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Show Rewind 7-30-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM w VOC, Columbia
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  Speaker 1: and ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash, and.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to you at six three.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, A lot of news to get to from yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, we'll start just kind of reliving a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about yesterday's ceremonies for Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 3: And good morning to you, Christopher Thompson. Good morning, Keilly.
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  Speaker 4: The uh, the funeral I thought was beautiful. I loved
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  Speaker 4: all the stories, you know, the uh, you know, Lindsey
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  Speaker 4: Graham getting himself all worked up yelling at the energy
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  Speaker 4: commissioner or whatever, and you know, Lindsay gotta calm down.
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  Speaker 4: That's rich coming from you, sir. The Trey Goudy joke
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  Speaker 4: about being chained to whomever.
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  Speaker 3: And then, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I thought Trey Goudy was great yesterday. And I mean,
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  Speaker 5: if you wanted to sum up, and I didn't expect
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  Speaker 5: Trey Gouty to speak.
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  Speaker 3: That long, I mean twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 5: It was over twenty minutes, and but just told some
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  Speaker 5: great stories and kind of you got the sense of
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  Speaker 5: who Lindsey Graham was as a person. We all know
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  Speaker 5: who he is as a politician, but you got the
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  Speaker 5: sense of who he was behind the scenes, and we
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  Speaker 5: don't often get a look at some of our elected
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  Speaker 5: officials behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the when he used the I think it
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  Speaker 4: was Trey who used the analogy that South Carolinians could
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  Speaker 4: see themselves in Lindsay, in the sense that here's this
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  Speaker 4: guy from some you know, middle of nowhere, little tiny
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  Speaker 4: town in South Carolina with you know, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't have the best start in life, ends up.
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  Speaker 4: You know, at his funeral, You've got world dignitaries coming
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  Speaker 4: to this kid's funeral. It's amazing what he was able
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  Speaker 4: to accomplish. And that's what he was saying. That's what
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina is. South Carolina punches above its way. We
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  Speaker 4: are yes, we're rowdy, we are you know, the head
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  Speaker 4: of the rebellion. We are the people who will lead
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  Speaker 4: that charge. But we have a major influence in this country.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that that is part of the DNA
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  Speaker 4: of a South Carolinian.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, a small state with an outsized influence on the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and so celebrated by the one of the funnier
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  Speaker 4: if you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy. Uh, it's a
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  Speaker 4: it's a funny movie, but supposed to be like three
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  Speaker 4: hundred years in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's been dumbed down and.
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  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah, and some people are saying it's already
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  Speaker 4: coming true today. But one of the points was that
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  Speaker 4: the presidential State of the Union address that was being
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  Speaker 4: given by this his name Terry Tait, who is at
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  Speaker 4: that point like the former WWE champ, and he's all
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  Speaker 4: ripped up and he's, you know, he's saying all these
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  Speaker 4: crazy things from the thing. He's like and I've got solutions,
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  Speaker 4: and a group of people stand up in front of
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  Speaker 4: him and go.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know, blank, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: And so even three yeers in the future, they're expecting
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  Speaker 4: us to be the rowdiest group out there.
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  Speaker 3: I see Maurice.
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  Speaker 4: Maurice's Piggy Park had a visit from Hannity and uh
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  Speaker 4: Ainsley Earhart yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. Yeah, I don't know if that's the one.
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  Speaker 4: My son works at one of those, Maurice, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: sure if I don't think it was this one because
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  Speaker 4: it's up northeast, although it might have been because Ainsley's
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  Speaker 4: from the Wildwood community. And my son, for those of
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  Speaker 4: you who don't know, is autistic, and uh so I'm
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  Speaker 4: always thankful when he gets an opportunity. So he works
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  Speaker 4: a little bit at the drive through, I think, and
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  Speaker 4: he also does like some cleaning up at Maurice's and so.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have to ask him today, Hey, did you meet
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  Speaker 3: Sean Hannity?
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  Speaker 4: He might not even know who Sean Hannity is, but
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of cool that they were in town yesterday
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  Speaker 4: for the events.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure they caused a little buzz. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean Maurice's thought enough of it to get
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  Speaker 4: a picture and put it up all over social media today. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, beautiful ceremony. Rest in peace, Lindsey gre Now
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  Speaker 4: that's I think that's all we're going to say about him.
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  Speaker 4: I think we're going to start focusing now all on
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  Speaker 4: what this is a crazy race that we've got going
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  Speaker 4: into right now.
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  Speaker 3: I've never been seeing anything like this.
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  Speaker 4: We're just a couple of weeks to pick your next
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  Speaker 4: senator for the most part, because I know the general
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  Speaker 4: elections not till November, but whoever wins the Republican primary
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  Speaker 4: in all likelihood is going to be the next Senator
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  Speaker 4: from South Carolina for the next six years. And some
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  Speaker 4: of these people you don't know hardly anything about. I
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  Speaker 4: did reach out yesterday. I waited till after the ceremony
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  Speaker 4: to send my email to ask about Darlene Graham. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we'll find out what we get back on that. I
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  Speaker 4: did see Russell Frye yesterday. He is going to be
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  Speaker 4: on the show. Well, I'm going to talk to him
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  Speaker 4: today and then we'll play that back tomorrow. Fantastic. I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to think, is are there people that like we
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  Speaker 4: feel like we're missing that we need to get on
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  Speaker 4: the show.
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  Speaker 3: Other than Darlene and Russell.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you've had Ralph Norman, You've had Mark Sanford, you've
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  Speaker 5: had Mark Lynch.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any other serious contenders?
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  Speaker 4: Jesus Jesus didn't get in right, Jesus was denied at
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  Speaker 4: the polling station.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if there's anybody.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, if there is people that you
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  Speaker 4: think we should be talking to that we haven't had
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  Speaker 4: on yet regarding this, because we're going to be hyper
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  Speaker 4: focused on the Senate race for the next two weeks
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  Speaker 4: or so, just let us know us The talkback feature
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  Speaker 4: by the way, Christopher, I meant to tell you, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I met a like a district chair. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: he's listening this early, but he's down in, uh somewhere
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  Speaker 4: in the low Country. He was he was up here
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  Speaker 4: yesterday for the events and we were talking and he
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  Speaker 4: was he apparently has used the talkback feature in the past.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, And so I said, well, identify yourself, Republican
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  Speaker 4: County chair. So and so I think his name is
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  Speaker 4: Terry possibly, And I said, and then, Christopher, and I
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  Speaker 4: will try to give you your due, sure and get
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  Speaker 4: you on if possible, but yes, use your talkback feature
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  Speaker 4: on the iHeartRadio app and we'll get a lot to
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  Speaker 4: you know, the Fauci thing yesterday. We'll have to break
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  Speaker 4: some of that down next on South Carolina's Morning News from.
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  Speaker 2: The Midlands to the low Country.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety
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  Speaker 1: four to three WSC.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: I mean one hundred and eleven times.
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  Speaker 6: On the Advisive Council, I respectfully declined to answer based
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  Speaker 6: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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  Speaker 4: It was a clown show when they're asking him what
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  Speaker 4: color is tie is and he's.
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  Speaker 3: Pleading the fifth. He really was. I mean, look, he's nothing.
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  Speaker 4: If he's not disciplined, he will he will repeat the
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  Speaker 4: fifth over and over again. It was for those of
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  Speaker 4: you who didn't get a chance to watch the testimony yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: it was literally that all day, although, as is with
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  Speaker 4: most congressional hearings, it was a lot of grand standing
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  Speaker 4: on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: Of the aisle. Both Yeah, Andy was his name? Andy Kim?
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  Speaker 3: Is that his name?
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  Speaker 4: The senator from New Jersey has decided to read the
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  Speaker 4: you know the Man in the Arena speech as a
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  Speaker 4: tribute to Tony Fauci, which was so random. As he's
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  Speaker 4: sitting there saying I don't have the courage to answer
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  Speaker 4: any of these questions.
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  Speaker 3: It is the man in the arena who it does?
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  Speaker 4: What's with It was just a very odd scene yesterday
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  Speaker 4: in Washington. But Christopher, I felt like for me personally,
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  Speaker 4: and I think a lot of other Americans when I
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  Speaker 4: kind of have suppressed my feelings about what happened to
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  Speaker 4: Americans in that window and yesterday kind of brought him
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  Speaker 4: back up.
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  Speaker 5: For me, Well, we've all tried to get past COVID,
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  Speaker 5: and what we realized is, you know, we can't ever
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  Speaker 5: make those mistakes again. But you're right, yesterday brought it
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  Speaker 5: all to the forefront, because that was you saw Republicans
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  Speaker 5: and you know, Fauci wouldn't say anything, so it just
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  Speaker 5: gave them the chance to tee off on him, and
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  Speaker 5: you saw the anger they had. Really, it was manifested
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  Speaker 5: from the people. I mean, we all felt that way,
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  Speaker 5: and we feel that way even more after learning more
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  Speaker 5: about what Fauci was saying and doing behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact that he knew very early on that
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  Speaker 4: schools were not spreading it, and yet he kept the
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  Speaker 4: schools closed, that is Oh my god, that is like
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  Speaker 4: pure evil. Kids are in a phase of life where
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  Speaker 4: they're trying to wire their brains and a big part
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  Speaker 4: of that is socially, how do we interact with other
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  Speaker 4: human beings? And the masks were bad enough, that did damage.
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  Speaker 4: But then to say you can't go see your friends.
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  Speaker 4: You're ten years old, You're not allowed to have friends. Now,
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  Speaker 4: how's that sound. I'm Tony Fauci and the good of
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  Speaker 4: the country. You're no longer allowed to have friends. You
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  Speaker 4: have to sit in your bedroom by yourself alone with
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  Speaker 4: a mask on.
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  Speaker 3: That was insane.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I had forgotten how angry I was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: with these mandates of you know, you got to get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 4: I remember going to Connecticut to visit my mother, and again,
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  Speaker 4: obviously South Carolina way ahead of the curve when it
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  Speaker 4: came to leadership and the science on it, although many
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  Speaker 4: here would say not early enough, but compared to other states,
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  Speaker 4: way out in front. And I went up, I want
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  Speaker 4: to say it was in maybe early twenty twenty two to.
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  Speaker 3: Visit my mother.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to the hotel and it says on
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  Speaker 4: the front door you're not allowed to enter unless you're
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  Speaker 4: staying here on official business. Like what kind of a
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  Speaker 4: does do the germs care if I'm here on official
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  Speaker 4: business or not? So I basically I didn't lie. I
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  Speaker 4: implicated that. I guess, you know, in the bigger sense
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  Speaker 4: of the word, I did, because I just pulled out
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  Speaker 4: my Ihart Media badge and I said I'm here with
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  Speaker 4: Ihurt media and she said, oh, okay, you can stay.
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  Speaker 4: Even though I had a reservation. They were gonna if
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  Speaker 4: I had said I'm here to visit my mother. Oh
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, that's personal business. You're gonna have to go
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  Speaker 4: somewhere else. It was a ludicrous time in our nation's history.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, as I'm looking for the good in this,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I squashed that feeling for a while,
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  Speaker 4: and I think a lot of other Americans did. We
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  Speaker 4: like to just move on if possible, But this is
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  Speaker 4: a fresh reminder as you head into the midterms that
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are psychopaths when it comes to power.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, and we didn't know, I mean even then,
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  Speaker 5: even now, I don't think we know the full extent
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  Speaker 5: of the cover up of the lies that we were told,
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  Speaker 5: you know, to keep America healthy, and the extent of
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  Speaker 5: just you know, how far this went. And one man,
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  Speaker 5: I think at one point he was called yesterday the
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  Speaker 5: most powerful and most despicable bureaucrat in American history.
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  Speaker 3: That may be the case.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And him, who is a not only a megalomaniac
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  Speaker 4: but also an egomaniac, got this. This is I mean, look,
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  Speaker 4: you're not I don't believe Fauci's gonna ever go to
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  Speaker 4: a jail or anything like that. I know a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people are holding out hope that they're going to
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  Speaker 4: hold him in contempt and all this other stuff. But
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  Speaker 4: I think that for him to know how he's what
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  Speaker 4: is he eighty five? By the way, if I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to be complimentary his skincare routine, he's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty good. What is it? What's the secret?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but that he is going to live
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  Speaker 4: the rest of his days, however long or short.
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  Speaker 3: That may be. Understanding that his name is mud.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it should always come the disgraced doctor Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and and anybody who is still basing their you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: their decisions off things that he said, you need to
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  Speaker 4: have your head checked because he again.
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  Speaker 3: Well he didn't believe it anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I mean, I love the fact that in
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  Speaker 4: his own diaries he said he was talking about how
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  Speaker 4: surprised he was that he got COVID like two weeks
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  Speaker 4: after you.
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  Speaker 3: Got vaccine eighty. It's like, well, wait a second.
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  Speaker 4: So if you know that this doesn't work, and then
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  Speaker 4: you got people like Rachel Madcow and the president at
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  Speaker 4: the time going and once you get it, it ends
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  Speaker 4: with you. Well, Tony Fauci knew that was a lie,
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  Speaker 4: but anyway, that is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: So if you have thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I was listening to Jesse Kelly last night on WVOC,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know how long you went for, but
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  Speaker 4: I probably listened to thirty or forty minutes of people
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  Speaker 4: writing in and calling in, just talking about their remembrances
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  Speaker 4: of how miserable it was and the awful things that
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  Speaker 4: happened to them, jobs that were lost. There was one
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  Speaker 4: where like thirty eight state troopers were fired because they
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't take the vaccine and so many careers ruined and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and again all because of Tony Fauci. So we'll leave
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  Speaker 4: it there for now, but if you have thoughts, use
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  Speaker 4: the talkback feature at South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the State Capitol.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, I think I'm on a tight break here,
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  Speaker 4: so I will just tell you that Thursday morning, that
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  Speaker 4: is today, the Central Intelligence Agency says that the China
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  Speaker 4: they now have more information on China and their attempts
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  Speaker 4: to interfere in American elections. And I'm thinking, as I'm
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  Speaker 4: reading through this story quickly, that it looks like they
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  Speaker 4: might be being partnered with by some in the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 4: So that is that is that could be a massive
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  Speaker 4: story that's getting started today by the CIA, so we
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  Speaker 4: will we will cover that. I also coming up, Christopher,
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  Speaker 4: we've been talking about flock cameras yes and good days
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  Speaker 4: and bad days. Yesterday, I mean we've had we had
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  Speaker 4: multiple arrests both for using and others abusing the flock cameras.
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  Speaker 4: We can break that down here in South Carolina. Next,
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 4: So it was a big day for flock cameras in
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina. It started when the Greenville County sheriff had
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  Speaker 4: a podcast yesterday and announced that he had just fired
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  Speaker 4: I think two of his deputies that morning for misusing
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  Speaker 4: the law enforcement tool known as flock cameras. He said,
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  Speaker 4: it's never easy to end someone's employment, but just like
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  Speaker 4: misusing any other piece of equipment, we knew that there
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  Speaker 4: would have to be severe impact if they misused this equipment,
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  Speaker 4: and so they were fired. Also yesterday fired in Richland
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  Speaker 4: County another deputy. This guy's thirty five years old, according
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  Speaker 4: to the department. A routine audit by the county's Professional
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  Speaker 4: Standards Division found that the flock system had been accessed
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  Speaker 4: by the deputy for it, and whatuld they just say
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  Speaker 4: is non law enforcement purposes.
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  Speaker 3: Now I wish they had told us what those non.
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  Speaker 4: Law enforcement purposes were, Christopher, I think you and I
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  Speaker 4: tend to lean towards you.
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  Speaker 5: Is tracking women, it could be that we've seen cases
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  Speaker 5: of that before across the country.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe at the same time, you know, you've got
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  Speaker 4: police agencies, you know, bragging on how fantastic it's working
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  Speaker 4: for them, including down on James Island where they have
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  Speaker 4: solved multiple hit and run and a couple I think
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  Speaker 4: missing children and violent crimes, according to Lieutenant Shawn James
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  Speaker 4: the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, Like, where's another one that
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  Speaker 4: I had? Oh, eighty six year old woman found safe
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  Speaker 4: in South Carolina thanks to the help of flock cameras.
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  Speaker 4: So it's one of these things where it's like, the
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  Speaker 4: only answer I have is the original checks and balances,
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  Speaker 4: Like maybe you can't access flock camera data without somebody
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  Speaker 4: else being in the room. It's kind of like at
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  Speaker 4: the church, like when they count the tides, you have
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  Speaker 4: to have two or three people together to do it.
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  Speaker 4: We can't just allow anybody to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 5: I think these arrests and dismissals by Greenville and Richland
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  Speaker 5: County show that there is a system in place, there
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  Speaker 5: is oversight. It's a shame they didn't, you know, catch
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  Speaker 5: these guys when they were actually doing it, these deputies,
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  Speaker 5: but nonetheless they were caught, and so there is I
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  Speaker 5: think there is enough oversight to to justify, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all the good that these flock cameras do, and like.
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  Speaker 4: You said, they apparently are doing some wonderful things that
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  Speaker 4: we had not been able to do previously. But then
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  Speaker 4: whenever there's crime, I think most people believe that there's
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of crime that's never solved or never even discovered,
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  Speaker 4: like we don't know what that they did it, or
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  Speaker 4: how they accessed it or whatever. So there's still going
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  Speaker 4: to be a lot of concerns about these flock cameras.
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  Speaker 4: We were talking about was it Beaufort that they had
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  Speaker 4: knocked a couple of them down, and then you had
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  Speaker 4: was it Kershaw County or something where they had sawed
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  Speaker 4: some down. Yeah, so a lot of you know, people
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  Speaker 4: are very upset about these flot cameras, and yet it's
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  Speaker 4: one of those things where whether it's nineteen eighty four
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  Speaker 4: or not, big Brother is going to be watching us
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  Speaker 4: more and more. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean there are cameras everywhere already, mostly security cameras,
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  Speaker 5: but obviously these cameras are you know, next level when
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: it comes to technology. We're still getting a handle on
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: how technology helps in law enforcement. I think about these
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: these shot trackers that the police are using now, where
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: you know, they've actually got audio evidence when a shot
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: is fired. But it doesn't always work. We've heard examples
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: of you know, for example, kids shooting off fireworks and
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: suddenly the police swarm because it triggered the shot tracker. Yeah,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: that the police used. So it's it's not perfect yet,
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: but it gives law enforcement an edge on not only
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the bad guys, but also finding As you pointed out,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: you know elderly who are you know if a wandered missing,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: or you know, kids who are seeing If it gives
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: law enforcement an edge, I'm.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: All for it. Yeah. I think we all are.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: It's just the abuse factor, which is why I'm saying
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I think we need maybe a little bit more in
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: the checks and balances.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: A little more oversight. Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Well, just again, my answer is you can't access the
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: flock camera data without another debt. Now, of course, you
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: could find yourself a cohort. You could find you can
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: find yourself a partner in crime. Even in law enforcement,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: we've seen that happen where you've had several deputies arrested
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: at the same time because they were engaging. Oh how
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: about what we was it yesterday? We were talking about
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: McBee where they where they're basically the whole dang police department.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: It seemed like was getting arrested along with the mayor. So,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, nothing ever is going to be perfect. But
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I agree with you. It's it's funny because when I
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: watch old television shows now, my wife and I we
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: like to watch like shows from the seventies and eighties,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, why don't you just go to the
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: security camera. Why don't you check their cell phones? It's
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: so much if you distract the cell phone data. But anyway, yes,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: law enforcement is getting a lot more powerful, and depending
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: on which side of the law you come down on,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I guess that's a good thing or a bad thing.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: But there are a lot of privacy concerns amongst South Carolinians,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: and unfortunately, some of these police now former police officers.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Some of them are now incarcerated. Police officers are not
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: making us feel any better about it, but we will
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: keep an.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Eye on that.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: If you have thoughts on flock cameras, let us know
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: on the talkback feature at South Carolina's Morning News.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly nash Okay.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: According to CBS News, the White House Thursday morning that's
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: now released a statement from its spy agency chiefs. So
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I'm assuming this is like the FBI, CIA, and i
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: mean just NSAY everybody combined to talk about the fact
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: that the China's targeting of Americans voter registration began in
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: And this is.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Going back to the speech that Donald Trump gave a
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago and where he was talking about
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: China had obtained two hundred and twenty million voter registrations.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: When you look at the CBS story, and again CBS
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: is typically going to come down one way and not
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: the other. It talks about the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Administration discussed whether government should release the victim notifications for
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Americans use files were accessed exactly how China intended to
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: use the voter data is unclear. And then they go
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: back and they start quoting what was being put out
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, a twenty twenty assessment.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: But did this the twenty twenties assessment? Did that?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Nobody cares about the twenty twenty assessment. What we care
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: about is the twenty twenty six assessment, because in twenty
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: twenty you might not have had all the picture, especially
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: when it says that the China began obtaining tens of
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: millions of files from state in twenty twenty through twenty
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: twenty three. So that's really where we should be focusing
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: our efforts. And yet CBS wants to counteract that as
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: much as possible. And then they go back and they
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: quote another a newly released twenty twenty memo by NIO
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Cybersecurity that warned adversaries with access to voter registration systems
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: could alter the data to either make it appear that
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: they voted one way or another, or even block people
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: from voting. I will tell you that some of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: states that had themselves hacked, according to today, would be
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: a lot of what we would consider either swing states
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: and or liberal states. But there are some conservative states,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So like Michigan typically a swing state, Georgia now typically
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: a swing state, North Carolina typically a swing state. These
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: would be great states for you if you're trying to
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: influence an election. If you could just shift a couple
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: of thousand votes here or there, you might a world
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: of difference. Then there's a bunch of left states. You know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Connecticut is in there, Maryland, New York, so Rhode Island.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Rhode Island couldn't be any further left if they wanted.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: But then there are some conservative states or maybe what
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: what I guess, maybe if I go back, Florida was
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: considered a swing state at that time. I think Ron
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: DeSantis has kind of really pushed it to the to
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the right. But remember Desanta's barely won the governorship against
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: that guy who's now I think in jail again. But
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: you know, let's throw up some other more conservative leaning states.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I guess, well, I guess Arkansas. I'm trying to think.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: But now that I look at it, Oklahoma, there's a
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: conservative state. Another swing state that I mentioned, Ohio. They
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: were in there. So thankfully South Carolina was not obtained
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: according to this. But it's fascinating how the media will
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: take some information from the White House and then immediately
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: attempt to debunk it. That never happened under Joe bidenrue,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: that never happened under Barack Obama, that never happens under
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Bill Clinton. If a Republican is in the Oval Office
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: and the Office of the White House gathers intelligence amongst
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: their own, like again, we're not politicizing the FBI, CIA, NSA,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: these types of agencies, and we couldn't go back and
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: alter their data from twenty twenty to twenty twenty three.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: That's the data that they're talking about, and they're putting
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: it out here, and you have a full court press
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: today by the media to already debunk this.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: This is not real.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: They're over exaggerating, they're misinterpreting, they're.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Blah blah blahing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Why can't they just accept the fact that, yes, China
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: did get our files, and we're not completely sure as
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: to how they actually applied it, but they were actively
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: using it to influence elections. And by the way, Donald
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Trump did win the twenty twenty four election. He is
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: still calling that out and saying I won and the
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Republicans won, but there was something wrong with our elections.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Let's take a look at it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: So frustrating. Just take a look at it, all right.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that story will be debunked throughout the day
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: on mainstream media, and we'll have more local news for
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: you coming up on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:29
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• 24:34
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• 24:43
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• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Nash, I gotta wait for that guy, got a lot
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: to get to the next hour. Charleston County. You got
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: a big decision to make. Do you want more Texas?
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Do you like Texas and Charleston. We're going to figure
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: that out. Also, Midlands Lexington going to be I love
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: the headline. The Midlands high school students get the first
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: questions for the candidates to replace Lindsey Graham.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: So we'll be talking about that and more.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 25:14
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• 25:19
  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC, Charleston.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Now, Kelly Nash, I have never met a tax that
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I like. Seems like most government officials have never met
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: a tax that they don't like. And Charleston, you've got
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: a how many time you want to go back to
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the well. So in Charleston County, the school district is
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: looking to basically re up that penny tax. So and
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: again it's just a penny, that's the way they always
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: pitch it. It's just a penny. You're not going to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: pay a penny to help the kids. That's a lot
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: of money, Let's just be honest. You're talking about at
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: the right now. The way they estimate it would work out,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I think it's a little over a billion dollars would
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: come out of your economy if you pass it again.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: And this would be the third time that they've extended
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: the Charleston County Public School penny tax. So that's going
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: to be on the referendum. I guess for is it
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight that they're talking about, because it ends
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty eight, so I guess in twenty twenty
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: six they want to decide whether or not you want
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to extend it some more so, during the extension period,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: it is expected to generate one point two five billion dollars.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Now I always point that out that that's coming out
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: of your economy. That is not money that would have
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: been normally spent on other goods and services in your district,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: because it's now going to be used to build a
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: school or whatever. I think seven hundred and thirty five
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: million of it will go towards construction of schools, three
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty million be used for maintenance projects, ninety
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: one million be invested for information technology updates, fifteen million
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: will be spent on security. Again, none of those are
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: bad things. But I'll also point out that in America
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: we are averaging fifteen thousand dollars per student from the
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: federal level on students, making us one of the top
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: three countries on Earth for what we spend per student.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: And then you look at like Japan, who has the
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: best students, They're averaging four thousand dollars per student. What
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: are we doing wrong in America, Christopher.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Well, it's not the spending money part. We got that
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: down to a science.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: We are doing great spending money.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: And we've talked about this before, Kelly at tax never sunsets,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: a tax never goes away, A tax is never retired
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: because there's always more to be spent. There's always more
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: to be built that politicians can find a way to
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: use that money. Now they're touting this as being Okay, well,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: a lot of people spend money in Charleston County. It's
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: not just county residents. You know, this tax will be
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: equally spread across the tourists who spend money in Charleston
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: County as well. And it's not a tax on groceries
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: or personal hygiene products. Okay, so they're saying it's not essential,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: but anything else you spend money on, at least a
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: penny of that will go towards, you know, these new projects.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Greenville's doing the same thing. They are trying to figure
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: out a way to spend more money and spread that
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: wealth around, or spread that the pain around. I guess
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: by they're taking in all these tourists these days, so
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: they want to up their tax by their sales tax
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: by a penny in order to build more roads, improve roads.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: And they also say it will go to property tax relief.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: So there is at least that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, and it would be great.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Maybe we could show IDs, although I know showing IDs
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: is apparently racist, but what if I showed an idea
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: that said I lived in the county do I not
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: have to pay the taxes?
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: No, they want your money too, Yeah, they want all
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: of our money.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: And like you said, Christopher, it never sunset. So this
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: thing has been in place now since twenty ten, since
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: twenty ten, and they keep renewing it. So you people
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: in Charleston keep thinking that, well, this time this will
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: be the final one or maybe well, you know what,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: why doesn't the Charleston County people just put it on
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: the ballot, Like do you want this forever?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Do you want to just do it forever?
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Why do we have to go through the rigamaru of
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: upping it over and over again? Might as well just
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: sign up for a lifetime of this pain and again
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: it doesn't What happens to money and inside governments is
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: a mystery to a lot of us. How I mean,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I think I was moving into South Carolina right around
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: the same time that they were talking about should we
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: have an education lottery tax? We're going to do it
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: for the kids. And think about all the money that
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: you're going to have, and how this is going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: be a tax relief for a lot of us. Did
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: you get a discount? I know, I hear the ads
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: all the time that talks about the billions.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: That we've raised through there. But anytime we start.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Putting more and more government resources towards something for some reason,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: they need more and more. It's like the more you
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: feed it, the more it wants. And I'm again, I
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: don't know that I have the answer for the people
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: of Charleston County. But perhaps, like at the end of
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: the story in the what is It the Posting Courier,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: it points out, if the referendum extension is not approved,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: district officials said the projects would need to be delayed,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: scaled back, or funded with other resources.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: To that, so there is an answer.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah to that, I say, of course it would have
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: to be scaled back, delayed, or funded with other resources.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Is that a price that you're willing to pay. I
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: don't know what those other resources are.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know how much we need whatever it is,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, these new constructions or whatever. And again I
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: always try to point out I would like us to
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: set up taxes so that it's a percentage of each dollar,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: does this, that, and the other thing, because when people say, well,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: there's more people moving into my district or more people
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: moving into our state, hence we need to raise taxes
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: for whatever. I always try to remind people this, those
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: people moving into the state are also paying taxes, so
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: the revenues to the state or the county or the
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: district or whatever, those continue to increase as well. You're
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: just looking for a bigger piece of the pie. If
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: you just separated the pie and said, for every dollar,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: four cents goes towards this, seven cents go through, then
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: there's no need to ever vote on taxes again.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: You just said that's what we're doing. That sounds like
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: an easy answer. That's not what politicians want.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Well, that's for example, that's when we the state government,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: at the end of every fiscal year says, oh, we've
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: got all this extra money.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: It's because you took in too much.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Let's get somebody with a much bigger brain than me
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: to come up with a pie chart and show us
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: what we should really be spending on each thing, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: then could we vote on that.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Can we make that a referendum? Oh my gosh.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: The politicians would be out and forced to make sure
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: that that didn't happen, because then you're just removing all
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: their power, all their ear marked you're doing all those
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: types of things. But it is something to think about,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: and I'll be interested to see does Charleston County voters
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: want to vote one more time to just take more,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: take another one point seven billion from us. Looking forward
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: to it. I can't wait to see how y'all vote
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: down there.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Same with Greenville.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah a Greenville, but we're not on in Greenville, so
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: I'm less interested in Greenville. I'm very interested in Charleston.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: All right, it's seven ten, and you got South Carolina's
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: morning news.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: four to three WSC.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I think both markets, both Columbia and Charleston, get those
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Fox News like daily promos that I just heard. Those
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: things are now starting to sound more and more like
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: two Live Crew records or Biggie Smalls with the edits.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: So who the blank do you think you are? I'm
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: gonna bomb the blank out.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be the guy who's clutching the pearls,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: but I mean it's getting a little bit rough out here.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: It is well, and we saw some of that language
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: in that Senate hearing yesterday featuring Anthony Faunci.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was part of the promo where the guy says,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: who the blank do you think you are?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: He didn't use the word blank, but either or.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: The other part of that was quoting what Donald Trump
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: threatened to Iran with yes, Yes.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna bum the blank out of him anyway.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: You know, when I was a young person listening to
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: the radio, I always imagined that the radio personalities were
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: dressed very nicely typically. Though once I got into radio,
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: I realized most of us do not. I am wearing
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: a jacket today though, and I wore one yesterday for
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: the Lindsey Graham events, but today I'm wearing one because
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: I'm not even sure I'm either going today or tomorrow.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know why people.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: At WIS think that I'm just wide open with my
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: schedule and I can just do whatever, like I wear a.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Suit or something every day.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: But anyway, I'm supposed to go and record a question
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: for the upcoming debate. So this is the South Carolina
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Senate debate is going to air on Gray Media television stations.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: If you're in Charleston, that's Live five. If you're in Columbia,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: that's WIS television. Now again, we don't air in the
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: other market, so I'm not going to talk about you.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: But this is going to happen Monday night between seven
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: and eight pm on Live five in Charleston and WIS
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: in Colombia. And I guess they're all going to be
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: there at This is going to happen at WIS and
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: this will be the first chance for a lot of
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: South Carolinians to hear what these people have to say,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: and so they want the people asking the questions to
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: pre record them. So okay, I'll go in early and
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: do that. In the meantime, though, I see the state
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: newspaper has a headline which I kind of like, Midland's
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: high school students get first questions for candidates to replace Graham,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: and this is We had Alan Wilson on the Attorney
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: General the other day. He's going to be hosting this
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: event at Riverbluff High School Saturday morning at eleven thirty.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: They're going to get one down in Charleston. I think
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: it's on August sixth at the Rifle Club, if I
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: remember correctly, But the first one is this Saturday morning
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: at eleven thirty, and I think that if I understand
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: this story correctly.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: It's the kids who are what is the they're doing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: They're in some sort of class over there the law center,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: the Law Center, yes, yes, the High School Center for
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Law and Global Policy, and they're going to get to
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: ask a bunch of the questions. So again, as Alan clarified,
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: it's not going to be a philled Nona Hue type
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: of event where he's just holding the microphone out. They're
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: going to write out their questions and then I guess
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Alan will ask them quickly. But I'm wondering how many
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: people are going to show up to that. I'm wondering
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: is right now is Darlene Graham scheduled to be at
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the wis?
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: We don't know? We don't know.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you look at look at all the
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: political fire that Pamela Evatt took by skipping a couple
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: of debates and we knew her story. If Darlene Graham
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: winds up skipping the one debate that we have before
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: early voting starts next Wednesday, that's not going to be
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: a good look because we just don't know anything about
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: her or her policies.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and a lot of people were making the point
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: that well, who was it was it Tim Scott. I
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: think yesterday was making the point that Lindsey Graham was
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: the like one of the most pro life people even
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: when it wasn't popular, and talked about how the Supreme
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Court had gotten it wrong and they need to fix this,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: you know, and he went on and on and on,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: and then the knock on Darling Graham has been that
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: she supported one of the sister senators, although I will
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: say I believe that was just not a friendship. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: don't know that it was based off of her political position,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Katrina Sheeley's stance against the Six Week Abortion Band. But
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Lindsay was all in favor of that six week abortion band,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: told me perertionally told me publicly when we used to
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: host and I'll be hosting it again this January, the
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Citizens for Life Dinner. He was an annual speaker at
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: that event and very pro life. It'd be interesting to
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: see how hard she comes out pro life.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: But again, that's all we know about her so far,
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: and that's going to be a knock on her if
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: she doesn't get out and say something to explain not
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: only her support for Katrina Sheely, if it was just friendship,
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: or if there was a deeper meaning behind her political
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: contributions and what else she does believe, whether it's base,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: whether it's abortion, whether it's national defense, whether it's you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: as Alan Wilson's pointed out, he's the first question he's
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: going to ask is about affordability. You know, how are
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: you going to make this country more affordable for families.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: It's interesting that the whoever wins the Republican nomination is
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: going to go on obviously to face Annie Andrews.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I had not considered. There's two other candidates too.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: Did you know that we have a Constitution Party nominee
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: named Mark Hackett and there's also so now I do
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: know this lady. I've met her before the Libertarian casey.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I believe it's pronounced Whitner, although it's spelt Whitener, might
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: be Whitener, I don't know. I met her at the
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: boiled peanut eating contest that is put over.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Here at the state Fair. I was entered again into that.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Jonathan Rush had been the reigning champion, as has Leon
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Lott been the big champion, and now Jay Coons has
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: coon I'm sorry, Jay Couon, Sheriff.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Jay con is the I think maybe the.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Back to back to back champ and also, oh what's
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: his name over at the watch Fox, he keeps winning
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: it too. I suck at eating boiled peanuts. I am
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: horrible at it. But anyway, that's what's going on here
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: in South Carolina as we get ready for our big
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Senate runoff.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's Morning News, live.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: From the state Capitol.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: I try to be fair and admit that I have
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: blind spots, and I may hit, in fact, have a
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: blind spot here when it comes to tattoos. I have
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: no tattoos, never have been interested in getting a tattoo.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: But I see we're getting a federal lawsuit here in
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: South Carolina over tattoos. It's being filed by a shop
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: I guess called tiny Zapps, and they're very upset because
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: South Carolina law prohibits tattoo shops from operating within one
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: thousand feet of a church, school, or playground. And they're
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: trying to expand into Charleston through a partnership with a
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: boutique hotel in the Historic District and they can't get
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: in there because I guess it's within a thousand feet
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: of a church or something.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: Well, it is, after all, the Holy City, where if
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: you throw a rock, you're gonna hit a church somewhere.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: So they're saying it's unfair, that's an unfair restriction on
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: their First Amendment rights.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: But is it?
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like you can go and get
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: a tattoo in lots of places. I don't think that
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: there's a shortage of tattoo shops in South Carolina. Maybe
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: I'm wrong, Maybe this does limit your ability to express
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: your opinions.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: I don't see it that way, though.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I feel like whenever they came up with that rule,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly when that law has passed, but
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: it seemed like they didn't like the types of I
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: don't know, maybe the customer base interacting with the church
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: base or something to that effect.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: But whatever the rule was, I guess you should maybe
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: go through the regular process of talking to your legislators
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: and saying, can we change that law?
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: But it doesn't feel unconstitutional to me. I wouldn't think
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: so either.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: But there's also a ban on tattooing your face, your head,
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: or your neck and they're challenging that as well, saying again,
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: their right to expression is being denied.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: I don't like face tattoos, I really don't. I feel
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: like that's a very permanent, bad decision. Agreed, But there
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: are people that do it, Oh absolutely absolutely, Now when
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: you but is it a misdemeanor for the person who
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: gets it done or is it a misdemeanor for the
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: person who does it.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: That's I'm not completely clear on that law either. Yeah,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I think it's the the artist cannot perform it.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, So I mean you could go out of state
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: and get it done, I suppose.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I mean again, I had.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Never looked at tattoos as a form of your First
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Amendment speech, although again I guess it can be interpreted
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: that way. Typically it's like a picture of a dragon
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: or you know, a tear drop on your face, which
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: used to mean back in the day, the gang bangers
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: did that when they killed somebody, or at least that's
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: what I heard on the internet. I don't know if
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: that's what it ever meant. But anyway, do you have fun?
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Do you want more tattoo shops? Is that what we're missing?
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Should we put them? Like maybe as part of the school.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: You could actually maybe that'll be a class that they
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: teach in like the vocational schools, you can go learn
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: how to be a tattoo artist. Perhaps that might be
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: the way to go. I don't know, what do you think?
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Used the talk back feature. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: So it's uh, it's gonna get crazy, I think over
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: in Iran here in the next couple of days or so. Yesterday,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Reuters came out with a story saying that China is
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: willing to sell Iran shoulder mounted you know, rocket.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Launchers, shoulder fired missile launchers.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: This is uh, this is a direct contradiction to what
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Trump said the president she had Jinpinga told him that
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: they're not going to get involved, and Trump says that
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: she knows, I'll be very disappointed if they take that
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: active role to help Iran.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: But if they do. Some are saying I just saw
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: a report on Fox News.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: That this is the this would then be come the
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: beginning of World War three. Yikes, you would have China.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: We already feel like Russia is by proxy. We feel
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: like we're already in a proxy war. Through the Ukraine
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: with Russia. If China was to become more actively involved
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: in Iran, Israel's involved. I mean, how many countries do
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: you what is it? How many countries need to be
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: in a war before we call it a world war?
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Good question. China is saying that this is not true,
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: that the report's not true. But Reuter says it's got
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: access to this report that there's at least a company
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: in Hong Kong that is dealing with Iran.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: So m a company in Hong Kong.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Now, up until what was it two thousand, Hong Kong
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: was under the Brits, and then they're under the Chinese.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Although they're supposed to have some more autonomy. I don't
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: tend to think that China is very big on autonomy.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: They tend to have a pretty good control over their things.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: So if there's a company in Hong Kong doing business
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: with Iran, you would have to think that the Chinese
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: government was in on that.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: We've been told all along that China wants an end
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: of this war because they get so much of the
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: oil through the Strait and they're suffering right now, their
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: economy is suffering, So they were working Iran for a
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: while with the idea that they wanted this conflict to end,
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: but leave it to China to play both sides.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't know that we
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: should ever believe most world leaders and or most governments,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: and including our own. By the way, I'd preface that
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: by saying, even the United States government, even presidents that
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: I do like, like Trump. I like Trump, but sometimes
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: I clearly question what he's telling me, if it's the
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: truth or not. Like yesterday he said something about people.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: People are still saying that Operation Warp Speed was one
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: of the best things that's ever happened.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have left that one alone. Yeah, I
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: don't think yesterday was the day to break up COVID stuff. No,
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: I would all have vaccines off my talking points for
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: the day yesterday. But you know, this is a very
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: concerning report. If China wants to invest in Iran militarily
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: to go against us, that is an escalation that can't
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: go unchecked. In my estimation, I don't think that we
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: can allow that to go unchecked. I would also say.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: To the President, if he was listening to me right now,
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: you should have already done this, But you need to
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: wrap this thing up very quickly and make up your mind.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Are you finishing the job or are you not finishing
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: the job. And if you're not finishing the job, I'm
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: okay with that. I don't think many Americans are going
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: to push back if Trump says, you know what, we're
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: just pulling out. That is not our concern. Is not
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: the straight of horn moves our concern. Whether they got
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon or not. They don't have access to
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon for many years to come. As far
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: as we can see.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: We're going to pull out.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: And Yeah, who can cry all he wants and say
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: that there's this, that, and the other thing is going on.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: As far as our intelligence can tell, No, it's not.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: And so we're just going to leave and let the
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: people who live there in the straight area. If the
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: UAE wants to get involved, whoever wants to get involved,
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: they can get involved. Otherwise, just know that there's going
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: to be a tax. Doesn't really affect America too much
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: in the sense that we have enough oil of our own.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: It will drive up the global oil price for everybody,
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: including us, but it is what it is, and if.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: That's the decision, that's the decision. Or is the decision
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: to go, and like.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: He says, bomb the blank out of them, But do
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: it now, don't wait until Irene or excuse me, the
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Iraqis are talking about maybe helping to get involved somehow,
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: and obviously China is now getting involved.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: It looks like you can't let this thing linger. You
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: got to move quickly.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Now. That's my estimation, Christopher, you got any different announcems.
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: I was just going to say, I think we've almost
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: tuned out to the nightly bombings now, and a strategic
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: as they might be, it doesn't appear that they're having
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: much of an impact at this point.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: No, no, it doesn't.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: And you know he did what did he take three
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: or four nights off where they didn't bomb anybody, and
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: then they did bomb some people.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: And it's still like what evs.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: So if you're gonna bomb, you gotta go like Moab bomb.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: You gotta get, you gotta go big time, you gotta
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: go big league.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: That's got big, big league don.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Back on the plate. So that's where we're at with that.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: I just I can't let this thing linger. In my estimation,
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: he can't. He's got to move quickly and decisively on
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: this now.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Or walk away all together.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, either way, move quickly and decisively. We're in or
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: we're out. We're not fooling around with these nightly bombing routines.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: But that's where we're at. What do you think? Let
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: us know on the talk back feature. Thanks for starting
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: your day. It is seven forty one with South Carolina's
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Morning News.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: All right, I don't follow the WNBA. I don't really
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: know anything about the WNBA. I know that Caitlin Clark
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: is apparently a phenom and people are going ballistic for her.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: And do I call Sophie Cunningham her enforcer? Christopher Thompson,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: that's not a bad way to describe her. She's a
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: force on that team.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: And so that team, by the way, is so popular
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: that right now they're averaging one point four to one
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: point six million viewers per television broadcast as opposed to
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: a typical WNBA game, which is averaging a little over
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: four hundred thousand, meaning that one team with those two
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: players on it is about triple in popularity than all
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: the other WNBA teams.
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: The Indiana Fever, which all by the way is also
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: where Eliah Boston, the former Gamecock standout plays.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: So apparently I think they were in Seattle the other
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: night and two teenage girls showed up wearing T shirts
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: that have xx x Y, which is the chromosomes, meaning
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: and that's an implication that women should play with women
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: and boys should play with boys. And they were holding
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: up a sign that said thank you Sophie Cunningham for
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: defending women's sports, because Sophie had said she doesn't believe
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: trans athletes should be involved in women's athletics, which led
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: the co owner of the Seattle Storm to come over
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: and confront the two teenage girls and call them a bunch.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Of derogatory terms.
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: One of the girls left crying, as she tells the
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: local television station there, I tried to get security involved
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: and they told me I just needed to email the
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: front office that they weren't going to do anything. Well,
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: I guess late yesterday the WNBA actually suspended the co
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: owner of the team and Sophie Cunningham. Last night about
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: midnight posted I truly believe there's a safe space and
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: love for everybody, biological girls, biological boys, trans women, trans
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: men is welcome. At my table. You can disagree and
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: still be kind. Bravo to those girls for standing up
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: for what they believe. You'll be hearing from me soon.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Yay forgifts. Truly embarrassed for that co owner, but that
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: shows what kind of leader she is. This is one
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: of the this is this such an easy test?
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Should people who.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Are born with biological male parts be able to compete
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: with women? The answer that that's not even a hard question.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: And that's what Sophie Cunningham is said all along.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: And you don't have to be mean to them, Yeah,
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: you just don't. You just have an unfair advantage. It's
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: like if we were in a wrestling match. Should somebody
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: who weighs two hundred pounds be wrestling somebody weighs one
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: hundred and forty pounds?
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: The answer is no.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: That's why we have weight classes. We separate women from
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: men's sports for a reason. And if you're born as
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: a biological male, whether you want to be a female
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: or not, you still have the physical advantages over the females.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: And how this thing has gotten so out of whack
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: where people are now arguing as if this is a
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: lie logicals you know, well they identify as a female,
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: So they're a female.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: And how an adult felt so emboldened as to attack
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: two young girls.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when we say teenagers, I don't. These girls aren't
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: like eighteen or nineteen. I think they're like thirteen and fourteen. Craziness. Anyway,
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: there's a little WNBA update. That's my maybe my one
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: and only WNBA.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Update on the show. Christopher at South Carolina's Morning.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: South Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: five sixty AM WVOC, and ninety four to three WSC.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: You got about six minutes if you have to be
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: in the office by eight o'clock, seven fifty four. Now,
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: good morning. This is Kelly Nash coming up in the
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: next hour. We're gonna have a pretty good rundown on
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: the candidates that we have that were qualified to run
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: for the South Carolina Senate seat left behind by Lindsay Graham.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: We're all there is a moment that happened yesterday at
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: the Tony Fauci hearings that I think it was rather significant,
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: and yet it is not getting the attention I think
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: it deserves. So we'll take a look at that as well.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: I recognize most of you couldn't sit around yesterday watching
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: the Fauci testimony, and so what you got was the
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: little snippets that were provided either on social media, and
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: I know most of you don't even get a chance
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: to do that. So it's whatever Fox News ran or
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Newsmax or whoever you were watching last night. But there
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: was a moment this was a little bit different than
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: the others because, as we've all heard, now Tony Fauci,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: under the advice of counsel one hundred and eleven times,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: even when asked what color is tie was he pled
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: the fifth I think he only one time apologized, and
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: it was to Senator Lankford who asked.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: This question the sixth twenty.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: You wrote.
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  Speaker 7: At that time, I had a conversation with Robert Redfield,
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: as you know well, was then the director CDC about
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: the fact that greater than one million children worldwide have
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: missed their measles vaccination because of the shutdown. You stated,
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: this is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: that basis alone, there would be far, fur, far, far
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: more excess deaths from measles among children than coronavirus deaths
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: among children. I need to bring this up to the TF,
• 53:52
  Speaker 7: the Task Force. Did you ever have an opportunity to
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: bring up the potential of measles deaths among children, an
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: infection rate going around the world from measles based on
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: the fact that so many children would not get their
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: measles vaccine because of the shutdown.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry send it to but on the advice I
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: respectfully declined to answer, and.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: We already know the rest of that blah blah blah.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: But that's the only time I remember him saying I'm
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: sorry yesterday, because that was just being put in his
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: face the fact that you said in twenty twenty, far
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: more children will die because of this shutdown, just based
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: off of the lack of measles vaccinations, which again for
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: all these people who for since twenty twenty one, I'll say,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: have been yelling at people like myself, who when we
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: looked at what the science said, came to the conclusion
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: that we didn't feel comfortable with that vaccination because the
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: first reason I gave was that the Biden administration technically
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: changed what the definition of a vaccination was. And once
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: you change what the definition of a vaccination is, I
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: no longer feel comfortable. Why did you need to change
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: the definition Because the definition previously meant it was going
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: to stop it. This didn't stop it, and that's why
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: they changed it to a vaccination. We've always had the
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: flu shot, which everybody knows does not stop people from
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: getting the flu. It might make it shorter, it might
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: make it less likely, but it doesn't stop This never
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: stopped COVID, even according to the manufacturers.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: They told us we can't stop it.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: Yet the federal government took a very aggressive position under
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: the Biden administration. It completely stops it. If you get
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: the vaccination, it will not only not infect you, it
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: will you're going to save lives because the COVID virus
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: dies when it comes to you, which was against the science.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: And then Tony Fauci got on television and lied, and
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: because he was elevated to this big status of the
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: science god, people believed him wrongly.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: He was a liar.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: Then he's now been demonstrably humiliated as a light, well,
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: at least in this instance. He lied about almost everything
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: regarding COVID.
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: And what's the point of taking the fifth yesterday if
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: you've already got a pardon?
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Boy, they had fun betting that one around it.
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: Kay.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that the problem was and again I'm speculating,
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: maybe we can hear from some attorneys or something that
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: as to why you would have to do that, because
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: he has immunity.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Even if you had come out and said I was lying.
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: I lied on television, I lied to the president, I
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: lied to you. I have complete immunity. Sorry, but yeah,
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: the truth was that blah blah blah. If he had
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: said that, they couldn't prosecute him. However, I think that
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: they there's a possibility that if he had said something
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: to yesterday that when they bring him back up, if
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: it changes in any way, you're never going to hear
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: Tony Fauci, I think say anything ever again other than
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: I plead the fifth.
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, his ego won't allow it. He's not going to
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: admit his mistakes. We've seen what a mega I mean,
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: he is an ego personified. Yes, that's all you have
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: to do is read one entry in his personal diaries
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: to realize this man was just he was living off
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: the fame at that point.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: And his name will be I think at some point
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: it will become a verb, you know, like to fauci someone.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: It's a form of gas lighting.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: It's a form of hiding the truth and presenting something
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: that is actually detrimental to them. I'm not sure who's
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: going to be the first person to use it in
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: a conversation, but stop faucying me, I think is coming.
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: I think his name will be mud forever, at least
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: as long as.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: He's a lie. And does he have children.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if he has I don't know,
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: but if he did, I'm sure that they're like, gosh,
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: I wish my name wasn't founcy right now.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: Pretty recognizable name. Hard to hide that one.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he made it famous. That was his goal was
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: to make it famous. He wanted to be famous. He
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: was starving for the fame. I forget which senator pointed out,
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: it wasn't even about the money, although you did illegally
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: profit from this, because you know that as a government employee,
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: you're not allowed to profit from these types of things,
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: and yet he made over a million dollars just doing
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: the things that he was doing, and then he gave
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: the interviews and he got paid for those, and he
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: It's just it's so sad because I believe there's a
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: large swath of Americans, maybe thirty percent today that probably
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: don't even really know about the reality. They still think
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: that the vaccine had already been established as safe, that
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: they still believe what Rachel Maddow was saying, that we
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: already know that if you take it, it's your saving
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: lives and all this sort of stuff. We know that
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: the masks work, We know that social distancing works when
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: the exact opposite was true and is true today. And
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: I saw numerous people wearing masks yesterday that looked like
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: they were in their thirties maybe twenties, working at a
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: grocery store, and it's like, and let I mean, maybe
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: they have some other special reason for wearing that mask,
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: but I tend to believe most of them are afraid
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: of catching some sort of cold or flu. And you're
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: actually doing more damage to your immune system by stopping
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: any germs if you could do it with a cloth mask,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: which you can't, but if you could stop it, you
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: would actually be hurting yourself more So, that's another sad
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: fact that Tony Fauci has brought to us. Never Mind
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: the excess measical deaths, never Mind the excess suicides, never
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: mind the excess drug addictions, never.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Mind, never mind, never mind, never mind.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: The guy did irreparable damage to America and actually the world,
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: the whole world was by eying what he was selling
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: back in twenty one and twenty twenty two.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: So hard to argue that, Kelly, and that's why he
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: didn't yesterday.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Ha ha, great line. Christopher Thompson will be back with
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: more in just a moment.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the low Country. This is South
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on one O three point five FM
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety four to three WSC.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: So they allowed nine into the field for the US
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: Senate seat here in South Carolina. The August eleventh special
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: primaries coming quickly. So who's in? And I want to
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: say thank you to the Post and Courier. I will
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: try to give you a brief synopsis after they have
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: reported on what each one of these candidates is about.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: So Duke Buckner and the English teacher. He says he
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: got into the fight in order to what he sees
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: as the impending threat of socialist revolution driven by the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: right in cost of living. So he's he's all about
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: driving down prices apparently, and who wants to cut housing
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: prices for instance, wants to limit demand for removing undocumented immigrants.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: On the international front, he says, I agree pretty much
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: exclusively with Lindsay Graham's foreign policy. Russell Frye says, the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: president needs allies in the Senate who are aggressive, like
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: they are pushing conservative legislation. We aim to do that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: by being an ally for the president. Darlene Graham, this
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: is a This is the one that I don't know
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: that even the posting courier got a much of a
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: grasp on early indications. So she's likely to mirror the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: positions of her brother, but I don't think that they Again,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: she's championed by the conservative right, including opposition to transgender
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: athletes participating in women's sports. She's also faced early criticism
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: over her friendship with Katrina Sheely. We've talked about that.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: Mark Lynch, we had him on the show. People are
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: calling on us to honor our obligation to them, says
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: Alex Stein of hardline conservative outlet Real America Voice. Lynch
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: enters the race as one of the furthest right candidates
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: on the ballot, but you.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: Know he's got the up. He's got to go against
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: the big dollar folks.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: Then you've got people like Mark McBride, former Myrtle Beach
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: City council member, then became the city's mayor in ninety
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: eight till two thousand and six. He's apparently run for
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: several offices since then, including trying to get Tom Rice's district.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: He earned two percent of the vote in that race, two.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: Percent running against Russell Fry. I guess, I guess two percent.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: And now he's going to run for the Senate.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: Okay, he's a big thing is basically we need to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: disengage and wars come home.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman. I think most people know exactly where Ralph
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: stands on most things. But he is a very.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: Fiscal conservative and he's uncompromising on his conservative platform.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: He is the leader in the hardline Congressional Freedom Caucus.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Glenda Gale Parker, retired Air Force officer, moved to Myrtle
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: Beach just a couple of years ago, and she says
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: that she wants to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: cut transportation cost with a high speed rail line. She's
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: running as a Republican.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, Mark Sanford, well, I think everybody knows Mark pretty well.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: But he says, I think we need an advocate for
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: the taxpayer in Washington, d C. And that hasn't been
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: the case for some time. Samuel Sheppard, an inventor and chemist,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: worked on unconventional weapons for the US Department of Defense
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: during his stint in Houston. Prior to that, developed an
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: early form of artificial intelligence technology. So this guy is
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: a big thinker. And he says, why run for the
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: Senate because he hates how property taxes work. Okay, I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: might like this guy. We might have to get the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: Samuel Shepherd on the show. I'm not sure the best
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: avenue to do it, but it's an avenue that became
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: open that gives me the platform and the ability to
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: at least promote those ideas at the fairly high level. Again,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: he's really concerned are about local taxes, not federally. He's
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: just more concerned I guess about how South Carolina does
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: their taxes, which is interesting because he's running for a
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: federal seat and so you wouldn't be changing the federal
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: tax policies. You're trying to be an advocate. Okay, an
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: interesting group of people, to say the least. Again, as
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: I'm handicapping it early on, it feels to me that
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: Ralph Norman and Darlene Graham are the early one twos
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: and Mark Sandford is a very close third at this point.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: That's the way I look at it.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: Russell Frye is probably by himself in fourth, and then
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: you move down to the not really a chance tier
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: as the way.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: I look at it at this point.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you may just based on the fact that he
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: ran against Lindsay the first time, you may put Mark
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: Lynch in that that tier with Russell Frye just below him.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe, and then he also rans Yeah, and again
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: dollars in a dream. So they've spent their money, they're
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: on the ticket or their ballot. They're gonna be able
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: to vote for themselves, their family will vote for them.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: That'll be an exciting day, I'm sure for all of them.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: I hope it was worth it. The ten to four
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: that you paid to get in. But we will be
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: talking with Russell fry just after the show. Have that
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: podcast up later on today, see what you think about him.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: I've been getting a ton of pushback, by the way,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: I posted a couple of photos with being Russell Frye yesterday.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: I saw him at the Lindsay Graham.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: Event and boy, the hardcore conservatives now they hate me
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: because I took a photo with them. They hate him,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: They hate everybody. I guess they probably don't hate Sandford.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen anything about Sanford really. By the hardcore
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: is they love Ralph Norman and a lot of them
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: do love Mark Lynch. So that's where the hardcores are
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: coming down in South Carolina.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 5: How did they feel about Darlen Graham or did they
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: know what to feel about DARLEYN.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: Graham.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: My early assessment of the feedback has been that she's
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: getting a special favor to be allowed in, although I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: did talk to several of the people who made that
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: decision and they say that they have no conflict with
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: that that she did vote in two of the three,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: even though one was a special runoff. It's like the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: way they look at it to be like say they
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: didn't use this phrase, but this is.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: What I was thinking.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: Kind of like a baseball game, if you were you
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: played in the baseball game, even if you didn't play
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: in the first nine innings, but it went to extra innings,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: you're still considered a player in the game. And that's
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: kind of the way I think that they were looking
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: at it. But a lot of people are very on
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: the hardcore right, very upset about that. They feel like
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: she got special treatment. But maybe you know, again, she's
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: got like twenty percent of the vote already, right, isn't
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: that what we're seeing in the polls twenty percent? So
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: a lot of people are big fans of Darley and Graham.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: Would be interesting to get the more of them on
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: the air as we move closer and closer to August
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: eleventh and the special primary coming down. We got the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: big debate there now, excuse me, the Allen Wilson senator
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: stump event happening in River Bluff Saturday morning, and then
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: next week we got the actual statewide debate. So much
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: going on in just a little bit of time. We're
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: covering it all on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Live from the state Capitol.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, guys, A great show as always. You know,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 8: the thing that was tough for me was after seeing
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 8: the hubris and conceit exposed in these diary entries, watching
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 8: the same guy who used every bureaucratic level at his
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 8: control to put us in a de facto police state
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 8: high behind the constitution was just too much.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: And thank you for the talkback.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're talking about obviously Anthony Fauci and his testimony yesterday,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: but you're right, it was a police state.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: If there is good news.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm always I try to find good news in
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: anything I feel like, I and many Americans tried to
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: just put that out of our memory, what it was
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: like living under the Fauci authoritarian rules enforced by Joe Biden.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: Joe Biden did the bidding of Tony Fauci, as Tony
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: Fauci seeked out this incredible status as world's most famous doctor.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: But it's back.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: It's fresh in our memories now and you can see
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: and remember what it was like living, especially if you
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: lived in an area like I live in Richland County,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: which is under Democrat control, and it was a huge
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: difference between how the Democrats ran Richland and the Republicans
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: ran Lexington. It's night and day, and you now are
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: reminded that the Democrat Party is all about power and
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: controlling you and limiting your freedoms. And so maybe that's
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: the good news out of yesterday's hearings, and that Tony
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: Fauci did have to look like he did the walk
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: of shame, that he looked very miserable for hours, and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: so I celebrate that little win as well. All Right,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: it's eight thirty on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: This is a email that we get in radio. This
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: is an email from a company called Inside Radio. But
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: it's really kind of a news story about the FCC
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: and a new lawsuit that's been launched by John Assoff
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: from Georgia. Also North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper, and
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: they're joined with Sharard Brown from Ohio, the former senator.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: And what.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: I'm reading this over and over and over again, and
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: the only conclusion I can come to is that the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: Democrats have now recognized that nobody supports them, that they're
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  Speaker 4: losing their shirts when it comes to fundraising, and so
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  Speaker 4: the lawsuit, I'll just read it word ford. The brief
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  Speaker 4: escalates that the candidate's warnings about the practical impact of
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  Speaker 4: the FCC's March public notice followed by the Supreme Court's
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  Speaker 4: recent decision eliminating federal limits on coordinating party spending in
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  Speaker 4: a six to three decision issued last month, it will
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  Speaker 4: expect to shift more political ad dollars to campaign committees
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  Speaker 4: while expanding access to the lowest unit rates for radio
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  Speaker 4: and television purchases. And for those of you who don't
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  Speaker 4: understand that, in advertising, there was a federal law that
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  Speaker 4: says that we have to sell commercials at the lowest
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  Speaker 4: rate to the candidates. Whatever the lowest rate was paid
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  Speaker 4: during the year, that's what they get it at. So
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: we can't because there's you know, obviously they want to
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  Speaker 4: get on. Typically in a free market, you would drive
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  Speaker 4: the rates up as more and more candidates wanted to
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  Speaker 4: get on.
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  Speaker 3: We can't do that. We have to charge the lowest rate.
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  Speaker 4: The candidates are arguing that the two developments together allow
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  Speaker 4: for national party committees that would be the Democrats and
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans to spend money at the candidate rate. Warning
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  Speaker 4: that opponents have already promised to use this combination of
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  Speaker 4: the Supreme Courts ruling in the SEC's guidelines to obliterate
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  Speaker 4: Democrats in the November election. So they're literally suing to
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  Speaker 4: stop what benefits them as well, because they recognize how
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  Speaker 4: poor the Democrats are doing fundraising right now.
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  Speaker 3: Did we talk about this on the show? I know
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  Speaker 3: I was mentioning it on one of the.
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  Speaker 5: Shows that we didn't, but that has become a huge story.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they're trying to take down their DNC chair
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  Speaker 5: right now because he's done such a poor job with fundraise.
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  Speaker 4: Ken Martin is such an abysmal failure that apparently, according
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  Speaker 4: to the story I read whenever I read it earlier
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  Speaker 4: this week, maybe late last week, I forget when it was,
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  Speaker 4: that they have now literally every asset they have has
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  Speaker 4: been basically used as collateral. The last thing that they
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  Speaker 4: have is their actual DNC headquarters. He's trying to get
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  Speaker 4: a fifteen million dollar advance on the headquarters and once
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  Speaker 4: that's gone, everything's gone. And they were talking about I
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  Speaker 4: feel I almost feel bad for these people. They're currently
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  Speaker 4: like millions in debt right now, and they're asking the
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  Speaker 4: people who they're doing business with. Don't send us your
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  Speaker 4: bills until November.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the latest numbers, the DNC is two million in debt.
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  Speaker 5: The RNC has more than one hundred and twenty eight
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  Speaker 5: million on hand.
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  Speaker 3: They're so.
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  Speaker 4: The The interesting thing is this is all self inflicted
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  Speaker 4: for them because had they allowed themselves to have an
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  Speaker 4: actual process of replacing Joe Biden, rather than just going
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  Speaker 4: with Kamala Harris, who never would have stood a chance
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  Speaker 4: to actually replace Joe Biden on the ticket, it would
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  Speaker 4: have probably been Mark Kelly, it might have been there's
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  Speaker 4: a couple of other candidates that might have gotten it.
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  Speaker 4: But had that happened, I think that the donor class
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  Speaker 4: continues to give, but they're shriveling up now. They don't
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  Speaker 4: want to give to this party because they don't. And
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: then now you've introduced the Democrats Socialists into the mix,
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  Speaker 4: and now it's like, well, we don't even know if
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  Speaker 4: we have a party that you know you've got. Yesterday
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  Speaker 4: you got Chuck Schumer begging Fetterman to stay. Don't don't go,
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  Speaker 4: don't just because we hate Israel and I'm a Jew,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: but yes i hate Israel too, but you could stay.
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  Speaker 3: We're a big tent party. Come on, John, don't run
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  Speaker 3: off from us.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats are in a just wild disarray, and the
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  Speaker 4: fact that they're suing the FCC right now, I guess
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  Speaker 4: to try to jack rates up on Republicans would be
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  Speaker 4: the ultimate goal.
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  Speaker 5: They're trying to figure out any way to make money
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  Speaker 5: at this point, and if they can't make money, they
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  Speaker 5: want to at least try and even the playing field
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  Speaker 5: because Republicans have such a huge fundraising advantage.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe just ban Maybe that's gonna be the next play.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: We're just gonna ban all advertising. You can't advertise for politics.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of Americans who'd appreciate that
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, that's just a very interesting update. Thanks for
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  Speaker 4: getting your day started with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 4: I swear we're not turning into a sports show. But
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: this Lebron James story is odd and odder. So first off,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: Lebron James must love basketball. He said that he had
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: to weigh his love for the game and he signed
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  Speaker 4: a two year deal worth four million dollars a year
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  Speaker 4: to go to the seventy six ers.
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  Speaker 5: Which is pocket change for him at this point, he's
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  Speaker 5: taking almost.
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  Speaker 4: But think about this, He's going to lose five million
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: a year by playing there because according to the New
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: York Post, he's buying an apartment in Manhattan and helicoptering
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: every day to practice in Philly. And Kathy Hockel has
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: retweeted now the story from the LA or the LA
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  Speaker 4: Times about this, and she just, uh, well her, I
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: shouldn't say, Kathy Hockle did it's quote. Governor Hokele's press
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 4: office has retweeted that story with Lapadia Lapierre Attier. So,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: in other words, we cannot wait to tax the crap
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  Speaker 4: out of you because your main residence is still going
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: to be Los Angeles. So Lebron James is just signing
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: up to get abused in order to play back again.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: The man must love basketball. You're gonna get abused by
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: Kathy Hockle. You got to commute into Philadelphia. The people
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: of Philadelphia are already hating you now because they're.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: Like, why don't you want to live here?
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: Live in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly Love. It's like, now,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: I'm a Yankees fan. Oh my gosh, man, Well, it's
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: a lot easier to go to a Yankees game than it,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 4: you know, from Philly, than it is to every day
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  Speaker 4: go to practice in Philly.
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  Speaker 3: Or are we going to pull the Allen iverson Bro?
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: We talk about practice, we're talking about I'm Lebron James.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, I don't go to practice.
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  Speaker 5: Will just drop in on select practice sessions just to
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: just to get the shot off every now and then.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is insane. He's gonna again.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 4: He's worth what do they say in the story, He's
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: worth one point four billion dollars right now. So the
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: fact that he's gonna lose a you know, five to
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: ten million dollars by playing for them not a big deal.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: But it's a big deal to me.
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  Speaker 5: And you don't want to rub the fans in Philly
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: the wrong way. And apparently he already has.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yes, oh my gosh.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: H yeah, So Lebron James to Philly sort of via
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: New York and Kathy Hulkle I get that is so cringe.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 4: We have a new resident. Guess what we get to
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: tax the crap out of them? All right, New York,
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  Speaker 4: you're doing it the right way. I suppose because you've
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: attracted Lebron James. It's eight forty seven on South Carolina's
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  Speaker 4: Morning news.
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  Speaker 4: Now Kelly Nash, Well, if you live around South Carolina,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: you probably have some frustrations with the Department of Transportation,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: and folks in Arcadia Lakes they've been feeling some frustration.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: They've had a road there closed since the floods of
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: twenty fifteen, and apparently they seen that. Now the DOT
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: has shown up and they're starting to clear out the
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: vegetation that has grown over that road and they are
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 4: going to have it opened by late twenty twenty seven.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: So I guess never give up hope on the dot.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: Is that the lesson here in South Carolina since is
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: a virtue. It might take ten to twelve years to
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: get your roads working again, but they will get it
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: done so and then the press release they're not sure
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: there is no explanation as to why it's taken so
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: long to open up a road, But were they waiting.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: For federal funds to help.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know, they don't address it in the press release,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: and I think that the road is going to cost
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: is it five hundred thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what I read?
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  Speaker 4: Ohkaually, I'm sorry. Two point six million should be completed
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  Speaker 4: by late next year. So congratulations, ar Katie Lakes. You're
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 4: going to get your It's almost going to be like
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: the flood never happened at all, twelve years later, years later,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: So think.
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  Speaker 3: About that for you. For decades, you're just just driving
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: around and the tour.
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  Speaker 4: The people who live in the neighborhood that was getting
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: it detoured through are like, this is like the best
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: news we've heard too, because we've had so many extra
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: cars coming through our neighborhood for many many months. All Right,
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  Speaker 4: coming up, I'm going to uh, we're gonna wrap this
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: show up. I'm going to go and then interview Russell Free.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: I will play that back tomorrow, but we'll also have
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: it out in its full extent as a podcast later
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: on today. That's on the National Briefing podcast. If you've
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: missed any of this show, though, you can also get
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 4: the South Carolina Morning News podcast. Christopher does a great
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: job getting that out every day about what thirty minutes
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: after the show.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be out by nine thirty. My gosh, you are amazing.
• 1:19:20
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• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: Download it for free today. In the meantime, enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: Your Thursday, and it is Thursday, I know it's flying
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  Speaker 4: by right.
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  Speaker 3: We will see you tomorrow morning.