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

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: All right, getting ourselves situated here this morning. Monday, getting
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  Speaker 2: back after it, a.
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  Speaker 3: Fresh week of opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And Christopher Thompson, Gamecocks took the full advantage of their
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  Speaker 2: opportunity on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Kelly, that was Saturday. You don't observe the 24-hour rule?
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: It's Monday. It's Oklahoma. I'm not celebrating. I'm just noting.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, did you see?
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  Speaker 2: I'm honestly a little too obsessed sometimes with football. And
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  Speaker 2: so I spent a large portion of Sunday just looking
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  Speaker 2: at Gamecock Twitter and Just looking at all the fans
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  Speaker 2: going nuts.
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  Speaker 3: I love you petty fans.
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  Speaker 2: The ones who bookmark the opposing team's posts.
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  Speaker 3: From earlier in the week, and then you go back
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  Speaker 3: and you rub it in their face.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there were some jabs taken by Gamecock fans on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. And speaking of jabs....
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 2: I saw two videos, one being a Tennessee player taking
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  Speaker 2: a punch at a Gamecock player who was mouthing off
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  Speaker 2: after the game. And this was taken by somebody on
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  Speaker 2: the field. And you're not supposed to be on the field.
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  Speaker 2: But they were on the field. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: a $ 500, 000 fine. But the other video, Gamecock fans were
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  Speaker 2: making it appear as if the player, he's, I think,
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  Speaker 2: a lineman for Tennessee. Like he took a, they said
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  Speaker 2: he'd bum-rushed, hit the guy with his shoulder and knocked
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  Speaker 2: over a fan.
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  Speaker 3: But I think if you slow that down and.
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  Speaker 2: Look at it pretty carefully, the guy in question was
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  Speaker 2: taking something that belonged to Tennessee's recording equipment or something,
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  Speaker 2: and that guy, because when he enters the frame, he
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  Speaker 2: has nothing in his hand, the football player. And when
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  Speaker 2: he's done, he's got some sort of, it looks like
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  Speaker 2: one of those sticks that you would have for a
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  Speaker 2: boom mic or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Like that guy was trying to take something from Tennessee's.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen the video you're talking about, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: did notice that. I mean, that's why fans are asked
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  Speaker 4: to stay off the field, at least until the opposing
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  Speaker 4: team is allowed to safely make it back to their
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  Speaker 4: locker room. I mean, it's dangerous for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: It is a little bit hypocritical for the Tennessee fans
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Saying these things when literally the week previous you stormed
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  Speaker 2: your field.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 2: Just a dad hypocritical. And then our friends at Clemson.
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  Speaker 2: My gosh, what happened there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's the same thing that's been happening all season.
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  Speaker 4: It's just there's no offense. And they're struggling right now.
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  Speaker 4: And it sounds like Dabo Sweeney is either taking the
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  Speaker 4: bull by the horns or at least making sure that
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  Speaker 4: he's in. on the play calling as of the second
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  Speaker 4: half against Virginia tech.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he said, I saw him walking off the field,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the first half, and he
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  Speaker 2: was like, it's not on the players. It's on us,
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  Speaker 2: bad coaching, beautiful coach. And then the lady said, so
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  Speaker 2: something about what are you going to do? And he's like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm fixing to fix it right now. And then they
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  Speaker 2: came out and they lost.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, so I don't know. It wasn't quite fixed. It
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  Speaker 3: was almost fixed, but not quite.
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  Speaker 4: No, they looked a little better in the second half,
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  Speaker 4: a little more productive, but.
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  Speaker 2: The, um, Yeah, that is not the Clemson Tigers that
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  Speaker 2: we've been used to for many years now. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: other stuff that's happening over the weekend. The city of
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  Speaker 2: Columbia confirmed that we did have a ransomware attack hit
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  Speaker 2: the city. Took down MyCola SC, Animal Services, Park Reservations.
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  Speaker 2: SLED has now got a criminal probe going, possibly bringing
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  Speaker 2: in the FBI on this. That's a pretty big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember... Gosh, Nikki Haley was the governor when
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  Speaker 2: all of our data was stolen. For those of you
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  Speaker 2: not living in South Carolina then, and I wonder how many,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't counted it. How many people have moved into
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina since that incident? But that was, if you
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  Speaker 2: lived in South Carolina at that time, your stuff is
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  Speaker 2: on the dark web. And I remember being very upset
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  Speaker 2: with the governor at the time because she was saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to give everybody a free year of some
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  Speaker 2: sort of identity watch, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't LifeLock. It was some other competitor.
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  Speaker 2: And even then they were saying typically what happens when
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  Speaker 2: they steal your data is they sit on it for
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  Speaker 2: at least three years.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And then they start using it because they want to
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  Speaker 2: let it chill. Got to let it chill.
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  Speaker 3: Then they'll sell it to somebody. And they don't sell
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  Speaker 3: it for a lot of money, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: I hear these commercials where they're talking about they're selling
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  Speaker 2: our stuff for like $.
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  Speaker 3: 10, $ 20.
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  Speaker 2: You can get my social security number, date of birth,
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  Speaker 2: mother's maiden name, banking account information, all that for like $ 20.
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  Speaker 3: And then they just start attacking.
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  Speaker 4: When they've got hundreds of thousands of names to sell,
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  Speaker 4: $ 10 or $ 20 goes a long way.
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  Speaker 3: I guess. But, you know, come on.
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  Speaker 2: A name like Christopher Thompson should go for a little more.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little bit more.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, so we got that going on. We've got
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  Speaker 2: Simpsonville weighing in on a flock ban. We've got, boy,
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  Speaker 2: the flooding in Charleston is just getting worse and worse,
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  Speaker 2: it seems. And so a lot of people are concerned
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  Speaker 2: about that. We'll be talking about all those stories. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, other situations. If you've got a situation you
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  Speaker 2: want us to address, please hit us up on the
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  Speaker 2: Talk Back feature. Uh, that is wide open and ready
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  Speaker 2: for business. It's the big juicy microphone. You hit that
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  Speaker 2: on your, I heart radio app when you're listening to
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  Speaker 2: the show there. Uh, all right, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 2: Be back with more. Thanks for starting your day with
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina's morning.
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  Speaker 1: News live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: morning news.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I am Kelly Nash. He is Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: Last Friday, we were discussing the quote unquote breaking news. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And again, I was kicking myself for looking at social
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  Speaker 2: media before I went to bed on Thursday because Thursday
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  Speaker 2: was when the Young Turks put out their big documentary,
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  Speaker 2: the docu-series on Lindsey Graham claiming that male intimacy coaches,
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  Speaker 2: trying to come up with a better name, more family-friendly
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  Speaker 2: name for what those individuals were doing, but they were
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  Speaker 2: claiming that he was a client.
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  Speaker 3: I condemn that.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, that is a blanket statement, not
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  Speaker 2: just about Lindsey Graham, about anybody. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: come with dirt on somebody, you got to do it
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  Speaker 2: while they're alive. Once they're no longer available for comment,
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  Speaker 2: your dirt is useless. Except now, you know, they're trying to,
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  Speaker 2: this is the bizarre, probably the most, one of the
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  Speaker 2: most bizarre situations in political history is What you have
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  Speaker 2: is the Democrat machine, or I'll just, I won't even
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  Speaker 2: say the machine. I will cut some Democrats a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of slack, and I'll say portions of the Democrat machine,
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  Speaker 2: the Young Turks and others involved, going out and getting
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  Speaker 2: these individuals in order to not only sully the name
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  Speaker 2: of Lindsey Graham, but try to use it in a
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  Speaker 2: way to attack his sister who's running for his seat,
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  Speaker 2: which is one of the most, again, I can't, it's
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  Speaker 2: so odd. What difference does Lindsey Graham's lifestyle make to
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham's candidacy? It should make no difference, and yet
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to make hay with it. I received several
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  Speaker 2: people who didn't like the fact that I brought it up.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned the fact that we do talk about things
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  Speaker 2: that people are talking about. And so I was bringing
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  Speaker 2: it up in order to point that out. A, it's
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  Speaker 2: out there. People are talking about it. B, here's some realities.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, some more realities of it.
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  Speaker 3: Um, one of the.
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  Speaker 2: Individuals was claiming that on November 11th, 2015, they were with, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Senator Graham, you know, in a rendezvous in DC when
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  Speaker 2: in the reality, pretty much that entire week he was
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  Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. So their, their, their stories don't align
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  Speaker 2: with reality. If you're going to use dates, at least
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  Speaker 2: do the homework to find out what dates he was
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  Speaker 2: in DC or when he was in Vegas or when
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  Speaker 2: he was in California or whatever you want to claim.
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  Speaker 2: is your bogus story. It's like, try to be a
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  Speaker 2: better liar.
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  Speaker 3: How's that?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good goal for Democrats. Try to be a
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  Speaker 2: better liar. I was talking over the weekend. I put
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  Speaker 2: it out on social media. What's his name? Abdul El-Sayed
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  Speaker 2: has Barack Obama out there. And he says, Obama is
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  Speaker 2: the first person in politics that I ever saw looked
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  Speaker 2: like me. Well, not that Barack really looks that close
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  Speaker 2: to Abdul El-Sayed, but he is a person of color.
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  Speaker 2: So the inference is that Barack was the first person
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  Speaker 2: of color that he ever saw in politics. When you
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  Speaker 2: as a lifelong Michigander are claiming you don't know, you
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  Speaker 2: weren't aware of John Conyers. John Conyers, who represented Michigan
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  Speaker 2: from the freaking 60s till 2017. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the original DSA converts, one of the most radical members
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  Speaker 2: in the history of America that ever went in elected office.
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  Speaker 3: And he was a light-skinned black guy.
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  Speaker 2: He looked just as much like you as did Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And he was on the scene way before Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 2: especially for somebody like you living in Michigan, if you
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  Speaker 2: were looking for people. So if you're going to lie,
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  Speaker 2: just be a better liar. But they're not even good
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  Speaker 2: at that. They're bad liars. It's frustrating, Christopher, that people
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  Speaker 2: don't call them out on it. You and I are
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  Speaker 2: sitting here just screaming in the void. They're lying about this.
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  Speaker 2: They're lying about that.
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  Speaker 4: And I guess they'll say it is forgotten how critical
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  Speaker 4: he was of Obama back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. That's old news. That is old news now. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Just pick up your lying game.
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  Speaker 3: Be better at lying, Democrats. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of lying, maybe we'll get into the Alaska race.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get into California. There's so many things where
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  Speaker 2: they're just, it should be losing them votes en masse
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  Speaker 2: from the middle.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if it is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it will, but we'll bring up
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  Speaker 2: some of the more Bizarre stories of the weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: there was plenty of them with the Democrats. But if
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  Speaker 2: there's something you want to talk about, are you upset
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  Speaker 2: about this Lindsey Graham story as I am? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just livid that they would do this, that they
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  Speaker 2: would bring that story up months after he's passed away
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  Speaker 2: in order to try to somehow fix an election. The
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  Speaker 2: Andrews campaign ought to be full-throated condemning this. They ought
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  Speaker 2: to be on every microphone they can get on saying
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  Speaker 2: this is disgusting and vile and we reject it wholeheartedly.
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  Speaker 2: But I haven't heard that either. Maybe you have. If
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  Speaker 2: you have, let me know about it on the Talkback feature.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a break and be back in just a minute.
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  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 8: Everybody in the entire world knew that Lindsey Graham was gay.
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  Speaker 3: This was not some big secret. Nobody cared.
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  Speaker 8: I never voted for him because he never met a
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  Speaker 8: war he didn't like, but it had nothing to do
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  Speaker 8: with him being gay. It's kind of like George Michael
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  Speaker 8: back in the eighties. Everybody knew George Michael was gay. Well,
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  Speaker 8: the girls may not want to have admitted it, but
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  Speaker 8: if you're a guy in the eighties, you knew he
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  Speaker 8: was gay.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody cared.
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  Speaker 2: The girls may not want to have admitted. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was a huge George Michael fan. I thought he was, um,
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  Speaker 2: a super talent, Christopher. And, uh, so I actually paid
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  Speaker 2: closer attention. I think that George Michael than most straight
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  Speaker 2: guys did. And, uh, I remember seeing a documentary with
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  Speaker 2: him years after that, you know, fanatical run that he
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  Speaker 2: had early with wham. And then the, but the, I
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  Speaker 2: want your sex tour or whatever it was called. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and he was saying that it was around the I
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  Speaker 2: want your sex tour that he realized he was actually gay.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I've been fighting it most of my life
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  Speaker 2: and I've been trying to date girls. And as a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, the girl in the, I want your
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  Speaker 2: sex video, I think was his girlfriend at the time,
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  Speaker 2: that Asian girl.
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  Speaker 3: And then he was like that.
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  Speaker 2: I got really depressed when I started thinking about I'm
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  Speaker 2: letting my family down and all that other stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: as far as voters going, no, to the talkback feature
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  Speaker 2: point that nobody cared that whatever, and nor should we
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are the ones who tend to make a bigger
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  Speaker 2: deal out of people's sexuality. And they want to punish
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  Speaker 2: you for being heterosexual and glorify you for being anything else. But, um, and,
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  Speaker 2: and they're trying to make hay with the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the idea that Lindsey Graham would have been against himself
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  Speaker 2: or vote against his own interest.
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  Speaker 3: When in reality, uh, if Lindsey Graham was.
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  Speaker 2: Gay and I'm not going to go as far as
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  Speaker 2: the talkback feature and say that I knew he was gay.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about Lindsey Graham's private life. But
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  Speaker 2: if he was gay, I don't see where he voted
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  Speaker 2: against his own interest. He seemed to be living a
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  Speaker 2: very happy, fulfilling life.
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  Speaker 4: Agreed. I, you know, it's, To say it was an
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  Speaker 4: open secret, there were a lot of rumors.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Which he always denied. So, yeah, beyond that, we don't
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  Speaker 4: know and we'll never know.
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  Speaker 3: There was actually, if.
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  Speaker 2: You go back to somewhere in that like 2015 era,
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  Speaker 2: if I remember right, it was like Politico or one
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  Speaker 2: of those magazines were reporting that Lindsey Graham had two
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  Speaker 2: girlfriends at the time. And they were saying that one
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  Speaker 2: of them was a stewardess or something and that he
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  Speaker 2: was actually considering proposing to her. I remember when Tim
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  Speaker 2: Scott was single for all these years, and people were
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  Speaker 2: saying that he was gay.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And then Tim Scott got married, and now they're saying
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  Speaker 2: that that's a fake wedding. That's a fake marriage. Why
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  Speaker 2: would he need to fake it? There's no need to
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  Speaker 2: fake it. Nobody cares if you get married to a man,
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  Speaker 2: a woman. As long as whatever you're doing is legal,
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  Speaker 2: the people... Particularly now, this era of Republicans have zero interest.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I was always identifying myself more as a libertarian,
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  Speaker 2: because I always thought that it was an overstatement or
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  Speaker 2: an overreach of government to take an interest in what
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  Speaker 2: happens in people's lives.
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  Speaker 3: Personal lives. Just let the people live how they want
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  Speaker 3: to live.
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  Speaker 2: If they want to put themselves under the authority of
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  Speaker 2: God and the Bible, then let them do that. If
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  Speaker 2: they want to live the life under, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 2: rules they want to come up for, as long as
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  Speaker 2: they're not hurting other people, that's fine. And I think
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  Speaker 2: most Republicans align with that. It's the Democrats now that
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  Speaker 2: have flipped on that position and now want to make
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  Speaker 2: hay with that.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, we will take a break. Thank you for your talk, Bax.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got more to add, go ahead and hit
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  Speaker 2: us up on the iHeartRadio app. We'll take a little
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  Speaker 2: bottom-of-the-hour news break here.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, not only do I obsess over Gamecock social media,
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  Speaker 2: I also obsess over MAGA social media. You people are
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  Speaker 2: good and petty as well, and I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 2: Today is the 79th birthday of Hillary Clinton. And you've
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  Speaker 2: all gone back in time. And it seems like every
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  Speaker 2: person I'm following on social media has gone back and
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  Speaker 2: found the tweet from October 26th, 2016. And Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 2: tweeted out a picture of herself from her, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: fifth grade or whatever. And it said, happy birthday to
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  Speaker 2: this future president. And they're all, it's 10 years later. Grok,
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  Speaker 2: did this ever happen? Did she ever become the president?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope Hillary's having a nice 79th birthday and
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  Speaker 2: avoiding social media.
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  Speaker 3: That is cruel and unusual punishment.
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  Speaker 2: But why would you wish yourself a happy birthday? You know,
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  Speaker 2: like the future president.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up. Nobody liked that. That's probably part of the
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  Speaker 3: reason you lost.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go over to what we heard in one of
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  Speaker 2: the Fox News breaks. They were talking about the chaos
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  Speaker 2: in Alaska. And I referenced that earlier in the broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not keeping up with it, imagine, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Murphy, longtime senator representing the state of Connecticut. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't had a Republican in Connecticut win for years. What
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  Speaker 2: if the Republicans found a Republican with the name of
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  Speaker 2: Chris Murphy and convinced him to re-register as a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: and then challenge Chris Murphy?
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  Speaker 3: That would be Bush League.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly what's happening in Alaska, where Dan Sullivan,
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  Speaker 2: the senator.
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  Speaker 3: is being challenged by.
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  Speaker 2: New Republican, new as of February of this year, lifelong
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Dan Sullivan, member of the Teachers Union and also
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: frequent participant of No Kings rallies. re-registered as a Republican,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: and then challenged for the Senate. Some are pointing out
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: that it'd probably be impossible for him to come up
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: with the money on his own to do all that,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: and then never mind the legal suits that came after,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: because right off the bat, the Alaska Election Commission said, no,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: you've never voted for a Republican in any race according
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: to your Alaska voting history. Why would we believe that
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: you are now a Republican running against a guy who
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: has the exact same name as you? But he challenged
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: it all the way up to the, I think it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: was the Alaska Supreme Court. Maybe it might have even
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: been the federal Supreme Court. Anyway, he's in. Now, in Alaska,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: they have ranked voting. And what that means is chaos ensues.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Ranked voting came out as one of these things that
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: was supposed to eliminate all the extreme positions. Because you,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: as a MAGA extremist, would vote number one for your
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: MAGA Republican. But then you would find a moderate, probably,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: as your number two candidate. And then you probably wouldn't
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: even put three and four because those people are.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Probably liberals, right? Okay.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: So what happens is your guy gets eliminated. And once
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: he gets eliminated, so does your ballot. You're out because
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you didn't bother ranking three and four. So that's called
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: an exhausted ballot and ranked. And that's how Democrats planned it.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: And that's how Democrats are winning. So you currently have
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: three Republicans, two of whom are named Dan Sullivan and
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And then you have one Democrat, Mary Pallotta or something
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: like that's her name. And they are clutching the pearls
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: because the Department of Justice announced last week and Trump
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: put it out on Truth Social. We're going to sue
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: for confusion in Alaska if they don't if the right
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan doesn't win. If the other Dan Sullivan somehow
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: pulls it off, or even if that other Republican pulls
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it off, or if the Democrat pulls it off, we've
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: already got the lawsuit locked up and ready to go.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: And they're clutching the pearls. What about democracy, Mr. President?
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: And then I had Dana Bash yesterday on CNN. Mr.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Blanche, is this the president trying to stage another January
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: 6th type of riot? Are you freaking kidding me, lady?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: You're the ones doing all the chaos. By the way,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: speaking of interesting chaos, this was, I think, Wednesday. They
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: had their debate up in Alaska. This is the end
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: of the question being answered by the Democrat Peltola. And
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: then you'll hear Dan Sullivan, who is literally two feet
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: from her. looking at her notes, ask a question.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Everything from gas to groceries, and it's put all of us.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: In a crunch.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Ms.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Peltier.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: May I ask a moderate or a question?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: We weren't supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: No, sir.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Neither one of you got questions beforehand.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm just watching my opponent.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: No, that is absolutely not. I'm reading the questions on
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: her notes before you ask them.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Again, they are rigging elections as best they can. And
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I would be just as outraged if there was a
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Chris Murphy who flipped to a Democrat in Connecticut to
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: try to help the Republicans in Connecticut who haven't won
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: in forever. I'd be just as ticked off if there
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: was a new Mark Kelly in Arizona. I mean, just
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: because if there was a new Elizabeth Warren popping up
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, if there was a new Bernard Sanders in Vermont.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is unethical at best.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: It's just a stunt.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: And it's a stunt designed to do exactly what it's doing,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: confuse voters.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And so when you notice that, then you're the extremist.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson's the problem because he noticed. And he said, hey, hey,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that doesn't seem ethical. A guy who has never run
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: for anything, he's never run for school board, he's never
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: run for dog catcher, suddenly wants to run for Senate
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: in a state where the guy who he would be
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: running against is named the same name as him. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: now you're converting to his party.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: That's not odd. That's come on.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: That thing stinks to high heaven. And the Democrats ought
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to condemn it and kick him out. The Republicans ought
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to try. Well, they did try to kick him out.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And then they somehow this guy came up with hundreds
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars for a legal defense that where
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: did that come from?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: His teacher's salary? Doubtful. Maybe we're overpaying teachers in Alaska,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on up there, but it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: stinks to high heaven. And it should be condemned. Again,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: that should be something that both parties can condemn. If
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: you want to run on the issues, run on the issues.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Don't convolute the issues, though. Um, that's how I feel
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: about it. How do you feel about it? You can
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: use the talk back feature to get it. Christopher Thompson
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and myself. We'll be back in a moment.
• 21:42
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• 21:47
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• 21:50
  Speaker 1: AM WVOC and 94, three WSC. Speaking of shenanigans.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's what we saw down in
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Brazil or not. I do find it ironic in America
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: when you put like an L up in front of
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: your forehead, you're indicating you're a loser, right?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: You're a loser.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: That is apparently the international sign, though, for liberals. And
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: so we had a whole bunch of Hollywood stars over
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: the weekend putting L videos up to encourage Brazilians to
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: vote for the socialist again. And so she did win.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: This is, I guess, what, a fourth re-election for her?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Lula da Silva has won re-election in the Brazilian presidential election. Now,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: why would some consider it to be some shenanigans? Okay, well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: she was down, in Trump's terms, big league after the
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: first round of voting. Again, you've got the ranked voting
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: choice in Brazil, which, again— It does not get rid
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: of moderates as the socialist one. It gets rid of conservatives.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And she was down pretty big after the first round
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: of voting. Let's see. I'm looking for the vote totals. OK,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: so in the first round of voting, she was down
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: by about three million votes. And so the guy, Flavio Bolsonaro,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: who was the conservative candidate, basically never got another vote again, almost.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: It's almost as if he didn't get any more votes.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And then there was all kinds of controversy. They actually
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: did extend the next day of ranked voting because of,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, a coink-a-dink, there happened to be a
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: dramatic slowdown on the major cities' abilities to get people
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to the polls.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Some would say it would be a strike.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: That the transit unions did not want to bring people
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to the polls if they were going to be voting
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: for that guy.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And so they extended it another.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Two hours, according to the Brazilian Supreme Court. But eventually,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: after the ranked voting went and she lost all three
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: rounds in the fourth and final round, when it just
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: came down to her versus him, she picked up all
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the votes and she wins by about three million votes.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: So.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe it's something shady happening down there
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: in Brazil. Maybe not. Either way. And our Hollywood elite
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: are interested.
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Just because of the rainforest and the Green Deal?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that our Hollywood elite align with all
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: liberals who want one world power called communism. That's what
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: they're looking for, and that's what they're pushing for, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: this is how you get it. If more and more
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: countries go that way, I think that a lot of
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the world is going to start rejecting it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Coming up, universities may be making major changes, major changes
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: based off of AI. We have a little hint coming
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: out of Berkeley and what is going on at Berkeley,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: which is, I thought this might be, I didn't see
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: it happening this quickly, though. That is a shocking story. Also,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: what is going on in the Michigan race? And why
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: isn't the Democrat supporting the Democrat? Talk about that and
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: other stories coming up on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:32
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• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Check, check. There I am. Good morning.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash running ragged as I juggle about 19 different
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: things here this morning.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: What can I help with? What should I talk about here, Christopher?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: How about the fact that we've got, it's very awkward.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Haley Stevens is the young lady who was mocked mercilessly
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: by people like myself. Again, everybody was mocking Haley because
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: she had a fake voice.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: The fake voice, by the way, seems to be over.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I saw her yesterday on CNN.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: She did sound like a character from Saturday Night Live,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: like I would picture Chris Farley. She was like a
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: female Chris Farley doing a Michigander accent in the primary.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: She's been a House member for a while, but She
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: was running for the Senate against Abdul El-Sayed. And she
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: was taking on this persona of, you know, we're just
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Michiganders and people like to make.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Fun of the way I talk.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It was a little awkward. It was very awkward. But
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: she lost that race. And, you know, I think if
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I was a Democrat in Michigan, I'd be upset that
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: she lost that race because she was she was guaranteed
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: that it's kind of like how I feel. about Ken Paxton.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm upset because we had a slam dunk.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: We had a slam dunk there. We don't have a
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: slam dunk now in Texas, and they don't have a
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: slam dunk now in Michigan. And so they brought her on,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: and I'm guessing that the hope was that she was
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: going to give like a full-throated endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed yesterday,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and that's not what came out of her mouth. Now,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: she didn't condemn him. She talked about some of the
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: places where he's struggling. And I think it's not it's
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: not a secret that Abdul El-Sayed is struggling with black voters.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: He had a whole like I don't even know what
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: you would call that. It was like a.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: They went to all the soul food restaurants in Detroit
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and he could like meet people. And, and, and he
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: was like giving interviews and talking about how people who
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: look like me have abused you. And we, we, we
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: make it difficult for you in Michigan. And I apologize.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: And I'm trying to be on the right side of
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: that and yada, yada, yada. Haley Stevens, I think got
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: 99% of the black vote in the primaries and, And
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: they're concerned that there's going to be very low black
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: voter turnout for Abdul. Now, they'll probably vote in other things,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: but I have seen several interviews with black voters who
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: are actively hostile towards him.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Turned off.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, they don't like him. And they also don't like socialism,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: especially older voters.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: That are black.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Ironically, older white voters seem to be the ones that
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: are kind of partnering with the very young people in America.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Young whites and older whites are together on this. Let's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: go socialist vibe. not on the black side. On the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: black side, it seems to be the older black voters
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: are like, nah, I'm good. I'm good with freedom. I
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: don't need this socialism.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: I've seen how that experiment works already.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm shocked that we don't have, like, the
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: hippies or whatever. They should know this, but they continue
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to cling to the idea of this beautiful commune that
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: we're all going to live in together. Anyway, Haley Stevens
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: was asked about supporting Mike, excuse me, about supporting Abdul
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed over Mike Rogers, and She referenced an answer that
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed gave, I guess it was last week in the debate,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: where Mike Rogers full-throated saying, I can't believe that this guy,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: this guy that is my opponent, will not... either celebrate
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini after he has killed
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: tens of thousands. Some would say hundreds of thousands of
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: his own people. I mean, you can go all the
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: way back to 1979, 1980 during the revolution.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Hell right there.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That was 1.7 million Iranians were imprisoned as political prisoners.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: 1.7 million.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I know that America is supposed to have a prison
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: population problem. We have 1.9 now. We have 1.9 million
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: today with 330 million Americans. In 1980, there was roughly
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: 75 million Iranians, and they had 1.7 million in prison
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: for political purposes.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Many of them starved to death. By the way, this
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: is a thing....
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I hate to break the news to the people here
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: on the left, but if you don't study history, you're
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: doomed to repeat it. And what they did in Iran
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: was they were under a sheik or a shah. They
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: didn't like being under a shah. Even though the population
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: was getting more and more wealth, they recognized that the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: people at the top were making a lot more. Class
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: envy came in. They're not just getting their share. They're
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: getting your share, all that sort of stuff. They wanted
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: a revolution. So who did they partner with? Well, you've
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: got all the academia, you've got the university students, you've
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: got the gay protesters. It's a very much the same
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: coalition that you're seeing in New York and Chicago and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: all over the country. And then the radical Islamists, they
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: all joined together and they overlooked each other's, the things
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: that they wouldn't.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Like about each other, right?
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Like if you're a gay, you know, professor at a
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: university and you're talking to an Islamist, obviously we're not
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: going to see eye to eye on the worldview, but
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: what we see eye to eye on is the fact
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: that this guy shouldn't be in power.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: We're tired of being under that regime. Okay.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: So together we're going to help stage a revolution and
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: then he can live his life and I can live
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: my life and we won't intermingle. What they fail to
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: acknowledge is that once the radical Islamists got power, What
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: they did was murdered all the students and the professors
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: and all those people.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: They're dead now. They're gone. They're no longer there.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: And anybody who put up any kind of fight to
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the Islamic regime died or was imprisoned. That is exactly
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: what will happen again in Paris if they're successful. That
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: is exactly what's going to happen all over the world.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: That is what they do. So she said, or he said,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed would not condemn Iran. And he said, I think
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: that both Israel and Iran have made big mistakes and
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: they both can be seen as a problem. So when
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Stevens came, was asked to endorse him, she said, quote,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: what is it again? I didn't run my campaign on
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: foreign policy issues, but it should be pretty clear to
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: all Americans that Iran is our real enemy.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Full stop.
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: There's no need to go any further, is there? That's it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Iran is our real enemy and has been for 50 years,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: maybe longer, but for definitely 50 years, most of my life,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Iran has been the problem. Israel has not been the problem,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: although they want to try to make it seem like
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Israel meddles and all this sort of stuff. By the way,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: celebrating AIPAC, getting out of the political games for next
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: election cycle, that takes a talking point off the Democrats' board.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: But yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Good for her for speaking up. I'm hopeful that he
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't win. He should win. Everything's in his favor, the
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Democrats' favor. The generic Democrat would win Michigan this year
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: probably by about nine points. The fact that Mike Rogers
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: has a shot just shows that there's enough Michiganders who
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: are considering, do I want to go radical Islamic?
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Do I want to go pro-Hamas? Do I want to
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: go pro-Islam? Muslim Brotherhood. I don't know, because that's, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: he's like, well, you noticed that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: That makes you an Islamophobe. No, it makes me a realist,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: somebody with a set of eyes who can see what
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the hell's happening. Thoughts on that story or others, go
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: ahead and hit us up on the Talkback feature. We'll
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: be back in a moment.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: So this was kind of a surprise story for me.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I had maybe anticipated reading it, but not for several years.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: UC Berkeley head of mathematics department is a guy named
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Richard Borchardt. Apparently, he's a renowned mathematician, as you would expect.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Somebody who is running a department at Berkeley's probably pretty
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: much tops in their fields. He won something that's described
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: as a very prestigious Fields Medal in 1998.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's the famous medal from, oh gosh, now I
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: can't think of the name of the movie, the Robin
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Williams and Matt and Ben movie.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, the one about Harvard? Oh, no. It doesn't matter.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Somebody use the talkback feature and help Christopher and I.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Christopher and I are drawing a blank, and this gives
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: you an opportunity to correct us or at least put
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: us on the right track. I know the one you're
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: talking about. But anyway, this guy basically says mathematics is done.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: It's a wrap.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: He says, I'm telling people now, don't bother coming to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: school for this. We're all going out of business. He says,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I can't even tell the difference between a student's work
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: and AI anymore. AI has gotten to the point where
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: it can deceive me. So if it can deceive me,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: it can deceive every professor in the world. They carry
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: it in their pockets. It's impossible. And I don't know
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: why anyone would ever hire a mathematician moving forward.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: It's a dying field.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: He goes on to talk about, you know, we've had
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: all kinds of changes in In life, there have been
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: plenty of technical breakthroughs in the past. Hand weaving was
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: put out of business by looms. Horses were put out
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: of business by cars. This is the first time, though,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: anything like this has happened in mathematics. This is a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: game changer for anybody who wants to deal with academia
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: because you're not as good as AI.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's pretty tough. It's I feel like we've said
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: this before, though. I mean, like when the calculator came along,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: for example, and then the computer became, you know, everyone
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: had a computer. And we all said, well, all right,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: that's another step in that direction. Good Will Hunting, by
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: the way, was the movie I was looking for.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Good Will Hunting. How do you like them apples? Exactly. Exactly.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: If AI is to that point....
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: And that's not one of the industries we heard from
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: right off the bat either. When people said, oh, AI
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: is going to put this industry out of business. You
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: didn't hear about mathematicians, but that's a different approach.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: And, you know, when you talk about the calculator, like
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: that would be something where if we're doing an algebra
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: equation or a calculus equation, you would have to know
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: how to do the equation in order to put in
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: the information.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: He's saying you don't need any of that.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: You just ask ChatGPT or Grok or Claude or whatever,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: you know, how do I calculate this? And it will
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: tell you the formula and then it will calculate the
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: formula for you.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And it does it perfect. And he's like, so why
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: would anybody ever need a mathematician?
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: So we're going to lose out on a generation of
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: kids who no longer know how to do math.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Well, more importantly, he's saying to people that are in
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: the pipeline, your career is dead. There is no jobs.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: That's a wrap.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: For people right now, if you're 19 years old and
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: you're studying to be a mathematician and you're one of
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the world's best at UC Berkeley, your professor is telling you,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: learn how to be a plumber.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Because that's where the jobs are. Is he retiring tomorrow
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: and turning in the rest of his paycheck?
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: They say that the provost of the school... I'm trying
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to see her thing. Ann Marie Richard, the university's assistant
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: vice provost for undergraduate education and chief academic technology officer,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: says that it's asking instructors to include statements in their syllabi,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: including course expectations, including the rules that will govern AI tools.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: The university's explored AI detection software, but it seems to
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: be failing at this point. They can't tell the difference.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: And so he said, I don't even grade their papers anymore.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not even going to grade them unless I can
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: watch them do the work. There's no point in me
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: grading something that they do with electronics. And now he
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: goes on to make it even more gloomier. You ready
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: for the more gloom? He says, if the worst thing
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: or the worst effect of AI on our society is
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that it becomes harder to assess homework, then I would
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: be extremely relieved.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: However, I don't believe that that will be the end
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: of it. So there's more bad stuff coming. Well, it depends.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm one of those people who always tries to,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I'm a half full, not half empty kind of guy.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: So I focus on the good things. And like you said,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: we have had technological breakthroughs every 15, 20 years. Something
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: changes dramatically that shifts literally everything. hundreds of thousands, maybe
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: millions of people in the new fields. And this would
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: be one of them. What is the new field? That's
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: the scary part because we don't know what the new
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: field is yet. But there will be stuff for people
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: to do. I assume moving forward, people will have jobs.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: And I hope one of them is on the radio.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, if you'd like to be on.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: The radio, use the talkback feature and get to Christopher
• 39:32
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• 39:33
  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Good morning, guys.
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: It's Steve in Mount Pleasant. It's nice to hear your clear-eyed...
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: version of Islam. You seem to know the nature of
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: the religion. It's a totalitarian ideology. It's not really a religion.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: It seeks to dominate any culture in which it finds itself.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: And that's the plan. The word Islam itself means submission.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: And that's how they practice it. You are to submit
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: to the will of Allah.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: That was Mike. Steve. Steve. Steve in Mount Pleasant.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening and waking up with South Carolina's
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Morning News. And again, I've often said that if you
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: are a practicing Muslim, you should condemn the acts of
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: radical Islamists.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Condemn those. And we don't hear a lot of it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: We hear some, but not a lot of it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: So if you want to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, if
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: you want to condemn the Ayatollah Khomeini, if you want
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: to condemn... the acts of terrorism that have happened here
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: in the United States in the name of Allah, you know,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: please do. Because it's very hard for any of us
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: to make a distinction between what's being done in your
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: name and you. And I understand that there's a lot
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: of people who practice the Muslim faith who don't subscribe
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: to these theories.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: But you got to do a better job.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: It's like, again, if somebody's doing white supremacy acts, we
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: need to full-throated condemn those. If somebody's doing acts of
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: quote-unquote Christian violence, that goes against everything that the Christian
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: faith is supposed to be about.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: And that's why we would condemn any.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Acts of violence done in the name of Jesus. So
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: there were— by the way, this just came across my desk.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: I don't— This has nothing to do with anything we're
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: talking about, but apparently the guy who's been the voice
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: of a Bugs Bunny for a while has died. He's
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: 48 years old. Eric Baza, like you and I grew
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: up with Mel Blanc.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: He played that from 1930s to the eighties or whatever,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: but I don't, I don't know who, I never heard
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: of Eric Baza, but dead at age 46, the breaking
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: news this morning. So I, again, I haven't really cared
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: about Bugs Bunny lately. But for some reason, that struck
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: a chord. The voice of Bugs Bunny passed away Sunday
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: in a very sudden attack, according to his family. He
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: had some sort of cardiovascular issue, they said. So I'm
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: kind of in mourning about that. Even though I never
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: heard of the guy or met him, he was the
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: voice of Bugs Bunny or at least one of them
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: as of late. All right, we'll take a break for
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour news and back in a moment.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: All right, good morning. Hope you're having a great start
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: to your Monday. The man, the myth, the legend, Elon Musk.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: That guy, he got a lot of juice. So two
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: relatively large events over the weekend regarding Elon. So one,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: the Starlink controversy. And this started last week. The idea
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: that Elon, maybe under the orders of the president, had
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: taken Starlink and slowed it down.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: For the Ukrainians.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Dialed it down to where their drone systems didn't work.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: And he clarified what was happening with that as he
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: says that, no, no, I have not been ordered by anybody.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: It's the Ukrainians that are violating the terms of service
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: with Starlink. It's a civilian commercial service that they're using,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: we have discovered, for offensive drone strikes to kill people,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: and that's not allowed.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: However, we do.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Have other services that they could use for that.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: So....
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not you know, this is sitting differently with different people.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: He has another company called Star Shield, which is a
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: different system. And that is controlled by the U.S.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Government. And apparently the Ukrainians. I don't know.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they've not asked for access to that.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Or is this like borrowing somebody else's cable TV? You know,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: am I am I biting on their Wi-Fi? And then
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: they caught me. I'm not sure exactly. But he's saying
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: you cannot use Starlink to attack people with it. And
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: that's what they were doing. And even by Zelensky's own admission,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: that's what they were doing. So he's admitted to it.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he knew it was a violation
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: of the terms of service, but that's how they've been
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: using their drone strikes.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Excuse me.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, their drone strikes as well as some of their defense.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: And so you've got that going on with Elon. At
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: the same time, he responded to a tweet yesterday. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: some are basing it. They're saying that it was based
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: off of his tweet yesterday. that what's described as Neo
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: cloud stocks. And there's a group of companies inside that
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: 200 of them. In fact, he said more than 200
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: of these Neo.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Cloud stocks are going to face guppy level death.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: And that's based off of the fact that, uh, As
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: he put, as of the.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Past few weeks, debt markets have entirely shut off access
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: to money for any company that doesn't have substantial revenue
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: independent of the AI data centers. That means 200 plus
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: NEO clouds are going to see a guppy level death
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: and mass consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: He was responding to a tweet from, I always mispronounce
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: this guy's name. He's a very fascinating person if you
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: look him up. His name is pronounced, the first name
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: is Chamath, even though it's spelt like Chamath. And the
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: last name, good luck with that one, Palapidia, who is
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: one of the big deals out there in Silicon Valley.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: He runs something called Social Capital, and he was explaining
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: how the AI data centers are going to have problems
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: moving forward with funding. And so Elon agreed with that,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: and as of this morning's early trading, they're down 40%.
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: That is a very powerful tweet if you can take
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: companies and have them drop 40% over a tweet.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Some people saying that this man has too much power. Again,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I always just celebrate at least he's on the U.S.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: 's side.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I thought our emphasis was on a big
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: build out of data centers and this AI infrastructure. Now
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: he's saying we've already got enough.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: No, he's not saying anything.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: He's just saying that people are just not going to
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: give money to these data centers to the companies if
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: you don't have any other revenue streams. If your future
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: all depends on that, then you're screwed. You need to
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: have a different business model. And so apparently that's 200
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: plus neoclouds are.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Going to see the guppy level death. in mass consolidation.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: In other words, in order for them to survive, they're
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: going to hell have to get together and figure this
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: thing out together and then they can get funding, but
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: they can't, they're not going to be. And again, this
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: is not Elon Musk saying I'm shutting off the revenue.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: He's just commenting on the fact that he's noticed that,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: as has this other guy who was making the tweet originally,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: the head of social capital, that he himself is not
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: going to be giving money to these companies because he
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: doesn't believe in their business models.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Well, you can't blame them for going all in on AI.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, once we saw the writing on the wall,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: but I guess what else do you do on the side?
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I don't know.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like what happened for those of us
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: who survived the dot-com boom.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: And people were saying, well, you can't blame somebody for
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: spending $ 100 million on pets.com because every website is going
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: to be that valuable. And then they all went bankrupt
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: by the early 2000s because it turns out they weren't
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: that valuable.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: So there was fortunes won and lost in the 1990s
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: and early 2000s.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: And the same thing seems to be happening right now
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: with the AI build out. The promise of AI has
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: not lived up yet to what they said it was
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: going to be.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: It might still.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, we still have, you know, years of it
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: to come, obviously. But as of just yet, none of
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: them are turning a profit. They're all losing money. The
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: question is, how much money will the investors make? except
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: losing before they start expecting a turnaround on the profits.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: And right now, apparently, they've had their appetite. They've had
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: their fill. So, Elon, two stories around Elon Musk. What
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: do you think about those stories? Should he be doing
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: more to help the Ukrainians? Should he change his own
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: policy to help the Ukrainians?
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Should he be doing more to help the AI companies
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: build out the data centers?
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: What do you think? Let us know on the Talk
• 48:38
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• 48:40
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• 48:55
  Speaker 2: On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent out a
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: memo talking about the fact that the Iranians are now
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: have substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel abroad with
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: plots to kill Americans, reaching advanced stages, not just in
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: the Middle East, but even other countries. Trump is apparently
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: weighing the idea of going in now to start trying
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: to kill more of the IRGC, which.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: I am a fan of, always been a fan of that.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Again, I've always preferred using Iranians to do that, but
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: however you got to do it. There's another story today
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: talking about the Iranian trackable floating oil inventory outside of
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: the U.S. blockade now has hit zero, according to Energy Intelligence.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: They have no more oil to sell.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: They're out.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: However, they point out that Tehran does not mean that
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that will be a weakening of their military because they're
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: now seizing assets of their own citizens to keep funding this.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: So again, the Every day, 90 million Iranians, whether they
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: support or don't support this regime, they're the ones who
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: are going to be further brutalized by this. In a
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: humanitarian act, go in there and kill everybody. That would
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: be a humanitarian act at this point.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: And I see the wheels turning in your brain right now.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: You're thinking, when will the uprising start?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: But they're unarmed. Yeah.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're going up against machine guns with just bodies.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: That's all we got. We got human bodies to absorb bullets.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: How many bullets can they absorb before they go down?
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Not many. It's a very ugly scene.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: But the idea of us waiting this out much longer,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: It seems like pretty soon something's going to have to give.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: So we're keeping our eyes on that.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: If you've got thoughts on it, let us know on
• 50:53
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• 50:54
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• 50:58
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, guys.
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: Mark in Newberry. You know, the funny thing with Elon
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: Musk is they used to love him. And now he
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: embodies what a meritocracy is supposed to look like. He's
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: the richest African-American ever. And he's so wealthy, he never
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: has to bend the knees so they'll never hear their
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: words come out of his mouth. They hate him.
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: Good morning, gentlemen. Daniel in West Columbia. The reason there
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: were so many failures in the dot-com industry is because
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: there were so many companies that were purely empty suits.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: They had a lot of investors.
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: They had a lot of money.
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: But they had absolutely nothing to bring to the party.
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: They didn't have any creation. It didn't have innovation. It
• 51:38
  Speaker 9: didn't have a product. The same thing is going to
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: happen in the AI business. The people who've got something
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: to offer will survive. The ones who don't, adios.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Good points, Daniel. Thank you.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: And the first was Mark from Newberry, right? Mark using
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: the provocative African-American. And, you know, look, we do that
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: to ourselves because we have on our U.S. Census Bureau,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: African-American means black. When, you know, you can look throughout
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the Caribbean and those people would be considered indigenous peoples.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: By their standards to Jamaica or wherever, but they have
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: to be African-American. Anybody who's white is considered European, even
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: though Elon has got, I guess, generations of families. I
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: know his father's from, I guess, South Africa, possibly his grandfather.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: So it doesn't matter. You're not. You're European, according to
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: the U.S.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Census Bureau. We like to convolute things. We're fans of that.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: But we certainly do appreciate your talkbacks and hope to
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: get some more. Use the talkback feature to get in
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: touch with Christopher Thompson and myself. We'll be back after
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: the top of the hour news with more.
• 52:49
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• 52:53
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• 53:01
  Speaker 10: Man, y'all are just pushing more propaganda this morning. I
• 53:05
  Speaker 10: know for a fact that the Iranian people are 100%
• 53:09
  Speaker 10: behind that regime right now. This whole aggression has had
• 53:14
  Speaker 10: a unifying rally around the flag effect over there, and
• 53:19
  Speaker 10: it was blatantly obvious during the funeral of Khomeini.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: We screwed up.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: This guy.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I appreciate the enthusiasm and certainly appreciate the talkback.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: You are wrong.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: On every single level. I mean, by which level do
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: you want to go by? The fact that they issued threats,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: death threats. If you didn't show up for the funeral,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: they would murder you. That tends to get a big turnout. Also,
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: there was pre-war polling done by the United Nations. You
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: don't trust them anymore? Who else do you not trust?
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: United Nations said 91% of Iranians would like to see
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: democracy return.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Give it a shot. Give it a shot.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: They haven't even ever really had democracy, so they would
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: like a taste of it just to see what it
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: felt like. They hate this regime, and why wouldn't you?
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Whether it's 9%, I've seen it as high as 15%
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: support for this Iranian regime. Again, you're talking about 90
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: million people. So if you if you ballpark it at
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: nine million people, you can get a good crowd out
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: of nine million people. But remember, there's at least 80
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: million on the other side who don't want it. And
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: then when you look at.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Rally around the flag, yeah, rally around the flag.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Why don't you ask an Iranian American if they're rallying
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: around the flag or why did they leave Iran? When
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: you talk to them, they absolutely are disgusted by what's
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: the oppression of their own people. Or why don't you
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: even ask other Muslim nations? Did you not read about
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: the 12-nation condemnation? These are all pretty much Gulf states. Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Qatar,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain. They all condemn Iran's leadership. The IRGC is...
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: As the kids say, out of pocket. They're out of pocket.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: They're killing people en masse. And they're brutalizing their own people.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: And we've seen this play out in whether it's radical
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Islamic regimes or radical socialist regimes.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: It typically ends this way. Will it end? I think
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: it will end.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to end in the not too
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: distant future, actually, for the IRGC. I think that they
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: themselves will die. And it's about time.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the quality of life, though, for the Iranian people
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: is going to get even worse before it gets better.
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: And they only have the regime to blame.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: They can't find someone to help lead them out of it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: That's the problem.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: So, like, if you look at China, look at Chairman Mao. OK,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: so Mao is probably the greatest killer of all time,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: 60 to 80 million people dead under his regime, because
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: once they got to the communist revolution, I was doing
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: a whole thing about this on The Weekend Show, Christopher.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: So I think most people think socialist nations have been
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: around forever, but the first socialist nation was the Soviet Union.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: That was the first one, 1917. We've had socialist ideals
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: for years, but before 1917, there was none. So the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: USSR comes along, and then they launch China. They're the
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: ones who launched the communist revolution in China. That was
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: all paid for by Moscow. And when you saw Chairman
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Mao get propped up, Once it got to the point
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: of the revolution is successful, then, as always, you then
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: got to kill the people who helped you start the
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: revolution because they're going to recognize you're not living up
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: to what you said you were going to do. So
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: that's why there was 60 to 80 million killed. It's
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: an unbelievable thing. But it took decades to get rid
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: of Chairman Mao.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: Decades.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: And you had to get... It's kind of like the
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Soviet Union. Decades before they were able to get to
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: a point where somebody could help lead them back to normalcy.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: I don't see that rising up in Iran because they're
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: completely unarmed and they don't have a political process. They
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: have a sword and a gun. That's their political process
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: in Iran.
• 57:22
  Speaker 10: So.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Outside forces are going to have to help in some capacity. Again,
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I'll reiterate it a millionth time. I believe in the
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Iranian people. If you gave them weapons, they would rise
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: up and do it. To the talkback features point, if
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: I'm wrong, if what the CIA and every independent polling
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: service has done, including the United Nations for decades, if
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: they're all wrong, we're going to give a bunch of
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: guns to some Iranians who have never been allowed to
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: have them. And I don't know what they would do.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Shoot themselves? They're not going to shoot the IRGC, according
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: So then there's, in that instance, no fuss, no muss.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the Iranian people, those who do have access to news,
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: they've heard for months now that we are at the
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: negotiating table waiting for a response from the Revolutionary Guard.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: And every response has been, nope, don't care to make
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: a deal with you at this point. So their lives
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: get worse and worse and worse. So who else are
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: they going to blame? Rally around the flag. They're probably
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: rallying around our flag at this point saying the U.S.
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: is willing to make a deal. Why won't we?
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think you're being generous.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: I think that most of them would just like to
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: see America come in and kill those people. But I
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: would like for you to do the killing. And so
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: I'd like the CIA, which is on the ground. When
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: we talk about no boots on the ground, there's literally
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: thousands of Americans on the ground. And so let them
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: get the weapons to those people and let them do
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: the killing. Let them fight for their own freedom. Then
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: they'll earn it. And then it's not the U.S. tinkering
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: and trying to install somebody. We don't have a repeat
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: of the Shah of Iran. Whoever they put in place,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: that's on them. And if they're just as radical, then
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: they get what they want.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: They deserve.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: But in the interim, it would end all this craziness
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: with what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz. I
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: would like to see an end to that because I
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: care about gas prices. I don't really, honestly, I mean,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: I don't actually care about Iran. I mean, I don't
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: know if that's breaking news to Iranians, but I don't
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: care about, and I wouldn't expect you to care much
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: about us either. I don't care about most countries. I
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: care about the United States, and I love the United
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: States and care about its citizens, even those on the left.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I care about them passionately. I don't like to see
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: us inconvenienced, suffering in any way, high gas prices, high
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: food prices, whatever.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see that come to an end.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: But if in the middle of all that, we can
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: also overthrow a murderous radical Islamic regime that is raining
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: terror throughout the region and is the number one state
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: sponsor of terrorism on planet earth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's a, that's a two for one special I'll go
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: for every day. We'll take it. Oh my gosh.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: But more talkbacks, please use that talkback feature. We'll take
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: a break and be back with.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: More live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: morning news.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson all over the road this morning.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the death of Bugs Bunny's voice. And
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the war in Iran and what's going
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: on with the... Here's something that my brain just wandered into, Christopher,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: is the idea that the Palestinians are considered the oppressed
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: wunderkind of the world. And that you see, like right
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: now in Paris and other places where they're having these protests,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: that flag is flying everywhere. The Palestinian flag is the
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: flag of victimization and genocide. And yet they're the fastest
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: growing population on earth. But statistically, it's kind of like the,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: you know, South Carolina is the fastest growing state in
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: the country right now. Although that's just statistically, obviously Texas
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: and Florida have a lot more new residents.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: Than we do. And yet where's the love for the Kurds?
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: You know, when you look at the Kurds, If you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: want to talk about a people that's been oppressed, you
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: want to talk about a people that are a stateless nation,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: you're talking about millions and millions and millions. It's like
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: 10x the size of Palestine. Has pretty much the same
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: treatment around the world. Back in the 80s, I remember
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: they were getting attacked chemically. And 150,000 or so died
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: in like one attack. They've been persecuted by Turkey. They've
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: been persecuted by Iraq. They've been persecuted by just about
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: every nation out there. And you know who's helping them
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: as best they can in some instances is Israel. So
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: that is the big difference. Israel is being victimized by
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: the Palestinians who are launching attacks on them. And so
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Israel seems to be the denominator that switches whether or
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: not you deserve empathy.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: The Palestinians get it. The Kurds don't.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Even though more Kurds are killed annually, the Kurds, I mean, freak,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: they've been around. They can trace their empire back to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: the Ottoman Empire, too. They're just a stateless group of
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: people who happen to live, you know, somewhere in parts
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: of Turkey and all that. And the fact that they're
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: being killed, where's their flag?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Where's the love? Well, what happened to them? Oh, okay.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: It's because Israel sometimes partners with the Kurds. That's the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: big difference. And they're being killed by Islamists. If they
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: were not being killed by Islamists, if they were being
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: killed by Jews, oh, that'd be a whole different story.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: But the fact that they're being killed by the Islamic State,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: that's not.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Worthy of the left's attention, apparently. Yeah. I'm all over
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: the road this morning. Yes, you are.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just one of those things that just
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: popped into my mind. I mean, where's the love for
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: the Kurds? You don't care about the Kurds? You care
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: about the Palestinians, but not the Kurds. Make it make sense.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: You can't make it make sense unless you're a leftist.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: My mind is all over the road today. Your mind
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: is scrambled. That's how I feel about your thought processes
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: as we think about some of the things that are
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: going on with the elections and how it's okay for
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you guys to run Dan Sullivan against Dan Sullivan and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: act like that's not a problem.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Anyway, we talked about that in the first hour. Maybe
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: we'll get back to that later.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: But talkbacks, we will take a few and get to
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: some of those coming up in just a minute. Use
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: that microphone on the iHeartRadio app. This is Kelly Nash
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: with Christopher Thompson.
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  Speaker 5: This is South Carolina's Morning News. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: We are celebrating another week here in the freedom-loving United
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: States of America. And other places are going to start
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: experiencing freedom too. Unfortunately, that is not going to be
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: happening down in Brazil. Brazil, in a surprise ending, reelected
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: their socialist leader, although all the polls had that individual
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: down by as many as like eight, nine points.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: They do have the ranked.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Voting system, which does allow for some shenanigans and maybe
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: some shenanigans were had.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: Not really sure, but. whatever it is, it is. And
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: now they've got, uh, another.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Another term with their socialist leader. Uh, we were talking
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: about that earlier. And by the way, if you want,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and repost that. They, by
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: the way, if you follow this show on social media
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: at Kelly Nash radio, we do live stream the show, but, uh,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: I also, I would say, and I live stream it
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: on X, Facebook and YouTube. So if you want to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: see what's going on there, uh, that's where you would
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: live stream it.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: But I also, I.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Would say X is the, uh, the platform I'm the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: most active on, and I just retweeted a video from Brazil.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: We were talking about the Palestinian flag.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: It's flying in Brazil.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: It's flying in Brazil as the people there are chanting
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: against Donald Trump and burning American flags. So, again, in Brazil,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: it's Palestine versus the United States in Brazil.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: Very, very weird.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: Well, the leader they just elected, if they really elected him,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: alleging shenanigans on their part, but if they really, really,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: really did reelect him, I mean, they, he wants foreign investment.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: They're desperate for money and Trump has offered money.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: In exchange for certain things like their rare earth minerals
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: and things like that. So they may be talking to us,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: even though the people themselves say, Oh yeah, yeah. Palestine, this,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: that they, they may need America shortly.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: Well, they are waving the American flag to burn it,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: and they're waving the Palestinian flag to celebrate it. Now,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: at the same time, Congressman Joe Wilson, who is the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: Serbian caucus chairman, would like to point out that they
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: did make a move in Serbia over the weekend as well.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Now, it's interesting when you read it in CNN. The
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Alexander Vucic, conceded defeat Sunday
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: in an election that pitted him, and his right-wing party
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: protesting his government.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: Well, when you read that, you're like, wow, oh, okay.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: Then it's the socialists won another one, and it's like
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: Mussolini versus the Nazis or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on over there.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: But the reality of it is when you look at
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: the quote-unquote student, and by the way, they do call
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: it the student's list, Going to get about 140 seats
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: over there. They are a center-right party. They are waving
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: the American flag. These are people who want freedom. They
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: don't want a strongman. Whenever you see a strongman in place,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: like Nicolas Maduro, Castro, you know, just go through any
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: country that has a strongman. That is a left-leaning party.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Left, not right.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: Left.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: They like to assign it to the right wing and
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: then try to make Donald Trump the next in line.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, a man who couldn't get a ballroom built
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: on his own, this is not a strong man. Donald
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Trump is far from a strong man. He speaks like
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: a strong man, but he's not a strong man. And
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: he's not a king. And we don't have a king.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: And everybody on the right would oppose a king. And
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know that everybody on the left would. It
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: seems that a lot of people here in America on
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: the left would enjoy some sort of very strong leftist leader,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: one that would say something like, oh, free health care
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: for all.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: You like that? You like free health care for all?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: There you go. You can get it.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: You just got to get yourself a strong man. We'll
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: see if the strong man coming down the pike happens
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: to be a strong female like Kamala Harris or somebody
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: But they will.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: They're the types of people that will enforce power. They
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: will put mask mandates in place. They're the ones who
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: will shut down schools. They're not the right. The left
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: does that. And so I celebrate with the people over
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: there in Serbia that are celebrating today and waving the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: American flag.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. They're so far left socialists that they're
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: waving the American flag as they celebrate their victories. Come on, people.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: You got to, again, lie better. That seems to be
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: the theme of the morning.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Lie better. Learn how to lie better if you're going
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: to lie. We will take a break and be back
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: with more in just a moment.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, man, that one dude was complaining that y'all were propaganda.
• 1:09:05
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• 1:09:06
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• 1:09:09
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  Speaker 5: Kevin!
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• 1:09:20
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• 1:09:22
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• 1:09:27
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• 1:09:31
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• 1:09:32
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• 1:09:36
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• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: here in South Carolina. She says they're trying to close
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: the gap this year in South Carolina.
• 1:09:44
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• 1:09:48
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• 1:09:51
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• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: says the reason that hasn't been happening for the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: is because in many seats they don't have a Democrat running.
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  Speaker 2: So the Democrat voters apparently didn't want to push the
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  Speaker 2: straight Democrat and then leave something off. There's maybe an
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  Speaker 2: independent voting against the Republican or whatever, and they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make sure they got that. I think that that
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  Speaker 2: is probably wishful thinking at best.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see. 64,000.
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  Speaker 2: According to the Democrat Party, 64,000 South Carolinians in 2024
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  Speaker 2: voted for former Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, but left
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  Speaker 2: the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Of the ballot blank. Had they.
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  Speaker 2: had the option of voting straight Democrat, they would have
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  Speaker 2: done that. But they just wanted to vote for come
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  Speaker 2: and not vote for. I mean, look, if you voted
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  Speaker 2: straight Democrat, even though you wouldn't have been in any other,
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  Speaker 2: you might have been in two or three other races.
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  Speaker 2: You could have done that. The option was there. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that they didn't means that they didn't like the
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  Speaker 2: rest of your ticket. Now the fact that you've got
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  Speaker 2: a nominee in all 124 House seats, I think, will
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  Speaker 2: not move the needle one bit.
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  Speaker 3: One bit. Christopher, what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think anyone who was going to vote
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  Speaker 4: Democrat is going to vote Democrat anyway, whether there's one
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  Speaker 4: candidate or 24 on your ballot. I wonder how many people,
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  Speaker 4: and I know there are numbers out there that suggest
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  Speaker 4: there's a large number of people who just vote straight
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  Speaker 4: ticket is it because you get into the ballot booth
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  Speaker 4: after a long line and you're just you just trying
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  Speaker 4: to get it get the process done because i i
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  Speaker 4: look at every name even even though i'm probably voting
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  Speaker 4: straight republican i'm looking at every name and scrutinizing and
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  Speaker 4: saying okay this is the person i agree with this
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  Speaker 4: is the person i i don't know i just straight
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  Speaker 4: ticket just takes away some of the.
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  Speaker 2: Fun Christopher is here for a good time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's, I want to feel like I'm part
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  Speaker 4: of the process and just hitting one button and being
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  Speaker 4: done that, that doesn't do it for me.
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  Speaker 2: So if you were to look at straight ticket voting,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: go all the way back to 2006, actually in 2006,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats won in the straight ticket vote, two 55
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: to two 20.
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  Speaker 3: They also won in 2008.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously that's the, uh, the Obama year five Oh six
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  Speaker 2: to four 34. They, uh, won again in 2010, barely,
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  Speaker 2: 327 to 322. They won again in 2012, again, a
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  Speaker 2: little Barack bump, 478 to 449. They won again in 2014,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: 310 to 295. They won again in 2016, no, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: 2016 is when Donald Trump arrived.
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  Speaker 7: In 2016, it shifted.
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  Speaker 2: And think about this, they had 449 in the last
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  Speaker 2: presidential election, Was that Romney? That was Romney, right?
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  Speaker 9: 449.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans bump up from 449 to 529. The Democrats
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: went from 478 to 499. So they both went up,
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  Speaker 2: but the Democrats went up what you would expect, ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: Not the Republicans. Bigger jump by a lot to 529
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  Speaker 2: and basically have not looked back. Once Trump got into
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: office in 2016... it was Republican straight ticket, 529 to 499,
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  Speaker 2: 579 to 490, 940, 940,000 straight tickets in 2020 to 664,
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  Speaker 2: midterms 574 to 331, last presidential election, 791, basically 800,000
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  Speaker 2: to 515. The Republican ticket is the vibe of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolinians.
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  Speaker 2: Must have had a good history lesson at some point.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe they learned from their parents or their grandparents
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  Speaker 2: or whoever used to vote Democrat that it's the Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Party that is the problem. If you're a Democrat, that's
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: why as sweet and as lovely and as intelligent as
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews is, I could never.
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  Speaker 3: Ever vote for her. By the way, she's supposed to
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: be coming back tomorrow afternoon for another interview. Good.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: I could never vote for her. I could never vote
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  Speaker 2: for a Democrat. Once you take the name Democrat, I
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: can't vote for you. Same as I can't vote for
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  Speaker 2: a socialist, a communist. You could be the sweetest communist
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  Speaker 2: in the world and just talk about how much you
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: just love me and you'd love America and you just
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: want the best and blah, blah. You're never going to
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: get my vote as a communist. You're never going to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: get it as a Democrat. You're never going to get
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  Speaker 2: it as a socialist. Full stop, full stop. And I
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  Speaker 2: think Enough South Carolinians understand that, that they vote straight
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  Speaker 2: ticket Republican and they maybe they participated in the primaries.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: You'd like to think they did, because, again, that's where
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: we kind of and that's where we're having a problem
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: right now for Republicans is there's a lot of people
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: who are not happy. with a certain candidate. I won't
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: say any, I'm not going to identify anybody. You can
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: all figure out whoever you think who it is. There's
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: one that might not be getting the straight ticket vote
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: is what they're alleging.
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  Speaker 3: I think that they will.
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  Speaker 2: I think that enough America, excuse me, South Carolinians are
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: going to say I'm voting straight ticket Republican just to
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: make sure I'm blocking the Democrat party from getting power.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Because again, I like open schools. I like school choice.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: I like lower taxes. I like, in general, freedom. One
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: party is pro-freedom. One is pro-bureaucracy and control. And they
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: say that they're doing it for your benefit. I'd rather
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: you not. I'll pass on you helping me. Again, I'm
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: old enough to remember Ronald Reagan's joke about the scariest
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: words are, hi, we're here from the government and we're
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: here to help.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you can vote straight ticket without hitting the straight
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: ticket button, though. I mean, Look at how many Republicans
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: were winning over the years in spite of the fact
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: that not everyone voted straight ticket, like hitting that button
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: that says, OK, I want my entire ballot to be R. Instead,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: people go through and say, OK, I'm voting for that
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: are voting for that are I'm voting for that.
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  Speaker 3: Are they're voting.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not voting straight ticket Republican, you you I
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: guess you're finding an independent. Or a libertarian that you
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: would vote for in the middle? Because I can't imagine you,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson. Don't shock me and tell me you voted Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: No, you're just voting individuals rather than hitting the one
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: button and walking away.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: I understand. And you go through them all. And that's
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: a good time for you.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 4: It's part of the fun of being in the ballot booth.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: Boy, oh boy, what is Christopher Thompson doing in there?
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: He's been in there for hours. He's having a good time.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: That's what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: If you are about the same age or in that
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: age group as myself, Christopher Thompson, the Gen X generation,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: you know exactly what I'm talking about when I say,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: and I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Having a hard time keeping these alligators down. The Nature Boy.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Woo!
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: Rick Flair sent to the hospital Friday with blood clots
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: and then a fall and, golly, the photo that he
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: posted on Instagram. I wished he hadn't posted that photo.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: He.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to remember Ric Flair like this.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Ric Flair looks gaunt, sickly, deathly, nothing like the nature boy.
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  Speaker 2: But then he, inside the post, he said something that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even know what he, that he
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: was saying. He said that, I apologize for the reckless
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: posting behavior on my Facebook while I was in the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: It was completely.
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  Speaker 2: Inappropriate and For those of you wondering, I do not
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: own my Facebook page anymore. Ric Flair sold his Facebook page.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: He's sold a lot of things to keep up with
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: all his divorce payments and alimony and everything else.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: And then if you go to the Ric Flair Facebook page,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: they posted that. It's very bizarre.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Ric Flair, what a huge figure, not just
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: on the national scene, but especially here in the Carolinas,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: Charlotte's own. And then When Steve Spurrier was the coach,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: he was here a lot for Gamecock football. Anyway, prayers
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: for Ric Flair. We'll be back in a moment.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, this is Terry in Monk's Corner. I'm a little
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 11: like Christopher. I like to check each ballot. each race
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 11: and see who's running. But I hit the straight party
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 11: ticket first and then go through the entire list because
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 11: I've got to go to the end anyway to vote
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  Speaker 11: on the nonpartisan school district races that are more critical
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 11: to my pocketbook than any else.
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  Speaker 3: That is a wise voter.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: The school board races mean a lot, not only for
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: the future of who your superintendent will be and that
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: sort of stuff, but like he said, they're the ones
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: that have the power to, what my wife always talked about,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: go full mill. When they go full millage on you,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: that's a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody closest to you, the sheriff? the mayor i mean
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  Speaker 4: those are those are the races that have the biggest
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: impacts on your lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yes and should be right that's the i i've always
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: said that the closer the government is to the people
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: the better it will behave because you can hold them
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: account you see them at the grocery store you'll see
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: them at the ballpark you'll be able to get right
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: in their face and go what are you talking about
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: why would you jack my taxes why haven't you fixed
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: that road why haven't you fixed The hedges over at
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Williams Bryce. My gosh, that's going to be a mess,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: isn't it, Christopher?
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  Speaker 3: It will for a little while yet. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: They'll have them fixed by the time Texas A &
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: M rolls into town.
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  Speaker 3: What a weekend in Columbia.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: That's one we're going to remember for a while.
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  Speaker 2: If you happen to experience that, enjoy it, savor it
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  Speaker 2: as long as you can. All right, we'll be back
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning after 6. Have a great Monday.