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Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's sixteen minutes after six and good morning to you,
and good Friday to you. It is good Friday, April
the eighteenth. Appreciate you joining us this morning. Up and Adam,
let's get this thing going and they get to Easter weekend,
shall we. I'm Gary David. You haven't met us before.
That's me, that is Christopher Thompson right over there.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We're going to be a nice weekend, too warm toaste.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That's all right. We already have plans. Just uh, I
think I'm getting in the pool again tomorrow. Oh look
at you, pretty sure of it. I hear.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm cooking out tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So you've been told that, huh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So it's gonna be one of those outdoor weekends for
all of us.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, I think so. I pictured the other day we
you know, a month or two back. We thought, yeah,
because with the families coming over for Easter dinner on
Sunday after church and thought, Yeah, how cool would I
hope it's hope it's warm enough to eat outside.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well, now it's too hot to eat outside, so just
taking it back in May.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Wow. Okay, well, let's get ready for it. We have
a If you're like the rest of us, you've got
a lot to do in order to get to the weekend.
So well, let's not waste your time. Let's get it
right out at the rundown. The big stories, the hot
topics for good Friday, April the eighteenth, Wow, these stories
you hate to hear. Huh? One dead? What eleven or
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so injured? After that? That bus carrying students from a
pine Ridge Middle school with a blue out a tire
on seventy seven then hit a guard rail and then
flipped over on its side, needles to say, blocking traffic
for a long time and in both directions. The thirty
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five students three adults on this bus. Now, we don't
know the identity of the person killed has not been
released yet, we don't know if it's a student or
an adult. But five students and three adults.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I've seen several reports that say it was a student. Yeah,
that's officially been released yet, but still, wow, I knew
you were gonna mention what happened in Tallahassee. I mean
between that story and what happened in Chester County, that's
that's two parents worst nightmares.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Right. Wow. So our thoughts for the families of all
those affected in particular, Again not official, but there have
been reports that was in fact a student who died
in that. I guess they were all told three buses involved,
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that was the only one. Three buses on the trip,
that was only one that was involved in the accident.
State Supreme Court has issued their ruling and says no
to Curtis Loftis. So the rejection of the bid by
Loftist to put off an effort over the Senate to
have him remove from office. So look for that trial,
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if you want to call it that, to start on Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
The Senate is expecting a Loftis circus, and I don't
think he's going to disappoint.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm sure that he won't. He'll spend his Easter weekend
ramping up for that. The court did not rule on
arguments that Loftists made that the efforts were unconstitutional, though,
so that does leave the door him for a potential
legal challenge sometime down the road. Now. I think we've
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talked about this a few days back. It sounds like
that this this Senate trial will have no witnesses, right,
I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Just going to be the committee that tried him, that
examined all that evidence against him.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah. So anyway, that's set for Monday. I tell you,
the world is crazy, and there are crazy people here
in South Carolina as well. This story had a sumpter,
an eighty year old, charged with two counts of murder.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
How he had just had it with his neighbors. Yeah,
and I'm a little surprised hearing that the police had
been there before that nobody picked up on just how
angry he was.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The guy shoots and kills his wife, then goes to
the neighbor's house. He just starts randomly shooting in the house,
dead and eleven year old, an eleven year old, and
again the alleged murder here an eighty year old.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I mean, this was You see cases of road rage
all the time that get violent. This was essentially the
same thing on land.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, he was upset over them. They were shooting at
something in the yard and he felt like his yard
was close enough to their yard that it was. It
was disturbing him, and.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He'd already called the authorities on this before and they
said there's nothing wrong with it. Yeah, but he apparently
didn't agree with that. They're working on legislation over the
state House to put some some go up guard rails
I see in this article guardrails on law enforcement's use
of license plate reading cameras. Bill advancing on the Senate
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side would put some regulations on these cameras which are
located across the state right now. These a l p
rs or automatic license plate readers. Questions again a question
of you know your your.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Your privacy right, Well, I mean there are a thousand
things tracking you when you get in a car, you're
worried about one more.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know, listen your phonus track. We have no privacy here.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Your car is tracking you, your watch is probably tracking you.
I mean there's you're probably got a thousand things on
you or with you that that will tell everybody where
you are.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think at this point in my life the only
thing that's not tracking me is my wife. But the
technology is there. If she wanted to, Okay, she could
she could, yes, very easily. Yeah, all right, So this shooting, Yeah,
is that an air tag on your head? Is that
what that is? So Tallahassee, the two deads six others
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injured in the shooting, that the shooter of the suspected shooter,
Phoenix Ignor is the steps on of a woman sheriff's
deputy down there in the Tallahassee area. Apparently he used
one of her retired service weapons. They were also reports
(06:55):
that he had a long gun.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do we have any idea of a motive?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, or twenty years older. He's a student there at FSU.
I guess that'll that'll come out. I mean we I
don't think we really know the motive at this particular
point in time. Now he has. He was quoted in
the news article on the campus newspaper back earlier this
year in January on a rally on campus, a rally
(07:23):
that was against Trump's policies and Israel's war and guys,
among other things. And he told a reporter in that
that article, quoting these people are usually pretty entertaining, usually
not for good reasons. I think it's a little too late.
He's already going to be inaugurated, and there's not really
much you can do about it unless you outright revolt,
(07:47):
and I don't think any wants to do that. He
was a political science major, so uh, don't politics got
something to do with us? All right? Well, he finally
got the chance to sit down and share some water
it looked like, and shake hands with an allegedments thirteen
a gang member. Yeah, Maryland Senator Chris van Holland did
meet with Kilmar Amando Abrigo Garcia.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So is he coming back home now? No, he's going
to stay there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah. Old Salvador's Presidence says he's not going anywhere any
time soon.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No, I'm talking about a Van Holland.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh yeah, I guess he can come on home now.
I mean, come on, you already waste enough tax payer
dollars on your little escapade. And sounds like there'll be
more Democrats heading down there, apparently in appeals court issuing
an opinion upholding the order for Garcia's return. And then
we're getting getting more detailed. I think we mentioned this
yesterday about the possibility that this guy had been involved
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in human trafficking, among other things. Oh and by the way,
while while Senator Chris excuse me, Senor Van Holland was
in Old Salvador. What one, two, three, four of six
others were arrested in his home state illegal immigrants, accused
of being gang members and such. So we got more
(09:02):
to talk on that story, plus polling data. What do
we think about Trump's immigration policies? Short? Long story short,
we seem to like them, so we'll get to that.
More coming up on this the Friday, Good Friday edition
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Speaker 3 (09:39):
Six forty two. Good morning and good Friday too. Yeah,
it's Friday, April eighteenth. When was it twenty fifteen? It's
that have been ten years? Was even earlier than that.
When Donald Trump walked down that staircase at Trump Tower
in Manhattan and announced he was going to seek the
Republican nomination for president of these un the States of America.
(10:04):
It was a decade or more ago. Wow does time fly?
Huh wow? And you remember that nobody really saw this coming. Well,
maybe not his his wanting to run for president, but
he spent a lot of time in that announcement talking
about illegal immigration in this country. We were like, dude,
(10:27):
what oh yeah, we knew that there were issues, but
that there was that was not front and center prior
to Trump's arrival on the scene. Well, his first term,
when he was uh we first first took over office,
Americans in polling data were not exactly enthralled by the
(10:49):
whole immigration thing. Matter of fact, polling in his first
term when he came into office, he was underwater by
twelve points when it came to well we thought about
his handling of immigration. Well, my, how times have changed.
The most recent polling out there now shows support for
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Trump's deportation policies. Well, continues to be popular in this
country after the first two months of seeing what he's doing.
Fifty three percent of Americans approve of it. Bad news
for Chris van Hollen and the rest of the Democrat Party.
(11:33):
Four separate polls actually finding deportation policies ranging from let's say,
fifty five percent in a New York Times poll to
sixty four percent in a poll put out by Marquette recently,
sixty four percent all told support for Trump's immigration policies
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when from thirty eight percent in twenty sixteen to fifty
six percent this year.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's been his hot button issue, and he knows what
works well with the public. Yeah, not only his own supporters,
but you know, he stapped into a fairly generous vein
of people who may not be Republicans, may not be
Magas supporters, but they do want a safer country.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yes, and again, this is the hill, another hill the
Democrats are choosing to die on here with this Garcia story.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I took a bout. I get these polls all the time.
I took one yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I don't forget them. Why don't they send them to me?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know. But it was all about two things.
It was about the economy and the tariffs, and it
was about the you know, the policy of regarding our
border security.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And get a load of this. You go back to December,
this past December, the last full month in office for
Joe Biden, fourteen percent of Americans said, when it came
to immigration policy, we were on the right track fourteen percent.
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Now as of this month, forty five percent they were
on the right track fourteen percent under Joe Biden, forty
five percent under Donald Trump. A lot of numbers there
right know, but the bottom line is is that Americans
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agree with Trump on this one. And earlier this week,
the President signed a memo directing his administration to ensure
that illegal aliens are not receiving taxpayer funds from Social
Security Act programs that includes Old Agent Survivors Insurance, unemployment insurance,
Disability insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and temporary assistance for needy families.
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There are people in this country illegally who are cashing
in on taxpayer funds for these benefits. I was talking
to a neighbor recently, and we just retired now, but
I was talking about several years back earlier that he
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had lost his job and he was denied unemployment benefits.
This is a guy who worked his entire life, paying
into the system each and every paycheck was denied unemployment
benefits for at least in his view, no similarly good reason.
And here we've got people in this country illegally who
(14:43):
are cashing in. We've talked about this the DOGE findings
about how many people over the age of one hundred, Well,
there was somebody that was old. There were several names
the people that were older than our country is who
were on these rolls. Just insane, total fraud. That's uh yeah,
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that's not helping the Democrat cause right there, it's been
going on for a long long time. So bottom line is,
and I think the most sunning number of all this
is right track, wrong track. Back in December, fourteen percent,
just fourteen percent said we're on the right track in
this country when it came to immigration. Today it's forty
five percent. Boom.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
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Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, the clock approaching fifteen after seven on good Friday morning,
April the eighteenth, and good morning to you, said, I'm
going a Friday state of mind this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Man, Friday sounds good to me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
If only every day could be no because there'd be
no Saturday and Sunday, then never mind, I take it back.
It's gonna be a busy weekend for for Curtis Loftis
this Easter weekend. Uh, the State Supreme Court has rejected
his attempt to at least put off this effort over
in the Senate to boot him out of office. So
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more than likely this I hesitate to call this a trial.
It doesn't sound like a trial in the in the
and then none of this is this is not an impeachment,
you know, impeachment. You know, one chamber's got to indict,
the other's got to convict. This is you know, basically
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it's a committee, but in particular one one individual who's
been gunning for Loftis now for quite some time. And
this well we'll call it a trial for lack of
a better word, will probably take place on Monday, on
Easter Monday. Now, the court did not rule on arguments
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that the Treasurer made that the efforts were unconstitutional, these
efforts by the Senate. Remember A. Loftus has been saying
all along that as far as this process is concerned,
he says it's a power grab. That what the Senate
ultimately wants to do is is take this position from
an elected position to a position that's appointed by the governor.
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And then of course, given approval by the Senate, that
it's a power grab by the Senate. They want to
control all of this, and he may or may not
have a good point there. I think he probably does have.
We know this, We know the State House is gonna
they want to crew all the power they can and
they have been. They have had it for years. We
have a weak form of governor here, and you get
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the feelings sometimes if the State House could pull it off,
they just do away with statewide elected offices all together,
just do it all themselves. Okay, bit extramement.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Still well, the Senate says they at least Shane Massey,
who leads the majority leader of the Senate, he says
they haven't been for those who weren't in that committee room,
a lot of them don't really know the details. So
this will be the chance for Larry Grooms to present
his side and Curtis Loftis to present his side, and.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You can expect, I mean, like July fourth, kind of
big time fireworks.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Oh yeah, I mean this is I mean for Curtis Loftis,
who now says he will run again. Yes, I mean
this is going to be the launch of his campaign.
M yeah, and it's I mean it's going to be
very similar to Trump. You know, look at what they're
trying to do to me. You know it, let's you know,
it worked for Trump exactly. They're disenfranchising you and your voice,
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get out and be heard.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And he said that last weekend at a convention up
in the Upstate. He said that he called these senate
these senators elites who are seeking to undo the will
of voters who supported him.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, it's like we've said, it's I don't know. Once
you know, there was no money. If this were about
money that was stolen or misappropriated, were some type of fraud,
it would be one thing. This was this was an
accounting mistake, is a big blunder. Oh yeah, but it's
it's not money that we had and lost, it's money.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That we never had. Yeah, that was there was no
missing money here.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And I think I think most South Carolinians probably once
they heard it was it was that case. It wasn't
anything to do with fraud or you know, stealing. I
think a lot of people tuned out. Yeah, and then
it became just the political show.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's that's what it's been since. And I yeah, I
mean this was a serious blunder.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well, it's already cost two people their jobs.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, the Controller General and the state auditor, which
we didn't even know we had. They both resigned. But Loftus's,
you know, refused to go quietly into that good night,
and it will not be quiet no matter what happens.
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And yeah, you're right. He had said all along he
wasn't gonna seek reelection. But boy, once it's ramped up,
he got his feathers ruffled by this thing. He said, Yeah,
I am going to run. He wants to stick in there,
stick jab in the eye with this thing, imagine. And
I don't know, I mean, I don't have a real
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good sense for whether or not the Senate has the
appetite to boot him out again. An individual, regardless of
the circumstances, elected by the citizenry of the state of
South Carolina, very popular and yes, and very popular. I mean, gosh,
she's been treasurer for more than a decade. I don't
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know that they can get enough votes over there to
make this happen or not. And as far as okay,
putting this in front of the full Senate, as you said,
as Massey said, it gives the the whole Senate, a
chance to hear the details. What are the details can
you give them they don't already know about? Right?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well, he says, well, we weren't all that in that
committee room. We weren't paying attention. Bull they were Oh yeah,
they know. Come on, and they've already made up their minds.
Oh sure, So this will be a chance to get
on the record with their vote. Yeah, and it sounds
like it's going to be a no vote.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So that that's my sense. What happens next, Well, what
happens next is Loftus will be re elected in November
of twenty twenty six, and.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Probably getting more votes than Larry Groomes does in his
own district.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Probably. So this is again, this is not we've not
done this before, right, We've not just kicked as an
elected statewide official out of office, well in this sense,
in this by this method.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, no, I don't think so. I mean when didn't
Thomas Ravenel he resigned?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Right? Uh? Oh yeah yeah he did resign, didn't he? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, he had he had no choice. Yeah we are,
you're doing that much cocaine make them on?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So yeah, this is this sounds like a first.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And again they're calling it a trial, but my goodness,
it it just doesn't feel like one to me.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, I don't think, I mean, we're not going to
hear anything new. It's just that all this stuff that
was presented at committee, all this is research and evidence
that was gathered at committee now goes to the full Senate, and.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
The only thing will be differ. Here's the full Senate,
we'll be able to hear it straight from the horse's mouth,
with said horse being courtis loftus. He'll have his opportunity
to sway then. But again it's there's there are no witnesses,
there's there's there's nothing other than you know, there's a
prosecution and there's the defendant and that's about it. So
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it will be I will be shocked if the Senate
as a whole vote to vote him out could be
but I don't really see that coming. All right, So
more than likely Monday will be when that happens. Your
world happens here.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
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Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's seven forty two, good morning and good to have
you here on good Friday, April the eighteenth. A little
I know Tom was going to mention the same story
that I was going to mention here in the update
a few minutes ago on again this utility digging and
all the problems that's caused. Now. Uh we talked a
couple of days ago. It was an op ed piece
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from a Lexington town councilman, the Gavin Smith. His point was,
is it this is? This is? This is a dangerous
thing going on here? His point was, is it this is?
This is? This is a dangerous thing going on here?
Not any particular okay this you know fiber optic company
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busted a water line or a gas line in this
particular neighborhood or what have you. But the some of
all the parts that it's overwhelming, the eight one to
one system, you know, the call before you dig system.
And we learned a couple of things. One thing in
particular I didn't know, and that is that if anybody
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that wants to dig notifies eight one to one eight
one to one has only three business days to respond.
If it don't get out there, then three business days.
Then these companies in this case, because it's what's going
on the most often right out of these fiber optic companies,
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then I have every right to just start digging away.
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And sometimes that was pointed out by our local paper
this morning, but which did an article on the committee
hearing yesterday. Yes, sometimes these requests are pretty vague. For example,
they will say we're going to dig a whole street.
Mark the street. Yeah, it wouldn't may maybe dig in
in three or four yards, right, and so now eight
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one one's got to go through and mark every single
piece of that street that includes you know, gas lines,
phone lines, power lines, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Now, if you're curious like I was, now okay, if
and again the example, I live in Lexington and they've
been in my neighborhood and other neighborhoods and they've caused
issues and it came to a screeching halt when a
stop work order was issued about two months ago, I
guess by the Lexington mayor when they busted that gas
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line the one and only entrance to her neighborhood. Well
that that now they've since come back out and started
doing a little more work again. But but regardless, if
you're wondering why local municipalities can't say yet, no, we
don't want you doing that, well, state law allows utility
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providers access to public rights of way, and there's nothing
a municipality can do about it. So there is a
bill over there on the House side, one that passed
the House unanimously back in the end of February. Not
a single House member voted against it. Yet here we
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sit on April the eighteenth, was just mere weeks left
in the session, and the Senate Judiciary Committee hadn't even
brought it up yet. They're too busy deliberating other things
I guess, like what's for lunch. Well, things move slowly
over there. We've talked about that the last couple of days.
They do. But I mean, you think at least at
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least it would have gotten a discussion in committee hadn't
even been brought up yet. Davy Hyatt over the House
side quote in the State article, is saying that his
optimism has gone away a little bit that we could
get this thing done before German. This has been going
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on for a while now it's really come to a
head this year. I know last year was a lot
of talk about over in the Armow area. One of
these fiber optic companies came in there and caused problems.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, I mean, you're only going to have these types
of techno technological advances that affect all of us and
that require this kind of thing. That's I mean, it
only happens every so often, and fiber being the latest
I guess. So yeah, so we don't, we don't. We
don't see a lot of these stories.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
No, we don't.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And when we do, everybody's you know, shakes their fists
and then you know, it goes away because that then
they're done.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, until the next time. M hm. So uh yeah,
that when you got this much of it going on,
and like you say, and this was discussed yesterday, that
these companies are just saying yeah, we those say yeah,
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we're doing the whole neighborhood. Now I can speak from
experience in my neighborhood. They did dig up a lot
of yards, but they didn't dig them all up yet
again eight one one had to come out and mark
every single yard in the entire neighborhood. We don't live
in a large neighborhood, but the one next to us
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is pretty dog one big. And I'm sure it was
the same thing over there. As a smith had pointed
out at his op ed piece, that you've got, you know,
vague requests overlapping areas. And again, the timeframe that eight
one to one is given to get this done was
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just three business days. That's it. And after that they're
free to go dig wherever the heck they want to. Unreal,
so I don't know that there's enough time left. I
mean again, it hasn't even come up for a hearing
in the Senate Judiciary Committee yet, I too, am not
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optimistic that they'll get what they're trying to do, is
you know, kind of kind of crack down here on
the penalties involved, cracked down on the requests, and hopefully
extend the timeline here for how long eight when one
has to respond.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We're gonna be done with the whole fiber installation by
the time they get through it.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And you know the crazy thing is, I know from
the neighbors I've talked to, not a single person has
any interest in actually signing up for this fiber Optics network.
We had a few and now that makes change over time.
But right, no, no, but just based on the experience
that people have had so far with this process.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, left a bad taste in people's mouths. And then
I think that the people who did buy it. You know,
it's varying degrees of success and speed. Oh really yeah, okay, well,
I'm definitely not interested in.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
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Once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson eight sixteen.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Now, good to have you. Long good Friday morning, April
the eighteenth, getting ready for Easter weekend. I'm Gary David.
He is Christopher Thompson, and thank you for being with us.
We appreciate that. Just a forty four minutes so for
you this morning. That's it. Morning's flying on by here.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is going to be a busy weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh my goodness. Yeah you got big well yeah, yeah,
you were telling us where you gotta You've been told.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I've been told, I be informed. Cookout not once but
twice or we cooking man uh Broughts tonight rots steaks
Saturday steaks, but a lot of time will be spent
in the yard to earn that food.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Wait a minute, you gotta do yard work and cook?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, well you know that's the way.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Would you draw a short straw.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But I'm also planning to be an inside at least
some of the time to watch the heritage because it
has been tremendous, elating yees so far.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, wow, you've played that course too. Haven't you played
all these courses I have? Which one did you play
better on Augusta National or Harbor Town?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I didn't think. And I heard one of the local
TV guys, I guess he got the chance to play
on Monday after the Masters, and he was saying essentially
the same thing. It's Augusta National is not that hard
from tea to green. You have some weird lies because
everything is downhill, uphill or side hill, but otherwise, but
you get on those greens and it's just.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Being on an ice rink, it is.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I mean, it's like putting in a bathtub. M Well, yeah,
a final two rounds coming up three today today too. Yes, okay,
So Chris van Holland mission accomplished. Well, he got he
got plenty of attention for himself.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, he did do that. I'm not sure it was good.
The Maryland senator, who, as we talked about yesterday, a
taxpayer expense, Well, we're pretty sure it's a tax payers
fends his office says they, well, they don't know. What
do you mean? You know, of course it's a taxpayer expense.
(33:11):
So he flies down to L Salvador. He wants to
enter the prison where Kilmar Armando Abreo Garcia is being held.
Not once, but twice he was denied that until he
finally got an opportunity to meet up with him. Uh
(33:31):
where were they anyway? It was a a golf course,
clubhouse or something. I'm not real sure. And quite honestly,
if you've seen the pictures of Brigo, Garcia didn't look
any worse for the wear. So Van Holland posting that
he finally got a chance to check in on Garcia
as well, being El Salvador's president, posting on X now
(33:58):
that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the on of
staying in El Salvador's custody. So El Salvador has no
intentions of sitting this guy back. And so but there
there you had. You know, I gotta tell you, Uh,
for Chris van Holland, I don't know that by the
(34:19):
time he comes back around for re election, he wants
to see these campaign ads that are going to show
a picture of him sitting side by side chatting, sipping
Margarita's Hello a picture I s always the water, but
still with a an allegeddimis thirteen Gang member. Wow, spokesperson
(34:42):
for DHS say just that Senator Van Holland is sipping
margaritas with a terrorist at the best thirteen Gang member,
as President Trump and Secretary noomb are fighting every day
to get these criminals out of our country. Quite the contrast,
and it has been now. We talked about this yesterday
and you made the point, mister Thompson that there trying
to the Democrat Party is trying to kind of move
(35:02):
the focus away from Brigo Garcia himself to just the
broader allegation that if they can do it to him,
they can do it to you. Well, Van Holland put
the focus right back on a Brigo Garcia yesterday. Certainly
(35:23):
with this meeting and these photo ops that they had.
It's it's just a it's a weird thing. Now. While
he was there just Fyi in his absence back at
home in his home state of Maryland. One, two, three, four,
(35:44):
Five more illegals arrested, one with a conviction for sex
trafficking in Maryland, another with a conviction for sexual abuse
of a minor, a third a high ranking member of
the m S thirteen game, a fourth a German El
(36:04):
Salvadoran citizen non member of them S thirteen, and another
one a known member of Trendo Agua. And there's a
good old.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Chris yacking it up with trying to get a membership.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Oh maybe. So now the White House is, uh is
full court pressure on this one. And uh did we
mention yesterday we mentioned several things he's there have been
domestic violence, abuse allegations. I remember his wife called one
(36:46):
of him kept away from it, but then said, well,
you know it was went that bad and we made up,
and I was just I kind of you know, went
off half cocked because I was in a prior relationship
and suffered domestic violence and so I was just trying
to be on the safe side here. But then she says, Wow,
it wasn't really that big of a deal. There's the
story out of it was Tennessee Right that Garcia was
(37:11):
detained in a traffic stop back in twenty twenty two
and was suspected of human trafficking. But when the Tennessee
Heart Patrol called the FBI for help, they were told
to release the guy. Okay, I don't know why. Why
would you release somebody who you suspected of human trafficking?
(37:32):
Why would the FBI? Well, I know why. It was
Joe Biden's FBI. Again, those reports out this week of
a as I mentioned his wife obtaining a straining order
accusing of a domestic violence that was in twenty twenty one. Listen,
he said. He's a bad dude man.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
There's no doubting that. And that's why it's so odd
that he and the Democrats don't seem to grasp that
that that's the unpopular part of all this. If you
want to make it about what the Supreme Court did
in the fight between you know, executive and judicial, I
get that that that's an argument you can have. But
(38:14):
they keep touting him as if he's, you know, the
poster child here. He's not like us. He is not
an American citizen. He is a gang member. He is
a violent gang member. He's not like you and me,
So why are they trying to make that comparison, saying, oh, yeah,
(38:34):
first it's him, next it's going to be you and me.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And when we mentioned earlier this morning about well the
Marquette pole that said sixty four percent of Americans agree
with Donald Trump think he's going to a good job
on immigration. When we mentioned that back in December, Joe
Biden's last full month in the White House, just fourteen
percent of Americans polls said we were on the right
track when it came to this, and now forty five
(38:57):
percent of Americans poles say we're on the right track.
If you were to narrow that poll down and just
talk about alleged gang members, those numbers would be a
lot different than that. I'm sure a whole bunch different
than that.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Again, you want to argue about the legality of what happened,
You want to argue about you know, Trump versus the
Supreme Court, That's that's an argument you can have. But
to argue that this guy belongs in America, that this
guy is a you know, somebody that the Democrats should
use as a poster child, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Is this crazy? It really is it's like the Democrats
don't want people to vote for him. That's fine, that works.
By the way, the Supreme Court has agreed to take
a look at Trump's challenge to these judges issuing these
nationwide adjunctions. So that's that's coming up. And and also
we'll hear arguments on any birthright citizenship as well.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
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Speaker 3 (40:13):
It is a thirty nine just seeing this breaking that
Tulca Gabbard has released the RFK assassination files. Okay, will
this be a nothing burger too?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, there's almost as much controversy around surrounding that as
there is a round JFK. And it's got to be
odd for her doing this with RFK Junior in the
same cabinet, right who.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
By the way, RK Junior doesn't believe it was Sir
Hans Sir Han that that killed his dad. I don't know,
we'll find anything out of bed. It's been disappointing so far,
you know. But anyway, so that's a that's just a
breaking here in just the last couple of minutes. Okay,
(40:59):
final thought here on a Friday morning, on a good
Friday morning. We mentioned this in the Rundown if you
if you drive anywhere here in the state, Uh, well
we got these uh these license plate reading cameras out
there and cops probably know of where you are, where
you been. And there are those who who think we
(41:22):
need some tools to uh to kind of regulate all this. Again,
police say having access to records with this data from
license plates is a is a tool they need to
stop and to prevent crime.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
I mean, who who. I understand people have issues with privacy,
but if you have any electronic devices at all, from
your phone to your watch to the car you're writing in,
people know where people can find you.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Unless you're living in a cabin in the mountains, riding
a horse and totally off the grid, somebody knows where
you are.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
So are you suggesting it's a law enforcement issue because
they should have to subpoena as someone to get that information.
Maybe again, I think the people the only people that
would fear this information. Are the people that probably are
doing something.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Bad should be fearing this information, right exactly? And I
get it the whole privacy invasion of privacy thing, but
this is this is the world we live in now.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, we gave up on that a long time ago.
And if it's if it's not the car scanners, the
license plate scanners, it's an insurance company, and well it's
keeping up with it. But it's the cameras that are up,
you know, all over downtown for example. I mean, you
get out of that car, you start walking around, You're
on cameras.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Yeah, we we have no privacy left anymore, which you know,
I'm not, you know, enthralled with that concept. But then again,
I'm not doing anything wrong, so I do I care.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I really don't have an issue with it. I guess
I would if I had reason to fear the police, Yeah,
if I was doing something wrong.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
It was cameras that helped break the case of who
murdered Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan last year, remember,
and Luigi Mangioni yesterday indicted on a federal murder charge
that could wind up with him on death row. Now
that Biden's no longer president, of course, because you know,
(43:33):
remember Biden took all but what about two or three
that were on federal death row off of federal death row.
And uh, by the way, just as an aside, one
of the people that he did remove from death row
Thomas Sanders, a convicted child killer who got his sentence
(43:58):
commuted by Joe Biden on his way out the door.
Apparently it's facing the possibility of of of of of
of death again in Louisiana. The state now it's gonna
charge him.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Yeah, that's I have a feeling that won't be the
only case that happens in where you know, Biden let
them out and now the state, you know, after getting
released federally, now the state's gonna jump on up because
that has to.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely so, Mangione, he could uh and well
this this will make the uh the young leftist females
go crazy. Huh slap this guy in the electric chair.
I don't know what the hell the feds do it,
but whichever the uh. The case in Texas with the
(44:46):
teenager stabbing to death the other teenager and a track
meet all over, you're not sitting in the right place.
Remember the family held a news co conference yesterday and
the murdered teenager's dad showed up, or I tried to.
(45:08):
This was a news conference led by a guy who's
the head of the Next Generation Action Network, Dominique. Alexander
is the guy's name. I guess he's the next Reverend
Al Sharpton. I don't know. But Austin Metcalf, the murdered
teen his his dad tried to show up and he
(45:30):
got escorted out. It was a total chaos, he said.
Heads are continuing to roll at the Pentagon, A top
Penagon spokesperson resigning as of the end of this week.
As of today, Uh, well, well he's resigning defensive ficial,
(45:53):
telling The Hill that he was asked to resign more
fallout over leagues that whole messaging the signal gate. Ye,
signal gate. Okay, well there goes that your new heads
would roll, and they have.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I didn't think it'd still be going on. I mean,
usually if there's only how many people were on that
particular threat well I'm trying to remember now, I mean,
you would think that would have been pretty easy to
weed out who was Well, I mean, we know who
the guilty party was in a sense, but then you
look at who else was there and what they've been
(46:37):
saying and what they've been doing, and it shouldn't have
taken this long.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
You wouldn't think dayline can't Ohio, a gender reveal ends
up with a man in handcuffs. Oh, this happens Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Now, uh this was this was the father who drives
a muscle car mm hm, and to reveal the gender
of his coming child, he did a burnout in the street,
revealing blue smoke behind him. Geez, it was a baby boy.
Cops though, were in the vicinity and saw this taking
(47:11):
place and actually arrested with guns drawn by the way. Wow,
he was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, this is a
gender reveal. The future grandmother tried to explain it was
a gender reveal.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
They didn't let him go and they apologized but said,
this is the problem there in kant Ohio, and it's
usually you know, bad people doing this kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
So that has gotten so out of hand. And I
am so glad that that trend was not around when
we were having kids, right.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
And researchers at Cambridge University have found what they believe
is the strongest evidence yet of possible life on another planet,
planet known as K two eighteen B.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Wait a minute, where do you live?
Speaker 3 (48:01):
I live in K two eighteen B.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
It's not even a planet we talk about, it's some
other planet.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Well, we could get there, I guess maybe one of
these millennia, but it would take us one hundred and
twenty light years to get there. And somehow, using the
web the telescope, they've detected signs of two gases that
are omitted by living organisms, at least here on Earth. Now,
I don't know how that translates to one hundred and
twenty light years away, but they say they haven't detected life,
(48:28):
but it could be the signs of a biological process.
More research is needed to see if the planet is habitable,
but well habitable, okay, like you'd have to go there
to know, right, Well, we won't find out anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Let's send the girls up there, who just be a
great idea.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
We could send Katy Perry and Gaie Gail King and
Jeff's Jeff's squeeze. You know, they could come back and report.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Maybe he'll pony up for that next See if they.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Went and came back that would be two hundred and
forty light years. Forget about a circulation here for a bit,
wouldn't it
I'm right Jesus right. Hell yeah, Scene America and Force
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's sixteen minutes after six and good morning to you,
and good Friday to you. It is good Friday, April
the eighteenth. Appreciate you joining us this morning. Up and Adam,
let's get this thing going and they get to Easter weekend,
shall we. I'm Gary David. You haven't met us before.
That's me, that is Christopher Thompson right over there.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We're going to be a nice weekend, too warm toaste.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That's all right. We already have plans. Just uh, I
think I'm getting in the pool again tomorrow. Oh look
at you, pretty sure of it. I hear.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm cooking out tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So you've been told that, huh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So it's gonna be one of those outdoor weekends for
all of us.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, I think so. I pictured the other day we
you know, a month or two back. We thought, yeah,
because with the families coming over for Easter dinner on
Sunday after church and thought, Yeah, how cool would I
hope it's hope it's warm enough to eat outside.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well, now it's too hot to eat outside, so just
taking it back in May.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Wow. Okay, well, let's get ready for it. We have
a If you're like the rest of us, you've got
a lot to do in order to get to the weekend.
So well, let's not waste your time. Let's get it
right out at the rundown. The big stories, the hot
topics for good Friday, April the eighteenth, Wow, these stories
you hate to hear. Huh? One dead? What eleven or
(01:47):
so injured? After that? That bus carrying students from a
pine Ridge Middle school with a blue out a tire
on seventy seven then hit a guard rail and then
flipped over on its side, needles to say, blocking traffic
for a long time and in both directions. The thirty
(02:08):
five students three adults on this bus. Now, we don't
know the identity of the person killed has not been
released yet, we don't know if it's a student or
an adult. But five students and three adults.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I've seen several reports that say it was a student. Yeah,
that's officially been released yet, but still, wow, I knew
you were gonna mention what happened in Tallahassee. I mean
between that story and what happened in Chester County, that's
that's two parents worst nightmares.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Right. Wow. So our thoughts for the families of all
those affected in particular, Again not official, but there have
been reports that was in fact a student who died
in that. I guess they were all told three buses involved,
(02:56):
that was the only one. Three buses on the trip,
that was only one that was involved in the accident.
State Supreme Court has issued their ruling and says no
to Curtis Loftis. So the rejection of the bid by
Loftist to put off an effort over the Senate to
have him remove from office. So look for that trial,
(03:20):
if you want to call it that, to start on Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
The Senate is expecting a Loftis circus, and I don't
think he's going to disappoint.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm sure that he won't. He'll spend his Easter weekend
ramping up for that. The court did not rule on
arguments that Loftists made that the efforts were unconstitutional, though,
so that does leave the door him for a potential
legal challenge sometime down the road. Now. I think we've
(03:48):
talked about this a few days back. It sounds like
that this this Senate trial will have no witnesses, right,
I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Just going to be the committee that tried him, that
examined all that evidence against him.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah. So anyway, that's set for Monday. I tell you,
the world is crazy, and there are crazy people here
in South Carolina as well. This story had a sumpter,
an eighty year old, charged with two counts of murder.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
How he had just had it with his neighbors. Yeah,
and I'm a little surprised hearing that the police had
been there before that nobody picked up on just how
angry he was.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The guy shoots and kills his wife, then goes to
the neighbor's house. He just starts randomly shooting in the house,
dead and eleven year old, an eleven year old, and
again the alleged murder here an eighty year old.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I mean, this was You see cases of road rage
all the time that get violent. This was essentially the
same thing on land.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, he was upset over them. They were shooting at
something in the yard and he felt like his yard
was close enough to their yard that it was. It
was disturbing him, and.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
He'd already called the authorities on this before and they
said there's nothing wrong with it. Yeah, but he apparently
didn't agree with that. They're working on legislation over the
state House to put some some go up guard rails
I see in this article guardrails on law enforcement's use
of license plate reading cameras. Bill advancing on the Senate
(05:33):
side would put some regulations on these cameras which are
located across the state right now. These a l p
rs or automatic license plate readers. Questions again a question
of you know your your.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Your privacy right, Well, I mean there are a thousand
things tracking you when you get in a car, you're
worried about one more.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know, listen your phonus track. We have no privacy here.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Your car is tracking you, your watch is probably tracking you.
I mean there's you're probably got a thousand things on
you or with you that that will tell everybody where
you are.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think at this point in my life the only
thing that's not tracking me is my wife. But the
technology is there. If she wanted to, Okay, she could
she could, yes, very easily. Yeah, all right, So this shooting, Yeah,
is that an air tag on your head? Is that
what that is? So Tallahassee, the two deads six others
(06:31):
injured in the shooting, that the shooter of the suspected shooter,
Phoenix Ignor is the steps on of a woman sheriff's
deputy down there in the Tallahassee area. Apparently he used
one of her retired service weapons. They were also reports
(06:55):
that he had a long gun.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do we have any idea of a motive?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, or twenty years older. He's a student there at FSU.
I guess that'll that'll come out. I mean we I
don't think we really know the motive at this particular
point in time. Now he has. He was quoted in
the news article on the campus newspaper back earlier this
year in January on a rally on campus, a rally
(07:23):
that was against Trump's policies and Israel's war and guys,
among other things. And he told a reporter in that
that article, quoting these people are usually pretty entertaining, usually
not for good reasons. I think it's a little too late.
He's already going to be inaugurated, and there's not really
much you can do about it unless you outright revolt,
(07:47):
and I don't think any wants to do that. He
was a political science major, so uh, don't politics got
something to do with us? All right? Well, he finally
got the chance to sit down and share some water
it looked like, and shake hands with an allegedments thirteen
a gang member. Yeah, Maryland Senator Chris van Holland did
meet with Kilmar Amando Abrigo Garcia.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So is he coming back home now? No, he's going
to stay there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah. Old Salvador's Presidence says he's not going anywhere any
time soon.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No, I'm talking about a Van Holland.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh yeah, I guess he can come on home now.
I mean, come on, you already waste enough tax payer
dollars on your little escapade. And sounds like there'll be
more Democrats heading down there, apparently in appeals court issuing
an opinion upholding the order for Garcia's return. And then
we're getting getting more detailed. I think we mentioned this
yesterday about the possibility that this guy had been involved
(08:42):
in human trafficking, among other things. Oh and by the way,
while while Senator Chris excuse me, Senor Van Holland was
in Old Salvador. What one, two, three, four of six
others were arrested in his home state illegal immigrants, accused
of being gang members and such. So we got more
(09:02):
to talk on that story, plus polling data. What do
we think about Trump's immigration policies? Short? Long story short,
we seem to like them, so we'll get to that.
More coming up on this the Friday, Good Friday edition
of Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 3 (09:39):
Six forty two. Good morning and good Friday too. Yeah,
it's Friday, April eighteenth. When was it twenty fifteen? It's
that have been ten years? Was even earlier than that.
When Donald Trump walked down that staircase at Trump Tower
in Manhattan and announced he was going to seek the
Republican nomination for president of these un the States of America.
(10:04):
It was a decade or more ago. Wow does time fly?
Huh wow? And you remember that nobody really saw this coming. Well,
maybe not his his wanting to run for president, but
he spent a lot of time in that announcement talking
about illegal immigration in this country. We were like, dude,
(10:27):
what oh yeah, we knew that there were issues, but
that there was that was not front and center prior
to Trump's arrival on the scene. Well, his first term,
when he was uh we first first took over office,
Americans in polling data were not exactly enthralled by the
(10:49):
whole immigration thing. Matter of fact, polling in his first
term when he came into office, he was underwater by
twelve points when it came to well we thought about
his handling of immigration. Well, my, how times have changed.
The most recent polling out there now shows support for
(11:10):
Trump's deportation policies. Well, continues to be popular in this
country after the first two months of seeing what he's doing.
Fifty three percent of Americans approve of it. Bad news
for Chris van Hollen and the rest of the Democrat Party.
(11:33):
Four separate polls actually finding deportation policies ranging from let's say,
fifty five percent in a New York Times poll to
sixty four percent in a poll put out by Marquette recently,
sixty four percent all told support for Trump's immigration policies
(11:58):
when from thirty eight percent in twenty sixteen to fifty
six percent this year.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's been his hot button issue, and he knows what
works well with the public. Yeah, not only his own supporters,
but you know, he stapped into a fairly generous vein
of people who may not be Republicans, may not be
Magas supporters, but they do want a safer country.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yes, and again, this is the hill, another hill the
Democrats are choosing to die on here with this Garcia story.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I took a bout. I get these polls all the time.
I took one yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I don't forget them. Why don't they send them to me?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know. But it was all about two things.
It was about the economy and the tariffs, and it
was about the you know, the policy of regarding our
border security.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And get a load of this. You go back to December,
this past December, the last full month in office for
Joe Biden, fourteen percent of Americans said, when it came
to immigration policy, we were on the right track fourteen percent.
(13:12):
Now as of this month, forty five percent they were
on the right track fourteen percent under Joe Biden, forty
five percent under Donald Trump. A lot of numbers there
right know, but the bottom line is is that Americans
(13:34):
agree with Trump on this one. And earlier this week,
the President signed a memo directing his administration to ensure
that illegal aliens are not receiving taxpayer funds from Social
Security Act programs that includes Old Agent Survivors Insurance, unemployment insurance,
Disability insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and temporary assistance for needy families.
(14:00):
There are people in this country illegally who are cashing
in on taxpayer funds for these benefits. I was talking
to a neighbor recently, and we just retired now, but
I was talking about several years back earlier that he
(14:22):
had lost his job and he was denied unemployment benefits.
This is a guy who worked his entire life, paying
into the system each and every paycheck was denied unemployment
benefits for at least in his view, no similarly good reason.
And here we've got people in this country illegally who
(14:43):
are cashing in. We've talked about this the DOGE findings
about how many people over the age of one hundred, Well,
there was somebody that was old. There were several names
the people that were older than our country is who
were on these rolls. Just insane, total fraud. That's uh yeah,
(15:12):
that's not helping the Democrat cause right there, it's been
going on for a long long time. So bottom line is,
and I think the most sunning number of all this
is right track, wrong track. Back in December, fourteen percent,
just fourteen percent said we're on the right track in
this country when it came to immigration. Today it's forty
five percent. Boom.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, the clock approaching fifteen after seven on good Friday morning,
April the eighteenth, and good morning to you, said, I'm
going a Friday state of mind this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Man, Friday sounds good to me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
If only every day could be no because there'd be
no Saturday and Sunday, then never mind, I take it back.
It's gonna be a busy weekend for for Curtis Loftis
this Easter weekend. Uh, the State Supreme Court has rejected
his attempt to at least put off this effort over
in the Senate to boot him out of office. So
(16:22):
more than likely this I hesitate to call this a trial.
It doesn't sound like a trial in the in the
and then none of this is this is not an impeachment,
you know, impeachment. You know, one chamber's got to indict,
the other's got to convict. This is you know, basically
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it's a committee, but in particular one one individual who's
been gunning for Loftis now for quite some time. And
this well we'll call it a trial for lack of
a better word, will probably take place on Monday, on
Easter Monday. Now, the court did not rule on arguments
(17:05):
that the Treasurer made that the efforts were unconstitutional, these
efforts by the Senate. Remember A. Loftus has been saying
all along that as far as this process is concerned,
he says it's a power grab. That what the Senate
ultimately wants to do is is take this position from
an elected position to a position that's appointed by the governor.
(17:28):
And then of course, given approval by the Senate, that
it's a power grab by the Senate. They want to
control all of this, and he may or may not
have a good point there. I think he probably does have.
We know this, We know the State House is gonna
they want to crew all the power they can and
they have been. They have had it for years. We
have a weak form of governor here, and you get
(17:53):
the feelings sometimes if the State House could pull it off,
they just do away with statewide elected offices all together,
just do it all themselves. Okay, bit extramement.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Still well, the Senate says they at least Shane Massey,
who leads the majority leader of the Senate, he says
they haven't been for those who weren't in that committee room,
a lot of them don't really know the details. So
this will be the chance for Larry Grooms to present
his side and Curtis Loftis to present his side, and.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You can expect, I mean, like July fourth, kind of
big time fireworks.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Oh yeah, I mean this is I mean for Curtis Loftis,
who now says he will run again. Yes, I mean
this is going to be the launch of his campaign.
M yeah, and it's I mean it's going to be
very similar to Trump. You know, look at what they're
trying to do to me. You know it, let's you know,
it worked for Trump exactly. They're disenfranchising you and your voice,
(18:49):
get out and be heard.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And he said that last weekend at a convention up
in the Upstate. He said that he called these senate
these senators elites who are seeking to undo the will
of voters who supported him.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, it's like we've said, it's I don't know. Once
you know, there was no money. If this were about
money that was stolen or misappropriated, were some type of fraud,
it would be one thing. This was this was an
accounting mistake, is a big blunder. Oh yeah, but it's
it's not money that we had and lost, it's money.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That we never had. Yeah, that was there was no
missing money here.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And I think I think most South Carolinians probably once
they heard it was it was that case. It wasn't
anything to do with fraud or you know, stealing. I
think a lot of people tuned out. Yeah, and then
it became just the political show.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's that's what it's been since. And I yeah, I
mean this was a serious blunder.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well, it's already cost two people their jobs.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, the Controller General and the state auditor, which
we didn't even know we had. They both resigned. But Loftus's,
you know, refused to go quietly into that good night,
and it will not be quiet no matter what happens.
(20:12):
And yeah, you're right. He had said all along he
wasn't gonna seek reelection. But boy, once it's ramped up,
he got his feathers ruffled by this thing. He said, Yeah,
I am going to run. He wants to stick in there,
stick jab in the eye with this thing, imagine. And
I don't know, I mean, I don't have a real
(20:32):
good sense for whether or not the Senate has the
appetite to boot him out again. An individual, regardless of
the circumstances, elected by the citizenry of the state of
South Carolina, very popular and yes, and very popular. I mean, gosh,
she's been treasurer for more than a decade. I don't
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know that they can get enough votes over there to
make this happen or not. And as far as okay,
putting this in front of the full Senate, as you said,
as Massey said, it gives the the whole Senate, a
chance to hear the details. What are the details can
you give them they don't already know about? Right?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well, he says, well, we weren't all that in that
committee room. We weren't paying attention. Bull they were Oh yeah,
they know. Come on, and they've already made up their minds.
Oh sure, So this will be a chance to get
on the record with their vote. Yeah, and it sounds
like it's going to be a no vote.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So that that's my sense. What happens next, Well, what
happens next is Loftus will be re elected in November
of twenty twenty six, and.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Probably getting more votes than Larry Groomes does in his
own district.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Probably. So this is again, this is not we've not
done this before, right, We've not just kicked as an
elected statewide official out of office, well in this sense,
in this by this method.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, no, I don't think so. I mean when didn't
Thomas Ravenel he resigned?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Right? Uh? Oh yeah yeah he did resign, didn't he? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, he had he had no choice. Yeah we are,
you're doing that much cocaine make them on?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So yeah, this is this sounds like a first.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And again they're calling it a trial, but my goodness,
it it just doesn't feel like one to me.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, I don't think, I mean, we're not going to
hear anything new. It's just that all this stuff that
was presented at committee, all this is research and evidence
that was gathered at committee now goes to the full Senate, and.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
The only thing will be differ. Here's the full Senate,
we'll be able to hear it straight from the horse's mouth,
with said horse being courtis loftus. He'll have his opportunity
to sway then. But again it's there's there are no witnesses,
there's there's there's nothing other than you know, there's a
prosecution and there's the defendant and that's about it. So
(23:20):
it will be I will be shocked if the Senate
as a whole vote to vote him out could be
but I don't really see that coming. All right, So
more than likely Monday will be when that happens. Your
world happens here.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
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Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's seven forty two, good morning and good to have
you here on good Friday, April the eighteenth. A little
I know Tom was going to mention the same story
that I was going to mention here in the update
a few minutes ago on again this utility digging and
all the problems that's caused. Now. Uh we talked a
couple of days ago. It was an op ed piece
(24:23):
from a Lexington town councilman, the Gavin Smith. His point was,
is it this is? This is? This is a dangerous
thing going on here? His point was, is it this is?
This is? This is a dangerous thing going on here?
Not any particular okay this you know fiber optic company
(24:47):
busted a water line or a gas line in this
particular neighborhood or what have you. But the some of
all the parts that it's overwhelming, the eight one to
one system, you know, the call before you dig system.
And we learned a couple of things. One thing in
particular I didn't know, and that is that if anybody
(25:08):
that wants to dig notifies eight one to one eight
one to one has only three business days to respond.
If it don't get out there, then three business days.
Then these companies in this case, because it's what's going
on the most often right out of these fiber optic companies,
(25:28):
then I have every right to just start digging away.
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And sometimes that was pointed out by our local paper
this morning, but which did an article on the committee
hearing yesterday. Yes, sometimes these requests are pretty vague. For example,
they will say we're going to dig a whole street.
Mark the street. Yeah, it wouldn't may maybe dig in
in three or four yards, right, and so now eight
(25:57):
one one's got to go through and mark every single
piece of that street that includes you know, gas lines,
phone lines, power lines, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Now, if you're curious like I was, now okay, if
and again the example, I live in Lexington and they've
been in my neighborhood and other neighborhoods and they've caused
issues and it came to a screeching halt when a
stop work order was issued about two months ago, I
guess by the Lexington mayor when they busted that gas
(26:27):
line the one and only entrance to her neighborhood. Well
that that now they've since come back out and started
doing a little more work again. But but regardless, if
you're wondering why local municipalities can't say yet, no, we
don't want you doing that, well, state law allows utility
(26:48):
providers access to public rights of way, and there's nothing
a municipality can do about it. So there is a
bill over there on the House side, one that passed
the House unanimously back in the end of February. Not
a single House member voted against it. Yet here we
(27:12):
sit on April the eighteenth, was just mere weeks left
in the session, and the Senate Judiciary Committee hadn't even
brought it up yet. They're too busy deliberating other things
I guess, like what's for lunch. Well, things move slowly
over there. We've talked about that the last couple of days.
They do. But I mean, you think at least at
(27:32):
least it would have gotten a discussion in committee hadn't
even been brought up yet. Davy Hyatt over the House
side quote in the State article, is saying that his
optimism has gone away a little bit that we could
get this thing done before German. This has been going
(27:55):
on for a while now it's really come to a
head this year. I know last year was a lot
of talk about over in the Armow area. One of
these fiber optic companies came in there and caused problems.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, I mean, you're only going to have these types
of techno technological advances that affect all of us and
that require this kind of thing. That's I mean, it
only happens every so often, and fiber being the latest
I guess. So yeah, so we don't, we don't. We
don't see a lot of these stories.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
No, we don't.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And when we do, everybody's you know, shakes their fists
and then you know, it goes away because that then
they're done.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, until the next time. M hm. So uh yeah,
that when you got this much of it going on,
and like you say, and this was discussed yesterday, that
these companies are just saying yeah, we those say yeah,
(28:55):
we're doing the whole neighborhood. Now I can speak from
experience in my neighborhood. They did dig up a lot
of yards, but they didn't dig them all up yet
again eight one one had to come out and mark
every single yard in the entire neighborhood. We don't live
in a large neighborhood, but the one next to us
(29:17):
is pretty dog one big. And I'm sure it was
the same thing over there. As a smith had pointed
out at his op ed piece, that you've got, you know,
vague requests overlapping areas. And again, the timeframe that eight
one to one is given to get this done was
(29:38):
just three business days. That's it. And after that they're
free to go dig wherever the heck they want to. Unreal,
so I don't know that there's enough time left. I
mean again, it hasn't even come up for a hearing
in the Senate Judiciary Committee yet, I too, am not
(29:59):
optimistic that they'll get what they're trying to do, is
you know, kind of kind of crack down here on
the penalties involved, cracked down on the requests, and hopefully
extend the timeline here for how long eight when one
has to respond.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
We're gonna be done with the whole fiber installation by
the time they get through it.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And you know the crazy thing is, I know from
the neighbors I've talked to, not a single person has
any interest in actually signing up for this fiber Optics network.
We had a few and now that makes change over time.
But right, no, no, but just based on the experience
that people have had so far with this process.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, left a bad taste in people's mouths. And then
I think that the people who did buy it. You know,
it's varying degrees of success and speed. Oh really yeah, okay, well,
I'm definitely not interested in.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
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Speaker 3 (31:09):
Now, good to have you. Long good Friday morning, April
the eighteenth, getting ready for Easter weekend. I'm Gary David.
He is Christopher Thompson, and thank you for being with us.
We appreciate that. Just a forty four minutes so for
you this morning. That's it. Morning's flying on by here.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is going to be a busy weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh my goodness. Yeah you got big well yeah, yeah,
you were telling us where you gotta You've been told.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I've been told, I be informed. Cookout not once but
twice or we cooking man uh Broughts tonight rots steaks
Saturday steaks, but a lot of time will be spent
in the yard to earn that food.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Wait a minute, you gotta do yard work and cook?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, well you know that's the way.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Would you draw a short straw.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But I'm also planning to be an inside at least
some of the time to watch the heritage because it
has been tremendous, elating yees so far.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, wow, you've played that course too. Haven't you played
all these courses I have? Which one did you play
better on Augusta National or Harbor Town?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I didn't think. And I heard one of the local
TV guys, I guess he got the chance to play
on Monday after the Masters, and he was saying essentially
the same thing. It's Augusta National is not that hard
from tea to green. You have some weird lies because
everything is downhill, uphill or side hill, but otherwise, but
you get on those greens and it's just.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Being on an ice rink, it is.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I mean, it's like putting in a bathtub. M Well, yeah,
a final two rounds coming up three today today too. Yes, okay,
So Chris van Holland mission accomplished. Well, he got he
got plenty of attention for himself.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, he did do that. I'm not sure it was good.
The Maryland senator, who, as we talked about yesterday, a
taxpayer expense, Well, we're pretty sure it's a tax payers
fends his office says they, well, they don't know. What
do you mean? You know, of course it's a taxpayer expense.
(33:11):
So he flies down to L Salvador. He wants to
enter the prison where Kilmar Armando Abreo Garcia is being held.
Not once, but twice he was denied that until he
finally got an opportunity to meet up with him. Uh
(33:31):
where were they anyway? It was a a golf course,
clubhouse or something. I'm not real sure. And quite honestly,
if you've seen the pictures of Brigo, Garcia didn't look
any worse for the wear. So Van Holland posting that
he finally got a chance to check in on Garcia
as well, being El Salvador's president, posting on X now
(33:58):
that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the on of
staying in El Salvador's custody. So El Salvador has no
intentions of sitting this guy back. And so but there
there you had. You know, I gotta tell you, Uh,
for Chris van Holland, I don't know that by the
(34:19):
time he comes back around for re election, he wants
to see these campaign ads that are going to show
a picture of him sitting side by side chatting, sipping
Margarita's Hello a picture I s always the water, but
still with a an allegeddimis thirteen Gang member. Wow, spokesperson
(34:42):
for DHS say just that Senator Van Holland is sipping
margaritas with a terrorist at the best thirteen Gang member,
as President Trump and Secretary noomb are fighting every day
to get these criminals out of our country. Quite the contrast,
and it has been now. We talked about this yesterday
and you made the point, mister Thompson that there trying
to the Democrat Party is trying to kind of move
(35:02):
the focus away from Brigo Garcia himself to just the
broader allegation that if they can do it to him,
they can do it to you. Well, Van Holland put
the focus right back on a Brigo Garcia yesterday. Certainly
(35:23):
with this meeting and these photo ops that they had.
It's it's just a it's a weird thing. Now. While
he was there just Fyi in his absence back at
home in his home state of Maryland. One, two, three, four,
(35:44):
Five more illegals arrested, one with a conviction for sex
trafficking in Maryland, another with a conviction for sexual abuse
of a minor, a third a high ranking member of
the m S thirteen game, a fourth a German El
(36:04):
Salvadoran citizen non member of them S thirteen, and another
one a known member of Trendo Agua. And there's a
good old.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Chris yacking it up with trying to get a membership.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Oh maybe. So now the White House is, uh is
full court pressure on this one. And uh did we
mention yesterday we mentioned several things he's there have been
domestic violence, abuse allegations. I remember his wife called one
(36:46):
of him kept away from it, but then said, well,
you know it was went that bad and we made up,
and I was just I kind of you know, went
off half cocked because I was in a prior relationship
and suffered domestic violence and so I was just trying
to be on the safe side here. But then she says, Wow,
it wasn't really that big of a deal. There's the
story out of it was Tennessee Right that Garcia was
(37:11):
detained in a traffic stop back in twenty twenty two
and was suspected of human trafficking. But when the Tennessee
Heart Patrol called the FBI for help, they were told
to release the guy. Okay, I don't know why. Why
would you release somebody who you suspected of human trafficking?
(37:32):
Why would the FBI? Well, I know why. It was
Joe Biden's FBI. Again, those reports out this week of
a as I mentioned his wife obtaining a straining order
accusing of a domestic violence that was in twenty twenty one. Listen,
he said. He's a bad dude man.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
There's no doubting that. And that's why it's so odd
that he and the Democrats don't seem to grasp that
that that's the unpopular part of all this. If you
want to make it about what the Supreme Court did
in the fight between you know, executive and judicial, I
get that that that's an argument you can have. But
(38:14):
they keep touting him as if he's, you know, the
poster child here. He's not like us. He is not
an American citizen. He is a gang member. He is
a violent gang member. He's not like you and me,
So why are they trying to make that comparison, saying, oh, yeah,
(38:34):
first it's him, next it's going to be you and me.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And when we mentioned earlier this morning about well the
Marquette pole that said sixty four percent of Americans agree
with Donald Trump think he's going to a good job
on immigration. When we mentioned that back in December, Joe
Biden's last full month in the White House, just fourteen
percent of Americans polls said we were on the right
track when it came to this, and now forty five
(38:57):
percent of Americans poles say we're on the right track.
If you were to narrow that poll down and just
talk about alleged gang members, those numbers would be a
lot different than that. I'm sure a whole bunch different
than that.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Again, you want to argue about the legality of what happened,
You want to argue about you know, Trump versus the
Supreme Court, That's that's an argument you can have. But
to argue that this guy belongs in America, that this
guy is a you know, somebody that the Democrats should
use as a poster child, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Is this crazy? It really is it's like the Democrats
don't want people to vote for him. That's fine, that works.
By the way, the Supreme Court has agreed to take
a look at Trump's challenge to these judges issuing these
nationwide adjunctions. So that's that's coming up. And and also
we'll hear arguments on any birthright citizenship as well.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
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Speaker 3 (40:13):
It is a thirty nine just seeing this breaking that
Tulca Gabbard has released the RFK assassination files. Okay, will
this be a nothing burger too?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, there's almost as much controversy around surrounding that as
there is a round JFK. And it's got to be
odd for her doing this with RFK Junior in the
same cabinet, right who.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
By the way, RK Junior doesn't believe it was Sir
Hans Sir Han that that killed his dad. I don't know,
we'll find anything out of bed. It's been disappointing so far,
you know. But anyway, so that's a that's just a
breaking here in just the last couple of minutes. Okay,
(40:59):
final thought here on a Friday morning, on a good
Friday morning. We mentioned this in the Rundown if you
if you drive anywhere here in the state, Uh, well
we got these uh these license plate reading cameras out
there and cops probably know of where you are, where
you been. And there are those who who think we
(41:22):
need some tools to uh to kind of regulate all this. Again,
police say having access to records with this data from
license plates is a is a tool they need to
stop and to prevent crime.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
I mean, who who. I understand people have issues with privacy,
but if you have any electronic devices at all, from
your phone to your watch to the car you're writing in,
people know where people can find you.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Unless you're living in a cabin in the mountains, riding
a horse and totally off the grid, somebody knows where
you are.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
So are you suggesting it's a law enforcement issue because
they should have to subpoena as someone to get that information.
Maybe again, I think the people the only people that
would fear this information. Are the people that probably are
doing something.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Bad should be fearing this information, right exactly? And I
get it the whole privacy invasion of privacy thing, but
this is this is the world we live in now.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, we gave up on that a long time ago.
And if it's if it's not the car scanners, the
license plate scanners, it's an insurance company, and well it's
keeping up with it. But it's the cameras that are up,
you know, all over downtown for example. I mean, you
get out of that car, you start walking around, You're
on cameras.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Yeah, we we have no privacy left anymore, which you know,
I'm not, you know, enthralled with that concept. But then again,
I'm not doing anything wrong, so I do I care.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I really don't have an issue with it. I guess
I would if I had reason to fear the police, Yeah,
if I was doing something wrong.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
It was cameras that helped break the case of who
murdered Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan last year, remember,
and Luigi Mangioni yesterday indicted on a federal murder charge
that could wind up with him on death row. Now
that Biden's no longer president, of course, because you know,
(43:33):
remember Biden took all but what about two or three
that were on federal death row off of federal death row.
And uh, by the way, just as an aside, one
of the people that he did remove from death row
Thomas Sanders, a convicted child killer who got his sentence
(43:58):
commuted by Joe Biden on his way out the door.
Apparently it's facing the possibility of of of of of
of death again in Louisiana. The state now it's gonna
charge him.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Yeah, that's I have a feeling that won't be the
only case that happens in where you know, Biden let
them out and now the state, you know, after getting
released federally, now the state's gonna jump on up because
that has to.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely so, Mangione, he could uh and well
this this will make the uh the young leftist females
go crazy. Huh slap this guy in the electric chair.
I don't know what the hell the feds do it,
but whichever the uh. The case in Texas with the
(44:46):
teenager stabbing to death the other teenager and a track
meet all over, you're not sitting in the right place.
Remember the family held a news co conference yesterday and
the murdered teenager's dad showed up, or I tried to.
(45:08):
This was a news conference led by a guy who's
the head of the Next Generation Action Network, Dominique. Alexander
is the guy's name. I guess he's the next Reverend
Al Sharpton. I don't know. But Austin Metcalf, the murdered
teen his his dad tried to show up and he
(45:30):
got escorted out. It was a total chaos, he said.
Heads are continuing to roll at the Pentagon, A top
Penagon spokesperson resigning as of the end of this week.
As of today, Uh, well, well he's resigning defensive ficial,
(45:53):
telling The Hill that he was asked to resign more
fallout over leagues that whole messaging the signal gate. Ye,
signal gate. Okay, well there goes that your new heads
would roll, and they have.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I didn't think it'd still be going on. I mean,
usually if there's only how many people were on that
particular threat well I'm trying to remember now, I mean,
you would think that would have been pretty easy to
weed out who was Well, I mean, we know who
the guilty party was in a sense, but then you
look at who else was there and what they've been
(46:37):
saying and what they've been doing, and it shouldn't have
taken this long.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
You wouldn't think dayline can't Ohio, a gender reveal ends
up with a man in handcuffs. Oh, this happens Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Oh boy?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Now, uh this was this was the father who drives
a muscle car mm hm, and to reveal the gender
of his coming child, he did a burnout in the street,
revealing blue smoke behind him. Geez, it was a baby boy.
Cops though, were in the vicinity and saw this taking
(47:11):
place and actually arrested with guns drawn by the way. Wow,
he was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, this is a
gender reveal. The future grandmother tried to explain it was
a gender reveal.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
They didn't let him go and they apologized but said,
this is the problem there in kant Ohio, and it's
usually you know, bad people doing this kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
So that has gotten so out of hand. And I
am so glad that that trend was not around when
we were having kids, right.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
And researchers at Cambridge University have found what they believe
is the strongest evidence yet of possible life on another planet,
planet known as K two eighteen B.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Wait a minute, where do you live?
Speaker 3 (48:01):
I live in K two eighteen B.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
It's not even a planet we talk about, it's some
other planet.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Well, we could get there, I guess maybe one of
these millennia, but it would take us one hundred and
twenty light years to get there. And somehow, using the
web the telescope, they've detected signs of two gases that
are omitted by living organisms, at least here on Earth. Now,
I don't know how that translates to one hundred and
twenty light years away, but they say they haven't detected life,
(48:28):
but it could be the signs of a biological process.
More research is needed to see if the planet is habitable,
but well habitable, okay, like you'd have to go there
to know, right, Well, we won't find out anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Let's send the girls up there, who just be a
great idea.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
We could send Katy Perry and Gaie Gail King and
Jeff's Jeff's squeeze. You know, they could come back and report.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Maybe he'll pony up for that next See if they.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Went and came back that would be two hundred and
forty light years. Forget about a circulation here for a bit,
wouldn't it
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