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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alright, Jesus seu fright, hell yay, Saint America and Jerery
Hollin for regious one nation, I your God in your
nabel and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Good morning, it is sixteen after six and welcome to Wednesday,
the sixteenth of vapor. It's good to have you with us.
All right, I think we're about ready to roll here. Yes,
I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson is right there. Good morning
to you, sir.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Better be ready at six sixteen, let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I guess I'm ready. Come on, all right, well, let's
do it. Little chili out this morning. We're in the forties,
low forties, a few spots mid forties others. We're about
forty six here right now at the radio range. Yeah,
let's get this thing going. Shall we write at it?
The run down the big stories of hot topics. Some
of the things will be touching on today, some things
you need to know. But in a nutshell, before you
hit the door, let's tell you about a couple of
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big items starting get home as always, where the Senate
has given approval key approval to build a reduced liquor
liability costs for bars and restaurants. Is this the legislation
continues to drag on over there at your Vay Street.
But but they've attached their entire tort reform build to it.
(01:33):
Is this a deal killer? Now? They passed this second
reading yesterday, a third reading will be required probably today,
and then it'll head over to the to the House.
So poison pill probably sounds like it, doesn't it. Well,
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we'll get more into that coming up a little bit
later on. We may have our first challenger to Lindsay Graham.
Do tell at least there's buzz that, well, this will
not be a Republican challenger, not a primary challenger, but
a Democrat. Well, they got to put up somebody right
to run against Graham. Yeah, I mean you don't have to.
(02:18):
There's no law that says you got to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Seems like a waste of money. But okay, remember Annie
Andrews Sure, the pediatrician who tried to beat Nancy Mace.
It has been very outspoken since on social media.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
She did a good job raising money, more than two
million dollars worth. Lots of pack money came in for her,
but she got it handed to her by Mace last November. Well,
she may try it again here. Remember the kind of
Remember the money that was raised and spent last time
a Democrat took on Lindsey Graham. Remember who that was,
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Jamie Harrison, All that dough and just forty four percent
of the vode. Well and he Andrews may go down
that same road. The City of Columbia moving ahead with
plans to well, we knew that we were going to
to revitalize Finlay Park. They have just green lighted the
purchase of new surveillance cameras. We were just talking about
(03:18):
this yesterday with the homeless issue in Colombia and how
you can't dump all this money into Finley Park and
let it become what it had become a haven for
the homeless. Well, and crime too. On top of that, Well,
they're looking at surveillance cameras and such a couple hundred
thousand dollars to try to shore up security over there.
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An op ed in the state today from Gavin Smith,
who's on Lexington Town Council, and this is this isn't
just about Lexington, it's about all the Midlands in the
state for that matter. The topic is these, as he
calls it, rushed fiber optic installations threatening Lexington and again
for that matter, anywhere else. Been a lot said about
(04:03):
these fiber optics companies coming in digging up stuff, busting
water lines, gas lines, and who knows what else. His point, though,
is this is overwhelming the eight one to one system,
which is there to you know, you contact them if
you've got to do a dig that all these fiber
optic companies doing all of this digging putting an enormous
strain on the eight one one system that could turn
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out to be well dangerous for folks. Hey, how about this.
You want a cruise from Charleston to Alaska? You can
let me think about the route that would take. How
long would that take? Fifty one days and fifty nights.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes, American Cruise Lines unveiling a package to sell the
bet the Nations two hundred and fiftieth birthday next year,
You could do that.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I don't know if I could be on a boat
that lone.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, I don't think I could do that. That's a little
long even for me. Oh yeah, fifty one days hmmm,
makes a lot of stops. It's not just a non
stop right to Alaska. But yeah, that's that's a hall.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
How long did it take the q E two to
cross the Atlantic back in the day.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
That's it sounds like an old school boat trip to me.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It sounds like, you know, the the Nina, the Penta
and the Santa Maria at me. A couple of top
advisors to Pete Heggsth have been bounced out of the Pentagon,
apparently part of a probe into a hoothy text leak.
Dan Caldwell plased on administrative leave over what's being called
an unauthorized disclosure. By the way, he was in that
(05:40):
text chain that was published by The Atlantic. This apparently,
uh well, yeah, he's not the only one. The Darren Selnik,
deputy chief of Staffer Heggseth, also been removed. So we
said at some point Heggs would roll over that, and
well they have now the White House freezing millions of
(06:00):
dollars in funding to Harvard over the woke schools defying
the ultimatum over anti Semitism and DEI. So they've been notified.
That's what I think it's two point two billion dollar
freeze in multi year grants. And then I see this piece.
Here's the headline, Harvard faces financial fallout, needs every penny
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they can get as federal funds pulled. Wait a minute,
have you seen the endowment at Harvard? It's what over
three hundred billion. It's a whole lot more than what
just got withheld. Yeah, it's massive. Yeah, I don't know
the exact number. Off topic, well, fifty three billion, Okay, Well, yeah,
I was waiting. Well still, but still way more than
(06:44):
the federal funds being with held. Maybe you need to,
you know, time the belt a little bit, Harvard, if
you want to continue with your anti semitic ways. Even
Chris Matthews, former MSNBC NBC pundit host, suggesting that Trump
was smart art to target target Harvard and all these
other elite universities as well. Joe Biden makes his return
(07:06):
to the stage yesterday, taking shots at you O the
Trump administration social security policies. Again, the Diercrafts continue to
say this, he was Trump's gonna cut social security. Show
me where that was ever even entertained by the Trump administration. Uh,
cutting the waist, Yeah, cutting the fraudulent people off the rolls. Yeah,
(07:33):
but yet here's here's Joe Biden rolling back out with
another lie that Trump wants to cut your Social Security.
Oh and by the way, Biden encouraged us to all
treat each other with dignity. That was just well a
few months after he labeled you if you voted for
Trump a garbage you know. Meantime, his former VP, what
will she do run for president again? Maybe governor of California.
(07:56):
Those are that's what the rumors have it. However, they
just did a poll in California and it seems like
Californias aren't terribly enthused for Kamala Harris's governor winning. This
is what it looks like. This is a big part
of all these tear offf wars. Honda now weighing plans
to move at least some of its automotive production from
Canada and Mexico to the US. I say some most.
(08:22):
The automaker's goal is to ensure that ninety percent of
US sales are vehicles produced domestically, and AMD Advanced micro
Devices announcing they'll begin ship production in Arizona, first time
this company has made processors on US soil. So okay,
(08:43):
here we go, and the White House maybe put the
Democrats in a bit of a pickle if this happens.
White House a's are said to be quietly floating a
proposal within the House Republican ranks that would actually raise
the tax rate for people making a million dollars more
up to forty percent. Now, this doesn't have the Trump
seal of approval yet, but they're well, there's trial balloons
(09:06):
here as they figure out ways to continue the Trump
tax cuts from twenty seventeen, which, if those aren't extended
tax Day next year, could be really ugly for a
lot of people. All Right, friends, we'll get to that
more coming up on this the Wednesday morning edition of
Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm just saying, if you're a squatter, you have more
rights than homeowners.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Shot edity just saying one on three point five FM
and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning
News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one on
three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Good morning, it is six forty three. Welcome into a Wednesday,
the sixteenth of April. Good to have you along. Oh,
the state just dropped this on their site here a
few minutes ago. Yeah, we talked a couple of weeks
ago about this audit. Uh, Caroline got a six million
dollar grant to the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund a
while back.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, first off, the the addit found that these these
Apple labs that were supposed to be building all these
uh you know, kind of out of the way places
to help citizens you get access to internet and computer
stuff and all that that, Well, a lot of that
never actually happened. They were creating these computer labs in
(10:37):
rural areas. This was back through the pandemic course. Well,
another little nugget coming out of this was that the university,
this audit says, improperly bought Apple watches for employees with
that grant money. Uh, not a lot of them. Okay,
it wasn't a whole bunch of money. Here. We're talking
about eleven staffers. Wait minute, eleven staff members at Palmeto College.
(11:07):
Let's see how much four five hundred and eighty nine
dollars can that be? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Well, I'm looking at Apple watches now, and they range
from anywhere from two hundred and fifty dollars to eight
hundred dollars, depending on if you get one with all
the bills and whistles.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Hang on a minute, I'm doing the math on this. Well,
these were okay, there's been four hundred and seventeen dollars apiece,
so I get they were. They weren't the top of
the line models.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
But they weren't the bottom of the line either.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well I have actually hand me down from my wife anyway. Okay, Well,
any so they they bottom. The university says, well, it
was important for these people. They were going to be
interacting at these labs and they needed to understand the
technology and so on and so forth. It's just another
one of the question transactions the audit identified that matter
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of that six million dollar grant. This audit so far
identified questionable transactions to the tune of one point seven
million dollars. Yeah, of course a lot of things were
questionable back during those days, right, these grants went out there,
a lot of stuff went to to to well well
(12:23):
spent on things that it should have been. Anyway, that's
just the latest there. Okay. So I mentioned before the
break that we've got a US senator, a Democrat going
to bat for an alleged MS thirteen gang member. Now that, yeah,
this is the story about to kill Maar Ramonto Abrego Garcia,
who Chris van Holland, the Democrat Senator from Maryland. Garcia
(12:49):
was living in Maryland. The White House says, yeah, but
he wasn't a Maryland resident. Holland says he was wrongly abducted,
sent to one of those maximum security prisons in Central America.
And of course the Supreme Court has recently ruled that
the US has got to bring a Brigo Garcia back.
(13:09):
Now that both the White House and the President of
El Salvador say, you know what, it was not gonna happen.
So Van Holland, now, now remember.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Bring him back to a place he didn't legally live.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yes, okay, go figure. Both the US and El Salvador
continue to maintain that Garcia is in fact an MS
thirteen gang member. Now, the man claimed in twenty nineteen,
(13:43):
while in the process of being deported, that he was
concerned about a rival gang in l Salvador killing him. Okay,
if you're concerned about a rival gang killing you, doesn't
that is not an admission that you're in another gang.
You got to be in a gang, to have a
rival gang, I'm guessing. Okay, So now we've got Chris
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van Holland, who is going to make a trip to
l Salvador to try to lobby the El Salvadorian government
into returning this guy, again, an alleged MS thirteen gag member.
By the way, Van Holland his district includes the district
where Rachel Moran was killed and again the illegal just
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convicted in her brutal death and rape. Her mother is
speaking out saying, you know, while all this was going on,
she never heard from anybody. She didn't hear a word
from the White House, didn't hear a word from the
Democrat contingent in Maryland. Now Van Holland says, well, you know,
(14:59):
he's sorry that this happened, and blah blah blah blah blah.
But at the time it was it was crickets radio silence.
So yeah, here we go. We have a sitting United
States senator who will travel abroad in efforts to bring
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back somebody who was in this country illegally to begin with,
and somebody who was again an alleged MS thirteen gang member.
Do with that what you will. These are really crazy times, man,
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really really crazy times.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Toms sink.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's fourteen minutes after seven o'clock and it is wonderful
to have you with us. Good morning for Wednesday, April
the sixteenth. So it looks like a poison pill. The Senate,
the South Carolina State Senate has given approval to a
piece of legislation that's been talked about a lot here,
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a bill that would reduce liquor liability costs for bars
and restaurants. We were just mentioning a couple of days ago,
but a country and Western bar anybody you still call
it country in Western anyway? That's the way they phrased it,
a country in Western bar. Over in the vista that
had posted the Facebook that unless you know something is
(16:47):
done here when it comes to these astronomical insurance rates
for these establishments, they've got to shutter their doors. As
of May seventeenth, not the first bar restaurant we've heard,
no see the same thing, and I mean the whole
tort reform issue. Was a lot of it was based
on how it would approach you know, these lawsuits and
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insurance for bars and restaurants. Yeah, and whether you could
you know, if I'm the first bar that you go
to that day and I serve you one drink and
then you go to bar B and have ten drinks,
I'm still getting soaked for it. Well yeah, and in
this case, yeah, this is what's been happening. So bar
A one drink served is a very successful establishment. It's
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made a lot of money, got a fancy place, lots
of money in the banks, lots of assets. But bar
B is just kind of a honky tonk off some
side road, just barely keeping their doors open. So when
when these folks get sued, who's getting who's getting sued? Who?
Who the attorney's going after? Not bar B, bar A,
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even though they're really numberspond So that the House was
on board with, you know, reforming just the liquor parts. Yeah,
So the original intend was, you know, tort reform in
our state, right, Well, yeah, that wasn't going anywhere fast.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
The House realized that there were too many special interests involved,
they were getting criticism, It wasn't moving quickly enough. So
they said, all right, let's just do something just for
the bars and restaurants in our states. So the House
passed it yes, and the Senate said, okay, we can
agree with that.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
But hold my beer.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah, let's put a few more items on that bill.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, matter of fact, let's put all the items on
that bill. So on a second reading yesterday that passed
by a thirty five to five vote. The Senate passing
a piece of legislation, Yeah, that does deal with reducing
liquor liability for these establishments. But they added to it
their entire tort reform bill, lock Stock and Barrel, the
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hole Enchilada.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Which again has caused a huge argument. There are a
number of lawyers who represent various interests in the state House.
There are lawyers who represent insurance companies. There are lawyers
who work on these types of cases. I mean, it
seems like everybody's got a vested interest, so everybody's fighting.
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Just it's hard. So I don't know if they can
come to an agreement on this.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I don't see how they do.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
So the House gets it back now, if they don't
agree to accept what the Senate tacked on, then it
goes to a conference committee. And let's see what's today,
April sixteenth, right, it is. Last day of the session
is May seventh, and oh you got you know, the
least of break coming up. True, they may be on
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that now. No, they voted yes d Yeah, they voted yesterday.
They got a third reading. It's likely to pass us
inate today. So yeah, how do you get this done
in the little amount of time it's left. I don't
think you do. So for the CWB and bars and
restaurants like that that are on the edge of shutting
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down and we're hoping they would hear some type of
good news from the state House, it's not coming.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No, it doesn't look like it. I don't see any way.
Now again, even if these bills work, because we see
this all the time. Yeah, the Sentence got their version
of this bill, a bill. This House has got this version.
They're slightly different, they're not identical. And it goes to
a conference committee and they try to hammer out the details.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And that's easy to do.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's easy to do, and so it should be. Sometimes
it takes longer than it should but this is like,
you know, opposite ends of the spectrum here.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, and on an issue that you just have so
many differing opinions on and strong opinions because it makes
a difference to these legislator's bottom lines.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Mm hm oh yeah, the lobbyist or I've been working
this one hard.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, I'm not sure they have to work that hard.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Well, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
A lot of these legislators, I mean, their take home pay,
not from the State House but from their real job
is impacted by the decision they make.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So uh, that just happened. The risk is very real
now that there is no any sort of reform done
when it comes to loquor liability for these establishments. And
we're not just talking about bars, I mean restaurants.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, anybody who anybody who serves, yeah, you know, the
Applebee's down the road, the whomever, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Oh wow. And and how again, how slowly things were.
The House passed their bill which again dropped the whole,
you know, the rest of the tort reform and just
focused on this. They passed this unanimously last month, and
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the Senate now getting around to it and saying, well,
you know, yeah, we like that part, but we want
the whole thing. I just I don't see how this happens.
I just don't see how it works. So yeah, not
good news for a lot of local establishments that remember
what was the bar in the Vista They said there,
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in the span of a year, their insurance rates had tripled,
more than tripled.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
And restaurants and bars have a lobby too, So the
legislators are going to be getting an earfull all the
way around before this gets decided.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, okay, So there's that we mentioned in the rundown
that Annie Andrews, the pediatrician and an uber liberal. Sounds
like she's looking to take on Lindsey Graham, at least
mulling a bid, according to Fitz News and their sources. Okay,
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remember Andrews went after Nancy Mace last time around. I
was that was not last time. That was time before
twenty twenty two, and it was pretty successful, raising money
two million dollars worth for that first district seat. A
lot of money was dumped in from political action committees.
Anytime you've got a Democrat trying to unsee the Republican,
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all these liberal packs come out of the woodwork. Will
they do it for this though? They did it for
Jamie Harrison. I mean the money that was spent in
that race was ridiculous. It was back in twenty twenty.
And for all that money raised for Harrison, well they
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got him a gig as the head of the DNC
for a while, they didn't get him a Senden seat.
He's got just forty four percent of the vote against
Graham back in twenty twenty. I don't know that again,
given Andrews track record of wasting two million dollars against Mason,
not even getting close, the fact that she has no
other no political experience at all. I mean, do you
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really think that the pocketed liberal activists are gonna dump
money into a campaign against Lindsey Graham?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Well, you wonder how much they'll spend early. Maybe she's
just a placeholder to see what Lindsey Graham's relationship with
Donald Trump is by the time election day rolls around,
because that relationship and the relationship between Graham and voters
is often up and down.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Sure, but still it's South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah and uh oh that Yeah, they wouldn't vote her
in over him. No, but what if what if his
relationship with Trump fails and he gets beat by a
challenger on the GOP side. Yeah, yeah, that's a possibility.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It is, although I tell you the truth, I don't.
I don't know who knows who. A lot can change
between now and next November.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one three point five FM and five sixty
AM WVOCN.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Seven forty three. Good born again, Great to have you
with us. It's Wednesday, April sixteenth. All right, So there's
an op ed in the State paper from Gavin Smith,
who's a councilman with a lection town council, about these
these fiber optic installations that are going on all over
the Midlands. This one hits close to home, like you know,
my front yard and many of you as well have
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been through this. It never goes well. They come in,
there's a mad rush that are all competing to get
certain areas and willy nilly coming in and digging up
and busting lines and well, all this, at least where
I live in Lexington came to a well, at least
a halt for a while when a ripple fiber came
in after damaging a couple of water lines and at
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least one gas line in my neighborhood next door. Then
the next door neighborhood. They rupture a gas line at
the one and only entrance to the neighborhood, that shut
it down for hours, no wind, no out.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I think they're pretty interchangeable though, any of these.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Oh it doesn't matter a ripple Loomo's, I mean, you
name them all right, Loomas got in big trouble in Irmo.
Well it came to a screeching halt at least in Lexington,
because well it turns out the mayor lives in the
neighborhood who's only entrance was not only down because of
a gas line rupture. Yeah, that'll do it. Well. So
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Gavin Smith writes in this op ed piece that this
is and again he's a lexing to town council person.
But you could say this anywhere these fiber companies show up.
Rushed fiber optic installation threatens Lexington, he says. So. Uh,
His point is this, he says, These contractors they're hiring
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race around, tearing up streets, damaging yards, cutting through driveways,
irrigation systems and water sewerd and gas lines, and yes,
in many cases lead behind a little more than temporary
patch broken promises. Yeah, I've seen that, But his point
is is that the physical damage, while serious, is just
a part of the story. He writes, behind the scenes,
mounting utility location requests submitted to the eight one to
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one system are placing an enormous burden on local utility
teams and raising real safety concerns and risks. Okay, so
we've had this system around for a while now. The
eight one to one system used to refer to as
the pup right call before you dig. It's been around
since the late seventies. We know what it's for. You know,
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lines are marked so any work being done those utilities,
those lines don't get busted into. He says, it's a
smart system in theory, but in practice it's being overwhelmed.
He claims these fiber companies, in their rush to be
competitors to the markets, are flooding in with, as he
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calls them, vague, excessive and overlapping requests, sometimes covering entire
neighborhoods at once, even when they don't plan to lay
fiber in the whole area. To make matters worse, I
didn't know this state law gives these utility locators just
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three business days to respond, So if one of these
companies calls eight one to one, Yeah, we want to
we want to lay fiber in the the entire town
of life Wood. They put in that request, the eight
one to one operators have just three business days to respond.
(28:38):
I did not know that, after which time these companies
legally can start digging whether or not the lines are marked. Yeah,
that's that's that's dangerous, he says. In just the last
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year alone, locate request have been submitted for hundreds of
thousands of lindar feet in the town of Lexington. So
in some cases more than twelve thousand feet have been
called in within a single twenty four hour period. And
there's no way that these eight one to one operators
can keep up with that. Wow.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
So not to mention the fact that I know the
one that was doing all the work.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
In Irmo loumost I believe it was.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
One, and it was, but it was Columbia's water you know,
that's Columbia's water system. And they said, you know, there
were places that were marked, but then there were places
that didn't match up what was marked between you know,
water and everything else that's going on. It's I mean,
it's it can be a circus and who's keeping track
of what gets laid now, Yeah, that's a good question,
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so that the next utility dig that comes along doesn't
get this all screwed up.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Right, Well, He's introduced to build in the House that
would require more accurate locate request, would prevent abuse of
these blanket tickets, as he calls them, and establish better
coordination with local governments. That is that is neat again him.
If they haven't beento your neighborhood yet, good for you
if they do, heads up because they I don't know
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if it's single, and I guess there have been, but
I personally just don't know of a single instance with
a gun over neighborhood and some kind of chaos had
ensued and this may well be wine. I had no clue.
The state law said, you've only got three days to
get him out there and mark those lines. After that,
feel free to dig wherever you want. That's stupid. It's
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just stupid. Hopefully this piece of legislation will pass and
we'll fix that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
They've been allowed by administrations to conduct ideological practices on
campuses that federal law prohibits. That's all the Trump administration
seems to be saying here is that you need to
follow the law if you want to keep your federal moneys.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Good morning, It's fifteen minutes after eight. Senator Tom Cotton
yesterday commenting on the Trump freezing of billions and billions, well,
just two point two billion actually in funding the Harvard
over that woke institutions, anti Semitic stances, they're dei initiatives,
(31:34):
which they continue to do. All of that. The notification
going out to the university president on Friday that well
they don't undertake some pretty critical reforms here, this money
is going to dry up. So yeah, yeah, now so
did they capitulate. No, They're sticking to their guns here.
(32:02):
The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its
constitutional rights. Legal counsel said it a letter on Monday.
What constitutional rights are we talking about? I don't know
the ones that you have a constitutional right to be
anti semitic? That one are they saying that's freedom of speech?
Yeah right, yeah, Okay, So the government says fine.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I mean, our government has the right to dole out
finances in the way it chooses.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Correct. Correct. Nobody ever said you have a constitutional right
to this money. If it's in there somewhere in the
constitution that says Havid gets x amount of dollars every year,
it's part of the constitution. I just missed that part.
So the Education Department is announcing a two point two
(32:56):
billion dollar freeze in multi year grants and sixty million
dollar freeze and multi year contract value to Harvard. So
I see this headline. Harvard faces financial fault out needs
every penny they can get as federal funds pulled. Really, okay,
it's two point two billion dollars in multi year grants frozen.
(33:23):
Harvard has a fifty three billion dollar endowment. Oh, but
much of it's restricted and inaccessible for routine operating costs. Oh.
I see Harvard their annual research budget. Federal funding accounts
(33:46):
for two thirds of it, and in addition to that,
eleven percent of their annual operating costs. Okay, So they
want to play hardball with Trump. Good luck with that.
Enjoy that. Even Chris Matthews, y'all remember Chris Matthews, right,
(34:08):
NBC suggested that the Trump administration was right to target Harvard,
conceding it was probably a smart moved politically at least,
not just Harvard, but all these elite universities. He was
on Morning Joe, I have to say the administration sometimes
(34:31):
sets his targets in the right direction. Well, it must
have painted him to say that, huh, the elite universities
in this country not exactly covered in roses right now,
and the way they handle these demonstrations, No, they're not
so anyway, Harvard financially strapped suddenly despite a fifty three
(34:51):
I'm sorry, said fifty three or fifty two. A fifty
three billion dollar downman, but we can't use that. We
have that money.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
We just can't.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
We just can't use it. It's just I've got some
of that money too that I just can't use. I
wish I could. It's just for show. Just yeah. Markets
this morning, let's see the Dow is trending down thirty
five whole points, what one fifty five down the Dow yesterday.
That's that's kind of business as usual day, right when
(35:21):
Dow is at forty thousand, being down one hundred and
fifty five points is nothing. So have the market stabilized, Well,
let's hope so. I'd like to see a little more
come back in. But hey, in the meantime, let's let's
kind of get things stabled again. And maybe they are.
(35:44):
The latest now is apparently the White House, we're told,
is urging other countries that some seventy plus countries, the
White House says or wanted to come to the table
to negotiate. It looks like one of the stipulations that
will be put on this is that basically these countries
(36:06):
pretty much several economic ties with China. Trump's bold move
here is to isolate the chicoms, which could crash their economy. Yeah, okay,
bold move tariff's aside though the teariff part of it. Yeah,
(36:28):
we're seeing more wins here. Honda weighing plans to move well.
This Fox Business article says some of its automotive production
from Canada and Mexico, thank you, NAFTA, to the States
some Well, the goal is to ensure that ninety percent
(36:48):
of US sales or vehicles produced here in the US. Nice.
Looks like they're going to move their CRV and civic
vehicles to the US to support the goal. Looking to
increase US production by thirty percent by adding more employees
and more shifts. That's okay, this is this is part
(37:11):
of the deal. Remember, Hyundai has already said they're going
to invest twenty billion dollars in manufacturing here in this country.
And we mentioned yesterday that Nvidia is making big investments
to produce not only chips, but supercomputers. I think the
chips in Arizona, the supercomputers in Texas. Now we're that
(37:35):
advanced micro devices AMD. We'll start producing chips in Arizona.
This will be the first time that this tech giant
has actually the chip production and processors. Yes, the first
(37:56):
time they've ever done that on US soil. That announcement
coming by their from their CEO just yesterday. This is
a this is a sharp pivot and their their manufacturing strategy.
None of this happens, None of this happens if it's
not for these these moves perpetuated by Donald John Trump. No,
(38:24):
AMD did just all of a sudden say, you know what,
we've been making them on the cheap here, let's let's
go to this. Let's go make them in the US. Yeah,
just for grants, why not in Nvidia doesn't dump money
into the US. Hyundai doesn't dump twenty billion dollars in
Honda doesn't consider moving production at a labor chief Mexico
(38:48):
to the US. If it weren't for what Trump has
put in, any president could have done this. And this,
of course, this move made even bolder by the fact
that this is being done, you know, coming out of
the economic doldrums that the Biden administration left us in.
(39:09):
That's been a risky gamble. Yes, absolutely, and there have
been some trying days.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Yeah, you bat, I left a lot of people wondering
whether they were our friends or foes.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
I mean jd Vance goes to Europe and essentially says
we don't need you and you can't do anything for us.
And now it sounds like, I mean, he's getting he's
developing the Trump Knack tactic of you know, saying one
thing and then two weeks later he says something completely different,
(39:40):
and you'd wonder what he really means. But now he says,
the Europeans are our great friends, and we think we've
got a trade deal with Britain coming.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I'm sure, I'm sure we do. But you know, it
seems to be working and yeah, I mean this has
shown the world that y'all need us a lot more
than we need you. Okay, would there be pain here
(40:08):
in this country, sure, but it would pale in comparison
to the pain in other places. You can bet your
bottom done on that they will be flocking to make
this happen. And here comes the manufacturing jobs. Here they come.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM wvoc HI.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Our final thoughts atday thirty nine on a Wednesday morning.
I got to just mention this before I forget, because
it just popped across my desk. Here boy, Government Waste
Inefficiency DOGE wanted to move the log in button on
the IRS website. They were told government contractors told them
(40:59):
would take about one hundred days to do this. Yeah
you got you got a little link there it says
log in. They wanted to move into another spot on the.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Page, So redesigning the web page.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Just a very very minor redesign. It's gonna take a
hundred days, according to government contractors. Elon Musk's team did
it in seventy minutes. Okay, I could have done that
might have taken me longer than seventy minutes. I could
might might have taken me a couple of days. Actually,
I have to do a bunch of YouTube videos and stuff,
but I'd have figured it out.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
There are probably kids who have figured it out sooner
than either one of us could.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Probably five minutes and they're done one hundred days. It's
gonna take government contractors to do the job one hundred days. Wow, okay. Uh.
Here at home, the city is moving ahead. Philly Park
is set to reopen this fall, I think, right.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:50):
That soon?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I've been driven by there lately.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Oh, I haven't a long time. Actually no, But that's
that's the plan. I have it open this fall. They
have voted last night to UH to put aside a
little over two hundred thousand dollars and well security upgrades,
new surveillance cameras, new call boxes, and apparently they're going
(42:13):
to have park rangers on site daily every day. That
makes sense. Yeah, you've got to You got to convince
people now that after years of neglect and you know,
homeless encampments and crime, that it's a safe place to
take a family I wonder though, gosh, how long has
(42:35):
it been since anybody went to Finley Park because it
was Finley Park for a family outing, I mean any
great numbers Yeah, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I mean there were some people that still used the park,
but it was.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Few and far between. Yeah, we have a lot more
options now that we had back when Finley Park was
you know, one of the only games in town. You've
got great space of Bull Street, You've got both sides
of the river with the river walks right beautiful. You know,
other municipalities around the Midlands have done things. I mean,
(43:09):
Lexington's got all sorts of things going on, and you just.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Wonder, well, I think because it is so centrally located,
and I mean I've seen the plans. I haven't driven
by there recently, but I've seen the plans. If they're
doing what the plans look like, it's going to be
a gorgeous place to be.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Oh, it will be. You had to do something right.
You had to either rehabit and fix it up or
you dump it, dump it make it a parking lot. Yeah,
but nobody works over there, so the parking lot wouldn't
have worked. You know, you had to do something You've
got that big old hulking post office right next to it,
(43:47):
and that's going to go away here one of these days. Right, yeah, okay,
heads have rolled. Now what they're two advisors to uh
Pete Heggsath are out. You had Dan Caldwell, who was
an advisor and Darren Selnick, the deputy chief of staff
(44:09):
for hag Seth.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Now Caldwell's name was the one on the signal chat.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Right, yeah, he was involved in all that. Yes, so
hes we're going to roll. Heads have both are under
investigation for that same league probe. Caldwell was escorted out
by Pentagon pagon by security. Yikes, you don't want to
(44:35):
be that guy. Right, Oh my goodness, he's he's back,
Joe Biden. Let's see if I can make this sound
by play over here. Yeah, the king kun like this
is divided nations, divide as we are. I said, I've
(44:56):
been doing this a long time. It's never been this
says a guy who, well just months ago said if
you had voted for Trump, you were garbage.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
He checked every single box in that speech yesterday. I
mean everything that we've grown weary of from Joe Biden
over the years, The the dramatic whisper, Yes, Trump, Trump's
destroying America. Oh you didn't use the word trump.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
He did not say Trump. No, he did not say Trump.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
But the the old time stories, you know, the my
parents did this, and you know I saw when that happened, and.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
I was I was there the creation. But keep in mind,
God said I was good.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Keep in mind, I mean, when is the last time
you really heard a whole lot of attention paid to
a Barack Obama speech or a George W.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Bush speech.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
I mean this, this was a big deal yesterday because
it was Biden's first major address since he left office.
The the interest and the attention he gets will dwindle.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I was gonna say, yeah, if he's making speeches, nobody
will care exactly exactly. And of course he's out there
yesterday tuton that the Democrat refrain that that this administration
is going to shut down social Security.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Well it was this. It was a speech on social security.
So he worked right now, so we had that was convenient.
Somebody gave him the theme, Hey Joe say this.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Okay, yeah, but but we gotta treat one of the
one to get dignity, says the guy who called Trump
voter's garbage. Yeah, okay. Meantime, his former VP, what will
she do? Does she dare run for president again? I
have started the run combla run fan club.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
By the way, Well, I mean it would be a
Republican's dream.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Absolutely so short of that, I mean, god, she'd be
a shoe in to be governor of wacky California. Right,
maybe not. A couple of polls have come out, were
released yesterday. Who's out pulling her? Oh? Well, you know
you got to pull somebody, right, There's not much to
pull these days. But polls asking two groups registered voters
(47:17):
in California and policy influencers whoever. Those people are to
select from a list of possible emotions they felt about
Harris hypothetically running for governor in California. Anguish, nausea, Let's
see here, here are your options, joyful, joyful. Yeah that's good.
(47:43):
It was a joyful campaign, wasn't it? Mostly excited? Indifferent, irritated,
outraged or hopeless or none of those fits you could
have picked other Let's see, thirty six percent of California
influencers said indifferent. Wow, yeah, indifferent.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
That's less than a year after that campaign spent all
of this money to create her image.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Yeah. Yeah, So bottom line is they're pretty much unenthused
about a Kamala Harris run for governor of wacky California.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
This is this is a party, you know, for all
to talk about, you know, what Trump might do to
the Republicans in the next three years. This Democrat Party
is yeah, I mean seemingly in many respects on its
last legs as we know it now. Jim Carvell yesterday,
oh huh, said, look, we need to split. We're never
(48:39):
going to get along with the pronoun groups. We are
never going to get along with these people who hijacked
the election in twenty twenty four and made it about
who could use the restroom and who couldn't and which
gender that did this. He said, this isn't going to work.
He said, Democrats need a clean break from those who
are just so wacky and so far are out there
(49:00):
on the left.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah. Yeah, he just split and they do you know,
interesting you bring that up, unrelated but still Democrat party.
David Hogg, Yeah, you know David Hogg, that guy from
Stone and Douglas High School. Yeah, who somehow wrangled himself
into a spot as the vice chair with a Democrat
National Committee. I don't know how that happen. Is pledging
(49:24):
to upend primaries by funding candidates who will challenge what
he called ineffective a sleep at the wheel Democrats. Basically,
David Hogg wants to go into any districts and wants
the DNC to spend tons of money in safe districts
now to primary incumbents with younger Democrats, all sorts of
(49:46):
things there, and they're coming for the dogs. Yeah, the
Pacific Conservation Biology Journal. In that study, Australian scientists now
claim that dogs have extensive and multifarious impacts on the environment,
including waterway pollution and the disturbance of wildlife. They also
(50:06):
note dog's contributions to carbon emissions mm, because you know,
cats don't admit any carbon, nor do cows.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
They just fart, So the burping and farting cows are
off the menu now. They're off the menu now, and
they're gonna target dogs and they feel like that's gonna
make that a more popular movement.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
I suppose. I mean, no other species on Earth apparently
emits carbon emissions.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
Just dogs, just man's best friend's.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Best friends, so they must be done away with. Wow.
Alright, Jesus seu fright, hell yay, Saint America and Jerery
Hollin for regious one nation, I your God in your
nabel and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Good morning, it is sixteen after six and welcome to Wednesday,
the sixteenth of vapor. It's good to have you with us.
All right, I think we're about ready to roll here. Yes,
I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson is right there. Good morning
to you, sir.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Better be ready at six sixteen, let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I guess I'm ready. Come on, all right, well, let's
do it. Little chili out this morning. We're in the forties,
low forties, a few spots mid forties others. We're about
forty six here right now at the radio range. Yeah,
let's get this thing going. Shall we write at it?
The run down the big stories of hot topics. Some
of the things will be touching on today, some things
you need to know. But in a nutshell, before you
hit the door, let's tell you about a couple of
(01:12):
big items starting get home as always, where the Senate
has given approval key approval to build a reduced liquor
liability costs for bars and restaurants. Is this the legislation
continues to drag on over there at your Vay Street.
But but they've attached their entire tort reform build to it.
(01:33):
Is this a deal killer? Now? They passed this second
reading yesterday, a third reading will be required probably today,
and then it'll head over to the to the House.
So poison pill probably sounds like it, doesn't it. Well,
(01:56):
we'll get more into that coming up a little bit
later on. We may have our first challenger to Lindsay Graham.
Do tell at least there's buzz that, well, this will
not be a Republican challenger, not a primary challenger, but
a Democrat. Well, they got to put up somebody right
to run against Graham. Yeah, I mean you don't have to.
(02:18):
There's no law that says you got to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Seems like a waste of money. But okay, remember Annie
Andrews Sure, the pediatrician who tried to beat Nancy Mace.
It has been very outspoken since on social media.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
She did a good job raising money, more than two
million dollars worth. Lots of pack money came in for her,
but she got it handed to her by Mace last November. Well,
she may try it again here. Remember the kind of
Remember the money that was raised and spent last time
a Democrat took on Lindsey Graham. Remember who that was,
(02:58):
Jamie Harrison, All that dough and just forty four percent
of the vode. Well and he Andrews may go down
that same road. The City of Columbia moving ahead with
plans to well, we knew that we were going to
to revitalize Finlay Park. They have just green lighted the
purchase of new surveillance cameras. We were just talking about
(03:18):
this yesterday with the homeless issue in Colombia and how
you can't dump all this money into Finley Park and
let it become what it had become a haven for
the homeless. Well, and crime too. On top of that, Well,
they're looking at surveillance cameras and such a couple hundred
thousand dollars to try to shore up security over there.
(03:39):
An op ed in the state today from Gavin Smith,
who's on Lexington Town Council, and this is this isn't
just about Lexington, it's about all the Midlands in the
state for that matter. The topic is these, as he
calls it, rushed fiber optic installations threatening Lexington and again
for that matter, anywhere else. Been a lot said about
(04:03):
these fiber optics companies coming in digging up stuff, busting
water lines, gas lines, and who knows what else. His point, though,
is this is overwhelming the eight one to one system,
which is there to you know, you contact them if
you've got to do a dig that all these fiber
optic companies doing all of this digging putting an enormous
strain on the eight one one system that could turn
(04:25):
out to be well dangerous for folks. Hey, how about this.
You want a cruise from Charleston to Alaska? You can
let me think about the route that would take. How
long would that take? Fifty one days and fifty nights.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes, American Cruise Lines unveiling a package to sell the
bet the Nations two hundred and fiftieth birthday next year,
You could do that.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I don't know if I could be on a boat
that lone.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, I don't think I could do that. That's a little
long even for me. Oh yeah, fifty one days hmmm,
makes a lot of stops. It's not just a non
stop right to Alaska. But yeah, that's that's a hall.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
How long did it take the q E two to
cross the Atlantic back in the day.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
That's it sounds like an old school boat trip to me.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It sounds like, you know, the the Nina, the Penta
and the Santa Maria at me. A couple of top
advisors to Pete Heggsth have been bounced out of the Pentagon,
apparently part of a probe into a hoothy text leak.
Dan Caldwell plased on administrative leave over what's being called
an unauthorized disclosure. By the way, he was in that
(05:40):
text chain that was published by The Atlantic. This apparently,
uh well, yeah, he's not the only one. The Darren Selnik,
deputy chief of Staffer Heggseth, also been removed. So we
said at some point Heggs would roll over that, and
well they have now the White House freezing millions of
(06:00):
dollars in funding to Harvard over the woke schools defying
the ultimatum over anti Semitism and DEI. So they've been notified.
That's what I think it's two point two billion dollar
freeze in multi year grants. And then I see this piece.
Here's the headline, Harvard faces financial fallout, needs every penny
(06:23):
they can get as federal funds pulled. Wait a minute,
have you seen the endowment at Harvard? It's what over
three hundred billion. It's a whole lot more than what
just got withheld. Yeah, it's massive. Yeah, I don't know
the exact number. Off topic, well, fifty three billion, Okay, Well, yeah,
I was waiting. Well still, but still way more than
(06:44):
the federal funds being with held. Maybe you need to,
you know, time the belt a little bit, Harvard, if
you want to continue with your anti semitic ways. Even
Chris Matthews, former MSNBC NBC pundit host, suggesting that Trump
was smart art to target target Harvard and all these
other elite universities as well. Joe Biden makes his return
(07:06):
to the stage yesterday, taking shots at you O the
Trump administration social security policies. Again, the Diercrafts continue to
say this, he was Trump's gonna cut social security. Show
me where that was ever even entertained by the Trump administration. Uh,
cutting the waist, Yeah, cutting the fraudulent people off the rolls. Yeah,
(07:33):
but yet here's here's Joe Biden rolling back out with
another lie that Trump wants to cut your Social Security.
Oh and by the way, Biden encouraged us to all
treat each other with dignity. That was just well a
few months after he labeled you if you voted for
Trump a garbage you know. Meantime, his former VP, what
will she do run for president again? Maybe governor of California.
(07:56):
Those are that's what the rumors have it. However, they
just did a poll in California and it seems like
Californias aren't terribly enthused for Kamala Harris's governor winning. This
is what it looks like. This is a big part
of all these tear offf wars. Honda now weighing plans
to move at least some of its automotive production from
Canada and Mexico to the US. I say some most.
(08:22):
The automaker's goal is to ensure that ninety percent of
US sales are vehicles produced domestically, and AMD Advanced micro
Devices announcing they'll begin ship production in Arizona, first time
this company has made processors on US soil. So okay,
(08:43):
here we go, and the White House maybe put the
Democrats in a bit of a pickle if this happens.
White House a's are said to be quietly floating a
proposal within the House Republican ranks that would actually raise
the tax rate for people making a million dollars more
up to forty percent. Now, this doesn't have the Trump
seal of approval yet, but they're well, there's trial balloons
(09:06):
here as they figure out ways to continue the Trump
tax cuts from twenty seventeen, which, if those aren't extended
tax Day next year, could be really ugly for a
lot of people. All Right, friends, we'll get to that
more coming up on this the Wednesday morning edition of
Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm just saying, if you're a squatter, you have more
rights than homeowners.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Shot edity just saying one on three point five FM
and five sixty am w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning
News with Gary David and Christopher Thompson on one on
three point five FM and five sixty am w VOC.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Good morning, it is six forty three. Welcome into a Wednesday,
the sixteenth of April. Good to have you along. Oh,
the state just dropped this on their site here a
few minutes ago. Yeah, we talked a couple of weeks
ago about this audit. Uh, Caroline got a six million
dollar grant to the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund a
while back.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, first off, the the addit found that these these
Apple labs that were supposed to be building all these
uh you know, kind of out of the way places
to help citizens you get access to internet and computer
stuff and all that that, Well, a lot of that
never actually happened. They were creating these computer labs in
(10:37):
rural areas. This was back through the pandemic course. Well,
another little nugget coming out of this was that the university,
this audit says, improperly bought Apple watches for employees with
that grant money. Uh, not a lot of them. Okay,
it wasn't a whole bunch of money. Here. We're talking
about eleven staffers. Wait minute, eleven staff members at Palmeto College.
(11:07):
Let's see how much four five hundred and eighty nine
dollars can that be? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Well, I'm looking at Apple watches now, and they range
from anywhere from two hundred and fifty dollars to eight
hundred dollars, depending on if you get one with all
the bills and whistles.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Hang on a minute, I'm doing the math on this. Well,
these were okay, there's been four hundred and seventeen dollars apiece,
so I get they were. They weren't the top of
the line models.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
But they weren't the bottom of the line either.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well I have actually hand me down from my wife anyway. Okay, Well,
any so they they bottom. The university says, well, it
was important for these people. They were going to be
interacting at these labs and they needed to understand the
technology and so on and so forth. It's just another
one of the question transactions the audit identified that matter
(12:02):
of that six million dollar grant. This audit so far
identified questionable transactions to the tune of one point seven
million dollars. Yeah, of course a lot of things were
questionable back during those days, right, these grants went out there,
a lot of stuff went to to to well well
(12:23):
spent on things that it should have been. Anyway, that's
just the latest there. Okay. So I mentioned before the
break that we've got a US senator, a Democrat going
to bat for an alleged MS thirteen gang member. Now that, yeah,
this is the story about to kill Maar Ramonto Abrego Garcia,
who Chris van Holland, the Democrat Senator from Maryland. Garcia
(12:49):
was living in Maryland. The White House says, yeah, but
he wasn't a Maryland resident. Holland says he was wrongly abducted,
sent to one of those maximum security prisons in Central America.
And of course the Supreme Court has recently ruled that
the US has got to bring a Brigo Garcia back.
(13:09):
Now that both the White House and the President of
El Salvador say, you know what, it was not gonna happen.
So Van Holland, now, now remember.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Bring him back to a place he didn't legally live.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yes, okay, go figure. Both the US and El Salvador
continue to maintain that Garcia is in fact an MS
thirteen gang member. Now, the man claimed in twenty nineteen,
(13:43):
while in the process of being deported, that he was
concerned about a rival gang in l Salvador killing him. Okay,
if you're concerned about a rival gang killing you, doesn't
that is not an admission that you're in another gang.
You got to be in a gang, to have a
rival gang, I'm guessing. Okay, So now we've got Chris
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van Holland, who is going to make a trip to
l Salvador to try to lobby the El Salvadorian government
into returning this guy, again, an alleged MS thirteen gag member.
By the way, Van Holland his district includes the district
where Rachel Moran was killed and again the illegal just
(14:37):
convicted in her brutal death and rape. Her mother is
speaking out saying, you know, while all this was going on,
she never heard from anybody. She didn't hear a word
from the White House, didn't hear a word from the
Democrat contingent in Maryland. Now Van Holland says, well, you know,
(14:59):
he's sorry that this happened, and blah blah blah blah blah.
But at the time it was it was crickets radio silence.
So yeah, here we go. We have a sitting United
States senator who will travel abroad in efforts to bring
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back somebody who was in this country illegally to begin with,
and somebody who was again an alleged MS thirteen gang member.
Do with that what you will. These are really crazy times, man,
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really really crazy times.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Toms sink.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's fourteen minutes after seven o'clock and it is wonderful
to have you with us. Good morning for Wednesday, April
the sixteenth. So it looks like a poison pill. The Senate,
the South Carolina State Senate has given approval to a
piece of legislation that's been talked about a lot here,
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a bill that would reduce liquor liability costs for bars
and restaurants. We were just mentioning a couple of days ago,
but a country and Western bar anybody you still call
it country in Western anyway? That's the way they phrased it,
a country in Western bar. Over in the vista that
had posted the Facebook that unless you know something is
(16:47):
done here when it comes to these astronomical insurance rates
for these establishments, they've got to shutter their doors. As
of May seventeenth, not the first bar restaurant we've heard,
no see the same thing, and I mean the whole
tort reform issue. Was a lot of it was based
on how it would approach you know, these lawsuits and
(17:10):
insurance for bars and restaurants. Yeah, and whether you could
you know, if I'm the first bar that you go
to that day and I serve you one drink and
then you go to bar B and have ten drinks,
I'm still getting soaked for it. Well yeah, and in
this case, yeah, this is what's been happening. So bar
A one drink served is a very successful establishment. It's
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made a lot of money, got a fancy place, lots
of money in the banks, lots of assets. But bar
B is just kind of a honky tonk off some
side road, just barely keeping their doors open. So when
when these folks get sued, who's getting who's getting sued? Who?
Who the attorney's going after? Not bar B, bar A,
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even though they're really numberspond So that the House was
on board with, you know, reforming just the liquor parts. Yeah,
So the original intend was, you know, tort reform in
our state, right, Well, yeah, that wasn't going anywhere fast.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
The House realized that there were too many special interests involved,
they were getting criticism, It wasn't moving quickly enough. So
they said, all right, let's just do something just for
the bars and restaurants in our states. So the House
passed it yes, and the Senate said, okay, we can
agree with that.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
But hold my beer.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah, let's put a few more items on that bill.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, matter of fact, let's put all the items on
that bill. So on a second reading yesterday that passed
by a thirty five to five vote. The Senate passing
a piece of legislation, Yeah, that does deal with reducing
liquor liability for these establishments. But they added to it
their entire tort reform bill, lock Stock and Barrel, the
(18:58):
hole Enchilada.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Which again has caused a huge argument. There are a
number of lawyers who represent various interests in the state House.
There are lawyers who represent insurance companies. There are lawyers
who work on these types of cases. I mean, it
seems like everybody's got a vested interest, so everybody's fighting.
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Just it's hard. So I don't know if they can
come to an agreement on this.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I don't see how they do.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
So the House gets it back now, if they don't
agree to accept what the Senate tacked on, then it
goes to a conference committee. And let's see what's today,
April sixteenth, right, it is. Last day of the session
is May seventh, and oh you got you know, the
least of break coming up. True, they may be on
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that now. No, they voted yes d Yeah, they voted yesterday.
They got a third reading. It's likely to pass us
inate today. So yeah, how do you get this done
in the little amount of time it's left. I don't
think you do. So for the CWB and bars and
restaurants like that that are on the edge of shutting
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down and we're hoping they would hear some type of
good news from the state House, it's not coming.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No, it doesn't look like it. I don't see any way.
Now again, even if these bills work, because we see
this all the time. Yeah, the Sentence got their version
of this bill, a bill. This House has got this version.
They're slightly different, they're not identical. And it goes to
a conference committee and they try to hammer out the details.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
And that's easy to do.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's easy to do, and so it should be. Sometimes
it takes longer than it should but this is like,
you know, opposite ends of the spectrum here.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, and on an issue that you just have so
many differing opinions on and strong opinions because it makes
a difference to these legislator's bottom lines.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Mm hm oh yeah, the lobbyist or I've been working
this one hard.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, I'm not sure they have to work that hard.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Well, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
A lot of these legislators, I mean, their take home pay,
not from the State House but from their real job
is impacted by the decision they make.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So uh, that just happened. The risk is very real
now that there is no any sort of reform done
when it comes to loquor liability for these establishments. And
we're not just talking about bars, I mean restaurants.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, anybody who anybody who serves, yeah, you know, the
Applebee's down the road, the whomever, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Oh wow. And and how again, how slowly things were.
The House passed their bill which again dropped the whole,
you know, the rest of the tort reform and just
focused on this. They passed this unanimously last month, and
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the Senate now getting around to it and saying, well,
you know, yeah, we like that part, but we want
the whole thing. I just I don't see how this happens.
I just don't see how it works. So yeah, not
good news for a lot of local establishments that remember
what was the bar in the Vista They said there,
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in the span of a year, their insurance rates had tripled,
more than tripled.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
And restaurants and bars have a lobby too, So the
legislators are going to be getting an earfull all the
way around before this gets decided.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, okay, So there's that we mentioned in the rundown
that Annie Andrews, the pediatrician and an uber liberal. Sounds
like she's looking to take on Lindsey Graham, at least
mulling a bid, according to Fitz News and their sources. Okay,
(22:59):
remember Andrews went after Nancy Mace last time around. I
was that was not last time. That was time before
twenty twenty two, and it was pretty successful, raising money
two million dollars worth for that first district seat. A
lot of money was dumped in from political action committees.
Anytime you've got a Democrat trying to unsee the Republican,
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all these liberal packs come out of the woodwork. Will
they do it for this though? They did it for
Jamie Harrison. I mean the money that was spent in
that race was ridiculous. It was back in twenty twenty.
And for all that money raised for Harrison, well they
(23:43):
got him a gig as the head of the DNC
for a while, they didn't get him a Senden seat.
He's got just forty four percent of the vote against
Graham back in twenty twenty. I don't know that again,
given Andrews track record of wasting two million dollars against Mason,
not even getting close, the fact that she has no
other no political experience at all. I mean, do you
(24:04):
really think that the pocketed liberal activists are gonna dump
money into a campaign against Lindsey Graham?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Well, you wonder how much they'll spend early. Maybe she's
just a placeholder to see what Lindsey Graham's relationship with
Donald Trump is by the time election day rolls around,
because that relationship and the relationship between Graham and voters
is often up and down.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Sure, but still it's South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah and uh oh that Yeah, they wouldn't vote her
in over him. No, but what if what if his
relationship with Trump fails and he gets beat by a
challenger on the GOP side. Yeah, yeah, that's a possibility.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It is, although I tell you the truth, I don't.
I don't know who knows who. A lot can change
between now and next November.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one three point five FM and five sixty
AM WVOCN.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Seven forty three. Good born again, Great to have you
with us. It's Wednesday, April sixteenth. All right, So there's
an op ed in the State paper from Gavin Smith,
who's a councilman with a lection town council, about these
these fiber optic installations that are going on all over
the Midlands. This one hits close to home, like you know,
my front yard and many of you as well have
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been through this. It never goes well. They come in,
there's a mad rush that are all competing to get
certain areas and willy nilly coming in and digging up
and busting lines and well, all this, at least where
I live in Lexington came to a well, at least
a halt for a while when a ripple fiber came
in after damaging a couple of water lines and at
(25:49):
least one gas line in my neighborhood next door. Then
the next door neighborhood. They rupture a gas line at
the one and only entrance to the neighborhood, that shut
it down for hours, no wind, no out.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I think they're pretty interchangeable though, any of these.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Oh it doesn't matter a ripple Loomo's, I mean, you
name them all right, Loomas got in big trouble in Irmo.
Well it came to a screeching halt at least in Lexington,
because well it turns out the mayor lives in the
neighborhood who's only entrance was not only down because of
a gas line rupture. Yeah, that'll do it. Well. So
(26:26):
Gavin Smith writes in this op ed piece that this
is and again he's a lexing to town council person.
But you could say this anywhere these fiber companies show up.
Rushed fiber optic installation threatens Lexington, he says. So. Uh,
His point is this, he says, These contractors they're hiring
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race around, tearing up streets, damaging yards, cutting through driveways,
irrigation systems and water sewerd and gas lines, and yes,
in many cases lead behind a little more than temporary
patch broken promises. Yeah, I've seen that, But his point
is is that the physical damage, while serious, is just
a part of the story. He writes, behind the scenes,
mounting utility location requests submitted to the eight one to
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one system are placing an enormous burden on local utility
teams and raising real safety concerns and risks. Okay, so
we've had this system around for a while now. The
eight one to one system used to refer to as
the pup right call before you dig. It's been around
since the late seventies. We know what it's for. You know,
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lines are marked so any work being done those utilities,
those lines don't get busted into. He says, it's a
smart system in theory, but in practice it's being overwhelmed.
He claims these fiber companies, in their rush to be
competitors to the markets, are flooding in with, as he
(27:56):
calls them, vague, excessive and overlapping requests, sometimes covering entire
neighborhoods at once, even when they don't plan to lay
fiber in the whole area. To make matters worse, I
didn't know this state law gives these utility locators just
(28:17):
three business days to respond, So if one of these
companies calls eight one to one, Yeah, we want to
we want to lay fiber in the the entire town
of life Wood. They put in that request, the eight
one to one operators have just three business days to respond.
(28:38):
I did not know that, after which time these companies
legally can start digging whether or not the lines are marked. Yeah,
that's that's that's dangerous, he says. In just the last
(28:58):
year alone, locate request have been submitted for hundreds of
thousands of lindar feet in the town of Lexington. So
in some cases more than twelve thousand feet have been
called in within a single twenty four hour period. And
there's no way that these eight one to one operators
can keep up with that. Wow.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
So not to mention the fact that I know the
one that was doing all the work.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
In Irmo loumost I believe it was.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
One, and it was, but it was Columbia's water you know,
that's Columbia's water system. And they said, you know, there
were places that were marked, but then there were places
that didn't match up what was marked between you know,
water and everything else that's going on. It's I mean,
it's it can be a circus and who's keeping track
of what gets laid now, Yeah, that's a good question,
(29:48):
so that the next utility dig that comes along doesn't
get this all screwed up.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Right, Well, He's introduced to build in the House that
would require more accurate locate request, would prevent abuse of
these blanket tickets, as he calls them, and establish better
coordination with local governments. That is that is neat again him.
If they haven't beento your neighborhood yet, good for you
if they do, heads up because they I don't know
(30:18):
if it's single, and I guess there have been, but
I personally just don't know of a single instance with
a gun over neighborhood and some kind of chaos had
ensued and this may well be wine. I had no clue.
The state law said, you've only got three days to
get him out there and mark those lines. After that,
feel free to dig wherever you want. That's stupid. It's
(30:40):
just stupid. Hopefully this piece of legislation will pass and
we'll fix that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
They've been allowed by administrations to conduct ideological practices on
campuses that federal law prohibits. That's all the Trump administration
seems to be saying here is that you need to
follow the law if you want to keep your federal moneys.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Good morning, It's fifteen minutes after eight. Senator Tom Cotton
yesterday commenting on the Trump freezing of billions and billions, well,
just two point two billion actually in funding the Harvard
over that woke institutions, anti Semitic stances, they're dei initiatives,
(31:34):
which they continue to do. All of that. The notification
going out to the university president on Friday that well
they don't undertake some pretty critical reforms here, this money
is going to dry up. So yeah, yeah, now so
did they capitulate. No, They're sticking to their guns here.
(32:02):
The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its
constitutional rights. Legal counsel said it a letter on Monday.
What constitutional rights are we talking about? I don't know
the ones that you have a constitutional right to be
anti semitic? That one are they saying that's freedom of speech?
Yeah right, yeah, Okay, So the government says fine.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I mean, our government has the right to dole out
finances in the way it chooses.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Correct. Correct. Nobody ever said you have a constitutional right
to this money. If it's in there somewhere in the
constitution that says Havid gets x amount of dollars every year,
it's part of the constitution. I just missed that part.
So the Education Department is announcing a two point two
(32:56):
billion dollar freeze in multi year grants and sixty million
dollar freeze and multi year contract value to Harvard. So
I see this headline. Harvard faces financial fault out needs
every penny they can get as federal funds pulled. Really, okay,
it's two point two billion dollars in multi year grants frozen.
(33:23):
Harvard has a fifty three billion dollar endowment. Oh, but
much of it's restricted and inaccessible for routine operating costs. Oh.
I see Harvard their annual research budget. Federal funding accounts
(33:46):
for two thirds of it, and in addition to that,
eleven percent of their annual operating costs. Okay, So they
want to play hardball with Trump. Good luck with that.
Enjoy that. Even Chris Matthews, y'all remember Chris Matthews, right,
(34:08):
NBC suggested that the Trump administration was right to target Harvard,
conceding it was probably a smart moved politically at least,
not just Harvard, but all these elite universities. He was
on Morning Joe, I have to say the administration sometimes
(34:31):
sets his targets in the right direction. Well, it must
have painted him to say that, huh, the elite universities
in this country not exactly covered in roses right now,
and the way they handle these demonstrations, No, they're not
so anyway, Harvard financially strapped suddenly despite a fifty three
(34:51):
I'm sorry, said fifty three or fifty two. A fifty
three billion dollar downman, but we can't use that. We
have that money.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
We just can't.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
We just can't use it. It's just I've got some
of that money too that I just can't use. I
wish I could. It's just for show. Just yeah. Markets
this morning, let's see the Dow is trending down thirty
five whole points, what one fifty five down the Dow yesterday.
That's that's kind of business as usual day, right when
(35:21):
Dow is at forty thousand, being down one hundred and
fifty five points is nothing. So have the market stabilized, Well,
let's hope so. I'd like to see a little more
come back in. But hey, in the meantime, let's let's
kind of get things stabled again. And maybe they are.
(35:44):
The latest now is apparently the White House, we're told,
is urging other countries that some seventy plus countries, the
White House says or wanted to come to the table
to negotiate. It looks like one of the stipulations that
will be put on this is that basically these countries
(36:06):
pretty much several economic ties with China. Trump's bold move
here is to isolate the chicoms, which could crash their economy. Yeah, okay,
bold move tariff's aside though the teariff part of it. Yeah,
(36:28):
we're seeing more wins here. Honda weighing plans to move well.
This Fox Business article says some of its automotive production
from Canada and Mexico, thank you, NAFTA, to the States
some Well, the goal is to ensure that ninety percent
(36:48):
of US sales or vehicles produced here in the US. Nice.
Looks like they're going to move their CRV and civic
vehicles to the US to support the goal. Looking to
increase US production by thirty percent by adding more employees
and more shifts. That's okay, this is this is part
(37:11):
of the deal. Remember, Hyundai has already said they're going
to invest twenty billion dollars in manufacturing here in this country.
And we mentioned yesterday that Nvidia is making big investments
to produce not only chips, but supercomputers. I think the
chips in Arizona, the supercomputers in Texas. Now we're that
(37:35):
advanced micro devices AMD. We'll start producing chips in Arizona.
This will be the first time that this tech giant
has actually the chip production and processors. Yes, the first
(37:56):
time they've ever done that on US soil. That announcement
coming by their from their CEO just yesterday. This is
a this is a sharp pivot and their their manufacturing strategy.
None of this happens, None of this happens if it's
not for these these moves perpetuated by Donald John Trump. No,
(38:24):
AMD did just all of a sudden say, you know what,
we've been making them on the cheap here, let's let's
go to this. Let's go make them in the US. Yeah,
just for grants, why not in Nvidia doesn't dump money
into the US. Hyundai doesn't dump twenty billion dollars in
Honda doesn't consider moving production at a labor chief Mexico
(38:48):
to the US. If it weren't for what Trump has
put in, any president could have done this. And this,
of course, this move made even bolder by the fact
that this is being done, you know, coming out of
the economic doldrums that the Biden administration left us in.
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That's been a risky gamble. Yes, absolutely, and there have
been some trying days.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Yeah, you bat, I left a lot of people wondering
whether they were our friends or foes.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
I mean jd Vance goes to Europe and essentially says
we don't need you and you can't do anything for us.
And now it sounds like, I mean, he's getting he's
developing the Trump Knack tactic of you know, saying one
thing and then two weeks later he says something completely different,
(39:40):
and you'd wonder what he really means. But now he says,
the Europeans are our great friends, and we think we've
got a trade deal with Britain coming.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I'm sure, I'm sure we do. But you know, it
seems to be working and yeah, I mean this has
shown the world that y'all need us a lot more
than we need you. Okay, would there be pain here
(40:08):
in this country, sure, but it would pale in comparison
to the pain in other places. You can bet your
bottom done on that they will be flocking to make
this happen. And here comes the manufacturing jobs. Here they come.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM wvoc HI.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Our final thoughts atday thirty nine on a Wednesday morning.
I got to just mention this before I forget, because
it just popped across my desk. Here boy, Government Waste
Inefficiency DOGE wanted to move the log in button on
the IRS website. They were told government contractors told them
(40:59):
would take about one hundred days to do this. Yeah
you got you got a little link there it says
log in. They wanted to move into another spot on the.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Page, So redesigning the web page.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Just a very very minor redesign. It's gonna take a
hundred days, according to government contractors. Elon Musk's team did
it in seventy minutes. Okay, I could have done that
might have taken me longer than seventy minutes. I could
might might have taken me a couple of days. Actually,
I have to do a bunch of YouTube videos and stuff,
but I'd have figured it out.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
There are probably kids who have figured it out sooner
than either one of us could.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Probably five minutes and they're done one hundred days. It's
gonna take government contractors to do the job one hundred days. Wow, okay. Uh.
Here at home, the city is moving ahead. Philly Park
is set to reopen this fall, I think, right.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:50):
That soon?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I've been driven by there lately.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Oh, I haven't a long time. Actually no, But that's
that's the plan. I have it open this fall. They
have voted last night to UH to put aside a
little over two hundred thousand dollars and well security upgrades,
new surveillance cameras, new call boxes, and apparently they're going
(42:13):
to have park rangers on site daily every day. That
makes sense. Yeah, you've got to You got to convince
people now that after years of neglect and you know,
homeless encampments and crime, that it's a safe place to
take a family I wonder though, gosh, how long has
(42:35):
it been since anybody went to Finley Park because it
was Finley Park for a family outing, I mean any
great numbers Yeah, oh gosh.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I mean there were some people that still used the park,
but it was.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Few and far between. Yeah, we have a lot more
options now that we had back when Finley Park was
you know, one of the only games in town. You've
got great space of Bull Street, You've got both sides
of the river with the river walks right beautiful. You know,
other municipalities around the Midlands have done things. I mean,
(43:09):
Lexington's got all sorts of things going on, and you just.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Wonder, well, I think because it is so centrally located,
and I mean I've seen the plans. I haven't driven
by there recently, but I've seen the plans. If they're
doing what the plans look like, it's going to be
a gorgeous place to be.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Oh, it will be. You had to do something right.
You had to either rehabit and fix it up or
you dump it, dump it make it a parking lot. Yeah,
but nobody works over there, so the parking lot wouldn't
have worked. You know, you had to do something You've
got that big old hulking post office right next to it,
(43:47):
and that's going to go away here one of these days. Right, yeah, okay,
heads have rolled. Now what they're two advisors to uh
Pete Heggsath are out. You had Dan Caldwell, who was
an advisor and Darren Selnick, the deputy chief of staff
(44:09):
for hag Seth.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Now Caldwell's name was the one on the signal chat.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Right, yeah, he was involved in all that. Yes, so
hes we're going to roll. Heads have both are under
investigation for that same league probe. Caldwell was escorted out
by Pentagon pagon by security. Yikes, you don't want to
(44:35):
be that guy. Right, Oh my goodness, he's he's back,
Joe Biden. Let's see if I can make this sound
by play over here. Yeah, the king kun like this
is divided nations, divide as we are. I said, I've
(44:56):
been doing this a long time. It's never been this
says a guy who, well just months ago said if
you had voted for Trump, you were garbage.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
He checked every single box in that speech yesterday. I
mean everything that we've grown weary of from Joe Biden
over the years, The the dramatic whisper, Yes, Trump, Trump's
destroying America. Oh you didn't use the word trump.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
He did not say Trump. No, he did not say Trump.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
But the the old time stories, you know, the my
parents did this, and you know I saw when that happened, and.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
I was I was there the creation. But keep in mind,
God said I was good.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Keep in mind, I mean, when is the last time
you really heard a whole lot of attention paid to
a Barack Obama speech or a George W.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Bush speech.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
I mean this, this was a big deal yesterday because
it was Biden's first major address since he left office.
The the interest and the attention he gets will dwindle.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
I was gonna say, yeah, if he's making speeches, nobody
will care exactly exactly. And of course he's out there
yesterday tuton that the Democrat refrain that that this administration
is going to shut down social Security.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Well it was this. It was a speech on social security.
So he worked right now, so we had that was convenient.
Somebody gave him the theme, Hey Joe say this.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Okay, yeah, but but we gotta treat one of the
one to get dignity, says the guy who called Trump
voter's garbage. Yeah, okay. Meantime, his former VP, what will
she do? Does she dare run for president again? I
have started the run combla run fan club.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
By the way, Well, I mean it would be a
Republican's dream.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Absolutely so short of that, I mean, god, she'd be
a shoe in to be governor of wacky California. Right,
maybe not. A couple of polls have come out, were
released yesterday. Who's out pulling her? Oh? Well, you know
you got to pull somebody, right, There's not much to
pull these days. But polls asking two groups registered voters
(47:17):
in California and policy influencers whoever. Those people are to
select from a list of possible emotions they felt about
Harris hypothetically running for governor in California. Anguish, nausea, Let's
see here, here are your options, joyful, joyful. Yeah that's good.
(47:43):
It was a joyful campaign, wasn't it? Mostly excited? Indifferent, irritated,
outraged or hopeless or none of those fits you could
have picked other Let's see, thirty six percent of California
influencers said indifferent. Wow, yeah, indifferent.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
That's less than a year after that campaign spent all
of this money to create her image.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Yeah. Yeah, So bottom line is they're pretty much unenthused
about a Kamala Harris run for governor of wacky California.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
This is this is a party, you know, for all
to talk about, you know, what Trump might do to
the Republicans in the next three years. This Democrat Party
is yeah, I mean seemingly in many respects on its
last legs as we know it now. Jim Carvell yesterday,
oh huh, said, look, we need to split. We're never
(48:39):
going to get along with the pronoun groups. We are
never going to get along with these people who hijacked
the election in twenty twenty four and made it about
who could use the restroom and who couldn't and which
gender that did this. He said, this isn't going to work.
He said, Democrats need a clean break from those who
are just so wacky and so far are out there
(49:00):
on the left.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah. Yeah, he just split and they do you know,
interesting you bring that up, unrelated but still Democrat party.
David Hogg, Yeah, you know David Hogg, that guy from
Stone and Douglas High School. Yeah, who somehow wrangled himself
into a spot as the vice chair with a Democrat
National Committee. I don't know how that happen. Is pledging
(49:24):
to upend primaries by funding candidates who will challenge what
he called ineffective a sleep at the wheel Democrats. Basically,
David Hogg wants to go into any districts and wants
the DNC to spend tons of money in safe districts
now to primary incumbents with younger Democrats, all sorts of
(49:46):
things there, and they're coming for the dogs. Yeah, the
Pacific Conservation Biology Journal. In that study, Australian scientists now
claim that dogs have extensive and multifarious impacts on the environment,
including waterway pollution and the disturbance of wildlife. They also
(50:06):
note dog's contributions to carbon emissions mm, because you know,
cats don't admit any carbon, nor do cows.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
They just fart, So the burping and farting cows are
off the menu now. They're off the menu now, and
they're gonna target dogs and they feel like that's gonna
make that a more popular movement.
Speaker 3 (50:26):
I suppose. I mean, no other species on Earth apparently
emits carbon emissions.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
Just dogs, just man's best friend's.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Best friends, so they must be done away with. Wow.
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