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Show Rewind 10-29-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 2: and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: Got to turn the mic on. Good morning. How are you,
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  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good, so far.
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  Speaker 3: So far, did you... Did you catch any of the
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  Speaker 3: final game of the World Series?
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  Speaker 4: Saw some of it, yes. Not the final out.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: What time did that come down? About 11.30?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably somewhere in the 10 o'clock hour, 11 o'clock hour, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how people stay up that late anymore.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how people go to bed so early. Why am
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  Speaker 3: I going to bed at 9? Well, you guys get
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  Speaker 3: to stay up until like 10.30, 11 o'clock. Now I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: who the heck wants to stay up to 10.30, 11 o'clock?
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  Speaker 3: My wife, she loves it. I hate it. Well, we
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  Speaker 3: have different hours. I guess that's what it is. Than
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  Speaker 3: the That's probably what it is. But congratulations. That's the
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  Speaker 3: first one ever for Milwaukee, correct?
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for that franchise, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's not many teams, I would imagine, that have never won, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: The Rays would be one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, are they one? Yes. I thought they would have
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  Speaker 3: got one a couple of years back. No. Because they've
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  Speaker 3: been pretty good for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. And they've been in the World Series a couple
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  Speaker 4: of times, but never come out on top.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm. Brutal. And guess what? All 82 fans are very upset.
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  Speaker 3: I've been I've been watching on social media. A bunch
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  Speaker 3: of people are already starting to gather up in Rock Hill.
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  Speaker 3: They're very excited about today. 9 a.m. The doors will
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  Speaker 3: open at the Rock Hill Sport and Event Center.
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  Speaker 4: This doesn't seat very many people.
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  Speaker 3: I was just I don't even know what that is.
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  Speaker 4: It's well, it's primarily a basketball arena, I think, for,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and volleyball. OK, but I think it's about
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  Speaker 4: twenty five hundred seats around the floor. And then I
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  Speaker 4: guess you can put more seats on the floor. OK,
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  Speaker 4: but it's I mean, I'm sure it will be packed,
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  Speaker 4: which will be a great look. But it just doesn't
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  Speaker 4: see that many people.
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  Speaker 3: So Darlene Graham will be there for those of you
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  Speaker 3: who are thinking, maybe, no, I should I go? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get Darlene Graham on stage so that
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  Speaker 3: you got that to look for. Oh, and this other guy, Trump,
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  Speaker 3: will be there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. So is he running for something? What's
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  Speaker 3: going on? Who is this guy? So Trump and Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 3: and I think I saw Russell Frye posted he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be there. I'm imagining there'll be a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: Republican legislators in the House today. Possibly Joe Wilson will
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  Speaker 3: go up. I'm not sure who's going to be there.
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  Speaker 3: You know who I don't imagine will be there? One
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 4: No, he will not.
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  Speaker 3: Even though it's so close to his house. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what a convenient commute for Ralph. But I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he's going to make it. What a coup that would be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, gosh, gosh, could they use that? Police are
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  Speaker 3: warning of traffic delays around that venue. They say there's
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  Speaker 3: going to be massive delays, according to the police, starting
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  Speaker 3: at about 9 a.m. And that's going to go all
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  Speaker 3: the way to 3 o'clock in the afternoon because once
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  Speaker 3: you get the president in town, that throws everything out
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  Speaker 3: of whack. So if you're planning to go to Rock
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  Speaker 3: Hill today, for whatever reason, just expect it to be
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  Speaker 3: kind of chaotic. The closer you get to the Rock
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  Speaker 3: Hill Sports and Events Center, the more chaotic it will get. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina. Early voting record, 671,000 of you through Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: That exceeded the entire 2022 deal. I'm wondering, what was
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  Speaker 3: it for 2024, Christopher? Do we know? I'm wondering, because
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  Speaker 3: we might be able to break that one, if that
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  Speaker 3: means anything to anybody. Yeah, I'd have to look. To
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  Speaker 3: break a presidential record would be something impressive.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty incredible, yeah. And you can only do that through Saturday. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: you can vote on Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Early voting ends Saturday at 6 p.m. Interesting. Depending on
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  Speaker 4: your early voting center hours, but I think normally they're
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  Speaker 4: open 8.30 to 6. Okay. But no early voting on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm surprised they have it on Saturday. So that's
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  Speaker 3: good news, I guess, for some people who might want
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  Speaker 3: to try to beat the rush. Have you voted yet?
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  Speaker 4: I have not. I will vote on Election Day.
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  Speaker 3: I was with several people yesterday who were wearing their
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  Speaker 3: I Voted stickers very proudly. That is like the status
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  Speaker 3: symbol amongst people who love freedom and democracy.
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  Speaker 4: The I Voted sticker. You know what was odd about
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  Speaker 4: when I voted? Oh, the... Primaries, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: They had run out of English language.
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  Speaker 3: I voted.
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  Speaker 4: No, I was given a Spanish language sticker that said
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  Speaker 4: I voted that.
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  Speaker 3: That is pathetic.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was a little odd.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Why can't why can't we just make English the official
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  Speaker 3: language of the United States? I even as a child,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't understand why that was like controversial. It shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, whether— I mean, I know everybody doesn't believe in
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  Speaker 3: the Bible, but the Bible talks about if they're of
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  Speaker 3: one voice and those types of things, how you can
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  Speaker 3: accomplish so much more. And we look at the confusion
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  Speaker 3: of language and people who don't speak English. They have
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  Speaker 3: problems in America. And then we're supposed to feel bad
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  Speaker 3: that they don't know how to speak English. And we
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  Speaker 3: can't even get stickers that say, I voted in English.
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  Speaker 3: What does it say in Spanish? I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: I— And the biote, there's something like that.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't wear it very long.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't put it on, though.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it was blue, so it showed that
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  Speaker 4: I voted. But yeah, then I looked at it and
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  Speaker 4: I thought, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: It's a status symbol, man. I'm telling you, it's like
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  Speaker 3: wearing Gucci or something these days. I got the I
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  Speaker 3: voted sticker on.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I should be glad my precinct had so
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  Speaker 4: many voters that they ran out of stickers. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, stock up.
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  Speaker 3: And stop buying them in Spanish. And what about our
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  Speaker 3: friends from China? Don't they get the symbols and whatnot?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that seems exclusive. All right. We've got a lot
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  Speaker 3: to get to this morning. We've already touched on some
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  Speaker 3: of it. But, of course, throughout the show, we'd love
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  Speaker 3: for you to plug in. You can do so on
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  Speaker 3: social media as well. I'm at Kelly Nash Radio. The
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  Speaker 3: If you want to chime in there. Or... Just hit
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  Speaker 3: me up with some sort of social media post there.
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  Speaker 3: Or the best one is use the I Heart Radio
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  Speaker 3: app and use the microphone. That's how you talk back
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  Speaker 3: to Christopher Thompson and myself. We'll be underway here in
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  Speaker 3: just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Kelly Nash here. Was it yesterday we were
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  Speaker 3: playing clips of the Annie Andrews interview that we had?
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that I really wanted to,
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  Speaker 3: because I think I played most of it in the
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  Speaker 3: 7 o'clock hour, but one of the things that I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to just kind of bring people's attention back to,
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  Speaker 3: I actually did a whole podcast on this this morning.
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  Speaker 3: If you want the 10-minute morning edition, it's called the
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  Speaker 3: National Briefing, and that's on the iHeartRadio app. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to go 10 minutes here, but I think Annie
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  Speaker 3: Andrews actually said the quiet part out loud on my interview.
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  Speaker 3: I was bringing up the fact that she did a
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  Speaker 3: television ad saying she's not for transing children. She wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: support that. She never has. She never would. She also
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  Speaker 3: never would support the idea of men playing in women's sports.
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  Speaker 3: And then the LGBT community came out with an open
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  Speaker 3: letter saying that this ad basically hurt their feelings. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll just pick it up from there. What is your
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  Speaker 3: response to people who say that they were offended by
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  Speaker 3: that ad?
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  Speaker 7: My job right now is to do everything I can
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  Speaker 7: to win this race so that I can represent the
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  Speaker 7: people of South Carolina. I believe by me defeating Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 7: we will have successfully returned the Senate seat to the
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  Speaker 7: people of South Carolina, taking it away from someone.
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  Speaker 3: And she just goes on and on with her attack
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  Speaker 3: on Darlene. But what she just said is my job
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  Speaker 3: is to win the Senate seat. And I take that,
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  Speaker 3: and perhaps you do as well, as I'm saying what
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  Speaker 3: I need to say in order to win an election.
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  Speaker 3: And for the people on the left, if I win
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  Speaker 3: the election, good things might be coming your way. But
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  Speaker 3: first and foremost, I've got to win the election. So
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  Speaker 3: if her position has never been this way, has never
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  Speaker 3: been to, and I'm not passing judgment, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: For those of you who are going to say, well,
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  Speaker 3: he's anti-trans or whatever, I'm not saying any of those things.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is, She is saying that she wasn't
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  Speaker 3: that person. Here she is. I tweeted this out a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. This is her with a guy
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  Speaker 3: named Chase Glenn at MUSC, or I should say formerly
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  Speaker 3: of MUSC. He was bragging in this interview that he
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  Speaker 3: was the first ever director of LGBTQ affairs and things
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  Speaker 3: of that nature. And he, and I should be getting
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  Speaker 3: bonus points. I am using his preferred pronoun because he
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  Speaker 3: was born a female and But Chase Glenn and Annie
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  Speaker 3: Ingers on a podcast together, reminiscing about the good old
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  Speaker 3: days at MUSC.
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  Speaker 8: They wanted to make MUSC a center of transgender excellence,
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  Speaker 8: transgender care excellence. And they wanted that to be what
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  Speaker 8: MUSC could do and offer in the state of South Carolina.
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  Speaker 7: The work you were doing, incredible progress would have been
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  Speaker 7: so meaningful for so many people in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be.
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  Speaker 7: Always bonded by our shared experience of being child advocates.
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  Speaker 3: Child advocates. Child advocates. Again, transgendered individual, head of LGBTQ
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  Speaker 3: whatever affairs at MUSC until the state house said you
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  Speaker 3: can't have that anymore. And we certainly are not going
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  Speaker 3: to do any transgendered surgeries or any kind of puberty
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  Speaker 3: blockers or any of those types of things because they're
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  Speaker 3: so dangerous. And again, I'm not passing judgment. She's saying
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  Speaker 3: she was never forced.
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  Speaker 1: This.
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  Speaker 3: Then you go to her own Twitter account, and I
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  Speaker 3: retweeted this out. This is from August 27th, 2021, our
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  Speaker 3: last installment of MUSC Kids Summer Advocacy Lecture Series this morning,
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  Speaker 3: featuring rock star youth advocate Eli Bundy. Eli Bundy was
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  Speaker 3: a 16-year-old at that time. Eli Bundy was identified as
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  Speaker 3: a male, was born a female, lives in the Lowcountry.
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  Speaker 3: We are celebrating this. Something had to have changed because
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  Speaker 3: all of the stuff, your digital footprint says you are pro-trans,
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  Speaker 3: you are pro-trans youth. You believe that that is health care.
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  Speaker 3: And if that's who you are, then say it. Don't
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  Speaker 3: don't be like it's Halloween and I'm wearing my I'm
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  Speaker 3: running for office costume. And then, you know, it's like
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  Speaker 3: at the end of this at the end of Scooby
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  Speaker 3: Doo when the mask comes off and we find out
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  Speaker 3: who you really are. By the way, these people that
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  Speaker 3: supported you, they deserve a voice. If you think that
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  Speaker 3: this isn't a worthy argument, fight for it. Don't say,
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  Speaker 3: that's not me. That's not who I am. Don't be
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  Speaker 3: like Tallarico. I don't believe that God's non-binary. I shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have said that. Be who you say you are. If
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  Speaker 3: you are Abdul El-Sayed up in Michigan, be who you
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  Speaker 3: say you are. You are for the ending of Israel.
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  Speaker 3: You've said it before. Why won't you say it now?
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  Speaker 3: say who you are and run on that. Too many
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  Speaker 3: Americans are confused right now and trying to say, well,
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  Speaker 3: but they say the right things right now. And they're
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  Speaker 3: very palatable to me. And they, they, they seem actually
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  Speaker 3: more competent than the person that I was thinking of
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  Speaker 3: voting for. And maybe, maybe now's the time that I'll
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  Speaker 3: vote Democrat. And look, just go and look at a
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  Speaker 3: year or two of their history. Just look at that
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  Speaker 3: before you make a decision, because they're most of them,
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  Speaker 3: I think are doing exactly what Dr. Annie said. My
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  Speaker 3: job is to get elected. It's not to tell you
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  Speaker 3: the truth. My job is to get elected. Christopher, any
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, she's delivering the message that she thinks
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  Speaker 4: will ring true with most South Carolina voters. And I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we know this is a conservative state in spite of
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  Speaker 4: our changing demographics. This is still a conservative state. You
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  Speaker 4: are not going to win election in South Carolina by
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  Speaker 4: embracing a lot of the values that she used to embrace.
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  Speaker 4: So she's changed her tune.
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  Speaker 3: And she did say, by the way, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the interview, if you want to go listen to it,
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  Speaker 3: we have like an 18-minute interview with her. But at
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  Speaker 3: the end of it, she did say, like, I would
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  Speaker 3: govern from the center because I think that that's where
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  Speaker 3: most South Carolinians are. But then you're not being who
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  Speaker 3: you really are. I don't believe that she would govern
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  Speaker 3: from the center. I don't think that that's who she is.
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  Speaker 3: But why would you? It's like saying, well, I am
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  Speaker 3: very pro-life. But because the center says it should be
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  Speaker 3: instead of a six week abortion ban, a 10 week
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  Speaker 3: abortion ban, I will go against my own principles and
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  Speaker 3: all the people that voted for me. And I will
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  Speaker 3: then go more to the center. Why would you do that?
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  Speaker 3: Say who you are, mean what you say and let
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  Speaker 3: the cards, you know, the chips fall where they may.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be a bunch of people who love it.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be a bunch of people who don't
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  Speaker 3: like it. And there's going to be some people who say, well,
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  Speaker 3: I wrestle with some of their issues. But that's if
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  Speaker 3: you're being honest. What we have right now is a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of Democrat candidates who are not being honest about
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  Speaker 3: who they really are, and that is, well, it's scary
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  Speaker 3: stuff because I think they're tricking a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? Use the talkback feature to get
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  Speaker 3: back at us. It's South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 3: I've only got time for a moment here, tight break,
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  Speaker 3: but my friend John sent me a Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 3: piece today. This is, you know, Christopher, when you and
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  Speaker 3: I and other people in America or wherever think that
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  Speaker 3: we're having a tough day or maybe a rough go
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  Speaker 3: at life, I'm just reading this story about some Ukrainian
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  Speaker 3: soldier with the last name of Valensko. And he is
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  Speaker 3: a kind of a historic figure now because he becomes
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  Speaker 3: the first human being saved by a drone. They actually
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  Speaker 3: were able to build a drone to go in and
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  Speaker 3: pick him up and take him out of a war zone.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Now it took a while. So Valensco was hit by
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  Speaker 3: a different drone that shattered his legs. Um, his left leg,
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  Speaker 3: his foot, according to him, reading it in the wall
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  Speaker 3: street journal, um, In April, owing to frostbite and gangrene,
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  Speaker 3: I lost my left foot. It rotted off on its own.
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  Speaker 3: Then in May, I had to cut the right one
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  Speaker 3: off myself. So he has no feet. And he said
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  Speaker 3: he did that, quote unquote, surgery in a boiler room
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  Speaker 3: of an abandoned school. The Ukrainians lost six soldiers each
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  Speaker 3: time it was two going in to try to rescue
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  Speaker 3: this guy. They couldn't get anybody to him. But they
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  Speaker 3: did keep dropping in food and medicine. He had to
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  Speaker 3: crawl to get it. He said having no feet makes
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  Speaker 3: it very difficult to crawl. I hadn't considered that. But here,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the quote, this is an unbelievable quote. In
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  Speaker 3: the video after the operation, the soft-spoken Mr. Valensco dwelled
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  Speaker 3: on the horrors of a solitary ordeal for months upon months.
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  Speaker 3: But the kindness of his fellow soldiers, they spoiled me.
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  Speaker 3: Not only did they drop me canned meat and porridge,
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  Speaker 3: but special treats like Fanta soda and Snickers bars. This
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  Speaker 3: guy feels like he was being spoiled. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a different appreciation of life right now.
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  Speaker 3: My gosh, this guy is a superhero. And God bless
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  Speaker 3: the Ukrainians that are fighting that fight. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: surprised if they're making statues to that guy today because
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  Speaker 3: he's something special. All right, we'll take a break, and
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  Speaker 3: you can reflect on how difficult your life is compared
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  Speaker 3: to his, and we'll reconvene again in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, I kind of tuned out of social media for
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  Speaker 3: a few hours, Christopher, and then when I came back,
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  Speaker 3: it was like chaos. Everybody was going ballistic. over a
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  Speaker 3: New York Times Siena poll that said it is, now
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  Speaker 3: it's a dead heat, 48-48 in South Carolina. Graham Andrews locked,
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  Speaker 3: never been tighter before. And everybody was making big noise
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  Speaker 3: about it. And I was like, do you not remember
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  Speaker 3: who the New York Times Siena poll is? And so
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  Speaker 3: I just, I retweeted their final poll the day of
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: the election saying, Trump, Harris, Harris with a slight lead.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: They don't know what the flip they're talking about and
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: or they just project what they want to see happen.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: I have zero faith in a New York Times poll.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Zero.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Always never have ever believed them. Look, the New York
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Times documented liars all the way back to World War One.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: So they're one of the worst rags out there and
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: have been for decades. The old gray lady. That thing
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: has always... Go ask the Ukrainians what happened. You know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: for all you big Democrats who love Ukraine, and I'm
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: with you, I love the Ukrainian people as well. Go
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: ask them what happened with the New York Times coverage
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: of them during the Russian takeover. Because according to the
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: New York Times... It was everybody else was making it
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: seem worse than it really was, that the Russians actually
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: were caring for the Ukrainians. And I'm talking about going
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: into World War II and stuff. When you go and
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: look at how many people died in the Ukraine and
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: their reporters from The New York Times lied and covered
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: it up. But it doesn't matter which I mean, that's
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: a massive one, because I think there was like three
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: million people at this guy's feet dead. And he's just like, no,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: all's well here in the Ukraine. I don't know what
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: they're talking about. Plenty to eat. Um, but that, I mean,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: you can go and look at just about any controversy
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: with Reagan, Bush, Clinton, the lies that the New York
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: times continues to tell that they, they, they, they have no,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: they have no conscience.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Well, one of the problems with the time, and this,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: this isn't necessarily in depth. This isn't all about the times,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: but in general, MAGA people are no longer responding to polls.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: So you're automatically undercounting. the MAGA faithful when you start counting,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you know, poll results. And I'm sure when, when a
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: MAGA voter gets a call and they sit, the first
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: thing they lead with is, yeah, I'm from the New
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: York times. I'd like to hear your opinions on that.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they automatically tune out. So there, there's a,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: probably a greatly under reported. I would say a strong
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: number of voters in South Carolina who are probably not
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: responding to these polls.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Well, today Donald Trump will be in Rock Hill. That's,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: you know, the upstate is the epicenter of trying to
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: get the conservative vote out. I see a Citadel poll
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: came out Tuesday. Two percent of registered voters in this state,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: according to the Citadel poll, plan to write in Ralph Norman,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: including four percent in the Rock Hill market.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: That's a significant number if the poll numbers are as
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: tight as you say they are.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Yes. Now, the Citadel poll factoring that in says that...
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: graham is still up 44 37 that sounds a little
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: more realistic yeah 10 undecided i can't believe that there'll
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: be many people like is his name warren norman yes
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: i mean i'm i'm trying to put myself in his head. Like,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: how does he come to the fact, okay, what did
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: he say? There's winners and losers. I get it. It's politics.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: You got to go with. So he is a Trump
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: supporter and a Ralph Norman supporter, not because Ralph Norman's
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: his dad, but that's who he identifies with, conservative politics.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: And he says that his fear is that Darlene Graham
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: would go along with the Republican establishment. So instead, I'm
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: going to endorse Annie Andrews, who basically is telling you,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I will not go along with the Republicans. I will
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: go along with the socialists. So I don't understand that
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: reasoning at all. And telling me it's not sour grapes,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: it has to be sour grapes, wouldn't it? It feels
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: like it, yes.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, and you can understand that with the son
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: of someone who the family feels like he got screwed over. Well,
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: this is Warren Norman does not make more. Norman is
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: not an average South Carolina voter.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: No, no. And I look, I also did salute the
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Andrews campaign when they put it up that she was
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: proud to have the. family of ralph norman endorsing her
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: and i was like you got one person that's not
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: a family but you know that's that's that's one person
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you know it's like was it ron reagan was it
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: ron reagan jr who hated ronald reagan one of the
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: one of the reagan kids well the daughter wasn't a fan.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Either it was michael was the only real fan.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And that was the adopted one i remember right so
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: so you had two kids against him but then of
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: course you had nancy very pro ron And then you
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: had the adopted son, Michael, was very pro-Ron. But to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: say that the Reagan family was against Reagan because you
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: had two of his kids would not be an accurate description.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: But that's not to say that campaigns wouldn't use that
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: kind of information that way.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: If you're going up to the Rock Hill rally, I'd
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: love to hear from you today. Or maybe you'll talk
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: to us tomorrow. Let us know how it goes down.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: In the meantime, we've got plenty more to get to.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Hi there. I just saw the headline over at the
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Post and Courier, and it's one of those things where
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: it's like, oh my gosh, it's an attention getter. The
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Department of Justice will have poll monitors in Charleston County
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: on Election Day and possibly elsewhere. This is very concerning.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: The DOJ was in South Carolina during the August Senate primaries, too,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: between Darlene Graham and Ralph Norman. Now, if you go
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: through this story and you'll see lots of concern, lots
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: of like Paul Bowers, head of the American Civil Liberties Union.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: The way the Justice Department has been weaponized as of
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: late should give people pause. This is scary, right? Now,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Isaac Kramer, the director of the Charleston County Elections Office,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: said he met with the DOJ earlier this week and
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: was told to focus on Charleston comes from higher ups.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: What does that even mean? I don't know. They're looking
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: for four to five two-person teams to be in Charleston County,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: and they'll be in designated areas at polling sites. The
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: American Civil Liberties Union, I like the fact that they
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: put this in the story. I was kind of surprised
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: they put it in there. It says in their interview
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: October 28th, which would have been yesterday, that it has
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: had no complaints from Charleston voters about the DOJ's presence. Whoops.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: OK, so it's much ado about nothing.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: But voter intimidation remains one of our top concerns. We're
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: very concerned that people people will see other people standing
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: there and they'll say, oh, my God, Trump doesn't want
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: me voting for this individual. Now, inside the story, they
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: also go on to say multiple people. Independent or nonpartisan
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: monitoring groups are also going to be there. So we're
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: going to have a myriad of people monitoring and because
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: two of them are going to be from the DOJ
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and they're probably not going to be wearing like DOJ jackets.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: It's just going to be a group of people standing
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: there in suits. Well, those people are intimidating me. Oh,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: come on, man. Let's grow up.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Just a quick follow-up on that story about the DOJ
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: going to be having polling monitors in Charleston County for
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the election day. According to, this is funny, PBS says
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: that since 1998, as far as they can tell, every
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: election in America has had hundreds if not thousands of
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: of polling monitors sent out by the Department of Justice.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I remember specifically being intimidated in 1998. I didn't vote
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: that year.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Of course they do.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden, by the way, sent 388 polling monitors out
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: in 2022. So, look, this is nothing new. To act
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: as if it is, is to clutch the pearls fake news. Anyway,
• 25:18
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• 25:20
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• 25:38
  Speaker 3: So the Dan Sullivan story in Alaska is becoming almost
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: as bizarre as the Ilhan Omar story. Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: A little more underhanded than we thought. And we had
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: our suspicions from the start.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I wonder how many people are listening, waking up to
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: us right now, Christopher Thompson, saying, what is this Dan
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Sullivan story about?
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: It is Alaska, after all, but it's been an epicenter
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: of politics now for the last couple of months.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Just to try to bring you up to speed, if
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: you're not sure about this, Dan Sullivan is the incumbent
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: senator from Alaska.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: That Dan Sullivan.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: That guy. That guy. There's also Decoy Dan.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Now, according to reports from the New York Times and others,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: they're not the only ones who've got this story now,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: there are text messages between members of the Patola campaign.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: She is the Democrat running against Dan. And this story
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: doesn't make sense if you think about it like South Carolina.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense. But we have old school
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: regular voting. They don't have that in Alaska. They took
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: it away from themselves. So in Alaska, they have something
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: called ranked choice. So the way it's supposed to work,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: or I should say the way it was sold to
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: people is it eliminates the more hardcore candidates. Because the
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: hardcore only picks up the fringe, right? So if you
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: just imagine like a far right, a far left, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: a couple of people in the center, the people on
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the far right and the far left are each going
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: to get, say, 10%. And then the people in the
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: center are going to pick up the majority of the votes. Well,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: in a ranked choice, if I say the far right
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: guy is my number one guy and then the center
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: right guy is my number two guy, in theory, what
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I should do is the center left guy is my
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: third guy and the far left guy is my fourth guy.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Something like 78% of the voters don't actually rank all four.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: They just go with one or two. So what happens
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: in ranked choice voting is they look at it and
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: they say, okay, who got the most? Okay, this, this, this,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: nobody got over 50%. Okay. We're going to eliminate the
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: bottom one. But if you didn't vote for a third choice,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: your vote is then thrown in the trash. So your
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: top guy loses the vote. That's how they screw you.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: And so you've got to vote through all the thing. Otherwise,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: your vote is thrown away. I think they call it
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: an exhausted vote, something to that extent. That's how they
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: do end up with the fringe candidates in some instances.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: It doesn't do what they claim it will do. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: in Dan Sullivan's case, you've got Republican Dan Sullivan who,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: They went out, according to the text messages, they specifically said,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: find as many people as possible named Dan Sullivan in Alaska.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: And then we'll see if we can pick one of
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: them to run as a Republican. Well, the guy they got,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: fresh off his No Kings Rally protest, said, sure, I'll
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: do it. So you've got two Republicans out of the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: four in the ranked choice primary, or not even a primary,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: the general election. So there's four people running. two of
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: whom are named Dan Sullivan. Now, they do try to
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: separate it a little bit by saying Dan Sullivan Republican.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: By the way, he is above in the ballots. So
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: the first one, I think, is Paltola. Then it's Dan
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Sullivan Republican, Dan Sullivan Republican incumbent, and then there's some
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: other person. I forget their name now. They're irrelevant. But
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: if you can split the Dan Sullivan vote, Paltola is
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: going to run away with this thing. And as you said, Christopher,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: this is very devious. Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, it sounded devious from the start, but we
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: didn't have the proof until now. that it was actually
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: linked to Patola's campaign.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: And Patola is trying to, you know, just fluff this away.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: You know, nobody's concerned about these things, says Mary Patola.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: This is below us to even respond to it. But
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: more importantly, quote, nobody's waking up worried about ballot composition.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Not even me. I'm worried about my bills. I'm worried
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: about affordability and health care. Let's talk about the things
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: that matter. Well, Mary, you just established that you're a
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: big cheater. We'll just say that. That your character cannot
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: be trusted because you are blinded by your ambition for power.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: You're willing to do anything, including confuse and trick people.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: specifically older people who aren't going to be following these
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: types of stories is going to a poll and say, Oh,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan, that's my Senator. I'm voting for Dan Sullivan.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: There's Dan Sullivan. The first Dan Sullivan they see is
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: not the Dan Sullivan that they think that they're getting.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: That is perfect. Perfect Democrat politics. That's how they win races. Again,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: going back to my youth, Rush Limbaugh used to say it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I have not been dissuaded otherwise. If Democrats tell you
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: who they are and what they want, they would never
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: win an election in America because they are anti-freedom. They
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: do not want you to have choices. That's the ironic
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: thing about it. Their one thing is freedom of choice,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: my body, my choice. Well, really? How about COVID? Was
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: it still my body? Was it still my choice? Can
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I get a vaccine, not get a vaccine? Is it
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: my body, my choice? No, no, they're not about choice.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: They're about restricting choice, government control. And most Americans don't
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: have that in their DNA. Most Americans say, you know what?
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I think I can look out for me, and I
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: want Christopher to look out for him. And if we
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: want to do something together, we should be able to
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: do something together, not have to get some sort of
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: government permit in order to go out and cover a
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: football game together or whatever the heck it is that
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: we're doing. They want more and more control of our lives,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: and people don't like it. So they lie and they
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: cheat in order to try to win elections. And this
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: is a fantastic example in Alaska. And I think Donald
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Trump's right. She should be prosecuted. She was in on it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: She should be prosecuted.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: One of the problems is, I mean, they've got early
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: voting in Alaska and they're off to a record-setting pace
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: right now. That all happened before this story broke yesterday.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: A lot of people already voted.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Yes. I'm sure some of the liberal media is like,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I'm reading this now on CBS News. I'm sure they
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: were like, like right before they hit enter to send
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: the story, they're like, Do I have to send it?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Do I have to send it and show the Democrats
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: are cheaters? Anyway, there's that story. If you'd like to
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: comment on that or some of the other stuff, we've
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: been going pretty in-depth about the Ralph Norman controversy with
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: the Darlene Graham and Annie Andrews race. If you've got
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: thoughts on that or anything else that we're talking about
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: this morning, please hit us up on the Talkback feature.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break and back in a moment.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: Christopher.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Where is the rally in Rock Hill.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Being held today?
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Christopher, where is it? Good question.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: It is the Rock Hill Sports and Events Center. And
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: this was built just a few years ago. It's a
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: big 170,000 square foot facility. They hold a lot of
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: basketball tournaments, sports tournaments, karate, volleyball, et cetera, concerts. It
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: holds about 20,000 100 people i think total okay they're
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: saying 1200 stadium seats and then i'm not sure how
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: many they can get on the floor so it just
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: you know it depends on how big the stage is
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: and So at least 1,200 in the seats and then
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: maybe an additional 800 on the floor.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: And if you want to get into the chaos, it's
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the 326 Technology Center Way in Rock Hill. I will
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: point out that they're saying you're going to need tickets
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: and you can go to events.gop.com. Maximum request is four.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know if there'll be any tickets left.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I'd be surprised if there were at this point.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: But I mean, you could maybe just go and I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: remember years ago, the Yankees were playing the Mets in
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: a World Series. And I went— I didn't have tickets, but
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I just went by Yankee Stadium and sat in a
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: sports bar across the street just to be in the
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: chaos of it all. Just to soak up the atmosphere.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's what you do today. If you can't get
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: in to the rally, there's going to be— it' ll be a circus,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: I'm sure, outside. Mm-hmm. And there'll be thousands of people
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: who aren't getting in. But, you know, you might want
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: to just stand around with some like minded individuals, see
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: if any anybody's brave enough to be a protester and
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: talk about Donald Trump's a fascist or, you know, Donald
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Trump's on the Epstein list. We're not going to we're
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: not reelecting pedophiles or whatever their stupid thing is that
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: they're going to say out there and say it in
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: front of a bunch of red hats. Right. I mean,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: get your video cameras ready because you could be having
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: YouTube gold by the end of today. You could be
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: all over social media with these types of videos. Hopefully
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: nobody gets crazy. We don't want anybody to get, you
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? Have fun, but don't get crazy
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: in a violent way.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Will the Ralph Norman crowd be there? Will they be,
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: will they have a presence outside the rally?
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, the write in Ralph team with the hashtag write
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: in Ralph shirts and whatnot. I wonder. I would recommend
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: against it. I would recommend against it because, again, this
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: is like it's I mean, it's like the Israelis and
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: the Palestinians hanging out together at this point. We're seeing
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: things completely different. The right in Ralph campaign seems to
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: be almost twofold. One would be there's just a group
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: of people who are just like, I'm South Carolinian and
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: you ain't telling me nothing. I'll do whatever I want.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: And once you try to make me do something that
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: somebody else is telling me to do, and I don't
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: care if it's Donald Trump, I don't care who's telling me,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: I ain't doing it. There's that crew. And then there's
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: the other crew that feels like Trump might be part
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: of the swamp now, and this is him kind of
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: getting his way, and there's like a whole Republican, you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: swamp movement unto itself, and I don't want to be
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: a part of that. So I'm going to write in
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Ralph and send a message to the GOP that we're
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: not down with that. Again, both are wrong in this instance.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I'll say wrong. I mean, everybody's entitled to their own opinion,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: so they're not technically wrong. But I would say that
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: if what your concern is, is in the big scheme
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: of things, you want smaller government, not more government. If
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: you want More freedoms, not less freedoms, then you should
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: be voting for whomever the Republican is, even if it
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: was Pet Rock, the Republican. That's who you need to
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: be voting for. That's the way I look at things.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: How do you look at it? Maybe we'll get some
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: right-in Ralph people. We're kind of going over lately with
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: the right-in Ralph crew. They have not been calling in lately.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: They've been silent.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: But we'd love to air you. Please use the talkback feature. See,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: then we can't even engage. We can't even say, whoa,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: wait a second. We'll just air what you have to
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: say about why you should write in, Ralph, unless you're
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: cursing or something like that. We'll take a break and
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: be back with more.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: We are less than a month away from a vote. No,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about the midterms. I'm talking about the
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: FCC's November 19th vote. Now, this vote... If ever there
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: was what I would consider a no-brainer vote, a vote
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: that is decades overdue, it would be this vote. The
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: proposal in the vote would be to rule that cell
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: phones are unauthorized inside jail facilities. No one can have them.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Nobody can have a cell phone. And if they make
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: that the case, then we can finally... once and for
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: all stop prisoners from orchestrating heinous crimes against civilians outside
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: the cell walls. Now, right now, federal prisons can use
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: the jamming technology, but that is prohibited in state prisons.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: And we've got the technology to do it.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. It would just be a boop and it's
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: over and it's over. Your cell phone is now a
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: paperweight and you know, Who is the legislator? We had
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: a legislator whose son committed suicide, I think, over a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: prisoner tricking them. I mean, this is something that the
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: statehouse has been calling for that just common sense people
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: have been begging for. They've been running extortion schemes. They've
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: been running drug rings. They've been putting out hits on people. Plus,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: whatever other privileges come with having a cell phone. in prison.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: You see all this stuff that gets smuggled into prisons.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, you would think, okay, cigarettes, drugs, et cetera.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, phones are usually at the top of the list. It's,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: it is a very valuable resource for a prisoner to have.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: So South Carolina, I think is joining a lot of
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: States and praying that the FCC votes the right way
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: in just to cut. Now, I don't know why it's
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: taken them this long to get to this position where
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: we're going to finally have this vote. Um, They opened
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: it up, by the way, in September of last year
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: for public comment. I don't know if anybody's taking advantage
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: of that. I don't even know how to make a
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: public comment. I'm saying it on the radio. You'd be
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: stupid to not block cell phones for prisoners. And for
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: those people who are like, well, what about the prison guards?
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Somehow they survived for hundreds of years without cell phones.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: They can have walkie talkies if they need help. They can,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: you know, chat that way.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: And of course, we had the famous case of a
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: South Carolina prison guard who was attacked outside of work
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: because a prisoner on the inside had a cell phone
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: and orchestrated the attack.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: By the way, we in South Carolina spent 18 and
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: a half million dollars over the last two years on
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: technology that will track cell signals just within the prisons,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: just so we can try to find who's got a
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: cell phone. They're not supposed to have them, so we're
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: trying to track and figure it out. But they just
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: turn them on and then they turn them off. They
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: just do whatever they got to do and they shut
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: it off. It's a cat and mouse game, and it
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to be that way. So, again, FCC, November 19th,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: please do the right thing. Make South Carolina and all
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: other states much safer with bypassing this bill. We'll take
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: a break and be back with more in just a moment.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: It is sad that we live in such dangerous times.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: And part of the things that makes it dangerous, obviously
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: the brainwashing of millions of millions of Americans into thinking
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: that the security of the United States citizens is something
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: that would be considered fascist. And also the fact that
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: we have so much access to electronic data. Yesterday, a
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: quote-unquote anti-fascist group Hacktivists calling themselves the Department of Peace
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: hacked into somehow the basically the Department of Homeland Security.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And now we have 40,000 DHS employees and contractors, including 10,000
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: ICE personnel's personal records in the hands of the Department
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: of Peace, who says that they will be making sure
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: that the proper people get this information. so that we
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: can end the Department of Homeland Security.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: All right, for starters, Homeland Security gets hacked. That's a
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: scary prospect right there. I don't care how good these
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: hackers are or how noble their intentions are, and I
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: put noble in quotes. Just the fact that we got
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: hacked in our secure department, the department that's in charge
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: of Homeland Security, that's a concern.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Well, just to Further it. Okay. The Pentagon was hacked
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: last month. 2.76 million military personnel. All their info out
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: in the open now. So the Pentagon's been hacked. The
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security's been hacked. The state of South
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Carolina's been hacked. There is nothing safe in the electronics world. Ever.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Every hospital system it seems known to mankind has been hacked.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Every insurance company's been hacked. Yahoo's been hacked. Google's been hacked.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Everybody's hacked. There's nothing safe. And what we have is
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: a group of, what did you call them, Christopher? Like noble.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I put noble in quotes.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We have all these people who feel like they're
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: doing the Lord's work, even though they don't believe in
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: the Lord, by trying to put people who are defending
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: this country at risk. And I don't have an answer, Christopher.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, can we just take everything offline again? Is
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: it too late to go back to paper records?
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Can we buy some file cabinets at the supply store
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: and just stock those?
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Where is that place? Isn't there a place in, like,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: West Virginia or something that's, like, an underground thing? They
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: were talking about if you're, like, an employee of the
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: federal government, you have to retire. Like, you have to
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: announce your intentions, like, six months earlier so that they
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: can go get your files, which are, like, a thousand
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: feet underground in a rock thing. And we all need
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: to be there. That's where our personal records should be stored.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: The internet has proven itself not trustworthy.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: I'm guessing AI makes this even easier.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: You know what you might have, you might, can, can
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: we maybe try to schedule an interview with the hacktivists, uh,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: the department of peace and see if they're being benefited
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: by grok or chat GPT or something. I mean, this
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: is just absolutely insane. Um, But the Department of Peace,
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: how ironic. That sounds like, you know what, that's like
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: a Joe Biden bill, the Department of Peace. We're going
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: to call it the exact opposite of what it is.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break. If you've got thoughts
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: on the Department of Peace, the idea of we're being
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: hacked everywhere all the time, there seems to be nothing
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: that can be safe on the Internet. or other things.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe you have some cheerful news. I'd like to be cheerful.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: You want to give me some cheerful news? Use the
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Talkback feature or hit us up on social media. I'm
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: at Kelly Nash Radio.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 44:40
  Speaker 10: My grandmother is a blind person, and she tells me
• 44:43
  Speaker 10: ever since Darlene Graham took over the South Carolina Commission
• 44:46
  Speaker 10: for the Blind, it's almost impossible to get somebody on
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: the telephone over there. You get a recording telling blind
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: people to go visit their website. Now, how much sense
• 44:58
  Speaker 10: does that make? Darlene Graham's an idiot. Vote for Casey Whitener, please.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Wow. You know, that is the first criticism I have
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: heard of Darlene Graham and her running of the Department
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: of the Blind. That is a unique attack angle. Yes,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: it is. I have not.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: You know, kudos to you for that. And I'm sorry
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: to hear if that is actually happening. If that is
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: the case, is somebody from the Department of the Blind
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: listening this morning? That would be, I don't, maybe we
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: could look it up, Christopher, and call the number and
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: see if it's telling us to go as a blind person,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: look at their website. That, wow. Maybe there's, I'm hopeful
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: that there's maybe some sort of technology that, Blind people
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: would have access to that if they are on the Internet,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: that the Internet is like translated to an audible thing
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: for them. So it'll tell them what they're, you know,
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: what they would be seeing if they could see. My gosh, though,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: that does seem very cruel. Why don't you log on
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: to our website and take a look there? Oh, you're blind.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe that might be the reason you're calling. Wow. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: hope that that is not the case. But thank you
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: for the talkback feature and obviously a libertarian there pushing
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: for Casey Whitener. You have another talkback you said we
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: should get on?
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Good morning, gentlemen.
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: This is Renee in West Columbia talking about cell phones
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: in prisons. Unfortunately, I have had to resort to online
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: dating after my divorce. And on the Facebook dating app,
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: I come across prisoners' profiles all the time. They are
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: even brazen enough to be wearing their SCDC jumpsuits in
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: their photos. But when I notify SCDC and send them screenshots,
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: nothing happens. You guys have a great day.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: Not surprised.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: I've never been to prison. I'm trying to put myself
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: in a prisoner's mindset. What, how do they see this
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: playing out? I'm in a jumpsuit, right? But I'm guessing it's,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: is it the bright orange ones? Sure. And it's, and
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: I'm clearly in prison and I'm looking for love. How
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: do I see this happening? I don't know how, I
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Probably looking for, in Renee's case, a sugar mama on
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: the outside. Somebody who, who could, you know, if they
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: form a bond, then she will mail in money and
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: gifts and everything else. I, I.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: I understand that. And I've seen some documentaries or whatever,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: where they talk about how people fall in love with prisoners.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Usually it's like a letter, like some sort of campaign,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: like they send them a letter. Like I read about
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: your case and then they write back, Hey, thank you
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: for taking an interest in my case and blah, blah, blah.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: And then next thing you know, we're getting married. Um,
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: But in this instance, it's a dating app. Unless you're getting,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: I guess maybe they're going to get out in the
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: next couple of, hey, listen, if you can wait about
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: three months, and you can pay for it, we're going
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: to have a great date.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: I'll be tanned, rested, and rehabilitated.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: And it must work. I'm assuming that it works. Have
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: you ever dated a prisoner while they were still in prison?
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Is that how your romance began? I'd love to hear
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: about it. Use the talkback feature for that. Not expecting
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: any talkbacks on that one. But that was very interesting.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: So we're getting some good talkbacks this morning. We do
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: appreciate you guys plugging in. And best of luck. Was
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: her name Sarah in West Columbia?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Renee.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Renee in West Columbia. Best of luck to you out there.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I know it's not easy in the dating world, whether
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: you're going through prisoners or just the rest of us
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: out here. We're all pretty flawed individuals for certain. All right.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Take a break. Be back with more in just a moment.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: All right. Welcome back, Christopher. You said that you tried
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: calling the Department of the Blind.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: The commission, yes.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: But got a voicemail.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Didn't tell you to go check the website. No. But
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: we did get an email.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: We did. Listener Dan emails, says the fellow talking about
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: the South Carolina Commission for the Blind is clearly lying
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: through his teeth. As another blind person in South Carolina,
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I can assure you every time I've ever called the agency,
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: I get a live answer. They're responsive. They're quite good
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: at what they do. And the place was a train
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: wreck before Darlene Graham took over the agency.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, I have not heard any
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: complaints about Darlene Graham. I think I mentioned that when
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: the talk said that, you know, I think he said
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: his grandmother or somebody was blind and had been a
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: train wreck since Darlene took over the Department of Blind.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: That was the first time I'd ever heard anybody attack that.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: And I would have thought that the Andrews campaign and
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: the Democrats in general would have done deep dive and
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: found anything that they could attack Darlene on. And if
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: she was mismanaging that department, then that would be something
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: that they would easily exploit. So I was a little
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: surprised by that. So glad to hear from the emailer
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: that that's not the case. And thank you for waking
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: up with South Carolina's Morning News. I see photos are
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: now starting to fill up my timeline of people over
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: in Rock Hill and We are just over an hour
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: away from the doors opening for the Donald Trump rally.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: This is, what, second time in eight days? Something like that?
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: He's been here a lot. Yes, he has.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: He's been everywhere a lot.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: But I love South Carolina. It's something special. He also
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: likes big butts. Oh, jeez. Didn't you see him the
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: other day talking about Nicki Minaj?
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, I saw it.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: I saw it. I saw this guy. I think his
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: name is Sean Farrah or something like that. He does
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: a great Trump impression, and he was remixing Sir Mix-a-Lot.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: He was like, we like the big butts and cannot lie.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: But not all butts, I'll be honest.
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: We don't like them all. And I don't think Talafico,
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: I don't think he likes all the butts. Chris Christie,
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: he's got a big butt. We don't like it, do we?
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Not so much with the big butt. Well, Talafico might
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: like that big butt. That's the side of Donald Trump
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: I cannot stand.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. But it does make it fun. It
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: makes it fun for us to talk about politics. Although,
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: you know, enjoy it while you got it, because it's
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: probably not going to be like this for much longer.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump will be departing the stage within the next
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: two years or so. And then whoever replaces him will
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: probably be more presidential, whether they're on the left or
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: the right. And this will just be something that happened
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: for a while. And it's... This is a piece of history.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: This is an era that we're living in right now
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: that I think all of us are going to remember this.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like when you went through COVID. That
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: era is etched in your mind. The Donald Trump presidency
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: will be etched in our mind. And for all of
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: you going up to the rally today, that starts at 1230.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: That is.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: If you've never been to a Trump rally, it's a
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: once in a lifetime opportunity for a lot of people
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: to see a president in person. I remember I saw
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan after he was the president. I was at
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Disneyland in California and he came in for like the
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: 50th anniversary or something of Disneyland. And I didn't know
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: he was going to be there. Oh, wow. And I
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: was just like, I was stunned. I was probably, I
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: don't know, 200 yards from him. And I was just
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: standing there like, I cannot believe I'm standing in the
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: presence of a president, even though he wasn't the president anymore.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: I was just, this is unbelievable to me. Very cool. Yes.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: And so it's very cool to stand in front. Now,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: not Joe Biden. I don't count him. But I would
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: say Barack Obama. It would have been cool. I know
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of you don't like Obama. That's okay. But still,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: a great historical figure. Maybe not quite as big as
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Corinne Jean-Pierre, who identified herself as a historical figure. Anyway,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: have fun if you're going to the Trump rally. Let
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: us know what you're doing up there. Use that talkback feature.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: We'll be back just after the top of the hour news.
• 52:50
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• 52:54
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• 52:58
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  Speaker 3: All right, good morning. This is Kelly Nash. Christopher Thompson
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: tells me we took a phone call while I was...
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: studying some stuff to get on the air from Casey Whitener,
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: the libertarian who had a message to not bully people
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: out of their votes. Yes. So that that message has
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: been clearly delivered. I don't know of anyone who has
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: the ability to bully anybody out of their votes. Maybe
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice and their poll monitors down in Charleston.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: But here on this show, I don't think we have
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: the ability. I can't even get the right in Ralph
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: people to flip for Darlene, never mind. Bully anybody out
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: of a Casey Whitener vote. If you're a hardcore libertarian and,
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: you know, that is– I was making the point earlier
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: in the show, candidates should run as who they are.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: I believe Casey Whitener is telling you who she is.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: I don't think she's lying in any way. And if
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: people want to vote for Casey Whitener because they believe
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: they align with her, then they should.
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: There's been no evidence that she has a past– That
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: is different than what she's telling us her future will be.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: So there's that. So we've gotten the PSA out for
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: her request. Now, did you know, Christopher, obviously you're aware
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: that there's a big rally today in Rock Hill, right?
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: That's massive. Donald Trump. He's coming in. He's got the
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Air Force One. And we're going to bring in Darlene.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: We're going to quickly mop up the Iranians. That's going
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: to be not a problem. And everybody's talking about that.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: And you said it's going to be in an arena
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: that's like holds 2100 or so. But that's not the
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: only rally happening today. I did not know this. I
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: somehow this was below the radar. It's not for any Andrews,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: although she was there yesterday in Rock Hill talking about
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: how she had a beer with Ralph Norman's kid. And
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: they're very excited that she's going to win. But there's
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: another rally happening in Rock Hill. For those of you
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: who are driving up there right now going, crap, I
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: don't have tickets to get into the Trump rally, please
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: tell me I didn't drive to Rock Hill for nothing. No,
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: you'll just have to hang around a little bit later tonight,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: 6 o'clock. There's a rally at Rock Hill. This is
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: at the McGirt Auditorium at the Emmett Scott Recreation Center.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: By the way, at the bottom of it, it says
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: that this event was previously announced as for the Rock
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Hill Freedom Temple Ministries and has been relocated due to
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: high demand, exclamation point.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: All right, the McGirt Auditorium seats 750.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Yes. And I don't know that we're going to sell
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: it out, but this is the docket tonight. We're going
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: to start with the state representative, John King, I'm not
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: familiar with. Then we've got the candidate that's going to
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: lose to William Timmons, Courtney McClain from District 4. who
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: probably none of you have heard of. Then we've got
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: the candidate for Secretary of State, who you don't know,
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: named Jason Belton. Then we've got a candidate that you
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: do know.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Jermaine Johnson takes the stage, and then... Our keynote speaker.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: This is the big dog that they flew in to
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: flip South Carolina blue. We're all going blue because we
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: got her, everybody. Jasmine Crockett is coming to Rock Hill
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: in just a few hours.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: She's actually going to be in Columbia this afternoon before
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: she goes to Rock Hill.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: I didn't see that. Where's she going to be in Columbia?
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: The meeting place on Columbia Mall Boulevard. along with Tamika
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Isaac-Devine and Hamilton Grant for a ready-set-vote rally.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: So she's making the rounds.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I would point out to the South Carolina Democrats that
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: you're paying money to bring in a candidate who lost
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: in their state. This is the big— I mean, at least
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: when they're bringing in Obama, it's a former president who,
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: by the way, was never defeated. That's still a big name.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: That will always be a big name. Barack Obama will
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: always be a big name. There are a number of
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: Democrats that you could bring in. Like, even here, you
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: could bring in James Clyburn, and that will still draw
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: a crowd. But to bring in a candidate who was
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: soundly defeated in Texas by James Talafrico— Why? Why? Because
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: she's a sideshow? She's a clown show. She's got, she
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: got almost got into a fist fight with Marjorie Taylor green.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: That was the biggest claim to fame. Marjorie Taylor green,
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: also a clown and a sideshow. So we had two
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: clowns in the Congress, almost in a fist fight. And
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: that is, I mean, this is like, I saw Jake
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: Paul's going to make his comeback. I don't know who
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Jake Paul's going to fight, but, This is like the
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Jake Paul of politics. You're just a freak fest. You
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: just come rolling on in. Speaking of freak fest in sports,
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: by the way, did you see that Lamar Odom? For
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: those of you not big sports fans, Christopher knows exactly
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: who I'm talking about. Lamar Odom was a Lakers legend
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: for a little while. Just becomes the first former NBA
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: player in history to launch his OnlyFans page.
• 58:23
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: We already know way too much about his personal life
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: as it is. No, thank you.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: This is what I wish Christopher was on TV. Does
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: he see his face when he made Lamar Odom is
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: launching his only fans page. I think that's today for
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: those of you want to get online early. And I
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: don't know if you couldn't get into the Trump rally.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Maybe you can make it onto the Lamar Odom only
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: fans page or go to this, the Rock Hill rally
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: confirmed special guest speaker, Jasmine Crockett. It's SC women for change,
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: SC women for change. And again, I'm looking at some
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: of the speakers and, Jason Belton, John King, Jermaine Johnson.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: SC Women for Change. There we go. All the women
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: are there.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: She won't be upstaged, that's for sure.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: If you're going to the Jasmine Crockett rally or the
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump rally, or just having a regular day and
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: want to talk about some of the news of the day,
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: you can hit us up on the talk back feature
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: back in a moment.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: We have a lawsuit going on in South Carolina. Now,
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: this was filed way back in not January of this year,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: January of last year. So this has been going on
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: for quite a while, but it seems like it's going
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: to be coming to an end. According to the Post
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: and Courier, it looks like the trial will end on
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: October 30th. So that's tomorrow. Not sure how quickly we'll
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: get a decision. Probably be a little while. Now, what
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: is this trial about? It's about our abortion law. And
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: we have two people apparently suing us, two doctors, saying
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: that the law is so unclear that it's unconstitutional. The
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: lawsuit argues that the two exceptions for the ban, allowing
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: abortions when there is serious risk to the mother's health,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: or a fatal fetal anomaly are so unclear that the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: law is unconstitutional. Now the state of South Carolina's attorney
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: is pointing out that those are actual medical terms in
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: your medical journals.
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  Speaker 4: So they learned them in med school, but I guess
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: forgot what they meant?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, I suppose.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Now one of the doctors is going as Jane Doe,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: The other person, I don't even know why. Why is
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: this person even here? Now, I'm reading this again from
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: the Post and Courier that the other obstetrician doesn't practice
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: medicine in South Carolina. Well, who gives a rip what
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: they've got to say then? I mean, somebody must care,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: but I don't care. I don't think that Dr. Louise
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: King of Mass General, Isn't that in Massachusetts?
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Why is Dr. Louise King testifying in a South Carolina deal?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. They point out King, who does not
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  Speaker 3: practice medicine in South Carolina, says that it's unclear to
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  Speaker 3: me what kind of standard of care we can offer people.
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  Speaker 3: And then they start getting very nitpicky about, you know,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: what if there was a— here it goes— Is it serious
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  Speaker 3: if it causes a 20% chance of death? Does it
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: have to rise to 50% chance of death? Well, if
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: you're going to be that nitpicky, who's deciding what is
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: the percentages? I mean, could that be open to interpretation?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: Could the definition of it be something other than it?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, how far do we want to go down
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  Speaker 3: this path? And then, so they're saying that right now
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: we don't know what to do. By the way, in
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, I think they said last year, we had
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: 51 abortions performed in that realm, meaning it was a
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: serious risk to the mother's life or a fatal fetal anomaly.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: So they do happen after the six weeks. It's not
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  Speaker 3: common and nor should it be. I think that most
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  Speaker 3: South Carolinians, not all see this as a, as a,
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  Speaker 3: the chance at life, the chance, just the shot at
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  Speaker 3: it should be protected as much as possible. And, you know,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: like when Dr. Andrews was on here was, I don't know,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: three weeks ago was the first time we had her
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: on something like that. When she was talking about how
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: she wants a national abortion law, that is, that is
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: a Dr. Andrews position. She liked Roe v. Wade because
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: it gave a uniform definition. answer to all Americans. When
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: is abortion legal? When is it not legal as far
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: as the timeline? She doesn't like the fact that in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, it's six weeks, but you can go to
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: other states and it's 20 weeks. You can go to
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  Speaker 3: other places like Massachusetts and it's like to the day
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  Speaker 3: of the birth. She wants a uniform abortion law. That
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: is unconstitutional. And I think everybody understands that because the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: Constitution is pretty clear. If it's not addressed by the Constitution,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: it's the state's rights. But if you are going to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: have a federal abortion law, of course, it's going to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: have to start with Massachusetts. You're not going to repeal
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: Massachusetts because they're the most liberal. So theirs is the
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: one that we're all going to have to follow. How
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: could you infringe upon the will of the people of
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: Massachusetts and say, well, no, we're going to put it
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: at eight months? or seven months. That's right, eight months.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: Right now, it's nine months in Massachusetts. It's, by just
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: about every human being's definition, evil. Because in Massachusetts, according
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  Speaker 3: to the way it was written, now they don't even
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: have to have any, there's no risk to the mother's life.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with the baby. That doesn't have to be.
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  Speaker 3: It is an elective surgery at nine months to kill
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  Speaker 3: a baby. A baby that would have survived like, cause
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: they're always like, well, what if it was a preemie
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: and all this, and we didn't help it. These babies
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: would have come out. If you had just done a C-series,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: you could do anything and just let them come out.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: They're going to live. And the mother is saying, no,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: I don't want it. Despite what the father says, despite
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: what the rest of the family says, it's my body,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: my choice. What about that other baby's choice? The baby
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: don't get a choice. It's not a body. That's a body,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: not a body. That's the way they look at it.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: So Again, when you start talking about abortion, you want
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: to make it vague and whatever. I'm glad to see
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: that South Carolina is fighting this. I hope that we're
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: going to get– who is it? Gergel's the judge on
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: this one? Yep, Richard Gergel, U.S. District Court. Said his
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: office will probably interpret the fatal fetal anomaly exception to
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: include an anomaly that has limited the baby's life to a, quote,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: very short time span. Now, I guess we're going to
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: argue over that. What is a short time span?
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: What is a short time span?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Is it less than a year? Is it– By
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: the way, I'll tell you what I've told Dr. Andrews
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: here is that because she was talking about the people
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: who had to leave South Carolina to go get an
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: abortion because their child had been ruled to be going
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: to have some sort of serious issues or whatever. That
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: was the case for my pastor and his son was
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: not supposed to survive birth, but he did. I will
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: tell you that he was a unusual child for many years.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: But as he got older, again, not even supposed to
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: be alive. He started to blossom. And now I think
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: he's 19 now and he's just enrolled in college. And
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: he's like, I follow him on Instagram and he's doing
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: all the things that college kids do. The stupid college
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: pranks like they did one the other day where they
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: lined up a whole bunch of mattresses. They had like
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: 200 mattresses or something and they pushed him down. He's
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: having the time of his life. The kid is living
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: a great life. And according to y'all, the doctors, he
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be here. So I say, give everybody a shot
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: at life. Don't take it away from them. If possible, look,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: if it's going to kill the mother, of course we
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: should stop it. Uh, you don't want to kill somebody, uh,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: over it or do you, that's the problem. I think we, we,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: we have people, like I said, in Massachusetts, no, we'll
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: just go ahead and kill the baby. That is evil,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: but that's the kind of world we live in. So again,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: praying for the best outcome here in South Carolina, that
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: they can reinforce our abortion laws and make sure that, uh,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: It is not used as a just some sort of,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: you know, birth control. Oh, I missed it. Oh, now
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: I'm now I'm 10 weeks pregnant. Well, I'll just get
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: rid of it. No, we don't want that. We want
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: this to have serious consequences. All right. Do you think
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: that that's the right move? Or do you agree with
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: some of these OBGYNs that we should make it a
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: little more easier for people to get abortions? Thoughts on that?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: You can use the talkback feature back in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: All right, looking at the state newspaper now, just seeing
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: their ranking, Christopher, the most expensive. Well, they ranked 123
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: airports based off average airfare. Myrtle Beach, now the lower,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: the closer you get to 123, 123 is the cheapest. Okay,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: number one is the most expensive. Myrtle Beach comes in
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: at number 115. So that is the least expensive airport
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: by far in South Carolina. Averages about $ 339 per flight
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: right now. Most expensive in the country is Huntsville in Alabama.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: That is 590. So, I mean, that's $ 250 more. Now,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: if you're looking at other South Carolina airports, I don't
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: like it. I don't like it, Christopher. Again, the closer
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: you get to one, the worse you are as far
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: as price. We'll go with Charleston at number 90. Greenville,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: number 20. Columbia, number four.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: Hmm. That's not good.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: That's a shame because Columbia has such a nice airport.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's underutilized. But at the same time, there
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: are only so many nonstop flights you can get out
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: of Columbia. And as you pointed out, prices can be
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: higher than other areas around here where you can drive
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: and get a nonstop flight someplace.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Now, it doesn't show it in the newspaper. So I
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: looked up. What about Charlotte? And apparently in the same thing,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: it's got Charlotte at number eight. So you'd save a
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: little bit of money going out of Charlotte, but not
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: a whole lot.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: Well, especially if you're driving up there and then parking
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: your car, et cetera, that, that adds up pretty quickly.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: If Trump builds that highway to Myrtle Beach, does that
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: help me? Because getting to Myrtle Beach is a pain
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: in the butt, I'll be honest with you. All right,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: we'll take a break. If you've got thoughts on this
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: or other stories, let us know on the Talkback feature.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, good morning.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash here. We were talking about the abortion law
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: here in South Carolina. It's... been in court and they
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: filed a lawsuit against it back in January of 2025.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: That trial has been going on this week and they
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: are going to end it tomorrow. That's at least the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: schedule thing. And we were just talking about, you know,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: the idea of should we extend abortion or whatever? And
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: Aaron is a friend of mine on X and tweeted
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: a picture of his hat. And I've never seen this pin.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: It's very cool. It's, I don't know, Christopher, not quite
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: an inch. It's two little feet. And that is the
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  Speaker 3: actual size of a 10-week-old, the left would call it
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  Speaker 3: a fetus, we would call it. A baby. About to
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  Speaker 3: be a baby. That's their footprints. That's how big their
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  Speaker 3: feet are.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And so he carries that on his hat all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Powerful.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. A great reminder. By the way, did you all
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  Speaker 3: see what happened at the U.N. the other day? I
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  Speaker 3: just love this because Mike Waltz, the Trump U.N. ambassador,
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  Speaker 3: going berserk at the Cubans. And I love the fact
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  Speaker 3: that the Cuban socialist communist revolutionaries are– wearing Rolexes. And
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  Speaker 3: they go back all the way to, what's his face?
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  Speaker 3: Che Guevara. That guy, according to the estimate, the Rolex
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  Speaker 3: that he was wearing back in the day would be
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  Speaker 3: valued at about $ 40, 000 today. So he's rocking a $ 40, 000
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  Speaker 3: Rolex while saying we need to have a communist revolution.
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  Speaker 3: Today's leaders in Cuba, while the people back home are
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  Speaker 3: you know, rolling blackouts and shortages of food and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: They're walking around in custom-made suits and Rolexes like they're
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  Speaker 3: Ric Flair. Woo! And then things kind of got a
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  Speaker 3: little crazy at the U.N., and U.S. Ambassador, or U.N.
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  Speaker 3: Ambassador Mike Waltz letting the Cubans have it as they
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  Speaker 3: start trying to come for him. I appeal to you
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  Speaker 3: to listen to me, and I ask everyone... And I'm
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  Speaker 3: the representative of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 8: Back up!
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  Speaker 3: Back up! Back up, Ambassador. Back away. This isn't Havana.
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  Speaker 3: I'm suspending the meeting. You're not going to intimidate me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm suspending this meeting. Do you understand who you're dealing with?
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  Speaker 3: This is America. Back up. I love it. Do you
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  Speaker 3: know who you think you're talking to? You're going to
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  Speaker 3: come up here and try to mean mug me? You're
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  Speaker 3: going to try to throw your chest out at me?
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  Speaker 3: I represent the United States of America. At that point,
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  Speaker 3: what he should have done is said, go down to Rikers.
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  Speaker 3: Get what's-his-name from Venezuela. Bring him in here in chains.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we do to you people. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to put you in some chains, too. You want to
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  Speaker 3: be in our prison? Get off of me. That's one
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  Speaker 3: of those rare moments in politics where people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: watching the UN might be fun. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: watching British politics when they have their arguments at the parliament. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Those can get good. We're not quite at the level
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  Speaker 3: yet of, like, the Asians. When the Asians start throwing
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  Speaker 3: chairs at each other— Our politics has not quite evolved
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  Speaker 3: to that level yet.
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  Speaker 4: That Cuban official, by the way, got booted out of
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  Speaker 4: the country.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he should have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he should have. I mean, the Cubans are
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  Speaker 3: way out of whack. But anyway, that was an exciting
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: little moment. I'll retweet that video if you haven't seen
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: it yet so you can check them out on X's. USA! USA!
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  Speaker 3: I'm a representative of the U.S. I don't know who
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  Speaker 3: you think you're talking to. All right. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news. Good morning. This is Wayne.
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  Speaker 3: I listen on the iHeart app.
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  Speaker 9: I really hope that nobody shows up for Jasmine Crockett today.
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  Speaker 9: I know that won't be the case. But supporting her
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 9: fake ghetto behavior is the reason why no one takes
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 9: us serious politically. The Democrat Party is making us hypocrites
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 9: to our religion. The Republican Party is not the greatest
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 9: place to be, but it's open right now and it's
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 9: fertile for people that want to come in and make
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 9: a change. Just look at Byron Donalds.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for the time. Wayne, thank you for your
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: talk back.
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  Speaker 10: And.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I happen to align with Wayne, it sounds like,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: politically on several issues, including that the Republican Party could
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: be better. It should be better. And we as a
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: party need to do more to protect the brand, so
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: to speak, from some racist people that infiltrate the party
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: and let their racist ways be known. If you love freedom...
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: you should be in the Republican party. If you like
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: government control, you should be in the Democrat party. Uh,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: that's a basic analysis of American politics. And we were
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: talking about Mike walls at the UN yet a couple
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: of days ago. And that video is pretty amazing to
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  Speaker 3: see as he's standing there, get back up, get off,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: stand down. Um, I just, I just retweeted this, I
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: guess a couple of hours ago or so in Armenia, uh,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: Total chaos today in Armenia. The Armenian National Assembly, dozens
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: of MPs pushing, punching, throwing chairs. The fight started when
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: the ruling civil contract MP, I can't say his name,
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  Speaker 3: responded to the opposition corruption accusation by referencing a pre-election
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: comment from a relative of the Armenian leader, Narek something
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: or other, about creating a ministry to satisfy women. the
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  Speaker 3: speaker Ruben such and such blamed the opposition MP for
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: sparking violence and said, we'll let it play out. So
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: he just stood there and said, don't, don't, don't stop them.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: Let them go, let them go. And they went and this,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: this is chaos. I'm if you go to my ex
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: account and see it, I'm going to guess there's 30
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: to 40 guys in suits throwing blows, throwing chairs, throwing, multiple,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: multiple ambulances had to be called for this. This is again,
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  Speaker 3: like this is their Congress. Imagine, well, see now the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: good thing about the Armenian Congress, I'd say the average
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: age is about 38 to 45.
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  Speaker 4: So they can still scrap.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Let, let's see Mitch McConnell and Elizabeth Warren mix
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  Speaker 3: it up. My gosh. Congratulations, Armenians. You're making politics interesting again.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to take a break and be back with
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  Speaker 3: our final segment of today's South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 3: OK, it's been a fun morning getting ready for the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump rally to start up in Rock Hill. That'll
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: be doors opening in what, like eight minutes now. Trump expected,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing they said around 1230 ish, uh, traffic problems
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: all day around Rock Hill. So if you, for whatever reason,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: if your travels are taking you to near Rock Hill,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: I would stay on the highway. Uh, don't try to
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  Speaker 3: get off and get gas or something. Uh, I do
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  Speaker 3: like going, I think there's like a QT station there
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  Speaker 3: in Rock Hill that I typically hit, uh, if I'm
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: driving to Charlotte, but if I was doing that today,
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  Speaker 3: I would not, I just think.
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  Speaker 4: It's just going to be a Stay off the side roads.
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  Speaker 3: And then don't forget, we've got the Jasmine Crockett rally
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  Speaker 3: there later on tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't mean to slight that traffic as well. There'll
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  Speaker 3: be some traffic for that, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: She'll be here in the Midlands before that. Yes, and
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  Speaker 4: I keep forgetting about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And you mentioned it earlier. It's in Columbia.
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  Speaker 4: The meeting place on Columbia Mall Boulevard.
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  Speaker 3: Columbia Mall Boulevard. That's over by... It's off two notches. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I was thinking. Okay, so that's an interesting
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: spot for a location, for a thing there. And I'm
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: assuming that, what's his name, the guy running for governor
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  Speaker 3: is going to be there?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. He wasn't on the list I saw.
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  Speaker 3: Is it just her? Come see Jasmine Crockett.
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  Speaker 4: It's to meet Isaac Devine, who's a local representative.
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  Speaker 3: She's not running for anything, is she? Isn't she already elected?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe she's up for re-election. Nobody's running against her, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you're in a Democrat district like that,
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  Speaker 3: it's like useless to run against them.
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  Speaker 4: And state representative Hamilton Grant.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Hamilton Grant's been trying to make a name for
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: himself around town for a while. By the way, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: have you seen this story? This is completely out of
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: our normal depth, but probably right in your wheelhouse. What
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: the University of Maryland is up to with their football team? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So on Saturday... one student will be granted free tuition
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: for the spring semester if they stay to the end
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  Speaker 3: of the football game.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Maryland's suffering through a pretty bad football season. They've
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: already fired their coach. But this is a problem a
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  Speaker 4: lot of colleges and universities have, is trying to keep
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: the students in the stands for the entire ballgame. And
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: I know the University of South Carolina has a point system.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: You know, you get points based on how long you're
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: there and if you make it to the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 4: and You know, those points translate into, I guess, features
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  Speaker 4: for the kids.
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  Speaker 3: How do they know if I left? Like, how would
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  Speaker 3: they know? if at halftime I decided not to come back?
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  Speaker 4: I think you're scanned in and out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, in the student section?
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Or at least you can get scanned at the end
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  Speaker 4: to make sure they know that you are there at
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  Speaker 4: the end.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so if you weren't scanned, they assumed you left early. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that makes sense. That makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: So you get some credit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and I'm boy, it seemed like they were
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: all there for the end of the last game, weren't they?
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 4: They had incentive to stay for that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It gets a little tough if the game is
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: a blowout. Yeah. If you're up by, you know, four
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: touchdowns in the fourth, it's like, well, do I want
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: to hang around for this? Or would I rather just
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: go to the kegger or whatever's next on the agenda
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  Speaker 3: for the college kids? But for the Maryland, who are
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: they playing on Saturday? Do you know?
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  Speaker 4: I don't off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 3: But are we still to fear the turtle? The turtle
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: not having a good season.
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  Speaker 4: The Terp could pay off for you.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: And that's a very interesting promotion. I wonder how many
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: parents are going to force their kids to stay there.
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  Speaker 1: I would.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: You're not leaving your seat. You're very into Terps football. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well. Again, we can't wait to hear how
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: the Trump rally goes today. We'll be back tomorrow to
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: talk about that and all the other stuff as we
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: launch into Halloween weekend with South Carolina's morning news.