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Show Rewind 9-8-26 · 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: Got to put it in programming. Goodness gracious. There's all
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  Speaker 2: these buttons over here, Christopher. Good morning. It's Kelly Nash
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  Speaker 2: with Christopher Thompson. And we did not get the upset
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  Speaker 2: we had hopefully going to receive.
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  Speaker 3: Furman.
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  Speaker 2: Did not really do much against Tennessee. But we did
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  Speaker 2: get the upset that the Citadel pulled a big upset
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Took a few overtimes, but they did, yeah, beat Charlotte.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to my friend Xavier Starks, who is
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  Speaker 2: a big deal with the Citadel. He played there for
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  Speaker 2: basketball and been on their, you know. athletics thing for
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  Speaker 2: many years, and he was ecstatic that they knocked off Charlotte.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Charlotte is supposed to be a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: football program now.
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  Speaker 4: They're okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, for the Citadel to pull off that win
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  Speaker 5: at Charlotte, that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And, I mean, well, first off, Gamecock fans ecstatic, although
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't know from looking at the stadium, there was
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  Speaker 2: nobody there in the second half. It was brutal. I
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  Speaker 2: think that there's probably... text messages over the weekend were
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  Speaker 2: just Gamecock fans who were not happy with the getting
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  Speaker 2: into the stadium experience.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I think we anticipated there were going to be
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  Speaker 5: some hurdles there and apparently a lot of people encountered
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  Speaker 5: that between the fact that they were going to digital
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  Speaker 5: only tickets which I think took some people by surprise
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  Speaker 5: even though USC tried to put that out as much
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  Speaker 5: as they could in the days leading up to the game,
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  Speaker 5: that and the fact that you were allowed only to
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  Speaker 5: go in the gate nearest your seat instead of going
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  Speaker 5: into just about any gate. I mean, construction is made
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  Speaker 5: going back and forth, especially north, south, east, west, just
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  Speaker 5: about impossible. So they were telling you, and it was
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  Speaker 5: actually on your ticket, you can only go in this gate.
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  Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people got thrown by that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of my friends, John, who is a listener,
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  Speaker 2: he might be up this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, John.
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  Speaker 2: He was talking about how, I guess where he goes,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't want to give out the section. The
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  Speaker 2: only way there is an elevator, and he said that
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  Speaker 2: the elevator is now being shared with, the way he
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  Speaker 2: describes it, bread and liquor carts. And he said that
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  Speaker 2: ended up causing like a 20-minute delay to get into
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  Speaker 2: that elevator.
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  Speaker 6: Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: And so he was none too pleased about that experience.
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  Speaker 2: I had a fine experience there, although not fine with
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  Speaker 2: the temperatures, but very excited to see the Gamecocks looking fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And then ultimately the one that I think most people
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  Speaker 2: around the state are talking about is what's going on
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  Speaker 2: with Clemson. And I, you know, Paul Feinbaum ripping into
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  Speaker 2: Dabo and Clemson. And just Sunday at church, I was
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  Speaker 2: stunned at how many Clemson fans were just like, he
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  Speaker 2: refuses to move on into the new era.
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  Speaker 4: He being Dabo Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it seems as if I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Clemson fans calling, saying his seat should be scorching
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  Speaker 2: hot right now.
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  Speaker 4: After just one game.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: That's... But it was another bad look. It was, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you mentioned the fact that it almost feels as if
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  Speaker 5: the game has passed him by at this point. And
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  Speaker 5: it's another loss to an SEC team, another loss to
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  Speaker 5: a ranked team. And, yeah, it's starting to pile up.
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  Speaker 5: The quarterbacks who didn't look ready, either the starter or
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  Speaker 5: the freshman who they were heralding going into the season,
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  Speaker 5: he may pass the starter before the season's out.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody looked ready for that game.
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina loves football. We love college football in particular.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the few markets when you can see
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  Speaker 2: both or all three Greenville, Charleston, Columbia, all three television markets,
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  Speaker 2: college football beats the NFL. It's a rarity in America
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  Speaker 2: that that happens. And so we are obsessed with college
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  Speaker 2: football and You know, for Gamecock fans, they're in a
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  Speaker 2: good mood. Clemson fans, not so much. Citadel, congratulations. Coastal
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  Speaker 2: was having a big game. I think they lost that game,
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  Speaker 2: didn't they? But it was very close. I was watching
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  Speaker 2: that at the gym the other day, and I said, man,
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  Speaker 2: Coastal's very competitive, which was nice to see.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they fell at West Virginia 31-24. Yeah, but it
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  Speaker 5: came down to the last type of possession for West Virginia,
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  Speaker 5: from what I remember.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, we've got some good football programs around here.
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  Speaker 2: Furman didn't pull the pull of the upset that what's
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  Speaker 2: his face? Jordan Rogers over at ESPN thought might happen
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  Speaker 2: at Tennessee. Tennessee looking very good. And Christopher, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you're mentioning this in your sports reports or not.
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  Speaker 2: Is there some sort of major investigation into UNC right
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  Speaker 2: now with their football program?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, they lost their the manager, the director,
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  Speaker 5: I think, of operations, who was a close friend of
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  Speaker 5: Bill Belichick's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it was an H.R.
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  Speaker 6: Related.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently he, he left, but he had been under suspension
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  Speaker 5: and there's an HR investigation. And I mean, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 5: it's been ugly since Bill Belichick moved in there.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, oh boy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not that I'm a North Carolina fan, heaven forbid,
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  Speaker 2: but I, you know, it was kind of hopeful for,
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  Speaker 2: for them that they could kind of turn things around
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  Speaker 2: after they had that big win to start the season,
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  Speaker 2: that everything would be going in the right direction. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I hope whether you're one of the South Carolina fans
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  Speaker 2: or perhaps a Georgia fan or whatever team it is
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  Speaker 2: that you root for, I hope you all had a
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  Speaker 2: great weekend, enjoyed the Labor Day, got yourself refreshed and revived.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that the Democrat Socialists had a
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  Speaker 2: big weekend. They had a convention out in Chicago, and
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  Speaker 2: we got a new definition of fascism. Oh, I am
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  Speaker 2: so excited to share that with you. Are you ready
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  Speaker 2: to learn? There is a new form of fascism that
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  Speaker 2: is running amok in America, and I think I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I am part of this fascist movement. I thought I
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  Speaker 2: was doing something good, but apparently not. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: the new DSA definition of fascism and other things. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want to get into, if you've got thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: the college football weekend or just how Labor Day holiday
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  Speaker 2: went for you, whatever. Get back at us on the
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  Speaker 2: Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. I am rarely
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  Speaker 2: stunned after a lifetime of studying liberals when they come
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  Speaker 2: up with announcements. But over the weekend, I was stunned.
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  Speaker 2: At the Democrat Socialist Convention that took place at the
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  Speaker 2: Hyatt Regency in Chicago, this is Beatrice Adler Bolton on
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  Speaker 2: the podium. She's speaking about a new form of fascism.
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  Speaker 7: You have to give up the fantasy of being fitter
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  Speaker 7: than the fascists. It's not just that it's cringe or strategically.
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  Speaker 6: Bad, though it is.
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  Speaker 7: Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism. Our
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  Speaker 7: task is not to become less disposable, to become more
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  Speaker 7: useful to the ruling order. What we all need to
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  Speaker 7: be doing is rejecting disposability in all of its forms.
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  Speaker 7: The point is not to beat the fascists at their
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  Speaker 7: own game. It is not to lay a better claim
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  Speaker 7: on their own territory by being fitter, more eugenic. In fact,
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  Speaker 7: the more dysgenic, the better, I think. Revolution is not
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  Speaker 7: a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies. That idea
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  Speaker 7: is fascist in and of itself and erases the history
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  Speaker 7: of left struggles.
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  Speaker 6: Around the world.
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  Speaker 7: The idea is that health, fitness, productivity, and bodily normalcy
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  Speaker 7: are measures of moral worth and political belonging. Things like fatness, illness, disability,
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  Speaker 7: racialized difference, perceived dependency or perceived degeneracy are interpreted as
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  Speaker 7: evidence of social rot in need of excising. The Make
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  Speaker 7: America Healthy Again project makes this quite explicit. Maha draws
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  Speaker 7: on this much older eugenic, anti-black, anti-fat, ableist, racist, productivist traditions.
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  Speaker 2: So, Christopher, encouraging people to be healthy is a form
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  Speaker 2: of fascism, according to the Democrat Socialists of America at
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  Speaker 2: their big Chicago convention over Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 5: For starters, Kamala Harris has called and she wants her
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  Speaker 5: word salad back. I don't even know what this woman
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  Speaker 5: was talking about. And for those who thought the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: or sorry, the Democrat socialists would have gotten the memo
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  Speaker 5: by now on, you know, things that matter to Americans and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, talking about the issues that really impact them and,
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  Speaker 5: and not, you know, speaking in general terms about these
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  Speaker 5: ridiculous things.
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  Speaker 4: Moral and trendy things. They haven't gotten the memo, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I will try to decipher.
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  Speaker 4: Would you please?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So her basic argument in layman's terms is that
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  Speaker 2: the government wants people to be healthy so that you
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  Speaker 2: can be productive. And if you are productive, you help
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  Speaker 2: prop up this fascist regime.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're not productive, you are of no use
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  Speaker 2: to the government. And that is is the position you
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  Speaker 2: should take if you are, in fact, a revolutionary. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to overthrow this capitalistic society, the best thing
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  Speaker 2: you can do is become morbidly obese and useless to society.
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  Speaker 2: That's her argument. And when she's talking about dysgenic, tending
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  Speaker 2: to cause a decline in the hereditary and genetic qualities
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  Speaker 2: of a population. So she wants you to be more dysgenic.
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  Speaker 2: She wants you to become sicker. And she does throw
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  Speaker 2: in there, which I would have thought would have been offensive.
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  Speaker 2: She specifically says black people. And she brings that out
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  Speaker 2: as if the natural state for black people, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: point out if you haven't seen the video, and you
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  Speaker 2: can see the video on my YouTube page, I do
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  Speaker 2: post these things morning. It's called the National Briefing is
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  Speaker 2: the podcast. You can see that it's up by 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: She is a very thin white woman. I'll point out
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  Speaker 2: that everybody there is wearing a mask. That's why it
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  Speaker 2: might sound a little muffled. She's wearing a mask. She
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  Speaker 2: is saying, as she sits next to a morbidly obese
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  Speaker 2: black man, she looks at him and says, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that they are targeting black people to make them fitter.
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  Speaker 2: As if the natural state of being black is to
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  Speaker 2: be obese. The obesity rates in America, for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who want to just go back and Google this,
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  Speaker 2: I'll save you the time. It was pretty much about 5%.
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  Speaker 2: And then it actually dropped in the 30s because of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, famine. That'll do that to obesity. But it
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  Speaker 2: went down to about 2% for the obesity rates in America.
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  Speaker 2: And again, the... previous to like the 1950s and 60s,
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  Speaker 2: it was just a sign of wealth. Actually, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was probably still a sign of wealth in the
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  Speaker 2: 50s and 60s and even into the 70s because we
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  Speaker 2: all had access to the same food. And if you
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  Speaker 2: were able to eat more of that food, that showed
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  Speaker 2: that you were making more money and you were able
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  Speaker 2: to basically be leisurely in the sense that you had
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  Speaker 2: a white-collar job. You didn't have to exercise for your earnings.
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  Speaker 2: You just sat and thought or whatever. But But beginning
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  Speaker 2: in the late 1970s, you saw us rapidly increasing our
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  Speaker 2: obesity rates. And that was not due to wealth. That
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  Speaker 2: was due to a changing of the foods. And so
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  Speaker 2: as we brought in corn syrup and all this other
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we hadn't had previously in our diets. We
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  Speaker 2: had more obesity rates by the 1990s of 15, 18%. Now, today,
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  Speaker 2: you look in some states, we're at 45, 50% of
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  Speaker 2: the population is morbidly obese. So this is an actual
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  Speaker 2: health emergency, which the Democrat socialists are actually encouraging. Specifically,
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  Speaker 2: they want black people to be heavier. I will actually
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  Speaker 2: play you the stunning answer of the morbidly obese black
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  Speaker 2: man who's sitting next to her as we continue. But
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  Speaker 2: if you have thoughts on this or other things throughout
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  Speaker 2: the morning, you always use the talkback feature on the
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  Speaker 2: I Heart Radio app.
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  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 8: So the Democrat Socialist Faction Party, whatever it is, is
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  Speaker 8: saying to be a revolutionary and We need to be fat, lazy,
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  Speaker 8: and unhealthy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that kind of summed it up. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: using the talkback feature. I'd love to know your name
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  Speaker 2: and town next time you get a chance. Please let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you're not in South Carolina, sometimes we're pleasantly
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  Speaker 2: surprised that people who used to live in South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: want to wake up with us. and enjoy the local
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  Speaker 2: angles that we have. And we'll be getting into some
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  Speaker 2: of those in just a second, including Dr. Annie Andrews
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  Speaker 2: and how she spent Labor Day here in the Midlands.
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  Speaker 2: Deshaun Harrison, by the way, is the man who was
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  Speaker 2: sitting to the left, if you watch the video on
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  Speaker 2: my YouTube channel at Kelly Nash Radio or Facebook at
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash Radio, of the big socialist convention over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: Socialism 2026, it was called. And Beatrice Adler Bolton was
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  Speaker 2: the lady who was first making the claims that it
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  Speaker 2: is fascist to try to encourage people to watch their weight,
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  Speaker 2: eat healthy, exercise. That's a form of fascism. And she
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  Speaker 2: was encouraging people to not get in line. The less
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  Speaker 2: productive you can be, the more of a revolutionary you
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  Speaker 2: are against the Trump regime. Um, I would have thought
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  Speaker 2: that when she targeted blacks and said that it is specifically,
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  Speaker 2: this is a form of white supremacy over blacks, that a,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps a black man would push back on that and say, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're not, we're not supposed to be fat or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that. That's, but no, this is the Sean Harrison co-signing.
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  Speaker 9: That black fatness is made meaningful through suffering through surveillance
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  Speaker 9: and through control. And the policing of black fat flesh
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  Speaker 9: anchors entire systems of governance. Without a population to discipline,
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  Speaker 9: there would be no BMI, no obesity epidemic, and no
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  Speaker 9: medical or scientific institutions organized around managing fatness. The diet industry.
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  Speaker 2: Reflects this logic.
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  Speaker 9: Diet culture has always linked food to morality, framing restraint
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  Speaker 9: as virtue and pleasure as danger through language like guilty pleasure.
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  Speaker 9: Abstaining from pleasure becomes a way to train obedience. to
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  Speaker 9: train self-denial and to train discipline in service of a
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  Speaker 9: broader political order. Every time a government decides whose body
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  Speaker 9: must be protected and whose bodies must be erased for
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  Speaker 9: the sake of national imagery, this is body fascism. Every
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  Speaker 9: time there is a call for sovereignty by state powers
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  Speaker 9: with the intent to maintain borders, this is body fascism.
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  Speaker 9: Every time black flesh is wrangled, dismembered, abused, this is
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  Speaker 9: body fascism.
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  Speaker 2: Does he think that we have borders because we don't
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  Speaker 2: want fat Mexicans? That was his push?
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And it just plays right into the Republicans' argument that
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  Speaker 5: Democrats want everyone to be more dependent on government.
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  Speaker 4: You're obese. You can't work. You're on welfare now. You're obese.
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  Speaker 5: You need all this health care that the Democrats are
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  Speaker 5: just ready to push on us that the government will
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  Speaker 5: pay for. I mean, the whole thing is just, that's
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  Speaker 5: a disgusting argument.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry you and I didn't. Maybe if we
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  Speaker 2: had known that they were going to have the Socialism
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  Speaker 2: 2026 convention in Chicago this weekend. I know you were
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  Speaker 2: busy with Gamecock football, and I was there for the pregame,
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  Speaker 2: which was awesome to be on the air with you. But, man,
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  Speaker 2: I might have just had to miss it to go
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  Speaker 2: out to Chicago to witness all of the DSA in
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  Speaker 2: all their glory. That must have been fantastic. Again, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where they got the money, but they took
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  Speaker 2: over the Hyatt Regency in Chicago this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: I would have been worried about you, Kelly, because you
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  Speaker 5: are slim and in good shape and you're white.
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  Speaker 2: He's a total fascist.
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  Speaker 4: You would have been, I mean, they would have targeted you.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how useful he is to the Trump receipt.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, maybe we'll talk about what's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Is today the day for the Republican convention?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I'll have to check that out.
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  Speaker 2: I know Trump's throwing a big Republican convention, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of off. That is a new idea to do
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  Speaker 2: it an off year, so we'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 2: But we do want to talk about what's going on
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  Speaker 2: here locally with Annie Andrews and her big Labor Day announcements.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about all that and more of your comments
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  Speaker 2: as well using the Talkback feature off the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest Labor Day event in South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: happens in Chapin every year. And they had their big
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  Speaker 2: parade yesterday. I saw a lot of political figures there,
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  Speaker 2: including Dr. Annie Andrews. And then after that, she gathered
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  Speaker 2: with a bunch of leftists in West Columbia. So... The
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina AFL-CIO was there. Carolina for All. The South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina Education Association. Everybody that you can imagine, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that would line up with this labor leftist ideas. She
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  Speaker 2: was there. Now, the only clip that I can find
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  Speaker 2: of her speaking is pretty generic. This is from ABC Columbia. Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Annie yesterday celebrating Labor Day.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not afraid of a fight. The reason I am
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  Speaker 10: so fearless is because I am in this fight for
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  Speaker 10: my own three children. Anybody here who is a parent
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  Speaker 10: or a grandparent knows that I mean it literally when
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  Speaker 10: I say I would walk through fire for my children.
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  Speaker 10: If I can walk through fire for my children, I
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  Speaker 10: can certainly take on this fight for South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so again, that's not a policy position. That's just
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  Speaker 2: a generic statement that anybody can make. So let's go
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: back to two weekends ago when Dr. Annie was appearing
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  Speaker 2: on What is this, MS Now? NBC Now? I'm not sure.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Meet the press with, what's her face, Kirsten Welker. And
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: this is the question and the answer from Dr. Annie then.
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  Speaker 11: You think that there is room in the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 11: for Democratic socialists?
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  Speaker 10: I'm a big tent person, and I am very much
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  Speaker 10: focused on us winning this election so that Democrats control
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  Speaker 10: the Senate, that Democrats control the House.
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  Speaker 9: So you believe there's room?
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: You welcome Democratic socialists into the Democratic Party? You welcome
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: Democratic socialists into the Democratic Party?
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  Speaker 10: I welcome conversations about policy, and I believe that every district,
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: every state should pick a representative.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just had a debate about policy with the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Democrats right there, Annie. So you think that the— it's
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: white supremacy that is trying to end obesity amongst black
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: people and or just anybody in general? She's a big
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: tent party kind of gal. How about you, Christopher? You
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: big tent party?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Depends on who wants to come into the tent, I guess.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Isn't that supposed to be the answer? Who wants to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: be in our tent? If the people are saying that
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: it's white supremacy, that we don't want anybody to be
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: morbidly obese, we can talk about that. Sure, says Dr. Annie.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: but she'll walk through fire for her kids, which is
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a lovely thing to say. So anyway, she was in
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Columbia yesterday and I hope she had a beautiful time
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: here and always want, I always want all South Carolinians
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to enjoy their visits to the, uh, the Capitol region.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: So hopefully she had a good time here. We'll talk
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: more about her and maybe you have thoughts on whether you,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: maybe the Republicans might lose because we're not big tent enough.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe we're not willing to engage in these types of discussions.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So maybe we need to broaden the tent a of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the Republican Party. We'll have to discuss that. If you've
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: got thoughts on that or other stuff, use the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Back feature. It is now 639.
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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: All right, as we talk about South Carolina, we're actually
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: making some national news for the events over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night, about 1130 at the intersection of Locust Hill
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Road and Fairview Road in Greenville, there were a bunch
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: of morons who tried to throw a party with all
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: kinds of vehicle doing, what do they call them, blowouts
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: or whatever? Donuts is what we used to call them.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And it ended up with Greenville County arresting 80 people,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: impounding 34 vehicles, or 38 vehicles, seized 10 firearms, 10
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: guns were here. Now, it says multiple juveniles. I'm just
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: going to read. Authorities say they arrested 80 adults, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that would be, I guess, anyone over 18, and multiple juveniles.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: So we don't even know how many kids were there. Um,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and I say kids, meaning anyone under 18, uh, but
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: a bunch of young teenagers and older teenagers gathering to
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: take over a road, um, in order to throw a party,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I guess. Well, they are now falling victim to the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: new law that we have here in South Carolina passed
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: it in may of this year. So that's gosh, this
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: is probably the first time we're, we're rolling this one out.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: It's only been in essence for three months. The Roadway
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Protection and Safety Act makes participating in, organizing, or aiding
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a street takeover a criminal offense. I guess we used
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to just call it a misdemeanor. A bunch of kids
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: just having a good time. But it's becoming such a
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: problem around the country that they've now made that a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: big-time offense. And so your vehicles are seized. massive fines
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: are taken. If you're one of the organizers, if they
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: find out that through text messages or social media or
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: whatever that you were involved, you're facing like serious jail time.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: We are going to do everything we can in South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina to discourage this because we're seeing all across the country,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: mostly blue, but not exclusively blue cities and or states,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I know they had one over the 4th of July
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: up in New Jersey where they had something like 1,100 kids.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: They get it out on social media and they think
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: it's fun. And then all of a sudden, I would
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: assume the majority of the 15 to 19 year olds
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that show up at these types of events think it's
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: just going to be fun. Then three get shot and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: suddenly not so fun.
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Same thing happened in Charleston, Charleston County in Hollywood on Sunday.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: It sounds like a smaller scale, three people arrested, but
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: they wound up charging somebody with the possession of a
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: machine gun during that street takeover.
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  Speaker 2: And again, we can't we can't fix kids behavior and
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: or well, we can't fix their their mindsets. But we
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: can curb the behavior with strict laws that are strictly enforced.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: And so I'm very happy that we have this new
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: law on the books, the Roadway Protection and Safety Act.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad that they're hammering these 80 adults and
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: multiple juveniles in the upstate. And I'm hoping it wouldn't
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: be funny if you're like one of those teens just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: stuck in the back of the car listening to us
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: right now on your way to school. Well, I'm glad
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: you're listening, if you are, because this hopefully will serve
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: as a discouragement for you to go out next time
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you see something on social media, like, hey, we're having
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a big takeover. No, I don't think I'll be there
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: for that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, guys.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Dustin from Newberry. Sports-related talk back.
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: I think it's time for Dabo to be put to pasture.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: He's like one of those farmers who still farms with
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: mules while everyone else is farming with tractors. Well, yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of people are starting to feel that way, Dustin. I,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: The last drive of the game is when they got
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: half their yards, by the way, up against the backups.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: They got 70 yards on that drive, and they had
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: a total of 145 yards in the game. So offense
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: not looking so good for Clemson yet.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Danielle Alvarez is the senior advisor at the Republican National Committee.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Put out a statement. There is no bigger headliner than
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: President Donald J. Trump. He is ratings gold. Well, Christopher,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: if that's the case, everybody should want to cover this
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Republican National Convention, as the RNC calls it, a historic event.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: midterm conventions, unprecedented, never been done before, live from Dallas, Texas.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You would think that everybody would be clamoring to get
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: this on the air, but some think that the NFL
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: is a bigger draw.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably me among those.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: What? Yeah, I know.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: Look, people don't watch political conventions during election years, during
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: presidential election years. This is going to be a hard
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: audience to draw for a midterm.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: So it opens tomorrow and concludes Thursday. Ironically or unfortunately,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks kick off tomorrow
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: night on NBC. And then Thursday night, it's the 49ers
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and the Rams. Australia. Yeah, and that's on Netflix. I
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: wonder how that'll do because, you know, Netflix... Everybody doesn't
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: have Netflix. Pretty much everybody has NBC, I would think.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: But Netflix, that might be a little bit tricky, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: we'll see if maybe that helps boost the ratings. They're
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: saying that Trump is going to speak both nights. C-SPAN
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: is planning wall-to-wall coverage. Fox is going to have all
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of their hosts, I guess, in Dallas. And even CNN
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: is going to be broadcasting at least parts of it.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're going to cover all of it. Um,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: CBS right now says that they'll have reporters there monitoring
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the convention closely, but they will not probably be carrying
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: any of it live. Uh, is this something, obviously you're
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: going to be watching the NFL.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Well, probably.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: It's, I mean, I think a lot of Americans probably will.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: They may tune in to see what Trump says, but it's,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, again, this is a tough sell in a
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: midterm election year. when political conventions don't draw any, any,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: especially during presidential election years, it used to be the focus.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Every major network would carry those. And through the years,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: the networks have stopped carrying as much. And you don't
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: even see it much live anymore just because it's just, it,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: no one tunes in, but, but this is more, this is,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: you know, political conventions. There's a lot of, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: it's kind of a boring, dry, way to nominate uh
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: your party's candidate and there's you know there's a lot
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: of political behind the scenes stuff this is essentially just
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: going to be two nights for rallies.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yes and trump's calling it the biggest rally of them
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: all although it's like clearly not uh they're uh currently
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the are texting out messages for people in the greater
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: dallas area free tickets so that so it's just Just
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: please show up because we would like to have 20,000
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: people sitting there when the president comes on stage. Now,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: you have to suffer through apparently 109 speakers in total,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: which sounds boring as hell.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: But at least you don't have that roll call, which
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: we see during presidential election years.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: The great state of Alaska.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: And then you get a five-minute speech. We give all
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: 12 of our votes to Donald J.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Trump.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And they're always trying to figure out a way to
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: let you know about their history or whatever. Look, they
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: are going to have J.D. Vance there. The First Lady
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: is not speaking. A lot of apparently Republicans that were
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: invited are not going to attend because they're concerned that
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: they're in a hotly contested stage where we're talking fractions
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: of points here where– If you're a little too close
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to the president, that may come off as a negative. Yeah.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: And so I think that, look, I like the idea.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I think they should have pared it down. I think
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: they should make it almost a rally, just like a rally.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: A one night.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a one night event. Because the reason sports does
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: so well on television is because you have to see
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: it in the moment. Of course, I can see the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: sports highlights. I can go back and watch. just like
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: anything else in life today. You can watch all of it,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't make as much difference when it's happening live.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: You're sharing that moment. And of course, these days we
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: share it on social media. So, you know, we're interacting
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: with people while we're watching.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Yes. When you have Donald Trump in front of a
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: live microphone, there's no telling what's going to happen. You
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: don't know what's going to come out of his mouth.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: And that makes it exciting. I'm pretty sure that I'm
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: not going to be on the edge of my seat
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: when either Marco Rubio or J.D. Vance or insert any
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Republican other than Donald Trump is speaking.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: And what's Donald Trump going to say for night two?
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you watch him on night one, are
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: you going to get the same speech on night two?
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: What's he going to have left in the tank at
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: that point?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. But it is coming
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: down this week. It's going head to head with NFL,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: which I don't think is going to be very fortuitous
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: for the Republicans. Again, if you're if you're a non
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: decided voter, I don't think you're going to be getting
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: much information out of this either. So I don't think
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of I think the people that are going
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to be watching this is the base. This is the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: choir that we're preaching to the choir for a couple
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: of days. And I'll probably not see any of it
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: because I'll probably be asleep. In all honesty, I try
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: to go to bed by 8 o'clock so I can
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: get up and do this show. But I will watch
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and see if there was anything exciting said. Are you
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: planning to watch this? Is this something that you're excited about?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe you feel like, you know, the reason you go
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to church is to get the choir and everybody in
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the church all riled up, get them fired up for
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: what's coming up this week, get them through another week.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Perhaps this is what we need right now. We need
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: to be fired up. Sean Hannity's Morning Minute was talking
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: about you can't sit out the midterms. It's too important
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: this year. Maybe you think this is a fantastic idea,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: or perhaps you I think it's just kind of a
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: fruitless venture at this point. Let us know what you
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: think on the Talk Back feature at 7.09.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Hi, Kelly.
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  Speaker 11: This is Jennifer in Forest Acres. I agree with your
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: comments that this should be a one-night special rally event.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Having too many speakers, including.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: The chairman of local state parties, that's too much.
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: We don't need that.
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: All right, Jennifer Forrest-Akers, she did it right. I think
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: that's our first time hearing from Jennifer and Forrest-Akers, and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: she hit it out of the park by identifying her
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: name and where she's listening. And thank you for starting
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: your day with South Carolina's Morning News. I imagine one
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: of the things, she's talking about the Trump, we're calling
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: it a Trump rally. It's really the RNC midterm, historic
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: midterm convention that starts tomorrow night down in Dallas. I
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: imagine that one of the things that Donald Trump is
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: going to address is we've heard or we've seen reporting beginning,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I think, late Friday that the Trump administration has a
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: new proposal that they want to put out to help
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: working Americans families, especially those who want a mom. Well,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I almost got sexist there. One of the parents would
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: stay home.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: A birthing parent?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Possibly the birthing parent. I don't know that it, so
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: here's what they're talking, this is what they're proposing, allegedly, reportedly.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Parents that are married, so if you're not married, this
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: does not qualify to you. Because again, government always tries
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to modify behavior. Typically, it historically had been to try
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: to to solidify society, make society stronger. That has not
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: been as of late, the proposals, at least from the left.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: But in this instance, they want the parents that are
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: married and one spouse has to be working a minimum
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: of 35 hours per week. And another spouse is staying
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: home with the kids. Doesn't have to be the mom.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: If the mom is the breadwinner and the dad wants
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: to play Mr. Mom, this also works. meet the minimum
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: income requirements, which vary by state. And if that is you,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you would then qualify for up to $ 9, 000 to help
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: fund the stay-at-home parent. So I'm imagining that is what
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: they're going to be. They're going to announce that, I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: would assume. Allegedly, the funding would be coming out of
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: redirecting HHS funds. So they're saying this adds nothing to
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the budget. We can just redirect $ 9, 000 a year per family.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Part of me likes this in the sense that I
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: understand that Again, I am not a have government shape
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: society type of guy.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: But I understand that that's what governments do. They've always
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: done that. That's not a new thing. So if they're
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: going to do that, I like the idea of encouraging
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: a stay-at-home mom. Again, I'm being sexist. I feel like
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: mothers are more nurturing than fathers. They're better at it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: They have a unique skill set that most men don't contain.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: And that most men are better going to work and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: just putting your nose to the grindstone. And again, we're
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: talking in a big 30,000-foot thing. Of course, there are
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: certain women... that are better at going to work and
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: are less maternal than others. Totally get it. I'm, again,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: just using broad strokes here because we're talking about a
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: nationwide policy. And again, it would apply to men who
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: stay home if the wife is working 35 hours or
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: more per week, that you would qualify for up to $ 9, 000
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to supplement the family income so that the other spouse
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to get a job. So I like that
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: they're encouraging what I would consider to be traditional nuclear
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: family behavior. If you're currently just living together and have
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a child and you want to get in on this,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: then the government's saying you have to get married. And historically,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: people who get married typically stay together longer, not necessarily forever.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I wish it was that way, but traditionally stay together longer.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: And so they're encouraging that as well. And then there's
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: other tax benefits, obviously, for married people that individuals don't get.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: So we're trying to encourage that. However, all that being said,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: to me, this feels like a form of wealth redistribution.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: This feels like some sort of socialist policy. And so
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: this is, again, another prime example of where Donald Trump
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: And possibly J.D. Vance, because J.D. Vance is apparently the
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: guy who's been championing this behind the scenes, are what
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: we would call populists and not necessarily conservatives. I believe
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: that when you put populist ideals versus conservative ideals and
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: just actually use metrics to measure them, the conservative principles
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: would win every time over the populist. But you have
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: to get elected. And right now. Republicans are in most
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: instances lower than they had been. Traditionally, they are testing
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: not so well. The generic Republican tests worse than the
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: generic Democrat. Again, with there had been a short period
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: of time where the generic Republican was testing better than
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: the generic Democrat. That's typically not going to be the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: case because the Democrats are always offering to give you
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the world. We're not, when we were playing that, uh, social,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: the com, what is it called? These, uh, socialism 2026
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: convention that happened over the weekend in chicago and maybe
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: we'll play that again in the eight o'clock hour uh
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the lady said you know she was comparing the maha
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: maga movement calling it fascist and she's like our job
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: is not to out fascist the fascists she's obviously wrong
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: we're not fascists but i would also say it's our
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: job to not out socialize the socialists So to point counterpoint,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: you're not going to win in a bidding war for
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the affections of the American people. That's the way I
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: see it. Christopher, we'll take a quick break, I guess.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: 721 back in a minute.
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: All right. Politics makes for a very interesting game, which
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: is why Christopher Thompson and I enjoy talking about politics, strategies,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: so on and so forth. In Ohio, you've got Vivek Ramaswamy,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: and I interviewed Vivek, and that's how I know that
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: the actual proper pronunciation is Vivek, because he told me
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: it rhymes with cake, and I love cake. So Vivek
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy is winning in the polls against the Democrats, Democrat
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Amy Acton. Now, you may have seen the news over
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: the weekend that some reports reported as an actual assassination
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: attempt happened on Amy Acton over the weekend. A man
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: has been arrested. They say that he injured others as
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: he lunged towards the would-be governor and that on him
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: he was packing, I think, a pistol and for some
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: reason brass knuckles, although nothing was brandished. Nothing was taken
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: out and he's not been charged with any kinds of
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: weapons crimes. He has been charged with disorderly conduct and assault.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Nothing against her. the people that he apparently ran over
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: to try to get to her, but he'd never pulled
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: out any weapons. Now, interestingly enough there, it would, the
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: event was being covered by the local media. There are
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: no video clips of this as of yet that we've
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: been able to find. I will play you a clip
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: of Amy and, Moments before this happened, and then you
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: can tell me, I won't pass judgment on the words
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: of the Democrat would-be governor from Ohio, but others are
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: passing judgment on her speaking style.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: You cannot buy this state.
• 40:55
  Speaker 13: You cannot buy Ohio. You can't buy us. You can't
• 41:02
  Speaker 13: buy us. You can't buy us. You can't buy.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Us in Ohio. All right, so it didn't really go
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: well with the chant that she was obviously trying to
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: get started. Some are alluding to the fact that she
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: smelled of alcohol.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: I've seen several reports, yeah, that said that she might
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: have been a little drunk as she went on the stage.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: You can't buy us! But you how is it possible
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: that we have footage of her speaking? We have footage
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: of her arriving. We have footage of her leaving and
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: of the I don't know how many people were in
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: that tent or whatever, but nobody took any video or
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: took any pictures of the guy who was trying to
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: attack her. I don't want to put on the tinfoil hat,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: but I'm putting it on and saying this sounds like
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: it was a setup. I wouldn't be surprised if we
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: find out this guy's an actual Democrat. If we find
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: out that this guy's somehow associated with the campaign, how
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: can we change the narrative that I'm getting my tush
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: kicked in Ohio? Hey, it worked for Trump. Remember they
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: were saying that that was a fake attempt in Pennsylvania? Oh,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: he barely got shot in the ear. He was shot
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: and other people died. You think that that was set up?
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: In this instance, we have two people who were, I guess, hurt.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: We don't have any reports of hospitalizations or anything. Um,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know. This thing stinks to high heaven, Christopher.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: Well, again, I've seen video of the aftermath of this
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: guy coming forward, but you don't actually see him.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: That's.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: And there's, it's not like just, you know, folks on
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: the internet saying it, it's like the New York post
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: is like, does anybody have any coverage of this that
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: we could share? Does anybody, somebody had a camera running.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: In this, you don't have a key. You don't have
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: somebody running for governor and speaking and or just even
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: entering an arena. And nobody's filming that. But apparently we're
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: to believe that. OK, we'll take a break. What do
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: you think? Let us know on the talkback feature at 730.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: So just heard that bottom of the hour news update there.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Caden Ramsey, Gamecock tight end arrested in Berkeley County. Is
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: he really good, Christopher? He played a couple of snaps
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: this weekend.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Played a couple of snaps, got the attention of Shane Beamer,
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: who named him the Scout Team Offensive Player of the Week.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: And then he celebrated by, what, going drag racing?
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: We don't know.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: All we know is he's been charged with racing on
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: a public road. So we don't know exactly if there
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: was an actual race, if he was coming out of
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: a stoplight and just revved past somebody, or even I
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: think the charge can be Involved with exactly what you've
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: done to your car to soup it up and make
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: it more, you know, less street friendly and more like
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: a race car, so to speak.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I see ABC News 4 reporting that he was granted
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: a personal recognizance bond. So I guess it wasn't that
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: serious because they don't usually let you out with no money.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: So that was Berkeley County over the weekend. Also Berkeley
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: County over the weekend. They had their big Labor Day
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: event there. down there and also ABC4 reporting that Berkeley
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: County continues to grow as one of the fastest growing
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: counties in the country. And that is driven by the jobs. Congratulations,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Berkeley County. 30% job growth between July of 2020 and
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: July of 2026. And that puts you in the whole
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Charleston region, Dorchester County, Charleston County, Berkeley County on fire
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: with jobs, absolutely just exploding jobs down there. And you
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: would think, you would think if you were a labor person,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: you would be celebrating this, but that was not the case. Um,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: who is this person speaking here? Uh, that, that, that, that, uh,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: The United Steelworkers staff representative, Kim Smith, tells ABC4, I
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: think the reason why Labor Day even existed was for
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: every worker to be able to enjoy a day off.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: But unfortunately, we can't afford the day off. And so
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: we can't take the day off. And I think that
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: that is sad that everyone doesn't get the day off.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: This is the kind of liberal goobledygook that is just
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: kind of spoon fed out to, morons. How in the
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: world could everybody have the day off? How, how, how
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: does this, how does the nation work when there's, I'm
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: in a car accident and there's nobody at the hospital.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: My house is on fire. There's no firemen. I need gas,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: but there's nobody working at the gas station. Think about
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: what you're saying before you say it. I have worked
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: in my lifetime, And was thankful for it. Christopher, I'm
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: sure you've done it too. Holiday after holiday after holiday. Oh, yeah. Christmas, Thanksgiving,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: New Year's Eve. It didn't matter. Somebody in those days
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: had to be live on the radio.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: And usually you got paid more if you worked a holiday.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: And I think a lot of corporations and businesses still
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: do that. If you work a holiday, you usually get
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: double pay or at least more than you would get normally.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: These labor union leaders don't– I don't know. Maybe they
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: understand it and they don't like it, or perhaps they
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: don't even understand it. But when you just scratch the
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: surface of what they're saying, Labor Day was meant for
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: everybody to take the day off. It's so sad that
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: everybody– every American should stop working for one day. It's impossible!
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: You're asking me, why don't we suspend gravity for the day?
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Goodness gracious. All right, well, maybe you've got thoughts on that.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe you agree with Kim that we all should have
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: taken yesterday off. If you do or don't, let us
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: know on the Talk Back feature. It is now 740.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And earlier we
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: were talking about the Republican convention. It's historic. It's never
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: been done midterms before. And coming to you from Dallas, Texas,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: beginning tomorrow night and then again Thursday night, what are
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: they going to talk about was one of the questions.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: And we're speculating because there's early reporting that the Trump
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: administration is planning to announce a plan that would allow
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: for a married couple to who has a spouse that
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: wants to stay home and doesn't make more than excess
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: amount of money, and they would vary that by state,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: they would supplement that income by $ 9, 000. And I'm told
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Robert from Orangeburg had some thoughts.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: But this $ 9, 000 giveaway, I understand the.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Heart of it, and I agree with it. We need
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: to keep a parent at home with kids. I do
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: understand that.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: But do it in the form of a $ 9, 000 tax break.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Let us keep more of our money, not more handouts,
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: because when the government starts handing out, they never stop
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: handing out. So same amount of money, tax break.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: I agree with tax breaks. You know, I'm for cutting
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: taxes all the way around. You know, I just feel
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: like we are an overtaxed population and we started a
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: revolution over, you know, stupid little tax on tea. But look,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: To the more serious point, you're correct. It is wealth
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: redistribution and the government is picking winners and losers. I
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: think in this instance, again, Robert, you're correct. They are
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: picking the right winners in this instance. If you have
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: a family where a mom can devote her entire day
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: to making sure that the kids are doing well, I
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: think that the kids will do better. And the dad
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: is the one out making the money. That's traditionally the
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: way it's been in a nuclear family. We've lost that. over, gosh,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: 50 years or so. I think in the 70s is
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: when the women's liberation movement started and so many moms
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: went to work and A lot of kids started suffering,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I think, because I don't want to say you suffering
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: might be an overstatement, but it was different. You know,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: I grew up in the Gen X generation. I didn't
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: have a mom at home. I remember being in like
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: second grade when she announced it. I was like, what?
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: You're not going to be here when I come home?
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the latchkey kids.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: I had this stupid little shoestring with the key around
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: my neck and I'd come home and just try to
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: entertain myself as an only child. And I'm not saying
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: that I would have been much better off or whatever,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: but I think that everybody's childhood would be better if
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: you had a mother that could devote her time to
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: looking out after you, teaching you, helping you grow, all
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: of those types of things. So I understand the heart
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: of it. I don't agree with the 9,000-hour redistribution.
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: I hope this isn't a sign that Republicans have seen
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: the popularity of these Democrat socialists and are going to
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: try and compete with them in this arena.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Like I said earlier, you're not going to be able
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: to out-socialist the socialists. If you're in a bidding war,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: they've got an unlimited amount of money to give away,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: and it's yours. All right, it's 748.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: We were celebrating Berkeley and Charleston County and the rapid
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: growth going on down there and how they've added so
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: many jobs. About a 30% increase in employment there. From
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: 2000 in, what was it, 2020 to 2020-26, fantastic job growth.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: And labor union people down there upset that not everybody
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: was able to take Labor Day off. Yesterday, I was
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: making the point, it's impossible for everybody to take a
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Labor Day off. And one of the examples I gave
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: was gas stations that need to be opened, but apparently
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: we're getting pushback on that. Christopher tells me on the
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Talkback feature.
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: Chris Chapin, I remember growing up, Going to Grandma's house November, December,
• 51:18
  Speaker 9: you darn well better have your gas in your tank.
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: There were no gas stations open. What's wrong going back
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: with that?
• 51:24
  Speaker 9: Plan ahead.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Chris wants the gas stations closed on the holidays so
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: that everybody can celebrate Labor Day together. Oh, you know what?
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be that resistant to the gas stations being open,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: although I would point out I think that there's probably
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: a need for them, especially on a travel holiday. You
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: mentioned that you had to stock up, but what about
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: the people like where, you know, grandma, grandpa live three,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: 400 miles away? You got to go to, you know,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: you're going to need a gas station to be open somewhere,
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: but maybe you're saying let's not travel on the holidays.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what that point is, but the
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: bigger point being hospitals have to be open. They have
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: to be. And when you were a kid, every radio
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: station had live radio personalities all the time. All the
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: television stations had live people at them. You have to
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: have people working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: That's how the country stays in business.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: Police, fire, etc. Yeah, and Chris is right.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: We did used to have to plan ahead, but I
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: think we've gotten used to now.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of 24-hour service, whether.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: You know, it's gas stations or convenience stores or grocery stores, etc.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: And nobody really shuts down anymore unless it's maybe Christmas Day.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I imagine McDonald's wasn't open on holidays.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: That's why you had Waffle House.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, were they open back in the day? Oh, yeah.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: All right. So we even had the waitresses working on
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: the Waffle House back in the day. I don't know.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: I don't see it's a possibility that we take one
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: day and everybody has it off. Maybe you disagree.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: 8.03, and we're now joined by Rory O'Neill. Hope you
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: had a great Labor Day weekend, sir. Hey there, Kelly.
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: How about yourself? Fantastic. A little hot on Saturday, but
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: otherwise no complaints. The plane crash that happened in Miami
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: is horrific. And people are now, you know, going over
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: that footage and stuff. And you see the pilot jumping
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: out of the plane. And apparently all of the deceased
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: were people that were hit by the plane. Nobody on
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: the plane died. It was everybody else. What else can
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: you tell us about this flight? Yeah, it was coming
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: in from Puerto Rico.
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: It was operated by a company called 21 Air on
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: behalf of Amazon and Amazon Prime. So it was not
• 53:56
  Speaker 12: directly owned by Amazon. So the training of these pilots,
• 54:01
  Speaker 12: their familiarity with the 767-300 that was involved, the NTSB
• 54:07
  Speaker 12: is going through all of that. But so far, they're
• 54:10
  Speaker 12: also taking a close look at why the plane was
• 54:13
  Speaker 12: traveling at such a high rate of speed, why it
• 54:16
  Speaker 12: landed so so late on the runway? And were there
• 54:19
  Speaker 12: some other mechanical problems that perhaps also contributed to this?
• 54:23
  Speaker 12: And essentially, this plane ran off the end of the runway,
• 54:27
  Speaker 12: crossed a lane of highway, and hit a van, as
• 54:30
  Speaker 12: you said, filled with a cleaning crew. And five of
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: the fatalities were inside those vehicles.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, at no point when you're driving on a highway,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: do you expect the plane to come off the runway
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: so badly that it's going to hit you? That's crazy.
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: Yeah, now this is sort of an access road, so
• 54:46
  Speaker 12: there's a major highway that runs parallel to this runway 30,
• 54:50
  Speaker 12: but this was sort of at the end of that
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: in a perpendicular fashion for this service road to take
• 54:56
  Speaker 12: people around the airport to different functions, and that's apparently
• 55:00
  Speaker 12: where it... where this collision happened. We know at least
• 55:03
  Speaker 12: one of the car was hit and it was involved.
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: It was left rolled over, but there's that video that
• 55:09
  Speaker 12: shows paramedics rescuing that individual, thankfully.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what a tragedy. And so we'll be praying for
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: that person. I guess they're currently in the hospital. Rory
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: O'Neill on the phone with us. And Rory, what can
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: you tell us about the Russia-Ukraine negotiations? Apparently it's not
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: going so well. It started off with a bang. with
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Russia hitting Kiev's, basically their version of the FBI building.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: And apparently, am I told that we're hearing more explosions
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: again today?
• 55:41
  Speaker 12: Yes, so it started and ended with a bang, I
• 55:44
  Speaker 12: think is the way to describe it. In between, we
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: hoped to get a little bit closer to.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: A peace process.
• 55:50
  Speaker 12: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, were in
• 55:54
  Speaker 12: both Moscow and Kiev meeting with Presidents Putin and Zelensky separately,
• 55:59
  Speaker 12: trying to inch things forward. And for a big part
• 56:02
  Speaker 12: of the weekend, both Russia and Ukraine agreed they would
• 56:04
  Speaker 12: dial back any military strikes. But Not soon after Witkoff
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: and Kushner left Ukraine, the latter meeting, and see Witkoff
• 56:14
  Speaker 12: posting that they had made some progress in talks, maybe
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: getting a trilateral discussion open. Then last night came headlines
• 56:21
  Speaker 12: that Russia had launched new strikes into Ukraine. So this
• 56:25
  Speaker 12: time targeting a civilian target.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: I know that Steve Witkoff has got to be a
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: great negotiator to be worth $ 2.
• 56:32
  Speaker 13: 5 billion.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: And Jared... worth over a billion himself. So they're great
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: at negotiations, but it seems like whether it's the memorandum
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: of understanding with Iran or it's this, they're just not
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: good at this type of negotiation, apparently.
• 56:47
  Speaker 12: And even you could argue the situation in Israel. But,
• 56:51
  Speaker 12: you know, he what Jared was very involved in those
• 56:54
  Speaker 12: Abraham Accords.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: So, you know, mixed record, I guess.
• 56:57
  Speaker 12: Hey, look, if it's like Ted Williams, you only need
• 56:59
  Speaker 12: one out of three.
• 57:00
  Speaker 15: Right. And you're in the Hall of Fame.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what we will do. Well, we got the one.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: We got the Abraham Accords. Maybe that's it for them. Anyway,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: we certainly appreciate you taking time to bring us up
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: on these stories. Thanks, Kelly. All right. Have a great day.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Rory O'Neill checking in. And we are keeping an eye
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: on what's going on with the Russia-Ukraine war. And like
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Rory and I were just discussing, there have been more
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: explosions reported in Kiev this morning. So whatever negotiations Steve
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Witkoff thought they had, you know, moved forward, at least
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: when it comes to firing rockets at each other, not
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: moving so forward. So we'll take a break. We'll be
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: back in just a moment. 8.07 now.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: All right, it's 8.12, and Christopher Thompson here. I'm Kelly Nash.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: We were talking earlier about Greenville. Street takeover happened over
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: the weekend. 38 vehicles seized, 10 firearms stolen. And 80
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: adults arrested plus juveniles. Now, an adult would be anyone
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: over the age of 18. Christopher, you brought up the
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: fact that we had something similar happening in the Lowcountry
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: this weekend.
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: Sounds like it was a little bit smaller in scale,
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: but I think three people were arrested in the Hollywood
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: area of Charleston County.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: Let's see.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: Sunday, deputies made three arrests and pounded a Dodge Charger,
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: also recovered a stolen Glock handgun equipped with an automatic switch.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I mentioned there was 10
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: firearms in the upstate, and that's all unsettling news. It
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: appears that the youth of South Carolina wants to follow
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: in the footsteps of the idiots in the blue cities,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: and they're trying, and here we have another instance of that.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know if this was a quote-unquote in celebration
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: of the Gamecocks' victory or not, but Columbia police announced
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: two arrests— Saturday night at the Food Lion parking lot
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: for shooting. This is near USC. That wounded three people
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: between the ages of 16 and 20 with non-life-threatening injuries.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: More arrests are expected. Then a separate, unrelated to Nigeria
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: shooting happened just a couple of hours later, and that
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: left two men dead. Are we turning into Chicago on
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: the holiday weekends?
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: Again, going back to the street takeovers, these are not
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: just kids who having a good time. You don't bring
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: guns if you're just out to have a good time.
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: That's the scary part of all this. I don't know
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: when kids started packing.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm Gen X. I'm old. I'm guessing Gen X
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: as well. We're both old. When we went to school,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: 99% of the fighting was with fists. There might have
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: been a couple of morons who brought knives. I remember
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: seeing a kid who brought brass knuckles once to school
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: and we all beat him up.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: You took him out.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: We were like, no, you're not, you're not going to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: change the game.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 13: No.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: And we whooped it. And there was like four of
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: us jumped on him. But this idea of guns are
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: just so awash in the youth and they're in the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: hands of people who don't know what they're doing, which is,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: I guess, a good thing because as we mentioned earlier
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: here at the Columbia five point shooting, uh, Multiple shots fired,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: three people wounded, nobody with life threatening injuries. They didn't
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: hit anybody where they intended to hit anybody. We just
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: have morons with guns that makes it dangerous for everybody.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: But Skip Holbrook in Charleston is cracking down. I know
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: Greenville's cracking down. I don't know Hollywood as far as
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: is that under a jurisdiction of another police department or
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: is that actually is there a Hollywood police department who
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that they're going to do. They're going to
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: crack down. And that is important. It's important. We have
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: a new law on the books here in South Carolina
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: talking about street takeovers, specifically to prevent these types of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: things where the vehicles are impounded and serious penalties are
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: put forth for anybody who has anything to do with
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: organizing them. And so they're going to go through these
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: people's text messages, social media pages, find out who organized it,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: and they're going to be facing some serious jail time.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: And that's unlike what happens in most states. And that's
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: why it continues to be a problem in other states.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: We don't want those problems here. We welcome everybody into
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. But if you bring, you know, I saw
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: like when Gavin Newsom was here, you know, don't bring
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: your California to my Carolina. Don't bring your, you know,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: your blue ways of life into our God fearing red state.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: We don't want it. We're not going to, we reject it.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: And for those of you who don't like it, there
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: are blue states for you to move to, but we
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: are going to continue to be a law in order community.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: And so, again, hated what happened this weekend. We had
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: a lot of arrests, had a lot of problems. But
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: I do love the fact that our law enforcement is strong.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: And again, it's this is not the kids parties of
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: old where you would have, you know, an impromptu gathering and,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: you know, maybe a bonfire and, you know, kids probably
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: breaking out a beer or two.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: Teenagers.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: A beer or two, you say.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: This is a different story.
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  Speaker 5: It's dangerous enough when you've got these kids who are
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: whipping around, trying to drift in their cars and accidentally
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: drift into the crowd while they're doing it. But then
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: you add guns to the mix. Nothing good can come
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: of that.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: You're saying that when you have... supercharged vehicles with drunk
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: drivers or high drivers thrown in with weaponry. There's a,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: that's a cocktail of destruction. All right.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: Maybe I was stating the obvious there, but I love
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: it though.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. By the way, I did see something
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: interesting on social media over the weekend. I don't, I
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: wish I could tell you which university it was. I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: can't off the top of my head, but they were
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: talking about trying to explain to somebody who graduated college
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: in 2015 that That this is, what do they call them?
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: A darty? I think that's what the kids are calling
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: them now. Darties are day parties. So imagine trying to
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: explain to somebody who graduated college in 2015 that this
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: is what a darty looks like. And it was a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: bunch of people in front of like a fraternity and
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: a sorority or whatever. And they're doing like a yoga class.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: And they're all out there on their mats and they're
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: stretching and they're talking about their wellness and they're talking
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: about we're going for a run. So there is a
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: wellness movement that is... apparently happening on some college campuses.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure where, but I look, yes, they were
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: mocked by the way, by people of my age and younger,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you know, mixing in a water was our idea of health. But,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: but again, I think that these kids will probably be
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: better off physically than, than a lot of us were
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: who survived the seventies and eighties and nineties and early
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: two thousands with the binge drinking and all the stuff
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: that we were doing. And, living off nothing but pizza
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: and beer. That was pretty much our entire diet for years.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: But as you mentioned, the healthiest thing we would do
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: is mix in a water. We didn't mix in guns.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, of course not. But I'm saying that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: I think that there is some college movements right now
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: where they're not only not bringing guns, they're like, we're
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: not going to keggers. We're trying to prioritize our health.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: So that would be a nice development. And I don't
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: know if Maha can take any credit for that. You
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: know what? Speaking of Maha, turns out we just found
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: out in the 6 o'clock hour, we'll rebroadcast parts of that,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: that the Maha movement is now being reclassified as a
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: fascist movement because being in shape, being healthy is a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: form of fascism. That was the big announcement over the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: weekend at Socialism 2026, the official conference of the DSA.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: We'll explain how that plays out next.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: All right, so I'm up a little bit of a,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: not a tight break, but a shorter break here. So
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: I'll bring this story to your attention because I am
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: a James Bond fan. And I think most of you
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: in the audience would probably be James Bond fans. The
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: screenwriter for the new James Bond movie is a guy
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: named Stephen Knight. And he confirmed... I guess yesterday that
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: they do have the actor. Now we don't know who
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: the actor is, but he has confirmed that the James
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Bond actor has been hired. Now, according to Gary Oldman,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: he knows that one of the guys in the finalists
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: is Jack Loudon. And if you watch the Apple series
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: called slow horses, he's the young man on that show.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: And so he says, I know he's been on the
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: short list. He's been, auditioned several times. My fingers are
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: crossed for Jack. He'll make a great James Bond. I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: love James Bond. I cannot wait for the new James Bond.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: I was sad that they killed off the old one.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: I thought that they should just let him live. And then,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: but they're going more, I guess, in the Marvel direction of,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: you know, we're in different universes. So just because James
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Bond died doesn't mean that James Bond is dead or
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: something to that extent, which is, Yes. We suspend reality
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: when you watch these movies.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Because one guy who is it? Somebody pointed out once
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: that if you drank and smoked like Sean Connery did
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: in those movies, you'd be dead before your 40th birthday
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: or whatever. You definitely would have cirrhosis of the liver
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: and you would definitely have lung cancer because he was
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: averaging like five packs a day. It looked like. But anyway,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: it's it's a fun, fun thing. And I'm looking forward
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: to the new James Bond movie. I guess it's coming
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: out through Amazon. And if it is this guy, Jack,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: by the way, apparently his wife is auditioning to play
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: one of the villains. That would be a very– can
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: you imagine working with your wife on a movie where
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: you're the hero and she's the villain trying to kill you?
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: Create a strange dynamic. I'm not sure they want to
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: take that home with them at night.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Well, we're excited to see how that turns out. Now
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: we're going to get into the whole redefinition of fascism
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: that was unveiled this weekend at the Socialism 2026 Convention.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: That's coming up in a minute.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 6: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, Donald Trump kicks off the Republican National Convention
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: in Dallas, Texas. This is a historic midterm convention, and
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: that'll be exciting. Not really sure what they're going to
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: do or say there, but we've speculated a little bit
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: earlier on the broadcast. And by the way, anything that
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: we put on the air during the show, you can
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: get that as a podcast shortly after the show ends.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Just look for South Carolina's Morning News. In the 6
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, we were playing parts of this. This is
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: from over the weekend. While you enjoyed the holidays, either
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: sweating your took us off over at the Williams-Brice Stadium
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: for at least the first half. There was nobody there
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: except some hardcore college kids. But you were either doing
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: that or you're having cookouts. You're at the lake. You're
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: living your life. Some people went to Chicago and they
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: were at the Hyatt. And that's where Socialism 2026, the
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: DSA convention took place. On the stage is Beatrice Adler Bolton.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: And again, apparently the memo has not trickled down to
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: the socialists that in order to win elections, you have
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: to appear to not be crazy. This is the comments
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: of Beatrice.
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  Speaker 7: You have to give up the fantasy of being fitter
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 7: than the fascists. It's not just that it's cringe or
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 7: strategically bad, though it is. Fitness is a measure of
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: relative disposability under capitalism. Our task is not to become
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 7: less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: in all.
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  Speaker 2: Of its forms.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: And she continues to then compare it to white supremacy.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: But her basic argument there, Christopher, is that when the
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Maha movement encourages people to become healthy, Their motivation for
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: encouraging that health is so that you can be more
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: useful and productive, and that is a form of fascism.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know how you get from point A to
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: point B there. I don't follow the logic even.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: If you have a job, then you're useful. And if
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: you're useful, then that means that you're a tool of
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: the government.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: That is, again, this is the Democrat socialist position. And
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: she did call it white supremacy, which she's a very
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: thin white woman, but liberal white women seem to be
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: the craziest amongst all the crazies. And sitting next to
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: her on the stage is a morbidly obese black man
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: named Deshaun Harrison, who's more than happy to co-sign that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: this is white supremacy.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 9: Black fatness is made meaningful through suffering, through surveillance, and
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: through control. And the policing of that black fat flesh
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 9: anchors entire systems of governance. Without a population to discipline,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 9: there would be no BMI, no obesity epidemic, and no
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 9: medical or scientific institutions organized around managing fatness.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to pause him right there. So he's
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: saying that there would be no BMI. There would be
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: no health clinics around fatness. I don't. does I, I, my,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: my mind is boggled as I'm trying to act as
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: if we're having a serious discussion, but they're a position
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: seems to be that the black race in particular, according
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: to him, Deshaun Harrison, who has a book out from
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: 2021 called belly of the beast and the, how black
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: people are oppressed by whites who tried to make them fit. Um,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: But it seems that he's under the impression that people
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: wouldn't die of obesity. Is that what he's saying? Because
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: somehow it's cruel to try to help people live healthier lives.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: That's a form of fascism and oppression. And we're shaming
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: you into being fit. And that's why he was using
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: the phrase, and part of it is guilty pleasures, eating
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: bad food. All food should be considered fun and good.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: You should, this is, it's like, he's using the big
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: words of the five-year-old me when I was five years old. Like,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: why can't I have cookies and cake for breakfast? It
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: made perfect sense to me. Sure.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: At five years old, it did.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't have the big vocab that he had.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 5: Well, and luckily mom or dad stepped in and said, no,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: you're not going to be healthy that way.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: And I saw that they actually.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: Called these a GLP one or yeah, the GLP one drugs,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: the you know, the Olympics, et cetera, that are allowing
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 5: people to lose weight.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: They call those fascistic because the world that this is
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: their quote, the world is fixated on genociding fat people.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: So it's, it's not their obesity that's killing them. It's
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: now us.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I could interpret that another way in
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: the sense that when they say, quote unquote, genociding fat people,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: would we prefer the world where everyone was healthy? Yes.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: And so if everyone is healthy, you can't be morbidly
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: obese and healthy. Those two can't happen in the same body.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: So if that can't happen and you're saying we have
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: an attack on fatness, yes, we want them to be healthy.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: And anyone who's been morbidly obese, as I have been,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that you feel like a prisoner.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: You're on all kinds of medication just to keep you alive,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: whether it's blood pressure. diabetes medication, all kinds of blood
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: clotting issues I had when I was morbidly obese. There's
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: all kinds of issues that you struggle with and you're
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: not a happy person. This idea that people that are
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: fat are jolly, they may be presenting a jolly look
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: to the world, but trust me, lugging another 100 to
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: 200 pounds around on your back does not make you happy.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: It makes you dependent.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: It makes you a victim and ready for the government
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: to swoop in and say, we will pay for everything.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: If you're not dependent on the government, you're dependent on
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  Speaker 5: the medical industry, you're dependent on health care. It's all
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  Speaker 5: the things Democrats ultimately want from you, for you.
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  Speaker 2: And I just, again, to Sean Hannity's earlier point this morning,
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  Speaker 2: the midterms are about the Democrats taking control. The energy
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  Speaker 2: in the Democrat Party is all these people that we're
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  Speaker 2: playing you right now, the socialists. The Democrat socialists. So
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  Speaker 2: when you hear somebody like Annie Andrews say, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: big tent party person, when Kristen Walker asked her a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, you're saying there's room for the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat socialists? Yes. there was okay well then that means
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  Speaker 2: that you're willing to accept the idea that trying to
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  Speaker 2: help someone get healthy is a form of fascism if
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  Speaker 2: you can allow that into your party you're a lunatic
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  Speaker 2: lunatic and a vote for any democrat is a vote
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  Speaker 2: for people like this just just letting you know because
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  Speaker 2: whether they themselves believe it or not unless they're willing
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  Speaker 2: to condemn it and say i don't want any of
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  Speaker 2: their supports i don't accept democrat socialists in my party
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  Speaker 2: Until you're willing to go that far, then you are
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: willing to accept it. And if you're willing to accept it,
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  Speaker 2: that's the wing of the branch that's taking over the
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  Speaker 2: entire party. That's the party. The party is the DSA now.
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  Speaker 2: Very frustrating, very scary stuff. I love the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they're playing their hand before the midterms to try to
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  Speaker 2: help us get ahead of this. But there you go.
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  Speaker 2: And if you want to hear more of that, we
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  Speaker 2: played more of that earlier this morning. Or you can
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  Speaker 2: get it on my podcast. I call that the National Briefing. That, too,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: is on the iHeartRadio app. We'll take a pause. It's 840.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend. We were talking about
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  Speaker 2: how the socialists spent it in Chicago. This is a
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  Speaker 2: promotion for the Socialism 2026 event.
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  Speaker 14: We're not going to win just being one organization or
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  Speaker 14: a coalition of organizations. We have to build mass movement
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  Speaker 14: in this moment, and Socialism Conference is one of the
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  Speaker 14: umbrellas in this country for us to be able to
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  Speaker 14: do that.
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  Speaker 2: So they are planning on sweeping big in the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: and they've got a coalition of victims, and apparently... The
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: newest victim is black obese people, according to the white, thin,
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  Speaker 2: liberal woman, Beatrice Bolton. We are targeting fat black people
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  Speaker 2: because we're fascists. And Christopher, you said we have a
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  Speaker 2: talkback on that?
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  Speaker 15: Hey guys, Mark in Newberry. Great show as always. You know,
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  Speaker 15: these people are using a completely different language. That is
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  Speaker 15: tough to understand. There's a great book out there. You
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  Speaker 15: can even get it on audiobook. It's called Cynical Theories
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  Speaker 15: by Helen Pluckrose. And it really journals where this language
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  Speaker 15: came from and how all of this got started.
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  Speaker 2: It's really interesting. You should check it out. Thank you, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: And Christopher, I understand you're looking at that book now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking at it. Have you heard that language
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  Speaker 5: is violence, that science is sexist? Have you read that
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  Speaker 5: certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Have
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  Speaker 5: you been told that being obese is healthy, that there's
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  Speaker 5: no such thing as biological sex or that only white
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  Speaker 5: people can be racist?
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  Speaker 4: Are you confused by these ideas?
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  Speaker 5: The authors document the evolution of the dogma that informs
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 5: these ideas. So yeah, it's apparently just goes all the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: way back to French modernism and it tries to figure
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  Speaker 5: out exactly how these people came to speak the way
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  Speaker 5: they do.
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  Speaker 2: It's a dangerous thing because whether you're a socialist or just,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, there's so many of these little tiny groups,
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  Speaker 2: these little tribes that set themselves up, they actually divorce
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  Speaker 2: themselves from reality. and then they're able to create their
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  Speaker 2: own reality, and inside that reality, the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: world is either ignorant or dangerous. That's how they look
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  Speaker 2: at us.
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  Speaker 5: Why would you want to empower somebody who's morbidly obese
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  Speaker 5: to continue down that path?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's their truth, I suppose. I mean, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: delved into it enough to understand, again, why it's white oppression,
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  Speaker 2: white supremacy— First off, has any black person or any
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  Speaker 2: person in general ever been forced to become thin? We
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  Speaker 2: don't have fat camps here in America where we've just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like if we were like under a tyrannical
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  Speaker 2: regime where they were just like, oh, you weigh too much,
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  Speaker 2: get to the fat camp.
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  Speaker 5: But your doctor might strongly suggest it if he's concerned
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  Speaker 5: about the longevity of your life, but otherwise, no.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So again, this is how they twist things. So
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  Speaker 2: that's an interesting read. We'll have to check that one out.
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  Speaker 2: Mark from Newberry. Thank you for the talk back.
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  Speaker 1: It's eight 48 from the Midlands to the low country.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Just a reminder. You can hear South Carolina's morning news
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in the, actually anywhere in the world on the
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: I heart radio app, but Christopher Thompson and myself, Kelly Nash,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: we broadcast on two radio stations. One's in the low country,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: one's in the Midlands. And again, Two of the three
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: busiest interchanges in this state are in our audience. One
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: would be I-26 at Remount Road, and basically about tied
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: would be the I-20, I-26 interchange. We call that Malfunction Junction.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: They're now trying to rebrand that one as Carolina Crossroads,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: and the story in the Post and Courier says we're
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: now about to enter what's called the big boy phase
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: of construction. So they broke ground on this back in
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  Speaker 2: November of 2021. And we're about to hit the big
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: boy phase five years into this thing. In case you're
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: wondering in the Midlands, when is this thing going to
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: be finally, finally over? They're talking about somewhere. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: The entire project is scheduled to be completed somewhere in 2034.
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  Speaker 2: So we're still eight years out. Eight more years of
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  Speaker 2: construction until we finally get it handled. By then, won't
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: we have flying cars?
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  Speaker 4: We may. Highways may be obsolete by then.
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  Speaker 9: Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. This thing is taking forever.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot involved. There are a lot of moving
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: parts in this. And now they're getting to actually moving
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: bridges that cross rivers.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So it gets more complicated from here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So we are, if you happen to ever come
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  Speaker 2: to the Midlands... We pray you don't have to go
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: to the Malfunction Junction area because it's not so good
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: right now. I feel like it's gotten a little bit better,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: but hopefully when this big boy phase gets done, whatever
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: that is, it will vastly improve. In the meantime, for
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  Speaker 2: any of you stuck in traffic, thank you for spending
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: your time with us. Christopher Thompson, Kelly Nash. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: back tomorrow morning just after 6.