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Show Rewind 9-14-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 2: and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: Have to put the button in program. So many things
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  Speaker 3: happen before we go on the air in order to
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  Speaker 3: make it happen. Hi there. My name is Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: It is 6.03. Christopher Thompson, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning to you, Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: The Gamecocks Tigers win. The NFL is back. I know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Panthers fans are probably not too happy.
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  Speaker 3: Their offense looked amazing. And it was what the highest
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  Speaker 3: scoring NFL debut season or, you know, kickoff to the season,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, in history.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: But the Panthers on the wrong side of that equation.
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  Speaker 3: And so that that makes it a little bit rough.
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  Speaker 3: Defense wasn't so good. And the offense had some turnovers, too. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So that was rough. But, you know, NFL is back.
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  Speaker 3: College football is back. I wish I could say that
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  Speaker 3: that means all is right with the world. But but
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  Speaker 3: it's never that way. There's the world always has problems.
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  Speaker 3: And so we have to we have to look at
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  Speaker 3: said problems. But I will point out, I was pleasantly
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  Speaker 3: surprised by my New York Giants. Very pleasantly surprised. I
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  Speaker 3: don't watch these games because I go to sleep. But
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  Speaker 3: my gosh, I was not expecting a whole lot out
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  Speaker 3: of them. And they surprised me. And so hopefully whatever
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  Speaker 3: team you're cheering for, they pleasantly surprised you as well. Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: you were taking note during the top-of-the-hour break about Hayden
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  Speaker 3: Panettere's boyfriend's brother was arrested and released on bail. What
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  Speaker 3: were your thoughts on that when you heard it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I just— Our news guy didn't mention it, so
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was interesting to note. I think a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people have missed that. They saw a name
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  Speaker 4: and they thought, well, I've heard that name before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's the brother of the boyfriend of the late Hayden Pantier, who,
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  Speaker 4: of course, died, what, last month up in Greenville.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what a tragic story, too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is a woman who struggled with drug abuse and alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: Other issues.
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  Speaker 4: Postpartum depression.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she had.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of problems.
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  Speaker 3: Again, I'm not somebody who can really critique actors and
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  Speaker 3: actresses very well, but I guess she was a young star, right?
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  Speaker 3: She came onto the scene, I guess, as like a
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  Speaker 3: teenager or something.
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  Speaker 4: Younger than that. She was in Remember the Titans when
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  Speaker 4: she was, I mean, eight or nine, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. So yet another child star that ends up living
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  Speaker 3: a story. struggle-filled life and ends horribly in a drug
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  Speaker 3: overdose in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: But yet another eye-raising involvement between these two brothers who,
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  Speaker 4: you know, haven't been accused of anything regarding her death,
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  Speaker 4: but there are questions still.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's certainly drugs there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that is definitely the contributing factor along with
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  Speaker 3: her mental health issues. And this is just another great
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  Speaker 3: reminder for if you are a parent of a young
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  Speaker 3: person who has dreams of stardom, walk that path carefully.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say it always ends badly because
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  Speaker 3: that's obviously not the case. There are childhood stars who
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  Speaker 3: then transfer into adult stars with minimal problems. Justin Timberlake
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  Speaker 3: had the one DUI so far, but other than that,
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  Speaker 3: he seemed to have led a pretty decent life with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money. But a lot of those Mickey–
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  Speaker 3: like Britney Spears, who would want that for your child
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  Speaker 3: to grow up and be Britney Spears, who seems to
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  Speaker 3: be a complete lunatic at this point?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, train wreck.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many– I mean, Miley Cyrus seems to be
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  Speaker 3: getting her life back in order, but it's been a
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  Speaker 3: decade or more of just, oh my gosh, this girl
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  Speaker 3: seems like she's in agony. Marriages, divorces, drinking, drugging, lewd behavior.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to say it's just females only
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  Speaker 3: because there's certainly some guys who have struggled. We can
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  Speaker 3: go back to, uh, what was his young name? Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Joaquin Phoenix, uh, and many others that when you get
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  Speaker 3: that stardom at an early age, and I guess it
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  Speaker 3: comes with some money as well, and you're probably not
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  Speaker 3: ready to handle that, then, then you might have some
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  Speaker 3: big issues later down the line.
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  Speaker 4: So it all goes back to the parents, Kelly, you
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  Speaker 4: watch some of these reality shows on TV. And I mean, you,
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  Speaker 4: you see the parents that are pushing these kids who,
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  Speaker 4: A lot of cases aren't all that interested in the
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  Speaker 4: fame and everything else that comes with it. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times it's the parents' values that get
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  Speaker 4: the kids in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm assuming that would also be true in sports, right?
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of dads who didn't quite have
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  Speaker 3: enough to go D1 or pro, and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: put that pressure on their kid. I had a friend once,
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  Speaker 3: now this is more comical than anything else, I had
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  Speaker 3: a friend who was 6'4 and a tad slow and
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  Speaker 3: had always dreamt of being a basketball star. He was
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  Speaker 3: a great high school basketball player, just wasn't able to
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  Speaker 3: do anything. I think he ended up at a D2
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  Speaker 3: school and probably rode the bench at the D2 school.
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  Speaker 3: And it frustrated the heck out of him because he
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  Speaker 3: had a deep passion for basketball. So he literally told himself,
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  Speaker 3: I will only date women 5'10 or taller. Now he
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  Speaker 3: ended up marrying a woman who was six feet tall.
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  Speaker 3: He produced a son, Scott, Scott, Scott is I think six, eight. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And Scott is an athletic, I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: just a freak cause he's not a freak. He's, he's
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  Speaker 3: a very talented athlete at whatever he tries to do. Um,
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  Speaker 3: No interest in basketball. Breaks his father's heart. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of fact, he did end up playing, I think
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  Speaker 3: for a short period of time, a pro soccer league.
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  Speaker 3: Like he ended up in Europe at like one of
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  Speaker 3: those lower level clubs. And then I think he played
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  Speaker 3: for the Charleston Battery for a while. But not interested
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  Speaker 3: in basketball. Broke his father's heart. You can't put this
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  Speaker 3: pressure on your kids. They're going to live their lives.
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  Speaker 3: But you can put values into them. Yes. And encourage
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  Speaker 3: them to be great at whatever it is they attempt. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: the Hayden Panettere story, that will continue to play out.
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  Speaker 3: We'll keep an eye on that. We're going to get
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  Speaker 3: to a bunch of politics, of course, this morning. And
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  Speaker 3: always looking for your feedback online. Use the Talk Back
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  Speaker 3: feature off the iHeartRadio app. It is 6.09.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, we've got a debate coming down. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: Friday night. Darlene Graham says, quote, on October 11th, I
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  Speaker 3: will take the debate stage and expose Annie Andrews' radical
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  Speaker 3: positions that she spent the last year hiding from the
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina families. And so this debate, if I understand correctly,
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  Speaker 3: is taking place on SCETV, which is interesting. I know
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  Speaker 3: that Gray TV has been pressuring candidates, it seems, according
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  Speaker 3: to the Post and Courier, to sign– What would you
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  Speaker 3: call these, Christopher?
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  Speaker 4: They want a monopoly on these debates. If you're going
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  Speaker 4: to debate, you're going to do it with us and
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  Speaker 4: only with us.
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  Speaker 3: So would this prohibit them from now going on the
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  Speaker 3: gray media television stations?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think gray is going to say no at
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  Speaker 4: this point. But, I mean, the candidates have the rights
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  Speaker 4: to debate wherever they want. And SCETV makes a point
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  Speaker 4: that they do have the public broadcasting stations across the state.
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  Speaker 4: I know gray media is well represented too, but I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's ultimately up to the candidates to decide where they
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  Speaker 4: want to debate and who they want overseeing their debates.
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  Speaker 3: And so that story about gray TV, that was also
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  Speaker 3: breaking on Friday. And like you said, the headlines as
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina television group requiring candidates to sign a non-compete
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  Speaker 3: clause for upcoming debates. And so perhaps the loophole would
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  Speaker 3: be SCE TV as a non-commercial channel. thing perhaps that's
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  Speaker 3: the the wiggle room out of it um you've got
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  Speaker 3: in the media space you have uh gray which is
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  Speaker 3: becoming a huge television group not just here locally but
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  Speaker 3: also across the country and then you've got that. What
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  Speaker 3: is it? Next star, which just recently brought out Tegna,
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  Speaker 3: which is like the WLTX in Columbia group. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure who they bought. Did they buy somebody in the
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  Speaker 3: low country or do they already own somebody down there?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but, uh, okay. Let's see. Next star also owns
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  Speaker 3: a WCBD in Charleston. All right. So I guess they
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  Speaker 3: could get into this as well.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it's Newsmax did the, the debate earlier, the, uh, the,
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  Speaker 4: the debate for, well, it was the Senate runoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And that was a, but that was also, I think,
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  Speaker 3: was that in coordination with SCE TV? Because what's his
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  Speaker 3: face from SCE TV was one of the people on
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  Speaker 3: the stage. Yeah. So again, I don't really, As a
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  Speaker 3: media person, ironically, I don't care who carries it, which
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  Speaker 3: is the weird thing to say. And when they run
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  Speaker 3: these things, I don't remember them running commercials. Perhaps they did,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't even remember that.
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  Speaker 4: I think there were breaks.
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  Speaker 3: There were breaks with commercials?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I remember some of the candidates took advantage
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  Speaker 4: and ran their ads during these breaks in between the debates.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So then I guess there is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: them to make money off of it. I was thinking
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  Speaker 3: perhaps this was just a public service thing. But no,
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  Speaker 3: no public service. So we're going to make money off
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  Speaker 3: of it. But the bigger news is that Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 3: has accepted it. And I think that that's fantastic because
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  Speaker 3: it finally takes. some of the air out of the
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  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews balloon that she's been running with. I think
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  Speaker 3: she had like a website like, please debate me, Darlene,
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  Speaker 3: or something like that, and had been running with it.
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  Speaker 3: And the Graham campaign was basically saying, well, why would
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  Speaker 3: we debate her when she's just losing a debate to
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  Speaker 3: herself because she keeps saying that she's moderate and blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: But then we'll just keep posting all of her videos
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  Speaker 3: where she's like, I want to make sure we get
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  Speaker 3: puberty blockers into the hands of all the children and
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  Speaker 3: all this sort of stuff. So she's definitely not a moderate.
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  Speaker 3: And they're going to try to expose that even more
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  Speaker 3: so in the debate. I know October, what is it,
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  Speaker 3: October 11th? So we have a month, yeah, on October 11th.
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  Speaker 3: So we have about a month for them to prepare
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  Speaker 3: Darlene for this big moment. And this is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a huge moment because we haven't heard of any
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  Speaker 3: other debates happening. So this is maybe a one and done,
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  Speaker 3: the only opportunity for Darlene to, this is going to
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  Speaker 3: be the news clips. Again, most South Carolinians that are
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  Speaker 3: going to vote are not going to watch this, but
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  Speaker 3: they will see the clips. And if you have a
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  Speaker 3: moment where you're bobbling the question, that is going to
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  Speaker 3: be played over and over and over again inside the
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  Speaker 3: algorithm of people on the left and center left. So
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  Speaker 3: we've got to be very careful going into this thing.
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  Speaker 4: You want to make sure you're up on Taiwan by
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  Speaker 4: the time you get to that debate stage.
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  Speaker 3: I am. But you know what? I'd be even surprised
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  Speaker 3: if they even bring up Taiwan at this point, because
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  Speaker 3: she's going to be so overprepped for the Taiwan question.
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  Speaker 3: But what other questions are there? And it'll be interesting,
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  Speaker 3: because if it's done by SCETV, they're the ones who
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  Speaker 3: are supposed to be as down the middle as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Christopher and I will analyze said questions later on to
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  Speaker 3: see how down the middle they actually were. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you have thoughts on that debate, love to hear about
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  Speaker 3: them on the Talkback feature. It is 619.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: When Donald Trump first ran for office and ever since
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  Speaker 3: he's been running for office, he's continued to say have
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  Speaker 3: a pretty common theme. The United States continues. Your leaders
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  Speaker 3: do stupid things. Very stupid. And we are continuing a
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  Speaker 3: stupid tradition in the United States. A federal judge late
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  Speaker 3: Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service may not implement
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's executive order. limiting mail balloting only to the
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  Speaker 3: states that have proven that their voter ID rolls are
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  Speaker 3: actually filled with legal voters. So we're going to continue
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  Speaker 3: the mail-in ballots, and that's a big blow. Now, for
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  Speaker 3: those of you who think that this is a normal
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  Speaker 3: thing to do, I will point out that the entire
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  Speaker 3: world is against that. Latin America, Africa, Europe, France specifically
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  Speaker 3: said you could never do this because they've exposed how
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  Speaker 3: many different hacks this has happened. On planet Earth, planet Earth,
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  Speaker 3: there are 12 countries that allow this, 12, and they're
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  Speaker 3: all left or leaning left. Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Poland, New Zealand, Germany. Germany,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, the mail-in ballots is what they assume
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  Speaker 3: has led to this vast Muslim overtaking of their country.
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  Speaker 3: United Kingdom. We are aligning ourselves with lunatics who continue
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  Speaker 3: to allow the mail-in ballots. And again, I'm not talking
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  Speaker 3: about for the military and for these other people, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the elderly who can't get to the polls. Those exemptions
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  Speaker 3: are included. But you have to prove that you are
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  Speaker 3: actually allowing voters to vote. And we have no way
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  Speaker 3: of proving this. And we've got numerous cases. We were
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  Speaker 3: talking about it on Friday. Thousands of people in Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles who haven't voted in years, they're suddenly showing up
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  Speaker 3: in the polls because the homeless have been paid in
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  Speaker 3: Lucy cigarettes to vote for them. This is not some
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  Speaker 3: sort of little isolated incident. This is en masse. We
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  Speaker 3: know in Los Angeles, but we would assume across the
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  Speaker 3: country because if there's a loophole, why wouldn't you exploit it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you had the story a couple of months ago, Kelly,
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  Speaker 4: about New Jersey and how many illegal voters had they
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  Speaker 4: found on their rolls. And they said it was an aberration.
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  Speaker 4: They said it was a data error, not necessarily human
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  Speaker 4: error or any kind of fraud. Yet, nonetheless, there it was.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to go through another election filled with
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  Speaker 3: probably illegal voting, whether it's illegal aliens or it's just
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  Speaker 3: people who aren't actually voting and it's being filled in by,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some sort of homeless encampment will be voting
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  Speaker 3: as told in exchange for three cigarettes and a smile.
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  Speaker 3: They should get.
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  Speaker 4: More for their vote. They should demand more.
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  Speaker 3: They're not good at negotiating, which is why they end
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  Speaker 3: up living under a tarp. All right, so we've got
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  Speaker 3: that story and others. You have thoughts, let us know
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  Speaker 3: on the Talkback feature. It is 628.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there. Kelly Nash here at 633 with Christopher Thompson. Friday,
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  Speaker 3: I was filling in doing an afternoon show in another market,
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  Speaker 3: and the news broke that NBC10 Boston... was going with
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  Speaker 3: a piece on the verge, I'm going to just say that,
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  Speaker 3: on the verge of doxing the loan holdout in the
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay Clancy murder trial. And this is a very clear
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  Speaker 3: message that at least NBC10 wants to send to jurors.
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  Speaker 3: If you end up on the wrong side of a
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  Speaker 3: jury verdict in their opinion, They will do what they
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  Speaker 3: can to intimidate you.
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  Speaker 5: Now, after the mistrial, our NBC 10 investigators pulled court
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  Speaker 5: records that were tied to that juror. And we found
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  Speaker 5: a 2021 charge for assaulting his wife that was later dismissed,
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  Speaker 5: an active restraining order that a nephew had taken out
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  Speaker 5: against him. And that has still been in effect even
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  Speaker 5: while he sat through weeks of testimony and a pending
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  Speaker 5: eviction over unpaid rent.
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  Speaker 1: So why does that matter to the trial?
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  Speaker 5: Well, before you're seated, you fill out a questionnaire. It
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  Speaker 5: asks whether you've been arrested, charged with a crime, or
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  Speaker 5: served with a court order.
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  Speaker 1: It says right here.
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  Speaker 5: Your experience with the law. An NBC10' s legal analyst says
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  Speaker 5: that if these boxes had been checked honestly, it's hard
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  Speaker 5: to see either side keeping this.
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  Speaker 1: Juror on the jury.
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  Speaker 2: When the NBC10 investigators contacted the juror's family members, they
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  Speaker 2: said he'd been estranged since.
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  Speaker 1: The alleged incident with his nephew.
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  Speaker 3: So they are now... They're now talking to his family members.
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  Speaker 3: They're going... Now, by the way, I'll also point out
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  Speaker 3: that the juror that you've probably heard speak by now,
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  Speaker 3: the female who was like, and he just had the
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  Speaker 3: hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay brutally murdered
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  Speaker 3: her child or children. That woman also charged with assault.
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  Speaker 3: But that doesn't come to.
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  Speaker 4: No, we don't hear that story.
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  Speaker 6: And....
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  Speaker 3: It's... They don't know whether he checked it or didn't
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  Speaker 3: check it because there is no records of that, apparently.
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  Speaker 3: But they went, they're going, they're bending over backwards to
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  Speaker 3: send that message that you're in. By the way, if
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  Speaker 3: they had convicted Lindsay, if they had been a unanimous decision,
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  Speaker 3: do you think anybody would hear anything about this? Not
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  Speaker 3: a word. Absolutely. And by the way, is it a
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  Speaker 3: crime in Massachusetts to in any way intimidate a current
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  Speaker 3: or former jury member? Absolutely. You can go to jail
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  Speaker 3: for up to 10 years for this. And yet I
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  Speaker 3: don't think NBC 10 is concerned. I don't think that
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  Speaker 3: Sue O'Connell, I think is the reporter's name, who broke
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  Speaker 3: that story, I don't think that she's concerned. She's been
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  Speaker 3: on Twitter for a week raging against this. She's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my heart is broken. I can't believe that they're going
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: to throw this whole case away because of just one person.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: And I'll also point out that during that interview that
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Sue had earlier with some of those jurors, one of
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: them was complaining that when he was talking about the dosages,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: he was I don't know how she described it, but
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: we had three nurses on the juror and all three
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: were trying to explain to him what it meant and
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: he just wouldn't pay attention. Well, I'll also point out
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: it is illegal for you to use any expertise from
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: your career as a juror. That is a violation of
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: not only Massachusetts law, I believe federal law, that inside
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: a juror's box you cannot bring your professional expertise to
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: either enhance or diminish the witnesses. So he actually followed
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the jury instruction. Tell those nurses to shut their mouths
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: when it comes to their insights, so to speak. This
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: is just becoming more and more infuriating, and it's not
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: just a local issue. I saw him talking about it
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: today in London. Ron DeSantis is offering this guy Clemency,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: please come to Florida so you can be safe. This
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: is just a crazy story, Christopher.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: It got even crazier when that juror appeared with Gayle
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: King on CBS this morning, on Friday, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Friday. That was when the news broke
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: that it was a black male.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: And Gayle King was raging against this juror. Wait a minute.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: It was a man of color.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: You got to see Gayle King's narrative explode in her
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: face in real time.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I'm going to have to sit with that for a moment.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, she was shocked.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: So Friday morning, we find out that it's a black
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: man because there's only three men on the jury and
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: we already knew it was one of the three. Then
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: we find out Friday from the other juror that it's
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: a black man. So now you've very much limited who
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: it could be. Anybody who saw the jury knows who
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: it was. Now NBC 10 is running with it. They've done, they've,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: they're now talking to his family members. They're letting you
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: know that we're this close to just revealing your name
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: and address. And, and we're going to send the pink
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: shirts to the house with the purple hairs and they
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: will do with you as they will. It's an angry
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: mob that they're threatening him with. And, It's just that
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the left has a violence problem. And if they don't
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: get their way, whether it's going to Supreme Court justices'
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: houses or whatever, they just want to intimidate Americans into
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: thinking their way. If you have the audacity to not
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: align with them, they will threaten that right out of you.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And I hope that this guy can stand strong. I
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: hope that other jurors in the future won't think of
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: this or be intimidated by this type of behavior. Very frustrating, though,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: that NBC10... I hope that there's some sort of FCC
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: investigation into them now, and specifically that reporter, Sue O'Connell.
• 20:57
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• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Carolina's morning news at 639.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: So our governor, Henry McMaster, last week supporting the big
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: train merger. If you haven't been following this, we've got
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: a proposition between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. And Henry
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: McMaster sending in his letter of support as our state
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: continues to grow. Dependable transportation options are essential to moving
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: raw materials and finished products, reducing congestion, improving safety, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: supporting environmental stewardship. Expanding the role of rail can help
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: advance each of these goals. And then the story from,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I'm reading this in Yahoo Finance, many local and regional
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: businesses like here, Ricky Sox Fence Company, a small business
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: in Lexington, voiced support of the merger. saying that they
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: depend on freight transportation for gate fencing and other heavy
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: building materials. Delays within the supply chain slows our construction
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: schedules and increases project costs. So Nissan North America strongly
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: supports the merger. It seems like most people are in
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: favor of this. I will point out that there is
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: a opposition group called Stop the Rail Merger Coalition that
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: was launched in April, and that's run basically by smaller
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: railroad groups. Not surprisingly, they're going to be put in
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: a bad way, I would assume. And there's a couple
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: of groups in there with them, including the National Grain
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and Feed Association, the Teamsters Rail Conference, the Vinyl Institute,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Alliance for Chemical Distribution, Brotherhood of Railroad Singlemen, and others.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I think this deal is going to get done. I
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be approved. Christopher, your thoughts? That's
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the first I've heard of it, honestly. And I mean,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I try and keep up with the news. That's the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: first I've heard of this. But I mean, if it works,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: if it makes small businesses happy, I'm for it. Yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: we want to help small businesses as much as possible.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: And as McMaster points out in his letter, we have
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: a 14,000 acre property in South Carolina that's currently being
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: managed by Norfolk Southern. And he says that they are
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: doing a fantastic job with that, and the environmentalists appreciate
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the work being done by Norfolk Southern on that 14,000-acre property.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: So everything's pointing in the right direction, and this hopefully
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: will help drive down costs for everybody. Great. So let's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: cheer that on.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Hi there, Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson, headline in the
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: state newspaper, talking about Moms for Liberty and how it
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: grew during COVID up to 21 local chapters in South Carolina,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: currently down to seven in the state, with only three
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: listed having local leadership. And the question, why is it shrinking?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: It would seem, Christopher, that the answer is because national leadership,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: is making it difficult for some of these groups. And
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: inside the state, there's some groups that apparently are, we're
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: more right-wing than you and blah, blah, blah. And then
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: people just give up and say, well, we don't want
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: to deal with this.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Sounds like the York County chapter got a little too
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: big for its britches and squeezed some of the other
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: counties out.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Possibly so. But I think this is a great example
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: that when we talk about local politics, this is a
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: great example because at the national level, is too far away. Now,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: maybe don't join a national group when you have your
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: local whatever it is. And obviously, they've now trademarked the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: name Moms for Liberty. But if you want to lead
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: like some sort of female-focused group for conservatives, come up
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: with your own and then make it just in your area,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: which would be, I believe, a more effective way of
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: doing things. You don't need to partner on the national
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: level in order to influence local elections and things of
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: that nature and to get your message out. So I'm
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: sorry to see that it's dwindling the way it has
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: going from 21 down to seven in just a short
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: period of time. But the spirit behind it is a
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: good spirit that women want to just return normalcy to
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: schools and other places.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's sad that it's happened, but it is still
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: a very important issue.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Well, we'll talk more about that and other things
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: coming up on SC Morning News.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: In just about every society on earth, there is nothing
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: more precious to that society than their children. So when
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you see there's a group targeting children, obviously that's when
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: all the flags go up. That's when everybody gets concerned,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: as well we should. The headline, South Carolina FBI warning
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: parents of a rapid increase in online networks targeting children
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: in the Palmetto State. Between 2025 and 2026, the FBI's
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: South Carolina field office has seen a 380% increase in
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: cases involving violent online networks. These are violent extremist groups
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: targeting children. They're specifically looking for tweens and teens. This
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: is happening in chat rooms, gaming platforms, and any manner
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: of online communications that connect the children in order to
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: indoctrinate them, says the special agent in charge, Anish Shakula,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: and eventually coerce them to do things that are inherently dangerous.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: They result in things like self-harm or harm to others.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: We also see a lot of animal cruelty happening. So,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you know, in the old days, we used to talk about,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and I say the old days, the before times, the
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: before the social media times, when just about everybody who
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: is listening to this show, although not exclusively, because I
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: am thankful that we are getting younger and younger listeners.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: And when I say younger, I mean people, young adults, 30s, 20s.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: But before social media, your parents would have told you,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: don't talk to strangers. That was a rule that every
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: kid up until the night, well, I guess they probably
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: say it still, a lot of parents, But we didn't
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: have access to strangers like you would have online.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: You worried about the creepy guy in the van offering
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: kids candy if they would get into the van with him. Yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I remember my mother screaming at me when I was
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: about six because I was fascinated, like so many young boys,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: by construction equipment. And they were paving my street. And
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: me and my friend Larry... just literally just stood there
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: just watching them for hours. We were just obsessed with, wow,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: look at that. That's a, that's a real life steamroller.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: That's a real life bulldozer, whatever it was that we
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: were looking at. That's a real life dump truck. And
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: one of the guys during their lunch break, he came
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: over and was just being nice. And he said, you want,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you want a part of my sandwich? And so me
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and Larry took a bite of his sandwich. And my
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: mother saw that and screamed at me, brought me into
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: the house, never accept food from strangers. Don't talk to him.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: You don't know him. Nobody in our neighborhood knows him. Now,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: that guy, if it was today, would have unfettered access
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: to your children through a gaming platform, which I don't
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: know if every parent even understands that, that oftentimes your
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: kids are communicating with what they believe are other teenagers.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: And in some instances, according to the FBI, are other
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: teenagers that have been radicalized by these groups to do
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: all kinds of insane things, whether it's politically motivated or
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: just we want to do crazy stuff in order to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: help bring down the United States. That's where we're at.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: So I don't know what kind of barriers you can
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: put up other than I don't want to say you
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: have to disconnect completely from the Internet because that's not believable.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: But the idea of somehow monitoring your children more closely,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: if we have a 380% increase in one year and
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: kids are in South Carolina harming themselves, harming animals, harming others,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: according to the FBI. I believe. this. I don't think
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: that the FBI would lie about this. I mean, there
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: is no upside to them saying, parents, beware. Your kids
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: are going online into these chat rooms and or apps
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: where they can play video games, and they're being radicalized.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: And OK, you know what? I have to take a
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: break here in a moment. When I come back, I
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: am going to remind us again of September 11th. And
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I think the lesson that might have been missed during
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: September 11th and the anniversary that we didn't teach our
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: children properly because there's a lot there and a lot
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: of it has to do with TikTok. So I'm going
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: to come back with the TikTok story that is several
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: years old that I still haven't heard a whole lot
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: of people talking about, even though we just went through
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: September 11th. And how our children are being radicalized on
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: social media right under our noses. And now we're starting
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: to reap the, I don't want to say the benefits,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: but we're reaping something. We're reaping what we're not sowing.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Somebody else is sowing into our youth and it's coming
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: out horribly. We'll be back with that story and more.
• 30:46
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• 30:48
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: With Kelly Nash and Christopher Thompson, Friday was September 11th.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: And the lesson of September 11th, I think, has sadly
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: been missed by a lot of Americans. Why was there
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: a September 11th attack? In 2002, a year after the attack...
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Osama bin Laden sent what was known as Letter to America.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: That went viral again in 2023. This is an NBC
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: News report talking about That letter now being taken off
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: of TikTok.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Content off its platform after videos promoting Osama bin Laden's
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: letter to America started gaining momentum.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: This morning I read letter to America.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: The letter written in 2002, one year after 9-11 by
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: the al-Qaeda leader, justifying one of the worst terrorist attacks
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: in the U.S. that left nearly 3,000 dead.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I just read a letter to America.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Go read it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: Users at times reading the letter, while others noting how
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: the letter resonated with them. In particular, portions criticizing U.S.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: support for Israel, accusing Americans of financing oppression of the Palestinians.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: Do y'all know that the tax dollars are given to
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: Israel to help them kill all the people in Palestine?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So that is now they've edited out the part about
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: you also allow women to vote and you allow, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: homosexuals to live. They edited out that part. But the
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: main grievance of, oh my gosh, I almost just pulled
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: a Ted Kennedy there. Osama, Obama Osama. The main grievance
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: of the now deceased bin Laden was that the Americans
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: were funding and protecting Israel, who in his opinion have
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: no right to any land, and specifically the The area
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: that we would call where Palestine in the West Bank,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: that area, he is very upset about that. And he's
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: calling it, guess what he called it? A genocide. even
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: though it was Israel who, that was their land, and
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: then they gave it back. As, what's his name, Bill
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Maher said, in this scenario, they're the American Indians, okay?
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: They're the ones who are indigenous to that population area.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: That is their land, and they actually surrendered some of
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: it to try to make peace, and the only thing
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: that that area has been done, that strip in Gaza,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: that has only been used for one thing, and it
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: is to launch attacks against Israel. Terrorist groups. Exactly. Al
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Qaeda's main grievance is free, free Palestine. We have college campuses.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I even saw one here in Clemson. They had a
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: group last year with the free, free Palestine BS. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: they don't understand what they're talking about. And the fact
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: that Osama bin Laden's letter to America has been went
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: viral in 2023 online with a bunch of mush mines
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: shows that it's very dangerous for people who don't understand
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: history to read a version of it, which is very
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: slanted towards making the Jews in the United States look horrible.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: And this is the this is the type of people
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: who got influenced by and then came out like politicians
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: like El-Sayed, for example, and said, you know, 9-11 was justified,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: that it was our foreign policy that led to 9-11
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: for justifiable reasons.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I wonder how many people recognize that when you
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: are out there waving your from the river to the
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: sea banners or your free, free Palestine chants, that you
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: are in perfect alignment with Osama bin Laden. And I
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: would say, Many of them, they probably don't care that
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: they're in perfect alignment with Osama bin Laden, but they
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: would feel justified in his means. They would say, this
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: is protecting a group of people who are being slaughtered,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: genocided by American military dollars and might going through Israel
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: in order to lead this genocide, which is the, again,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know how many times I have to say this,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: but I'll say it again for anybody who's not aware
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: of this. One of the fastest growing populations on earth
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: is the Palestinians. At no point has the Palestinian population
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: been more explosive than the last 10 years. They are
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: growing at record rates. Their land has increased. So it's
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: the opposite of a genocide. They are spreading out. They
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: are growing in population. They are growing in land mass.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: That is the exact opposite of a genocide. And so
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: anybody who says that we're genociding them, either doesn't understand
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: what the definition of genocide is or is just choosing
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: to be ignorant of this fact. So, but again, our
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: children are being radicalized online. The FBI warning here in
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, specifically, if you missed that earlier story, that
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: that is going on, not just on the free, free
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Palestine crap, but also a lot of violent extremist stuff
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: is happening in South Carolina. I think they said a
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: 385% increase year over year in that type of behavior. So,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Be careful when your kids get online. Make sure you
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: understand what they're looking at, who they're talking to. We'll
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: take a break. If you've got thoughts, it's the Talk
• 36:22
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• 36:24
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 36:28
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• 36:35
  Speaker 3: This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson talking about news.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: And last night on Air Force One, Donald Trump, Gosh,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: just not the great communicator I was hoping for as
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the reporter talking to him about some of the AI
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: developers talking about this could end the world.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: And you seem to downplay some of the concerns.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: But, you know, it's going to be more good than bad,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: but by a lot.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: And I've said it. I've said it from the beginning.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Whoever wins AI and we're leading by a lot.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Whoever wins AI wins. So you can. So. you haven't
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: removed the fear, sir, that it's going to end the world.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: That's the problem. But whoever wins AI is going to win,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: but could it end the world? I I'm, I'm, you know,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: this is like when the nuclear weapons were being developed
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: back in the 1940s. And there was this great concern.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: And I think a right concern by the people of
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: that era that, you know, before, like the, before the
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Trinity test, you had several high profile scientists talking about,
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: If we test this, we could set off a nuclear
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: chain reaction that could actually end the world. And people
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: were rightly concerned. Wait a minute, they're testing something that
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: could end the world? And I don't know if AI
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: could end the world. The people who are developing it
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: are saying it could end the world.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Elon Musk has now agreed, saying that that, the Anthropic
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: CEO who wrote that long essay last week, saying that
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: this is a moral dilemma we're facing, that we could
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: be creating an AI that could take over. And Elon
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Musk said he's right.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Elon Musk said, I think it was like two years ago,
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: that you have to be careful. He said something about
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: in the movie, everybody thinks they can contain the demon
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: before they open the box. Let's hope we can contain
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: the demon. So again, is there a lot of potentially...
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: could go horrifically wrong with AI. Absolutely. In my mind,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: here's the way I look at it, and let me
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: know if you think differently. It is going to be developed.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: That is not the question. Somebody is going to control this.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: And we hope that they can actually control it. The
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: question is, who is going to be in charge of it?
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Because China is not going to stop. China doesn't care
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: if it ends the world. And I don't think a
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: lot of third world countries care if they were to
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: get the power of it, if it were to end
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: the world. The United States does care. Most of Western
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Europe does care if the world is ended. So they're
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: going to do their best to not only develop it
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: and then block China with our AI. We're going to
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: try to block them from developing it any further. That's
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: the way I see this playing out. I trust the
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: United States government more than I trust the Chinese government.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I don't trust the United States government that much, but
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I do trust them more than I trust the Chinese government.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: And so I think Trump is correct in the sense
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: that it is a race to develop it to the
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: point where you can then block the other countries from
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: using it. But he should be cognizant or, I don't know,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: express more concern than it's very flippantly saying, I'm not downplaying,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: but we're going to win. We've got to win. It's
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: the only thing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: More good than bad.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: It's more good than bad.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: It is going to be a revolution, it would appear.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: en masse with what happened during the Industrial Revolution. Were
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: there millions of positions wiped out? Yes. Were there new
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: positions created? Of course. I don't see a time in
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: our lifetime where there's not going to be jobs. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: have heard some AI guys talk about that, that in
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: the future, nobody will have a job and then governments
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: will have to just provide a stipend for everybody to
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: live and blah, blah, blah. I can't, in my mind,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I can't get my mind around that. But ultimately, I
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: do believe that it could wipe out the world. And
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I think it needs to be controlled. And I want
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: our developers in the United States to develop it as quickly,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: as responsibly as possible in order to block the Chinese
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: development of it.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Because we know we'll have safeguards and they won't. Yes.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: That's the way I look at it. Maybe you see
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: it differently in your mind. Perhaps you're thinking we can
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: put a pause button on the world, on the development
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: of this, which is what some of these guys were
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: calling for over the weekend, just pause it altogether. I
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: don't think that that's going to happen because rogue nations
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: aren't pausing. But that's the way I see it. It
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: is 729.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: We missed the wiener walk. What did they call that?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: The weenie walk?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Wiener fest, I think.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Wiener fest?
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Gosh, Christopher, you and I were busy with college football
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: and other things and missed out on all that.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: I don't have a dachshund, so I don't have a
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: dog in the fight.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Good morning. This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: here's one of those things where I am, maybe I
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: am just, I don't know, ignorant. I don't want to
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: say I'm stupid. I'm ignorant, possibly. Ignorant meaning I'm not
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: aware of the facts. But I read stories like this,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: and this is an opinion piece in the Post and
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Courier talking about when summer ends, this is when, he's
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: pointing out here, far too many low country families did
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: not bring rest or relief. There were no vacations. There's
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: only daily pressure over the rising grocery bills. And how
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: do we keep our children fed? As we settle back
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: into the routines, the reality has not changed. In fact,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: for many neighbors, the reality is becoming more difficult. Feeding
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: America's newly released Map the Meal Gap shows food insecurity
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: continues to touch every community in our country and across
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: coastal South Carolina. The numbers are especially sobering. An estimated 246,000
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: people in 10 coastal communities or counties experience food insecurity
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: up from 204,000. two years ago. So we've added another 42,000
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: people with food insecurities and 62,000 of them are children. Now,
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: my question that maybe I'm ignorant on is I thought
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: that we provided free food at pretty much every school
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina now, that there's a breakfast and a
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: lunch available and that many of these, especially in the
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: lower income districts, offer that throughout the summer. Yes. On
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: top of that, we do have SNAP and we offer,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: so the parents should be getting food assistance that way
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: as well. So why are there all these people who
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: are starving?
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I'm not sure what prompted him
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: to write this editorial. And I don't know what changing
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: the season has to do with it. I I mean,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: I think during the school year, kids are even better
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: provided for than they were during the summer. Yeah, they did.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: They they get meals at a lot of these, especially,
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: as you mentioned, the lower income districts during the summertime.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: But I think we're providing for our kids even more
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: once they get into the school routine.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: And then he drags in the SNAP is changing. The
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: new federal work requirements take effect this year, expanding the
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: age range subject to certain requirements and narrowing some exemptions
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: with significant implications for the neighbors with disabilities and older adults.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: That's an out-and-out lie. If you have a disability, you're
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: not in this. If you are somebody who is not
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: having a disability, it said able-bodied. If you're an able-bodied
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: person who is choosing to not work, you're going to
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: need to provide at least 40 hours, I think a
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: month of volunteer work and or showing that you're training
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: for a job of some kind.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Got to be pitching in.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Exactly. You have to somehow be trying to contribute to society.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: You can't just keep sucking all day every day. So I...
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: This whole idea that children aren't being fed, this is
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: the oldest argument in the book. Because we are a
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: kind-hearted people who want our children taken care of. We
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: were talking about that earlier. The fact that Americans love
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: their kids and will do anything they can to protect
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: their children, and that's why with the FBI warning that
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: we were talking about earlier, that is raising all kinds
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: of alarms. But I don't believe, and again, if I'm ignorant,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: if you are aware of a child that is starving
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: to death in South Carolina, please bring them forward. I
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: will pay for their lunch and dinners. I mean, this
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: is crazy to me to think that we have children
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: that are starving to death In South Carolina. Now, do
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: we have children who are obesity, that are maybe malnourished
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: and overweight? Yes. I believe that is a legitimate concern,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: but not that they're starving to death, that they're eating
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: processed foods to death. I believe that is far more
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: likely than that they don't have access to a sandwich and,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: you know, some sort of hot meal. But maybe I'm ignorant.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: So I preface it by saying that if there's if
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: you know of a child that is starving to death
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina, please let me know. I will personally
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: pay for their lunch and dinners moving forward. Christopher, anything
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: you'd like to add to that?
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we just started with a free breakfast
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: this year. That's that just passed in the latest state budget,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: I believe. Yeah, it started with the 2026, 27 school year.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: It's like these food deserts that they continue to bring up,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: and yet every study shows that it's not the food deserts.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: You could actually put free vegetables and meats and chickens
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: and those types of things into those communities, and they have,
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: and nobody goes to them. They don't want that. So
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: if they don't want it, you can't force them to
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: eat it. The reason that it's considered a food desert
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: is because the stores sell what the people want. If
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: the people want that stuff... They will pay for it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: If they don't want that stuff, they'll pay for the
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: stuff that they want.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: Soda and chips and chicken nuggets and all the stuff that, yeah.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Correct. Correct.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: And that's how capitalism works, which maybe I might've just
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: stumbled upon something.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, here we go.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's why the DSA doesn't want you to have
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: choice or to own it. They're going to just feed
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: you the healthy stuff. I don't think so, although Michelle
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Obama tried that with the school lunches. That went horrible
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: for her. All right. Thoughts on any of these stories
• 47:31
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• 47:36
  Speaker 3: It is 740.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: So on Friday, Darlene Graham accepted the SCETV invitation for
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: a debate. That's going to happen on October 11th with
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews. My question is, why does Annie Andrews still
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: have her debate me Darlene clock up? And it's still running.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: It's now 35 seconds, 36 seconds. It just keeps counting
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: how long it's been. Time passed since Dr. Annie Andrews
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: requested a debate and the.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Clock is ticking now wouldn't it have ended on friday
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: you would think so or maybe she's just going to
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: go to october 11th when it actually happens maybe maybe
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: uh darling graham could set up a clock right now
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: saying when will when will annie debate me and then
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: we'll have like a 30-day window here where she's running
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: a clock.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Well if you read under the clock it says dr
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: annie andrews challenged darling graham to commit to three televised
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: debates so i guess she's waiting for the other two.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Well, now, wouldn't that be technically impossible because gray media
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: has put in a, what do they call it?
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: A non-compete?
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Non-compete. So if you debate on their network, you can't
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: debate anywhere else. I guess that's probably why SCETV got
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: this one first. Then they could if the Graham campaign
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: feels like, because again, right now, by the way, Annie
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Andrews has legit zero chance at this point. She's underwater
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: by about eight points at this point. So there's no
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: way she can win this race unless there is a
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: major flub. So as long as Darlene shows up and
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: doesn't totally butcher this thing, it's a wrap. You're never
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: going to see her again. It will just be campaign,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: you know, on autopilot because Annie Andrews, unfortunately for Annie Andrews,
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: there's too much of her being out there saying, I'm
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: I want to make sure that trans kids when they're
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: 12 can get puberty blockers. I don't think that puberty
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: is a healthy thing. And I'm a doctor. I know
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: you're a nut job. If you don't think the kids
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: should go through puberty, legit nut job. Everybody thinks that.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: So you're not going to win. And by the way,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: your entire party has gone lunatic. And if we were
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: to vote for you, even if you were a moderate
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: that you pretend to be, it doesn't matter because again,
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: you're now putting people like Bernie Sanders in charge of
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: all the committees after this. So no, you're not going
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: to win unless there's somehow a massive error. I don't
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: think she's going to make a massive error. I think
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: it's a one and done here. But if there was
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: another one, there couldn't be three because if they did
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: it on great TV, great TV, won't allow them to
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: go on any other ones.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: So unless they did somewhere else, like the post and
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: courier second, and then did gray media third, and.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: Then promise we're not going to do any more after that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, Christopher, you're good at finding loopholes. We'll
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: take a break and be back with more at seven 48.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: I was looking at this story as a, how the
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Murdoch trial getting ready to come to Sumter. And they're saying, um,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: You know, one of the questions was, what about like
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: hotel rooms? So I looked it up. There's about 20
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: hotels in and around Sumter. And then I remember, well,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: how many hotels were there in Walterboro? Like 10. So
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: that shouldn't be a concern, although some people are trying
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: to make a big deal out of that. Alex McDowell,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: local bartender, says that the community is eager to showcase
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: its hospitality next year on the national stage. I thought
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: it was crazy that they were going to come to
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: such a small town like Sumter. I feel like we're
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: not exactly on the map. So this is great to
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: be considered for them to come here and do this.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: They're treating this like it's a fair, like they won
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: the College World Series or something like there's going to be.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, there are plenty of business opportunities. We mentioned,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, food trucks boomed down in Collin and County
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: during that trial because there weren't enough restaurants to, you know,
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: to feed everyone from court staff to all the lawyers
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: to all the people who just came to sit around
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: and watch.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is going to be a ton of people coming.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out who this guy with the
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: last name of Wes is. It says, this is good
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: for Sumter, says Wes, a resident of 30 years. Sumter
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: doesn't get much publicity like this. Not good publicity anyway.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: We get a lot of bad publicity. So yeah, this
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: is good. I mean, I don't know that this is
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: good publicity. This is a murder trial. But as far
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: as Sumter, I guess it's an opportunity. And so they're
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: trying to make the most of it as well they should.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: And they've got about a year to get ready for it.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Although I know there's a November trial. I think that's
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: in Lexington. That's just kind of a pre-trial type of thing.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: So next spring during the Masters. So I know here
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: in the Columbia area, we get a lot of people
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: staying in our hotels and bed and breakfasts or whatever,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: as they get ready to go down to Augusta, maybe
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: a lot less in Sumter for that. Yeah.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: They said the first week of the trial will mainly be,
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: you know, dealing with, you know, pretrial issues and picking
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: the jury and everything else.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: So it won't be at full capacity until the week after. Ah, well,
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: the national media will certainly be there on mass. So
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: get ready Sumter. Okay. It is seven 54 back with
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: more on South Carolina's morning news in just a minute.
• 52:52
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• 52:57
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• 53:07
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm in a very nuanced position, Christopher,
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: where some people might not like what I'm saying, but
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: I feel like it has to be said. I fully support,
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: fully support The president's agenda. I get frustrated with the
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: president's communication. So we heard on the top of the
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: hour with Fox News some of the things that he said,
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: and we addressed one of them earlier in the show
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: regarding his, I don't want to call it flippant, but
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: it did feel kind of flippant, his response to the
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: reporter saying, you know, AI could end the world according
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: to those developing it. What do you say? It's going
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: to be a lot better. It's going to be more
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: good than bad. I wish he would address it more seriously.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: I thought the tech czar from the White House had
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: the best response. He said, look, don't look to us
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: if you want to make AI safer. Get to it.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: The other thing that they didn't report on that he
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: also said on Air Force One yesterday was regarding the Chinese.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: So we're getting right. We're just 10 days away from
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Xi Jinping coming and visiting the White House. So I
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: understand Donald Trump doesn't want to rattle this. too much. But,
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: you know, he's been presented with proof, and I'm reading
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: this in Fox News now, that the Chinese took satellite
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: imagery of our air base in Jordan and shared it
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: with Iran, which then used it to target it with
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: a missile attack, which killed three. When asked, you know,
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: about that, he said, you know what they say, the
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Chinese spy on us. I say you're right, and we
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: spy on them too. Trump said that Xi has behaved
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: reasonably well, and we behave reasonably well. Officials described it
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: as the clearest evidence that support the Chinese entities for
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Iran during the war has had deadly consequences for American forces. Look,
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Trump is a master showman, and when I say that,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: Go back and look at the stories of him acting
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: as his own press secretary back in the day when
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: the reporters would call his office, and I forget the
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: fake name that he was using, but he would talk
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: about how all these women were trying to sleep with
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: him and all this sort of stuff. I mean, that's recorded,
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  Speaker 3: documentable history. He understands how to play the game better
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: than anyone in history, probably.
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: But.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: The game needs to be played right now. I don't
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: care about Xi Jinping. You could call him behind closed doors.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: You can call him right now. I wouldn't know about
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: that phone call. And you could say, look, I'm going
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: to say some really brutal things about you, but I
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: have to say it for our people. And then come
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: on out and say, this son of a, are you
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: kidding me? They shared that information and it led to
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: the death of American forces. I am going to punish
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  Speaker 3: the Chinese like no one's ever seen before. You've got
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: to at least say it. Yeah. You can't just be, ah,
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: they do it, we do it, everybody does it. That
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: does not get it done, that communication style. And again,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: I completely understand that you're trying to work out a
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: deal with China and you don't want to rattle it,
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: but you got to let him know, hey, we know
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: about this, or at least it's being reported this way.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: If you want to push back on it, show us
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: that you didn't share it somehow, that'd be fine too.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: But either way, I'm coming out very strongly against you
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: publicly before our meeting and But just understand, I have
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: to say that because right now there's people like me going,
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: are you kidding me? U.S. forces died because they shared
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: a satellite information with Iran and that led to the
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: death of American forces. And you're like, well, they're behaving
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: pretty well. That infuriates me.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: Wrong message to send. And yeah, you've got to say
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: something publicly. Otherwise, it looks like you're not backing our military.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Exactly. And I know that he does. Sure. That's
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: the thing. I know that Trump does, but it's his
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: communication style that is frustrating me. It's not his policies,
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: per se. It's his actual communication. If you agree with him, though,
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: if you think that this is a priority, the deal
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: with the Chinese, and so we're not going to rattle
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: the apple cart and just kind of give him a
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: pass on this, let me know. Or if you'd like
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: to actually see us take some sort of active measure
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: against the Chinese because of this. That'd be interesting to
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: hear as well. What kind of actions would you like
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: to see? Certain sanctions? Certainly, I don't imagine a military strike,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: but perhaps maybe some of you are into that. I
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: don't know. Let me know. Use the talkback feature on
• 57:49
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• 57:52
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: Climate change update at 8.12. Good morning. The Atlantic hurricane
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: season is one for the record books, according to WIS.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: It's been 103 days. Since the hurricane season started and
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: not one hurricane has formed. This is a new record
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: since they started keeping track in 1966. So it's... That's
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: good news, right? That is good news. And I would
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: point out that they're saying it's because of El Nino.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: And the strong El Nino wind shear effect is what
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: stopped these hurricanes from getting started. We had been told
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: that as the earth warms, we were going to get
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: more vicious and more frequent hurricanes. The fact that we
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: have none would seem to disprove their claim, although they
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: will not let that go. I'm looking at the BBC,
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: who's talking about the fact that, like they point back
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: to Hurricane Katrina, it would have been 60% less had
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: those conditions happened in 1900 instead of 2005 because of
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: the climate conditions that they estimate was happening in 1900. Although,
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: what kind of data did they have from 1900? I'll
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: also point out that they say that right now, again,
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: this is the BBC, that they have medium confidence that
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: that the human beings' activities on Earth have contributed at
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: all to climate change. Medium confidence. I would say, if
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: you just look at the historical data, I don't know
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: how that could possibly be. When you look at the
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: formation of glaciers, first off, at one point, 25,000 years
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: ago or so, the entire Earth was so warm that
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: we had no glaciers and the whole Earth was covered
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: with water. There was no human activity that was contributing
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: to that. Then, for some reason, we formed massive glaciers,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: which sucked an estimated 50 million cubic miles of water
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: out of the ocean, which dropped the sea levels by
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: more than 400 feet, which is why we have Red
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: Bank here in South Carolina. where they have like seashells
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: and stuff. That's what, 100 plus miles inland? That's where
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: the water was at one point. We've got whale bones
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: on top of mountains. So we know that the earth
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: freezes and then completely liquefies in a constant state. They
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: believe this has happened at least three times. Not in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: our lifetimes. It happens slowly. It happens over time. It
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: is warmer now than it was in the 60s. But
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: is it being done by human beings? I mean, again,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: if it's been happening for all of history, why would
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: we think that we're the ones contributing to it? As
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: George Carlin used to say, you sure do got a
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: big ego to think that you're doing that.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: Well, you don't have to worry about using hairspray anymore, Kelly.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: That my Aquanet.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: We threw out all that stuff, all the, what was it,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: the chloroform, what was it, the carbon fluoro, whatever that
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: was back in the day. We ended all that and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: supposedly that was going to help the ozone layer.
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  Speaker 3: And Christopher, you're perhaps as old as I am in
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: the sense that in the early 1970s, I remember going
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: to school and reading my weekly daily reader, the weekly
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: reader that used to come out. I don't imagine they
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: still have those. I don't think so. But I was
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: scared to crap. I remember that's like one of those
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: moments where you read something and you're like, you kind
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: of remember where you were when you read it. I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: remember being in first grade and reading that the earth
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: was cooling. And they said that we're about to enter
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: a global freeze. That is what the scientists were saying
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: at the time. Clearly, they were wrong. But that was
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: the science of the day, that we are going to,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: because of the same reasons, human beings are driving. And
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: I think that the idea was that we were putting
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: so much smog into the air that we were blocking
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: the sun and that we were going to freeze the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: ozone out or whatever. And then the sun would not
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: have access to warm the earth. And we were all
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: going to die of being frozen. Now we're going to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: melt and we're going to drown.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: We're blowing out the ozone layer.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: The earth is going to earth. I don't know how
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: many ways to say it. The earth has been earthing
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: since the earth got here. So anyway, it's just congratulations
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  Speaker 3: to us on having zero named hurricanes and breaking a
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  Speaker 3: record this year.
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  Speaker 4: We'll take that.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. It is 817.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 1:02:39
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• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: It was interesting over the weekend to see some of the...
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: coverage legitimately debating the $ 5, 000 Trump idea. By the way,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: I'm Kelly Nash. That's Christopher Thompson. And in case you
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: missed it last week, Donald Trump floated the idea that
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: if the Republicans were to win both the Senate and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: the House, he would send out a check for $ 5, 000
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: to everyone who's an adult. So whether you voted for
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: him or not, if the Republicans win, you win. That
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: was the way he positioned it. Obviously, a lot of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: people are looking at it as a bribe or a
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: potential bribe to get you to vote Republican, which is
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: online with the– excuse me, the Democrats' floating ideas of
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: you can get free health care, which is a lot
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: more expensive, by the way, than what the $ 5, 000 check
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: would be. It would cost an estimated, according to the CBO, $ 1. 2
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: trillion if this was enacted. which is, I want to say,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: on par with the disastrous Inflation Reduction Act, which cost $ 1. 9 trillion.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: Some of that was like energy tax credits and other things.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: But whenever you flood the market with cash or the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: availability of cash, that weakens the purchasing power of a dollar.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: So your money is worth less when there's more money
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: in the market. So, oh. Again, I said I don't
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: think that there's any chance of this happening. Trump apparently
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: was surprised to find out that Congress would have to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: approve this. I don't know that he remembers that he
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: was able to get approval for the 1776– what do
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: they call it? The Warrior Dividend? That was approved by Congress.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: Mike Johnson yesterday saying that he– like the fact that
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: Trump thinks out of the box and has some creative
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: ideas and that he would, if the Republicans were to
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: win both the House and the Senate, then he'd be
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: more than happy to take this up and see if
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: they could make that happen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What else is he going to say at this point?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, you got to go along with the president,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: especially in a midterm election year.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Now, could this come down to the promises made,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: not promises kept? Possibly. Could it actually be a promise made,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: promise kept? I would say not likely, but still possible.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: I would not like to see it that way. We
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: had a talk back on Friday from a young lady
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: who I thought she was very wise, and she suggested
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: that if it was to be done, that they should
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: roll out those $ 5, 000 checks, possibly by, you know, just
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: individuals getting them earlier than rather than later, which I
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: don't know that that's possible because then some people would
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: say discriminatory or perhaps do it in like, you know,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: $ 500 increments over like a 10 month period. So you're
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: not flooding the market with cash all at one time
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: that would quite possibly keep inflation low. Um, but I, I, again,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: the chances of them winning both the house and the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: Senate is pretty low at this point.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, There are way too many Republicans who
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: have come out in the last three or four days
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: who are against this plan. So I don't know that
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: it's going to pass, even if Republicans were to win
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  Speaker 4: both houses.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see. I mean, that's one of those things where
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: it'd be a nice problem to have. Yeah, that would
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: be a wonderful problem to have. And again, we mentioned
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: it before Mike Johnson mentioned it. He is an out
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: of the box thinker. Donald Trump approaches problems like nobody
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: we've ever had in office before. He just says, I
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: don't care how you used to do it. That's not
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: how we're going to do it now. And sometimes that
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: goes great and sometimes not so great. Some of the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: things that like talking about not being able to use
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: the post office because it's a federal agency, if you're
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: not going to clear with us your voter rolls, you
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: shouldn't have access to a federal agency in order to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: use it for a state election. That was blocked yesterday
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: in federal court. But I like that idea. That's out
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: of the box thinking. I agree with Donald Trump on
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: that issue 100 percent. But On this one, maybe not
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: so much with the agreement, but let's see what you think.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: Use the talkback feature. Maybe you've got more ideas like
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: that young lady did last week. It is 827.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: So Bill Clinton in CYA mode, blaming the CIA. So
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: on Friday after we got off the air, The CIA
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: released the daily presidential briefings. They released 71 of them.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: The oldest goes back to December of 1998. And in that, ironically,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: they were talking in that presidential daily briefing of December
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: of 1998 about how Osama bin Laden, according to their
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: sources inside the al-Qaeda group, had successfully worked their way
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: past airport security with weapons to get onto planes. It
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: was a dry run. That was a December 4th, 1998
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: daily briefing. And if we had implemented the changes that
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: we made within weeks of September 11th, we could have
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: implemented them in 1999. 2000, 2001. At any point, we
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: could have implemented those changes. It would have at least
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: made them change their plans. You couldn't bring the box
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: cutters onto the plane. But we didn't. We did it
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: right after it happened. Bill Clinton, talking over the weekend, said, quote,
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  Speaker 3: I was watching television in Australia when that second plane
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: hit and I immediately said, Osama bin Laden did this. Well, yeah,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: you knew that because for every presidential daily briefing was
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: talking about how Osama bin Laden wanted to use aircraft
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: to strike Americans at the heart, whether it was in
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: DC or in New York or other places.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they had already tried to bomb the World Trade
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: Center back in 93. And yes, that.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: Was before they flipped to the airplane plan. Then they
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: bombed the U.S. coal as well. But he's blaming the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: CIA now. And says that they had a CIA plan
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: to kill bin Laden, but the CIA abandoned it after
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: CIA leadership concluded that if we failed, we may end
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: up killing a bunch of civilians in Afghanistan. And that
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: would be too much blowback for the country to handle. Okay.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: I mean... The fact that you didn't want to take
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: any– the fact that you knew and that this was
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: the plan and that they were already running dry runs
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: three years before it happened shows how patient they are,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: how adamant they were, and the fact that we could
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: have stopped it. We could have stopped it had we
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: just implemented the very same changes that we implemented within
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: weeks of September 11th. We could have implemented them at
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: any point and prevented– I don't want to say– that
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: exact scenario would have not happened. It wouldn't have been
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: impossible for them to have done what they did in
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: that manner. Now, they may have found a different way
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: through security and all that other stuff, but they couldn't
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: have done it that way. And I'll point out, since
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: we implemented those changes, we had the one guy with
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: the shoe bomb, and that changed how we had to
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: go take your shoes off. But other than that, there
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: hasn't been a whole lot going on with the al-Qaeda kids.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: I'm just thinking here, if they had known that, even
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: if they didn't want to go through with changes in
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: airport security, because there would have been backlash. Let's face facts.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: None of us like to do the things we have
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 4: to do now to get through airport security. We would
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: have probably balked at that point, even if I'm sure
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: they wouldn't have shared all that information with us. They
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have told us that we were at risk. of
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: a terrorist using an airliner, but they would have had
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: to have said something. All right, here's what we're going
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: to have to do from here on out. You can't
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: park at the gate anymore. You can't do this. You
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: can't walk through, you know, with everything in your pockets,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: et cetera. Even if we didn't implement all those airport
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: security features, wouldn't we have at least shored up these
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: flight schools that the terrorists used to gain the knowledge
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: to fly? I mean, because they did this on our shores.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: Once they figured out how to get into the cockpit,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: They said, okay, now we need pilots. And so they
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: trained on our very shores.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, for those of you who are not
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: over the age of, say, 40, you might not be
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: aware of what Christopher's referencing, the idea that a lot
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: of our intelligence agencies didn't share information with each other
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: back then, and we changed all that. Now, I hate
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: the Patriot Act, by the way. I hated it the
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: second I heard it floated. But part of that is good,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: that they do share this information. And nonsensical that they
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: weren't sharing the information previously that they were so whatever
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: mission focused that we can't even share it with other
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: agencies inside the United States. Again, I, I'd like to
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: think that if the Amer, if, if Tom Brokaw, whoever
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: the big, who are the big guys back then he
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: had Brokaw was Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, you know,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: one of the, and then he just said, you know,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: us intelligence agencies have discovered a plan to use us
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: airlines to in terrorist activities. And so beginning, we didn't
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: even have a TSA yet, did we? So we would
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: have said, you know, oh, and by the way, we
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: also used to allow the airports to run it. Now
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: it's a federal thing. Previously, it was not. They could
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: have announced the launching of a federal agency to protect
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: Americans at the airport, and they will be implementing a
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: number of changes over the upcoming months in order to
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: ensure all of us will be safe moving forward. Yes,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: you're right. There would have been blowback. but I don't
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: think it would have caused like mass hysteria where nobody's
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: going to ride the airlines anymore. We're riding them again.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, we were riding them within a week or
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  Speaker 3: two of September 11th. People started getting back on planes.
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  Speaker 3: Although funny side note, when I was working for universal
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  Speaker 3: records on September 11th and September 12th, September 12th, I
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  Speaker 3: had one of my bosses in Los Angeles call me
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  Speaker 3: and ask me why I wasn't going to Atlanta that day.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, do you know where at war?
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  Speaker 3: And there's, there's no airlines. He's like, I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: can't use that as an excuse, Kelly. Jeez. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I suppose I could try to drive to Atlanta, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the guy wants to take a meeting
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  Speaker 3: with me today. I think he's just going to take
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  Speaker 3: the day off.
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  Speaker 6: What a sympathetic boss you had. Yeah, we had some
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  Speaker 6: crazy bosses back then. But anyway, what do you think?
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  Speaker 6: Did the United States completely blow that going back? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: did you read through those presidential briefings that, again, the
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  Speaker 6: CIA declassified in October? to coincide with the 25th anniversary
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  Speaker 6: of September 11th. I read through a bunch of them,
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  Speaker 6: and I was stunned to see what our intelligence agencies
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  Speaker 6: were reporting back to the president, plural, because Bush had
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  Speaker 6: some of these as.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and we didn't do anything to prevent it. But
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  Speaker 3: that's where I'm at. Where are you at? Use the
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  Speaker 3: Talkback feature. It's 839.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: So I love engaging with people on social media. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: there are people who listen to the show and love
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  Speaker 3: this type of content. Oftentimes it's people who hate this
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: type of content. Uh, I shared yesterday on social media, quote,
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  Speaker 3: I have sacrificed myself like Jesus. These are the words
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  Speaker 3: of Shelly Heaton, North Carolina Democrat running in the second house, uh,
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  Speaker 3: district up there. Uh, called for Trump supporters to be
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  Speaker 3: put in concentration camps. And that led to her losing
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  Speaker 3: the support of her party in the race. So she
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  Speaker 3: is still the nominee up there, but the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 3: is distancing themselves from her because, again, she wants Trump
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  Speaker 3: supporters put in concentration camps. The Republican Party also found
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  Speaker 3: other previous comments that she had posted, including things like,
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  Speaker 3: I think America is beyond peaceful protest. And another one,
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  Speaker 3: she wanted.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is really disgusting. She said that I
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  Speaker 3: am praying for another country to attack, specifically the southern
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  Speaker 3: states like Alabama, Louisiana, where all the stupid people live.
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  Speaker 4: And she's in North Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. OK, that's where the smart people apparently South Carolina's dumb.
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina's smart, according to her. But, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: funny how many people wanted to chime in. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how I end up with all these people
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  Speaker 3: who are liberals following me on Facebook and X. But
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate your your participation. And I would, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I love it when the conservatives participate as well at
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  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash Radio. But many of them are trying to
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  Speaker 3: compare her to Donald Trump like this, like this fellow
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  Speaker 3: right here. she now has lost the Democrat support, which
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  Speaker 3: she should have. Now do Trump, where he continues to
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  Speaker 3: try to sell his USA Bibles and at one time
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  Speaker 3: called himself the Messiah. And then in 2020 had a
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  Speaker 3: Bible photo op. And I said, did you forget the
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  Speaker 3: part where Trump said that Biden followers should be sent
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  Speaker 3: in concentration camps and called for a foreign nation to
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  Speaker 3: attack us? Oh, that's right. He didn't say any of
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  Speaker 3: those things. I mean, it is nowhere near the same.
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  Speaker 3: And if you find Donald Trump distasteful personally because of
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is that he's doing to promote himself and
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  Speaker 3: or sell things or whatever, that's one thing. But somebody
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  Speaker 3: who clearly hates American conservatives, that's a different thing when
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  Speaker 3: you're calling for our imprisonment and or death. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I think that the Democrat Party in North Carolina did
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  Speaker 3: the right thing. Yeah, absolutely. Very thankful.
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  Speaker 4: Too late to take her name off the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: She's going to keep fighting. Yeah. She's now fighting the Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: I guess she's not a DSA member. explicitly, unlike that
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  Speaker 3: girl in New Hampshire. If you haven't seen that video,
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty funny. The lady who came in second in
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  Speaker 3: the New Hampshire primary, she did sign up and is
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  Speaker 3: a DSA member. And when, uh, uh, what's her name
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  Speaker 3: that Nora, I can't remember her name. The lady from
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  Speaker 3: NBC news kept asking her, but you are a DSA.
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  Speaker 3: You're a Democrat socialist, correct? And she was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just a mom. I'm just a mom who wants the
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  Speaker 3: best for America. And then she went back to it
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  Speaker 3: and she said, but you are a member of the DSA.
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  Speaker 3: And she goes, I'm actually a scientist. I'm a scientist.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, does she think the DSA stood for
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat scientists of America? Is that why she signed
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  Speaker 3: up for it? It's not like you have to be
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  Speaker 3: a DSA member for free. You actually have to work
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  Speaker 3: at it. But anyway, she did lose her primary race.
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  Speaker 3: So that's good news for America. Whenever a DSA member
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  Speaker 3: loses anything, that's good for America. And then we just
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  Speaker 3: have to deal with the Regular leftist loons. Regular leftist loons.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll be back in just a minute. It
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  Speaker 3: All right. Putting a little bow on it as we
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  Speaker 3: march into a Monday. Thank you for letting us know
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  Speaker 3: we are now getting into real college football this week
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  Speaker 3: for both Clemson and South Carolina. Both are favorited to
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  Speaker 3: win at home this week.
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  Speaker 4: Conference play starts and that's that's when it ramps up
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  Speaker 4: a little bit yeah we had the alabama kentucky game
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  Speaker 4: last week but this is a first real weekend of
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  Speaker 4: scc football for gamecock fans are certainly going to keep
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  Speaker 4: an eye on what happens in the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: conference and then yeah clemson's i mean a change of
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  Speaker 4: quarterback going into this week's game against unc the good
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  Speaker 4: news for both fan bases after weather delays last week
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  Speaker 4: the weather looks gorgeous for the upcoming weekend.
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  Speaker 3: A lot can change. It's kind of like an election.
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  Speaker 3: A lot can change between now and then. All right,
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  Speaker 3: right now. But at this moment, it's looking pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm knocking on wood here.
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  Speaker 3: That was a very bizarre squall that we got Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: That thing just came out of nowhere. For those of
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  Speaker 3: you who were at Williams-Brice Stadium, it went from just
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: a couple of trickles there to it was like 80-mile-an-hour winds,
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  Speaker 3: it felt like.
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  Speaker 4: I have never seen it. Luckily, I was behind the glass,
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  Speaker 4: but I've never seen rain swirl all the way around
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  Speaker 4: Williams-Brice the way it did on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: The student section was cheering.
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  Speaker 4: They wanted more.
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  Speaker 3: Those kids are crazy. That's why we love them. We
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  Speaker 3: love the student section. We love the student section. They're
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  Speaker 3: wonderful people.
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  Speaker 4: And Clemson had that two-hour delay.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they were cheering that.
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  Speaker 4: That makes for a late night, especially when you're trying
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  Speaker 4: to drive those back roads to get home.
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  Speaker 3: I like Dabo took the take that, you know, at
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  Speaker 3: least we're trying to prepare for our game against Cal
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  Speaker 3: because that's two games in a row. We started at
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  Speaker 3: nine 30 at night. Uh, but yeah, I know a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people will be doing talking smack as we
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: head into this first real battle for most, for both
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  Speaker 3: of our local teams. Um, exciting times, college football's back. Unfortunately, Panthers, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Had no defense, apparently. So they got a great offense,
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  Speaker 3: but they need a better defense.
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  Speaker 4: And a few less turnovers, too.
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  Speaker 3: That would certainly help. All right, y'all. Have a great Monday.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you tomorrow after 6.