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Show Rewind 9-25-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there.
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  Speaker 3: It's Friday. We're so excited about that. We got a
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  Speaker 3: lot to get to today. You know, we'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: what happened with Xi at the White House. We'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about Israel dropping bombs, truth bombs at the U.N., Um,
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  Speaker 3: but so many things to get to this morning. And
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  Speaker 3: of course we love your talk backs. Now, sometimes we
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  Speaker 3: don't get to them right when it happens. And Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: you told me that yesterday as the show was kind
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  Speaker 3: of wrapping up, we had somebody kind of challenging, uh,
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  Speaker 3: our opinion on something, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: This was from yesterday morning when we were talking about
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  Speaker 5: the U S and Iran and the latest, of course,
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  Speaker 5: Iran's president talking at the United Nations after Trump's speech.
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  Speaker 5: And here's how one of our listeners in Charleston responded.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, this is Dalton from Charleston. I just want to
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  Speaker 6: say that y'all's whole viewpoint on this Iran war is
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  Speaker 6: pretty backwards. And for anybody that wants to actually know
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  Speaker 6: what the real story is and the real things that
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  Speaker 6: are going on, take a look at Mario and Awful's podcast.
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  Speaker 6: Brandon Weikert as well. They've got the play-by-play on everything
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  Speaker 6: that's actually going on on the ground in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Who did he talk about?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't catch the first name, Mario somebody. Brandon Weikert
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  Speaker 5: was the second name he mentioned. He's a geopolitical analyst
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  Speaker 5: who has argued that the United States lost the war
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  Speaker 5: due to some strategic miscalculations, an unsustainable, what he calls
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  Speaker 5: an escalation trap where Iran escalates, then America escalates. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we keep depleting our munitions and who winds
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  Speaker 5: up winning in all this, uh, Weikert ultimately says China,
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  Speaker 5: because we've got our eye off the ball right now
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  Speaker 5: in other parts of the world. We're weakening our weapons
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  Speaker 5: supplies and we're being disrupted economically, too, which leads to
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  Speaker 5: the question of what happens in the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: Huh. Well, an interesting, unique hot take there. And but
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  Speaker 3: to show that we have no fear or favor. When
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  Speaker 3: it comes to talkbacks, you can challenge us on that.
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  Speaker 3: I will point out that China is in an economic
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  Speaker 3: disaster right now, which is why Xi is licking the
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  Speaker 3: boots of one Donald J. Trump begging for a trade
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  Speaker 3: deal right now. So I don't know how China's winning.
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  Speaker 3: They're losing millions and millions of barrels of oil every day,
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  Speaker 3: not just from Iran, but also from Venezuela, which we
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  Speaker 3: just took. So, again, it's a hot take. for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And I embrace hot takes. I will push back on
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  Speaker 3: them if I think you're wrong. I clearly do not
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  Speaker 3: think that Iran and or China is winning in this situation,
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  Speaker 3: but perhaps you do. And so again, please use the
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  Speaker 3: talkback feature and we'll get to you as soon as
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  Speaker 3: we can. We have some more talkbacks to get to
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  Speaker 3: today when we'll be lining those up as well. Other
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  Speaker 3: things that we can talk about include A recent discovery, Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: I just went through, you know, Elvis Presley back in
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  Speaker 3: the 50s launched his career partly here in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know that?
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  Speaker 7: I did not.
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  Speaker 3: And if you happen to be fortunate enough to get
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  Speaker 3: backstage at the Township Auditorium, they have the microphone that
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  Speaker 3: Elvis used in like 1956 when he played at the Township.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing. And then they got a velvet painting of
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  Speaker 3: Elvis over it.
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  Speaker 7: Of course they do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you have that? But he's, I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: played many times. He was over here at the, what
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  Speaker 3: was the name of the arena before we had the,
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  Speaker 3: where the basketball team plays now?
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  Speaker 7: Carolina Coliseum.
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  Speaker 3: The Carolina Coliseum. This is back at an era when
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  Speaker 3: musicians would do two or three shows a day like that.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine that? Like saying like, oh, come see
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  Speaker 3: the one o'clock performance of the who or the six
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  Speaker 3: o'clock performance or the late night performance. So Elvis, I
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  Speaker 3: think they said, did a grand total of like 68
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  Speaker 3: shows in South Carolina, which is also partly because, what's
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  Speaker 3: his face? Colonel Tom Parker. We found that out in
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  Speaker 3: the movie. That movie they just did a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago about Elvis. He couldn't leave the country. Colonel
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  Speaker 3: was an illegal alien. Goodness gracious, he would have hated Trump.
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  Speaker 3: He would have been deported. We would have deported Colonel
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  Speaker 3: Tom Parker. Trump had been the president. But anyway, he
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  Speaker 3: was not allowed to leave the country because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: think he could get back in. So he made sure
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  Speaker 3: that Elvis couldn't leave the country really either, which is
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  Speaker 3: why Elvis's furthest concerts were in Hawaii. But he never
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  Speaker 3: left the U.S., ironically. So one of those concerts, I
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  Speaker 3: think they found a song that he did live in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina back in like the 70s. And it actually
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  Speaker 3: references South Carolina. So that's a little bit of news.
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  Speaker 3: We'll play that for you coming up in just a
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  Speaker 3: couple of minutes. But again, encouraging your talkbacks off the
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  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. We'll take a break and be back with more.
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  Speaker 3: It's 6.07.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: These microphones, they keep getting me. Good morning. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: How are you? This is Kelly Nash. Christopher Thompson and
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  Speaker 3: I together again, as we like to do on the
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  Speaker 3: weekday mornings. And we love the fact that you join
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  Speaker 3: us to talk about news of the day. This is
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily news. the type of news we would normally
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  Speaker 3: get to, but it's, you know, interesting. It's a discovery,
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  Speaker 3: a late, I guess this was like in the mid seventies, Elvis,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, live recording. And I don't know who he
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  Speaker 3: was talking about at the time because he seems to
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  Speaker 3: be making references to what was going on. Like today,
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  Speaker 3: there's no way Elvis would have known what was happening
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  Speaker 3: in South Carolina in the year 2026 when it's, like 40,
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  Speaker 3: 50 years ago or whatever. Wow. But anyway, here's a
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  Speaker 3: clip of Elvis doing his big hit record from the time,
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  Speaker 3: Poke Salad Annie. I used to know a girl who
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  Speaker 3: used to go out to them Ag Blue functions and
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  Speaker 3: talk about how abortion and sex changes for the kids,
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  Speaker 3: that was actually health care. Pretty consistent with that kind
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  Speaker 3: of talk, too. Won some primaries and such, but now
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  Speaker 3: she got a shot at a real seat, so everything's
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  Speaker 3: got to change. Here in South Carolina, a state screaming G.O.P.
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  Speaker 3: Lived a girl that I swear to the world was
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  Speaker 3: as blue as A.O.C. Double talking, Annie. Yeah, you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about your family.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what happened to your own campaign?
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  Speaker 3: You're singing the new moderate reframe double-talking. Really, I mean
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  Speaker 3: vicious gender-changing birth in person.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy. Sometimes the real Annie pops up. Knitting
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  Speaker 3: she wants to pack the coat. But says she wants
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  Speaker 3: to cut pork spending. But use tax dollars to abort.
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  Speaker 3: Double-talking Annie. I don't know who Elvis was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is 50 years ago. But anyway, we
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  Speaker 3: can't play all of it. But that's amazing that the king,
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  Speaker 3: who is he talking about? Does anybody know? I don't know. Ironically,
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  Speaker 3: we do have a candidate named Annie running today. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: not talking about her, I wouldn't think. Couldn't have known that.
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  Speaker 3: Act Blue was a thing back then too, I guess. AOC.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder who was AOC of the 70s. But did
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  Speaker 3: you see, by the way, speaking of the Annie Andrews,
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham race, I saw Darlene Graham was on TMZ yesterday. No.
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  Speaker 3: Not like a big newsmaking thing, but TMZ has made
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  Speaker 3: a concerted effort now to get into Washington politics.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I think actually Nancy Mace helped launch that. just with
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  Speaker 3: some of her hot take rhetoric.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they noticed they were getting a lot of hits
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  Speaker 3: with some of these politicians, so they started doing more.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that they're going to get much out
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  Speaker 3: of Darlene, but they were one of the reporters. Because
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  Speaker 3: it's always the same scenario, basically. They're walking in the halls,
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  Speaker 3: and they're trying to get to their office, and then
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  Speaker 3: a reporter comes alongside of them. And this guy, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't ask any questions that would be... I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Gotcha questions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no gotcha. It was all very complimentary. You know,
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  Speaker 3: how are you able to manage running a campaign while
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  Speaker 3: doing a job for the first time, while at the
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  Speaker 3: same time grieving your brother who you described as more
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  Speaker 3: than a brother? And she's like, well, it's really tough,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but you got to do it. And So
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  Speaker 3: it was like those types of things. And so there
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  Speaker 3: was about maybe a 90 second, I think, little video
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  Speaker 3: clip with her on TMZ. But it's just bizarre that
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  Speaker 3: TMZ is involved with Darlene Graham now. And at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, she was on Hannity earlier this week looking
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  Speaker 3: to get some people to make donations. She's celebrating the president.
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  Speaker 3: I think this was he did this on the 18th.
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  Speaker 3: For some reason, she's tweeting about it today. South Carolinians
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  Speaker 3: love to hunt and fish, and for many, it's a
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  Speaker 3: way of life and important part of our heritage. We
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  Speaker 3: are grateful for President Trump's executive order that will cut
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  Speaker 3: the red tape and expand outdoor opportunities for all. Thank you, POTUS,
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  Speaker 3: for putting anglers and sportsmen first. And this was just
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's celebrating the fact that he was signing access
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  Speaker 3: to the public lands and waterways and promoting America's hunting
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  Speaker 3: heritage by cutting the red tape and rolling back restrictions.
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  Speaker 3: He calls it the Reinvigorating America's Hunting Heritage Act. So
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  Speaker 3: we got that going on. Annie Andrews continuing to crisscross
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  Speaker 3: the state, and she's got lots of things to say
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  Speaker 3: that don't necessarily align. with her position from three four
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  Speaker 3: five months ago but they do it does sound good
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  Speaker 3: to a lot of South Carolinians I finally did watch
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of the ad that she has with
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  Speaker 3: her dad her she says in the ad that her
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  Speaker 3: dad's main source of news is Fox.
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  Speaker 5: News well she said he was a Republican that's not
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  Speaker 5: a big surprise.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I wonder how he feels watching Darlene
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  Speaker 3: Graham go on Fox News. Is he tempted to send
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  Speaker 3: some money to Darlene? So anyway, we are going to
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  Speaker 3: get some new polling numbers very soon. I was talking
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  Speaker 3: to some pollsters yesterday. And so I think next week
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  Speaker 3: is when we're going to get the first real wave
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  Speaker 3: of new data on this stuff. But you were talking earlier, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: about the Cook Report has moved this from a what
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  Speaker 3: was it? It was a solid red to a. Likely red.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: From solid Republican to likely Republican.
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  Speaker 3: So you hate to see the move. I understand the move, though.
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  Speaker 3: I totally get it. And I see, you know, some
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  Speaker 3: people still using their hashtag right in Ralph, which I
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  Speaker 3: for the life of me, I cannot understand that move.
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  Speaker 3: Even Ralph Norman is saying, don't do that. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to support Darlene Graham if you are a Republican. Because
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  Speaker 3: there is no option. There is no moderate Democrat. So
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  Speaker 3: it's not like you can just say, well, I don't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily align with her. I don't like the way she
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  Speaker 3: positions things or whatever. It's that or it's Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 3: on steroids. Those are your two options. And if right
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  Speaker 3: in Ralph becomes your thing, then you're, I guess, lodging
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  Speaker 3: a protest vote to show the GOP you don't like things.
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  Speaker 3: The unfortunate part is there is a large group of
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  Speaker 3: Americans who feel like you have to learn a lesson.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way they feel about it. Well, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to suck it up and deal with the
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  Speaker 3: socialists for a little while. That's not how socialism works.
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  Speaker 3: You don't just deal with it for a little while.
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  Speaker 3: It's a generational thing where once they have the power,
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  Speaker 3: they don't give it back. That's not something that you
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  Speaker 3: can just absorb for an election period. That's not how
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  Speaker 3: the socialists don't say, Oh, well, okay. Yeah, no. They
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  Speaker 3: pack the courts? Absolutely. Get new states to get more
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  Speaker 3: senators to go their way? Absolutely. All of that stuff
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  Speaker 3: happens so Republicans can never be in power again. You'll
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  Speaker 3: lose it for a generation. So be very careful. Be
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  Speaker 3: very careful with who you're listening to these days. But
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  Speaker 3: if you have thoughts on that, maybe you want to
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  Speaker 3: tell me I'm crazy. Christopher, you want to tell me
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  Speaker 3: I'm crazy? No. Crazy.
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  Speaker 5: But there is, I mean, there is a lot of
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  Speaker 5: angst among Republicans because they don't like the way Darlene
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  Speaker 5: Graham was, I'll use their words, installed without their vote.
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  Speaker 5: They ultimately, well, there was a vote ultimately taken.
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  Speaker 3: There was a vote.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they felt like, you know, she was a replacement.
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  Speaker 5: She was an interim. She was simply supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: a placeholder until... there was an election held and instead
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  Speaker 5: they feel like they kind of got hoodwinked and they,
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  Speaker 5: they partially blamed Donald Trump for that.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: There is a lot of angst against Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 3: I saw that I saw somebody making that announcement yesterday
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  Speaker 3: that Donald Trump spent $ 800, 000. And according to them, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that this is true, but according to them,
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  Speaker 3: the majority of those calls and texts that went out
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  Speaker 3: in support of Darlene Graham were really, according to them,
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  Speaker 3: targeting Ralph Norman and saying, be careful because Ralph may cut,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Medicaid spending that they were looking at.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what was said in those text messages
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  Speaker 3: and or calls, but it's politics. At the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, it's politics. And we very rarely get the
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  Speaker 3: candidate that you're all loving, right? That's very rarely happened.
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  Speaker 3: So you do have options in front of you. We
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  Speaker 3: had options in the primary. We had a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: great candidates, Russell Fry, Mark Sanford. I mean, we had
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  Speaker 3: nine people running for that seat at one point. And
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham won. So we did vote. Now you're either
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  Speaker 3: going to decide to support her or you're going to
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  Speaker 3: support AOC. We'll talk about AOC and her exploration committee
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  Speaker 3: that was launched yesterday. Big news out of the AOC
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  Speaker 3: camp coming up on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560
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  Speaker 3: All right. Earlier this week, AOC told the New York
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  Speaker 3: Times that whatever happens in 2028, she didn't say what
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  Speaker 3: she was running for, but she said whatever happens in 2028,
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  Speaker 3: that will be it. Meaning... If I run for the
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  Speaker 3: House and I lose, I'm never running for office again.
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  Speaker 3: If I run for the Senate and I lose, I'm
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  Speaker 3: never running again. Or I might run for the White House.
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  Speaker 3: And if I lose, I will never run for office again.
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  Speaker 3: That's what she told the New York Times earlier this week.
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  Speaker 3: And then yesterday announced that she's not saying I'm running
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  Speaker 3: for the White House. What she says is I'm now
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  Speaker 3: looking at a national campaigning strategy. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: to interpret that. And why would you be looking at
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  Speaker 3: a national campaigning strategy if you're looking to run for
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  Speaker 3: the Senate, say, in New York? You wouldn't. Now, she's
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  Speaker 3: going to be testing her messages out in the upstate, apparently,
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  Speaker 3: with Kathy Hochul. Now, Hochul obviously running for reelection, and
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  Speaker 3: that race has gotten very tight suddenly between her and
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  Speaker 3: the Republican from Long Island, a guy named Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 3: And they're within the margin now in several polls, which
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  Speaker 3: is unheard of. I mean, what's his name? Lee Zeldin.
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  Speaker 3: Lee Zeldin got to within the margin, but it was
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  Speaker 3: like the final week of the election. For Blakeman to
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  Speaker 3: be within the margin like now, weeks before, he's way
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  Speaker 3: ahead of where Lee Zeldin was able to get. So
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  Speaker 3: this is a dangerous time for Kathy Hochul. And so
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  Speaker 3: she's relying on AOC. Now, AOC apparently... made a speech
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  Speaker 3: and did not reference Hochul. Didn't reference anybody. Just talked
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  Speaker 3: about how dangerous Bruce, that's great. Bruce Blakeman is profoundly dangerous,
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  Speaker 3: a Trump ally and someone who can do great harm
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  Speaker 3: to the country.
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  Speaker 7: But didn't mention Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, that's great. Profoundly dangerous. To me, this choice
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  Speaker 3: is very clear, and it's not just about the lesser
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  Speaker 3: of two evils. It's about choosing good over evil. So
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Party is the evil party, and the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Socialists are the good party in her mind. Obviously, you
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  Speaker 3: would never be on the side of the evil party, right?
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  Speaker 3: But the interesting thing here is she has now officially
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  Speaker 3: dipped her toe into running for the presidency of the
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  Speaker 3: United States. This is the beginning of that campaign strategy.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see how it plays out for AOC. Win or lose,
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  Speaker 3: she's in or out in 2028. It is 630.
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: So they tried it again, the War Powers Act in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate, and it fell short again. But you did
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  Speaker 3: have Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, and Tom Tillis
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  Speaker 3: of North Carolina joined the Democrats, but it fell short
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  Speaker 3: because Fetterman of Pennsylvania, the only Democrat, to say, no,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to continue. Let Donald Trump continue to run
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  Speaker 3: it how he sees fit. So that's it. That's the
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  Speaker 3: final one that they'll be able to get in before
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  Speaker 3: the midterm. So we're kind of locked in now, Christopher.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like it, whether... you know, whether you think it's
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  Speaker 5: going to impact the midterms or not, it's another story.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, you pointed out yesterday that the
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  Speaker 5: economy is actually doing as well as it's done in
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  Speaker 5: our lifetime, but that's not the message that's getting through
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  Speaker 5: to voters.
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  Speaker 7: And that's what's concerning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the, the, could they be better?
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: We could not just the messaging, but the actual economy
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: could be better. I think the number one problem that
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: most Americans are facing is healthcare costs. And what, what,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I was listening to what's his name? Rick Scott. And
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Rick Scott is not a very eloquent speaker, but he
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: has been very successful as a business person and won
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: the governorship of Florida and won himself a Senate seat.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: So his message is a powerful message. Health care is
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: way too expensive, way too expensive. And it's now out
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: of the reach of a lot of Americans. And the
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: reason is not because of capitalism. The reason is because
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: of government. It wasn't this expensive before government got involved.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: And we can say the same thing about college. And
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: we can say the same thing about a lot of things,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: that when government gets involved, you get a lesser quality
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: product or service and it costs more money. So if
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: we can get government out of the housing markets, you'll
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: see the housing markets self-correct. The most expensive two places
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to live in America, San Francisco and New York City,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: completely dominated by government control of the rent and everything else.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: And that's driven up the costs. And then the New
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Yorkers complain and you get, and again, this is the
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: playbook of Democrats. It's been this playbook my entire life.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: which is basically the socialist communist playbook. Create chaos. If
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: we can create some sort of discomfort for the American people,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: then we can tell them that we have the answer,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: that the power of the government will come in and
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: fix it. The reality is that the power of you
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: is what fixes it, that more and more free market
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: governments answers are what is required to drive down health
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: care costs, not more and more government bureaucracy.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: But it is a big concern.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: This is why we talked about this summer when Republicans
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: were meeting to try and figure out what their messaging
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: should look like leading into the midterms. And everyone was
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: talking about the SAVE Act. You know, it's got to
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: be about voter integrity. And Republicans were told in that
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: in that conference, no, you should be talking about health
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: care costs. That's what's dominating the minds of Americans right now.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: And just locally, you look at Annie Andrews, her campaign
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: messages right now. She's got her doctor's coat on and
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: she's walking around talking about health care costs and how
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: it's hurting the average South Carolinian. And that message is
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: getting through.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, I got to take a break, but this
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: is the way I look at it. It's as if
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: you have some sort of cancer and the Republicans are
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: choosing to not really address the cancer. And the Democrats
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: are addressing it and saying that the answer is to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: start smoking. These are your two options. You've got one
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: party ignoring it. You've got the other one giving you
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the wrong prescription. All right, we'll take a break. If
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: you've got thoughts on that or other things, use the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Talkback feature. It's 639.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: All right, good morning. The governor, McMaster, made his proposals yesterday.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Where will the new... Opportunity Zones be? This is obviously
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the Tim Scott ideal that was launched, gosh, was it 2018?
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Was it that long ago that he came up with
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that idea? And we're starting to see some real benefit,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: according to the governor here, specifically in South Carolina. If
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: you were to track the Opportunity Zones across the country,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: you would see how it's really starting to benefit a
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: lot of communities. And so under the proposal, you can,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: as the governor of your state, there's certain fiscal requirements
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: required of a zip code. Inside your state, no matter
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: how many you have, up to 25% of those can
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: then be nominated and then submitted to the federal government
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: for approval. So we have made our decisions. I'm trying
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: to see the submitted tracts. So we got some in Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Berkeley, Charleston.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: They're all non-rural in Charleston, obviously, but mostly rural throughout
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the rest of the state. Chester's got some, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Edgefield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Greenville's got a surprising number. You don't think of people
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: in Greenville necessarily having all these bad areas, but according
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to the governor, there's a bunch up there. Um, I
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: am not seeing anything here for Columbia. So Columbia seems
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: to have been left off the list. Charleston's got a bunch,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: but Charleston's got, uh, one, two, three, four, five, six,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: six that they've proposed in Charleston. Um, Is there anybody,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: let's see, Orangeburg, Richland's got, okay, so maybe just Richland County,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I guess maybe that's what they're going by. So Richland
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: County's got like seven as well. And those are all
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: but one is non-rural. So we have one that's rural
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: in Richland County. And I'm trying to think of where
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: that could possibly be. Maybe, well, it doesn't really matter
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: what I think. But yeah, he submitted a whole bunch, Sumter, Williamsburg, York,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: They're all in on it. Have you seen the benefits?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I know that when you look at the North Main
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Street area here in Columbia, which was one of the
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: original opportunity zones, that's that's really seen some nice growth.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: It has certainly changed, no doubt about it. And that
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: was an area that was economically distressed. And, you know,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: there there was no growth there because people didn't want
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: to live in that area. Now it's a completely it's
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: been transformed.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: And isn't that amazing how you can just give tax breaks?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: You know, for all these liberals who say the answer
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: is more government, what you're seeing from the Tim Scott
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Opportunity Zone's idea is that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: Less government— Government gets out of the way.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: It works.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And these communities are thriving. And the people that it's
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: benefiting most often, not exclusively, are the minority groups. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: so— Again, this is a Republican solution they should really
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: be running on. This is their idea. This is counter-narrative
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to what the Democrats and the Democrat socialists are telling you,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: that you have the power to fix the problems. Government
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: can only compound problems, for the most part, when it
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: comes to these types of situations. There is a role
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: for the federal government. There's a role for state government.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: There's a role for local and county governments. But when
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: it comes to making your lives better, it's usually going
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: to come from the private sector. It's going to come
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: from individuals just like yourself. I'm thrilled that Tim Scott
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: came up with this. I'm thrilled that we've passed it,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: and I'm thrilled to see more of them hopefully growing
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: in the state of South Carolina. If you've got thoughts
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: on that, use the talkback feature. It is now 648.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: South Carolina's morning news started a controversy yesterday. The lawmakers
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: seem to be responding to it, as are some listeners.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: We'll take some of your talkbacks next. It is now 6.55.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: So yesterday we had the sad story of the young
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: man who overdosed, apparently, on something called 7-OH, which... Christopher
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Thompson and I, we're not familiar with this product. We
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: don't know anything about it. So all I can tell
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: you is what I read when I Google it. And
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: it says that 7-OH is a potent opioid-like compound found
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: in trace amounts of kratom plant. Raw kratom leaves contain
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: only a small amount of 7-OH, but stores are selling
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: concentrated pills, shots, and gummies with high doses. Pure 70H
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: binds aggressively to your brain's receptors and can be much
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: stronger than morphine, and these products are often sold in
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: gas stations, smoke shops, and marketed safely as natural energy
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: or herbal supplements. That's how it's being described. Now, there
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: may be some disagreement, I'm told, by one of our
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: TalkBack listeners.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Good morning, guys. This is Joe from Lake Murray.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: I'm the 70H guy. That has really been a big
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: help for me. It's got me calmed down on the
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: opiate use, and it really helps the pain. Now, it's
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: possible they've got something else in it, but from what
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: I've gotten and what I've used, it's always been a
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: big help for me for a couple of years. Thanks.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for listening, and I'm glad that you're
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: getting off the opioids. That's one of those addictions that
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: starts for far too many people in America and can
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: lead to very horrible outcomes. But did you see yesterday?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Alan Wilson was listening to us
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: or not yesterday, but the attorney general's office after our
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: show came out with a statement. The South Carolina attorney
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: general's office is alerting the public and law enforcement to
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: the serious dangers. posted by Illicit Drugs, which are responsible
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: for the recent overdoses on college campuses. And we talked
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: about the Mississippi overdoses, and he references that. And as
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: a dad of a college student, this is personal to me.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Parents need to understand how serious this is and talk
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: to their kids now, because one mistake, one exposure could
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: be fatal. These drugs are poison. And we have seen
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: our colleges and universities, a soft target for these drugs.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I encourage students on campus to practice common sense, refrain
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: from taking anything that is not prescribed to you or
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: purchase or purchase directly from a retail pharmacy. Kratom is
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: regulated in South Carolina. The hard truth is these products
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: can be purchased by those with dangerous intent. Uh, some
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: are actually lacing them as well with synthetic opioids like fentanyl, um,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: And he goes on to basically just– I mean, it's
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: quite a statement here, but he's warning people about this
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: sort of things. And we were talking yesterday about how
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: they're not– we took it up, but it hasn't moved
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: in the House since I think maybe February was the
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: last movement that we saw at the South Carolina State
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: House regarding the regulation of these types of things.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: They also tackled THC, which– like it or not is
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: a similar product that's out there and available right now.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: If you're of a certain age, it's available in grocery
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: stores and gas stations and, and anywhere you go, but
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: they couldn't get that past the finish line either. And,
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: you know, one of the key issues of course is
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: hemp is involved in THC. We've got a lot of
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: hemp growers, hemp farmers here in South Carolina.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I know that the, uh, FDA put out a statement
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: in July talking about, uh, Quote, announcing the start of
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: a temporary scheduling process under the Controlled Substance Act through
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: a notice of intent regarding 70H after a proposed specified
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: threshold as well as a three synthetic 70H derivatives. again,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the federal government's trying to act. Local governments are acting.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: We've got, I think, like 20 states or so that
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: have now banned it. Like, you're just not going to
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: be able to buy it in your gas stations.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And if you followed this Ole Miss story, One
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: of the things that immediately sprung up, and of course,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: you know, there are a lot of young people on
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: social media. They were talking about the fact that they
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: have friends who, you know, buy, you know, whether it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: at a gas station or from the guy down the street,
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: they will buy, you know, knockoff vapes and, you know,
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: things that are, you know, not the true product that's
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: on the shelves in real places. Instead, you know, these
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: knockoffs and you just don't know what's in there. Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: And that's the problem. You don't know what you're dealing with. Yeah.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: And even as Alan Wilson mentioned, you know, Kratom and
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: things that are being sold legally are then being laced
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: and then resold.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So we have a problem. I'm hoping that the
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: legislators are going to act quickly on this because defending
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: and protecting children sometimes from themselves, but sometimes even just
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: the general public doesn't know. And how would I know
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: what this stuff is? Especially if it's being marketed as
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: a safe, natural alternative. And then you find out, oh,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: it can cause addictions and all kinds of other situations.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Be careful, and let's pray that our legislators get on that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: That would be a big one for them to get to.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: If you've got more thoughts on this, we'd love to
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: hear your talkbacks on the Talkback feature off the iHeartRadio
• 31:11
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• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: The bombs were falling. The Israelis were bombing the UN
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: yesterday with truth bombs, but before Netanyahu could even get
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: to the podium, he was introduced and 77 nations, their delegates,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: got up and walked out. And not that they just
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: walk out, they were protesting and chanting on their way out.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Before I begin, just a quick announcement. If there are
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: please do so now. Thank you very much. So he
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: goes on to describe, and he brought out, like if
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: you see the chart, it's a very convenient chart, a
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: guide to genocides. So what does a genocide look like? Now, obviously,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: most of us know about the Jews and the 6
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: million killed there. But more importantly, it was like 60%
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: of the population. So it doesn't have to be a
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: massive number. So for like the Palestinians, because they're like
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: only 5 million people, I think 5.2 million last census.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: So obviously you couldn't kill 6 million of them. That
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: would be 100%. But there were nations like Cambodia. Cambodia
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: in our lifetime lost like 52% of their population. there's
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: been a bunch of these genocides that have happened. However,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: when you look at Palestine and the growth, first off,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: they're growing. I always make that point. There has not
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: been a year in the last 20 years that the
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Palestinian population didn't grow, but just to the point of
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: how many people have been killed in war, it's less
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: than 1%, less than 1%. So for example, is there
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: a genocide happening on the Russians right now? Because they've
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: lost 3%. So if you agree that the Russians are
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: suffering under a genocide, which clearly they are not, then
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: you would say the same thing about the Palestinians. But
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: the Palestinians are not even at a third of what
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the Russians have lost percentage-wise. But then you go on,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: and here's the problem that I see, Christopher, is that
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the The people that are protesting, those 77 nations that
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: chanted and got up there. And by the way, they're
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: chanting like they're active, like they're Elliot Page and Susan
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Sarandon out on the streets. But 107 people like that
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: were arrested in front of the UN yesterday as well.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: They don't know what they're talking about, but they think
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: they do. And part of it is because of the
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: mainstream media, which we've talked about. This is an ABC
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: News report from August of last year. going to spread
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: some mistruths, we'll clean that up, and then just even,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: they actually got this part right, the back half of it,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: they got right, but it's so inflammatory the way they
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: say it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Over the past month, Prime has reported on the many
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: hundreds of Palestinians who in dire circumstances have been killed
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: near Israel-backed U.S.-led aid distribution sites run by the Gaza
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Humanitarian Foundation.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Aid groups claim that hungry.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Citizens are sometimes being shot to death at the hands
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: of the Israel Defense Forces and even armed contractors. But tonight,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: in our prime focus, Palestinians who are now looking skyward
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: for food and aid are also being killed by the
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: falling half-ton pallets and the brutal chaos that ensues for
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: its contents.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Just so we're clear on what they're claiming here, Israel began,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: first off, they tried to drive dump trucks filled with
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: food and medicine into the Gaza Strip. And their truck
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: drivers were murdered by Hamas. So they said, we're not
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: going to do this anymore. We'll start airlifting it in.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: The claim that that reporter's making is that when the
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: food would drop or the medicine would drop, when the
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: people would arrive, the Israeli defense forces would then assassinate
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: those people. That it was just like shooting fish in
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: a barrel. Well, why wouldn't they do that all the
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: time then? Why would they only just do it on
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: a couple of them when they dropped, according to the
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: United Nations, An unbelievable 20 tons of food have been
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: airlifted into Palestine by Israel. And you're claiming that they're
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: shooting the people that are picking up the food? Okay.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: But just every now and then.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Just every, yeah, every random now and again. Then, at
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the end of that report, what he's upset about is
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: that they're not shooting them. What's happening is they're killing
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: themselves trying to get to the food and the medicine. Why,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: if there's so much food and medicine that's been dropped in,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I think Benjamin Netanyahu made the point yesterday, we have
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: now provided over 2,000 pounds of food for every person
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: in Palestine in the last year and a half. They
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: couldn't eat all that food. Why are they scrambling for food?
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Why are they starving? The only answer is Hamas. Hamas
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: is taking the food so that they can't get to it.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: That's why they have to scramble to get there. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: who's killing them?
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Hamas.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: It is Hamas that is doing all this. And the
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Israelis continue to send food and medicine into an area
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: that the left is claiming they are genociding. That doesn't
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: make any sense at all. It is the opposite of
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: a genocide. As a matter of fact, Benjamin Netanyahu said,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: we're preventing genocides from happening. The genocide of our own people,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the Israelis, and even the genocide of some of the
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Palestinians by Hamas. We are preventing this by feeding the people.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: And yet, it seems more and more that we're having
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: a mass delusion going on here. If you've got 77
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: nations walking out on that speech because they're in protest,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: along with now obviously Mamdani, the mayor of New York,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: is trying to get him arrested. They had all the
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: DSA candidates that won their primaries. They were out being
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: arrested on the streets yesterday protesting.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: You've got Macklemore and his concerts.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: And you mentioned who? Susan Sarandon and who?
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Susan Sarandon was out there with Elliot Page, a former.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: Elliot Page that used to be Ellen?
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, the actress turned actor.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: It was arrested, I believe, yesterday. One of the 107
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: that were arrested blocking First Avenue or whatever it was
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: up by the U.N. yesterday. And that's what they do.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: They try to shout you down. And then if that
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: doesn't work, then they just block everything so nobody can
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: go anywhere. And then say, this is our First Amendment rights.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Freedom of speech is to block the roads.
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: Ah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: I feel like we're losing this battle, Christopher. But I
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: know we're not. I know in my heart of hearts,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: all those things seem to be going against sanity, that
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: people are still on the side of sanity. There's still
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: more of us who recognize truth than there are that
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: have been deceived. So if you have thoughts on that
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: and the truth bombs dropped yesterday, let us know on
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: the Talkback feature at 720.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Hi there, and welcome back. This is Kelly Nash. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: saw the story yesterday about the South Carolina State Museum
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: has removed the 1956 KKK pamphlet that was being handed out.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: And it was Democrat Strom Thurmond was featured on it, 1957.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Well, no, they had a display where his picture was up.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: And then this KKK pamphlet was underneath it. It almost
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: made it appear as if he was speaking at a
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: KKK rally.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: And what was that speech that he was giving? That
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: was the question.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: The question was, should the Negroes be free? And Strom
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Thurmond was saying the Declaration of Independence says that is
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: the duty of a free people when it designed to
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: reduce them to despotism has been perceived to provide new
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: guards for their failure or their future security. Strom Thurmond quote,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: 1957 fighting against the civil rights bill.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Look, Strom Thurmond definitely came around and a little bit
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: later than a lot of people wished he would have
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: on the issue of civil rights. He did wind up
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: coming around, but, uh, for the allegation that he was
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: speaking at a Klan rally.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Well, that was what they said at the museum. The
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: museum said that some people thought that Strom Thurmond was
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: at the Klan rally. But this was just an exhibit showing,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: I guess, the struggles that South Carolina went through in
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: The entire South, yeah.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: As they were trying to overcome. At that point, when
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: people talked about this idea of systemic racism... The South
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: had it. The South had it. Now that was ending
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: 50 plus years ago. But if you're talking about the
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: 1940s and the 50s and the 60s, there were laws
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: put in place, as Joe Biden likes to call them,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: the Jim Crow era laws implemented exclusively by the Democrat Party.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: That was the systemic racism comes exclusively from Democrats in
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: order to control populations. And so yes, if I was
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: a Democrat today, I would want that removed. I wouldn't
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: want to see a Democrat leader having anything to do
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: with the Klan, having any association with fighting the Civil
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Rights Act, which was, again, voted 100% by the Republican Party.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Not so much with the Democrats. That Civil Rights Act
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: that Kennedy and everybody took credit for, that was against
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the will of the Democrat Party. That was the Republican
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Party pushing that narrative. And they, you know, Thankfully, there
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: was enough Democrats at that time to read the writing
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: on the wall like, oh, crap, we're going to get
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: killed if we don't pass this thing. So many of
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: them switched over. Maybe you're seeing like a little bit
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: of that today when you see somebody like Fetterman, who
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: is going against the will of the Democrats, saying he's
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: reading the writing on the wall and saying, oh, I
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: should side with the Republicans a little bit more.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: The Democrats are pretty out of touch at this point.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. That's that's the way I read that. But
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: that's an interesting news story. You can get more on
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: that off of our website at wvoc.com. I guess it's
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: probably also on wsc.com if you'd like to see it
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: there as well. I'll take a break at 729.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine how I would have responded, Christopher, if
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I was one of the homeowners on Folly Beach who
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: was contacted by someone who identifies themselves as a California-based
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: company named Surfline Coastal Intelligence. And what we're asking is
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: can we install camera on your house to monitor the beach?
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: On your roof.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Now, you're going to have to pay for this. $ 50
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: a year is what they assume your electric bill will
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: go up. So it's actually costing me money to help
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: add to a surveillance state.
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: But they'll reimburse you.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Is that what they're saying?
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they'll reimburse you for the power.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah. All right. I hadn't read that part. I
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: just read that it was going to cost me $ 50.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: And then they say, we don't have any, trust us,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: trust us. We don't have any AI. There's no, there's
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: no like facial recognition. Yes, we'll be able to see
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: the people on the beach, obviously. But we're going to
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: just use it to monitor the coastal erosion. It's very
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: pure and innocent. And so they've contacted 10 homeowners, according
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: to the Post and Courier. And I think three said yes.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: And I think four said no. Is that right? And
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: then there were some others that didn't answer.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: I think this probably would have been a non-issue if
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: it hadn't been for flock cameras, which are on everyone's
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: minds right now. And I don't think anyone's interested in
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: more surveillance at this point, even if you tell me
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: you're just simply looking at erosion.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are. The Americans are becoming very nervous that
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: this is becoming a surveillance state. Other countries don't seem
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: to care about it. Like, you know, the South Koreans,
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: I guess, don't seem to care. Japanese don't seem to care.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: But we care because we've seen far too often where
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: you can just take something, no audio, and it looks
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: as if something bad is happening when you don't know
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: what the situation is. Like if Christopher and I are
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: joking and I put my hand up like I'm going
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: to punch him in the mouth or something, that's a
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: violent gesture. But you don't know that it was a joke.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Surveillance videos are often misinterpreted. And so I don't like them. Again,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: I'm an American. Americans' judicial system was set up, and
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: some people don't like to hear this, but the way
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: we set up our judicial system is to let guilty
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: people go rather than than imprison an innocent person. We'd
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: rather have a hundred guilty people on the street than
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: one innocent person behind bars. That's the way they set
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: it up. That's the way it was designed. Because the
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: founding fathers recognized that governments will use this against you.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: So we're going to try to make it as hard
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: as possible to get convictions. It's got to be an
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: overwhelming amount of proof. But when you start introducing these
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: types of things, It becomes a very slippery slope. I
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: don't want it. I would tell them, get the hell
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: out of here with your California love.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: And your equity groups. I'm surprised they even tried. I mean,
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: given the controversy surrounding flock cameras right now, I'm surprised
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: they didn't just shelve this project.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: Our timing's not right here. Let's try this again in
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: a couple of years.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: We can get back to you on this one. Maybe
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: things will chill out. You guys have thoughts down on
• 45:27
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• 45:30
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• 45:32
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• 45:36
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• 45:44
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• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of weird things, as I'm sure
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: you have as well in your life. But this has
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: to be one of the weirder ones. Yesterday, Lee County
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: was having a trial regarding a guy named Larry White.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: Larry White was involved with a 2018, what some are saying,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: including the prosecution, was a designed murder of blood gang members.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: He's a crip, apparently. And he was in a ward
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: in Lee County, in Bishopville, where he could, they actually
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: outnumbered the bloods. And there was a fight of some kind.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: And they ended up killing, I think, seven people died
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: that day. Injured 20. It was a big deal in 2018.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: The guy involved, Larry White, pled not guilty. I think
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: they've already got like 20 people who've pled guilty. He's
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: one of the three who pled not guilty. But there's
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: video of him stabbing people. There's also a video of
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: him going back to his cell to get weapons that
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: he had made, come back, and then stab the people.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: The prosecutor described it as you arranged it to send
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: these bloods to the only area of the prison where
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: they couldn't escape from, and then you slaughtered them. He said, no, no, no,
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: it was a fight. And then they asked him, did
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: you enjoy stabbing them? And he said, I did. It
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: was a good time. Now, I don't know if he
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: expected to be found not guilty, but the jury came
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: back and said you're guilty. So before he's sentenced, you
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: know that you've been found guilty of murder. He was
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: supposed to be getting out of prison in 2031, by
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: the way. So he's five years away from getting out
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: of prison for an attempted murder back in 2017. You're
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: about to be sentenced after being found guilty of murder.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Three different men is who they're finding him guilty for.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: He's already heard that he's found guilty. Do you have
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: something to say on your behalf before I issue your sentence?
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Ask the judge. And Larry decided he was going to rap.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: What the flip is that? He rapped.
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: I'm not even sure what he said.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: He said something about, you know, they... Anything against you
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: that you do or say can be used against you,
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: so do not speak. And then, you know, they're going
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: to find you guilty anyway. I mean, it's just nonsense.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: It was nonsensical gibberish from the minds of a would-be
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: rapper who has now been sentenced to three life sentences.
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: Well, when he appeals, I hope the prosecutors will remind
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: the judge of that, that he decided his last words
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: to the court in his last session were to rap.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like unbelievable. You're you, you just admitted
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: that you enjoyed, well, how did you think you were
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: going to get away with this? Yeah. I, I stabbed him.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: I liked doing it. I enjoyed it.
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: This is a career prisoner.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Yes. This guy is going to be gone for thankfully
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: off our streets forever.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: Um, but yeah, I'm not sure he does. He, I
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: don't know if he minds that. I mean, this is
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: one of those guys that thrives behind bars.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Could be, could be. Well, he'll have plenty, he don't
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: have to worry about it now. Maybe he doesn't have
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: to commit any more crimes because he's not going anywhere
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: for three life sentences. There you go. But he wrapped
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: his way into a life sentence yesterday. 746 now.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: So when you look at the news out of Orangeburg,
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: they got a new company coming. Congratulations. That's supposed to
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: be bringing some big money, big jobs to Orangeburg. Some
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: people a little bit concerned about it, even though it's
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: a $ 400 million investment from the company and 105 new jobs,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: because the state of South Carolina, as we often do,
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: are partnering to give some tax incentives. I noticed that
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: when you go through corporate, what do they call it?
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Corporate welfare rankings. Corporate welfare rankings. South Carolina, typically in
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: the top 10. You know, I don't know if that's
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: an area that you want to be in. When I'm
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: looking at this one over here.
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: It's not.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: It's not. Michigan had been the number one state for
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: a while. They're down to like number five now. Alaska, Kentucky, Louisiana, Hawaii,
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: New Mexico, Texas, and South Carolina. So what are we
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: getting on our returns on our investment? Have we ever
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: gotten like a comprehensive detail of that? Like 10 years later,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: after they spend this type of money to incentivize a company,
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: how much money is added to the economy?
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, they've studied success stories like BMW, for example,
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: in the upstate.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: That was a transformational.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: Move made by carol campbell and when he was governor
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: and yes there were tax breaks given but it that
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: has paid off in spades absolutely i don't i don't
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: you know we've got so many people who want to
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: be in south carolina right now i don't know that
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: we need to sweeten the pot as much as we're doing.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: And possibly we could have more people want to come
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: to south carolina if we would just actually lower taxes
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: for all businesses yeah Just lower the tax rates for
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: everything and spend more wisely with the money. If you
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: do that, then it's a more attractive place to retire.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: It's a more attractive place to start a family. It's
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: a more attractive place to start a business. We talked
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: about the Opportunity Zones earlier, Tim Scott's idea, and how
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: we just got a whole bunch. The governor put his
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: proposal in, I think, yesterday on Opportunity Zones. Whether you
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: agree or disagree, what you can't disagree with is the
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: fact that there are massive growth opportunities happening in the
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: state of South Carolina in some of the worst areas
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina based off the fact that the taxes
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: go away. When the taxes are stopped for a short
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: period of time by the business owners, they don't have
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: to pay on the profits while they're reinvesting into the
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: community because they want to attract customers. They want to
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: make business great. It works, and then they will start
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: paying taxes as those zones expire, but they'll have already
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: established a great business.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: And how would you like to be a small business
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: owner in Orangeburg County right now? But you're not the
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: shiny new object coming in. You're an established business. And
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: here you are competing against somebody who's getting a massive
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: tax break from the state.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Well, if I was competing with that business, yeah, that
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: would be a problem. I think that there's going to
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: be a bunch of people who appreciate the fact that
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: there's some jobs that those people can spend money in Orangeburg.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: That's the goal, at least. But if you have thoughts
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: on that, corporate welfare is the term. Let us know
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: on the talkback feature of the iHeartRadio app at 755.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: 560 AM. WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, you've really got to hand it to this guy,
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Xi Jinping. This guy is bold.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: He is a bold man.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: So.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: The rap on his country by not only Donald Trump,
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: but by many previous presidents and the intelligence agencies has
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: been that you are trying to recruit American spies. Also
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: that you have recruited, for example, Mitch McConnell's wife to
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: be a spy. So what does he announce yesterday? We
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: have a great offer. We would like to invite 100,000
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: young Americans to come to China. We'll pay for it.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: They'll pay for it. If you've got a youngster who
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: would like to a free trip to China.
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: Maybe a young impressionable youngster.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: It's called the yes program, which stands for young on
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: voice scholarship. This is great. A hundred thousand American mush
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: mines get to go to China and and be shown
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: the best parts of China. You know, you're going to
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: be just hand-guided to the nicest things that they have
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: in China. And you'll also probably be told, this is
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: what you could have in America. But look at how
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: many people in America are hungry because you have this
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: horrible thing called capitalism. But I mean, the audacity to
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: make this announcement in Washington, D.C., hi, we're looking for
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: a hundred and thousand potential spies. Is there any way
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: you could provide us a hundred thousand potential spies? We
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: certainly would appreciate that. We're looking for our new communists.
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: As we continue to try to, I mean, yes, we
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: already have 200,000 bots that you've discovered on social media
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: that are spreading all kinds of fake news about the
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Republican party and America's history and all that sort of stuff.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: But It'd be better if it was coming from 100,000
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: actual Americans, people that you could point to. And they
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: also have that program. We were talking about it yesterday, Christopher.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: We believe it's the Chinese, although we can't prove it
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: because it's an unnamed group so far. But we do
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: know that young Americans have been targeted and received $ 25
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: to post far-left social media on TikTok.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: But as you pointed out, once they get that $ 25,
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: if they get more clicks— they get more money.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like the young guy who had, ironically, had never
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: been to California or Texas. He was born in Iowa
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: and was living in Florida. When he was contacted by
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: some unnamed group, they sent him the $ 25 to post
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: the video, which they wrote the video for him. He
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: didn't even have to speak. You just put a selfie
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: of yourself with this on it and post it. So
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: he said he made like $ 1, 000 based off of the
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: bonus clicks that he got. Um, then, but then he
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: felt horrible. He was like, you know what? This seems
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: anti-American what I'm doing. And I appreciate the money, but
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: I got to tell people, this is, this is a
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: program that me and my friends and a lot of
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: kids around, not kids, but you know, teenagers to people
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: in their early twenties are being contacted by some groups
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: that are sending us cash to put out fake news.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: So if we get a hundred thousand Americans who literally
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: would believe this stuff, you know, you'd send over a,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: ninth grader, very impressionable in ninth grade, let them discover
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: China through the eyes of the Communist Party and how
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: great they think it is, and then bring that back
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: to America, you'll be one of our, quote, young envoys.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: You get a scholarship. It's the young envoy scholarship. How
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: could that be bad? My gosh, these people are, they're,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: They got some cojones. The Chinese got cojones. And she's
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: got the biggest of them all to stand there. And
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: by the way, in 2025, that scholarship program, the Young
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: Envoy Scholarship, got 27 Chicago high school students to go,
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: along with two teachers. So I'm sure the teachers had
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: no problems with this either. They were like, this seems great.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Going to China? See the world.
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: Let's go.
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. They don't talk about the— it depends on how you
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: pronounce it. Some say Uyghurs, some say Uyghurs, but that
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: group of about a million or so that are currently
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: in mass internment and forced labor camps, they don't talk
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: about that when they give you the tour of China.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: They don't talk about the sweatshops and those types of things.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: But that's neither here nor there, I guess. You just
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: go get a nice tour of China, come back and
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: spread your propaganda there. As all courtesy of the Chinese government.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: This should be outlawed. The entire program should be deemed
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: illegal in the United States. The Young Envoy Scholarship Program
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: is nothing but a very obvious ploy to re-educate young
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: American minds. I don't know why we even allow it.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: The Congress should get together on this and outlaw it.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: No school can accept this program. But that's how I
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: feel about it. How do you feel about it? Use
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: the TalkBack feature and we'll maybe get you on the air.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: Love to do that. It is 8.08.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Hey, we're just making a bunch of more Tim Walzes
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: from Minnesota. Oh, that's the end of the TalkBack. I
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: guess he's referencing the story we were just talking about,
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: how she has offered 100,000 high school students... In the
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: United States, the opportunity to go, all expenses pay. We'll
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: pay for you. Come on over to China, tour.
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: And get indoctrinated.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: He left that part out. Oh. But that's implied.
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: And we mentioned that last year, 27 high school students
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: from Chicago went with two school teachers to China. And
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that... let's go. Brandon Johnson was probably pretty thrilled.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: The mayor of Chicago to get more future socialists into
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: his city. But yeah, no, I'm, I am for a
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: federal ban on accepting any kind of trip or That
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: would be paid for by what is, I don't want
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: to say an enemy, because how would you classify China?
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: We're not actually in a war with them, but someone
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: who is a non-capitalist society. How's that? Any country that
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't align with us. Like you could accept one, even
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: though Australians are a little weird when it comes to
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: like how they handled COVID and stuff, pretty authoritarian on
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: that tip, but you could accept one to Australia. If
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Australia wanted an American to go down there and they
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: want to pay for it, I would say that's okay.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: I'm less inclined for most of Western Europe at this point,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: maybe parts of the Eastern block. I think you could
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: learn a lot by going to Poland or something like that,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: but not, not, you're not going to China. For God's sake,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: it's like Bernie Sanders honeymooning in Moscow, for God's sakes.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: All right, but what was the story I wanted to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: talk about? This is a surprise, Christopher. The governor of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: California has vetoed a bill that everybody thought that they
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: were going to certainly pass. And this is a bill
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: that would legally protected health care activity in the state
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: of California, meaning that if you were a, and this
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: was designed for transgendered kids who, like if you were
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: in a state where, like say South Carolina, where we said, no, no, no, no, no,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: you're not doing that here. What if they were to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: fly to California? California, would they pay for the puberty blockers,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: the cross-sex hormones, the surgical removals, same things that they
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: would offer to their own children?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: A rare win in California says women are real. That's
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: the name of a group. Women are real. It's amazing
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: that we have to have a group called that. Women
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: are real, as if you can just decide to be
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: a woman. But the women are real people noted that, that,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: this was, it wasn't even announced. The veto wasn't even announced.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Newsom didn't want people to apparently know about it, but
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: they got a copy of the letter where he basically
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: kind of apologizes to the legislature and says, uh, you know,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: in the future, what if a different governor interpreted things differently?
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: Or he was trying to think like he's playing the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: long game, which is not usually the way California operates.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: It's like grab all the power as quickly as possible. Um,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: And it says here the governor buried that veto in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: the sanctuary state codification in his legislative update on Sunday night,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: mentioning dozens of other bills, both signed and vetoed, and
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: obscures the AB 2164 subject matter behind the anodone description
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: of legally protected activities. So is this a signal that
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: he wants to run for president despite what he said
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: last week, that if Kamala Harris runs, that he will
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: not run? Because this seems like he's just trying to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: reach out to the mainstream.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, this moves him at least closer to the middle,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: which is one thing he wants to do. He wants
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: to be more acceptable to a majority of Americans. And
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: for all the people that are talking about Kamala Harris running,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: I don't think she will. I think he was sending
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: her a signal that you should not run.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 7: I'm the new guy.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: Hmm. Interesting insight from Christopher Thompson. Is that how you
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: people read it?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, Democrats all over the country are telling her,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: don't come here. I know Al-Sayed and Kamala Harris are
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: now big buddies and they're campaigning together. But a lot
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: of Democrats are saying, you know, you cost us our
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: state last time around. Don't come back. I think she's
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: going to find she's She's very unpopular, and I think
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: she will find that out before she gets into the race.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: They're not telling the pollsters that, though. She continues to
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: be the number one.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: Is that just name recognition?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: You don't think they know about AOC?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: Well, I think if AOC were to at least dip
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: her feet into a presidential run, her numbers would come
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: way up.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: So if she gets serious about it, because, I mean,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: her name is being polled, and she's currently polling at
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: about 4% as kind of, just above Pete Buttigieg, who's
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: at like 3%. Gavin was at like 8%. And then
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: it was Kamala at like 24%. So she had a
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: huge lead over anybody. Interesting. I'd be interested to see
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: what the numbers on Josh Shapiro are. He can seem mainstream.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: He's not, but he can seem mainstream. Also, what's his name?
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: Andy Beshear in Kentucky. I think he's flirting with the idea.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Gretchen Whitmer really thinks that she
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: has a shot. She was polling at like 3% before,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: so I don't know if she can turn it around
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: the governor of Michigan.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: But Ossoff is certainly acting as if he's considering it
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: in Georgia once he gets through his own race.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to get through your own race there,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: big guy. Handle that first, and then maybe we can
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: talk about bigger aspirations for John Ossoff. Although it does appear,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: based off of the recent polling, that he is going
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: to handle that Senate race not easily, but He is
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: going to win, which is, again, I think he's, if
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: we can get John Ossoff as the candidate, that's almost
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: as good as getting Pete Buttigieg. So we'll see how
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: that maps out. But anyway, we've got to take a
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: quick break. We'll be back with maybe some more of
• 1:04:47
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  Speaker 3: It is now 819.
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 8: This is Ron from Aiken. I'm an Aikenoid.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Tim Walz is one of.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 8: Those people that probably took advantage of that Chinese program.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: He made multiple trips to China over the years as
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 8: a teacher. And you see what happened to him. He
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: almost became vice president.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: Almost.
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  Speaker 6: Almost.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: An Aikenoid is checking in. Certainly appreciate you listening on
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. Regarding Tim Walz, he actually wasn't using
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: that program. He used something called the World Teach Program.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: And that was one of those non-governmental organizations that spent
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: billions sending teachers all over the world trying to get
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: them exposed to different cultures. So he began in the 80s. Remember,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: Tim Walz first lied about that, saying that he was
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: basically in China, implying that he was in China during
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: the Tiananmen Square incident. Then when He became the VP nominee.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: People did a little deep dive on that and said, oh,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: you were there about eight months after it happened. So
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: when you say you were there, what does that mean?
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: I got caught up. I misspoke. He missed it by
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: eight months. Okay. But then, yeah, he did go. It
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: depends on who you believe. If you believe him, he
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: went 30 times. If you believe his campaign, he went
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: 15 times. But, yeah, definitely a bunch of trips to China,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: specifically China. And people that support him say that that
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: was a good thing because he now has a little
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: insight as to how the Chinese work and how they think,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: and that would be a benefit. Others, like myself, would
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: say he has been radicalized by the Chinese to thinking
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: that their way actually is successful.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 5: And he wasn't a kid at the time when he went, right?
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: The first, I mean, when he was young, we'll say
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: that he was a teacher, but he was like in
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: his early to mid twenties. Okay. But yeah, cause if
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: you're going to get 30 trips in, you gotta, you
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: gotta bang out a lot of them there before you're,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: you know, before you run it for VP. But, um, yeah, again, that,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: by the way, that government organization, I looked them up
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: called world teach. You know, we, we don't give Trump
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: sometimes credit for stuff that he did in the first administration.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: He put the pressure on the NGOs. He put the
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: pressure on Congress. to start cutting funding for NGOs. And
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: WorldTeach was one of those victims. They permanently closed their
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: doors in April of 2019. They had been open since 86.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: And like I said, it would have taken a lot
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: of your tax dollars to send teachers to specifically communist nations.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: That's what they were looking to do. They sent them
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: to China. They sent them to parts of Latin America.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: They were sending them around the world To try to,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: some would say indoctrinate, others would say expose. I don't know. Educate.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't like it. I'm glad that they went out
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: of business in 2019.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Kelly, we have a differing viewpoint on this
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: Chinese proposal.
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  Speaker 3: Hey guys, I don't.
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  Speaker 10: Want to sound ignorant or anything, but I work all
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 10: night and sleep all day.
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  Speaker 3: So I know I got some catching up to do.
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  Speaker 10: When you mentioned China looking for a hundred thousand kids,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 10: and then you look at the way that the Democrats
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 10: have just completely ruined the education system in this country.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 10: Those kids may actually be better off over there. They
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 10: may learn something like how not to hate themselves for
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 10: their skin color or about the two genders or real math.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: There is something to be said. As far as we know,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: China is still teaching two genders, real math. And you
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: know what? If China really wanted to help us, they
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: could just open up the algorithm that they use for
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: TikTok in China and rather than the one that they
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: implemented here for the United States students, where it was
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: just designed to make you laugh at all kinds of
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: insanity and take you down a death spiral. The ones
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: of the people, again, I don't study TikTok, but the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: people who do study the algorithm for TikTok say that
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: they're celebrating like math problems and scientific breakthroughs for kids.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: And that's what gets the most video watches over in China. So,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: but yes, I, by the way, I don't agree with
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: the caller. I don't think that we're going to, be
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: sending kids to China in the hopes that they can
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: learn something. If you send them, it's to get them
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: indoctrinated so they can bring back some communism. It is 829.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:09:30
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• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: with Elvis Presley in the early 70s. I used to
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: know a girl who used to go out to them
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: Act Blue functions and talk about how abortion and sex
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: changes for the kids, that was actually health care. Pretty
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: consistent with that kind of talk, too. Won some primaries
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: and such, but now she got a shot at a
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: real seat, so everything's got to change. Here in South Carolina,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: a state screaming G.O.P., Live the girl that'll swear to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: the world. What's his blue ass? Hey, O.C. Double talking, Annie. Yeah,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: you're talking about your family. Oh, what happened to your
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: old campaign? You're singing a new moderate refrain. Double talking, Annie. Really,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, vicious gender-changing birth in person. It's like he's
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: seeing down the corridor of time. But use tax dollars
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: to abort. Double talking, Annie. I don't know who Elvis
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: was talking about in the 70s, but that is a
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: crazy song. Talking out your fanny. Double talking, Annie.
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  Speaker 7: How timely.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: It seems appropriate for this time. We actually have a
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: candidate right now, here in 2026, our time, not Elvis' time,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: running as a moderate candidate. Um, she, uh, is posting
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: things now on social media that make her seem very
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: moderate like this from a couple of days ago. Um,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: Republicans and Democrats both got us here. I want to
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: work with anyone in Congress to rein in debt and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: congressional stock trading, cut taxpayer funded pensions. Here's my favorite
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: part in healthcare. For members of Congress. I thought she
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: was all about the health care for everybody. That was
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: her thought originally. Everybody gets the health care and it's
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: single payer, but that's apparently changing now. She also, I
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: don't know if she understands what the job is because
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: she's retweeted the WCBT News 2 story on how we
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: got a C- for our infrastructure in the state. South
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: Carolinians deserve better than a C-. I will fight to
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: make sure. that our roads are done right. You don't
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: have any say as a Senator on that. She also
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: reposted C-SPAN screenshot from yesterday where they defeated the, uh,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: the idea. Could you make Donald Trump stop, stop, stop
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: fighting with Iran. Darlene Graham was like all the Republicans
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: all voted that way, except for four Tom Tillis being
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: the closest to us in North Carolina. They soon to
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: be retired. Tom Tillis, along with you can expect Susan Collins, uh,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: And what's her face from Alaska? Lisa Murkowski. They're always
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: going to vote against him. Stop doing what your handlers
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: tell you to do. Diesel hit a record high in
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: South Carolina. South Carolinians need a leader, not a senator
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: in name only. So she's attacking very— she' s saying the things
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: that a lot of Republicans are saying, and she's saying
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: the things that independents might be saying. But none of
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: these things were what she was saying a couple of
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: years ago. Not one.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Democrat playbook. Move to the middle when
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: you see a voter coming near you.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: When you see somebody with a sane mind coming near you,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: talk sane if you can for just a little while.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe they'll mess up and vote for you. I don't
• 1:13:27
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  Speaker 3: So in the governor's race here in South Carolina, some
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: fun on social media the last few days, the Republican
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: Party tweeted out a picture of Jermaine Johnson. And Jermaine
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: is in an all white suit with a white bow tie.
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  Speaker 3: And they've they have superimposed on it. Tax the rich. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: AOC had the— what was it? Was it Eat the Rich?
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: Was that what her address said? I think so, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they basically said, Jermaine Johnson's affordability plan boils down
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  Speaker 3: to one thing, tax the rich. And then they ask
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: in the question, Johnson's affordability plan, or is it just
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  Speaker 3: AOC copycat? So there's that. And then Johnson came back
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  Speaker 3: yesterday— any now, obviously Alan Wilson does not own a
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  Speaker 3: white suit and tie. I don't imagine. I don't, I've
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  Speaker 3: known Alan for a while. I think that this is
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: not in his wardrobe, but they've got them in an
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: all white suit with a white tie on. And they
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: wrote tax the poor on that suit. And he says,
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  Speaker 3: I get that you're scared, but don't ruin my suit.
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  Speaker 3: My policy on affordability means protecting South Carolina families from,
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  Speaker 3: and then he put in all caps, your, tax hikes
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  Speaker 3: 22 of south carolina families to be exact and then
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: he says that you you had a tax overhaul raise
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  Speaker 3: taxes on low-income working families by capping the earned income
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  Speaker 3: tax credit at just 200 uh you mean you meaning.
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  Speaker 7: The republican party or republican legislators.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's i mean that's the best part is steve
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  Speaker 3: michael who works for alan retweeted that and said i'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure that Mr. Johnson knows this, but the attorney
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: general cannot raise taxes. Seems sort of important for a
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  Speaker 3: guy running for governor to understand, you know, governance.
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  Speaker 7: That was a softball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And then he points out that as an aside,
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  Speaker 3: Johnson in 2022 voted for S-152, which is the pathway
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: for sales tax increases. Sales taxes historically have been viewed
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: as regressive for the working class. I'm picking on just
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  Speaker 3: one example here. There's a number of others where Johnson
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: votes no. actually could increase the cost of living for
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: families in South Carolina and are disproportionately going against the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: working class and the working poor. So Jermaine Johnson's got
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: an uphill battle to climb because he's got a bad record.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: He's not very good at campaigning, and he's apparently not
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: that good at social media. So you combine all three
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: of it, and it's just a really– it's a tough
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: battle for him. But A for effort. Whoever did the
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: Photoshop on Alan Wilson, that is a better Photoshop than
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: the one that the Evitt people had. I think it
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: was a pack for Evitt had on Alan Wilson. And
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: that was an AI-generated thing. I'm assuming this was AI-generated
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: as well. But that is truly Alan Wilson's face. I
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: just don't think that's on his body. I know it's
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: not his suit, but there you go. Thoughts on the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: upcoming elections and other things. We'll get to more of
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: your talkbacks on the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: It's 846.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I just looked. Berkeley, California weather tonight, 730,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: should be clear and about 63 degrees. So, should be
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: no weather delays. For the Cal-Clemson game, I was thinking
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: if these poor guys get another weather delay, they're not
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: going to kick off until midnight, 1 a.m. our time.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: So 10.30 tonight, they kick off. One and a half
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  Speaker 3: point favorites, Clemson. Tomorrow, Alabama. We haven't beaten Alabama at
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: Alabama since what? Savelle Newton was the quarterback, I think.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he goes back a ways.
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  Speaker 3: Is that game also on ESPN, I think?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: And so best Gamecock coverage will start three hours pre-kick,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: which would be 4 p.m. tomorrow.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: You're doing math on the radio now, aren't you?
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to. But Christopher Thompson is the host for that.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: And if you are a WSC listener, you're down in
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: the low country, but you find yourself as a Gamecock supporter,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: you would do well to get out your iHeartRadio app
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: and listen to WVOC in Columbia to hear the best
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: Gamecock coverage because they don't carry it down on WSC.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: We need to talk to programming down there. Say, what's up?
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 5: We were on at one point and then are off
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: and maybe we can get on again.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that seems like a no-brainer. I mean, it's
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: a great show. I appreciate it. A lot of insights
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: and fun stuff happening there. And again, as of tomorrow,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: you can only hear it on WVOC in Columbia. Any
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: thoughts heading into either one of these games?
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 5: Well, for starters, I'm curious to see how Clemson handles
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: the jet lag and this huge 2,000-mile-plus trip they're making
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 5: across three time zones. I mean, that's a challenge in
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: itself before you even take the field. Did they leave
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 5: like two days early?
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  Speaker 7: Well, they left one day early.
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  Speaker 3: One day?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they left on Wednesday. Normally, they'd leave on Thursday.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 7: So they practiced yesterday. Okay.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: And then, you know, they'll go through their normal game
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 5: day rituals today, but I mean, it was tough for them,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: just the fact that they got done so late on
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: Saturday last week. And all the plans they had made
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 5: with that extra cushion of time Saturday night into Sunday,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 5: that suddenly went out the window.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 7: And, you know, you've got players who are.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 5: That's an awfully quick turnaround for, you know, as physical
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: a game as they played against North Carolina last Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and is.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: Berkeley's not known as a rowdy environment, is it? So
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: it's not the crowd shouldn't really factor into it too much.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 5: They've got a pretty good quarterback there at Cal this year,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 5: but yeah, not a lot surrounding him. But I've seen
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: several places, several outlets that have picked Cal to win
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: that game.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: Well, and again, if it's a one-and-a-half point spread, that's
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: an almost pick-em game right there. Our game has moved slightly.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: I say ours because I'm a Gamecock fan, but we
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: have moved slightly, according to what I'm seeing this morning,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: down to just a 12-and-a-half point favorite now for Alabama.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: So some money came in for South Carolina at a
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: 14-point spread.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 5: That's a tough challenge to play there to begin with,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 5: and Alabama just seems to be getting better, especially in
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 5: the second half of games.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, second half seems to be South Carolina's problem right now.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: So we'll... We'll see if we can work that out
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: this weekend. But I hope you all have a fantastic
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: weekend and enjoy this weather that we're having. And we'll
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: get back and talk about it Monday morning after 6.