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Show Rewind 9-22-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: At 6.03 with me, Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson. And Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: last night I think America learned another time. Maybe we
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  Speaker 2: hadn't learned the lesson, but the NFL is a quarterback's league.
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  Speaker 2: My New York Giants lost their quarterback in like the
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  Speaker 2: seventh play of the game.
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  Speaker 3: The opening drive.
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  Speaker 2: We totally sucked. We looked horrific tonight. And we were
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  Speaker 2: steamrolled by what had been kind of anticipated early preseason.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams were talked about as potentially going back to
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, becoming the champs again. But then after
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  Speaker 2: their first week, everybody said, ooh, they're very beatable. And
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  Speaker 2: not so much if you're not pushing the ball down
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  Speaker 2: the field against them.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't look very beatable last night.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: They looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing how much difference a quarterback can make in football.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look at all the quarterbacks that went down. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: just this past weekend, Caleb Williams lost. Kyler Murray coming
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  Speaker 3: back from a concussion maybe this week. I mean, every team,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, that is suffering had quarterback issues. You're right.
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  Speaker 3: It is a quarterback's league.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh. And Jameis Winston, I don't want to say he's
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  Speaker 2: a slouch. I mean, he's the king of lobsters or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Remember him down at Florida State getting his free lobsters.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, that was before the NIL deals. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He'd be making lobster and then some these days.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. He'd be buying that grocery store if he wanted it.
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  Speaker 2: But back in the day, he was very happy to
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  Speaker 2: come in and get his free crabs or lobsters or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot what Jameis got back in the day. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: big day coming down. Another big day yesterday for the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration. We're going to see him addressing the United Nations.
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  Speaker 2: The anticipation is that he's going to be somehow asking–
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  Speaker 2: what was the headline? I liked it at Fox. It
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  Speaker 2: said something about– Trump is expected to tell the UN
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  Speaker 2: they're going on a diet. I like the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Trump's telling anybody to go on a diet, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: food or spending. I mean, this guy, he's not going
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  Speaker 2: on any diets, but he's also going to have some
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  Speaker 2: meetings with Democrats regarding upcoming meeting, apparently with Xi. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see if that's, I mean, again, the guy had a
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  Speaker 2: mini stroke apparently last week, was it? But he's still
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  Speaker 2: planning on coming Thursday. And yesterday was very awkward to
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  Speaker 2: see Mom Donnie basically just kissing the butt of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: And Trump answered. Trump kissed right back. Trump said Mom
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  Speaker 3: Donnie could be a great mayor for New York.
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  Speaker 2: I think that Donald Trump's basic position is as long
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  Speaker 2: as you're treating him with respect, he will treat you
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  Speaker 2: with respect. The second you say something nasty about him,
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  Speaker 2: it turns ugly. But as soon as you say something nice,
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  Speaker 2: he's back.
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  Speaker 3: You fall out of favor and then you can jump
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  Speaker 3: right back into his sphere of influence again.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So him and Mamdani looked like they were like
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  Speaker 2: the one-two punch yesterday. And I'm wondering, what kind of
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  Speaker 2: pushback is Mamdani going to receive today from his far-left
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  Speaker 2: socialist friends?
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. Yeah. And how many ads will
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  Speaker 3: you see now featuring Trump and Mamdani together?
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  Speaker 2: And who does that hurt more? I don't even know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know either. What a bizarre world we live in. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for those of you maybe in the middle,
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  Speaker 2: that was bipartisanship. I mean, that was that old school
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  Speaker 2: Reagan Tip O'Neill that I've heard so many people talking
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  Speaker 2: and longing for.
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  Speaker 3: And Mamdani said, I'll work with anybody. I don't care
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  Speaker 3: about their party as long as it makes New York
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  Speaker 3: City a better place.
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  Speaker 2: See, the problem that I have with Mamdani is his
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  Speaker 2: definition of better doesn't align with my definition of better.
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  Speaker 5: True.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I and it's kind of like when Trump,
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  Speaker 2: you know, was talking like we're going to negotiate with
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC. No, you're not. Yeah, there's nothing to negotiate
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  Speaker 2: with these people. So I look, I I know Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump's smarter than I am. Right. He has to be.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes I just wonder about how much weight does
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  Speaker 2: he put with certain groups or people and whatnot and
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  Speaker 2: how much like if they sign an agreement or if
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  Speaker 2: they say they're going to do something to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the trust, but verify. Reagan, quote, is more important now
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  Speaker 2: than ever because we have so many people saying one
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  Speaker 2: thing and then doing the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the reports have always said the last person to
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  Speaker 3: speak to Trump, the last person in his ear, is
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  Speaker 3: always the biggest influence. And, I mean, there are reports
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  Speaker 3: that say he may meet with Iran's president on the
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  Speaker 3: sidelines of the General Assembly this week. What would come
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  Speaker 3: out of that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. If that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Cut a deal with Trump that didn't say that Iran
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  Speaker 2: runs the world, then he would die.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he can't go back.
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  Speaker 2: He can't go back to the IRGC. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about negotiating from a position of weakness,
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  Speaker 2: that is total weakness. I have to do what they
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  Speaker 2: tell me to or they'll kill me. But we're just
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  Speaker 2: kind of laying the groundwork here for some of the
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  Speaker 2: stuff we're going to be talking about today. I did
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  Speaker 2: a podcast earlier this morning for the National Briefing all
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  Speaker 2: about the view and their response yesterday. If you haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen that, that is, gosh, do they mean to try
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  Speaker 2: to help conservatives make points? Because that's exactly what they
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  Speaker 2: were doing yesterday when it comes to education. and so
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  Speaker 2: many other things as well. Your thoughts, let's get them
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  Speaker 2: on the air today. Use the talkback feature. That's the
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  Speaker 2: microphone on the iHeartRadio app. It is 6.08.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, nobody is happy on any side of this issue.
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  Speaker 2: It's a rarity when nobody is happy. So up at
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  Speaker 2: Spartanburg County last night, they had their county council vote
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  Speaker 2: 5-1 last night to approve a one-year freeze on new
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  Speaker 2: data centers. So you would understand why some people would
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  Speaker 2: be upset because they're like, well, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that they would help our county. I think that this
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  Speaker 2: helps America. I think that there's some money for the district,
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  Speaker 2: all these types of things. I understand that they would
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  Speaker 2: be upset, including the person who voted against this ban.
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  Speaker 2: But also the people on the other side of the
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  Speaker 2: issue are upset. Residents, I'm reading this from Fox Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the freeze, many residents left Monday night's meeting frustrated
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  Speaker 2: because it's a 65 megawatt allowance, which would leave the
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  Speaker 2: door open to other facilities. Federal standards set by Congress
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  Speaker 2: to find data centers exceeding 20 megawatts as large. If
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  Speaker 2: you let one in, then you're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: let them all in. And this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a problem for humanity, said one unnamed resident in an understatement.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's it's a problem for humanity. Council Chair
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  Speaker 2: Moe Ababasoft emphasized that the pause provides the county the
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  Speaker 2: necessary breathing room to study the broader infrastructure impacts following
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  Speaker 2: months of public outcry over the power grid strain, water resources,
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  Speaker 2: and air quality. I think when people are upset about
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  Speaker 2: data centers, that's what they're upset about. They're not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: saying we're upset about AI, although that's a different argument.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying... We don't want the quality of life in
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  Speaker 2: our community to be diminished due to power grid strain,
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  Speaker 2: water resources, or air quality. Is that yours to understand
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  Speaker 2: as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think a lot of these data centers
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  Speaker 3: are now coming in saying, all right, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: work to minimize our water use. We're going to make
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  Speaker 3: sure we have our own power source. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to cure those problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I also– point back to, we did a show,
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  Speaker 2: not a show, we did a couple of segments on
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  Speaker 2: it back about maybe three or four weeks ago regarding
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  Speaker 2: certain towns in America or communities where they, not only
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  Speaker 2: did they build that so that we have our own power,
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  Speaker 2: we're not touching your power at all. We have no
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  Speaker 2: effect on that. They're showing the water that they're using,
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  Speaker 2: which is recycled. So we're not affecting your water. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to build you, like in one of the counties,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think it was out in Washington State,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was, we're going to build you all
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  Speaker 2: new schools. So you get all new schools, you get
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  Speaker 2: new roads, all of that, your property taxes are cut
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  Speaker 2: in half. All of that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that would be ideal. Not every data center is
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  Speaker 3: coming in making those arguments, but they have become more efficient.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But if we can make that argument.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If I come to you, but the people of Spartanburg
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  Speaker 2: said still reject it. Yeah. I don't want new schools,
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  Speaker 2: new roads. I don't want my property Texas cut in half.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just so afraid of the data center. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want it. And they're upset that it's still 65 watts,
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  Speaker 2: even though it has to be inside industrial sites. It
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  Speaker 2: can't affect your power. This is in the pause. Facilities
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  Speaker 2: must generate their own electricity, must primarily be used for storing, managing,
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  Speaker 2: and processing data, must be located inside industrial parks or
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  Speaker 2: a former industrial site. So you can't be within three
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  Speaker 2: miles of somebody's house or something. You're not going to
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  Speaker 2: hear it. You're not going to... But even so, both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the issue are upset now in Spartanburg County.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's a there's a big one already there. So
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  Speaker 3: you would think they would just kind of let that
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  Speaker 3: sit for a little while. But so it's a year
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  Speaker 3: moratorium on even considering another one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Now, that's if it's going to be 65 megawatts
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  Speaker 2: or more. I think that the 65 under 65 megawatts
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  Speaker 2: can still build. And that's what they're saying. We don't
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  Speaker 2: want any. We don't want anything here in our county.
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  Speaker 2: And so we have reached a very interesting point in
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  Speaker 2: America where both sides have become very passionate. to the
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  Speaker 2: point where they don't want to hear the other side
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  Speaker 2: at all. No matter what facts are presented, they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hear it. So for somebody like me who
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  Speaker 2: wants to see more of these things developed because I
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  Speaker 2: think that it does do the community good and I
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  Speaker 2: think it does the country good and I think ultimately
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  Speaker 2: it does the world good, am I willing to hear...
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  Speaker 2: the people in Georgia or Tennessee who've had horrible outcomes
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  Speaker 2: with these types of things. I'd like to think that
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  Speaker 2: I am, and I've studied those, and I've said that
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  Speaker 2: that can't happen again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've gotten better.
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  Speaker 2: What they've got there sucked, and somebody needs to fix
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  Speaker 2: those problems for those people. The companies need to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as if there's not a lot of money
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  Speaker 2: flowing into the AI space. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: They're working it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a little bit of money. So they
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  Speaker 2: can make these investments and improve it for the community.
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  Speaker 2: Because if the community is not winning, then they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to allow this ever, right? Why would a community
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  Speaker 2: just put itself up there on the altar and say,
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  Speaker 2: destroy everything here for the good of the country? But
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  Speaker 2: I think most people recognize, not everybody, but that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to need AI. Again, Trump always frames it as
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  Speaker 2: you're in a battle versus China. It's like the Cold War.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to last as long, it would seem,
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  Speaker 2: as the Cold War. It seems like within the next
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  Speaker 2: three to five years, this thing's a wrap. So the
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  Speaker 2: way they're accelerating it. And so once they're able to have,
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  Speaker 2: I forget the phrase that they use for it. I
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  Speaker 2: was listening to one of the guys talk about it
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. And it's basically once it's absorbed all human
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  Speaker 2: knowledge and then can start creating its own knowledge, that's
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  Speaker 2: the point at which you then can control other countries.
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  Speaker 2: And we're an estimated three years away, and China's three
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  Speaker 2: and a half years away.
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  Speaker 3: Got to keep that advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, because I don't want China controlling everything. They
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  Speaker 2: already control enough with TikTok.
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  Speaker 3: Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said yesterday they're going to
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  Speaker 3: use AI now to start helping with flight cancellations. If
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  Speaker 3: you've ever had that situation where you had a flight
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  Speaker 3: canceled and you're either standing at the ticket window or
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  Speaker 3: you're trying on your phone to figure out, okay, how
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  Speaker 3: can I make the next connection? You know, what flights
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  Speaker 3: can I take? And it's a confusing mess and no
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  Speaker 3: one can help you. AI can do it instantly. We
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  Speaker 3: can get you here. There, there, there, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And again, we're going to see more and more
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  Speaker 2: of that as it continues to improve at a very
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  Speaker 2: rapid pace. And so, you know, I'm one of those
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  Speaker 2: people who just tries to embrace change. I know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people who are afraid of change and they
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  Speaker 2: like the way things are, and I'm on Unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 2: world never stays the same. Things are not the same
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  Speaker 2: in 2026 as they were in 2020. Thank God, because
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  Speaker 2: 2020 sucked. But it's not the same as 2015 or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: We're always evolving. We're moving forward. And if you don't
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  Speaker 2: embrace it, then you tend to be a bitter person
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  Speaker 2: because you long for the quote unquote good old days,
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  Speaker 2: which maybe weren't as good as you remember. But that's
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  Speaker 2: neither here nor there. Just some updates on AI and Spartanburg.
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  Speaker 2: 620 now.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Minnesota should just be a case study
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  Speaker 2: and everything that could go wrong. when it comes to government.
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading this in justthenews.com. They don't do the math,
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  Speaker 2: but I will in just a moment. Apparently, last year,
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  Speaker 2: so they started this program in 2023, free school lunches
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  Speaker 2: for everybody. No means testing. And as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: no options. In other words, you can't pay for your lunch.
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  Speaker 2: You can't bring your own lunch. You're going to eat
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  Speaker 2: what everybody eats. So last year, it was $ 150, 000 million
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  Speaker 2: free meals for students. There's roughly, now this is where
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  Speaker 2: I went and looked up, there's about 875,000 students that
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  Speaker 2: go to school there. That means that the taxpayers bought
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  Speaker 2: 172 meals per student. The problem is that the, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you what they say is the best, the
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  Speaker 2: upside of this. According to the Department of Education there,
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  Speaker 2: every meal we serve means one less child worried about hunger,
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  Speaker 2: And one more student ready to learn. That's fantastic, right?
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  Speaker 2: Also talks about the fact that we've taken the statewide
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  Speaker 2: effort removes stigma. So there is no stigma because we're
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  Speaker 2: all the same now. We're all eating the same food.
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  Speaker 2: It keeps money in the family's pockets and gives students
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  Speaker 2: the confidence to succeed in school and beyond. Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: sounds great. Except none of it's true. All right. So
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the kids are throwing the food away.
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  Speaker 2: They're eating in their cars. They're doing these types of things.
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  Speaker 2: So you're just buying lunches that nobody's eating. On top
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  Speaker 2: of it, you've run up a deficit into the hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars now with this school's stupid lunch program.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no end in sight. There's no end in
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  Speaker 2: sight to this thing. And again, Michelle Obama taught us
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  Speaker 2: that you can't force kids to eat good food. No
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  Speaker 2: matter how healthy it is, if they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: eat it, they're not going to eat it. And they're
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  Speaker 2: going to eat in their cars. They're going to eat
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  Speaker 2: a lot at home. They're going to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: And so you're not saving anybody any money.
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  Speaker 3: You're wasting it.
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  Speaker 2: You are, in fact, wasting the money. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that hundreds of millions of dollars that you're spending on this,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what does 150 million free lunches go for?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it goes for, but I would
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  Speaker 2: imagine it's probably at least $ 5 each. So you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at well over a half billion dollars. For those of
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  Speaker 2: you who love teachers, that could have gone to the teachers.
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  Speaker 2: You could have means tested, but you didn't want a
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  Speaker 2: means test because then the rich kids would have fancy
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  Speaker 2: lunches and the poor kids wouldn't, and then they would
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  Speaker 2: be stigmatized. That's called life. In life, people are at
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  Speaker 2: different levels at different times, and some of it's aspirational.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes a high school kid may say, I want to
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  Speaker 2: get a part-time job just so I can afford to
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  Speaker 2: buy those Air Jordans, or I want to buy better
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  Speaker 2: lunches or whatever. But you are taking all of it
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  Speaker 2: out and trying to make everybody the same, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a horrific idea. But that's what they're doing in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: And bragging about it. They're bragging about their school lunch program,
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  Speaker 2: which is now, again, hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
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  Speaker 2: Way to go, Tim Walls. 629.
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  Speaker 6: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 6: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: So last night, the Assistant Attorney General for these United
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  Speaker 2: States of America, Harmeet Dhillon, gave an interview and she
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  Speaker 2: was talking about voter fraud. And Christopher, how long have
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  Speaker 2: we heard that there is no actual voter fraud happening?
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  Speaker 2: It's a mantra. It's a solution looking for a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: How long have we heard that?
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  Speaker 1: Forever.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we have had a couple of cases that have
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  Speaker 2: gotten a little bit of national attention. Harmeet says we're
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  Speaker 2: just starting to scratch the surface here. She was talking about,
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  Speaker 2: first off, New Jersey. We heard about the 400 who
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: actually did cast ballots in New Jersey. That is from
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  Speaker 2: the governor of New Jersey, Democrat. Ms. Dillon says, well,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: we've already seen the contract between the voting machines because
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: the governor of New Jersey was saying it was some
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: sort of glitch. In the voter machine. Well, according to
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the contract that the U.S. Assistant Attorney General saw, it
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with us. That is a New
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Jersey problem where you didn't confirm that they were actual
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: registered voters. That's not us. That's you. That's a you problem.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: But then she goes on to say... They've already, and
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I've heard some of these, but there's been more than
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: 200 arrests in America this year on voter fraud counts.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: That is a lot.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: And then she goes on to say, a little later
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: on in the interview, let me get down to that
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: number because it was a shocking number, I thought. Again,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: not saying that this swung any elections, okay? But according
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: to the Census Bureau brief published in August, There are 24,000
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: non-citizens who had voted in the 2020 election. California had
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the highest number with 4,300 non-citizens confirmed to have voted
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: in the elections. Texas was number two at 2,500. So
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: just about every state in the country apparently must have
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: had some. If you had 24,000, and I don't want
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: to say only 4,300 were in California, but that being
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: them and Texas, the two biggest states, 4,300 in California, 2,500
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in Texas. You know, you're talking about there's still like
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: another 18,000 people who voted illegally in America in the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: 2020 election that the Census Bureau has caught. So this
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: is not a problem looking or a solution looking for
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: a problem. This is a legit problem. And as we've
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: often said, whenever they cast an illegals vote, that is
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: neutralizing an American citizen's vote. And so your vote is
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: being silenced by somebody.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And so why wouldn't, well, it's an obvious answer to
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the question, but why wouldn't they want to fix the
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: system then? Why wouldn't they want voter integrity? Why wouldn't
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: they want voter ID? Because they're pretty certain they have those. votes,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: those illegal votes in their pocket.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Harmeet Dhillon says that the pressure that the Trump administration
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: has been putting on these states is starting to reap
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit of benefits. So for example, she cites
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Nevada Secretary of State, an individual named Francisco Aguiar, said
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that they had removed last month 50,130 non-citizens from their
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: voter rolls.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: So we're cleaning it up because they're coming back to
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: get you. That's what the U.S. is doing. We're trying
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: to clean the voter rolls and make sure only Americans
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: can vote in it. And I'm here for it. If
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you've got thoughts on that or other stories, Talkback feature
• 20:30
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• 20:33
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Boy, if you thought jury duty sucked before, you're not
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: going to like this. Michael DeSonreville, or however you say
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: his last name, the lone holdout juror in the Clancy case.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: The attorney for Lindsey Clancy is now asking the judge,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I guess yesterday, in a motion filed. Actually, it was
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: filed Friday, but made public yesterday. Clancy's lawyer has asked
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the court to open an investigation into that man. Kevin
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Reddington says that the court should obtain the record of
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: any calls or text messages that DeSanrovel made during any
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: of the days that they were in jury deliberation. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what he's thinking he'll find there. Is
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: there some sort of bribery or something that DeSanrovel was
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: accused of maybe making?
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm sure they were not supposed to
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: have communications with the outside world at that point. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: any phone calls at all would be suspicious. who tipped
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: him off is one question I'd want to ask. And,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: and two is, you know, if he did make any
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: phone calls, I mean, you, you know, you're in a
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: case that is getting national scrutiny. You would know what
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: you would think you would know better.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, according to, uh, I Googled have jurors ever
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: been prosecuted after their decision. Now I'm going with the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: fully informed jury association.com. So if it's wrong, uh, That's
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: who to blame. Maybe there's some attorneys out there. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: know sometimes the Attorney General, Alan Wilson, listens. Perhaps he
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: could correct this. But it says, as far as we
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: can tell, in the history of recorded law in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: United States, there's only been two attempts to actually prosecute jurors.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Both failed because there's absolute immunity under longstanding common law
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: traditions and judicial immunity principles in the United States. that
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: jurors are fully protected from civil or criminal liability for
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: their votes, opinions, and verdicts, plus the secrecy of the deliberations.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: The other jurors aren't supposed to be able to tell
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: anybody what was said in that jury box, including, to
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: your point, whether or not he was making phone calls.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: So they've broken the rules, too. Even if he broke
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the rules, they broke the rules by telling on him.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: So if he's prosecuted, they need to be prosecuted. That's
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the way I would look at it. Of course, that's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: not the way Massachusetts would probably dole out justice. But
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: for those of you who are thinking, boy, jury duty
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: just sucks. What if you come down on the wrong
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: side of the other jurors and they all turn on
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: you as this is playing out right now? This guy's
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: life seems like it's becoming a nightmare. And by the way,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: they also filed a motion yesterday to have the entire–
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: what did the guy say? I'm trying to figure out
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: what the understanding was. A guy named Martin Weinberg, who's
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: also a lawyer– has asked the judge to take the
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: unusual step of dismissing the criminal case because it should
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: have never been declared as a mistrial in the first place,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: which now you're attacking the judge. I don't know if
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the judge is going to cotton to that so much.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're saying I'm an idiot? Oh, okay, so
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: we'll just get rid of all the criminal proceedings because
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I'm a moron. Good luck with that.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes the left makes me scratch my head
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and go, really? Is that what they got out of that? Christopher,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: you and I, did you get a chance to see
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: any of College Game Day this week? I did not.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Some.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, so Pat McAfee's in trouble, according to ESPN and
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Fox News. because he made a joke regarding the Mississippi
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: National Guard doing a flyover on the college game day set.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And this is what he said, quote, the crowd's yelling USA, USA.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Reese Davis says it's only for pageantry. They're just sending
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: in the Mississippi National Guard for the pageantry of it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And then McAfee says, we certainly appreciate the hell out
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: of the American military. And if you're not the United
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: States of America, And you hear that sound, you're blank,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: better be running. Now, they're saying that that is a
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: veiled threat at illegal immigrants inside the United States. He
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: didn't say if you're inside the United States illegally. He
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: said if you're not the United States and you hear
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: that sound, meaning when you hear jet engine, we don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: send in, as far as I know, like F-16s to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: pick up illegals, do we?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: ICE hasn't picked up on that maneuver yet.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: But they have now bent over backwards to make Pat
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: McAfee guilty of, I don't know, shaming illegal aliens or something.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: What a ridiculous position. All right, back with more in
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: just a minute. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Well, that story that we just heard at the top
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: of the hour there with South Carolina Morning News, that
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: is one of those bizarre things where people act as
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: if one thing is happening when another is happening. So
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: they're acting as if Donald Trump has somehow ended the
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: media when he said three independent, well, three media outlets
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: would not have access to to the White House for
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the foreseeable future. And I say foreseeable future because he knows,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: he's already talked about it, that he's getting sued and
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: they're going to get back in. But there's another 40
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: different outlets that have access to the White House. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: as we pointed out yesterday, Christopher, there's actually no journalism.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: That is not journalism. Running a camera and asking a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: question is not actual journalism. Journalism would be going behind
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the scenes and doing investigations. That's where the American public
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: learns valuable things. Asking the president or any other person
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: just a straightforward question, it's not as if whoever he got,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: who got kicked out again, Politico?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: CNN.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not as if they had any questions that
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: nobody else asked. They're like, only Politico thought of this.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And by the way, we'll point out, I think that
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: it was J.D. Vance that made a great point. It
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: was yesterday. Where was the outrage when Breitbart was banned?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Breitbart was banned several times from going to the White House.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And rightfully so. Breitbart hated Obama and would take those
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: questions and turn them around and make Obama look stupid.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: And so Obama said, we're not going to have it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: They can't come to the press conference anymore. If they
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: want to make me look stupid, they can just go
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: ahead and watch the feed of the press conference. So
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: now what did they say? They're announcing like Trump TV
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: or something, which will just be a continual stream of
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump all the time, which is kind of almost
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: what we already have in life.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's, that's what these poor reporters are getting anyway.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the same feed as if they were
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: standing there. They just don't get to ask the question.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: And I think if I, If I heard the story correctly,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Fox News yesterday sided with CBS. Who was it? MSNOW, CNN,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: and Politico. And so they decided to not ask questions.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: They just ran the feed.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't Jackie Heinrich from Fox News? She's the chairman,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I think, of the White House Correspondents, I think.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she just got named that at this last White
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: House Correspondents Dinner. It was the last one for The
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Asian lady, I forget her name, from CBS, I think
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: she is. And she was handing the mantle over to
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Jackie Heinrich, who then has to represent all the media
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: as best as possible. And I don't know anything about
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Jackie Heinrich, how she stands politically. I think she's married
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: to a Republican congressman out of Pennsylvania, if I'm not mistaken.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: But it's neither here nor there. The point being that
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: you're not changing anything. On top of it, I'll point out,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: if you want to just make... make yourself feel better
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: about the mainstream media kind of standing up for itself.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Back in the day, back in 2009, Obama tried to
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: kick Fox News out. And at that time, CNN, MS,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: back then it was called MSNBC, and several other news
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: outlets said, we will not stand for this. We will
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: not allow you to kick Fox News out of the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: press briefings. And so we won't come either. So then ultimately,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Obama said, gave in, said, OK, well, we want you
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: all here, so we'll just let Fox News continue to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: come and do what, in his opinion, was butchering of
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: his words. But again, the words stand on their own. Now,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: there should be analysis later on. Well, when they're saying this,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: but that's not the reporter's job. That's the op-ed job. That's,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: you know, at Fox, it'd be Sean Hannity. At MSNOW,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: it would be Rachel Madcow. I mean, you have people
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: whose that is their job to interpret what is being said.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: But it's not the reporter's job. The reporter is to
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: just tell you the facts and that's it. Don't read
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: into it. So I don't need you. You literally at
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: that point at the White House. Now, we do need
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: reporters for other things. But that job, that is not
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a required job. We already got literally, well, I think
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: at this point we have over 1,300 credentialed media members
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: who have access to the White House.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: That's an incredible number.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we're going to get plenty of that. You're
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: not going to be missing out on Trump news. But
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Trump is going to take it a step further and say, okay,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: we'll just have a camera on me 24-7, which has
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: kind of, I think, been his dream all along.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Probably so. Now, if the reporter's good... they've got sources
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: inside the white house. You're not counting on just what
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: the president tells you. You're doing reporting based on what
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: people in the background are telling you. And yes, if,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: if you're good, you've got good sources, then you'll come
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: out with a scoop every now and then.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: And then could they make the president uncomfortable or whoever,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: like the president's spokesperson, Carolyn, well, it used to be
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Carolyn Leavitt. Do we, we don't have a new one yet,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: but whoever it is, whoever he or she may be
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: in the future, could you make Corinne Jean-Pierre nervous about,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: or awkward if you said, I just spoke with a
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: high-ranking Biden official who said Joe Biden fell asleep in
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: a meeting this week. What do you say? Of course,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you would get the scramble for her. She'd be scrambling
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: through her notebook. The binder. No, what am I supposed
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: to say when they say Joe Biden fell asleep today?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: But, I mean, yes, you could do that. I don't
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: know that it would be very newsworthy at all. Newsworthy
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: is two different things. One is what gets attention. Yeah,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: that's going to get some attention.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: But did you actually make any news difference? No, because
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: we all knew that Joe Biden was sleeping in meetings.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. Does Donald Trump like cheeseburgers? Obviously.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: You're not breaking any news here. But again, to your point,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the journalists that have the sources that are going behind
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the scenes, they might be making some news. And they're
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: not banned. There's, again, over 1,300 of them who have access.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Go hack away. Go figure it out. But actually being
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: in the press briefing rooms, that's going to be on
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: pause for a little while. 7.09 on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Last night, I, Kelly Nash, attempted to drift into blissful
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: sleep knowing that my New York Giants hopes were dashed
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: as soon as the quarterback went down. I didn't want
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to see that mess happen. I don't know why I
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: look at X before I go to sleep, Christopher. That's
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: always a bad idea.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Something riled you up?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Well, Nick Reynolds reposted a video. Nick Reynolds over at
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: The Post and Courier reposted a video from Representative Neal Collins. Now,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: the good representative, I'll put him in air quotes, Republican.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: He's been around for a while. He knows what the
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: deal is. And Neil Collins, this is a four-minute rant,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: so I'm not going to play it. And by the way,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: the audio is not very good, but it's being quoted
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: in a bunch of different news outlets today and stuff.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: That basically, we have a problem here in South Carolina
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: that we've– well, possibly– let me just read what he wrote.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: He wrote, if the voucher program were a school district,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: we'd be threatening takeover today. The current state of the
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: program is an absolute disaster. One quarter of a billion
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: dollars allocated from public schools to vouchers, and the department
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: can't even certify the voucher recipients are taking any suitable assessments,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: which is required by law.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: .
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Now,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: let's qualify this. He was against the voucher program from
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the word go.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Also, if you want to just bring up those types
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: of things, he was the South Carolina Education Association's legislator
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: of the year. He's their champion, so to speak. But
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I was not trying to put that into the people's minds.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I just want people to know that Neal Collins was
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: in the meeting two, no, three years ago. Because I
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: was like, wait a minute, what the hell is this
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: guy saying? Because I distinctly remember. that there was going
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: to be a problem with the first year of data.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: That was what they were told going into it, that
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the first year will be chaos. Now, you're expecting two
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: years of data every year. You want to see the
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: last two years. But the first year, which was two
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: years ago, we're not going to have good data for
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: that information. That year is going to be chaos, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you're not going to have it. So you're going to
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: have to wait till 2027 to actually know how successful
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: it is. But we've got thousands of kids, families that
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: are talking about how great it's been going, but you're
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: not going to get that data till next year. He
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: knew that in 2025, he, and he's standing here in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: 2026 going, they didn't even provide the data. You knew
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: that two and a half years ago, Neil, you are
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: making a false argument in order to make the department
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: of education look stupid in our state. And they are
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: not stupid people. And the, and, I happen to believe
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: that the school voucher program is doing wonderfully having spoken
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: with some families that are benefiting from it, but you
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: are trying to sabotage it. You are, this is a disingenuous.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: How's that? It's a disingenuous attack because you're acting as
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: if the numbers aren't being provided because they don't have the,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: they don't know what's going on. What is today's report
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: from the education oversight staff? trying to make best sense
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: of their data. It's only three pages. They don't know
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: what they're doing. The department rationalizes their unreliable data away
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: after a quarter of a billion dollars. Another concerning fact
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: is the Department of Ed's own numbers are not adding up.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: In other words, the math ain't mathin'. That's what he says.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: The math ain't mathin'. The data is abhorrently inconsistent. As
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: you were told it was going to be for the
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: first year, you big fat liar. You knew this. And
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: then he goes on and says, let's cut our losses now.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Let's just end it now. This school voucher thing is abhorrent, right?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Let's cut our losses at the current 210, 308. He
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: goes through every freaking dollar here that has been allocated
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: to the vouchers, an amount that would have fully funded
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the Allendale County School District for 12 years, and they
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: would have gotten the same crappy education for 12 more years.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Well, the state house had agreed to ramp up the
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: voucher program and they agreed to doing that with the
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: idea that they were going to have data in place
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: to justify spending more each year. All right, we're good. Okay.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Let's see how successful it is the first year. Then
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: we'll spend more the second year, et cetera. If you're
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: saying that they did, they knew they weren't going to
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: have incorrect debt or correct data the first year, then
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: why even bother to ramp it up? Why not spend
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: the entire money or spend nothing until they had everything
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: in their hands they needed?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I think that, if I'm not mistaken, those votes came
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: after personal testimonies were given in front of the House.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I might be wrong on that one, but I know
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: that in 2024, when they were talking about it, they
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: said that the 2024-2025 year will be— excuse me, the 2023-2024
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: year would be— I' m getting my years wrong— 24 to 25 will
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: be pretty much— useless.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Tough to read.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's just going to be in motion the
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: whole time. The 2526 numbers will be much easier to
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: understand and will actually then be able to start showing
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: you real data. But that first year of the program
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: is not going to be real data. And he knew that.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: And now he's trying to exploit that to make people
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: think that the Department of Education in South Carolina is
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: just a bunch of dopes, you know, spending money left
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: and right and underfunding his interpretation underfunding certain school districts
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: when the exact opposite is true. And they have been
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: fighting harder than anyone in order to try to get
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: the money from the legislators into the lower school districts.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: So this guy is just, I don't know. I don't know.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Can you tell I'm frustrated?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I can tell this. And you saw this last night
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: just before you went to bed.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Nine. Yeah. About almost 10 hours ago is when this
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: thing was tweeted out. And I was like, what is
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: he saying here? Wait a minute.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: What?
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Again, he knew all of this and
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: he's trying to exploit it in order to make the
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: state look bad. When in essence, this is actually the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: best program that we've got going. And if you've looked at,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: by the way, go ahead and take a look at
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the numbers for just the public schools. The public schools
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: are skyrocketing right now. They're doing way better. But he
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: doesn't want to talk about that. The public schools in
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: South Carolina had their best year, I think, maybe of
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: our lifetimes when it comes to numbers. So, gosh, I
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: hate these quote-unquote Republicans. 721 on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 39:21
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• 39:23
  Speaker 1: 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WA.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: So one of the things I'm still trying to get
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: better at at this job of hosting South Carolina's Morning
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: News is keeping all the segments on time. I have
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: gone long on several already this morning, and so I'm
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: going to try to readjust here in just a moment.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: But I want to tell you that coming up, we
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: were just talking about the voucher program here in South
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Carolina and a disingenuous argument against it being made by
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: some Republicans at the Statehouse yesterday. And then, of course,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say a lack of journalism, but
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I'll just say that they just reported that and then
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: said currently no response from the Department of Education. OK,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: that's not real journalism. That's a hit piece. But that's
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: neither here nor there. I'm also going to refocus us.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: on a national vision of this. And I think that
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the view yesterday really hit it out of the park.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: If you're trying to make a conservative point, and I
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: know they weren't, I think they did a fantastic job
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: of making the argument as to why voucher programs work.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: And I.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Find it hysterical. And then Whoopi Goldberg's defense of why
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: we should have none is fantastic. And this all leads
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: off of the story that broke over the weekend, the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: New York Times piece about the, what was the lady's name?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Nicole Hannah-Jones, quote, in fighting for every black child that
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I betray my own. And her teenage daughter absolutely hates
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: her mother now after seeing what school she sent her
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: to by choice to help make it. She sacrificed her
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: own child, basically. And the daughter is upset about it,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: that you sacrificed me.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: By sending her to a better school?
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. She
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: could have sent her to the good school. The actual
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: default position was a good school. She has literally tens
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars and could have sent her to
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: a private school. Instead, she chose to send her to
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: the worst school. And she's been doing that since kindergarten.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: And now when the kid is so far behind and
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: has all these problems, she's decided to send her to
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: a better school. And now the kid is waking up
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: to the fact that, oh, my God, what did you
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: do to me? I'm 16 years old and I'm a
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: moron because of you. So we'll take a better look
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: at that story in The View's response coming up on
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: Morning News.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. You know, Christopher, I think every, not every,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of successful people in America have a similar
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: story in that either their parents or their grandparents sacrificed
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: so that they could have a shot. We hear that
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: over and over and over again. Sure.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: The American dream.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: What we have here, and by the way, the woman,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Nicole Hannah Jones, is the woman in the question here.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I believe if I understand her story right, she has
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: a black father and a white mother. And if I'm
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: understanding her background story specifically, the family sacrificed to move to,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: was it Idaho or Iowa or someplace like that, to
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: get her into a better school district. They specifically recognized
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: our daughter is smart and we want to make sure
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: that she has the best possible education that she took
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: that great high school education from a public school parlayed
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: that into the university of Notre Dame, where she studied
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: black at what is it called the African-American history or
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: something to that extent that got her a little worked up.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: She apparently wrote a, an op-ed piece or something for
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the school newspaper talking about how the white people, quote,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: thief in the modern world. The crimes they've committed are
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: the devil. That was her position at Notre Dame. That's
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: a little extreme. Bit, gets into UNC to get a
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: master's degree. goes to Harvard, get a doctorate while in Harvard.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Part of her thing was move to Cuba in order
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: to study how great socialism is. And she'd learned all
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: about the great socialist medical. That's why she started partnering
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: with Bernie Sanders to talk about how we need that
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: here in America. She does not like white people. And
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: that's okay. You don't have to. It's America. You're free
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: to not like us. Or I say us meaning Christopher
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: and me. I don't know who's listening right now. I
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: understand we have people of all different races, including my wife,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: who's black. Good morning, honey. But the point being here
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: that people sacrifice, including her parents, sacrifice to give your
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: kids a better shot. What she did was the exact opposite.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: In 2016, I think it was, she paid $ 1. 5 million
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: cash for a brownstone in Brooklyn. She chose to send
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: her kid to the worst school in the district. She
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: says that I chose that because I was trying to
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: put pressure on the New York public school system to
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: improve that school to meet the standards of the better
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: schools near where I live.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: So she sacrificed her own child to make a point.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: And she wrote a New York Times piece about it
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: this past weekend. And In the story, now she's very transparent,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: which I have to applaud her for that. She says
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: her daughter, named Naja, gosh, what a brutal name. It
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: sounds like you're sick when you say it. Her daughter
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: said to her, because now her daughter's now in high school.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: And a dunce.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Well, no, no, she's not a dunce, because genetically she's smart, right?
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's got a brilliant mother who's very woke
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: and very socialist, and she's got probably a very smart father,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: and so together they've made a very smart child. But
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: the child has been stuck with these other kids. She says,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I wish instead of thinking about other kids, you would
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: have once thought about me. I never got the education
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: that I wanted. That's what her daughter told her. And
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: then she put it in the story. So we have
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: all of that. So this idea that she was trying
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: to make the New York City public school system and
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: the worst schools perform as well as the better ones.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: And as a smart person, you would think that you
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: would recognize that people with higher intellects perform better and
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: that with people with higher intellects who perform better usually
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: end up making more money in life. And when they
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: have more money, they live in better neighborhoods and they
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: have more money for the schools. That is the discrepancy.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: The discrepancy is not that certain people are poor just
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: because they're poor. and that we should just invest as
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: much into them even though they don't have any money
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: to invest into it. That becomes the point of the view.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: So Whoopi Goldberg explains a little bit about that.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Why aren't all schools beginning on the same foot?
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Because of those zip codes.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: But the funding is something that the government and we control.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: All schools should be starting at the same place.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's just take a look in New York
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: City then, Whoopi. That's where you live right now, $ 36, 450
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: per student annually. That's what they spend in New York City.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: But if you were to go up the road to Binghamton,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: New York, it's less than half that. It's $ 17, 000. So
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: are the white kids of Binghamton, New York being screwed
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: because the black kids are getting $ 36, 000 a year? That's
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: a question you'd have to ask yourself, Whoopi. I'm guessing
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: that you would say no, that the black kids are
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: still getting screwed, even though they're getting more than double
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: the money based off where they live. Now, let's go
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: to Ana Navarro, who wants to take on the great
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: challenge of the school voucher program. I didn't realize that
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Ana Navarro lives in Florida full time and then commutes
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: to New York City to do this show. But if
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: it sounds like she's debunking her own argument in the middle,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: it's because I spliced two of her answers together.
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: I live in Florida. They passed a voucher program. that
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: gives parents up to $ 8, 000 to go towards private schools.
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: And it is decimating public schools. Killian High School in
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: South Florida went from 3,700 students to 430-something students. Parents
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: are getting up to $ 8, 000. Most schools in South Florida,
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: private schools, are more than $ 8, 000. So there's a lot
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: of wealthy families and families of means that are taking
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: the $ 8, 000 and helping themselves pay for the tuition. The
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: poorest of the poor don't get the choice.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: So what I just heard Ana Navarro quote was the
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: figure 3,700 kids at the beginning of last year, now
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: down to 400. In other words, 3,300 kids left that school.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: And then you countered it up by saying most people
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: or most schools cost more than $ 8, 000 a year. And
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: so that means that these parents of the 3,300 left.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: not only decided to chip in some extra to get
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: their kids out of that school, they're sacrificing. They're also
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: sacrificing the ability to get their kids to school because
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: most often in that situation, you're going to have to
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: commute the kids. So you're going to have to drive
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: the kid across town. So you've got 3,300 families who
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: have made the decision to get my kid out of
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: this crappy school. 400 kids are left behind, and you're
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: saying what? What are you actually trying to tell us?
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: That the 400, I'll tell you what I'm hearing, 400
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: have crappy parents. That's what I'm hearing. Every kid should
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: get out of that school. And then the idea that
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: the schools are being defunded.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Or whatever- Decimated was her word.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, decimated. It's because the administration of that school sucks.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: And nobody should have to suffer under that. But for
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Whoopi and Ana Navarro, and by the way, Sunny Hostin,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: let me get you her 20 seconds of brilliance in here.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: By the way, one of her best friends is this girl,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Nicole- Hannah, whatever, Jones, that's one of her best friends,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: but she chose a different path.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: I made a very different decision. I sent my children
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: to private schools. And so while they didn't suffer academically,
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: they excelled. There was psychological trauma. There was racism that
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: they experienced. My daughter wears a big afro. Kids were
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: trying to stick pencils in her hair. Boys were calling
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: her butterface, meaning she looked good but her face.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that joke has been around since
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the 70s.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: That's not racist.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: And that's something that we used on white, Latino, black.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: And everybody.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Equal opportunity.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: And putting pencils in somebody's afro. I had a friend,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Dominic Brescia, who was white and he had an afro
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: and we did the exact same thing to him. If
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: that's your best form of racism. You better pick up
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: your game view. But look, the school voucher programs are
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: crushing it and making giving kids. They're leveling the playing fields.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: That's the ultimate bottom line. And they're upset about it
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: because they want a communist form, a socialist form where
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: nobody can exceed past anybody else. We're all supposed to
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: be the same. And it's disgusting. 743.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 50:53
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• 51:00
  Speaker 2: My favorite line of the morning comes from the state
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: newspaper talking about the pet bed for $ 749 combining two
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: adjustable heat levels with six pulsed electromagnetic field frequency settings.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Our wellness bed's At $ 750, has luxury pet biohacking gone
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: too far? That's their question. I think it's a pretty
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: obvious yes. Back with more in a minute on South
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News. I.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash, like so many other men and a lot
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: of women, are a sports fan. Christopher Thompson has made
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: his living covering sports for a while, so he's a
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: little more invested in it than the rest of us.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: But one of the things that I like about sports
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: is its ability to help people from different backgrounds, different
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: political ideologies, whatever. You don't know how your seatmate feels
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: about Trump or whomever. You just know that you're both
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Gamecock fans or Tiger fans or whatever.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: You've got one common cause.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: And possibly the ability, like when you see at the Olympics,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: you have these opportunities where countries... might actually get an
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: opportunity to compete with each other, and their fan bases
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: might actually have an opportunity to become friendly with one another,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: so on and so forth. But we're seeing more and more,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: they don't want it. They don't want it. So there's
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: a group called Irish Sport for Palestine. Over 160 high-level
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: athletes have now signed our open letter to the Irish
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: senior men's national football team, that's soccer, saying that we're
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: going to refuse any more matches ever. versus Israel. Because
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: they're so pro-Palestine that we cannot, even in good conscience,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: play against Israel in soccer moving forward. They have a
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: match coming up September 27th, and again October 4th. They're
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: hoping to get the teams to not participate. Sad. And stupid.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that the founding fathers
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: saw valuable and a lot of other countries have found
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: valuable is having, I'll just use the phrase, a religious people. Not,
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I believe that Christianity is the only way.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: But whether you believe in Christianity or, you know, Muhammad
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: or Buddha or something, some higher form of yourself, if
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: you believe that that exists, typically your worldview is different
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: than an agnostic or an atheist. And that worldview is
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: valuable because through that prism is how you're going to
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: make your decisions. Now, in Canada, which has become a
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: very agnostic place, a secular place over the last 40,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: 50 years, In 2016, they passed a law called MADE,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: which stands for Medical Assistance in Dying. Originally in 2016,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: it was just for people who had less than, I think,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: three or six months to live or something to that extent.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Not that the doctors could ever be 100% sure of that,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: but that was what they were going off. We're following
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: the science. And if somebody doesn't want to meet their
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: end naturally, we can assist them and go peacefully. That
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: was their decision. And then in 2021, they expanded it.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: to just pretty much anybody who they didn't feel comfortable
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: with their life situation, basically. In other words, if you're
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: not happy with where you are, we can help you
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: in a peaceful way transition into whatever you think is next. Well,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: now you've got the family of an 83-year-old Canadian woman
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: demanding answers, according to the Daily Mail. The grandmother, I
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: think her name, let's see, Brigitte Stegman, she was put
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: down on July 10th. Put down. Yeah, she was put down.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: And according to the family, what happened was she had
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: already spoken out against this. She's like, I'm disgusted by
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: our whole country even having this law. This is disgusting
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: that they would treat human life this way. Well, she
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: was on a 10-day road trip with her husband when
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: she was apparently in a vehicle accident. They'd gotten a
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: call that she was and so I have some sort
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: of duress that she needed a wheelchair and blah, blah, blah,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: never told anything about any dramatic decline mentally. But by
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: the time they got out to see her a few
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: days later, this woman was struggling to even recognize people
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: in her family. So she's not herself at this point.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: That that's pretty clear. Something's happened in the last like
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: eight days where she used to be fine. And now
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: she's not. Then according to the head nurse, She has
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: signed up for maid. She signed up for it. They
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: asked the nurse and the nurse quote became very abrasive
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: and defensive at that point. She was like, look, I'm
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: trying to advocate for her. I'm trying to do what's
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: best for her.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: She's telling her family members that the nurse is telling
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: family members that.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Well, then they're asking grandma is, do you understand what's
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: happening here? And she was not cognizant. They said, according
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: to the family, She could not make that decision. So
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: a couple of days before it's supposed to go down,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: they ask her again, do you understand that this procedure
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: that they're talking about is going to end your life?
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Like you're going to be dead in two days. Do
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: you understand that? And sometimes people have a moment of
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: clarity and they think that's what happened for her because
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: she started crying and she said, I've made a tremendous mistake.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: Is there any way to stop it? And according to
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: the doctor, we will not talk to her now, but
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: we will talk to her when we come in with
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: the needle and you will not be there for that.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: They're like, what? She's saying right now she doesn't want
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: to do it. Well, she's already signed the paper saying
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: she did want to do it. We'll give her one
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: last opportunity on that morning. And according to them, they
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: came in, they watched from outside the room. According to them,
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: she never woke up. She was asleep when the guy
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: talked to her and then put the needle in and
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: five minutes later declared her dead.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: That's horrible.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Isn't that a horrific story?
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: But that's what happens, I think, when cultures start treating
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: life as if it's just whatever this is, whatever we're
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: experiencing now. If you look at that as this is
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: the end, so to speak, that you're just going to
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: go to nothing after this. then that's the way you
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: treat this life. Like this is the, might as well
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: eat rich and be, you know, eat, what is it? Eat,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: drink and be happy because tomorrow we die, whatever that
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: phrase is. But if you look at it, and again,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: most people on earth believe in some sort of a
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: form of higher power. But when a culture turns against
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: that idea, then you start getting these types of laws.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: And life is treated very differently than what we believe,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: like Christians would believe, I am not my own, that
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: I was created by somebody and that that somebody actually
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: has the right as the author of life to end
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: my life whenever they would like to end it or
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: whenever they see fit, that I'm here for a purpose,
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: that I have a purpose to my life. I'm supposed
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: to be doing certain things. I'm probably not always doing
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: those things. I need to do a better job at
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: those things. But it's a different world view. And I'm
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: very afraid for Americans that we are moving more and
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: more in this secular decisions. And as they've continued this
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: try to separate church from state type of stuff, it
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: was never supposed to be, as many Americans have pointed out,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: it wasn't to protect the state from the church. It
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: was to protect the church from the state. There was
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: a difference of— you don't want state imposing their will on,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: on religion, but the religion is supposed to kind of
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: help form our worldviews. And we're in America right now.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: We're trying to get rid of it. It's a very
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: dangerous thing. And you should just look a little bit
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: to the North, to Canada to see how it's ending
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: for a lot of families badly right now. Um, If
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: you have thoughts on that, we'd love to hear about them.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Use the talkback feature. It's 8.09.
• 59:31
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• 59:35
  Speaker 2: You know, the United Nations is, like a lot of things,
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: a good idea. Just poorly run. And loses all credibility
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: when they make announcements like they made yesterday. So they
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: wanted to make two announcements at the same time. So
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: the first one, I think, pretty much... everybody, including Iranians,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: would agree with. That in the protests where they killed
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: thousands of people, and we don't actually have a final number.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: The numbers range anywhere from like 28,000 to like 42,000
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: people were killed during those protests. The United Nations fact-finding
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: mission said Iran probably committed crimes against humanity. And I
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: do like citing unlawful killings, torture, and then it goes
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: mass arrests and internet blackouts. Is there lawful torture? I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: don't know if there is, but that's what they were citing,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: the unlawful torture. And there was numerous cases of that
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: shown on X and other social media platforms in that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: era beginning, I think it was spring of 2025 that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: that all went down. But then they go on in
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: the same announcement to say that the United States is
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: may be guilty of war crimes, war crimes, because of
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: two strikes that happened on February 28th. The first one
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: was at the one that we talked about, the girls' school,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: killed 157 people, including 123 children. The second strike hit
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: a sports complex, killing 22 civilians. Everybody with a brain
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: would recognize that the United States is not targeting children
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: because war I don't want to— this sounds a little condescending,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: but we don't need to do that. We understand that
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: the enemy is not going to be bent by the
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: killing of civilians. The only thing that will stop that
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: enemy is the killing of them. But the killing of
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: civilians is what they are actively participating in. We don't
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: need to help the Iranian IRGC kill their own people.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: They're way ahead of us on that. Those are accidents.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: When a U.S. strike hits a school, but by the way,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: is it less than an eighth of a mile from
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: a military compound? By design. I was going to say,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: why is that there? Why was the school there? Why
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: is it that this happens over and over again? So
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: when the United Nations says that the United States, quote,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: we have reasonable grounds to believe that the two U.S.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: strikes are in fact war crimes, according to the United Nations,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: you lose all credibility with people.
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  Speaker 3: This is the U.N. tiptoeing to make sure they don't
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: tick off either side, that they look neutral.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm wondering today, because that was yesterday. Right. Donald
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Trump is talking to the U.N. today. You think he'll
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: bring this up?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Well, last time he spoke to the U.N., it was
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: no holds barred. I can only imagine what today will
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: be like, and let's hope his teleprompter works, too.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: And will the media cover it?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Well, it'll be on Trump TV even if they don't.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: That's a good point, Christopher. Thank you for pointing that out.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: If you have thoughts on the United Nations saying that
• 1:02:54
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• 1:02:57
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: I am Kelly Nash, and with Christopher Thompson, I just saw,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: maybe a few months ago, the movie Melania, which is
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: the documentary of the inauguration, the second inauguration of Donald
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Trump and how Melania Trump got ready for it. I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: don't typically get myself too involved with the peripherals of politics.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: I tend to stay more focused on the actual policies,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: but it was an interesting documentary. Did you see it, Christopher?
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: I did not, no.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: It's interesting, and my wife likes it because it's all
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: about fashion and I mean, the dress that she wore
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: probably cost more than my house, but, you know, whatever.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: But I didn't know until I saw that movie that
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: one of her best friends is the first lady of France.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: That's one of her best friends. And so Macron is
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: in town. He's in New York right now. And he
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: just posted a photo last night of him with Donald
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Trump and Miss Macron in the background. And Trump is like,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: they're not handshaking away. It's like, what do you call it?
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: An Indian handshake, you know, when you do it that way.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: And he posted, upon my arrival in New York, I
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: met with the president. We decided to act together to
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: ease tensions in the energy markets by protecting the critical
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: infrastructure in the Middle East and freedom of navigation in
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz. We will also pool our efforts
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: to secure a moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: against the Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. Civilian populations must be protected
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: and we must initiate action. As soon as possible, a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: serious negotiation on the conditions for peace between Russia and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: the Ukraine. How could that be controversial? And yet, go
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: take a look at the comments section. The comments are
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: filled with people who are calling Donald Trump a sellout,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: people from Macron's people calling him a sellout. You know
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: you're not actually talking to the president. You're talking to
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: the vice president of Russia when you're talking to Donald Trump,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: don't you? And then, you know, other people, the right is,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: you know, you're meeting with a far left loon over here. Um,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you went in this political climate
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: that we're in, but it seems like we have two
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: world leaders, obviously Donald Trump, the most powerful leader in
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: the world, but it's, it's great when you can get
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: a Western European ally to say, we're going to partner
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: with you regarding the Strait of Hormuz. This should be
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: something that we're all celebrating.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. And, you know, we keep talking
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: about the, the upcoming summit with Xi, if it happens
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: and everyone's talking about, oh, AI is going to be
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: the hot topic. I'm more concerned about the president saying, look,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: we know you're backing up Iran. Are you going to
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: stop so we can put an end to this once
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: and for all? Because, I mean, China's the only thing
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: propping up Iran at this point. I know Russia tried
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: at times, but Russia's got its hands full with Ukraine.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Russia's losing a war right now against Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: So China's their only lifeline. Are they going to stop helping?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: I hope the president puts that to G at some point.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: I imagine he will. I also don't think he'll do
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: it publicly, although he might. Trump is kind of like
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: likes to present himself as a loose cannon. Like, you
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: don't know what I'm going to do. Right. And if
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: you read in The Art of the Deal, he talks
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: about I mean, so his playbook is not a secret.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: He'll actually tell some of his assistants go in there
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: and say, oh, my gosh, I think he's going to
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: blow this whole deal up. Oh, I'm so afraid of that.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: And in the meantime, they're laughing together backstage before Trump
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: walks into the room. Get them all thinking that I'm
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: a nut job and I'm going to just, I'll lose
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: a billion dollars just to spite myself on this one.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: I don't care. And then they get that image going
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: and then he walks in and these people are ready
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: to make a deal. So Trump likes presenting himself as
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: a loose cannon. Some of that means sometimes he'll put
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: out things in public that maybe other leaders wouldn't. I
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: would hope that he's not going to talk about, you know,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: trying to Put the pressure on Xi behind closed doors.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: I think he'll respond better to it there than he
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: would if you put– because in the Asian culture, they
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: are really a stickler when it comes to public humiliation. Yes.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: They do not want to be humiliated, and they are
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: willing to fall on the sword, as we saw with Japan.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: All right. So we've got to take a break. If
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: you have thoughts on this or other stories, let us
• 1:07:27
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• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: Morning News.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: I think what I'm taking away from this state newspaper
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: article is that flock cameras, you're going to have to
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: spend a little bit more money in lobbying. That's the
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: takeaway that I'm getting, Christopher. And although I am a
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: little bit confused by a sentence that I'm reading in
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: the state newspaper, they're basically trying to see at the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: University of South Carolina, is there an actual decrease in crime,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: and or is there a higher rate at which crimes
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: are solved and where there's a lot of flock cameras?
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: And so they specifically focused in on motor vehicle theft
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: because they found that their idea was if it's true
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: that technology is having an effect on crime, that it
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: would be biggest on motor vehicle thefts because that's the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: closest to what the technology is processing. In other words,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: the license plates.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So we should see a dramatic decrease in that.
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  Speaker 3: And they found that there was a decrease in areas
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: where there were flock cameras, but they're not sure if
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: it was the flock cameras that did it or not.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Well, they also didn't get an increase in solved rates.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: That's the problem. That's the problem. This is less than
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: 18% of motor vehicle thefts are ever solved.
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  Speaker 3: Here's my question about that right off the bat. And
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: I saw this article and I thought, well, no, wait
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: a minute before we even get to flock cameras, every
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: car these days, any car that's made now has all
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: this technology in place. It used to be, you have to,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: you used to have to subscribe to what was it?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Low Jack and all these technologies that, that would trace
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: your car in conjunction with law enforcement or in cooperation
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: with law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: If it was stolen, The highest I ever got was
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: the club. That's the furthest I went on crime prevention.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: But now every car contains technology where that maker or
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: the maker of the technology knows where your car is
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: at all times. So do we even need flock cameras
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: to solve car thefts?
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing, and this is just purely me guessing, two
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: different types of organizations steal cars. One is the Idiot Joyrider.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: And you don't solve it because he only drives it
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: for an hour or two and then ditches it. So
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: we don't know who he was or she, I don't,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: I guess maybe teen girls are doing these things now too.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Um, but they did that. And then
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: we don't, we never solve it. We can find your car.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: It's probably ruined, but we don't, you know, we don't
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: know who did it. Then the other one would be
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: the professionals and they know how to turn all that
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: crap off. So, so then that would probably be the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: answer is to that. But here's the sentence. I'll just
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: read this right from the paper. Last year, Flock spent $ 20, 558
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: on lobbying in South Carolina, according to records filed with
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: the SC Ethics Commission. South Carolina is one of 34
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: states where Flock Safety spent at least $ 1 million in
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: lobbying state lawmakers since January of 2025. Wait a minute.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: So those seem to contradict each other, unless you're telling
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: me that the year previous they spent over a million dollars.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: because they only spent $ 20, 000, according to this. Again, last year,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: Flock spent $ 20, 558 on lobbying in South Carolina. South Carolina
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: is one of 34 states where Flock Safety spent at
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: least a million dollars in lobbying state lawmakers since January
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: of 2025. I don't understand those two sentences being back
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: to back, but what I'll take away from this is
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: you need to spend more money on lobbying because you
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: would not be getting the USC coming out with these
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: types of things that saying somewhat effective, not really effective.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Doesn't really seem to have a great deterrence, maybe 11%
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: fewer crimes of the theft of the cars, which is
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: not a substantial amount. And it doesn't really help in
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: solving the crimes. If you want a flock camera, how
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: much money did flock camera make last year? I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: like a billion. You can't come in here with just $ 20, 000
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  Speaker 2: and expect us to bet. I mean, I know our
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  Speaker 2: lawmakers are cheap dates, but come on.
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  Speaker 3: Either that or they realize they're getting what they want anyway.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're still seeing police departments signing up for
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  Speaker 3: these flock camera systems. Now you're seeing, and you pointed
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  Speaker 3: this out, I didn't realize how, I mean, there are
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  Speaker 3: HOAs everywhere that are using these now. There's one close
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  Speaker 3: to me that apparently just signed up for them, and
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  Speaker 3: I guess the residents didn't know until it was too late.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's HOAs are, last time we checked, was the
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  Speaker 2: number one consumer of flock cameras.
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  Speaker 3: That's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: But the vibe on flock cameras, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: this is a national vibe or just a South Carolina vibe,
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  Speaker 2: but was it Oconee County banned them?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like last week, right? So, I mean, the vibe is
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  Speaker 2: definitely changing. The mood in the state is moving against
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  Speaker 2: flock cameras. Could you fix that problem if you spent
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  Speaker 2: more than $ 20, 000? I mean, it's almost like you're running
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  Speaker 2: for an office. We were talking about Annie Andrews and
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  Speaker 2: the amount of money she's got going into this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps flat cameras ought to follow the Annie Andrews plan
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  Speaker 2: and try to buy our vote. But either way, that's
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  Speaker 2: what's happening now at the Statehouse and with the state newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: It is currently 838.
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  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: And good morning. This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson, 843.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking earlier about the United Nations saying that, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it appears to them after an investigation that Iran is
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: having crimes against humanity, which is not surprising if you
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  Speaker 2: have roughly somewhere between 28 and 43,000 protesters have been killed.
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  Speaker 2: and numerous others tortured, according to social media videos that
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  Speaker 2: we've seen, then yeah, that makes sense. And then they
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  Speaker 2: went on to say that the United States may be
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  Speaker 2: guilty of war crimes because of the two attacks on
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  Speaker 2: February 28th. Two of our attacks ended up accidentally hitting
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  Speaker 2: civilian populations. One was a girls' school. One was, I think,
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  Speaker 2: a sports complex, which again, that would never have been
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  Speaker 2: on purpose because we don't benefit from that. Unlike they
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  Speaker 2: who want to kill civilians, they don't need our help
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  Speaker 2: in killing their own civilians. They're doing it at a
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  Speaker 2: record pace. But so that will Trump address that today
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  Speaker 2: at the United Nations? That is something that we're all
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing. At the same time, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get a ceremony apparently today with a couple of folks.
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  Speaker 2: We got the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland are
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  Speaker 2: going to sign today a Which, again, we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to go by Trump's words. We'll go by what the
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  Speaker 2: State Department is saying, that this will allow the United
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  Speaker 2: States to expand its military footprint in Greenland. And it
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  Speaker 2: explicitly guarantees the United States the complete ability to do
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  Speaker 2: what it deems is necessary in Greenland. in order to
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  Speaker 2: secure and defend the American continent. So even the Canadians
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  Speaker 2: should be happy about that. Everybody should be happy about that.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be a big, big deal. And
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: it is a big deal. It's not going to be.
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  Speaker 2: It is a big deal. And so we're all going
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: to be in a better place militarily moving forward. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is all supposed to happen a little bit later
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  Speaker 2: on today, again, at the United Nations. I just received
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  Speaker 2: a text message from our Well, I can't speak for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say for my favorite congressperson, Joe Wilson. who is
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  Speaker 2: apparently– I'll hold up the phone. He's sitting in the
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  Speaker 2: United Nations right now, Christopher. That's the photo he just
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  Speaker 2: sent me.
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  Speaker 3: Very cool.
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  Speaker 2: And he's listening to us. Oh, nice. So he's got
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  Speaker 2: the ear pods in.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Congressman.
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  Speaker 2: As they wait for the president, he's listening to South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina's morning news so he can be plugged in with
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: what's happening around the state, although we are talking about
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  Speaker 2: where he's at today. We will take another look at
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  Speaker 2: some local news and then maybe get our final thoughts
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: as we get ready to wrap up today. And if
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  Speaker 6: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Headline at the state newspaper, what do South Carolina governor
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  Speaker 2: candidates think of proposed utility mega-merger? And we've been looking
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  Speaker 2: at this for a little while, right? You've got Dominion and,
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  Speaker 2: where are they, Virginia? Maybe teaming up with Florida-based NextEra.
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  Speaker 2: According to their proposal, it would ensure energy availability and
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  Speaker 2: give South Carolina customers an average $ 10 a month discount
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  Speaker 2: for the next two years. Some, including environmental groups, worry
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  Speaker 2: the merger could end up resulting in higher power bills
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  Speaker 2: in the long term. And so then they went and said,
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  Speaker 2: since this is hypothetical right now and that it's probably
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  Speaker 2: going to be handled next year, how would you as
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  Speaker 2: the governor, if you were the governor of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: how would you handle this? So they interviewed Alan Wilson
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  Speaker 2: and Jermaine Johnson. Now I don't know exactly what they said,
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  Speaker 2: but Alan Wilson, this is the quote that they gave.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have further conversations with next era on
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  Speaker 2: what that merger actually looks like, but keeping us energy independent,
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  Speaker 2: keeping us affordable and investing in state infrastructure and workforce
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  Speaker 2: development are my priorities and when it comes to anything
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  Speaker 2: involving energy. Johnson basically said, you're a moron. Johnson said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: I would have absolutely intervened in this merger case. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that actually, like what he thinks he
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  Speaker 2: would do, but he says, quote, this merger is going
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  Speaker 2: to be another problem for rate payers. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to create another big monopoly in South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be some individuals just kind
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: of telling us, what we're going to pay rather than
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  Speaker 2: working with us about what's reasonable for us to pay. Does,
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  Speaker 2: does Johnson not understand that we, that we actually have
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  Speaker 2: a commission on that, that that's, that's not actually the
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  Speaker 2: governor's job, but that we have, that that is something
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  Speaker 2: that we already negotiate.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not. Well, he does.
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  Speaker 2: He does. He's just hoping you don't. Oh, and that
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  Speaker 2: he would have some sort of magic pen, Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 2: I got a magic pen.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And he could just sign things and things happen. Look, look,
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  Speaker 2: I don't, by the way, I don't like big, in
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  Speaker 2: the big scheme of things, the electric companies typically have
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  Speaker 2: what we would call a monopoly.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And also I'll point out that typically Democrats would like
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  Speaker 2: more monopolies, not less. The only difference being they would
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  Speaker 2: like them to be owned by the state, but they're
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: still monopolies. Johnson throws in some like lip service to
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: competition in this thing, but he doesn't really want competition.
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  Speaker 2: For example, where are you when it comes to competition
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  Speaker 2: in schools? Are you for that? Because if you are,
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  Speaker 2: then you are way out of bounds with the Democrat party.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, competition makes things better. By the way, there
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  Speaker 2: are 17 states in the U.S. that have some sort
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: of deregulation in their states. South Carolina, not one of them.
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  Speaker 2: But most of them, like California, very limited deregulation. Michigan,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: capped participation. I mean, it's not. It's not a thing
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  Speaker 2: that's really happening. I would like to see more competition
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  Speaker 2: introduced into the electric facilities, but we'll, we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: that ever comes to pass.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to get the same deal Virginia's getting. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're getting $ 10 off their bills for four years. We're
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: getting $ 10 off for two years.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have a lot more customers, so they
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: need to bribe them a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, we, we, we still have a little
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  Speaker 3: bargaining power. That deal's not done yet.
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  Speaker 2: Do we do? We do. We'll see what happens. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: Henry McMaster can introduce that idea. Um, Make it fair
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  Speaker 2: for all. Exactly. We're going to make it a, everybody
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  Speaker 2: should get the $ 10 discount. Now, what is the $ 10 discount?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: That's the question that I have. Is that one of
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  Speaker 2: those things that's going to come back and bite us
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  Speaker 2: in the butt? Like, oh, it's $ 10 less than what
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  Speaker 2: we should be charging you. But what we should be
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  Speaker 2: charging you is $ 20 a month more. So you're only
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  Speaker 2: paying $ 10 a month more.
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  Speaker 3: So they're just going to fudge the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: But these are the things that the government is, whenever
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  Speaker 2: you were entrusting the government, I don't like. I don't
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: like the government negotiating deals for us in any capacity. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I understand that we have to let sometimes
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: these things happen. But I would like to see us
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: push for more competition. Actually, any competition for real when
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: it comes to electric companies. All right. We're going to
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: have to put a pin in it and stop for today.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow morning after 6 a.m. Christopher, have
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  Speaker 2: a great day.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you do, Kelly. Kelly, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you all tomorrow.