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INTERVIEW: Jermaine Johnson Talks Running For Governor Of South Carolina, Affordability, Education + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day a week ago up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's d j n V.
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  Speaker 2: Just hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club along the
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  Speaker 3: Roses here as well. We got a special guest in
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  Speaker 3: the building. He's running for governor of South Carolina. Ladies
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  Speaker 3: and gentlemen, Jamaine Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome brother. What's going on? Man? Appreciate you all for
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  Speaker 2: having me this moment.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I feeling good this morning? Man, it feels real good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got the opportunity to do some history
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  Speaker 4: making this South Carolina COmON style.
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  Speaker 2: Stead Man, more you be in more, you can be
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  Speaker 2: in the said he speaks Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: He's Dominican, but don't never want to claim it. Just
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  Speaker 1: break it out whenever you.
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  Speaker 2: Want to know. He's flew in his Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: Test him. Yeahs not be.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that your favorite Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you want to run for governors South Carolina?
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  Speaker 1: What beautiful stadium?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, uh, South Carolina deserves a change. It's time
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  Speaker 4: for a new beginning for South Carolina. We've seen some
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  Speaker 4: crazy stuff happening in the state. We know South Carolina
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  Speaker 4: has over six hundred unsolved murders, just since twenty twenty alone,
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  Speaker 4: we have the highest percentage of bridges and district pay
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  Speaker 4: in the entire country. Our roads are the top two
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  Speaker 4: worst than the entire country and most dangerous in the
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  Speaker 4: entire country. But yet we have leaders in South Carolina
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  Speaker 4: that want to look at other states and look at
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  Speaker 4: other countries and talk trash about them, when really South
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  Speaker 4: Carolina needs all the assistants that they can get right
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  Speaker 4: about now. And we have a governor that decided to
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  Speaker 4: send our National guardsmen to Washington, DC because Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: told them to do. So, you know, it's time for
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  Speaker 4: somebody who really wants to just focus on the issues
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  Speaker 4: that are happened to every day South Carolinians.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know talk about pause overachieve. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how do you have the time? I mean you talk
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  Speaker 3: about you have a pilot license, your motorcycles, member of
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  Speaker 3: five Beta Sigma, your professor, your business school and a
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  Speaker 3: business school, bought a benedict College which is a HBCU.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things that you do. So first, black
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  Speaker 1: state representative, the represented district.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely fluid in Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: When do you have the time?
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  Speaker 5: Why do you forget the University of Delaware?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to say that one. The University of
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  Speaker 3: Delaware is Biden Award. Yes, we don't come on talking
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  Speaker 3: about but you're doing so much, Wendy, you have the time.
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  Speaker 2: Brother.
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  Speaker 4: Man, listen, I'm blessed with a beautiful wife. Man who's
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  Speaker 4: sitting in here in the studio with me right now,
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  Speaker 4: a black woman. My wife, she's you know, very successful
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  Speaker 4: in her own right. She's a pharmacists. Well so she's
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  Speaker 4: a doctor, so I'm a doctor business administration. I've just
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  Speaker 4: been a blessed individual to have the support of my
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  Speaker 4: family to allow me to do the things that I
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  Speaker 4: need to do. She's not not a selfish individual, so
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  Speaker 4: she just supports me when I have to go out
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  Speaker 4: here in the community and just make the changes I
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  Speaker 4: need to make.
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  Speaker 5: Did you guys meet at Benedicte.
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  Speaker 2: Now, so we went to College of Charleston. Shout out
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  Speaker 2: to College of Charleston. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I played basketball the College of Charleston. Uh, same,
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  Speaker 4: the same time that Stephen Curry was at Davidson. And
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  Speaker 4: let Steph know right now that we beat them. That's
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  Speaker 4: why he ended up going to the NBA that year.
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  Speaker 4: We put them out the tournament. You know, and I
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  Speaker 4: was part of that team down in a college of Charleston.
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  Speaker 4: But that's where we met at UH and we've been
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  Speaker 4: together ever since.
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, you are the second Democrat to
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  Speaker 5: launch a campaign for governor. Talk to us about just
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  Speaker 5: the feats and the things that are about to be
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  Speaker 5: ahead of you, Like, what are you nervous about, what
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  Speaker 5: are you excited about about the m history.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not really nervous about anything. The people all
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  Speaker 4: across South Carolina they want to see something different. They've
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  Speaker 4: been excited ever since I decided to announce my run
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  Speaker 4: for governor because they know I've been the one who's
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  Speaker 4: been fighting on the behalf for years now. I think
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  Speaker 4: most of y'all probably saw that d I speech that
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  Speaker 4: I did that has been saying by over about seven
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  Speaker 4: million people at this point. People all across this country
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  Speaker 4: decided to reach out to me and say, Jermaine, and
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  Speaker 4: we would love for you to run for higher office,
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  Speaker 4: to do something. So the people South Carolina just ready
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  Speaker 4: for something different. I will be the second black nominee
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  Speaker 4: in the history of South Carolina. That is a that's
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  Speaker 4: a big deal right now. And even if you know
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  Speaker 4: by even if I don't win, some young boy or
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  Speaker 4: some young girl will look at me and say, man,
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  Speaker 4: I can now be that guy I could, Like, it's
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  Speaker 4: possible I can grow up to be him when I
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I get up there. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I went to seven different high schools. I had a
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  Speaker 4: you know, I had a point a GPA my freshman
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  Speaker 4: year of high school. I was homeless most of my upbringing.
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  Speaker 4: I lived in motels, yeah the point eight man, Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I lived in motels. I lived in an Evergreen motel,
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  Speaker 4: a travel lodge in and all these different places, and
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  Speaker 4: slept on friends couches and things like that. But yet
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  Speaker 4: I still was able to graduate, still was able to
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  Speaker 4: go to college, still was able to get my doctors,
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  Speaker 4: still was able to be a professional athlete.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a whole bunch of stuff. So kids know
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  Speaker 2: it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the highways in South Carolina. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: that's been to South Carolina, you just see how much
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  Speaker 1: is growing, right, Like, I mean, traffic is crazy and
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  Speaker 1: chalk and traffic is crazy in places like Mount's Corner.
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  Speaker 1: Does the state have the profit proferit infrastructure to accommodate
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  Speaker 1: the growing popular man?
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  Speaker 2: Heck no, man, And I know you've seen it yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Listen, anybody who was driven between South Carolina and
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  Speaker 4: North Carolina. You can literally see the line in the
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  Speaker 4: road about how bad it is, Like you can feel
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  Speaker 4: the that you could feel how bad it is. And
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  Speaker 4: because people are dying every single day, this is why
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  Speaker 4: our insurance is so high, Like car insurances continues to
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  Speaker 4: go up, and it's partly because of how bad our
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  Speaker 4: infrastructure is. And we're not truly addressing these issues. People
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  Speaker 4: are dying every single day on these roads, man. And
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  Speaker 4: until we start to take this thing serious, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to ask, you know, you talk about
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  Speaker 3: the murders, you talk about the roads. What's the first
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  Speaker 3: thing you want to do when you get in office.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the biggest thing I'm all about is mental health.
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  Speaker 4: I traveled the state about a year and a half
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  Speaker 4: ago with a bunch of former gang members Bloods and
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  Speaker 4: Cribs and gds, and we went to different communities where
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  Speaker 4: they felt disenfranchised, and we asked them, well, how could
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  Speaker 4: we solve the issues in your communities? And these are
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  Speaker 4: places that were not in my district. I went all
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  Speaker 4: over the state and went about thirty different counties, and
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  Speaker 4: every last county said mental health. Every last one said
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  Speaker 4: mental health, mental health. Because of these kids are out here. Then,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we have a bunch of people who are
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  Speaker 4: running around with undiagnosed mental health concerns, and then they're
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  Speaker 4: raising kids now also with undiagnosed mental health concerns. And
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  Speaker 4: then we also have given them access to guns by
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  Speaker 4: the constitution to carry and all those different types of things.
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  Speaker 4: So it's caused so many problems. Well, I want to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that police officers actually have the support in
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  Speaker 4: terms of having a mental health provider, you know, on
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  Speaker 4: the staff with them. I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: the schools have mental health workers in every single district
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  Speaker 4: in the state.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure people have that work. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Yang is also a support How did you and
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Yang get up?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 4: So in twenty nineteen, when I was looking at who
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  Speaker 4: all going to support for President of the United States,
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  Speaker 4: I was actually a Corey Booker supporter.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Corey Booker. But what Corey.
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  Speaker 4: Booker was talking about wasn't really in my opinion, talking
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  Speaker 4: about solutions. And then I came across the agent God
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  Speaker 4: talk about he wanted to give everybody a thousand dollars
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  Speaker 4: a month, And when I thought about it, I said, Man,
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  Speaker 4: a thousand dollars a month would have really changed my life.
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  Speaker 4: It would have kept me out out of those hoods,
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  Speaker 4: would have kept me out of living in those motels.
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  Speaker 4: That would have really changed everything about me. And when
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  Speaker 4: I met him, it was like he was talking about
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  Speaker 4: AI and all these other things that literally we are
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  Speaker 4: seeing every single day now. Everything he said he was
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  Speaker 4: right about everything, and that's what led me to him,
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  Speaker 4: and I said, Man, I'm gonna go ahead and help you.
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  Speaker 4: And we've been friends ever since.
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  Speaker 1: You talk a lot about economic empowerment. What's this specific
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  Speaker 1: plan to bring like real investment, real jobs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: real entrepreneurship into rural counties, you know in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that I've already done is
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  Speaker 4: in my district, I created something the Lord Rich and
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  Speaker 4: Tech Academy. And what that does is it teaches low
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  Speaker 4: coding and no coding technologies to the people in the
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  Speaker 4: rural community and allows them to start their own entrepreneur
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  Speaker 4: businesses in those areas. So in East over South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: We have started at least forty different small businesses right
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  Speaker 4: there in that rural area needs a majority of black
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  Speaker 4: and brown people that started these different businesses down there.
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  Speaker 4: I want to take that entire program across the state.
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  Speaker 4: I also want to work on this my South Carolina
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  Speaker 4: Resiliency Act. So what that's going to do is going
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  Speaker 4: to mandate South Carolina to be able to produce or
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  Speaker 4: manufacture at least twenty five percent of the resource that
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  Speaker 4: we need in South Carolina. Right now, South Carolina only
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  Speaker 4: produces eleven percent of the food that we can consume
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  Speaker 4: every single year. Eleven percent is not enough, so we
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  Speaker 4: have to import all of our food from other states,
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  Speaker 4: from other countries. I want to say, listen, let's produce
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  Speaker 4: our own stuff. What that's gonna do is that's going
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  Speaker 4: to help out our rural communities as well as our farmers,
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  Speaker 4: to put them back to work, allow them to expand
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  Speaker 4: the farms, and say, listen, we're gonna put We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get our own produce from the people who are right
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  Speaker 4: here in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: When did you learn to start projecting your voice and
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  Speaker 1: every time you talk, don't want to do push ups?
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  Speaker 4: Listen, well, I actually I got a degree in communications.
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  Speaker 2: But my thing was, it's always attle boy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they always say I was loud man. I've always
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  Speaker 4: been a loud speaker. They've always confused me with saying, hey, man,
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  Speaker 4: you talk a lout like now, I don't talk a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I just talk loud, you know, And I want to
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  Speaker 4: be heard. I need to be heard when I'm speaking
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  Speaker 4: up for people.
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  Speaker 3: So people always ask if you do become governor, what
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  Speaker 3: we said, when you do become governor, how would be work?
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  Speaker 1: How would you work with Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Man, listen, man, you're gonna bring that man up up ahead,
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  Speaker 4: man listen. So my thing is, and what I've told everybody,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care who's in the white House. I don't
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  Speaker 4: care if it's Republican. I don't care if it's a
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  Speaker 4: Democrat in the White House. If it's not good for
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina, I'm not supporting it. I'm truly South Carolina. First,
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  Speaker 4: we have these crazy people who are running for office
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  Speaker 4: to call themselves Trump conservatives. I was like, what the
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  Speaker 4: hell is a Trump conservative?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Like, you know, you let one man define what a
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  Speaker 4: conservative is. And that's the problem. So if Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: wants to do good for South Carolina. I will gladly
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  Speaker 4: work with him. If he wants to do bad, I'll
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  Speaker 4: gladly stand against them. And I've been an independent thinker.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care you know what party you decide to
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  Speaker 4: be with. If it's not good for the people of
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina, I'm not supporting it.
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  Speaker 1: What's your plan? The overhaul education? So students graduate in
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina either career ready, college ready, our business ready.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we lag behind national average.
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  Speaker 2: Man forty third in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's bad, man, and we haven't done anything about it.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, places like Greenville are receiving more funds
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  Speaker 4: than places like Denmark, right, so we have an issue
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  Speaker 4: where we're not funding these schools adequately. So I want
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  Speaker 4: to do a full on public education audit. What I
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  Speaker 4: want to do is I want to compare the rule
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  Speaker 4: schools that are well performing with the rural schools that
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  Speaker 4: are poor performing, and the urban schools with the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the urban schools that.
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  Speaker 2: Are well performing with the urban schools that are poor performing.
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  Speaker 4: I want to look at the administration and overhead and
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  Speaker 4: to see if there's any waste for spending with the administration.
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  Speaker 4: And I also want to look at teacher pay. I
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  Speaker 4: want to look at all that and compare them all
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  Speaker 4: across the entire state and create this after this entire audit,
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  Speaker 4: I want to get all the information together and then
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  Speaker 4: make best practices from there. So to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: we have all the information we need to make the
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  Speaker 4: best decision. Right now, we're not doing anything. We're just
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  Speaker 4: looking at social issues. We're more concerned with banning books
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  Speaker 4: in South Carolina. We are the number one state of
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  Speaker 4: banned books. South Carolina is we want to look at
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  Speaker 4: all the crazy stuff going on. Instead of actually investing,
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  Speaker 4: we want to take away public school money and give
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  Speaker 4: it the private damn schools.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that is a problem right there. And in
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  Speaker 4: these private schools, if you want to send your kid
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  Speaker 4: to this private school, they literally can say your kid
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  Speaker 4: can't come to the private school, but my kid can come.
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  Speaker 4: But your tax dollars is gonna pay for my kid
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  Speaker 4: to go to the privat school that Joe kid can't
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  Speaker 4: get to. And that's a problem in South Carolina. So
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  Speaker 4: we have to truly look at public education to make
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  Speaker 4: sure we're fixing and addressing these issues.
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  Speaker 3: What's the one thing the governor is doing wrong the governor.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, what's one thing that he's doing wrong? If
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  Speaker 3: you could pick out all the things, one thing that really.
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  Speaker 4: Kissing Donald Trump's But I mean, I mean, just to
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  Speaker 4: be honest, he sent two hundred of our National guardsmen
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  Speaker 4: to Washington, d C. And when he sent them up there,
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing is they're literally on the side of
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  Speaker 4: the road picking up trash in DC right now. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if those two hundred National Guardsmen didn't have anything to do, well,
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  Speaker 4: how come they're not in South Carolina helping us solve
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  Speaker 4: those six hundred unsolved murders that I talked about, like
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  Speaker 4: they could they could have easily been put to work
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  Speaker 4: doing something better for the people of South Carolina. But no,
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  Speaker 4: every time Donald Trump calls, he answers. And that's the
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  Speaker 4: problem that we have. We need to be addressing these
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  Speaker 4: issues that are in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: But when the President calls, aren't you supposed answer them?
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  Speaker 4: You were supposed to answer, But you don't got to
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  Speaker 4: like do everything that this man say. Every time he
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  Speaker 4: say send I mean, and he did it during hurricane season.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, come on, man, Like we're sitting
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  Speaker 4: in a situation where it could be seriously dangerous, putting
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  Speaker 4: more South Carolinians at risk because you want to appease
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  Speaker 4: one man.
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: What would be the consequence saying no to him?
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  Speaker 4: You're just not gonna be best friends with them anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm I'm you can stop federal funding.
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  Speaker 5: You can get your resources for like when there's like
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  Speaker 5: emergencies in South Carolina, or even funding for like the
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  Speaker 5: schools and the stuff that you're talking about right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he could talk about he could talk
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  Speaker 4: about all different types of federal funding issues, but we're
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  Speaker 4: seeing federal funding cuts already, So I mean that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: really matter. He's gonna cut us in ways if he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't like us, you know, and he might threaten once
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  Speaker 4: I become governor, he might threaten to cut funding in
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  Speaker 4: it anyways, just because I'm a black Democrat. You know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, I D right, but I always listen
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  Speaker 4: called me D. I definitely earned it, all right, So
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's the type of person I am.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, how do you make sure that, like
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  Speaker 5: when you go in and do all the testing in
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  Speaker 5: those schools and you you know, raise those numbers to
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  Speaker 5: get the funding and stuff that the teachers are still
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  Speaker 5: really connected to the students because I've been like I
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  Speaker 5: went to an inner city school, and when we got
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  Speaker 5: more better numbers, score numbers, test numbers, more money, the
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  Speaker 5: teachers they brought in were so disconnected from us, Like
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  Speaker 5: it changed the environment of the school and it was
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  Speaker 5: like it caused more students to not come back to
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  Speaker 5: the school. And I think that happens a lot, especially
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  Speaker 5: in the inner city school So how do you like
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  Speaker 5: do good in those schools? Will also make sure that
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  Speaker 5: the teachers are still like invested in the students.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Well, the thing is you have to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that you are connected with the school. So one thing
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  Speaker 4: that I've done, even as a state representative, I decided
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  Speaker 4: to go and become a substitute teacher. So I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to the public schools to go to. Yeah, it is,
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: I do a lot, but I wanted to go in
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: there because I wanted the teachers to to one know
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: that I cared. I wanted the kids to be able
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: to see me and say, man, like that's a state representative.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: He's a politician, but yet he's still like he's one
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: of us, and I can be him when I can
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: see him and I can touch him, you know. So
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: I went in there to really assess the situation. And
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: I think you lead by example. And I don't plan
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: to stop any of the work that I'm doing once
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: I become governor. I plan to continue on going into
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: the schools. I plan to continue on going in there
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: and advocating for them. I even fod a bill that
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: would mandate that the members of the General Assembly would
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: have to do at least five days a year of
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: volunteering or substitute teaching in the public schools because I
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: needed to see it.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Now, we always talk about trade schools, right I'm a
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: salute to Lincoln Tech. I'm an ambassador for Lincoln Tech.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: I love trade schools, but you really love trade schools.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Explain why and why do you think trade schools are
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: so necessary?
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, listen, we put too much emphasis on
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: this for your institutions. I think if you're not an athlete,
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: or you're not going to be a lawyer or a doctor,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: you should be looking at trade schools. And we have
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: allowed people to really just keep overselling these for year
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: institutions all the time, and trade schools. We have a
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: lack of workers right now, We have a lack of electricians.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: We have a lack of plumbers, we have a lack
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: of engineers. You know, my son right now is going
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: to Menlan's Technical College to get his megatronics degree right now.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Because Scott Motors needs some more workers that's coming to
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: South Carolina. Michelin said about sixty five percent of their
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: workforce for retiring over the next few years. We have
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: a lack of these industrial workers, and I think we
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: need to put the embassis. I mean, people can come
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: out of these schools, these trade schools making eighty five
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: thousand dollars after two years, I mean they'll be nineteen
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: years old. Man, Like you got to think about that,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: you know, helping these kids to learn how to invest
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: in their futures.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I got cousins Man and Monks Corner who were doing HVAC.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: As soon as they got our high school. They an
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: mister mill in twenty five years.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: That's right, That's right.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: And I love the conversations you're having because you're talking
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: about economic empowerment, you're talking about mental health, you know
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: something that you're talking about trade schools. Like all of
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: that stuff to me is just about affordability and how
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: to keep people safe. Why is that so hard for politicians?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: It's life aining complicated. People just want some more money
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: in their pocket and they want to feel safe.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Because they allow on Fox News and ceing them to
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: be the driving talking. And I think that's the problem.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: We do the same thing in South Carolina. The Republicans
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: they quote Fox News, Democrats quote Seeing n you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: And I think we need to get away from that.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: I think we need to get back to addressing the issues.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm all about affordability. People are hungry, man Like,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: people are starving out here. We don't even have a
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: minimum wage in South Carolina. Like people always say, let's
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: raise minimum wage. We don't have one.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: We have to establish a minimum wage before we can
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: raise the Dame minimum wage, you know. So I mean
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: it's issues like that in minimum wage is seven twenty five.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Who was living off a seven twenty five? You know?
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, we have these issues all over the place,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: and I don't know why people want to hit on
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: these big social issues and talk about abortion every single
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: year and talk about you know, guns every single year.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, man, people just people want the same thing.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: They want food, they want safety, they want good schools,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: they want good roads, they want good jobs.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It's South Carolina, a good reflection of politics everywhere. And
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the reason I asked that because South Carolina is the
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: only place where you might be Carrie Sellers in the morning,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: but be with you know, Lindsey Graham in the afternoon.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You might be with Tim
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Scott on a Tuesday, Jim clyve Burn on a Wednesday.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: You might be with a.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Nazy Mace on a Thursday, and then you know some
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: other Jamie Irrison on a Friday. Like it's such a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: unique place. Is there any place else else like that?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen any other place like like South Carolina. Man,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: South Carolina. We we get together a lot, like Republicans
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: and Democrats get together a lot. Now that the issue
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: that I see is that in behind closed doors it
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: is all listen, it's all a show, y'all.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: It is all.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: It is all a show, a TV show, reality TV show.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Because I've had, you know, some of these Republicans come
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: with me in the back room and say, Jermaine, I
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: agree with everything you just said.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Man, Like I'm with you, I'm with.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: You, I'm with you, and then go out there and
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: say the complete opposite thing. And did I be like, bro, Like,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: don't come to the back room and apologize to me,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: you know, after you just said this other stuff back here.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: But they might primary me if I if I vote
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: this way or if I do that. But you know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna help you on the back end, or I'm
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: gonna do this. I'm like, man, y'all are some real
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: live cowards, Like you're a coward. And I say this
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: all the time. I say, listen, let's tell the truth,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: let's talk about it. Let's be honest about this stuff,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: you know. And there's just a bunch of cowards in there, man,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: And I think that's the problem.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And that's why I liked your d I speech and
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: everybody should go watch it if they haven't. But you
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: directly confronted colleagues as you just kind of put it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: But you said, friends are friends behind the scenes, would
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: vote for racism when it matters.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: That's right, if you want to speak that. Yeah, man,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: So I was so mad when I had to give
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: that speech.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I didn't play none of that stuff. Man.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I was sitting on my desk and I was ready
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: to go honestly, it was like a long day. But
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: there was an amendment that went up there that said
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: no public dollars would go to white supremacy programs. And
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: now I'm thinking, these people up in here are my friends, right,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: So I'm thinking they're gonna say something about this amendment.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: They're either going to pass it or they're gonna say
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: something and then table it. Man, nobody said anything. Nobody
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: said anything. One of the Republicans just walked by the
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Speaker of the House and just put his hand up
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: like this said move the table.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Didn't say nothing. Bro. I was so mad, and it
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: said white supremacist, white supremacist.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: And I was like, I said, yo, come on man.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: So I jumped up so fast and ran to the front,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: and the ladies behind the desk were trying to calm
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: me down. So if you if you're seeing that in
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: that video clip, I have a cup of water up there,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: it is because the ladies behind the desk gave me
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: a cuple of water trying to calm me down.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: And I was like, man, I had it. So I
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: said what I had to say. But what happened after that?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: After I said what I said, I left out the
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: back of the steps of the State House and I
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: sat down.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I actually cried, Man, I cried because I was so hurt.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I was so hurt that these people that know my kids,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: that know my family, I know their family. You know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: we've hung out together and this, and y'all have the
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: death not to even stand up on my behalf, like
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: not to say nothing, you know. But after that happened.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: So what happened is as I was sitting outside, people
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: started coming out to the backsteps of the State House saying, Jermaine,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: we won.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I said, what you mean?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: We one it said, we pulled the whole proviso out
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: of the budget.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: They got rid of the whole damn bill.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Good and because and one by one Republicans came up
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: to me as I was coming back to the state House.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: They were like, Jermaine, we apologized, We're sorry, we did
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: this some poor tastes. You know, we shouldn't have did
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: it this way. But it shouldn't it ever got to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: that point. They you have spoke up on the front
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: half and made it known to the people of South
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Carolina that white supremacy has no place in South Carolina.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: As a politician, because in your speech too, you also
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: said that they let you down every time when you
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: were talking about them voting right as a politician, Like
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: when you're disappointed like that, Like how hard is it
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: to like, next day get up and still like fight
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: in the fight.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Man, it's difficult every day. It is difficult every single
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: day because you have to go on there and you
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: got to put yesterday behind you. But the hard part
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: about it is knowing that every time you push red
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: or green, somebody's going to die based on your vote.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: That's the hardest part about it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And I truly don't believe that you could be a
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: politician for thirty forty years.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: And to truly care about people. I don't think you
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: can because it weighs too much in your conscious if
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: you truly care about people. I mean, it kills me
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: every single day knowing how people across South Carolina are
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: suffering because of what we're doing up there. You know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: even when I was on the riscient kind of Recreage Commission,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I didn't feel right about writing policy without actually talking
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: to the people. So I drove around all the parks
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: and met all the employees and met everybody because I
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: wanted them. I wanted to know what they were doing
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: every single day. I didn't feel good about making laws
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: and making things about them, and I had never even
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: seen what the people on the ground are doing.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: It's tough.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: It's tough, and honestly, I don't have an I don't
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: have an answer to it, man, because it's it's so
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: hard dealing with these individuals every single day, knowing that
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: some of them just don't give a damn about you.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Have any of the other legislators in South South Carolina
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: like changed the way they approach you since you made
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: that speech.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, listen, they a lot of them got to
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: started getting afraid. They get afraid. I've had some, I've
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: had some uh doors come to Jesus meetings man, six seven.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Seven black men. That's gotta be a part of your
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: campaign in somewhere.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, I got I got my daughter working on something, man,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I got my daughter sixty seven jont Man.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But who do.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: You just to piggyback off of Lauren's question, who do
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: you go to in those vulnerable moments? I mean, I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: know you have a beautiful wife, you know, but like.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Is it therapy?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Is your pastor is it? You know?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: All all of those you got a lot of weights.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I go to I go to my I
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: go to my wife a lot. I lay a lot
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: on her shoulders, a lot of the things that I
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: deal with. And then I also go to my pastor.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I've called my pastor. I don't I don't know how
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: many times I've called him crying, uh and talking about
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the issues, talking about the concerns of the people. I mean,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I had one person, man who didn't want me to
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: come past this is right when COVID had started, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: he didn't want me to come pass out masks down
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: in his church because he was more interested in his
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: political position, uh than me actually saving lives, you know.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: And I was so I was so hurt by that man.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: And I've talked about those those type of situations. You know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I have a therapist that I go to. Listen, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: let me make this PSA. It is black, folks. It
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: is okay to have Jesus and a therapist. You know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: because we always talk about praying things away. Listen, I
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: pray and I go to therapy, and I need the
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: assistance that I can to help me deal with some
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: of these issues and concerns that the people having.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: But it's heavy. It really is.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: What's what's the identity you want South Carolina to have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: under your leadership? Because you know, people will say it's
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: like a lot of old South politics that still shape
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the state today. What's it gonna look like under you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No d C and s C. I say that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: all the time. No d C and s C.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Right now, we are too relyant upon Washington d C
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: and federal policies. I don't want the Washington d C
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: to dictate what we do in South Carolina. I want
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: to make sure that we are just self sufficient and
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: that we are addressing the needs of the people of
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: South Carolina. No matter if it's red or blue, whatever's
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: going on, we need address the issues of South Carolina.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: So that's gonna be our main thing. No d C
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: in s C.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate you for joining us.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I gotta ask, is it true that you are so
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: poor you cooked off a frozy.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Hot dog and a candle?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: That's true, man, that's true.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Bro, listen, and I don't I do not recommend it, man,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I do not recommend it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: But it was. It tasted like burnt dog and wax. Man.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: It was terrible. But yeah, so you know, no pot Listen,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: there was no electricity or nothing. Oh okay say that.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, there was no electricity. So because there
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: was no electricity, bro, it's like I had to get
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: like a you know, it was like the you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: after the electricity go up, like the refrigerator is still
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: kind of cold. So I had to get one of
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: the hot dogs and got one of the hot dogs
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: and lit the candle, man, and put it on top
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: of the candle, and the.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Outside was burned, but the inside was frozen. Man, I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: think it was terrible. Man, I don't recommend.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I would hate to see you hungry.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Oh but thank god I have some people that looked
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: out for me too. Man. You know, my childhood wasn't
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: all bad. Man.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: You know, I had people that looked out for me
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: and gave me opportunities and things. So I'm a blessed man, honestly.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And how do you fit into this little last car?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Nineteen seventy seven C three Man, ain't no way fitted?
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: So again, you got it. You gotta like put the
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: sea all the way. It's a customed seat that I'm
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: putting that thing.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And and then I bro.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you ain't got no back seat.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Basically there ain't now there's no vaccinating in the three.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah you driving? I want restoring it now. I'm driven
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: that thing like a year and.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: A half because the kid he can't get under the day, Like.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm restoring. I restored myself.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Really to now I don't believe all of it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeahs I been resorting to myself. Man, I don't
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: did I don't rebuild the whole running already, I got
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I got all new brakes on that thing.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna recommend somebody, did you?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But I do it myself.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: D Governor Espel, what don't worry about it?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I don't know Spanish. You're married in Mexican
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a year going out? Speaking of which, are you worried
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: about ice? In?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Listen?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Ice the issue that I have. So I don't have
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: a problem with ice. I have a problem with what
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: they're doing and how they're implementing it right now. So
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: they are they're like literally they're just looking for anybody
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: who looks Spanish crazy, anybody who looks like that, or
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: anybody who has a name like that. That's who they're attacking.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Like that's who they're going at. And because that's the issue,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: that is my problem. I mean, there's there's clearly a
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: better way that we can do, uh, you know, to
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: look at this, this immigration issue. I mean, there's way
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: we can do amnesty. I mean, we have ambassy for
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: everything else, Like you know, encourage people to come forward
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: to say, hey, listen, we're gonna do this, we're gonna
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: put you on probation for three years, we're gonna have
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: you pay tax, and we're gonna do this type of stuff.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: And then you know, the people who don't come forward,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: those are the people you go after, you know what
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, we do some stuff like that, but incentivized
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: people to come forward.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Man, we wouldn't you be scared to come forward at
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a time like this?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Of course I would, because we ain't got an ambassy day.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean we don't. We don'tt We're not
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: in anybody to do it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Like, why would I trust government? That's all if I was,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: you know, even if that was to happen, why would
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I trust government?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Listen? But why I mean why the black people trust government?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Right now?
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's a whole it's a whole
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: bunch of stuff, man, But we got to start somewhere.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well he's running for governor of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure you get out there and vote and support
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  Speaker 3: my man to do How can they donate?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I need everybody to go to Johnson for SC
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  Speaker 4: dot com, jail h N s O n f O
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  Speaker 4: r SC dot com.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: We got to raise money, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: You know, y'all know that as a black guy running
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  Speaker 4: for governor of South Carolina, being the second I'll be
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: the second nominee in the history of South Carolina, we
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: need to raise as much money as possible. I mean, honestly,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: y'all got over six million viewers right now right at
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: the Breverst Club, my bad eight there you go.
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  Speaker 2: See know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: If all eight million people just gave a dollar, we
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  Speaker 4: would have more than enough money to become governor South Carolina.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: But listen what we we need five dollars, ten dollars,
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  Speaker 4: twenty dollars. This is a real grassroots movement and we
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: want to go grassroots to grassroos funded.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And that's just for radio that don't count, like the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: YouTube and the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get it. We'll get them, we'll get it. We'll
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: get them all to give a dollar, man, get them,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: get them all to give a dollar, or get them
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  Speaker 2: to give twenty dollars.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the Breakfast Club.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Good morning, hold every day.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: A week ago.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Wake your glass up, the Breakfast Club. Finish, y'all done,