Show Rewind 07-07-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Icious sly.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hell, yeah, say America and Jerry.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Fallen for religious for nation God and this is wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
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 (00:32):
Andy. Good morning, Welcome in. It is Monday, July the seventh. Hi,
back at it after a July fourth weekend. Hope you
had a terrific one. I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson. Yeah,
he's here.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
It feels like we're right back into a heat wave again.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
And because you know, you know why, because we are
because we are Yeah, Sean told and thankfully then anything
our way. Yeah, yesterday, so that of course the big
weather news what happened in Texas and we'll get to that.
But uh, Sean tal which was downgrad to do depression
yesterday could uh could cause some flash flooding through parts

(01:20):
of North Carolina and uh Virginia, yes, as it moves
on that way. But for us, there was some rain
for the I guess the the northern parts of the
beaches and the PD but I don't know that we
were and I were walking uh the river Walk downtown
yesterday and felt like four drops of rain at one point.

(01:41):
That was about it.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's four more than I got in my own Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
So uh, you know, again, we could have used some
rain around here, certainly, but we didn't need the rest
of that, and so we didn't get any of it.
That storm which did make landfall right near Lichfield Beach,
it kept ticking east to east and east. I mean
we were in right in the cone for a little while,
for a little bit we were. Yeah, but about four

(02:06):
am yesterday morning, we made landfall, but didn't bring us
any untoward weather as far as that's concerned, Texas. Hold
of her story though, we'll get to that here in
just a second or two. Run down big stories hot topics. Well, yeah,
he ninety eight today, it'll feel like one hundred and
five mm ninety nine tomorrow I feel like one hundred four.
We may get the rain this week, though I was
mentioned we've got good rain chances Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

(02:30):
So what did we? Uh? What happened while we were out?
Huh are enjoying our Independence Day weekend? And again, hope
HER's was a was a was a good one. Fourth
of July was the day Nicki Haley's mother passed. You
probably heard that by now. No immediate to barely given
cause of death for her mom. Her dad died but

(02:53):
about a year ago. He did do on a Father's
Day last year. So condolences to the hate family over
their loss. Gavin Newsom is going to be in the
state this week, aren't you excited?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Thrilled?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Newsom is he's touring rural counties. He'll be here for
a couple of days. Tomorrow on Wednesday. Yeah, tomorrow, on Wednesday,
according to a press release from a state Democratic Party,
who was at eight rural Palmetto counties next Tuesday, This Tuesday, Wednesday.

(03:28):
And what is his point to connect directly with communities
that have too often been overlooked by Republicans in power
and too often left to recover a loan from economic
setback to natural disasters. At least that's the press release
from the state Democrat Party. Okay, all right, fine, we'll.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
See if that message connects.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah. I don't really get it, but okay, yeah, no, no,
no do I the former member of the Richmond County
Council in some hot water multiple charges. The news coming
down over the weekend about an arrest made June twenty ninth.
This is Tony Mizel, who served two terms on Original

(04:11):
County Council, apparently invading police high speed short high speed chase,
breaking a lot of traffic laws, maybe under the influence
of drugs and alcohol, and quite possibly well he has
been charged with domestic violence on top of all that.
So those details coming away this morning topic we talk
about a lot big data centers and energy, and now

(04:32):
we've got a fight going on between the Santie Cooper
and the Central Electric Power cooperative. Central Electric supplies power
to the Google data center here in our state, and
they'd like to do it at a discount rate, and
Santigo was, yeah, no, interesting. This is again something we've

(04:58):
been talking about, how much energy they suck up. As
a matter of fact, in this particular case, I believe
I read that that data Google center is using basically
as much energy as all of the other businesses in

(05:18):
its vicinity combined, crazy amounts of energy. This was something
that was discussed a couple of years ago, and it's
apparently still a problem. The number of out of state
students in public universities here in South Carolina. Okay, well
that's one thing, but the breaks that are getting to
come here, and how it's costing in state students. This

(05:40):
is still an issue and something that well at least
some of the State House are trying to address, but
so far not successfully. Okay, let us out of Texas.
What is the latest death told?

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Now?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Eighty two? I think right eighty two. Just nobody saw
this coming and there are a lot of questions about
the the the warnings that were or were not given.
Part of the problem was at the time of day.
This was in the middle of the night when these
warnings did come out. But how incredibly, how quickly that

(06:15):
river rose just unbelievable. Still nearly a dozen campers and
a counselor are missing from that that that camp in Texas,
that the Girls Christian camp, and as they try to again,
it's still still a search and rescue that hasn't been
called a search and recovery, still searching, hoping to find survivors.

(06:40):
But they've got more rain and more flood concerns heading
that way. Never fails. These sorts of things bring out
the crazies, and we've got stories of crazies on both
sides of the political aisle that we'll mention this morning.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
You mean crazy when it comes to assigning blame.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh yeah, this and yeah, yeah, and this is really
kookie stuff from the left end from the right. The
tax bill part of that big beautiful bill. As Trump
got his wish and signed that big beautiful bill into
law on Independence Day, July fourth, So he signs that Friday.

(07:23):
We'll take another look today, break down some of the
highlights here, and a lot of confusion over the Social
Security tax breaks. Are they really who will be affected
by those and who won't. We'll get into that meantime,
as he said he would. Elon Musk says he's forming
a new political party as a result of this, the

(07:45):
American Party, he calls it. Trump responds, saying it's kookie
and are their concerns this could split a vote amongst
conservatives and put Democrats back into office. And well, can
Elon Musk actually really form a viable third party?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I think it all depends on the economy. And I mean, yeah,
if the economy takes off in the ensuing months before
the midterms, probably Musk has no chance. If we go
through a stall, then he'll have a place to put
his message.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah exactly. Speaking of the economy, the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs. Well,
the deadline to make a deal is coming up quickly
this Wednesday. As a matter of fact. If deals aren't made,
those reciprocal tariffs, well, we'll take effect at the end
of the month, first apart of August August one. As
a matter of fact, Trump says they're working a lot

(08:39):
of deals right now. We'll see where he goes. And immigration,
how this big beautiful bill affects immigration. We've got the
news on that this morning. Plus well, yeah, more news
out of New York City and the mayoral nominee there
for the Democrats, the socialist zooranman Dami. More information coming
about this coming out about this guy that is do

(09:02):
you wonder? Yeah, what are y'all thinking? We'll get to that.
More coming up the back added edition of Columbia's Morning
News for this Monday, July seventh. It's good to have
you with us. I like keeping up with local news
that I'm traveling the.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
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Speaker 3 (09:35):
The sixth forty one good morning, You're good to have
you along back at it from Monday July the seventh
time Gary David along with Christopher Thompson the team. We
appreciate you joining us this morning. So the big beautiful
Bills signed on the fourth of July, as the President
wanted it to be, he got it. I canna tell
you the t I'm not sure any other president could
have gotten it done the way Trump got that done. Now,

(09:56):
whether you like it, love it, hate it, to test it, whatever,
you can't argue the fact that that Donald Trump has
a way of making things happen. And one of the
things in this bill that certainly it got talked about,
but maybe not as much as it it might should have,
was how it affects illegal immigration in this country. That

(10:20):
a big, beautiful bill provides about three hundred and fifty
billion dollars for the President's border and national security agenda, and.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
That keep in mind that was a huge priority going
into the election last year.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
That includes the border wall with Mexico. It provides for
more than one hundred thousand migration detention facility beds. As again,
Trump has promised the largest mass deportation operation in our
country's history. There's money to hire ten thousand new ICE officer.

(11:03):
Those that join ICE, we'll get a ten thousand dollars
signing bonus. It provides for a surgeon border patrol agents
as well. And the goal of the President's goal is
to deport some one million people per year. And this

(11:23):
is causing serious gastro internal issues for Democrats all across
the country, specifically California, where last month, more than thirty
members of the Democrat dominated California Legislature signed a letter

(11:45):
urging Republican congressional members from them that state to request
the President in crackdowns on hard working, tax paying immigrants
in southern California and throughout the state, saying the actions
are causing significant harm to our economy. Well, let's look

(12:05):
at this for example, for a moment or other. And
this was right there in the letter that they wrote
back in June. Over one quarter of California's residents are immigrants,
not all of me I legal. So if they're not illegal,

(12:25):
why you're concerned. Well, you talk about eleven million people.
Of those, close to two million are in fact, undocumented
illegal however you want to say it. And as we've
talked about before, some people are working on the misconception that,

(12:47):
you know, Democrats trying to get to illegals in this
country is to get them to vote. Well, there are
a few spots where you can do that, but by
and large, no, you can't. You can't in a federal election.
But you do skew the numbers in Congress thanks to
Joe Biden, how he changed the census counting undocumented illegal
whatever you want to call him, immigrants in this country.

(13:11):
We mentioned last week that Trump and Ron DeSantis, when
Trump was down visiting Alligator Alcatraz, they talked about this
about changing again going back to the way the census
was prior to Joe Biden changing it so that illegal immigrants,
undocumented migrants were not counted in the census. And this

(13:33):
is problematic for places like California. They lost a seat
in Congress four years ago. That's the first time that's
ever happened that a result of the twenty twenty census,
they went from fifty three to fifty two. Now you
take the undocumented migrants out of the census, how many

(13:53):
more seats might they lose. Well, they're freaking out over this.
And then I read this article on Bloomberg with this headline,
ice raids derail Los Angeles economy as workers go into hiding.
That Los Angeles already struggling to revive its fragile economy

(14:17):
after the wildfires. Now immigration raids are driving workers crucial
to the rebuilding into the shadows, which begs the question,
I mean, really, what percentage of the workforce in California,
especially those doing manual labor are people here in this
country illegally? And this article is basically just to well,

(14:38):
you know, this is why you should stop these ice raids,
because you know LA's economy is going under. The point
is is in a place like Los Angeles, the workforce
is comprised of how many people here in this country
illegally frame and landscapers abandoning job sites. They say, renovations

(15:04):
of retail shops have stopped midway. This is what you
ask for, California, this is what you got. Meanwhile, the
other part of the equation is how many United States
citizens might have lost jobs to an undocumented migrant because

(15:26):
they do it for a whole lot cheaper. Oh, we
keep hearing, well, these are jobs that Americans don't want, really,
or these are jobs that these migrants will do for
a lot less than a US citizen would, and they
just lost it to them. This is a self fulfilling
prophecy here. This is what's going to happen. And again

(15:48):
in a state where what what's the minimum wage in
California now twenty something bucks an hour and they wanted
to be thirty something bucks an hour.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
I mean, come on, that was the latest phrase, was
the one that put all those restaurants out of business.
Remember we had all those stories.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yes, So on the one hand, you want to pay people,
you know, twenty five to thirty bucks an hour as
a minimum wage, and then you let you're a sanctuary state, LA,
sanctuary city, so you welcome these migrants with open arms.
Why because you want to keep your representation in Congress.

(16:30):
So now you've got employees like, I'm not paying somebody
twenty five bucks an hour minimum wage, I'll hire the
undocumented migrant for a whole lot less. And you're just
exasperating the whole problem. So you got what you ask for.
And again with this new bill that just got signed

(16:51):
by the President, this crackdown is going to.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
To to.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Increase exponentially because of the money in there for it.
Not to mention again, I'm not even sure, honestly, at
this point in time you even need a border wall.
Nobody's coming across. I mean, the numbers are staggering when
you compare how many people are attempting to cross the
border right now versus were when Joe Biden was president.

(17:23):
And the fact is Tomhomer told us a wikito back
that in the month of June, not a single person
was released into this country. People were apprehended at the border.
They were not released into this country, not a single one, nothing,
not a zippo, gouseg zilch.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 4 (17:54):
We had so much in there that no matter who
you are, there was something in that bill that would
make your congressman, or your senator or your congress woman
much more importantly raise their hand and support right, Lisa,
it is.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Sixteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning, Lisays and
Lisa Murkowski. I would assume that's who the President was
referring to there at the signing on July fourth, as
he wanted it done of the big beautiful bill. When's
the last time something of this has happened? We came
past budgets these days, you know, I mean, how many

(18:30):
continuing resolutions that we had since in the last decade.
It seemed over and over and over again. And to
pass something is as large and as sweeping as this
might be the Affordable Care Act, you probably have to
go back that far.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
I think about the last time that you know, everyone
was watching and waiting and counting votes to see what
would happen next, right, And.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
When we last left you on Thursday, keep Jefferies was
still in the midst of his what eight hour he
went for a while speech just delaying the inevitable, But
it got it got past I got you know, you
heard me say this, But I I had my serious

(19:14):
doubts it had happened by July fourth. But we are
are seeing really a raw exercise of power coming from
the the desk at sixteen hundred Pensylvania Avenue. Trump just
has a way of getting people to do the things
he wants them to do. He did it again. Only

(19:35):
two Republican congressman said no to this bill. That was it,
as we thought. Ralph Norman came online with it. Jif
Roy two of the most outspoken members against this, aside
from Thomas Massey. Of course, so is Massey and one other.

(19:58):
I can't think off the top of my head right
now who was one of the Republicans who said no
to this bill. But they're able to get everybody else
in line with the President's wishes and the House speakers wishes.
So because there's so much in there, just some of
the highlights here. Well, one thing we talked about a

(20:22):
lot was the extension of the Trump from his first
term tax cuts, and that was a big deal. The
President had said that if that didn't happen, the taxes
go up sixty eight percent. I don't know how accurate
that number is, honestly, but they would have gone up.

(20:45):
This bill provides for about four and a half trillion
dollars in tax goots, the deductions on tips on overtime,
the six thousand dollars deduction for US older Americans who

(21:05):
worn't no more than seventy five thousand dollars a year,
as a single filer or one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year as a as a joint filer. A
little confusion over that. You know, thereways talk about ending
taxes on Social Security. It's well for some that you
will see a reduction. For others you want is it

(21:28):
says six thousand dollars tax deduction again if you're sixty
five or older. The Social Security Administration said, this deliver
is long awaited tax relief to millions of older Americans.
And it does, but it's not necessarily on Social Security
taxes per se. It's it's just a tax deduction. Anybody's

(21:51):
sixty five. So even if you're not collecting Social Security,
if you're over sixty five, then right, you qualify for this.
But now the deduction is or for incomes above that
level and for folks, and there are people on Social
Security because of how much I think the median what
I see the median income now for a senior is

(22:13):
like thirty thousand dollars a year, And how you make
it on that, I have no idea. But if that's
where you are, you're really not paying any taxes on
your Solf Security anyway. So it's not a per se
reduction or getting rid of taxes on Social Security. But yeah,
if you're a senior, this is but it's temporary. It's

(22:34):
not permanent. I think it's a lot of three year
last for three years. I believe it is right. So
that's in there, you know, the tax cuts, the extension
of and some new ones, the salt TAXI course for
those Northeastern states and all that. We talked about this
in the last segment. Three hundred and fifty billion dollars
for the border wall and for the national security agenda

(22:55):
of the president. That's for the wall, for more facility
beds and attentions, for more ice agents, for more border
patrol agents.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know, you said something important in the last hour,
and I wonder if we don't scale back some of
that wall spending. There are already some states that have
done it. I think Texas has scrapped some of its
walls spending. It might not be a bad idea. If
this border patrol is doing so well right now, maybe

(23:26):
shift that spending someplace else. I mean, people aren't trying
to get in right now.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
They're not and for one very simple reason that they're
reading the tea leaves here there's seeing what's going on.
They're saying that this country has a president now who
is willing to deport people who are here illegally. Quite honestly,
even though the numbers haven't been huge to date, it

(23:52):
just takes that threat, which there was no threat of
that at all in the past four years. I mean,
just that threat to deport people that are here illegally
has worked better than any border wall could have ever worked.
So yeah, I think we're both right on that. You
may not need it.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, you've got what ten thousand new ice officers
funded in this bill.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Maybe yeah, maybe you don't need to spend as much
on the wall.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Maybe not. Of course, there's a lot of talk, especially
from the left, on the Medicaid and snap changes again,
changes that just basically say, hey, you know what, go
get a job if you're able bodied or at least volunteer,
and you don't have to worry about it. But if
you want to continue to sit on your button eat
Cheetos all day long, then yeah, you got something to

(24:43):
worry about. This bill also slashes clean energy tax credits
the new green scam, so roll that thing back overall,
though the final price tag. The Congressional Budget Office says
it will increase federal deficits over the next decade by

(25:05):
nearly three point three trillion dollars, or maybe not, depending
on how you do the math. There's always that or
maybe not thing when it comes to these projections. Right,
certainly wasn't perfect. Were the Trump accounts still in there?
I think they were?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Weren't they?

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Well, the you mean the Golden wand know the one
thousand dollars that goes to every kid born from here
on out?

Speaker 3 (25:26):
I believe, Yeah, that's in there, right, that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
We don't need to be giving that sounds like COVID
spending that that's not That's not something you want your
government to do when you're facing this much debt.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, and of course the backlash from well one, Elon
Musk now says he's going to form a new political party,
the American Party, as you said he would if this
bill passed, and it did, and he's going to do it.
He says, how successful could he be? At? Of course,
there is that worst case scenario for the Republican Party

(26:01):
that you could siphon off just enough voters. We've never
had a third party of course even come close to
actually winning, you know, the White House. But we have
had instances where third party candidates certainly hurt either the
Democrat or the Republican. And might this happened if.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
We'll have to see there's time for him to patch
things up with Republicans and with Trump. You can't blame
a guy who would work that hard, who had stepped
away from his job and it worked that hard to
be you can't blame him for being frustrated.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, well he's that certainly. So that's something else to
watch as as an offshoot from all of this, the
Big Beautiful Bill signed on the fourth of July. Hear
about it. We need to wake up as the country
talk about it.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
This is good.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
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Speaker 3 (27:18):
Welcome morning. Great to have you with us. It's Monday.
Back at a July seventh. I hope you had a
terrific Independence Day weekend. We got lucky with chan Tal.
We could have used a little bit of rain. It
looks like we tod of just mentioning guys something coming
this week, So we'll wait on that. What's the last
time we had like a day long, nice, steady rain.

(27:38):
Does that ever happened around here anymore?

Speaker 1 (27:40):
I can't remember the last time it happened.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
It's been a while.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Although I think we get some rain this spring, it
just fades away too quickly.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yes, it does. Of course.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You look around the rest of the country and you
think how lucky we are.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yes, And I'm more on the horrible scene in Texas.
We'll be talking about that the next hour. So I
know we've talked about it's been a couple of years
ago when state funded public universities were University Southlin Mile
of Monde in particular, we're just handing out all sorts

(28:13):
of discounts to out of state students to come here.
They are basically getting in state tuition. Is it still happening? Well?
The Post and Courier releasing a piece over the weekend.
They focused on one high schooler in Connecticut. He said
he was looking for for a college and decided to
come here to the University of South Carolina. As they

(28:35):
write for its strong athletic programs, sports management degree, quick
acceptance of his application, friendly recruiters, and most importantly, the
offer of in state tuition. I'm sorry, why are we
still doing this now? The concern a few years ago
was that there were in state students who were being

(28:57):
you know, turned down acceptance because there were so many
out of state students coming in and basically paying the
same as an end state student would. That wasn't fair.
I'm not sure that's a problem. Now the university says, hey, listen,
you know our incoming freshman class, and they does. Every year.
It gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it's not
just at the University of South Carolina, although when it

(29:20):
comes to our three research universities here in the state,
if you go back to the late nineties, nineteen ninety nine,
out of state student population was twenty four percent. Last
year was forty two percent. The University of South Carolina
the twenty twenty four school year, forty two point five
percent of students on campus were from out of state. Okay,

(29:44):
so why should you care? Well, because guess what their
parents aren't doing. They're not paying taxes in South Carolina,
right Their tax dollars aren't being used to support these
public schools that are some schools like well, you take
a Coastal Carolina for example, sixty one percent of a

(30:07):
student body there, it's from out of state. I wonder
how many of them show up and go, oh, wait,
I thought you were in Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
It's close enough. Kind of yeah, it's close enough.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
College of Charleston over half of their population from out
of state. But again, I mean, why again, why should
we care? Well, these are students at these like the
Universities of South Carolina. There's these big public institutions that
are still apparently are coming here and in getting in
state tuition or close to it. There have been efforts

(30:45):
to try to crack down on this. They haven't been successful.
But in the meantime, well, I suppose you could make
the argument that if it weren't for you know, these
out of state students coming here, then tuition would be
so incredibly low that they have a hard time keeping
their doors open because you know, the state continues to say,

(31:06):
you can't have the funding you used to get, doesn't
look like you need it. Enrollment out of state enrollment
over the past twenty five years in this state has
gone up three hundred and thirty three percent.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And not all those kids are getting in state tuition.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I mean that's no, they're not. That's no. No.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
You know, that's how the university was making buck is
you get that out of state admission.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
And it's always been a place tuition. Yeah, USC for example,
maybe in particular, has always been a place that had
a large out of state student population because kids could
come here for a lot cheap and they go to
schools in the Northeast. But apparently for some that's not
enough and they're getting you know, even better rates than
that to come here. Okay, So that's that's that. Now.

(31:56):
Something we've been talking about a lot is the amount
of energy these data centers are sucking up and the
problems that's causing the grit in places like South Carolina
and everywhere else in the country for that matter.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Do we know how many data centers we have in
South Carolina? I mean, I know we have the big
Google win in the Low Country. Yeah, that one down
to Monks Corner is humongous. I don't have an answer
for you on that one. Uh, but that's where the
fight's going on. That's where the fight's happening. Yeah, well
that that Google center a Monk's Corner. Central Electric Power cooperative,

(32:33):
part of the Santi Cooper system, supplies the energy for that,
and they made a demand turns out earlier this year
to move that data center to a cheaper billing category,
one of this typically available to large industrial customers. I
guess that made some sense.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I mean, they're whatever, But Santi Cooper back in March
said no, oh, and they're still at loggerheads over this.
Santi Cooper arguing that the electricity load that Google has
suck it up is two large and unusual in their words,
to move into a lower pricing tier. Is estimated that

(33:23):
that Google data center amongst Corner consumes more power than
all other industrial businesses on Central Electric system combined. Wow. Now,
I don't know how many that is, but it's more
than a few. And Santi Cooper says if you shifted

(33:45):
the rate for Google's data center to the industrial rate
and they got it cheaper, that the bills for their
retail customers in Berkeley, Georgetown, pen Oray counties would be
going up. The estimates range from sixteen to as much
as forty four million dollars a year, So.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
We recruit big business and then we instead of it's
saving its money, it winds up costing its money. If
you're a customer down there, right, yes, yeah, and they're
building Google's building two more of those things down there.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
If you've ever seen these places, they are massive, and
it ain't it ain't keeping the lights on. This costing
so much money? Okay, it's it's the ridiculous amounts of
energy they're sucking out, and that has to come from somewhere. Yeah, they're, uh,
they're they're they're building two more down there. They're Google necessarily,

(34:44):
but tech companies. They got two more coming in, investing
more than three billion dollars. This is this is the
double edged sort of all this. Right, Great, we've got
another three billion dollars of investments coming in. Great, but
how are we going to keep the lights on? And
what's going to wind up costing just the regular old folks,

(35:06):
you know, homeowners and small mom and pops businesses as
a result.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, the infrastructure demands are incredible.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Crazy, incredible, right, Okay, So that battle continues to be
waged there.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh, three
point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
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Speaker 5 (35:30):
Who was nothing short of horrific to see what those
young children went through. And we will remain one hundred
percent dedicated searching for every single one of the children
who were at Camp Mystic, as well as anybody else.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
It is sixteen minutes after eight o'clock. Texas Governor Greg
Abbott in his comments, just a horrific event in Texas As.
You know, it's been all the whos all weekend long.
Latest update eighty two have died. Camp Mystic, that all

(36:13):
Girls Christian Camp in Kerr County, Texas is reporting twenty
seven campers and counselors are dead. They're still looking for
nearly a dozen campers. And the power of mother nature,

(36:36):
how quickly those flood waters came up, it's just unbelievable.
It was just like that. It's still a search and
rescue mission. They have not switched into search and recovery,

(36:59):
and there's a lot of back and forth over the
response and the in the warnings. This happened so quickly.
The initial flood watch went out this past Thursday afternoon

(37:21):
at one eighteen PM. The National Weather Service put that out.
It was it was a flood watch. They were calling
for somewhere between five to seven inches of rain at
four o three in the morning. Now they u should

(37:43):
urge a warning raising the potential of catastrophic damage and
severe threat to human.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Life four eighteen which morning.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
This would have been what Friday morning, right, Okay, four
o three in the morning, which was part of the problem.
It's four o three in the morning on a holiday,
on a holiday. Yeah, they didn't anticipate the downpours they got.

(38:11):
It was the equivalent of several months worth of rain
for that area. The city manager of Kervell City, Texas,
it was out jogging along the river early that morning,
didn't know any problems at four am, and a little
over an hour later, by five twenty am, he said,

(38:34):
the water level had risen dramatically and we almost weren't
able to get out of the park. There's a lot
of finger pointing here that you know, the National Weather Service,
and of course you got those say, well, you know

(38:55):
Trump's cuts and this and that. Well, the area, the
National Service office that serves this area actually had extra
staff on duty during the storm, so it wasn't a
fact that there weren't enough staffers there to get these
warnings out. The problem seems to be that the timing

(39:16):
on this, it had happened at a point where you know,
if you hear your phone go off in the middle
of the night, Number one, do you hear it? Number two,
do you get up and check it? Most people don't.

(39:38):
Now they've got more rain coming in as they still
continue to try to search for people, try to recover
or rescue in this case, people that are still missing.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
And they're searching a big area. I saw the story
women found clinging to a tree eighteen miles from her home.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Just unbelievable. You know, the big story over the weekend
was supposed to be Sean tal Right, that didn't turn
out to be certainly around here, not on budget anything.
It is impacting North Carolina, it is doing that. Yeah,
and well Virginia as well. But yeah, this is one
that nobody saw coming. Now. It never fails. Whenever you

(40:20):
have something like this, it does bring out the crazies. Right. Well,
You've got Candice Taylor, who was running for a house
seat in Georgia, who is a MAGA congressional candidate, posted
to ex Saturday, fake weather, fake hurricanes, fake flooding, fake fake.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Fake what an idiot?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Huh yeah, I mean what is what? Okay, Well, this
is somebody who doesn't care what kind of reaction. Again,
they just want reaction, right, They want to get people

(41:04):
to talk about her. So I'll say her name for
the last time ever, Candice Taylor.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Let's hope we don't have to talk about her again.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah. Right, then you have the former appointee to a
Houston City board is coming under fire. This is a
chart Perkins, a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity
Board who put out a video and most started off

(41:34):
by saying that she was probably gonna get canceled for this.
But what I want to say, the camp mystic is
a white's only girls Christian camp. Oh, they don't even
have a token Asian. They don't have a token black person.
That's all white, white only conserve the Christian camp. If
you ain't white, you ain't right. She says, you ain't
getting it, you ain't going period. Well, as she said

(41:55):
other things I'm not going to repeat here. And at
the point she put it out, I mean, she already
knew that people had lost their lives, they can't miss it.
But that didn't stop her. Wow, and these people make
Marjorie Taylor Green look like less than a.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Kook actually, which is hard to do.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Which is hard to do, but MTG set over the
weekend she plans to introduce a bill aimed at tackling
weather modification, introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, released,
or dispersion of chemicals or substances for the express purpose
of altering weather. Now is Marjorie Taylor Green trying to

(42:41):
insinuate that some sort of weather modification attempt here led
to this? Don't know, but she's not crazy and that well,
these things are happening. We talked about this a couple
of weeks ago in the UK where they have okayed
money ukse Parliament to do. That's very same thing. You

(43:05):
don't mess around mother nature. You don't know what you're
going to get. And this sort of the legislation has
been brought up before, matter of fact, in Florida, a
Senate bill that the governor, the aaron has had a
signed into law just a week or two back. We'll

(43:26):
stop these sorts of practical cloud seating technology. That technology
has been around for eighty some odd years.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
But there are people and the kooks out there who
think every time a jet flies over and you see
the trail, the contrail behind them, they think that's our
government up to something nefarious.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Okay, just just a little quick science lesson here on
that is. And I'm not saying it didn't happen, but
I'm just saying this. These planes fly at what thirty
thirty five thousand feet some of them, so I'm higher
than that. It's very cold up there. Those engines are
very hot, you know. It's it's like you, uh, ride

(44:06):
your car down the road on a very very cold day,
you could have have exhaust fumes. Right, You're gonna have
exhaust you could to get that. Okay, it is what
it is. Oh anyway, all these lives lost, and it's
amazing there are still people out there who just are

(44:27):
off their rockers.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
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Speaker 3 (44:53):
Eight forty one time for our final thoughts here on
Monday morning, July the seventh. Well, it's a fact we
have not in this state of South Carolina voted for
a Democrat for president since well, we did it for
Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six. Do the math on that.

(45:13):
That was like what fifty years ago? Right? Am? I
that old? Now? Wow? I remember that vividly. Yeah. Wow. Okay,
but that's not going to stop Gavin Newsom from coming here.
He'll be in the state tomorrow and Wednesday. Well, he's

(45:34):
not coming to run for president. He's coming to show
us what we do wrong here. That'll be helpful. Sure.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Well, I mean you talked about it earlier this morning
that his state is doing so well, perfectly, perfectly. Yes,
the economy is poised to boom. Yeah, population growing.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
None of them legal. Yeah. Gavin Newsom will be in
the state, according to a press release from the state
Democrat Party. He'll be visiting eight rural South Carolina counties
tomorrow and Wednesday too, As the statement says, connect directly
with communities that have too often been overlooked by Republicans

(46:19):
in power and too often left to recover alone from
economic setbacks and natural disasters, kind of like California. Okay, well,
I don't know how much this price tag is for
a visit to eight rural counties in South Carolina of

(46:40):
the course of two days for Gavin Newsom, But you
may as well just have taking that money and flush
it right straight down the toilet. But but there you go. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Okay, we'll see what he says. We'll see and how
big the audience is.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Yeah, it'll certainly get press coverage. I mean, it's an anomaly, man,
Gavin Newsom in a rural South Carolina county. Come on,
that's worthy of some news, right, can't wait? So you've
got to say, did you know that you can? Well,
it's again the law has been out there for the

(47:15):
last what three years now, but you might not have
realized that people are getting ticketed for it. Driving too
slow and not being in the far right hand lane.
People are getting ticketed for it. So if you're out
there slow poking around in the left lane, yeah, you

(47:36):
could get There have been one thousand, six hundred and
fifty four violations so far. What's been referred too often
as the slow poke law. It's the move right law
specifically is the title of that bill.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
I mean, it's that's a huge danger. It is if
you're on the highway and all of a sudden, people
startling up and they're all trying to they're all moving
faster than the pace of traffic, so they're all going
to be just driving bumper to bumper and it all
it takes is one person to break check the person
behind them. You know, something happens in front of them,

(48:14):
and you've got a mass collision. It's traffic flows so
much better. Is if you're going slowly, you stay on
the far right.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Most states, this has been the law for a long time.
That wasn't the law here until you know, just a
couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Much needed. Even if you even if you don't advocate speeding,
it's still it makes things safer on the highway because
you know people are going to go above the speed limit.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
I don't know anybody who does that. Yeah, did you know?
This is one of the topic. But if you've got
one of those handicap sticker placards in your vehicle, you
get you know, you get preferenional parking spots as such,

(49:02):
but you also can get free parking. Yeah that if
you have a disability or if you're a Purple Heart recipient,
you don't have to pay to park in South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Really, I did not know.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I did not know that either. Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
You mean at a at a meter or I mean
that doesn't that doesn't get me into a into a
concert parking lot. No, no, I guess you're just talking
municipal Okay.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Yes, okay. Uh still figuring out the damage that New
York City voters may have done to themselves with this
nomination of a Zooran Mondami for the Democrat ticket there
for mayor. Latest is you've got a Jewish advocacy group

(49:52):
blasting Mandami for sharing a video that mocked uh hanukka
Jewish traditions on social media. This is this is the guy.
This is the guy. He's just nominated to be the
next mayor. Yeah, it's also come out that he on
an IVY lead app application listened he was both Asian

(50:16):
and African American. Huh really.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Maximizes his chances of admission, right, yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Okay. And then his father, a longtime academic and IVY
League professor, said in a panel discussion three years ago
that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for the Holocaust from
Abraham Lincoln. What, oh, try to make that make sense?
Huh no, nobody can. He just totally missed the point

(50:54):
that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. He focused on with
the a war, that Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations,
hurting American Indians into separate territories, and that's what gave
Adolf Hiller the idea for the Holocaust. Wow, okay, he's
got a.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Video out right now that says that policing is something
that does not create safety.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Does he say, what does? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:22):
I don't know, or maybe, you know, take the police
off the streets for a few days and see how safe.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Then yeah, well yeah, you know, idiot, we've seen this
in in Blues, well like yours. By the way, okay,
we know what happens there, all right. I don't know
what you make of this, but uh axios. A report
of this that a memo from the Department of Justice

(51:50):
and the FBI has found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein
maintained any sort of a client list, nor was he
victim of foul play, and his death that the systematic
review revealed no incriminating client list, no credible evidence that

(52:10):
he blackmailed prominent individuals, and that he took his own life.
This is very different from what we just heard not
that long ago from the DJ from Pambondy. We're going
to hear all sorts of good things, well not good things,
but all sorts of interesting things. But this is it. Okay,

(52:33):
I'm a bit confused now we've been here again. We
heard from Cash Betel and from Dan Bongino, the director
or deputy director of the FBI, back in May that yeah,
he died by suicide. Ah, pay me as a skeptic

(52:54):
when it comes to that, but whatever. And wow, you know,
June was Pride month and it didn't get a whole
lot of play this time around because a lot of
corporate entities have decided they're no longer going to participate
this news. Get this now, Yogo woke, go broke. If

(53:16):
you recall a couple of months ago, Jaguar put out
an ad that got a lot of blowback, a very
woke ad. And I don't know if it's the economy,
if it's the wokeness of the ad, or or what
it is, but it is a fact that this past April,
after this ad came out well compared to April the

(53:38):
year before. Not like they sell a lot of cars
to begin with, but in Europe, for example, in Europe
now in woke Europe, in April of twenty twenty four,
Jaguars sold and sixty one vehicles. In April of twenty
twenty five, for all of Europe they sold forty nine.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Yeah, that's a ninety seven point five percent drop in
sales from year to year. I don't know if he
had anything to do with it, or his economy or
some combination, but yeah, go woke, go broke,