Show Rewind 11-24-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jesus right.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hell yea America and jery for regious formation.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes is wrong.

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.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
W VOC.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, good morning early. It is three minutes after six
o'clock and welcome in Columbia's Morning News back on the radio.
For Monday, November the twenty fourth, it is Thanksgiving Wig.
Good morning to you. I'm Gary David. Christopher Thompson, Good
morning to you, sir.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
This is an incredibly busy week and it's not supposed
to be, but it winds up being just we're trying
to cram a lot into a few days.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes we are. We got just three days to get
it old, don't we Huh? Yes? Got? I got the
big rivalry game this weekend coming up, Yes we do.
We've got Thanksgiving on Thursday, busiest day in fifteen years.
FAA says. When it comes to air travel, Wow, yeah,
I guess maybe a lot of people decide to go
ahead and keep their their flight's booked. Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well that was smart. I mean, it sounds like we're
almost back.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
To normal, almost almost. The light is lit at at
the State House. The Governor's carolining took place over the weekend.
So yeah, we were running headlong into a very busy time.
And maybe a little explanation here this morning on our behalf.
By the way, I talk to people all the time saying, yeah,

(01:37):
my alarm goes off at six fifteen every morning I
hear the kid's pledge of allegiance and I love it. Well,
now you'll be hearing it at six three because we're well,
we're just we're changing up some stuffs while we're doing
around here. We're evolving. We are evolving. Now. We can't
spill all the beans quite yet, but I will tell
you this number one, We're still here and we'll still

(01:59):
be here. We've been here, what now, almost twenty five
years this time around in one form or another. Yes, yeah,
But as of next Monday, this program will be carried
in the Charleston market as well down in mister Thompson's
old stomping grounds down the low Country. For sure. Exciting.
We're very excited about that. So as a result, we're

(02:21):
just we're doing the same things we've always done, we
just might be doing in different places, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
And it may sound a little different, but you'll still
get the great stuff that you're used to hearing from us.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, we're just we're gonna be here doing our thing,
all right, so we'll be telling you more about that,
you know. And actually the show name is gonna change
slightly too, so just the want to be caught off guard.
And you know, here we are, we're Thanksgiving week and
a lot of people maybe out off their normal schedule
already often so pardon us while we continue to explain

(02:52):
as we work through these couple of days here before
we're go away after Thanksgiving. So we have a lot
to talk about this morning, needless to say, as as
usually the case, we have Marjorie Taylor Green resigning, We've
got are we looking at peace between Russia and Ukraine?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
That would be a huge get for the Trump administration
after all those promises made on the campaign trail.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, a huge, huge get me personally, though, I'm like,
you know, this thing molling in until Vladimir Putin wants
it to end. But we're seeing promising signs. Marco Rubio says,
we'll be talking about the Obamacare extension, the subsidy extension.
Is it going to happen. How the White House is
pitching a Trump Obamacare extension with limits. We'll have the

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details on that coming your way. Uh. Justice Alito delivers
for Texas, for Trump, and for Republicans all across the country.
As the Supreme Court delivering some good news on Friday.
Hopefully you've heard by now, at least for now, reinstating
the congressional map that Republicans passed back in August. This

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after a lower court tossed it out. So that got
up to the Supremes in an expedited fashion. They've taken
care of that. We've got details to talk about on that.
And boy, the Trump Mom Dommy meeting on Friday, all smiles,
like we thought it would be whoa, okay, who's got
a more right to be, you know, ticked off about
this maga or communists? It was. It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
But then mom Donnie turned around and insult the Trump
the next day. Yeah, meet the press ys later.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, well he did the he did the interview recorded
Saturday at Airge Sunday, and yeah, he's right back to
his old talking points. I'm sure Trump will be too.
I'm not sure what the point was, but anyway, there
it was, so we'll we'll have details on that. Got
us some local stuff we need to get into as well.
Quite a bit of that here on this the Monday
morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. It's great to have

(05:00):
you with us.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM WVOC.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
This twelve minutes after six. Good morning, and I good
to have you on board for Monday, November the twenty
fourth of all the news that will have been discussing today,
and there's a lot of it. I'm gonna go ahead
and go out on a limb here and say, at least,
at this point, no story is bigger. Maybe I can't
say that, but at least this is one of the
big ones. That is what happened in the last couple

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of days with these these Texas congressional maps. Remember if
we back up when Texas redrew the maps that led
to California putting up a proposition that well, Gavin Newsom
new that California, We'll say, sure, yeah, let's redraw hours
too and boot all the Republicans out of the House
of Representatives from the state of California, which is effectively

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what they've done that in response to Texas had done
to try to limit to them or get rid of
all the Democrats coming out of Texas and going to
DC to sit in the House. So, oh, you know,
tit for tat all, even until the Court steps in
last week and says Texas, no, those maps can't stand.

(06:19):
You can't do it. Well, as we discussed this, that
could have meant that basically Republicans would have lost six
seats in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections
coming up in twenty twenty six. Not only that, mister
Thompsons used to astutely pointed out last week.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
You've got electoral votes to worry about in the next
presidential election.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, then you got that little messy proposition too. So
this is like a total boondoggle here for the conservative cause.
And you're wondering, Okay, why do we open up this big,
old nasty can of worms. Well, the Supreme Court steps
in and Samuel Alito to the rescue, delivering at least

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a temporary victory for well Republicans all across the country,
really specifically in Texas, but really all across the country
when he on Friday again temporarily reinstated that congressional map. Now,
the defiling deadline, if I'm not mistaken in Texas, is

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going to be uh coming up in about it's December eighth,
I think. So we're just a you know, we we
can had two weeks away from that, I guess it is.
And well, as it stands right now, temporarily how long
is temporarily, Well we'll find out. But the chances are
pretty good that this is going to mean, at least
for now, that this is going to stand again. If

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you if you're a Democrat, you are you going to
file for a seat that you don't know is going
to exist? You really can do that. So this was
important that this be dealt with pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
So we were so worried about election integrity in our
last couple of elections, meaning counting the votes and who
was voting. Now it's a concern about who gets to
vote for what seat, and how many seats you have,
and whether the parties are which parties really got the majority.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Well, let's just put it this way, friends, we got
ourselves a big ol' wop and mess on our hands.
I believe.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
And what's to stop every state from tackling this if well,
there you go, I mean, will we do it here
in South Carolina? Ralph Norman would like.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Us to do.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
You see what Jasmine Crockett said, by the way, and
I assume this was after the Supreme Court weigh in,
she called the Supreme Court trash and she is now
calling for once again packing the court.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
The court Yeah, the Democrats. Uh, I'm not going to
say it, dream, she says, is long the court?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, as long as we've had a few Republican presidents,
she says, we now need a few Democrats to fill
the court with leftist justice.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah. Okay, Well that's coming from trash yourself and jas mccrockett,
So you keep that in mind. On the way, just
about a week or so after that shooting over it
to Planned Parenthood in Middleburg, the abortion protesters back on
the scene. We'll have the latest coming your way here.
It's coming up six sixteen. It's the Monday edition of
Columbia's Morning New.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOCs.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Six twenty one. Good morning, it's Monday over twenty four,
that is Thanksgiving a week. This gout here in a hurry,
didn't it. And in case you're, you know, not quite
ready for the holiday season, just look around you. I mean,
everybody and their brother's got Christmas stuff up already. Everybody
else is Oh my goodness, the.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Number of Christmas trees in our neighborhood alone, it's I mean,
it's stunning.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
When did we start? Was this a pandemic thing? We
started just doing it earlier and early and earlier.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, And but it's I didn't think it would carry
on this long.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
And I guess I understand it. To me, people spend
a lot of money on, you know, the Christmas decorations.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, sure you don't want to keep on. I love it.
I'm just not ready to do it before Thanksgiving. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I hate the fact that we rush into holidays so quickly,
and you know, we're barely out of one and where
are you talking about another one? Well, I dop and
savor what you've got first.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I blame the big box stores because when they start
putting Christmas stuff out in like August, yeah, it's like, oh,
I guess I gotta get busy here.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, I mean I saw Halloween stuff this summer.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, Well, the the State House tree
is up officially, and thought, you know, it went well,
Santa showed up, good, it was all good. But up
in North Carolina, do you hear what happened in Concord?
Same deal? Christmas tree lighting event winds up with four
people injured, two gunmen exchanging fire at a Christmas tree

(11:00):
lighting ceremony conquered North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Jeez, really, that's the place you picked for violence, that's
the place you picked to Was it some settling, some kind.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Of feud or it must have been I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I mean, who comes arms to a Christmas tree decoration?

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Well, you know what, it ain't. Things ain't like that
used to be, are they? This was Friday night? You
had kids out there, I mean, my goodness. And yeah,
these were two suspects apparently shooting at each other, but
they also hit a couple of other people, somewhat reminiscent
of what happened at Columbiana Center back in It was

(11:41):
an easter several years back. You know, you take your
beef to a place with a bunch of you know,
and bystanders, kids and everything else and then there you
go crazy. Now Friday, they were back Middleburg Plaza, this
scene of a shooting outside the Plan Parenthood. I'll say,

(12:05):
call it what it is, abortion clinic the week before.
I don't know. I apparently Planned Pyramids has added the
extra you know, security there. I don't know that the
police are spending any more time. I suspect they might
be Columbia City Police might be, or forced acres, whoever
has that area right there, might be spending some more time.

(12:27):
But the group that of which the man who shot
and mooted another man is a part of back on
the scene after a week away. I suppose, quite honestly,
maybe we should be glad this doesn't happen more often.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
It's a heated topic, but it's a bad look for
a group that is quote unquote pro life to ye
violently strike against someone else.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
That that group a moment of hope. It's an evangelical
Christian anti abortion organization. Some of the supporters say that
they felt like the shooter had no other choice. If
you've seen the video, yeah, he was being threatened, he
was being chased down. But my goodness, luckily nobody died,

(13:13):
and we haven't heard the end of this yet as
to what the eventual outcome is charges and otherwise. But yeah,
Columbia Police is work in that scene and still do so.
I'm sure they're taking a few extra laps around Middleburg Plaza.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
And I imagine we may here stand your ground as
a defense.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I suspect that's exactly what we'll hear exactly. Okay, Well,
we live in unique times. A shooting at a Christmas
tree lighting ceremony.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
There's six forty one. Good to have you on board.
The Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News for November
the twenty fourth. Hope you're well. Hope you're gearing up
because there's a lot to get done here in a
short amount of time. This way gets int there. I
love this week, not just because we get two days
off now we'll be off on Black Friday as well,
by the way, but I do this is.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I think it's a stressful week because you do have
so much to do in a short period of time,
and for most of us. We're also working. Yeah, and
then suddenly Thursday's here boom, yeah, just like that, and
the relatives are here.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah. A friend of mine asked me the day was, so,
what do you do for Thanksgiving? I said, well, you know,
we're cooking, we're eating, we're cleaning. This is our typical Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Fair rents and repeat, brits and repeat, and usually you
do that again on Friday too. Well, not the cooking
part necessarily, but you're cooked, you're heating up leftovers.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, don't don't tell anybody because our family, you know,
they usually come in ravenously hungry and then they want
to take all the leftovers back with Oh, so don't
tell anybody, but we stashed a turkey breast. Okay, there
you go. That's for me and Ann. Yeah, okay, just
like we every year at the end of the fiscal
year suddenly discover here in our state that we have

(15:17):
just massive amounts of money that we've just didn't know
we had. Don't you wish you had that problem in
your household?

Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's no, because that's not good budgeting.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
No, it's not good budgeting, but it'd be nice. Every
now and then you'll find me nicely discovered a bunch
of money sitting around. Yeah, well, apparently we're also doing
this in our unemployment benefits program. The governor announcing on
Friday that the state unemployment insurance tax rates are going

(15:49):
to go down or remain the same, one of the
two for employers in twenty twenty six. So we're talking
about it overall cut of about forty millionion dollars from
levels here in twenty twenty five. Well, the issue is
is that we're we're we're taking all this money in
from employers to cover these benefits, and uh well it

(16:15):
turns out where we're taking it about twice as much
every month then we need Wow.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, even with an aging workforce.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Uh well yeah, well typically the aging work on. Once
the aging workforce stops working, they just go into retirement. Okay,
so scurity such. So yeah, we're we're yeah, we're taking
in twice as much as we as we're paying out. Now,
there is an argument amongst some that, well, we don't
pay out enough in these benefits. It's Captain, three hundred

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and fifty bucks a week. Good luck getting by on
that even in the short term. That number right there,
three fifty a week is is less than thirty four
percent of the average wage for a labor here in
South Carolina. But there have been arguments trying to you know,
ramp that up some, but so far that's gotten very

(17:09):
little attraction. But in the meantime, good news for business owners,
for employers, those taxes you pay, those unemployment taxes each
and every month will be cut, maybe somewhat dramatically depending
on the situation coming up in twenty twenty six. So
it makes its more business friendly. Like I said, that
nice business friendly thing right there, very nice.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM wvoc.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
A six fifty one. It's the Monday morning edition of
Columbia's Morning News for November the twenty fourth. Do we
have time to get that done by you know, January?
I don't know. If we have the time and we
can do a good plan on four, I'll support it,
I'll push it, I'll work on it.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
If we don't have the time.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
In the work term, as much as I hate to
say it, we've still got to continue folk health care,
all right. New Jersey Republican Jeff Van Drew talking about
these Obamacare extensions. You've got to the latest here. Remember
John Thune had promised to vote in the Senate mid December.
Mike Johnson, House Speaker, hasn't promised anything when it comes

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to this, But there is work going on here and
a bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to get something
done here. They put together with they calling the Hope Act.
The main focus of the Hope Act is said to
begin to tackle the issues of healthcare affordability. That's really
that's really where you need to start right there. And

(18:42):
they're also talking about extending the these these enhanced subsidies,
and it.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Goes hand in hand with the affordability debate we're having
right now anyway, when it comes to the price of
what we buy food, gas, et cetera. Right, that's that's
Trump's main focus right now.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah. Yeah. Scott Bessen, by the way, over the weekend
say that we're going to see prices starting to come
down real soon on a lot of stuff. Well, we'll
see this bill, this bipartisan bill and the Hope Act
would include a two year extension on these enhanced tax credits.
But it comes with an income cap of two hundred

(19:18):
thousand dollars a year for a family of four. Now
Trump is now weighing in as well. And where it
is now that the White House expects to soon I
don't know if today is soon or not, but soon
unveil a framework that does in fact include just out
of two year extension of these subsidies, new limits on eligibility.

(19:41):
We don't know all the details yet, but it sounds
like the Trump plan is pretty much on course with
this Bipartisan Hope Act. Remember, Schumer wanted a one year extension.
Jeffries wanted a three year extension. Both of those two
Democrat leaders were kicking the can down to well or

(20:06):
the right in an election year. For Schumer and it
would be next year in the midterms, and for Jeffreyes
it would be three years from now in the presidential
election cycle. So if we're going to extend them, and
I've thought all along we're going to extend them, that
was going to happen. Do it for two years, and
that puts in the middle of all that, and you're
not worried about having this debate right before a big election.

(20:30):
I'll be curious to see now if the Democrats revolt
on this idea because it doesn't put it in an
election cycle.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
But and there's the thread of another shutdown if they
can't get a deal done.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, don't forget about that January thirtieth. Yeah, if it
all doesn't get done January thirtieth, we're stirring another shutdown
in the face. I don't see that happening. We'll see
where it goes. All right, it's six fifty four. Thank
you for joining us. It is the Monday morning edition
of Columbia's Morning News. It is terrific to have you
with us. Thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Now more of Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson right here on one oh three point five
FM and five sixty AM WVOC.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Seven oh three. Thank you, mister Hannaday. Good morning. It's Monday,
November the twenty fourth. I am Gary David, he is
Christopher Thompson. This is Columbia's Morning News. And another reminder,
my friends that you're thinking of one of these guys
went on the air right now. It's seven oh three. Well,
we're we're just you know, we're not changing the program.
We're just changing kind of how we do things in
certain spots. Okay, so we'll all get used to it

(21:36):
after a while. Rearranging just a bit. Yeah, as Peter
Brady said, it's time to change, it's time to rearrange.
Peter Brady, his voice was cracking at the time, but
he was an emotional thing, man. And we may have
some new listeners who are in the area just this
week for Thanksgiving, Yes, because so many people are traveling
this week. Yeah. Yeah, So again as we had mentioned,

(21:57):
because come next way, you're going to hear things that
you haven't heard before in this program. You're going to
hear us talk about that we're not just here in Columbia,
but we're also in Charleston as well. So South Colina's
Morning News debuts one week from today, and we'll be
on here and also in the low Country. So we're
very excited about that. And so for those of you,
and you know, we've been doing this show now this

(22:18):
version of it, for twenty it'll be twenty five years
in January. A quarter of a century. Oh my goodness,
that's crazy, man. So and some of you have been
with all us all this time, and we're like, we're
each creatures of habit, right, we get used to the
way things are done, certain certain things done certain ways,

(22:39):
certain times and everything else, especially when you're busy trying
to get to work in the morning or whatever you're
trying to get done. So you know, just a little
explanation as to why you're hearing things in different spots.
But you're still going to hear us and a lot
more of us, actually, and you'll get used to it
in a lot more places. Yet you'll probably get used
to it before we do.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Actually, Yeah, it's been an eventful morning for us behind
the scenes.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Already, Yes, it has, all right, one of the top
stories on Fox, are we looking at at peace in Ukraine? Okay, man,
I don't want to be the fly in the soup here,
but well, let's put it this way. It seems as
though maybe we're closer than we've ever been to getting
this done. And of course it's gonna, you know, be

(23:23):
a nice if it gets It's gonna be the United
States and gets it done. Marco Rubio saying tremendous progress
has been made in these peace talks. Apparently yesterday they
had lengthy discussions, Rubio coming out and saying Yeah, they
made a lot of progress, certainly yesterday and certainly over

(23:44):
the course of the last what about three weeks ago
that over the last ninety six hours or more, that
there had been extensive engagement with the Ukrainian side. Now
it sounds like this is like a twenty eight point plan.
Ukraine's going to give up well more territory than they
would have originally, They're going to have to limit the

(24:08):
size of a military. This sounds like a massive win
for Vladimir Putin's what it sounds like.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
And Trump has been getting impatient with the whole process.
Remember this was a big campaign promise of his that
he would in this thing. Yeah, they won, one phone
call would all, It's all it would take. But yeah,
you hate to give Russia. I mean, any Russian victory
is is not good for us. No, it's not, and

(24:36):
it's not good for Trump, and it's not good for Europe.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
No. It almost sounds as though Zelensky is resigned to this.
He uh. He did did a speech to the nation
Friday in which he told his country that they can
be facing a pivotal choice between standing up for their
sovereign rights and preserving the American sport that they need.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Well, is a that what Russia's Russia saw that coming
from the start, that they would eventually outlast Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh sure, yeah, quite honestly surprising Ukraine has lasted as
long as they have. Yeah, but you know, here we
go into another uh, you know, dreadful Ukrainian winner, which
is you know, was just tragic on everybody, certainly Russian
invaders and Ukrainian citizenry.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
And if this continues, you'll see Russia do the same
things they did last winter, which is take shots at
the grid in any power structure that that keeps Ukrainians warm.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's exactly what they'll do. So this uh, these these
these talks sound like they're kind of one sided because
you know what they are. But for Vladimir's Zelensky, I mean,
the Ukrainians, they don't come up from a position of
power here. And I think just based on that address

(25:55):
he gave to his people on Friday, he's he's letting
them know, okay, here it comes all right, all our
chips are gone. Yeah, it's time to settle. We've got
nothing else to play with here. So we're gonna lose
more than we thought we would. But the flip side
of it is, if we don't, we're gonna lose the
support of America and it's gonna be that much worse.
So yeah, I think we are closer than we have

(26:16):
ever been towards towards bringing this to a close.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's coming up on thirteen after seven o'clock. Happy Monday,
the twenty fourth day of November, on a short week,
Thanksgiving week is upon us, My friends, good to have
you with us. We'll be we'll be getting into the
old Trump of Mom Dommy meeting a little bit later
on this morning. Okay, I'm not sure this was exactly

(26:54):
what I like. Well in the aftermath is what I expect,
at least from Mom. Donnie Trump's been prett quiet afterwards
about this. He hadn't sid a whole lot, has he
that I've heard about Mom Dommy. But boy, they were
all smiles. Man, it was Kumbaya time at the White
House the other day. Well, we'll talk about a little
bit later on meantime. Back in home word now that

(27:17):
former state Representative Adam Morgan failed to report more than
four thousand dollars worth of services from uh Well, the
disgraced rjma's political consulting firm. This, the State Ethics Commission finds.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Now, was this because of the scandals surrounding our JMA
and he just wanted to appear as if he had
had nothing to do with him for some time? Oh,
you got a wonder huh, Because that's been the accusation
from the House GOP Caucus is that you know a
lot of these Freedom Caucus members were still doing business

(27:53):
with RJMA behind the scenes even after May had gone
to jail. When let me see, certainly after the raid
on his house. Yeah, I'd have to look. What is
the exact timeline on that.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
It goes back to a farewell mailer that May's consulting
firm did on behalf of Morgan. It was a cost
was right at just a couple of dollars under four
thousand dollars for this. Morgan sent these flyers out because
he was running for Congress, not seeking State House rather

(28:31):
than White House State House re election for him, says
the complaint. He never paid Musks consulting from for the
service scoring the investigation, and I'm trying to figure out
exactly when this mailor went out.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
And there is no by the way, kumbaya moments at
least that haven't happened yet between the House Gopacucus and
the Freedom Caucus.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Well, they never happened.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
They were going at it again over the weekend on
social media, going at each other and do tell well,
and it's mainly MIKEA. Cask I mean, he seems to
be stirring the pod constantly because every time one of
these stories pops up, you know, CASKI is holding the
Freedom Caucus member's feet to the fire online saying, okay,

(29:24):
so you were involved in this, so you know you
continued to do this with our Jmay even after we
knew what we knew.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, it's looking more and more likely that that exactly
was what happened. That members were again our j May
was still out, you know, a free man at the time. Yes,
but the allegations were out there, and yeah, it's a
bad look for the Freedom Caucus, you know, two ways
about it. It's a bad look.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
And apparently there have been some high profile advisors who
have been trying to broker a deal to get the
Freedom Caucus back together, at least to work together more
with the House Republican Caucus, and it doesn't look like
it's happening.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
If you thought the Tea Party was a thorn on
the side to the rest of the Republicans of the
State House, you ain't seen nothing. This is as bad
as it gets.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM WVOC.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Seven twenty two And Lindsey wants his money. Lindsey Graham
one of a handful of senators who could wind up
getting well no less than five hundred thousand dollars potentially
millions of dollars out of the government taxpayer dollars as
part of what got snuck into the bill to in

(30:52):
the shutdown. A week or two back. We've talked about this.
They snuckn I'm not to be sure who was responsible
for sneaking this in. Was it lindsay himself? How they
came about? But they stuck at a a little bill

(31:12):
into that funding bill that would have made senators eligible
ones who had their their phones violated by Jack Smith
in operation to Artie Frost to where per per okay
a transgression. These senators could sue and receive a half

(31:35):
a million dollars from the Department of Justice. And I remember,
of course, Department of Justice. They don't generate their own money.
Their money comes from where all government money comes from,
you and me, the taxpayers.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
And let's say, I mean all of these senators, these
congress everybody who was impacted by this investigation should be outraged.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, and it should have been a bit well.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
And a normal citizen should have reques horse to sue
to get money for damages. But Lindsey Graham is not
a normal citizen. No, I mean, should we be ruled
or should we be governed by citizen legislators? Yes, but
they've stopped long ago, stop being citizens. I mean they're

(32:18):
a separate class now. And Lindsey Graham has plenty of
money and doesn't have to worry about where his next
meal is coming from. And I say this is a
bad luck.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I agree. And to compound that further, of the senators
who would have been eligible to do this, they all
said yeah, yeah, except for jat one.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Lindsey Graham, if you're going to pass this law, why
does it have to be retroactive. If you're going to
pass the law right to keep the government from you know,
surveilling its own, then pass the law. But you don't
have to go back in time and say we're also
going to fix this.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, fast forward to last week when the House unanimously
unanimous said no, that needs to come out, that doesn't
need to happen. Well, that was followed up with a
Senate and a unanimous consent effort brought back, brought out
by a New Mexico Democrat to Martin Heinrich, a unanimous

(33:19):
consent piece of legislation, would it's kind of be kind
of like it would would repealed that section of the
Senate bill. But here's the problem with udanamous consent. It's
right there in the name of it, unanimous consent. It
just takes one senator to say no. So, what did

(33:40):
Lindsey Graham do? He said no, He just keeps he
keeps thinking this whole further. Now he says, what did
I do wrong? He didn't do anything wrong? Right? What
did I do to allow the government to see my
personal phone and my official phone? When I was sent

(34:02):
at Judiciary Committee a chairman. What did I do? He says, well, well,
get yeah, you did nothing wrong. You're a lone wolf
out there on this one. Yeah. Nobody else wants it
to happen, apparently except for Lindsay. He wants his money
make a law to make sure it doesn't happen again.
But that law doesn't need to include you making a

(34:22):
lot of money from taxpayers. The bad look, Lindsey, It's
a very very bad look.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Now more of Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson right here on one oh three point five
FM and five sixty am WVOC.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
I found in the meeting that I had with the
President a productive one and a meeting that came back
again and again to the central themes of the campaign
that we ran, the cost of housing, cost of childcare,
the cost of groceries, the cost of utilities.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
It's seven thirty three, Good Morning, Zoe, ran Mom, Donnie.
The Amazing Zone ran this meeting Friday in the White
House with Trump as political headline says Trump, Mom, Donnie,
make love not war.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
It looked like a romance. Wow until they left.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, and then when they left Mom. Donnie went back
to the same old thing, you know, and he says
he stands by calling Trump a fascist, but he wants
to collaborate with him. Yeah. If you've seen the uh,
the the video of the two and some of the
questions being asked by the the the White House and

(35:40):
the oval afterwards, probably not what you expected. Uh who
has a? Who has a? And I don't know, I mean,
are are are the is maga upset over this? Are
the Democrats? Socialist or communist upset over They're all upset

(36:01):
about that. Yeah, everybody's upset. You know.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
The one side's asking me, how can you meet with
this person? This person is our enemy? And the other
side's asking the same thing. But yeah, I mean it's
politics exactly. And New York can't exist without the United States.
And you know, quite frankly, as we've talked about the
New York's very important to the US.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah, I I don't know, it was. It was just
really bizarre. I mean, that's.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Those are all of Trump's relationships. Look at him with
Marjorie Taylor Green.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, we'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, but he's already you know, coming down on his
criticism of her.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
It just it.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
If you're in his good graces, you're there, and if
you're not, you're not.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
So the question this morning is who has a better
right to be upset over the way that meeting went
down at least apparently from what we saw at least
again the press gathering after the meeting and what what
what we heard there and the general tone of that.
I mean, who's got a who's got a better right
to be upset? Maga or communists? Well, I would think communists.

(37:17):
I mean, the President didn't other than saying, you know,
we'll we'll, we'll work together to make New York a
better place. You know, the President didn't make any promises.
He's not going to give them anything.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
No, So I think Mom Donnie ultimately needs Trump more
than Trump needs him.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Well, I agree hundred percent. And as much as maybe
Maga is seething over this, I gotta think the communists
or I'm sorry democrats, socialists are are are seething him
a little, maybe a lot bit more.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, Trump didn't come to New York City Hall, No,
Mam Donnie came to the White House.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
And Trump did not ask for this meeting, right, Mom
Donnie did, But if it I mean, if he can
give you any sense of well, okay, maybe okay. The
fact that even you know, Mom, Donnie knows that he's
gonna he's he can't. He didn't have a blank check
to do whatever he wants. He is going to have

(38:17):
to have the backing of people who he disagrees vehemently with. Philosophically,
you can't go this on your own. There's oh Ran, Yeah,
I get it. Uh Maga is not happy right now.
Although Trump says the Republican Party is more united than ever, Okay,

(38:38):
I'm dropping a flag on that one, and we'll talk
about that here. Coming up.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty AM w VOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson seven forty one.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Now, good morning. It's a Monday, November twenty four. Than
is Thanksgiving week? Ready or not? Here it comes. For
the record, we will be all Thanksgiving Day and on
Black Friday, and then you got to little football after that.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
To deal with little football, just a little little game
that gets a lot of people's attention on Saturday starting
at noon.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
I still, you know, I still miss the old days
when you had a full five days to work up
to the five days in the office, you know, on
the job site, to work up to this game.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
It just seems like, what are you going to do
in two years if they decide to move it to
Black Lives Friday, right right, that'll be even more of
a you know you're gonna put down the fork in
the night if at Thanksgiving and say all right, time
to get ready right.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
By the way. At least, I guess some of the
early betting on this is the game. Cocks are a
slight betting favorite, as you'd expect a home team to be.
You get what, what's the old rule of time, You
get three points for your home home home crowd advantage
roughly so somewhere anywhere between one point five and two
point five points.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
So betters think this is going to be a pretty
competitive game.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Which we hope it is. Hope. So last time the
game Cox closed is a favorite against Clemson was twelve
years ago. Wow. Yeah, back to Steve Spurrier. Yeah, back
to the Spurrier days. And I don't know that you
can tell anything from this past Saturday's performances. I mean,
not really have to be the meaning towards Coastal Carolina

(40:28):
and Furman. But let's face it, but the game Cocks
needed it. Oh did they need that? Yeah? You know,
big way. Okay, so uh yeah, our best game caught
coverage on the air at does nine o'clock Saturday morning?
Correct for that noon kickoff, which remember, now we'll be
on the SEC network. They made that change last week.

(40:49):
As far as the broadcast of the game, it went
from what was a kind of a a looked like,
look like yeah, high profile matchup before the season started,
and then then the season started and suddenly it look
that way anymore.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
And the weather for Saturday, by the way, looks beautiful
and cold.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Let's see. Yeah, oh it does. I hire a fifty
two Saturday after a Friday night low into Saturday morning
around thirty. Oh oh so we're just below freezing and
with a new and kickoff if you want to, if
the serious tail games will be out there by what
seven eight o'clock latest.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
We'll be there at seven yeah, getting ready. So yeah,
it's in the dark.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Cack the WVOC best game Cock coverage PARKA yeah, I'll
do that. Yeah, don't forget all right, So we were
talking about the Trump Mom Donnie meeting. Uh okay. Last night,
Trump posting the social media that the GOP has never

(41:49):
been so united as it is right now other than
Rand Paul, Ran Paul Junior, h Thomas Massey, mar Margery
Trader Brown, and a couple of other low lives. Yeah,
we're more united as we've ever been.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Ran Paul Jr. Is what he calls Thomas Massy.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Oh, that's what he calls massy. Oh. I didn't realize that. Yeah, okay,
you know this has been bruined now for for a
little while. I think it started coming to a head
really the comments in reference to the HB one visas

(42:32):
and how we just don't have the talent in this country.
And he's tried to explain that in later comments, but
that route a lot of a lot of the MAGA
crow the wrong way right now. I don't think Trump
needs to worry so much about the Republican Party being united.
He needs to worry about MAGA being united. Well, that's
his base, and you know we've talked about you.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
He usually likes to check a box every now and
then to make sure the base is still with him. Normally,
he doesn't have to worry about that, But he's done
a number of things. I mean, look at look at
all the foreign policy that has taking us into different places,
and he's even alluded to the fact that we may
put boots on the ground in these different places. It's
a complete one eighty from the America First policy. We

(43:15):
heard complete during the election.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
CBSU GUB pulled out seventy percent of people say they
are against us taking military action in Venezuela. Seventy percent. Okay,
so that includes not just Democrats and independence. There's a
lot of Republicans right there too, disagree with that. It's
a strong majority. By the way. As an aside, the
FAA now warning commercial aircraft or all pilots for that matter,

(43:41):
about flying over Venezuela due to the worsening security situation
and heightened military activity. So yeah, it seems like as
we approach Thanksgiving here, we're drawing closer and closer to
military action in Venezuela. And that's that's again, that's another
breaking point between MAGA and Trump. So yeah, Marjorie Taylor,

(44:02):
or as he likes to call her, Trader Green aside,
I think he's got more things to worry about.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
With the with the base and he's already calling her
a good person again. I mean that, Yeah, that break,
for whatever reason, that relationship ended, and you know, while
a lot of people are bitter about it, he doesn't
care anymore.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
No, she's out of his hair now, so he'll go
back to I mean, if she asked him for a
favor tomorrow, he'd probably granted.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Probably. So Yeah, more united than ever. I think there's
some morning to do, my friends. It's seven forty seven.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
The seven fifty two. Good morning. Appreciate you joining us
this morning for the Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News.
It's November twenty fourth that we alluded this earlier. Scott Bessen,
treasure secretary in South Gonne, a native, told Kristin Walker,
I meet the press yesterday, we should start seeing lower
prices on some products within well, he said, weeks.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
That's a good thing. That's a good thing because that
dovetails right into the conversation we just had about Donald
Trump and about MAGA and about campaign promises yeah, because
all we heard on the campaign trail was that the
Biden administration had jacked up the price of everything. I
mean that inflation had just it was killing the American
people at the cash register. And some of these prices

(45:28):
are they're not coming down as quickly as we'd like.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
No, I mean, overall inflation certainly has, yes, but there
are those certain items and you know, again we've seen
more of those. The grocery store car prices, by the way,
I got this in the stack somewhere are all time
highs new cars.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Will that ever come down?

Speaker 3 (45:50):
I don't think so. Yeah, I don't know, he told Welker.
He says we believed. I don't believe. He said, we
believe healthcare is going to come down, that we'll see
an announcement coming this week on that. Oh, there is
movement here. Now. I don't think he's really referring to
bringing down the cost of health care. But again, as
we talked about earlier, that you know, the White House

(46:12):
is going to be sometime soon announcing it looks like
they're going to go with a two year extension on
the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare. I suspect that's what he's
referring to.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
He also said, if we get to a shutdown in
January and it happens, if Democrats balk again, that we
should just blow up the entire system as far as
you know, majority and the filibuster and everything else.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Yeah, which Trump wanted done last time around, but then
resisted him on that one course. You know the problem
with that is, you know, once that cow leaves the bar,
and it never goes back. And we've already seen that,
certainly Thanksgiving week this week, and he mentioned turkey prices
down sixteen percent of man, they're almost giving turkeys away,

(46:58):
it seems like.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
But this is the time of year when people start
to notice what the cost of everything is and how
it impacts their bottom line.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. By the way, there's some
new data out what does it take to live comfortably
in South Carolina in twenty twenty five. We're going to
share that information with you coming up here in the
eight o'clock hour. I've got my ideas it may be
more than you think. It just might be, and we'll
get to that. Hey, thanks so much for being long.

(47:27):
We appreciate it. This Monday morning, November twenty fourth, the
Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News continues right here
on one of three point five FM and five sixty
am WVOC.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Now more of Colombia's Morning News with Gary David and
Christopher Thompson right here on one oh three point five
FM and five sixty am w VOC.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
It's three minutes after eight o'clock. Could have you here
on a Monday, the twenty fourth of November, Thanksgiving week.
I'm just seeing on these monitors all over the sto
this is that time of you and everybody starts showing
all the horror stories of you know, trying to fry
a live not a live, but trying to fry a
turkey at all. Don't do that. Don't do that.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Peter will be at your doorstep. I mean, there are
plenty out there on YouTube. If you want to watch
disaster strike a home, just watch people put a frozen
turkey into a hot fryer.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
I got one of those infrared air frars a couple
of years ago, does just as well, a nomestically enough afterwards,
and I only use it once a year, that's Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Well, thank goodness, we only have turkey once a year.
I could do without it. Oh wait a minute, this
is hair. Come on, say that right now. Oh yeah,
I can't say it in July.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Don't say it.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Okay, there's a reason we only have it once a year.
It ain't that great.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Listen to you by a humbug.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Put put a ham on my Thanksgiving table, and I'm
as happy as can be. What do you do both,
I hope? So yeah, well, yeah, I'm not planning the
menu this year. I take what I can get.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
I'll tell you what, and sprung for one of the well, uh,
a hand by a company not to be named, but
you know that one.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Oh yeah, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Those things are outrageously expensive. They are.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Yeah, you pay for the convenience of having something sliced
for you.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Oh my goodness. Anyway, good morning. I'm Gary David. He's
Christopher Thompson. This is Columbia's Morning News. It's the new
revamped version, by the way, so we should probably explain
this is kind of a big story this morning. Again,
as we've been talking about you, we're all creatures of habit.
We expect certain things to happen at certain times, and
especially at this time of the morning when you're you know,

(49:42):
trying to get to work or wherever you needing to
get to and you're like, well, wait a minute, these
guys aren't usually on it this time. What's what's going on. Well,
we've we've we've tweaked the format a little bit. So
we're we're you know, we're actually we're we're getting more
time to do what we do right now, true, which
is cool, and we're expanding our reach a bit. Yeah,
we are.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Not that the iHeart radio doesn't I heard radio app
doesn't make it possible any worldwide any yeah, you know,
like like you know, Pitt Bull, you're worldwide.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
But yeah, yeah, Now, starting next Monday, we'll be airing
in the Charleston market as well on radio, so looking
forward to that. But you'll still get everything you, yeah,
you look for from us. We're not changing a thing here.
So thank thank you for thank you for your patronage
over all these years. And I've already heard for no wait,

(50:34):
wait a bitte, Should I be freaking out, No, don't
be freaking out. It's still us. You still doing what
we do. We may just be doing it at different
times in the morning than you're used to. And and
and that's that, by the way, I found that that
story about Yeah, car prices average hitting nearly fifty thousand
dollars for the first time ever. Wow, the average price

(50:55):
of a new vehicle last month forty five dollars.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
We've gotten so much more efficient at making cars, you'd
think they'd become a down in price. But yet, well,
I mean you've done the computer chip story for what
the last three or four years?

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Now ever since COVID, Yeah, average monthly payment on a
new vehicle sold last month seven hundred and sixty six
dollars a month.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
And it hasn't helped. The government stepped in every now
and then and said, okay, car makers, you need to
do this, even if it is more expensive.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Thank you California. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
And they've turned around, of course and passed those prices
along to the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
As they always do. What'd you expect? Huh? All right?
Coming up? Yeah, how much do you need to live
comfortable here in South Carolina?

Speaker 1 (51:41):
The I can't wait to hear this.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Yeah, well, we'll get that big story today. Of course.
Are we getting closer to a resolution in the Russian
Ukrainian conflict? Sounds like we are, and from what Vladimir
Zelensky said to his nation on Friday. Sounds like he's
trying to resign themselves to the fact that they're not
going to come out on the winning end of this thing.
Maybe that is close to being over. The Republicans and

(52:06):
the White House floating a plan on Obamacare enhance subsidies.
We may hear something of a White House soon, probably
this week, maybe today. We can't have another shutdown. We
can decision yeah, no, no, we cannot, and if it's
not result, we'll have another one come the end of January.

(52:27):
And Marjorie Taylor Green calls it quits, and Trump, as
we talked about last hour, says the party's never been
more united than ever before. A lot of folks would
disagree with that. Okay, some of the big stories floating
around on a Monday morning. We appreciate you joining us
here on this November twenty fourth for Columbia's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Thomas's twelve minutes half eight o'clock in the morning. Good
to have you long, Monday, November twenty fourth, I know,
mister Thompson is a chumping of the bit to find
out what the how much it takes to live comfortably
in the pin metal state.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
I want to see if it compares to what we're spending.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
First though, quickly, because we were talking about car prices.
Average car price last month, new car closing it on
fifty thousand dollars. It was forty nine thousand change. Average
monthly payment, you know, seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
I've had mortgage payments less than that. Yeah, right, it's crazy.
There might be might be some good news here. We

(53:33):
first we mentioned in a week or two ago or not,
but I know it came across this. There's apparently they
found a huge vat of renewable energy demand chip mineral
kind of things. This has been This is one of
the last discussions we had when he came to trade
with China was the nanotechnology and the rare earth minerals.

(53:54):
And remember part of the whole Ukraine deal at one
point in time was we had a deal. At one point,
I guess it evaporated that we were going to be
getting some rare earth minerals out of Ukraine. Problem is
we've never had it. Well, apparently we do in Alaska.
The governor there talking about this and this the plan

(54:18):
has been accelerated out by Trump to uncover these rare
earth minerals that are apparently a huge cash of these
in Alaska. This is important because well as of twenty
twenty four, we were at least ninety three percent import
dependent on a couple of these rare earth elements that

(54:40):
we just need for these chips, the power everything these days,
I mean, you name it, these things were involved, and
China has got like, you know, ninety percent of these.
So hopefully this, this rare discovery in the Arctic in
Alaska can maybe reverse some of this and make us,

(55:01):
if nothing else, less dependent upon the chacoms. Doesn't this
new deal with the Ukraine, does it mention because they
see that there was a deal a couple of months
ago that did mention that. I don't know if that's
part of this. I've got to think that's part of
these one of these twenty eight point plans, let's hope.
So all right, so what does it take to live
comfortably in South Carolina in twenty twenty five? Well, twenty

(55:23):
is almost over, But regardless let's see on the list,
where do we rank here, we ranked number number twenty eight.
Now this is for an individual, okay, and then we'll
get to the family. For an individual to live comfortably
in South Carolina. This is according to smart asset. Wow,

(55:48):
ninety four dollars for individual. Really, I'm sorry, what is
your definition of comfort? That's a crazy number. That can't
be true. That's that's nuts.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
How many individuals unless you're you know, well advanced in
age and have been working a job for a while.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Yeah, a good job, family of four to live comfortably
in South Carolina? Yeah, they claim with number thirty seven
on the list of most expensive. Okay, two hundred and
eight thousand, three hundred and thirty three dollars.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Well, I'm going to argue that one too.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Yeah right, I mean even Mississippi, which is dead last
one hundred and eighty six thousand, six hundred and eighteen
bucks for a family of four.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
What all are they including in this?

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Yeah? I don't know these There has been people that
are the very expensive steakhouses every night, I'm guessing huh, yeah,
that's that's that's not us. Interestingly enough, when it comes
to an individual, the most expensive place. They claim Hawaii,
you gotta be making one hundred and twenty four thousand
plus a year to live comfortably as an individual. Yet

(56:57):
when it comes to a family of four, they're ring
number two behind Massachusetts, which is three hundred and thirteen
thousand plus.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Two places where real estates at a premium.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
Yeah, those two swap one and two from individual to
family of four. Yeah, that's crazy money. I don't Yeah, sorry,
I'm not buying that one. Nope, I can't afford to
buy that one.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
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Speaker 3 (57:30):
SAY twenty two. The other big story from coming out
over the weekend, actually came out on Friday, was that
the Texas redraw gets to stand, at least for now.
Justice Alito delivering the good news for not just Republicans
in Texas, but Republicans all across the country, temporarily reinstating

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the congressional map redraw that was passed back in August.
Remember this was the one that opened up the big
goal hunk in can of worms, and it led to
California redistricting to assure that a state that well, then
any given election cycle about forty percent of their residents
vote Republican. Good luck getting a Republican into the House

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of Representatives thanks to that redraw in Cali. Remember that
was the tit for tat because of what Abbot did
in Texas at Trump's behest by the way, And then
when an appeals court ruled two to one last Tuesday
claiming that this was racially gerrymandered, then it looked pretty

(58:44):
dooming gloom there for Republican chances, not just in the
House of Representatives in losing seats, but again electoral votes
in the next presidential election in twenty twenty eight. So
Alito steps in and at least for now, uh, let's

(59:05):
just stand the uh, the cycle is is well. Greg
Abbott says that this uh you know, scrapping this was
was far too late. The day that it would wreak
havoc on an election, he said, was already underway. Now,
I don't have voting in text on anything right now,

(59:25):
but they do have a the filing period. I think
the date is December the eighth, so it's just really
days away. And you know, if if you if you
toss out this map. Now it's like, okay, well, I'm sorry,
what what district do I file in? I think that's
what he's referring to when he said that it's already underway.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
And so the Democrat's response to this court decision was
to attack the court.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, so let's let's go in
and pack the court with a bunch of Dems. The
usual response on the left, who will decide what that
we shouldn't reach on? Yeah, right, if you're a Republican state,
you should.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Ah, okay, that's what that's what that way, because they're
planning to redraw all their maps at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Yeah sure, well uh again, this is uh yeah, you know,
we say that the Texas things started all this, but
quite honestly, it might have happened anyway regardless of whether
Texas started or not, because you know, Democrats, they as

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much as they tell you that it's it was Donald
Trump that wanted to, you know, kill democracy, it's really
the Democrats who would would like nothing better.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
I'm worried about Steve Kornaky at this point, the sleeves
rolled up guy on NBC who tracks, you know, every
single electoral map he's not going to know where to
go or what to do or what to say next year.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
No clue. Yeah, I forgot about Karanaki, which oh, by
the way, that reminds me that you've brought his name up,
Steve Cornack. And I don't know why this wrung a
bell with me, But you remember Vince the sham Wau guy.
Yoh yeah, yeah, he always had his sleeves rolled up
in the ShamWow commercials. Remember the sham Wow. Whatever happened
to the sham Wow? Well, he ran into some trouble.

(01:01:15):
He I think he got hooked up with a prostitute
and some allegations of this that several years ago. He's
been pretty quiet for a while, laying low, rehabbing his image.
Guess what he's up to now?

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
What's he selling?

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
He's well, he's selling himself. He is making plans to
run as a Republican in Texas. Yeah what district is
he running? Well, he doesn't know right now because he
doesn't allow yet. Vince the sham Wow guy, Yeah he
is uh, oh yeah, he wants to. He wants to

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be a US representative from Texas. Vince Shlomy, I had
forgotten his last name Vince Shlomy, the sham Wow guy.
Why not right? Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
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Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Thirty four, And we put the turkey in the fridge
yesterday or Saturday. Remember we got a big we got
a big wap daddy turkey. Okay, Well, then I guess
large turkey. That's the right way to do it. I
don't know, because it see a couple of years ago,
we waited till like Monday or something like that, and

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then you know, we discovered a Wednesday, that sucker, I
ain't thought enough yet. And then we did what they
just told us we shouldn't do, right, took it out
and let it fall out in the great wide opening.
I knows anything wrong. You're okay, okay? You sure. There's
so many rules we have to abide by these days
when it comes to cooking a stinking turkey, man, I mean, Coleye.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
I think they're the same rules that we just we
weren't that careful back in the day.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
We were still alive, aren't we.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Yeah, But we know a lot more about bacteria now
than we did.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
I suppose we do. Clock is ticking here, not just
a Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, but hey, a month and
a week from now, guess what happens. It's it's it's
time for twenty twenty six to roll in, right, And
what's going to happen between now and then when it
comes to the Obamacare and hand subsidies?

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Okay. Number one is we've alluded to on multiple occasions
this morning. If something is not done, will that lead
to another government shut down at the end of January.
Don't think we're going to get there, though, because there's
apparently movement, and I don't I don't want to be
the you know, I told you so, guy, But I

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told you so Republicans. They couldn't afford to let this happen.
They couldn't afford to go into twenty twenty six, a
midterm year, a midterm year, and be blamed for why
people are, you know, having to take out a second
mortgage on their house to pay their health insurance costs.

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That was not a winning proposition. No matter what you
think about Obamacare and how messed up it is, that's
beside the point. For right now. Politically speaking, it was suicide.
So we've got the Hope Act. This is something that's
been put together by a group of bipartisan lawmakers. They say,

(01:04:32):
the main focus of this Hope Act is to begin
to tackle, not to tackle, but to begin to tackle
the issue of health care affordability. Okay, that's job one.
I realize it's job one a right now, because you've
got to do something with these subsidies. But man, you
better not be. Let's just hope that what we don't

(01:04:52):
have happen here is Okay, we extend the subsidies, but
we haven't addressed the core issue here, right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
You hope you're kicking the can down the road for
a good cause and then eventually you figure this out.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Right, So the main focus of this whole act is
to again, they say, tackle, at least to start to
tackle the issue of health care affordability.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
I don't know what that looks like, and I don't
know why we're just starting to tackle that issue.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Right This bill would include a two year extension on
the current subsidies, but it would cap it a family
of four making two hundred thousand dollars. You get right
over that, you don't get it. What did we just
say to the family of four to live company a
South Carolina was it was somewhere just north of two

(01:05:38):
hundred and three thousand dollars right, Okay that number, don't
drive Nope. It also ties in what they're calling robust
anti fraud provisions. Okay, that's nice dosing healthcare. Yeah, about time.
So does this thing stand at Snowball's chance? Well, we're

(01:06:01):
told now that the White House is talking about this
as well, and what we might hear from the White
House will tell you next here on Columbia's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I'd say forty two. Good to have you along for Monday,
November twenty fourth. I'm Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson
right over there. Good morning, sir. So what's the White
House plan? Here? We mentioned the Hope Act bipartisan act
that would extend these Obama Care enhanced subsidies by two years.
Would also look to cut down on the misuse in

(01:06:47):
the system, and would cap these extended benefits to a
family of four up to two hundred thousand dollars. After that,
you're paying the full the full load. Well, the White
House now reports our Politico expecting to soon unveil their
framework that yeah, looks a lot like this Hope Act

(01:07:11):
to your extension of the subsidies, new limits on eligibility.
Although the reporting by Politico based on people granted anonymity
to discuss the unannounced plans, they didn't say exactly what
those caps would be, the eligibility limits. But this looks

(01:07:32):
uh pretty much like a like the like the Hope
Act here Hm, okay again, Uh, not a big surprise here.
And what what I if you're going to extend them?
I mean, what I like about this one is you're
talking about a two year extension, not a one year

(01:07:53):
like Chuck Schumer wanted, so that you're you know, having
this debate or they're getting where to aspire expire right
after this election.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
They're going to expire and that's no coincidence.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
No, And then I keem Jeffery is even more sinister.
Let's extend them for three years so that can be
a topic of debate during the next presidential election cycle. No,
so let's just shoot in the middle two years. You're
not worried about any election cycle, not yet, although you're
working way towards the presidential cycle. I mean, still would

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be not a good thing at the end of you know,
twenty twenty seven if these things were set to expire
once again and we're already ramping up and not far
away from primaries and certainly debates and all, but still
better than the alternative that the Democrat leaders put up there.
So now when we hear this, I don't know, we
expected sometime soon, they say whatever. Sometimes soon actually is

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by a way, came across this the other day and
it caught my eye because you know, my wife is
a retired nurse, and the news that the administration has
now excluded nursing as a professional degree. Now this is
part of the Department of Education and making massive cuts

(01:09:12):
when it comes to providing student loans. All this is
in the One Big Beautiful Bill. As a matter of fact,
under the bill, only professional degree students would be eligible
for higher loan limits up to two hundred thousand dollars.
Grad students loan eligibilities capped at one hundred thousand dollars,
but it's a problem right there. That's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Yeah, it is, and they're trying to at least make
sure some of these kids who come out of school
with useless degrees aren't also saddled with these incredible bills
that they have to pay month after month, year after
year when they can't get a job with that degree.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Right. So, there's long list of degree programs that the
administration seems to be professional and this is when it
comes to the well Medicine law. Aw so and howsome
not on the list. Nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, assistants, physical therapists.

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
Yeah, they took a lot of heat on social media
over the weekend once that news leaked out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
So so, explain to me the rationale here, because what
are we in the midst of trying to do in
a lot of places is to make well. Number one,
we can't we can't manufacture enough nurses to begin with. Okay,
that's been a problem for a long time. It is
a demanding job.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
And you're not just trying to make health care more affordable,
you're also trying to make it available more people.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Right they're talking, you know, there's there's a push to
make nurse practitioners and pas be able to function more
independently without the supervision of a you know, a full
blown doctor. And so in the midst of all doing
all that, now you're want to well take away the
ability for more people to want to enter those fields
by capping how much money they can borrow. Uh, that's

(01:10:55):
just that's it sounds kind of crazy to me, But
then maybe I am crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty am WVOC.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Some final thoughts here for this on Monday morning, I
stay with you these Sunday Times with the article about
how many students are fleeing the Northeast and the Ivy
League schools and Head and South mainly to SEC schools
to get an education. That between twenty fourteen and twenty
twenty three, SEC school so a ninety one percent increase

(01:11:37):
in undergraduate students from Northeastern states, USC of ninety percent
over that decade in the number of students attending that
are from the Northeast.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
That's why those TV contracts for sports are so important,
because kids see the football games on Saturdays, and sure, gosh,
that looks like fun.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
That looks like some fun. We're sitting up here in
some you know, high school stadium, you know, playing ball
and you know it's cold outside.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
They played the Harvard Yale game over the weekend, and
it was an important game. But nonetheless it's that that
atmosphere pales in comparison are what fans down here will
experience this Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Carolina out of out of state, well, out of state
enrollment is up fifty eight percent over the last decade
at Carolina, most of that from the northeast.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
It's warmer, it's more comfortable most of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Are they all paying out of state tuition? Though? Remember
we had that that shock a couple of years ago
to find out that some were not. Now some of
the Clemson, for example, that they're camping out of state
enrollment uncized on the same thing they're capping out of
state in romand like eighteen percent. So we're welcoming with
open arms here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
There's recruiting going on there too, and sometimes you've got
to give those kids some enticements to come this way
if they're good students.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Yeah. Eric Swallwell, who is running for governor of California
announced last week. Now thinks we ought to be able
to vote by phone. What could possibly go wrong? Yeah,
this has actually been tried in a few spots, believe
it or not. West Virginia tested it back in twenty eighteen.
As far as I know, they're not still doing it,
So I think that tells you how well it went.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Next, they're going to ask if we could just tell
Alexa what we think, and no.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
We'll have a let to tell us what we think.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Yeah, that's true, and that's how we'll cast our vote.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
That's the way we'll do it. Next year, Is it
the year Elon Musk to reveal a flying car? Okay,
let me stop you for a second on that idea.
We can't drive in two dimensions? Okay, how are we
supposed to do it in three? Really, you cannot be serious.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
They already have the flying taxis going.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
Yeah, I know, but you just gonna let anybody everybody
buy a flying car. That is a recipe for total disaster,
my friends and over Jasper County, Well, this is not
the kind of story you want happening in your neck
of the woods. More than fifty snakes of very species
sees from a property after cops saying the owner just
abandoned them. At least they were still on the property,

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so at least they had that who does that man
fifty too. At least they were non venom mistakes of
various species. That's going to do it for us. Thank
you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Back
in the morning, We'll see you right early at six
am for the Tuesday edition of Columbia's morning News. Take care,