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Show Rewind 9-30-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: So it is the final day of September. We are
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  Speaker 2: now getting into the heart of the midterm elections. Good morning,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson. How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Not so good.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? I.
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  Speaker 3: You ever have that strange thing that happens to you
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  Speaker 3: that sets the tone for the entire day? I walked
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  Speaker 3: through a spider web and I've had the creeps ever
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  Speaker 3: since then.
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  Speaker 2: That happened this morning.
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  Speaker 3: It happened this morning, right? Right outside our, our back door.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it is just got me on edge. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like there's something crawling in my hair. You know, what
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  Speaker 3: little I have left.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you could go clean shaven like myself. I should, I, uh,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, it's interesting on social media. Um, The
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  Speaker 2: more conservative content that I post, the more haters I attract.
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  Speaker 2: And some of them are very, we'll say, dedicated to
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  Speaker 2: the cause. And so there's a woman outside of Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: I think is where she lives, according to her Facebook page.
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  Speaker 2: And this lady is relentless. And she started going through
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  Speaker 2: my photographs on Facebook. She's now all the way back
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  Speaker 2: to 2016 and making fun of the fact that I'm bald.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm giving her a golf clap. Like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? You are someone committed, and I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: your hate. Thank you. So, yeah, I've not had hair
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  Speaker 2: this century. I shaved my head in 1996 and have
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  Speaker 2: been bald ever since. It's not a bad club to
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  Speaker 2: be in.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, after this morning, I may join you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, our back, you know... Our whole
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  Speaker 2: parking lot is like the Wild Kingdom.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on out there. My gosh,
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  Speaker 2: you never can tell what you're going to bump into. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: your back parking lot is not as wild as ours.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've got to get Merlin. What is
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  Speaker 2: that guy's name? Merlin Parkins or whatever from Wild Kingdom?
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  Speaker 2: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom?
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  Speaker 3: I remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. All right. Well, Christopher is having a
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  Speaker 2: rough start. How's your start going? You can let us
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  Speaker 2: know about it on the Talkback feature. Some of the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we can look at this morning here locally.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a new South Carolina hate crime ordinance was passed.
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  Speaker 2: We've also got a woman charged with massive snap fraud
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  Speaker 2: in our state. First ever school board removal hearing. This
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  Speaker 2: is the first one in our state, I guess. Henry
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  Speaker 2: McMaster is going to be looking into that. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of local news. Also, on the national level,
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  Speaker 2: I just did a podcast a moment ago This announcement
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  Speaker 2: was kind of made public yesterday. This is a Trump
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  Speaker 2: announcement that is going to be formalized today. And the left,
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  Speaker 2: they hate it because they know that if Trump's doing it,
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  Speaker 2: they have to hate it. But they kind of love
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  Speaker 2: it too. We'll get into that. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: check it out in advance, you can get up on
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  Speaker 2: the national briefing. You spell that like my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L.
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  Speaker 2: The national briefings on the iHeartRadio app. But yeah, big
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  Speaker 2: moves coming out of the Trump administration. And I heard
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  Speaker 2: in our top of the hour news break, Christopher, even
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  Speaker 2: the Fox News people are not, they have not yet
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  Speaker 2: made the change that Donald Trump has requested. Or actually,
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  Speaker 2: I think he executive ordered it, possibly. We are not
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  Speaker 2: to call it artificial intelligence. It is super intelligence. Super intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: He understands the power of words, you know. So to
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  Speaker 2: the left, it's not as if Trump has got a
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  Speaker 2: corner on the market, you know. Call it health care.
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  Speaker 2: when you're actually killing things. That's healthcare. There's all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of wordplay that's going on, but Donald Trump thinks that
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  Speaker 2: part of the reason Americans don't like artificial intelligence is
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  Speaker 2: because it feels artificial. It feels, as he says, totally fake.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to take over your jobs. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: ruin your lives, but that's not what it's really doing.
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  Speaker 2: It's super intelligence. It's going to make your life so
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  Speaker 2: much better. So he changed the name of it yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: at least in I guess governmental documents, it has to
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  Speaker 2: refer to it as super intelligence or SI. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to make the switch. It's tough when you've been calling
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  Speaker 2: it AI for what, two, three years, I guess AI
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  Speaker 2: has been on our radar?
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  Speaker 3: At least.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're going to try to call it SI.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any feelings on that? Does it make
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  Speaker 2: you feel any different about what's happening now?
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  Speaker 3: I've got the government's official AI website. Excuse me. Super
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  Speaker 3: intelligent website up now.
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  Speaker 2: You almost got a Trump hotline call.
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  Speaker 3: I know. America.gov. Have you been there yet?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, when they made the announcement in the Oval Office,
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  Speaker 2: and then they kind of put that out, I went
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  Speaker 2: and checked it out a little bit just to see.
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  Speaker 2: I really wanted to see the signatures of, what was it,
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  Speaker 2: the five heads of the big, now I guess we
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  Speaker 2: used to call them AI companies, but you had like
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  Speaker 2: Zuckerberg was there, Elon Musk was there. uh, Dario, whatever
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  Speaker 2: his name is, that's the guy who's been hit. It
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  Speaker 2: was an anthropic. They're the ones who've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: possibly this would end human civilization, but he signed it. Um,
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  Speaker 2: so they're all in on this idea of kind of
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  Speaker 2: setting up more guardrails. They're going to have like an
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  Speaker 2: outside board to check in on them and kind of
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  Speaker 2: run audits on the, uh, SI and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to kill everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And, but how speaker, Mike Johnson says it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be hands off as far as the government goes. We'll, we'll,
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  Speaker 3: keep an eye on you, but we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: put tight reins on you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, the more the government gets involved,
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  Speaker 2: the slower progress is made. We've seen that, whether you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at roads or anything else that the government does,
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  Speaker 2: it just bogs everything down. And this is a race.
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  Speaker 2: And so we, you know, if you believe what the
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  Speaker 2: experts are saying, and again, I'm not talking about the
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  Speaker 2: two or three that came out and said it could
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  Speaker 2: kill us all within 10 years. I'm talking about in general,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying that there's a race between China and America
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  Speaker 2: and China is not putting any restrictions on anything, right?
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  Speaker 2: They're just like, well, they're, they're throwing human bodies into
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  Speaker 2: the waste rubble here in order to try to win
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  Speaker 2: this race. Um, we need, but thankfully we're apparently slightly ahead. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: some say as much as six months, others say about
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  Speaker 2: three months. Um, And you've got to win that race
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  Speaker 2: because whoever first gets to– I think when Trump calls
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  Speaker 2: it superintelligence, is that not the term that they actually
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  Speaker 2: use when AI achieves all human intelligence and then starts
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  Speaker 2: creating more of its own?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that was the phrase that they had
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  Speaker 2: been using was the ability to then create its own
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  Speaker 2: intelligence beyond anything that any human being could have ever
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  Speaker 2: thought of. And whoever gets to that level first then
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  Speaker 2: can control, basically, in the words of Dr. Evil, the world.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have thoughts on this and other things,
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  Speaker 2: let us know on the Talkback feature. We love getting
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  Speaker 2: your voice on the air. It is 610.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash here with Christopher Thompson. And, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you start talking about Israel-Palestine, that gets people really worked up.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of emotion in that individual. And again, I
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  Speaker 2: think the people who are the most passionate seem to
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  Speaker 2: be the ones who feel as if America is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a useful idiot. We're a tool to empower Israel
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  Speaker 2: in order to commit, in their words, a genocide against
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  Speaker 2: in Palestine. And I have gone through the numbers before,
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  Speaker 2: and yet many people are still passionate. It is a
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  Speaker 2: genocide happening in Palestine right now, specifically in Gaza. And Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: you tell me we have another talk back regarding this.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, it's Dalton in Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: So I agree with y'all.
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  Speaker 8: I'm 90% of what y'all talk about on this program,
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  Speaker 8: but One thing that I got to disagree with you
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  Speaker 8: on is Israel and Gaza and the whole Palestinian situation.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, to date, there's been over 73,000 people killed
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  Speaker 8: with an estimated 10,000 more under rubble, 20,000 of which
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  Speaker 8: are children alone. Please explain to me how that is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cut off there. I guess he was going to
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  Speaker 2: say how that is not a genocide. Well, Dalton and Charleston,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for starting your day with South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: And I will just reiterate the numbers. What you said
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  Speaker 2: is pretty accurate. We're talking less than 100,000 people in
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  Speaker 2: Palestine have died. The population of Palestine continues to swell.
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  Speaker 2: So just looking at the last few years, 2024 is
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  Speaker 2: when they launched their attack on Israel. And as you
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  Speaker 2: no doubt know, brutally raped, murdered people. babies, children, kidnapped
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people. It was horrific what they did. I
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  Speaker 2: think there were 7,000 killed. Now, if you come back
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  Speaker 2: and look at their Palestinian population, they were at 5,409,202.
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  Speaker 2: They swole the next year to 5,495,000. So in other words,
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  Speaker 2: they were able to, in the middle of what you're
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  Speaker 2: calling a genocide, add 80,000 people to the population. The
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  Speaker 2: next year, From 5,495,000, they went to 5,589,000. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: they've added another 90,000. So this is the opposite of
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  Speaker 2: a genocide.
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  Speaker 3: Their rate of population growth is bigger than the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Way outpaced. As a matter of fact, it's one of
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  Speaker 2: the top five countries. It's actually not even recognized as
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  Speaker 2: a country, just so people understand. But the Palestinian territory
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  Speaker 2: is one of the fastest-growing populations on Earth right now.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to look at real genocides, because that
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  Speaker 2: word is, like, loaded. When you say it's a genocide,
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  Speaker 2: you're saying that you're targeting civilians for extermination. We're trying
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  Speaker 2: to kill off populations. So, like, in our lifetimes, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you weren't born in the 70s. Most of us, I think,
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  Speaker 2: were around. There was a guy named Pol Pot. Pol
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  Speaker 2: Pot exterminated 2.5 million Cambodians. Now, when he was killing
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  Speaker 2: the 2.5 million Cambodians, which would have been about 50%
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  Speaker 2: of the country of Palestine, that was over 20% of
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  Speaker 2: the Cambodian population that he killed. In Rwanda, it's less people,
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  Speaker 2: but it's higher population. It was pushing 50% of the
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  Speaker 2: Rwandan population in 1994 when the Houthis killed 800,000. So
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  Speaker 2: imagine 50% of Palestine, 20% of Palestine, 10% of Palestine.
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  Speaker 2: The numbers that you're talking about are less than 1%.
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  Speaker 2: And that is, I mean, if you want, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say that because obviously now I'm just being
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  Speaker 2: a little, I don't know. What's the word I'm looking for?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just now trying to say things that maybe trigger
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  Speaker 2: some people. But if you look at Russia, Russia's lost
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  Speaker 2: one and a half million people in this war. And
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them have been killed on Russian territory.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a genocide? Are we seeing... Of course we're
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  Speaker 2: not seeing that. It is not as if suddenly the
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainians are doing a genocide on the Russians, but they
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  Speaker 2: have lost one and a half million Russians as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to 500,000 Ukrainians. It is a horrible thing whenever there's
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  Speaker 2: a war. The Palestinians are the ones that wage the war.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, this is, we're trying to not, I say we,
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  Speaker 2: the Israelis are trying to end their capabilities of waging
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  Speaker 2: war against them anymore. That's all this is. They're trying
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  Speaker 2: to eliminate the powers that be, the ones that were
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  Speaker 2: getting the money in the arms and everything from Iran.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get rid of all of those people.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they're doing. Same kind of what we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do in Iran, where we're trying to wipe out
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC. It's not a genocide. It's going to lead
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  Speaker 2: to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, maybe even a
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  Speaker 2: million or so people. That's not a genocide, though. We're
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  Speaker 2: not trying to eliminate the population. All right. I hope
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  Speaker 2: I've made myself clear on that. If you've got thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that, let me know on the talkback feature. It
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  Speaker 2: is 620.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Kelly Nash, a little too young to have
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  Speaker 2: ever voted for Ronald Reagan. Missed it by just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. My first election was a huge disappointment
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  Speaker 2: for me as a young conservative. I was like Alex P. Keaton,
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  Speaker 2: a young Republican, a Reaganite through and through in high school.
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  Speaker 2: But the first time I got to vote was 1986.
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  Speaker 2: Then that midterm was a disaster for the Republicans. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember Tip O'Neill celebrating, it's the end of the
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  Speaker 2: Reagan revolution. Um, Christopher, do you remember the very first
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  Speaker 2: time you got to vote?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was 86 as well. I'm trying to think. Yeah, probably. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that would have been 86.
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  Speaker 2: So we're both too young to vote for Ronald Reagan,
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  Speaker 2: although I'm sure we would have.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: We had been of age in 1984.
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  Speaker 3: We got to vote for his vice president in two years.
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  Speaker 2: Thousand points of light.
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  Speaker 3: You've got an invitation for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's an easy one, right? Just say a thousand
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  Speaker 2: points of light. And then it was always funny because
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  Speaker 2: in the debates, they would be like, he'd say something
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  Speaker 2: kind of like Joe Biden. He would say, well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure I'm out of time now. No, you got another
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  Speaker 2: 30 seconds or so. Well, like I said, thousand points
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  Speaker 2: of light. Everybody's moving. We're moving in the right direction. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: this is coming from the South Carolina election officials. They
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  Speaker 2: want to remind you. that it's now just 40 days
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  Speaker 2: until the midterm elections. But if you have not yet
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  Speaker 2: registered to vote, you have until this Friday if you
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  Speaker 2: want to register in person. Now, I hate the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we have all this other mail-in crap going on
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  Speaker 2: because it just seems to confuse the issue. But I
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  Speaker 2: will mention it, that if you want to try to
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  Speaker 2: online register is due, what is it? Mail registration must
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  Speaker 2: be postmarked by next October 5th. Or is that next Friday?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: October 5th is Monday.
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  Speaker 7: It's Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Mail registration must be postmarked by October 5th. And
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  Speaker 2: they also remind you that even though you've, for most
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  Speaker 2: of us who've been registered here for years and have
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  Speaker 2: voted continually and faithfully, things have changed, including polling locations.
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  Speaker 2: So you should check before you try to vote at scvotes.org.gov.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. scvotes.gov. So check your polling stations and all
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  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff as we kind of ramp up
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  Speaker 2: for the midterm elections. And I wonder, I mean, somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to have the first opportunity to cast a ballot
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  Speaker 2: this year. I wonder if they'll be as disappointed as
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  Speaker 2: I was in 86.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hope not.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be like, I was there the year they welcomed
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  Speaker 2: socialism into America. Oh, my gosh. Let's pray not.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know what you're talking about this morning. We
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  Speaker 2: would love to get you on the air by using
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  Speaker 2: the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app at 628.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there. Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. Somebody has corrected
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  Speaker 2: me that the election is actually 34 days. I was
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  Speaker 2: reading that off Live 5's website, by the way, when
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  Speaker 2: I said 40. It's 34 days. And we're getting into
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  Speaker 2: debate season. We're going to have, what do we got?
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  Speaker 2: The governor's debate is coming up Tuesday, October 6th. That's
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  Speaker 2: going to be on, I think, all the, what is it,
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  Speaker 2: the gray TV stations? Is that who carries it? It's
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  Speaker 2: WIS here locally, Fox Carolina, Live 5 in the Lowcountry.
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  Speaker 2: You guys don't care about the other stations because you
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  Speaker 2: don't live there. Unless you happen to be listening on
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  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Okay, WMBF, WAGT, WBTV, and WTOC. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the television stations that will have it. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's like, is it 7 o'clock? Something like that. 7
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  Speaker 2: to 8. 7 to 8. Next week. Next Tuesday. Alan
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  Speaker 2: Wilson versus what's-his-face.
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  Speaker 3: Jermaine Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. I knew you would know it. You are
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  Speaker 2: the details guy, Christopher. The other debate that I think
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  Speaker 2: more people are very interested in seeing, not to take
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  Speaker 2: away from Jermaine and Alan, because that race doesn't seem
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  Speaker 2: very close, to be honest. But the one that does
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  Speaker 2: seem close, obviously, we saw the Trafalgar poll, would be
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews versus Darlene Graham. That one, is that the
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  Speaker 2: following week? It's like we're lining these things up to
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  Speaker 2: get them done here, almost like for primetime ratings. I
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  Speaker 2: think that one is the 11th.
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  Speaker 3: It is, which is a Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's a Sunday. Yeah. Does that mean they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be competing with football?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's at 7 o'clock. But, yeah, you'll be running
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  Speaker 3: into the end of games and the beginning of, the
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  Speaker 3: Sunday night in football, America football NBC broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll all see it later on social media. That's
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about here. Let's be honest. Okay. Now
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  Speaker 2: this one, you know, I'm looking at some of the
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  Speaker 2: spending that they've been doing. Now the Andrews campaign has
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: spent about 1.6 million so far on media production and advertising.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: But that's what's been disclosed as of June 30th. So
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: we don't know exactly, and also because we don't know
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: really what Graham's been TV spending is. So we're going
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: to get a better picture coming up October 15th. That's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: when they kind of reveal all their quarterly spending. So
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: we don't know. But I will, you know, it's so
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: funny because, Christopher, you have done a great job of
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: reminding people over and over and over again that Darlene
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Graham is working as a senator in D.C.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: We saw her in action yesterday, as a matter of fact,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: at that Jack Smith hearings.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: And that was a laugh riot, but also very scary
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to think about the fact that that guy had so
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: much power. And we'll probably have to get into that
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: in a little bit. But I do think that it's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: hysterical that one of the Andrews campaign spokespeople made this statement,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: at least to ABC4, that while Annie Andrews is crisscrossing
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the state hearing from our constituents— Darlene Graham is nowhere
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to be seen on the campaign trail. Well, again, she's working.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: She's got a day job.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: A pretty important one.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So, and apparently according to the, I think it was
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the Trafalgar poll that had, it's interesting that people over
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the age of 50 overwhelmingly are breaking for Graham. People
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: under the age of 50 are breaking for Annie Andrews
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: at this point, which kind of leads to the, the
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: bigger problem. discussion in America, are the younger, is the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: younger generation leaning towards socialism? I know Annie Andrews positions
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: herself as a moderate, but there is no such thing
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: as a moderate when the Democrat party has been so
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: radicalized by the socialists. And again, it's just a numbers game.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You're just a cog in the wheel. It doesn't matter.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: You could be, you know, pro-life, Pro lower taxes, pro whatever.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: But if you have a D on your name, then
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: you have to be registered as a Democrat. And the Democrats,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: once they take power, then all the power goes to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the nut jobs. It's all, you know, Ro Khanna's and
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: AOC's and that crew take over the control. of government.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: And you either become radicalized when you get to D.C.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: so that you are allowed to play in the reindeer
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: games or you're just neutered and put in a corner.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: You're not getting any committee assignments.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You're on the back bench.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a back bencher.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Good point. So that's again, when you're voting left or
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: right this year, understand that's what's what we're talking about.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It doesn't it matters less who the candidate is as
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: opposed to the numbers game and what's going to happen
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: up at the Senate or at the House level. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: a lot on the line this election season. And again,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: 34 days away. My God, it's it. I feel like
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: we've been talking about this nonstop, and yet at the
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: same time, I feel like this has snuck up on me, Christopher.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: It does feel like it because we took a break
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: after the Senate runoff, and then all of a sudden,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: here it is. The midterms are here.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Goodness.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll be getting into it in full steam here
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: in the next few days. And if you have thoughts
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: on the midterms, maybe you want to take exception with
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying about moderate Democrats or whatever, use that
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: talkback feature. We'd love to get your voice on the air.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: It is 639.
• 21:00
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• 21:04
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• 21:11
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• 21:15
  Speaker 2: The left continues to demonstrate to me, and I think
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: anybody who's willing to look at their arguments, that they
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: are just anti-West, anti-civilization. They don't want success. That's the left.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: And I point to nuclear energy, nuclear energy, according to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the science, you got to follow the science. The science
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: says that nuclear energy is statistically the safest energy on earth, safer.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: This is unbelievable, Christopher, safer than wind and solar energy.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Wow, that does sound strange.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: 0.02 deaths per whatever TWH means of electricity produced. Solar
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: is at 0.3. Wind is at 0.4. And then you
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: start getting up into like oil and those types of
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: things where people are dying, you know, trying to make
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: it and all that sort of stuff. It ramps up
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: rather quickly. So nuclear energy is not only the safest thing,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it also is the lowest carbon sources around. The left
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: should be in love with nuclear energy, but you can
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: go all the way back to the, you know, the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Jane Fonda era and see them protesting nuclear energy plants.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And that is never relented. They hate nuclear energy. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: yesterday we had a nuclear summit here in South Carolina.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: And I love this. I was doing a show yesterday
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in Iowa and Iowa, as you probably heard, just got the, uh,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: granted they're, they're going to build the biggest ever steel
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: plant in America, uh, in I think Southeast Iowa. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that's going to produce 10 billion, no, 10 million tons
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: of steel every year, which is a, it's a game
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: changer for the state of Iowa. Nuclear energy is going
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to do the same thing for the state of South Carolina.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Westinghouse has created a partnership with the University of South Carolina.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: The number one thing that's holding us back is the workforce.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: People don't know how to work in this field. So
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Westinghouse is investing in the University of South Carolina to
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: partnership in order to get our workforce up and running. Now,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, by the way, has been kind of ahead
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of the curve on this. Right now, about 50% of
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: our energy is driven by existing reactors in Hartsville, Jenksville, Seneca,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: and York. But we're going to start building that out
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: and This is so exciting, Christopher, because energy is the
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: number one problem moving forward when you're talking about SI.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: As you notice, I didn't say AI. When you're talking
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: about SI, superintelligence, and just in general, the population consumes
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: more energy and the energy demands continue to increase. And
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: South Carolina is going to be at the heart of
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: solving the problem.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: That's fantastic. And when we talk about our infrastructure and
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: the fact that our population is growing... We've got to
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: have energy, not just for SI, but for the people
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: who move here. And this will help there. And we've
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: also talked in the last couple of weeks about how,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: you know, kids are having trouble finding the right job.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Here's a great opportunity for young people. Westinghouse is investing
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: heavily in training these kids to become nuclear engineers and
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: other workers in the force.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Westinghouse plans to have
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: 10 reactors under construction across the country by 2030. So,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're entering college next year, you're definitely
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: going to want to get in on that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you jump on that?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. All right. We're going to take a
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: break and be back with more. If you've got thoughts
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: on nuclear energy or any of the things we're talking about,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: please use the talk back feature on the I heart
• 24:54
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• 24:55
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Coming up, one of my favorite things. When somebody uses
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the talkback feature to suggest a topic, Christopher tells me
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: we have one of those. We're going to get into
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that coming up in the next hour. Also, I feel
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: like we've got to do like a court case TV
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: type of episode. There's like three major trial announcements that
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: have happened. We're going to get into that. Also, what
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: is happening... with school boards. Henry McMaster is getting involved,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: is he? We're gonna talk about that and other things
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: as well. It's 6.55 now with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 25:40
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• 25:47
  Speaker 2: All right, the town of Hollywood, South Carolina, the big
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: lights of Hollywood. Making the news is the, uh, town's
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: first ever hate crime ordinance passed its final reading Monday night. Uh,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the ordinance adds extra penalties or fines for crimes carried
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: out based on things like a person's race, religion, gender,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: or sexual orientation. Uh, the story notes that South Carolina
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: is one of two States that have not enacted a
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: statewide hate crime ban. I'm, I, is it Wyoming? I
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: think is the other one. Um, But, yes, we're one
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: of– 48 states have it, two do not. And so
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: now we've been in this situation where we're having towns
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: pass them. Christopher, you have a talkback. Somebody wanted to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: talk about this.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Why is this state one of only two that still
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: doesn't have hate crime laws? Why is South Carolina so
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: slow in some of– initiating some of these laws that
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: everybody else has?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you for the talk back. I appreciate it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: And again, I like it because this gentleman was suggesting
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: a topic for us to discuss. And I love that.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: If there's topics out there that you want us to
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: talk about, hit that microphone on the iHeartRadio app and
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: let Christopher Thompson and myself know about it. So yeah,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: he's right. South Carolina, one of two. Why is that?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: You have to look at your legislature, right? I mean,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: there's no other way of getting around it. They have
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: been proposing hate crime bills, I would say, for at
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: least 10 years, I think.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Well, the intensity picked up after the Charleston church shooting.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: We thought that was going to push it across the
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: finish line. But, Kelly, there are a lot of conservatives
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: out there who don't believe that you should consider a
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: crime is a crime and the punishment should fit the crime.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: A lot of conservatives believe you shouldn't be taking into account,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: you know, whether a person was a certain race or
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: whether a person was a certain religion. There are also
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: conservatives who are concerned that hate crime laws could lead
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: to prosecutions against, for example, somebody who was religious and,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: you know, simply making their, their first amendment rights known.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And they could wind up being prosecuted based on these
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: hate crime laws.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I would, again, I just, so we're clear, I don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: believe that any of the proposals that we're talking about
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: would include hate speech per se. It would be if
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: you like, I remember we had Richland County Sheriff Leon
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Lott and he was actually Richland, I think is the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: first County in the state to pass an ordinance called
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a hate crime. His big thing was he knew of
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: a gang that was targeting specifically Latinos and And he's like,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: they're not, they're just going out of their way to
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: pick on a race at this point. And, or in
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: one instance, they were picking on white kids. And when
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: they say picking on white kids means targeting them for robberies.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: And it was only white people being, and he said,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: that's a hate crime. And that's not just a robbery.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: That's they're picking on you because of your race. and
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: they should be an extra punishment for it. And so
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: he was able to get that passed. I think about
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: two years ago in Richland County. Now to your point of,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: should it be enhanced because of that? I don't know.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: 48 States have agreed with it. What we've done here
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina is actually, I think I remember the,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: didn't the attorney general come out with like enough. Now
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it's not, it's not Alan Wilson. It's the attorney general's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: office has come out with a, like an official opinion
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: that said it appears to them that Richland County, Hollywood now,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: and all the other places that have been passing. These
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: are in violation of the state constitution because you need
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: uniform state laws on something like this. So where do
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: we got them? We got them in Camden. We got
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: them in Columbia, Conway, Florence, Gaffney, Georgetown, Greenville, Hardyville, Irmo,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Isle of Palms, Lake City, Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Orangeburg.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: They're all over the place. They're popping up. And again, this,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: that official opinion, let me see, do I know when
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: that was issued? That was 2025. So, I mean, again,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: we're just, We're just out here doing our thing now.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: The cities are ignoring that opinion piece of the Attorney
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: General's office. Nobody is actually trying to legislate this. The
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: state legislature continues to drag its feet and not even
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: take a position. I mean, I would love for them
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to come on out and say, we're not going to
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: do it. We're never going to have a hate crime
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: law because of the same reasons you just mentioned. We
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: don't think the people should have enhanced punishment because they targeted... Christians.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: If you just wanted to murder Christians as opposed to
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: murdering whomever, we don't think that there should be an
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: enhanced punishment for that. A murder's a murder. A murder's
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: a murder as opposed to was it motivated by your distaste,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you know, you hate Jews, Christians, Muslims, whomever.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I'd love to hear from the 48 states that have
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: enacted these hate crime laws. Has it been a deterrent?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, do these laws work?
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Hard to say, I would imagine, right? Because right now, America,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: thanks to Donald Trump, that's what we credit. Maybe some
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: people would point to the hate crime laws. We are
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: experiencing a rapid decline in crime across the country.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: That's good for everyone.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: That is good for everyone. Is it we traditionally in
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the conservative space point to getting rid of illegal aliens?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Just deport, deport, deport. But maybe some people would say
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: it's the hate crime bills that have been working as
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a deterrent. I don't know. If you have thoughts on it,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: let us know on the talkback feature. Would you like
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: to see a statewide bill on this get passed? Would
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you like to see it brought back up for discussion,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: at least at the statehouse? We could talk about those
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: things and other things. We've got a lot of local
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: news to get to today and some national news, big
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: national news. We'll talk about all that and more. This
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: I didn't want to vote for Lindsey Graham the last
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: few times, but had.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: No other choice.
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: Now, same thing with Darlene Graham. I don't necessarily want
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: to vote for her, but we can't hand the Senate
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: over to the Democrats. They're just going to try to
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: impeach Trump for the next two years. And we need
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: him to finish up all this chess move and finish
• 32:45
  Speaker 11: up his agenda. Republicans need to get off their butts
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: and just vote for Darlene Graham.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the talk back. And I wish I knew
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: her name. She's very torn. You can tell. And a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: lot of people are not just in the Darlene Graham race. The,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you know, Darlene Graham versus Annie Andrews race. But oftentimes,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: you know, the primaries don't go the way you had hoped.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And you end up, this is true on the left
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and the right, you end up with a candidate that
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: you don't like. I mean, I'm thinking about James Tallarico
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: and how many of the people down there wanted, what's
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: her face? Why do I always forget her name? Jasmine Crockett.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: So many of them wanted Jasmine Crockett on the left.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And they got James Tallarico. same on the right with
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the republicans in texas as you say and and Likewise,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: in that exact same race, you got Ken Paxton when
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: so many other people just said, why don't we just
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: go with the tried and true guy? Now, Ken Paxton
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: would be the guy who had some of the energy
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: behind him because he's different. He's new. He's I mean,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: not that he's new to Texas politics, but he'd be
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: a new Senate candidate. He's a new voice in the Senate. Um,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: in this instance, no matter who you vote for, you're
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: getting a new voice in South Carolina in the Senate. Um,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: By the way, I just looked it up, my sample ballot, Christopher,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: because we were talking about, was it 34 days now
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: until the primary?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: And they suggest that people go to scvotes.gov, even if
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: you've been living in the same place forever. I've been
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: living in the Wildwood community for like a decade now,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: but I checked and mine has not moved. But they
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: are moving a lot of polling stations this year. So
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: when you're getting into your race, you're obviously top of
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the ticket, governor, lieutenant governor. Nobody's talking really about the
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: secretary of state, although we did bring it up yesterday.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: The state treasurer race is in there. The attorney general
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: not getting a lot of attention in that race either.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: For some reason, we're getting more, I mean, the superintendent
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: of education, the comptroller general, but I think we're getting
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: more discussion about the commissioner of ag than some of
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: these other races.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I think just because of the Trump endorsement.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Then you get into the Senate race. And I'll like
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: for me locally, I'll have I will vote against Beth Bernstein.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I say I vote against her. I've met her. She's
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: a nice lady. She's a Democrat and she's by Democrat standards,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: a moderate. I have no idea who Sonia Pollard is. No,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I don't. I've never been to her website. I know
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: nothing about her, but she's the Republican. So I'll probably
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: just vote for her. That's just the way it'll be.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: And Beth Bernstein will run away with it and win
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: 70-30 because of the district that I live in. But
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: getting back to what our talkback feature was using, Darlene
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Graham versus Annie Andrews. And we can't forget there's also
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Mark Hackett on the Constitution ticket and Casey Whitener on
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the Libertarian ticket. Neither one of them I think were
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: invited to the debate that's coming up next Sunday.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: No, Whitener will be on the stage.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Because I had read a story where, okay, you know
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: what I read? A story where they were saying that
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: they were not going to use any polling for her
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: moving forward because they had her polling below 2% or something.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: So they were like, there's no point in even including
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: her in our polls. So they're going.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: To let her on.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Is Hackett going to be there?
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Apparently not.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Interesting. I wonder how he got left off.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Didn't you try to reach out to
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: him and you had trouble finding him?
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe SCETV couldn't find him.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: So that'd be an interesting debate coming down Sunday. But again,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to the bigger picture that our talkback person was making,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: and I think Sean Hannity was kind of saying the
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: same thing in the morning minute. This election is not
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: about the individual candidates. At this point, what we have
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: are teams that are being built. And so you're either
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: going to elect the Democrat, which then empowers the Democrats.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: If the Democrats take control of the Senate, Who do
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: you think is going to run the Senate? It's going
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to be someone like a Bernie Sanders. It may not
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: be Bernie Sanders. It may be Adam Schiff. It may be,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a whole long list of nut jobs
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: on the left that are at the top of the Senate.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Same in the House. I don't think that Hakeem Jeffries,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the Teemu Obama candidate. I don't think he gets to
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: be the speaker. I think that he has already been
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: fighting an uphill battle against the base of the Democrat Party.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I think they go more like an AOC type of person.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: And so a squad member. And then not only are
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: they dictating like what's happening on the floor, they're also
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: doing the committee assignments. And Christopher used a great term.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Either you get radicalized and get on board with whatever
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: team you're on, or you get, what's the phrase?
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Backbencher. I mean, you're ignored. I mean, you're a rookie,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: but you're also, you've got no swag.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like when AOC first came in, also like when
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz first came in. I remember being so excited
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: when Ted Cruz was elected to the Senate, and we
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: were talking about the Cruz missile is firing into D.C., right?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: He's going to rattle things up with some true conservative principles.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: He got a lot of attention, a lot of heat.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: He made a lot of noise when he got into D.C.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: He was able to get on some powerful committees. AOC, likewise,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: in the House. If you're sending up someone like Annie Andrews,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: And Annie Andrews is positioning herself as a moderate, although
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I know that there's going to be a whole wave
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: of campaign ads showing maybe not moderate positions. Even if
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: she is a moderate, that's irrelevant because she's either going
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: to have to get radical or she's not going to
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: have a voice. That's just the way politics works these
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: days in D.C. So when you're voting, you're voting for
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a team. You're not voting for an individual. And I
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: hate to put it that way because there's a lot
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: of great individuals who will probably be eliminated. Because they're
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: on the wrong team in their state or their district
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: or whatever. But that's the way I see things. How
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: do you see them? Let us know on the Talkback feature.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: We've got to take a break. It's 720.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: So we just heard from a lady on the Talkback
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: feature talking about how she's basically holding her nose and
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: going to vote for Darlene Graham. She doesn't agree with
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of any of it. But she's going to
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: do it to prevent the Democrats from getting in power. And,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: you know, in down in Texas right now, there is
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: a right in John campaign has begun. They want John
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Cornyn back. And I will just point out, James Tallarico
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: is running as a moderate. And yet here. he is yesterday.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: The way I.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: The way I fought for trans kids in the legislature
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: is how I will fight for the U.S.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Senate.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: And my position hasn't changed.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: I still think these.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Should be local decisions, sport by sport, athlete by athlete.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: And I think I have the most inclusive policy of
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: any candidate who's running.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: And then there you go. So that's that's him talking
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: to a voter. That's not him talking from the stage.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: When you say you're a moderate Democrat, those things don't exist.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: We have in South Carolina a right in Ralph campaign
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: that has begun. And I would love for any of
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: you right in Ralph people to let us know on
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the talkback feature your reasoning. Do you believe that Ralph
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Norman is going to win even though he's encouraging you
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to not do this? Do you think that he's somehow
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: going to pull the upset of all upsets? Or are
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: you trying to teach the Republican Party a lesson? And
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: what in fact is the lesson that you're going to
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: teach by emboldening the left? I'm not really sure if
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I understand it, but I would love it if you're
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: a right-in-Ralph person. Again, just let us know by hitting
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: that microphone on the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: It's 728.
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: So the left, hates this announcement, but they kind of
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: love it too. It's a Trump administration announcement that was
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: kind of put out on Fox News yesterday. Jen Griffin
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: giving you some of the details.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: Secretary Hegseth is gathering enlisted and non-commissioned officers to announce
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: as part of a state of the force speech that
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: he is doubling cuts to the number of positions reserved
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: for generals and admirals in an effort to reduce the
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: number of active duty four-star positions and National Guard general
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: officers by 20 percent. The Pentagon says it's an effort
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: to streamline its senior ranks. Hegseth has fired dozens of
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: general officers since arriving at the Pentagon, often with no explanation.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Now, Jen, not being genuine there when she says often
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: with no explanation, Pete Hegseth has been explaining pretty much
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: since he's got this job that what he sees as
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: one of the biggest problems is the bureaucracy of the military.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Too top heavy.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Exactly. So a 20 percent cut. That means about 170
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: positions will be eliminated. If you factor in their salaries
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: and other benefits, it's about a million dollars position. So
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: as a leftist, you've got to love the fact that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the military is going to cut $ 170 million. You would think, right?
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: You would think.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: But they are outraged. Because why? These are the experts.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: If you're on the left, you hold up somebody who's
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: designated as an expert like a deity. It's a god.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: This person knows so much. And I'm not saying that
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: they don't. What I'm saying is that when you put
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: one person in charge, that's great. You get a couple, okay. Three, four, five,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: whole bunches of different opinions. Now, they're all experts, but
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: they have different opinions. As they argue things out, things
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: get slowed down. We need to move swiftly. Militarily, you
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: have to move swiftly. Pete Hegseth understands that. That's why
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: he's making these decisions. But the left cannot let this go.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: And so now you've got congressmen talking about this. You've
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: got senators talking about this, that Pete Hegseth needs to
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: be impeached over this.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: That.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Taking down some four stars and three stars and just saying,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you know what, we're going to let the non-commissioned officers
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: run their units with less oversight. What did Zach Nicholson say?
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I run my unit how I run my unit. So
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: these people, we're going to give the people who are
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: in charge more autonomy, but we're also going to allow
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: non-commissioned officers, a little more control. We're going to save
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: some money. We're going to be able to respond swiftly.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: That announcement coming down today at Quantico. And again, thank
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: you to the people who have been serving the military
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: at that level. You know, we do appreciate your service.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you. And I hope that you have a happy retirement.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I will point out that probably when you look at
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: executives in America, the guy who's considered the most successful
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: executive in America is There's a guy named Jack Welch.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: He's been dead now for a number of years. But
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Jack Welch ran General Electric from like 1980 to like 2000.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: It was like a 20-year run. And he doubled it,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: and then he doubled it, and then he doubled it,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: and then he doubled it. And everybody was in awe
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: in the 80s and 90s. What is the secret to
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: General Electric just exploding? And he used to call it the,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: what was it, rank and, Rankin fire, something like that.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: He had some funny nickname, like the, you know, the
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: fastest show on turf or whatever greatest show under his
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: was like rank and fire. And what he, his theory
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: was 20% in every part of this company, 20% of
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: my management, 20% of my middleman, whatever 20% are going
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: to be the top tier people. 70% are going to
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: be the, Hey, these are really solid employees there. They
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: get it. They know how to work there. They're an
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: asset to the company. 10%. are always going to be
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: the backbenchers, the bottom feeders, the people who don't understand
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, the people that are confused. They're either
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: unmotivated or just can't comprehend the work or whatever. And
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: that will never end, according to Jack Wells. Now, again,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of people pushing back on that
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: theory for years. But every year, they fired 10% of
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: the staff. Every year. Jack Wells said, just rank and fire.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Who are the worst 10% in this company? Get rid
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: of them. We'll replace them with 10% new. And the
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: people that are at the top 20% give them enormous raises.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: We'll make sure that they know that they are so valued.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: The people in the middle, the 70%, give them a raise.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Say thank you for a job well done. The bottom 10%,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: you're gone. And that is very cold-blooded, but it was
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: very effective.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Shrewd way to run a company. And we should be
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: doing the same with the military. I mean, I'm not
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: saying there's fraud. but there's certainly waste.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, we, we doged everything else, or at least
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: we started to, uh, the military shouldn't be exempt from that.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: And it does, it gets too top heavy. You get these,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: you know, four-star generals with cush desk jobs who were
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: no longer really in touch with what's going on in
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: the ground, wherever their troops are stationed.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so that's, that's changing today. And the left
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: is very sad about it. I never thought I'd see
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: the left. Sorry to see the downsizing of the U
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: S military, but, That's where we're at today. If you
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: have thoughts on that. And I know we have a
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: lot of military veterans who listen and even active duty
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: people who are. engaged with the show. We appreciate your service.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Please let us know what your thoughts are on this decision,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: on the talkback feature. That's the microphone that you see
• 46:40
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• 46:42
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Be back in more at 739.
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  Speaker 10: As much as I despise a lot of the Democrats
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: and their political ideals, there are so many Republicans that
• 47:10
  Speaker 10: I cannot get behind as well. Holding your nose and
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: just punching a button for a certain ticket is how
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: we got into this mess. There should be a way
• 47:21
  Speaker 10: that everyone votes their conscience.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the talk back. I guess that's in
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: response to our earlier question. talkback where we had a
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: lady on talking about the fact that she is going
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: to vote for Darlene Graham, although she didn't like Lindsey
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Graham either, but she voted for him and is going
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: to vote for Darlene Graham despite her reservations. And I
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: was making the point that that's kind of what you
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: have to do. It's a team sport. And to this,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I was looking for somebody who was specifically part of
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: the hashtag right in Ralph campaign, where they're trying to
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: get people to not vote for Darlene and instead write
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: in Ralph Norman's name, understanding that if Darlene Graham loses,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: you're then basically electing, you know, Ro Khanna and Bernie
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC and the looniest of
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: the loons to run the country.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Sheldon Whitehouse is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: So whenever a new Supreme Court justice or a Supreme
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Court appointment is made, Mr. Greene would be in charge
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: of deciding whether that court justice gets a fair hearing
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: and goes through.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, Sheldon Whitehouse, what a piece of work that
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: guy is. But, you know, you had your chance. That's the,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: to this talkback feature's point, you had your chance to
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: vote your conscience. It's called a primary. That's when you
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: work it out. You're deciding who's going to be the
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: starting team. And your person didn't make it. My person
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: didn't make it. Let's just be honest. I mean, I've
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: mentioned it before. I voted for Ralph, but I'm not
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: voting for Ralph in the general. I'm voting for Darlene
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Graham because I recognize that it's a choice. You get
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: a choice, and right now you have a choice. Who
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: do you want to empower, the left or the right?
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm still waiting for somebody to explain to me
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: how electing Annie Andrews or anybody on the left— is
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: going to teach the right anything. And I'll also point out,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: somebody made the comment that gas prices are temporary. socialism
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: is forever. Once you get into the socialist environment, ask
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: the people of Cuba. It's been a long time trying
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: to get out of it. But again, more talkbacks. We'd
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: love to hear from you. Use that microphone. Certainly appreciate
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: you using it. It is now 747.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 49:47
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• 49:48
  Speaker 2: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson mentioning earlier that Pete
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Hegseth today is going to Quantico to announce that he's
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: cutting 20% of the.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Commanders basically about 175 jobs will be eliminated saving about
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: 175 million dollars senator jack reed the ranking member of
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: the senate armed services uh democrat this needs to alarm
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: every american congress must be consulted this is our decision
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: not pete's anyway uh we're asking you because we have
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: so many military members listening both former and current for
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: your thoughts people are letting us know on the talkback
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: feature what you think of this move morning fellas.
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: Bird dog out in Chapin. In reference to the administration
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: letting go of 20% of the top brass, the leftists
• 50:37
  Speaker 9: don't really care that they're letting them go. It's their
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: Trump derangement syndrome. Anything that Trump does, they have to
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: cheer the opposite. Hope that helps. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 12: Hey guys, Carl from Charleston. We have this Nancy LaCour,
• 50:54
  Speaker 12: who's that former admiral running, and she says she was
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: fired for no reason. Yet, in the same commercial, she
• 51:01
  Speaker 12: says she was left. She's there to protect democracy. Yeah,
• 51:07
  Speaker 12: I wonder why.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: She was fired. I appreciate those talkbacks. Bird Dog and Chapin,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: and what was the man's name in Charleston? Did we
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: get that?
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: It was Carl.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Carl in Charleston. Thank you, gentlemen, for contributing to the
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: show this morning. Yeah, a lot of feelings about this.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I think that, Christopher, you kind of encapsulated it earlier.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just we're trying to get more efficient,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: and that should be celebrated by both the left and
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: the right.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Whether or not you, you know, if you are... Anti-military, perhaps,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: I guess you would be upset by this because you're seeing, oh,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: the military is getting more efficient. And by the way,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: did we not, we owe a clap. We owe an applaud.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: The way the military is exiting Iraq, you know, this
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: is the exact opposite of what happened in Afghanistan. With Afghanistan,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: total chaos. It was just brutal to see. We're leaving Iraq.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: It's quiet. It's peaceful. It's like mission accomplished. We're not
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: doing a victory lap around Iraq. We're not trying to
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: do anything. We're just pulling out and nothing is happening.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: This is what it looks like when you have real
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: leadership running things, unlike what we had with the Biden
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: administration and so many military people put in such a
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: horrific position in Afghanistan. because of their ineptness. So thankful
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: that that era is behind us. Or is it? Is
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: it coming back? Could there be a President Kamala Harris
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: in our future? What kind of withdrawals would we have then?
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: Great. Thanks for that thought.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Well, contemplate that and maybe get back to us on
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: the Talkback feature. Are you pro-Kamala? Are you team Kamala?
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: We're picking teams as we head into the midterms, now
• 52:52
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• 52:55
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  Speaker 2: Hi there. My name is Kelly Nash. My wife, Angela,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: is like addicted to. to courtroom drama, not like the
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  Speaker 2: a blank? The attorney here in South Carolina, when that
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Alec Murdoch.
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  Speaker 2: Alec Murdoch.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: I thought you were going to go back to O.J. Simpson. No, no, no.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: No, I wasn't married to her yet. But she was
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: like totally in on that Murdoch trial. And would, like,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: every day I'd come home, she would give me the updates.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: And now, like, other court cases that pop up, she's
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: got opinions on all of them. She's, like, the 13th
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: juror or whatever, you know. So she's got to report
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: for duty and keep, you know, go through all the
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: social media postings and whatnot. But I know that America
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: has been kind of enthralled lately with the Lindsay Clancy case.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: And Tuesday, the what's his name? Reddington.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: What a shock.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: He's now shifting gears, apparently, and that maybe maybe she
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: didn't do it.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: I guess he got emboldened by the fact that they
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: couldn't find 12 jurors to find her guilty. And now
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: he's thought, well, no, wait a minute. I thought we
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: were going to be fighting over whether she was going
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: to be imprisoned and whether she's mentally ill or not.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe I've got a not guilty verdict in my back pocket.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Well, he had the what? Not guilty by reason of insanity.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Now he's going to say she didn't do it?
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Didn't do it at all.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Although.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: That confession... Yeah.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: The confession. If she's insane, can she confess?
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: And then you.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: He's got it all figured out.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: This guy, I mean, what we're seeing happen, I can't
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: remember the gentleman's name who was what they call the
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: lone holdout juror. He was on with Hannity the other night.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: But what they're doing to that man's life, I've never
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: seen anything like this where a juror now has to
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: hire his own defense attorney. And basically has to go
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: on the run from the mob because he's been doxxed.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: And this is craziness. That's sheer insanity coming out of Boston. But, yeah,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: that is an update on that case. Then the other
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: case that's got a lot of people talking is the
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Cornell fraternity brothers case. And I'm going to be one
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: of those people who I'm not going to jump to conclusions.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Because I remember, what was it, the Duke lacrosse team, right?
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Those were really crazy. ugly allegations that were made about
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the Duke lacrosse kids. And eventually the accuser admitted she
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: made it all up. I don't know where this is
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: going to go. I will say that, I mean, there's
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: a bunch of stories in the media today about it.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: There were some yesterday, some Snapchats that were revealed that
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: if those are accurate as to what we think they were,
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: it's evil and grotesque. However, I think yesterday they also
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: came out with the woman's statement that we call her
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Jane Doe that came out in 2024. That's what she
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: made to the Tompkins County district attorney. And she doesn't
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: use the word rape. She was saying that she felt
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: a little bit coerced. It was morally disturbing were the
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: phrases that she was using at the time. And then she's, and,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: a little bit graphic here. Um, quote, uh, at one
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: point I recall a group of men, multiple men walking in,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: I was horrified. And I remember saying out loud, uh,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm up for a foursome that, that,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds like she was, she was cognizant
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: of what she was doing to the point that there
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: was going to be multiple people involved.
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: There are More and more story. I mean, she was
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: doing drugs with these men, these young men, and there
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: apparently was consenting sex. She just didn't realize the scope
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: of it until it was all over.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: She said, quote, I had become extremely uncomfortable. Well, how
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: this night was turning out. So my thought was, if
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: I do ketamine, maybe I'll pass out. Yeah. So this story,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, again, the allegations, horrific, evil, all of it.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: And by the way, even if there is no assault charges,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: although they have reopened the case because of the public
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: outrage when she brought the civil suit with the allegations,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: they're going to take another look at it. Even if
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: there's no whatever, there's no charges, even if she was
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: to lose a civil suit, all of it, it's still disgusting.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: It is. All of it's disgusting. And then they had
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: the other case with the fella yesterday being found guilty.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: That story, that's one of those ones where I was
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: getting the hourly updates.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: The American Idol contestant?
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: Yes. My wife was giving me hourly updates on that
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: case for like a week now. And if you're not
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: familiar with it, this guy was an American Idol contestant
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: like 15, 20 years ago or something. I don't know.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: Never even made it to the live shows. He was just,
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: you know, one of the ones who breathes in and
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: breathes out.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: And for some reason, this case has captured the imagination
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: of America or a lot of Americans. And he was
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: apparently not a paid, but on the worship team at
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: a church. And this young lady was working at the church.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: Younger than him.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: As it always is. And he was married. And there are, did,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: if I, if I remember my Angela's reporting, it was
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: a hundred thousand text messages between the two, a hundred thousand.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I've sent a hundred thousand texts.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: cumulatively in my life to every person I know. And
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: that includes sup, you know, thumbs up or whatever, you know,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've sent a hundred, but these two
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: were going back and some of those text messages. Now
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: she cut a deal. with the prosecution. So she's on
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: the stand. I mean, what a humiliation for her. She
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: has to read her text messages and his text messages aloud.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: And I don't know how the jury could come back
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: with anything other than guilty after just hearing the text
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: messages where, you know, and then the thing that was
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: so most egregious, well, not most of the murder was
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: the most egregious, but then like an hour or two
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: after the murder has happened, he's called the police said, Oh,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: My wife, they killed my wife and I was asleep
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: in the other room. His mother-in-law, the mother of the deceased,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: is trying to comfort him. And she's like, there's the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: video like from the ring camera or whatever where she's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: patting him on the back. And she's like, it's horrible,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: but it's horrible for me. But you've lost your spouse,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: your true love. And I've lost a daughter, but you've
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: lost her. And I don't know how you're going to
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: go on, but we're here for you. And the whole time,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: this guy, yeah, I murdered her. And that was what
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: he put in the text messages is, tomorrow is freedom day. Tomorrow,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: you'll see that I choose you. And then, sure enough,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: that night, she's murdered.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: With the kids in the house.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: We have monsters amongst us. And you would never expect
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: some of these people to be monsters. I mean, I
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: don't know Lindsay Clancy, but I mean, she looked, I mean,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: she didn't, it's hard to say when somebody looks like
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: they're going to murder their own children and do it slowly, slowly.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, that one lady made that point to Oprah
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Winfrey when Oprah Winfrey was like, you still think that
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: she was sane or whatever? And she's like, I think
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: that she's a monster because She took the bands and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: put them around her children's throats and slowly for like
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: five to seven minutes to kill them. She had to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: watch the life go out of their bodies that she
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: looked them in the eyes as she murdered her own children.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: That's a monster. And I don't think that the neighbors
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: would have ever guessed. I'm living next door. A monster.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: She's a monster. That guy is a monster. And whatever
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: they decide with those frat boys, that's monstrous behavior. I'm
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: disgusted by all of it.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe not criminal, but monstrous.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Maybe not criminal, so you've got to hold back
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: your reservations on that one, I would suggest. They're already protesting,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: by the way. We've got parents who are now keeping
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: their kids out of Cornell or something, and all kinds
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: of chaos ensuing at Cornell, but It's, you know, one
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: of those prestigious schools. So they'll survive. Don't worry about Cornell.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: We don't need to have a GoFundMe page for Cornell.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: If you've got thoughts on any of the legal cases,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: we're open. It's like court TV over here today. This
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, South Carolina's Morning News at 812.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: We're breaking new ground in South Carolina. Good morning. Kelly
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Nash with Christopher Thompson down in Charleston County. The school
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: board member. I think her name is Darlene Roberson defended
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: herself during a first of its kind hearing. We've never
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: done this in South Carolina. Apparently this is a panel
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: tasked with recommending whether the governor should oust her from office.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: It was a four hour session, three charges leveled based
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: on the August inspector general report that Roberson improperly disclosed
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: information from an executive session and shared confidential emails with
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: the press and district vendors, and then helped her former
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: campaign manager get work with the district. So all three
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: of those things, if any of those three are actually true,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: then she's, I guess, going to be removed from the board.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: The IG didn't really talk a lot about it from
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: what I could see. He's like, I'm not, no comment, basically,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: was his attitude, it seemed. Roberson's attorney, Cambrell Garvin. There's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: a name we've heard before, Christopher.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: He's argued that now this didn't happen in Charleston. They
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: came all the way up to Columbia for this argued
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: in a conference room in Columbia packed with her supporters
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: that Brian Lampkin, the IG had largely failed to provide
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: adequate evidence to support these allegations. Today's testimony is well,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: as many of the things identified in the IG report
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: does not show that there is a Darlene Roberson problem.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: It shows that the problems potentially are greater. In other words,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: The way they're interpreting the information, yes, there was information
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: leaked from executive sessions. Yes, there were confidential emails sent
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: to the press and district vendors. Now, I don't know
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: what he means. Did she help the campaign manager get
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: the job with the district or not? I don't know.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: But those first two, the allegations from her attorney seem
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: to be they're out there, yes, but you can't prove
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: she did it. It seems to him— that it's a
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: part of a bigger conspiracy theory.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: I'm going to roll my eyes on that one, but we'll,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: we'll see. We'll see. This, this is an important case
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: because remember just until a couple of years ago, the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: governor couldn't do anything about this kind of thing. If,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: if you didn't break a law and we're criminally or
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: we're not criminally arrested. And even if you were, the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: governor couldn't necessarily remove you from, I think that was,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: there were a couple of reasons why you could be removed,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: but it was pretty, pretty tight. Now the governor has
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: a chance to, if it's certain misconduct, he can automatically
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: remove you from the board, but it's not automatic automatic.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: There's a hearing first. So you get your day in
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: court and it sounds like she's hired a pretty good attorney.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Campbell's been around for a while. Aaron White is her
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: former campaign manager and, And White has a nonprofit. And
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: don't the flags just kind of go up when you
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: hear about nonprofits these days? He has a nonprofit called,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: what's the name of it? The Circle of Life. And
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: I just want to break out into like Lion King
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: songs or whatever. That nonprofit was paid, apparently by the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: Charleston County Schools, to provide student support services beginning in 2024.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what student support services, but apparently,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: something to do with mental health and those types of things.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: I thought we already had, like, people on the— Counselors? Yeah,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: we pay them, don't we? We don't need a nonprofit
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: to come inside and get more money to do it,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: but whatever. They say that Roberson's role in introducing Mr.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: White to the school, that— could violate state ethics laws,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: barring public officials from influencing decisions that their associates have
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: an economic interest in. That would seem pretty obvious to me, but, uh,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: the decision will be made here pretty soon, I guess. Uh,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: and like you said, Christopher, this is pretty monumental because
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: it's never been done before. We didn't even have the
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: power till now. Um, and so I look, whatever happens here, um,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: A clear message is hopefully being sent to school boards
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: and other officials, but specifically school boards around the state.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: There's a new sheriff in town right now. His name
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: is Gubna. And the Gubna is going to have this
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: kind of juice. And if you get out of line,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: if your fellow school board members are complaining about you
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: to the IG, that could lead to your removal.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: You are not untouchable.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Yes. They used to be untouchable. That's a great word
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: for it. They are now untouchable. To paraphrase the untouchables,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: remember they shot him in the elevator? Do you remember
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: that scene in the untouchables, Christopher? Where they were bragging
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: that they were untouchable, right? And then one of the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: bad guys came in and killed one of the cops.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: And then he took the blood and he wrote it
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: on the elevator. Touchable. You're not untouchable just because you're
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: a special service agent. You're not untouchable just because you're
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: a school board member. Touchable. Now with Henry McMaster doing
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: the touching.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 9: Yikes.
• 1:07:26
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• 1:07:27
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• 1:07:30
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• 1:07:39
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• 1:07:44
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• 1:07:54
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• 1:07:56
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• 1:07:58
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• 1:08:01
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• 1:08:04
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• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: might be interested in supporting... a policy or a type
• 1:08:10
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• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: to maybe just do these donations in the future off
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: of like a fake email account. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that, that my mom has been getting letters
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: from Donald Trump since 2016. So it's amazing how much
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is interested in Mrs. Nash up in Hartford. Anyway,
• 1:08:29
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• 1:08:32
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• 1:08:33
  Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: So it is easy to be frustrated by the lower courts,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: especially in the liberal areas of the country, when they
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: make outrageous rulings. I don't think we talked about it
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: on the show, but Riley Gaines had her case basically
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: canned yesterday, and the judge basically said that the NCAA,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: does not have to follow federal law. They're above it.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: And so if they want men to compete in women's
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: sports and beat the hell out of the women, then
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: that's their prerogative. And they will do as they they'll
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: run their outfit as they see fit.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: Did the Department of Education come out with something against that?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: By yesterday afternoon?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 10: Sure.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: But the court.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: Is saying it's up to each individual school. Doesn't matter
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: what the Department of Education says. Doesn't matter what anybody says.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: If you want men in the women's locker room, have
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: at it, Hoss. Now, of course, that will be appealed
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: and blah, blah, blah. Yesterday, the Supreme Court surprised many
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: when they came out with their decision allowing the Trump
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: administration to restart the program Deporting migrants to what's called
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: third countries. In other words, if you're from a area
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: of the world where the federal government acknowledges that you
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: probably shouldn't be sent there because you're probably going to
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: get murdered when you go back there.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: Haiti, for example.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe. For political reasons, possibly. Maybe you're involved in gang
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: violence or whatever. Then we can deport. You're still not staying.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: You're still getting out of here. We'll just use third countries.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: So there's been 29 different countries that they've used in
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: the last few years to deport people to. Obviously, the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: left hates that. And so they're trying to stop it.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: And it was 6-3. So the conservatives and the moderates
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: got together on that one because sometimes the moderates go
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: with the liberals. The liberals, of course, are the three
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: that dissented. And so we can resume immediately deporting people.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: to third countries. Now, if you are an illegal alien
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: listening to this show right now, thank you, but you
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: need to go home. You need to go home. The
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: part that seems to fail or they intentionally ignore on
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: the left is there is a great incentive for you
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  Speaker 2: to leave the country and has been in place for
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  Speaker 2: a while. I will read this from dhs.gov. Currently, if
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  Speaker 2: you are an illegal alien, and you are willing to
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  Speaker 2: go home, voluntary self-departure, go to the CBP Home mobile app,
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  Speaker 2: and you will receive cost-free travel. So we will cover
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  Speaker 2: the airfare to basically your home, or if you want
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  Speaker 2: to pick one of these third countries, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pick one. We'll pay for it. The U.S. taxpayer is
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  Speaker 2: paying for you to go home. On top of it,
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  Speaker 2: any of your fines that you've accumulated overstaying a visa
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, We're going to forgive all that. You don't
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  Speaker 2: owe us a nickel. On top of it, illegal aliens
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  Speaker 2: requesting assistance will have a timely departure arranged around their schedule.
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  Speaker 2: This is better than what I get when I go
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  Speaker 2: on vacation. My wife doesn't give a rip when I
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  Speaker 2: just get home. We got to go. And then on
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  Speaker 2: top of it, on top of all that, the cost-free travel,
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  Speaker 2: the arranging it around your schedule, so if you need
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  Speaker 2: a week or two to get your affairs in order, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and then the forgiveness of all your fines, the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer will cut you a check for $ 3, 000. It's called
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  Speaker 2: an exit bonus. If you take advantage of it, as
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  Speaker 2: soon as you get to wherever you're going, you can
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  Speaker 2: immediately apply to come back. And you'll be put in
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  Speaker 2: the line. You will have your case heard as a
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  Speaker 2: potential new citizen for the United States. If you choose
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  Speaker 2: to not do that.
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  Speaker 3: This beats the alternative.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, if you choose to not do that and you
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  Speaker 2: just want to take your chances. Tom Holman has told you.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, in 11 sanctuary states, they're restarting the
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  Speaker 2: surge now. So they are very deadly serious about catching
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  Speaker 2: all illegals. Whether you're the worst of the worst doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: If they catch you, you're going. And then they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be so accommodating. You're going to forfeit the $ 3, 000
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  Speaker 2: exit bonus. You're going to Pay all the departure fines
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  Speaker 2: for what you've overstayed on your visa. You're also going
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  Speaker 2: to then go to maybe a bad place.
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  Speaker 3: A detention center, for starters.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. We'll warm you up with that before we send
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  Speaker 2: you to this crappy country that you have to go to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why people wouldn't take advantage of this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I hate to be like a sales guy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much longer they can keep this
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  Speaker 2: offer on the table. I feel like I'm like the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Home Shopping Network. Right now, for a limited time only,
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the month, I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: long they're going to continue to offer this because we've
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  Speaker 2: already seen, according to government estimates, somewhere between 2 and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: 3 million people self-deport. They took us up on these offers. There's...
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: an estimated 20 million left in the country. And that's just,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: they don't know how many are in the country because
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: they don't know how many came in. But they have deported,
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  Speaker 2: I think, several million, you know, not by choice. They
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: were sent home the rough way. It's like Ike and
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: Tina Turner. Do you like it nice and easy or
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: nice and rough? You're going to get it either way,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: but you're going home. I would just suggest go and
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  Speaker 2: take us up on this incredible offer while it's still
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: on the table. $ 3, 000 cash, plus whenever you want to go,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: we'll figure it out for you and all that sort
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: of stuff, forgiveness of all the fines. But the Trump
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: administration with a big win yesterday and the deportations are
• 1:14:27
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson, and I've often argued
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  Speaker 2: that Democrats are Marxists in the sense that Marxists are
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  Speaker 2: told you the playbook, we're going to create chaos in
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  Speaker 2: And then we're going to tell the public that we
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  Speaker 2: Obamacare as a prime example. But on top of it,
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  Speaker 2: you then look at something that Joe Biden gave us.
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  Speaker 2: He gave us a lot of gifts. One of them
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: was in 2022, the No Surprise Act, which sounds lovely.
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  Speaker 2: No more surprise medical bills, but we're getting more and
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: more surprises these days. One of the things, I don't
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: even know what hammer toe is. But when you go
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: to settle your hammer toe surgeries, routine procedures like hammer
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: toe cost $ 450 to $ 600. However, because of the No
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  Speaker 2: Surprise Act, anything can be challenged to the independent dispute resolution.
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  Speaker 2: IDR is awarding now up to $ 20, 000 on hammer toes.
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  Speaker 2: So out of pocket on that goes through the roof. Now,
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  Speaker 2: one of the people that was talking yesterday said, At
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  Speaker 2: the Maha Summit for Cracking Down is Dr. Katherine Gaffigan.
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  Speaker 2: She brings our attention to another problem.
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  Speaker 13: This is an esoteric billing issue, but it drives cost
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  Speaker 13: with no improvement in quality. It is this concept of providers,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 13: a physician in an office providing a service to a member,
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  Speaker 13: but when it's billed, it's billed as if it was
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  Speaker 13: provided at the hospital setting.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, they're double billing you. You got to
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  Speaker 2: pay for that and you got to pay the hospital fees.
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  Speaker 2: This is just another way that the Democrats have constructed
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: a health care plan to screw you, the American people,
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  Speaker 2: in the hopes that you will finally give in to
• 1:16:41
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  Speaker 2: just give me single payer? This is the goal. This
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: is the game plan. They are rolling it out on
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: you right now. And once you get to enough pain,
• 1:16:53
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  Speaker 2: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson, nobody follows the Gamecocks
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: closer than Christopher Thompson. And I know that all college
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: sports programs are trying to find New revenue streams. Christopher,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: I heard this clip yesterday, and it spurred an idea.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: People get tired of hearing about the wrong thing. Well,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: guess what? We had a hell of a practice today.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: We had a hell of a practice. Coach Shane Beamer,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: we should begin practicing at Williams-Brice Stadium and sell tickets.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: Because if you want to see the Gamecocks win, this
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: is the best that they do every day in practice.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: I might pay some money to go down and watch
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: the Gamecocks kick some tail.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're just trying to get on people's nerves now.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: Come on, man.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: You're picking on a vulnerable audience.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: I saw yesterday Gamecocks, because I have a list on
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: my X account where I follow just a bunch of
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: Gamecock accounts. And those people were clowning over that. And
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: they were like the national champions of practice.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: So, well, he's, he said that after a number of,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: of losses where it's gotten, yeah, it's gotten to be
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: too much for Gamecock fans.
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  Speaker 2: This is a pivotal, pivotal game that they're heading into
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  Speaker 2: this week. Isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Two game stretch. I mean, you've got two ranked teams,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: Kentucky and Florida, and then you've got an open date
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: and you do not want to sit on that open
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: date after not performing well in both these games. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: this week, a home game. I mean, You know, fans
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  Speaker 3: can say what they want, but I guarantee you that
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: Williams-Brice will be crowded on Saturday.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Yeah, I mean, the tickets are sold pretty
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: much at this point. The question is, what will the
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: vibe be in the arena or in the stadium? How
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: long till the... Boo Birds come out?
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you do not want to struggle early in that game.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: Um, and Kentucky is ranked.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And so, I mean, are we still three point favorites
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: in that game?
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: I it's come down a little bit. I'm not sure
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: if I think they still are though.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, how in the world are we the favorites
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: over any sec team? It's been now over a year
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: since our last sec win. So I'm, I'm baffled as
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: to how we're favorited to win this game. But, uh,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: by the way, I know a lot of people talking about,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: could Shane Beamer be fired? If he is, we don't
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: need to go fund me page. Right now, the buyout
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: is $ 27. 9 million if he's fired before the 31st of
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: December after you save almost $ 6 million. Because it's $ 27. 9,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: it would drop to $ 22. 1 million after December 31st. But
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: then now you're looking at a January hire, and then
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: you're kind of a little late to trying to rebuild
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: your team.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. It would be very costly to wait that
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: long in terms of, you know, now you're hiring a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: new coach. Who knows who's out there by then if
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: you're going to find somebody that you really like? And
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: then you're stuck with, you know, hiring a coaching staff
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: and you're trying to recruit and you're already behind there.
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  Speaker 2: Big, big week. Got to win this game. Probably has
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: to win the next two games because I'm sure Mr.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Donati is getting an earful about what are we doing
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: with our football program? So pivotal week. Christopher Thompson will
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  Speaker 2: All right. Have a great day, everybody.