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Show Rewind 10-12-26 · 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: Here we go. All right, trying to get my voice back.
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Speaker 3: I've had a rough weekend. Christopher, how about yourself?
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Speaker 4: My weekend was fine.
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: And my voice is like it always is.
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Speaker 3: I know you.
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Speaker 6: We're probably talking in an excited manner in the post-game
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Speaker 6: show after a Saturday shocking beatdown of Florida.
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Speaker 7: It was a little different than the normal post-game shows
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Speaker 7: we've done the last couple weeks, no doubt.
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Speaker 3: Did anybody see that coming? Was there anybody who saw that?
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Speaker 7: There were a couple of people who predicted that if
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Speaker 7: South Carolina was going to... I saw a couple of
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Speaker 7: Saturday Down South, one of the SEC websites, predicted if
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Speaker 7: this was going to be the case of Shane Beamer
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Speaker 7: saving his job, They have the talent to do it.
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Speaker 7: Maybe now's the time while Florida's coming off a loss.
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Speaker 6: And I didn't understand, perhaps you can put it in
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Speaker 6: perspective for us. It seemed as if the Florida coach
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Speaker 6: was saying to Shane Beamer. And then again, in the
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Speaker 6: post game press conference, it, he didn't say it word
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Speaker 6: for word, but it's almost like he said, we're not
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Speaker 6: a very good football team and y'all exposed it. And
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Speaker 6: We got exposed by Missouri, and now we've been exposed
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Speaker 6: by you, and it's going to be a miserable year
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Speaker 6: for Florida.
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Speaker 7: He is a guy who likes to poke at the
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Speaker 7: toughness of his team, to make a point that John
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Speaker 7: Summerall is always about toughness, and if he detects weakness,
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Speaker 7: he will expose it, and he doesn't mind calling out players.
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Speaker 3: That's what it was.
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Speaker 4: I guess that's what it was, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Interesting, interesting.
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Speaker 6: Well, I heard in the news update there, unfortunately, somebody
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Speaker 6: passed away in South Carolina from Isai, I had not
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Speaker 6: expected that because it seemed like it was not anywhere
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Speaker 6: near as bad as I had anticipated. The rainfalls didn't
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Speaker 6: seem like overwhelming. The winds were not that much around here,
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Speaker 6: but enough to take a tree down in the upstate.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's, you know, I read meteorologists, their summary on this,
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Speaker 7: and they said the wind shear was so bad that
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Speaker 7: it wound up cutting the storm in half almost and
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Speaker 7: and that's why we didn't get what we thought we
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Speaker 7: were going to get but you know we had a
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Speaker 7: tornado touchdown what in allendale on saturday night yeah so
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Speaker 7: it's it spawned a few storms but nothing like we
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Speaker 7: thought we were going to get.
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Speaker 6: So yeah again a very unfortunate uh announcement about i
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Speaker 6: think it was greenwood had the uh individual with the
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Speaker 6: house fell on or excuse me the tree fell on
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Speaker 6: the house and uh killed that individual so very sad
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Speaker 6: to hear that But for the most part, South Carolina
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Speaker 6: was okay for the storm.
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Speaker 4: And now we've got a beautiful week ahead.
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Speaker 6: It does look amazing. We had a lot going on
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Speaker 6: this week. South Carolina State Fair is opening on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to be there with Jonathan Rush. Jonathan Rush
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Speaker 6: is the emcee now of the entire program. State Fair
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Speaker 6: boiled peanut eating contest deal. He was the first winner.
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Speaker 6: Then the second winner, I think, was Leon Lott. And
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Speaker 6: then the sheriff of Richland County. And I think he
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Speaker 6: wanted a couple of years. And then Jay Kuhn wanted
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Speaker 6: a couple of years, the sheriff out of Lexington. And
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Speaker 6: now I'm not really sure if I understand what's happening.
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Speaker 6: They're having like maybe like a seniors all-star game or
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Speaker 6: something where those two are going to face off, I think,
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Speaker 6: in a separate. contest, maybe with Brian McConkie from Fox news,
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Speaker 6: because he's, he's won it the last two or three
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Speaker 6: years in a row.
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Speaker 3: I have been dead last every year.
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Speaker 6: When I say dead last year, the highlight.
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Speaker 3: For me last year was I tied Rick Henry.
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Speaker 6: There was, I think eight competitors and Rick and I
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Speaker 6: tied for seventh.
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Speaker 7: Rick Henry's a local Columbia sportscaster legend.
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Speaker 6: I mean, he's got more awards than I don't even,
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Speaker 6: I mean, His wife was telling me once that they've
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Speaker 6: got like an entire wing of the house devoted to
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Speaker 6: his trophies or something.
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Speaker 3: And he's not yet.
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Speaker 6: He wants the boiled peanut eating trophy. But last year
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Speaker 6: he tied with me for dead last. And so I
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Speaker 6: was like, that was a good moment for me because
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Speaker 6: it was the first time I was not in eighth.
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Speaker 3: I was in seventh.
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Speaker 4: I love boiled peanuts. I don't know how you eat
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Speaker 4: them quickly.
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Speaker 6: I don't love boiled peanuts, and I don't know how
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Speaker 6: you eat them quickly. Trying to get the shell thing
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Speaker 6: apart is a mess. And I think that's why they
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Speaker 6: keep inviting me. People like to laugh at me. So
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Speaker 6: we've got that going on. Later on that day, I'm
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Speaker 6: supposed to go to the Craig Morgan concert.
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Speaker 3: I'm taking my son to that.
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Speaker 6: Craig Morgan doing a fundraiser for LRADAC, which is for
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Speaker 6: Lexington and Richland County Drug Abuse Centers or whatever. They
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Speaker 6: do a fantastic job helping thousands of people in the
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Speaker 6: Midlands overcome drug and alcohol addictions. So Craig Morgan, big
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Speaker 6: country star, that's going to be at the Ice House Amphitheater.
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Speaker 6: I believe there's still about 100 tickets left for that
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Speaker 6: show if you're interested in going. Look up Craig Morgan
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Speaker 6: in Lexington Thursday night. So it's going to be a
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Speaker 6: very busy Thursday. And then the weekend will be insane
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Speaker 6: around here, Christopher, because we've got the State Fair rolling through.
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Speaker 6: And then we've got the Italian Festival going on. We've
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Speaker 6: got the Gay Pride Festival going on. So everybody in
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Speaker 6: South Carolina trying to take advantage of it being a
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Speaker 6: bye week. And yet we've added so much to it.
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Speaker 6: You can't even get to probably half of it. So
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Speaker 6: I'm going to the Italian festival Saturday. So maybe I'll
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Speaker 6: see you down there if you like Italian food.
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Speaker 3: I love Italian food. I think that's my favorite food. Anyway.
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Speaker 3: We're going to have to talk about what happened last night.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Did you see the Senate debate? What were your thoughts
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Speaker 6: on it? If you'd like to talk about that. We've
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Speaker 6: got other big news from over the weekend. He's back.
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Speaker 6: We thought we lost Tallarico. Now the question is, where
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Speaker 6: was he for 12 days? Two different narratives. One bad,
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Speaker 6: the other much worse. We'll talk about those and more.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
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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 6: Welcome back, and thanks for starting your Monday with us.
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Speaker 6: Christopher Thompson and Kelly Nash last night. It was the
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Speaker 6: Senate debate in South Carolina. This is the one and only,
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Speaker 6: unless there's some sort of announcement from the Graham campaign
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Speaker 6: changing that.
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Speaker 3: It seems as if.
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Speaker 4: Doubtful.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, doubtful. Christopher, initial response as you... Did you watch
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Speaker 3: it live or did you just get the highlights later?
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Speaker 7: I've been watching highlights all morning and reading what the
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Speaker 7: spokespeople said on social media.
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Speaker 4: I forgot it was on, to tell you the truth.
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Speaker 7: The Sunday night, with all that sports on, I admit
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Speaker 7: I forgot about it.
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Speaker 3: It'd be very interesting to see what the... Like, ETV was.
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Speaker 6: Was it on anywhere else besides ETV?
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Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: So, I mean, do they even rank ETV? Is it like.
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Speaker 6: Was there 100,000 people watching it last night?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, a weeknight, I would have remembered.
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Speaker 7: But it was just... That was a tough night. And,
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Speaker 7: you know, people are getting ready for work the next day.
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Speaker 7: At any rate, I didn't think Darlene Graham was great.
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Speaker 7: I didn't think Annie Andrews was bad. Maybe even overall.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I just.
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Speaker 7: Neither candidate. I thought Annie Andrews would be better. I
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Speaker 7: thought Darlene Graham would be worse.
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Speaker 3: Boy, there's, there's the bar.
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Speaker 4: I know that. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: It's just, I didn't think either greatly impressed. I, you know, I'm,
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Speaker 7: I'm reading now that Darlene Graham didn't appear in the
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Speaker 7: spin room afterward.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: That, I mean, okay.
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Speaker 6: So just so everybody knows, I woke up this morning
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Speaker 6: to a text message from the Graham campaign.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: So they've asked if she can come by.
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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know the, Maybe I shouldn't read these things,
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Speaker 6: but you know, don't send me something if you don't
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Speaker 6: want me to read it. Um, let's see. So I
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Speaker 6: got this text last night. I don't know what, does
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Speaker 6: it show a time? Doesn't show a time, but I
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Speaker 6: was asleep. Um, Hey Kelly, blah, blah, blah. With darling Graham,
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Speaker 6: would you be interested in doing a recorded interview with
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Speaker 6: the Senator tomorrow afternoon? Now I've responded, um, what time
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Speaker 6: and are we talking about her being in the studio
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Speaker 6: or are.
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Speaker 3: We talking about a phone call, which is two different things.
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Speaker 6: I'm not going to, I will obviously take the phone call,
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Speaker 6: but I'm not going to prioritize my life around it.
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Speaker 3: I have an action-packed day as it is.
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Speaker 6: But like I said to this individual, I am willing
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Speaker 6: to try to cancel things if you give me a
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Speaker 6: window that I can say, okay, well, I'll meet her
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Speaker 6: at the station at 2 or 4 or whatever. So
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Speaker 6: I am trying to get an interview with Darlene Graham.
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Speaker 3: I don't want people to feel like I'm not.
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Speaker 5: I am.
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Speaker 6: And I also felt the same way. What you just
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Speaker 6: verbalized is almost exactly how I felt. She did better
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Speaker 6: than I had thought she might. If I was ranking it,
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Speaker 6: it would seem as if Annie Andrews won the debate.
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Speaker 6: Not a whole lot that I could see even attention
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Speaker 6: giving to Casey Whitener. Not sure why they even included her.
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Speaker 6: She was polling before the campaign or before the night
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Speaker 6: at two percent. The other guy who we can't even
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Speaker 6: remember his name, the constitutionalist was Mark Hackett. Yeah, it
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Speaker 6: was at three percent. So, I mean, both of them.
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Speaker 6: I don't want to say non factors, because when you're
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Speaker 6: talking about a race that appears to be as tight
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Speaker 6: as it is, they are huge factors, as is the
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Speaker 6: right in Ralph campaign.
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Speaker 3: That is a huge factor in this. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Casey Whitener seems to believe that she'd be getting votes
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Speaker 6: from both the Andrews and the Graham camp potential. I
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Speaker 6: think that 90% of them would be coming from the
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Speaker 6: Graham camp.
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Speaker 4: You would think so, yes.
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Speaker 6: I'm assuming that the constitutionalist would also be taking from
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Speaker 6: the Graham bucket. And obviously the right in Ralph campaign
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Speaker 6: would be taking from the Graham bucket. All three of
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Speaker 6: those things working against the Graham campaign would seems to
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Speaker 6: be a really large problem. Not a kind of a
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Speaker 6: large problem. That is a massive problem that they have because,
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Speaker 6: say what you will, Darlene Graham, again, exposed as someone
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Speaker 6: who is not a good public speaker. And for whatever reason,
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Speaker 6: you can debate it all day long about whether or
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Speaker 6: not that should be a priority. There is a certain
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Speaker 6: skill set that's required to be a good politician. She
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Speaker 6: doesn't seem to have that skill set. not saying she
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Speaker 6: can't win, not saying that she can't be elected, not
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Speaker 6: even saying she can't be an effective senator.
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying any of those things.
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Speaker 6: I'm saying fundraising, public speaking are two requirements to be
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Speaker 6: a good candidate, and she doesn't seem to have either
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Speaker 6: one of them.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it feels like because we've only been exposed to
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Speaker 7: her in limited form and fashion, she doesn't even really
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Speaker 7: have a stomach for campaigning anyway. We know she was
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Speaker 7: out with Lindsey Graham on the campaign trail back in
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Speaker 7: the day, but There's a big difference between being the centerpiece,
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Speaker 7: the speaker, versus somebody who's just standing on the side
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Speaker 7: and waving to fans as they drive by.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, waving to fans is fun. That's like being in
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Speaker 3: a parade.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 6: Actually meeting voters, usually I've seen it up close and personal,
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Speaker 6: and it is brutal.
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Speaker 3: Some people love you.
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Speaker 6: Other people, I remember one time somebody who you knew,
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Speaker 6: He doesn't work with us anymore, but you knew this guy.
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Speaker 6: This was probably 12 years ago.
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Speaker 3: It was a long time ago.
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Speaker 6: We were at an event with Lindsey Graham, and it
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Speaker 6: was near a primary. I don't remember exactly what the
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Speaker 6: event was. I don't even think it was specifically a
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Speaker 6: Lindsey Graham type of event. I think he was just
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Speaker 6: there and, you know, obviously campaigning. But this individual walked up,
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Speaker 6: big smile, waited his turn to shake the senator's hand.
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Speaker 6: And there was a lot of people trying to shake
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Speaker 6: his hand because he's a senator and it's a big deal.
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Speaker 6: And so he waited, shook his hands and said something
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Speaker 6: to the extent of.
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Speaker 3: I love you.
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Speaker 6: When you're in primary season. The things that you do
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Speaker 6: and say right now are exactly the way I wish
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Speaker 6: you would vote and act six years continuously. But I
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Speaker 6: know that as soon as this thing is over, you
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Speaker 6: are going to become a leftist. And I hate that
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Speaker 6: about you.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 6: And Lindsey Graham just absorbed it. And he said, well,
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry you feel that way. But, you know, I'm
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Speaker 6: I'm always going to do what I think is right.
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Speaker 6: And that was kind of the end of it. And
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Speaker 6: the guy was just like, well, you know, I don't
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Speaker 6: like you as a senator. Now, that's one of the
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Speaker 6: nicer things that was said to his face that day,
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Speaker 6: because then you also got the pro-left people coming on
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Speaker 6: saying you're a warmonger, you're a baby murderer, blah, blah, blah,
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Speaker 6: all day. He's hearing that all day and never took
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Speaker 6: the smile off his face, just was able to absorb it.
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Speaker 3: And move on.
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Speaker 6: It's a rare breed of individual who can be a
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Speaker 6: good politician.
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Speaker 5: True.
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Speaker 7: And I'm not sure that Darlene Graham has that in her.
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Speaker 4: We don't know. We still don't know.
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Speaker 7: I mean, she's they've they've kept her so secluded at
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Speaker 7: this point and just limited in her campaign mode that
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Speaker 7: we don't know what she's like.
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Speaker 6: We're running late, but I want to say just a
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Speaker 6: follow up to what you just said. They're keeping her blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 6: They're keeping her. If she was a good politician. She
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Speaker 6: wouldn't listen to them.
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Speaker 4: She'd be driving the campaign.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I tell you what I want to do. You
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Speaker 6: don't tell me. Who's the candidate here, me or you?
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Speaker 6: I am the candidate. I'm going to go and talk
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Speaker 6: to the press. I am going to have these events.
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Speaker 6: I want everybody there. I want everybody to see what
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Speaker 6: I have to say. But that's not what's happening. So
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Speaker 6: we'll talk about it more. Maybe you've got some thoughts
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Speaker 6: off that. We'll actually get into what was actually said
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Speaker 6: last night. If you've got some insights, please use the
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Speaker 6: talkback feature. It is late, 622.
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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 5: Kind of pitiful when you think about it. We have
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Speaker 5: the sister of a dead senator. who has no real
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Speaker 5: political exposure or experience. And we have some lady that's
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Speaker 5: a doctor that moved into the state from somewhere else
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Speaker 5: and now wants to jump into one of the most
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Speaker 5: powerful seats in America in the Senate. Not much of
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Speaker 5: a choice. What have we done?
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Speaker 6: Talk Back feature is open for your insights and how
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Speaker 6: you are feeling after maybe you watched the Senate debate
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Speaker 6: last night. Darlene Graham, Annie Andrews and Casey Whitener. I
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Speaker 6: think that all three of them, I think at some point,
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Speaker 6: acknowledge the fact that it's a kind of historic event
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Speaker 6: and the fact that the only women or that the
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Speaker 6: only people running are women right now on that stage.
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Speaker 3: The constitutionalist guy didn't show up.
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Speaker 6: And I will continue to refer to him as the
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Speaker 6: constitutionalist guy because he refuses.
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Speaker 3: To acknowledge the media.
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Speaker 6: So with that being said, Christopher, just speaking on the
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Speaker 6: talkback that the guy used, I don't have a problem
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Speaker 6: with people moving here.
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Speaker 3: One, I am somebody who moved here. I chose South.
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Speaker 6: Carolina 20 whatever it was then 2003. So 23 years ago,
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Speaker 6: I chose to move to South Carolina and I didn't have.
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Speaker 3: A job here. I just chose South Carolina.
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Speaker 6: People might not know, I had a contract that if
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Speaker 6: I was not willing to move to San Francisco from
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Speaker 6: New York, they were not going to continue with my position.
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Speaker 6: And I said, well, my contract says New York. And
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Speaker 6: they said, well, then you can just leave. And I
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Speaker 6: was going to get.
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Speaker 3: Paid for about a year. And I said, well, where
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Speaker 3: do I want to live then for a year?
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Speaker 6: And I chose South Carolina because there was a number
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Speaker 6: of reasons. I loved Charleston. I love people of Charleston.
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Speaker 6: There was a different attitude. And I also liked the
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Speaker 6: lower taxes. So geographically, humanity, politically, everything seemed to line
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Speaker 6: up with what I wanted in my life. And so
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Speaker 6: I've been here now for 23 years.
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Speaker 3: I love it. I would never, ever go anywhere.
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Speaker 6: By the way, side note, I saw a thing on
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Speaker 6: Fox Business, I think it was, Christopher, the state that's
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Speaker 6: losing the most millennials right now is continues to be California.
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Speaker 6: The state that's picking them up the most is South Carolina.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 3: More so than even Texas.
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Speaker 4: So fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: People, young people want to move to South Carolina because
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Speaker 6: they realize that it's so much more affordable and we're
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Speaker 6: only going to get better. If the more conservative, I
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Speaker 6: think that the state house can get, I think we're
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Speaker 6: going to get better and better and we're Yeah, the talkbacks,
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Speaker 6: I think I'm expecting a lot of people today to
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Speaker 6: have some emotions.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that.
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Speaker 7: Either candidate's supporters are greatly encouraged after what they saw
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Speaker 7: last night.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: I saw Annie Andrews tweet out a video of her
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Speaker 6: going into the event and said, there's a movement happening
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Speaker 6: in South Carolina. But there was like, I don't think
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Speaker 6: there was more than 25 people there. It wasn't like
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Speaker 6: the Annie Andrews camp is all excited either. The Darlene
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Speaker 6: Gramp was described, I didn't see hers, but it was
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Speaker 6: described as smaller.
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Speaker 3: So it So one had.
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Speaker 6: The starting offense and defense for a football team. The
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Speaker 6: other one might have had the starters and backups for
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Speaker 6: a basketball team. I'm not really sure, but not a
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Speaker 6: lot of enthusiasm. We've got to take a break and
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Speaker 6: be back with more at 631.
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Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 6: I understand that social media is not real life, but
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Speaker 6: it is interesting to look at several of the upstate
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Speaker 6: media Television stations postings about last night in the South
18:24
Speaker 6: Carolina Senate debate. Again, if you were to look at
18:26
Speaker 6: the state of South Carolina, the upstate is the most conservative.
18:31
Speaker 6: Usually it's like a 70-30 type of vibe. As you
18:34
Speaker 6: get into the Midlands, it becomes a little more conservative.
18:37
Speaker 3: Tricky.
18:38
Speaker 6: You have some pockets of conservatives like the Lexington area.
18:41
Speaker 6: You've got some moderates that can go either way. And
18:44
Speaker 6: then you got like the left, which is Richland County.
18:47
Speaker 6: As you get down to the coast, obviously the James
18:51
Speaker 6: Clyburn corridor is going to be pretty much all left.
18:56
Speaker 6: But so when I look at the upstate, I'm seeing
19:01
Speaker 6: on like WYFF right now, overwhelmingly that Annie Andrews won
19:07
Speaker 6: that debate last night.
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Speaker 3: Really?
19:09
Speaker 5: Wow.
19:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's their comments. Now, again, that's not real life.
19:12
Speaker 6: That could be a bunch of people who work for
19:14
Speaker 6: the campaign commenting and.
19:16
Speaker 3: So on and so forth.
19:17
Speaker 6: But just our assessment also aligns with that, that if
19:23
Speaker 6: you were to just rate who won the debate, it
19:26
Speaker 6: would be Annie Andrews. Somebody in that comment section made
19:29
Speaker 6: the same comment that you and I were making, that
19:32
Speaker 6: Just because somebody won the debate doesn't mean that that's
19:35
Speaker 6: going to shift me from my policies. I'm voting for
19:39
Speaker 6: the candidate that more closely aligns with my policies, which
19:44
Speaker 6: would be Darlene Graham. That's who I'll be voting for.
19:48
Speaker 6: And there's really nothing she could do. or say at
19:50
Speaker 6: this point that would sway me from that, nor is
19:52
Speaker 6: there anything that any of the other candidates could do
19:54
Speaker 6: or say, because they've already established who they are. But
19:59
Speaker 6: I'm wondering if you guys felt differently. Now, when you
20:02
Speaker 6: look at what was said last night, interesting, this was
20:06
Speaker 6: from the This was posted by Annie Andrews as one
20:10
Speaker 6: of her best moments, apparently.
20:12
Speaker 8: No, and I do not support the war with Iran.
20:16
Speaker 8: Already 21 American service members have been killed, and we
20:20
Speaker 8: recently learned that eight sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
20:23
Speaker 8: tried to commit suicide. We've also spent $ 50 billion American
20:27
Speaker 8: taxpayer dollars on this war. Again, money that could have
20:30
Speaker 8: been invested in our infrastructure, healthcare system, or public education system.
20:35
Speaker 8: And the war is the exact reason we now have
20:37
Speaker 8: record high gas and diesel prices. Farmers are getting crushed
20:41
Speaker 8: and everything costs more. My opponent is the only one
20:44
Speaker 8: on this stage who had the opportunity to vote to
20:47
Speaker 8: end the war. But three times in a row, she
20:49
Speaker 8: voted to continue it. And several days after one of
20:52
Speaker 8: those votes, she had the audacity to walk out onto
20:55
Speaker 8: this stage and admit that national security isn't really her thing.
21:00
Speaker 8: South Carolina, if your surgeon said that appendectomies aren't really
21:04
Speaker 8: his thing, would you still hand him a scalpel?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
21:08
Speaker 3: So that, again, according to Dr. Annie, one of her
21:12
Speaker 3: best moments.
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Speaker 6: I would point out that she's lying and or wrong
21:16
Speaker 6: about every assessment that she made. So go back to
21:20
Speaker 6: the beginning of it when she was talking about this
21:24
Speaker 6: idea that the $ 50 billion could have been invested. No,
21:27
Speaker 6: it couldn't, because that's called deficit spending. We don't have
21:30
Speaker 6: the $ 50 billion.
21:31
Speaker 3: That's part of the problem.
21:33
Speaker 6: But there is no $ 50 billion to invest in health
21:35
Speaker 6: care or whatever. I'll also point out that we're spending
21:38
Speaker 6: over $ 5. 5 trillion this year of taxpayer money on health care.
21:43
Speaker 3: So $ 50 billion is a fart in the wind.
21:46
Speaker 6: You're not actually affecting anything with $ 50 billion when you're
21:49
Speaker 6: at 4.5, excuse.
21:51
Speaker 3: Me, $ 5.
21:52
Speaker 6: 5 trillion that we're spending on health care. So she's,
21:55
Speaker 6: you know, disingenuous at best. Then she starts talking about
22:00
Speaker 6: she could have ended the war. Nobody, and I mean
22:03
Speaker 6: absolutely nobody, believes that if the Senate had voted to
22:06
Speaker 6: put a War Powers Act on the president, that that
22:08
Speaker 6: would have ended the war. So she's disingenuous with that.
22:11
Speaker 6: When she's talking, what was the last point that she
22:13
Speaker 6: was trying to make? Something about, oh, she had the
22:15
Speaker 6: audacity to come out here on this stage. First off,
22:19
Speaker 6: she wasn't on that stage. When she said the thing
22:21
Speaker 6: about the thing's not my thing, that was a Newberry.
22:24
Speaker 6: So you're lying about the stage that she was on.
22:26
Speaker 3: And I would point out that the Dr.
22:31
Speaker 6: Scappell analogy is completely wrong because the senators are not
22:36
Speaker 6: the ones actually conducting the war. All they're saying is,
22:40
Speaker 6: could I make a decision now? about whether or not
22:44
Speaker 6: to do the operation. You may disagree with Pete Hegseth.
22:47
Speaker 6: You may disagree with all the generals in charge, but
22:50
Speaker 6: they're the ones that, in your analogy, would be the
22:52
Speaker 6: ones with the scapel, not the senators. The senators don't
22:55
Speaker 6: come up with war plans. The senators have nothing to
22:58
Speaker 6: do with that. They just read the intel that comes
23:00
Speaker 6: into them and say, I think we should be moving
23:03
Speaker 6: or we shouldn't be moving.
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Speaker 3: What is the plan of action, doctor?
23:06
Speaker 6: So everything that she just said, and again, she put
23:10
Speaker 6: that out as her very best moment.
23:12
Speaker 3: Dr.
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Speaker 6: Annie says, this was my moment, and it sucked. If
23:15
Speaker 6: anybody thought that that was good, you don't know how
23:18
Speaker 6: to vote. You don't understand politics. We'll take a break.
23:22
Speaker 6: Christopher's got his headphones off. That tells me I'm running late.
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Speaker 6: It's 641.
23:26
Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
23:29
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, the controversy about what's happening in Michigan
23:33
Speaker 6: with that candidate caught in a massive lie yesterday.
23:38
Speaker 3: Also, is the other guy in Texas, is he lying?
23:42
Speaker 6: We have competing narratives and some audio tape that is
23:45
Speaker 6: very interesting to listen to.
23:46
Speaker 3: We've got all that and more coming up in just
23:48
Speaker 3: a moment.
23:49
Speaker 6: And, of course, your talkbacks as well, whether you want
23:51
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23:54
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23:59
Speaker 6: It's about 6.47.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
24:05
Speaker 6: All right, we're on a little bit of a tight schedule.
24:08
Speaker 6: I'm going to expose some of the lies that are
24:11
Speaker 6: being told in campaigns right now when we come back. However,
24:16
Speaker 6: before we even get to that, I just need to
24:17
Speaker 6: remind people that we had one of the best examples
24:20
Speaker 6: in South Carolina back in 2018 when then-candidate Joe Cunningham
24:26
Speaker 6: was running to win District 1. And he was saying
24:30
Speaker 6: in his TV commercials, as he's standing there in a wetsuit,
24:33
Speaker 6: as an ocean engineer, I spend a lot of time
24:36
Speaker 6: in the.
24:36
Speaker 3: Ocean, blah, blah, blah.
24:37
Speaker 6: Well, actual local ocean engineers filed a complaint with the
24:42
Speaker 6: Board of Registration because he is not. And that went
24:46
Speaker 6: to a state regulatory board, which dismissed all complaints against Cunningham.
24:51
Speaker 6: citing it's a political ad and campaign materials are protected
24:55
Speaker 6: as political free speech and the voters should expect exaggerations
25:00
Speaker 6: and lies.
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Speaker 3: Sad.
25:02
Speaker 6: That's where we were eight years ago. You should expect
25:07
Speaker 6: them to lie to you. Well, I will point out
25:09
Speaker 6: some of the lies coming up in just a minute, although.
25:12
Speaker 3: I guess you've all expected these lies.
25:15
Speaker 6: It's sometimes helpful to just be pointed out that they're
25:17
Speaker 6: not telling us the truth when they're running for office.
25:21
Speaker 6: If you have thoughts on any of the subjects we're
25:23
Speaker 6: getting to this morning, always love to hear your thoughts.
25:26
Speaker 6: Use the talkback feature. That's the microphone on the iHeartRadio app.
25:29
Speaker 6: We'll try to get you on the air. It is
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Speaker 6: now 6.55.
25:32
Speaker 2: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
25:38
Speaker 2: Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
25:40
Speaker 2: The great Rush Limbaugh used to say.
25:51
Speaker 6: That it's impossible for Democrats to win elections if they
25:55
Speaker 6: told you who they really are and what their goals
25:57
Speaker 6: really were.
25:59
Speaker 3: That seems to be more obvious today than ever.
26:02
Speaker 6: And as you look at, you know, the fact that
26:04
Speaker 6: the DSA feels comfortable enough to actually publish on their website,
26:10
Speaker 6: I was talking to somebody at church, Christopher, over the weekend,
26:13
Speaker 6: who I would say identifies as a moderate mainstream type
26:19
Speaker 6: of individual.
26:21
Speaker 3: Who is considering voting for Annie Andrews. And I pointed out,
26:25
Speaker 3: if you vote for Annie, I'm not saying do or don't.
26:28
Speaker 3: That's your vote, obviously. Do whatever you want.
26:31
Speaker 6: Even if she is who she says she is, which
26:34
Speaker 6: is a different version than who she was two years ago.
26:39
Speaker 6: But even if she's evolved and she's more mainstream, that
26:42
Speaker 6: is irrelevant in the team sport of politics because the
26:47
Speaker 6: leadership of the Democrats has become either.
26:51
Speaker 3: They're either just willing to work with the DSA or
26:55
Speaker 3: they themselves have become radicalized.
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Speaker 6: And I said, you know what the DSA stands for.
27:00
Speaker 6: And he's like, well, I've heard a lot of right-wingers
27:02
Speaker 6: say stuff.
27:02
Speaker 3: I'm like, just go read it.
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Speaker 1: Go read it.
27:05
Speaker 3: He texted me last night. I cannot believe this is
27:08
Speaker 3: on their website.
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Speaker 4: They're not hiding from it.
27:10
Speaker 3: At least not.
27:12
Speaker 4: That wing of the party is not hiding from it.
27:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: It's the one's... The Democrats who are on the fringe
27:17
Speaker 7: who are trying to decide if they want to lean
27:19
Speaker 7: on that far left or if they want to pretend
27:22
Speaker 7: they're more mainstream for now.
27:24
Speaker 6: So, like you said, the mainstream version of the Democrat
27:28
Speaker 6: Party is lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Now, one of
27:33
Speaker 6: those people who is originally running as a.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. What's his face in Michigan?
27:40
Speaker 6: Did he ever say I'm a DSA member or was
27:43
Speaker 6: he just I'm a far left Islamist? I can't remember
27:47
Speaker 6: if he's actually an official member of the DSA, but
27:49
Speaker 6: he certainly is. Yeah, he's definitely DSA adjacent at best.
27:55
Speaker 6: And he was lying again over the weekend yesterday on
27:58
Speaker 6: Meet the Press saying that nobody in his family, not
28:03
Speaker 6: one person has any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. That
28:09
Speaker 6: is shocking news for his cousin, who happens to also
28:13
Speaker 6: live in Michigan, who says, quote, My family has long
28:17
Speaker 6: been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
28:19
Speaker 3: We've always supported them.
28:21
Speaker 6: But I felt like he's done a great job of
28:23
Speaker 6: navigating it in the political sphere.
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Speaker 1: Huh.
28:29
Speaker 6: Nobody in your family. Nobody in your family. Next, another post.
28:35
Speaker 6: Praying for all my family that supports the Muslim Brotherhood
28:38
Speaker 6: in Egypt. Lie low, stay safe. I mean, this is
28:43
Speaker 6: your first cousin who lives in your town. So you
28:48
Speaker 6: obviously are aware that somebody in your family associates with
28:51
Speaker 6: the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, there are people who say that
28:55
Speaker 6: you associate with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Speaker 3: You have said, I do not. Okay, then condemn them.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty easy.
29:03
Speaker 3: That's the thing I always make a point out of.
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Speaker 6: If you are a Muslim who does not agree with
29:10
Speaker 6: what has been deemed radical Muslim, then condemn it.
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Speaker 3: I'm still waiting.
29:16
Speaker 6: I have not seen Muslim leaders on our television sets
29:19
Speaker 6: saying that all of these Muslim terrorists, all of these
29:22
Speaker 6: Muslim movements that are talking about like he's in the
29:26
Speaker 6: awkward position of trying to make Oklahoma. He brought up
29:31
Speaker 6: Oklahoma and they had a vote, what, two, three, four
29:34
Speaker 6: years ago to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma. And he's
29:37
Speaker 6: basically comparing that to the plight of the black families
29:41
Speaker 6: of the early 1900s in the South. He says that's
29:46
Speaker 6: the same spirit that would try to ban Sharia law.
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Speaker 5: What?
29:55
Speaker 6: Sharia law calls for the genital mutilation of females.
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Speaker 3: How is that associated?
30:01
Speaker 6: The fact that you want to ban that seems like
30:03
Speaker 6: a good thing, not a bad thing. The fact that
30:05
Speaker 6: Sharia law would circumvent actual local law if it was passed,
30:10
Speaker 6: but that's their understanding of it. We now outrank your
30:15
Speaker 6: city law. We now outrank your state law. prove us differently.
30:19
Speaker 3: And guess what? They're willing to die for that.
30:21
Speaker 6: So if you're saying that outlawing it and not even
30:25
Speaker 6: being allowed to be a subject matter is a bad thing,
30:28
Speaker 6: prove to me why. Is Sharia law a bad idea?
30:31
Speaker 6: Yes or no.
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Speaker 3: He won't take that position.
30:35
Speaker 6: I'm very concerned as we meet the new face of
30:40
Speaker 6: the El-Sayed supporters. I did a long podcast on that
30:45
Speaker 6: this morning. I will introduce you to some of the
30:47
Speaker 6: women That are supporting El Sayed. Very pro-El Sayed people.
30:53
Speaker 6: Not typical people that you would have expected. Or maybe
30:57
Speaker 6: you did. Maybe you had more of an insight on this. Also,
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Speaker 6: James Tallarico. Is that narrative falling apart after this weekend?
31:05
Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 4: You would hope so.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll give you his side, and I'll give you
31:11
Speaker 3: the other side.
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Speaker 6: And more, Christopher Thompson and I waiting for your talkbacks
31:15
Speaker 6: as well. Use the microphone on the talkback feature on
31:18
Speaker 6: the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 3: It's 749. Actually, it's 708. You're jumping ahead, Kelly.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was going to say it was 709 because
31:24
Speaker 7: at my clock it's now 57, 58, 59, and there's 709.
31:25
Speaker 3: There we go.
31:26
Speaker 4: This is South.
31:26
Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News. Well, he is back.
31:39
Speaker 6: Saturday, James Tallarico reappears magically after being off the trail
31:46
Speaker 6: for 12 days in the middle of October. It's crazy
31:52
Speaker 6: that somebody would take 12 days off in the middle
31:54
Speaker 6: of a campaign. Now, here he is with a very
31:56
Speaker 6: friendly reporter asking him about the actual case of flu.
32:01
Speaker 9: He talked about how you're diabetic and that has.
32:06
Speaker 9: Diabetics get the flu it could get really bad how
32:09
Speaker 9: how bad was it for somebody who wants to know
32:10
Speaker 9: is this just like in bed rest or did you
32:13
Speaker 9: ever have to go to a doctor or hospital i
32:15
Speaker 9: just went to my primary care physician uh but uh
32:18
Speaker 9: it wasn't anything uh worse than you know a nasty
32:20
Speaker 9: case of the flu um And so I was in
32:23
Speaker 9: bed and, you know, drinking lots of liquids.
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home. He had
32:28
Speaker 3: to work from home?
32:30
Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 6: I didn't see any work that he was doing. Did
32:33
Speaker 6: anybody hear from James Tallarico? Did anybody see James Tallarico
32:38
Speaker 6: or hear of him making a phone call or doing
32:40
Speaker 6: anything for those 12 days?
32:42
Speaker 4: He just downplayed it.
32:44
Speaker 7: The reporter gave him an out saying, I know as
32:47
Speaker 7: a diabetic you are seriously ill sometimes if you get
32:51
Speaker 7: the flu. And Tallarico said, nah, I just had a
32:53
Speaker 7: nasty case of the flu.
32:55
Speaker 6: I would also point out that if you are. I
32:59
Speaker 6: don't want to say soft. I'll use the word susceptible
33:03
Speaker 6: to illness.
33:04
Speaker 3: How's that?
33:05
Speaker 6: It's like, it's like in sports, Christopher, there are some
33:07
Speaker 6: people that are injury prone.
33:09
Speaker 10: Yes.
33:09
Speaker 6: And as an injury prone athlete, you are less valuable
33:13
Speaker 6: because people can't count on you. Depending on, even if
33:16
Speaker 6: you're some of the best players in the league, you
33:19
Speaker 6: get a lot less money. You get a lot less
33:21
Speaker 6: opportunity because for whatever reason you continually twist, you know,
33:25
Speaker 6: you know, you pop hamstrings and twist knees or whatever. And,
33:29
Speaker 6: You're not good as a politician who's trying to be
33:33
Speaker 6: a leader. You should be available to work at all times.
33:37
Speaker 6: And I remember Bill Clinton on the campaign trail being
33:41
Speaker 6: very sick back in the 90s and he couldn't even speak.
33:45
Speaker 3: And he would just kind of the horse leads.
33:48
Speaker 6: I got to get this message out to you that
33:51
Speaker 6: I'm going to bring it to you. And people were like,
33:54
Speaker 6: that's a fighter. I like that guy. This guy disappears
33:57
Speaker 6: for 12 days.
33:58
Speaker 3: Nothing.
33:59
Speaker 6: All right, well, let's then go with the other narrative,
34:02
Speaker 6: as some of you may have heard last week.
34:05
Speaker 3: I didn't talk about.
34:06
Speaker 6: It on the air, even though social media was running
34:08
Speaker 6: amok with it, the idea that he may actually be
34:11
Speaker 6: in a mental institution.
34:13
Speaker 3: Is that the phrase that we use? I don't know.
34:15
Speaker 6: The Linder Center of Hope in Ohio is where he
34:19
Speaker 6: was reported to have been. And then there was a
34:22
Speaker 6: phone call made to that institution, I think, on Friday.
34:27
Speaker 3: Okay, so nothing for James Tallarico?
34:38
Speaker 8: Yes, it looks, well, this is what it's today.
34:43
Speaker 3: It looks like he was just discharged this evening. That's
34:47
Speaker 3: why I don't have it. Oh, he was discharged then?
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Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
34:52
Speaker 11: Okay.
34:52
Speaker 3: And this is the Hope Linder? They should be. Okay.
34:55
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Let me make sure I have it right.
34:57
Speaker 3: This is Hope Linder?
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Speaker 5: Yes, uh-huh.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and you're in Hamilton, Ohio?
35:04
Speaker 1: No, we're not in Hamilton.
35:05
Speaker 5: Oh.
35:05
Speaker 2: We're in Mason.
35:07
Speaker 3: Okay, so that lady clearly reading something.
35:11
Speaker 6: That is not a voice actress or anything. That woman,
35:15
Speaker 6: and the fact that he said you're in wherever, and
35:17
Speaker 6: they're like, no, no, no, we're in such and such.
35:20
Speaker 3: That feels very legit, okay?
35:23
Speaker 7: And she will be sued to high heaven by Tallarico
35:26
Speaker 7: if he winds up losing because she apparently gave away his.
35:30
Speaker 7: Mental health records publicly at least saying he was there
35:33
Speaker 7: but discharged well.
35:35
Speaker 6: Again if if this guy's posing as a family member
35:38
Speaker 6: and he's saying is that what he did yeah he's
35:40
Speaker 6: like hey i'm i'm james talarico's brother or whatever i'm
35:43
Speaker 6: trying to get a hold of him i'm told he's
35:44
Speaker 6: here now and she's like wait a second oh no
35:48
Speaker 6: he's not here he was discharged okay i want to
35:53
Speaker 6: make sure i'm calling the right place because i was
35:55
Speaker 6: told he was here and she said well he was
35:58
Speaker 6: discharged but yet no he was here but he wasn't
36:01
Speaker 6: he's not here now i would.
36:03
Speaker 7: Hope there'd be a little more confidentiality family member or
36:06
Speaker 7: not if you were just calling randomly they didn't know
36:10
Speaker 7: who that person was so all right that's an issue
36:12
Speaker 7: for another day.
36:13
Speaker 6: Though yeah but i was going to say it'd be
36:14
Speaker 6: like one of those things where if i called the
36:16
Speaker 6: hospital and said hey that's my wife is i was
36:18
Speaker 6: told was in an accident she's here and they would
36:20
Speaker 6: say oh she was but she got discharged she's she's
36:24
Speaker 6: okay I don't think you're violating HIPAA health laws by
36:29
Speaker 6: saying someone was here. Now, to her credit, she never
36:33
Speaker 6: said he was a patient, but she did use the
36:35
Speaker 6: phrase discharge.
36:37
Speaker 5: Yes.
36:38
Speaker 3: So what does that mean? I don't know.
36:40
Speaker 6: Linder Center of Hope has put out a tweet last night,
36:44
Speaker 6: and according to them, this is all they tweeted.
36:46
Speaker 3: It's about 8 o'clock last night.
36:48
Speaker 6: Representative James Tallarico has never received treatment from Linder Center
36:52
Speaker 6: of Hope. I don't know what that means either. Never
36:55
Speaker 6: received treatment. Was he chilling there?
36:58
Speaker 3: You didn't say he was never there. You know what
37:00
Speaker 3: I'm saying?
37:00
Speaker 4: Is it a retreat?
37:01
Speaker 3: Yeah. Where was James Tallarico for 12 days?
37:06
Speaker 7: After appearing in New York at a fundraiser where apparently
37:10
Speaker 7: he was called on the carpet by some Democrat officials.
37:13
Speaker 3: Yeah. He does not seem.
37:16
Speaker 6: to have been suffering from the flu, a severe case
37:19
Speaker 6: of the flu. It would have been the most severe
37:21
Speaker 6: case I've ever heard of because I don't know anyone
37:23
Speaker 6: who's taken 12 days.
37:24
Speaker 3: Off from work.
37:25
Speaker 6: I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but if he had
37:28
Speaker 6: the most severe case of the flu, you would have
37:31
Speaker 6: thought he would have lost weight. He doesn't look like
37:33
Speaker 6: he's lost any weight. You would think that he would
37:35
Speaker 6: ease himself back into campaigning.
37:37
Speaker 3: He was not.
37:38
Speaker 6: He was at the Austin city limits standing in 100-degree
37:42
Speaker 6: heat with, you know, in the dust and all that
37:45
Speaker 6: sort of stuff, shaking hands for hours. That does not
37:48
Speaker 6: seem like somebody who's just getting over the flu. That
37:50
Speaker 6: seems like somebody who for whatever, maybe he's fresh, the
37:54
Speaker 6: freshest he's ever been after 12 days. I don't know
37:57
Speaker 6: what he's been doing, but I don't buy his story
37:59
Speaker 6: that he was having the flu. Christopher, do you think
38:03
Speaker 6: that he was actually at the Linder Center Hope?
38:05
Speaker 7: Oh, I, I don't know, but I mean, I would think,
38:09
Speaker 7: the campaign would say definitively what had happened to him,
38:13
Speaker 7: and the flu is not a valid excuse.
38:16
Speaker 6: Would you think that they would produce the, as he said, my,
38:19
Speaker 6: what did he say, my general practitioner is the one
38:21
Speaker 6: who prescribed bed rest.
38:22
Speaker 3: Do you think that that guy, because you could at
38:24
Speaker 3: least get that guy, even if he didn't, you could
38:26
Speaker 3: get him to lie.
38:28
Speaker 6: You could get him on television going, James was absolutely suffering.
38:31
Speaker 6: With 103 temperature, I was prescribing much liquids, much bed rest.
38:36
Speaker 6: They could have, By the way, even if that story
38:39
Speaker 6: is true, they should have had him on television a
38:42
Speaker 6: week and a half ago. Somebody should have been talking
38:45
Speaker 6: that is a medical professional saying James Tallarico has an
38:48
Speaker 6: unbelievable case of the flu that has forced him off
38:51
Speaker 6: the campaign trail for two weeks. I think that the
38:53
Speaker 6: narrative is much easier to believe that he was in
38:56
Speaker 6: a mental institution, although that may be a very uncomfortable situation.
39:01
Speaker 6: And by the way, I'll point out, that doesn't even
39:03
Speaker 6: eliminate him from contention. I'm... I'm thinking back to John Fetterman.
39:08
Speaker 6: John Fetterman was so mentally off that during an interview
39:14
Speaker 6: with NBC News, which went kind of rogue, everybody kind
39:17
Speaker 6: of saw that, the reporter was told that, and I
39:22
Speaker 6: still don't understand what was wrong with his brain, that
39:25
Speaker 6: when Fetterman was in that state, he couldn't understand words
39:29
Speaker 6: that were spoken He could only read them and understand them,
39:32
Speaker 6: which seems to be the opposite of the way a
39:34
Speaker 6: human brain would have a problem. And so she would
39:38
Speaker 6: ask the question. It was then translated onto a teleprompter,
39:41
Speaker 6: which he would then read, and then he could answer
39:44
Speaker 6: the questions. And she was making the point, are you
39:46
Speaker 6: telling me you really can't hear me? And he's like, well,
39:49
Speaker 6: I can hear you. I just I'm having a little problem,
39:52
Speaker 6: but don't make a big deal out of it.
39:53
Speaker 3: It was a huge deal.
39:55
Speaker 6: And he spoke with slurred words and all those types
39:58
Speaker 6: of things. Again, Fetterman, not a great candidate in Pennsylvania
40:01
Speaker 6: going up against Dr. Oz, possibly an even worse candidate.
40:05
Speaker 6: Another one handpicked by Donald Trump. So we have case
40:08
Speaker 6: after case where Trump cannot pick good candidates. But I
40:12
Speaker 6: and again, will this guy who has some sort of issues?
40:15
Speaker 6: He clearly has some sort of issues. We're not sure
40:18
Speaker 6: exactly what they are, but I highly doubt that it
40:22
Speaker 6: was the flu. And if it was the flu, they
40:24
Speaker 6: completely mismanaged it. Thoughts on James Tallarico. Thoughts on Abdul El-Sayed.
40:28
Speaker 6: Thoughts on last night's Senate campaign. We got a lot
40:31
Speaker 6: that you can cover here. Use the talkback feature on
40:33
Speaker 6: the iHeartRadio app.
40:35
Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
40:39
Speaker 10: All right.
40:39
Speaker 6: Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, and looking for your talkbacks on
40:43
Speaker 6: last night's debate.
40:46
Speaker 3: Interesting story in the Post and Courier. Yeah, Post and
40:50
Speaker 3: Courier headline. As Democrats contest in deep red South Carolina.
40:55
Speaker 6: State House seats, some expect to win. Others just want
41:00
Speaker 6: to see a challenge. In other words, the Democrats, I
41:05
Speaker 6: think the realistic Democrats recognize that they're not going to
41:09
Speaker 6: win most of these statehouse seats. However, as Crystal Spain says,
41:14
Speaker 6: chair of the South Carolina Democrat Party, the effort should
41:18
Speaker 6: be the goal every year to win the winnable races. However,
41:23
Speaker 6: a more realistic goal is how much can we close
41:27
Speaker 6: the gap by running Democrats for seats? At some point,
41:30
Speaker 6: I guess we decided that we can't win. So we
41:32
Speaker 6: shouldn't even challenge for them. So that's why the South
41:34
Speaker 6: Carolina Democrats have made a concerted effort this year to
41:38
Speaker 6: make sure that they're at least running somebody in every race.
41:42
Speaker 6: I guess the opposite opinion on that, Christopher, would be
41:46
Speaker 6: if you only focused on what you thought were winnable races,
41:48
Speaker 6: you'd have more money available to put into those races.
41:51
Speaker 4: Exactly.
41:52
Speaker 7: Put your resources where they'll count the most instead of
41:56
Speaker 7: spreading it out too thinly just to have somebody's name
41:59
Speaker 7: on the ballot next to a D.
42:01
Speaker 6: And again, I appreciate the fact that Democrats are not
42:04
Speaker 6: good at politics and otherwise we'd be in a lot
42:07
Speaker 6: of trouble.
42:09
Speaker 3: The the idea. Yeah.
42:10
Speaker 6: If you're going to compete in every race and spend
42:13
Speaker 6: money in races that you're down 30 points. Please invest heavily.
42:18
Speaker 6: Maybe you'll close the gap to 15. That would be
42:21
Speaker 6: wonderful for you to only lose by 15 points instead
42:24
Speaker 6: of 30. So, yes, we appreciate them doing that. If
42:28
Speaker 6: you have thoughts on that idea or others, let us know.
42:31
Speaker 6: 730 now.
42:32
Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
42:36
Speaker 2: Morning News.
42:37
Speaker 3: I did not even see the news that J.B.
42:41
Speaker 6: Pritzker, the big guvna, and I mean big and guvna,
42:45
Speaker 6: from Illinois was going to be in Columbia over the weekend.
42:48
Speaker 3: Did you know that, Christopher?
42:49
Speaker 4: I did see that, yes.
42:50
Speaker 6: And so apparently he has come down to launch what
42:53
Speaker 6: he calls team fight. He explains that the Democrats have
42:58
Speaker 6: been losing because you're not tough enough. You guys are soft.
43:03
Speaker 6: You need to go after Trump a little bit harder.
43:06
Speaker 6: And that message is resonating with people like Bradley Kenobi.
43:11
Speaker 3: Who is out there, I guess, Saturday. He's described as
43:14
Speaker 3: a hospital worker and graduate student. He says he's not
43:18
Speaker 3: shied away going after Trump and Trump supporters, and that's
43:21
Speaker 3: what we need. We need people to prosecute Donald Trump,
43:26
Speaker 3: his allies, and even his followers. Christopher Thompson, you should
43:29
Speaker 3: be in jail.
43:32
Speaker 7: I think there are plenty of people who are doing
43:33
Speaker 7: that already. I'm not sure that Pritzker's on the right
43:36
Speaker 7: message there. That's what every Democrat's doing right now.
43:39
Speaker 6: I would also point out that for a group of
43:43
Speaker 6: individuals who claim that they want to unify the country,
43:46
Speaker 6: the way to unify the country is to not go
43:49
Speaker 6: after the political supporters of your opponent. At no point
43:54
Speaker 6: that I can recall that Donald Trump or any of
43:56
Speaker 6: his followers suggest that we imprison Joe Biden supporters.
44:02
Speaker 3: Do you recall that? No, I don't. No, no.
44:05
Speaker 6: And I think we would outwardly and just extremely reject
44:10
Speaker 6: the idea.
44:10
Speaker 4: That'd be a bad look.
44:12
Speaker 6: I would actually argue that the Joe Biden supporters are
44:16
Speaker 6: a sympathetic bunch who weren't able to tell reality from
44:21
Speaker 6: fiction land and they needed a prayer and or possible counseling.
44:26
Speaker 3: Now, also, J.B. Pritzker claims to be here as an
44:30
Speaker 3: invite of the NAACP to help Representative Jermaine Johnson in
44:36
Speaker 3: his gubernatorial campaign, which he says would help Illinois.
44:41
Speaker 5: How?
44:42
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
44:44
Speaker 3: How in the world.
44:45
Speaker 6: Does it matter what difference our governor is as opposed
44:49
Speaker 6: to the state of Illinois?
44:50
Speaker 11: Okay.
44:51
Speaker 6: And why would the NAACP be arguing that if you
44:54
Speaker 6: had a black governor in South Carolina that that would
44:57
Speaker 6: help the people of Illinois?
44:58
Speaker 3: I don't see the coalition.
45:00
Speaker 6: There's not supposed to be any kind of influence from
45:05
Speaker 6: a governor from one state over another. I would point
45:09
Speaker 6: out that Roy Cooper was the governor of North Carolina
45:11
Speaker 6: for many years and had zero influence on us. We
45:14
Speaker 6: continue to go redder and redder while North Carolina becomes
45:17
Speaker 6: more and more purple. He's also very nervous that Trump
45:21
Speaker 6: is going to use the federal immigration enforcement agencies to
45:25
Speaker 6: intimidate voters in Chicago. That is the claim that J.B.
45:31
Speaker 6: Pritzker is making, that we're going to have armed military
45:35
Speaker 6: members discouraging people from voting. How do they know who
45:38
Speaker 6: to discriminate against?
45:39
Speaker 3: I don't know. Do you show up.
45:41
Speaker 6: Wearing your MAGA hat so you're OK? You can vote,
45:44
Speaker 6: but the rest of you can't. None of this makes
45:46
Speaker 6: any sense. This is a fantasy that the left has
45:49
Speaker 6: created and has peddled it to a group of individuals
45:53
Speaker 6: who I guess just want to believe that narrative. But
45:57
Speaker 6: at no point does any of this even come close
45:59
Speaker 6: to making sense.
46:01
Speaker 3: But J.B.
46:01
Speaker 6: Pritzker in Crystal, Spain, the Democrat Party chair, she points
46:06
Speaker 6: out that we need leaders that know that investing in
46:09
Speaker 6: the South is where it's at. Because if you want
46:12
Speaker 6: to change the country, you really need to start in
46:15
Speaker 6: South Carolina. And Pritzker goes on to say, for those
46:19
Speaker 6: of you South Carolina Democrats, you need to be real
46:22
Speaker 6: about what you believe and do so aggressively. Because the
46:27
Speaker 6: sense of strength is made so many people support Trump.
46:30
Speaker 6: He said, team fight is the team we all need
46:33
Speaker 6: to be on. Again, none of this sounds unifying. At
46:37
Speaker 6: no point did the Democrats... either on the national scale
46:41
Speaker 6: or even the local scale, sound as if they want
46:44
Speaker 6: to get along with anybody. I would say listen to
46:48
Speaker 6: the message of, like, Alan Wilson running for governor, or
46:52
Speaker 6: listen to the message even of Ron DeSantis, who can
46:55
Speaker 6: be a very divisive figure. There are many Republicans who,
46:59
Speaker 6: Donald Trump has even said, please come along. We want
47:04
Speaker 6: to invest in your communities.
47:06
Speaker 3: We want to help. He's trying to help out the
47:08
Speaker 3: people in Chicago. He's trying to send in the federal
47:11
Speaker 3: troops to help save them.
47:12
Speaker 6: More people died in Chicago in one weekend than have
47:16
Speaker 6: died in the entire Iran war.
47:18
Speaker 3: He thinks that that's a shame and it should stop.
47:21
Speaker 6: The Republicans are the ones reaching across the fence trying
47:24
Speaker 6: to say, listen, even if you're a Democrat, We want
47:27
Speaker 6: to work with you.
47:28
Speaker 3: We want to find common ground.
47:29
Speaker 4: We'll drag you into prosperity, kicking and screaming.
47:33
Speaker 3: That's a great way of putting it. We're going to
47:35
Speaker 3: make you guys happy and healthy, whether you want to
47:37
Speaker 3: be or not.
47:38
Speaker 6: But the message from the Democrats is anybody who voted
47:42
Speaker 6: for Trump needs to be punished. And I think that
47:44
Speaker 6: that is an insane policy position that unfortunately is getting
47:49
Speaker 6: some traction. I'll play you some of the voters that
47:51
Speaker 6: support that message coming up in just a moment.
47:53
Speaker 3: It's 740.
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48:05
Speaker 6: We often talk about the supporters of the DSA being
48:08
Speaker 6: the young people who just don't know really about history,
48:11
Speaker 6: don't understand how dangerous socialism is. I wish that that was...
48:16
Speaker 6: pretty much who it was. But if it was just them,
48:19
Speaker 6: there wouldn't be any real threat to the policies. It
48:22
Speaker 6: wouldn't be real threats of DSA candidates winning. A YouTuber
48:26
Speaker 6: named Samantha Craven, she kind of became famous a couple
48:29
Speaker 6: of years ago when she was interviewing somebody in New
48:32
Speaker 6: York who was very pro-abortion. And then when they found
48:35
Speaker 6: out that Savannah was pro-life, they pummeled her and beat her,
48:40
Speaker 6: you know, not within an inch of her life, but
48:42
Speaker 6: beat her bad enough where she needed hospitalization. That gave
48:46
Speaker 6: her a platform. A lot of people now know who
48:49
Speaker 6: Savannah is. And so she is a black female, probably
48:53
Speaker 6: late 20s, I would guess. And because of the way
48:56
Speaker 6: she looks, she's given access to very liberal circles that
49:01
Speaker 6: white men traditionally would not be given access to. So
49:05
Speaker 6: here she was in Michigan talking to a bunch of
49:08
Speaker 6: DSA supporters who are very excited about Abdul El-Sayed.
49:13
Speaker 3: Healthcare for all.
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Speaker 11: Okay.
49:15
Speaker 4: That's my thing, healthcare. Healthcare.
49:17
Speaker 2: Okay.
49:18
Speaker 3: And how are we going to get... healthcare to everyone?
49:20
Speaker 1: How are we going to pay for that?
49:22
Speaker 3: We're going to tax the rich.
49:23
Speaker 10: Okay.
49:24
Speaker 3: How much are we going to tax them?
49:26
Speaker 12: I don't know. It's cheaper than a war. Okay.
49:30
Speaker 1: I don't like war.
49:32
Speaker 10: No war, please.
49:33
Speaker 1: Yeah.
49:33
Speaker 5: Way cheaper than a war. Yeah.
49:35
Speaker 9: So we want to take all the money that we're
49:36
Speaker 9: putting into wars and military and put it toward healthcare?
49:40
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
49:41
Speaker 4: Exactly.
49:41
Speaker 5: That's what every other country does.
49:43
Speaker 1: How can the less fortunate?
49:44
Speaker 3: There's a lot of hungry people.
49:46
Speaker 12: I wish I had all my extra sweatshirts in my
49:49
Speaker 12: car driving down here and I could have handed them
49:51
Speaker 12: out to people on the street that looked cold and
49:54
Speaker 12: it breaks my heart every time I drive down here.
49:56
Speaker 8: What is taxing the rich, though, got to do with
49:59
Speaker 8: where the government's sending our money toward war? The rich
50:02
Speaker 8: are buying all the people that are running the show.
50:05
Speaker 12: Like who?
50:07
Speaker 3: All these people that have these businesses that are standing
50:12
Speaker 3: around the president in these press conferences, you know. So
50:16
Speaker 3: it's sad that I would say the average age of
50:18
Speaker 3: these people was 60.
50:20
Speaker 6: They should know better. They definitely should know better. And
50:24
Speaker 6: they also they think that their argument makes sense that
50:27
Speaker 6: taxing the rich will pay for health care or whatever.
50:33
Speaker 3: And it will not. It's not even close.
50:35
Speaker 6: As we pointed out, we already spend five and a
50:37
Speaker 6: half trillion dollars annually of your taxpayer money to help
50:40
Speaker 6: supplement health care. The costs have been driven up by
50:44
Speaker 6: the Democrats. The 50 billion dollars or so spent on
50:48
Speaker 6: the war is nothing in this instance. The fact that
50:52
Speaker 6: she's thinking that we could somehow help the homeless when
50:54
Speaker 6: we have spent trillions, plural trillions, trying to help the homeless.
50:59
Speaker 6: And that is a mental condition. There's plenty of beds,
51:04
Speaker 6: food and clothing if they want it. They don't want it.
51:08
Speaker 6: That's the problem. But that is the face now of
51:12
Speaker 6: the DSA, 60 year old white women.
51:15
Speaker 3: Who, as Christopher very rightly points out, should know better.
51:19
Speaker 6: Thoughts on that or other things, use the Talkback feature
51:21
Speaker 6: at 748.
51:21
Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
51:28
Speaker 3: All right, somebody named T.
51:30
Speaker 6: Edgy hitting me up on YouTube, talking about the fact that, quote,
51:36
Speaker 6: the Pentagon, which keeps losing wars, wants a trillion dollars back.
51:40
Speaker 6: Only the American conservative quote-unquote Christian would claim that they
51:44
Speaker 6: can't think of anything better to do with that money
51:46
Speaker 6: than send it to a war. Christopher, do you have
51:49
Speaker 6: any initial responses to that comment?
51:51
Speaker 7: Well, the money that goes to the Pentagon doesn't just
51:54
Speaker 7: go to, say, the Iran conflict. It also goes to
51:58
Speaker 7: protecting us, which we depend on the government. That's one
52:01
Speaker 7: of the big planks in the federal government is providing
52:04
Speaker 7: for our national security.
52:05
Speaker 3: It is important.
52:07
Speaker 6: Unbelievable almost that the United States has not had a
52:11
Speaker 6: war on our own mainland since the Civil War. We
52:17
Speaker 6: are one of the few countries that has been able
52:19
Speaker 6: to sidestep all of that. Most Americans do not know
52:22
Speaker 6: what a war is like in the sense that your
52:24
Speaker 6: houses aren't under attack or any of those types of
52:27
Speaker 6: things because we have the strongest military on earth. And
52:30
Speaker 6: that projection keeps people from attacking us. And Canada, you're welcome.
52:37
Speaker 6: Because you get the benefit of that as well. But anyway,
52:41
Speaker 6: comments are welcome not only on social media. I'm at
52:44
Speaker 6: Kelly Nash Radio, but also on the Talkback feature. Love
52:47
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52:49
Speaker 6: the iHeartRadio app.
52:50
Speaker 3: We'll be back with more. It is 7.55.
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Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
52:57
Speaker 3: All right. Good morning.
52:58
Speaker 5: Good morning.
52:59
Speaker 6: This is Kelly Nash looking over some of the interesting
53:02
Speaker 6: data that continues to pour in after last night's debate.
53:07
Speaker 6: If you didn't see it, the South Carolina senators, one
53:10
Speaker 6: of these women is probably going to be our next senator.
53:14
Speaker 3: Is it going to be Casey Whitener, the libertarian? Is
53:18
Speaker 3: it going to be Darlene Graham, the Republican? Or is
53:22
Speaker 3: it going to be Annie Andrews, The liberal. The Democrat.
53:25
Speaker 4: You said probably.
53:26
Speaker 7: Are you leaving the door open for Mark Hackett, the
53:28
Speaker 7: constitutional candidate?
53:30
Speaker 6: Don't forget the write-in Ralph campaign. I continue to hear
53:34
Speaker 6: from you people that Ralph's write-in campaign is a legitimate
53:38
Speaker 6: opportunity to win.
53:39
Speaker 3: I don't see it, but I'm not writing it off.
53:43
Speaker 6: I have a sneaking suspicion that that write-in Ralph campaign
53:48
Speaker 6: is going to have a big effect. I don't think
53:50
Speaker 6: he'll win, but I think it has a big effect
53:53
Speaker 6: in the negative. And I say the negative meaning for
53:58
Speaker 6: those of you who are writing in Ralph, you probably
54:01
Speaker 6: do not want to see the empowerment of Elizabeth Warren
54:05
Speaker 6: and Chuck Schumer and so on and so forth. But that's,
54:07
Speaker 6: in fact, what you will be getting. With that being said,
54:12
Speaker 6: I'm looking at this story here. Was this live five?
54:16
Speaker 6: Is that who came up with this story? Talking about
54:19
Speaker 6: Annie Andrews. Now, Friday, when we were on the air.
54:23
Speaker 6: We were talking about how quickly the Andrews campaign responded
54:30
Speaker 6: when they were attacked. They were attacked, not only by
54:36
Speaker 6: Donald Trump, who was using a very bad slur word,
54:39
Speaker 6: but also by Darlene Graham and saying that she's very
54:44
Speaker 6: pro-trans and these types of things. And the Andrews campaign
54:48
Speaker 6: almost instantaneously had this ad in their back pocket, and
54:51
Speaker 6: they started airing it on Friday. And this is the question.
54:57
Speaker 6: This is the problem. This one little line here.
55:02
Speaker 8: I don't support biological men playing women's sports.
55:06
Speaker 1: Boop!
55:07
Speaker 3: That's all you needed.
55:09
Speaker 6: And because of that line, an open letter signed by
55:12
Speaker 6: 20 pro-LGBTQ organizations in our state have come out condemning
55:18
Speaker 6: Andy Andrews. Because, again, we condemned Anybody who would limit
55:25
Speaker 6: transgendered athletes from competing. I, uh, I would point out
55:29
Speaker 6: that we're not, nobody's not even any answers is stopping
55:34
Speaker 6: them for participating in sports. They can compete in any,
55:38
Speaker 6: in the sports. They just have to do it with
55:40
Speaker 6: the biological sex that they were quote assigned using your
55:43
Speaker 6: language assigned at birth. If you were assigned a male
55:47
Speaker 6: at birth, you must continue to compete against males. And again,
55:54
Speaker 6: I always say this, although I'm sure somebody would like
55:56
Speaker 6: to push back on it. If someone who is assigned
56:00
Speaker 6: female at birth would like to try to compete with males,
56:03
Speaker 6: they are welcome. I don't have a problem with, and
56:08
Speaker 6: we see it at the little league level where there's
56:10
Speaker 6: little league girls playing against boys. If you think you
56:13
Speaker 6: can do it at the high school level, I've noted
56:15
Speaker 6: there is a huge jump in athletic ability for boys
56:19
Speaker 6: when they hit puberty. They might be equal with the
56:23
Speaker 6: younger females when they're 8, 9, but by the time
56:27
Speaker 6: they're 14, 15, unless she is the upper elite of
56:32
Speaker 6: the elite female athletes, she would not stand a chance
56:35
Speaker 6: against even a mediocre male athlete.
56:38
Speaker 3: Christopher, you know this.
56:39
Speaker 7: Well, you see it sometimes, a non-contact player, like a kicker,
56:43
Speaker 7: for example, every now and then at the high school
56:45
Speaker 7: level will be a female.
56:47
Speaker 6: Well, and you as someone who provides the best game, Kaka,
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Speaker 6: coverage would recognize who do the world champion or the
56:54
Speaker 6: national champion Gamecock female basketball team.
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Speaker 3: Who do they practice against?
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Speaker 4: They practice against men.
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Speaker 3: And are those men college athletes?
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Speaker 11: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Well, they're college age athletes.
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Speaker 6: They're college age athletes who couldn't make it on a
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Speaker 6: Division III team usually. They are usually guys who played
57:11
Speaker 6: in high school. They understand the fundamentals of basketball. They're
57:14
Speaker 6: not given the height advantage that a typical male high
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Speaker 6: school athlete, or excuse me, college athlete would have over
57:21
Speaker 6: a female college athlete.
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Speaker 3: Most of those guys are 6'3 and shorter. So they're
57:26
Speaker 3: just faster and stronger. And they usually, according to Don Staley,
57:30
Speaker 3: they win. They usually beat the defending national champions.
57:35
Speaker 6: When it comes to basketball, and again, this would be
57:38
Speaker 6: the equivalent of going to the YMCA and finding a
57:42
Speaker 6: bunch of former high school athletes. You can go and
57:44
Speaker 6: look at the soccer team, the national soccer team. When
57:47
Speaker 6: they were the defending world champions, when they had whatever
57:51
Speaker 6: her name was, the girl who, I can't even remember
57:53
Speaker 6: her name, who watched Transgendered Athletes.
57:54
Speaker 3: She's now retired.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Megan Rapinoe?
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Speaker 6: Megan Rapinoe. Megan Rapinoe was on that team. There was
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Speaker 6: a bunch of them, and you can look it up.
58:01
Speaker 6: There's a very famous story about them playing in Texas.
58:05
Speaker 6: as what they call a friendly, in under 15. The
58:09
Speaker 6: boys U15 team spanked them. I think it was 8-1.
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Speaker 6: These were the best women on earth. By everybody's standards,
58:19
Speaker 6: couldn't compete with a bunch of 13, 14, and 15-year-old boys.
58:23
Speaker 6: And again, that's not to disgrace the women. That's to
58:27
Speaker 6: just say that there is a genetic difference. And so
58:30
Speaker 6: now that Annie Andrews has stated the obvious, the obvious,
58:35
Speaker 6: that the women shouldn't have to tolerate somebody who was
58:39
Speaker 6: born as a generic male coming in and competing for
58:42
Speaker 6: their titles. She's now being slammed by the left. They're
58:48
Speaker 6: calling for her to be removed from the ticket. We
58:50
Speaker 6: cannot have a Democrat who is against transgendered athletes. The
58:54
Speaker 6: litmus test has been failed.
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Speaker 3: By Annie Andrews. I would say in South Carolina that
58:58
Speaker 3: actually helps her.
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Speaker 4: Probably so yeah.
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Speaker 6: Maybe maybe she actually said hey did y'all see my
59:04
Speaker 6: statement on trans athletes could you come out against it
59:07
Speaker 6: and give me a condemnation i certainly would appreciate it
59:09
Speaker 6: that's where she's making that carve out for the Republicans
59:12
Speaker 6: that she was trying to get into her campaign last
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Speaker 6: night during the debate.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
59:17
Speaker 6: Politics is crazy, but we have a lot of fun
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Speaker 6: talking about it. Do you have thoughts on it? Use
59:22
Speaker 6: the talkback feature. We hope to get you on the
59:24
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Speaker 3: It is 8.09.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 7: Hey, guys.
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Speaker 11: Good morning, Mark and Newberry. You know, in addition to
59:32
Speaker 11: their flawed thinking, there's another recurring theme with people who
59:35
Speaker 11: think this way, where the government's going to fix everything
59:38
Speaker 11: if we tax everybody enough. They don't actually give anything
59:42
Speaker 11: themselves most of the time. If you press them on it,
59:45
Speaker 11: they are not charitable givers. They want to fix problems
59:48
Speaker 11: with other people's money.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Mark in Newberry, for using the Talkback feature
59:53
Speaker 6: and bringing another excellent point to the broadcast, that the
59:57
Speaker 6: people who want more taxes themselves are usually either very
1:00:04
Speaker 6: low contributors to the tax.
1:00:06
Speaker 3: Base, or.
1:00:09
Speaker 6: Even if they are big tax, meaning they're in the
1:00:12
Speaker 6: upper tax percentile, they very rarely are big charitable givers.
1:00:19
Speaker 6: The United States believes in capitalism, and we believe that
1:00:24
Speaker 6: what happens in a capitalist society is several things. One,
1:00:28
Speaker 6: it improves the condition of everybody who lives there because
1:00:33
Speaker 6: more money is put into the market and the lifestyles
1:00:37
Speaker 6: for everybody gets better as improvements are made more and
1:00:41
Speaker 6: more affordable. You can look at something like a television set.
1:00:45
Speaker 6: If you were to buy a television set in the 1940s,
1:00:48
Speaker 6: It would have cost you about a half a year
1:00:50
Speaker 6: salary for the typical person. Clearly, today, you can buy
1:00:54
Speaker 6: a pretty nice television set for about $ 300. And if
1:00:57
Speaker 6: you're only making $ 600 a.
1:00:58
Speaker 3: Year, I wouldn't recommend buying one.
1:01:02
Speaker 6: But whether it's the cell phone or automobiles in general... Now,
1:01:07
Speaker 6: automobiles are very expensive, yes, but they do come with
1:01:09
Speaker 6: a lot of niceties that were not previously involved. Christopher,
1:01:14
Speaker 6: you and I are old enough to remember when cars
1:01:16
Speaker 6: on the regular needed to be jumped. That was not a...
1:01:21
Speaker 6: You were not 100% confident that every time you walked
1:01:24
Speaker 6: out to start a car, especially on a cold morning,
1:01:26
Speaker 6: that it was going to work.
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Speaker 3: True. They all work now, it seems. I mean, every.
1:01:31
Speaker 6: Very rarely do you see people getting jumps compared to
1:01:33
Speaker 6: the old days. So life gets better because of capitalism.
1:01:38
Speaker 6: Life gets more affordable because of capitalism. And the quality
1:01:43
Speaker 6: of our lives in general is better because of it.
1:01:46
Speaker 6: If you are trying to take the very fringe of
1:01:49
Speaker 6: society and make their lives better and better and better,
1:01:53
Speaker 6: and you want to do it by taxing people, what's
1:01:56
Speaker 6: happening is you're disincentivizing charities. Charities would be more precise
1:02:03
Speaker 6: in their donations because they're now in a one-on-one type
1:02:06
Speaker 6: of situation. The people who work at a charity, like,
1:02:09
Speaker 6: for example, if you wanted to look at the Feeding
1:02:13
Speaker 6: America program or whatever that thing was called in Minnesota,
1:02:16
Speaker 6: where you had somebody claiming to feed something like 2,500
1:02:21
Speaker 6: families a day, when in reality, when the federal officers
1:02:27
Speaker 6: watched that restaurant, they were noticing less than 20 people
1:02:30
Speaker 6: a day even arriving at the restaurant. We don't know
1:02:32
Speaker 6: how many of them got free food, but we know
1:02:34
Speaker 6: it wasn't 2,500 since only 20 people showed up. That
1:02:38
Speaker 6: would not happen if it was a charity. If a
1:02:41
Speaker 6: charity would say, We're not buying food for 2,500 people
1:02:44
Speaker 6: because we only have 20 people here. We also wouldn't
1:02:46
Speaker 6: see repeat customers coming back over and over and over
1:02:49
Speaker 6: again every hour to get more benefits.
1:02:53
Speaker 3: Because they would say, well, we already fed you.
1:02:55
Speaker 6: You're not going to just keep abusing the system, never
1:02:57
Speaker 6: mind giving out money and these other things. So, yes,
1:03:01
Speaker 6: you want Americans would be better served by charities than
1:03:05
Speaker 6: the government handouts. But yeah, this idea that you could
1:03:09
Speaker 6: just fix all the problems, Christopher, with more money from
1:03:11
Speaker 6: the taxpayer is insane.
1:03:12
Speaker 7: By the way, El-Sayed, your favorite candidate on the campaign trail,
1:03:17
Speaker 7: when he gets the question, are you a Democrat socialist?
1:03:19
Speaker 7: You were talking about that earlier and how he's kind
1:03:22
Speaker 7: of running away from that.
1:03:23
Speaker 4: He calls himself a capitalist.
1:03:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's funny. It is funny to watch him call
1:03:28
Speaker 3: himself a capitalist when he is the exact opposite. But again,
1:03:33
Speaker 3: We've heard this numerous times.
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Speaker 6: I am not a great studier of the Muslim religion,
1:03:38
Speaker 6: yet I have not heard a Muslim counter the narrative
1:03:41
Speaker 6: that has been pushed, I'll say almost exclusively on right wing.
1:03:45
Speaker 3: Media, that inside their studies of the law, they are
1:03:53
Speaker 3: encouraged to lie if they're in a position where they
1:03:57
Speaker 3: would be considered the subset.
1:03:59
Speaker 6: Once they're the dominant set, then you can't lie. But
1:04:02
Speaker 6: if you're the subset, which is what the Muslim faith
1:04:05
Speaker 6: is in most parts of America now, although not all,
1:04:08
Speaker 6: I guess Dearborn, I think, is now Muslim majority. They're
1:04:12
Speaker 6: encouraged to lie in order to get over on the
1:04:16
Speaker 6: people who would be considered oppressors or those in charge.
1:04:20
Speaker 6: And so, yeah, he would be if that's the narrative,
1:04:23
Speaker 6: then have some Muslim leaders come on out and say, no,
1:04:25
Speaker 6: that's not real. Again, haven't heard that. Also, I haven't
1:04:29
Speaker 6: heard any condemnation. for terrorist activities, haven't heard any condemnations
1:04:34
Speaker 6: really of the Muslim Brotherhood, haven't heard, I mean, there's
1:04:36
Speaker 6: a lot of things that they're leaving on the table
1:04:38
Speaker 6: that they're not distancing themselves from. I'm going to take
1:04:43
Speaker 6: a break, and when we come back, this is just
1:04:45
Speaker 6: a fun little statistic. I love statistics, and I love
1:04:49
Speaker 6: it when the left uses statistics, and then they're wrong,
1:04:53
Speaker 6: or better yet, they're such, they're an egregious.
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Speaker 3: Example inside a subset.
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Speaker 6: So The left here in South Carolina came out with
1:05:02
Speaker 6: a quote-unquote fun fact that we will fun fact back next.
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Speaker 6: I'm not sure if they were trying to help or
1:05:24
Speaker 6: hurt the cause of Dr.
1:05:26
Speaker 3: Annie, but....
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Speaker 6: Many news outlets reporting on the 20-plus LGBTQ organizations in
1:05:35
Speaker 6: the state of South Carolina that are upset that she,
1:05:38
Speaker 6: in an ad that came out Friday, said that men,
1:05:42
Speaker 6: biological men, should not be allowed to compete in women's sports.
1:05:47
Speaker 6: And they feel like that is transphobia, so on and
1:05:52
Speaker 6: so forth. I think most South Carolinians would say you're
1:05:55
Speaker 6: crazy that nobody who is born a biological male should
1:06:00
Speaker 6: be allowed to compete against women and or go into
1:06:02
Speaker 6: their locker rooms, especially if they haven't had any kind
1:06:07
Speaker 6: of surgery. So they look a little bit different than
1:06:09
Speaker 6: the rest of the gals and they're walking around doing whatever. Now,
1:06:13
Speaker 6: inside this story, they have some fun. I think they
1:06:16
Speaker 6: think that they're presenting a fun fact that will help,
1:06:19
Speaker 6: you know, back their argument. less than 0.002% of athletes
1:06:30
Speaker 6: in college athletics are transgendered. They make that, okay. So
1:06:37
Speaker 6: the way I interpret that, and maybe I'm misinterpreting it,
1:06:40
Speaker 6: is it's such a small problem. Why are you making
1:06:43
Speaker 6: such a big deal out of it? If only 0.002%
1:06:48
Speaker 6: of athletes are transgendered in college athletics, why are you
1:06:51
Speaker 6: even talking about this? Why are we making a big
1:06:53
Speaker 6: deal about it? Why are we making bills about it?
1:06:55
Speaker 6: Why are politicians debating it? It's not a big deal, right?
1:07:01
Speaker 6: But then, is it right or is it wrong? Is
1:07:06
Speaker 6: it right or wrong? So if you were to just
1:07:08
Speaker 6: Google how many transgendered athletes have won championships, right now
1:07:14
Speaker 6: they say 28. Leah Thomas is probably the most famous,
1:07:18
Speaker 6: the swimmer from Penn. You got Veronica Ivy, the first
1:07:22
Speaker 6: transgender World Track cycling champion. CeCe Telfer won the NCAA
1:07:27
Speaker 6: Division II 400-meter hurdles. There's a long list of about 25,
1:07:31
Speaker 6: 26 different transgendered females, and I'm using their term, transgendered females,
1:07:37
Speaker 6: who have beat genetic females in their competition.
1:07:41
Speaker 3: So right there you have 25 women.
1:07:45
Speaker 6: Who would have been a champion, but they are not
1:07:48
Speaker 6: because a transgendered came in and by our estimation, stole
1:07:52
Speaker 6: that glory from them, even though they shouldn't have. But again,
1:07:56
Speaker 6: it's only 0.02. But if you were to ask how
1:08:00
Speaker 6: many adults have sexually abused children in America, 0.00045%. Should
1:08:04
Speaker 6: we have laws against that? I mean, it's triple the
1:08:17
Speaker 6: amount of transgendered athletes in college than human beings in
1:08:21
Speaker 6: America that abuse children. And I'm not comparing. being a
1:08:25
Speaker 6: transgendered person to being a sexual deviant who abuses children.
1:08:29
Speaker 3: But the point being, it's.
1:08:30
Speaker 6: A fraction of a fraction of a fraction.
1:08:34
Speaker 3: Of people in America that abuse children.
1:08:36
Speaker 6: And we have very strong laws, and people make a
1:08:39
Speaker 6: lot of big noise about it, rightfully so. You should
1:08:42
Speaker 6: also recognize that a transgendered athlete has a very huge
1:08:45
Speaker 6: advantage over genetic females, and we don't want them competing
1:08:49
Speaker 6: with women.
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Speaker 3: Whether it's 0.002% or.
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Speaker 5: If it's 0.009%.
1:08:52
Speaker 6: We don't want any of them in there because wrong
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Speaker 6: is wrong right now.
1:09:00
Speaker 3: Is right. Do you agree with it? Let us know
1:09:02
Speaker 3: on the talkback feature. Maybe you want to disagree. You
1:09:04
Speaker 3: want to stick up for the transgendered athletes. Let us
1:09:06
Speaker 3: know either way.
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Speaker 2: It's 829 from the Midlands to the low country. This
1:09:11
Speaker 2: is South Carolina's morning news.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, gentlemen. This is Christy from Mount Pleasant. Yeah,
1:09:18
Speaker 12: I found Dr. Annie Andrews' commercial interesting because of her
1:09:22
Speaker 12: ward choice. I am definitely against genetic males competing against females,
1:09:29
Speaker 12: but she said biological men, not biological boys or biological males.
1:09:38
Speaker 12: So I found that very interesting, and I think it
1:09:41
Speaker 12: gives her cover.
1:09:42
Speaker 5: Darlene Norton told the truth.
1:09:45
Speaker 4: She definitely will represent the people of Washington.
1:09:50
Speaker 3: OK, that's all we got on that talk back.
1:09:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a misspeak that a lot of people
1:09:56
Speaker 6: are making a big deal out of this morning that
1:09:58
Speaker 6: Darlene did say something about representing the people of Washington.
1:10:01
Speaker 3: I mean, South Carolina. That is a slip up that
1:10:05
Speaker 3: is very unfortunate.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: One she couldn't afford because that's been pointed out as
1:10:11
Speaker 7: one of her flaws is she's more interested in serving
1:10:14
Speaker 7: Donald Trump than she is the people of South Carolina.
1:10:17
Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: It's also interesting that the talkback used her name Nordone,
1:10:22
Speaker 6: which is not her name. I thought she did a
1:10:25
Speaker 6: very good job of explaining that last night as best
1:10:28
Speaker 6: she can.
1:10:28
Speaker 3: It was probably overdue.
1:10:30
Speaker 6: That she has never taken, because she was married before Nordone.
1:10:35
Speaker 3: Wasn't she?
1:10:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe so.
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Speaker 3: And she didn't take that name either.
1:10:39
Speaker 6: Our understanding is, again, not that I've got Darlene Graham,
1:10:42
Speaker 6: you know, I don't chronicle her entire life, but my
1:10:48
Speaker 6: understanding after last night was that she has never not
1:10:51
Speaker 6: used Graham because she wanted to try to honor her parents,
1:10:56
Speaker 6: who she lost.
1:10:57
Speaker 3: At an early age.
1:10:58
Speaker 6: And we did have numerous signed documents from way before
1:11:04
Speaker 6: she was ever considering running for anything, like in 2020.
1:11:08
Speaker 6: where she was signing things at the, what do you
1:11:10
Speaker 6: want to call it, for the deaf?
1:11:12
Speaker 3: Was it the blind? Whoever she was representing, the blind
1:11:14
Speaker 3: or the deaf. Somebody.
1:11:16
Speaker 6: She was signing her name as Darlene Graham. So when
1:11:19
Speaker 6: you call her Nordone, I know you're using that as
1:11:22
Speaker 6: an insult.
1:11:24
Speaker 12: On her.
1:11:24
Speaker 6: And she's made it very clear that she's never been Nordone.
1:11:27
Speaker 6: She's always been Graham. So that's where we're at with that.
1:11:31
Speaker 6: And to the first talk back, I kind of thought
1:11:35
Speaker 6: the same thing, Christopher, that she was trying to walk
1:11:37
Speaker 6: a little bit of a fine line.
1:11:39
Speaker 3: The left did not appreciate that fine line.
1:11:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently not.
1:11:42
Speaker 6: And they've come out, again, if you missed the earlier news,
1:11:45
Speaker 6: 20 plus LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina have have come
1:11:49
Speaker 6: out against, well, they haven't come out against Annie Andrews,
1:11:53
Speaker 6: but they condemn the language as transphobic that she says
1:11:58
Speaker 6: she doesn't want biological men competing in women's sports.
1:12:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought the same thing, too. She never said
1:12:07
Speaker 3: just biological males. She said men. Does that mean over 18?
1:12:11
Speaker 3: And does that mean that she is cool with a
1:12:14
Speaker 3: 13 or a 14-year-old.
1:12:17
Speaker 6: Boy who identifies as a female competing with females and
1:12:21
Speaker 6: being in their locker rooms. I think we need a
1:12:23
Speaker 6: very clear distinction because we have a lot of ambiguity
1:12:27
Speaker 6: in this country and in the state as well about
1:12:31
Speaker 6: what means what.
1:12:32
Speaker 3: Words have meanings.
1:12:34
Speaker 6: And unfortunately, if you're not very precise with your language,
1:12:38
Speaker 6: you can end up in a situation like that talkback
1:12:40
Speaker 6: feature was and where I find myself as well. What
1:12:42
Speaker 6: do you mean by what you're saying? It doesn't be
1:12:45
Speaker 6: more precise. Are you saying that somebody who was born
1:12:49
Speaker 6: and assigned the birth or assigned at birth, they were
1:12:54
Speaker 6: a genetic male, that they have to compete with males
1:12:57
Speaker 6: to until at least the age of 22. I would
1:13:02
Speaker 6: love to see a college ban on it. We don't
1:13:06
Speaker 6: have that college ban yet, but I think.
1:13:07
Speaker 3: It would be great.
1:13:08
Speaker 4: We do in South Carolina.
1:13:10
Speaker 3: Yes, the states do, but why not federally?
1:13:13
Speaker 6: That should be a thing that is a common sense
1:13:16
Speaker 6: thing where if you want to compete in college athletics,
1:13:20
Speaker 6: you need to be the gender that you were at birth.
1:13:24
Speaker 7: Kelly, the irony in all this is We had this
1:13:27
Speaker 7: ad on Friday. This was big news on Friday. And
1:13:30
Speaker 7: Annie Andrews was doing a touchdown dance saying, see, I've
1:13:33
Speaker 7: gotten ahead of these anticipated attacks. And it seems to
1:13:37
Speaker 7: have opened her up to even more.
1:13:39
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, the left will not hesitate to come after
1:13:43
Speaker 6: their own. And, you know, Hassan Piker is on the
1:13:47
Speaker 6: prowl going after Mayor Zamdani. He wants the mayor impeached.
1:13:53
Speaker 6: He's like, we're going to have to hold him accountable
1:13:55
Speaker 6: because he is not doing what he's promised.
1:13:58
Speaker 3: And he's way too— I forget the word.
1:14:02
Speaker 6: It wasn't friendly, but it was basically saying he was
1:14:04
Speaker 6: too friendly with the Jews and And we need to
1:14:07
Speaker 6: hold him accountable because that's not why we elected him.
1:14:09
Speaker 6: We elected him to basically end all relationship with Israel.
1:14:15
Speaker 6: the Jews have no special standing in America. They should
1:14:18
Speaker 6: actually be treated as worse than, well, worse than the
1:14:22
Speaker 6: people that the ICE agents are going after, for God's sakes.
1:14:25
Speaker 3: The ICE agents, that story over the weekend, you know,
1:14:28
Speaker 3: we haven't talked about that story again.
1:14:29
Speaker 6: We talked about it on Friday, but there were some
1:14:31
Speaker 6: developments over the weekend regarding that ICE.
1:14:33
Speaker 3: Story out of New York.
1:14:35
Speaker 6: We should talk about that and how is it being
1:14:37
Speaker 6: received by the left, which is a Hint, hint, they're
1:14:41
Speaker 6: not receiving that information well.
1:14:43
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that.
1:14:44
Speaker 6: And if you have any more talkbacks on any of
1:14:46
Speaker 6: the things we're talking about today, you can just hit
1:14:47
Speaker 6: that talkback feature as those two people did. And we
1:14:50
Speaker 6: certainly appreciate their inputs. It's 840.
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Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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1:15:03
Speaker 3: Friday morning, we were discussing Oscar Begall. You might not
1:15:07
Speaker 3: be familiar with the name. He's the 28-year-old who was
1:15:10
Speaker 3: shot in the neck by... ICE officers, I think Thursday.
1:15:15
Speaker 6: The problem was that Oscar had a five-year-old son in
1:15:20
Speaker 6: the car. And they have been making a big deal
1:15:23
Speaker 6: about that on the left. And you have no reason
1:15:26
Speaker 6: to shoot a man in front of his own child.
1:15:30
Speaker 6: We've got a federal judge Friday afternoon saying that they
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Speaker 6: are blocking any deportation now. Quote, this is from the judge, quote,
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Speaker 6: Regardless of whether or not someone is a criminal or
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Speaker 6: has any criminal history, it is not lawful or okay
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Speaker 6: to shoot a father in the afternoon with his son
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Speaker 6: in the backseat. This is not how we resolve legal
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Speaker 6: disputes in our country. We resolve them in buildings like
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Speaker 6: this courtroom, says Harold Salas. And so because of that,
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Speaker 6: he will be staying here in the United States until
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Speaker 6: further notice. Now, Mark Wayne Mullen was on the TV
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Speaker 6: shows Sunday.
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Speaker 3: He was everywhere.
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Speaker 6: He would point out that Oscar Belgal had been ordered
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Speaker 6: out of this country in December of 2023 after pleading
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Speaker 6: guilty to armed robbery back in 2023. That's when he
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Speaker 6: was supposed to have been deported. And ICE reached out
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Speaker 6: to the New York City Police Department while he was
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Speaker 6: in a jail cell, and they were told, kick rocks.
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Speaker 3: We're not giving them to you. We're not allowed to
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Speaker 3: give them to you. Since that time.
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Speaker 6: So 2024 and 2025, he has no less than six
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Speaker 6: arrests in those two years, none of which have gone
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Speaker 6: to trial. I mean, this guy is a walking menace.
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Speaker 6: He's apparently a member of a gang. What's the name
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Speaker 6: of that gang he's a member of? I had not
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Speaker 6: heard of Trinitarios. They're known here as a violent transnational gang,
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Speaker 6: heavily active just in New York City. They use mopeds
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Speaker 6: with usually some sort of pistols and or even long
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Speaker 6: guns to rob people up close.
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Speaker 7: And he once pulled a machete on a man in
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Speaker 7: a fight.
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Speaker 6: So this guy is who they're fighting for. They want
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Speaker 6: this man to stay. Federal records also note that ICE
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Speaker 6: has been trying to apprehend Bagel since September 18th, 2026.
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Speaker 6: when they spoke to him, but he evaded custody by
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Speaker 6: fleeing into a building. They knew he was ICE, or
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Speaker 6: they knew that he knew he was ICE, because they
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Speaker 6: identified themselves as ICE agents when they were walking up
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Speaker 6: to the vehicle, and that's when he floored it. Not
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Speaker 6: because he saw a gun. That's the argument that the
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Speaker 6: left is using. Well, these, you know, construction worker pulls.
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Speaker 3: A gun, you run. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: I would be stunned if a construction worker pulled a gun.
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Speaker 6: If I was a gangbanger, I might be running because
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Speaker 6: I would think maybe it's a gang member. I can
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Speaker 6: see that. That was the argument that Jake Tapper was
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Speaker 6: using yesterday. Oh, you know, you got a man with
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Speaker 6: a violent history. Somebody walks up to him with a gun.
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Speaker 6: What do you think he's going to do?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what?
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Speaker 6: He shouldn't be in the country, Jake. Those are the
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Speaker 6: people we're trying to get out. This is literally targeting
1:18:29
Speaker 6: the worst of the worst. Somebody who's got a long
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Speaker 6: history of committing violence in New York City on a moped,
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Speaker 6: armed robbery, already pled guilty to it three years ago
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Speaker 6: almost now, and we can't get them out because the
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Speaker 6: left continues to block them. I don't know what else
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Speaker 6: we can say. We're seeing things completely different. We see
1:18:49
Speaker 6: the same facts. but we interpret them differently. That is
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Speaker 6: the problem. Do you have thoughts on it? Use the
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Speaker 10: Kelly, exactly where in the Constitution does it give Congress
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Speaker 10: the authority or the ability to make laws concerning NCAA athletics?
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Speaker 10: That's restricted to a state right, and that should be
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Speaker 10: observed as per the Constitution.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 10: Congress shouldn't be extending its reach beyond that.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to assume that this person is genuine and
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Speaker 6: not just– I mean, They genuinely don't know the history
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Speaker 6: of the NCAA. So just so you understand, it was
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Speaker 6: formed by Congress. 1905, Teddy Roosevelt said we need to
1:19:42
Speaker 6: reform football laws. Let's get an organization to oversee how
1:19:46
Speaker 6: college football is played. And it wasn't originally called the NCAA.
1:19:50
Speaker 6: It changed its name in 1910. However, Title IX, that
1:19:54
Speaker 6: is Congress going against the NCAA, instituting their regulations. It
1:19:59
Speaker 6: has always been a federal agency, national, collegiate. It's not
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Speaker 6: a state anything. It is a federal organization set up
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Speaker 6: by Congress over 100 years ago or about 100 years ago.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, then you must think also that
1:20:14
Speaker 6: the Reform Sports Act, that's illegal as well. We will
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Speaker 6: continue to try to preach truth to you tomorrow morning
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Speaker 6: just after six and hope you have a great day.