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Show Rewind 10-27-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and back at it. Good morning, Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: You're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a pretty good night's sleep. According to
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  Speaker 2: where one of those things called, whoop, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: how you pronounce it, the little wrist thing there.
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  Speaker 3: There it is.
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  Speaker 2: And it said that I got about four hours of
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  Speaker 2: what they would call the restorative sleep. If I get
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  Speaker 2: four hours, I'm good. I've been averaging about three to
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  Speaker 2: three and a half, and that's why I have not
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  Speaker 2: been bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. But now I'm back.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that makes one of us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Were you up watching the World Series?
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  Speaker 3: I was up for a little while watching some sports, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of flipping back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: You and your sports.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Gosh, I did not see any of the
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  Speaker 2: World Series so far, except for the Czech swing from
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  Speaker 2: the other night that ended, was that game three, I guess?
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  Speaker 2: Or no, game two. Last night, my gosh, I just
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  Speaker 2: heard in the top of the hour update, 10-1?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you better tune in tonight or it may be over.
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  Speaker 2: Has there been a bigger beatdown in a recent World
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  Speaker 2: Series than 10-1? I'd have to think. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, one more and they 10-runned them. They'd have
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  Speaker 2: to end the game.
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  Speaker 3: They don't do it that way in the pros.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they should. Maybe they should. All right, so big
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  Speaker 2: news yesterday was that Donald Trump announced he's coming back.
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  Speaker 2: He can't get enough of South Carolina. Oh, I love you,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. He's going to be in Rock Hill. I'm
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  Speaker 2: always I mean, maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I
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  Speaker 2: am surprised at how seat of the pants these rallies
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  Speaker 2: are flying by. I mean, we it's happening Thursday and
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  Speaker 2: we don't know where.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how quickly this came together. And you get
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  Speaker 3: the feeling that the president is literally just taking calls
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  Speaker 3: in the Oval Office. Will you come here, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: President?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: And he just gets on the Air Force One and goes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how many how many different rallies did he
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  Speaker 3: make just last weekend alone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. We've never seen anything like this.
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  Speaker 8: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: No one's ever done this. When Trump says it's it's unprecedented.
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  Speaker 2: This is unprecedented. The amount of campaigning he's doing all
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  Speaker 2: over the country. And, you know, interesting, maybe we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about this a little bit more later on, but I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking about it some more. You know, Trump is
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  Speaker 2: polling pretty horribly, I think 39% favorability, which is about
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  Speaker 2: as bad as Obama was in 2014, which is about
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  Speaker 2: as bad as Biden was in 2022. It's about the
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  Speaker 2: similar levels of people just fed up with their president.
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  Speaker 2: I think that what Trump's message, though, of vote as
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  Speaker 2: if I'm on the ballot, while the mainstream of America goes,
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  Speaker 2: what an idiot. Why would you say that? Nobody likes you.
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  Speaker 2: The MAGA base, again, some of the MAGA base has eroded.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the way I'm looking at it. If
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to be objective, if he was to
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  Speaker 2: get 75% of the people who voted for him to
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  Speaker 2: come out and vote for his candidates, they roll.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the point, is just getting them to come out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just 75%. We don't need 100% of MAGA. We
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  Speaker 2: need 75% of the people who voted for Trump in
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  Speaker 2: the last three elections, basically. If 75% of them take
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  Speaker 2: him up on his offer and vote as if he's
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot, they're going to crush it in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to crush it in Ohio. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: crush it in Michigan. They're going to crush it in Maine.
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina would crush it. And, you know, all the
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  Speaker 2: states that you're worried about, and he would probably, and
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  Speaker 2: it definitely went in Maine, definitely went in Alaska. All
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  Speaker 2: of those things go away if 75% of MAGA shows up.
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  Speaker 2: But the concern is that they're not. That's why when
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  Speaker 2: you look at where he's doing his campaign rallies, he's
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  Speaker 2: not coming to the Midlands. He doesn't, he knows that
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  Speaker 2: the Midlands is not his base. His base is the upstate.
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  Speaker 2: And so you got Rock Hill and, Clemson, basically, were
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  Speaker 2: the two rally spots. He wants to get those people
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  Speaker 2: to the polls. He would like y'all to go, too,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not about us. The numbers game says they're
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  Speaker 2: all in the upstate.
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  Speaker 3: Rock Hill is Ralph Norman country.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that was considered strongly before the president made
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  Speaker 3: his choice.
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  Speaker 2: Quite possibly.
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  Speaker 3: Quite possibly so.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed when I, uh, cause the, I got the
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  Speaker 2: email yesterday. And so I was trying to, uh, quickly
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  Speaker 2: turn that into a tweet and get it up on
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  Speaker 2: social media. And I was, I personally was not hammered,
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  Speaker 2: but the tweet, uh, and on both Facebook and, um,
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  Speaker 2: X both got numbers of right in Ralph, right in Ralph.
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  Speaker 2: Like one lady said something like, you thought we were playing.
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  Speaker 2: We're not playing right in Ralph.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So that group is very adamant about staying the course,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. Speaking of staying the course, Wall Street
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  Speaker 2: Journal opinion piece came out yesterday afternoon. I responded to
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  Speaker 2: it at length on my national briefing podcast, which you
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  Speaker 2: can hear on the iHeartRadio app, and you spell Nash
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  Speaker 2: like my name, N-A-S-H, national briefing. But we'll delve into
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit later on today. We've got... I'm
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  Speaker 2: just trying to think of some of the other stories
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at the, the new polls coming out
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  Speaker 2: on Darlene and Andy yesterday. We got some endorsement news yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot happening in McMaster and the
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  Speaker 2: white house are doing something together here in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: We can talk about that. So many other things. Plus
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  Speaker 2: we love it. When you chime in, whether you do
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  Speaker 2: it on social media at Kelly Nash radio, or you
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  Speaker 2: could do it right there on the, I hurt radio up.
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  Speaker 2: That's our favorite way. If you, and again, Please leave
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  Speaker 2: your name if you can. Like, hey, this is Mike
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  Speaker 2: in wherever, and I just wanted to say blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever your blah, blah, blah is, Christopher Thompson and Kelly
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  Speaker 2: Nash want to hear your blah, blah, blah. So we're
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  Speaker 2: standing by for blah, blah, blah-ing. In the meantime, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get your morning started with more South Carolina morning news
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  Speaker 2: in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good news for South Carolina rural hospitals. Yesterday up
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  Speaker 2: at Newberry Health, they had the, I guess he's the,
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  Speaker 2: we've put together a group of private cybersecurity companies who
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  Speaker 2: are working with the White House and the U.S. Department
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  Speaker 2: of Health and Human Services. Chris Klomp came down to
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  Speaker 2: join the state and local officials at Newberry Health to
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  Speaker 2: launch something called Project Lifeline 250, which is going to
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  Speaker 2: be The way it was described, I thought was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Little hospitals facing the same cyber attacks now that major
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  Speaker 2: hospitals get. And they're not prepared for this sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: And we're just a little tiny rural hospital. And yet,
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  Speaker 2: because we have data here, they're trying to hack the systems,
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  Speaker 2: get people's information. They're also trying to deny service, shut down.
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  Speaker 2: And so much of the Just society runs off of
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  Speaker 2: the Internet these days that if you were to lose
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  Speaker 2: the Internet or have it just clomped down like that,
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  Speaker 2: you would be in a bad way. The people there
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  Speaker 2: would be hurting for certain.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we think about these rural hospitals. You think about
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  Speaker 3: doctors walking in with the old-fashioned clipboards and writing down
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  Speaker 3: your symptoms and what your prescription is on a piece
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  Speaker 3: of paper. They've advanced past that. but they don't have
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  Speaker 3: the money to spend on cybersecurity like some of these
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  Speaker 3: bigger hospital chains do.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff Lee Foster from Newberry County said, we share data
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  Speaker 2: to other places that have vital statistics. We're prone to
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  Speaker 2: the same attacks and the same cyber criminals and the
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  Speaker 2: foreign adversaries. And this is a big issue that needs
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  Speaker 2: to be looked into. This is the same as the
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  Speaker 2: major metropolitan areas and the White House National Cyber Director
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  Speaker 2: came down and basically announced, I love the way they
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  Speaker 2: describe it. It's a IT system in a box. And
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  Speaker 2: so if they suffer an attack at one of the
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  Speaker 2: rural hospitals in South Carolina, that within two hours with
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  Speaker 2: these cyber things in a box, they'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: restore the services. Now, again, that'll be a scary two
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  Speaker 2: hours if, but it's a lot better than what we
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  Speaker 2: had been facing, which would be weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's, You know, we think about cybersecurity, we think about
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  Speaker 3: cyber attacks, we think about our data going out to
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  Speaker 3: all these pirates who are online. It's also shutting down
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  Speaker 3: the services of the hospital itself.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: If you watch The Pit, you know, pretty popular hospital
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  Speaker 3: show right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't seen this, Christopher.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you haven't?
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  Speaker 3: You haven't seen The Pit?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't watch a lot of television. So what
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  Speaker 2: is The Pit? Is The Pit on Netflix or where
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  Speaker 2: is that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember. I think so. It's Noah Wiley's show.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The guy who was in ER.
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  Speaker 2: I remember him.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's the chief doctor in this emergency room
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  Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. Anyway, they got shut down this season by
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  Speaker 3: a cyber attack and had to do everything on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And it was, I mean, it showed the tremendous hurdles
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  Speaker 3: because all these hospitals now are so advanced, they're not
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  Speaker 3: used to doing it that way anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's like anything in your life, you know, paying
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  Speaker 2: for gas, the gas station pumps would be shut off.
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  Speaker 2: And then, I mean, it's just everything is now on
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  Speaker 2: the Internet. So we got people like Cisco, Microsoft. There's
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of companies that are coming in to help
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  Speaker 2: with this. And I just think this is a fantastic thing.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Governor McMaster talking about how South Carolina is
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  Speaker 2: the fastest growing state in the country, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: But it comes with some extra problems that we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to deal with and make sure that everybody's safe moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the rural areas where a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: do choose South Carolina for retirement. And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people want to have acreage and they like going out
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  Speaker 2: into the country, so to speak, and buying five acres
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  Speaker 2: or whatever and having a pond in the backyard. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you're not going to be able to go
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  Speaker 2: to a major hospital probably if you're living out on
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  Speaker 2: five acres because your neighbor's got five acres and everybody's
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  Speaker 2: got five acres out there. So you end up in
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  Speaker 2: a smaller hospital and they have been more susceptible to
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  Speaker 2: to these cyber attacks. And so we're addressing that issue.
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  Speaker 2: So I celebrate that, that the White House is looking
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  Speaker 2: into that and taking care of it along with our
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  Speaker 2: state officials, including the governor McMaster. If you've got thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on how dependent we've become on the internet or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that, or you want to talk about, everybody wants
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  Speaker 2: to talk about election polls and stuff. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: maybe a surprising endorsement yesterday. We'll get into that and
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  Speaker 2: others as South Carolina's Morning News rolls on.
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  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Jermaine Johnson is running for governor of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw Saturday for you hip hop fans, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we have a lot of crossover audience with
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  Speaker 2: our hip hop stations here. Charlemagne, the God was on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines at the university of South Carolina football game.
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  Speaker 2: Got a lot of attention. He's a big time. Look,
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  Speaker 2: he is a big time celebrity and he, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Loves his home state of South Carolina. He's investing in
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. He's buying some restaurants, I'm told, down in, like,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's, like, in Monk's Corner, got some restaurants
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  Speaker 2: or something. So, again, Charlemagne the God. I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: the name, by the way, when you call yourself the God.
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  Speaker 2: That seems a bit presumptuous. But anyway, Charlemagne apparently invited
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  Speaker 2: Jermaine Johnson up to New York, it appears, and yesterday
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  Speaker 2: he appeared on The Breakfast Club, I believe securing the
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  Speaker 2: endorsement of Charlemagne to God, whatever that carries with you.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at Jermaine Johnson's endorsements, and to me
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting because it's clear that whoever puts this out
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  Speaker 2: on his website ranks them in order of importance. They
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  Speaker 2: don't go by the alphabetical names. So the number one
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  Speaker 2: endorsement that Jermaine Johnson has right now is Richard Riley,
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  Speaker 2: former governor of South Carolina, and Jim Hodges, the former
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  Speaker 2: governor of South Carolina. His next most important would be
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  Speaker 2: Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky, then Governor Wes Moore, then
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Harrison, the former chair of the DNC, then Jim Clyburn,
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  Speaker 2: then Joe Cunningham, Inez Tenenbaum, former superintendent, James Carville. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean, then we're starting to take some steps back, right?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering, like, you know, if you're somebody like
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  Speaker 2: Katrina Sheely, Who did endorse him.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: She's like listed at like number 60. Like, did that
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  Speaker 2: hurt your feelings? Like I crossed party lines to try
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  Speaker 2: to help. And here I am being, you know, thrown
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  Speaker 2: down here with a bunch of other nobodies.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure it was that big a hurdle for
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  Speaker 3: her to cross party lines.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, the final person listed, this is
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  Speaker 2: the bottom, this is the last one. He has two
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  Speaker 2: at the very end. Albert Butch Saul's mayor of Fairfax
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  Speaker 2: and then Shardell Murray, the mayor of Hollywood. Those are
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  Speaker 2: the last two endorsements. So in case you're wondering, those
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  Speaker 2: people are like, can't come on. I got to move
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  Speaker 2: up and take on Jeff Washington, the mayor of North.
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  Speaker 2: Am I not as important as him? These are these
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  Speaker 2: are the things that people fight over in politics. Those
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  Speaker 2: are those are important things to people. All right, but
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  Speaker 2: the other endorsement that I think everybody's talked about is
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  Speaker 2: on the front page of the Post and Courier. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about that endorsement coming up in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but get your feedback as well. Use the
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  Speaker 2: Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app. Let's take a
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  Speaker 2: break for some bottom-of-the-hour news.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good morning to you. This is Kelly Nash,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson, together for more fun and frivolity on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you're ready for fun and frivolity. These two guys
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  Speaker 2: are certainly ready for some fun and frivolity. Governor of
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 10: Hi, I'm David Beasley, former Republican governor of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 10: You might recognize this guy sitting beside me.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that's because I'm Jim Hodges, the former Democratic governor
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  Speaker 9: of South Carolina. Now, over the years, the two of
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  Speaker 9: us haven't always agreed on everything.
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  Speaker 10: But one thing we do agree on right now is
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  Speaker 10: this country is too divided to And the political rhetoric
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  Speaker 10: has gotten way, way.
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  Speaker 7: Out of hand.
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  Speaker 9: That is why we're coming together today to support Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 10: Annie understands that leadership isn't about making people angrier.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's about making things better.
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  Speaker 2: All right. There you go. Now, Jim Hodges and I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 2: they sound so like, oh, my God, she understands, you know.
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  Speaker 2: David Beasley tells you she understands it's not about making
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  Speaker 2: people angry. It's about making things better. So what specifically
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  Speaker 2: does the former Republican governor of South Carolina think the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are offering that is better? That's all, that's simply,
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  Speaker 2: that is a very basic question, Jim Hodges. That is
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  Speaker 2: a very basic question for David Beasley. Please explain, again,
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  Speaker 2: Jim Hodges, you expect that guy. He's a leftist, right? Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: always has been. David Beasley wraps himself in the Republican cloak.
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  Speaker 2: and says that Annie Andrews has the answers. What are
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  Speaker 2: those answers? He hasn't provided any, by the way. He's
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  Speaker 2: written like 18 op-ed pieces and hasn't mentioned one freaking
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  Speaker 2: policy that actually would do anything other than he is
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  Speaker 2: just like a lib. Libs wrap themselves in emotions. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it depends on which kind of emotion you want. Do
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  Speaker 2: you want the we're going to church and waving our
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  Speaker 2: hands type of emotion, or do you want the type
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  Speaker 2: of emotion that he wants, which is we got to
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  Speaker 2: get back to the good old days where people talk
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  Speaker 2: to people like people and we, you know, neighbors talking
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  Speaker 2: to neighbors. Well, you know what? This neighbor, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: is suggesting that we check your healthcare costs by triple.
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  Speaker 2: You like that idea? Is that a good idea, David?
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  Speaker 2: You like the idea of having more authoritarian policies like
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  Speaker 2: we had under the Democrats before? You like the idea
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  Speaker 2: that they can shut down the schools whenever they want?
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  Speaker 2: Shut down the whole freaking economy? Is that what you like?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the kind of good America you're talking about?
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  Speaker 2: What the flip is this guy talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Well, all right. So I don't think anyone would be
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  Speaker 3: surprised if George W. Bush, for example, went against a
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  Speaker 3: Trump nominee.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. By the way, you saw several Bush family members
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  Speaker 2: have come out and said that they are voting for him.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is more an anti-Trump vote than it
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  Speaker 3: is necessarily an endorsement of Annie Andrews. Although, David Beasley,
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  Speaker 3: not too terribly long ago, was a Democrat. Now he's
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  Speaker 3: stepped away from the Republican Party completely. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's telling you who he is.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Exactly. This guy is telling you who he is. And
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: his endorsement should carry zero weight with anybody who is
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: seriously looking at the issues. If you're looking at the issues,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: this guy is now revealed. He has pulled off the
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I'm a serious politician mask to reveal a clown mask.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: You are a clown, sir. For you to make this
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: statement that you think that in the best interest of
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, we should go left. You're a clown. And again,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: please provide the policies that you believe would are different
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: from than what Darlene Graham or the Republicans are offering,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: that you think those policies are better. Again, you're just
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: talking about emotions. You're talking about feelings and how people
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: talk to each other. And by the way, what has
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham ever said that's controversial? Has Darlene Graham ever
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: ticked off somebody because she was like, you're a loser?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, the things that, like you said, Christopher, he's
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: campaigning against Trump, basically.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Exactly, exactly.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: So Donald Trump says things that tick you off. And
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: so you say- Allegedly, I'm going to assume that at
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: one point you really were a Republican and that you
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: really believed that restricted government, especially at the federal level,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: was in the best interest of freedom and the best
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: interest of the American people and that capitalism works. I'm
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: going to give you that benefit of the doubt. Please
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: explain to me where Darlene Graham is out of step
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: with that. Because she's not. So your answer is shut
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: my mouth. That's what you need to do. Shut your mouth.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: To be fair, though, Beasley's always been more about people
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: than about policies. And, you know, it's that's why he
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: lost reelection.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was wasn't it about the the flag?
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Well, exactly. He wanted to reach across the aisle. He
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: wanted to bridge the gap that was dividing South Carolina
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: at the time. And so he decided in a political
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: move that was criticized later. He decided, all right, I'm
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: going to be the first to say, let's bring the
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: flag down. And it cost him the election. But the
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: flag ultimately came down.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well, David Beasley, you have embarrassed yourself and your party.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: You've embarrassed the state. This is a pathetic attempt to
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: try to sway voters to a leftist position. And again,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: nobody's shocked at Jim Hodges. Nobody. I mean, why? would we?
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what he's supposed to be doing. He is
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: a leftist. You under the guise of I'm a Republican,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I am your former Republican governor and I am saying
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I am giving the credibility to Annie Andrews because she
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: understands that that it's not about making people angrier. What
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: in the flip is Darlene Graham doing to make people angry?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's making me angry because she's not on
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the show, but that's different. I mean, she's not saying
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: anything divisive. She's not out here trying to divide people
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: by race or by gender or by anything. Darlene Graham's
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: policies are very gender race neutral. Lower taxes helps all Americans, period.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: less restrictive federal government, less bureaucracy. Make sure that the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: border is secure. Make sure that the military is strong.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: These are Republican policies for generations, and she is walking
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that line. You may have differences with her as far
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: as her qualifications or whatever, but that's not what you're saying.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: You're saying that she makes people angry. She is the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: divisive one, and Annie Andrews is the great healer. That
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: is a clown position. And I challenge him to call
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: in or email me back. I've posted on his social
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: media before. I'll post on it again. If you've got
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: thoughts on this big breaking endorsement that the Andrews, by
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the way, that's paid for by the Andrews campaign. Just
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: so you know, that's not a freebie. David and Hodges,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they personally collect on that, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: that is the campaign commercial that's being run. So that's
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: paid for by Andrews. If you think about that, let
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: me know what you think about it. I'd love to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: hear about it. We'll take a break, be back with
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: more South Carolina's Morning News.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: AM WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Here in South Carolina, we've had some issues with our
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: prison systems, and we're trying to fix those. And I
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: think we have made some headway in South Carolina. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: that's good news because... The prisons must be safe for
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: not only the prison guards, and we need more of
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: them to make them safer, but also for the prisoners themselves,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: many of whom are not going to be doing life.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Many of them are just there for a few years
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason to try to think about what you did.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: You sit there and you think about what you did,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: but it's hard to do that if somebody's trying to
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: shank me. So I can't really think about what I
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: did if I'm being shanked.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we want them to rehabilitate.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: They can't do that if they're worried about their lives.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: But thank God we're not in Tennessee. I don't know
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: what is going on in Tennessee. We had the botched
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: put down of a lady who had been convicted, what,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: 25 years earlier or so of a heinous, heinous crime.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: And now... This week we hear that a 28 year
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: old convicted murderer serving a life sentence has escaped Sunday
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: night and has stolen a truck. And they have no
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: idea where this guy is. What is going on? They
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: said at about 1130 staff at the Northwest correctional complex
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: learned that Jacob Morley is missing. Uh, they did see
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a video of him stealing a white 2008 F three
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: 50 Tennessee plates at about 1.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: A.M.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Um, That was somewhere about 15 miles outside of the complex.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: So he had walked from the prison to this place
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: 15 miles away, got there a little after 1 o'clock
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: in the morning. And he's not a little man, by
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the way. He's described as 5'11, 240 pounds, and somehow
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: just got through a fence. They don't explain how he
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: breached the fence, but he was wearing his prison-issued uniform. Tennessee,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: my gosh.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Tighten up.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You got to do the tighten up. Now you're making,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: now it's like you're making every state a dangerous state
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: because it's like when Biden was making every state a
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: border state, Tennessee, you got your, you got your people
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: are out of whack and they're now they're probably going
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to be coming to South Carolina. We've got to be
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: on the lookout for this guy. So we're looking for
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: an F three 50 with Tennessee plates and a large
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: man driving it. And that guy is wanted as he's
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: now on America's most wanted list.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: So.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Look out for Jacob. Was it Jacob Morley? Jacob Morley.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Hi there. I'm Kelly Nash. That's Christopher Thompson. Christopher, you're
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the sports guy. Do you watch the Super Bowl halftime shows?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Depends on who's playing. I mean, it's been a while
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: since I've been really invested in one.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Rock Nation, which is Jay-Z's company, was awarded the rights
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: to produce all halftime shows since 2019. Since then, you've
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: had the J-Lo Shakira show, The Weeknd, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Rihanna, Usher,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar. Last year was Bad Bunny. I like the
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: way Bad Bunny's show is described here in CNN. Yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: It was a, what was it? It was a 13-minute
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: rewriting of American history. Yesterday, Jay-Z announced that he himself
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: will now be the halftime show this year. And that's apparently,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: according to Roger Goodell, the only request I ever had,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: that one day he would take the stage himself. So
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Roger Goodell getting his wish.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: He's got that star power.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Do we have any rock stars or country stars in
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: our future? Apparently not. But anyway, I don't watch the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: halftime show, so I don't care.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: So my name is Kelly Nash. That guy's name is
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson. My friend John sent me an op-ed piece
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: that came out yesterday about three o'clock in the Wall
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Street Journal. And the basic premise of the op-ed piece
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: is that The Republican Party would benefit by losing some
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: key races this year, that it would be a benefit
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: to the future Republicans if Tallarico was to lose and if,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: excuse me, Tallarico was to win over Paxton and Vivek
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: would lose. The guy writing the op-ed piece basically making
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the premise that it's the character flaws in the candidates
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of Vivek and Paxton. would be a lesson learned. Really?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: A lesson learned? I'm wondering, what lessons were learned by
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the Democrats in the last few years? Have they learned
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: any lessons? It doesn't seem so. It seems as if
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: they continue to nominate worse and worse candidates. And as
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: far as just the character of Ms. Acton, I would
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: say that whether you agree or disagree with the ad
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: that the Ramaswamy campaign ran, the premise, the claim that
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: her mother is making seems to have been held up
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that Amy Acton claims victimhood constantly in a search for
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: validation and a search for attention. Last month, she claimed
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: that there was an assassination attempt on her life when
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: the police revealed it was he was armed with a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: telephone and he was trying to videotape her. That was
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the assassination attempt. She is a chronic liar who's also,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: according to the op-ed piece written in the Wall Street Journal,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: whose policies are authoritarian. She is an authoritarian. Now, this
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: guy also goes on to make the claim that Donald
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Trump's policies are authoritarian, and I'm not sure where he's
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: going with. But Amy is the lady who led the
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Ohio people to be the first to shut down schools.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: She's the one who shut down schools. people being able
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: to visit their elderly parents. She's the one. And by
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: the way, Ohio, Delaware, New Hampshire, all of the left
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: leaning States, the authoritarian leaning States are the ones that
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: led America with most elderly deaths per capita, based off
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of the fact that people need human interaction. You would
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: be better served. And we could have told you that
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: in March of 2020, That when you tell parents they
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: can't see their children or their grandchildren, it causes depression
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: and they die. They don't die of the COVID per se.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: They die of the lack of wanting to live because
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: there is no family. But that's what Amy Acton brought. Now,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: James Tallarico, he's a big Christian. Let's listen to Mr.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Where is my little clip of James Tallarico? Here's James
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Tallarico talking. big Christian telling you what Jesus Christ would
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: do if he was to visit the Texas state house.
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: What would Jesus do if he visited the Texas legislature?
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: I think he would tell us blessed are the trans
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: children who are bullied.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, and they love that. If you don't know Jesus
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and don't want to know Jesus, that's a great Jesus. Um,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I believe, as someone who's been walking with Jesus since 2003,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: that if Jesus were to visit the Texas Statehouse or
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: any statehouse, he would condemn the people that are confusing
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the trans kids. The fact that you would look at
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a child who is vulnerable and say, you might not
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: be the gender that God made you to be, if
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: you're a Christian. If you're a Christian and you believe
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: that there was somehow a mistake, that you were born
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: with extra or missing body parts— that your gender is
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: not in alignment with God's will, I think that's who
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: he'd condemn. Does this op-ed.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Piece skip ahead to the next two years or the
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: next six years in the case of these Senate races?
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: He says this is what's going to happen. The president
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: can veto all of the socialist things. Now, it doesn't
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: address how the Ohio legislature is going to do that,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: but that we're going to handle it. Trump will handle it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: And then he has no idea what he's talking about
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: because currently on generic ballots, Democrats are up 29 points.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: 29 points on a generic ballot. In all likelihood, if
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: you were a betting man or woman, you would be
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: betting that there's going to be a Democrat president. That's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: what you should be betting on. And that if you
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: give them the state, if you give them... not only
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: all the state houses, which is what he's calling for.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: He's also calling for them to win. As he says,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: they should be able to win the Congress. They should
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: have both the house and the Senate. And in two years,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: they'll have the presidency. And then there's no checks. There's
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: no checks. There's no checks. Now, if you're a Christian,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: let me just point out. I don't make you perfect.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And let me point out that you're getting all kinds
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: of crap from, quote unquote, the church. This happened over
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the weekend in Ohio, where we had a pastor force
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: his wife to stand on stage and introduce the new
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: second wife.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Y'all love her. Y'all benefit from her ministry every week.
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: And so I just want to take this time and
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: just as a pleasure of mine to introduce to y'all
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: Prophet's wife and my sister in marriage, Minister Shikala.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Minister Shikala. This is so amazing. It is amazing to
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: know that this is the will of God and to
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: live it. It's the will of God that we have
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: two women married to the same guy and the church
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: stood and applauded. So when you say somebody's a Christian,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: There's all kinds of crap disguised as Christianity out there,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: all kinds of it. Reverend Warnock is one of these
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: fake people. Talofrico is one of these fake people. They're
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: all over the country. So just because he cloaks himself
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: in Christianity and then gives you the kind of Christianity
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: that you want to hear, that Jesus says, love your neighbors,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: and aren't our friends in Honduras and Mexico and all
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: those people, shouldn't they be coming in? And shouldn't we
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: tax the rich to pay for all of this? And
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: by the way, shouldn't we also tax the middle class
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: and the poor and take away opportunities from American citizens
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: to give them to our brothers and sisters from the South?
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would be repulsed by
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump when given an opportunity. What did he say
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: about Caesar? Did he say he's a fascist and we're
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: going to overthrow him? He said, give unto Caesar what
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is Caesar's. He also said that there is no authority
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: but placed by God. These people are not Christians. They're
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: not Christians. I mean, they say they are, but they're not.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Those people, the ones that we just heard from, they're
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: on the bullet train to hell. They've bypassed the highway.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: They're on a bullet train to hell, and they're leading
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: their entire congregation with them.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: And as you reminded us, Tallarico's own pastor says that's
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: not the Tallarico who's trying to be moderate right now.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: That's not the Tallarico you'll get once he gets into office.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: It's not what he believes. But again, I would make
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: a bigger argument that the moral failings of an individual
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: do not. They do not make up who they are
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: as far as when they're a legislator, meaning they're What
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: we have in America is representative democracy. You and I
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: and all of us, all 330 million or however many
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: people are over the age 18 to say 250 or
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: whatever million Americans cannot go and vote on every issue.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: So we each find a representative and say that individual
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: is going to get most of what I'm after. Understanding
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: that they are going to fail personally, but they're also
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: going to annoy you because they're not going to do
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: exactly what you would have done. That's what representative democracy
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: is about. And even by the Wall Street Journal's own
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: op-ed piece encouraging people to vote for Tallarico and for
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Amy Acton in Ohio, and I would assume Annie Andrews
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. When you make that claim, but then
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: back it up by saying their policies hurt Americans more
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: than the Republicans, you've lost the argument. You've lost it.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: It's the same argument David Beasley. Lost it. It's gone.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: You cannot say that the policies of the right are
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the correct ones to help alleviate the problems of America,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: but the personalities that are the ones voting for them
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: rub you the wrong way, so we should learn a
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: lesson and go get better candidates. And I would also, again,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: point out, you replaced a Nazi sympathizer in Maine with
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: someone who married, well, didn't even marry, a dishonest woman,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: knocked her up twice. These are the characters that you're
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: putting forth at the Democrat level. You've got somebody in
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Karen Bass in Los Angeles who oversaw the worst fires.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: in response in history and has placed herself onto the
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: very corrupt house, excuse me, homeless authority in California to
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: bilk it dry. She's doing it in the open and
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: she's probably going to win reelection. I mean, it's crazy.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: The Democrats aren't learning anything. The Republicans aren't going to
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: learn anything. The best you can do is get the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: best version of what you would vote for up there.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's the way I look at it. What
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: do you see? Go ahead and hit us up on
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the talk back feature.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Wow, we got a scandal in South Carolina. People love scandals,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: so I'll add to it. The lady running as a
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Democrat for the superintendent of education, Sylvia Wright, is married
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: to a guy named Carlton. And Carlton is now on
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the other side of a lawsuit from a former employer,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: or employee, I should say. She is saying that she
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: was involved in a romantic relationship with Carlton and that
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: when she revealed said romantic relationship to his wife, he
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: then illegally fired her from the job. So that's a problem.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: But inside the lawsuit, it gets even worse because she
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: goes on to say that that the nominee for the
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: superintendent of education is accused of receiving $ 10, 000 that she
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: stole from Carlton. And they do point out in the
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: story that the lady in question does have in her
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: last filings was short approximately $ 10, 000. These are not the
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: stories you want to come out in the days and
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: weeks leading up to an election. I mean, this is— but again,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: please lecture us again on how we, the Republicans, need
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: better quality character candidates. Please lecture us on that. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: don't understand how this thing got this far out of hand.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: According to the SC Ethics Commission, her second quarter filing
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: shows she has a deficit of $ 10, 763. 31. We have not
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: yet seen the third quarter filings, but according to— what' s the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: lady's name who was involved— with the, is her name Mrs. Gray?
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Something like that. Nicole Gray of Somerville claims that Carlton
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: told her that his wife stole 10 grand from him,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: and that's going towards the campaign. Well, if that's the case,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: then now they're all in trouble, because he'll be in
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: trouble for illegally firing her, because she said she's suing
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: her former contractors in the federal government, specifically the state
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: department for sex discrimination and retaliation. She wants damages for
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: lost wages, lost employment opportunities, lost benefits, diminished future employment opportunities,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: professional and reputational harm and emotional distress. Uh, I'll point
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: out that the articles that I'm seeing show numerous photos
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: of Nicole gray and Carlton right together in ways that
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: would make, um, I'll tell you this. If I was
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: posing with another female in these types of photos, my
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: wife would be very dissatisfied.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: They look very chummy.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Chummy. Yes.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Chummy.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: And don't the parties vet these candidates? I mean, because
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: you had several Democrats running originally. Didn't they vet enough
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: to say, look, are you at least fairly clean on
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: your resume? And do you have enough money to carry
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: out the race?
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I look... That's what's her face, right? The Crystal Spain's problem.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: The Democrats, look, they can't run their own party correctly.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: At the federal level, you got Ken Martin, who's a debacle.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: They basically are trying to put their actual home office
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: in Hawk, trying to get some money for the place.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And then at the state level, like you said, does
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: anybody vet anybody? Look at Maine. Look at all the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: candidates that they keep putting forward. They're not vetting. They're
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: not doing– they can't run their own party. How in
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: the flip are they going to run the country or
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: your state? This is very condemning. But anyway, everybody loves
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: a scandal, so I thought I'd bring that one to you.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: If you hadn't heard about that one in the superintendent race,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: that's one of those races where it doesn't get a
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: lot of attention, like a superintendent race. Finally, we get
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: to talk about the superintendent race, and I didn't even
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: bring up the name of the Republican. I think you
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: all know who that is. All right, we'll take a
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: break and be back with more in just a moment.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect it to have this kind of fallout.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Barack Obama out on the campaign trail.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: In Ohio, trying to help Amy Acton and Senate candidate
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown when he makes the statement about Trump, guys
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: building a ballroom bigger than the White House. And what's
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: up with all the gold? Everything's got more gold. He's
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: got that White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: cheesecake factory. Now, that was a line that I'm sure
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: was written for him. Maybe not. I don't know. There's
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: a group of people that are upset that Barack is...
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: mocking the Cheesecake Factory. They're rushing to defend the Cheesecake Factory.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: But more importantly, they've reminded me of something that I've
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: forgotten about. The Barack Obama Presidential Center. Here's a guy
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: who has built a building, which some would say, I'd
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: be amongst them, possibly the ugliest building ever built.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: It's pretty hideous.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: On top of it, now you've got lawsuits filed as
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: far as the eye can see. The advocacy group Protect
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Our Parks says that this has ruined the area, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: they're suing. They've got numerous lawsuits when it comes to subcontractors. Specifically,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: minority-owned concrete subcontractors filed a $ 40. 7 million federal racial discrimination
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: lawsuit against Obama. Again, he is choosing apparently through his people, again,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure he's sitting there doing it individually, but
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: they're choosing to not pay the black-owned companies. Multiple smaller
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: and African-American-owned trade contractors represented by the African-American Contractors Association
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: of Chicago have now raised legal and financial disputes against
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: the Barack Obama Foundation. I mean, this thing, you had
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: one project. And the thing's been a total disaster. This
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: probably should have sat this one out.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Probably should have.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: This is the one you don't mock.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: That's the only thing you have to do once you
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: leave office is, you know, be a diplomat, sit on
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: a few boards, and you build your library.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: And that was an unmitigated disaster for Obama.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Whoops.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Whoops.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: All right. So maybe Trump can come and clean up
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the Obama Foundation for him. Put some gold up in there.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You need more gold, Barack. Make people like it. All right.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break. If you have thoughts on the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Obama Foundation or the Trump ballroom or any of those
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: types of things or even more serious issues, use the
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: talkback feature. We'll get to some of those coming up
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: right after the bottom of the hour news.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Good morning, guys.
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: It's Steve in Mount Pleasant. You're right. This is not
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: the time to quibble over minor disagreements in the Republican Party.
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: It's time to pull together and recognize that the perfect
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: is the enemy of the good. All the Democrat candidates
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: are Abigail Spanbergers. They're pretending to be moderates. And as
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: soon as they're in place, they will turn hard, hard left.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I do like Steve and Mount Pleasant using Spanberger as
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: a perfect example. And for people who maybe don't follow
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: politics that close, Abigail ran as a very moderate, very likable, just,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: you know, salt of the earth.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Middle of the road.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Couldn't be any better. I would have thought if I
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: was a middle of the road voter that I would
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: have been concerned in that debate that she had. And
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: if you hadn't seen, I'm trying to remember, what was
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the lady's name who was the lieutenant governor running against her?
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I can't remember her name. But there was a thing
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: where the, it was like the lieutenant governor had called
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: a Republican and talked about how they wanted to murder
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: his children. I want to murder your kids. I want
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: to make you watch as we murder your kids. And
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: she was like, can you not condemn that? You can't
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: condemn that the lieutenant governor said that they want to
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: murder the children of the House speaker. And Abigail Spanberger
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: just would not even look at her, just stood there
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: at the podium and just smiled and waited for the
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: 60 seconds to expire. That should have given people pause.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: But now she has come out as a full-blown, hardcore leftist.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: And becomes the first governor that I'm aware of to
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: actually attempt to start seizing weapons. Like started putting this
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: idea that shotguns are illegal. So, ending of hunting in Virginia.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: That sort of stuff. I mean, she's crazy. As Trump
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: says in that promo, these people are crazy. But, yeah,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: I think Steve is correct on that. But we do
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: have a lot of early voting going on, Christopher. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: think we broke the record nationally. 31 million votes. ninety
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: nine thousand and seventy three ballots have already been returned,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: according to a report two hours ago.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Now, does that show genuine interest or is that just
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: people that would have voted on Election Day just getting
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: it out of the way? I mean, what's what's it
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: going to look like next Tuesday?
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: That is a wonderful question that I think we'll all
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: have to wait until next Tuesday. If I was to speculate.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Which is what we do here. We do a lot
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: of speculating. I'm going to speculate that it's more like
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: what you said, the convenience portion of it. That there's
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: not a huge voter turnout.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: That's why, as you've pointed out more than once, that's why, Kelly,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: it's so important. Voter turnout. Which candidates can turn out
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: their voters? Which parties can turn out their voters? That's
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: going to be the key.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: If I believe any of the polls, all of the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: polls are pretty uniform in saying that there is a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: dissatisfaction with both parties. Or I should say all parties,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: because even the libertarians, the green parties, the whatever party
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: you want to put in there, the Americans are not
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: liking it. And you know why they don't like it?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Because they're not happy with the way things are right now.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: If they were happy with the way things are right now,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: they'd probably have higher motivation. approval ratings of not only
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: the party in power, in this instance, the Republicans, but
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: even their own party. They would say, well, they're in
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: there fighting the good fight and we're trying to make
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: changes here. And the same thing would be true once
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are in charge. If the things happen to
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: be going well for the time being, people would say, oh,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: you know, things are going well. And it's amazing how
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: people refuse to look at policy implementation and how long
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: does it actually take before that effect is felt. Like
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: the Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act of 2010-ish, for God's sakes,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: we're really just starting to feel all of it in
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: the last year or so. That's when you and I
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: are noticing it, because that's when the health care costs
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: have really started to skyrocket. And the rest of Americans
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: are feeling it because the Democrats decided long ago that
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: this would be when the subsidies ended. And that's when
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: the subsidies ended. That's when they were supposed to make
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: the shift to complete socialists. single-payer Medicare for everybody. But
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: that's not what's going to happen. Donald Trump is forcing
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: us to take a good, long, hard look in the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: mirror and say, is this what you really want? Is
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: this what you really want? When you look around the countries,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: look at England, Canada, other countries, where do their people go?
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: They come here for health care because their doctor systems
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: don't work as well over there. And I know that
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of socialists would say that, oh, you're crazy, blah, blah, blah.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the data. The data, you know,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I guess you can get data to say whatever you
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: want to say. But the overwhelming majority of Americans liked
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: it before Obamacare because we had better health care at
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: less prices. You can point kind of like you can
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: look at Donald Trump's polling numbers. When Donald Trump implemented
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Economic Freedom Day, a.k.a. we're launching tariffs, his polls started
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: dropping and dropping fast and they've never recovered. When Obamacare
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: was implemented on the United States, we could start seeing
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: health care costs rise very quickly. Same thing with college costs,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: because the federal government got involved with that. We spend
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: more money than anybody else on Earth when it comes
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: to health care, and it's going in the wrong direction.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: And it will continue to do so the more the
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: government meddles. That's my estimation. What do you think? Do
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: you think that health care is getting better? Do you
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: think that if we just spent a little bit more money,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: that would fix it? What are your thoughts on health care, education, whatever?
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Use the TalkBack feature. We're wide open and ready for business.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson and Kelly Nash on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: Brian from Sumter here. One of the ways we can
• 48:40
  Speaker 12: fix the cost of health care... is looking at how
• 48:43
  Speaker 12: much it costs to make certain things. Like, most vials
• 48:47
  Speaker 12: of insulin cost $ 2 to $ 7. Why do we have
• 48:51
  Speaker 12: to be selling them for hundreds of dollars? There should
• 48:54
  Speaker 12: be regulation on how high you can make the cost
• 48:58
  Speaker 12: of life-saving medication.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Brian, on the talkback feature sounding very
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: much like one Donald J. Trump. We're going to get
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: the first-class world pricing. We're going to order it. Make
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: sure that they can't charge us more than they're charging
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: in Canada and Europe. He's right, obviously, that the— drug
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: companies charge us a lot, but it's more than just that.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: It's the hospitals charge us a lot. Here's the thing.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Americans were spoiled in the day of open market capitalism
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: because you could get great health care and the costs
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: would stay relatively low. Since the implementation of Obamacare, Healthcare
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: costs have more than doubled, closing tripled in the last
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: six years, eight years on my apologies. And right now
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: we're spending about $ 15, 000 per person on healthcare costs. When
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: you look at the next country, Switzerland, it's under 10,000.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: And nobody is, I mean, so again, number one is
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: us at 15. Number two is at nine. It's a
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: massive difference because we're trying to maintain the same quality
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: of healthcare and that you all had before Obama ruined it.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: It's not going to stay the same. It has to
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: start suffering more and more while the health care costs
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: will continue to go up and up until the Republicans
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: fix it. And the only way to fix it is
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: to repeal and replace Obamacare, which they've had numerous opportunities
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: to do and have failed in every time, which is
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: why you continue to poll badly, Republicans. All right, we'll
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: take a break and be back with more in just
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: a moment.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Last night was the Freedom Fry up in Myrtle Beach.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Russell Fry's third annual, looking at the Meg Kennard's coverage
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: of that. Looks like it was a packed house. Jim Jordan,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz in the house. Thousands of Republicans rallying there.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Let me, let's see, do I have that little clip?
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: This is Ted Cruz out in front of the Freedom
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Fry with one Darlene Graham.
• 51:04
  Speaker 13: It is neck and neck, so I'm making a personal
• 51:07
  Speaker 13: plea to every voter in South Carolina. Please come out
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: and vote. Vote for Darlene Graham. Vote for common sense.
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: You don't want to empower crazy left-wing Democrats. You don't
• 51:20
  Speaker 13: want to see the Senate led by Chuck Schumer. You
• 51:23
  Speaker 13: don't want to see Elizabeth Warren as the chairman of.
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: The Senate Banking Committee.
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: You don't want to see Bernie Sanders setting environmental policies
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: and destroying jobs in South Carolina.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: Vote for Darlene.
• 51:35
  Speaker 13: For common sense, vote for Darlene for low taxes, vote
• 51:38
  Speaker 13: for Darlene for jobs. Vote for Darlene because you love
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: your kids and you want to stand with the men
• 51:44
  Speaker 13: and women of law enforcement and you don't support the
• 51:47
  Speaker 13: radical Democrat policies of letting violent criminals out of jail.
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: Vote for Darlene if you don't want to see boys
• 51:54
  Speaker 13: competing in girls sports and men competing against women.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: And vote for Darlene.
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: Because you love South Carolina and you love America. This
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: race matters, and your vote will make a difference, so
• 52:07
  Speaker 13: please stand.
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: Up and do the right thing.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Boy, I don't know if he could have sold it
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: any harder.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a pretty good list of things, differences between
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Democrats and Republicans.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: And again... Darlene is basically just standing there smiling like, yep.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's if you're looking for charismatic, that's the
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: problem with a lot of politics is you're voting for
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: the person, as we've been talking about earlier, and you
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: want somebody that you like and you want somebody that
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: associates with you and has similar life experiences and all
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: of these types of things and none of which matter.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: What matters is how will they vote when it comes
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: to the issues that you care about? I don't know
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: how else to say it any more simple, but congratulations
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: to Russell Fry on his big Freedom Fry last night,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: and thanks to Ted Cruz for helping out here in
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: South Carolina.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I am looking at the phone as we are anticipating
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: a phone call from our correspondent Rory O'Neill, who will
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: be anchoring our coverage of the midterms a week from
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: tonight from 7 p.m. till 1 a.m. on both the
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Columbia and Charleston radio stations. So if you're listening to
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: WSC in Charleston or right here in Columbia, WVOC, you
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: will hear this very man, the man I'm bringing in,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Rory O'Neill. Good morning, sir. How are you? I'm doing well, Kelly.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: How are you? Getting ready for the midterms. We were
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: just talking about you're going to be anchoring the coverage. Congratulations.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that. Thank you.
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: Brian Gorman is really running the show. We're doing it together.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, you are so kind to share the spotlight. So
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at some of the stuff that you can
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: talk about. I am not an iPhone guy. My wife
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: is all Apple everything. I am not. Are you Android? Yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: I'm totally Droid. I got a Google Pixel. I've had
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: a Pixel for probably like the last three or four
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: different issues of it, so maybe like six, seven years.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: I'm Samsung. You're a Samsung. Yeah, I used to have Samsung.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: I like them as well.
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: I went from BlackBerry to Samsung, and I never got
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: into the iPhone.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: But you've got a story here about the iPhone Duo problems.
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: The iPhone Duo is the new foldable phone from Apple.
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: They talked about it a few months ago. It's coming,
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: it's coming, it's coming. Well, it finally got released on Friday.
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: And if you go through some social media feeds, a
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: lot of iPhone buyers are unhappy because these new expensive
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: phones are breaking. The screen has a big white line
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: through it. And some say that when you try to
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: open it, you hear sort of a grinding, crunching sound.
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: which is not something you'd expect from a $ 2, 000 phone.
• 55:02
  Speaker 9: $ 2, 000?
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: And they tell me we have a bad economy. $ 2, 000
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: for a phone, and it doesn't work for a lot
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: of people?
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: Now, we don't know how widespread this is, but this
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: was happening to people in the first hours after they
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: got the phone. This wasn't even, you know, like a
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: month later. This was in the first hours. And, you know,
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: it's not the screens. So make clear, it appears some
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: engineering nerds from that, what, You Break, I Fix, some
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: of the techs there, they went through it and said
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: the problem isn't the screen, it's the hinge in the
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: phone that's causing the problem.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: That seems like it'd be a lot easier fixed than
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: a screen, so hopefully they can handle this.
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, now you want to know something interesting. The screen
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: for the new iPhone Duo from Apple, the physical screen itself,
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: the OLED, is manufactured by Samsung.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a bizarre little turn of events there.
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: Right, and now Samsung is making it to Apple's specifics,
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: but Samsung has been making foldable screens for years. My
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: phone is foldable, and it's.
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: Three, four years old.
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: Time for a new one. But the screen, they don't
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: think is the issue. They think the issue is the
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: hinge behind it.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Is this an iPhone that's being made in America? I
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: know that they were trying to reshuffle. Okay, so this
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: is still an offshore production.
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: They still expect to sell 7 million of these phones
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: just this quarter.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Well, they might reverse that down a little bit if
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: they're having all these problems early. And speaking of offshore,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: today is a big day, obviously, for Israel. What can
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: you tell us leading into this election?
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: Well, it's the election in Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu has
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: been the prime minister there over three different terms for
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: 18 years, and his political future is.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Really in doubt.
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: Remember, this is not like a presidential election. Voters in
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: Israel go and vote for a party. And then if
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: they can get enough votes in the Knesset, there are
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: 120 votes there. If you can get 61 or more,
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: a majority, then you get to form a government and
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: name your prime minister. But typically that's done through coalition. So, hey,
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: my team got 48. Your team has 13. What do
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: you say? You and I work together. That gets 61,
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: and now we have a prime minister that represents us.
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: And that's supposed to be how the system works. But
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: what I said, 48 and 13, quickly, that can drag
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: out for weeks, potentially even months. So, yeah, we're going
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: to pretty much know who wins the election, do the
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: exit polling tonight. But we're not going to know who
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: will be able to form a government because things are
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: so close.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: You know, we thought we had trouble with American politics
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: and California and stuff. You're telling me it could be
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: months before they got this thing figured out? Weeks or months.
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: You know, I was talking to an expert at this
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: up at Virginia Tech, actually, who said he wouldn't be
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: surprised if they don't have a government until spring.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. So Netanyahu would be in charge through
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: till then?
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: Or maybe not.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: There is another way they can do this with a
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: minority government.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting.
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Wow. Well, I guess we'll just keep our eyes glued
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: to see what happens in Israel over the next few
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: days and weeks. Rory O'Neill, certainly appreciate the time. Enjoy
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: your Samsung.
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Kelly.
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: Enjoy your Google Pixel.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: That's Rory O'Neill. Again, he'll be anchoring our coverage along
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: with some other fella who he mentioned who I'm not
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: really familiar with, Christopher. But that'll be a week from
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: tonight starting at 7 p.m. as we cover the midterms
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: here on WVOC Columbia and WSC Charleston.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 58:49
  Speaker 14: This is Bob in Mount Pleasant. And I have to
• 58:52
  Speaker 14: tell you that for the first time in my 70-year-old life,
• 58:56
  Speaker 14: I voted a straight Republican ticket a few days ago
• 59:00
  Speaker 14: in the early voting because I am so disgusted by
• 59:04
  Speaker 14: the Democrats and the great majority of them never speaking
• 59:07
  Speaker 14: out about all the corruption and everything else that goes
• 59:11
  Speaker 14: on in their party. I'm done with the Democrats. Absolutely
• 59:15
  Speaker 14: done with those folks.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Bob, congratulations on your first ever straight ticket. That's amazing.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Christopher will not be joining you. You will be contemplating
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: each vote.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: That's just part of my process. I like to look
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: at every race and say, okay. And of course I'm
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: voting a certain way, but I like to size up
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: the races individually.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I was explaining that to my wife last night and, um,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: how one of the talkback features we got yesterday, uh,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: kind of agreed with you, but they were making the
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: point that because when you get to the school board level,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: which it has so, so few people recognize that the
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: school board level really has a huge impact on your taxes. Um,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: that it's important to get that right. And those are nonpartisan.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: So if you vote straight ticket and then don't even
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: look at the school board stuff, you're going to be
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: missing out on an opportunity to impact your local taxes. Christopher,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: you sent me something here from the University of Michigan.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know why Fox was up at Michigan, but
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: they wanted to talk to some of the students about socialism, capitalism,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: maybe communism.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: There's a huge.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: Misconception about socialism even capitalism as well right so i
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: think that they i think these terms in the broader
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: space of political thought are probably allegories depending on your
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: political orientation for good or bad i think that's probably
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: the most well he sounds use of that term socialism
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: bad capitalism good or vice versa if you're um progressive.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 15: Yes i think a lot of people get It's the
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 15: economic system of socialism confused with the government system of communism.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Another smart guy. Because a lot.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 15: Of communist governments are socialist, but not all socialist economies
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 15: are communist.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 16: I mean, obviously it's a big word, right?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Big.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: Defining capitalism is hard.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Defining communism is hard. It's really not that hard. It's
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: not a challenge at all, actually. I mean, here's how
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: easy it is to do it. Put in capitalism versus
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: socialism versus communism in your search engine, and you will
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: find very simple definitions. And what are you interested in?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Are you interested in the ownership? Capitalism, it's private. Socialism,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: it's the major means of production is owned by the collective,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: by the public. If you want to go communist, total
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: elimination of all private property. You want to talk about
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: pricing and profit. Capitalism, prices are set by the market forces.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: In socialism, it's set by wealth redistribution designed to narrow
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: the gap between the rich and the poor. And in communism,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: there is none. centralized command of the economy there there's
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: no individual profits for anybody i like the phrase from
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: each according to their abilities to each according to their
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: needs uh i mean these are not hard to define
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: but christopher to the bigger point people want to make
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: it hard to define in order to slide it in.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: There sure blur the lines a little bit so the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: kids who are now a voting age like those college
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: kids don't understand they only get the broad picture oh
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: wait a minute The government's going to give me more
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: free things. They're going to forgive my student debt. I'm
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: all in.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Or to try to be generous. When I say socialism,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: and so again, socialism, when you talk about in the definition,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: it says wealth and resources are redistributed to narrow the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: gap between the rich and the poor. Okay. I can
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: see where some people would say, wasn't that the right
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: thing to do? Shouldn't we all try to help those
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: who need help in our country? And the answer is,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: of course, of course. But that should be an individual choice.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: That should not be the government. And the reason I
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: say that is because under a capitalist system, which is
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: the only system, the only one that has dragged billions
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: of people out of poverty, when you look at the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: world poverty and look at extreme poverty and how it's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: being rapidly eliminated in the areas that implement capitalism, Everybody's
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: life gets better under capitalism, even those who don't work.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Everybody's life gets better. Now, we're not all the same.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: But if you start talking about this redistribution, you're disincentivizing
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: the job creators. You're disincentivizing the people who work the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: hardest because once they become the hardest workers and make
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: the most money, more of that money is then taken
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: and given to those who have less. And so then
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: you're like, well, why would I work as hard if
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to walk away with the same amount of money?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: If I'm going to make 75 grand a year, no
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: matter how hard I work, why would I work harder?
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: And if I'm not working harder than everybody's life suffers
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: because I produce less. That's the difference between socialism and capitalism.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: And then communism, like I've often said, we've never actually
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: achieved a communist state where it's a. It's a utopia
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: because nobody needs anything anymore. At that point, we're all
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: working for each other. That's where the word commune comes from.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: The hippies wanted communes because they love communism, this idea
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: that we're all going to be together. We're all going
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: to share. That's not how human beings are built.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: Just pool our resources. We'll all tend the garden together
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: and eat what we take out of the garden.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: And I used to love when Rush Limbaugh would tell
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: the first Thanksgiving stories and whatever, and then he would
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: talk about Jonestown. not Jonestown, Jamestown, almost turned into Jonestown
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: because they almost died trying to use a communist type
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: of society that first winter, and nobody could survive because
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: nobody was producing anything. We need to incentivize people to produce,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: and the only way you can do that is to
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: let them keep a little bit more for themselves. I
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: hate to say that. That's human nature.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders says you're wrong. He says you don't need
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: more than one house. Why do you need all those
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: big houses?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Doesn't he have three?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: I think it's actually four.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: It's four now? It's growing. Bernie's portfolio is growing, as
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: is Elizabeth Warren's. We'll talk about more of those stories.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: If you've got some and you want to share them
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: on the Talkback feature, we'd love to hear from you
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: I have been giving credit to 60 Minutes for the
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: last few weeks as they've continued to improve the broadcast,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: but I have to take exception. I was talking about
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: it yesterday. They're Segment on Sunday night featuring a guy,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: I believe you pronounce his name, as Mausa de Awara.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: He's a 57-year-old person from Maui who was here illegally
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: and has been here illegally for years. He filed a
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: 2009 asylum application. claiming to be a homosexual. And if
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: you send me home, they're going to kill me and Molly.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: It's illegal for me to be a homosexual. That was
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: a lie. And how do we know it's a lie?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Because 60 Minutes was interviewing his wife and three children
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: that are living with him very happily in the Houston area.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: So he is not. Yeah, he is not, in fact,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: a homosexual, as he claimed. which is why he has
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: had repeated removals from this country ordered against him. Now,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: I did find this little piece interesting. Where is it?
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: I just had it a moment ago, and I've already
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: lost it. They were interviewing one of the, here we go,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Homeland Security General Counsel, and 60 Minutes wants to talk
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: about due process.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 16: You know, whether a person has committed a crime or not,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 16: does the U.S. Constitution guarantee everyone due process? Yeah, so
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 16: this is a good conversation, and thank you for asking.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 16: One of the things that really gets confused in this
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 16: due process conversation is people treat the term due process
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 16: as a noun, right? But due is an adjective, and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 16: process is a noun, meaning whatever process you are due.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 16: So to ask the question, is an illegal alien entitled
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 16: to due process, that question actually doesn't make any sense,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 16: because everyone is entitled to due process. But your status
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 16: can affect the type of process that you are due. Again,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 16: because due is an adjective and process is a noun.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 16: So you look at expedited removal as a classic example.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 16: Some illegal aliens are subject to a very expedited removal
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 16: process that doesn't involve an immigration judge. It typically does
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 16: not involve review by an Article III court, and the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 16: Supreme Court has signed.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Off on this. That is their due process. They got
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: their due process. I love it. Again, this guy is explaining. Now,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: he's such a nerd that I'm sure he's talking over
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of people's heads, but the process that you're
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: due is the process that we're giving you. And for
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of these illegals, the due process has already happened.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Now we're just kicking you out. You're overdue. Oh, good one, Christopher.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: I love it. Any thoughts on these stories or others,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: use the Talk Back feature back in a minute.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 7: It's real simple. This is Giselle from Somerton. If all
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: our young college people that are standing up and protesting
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 7: and supporting different countries and cultures, had to go live
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 7: in that country and culture for six months, then they
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 7: might come back and appreciate what our forefathers gave us
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 7: in this country.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 16: Maybe.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 10: Maybe.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, thank you for the talk back.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: Certainly appreciate that. I guess she's responding to the clip
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: that Christopher sent in about Michigan, University of Michigan students
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: who are basically– over basic definitions of things like socialism, capitalism, communism.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: those types of things. It completely throws them off.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: They're hearing what they want to hear.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, I think that's it. You assign a definition
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: that makes you feel better about what we're doing, whatever
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: we are doing. If we are moving in a socialist direction,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: That feels right because, and again, I'm always going to
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: try to assign a better motive. It's not about me.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: It's about everybody else. Okay. It's about the children. It's
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: about this, that, and the other thing. And this is
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: a system that will help more people. Please point to
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: the system that has implemented a socialist power where it worked.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people want to point to
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: like the Netherlands and Denmark It's funny because the leaders
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: of the Netherlands and Denmark came out with a video
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: last week explaining, we're not socialist. We are not a
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: socialist country. So take us out your mouth. Keep my
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: name out your mouth. We're not socialist. So when you
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: look at socialist countries, they've all failed. Every one of
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: them are either failed or in the process of failing
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: in a need of dramatic improvements. whether you're talking about
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: North Korea, Venezuela, Vietnam, you know, and again, that was
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: one that redeemed itself, Vietnam. And again, my favorite example
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: is always Berlin because it's a city. It's just a
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: city that was divided in half. One side run by
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: basically socialists, some would say communists, and I've always pointed
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: out we never had a communist regime. We've had people
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: aspiring to communism. They just never got there. So Berlin,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: East Berlin versus West Berlin. And who didn't celebrate when
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: the Berlin wall was finally knocked down? You're trying to
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: put us on the wrong side of the wall. If
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: you're okay with socialism, I'll also point out one of
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: the great books, 1984 talks about the confusing of language.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: And so how that people don't understand definitions anymore, or
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: the definitions are changed by the powers. So that, so
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: that it means what we want it to mean. Um,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: And if our language is confused, if we no longer
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: can agree on, you know, do I have to go
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: back to Bill Clinton? It really depends on what the
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: definition of it is. I mean, we can get confused
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: over anything and everything. Then you're not going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have arguments because you don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: words mean that we're talking about. I did get an
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  Speaker 2: ex-post here. Thank you, WesTheEconomist. Wes the Economist says, all
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  Speaker 2: these isms are not that hard. Give me a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: That on-the-street interview is what drives me to teach economics.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we should send the University of Michigan to
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  Speaker 2: Wes wherever Wes is working. He says he lives here
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. I'm assuming maybe he's over at the
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  Speaker 2: University of South Carolina, which would be great. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have we had people fail at– Like the University of
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina with these on-the-street talkbacks?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure we've seen one from there or not.
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  Speaker 2: I hope not. Certainly not at the Darla Moore School
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  Speaker 2: of Business. Those people are not. They're going to tell
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  Speaker 2: you what the definition of socialism is, I would assume.
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  Speaker 3: They'll know it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm putting money down on the Gamecock kids. They're going
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  Speaker 2: I was laughing at J.B. Pritzker over the weekend who
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: went out early trick-or-treating. I think he was at– look,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: I know he's a big man. I don't think he
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  Speaker 2: was actually looking for free candy. I think he was
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: at a trunk-or-treat type of event. But he was dressed
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: as Buzz Lightyear, and I thought very appropriate. The man
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  Speaker 2: who's trying to take your taxes to infinity and beyond, J.B. Pritzker.
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  Speaker 2: But I actually agree with J.B. Pritzker in this instance
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  Speaker 2: that what we're seeing in Illinois right now is a
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  Speaker 2: stunt that will not happen. Now, that doesn't diminish the fact, though.
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  Speaker 2: That it makes sense. The stunt actually makes sense. And
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  Speaker 2: the stunt is being run by a woman named Lorette Newland,
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  Speaker 2: director of the Illinois Separation. And what she is getting
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot, it's a non-binding resolution. Okay. But apparently
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  Speaker 2: voters in Illinois would have an opportunity to remove Cook
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  Speaker 2: County from the state of Illinois, which is the home
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago. And she points out that it's like 80%
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  Speaker 2: of our tax dollars in our counties go to prop
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  Speaker 2: up Chicago. We are paying to prop up a broken,
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  Speaker 2: failed city. And we would be so much better off
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  Speaker 2: if that was not part of Illinois.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: If we could just get Chicago the hell out of Illinois,
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  Speaker 2: everything would be a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not going to happen, but I mean... Cook County
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  Speaker 3: not only known for its crime, but the fact that
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  Speaker 3: it's historically one of the most corrupt election sites that
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  Speaker 3: we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and when we talk about crime, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: shocked when they talk about like a weekend, a holiday
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  Speaker 2: weekend in Chicago is far more dangerous than just about
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  Speaker 2: any war zone you can imagine per capita. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just a very small area. It's not like the whole
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  Speaker 2: city of Chicago. It's where the bad people hang out.
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  Speaker 2: And they refuse to address it. And the thing that
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  Speaker 2: is always so funny to me is both J.B. Pritzker
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  Speaker 2: and whoever the mayor is at that time, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: Lori Lightfoot or the idiot they got now, they'll say, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's Indiana's fault. Indiana's got very loose gun laws, which
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  Speaker 2: allows for all this chaos in Chicago. Are they having
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  Speaker 2: that in Indianapolis? They have a city in Indiana. It's
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  Speaker 2: a big city. It's called Indianapolis. And they have literally
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  Speaker 2: a fraction of the shootings that you have. Why? Why
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  Speaker 2: is that? You have the strictest gun laws. You're like,
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  Speaker 2: nobody has a gun. Apparently not nobody. There's some people
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  Speaker 2: with guns in that city, and they're using them to
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  Speaker 2: kill each other. So it'd be interesting. It says that
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  Speaker 2: the effort is drawing on a process outlined in Article 4,
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  Speaker 2: Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution that which allowed West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia to become a state. So I guess West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: dividing from Virginia in 1863, they're saying, this is the
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  Speaker 2: same thing that we're trying to do. We're trying to
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  Speaker 2: replicate the six. Now, I don't know if West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: is the role model. You want to hold up and say,
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  Speaker 2: we want to be like West Virginia, for God's sakes. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just an interesting story. It does make economic sense.
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  Speaker 2: It would make perfect economic sense for them to leave
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  Speaker 2: Chicago behind, but it would also make perfect economic sense
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  Speaker 2: for the United States to leave Chicago behind as well.
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  Speaker 2: So thoughts on that or anything? Good to get back
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  Speaker 2: to us on the Talk Back feature. This is South
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  Speaker 2: Hi there. This is Kelly Nash. Final segment before I
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: launch into the rest of my day. Christopher's got a
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: busy day of sports and getting the podcast up. For
• 1:16:54
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  Speaker 2: You can relive all the fun that was this morning
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: in just a little bit on the iHeartRadio app. Last
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  Speaker 2: night seems like it was a great time up in
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  Speaker 2: the Myrtle Beach area. Russell Fry's Freedom Fry brought together
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: some of the big state Republicans and out-of-state Republicans. We
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: played a clip earlier from Ted Cruz, who is, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, Christopher, he hit everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 2: For Darlene Graham. I mean, vote for Darlene for this, that,
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  Speaker 2: the other thing. I mean, whether you want to stop
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders' climate change movements, you want Elizabeth Warren stopped,
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  Speaker 2: you want all these things stopped, you've got to vote
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  Speaker 2: for Darlene Graham. I saw that the South Carolina... Public,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, Policy Council has a new poll out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have it out yet. This is the funny thing.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: They put out part of the poll and then said
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  Speaker 2: the rest will be released tomorrow morning. So I just
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  Speaker 2: responded to that again with the Judge Smalls or whatever
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  Speaker 2: from Caddyshack. Well, we're waiting. But what the teaser was,
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate, their poll shows Darlene Graham at 47,
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews at 46. Three percent say other. That would be,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, Casey Whitner and the guy I can't remember
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  Speaker 2: who's the constitutionalist. And four percent undecided. So as we
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  Speaker 2: head into the last week of the election, it really
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: comes down to that four percent. How are you four
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  Speaker 2: percent going to break? Are you going to break for
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Darlene or are you going to break for Annie? And
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  Speaker 2: that will decide it. Now, in the governor's race, they
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  Speaker 2: gave us a taste of that. Still a double-digit lead
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  Speaker 2: for Alan Wilson. 5% undecided. So even if Jermaine Johnson
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  Speaker 2: got all 5% of the undecided, which is, we would say,
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  Speaker 2: very unlikely, he would still lose and lose big league.
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  Speaker 2: to Alan Wilson. According to this one poll, and polls, again,
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  Speaker 2: can be wrong. This has a margin of error of 3.21,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: and we were talking about how to read polls, was
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  Speaker 2: it last week, right?
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: That that can go 3.2 in any direction on any candidate.
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  Speaker 2: So Allen at 51 could come down 3.21%, so he
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  Speaker 2: would be at 56.8, or excuse me, 46.8, and Jermaine
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  Speaker 2: could go up at the same time. 3.21. So 41,
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  Speaker 2: that would be 44, 44.2. He's still losing, but he's
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  Speaker 2: only losing by 2%. I guess in that scenario, the
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  Speaker 2: undecideds could in fact throw it for Jermaine Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Give us the numbers on Darlene.
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  Speaker 2: And Annie again. 47, 46, 3% other, 4% undecided.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a feeling that those people that are saying
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  Speaker 3: they're undecided have already decided. They're just refusing to say
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  Speaker 3: publicly or in a poll.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that undecided includes, and maybe we'll try
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  Speaker 2: to get a hold of somebody at SC Policy Council,
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  Speaker 2: does that include write-in Ralph campaign voters?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe so.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, still waiting on that poll, SC Policy Council.
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  Speaker 3: That'll give us something to talk about tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct, Christopher, and we'll reconvene this whole little shindig
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  Speaker 2: at about 6 a.m. Until then, have an awesome day.