Show Rewind 08-04-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hell yeah, same America and ery for formation is wrong.

Speaker 3 (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 1 (00:29):
It's sixteen minutes after six o'clock and welcome to it.
It's Monday, August the fourth. Good morning, Welcome back, stranger. Hey,
I'm ahead to Hey, I need some more coffee? Man?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
WHOA not used to this schedule?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh? No? And I was on Central Time for a week?
Oh boy or whatever they call it Mexico. Yeah, I
don't know whatever that is s resort time as.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Resort, yeah, resort, you better believe it. Man.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
So when I woke up at you know, seven p
thirty resort time like eight thirty here, and now it's
like six seventeen of the morning, and yeah, well what
just happened here?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Don't expect any of us to feel sorry for you,
but we're glad you're back.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Okay, got any more coffee?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Are you gonna be back? Did I miss anything? Apparently
I've missed a few things. Well, and yeah, we've had
a fairly busy week. Yeah, and we got more coming
down today. Let's get right to it. Shall we the rundown,
the big stories, the hot topics. First up, No, I
did not bring this weather back with me, but this
is kind of sweet.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, it's been different. Yeah, I mean we sweltered through
last week and then the weekend hit and the rain came,
but with cooler temperature.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
And we do have a tropical storm now, Dexter. Oh boy,
that's formed off the coast of the Atlantic, spinning our
way actually no, thankfully, but bringing some pretty heavy range
to parts of Georgia apparently this morning. But it is
staying offshore and not gonna it's not gonna No, it's
not gonna come on shore here and impact the US

(02:02):
at all. Forty five mine hour MA sustained wins is
what we're what we're looking at here. So it's officially
a tropical storm, but it's just not gonna have any
impact on them. Maybe bringing maybe a little more rainforest
at some point in time, So we'll look at that, Okay.
The big breaking news this morning is that it's getting
pretty crowded up in there. Nancy Mays today is set

(02:25):
to launch her bid for governor of South Carolina. She
released making an announcement she's making an announcement. Yes, but
she posted a video with a tagline Nancy Mays for
Governor on her website last night and this launch event
expected to be held tomorrow to this morning, I should say,

(02:46):
this morning at the Citadel. Okay, so it's long been
teased as she would get into this race, and it
looks like today is today that she will now this.
I guess what last week she talked about how our
state had becomes so so woke.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think it was last Sunday, a week ago Sunday
on one of the Fox programs, she said she's being
forced to run.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes, I can't watch my beautiful red state of South
Carolina go woke, she says, and it's gone woke over
the last couple.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Of years, which is news to most of us.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, Well, since we've gone woke in her opinion, she's
being forced to run for governor. Just kind of like
when she said this something similar oh a month or
two back, that well things were happening and she might
have to run for governor, might be again forced in
a running for governor. I don't know what that says
to you as a voter, but anyhow, we'll get into
this this of course after, you know, while I was out,

(03:42):
but it fully expected that Ralph Norman made his announcement
a week ago Saturday. I guess it was, right, yes, yeah,
promising to clean up Columbia again. Note the platforms of
pretty much all the gubernatorial candidates are very very similar.
You know, all were talking about a dose sort of things.
You know, that's that's, that's, that's you know, become a

(04:03):
hot talking point. West Climber making the announcement a couple
of days back. I guess it was Thursday night, wasn't
it that he will run for Ralph Norman's seat the
fifth congressional district up of the upstate. And now we
have h I think this is this is new since
since Friday, isn't it Paul Dans And I guess this

(04:28):
was last lately last week too. We knew it was coming. Yeah, okay,
Paul Paul Dan's. If you're wondering who Paul Dance is, well,
he's the architect of Project twenty twenty five and he
has launched his primary challenge to Lindsay Graham and.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
A guy who is in the Trump camp. And then
he was ousted from the Trump camp, but says he's
still in the Trump camp.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
So well, you have to ask Trump whether it is
or not.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's the only one that matters, right, So that race
is getting a bit busy too, he is to say,
of course, Lieutenant former a Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer also
trying to grab Lindsay Grahams seed from So yeah, a
lot of politics making the news over the course of
the last week or so here in the Lower South Carolina.
Oh well, okay, it's it's it's looked at our five.

(05:14):
It's Ken Lovelace. So it's got to be court related, right,
lawsuit related. Yeah, we had this story on Friday. Okay,
I'm not even gonna bother to get all that again
because we've been down this row before, and that that
story last week on radioactive wasps at the at the
Savannah River site over an Akin County, and.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
No big deal, they tell us.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Really.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
They didn't. They didn't even share that information with us
until they had studied the rest of the forest to
see if there was any other wildlife that was radioactive,
so that they had doubts themselves.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So am I am I missing something here? Or should
we not be concerned that you've got you know, four
was it something four wasps nests? I guess that were
were radioactive. It means there's that stuff's there somewhere. How
did they get Is it so deep? Were they way
deep in the ground? Wasp don't go that deep typically,

(06:15):
do they?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I mean, shouldn't we be a little concerned?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I agree, all right?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Todd coulehep uh the guy who killed seven people?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
The guy from uh up in the Upstate that I
guess he was. He was living up in in New York.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Was he in Long Island somewhere?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
He had I just remember the uh, the young woman
who had been locked away in one of those kind
of trailer type things up in the Upstate, that she
did survive all that. But this guy now wants to
sell T shirts free free, Uh free t K on them?

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Okay? Whatever?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Fuck led with the Texas Democrats.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
And I think they've done this before, haven't they fleeing
the state, fleeing the lone Star state in an effort
to block a redraw of house maps, the governor saying
he has the right to kick them out of the
Texas State House if they do so they've gone to Chicago,
where Pritzker, the Illinois mayor, says he'll protect them, he

(07:22):
won't allow them to be arrested. Okay, okay, all right,
well this, of course saw not so you don't have
enough people there inside the state House to take a
vote on redrawing maps. And I think they've done this before,
if I'm not mistaken any house. Yeah, I think they
did it in twenty twenty one. I think they did Yeah, yeah,
Jack Smith, all remember Jack, the former Trump prosecutor now

(07:44):
ap reporting under investigation for alleged illegal political activity.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
What.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, there's that. We'll get to it.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
And the President's firing the head of the BLS, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, over revisions and weak job reports.
And now okay, so the job report that came out
last Friday was weak, okay, less than expected, although it well,
it did show that it was more Americans getting jobs

(08:14):
and fewer non American born folks getting jobs. But okay,
as my initial reaction of this was okay, he didn't
like the jobs, was is he's fired and the head
of BLS. But remember the BLS, they go back and
forth all the time revising numbers right, adding, and Trump's
saying that before the election they were inflating the numbers
and this is why he's fired. But this is going

(08:36):
to be I once talked about thing, certainly, and I
guess I missed the whole bru haja over the Sydney
Sweeney American Eagle, Yes, ad right, she's got good genes
somehow that makes American Eagle nazis. Yeah, Okay. Some people

(08:56):
are just looking for something to be upset about, I think, right,
and they found this one right there.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, there's one side that seems to be always looking
for something to get upset.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
We'll get that. More coming up on this.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
It is back added Monday edition of Columbia's Morning News,
and it is great to have you with us.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
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Speaker 1 (09:12):
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Speaker 2 (09:15):
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Speaker 3 (09:17):
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Speaker 1 (09:34):
I can tell you at six forty one it is Monday,
August fourth, and I think we'll all take dreary and
eighty degrees. Huh, yeah, we will enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I don't know. This rain's getting pretty old pretty fast.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well you say that because you got like baseball, you
gotta get it well. And I've got grass to cut. Yeah,
all kinds of things. You think you got grass to cut. Yeah,
we were gone for a week, and want to be
sure her plants got good and watered while we were gone.
So we have the sprinkler run every day while we
were gone. So yeah, we came back to a jungle.

(10:06):
I bet anyway, got I got half of it taking
care of yesterday before the rains came out.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh good for you who get to do it rest.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Now, Okay, big news the governor's race getting another entrant today.
Where it is we we're talking about it coming up
in the seven o'clock hour, so be here for that.
This is the This is the when it comes to education.
The smartest thing I've heard in a while. A new

(10:33):
charter school, a new charter high school that's set to
open by twenty twenty seven in Ridgeway is focusing on
skilled trades. The Academy for Skilled Technologies expected to break
ground next year. The open fall of twenty twenty seven.

(10:56):
As the development director for the project, Phil from I says,
we want to focus on the vocational side because trade
schools are very much lacking in today's economy or trade skills.
I should say, that's probably what that's You say, Oh,
that's schools. Trade schools are like, yes, you know, this
is gonna this is going to become bigger and bigger

(11:20):
if for no other reason. Well it used to be.
It's going to become bigger and bigger because people are
trying to all this student debt right. Well, now you
got the AI think on top of that, you know,
and there's certain things AI can't do. You know, one
of these days we're gonna run around and look at
all these various degrees you can get at colleges across
the country and go, yeah, but artificial intelligence are sucking

(11:42):
up those jobs, you know, until artificial intelligence can take
a take a hammer and a saw and go make something.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
And so this is going to be a school just
dedicated so you don't have to get on a bus
at your high school and go off to the no no.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, no, no no no, which is the case like
side for example, I've got that one over there at
the Election High School, Right, is only that one? If
your child attends River Bluff or White Nole or any
of the school in the district, you got to get
on a bus and go to Election High School to
attend that one. Now, this will be a charter school
focused strictly on skilled trades.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
That's a great idea.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
And I suspect we're going to see more of these,
and who knows what the landscape will look like in
just a few years, certainly ten twenty years when it
comes to you know, regular college education. You got to
figure that fewer and fewer kids will be taking that route.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
We do.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
What happens to all these apartment complexes around Columbia.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well we keep saying that, and you know, schools like
us he keep growing in numbers every year.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, for now, I think we'll see at some point
in time, I think we'll see that change.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
But we'll see.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, So now word that an independent watchdog, an agency
responsible for enforcing a law against partisan political activity by
Feller employees, has opened up an investigation into Jack Smith.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Y'all remember Jack, the.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
DOJ Special Council who brought not one, but two criminal
cases against Donald Trump before the election. Remember, it was
Smith who was named Special Counsel by Merrick Garland when
he was Attorney General back in twenty twenty two. He

(13:32):
brought two cases against Trump. One he accused him of
conspiring to overturn the results of the election in twenty
twenty the other one the classified documents in mar Lago. Now,
Garland said over and over again, the Attorney General the
politics played no part in the handling of the cases.

(13:55):
And when Trump won back in November, you'll recall that
Smith dropped everything, signing the long standing DJ policy of
prohibiting and a diamond of a sitting president.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
So but are his troubles over this? This?

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Uh? This the the Office of Special Counsel confirming over
the weekend they were looking into Smith on allegations he
engaged in political activity via these inquiries into Trump. Now,
we don't know much more about this than just that
we know the Tom Cotton last week had encouraged the

(14:34):
office to take a look at his activities, and Cotton,
the Arkansas Republican senator, alleging that Psmith's conduct was designed
to help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Well, this is
what the office will look into. They're not saying he did,
but they'll look into it at least potential violation of

(14:55):
the with the Hatch Act. Right, Well, it needs us
to say it didn't help Joe pid didn' Kamala Harris
at all. And I guess what the news last week was.
Kamala was is not is not gonna run for governor
of California? Correct? Okay, she went on Colbert's show a
couple of nights ago, right that that apparently went well.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Tongue in cheek.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I mean she she answered very honestly when she didn't
answer when she was asked, Okay, who's the who's the
leader of your party?

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Now?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
If you're stepping aside, Well, can't name just one. It's
got to be. It's gotta be all of us, Yes.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
All of us.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
It takes a village. I guess run the Democrat Party. Uh. Now,
she's got a book coming out. I know you can't
wait to read that one.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Can you actually put a word salad in print in
a book? We'll find out. But now, who was it
was Mark Halpern who was suggesting now that there may
be a few things in the book that aren't exactly
patting a flattering picture of Joe Biden, and be that

(16:07):
the case that he feels like the Biden camp has
probably got a few things up their sleeve when it
comes to Kamala. So we may see some some bitter
words exchanged between the Harris camps and the Biden camp
coming up here in the in the coming weeks and.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Months, between o'biden and Bama, Obama and Biden, and now
Biden and Harris. I mean, it just doesn't look like
they are any friends on that side. Everyone's turning on
each other. Yeah, the knives are out and they're long.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yes, I I you know, I feel for Kamala when
she's asked by Seeing Colbert who's the leader of the party.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, I mean, nobody can answer that right now.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Nobody can answer that right now, nobody, Although Colbert, I
don't know what was he thinking when he asked her, well,
now that you're not gonna run, who's lead? Did anybody
bestow up on her leader of the party role that
we want? Aware that it was only Stephen Colbert? Okay, anyway,
so uh, there's that. Jack Smith, though, Let's wait and
see violation of hatch act potential.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
We're leading by almost double digits against the rest of
the field.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
We have almost eighty percent. Name I d And so
to those that want to come after me, I say,
I say bring it, because I'm going to work hard
for South Carolina in the event I make the decision
to do this very soon. It's fifteen minutes after seven
o'clock and that was a Nancy Mace there.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
So has she officially done it yet?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
We tal we talked about early she's going to announce
today at the citadel of Fox's reporting that she's already declared.
That's all flurda in the morning for an announcement. But well,
let's put it this way. We knew it was coming.
We've known her for a while, although we wanted for
a bit because she just kept waiting and waiting and waiting.

(18:15):
Then she teased this last night, a special announcement, she said,
and again saying it's a decision she never anticipated. But
as you know last week or I guess so the

(18:36):
weekend before this past one, she went on Fox News
and said that that our state had gone woke, to
which the governor, the current governor, disagreed with. Obviously, when
she said, I believe I may be forced to run
for governor because I can't watch my beautiful red state
of South kind of go woke. And it's gone and

(18:57):
woke over the past the last couple of years, she says, So,
in other words, under Governor McMaster, the state has gone well.
Mayce claims, Ah, A lot of people would disagree with that. Again,
we have a solid Republican majority. But yes, some of
those Republicans act a little oddly at times, get it,

(19:20):
but still so Mace saying she's being forced to run
for governor. I'm not sure that's a good way to
I really don't want to do it, but I have
no other choice. Right have you been on her website?

Speaker 2 (19:36):
But well it's the video is labeled huge Maga announcement
huge back.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
I say, yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
So, you know, as we talked about, everybody's going to
try and be, you know, as closely tied to Donald
Trump as they can, even if he doesn't endorse in
this race, which I doubt he will.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I don't think he will either. I don't believe he will. Well, uh, okay,
So I don't know is this announcement already I don't
think it has.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
It has. Okay, she's launched online.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
She's launched online, but the announcement of the citadel, the
official announcement, hasn't happened yet. But yes, she has announced online. Yeah,
the event is supposed to take place sometime this morning. Okay. Now,
in that clip we had, she made a reference to
being up double digit points and poll I'm not sure
what poole she's talking about.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
She may be up double digits over Evatt and Norman,
she's not up double digits over Wilson. And we had
a poll last week that said she was percentage points
ahead of Alan Wilson. But I don't know where she's
getting double digits from.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Well. American Polse Research and Polling. Their poll has Wilson
at twenty seven point three, Nancy at seventeen point five,
ev at eleven point one, Ralph Norman nine point seven.
So again I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
We had the South Carolina Policy Council poll that was
the one that had her on top right right right,
and just by percentage.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
What was that? I saw that too somewhere this morning.
I don't remember what the exact numbers were on that one,
but yeah, she had sixteen percent, Wilson at fifteen, but
what more than half were undecided?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I think in that. Yeah, that was the amazing part
of that poll.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, yeah, the one I just referenced American polse research
as Wilson ahead by a number of points.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Maybe not so amazing. I mean, yeah, we like to
talk politics, but a lot of people are probably saying,
there's no reason for me to decide yet. We're not
even we're in nowhere near that primary yet, yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Not even thinking about it. Yeah, but it's happening. So
the field has gotten very crowded.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Again, she's again announced online. The actual in person announcement
won't take place until this morning at the Citadel or
Alma monum.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Uh okay.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Now, one thing that again, and expect this in her
platform too, although she's going to try to outmag everybody else,
which we you know, we expect that it would be
the case. But you know a lot of these platforms
sound very similar. With Ralph Norman announcing what was that
a week ago Saturday?

Speaker 4 (22:29):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, his was heavy on term limits, which yeah, was
a little odd because I'm not sure that's a major
hot topic right now. But anyway, that's the tact he took,
or one of them.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, pledging to clean up Columbia, to take down a
corrupt political establishment. Okay, so we got' let's let's back
up for a second. Here, uh this has, become you, know,
again the the thing that anybody who's you, know a
conservative is running. ON i wonder how this is going

(23:04):
to play though in a primary when, again we are
electing a chief executive of the, state a state that
is well, done some really good. Things man attracted a
lot of big, Business we've attracted a lot of.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
People a lot of people are moving To South.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Carolina i'll be curious to see in this primary what
are voters more interested. In is it going to be
the you, know the populous themes of you, know The maga,
theme clean up the, mess you, know drain the, swamp
get rid of the corrupt political. Establishment The norman, tac

(23:49):
The mace tac that we've gone woke the last couple of,
years is gonna be all that was going to be you,
know a candidate who, says, hey, listen you know what
we want economically things to be as good as they
can for. You they're all going to talk, about you,
know no income tax in the. State they're all going
to talk about doge and you, know cleaning up wasteful.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
SPENDING i get.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
It but when you get down to a governor's, role
what will be more enticing de voters somebody who comes
off as a chief executive or somebody who just comes
off as saying, that, well, yeah we got issues in
our state with wokness or corruptness or, Whatever i'm going
to clean it. Up those are you, know populous themes

(24:31):
that that you, Know i'm not saying they're, bad but,
somehow you, know electing a governor is a little different
than electing a. PRESIDENT a governor's a little closer to
you and your wallet and your kids and their. Futures
i'll be curious how this all pans. Out, okay so

(24:51):
we Got, Wilson we've Got, Kimberle we've Got Ralph, Norman
we've Got Nancy, mayce we've Got Pamela, evatt and we've
gone we still got the one fellow's NAME i can
never remember it's the businessman from the upstate who's in as.
Well it's busy and we're gonna Be It's august the, fourth, now,
okay we don't get to what the primary tool was
At june, Seventh june, fourth what's something like that first

(25:14):
couple of days Of.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
June so we're still a long way away from.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
That talking about gotta keep talking the good, job the
stuff that.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
MATTERS i Think i've been listening to y'all in the
eighteen year.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Plus right one on three point FIVE fm at five
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Gary david And Christopher thompson on one on three point
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Speaker 1 (25:42):
Voc, hey good morning to tell you seven for here
get to be back after a week.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Away it is On, Monday august the. Fourth I'm Gary.
DAVID i was.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Away Christopher thompson he was here the whole, Time, yeah
holding down the fourth and.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
If the fourth was still here WHEN i got, back
so you must have had a good.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Job it's still standing. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Now you know we were talking About Nancy mays entering
the governor's. Race, yeah it looked for a while like we, thought,
well she's gonna do it or. NOT i mean it
was back In january when she started to teasing this.
Idea so she's getting in, again announcing online last, night
the in person announcement coming up later on this morning

(26:23):
at The. Citadel so we were talking about that in
the last half. Hour how crowd of that race has gotten,
NOW i assume that's. IT i can't imagine anybody else
wanting to get into it.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Now if it, is it's probably somebody we've never heard.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Of, YEAH i gotta go look up.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Again AND i apologize to the other candidate who never
gets mentioned in any of, this but there is a
business band of The upstate who announced quite some time
ago that he's running A republican, primary and because you
never see his name mentioned in any stories about.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
This BUT i mean you've got.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
The current, age the current lieutenant, governor a current state
center from the, upstate a current member of The house
Of representative from the, upstate and now you've got another
congress person in the Former Nancy. MACE i mean those

(27:24):
are some pretty big names right.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
There, yeah heavy. HITTERS i, mean the only wild card
was going to Be John, warren Which i'm not sure who.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Is not there the business mendiliers that we were referring, to,
Right we haven't heard From John.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Warren kind of doubt we will, NOW.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I wouldn't think. So he'd be way behind the curve
if he started in. Now, yeah but this is leaving
again some open. Positions so for, example again the race
to Succeed Allen wilson's attorney. General we'll we'll hear more names, there.

(27:59):
Sir we've heard That West, climber The republican state, senator
is going to Seek Ralph norman's seat as he vacates
that to run for. Governor they're going to be a
number of current politicians that will be without a job
Come january of twenty twenty, six.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
You, KNOW i, mean they'll have nothing to go back to.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Here so it's going to be a fascinating primary here
In South, carolina just if for no other reason then
there are so many current office holders who are giving
up the positions.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
They have now to try to become.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Governor we're going to there's gonna be a lot of
very interesting races to, follow just on The republican primary.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Side and Then trump's not on the, Ballot so turnout
will Be i'll be curious to see what turnout is.
Like it should be energized for a big race like,
This but you never, know you'd think you would think,
NOW i Remember climber is he was the member of

(29:06):
the of the of The senate who raised a fuss
over these these pay. Raises mm hmmm uh filed fouled
that lawsuit.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Calling it, unconstitutional which you, know guess what it is
based on the way the state's constitution is. Written not
that you, can't you, know give yourself a pay, raise
but while you, can't you can as long as you
win your next, election then you can get the pay, raise,
Right that's what the state constitution. Sets it doesn't say
you can go ahead and give yourself a pay raise

(29:38):
while you're serving in your current. Term So climber's made
a bit of a name for, himself but he didn't
have to make a state wide name just in the
fifth congressional. District who's gonna who's gonna? Run now in
the in the first district after bas announces her. Run yeah,
WAIT i think you, know aren't news just Said Tommy.

(30:00):
HARTNETT i assume they mean the SUN i would think
to be honest with, You i'm not even Sure Tommy,
hartnett the original congressman in that, district is still. Alive
i'm not. Sure uh yeah he. Is he's eighty. Three,
okah that's not so it's not it's not.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Him so this is going to be junior WHO'S i
guess the state representative, Now.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
So that'll be an interesting one to.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well and of all the districts in the, state aside
from the, sixth of, course which you, Know James cliburn
is going to have until the day he you, know
moves on to the.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
To the afterlife hands it off to the next.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Person, yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Exactly aside from that, one that first district in The
Low country is the only one, that, well at least
at a, time was somewhat competitive with the For. Democrats
that changed with the redrawing of the, lines of, course
which has been still an issue of to be. Determined
but as the line stand right, now it's less competitive

(31:01):
For democrats in the first district than it.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Was but could it be, Again, Okay so it'll be
a lot of interesting these to.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Watch oh and by the, Way Paul, dance which as
far as name recognition goes, Zero, yeah, right But Paul
dance DA ns was the architect of something that does
have a lot of name. Recognition that Was project twenty twenty,
five and he has thrown his hat into the. Ring

(31:33):
he also wants to Challenge Lindsey, graham saying That graham
is exactly the kind Of republican that voters in our
state are tired of sending back To. Washington, well apparently we're,
not because we keep doing. It he Cites graham as
being the poster child of the so CALLED dc. Establishment

(31:57):
So june, ninth that's the primary. Date he dec players
that date will Be Independence day For South carolina to
Retire Lindsey graham once and for. All, okay, well, uh you,
know Remember trump sometime, back you, know distance, themselves distance,
himself that is From project twenty twenty, five although The

(32:19):
democrats would tell you never.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Did but, still let's put it this.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Way If trump decides that he wants to make some,
endorsement and he goes what, Back he's already Endorse?

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Graham has he?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Not?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yes, YEAH i think so for the moment that could,
change of, Course.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
But, Uh i'm just thinking, here if If trump decides
he wants to weigh in On South krolina politics and
start making. Endorsements this could get a real, interesting real fast. Anyway,
Okay so, yeah there's There's Paul Dan's project twenty twenty
five architect joining the fight to try to Get Lindsey

(33:01):
graham out office along With Andre. Bauer and there's somebody else, too,
Right i'm trying to think who that. Is, ANYWAY i
can't well. Leus it's going to be an interesting twenty
twenty first half of twenty twenty six For republican politics
in the state Of South.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Carolina hold on to your.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Hats if 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.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Thompson it is sixteen after. Eight it is good to
have you. Here and it Is, Monday august the. Fourth trust,
man it's it's a little Harder monday for me than
it is for you unless you are like me and
on vacation next, week.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Always tough coming back and ramping up and all, right
you'll get, it you'll get the hang of. It what
sort of problems were lifting your email inbox when you were?
OUT i tried to clean up any messagefore you got,
that and you did a wonderful.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Job well now NOW I i'm one of these, people
and my wife hates WHEN i do. This but now
When i'm on, VACATION i will check my work, emails
but not BECAUSE i want to do anything about. IT
i just want to get rid of the STUFF i
don't have to deal.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
WITH i want to get.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back, yeah you, KNOW i want to come back to
five hundred, emails which is what it would be.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
At least WHEN i come back to. Fifty, okay it's, doable.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
And it's fifty that you've got to deal with as
opposed to five hundred with spam and everything exactly.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Right so SO i will every. Day i'll just go
to delete the, lead to, lead delete the, lead BECAUSE.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I don't want to come back AND i have to
do all that WHEN i get back, Anyway so, NO
i trust.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Me i've said WHEN i go, AWAY i go. Away.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
MAN i don't even know what the news. IS i
don't pay attention While i'm, away and we had quite
a few things happened last. WEEK i do want to
reflect back on one of these stories all you talked
about last, week because it's still it still bugs. Me
and this is that the radioactive wasps at the at
The savannah riverside. Naked and as you mentioned when we

(35:03):
brought this up briefly, earlier they first discovered This july,
third didn't bother to tell the public about. IT i
guess it wanted to be sure it was not a
big deal before they, know let us.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Know but, well they said at that point they were
scouring the rest of the landscape AND i guess the
area around to see if there was any other wildlife
besides these insects that had been infected or that were made.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Radioactive, yeah but they found an entire nest and, apparently
uh so there were. Four now The post And courier
reporting a few days ago yesterday there were four RADIOACTIVE
wasp nests, found not just, one which was THE i
guess the original report was it was. One but now
the Posting curai is now there were.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Four and are we going to keep them on an
island Like Wasp, island like Monkey?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Island we'll get assume a monkey. Island, YES i, don't
uh ten times the level of what's allowed by federal. Regulations, now,
again the initial reports were Well they didn't make any
mention of how they became. Radioactive so Now i'm not

(36:20):
a wasp. EXPERT i just know want them around. Me
BUT i mean a wasp. Nest, now you've got these
hornets that'll build nests in the, ground, Right i've encountered
them a time or two rom on the, lawn but
a wasp nest is usually not in the. Ground it's,
somewhere you, know above the. Ground the story here for me, Is,

(36:45):
okay how did they become?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Radioactive did they fly over The Savannah riverside, property did
they get into something they shouldn't have gotten, into or
is there stuff seeping out to the point where where
their nest was is?

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Radioactive, yeah that's that's my.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Concern, yeah but it was kind of like one of
THESE i guess when the story first came. Out, yeah
there's there's no contamination around the grounds running, There so,
no don't worry about.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
It, No i'm worried about.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
It, okay they're just, wasps, Fine but if it's a,
wasp then what about.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
People, WELL i guess that's why they were, studying you.
KNOW i guess at that point they were looking at
deer and squirrels and everything else that runs around in
that area to see if it was just the wasps
or if other animals were. Infected but even if it
was just those, wasps they got infected. Somehow, yeah they
got radioactive some, way shape or. Form, YEAH.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
I. Agree so so these holding, tanks something's, leaking, Right
and again they're saying it's it's not a risk of public,
health not a risk that you're going to go down
there or get stung by a wasp and become a
radioactive or they're glowing it more dark or whatever like
some bad sci fi.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Movie turned Into Spider man or turn Into Spider man
or Wasp man or.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Whatever these there are a Wasp. Man, no other's. NOT
i don't.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Think, so don't think maybe there. Is yeah they should.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Be maybe we'll get one.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Now, yeah but to, me that's they got it. Somehow
something is not staying. Contained, okay this it's not if
you're getting stung by all these, wasps it's something's not staying.
Contained so, yeah the announcement of three more of these
wasp nests just coming in the last couple of. Days

(38:36):
so the number of infected or RADIOACTIVE i should, say
wasps continues and grows unless hopefully that will be the
end of that. Story by the, way the posting courier
says that it was the nests themselves that were found

(38:56):
to be, radioactive not the. Wasps, okay, WELL i Still
i'm not, real you, know feeling good about? That how
the how do the wasp nest get?

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Infected? Anyway? Okay.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Hmm there, was by the, way a report about eight
years ago that identified the s rs as one of
the most contaminated places On, earth not just in THE,
us but on the entire. Planet and it's just down

(39:36):
the road and a lot closer now for some of
you listening this, MORNING i know there was a wasp.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Character apparently it was A marvel it was A marvel
hero OR i don't know if it was a hero or.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Not but do we do we know if he got
stung by a radioactive wasp of The savannah.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
RIVERSIDE i don't think it was.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
There, okay, well we have to revise history on that.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Story, now just saying if you're a, squatter you have
more rights than.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
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Speaker 1 (40:23):
And into our final thoughts here at eight forty on
A monday. Morning we got a few of them to. Share,
NOW i don't know being out by so we got.
Too if you touched on this On, friday let me.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Know, Okay but.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
We at least have one lawmaker who's looking to uh
for some sort of a bill that would make it
a new state law to better protect us from a
water born dangerous after this death Of Jason, carr the
twelve year old from the brain eating OF, Meba Jermaine

(40:56):
johnson has announced a water safety build after having discussions
with the young man's family and others affected by similar. Tragedies,
YEAH i don't know how you how you do this
because this has been one of the issues. There it's

(41:16):
such a, rare rare. Occurrence BUT i guess he's there
are other things that can harm, you you, know it's
not just, this and so he's looking at THE i
guess the bigger picture.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Here, well this was after the press conference or statement
put out by the lawyer and the family last, week and,
yeah the lawyer for the family made a very good.
Point you, know the state warns you if there is,
bacteria a bacteria build up in you, know all of our.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Beaches, yeah and we talked about that at the.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Time you can walk the riverfront here and there are
signs will be up about what the bacteria levels are
blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Blah, right.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Exactly but this is a little different and to the
point WHERE i guess there are no. Wicks you, know
there's there are no levels, currently there are no. Standards,
yeah they're no, standards.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Keep on to call them d, heck but they're not
the part of the environmental, services, right.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
YEAH i think they're the ones that are handling.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
This, yes, yeah there's no science based, threshold but would
be considered safe or unsafe of this particular bacterium in?

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Water, WELL i give the family credits to. Me they're
not waving their arms and SAYING i can't wait to
sue you and you and you and get every DIME i.
Can what they're saying is we don't want this to
happen to another.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Family. Yeah, Yeah SO i look for some sort of
bill in the State house in the next session again
for maybe have the bigger picture of, testing because you're,
right we test rivers all the. Time why not you
know a place Like Lake Murray. Beaches that's a much

(42:59):
bigger body water right there we're dealing, with, ye why
not the. Lakes it's good. POINT i don't think about.
It actually bought. One But Todd, coleheab you may recall.
Him he's languishing for the rest of his days in
a prison here in our, state the guy that killed seven.
People the guy lived On Long, island, right but he
had a what a family member who had, land and

(43:21):
he himself owned some land of the.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Upstate trying to SELL t.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Shirts this was the guy who had the woman in
the container.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
For, yes exactly all.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Right, YES i do remember his story, Now.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Wow tried to SELL t shirts with S k T k.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
On.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
THEM i can't remember that even stands For Todd. Colehab YEAH,
tk what's THE esk?

Speaker 4 (43:49):
PART i don't?

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Know serial serial? KILLER i guess, RIGHT i don't. KNOW
i also tried to talk with a producer about telling his.
Story this has cost him. Privileges we do have a
law that prohibits someone incarcerating our state from profiting for their.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Crimes, wow.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
S, K i guess that Is, YEAH i guess that
would be serial. KILLER i. Guess SO i don't know
he's advertising you're trying To, yeah that's.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
Sick.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, Okay so yesterday when the news broke The trump,
yesterday it was A, saturday The trump fired the chief
over THE, bls The bureau Of Labor. Statistics it was
at some point over the. Week, yeah it looked very. Fishy,
okay you get a job support On friday that was

(44:49):
less than, expected didn't meet, expectations and you, know a
day or two, later the head of the agency who
puts this out loses her. Gig but if you go
a little, Deeper trump is, saying and we remember when this,
happened and we all know that when THE bls puts

(45:10):
out these jobs, numbers it never. Fails they come back
and they get, revised sometimes, up sometimes. Down But trump's
point really had nothing to do with the number that
came out On. Friday he said in a post yesterday
that his concern was that the jobs prior to the
election were. Overinflated and as he, SAID i won the election,

(45:39):
anyway and she just readjusted the numbers, downward calling a
mistake of almost one million. Jobs do you remember, that? Right,
yeah that happened leading into the. Election all these, jobs
all these, jobs well we went a little deeper on
that at the, time if you'll, recall and found out
that most of all those jobs were actually going to
foreign BORN individi. Duals that and a lot of government

(46:02):
jobs that were. Created, so, yeah you get all these,
jobs and you have the, Election trump, wins and suddenly
they readjust the numbers downwards, saying, oh it was just a,
mistake a mistake of almost a million. Jobs that, yeah,
okay so, yeah read the rest of the story before,
you you, know go off on Thinking trump's just Being trump,

(46:24):
here because, yeah WHEN i saw the, headline that was
my first, thought right. Sure fox has been talking about
this all. Morning Texas democrats once again leaving the. State
they went to Where chicago this?

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Time?

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Yes is that where they always?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Go they leave the state whenever they don't want to
vote to be taken on something like the redrawing of district,
lines they just leave the. State so there's not enough
members of The assembly there In, texas if that's what
they call it the State house to take a, vote
and that's what they've, done and they've done it. Again
make it three in a, row reconsecutive months that The

(47:01):
White house says there have been no immigrants at the border,
released not the first, one zero for three straight. Months,
boom of, course a big. Breaking, well stop, breaking it's
been breaking Since. January but the news this morning is, that,
yes in, Fact Nancy mace is gonna run for. Governor

(47:24):
feels like she has no choice because we've become a woke,
state as she claimed a week or two, back and
so she's gonna run for.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Governor what raised my eyebrows this morning is the phrase
that she used Because South carolina doesn't need another empty,
suit which you, know If i'm Governor Rick, Master i'm
taking offense at, that.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
AND i suspect he Will.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Wow, okay but this Is Nancy mace is going to
try to be the best Female Donald trump she can, be.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
You, know heading into this. Primary, oh it's gonna.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Be, uh it's gonna be fascinating to, watch no doubt about.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
That and we.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Knew at the time this was going to happen because you,
Know Hulk hogan was you, know he was A maga,
fan a school board official In Central, Florida Alachua. County
is that how they say? It make it a comment
On facebook reference To. Maga oh Did hulk? DIE i
didn't even know? Good one Less maga in the. World. Wow, Yeah,

(48:32):
well she says to leave the, post but you know
nothing's ever gone for good, Right, well she's in hot
water over this, now adding she'd never wished harm on,
anyone regardless of whether we share political. Views she wants
to assure all of the best interest for all the
children in the public schools in that. County how stupid

(48:57):
can people?

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Be?

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Right, yeah once you think you've heard the, stupid it's
just hang. Around you'll hear somebody else do something even
stupider than.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
That never.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Fails