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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesusly, hell ya sa America and llin.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For for nation. This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's showtime Morning. Tellya it's Thursday, the next to the
last day of the month of October sixte eight after
six morning Tilia, Gary David, Christopher Thompson checking in the
rest of the team. Columbia's Morning News is back in business.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
This is not a job to do without caffeine. Dead
the truth, brother, I will say that right now.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Lots of caffeine. Yeah, a little chillier this morning. Tyler
just mentioned we're in the upper forty for the most
part across the Midlands. Now, I just had to check
because he talked about some chillier attempts for the weekend.
How about waking up Saturday morning of forty one? Oh yes,
brisk baby, So we'll have some low forties looks like
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for a couple of mornings over the weekend and into
the first part of the next week. Are you caffeen
to pride this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, yes, I've got Oh that's right, you've got a
doctor's appointment later today, and you know they do blood work,
so you get a fast, which I'm a breakfast guy,
you're not. I love breakfast, Yes, you do. To me,
that's what full course.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Breakfast every morning before we go on the air.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
To me, that's the most important meal of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You say that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, so I am between that and the caffeine. I'm struggling.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, I had that a couple of weeks. But I'm
luckily my every time I try to you know, I
get the annual physical thing. My doctor only seems to
do him like at eight thirty in the morning. I
would love that. A bit of a problem with our
work schedule here, but yeah, well but yeah, I don't
schedule colon oscar by is you name it? Man? First
thing in the morning. How quick I get there?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Which, Here's here's what doesn't make sense to me. They
tell you to fast nothing after midnight, right, right? Well,
if my appointments at eight thirty and yours is at
one o'clock, right, why can't you fast until, like, you know,
three in the morning, I don't get it either, makes
no sense. I would have gotten up and eating something. Yeah, right,
(02:22):
I felt to thirty I would have had a feast,
Trust me, I would have. Okay, well, all right, are
you gonna get grumpy later on? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well I'm grumpy now. Oh you already are? Yeah, it's here.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, okay, I got to go be a little lawyer today.
I mean, that's not quite as bad. At least I
don't have to fast for that. Yeah, all right, friends,
let's get to it. The rundown, the big stories, the
hot topics say.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, no freezing weather coming away soon, anytime soon at least,
but freeze on those snap benefits is big news. And
now we've got state to Democrat lawmakers calling for more
to be done before these food stamps will hit the
pause button. And that's coming in just two days. Right
as of tomorrow night midnight, there will be no more
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snap benefits, and not just here in South Carolina anywhere.
Uh okay, Well, we know that the governor has announced
that the state has activated the one SC fund, which
is again not giving taxpayer money out to you know,
to cover snap benefits. It states that by the way
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they do that, the Feds have already warned you you're
not gonna get reimbursed for that. When the government reopened
so be wise. But this is kind of a stateway
of organizing contributions for folks who are receiving snap benefits,
and we've got well, it's more than a million, one
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hundred million dollar hold of him, and philanthropy is the
way the state sees we can do it, asking for
donations for anybody, companies, individuals, whomever. Again, these benefits drawing up,
assuming that the Democrats don't come to the table before
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tomorrow night at midnight, which I have a sneaking suspicion
they will. You're talking about one in ten here in
our state without those benefits. And again not as though
they're going to not have a dime to their name.
They're going to starve. But it's gonna be problematic. Even
Alan Wilson, the Attorney General and goobernatorial candidate, urging Congress
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to protect those benefits. We're talking about across the country,
some forty two million Americans on those A big police
presence and another threat to a school yesterday. This was
the American Leadership Academy charter school, and a big one
over on the Highway six just off of I twenty
in the town of Lexington. No specific information about what
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the threat was, but it did a big police turnout.
A number of law firms say they are looking into
United Home Groups Incorporated. This is a homebuilder. It's headquartered
here in town. This after it's stock fell following several
board of director directors members announcing their intentions to resign.
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Is there something going on here now? Board members? Six
of its board members, including former Governor Nikki Haley, the
current Clemson President James Clements, they've all said they'll resign
after the executive chairman's refusal to step down from his position.
There is some controversy over all of this, and a
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bunch of lawyers are looking into it right now. Fairfield County,
good morning, thanks for listening. Do you want to pay
another penny? Uh? Well, Fairfield County considering an additional penny sales.
In this way it always works. We just want to
jacket up a penny that'll take care of everything until oh,
wait a minute, we just need to jacket up another
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penny that'll take care of everything.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They just want a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It's the way it always goes. Now, it's been a
while since they had one, twenty years ago. Matter of fact,
the last time one was instituted, but the county would
like more new license plates coming our way. Say goodbye
to while I breathe. I hope starting with the new year,
the new standard license plate will commemorate the two hundred
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and fiftieth anniversary of the Revolutionary War. Have you seen
these plates yet, mister Thompson.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I like them, okay, I like them.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Where the Revolutionary War was won.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh, I have seen it, yes, Okay, yeah, But damn,
that's touting, you know, one of our state's achievements. I
liked having the slogan. But that's fine, that's fine. Yeah,
change it up.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You put on in the back of your car. You forget
about it anyway, right, Let mean, come on, all right?
The shutdown day thirty now, Cinemajority leader of THUN said
yesterday he expects to engage pretty soon whatever that is,
with a group of rank and file Senate Democrats about
ending this shutdown. If it does happen that meeting, it
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would be a rare bipartisan gathering involving a top party leader.
Do you know there are this point now thirty days
in that fun and Schumer have not yet met face
to face. Yeah, no they haven't.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That's why there's the resentment that Americans have for Congress.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Exactly are you even trying to resolve this? Sure doesn't
look like it. The Hill reporting that Democrats are weighing
options to ease this shutdown. Now's the pressure is mounting
it again, not just that letter from the Big Employees
Union for federal government workers, but also the impending deadline
for snap benefits telling you this is going to happen
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before midnight tomorrow night. Okay, I'm just telling you. Lindsey Graham,
by the way, weighing in on politicians continuing to get paid.
Many aren't taking it. I know. Got a note from
Joe Wilson when this government shutdown first started. He said
he is not taking his pay. We have many who aren't.
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Graham wants to introduce a constitutional amendment that would require
members of Congress to forfeit their paychecks and a shutdown.
I think we'd all agree with that, right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean, if people, if the rest of America is
not getting paid, or at least federal workers, then why
should they.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Exactly, their staff aren't getting paid, but they are. They
can again forfeit it now. But there's no requirement they
do so in the midst of all. This kind of
like driving in the fog, says Jerome Powell. But the
Fed did cut the interest rate by a quarter of
a point yesterday. All right, that's the second of the year.
(09:03):
How will that impact things like, oh, you know, the
ability to buy a home. Well, remember, these two rates
aren't directly tie that prime rate in the mortgage rate,
but it doesn't hurt although you may need a mortgage
to afford Obamacare. The new Obamacare insurance plan rates for
twenty twenty six are out, and yeah, there are some
big increases there. Meantime, Trump has wrapped up his asient trip,
(09:26):
heading back home and wrapping it up with a successful
meeting with Ji Jinping. Trump cutting the China tariff after
a g signals that there was progress in trade, and
also working to cut the fentanyl production. That would be nice.
Going nuclear, the President or the Pentagon to resume nuclear
(09:47):
test immediately, saying that everybody else is doing it, so
we have to do it too. Meantime, there's news from.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Every Russia, everyone else being Russia in China.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh yeah, Vladimir Putin saying yesterday that Russia tested the POSEIDON.
That's a nuclear powered, nuclear capable underwater torpedo, first of
it's kind and one that well, they say could unleash
radioactive tsunami still wipe out port cities. That'd be great,
(10:18):
all right, friends, we'll get to that. More coming up
on this. It's the Thursday edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Always good to have you.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
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Speaker 2 (10:27):
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Speaker 1 (10:28):
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Speaker 3 (10:31):
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Montellia six forty two. I hate to be the bear
of bad tidings, but I'm going to be the bear
of bad tidings. Now we know we've been talking about this.
You know, healthcare insurance rates are are going up for
air everybody. If you're an employee employer sponsored plan, you
may be finding that your rates are going up. You
probably are. If your rates aren't going up, then the
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redefined print because your deductibles probably are going up quite
a bit. But for folks who are on Obamacare, and
that's a lot of people. Well, the rates, the pricing,
and another info for the twenty twenty six Obamacare plans
was publicly posted on healthcare dot gov yesterday. Open enrollment
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starts and Saturday, so it is in three days, two days,
I guess now, so it'll be open open enrollment season
for the open marketplace. Looks like premiums for Obamacare plans increase.
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Average increase is twenty six percent. Now, we weren't even
talking about these subsidies, Okay, just the the average increase
in premiums twenty six percent based on well, the benchmark
Silver plans. It's that mid tier plan and the most
popular one. But now if depending on what happens here
(12:14):
with the federal government and certainly the extension of those
those COVID era subsidies is at the heart of this,
without the subsidies, the average American on Obamacare is going
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to see rates rise by about one hundred and fourteen percent.
We've talked about that. That's not a number we didn't know.
We've already known that. So aside from that, even if
Congress eventually votes to extend those subsidies, still going to
see prices rise by about twenty five to twenty six percent.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yas. Yeah, and again we pointed this out last week.
And that's just to get you in the door. Oh yeah,
you're going to be paying more than that once once
you see a doctor or once you get care. Yeah,
that's that's just the system's broken. It's been broken for
(13:19):
a long time, man, And it's going to take more
than just to check mark next next to extend subsidies.
That's not that's not the fix. No, no, so by
no means, and Trump echoed that yesterday. You know, we
did throw in a political jab saying the Democrats want
to make it worse. But he said, you know, Obamacare
is not working. We want to help fix it. But
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you know the problem is this, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is it the healthcare insurance industry that needs to be
fixed or is it just a healthcare system and the
ridiculous amounts of money that you're charged for health care
in this country. Now I get it, we get you know,
some of not the best healthcare in the world, But
why is it so dog on expensive? Man? Well, anyway,
(14:14):
I don't have answers for that, but I'm just here
to deliver the bad news this morning on that front,
it just keeps getting worse. Now. Yesterday the Fed's cut
the interest rate, so there was some good news there.
Second rate cut of the ear so back to back
quarter point rate cuts by the Feds. But as Jerome
Powell mentioned, it's kind of done like driving in the fog.
(14:36):
He said, you got to slow down here, he said,
it still is unclear whether or not the government shut
down and the lack of key economic data will affect
their next meeting, which is in December. Folks would hope
for another rate cut in that meeting, but again with
the government shut down, we don't have the readings of
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the Fed needs in order to make come you know,
their decisions. So we'll see where it goes. Now. The
markets yesterday were mixed on the news. The Dow was
down about seventy five points, the S and P dipped
a bit, The Nasdaq was up this morning, though in
(15:21):
pre market trading all the indices are down?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that because of his doom and gloom comments?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, it's actually you can blame Meta and Microsoft for
this one. Those two tech giants both had disappointing earnings results. Okay,
but no disappointment in Innvidia. Man, if you got on
(15:47):
the ground floor of Nvidia, you're a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Huh yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Wow in Vidia yesterday it shares up more than three percent.
That company is now the first company ever to cross
the five trillion dollar market value threshold. It was up
(16:10):
five percent Tuesday, it was up three percent yesterday. In
Vidia stock is up year to date, now more than
fifty percent. This latest tickup in their stock comes after
their CEO yesterday said the company expects five hundred billion
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dollars in AI chip orders and announced plans to build
seven new supercomputers for the US government. This was yesterday.
This this celebration, well, I'm sure there's liberals on their
head outraged them because the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Hwang,
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turned the whole thing really into a celebration of Trump.
Gave a keynote speech, and they said that Trump deserves
enormous credit for recognizing the US tech sector needs more
energy to win the AI race, and for pushing tech
companies to bring production back to these shores. It's like,
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if this didn't happen, we could have been in a
bad situation. And I want to thank President Trump for it,
So yeah, it turned a little political, but I mean,
this is tr Trump has been pushing for this. We
cannot wind up on the losing as much as quite honestly,
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a lot of us don't like the whole AI thing.
You can't just bury your head in the sand. And
if it's going to be out there, we got to
be leading. So in Vidia making big deals and over
five trillion dollars in market value. Gosh, if I haven't been
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from metat Microsoft yesterday, it might have been a pretty
these down on Wall Street. Certainly Nvidia did all they
could do, and so the defense for that matter, and
by the way, mortgage rates because of that to a
quarter point cut. Does this make a difference or not? Well, yeah,
this is again this is that weird thing that this
is prime lending. Rate cut does not necessarily translate into
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a mortgage rate cut, but it doesn't hurt. Freddie Mack
reported the thirty year fixed at six, but that was
a week ago. But earlier the year it was a
six point five, so potentially a slight dip in those rates,
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but but nothing major. The the experts say.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
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Speaker 1 (19:08):
Fifteen after seven o'clock and is Thursday, October thirtieth. As
this month draws to a close, Well, it's it's it's
more meaningful than normal. Okay, yeah, we're just about to November.
That's big deal. But the importance of end of this
counter month is well amplify this time around because of
the government shutdown. As you're aware, the SNAP benefits will
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dry up nationwide after tomorrow night. Now across the country,
this means what I mean, millions, millions of households that
will will not be getting these benefits. This is not
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to say they don't have any money of their own
they can go out and buy food with, but it's
going to be a real problem. Here in our state,
some two hundred and sixty thousand households are getting SNAP
benefits and without them, this will leave about one in
ten South Carolinians without this federal aid. So the governor
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again has activated the one sc Fund to try to
coordinate donations get food and such to local food banks
and others who are trying to help out. This is
the same outfit that helped coordinate to or helps coordinate
donations during natural disasters. We saw this during a hurricane Heleen.
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We saw it during the COVID nineteen pandemic. But there
are some over the state House Democrats who say this
is not enough and they want more done. Ta Meeka
Isai Divines is Well, we're about to see see it
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get real the next couple of days going to hit
every single community in our state. Russ a Lot saying
that what we're doing right now is almost like a
band aid on a bullet hole. So what they're asking
for is for the governor to declare a state of emergency.
One lawmaker saying the governor has actually done it before,
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and that declaring a state of emergency does not require
new funding from the state House, that it would allow
the governor to redirect existing resources and emergency appropriations to
meet urgent needs. But again, these are again, these are
taxpayer dollars they've already gotten from us. They're in these funds,
and this is what declaring a state of emergency would
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allow the governor to do. The Democrats of the State
House argue and saying that this was the same thing
that happened during the pandemic when funds were redirected to
support public health and food access programs. Okay, the difference
is here now and Mary greenover to ISTV did a
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very good piece on this. The difference now is is
during the pandemic, the state House directed existing state reserve
money into a new fund, which then allowed the governor
to appropriate that for certain expenses. Now, otherwise it would
be the state House and not the governor, and then
the state House controls the first strings, not the governor. Right,
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this would require the state House to come back into
session for a special session and appropriate these funds. Now,
some states have declared states of emergency of Virginia's done it,
Louisiana's done it, but the governor on Tuesday said he
doesn't plan to do that. He says, because the situation
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that were facing here would not meet the crime area
legally needed to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Can't we see if this fund in this philanthropy works.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
First, Well, yeah, because this is what this, this is
what the state leaders are asking for for folks to
step up, you know, even every day regular folk. Certainly
big big corporations and such, and we got a lot
of them around.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here, and if the state spends that money, the federal
government's already said, you're not getting it back.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm not going to get it back. Yes, the feds
have already said that. So we'll fee to spend John
if you want to, but we ain't going to reimburse
you forward on the backside.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So unless we have you know, hundreds of millions of
dollars laying around that we don't know about, which is possible.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Typically it is every year, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Not dedicated specifically to this cause.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
No, when it comes to appropriations, it's not the governor's
office who can do that. It is the state House
that has to do that. But it does require the
governor to call them back into special session. I guess
the state House can't call own special session, right, the
Governor's got to do that, and he is not inclined
to do so at this time. Now, again, I think
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that this is this is I mean, for again, for
a lot of people, this is scary stuff. I still
contend that the Democrat Party can't afford to let this happen.
And you know, Schumer, they've been saying things, you know,
the last number of weeks like, yeah, we're winning this
is great for our party. Yeah, you let these benefits
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dry up after midnight tomorrow night, Democrat party, you lose.
I don't see any way that the Democrats can't say, Okay,
let's reopen this puppy. They cannot let this happen. Alan
Wilson urging Congress to protect these benefits. He's calling on
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Chuck Schumer to keep the program funded. Wilson joining a
other state attorneys general calling for Congress to pass a
clean funding bill all right to keep, to reopen the
government and make sure that programs like this one aren't
interrupted nationwide. We're talking about this will impact some forty
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two million Americans. I'm not here to again, as I
mentioned it several times in the past week or so.
I'm here to debate the validity of programs like this
and how they, you know, made a lot of people
so utterly dependent upon the state, meaning the federal government. Here.
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This is not that debate right now. But the reality
is that there are a lot of people that are
dependent upon these state handouts. So I just I just
I again, I don't see how Schumer and the Democrats
can can let this happen.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And so you think it ends by the end of
the week beginning of next week.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I think it could carry over to the start of
next week. I don't see any way how you know,
we get to the end of next week with it's
still being an issue. I think they get the government
reopened by the end of next week because I'm telling
you what, that's a bunch of folk right there across
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the country. There's forty two million Americans. I realize not
all of them are voting age, not all of them vote,
but still, that's tens of millions of Americans who do vote. Who, well,
can the Democrat Party risk them holding it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Against them, especially with the midterms being so close?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
This isn't about the White House yet.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, no, no, no, but I mean again, thirteen straight times,
the Democrats have voted against reopening the federal government thirteen
straight times. As we mentioned earlier, John Thune, the majority leader,
is now say well, you know, maybe Chuck and I'll
sit down. They haven't sat down together yet. Thirty days
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has not been a single head to head between the
majority of the minority leaders in the Senate to try
to resolve this.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
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Speaker 1 (27:50):
It is seven thirty nine. I went back to look
at the comments of John Thune on this shutdown. He
said this yesterday that he expects to engage soon with
a group of rank and file Senate Democrats. Pretty soon,
So that's not a meeting between Thun and Schumer. That's
a meeting between Thune, the Republican the some majority leader
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and rank and file Senate Democrats, not the leadership. Yeah,
the two Thun and Schumer have not to this point
sat down face to face. Thune saying that the Dems
are looking for an off ramp, and I do believe.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
That Thune about it as emotional as I think we've
ever seen him.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yesterday, Oh yeah, oh yeah, there was a a Democrat
senator from New Mexico who wanted to pass a kind
of a patch for the Snap program, and Thune said,
y'all have just figured out twenty nine days in there
might be some consequences and he yelled it.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, he was a little emotional there. H So yeah,
I do believe and quite honestly, I mean, whether you
like it or not, at this point the Republicans were like,
why why give them? Why give them the easy way
out here? Why give the Dems the easy way out?
There is no Again, from from a purely political standpoint,
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it'd be crazy to do that if you're the Republicans
leadership right now. From a political standpoint, From a you know,
everyday human being standpoint, you know, you just a lot
of people just fed up with it again, even if
it hasn't directly impacted you. You just look at this
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and say, this is the dysfunction of Washington, d C.
You mean to tell us you took our tax money.
You already got our money, we already gave it to you,
and now you're just gonna sit on it. You're not
gonna pay essential workers, You're not gonna pay any workers,
but not the essential ones. But you wanted to go
to work and they're they're not. More groundstops yesterday at
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airports Newark in particular.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Wouldn't mind if they sat on some of that spending.
But not right, I'm not talking about paying the people
who have earned a paycheck.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, all right, so pretty Soonon says they'll sit down
and talk. Well, it's Thursday. There will be no snap
benefits Saturday, and in the meantime, more federal employees are
missing paychecks. Now, let me make sure I got this straight. Uh,
because we heard this over and over and over again
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that Donald Trump, specifically the Republican Party in general, if
they were in charge, democracy was at risk. We would
lose our democratic Well it's not really democratic, but anyway
we lose our former government, democracy would die. And we
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also have heard over and over and over again about
you know, Trump's enemies list. Well, guess what, Joe Biden
had an enemy's list as well. Chuck Grassley yesterday released
one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas that were issued by
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former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team. You remember Jack,
he was leading not one, but two investigations and trying
to seek indictments and charges against Trumps. Releasing these nearly
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two hundred subpoenas that were issued by Smith's office, Grassley said,
shows an effort to investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.
We knew that Smith had looked for, had had wire tapped,
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I mean big names the Republic at Lindsey Graham, monitoring
phone calls, monitoring email communications. It sounds like some kind
of Banana Republic, third world country thing. They're done it.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It sure does.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah. These nearly two hundred su poenas Grassley's office showed
named at least four hundred and thirty Republican entities and
individuals seeking testimony, documents, and communications records. This was Operation Arctic.
Frost and Grassley said this was the vehicle by which
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partisan FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the
entire Republican political apparatus. Again, four hundred and thirty Republican
entities and individuals. That would pretty much wrap it up, right,
there wasn't it. As Ashley said that this was the
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contrary to what Smith has said publicly, this was clearly
a fishing expedition. Now, these subpoenas issued by Smith's office
as part of that election interference case against Trump, which
you remember was dropped along with the classified documents case
when Trump won the election last November. But remember it
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was the Republicans and Donald Trump who were going to
be the death of democracy in this country. It was
Donald Trump with a hit list, an enemy's list, and yeah,
he's got one. I don't think it totals four hundred
and thirty in these and individuals, though I don't know
it could. By the way, Jack Smith is one of
(33:56):
those Wow Republicans calling this Biden DOJ's watergate, and that
this ought to be a chilling message to each and
every American who loves this great country and believes in
(34:17):
our constitutional system and equal justice under the law. Yeah,
so that we mentioned Grassy, Well, you know, Ron Johnson's
been all over this too. He said these new documents
were obtained through a whistleblower, not from the FBI. This
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should outrage every American. I don't care who you vote for. Again,
we already knew that nearly twenty percent of the centate
Republican cell phones were suboena and Operation Artie Frost.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Wow, crazy opposition party politics. Yeah, but at the judicial
level exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
By the way, not related, but still you know, going
back to the Biden campaign. Oh yeah, And as an aside,
I keep saying every day I see more and more
articles talking about how disastrous Karie Jean Pierre's book tour
is I guess every stop is a disaster. It sounds
like anyway, going back to the the the auto pin Uh,
(35:31):
the d O J pardon attorney. Yes, there is one
of those d J pardon attorney. Uh says he he
doubts ability of these autopin partons. The nullification campaign is. Yes, friends,
picking up speed and you're talking about you know, you
talk about Biden partons. I mean you you you think
(35:53):
usually your your mind first goes to the Hunter Biden, right, well,
remembers the entire Biden family. And remember those those partons
were not even necessarily for anything they had done, but
for or had we known they had done, but for
anything that might pop up in the next what was
it ten years.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
To get out of jail free card?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I mean Hunter Biden, go out and you murder somebody,
He's got a blanket pardon for anything. Anyway. That may
be overdoing it a bit there, but still, but you
also talk about folks like Anthony Fauci, like Mark Milly,
(36:30):
not to mention others who again or weren't even part
of the political apparatus. So there's a lot of pardons
that are on the chopping block right now, and time
will tell what happens to him. M okay, but remember
(36:57):
it's the Republicans and Donald Trump who want to dispatch
with democracy in this country. Don't forget that. They've told
us that over and over and over again.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three point
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Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
This is fifteen minutes after eight o'clock. Good morning, and
good to have you here. I am Gary Davids previously mentioned.
He is Christopher Thompson, who is struggling through not eating
or drinking caffeine this morning.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Not as easy as I thought it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
And you gotta wait till one o'clock for your doctor's
appoint Yes, boy, that's brutal. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I'll survive.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Maybe I shouldn't mention this story right now.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Oh wait a minute. You're not even gonna do some
Thanksgiving fees story or anything? Are you?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Not a Thanksgiving fees story?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
But news that the Outback Steakhouse is closing more locations
across the country. What you can't build enough here? It
seems like, yeah. No, they didn't release of an official list,
but some TV station went through and found about a
(38:17):
dozen or so. This is not the first time. This
is just the latest round. They Blooming Brands is the
name of the company that owns them. They have a
shut down up until this point prior to these closing
some forty one underperforming restaurants across the country. I don't
know those are all out Back. They also own Carabas
and Bonefish and some other restaurant called Fleming's Prime Steakhouse
(38:41):
and Wineball. We don't have one of those around here,
but we got Carabas and Bonefish restaurant. But it is
tough business, man, It is tough business. And it seems
like we go through.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I mean, we go through stages as far as Americans,
I don't know about other cultures, but it's just you know,
you were eating in the fast casual restaurants and then
we turn away from them, and you know, now we're back,
it seems. And it's a weird time for out Back
to be. I wouldn't think they'd be struggling right now.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
He didn't think so. I mean, here's the here's the
crazy thing. They built one in lection. Its buil up
on what about a year open three seventy eight prior
to that? If we want to go to out back steakhouse,
we had to go to Harbiston and all those years
I complained, why don't we have an outback in Lexington?
Well it's been there for a year now. How many
times I've been?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
How many twice? Really, I don't know why AnyWho?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Okay, now back to the news. Trump heading back to
the country. So no, mister Thompson, you would speculate that
quite possibly the Democrats might want to try to give
this government reopen while Trump was out of the country,
so he couldn't They could say he couldn't take credit
for he wasn't even around here, but they didn't. So
(40:00):
Trump's flying back on Air Force one after well, I
guess all by all accounts, a successful Asian trip wrapped
up by a meeting with a Xijinping.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
And that's the only one that really mattered.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
That was Yeah, that was the one. Trump announcing he's
cutting tariffs on Chinese imports by ten after the meeting, says,
our country and the communist Chinese government's making progress on trade.
On fentanyl and rare earth exports. It's all I can
tell you what man back to that those rare earth
(40:37):
minerals again, so vital to advancing technology, are they? So
that that meeting with Jijianping in South Korea apparently went well.
So that was the final stop. Now it's back home.
Trump had talked about maybe sitting down with a little camp.
(41:01):
That that did not happen. But there is news that
Xijinping is supposed to come to Washington next spring, and
then Trump will visit Beijing at some point time after that.
So we'll see. I mean that's a long time from now,
and our back and forth with the Chinese never seems
to to stop going back and forth, So we'll see
(41:23):
how it goes. Trump also yesterday on that trip, announcing
that he has told the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons.
I actually posted this on Troph's Truth social and so
the process will begin immediately. Uh okay, should we read
anything into this.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
It's a scary thought. We haven't been in this situation
since the nineties, right lasted.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
The last nuclear test was nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, I mean you feel pretty comfortable because you just
kind of figure if these nations aren't doing anything testing wise,
that they're not expanding their arsenal. You know, maybe we're
a little bit safer.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I don't know other uh you know, expiration dates on
these uh these warheads, I mean, is it best used
by dates on.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Their Well, I think yeah, I think you have to
use I would think, yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Right, it's probably not stamped right there on the warhead. No,
Trump's saying that we have more nuclear weapons than any
other country. He says, I hate to do it, but
I had no choice. Other countries are testing their nuclear programs,
so we need to do it too. Now this came
(42:42):
was this before or after of Vladimir Putin made the
announcement that the Russians have conducted a successful test of
a new atomic powered, nuclear capable underwater drone. This was
just a couple of days after he praised what he
called a successful test of a new nuclear powered cruise missile.
(43:08):
So the Russians keep ramping things up. This test that
Putin was talking about yesterday, it's called the Poseidon. Yeah,
it's a nuclear powered, nuclear capable underwater torpedo. Putin claims
it's unblockable. This is a This is a warhead that
(43:40):
if used in the ways intended could unleash what they're
calling radioactive tsunamis to wipe out port cities. Okay, so
you detonate this thing underwater, the big waves start, big
waves start, and guess what they're radioacting, they're glowing waves.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
They are.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
This is not good, gosh, man, you'd think. And still
I I'm still the guy who says, if we ever
have a war that ends all wars and ins humanity,
it's not going to be nuclear. It's it's just going
(44:29):
to be you know, take down all the grids, right,
whether you're hacking them or you're deploying e MPs or whatever,
just just just just blow up the grids and the
water supply, everything that that controls that and then let
everybody just you know, wipe each other out. And as
(44:50):
a result, quite honestly, if if you had, if you
had to choose here, you know, if it's a game
of scruples, here, go ahead, headn't just drop a nuke.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Man, let's get it over with, because you're talking slow
death in some of these other cases, right, slow, painful, Yeah, agonizing,
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Just just just just drop the new man. Let's let's
get it over with. Oh, this is depressing talk here.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Yeah, that is, we haven't had to worry about nukes
in a long time.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And I was getting ready to say that. I'm glad
you said that, because I mean, we haven't had this
kind of you know, ramp up in nuclear capability. It
seems like for for a long time. Yeah, a long
long time. But I don't know. I guess maybe we
should be a bit concerned that whatever our arsenal is
right now that there's been no new testing done now
and gosh, what is that.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
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Speaker 1 (46:08):
All right, eight thirty eight morning, Taya in time already
for our final thoughts. This is one's flying on by.
Good to have you with us. We appreciate that. Ah
h yeah, I still got a big stack over here.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
Up up up.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Let's let's start with something at home. This We talked
about it at the time, and it's kind of drug
out here with his lawsuit, but you know, a guy
out in shape and showed up with a with a
sign it read trust Christ he paid the price on
one side. On the other side that said he saved
others Jesus He'll save you. Uh. This was back June
(46:46):
of last year. Well, he got stopped by a town
police officer and was told he needed a permit to
stand on the sidewalk holding a religious theme sign. All right, now, okay,
let's say somebody standing on a sidewalk holding a sign
(47:09):
that has filled with expletives or something like that, something
that would be obviously, you know, really offensive to people.
Or was this sign offensive to people?
Speaker 2 (47:26):
I guess it depends on your viewpoint.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I suppose well the fellow hold in the sign. Ernest
Giodine Giardino sued the town of Chapmin last summer, arguing
that the requirement he must get a permit to stand
on the sidewalk holding a sign such as this one
(47:49):
violated his First Amendment rights. And guess what it did.
Fin judgment was issued yesterday. The town is now permanently
enjoined from enforcing the previous version of his town ordinance,
(48:10):
and Giardino, we'll get a nominal payout that wasn't what
it was all about. He wasn't soon to get a
bunch of money. He'll get a nominal.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Payout enough to pay his lawyers.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Well, he'll get his nominal payout is one dollar, okay,
and he does get to damages to cover his legal
fees of thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
So the winners in this.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
The lawyers and free speech and free speech, that's right.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Yeah, Fairfield County considering an additional penny sales tax. I
could see the look of excitement on your face.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Additional penny you have any pennies are there already paying?
Speaker 1 (48:53):
And we don't even make pennies anymore. How does this work?
I can't have a penny sales tax. We don't make pennies.
Don't let them know that it might be a nickel. Yeah,
they love They voted, well, they voted rage militarys which
means your property taxes are going up. And they discussed, yeah,
this week of an additional penny sales tax. It's been
(49:15):
a while. It was twenty years ago that voters approved
a once in local option sales tax. Now they're considering
a second one. It's it's just the same old story,
same old song and dance. It's always it's always build.
(49:36):
I don't care where you go, what county, what state. Hey,
if you'll just pass this referendum, it just just allow
us to do this is this is one time everything's
going to be great.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
They seriously will have to stop calling it the penny
tax and call it something else, because yeah, yeah, McDonald's
is asking you to round up. Now everybody's running out
of pennies.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Well, here's a fix, McDonald's and anybody else. Just stop
pricing things at like a dollar ninety nine. Okay, Either
make it a buck ninety five or make it two dollars.
That way, ain't got to worry about it. It's that
old psychological thing, right when you say it costs two dollars,
(50:24):
that seems a lot more expensive than a dollar ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yep, that's a one on the other side of that
decimal point where we're in good shape.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
I only paid a buck and some mod for it.
Bye'm paying two dollars for it. Just trot the dollar
ninety nine thing or whatever. A bunch of law firms
are looking at a local builder, a residential builder that's
headquartered here in Columbia, and they build all over the place.
You're not at home group homes group. I should say
(50:53):
this after several board of directors members said they're going
to resign, including Nikki Haley and the current Clemson University President,
James Clemens.
Speaker 5 (51:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
These board members saying they're going to step down after
the executive chairman's refusal to step down and refusal to
forego any compensation, their stock fell fifty two percent a
week and a half ago following the resignation letter, a
resignation letter that said the directors believe the existing management
(51:28):
team could better navigate the current environment without the current chairman.
And now they're well, a bunch of lawyers are looking
at this, investigating about whether or not the company violated
federal securities laws. We neither. That fifty two percent.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Share drop was this company developing some piece of property
up in the apps?
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Yeah they were, Yeah, okay, yeah, I've seen a few
stories about this. There's been a few areas of concern
around this one. It's just one of them. Now we
getting new license plates. I just like within the last
year finally got rid of my old one. I haven't
still haven't figured out how it is when they decide
(52:15):
you need to get a new license plate, right.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
It's a weird algorithm. I don't know what it is.
But I kept thinking, I got a new car. I thought,
you know that license plate we got right now, we'd
look a lot better on my new car than the
one I've got, which was the old one with the
birds on them right right, which is you know, cracking
and everything else. And I finally got a new one,
and now I'm going to lose that one, but this
new one looks pretty good. They'll start to January one
(52:39):
with the new standard license plates, so they will commemorate
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Revolutionary War
in our role in helping to end it. God now
what you can actually get one if you've already got
a license plate. I couldn't tell you because I had
figured that out, you know, know, me to celebrate is
to celebrate the tw hundred and fifty anniversary. I'll get
(53:00):
it like in a year when we would be celebrating
the two hundred and fifty third anniversary.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
I guess, yeah, I just got the new one. They
did the previous new one. Yeah, right, when I breathe,
I hope or while I breathe, I hope and the
Palmeto Tree and the whole blue scheme.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah, I don't know what the rules are to dictate
when you get a new one wrong. I don't. I
don't know. Lindsey Graham has introduced a constitutional amendment that
would require members of Congress to forfeit their paychecks in
times like these. Yeah, with the government shutdown. Yeah, Graham's
saying if members of Congress had to forfeit their pay
during a shutdown, there'd be fewer shutdowns and they would
(53:41):
end quicker. You can't argue with that, can you.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
You can't. Although Bernie tried.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Bertie did try, and we do have a number of
members of Joe Wilson being one of them, because I
know he let me know right when we first started
talking about this week's ago that he was not accepting
a paycheck.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
While you were out last week. Bernie actually had the
gall Bernie Sanders had the goal to say, now, we
can't do that. Some of our members, some of our
younger members, have families to take care of.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
And so do their staffers, and so do all these
other federal employees exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Yeah, Yeah, he had no argument there he was on
the view and tried that argument, try.
Speaker 1 (54:15):
To get burned. Well, then, I don't know how Yeah,
there are a few members that this would impact. Yeah,
but by and large these aren't people that are living
paycheck to paycheck anyway. So whether or not I would
have the intended effect, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Unfortunately, you can't run for Congress anymore unless you're fairly
well established, so.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Exactly, which means you've got a whole bunch of money.
Now again, staffer's not getting paid, and I don't know
what the deal was in Massachusetts. Maybe this staffer wasn't
getting paid and was just trying to supplement his income.
A member of Massachusetts Governor Mara Healey's staff has been
shown the door. I guess. So this after and arrest
(55:01):
on charges of drug trafficking and unlawful firearm possession, Well yeah,
Lamar Cook arrested yesterday as Tuesday. Actually, investigators said they
intercepted multiple packages containing suspected cocaine that were actually intended
(55:24):
to be delivered to the government building in which he works.
We're talking about twenty one kilograms twenty one k.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
This guy was the deputy director of Aheli's Western Massachusetts office,
a guy who the governor had described as a proven
leader with deep ties to Western mass but he was
hired in April of twenty three. He had deep ties
of something.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Yeah he Wow.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
That's a little embarrassing for the governor, isn't it. And
then there's this associate dean at the University of Wisconsin Madison,
who is publicly called Trump in the past a racist.
Is also written a co authored an academic paper suggesting
that our country's education system is inherent including math, even mathematics,
(56:22):
he says, is inherently violent toward black students. Wait a minute, I.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
Don't even know how math is violent to begin with.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
No, no, no, no, no. Math is violent to everybody, Okay,
I mean when you get past the simple stuff, then
it's violent. I get it. So I'm sorry. Did he
have an answer for this? I don't know. I mean,
do we just do away with math? We really, unfortunately
can't do that. I can remember times as a student
(56:52):
when I wish we could. But mathematics inherently violent toward
black students.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Okay, well, you do away with a penny like we've done,
and maybe you're not gonna need those math skills much longer.
Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yeah, you want to have fun, Go go pay cash
to some youngster behind the till instead of swiping the
card and they look at their eyes and go, oh,
can I do this or not
Jesusly, hell ya sa America and llin.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
For for nation. This is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
This is not a job to do without caffeine. Dead
the truth, brother, I will say that right now.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Lots of caffeine. Yeah, a little chillier this morning. Tyler
just mentioned we're in the upper forty for the most
part across the Midlands. Now, I just had to check
because he talked about some chillier attempts for the weekend.
How about waking up Saturday morning of forty one? Oh yes,
brisk baby, So we'll have some low forties looks like
(01:14):
for a couple of mornings over the weekend and into
the first part of the next week. Are you caffeen
to pride this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes, yes, I've got Oh that's right, you've got a
doctor's appointment later today, and you know they do blood work,
so you get a fast, which I'm a breakfast guy,
you're not. I love breakfast, Yes, you do. To me,
that's what full course.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Breakfast every morning before we go on the air.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
To me, that's the most important meal of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You say that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, so I am between that and the caffeine. I'm struggling.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, I had that a couple of weeks. But I'm
luckily my every time I try to you know, I
get the annual physical thing. My doctor only seems to
do him like at eight thirty in the morning. I
would love that. A bit of a problem with our
work schedule here, but yeah, well but yeah, I don't
schedule colon oscar by is you name it? Man? First
thing in the morning. How quick I get there?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Which, Here's here's what doesn't make sense to me. They
tell you to fast nothing after midnight, right, right? Well,
if my appointments at eight thirty and yours is at
one o'clock, right, why can't you fast until, like, you know,
three in the morning, I don't get it either, makes
no sense. I would have gotten up and eating something. Yeah, right,
(02:22):
I felt to thirty I would have had a feast,
Trust me, I would have. Okay, well, all right, are
you gonna get grumpy later on? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well I'm grumpy now. Oh you already are? Yeah, it's here.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, okay, I got to go be a little lawyer today.
I mean, that's not quite as bad. At least I
don't have to fast for that. Yeah, all right, friends,
let's get to it. The rundown, the big stories, the
hot topics say.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, no freezing weather coming away soon, anytime soon at least,
but freeze on those snap benefits is big news. And
now we've got state to Democrat lawmakers calling for more
to be done before these food stamps will hit the
pause button. And that's coming in just two days. Right
as of tomorrow night midnight, there will be no more
(03:09):
snap benefits, and not just here in South Carolina anywhere.
Uh okay, Well, we know that the governor has announced
that the state has activated the one SC fund, which
is again not giving taxpayer money out to you know,
to cover snap benefits. It states that by the way
(03:29):
they do that, the Feds have already warned you you're
not gonna get reimbursed for that. When the government reopened
so be wise. But this is kind of a stateway
of organizing contributions for folks who are receiving snap benefits,
and we've got well, it's more than a million, one
(03:50):
hundred million dollar hold of him, and philanthropy is the
way the state sees we can do it, asking for
donations for anybody, companies, individuals, whomever. Again, these benefits drawing up,
assuming that the Democrats don't come to the table before
(04:12):
tomorrow night at midnight, which I have a sneaking suspicion
they will. You're talking about one in ten here in
our state without those benefits. And again not as though
they're going to not have a dime to their name.
They're going to starve. But it's gonna be problematic. Even
Alan Wilson, the Attorney General and goobernatorial candidate, urging Congress
(04:35):
to protect those benefits. We're talking about across the country,
some forty two million Americans on those A big police
presence and another threat to a school yesterday. This was
the American Leadership Academy charter school, and a big one
over on the Highway six just off of I twenty
in the town of Lexington. No specific information about what
(04:58):
the threat was, but it did a big police turnout.
A number of law firms say they are looking into
United Home Groups Incorporated. This is a homebuilder. It's headquartered
here in town. This after it's stock fell following several
board of director directors members announcing their intentions to resign.
(05:23):
Is there something going on here now? Board members? Six
of its board members, including former Governor Nikki Haley, the
current Clemson President James Clements, they've all said they'll resign
after the executive chairman's refusal to step down from his position.
There is some controversy over all of this, and a
(05:47):
bunch of lawyers are looking into it right now. Fairfield County,
good morning, thanks for listening. Do you want to pay
another penny? Uh? Well, Fairfield County considering an additional penny sales.
In this way it always works. We just want to
jacket up a penny that'll take care of everything until oh,
wait a minute, we just need to jacket up another
(06:08):
penny that'll take care of everything.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They just want a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It's the way it always goes. Now, it's been a
while since they had one, twenty years ago. Matter of fact,
the last time one was instituted, but the county would
like more new license plates coming our way. Say goodbye
to while I breathe. I hope starting with the new year,
the new standard license plate will commemorate the two hundred
(06:33):
and fiftieth anniversary of the Revolutionary War. Have you seen
these plates yet, mister Thompson.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I like them, okay, I like them.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Where the Revolutionary War was won.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh, I have seen it, yes, Okay, yeah, But damn,
that's touting, you know, one of our state's achievements. I
liked having the slogan. But that's fine, that's fine. Yeah,
change it up.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You put on in the back of your car. You forget
about it anyway, right, Let mean, come on, all right?
The shutdown day thirty now, Cinemajority leader of THUN said
yesterday he expects to engage pretty soon whatever that is,
with a group of rank and file Senate Democrats about
ending this shutdown. If it does happen that meeting, it
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would be a rare bipartisan gathering involving a top party leader.
Do you know there are this point now thirty days
in that fun and Schumer have not yet met face
to face. Yeah, no they haven't.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That's why there's the resentment that Americans have for Congress.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Exactly are you even trying to resolve this? Sure doesn't
look like it. The Hill reporting that Democrats are weighing
options to ease this shutdown. Now's the pressure is mounting
it again, not just that letter from the Big Employees
Union for federal government workers, but also the impending deadline
for snap benefits telling you this is going to happen
(08:02):
before midnight tomorrow night. Okay, I'm just telling you. Lindsey Graham,
by the way, weighing in on politicians continuing to get paid.
Many aren't taking it. I know. Got a note from
Joe Wilson when this government shutdown first started. He said
he is not taking his pay. We have many who aren't.
(08:23):
Graham wants to introduce a constitutional amendment that would require
members of Congress to forfeit their paychecks and a shutdown.
I think we'd all agree with that, right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean, if people, if the rest of America is
not getting paid, or at least federal workers, then why
should they.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Exactly, their staff aren't getting paid, but they are. They
can again forfeit it now. But there's no requirement they
do so in the midst of all. This kind of
like driving in the fog, says Jerome Powell. But the
Fed did cut the interest rate by a quarter of
a point yesterday. All right, that's the second of the year.
(09:03):
How will that impact things like, oh, you know, the
ability to buy a home. Well, remember, these two rates
aren't directly tie that prime rate in the mortgage rate,
but it doesn't hurt although you may need a mortgage
to afford Obamacare. The new Obamacare insurance plan rates for
twenty twenty six are out, and yeah, there are some
big increases there. Meantime, Trump has wrapped up his asient trip,
(09:26):
heading back home and wrapping it up with a successful
meeting with Ji Jinping. Trump cutting the China tariff after
a g signals that there was progress in trade, and
also working to cut the fentanyl production. That would be nice.
Going nuclear, the President or the Pentagon to resume nuclear
(09:47):
test immediately, saying that everybody else is doing it, so
we have to do it too. Meantime, there's news from.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Every Russia, everyone else being Russia in China.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh yeah, Vladimir Putin saying yesterday that Russia tested the POSEIDON.
That's a nuclear powered, nuclear capable underwater torpedo, first of
it's kind and one that well, they say could unleash
radioactive tsunami still wipe out port cities. That'd be great,
(10:18):
all right, friends, we'll get to that. More coming up
on this. It's the Thursday edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Always good to have you.
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Montellia six forty two. I hate to be the bear
of bad tidings, but I'm going to be the bear
of bad tidings. Now we know we've been talking about this.
You know, healthcare insurance rates are are going up for
air everybody. If you're an employee employer sponsored plan, you
may be finding that your rates are going up. You
probably are. If your rates aren't going up, then the
(11:09):
redefined print because your deductibles probably are going up quite
a bit. But for folks who are on Obamacare, and
that's a lot of people. Well, the rates, the pricing,
and another info for the twenty twenty six Obamacare plans
was publicly posted on healthcare dot gov yesterday. Open enrollment
(11:32):
starts and Saturday, so it is in three days, two days,
I guess now, so it'll be open open enrollment season
for the open marketplace. Looks like premiums for Obamacare plans increase.
(11:52):
Average increase is twenty six percent. Now, we weren't even
talking about these subsidies, Okay, just the the average increase
in premiums twenty six percent based on well, the benchmark
Silver plans. It's that mid tier plan and the most
popular one. But now if depending on what happens here
(12:14):
with the federal government and certainly the extension of those
those COVID era subsidies is at the heart of this,
without the subsidies, the average American on Obamacare is going
(12:36):
to see rates rise by about one hundred and fourteen percent.
We've talked about that. That's not a number we didn't know.
We've already known that. So aside from that, even if
Congress eventually votes to extend those subsidies, still going to
see prices rise by about twenty five to twenty six percent.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yas. Yeah, and again we pointed this out last week.
And that's just to get you in the door. Oh yeah,
you're going to be paying more than that once once
you see a doctor or once you get care. Yeah,
that's that's just the system's broken. It's been broken for
(13:19):
a long time, man, And it's going to take more
than just to check mark next next to extend subsidies.
That's not that's not the fix. No, no, so by
no means, and Trump echoed that yesterday. You know, we
did throw in a political jab saying the Democrats want
to make it worse. But he said, you know, Obamacare
is not working. We want to help fix it. But
(13:42):
you know the problem is this, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is it the healthcare insurance industry that needs to be
fixed or is it just a healthcare system and the
ridiculous amounts of money that you're charged for health care
in this country. Now I get it, we get you know,
some of not the best healthcare in the world, But
why is it so dog on expensive? Man? Well, anyway,
(14:14):
I don't have answers for that, but I'm just here
to deliver the bad news this morning on that front,
it just keeps getting worse. Now. Yesterday the Fed's cut
the interest rate, so there was some good news there.
Second rate cut of the ear so back to back
quarter point rate cuts by the Feds. But as Jerome
Powell mentioned, it's kind of done like driving in the fog.
(14:36):
He said, you got to slow down here, he said,
it still is unclear whether or not the government shut
down and the lack of key economic data will affect
their next meeting, which is in December. Folks would hope
for another rate cut in that meeting, but again with
the government shut down, we don't have the readings of
(14:58):
the Fed needs in order to make come you know,
their decisions. So we'll see where it goes. Now. The
markets yesterday were mixed on the news. The Dow was
down about seventy five points, the S and P dipped
a bit, The Nasdaq was up this morning, though in
(15:21):
pre market trading all the indices are down?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that because of his doom and gloom comments?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, it's actually you can blame Meta and Microsoft for
this one. Those two tech giants both had disappointing earnings results. Okay,
but no disappointment in Innvidia. Man, if you got on
(15:47):
the ground floor of Nvidia, you're a happy camper.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Huh yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Wow in Vidia yesterday it shares up more than three percent.
That company is now the first company ever to cross
the five trillion dollar market value threshold. It was up
(16:10):
five percent Tuesday, it was up three percent yesterday. In
Vidia stock is up year to date, now more than
fifty percent. This latest tickup in their stock comes after
their CEO yesterday said the company expects five hundred billion
(16:35):
dollars in AI chip orders and announced plans to build
seven new supercomputers for the US government. This was yesterday.
This this celebration, well, I'm sure there's liberals on their
head outraged them because the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Hwang,
(17:00):
turned the whole thing really into a celebration of Trump.
Gave a keynote speech, and they said that Trump deserves
enormous credit for recognizing the US tech sector needs more
energy to win the AI race, and for pushing tech
companies to bring production back to these shores. It's like,
(17:20):
if this didn't happen, we could have been in a
bad situation. And I want to thank President Trump for it,
So yeah, it turned a little political, but I mean,
this is tr Trump has been pushing for this. We
cannot wind up on the losing as much as quite honestly,
(17:43):
a lot of us don't like the whole AI thing.
You can't just bury your head in the sand. And
if it's going to be out there, we got to
be leading. So in Vidia making big deals and over
five trillion dollars in market value. Gosh, if I haven't been
(18:07):
from metat Microsoft yesterday, it might have been a pretty
these down on Wall Street. Certainly Nvidia did all they
could do, and so the defense for that matter, and
by the way, mortgage rates because of that to a
quarter point cut. Does this make a difference or not? Well, yeah,
this is again this is that weird thing that this
is prime lending. Rate cut does not necessarily translate into
(18:28):
a mortgage rate cut, but it doesn't hurt. Freddie Mack
reported the thirty year fixed at six, but that was
a week ago. But earlier the year it was a
six point five, so potentially a slight dip in those rates,
(18:51):
but but nothing major. The the experts say.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three,
point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Fifteen after seven o'clock and is Thursday, October thirtieth. As
this month draws to a close, Well, it's it's it's
more meaningful than normal. Okay, yeah, we're just about to November.
That's big deal. But the importance of end of this
counter month is well amplify this time around because of
the government shutdown. As you're aware, the SNAP benefits will
(19:34):
dry up nationwide after tomorrow night. Now across the country,
this means what I mean, millions, millions of households that
will will not be getting these benefits. This is not
(19:55):
to say they don't have any money of their own
they can go out and buy food with, but it's
going to be a real problem. Here in our state,
some two hundred and sixty thousand households are getting SNAP
benefits and without them, this will leave about one in
ten South Carolinians without this federal aid. So the governor
(20:19):
again has activated the one sc Fund to try to
coordinate donations get food and such to local food banks
and others who are trying to help out. This is
the same outfit that helped coordinate to or helps coordinate
donations during natural disasters. We saw this during a hurricane Heleen.
(20:43):
We saw it during the COVID nineteen pandemic. But there
are some over the state House Democrats who say this
is not enough and they want more done. Ta Meeka
Isai Divines is Well, we're about to see see it
(21:07):
get real the next couple of days going to hit
every single community in our state. Russ a Lot saying
that what we're doing right now is almost like a
band aid on a bullet hole. So what they're asking
for is for the governor to declare a state of emergency.
One lawmaker saying the governor has actually done it before,
(21:28):
and that declaring a state of emergency does not require
new funding from the state House, that it would allow
the governor to redirect existing resources and emergency appropriations to
meet urgent needs. But again, these are again, these are
taxpayer dollars they've already gotten from us. They're in these funds,
and this is what declaring a state of emergency would
(21:48):
allow the governor to do. The Democrats of the State
House argue and saying that this was the same thing
that happened during the pandemic when funds were redirected to
support public health and food access programs. Okay, the difference
is here now and Mary greenover to ISTV did a
(22:10):
very good piece on this. The difference now is is
during the pandemic, the state House directed existing state reserve
money into a new fund, which then allowed the governor
to appropriate that for certain expenses. Now, otherwise it would
be the state House and not the governor, and then
the state House controls the first strings, not the governor. Right,
(22:34):
this would require the state House to come back into
session for a special session and appropriate these funds. Now,
some states have declared states of emergency of Virginia's done it,
Louisiana's done it, but the governor on Tuesday said he
doesn't plan to do that. He says, because the situation
(22:57):
that were facing here would not meet the crime area
legally needed to do that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Can't we see if this fund in this philanthropy works.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
First, Well, yeah, because this is what this, this is
what the state leaders are asking for for folks to
step up, you know, even every day regular folk. Certainly
big big corporations and such, and we got a lot
of them around.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here, and if the state spends that money, the federal
government's already said, you're not getting it back.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm not going to get it back. Yes, the feds
have already said that. So we'll fee to spend John
if you want to, but we ain't going to reimburse
you forward on the backside.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So unless we have you know, hundreds of millions of
dollars laying around that we don't know about, which is possible.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Typically it is every year, yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Not dedicated specifically to this cause.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
No, when it comes to appropriations, it's not the governor's
office who can do that. It is the state House
that has to do that. But it does require the
governor to call them back into special session. I guess
the state House can't call own special session, right, the
Governor's got to do that, and he is not inclined
to do so at this time. Now, again, I think
(24:06):
that this is this is I mean, for again, for
a lot of people, this is scary stuff. I still
contend that the Democrat Party can't afford to let this happen.
And you know, Schumer, they've been saying things, you know,
the last number of weeks like, yeah, we're winning this
is great for our party. Yeah, you let these benefits
(24:29):
dry up after midnight tomorrow night, Democrat party, you lose.
I don't see any way that the Democrats can't say, Okay,
let's reopen this puppy. They cannot let this happen. Alan
Wilson urging Congress to protect these benefits. He's calling on
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Chuck Schumer to keep the program funded. Wilson joining a
other state attorneys general calling for Congress to pass a
clean funding bill all right to keep, to reopen the
government and make sure that programs like this one aren't
interrupted nationwide. We're talking about this will impact some forty
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two million Americans. I'm not here to again, as I
mentioned it several times in the past week or so.
I'm here to debate the validity of programs like this
and how they, you know, made a lot of people
so utterly dependent upon the state, meaning the federal government. Here.
(25:42):
This is not that debate right now. But the reality
is that there are a lot of people that are
dependent upon these state handouts. So I just I just
I again, I don't see how Schumer and the Democrats
can can let this happen.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And so you think it ends by the end of
the week beginning of next week.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I think it could carry over to the start of
next week. I don't see any way how you know,
we get to the end of next week with it's
still being an issue. I think they get the government
reopened by the end of next week because I'm telling
you what, that's a bunch of folk right there across
(26:29):
the country. There's forty two million Americans. I realize not
all of them are voting age, not all of them vote,
but still, that's tens of millions of Americans who do vote. Who, well,
can the Democrat Party risk them holding it.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Against them, especially with the midterms being so close?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
This isn't about the White House yet.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, no, no, no, but I mean again, thirteen straight times,
the Democrats have voted against reopening the federal government thirteen
straight times. As we mentioned earlier, John Thune, the majority leader,
is now say well, you know, maybe Chuck and I'll
sit down. They haven't sat down together yet. Thirty days
(27:18):
has not been a single head to head between the
majority of the minority leaders in the Senate to try
to resolve this.
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(27:44):
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Speaker 1 (27:50):
It is seven thirty nine. I went back to look
at the comments of John Thune on this shutdown. He
said this yesterday that he expects to engage soon with
a group of rank and file Senate Democrats. Pretty soon,
So that's not a meeting between Thun and Schumer. That's
a meeting between Thune, the Republican the some majority leader
(28:11):
and rank and file Senate Democrats, not the leadership. Yeah,
the two Thun and Schumer have not to this point
sat down face to face. Thune saying that the Dems
are looking for an off ramp, and I do believe.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
That Thune about it as emotional as I think we've
ever seen him.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Yesterday, Oh yeah, oh yeah, there was a a Democrat
senator from New Mexico who wanted to pass a kind
of a patch for the Snap program, and Thune said,
y'all have just figured out twenty nine days in there
might be some consequences and he yelled it.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, he was a little emotional there. H So yeah,
I do believe and quite honestly, I mean, whether you
like it or not, at this point the Republicans were like,
why why give them? Why give them the easy way
out here? Why give the Dems the easy way out?
There is no Again, from from a purely political standpoint,
(29:15):
it'd be crazy to do that if you're the Republicans
leadership right now. From a political standpoint, From a you know,
everyday human being standpoint, you know, you just a lot
of people just fed up with it again, even if
it hasn't directly impacted you. You just look at this
(29:35):
and say, this is the dysfunction of Washington, d C.
You mean to tell us you took our tax money.
You already got our money, we already gave it to you,
and now you're just gonna sit on it. You're not
gonna pay essential workers, You're not gonna pay any workers,
but not the essential ones. But you wanted to go
to work and they're they're not. More groundstops yesterday at
(29:59):
airports Newark in particular.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Wouldn't mind if they sat on some of that spending.
But not right, I'm not talking about paying the people
who have earned a paycheck.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, all right, so pretty Soonon says they'll sit down
and talk. Well, it's Thursday. There will be no snap
benefits Saturday, and in the meantime, more federal employees are
missing paychecks. Now, let me make sure I got this straight. Uh,
because we heard this over and over and over again
(30:31):
that Donald Trump, specifically the Republican Party in general, if
they were in charge, democracy was at risk. We would
lose our democratic Well it's not really democratic, but anyway
we lose our former government, democracy would die. And we
(30:58):
also have heard over and over and over again about
you know, Trump's enemies list. Well, guess what, Joe Biden
had an enemy's list as well. Chuck Grassley yesterday released
one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas that were issued by
(31:22):
former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team. You remember Jack,
he was leading not one, but two investigations and trying
to seek indictments and charges against Trumps. Releasing these nearly
(31:42):
two hundred subpoenas that were issued by Smith's office, Grassley said,
shows an effort to investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.
We knew that Smith had looked for, had had wire tapped,
(32:04):
I mean big names the Republic at Lindsey Graham, monitoring
phone calls, monitoring email communications. It sounds like some kind
of Banana Republic, third world country thing. They're done it.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It sure does.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah. These nearly two hundred su poenas Grassley's office showed
named at least four hundred and thirty Republican entities and
individuals seeking testimony, documents, and communications records. This was Operation Arctic.
Frost and Grassley said this was the vehicle by which
(32:45):
partisan FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors could improperly investigate the
entire Republican political apparatus. Again, four hundred and thirty Republican
entities and individuals. That would pretty much wrap it up, right,
there wasn't it. As Ashley said that this was the
(33:06):
contrary to what Smith has said publicly, this was clearly
a fishing expedition. Now, these subpoenas issued by Smith's office
as part of that election interference case against Trump, which
you remember was dropped along with the classified documents case
when Trump won the election last November. But remember it
(33:34):
was the Republicans and Donald Trump who were going to
be the death of democracy in this country. It was
Donald Trump with a hit list, an enemy's list, and yeah,
he's got one. I don't think it totals four hundred
and thirty in these and individuals, though I don't know
it could. By the way, Jack Smith is one of
(33:56):
those Wow Republicans calling this Biden DOJ's watergate, and that
this ought to be a chilling message to each and
every American who loves this great country and believes in
(34:17):
our constitutional system and equal justice under the law. Yeah,
so that we mentioned Grassy, Well, you know, Ron Johnson's
been all over this too. He said these new documents
were obtained through a whistleblower, not from the FBI. This
(34:40):
should outrage every American. I don't care who you vote for. Again,
we already knew that nearly twenty percent of the centate
Republican cell phones were suboena and Operation Artie Frost.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Wow, crazy opposition party politics. Yeah, but at the judicial
level exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
By the way, not related, but still you know, going
back to the Biden campaign. Oh yeah, And as an aside,
I keep saying every day I see more and more
articles talking about how disastrous Karie Jean Pierre's book tour
is I guess every stop is a disaster. It sounds
like anyway, going back to the the the auto pin Uh,
(35:31):
the d O J pardon attorney. Yes, there is one
of those d J pardon attorney. Uh says he he
doubts ability of these autopin partons. The nullification campaign is. Yes, friends,
picking up speed and you're talking about you know, you
talk about Biden partons. I mean you you you think
(35:53):
usually your your mind first goes to the Hunter Biden, right, well,
remembers the entire Biden family. And remember those those partons
were not even necessarily for anything they had done, but
for or had we known they had done, but for
anything that might pop up in the next what was
it ten years.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
To get out of jail free card?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I mean Hunter Biden, go out and you murder somebody,
He's got a blanket pardon for anything. Anyway. That may
be overdoing it a bit there, but still, but you
also talk about folks like Anthony Fauci, like Mark Milly,
(36:30):
not to mention others who again or weren't even part
of the political apparatus. So there's a lot of pardons
that are on the chopping block right now, and time
will tell what happens to him. M okay, but remember
(36:57):
it's the Republicans and Donald Trump who want to dispatch
with democracy in this country. Don't forget that. They've told
us that over and over and over again.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three point
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Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
This is fifteen minutes after eight o'clock. Good morning, and
good to have you here. I am Gary Davids previously mentioned.
He is Christopher Thompson, who is struggling through not eating
or drinking caffeine this morning.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Not as easy as I thought it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
And you gotta wait till one o'clock for your doctor's
appoint Yes, boy, that's brutal. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I'll survive.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Maybe I shouldn't mention this story right now.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Oh wait a minute. You're not even gonna do some
Thanksgiving fees story or anything? Are you?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Not a Thanksgiving fees story?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
But news that the Outback Steakhouse is closing more locations
across the country. What you can't build enough here? It
seems like, yeah. No, they didn't release of an official list,
but some TV station went through and found about a
(38:17):
dozen or so. This is not the first time. This
is just the latest round. They Blooming Brands is the
name of the company that owns them. They have a
shut down up until this point prior to these closing
some forty one underperforming restaurants across the country. I don't
know those are all out Back. They also own Carabas
and Bonefish and some other restaurant called Fleming's Prime Steakhouse
(38:41):
and Wineball. We don't have one of those around here,
but we got Carabas and Bonefish restaurant. But it is
tough business, man, It is tough business. And it seems
like we go through.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I mean, we go through stages as far as Americans,
I don't know about other cultures, but it's just you know,
you were eating in the fast casual restaurants and then
we turn away from them, and you know, now we're back,
it seems. And it's a weird time for out Back
to be. I wouldn't think they'd be struggling right now.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
He didn't think so. I mean, here's the here's the
crazy thing. They built one in lection. Its buil up
on what about a year open three seventy eight prior
to that? If we want to go to out back steakhouse,
we had to go to Harbiston and all those years
I complained, why don't we have an outback in Lexington?
Well it's been there for a year now. How many
times I've been?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
How many twice? Really, I don't know why AnyWho?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Okay, now back to the news. Trump heading back to
the country. So no, mister Thompson, you would speculate that
quite possibly the Democrats might want to try to give
this government reopen while Trump was out of the country,
so he couldn't They could say he couldn't take credit
for he wasn't even around here, but they didn't. So
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Trump's flying back on Air Force one after well, I
guess all by all accounts, a successful Asian trip wrapped
up by a meeting with a Xijinping.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
And that's the only one that really mattered.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
That was Yeah, that was the one. Trump announcing he's
cutting tariffs on Chinese imports by ten after the meeting, says,
our country and the communist Chinese government's making progress on trade.
On fentanyl and rare earth exports. It's all I can
tell you what man back to that those rare earth
(40:37):
minerals again, so vital to advancing technology, are they? So
that that meeting with Jijianping in South Korea apparently went well.
So that was the final stop. Now it's back home.
Trump had talked about maybe sitting down with a little camp.
(41:01):
That that did not happen. But there is news that
Xijinping is supposed to come to Washington next spring, and
then Trump will visit Beijing at some point time after that.
So we'll see. I mean that's a long time from now,
and our back and forth with the Chinese never seems
to to stop going back and forth, So we'll see
(41:23):
how it goes. Trump also yesterday on that trip, announcing
that he has told the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons.
I actually posted this on Troph's Truth social and so
the process will begin immediately. Uh okay, should we read
anything into this.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
It's a scary thought. We haven't been in this situation
since the nineties, right lasted.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
The last nuclear test was nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, I mean you feel pretty comfortable because you just
kind of figure if these nations aren't doing anything testing wise,
that they're not expanding their arsenal. You know, maybe we're
a little bit safer.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I don't know other uh you know, expiration dates on
these uh these warheads, I mean, is it best used
by dates on.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Their Well, I think yeah, I think you have to
use I would think, yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Right, it's probably not stamped right there on the warhead. No,
Trump's saying that we have more nuclear weapons than any
other country. He says, I hate to do it, but
I had no choice. Other countries are testing their nuclear programs,
so we need to do it too. Now this came
(42:42):
was this before or after of Vladimir Putin made the
announcement that the Russians have conducted a successful test of
a new atomic powered, nuclear capable underwater drone. This was
just a couple of days after he praised what he
called a successful test of a new nuclear powered cruise missile.
(43:08):
So the Russians keep ramping things up. This test that
Putin was talking about yesterday, it's called the Poseidon. Yeah,
it's a nuclear powered, nuclear capable underwater torpedo. Putin claims
it's unblockable. This is a This is a warhead that
(43:40):
if used in the ways intended could unleash what they're
calling radioactive tsunamis to wipe out port cities. Okay, so
you detonate this thing underwater, the big waves start, big
waves start, and guess what they're radioacting, they're glowing waves.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
They are.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
This is not good, gosh, man, you'd think. And still
I I'm still the guy who says, if we ever
have a war that ends all wars and ins humanity,
it's not going to be nuclear. It's it's just going
(44:29):
to be you know, take down all the grids, right,
whether you're hacking them or you're deploying e MPs or whatever,
just just just just blow up the grids and the
water supply, everything that that controls that and then let
everybody just you know, wipe each other out. And as
(44:50):
a result, quite honestly, if if you had, if you
had to choose here, you know, if it's a game
of scruples, here, go ahead, headn't just drop a nuke.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Man, let's get it over with, because you're talking slow
death in some of these other cases, right, slow, painful, Yeah, agonizing,
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Just just just just drop the new man. Let's let's
get it over with. Oh, this is depressing talk here.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Yeah, that is, we haven't had to worry about nukes
in a long time.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
And I was getting ready to say that. I'm glad
you said that, because I mean, we haven't had this
kind of you know, ramp up in nuclear capability. It
seems like for for a long time. Yeah, a long
long time. But I don't know. I guess maybe we
should be a bit concerned that whatever our arsenal is
right now that there's been no new testing done now
and gosh, what is that.
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Speaker 3 (46:22):
Up up up.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Let's let's start with something at home. This We talked
about it at the time, and it's kind of drug
out here with his lawsuit, but you know, a guy
out in shape and showed up with a with a
sign it read trust Christ he paid the price on
one side. On the other side that said he saved
others Jesus He'll save you. Uh. This was back June
(46:46):
of last year. Well, he got stopped by a town
police officer and was told he needed a permit to
stand on the sidewalk holding a religious theme sign. All right, now, okay,
let's say somebody standing on a sidewalk holding a sign
(47:09):
that has filled with expletives or something like that, something
that would be obviously, you know, really offensive to people.
Or was this sign offensive to people?
Speaker 2 (47:26):
I guess it depends on your viewpoint.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I suppose well the fellow hold in the sign. Ernest
Giodine Giardino sued the town of Chapmin last summer, arguing
that the requirement he must get a permit to stand
on the sidewalk holding a sign such as this one
(47:49):
violated his First Amendment rights. And guess what it did.
Fin judgment was issued yesterday. The town is now permanently
enjoined from enforcing the previous version of his town ordinance,
(48:10):
and Giardino, we'll get a nominal payout that wasn't what
it was all about. He wasn't soon to get a
bunch of money. He'll get a nominal.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Payout enough to pay his lawyers.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Well, he'll get his nominal payout is one dollar, okay,
and he does get to damages to cover his legal
fees of thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
So the winners in this.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
The lawyers and free speech and free speech, that's right.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Yeah, Fairfield County considering an additional penny sales tax. I
could see the look of excitement on your face.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Additional penny you have any pennies are there already paying?
Speaker 1 (48:53):
And we don't even make pennies anymore. How does this work?
I can't have a penny sales tax. We don't make pennies.
Don't let them know that it might be a nickel. Yeah,
they love They voted, well, they voted rage militarys which
means your property taxes are going up. And they discussed, yeah,
this week of an additional penny sales tax. It's been
(49:15):
a while. It was twenty years ago that voters approved
a once in local option sales tax. Now they're considering
a second one. It's it's just the same old story,
same old song and dance. It's always it's always build.
(49:36):
I don't care where you go, what county, what state. Hey,
if you'll just pass this referendum, it just just allow
us to do this is this is one time everything's
going to be great.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
They seriously will have to stop calling it the penny
tax and call it something else, because yeah, yeah, McDonald's
is asking you to round up. Now everybody's running out
of pennies.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Well, here's a fix, McDonald's and anybody else. Just stop
pricing things at like a dollar ninety nine. Okay, Either
make it a buck ninety five or make it two dollars.
That way, ain't got to worry about it. It's that
old psychological thing, right when you say it costs two dollars,
(50:24):
that seems a lot more expensive than a dollar ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yep, that's a one on the other side of that
decimal point where we're in good shape.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
I only paid a buck and some mod for it.
Bye'm paying two dollars for it. Just trot the dollar
ninety nine thing or whatever. A bunch of law firms
are looking at a local builder, a residential builder that's
headquartered here in Columbia, and they build all over the place.
You're not at home group homes group. I should say
(50:53):
this after several board of directors members said they're going
to resign, including Nikki Haley and the current Clemson University President,
James Clemens.
Speaker 5 (51:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
These board members saying they're going to step down after
the executive chairman's refusal to step down and refusal to
forego any compensation, their stock fell fifty two percent a
week and a half ago following the resignation letter, a
resignation letter that said the directors believe the existing management
(51:28):
team could better navigate the current environment without the current chairman.
And now they're well, a bunch of lawyers are looking
at this, investigating about whether or not the company violated
federal securities laws. We neither. That fifty two percent.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Share drop was this company developing some piece of property
up in the apps?
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Yeah they were, Yeah, okay, yeah, I've seen a few
stories about this. There's been a few areas of concern
around this one. It's just one of them. Now we
getting new license plates. I just like within the last
year finally got rid of my old one. I haven't
still haven't figured out how it is when they decide
(52:15):
you need to get a new license plate, right.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
It's a weird algorithm. I don't know what it is.
But I kept thinking, I got a new car. I thought,
you know that license plate we got right now, we'd
look a lot better on my new car than the
one I've got, which was the old one with the
birds on them right right, which is you know, cracking
and everything else. And I finally got a new one,
and now I'm going to lose that one, but this
new one looks pretty good. They'll start to January one
(52:39):
with the new standard license plates, so they will commemorate
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Revolutionary War
in our role in helping to end it. God now
what you can actually get one if you've already got
a license plate. I couldn't tell you because I had
figured that out, you know, know, me to celebrate is
to celebrate the tw hundred and fifty anniversary. I'll get
(53:00):
it like in a year when we would be celebrating
the two hundred and fifty third anniversary.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
I guess, yeah, I just got the new one. They
did the previous new one. Yeah, right, when I breathe,
I hope or while I breathe, I hope and the
Palmeto Tree and the whole blue scheme.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah, I don't know what the rules are to dictate
when you get a new one wrong. I don't. I
don't know. Lindsey Graham has introduced a constitutional amendment that
would require members of Congress to forfeit their paychecks in
times like these. Yeah, with the government shutdown. Yeah, Graham's
saying if members of Congress had to forfeit their pay
during a shutdown, there'd be fewer shutdowns and they would
(53:41):
end quicker. You can't argue with that, can you.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
You can't. Although Bernie tried.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Bertie did try, and we do have a number of
members of Joe Wilson being one of them, because I
know he let me know right when we first started
talking about this week's ago that he was not accepting
a paycheck.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
While you were out last week. Bernie actually had the
gall Bernie Sanders had the goal to say, now, we
can't do that. Some of our members, some of our
younger members, have families to take care of.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
And so do their staffers, and so do all these
other federal employees exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Yeah, Yeah, he had no argument there he was on
the view and tried that argument, try.
Speaker 1 (54:15):
To get burned. Well, then, I don't know how Yeah,
there are a few members that this would impact. Yeah,
but by and large these aren't people that are living
paycheck to paycheck anyway. So whether or not I would
have the intended effect, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Unfortunately, you can't run for Congress anymore unless you're fairly
well established, so.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
Exactly, which means you've got a whole bunch of money.
Now again, staffer's not getting paid, and I don't know
what the deal was in Massachusetts. Maybe this staffer wasn't
getting paid and was just trying to supplement his income.
A member of Massachusetts Governor Mara Healey's staff has been
shown the door. I guess. So this after and arrest
(55:01):
on charges of drug trafficking and unlawful firearm possession, Well yeah,
Lamar Cook arrested yesterday as Tuesday. Actually, investigators said they
intercepted multiple packages containing suspected cocaine that were actually intended
(55:24):
to be delivered to the government building in which he works.
We're talking about twenty one kilograms twenty one k.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
This guy was the deputy director of Aheli's Western Massachusetts office,
a guy who the governor had described as a proven
leader with deep ties to Western mass but he was
hired in April of twenty three. He had deep ties
of something.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Yeah he Wow.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
That's a little embarrassing for the governor, isn't it. And
then there's this associate dean at the University of Wisconsin Madison,
who is publicly called Trump in the past a racist.
Is also written a co authored an academic paper suggesting
that our country's education system is inherent including math, even mathematics,
(56:22):
he says, is inherently violent toward black students. Wait a minute, I.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
Don't even know how math is violent to begin with.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
No, no, no, no, no. Math is violent to everybody, Okay,
I mean when you get past the simple stuff, then
it's violent. I get it. So I'm sorry. Did he
have an answer for this? I don't know. I mean,
do we just do away with math? We really, unfortunately
can't do that. I can remember times as a student
(56:52):
when I wish we could. But mathematics inherently violent toward
black students.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Okay, well, you do away with a penny like we've done,
and maybe you're not gonna need those math skills much longer.
Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yeah, you want to have fun, Go go pay cash
to some youngster behind the till instead of swiping the
card and they look at their eyes and go, oh,
can I do this or not
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