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Show Rewind 9-15-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 2: All right, 6.03, and good morning. This is Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: I am messing around with our board, trying to figure
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  Speaker 2: out exactly what's going on with the levels here. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little off today, but that's okay. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: work it out, Christopher. How are you today?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: You need me to come in there?
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  Speaker 2: Are you good? No, no, no. We're fooling around with
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  Speaker 2: new equipment and things. Okay. You know how it gets.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like when you get a new phone.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, for the first week or two, you're like,
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  Speaker 2: what am I doing again? This doesn't feel right. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we're messing around with some stuff this morning. So if
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  Speaker 2: it sounds a little weird at some moment, maybe use
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  Speaker 2: the TalkBack feature and say.
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  Speaker 4: You sound weird. It sounds fine from in here. You
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  Speaker 4: do have a little mood lighting. Are you having a
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  Speaker 4: candlelight dinner at some point in there tonight?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I turned on both the lights. And
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  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, the fluorescents take, it would seem, about
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  Speaker 2: 20 minutes to warm up. I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in here. I don't know. It's beyond me. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what we just heard on the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 2: did they say something about data centers? Was it Lawrence
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  Speaker 2: County that they were talking about? No, it was Colleton County. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Colleton County. And so they're moving forward in Colleton County?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what they're saying?
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  Speaker 4: North, in the northern part of the county.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. Because I also saw that yesterday, Lawrence County Council
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  Speaker 2: voted to approve a one-year pause on all data centers.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want to. So we got Colleton County is
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  Speaker 2: moving forward despite a bunch of public outcry, I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got Lawrence County saying we're going to
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  Speaker 2: take a pause. And this all on the heels of
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  Speaker 2: a big weekend where if you were watching the national
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  Speaker 2: news stories, whether it was CNN or Fox or whomever,
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  Speaker 2: they were all interviewing these AI experts who are now
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  Speaker 2: almost in unison with the saying that before 2030, we
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  Speaker 2: could all be wiped out by AI.
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  Speaker 4: AI is going to kill us all.
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  Speaker 2: Which seems a bit melodramatic. I mean, I don't want to, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is one of those points that I continually,
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  Speaker 2: I agree with the president in some instances. On this one,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in particular, I agree with him, although I
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  Speaker 2: think we mentioned it yesterday. I wish his messaging was
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  Speaker 2: a little more, had a little gravitas. He seems so
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  Speaker 2: flippant about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but China is moving forward and our understanding, again,
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  Speaker 2: none of us in this audience, possibly you are, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, the vast overwhelming majority of us are not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, computer scientists. We wouldn't have a background in
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  Speaker 2: this type of thing. So super intelligence is what they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to achieve with AI. And that is when it
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  Speaker 2: can become deadly, apparently, according to the people that we're
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  Speaker 2: hearing from. And, um, Whoever gets there first apparently has
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  Speaker 2: the ability to control the other country's development of not
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  Speaker 2: only AI, but just development of crops and other things,
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  Speaker 2: because you could then hack into all their systems.
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  Speaker 4: And it feels like the AI leaders are going to
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  Speaker 4: the White House and saying, please, you've got to regulate
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  Speaker 4: us because we don't want to be ultimately responsible for
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  Speaker 4: what happens. And the White House said, look, if you're
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  Speaker 4: worried about safety, You're in charge. Put in safeguards. Make
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  Speaker 4: sure that what you're saying could happen, doesn't happen. You
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  Speaker 4: don't need us for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But as we were talking, I guess, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks ago, that is a strategy to try to
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  Speaker 2: minimize competition. If you were to put in a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of regulations that would make it, let's just say, cost
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  Speaker 2: prohibitive or even not even cost, but more likely legislatively
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  Speaker 2: prohibitive for you to launch a new company. There's so
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  Speaker 2: much bureaucracy involved in launching an AI company. There goes
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  Speaker 2: one of the lights. It's starting to turn on now.
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  Speaker 4: I can see you now.
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  Speaker 2: That it would be to their benefit that AI company
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  Speaker 2: leaders currently have a vested interest in getting the federal
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  Speaker 2: government to say it's too dangerous. We have to set
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  Speaker 2: up a whole bunch of regulations. And then future companies
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  Speaker 2: couldn't come in and compete with them.
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  Speaker 4: And they could also point and say, well, it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: our fault. You were regulating us. It's the federal government's fault.
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  Speaker 2: I think at this point, just seeing the recent history
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  Speaker 2: of how flippant the federal government is, they could have
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  Speaker 2: all of us sign a waiver. We're just doing a test.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a test. Everybody just go on down and
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  Speaker 2: get yourself a shot, and we'll take a test and
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  Speaker 2: see how it works out in a couple of years. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the way the federal government's been operating
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  Speaker 2: as of late. But look, is it scary? Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But to me, I'm more afraid of China having AI.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just afraid of them having anything over us than
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  Speaker 2: I am of our federal government controlling it as best
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  Speaker 2: they can with whoever is running it. Apparently, the world
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  Speaker 2: is moving in that direction. China and the U.S. are
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  Speaker 2: in a race, it seems. I'm sure there's other countries
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  Speaker 2: in there that we're not talking about because they're probably
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  Speaker 2: a year or two or three behind us, it seems like.
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  Speaker 2: the ones that we've heard from, we got a six
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  Speaker 2: month lead on China ballpark. Um, and I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: see us maintain it. And part of that comes with
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  Speaker 2: data centers comes, some of it comes with just those
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  Speaker 2: people continuing to invent. Um, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: we have mixed messaging that it's either going to kill
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  Speaker 2: us all in the next five years and, or it's
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  Speaker 2: going to save everybody. And we're going to have an
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  Speaker 2: incredible explosion of prosperity. So let's hope for that one. Yeah. I,
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  Speaker 2: I like the explosion of prosperity.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be leaning in that direction too.
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  Speaker 2: But something's happening. Something's going down in the next few years.
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  Speaker 2: So we will be covering that, obviously, here on South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News until the robots come and take us off.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, but that won't be under iHeart's watch
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  Speaker 2: because we are guaranteed human as long as iHeart's in control.
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  Speaker 2: That is one of those things that they've made sure
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  Speaker 2: is in all of our contracts. So it is 6.09. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when we come back, Um, I, I just have to
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  Speaker 2: say mom, Donnie, I salute you because you are next
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  Speaker 2: level at gaslighting. We'll show you how he's gaslighting all Americans.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that. You are being, the victims are
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  Speaker 2: being blamed and you are one of the victims. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that and more. Plus your talk backs off
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  Speaker 1: From the midlands to the low country, this is South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And yesterday, Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: trying to blame the victims. You are the victims, by
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  Speaker 2: the way. When we talk about the national debt and deficit,
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  Speaker 2: and I know people interchange those two, one is how
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  Speaker 2: much do we owe total? One is how much do
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  Speaker 2: we go in debt further every year? The deficit is
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  Speaker 2: what we do every year. We brought in about $ 5
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  Speaker 2: trillion last year, and we spent about $ 7 trillion. We
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  Speaker 2: are currently $ 40 trillion in debt. These are mind-boggling numbers,
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  Speaker 2: but to try to bring it down to like a
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  Speaker 2: family level, if you make $ 50, 000 a year take home
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  Speaker 2: and you spend $ 70, 000 a year, you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of debt and you have to pay a lot of
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  Speaker 2: interest on that. If you don't stop and you do
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  Speaker 2: it again next year and you do it again next
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  Speaker 2: year and you do it again next year, you then
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  Speaker 2: get to the point where you're $ 400, 000 in debt and
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  Speaker 2: you're paying Well, in this instance, we're paying somewhere, it's
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  Speaker 2: like $ 1. 2 trillion a year in just servicing the debt,
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  Speaker 2: meaning interest payments. The American people are being victimized by
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  Speaker 2: bad spending. If you look at us like a family,
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  Speaker 2: this is a father who is out of control. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't even a gambling problem or something. They're giving the
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  Speaker 2: money to what they would say is a good cause, charity.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to assign any moral values to the
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  Speaker 2: people who are looking for the free stuff. I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: they're probably good, decent people, and they have children that
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  Speaker 2: are hungry and all of that, as do billions of
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  Speaker 2: other people around the world. These people just had the
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  Speaker 2: good fortune of sneaking across our border and we're continuing
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  Speaker 2: to pay for their stuff. Donald Trump put out a
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  Speaker 2: policy that goes into effect. I believe it's this Friday.
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  Speaker 2: And that would say that if you are if you're
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  Speaker 2: a visa holder or a green card holder, but you're
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  Speaker 2: not an American citizen, you are not eligible to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of our social services and or you could face deportation.
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  Speaker 2: That is to try to protect the Americans. This is
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  Speaker 2: what Mamdani did yesterday, announcing he is suing, along with
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  Speaker 2: Letitia James, the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 6: This is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of
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  Speaker 6: the services they rely on, the public benefits they are
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  Speaker 6: entitled to. Families, including those with children who are U.S. citizens,
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  Speaker 6: have already begun to forego essential services like SNAP, Medicaid,
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  Speaker 6: and affordable housing out of the fear that if they
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  Speaker 6: use these programs, immigration officers could use it as justification
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  Speaker 6: to deny them a future in our country. It is
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  Speaker 6: estimated that up to 4 million people from across the
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  Speaker 6: country could unenroll from their health care alone, including 1.8
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  Speaker 6: million children.
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  Speaker 2: I would say if... non-Americans are unenrolling from their free
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  Speaker 2: health care, I say that is awesome. And for him
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  Speaker 2: to say that there are current American citizens who were
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  Speaker 2: immigrants to this country that are stopping using their American benefits.
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  Speaker 2: First off, this policy was only announced a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days ago, so he's lying. There's no possible way that
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  Speaker 2: they could even track that. But more importantly, those people
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  Speaker 2: would be idiots. And I don't think that the people
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  Speaker 2: who become American citizens, knowing the kinds of things they
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  Speaker 2: have to learn in order to become an American citizen,
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  Speaker 2: that they're idiots. So the only idiots would be the
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  Speaker 2: ones currently believing Mamdani as he tries to guilt you
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  Speaker 2: into giving money that we don't have to people who
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  Speaker 2: don't live here.
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  Speaker 4: That's the key right there, money we don't have. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you polled Americans and said, would you rather feed
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  Speaker 4: American citizens or would you rather spend your money on
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  Speaker 4: people who are just visiting, and some illegally, I think
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  Speaker 4: a majority of Americans would say, wait a minute, we've
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  Speaker 4: got to take care of our own first. That's our
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  Speaker 4: responsibility to the people who live legitimately within our shores.
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  Speaker 4: We're responsible for them. If we're going to have these
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  Speaker 4: types of welfare programs, the first people who are eligible
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  Speaker 4: should be those who are living here legally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done a whole segment. Maybe I'll repost it
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  Speaker 2: called the DNA of an American and what makes us
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  Speaker 2: different than most other cultures. Just whatever brought you to America,
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of your ancestors or possibly you yourself who
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  Speaker 2: fought to become an American citizen. There is a different
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  Speaker 2: DNA amongst you and it earns you a birthright. It
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  Speaker 2: earns you benefits. And when you just diminish it and
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  Speaker 2: water it down and then actually make it a burden.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, it's a burden in some instances to be
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  Speaker 2: an American because we owe $ 40 trillion. So these people
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  Speaker 2: who are becoming an American citizen, they really want the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to try to make their lives better. But they're
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  Speaker 2: also understanding that, yeah, you too now owe whatever it is, $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 2: extra in taxes. Because the federal government continues to spend
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  Speaker 2: like drunken sailors. So, again, Mamdani, I salute you for
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  Speaker 2: your ability to guilt the victims. There are a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of people who are going to hear that and go, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, the Trump administration is so cruel. No, they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to defend you, the American citizen. So let us
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  Speaker 2: know what you think about that on the Talkback feature. And, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to try to maybe talk about gas. Gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: gas taxes, we got a lot of that stuff we
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  Speaker 2: got to get to this morning as well. This is
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  Speaker 2: 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: I don't know what's wrong with me, but I am
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  Speaker 2: not a barbecue lover. Christopher, I imagine you are a
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  Speaker 2: barbecue lover. Yes. Yes, of course. Everybody is, except me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't love barbecue.
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  Speaker 2: But that's neither here nor there. For those of you
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  Speaker 2: who do, Southern Living Magazine, I didn't know this, that
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  Speaker 2: the barbecue editor lives in Charleston, a guy named Robert F. Moss.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's listening this morning. Good morning, Robert, if you are.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly appreciate that. And as the Southern Living Barbecue Editor,
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  Speaker 2: he recently put out his list of the best new
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  Speaker 2: barbecue restaurants in America.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's qualify that with new.
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  Speaker 2: The number one new barbecue restaurant in this country is
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  Speaker 2: in Florence, South Carolina. It's called Elliott's Barbecue Lounge Restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: And they say, again, if you love barbecue, that's amazing. Also,
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  Speaker 2: making the list was, we had one in number 15,
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  Speaker 2: I think. I'm trying to scroll through the story. Bordertown
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  Speaker 2: Barbecue in Beaufort made number 15 in the country. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Two to add to the list.
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  Speaker 2: So Texas leads the way with the most. And then
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  Speaker 2: I think Georgia and Florida are pretty high up there
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  Speaker 2: as well. But for South Carolinians, if you love barbecue,
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  Speaker 2: First off, you've got the barbecue editor living right here.
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  Speaker 2: We should all be hitting that guy up for tips.
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  Speaker 2: But he's putting him out in his magazine, Southern Living,
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  Speaker 2: and saying the best one is in Florence. So now
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  Speaker 2: you have a reason to visit Florence. Best new one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Again, we've got great barbecue restaurants already all over the state.
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  Speaker 2: He said that the best one in South Carolina went
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  Speaker 2: out of business. And that was called Easton Barbecue in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: He said that was the best one in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: and it closed its doors recently. So, again, this is
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  Speaker 2: the barbecue expert. What do I know? I don't even
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  Speaker 2: like this stuff. But anyway, the best one is, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, in Florence, you now have a reason to
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  Speaker 2: visit Florence. For those of you, if you're like me,
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  Speaker 2: I've been to Florence, and I said, eh. Can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to make my way on through to Charleston or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But now you have a reason to visit, and we
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  Speaker 2: have another one for you down in the Lowcountry in Beaufort.
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  Speaker 2: So there's some Charleston and Midlands news for you on
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  Speaker 2: the barbecue front. We're going to take a break, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be back. Look, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: talk about suspending gas taxes and stuff. One of our
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  Speaker 2: representatives up in Washington is going to call in and
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  Speaker 2: talk about that, maybe at the federal level as well
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  Speaker 2: as we'll look at the local level and more of
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  Speaker 2: your talkbacks as well. It is now 628.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and welcome back to it. It is 633,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sitting here waiting on a phone call. So
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  Speaker 2: as I wait on that said phone call, I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you that there was a big move yesterday. We
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  Speaker 2: were talking about the idea that the not only local
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  Speaker 2: leaders but the national leaders at least in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: are talking about this proposal to suspend the gas tax.
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  Speaker 2: They would like to get rid of it during this
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  Speaker 2: incredible season of high taxes and or gas prices. You're
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  Speaker 2: thinking that it's there. Let's see if we got him.
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  Speaker 2: Is Russell Fry on the phone?
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: There he is. The man, the myth, the legend, Russell Fry.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for checking in. You're one of those guys
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  Speaker 2: that we were talking about who wants to introduce a bill. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when would you be introducing your bill, Russell?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're in legislative drafting now. I think we might
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  Speaker 3: actually have the draft this morning, but filing it certainly
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  Speaker 3: this week. I think it's important. Look, we pay roughly 18.5
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  Speaker 3: cents a gallon on federal gas tax. We pay 24,
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  Speaker 3: 25 cents for diesel. I think right now it's important.
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  Speaker 3: Given what we're seeing, Saudi Arabia had their pipeline attacked
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend by the Houthis, which are funded by Iran.
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  Speaker 3: And that moves oil.
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  Speaker 2: I was four million.
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  Speaker 3: Barrels a day that are offline for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously people are feeling the pinch. So, look, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not comfortable to do, but this is a pressure relief,
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  Speaker 3: a temporary pressure relief for the American people and they
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  Speaker 3: deserve it.
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  Speaker 2: So Russell Fry on the phone with this congressman talking
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  Speaker 2: about the idea of suspending the gas tax. How long
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  Speaker 2: would you see this suspension of the gas tax in
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  Speaker 2: your in your bill?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's obviously a temporary measure, so you're looking
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  Speaker 3: at probably 60, 90 days, something like that, that would
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  Speaker 3: make sense that it just phases in and phases out
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  Speaker 3: when the market kind of reacts and can absorb some
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  Speaker 3: of these hits. But right now, people are feeling it.
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  Speaker 3: Farmers are feeling it when they're powering their equipment with diesel.
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  Speaker 2: Truckers.
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  Speaker 3: So if there's a little bit of relief that we
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  Speaker 3: can do, we can't control what the Houthis do with
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  Speaker 3: the Iranian pipeline, but we can control the federal gas tax.
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  Speaker 3: Spikes like this that are certainly market-driven, that pressure relief
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  Speaker 3: is real and provides a little bit of more money
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  Speaker 3: in people's pockets as they fill up their core.
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  Speaker 2: So if the federal government was to take, say, roughly $ 0. 18
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  Speaker 2: per gallon off of gasoline and $ 0. 24 per gallon on diesel,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: obviously it helps with the trucking and the farmers and
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. But how much do you
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: think this is going to cost the federal government if
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: we did it for, say, 60 days or maybe 90?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what it will cost the federal government,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: but what it will save the American people I think
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: is incredible. And certainly that's my focus right now is
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: making people feel a little bit of relief given just
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: the market forces. We can't control again what the Houthis
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: do attacking Saudi Arabian pipelines, but we can control our
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: response to it. And just kind of given the season
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: of where we are, uh with uh you know with
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: with the high cost of gasoline and diesel this is
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: a meaningful measure and a meaningful step that could save
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: people money absolutely well.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: We wish you all the best with that bill and
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: we'll be watching the news i guess hopefully you know
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: obviously before friday you're expecting to get this up for
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a vote how long would it take any ideas to
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: move through congress Yeah, exactly.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: That's the billion-dollar question is, is there the political will?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I wanted to invite the discussion to, because I don't
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people are talking about it, is, look,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: if we're trying to find meaningful ways to tackle an
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: affordability message, this is one step, right?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: This is one step.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: We're voting on it. an AEI bill today on data
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: centers that would require states to take into account the
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: cost of generation. And so that people, grandmas that are
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: not paying for that generation for a data center, it
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: would be borne by the people who want to have
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: a data center. I think that's an affordability message that
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: we can have, that no one likes paying an electric bill,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: but these are some of the things that we're working.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: On this week.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: But that Ratepayer Protection Act is in line with the
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: president's agenda. And we're going to vote on it this week.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: And it's bipartisan. This is an easy win.
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  Speaker 2: Representative Russell Fry, appreciate your time and keep fighting to
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: lower costs. I think it's an important message that you're
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: getting out there. Thanks, Kelly. Appreciate you, sir. All right.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Have a great day.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And thoughts on what Russell Fry is proposing? You can
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: let us know by using your talkback feature and or
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: we're going to take a look at the local level
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: as well, because we have some local lawmakers who want
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: to go ahead and kind of rework the gas tax
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: here locally as well. That's a different proposal. We'll look
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: at that coming up next on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: All right. So yesterday, I want to say thank you
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to Steve Michael, who works with the Alan Wilson folks here.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: He was the first one to turn me on to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: this idea that there was a big push being made yesterday,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: locally and nationally, regarding gas tax. And Alan Wilson is
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: quoted in a story that I'm reading here at Fox Carolina,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: as is State Representative Jordan Pace of Berkeley County, calling
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: for a special session in Columbia to address the state issue.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: gas tax um alan wilson says now alan by the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: way is serving right now in the national guard so
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: i mean this guy unbelievable the amount of service he
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: has for the state of south carolina in the country
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: uh he but he did take time to uh get
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: through his surrogates that they want to address that issue
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and uh he suggests suspending the state gas tax for
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: up to 120 days up to 120 days We just
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: heard from Russell Fry talking about maybe a 90-day suspension
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: of the federal gas tax. This is the local gas tax,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the state gas tax. Currently, only the General Assembly can
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: suspend that tax. And I love the fact that Jermaine
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Johnson has chimed in and said, the crisis at the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: pump is the result of the failed Republican leadership in Columbia,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the party that raised the gas tax by 12 cents
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: in 2017. I would remind Jermaine Johnson, I know he
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: probably doesn't want to hear this, but yes, Republicans were
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: in charge. I will point out that every single Democrat
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: voted for it. Every single one. Now, if you're wondering
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: what the final vote was when it came to passing
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: it back on May 10th of 2017, it was 95
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: to 18 in the House and 32 to 12 in
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the Senate. And every one of those nay votes were Republicans.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: So shut your lion mouth. Anyway, Christopher, what do you
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: think of this idea of suspending the gas tax, either
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: locally and or federally, to try to give people a
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: break at the pumps for the next 60 to 90 days?
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I think it's months too late. I think we were
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: talking about this earlier this year while the General Assembly
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: was still in session and nobody had a pusher. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: guess leadership was pushing against the idea. And the McMaster
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: administration said, no, no, we can't do that. That would
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: stop too many construction projects that we've already got in
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: the works, which I find that pretty hard to believe,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: given how much money we've already taken in via the
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: gas tax. But yeah, this should have been done as
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: soon as gas prices started shooting up. And there were
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: some who suggested it, and it got poo-pooed. And where
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: was House leadership? Where was Senate leadership when the price
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: of gas started going up?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting that you bring all that up because
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that is a fantastic point, that House leadership did not
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: do anything. There should almost– look, gas tax is like
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: any other tax. You want to address affordability. A lot
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: of it comes to the amount of taxes that people pay.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: And we were talking about that in the segment with
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Mamdani earlier, that we pay a lot of taxes in America,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: a lot, a lot, a lot. So people don't like
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to think about, like, when you go to the pump
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and it's $ 3. 80 a gallon or whatever it is right now,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: how much of that, like, I think the combined would be, well,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: it was in the story, how much, if you were
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: able to get a break on both of them for
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: a time, it would be, where is that federal number
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that it would be? Gosh, I can't find it right now.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: But it was like, it was a pretty significant chunk
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: of change. It's, you know, like 60 cents a gallon
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: That would help.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: That would help a lot.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's about 47 cents.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, that's big money. I mean, right now
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: it's saying, Jordan Pace says it would be, also he'd
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: like to propose sending $ 300 to families with dependents, $ 200
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to household without dependents is also a way of trying
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to get a break. I don't know if I'm there
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: with that. I am all for tax breaks, though.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: All right. It's obvious you all want to talk about
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: this gas tax thing. We're going to talk a little bit.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: We're going to go into a little more depth on
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the Alan Wilson proposal, which is a little bit different
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: than what we were talking about with the Jordan Pace proposal,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: which is obviously a lot different than the Russell Fry
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: proposal because Russell Fry is dealing at a federal level.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: The Wilson campaign. put out a statement, and I'd encourage
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you all to read it because I think that there's
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: some nuance in there as well, but also the Jordan
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Pace proposal. We're going to talk about that some more
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: because affordability is the number one issue now in America,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and it's mostly driven, it seems, by gas prices. at
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: least in large part. So we're going to talk about
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that more coming up and getting your insights by using
• 24:51
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• 24:56
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• 24:56
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• 25:01
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and 94.3 WSC. Well, everybody wants to talk about gas
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: tax now, so.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Donald Trump said that he is talking
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to his cabinet about suspension of the gas tax. He's
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: already done that back, I think, in May is when
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: he started first talking about it. NBC News would like
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: you to know that he can't really do that without Congress.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: We just spoke with Congressman Russell Fry, who is proposing
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a suspension of the gas tax at the federal level.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But NBC News would also like you to know that
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: even if they do that, you're still paying 14% more
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: per gallon than you did at the start of the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Iran war. So they're just going to make sure you
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: understand that you're still worse off today than you were before.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I'll also point out that nobody's being nuked. And so
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: there is a benefit there to not having nuclear weapons
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: in the hands of the Iranians. But if you were
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: to combine the two, That's a pretty significant amount, right?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: So it's federally, it's 18.4 cents per gallon. If South
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Carolina was to suspend their gas tax, that's 28.75 cents.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So combined, you're looking at saving 47.15 cents per gallon
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: moving forward. The news story from NBC pointed out that
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: we've already had several states take that action. I'm trying
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: to find those states again, because Georgia.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Did it. Illinois did it. Indiana did it. Kentucky did it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And Utah have done it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Georgia jumped right on that. And that's when we
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: were first having the discussion about whether we would do it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: And it went nowhere in the statehouse.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And you're right. And so we've got several high profile
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: people coming out. Jordan Pace posted yesterday that he joins
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Alan Wilson. and calling for a suspension of the gas tax. Now,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: if you go to the Wilson campaign's Facebook page, you
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: can see what the actual proposal was, which is basically
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to empower the governor to just, he could trigger it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: He doesn't need for you guys in the future to
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: come back and have special sessions and all that sort
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of stuff. And, and, Maybe you set it at a price,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: like if gas hits $ 4 a gallon or $ 3. 85 a
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: gallon or whatever it is, you could do that, and
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: then he could just automatically implement that. The Wilson campaign
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: points out that we have, I think it's $ 1. 3 billion
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: right now in our reserve fund, and we could pay
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: for that. Like you mentioned earlier, Christopher, the construction that
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Henry McMaster had been concerned about, we have $ 1. 3 billion
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: that we could pay to just keep moving forward with
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: the said construction. You don't have to suspend everything if
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you suspend the gas tax. And then you'd have to
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: make it up later, obviously. I like that. Again, Jordan
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Pace going even further, which to me is, I don't, this, look,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Jordan Pace, is he now, he's the chair, right? Of
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the Freedom Caucus? Of the Freedom Caucus?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: I believe so.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: So again, just reading it at face level, I'm just
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: reading this off his Facebook page. Pace proposes a targeted
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: gas tax rebate of $ 300 for every household that claimed
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a dependent and its most recent state income tax return
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: and $ 200 for every other household that has filed a return.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: The plan would cost roughly $ 500 million and would be
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: fully funded without raising taxes or disrupting our bonded obligations.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Family in South Carolina are still paying the gas tax
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: every time they fill up. They deserve some relief now.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: A direct rebate would put money back into the pockets
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: of the people who have paid this tax instead of
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: spreading it across the political projects. I agree with Alan Wilson.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: South Carolina families need relief, and this plan delivers it
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: in a responsible way. I don't know if I'm for
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the rebate. Any thoughts on that, Christopher?
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I understand where he's coming from, but it's a little
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: surprising that Well, you know what? I think the Freedom
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Caucus is probably trying to make a point that we
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: just take too much money in to begin with from
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: South Carolina taxpayers. I agree with that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: But I don't know that you can do both because
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: you know, we've, we've already passed spending bills. I don't,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know that you can do that right now,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: unless you say, all right, well, where's that money coming from? Well,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: it comes from here.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Well, if it comes from there, then what are we
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: going to cut? I, I, I realize we have reserves,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: but those are for, you know, rainy days. This isn't
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: necessarily a rainy day. This is This is what we
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: hope will be a temporary bump in the road and
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: to provide a little relief to taxpayers. I think suspending
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: the gas tax is enough for now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to see that done. And again,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the Wilson proposal is that the governor would have the
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: power to suspend it, that basically the House and the
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Senate would vote to empower the governor to do that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: We have one of the weakest governorships in the country.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Give them a little something. Let them make a call.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, there should be emergency powers within that office
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: in case of, situations like this.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: And so we'll see if, again, that movement is really
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: starting in earnest. I just want to remind people one
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: more time that the Jermaine Johnson people, or I guess
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Jermaine Johnson himself, put out a statement regarding this. We
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: are fighting for lower costs and would absolutely support gas
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: tax relief for South Carolina families. And let's be clear
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: about how we got here. By the way, whenever a
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Democrat says, let's be clear, they're about to not be clear.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: The crisis at the pump is the result of failed
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Republican leadership in Columbia, the same party that raised the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: gas tax by 12 cents back in 2017. Yes, the
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Republicans were in charge in 2017. And yes, the gas
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: tax was voted in with a majority of Republicans voting
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: for that. However, comma, it was 100% of the Democrats
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: voted for that. The Democrats have never met a tax
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: they didn't want. And if you go and look at
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: that 2017 vote in the House, it was 95 to 18.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: In the Senate, it was 32 to 12. Both 18
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: negative votes in the House and 12 nays in the
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Senate were all Republicans. Not one Democrat voted against it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: So you are a filthy liar for implying that it
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: was all Republicans voting for it and the Democrats were
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: fighting against it. The Democrats were pushing that as well. Now,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: you and I, Christopher, we weren't doing a show together,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: but I bet you and I were in unison going,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: don't do it. Don't vote for this gas tax increase. Anyway,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: all we can do is ask. We don't have the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: power to stop them, but we can try to influence, right?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And that's where you come in, with the power of
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: the influence by getting either into the ear of your
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: local legislators, or you can get on the air here
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: by using the TalkBack feature on the iHeartRadio app. It
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: is now 710.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: You know, we've been talking about repealing the gas tax,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: both at the federal level and at the state level,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: and how that would save people a lot of money.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Affordability is always the issue, and more so than ever
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: right now. And yesterday, Lee Zeldin made an announcement at
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which, again, it will benefit
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Americans more. over the not too distant future. And the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: announcement was that they are repealing the 2024 carbon pollution standards,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: which had been mandated by the Biden administration. And if this,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: or let me just rephrase that, that mandate that was
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: implemented in 2024 has cost the U.S. consumer an extra
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: $ 300 billion for the industries to try to comply with it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: So we took $ 300 billion out of the economy and
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: we did that to comply with a stupid rule that
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: doesn't make anybody safer. It doesn't make the air any cleaner.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: It just is a salute to the French and some
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: other morons. So we've repealed it. Now, ABC and a
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: bunch of other news outlets want you to know that
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: guess what? There's going to be lawsuits, not a surprise.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Whenever you try to make America free, the people who
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: are in control, the bureaucrats, they don't want that to end.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: So we are going to be in a lawsuit. Sheldon Whitehouse,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: this guy is a special little piece of whatever. Democrat,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Rhode Island, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Environment and Public Works says, quote, The fossil fuel captured
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: EPA's decision to end its regulation on greenhouse gas emissions
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: from power plants is a tragic and expensive mistake. In
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: refusing to address this national crisis, the EPA is shifting
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the cost of climate change onto every family in America.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Dummy dumb. That's what we already did when you put
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the $ 300 billion on us. The Democrats don't seem to
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: understand how math works.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: And don't understand that the American families right now are
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: paying out the nose for utilities and for every, you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: all these power plants that are out there, you know, gas,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: gas powered, fuel powered, et cetera. I mean, we're all
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: paying for that. And he's talking about we're going to
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: pay down the road. No, we're paying now. The Trump
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: administration is trying to find relief for us now.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: But, again, I think you brought it up maybe last week.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: It's important to reiterate that the Obama administration said they
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: want to make energy costs so expensive that you end
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: up shifting to the clean sources of energy, which, by
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the way, don't work. They cannot produce enough energy. So,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: in other words, let's Jimmy Carter it. You put on
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: your sweater and freeze in the winter and you sit
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: nude by an ice block as long as you can
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: in the summer. That is their Democrat plan.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: And put those solar panels on top of the White House.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Just just do whatever you can. And again, no,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: no real science is actually behind any of the stuff
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: that they're talking about. And we would we pointed out
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: again yesterday, first time. We have seven days left to go,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: maybe six days left. If we go six more days
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: without a hurricane in the Atlantic, it's the first time
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: since 1914. And yet they continue to, and that's as
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: long as they've been, or I guess that's not as
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: long as they've been measuring it, but since 1914 and
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: over a hundred years, we haven't had a storm season
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: this quiet. And they continue to tell us, oh my gosh,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: the climate is out of control because humanity is just
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: so greedy and you insist on driving your SUV and
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: flying in jets. I'm telling you, they can't tell you
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: what is the right temperature. Was it the right temperature
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: in 1914? Was it the right temperature in 1950? Was
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: it the right temperature in 1970? Because every year it's different.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Every year it changes. The globe moves up and down
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: regardless of human activity. It's going to do it. The
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: earth's going to earth. The climate's going to climate. and
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: they can't stop it, and it drives them nuts. We've
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: got to take a break. It's 719.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: It's not exactly what Ellen Weaver, the secretary for the
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Department of Education, wanted, but it is something. It's $ 75
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: million that will be distributed. uh, amongst charter schools. And, uh,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the charter schools, um, basically do not get the access
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to the funding, the same funding that a regular public
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: school would get. And so they're always in a, they're,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: they're struggling always like, how do we build a building
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: if we don't get to issue a bond and those
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: types of things. So this is an opportunity, uh, Hopefully
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: in the future, the state of South Carolina will figure
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: out a way how to fund more of these types
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: of facilities because we have seen time and time again
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: that the kids who go to charter schools test better.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: And so eventually it's going to put more and more
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: pressure on the public schools to upgrade their performance.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: And they have the money.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: They have all the money. They have all the money.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: But yes, I'm reading a quote here from the South
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Carolina Public Charter School District Superintendent, Chris Neely, by establishing
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: a transparent merit-based process that rewards academic excellence and prioritizes
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: students with the greatest needs. and then invests in the
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: proven schools, kids will be put in South Carolina, will
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: be putting the kids first, which is really what I
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: think most people would have assumed we had been doing
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: all along with just regular public schools. But for whatever reason,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: that's not the way it's always gone. So we're trying
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: to course correct through the charter schools. And this is, again,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: just a small little piece, $ 75 million for this year.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: It's one time it will be distributed by the department
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: of education and it may only be used to build
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: or improve school buildings whose primary purpose is K through
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: 12 in-person classroom instructions. So the money's going there. We'll
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: see what kind of results we get for that investment,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: but I'm excited about it, Christopher.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, in the Midlands, I know there's, there's
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: a couple of charter schools that have just great collegiate,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: for example, has taken off and now they're building another
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: campus as a result of that. They they're, They're finding
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: that their method of education is working, and it's resonating
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: with both parents and students.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: All right. We've got to take a break, but if
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: you guys have thoughts on whether it's public schools and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: or the charter schools or maybe homeschooling, we'd love to
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: hear what your thoughts are on all of that. and
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: any other issues like the gas tag breaks and all
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. Just use that talkback feature on
• 39:35
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• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: This is Alan from Lexington.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Children are too valuable to be left in the hands
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: of people that can't even define what a woman is.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I guess that's a follow-up to our discussion on charter schools.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Did you happen to catch his name, Christopher?
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Alan from Lexington.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Alan from Lexington. Appreciate you listening and chiming in, sir.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: And speaking of people who can't identify what a woman,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't see this interview, but apparently Jake Tapper had
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: an exclusive with Gavin Newsom, and Gavin Newsom said, quote,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Kamala's going to run. We'll see.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't run for president if she ran. Why would I?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that to her. I wouldn't do it
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: to me. I won't waste everyone's time. Who needs that?
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: He says they're essentially in the same lane of the
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Democrat party and they would be taking away votes from
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: each other.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: So didn't he just endorse her then? I mean, that's
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: pretty much an endorsement.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: It sounds like it. I mean, is he suddenly dropping
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: out or is he telling her to drop out?
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Because she's the front runner, right?
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: She's the front runner, but she hasn't declared. I thought
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: he was running.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: He has made it obvious he would like to run. Yeah.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I don't even know if we have like a Gavin
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: for president committee or anything at this point.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Is this to put public pressure on her to say
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: she's not running? Is this to create that negative backlash?
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Because a lot of Democrats, you know, she may be
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: the frontrunner in name recognition, but a lot of Democrats
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: do not want to see that train wreck again.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: But just play it out. So you just said the
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: best candidate is her. And the Democrat Party, according to
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: what you're telling me, is a lot of them don't
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: want her. So you're out, too, because you just acknowledge
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: that she's the best. So you're you're literally committing political suicide.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: There's no other way of looking at this. I don't
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: know why he would say that. Why not dodge the answer?
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: He's dodged a lot of questions in the past. Why
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: not just? Bob and weave on that one. Are you
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: going to run? Boy, we've got to get through the midterm.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: There's a lot that can happen between now and just November.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Once we get through November, then we'll start to see
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: how things are looking maybe in January, see what the
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: new Congress looks like. Then we'll take a lay of
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the land. And, you know, maybe by February or March
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: of next year, I could give you a solid answer.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: You could bob and weave like that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Spoken like a true politician there.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Because that's the crap they all say every year. It's
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: like coach speak. You know, they've got standard patented answers
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: that they throw out there. But he just came out
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: and said, oh, I wouldn't run if Kamala's running. Almost
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: makes you wonder if he's looked at the political landscape.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: And of course, he's been traveling. He was here, what,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: last week, two weeks ago. It makes you wonder if
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: he's seen enough to think he doesn't have a chance.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: So he's just going to throw it on Kamala. Well,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: it's her fault. I was going to run, but she's,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: you know, she's just like me. So I'm not going
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: to divide Democrat voters. I'll just step aside. Or could
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: it be, Christopher, that after looking at insider polling, Gavin
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Newsom has come to the conclusion, as you've alluded, that
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: he can't win the presidency, but I'd make a hell
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: of a VP. I would be the best VP you've
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: ever seen. He already talks like Trump, right? He's trying to,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: at least. And so he could be the, you know,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of people describe the vice president's role, if
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: there is a role, as being like the attack dog
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: to defend the administration.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: She clearly can't defend herself. She's like a baby seal.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: There's just like, I'm out here flailing around with, you know,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: word salads. So he could be the attack dog that
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: would kind of defend her. I would be a hell
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: of a lot better candidate than Tim walls for your
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: vice president.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: True.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Although I'm not sure I would attach myself to her
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: candidacy at this point, but okay.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, what other Democrat would you go with?
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Well, that's true. Yeah.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you and I wouldn't say any of them. Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: But, he doesn't align with any of the others. So
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: I guess that makes sense.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe we're seeing the birth of a new campaign. Will
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: we get, will we get the Harris Newsome t-shirts printed?
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Is that what people want? Is that what the libs want?
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Is that the, I don't even think they want that.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: The libs don't want it. The, the, the, the true, uh,
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: hardcore leftists don't want Kamala and Gavin. They don't even
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: like either one of them, but, um, it might be enough.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: That might do it. That, Because, again, I've often said
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: that what most Americans are looking for in their politicians
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: is normalcy. Ironically, in 2016 and again in 2024, Donald
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Trump was the most normal. That's a rarity in politics
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: where the most normal person is going to be Donald Trump.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump spoke like most Americans speak. And again, a
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: lot of people are ruffled by his demeanor. Even on
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: the right, there's a lot of people ruffled by his demeanor.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: But again, he does speak like most Americans speak. I
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: think that there's a possibility that Gavin Newsom can lie
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: competently to make you think that their policies are also
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: in align with your values. And then you'd feel more
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: comfortable because, you know, Gavin would be doing most of
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: the talking. Kamala would be cackling and drinking white wine
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: in the corner. So I don't know if it's much
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: different than what we had with Joe Biden, somebody completely incompetent,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: and everybody else is running the government. But that looks
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: to be the birth of a new campaign, possibly. Gavin
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Newsom says he's out if Kamala decides to run. She's
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: the current frontrunner, according to most of the polls. I'm
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: calling for the Harris-Newsom campaign to launch sometime after the midterms.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: So does that eliminate Buttigieg then? And, all right, he's
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: out because he's similar to the two of them. So
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: it becomes— a mainstream Democrat versus a Democrat socialist, like
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: an AOC, for example?
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think that the Democrat socialist, despite the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: fervor that we're seeing, an out-and-out DSA member would be
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: tough to elect, even in a primary. Let's hope. I
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: think that that would be too tall of an order
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: at this point because the DSA continues, the members continue
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: to run their mouths about how they want to In
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: other words, you're running for a position that you hope
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: to eliminate. Am I understanding that correctly? You don't believe
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: we should have a president? That's correct. I would be
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the person to start implementing that. And you also would
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: like to get rid of the Senate? Yes, that'd be
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: part of it. And you'd like to erase borders? Absolutely.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: And you'd like to get rid of the Constitution because
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: those things are enshrined in the Constitution? Yeah, we got
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: to start all over. Okay. Nobody's voting for that. Let's hope.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Let's hope. Let's hope. All right, what do you think?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Are we going to get the Harris-Newsom campaign that I'm
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: thinking is coming down the pike? Maybe you have more
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: thoughts on the schools, whatever. We love hearing from people
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: like we just heard from Lexington. Let us know what
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: you're thinking in the Lowcountry, in the Midlands. We use
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app at 740.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: All right, we've got another lawsuit. Man, it's just like
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: it never ends. These people, they love to sue, sue, sue. Sue, sue, sue-dio.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: According to, I'm reading this in ABC News 4, the
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: South Carolina Supreme Court now scheduled to hear oral arguments
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: today in a lawsuit challenging the governor's repeated deployment of
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: our National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. This is being
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: brought by the South Carolina Public Interest Foundation. And this
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: will begin at 10 a.m. at Clemson University's Brook Center
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: for the Performing Arts. What? That's what it says. The case,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: SC Public Interest Foundation versus McMaster, argued beginning at 10 a.m.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Tuesday at Clemson University's Brook Center for the Performing Arts.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Is this a mock court?
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The lawsuit filed by the South Carolina
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Public Interest Foundation argues that McMaster exceeded his authority by
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: sending the national guard members to the nation's Capitol, the
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: argument centers around section 25, one eight, one four Oh,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: of South Carolina's law, which outlines the circumstances under which
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: a governor may deploy the state's military forces. The statute
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: permits deployments in cases of war, insurrection, invasion, riots, imminent threats,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: or public disasters. I would say DC clearly was a
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: public disaster.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Um, And we deployed when? In August of last year?
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: And... Whenever Trump asked. Okay.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: You know, please come and help. D.C. is a disaster.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: We need help.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: And it's September of 2026. And they're just getting around
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: to this?
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: The governor's deployment orders... Now, this is... I'm reading... This
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: is great. The governor's deployment orders are a shameful political stunt,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: says the people who want to have it in a theater.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: They want to... What do you think you're doing? This is, look,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about the South Carolina, what are
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: they called again? The Public Interest Foundation. But if you
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: think that you're serving our public interest by forcing my
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: tax dollars to go towards a lawsuit, you obviously don't
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: understand what the public interest is. And if you think
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: that anybody who is concerned about America has a problem
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: with our National Guard troops going in to defend D.C.,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: especially after Guards troops were shot. We have a legitimate
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: problem in this country, and thankfully, the president and a
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: lot of republican governors are standing up and saying enough
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: is enough it should have been enough is enough a
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: while back but we're at least there now and i
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: i don't appreciate them suing on quote unquote my behalf
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: do you christopher not at all i wish they would stop.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: But i i love Washington, D.C., feeling safer because it's
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: the center of government and it's one of the top
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: tourist attractions in the United States, especially for visitors who
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: come from outside the country to see what it's like
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: to see what our government, they want to see the
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: seat of government.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: And by the way, it does set the tone. The Washington, D.C.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: sets the tone for the rest of America. And when
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: America or when D.C. 's in a crap hole and
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: looked like a crap hole, America was looking like a
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: crap hole. So anyway, I'm reading this again from ABC
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: News 4. The hearing is open to the public. A
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: ruling is not expected Tuesday as the court typically issues
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: written decisions. weeks or months after the oral arguments are heard.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: But if you want to go, I guess you have
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: to drive, is it to the upstate for this? Yeah,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: to Clemson.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: A case involving Southern Charm reality TV stars Thomas Ravenel
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: and Catherine Dennis, also on the docket today at Clemson.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: My gosh. So you'll get your entertainment. Hair and makeup
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: is required. It's 748.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Look who came wheeling himself back. Well, he wasn't even
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: wheeling himself. Somebody else was wheeling Mitch McConnell in yesterday.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell is back in D.C. And, you know, look,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: I've had a lot of problems with Mitch McConnell through
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: the years. I've had a lot more as I've delved
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: further and further into his ties with the communists in China.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: But just on a short-term basis, the fact that he's
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: back is good. We've got a farm bill that's been
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: stalled because Democrats hate farmers, and they keep voting to
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: not let it out of committee. So Mitch McConnell being back,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: they're going to bring it back up for a vote tomorrow,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: and it will get through the committee tomorrow. And then
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: it'll make its way down the hall to the big,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: big Senate, and perhaps some farmers can get some relief
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: around here.
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: He's the chair of that committee?
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: The chair is from Arizona.
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Let's see. John Boozman. Boozman, yeah. Excuse me, Arkansas. He
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: is the chair, but Mitch McConnell's vote is needed as
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: it's continued to be blocked by the Democrats. So we'll
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: hopefully be able to get– yesterday we were talking about
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: diesel prices, all-time highs. Just farmers are desperate for some relief.
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: And so hopefully the Republicans can provide it now with
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell back for as long as we got him.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Enjoy him while you got him. We'll talk about more stuff.
• 52:05
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• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Hi there, and welcome to it. This is Kelly Nash, 803,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson. How are you today? I am good.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Ready for a Tuesday.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: All right. We've been talking about flock cameras. This is
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: not going to help the people who want the flock cameras.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: This is an unbelievable story. Investigative TV, whoever they are,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: down in Palm Coast, Florida, has the very sad case
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: of a woman named Lindsay Isaacs, who was asleep in
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: her apartment when the Florida Highway Patrol troopers basically kicked
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: in her door and told her that they knew, they
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: knew beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Lindsay was
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: responsible for the deaths of three people. It's all been
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: caught on flock cameras. We got you. We got your
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: license plate. And you have physical damage to your Dodge Durango.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: She was like, wait a minute, what? And she's arrested
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: and frog marched and put into a jail. So while
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: sitting in jail, of course, she contacts a lawyer. The
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: lawyer says, hey, look, you got the wrong person. She
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: wasn't even there. This is not who did it. And
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: they said, I'm sorry, sir, but the license plate reader
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: puts her there. And we do have some still shots
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: that shows a Dodge Durango, which she happens to also own.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Lindsay went to jail and sat there without bail, facing
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: life in prison for 13 days. It wasn't until her
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: lawyer asked to see the vehicle that had been damaged
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: and killed those three people. That he was able to say, hey, dum-dums,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Lindsay drives a black Dodge Durango. We're all in agreement? Yes. Well,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: the cameras don't really show the color that well, other
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: than it was a dark Durango. The paint that had
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: hit this thing is a maroon Durango. Uh-oh. And the
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: license plate, you didn't quite get it right. I know
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: it looks like it says that, but that's not it.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: And they had the wrong person the whole time.
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: Ooh.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: This is not going to go well.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: This is a lawsuit waiting to happen if it hasn't
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: already been filed.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure she's going to sue the pants off
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: of somebody. Her lawyer is just lining up people to
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: just sue the pants off of. Get your pants on
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: because they're about to come off. 13 days, as well
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: as the one used to arrest a suspect after Isaacs
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: was exonerated. So the officers in Dillon's traffic homicide investigation
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: conducted the search of the area. Flock cameras looking specifically.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: For a black Dodge Durango, although it was actually a maroon.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like the problem we're having with the Gamecocks.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: What color is it? Is it garnet? Is it black?
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: What are we doing? So they couldn't quite make the
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: difference out with the flock cameras, and that's what led
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: to her being arrested because, again, the license plate apparently
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: was similar, though not the same. It's ironic that it
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: would also be a Dodge Durango. I get that there's
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of coincidences happened here in order for this
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: nightmare to occur. But that is a nightmare that a
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: woman just sitting in her apartment, sound asleep, gets the
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: door kicked in because they think they got her. Look,
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: that's the Dodge Durango. It's the license plate. We know
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: she's the driver. Let's get her and bring her in.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: She led to the death of three people.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, errors like that are not going to help those
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: who are proponents of vlog cameras, no doubt. Because they're
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: supposed to be accurate readers of your license plate. Forget
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: the make and model of the car. It's supposed to
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: get your license plate right at least.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: And to that point, Christopher, how many times are they
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: tracking the wrong vehicles? How many times is it like
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: they think they know where you are, but they don't?
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: They actually got it wrong. So, again, we've talked about
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: it before. AI is not perfect. It's a long way
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: from perfect, actually. And if you have one of those
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: like Claude or ChatGPT or Grok or something like that,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: you can ask it some questions and they'll get it wrong. Oh, yeah.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: And then you ask them to create something like a,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: you know, people like to have fun with imagery or whatever.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: And they'll say, make me a tennis player or whatever.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: And then it's like they put it in there like
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: a cricket match or something. It's like, well, wait a minute.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: I said tennis, not cricket. And they're like, this is tennis.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, okay. So AI struggling. So we should
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: not be relying on this stuff as of yet. Is
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: it a good tool?
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Could you go and investigate? Absolutely. But the basics of
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: an investigation would say, what color was the vehicle that
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: hit and ran here? We know it's maroon. You didn't even,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: you just, you relied on the flock camera over your
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: own eyes. Gosh, that is stupid. but that's where we're going.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: People want to rely more and more on artificial intelligence
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: rather than using their own intelligence. Do you have thoughts
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: on that? Let us know by using the talkback feature
• 57:29
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• 57:32
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting when you look at college enrollments,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: they continue to increase. We've Been hearing for years now
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: about the amount of debt that college students take on.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: I'll also point out that the population is shrinking, basically.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: The United States is not producing. The average family has
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: not produced two children or more in decades. That's why
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: I think we're currently at 1.6 is the average population.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: So we have fewer young people today than we did
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: in the 80s and 90s, and yet many more college students.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: And if you look at like South Carolina, some of
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: that's based on out-of-state growth. I mean, we are taking in,
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, we've argued about that before, we are
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: offering oftentimes at Clemson and South Carolina, some of the
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: better ranking students in like New Jersey and Pennsylvania will
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: get an in-state tuition offer to come here, which is
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: to me, one of the stupidest uses of our money ever,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: because the in-state tuition is supposed to help out South
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: Carolina residents. That's the point of it. It's not, and
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: we're not concerned with how we rank on the U
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: S world news college thing. I don't, we're not, we're
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: not here to compete with private universities, but.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: That might be okay. If those students stayed here and
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: then were productive members of our workforce, instead of going
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: back home, and taking what they learned here and taking
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: their skills with them.
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: They're not improving South Carolina. It's kind of like the
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: argument about immigration. Are these people improving America or are
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: they just here to take advantage of America? Oftentimes it's
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: to take advantage. But I saw this story this morning,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: and I said I had to do a double take
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: on it. I'm like, am I reading this correctly? Newberry
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: College is offering a 100% tuition coverage for South Carolina
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: families making less than $ 100, 000 per year.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: New and transfer students are eligible for the program so
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: long as they are South Carolina residents. Undergraduate tuition will
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: be covered for four years or eight semesters. Now, the
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: benefit does not apply to your housing, meals, or textbooks.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: So you're still going to have to have some out-of-pocket costs.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: But the president, David Harpool, says South Carolina families shouldn't
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: assume that a private college education is out of reach
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: for eligible South Carolina students. The Newberry tuition advantage changes
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: that conversation. We want families to understand what the actual
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: cost could be and explore Newberry before deciding what's financially possible.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I would say that is one of the greatest investments
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: that this university could make because right now there's a
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: bunch of South Carolina families that are either going to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: read this in the Post and Courier or wherever they're
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: getting their news, perhaps listening to us here on iHeartRadio,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: and they're going to say, wait a minute, well, how
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: much does it cost to go to Newberry? Is it
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: less expensive than going to the University of South Carolina
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: or Clemson or Coastal or whoever? Maybe we should go
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: to take a look at Newberry. And if you make
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: less than $ 100, 000, it's definitely less because it's free.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: As long as you can cover your housing and meals,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: you're set.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's an incredible... Now, of course, you'd also
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: have to have the grades.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: They're not accepting people that are, you know, dolts. So
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: as long as you're not adult and your parents are
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: not doing that well financially as far as $ 100, 000, and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: that's for the family. So that's if you have mom
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: and dad both working and they're still making less than $ 100, 000.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that there's some other alternatives in there
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: where they might cover part of your tuition if you're
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: making more than $ 100, 000 or whatever. But again, the exploding
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: cost of college has been artificially inflated by the federal
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: government issuing these loans. And it's nice to see the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: Trump administration battling that. And now we're having some local
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: help here, Newberry College, making that announcement. So just some
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: good news if you're interested in going to college. And again,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I'm with Mike Rowe. We need a lot more people
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: in the trades, a lot. And those jobs pay through
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: the roof. In some instances, well into six figures. So
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: you should explore that if you're built that way. I'm
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: not built that way, by the way. Side story, I
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: had to go to a technical high school, vocational high school,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: because my parents didn't want me to play football. And
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: because they had to just find a school that didn't
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: have a football team, I went and played soccer, basketball,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: and baseball, but I couldn't play football. So I didn't
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: get any concussions apparently, but I also got an education
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: I couldn't use because I still, I can barely set
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: the thermostat on an HVAC, nevermind fix it. But that's
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: not how I was. I'm not built that way. For
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: those of you who are, you should use it and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: make a lot of money. All right, we'll take a
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: break and back with more in just a minute. It's 818.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: This is Kelly Nash, last. June, I got to go
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: to Washington, D.C. for my birthday to see the military parade.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: I was very excited about it. My birthday is Flag Day.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: It's the same as the president's. It's the same as
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: the Army's. And since I was going to D.C., I
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: had mentioned to my friend, who's also my representative in Congress,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Joe Wilson, that I would be there. And he invited
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: me to his office. And in the midst of all
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: of that, me and my wife ended up in an elevator,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: a very jam-packed elevator. And the last person into the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: elevator was Ilhan Omar. And Ilhan Omar, and I'm not pretending, Christopher,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: this is legit, looked me up and down and said,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: that's a nice jacket. And then she reached out and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: touched my jacket.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar shot her shot with me and my wife
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: was standing there and I was stunned. I was absolutely stunned. Now,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: did that make me like her anymore? No, it did
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: not because I knew who she was. And then I
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: get this clip. yesterday, her walking and talking with one
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: Don Lamond about Charlie Kirk and how bad she feels
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: about Charlie Kirk.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: I feel for his widow and his children. They will
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: have to live with that for the rest of their lives.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: But there is no legacy to honor. It was a
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: legacy filled with bigotry, hatred and white supremacy.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Shut your filthy mouth. The Charlie Kirk legacy is there
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: is no legacy. It's a legacy filled with bigotry, hatred,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: and white supremacy. I'm trying to figure out a gracious
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: way to let her out of what she just said,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: but there is no great. What she said is bigotry, hatred,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: and I'll say radical Islamic supremacy. How's that? Radical Islamic
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: supremacy is what she's promoting. and bigotry, and hatred. She
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: hates America. She's the one who uses our laws against us.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: She's the one who filed the bill and put in
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: the backdoor escape clause so that the restaurants in Minnesota
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: could exploit us to the tunes of billions and billions
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: of dollars. That's her. And, I mean, just shut up
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: about Charlie Kirk. You know, what's that old phrase? We
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: got nothing nice to say. Shut your mouth. So you,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: I feel so bad for his wife. Imagine if you're
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: talking to somebody, whoever that he or she may be
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: about their spouse. I'm so sorry to hear about your spouse,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: you know, passing in a car accident or in this instance, assassinated.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: Very sorry to hear about that. But you know, there's
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: no honesty. There's no honor there, right? There's no legacy
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: for that because that person, your loved one is a
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: bigot filled with white supremacy and hatred. I feel like
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: that word, by the way, The word white supremacy is
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: almost like the word fascist, which is like the word
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: racist in the sense that it doesn't have any effect
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: on it, on people anymore. People no longer are as
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: afraid of that. Because you used to be called a racist,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: and people would like, what? You don't want to be
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: called that. Nowadays, it's like, well, you're calling everybody that.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it gets thrown around all the time.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: We're just as guilty on the right of calling people communists.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: And we throw that out there, and it's kind of
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: been watered down. We should reserve the word communists for
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: actual communists. And socialism is the introduction. We should make
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: the distinction, what is a socialist, what is a communist?
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: And there are certain communists in the DSA, and there
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: are socialists in the DSA. Both are very dangerous to America.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: And then there's just crazy liberals. So we should be
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: more precise with our language. But her, gosh, she just
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: infuriates me. Who's the Ilhan Omar fans? Please chime in
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: on the talkback feature. We'd love to hear who supports
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: her and any of these other people who want to
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: just continue to run their mouth about Charlie Kirk.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: Some of the stuff on social media in the last
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: couple of days, and if you saw there was a
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: right-wing backlash against, it seemed like college kids were just
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: emboldened to promote their celebrations of what they called the Kirk-aversary.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: And they made the mistake of posting all that on
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: social media. And you saw a lot of right-wing commentators
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: on social media, not only calling them out, but then
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: doxing them and finding out where they worked, where they
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: went to school, you know, who their parents were, et cetera.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: You saw a lot of that on social media in
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: the last couple of days. I think these kids are
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 4: going to regret their presence on social media, at least
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: when it comes to celebrating someone's assassination.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: We've got to take a break. When we come back,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of a follow-up on that story
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: and any of your comments on the Talk Back feature.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: It's 828.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: All right, 833. Kelly Nash here, Christopher Thompson there. And, Christopher,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: are you a fan of the Babylon Bee?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't subscribe, but I see the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: posts every now and then and get a chuckle out
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: I wonder how many people don't know about the Babylon Bee.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with it, it's basically, you know,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: it's fake news presented as real news. Kind of like
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of other places. But they do it in
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: a comedic way.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: The satire has gotten a lot closer to the truth
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: these days.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: They started off. basically as a Christian publication, and often
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: were making fun of Christian culture. And, you know, that
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: was fun. But then as they kind of delved their
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: little toe into the political arena, they realized the appetite
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: was huge. And so they've become more and more political
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: through the years. They did one, I don't know when
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: this one came out. I saw it yesterday, and I'm
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: not going to play all of it on the air,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: but it is... One of the funniest, I laughed. It's
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: very rare. When people say I laughed out loud, very
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: rarely do I laugh. laugh out loud at just something
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: that I'm seeing if I'm alone. But this one, I
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: was alone in my office and I kept rewinding it
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: and playing it back. And so the setup is it's
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: the year 2026. By the way, we're in the year 2026.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: And the left has had enough. they are outraged is
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: one of the guys says earlier in the video, something
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: to the extent of the Republicans were using every trick
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: in the book against us, basically voting. So they've decided
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: on the left to declare a civil war and it's
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: now being presented basically like a Ken Burns documentary. And
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: this is, this is fantastic.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: The left began to quickly make preparations to take the
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 8: country by force.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 7: It's not easy to start a war.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: It involves a lot of talking on the phone, which
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: gives many of us anxiety.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 8: An initial target was settled on, a lazy suburb that
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 8: served as a symbol of the bourgeoisie and capitalism. But
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 8: this small neighborhood was not caught by surprise.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Doreen's son goes to one of those fruity colleges on
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: the west coast, and we got word from him war
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: was coming.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 8: The invading army descended on the small neighborhood, but the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 8: attack did not go as planned.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: In the city, we're used to being able to burn
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: down a target and no one does anything.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: I guess it's different in the suburbs, though.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 8: The suburbanites had an ace up their sleeves, firearms.
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  Speaker 5: One of the big issues is how we hate guns,
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  Speaker 5: but the right loves them.
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  Speaker 3: I guess none of us considered how big a disadvantage
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  Speaker 3: that would put us in a civil war.
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  Speaker 2: This is comedy genius. And, you know, not to ruin
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: it for y'all. But just in case you don't get
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: to go see this whole thing, it ends very sadly
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  Speaker 2: for the left because they're scared off by one gunshot.
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  Speaker 2: And they end up moving to Canada where they die
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: of mass starvation because Uber Eats doesn't deliver. I mean,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: these are the people that are trying to ruin our country. Gosh,
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  Speaker 2: the Babylon Bee is hysterical. And sometimes the best thing
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  Speaker 2: you can do is laugh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best thing we can do, I think, sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: because it gets very serious and you can get bogged
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: down in the minutia of it and you can get
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: down and be somewhat depressed at the state of affairs
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  Speaker 2: in this country, but then recognize the overwhelming majority of
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  Speaker 2: Americans do not agree with the extreme far radical left.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that they are the loudest in the room.
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  Speaker 2: And so... their ideas and theologies, whatever, they get the
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  Speaker 2: most attention because they're screaming. Plus you have the, they're
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: partnering with the mainstream media. So we're here to just
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: kind of reset you and say, okay, that's not real life.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: This is real life. And we do have certain attacks
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: that are taking place. We were just talking about that
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: lawsuit taking place today up in Clemson and all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of ridiculousness that happens from the left that pushes this
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  Speaker 2: agenda on us. But overall, Overall, the state of the
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  Speaker 2: nation is doing pretty well. We're okay right now. We're
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: having an affordability issue. Maybe before we wrap it up,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back to that gas tax proposals that we're
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: hearing from both the Wilson campaign. We're also hearing it
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: from Jordan Pace, and we're also hearing it at the
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  Speaker 2: federal level. We spoke with Russell Fry about it earlier today.
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  Speaker 2: We'll maybe talk about that, maybe get some relief coming
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  Speaker 2: your way as we continue with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so looking at Nick Reynolds on Twitter, I
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: am Nick Reynolds, reporter, good guy. He tweeted out yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: there were six pieces of legislation proposing to suspend the
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  Speaker 2: gas tax during the session. Christopher, you were reminding us
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  Speaker 2: of that earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know there was exactly six different proposals. All
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  Speaker 2: of them went nowhere. Who's in control? Republicans. Republicans did not.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them, I think, came from the Freedom Caucus.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want to hear about it. We're now in
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: a position where we have a federal move by Russell
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  Speaker 2: Fry and others in the Freedom Caucus and others up
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  Speaker 2: in Washington to suspend potentially the federal gas tax, which
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  Speaker 2: is roughly 18 cents. I think we're at like 24
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  Speaker 2: cents here for the local state tax. On gas, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, according to this, a 30-day pause would mean
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  Speaker 2: $ 90 million less in the coffers. So $ 90 million a
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  Speaker 2: month is what we're bringing in off the gas tax.
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  Speaker 2: The Alan Wilson proposal, if you want to look at
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: that on his Facebook page, I'm not going to read
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  Speaker 2: the entire thing to it, but Basically, it's saying I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to see the General Assembly give the governor the
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  Speaker 2: authority to temporarily suspend the state gas tax. And there
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  Speaker 2: could be a trigger. When I'm looking at, like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where this is coming from. This is somebody
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  Speaker 2: named Gas Buddy Guy. Gas Buddy Guy is quoted in
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  Speaker 2: the story. Live data now showing that gas prices appear
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: to be at $ 4. 19 per gallon in South Carolina today.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's Patrick DeHaan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's the guy who studies gas prices around the state.
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  Speaker 2: So like, I look at like my Google maps and
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  Speaker 2: I just put gas prices near me. Thankfully we're near
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of Murphy USAs cause they're at three 78
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  Speaker 2: and three 77 a gallon. Um, there's a marathon at
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  Speaker 2: four 10. I don't see a gas price at four 19,
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  Speaker 2: but that's just, again, I'm in Columbia. Maybe it's different
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: in the upstate or the low country or wherever. Um,
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  Speaker 2: But if the average is over $ 4 a gallon, it
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  Speaker 2: would be one idea. Just that automatically triggers that the
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  Speaker 2: governor could suspend the gas tax. And again, you would
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  Speaker 2: get $ 0. 24 off. So if it's $ 4. 19, you'd be back
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  Speaker 2: under $ 4 a gallon in that instance. And if the
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: federal government chips in, now you're at like, what did
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: we say it was earlier? Like $ 0. 28 or $ 0.
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  Speaker 3: 30?
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  Speaker 2: I forget what it was. But it's more money in
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: your pocket. Yes. And more important, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say more importantly, but it also would drive down the
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: cost of transporting foods and services out there. So that
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  Speaker 2: would be a help as well. I don't know. We're
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  Speaker 2: not I don't think we're quite in emergency levels right now.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll also say this as someone who follows politics,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be great to do it before the midterms. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: It would it would look political.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 4: We've been talking about this for months now before we
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: got even near the midterms. It would have been a
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  Speaker 4: great idea. I mean, as soon as the conflict started
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: and gas prices started going up, this would have been
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: a great idea. But the statehouse refused to jump on it.
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  Speaker 4: Thank goodness we've got cooler heads prevailing, apparently, and Russell
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  Speaker 4: Frye is going to do the same thing at the
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  Speaker 4: national level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just not him. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of guys obviously joining Russell with that. We just
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: happened to speak with him this morning. And again, if
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: you miss any parts of the show, Christopher does a
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: great job of encapsulating all of it and putting it
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: out there shortly after the show ends. You can listen
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: to the entire show. by just going to the iHeartRadio
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: app and looking for South Carolina's Morning News. That podcast
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: coming up in just a little bit, because we're just
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: about ready to wrap things up. It's 847.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. You know, I read these stories, and
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just... I have an adult son. Now, my son has...
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: autism and is on the spectrum and had some other challenges,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: but I am thankful that he is in his thirties.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Now I read these stories about kids getting exploited. This
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: is out of Mount Pleasant, a local influencer arrested on
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: charges involving the sexual exploitation of a minor. According to
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: the SC attorney general's office, Carson Dean Berry, age 23
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  Speaker 2: in Mount Pleasant, Taken into custody September 10th by investigators
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  Speaker 2: from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: Mount Pleasant Police Department. Charged with five counts of sexual
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: exploitation of a minor, one count of a criminal solicitation
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: of a minor. Each count is felony punishable up to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: 10 years in prison. This guy's got 420,000 followers on
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: TikTok and another 150,000 followers on Instagram. So, If you
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: have a kid, it doesn't even say if he's targeting
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: boys or girls or whatever, but I would just check
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  Speaker 2: my kids' accounts. Hey, are you following? One is called iCarsonLocked.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Another one is Carson.Barry with three Ys at the end
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: of it. Are you following this guy? Stop following him.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, was it yesterday we were talking about this, Christopher,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: how we have groups of people that are targeting children
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  Speaker 2: now at record rates, and it's like we're just defenseless
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: against them, it almost seems.
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  Speaker 4: Through their TikTok, through their gaming systems, et cetera. And
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: you would think if you're committing a crime, and again,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: these are alleged crimes right now, you would think if
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: you wanted to commit a crime, you would do it
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: in a low profile manner. But now we're seeing, I mean,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 4: via social media, it can be the highest profile people
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: who gain access to these kids and apparently are doing
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: it fairly, I mean, just right out in the open.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe not completely out in the open, but like
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: you're saying, he's obviously communicating electronically with these people, which
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: as that was one of those things that I think
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: we all learned. Well, if you're old enough in the
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: late nineties, early two thousands, when people started saying, if
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: you put it in an email, it's there forever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: You can't delete the internet.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: And that was one of those hard lessons for a
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: lot of people to learn that you can't delete the internet.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: Even if you delete the comment or you delete the
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: email or whatever, it lives on forever somewhere. Uh, and
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: you're not going to get rid of it. And so
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: once one person says, hey, this guy's doing something. If
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: the police can find that they're doing it to one person,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: then they're going to be able to get access to
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: everything that they've done, and now you're going to have
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: multiple charges against Carson Dean Barry. And a young person,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: he's only 23 himself, and doing this, targeting children. Very,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: very scary times, because again, you wouldn't think that, like
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: you said, a high-profile quote-unquote celebrity would be targeting children,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: but yet that's where we're at. So Guard your kids
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  Speaker 2: as best you can. It's a dangerous world out there.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: All right, be back tomorrow morning after 6. It's 8.55.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day.