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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eleesusly hell Ya America. Formation from.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is sixteen minutes after six o'clock. It is Tuesday,
July twenty second, and it is wonderful to have you
with us. Good morning, Columbia's Morning News back on the radio.
I am Gary David, he is Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And it is hot. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You know, we're gonna get a bit of a when
we say low nannies is a bit of a break.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That's saying something right there. Huh.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I guess the other break we get is, according to scientists,
the Earth is spinning faster.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
This will be a shorter day. Oh, just another one
of those. We had one just about two weeks ago.
Apparently this will be one of these shortest days at
this rate. Man, the day is going to fly on that. Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What is like a gazillion of a middlesecond faster or
something crazy like that. Yeah, okay, well get it done
now for the day runs out. It's upper seventies and
muggy to start, yes, but you know, low nineties as
opposed to upper nineties or one hundred and no real
mention of a heat.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
In next today, So that's a plus. That is good news.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Actually went to a funeral yesterday and so, by God's grace,
you know, at the gravesite, it's like a cloud came
over and the temperature dropped.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It had been a good fifteen degrees. Man. That helps, Oh, yes,
in a big way.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And by the way, hats off to the Lexton County
Sheriff's Department because we had a long trip the procession
from the church of the gravesite. Well they got nothing
down pad man. They had the escort they provide you
for those They've been doing that for a little while,
for a little while. Yeah, for a little while. And
I was the last in line too. Oh so you
know I've never driven that far with blue lights flashing
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behind me the whole time. It was a little unnerving
at times. Oh and by the way, I'm just gonna
throw this out there. Wow, this is for by the ways,
this is this is four already you're working your way through.
It is my limit free. No no, I didn't know,
it's the contract.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
No more.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I know I've complained about this before. I'm gonna get
this out of the way right now. You know this,
this this intersection near my house where they have rebuilt
the whole intersection off. I had twenty at number one,
which is apparently something is still going on.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
They continue to block off Atlanta traffic, you know, from
election to West Columbia for what reason.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't know. I get off the exit yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Right now, you get off the exit, you take a
right to go to Lexington, you take a left to
go to West Columbia.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Got me.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I guess, all right, there's a sign. They just put
up a sign like yesterday. I guess as you come
off the exit ramp Columbia Airport, go right right, yes,
toward towards Lexington, not towards West Columbia, which has left
you bored morons.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well, I maybe they're making some kind of you know,
I still haven't figured that intersection out because sometimes I
come from Mintal Springs Road, uh huh, and there's some
kind of weird loop you have to take. You go
over a hill. Oh yeah, that's I mean, the whole
thing's confused, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But I could see some port schmoe trying to get
to the airport, you know, with the GPS saying turn
left and the sciences turn right. Yeah, y'all get that
fixed like like today, that'd.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Be great, let's hope, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Uh, okay, enough of them, by the ways to the
rundown the big stories of hot topics. Here's what we're
following on this Tuesday morning. Scary story from the Department
of Public Health. There is a confirmed case of brain
eating amiba here in South Carolina. Now, I saw stuff
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all over social media yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Client.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean it was out of Lake Murray. They have
not confirmed where this case is, but it is. This
is wow.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
This happens a lot, well not a lot, but when
it happens, usually it's a fresh water kind of thing,
and it's warm water. And it's warm water we've got
right now, very common this ameeba in freshwater lakes, rivers,
and ponds. There are a few than ten cases a
year here in the US, and it's nearly always fatal.
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So yeah, that's a scary story right there. Get your attention,
just as we're all going to the water for relief.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Right exactly. Huh.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Hermo Police Department on the Defense and have been now
for a bit. After a press conference last week, the
family of a man who died in their custody is
questioning how it all happened. Yesterday, the MOPD releasing clips
of their bodycam footage. This was a police chase, both
via a vehicle and on foot. Something was going on here.
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But exactly how this man, Byron Jackson of North Augusta
died is still well, there's some controversy over that.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Still haven't released the autopsy yet, and why are we
just now hearing from Nearmo police?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, no, that no do autopsy yet, which is surprising.
But yeah, and why so long they'll know?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
What is it you pounded into our heads over and
over again yesterday? Transparent transparency. Yes, Alan Wilson's campaign on
the road, locking up more, locking up more endorsements from sheriffs.
Now twenty two Republican sheriffs have announced their endorsements of
the ag and his run for governor. And that includes,
as the posting Curier headline says, a clean sweep in
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Nancy Mace's own district. Now, speaking to Mace, so people
are a little confused. She took a well her take
on that coldplate meme that's going around social media. You
know the story, the kiss case and all that. But
she took the picture of the the CEO they now
resigned CEO and his HR director in the embrace and
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captioned it. The guy was what the United States of
America and the woman was American born workers. And nobody
can quite figure out what she was trying to say
with that. Yeah, to be fair, I'm sure she didn't
do it, but somebody on her own, somebody in her
office staff, that's unquestionable social media skills.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Apparently.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, FBI here in our state warning of a state
wide scam using spoofed phone numbers. I mean, I gotta
tell you if it's not in your contact list these days,
don't even bother answering. That's what I do. It's worked
well so far. Is this another diversionary attempt?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Here?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The Trump administration yesterday releasing records of the FBI surveillance
of Martin Luther King Junior. This even though well, his
family didn't want them to do this. More than two
hundred and forty thousand pages that have been under a
court imposed seal since the late seventies. Now, some of
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this we already know does it tell us much more
that we don't, or again, this is something else to
deflect attention from the whole Epstein saga, which continues to
go maybe not to the fever pitch it was last week,
but still fever pitching off to the point where it's
forcing the House Republicans to scrap votes as Democrats or
continue to try to force votes over the Epstein files,
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Speaker Johnson saying the House will not vote on any
sort of an Epstein resolution before recess.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, but he's got some folks in his camp that
wanted done.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
M more than a few more than a few. Something
else coming out of well, the latest revelations and again
the bombshell accusations on Friday from the d and I
Tolci Gabbard over Barack Obama and his administration conjuring up
the Russia Russia Russia US scam. Now word that, well,
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the Clinton email investigation, remember that one that omitted admitted
crucial pieces of evidence. We'll tell you what those are.
And Hunter Biden going on an unhinged rant in a
two hour podcast, do we have account on how many
times you drop the F bomb?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And that, by the way, who was the weirdo that
he was talking. I'm not sure who that guy was.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I mean, that was a smooth move by Hunter because
Hunter actually looked kind.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Of normal next to this guy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And Andrew Callahan is his name? Okay, whoever that is? Well,
oh boy, Hunter was unhinged man about the Democrat Party,
about George Clooney.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, I enjoyed, everybody.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I enjoyed some of the stuff he said because most
of his vitrioll went towards the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And there was a lot of vitrio all towards the
Democrats and that so we'll talk about that. Kamala Harris
yesterday people knocking good old Kamala for posting on social
media the one year an averse of a start of
her failed presidential campaign.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Who does that? Who wants to celebrate? Who does that?
Kamala Harris does that? All right? Friends?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That mark coming up on this. It is the Tuesday
morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Thanks for joining us exciting times on the Glenbeck Program.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's so rare for me to be excited. It's going
to be very exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
One on three point five FM and five sixty AM
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Speaker 3 (09:38):
Six Morning two. Good morning and good to have you on.
We appreciate that. For Tuesday, July twenty second. So artificial
intelligence the topic, and let's start by this. Uh, there's
there's a new survey out resume genius. Maybe I should
have used one of those years ago. Anyway, Twenty three
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percent of gen Z workers he's are folks born between
nineteen ninety seven and a twenty twelve. Twenty three percent
of a full time gen Z workers now regret having
ever attended college. Nineteen percent say their degree did not
contribute to their career. Well that was the case with me, certainly.
I was supposed to be like a banker or something. Man,
(10:19):
I don't know how loud up here, I'm not sure either.
That was weird, but it happened, Thank goodness. Well, yeah, exactly,
I'd have been miserable, man, miserable. They're top reasons for
the regret, overwhelming student loan debt, lack of job opportunities
in their chosen fields.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Are these ranked? Oh, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
If they rank them specifically, I don't have that information
in front of me. I mean, this is just kind of,
you know, the grab bag of all of the reasons.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Why, well, the student loan debt is hanging over your head,
that containt your view of college. But certainly if you're
ten years out and the loan debt is gone and
you're still regretting it, then yeah, you probably did make
a mistake.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, And then you know, a lot of people have
done that over the years, you know, I mean, that's
been happening for a long time. But the difference now
it seems to be artificial intelligence and how it's drastically
reshaping the value of a college degree. Indeed, did a
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recent report showing that nearly fifty percent of a gen
Z job hunters feel that their education is already obsolete
due to the impact of artificial intelligence. They're finding companies
that are increasingly dropping degree requirements. You don't have to
have a college education anymore, but they're prioritizing literacy and
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artificial intelligence and what they call digital upskilling. So as
a result, a lot of college grads out there, they're
looking at that expensive piece of papers being less relevant
in the job market today. How again, Artificial intelligence is
changing everything and no bigger changes in what we are
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seeing in job markets. We've recently had some transparency the
buzzword this week from companies like IBM, who are saying
that but yeah, they're letting people go because of our
official intelligence. Now, most of these big corporations that are
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doing this, they're not saying it's because of AI. They're
giving a whole host of other reasons why but AI.
Their their CEO told the Wall Street Journal back in
May that two hundred of their human resources employees were
let go and were replaced with AI chatbots and saying
(12:53):
that they're overall the head count uh they said, though
is up as they reinvest elsewhere. Another company, h Klarna,
which is one of these financial technical or a fintech company,
their ceo saying the truth is the company has shrunk
from about five thousand to about three thousand employees, and
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he said it was because of artificial intelligence. Okay, you've
got a DHR problem and you work for IBM, and
instead of being able to call a human being and
talk to them about your HR issue, instead you got
a chatbot. Really, no, thank you, but this is where
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it's heading. So Yeah, it's going to be very frustrating
for people trying to use these services, but more frustrating
for the people that used to actually do this and
now don't anymore because they've been replaced by a chat bot.
But again, what's the rest of the story here? What
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does society look like? And okay, let's just take this
this this company clar and I just referenced. So they've
cut not quite but close to half of their employees
and replace them with artificial intelligence. You know, let's just
surmise for a moment. Let's say that the the you know,
the entire job market shrinks by fifty percent and in
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its place we've got artificial intelligence. What happens to those
fifty percent of people? How do they make a living?
How do they survive? What do they do? We're not
talking about people like me, you know, sixty six years
old and you know, approaching retirement war of these days.
We're talking about you know, thirty somethings here. What happens then?
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What happens for old people like me with Social Security?
When there might be fifty percent funeral workers paying into
it because they've been replaced by a chatbot. Can we
tax the AI. I say that somewhat with tongue in cheek,
But maybe we need to think of ways to tax
the AI, some other way to generate revenue. Yeah, how
(15:13):
does the how does the iris generate revenue? How does
the government?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Well?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh, oh, I'm sorry, Uncle say, I doesn't worrybout uncle s.
Everys keeps borrowing money anyway.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, well, those folks that have no jobs can't borrow money, right, Well, well, what.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Happens when you get to that point. I'm gonna tell
you what happens. That is a total societal breakdown, and
it ain't gonna be pretty. These these, these are the
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things that very smart people know. Is is where all
this is driving us to? This is you know, this is,
this is where the road ends. One of these days,
they're not going to talk about it because in the meantime,
they're gonna, you know, save all the money they can
through technology, and you know, the rest of us be damned.
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They'll get their money, they'll get out. They'll have to
worry about it. But for the thirty something just starting
a career, just starting a life, trying to buy a home,
raise a family. Oh, these are my kids, you know,
my kids are in this generation, your kids, your grandkids,
what happens to them? We keep marching down that road. Man,
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We're gonna get there, and probably sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's fifteen minutes past the seven o'clock mark on Tuesday,
July twenty second morning to you. Appreciate you joining us.
I don't even know where to start with this one. Wow,
former first son Hunter Biden.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Wherever you start, I hope you're editing heavily. Oh, I'm
not even gonna bother to because you know, I don't.
I don't trust the censors to get it. I think
we ran out of beeps.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Actually, when they tried to put this together early this morning,
we used up all the beeps. So yeah, not going there.
I'm sure somebody somewhere has already gone through this. And
what was that like a two hour podcast? He was
on with some something like really weird looking dude. Yeah,
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like you said, he almost made don't look normal uh
by comparison. But yeah, somebody somewhere is probably still counting
how many f bombs were in that interview.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
It was a bunch. So Hunter's mad at everybody and
what but one thing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
He disclosed this This is okay that this is Hunter's
excuse for why his dad performed so poorly at that
one debate with with Donald Trump, that that Joe was
on ambient and that may have affected his performance of
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that debate.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, okay, I didn't think Joe was having any trouble
at all falling asleep.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Why would he be on ambient? Well, that's the weird part,
isn't it. Because the ambient is for people who can't
fall asleep. It's an anti insomnia prescription helps you sleep better,
I you know, I well, yeah, I didn't think that
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was a problem, or maybe that was the problem. Maybe
all along the president was, you know, the dosing on
ambient or something and couldn't stay awake.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Hunter.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Uh, And we've all we always kind of knew this, right,
And I think he's speaking the truth when he says this.
He was very critical of a number of members of
Barack Obama's inner circle.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We heard this a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
When you know, it became pretty obvious that that Joe
Biden was was not going to be up to it again,
or maybe it wasn't even up to it at the time.
Of course that there were Yeah, there were members of
the Obama inner circle that we were really pushing to
get Joe out of there.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I mean there's been friction there for years, for years,
even before Biden started slipping.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Said several of those Obama team members were continually doubting
his father. He says, as far as that debate, he
knows exactly what happened that his dad flew around the world. Basically,
he says, the mileage that they could have flown around
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the world, say three times, he's eighty one, He's tired.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
As they get man be end up being able to sleep.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
He says, he gets up on stage during the headlights,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You know the rest of the story. Now, wait a minute, I.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
As I recall, I mean, Joe was holed up into
Camp David for like two weeks preparing for this, wasn't
he not? Although there was a trip in there somewhere,
but I'm not sure when that happened. But regardless, the
point is that Hunter Biden is mad at the entire
Democrat world. Including Nancy Pelosi, including Pelosi because he brought
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her name up as well.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
In fact, he made it sound as if she was
the one who pulled the trigger.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Well, you know we've heard that before, haven't we. It's
not the first time we've heard that. He said. Uh,
he said, did Joe Biden get old? Sure, he got old?
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And there are people who came out against him. He says, yeah,
he did. George Clooney, Remember Clooney pinned that op ed.
Oh he didn't hold back on George Clooney, did he? No,
he did not blank him, blank him and blank everybody
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around him. He says, Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
George Clooney is not a blanking actor. He's a brad.
He's not an actor a fowl. Now, he went on
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to say, which we thought too. He claims that the
Clooney sabotage his dad with the blessing of the Obama peeple. Again,
that would surprise nobody, right.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
No, not at all.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
And by the way, Clooney is out there doing defensive interviews. Now,
did I see him talking to Tapper the other day?
I think, so, What's.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Biden's not saying a word, and everyone who is around
him now or who had any impact at all in
the decision, is out there doing Monday morning quarterbacking, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
They still haven't figured it out, But it wasn't all
about the Democrat Party Hunter and Hunter's own way of
doing things. Going after Trump over immigration policy. I mean that, okay, So, yeah,
who's going to clean your toilets?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
He says, I mean all the things, all the stereotypical
things of illegal immigrants doing in this country. Hunter Biden
listed all every single one of them. Yeah, if we
keep deporting people and throwing them in lock up, who's
gonna do this?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Who's going to clean your hotel room? Who's gonna take
care of your lawn?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I mean, just as stereotypical, and you might even say
racist as you can get.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And this went on for like two hours.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now the Obama camp strikes back, at least one former
Obama aid ripping into Hunter and what he called the
arrogant Biden family and blaming them for the catastrophic election results.
There's a lot of blame to go around, okay, a
lot of blame to go around. And don't for a
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minute think that the Biden team wasn't responsible for a
lot of it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
This is just did something to watch, hasn't.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
It hasn't upset me getting I don't know at all.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
It's got a fun to watch now. Of course, remember that.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
This is not the first podcast interview that the Hunter's
done recently, because he was on the debut of the
Jamie Harrison podcast last Thursday, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Oh I miss that.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, he didn't quite make the news that this one did.
He was, I guess just getting just getting ramped up.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
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Speaker 4 (24:50):
Seven forty one at the time. Now it is July
twenty second. We are still ten months.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Plus away from the primaries in South Carolina, A long
time away from November election. But again, as I always say,
it's South Carolina is when it comes to state wide offices.
Does that first Tuesday of November even matter. No, it
doesn't not typically, and they probably won't this time either.
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But the the gubernatorial race heating up early here in
South Carolina. We still don't have all the potential participants
in the race yet. But of the what three you
have been out so far? Am I missing anybody?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Three? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Alan Wilson, Josh kimberl Bam Labbott, I am missing there,
there's there is a there is a fourth and dot
gun and his name continues to escape. I don't know why,
but he's not a not a politician, and as somebody
who's from a name recognition standpoint, is fighting an extreme
uphill battle. We actually mentioned about a week or two
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ago on the Republican side. Of the Republican side, yeah,
dog gone it.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Anyway, we'll get that name.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But again, of the ones that we know, of the
ones that haven't have a chance here at least, oh,
it needs to happen. It looks like Alan Wilson making
the most moves here. This at a time when Josh Kimbrell.
Of course, not a lot of buzz right now, but
while you were out, mister Thompson, a lot of buzz
over the lawsuit filed by this business associate saying that
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Kim Boord and his wife and his banker at the
fraud of the company had some two million dollars. So
you know, Kimberle's got to work on that cleaning that up.
Pamela Evatt, who rolled out her announcement that was a
week ago Monday, right, But Wilson, who was the first
one in now announcing as of yesterday that his campaign
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has secured the endorsement of twenty two of the Stag's
thirty one Republican sheriffs, and as the Posting Courier points out,
most notably, every sheriff in the Low Country that represent
a county covered by Nancy Mason's first congressional district, so
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sheriff's in Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Buford, called in Jasper County,
all announcing their support for Alan Wilson, which, again, as
an attorney general, is a law and order guy in
a law and order position, you might say, not a
big surprise, but of again, the thirty three Republican sheriffs,
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twenty two already have come out endorsing him. And they
note that the endorsement of the sheriff in Charleston County.
That's Carl Richie. He beat the incumbent Christian Graciano, the Democrat,
last fall, and Mace took credit for that, claiming that
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did she single handedly ousted Graziano by accusing her of
gunning immigration enforcement.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Richie, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Okay, you're you're you're you're diss and my my volunteers
and disrespecting the people who voted for me. So she
didn't make a friend in Richie by claiming that she
was single handily responsible for his victory. So as far
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as making moves here, uh yeah, Wilson making moves in
a place that you would expect that he would do
well with sheriffs.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The rest of the field.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Now we're just a couple of days away, right from
a potential Ralph Norman announcement.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I continue to say this.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I said this, uh with the Big Beautiful Bill, that
Ralph Norman has not made any big friend of Donald Trump.
He was against that as a member of the more
conservative wing in the House of Representatives. He was against
the Big Beautiful Bill. He was a holdout for a
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while before he finally voted for it. And then don't
forget that, what about a week and a half ago.
I guess it was when a House committee of which
he is a part, a republic committee, shot down Democrats'
plans to try to force some sort of a vote
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in Congress on the whole. Epstein mess that of the
Republicans on that committee, well one ship Roy just didn't vote.
The other Ralph Norman voted against the Republicans aimed to
squash that vote, which was successful in square the vote,
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but Norman voted with the Democrats on that one. So
Ralph Norman has not made any You know, if we're
to believe that Donald trump endorsement is vital for any
Republican Canada in the state, then you would think it
stands right now that Ralph Norman would not be getting that,
but we expect his special announcement is coming on the
twenty seventh.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
You think Trump's endorsement is vital or help helpful? Helpful? Certainly?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I say it's vital, no, but there are people who
think that it is vital. I don't believe that. No,
I think it's helpful.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, well any not vital presidential help. Any endorsement would help,
but sure, I don't know vital, don't I'm not used
to listening to Washington politicians tell me how to vote
my own state.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Well, no, but there are some people think it is
Supposedly Nancy Mace will launch her a bit later this summer.
We keep getting told, well, it's getting to be later
this summer already, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I don't see that happening. I really don't either.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean it's almost August now, I mean, how much
later this summer do we go here?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
I'm not sure what they're sitting on.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Not much money, not much in the way of support.
I mean, right, you're already too late into the game
for that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And you know what, if you're not going to run
for governor, well you start need to start gearing up
your congressional campaign if you want to keep that seat.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
And would probably get more money from National Republicans to
stay where she was.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Oh, I would think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would
think so.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe she has a little
buyer's remorse here with this whole idea of running for governor.
I think Nancy Mays realizes she's gonna get more national
publicity out of being in Congress than she would ever
be being governor of South Carolina, and I think she
thrives on that. There's a lot of politicians do, but
in particular, she really enjoys that. And maybe maybe that's
what it's coming down to.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Now you're listening to Columbia's More News on one oh
three point five FM and five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
It us fifteen minutes after eight. Good morning, Thanks for
being here. We've got forty five more minutes to hang
out with you this morning, y'all stick around. We have
plenty more to come. Okay, So this gets your attention now,
doesn't it. Confirmation last night from the Department of Public
Health formerly known as d HACK that we have a
(32:33):
case of brain eating amoba in the state.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
That's not something you hear about every day. Matter of fact, there.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Are fewer than ten cases a year in the States,
the whole United States, not this state. Fewer than ten
a year. And this amoeba in question, whose days I
won't even try to pronounce here.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Is nearly all fatal. Now.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I saw all over social media yesterday people around here
saying was it was? It was that Lake Murray was
it Lake Murray, DPH. Is not confirming where it was.
You'd think they might want to, you know, I mean
in the public interest to warn you stay away.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Or is the.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Thinking that it's so rare anyway, it's not like if
you wherever it was, wherever it was contracted. I don't know,
is it on like they're thinking, well, you know, everybody's
going to just avoid like the plague now, because that's
that's kind of what it is, and just start some
kind of you know, big uproar and well, I don't know,
(33:44):
will we find out? Well, it is very common in
freshwater lakes, rivers, and ponds. Uh, it likes heat. Now,
there is no personate law. Testing of the water for
that specific amba is not mandatory. And again because there
are a fewer than ten cases across the entire country
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annually and a per state law, agencies like their proper
public health are not required to issue an announcement when a
case like this occurs. Okay, I think that should be fixed.
But again, I mean they were concerned about you know,
a jaws like panic.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
You know, everybody leaves the beach.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Well, I guess it would depend on how isolated it is.
I mean goodness notes how many man made ponds we
have in this state. Is it someplace that a lot
of people access? Is it some place all pond in
somebody's back you know, yeah, on the back of their
their land somewhere. There's a big difference between that and
one of the major lakes where people are coming to
vacation or at the very least spend their weekends on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Right now, DPH said in their announcement, a recreational water
users should assume that this amoeba is present in warm
fresh water. However, the risk of infection is very low, okay,
(35:10):
and again fewer than ten cases annually across the entire country,
but it is nearly always fatal. Sue, Yeah, I don't
know that we will ever be told that. They're not
required to tell us, nor are they required to tell
us apparently about the person's condition. So, having said all that,
(35:35):
since they're by state law not required to tell us
how these individual is doing, they're not required to tell us.
Weird it occurred. Municipalities are not required to test their
waters to this specific a me. But I'm beginning to
wonder why even bother announced to begin with, yes, right,
(35:56):
just to scare us just to freak us all out here.
It is fringing a lot of people out on social media.
It could be any it could be anywhere. We don't know,
We do not and we may never know. It sounds
like we probably won't. Okay, all right now? Uh is this?
(36:16):
You know we talked about this yesterday, you know, the
the bombshell that Tulsi Gabbard dropped on us on Friday,
which I say bombshell. I kept seeing bombshell, bombshell. I'm
not sure that many people who follow this closely were
that terribly surprised that the Obama administration was was wrapped
up in creating the whole Russia fake collusion story. But
(36:41):
as we discussed yesterday, was well, you know it was
it was. It was good timing to get the get
the Epstein story off the front page, right, and it
did do that.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Well.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Then yesterday the White House releasing records of the FBI
surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. But again they had
been telling us they would, well they they drop that yesterday.
Now it remains to be seen what's in. As a
matter of fact, it wasn't even clear immediately whether or
not the documents shed any new light on the King
(37:14):
as a reverend, his ministry, his role of the civil
rights movement, and his murder. Now, the family was against this.
They did get advance access to the records, their teams
were reviewing them, they continue to review them, but they
were against these being released. Although the King family to
(37:36):
this day is not convinced that James Earl Ray was
solely responsible or responsible at all for the murder of
Reverend King, but they were against this being released to
the public. Okay, so putting me in the camp of
(37:57):
all right, well, so far with these releases, these Balleyhood releases,
we've not learned anything we didn't already know. And why
am I thinking this will be just to say, while
we're talking about more than two hundred and forty thousand
pages of records that have been under a court imposed
seal since nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
And you can imagine what they might show.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
I mean, it's you can understand the family that you're
not going to learn anything good about Mlka Junior from
these from these files and these this analysis.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
It's it's gonna be who.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Can stand this scrutiny, the kind of scrutiny that the
FBI had this man under Oh, oh, yes, you know
for years. Do we all do the kinds of things
he did? Probably not, But yeah, that scrutiny. I mean,
we've all had conversations that we wouldn't want to air
in public, and that they know there's dirty laundry in there,
and that's probably well exactly yeah, but yeah, I mean,
(38:57):
are we going to learn anything more? Probably not. I mean,
these you're talking about cases like the JFK and MLK,
those cases are years and years old. There's a big
difference between that and telling us a little more about
what happened to Epstein or who he was involved with, right,
I know. Alan Dershwood says there are no current office
(39:20):
holders involved in the sealed evidence.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
And Dershwood says he has seen a list, yes, because
remember he was at one time accused.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Well, he says there is no quote unquote list, right,
not a list, but he's seen evidence of the people
who were mentioned.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
These were in court filings when again he was at
one time mentioned as being part of all this, and right,
that's all been resolved, and says that he wasn't. But
in the process he saw a lot of these documents
and yeah, so he says, yeah, there are names. Well,
the Democrats continue to try to force a vote on that,
(39:59):
and at this point, what's happening. And now Speaker Johnson
has said there will be no vote, no floor vote
on that before the recess which is coming up. But
in the meantime, other business is getting held up.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Yeah, because Democrats continue to push for this. So and
Republicans are curious too.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yeah, there are a number of Republics very curious. So,
second week in a row, the House is not getting
much done because of that.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
So that's their excuse this week.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
I don't know who's that has standing, whether it's a
press organization, right, I mean, somebody needs to apply to
appeal to have these records unsealed once and for all,
you know, take it out of the take it out
of the Trump administration's hands. Just appeal to the court
to unseal the records.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I'm gonna guess that's been tried your time and time
a cann over the years. I don't know, right, maybe
maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I like keeping up with local news and I'm traveling.
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Speaker 3 (41:14):
It is eight forty and it is time for our
final fonts. Here for a Tuesday morning. I want to
start off something I mentioned early this morning when first
came on the air. I'm I'm gonna mention it again
here in the public interest, and hopefully somebody at dot
is listening. I guess you know, somebody's gonna be very confused.
Some some poor out of town traveler who's getting here
and trying to get to the airport is gonna get
(41:36):
off I twenty at Highway one over in Lexington. Their
GPS is going to tell them to take a left
to go to the airport. Yet the sign they put
up yesterday tells you to take a right. Some poor
soul or souls are going to get off the interstate
trying to get to the airport and make their flight,
and instead they're going to see that sign and go, oh,
(41:57):
I'm supposed to take a right.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Okay, you're sure they haven't built some weird loop that
you don't know about.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Yeah, No, I came off. I said exit twice yesterday. Okay,
that hasn't changed. Uh, how do you make that mistake?
I mean, really, how do you do that? I can
see somebody right now driving around downtown Lexington stuck in traffic.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
AF he's somebody. Where's the airport? It's back that way?
You're moron? How does that happen? I'm guessing I don't know. Now.
I'm wondering. Now, if you come the other way down
twenty and get off on number one, is there a sign?
Did they just put the wrong sign on the wrong
exit ramp?
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Is there a sign there that's supposed to say you
know right and that one says left? Well, I'm having
to try that today. I'm gonna have to go past
my exit and turn around and come back.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
Everything about that exit and that interchange has been using,
including how long it's taken actually completed.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Well, and I gotta tell you it doesn't affect me
in my travel. But you know, when they they first
started working on that, they would work all night overnight.
It would affect me, but that was fine. I mean,
like three of us on the road, it didn't matter.
They don't do that anymore. But yet, at least up
until last week, I mean almost every day they got
at least one right lane block for miles coming out
of downtown in Lexington. And I be durned if I
(43:17):
know why, because I don't see aybody out there doing anything.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Okay, please get the signs straight. I don't want somebody
knocking on my door ask me where the airport is.
It's the other way, all right. Hermo Police Department holding
a presser yesterday they released clips of the bodycam footage.
This was an arrest a month ago of a man
from Augusta who later died in police custody. And apparently
(43:46):
nobody knows why do not have the results of the
ops hopsy yet a month later even I think the
police chief and Hermo said yeah, yeah, he flat out said,
our biggest question today is how did mister Jackson die?
Speaker 5 (44:06):
When you come to when you finally hold a press conference,
and then you come to that press conference asking questions
instead of answering, yeah, it's not a good son.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Which he didn't answer any questions. He just had his own.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
As the chief said, we we know he had no
physical injuries. Now this was a it was it was
a weird story. I mean, police came across his van,
I guess, and it sounded like some kind of an
argument going on inside or a fight or something, right,
and you know, concerned about somebody maybe getting hurt. You know,
they tried to, you know, find out what was going on.
(44:41):
He winds up taking off. Yeah, it was just one guy,
just one guy. There was nobody else in the van.
It was just this guy by himself and calls like,
you know, middle of the night kind of kind of thing. Right,
So the guy takes off so short police chase said.
He gets out of the van for he runs into
imping on another He starts off on foot and it
(45:06):
falls about twenty feet or so down a ravine. During
all debscribed as a tussle with one of the officers.
Nobody seems to know why this guy's dead, including the
police chief. Months later, they pull him out, they cuff him.
He has trouble breathing.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
The mess tells them to uncuff him, or at least
cuff him to his front rather than his back. And
I mean there may be something a fairly simple answer.
I mean it just speculating. Could be drugs, could be
a fentanyl overdose where he was just you know, to
report overreacting and then you know, suddenly went into arrest whatever.
(45:43):
But waiting so long to hold a press conference to
answer any questions, and then asking questions instead of answering them.
And they're already a couple of local newspapers that have
their teeth into this story.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
Yeah yeah, and now the fan carry Sellers is the
attorney for the family, right, so this is all going
the wrong way for Hermo police. It sounds like from
the initial report, from what we just described as how
this happened, I mean, police didn't do anything wrong. It
didn't sound like it doesn't sound like it either up
until that point. All the way again, we don't know what.
Did something else transpire here?
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Although they didn't show the end of the bodycam footage yesterday.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Okay, I'm not sure why they would show it at all.
If they're going to cut it off right there, that's
just going to get people. Yeah, of course you did, right.
Didn't seem to make a lot of sense. We don't
have time to get into this today. Maybe we'll hold
this for tomorrow. But something else. This is from Chuck
Grassley document released yesterday. He's the chair of the Senate
(46:40):
Judiciary Committee, an FBI draft memo from May of twenty sixteen.
We keep going back to twenty sixteen, don't we, stating
that reviewing thumb drives would be necessary to conduct a
thorough and complete investigation, including assessing national security risks associated
with a prime server. Now what are they talking about.
(47:02):
They were talking about Hillary Clinton's private server, all right,
So that was the draft memo in twenty sixteen. A
thorough and complete investigation is needed. However, according to Grassley,
the FBI never finalized the memorandum or actually submitted the
request to the department. In other words, they didn't want to, right,
(47:28):
they do what they might find. I mean, all you
got out of this back then was James Coley saying
that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless. But that was about it.
Then he moved on to helping, according to the report
last week, helping the Obama White House launch the campaign
(47:49):
against the Trump campaign and with the Russian collusion story.
So they did not search key evidence in the Hillary
Clinton email probe. It just keeps popping up every now
and then, all these years later, right, Yeah, Karen bass
is declaring victory in LA this after the Department of
Defense ordered the seventeen hundred marines that were stationed there
(48:12):
to leave that city. There for a little more than
a month, some seven hundred of them.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Have things settled down? I assume yes they have. Yeah, Okay,
So and Karen, remember you didn't do anything to help
things settle down. But as a politician, she claims the victory.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Got to claim victory, right, And you know, at a
time when there's so much focus being put on this
air traffic control situations, busy summer season shortages, I saw
it as a story this morning. Atlanta Hartsfield International one
of the if not the busiest airport like in the world. Right,
their control tower is down seventeen percent in staff. We
(48:52):
get this out of the New York Post that Pete
Bootage edge while the chairman of the Department of Transportation
approved tens of billions of dollars of grants for diversity,
equity and inclusion programs, but stalled efforts to upgrade out
of date air traffic control technology. Definitely pushing an agenda.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
At the expense of American safety.
Speaker 3 (49:20):
Uh yeah, at the expense of you know, millions and
millions and millions, hundreds of millions of Americans who fly
across this country every year. But hey, let's focus on
a few here. And DEI, I mean, how does it
happen that are the systems and our air traffic control
towers are so incredibly out of date? Well, well that's
(49:45):
part of the right there. Billions for DEEI, the hequitd
arrest you. We could care less
Eleesusly hell Ya America. Formation from.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
It is sixteen minutes after six o'clock. It is Tuesday,
July twenty second, and it is wonderful to have you
with us. Good morning, Columbia's Morning News back on the radio.
I am Gary David, he is Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And it is hot. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You know, we're gonna get a bit of a when
we say low nannies is a bit of a break.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That's saying something right there. Huh.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I guess the other break we get is, according to scientists,
the Earth is spinning faster.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
This will be a shorter day. Oh, just another one
of those. We had one just about two weeks ago.
Apparently this will be one of these shortest days at
this rate. Man, the day is going to fly on that. Huh.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What is like a gazillion of a middlesecond faster or
something crazy like that. Yeah, okay, well get it done
now for the day runs out. It's upper seventies and
muggy to start, yes, but you know, low nineties as
opposed to upper nineties or one hundred and no real
mention of a heat.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
In next today, So that's a plus. That is good news.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Actually went to a funeral yesterday and so, by God's grace,
you know, at the gravesite, it's like a cloud came
over and the temperature dropped.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It had been a good fifteen degrees. Man. That helps, Oh, yes,
in a big way.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And by the way, hats off to the Lexton County
Sheriff's Department because we had a long trip the procession
from the church of the gravesite. Well they got nothing
down pad man. They had the escort they provide you
for those They've been doing that for a little while,
for a little while. Yeah, for a little while. And
I was the last in line too. Oh so you
know I've never driven that far with blue lights flashing
(02:06):
behind me the whole time. It was a little unnerving
at times. Oh and by the way, I'm just gonna
throw this out there. Wow, this is for by the ways,
this is this is four already you're working your way through.
It is my limit free. No no, I didn't know,
it's the contract.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
No more.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I know I've complained about this before. I'm gonna get
this out of the way right now. You know this,
this this intersection near my house where they have rebuilt
the whole intersection off. I had twenty at number one,
which is apparently something is still going on.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
They continue to block off Atlanta traffic, you know, from
election to West Columbia for what reason.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't know. I get off the exit yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Right now, you get off the exit, you take a
right to go to Lexington, you take a left to
go to West Columbia.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Got me.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I guess, all right, there's a sign. They just put
up a sign like yesterday. I guess as you come
off the exit ramp Columbia Airport, go right right, yes,
toward towards Lexington, not towards West Columbia, which has left
you bored morons.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well, I maybe they're making some kind of you know,
I still haven't figured that intersection out because sometimes I
come from Mintal Springs Road, uh huh, and there's some
kind of weird loop you have to take. You go
over a hill. Oh yeah, that's I mean, the whole
thing's confused, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But I could see some port schmoe trying to get
to the airport, you know, with the GPS saying turn
left and the sciences turn right. Yeah, y'all get that
fixed like like today, that'd.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Be great, let's hope, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Uh, okay, enough of them, by the ways to the
rundown the big stories of hot topics. Here's what we're
following on this Tuesday morning. Scary story from the Department
of Public Health. There is a confirmed case of brain
eating amiba here in South Carolina. Now, I saw stuff
(03:57):
all over social media yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Client.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean it was out of Lake Murray. They have
not confirmed where this case is, but it is. This
is wow.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
This happens a lot, well not a lot, but when
it happens, usually it's a fresh water kind of thing,
and it's warm water. And it's warm water we've got
right now, very common this ameeba in freshwater lakes, rivers,
and ponds. There are a few than ten cases a
year here in the US, and it's nearly always fatal.
(04:37):
So yeah, that's a scary story right there. Get your attention,
just as we're all going to the water for relief.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Right exactly. Huh.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Hermo Police Department on the Defense and have been now
for a bit. After a press conference last week, the
family of a man who died in their custody is
questioning how it all happened. Yesterday, the MOPD releasing clips
of their bodycam footage. This was a police chase, both
via a vehicle and on foot. Something was going on here.
(05:06):
But exactly how this man, Byron Jackson of North Augusta
died is still well, there's some controversy over that.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Still haven't released the autopsy yet, and why are we
just now hearing from Nearmo police?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, no, that no do autopsy yet, which is surprising.
But yeah, and why so long they'll know?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
What is it you pounded into our heads over and
over again yesterday? Transparent transparency. Yes, Alan Wilson's campaign on
the road, locking up more, locking up more endorsements from sheriffs.
Now twenty two Republican sheriffs have announced their endorsements of
the ag and his run for governor. And that includes,
as the posting Curier headline says, a clean sweep in
(05:48):
Nancy Mace's own district. Now, speaking to Mace, so people
are a little confused. She took a well her take
on that coldplate meme that's going around social media. You
know the story, the kiss case and all that. But
she took the picture of the the CEO they now
resigned CEO and his HR director in the embrace and
(06:10):
captioned it. The guy was what the United States of
America and the woman was American born workers. And nobody
can quite figure out what she was trying to say
with that. Yeah, to be fair, I'm sure she didn't
do it, but somebody on her own, somebody in her
office staff, that's unquestionable social media skills.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Apparently.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, FBI here in our state warning of a state
wide scam using spoofed phone numbers. I mean, I gotta
tell you if it's not in your contact list these days,
don't even bother answering. That's what I do. It's worked
well so far. Is this another diversionary attempt?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Here?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The Trump administration yesterday releasing records of the FBI surveillance
of Martin Luther King Junior. This even though well, his
family didn't want them to do this. More than two
hundred and forty thousand pages that have been under a
court imposed seal since the late seventies. Now, some of
(07:11):
this we already know does it tell us much more
that we don't, or again, this is something else to
deflect attention from the whole Epstein saga, which continues to
go maybe not to the fever pitch it was last week,
but still fever pitching off to the point where it's
forcing the House Republicans to scrap votes as Democrats or
continue to try to force votes over the Epstein files,
(07:33):
Speaker Johnson saying the House will not vote on any
sort of an Epstein resolution before recess.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, but he's got some folks in his camp that
wanted done.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
M more than a few more than a few. Something
else coming out of well, the latest revelations and again
the bombshell accusations on Friday from the d and I
Tolci Gabbard over Barack Obama and his administration conjuring up
the Russia Russia Russia US scam. Now word that, well,
(08:04):
the Clinton email investigation, remember that one that omitted admitted
crucial pieces of evidence. We'll tell you what those are.
And Hunter Biden going on an unhinged rant in a
two hour podcast, do we have account on how many
times you drop the F bomb?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And that, by the way, who was the weirdo that
he was talking. I'm not sure who that guy was.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I mean, that was a smooth move by Hunter because
Hunter actually looked kind.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Of normal next to this guy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And Andrew Callahan is his name? Okay, whoever that is? Well,
oh boy, Hunter was unhinged man about the Democrat Party,
about George Clooney.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, I enjoyed, everybody.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I enjoyed some of the stuff he said because most
of his vitrioll went towards the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And there was a lot of vitrio all towards the
Democrats and that so we'll talk about that. Kamala Harris
yesterday people knocking good old Kamala for posting on social
media the one year an averse of a start of
her failed presidential campaign.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Who does that? Who wants to celebrate? Who does that?
Kamala Harris does that? All right? Friends?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That mark coming up on this. It is the Tuesday
morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Thanks for joining us exciting times on the Glenbeck Program.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It's so rare for me to be excited. It's going
to be very exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
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Speaker 3 (09:38):
Six Morning two. Good morning and good to have you on.
We appreciate that. For Tuesday, July twenty second. So artificial
intelligence the topic, and let's start by this. Uh, there's
there's a new survey out resume genius. Maybe I should
have used one of those years ago. Anyway, Twenty three
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percent of gen Z workers he's are folks born between
nineteen ninety seven and a twenty twelve. Twenty three percent
of a full time gen Z workers now regret having
ever attended college. Nineteen percent say their degree did not
contribute to their career. Well that was the case with me, certainly.
I was supposed to be like a banker or something. Man,
(10:19):
I don't know how loud up here, I'm not sure either.
That was weird, but it happened, Thank goodness. Well, yeah, exactly,
I'd have been miserable, man, miserable. They're top reasons for
the regret, overwhelming student loan debt, lack of job opportunities
in their chosen fields.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Are these ranked? Oh, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
If they rank them specifically, I don't have that information
in front of me. I mean, this is just kind of,
you know, the grab bag of all of the reasons.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Why, well, the student loan debt is hanging over your head,
that containt your view of college. But certainly if you're
ten years out and the loan debt is gone and
you're still regretting it, then yeah, you probably did make
a mistake.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, And then you know, a lot of people have
done that over the years, you know, I mean, that's
been happening for a long time. But the difference now
it seems to be artificial intelligence and how it's drastically
reshaping the value of a college degree. Indeed, did a
(11:26):
recent report showing that nearly fifty percent of a gen
Z job hunters feel that their education is already obsolete
due to the impact of artificial intelligence. They're finding companies
that are increasingly dropping degree requirements. You don't have to
have a college education anymore, but they're prioritizing literacy and
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artificial intelligence and what they call digital upskilling. So as
a result, a lot of college grads out there, they're
looking at that expensive piece of papers being less relevant
in the job market today. How again, Artificial intelligence is
changing everything and no bigger changes in what we are
(12:11):
seeing in job markets. We've recently had some transparency the
buzzword this week from companies like IBM, who are saying
that but yeah, they're letting people go because of our
official intelligence. Now, most of these big corporations that are
(12:31):
doing this, they're not saying it's because of AI. They're
giving a whole host of other reasons why but AI.
Their their CEO told the Wall Street Journal back in
May that two hundred of their human resources employees were
let go and were replaced with AI chatbots and saying
(12:53):
that they're overall the head count uh they said, though
is up as they reinvest elsewhere. Another company, h Klarna,
which is one of these financial technical or a fintech company,
their ceo saying the truth is the company has shrunk
from about five thousand to about three thousand employees, and
(13:16):
he said it was because of artificial intelligence. Okay, you've
got a DHR problem and you work for IBM, and
instead of being able to call a human being and
talk to them about your HR issue, instead you got
a chatbot. Really, no, thank you, but this is where
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it's heading. So Yeah, it's going to be very frustrating
for people trying to use these services, but more frustrating
for the people that used to actually do this and
now don't anymore because they've been replaced by a chat bot.
But again, what's the rest of the story here? What
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does society look like? And okay, let's just take this
this this company clar and I just referenced. So they've
cut not quite but close to half of their employees
and replace them with artificial intelligence. You know, let's just
surmise for a moment. Let's say that the the you know,
the entire job market shrinks by fifty percent and in
(14:23):
its place we've got artificial intelligence. What happens to those
fifty percent of people? How do they make a living?
How do they survive? What do they do? We're not
talking about people like me, you know, sixty six years
old and you know, approaching retirement war of these days.
We're talking about you know, thirty somethings here. What happens then?
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What happens for old people like me with Social Security?
When there might be fifty percent funeral workers paying into
it because they've been replaced by a chatbot. Can we
tax the AI. I say that somewhat with tongue in cheek,
But maybe we need to think of ways to tax
the AI, some other way to generate revenue. Yeah, how
(15:13):
does the how does the iris generate revenue? How does
the government?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Well?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh, oh, I'm sorry, Uncle say, I doesn't worrybout uncle s.
Everys keeps borrowing money anyway.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, well, those folks that have no jobs can't borrow money, right, Well, well, what.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Happens when you get to that point. I'm gonna tell
you what happens. That is a total societal breakdown, and
it ain't gonna be pretty. These these, these are the
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things that very smart people know. Is is where all
this is driving us to? This is you know, this is,
this is where the road ends. One of these days,
they're not going to talk about it because in the meantime,
they're gonna, you know, save all the money they can
through technology, and you know, the rest of us be damned.
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They'll get their money, they'll get out. They'll have to
worry about it. But for the thirty something just starting
a career, just starting a life, trying to buy a home,
raise a family. Oh, these are my kids, you know,
my kids are in this generation, your kids, your grandkids,
what happens to them? We keep marching down that road. Man,
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We're gonna get there, and probably sooner rather than later.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's fifteen minutes past the seven o'clock mark on Tuesday,
July twenty second morning to you. Appreciate you joining us.
I don't even know where to start with this one. Wow,
former first son Hunter Biden.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Wherever you start, I hope you're editing heavily. Oh, I'm
not even gonna bother to because you know, I don't.
I don't trust the censors to get it. I think
we ran out of beeps.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Actually, when they tried to put this together early this morning,
we used up all the beeps. So yeah, not going there.
I'm sure somebody somewhere has already gone through this. And
what was that like a two hour podcast? He was
on with some something like really weird looking dude. Yeah,
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like you said, he almost made don't look normal uh
by comparison. But yeah, somebody somewhere is probably still counting
how many f bombs were in that interview.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
It was a bunch. So Hunter's mad at everybody and
what but one thing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
He disclosed this This is okay that this is Hunter's
excuse for why his dad performed so poorly at that
one debate with with Donald Trump, that that Joe was
on ambient and that may have affected his performance of
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that debate.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, okay, I didn't think Joe was having any trouble
at all falling asleep.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Why would he be on ambient? Well, that's the weird part,
isn't it. Because the ambient is for people who can't
fall asleep. It's an anti insomnia prescription helps you sleep better,
I you know, I well, yeah, I didn't think that
(18:53):
was a problem, or maybe that was the problem. Maybe
all along the president was, you know, the dosing on
ambient or something and couldn't stay awake.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Hunter.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Uh, And we've all we always kind of knew this, right,
And I think he's speaking the truth when he says this.
He was very critical of a number of members of
Barack Obama's inner circle.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We heard this a lot.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
When you know, it became pretty obvious that that Joe
Biden was was not going to be up to it again,
or maybe it wasn't even up to it at the time.
Of course that there were Yeah, there were members of
the Obama inner circle that we were really pushing to
get Joe out of there.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I mean there's been friction there for years, for years,
even before Biden started slipping.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Said several of those Obama team members were continually doubting
his father. He says, as far as that debate, he
knows exactly what happened that his dad flew around the world. Basically,
he says, the mileage that they could have flown around
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the world, say three times, he's eighty one, He's tired.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
As they get man be end up being able to sleep.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
He says, he gets up on stage during the headlights,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You know the rest of the story. Now, wait a minute, I.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
As I recall, I mean, Joe was holed up into
Camp David for like two weeks preparing for this, wasn't
he not? Although there was a trip in there somewhere,
but I'm not sure when that happened. But regardless, the
point is that Hunter Biden is mad at the entire
Democrat world. Including Nancy Pelosi, including Pelosi because he brought
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her name up as well.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
In fact, he made it sound as if she was
the one who pulled the trigger.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Well, you know we've heard that before, haven't we. It's
not the first time we've heard that. He said. Uh,
he said, did Joe Biden get old? Sure, he got old?
(21:08):
And there are people who came out against him. He says, yeah,
he did. George Clooney, Remember Clooney pinned that op ed.
Oh he didn't hold back on George Clooney, did he? No,
he did not blank him, blank him and blank everybody
(21:30):
around him. He says, Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
George Clooney is not a blanking actor. He's a brad.
He's not an actor a fowl. Now, he went on
(21:51):
to say, which we thought too. He claims that the
Clooney sabotage his dad with the blessing of the Obama peeple. Again,
that would surprise nobody, right.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
No, not at all.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
And by the way, Clooney is out there doing defensive interviews. Now,
did I see him talking to Tapper the other day?
I think, so, What's.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Biden's not saying a word, and everyone who is around
him now or who had any impact at all in
the decision, is out there doing Monday morning quarterbacking, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
They still haven't figured it out, But it wasn't all
about the Democrat Party Hunter and Hunter's own way of
doing things. Going after Trump over immigration policy. I mean that, okay, So, yeah,
who's going to clean your toilets?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Donald Trump?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
He says, I mean all the things, all the stereotypical
things of illegal immigrants doing in this country. Hunter Biden
listed all every single one of them. Yeah, if we
keep deporting people and throwing them in lock up, who's
gonna do this?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Who's going to clean your hotel room? Who's gonna take
care of your lawn?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I mean, just as stereotypical, and you might even say
racist as you can get.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
And this went on for like two hours.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now the Obama camp strikes back, at least one former
Obama aid ripping into Hunter and what he called the
arrogant Biden family and blaming them for the catastrophic election results.
There's a lot of blame to go around, okay, a
lot of blame to go around. And don't for a
(23:47):
minute think that the Biden team wasn't responsible for a
lot of it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
This is just did something to watch, hasn't.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
It hasn't upset me getting I don't know at all.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
It's got a fun to watch now. Of course, remember that.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
This is not the first podcast interview that the Hunter's
done recently, because he was on the debut of the
Jamie Harrison podcast last Thursday, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Oh I miss that.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, he didn't quite make the news that this one did.
He was, I guess just getting just getting ramped up.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
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Speaker 4 (24:31):
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Speaker 4 (24:50):
Seven forty one at the time. Now it is July
twenty second. We are still ten months.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Plus away from the primaries in South Carolina, A long
time away from November election. But again, as I always say,
it's South Carolina is when it comes to state wide offices.
Does that first Tuesday of November even matter. No, it
doesn't not typically, and they probably won't this time either.
(25:20):
But the the gubernatorial race heating up early here in
South Carolina. We still don't have all the potential participants
in the race yet. But of the what three you
have been out so far? Am I missing anybody?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Three? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Alan Wilson, Josh kimberl Bam Labbott, I am missing there,
there's there is a there is a fourth and dot
gun and his name continues to escape. I don't know why,
but he's not a not a politician, and as somebody
who's from a name recognition standpoint, is fighting an extreme
uphill battle. We actually mentioned about a week or two
(25:56):
ago on the Republican side. Of the Republican side, yeah,
dog gone it.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Anyway, we'll get that name.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But again, of the ones that we know, of the
ones that haven't have a chance here at least, oh,
it needs to happen. It looks like Alan Wilson making
the most moves here. This at a time when Josh Kimbrell.
Of course, not a lot of buzz right now, but
while you were out, mister Thompson, a lot of buzz
over the lawsuit filed by this business associate saying that
(26:30):
Kim Boord and his wife and his banker at the
fraud of the company had some two million dollars. So
you know, Kimberle's got to work on that cleaning that up.
Pamela Evatt, who rolled out her announcement that was a
week ago Monday, right, But Wilson, who was the first
one in now announcing as of yesterday that his campaign
(26:53):
has secured the endorsement of twenty two of the Stag's
thirty one Republican sheriffs, and as the Posting Courier points out,
most notably, every sheriff in the Low Country that represent
a county covered by Nancy Mason's first congressional district, so
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sheriff's in Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Buford, called in Jasper County,
all announcing their support for Alan Wilson, which, again, as
an attorney general, is a law and order guy in
a law and order position, you might say, not a
big surprise, but of again, the thirty three Republican sheriffs,
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twenty two already have come out endorsing him. And they
note that the endorsement of the sheriff in Charleston County.
That's Carl Richie. He beat the incumbent Christian Graciano, the Democrat,
last fall, and Mace took credit for that, claiming that
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did she single handedly ousted Graziano by accusing her of
gunning immigration enforcement.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Richie, Wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Okay, you're you're you're you're diss and my my volunteers
and disrespecting the people who voted for me. So she
didn't make a friend in Richie by claiming that she
was single handily responsible for his victory. So as far
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as making moves here, uh yeah, Wilson making moves in
a place that you would expect that he would do
well with sheriffs.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The rest of the field.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Now we're just a couple of days away, right from
a potential Ralph Norman announcement.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I continue to say this.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I said this, uh with the Big Beautiful Bill, that
Ralph Norman has not made any big friend of Donald Trump.
He was against that as a member of the more
conservative wing in the House of Representatives. He was against
the Big Beautiful Bill. He was a holdout for a
(29:16):
while before he finally voted for it. And then don't
forget that, what about a week and a half ago.
I guess it was when a House committee of which
he is a part, a republic committee, shot down Democrats'
plans to try to force some sort of a vote
(29:37):
in Congress on the whole. Epstein mess that of the
Republicans on that committee, well one ship Roy just didn't vote.
The other Ralph Norman voted against the Republicans aimed to
squash that vote, which was successful in square the vote,
(30:01):
but Norman voted with the Democrats on that one. So
Ralph Norman has not made any You know, if we're
to believe that Donald trump endorsement is vital for any
Republican Canada in the state, then you would think it
stands right now that Ralph Norman would not be getting that,
but we expect his special announcement is coming on the
twenty seventh.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
You think Trump's endorsement is vital or help helpful? Helpful? Certainly?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I say it's vital, no, but there are people who
think that it is vital. I don't believe that. No,
I think it's helpful.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, well any not vital presidential help. Any endorsement would help,
but sure, I don't know vital, don't I'm not used
to listening to Washington politicians tell me how to vote
my own state.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Well, no, but there are some people think it is
Supposedly Nancy Mace will launch her a bit later this summer.
We keep getting told, well, it's getting to be later
this summer already, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
I don't see that happening. I really don't either.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean it's almost August now, I mean, how much
later this summer do we go here?
Speaker 4 (31:05):
I'm not sure what they're sitting on.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Not much money, not much in the way of support.
I mean, right, you're already too late into the game
for that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And you know what, if you're not going to run
for governor, well you start need to start gearing up
your congressional campaign if you want to keep that seat.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
And would probably get more money from National Republicans to
stay where she was.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Oh, I would think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would
think so.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe she has a little
buyer's remorse here with this whole idea of running for governor.
I think Nancy Mays realizes she's gonna get more national
publicity out of being in Congress than she would ever
be being governor of South Carolina, and I think she
thrives on that. There's a lot of politicians do, but
in particular, she really enjoys that. And maybe maybe that's
what it's coming down to.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
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Speaker 3 (32:08):
It us fifteen minutes after eight. Good morning, Thanks for
being here. We've got forty five more minutes to hang
out with you this morning, y'all stick around. We have
plenty more to come. Okay, So this gets your attention now,
doesn't it. Confirmation last night from the Department of Public
Health formerly known as d HACK that we have a
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case of brain eating amoba in the state.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
That's not something you hear about every day. Matter of fact, there.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Are fewer than ten cases a year in the States,
the whole United States, not this state. Fewer than ten
a year. And this amoeba in question, whose days I
won't even try to pronounce here.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Is nearly all fatal. Now.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I saw all over social media yesterday people around here
saying was it was? It was that Lake Murray was
it Lake Murray, DPH. Is not confirming where it was.
You'd think they might want to, you know, I mean
in the public interest to warn you stay away.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Or is the.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Thinking that it's so rare anyway, it's not like if
you wherever it was, wherever it was contracted. I don't know,
is it on like they're thinking, well, you know, everybody's
going to just avoid like the plague now, because that's
that's kind of what it is, and just start some
kind of you know, big uproar and well, I don't know,
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will we find out? Well, it is very common in
freshwater lakes, rivers, and ponds. Uh, it likes heat. Now,
there is no personate law. Testing of the water for
that specific amba is not mandatory. And again because there
are a fewer than ten cases across the entire country
(34:05):
annually and a per state law, agencies like their proper
public health are not required to issue an announcement when a
case like this occurs. Okay, I think that should be fixed.
But again, I mean they were concerned about you know,
a jaws like panic.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
You know, everybody leaves the beach.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Well, I guess it would depend on how isolated it is.
I mean goodness notes how many man made ponds we
have in this state. Is it someplace that a lot
of people access? Is it some place all pond in
somebody's back you know, yeah, on the back of their
their land somewhere. There's a big difference between that and
one of the major lakes where people are coming to
vacation or at the very least spend their weekends on.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Right now, DPH said in their announcement, a recreational water
users should assume that this amoeba is present in warm
fresh water. However, the risk of infection is very low, okay,
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and again fewer than ten cases annually across the entire country,
but it is nearly always fatal. Sue, Yeah, I don't
know that we will ever be told that. They're not
required to tell us, nor are they required to tell
us apparently about the person's condition. So, having said all that,
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since they're by state law not required to tell us
how these individual is doing, they're not required to tell us.
Weird it occurred. Municipalities are not required to test their
waters to this specific a me. But I'm beginning to
wonder why even bother announced to begin with, yes, right,
(35:56):
just to scare us just to freak us all out here.
It is fringing a lot of people out on social media.
It could be any it could be anywhere. We don't know,
We do not and we may never know. It sounds
like we probably won't. Okay, all right now? Uh is this?
(36:16):
You know we talked about this yesterday, you know, the
the bombshell that Tulsi Gabbard dropped on us on Friday,
which I say bombshell. I kept seeing bombshell, bombshell. I'm
not sure that many people who follow this closely were
that terribly surprised that the Obama administration was was wrapped
up in creating the whole Russia fake collusion story. But
(36:41):
as we discussed yesterday, was well, you know it was
it was. It was good timing to get the get
the Epstein story off the front page, right, and it
did do that.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Well.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Then yesterday the White House releasing records of the FBI
surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. But again they had
been telling us they would, well they they drop that yesterday.
Now it remains to be seen what's in. As a
matter of fact, it wasn't even clear immediately whether or
not the documents shed any new light on the King
(37:14):
as a reverend, his ministry, his role of the civil
rights movement, and his murder. Now, the family was against this.
They did get advance access to the records, their teams
were reviewing them, they continue to review them, but they
were against these being released. Although the King family to
(37:36):
this day is not convinced that James Earl Ray was
solely responsible or responsible at all for the murder of
Reverend King, but they were against this being released to
the public. Okay, so putting me in the camp of
(37:57):
all right, well, so far with these releases, these Balleyhood releases,
we've not learned anything we didn't already know. And why
am I thinking this will be just to say, while
we're talking about more than two hundred and forty thousand
pages of records that have been under a court imposed
seal since nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
And you can imagine what they might show.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
I mean, it's you can understand the family that you're
not going to learn anything good about Mlka Junior from
these from these files and these this analysis.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
It's it's gonna be who.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Can stand this scrutiny, the kind of scrutiny that the
FBI had this man under Oh, oh, yes, you know
for years. Do we all do the kinds of things
he did? Probably not, But yeah, that scrutiny. I mean,
we've all had conversations that we wouldn't want to air
in public, and that they know there's dirty laundry in there,
and that's probably well exactly yeah, but yeah, I mean,
(38:57):
are we going to learn anything more? Probably not. I mean,
these you're talking about cases like the JFK and MLK,
those cases are years and years old. There's a big
difference between that and telling us a little more about
what happened to Epstein or who he was involved with, right,
I know. Alan Dershwood says there are no current office
(39:20):
holders involved in the sealed evidence.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
And Dershwood says he has seen a list, yes, because
remember he was at one time accused.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Well, he says there is no quote unquote list, right,
not a list, but he's seen evidence of the people
who were mentioned.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
These were in court filings when again he was at
one time mentioned as being part of all this, and right,
that's all been resolved, and says that he wasn't. But
in the process he saw a lot of these documents
and yeah, so he says, yeah, there are names. Well,
the Democrats continue to try to force a vote on that,
(39:59):
and at this point, what's happening. And now Speaker Johnson
has said there will be no vote, no floor vote
on that before the recess which is coming up. But
in the meantime, other business is getting held up.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Yeah, because Democrats continue to push for this. So and
Republicans are curious too.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yeah, there are a number of Republics very curious. So,
second week in a row, the House is not getting
much done because of that.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
So that's their excuse this week.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
I don't know who's that has standing, whether it's a
press organization, right, I mean, somebody needs to apply to
appeal to have these records unsealed once and for all,
you know, take it out of the take it out
of the Trump administration's hands. Just appeal to the court
to unseal the records.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I'm gonna guess that's been tried your time and time
a cann over the years. I don't know, right, maybe
maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I like keeping up with local news and I'm traveling.
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Speaker 2 (40:55):
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Speaker 3 (41:14):
It is eight forty and it is time for our
final fonts. Here for a Tuesday morning. I want to
start off something I mentioned early this morning when first
came on the air. I'm I'm gonna mention it again
here in the public interest, and hopefully somebody at dot
is listening. I guess you know, somebody's gonna be very confused.
Some some poor out of town traveler who's getting here
and trying to get to the airport is gonna get
(41:36):
off I twenty at Highway one over in Lexington. Their
GPS is going to tell them to take a left
to go to the airport. Yet the sign they put
up yesterday tells you to take a right. Some poor
soul or souls are going to get off the interstate
trying to get to the airport and make their flight,
and instead they're going to see that sign and go, oh,
(41:57):
I'm supposed to take a right.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Okay, you're sure they haven't built some weird loop that
you don't know about.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Yeah, No, I came off. I said exit twice yesterday. Okay,
that hasn't changed. Uh, how do you make that mistake?
I mean, really, how do you do that? I can
see somebody right now driving around downtown Lexington stuck in traffic.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
AF he's somebody. Where's the airport? It's back that way?
You're moron? How does that happen? I'm guessing I don't know. Now.
I'm wondering. Now, if you come the other way down
twenty and get off on number one, is there a sign?
Did they just put the wrong sign on the wrong
exit ramp?
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Is there a sign there that's supposed to say you
know right and that one says left? Well, I'm having
to try that today. I'm gonna have to go past
my exit and turn around and come back.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
Everything about that exit and that interchange has been using,
including how long it's taken actually completed.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Well, and I gotta tell you it doesn't affect me
in my travel. But you know, when they they first
started working on that, they would work all night overnight.
It would affect me, but that was fine. I mean,
like three of us on the road, it didn't matter.
They don't do that anymore. But yet, at least up
until last week, I mean almost every day they got
at least one right lane block for miles coming out
of downtown in Lexington. And I be durned if I
(43:17):
know why, because I don't see aybody out there doing anything.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Okay, please get the signs straight. I don't want somebody
knocking on my door ask me where the airport is.
It's the other way, all right. Hermo Police Department holding
a presser yesterday they released clips of the bodycam footage.
This was an arrest a month ago of a man
from Augusta who later died in police custody. And apparently
(43:46):
nobody knows why do not have the results of the
ops hopsy yet a month later even I think the
police chief and Hermo said yeah, yeah, he flat out said,
our biggest question today is how did mister Jackson die?
Speaker 5 (44:06):
When you come to when you finally hold a press conference,
and then you come to that press conference asking questions
instead of answering, yeah, it's not a good son.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Which he didn't answer any questions. He just had his own.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
As the chief said, we we know he had no
physical injuries. Now this was a it was it was
a weird story. I mean, police came across his van,
I guess, and it sounded like some kind of an
argument going on inside or a fight or something, right,
and you know, concerned about somebody maybe getting hurt. You know,
they tried to, you know, find out what was going on.
(44:41):
He winds up taking off. Yeah, it was just one guy,
just one guy. There was nobody else in the van.
It was just this guy by himself and calls like,
you know, middle of the night kind of kind of thing. Right,
So the guy takes off so short police chase said.
He gets out of the van for he runs into
imping on another He starts off on foot and it
(45:06):
falls about twenty feet or so down a ravine. During
all debscribed as a tussle with one of the officers.
Nobody seems to know why this guy's dead, including the
police chief. Months later, they pull him out, they cuff him.
He has trouble breathing.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
The mess tells them to uncuff him, or at least
cuff him to his front rather than his back. And
I mean there may be something a fairly simple answer.
I mean it just speculating. Could be drugs, could be
a fentanyl overdose where he was just you know, to
report overreacting and then you know, suddenly went into arrest whatever.
(45:43):
But waiting so long to hold a press conference to
answer any questions, and then asking questions instead of answering them.
And they're already a couple of local newspapers that have
their teeth into this story.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
Yeah yeah, and now the fan carry Sellers is the
attorney for the family, right, so this is all going
the wrong way for Hermo police. It sounds like from
the initial report, from what we just described as how
this happened, I mean, police didn't do anything wrong. It
didn't sound like it doesn't sound like it either up
until that point. All the way again, we don't know what.
Did something else transpire here?
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Although they didn't show the end of the bodycam footage yesterday.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Okay, I'm not sure why they would show it at all.
If they're going to cut it off right there, that's
just going to get people. Yeah, of course you did, right.
Didn't seem to make a lot of sense. We don't
have time to get into this today. Maybe we'll hold
this for tomorrow. But something else. This is from Chuck
Grassley document released yesterday. He's the chair of the Senate
(46:40):
Judiciary Committee, an FBI draft memo from May of twenty sixteen.
We keep going back to twenty sixteen, don't we, stating
that reviewing thumb drives would be necessary to conduct a
thorough and complete investigation, including assessing national security risks associated
with a prime server. Now what are they talking about.
(47:02):
They were talking about Hillary Clinton's private server, all right,
So that was the draft memo in twenty sixteen. A
thorough and complete investigation is needed. However, according to Grassley,
the FBI never finalized the memorandum or actually submitted the
request to the department. In other words, they didn't want to, right,
(47:28):
they do what they might find. I mean, all you
got out of this back then was James Coley saying
that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless. But that was about it.
Then he moved on to helping, according to the report
last week, helping the Obama White House launch the campaign
(47:49):
against the Trump campaign and with the Russian collusion story.
So they did not search key evidence in the Hillary
Clinton email probe. It just keeps popping up every now
and then, all these years later, right, Yeah, Karen bass
is declaring victory in LA this after the Department of
Defense ordered the seventeen hundred marines that were stationed there
(48:12):
to leave that city. There for a little more than
a month, some seven hundred of them.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Have things settled down? I assume yes they have. Yeah, Okay,
So and Karen, remember you didn't do anything to help
things settle down. But as a politician, she claims the victory.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Got to claim victory, right, And you know, at a
time when there's so much focus being put on this
air traffic control situations, busy summer season shortages, I saw
it as a story this morning. Atlanta Hartsfield International one
of the if not the busiest airport like in the world. Right,
their control tower is down seventeen percent in staff. We
(48:52):
get this out of the New York Post that Pete
Bootage edge while the chairman of the Department of Transportation
approved tens of billions of dollars of grants for diversity,
equity and inclusion programs, but stalled efforts to upgrade out
of date air traffic control technology. Definitely pushing an agenda.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
At the expense of American safety.
Speaker 3 (49:20):
Uh yeah, at the expense of you know, millions and
millions and millions, hundreds of millions of Americans who fly
across this country every year. But hey, let's focus on
a few here. And DEI, I mean, how does it
happen that are the systems and our air traffic control
towers are so incredibly out of date? Well, well that's
(49:45):
part of the right there. Billions for DEEI, the hequitd
arrest you. We could care less
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