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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Holesius SF. Hell yeah, same America. Thanks falling for regious
or nation your God and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
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 (00:36):
Ho the heck are you morning to you? It's Wednesday,
July twenty third. Good to have you long sixteen minutes
after six waiting up me Roland all ready this morning.
Let's get to it there, Gary David, Christopher Thompson, the team,
Columbia's Morning News. Good morning to you, Good morning to you,
mister Thompson, good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Hey we should let people know and I'm not sure
if it's been fixed.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
H yeah, I was gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Thank you for bringing that up if you were trying
to get us on this morning. We've had some issues
overnight related to the rain, I suppose, but you know
we're available on AM. The five sixty signals still was
booming this morning, and of course on iHeart Radio as well.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We give you options, That's that's why. And they're working
on the FM side, Okay, terrific. If they haven't already
fixed it yet, I'm not sure that may have I
haven't got an update yet on that, but yeah, yeah,
let's say if you haven't, you know, as we get
into you know, September October, and you know when we
are more prone to get really you know, I mean
like like tropical kind of weather around here. If you
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haven't downloaded the iHeartRadio app, it doesn't cost you anything,
and you could always listen to us on that matter
of fact, you can set us as the preset Numero
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back to us. Yeah, and we do listen, yes, we
do so. So yeah, if you haven't downloaded that app,
please do because that's always your your fail set. And
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I know I taught a lot of them they listened
to us exclusively on the app. And guess what, no
matter where you go around this planet, you can pick
us up on the app, So do that all right. Yeah,
we had a couple of little nasty storms rolled through
our neighborhood last night. Not today, but maybe tomorrow looks
like and season Yeah, these are seasonable or seasonal temperatures today,
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just we're right about our average. Let me have a
degree or two above. But yeah, you heard Todder mention
the really hot stuff's coming back this weekend, so brace
yourselves for that. Okay, matter of fact, I see one
hundred and one Sunday, one hundred and one Monday. Yeah, yes, yeah,
all right. There's a lot of the but the stack
is large this morning, the run down, the big stories,
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the hot topics.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So let's quickly address some of these headlines. I know
the stack is large. I had to refill the paper,
the print around many times, just once. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Environmentals hate me. All right, Okay, we now know that
the individual who we were told had contracted this brain
eating amba, brain infecting amba has in fact passed away.
We also know this was a patient at Prisoner Health
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Children's Hospital, so it was a kid. It was a child.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
They won't say, but you can infer.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yes, they don't treat adults at children's hospitals. And it
also seems to be from various and sundrysources that this
in fact was contracted at Lake Murray. Again, the Department
of Public Health is not being specific, and state law
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says they apparently can't be specific with such a thing.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Especially if it's a public body of water exactly. That
doesn't make any sense at all. None none, so we
can't be certain. But again, indications are that's all the
indications are. It happened it was contracted at Lake Murray. Well,
I guess I should correct myself. Lake Murray is not
a public body of water, but there's public access to
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it in spots.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes, it's owned by Dominion. But yeah, so a sad
news to pass along. And yeah again even Saturday, this
was a child apparently one of the two pit bulls
it was suspected of attacking joggers a week ago over
in the Harveston State Forest has been shot and killed. Now,
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they originally had hoped to reopen the park the forest,
well last Thursday, I guess it was, and he got
put off until yesterday. Again, one of these dogs was
taken down Monday night, apparently on a nearby private property.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Now I was on vacation when this happened. Yeah, correct
me on the timeline. So there was an attack the
day before Winston Holiday got attacked. Yeah, there were two attacks,
and then they still had a run through that force
the next day.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, and under the guys, as though with a bunch
of people there the dogs would be scared away.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, Yeah, they took their chances without one. Yeah, they did,
at least part, and is hitting back at a leaked
memo that claimed she had created a hostile workplace that
we talked about this last week. The now departed city manager,
Jim Crossland, apparently, rather than do an exit interview, gave
a letter to the new city manager, Michael Connolly, and
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that letter somehow got leaked. Crossland says he didn't intend
for that to be public, but it got public anyway,
and it was critical of the mayor, and the mayor
now is having a few choice words about it. Maybe
we'll get to some of that. Myrtle Beach is making
it official. They are that new curfew will stay in
effect nine pm six am, affecting anyone seventeen and younger,
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although officials I'm not sure to'll really solve anything. Sumter
County School District is under the spotlight. The South contin
Inspector General currently investigating the district for alleged mismanagement on
several projects.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
A lot of news.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Coming down yesterday on the Jeffrey Epstein thing here. The
focus now on Glain Maxwell, the deputy Attorney General is
going to be has already reached out to Maxwell to
talk about her willingness to cooperate with prosecutors as the
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administration is whether they're they're running pretty crazy right now,
trying to put this thing to rest, and hoping that
just us knowing that the DJ is going to talk
to Maxwell is somehow going to quill people's concerns. I'm
not sure that's going to happen. The House Oversight Committee
has issued a subpoena for her testimony, and the House
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going home early. Speaking Mike Johnson announcing yesterday's cutting short
the week's session, sending him home for an early summer.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
If you can't avoid any kind of action on Epstein,
just send everybody Holme.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Send everybody home, which is exactly what they're doing. Meantime,
the presidents saying there's an irrefutable proof that Barack Obama
is guilty of treason. Okay, this is going back to
the bombshow released a last Friday by the D and
I on the Obama administration and how they well ratcheted
(07:36):
up this Russia hoax when it came to collusion. Trump
saying the leader of the gang was Barack Hussein Obama.
He writes, he's guilty, this was treason. Well, Obama spokesperson
issuing a statement calling this a weak attempt at distraction.
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We'll get into that this morning. Meantime, on the economic front,
the President securing an historic five hundred and fifty billion
dollar trade deal with Japan, also a reciprocal tariffs. Japan
will pay fifteen percent to US under that deal. Also
announcing another win in that part of the world with
the Philippines, and a tariff of nineteen percent on Indonesia,
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we'll pay no tariff at all. In business spending reaching
a thirty year high, So there is a good economic
news to pass along.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
The death of Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Just what a couple of weeks after that, the final
show with his original band, Black Sabbath.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah kind of, I mean wow. They said he got in,
you know, the best shape of his life just to
make that show, to sit on that throne on that stage.
Thank goodness he got a chance to do that. But
did it take too much out of him? I don't know, Yeah,
don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Of course, he had been suffering from Parkinson's and he
had back issues and all sorts of health issues, and.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It's not like he was the healthiest guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Ligion No no, he abused his body for a long time.
But seventy six, Ozzy Osbourne's Gone That concert, by the way,
raised close to two hundred million dollars for a number
of charities.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Wow. Yeah, how about that? Good for him?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
All right, we'll get to that and more coming up
here on this. It is the busy Wednesday edition of
Columbia's Morning News and it is great to have you
with us.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You never know when the news will break me, but
leave us on and you will. I think we want
to see more details right now. One O three point
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one O three point five FM and five sixty AM
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w VOC.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
At six forty three on a Wednesday morning. Good morning,
and good to have you along. This is this is
the nuttiest story right here. Well, no, the story, well,
what prompted this is insane. Shell, BP and m Bridge,
major energy companies, reports in the Financial Times, have left
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an advisory group that was promoting corporate climate targets draconian
targets after these major energy companies learned that the alignment
could threaten their ability to develop new oil and gas fields.
According to Financial Times, again, they've all exited this climate
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advisory group known as the Science Based Targets Initiative after
a draft policy came out saying these companies must stop
developing new oil and gas fields either a after submitting a
climate plan to this advisory group or in lieu of
that at the end of twenty twenty seven, okay, in
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about less than two and a half years, whichever comes first.
This is an advisory group b TI that partners with
the United Nations. Oh yeah, they're involved, and they advise
companies on how to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to
get to net zero missions by twenty fifty. Okay, So
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they are actually telling these companies or advising them at
least that once they submitted their climate report, or if
they didn't by the end of twenty twenty seven, they
must stop developing any new ways to get oil and
gas or oil out of the ground and turn it
into gas. Now, these companies say they're they're still committed
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to climate related to targets, but this is just nuts.
This is just crazy. And again, I know when we
talk about electricity, that's a bit of a different thing,
but still we're talking about energy and the crunch. I mean,
did they think that we're just gonna not have to
use Well, that's their desire that we get away from
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all of that course and go to you know, evs,
which well, hang on, we got news on that too
this morning. As part of that new green scam, Congress
set aside seven and a half billion dollars for the
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Biden era National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula program. We've talked
about this in the past, and this was to build
all these EV stations right which, by the way, the
sale of EV's has been steadily dropping. But this was
the push. The seven and a half billion dollars given
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to this program. I'm not sure every single dollar was
designed just for this purpose, but if not, it was
most of them. And the report now is in from
the Government Accountability Office on how successful this program was
or was not. This report, released yesterday says that the
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seven and a half billion dollar fundings in these programs
combined for fiscal years twenty twenty two to twenty twenty six.
Goes on to say Congress has expressed concern over the
pace at which charging ports have been built under this program.
As of April of twenty twenty five. Again this goes back, well,
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this goes back to twenty twenty one when this funding started, okay,
part of the Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act. So from then
until April of this year, a grand total of three
hundred and eighty four charging ports have been built. Three
hundred and eighty four seven and a half billion dollars
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and four years later, that's what you got for your money.
But the goal was to buy twenty thirty to build
out about a half a million of these stations across
the country. But you may also remember that, well, part
of the problem was is that when they rolled this out,
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all this money would go to these companies to do this.
But but but the companies had to abide by very
strict diversity, equity and inclusion requirements, and as one senior
DOT official said, that screwed everything up. Kind of like
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we talked yesterday about Pete boot edge Edge in his
role as the chief of the Department Transportation and how
rather than spend money on upgrading our you know, air
traffic control systems, the billions he spent was on the
same thing, a diversity, equity and inclusion. Oh wait, a
minute he was in charge of this too. Wow, So
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for your seven and a half billion dollars, now, I'm
not saying all that's been spent, but still, over a
four year period since that money was first earmarked for this,
you got three hundred eighty four charging points ports. You
take a big city of New York and LA or whatever.
That's probably not even enough to cover a city like that, right,
we didn't think so unbelievable. And remember this also came
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with that you know EV mandate. Well, California had the
EV mandate that threatened to be the whole country to
take that awhere. Oh anyway, it didn't go. Well, we're
not ready for it yet, and no matter how much
taxpayer money you throw at it, we're still not ready
for it yet. Oh by the way, news also, since
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we're talking about cars and such, that the Nissan Versa,
which right now is the only car being manufactured in
America with the price tag of under twenty thousand dollars,
is going away. They'll be discontinued next year. So yeah,
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the last twenty thousand dollars new car in America goes
by bye. Say audios to the Nissan Versa.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
At fifteen after seven o'clock. The tragic news this morning
that the individual who contracted the brain eating a meiba
has in fact died. Well talked about this, say, yesterday
when we first found out about this. Now, yesterday we
weren't old sure, uh, and we're still not sure exactly
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where this this happened. But here's what we we found
out yesterday. As you may have heard that that Department
of Public Health, uh presumed that that presumes this this
this was contracted at Lake Murray. The being really weird
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about the details on this.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, I don't need to know the name of the victim. Nope, Nope,
I don't need to know the exact location of where
it happened. But you can't tell me the body of water, right.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I mean, as of yesterday, we didn't even know it
was somewhere in the state. Was all we knew. And
again there's been no official statements saying it happened.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
At Lake Murray, they said with the Midlands.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Well, according to the posting, Courier. Dpa W says it
learned the case the week of July seventh. An exposure
to this s amiba that the agency presumed to have
occurred to Lake Murray. So they did name the lake. Well,
somebody says something about it, but I don't know that's official.
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But again, it's it's it's the state law. It's it's
not correct me if I'm wrong on this, But we
talked about this yesterday. It's not just that, it's not
that state law doesn't require this information to be put out.
I believe what I read yesterday was that state law
says you can't put this information out. Was that right?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Do you recall because they're afraid there's going to be
a panic.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There'll be a run on you know, everybody run away. Yeah,
now they have not Again, Department of Public Health is
not named specifically the body of water or any a
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specific tales about the individual, citing federal and state privacy laws. Okay,
I get it, you're not going to name the individual.
We don't need to know the individual's name. But I'm
not sure how the body of water the infection came
from would fall under any sort of federal or state
privacy law. That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I think I'd be more comfortable knowing for sure where
it came from. Now they do say that there's nothing
they can do about it, and there's nothing you can
do about it. No, no, huh, it's you know, the only
thing you can do is avoid getting that bacteria directly
into your nasal passages. So they say, you know, if
you're going to go into water that warm, trying not
to stir it up, and try not to try to
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hold your nose when you're jumping in.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, they say this can occur. When does the mema
goes up the nose and then it enters the brain.
Now the other part, again they're not being specific, but
they have said that the patient was being tree at
Prisma Health Children's Hospital and the announcement that the patient
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had passed away came from a pediatric infectious disease physician,
a physician right there at children's hospital. So we know
what was a child. I don't know the age, but
it was a child. Again, Now important to not how
rare this is. Infections like this I've only been reported
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three times in our state over the period of a
dozen years from twenty ten to twenty twenty two. Okay,
there's three times in twelve years. In those same twelve
years across the country, there were forty cases reported. So
it is extremely rare, but it's almost always fatal. Yeah,
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ninety five percent of the time. And you gotta you
gotta apparently, you gotta get it just right. I mean,
you can drink that water that contains it, nothing happens, right, right.
You can go into that water with a cut, get
into your blood, nothing happens.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But if that shoots up your nose just.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Right, yes, straight to the brain now again, Uh, just fyi,
it's just according to keep on to call it d Heck,
it's not d hack anymore. But anyway, the Department of
Public Health website. Symptoms usually start within a week of infection.
They include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, and a stiff neck.
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As it continues on, the patient becomes confused, loses their balance,
suffer from seizures, and hallucinations can occur. I know somebody
out there maybe was swimming in Lake Murray this past
weekend and says, all, I got a stiff deck A way,
you're freaking out right now. But again, these are so
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extremely rare. Again, fewer than ten cases a year reported
in just forty and we're talking about the entire country now,
just forty over a dozen year period, and only three
times have been reported here in South Carolina and that
the same timeframe, So it is very very rare. But
I keep going back to this whole Why can't you
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specifically name the body of water?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Well, you said they did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well presumed, so I guess as as closed they can
come to naming it by law, just say they presume
this is where it came from. Tragic man and a child.
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Uh DPH is declining to provide any more details. According
to the right up in the posting courier, a spokesperson
for the agency says that they do not track infections
from for the AMIEBA. They do not provide information or
comment on individual cases, including the person's condition. We told
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you that yesterday. But again, in the public interest, I
get it, you know, if you if you if they
come out and say officially it was Lake Murray, then
a lot of people are gonna go back out and
get in the water anytime soon. It's the jaws effect,
right sure, But you know, I mean I think people
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people to know, but we do deserve to know. So
what we're left with is this presumption it was Lake Murray.
So that's whe everybody's gonna run with. So you get
the same effect, right, But the people who now won't
go into the water at Lake Murray as a result
of this, But we talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I mean, we have so many man made lakes around here,
not just the big ones, but you know, just the
on your property that you know you might take a
dip in when it gets too hot outside, and that
happened there. Yeah, it's with with water this warm, with
temperatures this warm, could be just about anywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Sorry to hear this, very sorry to hear this tragically,
and a child.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
The conversation begins here.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Just the society problem. Just so why if people act nowadays,
they don't think they've just add.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
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Speaker 3 (24:39):
Seven forty WELD. Good Morning, Wednesday morning, July twenty third. Well,
there's plenty of negative news flading around the Trump administration
right now. And that, of course is a result of
this whole Epstein thing, and we'll get to that coming
up in the eight o'clock hour. But but right now,
let's talk some positive news, shall we, when it comes
to the economy and the job that Trump is doing. Here. Okay,
the tariffs all right, much aligned by some much balley
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hood and rejoiced in by others. We got another you know,
date coming up here, August one. That's again when the
reciprocal tariffs that were originally to go into effect April second.
Trump says, now we'll go into place August one. All right,
So there's a flurry of activity surrounding this. What did
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we just get a deal with Japan yesterday? We got
a deal with Japan yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And again that's what the tariffs have all been about,
is about negotiating better trade policy.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yes, just a couple of weeks ago, Trump has said
that he would levy a twenty five percent tariff on
goods coming in from Japan. Well, the deal struck yesterday
still has a reciprocal tariff in Japan, but of fifteen percent,
and what the President is calling a massive one hundred
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and fifty billion dollar trade deal. He says, five hundred
and fifty billion dollars into the United States States, that is,
which will receive ninety percent of the profits. A deal
that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, saying the
Japan will open its country to trade in things like cars, trucks,
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rice and other ag products. Okay, So a big deal
announced by Trump there and he go again these sorts
of deals. You know, they get announced, but then they
still have to hammer out details. And I'm sure there
are details to be hammered out. But the expectation is
is that everything goes as expected, they'll have a total
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final deal in place in a matter of a couple
of weeks. Okay. Also a deal announced with the Philippines
with Indonesia, a trade agreement with the Republic of Indonesia
which eliminates about ninety nine percent of the tariff barriers
between the two when it comes to industrial and the
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US food and agricultural products sent to the island nation.
So a deal on that. As part of that, we
will sell American aid products to Indonesia at a zero
percent tariff rate. Indonesia, though we'll pay a nineteen percent
rate on all products shipped here to the US. Okay.
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In addition, the President says Indonesia will supply the US
with precious critical minerals. This is a big part of
these minerals for use in what chips? Right, big deal? Okay.
Now more good news. Business product production spending has seen
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its highest growth rates since seven. Now you throw out
after COVID and all the businesses reopened. Okay, you know
that was that was the anomaly. I take that out
of the out of the mix. But capital expenditures cap
ax the money the companies are spending on research and development, software, transportation,
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other things. Again, business productions spending highest climb since nineteen
ninety seven. Additionally, with announced that real wages are also rising.
So very good news on the economic front here, especially
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considering I mean it was all doom and gloom here
a couple of months ago with these tariffs. You know,
how many people are gonna lose jobs, prices are going
to soar, Yet inflation was up ticked up a little
bit at the last run. Again, we are seeing more
and more positive news coming out of this and really
very little negative at this point. Again, this economic report card,
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this is a data compiled by the White House Council
of Economic Advisors, and for the first six months of
the year is showing strong consumer spending, stable job growth,
recovering and expanding industrial output. And we got another FED
meeting coming up here next week, Okay, next Tuesday and Wednesday.
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At least one of the Fed chiefs, I think from
the Atlanta may be the sole one, the only one
is saying we should cut rates. Of course, there's been
this you know, war words, well mainly one side of
war words between Trump and Jerome Powell, of course.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Who Powell has said essentially not sure what's going to
happen with these tariffs. Can't afford to lower rates yet,
that's what his reasoning.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Uh huh, yeah, But Trump is calling for a one
percent rate cut, and he says, it's look at this
job marketing, job market strong again. Inflation while tacking up
a little bit of the last run, has been cooling off.
June beat expectations when it came to jobs. One hundred
and forty seven thousand jobs we're added in June, the
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unemployment rate down to four point one percent. This according
to again the Labor Department their data, and manufacturing output
rising by close to two percent, which by the way,
reverses a point seven percent decline in the five months
leading up to Trump Trump's inauguration. So the last you know,
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seven five months, that is of twenty twenty four, we
saw economic output decline by close to a percent. From
January through June, it rose by close to two percent.
It's about a three percent swing right there. And unfortunately,
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this is the kind of news that gets you know, buried. Well,
let's face it, the main street media is not going
to report on it anyway because they don't want to
give Trump any credit. But all this is overshadowed by
the other stuff that's happening right now when it comes
to the administration that it's all anybody's talking about, and
it's the Epstein stuff. Well, again, there's more news to
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pass along today and we'll get into that coming up
here in the next half hour.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Well, in all this will get overshadowed by more economic
news too if the government winds up shutting down at
the end of September, and that yet there's that looming.
So Republicans have got to use every advantage in every
possible remedy and way that majority benefits them to their benefit.
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Coming up before this, Democrats think they're going to use
this shut down to somehow tilt the account. I mean
in a way that it impacts Trump and it impacts
obviously the the congressional elections the following year. But I mean,
there's there's got to be a way forward, in a
way to use this good economic you use to the benefit.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm kind of under the impression that by and large,
not number one, most Americans don't pay attention to all that.
You know, it makes a lot of news, but it
doesn't really affect most Americans directly. You're talking about the shutdown, shutdown,
and because it's become it seems like every few months,
here it goes again, Here it goes again, Here it
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goes again. That you know, yeah, we just we've stopped
paying attention to all that. Maybe it's just become a
political wedge and a political ploy by either party against
the other. That's what it feels like. At least.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
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 (33:03):
Sixteenth the time Now good morning for Wednesday, July twenty
thirty quick program technical note. We've tried to tune us
in on the FM ban this morning. You probably found
there are issues there, which is why we give you
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Speaker 4 (33:15):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
We're on AM at five sixty am. You can go
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And of course we're always on the absolutely free and
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You know, if we get nasty weather, you know, and
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Speaker 4 (33:48):
You can even talk back to us on the app.
You can't do that, yeh yeah.
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And when you download, if you haven't already download the
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And if you're absolutely dedicated to the FM signal, they
are fixing it working.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They're working on it. Yeah, it should be back up soon. Okay,
So last half hour we were talking about the good news,
good news coming out of the White House on the
economic front. There's lots of it to talk about, but
it's all overshadowed by the negative, and that being the
(34:31):
whole Jeffery Epstein thing here, which is again not going away. Well,
a shift down the approach from the DJ. The Department
of Justice now announcing that the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche.
Blanche has reached out to Jelaane Maxwell to try to
(34:56):
get a feel for her willingness to cooperate with prosecutors.
This confirmation coming last night that at the direction of
Pam Bondy, who I'm sure the direction of Donald Trump,
the DOJ now open to hearing what Maxwell might have
to say regarding uncharged individuals who may have participated in
(35:20):
the Epstein enterprise. Blanche posting to X this Department of
Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from
the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead,
which is just the opposite of all a lot you've
been feeling it in the last couple weeks, so they're scrambling, Now,
(35:43):
what might we learn? Again, this is just saying that
the DJ has reached out to or doesn't say that
whatever discussions they have will be made public Number one. Okay,
But then there's again the thought that, all right, will
(36:04):
we learn anything new? Remember, she's already been through a trial. True,
she's already had who knows how many discussions with the
Department of Justice.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
But now she's in a position to bargain to get
that jail sentence reduced. I mean she's in sure what
twenty years? Yeah, nobody wants to sit in the jail
cell for twenty years. So she's probably held something back.
I'm sure there's something she hasn't disclosed yet that only
she knows if she was really as closet Epstein as
everyone says, So she's probably saved at least one bargaining
(36:38):
chip to use in these discussions. Okay, we would it
be anything that rocked our world? Who knows?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
See, I'm of the I'm of the mind that had
she and maybe she's did to have good legal counsel,
I don't know, but had she had smoking gun type
stuff she had use that before she was sentenced twenty
years in prison.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I don't know if it would have helped her then,
maybe not, maybe not. I don't know if anybody came
to her and said, you know, look, we're we're so
interested in what you have to say. We're going to
reduce your chances of going to jail, or at least
reduce the sentence.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't think they were interested at the time.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
It was yeah to say they wanted to punish her
so and so the way she went, and but now
she may be able to bargain.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah, now they need her now. As far as the
unvailing of any grand jury transcripts, by the way, a
judge has halted that for at least right now temporarily,
just having to look over and make sure the eyes
are dot and the t'ser cross. It sounds like, but
what might we find from that? Again, that's the grand
jury transcript that was sealed. White House wants to unseal it.
(37:44):
And there's a general consensus that maybe a whole not
not anything new will be will be seen there either,
but you never know. Then you've got the House Oversight
Committee as issued a subpoena or will seek to subpoena
Maxwell for testimony as expeditiously as possible, a spokesman confirmed
just yesterday. So suddenly everybody wants miss Maxwell. Sounds like
(38:10):
you're gonna be busy here for a little while. But
what is what? What can she tell anybody? And again
I would be surprised if a subpoena is issued in
front of the House Overside Committee. Well, we all want
(38:31):
if that happens. We all wanted to be a public hearing,
right sure, public testimony. How much you want to bet
it won't be. And then there's Congress. It's ground to
a halt now. And the announcement by Speaker Johnson yesterday
as the House was getting ready to go on vacation
(38:53):
that vacation started early. Uh, the announcement, he was cutting
short the legislative business for the rest of the week.
You've worked hard enough, go home, go on home today?
Actually today? Yeah, today, Wednesday, So summer vacation starts today.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Start campaigning, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
And again this to avoid having to hold any votes
on releasing these files. At some point in time, the
vote's going to have to be. It's going to have
to happen. But just putting it off it I don't
know what they're hoping will happen between now and that point.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Some other controversy pops up, maybe so it takes all
the attention away.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
There have been a couple of those this week, and
we'll talk more about that in the next half hour.
But for now, this will keep Democrats from having the
chance to force any procedural votes.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Well I won't stop, you know, the chief Democrats from
talking about it, and you'll hear from Schumer and over
and over again, probably AOC as well.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
But no matter what, you know, all this is making
the Republican Party and the Trumble administration look bad. You know,
even if there's no fire here, there's plenty of smoke,
and the reaction to it is not It's just it's
not a good look.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
I'm just saying, if you're a squatter, you have more
rights than homeowners. Shot edity just saying.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
One on three point five FM and five sixty am
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Speaker 3 (40:31):
Hey forty one at the time now, Wednesday July twenty third,
the day and time now for our final thoughts here.
It's midweek morning. You probably heard Thomas mentioned this. One
of those two pit bulls that's suspected of being involved
in multiple attacks on joggers over the Harveston State Forest
has been shot and killed. This is by a homeowner
(40:52):
on an adjoining property late late late Monday night. If
it was attacking some of the homeowners, I guess some goats, right, yeah,
and not for the first time, right, Not for the
first time. No, So they've been roaming the area for
a while, it sounds like, which almost makes you wonder
are they roaming? Are they wild? Or are they somebody's
(41:15):
pets who live in that area, or were they dumped?
Who knows? Yeah, So one of the two dogs confirmed
to be dead. The second may have been shot, but
it ran away, they don't know. So as a result,
the State Forest at Harbison, which was supposed to have
reopened yesterday, is going to remain closed at least until Friday,
(41:36):
they say now, pending further developments come. The Inspector General
our State, Brian Lambkin, apparently now reported to currently investigating
the Sumter County School District for alleged mismanagement. This happens
way too often, it seems. Remember, it wasn't until what
(41:58):
about two years ago, maybe a year ago or so,
that the IG's office got the authority to investigate school districts.
May been pretty busy ever since. It seemed like this
is not the only one that's I'm trying to remember
what each other district it is. It's I don't think
it's right here in the Midlands, but another district of
the state is being investigator for potential criminal activity some
(42:19):
of their doings. The story we hear way too often,
it seems way too often, at least part in the
Mayor of Casey fighting back after last week we talked
about this the former city manager, Jim Crossland, who it
was kind of surprising. I mean, Crossland had been there
for a while and he had risen to the top
(42:39):
of the top of the heat, the top of the
pile man. He was a city manager, and he didn't stay.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Long, retired and then immediately took another job.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
In Irmah, Yeah, doing the same thing. Yes, he apparently
when he left, rather than do an exit interview, he
left a letter to the new city manager, Michael Conley,
and that letter somehow made it made it out into
(43:08):
the public.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Okay, here's why I left here, the headaches that you're inheriting.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Huh yeah, yeah, good luck accusing the mayor of severe overreach.
And well we know that there's there's been a lot of.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
A lot of turnover over there and a lot of
turmoil and a lot of trunks and at a bad time.
I mean this, this should be a booming time for
that area.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Oh, by goodness, yes.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
So.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
But the point being that the Crossland gave the letter
to the new city manager, he says, without any expectation
all they would be made public. That wasn't his intention.
Somehow it was made public. Okay, distraction, A lot of
people say it is, But that that Tulsi Gabbard announcement
last Friday about the alleged role of the administration and
(44:00):
Barack Obama himself in jitting up the whole Russia Russia
Russia a collusion hoax that continues to make news. The
president now saying many top Democrats were guilty of treason
based on these new findings from the DOJ. Of course,
(44:23):
he mentioned James Comey and James Clapper and John Brennan,
but he also said this the leader of the gang.
He says was Barack Hussein Obama, He's guilty, this was treason,
saying they caught President Obama absolutely cold. Well, uh, okay,
(44:48):
this is We're in a new territory here. I think
the Obama camp responding, not Barack Obama directly, but a
spokesperson for the former president. Our office does not normally
dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this
White House with a response. But these bizarre allegations are
(45:13):
ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction statement from a
Patrick Roden Rodenbush, the spokesperson for the former president.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
If it were anybody other than Trump, I mean, this
would be front page news headlines. I mean, it's that's
a big deal to accuse a former president of treason.
Treason now, as we know Trump is, he tends to hyperbole,
and you know, it's it's it wouldn't be the first
(45:44):
time that he accused somebody of something and then later
got downgraded. But it's still a big deal.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
It is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
It is, And now he's gotten a response out of Obama,
which may be rare, maybe what he wanted maybe.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
So the death of Ozzy Osbourne at seventy six. I mean,
we knew that Ozzy Osbourne had been, you know, in
bad health for a long time. He was suffering from Parkinson's,
he had back issues and let's face it, I mean,
he'll tell you, he.
Speaker 4 (46:11):
Told him so. He used his body for all those years.
But if he had to leave, boy, he left on toped.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Boy, didn't he though?
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (46:18):
I mean it was just a couple of weeks ago
that did a final concert for Black Sabbath. Yeah, he
had to sit on a throne for the whole show, but.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
He got a chance to see just how much people
loved him, how his fellow musicians revered him, and then
raised a boatload of money for charity, one.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Hundred and ninety million dollars give or take, so one
final good d there from Ozzy Osbourne. I and I
don't know, I mean, how bad was his health then?
Speaker 4 (46:47):
We were told did he did he.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Know he was basically on his death bed?
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, I don't know. We were told at one point
that he was in the best shape of his life,
that he had worked his way up just to be
able to perform there.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Wow, so.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Shocking that he does shape over his recent life.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yeah, Yeah, not shocking he died, but that he was
just on stage a couple of weeks ago after all this.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
And what's weird is you know, for as big as
he was in music, a lot of people know him
from that reality show in MTV.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Oh sure, yeah, the younger generation. That's all they do
know about him.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
That was big.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
Oh yeah, that was before the Kardashians. Remember ye's right, Okay,
that pre date of the Kardashians, that's right. Winning here
the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee barring transgender women from
competing in women's sports. Nice, okay, it shouldn't even be
a discussion. Men can compete in women's sports. But the
(47:39):
us OPC finally saying that's the case. And you know,
this occurred to some people. So we talked about yesterday
that that Hunter Biden meltdown podcast interview the other day which,
among other things, he said that his dad was on ambient.
Remember that Trump wanted a pre debate drug test before
that debate that ill fated to paid for Rod Joe Biden. Huh,
(48:05):
you didn't get it, but they he thought they were
using something to prop Biden up, and instead he was
using ambien, which knocked him out. Okay, just remember that
Holesius SF. Hell yeah, same America. Thanks falling for regious
or nation your God and this is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Ho the heck are you morning to you? It's Wednesday,
July twenty third. Good to have you long sixteen minutes
after six waiting up me Roland all ready this morning.
Let's get to it there, Gary David, Christopher Thompson, the team,
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mister Thompson, good morning.
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Hey we should let people know and I'm not sure
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H yeah, I was gonna do that.
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Thank you for bringing that up if you were trying
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overnight related to the rain, I suppose, but you know
we're available on AM. The five sixty signals still was
booming this morning, and of course on iHeart Radio as well.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We give you options, That's that's why. And they're working
on the FM side, Okay, terrific. If they haven't already
fixed it yet, I'm not sure that may have I
haven't got an update yet on that, but yeah, yeah,
let's say if you haven't, you know, as we get
into you know, September October, and you know when we
are more prone to get really you know, I mean
like like tropical kind of weather around here. If you
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haven't downloaded the iHeartRadio app, it doesn't cost you anything,
and you could always listen to us on that matter
of fact, you can set us as the preset Numero
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do so. So yeah, if you haven't downloaded that app,
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I know I taught a lot of them they listened
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us up on the app, So do that all right. Yeah,
we had a couple of little nasty storms rolled through
our neighborhood last night. Not today, but maybe tomorrow looks
like and season Yeah, these are seasonable or seasonal temperatures today,
(02:18):
just we're right about our average. Let me have a
degree or two above. But yeah, you heard Todder mention
the really hot stuff's coming back this weekend, so brace
yourselves for that. Okay, matter of fact, I see one
hundred and one Sunday, one hundred and one Monday. Yeah, yes, yeah,
all right. There's a lot of the but the stack
is large this morning, the run down, the big stories,
(02:39):
the hot topics.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So let's quickly address some of these headlines. I know
the stack is large. I had to refill the paper,
the print around many times, just once. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Environmentals hate me. All right, Okay, we now know that
the individual who we were told had contracted this brain
eating amba, brain infecting amba has in fact passed away.
We also know this was a patient at Prisoner Health
(03:13):
Children's Hospital, so it was a kid. It was a child.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
They won't say, but you can infer.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yes, they don't treat adults at children's hospitals. And it
also seems to be from various and sundrysources that this
in fact was contracted at Lake Murray. Again, the Department
of Public Health is not being specific, and state law
(03:42):
says they apparently can't be specific with such a thing.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Especially if it's a public body of water exactly. That
doesn't make any sense at all. None none, so we
can't be certain. But again, indications are that's all the
indications are. It happened it was contracted at Lake Murray. Well,
I guess I should correct myself. Lake Murray is not
a public body of water, but there's public access to
(04:09):
it in spots.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes, it's owned by Dominion. But yeah, so a sad
news to pass along. And yeah again even Saturday, this
was a child apparently one of the two pit bulls
it was suspected of attacking joggers a week ago over
in the Harveston State Forest has been shot and killed. Now,
(04:33):
they originally had hoped to reopen the park the forest,
well last Thursday, I guess it was, and he got
put off until yesterday. Again, one of these dogs was
taken down Monday night, apparently on a nearby private property.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Now I was on vacation when this happened. Yeah, correct
me on the timeline. So there was an attack the
day before Winston Holiday got attacked. Yeah, there were two attacks,
and then they still had a run through that force
the next day.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, and under the guys, as though with a bunch
of people there the dogs would be scared away.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, Yeah, they took their chances without one. Yeah, they did,
at least part, and is hitting back at a leaked
memo that claimed she had created a hostile workplace that
we talked about this last week. The now departed city manager,
Jim Crossland, apparently, rather than do an exit interview, gave
a letter to the new city manager, Michael Connolly, and
(05:33):
that letter somehow got leaked. Crossland says he didn't intend
for that to be public, but it got public anyway,
and it was critical of the mayor, and the mayor
now is having a few choice words about it. Maybe
we'll get to some of that. Myrtle Beach is making
it official. They are that new curfew will stay in
effect nine pm six am, affecting anyone seventeen and younger,
(05:58):
although officials I'm not sure to'll really solve anything. Sumter
County School District is under the spotlight. The South contin
Inspector General currently investigating the district for alleged mismanagement on
several projects.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
A lot of news.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Coming down yesterday on the Jeffrey Epstein thing here. The
focus now on Glain Maxwell, the deputy Attorney General is
going to be has already reached out to Maxwell to
talk about her willingness to cooperate with prosecutors as the
(06:36):
administration is whether they're they're running pretty crazy right now,
trying to put this thing to rest, and hoping that
just us knowing that the DJ is going to talk
to Maxwell is somehow going to quill people's concerns. I'm
not sure that's going to happen. The House Oversight Committee
has issued a subpoena for her testimony, and the House
(06:58):
going home early. Speaking Mike Johnson announcing yesterday's cutting short
the week's session, sending him home for an early summer.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
If you can't avoid any kind of action on Epstein,
just send everybody Holme.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Send everybody home, which is exactly what they're doing. Meantime,
the presidents saying there's an irrefutable proof that Barack Obama
is guilty of treason. Okay, this is going back to
the bombshow released a last Friday by the D and
I on the Obama administration and how they well ratcheted
(07:36):
up this Russia hoax when it came to collusion. Trump
saying the leader of the gang was Barack Hussein Obama.
He writes, he's guilty, this was treason. Well, Obama spokesperson
issuing a statement calling this a weak attempt at distraction.
(07:56):
We'll get into that this morning. Meantime, on the economic front,
the President securing an historic five hundred and fifty billion
dollar trade deal with Japan, also a reciprocal tariffs. Japan
will pay fifteen percent to US under that deal. Also
announcing another win in that part of the world with
the Philippines, and a tariff of nineteen percent on Indonesia,
(08:21):
we'll pay no tariff at all. In business spending reaching
a thirty year high, So there is a good economic
news to pass along.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
The death of Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Just what a couple of weeks after that, the final
show with his original band, Black Sabbath.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah kind of, I mean wow. They said he got in,
you know, the best shape of his life just to
make that show, to sit on that throne on that stage.
Thank goodness he got a chance to do that. But
did it take too much out of him? I don't know, Yeah,
don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Of course, he had been suffering from Parkinson's and he
had back issues and all sorts of health issues, and.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
It's not like he was the healthiest guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Ligion No no, he abused his body for a long time.
But seventy six, Ozzy Osbourne's Gone That concert, by the way,
raised close to two hundred million dollars for a number
of charities.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Wow. Yeah, how about that? Good for him?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
All right, we'll get to that and more coming up
here on this. It is the busy Wednesday edition of
Columbia's Morning News and it is great to have you
with us.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You never know when the news will break me, but
leave us on and you will. I think we want
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Speaker 3 (09:43):
At six forty three on a Wednesday morning. Good morning,
and good to have you along. This is this is
the nuttiest story right here. Well, no, the story, well,
what prompted this is insane. Shell, BP and m Bridge,
major energy companies, reports in the Financial Times, have left
(10:05):
an advisory group that was promoting corporate climate targets draconian
targets after these major energy companies learned that the alignment
could threaten their ability to develop new oil and gas fields.
According to Financial Times, again, they've all exited this climate
(10:29):
advisory group known as the Science Based Targets Initiative after
a draft policy came out saying these companies must stop
developing new oil and gas fields either a after submitting a
climate plan to this advisory group or in lieu of
that at the end of twenty twenty seven, okay, in
(10:52):
about less than two and a half years, whichever comes first.
This is an advisory group b TI that partners with
the United Nations. Oh yeah, they're involved, and they advise
companies on how to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to
get to net zero missions by twenty fifty. Okay, So
(11:13):
they are actually telling these companies or advising them at
least that once they submitted their climate report, or if
they didn't by the end of twenty twenty seven, they
must stop developing any new ways to get oil and
gas or oil out of the ground and turn it
into gas. Now, these companies say they're they're still committed
(11:39):
to climate related to targets, but this is just nuts.
This is just crazy. And again, I know when we
talk about electricity, that's a bit of a different thing,
but still we're talking about energy and the crunch. I mean,
did they think that we're just gonna not have to
use Well, that's their desire that we get away from
(11:59):
all of that course and go to you know, evs,
which well, hang on, we got news on that too
this morning. As part of that new green scam, Congress
set aside seven and a half billion dollars for the
(12:21):
Biden era National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula program. We've talked
about this in the past, and this was to build
all these EV stations right which, by the way, the
sale of EV's has been steadily dropping. But this was
the push. The seven and a half billion dollars given
(12:44):
to this program. I'm not sure every single dollar was
designed just for this purpose, but if not, it was
most of them. And the report now is in from
the Government Accountability Office on how successful this program was
or was not. This report, released yesterday says that the
(13:09):
seven and a half billion dollar fundings in these programs
combined for fiscal years twenty twenty two to twenty twenty six.
Goes on to say Congress has expressed concern over the
pace at which charging ports have been built under this program.
As of April of twenty twenty five. Again this goes back, well,
(13:35):
this goes back to twenty twenty one when this funding started, okay,
part of the Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act. So from then
until April of this year, a grand total of three
hundred and eighty four charging ports have been built. Three
hundred and eighty four seven and a half billion dollars
(13:59):
and four years later, that's what you got for your money.
But the goal was to buy twenty thirty to build
out about a half a million of these stations across
the country. But you may also remember that, well, part
of the problem was is that when they rolled this out,
(14:22):
all this money would go to these companies to do this.
But but but the companies had to abide by very
strict diversity, equity and inclusion requirements, and as one senior
DOT official said, that screwed everything up. Kind of like
(14:42):
we talked yesterday about Pete boot edge Edge in his
role as the chief of the Department Transportation and how
rather than spend money on upgrading our you know, air
traffic control systems, the billions he spent was on the
same thing, a diversity, equity and inclusion. Oh wait, a
minute he was in charge of this too. Wow, So
(15:10):
for your seven and a half billion dollars, now, I'm
not saying all that's been spent, but still, over a
four year period since that money was first earmarked for this,
you got three hundred eighty four charging points ports. You
take a big city of New York and LA or whatever.
That's probably not even enough to cover a city like that, right,
we didn't think so unbelievable. And remember this also came
(15:36):
with that you know EV mandate. Well, California had the
EV mandate that threatened to be the whole country to
take that awhere. Oh anyway, it didn't go. Well, we're
not ready for it yet, and no matter how much
taxpayer money you throw at it, we're still not ready
for it yet. Oh by the way, news also, since
(15:59):
we're talking about cars and such, that the Nissan Versa,
which right now is the only car being manufactured in
America with the price tag of under twenty thousand dollars,
is going away. They'll be discontinued next year. So yeah,
(16:23):
the last twenty thousand dollars new car in America goes
by bye. Say audios to the Nissan Versa.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
At fifteen after seven o'clock. The tragic news this morning
that the individual who contracted the brain eating a meiba
has in fact died. Well talked about this, say, yesterday
when we first found out about this. Now, yesterday we
weren't old sure, uh, and we're still not sure exactly
(17:04):
where this this happened. But here's what we we found
out yesterday. As you may have heard that that Department
of Public Health, uh presumed that that presumes this this
this was contracted at Lake Murray. The being really weird
(17:27):
about the details on this.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah, I don't need to know the name of the victim. Nope, Nope,
I don't need to know the exact location of where
it happened. But you can't tell me the body of water, right.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I mean, as of yesterday, we didn't even know it
was somewhere in the state. Was all we knew. And
again there's been no official statements saying it happened.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
At Lake Murray, they said with the Midlands.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Well, according to the posting, Courier. Dpa W says it
learned the case the week of July seventh. An exposure
to this s amiba that the agency presumed to have
occurred to Lake Murray. So they did name the lake. Well,
somebody says something about it, but I don't know that's official.
(18:15):
But again, it's it's it's the state law. It's it's
not correct me if I'm wrong on this, But we
talked about this yesterday. It's not just that, it's not
that state law doesn't require this information to be put out.
I believe what I read yesterday was that state law
says you can't put this information out. Was that right?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Do you recall because they're afraid there's going to be
a panic.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There'll be a run on you know, everybody run away. Yeah,
now they have not Again, Department of Public Health is
not named specifically the body of water or any a
(18:59):
specific tales about the individual, citing federal and state privacy laws. Okay,
I get it, you're not going to name the individual.
We don't need to know the individual's name. But I'm
not sure how the body of water the infection came
from would fall under any sort of federal or state
privacy law. That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I think I'd be more comfortable knowing for sure where
it came from. Now they do say that there's nothing
they can do about it, and there's nothing you can
do about it. No, no, huh, it's you know, the only
thing you can do is avoid getting that bacteria directly
into your nasal passages. So they say, you know, if
you're going to go into water that warm, trying not
to stir it up, and try not to try to
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hold your nose when you're jumping in.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, they say this can occur. When does the mema
goes up the nose and then it enters the brain.
Now the other part, again they're not being specific, but
they have said that the patient was being tree at
Prisma Health Children's Hospital and the announcement that the patient
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had passed away came from a pediatric infectious disease physician,
a physician right there at children's hospital. So we know
what was a child. I don't know the age, but
it was a child. Again, Now important to not how
rare this is. Infections like this I've only been reported
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three times in our state over the period of a
dozen years from twenty ten to twenty twenty two. Okay,
there's three times in twelve years. In those same twelve
years across the country, there were forty cases reported. So
it is extremely rare, but it's almost always fatal. Yeah,
(20:58):
ninety five percent of the time. And you gotta you
gotta apparently, you gotta get it just right. I mean,
you can drink that water that contains it, nothing happens, right, right.
You can go into that water with a cut, get
into your blood, nothing happens.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But if that shoots up your nose just.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Right, yes, straight to the brain now again, Uh, just fyi,
it's just according to keep on to call it d Heck,
it's not d hack anymore. But anyway, the Department of
Public Health website. Symptoms usually start within a week of infection.
They include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, and a stiff neck.
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As it continues on, the patient becomes confused, loses their balance,
suffer from seizures, and hallucinations can occur. I know somebody
out there maybe was swimming in Lake Murray this past
weekend and says, all, I got a stiff deck A way,
you're freaking out right now. But again, these are so
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extremely rare. Again, fewer than ten cases a year reported
in just forty and we're talking about the entire country now,
just forty over a dozen year period, and only three
times have been reported here in South Carolina and that
the same timeframe, So it is very very rare. But
I keep going back to this whole Why can't you
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specifically name the body of water?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Well, you said they did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well presumed, so I guess as as closed they can
come to naming it by law, just say they presume
this is where it came from. Tragic man and a child.
(22:56):
Uh DPH is declining to provide any more details. According
to the right up in the posting courier, a spokesperson
for the agency says that they do not track infections
from for the AMIEBA. They do not provide information or
comment on individual cases, including the person's condition. We told
(23:18):
you that yesterday. But again, in the public interest, I
get it, you know, if you if you if they
come out and say officially it was Lake Murray, then
a lot of people are gonna go back out and
get in the water anytime soon. It's the jaws effect,
right sure, But you know, I mean I think people
(23:42):
people to know, but we do deserve to know. So
what we're left with is this presumption it was Lake Murray.
So that's whe everybody's gonna run with. So you get
the same effect, right, But the people who now won't
go into the water at Lake Murray as a result
of this, But we talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I mean, we have so many man made lakes around here,
not just the big ones, but you know, just the
on your property that you know you might take a
dip in when it gets too hot outside, and that
happened there. Yeah, it's with with water this warm, with
temperatures this warm, could be just about anywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Sorry to hear this, very sorry to hear this tragically,
and a child.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
The conversation begins here.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Just the society problem. Just so why if people act nowadays,
they don't think they've just add.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
One O three point five FM, five sixty AM w VOC.
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Speaker 3 (24:39):
Seven forty WELD. Good Morning, Wednesday morning, July twenty third. Well,
there's plenty of negative news flading around the Trump administration
right now. And that, of course is a result of
this whole Epstein thing, and we'll get to that coming
up in the eight o'clock hour. But but right now,
let's talk some positive news, shall we, when it comes
to the economy and the job that Trump is doing. Here. Okay,
the tariffs all right, much aligned by some much balley
(25:03):
hood and rejoiced in by others. We got another you know,
date coming up here, August one. That's again when the
reciprocal tariffs that were originally to go into effect April second.
Trump says, now we'll go into place August one. All right,
So there's a flurry of activity surrounding this. What did
(25:27):
we just get a deal with Japan yesterday? We got
a deal with Japan yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And again that's what the tariffs have all been about,
is about negotiating better trade policy.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yes, just a couple of weeks ago, Trump has said
that he would levy a twenty five percent tariff on
goods coming in from Japan. Well, the deal struck yesterday
still has a reciprocal tariff in Japan, but of fifteen percent,
and what the President is calling a massive one hundred
(26:00):
and fifty billion dollar trade deal. He says, five hundred
and fifty billion dollars into the United States States, that is,
which will receive ninety percent of the profits. A deal
that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, saying the
Japan will open its country to trade in things like cars, trucks,
(26:22):
rice and other ag products. Okay, So a big deal
announced by Trump there and he go again these sorts
of deals. You know, they get announced, but then they
still have to hammer out details. And I'm sure there
are details to be hammered out. But the expectation is
is that everything goes as expected, they'll have a total
(26:45):
final deal in place in a matter of a couple
of weeks. Okay. Also a deal announced with the Philippines
with Indonesia, a trade agreement with the Republic of Indonesia
which eliminates about ninety nine percent of the tariff barriers
between the two when it comes to industrial and the
(27:06):
US food and agricultural products sent to the island nation.
So a deal on that. As part of that, we
will sell American aid products to Indonesia at a zero
percent tariff rate. Indonesia, though we'll pay a nineteen percent
rate on all products shipped here to the US. Okay.
(27:27):
In addition, the President says Indonesia will supply the US
with precious critical minerals. This is a big part of
these minerals for use in what chips? Right, big deal? Okay.
Now more good news. Business product production spending has seen
(27:57):
its highest growth rates since seven. Now you throw out
after COVID and all the businesses reopened. Okay, you know
that was that was the anomaly. I take that out
of the out of the mix. But capital expenditures cap
ax the money the companies are spending on research and development, software, transportation,
(28:18):
other things. Again, business productions spending highest climb since nineteen
ninety seven. Additionally, with announced that real wages are also rising.
So very good news on the economic front here, especially
(28:44):
considering I mean it was all doom and gloom here
a couple of months ago with these tariffs. You know,
how many people are gonna lose jobs, prices are going
to soar, Yet inflation was up ticked up a little
bit at the last run. Again, we are seeing more
and more positive news coming out of this and really
very little negative at this point. Again, this economic report card,
(29:09):
this is a data compiled by the White House Council
of Economic Advisors, and for the first six months of
the year is showing strong consumer spending, stable job growth,
recovering and expanding industrial output. And we got another FED
meeting coming up here next week, Okay, next Tuesday and Wednesday.
(29:33):
At least one of the Fed chiefs, I think from
the Atlanta may be the sole one, the only one
is saying we should cut rates. Of course, there's been
this you know, war words, well mainly one side of
war words between Trump and Jerome Powell, of course.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Who Powell has said essentially not sure what's going to
happen with these tariffs. Can't afford to lower rates yet,
that's what his reasoning.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Uh huh, yeah, But Trump is calling for a one
percent rate cut, and he says, it's look at this
job marketing, job market strong again. Inflation while tacking up
a little bit of the last run, has been cooling off.
June beat expectations when it came to jobs. One hundred
and forty seven thousand jobs we're added in June, the
(30:19):
unemployment rate down to four point one percent. This according
to again the Labor Department their data, and manufacturing output
rising by close to two percent, which by the way,
reverses a point seven percent decline in the five months
leading up to Trump Trump's inauguration. So the last you know,
(30:39):
seven five months, that is of twenty twenty four, we
saw economic output decline by close to a percent. From
January through June, it rose by close to two percent.
It's about a three percent swing right there. And unfortunately,
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this is the kind of news that gets you know, buried. Well,
let's face it, the main street media is not going
to report on it anyway because they don't want to
give Trump any credit. But all this is overshadowed by
the other stuff that's happening right now when it comes
to the administration that it's all anybody's talking about, and
it's the Epstein stuff. Well, again, there's more news to
(31:23):
pass along today and we'll get into that coming up
here in the next half hour.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Well, in all this will get overshadowed by more economic
news too if the government winds up shutting down at
the end of September, and that yet there's that looming.
So Republicans have got to use every advantage in every
possible remedy and way that majority benefits them to their benefit.
(31:52):
Coming up before this, Democrats think they're going to use
this shut down to somehow tilt the account. I mean
in a way that it impacts Trump and it impacts
obviously the the congressional elections the following year. But I mean,
there's there's got to be a way forward, in a
way to use this good economic you use to the benefit.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm kind of under the impression that by and large,
not number one, most Americans don't pay attention to all that.
You know, it makes a lot of news, but it
doesn't really affect most Americans directly. You're talking about the shutdown, shutdown,
and because it's become it seems like every few months,
here it goes again, Here it goes again, Here it
(32:36):
goes again. That you know, yeah, we just we've stopped
paying attention to all that. Maybe it's just become a
political wedge and a political ploy by either party against
the other. That's what it feels like. At least.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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Speaker 3 (33:03):
Sixteenth the time Now good morning for Wednesday, July twenty
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Huh.
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And of course we're always on the absolutely free and
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You can even talk back to us on the app.
You can't do that, yeh yeah.
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And if you're absolutely dedicated to the FM signal, they
are fixing it working.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They're working on it. Yeah, it should be back up soon. Okay,
So last half hour we were talking about the good news,
good news coming out of the White House on the
economic front. There's lots of it to talk about, but
it's all overshadowed by the negative, and that being the
(34:31):
whole Jeffery Epstein thing here, which is again not going away. Well,
a shift down the approach from the DJ. The Department
of Justice now announcing that the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche.
Blanche has reached out to Jelaane Maxwell to try to
(34:56):
get a feel for her willingness to cooperate with prosecutors.
This confirmation coming last night that at the direction of
Pam Bondy, who I'm sure the direction of Donald Trump,
the DOJ now open to hearing what Maxwell might have
to say regarding uncharged individuals who may have participated in
(35:20):
the Epstein enterprise. Blanche posting to X this Department of
Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from
the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead,
which is just the opposite of all a lot you've
been feeling it in the last couple weeks, so they're scrambling, Now,
(35:43):
what might we learn? Again, this is just saying that
the DJ has reached out to or doesn't say that
whatever discussions they have will be made public Number one. Okay,
But then there's again the thought that, all right, will
(36:04):
we learn anything new? Remember, she's already been through a trial. True,
she's already had who knows how many discussions with the
Department of Justice.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
But now she's in a position to bargain to get
that jail sentence reduced. I mean she's in sure what
twenty years? Yeah, nobody wants to sit in the jail
cell for twenty years. So she's probably held something back.
I'm sure there's something she hasn't disclosed yet that only
she knows if she was really as closet Epstein as
everyone says, So she's probably saved at least one bargaining
(36:38):
chip to use in these discussions. Okay, we would it
be anything that rocked our world? Who knows?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
See, I'm of the I'm of the mind that had
she and maybe she's did to have good legal counsel,
I don't know, but had she had smoking gun type
stuff she had use that before she was sentenced twenty
years in prison.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I don't know if it would have helped her then,
maybe not, maybe not. I don't know if anybody came
to her and said, you know, look, we're we're so
interested in what you have to say. We're going to
reduce your chances of going to jail, or at least
reduce the sentence.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't think they were interested at the time.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
It was yeah to say they wanted to punish her
so and so the way she went, and but now
she may be able to bargain.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah, now they need her now. As far as the
unvailing of any grand jury transcripts, by the way, a
judge has halted that for at least right now temporarily,
just having to look over and make sure the eyes
are dot and the t'ser cross. It sounds like, but
what might we find from that? Again, that's the grand
jury transcript that was sealed. White House wants to unseal it.
(37:44):
And there's a general consensus that maybe a whole not
not anything new will be will be seen there either,
but you never know. Then you've got the House Oversight
Committee as issued a subpoena or will seek to subpoena
Maxwell for testimony as expeditiously as possible, a spokesman confirmed
just yesterday. So suddenly everybody wants miss Maxwell. Sounds like
(38:10):
you're gonna be busy here for a little while. But
what is what? What can she tell anybody? And again
I would be surprised if a subpoena is issued in
front of the House Overside Committee. Well, we all want
(38:31):
if that happens. We all wanted to be a public hearing,
right sure, public testimony. How much you want to bet
it won't be. And then there's Congress. It's ground to
a halt now. And the announcement by Speaker Johnson yesterday
as the House was getting ready to go on vacation
(38:53):
that vacation started early. Uh, the announcement, he was cutting
short the legislative business for the rest of the week.
You've worked hard enough, go home, go on home today?
Actually today? Yeah, today, Wednesday, So summer vacation starts today.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Start campaigning, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
And again this to avoid having to hold any votes
on releasing these files. At some point in time, the
vote's going to have to be. It's going to have
to happen. But just putting it off it I don't
know what they're hoping will happen between now and that point.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Some other controversy pops up, maybe so it takes all
the attention away.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
There have been a couple of those this week, and
we'll talk more about that in the next half hour.
But for now, this will keep Democrats from having the
chance to force any procedural votes.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Well I won't stop, you know, the chief Democrats from
talking about it, and you'll hear from Schumer and over
and over again, probably AOC as well.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
But no matter what, you know, all this is making
the Republican Party and the Trumble administration look bad. You know,
even if there's no fire here, there's plenty of smoke,
and the reaction to it is not It's just it's
not a good look.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
I'm just saying, if you're a squatter, you have more
rights than homeowners. Shot edity just saying.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
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Speaker 3 (40:31):
Hey forty one at the time now, Wednesday July twenty third,
the day and time now for our final thoughts here.
It's midweek morning. You probably heard Thomas mentioned this. One
of those two pit bulls that's suspected of being involved
in multiple attacks on joggers over the Harveston State Forest
has been shot and killed. This is by a homeowner
(40:52):
on an adjoining property late late late Monday night. If
it was attacking some of the homeowners, I guess some goats, right, yeah,
and not for the first time, right, Not for the
first time. No, So they've been roaming the area for
a while, it sounds like, which almost makes you wonder
are they roaming? Are they wild? Or are they somebody's
(41:15):
pets who live in that area, or were they dumped?
Who knows? Yeah, So one of the two dogs confirmed
to be dead. The second may have been shot, but
it ran away, they don't know. So as a result,
the State Forest at Harbison, which was supposed to have
reopened yesterday, is going to remain closed at least until Friday,
(41:36):
they say now, pending further developments come. The Inspector General
our State, Brian Lambkin, apparently now reported to currently investigating
the Sumter County School District for alleged mismanagement. This happens
way too often, it seems. Remember, it wasn't until what
(41:58):
about two years ago, maybe a year ago or so,
that the IG's office got the authority to investigate school districts.
May been pretty busy ever since. It seemed like this
is not the only one that's I'm trying to remember
what each other district it is. It's I don't think
it's right here in the Midlands, but another district of
the state is being investigator for potential criminal activity some
(42:19):
of their doings. The story we hear way too often,
it seems way too often, at least part in the
Mayor of Casey fighting back after last week we talked
about this the former city manager, Jim Crossland, who it
was kind of surprising. I mean, Crossland had been there
for a while and he had risen to the top
(42:39):
of the top of the heat, the top of the
pile man. He was a city manager, and he didn't stay.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Long, retired and then immediately took another job.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
In Irmah, Yeah, doing the same thing. Yes, he apparently
when he left, rather than do an exit interview, he
left a letter to the new city manager, Michael Conley,
and that letter somehow made it made it out into
(43:08):
the public.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Okay, here's why I left here, the headaches that you're inheriting.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Huh yeah, yeah, good luck accusing the mayor of severe overreach.
And well we know that there's there's been a lot of.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
A lot of turnover over there and a lot of
turmoil and a lot of trunks and at a bad time.
I mean this, this should be a booming time for
that area.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Oh, by goodness, yes.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
So.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
But the point being that the Crossland gave the letter
to the new city manager, he says, without any expectation
all they would be made public. That wasn't his intention.
Somehow it was made public. Okay, distraction, A lot of
people say it is, But that that Tulsi Gabbard announcement
last Friday about the alleged role of the administration and
(44:00):
Barack Obama himself in jitting up the whole Russia Russia
Russia a collusion hoax that continues to make news. The
president now saying many top Democrats were guilty of treason
based on these new findings from the DOJ. Of course,
(44:23):
he mentioned James Comey and James Clapper and John Brennan,
but he also said this the leader of the gang.
He says was Barack Hussein Obama, He's guilty, this was treason,
saying they caught President Obama absolutely cold. Well, uh, okay,
(44:48):
this is We're in a new territory here. I think
the Obama camp responding, not Barack Obama directly, but a
spokesperson for the former president. Our office does not normally
dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this
White House with a response. But these bizarre allegations are
(45:13):
ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction statement from a
Patrick Roden Rodenbush, the spokesperson for the former president.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
If it were anybody other than Trump, I mean, this
would be front page news headlines. I mean, it's that's
a big deal to accuse a former president of treason.
Treason now, as we know Trump is, he tends to hyperbole,
and you know, it's it's it wouldn't be the first
(45:44):
time that he accused somebody of something and then later
got downgraded. But it's still a big deal.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
It is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
It is, And now he's gotten a response out of Obama,
which may be rare, maybe what he wanted maybe.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
So the death of Ozzy Osbourne at seventy six. I mean,
we knew that Ozzy Osbourne had been, you know, in
bad health for a long time. He was suffering from Parkinson's,
he had back issues and let's face it, I mean,
he'll tell you, he.
Speaker 4 (46:11):
Told him so. He used his body for all those years.
But if he had to leave, boy, he left on toped.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Boy, didn't he though?
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (46:18):
I mean it was just a couple of weeks ago
that did a final concert for Black Sabbath. Yeah, he
had to sit on a throne for the whole show, but.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
He got a chance to see just how much people
loved him, how his fellow musicians revered him, and then
raised a boatload of money for charity, one.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Hundred and ninety million dollars give or take, so one
final good d there from Ozzy Osbourne. I and I
don't know, I mean, how bad was his health then?
Speaker 4 (46:47):
We were told did he did he.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
Know he was basically on his death bed?
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, I don't know. We were told at one point
that he was in the best shape of his life,
that he had worked his way up just to be
able to perform there.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Wow, so.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Shocking that he does shape over his recent life.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yeah, Yeah, not shocking he died, but that he was
just on stage a couple of weeks ago after all this.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
And what's weird is you know, for as big as
he was in music, a lot of people know him
from that reality show in MTV.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Oh sure, yeah, the younger generation. That's all they do
know about him.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
That was big.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
Oh yeah, that was before the Kardashians. Remember ye's right, Okay,
that pre date of the Kardashians, that's right. Winning here
the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee barring transgender women from
competing in women's sports. Nice, okay, it shouldn't even be
a discussion. Men can compete in women's sports. But the
(47:39):
us OPC finally saying that's the case. And you know,
this occurred to some people. So we talked about yesterday
that that Hunter Biden meltdown podcast interview the other day which,
among other things, he said that his dad was on ambient.
Remember that Trump wanted a pre debate drug test before
that debate that ill fated to paid for Rod Joe Biden. Huh,
(48:05):
you didn't get it, but they he thought they were
using something to prop Biden up, and instead he was
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