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Show Rewind 9-16-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 2: and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: It is hump day. You made it. You're halfway home.
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  Speaker 3: You're halfway back to Williams-Brice Stadium in another sold-out football game.
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  Speaker 3: My wife mentioned to me last night, Christopher Thompson, that
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  Speaker 3: she is now getting tired. Like, why can't we take
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  Speaker 3: a week off? Can we take a week off?
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  Speaker 4: It's just three home games to start the season if
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  Speaker 4: you're a Carolina fan, and then they go to Alabama
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  Speaker 4: next week.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there's only seven home games per year, right?
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  Speaker 4: And you wait 300 days for these days.
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  Speaker 3: And then you just knock them all out in a row.
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  Speaker 3: I wish they were having them regularly. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't like it when it's 100 degrees, so I would
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  Speaker 3: like it to be a little cooler, and I'm guessing
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  Speaker 3: this weekend looks like it's going to be slightly cooler,
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  Speaker 3: I guess like around 90 degrees is what it's looking
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  Speaker 3: like for kickoff on Saturday for the Gamecocks, which is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, comparably, that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: 91, but a chance for thunderstorms.
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  Speaker 5: No!
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 6: Just a chance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always that chance, I suppose, no matter where
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  Speaker 3: you are in the South during these times of the month, so... Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: we've got that to look forward to. Again, just a
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  Speaker 3: couple more days away. Now, Christopher, did you happen to
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  Speaker 3: get the email or the text message or the whatever
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  Speaker 3: showing us the new Darlene Graham website? No, I did not. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so I posted it yesterday. Because, you know, the Annie
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  Speaker 3: Andrews campaign is still not taken down. What are they
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  Speaker 3: calling it again? It's like the debate.
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  Speaker 4: DebateMeDarlene or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: DebateMeDarlene.com is still up, even though there is a signed
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  Speaker 3: thing where they're both agreeing that they're going to, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's whatever the date is, October 10th or something
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  Speaker 3: like that, they're going to have their debate on SCETV. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is just because they're ticked
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  Speaker 3: off about it or whatever, but they've gone back and
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  Speaker 3: they've created like a video game that is like one
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  Speaker 3: of the types of video games you would have seen
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  Speaker 3: in like maybe the early to mid 90s. It's very basic,
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  Speaker 3: but they have, it's called Dr. Annie's Waiting Room. And Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Annie looks very angry. She has this scowl on her face.
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  Speaker 3: And what you do is you can move her from
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  Speaker 3: like patient to patient. And so when you go to
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  Speaker 3: the Dr. Annie's Waiting Room, everyone in there, has got
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  Speaker 3: some sort of an issue. And then Dr. Annie's basically
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  Speaker 3: telling you, you know, you need more taxes. You need,
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  Speaker 3: we need to trans this person.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: One of the issues is, oh, my daughter's getting ready
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  Speaker 4: to play in a game. And unfortunately there's a boy
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  Speaker 4: playing in that game, a transgender.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And then, and then I guess I think the
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  Speaker 3: answer from Dr. Annie is then you're transphobe. You're a transphobe.
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  Speaker 3: You need to do work on you. This is your problem. Not,
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  Speaker 3: not the the athlete who wants to just compete in
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  Speaker 3: the fair and fun game of soccer, it's you and
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  Speaker 3: your daughter who are afraid of them. Maybe you should
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  Speaker 3: embrace real competition. By the way, how many women did
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  Speaker 3: we hear, I don't know, over the last six, seven
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  Speaker 3: months come out? I've heard legislators. I've heard sports commentators.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard all these women coming out and saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: when I played, and then they'll reference something that happened
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  Speaker 3: in middle school. Do you know what I'm saying? They're like,
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  Speaker 3: I used to play in the Little League, and I
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  Speaker 3: even played in some Pop Warner Football League, or I
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  Speaker 3: played in a co-ed soccer thing. I'm not afraid of
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  Speaker 3: the competition. And for anyone who would just look at
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  Speaker 3: the human biology for more than, I don't know, 30 seconds,
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  Speaker 3: you would recognize that boys have growth spurts after Little League.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have a lot of six foot one little leaguers,
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  Speaker 3: but we have a lot of six foot one high schoolers.
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  Speaker 3: There's a growth spurt that happens when they just not
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  Speaker 3: only do they get bigger, they get a lot faster, stronger, stronger.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was a long time ago for me
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  Speaker 3: to go through that. But I remember was that phrase
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  Speaker 3: feeling your oats like the first time my mother hated this.
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  Speaker 3: I could I could jump high enough to touch the
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  Speaker 3: ceiling in the house. And I remember that growth spurt
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  Speaker 3: that summer where I could now touch the ceiling, like
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  Speaker 3: nine feet or whatever it was. And then it was
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  Speaker 3: very easy for me to touch the ceiling by the
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  Speaker 3: end of that summer or whatever. And I would constantly
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  Speaker 3: do it just because I was amazed at the strength
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  Speaker 3: and the ability that I had that I didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a year earlier. And then the ceiling was just covered
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  Speaker 3: with handprints as I was trying to act like I
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  Speaker 3: was dunking basketballs or whatever. But yeah, no... Men and
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  Speaker 3: women are different. And the fact that this is a
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  Speaker 3: debate in America, or we have people like Dr. Annie
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  Speaker 3: debating this, that you think that it's normal to have
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  Speaker 3: a high school track athlete say, I'm trying to go
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  Speaker 3: with something where you're not going to get dangerously hurt,
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  Speaker 3: like in soccer, where if you've got a guy who
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  Speaker 3: outweighs her by 30 pounds and is faster, it could
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  Speaker 3: actually get dangerous. But it's something like track and field,
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  Speaker 3: where they're running or they're jumping or whatever. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: actually going to hurt you. But you think it's fair
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  Speaker 3: that that guy had all these years of building it up?
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  Speaker 3: And then what? I guess in the trans community, are
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  Speaker 3: they supposed to start taking some sort of estrogen booster
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  Speaker 3: or something? And that's supposed to equal it out? It doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: It never equals it out. And that's why you've got
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  Speaker 3: all these guys who were former guys, if I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to acknowledge them properly, who are setting weightlifting records and
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  Speaker 3: boxing match at the Olympics a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 4: That was disgusting to see that. Well, you said she's
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  Speaker 4: debating it. She's not debating it any longer. She's not
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  Speaker 4: talking about it anymore. I mean, she's got a new
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  Speaker 4: set of ads running right now that are attacking health
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  Speaker 4: care companies, which, you know, is a very populist theme
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  Speaker 4: right now. But she's not even discussing her previous views on,
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  Speaker 4: for example, what is a woman or, you know, transgenders
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  Speaker 4: in sports, et cetera. She's trying to run away from
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  Speaker 4: that argument.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be very successful because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, those ads are going to be everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what Darlene Graham's doing right now is reminding
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  Speaker 4: people what Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Annie's previous views were. Yeah, these are your positions, and
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  Speaker 3: these are not ancient. These are not like when you
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  Speaker 3: fresh came out of college 20 years ago or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: These are like, you know, six months ago. So Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Annie's got problems, but... Darlene Graham's got a fun video
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  Speaker 3: game if you want to play it. It did take
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  Speaker 3: me back to like the Coleco days when I used
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  Speaker 3: to play football. You remember, did you used to do that, Chris?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Coleco football thing. That was a treasure. Gosh, I
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  Speaker 3: miss that. Anyway, if you have fond video game memories
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  Speaker 3: of your youth that you'd like to share, you got
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on Dr. Annie or Darlene or whatever, we're here
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  Speaker 3: for it with the Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: It is now 6.09.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. Did you happen to see yesterday
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Massey goes to the floor and kind of surprised
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people when he announced that he was
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  Speaker 3: filing in articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth? First off,
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Massey's from Kentucky, right? Yes. He appears to be,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is intentional or not, He
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  Speaker 3: appears to be morphing into Colonel Sanders. Something is happening
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  Speaker 3: with Thomas Massey, and it doesn't look natural. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: like AI is taking over, and he's turning into the colonel,
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  Speaker 3: maybe in anticipation of when he's heading home that he
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  Speaker 3: could launch his own chicken business. But either way, Thomas
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  Speaker 3: Massey yesterday, with a shock move, saying that I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to call him the Secretary of War. Massey referred to
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  Speaker 3: him as the Secretary of Defense. Should be impeached for...
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  Speaker 3: not following the constitution. And basically, I guess the argument
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  Speaker 3: will be made. It wasn't made yesterday, but basically the
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  Speaker 3: Massey argument is going to be that this was an
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  Speaker 3: unjust order. This was an unconstitutional declaration from the president.
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  Speaker 3: And that if the secretary of war had done his job,
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  Speaker 3: he would have said, no, sir, we're not doing this.
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  Speaker 3: And then he would have all, I mean, all, Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if you say that, you're immediately fired for one, and
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  Speaker 3: then you're replaced with somebody who will say yes, and
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  Speaker 3: that's true in any instance. But didn't we already have
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  Speaker 3: this discussion about whether or not that was a legal thing?
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  Speaker 3: I thought so. It seems to me that it was
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  Speaker 3: really kind of brought to the forefront with the group
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  Speaker 3: called the Seditious Six, that when Mark Kelly, the astronaut,
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  Speaker 3: and Slotkin from Michigan and all those people started saying, reminder,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to follow orders. If it's an unconstitutional order,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to follow it. And then there was
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  Speaker 3: a look, there was a vote, and the people said,
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  Speaker 3: and I say the people, our representatives voted and said, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: that's legal. That was a legal order. What the president
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  Speaker 3: ordered was legal. So I don't, Thomas Massey's just basing
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  Speaker 3: this off of, I don't even know what, fantasy? Is
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  Speaker 3: this a fantasy impeachment?
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  Speaker 4: And this came as a complete surprise, didn't it? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were hot and heavy off against Kash
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  Speaker 4: Patel yesterday, but all of a sudden Massey pops up
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  Speaker 4: and says this about the the about p hegseth yes
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  Speaker 4: it was.
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  Speaker 3: A complete surprise that's why you know i think everybody
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  Speaker 3: including us right now is stunned like where did this
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  Speaker 3: even come from i'll point out thomas massey uh sat
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  Speaker 3: there sat on his hands didn't say a word when
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  Speaker 3: Lloyd Austin was basically a wall for weeks, nobody knew
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  Speaker 3: where the secretary of defense was at that point. Nobody,
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  Speaker 3: his staff couldn't find him. Nobody knew where the hell
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  Speaker 3: he was. Nothing said, nothing said when Lloyd Austin implemented,
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  Speaker 3: what I think was an unconstitutional order that if you
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  Speaker 3: don't take the vaccine, you are removed from the military.
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  Speaker 3: That's an unconstitutional order. And nothing was said by Thomas
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  Speaker 3: Massey or lots of other people. Um, we can debate
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  Speaker 3: these things all day long, but the, but the problem
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  Speaker 3: for Thomas Massey is we've already had this debate and,
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  Speaker 3: and the president's order was ruled constitutional. And so obviously
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  Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth following a constitutional order cannot be impeached for
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  Speaker 3: following an unconstitutional order. We're in like the new math
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  Speaker 3: era where two plus two equals whatever I say it is.
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  Speaker 4: And we're also wasting valuable time on the floor of
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  Speaker 4: the house.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the, Congress reminds us more and more, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's at the very mature level of the Senate or
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  Speaker 3: the raucous House, that it's a lot like high school.
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  Speaker 3: That when you've got an ax to grind, who are
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  Speaker 3: the cool kids? Thomas Massey is no longer one of
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  Speaker 3: the cool kids. He was. He was one of the
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  Speaker 3: cool kids. And then Donald Trump said, you're not that cool,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to primary you. And then Thomas Massey
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  Speaker 3: lost his seat. And now as he's leaving, what's he got,
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  Speaker 3: like less than 90 days left in the office, right?
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  Speaker 3: So this is how you want to go out. You
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  Speaker 3: want to go out kicking and screaming, whining like a
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  Speaker 3: little mm, and trying to get Pete Hegseth and Peach,
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  Speaker 3: and like you said, just wasting time. Wasting money, wasting everything,
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  Speaker 3: wasting resources. And I'm being honest. If Thomas Massey happens
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  Speaker 3: to be listening right now on the iHeartRadio app, good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I would caution you. This may actually affect your ability
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  Speaker 3: to be a successful podcaster in the future. So that's
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  Speaker 3: apparently the future you're going to have as a podcaster.
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  Speaker 3: Don't blow any credibility you have left with this stupidity.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Thomas is listening, nor would he take
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  Speaker 3: my advice, but I wish he would. All right. If
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  Speaker 3: you have thoughts on whether or not we should be
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  Speaker 3: impeaching Pete Hegseth this morning, do you think that's a
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  Speaker 3: good use of Congress's time right now? Well, did Mitch
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  Speaker 3: McConnell comment on that? I know he's talking about some
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  Speaker 3: other things. We'll maybe talk about Mitch McConnell updates. We've
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  Speaker 3: got a lot to get to. This is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 3: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it's an eye-grabbing headline in the state newspaper.
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  Speaker 3: CCU students dig through 18,000 football fans' waste. And here's why. Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: you want to take a guess on this one? I
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  Speaker 3: think you're probably going to be able to know. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen the article. Okay, so you already know. All right,
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  Speaker 3: so it's because they wanted to go through all the
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  Speaker 3: trash that the 18,000 football fans had to see what
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  Speaker 3: could have been recycled. So as it's pointed out here
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  Speaker 3: in this story, most of the trash was covered in
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  Speaker 3: nacho cheese and nastiness. But they went through with their
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  Speaker 3: little rubber gloves, digging and finding trash. recycling things like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, aluminum cans and things of that nature, trying
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  Speaker 3: to do whatever they can. You know, John Stossel is
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  Speaker 3: a now controversial figure because John Stossel is not afraid
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  Speaker 3: to report non-narrative alignment truth. And he's done some extensive
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  Speaker 3: video reporting regarding recycling. So this is not from John Stossel,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, this is from a waste management company.
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  Speaker 3: Only about 60% of the stuff that you put in
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  Speaker 3: your recycle bin actually ends up at the recycling center.
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  Speaker 3: What happens to a lot of it is it goes
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  Speaker 3: to the 40% or so, goes to the recycling center,
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  Speaker 3: and then it turns out it's not recyclable. So then
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  Speaker 3: for those carbon emission lovers, then you have to have
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  Speaker 3: dump trucks take it from the recycle center to the
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  Speaker 3: actual landfill. And if you're wondering about landfill space, they
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  Speaker 3: did a fantastic job of explaining how much of America
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  Speaker 3: is actually used as landfill. If we were a football field,
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  Speaker 3: meaning we were 120 yards from end zone to end zone,
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  Speaker 3: we would be using roughly two feet of the back
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  Speaker 3: corner of one of the end zones. That's the recycling,
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  Speaker 3: or excuse me, that is the landfill for the United
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  Speaker 3: States right now. 99.9% of America is not a landfill.
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  Speaker 3: And if we were to triple the amount of actual
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  Speaker 3: amount that we're putting into a landfill for the next
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  Speaker 3: thousand years, we would not actually get to fill up
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  Speaker 3: an end zone. So this idea that we're running out
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  Speaker 3: of space and stuff is just a total myth. And
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  Speaker 3: what's happened is the left is taking recycling and made
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  Speaker 3: it a religion. People are bending over backwards trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out what do I need to wash, what do
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  Speaker 3: I need to do, all this in order to make
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  Speaker 3: themselves feel better. I don't know how many kids we
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  Speaker 3: had out here at CCU digging through trash trying to
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  Speaker 3: find recyclable stuff. By the way, in case you're wondering,
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  Speaker 3: 97% of plastic is not recyclable. It's a total waste
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  Speaker 3: of time. So if you've thrown in your milk jugs
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  Speaker 3: and things like that, that all gets sent back to
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  Speaker 3: the landfill. That is the number one thing that is rejected.
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  Speaker 3: But cardboard, that's a good one to recycle in case
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  Speaker 3: you want to save trees or whatever. But they make
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  Speaker 3: things into a religion, like recycling and all these other
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  Speaker 3: things that, unfortunately, are not very effective. Makes people feel better,
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  Speaker 3: I guess. If it makes you feel better, work hard
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  Speaker 3: at it. But just understand, you're not really affecting much
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  Speaker 3: of anything. Okay. You got thoughts on that? Use the
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  Speaker 3: TalkBack feature. It is now 628.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just heard on the bottom of the
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  Speaker 3: hour South Carolina news break the story that we were
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  Speaker 3: kind of talking about, Christopher, at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: show yesterday, if I remember right. The Mount Pleasant fellow
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  Speaker 3: who's described as a social media influencer being arrested. His
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  Speaker 3: name is Carson Dean Berry. Now, he's only 23 himself,
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  Speaker 3: so he's not like an old pervert. He's a young pervert, though, apparently,
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  Speaker 3: according to what the charges are. Now, he somehow also
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  Speaker 3: was able to come up with a million dollar bond.
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  Speaker 3: And according to I'm reading this in WCBD count on two,
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  Speaker 3: they they seized a bunch of his electronics. And one
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  Speaker 3: of the iPhones that he had had at least the
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  Speaker 3: one thing that they're reporting on is a 12 second
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  Speaker 3: video showing a female juvenile being assaulted in a sexual manner.
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  Speaker 3: He's charged with five counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of
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  Speaker 3: a minor, one count of criminal solicitation of a minor.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason we brought him up yesterday is because
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  Speaker 3: most of us, you know, we got in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of trouble on our own as kids. But today's kids
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  Speaker 3: are— what did you say yesterday? Something about our parents were
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  Speaker 3: worried we talked to the guy in the van that
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  Speaker 3: said free candy.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That's basically the extent of the— targeting of children back
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  Speaker 3: in the seventies. That was the fear. Yeah. This guy
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  Speaker 3: has 148,000 followers on Instagram and about a half million
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  Speaker 3: on Tik TOK. And I'm assuming the, if he's 23,
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  Speaker 3: the majority, the vast majority of these people are going
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  Speaker 3: to be younger than 23, which means the vast majority
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  Speaker 3: of them are going to be under the age of
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  Speaker 3: like 16. And it's one of those things where I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't know. I'm thankful that my child is now an adult. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I got to spend some time yesterday with
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: my son and that was fantastic. And, you know, but
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: he's not dealing with these types of things. Kids are
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: being targeted online by people like this who lure them
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: in through whatever it is that attracts kids to social
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: media influencers. And then they, quote unquote, the phrases slide
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: into the DMs. And once they slide into the DMs,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: these kids feel special because this guy's got a half
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: million people following him. He wants to talk to me.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And if you live anywhere in the low country or
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: actually anywhere in South Carolina, I would think it'd be
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: a good time for you to ask your youngster, are
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: you familiar with this guy? Is this somebody that you followed,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Carson Dean Barry? Because usually when they find one, how
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: many times have we seen that pattern? Once you get
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: one person Then all of a sudden they come out
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: of the woodwork. It's like, oh, there's been dozens of victims.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And so who knows who he's been targeting? Perhaps, hopefully, thankfully,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: nothing happened to any of your children with this. But
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: we have to do a better job of monitoring social media.
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  Speaker 4: His TikTok account is still up. I'm on it right now.
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  Speaker 3: What does it look like?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Well, it's him shirtless at times with other guys at times, uh,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: you know, it's, it's like bro life a little bit
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he's, I'm assuming in very good shape.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, I, I would guess.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But otherwise you don't take your shirt off. I haven't
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: taken my shirt off in about 40 years.
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  Speaker 4: It, does have a place where you can chat with
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: him and then it has a link where you can
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: chat directly with him. Apparently it's also got his Snapchat
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: link on his Tik TOK account.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's, uh, it's, uh, I I'm surprised he's left it up.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I guess he doesn't, I mean, again, he's innocent until
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: proven guilty, but I guess he also doesn't have anything
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: directly on the TikTok account that he's worried about.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no. And you know what? He might not even
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: have access to get to the TikTok account at this
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: point because they seized his laptops and his phones and
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. So he might, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: right now this guy's got big, big problems and maybe
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: deleting or getting rid of my TikTok account at this point.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure the authorities have already combed through all
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of it, right? They already know what they know. So
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: you deleting it at this point is not going to
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: do you much good. But for us who have loved
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: ones that may have been targeted. And it's not just
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: by this guy. That's the thing. There's, there's what hundreds,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: maybe thousands of these types of people on the internet
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: that for whatever reason, young, in this instance, young girls,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: but it could be young boys are interested in their content.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And then they feel special because the quote unquote celebrities
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: talking to them. And then they end up in a really,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: really bad position. So yeah, not talking grooming. That's the phrase.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: That's the phrase. We've got groomers on the internet, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: as moms and dads and, in some instances, grandparents, we
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: have to do a better job of monitoring what our
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: kids' social media stuff looks like. That is a new
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: generational thing. That thing didn't even exist 15 years ago.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Nobody was really worried about what was happening on MySpace,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: but they're certainly worried about what's happening on Instagram today,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: and with good reason. If you have thoughts on that
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: or maybe some insights you could share with us, use
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the talkback feature. It is 639.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: There's no question that the United States has more money,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: even though we're $ 40 trillion in debt. But the economy
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: is the best economy in the world. And it's been
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: that way for hundreds of years now, since the late 1800s.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Some in Washington... would like to change that. There's been
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: new legislation proposed this week. We'll take a look at
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: that in just a minute.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You know, the United States popped onto the world scene
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: in dramatic fashion, first with the Revolutionary War and then
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: the incredible hard work ethic of the early Americans. By 1870,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: they were the number one GDP nation on Earth. And
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: because of that, they were able to raise the quality
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: of life for all Americans. And that continued, you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: after World War II, the separation was basically double that
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: of the closest countries. And today it's even more, unless
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: you count China. China is about half of our GDP.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: And then the drop off from us at 32 is
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: all the way down to Germany at 5%. That's the
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: next closest. That's a big drop off. Yeah. Americans are producers.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: We work our tails off. And, you know, maybe Christopher
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and I are not a good example because we actually
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: work more than most Americans, I would think. Typical workday
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: for me is 4 a.m. to 4 p.m., so it's
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: a 60-hour workweek. This week, or the last several weeks,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I've been doing another show as well, an afternoon show,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: so it's now turned into about an 85-hour workweek. Plus,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: we have the weekend football games and stuff that we do.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: So we work a lot of hours. I'm not asking
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: anybody to do that. But if you want to make money,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: you want to get ahead, I think that's great. Bernie
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Sanders doesn't like it. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill yesterday
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: where it would be mandatory— that all companies would, you
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: cannot cut any benefits, and the maximum would be 32-hour workweek.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: He wants to go to a four-day workweek. He says
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: AI is taking up all our jobs, so if that's
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: the case, then companies can afford to make sure we've
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: got a little lighter workload.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Can I remind Bernie Sanders of his earlier statements? We
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: should stop AI immediately. Oh, but AI is going to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: change everything, and then everybody should just work 32 hours
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: a week. Listen, whenever you're talking about the solution, I've
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: never seen one that came from the federal government. More
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: regulation on companies only hurts the American economy. And if
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you want to force people, now he's saying if they
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: want to work 40 hours a week, that's great. But
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: then the companies will have to pay them time and
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: a half. for that extra eight hours. So if you
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: wanted to just keep things as it is, just a
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: 40-hour work week in order to get benefits, at most companies,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: you would have to pay them extra for that, which
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: obviously would drive people out of business. Companies would have
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to start firing people. We're going to shrink the workforce.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: We're not going to expand the economy. We're going to
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: shrink the economy. I mean, again, we're in this world
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: of new math, Christopher, where working less means more in
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders' mind.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's another thing I've never seen is someone getting
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: ahead or being more successful by working less or less hard.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Just doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: No, it hasn't yet. Maybe Bernie's got a hack. Maybe
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: he has a TikTok account or something. He can show
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: us the life hack where you just work 32 hours
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: a week and you become a multimillionaire like he did,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you know, where I could have three houses like he does.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: And I can also be a communist like he is.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just insane. And by the way, he's
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: not doing this alone. Of course, it's another Democrat, a
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: guy named Mark Takano, Democrat, California. He's introducing it in
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: the House. Bernie Sanders bringing it to the Senate. The
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: 32 hour work week act is the name of it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: This is dangerous stuff because we're incentivizing people to work less.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: And the quality of life for everybody, the homeless all
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the way to the billionaires, everybody's life in America is
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: made better by mostly the working middle class. And if
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you start disincentivizing or making it impossible for them to
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: actually work 40 hours, then we're going to have some problems.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: We're going to start seeing a drop off in this country.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And so I am against it. I'm assuming you are too, Christopher.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Definitely against it. From your tone of voice. We'll see
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: if other people have thoughts on it. Let us know
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: on the Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app. Somebody
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: worked very hard to create that. You might as well
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: use it. All right. It is 6.55. Back with more
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  Speaker 3: in a minute on South Carolina's morning news.
• 26:20
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• 26:24
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 3: 703, and this is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I do a podcast where I can go a little
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: more in-depth. with certain issues. And today's subject of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: national briefing, if you want to hear it on the
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  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app, just look for the national briefing. Look for
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  Speaker 3: that under my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L. Is this story that CNN
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: was talking about yesterday, Kate Bolden presenting the news.
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  Speaker 8: So this morning, police say a woman in California was
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: killed by a man who had stalked her for months.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: And it's now triggering a kind of national debate and
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: a much needed discussion. The suspect is an undocumented immigrant
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: who took his own life after police tracked him down.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: DHS is blaming California's sanctuary police. while the woman's grieving
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: family is asking if more could have been done.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: So she wants us to have a discussion. It's a
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: much needed discussion, according to Kate. Should the illegal alien
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: have been allowed to stay in the country in order
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: to murder an American? It didn't seem like much of
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: a debate to me. I would have thought the answer
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: was a pretty obvious no. That's a pretty obvious no.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: But let's just try to look at it a little
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: further as a Democrat would look at it. So the
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: illegal alien in question came into America in 2023, was
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: obtained in Arizona by the Department of Homeland Security and
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: under the Biden administration was told he had to be
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: released and that he would get a future court date.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: He moved to California. He got a job as a
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: door dash driver. I don't know how that works when
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: you're an illegal alien, but either or he's a door
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: dash driver. And the American was a waitress at IHOP.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: And so he met her when he picked up some food.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: came obsessed with her. She told him immediately, I'm not interested.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: It got really creepy, really quick. And one of the
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: first things that he did was he let the air
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: out of her tires and then followed her. And when
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: she pulled over, he just, I'm here to save the day.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I can help you. She found that very weird, but
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: that not quite as weird as when he somehow was
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: able to get a key copy of her home and
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: just started letting himself into her house on the regular.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: She called the police multiple times, multiple times this guy
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: was confronted by Los Angeles authorities, and then ultimately it
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: led to a court order where it's a restraining order.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: You're not allowed near her. He violated that numerous times,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: and according to the police, by the time we'd show up,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: he was never there, and then we could never find him.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: It's not like we're going to do a manhunt because
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: some guy just, you know, got rid of a, you know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: ignored a restraining order. That's not the point. The point
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: is that he was served a restraining order. a known
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: illegal alien, when we're talking about the worst of the worst,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: when you're handing him the restraining order, that's the time
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: for the deportation. You are in violation of the law.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: You need to go away now. But that's not the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: way they saw it. And now let me take you
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: to Nick Watt, CNN. Nick was in this piece, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Nick thinks he's got a very insightful piece of information
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: that we all need to understand.
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  Speaker 9: Now, it's worth noting that undocumented migrants are arrested at
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: a rate of less than half that of native-born Americans
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: for violent and drug-related crimes.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: It's worth noting that, that it— My gosh, it almost
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: sounds like Nick is suggesting we should start deporting native
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: born Americans and importing more illegals because they're less prone
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: to violent crime, according to Nick. Well, Nick, I would
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: also point out if we're not going to concern ourselves
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: with the fact that who is whom and what is what.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And by the way, here's another lawyer talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Commits crimes, whether they're U.S. citizens, residents, or somebody here
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: without documents. Everybody's committing crimes. You might be in the
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: middle of one right now. Thank you for listening in
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the middle of your crime spree. But if none of
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: it makes any difference, then why do they bring it
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: up when a white person kills a black person? Why
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: is that mentioned? Because statistically, it's not even half. As
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: a matter of fact, about 9% of Americans murders of
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: black people happen from white people. So why is it
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: even mentioned then? It's so small, it's trivial.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Or is it?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Or is it actually important? Maybe that's why people bring
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: things up because they say, oh, this is a thing.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: By the way, I'll also point out that African Americans
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: only make up 13.7% of the population in America, and
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: yet they make up 52% of the actual homicide victims.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: When you talk about there's a black violent crime problem, yes,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: they are being victimized. And somebody should do something about it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: But blaming white people for it is not the answer.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: And in this instance, this poor mom out there in
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles lost her daughter because Gavin Newsom and the
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: whole crew of Democrats decided we would rather protect an
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: illegal alien than deport him over something trivial like a
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: stalking charge. Stalking charges don't always lead to murder, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: they never lead to anything good. People who are stalkers
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: have mental problems. And that guy needed to be deported.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: And that's at least one instance. By the way, there's
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: another instance a month ago where another Californian, this time
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: a man, was murdered by an illegal alien who should
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: have also been deported because he had multiple run-ins with
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: the law enforcement. And yesterday we saw that guy in
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: New York. If you saw the congressional testimony under Kathy
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Hochul's orders, he has to let known criminals out the
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: back door of the jail before the Department of Homeland
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Security or ICE can come and get him. That is
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: sanctuary state policies. That is sanctuary city policies. And again,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: thank God crime is down. Crime is down because we've
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: deported a lot of illegals. But it could be a
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: lot better. And their policies are infuriating. And the fact
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: that they don't want to acknowledge it makes it even
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: more infuriating. Gosh, I'm a double infuriated kind of guy
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: this morning, Christopher.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: It's just crime, though, Kelly. Crime happens all the time,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: as one commentator said. That's ridiculous.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: That's a lawyer. That's an immigration lawyer. Everybody's doing crime.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, who cares if they should be here or not?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: What's the difference?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, the first time he broke into her apartment,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: that should have been, okay, we've got him. He's here.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: This is it.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: He's illegal. He's going back. That's not the way Gavin
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Newsom sees it. And then he's trying to clap back,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: by the way. Go look at Gavin Newsom's social media.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: He thinks he's Trumping. He's got all kinds of clapbacks
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: on this. Anyway, there's that story. We've got more to come.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: If you've got thoughts on it, I love hearing from you.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: It's not just Christopher and I talking. You're talking, too.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Use the Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app. It's 709.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Hi there. I hope you're enjoying your start to Wednesday.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: My name is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson. Good morning. You
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: just brought my attention to a story that was published
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: about two hours ago by one of my favorite reporters
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: at the Post and Courier, one young, not that young,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Nick Reynolds. You read it. What did you think of it?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Well, it's what immediately jumped out at me is the
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: new House majority leaders quoted in this article. And if
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: you didn't know, There was a change in leadership in
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: the state house. Micah Kasky is the new house majority leader.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: And Kasky quoted as saying essentially we're for, you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: real tax reform, not some kind of stunt like lowering
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: the gas tax temporarily.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Well, and just to quote Micah Kasky, who I've met
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: several times and I've enjoyed speaking with him and I
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: would encourage him to call in. or reach out to
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: me on social media, I'd love to have you on
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: as a guest. He said, I take this concern seriously.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I live it myself, and that is absolutely something that's
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: going to drive us forward, but we're going to do
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: it in a smart and thoughtful way, not driven by
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: attention-seeking political stunts. And he's mentioned in here earlier something
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: along the lines of we have an obligation to pass
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: tax reductions that would have the most positive impact on
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: all South Carolinians. Okay, I mean, that all sounds fantastic.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Now, keep in mind, Mike Akasky is as anti-freedom caucus
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: as you can get. I mean, they go head to
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: head on social media all the time.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: That they do. That they do. Nick starts his story.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Why do we have a gas tax? I think everybody knows.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know that we need to be reminded, but
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: it's paying for the roads. Why are the taxes the
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: reason the gas is so expensive right now? I hadn't
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: heard anybody make that claim. No. So we'll just move
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: on from there. And then he goes through the proposals,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: how Alan Wilson had his proposal that would basically empower
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: the governor to just declare, I don't know, a gas
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: tax holiday or something.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Emergency powers.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of like what Ron DeSantis did back in 2022,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: I think it was, when DeSantis declared a tax holiday
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: on gases for Floridians.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: We had Russell Fry on the show yesterday. Apparently, Annie
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Andrews is joining Russell Fry, not that she's in a
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: position of any power, but both are calling for a
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: suspension of the federal fuel taxes. And then they talk
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: about the Freedom Caucus and Jordan Pace, and not only
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: does he want the suspension of the gas tax, he's
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: also calling for some rebates going to South Carolinians up
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: to $ 300 per household.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: That money, by the way, would come from all those
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: earmarks that the House set aside money for.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: And then Nick points out that he used the most
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: fuel-inefficient vehicle that he could think of, I guess, the
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: F-350 Super Duty. And that has a 34-gallon tank, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: you would save $ 10 per tankful if this was implemented.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: No one's saying it's a get-rich scheme. It's an effort
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: to make things a little bit easier for us right now,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: while affordability is such a big issue.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: The point that I'd like to make that I think
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Micah and maybe others are missing is that it's really
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: not even about us. And what I mean by that
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: is it's not necessarily, although in some smaller part it is,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: about what you and I pay at the pump to
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: fill up our vehicles. It really is about driving down
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the cost as best as possible for what farmers have
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: to do because they're paying now record rates on diesel,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: as are the truck drivers. And whether they're bringing food
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: or whatever other supplies it is, that does affect us,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: and it does go up. The more the transportation costs
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: go up and more the farming costs go up, the
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: more the food costs go up, and the more of
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: getting your toilet paper or whatever else the heck you want,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: those prices rise accordingly. So if you were to suspend
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: it federally, you would see a reduction, partially, of some
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: of the transportation costs, which would then be passed on
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: to us because it's a very competitive thing out there.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: And people want to sell their products for as low,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: they want the lowest price as possible because they sell
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: more of it. And that's how capitalism works. People unfortunately
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: mischaracterize capitalism as it's a greed game and whoever can
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: sell it for the highest profits, that's what they're going
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: to try to do. But in reality, it drives the
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: cost down. So I would challenge Micah to take another
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: look at it and say, What if it was to
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: help all the truck drivers and all the farmers here
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina? And what if we were to do
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: it federally and it helped everybody? Would that not have
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: a benefit to all of us if we were able
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: to drive down costs 4%, 3%, whatever? I think it would.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: And I don't want to be like Nancy Pelosi and go,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: but it's only saving them $ 500 a year or $ 1, 000
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: a year. That's not going to do anything. $ 1, 000 to
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: a lot of people is a lot of money. And
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: that's more money that they have to put into the economy,
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: which is how the economy gets stronger. So it is
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: a trickle-down thing. But I do appreciate Nick Reynolds publishing
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: it and reading it in the Post and Courier. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I thank you, Christopher, for bringing my attention to it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: If people have ideas on Do you want to see
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: the gas tax suspended for a little while? Do you
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: think it would help you and your family? Or do
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: you think it would help in the bigger picture with
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: the transportation costs like I brought up? All that and
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: more available on the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: It is now 720.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: 560 AM.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: WVOC, Columbia and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Good morning, gentlemen.
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: This is Renee in West Columbia. Don't you think it's
• 39:06
  Speaker 10: suspicious that we haven't heard any campaign advertisements from Darlene
• 39:13
  Speaker 10: Graham or Annie Andrews, but she knows that WVOC is
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: a losing cause. But don't you think that Darlene should
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: be out there campaigning? She hasn't done any stops or anything.
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: Have a good morning.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: What was her name again from West Columbia? Renee Renee
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: from West Columbia. Appreciate you chiming in. Annie is spending money.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: I've seen some Annie Andrews ads. I have not seen
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Darlene ads as of yet. Have you, Christopher?
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: No broadcast ads. You mentioned the digital ad, but that's
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: from a PAC, isn't it? That's not from her campaign.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. You're talking about the video game that
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: we were talking about? No, that's her campaign.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: That's her campaign?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, yeah. Mark Knoop and Abby Zilch were behind that,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, that is, I mean, look, we're more,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: or roughly 30 days out from early voting. Obviously, the
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: bigger hill here is Annie Andrews, because she's in a plus,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: or in her scenario, she's in a minus eight scenario,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: meaning she's already starting the campaign eight points behind. So
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the clear advantage is the Republican. So Darlene doesn't have
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: to secure as much as Annie does. Annie has to
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: try to figure out a way to convince you that
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: by voting for her, a couple of things are not
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: going to happen. One of which is that Bernie Sanders
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: and Elizabeth Warren and those people are not going to
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: take over Congress, which obviously they would. if she was
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: the winner and gave Democrats the power. And the other
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: thing is that she's a more moderate version of, you know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: she's basically Lindsey Graham who doesn't like war. That's who
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: she is trying to be. Good luck selling that. Yeah,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: good luck selling that. Meanwhile, Darlene Graham is actually working
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: right now. I mean, the Senate is in session.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, I expect that to change, and I'm
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: sure we will hear ads as we get into October saying,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: we'll be blanketed again, just as we were when the
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Senate runoff was occurring on the GOP side.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I did like the fact that she said that the
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: WVFC is a losing cause for Annie Andrews. Yeah.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you'll hear any Annie Andrews ads on,
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: on either of our stations.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: We'll see. We're still planning on interviewing her next month.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And we are talking to Casey Whitener as well, the libertarian.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: So we're going to try to get you some more
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: information before the early voting starts and, we'll keep it fresh.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: We'll try to get it as close to the early
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: voting as possible. And then of course we can all
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: look forward to the debates that are coming down and
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: all kinds of other stuff. But again, keep engaging with
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: us on the talk back feature like Renee did from
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: West Columbia. I certainly do appreciate that. It is seven 28.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: It's the debate. I didn't anticipate America having with itself. Um,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Last week, I saw the ad. Because I'm in the media,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I got an email from some ad agency saying, take
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: a look at this Sydney Sweeney advertisement. And it's for
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: some sort of predictive sports gambling type of thing. And
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: she's completely nude. And she's strategically placed with the shoulder
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: pads and or hair placement or other sporting equipment so
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: that you don't actually see the full nudity. But it's
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: obvious that she's fully nude. And I just said, that's
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Sidney Sweeney doing what Sidney Sweeney is going to do.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: She's been working very hard to make herself like an
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: old school sex symbol. She's almost like this era's Marilyn Monroe.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: That's exactly who I was thinking of. Now, on the
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: other hand, what happened a couple of years ago was
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Bud Light tried rolling out a trans spokesperson. And I
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: think this is where the origin was. And remember, during
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: that era, it started, it felt like in 2020, maybe
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: even earlier, what we would say would be non-traditional, glamorous women,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: and or now in this instance, trans people, were being
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: pushed on men as like, this is what real beauty
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: looks like.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there were a couple of ad campaigns on TV
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: that embraced that. And I point to Sports Illustrated because
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: the old Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue always featured, you know,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: the top supermodels of the day. They started going in
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: a different direction, recognizing, you know, trans and, you know,
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: beauty comes in different sizes and shapes and all that.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: And suddenly it, you know, it was almost a negative
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: to be considered pretty and sexy.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: So Dylan Mulvaney was celebrating the one-year anniversary of being
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: a woman, as if that's a thing. And then Bud
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Light celebrated that one-year anniversary by putting her face on
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: a can. And the backlash on that was instantaneous and
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: horrific for Bud Light. Market crushing. Yes. At the same time.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: You then get Sidney Sweeney saying, I have good genes.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: And what was that? American Eagle has record-breaking sales. So
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: it attracts both men's attention, but marketing to women, ironically.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: And it worked. And this has apparently outraged both sides
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: of the aisle. I mean, everybody's upset about this. So
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: when Sidney Sweeney comes out with a new ad like this,
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: and again, according to the director of the ad, most
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: of this is her idea. So she's not like some dumb...
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: I'm being used type of person. She's calling the shots.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: This is what she wants. She understands how to get
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: what her market is, what her lane is, how she
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: can make money. And I'm not passing judgment. Is that
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: good or bad? I'm just stating what we already know.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: We got, I think about 15 op-ed pieces Monday and
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Tuesday from major publications, all the way from the wall
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: street journal to the LA times talking about Sydney Sweeney
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: in a derogatory way. And then you've got, like, actual
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: female athletes, as if Sydney Sweeney is pretending to be
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: an athlete in these ads. But this is a woman
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: named Amy Hunt, who just came in fourth place in, like,
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: the World Games. So she just missed placing. You're just outside.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on that, Amy?
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: 21-4.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Muscles, hard work, sweat, blood, tears.
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: This is a beautiful, beautiful evening.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're now, we're leaving Trump derangement syndrome and
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: going into Sidney Sweeney derangement syndrome. It feels like it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: And one thing that, and Clay Travis has been the
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: most outspoken on this, but one thing he has pointed
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: out over and over again is the same women who
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: were defending Lindsay Clancy are upset at Sidney Sweeney now.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Make that make sense.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Well, I thought Sydney Sweeney had a good clapback. We're
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: in an era of clapbacks. And so I guess it
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: was yesterday on her Instagram account that she just started
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: posting all the nude athletes that were on the cover
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: of ESPN, The Body magazine. Megan, what was her name? Rapinoe. Yes.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: And her, at that time, girlfriend, Sue Bird. They were nude.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Serena Williams was nude. I mean, there's a long list
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: of females who... Not that long ago, 2018, 2019, thought
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: it was fantastic to appear nude. And almost the exact
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: same poses that Sidney Sweeney almost seems to be saying,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I was inspired by you. It's like, I learned it
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: from you, Dad. Remember those old commercials? Goodness gracious. And
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: America wants to fight over whether or not guys can
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: find Sidney Sweeney attractive or not. I mean, this is ridiculous.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Absolutely ridiculous. People are going to find whomever they find attractive.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: You can't force Lizzo on me and make me say
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Lizzo's pretty. I'm not going to do it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: And you're not going to influence my buying patterns by
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: using these types of people. Will you influence other people? Absolutely.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that that's a bad thing either, that
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: there's certain people who, A, may find obesity attractive and
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: or trans things attractive and whatever, and then they want
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: to buy more of your product, your marketing in your lane.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: That's great. But don't get angry when people don't respond
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: the way you want them to. Like if somebody said,
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Sydney Sweeney, she's blonde. I'm not really into blondes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Nobody's forcing you to like Sidney Sweeney. But they're trying
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: to force us to like Dylan Mulvaney or whatever their
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: name is. It's a ridiculous argument that America is just
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: intent on having. So Christopher Thompson and I, we got
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: to share some of our comments. If you've got comments,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: we'd love for you to share them as well. Use
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio talkback feature. It is 739.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: We've got multiple talkbacks. People want to argue about Sidney Sweeney.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: We can get to that maybe coming up in just
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: a minute. Also, are we doing something wrong in South Carolina?
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: It would appear that the at least the that idea
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: is being floated. that possibly South Carolina is doing something
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: to discriminate against voters. And that gets my ire up.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: If we're doing anything wrong to any voter in this state,
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I want to know about it. So we're going to
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: look at that story and more coming up. This is
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News. All right.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: There's a headline here that made me say, hmm. Remember
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: that old song by C & C Music Factory? Things
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: that make you say, hmm. So according to the South
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Carolina Election Commission, we are not really registering any new voters.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: This is a shocking update because there's been like a
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: million people who have moved into South Carolina, but we
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: really are pretty much apparently around the same amount of
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: registered voters that we had in 2022.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you– I got assaulted yesterday by
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: all these different digital– Everyone was asking me, are you
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: registered to vote? I guess yesterday was voter registration day,
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: national voter registration day.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, was it national? I think so. I don't know.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: But every time I turned on social media, are you
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: registered to vote? Would you like to register to vote? So,
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's plenty of outreach there.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's where it gets interesting. If you read
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: this story, the way it's being positioned here is Lynn Teague,
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: And the ACLU, they want you to know. Lynn Teague's
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: with the League of Women Voters. Yes. And the ACLU,
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I'm just quoting Teague, there's a communication problem if you're
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: trying to reach out to the poor rural areas, which
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: are usually the non-white counties that the ACLU has identified.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: A rural person who is not affluent is less likely
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: to be online. See, so you have that white privilege.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: That's why you were able to get that. Okay.
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: Um, well I was, I'm already registered anyway.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Uh, you're also have less reliable internet access. You're also
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: less likely to be aware of the importance of something
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: like responding to a postcard because all these people who
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: have been ruled inactive, meaning they haven't voted in two
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: or more elections, they've all received a postcard. I think
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: there was like 160,000 of them were mailed out and
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: only like 20,000 of them came back saying, yeah, no,
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: I still want to vote. Um, And then she goes
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: on to say, frankly, I think there has not been
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: reached enough with any kind of communication about the importance
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: of their vote. Well, Lynn, I don't know what else
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: to do. If you send a mail, you run television ads,
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: you send emails, you post it online. We're not doing enough. Well,
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: because they don't they don't respond to the mail.
• 50:57
  Speaker 8: Oh, OK.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: So it's my fault. How is it how is it
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: the South Carolina Election Commission's fault if they're running ads
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: and on television, internet, everywhere else, and they're mailing directly
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: to their home, specifically with their name on it, saying, Mr.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Johnson or whoever, you have not voted in the last
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: two elections. If you're interested in continuing, please respond to
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: this postcard with the free self-addressed themed envelope or something
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: like that. Why is it our fault? Well, because it is, Christopher. Okay.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, and they do know elections happen in
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: November on every four years, certainly. They know we have
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: local state elections. What else can you do? I mean,
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: do we go door to door?
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's where they're heading. Okay. I think
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: that they're now.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: And they'll ask the state to pay for that?
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to do that. I
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: think that they're going to try to mount up an
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: army of volunteers to march out into the wilderness and
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: try to find the people who don't have access to
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: the internet or electricity or the mail and And ask
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: them to come vote because their voice needs to be heard.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: I don't need any of those three to know when
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: it's time to vote and where to vote.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Well, you're not looking to sway votes. If you're James
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: Clyburn and those types of people, you want those voters
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: because they'll do exactly as they're told. Apparently, that's the bet.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: That's the bet that they're making, I would think. But again,
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: if you're asking if South Carolina is failing as a
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: society because enough has not been done to reach out
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: to the uneducated voter, I would say no. As Christopher said,
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: it's all over the internet. If they don't have the internet,
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: it's all over the television. If they don't have television,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: they're actually getting stuff mailed to their house. If they're
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: choosing to ignore it, there's no more that you can do.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: But maybe that's my white privilege talking. Again, don't we
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: have rural poor white folks? I would think that there's
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: a lot of people out in the country that are
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: white and poor and might not be responding to these
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: things as well. I don't know how it's becoming a
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: racist issue. But that's what the ACLU is positioning it as,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: that the South Carolinians are afraid of the poor black
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: vote coming forward. So we're somehow squashing it by sending
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: them direct mail pieces.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't change apathy if they don't care,
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: you know, just because you knock on their door is
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: not going to change their attitude.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. Absolutely not. And this is just another example
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: where you're reminded that you're supposed to feel bad because
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: other people don't do their part. I choose to not
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: accept that guilt. I will not accept it. I reject it.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: You'll reject the bill that comes with it, too, because
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: next they're going to ask you to pay for that outreach.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, I reject that as well. I don't know if
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: we'll see if we're allowed to reject all of it.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: If you've got thoughts, hit us on the Talkback feature.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: It's 755.
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• 53:59
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• 54:09
  Speaker 11: Brian from Sumter here. All these left-wing groups saying that
• 54:12
  Speaker 11: South Carolina's not doing enough for voter registration, they need
• 54:16
  Speaker 11: someone to blame. They need to always make it a
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: race issue. So that way they can try to say, hey, look, see,
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: look what's going on. The minorities aren't being registered. It's
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: their way of, once again, you know, screaming wolf, wolf
• 54:31
  Speaker 11: when there is no wolf. That's what they do every
• 54:34
  Speaker 11: election year.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: I'm from Hopkins. I don't believe it will stop with
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: the registration. Now that you don't have to vote in person,
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: I believe they will take ballots.
• 54:45
  Speaker 11: To them and actually have them fill them out.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, we didn't get his name. I wish I had
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: his name.
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: From Hopkins.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: I just know he's from Hopkins. And Brian from Sumter,
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I saw in the paper, you guys are about ready
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: to have a big drag event. So maybe Brian from
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Sumter will be heading out to that. But yeah, look, Christopher,
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: they're absolutely right. And I think that the talkback feature
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: from Hopkins is correct. And the next step is, okay,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: who can we save on the voter rolls? Because you
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: don't want to clean them, just like what California was doing.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: They were, and we talked about this last week, they
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: were paying people to go out and get the homeless
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: to sign up as known registered voters who had been
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: inactive for a while, and then just using them as
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: the voter, which is highly illegal. And yet people were
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: doing it. I don't want to say for almost nothing.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: I think that one guy said he got paid 40 grand,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: 40 grand to go out and register the homeless and
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: We had the other woman back in May. She was
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: giving them cigarettes, not an entire pack, by the way.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I'll give you three cigarettes if you'll sign your name
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: on this ballot thing or whatever.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Not your name.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: Not your name. A registered voter's name. Yeah, a registered
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: voter's name because that's the only way it'll be helpful
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: to me is if you're a registered voter. It is
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: insane how lax the voting rules have gotten. And again,
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: if you're like me and a lot of leftists, we
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: all agree that the right to vote is a valuable thing.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: And that's why we should protect it as much as
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: we possibly can. And what happens is when you have
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: people voting who aren't supposed to be voting, you are
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: neutralizing the vote of the people who actually have that
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: authority to vote. And again, if you believe that the
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: protection of the voting is important, then you should make
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: sure that homeless people don't pretend to be somebody that
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: they're not, that we don't have organizations doing these types
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: of things. And we'll see. I mean, right now, that
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be the appetite of the South Carolina
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: League of Women Voters and some other people here. Do
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: I have Rory on the phone? Good morning, Rory. Are
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: you with me? I am.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 56:55
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: We were talking just a minute ago about the census
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: and the population here. Talk to me. You've been following
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: this census stuff. We're talking with Rory O'Neill. What's going
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: on with the newest numbers on the U.S. census?
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they had a big data dump yesterday. Well, I
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: shouldn't call it that, but they had a great webinar
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: tuned in for an hour. And for some reason, these
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: numbers got really interesting to hear about. So they broke
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: down three different issues in the latest release. Income in
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: the U.S., the poverty number, and health insurance coverage in
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: the U.S. And on the income front, the Census Bureau
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: reports that real median household income went up again a
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: record $ 87, 460 in 2025. That's the highest it's been since
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: they started tracking this in 1967. And another good sign,
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: the official poverty rate fell half a percentage point in 2025,
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: now down to 10.2%.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: That is fantastic news. I'm hoping that that is greeted
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: as warmly as I'm greeting it because America's, again, continuing
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: to move in the right direction, sometimes despite our best efforts. Well, right.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: And we have to celebrate even the small wins. And
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: there was one number that came out. It's trouble.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: It's good and bad.
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: So the official poverty rate for children is now at
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: a historic low in the U.S., But for the U.S.,
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: the richest country in the world, the fact that it's still.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: 13.4% of children in the U.S.
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: Live in poverty, that's frustrating.
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: Rory, was part of that due to the fact that
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: we have fewer children? Is that why the poverty rate
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: is lower?
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: It shouldn't be because it's the rate.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: So it shouldn't be an issue.
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: Now, what demographic is having them?
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thinking if the average American family, you know,
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: 40 years ago was having four children, and now the
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: average American family is having one or two. That same
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: family is in poverty. It's just with less children. That's
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: why I was thinking that the poverty rate for kids
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: might be on the decline. I think we probably still
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: have in the ballpark the same percentage of Americans you know, adults,
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: I should say, that are below the poverty level. That
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: was my guess.
• 59:10
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: Well, and let's, first of all, the weighted average for
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: the poverty threshold in the U.S., family of four, $ 32, 970.
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: That's what's been set by the federal government, that if
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: you are below that essentially $ 33, 000 income for a family
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: of four, that's then you are considered living in poverty. Now, again,
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: we've seen more households with that number bump up over
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: that threshold, which is why the poverty rate fell half
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: a percentage point from 24 to 25. And again, the
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: poverty rate for children, and this is the rate, so
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: it's not the total number of children, it's the rate,
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: is 13.4.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: Well, again, the good news is America seems to be
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: getting better when it comes to income and those types
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: of things.
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: One little note on here I think is significant, too,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: is that when it comes to earnings for men versus women,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: you know, historically, women have been making pennies on the dollar. What,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: 60 cents for every dollar a man makes? Terrible, terrible numbers.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: But now we're seeing, again, progress being made. We're not
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: there yet. But the Census Bureau reports that now the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: women make a full-time year-round workers. Women make 83.9 cents
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: to every dollar a man makes. That gap closed nearly
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: 4 cents, or more than 3 cents anyway, just from 2024.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: So that's a significant move.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, Rory, thank you for taking the time
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: to break down those numbers. And maybe next time we
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: can talk about that space weapon. I know you got
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: some insights on that, but we have to take a
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: break here. But thank you for taking the time to
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: call into South Carolina's morning news. Anytime, Kelly.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: All right. So there you have it from Rory. By
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: the way, I'll point out that I think that probably
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: the moving on that figure about his female making, what
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: did he say, 83 cents on the dollar or whatever now,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: is more and more women are not getting married and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: not having children. And so they're more engaged in the workforce.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: That's my estimate. Because when it was 60 cents a dollar,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: I always said, well, why doesn't a company just fire
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: all the men? If you can get all the same
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: job done for 60% of it, That would have been
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: the way to go. But either way, let us know
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: what you think on the Talkback feature. You're a male
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: chauvinist pig. Okay, I'll take that if you want to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: put that on the Talkback feature. Whatever. It is 8-10.
• 1:01:30
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• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: So yesterday, Christopher, you and I, by the way, my
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: name is Kelly Nash if you're new to the show.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: Thanks for listening. Yesterday, Christopher and I were a bit stunned.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: To see that the South Carolina Supreme Court was having
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: hearings up in Clemson at like the Arch Theater or something.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: They take their show on the road every now and then.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I looked it up. Apparently, this is part of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: an ongoing community outreach. So they have already visited the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: Belk Auditorium in Clinton, South Carolina this year at Presbyterian.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: They've also had a two-day session at the Smith. Hammond
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: Middleton Memorial Center in Orangeburg. The Winthrop University got to
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: hear oral arguments as well. So I guess keep a,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: do I get it like a tour shirt? The Supreme
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Court of South Carolina tour 2026.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: I visited the Supreme Court and all I got was
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: this crummy t-shirt.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: I saw some photographs. Now, apparently there was no rulings
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: announced after that. And they're saying probably several weeks till
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: we hear like, One of the big cases is Henry McMaster.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: Was he out of order in sending the National Guard
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: to D.C.? They're pushing that. Also, do we know, did
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Thomas Ravenel or the— girlfriend? Catherine Dennis.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Were they there yesterday? I assume.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen pictures, but I assume they were there.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, that was a big case involving them.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I knew that, you know, oftentimes with celebrities and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: I'm using now I'm actually using air quotes, celebrities like
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Thomas Ravenel and what's her face. Oftentimes it'll just be
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: the attorneys showing up. I didn't know if we were
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: actually going to get, you know, visited by greatness on
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: Clemson's campus yesterday. I'm sure a lot of the people
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: in the audience were hoping so. So I hope they
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: made an appearance just for that. But, yeah, we'll be anxious.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: I'm fascinated by this lawsuit against our governor for deploying
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: the National Guard at the request of the president up
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: to D.C. to try to squash some of the what
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: I would call was insurrectionist behavior. But, you know, maybe
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. So
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: we'll see how the Supreme Court rules on that in
• 1:03:49
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• 1:03:50
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• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: Hi there, it's Kelly Nash. fan of Tim Scott. He
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: used to be a regular on the show. I don't
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: know what's happened in my transitional phase here. Somehow we've
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: lost contact with Tim Scott. But if any of his
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: staff is listening on WSC in the Lowcountry, please let
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: the senator know. We'd like to have him back on
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: the show. And that would be awesome. Yesterday, by the way,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: you should follow Tim on social media. Yesterday, one of
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: the things he did was he retweeted Mike Rodgers' Mike
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: Rogers with the New York Post story showing that Abdul
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: El-Sayed has taken $ 115, 000 from Hamas. That seems like a problem.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would think that would be, especially if you're
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: running away from that issue, saying that you're not going
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: to talk about Hassan Piker and any fringe podcaster. You've
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: got bigger issues to take care of.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: Like taking care of Hamas? Apparently so. But the other
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: thing that he was doing was this was his last
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: moment before he went in. He was trying to build
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: up American support for the Clarity Act. Here he was
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: talking about it.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: Clear rules of the road, American innovation, protecting our consumers.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: That's what Clarity does. That's why we need to get
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: it done right now. Because as a guy who grew
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: up in poverty in a single parent household, I can
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: tell you, my mama needed every single dollar she could find.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: Let's get it done. Not for us. before our country. No,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: it didn't get done. In case you're wondering, it was
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: a vote that needed 60 to move on. They did win.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: They got more than 50, but they weren't able to
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: get to that 60 threshold. So the Clarity Act, which
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: the main thing was really a regulatory split. And cryptocurrency
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: is one of those things that confuses a lot of Americans,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: myself included. And so rather than having the Securities and
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: Exchange Commission, which oversees all the money and stuff, It
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: would be the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would then take
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: the authority over the digital commodities. And like Tim said,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: you could get clearer rules. You'd have a body that
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: that would be their one of their main focuses on
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: like the Security and Exchange Commission. It would make a
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: fair playing ground for everybody. Ironically, I'd say the the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: left was pushing back because I'm just reading this from
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: the story. Democrats argue that the proposed ethics provisions don't
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: go far enough to limit the crypto industry. Interesting, but
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: it limits them, just not enough. And then they have
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: to bring up the, and they have concerns about the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: profits tied to President Donald J. Trump's family ventures in crypto.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: So it's really, as always, it's always about Trump. They
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: don't want this thing– they recognize and acknowledge that it
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: would make it safer for all Americans, but because it
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: doesn't punish Donald Trump personally for playing within the rules
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: that we're currently set up with, then we're not going
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: to pass it. And as expected, shortly after the Senate's
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: failure to advance the bill effectively– the comprehensive market structure
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: legislation for 2026, it triggered an immediate sell-off and heavy
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: outflows across the U.S. on Bitcoin, ETFs, and others. So
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: we hurt ourselves yesterday. The Democrats hurt us yesterday because
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: they wouldn't go along with Tim Scott's idea that we
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: needed clarity when it comes to how are we going
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: to be dealing with cryptocurrency in the United States. They'd
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: rather have the confusion.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: Banks also were fighting against this because banks fear— if
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: you're getting a better return on your investment from cryptocurrency,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: you're going to take your money out of their bank. Well,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: there's competition.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: There is definitely a thought that this is, ever since
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: the U.S. dollar became unconnected to the gold standard back
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: under Nixon, that there's no way to actually prove what
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: your money's worth. It's now just a Trust us. That's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: what it's worth. Where with cryptocurrency, allegedly, and again, I
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: don't know enough about it. I don't even understand when
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: they're talking about mining cryptocurrency, what that means. But according
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: to some of the financial experts that I've read, they
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: think that this is a way for the world to
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: get back to a standard that they can all agree on.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: And then there's no way for like a government to
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: manipulate the value of the currency. It's actually the market
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: would drive the value. So there's something to be said
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: for that. And look, honestly, I need to do more
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: homework on cryptocurrency. If you've got thoughts on cryptocurrency, I
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: would like to see Tim Scott's bill passed just because
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: I like Tim Scott, and I also think it would
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: have made America a better place. But either way, love
• 1:08:43
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• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, gentlemen.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: This is Don from Lugov. I'm in the process of
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 7: finishing a three-and-a-half-week trip that I had to do out west.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 7: Let me tell you, both Kelly and Christopher, you all
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 7: have been my lifeline back to South Carolina for the
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 7: last three-and-a-half weeks here.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure listening to you gentlemen in the morning.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: You all take care. We'll talk to you later and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: be listening.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Don. And Christopher, I'm just doing some
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: math in my head. if Don is listening on the
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: West coast, he must be a very early riser. It's
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: like five 33 right now on the West coast.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: I did actually talk to Don earlier this morning. He,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: he admitted that he, he didn't catch the entire show
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: when he was on the, he was traveling in the
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: Rockies and he admitted he, caught mainly the 8 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: Did you recommend that he get the entire show in
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  Speaker 3: the podcast form?
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  Speaker 4: I should have. That thought didn't even cross my mind, Kelly.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you mentioned that.
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  Speaker 3: You worked so hard on that that that should be
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  Speaker 3: front and foremost.
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  Speaker 4: I was honestly working on the podcast when he called,
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  Speaker 4: and I didn't even think about it. Yes, our podcast
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. If you're somebody like Don who wants to feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're plugged in with some of the movings of
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  Speaker 3: the shakings of what's going on in South Carolina politics,
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  Speaker 3: as well as our take on national and international politics,
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  Speaker 3: you can do that in, you know, like you said, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: at your leisure. So if Don was to wake up
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  Speaker 3: at say 9am our time, 6am West Coast, he could
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  Speaker 3: listen to the whole show on his way to work
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  Speaker 3: or wherever he's going and I love the fact that
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: you've got that podcast up every morning. We've got the
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  Speaker 3: conflicting reports out of the Strait of Hormuz this morning.
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  Speaker 3: CENTCOM says American forces destroyed two Iranian boats after they
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  Speaker 3: attempted to seize what's described as a U.S. sea drone. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians are reporting it completely different. Imagine that. Saying
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  Speaker 3: that the United States has attacked fishing vessels. That would
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  Speaker 3: be quite a misunderstanding if we were attacking fishing vessels.
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  Speaker 3: Why would they do that?
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  Speaker 4: And why would you announce it if you did?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just thinking like we have these massive
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  Speaker 3: warships out there in the Strait of Hormuz. There's some fishing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how big a fishing vessel can get,
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  Speaker 3: but clearly not as big as one of our battleships
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  Speaker 3: or something. But you're saying that. Your excuse is that
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  Speaker 3: the United States attacked a fishing boat. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 3: that anybody would want to give that order. There's absolutely
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  Speaker 3: no strategic advantage given to us. And I'll also say,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that I want to eat any fish
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  Speaker 3: that are coming right now out of the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not. Check where it's coming from. Is it farm fresh,
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  Speaker 3: locally grown? Is it Palmetto fresh or is it Iranian fresh?
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  Speaker 3: By gosh, that's a dangerous place to be fishing, I
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  Speaker 3: would imagine.
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  Speaker 4: So Iranian propaganda officials were sitting there and they're thinking, okay, well,
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  Speaker 4: let's see, hospital, school, wedding party. We've used all those.
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  Speaker 4: Plus it's out in the middle of the ocean or
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  Speaker 4: it's out in the middle of the sea. Oh, fishing, fishing.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: We'll use that this time.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that game when we were kids? Do they still
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: have Mad Libs? I think so. That was a fun game.
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  Speaker 3: I used to like when we'd go on like long
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  Speaker 3: car rides with my parents, they would play. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's how you learned what a noun and a verb
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  Speaker 3: and an adverb, all those types of things. And so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you'd insert them in if you've never played it.
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  Speaker 3: They'd say, okay, give us a noun. give us an
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  Speaker 3: adjective and say good or whatever. And then they would
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  Speaker 3: read the story back to you. It's almost like they're
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  Speaker 3: playing Mad Libs over there with the Iranian propaganda stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Very sadly, I have to say it's a fishing boat.
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  Speaker 3: Fishing boat is what came up. I don't know. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: the Mad Libs propaganda continues in Iran and no end
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  Speaker 3: in sight for this. Trump says it's probably going to
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  Speaker 3: go through the midterms. And I think that the president's
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  Speaker 3: thought on this is if the Democrats win, the midterms,
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  Speaker 3: then the Iranians will celebrate that and think, okay, now
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat-run House and or if there's a Democrat-run Senate,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to force the United States out of that area.
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  Speaker 3: But if the Republicans win, more important maybe even than
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  Speaker 3: your $ 5, 000 check would be the ability to finally finish
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  Speaker 3: these people off. I guess he's just waiting for the midterms,
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  Speaker 3: it seems at this point. So I wish we would
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  Speaker 3: actually wrap it up sooner, but The appetite for the
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  Speaker 3: president is not there currently. So if you've got thoughts,
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  Speaker 3: use the talkback feature. We'll share them if we can.
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  Speaker 3: It is 838.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Interesting read posted in the Post and Courier
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  Speaker 3: this morning. By the way, this is Kelly Nash, Christopher
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  Speaker 3: Thompson there. Christopher, the sports director for iHeart here in
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  Speaker 3: Columbia as well. And when I first joined the station...
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  Speaker 3: or the cluster of stations in Columbia. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he was here yet, but I think he came shortly thereafter.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about Kerry Rich, a.k.a. the captain from South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina basketball, and he worked here for a number of years,
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  Speaker 3: and now he works again with the Gamecocks. Now, his son, CJ,
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  Speaker 3: is in the news today because he was up in
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  Speaker 3: Washington meeting with Ted Cruz and you know, Michelle Obama's brother,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: Craig Robinson, who's the executive director of the National Association
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: of Basketball Coaches. He's meeting with all kinds of high profile,
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  Speaker 3: important politicians to discuss the model that college athletics needs
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  Speaker 3: to regulate after this NIL transfer portal chaos was introduced.
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  Speaker 3: And so he was giving his opinions and that's great.
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  Speaker 3: He was there with the, John Calipari and other big
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  Speaker 3: time coaches trying to, and by his estimation, we need,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to lose college sports. It's going to just
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  Speaker 3: implode upon itself if we're not careful. So I guess
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  Speaker 3: we're getting closer to passing. We had an initial reading
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  Speaker 3: of the save or protect college sports act.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And that passed by a lot. I would say it
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  Speaker 3: was like 74, 24 to move it a little bit
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  Speaker 3: closer to actually finally being passed. And, I guess yesterday
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  Speaker 3: you had like Deion Sanders was there supporting it. Seems
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  Speaker 3: like most of the big time college sports people, Mark
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: Few of Gonzaga was there, John Calipari at Arkansas. Big
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  Speaker 3: name coaches came out to say, this is the move
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  Speaker 3: that we need. I haven't really studied it that closely.
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  Speaker 3: Have you, Christopher?
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  Speaker 4: Well, in some form or fashion, because you've got two sides.
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  Speaker 4: Now you just mentioned one side and that side got
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  Speaker 4: featured prominently on ESPN. I don't know if you saw it,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: but Ted Cruz was on game day on Saturday and
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: ESPN got a lot of pushback, not only because Ted
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: Cruz was allowed to speak in favor of the protect
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: college sports act, but they also had Nick Saban on
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  Speaker 4: the panel. Saban has been outspoken. He's actually run ads
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  Speaker 4: in favor of the protect college sports act, but the
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  Speaker 4: NAACP is against it. And there are some prominent black
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  Speaker 4: college coaches who say this is going to take money
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  Speaker 4: out of the pockets of of kids who need it
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  Speaker 4: the most. They also say college athletics is actually growing,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: that it is not imploding, as some people point out.
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  Speaker 4: And they say that maybe there are some regulations needed,
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  Speaker 4: but this is a step too far, and it will
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  Speaker 4: actually take money out of certain minority pockets.
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  Speaker 3: To your point in this story, all four black Democrats
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate, Cory Booker, Raphael Warnock, Lisa Blunt, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Rochester and Angela also Brooks all voted against the bill. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: NAACP is opposed to it. And, uh, Chris Murphy from
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  Speaker 3: my home state, always embarrassing me. Uh, he says what
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  Speaker 3: this bill does at its core is protect a system
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  Speaker 3: of exploitation. I don't even know what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure either. You just say words to, to
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  Speaker 3: infuriate people apparently. And that's all you need. But, uh, I, Look,
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  Speaker 3: if you've got 77 of the 100 senators are voting
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  Speaker 3: for this, or 74, 74 of the 100 senators, it's
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  Speaker 3: very rare that you can get over 60 on anything.
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  Speaker 3: So the people who study it seem to think that
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: this is a great idea. And as we mentioned, is
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  Speaker 3: Deion Sanders against black athletes? Is that what they're saying?
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  Speaker 3: Of course not. So, I mean, if Deion Sanders, who's
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  Speaker 3: a highly intelligent person and is entrenched in this type
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  Speaker 3: of business— If he's saying it's good for the black athlete,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: it's good for the white athlete, and it's good for
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  Speaker 3: the fans of all races, I don't know why Raphael
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  Speaker 3: Warnock and the NAACP want to say it's racist or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: In the meantime, college sports is running headlong into a
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: system of haves and have-nots. The Athletic did a piece
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: this morning talking about all these schools, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, LSU,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: Texas A & M, and Miami, all have rumored, $ 50
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: million-plus payrolls. Roster payrolls.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I'm not hating on the money. I'm just
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: hating on all the transfers, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, it regulates that, too. It says there is
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: only one transfer allowed. After that, you've got to sit out.
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  Speaker 3: I am a fan of that. But again, that would
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: minimize your ability to negotiate a better deal every year
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: and so on and so forth. But anyway, we don't
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  Speaker 3: have time to discuss that any further unless you want
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: to give us a talkback on the talkback feature. It's 847.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: Yesterday, James Comer gave an interview, and I'm wondering if
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: he's going to get any pushback today from Donald Trump,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: because Trump, along with Mark Wayne Mullen, have been kind
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: of floating this idea that we may be deporting Ilhan
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: Omar because. there's a lot of people are saying she
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: married her brother. We got a lot to look at,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: a lot of proof there. We're going to look at that.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: Mark Wayne Mullen kind of mirrored that sentiment. I have
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: always been beyond skeptical, and I strongly dislike Ilhan Omar,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: but There would be no tactical advantage for her to
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: marry her brother because whether it's a brother or a spouse,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: the ability to bring one in is the same. So
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: there's no benefit. So James Comer said, if they've got
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: anything like that, they ought to make it public. Make
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: it public. Don't just keep alluding to it. Make it public.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: From the evidence I've seen, there's nothing here. But if
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: they've got something else, make it public. I agree with
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: James Comer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Nancy Mace has used that allegation more than once, too.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: She's gone head-to-head with Ilhan Omar on social media.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nancy Mace is, you know, she's always a bomb thrower.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: Loose gun, loose cannon, yeah. Yeah, and yesterday with her
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: calls for the returning of public executions. Yeah. By the way,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: the last one, it was about 90 years ago, was
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: the last public execution. And the reason it ended was
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: it was in Kentucky, and it was like the scenes
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: looked like a carnival. There was like 20,000 people showed
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: up for the hanging, and America looked at it and said,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: what the flip is this? We look like barbarians. And
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: so shortly thereafter, the Kentucky legislature voted to outlaw public executions,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: and I agree with that. I don't need to see it.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: I'm also a supporter of capital punishment, but I don't
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: think it needs to be done in public. It's not
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: going to be any more of a deterrent, but it
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: can make people weird. That's what that is. That's weird.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: When you start selling t-shirts and everything, Hey, we're here
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: to kill somebody today. Let's celebrate. It's not, it should
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: never be a happy, joyous occasion for anybody. When there's
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: an execution happening, it shouldn't, nobody should be celebrating that.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: But Nancy mays throwing that bomb yesterday on this. And
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: the reporter from TMZ who was talking to her, that
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: guy is annoying is all get out. Oh, say it again.
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  Speaker 3: Spell it out. What do you mean by public? Talk
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  Speaker 3: to me about, Oh, shut up.
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  Speaker 4: He knew he was facing instant clicks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you're right, Christopher. He was trying to
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: milk it for everything he could. So, you know what?
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: I salute him then. He did his job. He got
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: the clicks. All right, we're going to put a button
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  Speaker 3: on it and be back tomorrow morning after 6. Have
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: a great day with WVOC and WSC.