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Show Rewind 8-04-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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Speaker 1: Live from the state capital.
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Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: Going to be a very busy little morning here on
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Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News. We've got Congressman Ralph Norman will
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Speaker 3: be joining us in a little bit at matter of fact,
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Speaker 3: that is already out by the way, let.
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Speaker 4: Me just be fully transparent with you.
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Speaker 3: The Congressman woke up extra early to do a podcast
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Speaker 3: with me this morning, So I just published that on
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Speaker 3: the National Briefing, which is my daily ten minute podcast.
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Speaker 3: So we went actually about thirteen minutes with Ralph this morning,
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Speaker 3: and that was awesome, talking about last night's debate. Also
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Speaker 3: calling in a little bit a little bit later on.
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking around eight thirty ish, we're going to have
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Speaker 3: Congressman Russell Fry discussing last night's debate. Also, we've got
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Speaker 3: Rory O'Neil calling in. There's some changes happening to Medicare.
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Speaker 3: We've got a lot of things happening. And again I
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Speaker 3: always paraphrase my friend Jerry Reid, we've got a long
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Speaker 3: way to go and a short time to get there.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Christopher Thompson.
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Speaker 5: You were the big star last night of that debate.
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Speaker 5: Although it was not the best star I wanted. I
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Speaker 5: wanted more from Kelly Nash last night.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you?
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Speaker 1: So you know what?
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Speaker 3: So did I? Yeah? And and for those of you
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Speaker 3: who hadn't heard going into last night's debate, they had myself,
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Speaker 3: the lady from Palmetto's Promise, and the late and the
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Speaker 3: gentleman from the upstate radio station, and I'm assuming the
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Speaker 3: anchors that were involved, uh, we all pre recorded our segments,
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Speaker 3: and so you asked three different questions they made They
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Speaker 3: had to submit our questions earlier to make sure that
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Speaker 3: we weren't really overlapping, and then ironically my question kind
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Speaker 3: of pretty much overlapped with the guy, uh from the
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Speaker 3: television station. Yeah, it was almost like I was like,
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Speaker 3: why did they pick that one? And then of course
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Speaker 3: Judy Gatson says, hey, we're out of time. We won't
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Speaker 3: be able to get because I was.
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Speaker 1: Because I was I.
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Speaker 4: Was counting, I was keeping track.
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Speaker 5: I was like, Kelly's next, Kelly's now it's time for
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Speaker 5: closing statements?
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Now, what was your takeaway on last night's debate?
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Speaker 3: In all honesty, I don't know that I got anything
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Speaker 3: new out of it?
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Speaker 4: Did you?
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Speaker 5: It was a lot of you know, the things you get,
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Speaker 5: the talking points you get from when they're on the platform. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I mean, and I was hoping there would be a
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Speaker 5: little more interaction. There were very few rebuttals between the
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Speaker 5: candidates yesterday, so you really didn't get a chance, for example,
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Speaker 5: to see Darlene Graham tested. I mean, we saw more
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Speaker 5: of probably what she said Saturday at the Senate stump.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know that. I don't know that last
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Speaker 5: night changed many minds.
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Speaker 3: The only thing that she got in that I thought
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Speaker 3: was kind of fresh and I actually enjoyed it, was
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Speaker 3: when she said something about Mark Lynch keeps bringing up
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Speaker 3: Lindsay's name. Yes, and I think it's only because my
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Speaker 3: brother beat you multiple times and you're afraid you're about
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Speaker 3: to lose to his little sister. I thought that was
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Speaker 3: a pretty great line. I don't know if she paraphrased
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Speaker 3: that when she did check her notes often.
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Speaker 5: Yes she did. Yeah, and that I guess. The other
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Speaker 5: new thing we heard from her is that she's going
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Speaker 5: to break from her brother and actually try and abolish
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Speaker 5: the filibuster.
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Speaker 3: That was the one that Now the rest of it,
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Speaker 3: I mean, you could have had like that she could
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Speaker 3: have been a White House spokesperson. She could she could
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Speaker 3: fill in for what's her name sometime. I mean, because
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Speaker 3: there is no separation between her and Trump.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, same with Russell fry Uh.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess I could say that too, and
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Speaker 3: we'll we'll, we'll, like I said, We're gonna have Russell
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Speaker 3: Frye Collin and we'll ask him, is there anything that
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Speaker 3: you're separate from the president on anything you'd like to
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Speaker 3: see him do differently? But uh, I thought Mark Sanford
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Speaker 3: had a good debate.
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Speaker 4: I did too.
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Speaker 3: I also, you know, Ralph Norman was was solid as
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Speaker 3: he always is. Mark Lynch, I don't know where he
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Speaker 3: was going with some of his points.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure either. It was it was rather odd,
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Speaker 4: And when he.
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Speaker 5: Threw out the stolen election comment of twenty twenty, I
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Speaker 5: thought that was probably a bridge too far with a
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Speaker 5: lot of people who were watching.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Mark, Mark is going to appeal to a very
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Speaker 3: small portion, yet passionate group inside the Republican the part
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Speaker 3: that loves Mark Lynch, loves Mark Lynch and thinks everybody
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Speaker 3: else is a rhino.
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Speaker 5: I still think that the carve out he had against
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Speaker 5: Lindsey Graham no longer exists. I think there are conservative
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Speaker 5: candidates in this race. He will not get thirty percent
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Speaker 5: in this race.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no. And by the way, I
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Speaker 3: don't think I brought this up the other day, but Saturday,
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Speaker 3: when I went to the I guess they call that
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Speaker 3: a forum that I went to with Alan Wilson was
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Speaker 3: the host. There was a guy there and I don't
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Speaker 3: want to say his name because I think I know
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Speaker 3: who he is, but I'm thinking what he was wearing
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Speaker 3: was was Mark Lynch year from the original campaign? Okay, okay,
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Speaker 3: But whether it was from that campaign or if it
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Speaker 3: was just whatever, it was in horrible taste. He's wearing
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Speaker 3: a dump Lindsay hat and to wear it when Lindsay
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Speaker 3: Graham has just recently passed I as the ca A date.
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Speaker 3: If you were representing me wearing that hat, even if
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Speaker 3: that was my slogan three months ago or whatever, I.
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Speaker 4: Would get that crap off your head. Yeah, that's in
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Speaker 4: poor taste.
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Speaker 3: That is it was it was. I mean, there were
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Speaker 3: multiple people talking about that individual wearing that hat at
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Speaker 3: River Bluff High School the other day. But anyway, that's
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Speaker 3: that's what's going on currently with the Senate race. There's
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Speaker 3: so many other stories we should get to today and
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Speaker 3: we'll try to cover them all. And of course, if
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Speaker 3: you have thoughts on last night's debate, you want to
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Speaker 3: leave them forrest, we'll get you hopefully on the air.
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Speaker 3: Used the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for
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Speaker 3: starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: You know, Joy Reid is the now disgraced former host
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Speaker 3: on MSNBC. She was such a bad host. Not only
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Speaker 3: did they fire her, they had to change the name
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Speaker 3: of the network. She now has a YouTube channel and
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Speaker 3: yesterday last night, her special guest was Mayor Mom Donnie,
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Speaker 3: who look, he's an evil person who is a fantastic politician,
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Speaker 3: one of the best liars out there, and he's making
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Speaker 3: a case that his policies should be national.
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Speaker 6: So much of what we're focused on in New York City,
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Speaker 6: it's not actually particular to New York City. And what
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Speaker 6: I mean by that is as special as we are
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Speaker 6: as New Yorkers, we know that the struggle to afford
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Speaker 6: your rent, your childcare, your groceries, even your public transportation,
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Speaker 6: that's a struggle that Americans are feeling across the country.
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Speaker 6: And the more that we as a party can not
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Speaker 6: only reflect that struggle in our focus, but also look
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Speaker 6: to address those issues, I think, the better we will
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Speaker 6: be as a party, and the more faithful we will
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Speaker 6: also be to why so many Americans joined this party
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Speaker 6: in the first place.
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Speaker 7: People outside of New York are like looking at New
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Speaker 7: York and then be like, we want these Which of
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Speaker 7: these things do you think are actually translatable outside of
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Speaker 7: New York City?
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Speaker 6: I would say the vast majority, if not all of them, frankly,
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Speaker 6: because we are talking about a cost of living crisis.
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Speaker 6: When we're talking about childcare, we're saving families in this
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Speaker 6: city twenty thousand dollars a child enrolled their child into.
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Speaker 4: Free two K.
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Speaker 6: And we're talking about a city run grocery store, one
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Speaker 6: in each borough, which, by the way, you do not
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Speaker 6: need an ID to shop at. No matter what you've
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Speaker 6: just heard in the news of today.
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Speaker 3: You don't need an ID. Can we just go back
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Speaker 3: in time like seventy two hours?
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Speaker 6: So our RFP makes very clear that this is a
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Speaker 6: program for New Yorkers to be able to put food
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Speaker 6: on the table, not a program for people to be
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Speaker 6: able to make a quick buck through reselling. I'm going
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Speaker 6: to pass it over to our DC had g pack
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Speaker 6: to add some additional details.
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Speaker 8: We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers,
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Speaker 8: whether it be a sort of a library card, askit.
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Speaker 8: And also we manage who's buying and that is focused
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Speaker 8: on everyday New Yorkers, so we are mindful of that.
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Speaker 8: And so we're going to make sure that we have
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Speaker 8: all the place, all the things in place to make
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Speaker 8: ensure that that does not happen.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So she said library esque and then she kind
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Speaker 3: of edited herself there because she realized I'm saying you
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Speaker 3: need an ID to shop here, which is probably going
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Speaker 3: to come back to haunt Mom Donnie, which you did, yes,
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Speaker 3: which it did. The idea that okay. So she then
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Speaker 3: goes on to say, we have certain guardrails in place
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Speaker 3: to make sure that people who it's only for the
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Speaker 3: citizens of New York to take advantage of what again,
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Speaker 3: the taxpayer is supplementing the Mom Donnie grocery stores, and
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Speaker 3: they say that they're going to sell quote unquote essential
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Speaker 3: goods at a thirty percent discount. So there's no possible
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Speaker 3: way with the average grocery store making about two percent
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Speaker 3: that they could. You know, even if they made no profit,
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Speaker 3: they'd still be losing twenty eight percent if they wanted
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Speaker 3: to compete with the Mom Donnie grocery stores. And so
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Speaker 3: somebody's lying. Is Mom Donnie A lying or is Mom
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Speaker 3: Donnie B lying? But one of the mom Donnie's is lying.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Mam Donnie B is lying. But
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Speaker 3: that's neither here nor there. The bigger picture, Christopher, to me,
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Speaker 3: is that socialism works for a short period of time,
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Speaker 3: and when people are in financial crisis or pain, it
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Speaker 3: feels really good. When he says we're going to give
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Speaker 3: you twenty thousand dollars of free childcare. People love that
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Speaker 3: and I and even I would say, well, why wouldn't
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Speaker 3: I take advantage of it? But then what happens to
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Speaker 3: the people who actually have childcare businesses and the people
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Speaker 3: they employ. They all go out of business. And when
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Speaker 3: that eventually happens, and there's nobody to choose but the government,
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Speaker 3: that's when they got you. That is the goal of
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Speaker 3: socialism is to take over your life. Whether it's grocery stores, childcare, medicine, education,
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Speaker 3: you name it. That's the goal of socialism. We need
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Speaker 3: to be on our best game right now.
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Speaker 5: Not to mention the fact that the taxpayers who are
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Speaker 5: subsidizing all this, who will wind up feeling the pain
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Speaker 5: from paying for all these programs, because it's only getting worse.
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Speaker 5: As you pointed out before, Kelly, they are already asking
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Speaker 5: and they're trying to tax every rich person who moves
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Speaker 5: to New York City as much as they possibly can.
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Speaker 5: They've got to pay for these programs.
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Speaker 3: And what but and what is rich is getting lower
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Speaker 3: and lower and lower. It's it's you know, it started
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Speaker 3: when they came with the billionaires, then a millionaires.
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Speaker 5: And then you're disincentivizing people who want to have success.
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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, why why would I want to succeed here?
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Speaker 5: Why would I want to make money here if the
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Speaker 5: government's just going to take more and more of it.
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Speaker 5: So I'll just, you know, sit on my hands and
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Speaker 5: watch what happens.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, is he not a great liar?
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, what a what a talented man to
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Speaker 3: just sit there. You literally heard me and my people
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Speaker 3: saying a few days ago, you're gonna need an ID
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Speaker 3: because of course I have to have guardrails and then
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Speaker 3: just of case, no matter what you've heard, you're not
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Speaker 3: gonna need an ID to shop here. I mean, that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: Everybody jumped on that.
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Speaker 5: You know, wait, wait a minute, you need an ID
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Speaker 5: to buy food, but you don't need an ID to vote.
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Speaker 3: Let me just point out, then, okay, if that statement
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Speaker 3: is true that we're not gonna need an ID, then
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Speaker 3: there are no guardrails and the thing is going to
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Speaker 3: be obviously frauded to death. But let me just take
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Speaker 3: us back to the winter, because in the winter, mom
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Speaker 3: Donnie confirmed that you do need an ID if you
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Speaker 3: want to apply for a job shoveling snow, because that
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Speaker 3: is one of the things that they do in New
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Speaker 3: York City is there's a snow problem. And if you're
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Speaker 3: a local resident and you want to get paid, it
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Speaker 3: was like twenty two dollars an hour or something to
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Speaker 3: come on out and shovel snow, they'll do it. But
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Speaker 3: you had to be a city resident, so you have
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Speaker 3: more restrictions on somebody actually doing work than you actually
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Speaker 3: do on somebody voting and or taking advantage of severely
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Speaker 3: discounted goods. That's a I don't want to use the
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Speaker 3: phrase I'll just say backwards. I won't add the adtherword
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Speaker 3: to it, but that is a very backwards policy.
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Speaker 4: Mom, Donnie may make it make sense.
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Speaker 3: You can't thank you, Christopher. All right, this is South
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Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: I don't know our South Carolinians getting thinner? Is that
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Speaker 3: what I'm reading? I don't know.
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Speaker 4: We'll have to break these numbers down.
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Speaker 3: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is a
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Speaker 3: left leaning organization, put out how the Republican or I'll
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Speaker 3: just put it how they put it out. The harmful
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Speaker 3: Republican Reconciliation Law enacted on July fourth, twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 3: has already done massive harm to families across the country.
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Speaker 3: And they go through state by state how many people
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Speaker 3: are no longer on SNAP? And they look at South Carolina,
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Speaker 3: and South Carolina is in the upper tier of people
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Speaker 3: no longer on SNAP. We've reduced our numbers by twelve
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Speaker 3: point three percent. That's roughly seventy thousand fewer people on SNAP.
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Speaker 4: This July fourth than there were last July fourth.
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Speaker 3: And when you look at the one big beautiful bill,
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Speaker 3: one of the things that it was talking about where
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Speaker 3: a lot of refugees, assiling seekers, these types of folks
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Speaker 3: were not going to be eligible for SNAP benefits, so
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Speaker 3: they're gone. Now it's about to be ramped up even more.
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Speaker 3: According to Brooke Rollins, the next wave of participation is
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Speaker 3: that you're going to have to document that you spent
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Speaker 3: at least eighty hours a month, which is not much.
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Speaker 3: That's twenty hours a week either looking for work, training
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Speaker 3: for a job, or volunteering to make the community a
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Speaker 3: better place. If you do that, then you continue and
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Speaker 3: you can continue to get your SNAP benefits. According to
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Speaker 3: what the budget Congressional Budget Office says, about two and
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Speaker 3: a half million people will not do that, so they're
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Speaker 3: going to lose SNAP benefits as well. Christopher doing so
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Speaker 3: sympathy for these people.
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Speaker 5: So you'd rather go hungry than simply volunteer at your
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Speaker 5: local charity for example.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's that is the takeaway.
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Speaker 5: And I know one of the arguments going into the
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Speaker 5: big beautiful bill and all that was, you know there
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Speaker 5: are some people who can't do it, working mothers for example,
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Speaker 5: or you know those who.
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Speaker 3: Are are they working, then they don't need to worry, right.
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Speaker 5: Not working, mothers, mothers who have childcare issues, or you know,
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Speaker 5: those who are are home bound.
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Speaker 4: But there were carve outs for that.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely for people with disabilities, and special exceptions are included
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Speaker 3: in there. So basically it's are you working age and
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Speaker 3: not working, able to work and not working? Yeah, that's
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Speaker 3: why are we paying for your food in any way?
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Speaker 3: Why there is no reason because again in America, one
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Speaker 3: of the problems in America, there's many One of the
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Speaker 3: problems is we've taken our safety net and due to
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Speaker 3: the largesse of the left in this country, we've turned
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Speaker 3: our safety net into a hammock where many people, unfortunately
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Speaker 3: for them as well as us, get caught in this
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Speaker 3: very comfortable position where they don't have to do much
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Speaker 3: in order to receive much. And we need to change
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Speaker 3: that because not only does it hurt us with our
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Speaker 3: tax dollars where we're losing well, by the way, what
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Speaker 3: did they say in this story that we've already saved.
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Speaker 3: Look at this. We went from forty two million people
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Speaker 3: a month we're taking snap benefits last July, we're down
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Speaker 3: to thirty seven million now. So I don't know how
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Speaker 3: many of those were people who actually just went back
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Speaker 3: to their country of origin. But it's almost five million
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Speaker 3: people fewer in a year. Turns out you don't need
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Speaker 3: new laws, you need new presidents.
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Speaker 5: And those thirty seven million, by the way, are having
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Speaker 5: to do it in a more healthy fashion, at least
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Speaker 5: with some states, you know, coming down on using that
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Speaker 5: money for sodas and candy and chips and everything else
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Speaker 5: that we were paying for. That doesn't really keep your
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Speaker 5: family healthy.
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Speaker 3: And we're expected to save just just since July fourth
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Speaker 3: of last year to July fourth this year, ten billion dollars.
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Speaker 3: Ten billion dollars is what the taxpayer saved by doing that.
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Speaker 3: And again, when I look around South Carolina, I don't
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Speaker 3: see a lot of hungry people. I don't see people
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Speaker 3: who look starved. Now I may see morbidly obese, but
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Speaker 3: nutritionally deficient people. You know what I'm saying. There's two
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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty pounders out here who are starving to
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Speaker 3: death because they don't have any actual nutrition in their body.
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Speaker 3: And that's a different story. But we're we're not starving
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Speaker 3: to death, we're not feeding ourselves properly, to death or
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Speaker 3: early death with high blood pressure, diabetes. The list goes
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Speaker 3: on and on of people not eating properly, and if
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Speaker 3: you've made such bad decisions that you find yourself at
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Speaker 3: age thirty five unable to feed yourself, we probably as
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Speaker 3: a concern if you are truly a concerned society, rather
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Speaker 3: than just paying for their food, we should take them
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Speaker 3: to classes and teach them how to eat. Which is
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Speaker 3: another reason I thank Robert F. Kennedy Junior who he
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Speaker 3: started that YouTube channel was it this week or last week?
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Speaker 3: Showing people how to make meals pretty quickly and for
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Speaker 3: five dollars or less that are very nutrition I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: start watching more of that. I would like to learn
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Speaker 3: more of those things. All right, we got to take
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Speaker 3: a break. This is South Carolina's morning.
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Speaker 2: Now Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: I am spinning a lot of play here this morning,
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Speaker 3: trying to keep this thing moving, and part of it
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Speaker 3: is Ralph Norman. We had Ralph Norman call in very
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Speaker 3: early this morning for a podcast. Here's an excerpt of
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Speaker 3: his you know thoughts. Following up on last night's debate.
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Speaker 10: The other thing I would say is crony capitalism is
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Speaker 10: what's is the cancer in this country, meaning you have
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Speaker 10: corporations and big entities, groups that are putting people up
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Speaker 10: to do the bidding that are not statesmen as we
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Speaker 10: know it fur the intention when this country was founded,
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Speaker 10: and we've got to run people against them. And you know,
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Speaker 10: I think it's Benjamin Franklin who said it's a republic
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Speaker 10: if we can keep it, well, we're in danger of
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Speaker 10: losing it. Overspending being the number one issue. But the
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Speaker 10: other thing is, as we see it overseas in Spain,
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Speaker 10: Muslims and shrill law is on the march, both in
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Speaker 10: other countries and here in America where they're building mosque
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Speaker 10: and where we cannot allow that to happen. We just can't.
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Speaker 10: We got to take a stand.
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Speaker 4: On that time.
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Speaker 3: With Ralph Norman, who's running for Senate, you mentioned Islam.
18:07
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that what we're talking about is radical Islam
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Speaker 3: where it's becoming a militant movement in some parts of
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Speaker 3: the world. Walk us through this idea of what you're
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Speaker 3: exploring here where you said we can't continue to allow
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Speaker 3: the mosques to be built Are we talking about infringing
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Speaker 3: on somebody's religion or is there something different?
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Speaker 10: No, if this country was founded on Christian principles, it
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Speaker 10: was the Muslims go by a different, different set of rules.
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Speaker 10: They don't include God in anything that they teach. They
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Speaker 10: allow thirteen year old girls to marry, you know, forty
18:43
Speaker 10: year old men. Sure, real law is a cult, it's
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Speaker 10: not a religion. And I will be an active, I guess,
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Speaker 10: active voice for local communities to stop it. We had
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Speaker 10: one in Lancaster, which is in the fifth District. They
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Speaker 10: did not allowed the zoning take place where moss is
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Speaker 10: being built. It's the hottiest radicals are not all of
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Speaker 10: the all of the the group that consider themselves Muslims.
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Speaker 10: But you know, for centuries we fault them and if
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Speaker 10: they're not a radical, if they're not radicalized when they start,
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Speaker 10: they end up being radicalized.
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Speaker 3: All right. There's a lot more with Ralph Norman there,
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Speaker 3: but I thought that that was a very interesting segment
19:30
Speaker 3: where he's targeting, you know, the the Islamic faith and saying,
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Speaker 3: we're as a United States of America, we have to
19:39
Speaker 3: at least I'm gonna give him a little bit of
19:42
Speaker 3: a I don't know we go room on that one.
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Speaker 3: He's not saying we're going to outlaw the Muslim faith,
19:46
Speaker 3: but he is going to try to do a better
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Speaker 3: job of making sure that Sharia law cannot be incorporated
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Speaker 3: in any way in our country.
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Speaker 5: Not an unpopular point of view right now, Kelly, given
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Speaker 5: what's going on, and I mean we've seen it in
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Speaker 5: places like Texas where you wouldn't expect there to be
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Speaker 5: a huge Muslim population, but taking over small towns, and
20:04
Speaker 5: of course the stories in Michigan and Minnesota and other
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Speaker 5: places where I mean they're running the cities or running towns.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, all eyes tonight are going to be
20:14
Speaker 3: on what's going on in that Michigan primary, because you've
20:16
Speaker 3: got Abdullah l Said, who is the Democrat socialists who
20:21
Speaker 3: in most polls seem to have him ahead of Haley Stevens,
20:24
Speaker 3: the traditional Democrat who also is a faker with her voice.
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Speaker 3: We'll see how that plans out tonight. So that'll be
20:31
Speaker 3: exciting television. But the other thing is, you know, you
20:34
Speaker 3: mentioned Texas and Michigan and other places. I brought it
20:36
Speaker 3: up to him on that podcast. You know, there's another
20:38
Speaker 3: place called Holy Islamville, which is right there in your
20:41
Speaker 3: backyard in the fifth District, and a lot of us
20:43
Speaker 3: saw on social media some pretty horrifying images of a
20:48
Speaker 3: mass march taking place. Not a US flag to be seen,
20:52
Speaker 3: but a whole lot of other flags flying. And he
20:55
Speaker 3: addresses that, and he addresses some other things as well
20:58
Speaker 3: in there. But you know, whether you're interested in what
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Speaker 3: is going to be a Senate candidate's position on Islam,
21:06
Speaker 3: or you're interested in their tax policies, or interested in
21:09
Speaker 3: like I brought up, the idea of do you think
21:12
Speaker 3: that Congress has kind of lost its power to oversee
21:16
Speaker 3: the War Powers Act? And he addresses that issue as well,
21:19
Speaker 3: and where he stands on the war Lots of those
21:22
Speaker 3: types of things. We're getting that up as a podcast.
21:24
Speaker 3: I think it might already be up right now, to
21:25
Speaker 3: be honest with you, on The National Briefing, which is
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Speaker 3: my daily podcast. It's a ten minute podcast, but again
21:30
Speaker 3: a little longer today with Ralph. But we're you know,
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Speaker 3: we're trying to get all these people on for once
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Speaker 3: or twice. Still waiting on, Darlene Graham, still waiting.
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Speaker 4: But Russell Fry in the eight o'clock hour, Russell.
21:43
Speaker 3: Fry will be checking back in. I think we're going
21:45
Speaker 3: to have Mark Sandford tomorrow. Possibly the candidates. I've already
21:49
Speaker 3: heard from Mark Lynch's campaign he wants to be back on.
21:53
Speaker 3: There's a whole bunch of people who want to be on.
21:55
Speaker 3: Then there's other people, I don't know who else, Duke Buckner.
21:58
Speaker 3: I'm going to reach out to Duke Buckner. Duke felt
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Speaker 3: slighted yesterday.
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Speaker 4: He was upset he wasn't on that debate stage.
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Speaker 3: Did somebody bring up Duke lass night. I'm trying to remember.
22:05
Speaker 3: I thought that somebody referenced Duke Buckner. Perhaps not, but
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Speaker 3: Duke makes a strong case for himself. His big issue
22:13
Speaker 3: seems to be socialism. He's very concerned about socialism. So
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Speaker 3: we'll get Duke on to talk about that. But all
22:21
Speaker 3: the candidates we're working with just just know that we're
22:24
Speaker 3: reaching out to all of them. We're very aggressively trying
22:26
Speaker 3: to get these people on the show. And again, if
22:29
Speaker 3: you have questions for them, please go ahead, and you know,
22:31
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22:43
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22:45
Speaker 3: Nash Radio. All right, we're gonna take a break. Christopher
22:47
Speaker 3: Thompson and I are back with more on South Carolina's
22:50
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Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five
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Speaker 1: Now, Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: Well, we just heard from Ralph Norman a segment of
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Speaker 3: the podcast that we did earlier this morning. You know,
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Speaker 3: fresh off the debate last night. We're going to have
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Speaker 3: Russell Fryon hopefully coming up around eight thirty ish this
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Speaker 3: morning to talk about it. And I understand Christopher Thompson's
23:18
Speaker 3: going through your talkbacks right now. We're going to get
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Speaker 3: to some of those next.
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Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the low Country.
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Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 11: Good morning, This is Wayne. I listen on the app.
23:40
Speaker 11: Mark Stanford had a great night last night. He seemed
23:42
Speaker 11: well informed on the issues and articulate enough to explain them.
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Speaker 11: Senator Graham. I did not mind her looking at her nose.
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Speaker 11: She comes off like she will be a reliable conservative
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Speaker 11: vote on the issues that are important to the base
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Speaker 11: of the Republican Party. Ralph Norman comes off like the
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Speaker 11: career politician that wants to be an outside and an
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Speaker 11: empty suit. Mister Fry didn't seem ready for prime time.
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Speaker 4: And we didn't even comment on mister Lynch. No, he
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Speaker 4: got left off altogether.
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Speaker 3: No no comment. Well, hey, thank you for yous of
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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app and using the talk back to get
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Speaker 3: your your feelings out there and and your opinions, your
24:19
Speaker 3: insights on what you saw last night. And I agreed.
24:21
Speaker 3: I think Christopher and I started the show tonight this
24:23
Speaker 3: morning talking about I thought Mark Sanford had a a
24:26
Speaker 3: good night.
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Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
24:28
Speaker 5: And he's I mean, he is good in front of
24:30
Speaker 5: the cameras, he's good with people, he's good at playing
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Speaker 5: retail politics, and his all his talk about the debt
24:36
Speaker 5: that works, well, it's it's it's his past. People have
24:40
Speaker 5: to get get passed.
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Speaker 3: Does he sidestep the career politician because he hasn't been
24:45
Speaker 3: in politics for the last five years?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe so, maybe maybe a little more than a
24:49
Speaker 5: Ralph Norman, who's you know, currently in Congress and you
24:52
Speaker 5: know just ran for governor and now is running for Senate.
24:55
Speaker 4: Just like that.
24:57
Speaker 3: But we also WoT out Ralph Norman was a very
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Speaker 3: successful business person for decades, true before he got into politics.
25:04
Speaker 3: So it's more on the back half of his career
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Speaker 3: that he's becoming the politician. Russell Frye getting started on
25:11
Speaker 3: what could be a career in politics. He's only forty one.
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Speaker 3: We'll have him coming up after I think eight thirty
25:17
Speaker 3: this morning, so we'll be talking again to Russell Frye.
25:21
Speaker 3: We'll have Mark Sanford on hopefully again tomorrow. We're trying
25:24
Speaker 3: to get to all these folks for you and again
25:25
Speaker 3: keep using that talkback feature. And when we come back,
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Speaker 3: possibly the most shocking Hallmark movie script ever, we'll talk
25:32
Speaker 3: about it.
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Speaker 1: Next live from the State Capitol.
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Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
25:40
Speaker 3: And we'll have more of your responses to last night
25:43
Speaker 3: senate debate, and also coming up a little bit later
25:46
Speaker 3: on Russell Frye. We got a lot going on this morning,
25:49
Speaker 3: but I saw this video clip and I don't know,
25:54
Speaker 3: maybe you won't find it as funny as I do.
25:56
Speaker 3: I find his hysterical. A woman named Dorothy Fortonbarry, who's
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Speaker 3: a writer and producer on The Handmaid's Tale, is addressing
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Speaker 3: a crowd. It's something called the Aspen Ideas Climate. I'm
26:08
Speaker 3: not really sure exactly what this is. I can kind
26:10
Speaker 3: of guess what's going on over here. And part of
26:14
Speaker 3: the speech, well, it's not really a speech, it's a
26:16
Speaker 3: sit down. There's four ladies, well that could be a man,
26:19
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure. There's four individuals on a stage.
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Speaker 3: She's one of them, and they're talking about climate change.
26:28
Speaker 3: And she's very upset that Hollywood continues to produce movies
26:33
Speaker 3: that shows people in air conditioning because that does not
26:36
Speaker 3: give you the full effect of how horrible climate change
26:40
Speaker 3: really is. They're able to sit out climate change because
26:43
Speaker 3: they're actually in a climate controlled environment, and she wants
26:47
Speaker 3: people to be shown being miserable outside. But it didn't
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Speaker 3: end with just that either. This is her little idea
26:54
Speaker 3: for Hallmark.
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Speaker 7: You know, we're still making all of our Hallmark Christmas
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Speaker 7: specials with snow. Probably we shouldn't, you know, you don't
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Speaker 7: have to have people sit around and say like, oh, well,
27:09
Speaker 7: this is because of you know carbon and this is
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Speaker 7: you know you can if that's part of your Palmark
27:14
Speaker 7: Christmas special. But you even just having the lived experience
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Speaker 7: of people on TV shows mirror what we're all actually
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Speaker 7: going through would be an enormous step forward without any
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Speaker 7: other changes.
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Speaker 3: So the reason that we have people who are disregarding
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Speaker 3: her science on climate change is because they have Hallmark
27:36
Speaker 3: movies that show snow for just the end of that.
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Speaker 5: That's just what I want to do when I turn
27:42
Speaker 5: on the TV. If I'm suffering through heat, I want
27:44
Speaker 5: to see somebody else suffering through heat too. That TV's escapism.
27:48
Speaker 5: We I mean, it's fantasy land. We're not looking to
27:52
Speaker 5: see somebody living the same life we are.
27:54
Speaker 4: We're looking for something different.
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Speaker 3: I'm wondering if Dorothy Fortenberry lives in Hollywood and may
28:00
Speaker 3: that's why she's upset by the snow, because my mother
28:02
Speaker 3: lives in Connecticut and they've had one of the snowiest
28:05
Speaker 3: years on record the last actually two or three years,
28:09
Speaker 3: it's been snowy is all get out in the Northeast,
28:12
Speaker 3: So I don't know what she's talking about. Also, climate change,
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Speaker 3: according to her, would be worse summers and worse winters,
28:20
Speaker 3: meaning it's snowier, colder, more miserable in the winter. It's
28:24
Speaker 3: more you know, tornadoes and hurricanes and warmer temperatures in
28:29
Speaker 3: the summer. That's what they're talking about now. The reality
28:32
Speaker 3: of it is that the Earth is in a continual
28:36
Speaker 3: rotation of rising temperatures and then cooling temperatures that happened
28:41
Speaker 3: before human beings were even on the earth. That's why
28:44
Speaker 3: we had a total flood that covered the entire earth.
28:48
Speaker 3: We know that that's true because we have whale bones
28:50
Speaker 3: on top of mountains. At the same time, we also
28:53
Speaker 3: know that the earth completely froze at one point, and
28:56
Speaker 3: so this idea that what we're doing is effect it perhaps,
29:01
Speaker 3: but it was going to do it either way. Just
29:04
Speaker 3: the amazing thing about human beings is that we can
29:07
Speaker 3: adapt to climate, unless, of course, we handcuff ourselves and
29:11
Speaker 3: say we can't adapt to climate because it would make
29:13
Speaker 3: the climate worse if we were to continue to adapting
29:15
Speaker 3: the climate. So then you end up with what you
29:17
Speaker 3: have in Europe, which is just mass death. Just go
29:21
Speaker 3: ahead and die, but don't put on the air conditioner
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Speaker 3: and actually live.
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Speaker 4: You just go ahead and die. As a sacrifice for
29:29
Speaker 4: the climate.
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Speaker 5: And did Dorothy Fortonberry or whatever her name is, did
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Speaker 5: she camp out at the Aspen Climate Summit or did
29:36
Speaker 5: she actually have a hotel room?
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Speaker 3: She appears to be Christopher to your point, in a
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Speaker 3: climate controlled auditoria. How much air conditioning or whatever's being
29:46
Speaker 3: used to make them comfortable because they're all wearing suits
29:48
Speaker 3: and they're nobody sweating.
29:49
Speaker 4: It's all looking very comfortable there in Aspen.
29:53
Speaker 5: I'm surprised they didn't hold that summit outside. How did
29:55
Speaker 5: she get to Aspen, by the way, just curious.
29:58
Speaker 3: I'm sure bicycle. She probably out on her bicycle from
30:01
Speaker 3: bel air. Hitchhike, yeah, pedal that well, yeah, hitdgshiking. Then
30:05
Speaker 3: you're still part of the problem. It true, there's a
30:07
Speaker 3: car and there's also I remember, I'm old enough to
30:10
Speaker 3: remember when it was hair spray that was ruining the
30:14
Speaker 3: entire thing under arms thing, the things you'd spray on
30:16
Speaker 3: your own up that was ruining that. Yeah, my gosh.
30:19
Speaker 3: They it's a never ending things of what you're supposed
30:22
Speaker 3: to sacrifice in order to save the climate, and that
30:25
Speaker 3: now we're at the point where the thing you're supposed
30:27
Speaker 3: to sacrifice is your very life and certainly don't enjoy
30:30
Speaker 3: a movie. Yeah, yeah, what does she say? You know
30:35
Speaker 3: you can talk about carbon counts if that's how you
30:37
Speaker 3: do your Hallmark Christmas movie. Goodness, gracious lady.
30:41
Speaker 4: How romantic those Hallmark movies will be in the future.
30:44
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm dying because there's no there's no
30:47
Speaker 3: air conditioning and it's too hot and oh, merry Christmas.
30:51
Speaker 3: But I can't wear a sweater because it's too hot. Anyway,
30:54
Speaker 3: that's uh, that's just news from the left. Also, doctor
30:59
Speaker 3: Annie Andrews, this is the Democrat who will be running
31:03
Speaker 3: against whoever wins the primary here for the Republicans. She
31:08
Speaker 3: has a lot to say about last night's performance. Will
31:10
Speaker 3: take a look at that and more as South Carolina's
31:13
Speaker 3: Morning News rolls on.
31:14
Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly.
31:17
Speaker 3: Nash Well doctor Annie Andrews sitting down there in the
31:21
Speaker 3: low country licking her chops. Oh, she thought last night
31:26
Speaker 3: was a complete debacle. Tonight, South Carolinians heard a stage
31:30
Speaker 3: full of extreme career politicians trip over themselves to prove
31:34
Speaker 3: who could go furthest in doubling down on reckless war,
31:37
Speaker 3: higher prices, and a Washington agenda that is failing families
31:42
Speaker 3: across our state. No matter who emerges from this chaotic primary,
31:45
Speaker 3: my focus will remain the same, lowering costs, protecting access
31:50
Speaker 3: to healthcare, and giving South Carolina families a senator who
31:54
Speaker 3: puts first ahead of party politics. She's above the party politics,
31:59
Speaker 3: of course she is. She's rated all this sort of stuff,
32:01
Speaker 3: and she ends up by saying I am ready to
32:03
Speaker 3: debate any and all of them tomorrow. So there you go, Democrats.
32:08
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're feeling really great right now about doctor
32:11
Speaker 3: Annie Andrews and her strong stance against the Republican Party.
32:14
Speaker 3: If I was to debate doctor Annie Andrews, by first
32:19
Speaker 3: point of order would be October twenty eighth, twenty twenty one.
32:23
Speaker 3: And in that doctor Annie Andrews is being interviewed and
32:27
Speaker 3: talking about how the FDA has yet to authorize the
32:30
Speaker 3: vaccine and the CDC needs to weigh in on its
32:34
Speaker 3: own recommendations for kids as young as five years old. Now,
32:40
Speaker 3: going back to twenty twenty one, going back to twenty twenty,
32:44
Speaker 3: going back to any point in Earth's history, we knew
32:48
Speaker 3: that a coronavirus could infect children, but would not have
32:54
Speaker 3: anywhere near the effects that a coronavirus, which is what
32:58
Speaker 3: COVID nineteen was a coronavirus, would have on somebody who
33:01
Speaker 3: is elderly. Everybody knew that, kids themselves knew that. They
33:06
Speaker 3: knew that if I got a cold, it's a lot
33:08
Speaker 3: different than when Grandma gets a cold, or if I
33:10
Speaker 3: get the flu, it's a lot different than when Gramma
33:12
Speaker 3: gets the flu. But what did doctor, the doctor, the
33:16
Speaker 3: doctor of sawience marching step and step with Anthony Fauci
33:20
Speaker 3: could not wait to shut down schools and get those
33:24
Speaker 3: needles into the kid's arms as quickly as possible. Quote,
33:28
Speaker 3: this is a huge step towards keeping kids, getting them
33:31
Speaker 3: back into the classroom. This vaccine will be one third
33:34
Speaker 3: of the dose that it currently is for older adolescents
33:37
Speaker 3: and adults, and I think it is a wonderful thing.
33:41
Speaker 3: We as a profession have a lot of work to
33:43
Speaker 3: do to get the message out that what we're working
33:45
Speaker 3: on is really safe and will outweigh any risks that
33:48
Speaker 3: could possibly be here and benefit all children. That, my friends,
33:54
Speaker 3: is a lie. She knew it was a lie when
33:56
Speaker 3: she said it in twenty twenty one. It's been proven
33:58
Speaker 3: to be a lie in twenty twenty six, The vaccine
34:00
Speaker 3: did not help children. No one of any scientific authority
34:07
Speaker 3: is still claiming that it helped the kids.
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Speaker 5: And Kelly, she's probably ruing the day that Ran Paul
34:13
Speaker 5: called Anthony Fauci in that hearing last week, because that's
34:16
Speaker 5: bringing up all of the old arguments and people who
34:20
Speaker 5: made those arguments, and people who are now either having
34:22
Speaker 5: to eat those words or simply choosing to forget that
34:25
Speaker 5: said that they said them.
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Speaker 3: Oh, if I was the senator running against her, that's
34:31
Speaker 3: all I'd be talking about. Well, you continue to lie
34:33
Speaker 3: about COVID, what else are lying about? Are you lying
34:35
Speaker 3: about being a moderate? Are you lying about you don't
34:38
Speaker 3: want to march step in step with mom Donnie? Are
34:41
Speaker 3: you lying about you don't want to take over our
34:43
Speaker 3: entire health care system? Do you think that? Let me
34:45
Speaker 3: ask you this, doctor, Annie, did Obamacare help or hurt Americans?
34:49
Speaker 3: Because we know that we can look at life expectancy dropped,
34:53
Speaker 3: we can look at affordability has gone way up. It's
34:55
Speaker 3: a lot more expensive to get healthcare. So where do
34:58
Speaker 3: you stand on Obamacare? Should we re formant? And of
35:00
Speaker 3: course her answer would be, well, we.
35:02
Speaker 4: Should give more subsidies to the Papa. We should give
35:05
Speaker 4: more subdithy to the paper.
35:06
Speaker 3: In other words, make it more expensive and people more
35:10
Speaker 3: reliant on government. That's your answer for everything. Make government
35:14
Speaker 3: the God, make government, Oh, the ever benevolent God of government.
35:19
Speaker 3: Thank you for saving me. Americans and South Carolinians in particular,
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Speaker 3: are a rebel group who say we prefer freedom over safety,
35:27
Speaker 3: Doctor Annie, and I reject your lies. I will not
35:30
Speaker 3: accept them, and so I am looking forward to whoever
35:33
Speaker 3: comes out of this. I would put well, I wouldn't
35:35
Speaker 3: put Gail for Rails against her, but just about anybody
35:39
Speaker 3: else will just mop the floor with this big, fat
35:42
Speaker 3: liar from the low country. Maybe I was a bit harsh.
35:45
Speaker 3: What do you think? Do you have some thoughts on
35:47
Speaker 3: doctor Annie and her excitement about face about what she
35:51
Speaker 3: saw that as a complete debacle last night. You may
35:54
Speaker 3: not have been a fan of everything that was said,
35:56
Speaker 3: but I don't think it was a debacle, was.
35:57
Speaker 4: It, Christopher? Not at all? Not at all.
36:00
Speaker 3: I thought that they all represented themselves fairly well.
36:03
Speaker 5: And healthcare got mentioned last night, and affordability got mentioned
36:06
Speaker 5: last night, And there were people who disagreed with the
36:10
Speaker 5: war efforts that are going on, at least to the
36:12
Speaker 5: point where they said they'd be willing to break with
36:14
Speaker 5: the president over it. So I'm not sure what debate
36:17
Speaker 5: she was watching.
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Speaker 3: Good point, Christopher, Maybe people have talkbacks on that. Please
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Speaker 3: use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio to participate in
36:24
Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
36:26
Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
36:31
Speaker 3: I quite honestly don't know anything about the WNBA, just
36:35
Speaker 3: full transparency, don't know anything about it. Well, I shouldn't
36:38
Speaker 3: say I don't know anything. Here's what I do know.
36:40
Speaker 3: I do know that the Indiana Fever is the most
36:43
Speaker 3: popular team. I know that what's her name, Caitlin Clark
36:47
Speaker 3: is the most popular player, and Sophie Cunningham, who is
36:50
Speaker 3: apparently like her enforcer, is now quickly becoming the second
36:54
Speaker 3: most popular player. And I know that whenever the they're
36:58
Speaker 3: on television, they draw all the other WNBA teams three
37:03
Speaker 3: and in some instances four to one, so they're very popular.
37:08
Speaker 3: There has been a move in the WNBA to stifle
37:12
Speaker 3: people who want to make sure that trans athletes don't
37:16
Speaker 3: appear in women's sports, and Sophie Cunningham has been very
37:19
Speaker 3: vocal that she doesn't think that anybody born biologically male
37:24
Speaker 3: should be allowed to compete in women's sports. One of
37:27
Speaker 3: the people pushing back on that is a WNBA coach
37:30
Speaker 3: for some team called The Links. Her name is Cheryl Reeve.
37:34
Speaker 3: And I'm looking at a story here dated August the second,
37:39
Speaker 3: I guess.
37:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was last weekend.
37:41
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, this isn't People magazine. Sophie Cunningham's opposing
37:45
Speaker 3: coach pointedly wears Trans Kids Belong t shirt during game,
37:50
Speaker 3: So she wanted Sophie Cunningham to see that. She's all
37:53
Speaker 3: about the biological males competing in athletics. Now, you couldn't
37:59
Speaker 3: be any more ironic. Then that's your position. That is
38:06
Speaker 3: your position. And then last night gives an interview on
38:10
Speaker 3: a podcast. This is the same woman who wants trans
38:13
Speaker 3: kids to compete in women's sports. Here she is complaining
38:17
Speaker 3: that men are getting coaching jobs in the WNBA became.
38:22
Speaker 4: A man's job.
38:23
Speaker 12: And so to this day, we still don't have more
38:25
Speaker 12: women coaching in college basketball than we do men. So
38:28
Speaker 12: that same thing apply, that same thing when two years
38:32
Speaker 12: ago we lost seven WNBA coaches, right, they got fired
38:36
Speaker 12: because all of a sudden, this money, you know, became
38:39
Speaker 12: more the WNBA blew up valuation. Is a franchise is right.
38:43
Speaker 12: In comes the NBA folks again, who had cast us
38:46
Speaker 12: aside for many years. In they come again right now
38:50
Speaker 12: they want their franchises back and that sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: It's more important again.
38:55
Speaker 12: And then we have more men when we have NBA.
38:59
Speaker 3: So let's just be clear, Christopher. When the NBA men
39:05
Speaker 3: saw there was an opportunity to make money in the WNBA.
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Speaker 5: After it costs them millions of dollars over the years.
39:13
Speaker 3: That's well, and again that's still costing them. I think
39:16
Speaker 3: roughly forty million a year right now is what the
39:18
Speaker 3: NBA subsidizes the WNBA because there's not actually one team
39:21
Speaker 3: that actually makes a profit, including the Indiana team does
39:24
Speaker 3: not yet make a profit. But that's neither here nor there.
39:27
Speaker 3: Men saw an opportunity, they came in. Do we think
39:31
Speaker 3: that the WNBA again the Women's National Basketball Association, and
39:35
Speaker 3: the women are the general managers and a lot of
39:38
Speaker 3: them are the women owners. Do you think that they
39:40
Speaker 3: fired the women coaches and hired the male coaches just
39:43
Speaker 3: because they're male chauvinists, or do you think that they thought, Oh,
39:46
Speaker 3: these people are better at the job than the current
39:49
Speaker 3: women coaches we have, and we want to give ourselves
39:51
Speaker 3: a better opportunity to win.
39:54
Speaker 5: I'd stick to one argument at a time if I
39:56
Speaker 5: was Sheryl Reeve, I'm not sure she I'm not sure
39:58
Speaker 5: she wants to tackle this one is well.
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Speaker 3: So she doesn't want men competing for coaching jobs, but
40:04
Speaker 3: she wants them competing for athletic jobs, which she does
40:07
Speaker 3: not have. I guess, look, if you're telling me that
40:11
Speaker 3: Cheryl Reeve is willing to do whatever it takes to win.
40:13
Speaker 3: And if we can get a guy to wear a wig,
40:15
Speaker 3: and we can get some G League player to come
40:19
Speaker 3: on over and just change your name, oh well suddenly
40:22
Speaker 3: she'll be very good. She will dominate and will be
40:26
Speaker 3: the champions all of a sudden. But if they're competing
40:29
Speaker 3: for your job, hands off on that, says Cheryl Reeve.
40:33
Speaker 3: The irony on these people, it's it's ironic, how ironic
40:36
Speaker 3: they are. I just found that to be very rich,
40:40
Speaker 3: and I wanted to take a moment to share it
40:42
Speaker 3: all with you. On South Carolina's Morning News.
40:44
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40:49
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40:53
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40:59
Speaker 3: Now, you know, sometimes we talk about politics and news
41:04
Speaker 3: of the day, and sometimes it can be gloom and doom,
41:07
Speaker 3: and I don't like that. I like to lighten things
41:10
Speaker 3: up whenever possible, and whether I'm making fun of a
41:14
Speaker 3: politician or their policies or whatever, or sometimes just finding
41:17
Speaker 3: a feel good story. I meant to play this like
41:20
Speaker 3: a week ago, and I just saw that it was
41:22
Speaker 3: sitting there and I had not done anything with it.
41:25
Speaker 3: So this was from ABC News for in the low Country,
41:28
Speaker 3: and I'm just going to play a little clip of this.
41:29
Speaker 3: And again, this is not really necessarily news of the day,
41:32
Speaker 3: although a news channel did put it out.
41:34
Speaker 13: Summerville's James Fark he's been pretty darn good and he's
41:38
Speaker 13: only twenty three years old.
41:40
Speaker 14: I started when I was thirteen, so I had been
41:42
Speaker 14: doing it for ten years.
41:43
Speaker 13: An early start for a realistic reason.
41:46
Speaker 14: So I realized I would not excel at the high
41:51
Speaker 14: school level. So I still want to say connected to
41:55
Speaker 14: the game.
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Speaker 1: Amazing to many.
41:56
Speaker 13: He didn't do this as a part time job for
41:59
Speaker 13: a bit of extra cash.
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Speaker 14: He still doesn't so Little League is run by volunteers.
42:06
Speaker 14: Literal League prides himself on volunteerism, so I volunteer and
42:10
Speaker 14: just giving back to the community.
42:11
Speaker 13: He's given quite a bit, luckily realized for the latter
42:15
Speaker 13: reason we mentioned earlier. He's really excelled and just recently
42:19
Speaker 13: got some astoundingly big news.
42:22
Speaker 14: Told me I was going to Williamsport. So it was
42:24
Speaker 14: definitely a shock, because this is every Little League Empire stream.
42:27
Speaker 14: It's a tremendous honor. There's only twenty people each year
42:31
Speaker 14: that are.
42:31
Speaker 13: Chosen guaranteed four games, one at each position. His skill
42:36
Speaker 13: and grades dictate the rest.
42:38
Speaker 3: I just you know, look, you can watch that story
42:40
Speaker 3: all day. I almost get a little emotional watching this kid.
42:43
Speaker 3: James Fark, twenty three years old, realized he wasn't going
42:45
Speaker 3: to make it as a high school baseball player, never
42:47
Speaker 3: mind a major leaguer, and he said, I love baseball.
42:50
Speaker 3: How can I be a part of it. I'm sure
42:51
Speaker 3: he has a regular job, as he says, he has
42:52
Speaker 3: to volunteer to do this, and he's been recognized as
42:56
Speaker 3: one of the greatest umpires in all of Little League.
43:00
Speaker 3: Gets to go to Williamsport and do the Little League
43:02
Speaker 3: World Series? What in honor for him?
43:04
Speaker 4: That's a dream come true.
43:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, And Scott Iisberg, by the way, who did that
43:07
Speaker 5: story on ABC four is he worked here in this
43:10
Speaker 5: market for a little while in Columbia. So a great story
43:12
Speaker 5: by Scotty.
43:14
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I again for people, if any young people
43:18
Speaker 3: are listening, I don't. We do have some schools that
43:20
Speaker 3: are back already. And so maybe perhaps you have a
43:23
Speaker 3: great parent who's forcing you to listen to WVOC or WSC.
43:28
Speaker 3: But just or maybe even if you're in your middle
43:32
Speaker 3: ages and you're wondering, like, well, what can I do?
43:34
Speaker 3: Often times starting as a volunteer, volunteering your time, it's
43:39
Speaker 3: something that you're passionate about can lead to great prosperity
43:44
Speaker 3: possibly in the future. That's not the reason you do it.
43:46
Speaker 3: This guy has dreams of going to the major leagues.
43:48
Speaker 3: I would think that's a pretty good check on his resume. Hey,
43:50
Speaker 3: I was voted one of the twenty best umpires in
43:52
Speaker 3: the country at the Little league level, and then I
43:55
Speaker 3: ended up doing the Little League World Series and I
43:57
Speaker 3: did a great job there. Why wouldn't a college organization
44:01
Speaker 3: and or maybe a minor league division want to bring
44:03
Speaker 3: him up right now, and then by the time he's thirty,
44:06
Speaker 3: perhaps he's in the big leagues. Who knows how this
44:08
Speaker 3: plays out, but he's chasing his dreams. And look, that's
44:12
Speaker 3: one of the beautiful things about being in America. As
44:14
Speaker 3: long as the socialist starting control, we still have an
44:17
Speaker 3: opportunity to chase dreams.
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Speaker 5: Isn't that right, Christy and Williams sport is the dream
44:21
Speaker 5: for little leaguers. And I mean, it'll be fun to watch.
44:24
Speaker 5: We'll have to tune in to watch and see him
44:26
Speaker 5: on the field.
44:27
Speaker 3: Somerville's own congratulations, James Farkn, thanks for inspiring all South
44:31
Speaker 3: Carolinians this morning. This is South Carolina's morning news.
44:35
Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
44:38
Speaker 2: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
44:44
Speaker 2: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
44:47
Speaker 15: Now, Kelly Nash, I was talking with my dear old
44:51
Speaker 15: mom over the weekend, who lives in still behind enemy
44:55
Speaker 15: lines in Connecticut, and she said she has seen a
44:59
Speaker 15: lot of television ads lately, but none for Republicans.
45:03
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, I don't even know why anybody's
45:05
Speaker 3: advertising in Connecticut. I mean, maybe there's some sort of
45:07
Speaker 3: local house race or something, but I like, what is
45:10
Speaker 3: even going on up there? Well, then this morning I
45:12
Speaker 3: get this report from Kinetic Political Insights KPI data says
45:17
Speaker 3: that this is going to be the most expensive midterm
45:20
Speaker 3: in American history. Not surprising. We've already committed another one
45:25
Speaker 3: point two billion dollars in media buys across two hundred
45:30
Speaker 3: and nine markets. The number one market right now Cleveland, Ohio,
45:36
Speaker 3: they're going to get the most political advertising, followed by Detroit,
45:40
Speaker 3: Grand Rapids, Nashville, Miami, Lancing, Michigan for God's Lancing, Wow,
45:48
Speaker 3: and then Milwaukee. That's where most of the advertising is
45:51
Speaker 3: going to be spent. But when you look at just
45:54
Speaker 3: the entire midterms in general, according to KPI, this is
45:59
Speaker 3: going to be a ten point four billion dollar campaign season.
46:04
Speaker 3: A lot of this is not just going on radio
46:07
Speaker 3: and television. It's also going on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram. It's
46:12
Speaker 3: they're spending it everywhere. And interestingly, again we were talking
46:17
Speaker 3: about the Democrat headquarters is having a lot of problems
46:21
Speaker 3: raising money, outside groups not having hardly any problems at all.
46:26
Speaker 3: According to KPI, the Democrat aligned packs are out spending
46:32
Speaker 3: the Republicans five to one right now.
46:35
Speaker 5: Shows how badly they want to win these midterms. I mean,
46:38
Speaker 5: they're seeing races where they've got a chance, and they're
46:41
Speaker 5: putting their money where their mouth is.
46:42
Speaker 3: I wonder when I don't know the advertising laws or
46:48
Speaker 3: excuse me, they see pack or excuse me, Yeah, these packs,
46:51
Speaker 3: like when they get their money, you can't ask where
46:56
Speaker 3: it's coming from. And right in other words, like if
46:58
Speaker 3: I'm ay any citizen and I'm a billionaire and I
47:02
Speaker 3: want to stroke a check to some sort of you know,
47:05
Speaker 3: America first pack that happens to be a far left
47:09
Speaker 3: pack or whatever it is, you send them a check
47:13
Speaker 3: that that's not you're not interfering with the election.
47:16
Speaker 4: In other words, no, what I guess not so money.
47:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're donating money not to a Democrat candidate, You're
47:27
Speaker 3: but to a somebody who's adjacent to that candidate, who
47:31
Speaker 3: I understand, under federal law is not supposed to be
47:34
Speaker 3: aligning with them. They're not supposed to coordinate what their
47:37
Speaker 3: messaging will be. But it certainly is uh tempting. I
47:42
Speaker 3: would imagine for socialists around the world to want to
47:47
Speaker 3: get into American politics, because this is the biggest gem
47:51
Speaker 3: of them all. If you can get America to go socialists,
47:53
Speaker 3: then well there's little hope for the rest of the world.
47:57
Speaker 4: That there goes freedom as we know it.
47:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's the old line about Ronald Reagan.
48:01
Speaker 3: I remember I'll never forget the story when he was
48:03
Speaker 3: talking about a guy came from Cuba was telling these
48:06
Speaker 3: two guys from Florida about what it was like living
48:08
Speaker 3: in Cuba and how thankful he was to come here.
48:10
Speaker 3: And one guy said to the other, well, you don't
48:12
Speaker 3: know how lucky we got it, And he said the
48:14
Speaker 3: Cuban said, how lucky you got it? I had an
48:16
Speaker 3: America to escape to. What if America is to fall,
48:20
Speaker 3: then there's no place to escape to. Because if America
48:22
Speaker 3: is the fall, Australia is going, all of Europe's going,
48:26
Speaker 3: there will be no more freedom on earth. America is
48:29
Speaker 3: the only hope for the world right now when it
48:32
Speaker 3: comes to freedom. Of course, I would also say Jesus
48:35
Speaker 3: is the only hope of the world, but I have
48:38
Speaker 3: to just put that caveaut of there. But I will
48:40
Speaker 3: say that it'll be a lot it's a lot more
48:43
Speaker 3: miserable experience following Jesus or anybody else when you're in
48:46
Speaker 3: underneath a socialist regime.
48:48
Speaker 5: Some would argue that Europe is already at a tipping point,
48:50
Speaker 5: at least parts of Europe.
48:52
Speaker 3: Absolutely, no doubt, no question. You can see that happening,
48:55
Speaker 3: and you see like Italy is pushing back on it
48:57
Speaker 3: now and other countries are pushing back. But America, we
49:01
Speaker 3: are at a tipping point and they are out spending
49:04
Speaker 3: Republicans five to one right now to swing swing this election.
49:08
Speaker 3: It is. It is brutal what's happening here in the US.
49:12
Speaker 3: We'll have to watch again tonight. Big returns in Michigan again,
49:15
Speaker 3: two of the biggest television markets as far as spending
49:18
Speaker 3: goes in Michigan right now, I wonder why.
49:23
Speaker 4: I guess I'm pulling for Hailey Stevens.
49:25
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't really like either one of them,
49:27
Speaker 3: but I'm because I'm pulling for Haley Stevens. Then against
49:29
Speaker 3: Abdulla l said the radical Islamist slash democrat socialist. Gosh
49:36
Speaker 3: stuck between a rock and a hard place out there
49:38
Speaker 3: in Michigan. This is South Carolina's morning news.
49:40
Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the low Country. This is South
49:43
Speaker 2: Carolina's morning news on one O three point five FM
49:47
Speaker 2: and five sixty AM, WVOC and ninety four to three WSC.
49:52
Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
49:55
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting that they left has often said
49:59
Speaker 3: that the right is trying to rewrite history, that they're
50:03
Speaker 3: trying to leave out slavery, that they're trying to, you know,
50:06
Speaker 3: just gloss over the ugly parts of the American experience.
50:11
Speaker 3: And we've often pushed back and said, no, that's not
50:14
Speaker 3: the case. It's you well, doctor Jody Edward Jin I
50:19
Speaker 3: think is how you pronounce his last name. He is
50:22
Speaker 3: a former employee at the Smithsonian and a historian, a
50:26
Speaker 3: museum professional, and he said he had not been to
50:29
Speaker 3: the Smithsonian since twenty twelve, and he just made his
50:32
Speaker 3: first visit, and after his visit, he's telling Fox News
50:37
Speaker 3: from the moment I walked in, I'll say, it's a
50:39
Speaker 3: very different experience. It's it's yes, factually inaccurate a lot
50:47
Speaker 3: of the information that they're sharing with people, but more importantly,
50:50
Speaker 3: it's what they don't tell visitors, which is even more misleading.
50:54
Speaker 3: The biggest problem is what they're leaving out. And he
50:57
Speaker 3: goes on to explain that the way the left in
51:03
Speaker 3: the museum at the Smithsonian is rewriting history is to
51:06
Speaker 3: leave out some of the ugly stuff that the left
51:08
Speaker 3: has done.
51:09
Speaker 4: And the.
51:11
Speaker 3: Left is we live in South Carolina. We should be
51:15
Speaker 3: fully aware that the k kooks Klan was huge in
51:18
Speaker 3: the South Carolina politics. And who was running it the
51:21
Speaker 3: Democrat Party. Who was running these Jim Crow laws, the
51:25
Speaker 3: Democrat Party. The Democrat Party has not changed in any way.
51:29
Speaker 3: They've never changed. They didn't want to pass the Civil
51:32
Speaker 3: Rights Act. Go look at the votes from nineteen sixty four.
51:36
Speaker 3: Look at the Democrats. Look at the Republicans who overwhelmingly
51:40
Speaker 3: supported it. The Republicans, the Republicans were founded specifically for freedom.
51:45
Speaker 3: Look at Abraham Lincoln right on down through Ronald Reagan, everyone,
51:49
Speaker 3: and at Donald Trump. Donald Trump saying give the power
51:52
Speaker 3: back to the states. We don't want the federal government
51:55
Speaker 3: to have control over people. This guy makes a fantastic case.
51:58
Speaker 3: I encourage all of you to check that out on
52:00
Speaker 3: Fox News because it's this guy's bewilderment over what's going
52:04
Speaker 3: on at the Smithsonian is I think a very powerful
52:08
Speaker 3: indication as to how we're losing history in America.
52:10
Speaker 5: You were just in Washington, did you and your wife
52:13
Speaker 5: get a chance to visit the Smithsonian at all or she's.
52:15
Speaker 3: Into the art thing. So we went to the Museum
52:18
Speaker 3: of Art. I don't know if they've redone the art
52:20
Speaker 3: scene or not. It's funny. She has a video that
52:23
Speaker 3: she put up me and we were with another couple
52:25
Speaker 3: up there, and me and the husband, Lenny's his name, Lenny,
52:28
Speaker 3: and I there's like the only monette in the Smithsonian,
52:32
Speaker 3: and we're ignoring it, and we're looking at like sports
52:34
Speaker 3: scores on our phone or whatever. She put that up
52:37
Speaker 3: one monet and these two ignored it. Anyway, I'm not
52:41
Speaker 3: the art lover my wife is. But yeah, as far
52:44
Speaker 3: as it just goes to history, I am a history
52:46
Speaker 3: buff and I do not like the way the left
52:49
Speaker 3: has kind of militarized it against actual all American citizens.
52:54
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and more coming up on the Morning.
52:56
Speaker 1: News Live from the State Capitol.
52:59
Speaker 2: This South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash eight.
53:04
Speaker 3: Three and on the phone, Rory O'Neil, Good morning, sir.
53:09
Speaker 9: Hey there, Kelly, Happy Tuesday.
53:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot to get to in a
53:13
Speaker 3: short time. To get there, let's go. Let's first off,
53:18
Speaker 3: take a look at what's happening with Medicaid. There's a
53:22
Speaker 3: there's a new job requirement that's going into effect. Is
53:26
Speaker 3: that way today that it goes into effect.
53:29
Speaker 9: It depends on the state.
53:30
Speaker 16: So a lot of states are rolling this out because
53:32
Speaker 16: these work requirements say that you need to put in
53:35
Speaker 16: eighty hours of work or of volunteering or of education
53:40
Speaker 16: schooling eighty hours per month in order to continue to
53:43
Speaker 16: qualify for Medicaid benefits. Now it goes into effect for
53:47
Speaker 16: everyone on January first, but I think Nebraska this week
53:51
Speaker 16: started rolling it out also trying to test the system
53:54
Speaker 16: of how you prove that you put your eighty hours
53:56
Speaker 16: in what that system is going to be like.
53:58
Speaker 9: So states are soft.
54:00
Speaker 16: Rolling it out, and now that they have some new
54:02
Speaker 16: federal guidelines about also some of the exemptions that are
54:06
Speaker 16: going to be in effect for people that won't need
54:08
Speaker 16: to meet those requirements to still get the Medicaid benefit.
54:12
Speaker 3: I'm looking at. Obviously, a lot of left leaning media
54:15
Speaker 3: is just in tiers and hysterics over this, that this
54:19
Speaker 3: is the ending of America. Apparently, the idea that somebody
54:23
Speaker 3: would have to volunteer twenty hours a week to qualify
54:26
Speaker 3: for benefits or just show that you're looking for work,
54:28
Speaker 3: or you're training for a job, or something to that effect.
54:31
Speaker 3: In reality, is there any kind of studies that have
54:34
Speaker 3: been shown, nonpartisan studies that show what kind of an
54:38
Speaker 3: effect this would have that we're aware of.
54:41
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's tough because all this is relatively new. Some
54:44
Speaker 16: estimates have said that a few million people could. You know,
54:47
Speaker 16: the goal is to get active in people who can
54:50
Speaker 16: work working so that they can qualify for their own benefits.
54:53
Speaker 16: And this may be a kick on the backside to
54:55
Speaker 16: get more people to get their own jobs that provide
54:59
Speaker 16: the best If it's by some estimates, seven million people
55:02
Speaker 16: could be moved off the Medicaid rolls from is some
55:06
Speaker 16: doctors a word that this is going to be a
55:08
Speaker 16: burden for their offices, right if someone has to go
55:11
Speaker 16: to them to say, you know, I'm not healthy enough
55:14
Speaker 16: to go to work, or I didn't get my eighty
55:16
Speaker 16: hours this month, I got, you know, only seventy or
55:19
Speaker 16: whatever it may be. Suddenly now you've got doctors in
55:21
Speaker 16: this certification role and they're like, look, my lobby is
55:25
Speaker 16: busy enough. I don't need to start putting up with
55:28
Speaker 16: a lot more paperwork here. So that may be one
55:30
Speaker 16: of the hiccups moving forward is how this affects doctors offices.
55:34
Speaker 3: If there's any Somalians listening, This sounds like a great
55:36
Speaker 3: fraud opportunity, by the way.
55:39
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, well I was thinking, well, and then you
55:42
Speaker 16: know that's a legit concern, right, how many can.
55:44
Speaker 9: Say, oh no, I run, I run, you know, I
55:47
Speaker 9: run Kelly's Educational Institute.
55:49
Speaker 16: I'll sign off on your on your eighty hours every month,
55:53
Speaker 16: absolutely right, and then you know, you pay me one
55:55
Speaker 16: hundred bucks and I'll sign the form that says you
55:57
Speaker 16: did your eighty hours work for me.
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Speaker 9: I mean, you know, is that you know something that's
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Speaker 9: being created? Is it something else? We'll have to find out.
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Speaker 3: We're talking with Rory O'Neil. I noticed that the US
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Speaker 3: labor force participation rate. We started the century in January
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Speaker 3: of two thousand with sixty seven point three percent of
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Speaker 3: Americans who should are of working age actually working. We're
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Speaker 3: now down to sixty one and a half percent. So
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Speaker 3: that's a quite a drop from sixty seven point three
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Speaker 3: to sixty one point five as of June of twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty six.
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Speaker 9: Ten percent. It's a ten percent drop, yeah, and that's significant.
56:34
Speaker 3: And so there are there's clearly a bunch of Americans
56:38
Speaker 3: who are free loading at this point.
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Speaker 16: Well, right, and you know work has also changed, people
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Speaker 16: working at home and whether or not their side hustle's
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Speaker 16: coun or whatever it may be. But yeah, that participation
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Speaker 16: rate is a very important number when you look at
56:53
Speaker 16: the workforce. But there's also that disconnect of we're not
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Speaker 16: preparing people for the jobs that we need either.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 16: You know, we're seeing obviously big gaps in the tech sector.
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Speaker 9: But at the same time, you know, we're seeing.
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Speaker 16: Construction industries are desperate for workers in the old electrical
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Speaker 16: plumbing construction, you know, the sort.
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Speaker 9: Of labor intensive, use your hands kind of work.
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Speaker 16: A lot of shortfalls there in those particular sectors.
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Speaker 3: Rory, we're about to move on, but before we do,
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Speaker 3: I know you've been covering this Michigan primary tonight. What
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Speaker 3: does it look like right now? Is it going to
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Speaker 3: be the Socialist Abdul l said.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, it does seem that El say Ed, I think
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Speaker 16: that's pronounced, but doctor El Sayed does.
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Speaker 9: Seem to be leading.
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Speaker 16: It's very difficult to do polling for primaries because you
57:40
Speaker 16: never know who's going to show up in the middle
57:42
Speaker 16: of August or the early week of August to vote,
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Speaker 16: but he seems to be leading Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
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Speaker 9: Stevens is endorsed by sort of the old old school.
57:51
Speaker 16: Schumer Obama crowd there behind her, thinking that she will
57:55
Speaker 16: have a better chance against Republican Mike Rogers this November.
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Speaker 16: But el sayed he's got Bernie Sanders and AOC in
58:02
Speaker 16: that squad all supporting his campaign.
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Speaker 9: Seems to be getting a lot of.
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Speaker 16: Momentum with younger voters as well, and it looks like
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Speaker 16: he'll come out on top. So this really is a
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Speaker 16: referendum on where Democrats stand in August of twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 16: which is why everyone is paying so much attention to
58:18
Speaker 16: tonight's primary results.
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Speaker 3: I have not seen this. Maybe you know. Do we
58:23
Speaker 3: expect to have a result from the Michigan primary before
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Speaker 3: the end of the week.
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Speaker 9: Likely.
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Speaker 16: I think it's expected also because it's yeah, as it
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Speaker 16: looks right now, this could be a double digit loss
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Speaker 16: for Stevens.
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Speaker 3: It might be Wow, they're going to call the race early.
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Speaker 16: Possibly, well, it could be eight somewhere in that eight
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Speaker 16: to ten point range right now.
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Speaker 3: Wow, All right, Well, we'll have to.
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Speaker 9: See it again typical.
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Speaker 16: The primary polls are notoriously bad, so we'll see.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, thanks for your input. We certainly appreciate
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Speaker 3: your Rory O'Neil, and we'll be back with more on
58:59
Speaker 3: South Carolinas Morning News.
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Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: So it's I mean, a lot of us are talking
59:07
Speaker 3: about what happened last night South Carolina Republican primary debate
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Speaker 3: for Senate, but also yesterday you had a court case
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Speaker 3: going on where Danny Ford, who had run for the
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Speaker 3: ag Commissioner, is now suing the Republican Party and the
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Speaker 3: judge in Richland County, Daniel Coble. I'm just reading this
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Speaker 3: now from ABC News for repeatedly questioned whether the dispute
59:32
Speaker 3: raises constitutional concerns, as Ford seeks a court order requiring
59:37
Speaker 3: the party to certify him as a candidate in the
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Speaker 3: August eleventh special primary. Ironically, who Ford has hired as
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Speaker 3: his attorney is one of the biggest Democrats in the
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Speaker 3: tire state, Brad Huddo.
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Speaker 4: Sure, who wouldn't want to sue the Republicans.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's probably doing this pro bono.
59:56
Speaker 4: I'm a bit Democrat.
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Speaker 3: I'm guessing he's doing this one pro bono. I don't know, Brad.
1:00:01
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm told listens to the show. If that's the case,
1:00:03
Speaker 3: Brad'd love to hear what your thoughts are on this,
1:00:07
Speaker 3: but I'm sure you can't comment on an ongoing legal matter.
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Speaker 5: But how quickly, Kelly, are they going to reach this decision?
1:00:13
Speaker 5: I mean, danny Ford's already missing major events while he's
1:00:18
Speaker 5: contending this or all this court. This needs to be
1:00:22
Speaker 5: wrapped up soon. Early voting starts tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: I'll just read the last three sentences of the story.
1:00:29
Speaker 3: Danny Ford said the situation won't make or break me.
1:00:32
Speaker 3: I plan on devoting the rest of my life to
1:00:34
Speaker 3: public service. At the conclusion of the hearing, Coble then
1:00:37
Speaker 3: directed attorneys for both sides to submit their proposed orders
1:00:40
Speaker 3: by five pm Monday. The judge says he expects to
1:00:44
Speaker 3: issue a ruling shortly after reviewing those filings. Ford's attorneys
1:00:48
Speaker 3: are asking that the court order the election officials to
1:00:50
Speaker 3: place him on the ballot despite the approaching election deadline.
1:00:54
Speaker 3: So I mean, I get you know, today would be
1:00:56
Speaker 3: the soonest that that could happen. The order again Yesterday
1:01:00
Speaker 3: five pm is when they had to get their proposals
1:01:03
Speaker 3: into the judge. I guess Judge Coebl he's the son
1:01:07
Speaker 3: of Bob Cobel, right, the former Columbia mayor. Yes, so
1:01:10
Speaker 3: he had I guess you know, probably read that last night,
1:01:12
Speaker 3: maybe while watching the debates, thinking I wonder, I wonder
1:01:15
Speaker 3: how Danny would have done had he been in this debate.
1:01:17
Speaker 3: I don't know, but to me, this is one of
1:01:19
Speaker 3: the most It's like you, you you got smoked running
1:01:24
Speaker 3: for ag commissioner. You had to pay ten four hundred
1:01:27
Speaker 3: dollars to be considered for a candidacy. Here you I
1:01:31
Speaker 3: would think, you just be You've dodged a bullet. Here
1:01:33
Speaker 3: you can keep your ten thousand, four hundred dollars. Look
1:01:36
Speaker 3: at like, okay, so you got Gail for rails. You
1:01:39
Speaker 3: got I'm trying to discover through the people who didn't
1:01:42
Speaker 3: make the debate stage last night, because there's four of them, right,
1:01:44
Speaker 3: Duke Buckner. Duke Buckner's a legitimate candidate. He didn't get
1:01:47
Speaker 3: on the debate stage. You got Sam Shepherd, who is,
1:01:51
Speaker 3: by the way, a very impressive individual. I saw Sam speak.
1:01:55
Speaker 3: That guy's a genius. I don't know that I want
1:01:57
Speaker 3: him as a politician, but he's a genius and the
1:02:00
Speaker 3: things that he's scientifically worked on and benefited in the
1:02:03
Speaker 3: scientific community fantastic work. Who am I forgetting There's one
1:02:07
Speaker 3: other one that didn't make the debate stage, Mark McBride.
1:02:11
Speaker 3: All were Beach mayor Mark McBride. So there's four people
1:02:14
Speaker 3: who paid ten four hundred dollars to chase a dream
1:02:17
Speaker 3: and they didn't even make the debate stage. They're probably
1:02:21
Speaker 3: Duke is probably obviously the closest one. Those other three
1:02:25
Speaker 3: are probably pulling at about one percent ish. Why would
1:02:31
Speaker 3: Danny Ford want to spend ten thousand, four hundred dollars
1:02:33
Speaker 3: to get in on a race where he's probably going
1:02:35
Speaker 3: to come out with one percent of the vote. I
1:02:37
Speaker 3: have no there's in my mind I can't make that
1:02:40
Speaker 3: actually fit. And yet here he is fighting I legally
1:02:44
Speaker 3: got a legal He might be paying legal fees as well.
1:02:47
Speaker 3: I don't know. Again, possibly Brad Huddo, as a big Democrat,
1:02:51
Speaker 3: would take this case for free in order to just
1:02:53
Speaker 3: try to stick it to the Republican party. But if
1:02:56
Speaker 3: you're trying to get in good with Republicans, usually you
1:02:59
Speaker 3: don't use Democrats to sue Republicans. That's again I never
1:03:04
Speaker 3: went to politics school, but that's just my thought on it.
1:03:07
Speaker 5: Well, and the timing of this is just horrible, given
1:03:09
Speaker 5: the compressed schedule and everything forwards up against to begin with.
1:03:13
Speaker 3: And he waited in literally until like an hour before
1:03:16
Speaker 3: the thing closed, was it last Monday, in order to
1:03:19
Speaker 3: file the paperwork, and then he was rejected. And that's
1:03:21
Speaker 3: why we're where we're at this Monday. All right, there's
1:03:25
Speaker 3: that one story. We're going to have one of those
1:03:26
Speaker 3: congressional candidates calling in just after eight thirty. Excuse me,
1:03:30
Speaker 3: Senate candidates calling in after they eight thirty. This is
1:03:33
Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning News.
1:03:34
Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
1:03:38
Speaker 3: So last week we all saw Anthony Fauci. Most of us,
1:03:42
Speaker 3: not all of us, read a lot of Fauci's we'll
1:03:46
Speaker 3: say the highlights. I had very few, if any went
1:03:49
Speaker 3: through all thousand pages, but we did see where Fauci,
1:03:53
Speaker 3: for example, one of the great examples I thought was
1:03:56
Speaker 3: ten of the twelve scientists that he was meeting with
1:03:58
Speaker 3: said that it in all likelihood, there is no possible
1:04:02
Speaker 3: way for COVID to have come from a wet market
1:04:06
Speaker 3: it had to have been done by a scientist that
1:04:08
Speaker 3: in order to get the protein spike. Despite the fact
1:04:11
Speaker 3: that ten of the twelve said that, he went with
1:04:14
Speaker 3: the narrative that it was coming from a wet lab.
1:04:16
Speaker 3: It was just naturally created and somehow came out. And
1:04:19
Speaker 3: then when people would say non scientists or other scientists
1:04:23
Speaker 3: who didn't work for him said something along the lines
1:04:26
Speaker 3: of it looks like it probably came from a lab,
1:04:29
Speaker 3: he would call that a conspiracy theorist and have it
1:04:31
Speaker 3: shut down. He also said he never ordered or even
1:04:34
Speaker 3: requested that there would be any kind of school shutdowns
1:04:37
Speaker 3: or anything like that. And then his own personal notes
1:04:40
Speaker 3: you see where he's bragging that he called the mayor
1:04:43
Speaker 3: of New York City, the Governor of New York, the
1:04:45
Speaker 3: governor of California, the mayor of Washington, DC, numerous public officials,
1:04:50
Speaker 3: and then they did what he requested. So he lied
1:04:53
Speaker 3: to Congress about that. He lied about a lot of
1:04:55
Speaker 3: things and did a lot of damage to America. No
1:05:00
Speaker 3: in retrospect or do we know, because yesterday Dick Durbin
1:05:04
Speaker 3: went to the floor with.
1:05:05
Speaker 17: This subpoena doctor Fauci in friendly Congress for a hearing
1:05:10
Speaker 17: with the express goal of humiliating and vilifying him. For
1:05:15
Speaker 17: nearly three hours, my Republican colleagues be rated, cursed, and
1:05:19
Speaker 17: insulted a man who has dedicated his life to protecting
1:05:23
Speaker 17: the health of American families. This behavior is below the
1:05:28
Speaker 17: dignity of the Senate, but simply it was an embarrassment.
1:05:32
Speaker 3: He goes on to talk about what a hero Anthony
1:05:35
Speaker 3: Fauci is, and I've heard this from a lot of
1:05:36
Speaker 3: people on the left. I noticed that I don't hear
1:05:39
Speaker 3: it from Anthony Fauci. Do you're not hearing anything from
1:05:42
Speaker 3: Anthony Fauci, you know, because I mean, as a free
1:05:45
Speaker 3: citizen in the free country who's not under oath right now,
1:05:50
Speaker 3: Anthony Fauci has all the ability to go on Jimmy
1:05:53
Speaker 3: Kimmel or any of these types of TV shows that
1:05:56
Speaker 3: would be softball city for him and just talk about
1:06:00
Speaker 3: how Ran Paul, you could make up anything you want,
1:06:03
Speaker 3: Ran Paul edited my diaries, or just do the bold
1:06:06
Speaker 3: face lie, like maybe will play mom Donnie again with
1:06:09
Speaker 3: his bold face lie. Just say what you're what they
1:06:12
Speaker 3: put out there proves that I didn't do any of
1:06:14
Speaker 3: these things that they're accusing me of. Just say that,
1:06:16
Speaker 3: because that's where they're going. That's where Dick Durbin is.
1:06:19
Speaker 3: Dick Durbin is saying that what he saw proves that
1:06:23
Speaker 3: Tony Fauci at no point misled anybody at any point,
1:06:27
Speaker 3: and that the Republicans just put on a sham hearing
1:06:29
Speaker 3: for everybody. We're at a sad place where facts can't
1:06:34
Speaker 3: be acknowledged as facts. Tony Fauci lied by his own words,
1:06:41
Speaker 3: but according to the Left, he didn't lie, and that
1:06:44
Speaker 3: what you read backs up what Tony Fauci has always said.
1:06:48
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do with that. I don't
1:06:50
Speaker 3: know how we move forward as a society if we
1:06:55
Speaker 3: both read the exact same thing and you tell me
1:06:58
Speaker 3: it means the exact opposite of what I've just red.
1:07:01
Speaker 3: The sky is purple. You know you can't agree on
1:07:06
Speaker 3: the sky is blue. You can't agree on that. I mean,
1:07:09
Speaker 3: Tony Fauci lied. Is a very obvious conclusion to come
1:07:14
Speaker 3: to after you just read a couple of his emails,
1:07:16
Speaker 3: and you can go back again. We were talking about
1:07:18
Speaker 3: this earlier that the before COVID broke out as a
1:07:22
Speaker 3: national thing, it was kind of breaking In January of
1:07:26
Speaker 3: twenty twenty across the country, and one of his co
1:07:30
Speaker 3: workers sent him an email and asked, should I wear
1:07:33
Speaker 3: a mask?
1:07:33
Speaker 4: And he said, absolutely not. I wouldn't do anything to
1:07:36
Speaker 4: stop this. He knew that.
1:07:38
Speaker 3: In January of twenty twenty, then had a triple masking.
1:07:41
Speaker 4: Months later, we were all wearing them.
1:07:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, to the psychological damage of millions of people,
1:07:48
Speaker 3: not just children. Of course children were affected most by it,
1:07:51
Speaker 3: but many Americans. I saw a woman literally yesterday walking
1:07:56
Speaker 3: on Polo Road in northeast Columbia, all by herself, walking
1:08:00
Speaker 3: carrying a piece of cardboard for some reason, I don't
1:08:02
Speaker 3: know why, but she's wearing a mask as if she's
1:08:06
Speaker 3: going to get COVID. I see people driving in cars
1:08:09
Speaker 3: by themselves today, all alone, wearing a mask. What are
1:08:12
Speaker 3: you protecting yourself from your air conditioner? What are you
1:08:15
Speaker 3: protecting your Are you protecting others? Because that's what we
1:08:18
Speaker 3: were told. It doesn't really do as much to help
1:08:20
Speaker 3: you as it does to help others. That doesn't even
1:08:22
Speaker 3: make sense, but that's what Tony Fauci told us. So
1:08:24
Speaker 3: if you cared about others, you would wear a mask.
1:08:26
Speaker 3: If you cared about others, you'd take the vaccine. If
1:08:28
Speaker 3: you cared about others, you do exactly what the government
1:08:30
Speaker 3: tells you to do at all times. Most of us,
1:08:32
Speaker 3: not most of them, Most of us in this audience
1:08:34
Speaker 3: rejected that theory, and rightfully so, and then the science
1:08:37
Speaker 3: backed us up, although Dick Durbin would tell you that
1:08:39
Speaker 3: the science proves that you're wrong. Now, ah, so frustrating.
1:08:43
Speaker 3: All right, We're going to try to wrap this up
1:08:45
Speaker 3: and get get our friend Russell Fry on. I am
1:08:48
Speaker 3: running late, Russell Frye, get to the phone quick.
1:08:51
Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning News on one O three
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Speaker 2: point five FM, five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four
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Speaker 2: to three Now, Kelly Nash.
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm a minute behind schedule. It's eight thirty four,
1:09:06
Speaker 3: and so thank you for waiting, Congressman Russell fry good
1:09:09
Speaker 3: to have you on the show.
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Speaker 18: It's great to be here. Thanks thanks for having me
1:09:13
Speaker 18: this morning.
1:09:13
Speaker 3: Absolutely. First thing, how how what did we see last
1:09:17
Speaker 3: night as far as just you rating your own performance?
1:09:20
Speaker 3: How good or were you were you on your A game?
1:09:23
Speaker 3: Was that a B level performance? What do we think
1:09:25
Speaker 3: we saw from Russell fry last night?
1:09:28
Speaker 9: I'm got pretty good.
1:09:29
Speaker 18: I felt like we were prepared. We you know, it
1:09:31
Speaker 18: wasn't just identifying to look, every candidate can complain about
1:09:35
Speaker 18: the problems facing the country. There are there are several, right,
1:09:39
Speaker 18: every candidate can go on there and do that and
1:09:41
Speaker 18: really fill up forty five seconds, you know, outlining the problems,
1:09:46
Speaker 18: what people want to see, our solutions, how what are
1:09:49
Speaker 18: some of the steps that you would take to do that?
1:09:51
Speaker 18: And so I felt very quipped, you know, against the
1:09:55
Speaker 18: juxtaposition of all the candidates, that that we could identify
1:09:58
Speaker 18: problems but also provide within forty five seconds again solutions
1:10:02
Speaker 18: to those, how we would go about governing, how we
1:10:05
Speaker 18: would go about working with President Trump, And so I
1:10:07
Speaker 18: felt pretty good. You know, at the end of it,
1:10:10
Speaker 18: it's obviously a debate stage that televised. I usually like
1:10:13
Speaker 18: crowds of people, and so in that vein it was
1:10:16
Speaker 18: a little bit off because I'm used to speaking to
1:10:20
Speaker 18: people and talking with them.
1:10:22
Speaker 10: But I feel like we did really well.
1:10:24
Speaker 3: Russell Fry running for Senate, I thought one of your
1:10:26
Speaker 3: better moments was when you were talking about how the
1:10:28
Speaker 3: Senate needs to be shaken up. That kind of plays
1:10:32
Speaker 3: into this idea that you're young. I compare you to
1:10:37
Speaker 3: the the you know the Republican Revolution of ninety four
1:10:40
Speaker 3: when a whole new wave of young conservatives kind of
1:10:42
Speaker 3: came in. A lot of those young conservatives are still there.
1:10:47
Speaker 3: You're apparently hoping to lead the next wave of young
1:10:51
Speaker 3: conservatives coming in. You're only forty one. That make you
1:10:54
Speaker 3: even younger than doctor Annie Andrews, who you'd be facing
1:10:56
Speaker 3: off against if you're fortunate enough to win this primary
1:11:00
Speaker 3: and some Can you give us more examples of how
1:11:03
Speaker 3: you think you could kind of shake up the Senate?
1:11:07
Speaker 18: Well, I think structurally. Look, I'm an institutionalist. I love
1:11:09
Speaker 18: the institution, and with this Senate, I love that it
1:11:12
Speaker 18: considers itself the deliberative body, that there's where true debate happens.
1:11:16
Speaker 18: That they chew on things a little bit. The founders
1:11:19
Speaker 18: were very smart and wise in the way that they
1:11:21
Speaker 18: structured are bi cameral legislature. But the old rules are
1:11:26
Speaker 18: being manipulated in such a way to really stop anything.
1:11:29
Speaker 18: And if it was a policy disagreement, it's one thing,
1:11:33
Speaker 18: because debate encourages some sort of meeting of the minds. Right,
1:11:37
Speaker 18: this is a daytime between two sides that are locked
1:11:40
Speaker 18: in battle, but anymore, right now, what we're seeing is.
1:11:45
Speaker 18: You know, the Democrat establishment basically just says orange man bad,
1:11:48
Speaker 18: let's block everything. And I look at that and I say,
1:11:51
Speaker 18: the biggest victim in this whole ordeal are the American people.
1:11:55
Speaker 18: You know, the House of Representatives has two hundred bills
1:11:58
Speaker 18: plus bills that are in the Senate, sitting in the
1:12:01
Speaker 18: Senate waiting on a committee hearing, sitting in the Senate
1:12:04
Speaker 18: waiting on floor action, and there's nothing being done, even
1:12:07
Speaker 18: things that are broadly bipartisan. You know, we talked about
1:12:10
Speaker 18: the Save America Act just last night, but there are
1:12:12
Speaker 18: so many other bills that are passed unanimously, passed with
1:12:16
Speaker 18: near unanimous majorities. It takes a mountain of effort to
1:12:22
Speaker 18: move anything in the Senate. And it's because the Senate
1:12:24
Speaker 18: rules are archaic and they're not responsive to the voters.
1:12:27
Speaker 18: And I think that's why people are frustrated, because when
1:12:30
Speaker 18: they look at the gridlock of Washington, DC, when they
1:12:32
Speaker 18: look at the dysfunction and things not getting done, it's
1:12:36
Speaker 18: in the Senate that that happens. So obviously, I think
1:12:39
Speaker 18: the rules of engagement have to change, right that if
1:12:42
Speaker 18: the filibuster is going to be abused in such a
1:12:44
Speaker 18: capacity that you enforce a talking filibuster. It's not enough
1:12:48
Speaker 18: to just say filibuster. Okay, let's bring back mister Smith.
1:12:52
Speaker 18: Goes to Washington, pull in the cots, get the pillows,
1:12:55
Speaker 18: prepare for a late night, and you can talk as
1:12:57
Speaker 18: long as you want until you're blue in the face.
1:12:59
Speaker 18: You can talk until you can't talk anymore. But at
1:13:02
Speaker 18: the end, you're not going to deprive what a majority
1:13:05
Speaker 18: of the people of this country want. We're going to
1:13:07
Speaker 18: get the job done. And I think if you do
1:13:09
Speaker 18: that a few times, do you really instill a new
1:13:12
Speaker 18: muscle memory? Because people used to debate, They used to
1:13:15
Speaker 18: go to the floor and have these robust, lengthy debates.
1:13:19
Speaker 18: We don't really see that anymore.
1:13:20
Speaker 3: We talked about going to the mattresses or whatever. Corey
1:13:22
Speaker 3: Booker had go back to the depends.
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Speaker 4: But let's take a look at.
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Speaker 3: One of my friends, John sent me a text last night.
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Speaker 3: Here here was his question. I want to know, how
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Speaker 3: would they advise the president to end this war?
1:13:36
Speaker 4: Is it go all in? Is it maintained status quo?
1:13:40
Speaker 4: Is it just pull out?
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Speaker 3: Say mission accomplished, We've we got rid of the nuclear
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Speaker 3: weapons and kind of dramatically diminished your ballistic capabilities. How
1:13:48
Speaker 3: would what would Russell Fry's advice to the president be
1:13:51
Speaker 3: right now?
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Speaker 18: Well, I think I think the big thing is get
1:13:55
Speaker 18: some sort of agreement on the record, right, Get some
1:13:58
Speaker 18: sort of you know, the ORIGINALU right, gets something like
1:14:01
Speaker 18: that that two sides at least have a framework, right,
1:14:05
Speaker 18: And if it fails, then at that point I think
1:14:08
Speaker 18: that the President is passed with ensuring that the capabilities
1:14:14
Speaker 18: of Iran are depleted in such a way that they
1:14:17
Speaker 18: can't attack anything.
1:14:19
Speaker 4: Again.
1:14:19
Speaker 18: I think you can do this, and you should do
1:14:21
Speaker 18: this without putting troops on the ground. But look, you're
1:14:25
Speaker 18: not going to change forty years of intense zelotry against
1:14:30
Speaker 18: the West in the United States. You're not going to
1:14:32
Speaker 18: change that. Don't even try. We tried that in Iraq.
1:14:35
Speaker 18: It didn't work. We tried that in Afghanistan.
1:14:37
Speaker 4: It didn't work.
1:14:38
Speaker 18: Let them hate us, but let them hate us with
1:14:40
Speaker 18: no capability to do anybody any harm. And if they
1:14:44
Speaker 18: don't have that capability, then at that point you can
1:14:47
Speaker 18: control the commerce through the strait of hormoose. Trade is
1:14:51
Speaker 18: opened back up again. And let them sit in their
1:14:53
Speaker 18: sandbox and hate the West and hate the United States.
1:14:55
Speaker 18: But they're not going to attack our allies. They're not
1:14:57
Speaker 18: going to attack their Arab neighbor, They're not going to
1:15:00
Speaker 18: attack Israel or the United States. They don't have that
1:15:03
Speaker 18: capability anymore. And so I think, look, having that agreement
1:15:06
Speaker 18: is a foundational principle. Do I think they'll honor it, No,
1:15:09
Speaker 18: But I think that's the first step. Again, this is
1:15:14
Speaker 18: you know, this is the thought of Iran having a
1:15:17
Speaker 18: nuclear weapon that I always go back to that and go,
1:15:21
Speaker 18: what would it be like? Well, it would be much
1:15:22
Speaker 18: more destabilized. You would have you know, amendous amount, a
1:15:26
Speaker 18: tremendous amount of disruptions in the Middle East. And so
1:15:29
Speaker 18: you got to be able to defang the Iranians from
1:15:31
Speaker 18: having that capability and gone to the days where we're
1:15:33
Speaker 18: just going to ignore this. And that's I think President
1:15:35
Speaker 18: Trump sadly inherited this problem that has not been dealt
1:15:39
Speaker 18: with for decades. So that's how at least I would
1:15:42
Speaker 18: advise the president.
1:15:43
Speaker 3: I'm doing this Russell Fry running for Senate. I hope
1:15:45
Speaker 3: you'll hang on just a second. We're going to take
1:15:47
Speaker 3: a break here and be back with more. But we
1:15:50
Speaker 3: certainly wish you all the best. Again, it's all going
1:15:52
Speaker 3: to be over here in like just over a week.
1:15:54
Speaker 3: My gosh, this is the fastest primary season ever. So
1:15:57
Speaker 3: best to luck to you.
1:15:58
Speaker 18: Sir, Yeah, thank you, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 3: All right back on at eight forty six. My gosh,
1:16:24
Speaker 3: Kelly is doing three shows at once here. I give
1:16:28
Speaker 3: him credit. The man is the busiest man in show business.
1:16:30
Speaker 3: But Kelly is literally podcasting. He's yesting this show, and
1:16:36
Speaker 3: we're lining up guests for tomorrow. I'm working with the
1:16:38
Speaker 3: Sanford people right now. I'm trying to get him on that.
1:16:40
Speaker 3: We got a lot going on over here, everybody, But again,
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Speaker 3: South Carolina's Morning.
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Speaker 4: News deserves that absolutely.
1:16:47
Speaker 3: You people demand to be plugged into the news of
1:16:50
Speaker 3: the day, not just the national news, but the local news.
1:16:53
Speaker 3: And we got a great insight last night. I was
1:16:57
Speaker 3: actually off the are talking a little bit with Russell
1:16:59
Speaker 3: Fry about what what his take was. We talked up
1:17:01
Speaker 3: a little bit of about it on the air, but
1:17:04
Speaker 3: we also have been taking people's talkbacks as well, and please,
1:17:08
Speaker 3: if you have some thoughts on last night's debate, I'd
1:17:12
Speaker 3: love to hear it, you know, And that's what the
1:17:13
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app has as the talkback feature. I don't know
1:17:16
Speaker 3: that we got a whole lot of separation or any
1:17:19
Speaker 3: new insights last night. I thought that for Darlene Graham,
1:17:23
Speaker 3: who a lot of people have been focused on, it's
1:17:26
Speaker 3: rather obvious that the name is Darlene Graham. We're not
1:17:29
Speaker 3: going to nordown. That's not an option. And I thought
1:17:34
Speaker 3: that her best moment of the night was seemed to
1:17:36
Speaker 3: be off the cuff, although it may have been scripted,
1:17:38
Speaker 3: when she said to Mark Lynch that you keep bringing
1:17:42
Speaker 3: up my brother. I think it's because he keep beating
1:17:44
Speaker 3: you and now you're afraid you're going to lose to
1:17:46
Speaker 3: his little sister.
1:17:46
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:17:47
Speaker 3: I thought that was her best night.
1:17:48
Speaker 5: Her best moment maybe some criticism on social media for
1:17:51
Speaker 5: being a little too reliant on her notes.
1:17:54
Speaker 3: We did take a talkback on that from a guy
1:17:56
Speaker 3: who said he didn't bother him that she was using
1:17:58
Speaker 3: her notes. It did bother other people that she kept
1:18:01
Speaker 3: referring to her notes. I like a lot of South
1:18:04
Speaker 3: Carolinians are more concerned about the fact, whether it's me
1:18:09
Speaker 3: or anybody we the local, the statewide media has not
1:18:13
Speaker 3: had an option of talking with her, and that has
1:18:17
Speaker 3: been I guess by design. Some are calling it the
1:18:22
Speaker 3: Biden strategy, and I don't know.
1:18:25
Speaker 4: Maybe it'll work, maybe it will work.
1:18:27
Speaker 3: But I would I would think that you would want
1:18:29
Speaker 3: to get out there and sell yourself to the American
1:18:32
Speaker 3: people because or excuse me, the South Carolinians, because Christopher,
1:18:36
Speaker 3: you pointed it out so eloquently. Nobody expected this true,
1:18:40
Speaker 3: and it was.
1:18:42
Speaker 5: We thought she was simply filling out the slot until
1:18:45
Speaker 5: the election was held and the new Congress took over
1:18:48
Speaker 5: in January.
1:18:49
Speaker 3: And we've read reports that not that I've heard it
1:18:52
Speaker 3: from him, but we've read reports that people around the
1:18:54
Speaker 3: governor were he was shocked when she and Trump kind
1:18:59
Speaker 3: of launched this plan.
1:19:01
Speaker 5: What And there's another debate tonight down in the low
1:19:05
Speaker 5: Country and she will not be there. She said, she
1:19:08
Speaker 5: has to get back to the Senate, so she will
1:19:10
Speaker 5: be of the of the five candidates that were on
1:19:12
Speaker 5: the stage last night, only four will be on that
1:19:14
Speaker 5: stage tonight in the low Country.
1:19:16
Speaker 3: Well, why don't they make room for Duke?
1:19:19
Speaker 4: That's a good question.
1:19:20
Speaker 3: You could bring Duke on nowhere? Where is that going
1:19:23
Speaker 3: to air?
1:19:23
Speaker 4: That is next Star?
1:19:25
Speaker 5: So Channel two in Charleston, A couple of other markets.
1:19:30
Speaker 5: Charlotte is holding that one as we're hosting that one
1:19:34
Speaker 5: as well. BTW in Myrtle Beach, SBA in Spartanburg, Savannah
1:19:39
Speaker 5: and Augusta will also have it.
1:19:40
Speaker 3: So you're telling me in Columbia, I can't see.
1:19:42
Speaker 5: It, Well, you'd have to go online to the Charleston
1:19:46
Speaker 5: TV station's website.
1:19:47
Speaker 3: Who is this Next Star?
1:19:48
Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying? Yes, boy, oh boy. You
1:19:51
Speaker 4: guys got to do a little bit better job.
1:19:52
Speaker 3: If you're gonna have a South Carolina debate, you should
1:19:55
Speaker 3: at least include the capital of South Carolina. They don't
1:19:59
Speaker 3: have a station to buy one or rent some time?
1:20:02
Speaker 3: Do they still do block programming? Maybe you could buy
1:20:04
Speaker 3: an hour on LTx or something like that. I don't know.
1:20:07
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be back with more on South Carolina's
1:20:09
Speaker 3: Morning News. South Carolina's Morning News has been a busy day.
1:20:12
Speaker 3: We will have the Russell Fry podcast and the Ralph
1:20:15
Speaker 3: Norman podcast up soon.