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Show Rewind 9-9-26 · 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: Good morning and welcome into it. I am Kelly Nash,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson here as always. Christopher, you follow sports much
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  Speaker 2: closer than I do. Did he just say in the
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  Speaker 2: top-of-the-hour news broadcast that there were 687 Gamecock fans taken
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  Speaker 2: to the hospital on Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was hospitalized or treated. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was treated on the scene.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's an incredible amount of people. Sorry, 31 were.
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  Speaker 3: Taken to the hospital. 31 people sent to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: 687 treated by Richland County EMS.
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  Speaker 3: Columbia Richland firefighters also responded to 36 people.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to someone who said that they ran
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  Speaker 2: out of water and they had to go get like
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  Speaker 2: another like dozen pallets of water to try to keep
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  Speaker 2: people hydrated. And again, most people were gone after the
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  Speaker 2: first half because it was so brutal.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, and oh, by the way, I also, I've
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  Speaker 2: been filling in this week doing afternoons in Des Moines, Iowa,
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  Speaker 2: which you don't think of as a hot place. No.
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  Speaker 2: But Iowa had a big win on Saturday, like 40
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  Speaker 2: to nothing, which for Iowa, I mean, it's typically a
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  Speaker 2: grounded pound type of offense. So 40 made them look
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  Speaker 2: like the greatest, you know, They're the top show on
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  Speaker 2: turf type of deal. But unfortunately, I was in during
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  Speaker 2: one of their news broadcasts. I heard that a band
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  Speaker 2: member died in Iowa because of excessive heat. And they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yesterday when top of the hour, I heard
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  Speaker 2: them saying that the feels like temperature was like one
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  Speaker 2: Oh three yesterday in Iowa, which is unbelievable. It, is
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  Speaker 2: it possible? I mean, I know that the Southeastern conference
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  Speaker 2: seems hell bent on, you know, destroying itself and kicking
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  Speaker 2: LSU out of the conference. And they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: having meetings about that, I guess, tomorrow, but wouldn't a
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  Speaker 2: better use of, well, I don't want to say better,
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  Speaker 2: but I think a valuable thing would be to maybe like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you have these lightning strike rules, perhaps have a feels
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  Speaker 2: like temperature rule where if it's above, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody who knows these things better than me, we could
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  Speaker 2: come up with one. If the feels like temperature is
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  Speaker 2: above 95, the game can't start or something to that effect.
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  Speaker 3: They have those at the high school level. And I
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  Speaker 3: think colleges practice with those rules in place, whether they
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  Speaker 3: can go outside or inside, but apparently for a big
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  Speaker 3: game that's on TV, they don't want to wait.
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  Speaker 2: But they do wait for lightning strikes. And we've been
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  Speaker 2: at numerous football games where, where the Gamecocks are playing
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  Speaker 2: somebody big and it doesn't matter if it, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lightning strike, And it's like within three miles of the
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  Speaker 2: stadium or something, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, how long are you going to wait? If you've
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  Speaker 3: got a 1245 kickoff and it's, it's already too hot
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  Speaker 3: to play.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying. You might, you might end
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  Speaker 2: up treating that like we treated like hurricanes and say, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're either going to have to move the game to
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  Speaker 2: another state or we're going to have to wait a
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  Speaker 2: day or we're going to have to, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: remember going to a Sunday game was like three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: We had a Sunday game, right. Because of weather issues.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, If you have 600 people needing medical treatment,
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  Speaker 2: this is, yeah, of course I'm talking about the players
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  Speaker 2: and their safety. But at this point, it becomes a
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  Speaker 2: fan issue. The fans are dying and getting hurt. And
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  Speaker 2: the band members, I think with the South Carolina Kip,
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  Speaker 2: their band. in the locker room after halftime, didn't they?
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  Speaker 2: I think they did.
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  Speaker 3: And they were in their alternate uniforms, which, you know,
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  Speaker 3: much cooler than that garb they wear normally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It just, it's, it seems crazy that, uh, we have people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, lives literally in jeopardy. And I was talking with, uh,
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  Speaker 2: John Whittle, who does the best Gamecock coverage with Christopher Thompson, every, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Is it just the home games that John's there?
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  Speaker 3: No, John goes to the away games and joins us
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  Speaker 3: from there.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a fantastic guy, and he and I were talking,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, during one of the breaks while you were talking,
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  Speaker 2: on the air possibly, and we weren't needed for that segment.
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  Speaker 2: But just talking about the idea that going into this game,
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  Speaker 2: there was a possibility that some fans may die because
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  Speaker 2: they didn't heed the warning, and they were drinking alcohol,
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  Speaker 2: and they were going to be dehydrated, and then they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be exposed to 110 feels like temperature and
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  Speaker 2: they're just not ready for this, or you're a senior
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  Speaker 2: citizen and you haven't been in this type of weather
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  Speaker 2: for decades. Um, there, there was just, it was a,
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  Speaker 2: it was a scary situation Saturday for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm, I'm happy. No one died. I'm sorry for
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  Speaker 2: the 30 plus people that ended up in the hospital
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  Speaker 2: and the 600 plus people who needed treatment.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but it's ultimately up to the conferences to push
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  Speaker 3: back on TV. Because TV is the one who sets
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  Speaker 3: these times. And to set a 1245 kickoff in the
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  Speaker 3: southeast in August and September is ludicrous. I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: all know it's going to be hot. Brutally hot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to be warm at night in September.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's going to be pretty hot, I guess. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully nothing like it last Saturday. But this Saturday, what
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  Speaker 2: are we expecting? Kickoff temperatures in the low 90s?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't looked that far ahead yet. Because it's 7.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? 7 o'clock? 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock. Best
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  Speaker 2: Gamecock coverage starts three hours earlier, so 4 o'clock if
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  Speaker 2: you're living in the Columbia area. You can listen to
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  Speaker 2: that on WVOC. If you live in Charleston, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you should tune in on the iHeartRadio app if you're
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  Speaker 2: a Gamecock fan.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And Christopher then does the post game as well.
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  Speaker 2: I was checking you out after the game. Man, you
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  Speaker 2: must have been exhausted.
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  Speaker 3: It was a pretty long day, but Football games normally are.
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  Speaker 3: Football Saturdays normally are.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, if you people could see how much energy Christopher
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  Speaker 2: Thompson puts into these shows, it is inspiring.
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  Speaker 3: For all of us. I could say the same for you, pal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Now, coming up in just a minute,
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  Speaker 2: I did not know that Don Lamont, also known as
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  Speaker 2: Don Lemon, because he's more European than he is American,
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  Speaker 2: Don Lamont came and visited our state. He was here,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I'm going to just say it's the
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  Speaker 2: launch of a comedy duo, Gavin and Don. I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a name for them yet, like Laurel
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  Speaker 2: and Hardy or something like that. But these two clowns
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  Speaker 2: were just yucking it up throughout the Midlands. And I
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  Speaker 2: guess the low country, we're going to play some of
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  Speaker 2: the excerpts of what, of what Don got up yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: He posted this yesterday. This is fantastic. I mean, this is,
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  Speaker 2: this is hold your sides type of funny stuff from
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  Speaker 2: these two. We'll get to that and more. And anything
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  Speaker 2: that you have thoughts on today, whether you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about should LSU get kicked out of the conference?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I thought Greg Sankey went a little
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  Speaker 2: too far in his statement yesterday, the head of the SEC,
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  Speaker 2: when he said something to the extent of, we met
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  Speaker 2: on Friday with all the presidents and chancellors, and the
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  Speaker 2: majority feel as if LSU does not align with the
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  Speaker 2: culture of the SEC, irregardless of the two players from
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  Speaker 2: the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, well, that's like one of those things
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  Speaker 2: you say in a fight with your girlfriend. And you're like, ooh,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I hadn't said that. I mean, you need
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  Speaker 2: to take that one back.
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  Speaker 3: Sankey was not happy when Kiffin got interviewed at halftime
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  Speaker 3: of the Clemson game and said, what would have happened
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  Speaker 3: if we'd had pro players?
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  Speaker 2: He was not happy. Lane Kiffin is the ultimate wrestling heel.
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  Speaker 2: He is like when The Rock was in his prime.
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  Speaker 2: That is Lane Kiffin. But anyway, we'll talk about those things,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to get to on the Talk Back
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  Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app at 610.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You know, last week we had Gavin Newsom gracing us
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  Speaker 2: with his presence and his glory. And he was crisscrossing
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  Speaker 2: the state, letting everybody be exposed to his wonderfulness. I
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  Speaker 2: did not know that Don Lamon, a.k.a. Don Lemon, had
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  Speaker 2: also come in. I don't know how that escaped me,
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  Speaker 2: that we had the two of them together. Yesterday, Don
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  Speaker 2: posted a video. It's about 30 minutes long. It's absolutely
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  Speaker 2: hysterical in my estimation. I'm only going to play you
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  Speaker 2: a snippet here. Don was making the point that conservatives
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  Speaker 2: continue to point at California's economy as and basically describe
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  Speaker 2: it as a, we'll call it a feces show, and
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  Speaker 2: then say, rather than being in South Carolina, you should
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  Speaker 2: be back running California.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, serving the people of California, excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: I think they deserve more than a $ 7.
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  Speaker 6: 25 minimum wage here. I think they deserve more than
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  Speaker 6: a governor refuses to expand Medicaid. We not only expanded Medicaid,
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  Speaker 6: but we only stayed in America, providing universal health care
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  Speaker 6: regardless of pre-existing condition, ability to pay, and your immigration status.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: How offensive that is to people.
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  Speaker 6: And I get how controversial that is.
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  Speaker 3: We delivered that.
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  Speaker 6: We delivered $ 20 minimum wage for fast food workers, $ 25
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  Speaker 6: for health care workers, $ 17. 40 for everybody else. We have
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  Speaker 6: the biggest subsidies in the country for child care. We've
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  Speaker 6: created a brand new grade preschool for all. We have
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  Speaker 6: after school for all, summer school for all. We have
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  Speaker 6: invested in our growth engines, our UCs and CSUs. And
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  Speaker 6: we have a GDP that grew 40% since I've been governor.
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  Speaker 6: That's faster than any developed nation in the world, faster
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  Speaker 6: than any state in the United States of America. No
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  Speaker 6: one comes close.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I did an entire podcast on this this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I only have a couple of moments here. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to hear more in-depth analysis of that, you can
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  Speaker 2: check out the National Briefing, and you spell that like
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  Speaker 2: my name, N-A-S-H, the National Briefing on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: But Gavin Newsom bragging about the California economy is true.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh out loud hysterical. If this first off, when he
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  Speaker 2: starts talking about we expanded this, that and the other
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  Speaker 2: thing to help out all, you know, everybody's got free
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  Speaker 2: health care, blah, blah, blah. OK, they use something called CalCare.
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  Speaker 2: CalCare is now in debt. Five hundred and fifty two
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Already hemorrhaging money.
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  Speaker 2: Total disaster. They are so upside down on CalCare, it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And that's, again, because they're paying for an estimated 1.6
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  Speaker 2: million illegal immigrants' health care, in addition to anybody who's
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  Speaker 2: making under a certain level in California. When he talks
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  Speaker 2: about the GDP and how fast the state is growing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, give him the golf clap. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: not lying. They are a very busy. I think I
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  Speaker 2: might have not played the part where he talks about
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  Speaker 2: we are the tent pole for America when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the economy here. That's that's kind of like if
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  Speaker 2: you were to go to the Texas governors in the
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  Speaker 2: 70s and 80s and talk about what if we were
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  Speaker 2: to remove the oil industry, how fast would your state
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  Speaker 2: be growing at that point? If you were to remove
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  Speaker 2: just five tech companies, just five from California, they would
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  Speaker 2: lose 40% of their GDP. The whole thing is built
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  Speaker 2: off of five companies. It's kind of like our stock market,
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  Speaker 2: in all honesty. If we didn't have NVIDIA and Meta
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  Speaker 2: and Google and these types of companies... Our stock market
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  Speaker 2: would be in trouble right now, but we have them.
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  Speaker 2: California has them. How much longer will they have them?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Because as they continue to threaten this
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  Speaker 2: billionaire tax, more and more of those companies are looking
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  Speaker 2: at Elon going, God, he was smart to get out.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to drive these people out of your economy.
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  Speaker 2: And then again, ultimately, if the jobs are so wonderful there,
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  Speaker 2: why is it that you are the fastest hemorrhaging company?
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  Speaker 2: population state in the country the what you've just described
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  Speaker 2: we should all want to live in California.
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  Speaker 3: It's utopia it's it's perfect yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way they do have the best weather
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  Speaker 2: you know it's like if you go to San Diego
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  Speaker 2: it's like going to Charleston without any humidity it's fantastic
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  Speaker 2: it's beautiful but nobody wants to live why doesn't anybody
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  Speaker 2: want to live there first cost of living When he
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  Speaker 2: starts bragging about we've got a $ 17 or whatever the
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  Speaker 2: flip he was talking about, minimum wage, well, you need
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  Speaker 2: more than that. The cost of living difference between us
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  Speaker 2: and them is 78%. 78% is just the cost of
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  Speaker 2: living differences. Then you throw in the extra burdens on
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of government stupidity. It's not just the financial problems.
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  Speaker 2: It's the whole thing. The whole thing is a hellhole.
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  Speaker 2: And he knows it. He should be running from that,
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  Speaker 2: but he's running on it. And so the Don and
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  Speaker 2: Gavin comedy duo, I love these two. There's so many
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  Speaker 2: stupid– when he starts getting into a tinkle match with
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  Speaker 2: Henry McMaster, Henry McMaster, how old is he, like 80?
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  Speaker 2: He can run laps around this clown. So I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Crystal Spain, if you're listening, I know
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  Speaker 2: she likes to peek over the fence and listen to
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  Speaker 2: our show from time to time, the head of the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats here in South Carolina. Please get more Gavin in
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  Speaker 2: our state. We need more Gavin. We're demanding more Gavin.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we got to take a break. It is
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  Speaker 2: 620 now on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I did not watch the Ole Miss-Louisville game this past weekend,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently it looked like it was a pretty competitive
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  Speaker 2: game here. And there's a young lady who went viral
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  Speaker 2: because the cameraman focused on her during, I think, during
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  Speaker 2: a third down or fourth and one type of decision.
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  Speaker 2: She's standing in the crowd. She's a pretty blonde-haired lady,
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  Speaker 2: got her hands on her head, just looking very concerned,
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  Speaker 2: wearing her Ole Miss blue. And that image went viral
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend. Oh, yes, it did. And somebody was
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  Speaker 2: able to identify her as Sarah Smith, who is apparently
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  Speaker 2: a recent grad of Ole Miss and apparently a big fan.
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday she posted, a bunch of the craziest DMS
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  Speaker 2: that she's been getting now that people know who she is.
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  Speaker 2: And I, the guys are so stupid. They are.
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  Speaker 3: It is amazing how a guy will react to a
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  Speaker 3: single image on a TV screen in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: a three and a half hour game.
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  Speaker 2: One of them just said, literally, this is all he said,
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  Speaker 2: because she's showing the, now she's blocking their names. So
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  Speaker 2: we don't know who they are, but they, they put
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  Speaker 2: in the DM. This is all he put. Let's make
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  Speaker 2: a baby. What do you think of the chances of
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  Speaker 2: that going to work? There's another guy. I guess he
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  Speaker 2: was looking for a long-term type of relationship. He put, quote,
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  Speaker 2: God-fearing 6'1, 250, business owner, 500K take-home annual. That's all
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  Speaker 2: he put. She said, thank you for your credentials. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is the equivalent of like in the 70s and 80s.
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  Speaker 2: I remember being a kid thinking, does the cat whistle
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  Speaker 2: ever work? Does it ever work? Did any woman ever
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  Speaker 2: hear that and go, oh, who said that? Well, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on there, good guy?
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  Speaker 3: I guess they figure they'll shoot their shot and see
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  Speaker 3: what happens, especially when they're anonymous.
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  Speaker 2: These are very crappy shots that people are taking, but
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  Speaker 2: it's worth some comedy. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: She's engaged, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is she?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Dang it.
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  Speaker 3: She made that clear as part of her social media
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  Speaker 3: post yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was assuming that she probably would have at
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  Speaker 2: least a relationship going on, although I couldn't tell if
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  Speaker 2: there was a guy standing next to her. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 2: there is. She didn't just go to the game by
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  Speaker 2: herself and say, look at me, everybody. Anyway, guys are
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  Speaker 2: shooting their shots. Not so well. We're going to take
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  Speaker 2: a quick break when we come back. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot going on in South Carolina. What's going on with
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  Speaker 2: the Midlands and data centers? What's going on with the
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Murdoch retrial? What's going on? You want to talk about overregulation?
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  Speaker 2: We've got a new lawsuit in South Carolina about our overregulation.
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  Speaker 2: Those stories and more. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there. Welcome to it. It's hump day already. My gosh,
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  Speaker 2: the week is flying by. It's one of the benefits
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  Speaker 2: of having a three-day weekend. And I am Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Christopher Thompson. And Christopher, as I look here
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  Speaker 2: at the biggest news stories of the day, everybody's talking
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: about Alex Murdaugh's trial. That's been announced that it's going
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: to be not. I mean, the defense asked for like
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: literally like 19 different places. It was like, could we
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  Speaker 2: have it in Charleston? No. Could we have it in Richland?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: Can we have it in Newberry?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Can we have it in Florence? No. How about Lancaster? No.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: How about Spartanburg? No. How about York County? No. They're denied, denied, denied, denied, denied.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: And finally, they settled on Sumter County. And according to,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I guess, the judge, the reason is because the fine
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: folks of Colleton County are going to have to pay
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: for this. And so they were trying to keep the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: expenses as low as possible. Do you think that there's
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: really that big of a difference when you look at,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: you know, Sumter to Colleton? Like it's going to be
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: because they said you couldn't get a fair trial in Colleton. Right.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: But but it's going to be different in Sumter.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, one of the things we
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: were told going into this is that she was going
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: to consider. I'm not sure who said this. Maybe the
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: defense team said this, that they wanted at least a
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: county that was similar. in racial makeup. And Sumter is
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: very different than Collin and County. Sumter is pretty racially balanced,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: whereas Collin and County, you have a clear white majority there.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure they got their wish with it
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: moving to Sumter County. It is a bigger county, which
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: means you can take in a larger jury pool, take
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: in a larger number of people to poll them and see,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: all right, what do you know? What have you decided
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: in your head already? And can you decide this case fairly?
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: And I guess that's the major reason, that along with
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: security issues. And the judge seems to think that the
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Sumter County Courthouse will work for this.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So I'm reading, this is in the Post and Courier,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the judge noted that any prospective juror has possibly been
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: exposed some information about Murdoch. Maybe they've heard the name
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Alex Murdoch.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Um, books, podcasts, Netflix specials.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I like how they break it down. Perspective jurors may
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: have consumed more than 10 books, six podcast series, seven
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: documentary and television productions, and more than 20 documentary episodes
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: along with sustained social media attention. That exposure has continued
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: for years. and is never meaningfully subsided. It is an
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: industry unto itself. It's like, I, I almost hesitate to
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: call it a cottage industry because it's become so big.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It's bigger than a cottage industry. This is like a
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: main house industry.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Which makes me wonder if there's any County in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: state where you could find enough people who hadn't made
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: up their mind about Murdoch's innocence or guilt, but Sumter County,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: So it's scheduled. If I understand, right. Uh, We don't
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: have an actual start date, but it seems as if
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: they're leaning towards April. Is that correct?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: It's definitely April.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: It is definitely. Do we have a date?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I believe so.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I don't recall seeing that. I just remember seeing that
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: they were leaning towards April or it was suspected to
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: be in April.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's that first week in April, so the week
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: of the 5th.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Because it's Master's Week, and that was one of their considerations.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Is all right. Could we have it in the Midlands? Well, now,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: wait a minute. The Midlands hosts a lot of people
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: who drive an hour back and forth to Augusta every
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: day and may not be able to find hotel rooms here.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I wonder. Will they schedule it? Is this being scheduled
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: in like a sweeps week? Is this a ratings bonanza
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: for somebody? Is Court TV going to spike?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Probably. I mean, I don't know many people who have said, well,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not actually, I'm not going to sit through another
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: one of these. I'm sure viewership will be less, but
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: there'll still be the interest.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is going to be bringing a lot of eyeballs,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of media attention. They're all going to be...
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And congratulations to you, Sumter. I mean, that's, I think,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: fantastic news for your economy. I think you're going to see,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: like I said, a lot of out-of-state news agencies will
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: be coming in. They've got to rent hotels and eat
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: at restaurants and those types of things.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: If you've got a food truck in Sumter County, soup
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: it up and get ready. and have it out in
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: front of the courthouse on day one.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: There's some business advice from Christopher Thompson. I'll throw in,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: maybe get yourself a T-shirt printing company. I don't know
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: what you'd put on there, but come up with some
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: witty slogans about Alex Murdaugh. All right. We're obviously going
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: to be following that. If you have thoughts on the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Murdaugh trial or anything else we've been talking about or
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: things you think we should be getting to, use the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app at 639.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: AM WVOC and 94.3 WSC.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's been 25 years almost now. Friday
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: will be the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And yesterday, you're
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: not going to get a lady more New York than
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Vicky Palladino.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: And we are standing strong. I'm not asking politely for
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: the mayor not to come to 9-11, to that ceremony.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: I am asking, I am demanding that he not show
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: his face at that sacred ground.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: He does not belong there.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they are very upset about Mamdani. And Mamdani
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: only inflaming the issues around this because he continues to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: hang around with people who say that America deserved 9-11.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: He doesn't condemn them for saying that. Then when they say,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: like yesterday, they brought a petition that was signed by
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: over 100,000 people, which I guess New York City, look,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: there's millions that live there. I get it. But 100,000
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: people should mean something. And many of those people were
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the families of the victims of 9-11, not only the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: people who died at the World Trade Center, but the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: first responders who ran in. And they're saying, we don't
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: want you to come to this event. Mamdani's response to
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that is this commemorative event should not be about politicians.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: It should be about the families.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yes. And then he says, and with that in mind,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I will be there. you're saying two opposite things and
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: making it sound as if they go together. This is
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: not peanut butter and chocolate. This is, you know, I'm
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: trying to think of something that really doesn't go together,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: oil and water or something. I mean, this, nobody wants
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you there. Um, and then I'm sure by now, most
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: people have heard about the quote, I'll just call it
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the pen incident. Uh, and if you haven't heard about it, uh,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to delve into it too much and, and,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: and make it more than it is. Uh, He was
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: signing– he had a ceremonial pen. And you know when politicians,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: leaders sign things, they hand out the pen for each
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: different thing that they sign. And that's supposed to be
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: a thing of honor that you received the pen. Mamdani
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: handed the pen to Jessica Tisch, who is the police
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: chief there, or the commissioner, and then asked her to
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: hand it to a guy named Ramzi Kassam. Now, Ramzi
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: is a– he is the defense lawyer. For many of
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the Al Qaeda terrorists, people are interpreting this as two
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Muslim men telling a woman, you are below us. You
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: must do our bidding. And especially since Qasem is, again,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: an attorney for these Al Qaeda members, this is his
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: nod and wink to the radical Muslims. Like, look, I
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: got him in here, don't I? We're all good. Trust me,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the takeover of New York continues. That's how people are
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: interpreting it, which is why so many of the families
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: are upset.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Don't blame them. And it's, yeah, it's just one more
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: snub from his administration when it comes to commemorating this
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: historic anniversary.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he was looking out for the best interest,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: he's right in that it shouldn't be about politicians. There's
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: going to be a crap load of politicians there.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Republicans and Democrats.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really isn't supposed to be about them. But
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: he's going to make it about himself. He's going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: hijack the whole event, it would appear. So all eyes
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: will be not only on New York on 9-11 and D.C.,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: but of course we'll be looking to see what the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: response is when Mamdani is shown on camera or whatever
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the case may be. that's a sad update that we
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: have him as the mayor of New York City today.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: We lost an opportunity to have like a Bronnie James
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: type of moment in New Hampshire where Stephanie Shaheen won
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: her primary yesterday, but it was only because Jean Shaheen
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: is retiring. She's running for the House. She could have
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: been serving in the House while her mother is in
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the Senate, but we missed that opportunity. But we wish
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the Shaheen family all the best and stop voting so liberal.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: All right, Republican lawmakers in this state, I hope you
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: are listening. Those of you who work at the Statehouse,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: those of you who get to pass state laws and regulations,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: this is a golden opportunity. For you to show the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: African-American community that you, as a Republican, are more on
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: their side than the Democrats. There's a young African-American named
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Brandi Rosemond. She recently graduated from the, what's the name
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: of that, the Paul Mitchell Beauty School or whatever. And
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: she wants to launch a business called Ayaba of Beauty. Now,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: this is being reported in Fox, Carolina. This is in
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the upstate. She posted on her Instagram account photos not
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: only of her graduation, which, of course, anybody would be
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: proud of.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: She is also invested into a like an RV and
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: tricked it out, spent like 15 grand tricking it out
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: to make it a beautiful salon where the goal would be,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: according to her, drive it to things like weddings, other
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: kinds of events where people might be interested in having
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: a professional makeup job. That seems like a good idea.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: That seems like a good business plan. And I honestly,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised we don't have that more of that right now, right?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: That turns out we don't have any of that. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the reason we don't have that is because we have
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a law in South Carolina that if you're an esthetician,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you have to do that inside a brick and mortar building.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Now in 2021, the state house voted to give a
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: barber's exemption. So if you're, if you're a man, you
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: can do it in an RV. You can go and
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: cut people's hair and make them look better for weddings,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: but you can't do it for women or anybody who's
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: looking for cosmetic things. And as Brandy is saying, Oh,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: by the way, when she posted those photos on her
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Instagram account, somebody ratted her out. And within days, she
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: received letters from the SCLLR notifying her of complaints that
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: she is unlicensed to operate a mobile cosmetology salon. And
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: there are no people. You can't get a license to
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: do that, apparently, in this state. Hmm. And she points out,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: whether I'm serving clients in a brick-and-mortar spa or in
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: my mobile beauty studio, my training, education, and professional standards
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: don't change. I earned my esthetician license through skills, not location.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: So she is making a perfectly logical argument that I
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: should be allowed to do this and people want it
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: in this state. The only thing stopping me is state law.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Why won't you allow this? Now, when I asked Google
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that question, Google had answers. And according to them, I'm
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: just going to read the bottom of it. The brick
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and mortar exemption is highly unique to the barbering industry. Cosmetologists, estheticians,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: and nail technicians in South Carolina are legally mandated to
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: work out of a single fixed building. The regulatory double
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: standard where barbers can legally travel to clients or use RVs,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: but the beauty professionals has sparked major legal pushback. I
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: would imagine so. But why? Why is this happening? And
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: according to them, there is, we'll just say, speculation that
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: it's because the people who are in charge at the
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: South Carolina Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation like it
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: this way. They want to charge you more because if
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: you have a brick-and-mortar location, we can tax that at
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: a higher rate. We can get more money for the
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: state that way.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Still, I mean, given how big food trucks are, if
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I can have a meal someplace that's served from a
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: mobile location, certainly you can get your haircut or get
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: your makeup fixed at a mobile location. I mean, dog
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: groomers do it all the time now. You see dog
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: groomers parked everywhere in these RVs. I mean, that's a
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: big industry, as you mentioned. If a barber can cut
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: a man's hair, what's the big deal about fixing up
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: a woman's hair and maybe doing her makeup too? There's
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: no safety concerns. There's no sanitary concerns. If you're licensed appropriately,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: which you should be able to get a license to
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: do that, why not?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: It literally makes no sense. None.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Outdated law.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: It's a stupid law that was designed to drive up
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the costs for everybody. I mean, so if you're a woman,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you are paying more to get your makeup done or
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: whatever than you should be because the state has a
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: stupid law. I mean, I don't know how else you
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: could interpret this. You know, there was some sort of
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: original argument about surprise inspections, but they're saying that the
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: barbershops are subject to surprise inspections as well to make
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: sure that everything is, you know, is sanitary and so
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: on and so forth.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: So.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Why couldn't we do that for the ladies? We could.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: We just choose not to. And it seems as if
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: this is just another example of overregulation that drives up
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: the costs for everybody in the state. And having somebody
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: drive a RV to your wedding location and then all
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: the ladies who are there can get their makeup done
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: on site. Seems like a fantastic idea. And I think
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: she would make a lot of money. And this is, again,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I just think an example where you as the Republican
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Party in South Carolina, you can partner with this lady.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Her name's Brandy. What's her name again? Brandy whatever. Brandy Roseman.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And her new company, Ayaba of Beauty, which I have
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: no idea what Ayaba is. But maybe she's not marketing
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: to me. So I don't need to know what Ayaba means.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: But I would love to see some Republicans take this
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: up and say, here we are trying to make her
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: life better, trying to make lots of ladies' lives better
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. It would drive down the cost for everybody. Now, again,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: if you have a brick-and-mortar location right now, you're probably like,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: shut your mouth. I don't want to see this. This
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: is what competition looks like. This will force you in
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the brick and mortar industry to start lowering your costs
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: as well. Eventually, long term, it should drive down rents
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: for people who have these brick and mortar locations because
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: you're going to be like, well, for the same amount
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: of money, I could just buy an RV and go
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: do it. So in order to get lower costs, you
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: have to go through deregulation. And this is one of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: those great examples, I think, in South Carolina where we
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to I'd love to see the Republicans
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: pick up this banner and run with it. What do
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: you think? Let us know on the Talkback feature. Maybe
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you're in the beauty industry and you have some concerns
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: about this mobile idea.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Love to hear from you. Use the Talkback feature on
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app at 710.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: All right. It's tonight, the first ever GOP midterm convention.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: In case you're wondering, Ken Paxton is scheduled to speak
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Between 7 and 8 tonight, if you want to see that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: And the president expected between 9 and 10 o'clock tonight
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: to speak. Now, Byron Donalds, who's very likely to be
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the next governor of Florida. was interviewed by Newsmax. Here's
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: an excerpt of that to him talking about this convention
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: and why it's happening.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: It's about making sure that the American people, number one,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: look at all the policy we've been able to get done,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: obviously headlined by no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: the largest tax cut on Social Security in America's history,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: keeping small business taxes low, securing our southern border. The
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: list goes on and on.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: But it's also.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: About reminding the American people of where our country was
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: three years ago. Three years ago, our country was in shambles.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Joe Biden ran our nation into the ground. Today, we're
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: talking about Democrat socialists, but even the Democrat progressives and
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: their agendas. was so disastrous for our country. And so
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: we have to make sure that as a nation, we
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: understand that if we want America to continue to be prosperous,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: to continue to be the exception on the planet, that
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: we have to make sure that Democrats don't get control again,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: because everybody.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: So.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: We kind of understand where he's going with all that, Christopher.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: So what do you think of the Byron Donald's angle?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: This is about reminding Americans what the Republicans have already accomplished.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: and what you're recovering from.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I, I am fully in favor of saying, here's
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: what we've accomplished. Don't let's, let's not look so far back.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Let's keep our eyes on the windshield. There are, there
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: are plenty of threats, as you mentioned from these Democrats,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: socialists in the future, without having to go back to
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Biden and it become a three hour show about, you know,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: this is, this is what was bad about Biden and Harris.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: We know that by now it's time to start looking
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: at future threats and, while recognizing and celebrating what you've
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: already accomplished as a party. I mean, if this thing
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: turns into a bash Biden night, I think a lot
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: of people will tune out thinking, you know, I've, I've
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: heard all this.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Uh, my, my biggest question is who, who is the
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: audience here tonight? Because it feels very Trump rally esque
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: and the Trump rallies are very effective and at getting
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: the base out, not really reaching across to the non-committed voters.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: The non-committed voters don't tend to tune in and watch
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: these types of things. They certainly don't attend the rallies
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: for the most part. And again, with anything that you say,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: you can always find somebody who's like, well, wait a minute.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I took my, you know, my father who was a
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: non-committed voter and flip. Okay. There are always going to
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: be incidents like that where a non-committed or somebody who's
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: in the independent, uh, became a Trump voter because of
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: a rally. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. I'm
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: saying that it's like most people in the church are
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: already Christians. Obviously, non-Christians attend, and every week, thankfully, there
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: are people who become Christians at a lot of churches.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: This is for the church, I would think. And that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: not who you need right now, per se. Although, I mean,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: in Texas, definitely are looking for the base to get
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: out Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: But yeah, if you were to just play and maybe
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: we'll do that. I have a montage of Tallarico. You
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: know what? Let me just before we go to the break,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to play. This is a quick little
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: montage of James Tallarico, who loves the trans and abortions.
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: There are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: some folks will even say that there is a some
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: subtle alteration. instructions for how to perform an abortion in
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: the ancient world, certain things to drink. Before we go further,
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too.
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: You better believe I'll be giving sermons on that, too.
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: I want to be aware of is that that modern
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: biological sexes.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: In fact, there are six.
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: And then the last story I would go to is
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: the story of Mary. The angel comes down and asks
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: Mary if.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: This is something she wants to do.
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: And she says, if it is God's will, let it
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: be done.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Let it be. Let it happen.
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: So to me, that is an affirmation in one of
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: our most central stories that creation has to be done
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: with consent.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Much like Satan, he twists the words just slightly to
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: give them different meanings. Mary said, let it happen as
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: if God was trying to figure out a way to
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: get with Mary. That's what it sounds like. When you
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: say creation has to have consent, I think what you're
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: probably alluding to is the idea that if a woman
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: says no, it means no. If you're saying that once
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the baby has started to blossom inside her womb, that's
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: a completely different thing. In your scenario of God sent
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: an angel and asked Mary for her consent, that was before,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: by human standards, the relationship had become intimate. That was
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: the time for the consent. Once it's become intimate and
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: you are now pregnant with child, the consent was already granted,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: whether she meant to or not, unless, of course, we're
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: talking about rape. Then it's a completely different scenario. We'll
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: just park that to the side. But all of his
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: positions are nutty. And if people know how nutty he is,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: then he's going to lose. If they don't know how
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: nutty he is, he's going to win because he's a
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: very slick person with a We'll see what happens tonight.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: And is J.D. Vance on the docket tonight? I don't know.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: We'll see what J.D. Vance is. He's tomorrow?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he speaks tomorrow night.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: All right. That'll be interesting. We'll see who else they
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: have coming out. Again, 100 speakers or so, I guess,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: lined up throughout the next couple of days. Most of
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: them won't end up on the main screen, but we'll
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: see how it goes. All right. It is 7.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: All right. Donald Trump, about a month ago, it wasn't offhandedly,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: but he kind of was joking when he said, you know,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: we've got to get the price of oil down. You know,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: once it gets past $ 100... As it was at that time,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: it was a 108 a barrel. He said, I don't
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: want to be remembered as Herbert Hoover. Hoover famously, by most,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: credited with bringing in the Great Depression. He felt that
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: strongly about oil prices. Well, unfortunately, today, according to AP,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: we are now jumped up 2.4% today. So we have
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: now broken the $ 100 barrel. Again, it's $ 100. 29 a barrel
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: as of Wednesday, September 9th. So he's got a lot
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: of work to do. He's got a lot of work
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: to do. I'm sure he'll be discussing that tonight and
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: other things as we try again. The oil price is
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: number one issue. Whenever you talk about affordability and all
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: that stuff, it starts with the price of oil. So
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: we'll see what Trump has to say about that tonight.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Take a break and back with more at 728.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: The headline at the Post and Courier, rural residents plead
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: with Midlands leaders to hit the pause on data centers
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: as resistance in South Carolina grows. They don't want the
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: data centers. And so currently Orangeburg and Fairfield just hosted
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: town halls for residents to receive more info and ask questions.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Now the town councils or city councils, depending on, I guess,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: how they're perceived, are considering what they call a year-long. Now,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: for some reason, it's called here a county-wide ban. It
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: would be a moratorium if it's just a year. If
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: they pass, we now have a growing list. So we've
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: already got restriction moratoriums in Chester, Colleton, Spartanburg, Chesterfield, Newberry, Greenwood, Newberry, York,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and Anderson, according to this story. It's a very interesting
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: problem because as we talked about, was it last week
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: or maybe the week previous, there are two different segments
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: that are trying to make you afraid of AI or
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: data centers that I'm aware of. One would be the
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: actual people who make these things. And the reason that
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: they're doing that is because they want the federal government
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: to step in and basically put in so much regulation
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: that it would make it impossible for anybody to compete
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: with them. So there is a group of people who
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: work for chat GPT, those types of things, open source AI.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Those groups are actively engaging with communities, trying to make
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you afraid of it. So that again, the federal government
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: will step in. That's a known thing. The other known
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: thing would be China. And we talked about China had 200,000
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: plus bots on social media, trying to spread information that
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: would make you afraid of it. I'll also point out
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: that anytime Bernie Sanders is against something, I'm usually for it.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: You know, Bernie Sanders said, what was it last week?
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: He was giving a speech on the floor and he said,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: you know, The point of AI is to put every
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: American out of business. Nobody could have a job. And
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: because of that, and the government can't regulate it, and
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: the people who are working with it, they say they
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: can no longer control it. It is out of control.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: And so I think the only wise thing to do
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: is to shut it down. There will be no more AI. Well, Bernie,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: if we lived in a vacuum, that would be one thing.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: You know, it's like if you say there's no more
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: guns going to be manufactured. Well, there's already a billion
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: on the road.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: That genie is already out of the bottle.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. AI is a thing. So the question becomes who
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: controls AI. And so we know that there are certain forces.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I would almost call Bernie a China bot at this point.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: He's all about the communists. We know that the Chinese
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: want us to stop because we have a slight lead.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: We also know that the people who are in manufacturing
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: of these things want us to put in regulations that
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: make it impossible for others to compete with them. So
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: part of a lot, I would say a big part
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: of the narrative that South Carolinians and others are getting is,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I would say, in the words of Donald Trump, fake news.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: That's not to say that there have not been projects
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: that have gone horribly wrong in certain states.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Horribly.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: That's also like saying, you know, nuclear energy is 1000% safe.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: And then you have to look at nuclear power plants
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: that have had problems in the past. It happens. It's
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: not there. Nuclear is one of the safest forms of
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: energy on earth, but there have been problems when California
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: takes nuclear energy off of their own grid. they have
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: rolling brownouts and or blackouts that lead to death. You
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: see accelerated deaths in California brought on by brownouts specifically
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: because they don't have the power to keep the elderly
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: cool and they die. They die earlier. They don't necessarily
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: die that day, but you can look at a rolling
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: brownout and see within 72 hours there was an accelerated
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: death rate in California. If you There's nothing that's going
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: to be perfectly safe. I'm not here telling you that
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: you need to approve all this sort of stuff. I'm
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: just pointing out that there is a vested interest in
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: two different groups to try to make you afraid of it.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: So, and there's, there's certainly places for these things. And
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's, that's been the problem is, you know,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: originally before people had any questions about data centers, we
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: were letting them go willy nilly wherever, you know, wherever
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: a tax dollar could be made. And suddenly people realized,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: all right, We don't want to be living next door
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: to a data center. Maybe they're not appropriate in certain
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: residential areas. There are plenty of places to put them
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: without having to put them right next to my house.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And how much, when you look at South Carolina
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: and the population density of this state, there's crap loads
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: of places you can put these things. And when you
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: start looking at some of these counties that we're talking about, Colleton, Chesterfield, Newberry.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Some of these places have lots of space there. They
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: don't want it. Their citizens said, even if it's 15
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: miles from anybody else, don't want it. Don't want it.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: It's scary. Takes a lot of water. Takes a lot
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: of energy. I don't know. It might affect my jobs.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I just don't want it. When the reality is, unfortunately,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: when you look at the national debt of the United
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: States of America, $ 40 trillion is And look at what
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: you're spending to service the debt. We're now up to
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: 19% of our annual budget is used to service the debt.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: The hope is to grow ourselves out of it. That
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: has been the Trump plan. That is even, in some instances,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: the Democrats' plan. I pointed out yesterday on my social
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: media pages, if you go and look at, I'm at
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash Radio. I didn't put it on all the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Instagram and all that stuff, but I did put it
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: on Facebook and X. Currently, If you seized all the
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: money in all the banks of America, that's pretty much
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: all the money that we have. It's $ 19 trillion. So
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: that's not just the rich paying their quote-unquote fair share.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: That's seizing their homes and their money and everything and
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: then doing it to the middle class and then doing
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: it to the poor. We have $ 19 trillion. We owe
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: another $ 21 trillion. Where's it coming from? It's not taxable.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: You can't get to it there. you're going to have
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: to do two things. One is grow the economy at
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: an extraordinary rate, and you are going to have to
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: moderate your spending. But the only hope that most people, economists,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: look at is how do you grow that quickly? It's
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: through some massive invention like AI. AI can make America
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: extremely productive. But if we're not going to use it,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: China will. And other countries will. And eventually somebody is
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: going to dominate in that sphere. And once they do,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: all the other countries will have to bow down. I
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: don't want to be in that weak position. I don't
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: like the fact that we have to get our chips
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: from Taiwan. I don't like the fact that we have
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: to get medication from China or any other place. I
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: would like America to dominate on all fronts. And part
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: of that includes thoughtful, carefully planned designs of artificial intelligence centers.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: If we're not going to do that, if we're going
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: to just hit pause for the next two years, three years,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: four years, it's going to be too late. That's the
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: way I feel. But let me know what you think
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: on the talk back feature. That is a hot topic,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: data centers. Hit us up on the Talkback feature on
• 48:39
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• 48:40
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• 48:46
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• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash here. Christopher Thompson there. You listening. Jimmy Kimmel
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: back last night. First show after his summer break. The
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: news broke yesterday in the New York Daily News that
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: this was going to be Kimmel's last season, that in
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: May of next year, they are not going to renew
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: his contract. Christopher, I don't believe that. I believe that
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: the New York daily news is partnering with the Kimmel
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: crew to try to drive up ratings.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: That's what I think. I, it doesn't usually, I thought
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: he just signed a series of one-year deals that he
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: never ranks a long-term contract.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: He only does one-year deals. Apparently that gives him more options.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know what options he thinks he has.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Uh, This is a pretty cushy gig. I'll also point
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: out that the show, according to estimates, loses about a
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: million dollars per night.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure if they made any money when
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: he was out and Rosie O'Donnell was hosting.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: The ratings did go up. That was a very short-lived
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: experiment with Rosie.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: Curiosity.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. You know she's loaded for bear. She's
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: been waiting like 10 years to get on TV again
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: and just deliver these monologues. And so, She had her
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: A game and people wanted to see it. I don't think,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: but how long can ABC lose a million dollars a night?
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Well, they're doing it now just because they don't want
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: to come off as looking like they're bending the knee
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: to Trump. So I wish Trump would stop talking about
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: it and just let the show die on its own.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Just let it die, yeah. Exactly. But I don't believe
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: the reports. I think that the New York Daily News
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: did that to try to help Kimmel get some ratings.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: We'll see if I'm right or wrong. It's 748.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: A little while ago, we were talking about these county
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: council meetings where the public comes and they don't want
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: the data centers. And I guess Kershaw County had a meeting,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: a council meeting last night, and residents were there coming
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: out against the flock cameras. Sheriff Lee Bone says there's
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: about 40 license plate readers. That's one every 45 miles
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: of roadway in that county. And as one of the
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: voters said, quote, who voted for these flock cameras? Can
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: anyone answer that question? Was it ever brought up for
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: us to vote on? He says, I understand it might
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: make your job easier, but what were you doing 10
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: years ago? You didn't have cameras and everybody here felt
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: like you all were doing your job just fine then.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: So this is going to be a continued, this debate
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: is not going anywhere.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: No, it's not. It's not.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: The flock cameras and, you know, the thing that, we've
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: brought up is yes, the police have a lot of them,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: but the number one consumers are the HOAs. And there's
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: also a lot that are being used by, um, you know,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: like just private malls and shopping centers that you're constantly
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: being monitored and you didn't know it. Now you know it,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: at least. I don't know if there's anything you can
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: do about those. Because again, security cameras, security cameras, I
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: guess the AI portion of the flock where they can
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: use it to read your license plate and then match
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: it to where you were earlier. That's the part that
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: becomes concerning.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: They complete a profile of you and know exactly what
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: you're doing and what your habits are.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: And who was in the car with you, etc.? Do
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: they know exactly who's in the car with you? Because
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I thought that they were only supposed to read the
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: license plate.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Apparently, that's a thing now where AI can not only
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: suss out what your driver's license, I'm sorry, your license
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: plate number is, but it can also see into the car.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Kershaw County Sheriff's Office opted into the flock transparency portal
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: within the last month. Residents can now view the county's
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: flock camera policy and usage statistics through a link. I
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: don't know if that makes anybody feel any better. A
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: little transparency doesn't hurt. Yeah, they're trying. They're trying. Anyway,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that, let us know on the Talkback feature.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: It's 7.55.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 52:53
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• 53:01
  Speaker 2: What's up, Mr. Nash and Mr. Thompson?
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: This is Kevin in South Congaree. Right now, they say
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: the flock stuff is just for tracking the bad guys, but,
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: you know, just wait, and they'll be writing you tickets
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: for things they see on camera.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I lived in.
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: California for a while, and I got a ticket in
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: the mail here and there with a picture of me driving,
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: undeniable proof that I ran the red light or something
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: like that. I didn't even know a camera was there.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Have a good day. All right, Kevin. Appreciate you. Now,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: be careful around those red lights, by the way. But yes,
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: I think Kevin's correct that these flock cameras are obviously
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: going to be used at some point to start targeting
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: traffic offenses and then maybe even other offenses, as we've
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: talked about that slippery slope when the government. seems to
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: be against its own people, like we were talking during COVID,
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: and they didn't want you to go to church and
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: other things like that. They could use it to stop
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: you there. But anyway, it's 8.04 now, and I'm excited
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: to see Charleston County Workforce Career Fair, September 9th. If
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I look at my calendar, that's today. It's going to
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: be starting in just under two hours from 10 a.m.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: to 1 p.m. at the ECPI University on Paramount Drive
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: in North Charleston. Dozens of companies looking to employ people
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: with great jobs. This reminds me that the Trump administration
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: has a fantastic new policy where if your college degree
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: does not pay out more than what the typical high
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: school graduate can make, We are not going to give
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: you the federal funding for that. What happened was in 1997,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: they changed the laws in America. And so all of
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: a sudden Congress was fully guaranteeing loans to everybody direct
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: to the consumer, almost no possibility of you being rejected
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: for a loan. And so all that previous data about
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: how great a college degree was became worthless because you
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: needed to hit certain benchmarks scholastically in order to get
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: into college. That was no longer true. And they artificially
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: inflated the prices of colleges because you had so much
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: demand all of a sudden. A campus that might have
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: had 10,000 people on it, today it's at 30,000. And
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: it just continues to grow. And as it continues to grow,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: the prices continue to rise. The one state that really
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: stood against that is Florida. Florida has a flat per
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: credit hour. You may have seen that Ron DeSantis tweeted
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: out in response to the New York Times story a
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago about the rapid escalation of college costs,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: that in Florida, it's still the same today as it
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: was in 2019, because the state will not vote to
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: pay more than $ 212. 71 per credit hour. That's what you're
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: going to get in Florida. And somehow, Florida State, Florida
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: continue to be great colleges. I don't know how they
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: do it, but they do If you were to look
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: at a map, this is put together by Education Data,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: and look, just look at the, I'm going to, this
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: is literally un-flipping believable to me. Un-flipping believable. Average tuition
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: and fees for public four-year post-secondary in-state students. This is
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: in thousands of dollars. If you were to look at
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, it's 8.2. If you were to look at Georgia,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: it's 7.7. If you were to look at Florida, it's 4.8.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: So again, 8.2 to the north, 7.7 to the south, 4.8
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: all the way to the bottom south. In the middle
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: of that is South Carolina at 13.5. Why are we
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: double Georgia?
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Good question.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: What are we doing here? What are we actually doing?
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Well, let's remember, the state is paying the public university's
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: to keep their tuitions frozen.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: How are they doing that?
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: By the way, with your tax dollars in mind.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Aren't we already paying into this? What is the purpose
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: of a state tuition or excuse me, of a, of
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: a state university? I know that we'd like to fancy
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: ourselves and put ourselves on the U S world news
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: countdown and all that sort of crap. But the point
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: of a university, a state run university is to prepare
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: a workforce for When you have this thing happening today,
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm talking dozens and dozens of companies in the
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: low country, can't find people. They're looking high and low.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Where are the people who can fill the jobs at
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Cigna Pay Southeast, Sea Island Land Development? I mean, the
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: list goes on and on. The OL Thompson Construction, the Citadel,
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Tall Pine Logistics. There's so many jobs down there in
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: the Lowcountry and in the Midlands and in the upstate,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: all over the place, that aren't being filled because we
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: don't have the workforce trained for it. Yet we continue
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: to pump out thousands upon thousands of graduates who end
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: up as baristas.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's why you're seeing a pivot among
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of students from saying, okay, I don't necessarily
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: need that four year degree. I can go to a
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: two year technical college and be just as ready or
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: maybe even more prepared for the workforce than some of
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: my compatriots who decide to get that four year degree
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: in art education. And I'm sorry, no offense against art educators.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: We need our teachers. I'm just saying there are degrees
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: out there that are probably less necessary to society than
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: what we're pumping out.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: And I understand there's going to be a whole bunch
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: of pushback from the educators and the most elite amongst
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: us and talk about culture and how important the arts
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: are and talk about a lot of these types of things.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: And I think I'm speaking on behalf of Christopher. Neither
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: one of us are trying to diminish that.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: What we're saying is the vast majority of students don't
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: align with that. That is not their calling. That is
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: not what they're good at. That is not their gifting.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Most people are actually better at jobs that require hands required.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: There are some people that are fantastic at STEM and
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: we need tons of those people. Absolutely. But we also
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: desperately need electricians right now. We desperately need plumbers. We
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: desperately need these people. And we have somehow shamed Americans
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: into thinking that's not what an honest day's work. That's
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: not an honorable profession. Of course it's an honorable profession.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: And by the way, you can often make into six figures,
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: probably a lot more than some of these art critics
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: are making.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Within your first two or three years. I mean,
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: that's the bonus of all that is, Those are the
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: highest paying jobs right now.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Because, again, the market is demanding it and our state
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: universities are failing to give us those people. I love
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: the fact that Trump is at least attempting. It's not
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: going to be completely successful, but at least curb it
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit. This idea of flooding the universities with cash.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: for stupid degrees so that kids can go and have
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: a four-year delay before adulthood. It's a four-year party. It's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: a four-year good time. And then they come out thinking, well,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: now that I've got my college degree, certainly somebody's going
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: to want to hire me at $ 30, $ 40, $ 50 an hour.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants you.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: And the problem you've left out of all that is
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: then they can't pay back their debt to the government.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: So who covers that? You and I as taxpayers.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden would make sure that they, we got to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: give them a little breathing room. Why are they getting
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: crushed by this debt? Well, Joe, it's because you keep
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: paying for it. Stop it. Well, Joe's not. Joe has stopped, thankfully. We,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: the American people, had enough of Brandon. Um, so anyway,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: if you, I, if anybody's going to that thing, I'd
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: love to hear how it works out for you today
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: down there in the low country. Again, that's from 10
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: till one today at ECPI university on Paramount drive in
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: North Charleston, the Charleston County workforce career fair. Hopefully people
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: are going to get a great career today. It's eight
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: 11 live.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: From the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: The technical college system in South Carolina is, uh, Outstanding,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: and all they do is workforce training in one form
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: or another. Well, thank you for your talk back. I
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: understand that's in from Monk's Corner. Certainly appreciate you listening
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: and participating with the show. And again, we were talking
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: about the Charleston County Workforce Career Fair today between 10 a.m.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: and 1 p.m. at ECPI University, Paramount Drive, North Charleston.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: And South Carolina desperately needs workers to work in the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: trades and other things that apparently our colleges are not
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: preparing for. our younger people to do. And so we
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: were kind of just thinking, gosh, wouldn't it be great
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: if we could actually train our workforce to make money?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: And so I salute the Trump administration for coming up
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: with at least a plan to try to help curb
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: people who don't need to go to college or probably
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: are not being best served by going to college and
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: maybe encouraging them to go to vocational school or other things. Look,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: you only get one shot at it, right? And if
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: you come out of college with a six-figure debt, you're
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: way behind the eight ball to begin. And a lot
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: of people don't. In our era, Christopher, when I grew up,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you remember this, those ads that they
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: used to run talking about the average college graduate made
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: a million dollars more in their lifetime than a high
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: school graduate.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: The one thing that they were leaving off on that
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: is that the IQ of those people was significantly higher.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: The people who went to college back in the 60s
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: and 70s were the top tier students. What happened is
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: by the 90s, when you have the Clinton administration saying
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: no one can be denied a loan, I don't care
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: if they can even read the loan application, they get
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: to go to college. Everybody believed that the magic pill
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: was to just go to college and suddenly I'm going
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: to make a million dollars more in my lifetime. That
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: was never the magic pill. The magic pill was you
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: have a higher IQ. There is another route that you
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: can take where you can make significantly more money. Unfortunately
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: for the rest of us, you have to work harder. That's,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, they always say work smarter. We try to
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: work smarter, obviously. And if you're in the trades, you
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: could possibly figure out a way to open your own
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: business and employ other people, that would be working smarter.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: But that would probably also take you spending a number
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: of years learning that craft, whatever it is, lawn maintenance,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: whatever business you start in, you're going to have to
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: figure out all the shortcuts, all the things that go
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: into that, and then hire a staff and then scale
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: it out. That's how you could work smarter without a
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: college degree. And unfortunately, we have so many college graduates
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina that are, I don't want to say
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: they're useless as far as the career force goes, but
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: they're not very productive. And most of them are saddled
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: with so much debt, it's heartbreaking. They should have never
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: gone to college to begin with.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Or should have chosen a different degree path.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Well, there's that option as well. I don't know if like,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: you know, if you chose what did you call it earlier?
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Like art history?
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that. If you chose.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: If you remember when South Carolina, I don't know that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: they probably don't have it anymore, but I remember joking
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: about this. They literally had a course on Lady Gaga lyrics. Now,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: I know that that wasn't the major. But at what point,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: how does that help you get employed?
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: That you know all the lyrics to the Lady Gaga songs,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: and you understand what each one of them mean, the
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: secret meanings. I'm sure it's fun at parties. I'm also
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: understanding that if you're going to become a poet or
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: something like that, it might be helpful. But for the
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: vast majority of students, it's completely a waste of time. Yeah.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: So many of these degrees, if you're not teaching that,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: if you don't turn around and teach what you've learned, or...
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe working in a museum, for example, that
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: celebrates that particular culture, you're out.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: You know, a business, how far would a business degree
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: get you? You could go just about anywhere with that.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: And I think kids are starting to realize that, but
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: so many kids decided, well, you know, I love art
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: or I love music.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it would help, the business degree helps if you
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: are somebody who is... kind of structured to do that
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: kind of a career. Like I've talked about like back
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: before NIL, when we were talking about should college football
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: players receive money? And a lot of people were making
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: the point, well, they're already getting the free scholarship. Well,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: I was pointing out that there was a lot of
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: students who at the college football and basketball level, it
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: didn't matter because they weren't able to absorb the the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: education that they could get at these universities. And I
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: gave the example of myself. If you gave me a
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: free ride at MIT, that is a valuable thing to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: someone who can capitalize on that. My brain doesn't absorb
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: that kind of information. I would be totally useless at MIT.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: And even if you gave me an honorary degree or whatever,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: I couldn't do anything with an MIT degree or education
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: because that's not who I am. So there are some
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: people who getting a University of South Carolina degree or
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: a Clemson degree is... useless in the sense that they
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: don't understand even what they just got. So, you know,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: it's not for everybody. It's actually probably not for a
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: lot of people. Maybe the best route is go to
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: a trade school if you can absorb that kind of learning.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: But we are going to debate that, I guess, for
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: a long period of time because we've really entrenched ourselves
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: in this idea that the higher education must come from
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: a college and it must be a degree, and you
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: get the cap and the gown and all that, and
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: then somehow you get the million dollars. We've got to
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: break that stereotype. All right, we'll take a break and
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: back with more. I can't believe what's happening in the Ukraine.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: We'll take a look at that next. It's 821.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: All right, this is something I never would have even
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: imagined I would be discussing, nor would I even know
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: The.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: The Ukrainian war is now driving politicians to come up
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: with new and unique ways to fund the war. And
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: according to this report, I wouldn't know this, but pornography
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: is really a popular thing in the Ukraine. Although I
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say it's more popular than in the USA. If
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: you look at the global statistics for the top 20
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: countries that visit Pornhub, Number one is the USA, and
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: then number two is France. And most of it lines
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: up with the idea of how many people are in
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: your country, although I will point out the Netherlands. You're
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: punching above your weight. There's only like 18 million people there,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: making them the 20th-sized country, yet they come in ahead
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: of Argentina and a bunch of other countries. But anyway,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: they have a law on the books in the Ukraine
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: that it is illegal. It's legal to watch it, apparently.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: It's illegal to produce it. And now the prime ministers, uh,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: I guess they're kind of subtitling this, uh, um, there's
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: no delicate way of putting it, uh, that we're, we're
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: trying to create porn for bombs. So, or drones, they, they, they,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: they need to pay for the drones that they're using
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: in the war. And the only way that they can
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: come up with it originally, they said, well, we'll just
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: put a tax on the people making pornography. And then
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: they were reminded, uh, That's illegal. So if anybody admits
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: to making pornography, we're supposed to arrest them. So they
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: can't pay their taxes. So if you're a good patriotic
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: Ukrainian porn star, they're hoping to raise $ 25 million off
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: you in the next few years if they can pass
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: this bill. But what won't you? do to win a war? Wow.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a story I didn't expect you to come
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: with this morning.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: When I read it, I was like, wait a minute,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: what's happening here? They're trying to legalize the production of
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: porn in order to pay for drones. Okay. I mean,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: you got to win the war any way possible. So
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: they're looking for patriotic porn stars in the Ukraine this morning.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break and back with more. It's 829.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Good morning, 834. Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And you,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of people apparently chiming in this morning on
• 1:09:31
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• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app and let us know what you're thinking.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 10: Mega Mike from Goose Creek. And you've got to put
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 10: a little bit of blame on this degree thing on
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 10: the employers because they went out and they upped the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 10: ante for office workers, et cetera, to have a college degree,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 10: as did the government. So there's a lot of blame
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 10: to go around.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: Good morning, guys.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 11: This is Richard from Blythewood. The most valuable degrees, college
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 11: degrees in the workforce have one word. They are engineering, mathematics, biology, chemistry.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 11: Just one word. As your degree adds words, if it's
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 11: two words or three words or four words, then, of course,
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  Speaker 11: it becomes less valuable in the job market.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some great insights there. Thank you. Was it
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: Maga Mike and Richard from Blythe would appreciate both of
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: you gentlemen chiming in. We were talking earlier about the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: fact that there's a big job thing today. Charleston County
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  Speaker 2: Workforce Career Fair being held today at 10 a.m. to
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  Speaker 2: 1 p.m. ECPI University on Paramount Drive in North Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at ABC4, you can see there are
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  Speaker 2: dozens of companies that are just desperate for good people.
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  Speaker 2: And then you think about, well, how many people are
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  Speaker 2: graduating college these days and are not able to find work?
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  Speaker 2: And to Richard's point, when I looked up the majors
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  Speaker 2: with the lowest financial returns, so these would be the
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  Speaker 2: worst ones for you to get a degree in, anthropology
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  Speaker 2: and sociology together, $ 42, 000 a year is the salary, family
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  Speaker 2: and consumer sciences. I don't even know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Fine arts and drama. That's yours, Christopher. Early childhood general
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  Speaker 2: education does not pay. Also, theology, religious studies does not pay. Look,
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  Speaker 2: if you are serious about going to college, or more importantly,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: you're probably not. You're somebody who's got a child who's
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: considering college. If they are serious about going to college,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important to find out why. why do
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  Speaker 2: they want to.
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  Speaker 3: Go to college?
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  Speaker 2: Is it for the college experience? Because I've heard that
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  Speaker 2: so many times from like, especially like college officials talking about,
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  Speaker 2: we want to make sure that they have a good
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  Speaker 2: college experience. Bump that. I mean, it's supposed to be
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: four years of intense training to prepare you for a lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're going to a state run university, that's
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  Speaker 2: completely different than a private university. Obviously it's supposed to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: be less expensive, but The main purpose of the state
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: university is to prepare a workforce for South, like in
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, supposed to help South Carolina employers get access
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: to great employees. That doesn't seem to be happening right now.
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  Speaker 2: And then you combine it with when we were talking
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  Speaker 2: earlier about the Trump administration trying to curb these ridiculous majors,
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  Speaker 2: that if you get a degree, and the median income
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: of that degree is not more than you would have
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  Speaker 2: made with a high school degree in that community, then
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  Speaker 2: you are not going to get reimbursed by the federal government.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: Not you, the individual per se, but the university. So
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: it's got a pressure valve being put onto the universities
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: to make sure that, hey, we're directing kids into studies
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  Speaker 2: that will at least pay them some money moving forward.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: That has not been the case. I was looking up
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  Speaker 2: earlier what majors have the worst returns on investment and
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: what is the price of the costs for the colleges. Christopher, again,
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  Speaker 2: just mentioning this off of this is educationdata.org. If you
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: look at North Carolina, $ 8, 200 a year is the average
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: tuition and fees for four-year post-secondary in-state student, $ 8, 200. Georgia,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: it's $ 7, 700. Florida, by far lowest in the country, $ 4, 800.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, right in the middle of all that, $ 13, 500.
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  Speaker 2: We have driven up the cost in this state artificially
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  Speaker 2: for no reason other than we have friends who work there.
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  Speaker 3: And we want our kids to get that college experience.
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  Speaker 3: that for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For some kids, I get that. It is important. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's your first time living away from home. You're taking
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: care of yourself, you know, but, but kids have turned
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: that into, you know, not only a big party, but
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: then there's the gap year. Well, yeah, I got to
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: take a year off before I enter the workplace. I can't,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: can't do, can't handle that just yet. And it's, it
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: is truly turned into a big wedge in their lives
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: in between growing up and moving into the real world.
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  Speaker 2: We have done a horrible job as a culture of, uh,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: preparing people to understand what it's like to be an
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: adult and what does it require and what kind of
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: sacrifices are you supposed to make to mature? And I'm
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: even looking at like marriages. Most people should be married
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: before they're 30. They should be married. And if you
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: look at like we're complaining about the declining birth rates
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: in America and the Western culture in general, That's not,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: it's because of the marriages. When you have marriages, the
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: birth rate is the same now as it was in
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: the 60s. We have just fewer people getting married because
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: we have made it so it's not attractive. I want
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: to keep my options open. There's no penalty to me
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: if I don't get married. And so we continue to
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: try to figure out how to extend your juvenile years
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: further and further and further into the future where now
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: you have I don't want to say the majority, but
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: we got a lot of 30 year olds living at
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: home with mom and dad because, well, I can't make it. Well,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: they couldn't make it either, nor could their grandparents, nor,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, no generation is quite ready at 18 to
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: be an adult, but they figured it out.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: You struggle, you work your way through it and you learn.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Yes. You got to be thrown into the deep end
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: of the pool. Life is supposed to suck. big time
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: for a while. And then once you figure it out,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: there's a pride that, wow, I remember, like me personally,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: I lived at a YMCA for a short period of
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: my life when I was trying to get my radio
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: career going. I've lived in some horrible places. I've been
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: through some things, man, to paraphrase, what's his face? Al Pacino.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: I've lived through some things, man. But that's how you
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: get ready to be an adult. And then once you're
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: in that position, you can become a parent. And once
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: you become a parent, you guide your child through those things.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: But that's not what we do here. We're just like, hey,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: I'm 38 and I'm single and ready to mingle. I'm
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: ready to get it on. Let's go get some cocktails. No.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: Get married. Have some children. Raise the next generation. Make
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: them God-fearing people. Make them patriotic people. And let's make
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: America great again. The biggest obstacle to making America great
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: again is we don't have enough Americans being born. We
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: have Chinese babies being born that were brought here on
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: a birth tourism. They'll be back in a couple of
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: years to rain hell on us.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 11: Whoo!
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: It's 8.42. We got to take a break, Christopher.
• 1:16:56
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  Speaker 12: Eldon from Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to comment on the marriage thing.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 12: The reason why marriage is declining is because men have
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 12: realized that no woman is worth losing your house, your investments,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 12: or your business over. So we're staying single and we're
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 12: actually pretty happy about it because it's peaceful and it's
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 12: nice and we have lots of money.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the talk back, Elvin, and I completely understand
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: your position as someone who I was, again, not a
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: Christian living in the world. I enjoyed my singleness well
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: into my thirties and I mean, basically my forties. So
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: I am not someone who practiced what I'm preaching right now. However,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: now that I'm in, 10 years married, I can tell
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: you that it radically changes your life if you find
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: someone who has the same values in life that you do.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: So if you go into marriage thinking, is this person
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: worth losing my house over? But you've already approached it
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: with the wrong attitude.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you've already lost the battle.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: It's almost like I would say, don't get a prenup.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: I would say that as well. And I know a
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: lot of people would say, you're a moron. But I'm
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: telling you that I'm somebody who was radically transformed by Christ.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: And when that happened, I got married. I mean, everything
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: changes with your perspective and how your perspective is. Your
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: world perspective has a lot to do with how your
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: life goes, I think. And so I, for one, am
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: so thankful to have a wife. Now, I had a
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: child out of wedlock. I don't know. I think most
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: people know I have a child. If you just did
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: the raw math on that, knowing that he's in his 30s, yeah,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: I had a child out of wedlock. That was back
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: when I was single and looking to mingle. And the
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: price that I paid was just alimony. And then The
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: separation from my son, that was heartbreaking when he didn't
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: grow up around me. His mother moved far away, and
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: so I had to go and visit him other places,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: and it's definitely very difficult. But I understand the people
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: who don't want to get married. I don't think it's
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: a good idea. I think we should encourage it more.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:19:22
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• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: 854, and Christopher, it's been a lot of fun as always.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to interrupt you right here because
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: you're being far too modest. Kelly Nash goes national tonight.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: Come on, give us the details.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Christopher. Yes, tonight I do get to
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: fill in for the nationally syndicated Jesse Kelly. And that
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: is a huge opportunity for me and very excited about it.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: But you can hear me, obviously. Jesse Kelly airs on
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: WSC Charleston. He also airs on WVOC Columbia. That is
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: between six and nine.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to hear you tonight.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Now added pressure knowing that Christopher will be listening. I
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: don't want to blow it.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: I listen to you every morning.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see how it goes tonight. But yes, thank you, Christopher.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a huge opportunity for me, but
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: also just as excited about joining you all again tomorrow.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Thanks for all your talkbacks today. Looking forward to another
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: great show tomorrow on South Carolina's Morning News.