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Show Rewind 10-22-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: All right, back at it. Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson. I
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  Speaker 2: was a rare night out for me, Christopher. I have
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  Speaker 2: a friend who I used to play tennis with, and
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  Speaker 2: they were having a small get-together at the house last night.
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  Speaker 2: And so I went there, which, again, normally I'm in
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  Speaker 2: bed by like 730. So that was a late night
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  Speaker 2: for me. I was up until almost 9, which is
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous for me to be up until 9 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Burning the midnight oil.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: But I did not watch the Trump rally. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: some clips of the Trump rally. It looked as if
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  Speaker 2: it got a little wild at some point. There was
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  Speaker 2: a guy who apparently was some sort of protester. And
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  Speaker 2: then there was like somebody else punched that dude and
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  Speaker 2: they were dragging him out. And Trump, I heard Trump,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going on it.
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  Speaker 4: You look like the real deal.
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  Speaker 2: Holy field. That's what you looked like.
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  Speaker 4: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Never seen anything like it. And then there was another
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  Speaker 2: guy who was getting dragged out. And then some other
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  Speaker 2: Trump supporter ran up behind him. This was like on
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  Speaker 2: the outskirts of the building. The guy had already been
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  Speaker 2: removed from the crowd. And this guy jumped up and
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  Speaker 2: like punched him in the back of the head. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he got arrested right there on camera as well.
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  Speaker 5: It all seemed to happen early in the Trump speech.
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  Speaker 5: I think they petered out at the end.
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  Speaker 4: They got tired. Yeah. All right. So we got that today.
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  Speaker 2: We got the Westinghouse billion dollar nuclear fuel expansion we
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  Speaker 2: started hitting on yesterday. Was the news update just talking
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  Speaker 2: about that guy, Richard Sheely? I mean, I was reading
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  Speaker 2: that story this morning and I was like, this is
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  Speaker 2: so upsetting. This guy is a, I guess, marketing himself
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  Speaker 2: as like a, some sort of worship leader and had
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  Speaker 2: been a pastor, according to his website. And he was
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  Speaker 2: then accused of assaulting a young person, but it was
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  Speaker 2: like a decade, or excuse me, like two decades ago,
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  Speaker 2: like in 2004, 5, 6, that era. And when I
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  Speaker 2: hear things like that, I often wonder, well, what's the
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  Speaker 2: 20 year holdup? Like what, you know, and how are
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  Speaker 2: you going to prove all that? But according to the
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  Speaker 2: news outlets, when they went to his house and they
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  Speaker 2: went through his computer, they found current child stuff on the,
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  Speaker 2: on the computers or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So he kept records.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: We live in a very sad world that sometimes, um, And, yeah, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: his life is pretty much wrapped right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to go to trial, and he's presumed innocent. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he's got to say, we're presuming that you're innocent until
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  Speaker 2: proven guilty. But when the police start putting out on media,
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  Speaker 2: we've got records on your computer. There's no— I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: a plausible excuse as to why you would have that.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe there are some.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a good defense attorney.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the records apparently show him abusing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: So it's.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not even just like random photos that may
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  Speaker 2: have inadvertently. I'm trying to imagine somebody trying to explain
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  Speaker 2: how I inadvertently downloaded that by mistake.
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  Speaker 3: This is even worse if it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. And then we've got SLED investigating suspicious activity on
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  Speaker 2: the City of Columbia network. We've got the SC Arts
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  Speaker 2: Commission continuing to fall out after the LGBTQ situation. We
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  Speaker 2: have a lot going on in this state, but Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: probably nothing bigger, nothing will ever top a Trump visit,
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  Speaker 2: will it?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 5: And the question now is, was it enough to push
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  Speaker 5: Darlene Graham across the finish line?
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  Speaker 2: If you're up early, did you watch it? I would
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  Speaker 2: love to hear somebody say, did anybody? I'm putting the
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  Speaker 2: challenge out there, Christopher. I do not believe that there
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  Speaker 2: is one person in this audience that before Trump started
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  Speaker 2: speaking said, not going to vote for her. and then said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, even I'll take a second look at her.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if there's even that person.
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  Speaker 4: Never mind. It flipped me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming back. I'm coming home. I'm coming home to MAGA.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming home to the Republican Party. Did Trump move
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  Speaker 2: anybody from that position?
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  Speaker 5: I'd be curious, especially to hear from the right-in Ralph contingent,
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  Speaker 5: if they were moved and thought, okay, Trump is right.
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  Speaker 5: I can't allow Annie Andrews to take this seat just
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  Speaker 5: to make a point. I'm going to vote for Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 5: I'll hold my nose and vote for Graham this this November.
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  Speaker 2: I would I I already highly doubt that anybody got flipped.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as the right in Ralph campaign, those
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  Speaker 2: people are 10 toes down, as they say.
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  Speaker 4: They are not budging in my estimation.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong. I'd love to hear from you. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're just a fan of the president and you
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  Speaker 2: watched it last night. What did you think? Were you
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  Speaker 2: a fan of what he said? Did you think it
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  Speaker 2: was a good rally? Because there's like a couple, we
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  Speaker 2: got a guy named, What's his name? Jackson Gosnell or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. He's a local guy. He lives in
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  Speaker 2: the upstate, but a South Carolina guy. Young guy. Looks
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  Speaker 2: like he's about like 19. He's been trying to make
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  Speaker 2: a name for himself in the social media space, and
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  Speaker 2: he ended up getting some jobs. He's working for... I
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  Speaker 2: forget what the name of the network is. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a big one. It's like the real... broadcasting network or something. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he was like there, he was their guy last night.
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  Speaker 2: I saw them talking about it in the posting courier,
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  Speaker 2: local homegrown talent gets big network break last night. So, um, if,
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  Speaker 2: if you're one of those people who watches like that network,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't even know that it's on any streaming services,
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  Speaker 2: I think it just puts it all up on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, and you've.
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  Speaker 2: Watched a lot of Trump rallies. How did this one rank?
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  Speaker 2: And as far as how many, have you seen 20
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  Speaker 2: Trump rallies, 30? I know some people, I think, have
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  Speaker 2: told me they've seen like 100. Not in person. Only
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  Speaker 2: the brick suit guy has been to 100 or more,
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine. But if you've been to a lot
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  Speaker 2: or just seen a lot on YouTube or whatever, how
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  Speaker 2: did South Carolina's rank last night?
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  Speaker 4: Would love to get your feedback on that. Use the
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  Speaker 4: talkback feature.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into all that other stuff we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about with South Carolina News. I also got, look, I've
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  Speaker 2: identified a new problem in America. You might have noticed
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  Speaker 2: this as well, but we got a really extreme example
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  Speaker 2: here recently. We're going to talk about that coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Can we cure it? I think we can cure the
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  Speaker 2: problem that I'm talking about. We'll get into that and more.
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  Speaker 2: It's South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at some of the new jobs numbers
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  Speaker 2: for South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Christopher, we are.
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  Speaker 2: Doing fantastic in South Carolina. We continue to outperform the country.
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  Speaker 2: unemployment is decreasing again. Uh, new numbers got, uh, we
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  Speaker 2: dropped another 2,347 people off the unemployment roll. So we're
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  Speaker 2: now in the entire state of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: There's what? 5.3 million people. Roughly. Uh, we have 106,689
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  Speaker 4: that are on unemployment.
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  Speaker 2: Um, And the labor force actually grew by 4,146 people
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  Speaker 2: month over month. So this is a record historic high.
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  Speaker 2: We've never in South Carolina's history, and it's a long history,
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  Speaker 2: have ever had these many employees. We have 2,679,964 South
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  Speaker 2: Carolinians at work. And officials want to note, This is
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  Speaker 2: the fastest growing labor force in the country so far.
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  Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why we have to continue to be a
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  Speaker 5: business friendly state. And I'm not talking about giving these
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  Speaker 5: massive tax breaks and incentive packages that we seem to
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  Speaker 5: have relied on for years, but business friendly as far
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  Speaker 5: as our tax approach, as far as our standard of living,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera, because, you know, we've got all these people
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  Speaker 5: moving here. We've got to have jobs for them when
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  Speaker 5: they get here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's, it's, I'm wondering if I'm, The Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing their ads across South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: What's his name running for governor?
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, it's like we need a change after
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  Speaker 2: years of Republican rule. Don't South Carolinians deserve better? And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, gosh, this these numbers must just kick them
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  Speaker 2: in the in the privates because we're already getting better.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting better year by year. And again, if you're
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  Speaker 2: you and I and people who listen to these types
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  Speaker 2: of shows, we understand. that conservative policies are what establish this.
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  Speaker 2: When you listen to the left and they talk about, like,
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to some interview with a complete buffoon yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and she describes herself as, I think she used the phrase,
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  Speaker 2: Prada bag socialist. And she said that, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: keep hearing from the right wing that socialism is just
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  Speaker 2: going to drag everybody to the lowest common denominator, when
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  Speaker 2: in reality, We believe that in America, the richest nation
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  Speaker 2: on earth, that everybody, if we would just tax the
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  Speaker 2: rich some more, everybody could have a Prada bag. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: can drive nice cars. Everybody can live in good houses.
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  Speaker 2: And that's, you're in some sort of bizarre fantasy world
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  Speaker 2: that where on earth in the history of earth has
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  Speaker 2: that ever happened? It's never happened because it's impossible to
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  Speaker 2: make happen. There's always going to be people who are creators.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be people who push the limits. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be bad people. Yes, there's people who abuse
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  Speaker 2: the system. There's people who are.
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  Speaker 4: Going to rob. Human nature is going to human.
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  Speaker 2: And what capitalism does is it forces some of our
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  Speaker 2: bad instincts into And you can use it for a
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  Speaker 2: force for good and drag some people's quality of life
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  Speaker 2: up the quality of life in America. Look at how
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  Speaker 2: many Americans have moved abroad. Even the rich people like
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  Speaker 2: Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. I hate Trump and I
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  Speaker 2: hate the fascist policies. Well, welcome home because they came
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  Speaker 2: right back. They spent a little time in Ireland. I
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  Speaker 2: forget where Rosie went. I think she went to the,
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  Speaker 2: or excuse me, where Ellen went, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: the UK and they couldn't wait to get back to America.
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  Speaker 2: And you see this happening over and over and over
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  Speaker 2: again where people go to Europe and they're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's where it's going to be accepting and loving. I
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  Speaker 2: was reading a blog post the other day from some lady.
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  Speaker 2: She lived in, I think, Alabama and her husband got
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  Speaker 2: a job offer during COVID. And it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be somewhere, you know, just outside of London. And she
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  Speaker 2: was so excited when she started reading about quick train
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  Speaker 2: ride to one of the largest cities in the world
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  Speaker 2: and blah, blah, blah. And she was like, I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: believe how openly they mocked me. that the Europeans mock
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  Speaker 2: the American accent, including people like her boss. So she'd
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  Speaker 2: be at the office and they're like, you sound stupid.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not a fireable offense in England to just
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  Speaker 2: tell your employees, you talk funny, you sound stupid.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine that here in America.
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  Speaker 3: We're much more accepting as a culture.
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  Speaker 4: We have it so good here.
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  Speaker 2: We do. And South Carolina is doing fantastic. Congratulations to
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  Speaker 2: everybody who helped put these jobs numbers reports together.
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  Speaker 4: I love living in South Carolina. I hope you do too.
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  Speaker 2: If you're celebrating like Christopher and I, let us know
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  Speaker 2: about it on the Talk Back feature. We'll be right
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  Speaker 2: back on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I just heard that Fox update on polling. And a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on, I think we're going to go
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  Speaker 2: into some polls because there's some crazy news in the
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  Speaker 2: polling world that we have to kind of address. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's The big elephant in the room, and if you
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard that story, I put it up on my
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  Speaker 2: social media page yesterday, but we will get into some
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  Speaker 2: of the shocking polling news, the revelations. But here in
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, one of the big stories, obviously, is the
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  Speaker 2: very tight race between Darlene Graham and Annie Andrews. uh, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump came to town or at least came to
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  Speaker 2: the state and gave a big rally trying to help
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham. We were looking this morning, Christopher, for anybody
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  Speaker 2: who went into last night thinking I'm going to either
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  Speaker 2: sit the race out, um, or I'm, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'll just vote for, uh, a bunch of things, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to vote in the Senate race, or
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  Speaker 2: perhaps I'd vote for somebody else. And now last night,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump flipped them. You brought up the right in
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  Speaker 2: Ralph people. And, uh, Am I to believe that we
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  Speaker 2: have a write-in Ralph person?
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  Speaker 3: No, we have someone who's against the write-in Ralph movement.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so we're able to get one of those guys.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: What'd they say?
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  Speaker 8: The write-in Ralph campaign is just ignorant. No one is
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  Speaker 8: going to receive any type of message from your voting
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  Speaker 8: with a write-in. You are just assisting Annie Andrews to
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  Speaker 8: be elected. And six years from now, No one's going
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  Speaker 8: to remember anything about this election other than Annie Andrews won.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the talk back. She's probably right in the
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  Speaker 2: sense that our lessons learned. Let me ask a question
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  Speaker 2: for the Democrats. If you're a Democrat listening, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that your blood pressure is not rising too high.
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  Speaker 2: But was there any lessons learned? in 2016 about the
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  Speaker 2: loss from Hillary Clinton. Did you guys learn something? Was
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  Speaker 2: there a valuable lesson that you took away from that?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I can speculate as to what the lesson was, but
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  Speaker 2: what do you think the lesson was? And are you
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  Speaker 2: learning lessons now? Like, did you learn anything from your
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  Speaker 2: original main candidate? Are you learning something in Michigan? Are
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  Speaker 2: you learning something in Minnesota? Are you learning something in Texas?
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  Speaker 2: Because that is literally a gimme state for you now.
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  Speaker 2: The Ken Paxton debacle should have just, you should win
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  Speaker 2: Texas by seven points, but you're not. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: might win, but you're not going to win by seven points.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a very tight race the whole
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  Speaker 2: way through because you keep nominating losers. Ah, Are the
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  Speaker 2: lessons ever learned? I don't know. But thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the talk back. So Christopher and I do appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a break for the news and be back
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  Speaker 2: with more in just a moment.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: She called for a ban on all oil drilling as
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  Speaker 7: opposed to drill, baby, drill.
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  Speaker 4: I would say that's the opposite.
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  Speaker 7: She will vote to open your borders, shut down your
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  Speaker 7: power plants, set loose dangerous criminals, confiscate your money, and
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  Speaker 7: give your hard-earned savings to millions of Third world migrants, fraudsters,
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  Speaker 7: and thugs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Donald Trump in South Carolina last night making the case,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot help Annie Andrews win.
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  Speaker 4: Did he win anybody over? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I tend to think not. I think that people, even
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  Speaker 2: though the president is an amazing campaigner, I don't know that...
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  Speaker 2: The people who are on the fence are actually swayable
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  Speaker 2: at this point.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe I'd love to hear from somebody. If you
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  Speaker 2: were swayed, you were in one position, and then you
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: moved to the I'm voting for Darlene camp. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at this story about California. It's unbelievable how bad things
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  Speaker 2: are getting out there. So Mark Zuckerberg cut a special
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  Speaker 2: deal with Meta yesterday, I guess. And under this agreement,
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  Speaker 2: Zuckerberg is going to be allowed... First off, he's going
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  Speaker 2: to receive a bunch of non-voting shares. So usually in
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  Speaker 2: a company, if you own the shares, you are able
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  Speaker 2: to vote at the board meetings and those types of things.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to start giving him non-voting shares. So they're valuable.
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  Speaker 2: But if somebody was to buy them from Zuckerberg, they
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  Speaker 2: would not then be allowed to vote.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 2: This is all in response to California's Proposition 40 because
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  Speaker 2: he announced to the board, I have to leave. I
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  Speaker 2: can't stay in California because if that thing passes, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to sock me for literally billions of dollars. So
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  Speaker 2: they said, well, what if we created a new share
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  Speaker 2: where they have no control over the company?
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  Speaker 4: It's just they get money from it. And he said, okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'll do that.
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  Speaker 2: So Zuckerberg could sell 20% of Class C shares that
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  Speaker 2: he receives. That's 10% of his economic stake in the company.
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  Speaker 2: And that would allow him to pay for the tax
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  Speaker 2: that he would be hit with if they passed this vote. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: he was leaving California. It's nice to be in charge,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? Well.
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  Speaker 3: You're making your own rules.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the board is the one who passed that for him.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 9: And.
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  Speaker 2: But think about the extreme measures that people... And everybody
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  Speaker 2: always says, well, a billionaire, he's not going to miss it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he is. But guess what? People miss money. And when
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  Speaker 2: you say a billionaire, I don't think any of them
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  Speaker 2: are billion dollar... Well, maybe some of them are. Billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars liquid, meaning I have a billion dollar savings account.
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  Speaker 2: That is not the case. He's a billionaire because he owns... Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: or he owns a large swath of it. But to
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  Speaker 2: get the money out of it, he would have to
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: sell enough shares where some group, say a radical investment
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: group was put together, they could then buy out Mark
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Zuckerberg shares and then take control of the company and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: shut it off. They could do whatever they wanted with
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: it if they were able to get the control. This
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: is one of the worst ideas ever, a wealth tax.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: We're taxing you on things that you own that it's
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: not money. We're taxing you on non-money. It's like I'm
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: holding my cell phone right now. This cell phone is
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: worth about $ 1, 000 is what I paid for it, I'm guessing, right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what you pay for a cell
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: phone these days. But whatever it was, I bought this
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: about a year ago for.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: About $ 1, 000.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Now, if you want it, I paid a sales tax
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: when I bought it. But right now, if you were
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to value my property and say, well, that phone is
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: worth $ 1, 000 and your car is worth $ 50, 000 and your
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: home is worth $ 400, 000 and you own something else, we
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: can get my net worth up to a million dollars
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and then say, now you owe us 10% of that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I'd have to come off $ 100, 000. My bank account does
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: not have $ 100, 000 in it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I wish it did.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: But if the state or whomever the entity was said
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: they needed $ 100, 000, otherwise I'm going to prison, I would
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: have to sell the things that I own in order
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to cover your tax. And the things that you're selling
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: are shares of a company. You're actually giving up control
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: of the company, which I hate to say. I think
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: that's actually the long-term goal of the Democrats. They want
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: to take over control of the companies. That's what socialism is.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Socialists don't want individuals or even groups owning manufacturing. They
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: want to be in control. The government should control how
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: we produce things. And I don't know if that's breaking
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: news to anybody, but if it is... Give us credit
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News for educating you on how
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: socialism works. We'll take a break and be back with
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: more in just a moment.
• 20:04
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• 20:15
  Speaker 10: I have to agree with the other caller about the write-in,
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: Ralph Norman. What is that purpose serving? I don't quite understand.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: You are helping another candidate win and the Republican candidate
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: losing just by being spiteful, right? Am I right with that?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Chris and Charleston.
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: I don't mean to be overly cynical about some of
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: these political activities, but the write-in for Ralph, I think,
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: was organic. and people were angry and frustrated. But I
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: think the real organic movement burns itself out. And what
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: we see on Facebook or other social media outlets or
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: what's continuing is not organic, is organized by other people.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Chris was from Charleston?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yes. All right. Great to hear from you, Chris. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: wish I knew the young lady's name. I liked her voice,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: the way she put it. Am I crazy? You're helping
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the other people. By the way, this morning I woke
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: to an email from, I don't know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: A friend of the show? Is that the right term?
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Is it Eric? It starts with an A. A-R-I-K? Oh, yes.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: Eric.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Who was correcting me.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: The ad campaign that we were talking about, was it
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: yesterday and maybe even the day previous, regarding Casey Whitener,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the AI-generated ad that was coming from a pack, the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: guy behind that pack, I misinterpreted him. He was basically
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: a right in Ralph guy. He is someone who I
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: have the email in front of me. He was basically
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: saying he is not a left winger. He is a
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: right winger who is trying to course correct the Republican
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Party by. And again, for those of you not familiar
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: with this, we were talking about it the other day.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: He puts out AI ads, which doesn't cost anything. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: when we say puts them out, doesn't put them on television.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: He's not like buying ads on TV. I don't believe
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I think he's trying to get them to go viral
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: on TV. social media pages and maybe spending some money
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: on like what they would call like a pre-roll or
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: something like that on YouTube. Um, but the Casey Whitener
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: one is one, he's doing it in like eight different
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: States and he's targeting Republicans that he doesn't like, like
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham. And he's using the libertarian as a way
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: of swaying.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Votes over there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: He says, we're going to just move the margin or
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: something to that extent. And if we can get enough people,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: then the Democrat wins. And I misinterpreted that as thinking
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: that he was trying to get the Democrats to win
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: because he's a Democrat. But no, upon further examination, what
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: he's saying is I want the Republican Party to do better. Again,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: another man out to teach us lessons by turning us
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: over to socialists.
• 23:12
  Speaker 12: So.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: If you're up for the lessons, he's ready to teach.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we had Jan weigh in on Facebook yesterday after
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: we went off the air and simply said, you guys
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: realize this right in Ralph campaign, this was started by Democrats.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I think I agree with
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Chris from Charleston.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: It was organic to start with, but Democrats have certainly
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: chimed in and jumped on it since.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, they're definitely making some hay with it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: There is some hay to be made, and you do
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: have a bunch of disgruntled Republicans Republicans. And if you
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: missed the interview that we had yesterday with Ralph Norman,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that's up on the National Briefing Podcast. And you spell
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: that like my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L, the National Briefing Podcast. And
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: It got a lot of people commenting on it yesterday.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: It made national news.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Did it now?
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Sorry, N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L. It made national news.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: That interview went national?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I hadn't seen that.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But I know Nick Reynolds commented on it over at
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the Post and Courier. I saw my friend Will Folks
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: from Fitz News commenting on it. There were a bunch
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: of people locally, and apparently nationally, that's interesting, chiming in
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: on that interview. And I... I could hear the pain
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: in Ralph's voice. And what he was saying was he,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: the basic way he looks at it is he, he
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: was lied about and misrepresented by Donald Trump and, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the Republican party didn't do anything to defend him. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: they kind of, in his estimation helped push Darlene across
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: the finish line. That's the way he interprets it. I,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: as somebody who watches politics, again, I'm not involved. I
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: understand that that, is a game in politics. It's a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: blood sport because it's ugly and people are going to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: lie about you. And you can look at the Vivek
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy ad against the Amy Acton out in Ohio. That
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: is brutal. You got her mother on there saying she's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a liar. She can't even run her own life. She's
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: certainly not going to improve your life. She's a lifelong liar.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And then you got people going after Vivek Ramaswamy and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: his children. I mean, the ad campaigns that we have
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: are brutal, but it's nothing new. It's been going on
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: for literally hundreds of years. because it's such an important
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: thing to win power, according to a lot of people.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: So they'll do pretty much anything to get it. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I wish that Ralph would come along and say, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: want to make sure that Annie Andrews doesn't win. He
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: wasn't willing to say that. He said he's going to
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: support Darlene by voting for her, but that's as far
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: as his support will go. Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, Donald J.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Trump, all together.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Christopher, you were compiling a bunch of audio from last
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: night's appearance in South Carolina from the president. Anything stick
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: out to you from that?
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Let's give you what he said about Annie Andrews and guns.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: She wants to abandon.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: I mean, to me, here's because you rarely say this.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: I've seen it with a couple of Democrats that are running.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: She's got an F rating from the NRA. That means
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: she wants to take your guns away.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: An F rating.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: It's an F rating. It's horrible. She wants to take
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: your guns.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: The polling in this race is what obviously drove Donald
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Trump into South Carolina.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham has.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: depending on which poll you're looking at, anywhere from a
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: dead heat to like a slight three-point lead, maybe something
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: like that. There was a revelation made that a lot
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: of stuff is put into polls. Trump has always yelled
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: about there's a lot of fake polls out there. There's
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: none more fake than the one that broke yesterday, for
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the most part. It's a company called Wedgwood Polling, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Wedgwood Polling is a group that apparently.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Launched themselves in June of 2026.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: They ended up with polls on MSNOW, Newsweek, Decision Desk, Mediate,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, the New York Times, Nate Silver,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: big name in polling, big, big name, 51 plus one,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: that is Nate Silver's website. There's so many groups and
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: organizations and news outlets that reported some of the polling
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that that Wedgwood was putting out. The problem is Wedgwood
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: is not a polling company. They were an experiment, according
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: to them. We had a, quote, we wanted to test
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: a simple hypothesis. How easy is it for an entirely
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: fabricated polling firm to actually gain traction, be taken seriously,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and expose how little scrutinization exists in the media and
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: public commentary? Wedgwood posted on their ex-account, The short answer
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: is far too easy. And this has real results. I mean,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: not only were they getting quoted in a bunch of
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: outlets like the New York times, but if you go
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to one Michigan candidate, she says that they are the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: reason that she got out of the race. Uh, Mallory McMorrow,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Democrat state Senator who is running to be the Democrat nominee, um,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: dropped out of the race after several bad Wedgwood polls
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: in June showed her plummeting. She was moving in the
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: wrong direction. And those were the only polls that were
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: coming up at that time. As you know, early in races,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: it might be a month or two before you actually
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: get something as from a new poll in a primary. Well,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: they got three polls before anybody else had any other
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: polls and she free fell. And all of a sudden,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: according to her, Our donors didn't want to donate. The
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: funding evaporated. So as she says, sure, a point was proven.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people who
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: poured their hearts, time, and energy, hard-earned money into something
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: they believed in for a year and a half previously,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: this was treated like a game. And they were showing
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: that El-Sayed was running away with it at that point.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: And that's why she got out. She couldn't get any
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: more money.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Is polling broken or is the report? on polling broken?
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what the FCC is now saying.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: So Brendan Carr came out and FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: said some things about this. But the idea that if
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: you are reporting on polls... But you don't fact check
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the polls. And Wedgwood is saying now some people are
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: pushing back and saying, look, Wedgwood just got caught. They
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: were some people's estimation of who Wedgwood is, is because
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: they are.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Former pollsters, I guess.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And it's not unheard of for pollsters to leave one
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: firm and try to launch their own. And they got
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: to self fund a couple of polls to try to
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: get some traction before they can start getting other people
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: to start paying for it. And that's what they're alleged
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: to have done. Again, their defense is, no, we were
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: just trying to show to you that nobody actually checks
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the methodology. We say what we say, and then you
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: just believe it. And maybe it's a little bit of both.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but we do know that they were
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: in the New York Times and we do know that
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: they were factored in real clear politics. And we do
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: know that now all of these organizations are going back
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and redacting and trying to correct their polls and remove
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: that data from their polls. Like if you just say
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: we looked at the last five polls and it shows this. Well,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: what happens if you remove Wedgwood? Does it change? Is
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: it is the story different? I think a bigger narrative,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll take a break. And when we come back,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll hear from some of the pollsters because we
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: do have some pollsters that listen to the show and
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: we appreciate their efforts. And we think that the pollsters
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that live around here do a really good job.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: But it's not perfect.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: But also, not only is it not perfect because there
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: is no such thing as perfect. Except for Christopher Thompson's
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: sports reports.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: But the idea of, do you know how to read
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: a poll?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I'm willing to bet 90% of this audience doesn't know
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: how to read a poll. And it's kind of like,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't know how to read a weather forecast until recently.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Perhaps you, maybe you discovered, like I did about a
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: year or two ago, I didn't understand weather.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: And what they were actually telling me in the forecast.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: We'll talk about that.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: And maybe if you have some thoughts on whether what,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: how Trump performed last night, does it move the needle?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: What kind of polls are you looking at? All of
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: those types of things. Just use the talk back feature.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: That's the best way to get ahold of us. Although
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I do read my emails. If you want to reach
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: out to me there or get on me on social media,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: that's also an easy way at Kelly Nash radio, which
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: by the way, we're live streaming the show now on
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: three platforms, Facebook X and YouTube. So if you want
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: to watch us there, you can do it there as well.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break and be back with
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: more on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson and the polling, we
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: were just talking about the fake polling company that got
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: launched in June and threw everything into chaos, getting coverage
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: in the New York Times and all kinds of other
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: media outlets. MSNOW is quoting them and Turns out that
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: they're not even real. They don't have any pollsters. They're
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: not actually polling. They're just throwing numbers out to see
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: if anybody would publish it. And turns out most most
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: outlets did. But that doesn't even I mean, obviously, when
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: you say crap in crap out, that's that's not even crap. Well,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I guess that's crap out there. But they just pulled
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: out numbers out their butt and threw it on television.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: So that's what they were doing at, again, they're saying
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: it was a grand experiment. Maybe it was.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe they just got caught trying to make a quick buck.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Who knows?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: But when you're reading a poll, this is, when I
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: say I don't think most people understand how to read
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: a poll, what I mean by that is when we
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: talk about margin of error. So margin of error typically
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: would be around 4% in a poll. That's, again, I've
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: seen some at two and a half, whatever. But what
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: does that mean? So it means that if a candidate
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: is polling at, say, 40, maybe you're in a 52-48 race,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: and we'll say it's within the margin of error. We
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: tend in our brains to think it could be actually
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: 50-50 right now. It could be a dead heat. But
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: we very rarely recognize the fact that 4% margin of
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: error can go in either direction. So the 52 could
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: actually be a 56 margin. And the 48 could in
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: fact be a 44. So if it was the final
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: race came out 40, or excuse me, 58 to 44,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the poll was accurate.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Within the margin of error.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Within the margin of error.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: That is one of those things where it's like, wait, what?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: And that's why we look at a broad spectrum of
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: polling and we try to see if we can detect,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: is there a, theme here?
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Is there something going on here?
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Because one snapshot of voters, you take a poll of
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: 500 or 600 people, that's not going to actually give
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: you what's really happening because we have margins of error.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: And so again, to the other side, if it's a
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: 52-48 race, you're not saying, The 48 guys winning, but he,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: in fact, or Gal, could have 52. It could be
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: 52-48 the other way, and that would be correct within
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the margin of error. So most people don't look at
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: polls that way. They just look at, oh, okay, so-and-so's
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: up by three.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: They're winning.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: No. When you look across America right now and you
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: look at all these polls that say Democrats are winning,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: they're all within the margin of error. They're actually most
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: of them are within like a point or two, although
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: the trend shows the Democrats are in the lead. They
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: may be actually getting their butts spanked across America right now.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: We don't know.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Because polling is inaccurate. Then you throw in the fact
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: that you got fake polls could legitimately fake. Nobody works there.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: We're not calling any voters. We're just making up numbers
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: and putting them out there to see if anybody will
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: publish it. And then that gets put in the aggregate.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: that's part of the real clear polling trends that really
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: throws things for a loop.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: So it's a dangerous game to look at polls. It's
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: a very dangerous game.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: And at least now you have hopefully a little bit
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: better understanding of when you're looking at a poll, how, how,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and then when you start thinking about subgroups, like subgroups,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: likely women voters between the ages of 25 to 54.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Those things usually have margins of error, like 10, like
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: they're way off oftentimes. And then again, you also have
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: poorly worded questions. We were talking about that with some
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: of the pollsters about the Jermaine Johnson race here for governor.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And he had a poll that showed he was like
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: within one point of Alan Wilson or something, but we
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: didn't under, you didn't know that those were just like,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: if I told you, that candidate A wanted to help
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: people and get better jobs, lower taxes, or whatever the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: crap that he was saying. If I told you candidate
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: A was for that, and then just take Alan Wilson
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: and just take some crazy position and said, and candidate
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: B was this. how likely are you to vote for
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: candidate A? And even with that, he was still losing.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: He couldn't come up with the wording to try to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: get candidate A to win. But it's just a game
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: at this point. It seems to be just a game.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: And unfortunately for that, like the Democrat out in Michigan,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: she lost all her funding based off of bad polling.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of us either believe the
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: polls and say, oh, Darlene Graham is probably not going
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to win or if she wins, it's not going to,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if Darlene Graham wins by 10.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised at all. And I wouldn't be
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: surprised if Annie Andrews wins either, but the polling is
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: not that accurate to the point where you're like, Oh,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: she's up a 10th of a point.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: She's down a 10th of a point. That's not how
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: this works.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Um, so, you know, again, Donald Trump came to town
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: to try to move the polls yet. Donald Trump recognizes
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: most of the polls seem to be fake news according
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: to him.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Although, except when he's up. He's up in the polls.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Love the polls.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, I'm winning in everything. There's never been
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: anything like it. But anyway, are you affected by the polls?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Did you think that Donald Trump did a great job
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: moving the polls last night? We've gotten a bunch of
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: talkbacks regarding Trump's appearance. We've also got a bunch of people.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Christopher brought up the write-in Ralph crew. And have we
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: heard from anybody yet?
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Nobody who is pro write-in Ralph. Has has talked back.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: There has to be somebody who listens to this show
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: unless it's all just a big commie scheme is the
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: whole right. That's we've had a couple of people say
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: that the whole right in route thing is just the Democrats.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: There are no Republicans involved in this. I don't believe
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that there's got to be a few of you who are.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: upset over the Ralph Norman loss and you're part of
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the right in Ralph campaign. Talk to us, use that
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: talk back. We don't even get a chance to talk
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: back to you. You just say what you're going to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: say into the microphone and we'll put it on the air.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: All right, right in Ralph people.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Where are you?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Use the talk back feature on the I heart radio app.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: We'll be back in a moment.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 39:12
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: With Christopher Thompson, I am Kelly Nash. And one of
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the races that's happening in South Carolina is for the
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: attorney general as our current attorney general, Alan Wilson is, uh,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: aspiring to be the new governor.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: He's not running for reelection.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And so that opened it up and we've got Republican
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: David Stumbo, who's been doing a pretty good job running.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: According to the Post and Courier.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: He currently has $ 360, 000 on hand and has raised about $ 406, 000,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: according to campaign finance reports. He is running against Mount
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Pleasant's And I'm going to try to say the name.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I've never heard it. Richard. Rizik.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: I believe it's Rizik.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: You're going to say Rizik.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: It's spelled H-R-I-C-I-K. I was going to go with Horisic,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: but you say it's Rizik.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I believe so.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Either way, he owns his own Mount Pleasant law firm.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: And he ends the, he heads into November with $ 85.
• 40:08
  Speaker 13: $ 85.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Now, according to the Post and Courier, He has made
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: a conscious decision to not fundraise for the campaign. I'm wondering,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I'm going to just say, first off, interesting strategy, Cotton.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: See how it works out for you. But also, I mean,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: is it possible that he just wasn't having a lot
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: of success and then he just said, you know what,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: now just turn down the donations.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Now turn them down.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Because I would run an ad campaign of at least
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: several thousand dollars just to learn how to say his
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: last name. Like, just have an ad saying, for those
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: of you wondering, my name is Herzig. It looks like
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Herisic or something, but no. With $ 85, apparently he's not
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: going to run any ads, I'm guessing. He's just hoping
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: that Democrats across the board are going to pull that lever.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's going to ride the coattails of Annie Andrews.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: But, quote, I take no donations whatsoever except no PAC money,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: no special interest money, and I'm not self-funding either. So
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: there's no money involved in this campaign. It's a statewide office.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: The Democrat Party, if I'm them, I'm like, are you
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: kidding me, bro? We need some help over here.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Going back to your polling, your discussion on polling in
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: the last segment.
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: We mentioned the Trafalgar Group survey in the polls on
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: the Senate race.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: I didn't bring up the name Trafalgar, but I've referenced
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: them before. Yes.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: I mean, they are top notch usually when it comes
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: to Republican polling. even with the margin of error, and
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: as you pointed out last hour or last half hour,
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: that could go in either direction. It could go completely
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: in one direction. Even if every error made in the
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Trafalgar Group's latest polling all went the Democrats' way, Alan
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: Wilson would still have a double-digit lead over Jermaine Johnson.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: David Stumbo would still have a double-digit lead over Richard Rissick.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: And Cody Simpson would still have a double-digit lead over
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: his closest competitor. So, you know, while the Senate races
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: were so focused on that because it's close, I mean,
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: some of these other races, even with the margin of error,
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: are double-digit blowouts right now.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: It's a red state.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: We're trying to keep it red across the board. We'll
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: see if we can do that with Darlene Graham. Everybody...
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for the right in Ralph people. Who
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: are the pro right in Ralph people? Do you really exist?
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: That is a challenge. Are there really right in Ralph
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: people who are not Democrats? Let us know about it
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: on the talkback feature. We'll take a break for the
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: news and be back with more.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
• 42:47
  Speaker 14: Hey guys, this is Kevin from South Congaree. I just
• 42:50
  Speaker 14: wanted to call and say y'all are doing a great job.
• 42:53
  Speaker 14: You're growing the show. You're all over the state. You
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: got more talkbacks than ever. You're doing it right. Keep
• 42:59
  Speaker 14: doing what you're doing.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Who is this Kevin fella? I love this guy. Is
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: he new to the show?
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Well, he said we're growing the show.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: So we're growing. And that's exactly the goal. We want
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: to spread the good news of News Talk across the country.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: I know, you know, that Christopher, when I got.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Into News Talk years ago, one of the things that
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I said, I wanted to make it fun. Rush Limbaugh
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: used to make it fun.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, he did. I want it to be fun.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I did a song parody earlier a couple of weeks
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: ago now about Annie Andrews. Maybe I'll play that back. Maybe,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: by the way, for those of you keeping score, Annie
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: has already appeared in the studio with me once, and
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: they're all over me right now to try to get
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: her back in. Still waiting on Darlene. Darlene called in.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: and we appreciate her making time for us on the phone,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: but it would certainly be great to have her here.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: I think as a, you know, and this is not
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: about Christopher Thompson and Kelly Nash being important, but you,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: the audience is important.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: You, I mean, I.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Don't want to, I don't want to say how many,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: but we have a lot of folks who listen in Charleston,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: a lot, a surprising amount to me about how many
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: people listen in Charleston. I mean, it is fantastic. The
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: audience growth that we're seeing in Charleston, In Columbia, it's
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: a very big show. This has been when Gary was
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: the host here, grew it out massively, big-time radio station,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: big-time show.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: And now it's bigger even now.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: And this audience deserves the full attention of the candidates,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I would think, especially as you and I keep pointing out.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: This is a turnout election. If you're going to win,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: you're going to get the base out. The people in
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: the middle are not really– they hate both parties right now.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: They're turned off by Republicans. They're turned off by Democrats.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And I know in this audience there's a lot of
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: people that are turned off by the Republicans. They don't
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: like the swamp. They don't like the machine. They don't
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: like whatever. So it's really about trying to get these
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: people that are engaged to come out and– We have
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: an audience for it.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: And Annie Andrews knows you have a conservative audience, which
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: leads you to believe she thinks there are still some
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: voters out there that she hasn't reached yet with her
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: message that might possibly cross the line. You know, she
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: put out a list of 100, I think it was
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: 100 Republicans in South Carolina for Annie Andrews the other day.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: A lot of those names were suspect as far as
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: being whether they were really republicans or not but she's
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: had a few sign on with her and i'm sure
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: she would love to have a few more if she
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: could get your ear one more time.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Katrina sheely was one was one on the list yes
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: there was like three names that i recognized the bunch
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: of people later on told me and i haven't researched
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: it like you said it was a hundred of them
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: i don't how many did you recognize.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: Christopher i i think sheely might have been I think
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: there were two maybe that I recognize.
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I was told that a lot of the people had,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: and I'd looked at a couple of them, uh, had
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: been already well known as, uh, anyone but Trump type
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: of candidates.
• 46:11
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Uh, and, or just Republicans in general, people who did
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: not like Donald Trump. And look, if, if that's you,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: you might, you're probably somebody who's longing for the good
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: old days when Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan could have
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: a beer and Where's that old-fashioned diplomacy? Okay, well, that's dead.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: That's where that is. That's not coming back. At least
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: not anytime soon. I'll be honest with you. I kind
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: of miss it, but I also kind of like the...
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: The realness of where we're at right now, the the
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Democrats are telling you who they are. We are socialists.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: They've they've hidden that for decades. They've been pushing the
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: party in that direction. Hillary Clinton with the Hillary care
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: movement of the mid 90s. They've been pushing towards socialism forever.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Now they're like, hey, we're taking the mask off. It's
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: like at the end of Scooby Doo. They take the
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: mask off.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm a socialist.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: OK, now we know who you are. And the Republicans,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: as ugly as some of it is, and we saw
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: some of the ugliness last night. What do we have?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Twelve people arrested, I think, last night at the Trump rally.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: There was some ugliness up there. And Donald Trump is
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: not a statesman, so to speak, a traditionalist. He is raw.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: And real and a fighter. And that's what attracted a
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: lot of people to the party. It turned off some
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: of the people from the party. But I think that
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: what we're seeing is this is the new thing that's
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: going to happen for the foreseeable future. Whoever the next president. Look,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: if you get Marco Rubio or I don't know, whoever.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: J.D.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: Vance.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: J.D.
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: Vance.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: I was trying to.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Ron... What's.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: His name down in Florida?
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: DeSantis.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: DeSantis.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Whoever you get as the nominee for the Republicans, they're
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: going to say some ugly things. They are going to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: say ugly things in a campaign. That's just the way
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: it's going to go. And guaranteed, the Democrats are going
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: to be really ugly with whatever they come out with.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: It's just.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: And for those of you who don't have a stomach
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: for it, completely understand. Try to, at that point, if
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: you cannot... stomach the ugliness that is modern day politics,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: try to just read positions and see which positions most
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: closely align with who you are. And if, and especially
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: in a primary, because that's where a lot of the
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: decision is made, because once you get, as we've already said,
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: it's a team sport. So it's like the primary is like, we're,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: we're trying out who's going to be the starting team.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Once you pick your starting five for your basketball team,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: that's your five. Either you're for that five or you're
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: against that five. But you can't say I'm for the
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: three of them, but I hate the two of them,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to try to swap them out for
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the other two on the other side.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: Of the team. You can't do it.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way. It's a team sport, and
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: there's a lot riding on it. It's a lot more
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: than just sports. Not to diminish sports, Christopher.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: No, that's okay.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: I love sports. I got what you mean.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: But there's more involved here than just wins and losses
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: as far as cheering interests. It comes down to tax policies,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: social policies.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Future of our country.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Future of the country. It's all on the ballot, as
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: they say. All right.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: I've run long. We've got to take a break.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you again for that beautiful talk back.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: Loved it. Back in just a moment.
• 49:28
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• 49:43
  Speaker 2: As a local radio talent, I try to learn from
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: the national radio talents.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Listening to Hillary Farski, I have to figure out a
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: way to just start delivering my last name, Christopher, like
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash or something like that. Apparently, that's what gets
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: you to the national level. So I'm working on that. Also,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: coming up next, probably one of the more stunning accusations
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: from a Republican that I've ever heard. We're going to
• 50:09
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• 50:12
  Speaker 2: with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: Well, the sad career.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Of Thomas Massey is about to wrap up, but he's
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: not going to go quietly into the night. I didn't
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: actually see this on ABC the other day, but apparently
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey dropping bombs and says that the DOJ is
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: now involved in a massive Epstein cover-up.
• 50:37
  Speaker 13: I know the DOJ wants to say they're done with
• 50:40
  Speaker 13: this document production. The problem is they've taken down documents
• 50:44
  Speaker 13: before we were able to go over to the DOJ
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: and look at the unredacted versions. They took down some
• 50:49
  Speaker 13: of the most significant documents, two of them involving Virginia
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: Dufresne's case and other things, the picture of... Epstein in
• 51:02
  Speaker 13: a room where it's got CIA written on the boxes,
• 51:05
  Speaker 13: that's been taken down. We want to be able to
• 51:08
  Speaker 13: look at all these files. They can't keep those documents
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: down after they've already produced them.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, but they didn't take them down.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: So I can go right now to DOJ.gov and the
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Epstein library is open and there is a photo of
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein with the CIA boxes behind him. So you
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: can easily find that this is one. This guy is
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: a lunatic.
• 51:36
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: And the fact that I, by the way, to your
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: earlier point, Christopher, the only reason I saw this, somebody
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: who I know on social media.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: That is a right in Ralph person is retweeting it.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: So there, I do know some people online. I, we
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: have yet to find the right in Ralph people that
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: listen to the show. And we, we would love, and again,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: we're not even going to have an opportunity to question you.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: We just want you to push the microphone and say,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I'm writing in Ralph because of this. What is the
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: reason that you're using the right in Ralph campaign? But
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey, is fully off the rails, complete lunatic now.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: And the DOJ has got three and a half million
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: files online right now, thousands and thousands of photographs. If
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: you're interested in exploring the Epstein files, they're all there
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: for you, as many as they can put out.
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: He and I think two of the protesters at last
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: night's Trump rally are the only people talking about the
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: Epstein files right now.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's... It's sad to see somebody's career wrap
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: up this way, but there is Thomas Massey putting a
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: bow on it. All right, we'll take a break, be
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: back with more. We're getting near the top of the hour.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: It's almost 8 o'clock.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: It turns out that myself, Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, we
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: were worried— For no reason. There was no need for concern.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar was fine all along. Oh, thank goodness.
• 53:19
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Where is she? Last night, she popped up on MS
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Now and gave an interview, which really kind of puts
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: everything to rest now. I forget the guy's name who's
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: asking her the questions. Asked, well, how did this rumor
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: about you and your brother even get started?
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: Why?
• 53:36
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: It started with the Somali blog that I don't know
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: if it still exists, but somebody put in there that,
• 53:45
  Speaker 9: you know, that he had to have been my brother
• 53:48
  Speaker 9: or something to that effect.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: You were not related to him at all?
• 53:51
  Speaker 9: Not to my knowledge.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Not to my knowledge that, you know, when somebody says,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: did you marry your sister? I often look at my wife,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Angela and go, not to my knowledge. I mean, I'm
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: not going to say it's not possible. I'm just saying
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: not to my knowledge.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: I don't believe that to be the case.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: Not very convincing.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: Golly. She's not very good at the, uh, at the lying.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Um, Look, I don't think I've said I don't believe
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: that Ilhan married her brother because I didn't. I don't
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: believe that there's some sort of benefit to marrying her
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: brother in order to try to get him into the country.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: If she was, in fact, a naturalized citizen, the reason
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: she was allowed into the country originally was a refugee status.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: That was in 1995. That's not in dispute as far
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: as I can tell. To my knowledge, as far as
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I know, that is the official story of both the
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: United States government and Ilhan Omar, that in 1995, she
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: was brought in as a refugee. She was a child
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: at that point. And then in 2000, her father was
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: naturalized as a citizen. And of course, as a father,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: he would ask for his child or children to be
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: brought in.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: They're minors. Can we make them citizens as well?
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: And the U.S. government granted that. It was later on revealed,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: maybe errantly, that her birthday is in 1981, which would
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: have made it impossible for her to be under the
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: age of 18 in the year 2000. That seems to
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: be the gist of the investigation. That then was amplified
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: middle of this week, like Tuesday, when we found out
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: that they also were getting DNA swabs from Ilhan Omar
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: when they went into her home last Monday. We know
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: that the sister's phone is what led to the investigation,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the signing of the warrant.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: That's what I should say.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: The warrant was because they saw something on Ilhan Omar's
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: sister's phone, who I am now calling Fredo, Fredo Omar.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Fredo Omar had something on the phone that led to this, again,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Democrat-appointed judge signing a warrant to go ahead and search
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: their home. their premises and get a DNA sample.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know what's on.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: The phone and I don't know what the DNA is
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: going to reveal. I just know that Ilhan Omar challenged them, said,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: go ahead and investigate me. A challenge accepted. And so
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: they started the investigation. I do have a, this was
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: a clip of her yesterday. I was playing this yesterday.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: She popped up on Tik TOK and, And let me
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: let me just.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: How do I get rid of that one? I got
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: to get rid of one to get to the other one.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: There we go.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: OK, so this is Ilhan Omar riding in a car
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: and she got the snot bubbles coming.
• 56:52
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much again.
• 56:53
  Speaker 12: And please continue to support us. It is going to
• 56:57
  Speaker 12: be a very expensive and challenging time. And so we
• 57:02
  Speaker 12: appreciate whether you're able to send five.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: 10, 20.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: So there you go.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: So she's she's fundraising off the raid.
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: Yes. This is a legal defense, apparently. So we're going
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: to need some money.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: And again, you could hear her sniffling because she got
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: the snot bubbles because she's crying because they're investigating me.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: Well, you asked for that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Now, listen, I'm going to try to put a fairytale
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: ending on this because I might have said this on
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: the show yesterday. Ilhan Omar in a speech last year
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: I think it was, maybe it was two years ago now,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: brought in the former president of Somalia who gave a
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: speech and no one pushed back and said that this
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: is not the proper translation.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: He delivered it.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: In their native tongue to a bunch of people in
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Minnesota where the Somalian flags were waving in Minnesota talking
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: about Ilhan Omar loves Somalia and she's doing all she
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: can for Somalia. And I would say she's doing more
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: for Somalia than she is the U.S. And those people
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: there who are in the U.S., waving their Somalian flags,
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: very excited to hear that. And then she said, I'm
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: a Somalian girl at heart, and I miss my homeland. I,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: as a U.S. taxpayer, want to be a part of
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: this happy ending. I want, again, the Homeland Security is
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: here to help. You and I, as taxpayers, we don't
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: even have to fundraise. We've already paid for this. Let's
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: use our tax dollars on something we can all agree upon.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: She wants to live in Somalia. We can help make,
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: it's like a Disney, like imagine she's been dragged off
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: to a far off land. She doesn't know her way
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: around America. She doesn't want to be here. She wants
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: to be in Somalia and you and I can make
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: that dream come true. Let's make it come true. And
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: turn that frown upside down, Ilhan. And I guarantee you
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: don't have to marry your brother again unless you want to.
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: That's up to you.
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: He's not the prince at the end that kisses her
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: and wakes her up and she's back in Somalia?
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: You're making the story even better. I love it. Christopher
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: is making the story even better. It's a fairy tale
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: that we get to live.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: In here, ladies and gentlemen. As we send Ilhan Omar,
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: we just... pay for all of it.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: You get to go back to Somalia and enjoy that
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: homeland of yours. And I wonder, I just, the audacity
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: to just try to fundraise, though. That is fantastic. I
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: stole $ 250 million, but, you know, if you could pitch
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: in another 10 or 20, I'd certainly appreciate it. Thoughts
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: on Ilhan Omar or any of the other stuff we've
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: been talking about this morning, please use that microphone on the.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: iHeartRadio app to use the talkback back.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: In a moment.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: All right, I want to say thank you, Avery, who
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: sent me a message on, I think, Facebook here.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: I'm just looking at it quickly.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: And by the way, if you want to get at
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: me on social media, Kelly Nash Radio is the handle.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: And we do live stream the show on Facebook, YouTube,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: and X. So just adding further doubt.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Into the Ilhan Omar story.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: And this is, I'll go and say, I'll say I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: have run it through grok. Now, again, Grok is AI,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: and Grok can make mistakes. I think they always preface that.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: AI can make mistakes. But this is what Grok has confirmed. 2002,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Omar entered a religious Islamic faith tradition marriage with Ahmed Hirsi.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: They applied for a civil marriage license but never finalized it.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: So they had a religious marriage but not a civil
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: marriage in the United States. They had two kids. and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: then separated in 2008. On February of 2009, she married
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: British citizen Ahmed Nour Saeed Elmi in a civil ceremony
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: that took place in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and that was
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: performed by a Christian minister. So that's an unusual twist
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: that a Christian minister is performing a wedding for two Muslims.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: And then Hennepin County Marriage Certificate documents this. Omar said
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: that relationship ended in 2011. That's what she said. However,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: the divorce was not done until December 4th, 2017.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: So she's legally.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Married in the United States from 2009 to 2017. While
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: still legally married to Elmi, that's the the guy she
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: got married to by the Christian pastor, Omar reconciled, she said,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: with the original husband and had another child. So a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: third child was born in 2012. And they filed joint
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: tax returns in the United States in 2014 and 2015,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: though she was legally married to somebody else in the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: United States. That's the guy that they're claiming is her brother.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: It doesn't really add up, does it?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: No, it doesn't.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: I'm filing joint tax returns. I'm married to my wife, Angela,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: but I'm filing joint tax returns with my ex-wife.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, that seems odd at best.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Odd?
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, can you file joint tax returns with somebody
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: you're not married to, I guess? I've never tried it.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Where are the tax experts? Call in with your tax expert.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Can I file joint tax returns with Christopher? Does that
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: help me or hurt us? I don't know. These are
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: the types of questions I never even thought to ask.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe that proves that she is smarter than us. She
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: said that America is being led by idiots because we're
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: trying to deport her, and we shouldn't be proud of that.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: And maybe she is smarter than all of us because
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: she figured out you can file joint tax returns with.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: Just about anybody.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: And now she's asking those idiots for money to fund
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: her defense.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: Is it to fund the defense?
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it's just to buy some more headdresses.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know what she wants. But Ilhan Omar's story
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: will continue. Obviously, we're going to continue to watch that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: closely and see if she ends up being the first
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: ever sitting congressperson deported.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: She, by the way, still.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: According to the CalSheet Mark, it's a 98% chance of
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: winning re-election here in November.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: So not affecting the polls.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: And again, we talked about the polls earlier, including that
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: fake poll scandal that came out yesterday. If you missed
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: that or any parts of the show, you can get
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: that on the SC Morning News podcast. Christopher compiles that
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: and gets that up about 30 minutes after the show ends.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: You can find that for free on the free iHeartRadio app.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 15: In Northeast Columbia. I'm one of a group of people,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 15: and I really don't know how big my group is,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 15: that refuses to take part in a poll. And so
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 15: I don't know how that factors into the margin of
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 15: error or the accuracy of the poll, but I'm sure
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 15: it must affect it in some way. You guys have
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 15: a good morning.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 16: Hey, this is Scott in Columbia. I just want to
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 16: say the write-in route, folks. I believe that is actually...
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 16: people on the other side, not Republicans that are trying
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 16: to spread division. Went and voted yesterday, cast my vote
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 16: for Darlene, hoping and praying she has a strong showing
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 16: for herself and that we retain the stuff we need
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 16: to retain.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: All right, some good talkbacks there. That's interesting about not
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: taking place. I've only been in one poll, and I
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: think it's because I do a lot to kind of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: block my cell phone number, so I Don't get a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: lot of spam.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: I also have a, if you have a, I don't
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: know if it's on all phones. My wife doesn't have it.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: She has an iPhone. She always brags about iPhone. I
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: have a Google Pixel.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's all droids or not, but
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: mine will identify likely spam callers. And I also have
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: a preview button. So if I don't recognize the number
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: and it says it's not a likely spam number, I'll
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: just hit that little thing and it'll say, hi, I'm
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: answering on behalf of the user. Would you like to
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: state your name or whatever? And then they'd usually hang up. Um, but, uh, yeah, I,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I was in a poll once I was on the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: air here at WVOC in Columbia and it would have
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: been during the 2012 election.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: I think it was. And, um, I was an ABC poll.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: I remember that. And so I went through that one
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: and it was like, how likely are you to vote
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: for Barack Obama? And I was like, do you have
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: something less than zero?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: Um, I took part in a poll the other day
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: just to see what they were asking and And it,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: they asked about five issues.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: Tariffs, healthcare costs, the Warner on gas prices and support
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: of Israel. Those were the five issues they were pulling.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: Apparently Republicans on.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I believe it.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's, that is a big deal for a
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: lot of people.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Before we go to break, I know that, uh, look, I,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: I am a friend of Alan Wilson's, uh, and the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: family I've, I've, I think for about the last decade
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: or so, we've spent every New Year's Eve together.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: We hang out together.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: We're part of a crew that watches Gamecock Road games together.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: So, yes, I am biased towards Alan Wilson.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: I tried not to show that during the primaries, but
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: now that he's the nominee, I'm very pro-Alan Wilson. And
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: they just dropped the new ad. This is a follow-up.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: to the ad that they ran during the primaries, which
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe again, because I am biased, I thought
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: was the best ad of the entire campaign season featuring
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: his two kids. If you remember that one, Christopher, they're
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: sitting on the front steps. Now they're sitting inside. Michael
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: is his son. I forget what restaurant he works at.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: It might be like a Zaxby's or one of those
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: types of drive-through restaurants or whatever. And here he is
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: with his sister, Anna Grace. And they're talking about the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: fact that he He now just realizes what kind of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: taxes he's paying when he gets his first paycheck.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: So I got my first paycheck.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 6: He was so excited.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: And then I opened it.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 6: And he was less excited.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: Why does the state get so much of my money?
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: Our dad, Alan Wilson, is running for governor.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: He will eliminate the state income tax.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: So you keep what you earn.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: He'll save everyone money on every paycheck.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: Just like I save money on this sign. I think
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 6: that's actually worse than before.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 14: What?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 11: Alan Wilson.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: So, if you remember the first one where she was like,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: you were supposed to make a sign. He's like, oh,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: I got it right here.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: And he pulls it up.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: It's like hand-drawn. He's got another hand-drawn sign here as well.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: The kids are stealing the election season.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: I really do believe that. So, great ad from the
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: Wilson campaign.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: More talkbacks.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: More ideas.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: And by the way, I still haven't gotten to my.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: I think I started the show talking about there is
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: a new problem in America. We have another psychological problem.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: And we are.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: I have the cure.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: First off, I got to identify it for you because
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: you might not be aware of it. And then I'm
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: going to provide the cure. I don't know that the
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: people who have it are going to want to hear
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: the cure, but I will give you both the problem
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: and the solution coming up next on South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Really do appreciate people engaging with the pro the broadcast,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: whether you do it on the talkback features, uh, or
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: you reach out to me on social media. I got, uh, Mike, uh, says, uh,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: listening to the show this morning, driving, can't use the talkback,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: but I wanted to let you know that I'm looking
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: at Ralph kind of like sports.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: My Yankees lost and aren't going to the World Series.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: And as an American League fan, I'm going to support
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: the Rays because as this is the all-star game, I
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: want the American League to kick the National League's butt.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: So I will be all in for the Rays, even
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: though I usually root against them all season long. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: my guy in the primaries lost. And we all need
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  Speaker 2: to support Darlene. Socialists can't win. Great, great perspective, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for that. Now, one of the problems that's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: happening in America that folks are not identifying, I think,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: yet is IDS. Now, we've heard of TDS. That's Trump
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  Speaker 2: Derangement Syndrome. IDS is Ice Derangement Syndrome, and we have
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  Speaker 2: it in spades in the liberal counties and country or
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  Speaker 2: parts of this country. Uh, we've got a guy who
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  Speaker 2: was able to thank God they arrested this nut.
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  Speaker 4: Um, Mr. Gill, which is a, it doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 4: his first name is.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Going to jail Gill. That's his name.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he told the police that his wife had been
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: abducted by ice when she was at the post, just
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: getting the mail, the end of the driveway. And here
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: comes ice and bam, they snatched my wife and soon
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  Speaker 2: off she goes. Was able to get a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of traction with that until there was just the hint
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  Speaker 2: of an investigation. And that's when the sister said, no,
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  Speaker 2: she's trying to escape him because he's an abuser and
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: has filed for divorce.
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  Speaker 4: And so, well, turned out.
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  Speaker 3: There's always a little more to the story than we
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: get originally.
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  Speaker 4: Turned out he murdered her.
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  Speaker 2: Allegedly.
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  Speaker 4: Allegedly.
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  Speaker 2: They found her remains buried about 20 miles away. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there were some people who were like, oh my God, ICE,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: you just abducted another person?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's horrible.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Now, also in California, the mayor of a small town,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's called Kerman, Mayor Maria Pacheco seems to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: be in some sort of trouble. She went viral. Now,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: she is the current mayor of Kerman, but an upgrade
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: in position would be if she could make it to
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  Speaker 2: the county council. And so she's running for county council.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: She wants to be on the Fresno County Council.
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  Speaker 4: So she had a.
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  Speaker 2: Video that she shot several weeks ago where she had
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  Speaker 2: heard ICE was detaining some people outside of a bakery
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  Speaker 2: in Fresno. And she was Johnny on the spot, had
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  Speaker 2: her little iPhone out or whatever, and filmed herself standing
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  Speaker 2: up to the ICE agents.
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  Speaker 4: Like, unhand these great citizens. And that video went pretty viral.
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  Speaker 4: I think it got like 18,000 views or something. That
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: is a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And she apparently was able to fundraise off that. So
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to replicate my previous success. So now her
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  Speaker 2: campaign seems to be just driving around Fresno looking for
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  Speaker 2: ICE agents to harass.
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  Speaker 4: That's the whole campaign, I think, at this point.
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  Speaker 2: The last guy that she suspected of being an ICE
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  Speaker 2: agent would be the last person you and I would
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: suspect of being an ICE agent. This guy is driving
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  Speaker 2: the whitest of white Mercedes. Now, when you think of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: an ICE agent, don't we always think of like the
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: blacked out SUVs? This guy is rolling around in a
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: white SUV. I think it's even got like some special
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: rims on it. And he's a I'm going to guess
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  Speaker 2: gay just based off of his speech patterns and his profession.
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  Speaker 4: He's a hairdresser. So this is a what I am
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: assuming is a gay.
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  Speaker 2: Black hairdresser driving around in a tricked out Mercedes who
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: she then boxed in and would not let him go.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: So let's go to Fox 26 in Fresno as they
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: give us a little bit of an update on the story.
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  Speaker 10: Bridges says he then got out and started recording Pacheco himself.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 6: In that video, he can be heard saying.
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  Speaker 10: Don't ever in your life follow me, you weird ass.
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  Speaker 2: And when his sister asked Pacheco who she was, Bridges
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: says this was her response.
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  Speaker 6: She's like, don't worry about it. I'm somebody important.
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  Speaker 13: And she flips us off and drove off.
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  Speaker 4: She flipped them off and drove off. I'm somebody important.
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  Speaker 3: Sure she is.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: I'm out here hunting ICE agents.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a serious case of ICE derangement syndrome. Now,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: I love America. I even love Californians. I love people
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota. I love Oregon.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: I love the Boston, Massachusetts, even though I'm.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: A Yankees fan. I love all of these people because
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: they're Americans. I love the Americans there. And I understand...
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: that you might not agree with ICE and some of
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: the aggressive behavior going after the criminal element. And then unfortunately, some,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: what you would term the good illegals, the people who
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: are trying to just be quiet and live a quiet
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: life here in the United States, that they get caught
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: up in it. I have the solution if you'll only listen.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: The medicine to cure you of your ICE derangement syndrome
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: is to remove the sanctuary city, state, or county policies.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: In other words, when your law enforcement arrests somebody, they've
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: already caught them doing something bad. They then run the
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: paperwork and say, uh-oh, this person is wanted for something
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: else in another state or another country, and they're also
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: not here legally. At that point, allow them to turn
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: them over to ICE. ICE will come in and just
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: take them right from the safety of the prison. No
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: citizens are put at risk. Guess what goes away? The
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Home Depot raids. All of that stuff stops because you're
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: now cooperating with law enforcement, and you don't have to
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: go out and have ICE hunts like this idiot mayor
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: in California pulling over white Mercedes.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 4: I take care of ICE. What did he say?
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: You weird ass. Anyway, if you just get rid of
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: your sanctuary city and state policies, you will get rid
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: of ICE basically being in your business. They're going to
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: get out your business. So don't have the ICE derangement syndrome.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: We don't have ICE derangement syndrome here in South Carolina.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: We don't have it in any Republican-leaning city, states, or whatever.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Wherever there's no... Sanctuary policies, we're able to catch the
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: bad illegals, the worst of the worst, and deport them,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: and we don't have to actually get involved with what, again,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: you call the good illegals. So there's your prescription if
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: you're willing to take it.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: I kind of get the feeling that you guys like this,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: that you actually... secretly kind of love hating on ICE,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: but that's maybe I'm wrong.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: Prove me wrong. I'd love to hear that. And if
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: you are, if you want to prove me wrong, use
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: the talkback feature.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: All you socialists get to get at us on the
• 1:15:28
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Aaron getting at me on X at Kelly
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Nash Radio. If you want to tweet at me, he
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: says those IDS people, which we were talking about in
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: the last segment, are the same people with IBS. They're
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: full of blank. Yes, I believe that the IDS people
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: are as well. Listen, sad developments apparently going on at
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: the college level. If you haven't heard, obviously everybody's heard
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: about what's going on with the, what's the university?
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 11: Cornell.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: Cornell, the Cornell 7.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: That case is still pending, I guess, and there's more
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: and more updates and nastiness coming out. We got a
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: story now out of the University of North Carolina at
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Charlotte where a 19-year-old female student says that she was
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: recorded by, it turns out the guy's not a student there,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: but he's 19 years old as well. during a, we'll
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: just say, intimate moment. And then he shared that video
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: with Sigma Alpha Epilson Fraternity Group, which has 32 members.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: He confirmed to her and police that he did it
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: to look cool. Not so cool in his mugshot. Also,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: out of New York City, this is an even darker,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: far darker turn. We have one female dead and another
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: one in the hospital. After they received drugs with fentanyl
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: in it, they were told that there was no fentanyl.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: It's just a good party drug, according to the people
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: who did it. Moses Fryer, age 19, and Brian Cabrera, 18,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: of Queens, are charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics that
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: resulted in death, serious bodily injury. And while both of
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: the women were passed out, they apparently had intimate relations
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: with them. It turns out now... that one of the
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: women was actually deceased at the time.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 13: Oh, oh.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: And then they took photographs, and then they texted that
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: out to some of their friends as well. So I
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: have no idea what is taking over the youth of America,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: but it is an evil spirit. There's something demonic happening
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: there because this is crazy stuff. Anyway, just thought you
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: might want to know about that.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: Maybe not. I'm sorry.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe I should apologize for that last segment.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: We'll be back with one more next.
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  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:18:09
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• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Christopher, we failed today. This morning, we set out on
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: a mission. We launched the show at about 6-0-whatever. And
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: we spent the last almost three hours searching for a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: right-in-Ralph person to call in and Just say anything. Why
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: are you doing the right in Ralph campaign? Or maybe you,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: how did you, were you affected at all by Donald
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Trump's speech? We got nobody who says I'm a right
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: in Ralph person, which leads me to believe that with the,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: not the humble brag, we are the most listened to
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: conservative news talk morning show in South Carolina right now.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: And with that in mind, the fact that in this
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: audience we couldn't find one right in Ralph Person makes
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: me believe that the rumors are true, that it's not organic,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: that it's actually completely fake.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: I think it was organic at the start, but then
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: it became, okay, You know, how can we manipulate these
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 5: people or sound like we're using this cause in order
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: to boost the chances of aiding Andrews?
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: And we did hear from a couple of people who
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: saw stuff with the Trump rally. You know, I didn't
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: watch it, but I'm reading some of the highlights of it.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: It sounds like it started off kind of rough with
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: a bunch of protesters getting kicked out. They said Trump
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: was on stage at 708 within 10 minutes.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: Six people had interrupted him.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: 20 minutes later, they had three more hecklers pop up.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: I saw the one with the guy getting popped in
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: the mouth there or whatever. That old man got pretty
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: good whacked. And then I saw another guy being removed
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: and somebody chased him down the hallway and popped him
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: in the back of the head. So the Trump fans,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: the MAGA people are very.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: Hardcore about their love of the president.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: Don't mess with MAGA.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: Apparently not, but we do appreciate you guys starting your
• 1:20:01
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• 1:20:08
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk to you tomorrow after 6.