"The Study" Found Otherwise

"The Study" Found Otherwise

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Pump Day Wednesday. Welcome in. We'll check the forecast and
the roadways.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Here in moments, we're covering this morning's top stories. California's
emergency motion to block President Trump's deployment of the National
Guard and Marines to Los Angeles is being denied. A
federal judge shot down the motion from Governor Gavin Newsom
and Attorney General Rob bontam. A regular court hearing regarding
the matter is now set for tomorrow. Newsom said the

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deployment is unprecedented and threatens the very core of our democracy. Meanwhile,
tensions remain high in Los Angeles. Any Ice protesters once
again through objects at police officers and shut down all
lanes of the one oh one freeway. As people with
Mexican flags and signs blocked all lanes of traffic, police
gave an order to disperse in another downtown area after

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protesters launched fireworks against officers. Several roads were closed surrounding
the Los Angeles Federal Building, where most of the protests
have been gathering. There is a large police presence surrounding
the building. President Trump has deployed an additional two thousand
California National Guard troops to La County and has also
sent hundreds of Marines to the area.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
And look, it's been peaceful overnight. Isn't that interesting? You
show strength and you get peace. So at least this
is what they're reporting, that it was mostly peaceful overnight.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh, they've been reporting that the whole way through.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well, I'm talking about Fox and other people who potentially
you could trust a little bit more than the CNNs
and the propaganda press of the world. Some would say
they think Fox is propaganda press. But let's get into
Newsome and what he just said. This is unprecedented, No,
it's not. This is not unprecedented. Your governor and a
state where we had a sitting president in the nineteen

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nineties have to call up the National Guard because of
unrest in the to protect the safety of your city.
This is not unprecedented. How many how many ways can
this man lie and not be called out for it?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, they're all lying. I mean Hillary Clinton sent out
a message saying it hasn't been done in sixty.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Years, untrue.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
And then you had Gavin giving his tearful television address
last night.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
I just I can't stomach him. He is what You're
launching a presidential run while your city burns. And by
the way, it's not burning at this moment because we
actually have a leader and a commander in chief in
the White House. The adults are back in the room
and in charge here.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, you have to hand it to the LA Police
Department too. I mean they've took the brunt of the
attacks and they've done most of the arrests and pushing
back the protesters.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
I pray for our sin blue line, for the people,
our first responders, for our military, for those whose job
that it has been Think about the last four years,
think about all the way back to the Obama administration
when they were continuing to, you know, demonize law enforcement

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and embrace in many ways lawlessness.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
This is what this comes down to. You are.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Take de bait, choose your fate, frankly, because we are
nation of laws, and you either support that or you don't.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
You can demonstrate, you can protest peacefully, sure if you
don't believe in those laws, but yeah, you have to
do it with some sort of in some sort of
civilized manner.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, and the only reason any of this is happening
is because it became very uncivilized very quickly.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
So well because it's organized by the same people that
organize the BLM stuff, the Antifa stuff. These are the
same exact people the pro Palestine protests, same exact people.
So this is an attack on our country by those people.

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And it's not only contained to Los Angeles. It's spreading
New York, Boston, Atlanta. So this isn't over yet, and
they're going to try to cause this disruption across the
entire country. So this is far from over. Just because
there was some peace overnight in Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
So you should expect that these protests will be likely
happening in possibly sanctuary cities.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, they're going to try to protest in like one
hundred and something cities across the US. I read I
think one hundred and five.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, there's a website I almost something. We want to
give this website so much attention, to be honest, But
where there's a map on it is a downtown Charleston
if we're just looking at our own community.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
And also in Summerville.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
We were talking, you know before the break there over
the top of the hour, certainly we heard more about La.
More about the president, but when it comes to our
local law enforcement, I mean Summerville. If you've never met
police Chief Doug Right, this man isn't going to stand
for any kind of lawlessness. Our we can keep going
to now, City of Charleston, I love to hear a

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statement from our police chief as well as our mayor.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think it's time.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
And if you put it out there and I missed
it this morning, certainly I apologize, but I will share
it when I get it. Meantime, our Attorney General has
said this lawlessness will not stand. Certainly our governor would
be pretty quick, i'd imagine to you know, call up
the guard if needed.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, well, Randy called in and I had him on hold.
I don't know what happened if I hung up on him.
I apologize if I actually only hung up on your Randy,
or if he got disconnected, but I wanted to get
his comments. But we were talking about you know, what
happened downtown, and you know, to a lesser extent of
what's going on in LA and these other cities. But
still you know, it turned violent and they smashed windows,

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They try to start fires, They try to twist the
case of one gentleman firing a shot to protect a
patron at a restaurant, trying to twist it into how
he was attacking the protesters. Randy called and said Reuben
Greenberg wouldn't have put up with any of this, And
after Hugo he put out the statement shoot the looters.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Absolutely, yeah, you shoot, I remember it, ye won't forget it. Well,
this kind of lawlessness would have never happened at a
Ruben Greenberg.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
And for those that don't know, Greenberg was our awesome
police chief.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
No longer with us unfortunately, so he was a goat,
one of the greatest of all time.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Absolutely so.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Well, the I want to take an opportunity to say
this because the quote unquote Summer of Love with George
Floyd riots you mentioned fires, Our city could have quite
literally burned, given you know, the old infrastructure and how
quickly it could go up and ignite. Hundreds of fires
were lit that night, and the City of Charleston Police

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department on hand that night quite literally saved our city
from burning and for it being far worse than the
damage that we saw. And I just I want to say,
hat tipped to them, because it was it could have
been far more horrific in the city of Charleston. No
thanks to the mayor at the time, and no thanks
to the police chief, who also, by the way, is

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no longer with us and we have a new police chief.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, what a feckless mayor he was. It can get
out of control so quickly, and I know one of
the frustrations of the police department was that they were
told to stand down and then they were told to
corral them right through where they did all the damage
and everything makes no sense, No, it doesn't. So I
mean you have to wonder where, you know, where their

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heads are at, these these mayors and police chiefs who
allow this to happen.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, and I said police department, I meant our firefighters,
our fire department that night.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, you know, and the police department deserves kudos too well, of.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Course, but our firefighters quite literally held the line of
our town down and it was something that my god,
it was horrific and not talked about enough, frankly, So
I just had tipped to all of our first responders obviously, yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
And all the people that try to keep law on
order and hopefully, as we've been saying, these protests that
are scheduled for our city on Saturday and Sunday. You know,
remain peaceful and it doesn't get out of hand.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Pope,
Fort ap Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh boy, did that last one trigger you? Welcome in.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
So President Trump there speaking to a crowd in North
Carolina at Fort Bragg giving these remarks at the military
base ahead of this Saturday's two hundred and fiftieth birthday
of the United States Army. And we, of course have
people reacting. I'd imagine this morning. I feel like the
same people who we've given enough attention to Marx's communists,

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leftists who don't love America.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, yeah, for all of our imperfection.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
I mean, I don't know if I'd go that far,
but people.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Who tear down statues and renames you're.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Not talking about, Well, you can want to rename the
base and not be anti American.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
So I'd love to hear from I mean, how many
people call in to say that. I haven't heard very many,
to be honest, And.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I've asked, well, I'm just saying I don't know that
might be going a little too far calling them anti
American because.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
They want to take down statues, and well.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
We weren't talking about taking down statues. We were talking
about the renaming of the bases. And yes, even if
they wanted to take down the statues, they can still
be for America. Now, I would agree that a lot
of them are anti American, but you can't just because
somebody has a different opinion than you, you can't say
that automatically lumps them into the anti American group.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Well, I think the conversation is compell seven five five.
I mean, the Trump's speeches in this parade this weekend.
I mean it's to show we remain the strongest, freest,
mightiest force in the world if we are willing to
take a stand against foolishness, lawlessness, and you know, ultimately

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it's a recognition of our history and the fact that
the Army existed before even America did.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Well, I'm I'm just trying to be fair, that's all,
and you know, not overheat the arta.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'm not trying to be unfair with my opinion. I
hope that that's not coming across as such, But I'm
curious to have the conversation.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, I mean, I don't agree with tearing down the
statues or renaming the bases. I'm just saying that maybe
there's a possibility you can agree with that and still
be pro American and a patriot. That's all Joe's on
the line. He says that, Well, I'll let Joe talk
about the warrior ethos.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Good morning, good morning, morning Army.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Most were all named in recognition of people because of
the warrior ethos, not because of their political outlook. And
the fact that they Widen administration went through and changed
all those names. It was just more push of the
social experimentation that the Democrats have tried to do with

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the military over the years.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, ask a warrior, ask a soldier, Ask any veteran
how they like being politicized.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
They do not.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
They do not like being part of politics. Go into
any American legion in vfwday, it's not a place to
talk about politics.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
I can tell you that right now.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I was talking with Joe afire and I'm like, it
was also a part of reunification of the country. Right
to honor the sacrifices and the bravery of the Confederacy
and to try to reunify the country by honoring, Like
Joe said, the warrior ethos of those soldiers that these

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bases were named after, and that these a lot of
these statues anyway, were meant to honor. So it was
also an attempt at reunifying the country.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Well, yeah, we again, we don't have to agree with
our history, but we're doomed to repeat it if we're
going to attempt to silence quell bury it. I mean,
you know, to me, this is about education. Learn your history.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well absolutely, you just don't whitewash over history and ignore it,
or you're doomed to repeat it. Bias news reporters are
starting to pay the price. ABC News has fired senior
national correspondent Terry Moran following a social media post criticizing
President Trump in his Top eight Stephen Miller. Moran called
Trump and Miller world class haters in the sense deleted post,

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saying Miller is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. Well,
Trump's hatred is only a means to an end, and
that end is his own glorify cation. ABC first suspended
Moran before his firing.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
So we have been blurring the lines between quote unquote
straight news people versus commentators for quite some time, and
that was a dangerous line to blur. Well that one
time in my career had to take off my news
hat and literally switch rooms and go over to the

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talk studio and make a hard pivot into telling you
my opinion versus just telling you the news of the
day in the facts, and that.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Was hard for me.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, this is their senior national correspondent, so it shows
how biased he is. And you know, everybody has a bias,
but a professional reporter correspondent keeps that bias to themselves
and out of the story to the best of their abilities.
They don't go off on the side here and start

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posting all of this bias stuff because it casts doubt
on the truthfulness of your stories. And so ABC News
knows that, and that's why this guy's fired. So finally,
you know, they're starting to root out these people that
are just openly biased. Now, what about the rest of that?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Was great to say, let's see if it ends here.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
You know, all you have to do is watch the
Sunday news programs to see it in action, and that
they all pretend like they're unbiased, hard hitting reporters. That
Margaret brun In with that s eating look on her
face that's you know, I can't stand those people. And
they're liars at the end of the day. And the
reason I say that they're lives. They don't come right

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out and maybe lie, although they do on a lot
of occasions. They lie biomission, They misrepresent what's going on,
They ignore some facts while concentrating on other facts. So
they entered a lot of bias into the.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
News, the pedal disinformation.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, and they well, I mean it goes beyond I
mean misinformation is a nice way to put it. I
mean they're you know, they show their bias and they
let it infiltrate their reports. Where we're looking at these
people to be informed, and what they're doing is propagandizing.
Thanks for being with us on this Wednesday morning. Appreciate

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Speaker 4 (16:10):
Oh boy, and they move around too. I mentioned last week.
I got a letter in the mail and it's the
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flood maps? Have we redrawn the flood maps? Do I
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a decade of owning this.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Home, I think you fell, and we talked about this
out here. I think you were alarmed by a I'd
stop short of calling it a scam, but that's the
way that they try to sell you insurance.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Literally from my own insurance company. Well, this is why
I mean. I mean I need to make a phone call.
I also need to do my homework. Yeah, I mean
flood maps have changed, and then.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I will talk to them.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Well, flood maps do change, but you know what your
mortgage company. If it changed, you'll find out soon enough
from your mortgage company, because they're going to demand that
you put flood insurance on it if you're in a
flood zone.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
And this is a good conversation to have because people
do get roped into costs that they may not realize
that they don't need to spend money on.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, right, that's called advertising marketing.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, I think it should be very clearly.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Put and i'd have to see what your letter says.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I'll bring it in.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, but if it's it's probably is it addressed and
has your policy and your address and says that you're
now in this flood zone.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Right, all of this, No, not like that, right, Yeah,
put it in a pile because it was generically put.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
So, yeah, generically put. So it's just trying to sell
you that insurance.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
But you talk to a lot of people who are new,
first time home buyers who don't realize how expensive it
is to own a home because of all the things
you just laid out, Well, they.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Don't take that into account. So I would say that
hidden costs is kind of a misnomer. It's right out
there in.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
The open, but not something much.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
If you have to pay taxes and ensure your property
and pay for your cable and utilities.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Right, well, you've got the parent hat you can wear
here talking about this, and then you've got your realtor
hat here you can wear talking about this. And isn't
it difficult when you wouldn't think you'd have to explained
to I suppose it would be a conversation with maybe
your kids, your young kids, who are do any of
them have they bought their first home yet?

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:08):
And did you have to have this conversation with them
or have they come back and said, oh my god
when it comes to calculating a home that you can
afford period, well.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
They were paying so much in rent they ended up
saving money, which is but yeah, of course I had
the conversation of you better take everything into account here
and make sure you can afford this. And I'm all
for this. You should buy your first property as early
as you can. And there's so many people that like
want what their parents have and want to wait and
save up so they can have, you know, in their

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first house is not a traditional, you know, small starter home.
They want to jump right out into three thousand sea. Yeah,
some luxurious house, right exactly. And that's not the way
that you build wealth. I mean, you can that way,
but I would argue you're you're going to get there
a lot sooner if you start a lot earlier.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You can't that way unless you have help.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
And especially if you're paying rent. I mean some of these,
you know, one bedroom apartment, what is it? Eighteen hundred
bucks for West Ashley? More than that, I mean I've
seen for a one bedroom.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, I feel like over two thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, I mean the price keeps going up, right, the
nicer it gets and in the better areas it is.
But I think minimum West Ashley. Well, I won't say minimum,
but even your lower grade apartments are going to cost
you close to two grand a month. Yeah, it's unbelievable,
and so you might as well be making that money
work for you instead of paying it to somebody else

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and making it work for them. Once again, they just
discovered something else that we've known all along. Data is
showing a direct link between young children's screen times and
behavioral difficulties. Recent findings by researchers showed a strong link
between higher screen use and signs of emotional distress, including anxiety, depression, aggression,

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and low self esteem. That's according to research published in
the journal Psychological Bulletin, which reviewed one hundred and seventeen
separate studies involving nearly three hundred thousand children under the
age of ten worldwide. Researchers observed that in many of
these cases, screens of all types, from video gaming to texting,

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were linked to a kind of coping mechanism, resulting in
an endless cycle of emotional and behavioral reactions.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
They literally have a phrase for doom scrolling. Have you
seen this, doom scrolling. This is where we will spend hours,
countless hours of scrolling. And they call it doom scrolling
because of all the things that you just laid out there.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, an endless cycle and then you and you can
literally like get addictive to these things in negative things,
you know, so say you, I mean, there's all kinds
of different examples, like it just said. You know, it's
not just video gaming or social media or whatever it

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might be. It's all of it. Everything from video gaming,
the texting, the social media, you know, creates these vicious
cycles where you just keep feeding into the cycle and
it's having a negative effect on your psyche.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, and you got to work when you're ten, Yeah,
that's easy to do.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
So we grew up at a time when our parents
didn't have screens and computers. So we were raised very differently, right,
drinking out the garden hose outside until the lights came on,
you know, street lights, the street lamps, you know, a
completely different way of growing up. And then throughout you know,
our generation, we started to have computers for me at

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computers I think in elementary school and then into middle
school and so on. And now we've got screens everywhere.
And so you've got parents who were raised on screens
who you know, just continued to see the play out
with their own children. And I you know, this is
this is abuse for young people in a lot of ways.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, it seems innocent now. I'm sure that your parents
probably tell you this that you know, don't watch so
much TV. It's bad for you. And that seems pretty
like innocent now, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'll never forget. Yeah, I would sneak.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
I would sneak to watch television. And I'm sure that
parents today or this is the same thing. Their kids
are sneaking and they're having to try to find ways
around blocking their screen time.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Well does anybody say and we'll replace you know, from
what I hear, you know, it was turn off the
TV and go outside. And we weren't allowed to have
TVs in our bedroom or anything like that. And and
now does anybody say, turn off the computer, turn off
your it's not even the computer anymore. Turn off your phone,
give me that phone, and go outside.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
They do, thank goodness.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well some of them do, but obviously not enough of
the guys, according to according the study, not enough are
doing that.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
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