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Show Rewind 10-23-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We're back together, and we're back together on
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  Speaker 2: a Friday. Does that make you feel even better? Friday morning,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that you've got a great weekend coming down. Weather's
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  Speaker 2: looking fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: It looks gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Final weekend of the state fair. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are coming into town for that. Of course, we've got
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  Speaker 2: the big football game this weekend. I was just noticing,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I'm Kelly Nash. That's Christopher Thompson. I
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  Speaker 2: am not a, like a massive social media guy. I
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  Speaker 2: am actually working to be better at that. But one
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  Speaker 2: of the accounts that I follow is a Gamecock alum
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  Speaker 2: who is in the social media space for college football,
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  Speaker 2: a guy named JP Hovey. And JP is excited because
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  Speaker 2: I guess the busing with the boys is, podcast is
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  Speaker 2: going to be on the horseshoe. This is a today.
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  Speaker 2: I saw cornbread cowboy was there. They had already gathered
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  Speaker 2: like several thousand fans yesterday in anticipation of today's football rally.
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  Speaker 2: So they're expecting a massive crowd on the horseshoe today.
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  Speaker 3: Not exactly ESPN's college game day, but okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, but again, this is, this is the thing, right? The,
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  Speaker 2: the social media is where everybody's apparently going. And so we're,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep up with it. And I do
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  Speaker 2: appreciate JP Hovey's diehard love of the Gamecocks. And so
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  Speaker 2: if you've, I follow him on X and I was
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  Speaker 2: watching him go down hard as he was predicting a
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  Speaker 2: Cocktober to remember that was last, you know, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of September, it's once we get to Cocktober, that's
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  Speaker 2: when the Gamecocks are going to blow everybody up. And
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  Speaker 2: then we started off with a, devastating loss to Kentucky. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we did win the bye week and we did beat Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Can we have a cocktober to remember by beating Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: this weekend? Christopher, you'll have the best Gamecock coverage starting
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  Speaker 2: at 1230 tomorrow afternoon, 1230.
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  Speaker 3: On WVOC here in Columbia. And of course, available anywhere,
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  Speaker 3: including the low country on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing is that when you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to us on the iHeartRadio app, I try to explain
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  Speaker 2: this to some people who maybe don't understand technology as
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  Speaker 2: well as they could or should at this point. But
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  Speaker 2: when you put that on your phone, you can then
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  Speaker 2: take that radio station anywhere that you go. And like
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  Speaker 2: I know Congressman Joe Wilson travels a lot internationally for
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  Speaker 2: his job. It helped send me a text message from, like,
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  Speaker 2: the Ukraine or something. It's like, listening to you guys,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, 6.30 in the evening here, but
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  Speaker 2: still waking up with you and Christopher. So you can
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  Speaker 2: take it wherever you go. And I was just driving...
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  Speaker 2: I still have a 2022 vehicle, but yesterday I was
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  Speaker 2: driving a 2025 vehicle, and I'll have that for the
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  Speaker 2: next couple of days. And I was amazed that my phone, like, automatically, like,
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  Speaker 2: goes to, like, what is it called? The Google Play
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. So all of a sudden... It was just like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm listening to the South Carolina Morning News podcast. It
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  Speaker 2: just popped right up right there on the dashboard. There
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  Speaker 2: was no fuss, no muss. And again, great job, Christopher Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: putting together our daily podcast. Just an encapsulation of this
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  Speaker 2: entire broadcast put together for you and uploaded on the
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  Speaker 2: all-free iHeartRadio app. Now, some of the things that we
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  Speaker 2: can talk about today. Did you see the guy who
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  Speaker 2: got punched? He's now told the Post and Courier. that
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  Speaker 2: he wants Donald Trump to be a witness on his behalf.
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  Speaker 3: Did Trump see it? I thought it was kind of
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  Speaker 3: off to the side after he was dragged out.
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  Speaker 2: He said, that's the first time I've ever heard the
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  Speaker 2: president tell the truth was when he said, A, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a good looking man. He's correct on that. And B,
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  Speaker 2: that guy did pop me like Evander Holyfield. And so
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  Speaker 2: he's now asking that I want the president to come
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  Speaker 2: and be a witness. This is one of the problems
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  Speaker 2: with liberals today. or just agitators in general. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Are there right-wing agitators? I'm sure there are. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're an agitator, you go looking for trouble. And when
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  Speaker 2: you find trouble, then you're upset that you found the trouble.
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  Speaker 2: You went there and started popping off, and then somebody
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  Speaker 2: had enough and popped you back. And now you're like, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 2: I want to fully prosecute. I want this. I want that.
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  Speaker 2: Like Trump said at the rally the other night up
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  Speaker 2: there in Pendleton, he was like, it took a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guts to come here and say all that. He
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  Speaker 2: got popped for it, though. Maybe he regrets it now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It seems like he's going to try
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  Speaker 2: to drag the president into a lawsuit or something and
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  Speaker 2: get him to be an eyewitness for him. But I
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  Speaker 2: did find it funny that he pointed out, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: He was correct when he said, I'm not a very
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  Speaker 2: good looking man.
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  Speaker 3: At least he's honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was honest about that part as well. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to go into all the South Carolina news. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to get into the national news, big fraud announcement yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: lots of stuff to cover today. But of course, we
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  Speaker 2: love it when you participate as well. And so the
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app has that microphone button, and we want to
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  Speaker 2: see those talkbacks filling up with your strong opinions. And
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  Speaker 2: as we say, or at least I try to remind you,
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your name as well. So if
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  Speaker 2: you say this is, you know, Bill from you know,
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  Speaker 2: Dorchester or whatever. Just love to hear that so we
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  Speaker 2: know exactly where you're listening and what your name is
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  Speaker 2: when we get back to you on the talk back
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  Speaker 2: on the air. Take a break. Be back with more.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Friday morning and the old economist Milton Friedman
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  Speaker 2: once said many, many, many, many years ago, there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: as permanent as a temporary government program. Ronald Reagan ran
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  Speaker 2: with that as well. We found out long ago, nothing
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  Speaker 2: lasts longer than temporary government taxation. And we're seeing this
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  Speaker 2: play out, I think, in Charleston. The people of Charleston
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  Speaker 2: are going to be asked in November, would you like
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  Speaker 2: to extend your taxes? We have a tax that was
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  Speaker 2: put in as a very temporary thing back in 2004.
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  Speaker 2: Checking my calendar, that is 22 years ago. We need
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  Speaker 2: it extended. Just another 25 years. That's all we need.
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  Speaker 2: Then we promise that'll be the end of it. Just
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  Speaker 2: give it to us for 25 more years. Then your
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  Speaker 2: kids and or grandkids won't have to feel this burden.
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  Speaker 2: This is their transportation sales tax. And I love it
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  Speaker 2: when politicians like Charleston Mayor William Cogswell says that this
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  Speaker 2: is plan A and there is no plan B. It
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  Speaker 2: cannot fail, he said in July. If it fails, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Is Charleston lost forever? Is that what will
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  Speaker 2: happen if this doesn't pass? Cogswell said, no, we'll figure
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  Speaker 2: out a way how to fund it using other sources.
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  Speaker 2: But what they're talking about is the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about about a month ago when they
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  Speaker 2: were talking about how they're going to have to use
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer money to basically prop up The baseball stadium down there,
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  Speaker 2: the Joseph P. Riley Stadium, is sinking again. We just
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  Speaker 2: spent a couple of million dollars a couple of years
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  Speaker 2: ago to prop it up, and it's continuing to sink.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying it's like three feet lower now than it was.
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  Speaker 2: So here comes another $ 1. 5 million project this year. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to rebuild the infrastructure below it because
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  Speaker 2: it was built actually on a dump heap.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, a landfill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not the only spot. Right. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Charleston. Hey, was it Hagood Avenue built on
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  Speaker 2: top of that landfill alongside the Ashley River is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most flood prone streets in Charleston, increasingly subject
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  Speaker 2: to inundation resulting from sea level rise, even as the
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  Speaker 2: road continues to settle and sink. So that road is
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  Speaker 2: a mess. The city leaders need the money, they say,
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  Speaker 2: to help prop these things up. We're going to lose
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  Speaker 2: parts of Charleston to the ocean eventually. If we're not careful.
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  Speaker 2: So on the ballot will be, will you? Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: he is correct. The mayor and all the politicians are
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  Speaker 2: saying we're not asking for a tax increase. We're asking
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  Speaker 2: for an extension. So they did ask for a, what
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  Speaker 2: was it, a penny back in 2024. That was regarding
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  Speaker 2: the Mark Clark Parkway. And the people, I was so
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  Speaker 2: proud of the people down there when they said overwhelmingly no.
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  Speaker 2: No more taxes. We're not doing it. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: to tax ourselves anymore. And so that was a two
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  Speaker 2: to one margin that they defeated that tax increase in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what they're going to do this year.
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  Speaker 2: I am more of, this has been one of my
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  Speaker 2: theories for years, Christopher. I don't know if we could,
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  Speaker 2: I doubt if we could ever implement anything like this.
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  Speaker 2: But if you ask for a tax increase, you can
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  Speaker 2: do that. But you should also then, that should be
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  Speaker 2: the ending of your political career. Like, you cannot continue.
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  Speaker 2: This is the end. Because you haven't figured out a
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  Speaker 2: way to manage the money that we've given you properly.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm all about just going by percentages. So like
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  Speaker 2: on this one, it's a half cent. Okay, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: That is a percentage. There's no need to go up
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  Speaker 2: or down. It's like if you say that the sales
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  Speaker 2: tax is whatever it is, 5%, 10%, whatever you set
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  Speaker 2: that sales tax as, the money obviously goes up as
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  Speaker 2: more money comes into the market. Or as the inflation rises,
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  Speaker 2: so does the cost of goods and services. And as
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  Speaker 2: that happens, then you get more sales tax. So if
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  Speaker 2: you set it at 5%, And then you say, well,
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  Speaker 2: now we need 6% because there's more people coming to
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  Speaker 2: the community. That is a bogus answer because the people
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  Speaker 2: coming to the community are also going to have to
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  Speaker 2: pay for this. So they are already. being taxed when
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  Speaker 2: they get here. And you should figure out if I
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  Speaker 2: went from a thousand people getting taxed at 5% to
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  Speaker 2: 2000 people getting at 5%, then I've now doubled my
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  Speaker 2: tax base.
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  Speaker 3: You're getting more money.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So when you say I need a bigger percentage,
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  Speaker 2: you have failed. And then that should be the end
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  Speaker 2: of your political career because you didn't manage the money properly.
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  Speaker 2: Do a better job with the money that the taxpayers
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  Speaker 2: give you. Don't act like it's just frivolous and that
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  Speaker 2: there's plenty of it. You should cherish every nickel you
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  Speaker 2: get because you didn't produce it. Some hardworking American produced it,
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  Speaker 2: and you are not treasuring it. You're not– like– We
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  Speaker 2: do a better job with our own money for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, not all Americans, but most Americans figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to spend their money in a way that benefits
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  Speaker 2: their family, make sure that their homes are kept up,
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  Speaker 2: make sure that their vehicles are running. If we let
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  Speaker 2: government do it, they would never budget for tires and brakes.
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  Speaker 2: and all those types of things. And then when the
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  Speaker 2: brakes go out, they'd say, oh, I need a tax increase.
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  Speaker 2: And then you'd give them the tax increase to fix
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  Speaker 2: the brakes, because you can't drive a car without brakes.
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  Speaker 2: And then the tax would never go away, and they
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  Speaker 2: would never budget for the future brake job. And then
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  Speaker 2: they'd say, oh, the brakes went out again. We need
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  Speaker 2: more money. That is the problem with government, as I
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  Speaker 2: see it. Maybe you disagree. And by the way, are
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  Speaker 2: you going to be one of those people who are
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  Speaker 2: in the Charleston market voting this November? What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Are you willing to extend that tax? I'd love to
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  Speaker 2: hear what you're thinking about it. Depends on where you live.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of these people are being sold
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  Speaker 3: that the key to flooding and a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: residents are experiencing flooding right now. They're being sold the
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  Speaker 3: message that the key to making sure flooding doesn't continue
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  Speaker 3: is to pass this tax because that's what they're going
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  Speaker 3: to address with this tax.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And again, a tax always takes money out of the market.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you taking out of the market? You're
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  Speaker 2: taking $ 4. 25 billion over the next 25 years out of
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  Speaker 2: the market. Is that a good use of the money?
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  Speaker 2: Do you trust them to do a good job with
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  Speaker 2: your money? Do you think that it'll work this time,
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  Speaker 2: that you don't have to keep going back and getting
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  Speaker 2: more and more and more? Be interested in hearing what
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  Speaker 2: you think if you live there. Use the Talkback feature
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  Speaker 2: to get at us, and we'll get you on the air, hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 5: This.
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  Speaker 2: It was a viral video clip over the summer. It is...
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  Speaker 2: The reason it popped up on my timeline, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why it popped up on my timeline today, but
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  Speaker 2: it did. And then I took a second look at it,
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  Speaker 2: and I realized that the guy in question is from Mullins,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. He's called the Child Care Whisperer, and he
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  Speaker 2: apparently goes around the country, and he teaches... teachers or
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  Speaker 2: would-be teachers how to be a better teacher. I will
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  Speaker 2: point out that the child care whisperer often wears women's
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  Speaker 2: clothing despite having a full beard. And that is kind
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  Speaker 2: of an unsettling look for me.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: In this video, he's wearing what appears to be a skirt,
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  Speaker 2: about five-inch high heels, and a skin-tight t-shirt and a
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  Speaker 2: beard that comes down midway past, like it's like past
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  Speaker 2: his neckline. And here, this is just the clip of
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  Speaker 2: the clip. The parents are not your friends. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to say it again because I want you to hear me.
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  Speaker 2: The parents are not your friends. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: They cannot be trusted.
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  Speaker 2: All right. The parents are not your friends and they
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  Speaker 2: cannot be trusted. That's him teaching at the Pennsylvania College
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  Speaker 2: of Technology in July. If you go to his blog,
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  Speaker 2: Instagram account. I see he often wears a T-shirt that
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  Speaker 2: says normalized men working in child care. And again, he
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  Speaker 2: wants to be around the kids while wearing the high
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  Speaker 2: heels and the dresses and the beard. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the guy who is he was apparently featured on the
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Clarkson show. And he runs something called the Empowerment Agency.
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  Speaker 2: And his name is Mr. Ty, T-Y, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to find him, the child care whisperer. I just find
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  Speaker 2: it unsettling this guy's one of our own. Mullen, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow has become the child care whisperer whose best
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  Speaker 2: advice seems to be don't trust the kids' parents. Don't
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  Speaker 2: tell them anything. They're not your friends. We talk to
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  Speaker 2: the kids. We isolate them. We get them away from
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  Speaker 2: the parents. That's the goal.
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  Speaker 3: No, thank you. He can stay where Pennsylvania is fine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was in Pennsylvania. He's on tour. He's in Houston, L.A., Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: I think he lives in Atlanta now. This guy is
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  Speaker 2: apparently being held up by educators around the country as
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  Speaker 2: this is the role model. Don't trust the parents. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now I think we know some of the problem, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in education. I think we're doing a great
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  Speaker 2: job of cracking down on it here in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hope the rest of the country will recognize that
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  Speaker 2: the parents are the authority in the child's life. And
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  Speaker 2: you're right, they're not their friend. They're the ones raising them.
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  Speaker 2: They're the ones responsible for most of their education. You
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  Speaker 2: handle the reading and writing arithmetic. We'll actually double down
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  Speaker 2: on that, but then we'll teach them how we want
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  Speaker 2: them to think about our family. You don't get to
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  Speaker 2: talk to them about how we think about our family.
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  Speaker 3: Morals, values, that comes from us.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. If you agree, disagree, let us know on the
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  Speaker 2: Talkback feature. We'll take a break and be back with more.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: First off, I'm Kelly Nash. That's Christopher Thompson. Not to brag,
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  Speaker 2: because this is not a brag. This is the opposite
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  Speaker 2: of a brag. But I consider myself a relatively intelligent
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  Speaker 2: individual and someone who has followed politics for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't understand what I'm reading. So yesterday there
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  Speaker 2: was a press conference with Darlene Graham and she said,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm reading this in Fox Carolina quote, I'm calling
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  Speaker 2: on Annie Andrews to publish her tax returns and I
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  Speaker 2: will do the same. I have nothing to hide and
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  Speaker 2: my assets or lack thereof prove it. Voters deserve to
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  Speaker 2: know who pays for Annie Andrews. And I, in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: I said, didn't, Didn't Christopher Thompson and I just have
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  Speaker 2: this conversation a couple of days ago that we did
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  Speaker 2: that we saw their tax returns?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The state newspaper published an article and you cited it.
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  Speaker 2: And so I thought to myself, am I crazy? Did
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  Speaker 2: I did I imagine that? And I went back and
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  Speaker 2: I looked and here is a story dated October 19th,
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  Speaker 2: which was was that this weekend, right? before Annie Andrews
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  Speaker 2: ran to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate, she
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  Speaker 2: made her living as a pediatrician and a consultant. Her
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  Speaker 2: income and tax liability has varied over the past five years,
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  Speaker 2: ranging from $ 300, 000 in federal and state income tax to
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  Speaker 2: less than 15 grand in 2025. And they show her
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  Speaker 2: adjusted gross income. They talk about she filed jointly with
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  Speaker 2: her husband, who was also listed as a medical doctor
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  Speaker 2: until 2024 when they got a divorce and Then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden the income dropped significantly, and federal income
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  Speaker 2: tax for– taxable federal income for last year for any
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  Speaker 2: injuries was $ 90, 288. And I don't know where we're going
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  Speaker 2: with this, Christopher. Am I missing something, do you think?
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  Speaker 3: The only thing I can figure out– and Darlene Graham
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: brought this up on the stage the other night– You know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: she was attacking Annie Andrews on her guns positions. And
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: for those who may not be familiar with Annie Andrews'
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: financial past, she got some money because she was a
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: gun control advocate. She was a pediatrician gun control advocate
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: and received a substantial amount of money for a couple
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of years for advocating on behalf of that organization.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: The name of the organization is Every Town for Gun Safety.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And as Christopher already pointed out, we already knew that. Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: So I guess Darlene Graham just wants to double down
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: on that and make sure people know that she was
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: paying Annie Andrews.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Yes. Annie Andrews was a pediatrician who now works as
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: a what described as a consultant. I'm not sure what
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: she's consulting. I guess maybe that's where she wants. Maybe
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham is pushing in on that, that the Graham
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: campaign was. What are you consulting on? But we do
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: know that she received money for working with Everytown for
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: gun safety, where she developed a program to train students
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: on speaking with families about the safe firearm storage with
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the aim of preventing school shootings, unintentional shootings and suicide,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: according to her campaign. Now, was there more to that?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Was there let's talk to mom and dad about getting
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: guns out of the house? Was it? I don't know
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: what it was, but I don't. I am confused at
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: this point about that move. At the same point, I
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: point out that Darlene Graham continues to rise in the polls,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: which is a good sign. But as we pointed out yesterday,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: polling certainly not accurate. Wide, varied, you know, opinions on
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: how accurate polls are going to be. But everything seems
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: to be seems to be moving in the right direction
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: for the Graham campaign at this point.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: And you would think she would get even more of
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: a bounce after the president's appearance.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you and I yesterday, Christopher, were looking
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: for people. Was there anybody who wasn't going to vote
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: for Darlene Graham who is now because of what Donald
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Trump did in the upstate the other night? I have
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: not met anybody yet. But again, I don't have a
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: lot of free time where I go out and talk
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to the people. But I do have a radio show.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And if you're one of those people listening, we know
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: we have thousands of you who listen. One of you,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: did anybody have their opinion changed from I'm not voting
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: for Darlene to I am voting for Darlene because of that?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Or maybe, this is probably a more likely scenario, I
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: was thinking about sitting it out. And now I've decided
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: it's too important. I'm not going to sit it out.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Are you out there? I'd love to hear from you.
• 20:14
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• 20:17
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• 20:19
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• 20:23
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
• 20:27
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• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Welcome to Friday.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Beautiful weekend coming down the pike and a couple of
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: days ago we had uh congressman ralph norman on clarifying
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: his position about darlene graham this morning the congressman is
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: up and trying to clarify his position regarding brandon gill
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: uh this is uh you know the house freedom caucus
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: there's 219 republicans in the uh in the house right
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: now there's 31 uh make up the House Freedom Caucus.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Probably one of the highest profiles, Ralph Norman, Byron Donalds
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: is in there, Chip Roy. Anyway, Axios had a story
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: come out saying that they are considering booting Brandon Gill. Now,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Brandon is obviously, his profile has been rising lately, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: they're alleging in the Axios story that some members of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the House Freedom Caucus are are upset that he seems
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: to be distancing himself from the House Freedom Caucus, that
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: he was using them just to get some cred with
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the conservatives. And then once he started to rise, he's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: going to say, oh, I don't need to be associated
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: with those nutjobs. Ralph Norman on social media this morning.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Here's what I said on the record that they didn't print.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Brandon Gill is proving exactly why he belongs in the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Freedom Caucus. While the media invents division with anonymous sources.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Gill is out here dismantling the leftist myths and rooting
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: out corruption. This caucus is locked in, laser focused on
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the Save America Act, securing our border and stopping the
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: radicals who want to destroy this country. So he and
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: other members of the House Freedom Caucus are saying baloney.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's but that's what you're going to see
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: more and more of as we get closer to election
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: day is, you know, these media outlets who were saying
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: okay well that's the republican party but they're not really
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: united because they did have to defend the fact that
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: the left is so divided right now between the dsa
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: and the quote-unquote moderate democrats.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny how our extreme, like, so you look at, like,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the Republicans. Okay, we have moderates, centrists, whatever you want
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: to call it. And then we have the extreme wing,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the Freedom Caucus people. Okay, what are they advocating for?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: They're advocating for secure borders. Lower taxes.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Horrible people that want you to have to show an
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: ID in order to vote.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Less corruption, all that. What's the extreme on their side
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: calling for? The ending of the presidency, the closure of
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the Senate. I mean, they're not comparable. It's not even close.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I'll take our extremes all day, every day. How about you?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Let us know on the Talkback feature.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: From the midlands to the low country, this is South
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I am proud of about
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: South Carolina is we keep tempting the Democrats and they
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: keep spending lots and lots of money here. And that's
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: part of the reason why there was a story in
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: August in USA Today entitled how the DNC has burned
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: through $ 200 million this year and fallen into debt. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: at that time was considering selling their national headquarters. That's
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: how broke the DNC is. And yet they, continue to
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: try to spend money here in South Carolina and other
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: states that they're not going to win in. Jay Parmalee
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: says we're spending heavily in South Carolina because we've never
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: had a better political environment. We have 124 candidates. We
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: think we have seven congressional candidates all running statewide. We're
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: leaving nothing on the table. We're going to be competitive
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: in every single race. And then this story in the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: state newspaper shows how people like Ro Khanna and Gavin Newsom,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: all these Mark Kelly, they're all writing big fat checks
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: to the South Carolina Democrat Party and they're fundraising across
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the country to try to bring in more and more money.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I say continue it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Take their money and then flush it down the toilet.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Exactly. This is keeping money out of what I would
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: say are purple states. You know, I'm very hopeful that
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: we can hang on to the Senate seat in Maine.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I think we will. I would love to see us
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: rebuff what's-his-face in Ohio because I think he's going to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: win right now, the Democrat. He'd been the senator before,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Sheldon Whitehouse or whatever. Now, Sheldon, that's the Rhode Island guy.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: But you know who I'm talking about. Anyway, as long
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: as they keep spending money here, they're not spending it
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: in the purple states. And as long as we continue
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to stay red, that's great news for the Republican Party.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: So let's just keep bobbing and weaving, keep spending the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: money here, guys, and we'll take the blows, and then
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: we'll defeat you in November. Go Team GOP.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 25:31
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• 25:32
  Speaker 4: And 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Christopher, do the people in Charleston hear the same newscast
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: that we hear? Yes. So when that guy said Trump
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: asked the guy from Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and then he declined that request, that's hysterical to me.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The way he delivers it with all
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the seriousness of like Walter Cronkite or whatever, I love it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I love it. We're living in somewhat of a golden age.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: It could be a lot better. And you know what?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: We got to salute J.D.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Vance.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: J.D. Vance is trying to help make America get into
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the golden age. If you remember, it wasn't that long
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: ago that we heard people bemoaning the fact that SNAP
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: benefits were going to disappear for 5 million Americans. Just gone.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: The people who need it most, the at-risk communities, are
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: going to be denied access to food. And that started
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: happening months ago. I would assume by now that we
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: would have been reporting on, had there been anybody actually
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: negatively affected, meaning if there was anybody like in the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: hospital because they were dehydrated or they were malnourished.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Mass starvations.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yes. We were going to look like Cambodia in the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: 70s or something. The media would have been running wild
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: with a story like that. But as of yet, we
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: have not seen that. What the Trump administration had always
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: said was that there were people abusing the system. And
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: there's able... To a bigger part, there was a bunch
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of able-bodied Americans who just refused to work. They're no good.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: They won't take a job, I tell you. And so
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: they gave them an option. You can volunteer for 20
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: hours a week in your community to work at some
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: sort of nonprofit, you know, some sort of community service.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And a lot of them, I think the majority of
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: them said, nah, I'm good. I'm not going to do it.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to help the community. These are the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: people that we're fighting for, the people who won't even
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: volunteer to help. They wouldn't even go to the soup
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: kitchen and help feed the people who really need the help.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's neither here nor there. A lot of
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: it was fraud. And I was reading a Democrat the
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: other day. And he was saying, look, that snap fraud
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: is a real thing. This was he was saying this
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: in June. He said snap fraud is a real thing. However,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: what's going on is the Trump administration is helping to
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: cover the snap fraud by dismissing the independent IGs. These
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: people have been on the job for years looking for
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: snap fraud, haven't found any. Well, they're gone now and
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: we're finding snap fraud. Apparently, we didn't need those people. Actually,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: those people may have been part of the obstruction. So
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: we'll go ahead and go to this is a Newsmax
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: report from yesterday. I think her name's Christina Thompson reporting.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: And let's just get a little snippet of that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Prosecutors say 39-year-old Mercedes Richard New, known online as Shawty Dredd,
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: controlled more than 350 snap accounts created with stolen identities.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: More than 500 EBT cards were eventually linked back to him.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I got $ 1 million.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: $ 1 million.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: So officials played that social media video during their announcement
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: in Cincinnati when they talked about the arrest. They said
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: New had fraudulent EBT cards mailed to addresses around Atlanta,
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: then allegedly sold them for cash or ran them through
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: his own Snap authorized business.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Snap exists to help hungry children eat. It does not
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: exist to provide private jets to a guy like Shawty Dredd.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Shawty Dredd.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I was going to ask you to repeat that name.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I didn't catch it the first time.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Shawty, spelled S-H-A-W-T-Y, Dredd, D-R-E-D. Now, Shawty Dredd, and obviously
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: this is radio, although we do live stream the show.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: If you'd like to see what we're looking like here
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: this morning, go to at Kelly Nash Radio. If you're
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, X, or Facebook, you can see the live stream.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: But uh shoddy dread uh is in his social media
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: accounts showing himself at one time he's like y'all gotta
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: get yourself a jet he has a now he does
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: i don't think owns the private jet he only stole
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: four million he didn't you know steal 40 million himself
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: but he's on a private jet he has like a
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Mercedes or some sort of luxury car. He's showing off
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: diamond-encrusted watches. And then in one social media video that
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I literally can't get over, he has so much money, cash,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: in front of him that he starts picking up cash
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: and setting it on fire. This guy... That's how easy
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: it is for people like Shawty Dredd, who I don't
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: imagine is a master criminal. Like, he's not some sort
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: of genius. He just said, I'll just keep getting new accounts.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: And he got, what did they say, 350 of them?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Gamed the system.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: There's another guy who started gaming us on the Snap
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: system from the Dominican Republic. This guy got a fake
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: US ID. And then once he realized, oh, it's working,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: he had to move to America illegally in order to
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: collect his proceeds. We have got at least hundreds of
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: millions of dollars, probably billions of dollars in SNAP fraud
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: happening just in SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. And anybody
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: who's bemoaning the changes, you've got to do some soul
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: searching because the vice president's right. It is designed to
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: help those most at risk, most marginalized people, the people
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: who have maybe... a child and the parent can't work
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: for some reason, maybe due to some sort of physical
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: injuries or whatever has happened, they're in a very bad
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: way and it might be permanent or it might be temporary.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: But for whatever that time is, we can and should
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: help Americans who need food assistance. What we should not
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: help is shoddy dread, light money on fire in our faces.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: And that has been tolerated by the U.S. government for way,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: way too long because this is not the first we've
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: heard of people with snap fraud happening. Matter of fact, Christopher, just,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I don't have it in front of me, but I
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: remember doing a story on this like a year or
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: two ago when they first, when FDR first started this
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: idea of we're going to have some sort of food
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: assistance program, the very first week that it was open,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: they ended up arresting a grocery store owner who abused
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the system and It was in existence for less than
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a week, and fraud was already happening.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: What is it you said yesterday? Human's going to human.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: That's what they got to do. So you have to
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: be on the lookout for it. You got to put
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: special barriers on it. And when we do things like that,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: maybe it makes it a little bit more difficult for
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: people who really needed to get it. But more importantly,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: we make sure that the money is there for those
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: who really need it. And if you don't agree with that,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: then you really got to do some soul searching and
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: check yourself. Why would you be okay? with millions, no,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I'll make that billions, going out the door to criminals.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Very frustrating. But I'm glad that the vice president's on
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the case. I'm glad we fired those IGs. You're an investigator.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: You couldn't find this? The guy's on social media lighting
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: cash on fire and his private jet, and you can't
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: figure out that Shawty Dredd, who sold exactly zero records, a.k.a.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: a rapper, where's he getting the money from? Anybody want
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: to look into that? Well, I'm glad that we're starting
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: to do stuff like that now. Thoughts on that? Please
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: get at us on the Talk Back feature. We love
• 33:12
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• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Back in a moment.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Wow, this Ilhan Omar story continues to be like plot
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: twist after plot twist after plot twist, and I'm trying
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: to keep up with it. Do we have a bingo
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: card or something that we can use Christopher to try
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to keep up with it?
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Barely.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: We didn't even have her name right.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: That is part of the big plot twist. I do
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: like the BBC's headline this morning. Ilhan Omar says, quote-unquote, bizarre...
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Pre-dawn raid on her home is now forcing her to
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: move out. That was a very bizarre raid. I would
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: say even more bizarre would be you married your brother.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: That is becoming abundantly clear. I was wrong. So I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: had said I didn't think that that had happened. But
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: that is now being put in my face by something
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: called facts. And Ilhan Omar, like Christopher said, that's not
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: even her name. What is her name again?
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Ilhan Nur Syed Elmi.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: And Elmi is the key to this because her father
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: is apparently part of the militia that was committing war crimes.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And then as the things started turning bad for them,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: they adopted a fake name of Omar that somebody else
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: had already used to get into, I think, London. And
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: that's where they were seeking asylum was the Omar family.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: So they used that as their background cover to get
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: into the United States. So you have lie number one,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: her father is a militant doing war crimes. Two, they're
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: using a fake name. To get asylum here in the
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: United States. Three, they then use fake ages to make
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: her a minor when she was not a minor so
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: that she could get in as well. She then continued
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: to use that fake name.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Then four, she got.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Married to a Muslim man, but it was called a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: religious ceremony, was not acknowledged in the U.S. as an
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: actual marriage. They had two children together. Then she, quote unquote,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: divorced him. Again, this would be in a religious ceremony,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: not a civil ceremony, and then married a guy who
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: has the last name of, what is it again, Elmy? Yes.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: That guy, what a coinkidink that the guy with the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: name of Elmy comes into the United States, and then
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: they get married legally in the United States by a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Christian pastor. Why would they be using a Christian pastor?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows. That marriage apparently produced no children. But while
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: still married to Mr. Elmey, has a child with the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: other guy, husband number one, who was not acknowledged as
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the husband, then a few years later is officially divorced
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: from Mr. Elmey, who, by the way, Mr. Elmey was
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: applying for citizenship, and they asked for proof of marriage,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: and in that, he withdrew. He withdrew his application to
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: be a U.S. citizen. That is very odd. He's now
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: moved back to— first, I think he was living in London.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Now he's apparently in Africa, and he's a part of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: some— speaking of bizarre, he's in some sort of bizarre outfit
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: where they're trying to show how difficult it is for
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: gay people to live in Africa. He apparently— seeing a quick
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: interview with the guy, I didn't know what he was saying,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: but he was saying it quite flamboyantly— Which does not
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: surprise me that they weren't able to produce an offspring,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: nor do I think they ever tried. Let's hope not. Well,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: as far as she knows.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Not to her knowledge.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Not to my knowledge. I never married my brother. Although,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: so again, while still married to Mr. Elmy, she has
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the child with husband number one. Three days after that
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: child is born, Mr. Elmey posts a photo on social
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: media holding said child and said, being an uncle is great.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: She's also got photos after swearing to an affidavit that
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: she had no contact with him in order to get
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: a divorce. Social media confirmed that, no, they were actually
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: in London together with other women who are, she says,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: are her sisters who also claim to be his brother. So,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, the whole thing stinks to high heaven. Now,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I hear a bunch of you people saying already, boy,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: that's very confusing. And what difference does it make? Couldn't
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: it just be because I can already feel the left.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I feel I hear you people in my head sometimes
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: before you even say a word. You know what, though?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe all that is true. But she's been a good American.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: She's done wonderful things in America. Look at her. She's
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: an elected congressperson. People love her. She's fighting for civil
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: rights and so on and so forth. I guess you're
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: just going to navigate away from the $ 250 million fraud.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: You're going to just act as if she wasn't a
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: part of it. I know she's acting like she's not
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: a part of it. It's just another coink-a-dink. She's got
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: a long, sad chain of unfortunate coink-a-dinks where it's always
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: her involved. And in this sad coink-a-dink, she wrote a bill,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: comes back to Minnesota, and the best buddies of Ilhan
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Omar slash Elmi end up benefiting by backdoors stealing $ 250
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: million for Somalian restaurants and other things. Okay, that's another
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: sad coinkidink. A lot of sad coinkidinks in her life.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I think that those sad coinkidinks are going to lead
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: to something amazing, which is the first ever sitting congresswoman
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: being deported from our country. And that is going to
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: be amazing. We're going to see riots, I imagine, in
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Minnesota over this. We'll see what happens. Take a break
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: and back with more in just a minute.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: It's Friday before a beautiful weekend, but also five o'clock
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: today is your deadline. If you would like to do
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: absentee voting in South Carolina, you have till five o'clock today,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: according to the South Carolina Election Commission, to get them
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: your absentee ballot application. So obviously you can't mail it
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: at this point. You got to get down there. But
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I will also say we are having record turnouts after
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: three days of early voting calculations. It's amazing how many
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: people have been going out early and voting. Um, and, uh, Greenville,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: slight lead, slight lead. Uh, they've got, uh, what is it? 26,000,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: about 27,000, about 26,000 in Charleston, Richland at about 24,000,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Ori at about 23,000. So, uh, we are shattering the
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: early voting records, uh, for midterms right now, but we
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: haven't been doing it that long, Christopher.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: No, this is still new to a lot of people,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: but good for them for taking advantage. And I noticed
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Drew McKissick from the Republican Party has told people, look,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: if you're tired of being bombarded by text messages saying,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: you know, go vote, they take that information from the
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: voter rolls. Really? Yeah, they know when you voted. So
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: if you want to get off that text line, you
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: vote as soon as possible, vote early, and then they
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: will use their funds to bombard people who haven't.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: SCGOP Chair Drew McKissick and South Carolina Morning News Christopher
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Thompson sharing the news you can use. I love it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Christopher. Appreciate it. We'll take a break for
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the news and be back with more in a moment.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I did it again last night, Christopher. Dang it, why
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: do I bother? I shouldn't do it. I go and
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I look at my phone just before I go to sleep.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: And I look. First, I check the emails, make sure
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not missing anything important from the big bosses. And
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: then I should put it down. But I don't. And
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I go on X. And I look. What's happening in
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: the world? Just before I go to sleep. And there
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: it was. All over several South Carolina news outlets. A
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: very sordid headline regarding the late Lindsey Graham. Friend of
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: this show. Lindsey Graham was a friend of this show.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: And I was like, why would they even publish that headline?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: So then I had to go and look at the
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: video that they were talking about.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, you watched the documentary?
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: I watched the whole thing.
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I think most people now know who Hassan Piker is.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Hassan Piker has eclipsed his uncle in fame. Hassan Piker
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: is the guy who dresses like Chairman Mao and goes
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: around the country talking about how America deserved 9-11 and
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. His uncle is the guy
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: who started this freak group called the Young Turks, Cenk
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Uygur or whatever his name is. And he put out
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: the video yesterday. And I'm just going to play, and again,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I'm disgusted by it, but I think if we're going
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: to talk about it, we should hear the opening statements.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: This is the opening statements that the Young Turks put
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: out yesterday on their documentary.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: I am Jesse, and I had sex with Lindsey Graham.
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: He came out of the bathroom, put the remainder of
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: his clothes on, and then paid me with $ 200 bills
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: and three $ 20 bills and gave me $ 260, and my
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: rate was $ 250. You hear about a politician hiring a
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: sex worker, and your first thought is, oh, how.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: Lurid, or he's desperate for attention. But there's a bigger
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: thing here, which is the politicians that you trust to
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: represent you are doing things that are against the values
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: that they claim to have and that also are compromising
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: their integrity.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: So we're about to be lectured by an acknowledged sex worker.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: That's what Jesse does for a living. And he's almost condescending.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: You people don't even understand what's happening. First off, I
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: think you're a big liar, an absolute fraud, because if
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: this was true, you would have been paid millions to
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: make these claims while the senator was alive. Conveniently, here's
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: a standard rule that I've had. You can apply it
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: to your life if you'd like. Whenever there is a
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: negative headline about someone who is, quote unquote, no longer
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: available for comment, I don't believe it. I don't believe
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: anything anybody negative says about, at this point, Elvis Presley.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: I think we already knew what we knew about Elvis.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: If there's further details, I'm not going to believe it.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I won't believe anything negative about James Clyburn once he passes.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: If you have something on James Clyburn, say it now.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Say it while he's still here and he can talk
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: for himself. Or Joe Biden. I mean, Joe really can't
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: talk for himself. But say it now. If you wait
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: until after they pass, I don't believe it. And this
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: idea that Lindsey Graham may have been legislating against the
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: very activities that he was participating in. Oh, my goodness.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, sometimes and I don't know what Lindsey
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: did in his personal life. We never talked about it,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: to be honest with you. I didn't I didn't care
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: what he did in his personal life. I'd be disappointed
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: if he was hiring people. Males or females. Wouldn't matter.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: I'd be disappointed in that. That's not good behavior. But
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: he would also recognize it himself, I am imagining, that
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: that's not good behavior. That that should not be a
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: thing that we do in America. And sometimes people do
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: do things that they know are not in their own
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: best interest. I'm trying to think of how many Oreos
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I've eaten in the past, knowing that that was not
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: the right thing for me to be doing at the time. Um,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: I was a diabetic and I would eat Oreos. I
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: would eat Oreos. And the other thing that used to
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: get me all the time was the, uh, the blizzards,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the DQ blizzards. I'm like the, the day I found
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: out that I was a diabetic was in 2003, the
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: fall of 2003. They said, my God, you've got a
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: blood sugar level of 300. I said, I don't know
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: what that means. It's supposed to be like 85 to 90.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: They're like, do you have massive headaches or anything? I'm like, no,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: I just feel normal. They're like, dude, you are like
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: near death. I was like, oh my gosh, you know
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: what I did? I stressed out and I went and
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: got a blizzard. I got a blizzard as I was
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: picking up the medication for diabetes. So yes, people do
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: things that are not in their own best interest that
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: they know are wrong. So I don't know if he
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: did or didn't do it. But at this point, first off,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: it wasn't my business, his personal life. Secondly, I wanted
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham to represent our values more. And I would
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: like for him to have lived up to them. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: would like all of our legislators to live up to
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: the values that they claim, understanding that they don't always,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: that that is just a human frailty, that people are
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: not perfect. They, well, I wish they were, but I
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: wish I was. How about that? I'll just speak for myself.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I wish I was perfect, but I'm not. I have
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: mistakes in my life that I make continually. It's not
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: as if everything that I talk about is a past
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: tense problem. I have current problems, but, If you want
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: to accuse me of something, accuse me while I'm here.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Don't wait until I'm gone. And then why now?
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Well, the obvious answer is because his sister is now
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: in a heated Senate race. I mean, what impact will
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: these stories have on her campaign?
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: I would hope none because you're not accusing her. No,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: she didn't do it. You're accusing her deceased brother, which almost. Oh,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: I hope this is true. I hope this is true.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Some people might make her a sympathetic figure and then
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: just go vote for her to tell the Young Turks
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: to pound sand. I would love for that. I hope
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: she overwhelmingly destroys it. And I can see Cenk Uygur,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: whatever his name is, one of the greatest videos of
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: all time. the 2016 election night returns with the young Turks.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: If you watch that video, it's still on YouTube and
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: you can see how cocky they were. Hillary Clinton's going
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: to be the first ever female president. Oh, we've worked
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: so hard. We finally deserve. Oh, look at that. She
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: lost Florida. That makes it a little tougher. Oh, wait
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: a minute. Well, we still have a path. We win
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin and we win this. Oh my God, we lost.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: And then when it finally hits them, What the freak
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: has happened to America? They voted Donald Trump the president.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: That was one of the greatest videos. I hope to
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: see something similar when Darlene Graham rubs it in your
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: face after you try to take out the memory of
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: her deceased brother, you filthy, vile animals. All right, we'll
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: be back in just a moment. If you've got thoughts
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: on that or anything else, use the talkback feature.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: AM WVOC and 94.3 WSC.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: I think this was a great move yesterday. APAC is
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: announced that they are no longer going to endorse or
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: directly give funding to any candidates once the midterm is over.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: They've already made commitments to certain candidates. They're going to
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: stick with that. But the APAC funding has become a
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: lightning rod where people feel as if the candidates are
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: beholden to APAC for substantial donations. For example... it appears
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: that they have given about $ 9 million to Mike Rogers
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: in Michigan. And that is a lightning rod. Obviously, if
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: you're a, what's his name, Abdul El-Sayed supporter, you're saying
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: that Mike Rogers is bought and paid for by Israel.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: That's why he's so pro-Israel. Oftentimes, and I know a
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: lot of people don't want to hear this because it
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: really makes politics a lot less exciting. Oftentimes, what happens
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: is these packs, whether on the left or the right,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: like if you're an anti-gun person and you're running for office,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: you're going to find a bunch of anti-gun pack money
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: coming your way. It's not as if the person's changing
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: their position. So a pack typically found the candidates that
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: were already pro Israel, pro Israel and said, well, we're
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: going to support those people. We want to get them elected.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: It's not as if Mike Rogers said, Hmm. Should I
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: be pro Hamas or should I be pro Israel? Who's
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: going to bid the most for me? But the announcement,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: I think, is going to take a lot of the
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: wind out of the sails of future Democrats as they
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: try to attack a candidate because they can no longer
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: point to AIPAC as the boogeyman. So I appreciate the
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: fact that they're going to do that after the midterms.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break here and be back with more
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: right after the news. Well, the news is coming up
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: in a minute. We've got to take a break first.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, we were talking about the fake polling company and
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: the impact they were having on some of the elections.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I think they were called Wedgwood or something like that. Anyway,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Quinnipiac poll has been around forever. So everybody knows the
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Quinnipiac poll. But I think that the latest Quinnipiac poll
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: out of New York just shows how miserable voters are
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: in general. So Kathy Hochul is probably going to win
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: reelection in New York. But after their most recent debate,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: her lead definitely shrunk. She lost about eight points after
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: that debate. Okay, that's a good thing. However, 55% of
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: New Yorkers are likely to vote for her, according to
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: this new poll. But here's where it gets weird. So
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: 55% are going to vote for her, but she only
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: has a 45% favorability. There's a bunch of people that
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: are going to vote for her who actually hate her.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Don't like her at all. They don't like her. They
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: don't like her policies. I don't even like that look
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: on your face. There's nothing about you that I like.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: But because I can't support a Republican, I have to
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: vote for you. I think we're seeing more and more
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: of that across the political spectrum, Christopher. People are upset
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: with politicians on both sides of the aisle.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: It's the feeling of the country right now. It's just it.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm not sure that Trump could have done anything
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: about it or a Democrat could have done anything about
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: it for that matter. It's just, it's where we are
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: as a society right now. We don't feel like we're
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: getting what we deserve. And that doesn't necessarily mean, you know,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: all the safety net programs that the government doles out.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: It just means we're not getting good government. We're not
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: getting what we want. If we're conservatives, we don't feel
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: like we're getting enough in the way of tax cuts
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: and more pro-business friendly laws and voter ID and Democrats
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: have the same complaints about certain things that are going
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: on in government.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: So if you're feeling frustrated, you can scream into the
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: microphone on the iHeartRadio app. That's one of the reasons
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: it's there. I call it like a pressure release valve. So,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: you know, in the old days, you just throw your
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: shoe at the television set or, you know, whatever. end
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: up in traffic driving and yelling at people. You can
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: just yell at us. We're here for it. That's where
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Christopher and I are professionally trained to take whatever abuse
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: you want to give us on the talkback feature.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: We're listening. Oh, like the old Frazier. We're listening.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: And hello caller. Um, yeah, the I heart radio app
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: is free to download and easy to use. All right.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break now for the news and be
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: back with more after the top of the hour.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 52:51
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• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Thursday, the White House Government Transparency Task Force unveiled a
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: bunch of new documents. And those documents show that the FBI,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: along with the State Department, in September of 2020, moved
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: to keep The Ukrainian witness, and I'm not going to,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going to butcher this guy's name, Andrei Telezhenko. My apologies, Mr. Telezhenko,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: for meeting with Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley. Obviously,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: those are two pretty high profile senators that were investigating
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: the Biden family business in the Ukraine and China. September 8th, 2020.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: The FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force began preparing a request
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: to revoke Mr. Telezinko's visa. The Department of the Treasury
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: later sanctioned him for election interference, though the CIA had
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: assessed at most he was an unwitting participant, even though
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: in August 2020, FBI memos showed that Russia had banned
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: him and listed him as a spy and that he
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: had rebuffed the Russian recruiters. So he was being recruited
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: by Russia to become a spy. He rebuffed them, so
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: they labeled him a spy, which is fantastic. So anyway,
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: as Senators Johnson and Grassley were trying to talk to
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: this individual, the FBI said, And the State Department had
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: him removed from the country so that they could not
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: interview him. This goes back again. You can and they're
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: showing you some of the memos that were being released
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: or sent to their superiors from the Ukraine at that point.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: And they said that the Hunter Biden appearance on the
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Burisma board appears to be a form of deterrence from
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: us investigating corruption in this country. that they're using the
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Biden son in that way. Also, let's see, the documents
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: also show the State Department officials have recommended giving Ukraine
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: loan guarantees and keeping the prosecutor in place before Joe
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Biden reversed that course. And what was labeled at the
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: time an audible. Now, I do appreciate that they listed
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: what an audible means for those of us who aren't
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: football fans. But, yeah, this is part of that huge deal.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: investigation that got almost no coverage in the mainstream media,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: including the fact that in 2023, the house judiciary committee
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: had several witnesses coming up. FBI invest, excuse me, IRS investigators,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Gary Shapley and Joseph Zeigler. They were told that they
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: could not, they could not interview or ask anyone about
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: who the big guy was. You're telling, and again, that
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: was in 2023. And it's like, it's as like, it's
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: like it never happened. I remember that guy being on
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: 60 minutes. I remember that guy being in front of
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: the house judiciary committee. And it's like it never happened
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: at all. You have a sitting president of the United
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: States who is accused of corruption. You have the actual
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: dignitaries in the Ukraine saying it appears that the vice
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: president is putting his son in place here to curb
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: our investigation into the Ukrainian corruption. Then you have him
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: sitting on a stage saying, fire that prosecutor or you
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: don't get the billion dollars. And to paraphrase, and son
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: of a B, what do you know? They fired the guy,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: bragging about it. I'm above the law. Nobody Fs with
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: a Biden, said Joe Biden. And you know what?
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: Pretty cut and dry.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: He hasn't been proven wrong, has he? Nobody Fs with
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: a Biden. There has been no consequences for this. And
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: at every turn, wherever the FBI or the CIA or
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: some other investigative body tries to look into this, they're
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: cut off by superiors. Why does that not bother Democrats?
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, they have a big problem with Donald Trump
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: and his family businesses. And look, I'm not saying that
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: the Trump hands are completely clean, although I haven't seen
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: any evidence yet to tell me otherwise. I'm open to investigations.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with investigations. I don't know why you wouldn't
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: be okay with an investigation, especially one this serious.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: And if you've already found all the information you need
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: to make a judgment... Why not go ahead and make
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: that judgment? Why not start prosecution?
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. I mean, we can't actually link him,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: I guess, yet to the big guy. We know that
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Hunter Biden was giving, what was it, 10% back to
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: the big guy? But we never found out who the
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: big guy was. Just some mysterious... figure. Maybe Hunter was
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: the big guy. He was ripping off the other people
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: and you just give 10% of the big guy. I'll
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: keep 10. You keep 10. Then we've got to give
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: 10 of the big guy. And maybe that was Hunter Biden.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. And he snorted it all.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe Hunter could, we could give Hunter a sketch artist
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: and he could sketch out who he thinks might be,
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: or might look like the big guy.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: I always met him in a parking lot and he
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: had like a very deep throat going watergate on you.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Listen, this is a, I'm glad that
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: they released that yesterday. I'm imagining 98% of Americans aren't
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: even aware that that was released yesterday. But if you
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: want to go and look, it's the White House Government
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Transparency Task Force is trying to bring some transparency to Americans,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: which we all claim we want. But do you really
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: want to look at it? It's there if you do.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. If you've got thoughts on this
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: or other things, use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: And we go to the nation's capital for this story.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: And I am fascinated how there's two different tellings of
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: the same tale. Both involve a guy named Maldonado Soriano.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: And as a Yankees fan, I hate to see the
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: name Soriano involved here. All right. So this one is
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: from NBC News.
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: NBC News reports extensive damage to the Iwo Jima statue
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: at Quantico, Virginia, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Police In Prince William County, say they found Miguel Alonso
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Maldonado Soriano, age 27, vandalizing the statue with a sledgehammer
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: after 10 p.m. Wednesday. The extensive damage to the statue
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: ended up removing the head of one of the statue's Marines,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: according to the police. And then they kind of wrap
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: up their story. Officers detained Maldonado Soriano from Stafford County.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: He has been charged with felony destruction of property, trespassing
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: with the intent to damage, and felony injury to a monument. Now,
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: we'll just kind of compare that to how the New
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: York Post reported it. The New York Post, 27-year-old miscreant
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: who was in the U.S. illegally, beheaded one of our
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: soldiers at the Iwo Jima statue at the Marine Corps
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: base in Quantico with a sledgehammer. Now, this guy is
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: an illegal person. And I don't know why that's not
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: being reported by NBC News. Now, I can tell you,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: I have now, I, thanks to AI, have done an
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: extensive research on a guy that I hadn't heard of
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: before this morning. But this individual came in as a
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: baby because he's 27 now. And it says that he
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: illegally entered the country in 1999. So, OK, he would
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: have been one ish. Meaning he was brought here. He
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: didn't come across on his own. Now he did receive,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: he was a dreamer. So the dreamers all got their
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: big break back in 2014 with Barack Obama, right? So
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: they got the DACA protections and then he, you know,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: has to keep renewing it, has to keep renewing it.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: And then he did so set multiple times over the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: past 12 years. Biden administration, last one to renew it
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: in 2024.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: He officially lost his protective status in August of this year.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: They did not renew it. You're not staying here. He
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: already had a criminal record. They said, you got to go.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: He didn't go. Instead, he took out his frustrations by
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: going to Quantico and beheading the Iwo Jima statue. You
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: would think that a man, you would hope that a
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: man who had 27 great years in the United States died.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: and would have been the benefit of numerous programs and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: all of that, that yes, of course, there's massive disappointment
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: that you're not going to be becoming a citizen, but
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: you probably shouldn't have robbed the stores that you did
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: and been caught illegally having a weapon after being convicted.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: And I mean, there's all these problems with this guy.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: But he couldn't appreciate America enough to just leave. He
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: had to go and behead America. One of the great
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: statues in this nation's history. I don't know what the
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: punishment is for this, but it's, I'd put, I mean,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: obviously there's no loss of life. So I'm not going
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: to say, let's just do the same thing. Can we
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: get a two for one special on December 3rd? I'm
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: not going to say that. I thought it, but then
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I'm not actually suggesting it. But again, when
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: you go after one of the great, I mean, that
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: is a piece of Americana lore. That brings so much
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: pride to Americans, the Iwo Jima statue.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: One of the iconic images of that war.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: And just knock that dude's head off with a sledgehammer
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: If you know you're illegal, why wouldn't you be laying
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: low in the first place? Much less doing something as
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: high profile as this.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: OK, why would you rob a store when you didn't
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: need the money? Then once you've robbed the store and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: you're out, why would you be carrying a weapon knowing
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: you can't carry the weapon? I mean, there's numerous bad
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: decisions in this individual's life. And again, I forget what
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: story we were talking about earlier. Oh, you know what
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: it was? It was about shoddy, shoddy dread. Maybe we'll
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: go back to the Shoddy Dredd story because that is
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: kind of funny. We might have to revisit Shoddy Dredd
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: in just a minute.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: We might have to revisit Doge again.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: You're dang right.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: You're dang right. Thank you, Christopher Thompson, for getting us
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: back on track. We'll take a break and be back
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: with some of your thoughts off the iHeartRadio app. Thanks
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: All right, we were talking, I guess maybe it was
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: the 7 o'clock hour, about Shoddy Dredd. If you missed that,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: the vice president made an announcement yesterday that Shoddy Dredd,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: Atlanta wannabe rapper, was arrested on $ 4 million in snap fraud.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: And part of that included him posting on social media
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: himself lighting money on fire. That's how easy it was
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: for him to steal from the U.S. taxpayers over the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: past few years. And that's part of the reason that
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: we're cutting some of the snap benefits because they're going
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: to the people like shoddy, who was, he, he himself
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: was 350 individuals. So when we kick 350 individuals off
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: of snap, we're kicking shoddy dread. That's who we're kicking off.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, this is very similar to the fraud
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: in Minnesota, to the fraud in California. You've got, you know,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: one firm, one illegal, one, one criminal, uh, running, you know, say,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: you know, 80 hospices out of a single room in
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: a business building in a business district. I mean, you
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: know it's fraud right off the bat, but we still,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: as you pointed out, we still didn't discover it for
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: years and years and years until this guy had access
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: to a jet and he's driving blinged out Mercedes and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: burning cash online.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like when I burn through cash, it means I
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: bought some sneakers or something. He's literally setting it on
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: fire for the videos. But Shoddy's an Atlanta guy, right?
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: Born and raised. He's a U.S. citizen. So you and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: I as the taxpayer are going to have to fund
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Shoddy's imprisonment, whatever that is. I was celebrating the fact
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: that one of the other people that they caught, actually
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: they caught several others, both from the Dominican Republic, Fernandez
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Guzman and Juan Penepena. You got a double name, Penepena, 37-year-old.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: They both, now Penepena was up in Boston and, oh
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: my God, I guess it's Joanna. I'm sorry, because it
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: said she. has stolen approximately $ 80, 000 in SNAP benefits. Fernandez
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: got $ 22, 000 in SNAP benefits, $ 98, 000 in Medicaid benefits, and $ 45, 000
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: in Section 8 housing, all illegally. Um, and so those
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: people were not going to have to pay for them.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: They're just going to be deported. You just got to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: pay for the airfare to get them out of here.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: And I wish that we had, I like the fact,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I like it when we catch somebody doing something and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: we can just boop, they're deported. I'd like that is better.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: Cause again, we do have a lot of our own
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: homegrown idiots who are ripping us off as well. But
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: when we can just take care of the problem with
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: a plane ticket, That makes life a lot better for
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: the U.S. taxpayer. So, again, congratulations, J.D. Vance and the
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: task force as they're continuing to crack down. I think
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: $ 42 million they got yesterday. Many more dollars to be
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: saved in the not-too-distant future promises the vice president. We'll
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: see how that goes. But Christopher's earlier point of bring
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: back Doge or just reopen the stuff that Doge already
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: told you about. see what else we can grab in there.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: And maybe that's exactly the playbook. I'm not sure. JD
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: doesn't talk to us, but we're here. JD, use the
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, we'll take
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: a break and be back in more.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: All right, good morning to you. Welcome to Friday. And
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: let me see if I can do something here in
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: just a second to try to, Maybe put a little
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: smile on your face. Christopher Thompson, are you ready for
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: the weekend, by the way?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: I'm ready, but I'm ready for a smile, too.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: All right. Best Gamecock coverage coming up tomorrow, 1230. Correct.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: And that'll be on WVOC. So you WSC listeners, get
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. You can listen to the best Gamecock
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: coverage here on the iHeartRadio app off WVOC. She's back. And,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: you know, look. Few things bring me as many smiles
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: as Kamala Harris campaign speeches. And so she's out stumping
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: around Mississippi, apparently. And this is some of the goodness
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: from last night's Kamala Harris rally. Oh, we've got to
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: put it in program. That's part of the problem.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 8: You know, I mentor a lot of young people, and
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: I talk to them sometimes, and part of the advice
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 8: I give them is, you know... Never let someone else's
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 8: limited ability to see your capacity be a limitation on
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 8: your ambition.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: Now there's people on stage telling them to come.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Let me repeat that.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 8: Never let anybody else's, somebody else's limited ability to see
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: your capacity to be a limitation on your ambition.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, now we got some applause.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: That's their limitation. That's not our limitation. That's their limitation.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 8: We are not limited in our ambition and desire and
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 8: ability to see what is possible and what can be.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 8: We understand that the people of Mississippi deserve better. We understand.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: It doesn't have to be this way. It doesn't have
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: to be this way.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: There you go. Kamala Harris. That could be the name
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: of her book. How does she say it? It doesn't
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: have to be this way. It doesn't have to be
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: this way. It's like buckwheat. It doesn't have to be
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: that way. My gosh, this woman is... Do you really
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: believe when she starts that speech, I mentor a lot
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: of young people?
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: How many of those young people have your personal cell
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: phone number? And how often are you meeting with them?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: Ms.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Mentor? I doubt highly that she's mentoring. And by the way,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: if you are being mentored by Kamala Harris, may I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: suggest you interview other mentors?
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: You've made a wrong career choice right off the bat.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: You're already sunk. You're doomed. My gosh. And this lady
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: is still the front runner for president? She is.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: Bring it on.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. I mean, just for the comedic content alone.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: And by the way, stark contrast. If you want to
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: have a mental exercise weekend, here's something you can think about. Again,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: completely understand the president is underwater when it comes to
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: his popularity at this point. But if Kamala Harris was
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: the president, imagine what would be happening in the country
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: right now. Where would we be? How much closer to
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: Paris would we be at this point? And those would
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: be considered mostly peaceful protests. And rightful protest, right? Because
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: the kids need the better schools. That's why we've got
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: to set them on fire. So we're going to get
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: some better school. I mean, just the lunacy that we
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: sidestepped it, again, because she's an inarticulate maroon. But I
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: do want more Kamala speeches. I look forward to it.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be that way.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: And we would go back because, as she told us,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: when she was asked directly on The View, what would
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: you do differently than Joe Biden did? I can't think
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: of a thing.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing comes to mind right now. That's it.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: Just make me Joe Biden 2.0.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Could she make Ilhan her running mate?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: That'd be even better. We'll take a break and be
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: back with your thoughts on that, possibly off the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: It's Friday morning.
• 1:11:00
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• 1:11:05
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• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Brian from Sumter here. As far as Kamala and Ilhan Omar,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: thank goodness Ilhan Omar could not be her running mate.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: But just as bad, she can make AOC her running mate.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: So think about that one.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: It could also be AOC trying to run for president.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: You never know.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Well, obviously they're looking at AOC as a legitimate opportunity
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: right now. She's got a lot of money behind her,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of popularity behind her. Kamala versus AOC or
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  Speaker 2: is it Kamala with AOC? Is that the dream ticket
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  Speaker 2: that the Democrats have been looking for? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out more as we get closer to it.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to do a little housekeeping here. I
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  Speaker 2: got an email from Dan of West Columbia who is
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  Speaker 2: upset with me. Me, not you, Christopher. He's upset with
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  Speaker 2: me because he said that the Lindsey Graham story wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: get any traction if it wasn't for people like me. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I would point out, and he says, I give you
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  Speaker 2: more credit for being a better journalist than this. I
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  Speaker 2: am not a journalist, Daniel. I never claimed to be.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the person out there gathering the news. I
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: comment on the news. And that happens to be the headline,
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  Speaker 2: the Lindsey Graham story on about every newspaper and or
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  Speaker 2: television station currently in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you had to have your head in the sand
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  Speaker 3: to have not seen that last night when that documentary broke.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, again, I'm just commenting on it. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: trying to propagate it. Actually, I was trying to diminish it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but Christopher, you had sent me a story here just
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  Speaker 2: a little while ago about the 20,000 is the minimum
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  Speaker 2: amount that the prosecutors think are illegals voting in California
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  Speaker 2: elections now. I do like the fact that he said— I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know how you pronounce the— prosecutor's name out there,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like.
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  Speaker 3: It's Saley.
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  Speaker 2: A Saley. A Saley says 20,000 is the floor. That's
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  Speaker 2: the minimum. But the ceiling is a lot higher, huh?
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of that story?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's shocking in a sense. And at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, okay, it's California. What did we expect?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you've got You know, people paying. What
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: did you say they were they were paying in cigarettes?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Lucy's is what they call it when you give them
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  Speaker 2: like one or two.
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  Speaker 3: Cigarettes just to get the homeless to to vote or
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  Speaker 3: to register to vote. That's I mean, it's probably the
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  Speaker 3: tip of the iceberg. It's probably closer to the floor
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  Speaker 3: than the ceiling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he says that we're not asking them to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: really that extreme, but just kind of put them to
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  Speaker 2: the side. I'm not saying don't count them. We just
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  Speaker 2: let us take a better look at those 20,000 ballots.
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  Speaker 2: And now 331,000 people have already voted in California as
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: they head into the midterms. And 20,000 of them are
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  Speaker 2: being flagged by our federal authorities. Let's see if the
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: state authorities agree with them. I doubt it. All right,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: we'll take a break and be back with more in
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  Speaker 2: just a minute.
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  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, the final segment before Christopher and I launch
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: into the weekend. And a little bit lighter news. I
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: saw this clip this morning on Fox & Friends, the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: early morning edition. This is not the big cast. This
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: is the, what, five to six show, I guess. They
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  Speaker 2: had a guy named Dr. Clay Maussan. And he says
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  Speaker 2: that tipping is out of control.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Tipping is out of control in the United States. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, 85% of Americans in a recent
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: survey agreed with that statement. Tipping is out of control. However,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: 55% of Americans say they continue to tip just about
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: every time they're asked because of the social pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Ironic you bring that up because it's a big debate
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  Speaker 3: going on in the Post and Couriers. on their website
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  Speaker 3: right now and you know charleston with as many restaurants
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: as they have but it's not just restaurants it's every
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: everywhere you go now you know you pay with a
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: card you get that screen turned toward you and would
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  Speaker 3: you like to tip 20 and 20 percent usually the
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: standard let me play.
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  Speaker 2: This little clip of dr clay moss from this morning
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  Speaker 2: on fox and friends.
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  Speaker 1: Please describe the full menu of services that was provided
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: I love this question when I run it. I laugh, too.
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  Speaker 1: At the kiosk that led the kiosk, I think it
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  Speaker 1: warranted a tip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure why on earth we think that
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  Speaker 2: we need to tip Casper the Friendly Ghost when nobody's
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: actually there. This guy is actually, he was showing at
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: a Newark airport that you, there's nobody working. There is
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: zero employees.
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  Speaker 3: You're just at a kiosk. Yes.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: You go into the store, you pick up the stuff,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: and then you scan it, and then you bag it,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: and then it asks you for an 18% tip. Now, apparently,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: the theory is that that money would then go to
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: the people who originally stocked it or something to that extent.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: But how... I mean, we are so far off on tipping, right?
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: It used to be to ensure prompt service. That's where
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: the tip came from.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: Well, it used to be to reward good service.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, but that was the name, to ensure prompt service, TIP.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: That's where they got the word tip from. And then
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: it was, as you said, it was a reward to, hey,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: you are such a great waiter. You did a great
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: job fixing my car. Let me give you a little
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: extra tip on that one. That's fantastic. Now it's become,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: like you said, just, hey, I'm giving you the sandwich.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Now give me 20% more. This is, and 55% of Americans,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll admit I had done it. I had, I
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: used to, because I'd feel the people behind me and
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: I'd be looking at the person in front of me
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: and they'd be like, you know, and right there, if
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: you just hit that little green button and I'd have to,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: I did it. I'd like, man, I can't believe it.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: Guilted into it. I'm just guilted into it. But now
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: I have grown a spine. And I'm not doing it anymore.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: So now I say, well, where, where's the X on
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: this again? Cause, and the bike, oh, you can X
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: out right over here on the left.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Boom. X. There you go. You know, you didn't
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: earn a tip that I earned a tip as a dishwasher. No,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: I did not. I made at that time, three 37
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: and hours. What I made as a dishwasher and it
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: was in a very fancy restaurant. Everybody there was paying $ 60,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: $ 70 a meal. What did I get? $ 3. 37 an hour,
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  Speaker 2: as I should have. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: The waiters and waitresses didn't split it with the rest
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: of the house?
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  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: They might have split it with the chefs. Yeah. But
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: the people downstairs, we actually worked below. So it was
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: like the ceiling was only like six feet off the ground,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: it seemed like. It was like it was almost hitting
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: my head. And the moisture from the, what are those things?
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: The Hobart machines? It would just be the whole ceiling
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: would just be flooded with water. It would keep dropping
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: on my head. And I remember my first day there.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: I was a gullible 16 year old with long red hair.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: And I felt some of those drops in my hair.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: And one of the senior dishwashers thought it would be
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: funny to tell me that those were, uh, he was like,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: do you feel anything hitting in your hair? And I
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I did. And he was like, oh man, listen,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: whatever you do, don't wash your hair tonight. I was like,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: what are you, what, what are you talking about? He's like, well,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: because I hate to tell this to you, but the
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: cockroaches are They're actually dropping eggs right now. And what
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: happens is if you shampoo it, that actually activates them
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: and they birth in your hair. And I'm 16 going,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: I can't wash my hair? He's like, I wouldn't do
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: it for at least two days.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: You should have gotten hazard pay for that job.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: That's awful.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't true. It was just water dropping off
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: my head. But it was, look, everybody's got stories about
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: their first jobs.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 8: True.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: And your first jobs are supposed to be rough. And
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: then you work hard to get out of that situation.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: Or you don't, and you just say, I'll just be
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: comfortable here being whatever this is. And, you know, we
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: keep pushing for a livable wage, which has never been
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: the intent of a minimum wage job. It was to
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: introduce people into the workforce and or help people with
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: a little extra money as they're leaving the workforce, or
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: possibly even pick up a little extra cash on the
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: side because their main job is not paying enough. That's
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: what a minimum wage job is designed to do. And
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: we've now turned it into, it should be a career.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: I am like the guys who used to pump the gas, remember,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: and they'd check your oil and stuff. That's not supposed
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: to be a career. That's supposed to be a job
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: that you did for a short period of time.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: And we didn't tip those folks either.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: You know, I was trying to remember, did we?
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: That was part of their job.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Check the oil, son.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what they did. They got paid.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: People are like right now going, what do you mean
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: check the oil? That was a thing. That was definitely
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: a thing back in the day. Oh, my gosh. Well,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: we had a lot of fun this week, and I'm
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: looking forward to tomorrow. Christopher Thompson, best Gamecock coverage starts
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: at 1230 on WVOC. So hopefully you get on the
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app for those of you in the low country.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, we'll see you on Monday.