Show Rewind 10-22-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right Jesus right, hell yeah, same America and Jerry Hollen
for regious nation God.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this 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 and good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Tell you whoa storry about that? Come in coming in
a little hot this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Right, yes you are, my goodness sakes.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
It is fifteen after six and welcome in Colombia's Morning
News back on the radio. Or Wednesday, October the twenty second.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Morning to you.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson right there, Good morning to you, sir,
ornying to you. Back in the saddle again, off and
running here and not as chilly this morning as it
has been the last couple of mornings. We're number fifties
across some spots mid fifties and others.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Okay, well we were mid forties yesterday, but I didn't
really notice the difference this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well you know I didn't either, But apparently we're not
quite well. We're back into that ranger tomorrow. It looks like,
all right, let's get right into it here, friends, the rundown,
the big stories, the hot topics. Well, Wednesday, October twenty second, Well,
we've had some some voting taking place here, and Thomas

(01:32):
mentioned in the update there it looks like we're heading
for a runoff and District eighty eight that's the seat
that was held by r J.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
May. And no, no, no, no, you're not doing it right.
You have to say the disgraced.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Raced, are you well you know that's a good point, Yeah,
the disgraced Rjmay. Yeah, John Lastinger lasting out most of
the rest of the competition.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I see what you did there.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Brian Duncan top two vote getters. Brian Duncan was running before,
even before r J. May was out of the race,
I believe, and I think he's run against him before.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah, so this was the top two right there. So
looks like we were heading for a runoff. A larelike
Gray and Darren Rodgers senior in the trailing by a
large margin. So yeah, so a runoff on November fourth,

(02:30):
which is interesting because that's the date when regular municipal
elections are taking place. But that works out you have
to open the polls a day when you normally wouldn't
have him open. But in November fourth, early voting will
begin a week from the day on that. There actually
be a couple of days of early voting, the twenty
ninth to the thirty first of this month for the
special election runoff a District eighty eight. There you go,

(02:53):
but the upstate looks like Lee Bright is going to
be in like Flynn has come back just about complete
the former states looks like he'll retake that seat he
held one time. He won a Republican special primary in
the District twelve, picking up just a shade over fifty
percent of the vote. And it's the upstate, so what
happens in a election against the Democrat doesn't matter. Weird

(03:18):
in Shapin though, when you go to the polls here
and early voting, I guess underway as well that the
name of Valcoon will still be on the ballot, the
champion mayor who passed what last week?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I guess right.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I mean, we heard one day that he was in
hospice care, the next day that he had passed. Yeah,
but it was too late to get his name off
the ballot. So yeah, that will look strange for some folks.
Early voting is underway through the end of this month.
There for the November fourth election there in Chapin meantime,
other folks who oversee all this trying to get their

(03:52):
other their finances in order. Here, they rejected a plan
less than a week ago did the Election Commission to
avoid a one million dollar monthly fine. They've agreed now
as of this way to a deal that we'll pay
a multi million dollar loan late. This all goes back
to the thirty three million dollars or so and loans

(04:14):
that were taken out to Well to buy building machines,
and then the well, there was so much drama over
there recently. Anyway, this kind of played into it. We
talked about that a little bit yesterday. Yeah, yeah, we're
saving on a one million dollar fine, but we also
are paying interest hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest. Yeah,

(04:35):
and you and I are paying that, Yes, we are.
Even as the board. Sherman says he signed off on
the agreement, he just didn't read it, and he's blaming
the he's blaming the former director, Howard Napp, for not
telling him about it when he signed off on it
and didn't read it. That's an interesting excuse, there, isn't it. Yeah, Yeah, sorry, honey,

(04:57):
I didn't didn't look at the terms of that mortgage agreement.
I didn't see it was like a credit card loan rate. Yeah.
Oh well, but yeah, you and I are stuck with
that bill.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Thank you. Meantime, James B.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Gosnell Junior, the suspended county magistrate down into the Charleston area,
has now been indicted on federal charges along with a
second person whose identity we don't know yet because it's sealed.
Both accused of distributing child's sexual abuse materials this year
and back in twenty twenty four as well that nine
kund of diictment partially unsealed yesterday. Of course, this is

(05:36):
a story that I don't even want to talk about
the particulars again. That one day we talked about it, man,
it just felt really weird because this is just nasty
stuff going on here.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Uh yeah, tild.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
This'll be interesting to watch to see how it goes
and if she's convicted, what the term will be here.
But a woman who's accused of sparking the Carolina Forest wildfire,
the one that well it took months to to put
out earlier this year, is well, her child date has
been set. This woman Alexandra Blaso or something like that

(06:12):
allegedly started this. We always used burning to bring her
backyard in a fire pit. Oh, after the burn band
was started went to effect. Oh yeah, and they say
she didn't have the necessary sources available to well take
care of things that they got out of hand, and
they did.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, that was that. I don't how do they trace
that back to one person.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
I don't know if that fire burned you know, hundreds
of thousands of acres or however much. I just don't
know how they how they find the origin.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Well, I guess they got ways, man, ways we don't understand.
Uh So, Philly Parton delayed, Right, it's not going to
be reopening when they set up would be reopening.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Well, we knew about the delay. Yeah, but we're you
going to keep it safe? Matthew T.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Hall, the opinion writer for the state newspaper, don't talk
to a number of Columbia City politicians about how do
you keep that thing safe?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
How will you protect it once it does reopen?

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, they've got they've got money in place to do that.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
They do.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
Yeah, as long as they keep spending that money, and
as long as long as that keeps being a priority.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I mean, this is right.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
The one reason it's so expensive is because they've factored in,
you know, park rangers during the day and private security
at night and cameras and everything else. So I mean,
that's that's that's built in. As long as you don't
cut that budget one year and say, okay, well we'll
skimp on security at Finlay Park this year. I mean,

(07:42):
I don't think it's going to be an issue, let's
hope not. The only issue I had that I could
see is if private security is not enough and you
know what what what type of private security are we
talking about?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I mean, there's there's a security in this private security. Yes,
I mean we've seen the folks that well, there's a
well what was that movie, Paul Blart.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Paul I was just going to, yeah, exactly, Yeah, those
folks versus the you know, the more beefed.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Up and weaponed up.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, folks, we'll see suspect arrested last night after ramming
a car into a barricade of the White House. This
was about ten thirty seven last night or into accounts. Okay, well,
I want kind of more on does it take to
drive your car into a secret service vehicle gate outside.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
The White House. I mean suicide by cop. Yeah right.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
We don't know much more about it other than just
that shut down in the day twenty two now second
longest on record, and a word that John Thune and
Mike Johnson Republican leaders making plans for a longer CR,
a longer continuing resolution to kind of keep the government
open longer than the original CR would have on We

(09:00):
don't know yet. Well, the Democrats will respond to that.
But John Fetterman, who's about the only Democrat who's bucking
his party's trend on this, is now our Republicans to uh, well,
to use the nuclear option. Yeah, nuke that filibuster so
you don't have to get sixty votes in the Senate
to end the shutdown drama. He says, he's tired of it.
It's time to move on. I meantime, new Ap pulled out,

(09:23):
what do we think about rising healthcare costs? Well, we
don't think much about him. We have to actually say,
we think a lot about him, but you know, we
don't think much about him.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
We're very concerned. We'll get into that.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
The House Speaker pledging not to stall a flour vote
over Epstein records.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Okay, okay, Mike, that's the last thing on my mind right.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Now, right nobody cares right now, okay. And then again,
don't don't go yet swearing to be totally transparent, release
all the files. We've heard this before. Why do you
want to go down that road again? When I think
we all know it's just not going to happen new uh, well,
not yet a hurricane, but it's going to be one

(10:05):
tropical storm. Melissa blown up in the Caribbean yesterday morning.
It's gonna be a hurricane, they tell us. But like
everything else so far this hurricane season, which at least
from the calendar standpoint, ins in about a week, shows
it turning into the Atlantic, but heading north like the
rest of them have. By the way, Homeland Security a

(10:28):
new internal probe saying that the in fact, FEMA did
politically discriminate against Americans under Joe Biden. We've heard those stories. Boy,
if you had a Trump sign in your yard, they're
telling you to Well, we're not gonna we're not gonna
drop by and see that person. This new internal reports
is yet, in fact did happen. All right, friends, Well

(10:49):
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Speaker 2 (11:23):
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Speaker 4 (11:33):
By the way, we're happy to leave the tomatoes off
if you don't like them. Okay, So we'll get to
the burger news here in a minute. Oh, there's burger news.
We got burger well beef news. Okay. First up, though,
Julie Fell's Mesino, remember that name. No, the CEO of

(11:56):
a company that we talked about, a restaurant chain. We
talked about a whole old, whole lot here in the
last couple of months, Cracker Bear okay, and an investing
conference yesterday. Here's her lame o excuse now for why
they were were changing their logo and dropping uncle Herschel.

(12:19):
Was Herschel right? Yes, I keep wanting to say Fletcher
for some reason, Uncle hirsh Herschel.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
She says the move wasn't meant to be ideological, that
a part of the transformation they were attempting was to
set themselves up for success for.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
The long term.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
She actually said this that the updated logo for the
company was done at the time. Of course, they've reversed
themselves on that so that the logo itself would be
more visible on highway billboards. Uh okay, I'm trying to

(13:05):
picture what she's picturing. Yeah, I mean I think that
the color scheme the color scheme of nothing else.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
You know, it's a cracker barrel billboard.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
When you see that color scheme, I can I can
spot it from them miles away, and I'm half blind.
So I'm not sure that that fix was necessary.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
M h.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
I don't think is that really this is the best
you can come up with? Yeah, after what now, a
couple of months of trying to figure out how you're
gonna tell investors that you're you're you're you're not an
idiot that you didn't turn your back on your customer base.
This is yeah, we wanted to logo to be more
visible on highway billboards. Wow, well, you know, here's a

(13:46):
Billboards are funny things.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
The most effective ones are the ones that are, yeah, easier.
How many times do you see a billboard kind of
like a radio commercial where you've got thirty seconds and
they give you sixty's worth of words to put in there,
you know, and now you're you're you're buzzing through it
so fast that you don't hear a thing.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I said.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Some of these billboards, you see, they try to cram
so much stuff on there, it's impossible to see anything
your cracker barrel. All you really need, honestly, is to
put up your logo as big as you want on
a billboard and they just maybe say, you know, exit

(14:31):
thirty four or whatever.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
That'll do it. I'm sold, it's all you gotta do.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, So I'm not buying Julie Fell's Mesino's excuse that
the change of the logo was all about making the
logo more visible on billboards. Don't believe that happened. The
company did admit, well, not necessarily an.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Investor some of it.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
They have admitted the past that they could have done
a better job and sharing who who they are and
who they'll always be. And I suspect there's still some
folks out there that are are are are less than
thrilled with this whole saga, and may never go back
to Cracker Barrel. But for the most part, given time

(15:20):
their original customer base ninety nine, more than likely, well
we'll be back enjoying their breakfast at a cracker barrel
and one day this law'll be forgotten.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
I suppose, I suppose.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Truth of the pattern is uh, if you're outraged by wokeness,
this really wasn't the thing to get outraged of Cracker
Barrel over there was lots of wokeness going on behind
the scenes, not even behind the scenes. It was right
there in their website when it came to woke ideologies
and had been there for a long time unnoticed.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
But don't mess with Uncle Herschel. Beef news.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Uh, yeah, unless you're a vegetarian. You've noticed that the
price of beef has gone up quite a bit this year,
and over the weekend the President suggested that we buy
beef from Argentina to help lower prices for us here

(16:25):
at home. He said, this is more air Force one,
Air Force one. We first said one of the things
I think about is doing is doing is be from Argentina.
Then later on said we would buy some beef from Argentina.
If we do that, that will bring our prices down. Well,

(16:46):
that's got some folks upset, and quite honestly, it just
doesn't sound right to me either. Well, we have beef
here in this country, and right exactly, you've got a
group of House Republicans now that are concerned over this,
about the potential effects of this. As you might expect,
it's it's folks in the you know, North Dakota, Wyoming

(17:08):
and that that part of the country. The beef industry
is big for this country, to the tune of about
one hundred and twelve billion dollars nationwide, to again typically
almost exclusively rural communities. It seems like you're cutting off

(17:29):
your nose despite your face here.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, that whole America first thing doesn't seem like it's
yielding true all the time.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah. No, So this has gotten some blowback from some
Republicans in Congress, and I'm quite honest, I'm a little
surprised it hasn't got more blowback period from Republicans, whether
or not they're in beef producing states or not, because
it just doesn't seem right to me. Sure, I'd like

(17:56):
to pay less for beef at the grocery store, absolutely,
because you know me, I am a beef lover. I
take the cholesterol medication to prove it. So I found
this very an interesting take, which I totally I didn't

(18:17):
even catch it on Monday when I was here. That
had been brought up on Air Force one on Sunday
something else here that well might lead the maggot world
to revolt if it were to happen, And that's the
story by TMZ, and they continue as of last night

(18:40):
to stand beside it. They posted a story that said
that Trump was considering and we've heard these rumors before,
this is not a new rumor, but the TMZ story
almost tried to make it sound like it was going
to happen for sure, and that was that Trump would
be commuting the sentence of of p Diddy Puff Daddy

(19:02):
Seawn Combs, however you want to call him.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Now, do we have other than these rumors? Do we
have anything to that because a I'm not going to
put a whole lot of stock in what TMZ a celebrity,
you know, website has to say, and right, and the
White House has denied it every step of the way. Yeah,
but you're right, this would be a huge mistake.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah, and their their story was claimed to be sourced
on a high ranking White House official that the President
was vacillating on a commutation, that some staff were urging
him not to do it. But the source states Trump

(19:43):
will do what he wants. That's that's a pretty weak Yeah,
we know Trump will do what he wants. Doesn't mean
he's going to commute to Seawan Combe's sentence, of course,
what he did to George Santos. Yeah, well, you know,
but what better time to write this story after he
commuted the sentence of George sam toes right now having

(20:05):
said that it was a deadline. One of the other
Hollywood publications that ran a peace that said, yeah that
that Trump had They claimed Trump, if he was considering this,
he won't do it because, yeah, there would be enormous
blowback from his base. Now, remember Sean did he puff

(20:29):
Daddy Combs openly endorsed Democratic candidates against Trump. But back
in the day in the New York social scene, the
two were at one time supposedly pals. Okay, I can't
imagine that that Trump would go down this road, and

(20:53):
again I don't.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
I don't think he's planning to. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
He has made a few comments about that case, as
I recall, but mainly this is one of these, you know,
media fabricated stories.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Let's hope, well, let's hope.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
If it's not, then there's a that's a whole nother
story right there.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
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once again, here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I missed the old billboards where they would have four
or five in a row to get the whole message out.
It's thirteen after seven, Good morning, that's a talking Our
conversation lasts a half hour in cracker barrel.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
That's Brett weighing in on you know, you were talking
about cramming all that information into one billboard and how
so many advertisers make that mistake mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
And we've preface that where we're talking about the CEO
of Cracker Barrel. Now her her lame ow excuses that
they had they had dropped the old timer uncle Herschel
from their logo because they wanted the logo to be
bigger on billboard, so it was better scene.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
We're not buying that, not at all.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Not for a second. For a second, I as talking
about Paedro there when you talked about that. Well those
south of the border, Yeah, those were yeah, of course.
Now I guess, uh, the other full dog gone it.
What's what's the what's the what's the holy grail of
convenience stores and gas stations now at the interstate U No.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
No, no, the big one.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm drawing a blank here this morning.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Oh uh BUCkies, Yes, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
I haven't seen as many pedro billboards since BUCkies came
to business. True, they're still there, They're still there yet. Yeah,
you get a little closer AnyWho. Okay, thanks for thank
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Okay, now you.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Can't give us a sermon. You get about what twenty seconds?
Thirty seconds is going to cut you off. But we
always love hearing from you. All right, So we have
a special election runoff. This is the seat that was
yes held formerly by Yeah, I got it right this time,
disgraced lawmaker R.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Jmay.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
The only thing he'll be serving now is I don't know,
maybe breakfast in a prison somewhere to fellow inmates. So
District eighty eight top two candidates moving on, John Lastinger
and Brian Duncan. Lasting Or picked up about forty percent

(23:46):
of the vote. Duncan got about thirty eight percent of
the vote. There were two other candidates who were trailing
far behind.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
So this is said.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Now, this was again for the special election, which okay,
help me understand this because I'm the runoff now is
going to be November the fourth, which is the same
day as the actual election is held, to determine who
the next representative is for District eighty eight. Right, you

(24:16):
still have a Democrat in the race. Well that can't
be the same day then, right, How do how does
this work? I'm looking at this right here. Run off
is November The Posting Courier run off is November fourth.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
I don't know how that. I'm not real sure.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
So a runoff of the same day as a municipal
election early voting again open in the District eighty eight
starting on the twenty ninth of this month, you get
just a couple days of twenty nine through the thirty first.
I'm confused now, am I reading something wrong here? But no,
we have a municipal elections November fourth, Yeah, we know that.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Okay, Well, I.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Guess can you go to poll and say I vote
for whoever the Republican is versus the Democrat and the race.
I don't know how that works, but the Chuck high
Tower is the only Democrat in that race.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
That's according to my information. That special election is December
twenty third.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay, all right, now, okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Then, so the winner of the runoff, all right, we'll
face Chuck high Tower in December.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Okay, But it's convenient because you have the apparatus already
set up for voting in municipal elections on November fourth,
So yeah, okay, all right, Because that didn't make any
sense at.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
All that I thought? Am I going crazy?

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Here?

Speaker 5 (25:46):
November fourth is the runoff, all right? And then the
general Umber twenty third, December twenty third, all right, just
two days before Christmas. Boy, it'll be oh boy, I'll
be curious to see the turnout there.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah right.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
And basically again we're talking election in so whoever wins
the run off on number fourth, for all intentsive purposes,
will be the winner on December twenty third. Okay, So
putting the final close to the sordid saga of our
ja may meantime in the low Country that former well

(26:18):
he's I guess he's still He hasn't been stripped of
his title yet, but he has been suspended the county magistrate.
Gosnell has now been indicted on federal charges with the
second person, whose identity is sealed. Why would that be anyway,

(26:41):
I'm both accused of distributing child sexual abuse materials this
year and last year as well, although we do a
whole lot more of this when it comes to Gosnell.
The indictments by the Feds accusing Gosnell of communicating about
sex abuse of kids as far back as December of

(27:03):
twenty twenty three, and yet when this story first broke,
we did spend some time and documented this is more
than just you know, online porn when it comes to
gods Now. I don't really have the stomach to repeat
what the investigation alleges Gods Now to have been involved

(27:24):
with and wanting to do, but suffice it to say
that if you looked at if you thought, well, could
there potentially be any case in this state that would

(27:46):
make R. J May look like a saint? This would
be the one, yep, because it is gut wrenching some
of the details that we've heard on that. All right,

(28:07):
So that's a federal charge launched against Gosnew right there
by the way, there were a couple of other election
notes to note. One big that up in the Upstate.
Looks like the lead Bright comeback is going to be
complete here, the former state senator.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
And former Freedom Caucus member, Yes, former pain in the
neck for House Guop Caucus members.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Looks like he will be again here by the next session.
He won the Republican special primary that's in the Senate
District twelve up in the Upstate. There were three of
that race, and he was able to garner just over
fifty percent of the vote. So he again will be

(28:53):
running in a special election in December against well nobody.
There's not a Demo crat and the race. If you
found one place in the state we're Democrats, say what's
the point? And there are a lot of those, but
but certainly this this district is one of them up

(29:13):
in the upstate of South Carolina. So yeah, there's no uh,
there's there's no competition there from the from the Democrat side.
By the way, that if you're curious as to why
Roger not resigned back in August, uh for for medical
reasons and in shape and municipal elections again being held

(29:36):
on November fourth, there it's going to look very weird
because you know Chapin mayor Alcon who was running for reelection,
I mean just very quickly in the last a week
or so. I mean we heard us one day that
he had was admitted to hospice care, and the next day,

(29:56):
you know, we're told that he had passed. Is namely
going to be on the ballot. They were already printed.
You know, it's too late to take them off. So
there will be signs at the appolling places out in
shaping that if you do vote for the late Alcon

(30:22):
then well it won't count. Obviously your your vote won't count.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Period.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
I'm sure they'll still be I pump some people just
to make a statement. We'll do that al Coon supporters.
This happens every now and then, usually because somebody who's
withdrawn from a race or whatever, or something comes up
about them. But occasionally, when you know, Canaida passes like this,
you want to put this with the same thing, And that's.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Going to be the case here.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
The machines are one thing, but the paper that goes
with it, I guess is the reason why we can't change.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, and I would even argue, you get this close
to an election, don't even mess with the machines.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, we don't need that in our lives, all right,
So quick wrap there.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
How many people voted in the RJMA election by the way.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Uh you know what turnout that?

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Let me do a quick let's see, sorry, I asked
your math on the fly here.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
About I would say it looks like about someone the
neighborhood about fifteen to sixteen hundred people.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Okay, I just wonder how big the district is. Well,
I mean that's a pretty spread out district. I don't
know how many people it encompasses. But well, let's put
it this way.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
If you, yeah, election in county, one hundred and eighty
nine thousand eligible voters in the county, Okay.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
So you do the math on what that turnout was.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah, you know, on hundred eighty nine thousand, you got
about sixty hundred people to voted. I'm not sure this
one hundred all those hundred and nine thousand were eligible
vouting in this particular, but it was, it was.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
It was not much. You would think there would be
more interest. I mean R J.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
May had that seat locked down, yet he was Yeah,
he was in prison for a while before he finally resigned.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
And remember he won that election again last November. Yeah,
even though we already knew at the time that the
the the Feds had had raided his home. Yeah, and
we'd heard some of the details of what the allegations
might be might be, they didn't confirm that until after
that election.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
For a long time, they didn't confirm that.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
But even having given all that, Yeah, but he remember
he was on that ballot back last November, and initially
he was running unopposed but there was like a last
minute right in candidate Brian Duncan.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
I believe that Brian Duncan, who is in the race,
that's right, yeahah, yeah yeah, I mean he saw this coming.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah right.

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Speaker 7 (33:12):
Hey, Gary, this is Frank from Columbia. I listen to
you every morning. I just wanted to drop this little
talk back and to you. Mahart goes out to you
on the loss of your mother, and I've been praying
for you and your family. I'll go, but hope you
have a good day, sir.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Thank you, Frank.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
I'd tell you it's I've heard from from from so
many folks like Frank. In fact, you've got an email
from Todd expecially in condolences. I how long I've been
doing this over here now to twenty five years, right,
and I know there are a lot of folks who've
grown old with us, right, And uh, I said this

(33:58):
the other day. It's uh, y'all or family to us.
Even if we've never even talked to you in person, well,
then we talked to you every day. Maybe you have
had to just talk back to us in person or
be face to face. But we do, we feel it,
we do, we do absolutely, And I have been so

(34:18):
touched by the outbrouring of support. And just so you know,
my mom lived to be ninety one.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
We lost my dad a little over a year ago.
He also lived to be ninety one.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
And I am so incredibly blessed to have had the
opportunity to have my parents in my life for as
long as they have, and to have had them period,
because they were and continue to be my guiding light.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well, the service.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
Yesterday it was uplifting and yeah, and you set the
tone for that. You know, so many funerals and depending
on the circumstances and be you know, horribly somber. And
you walked up to that microphone and said this is
a happy day. And people took their tone from that,
and from there it was it was a celebration of

(35:11):
your mom's life.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know, they got they got to write in New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
You know they have they have their big parade afterwards,
and that's right, you know, I mean, it's a party.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
It is a happy day.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
The preacher yesterday, a dear friend of ours for for
for many many years, who came down from the upstate
to h to preacher the service, talked about Lazarus and
he's talking about can you imagine, you know, you've you've died,
you've moved on, you've been on heaven, and now you

(35:45):
got just Jesus, guy's bringing it back to this place.
Nobody wants to come back here, right. I never heard
it put quite that way, but no, it was.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
It was.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
It was a happy day, man. When you when you
have somebody that's of the life that long and that
well and goes on to their reward, man, I can't
be sad about that. She should be celebrated. Absolutely, So
thank you, Frank, appreciate that, brother, and thanks to all
of you who've reached out over the course of the
last number of days. All right back to this news

(36:20):
about the news. There's a new study out from the
European Union that I'm not surprised by this quite honestly,
And this was a vast study, they tell us by

(36:43):
European public broadcasters that was released yesterday, late yesterday, Artificial
intelligence assistance like chat GPT make errors about half the
time when asked about news events.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
The mistakes include confusing news with parody okay, getting dates wrong,
or simply inventing events. They looked at Chat, GPT, at
Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity. Overall, they said forty

(37:31):
five percent of all AI answers had at least one
significant issue, regardless of the language or the country of origin.
That out of every five answers, that one out of
every five contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and
outdated information. The worst Google's Gemini they found significant issues

(37:59):
and get this now, seventy six percent of responses.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
So Google would have had the most information, right, I mean,
isn't that our largest search engine?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Right?

Speaker 5 (38:10):
So the more information it has, the more chances it's
going to go off on the wrong tangent.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
The study says that this is largely due to his
poor sourcing performance, whatever that means. They between late May
and mid June of this year, the public media outlets
from eighteen mostly European countries posed the same questions to

(38:39):
AI assistance, they found outdated information. One of the most
common issues and the three thousand responses they got. For example,
would ask who is the pope chat GPT and Gemini
said it was Francis. Well, Francis had already passed at

(38:59):
the time. It was yeah, Pope Leo had already been installed.
Yet the answer you got was Pope Francis.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
That would seem like I don't program computers, but that
that would seem like a simple All the computer would
have to all all the they would have to do
is just look back at the last pope installed mm hmm,
and you would see, you know, hundreds of thousands of
new stories. Yeago, wazoo check the date and Francis gone

(39:30):
and Leo in and.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Now excuse the uh, the topic of this or anyone
that might be sensitive to such. But this actually happened,
so I'll warn you ahead of time. Gemini, which again
is the Google product, when asked about Elon Musk's alleged

(39:55):
Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration back in January, the Google
AI chatbot responded, and I'm warning that the billionaire had
quote unquote an erection in his right arm.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Huh what an odd way to put it.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Well, turns out there was a comedian who wrote a
satirical column and said that one post one column and
Google Gemini somehow sourced their answer based on that satirical
column by a comedian. That's scary, yeah right. So as

(40:38):
scary as that is, the scarier part is how many
people are taking it as the gospel, yeah, when they
hit the AI button looking for factual information. Although I guess,
quite honestly, it's maybe not any worse than getting a
news off of Facebook or Snapchat or whatever other social

(41:00):
media outlet out there.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Tell you the truth, right or then?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Maybe I think we've gotten to the point now where
most of us realize that, oh yeah, it was on Facebook.
Oh yeah, Okay, back in the day it was, Yet
it was in the National Inquirer. You know, now it's well,
it was on Facebook. I think most of us have
come to the realization that a lot, if not almost all,
of what you see there is going to be wildly inaccurate.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
I don't know if I agree with you there. I
think a lot of people take it as the gospel. Yeah,
I mean they see something, Well, what I follow that guy?
I believe him he's always been right, Yeah, because he
agrees with me, right, so right exactly, So you take
whatever he posts.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
But when it comes to artificial intelligence, we've been led
to believe it. I mean, this stuff is infallible. Yeah right,
it's it's artificial intelligence. It's the best thing since sliced
bread until it takes your job, of course.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Well, the kids use it to write papers and yeah,
I saw that somebody hosted last night on LinkedIn that
a lot of people are using it for their resumes. Now,
you know, sure they ask AI what does this company want?
And then they craft their resume or craft their answers
to an essay that way.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, so be very careful. Yeah, proof read everything. Yeah right,
they feed you.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Yeah, what does he yesterday that open ai now is
coming up with its own web browser?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Are they? I think so? Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
Yeah, because they're going to go after Google, lock Stock
and Barrel. Well, Appeagle came after them with AI, so
now they're going after Google.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Well let's go back to the let's see.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
Yeah, apparently open ai did a better job at sourcing
their responses than Google did. Remember it was Google's Gemini
that was wrong like seventy six percent of the time.
That's phenomenal. I mean, how could you be wrong three
out of four times? AI crazy? Quickly, other media news,

(43:07):
Warner Brothers Discovery, which is the parent company of CNN
and HBO, which, by the way, the HBO rates are
going up again, announced it's open to a sale.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
How many times has that company been sold? Right? What
is it called these days? I don't know what they
call it. I mean it was Time Order at one time.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Warner Warner brother Yeah, I guess there's going by Warner
Brothers now.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
And then they bought CNN.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Yep, apparently there's been an offer by Paramount reportedly expressed
an interest in an offer, which leaves CNN again up
in the air, which probably won't bother a whole lot
of people, quite honestly. On note that, well, you know,

(44:04):
ceeing Inn and of course the MSNBC and that that
that split off of NBC and all that has had
to make a number of moves to streamline things. Not
that I would have sat here and said that Seeing
is a reliable news source, but I guess maybe they're

(44:25):
a little more reliable than Google's Gemini. I guess I mean,
you gotta be right. I don't care what your slant is.
You gotta be more reliable than wrong seventy six percent
of the time. So that gives a whole new meaning
to fake news, right there, doesn't it? Please be careful?
Will you get your news? If you just want to
be entertained, fine, that works. But if you if you're

(44:47):
looking for what's the real story here? I'll get it
off AI or Facebook.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
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Speaker 4 (45:06):
It's fourteen minutes after eight o'clock and it's good to
have you with us this morning, Wednesday, October twenty second.
By the way, there is a tropical storm out there.
It is expected to become a hurricane by probably midday
Friday or so.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
It is. Melissa, all right, what are the chances that
comes our way? Oh?

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Well, the odds are they're telling us it's going to
do what the rest of these things have done. It's
just making turn to the north. Okay, but this is
not when they came off the African coast. This one
just kind of blew up down the Caribbean south of Haitian,
the dr and Puerto Rico and Cuba and stuff. But

(45:45):
they think they think that, Yeah, it'll kind of head
north again. And what a weird hurricane season. Knock on wood. Yeah,
and thank the Lord this has been Huh the calendar
says it's over November one? Kiss what the calendar says?
We'll see And by the way, speaking of calendar, don't
forget No. Number two.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
That's when the time changes.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
So we get to have that's Halloween weekend. All right,
well that's gonna be an event field weekend?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Is that Halloween weekend? Yeah? No? Yeah, wait a minute,
Am I wrong? Isn't Halloween? You're usually not? I think
I am this time. R Yeah, November second is a Sunday.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Okay, yeah, well Halloween is Friday.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
But once Halloween is done, Halloween is done, you don't
have Halloween weekend after Halloween, right, Well, I meant the
weekend that includes Halloween.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Oh all right, all right, we'll go with that. So
Halloween's Friday and then.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
I don't know, we got dark in my house early
last night. I looked out and thought was in the world. Yeah, no,
you're gonna get any darker soon?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Uh, twenty two days now, second longest shutdown of the government.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
Anything happening here, you tell us? Well, I know, I know,
I didn't have any news yesterday.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
The only news really to pass along today. Well, a
couple of things here. Word that John Thune and Mike
Johnson are talking about a new stop gap spending measure
that would end this, they say, Consensus said to be

(47:21):
growing that the clean cr as they call it, which
basically says, just take whatever the budget was you extended, right, okay,
and only for what a month? Well not even that now? Well, yeah,
the plan now is for that to fund the government
through November twenty first, So yeah, less than a month. Now.
That's what passed the House back in September, but has

(47:43):
now been voted down eleven times in the Senate because
of Democrats demands on healthcare. But a couple of the
options they're looking at right now. One would be a
full year continuing resolution that's been discussed.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
At least.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Not all Republicans are happy about that prospect, and who knows,
I mean, I don't I don't know what the Democrats
would do with this, But anyway, that's that's that's.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
What they're apparently looking at. Now.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
John Fetterman has other ideas, the Pennsylvania Democrat and I'm
using the air quotes here.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Now, Yeah, they're ready to boot them out. Yeah, they're
not happy at all with Fetterman. But Fetterman.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
Now is calling on Republicans in the Senate to use
the nuclear option. Remember, this whole thing has been held
up because they can't get to sixty votes in the Senate.
They can't even get all the Republicans vote on this, right,
but uh you uh, you know, if you employ the
the nuclear option, then the well that that eliminates the

(48:55):
filibuster and all you need then is a simple majority vote. Now,
Federman has been consistent in voting with Republicans on this,
one of three Democrats to do that. He says, there's
no nobody's winning here. It's not getting better every day here,
you know. Now they're talking about, you know, snap benefits

(49:18):
of getting ready to dry up here before long.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
And let's not forget.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
We've got a lot of people who work in the
federal government who are deemed to be essential, who are
still going to work now and have been doing some
of that doing so without collecting a paycheck for the
last three weeks. Oh yeah, I know, yeah, when when
when they pass something, they'll get that back pay. But
in the meantime, the bills start to pile up, right

(49:46):
and before I guess Monday, maybe it was last fraud,
whichever day was we were talking about, and there was
some speculation out there this thing could carry into Thanksgiving.
Imagine the possibilities not just for the people of acted
by this directly, just the essential workers, but the non
essential workers who are sitting at home right now and

(50:08):
also not collecting a paycheck, and some of who have
been permanently terminated pending court action, of course, but think
about the possibilities come the closer we get to Thanksgiving,
which is.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
The twenty eighth this year.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
I think it is at least it's late, gives them
some time to try to work this out before then.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
But imagine what the airports would look like twenty seventh.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Twenty seventh, Okay, because we've already seen travel related delays.
You know, I'm starting to get the feeling that right now,
even if have been directly impacted by this, that more

(50:55):
and more people are just blaming politicians in general.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
For it.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
We mentioned yesterday CNN had a poll where Trump's approval
rating has actually gone up one point since the shutdown started,
which is a little odd because his approval ratings went
down during the shutdown during his first administration. Right, but
I mean, I have a feeling all the blames being
placed on Congress. Isn't that usually where we assigned the blame?

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Yeah? Yeah, right now.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
The Associated Press did a poll about healthcare and the
rising costs of it, at least from a Democratic standpoint.
This gets down to the crux of the biscuit here,
to quote Frank Zappa. By the way, if you didn't
know the cooks, the biscuit is the apostrophe.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Maybe one of you. That's what I'm talking about here.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
Okay, six and ten of us either extremely or very
concerned about the healthcare costs going up next year.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
It's a good time to ask that question, considering it's
open enrollment.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah, apparently the other four in ten aren't paying attention. Yeah,
or they're independently wealthy, be exactly.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
This survey says this is a word that extends across
all age groups and includes people with them without health care.
Four and ten of us are extremely or very concerned
about not being able to pay for health care or
for medications that we need, not being able to access
health care when we need it, or losing or not

(52:33):
having health insurance. Yeah, it is at that time of
the year. It is open and rollment season. Good time
to ask the question. And again the question is why
why is health care in this country so incredibly expensive?

(52:56):
It's insane. And we could talk about you know, pharmaceuticals
and the drugs and you know, the prescription drugs and
all that, and how there's so much more expensive here
than in other countries and all, but the whole thing
is just crazy.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Man. Now, I gotta say this.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
The healthcare that my mother received, and I'll say where
it was, LEXA Medical Center, outstanding, outstanding. But that's not
always the case. I'm not going to name names here,
but not always the case. Now, when it comes to

(53:40):
assigning any blame for all this, this pole claims that
only three out of ten of US thirty percent approve
of of how Trump is handling health care. That hasn't
really changed since September. Needles will say, almost all Democrats
disapprove of his approach.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
What is his approach?

Speaker 4 (54:02):
This is the guy who's trying to reduce pharmaceutical costs.
It's funny because well, not really funny, but it's as if, oh, well,
we were all good until Trump came around, and suddenly
health care and health care costs and everything just went
went down the toilet.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
We toil for a long time. We've been complaining about
rates for quite a while.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
My goodness, our company did an interesting thing this year.
Rather making us sign up again as we always have
every year, they just said, if you just want to
roll or what you have this year, you can do it.
I'm like, hmmm, let me look into this a little further.
Should I be suspicious of that?

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Check it out.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Costs continue to go up, and in some places the
level of care continues to decline. That wasn't our experience
here recently, thankfully. You think at least if the cost
is going up, level of care would go up with it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
But that's that's not how the world.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Is calling Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, United States, and we'll take
you there.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
At a critical time in our world's history.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
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Speaker 4 (55:31):
Final thoughts now for a Wednesday, October twenty second, Good
morning to you. I'll be curious to see how this
turns out. The woman who has been accused of starting
the Carolina forest wildfire. And remember that lingered for a

(55:51):
couple of months. Oh that reminds me if you get
an opportunity. And I thought this is gonna be a
real snooze fest, but boy was I wrong. Okay, remember
what's treaming platform?

Speaker 2 (56:01):
It's on now?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
I think it's on Apple Maybe the new Matthew McConaughey movie.
Oh yeah, Bus the Bus. Yeah that's good.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yeah. Oh, if you want to spend about.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
I don't know how long any thing was an hour
and a half, two hours on the edge of your seat. Yeah,
you'd be war out after watching that thing. Man, that
was about the the uh the paradise, paradise or what
a big wildfire out in California years ago, that that'd
be just basically destroyed whole town's Yeah, excellent movie with

(56:34):
the carr on a forest wildfire pale in comparison, but
still two thousand acres burned. Yeah, two thousand acres, It
wasn't inconsequential. So now the woman who is accused of
of starting that fire, her trial is good sets set

(56:54):
to start this morning in Myrtle Beach. She's she's accused
of starting a fire to burn debris after a burn
band was already implemented and her backyard fire pit was
closed to a tree line in the neighborhood in which
she lived. The Forestry Commission said she didn't have an

(57:19):
appropriate water source readily available or any garden tools on
hand to control the fire, and that her lack of
resources led the fire to spread.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
And so what are the charges against her?

Speaker 4 (57:33):
Negligently allowing fire to spread the lands of another and
regulation of fires on certain lands Chapter violation. Okay, now again,
if she's convicted on this, she faces up to sixty
days in prison and find of a whopping four hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
A little more expensive than that to repair two thousand
plus acres.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
Why, I mean, it's almost as if why bother right
they need to I guess set an example. Her attorney
is sent in the past that he feels like his
client has become a scapegoat for all this and then
there can be a fire where nobody's at fault criminally, No,

(58:15):
obviously this woman didn't want to start a wildfire. There
is This is where they are intentionally set This wasn't
one of them, but the under a burn band you
face the consequences. So they're just they're trying to set
an example here and send a message, no doubt. Now,
if she's convicted of this, I sincerely doubt she'll spend

(58:40):
a single day behind bars. But again the fine probably
will be levied. But again it's only four hundred bucks.
Richland County's nine one one call center is about to
wrap up construction. Okay, it's something that they say it's

(59:03):
been needed. This is part though, of the the redo
of Columbia Place Mall, the old Columbia Mall, which is
you know, now taking over by the county. The process, though,
is what got my attention. It's taken to get to

(59:25):
this point almost seven years. And well, we know what
happens when you have those kind of delays in something
and it takes that long to finish some government project,
the cost usually spirals out of control. Don't know exactly
what the cost is here, but seven you know, it

(59:51):
was if you wanted to start a business and you
need a brick and mortar store and took you that
long to build it, you'd neverould have gotten a business
to begin with.

Speaker 5 (59:57):
Right, Chances are the product you're selling is probably out
dated by the more.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Nobody wants it anymore. Yeah. Right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
I noticed earlier today that we have signed on with
the other Republican states again encouraging demanding that people have
to prove who they are before they're able to vote.
A novel concept. Right, Well, a review of voter roles
in Texas. Now they say that they have found thousands,

(01:00:28):
two thousand seven twenty four non citizens who were found
to be registered to vote.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Yeah, we mentioned that yesterday, right the show. I mean,
that's you've got. This is one reason why the federal
government is asking for certain records from these states. Yes,
because they match up their database for in this case,
the US citizenship.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Database, which is what they did in Texash with with.

Speaker 5 (01:00:55):
The state's voter rolls and say, okay, here's what we've got,
here's what you've got. See who doesn't match? Yeah, and
then people don't automatically get kicked off or kicked out,
But there's an investigation m.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
In the midst of everything else going on or not
going on in DC when it comes to the shutdown,
House Speaker Johnson yesterday saying he won't block a floor
vote on a resolution to release records tied to You
guessed it, Jeffrey Epstein. If it garners enough sigmas, why
are we talking about this again right now?

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
I could care less about Epstein right now. I don't
know that many Americans are focused on that right now.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I don't I don't think. I don't think they are.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
If it's if it's a complete you know, just if
it looks terrible for Donald Trump, if it looks terrible
for you know, Clinton and Prince Andrew, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I mean, politically, I could care less.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
It's it's a non issue right now, when we've got
a government that's shut down and you know, so many
other hotspots.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Two months ago, I might have cared, but not now.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Well, this this is a bill put forth to demand
a vote. H this is a Rocanna the Democrat and
I guess, oh yeah, Thomas Massey, you know he's never
gonna pop up here, right Trump's least favorite Republican. But
Johnson says if it gets to two hundred eighteen signatures,
he would not block the bill. Okay, don't get excited

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if you are still interested in this, because we've heard
this before exactly and if you ask me, Mike Johnson
setting himself up for failure once again, just stop talking
about it because we know it's not going to happen.
Mentioned earlier, there is a tropical storm out there, Melissa,
that is uh, not your typical one that comes across
the Atlanta This one is formed in the Caribbean. It's

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a National Hurricane Center says it's going to become a
hurricane probably by some time, maybe midday Friday, and it's
a little early to tell, certainly, but it does appear
as though this ding is going to again turn north
and you know, head out into the Atlantic, but it's
going to be some problems to you know, maybe Puerto Rico, Hispaniola,

(01:03:17):
places like that, which leads me to the new internal
probe just released by DHS that says those reports that
we had heard of FEMA disaster assistance teams last year
bypassing homes that had Trump signs in the front yard,

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This internal probe says this didn't actually happen. Not only that,
but its report claims that this was indicative of a
pattern tracing back to Hurricane Ida in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
So for the basically the length of Biden's term, this
wasn't an isolated incident. If you had a Trump sign
in your front yard, chancells are pretty good you could
get bypassed by FEMA.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
But we mentioned this yesterday because there was a story about,
you know, people demanding the Trump administration has cut off
funds for DEI related FEMA projects, and we mentioned, you
know what, what in the world does DEI have to
do with FEMA. If you've got an emergency, you shouldn't

(01:04:33):
be dealing with diversity inclusion. You should just be dealing
with fighting the emergency, helping people who need help, regardless
of you know, anything else.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
And in front of the bid administration, that's how you
were looking at think under a DEI lens. Well, I'm sorry,
inclusion is one of those words in there, right, shouldn't
that include Trump supporters too? And then come on, first
time in two hundred years, tourists are able to see
one of Greek's most iconic landmarks without any scaffolding around it.

(01:05:07):
Huh the parthenon. You talk about a long term project here?
Huh Yeah, first time in two hundred years you can
catch a glimpse of that iconic I'd love to say
I've never been, but just for a little while because
they're getting ready to put up more scaffolding here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yeah, okay, trying to say that thing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
Okay, And mentioned the other day that Aldi says that
they got a deal where you can fill a fill
the stomachs of a family of about ten for forty
bucks for Thanksgiving. Well, Walmart says they can do the
same thing. Matter of fact, Walmart says they can serve
ten people for less than forty bucks with their annual
Thanksgiving meal baskets this year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Yeah, how about that?

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
Leading the way, of course, a butterball turkey for ninety
seven cents a pound. Why don't our meats cost ninety
seven cents a pounds? Why is it just turkeys? They
say they also will include a gluten free Thanksgiving meal,
a balanced Thanksgiving meal, and a prime rib meal, of

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which they.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Don't list the cost of that one, but I can
promise you it ain't it for forty bucks.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Yeah, I know, for forty bucks,