Show Rewind 11-10-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
And it's sixteen minutes after six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's Monday, November the tenth, and good.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Morning to you.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Welcome back, Columbia's Morning News back on the radio. I'm
Gary David. Christopher Thompson is back today after a three
day extravaganza weekend extravaganza.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Might be stretching it. There was no football at least
on my menu.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right right, No game talk football had that. That lasts
by we get us three more weeks to go, ready
to go. I don't think there's going to be a
fourth jamm down there at the end of the year.
Doesn't look like it, but it could happen. It could happen.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's still possible. It is still possible. And you can
get in with you can get them into a bowl
game with five wins. If you've got a good enough
academic record, and what you are academic record, you are
so coveted. Yeah, really that comes into play. It does
if they don't have enough six win Bowl teams to
fill the schedules. They can go to five win Bowl
teams that have an APR. Oh love a certain level. Really,

(01:25):
I did not know that. So you puk a tell
Idaho or somewhere to play. Well, it depends on how
many how many five win teams they need?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, all right, I was not I did know they could,
you could go the idn't know the APR played into
it at all. Okay, well, uh yeah, forty four here
at the radio ranch as we started this morning off. Yeah,
which is you know, I mean, that's we've we've had those,
we've had cold timpts in that here recently. But the
teyler just mentioned the mercury is not going to budge

(01:55):
much today. Maybe another six degrees and that'll be about it. Yeah,
and it'll start to plummet.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Forty four before eventually winding up. Seventy four is one thing,
forty four and staying forty four is another. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, So we'll get to about fifty to day, give
or take, and then they down to sub freezing and
night twenty seven. I don't try to mention cracking a fox.
I don't know that if you get down to the
teens with a lot of wind. Yeah, I don't know
that twenty seven for an overnight low, although yeah, the
gust could be upwards of thirty thirty five miles an hour,
so we'll have to factor in that wind chill tomorrow
morning and of course tomorrow Veterans Day, and it's going

(02:29):
to be chilly for the parading downtown Columbia tomorrow, one
of the best there is.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
It always is chili at least unt rainy, not rainy though, no, no,
we got to drive forecast.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
And yeah again if this, if this forecast frightens, you
don't worry because by the weekend we're back into the seventies.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
So it's just.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
A short lasting thing here, all right, the rundown, the
big stories of hot topics. Hopefully you don't have any
plans to fly this week, although things might get better here.
We had a number of flights that were canceled over
the weekend at Columbia Metro then you know why, because
of the government shutdown. I was just checking. It looks

(03:07):
like this morning it's not much different than it was Friday. Departures.
There's a handful of them that are canceled or delayed.
And again, going to these airports that are most affected
by all this, there were a few arrivals that were
delayed or just didn't get it at all because of
the government shutdown and the well, the government shutdown leading
to fewer and fewer air traffic controllers and the TSA

(03:31):
workers in our nation's big airports. So that will continue today.
Allow there is news to talk about on that front,
and we'll get to that here in just a moment
or two. The mayor elective chapin. None want to wait
around to be sworn in. That's causing some controversy. Bill
Mitchell showed up at the town hall in shapein Friday morning,

(03:52):
did do a swearing in ceremony, and well, the town
officials that were there were like, can we actually do this?
He claimed he should be sworn in as quickly as
possible after warning that election. Now you recall the incumbent
mayor who was on the ballot had passed away just

(04:13):
a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
But there's a mayor pro tem and that there was
a mayor pro tem, Yes, what that person is there for?
Can't be there?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Still trying to figure out if this is kosher or not?
Meantime over in Gilbert, Uh, well, they've set a runoff.
It's after you know again, we had mentioned this going
into election day a week it was last Tuesday. Yeah,
that nobody showed up to well want to be elected.

(04:41):
There were no candidates, So there'll be a run off
between the top two winners of a total of seventy
writing votes. I don't why even bother at this point,
I don't know. Nearly nine months after being accused of
sex crimes and a speech on the House floor, now
Patrick Bryant, Nancy Mayce's ex fiance, is suing, filing a

(05:08):
counterclaim alleging that Mace hacked into his cell phone worked
with a friend's estranged wife to orchestrate what he calls
a conspiracy. Says all this is just made up, So
more litigation in the universe of Nancy Mace. Columbia Police

(05:28):
Department ahead of the grand reopening coming up this weekend
of Finley Park investigating a case of vandalism at the
newly renovated park. Game already somebody put some graffiti up
that's since been cleaned up. Still searching for who was
responsible for that.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
We should know because we have cameras and security and
everything else. How did this happen?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, security, they're not in place yet, are they once
it reopens?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I guess they will be. But the cameras should be
up and running. Huh. I would hope, So, I mean,
I would think if you've got to just about finished,
the security should already be there. Apparently not. Yeah, I
bet that'll change.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, you're probably right, all right, a breakthrough on Capitol Hill.
And it came yesterday as the Senate took the first
step to end this government shut down.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
You had what four more was it?

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Four?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I guess four more moderate Senate Democrats agreeing to proceed
to reopen the government without the guaranteed extension of the
subsidies for Obamacare, but an agreement to talk about them
once the government gets reopened.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
So this is a test vote.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Now, this wasn't a final test vote first, and a
number of required procedural maneuvers, because you know, the sin
is nothing without all the procedures and the maneuvers. I mean,
they love that stuff up there. So that sixty to
forty vote moves as a step closer to reopening the government.
Of course, a final vote would still have to be then,
you know, go over to the House, they'd have to

(06:59):
go back to work for the first time in weeks
and weeks and weeks.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
So it was it was the election, that's that was
the tipping point. Yeah, we heard it. We heard it.
At one point it was the no King's protests, and
then it was first to November. It just proved to
be the elections, and then suddenly everybody was ready to
make a deal.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, well not everybody, but enough to not Bernie O,
not not Bernie, not Schumer.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh come on, well when can it nod here? Yeah?
You think all this is going on without Schumer being
Schumer approving, He's going he's going to protest as loudly
as he can, almost as loudly as Bernie. But I
guarantee you this is all being done because Schumer has
said enough is enough.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, now you sound like Alexandro Casio QUOTEZ that's something
she would say.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well maybe she's right here.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Maybe, So all right, Well we got the stuff to
talk about on that front today. The cancelations and our
nation's airports and airways continue to worsen over the weekend
as well, and they'll be even worse today. I remember we
start off with just a four percent scale back in
flights on Friday. That's getting ready to go up to
six percent. And if well, the government's not reopened by

(08:08):
weeks in, it'll be at ten percent here just now
at that point in time would be what less than
two weeks to Thanksgiving Day, So it's getting worse, and
Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, saying that, well, amongst all this,
more air traffic controllers are retiring, So even getting the
government reopened may not make things a whole lot better,

(08:30):
because we got folks that are quitting apparently left and right,
and Trump proposing a two thousand dollars tariff check yeah, no, yeah, right, exactly,
a lot of people saying no, say, we have profited
handsomely from these tariffs, and he says he wants to

(08:52):
share that wealth with the American people. Okay, we'll see
if this happens or not. And he's also and they're
apparently working on this now, positioning a fifty year mortgage.
Yeah fifty Some people are like yeah, and other people
are like aghast that they would even be considering all this.
So we'll get to that more coming up here on
this It is the back added Monday edition of Columbia's

(09:14):
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Speaker 1 (09:14):
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Speaker 3 (09:39):
It is six forty one good Monday morning. Good to
have you along. We appreciate you tuning in at Columbia's
Morning News.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now will schedule a vote on their proposal, and I've
committed to having that vote no later than the second
week in December.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
The American people know who is inflicting this healthcare trauma
on them, Donald Trump and the Republicans. Americans will remember
publican intransigence every time they make a sky high payment
on health insurance.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
All right, So we've got a impending deal on reopening
the government. They are the two cent leaders there, John
Thunne who says he will get this thing done, get
this government shut down ended, and then promising to have
a vote by mid December on Obamacare subsidies, and of
course Chuck Schumer there almost sounding like he's like, okay, yeah,

(10:29):
that's we're not going to get those subsidies. And it's
all Donald Trump, the public's fault. And you can remember
this every time you write a check for a sky
high insurance premium.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Okay, he wasn't very convincing, No, he was't. Was he
Bernie was convincing. Bernie didn't want this to happen. Bernie
would have sat on the government as long as possible
until he got his healthcare wishes. Schumer was under pressure
to get this done. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, it was said this is a test vote yesterday,
and we knew going into the day yesterday that Thune
was going to schedule a test vote, which again you
don't normally schedule those unless you know you've got the votes.
And yesterday for the first time and all of this,
now what day forty one of the shutdown, he had
the votes, so wound up sixty forty to make a

(11:20):
move towards passing a compromise, a piece of legislation that
will fund the government, and as Thune just said in
the sound clip there, to hold a vote later on
on extending Obamacare tax credits. He says by mid December.
December is well, of course, you know, I mean, they

(11:42):
could make these folks stay in DC. But typically that
a whole lot of work gets done in December. Typically
that could change this time around. Now, those tax credits,
those subsidies end with the year ends, so come January one,
they're gone unless something happens between al and This agreement
does not guarantee they'll be extended. And that's been the

(12:07):
Democrat demand now for almost six weeks. So there's no
guarantee here on that. You end up with four centrist
Democrats jump in the aisle and siding with the Republicans to.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Advance this. Three of them are four governors, by.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
The way, so they probably look at this a little
differently than maybe some others who have never been.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
In that position do.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
So this test bo this is just step one in
a process that will probably take most say, maybe the
rest of the week to get done. Now, once it
is done, and apparently one of the things before we
even got to that vote, we heard from Oh it's Monday,

(13:01):
excuse me, what's his name in Kentucky?

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh? Shoot, Ram paul.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Is is threatening to continue to be a fly in
the ointment here. Apparently Ran Paul he wants guarantees that
the hemp industry won't be basically shut down, at least
in his state. Go figure how all this plays in.
But there's always something right.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
This is not the time to you know, grind personal
axes or in this case, you know, personal wants and needs.
This is about the good of the party and the
good of the people. And all these senators have got
a rise to the occasion. I appreciate what Ram Paul wants,
and usually it's based on, you know, the fact that
we're in such you know, fiscal unprickted predictability. But in

(13:56):
this case, at least get the government working.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, come on, well, now, h Once the Senate does
get this done, and this assumes that they do, it
has to go back to the House, right, the House
has got to put they're.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay on it because this is a change from what
the House originally passed.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Right, this this includes things that the original House bill
did not. And Hakeem Jeffries and the progressives on the
on the left not happy at all about this. They
are they're they're they're afraid that uh, you know, these
Senate Democrats are going to cave without getting any concessions

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at all.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
They're losing their leverage.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Jeffery's writing on X we will not support spending legislation
advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the tax
credits for the Affordable Care Act. Well, good luck, because
you do, you don't have the votes. I mean, you
can make it tricky, but you don't have the votes.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Meantime, uh is the back and forth on on on
the SNAP benefits. Now the White House is demanding that
states undo full STAB benefits that were paid out under
judicial orders the last several days because the High Court
stepped in and stayed those rulings. Okay, so it's it's

(15:21):
back and forth, it's on, it's off. And we heard
this a couple of weeks back when the administration said,
any states, if you want to go do this on
your own through emergency funding and such, fine, but we're
not going to Reimbursha. You're on your own with that.

(15:41):
So now the White House is saying any states that
had started to issue full SNAP benefits for November for
this month must immediately undo those steps. And again this
is because of the High Court ruin that puts a
stay on this. So he say it's hard. It's like
watching a ping pong match you when it comes to
the snap benefits, right. And of course, the other big
issue right now is that with our nation's airways, and

(16:04):
we saw a lot of cancelations, a lot of delays
over the weekend, as we knew we would. And we
also mentioned this in the rundown that Shawn Duffy, Transportation Secretary,
is now saying that there are a number of air
traffic controllers that are just retiring. I'm done, I'm out.

(16:27):
There's word that Pete Haggsth is offered up and Duffy
may accept some military reservists whose job is to control
air traffic to company these control towers try to keep
things going. I mean, we'll get a scenario here if
we've got these air traffic controllers retiring left and right now,

(16:48):
that we could get all this taken care of, that
checks could start rolling again. These people can start getting paid,
but there will be few of them in the towers anyway,
so this could wind up being a more.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Of a long term problem. All right, you know more
about the air system than I but I've got to
wonder how similar the military and civilian air traffic control
systems are. Can can a reservist who's called up just
jump right into that civilian air traffic control seat well
and run the show?

Speaker 3 (17:18):
I mean in theory? Yeah, okay, I mean, the job's
the same, what you're doing. It doesn't change whether it's
a military aircraft or a civilian aircraft. Right, But I'm
sure the procedures and all that, well, he may recall,
I mean, or the the issue we had in DC
that yeah, earlier this year, last year with the Blackhawks collide,
the black Hawk colliding with the passenger jet. Yeah, there

(17:40):
are different protocols and different policies and procedures.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, that's but the bigger picture is the same. You're
trying to keep you know, planes from among any each other.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I get that. It's just not a job where you
can learn about the procedures on the fly.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
You don't, you know, you don't take one of these
reserves and just put them on the chairs that go.
Ok No, there's going to have to be a you know,
a learning her on the way he's done in these
civilian environments.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I'm sure, Well, that curve if I'm looking at the calendar,
that curve is going to occur right around Thanksgiving. Yeah, well,
waln it.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
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Speaker 3 (18:24):
At sixteen after seven o'clock in the morning for Monday,
the tenth day of November.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's good to have you with us. We appreciate that
as always, my friends. Uh, timp's.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
About where they're gonna be all day, Okay, yeah, it'll
it'll get a little warmer on the on the thermometer
by a couple degrees, but the windshill is going to
come into play here later on. Winds are bad right now,
but they're expected to pick up today Agustus high as
uh maybe twenty five to thirty miles an hour later on.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's amazing, how war it was this weekend. I was
hot yesterday, we does some workout in the yard. Yesterday
I was sweating man, and then today I'm old, so
I swear it, and then it's going to turn right
back around again next week. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Now, there are some spots in the South that apparently
going to see some snow out of this. I did
check the National Weather Service forecast save for Greenville, Barborough
Pickens County, but that in that neck of the wood
they're not calling for any at all. Asheville could see
it a dusting maybe, But there will be some some

(19:34):
spots in the South that do see some appreciable snow
from this. We're apparently not gonna be one of those places,
which is okay with me.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
That's cool.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Now we're not quite yet a week removed from elections
here in our state, and most of all the municipal elections,
of course, with a couple exceptions, but we still got
some things to clean up here.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well, there will be. I guess it's a runoff city Columbia,
the city wide seat, right, there's a run off there for.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
That we've got. We've mentioned this going into the voting
last Tuesday. If you lived out in Gilbert, well, you
didn't have anybody to vote for town council races. Nobody
signed up.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
To take on the open seat on town council. Nobody
was interested. So you told us there were a number
of right end candidates, well, a number of right ends,
and now they go to contact those right end folks
and say would you like to serve? Well, that was
the thing. Number one.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
You had to be eligible to serve, that had to
be ascertained, you had to be willing to serve. And well,
all told, there were about seventy right in votes.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
We don't really know. I don't know exactly who they were,
but it's just like any other election.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
If you're you got to get at least fifty percent
of the vote and of the writing candidates. And for
all I know, there could have been seventy different writing
candids I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Apparently not because it will be a runoff.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So at least you had a couple that got a
few more than the rest of them did, so they
have to Yeah, you got nobody interested in running. You
got a town of some six hundred people at least
in the town limits in Gilbert. Well, that place is
going like crazy. You get seventy right in bout, I
don't know what you can expect. Imagine getting the run off. Now,

(21:31):
getting that phone call, Hey, you you're uh, you're in
the running to be our council person. Really, Oh I'm honored, Yeah,
but you're in a runoff.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wait, a minute. I wasn't even running. Now I'm in
a runner. Now I gotta do a runoff. Come on,
do you throw up some last minute signs? What do
you do? I don't pubby. Just you campaign the way
you campaign the first time. Yeah? Yah, I'm not even running.
Low key campaigneah right, low key it under the radar,
your best bet, all right? Uh.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
I don't know what will this week bring in the
ongoing saga that is that of of Nancy Mays.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Well, another lawsuit is hit. She has she filed the
lawsuit against the airport yet has that actually been filed.
I have to double check.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
On that one. I don't know that was out Friday.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, well, the lawsuit's been filed against her. It says
nothing to do with the airport. To dust up, this
is her ex fiance, Patrick Bryant. Now he's filed a
counterclaim suing her, saying that the claims she made on
that House floor speech back in January were fabricated and

(22:48):
that it was, oh boy, part of a coordinated personal
scheme to obtain two houses. I mean, you couldn't write
this stuff up, man. Hollywood can become close to this
kind of drama. Patrick Bryan alleges, among other things, Mace

(23:09):
hacked into his cell phone. I guess that's the you
remember the uh that security camera footage that was offered
as some.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Kind of proof that he was spying on her, stalking her.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I guess this was in his house, right, his security camera,
I mean, I whatever in the how So he claims
she hacked with cell phone, that she worked with a
friend's estranged wife to orchestrate what he calls a conspiracy.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, he alleges he's he's the only victim.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
And that Mace worked with the austray's wife of one
of his former business partners.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
It was a Bowman. I think it was Eric Bowman.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
To make up the assault that involved you know, there
was that assault video you saw, right. He claimed all
that was fabricate. You know, at this point you almost
don't know what to believe, right, no clue. So anyway,
new lawsuit there claiming she made it all up and
it was apparently trying to well it was for personal
and political game.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I did notice this over the weekend and the posting
Courier in case you were curious, Going back to the
whole airport Nancy Mace thing, do politicians typically get the
kind of security that the Nancy may demands, at least
in this state. And they went through and talked to

(24:49):
a number of our states, you know, politicians up in
Congress that are all the time traveling back and forth
between DC and the home district, and it looks like, no.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Don't you think they should given this day and age.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Well, if they can ask for it, okay, but they're not, apparently,
now I get it.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's on them.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Well sure, yeah, Mace is uh, you know, she's put
herself in a more high profile position, in a more
polarizing position than you know, really you know, are our
other elected officials have who are serving in DC. But yeah,
I mean, while it's there and they can take advantage
of it that they want, it says not the norm. Mmm,

(25:41):
so I'm making that what you will.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
But they did.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
They did run on a long a long list, and
pretty much to the person they say, yeah, no, we don't,
we don't ask for it. We just travel like everybody
else does.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Okay, Well, there's some that can get away with it
that are solo profile that probably most people don't recognize.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Them, Which brings you to the question of when you
run to somebody like that at the airport, do you do?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
You do? You walk up? And actually, you know, the
one example I had this goes back years and years
my dad and I when the airport in Atlanta walking
up to the gate and there stands John Smaltz mm hmm.
And I resisted the urge to I just didn't want
to be that guy. I think they're used to it.

(26:25):
It's it's yeah, it's standing in the airport's one thing,
eating dinner. You don't interrupt that, no or family time.
But but if you see a politician in the airport,
do you go up and start haranguing them? Well, that happens. Yeah,
That's that's the part I can't get. Yeah, that happens.
I mean, would I stand there and say, hey, I'm
a constituent just wanted to say hello. That may be

(26:47):
one thing to go up to him and them and
say your your vote sucks and I disagree with you
on this and this and this. Yeah, that's yeah. But
we know exactly way too often exactly anyway and beyond, yeah,
and beyond the.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
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take you there.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
At a critical time in our world's history.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
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Speaker 1 (27:26):
I'm portably going to have you a long Monday, November
the tenth. I'm Gary David. That's Christopher Thompson back in
the fold. After it a day of stray and then
everyone gets well, a lot of people get tomorrow off.
Are do you a lot of people get a fitters
they off? Oh? I think so? I mean some all right? Maybe? Well,
am I wrong? Well, federal workers too, you already got

(27:48):
the day off. Yeah, they already arranged that. Well not
all of you, but but but but a few of you. Yeah,
it's been it's been the forty one day Veterans Day
holiday for without pay for federal workers. Well, you get
the back pay eventually, and well they're just movement on that,
as you probably know by now, hopefully test phone. The
Senate yesterday passed it. But there's more work that has

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to be done for the government reopens. We'll get back
into that coming up in the eight o'clock hour. But yeah,
the parade tomorrow, it's going to be a chilly affair,
sorely starting off cold tomorrow morning. For folks who are
you know, lighting up on the parade route early, Bundle
them up because we're talking about twenty seven or so
tonight overnight low plus the wind speeds howling gusting overnight

(28:34):
up to maybe thirty thirty five miles an hour factor
on the wind shill for the first time this year,
and then about forty nine for the high. We can
do chili in a little wind is not as long
as rain isn't a part of that. No rain in
that forecast, that's good.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
But yeah, that parade tomorrow morning, downtown Colombia one of
the best ones around, all right. Well, shades of Joe
Biden here Trump announcing yesterday. This one has been floating
around now for about a week. Actually, somebody asked me
this about a week ago. I said, where'd you see this? Facebook?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Now, but Trump didn't announced yesterday that most Americans will
see but receive it at least at least he says
two thousand dollars from the tariff revenue collected by the
Trump administration. Well, Okay, So we got a couple of

(29:34):
things to play here, right. Number one, Yes, the government
has you know, profited handsomely from these these enhanced tariffs.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Two, well, the administration is in a fight right now
with a Supreme Court trying to convince the Supremes. Well,
the arguments have already been heard, just so for the
Supreme Court to make a ruling now on whether or
not these uh, these tariffs can can can continue to
go on or not.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Whether he's got the constitutional power he has to do that. Right.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Remember, Congress controls the purse strings and the power of taxation, which,
among other things, we heard last week from the Chief
Justice John Roberts. Again, what is it with John robertson taxes?
Remember the whole Obamacare thing came down to robertson is
it a tax or not? Well, Roberts intimating that these

(30:34):
tariffs are attacking the American people. So you know there's
that at play. And then in the well, people are
still making a big deal out of the democrats wins
last Tuesday in big blue places. Now, there were some
some some signs certainly that they got something to be

(30:54):
happy about, but overall, again we're talking about you know,
big boo places going blue or staying blow so, but regardless,
you had that happen.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
So with all that is a backdrop, here comes this idea. Well,
if this all right, let's start with your last argument.
If this is political, if you're trying to win back
some voters, don't you save this for a little closer
to the midterms. Well that's good point. Why would you
do it now?

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Well he actually, you know, I had actually forgotten this,
but he did float this idea last month.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Oh yeah, he's mentioned it several times.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
He did an interview on the One American News network,
and he flowed the idea, but between one and two thousand.
But now he says at least two thousand hadn't specified
who would qualify, just saying everyone except high income people.
And I suspect Donald Trump's idea of a high income

(31:56):
person is a lot different than my.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, well it would be It would be great if
we didn't owe so much money, if we weren't so
deeply in debt. Yeah, that's the other thing, right, And
if we weren't scrambling to try to find money for
you know, all these different things, like you know, we
seem to have an issue right now with healthcare mm hmm,

(32:19):
and who's paying and how much? Right you're telling me
this money couldn't at least help that argument if Republicans
and Democrats can get together on who pays for what,
and maybe you throw it, maybe you say, all right,
instead of these subsidies that you know we were arguing about,
maybe some of this money goes to that.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
When it comes to the dead. Trump did say that
we soon start paying down that thirty seven trillion dollars
in debt.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
But man, we'll start now exactly. This would be a
good way to say.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
So. Yeah, there's a lot of conservatives that aren't real
happy with this idea. As you might imagine.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Does the government take too much of our money? Yes,
m m. But to give this back kind of willy
nilly just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
That wasn't the only idea he floated over the weekend.
He also made mention and the Federal Housing Finance Agency
Director of Bill Poulty said this on Saturday on x
Well he said it next responded but that the administration

(33:25):
is working on a plan to introduce a fifty year mortgage.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Now we know that.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
We're getting older and older before we're buying our first
homes now, right, Yeah, that even went up a couple
of years from last year to this year or the
year before the last year, the average age of a
first time home buyer now I was forty years old.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay, So if you retire at sixty five, that means
you've still got a lot of mortgage left to pay
and you're no longer working. How does that? How do
you make that work? Well?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
You know, if if the lesson of the last couple
of years could be repeated time and time and time
and time again, your house would go up so much
in value that, oh if you could sell it and
pocket a bunch of money and do something.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Else, I guess. But what if you don't? But what
if you don't?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
So the idea, the specter of a fifty year mortgage,
I mean that that scares me.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
I can tell you that right now.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
But you know what, we're seeing car loans that are
going like ten years now.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Just so people can get a lower monthly right, They're
seeing get a lower monthly rate. Yeah. Wow, that's short sighted.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well, the other short sided part here is that right now,
about ten percent of all applications for a mortgage are arms, the.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Adjustable rate mortgages.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
That's a scary proposition, but for some folks that's the
only way they can get in. So a fifty year now. Now,
if you're thinking, I wait a minute, what does the
president do with this?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
It was.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
FDR who established the thirty year mortgage standard way back
in the day. Fifty years though. All right, yeah, I
get it. Uh, you know it's it helps those first
time home buyers be able to afford a payment, got it.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
But you know you wanted these days, you know.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Unlike and I can't even say that my generation is
doing this as much as they ought to. But certainly
the prior generation, my Parish generation, that was a big deal.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Buy home, pay it off, yeah right, have a little
party at the end, and burn your mortgage. Yeah, I
don't know that.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Well, my generation is not doing that as much as
the prior generation did, our Parish generation did. And I'm
going to bet that this is this is a no
brainer for the generation coming up that wants to buy
a house. Look, yeah, it's fine. They're just they're just
used to this. This is okay. I think amongst that

(36:09):
generation there's probably a lot would be a lot of
support for something like this. There's a lot of blowback
to but this, uh, this idea and how this work,
I don't know. Can the President just say, Okay, we're
gonna fifty your mortgages.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I mean, the banks don't have to do it necessarily
just because he says to do they no, huh.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
But then again, company, so the lending companies are morge
companies are like, yeah, we'll take it.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, we'll do it.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Sure, Sure, they'll want more likely going to get there
than resell somebody else anywhere.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, they'll wind up the big winners. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
So a couple of things over the weekend when it
comes to the economy being floated around by this uh
this White House.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
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Speaker 3 (37:03):
All right, it's seventeen already, seventeen after eight. More on
to you the final hour of Columbia's Morning News for Monday,
November tenth. If you're thinking about flying today, check ahead.
We have had some delays and some cancelations over Columbia matter.
Not a bunch but just enough to wear. Yeah, check

(37:24):
ahead before you plan on heading out there.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Again.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
The airspace around our area has not been restricted, but
it has, you know, in places that the planes take
out of here to go, including Charlotte, including Atlanta. A
lot of connecting flights went non stops to you know,
places like DC, New York. Basically anywhere a plane takes
off from Columbia to head to for the most part,
you're going to fly into restricted airspace area at least

(37:51):
where they're you know, dialing back the number of flights
in the air at the same time, and it's only
four percent right now. They put this in last Friday.
It was a four percent reduction. Now we've got news
to talk about on the government shut down front, but
as it stands right now, if you know, we don't

(38:13):
and there's another little wrinkle in this, but if we
don't get things back to normal by this coming Friday,
then that goes from four percent to ten percent. And
we saw a lot of cancelations delays over the weekend,
and that was at four percent reduction as of Gosh

(38:33):
when was this a lot Saturday night? I guess it was.
There were close to seventeen thousand flights delayed and nearly
four thousand canceled. Okay, more than twenty five hundred were
canceled yesterday, and that information wasn't even the latest information

(38:56):
we had. So yeah, more than two thousand cancelations. And
that's it a four percent reduction. Imagine what a ten
percent reduction would do.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Now.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Okay, So we have a test vote that happened in
the Senate yesterday. That vote the first time there's a
glimmer of hope here that the impasse can be a
breached here and we can get things back to whatever normal.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Is in DC these days.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
So this test vote yesterday is the first thing they
have to do, because you know, the Senate, they just
can't make things easy. They got all kinds of procedures
they have to go through. So this is this is
the first step in the chain here. And the Senate
voted sixty to forty to move towards passing compromise legislation

(39:45):
to fund the government, and that with the promise to
later on hold a vote on extending the subsidies for Obamacare.
Those subsidies, again, the sticking point in all of this,
expire on New Year's Day. Now, this final passage of

(40:08):
this piece of legislation of the Senate. This could take
all week long, could easily take all week long, maybe
even longer than that. If you've got any senators you
think mainly Democrats, but you know there may be I'm
a Rand Paul Throne in there too, object to anything
and delay the process. So this, this bill that the

(40:31):
Senate has passed again does not guarantee Obamacare subsidy extensions.
Schumer is trying to get a one year extension on those.
And consider what a one year extension would mean. That
would mean this would they would come up again to
expire at the end of twenty twenty six, after the

(40:52):
midterm elections. But that would be a that would be.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
A big.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Campaign talking point, wouldn't it. I suspect Chuck Schumer would
like nothing better than to have these extended if won.
Why he didn't say a couple of year. Why did
say one year? Well, because this makes it a huge
campaign issue in the midterms next November. But as of
right now, no guarantees that even that would happen, just

(41:18):
that the Senate would take it up and have a
vote sometime next month on it. So, needless to say,
the progressive wings and others of the Democrat Party are
very upset with Chu Chuck Schumer over this. Even Dick
Durbin voted in favor of this. You had four Democrat

(41:40):
senators who'd been voting no decided to vote yes on this.
Dick Durbin was one of those. So all told, eight
Senate Democrats joined Republicans. That moves on. Now, if they
get this out of the Senate, it's got to go
back to the House because this is a change. This does,
by the way, include snap funding military pay and such
tensions and all of that. But if he gets out

(42:01):
of the Senate, he goes back to the House. And
Hakeem Jeffries is not at all happy with this, saying
that Democrats in the House would not support spending legislation
that doesn't extend the subsidies for Obamacare period. Now does
he have the votes to stop this, Maybe they don't.

(42:24):
They don't have that that that nasty filibuster thing in
the House. So you just need a majority vote enough
Republicans willing to go with this this change. Well, we'll
have to see the Senate passes it first. Okay, So meantime,
it's well day forty one of the shutdown. Still federal

(42:47):
workers aren't getting paid and some of them are being.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Told to go to work.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Now, this is where we get back to the airports again,
because we have heard now that Shann Duffy told us
that fifteen to twenty air traffic controllers are retiring daily
during their shutdown. So it used to be about four

(43:11):
a day now it's up to fifteen to twenty.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
A day now.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
I don't know all told how many air traffic controls
we have in this country, but Duffy said they were
eighty one controller staffing shortages across the country on Saturday.
Typically you've got maybe twenty or so tops. That was
even during the shutdown. He used that number to twenty

(43:39):
that was back on the at the end of October,
just a week and a half ago. It's gone from
twenty to eighty one shortages. And if you get to retire,
if fifteen to twenty of these air traffic controls are
retiring every day, as Duffy says they.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Are, how many do we have in the pipeline, well, exactly.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Shorthanded to begin with, before all this started, we needed
more air traffic controllers. That's not the kind of job
you can just say, yeah, I'll do that. No, it
takes a lot of time, a lot of training, and
it takes the right person. I mean, that is an
extremely stressful job. It ain't just forever, it just anybody
can do this. Now, Pete heggsath Is offered up air

(44:22):
conraff air traffic controllers from military reserves. Now, that could work,
but again, you've you've got, you know, at least some
learning curve here, because again these are well, you know,
air traffic controls. Air traffic control you've got to you know,
fit in with the procedures and the policies and the

(44:42):
way the civilians do it as opposed to the way
the military does it. So there would be a learning
curve there if that were to happen. But again, consider
we could reopen the government say okay, things are okay now,
but how many air traffic controllers do we just lose
to retirement during the process, And how long will it
to again replace these folks when we were already short

(45:04):
before the shutdown started. So the pain at the airports,
And isn't it weird this has become like the big
story out of this. You talk about snap benefits. You
talk about the extension of Obamacare benefits, all this stuff
going on, federal workers not getting paid. But it looks
like the attention grabbing headline is the pain at the
at the airports.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Well, look at how close we are to the holidays.
Well then there's that and two weeks from this Thursday,
by the way, Thanksgiving Day. Right, if there were one problem,
I mean, god forbid that you know, one of these
traffic controllers, you know, sleeping on the job or not there,
and we didn't have enough people to cover. Yep, hadn't

(45:47):
happened yet. Long ago, the chances increased hear about it.
We've had multiple Democrats politicians talk about it, thriving people
and who cited violence.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
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Speaker 1 (46:12):
Doub vocy forty one and our final thoughts for Monday.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Tenth of course, big story today It was the test
vote in the Senate yesterday. That is the first of
a number of procedural things that have to happen before
the Senate could take a final vote on whether or
not to accept that House bill for funding the government
with some changes the Senate has added on to it.
So you know, again the caveat here is, even if

(46:38):
the Senate is able to finally get this thing over
the finish line, it has to go back for the House.
When's the last time the House was in session?

Speaker 1 (46:46):
By the way, it's been weeks? Has it been this year?
It seems like it's been.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Yeah, remember that the House was sind home early over
the Epstein thing, remember that, right, that was a couple
months ago, that lasted for a while, and over this
So yeah, they'd have to go back to DC and
have a vote to see if they accept a Senate package.
So again, this is going to take some time, and
there are no guarantees that this even gets done now

(47:13):
as we're in a day forty one of the government shutdown.
But some movement, so there's some progress to report, all right,
this weekend or by the way, before we get to
this weekend, don't forget tomorrow is the Veterans Day Parade
downtown Columbia Tomorrow Veterans Day. Today's the birthday of the
Marine Corps. Isn't it that today.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
I'd have to look. I don't know, I should know
that off the top of my head. But regardless of tomorrow,
Veterans Day and the parade.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
While it's good, it is yeah yeah, so profive are
you able to Are you allowed to say that if.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
You were not a marine? I think so?

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Okay, So thanks to the men and women who have
served our country bravely, admirably, and with great success, the
members of the United States Marine Corps.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
And then tomorrow, the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
And at the eleventh hour was when that armistice was signed.
So Veterans Day tomorrow, or they don't call it Armistice
Day anymore. He used to be called Armistice Day, righteah, yeah,
And then we had a couple more skirmishes since yeah,
right yeah. So that's tomorrow. The parade, it's going to
be a chilly one, but a parade. Nonetheless, it's worth

(48:25):
that little bit of a.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Sacrifice to put on a coat, Okay.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Right now, this weekend, Finley Park, the official grand reopening
is this weekend.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Oh, with the two day music celebration.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Right the jam Room Music in Day. Two festivals will
be held over the weekend, so as they prepare for that,
they all discovered something they had to do a little
work on, little case of vandalism in the form of graffiti.
I remember, this is one of the storylines of this park.
You can be able to keep it safe? Can you

(48:57):
keep the wrong element out of there? I say wrong,
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Well.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Part of that is the homeless. I don't want to
call the homeless wrong, but there's a lot of work
to be done here.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Well, that's a that's an early fumble, huh for a
facility that we've spent millions of dollars on. To hear,
it's been marred before it even opens again to the public.
And yeah, maybe the security is not beefed up yet
because it's not open yet. But I mean, look, any
construction site has security on hand because you know there's

(49:32):
going to be you know, kids who want to you know,
graffiti or vandalize or even steel equipment. You've got to
have that safeguarded. If we were, if we were this
close to the finish line, they should have already had
people on site. Yeah, or at the very least cameras
that cameras, yeah, figure out and maybe their cameras on

(49:52):
and maybe they already know who did it, or at
least when it was. But this, this, this is not this,
This is not what you want to hear before the
park even this is not getting off on the good
foot here now, you know, Thank you, James Brown. I
feel good. You know, in the depisover part of town

(50:12):
you drive in. But if if you're ever on three
seventy eight West Columbia, for example, you're going to see
these from time to time.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
You know what they are? Those those those trucks carry
the chickens in the back. Oh yeah, yeah, right, you
see them all over the place. But how do you
know that truck's got these monkeys?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Er or night? You don't post and curry with a
lengthy piece over the weekend. Trucks filled with south kind
of monkeys travel with little oversight, unmarked trucks. We're we're
spawning a bunch of these down down the ymbassy right
on Monkey Island, and they're being sent all over the
country with very little oversight. Well where was it? What

(50:51):
was the truck that crashed recently? Alabama? Or there was
one there and there was one Mississippi Okay, yeah, back
in the last month. Was that one of ours No,
I don't know that one was not okay, that one
was coming out of a bio. Again, we talked about monkeys.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
They're coming from biomedical research centers, and again in that case,
these were monkeys that were deemed to be you know,
not good for people. Yeah, for a variety of reasons.
But this was this was the deal they're taking up
that night. We've got them. We've got them coming out
of embassy on a regular basis. And you don't know.

(51:30):
If you're out on twenty six, maybe that truck has
carry some of these monkeys you don't want getting away.
I won't be able a second on this, but just
to mention at the Wall Street Journal with an article
yesterday genetically engineered babies are banned, but tech titans are
trying to make one anyway. It's a story about a

(51:51):
small company in San Francisco that's been pursuing a secretive project,
the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Okay, how many horror movies do they have to have
on this topic before people realize it's a bad idea?

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, playing God, get ready for the skies to open
up wide here now? Of course, they say, they say, well,
this is to you know, be able to produce children
who don't have any sort of abnormalities or anything else.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Right, that's what they say. Yeah, speaking of the Bay area.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
On the news of Nancy Pelosi's not going to seek
re election, which was announced late last.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Week after we got off the earth Thursday, of course,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Yes, New York Post reporting that over her forty years
in DC, the Pelosi family has generated for themselves more
than one hundred and thirty million dollars in stock profits.
This is this has been a a regular talking point

(52:57):
with Nancy Pelosi right now. If you go back to
the time when when she joined Congress, Wall Street, the
Dow Jones industrial average has gone a lot. Yeah, sure,
about a twenty three hundred percent increase, her return a

(53:20):
sixteen thousand, nine and thirty percent return.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Okay, now if that sounds right to you, Okay, yeah, okay.
This is why, among others, AOC is in on that
bill to ban stock trading for members of Congress. Yeah,
it was. It was coming from her own party exactly.
And Honda is recalling hundreds of thousands of Civic models

(53:47):
forget a load of this. A wheel defect that could
cause the tires to detach from the vehicle. That's a problem.
That's a problem.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Yeah, this is a model year twenty sixteen through twenty
twenty one fixed more than four hundred thousand civics that.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, you might want to get that looked at.