: too much of a burden on the states. They're going
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: to have to read, print millions of ballot envelopes and blah, blah, blah. Or,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's also the option of you could just
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: submit your voter rolls, but they're not going to do that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: And that's not the headline you hear. You hear the headline,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Trump is banning all mail-in balloting.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Mail-in voting is done. Trump has banned it.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: That's the headline you hear, and you don't hear the part, oh,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: wait a minute. All the states have to do is
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: submit their voter rolls.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, and it makes your head spin because you're like,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, what is the ruling? Who's making the ruling?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I thought the Supreme Court ruled this, but now they're
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: doing this at a lower court. Now it's going to
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: have to go back to the Supreme Court. And again,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: all of this goes away if these liberal states would
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: just turn over their voter rolls. And obviously, we found
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: voter fraud in the states everywhere. that are Republicans. Florida,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: South Carolina even had some on there. Not that it
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: was like active voter fraud, but it was people who
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: weren't alive that were still registered to vote and other things.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: So the fact that you've got what we believe to be,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: we have a reasonable suspicion that the Democrats have been
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: lying about their voter rolls for years. So in an
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: effort to clean that up, The federal government is saying
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: in order to vote in a federal election, we want
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: to verify that these people are real. Again, we don't
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: have control over what you do in your local elections.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: We're not saying that we do. But when it comes
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: to a federal election, you cannot vote for a senator.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: You cannot vote for a president. You can't vote for
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: a congress member if you're not a U.S.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Citizen.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: If you want to have, you know. you can, I
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: don't know, I guess maybe technically you could probably make
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: it illegal for American citizens to vote for the mayor.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you can do in your state.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Don't give Mom Donnie ideas.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: You know, right?
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: But this is just so frustrating, Christopher. I don't know
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: if it's, I imagine that this will only accelerate. We're
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: going to see more and more court rulings about this
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: as we get closer to the elections.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: A clerical request is tying things up in the courts.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: You submit your voter rolls, make sure they're proper they're
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: up to date or else you're going to lose mail-in
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: balloting privileges.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: That seems pretty straightforward yeah it's pretty straightforward because again
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: to use the mail you need to use a federal
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: agency maybe hey look if you want to use uh
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: fedex or something i guess you could do that get
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: around it the states could pay for fedex to bring
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: in the thing you're not going to use the uh
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the discounted rate that the u.s postal service offers though
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: But and again, for those of you who missed it,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: the postmaster general is with Trump on this one. He's like,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think that they should be using our federal
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: agency in order to possibly commit voter fraud. You're being suspected.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: The suspicion is there. Alleviate that suspicion. Don't don't just say, no,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: we're not going to turn it over. Show us that
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: you're not cheating. But they don't want to do that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a quick break. If you have
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that or anything else we're talking about this morning,
• 35:54
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• 35:56
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• 35:58
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• 36:01
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• 36:02
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: AM WVOC, and 94.3 WSC. Is South Carolina's own Scott Besant.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Going to go down in history as the most effective,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: not just Treasury administration. This guy is going to save America.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: He's doing it. First off, he's put the squeeze. It's
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: economic fury is going on in Iran and apparently is
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: having great success right now. We talked about that earlier
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: in the week. Now I got a front page story
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: here in the New York Post that they're calling this
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a post-exclusive story. that they are now targeting George Soros Nonprofit,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Law Center, and CARE in major tax crackdowns,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: according to insiders working with Scott Besant. They're looking at
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: the dealings of these organizations because Donald Trump signed an
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: executive order that would target any group operating a substantial
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: illegal purpose. Now, I think we've already proven that the
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Law Center— was doing that. They were funding
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: white terrorism and all that other stuff.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Without a doubt.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: CARE has been in the crosshairs, by the way, since 2007.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: They've had all kinds of legal problems for some of
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: their illegal activities. And the Soros Foundation is believed to
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: have been the group that was bringing the bricks to
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the Black Lives Matter protests and to the Antifa groups
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth in order to wreak
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: destruction across American cities. If that's proven, then, for example,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: if Soros' group was to lose their 501c3, just lose that,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: just for last year, they would owe $ 165 million.
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: So this would be.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: A massive win for America. Because if you don't like
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: white supremacy groups, if you don't like groups terrorizing the cities,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: if you don't like groups doing all kinds of illegal activities.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Targeting Jewish kids.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Targeting Jewish kids. If you don't like those types of things,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: then you would be for this. But if you, again,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: if you like terrorist activities, this is going to be
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: a blow to you. Scott Besant is at the forefront.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: How much pride? South Carolina, you've got to double-stitch the
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: button on your jackets because your chests are swelling with pride.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Scott Besant, almost single-handedly, is winning the war in Iran
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: and is taking down the domestic terrorist groups.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Fantastic. How much did you say? $ 165 million could be
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: the tax bill?
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: That's just for last year, according to the New York Post.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: That's what the Soros, what is it called? The Open
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Foundation Network? That would be their tax bill just for
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: last year. Now, if Besson gets his way, it's going
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: to be all of the taxes. So, I mean, you
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: could be talking billions of dollars that the Soros Foundation
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: people would owe just in taxes. This would be, it
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: would completely neuter them, I would think. If you just
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: had to pay your taxes, you would be neutered. Why
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: don't they pay their fair share? Where are the people
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: out in the streets protesting for that?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Pay your fair share. fair share, Soros and CARE and
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: all these other radical groups. And there's a bunch of them,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: just besides the Southern Poverty Law Center, there's probably about
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: 10 more named in this story. But those are the
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: big ones that pop into mind. By the way, in
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: case you're wondering, the 17 care chapters for last year
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: would owe $ 860, 000. So I'm sure, I don't know what
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: cares budget is, but $ 860, 000 probably would do a lot
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: of damage.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: That's a pretty big hit.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So anyway, we're following that story closely. If
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: you've got thoughts on that, hit us on the talk
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: back feature coming up yesterday. A lot of people saw
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: a poll put out by the Jermaine Johnson campaign that
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: has him within two points of Alan Wilson for the
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: governor's race. My wife called me and said, what is
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: going on? Is that real? Well, maybe not so real.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to somebody who knows about these types of things.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Steve Michael will join us just after the break. It's
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: seven 28.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: From the Midlands to the low country. This is South
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Carolina's morning news.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Hi there. This is Kelly Nash. And yesterday my wife
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: called me mid morning and said, what in the flip
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: is going on? She had seen this poll that was
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: being circulated all over the place and It says, new
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: polls suggest South Carolina could break a 23-year single-party rule
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: once South Carolina meets Allen Wilson and Jermaine Johnson. And
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Jermaine Johnson was pushing this out. He's only down two points,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: 50% for Allen Wilson, 48% for Jermaine Johnson. And he says, listen,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: we can flip everything.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: It immediately got reposted by Gavin Newsom.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Of course, chip in $ 20. If you would just chip
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: in $ 20, we could finally get South Carolina that blue
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: leadership they've been begging for all these years. But I
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: reached out to Steve Michael. Steve Michael is the president
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: of Victory Enterprises and the general consultant with Alan Wilson
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: for governor. Now, of course, Steve, good morning. Good morning.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: Good morning.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: I have to preface it by saying you might be
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a little bit biased towards Alan Wilson, seeing that you
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: are the general consultant for Alan Wilson for governor. But
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: explain to me what is the difference between this type
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: of a poll and a regular poll? Because this was
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: paid for by the Johnson campaign, but it's called a
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: push poll.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: That's correct.
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: And look, you can have a push element. We can
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: call it message testing within.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: A larger scale survey.
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: So what you typically have in what, you know, is
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: usually given to the media is what we just do
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: the ballot test, right? So the ballot test, and they
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: did show their ballot test. The ballot test on their
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: end has Wilson at 50, Johnson at 42. So it's
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: an eight-point mark. It's a little lower than ours, but,
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: you know, for the most part, where you want your
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: can to be is above 45 around Labor Day. So
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: Wilson's right at that marker.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: But once you're done with the.
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: Ballot test, what you do, so either you're doing a
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: push poll, which is just testing negative messages, testing you're positive,
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: or you can add it as part of the survey.
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: And what you do is you go through a series.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Of questions, right?
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: So, Kelly, do you want to do a little bit
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: of a push poll?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can do a push poll?
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, I will. I've never been in a push poll.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go.
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: All right, so let's just start it off, and we'll
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: make this simple. So if you knew that Jermaine Johnson
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: voted against teacher pay raises, voted against voted against the
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: income tax relief, voted against relief for seniors and disabled folks,
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: would you be more likely or less likely to vote
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: for Jermaine Johnson?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: That sounds like a horrible person. I would be much
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: less likely to vote for that individual.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: If you knew that Alan Wilson worked hard to increase
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: penalties for fentanyl traffickers, recently sued and won a lawsuit
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: against Facebook for failing to protect children and vows to
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: cut the income tax, would you be more likely or
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: less likely to vote for Alan Wilson?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: This sounds like a champion of the American people. I'd
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: be all about it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: So knowing this, knowing this information now, would you be
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: more likely to vote for Jermaine Johnson or Alan Wilson?
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I have to go with this candidate, Alan Wilson, of
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: who you've referenced.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: And then that's where you get your push-pull, right? So
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: the two markers that you looked at in this thing is, one,
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: the graphic change, which was actually kind of amazing and
• 44:06
  Speaker 8: sad for the Johnson campaign in itself. Originally, the graphic
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: was 50 to 48 on their push-pull. They moved it
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: down again because that marker is when you have a
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: candidate above 50, it's always a warning sign, even in
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: a push-pull, to national folks, hey, this may not be
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: the best investment. So again, these push-pulls, you're not running
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: against error, you're not testing the various hits that you
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: have related. And look, for Johnson, the problem is he's
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: just too radical. He's voted against basically teachers and cops
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: and police and income relief for seniors, but he also
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: voted to keep personal earmarks in the budget. So at
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: the end of the day, you're not running against error
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: and you have to defend your own message, which is
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: complicated for Johnson.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: It's interesting that when he tweeted it out, Jermaine Johnson
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: for governor, new poll, Alan Wilson starts with only a
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: single digit lead. Once voters hear Jermaine's story, poverty, basketball,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: that's a unique combo. Why would that influence me? Poverty, basketball,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: a PhD, a nonprofit, a win over a longtime incumbent.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: The race drops to just two points. But as you've
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: just pointed out, that's not actually what the poll is about.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: The poll is about putting him in the best possible light.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: If I told you that he helped old ladies cross
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the streets, would you be more or less likely to
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: vote for him as opposed to this other guy? It's
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: crazy how these push polls can get you almost to
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: say anything. And the fact that he's not winning in
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: a push poll, to me, would be bizarre. I mean,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: you should have done a better job of making Alan
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Wilson look horrible. It would.
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: Billy, both these polls come in succession with each other.
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: You had Amy Andrews the day before, and then immediately
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: the music man, Jamie Harrison, comes out and promotes, wait, wait, wait,
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: South Carolina, this may be the time. This may be
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: the time. So it is what it is. It's propaganda.
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: You tip your hat to Jamie Harrison and the fellas
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: for pushing their mode, but You know, at the end
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: of the day, look, this is a bad this is
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: a tougher cycle than what we've had. Generic ballot is
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: a challenge. But, you know, in a state where it's
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: an R plus 14 state, it's a huge challenge. And
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: even the music man, Jamie Harrison, has trouble making that argument.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Why do you keep calling him the music man, Jamie? Harrison.
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: Well, if you, if you remember the story of the
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: music man, he comes to town, he, you know, basically
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: has this big, big scheme and everything else. And ultimately
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: it's a little bit of a fraud, right? End of
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: the day, it's about the music man trying to defraud
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: the town.
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: And sure.
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: Eventually he turns out with better motives down the road,
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: but you know, This is about trying to, you know,
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: gin these races up, try to get candidates money so
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: the money.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Can be spent.
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: And, you know, then the industrial industry of politics can
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: do well for itself.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Steve. Michael, he's a great follow on
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: X at Steve W. Michael. And we'll be back with
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: more at 740 on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I just saw a report with Peter Doocy on Fox. Apparently,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Trump loved his campaign message here in Horry County. And
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: so now that will be his official slogan.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Vote like I'm on the ballot. Yeah, that makes sense.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: And so he's going to be using that, and they're
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: suggesting— it' s not confirmed— that during the month of October, Trump will
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: do a rally a day. Every day, he'll be in
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: a different area where the competitive midterms are happening. And
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: so I would imagine he'll be back here. He says
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: he's going to be doing a lot for Ken Paxton
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: down in Texas. And I guess the official nickname for
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Telerico is now officially Telefrico. And by the way, in
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: the middle of that story, this is a little bit
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: of Mike Johnson saying, yes. Look, the Republicans have not
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: been perfect, but he's pretty proud of it.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Record to run on.
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: We passed over 800 pieces of legislation, landmark stuff, to
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: fix the mess that we inherited from the Biden-Harris years, okay?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: It was a disaster.
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: We sealed and secured the border, passed all this legislation,
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: and we gave everybody the largest tax cut in U.S.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: History.
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: For the first time in 10 years, we have a
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: slight fundraising advantage over the Democrats, okay?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big deal, big deal.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: So there you go. He's feeling good about it. I mean,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Mike Johnson is acting as if he's going to remain
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: as the Speaker of the House based off of the record.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: And I've heard from a lot of Republicans that they've
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: been very frustrated at the pace of just Congress in general.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: But he's saying we passed 800 different pieces of legislation
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: since I've been here.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I think if you're Mike Johnson, you've got the
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: advantage of John Thune on the other side of the House,
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: of Congress. And John Thune looks like an obstructionist compared
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: to Mike Johnson. So Johnson looks better by comparison.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And so, look, would it be a dream for
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: the Republicans to hang on to the Senate and the
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: House for the final two years of the Trump administration? Absolutely.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Is it possible? I'd give it a nod. You're the
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: sports guy, Christopher. If you were handicapping this, what kind
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: of odds are we at? Are we looking at like
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: a 30% odds?
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Maybe. Maybe. Maybe 33.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: 33.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: 33 and a third. How about that?
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: You're telling me we got a shot. All right. Let's
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: keep our fingers crossed, everybody. It's 747.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: We mentioned that Donald Trump was very pleased with the
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: response he got from his messaging in Horry County about
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: vote like I'm on the ballot. And that will become
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: part of his official theme as he moves into October.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: And according to Peter Doocy, considering doing an actual rally
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: per day in the month of October to try to
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: help win the midterms. Also announced, I guess yesterday, the
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: NRA is launching its first national bus tour. And they're
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: going to be crisscrossing parts of the country. And when
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: you look at some of the areas, they're going to
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: start in Fairfax, Virginia, which has got a nightmare of
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: a gun bill that has already been passed and is
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: being fought over in the courts right now. But they're
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: going to go through, I think, 13 states. And a
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: lot of them, as it says here, are in states
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: that are considered toss-ups or near toss-ups, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, Ohio. But I'll also point out that they have,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: on this national bus tour, I don't think that they
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: think that there's a toss-up here. I think that they
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: just like SEC football because they just announced they're going
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: to be at the tailgate for Gamecocks versus Kentucky.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Just wanted to catch a football game while they
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: were here.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I think that's what this is all about.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe so.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: So that is October 3rd. And I'll just, I'll put
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: this on the docket right now, Christopher. I will say
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: that is a must win for South Carolina. You have
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: to win that game against Kentucky for a number of reasons,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: especially because you're coming off of whatever happens against Alabama
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: in Alabama. And then the next week you got to
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: go to Florida. If you were to lose this Kentucky
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: home game, This would be horrific.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Pivotal game, and the NRA will be there on top
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: And the NRA is here to encourage you guys. So
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: if you're a NRA supporter, know that they will be
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: in Columbia, South Carolina on October 3rd, but they are
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: also going to, I think, 13 other states.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: We almost forget about the NRA during Republican administrations. It's
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: like nobody's worried about their guns while Trump is in office.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: It's only when Democrats are in office when we say,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, we've got to We've got to spend
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: every dime we can on supporting the NRA and making
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: sure they don't take our guns away from us. Yeah.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: And as the guy who's the executive vice president said,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: gun owners don't need another polished ad interrupting their favorite
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: TV shows. What they really need are conversations about what's
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: at stake with the Second Amendment. So that's what they're
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: hoping to do with these things. They're going to have conversations.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: And if you're against the NRA, I'm sure you'd be
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say welcome because there might be
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: some people in the crowd who aren't so excited about it.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: But the people who run the NRA would like to
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: talk to you about why the Second Amendment is important
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: to you, even if you don't want to own a weapon.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Interesting discussions there. It's 755.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's been 14 years since this town
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: hall took place on CNN. I was doing the afternoon
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: show here at WVOC in Columbia back then. And many conservatives,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I actually wouldn't say many Americans, were frustrated with our president,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama, at the time because he refused to use
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: the phrase radical Islamic terrorism. And a lady at the
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: CNN town hall asked him, why do you refuse to
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: identify what it actually is? And this was the very
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: thoughtful answer that the president of the United States gave
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: at that time.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: When you start calling these organizations Islamic terrorists, the way
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: it's heard, the way it's received by our friends and
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: allies around the world is that somehow Islam is terroristic.
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: And that then makes them feel as if they're under attack.
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: In some cases, it makes it harder for us to
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: get their cooperation in fighting terrorism. So do I think
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: that if somebody uses the phrase Islamic terrorism, that it's
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: a huge deal? No. There is no doubt that these
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: folks think that and claim that they're speaking for Islam.
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: But I don't want to validate what they do.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to. If you had a.
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: An organization that was going around killing and blowing people
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: up and said, we're on the vanguard of Christianity. As
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: a Christian, I'm not going to let them claim my
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: religion and say you're killing for Christ.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: That, to me, debunked his whole argument. Because if anybody
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: was killing in the name of Jesus in 2010, you
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: would have— I remember saying, Billy Graham would be all over
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: television and radio going, you're not doing that on our behalf.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: The Pope would have come out against it. Everybody would
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: have come out against it. Joel Osteen would be out
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: against it. All fractions of Christians would say, you're not
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: doing that in our name. And yet— I'm not saying
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: that there aren't Muslims who are saying that there's not radical, that,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: you know, that they're not doing it properly. But trust
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: me when I say the media would love to bring
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: forth Muslim leaders who are saying, no, that's not, that's
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: not our religion. You're just not seeing those stories. You
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: weren't seeing it then. You're not seeing it now. And
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: on the, I don't want to say on the heels
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: of that, but now we have a new memo put
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: out by the Canadian broadcast company that, In celebration of
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: the 25th anniversary of the attacks on 9-11, they are
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: prohibiting the words of even terror or terrorist attacks. You
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: can only call it an attack when you report on
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: the 25th anniversary. This was not a terrorist attack because
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: that could bring up bad things, bad feelings. It might
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: be negative towards Muslims.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for starters, I'm not even sure I like the
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: word celebration of the anniversary. Observance might be better than
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: celebration of the anniversary. But to suggest that anybody other than,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, did they not see the identities of those pilots?
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: It is the practice of the CBC to exercise extreme
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: caution before using the word terrorist or terrorism, according to
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: the public affairs director, Carrie Kelly, telling Fox News. This
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: memo is a reminder of our longstanding practice that favors
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: the use of terms with attribution in our reporting, and
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: therefore we will not be using the word terrorist or
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: terrorism when we talk about the attacks that happened in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania,
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: and New York City.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: What does constitute terrorism in the eyes of the CBC?
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering. How high a bar do you have to cross?
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, earlier today I was like, that whole Lake
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: America thing is stupid. But now I'm like, oh, we're
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: taking it. Now we're taking that. Goodness gracious. I cannot
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: believe that this is where we're at in 2026 where
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: media is afraid to report the truth. They don't want
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: the truth out there. Of course it was radical Islamic terrorism. And,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: of course, anybody could be able to tell you most
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Muslims don't actually feel this way. I would suggest the
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: reason we don't hear more Muslims speaking out against it
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: is because they themselves are afraid of retribution from the
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: radical Islamists.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Is the media going to dial back the use of
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: far right wing? I mean, how many times do you
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: see that in the average news story? Yeah. These far
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: right wing, you know.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Did Obama want to use that kind of care when
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: he was talking about what happened in Charlottesville? Well, the
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Law Center probably gave him a memo.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Don't say that.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. No, you got to go far right wing extremists.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: And it's, again, when you talk about media and you
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: talk about how they like to shape narrative, the fact
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: that that memo is now out in the open and
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Fox News got a copy of it. is a little
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: bit surprising because usually they hide it a little bit
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: better than that. But that's what we're dealing with. We
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: will not call it terrorism. It's not even radical Islamic
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: terrorism anymore. It can't even be called terrorism. I guess
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: it would be what Hassan Piker said. By the way,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: did you see that the other day? Hassan Piker is
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: on a live tour. And I think by now everybody
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: knows who Hassan Piker is, so I'm not going to
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: bring up the whole background with that guy. But he's
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: on a live tour out there on the West Coast.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: And he, I don't even know what made him say it.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: But he said, look, guys, I don't actually think that
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: America really deserved 9-11. Because that would have been one
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: of the things that people have been slamming him for. Yes.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: And the audience overwhelmingly booed him. He was booed by
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: his people in wherever it was. Seattle, I think, at
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the time. Of course America deserved it.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: We're horrible people.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: We should be bombed into extinction. That is the left.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: And they are... are crazy. But that's who we, those
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: are our countrymen. We have to try to figure out
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: how to de-brainwash them and bring them back to reality.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Good luck with that.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: Or at least beat them in November.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: There's also that as well. Yeah, we got to do
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: that first, and then maybe we can work on the
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: brainwashing them. That's our weekend homework assignment. It's 8.09.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: We started the show just after 6 a.m., and I
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: came in hot.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: You were incensed, Kelly.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: It's crazy, Christopher, that we are now being stopped from
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: putting restrictions on SNAP funds. by a judge who says
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: that the South Carolina Department of Social Services cannot enforce
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: the rules that we want. In other words, you can
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: only use SNAP funds to buy actual nutritional products. And
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: if you miss any part of the show, you can
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: go back and hear what we said, Christopher and I,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: at 6.03, or any part of the show, because we'll
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: have a podcast up called South Carolina Morning News.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, on the iHeartRadio app. And that's usually available 20
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: minutes or so after the broadcast. But I'm reminded of
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: what we were saying there, while at the same time,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: in envy of what Florida did yesterday, according to Governor
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis, quote, we will continue supporting Floridians who genuinely
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: need assistance while working to improve accountability and transparency so
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: that these programs operate as intended. And with that in mind,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: effective immediately. They are banning the purchase of tattoos, body piercings,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: admission to theme parks, intoxicants like vapes, nicotine, or pornography
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: products with their EBT cards. That's the first state in
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: America to do that.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. You can buy porn with an EBT card?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: You can buy a vape? Correct.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: You can go up to Carowinds. You can do anything
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: you want with these EBT cards, apparently. To quote the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: great Randy Moss, it's like straight cash, homie.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Florida becomes the first state in America to do that yesterday. Now,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: will that be stopped by some judge in the not-too-distant future?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: I am sure. The people need their porn. The people
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: need their vapes. So the Trump administration is encouraging all
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: states to follow this lead. And I, as a South Carolinian,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: would encourage our statehouse to follow that lead. And yes,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: it's worth the legal fight. I would rather pay the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: legal fees to fight to keep this stuff from being
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: abused that way than to just keep paying for it.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Does anybody disagree with that?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know why you would.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: There's got to be. I mean, obviously, there's somebody out there.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from you. Give us your reasons.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Why should EBT cards be used to pay for a
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: tattoo or a body piercing? Or admission to, are theme
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: parks a lot of fun? Absolutely. I would look at
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: admission to a theme park as a reward for somebody
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: who's been working really hard and you have some extra
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: money because going to a theme park is not cheap.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: It's like a couple of hundred dollars at least, right?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: So that is for somebody who has worked really hard
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: and then they get that reward. If you didn't work
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: really hard and you're just scraping by, by the way,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: I was a kid who grew up in a scraping
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: by household. Didn't go to a lot of theme parks.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Didn't have a lot of those types of fun and
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: adventures because we didn't have the money. But at that time,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: the government wasn't paying for people to go to theme
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: parks and eat cake all day. You're looking so stunned.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: I wish I had a video camera.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: It's the same argument that we were talking about with
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: the SNAP benefits. I mean, you can do that with
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: your own money. You just can't do that with taxpayer
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: money that is supposed to be providing for you and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: your family to eat and subside.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: I need to get tatted and watch porn and have
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: you pay for it.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: No, sorry. Well, you'll have to take a side job
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: for that.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Go get like an Uber delivery job or something.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Well, that's Florida. Let's see if South Carolina, maybe some
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: of the legislators are listening in this morning. You'd like to.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: kind of copy and paste what they've done. I'd be
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: all for that. And again, I think most South Carolinians
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: are willing to pay the legal fees that will be
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: coming forth with that kind of a court challenge. Because again,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: who wants us to use our money to pay for
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: even video games and this other body piercings?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: That's not what SNAP benefits or that's not what the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: EBT card is supposed to be for. It is supposed
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: to be providing for your family.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, because you can't get by. You're pretty clearly
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: getting by if you're going to the theme park. You're
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: more than getting by. You're living better than I grew up.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe I have class envy. I didn't grow up as
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: well off as the people on welfare. All right. It's 818.
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• 1:04:17
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: I am Kelly Nash. That's Christopher Thompson. And so much of...
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: life is about your perspective. Do you think you're getting
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: ripped off? Do you think you're healthy? Do you think
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: you're happy? How you think about things really dictates a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: lot about how you live your life. And so when
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: I read a story like this in today's state newspaper,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: I just got to throw up some caution flags. Headline,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: South Carolina folks spend some of the most money on
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: groceries in the United States. And, you know, they talk about, oh,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: it's tough these times. I always hear that. You know,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: in times like these, and they've been saying that my
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: whole life. Has there ever not been times like these?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: There are always times like these.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: And times like these, you've got to stretch your money.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: You've got to go further. You've got to do this, that,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: and the other thing, whatever. You've got to watch every penny. Okay,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: so they rank the states. Now, I'm actually going to
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: say they're underestimating. That's my estimate. They're underestimating. I don't
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: think we have it this good. But the top 10
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: states that spend the most percentages of their money, because
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what you're spending. If you make $ 300, 000
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: and you're spending $ 1, 000 a week on groceries, that's a
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: lot better than if you make $ 50, 000 and you're spending
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: $ 200 a week on groceries. So it's about the percentages
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: of your income. The worst state is Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: New Mexico, Oklahoma. Then at number nine is South Carolina
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: and then Tennessee. So it's basically the SEC. And they
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: say that the South Carolina, the average family spends 2.21%
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: of their annual income on groceries.
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  Speaker 3: 2.2%.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's what I'm going to say.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: That is very low. I will point out that if
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: you look at the charts from, who is this from again?
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: This is from the USDA Economic Research Services. they tracked
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: it for Americans, not by states, but for Americans. If
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: you were to go back to when Christopher and I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: were youngsters in the late 60s and 70s, in the 60s,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: it was about 17% of the family's income went towards food. Today,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: right now, I'm going to guess it's about 3% to 4%.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: But 17% in the 60s. By the 70s, A lot
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: of moms started going to work. It kind of leveled off.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: We were somewhere in that like 10 to 11% range.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Then as improvements in agriculture came around and made food
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: more and more affordable.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: And available.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: It continued to drop, continued to drop throughout the 80s,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: throughout the 90s. By 2019, which is at the end
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: of this graph, we were down to about 4% of
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: your money was being spent on groceries. Now, I'll also
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: point up that the amount of money being spent on
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: food went up as more and more people were continuing
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: to go out. Everybody started going out for dinner. So
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: by 2019, you were still spending about 12% of your
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: money on food, but only 4% of it on groceries.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: So it's even lower today. Even if you say, look,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: it's not 2.2 like they're saying in the newspaper today.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Make it three. Make it three and a half. It's
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: still lower today percentage-wise than it was in 2019. Um,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: food is not the cost that is, is driving people broke.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Usually it's stupid spending. It's buying things you don't need it.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: By the way, I'll also point out, none of us
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: had cell phones back then. We didn't have, I didn't
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: have cable TV till 19. Like I was like somewhere
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: in like my junior year of high school is when
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: we got that. Cable, then streaming services, then all kinds
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: of other. We have so much stuff in our lives today.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: And then we have the audacity to complain about it.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Don't put it in your life.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: We were talking about the Amish yesterday. Go live like
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: the Amish. They don't have any bills. They live pretty,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, debt free. They live debt free. Boy, if
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: we could all do that, that's the Dave Ramsey message,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: isn't it? Live debt free. Spend less than you make.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: And we all make, I mean, even if you're not
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: making hardly anything, you're still making a lot more than
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: other people around the world. I mean, when they talk
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: about the upper one percentile, all Americans, including those of
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: you who don't have jobs, are in the upper one
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: percentile for the world because you've got the entire continent
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: of Africa, except for about 5% of them, way below
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: your standard of living. The standard of living that we
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: have in the U S should be celebrated. And so
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: many people just want to about it. It's great. You
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: have such a great life here. Enjoy it. And I'll
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: point out it's Friday morning. We're heading into a weekend
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: and it's week zero of college football celebrate.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: It's eight 29 from the Midlands to the low country.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: I'd like to salute. the state of South Carolina, for
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: spending money, $ 495, 000. And they spent that money up in
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: Pickens County to acquire a bunch of land that will
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: basically not be developed. This is on South Carolina Route 11.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: It will limit development, according to a document presented last
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: week at the South Carolina Joint Bond Review Committee. Basically,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: they just want to preserve the view. And they only
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: paid about half of what the value of the land was,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: according to some people who, I don't know who kind
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: of decides what this would be worth. It's just a
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: bunch of trees and stuff. They said it would be
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  Speaker 2: worth about a million. We bought it for about a
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  Speaker 2: half million. But I know there's some conservatives who are like,
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  Speaker 2: that's not a core function of government to preserve beauty,
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  Speaker 2: to preserve, you know, we should try to develop as
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  Speaker 2: much as we can and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to side more on the Teddy Roosevelt side
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  Speaker 2: of things. I think most Americans would because, again, not
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  Speaker 2: too many people end up on Mount Rushmore. So if
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  Speaker 2: you've ended up on Mount Rushmore, I think Americans think
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  Speaker 2: you're a pretty good president.
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  Speaker 3: You're pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: They like you. And one of the main things that
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  Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt did was set aside 150 million acres to
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  Speaker 2: create the National Forests. Did that in 1905. Also created
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  Speaker 2: five new national parks in 1906. I mean, Teddy Roosevelt was...
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  Speaker 2: looking down the corridor of time and he could see
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  Speaker 2: that some of the more beautiful parts of America could
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  Speaker 2: be destroyed by industrialization. He was, that was the industrial,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the whole revolution was happening right then in
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  Speaker 2: the early 1900s, late 1800s. He saw what could happen.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, I think we need to preserve some
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  Speaker 2: beauty for future generations. I salute the state of South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina for doing it. Although I know there's probably some
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  Speaker 2: conservatives who don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: McMaster has been, I mean, for, all his faults. He
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  Speaker 3: has been a governor that was extremely concerned with land conservation,
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  Speaker 3: and he's made a number of moves like this during
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  Speaker 3: his administration. I give it credit. We talk all the
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  Speaker 3: time about Greenville being one of the hot spots as
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  Speaker 3: far as tourism in the state. How popular is Greenville
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  Speaker 3: if you don't have the mountains around it? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And they are talking, when they say development, they might
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  Speaker 2: be building some trails through these woods that they just bought,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't have a problem with. I think it'd
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  Speaker 2: be great if people want to go hiking in the mountains.
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  Speaker 2: I actually like hiking. My wife hates it. So I
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  Speaker 2: haven't been doing as much hiking the last, you know,
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  Speaker 2: 12 years or so that I've been married with my wife.
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  Speaker 2: But I, you know, if I can get out into,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, her sister who lives in Greenville, she
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  Speaker 2: likes hiking. So sometimes we'll leave my wife with the
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  Speaker 2: niece and then, you know, Monica and I will go
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  Speaker 2: hiking out in the woods because it's a blast. It
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  Speaker 2: feels invigorating to me, not my wife. She's like, it's hot,
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  Speaker 2: it's miserable, or it's cold and it's whatever. There's bugs everywhere. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm, I'm cool with it. I like being
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  Speaker 2: one with nature. And if you don't like being one
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  Speaker 2: with nature, that's fine too. Just, I think we should
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  Speaker 2: all be able to respect the idea that we're preserving.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you're just going to drive route 11 up there,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, wow, it's so much nicer than having buildings
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  Speaker 2: here and, or billboards everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: They're having the same argument right now in the Midlands. It's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for years, Columbia has tried to figure out
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  Speaker 3: how to develop the riverfront and we're, on pace to
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  Speaker 3: do that right now but that the question now is
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  Speaker 3: how do you develop the riverfront without destroying the river
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  Speaker 3: and that's one of the things they're concerned about as
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  Speaker 3: they move forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's always a fine line. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just saw a rare opportunity for me to salute
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  Speaker 2: the statehouse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to make sure that we don't miss
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  Speaker 2: those opportunities to say that's some good governance. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: If you disagree, love to hear from you or any
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  Speaker 2: of the other subjects we've been talking about this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is now 838.
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you've got to call a spade a spade.
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday, Pete Hegseth was being asked by a reporter
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: about the Army tactical missile system and asking about rumors
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: that they had heard that the stockpiles were all but
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: completely gone at this point. And Pete Hegseth said, was
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  Speaker 2: not happy with the question.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, this is kind of a stupid question I
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  Speaker 9: would never answer. Why would I answer a question about
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  Speaker 9: whether we do or do not have certain types of munitions?
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  Speaker 9: I would tell you we have 110%. I would never
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  Speaker 9: answer that question. And the press is foolish to want
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 9: to press. An American press is foolish to want to
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  Speaker 9: press an American War Department about where we may or
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 9: may not be on classified and exquisite systems.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just tell you this.
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  Speaker 9: We had plenty when we needed it, and we have
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  Speaker 9: plenty now, and we'll have plenty when we'll need them
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  Speaker 9: in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Why would you ask the question? Where are we
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  Speaker 2: weakest at? If I was the enemy, where would be
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  Speaker 2: the best place to attack America right now? Goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 2: I remember one time Barack Obama said, what keeps me
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: up at night. This is when he was the president.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: He said, what keeps me up at night is a
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: terrorist group launching a dirty bomb in midtown Manhattan because
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: we have no way to stop it. Why would you
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  Speaker 2: say that?
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  Speaker 3: Why would you advertise? Why would you draw them a
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: map saying, attack us here, we're weakest here?
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  Speaker 2: It's really insane. And I don't know what kind of
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: people would want to hear the answer other than those
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  Speaker 2: who would want to do us harm. And, you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: I wish maybe he hadn't gone that hardcore at them.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: I wish he had just answered, we're at 100%. Very calmly.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know where you're getting your info from. We're
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: at 100%. And anyone who tells you different doesn't have...
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: access to the classified information that I do. And just
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  Speaker 2: always present the strength. Now, behind the scenes, you've got
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: to do dealing with Congress to try to get these
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: supplies restocked. I don't know exactly where they are. Of course,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't know. I don't have classified info. But to
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: the public, we should always be presenting strength. And when
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: the press wants to present something other than strength, to me,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: you're trying to weaken the United States. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: like it.
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  Speaker 4: I always.
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  Speaker 2: I would like the American press to be on the
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: side of the Americans, not on the side of potential enemies.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's too much to ask. That might be too
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: much to ask, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: I'm for a free and fair press, but there's got
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: to be fairness with that freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and again, when you're asking that question, what are
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  Speaker 2: you hoping to– okay, what if Pete Hegseth said, oh,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: we're totally wiped out? Do the American people need to
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: know that? Is there some sort of– why would an
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: American need to know that right now the U.S. is
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: running low on munitions? There is no reason for you
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  Speaker 2: to know that. So why would you ask the question?
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  Speaker 2: Russia would love to know that. That's what he should
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: have said. Who are you working for? Are you a
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: KGB reporter? Goodness gracious. All right, we've got to take
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: a quick break, and then we'll wrap it up. It's 846.
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  Speaker 4: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 10: It's so upsetting to hear what they were asking Pete Hicks.
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  Speaker 10: The mainstream media is ruining America. Thank goodness we have
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  Speaker 10: you guys. Y'all have a wonderful weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you are launching us into a wonderful weekend. Thank
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  Speaker 2: Christopher and I love it. Whether you're calling to compliment
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• 1:16:58
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• 1:16:59
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  Speaker 2: I see something good, like we talked about earlier with
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: the state of South Carolina purchasing some land just to
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  Speaker 2: preserve it, just so that future South Carolinians have something
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: beautiful to look at and possibly hike in and enjoy
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: and all that, I celebrate that as well. So, Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a great weekend coming up.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it is. Yeah, I mean, if you're a
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: football fan, certainly you're excited. Last weekend of the NFL preseason, Panthers,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: by the way, playing tonight. But more important for our
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: fans around here, college football officially getting into gear, and
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: there will be some games of note tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Are you lining up your Saturday schedule to try to
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  Speaker 2: cover as much of this as possible, or you've got
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: to do yard work and stuff like.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of us? Well, I have stuff to do
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: here to get ready for our best Gamecock coverage, which
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: starts next Saturday. But I will be looking in on
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: those games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it's yard work Saturday, but... trying to
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: figure out how I can get indoors. I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: be there right at noon when they do the kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just to see, because that's five o'clock Dublin time, but
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: North Carolina versus TCU. And then I'll try to schedule
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  Speaker 2: it so I come back in around 315-ish, 330, see
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: where the game is at. Maybe watch the kickoff for,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: who is it again? Virginia, is it Virginia Tech?
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  Speaker 3: Virginia NC State.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: NC State.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's one of the games. to what, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then tomorrow night you've got, whether it's Hawaii Stanford.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: Or Memphis UNLV that don't, don't overlook that. You love
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher is hot on that game. So it'll be a
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: fun weekend either way. And again, we thank you for
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• 1:19:27
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• 1:19:29
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  Speaker 2: got Clay and Buck after that. We've got Sean Hannity
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: after that. We've got Jesse Kelly after that. I mean,
• 1:20:04
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  Speaker 2: football kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: Looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy it. We'll get back together Monday morning at 6
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  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News.