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Show Rewind 9-10-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: It is Thursday, the 10th of September. And Christopher, good
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  Speaker 3: morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: Morning to you, big star. Big national radio star. In
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  Speaker 4: case you missed it yesterday, Kelly Nash filling in for
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  Speaker 4: Jesse Kelly. That was a nationally syndicated program between 6
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  Speaker 4: and 9 last night.
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  Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun, and I certainly appreciate
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  Speaker 3: everybody at Premier and iHeart and Jesse Kelly and everybody
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  Speaker 3: who allowed that to happen. And it was a good
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  Speaker 3: time and got a lot of great encouragement before and
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  Speaker 3: after from some of our listeners. So thank you to
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  Speaker 3: the SC Morning News crew.
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  Speaker 5: You did a great job. Thank you, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: Now, today is one of those days where a lot
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  Speaker 3: of Americans are going to be feeling the pain. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow will be a day where just about all Americans,
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  Speaker 3: except for the most radical on the left, will feel
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  Speaker 3: a lot of emotions. But for particularly Christian, right-of-center type
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  Speaker 3: of people, the assassination of Charlie Kirk one year ago
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  Speaker 3: today is a very painful, powerful memory. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a guy who died doing what he loved, which is
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  Speaker 3: basically going into the belly of the beast, college campuses,
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  Speaker 3: and just stating truth, but doing it in a loving manner.
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk really was not a very– he didn't really
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  Speaker 3: try to get in your face. He didn't try to
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  Speaker 3: own you. He didn't try to get the lib tears.
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  Speaker 3: He just wanted you to know the truth about Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted you to know the truth about just reality.
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  Speaker 3: He was always trying to point you back to just
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  Speaker 3: look at the facts on the ground. Here's what reality
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  Speaker 3: looks like, guys. Genuine conversation. Yeah. And if you go back,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he's, it's sad to say, but I
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  Speaker 3: think he's had more impact since his death than he
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  Speaker 3: did in life. But he would so often just be
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  Speaker 3: confronted with, nope. don't care, don't care, don't care. But
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  Speaker 3: he never got, the thing that was inspiring about Charles,
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  Speaker 3: there's many things that were inspiring, but he never got
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  Speaker 3: tired of it. He never said, you know what? These
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  Speaker 3: people are a lost cause. He just kept, he had
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  Speaker 3: a passion to try to help particularly the youth or I,
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  Speaker 3: do we call them the youth? I guess 18 to 22,
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  Speaker 3: 23 year olds. I guess that's the youth younger than us,
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  Speaker 3: younger than us, but But, you know, the people who
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  Speaker 3: were still in their developmental years, and obviously you're in
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  Speaker 3: your developmental years if you're on a college campus, because
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  Speaker 3: we hear the stories so often of people who go
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  Speaker 3: into college one way, and then they're exposed to four
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  Speaker 3: years of radical whatever, socialism or Islam, whatever it is
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  Speaker 3: that they're getting there. And then they come out completely
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  Speaker 3: different four years later.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: He truly believed that he could make a difference. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I, for one, think that he did. I
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  Speaker 3: think that there's a generation of young, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: want to say conservatives, but people who just don't believe
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  Speaker 3: the narrative. They're not buying into the groupthink, which is
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  Speaker 3: so easy to do. That's just the river of culture.
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  Speaker 3: You just jump into that river of culture and it
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  Speaker 3: just takes you wherever it wants to take you. And
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  Speaker 3: you're just along for the ride. And so many people
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  Speaker 3: get caught up in that, and it's heartbreaking when they're
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  Speaker 3: confronted with reality. Men can't get pregnant. That's just a–
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  Speaker 3: that's not a hateful statement. The guy who allegedly– we
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  Speaker 3: always have to use that term– allegedly killed him said
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  Speaker 3: he– what did he say? Something about his hate rhetoric
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  Speaker 3: had gone too far. And I guess because this man
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  Speaker 3: was in love with another man who is also pretending
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  Speaker 3: to be a, not even pretending to be a female,
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  Speaker 3: pretending to be an animal?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: And you point that out, that that is not part
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  Speaker 3: of the God's design for your life. It's not for
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  Speaker 3: you to morph into an animal.
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  Speaker 4: Not even in James Tallarico's world. I don't even think
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  Speaker 4: that's included in his six sexes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the six gender. To be a furry. One of
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  Speaker 3: them is not to become a fox.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico, maybe you're too exclusive. You need to be more inclusive.
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  Speaker 3: We need to have a bigger tent for Tallarico. So, again,
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  Speaker 3: if you're remembering Charlie Kirk today, I'm there with you.
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  Speaker 3: And I will be, I know how I work. And
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  Speaker 3: one of the things I'll be doing throughout the day
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  Speaker 3: is I will just be scrolling through some Charlie Kirk videos,
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  Speaker 3: those best of moments. And I put up one this
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  Speaker 3: morning on my ex account where he was talking to
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  Speaker 3: a father and a son. The father was at the
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  Speaker 3: college campus with his son and his son had become a,
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  Speaker 3: we'll call a right winger, a Charlie Kirk follower or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: The father was a complete left, left winger and Charlie
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  Speaker 3: Kirk was trying to mend their relationship. And he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to tell his son because his son was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I started off believing like my father. And then I
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  Speaker 3: did my own research and I found out my, that
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  Speaker 3: he's doesn't understand the realities and blah, blah, blah. And
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  Speaker 3: he was like, but you still got to honor your father,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and, and this relationship, look at where your
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  Speaker 3: father's coming from. He believes that the government is, can
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  Speaker 3: be and often is a force for good. That's his
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  Speaker 3: belief system. Now, you've seen the reality of what the
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  Speaker 3: government's done, and so you no longer align with him,
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  Speaker 3: but don't diminish his heart. His heart is in the
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  Speaker 3: right place. And it was just beautiful to see him
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  Speaker 3: try to bring these two men back together. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things I'm looking forward to tonight, as
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  Speaker 4: much as anything, including Trump and Vance at the Republican
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  Speaker 4: Midterm Convention— They're doing a tribute to Charlie Kirk between
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  Speaker 4: 6 and 7 tonight in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Is that Eastern time or Central time?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's Eastern time.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so between 6 and 7 tonight. Thank you, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: for bringing that to our attention. I'm sure that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be very powerful. If you've got thoughts on Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you've got thoughts. We'll have to get into the $ 5, 000
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  Speaker 3: promise and all this other stuff this morning. A lot
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  Speaker 3: to get to this morning. This is South Carolina's Morning
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  Speaker 3: News at 6.09.
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  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Kelly Nash. Christopher Thompson with us. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for starting your day with us. I saw a
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  Speaker 3: report was released yesterday in South Carolina. We have it
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  Speaker 3: called Youth Behind the Fence. This is from the American
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  Speaker 3: Civil Liberties Union. And they want you to know that
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  Speaker 3: in South Carolina, a disproportionate number of black children are
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  Speaker 3: being referred to the juvenile justice system. This is not fair,
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  Speaker 3: they say. They want you to know that since 2024,
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  Speaker 3: black children in South Carolina made up 60% roughly of
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  Speaker 3: the children being referred to the juvenile justice system, while
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  Speaker 3: white children only made up 32%. And obviously in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: the majority of people here are white. It's about 61%.
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  Speaker 3: It's about 25% are black. So it's a disproportionate number.
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  Speaker 3: And so because of that, that's all they need, those
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  Speaker 3: raw data numbers. And now they can declare South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: is racist. And that's what they're running with. You hate
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  Speaker 3: black kids, and that's why you refer them to the
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  Speaker 3: juvenile justice system. I would like to see, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if anyone's ever done this study, Just off
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  Speaker 3: the top of my head, even amongst the white kids
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  Speaker 3: or the Latinos, we have about 8.5% Latino in our state.
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  Speaker 3: We have about 2% Asians. We have 1% or so
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  Speaker 3: of what they would call Native Americans living in our state.
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  Speaker 3: Amongst the people who get referred to the juvenile justice system,
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  Speaker 3: what is the percentage of them that come from single-parent
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  Speaker 3: family homes? That, to me, would be a much more
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  Speaker 3: powerful insight.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not even sure I like the words referred to.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it almost sounds like you're being suggest, Hey, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: let's nominate you to go into the juvenile justice system.
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  Speaker 4: That's not the way it works. You're usually arrested or
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  Speaker 4: being punished for something. You're not being referred to.
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  Speaker 3: Good point, Christopher. They do continue to try to mess
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  Speaker 3: with the language to redefine things. But the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: ultimately the, The people who end up in a life
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  Speaker 3: of crime and or prison for long extended periods of
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  Speaker 3: time most often do not have a two family. They
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  Speaker 3: don't have a nuclear family to grow up in. And
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  Speaker 3: I will point yet again to the 1960s and one
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  Speaker 3: Lyndon Johnson who put in place something called the man
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  Speaker 3: in the house rule. And if you go back and
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  Speaker 3: look at the man in the house rule, the main,
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  Speaker 3: the only purpose of that rule was if there is
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  Speaker 3: a man living in the house, you cannot get welfare benefits.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get them. And what, and who are they targeting?
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  Speaker 3: Black families. They, they, they went and publicized it specifically
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  Speaker 3: in those communities and Ladies, the best thing you can
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  Speaker 3: do is not get married and don't allow a man
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  Speaker 3: to live here. That's who they targeted. And that broke
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  Speaker 3: up black families and obviously some lower income white families.
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  Speaker 3: but they were publicizing it in the inner cities. That's
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  Speaker 3: where they've targeted. The whole goal of the Johnson administration
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  Speaker 3: was to, I'll say, undermine the civil rights movement. They
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  Speaker 3: went along to get along. They didn't like it. JFK
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  Speaker 3: was going along to get along. They didn't like it,
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  Speaker 3: but they did it. And then they said, how can
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  Speaker 3: we make sure that the blacks can never, never aspire
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  Speaker 3: to the American dream? Just remove the dad. They're still
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  Speaker 3: going to make babies. By the way, we'll also not
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  Speaker 3: forget Margaret Sanger using this whole idea of abortion. And
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  Speaker 3: it's in the records. You can go see where she
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  Speaker 3: was paying black pastors to promote abortion. That's an unbelievable development.
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  Speaker 3: And then you can see how the rates of abortion
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  Speaker 3: in the black community, specifically inside the inner cities, skyrocketed
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  Speaker 3: because of her efforts. Great job, Margaret Sanger. Let's see
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  Speaker 3: if we can get them to genocide themselves. That was
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  Speaker 3: the goal. And if you look at the population in America,
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  Speaker 3: what is about 12 percent today? Same thing. It was
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  Speaker 3: not even it's actually lower today than it was 40,
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  Speaker 3: 50 years ago. That's their efforts. That's the left's efforts.
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  Speaker 3: And people should be reminded of that. They need to
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  Speaker 3: be reminded of that. And when you look at these
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  Speaker 3: stupid reports like the ACLU puts out here, what are
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  Speaker 3: they called again? Youth Behind the Fence. This is a total,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to even say it's a waste of
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  Speaker 3: money because it serves their purposes. They're trying to promote
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  Speaker 3: white guilt. They're trying to promote the fact that, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, maybe you shouldn't quote unquote, refer them
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  Speaker 3: as you say to the juvenile justice system, just because
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  Speaker 3: they committed a crime. Did you consider the fact that
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  Speaker 3: they're black? Maybe let them slide on that one. This is,
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  Speaker 3: this is stupid. It's horrible. I hope nobody buys into
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  Speaker 3: this stuff, but this is, Let's find out again how
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  Speaker 3: many dads are in these kids' lives. How many dads
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  Speaker 3: are around? How many of them have a mom and
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  Speaker 3: a dad to help raise them? Because it's a completely
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  Speaker 3: different outcome usually if you've got both parents as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to just one.
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  Speaker 4: And this whole racist narrative that continues to flow through
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  Speaker 4: the South, whenever the ACLU or a left-leaning organization needs
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  Speaker 4: something to criticize the state about, oh, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 4: they're in the South? Oh, yeah, we'll just play the
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  Speaker 4: race card. That's the easy one. It's... It's tired.
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  Speaker 3: Jace Woodrum, the executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina, says, quote,
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  Speaker 3: the vulnerable youth are suffering through a crisis in the
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, and our state owes
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  Speaker 3: them a chance at real healing and rehabilitation. Jace, I
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  Speaker 3: would imagine, would be akin to, I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: he is a DSA member or would sign up for that,
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  Speaker 3: But that would be, this is the kind of statement
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  Speaker 3: that a Democrat socialist would make, that it's impossible for
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  Speaker 3: the parents to actually raise the children, that the state
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  Speaker 3: should raise all children, that that way everybody has an
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  Speaker 3: equal shot at the American dream. We're all going to
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  Speaker 3: be raised by the state, that they're going to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that we all eat the same food and we
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  Speaker 3: all get the same education and we all have the
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  Speaker 3: same clothes. We'll all dress the same. There'll be nobody having,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Air Jordans while somebody has to wear the
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  Speaker 3: old you know, converse chucks.
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  Speaker 5: And there are no fences.
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  Speaker 3: Goodness gracious. Well, they're selling their socialist dreams as best
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  Speaker 3: they can to us. I'm not buying it. Maybe you are.
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  Speaker 3: Let me know on the talkback feature. It's the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: 621 now.
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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 3: I'm seeing a headline in the state newspaper.
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  Speaker 5: This is exciting.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina has one of the best festivals for staying
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  Speaker 3: healthy in the United States, according to Eating Well magazine.
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  Speaker 3: In case you're wondering, it's called Fall for Greenville. And
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  Speaker 3: I've been to that in the past, and it is
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  Speaker 3: a good time, and there's a lot of great food
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  Speaker 3: in the upstate during that festival. And because it's outdoors
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  Speaker 3: and there's a lot of other activities, there's a 5K
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  Speaker 3: and other things associated with that. That is an awesome event.
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  Speaker 3: And as we learned earlier this week, Christopher, according to socialism,
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  Speaker 3: that is a fascist event. Because remember, if you're healthy,
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  Speaker 3: you're a fascist.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 8: So, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling very fascisty. I think I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to eat some awesome food and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to try to stay healthy. They lay it out,
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  Speaker 3: all of the... The incredible stuff that you can eat,
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  Speaker 3: like the shrimp and grits. I'm getting hungry just reading
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  Speaker 3: this stuff. When is that this year? Does it have
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  Speaker 3: the date? They have the date of the Fall for Greenville.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just click this link and see if possibly
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  Speaker 3: that brings it up. Fallforgreenville.net, October 9th through the 11th.
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  Speaker 3: Do we have any football games that day? I'm guessing
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  Speaker 3: Clemson is away on that day. Otherwise, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they would schedule it with a Clemson home game, would they?
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  Speaker 3: Would they actually go head to head with the Tigers
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  Speaker 3: and Greenville?
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  Speaker 5: Probably not. So looking up their football schedule now, but
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  Speaker 5: how about us?
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing on October?
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  Speaker 5: Gamecocks are away at Florida.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. So you go up to the upstate,
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  Speaker 3: you have a great day, probably walk into some sort
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  Speaker 3: of sports bar, watch the game on TV.
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  Speaker 5: Clemson does have an open date that weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go. So everybody will be in Greenville,
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  Speaker 3: October 9th through the 11th. So let's hope it truly
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  Speaker 3: feels like fall by then. I know that's, You know,
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  Speaker 3: I always say it's the second week of the state fair,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't know that we're going to be into
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  Speaker 3: that yet. I think it's, for whatever reason, I've lived
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  Speaker 3: in South Carolina since 2003, and for me, the second
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  Speaker 3: week of the state fair, the first week I'm sweating
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  Speaker 3: like a pig at night, and then the second week
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  Speaker 3: I'm going, okay, now I can wear a sweatshirt here.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how it works out that way, but...
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  Speaker 3: Either way.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So let's go. Let's go get fascist together, everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: eat well and be healthy. It is now 629 live from.
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  Speaker 1: The state capitol. This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there. This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm always encouraging you to the talkback feature. I love
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  Speaker 3: it when you put your voice out here and let
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  Speaker 3: us hear what your thoughts are. And it's as easy
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  Speaker 3: as just pushing the microphone on the iHeartRadio app. I
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  Speaker 3: also have heard from numbers of you that you're not
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  Speaker 3: allowed to do that. For whatever reason, you're at work.
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  Speaker 3: You can't engage with us that way. So some people
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  Speaker 3: use social media, and I appreciate that as well. I'm
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  Speaker 3: at Kelly Nash Radio. I just went to check. I
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  Speaker 3: did a morning podcast, and I was just checking to
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  Speaker 3: see if it was up on my Facebook page, and
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  Speaker 3: I saw a nice little note here. I've never heard
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  Speaker 3: of the name Den as a first name, but Den
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  Speaker 3: is listening to us at WSC Charleston. Good morning, Den.
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  Speaker 3: He says, I'm a nutmegger like you. For those of
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  Speaker 3: you who don't know, nutmeggers are people from Connecticut. Nutmegger
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  Speaker 3: like you, retired Connecticut law enforcement officer, been living here
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  Speaker 3: for 20 years now. I've been here over 20 years,
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  Speaker 3: and I love it. I'd never go back, ever go
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  Speaker 3: back to the tri-state region, unless somehow there was some
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  Speaker 3: sort of Republican party wave that took over new england
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  Speaker 3: and new york new jersey and all.
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  Speaker 5: That sort of stuff but not likely.
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  Speaker 3: Not expecting that anytime not not in this lifetime i'm
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  Speaker 3: not expecting that so for that i will be staying
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  Speaker 3: here in the freedom loving state of south carolina where
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  Speaker 3: last night not just south carolina but a lot of
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  Speaker 3: americans were watching are we calling it trumpalooza now at
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  Speaker 3: trumpalooza that seems to be like the unofficial nickname of
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  Speaker 3: what happened last night yes And the moment that everybody
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  Speaker 3: will be talking about today is this.
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  Speaker 8: Only I can make this promise to you.
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  Speaker 3: And here is my promise.
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  Speaker 8: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
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  Speaker 8: United States Senate, both of them, because of our tremendous strength.
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  Speaker 3: And success economically.
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  Speaker 8: I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in
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  Speaker 8: the United States of America for $ 5, 000.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Let's, let's hope this is kind of like his tariffs discussions,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: which usually start really high and they're used as a
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: negotiating point. Maybe he's negotiating a Republican victory and he,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: won't follow through with this.
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  Speaker 5: Let's hope not.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Um, all right. So again, this, this is, this is
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: one of those distinct differences between a populist and a conservative. So, uh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to try to clean it up for
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: him a little bit, Christopher, because if, if he actually
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: means what he said, that every adult in America would
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: get a check for $ 5, 000, uh, we're talking about like $ 1. 3 trillion, uh,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And there's no possible way that we could put $ 1. 3
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: trillion immediately into the economy and not watch inflation go
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to like 20%. It would be devastating to America if
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: that happened. So as I try to attempt to clean
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: that up... And I started thinking, all right, all right,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I understand. The goal here is if you're in the
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: booth and you're thinking, should I vote Republican or Democrat?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: And you're one of those people who think that they're
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: both kind of similar. You've got this idea. Well, you
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: know what? Trump says if they win both the House
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: and the Senate, I get $ 5, 000. Is it worth it
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: for me to vote Republican for five grand? And a
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: lot of people would pull that lever. And then does
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: it mean every taxpayer?
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And understanding that a lot of Americans filed joint tax returns, okay,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: we can diminish the number of checks going out at
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: that point. Then I'm also going to throw in, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the poor ain't going to like this, but I'm going
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: to say that if you don't pay into the system,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: if you're not paying any federal income tax, which is
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: about 50% of people, then you're not going to get
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: a check either. So then I'm also going to, because J.D.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Vance said something about, of course, we'd have to means
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: test it. Now, I don't know how far that would go.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I'm going minimal on that one. And I'm just saying
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the top 1%, the people who pay the top tax rate, 38.4%
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: is the top tax rate. That means you make roughly $ 675, 000
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: in your household or more. That's the millionaires and the billionaires.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: We hate them. We hate them all. All right. That
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: they're not going to get the $ 5, 000. Okay. So if
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I remove all of those people, and I'm just talking
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: returns now, we're still looking at roughly $ 350 million, excuse me,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: billion dollars going out?
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: No. No.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Christopher has already vetoed it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: And when Donald Trump says, I'm the only one who
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: can promise that, sometimes I get caught up in stupid
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: debates online. I don't know why. I'm trying to be
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: better about that where I don't get involved with these
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: things where people are trying to bait me and get
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: into things. Sometimes I mistake it for a legitimate question
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and then I engage and then I get stuck down
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: this rabbit hole. But do I criticize Donald Trump? Of
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: course I do. And one of the things that somebody
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: was pointing about you know, and brought it up is,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: you know, Trump promised that he was going to lower
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the deficit. And I made the point that you can't,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: as a presidential nominee, you can't actually make that promise
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: because only Congress is supposed to control the purse strings.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: So even if you were to grow the economy, you
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: don't have a guarantee as to what Congress is going
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: to do on spending. So that's not in your purview.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: You don't have that ability. You can suggest policies that
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: are going to lower spending and increased profits you can
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: do all those types of things but you can't guarantee
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: that so donald trump is not in a position to
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: guarantee he's gonna write a check for five thousand dollars
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: unless it's coming out of his own money i mean
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: if he was doing that i don't even think trump
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: could cover that though i don't think he has 1.3
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: billion of expendable cash no so never mind trillion what
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: am i talking about 1.3 trillion dollars i know donald
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: trump doesn't have that Um, so this is one of
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: those things though, that people will bat around today. Um,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: how do you feel about it? Do you, do you
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: think that this is a good midterm messaging idea that
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: will actually help the Republicans win some votes, even if
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: they can't deliver on that, even if it ultimately is
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: not going to get passed by Congress and he can't
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: executive order that thing in. Do you like the idea
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: of just making the promise? Or are you on the
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: side of, gosh, that's a dangerous precedent to set because
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: now you're in a bidding war with the socialists. The
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: socialists are going to promise you nothing. You owe nothing.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You don't owe any income tax. How's that sound?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not going to necessarily send you a check,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: but they cover the costs of living.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just going to tax the billionaires. Yep. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: then everything is free for everybody else. Medicine, phones. Everybody
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: gets a free cable subscription. Everybody gets free cars, houses.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: It's all covered under the Democrat plan. There's no way
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: you're going to win in a bidding war with the Democrats,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: in my opinion. But maybe you feel differently. That's why
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: we have the Talkback feature. Or, like I said, you
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: can get at me on social media at Kelly Nash Radio.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: All right. We're running a bit behind. It is 642.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: We're talking about the Trumpapalooza, as people were referring to
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: it last night. And yes, Donald Trump, of course, steals
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: the show. But I would say another moment that people
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: were talking about from last night. Has to do with
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: our own Senator Tim Scott, who was quite animated.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Stand for the president, Donald J.
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: Trump.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: This is a battle for the heart of our nation.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: I said the heart of our nation. The Democrats, extreme candidates,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: won't rip that heart out of our chest. They hate
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: our culture. They hate what it means to be American.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Hear me, Dallas.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to get the Democrats at WrestleMania 28.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: He was fired up. So congratulations, Tim Scott, man. You
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: are going viral this morning.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: And our deepest sympathies going out to the Charleston County
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Police officers, sheriff's officers say that they have not named
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: the officer, but apparently one died yesterday in a crash
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: on Latsin Road. And, I mean, you know, it doesn't
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: matter how you die. It matters that they were serving
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the community. And so everybody's in mourning over that. If
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: we get the name, I have not seen the name
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: released yet on ABC News 4 or other outlets count
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: on to. But I'm sure that's the next of kin
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: thing that they have to go through. But deepest, deepest
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: sympathies to the community. All right. We'll be back with
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: more in just a minute. It is South Carolina's morning
• 25:20
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• 25:21
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• 25:27
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• 25:36
  Speaker 3: As I've mentioned many times, I moved to South Carolina
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: to escape. New York City is where I was living
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: last in 2003. Moved to Charleston in the summer of
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: 2003 to escape tyrannical government. Also unions, to be honest
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: with you. As a radio personality, in order to work
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: in New York radio, you had to join the union.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And for anybody who's never been exposed to this type of.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, it is tyrannical when you get involved in
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: certain unions what you can and cannot do and how
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: much of your money has to go back to the union.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: And if you want to work there, if it's a
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: union shop, if you're a mechanic, if you're a taxi driver,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: if you're a whatever, you got to pay your dues.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: And don't get on the wrong side of the union.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Don't ever do that. And so as somebody who loves freedom,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: South Carolina came natural to me. That's why I wanted
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: to live in South Carolina. So I've been here for
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: many years, but yesterday... Christopher, I don't know if you
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: saw this story, Kathy Hochul signed what's called the Union
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Protection Law. Now, who does the union need protection from? Yeah,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I know union members who need protection
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: from the union, but who is the union need protection from? Well,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: apparently this is aimed at a group called the Freedom Foundation.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: This is a group of people, I guess a lot
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: like myself, people who were stuck in union jobs for
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: a while. And they didn't want to be in unions.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: And legally, if you're in a union, you can opt
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: out of paying your union dues. Now, that was a
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: 2018 Supreme Court ruling. That wasn't in existence when I
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: was up there. But for a lot of people, that
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: is breaking news, that they've never heard that, that you're
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: telling me if I don't agree with the union, I
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: don't have to be a member of the union. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: so they've been seeing in New York, particularly, a lot
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: of union members saying, I don't want to pay union
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: dues anymore. I'm out. I'm tapping out. So they have
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: been having a lot of effect. So here comes the
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: state of New York with the attorney general and all
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the big libs. And they create a law that says
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: it is illegal for you to tell people that. If
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: you tell people, if you send a mailer to somebody's
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: house that says, did you know that under federal law
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: you don't have to pay your union dues? You're in trouble.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Don't spread the truth. Spread the narrative. The narrative is
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: everybody has to be in the union. And by the way,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: the narrative would also say that the union is doing
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: you a great service by protecting your jobs and all
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: those sorts of things.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: So instead of strong-arming you to pay your union dues,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: you're literally not allowed to tell people they can't be
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: strong-armed to pay their union dues.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Now, the Freedom Foundation says that this is– This is
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: very similar to what happened in Oregon. I don't remember
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the case in Oregon, but apparently Oregon passed a law
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: that was similar, where you couldn't spread the good news
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: that unions don't have that control over you anymore, thanks
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: to a 2018 Supreme Court ruling, and you can get
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: out of it. And they said that they won that law,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: or they beat Oregon, and they're willing to go all
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: the way to the Supreme Court again. To fight New York.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Sounds like a violation of First Amendment rights right off
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the bat.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Well, what they're saying is, if I'm going to take
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: the Libs position, which I hate doing, but I'm willing
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: to sometimes argue both sides of an issue, they will
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: say that the direct mail pieces and the TV ads
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: or whatever that they're running make it appear to somebody
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: that this is the union telling you that you don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: have to be in the union. And they're saying that's deceptive.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: And so that's what they're saying that the law is about.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: But in reality, it's about you don't let the union
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: members know that they can get out. It's like telling
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the people in East Berlin, you could go to West Berlin.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Don't let them know that. Once they get off that
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: plantation there, they don't like it. Nobody wants to go
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: back to the unions. Nobody. If you've been exposed to
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: union labor, I shouldn't say nobody. Obviously, there are literally
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: millions of Americans across the country who think that the
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: union is serving their needs. And I would point out
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: that they're not because you are making, in essence, less
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: money after you pay your union dues than you would
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: be if you just negotiated a contract on your own.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Your company would be in a stronger position because the
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: overhead would be less. There'd be more profits. I mean,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: the union served a great purpose in the 1910s, 20s, 30s, 40s.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: There was a time You know, I remember what was it?
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. If you like your weekend, you better. Okay. Yes,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: they did create the weekends. The unions were all about that,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: but like anything in America, or I guess in the world,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: at some point, something that started off as good can
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: become bad. And we, we started seeing that as early
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: as the 1960s with the mobs starting to take over
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: the unions and recognizing that the power that they had
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: over large swaths of the economy. And, uh, Anybody remember
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Jimmy Hoffa?
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Goodness gracious. So anyway, that is a very interesting development
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: out of New York that for every direct mail piece
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: that you send, it's $ 1, 000 per violation. So you're going
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: to have to chill on your direct mailers.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: $ 1, 000 per violation.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I'd simply send another one just with the Supreme Court
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: ruling printed on it and then say, here's what this
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: means to you.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Do I even have to say it? The Supreme Court
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: in 2018 ruled that you can opt out of paying
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: union dues.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: Boom.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: There you go. This paid for by non-union members.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: So it doesn't make it look like we're impersonating anybody.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: This is non-union members paid for by the Freedom Foundation. Anyway,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: good luck to those guys and gals up there at
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: the Freedom Foundation as they try to liberate people in
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: the New York area. We're very free and breezy and
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: easy here in South Carolina and enjoying our day. I
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: hope you are. Let us know what's going on in
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: your world on the Talkback feature. It is 7.09.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: All right, 7.14, and last night I was not able
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: to watch all of the, I didn't even get to
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: see all the highlights of the big GOP midterm convention.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: But Christopher, you said you found a pretty good clip.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: It was, if you've watched Democrats these days, you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: they always start any speech with a, well, we just
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: want to acknowledge we're on stolen land here. We apologize
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: for taking this land away, but here we are nonetheless
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: speaking to you on stolen land. Well, Congressman Brandon Gill
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: of Texas gave the first speech of last night's session,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: the six o'clock session and he had a tongue-in-cheek reference
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: to the Democrats.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I think it's only appropriate that we kick this convention
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: off properly with a land acknowledgement. I'd like to acknowledge
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: that we stand here today in the great state of
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Texas and the United States of America The ancestral homeland
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: of great American patriots, pioneers, and explorers who put down roots,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: fought for freedom all over the globe, and bled and
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: died to build the greatest civilization ever known to man.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Hear, hear!
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: So that's Brandon Gill with his tongue-in-cheek reference to the
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Democrats' land acknowledgment before they make any speech.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, we were talking about that last week with
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: the Clemson document, you know, the thing that went out
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: with the land acknowledgment, the Clemsons on stolen land or whatever.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And I always, you know, two thoughts that I had
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: was on these land acknowledgments. Does it make the people
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: feel any better? In other words, like if I was,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: if I robbed some lady's purse, But I acknowledged I
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: was using her credit card. Does it make her feel better? Also,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: should everybody acknowledge what land they've stolen? Like, for example,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: do the people of Turkey acknowledge that they are on
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: the stolen land of the Hittites? Do the people of
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Jordan acknowledge that they are on the stolen land of
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: the Edomites? I mean, we can go through history. There
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: is no people group today that 5,000, 10,000 years ago,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: that was their land. Everybody, even the Native Americans, the
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: beloved Native Americans, according to most historians, most of them
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: came down from Alaska. And some of them would say
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: that they even came from Russia, that they just kind
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: of when Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: that was actually connected for a while. I mean, there's
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: all kinds of speculation as to who came from where.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: But ultimately. The way civilization has worked for thousands of
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: years is if there is a battle and somebody wins,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: that's their country. That's their property now. And I would
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: say that the United States, I'm sure there must be
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: somebody else, but I'm the only one I'm aware of
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: that's actually won wars and said, you keep your property.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: And matter of fact, we'll help you rebuild it. We'll
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: pay for it.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, the United States has been the most gracious
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: nation on earth as it has accumulated over The most
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: power on earth. And the world is so– I know
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: most people on the planet are thankful for the United
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: States because in a typical empirical environment, the Roman Empire
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: was not known for being nice and gracious to the
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: people that they took over. Yeah. They weren't– I went
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: to– years ago, I went to England. And I took
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: a tour of some of the ancient baths and things
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: of that nature. And they were explaining how the Romans
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: would make the English, not only did they enslave them,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but for the baths, in order to make them warm,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: they had to crawl under like an eight-inch type of
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: thing and go in there and get the coals and
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: put the coals in there or whatever. And they said
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: that usually they would lose about five to ten a
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: day would die doing that. You know, are we still
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: attacking the Romans over their enslavement of the English?
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: No.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, that is a historical fact, but it doesn't
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: change where we are in life right now. So good
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: for Brandon Gill for being ironic. I love that. It
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: is the land of the patriots, as is South Carolina,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: by God. This is where freedom was born in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it is 719.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: You know, last night, Trumpapalooza is the unofficial name of
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: what went down. And Donald Trump talking, you know, about Iran.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: That is the hot topic for a lot of Americans
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: because when you look at affordability and stuff, a lot
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: of people point specifically to oil prices going back up
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: yesterday over $ 100 a barrel. And as everybody can equate
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the fact that if there's higher fuel costs, everything gets
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: more expensive, not just for you and your own personal
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: life as far as your fuel bill, but then the
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: groceries get more expensive because it costs more to transport.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Everything gets more expensive. Trump talking about Iran last night.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: If they had a nuclear weapon, I'd be calling the
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: Supreme Leader, and I'd be saying, Mr.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Supreme Leader, how are you, sir? Is there anything we
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: can do for you?
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: As opposed to bombing the crap out of them. We
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: It's very simple. And that's the ultimate bottom line, is that...
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: How do you get out of this is one thing.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: But the first part of it, I think 100%—well, you're
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: never going to get 100%, Christopher. Most Americans, including Democrats,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: would say you can't allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: And they would also say they agreed with the intelligence
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: reporting that showed that the Iranians— ballistic missile system had
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: been built up or was in the process of being
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: built up to a point that it would be such
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: a strong deterrent that no one could actually enforce any
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: nuclear regulations on them.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Well, we know that from the distance they fired ballistic
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: missiles since this conflict started. And that's, I mean, that
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: was why the conflict started, is because Iran was becoming a,
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: or was on its way to becoming a nuclear power,
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: hiding what they were doing, and with the ability to
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: deliver those nuclear missiles a nuclear package at the very
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: least to Europe.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: So you have to just remove the Democrat talking point
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: of it's a war of choice. It was not a
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: war of choice. It was forced by the Iranians.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: If not Trump, then the next president.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Well, when would there be a next president? Yeah, that's
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: a good question. So we'll just agree that most Americans
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: see it that way. Then the question comes, how do
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: you get out of it? And that is the $ 1
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: trillion question now. Or maybe for Donald Trump, it's the $ 5, 000 question.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Vote for us. We'll give you $ 5, 000. I think that
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: the options are still the same. And I'll still say
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: the plausible option is to just walk away from it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: There is that option. Because the Iranians are still going
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: to be in control of the Strait if all it
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: takes is the little Nat Navy that they have. That's
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: what I call them. They're like little Nats. They drive around.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: They drop off little mines. They do things to intimidate tankers.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: And then every now and again, they'll shoot a missile.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: That's all it takes to control the Strait, apparently. So
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: if you just walk away from it and say this
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: is more of a world problem than a U.S. problem,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Because it is more of a world problem than a U.S.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Problem.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: We're not going to run out of oil here. We've
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: got 100 years plus of oil, and that's for every
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: American and room to export. But because it's a global commodity,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: the price goes up because there's demand around the world.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: So that's just what's happening in the United States. It's
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: a lot less than it is in Europe. but if
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: the Europeans would like to step up, they're closer to
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: them than we are. The, if the Gulf nations would
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: like to step up and do something about it, obviously
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: this directly impacts them. Or if even countries like Australia
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: want to get involved, okay, then we'll invite us back
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: and we'll partner with you on that. But we're not
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: doing this anymore by ourselves. That, that is a legitimate
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: option that has not really been discussed because I don't
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: think Trump is willing to take a backseat to anybody. Um,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: But I would like to see that as an option
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: on the table. Again, number one option to me, arm
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the people on the ground. Number two option, take Israel
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: and let them off the chain. The Israelis would be
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: more than happy to go in there and wipe out
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the IRGC. It would be brutal. It would be called
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: a genocide. It would be horrific to see on video.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: But they would do it. I don't think you need
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: any U.S. military, maybe some air support, but that would
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: be about it. Or three, the other option that nobody
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: wants is let the U.S. do it. If the U.S.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: goes in there and starts killing people, it gets ugly because, unfortunately,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: some Americans would die as well. But that's four options.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Pick one and do it. I like the— I mean, I
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: do like the economic fury thing. I think we've put
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: quite a stranglehold on them. But I don't think that
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: most Americans are willing to wait six more months to
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: let this thing play out. We'll see how it goes, though. Trump,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the ball is in your court. It's 729.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: All right, this is one of those stories where I
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: read it and I wonder, does anybody else think like
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I think? Maybe I am just an extremist, Christopher. There
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: is that possibility. I read this story, where is this
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: one located? In Charleston, Charleston, does it count on two
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: that had this story? No, I'm sorry, it's Live 5
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: that has this story in Somerville. The town of Somerville
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: is expanding its accessibility efforts beyond parks and playgrounds, creating
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: a new recreational opportunity designed specifically for people with disabilities.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: The town has recently hired, I think the name is pronounced,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Arkela Olesen, a certified therapeutic recreation specialist. As its first
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: therapeutic programmer, her role is to develop activities that can
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: be adapted to the abilities, needs, and goals of the
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: people taking part. So Look, is any of that bad?
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Of course not. None of this is bad. And I
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: don't think that what we're going to talk about is
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: bad either. It's just a question that pops into my mind.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Because everything in life is about choices. So the question
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: that I have is, and I don't mean this to
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: come across as harsh, but what are we paying for this?
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I've been looking for a budget on this, and I
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: have not found one. The closest I can come to
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: finding a budget is the town budget shows that the
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Parks and Rec Department line rose from $ 3. 7 million in
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: 2026 to $ 4. 3 million in 2027. That's a 14.7% increase.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming that covers her salary, and I would assume
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: whatever new equipment that we need for the park. So
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: is it worth $ 500, 000 to the taxpayers of Somerville to
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: create something that is, I guess... more adaptable to people
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: who have disabilities? If it is, fantastic. If it isn't,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: why are we doing it? Is this incumbent upon the
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: city to do that? Or could it be the role
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: of a local nonprofit? Is this more along the lines
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: of this is where the community rallies together? This is
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: not something that the city government should be working on.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: This is something that Local nonprofits can be doing, local
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: churches can be doing, local advocacy groups can be doing,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: and probably doing a better job. Again, I always point
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: out that usually individuals do a better job than any
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: government can.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: Because they care more.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: They're more invested in what happens in the success of
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: that particular whatever you're spending your money on.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: So I know that that falls on some people's ears
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: as he hates the handicapped. What kind of a monster
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: is he? I have handicapped people in my family. And
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that if they lived in Somerville, they would
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: be very appreciative of what's going on and the efforts
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: of Arkelia Olson. It's a question because this is the
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: things that happen with government. When we talk about shrinking
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: the size of government, Because if you're a conservative, you
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: believe that the less money we spend on government and
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: the less influence that government has, the more freedom there
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: is for the community to develop these things on their own.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: The town can develop that. The people who live there
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: can develop their own things. Now, obviously, a park, that
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: takes government to declare this land is a park, and
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: then they have to have a parks department to keep
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: it clean and things of that nature. But then how
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: far do you go with it? And that's all I'm asking.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: I am asking the question because when you go through
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: every one of the line items on any budget in
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: any government, including the federal government, you will have a
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: group of people saying, if you touch that line, you're
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: hurting this people group, whoever they are. They are the minorities.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: They are the elderly. They are the whatever, whoever it is.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: There's always going to be a heartstring to be tugged at.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: And then... The question that I don't think is asked
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: often enough is, could that be better served by the
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: local people in a charitable form? In other words, when
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: you take roughly from most South Carolinians, when you look
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: at your state income tax, your federal income tax, your
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: sales tax, the gas tax, the taxes upon the taxes
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: upon the taxes, about 60% of your money that you
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: make goes away. So you're left with about 40% of it. okay,
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: so if you have 40% of your money, you can
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: only give so much. But what if you had 60%
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: of your money or 70% of your money? Would you
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: give more? Not everybody would, but I would. I know
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: a lot of people would. And so if you have
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: more money to give, you have an opportunity to invest
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: directly into the causes that you're most passionate about. And
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: to your point, Christopher, you'd do a better job with it.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Probably so.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: And it's also about what we expect for our tax dollars.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think we expect, you know, Police, fire,
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: access to roads, water. You know, sometimes parks, especially specialty parks,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: parks specialized for just a certain segment of the population.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: That should be more private investment than it should be
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: taxpayer dollars.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: And I understand it's only like a half million dollars.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: And that's me guessing that it's a half million dollars
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: just looking at the budget that went from 26 to
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: 27 because it went from 3.7 to 4.3. So, you know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: I get it. It's in the big scheme of things.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Is anybody going to die over a half million dollars
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: on a, out of a city budget? Probably not. But
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: this is how you get bloated budgets is that's all
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. And I would be very fascinated to know
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: if anybody in Somerville is listening. How do you feel
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: about this? Is this something that you've thought about? Am
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: I a cold hearted monster for even bringing it up?
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Talk back feature or, you know, like again, For those
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: of you who can't use the Talkback feature, I'm on
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: social media at Kelly Nash Radio. Food for thought at 741.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Earlier this morning, we were talking about the Charleston County
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Sheriff's Department lost an officer yesterday in the line of duty,
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: and we did not see any official reports with his name.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I want to say thanks to Mike in Somerville, who
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: sent over the Union County Sheriff's Office, posted their sympathies
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: and prayers as well. And they did name him as
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Deputy Michael Hendricks, killed yesterday in the line of duty.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: And so we, again, we join everybody in that mourning process.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: We were talking about Somerville before the break there, Christopher,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: and their park where they've hired a young lady to
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: try to make the parks more accessible and have new
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: things for people who are handicapped, any kinds of disabilities.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: And people are— you brought up another point in the break.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Well, we were talking about— cities or counties or town
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: councils who spend taxpayer dollars. The Columbia Fireflies, which is
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: the baseball team, the minor league baseball team in Columbia,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: a number of years ago got a baseball stadium built.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: The city owns it, but leases it to the Fireflies,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: and now the owner has come back. The city spent $ 30, 000- plus
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: on that stadium. Now it's been there 11 years. And
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: the owners come back and said, we need $ 6 million
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: in upgrades to that stadium. We're willing to help pay
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: off some of the debt, but we want to make
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: sure that hospitality taxes from the city of Columbia pay
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: for these upgrades. And there was pushback for any public
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: dollars to be used for this stadium to begin with. Now, obviously,
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: it's paid off for the Bull Street area, and that
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: area is booming now. But nonetheless, that's always a huge
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: controversial issue. You've got these, from the majors to the minors,
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: owners with fairly deep pockets who... can't seem to spend
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: any of their own money on building or upgrading these stadiums.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Well, and a bigger question is, you know, whether they're
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: rich or not rich, how much does the community want
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: to invest through their government in these types of projects?
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: And that's one of those ballot initiatives that I'd like
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: to see more of and maybe we will, maybe we won't.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: But again, just make you understand that the government can't
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: do everything. Unless you're a socialist, then they're magically able
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: to do it all. We'll be back with more. It
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: is 748.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: Good morning, guys. I lived in Somerville for 23 years
• 50:37
  Speaker 10: before I moved up.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Here to the Midlands.
• 50:41
  Speaker 10: There's a lot of really, really wealthy civic leaders In Somerville,
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: I think it would be a great opportunity for them
• 50:53
  Speaker 10: to maybe team up and do it. I don't know
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: if it needs to come out of the city's budget.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the talk back. I'm not sure of the
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: name or the town, but know you're living in the
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Midlands and listening to us probably on 103.5 or 560
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: AM WVOC. Appreciate that. But no, she's listening on the
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. So she might be listening back to her
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: hometown of Somerville at 94.3 WSC on the iHeartRadio app
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: because she used the Talkback feature. And we were discussing
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: just bringing up the idea that as Somerville announced, I
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: guess yesterday, because I saw it on a couple of
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: different news stories in Charleston, that they're going to, they've
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: hired a young lady to make One of the parks,
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: at least more, what was the word that they were using?
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: Adaptability?
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Adaptability for people with disabilities. So there's like certain things
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: that she would know what things to put in for
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: people in wheelchairs or whatever. Um, and again, not saying
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: that's a bad thing. It's obviously a good thing. The
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: question that I had is knowing that you have a
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: limited amount of money, government always has a limited amount.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Is this the, this, is this a job that the
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: government should be doing in Somerville or should it be
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: a private thing? It sounds like our listener there was thinking, yes,
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: that's better served by the private industry. And again, if
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: you're a conservative like most of us around here, we
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: would like to shrink the budgets and the size of
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: government so that the local community members can do more.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Because when you directly give to something, you have more
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: control over it. And then usually it works out better.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got more skin in the game, so you
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: care more about keeping it up.
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: So that's what we mean when we talk about shrinking
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: government to expand freedom. Okay, we'll be back. Oh, the
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham and Annie Andrews battle, heating up. We'll talk
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: about that and other things as we get into the
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: next hour. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:46
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• 52:52
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• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Hi there.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: My name's Kelly Nash. We've got Christopher Thompson and we've
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: got our eyes on Dr. Annie Andrews and Darlene Graham.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: Now yesterday, I think that this, I'm reading this as
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Fox Carolina, but I believe what they mean to say
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: is gray media because gray media hosted the debates. The
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: ones that I got to be on, they had me
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: record like 87 questions and ran one, but, uh, But anyway,
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: that's neither here nor there. Gray Media in South Carolina
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: does own Fox Carolina, which is in the upstate, but
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: they also own Live 5 down in Charleston, WIS in Columbia,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: and then they've got WMBF out in Myrtle Beach. So
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: they cover the state, Gray Media does, television-wise, and they've
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: made an invitation, apparently, to both the candidates for a debate.
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: Now, Dr.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Annie was salivating at this and is actually launched a
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: campaign called Debate Me Darlene. I think it's debatemedarlene.com where
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: people can sign a petition or something to get her
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: to debate. Abby Zilch, the Darlene Graham campaign, I guess, spokesperson.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: It says, quote, Annie Andrews once led the charge for
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: harmful gender transition procedures on kids. She's also backed letting
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: boys compete in girls' sports and called anyone who posed
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: it shameful. Now she says those things never happened. Annie
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Andrews has been debating herself and losing. Why would we
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: be in any hurry to get in her way? I
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: understand the point. I mean, it's like what do they
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: always say when your opponent's digging a hole?
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Let them keep digging.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: Let them keep digging.
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: But I do believe you have to debate her and
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: you can't let her make you avoiding the debate an
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: actual campaign issue. And I think that the overwhelming majority
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: of voters, not just Republicans, even Democrats, most Democrats in
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, maybe it's not true in like Oregon, but
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: most of the Democrats in South Carolina, literally all they
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: want is normalcy. That's what their goal is. And Darlene,
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: she won that because I think for a lot of
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: the people, they wanted normalcy. They thought that Ralph was
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: too extreme and that that's why they wanted Darlene Graham.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Some people would cast her as a political outsider and
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: all these other things. But I think overall, they just
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: felt like she's not going to do anything too radical.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: She's not going to disrupt the apple cart too much.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: It'll just keep moving in that direction. That's literally all
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: you have to do on the debate stage. You don't
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: have to win the debate. Debating is a unique skill
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: set that a lot of people don't have, including some
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: successful politicians. George W. Bush, I think, lost every single
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: debate he was in and won the presidency twice, right?
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's other famous examples of people
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: having bad debates, whether it's, you know, Ronald Reagan's first
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: debate in 84 was a disaster. It looked like he
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: was going to fall asleep on the stage. bad debate
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: performance or inability to debate like W and still go
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: on because it's your ideas. What are your principles? You
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: have to put them out there. And I would start
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: off the first couple of answers. Socialist says what? I'm
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: just kidding. I wouldn't do that.
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: Well, they're not even really debates anymore.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: Unless you get to the rebuttal stage and the candidates
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: truly start going back and forth, you're essentially just doing
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: an interview. Where you get to answer a question, then
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: your opponent gets to answer a question. The classic debate,
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: that's gone by the wayside. These are just simply, you know,
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: you get a chance to put your platform out there
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: and maybe you'll get a question or two that causes
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: you to think a little bit, but you probably already
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: have a pat answer for all of those questions.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that the Graham campaign has an answer about Taiwan.
• 57:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: I am positive about that. Let's hope they do by now.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: And I'd love to see that answer rolled out on
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: a live television screen. Again, I am all in on
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Team Graham. I've mentioned this several times. I did not
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: vote for Darlene in the primary. And I tried to
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: make that not too obvious as we were leading into it.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: But I'm always going to be Team GOP. always never
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: going to be team Democrat. And one thing I always
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: talk about is a vote for even the most moderate
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: of Democrat. It doesn't matter what they think. It matters
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: what their party thinks. And in this type of environment
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: where a couple of Senate seats go this way or
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: a couple of House seats go that way, it changes everything.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: And all the committees change and whoever becomes the head
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: of them. If you want to get a senator elected,
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders running the committees, if you want to get
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Elizabeth Warren running the committees, these are the people that
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: would be, when you vote for, or even if you
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: don't vote for Darlene Graham, if you just don't vote,
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: if you just sit it out, you are helping to
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: empower Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the most radical amongst them.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: They're the ones who are going to take over those committees.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: And so That's dangerous stuff. So it's not even about
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: Annie at this point. It's really about her party and
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: the fact that she chooses to be a Democrat. And
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: then she did say, by the way, that we're a
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: big tent party. There is room for the socialists. OK,
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: that's that's radical. Again, when people are talking about normalcy.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: What she's talking about is radical and everybody recognizes that. Now,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: she says it in a nice, wholesome fashion and her
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: commercials are very slick and make you think she's just
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: a mom and a doctor who wants to do the best.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: But that is going to be exposed or is in
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: the process of being exposed. But I desperately think that
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Darlene's got to get on a stage with her. What
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: do you think? Let us know on the Talk Back feature.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break now. It's 8.09.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: From the midlands to the low country, this is South
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: I see that the president has offered me $ 5, 000 to.
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: Buy my vote. We can do that. My vote is
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: for sale, but I don't need the money up front
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: because I just don't trust him.
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: Hi, this is Jennifer from Forest Acres. I agree with you.
• 59:30
  Speaker 9: We need to limit the federal government as much as possible.
• 59:34
  Speaker 9: That's why I was so disappointed to hear Trump last
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: night at the convention talking about giving away that $ 5, 000
• 59:42
  Speaker 9: instead of, say, a tax break. So, also, good job
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: on Jesse Kelly.
• 59:50
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Jennifer, from Forest Acres. Certainly appreciate you listening.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: And it was a big thrill for me last night
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: to fill in for the world famous, as he always says,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Jesse Kelly show. That was a great time last night.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: And again, a great time at Trumpapalooza for a lot
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: of people. A lot of Americans excited, apparently, about the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: idea that in case you missed the Trump promise. I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: know I have the audio of it. Here we go.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: Let me get that up for us.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: Only I can make this promise to you.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: And here is my promise.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: United States Senate, both of them, because of our tremendous
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: every adult citizen in the United States of America for $ 5, 000.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: And as I did the back-of-the-envelope math and counted how
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: many people in America are over 18 and blah, blah, blah,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: it's about $ 1. 3 trillion that he's talking about there. I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: don't think that that's what he meant. I hope that's
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: not what he meant. That would destroy the economy, as
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: we saw from the Inflation Reduction Act, what that did,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: which was a smaller number than that. Look, at the
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: end of the day, I think Trump knows. This is
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: one of those things that's kind of like, remember when
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Obama was in office and we had a bunch of
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: Republicans after Obamacare was passed. And I mean, I don't
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: remember how many times it was. It was like 25
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: times that the House held votes to, we're going to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: replace Obamacare. We're going to repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: And they voted it and they voted it and they
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: did it and they did it and they did it
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: and they did it. And then Trump got into office
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: and they had the Senate. Nobody brought it up. Oh,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: wait a minute. It would actually happen this time? If
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: it happens, then now I don't know what we would do.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: So we have to just not have that vote anymore.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: What that tells me is Donald Trump doesn't think that
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: they're going to hold both. I still think that they're
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: going to win the Senate. I don't think that they're
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: going to win the House. Although, I mean, it's not
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: out of the realm of possibility. And, of course, he
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: doesn't have the authority to send out $ 1. 3 trillion. He
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: would have to get it passed by Congress, and he
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: probably knows at the back of his mind that he
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: would even tell them, don't pass it. Not on camera,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: he wouldn't say it, but what are we doing? And
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: then I can blame you guys and say, oh, the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: very weak. They don't want to reward the people, but
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: all right, we'll use it for another great project.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: It sounds like a mistake. I mean, we just talked
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: about hitting a new record with the national debt. And
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: the caller made a great point on talkback as a
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: tax break.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: But handing out checks.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: And I know Scott Besson said he was trying to
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: clarify the president's comments last night. Well, this isn't going
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: to come directly out of the Treasury. This would come
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: from the money we're making from tariffs right now. The
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: profits we're making from our tariffs and wherever the money comes,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: it's money this government doesn't have to spend.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which to me, one of the things that I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: think is always important, whenever a Democrat starts their– whatever
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: the program is that they're about to go with, and
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: they usually start it with, we live in the richest
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: nation in the world.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: We are the biggest debtor in the world. We have
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: a $ 40 trillion credit card balance. So that's like, you know,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: if your friend ran out and somehow was able to
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: accumulate an $ 85, 000 credit card bill and had all kinds
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: of cool Gucci clothes or whatever, it's not like they're
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: the richest person in the neighborhood. They just owe the most.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: We owe the most on planet earth. We are the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: poorest country by that standard. So again, we all have
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: a very comfortable lifestyle in America. Even the poorest amongst
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: us live better than Probably 85, 90 percent of the world.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: So I'm not complaining about it. What I'm saying is.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: This this is a publicity stunt. That's all this is,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: is a publicity stunt. And that clip is going to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: be played over and over and over again. The Democrats
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: are going to say it's an empty promise that he
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: can't keep. And they're right. And then there's going to
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: be a bunch of people, possibly, who might be swayed
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: by it. Donald Trump is an out-of-the-box thinker, if nothing else.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: Maybe there are a group of people who are just
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: in the middle who just go, eh, it's worth five grand.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe they'll win it. Maybe they'll pull it off. All
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: you got to do is have a vote and a dream.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: All right. It's 8-19.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I offered my critiques earlier for the Lowcountry, specifically Somerville,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: and now the Midlands. I don't want you to feel
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: left out. City of Columbia. I've read several news stories
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: on this, and I didn't understand it. So I said, well,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: let me just go directly to the City of Columbia
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: website and read it there. And now it'll have to
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: make sense to me. No, still doesn't make sense. They're
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: looking for volunteers to count... I'll just read this. With
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: the help of staff and volunteers, the planning division conducts
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: pedestrian and bicyclist counts throughout Columbia. By counting the pedestrians
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: and the bicyclists, the volunteers will help ensure that all
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: of the city's residents count. Transit riders, pedestrians, and bicyclists
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: are often not accounted for in a traffic study. The
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: same traffic studies used to make important decisions about our
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: city's landscape. The volunteers are essential to that survey process.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: And so they're getting ready for that. They mentioned in this,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: we're almost ready to release our 2024-2025 data report. Hello?
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: It's almost 2027. What have you been doing trying to
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: put that report together? And if you participate, we will
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: forward all comments, suggestions, and numbers to the relevant departments
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: and agencies as soon as each set of counts conclude.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: So it's... Again, it doesn't cost anything, so that's good.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: They're just looking for volunteers. They want people to go
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: and sit at main intersections, and you sit there for
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: several hours. The first one would be September 12th. That's
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: this Saturday. They're looking for people to sit at different
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: intersections between 10 a.m. and noon and just count what
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: you see. Now, I don't know why we care who's
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: riding on the transit. What difference does that make? Couldn't
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: we just say it's a bus?
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: I guess it depends on how full that bus is.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably three quarter empty bus. But but I get
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: the bicyclists and the and I guess the walkers did
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: the walker. Well, OK, if I read in the story here,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: it says this is not in their part. This is
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: actually in the news report. City data shows pedestrians and
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: bicyclists were involved in just one point five percent of
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: all of Columbia crashes between 2019 and 2023. But they
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: accounted for 43 percent of the fatal crashes. So obviously,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: if somebody's walking or on a bicycle, they're far more
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: at risk to being killed if they're involved in a
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: vehicle accident. But but understanding that, I don't know what
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: they're suggesting they could do to prevent that. I mean,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: you've already got the bicycle lanes. You've already got sidewalks.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know what else you could like. Yes, there's
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of people walking here. What do we do
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: about it? I don't know what they're looking for. They
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: just want to count all the people walking and riding bicycles.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: And then give that to the appropriate departments, and then what? Again,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: it's not as if we don't have bike lanes, and
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: we certainly have sidewalks. So if they're involved in an accident,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: I would assume it happened while they were trying to
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: cross the street. And are you suggesting that we're going
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: to build bridges? Is that the plan? None of this
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: seems to make any sense to me. But again, that's
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: usually the frustration with government. I don't know what we're
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: even trying to accomplish here. I mean, obviously you want
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: to minimize people being injured and or killed in accidents.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Of course, everybody would want that. But I don't know
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: what your proposal is. Let's just say there's a thousand
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: people walking on that street every day. Now what do
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: we do about it? Widen the sidewalks? There's no correlation
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: to how you're going to fix the problem based off
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: the data that I can see. Perhaps you can. And
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: if you can, please use the talkback feature and let
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: us know. Or hit me up on social media at
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash Radio. It's 828.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Today and tomorrow, kind of a one-two punch in the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: gut for a lot of Americans. Especially if you're on
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: the right. Because today is the remembrance that it was
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: one year ago that Charlie Kirk died, was assassinated. And
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: then tomorrow, of course, is September 11th. And most Americans
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: would agree, although obviously, Hassan Piker and his crew would
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: not agree that that is a horrific day that will
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: forever be etched in our memory. But today I'm focusing
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: on Charlie Kirk. And here's a great clip of what
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk was about.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 7: Immigration, Customs and Enforcement.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: She stole his hat and he's telling security, don't touch her.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: And then she threw the hat back and somebody picks
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: it up and puts it back.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 7: Let's have a conversation. When people stop talking, really bad
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 7: stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 7: stop talking, civil war ensues.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: When you stop.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 7: Having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 7: that group.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: And he was all about making sure that the conversations
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: continued and did a unbelievably good job. He was a
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: brilliant person who had a photographic memory and had all
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: kinds of amazing stats and details just at his fingertips
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: at all times. And he could sit there and debate anyone,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: but he always did it so respectfully. And, you know,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: since his passing, we've had just monster-like reactions from certain groups.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's now a tattoo shop offering... a free
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk neck tattoo. So you can recreate where he
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: was shot that we live in a free country. People
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: are allowed to do it. It's disgusting. It's vile, but
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: that's what they're doing to commemorate today. But his bigger
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: point of let's keep coming. You got to reach out
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: to people like that. Even yes, even people like that,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: that this is a biblical story. This is, this is,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: How many times do you forgive him? Seven times? No,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: 70 times seven. In other words, an infinite amount of times.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: Don't be weak. Don't be weak. I mean, he made
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: a great point about that, too, that the Muslims are
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: rising in power because they understand that being a man
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: means being masculine. And oftentimes in this society, we're told
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: that you're toxic if you're masculine. You are not. You
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: are just being who you were built to be, and
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: you should live that out. But also being a man
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: means being gentle with women. It also means being a
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: gentleman in general. It means restraining your power. Don't be weak,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: but restrain your power. And then recognize when you're arguing
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: with somebody that they are a human being. And he
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: died doing what he loved, which is the trying to heal.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, again, we talked about it earlier, Christopher. He
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: was in the belly of the beast. Every time you
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: go to these college campuses, it was chaos. And he
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: went there time after time. you know, let the people
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: say their piece and then basically respectfully showed him why
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: they were wrong.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: And Kelly, you made a great point. I mean, he
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: was so smart.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: And with that photographic memory, he could have argued on
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: facts alone and won any debate, but he would often
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: go into emotional arguments or biblical arguments or, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just trying to make sure people understood it's not just
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  Speaker 4: about A and B. It's not just about the black
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  Speaker 4: and white. It is about how you feel. and how
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  Speaker 4: you feel relating to society and how you get along and,
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  Speaker 4: and relationships and relationships mattered most to him.
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  Speaker 3: And I think for a lot of people, unfortunately, their
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  Speaker 3: feelings are based on wrong facts. You know that by
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  Speaker 3: the way that I have a moment, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: this quick story. I met my wife because I wrote
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  Speaker 3: an op-ed piece and I knew her, but I didn't,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't even like really great friends with her or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that. And what happened was it was, it
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  Speaker 3: was the Michael Brown case. And that was an op-ed
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  Speaker 3: piece that I was writing for a paper. But I
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to comment on something as sensitive as race
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  Speaker 3: if I had a blind spot. And basically the argument
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  Speaker 3: was if they're right, the people who are saying he
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  Speaker 3: had his hands up, don't shoot, and there is a
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  Speaker 3: systemic mission amongst the United States law enforcement officers to
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  Speaker 3: just kill unarmed black people all across this country, we
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  Speaker 3: should all be in the streets. But the data doesn't
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  Speaker 3: support that. The facts of the matter do not support
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  Speaker 3: their argument. But if they were right, we should all
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  Speaker 3: be in the streets and we probably would be in
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  Speaker 3: the streets if that was happening to anybody. But they
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  Speaker 3: were emotional based off of wrong information. Charlie was just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get you the right information. And if you
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  Speaker 3: still want to feel that way, that's, I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 3: it's up to you, but at least you're basing it
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  Speaker 3: off the real information. And so many of us are, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us are cowards. We won't We don't
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  Speaker 3: want to have that awkward conversation like, you know, men
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  Speaker 3: can get pregnant. I'm not going to push back on
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  Speaker 3: that because I don't want to be that guy who
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  Speaker 3: points out that that's actually not true. But be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Be that gal. You're not helping anyone by not sharing
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  Speaker 3: the truth. If it's obvious, sometimes the truth is obvious.
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  Speaker 3: And we have a bunch of people in this country
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  Speaker 3: that want to disguise it and say, well, there's shades
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  Speaker 3: of this and shades of that. No, there's not. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the truth is the truth. Men can't get pregnant. Full stop.
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  Speaker 3: Full stop. There's no man that can get pregnant. But
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  Speaker 3: they're going to argue that point with you. So let's
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  Speaker 3: push back. Let's let the world know that you know
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  Speaker 3: the truth at least. Can you identify a woman? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor or whatever the heck she said.
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court Justice Ketanya Jackson Brown. You don't need to
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  Speaker 3: be a doctor to know what a woman is. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Long live Charlie Kirk. His memory is powerful. Those videos
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  Speaker 3: will be being played all day today, and I'm here
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  Speaker 3: for it because we could all learn from Charlie. It's 840.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 11: Hope you're having a good morning. I don't know what
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  Speaker 11: Trump is talking about with these $ 5, 000 dividends. I think
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  Speaker 11: he's just trying to sucker in some Democrat votes because
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  Speaker 11: I can't imagine a really smart person that knows anything
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  Speaker 11: to go for that. Because look at the pandemic. Look
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  Speaker 11: at the money they give out. Look at the inflation
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  Speaker 11: that follows. I mean, it's common sense. It's moving backwards.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 11: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, again, following up on the Trump
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  Speaker 3: five thousand dollar promise, if they hold the House and
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  Speaker 3: the Senate, I. He doesn't have the power to do that.
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  Speaker 3: And B, I don't think, to your point, he even
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  Speaker 3: wants to do that because it would be economic disaster. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was just thinking about this. If we were,
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  Speaker 3: if the United States was a business, we wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: paid taxes in years because we lose money every year.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you look at just our annual deficit,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: so during the Bush administration, we were somewhere between, like,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: a hundred to $ 400 billion annually. Barack Obama gets into
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  Speaker 3: office and the first year it spikes to almost 1.5 trillion.
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  Speaker 3: And we kind of stay above a trillion during the
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  Speaker 3: entire Obama administration. Of course, the worst year was 2020, 3.13
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  Speaker 3: trillion for the year. And by the way, under Trump,
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  Speaker 3: both the Last year and this year, we're well over.
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  Speaker 3: Last year was $ 1. 83 trillion. This year, $ 1. 78 trillion. We
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be paying taxes. We are at a loss right now.
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  Speaker 3: Every year, we lose money. So, no, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that we should be sending out $ 5, 000 checks to anybody.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would destroy the economy. But to the
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  Speaker 3: talkback feature point, yes, I believe he's trying to bribe
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  Speaker 3: some people, at least in the middle, maybe not Democrats
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: because they got the Trump derangement syndrome. But if he could,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: he's an out of the box thinker. He's a market.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: They call him a marketing master. And no one's ever
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  Speaker 3: seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 5: What scares me is you.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a hypothesis that he's saying that because he
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  Speaker 4: thinks that Republicans are not going to hold both the
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  Speaker 4: House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: If he thought that they were going to win, he
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't say that. There's no way he would say that.
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  Speaker 3: But look, he's trying to do whatever he can. And
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  Speaker 3: so you got to salute him, I guess, for that,
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  Speaker 3: that he's trying to say and do whatever is possible
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  Speaker 3: from gerrymandering districts to whatever he can do to try
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  Speaker 3: to hang on to this. Because otherwise, the next two years,
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  Speaker 3: if they lose the House, it's just two years of impeachment.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. So we'll see how it plays out. But
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  Speaker 3: amongst our audience, overwhelmingly, it seems... Don't like the idea
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  Speaker 3: of the $ 5, 000 checks being mailed to every adult in America?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, man. It is 847.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 3: This is Kevin in South Congaree.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think you have to worry about that $ 5, 000
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  Speaker 6: thing because we're going to lose in the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Gamecocks fan. I know all about losing.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 3: He says it with such pep in his step. I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate using the talk back, even though you said some
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  Speaker 3: things I didn't like necessarily there. You know, look, as
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  Speaker 3: we wrap the show up today, Christopher, we were talking
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  Speaker 3: earlier about Charlie Kirk. And I'm looking at some of
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  Speaker 3: the South Carolina politicians. They're tweeting about Charlie Kirk this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman tweeted out a little while ago. It was
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  Speaker 3: exactly a year ago that America witnessed a moment that
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  Speaker 3: changed our culture forever. Political disagreement should never become political violence.
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  Speaker 3: Our differences are what make us human, and he capitalized human.
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  Speaker 3: They should be respected, not weaponized. For Charlie, may we
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  Speaker 3: never stop standing boldly for what we believe. I see
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  Speaker 3: Alan Wilson posted a video talking about the time he
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: was with Charlie and Charlie was driving him back to
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: a hotel. And the story is basically this. Charlie was
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: talking about, I want to broaden out Turning Point USA,
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  Speaker 3: maybe set up a headquarters somewhere in the southeast. And
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  Speaker 3: Alan said, why don't you come to South Carolina? It'd
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: be a great state for you guys. And he said,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: what's the income tax? It's about 6% right now. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: call me when it gets to zero. I might be interested.
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  Speaker 3: So Alan apparently was channeling that a lot on the
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  Speaker 3: campaign trail. Again, Charlie Kirk understood the principle that the
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: less government, the less government cost the more economic freedom
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  Speaker 3: and ultimately more freedoms there are. Because if they don't
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: have the money in the government, they can't institute the bureaucracy,
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  Speaker 3: which holds a lot of Americans back. You're free to
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  Speaker 3: move about the country. You're free to do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things, live your dreams, chase your dreams the best
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  Speaker 3: you can chase them. That's part of the pursuit of
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: happiness that's promised to you here. And if we tax
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  Speaker 3: you out of that, that's unconstitutional. So I'm with Alan
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  Speaker 3: in that one. I'd love to see our income tax
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  Speaker 3: go to zero. I'd love for us to shrink the
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  Speaker 3: size of the state budget. I'd love to see us
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  Speaker 3: shrink the size of the federal budget. I'd love to
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: see us balance our budget in general at the federal
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  Speaker 3: level and stop paying so much money in just servicing
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: the debt. It's like 18% of our federal budget now
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: just goes to paying down debt. It's crazy what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll be back tomorrow. And tomorrow's another big anniversary.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: So bracing ourselves for that. Hope you have a great day.
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  Speaker 3: It's South Carolina's Morning News.