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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Kelly Nash, Good morning, Good morning. It is tomorrow
show Today. Tomorrow is gonna be a much better Tuesday
than we started up with a Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Tyler.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ryan's lready promised it. Take it to the bank. Okay,
I'm just gonna write that down on a deposit slip
and send it on over. Good morning. This is Jonathan
Rusher's Kelly Nash. Now, when we get together tomorrow, what
you're talking about is going to give you another chance
to win Brooks and dun tickets. And tomorrow we're doing
another giveaway for the Gathering.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Correct, yep, this is we only had two.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We had one today that was for Friday's edition of
the Gathering, and then we're going to do one tomorrow
which is for the what don't call it Saturday version.
So we're excited about it. And I mean, if you
haven't seen the Gathering or been do it or hurt
like what it's about, it's literally your opportunity to try
hundreds of different weapons and incredible firing ranges. There's one there,
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like you said, it's like a mile long.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If you hit the target on that one, you'll be
in for some kind of prize. They got some incredible range.
And also one note here, you need to go ahead
and bring your own eyes in the ears. They have
a limited availability of that. They don't even know exactly
how many people obviously are going to need them once
they show up. So go ahead and bring your ear
protection and your eye protection.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They did say sunglasses would be acceptable. They did, which
is I don't know how much protection the sunglasses would provide.
I would actually go ahead and get real eye protection.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I would think so.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But anyway, and those are these tickets that were giving
away are eighty dollars a piece for tomorrow and the
Brooks and Done tickets. I don't know how much those
things go forward. That's going to be for their Now again,
there's a for Saturday, March twenty second. Friday, the twenty
eighth of March is Brooks and Done with the Neon
Moon tour in Charlotte with David Lee Murphy. You get
all of that tomorrow. If you know the word which
(01:47):
is a takeoff on fret, it's pronounced fress.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh yeah, that's you flee you something makes you run far.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Far away.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It is actually to devour something.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh again, I got it totally backwards. You don't run
from it. You run towards it and devour it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yep, if you devour something. And by the way, this
is from Germany. This is a German word frost.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How did I not know this? I don't know, but
you did? But but now you do?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Now you do?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How did you do on Thanksgiving? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I freshed it. I fresh that fool, So tomorrow you
get fresh. You got tickets to the gathering. Thank you
to our friends at Palmeto State Armory who put that
on at the Clinton House plantation. Tickets are available now
we have a link to buy them, and to Brooks
and Dunn the Neon Moon Tour in Charlotte with David
Lee Murphy. Tickets on sale now we have a link
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there as well. You win all of that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And we begin to count down to the big five
point celebration St. Pats and five Points that'll be coming up.
Why's it begin for Friday night? You know they're already
pumping green beer. Are we giving away stuff to that?
Or no?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Was I suppose are we supposed to have that in
our thing?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No? I don't believe we have anything to give away
from that. Okay, all the money goes to the charity
support it so and I think they've already started drinking
the green beer. I did see a sign you'd appreciate
at the Old Meal Pub in Lexington. There sign out
front says thank God Daylight savings time is here. It's
an extra hour to drink.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That is one way of looking at it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't know how you're going to spend your extra
hour of sunlight, but that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's beautiful out there now.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I do see on the contest page at ninety seven
to five w CS dot com we are giving away
pairs of passes to the Saint Pats in five points.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's right. If you do want to win, you can.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Go to ninety seven to five w CS dot com
cuick the contest page. I know we have the big
announcement about the iHeartRadio Festival.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I guess it was this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The performers, all the performers, so that's all out there
as well, and I believe we're giving away passes to that.
So a lot of winning going on at ninety seven
five WCS dot com. I can also tell you that
you know what, I wish that I had told you
this in advance, so you would go to the Morning
Rest blog and play it because I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Just want you.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I want to get your reaction to it. Okay, the
new ABC song that has been implemented in several schools
here in the Midlands. They're no longer doing the song
that we all grew.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Up with what ABC.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yes, it's the same melody and I'm not saying that
they've changed the lyrics they've changed, because you can't really,
but they've changed the way they're delivered. Oh and I
wanted to get your react that tomorrow at seven ten,
What do you think the new ABC song?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So while you're on the Morning Bust blog page, I'll
be sure and click on that story so you can
hear it and then you can react to it tomorrow
as well.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Also coming up this week, we have a blood moon
lunar eclipse. Now Jonathan and I will probably able to
well I'll be able to see it. I'm not sure
if you'll be able to see it. It starts at two
twenty six, it goes to about four to ten in
the morning, and it will be roughly one thousand times
brighter than a normal moon. It is magnificent. The next
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one on the East Coast will be March second and
third of twenty twenty six. But we've got one coming
up this Thursday night into Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay, so get ready.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
If you want more details on that, that's on the
Morning Rest blog. Also, we've got a new study, most
popular beers by state. Most popular beer in the country
as well. What is the most popular beer in America?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Jonathan?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It would have been an an huzer Bush product prior
to three years ago. Now this is one brand, so
it's not like a micro brew. I'm thinking about all
the breweries we have around, So it's going to be
I'm going to go with Madello Miller.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Really number one beer in thirty states? Wow, not even close, obviously,
because you've got thirty We just went to one brand.
Second most popular. Cores comes in number one in eight states.
Now South Carolina pops in here with New Jersey, and
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I am shocked. Anytime South Carolina and New Jersey share anything,
it's shocking. But I really could not have imagined that
this would be the most popular beer.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Perhaps Blue Ribbon, no think higher brow? Okay, low one brow?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Do they still make low and brown?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Guinness? Oh? Really the most popular beer in New Jersey
in South Carolina is Guinness.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay, which is that's shocking to me.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I haven't had a Guinness in probably five years, and
I didn't even really like it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Then did not realize it was ganning popularity.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Corona number one in one state, Connecticut of my home
state and Colorado. Colorado can't even lock downs or anything
else from this made out there. It's blue Moon.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh my, where's that, mate? I don't know. I think
it is from Colorado.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Let's see what blueo.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I believe it is blue moon, not blood red moon. No,
this is blue moon. One's in a blue moon.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I know I have had a Blue Moon beer, but
I don't know that I was that blown away by
it that I'd become a frequent consumer of it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh, you're right. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was launched in nineteen ninety five by from Molson
under Molson Cores and they originally it was originally brewed
in Golden Colorado. But it's called a Belgian white, so
it's inspired by the beers of Germany.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
The genealogy behind beers has fascinated a lot of South Carolinians.
I hear him talking about it all the time. I'm
ignorant in these conversations. I just listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Wow. And I didn't realize that it's unavailable in the
state of Minnesota because there's too much alcohol in it.
Oh really, Yes, there's five point four percent alcohol by
volume in the state of Minnesota. You can only go
to a max of three point two. So that's like
one of those. It's kind of like, now we're getting
back into the original Smoky in the bandit. Maybe they'll
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do something where somebody's trying to smuggle Blue Moon into
some rich person's party up there or whenever. Anyway, so's
that's the stories that we've got for tomorrow. I'm really
shocked that we've gotten rid of the ABC song.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I can't wait to hear it. I'm going to get
off of this podcast now and go click on that.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It feels so wrong. Now tomorrow on the show, I'll
have to say it feels right because Jonathan is the traditionalist,
and so he will he gets to defend the honor
of the original version.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This will immediately be reject as the state of South
Carolina will stand on its own without the Federal Education Commission.
Oh you imagine I when Weaver is going to make
a declaration exactly. You're going to teach those kids to
mumble through element o P like we all did, because
that's what that's what they're addressing, is the elemental P
portion of the song. They feel like children can't enunciate it,
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and I don't know if it makes them feel bad
about themselves or they're having a hard time learning that
part because they can't say it. They just hear the
teachers say it, you hit the you hit the ABC
speed bomp at element op.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yea element op.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They can't say it. It's too it's too tricky for
their mouths.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
This is too challenging for the youngsters. Wemb it down.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We got this.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's just feels so wrong when they get to that
part and they well they get to they start changing
it earlier in the song in order to space it out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So it is weird anyway, all that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's almost as tragic as remember when they changed the
theme song from Gilligan's Island from all the no the
professor and Marianne.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I do not remember this.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh yeah, that was a big crisis.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
There was a crisis in the sixties. All the kids
in the Saluta Middle School were talking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Gelligod Island my favorite afternoon television show.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Oh, speaking of Saluta, we should mention that we've got
we've got a thing going.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On there and you're going to be huge. Rut Spence
is going to be there.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This is an oyster roast, and I believe I got
to miss this. I love oysters. I love the traffic Circle.
This is a big salute to their volunteer fire department,
a tragedy that they suffered not not too long ago
with the loss of their chief and another volunteer.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, that was on September twenty seventh that Land and
Bodie and Chad Satcher passed away. So they're raising money
for a critical response and safety equipment for the Circle
volunteer fire Department. They've got an event. Like I said,
the oyster Roast in concert happens Saturday, March twenty second,
from three to seven. And you can get I'm sure
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you can get information anywhere on that one. If you're
just put in Saluta. You know Fire Department oyster roast.
It's the Saluta County Young Farmers Facility is where they're
having it at.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, I was hoping they were going to have it
at the traffic circle, and I thought they should have
a parade and make sure that like Troop thirty one
Boy Scout troop is in the parade, okay, along with
the Troop seventy nine. I think, out of prosperity and
just make the parade keep going around and around the
traffic circle until the Boy Scouts can no longer make
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another step. Just have like the longest parade ever. But
how would patrol said, no, you can't shut down the
traffic circle for seventeen hours.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm just thinking, and what is the like the Boy
Scouts are now going to the hospital or something in your.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Version of events that would be great.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Who thought up this idea to send thirteen year olds
to the hospital?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It was just an eye you didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Who goes down first?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I really is hoping it's somebody this year, because I
believe you're coming up on the anniversary in August of
the bombing of the traffic circle, and I realize it
could be a little dangerous, but we got firemen on hand.
We could actually like have a recreation of the bombing.
So we got some explosives put in the ground.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Okay, and so we already know where they're going to
go off. We're not going to actually have somebody errantly
drop a bomb.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
No, no, no, we're not dropping them. We already know
where they're going to be able to get everybody back.
But just recreate the accidental bombing of the traffic circle.
If you never heard the story, when they were B
fifty twos of training for World War two and they
were headed over the lake to Bomb Island that's why
it's called bomb Island, which had a ring of lights
around it that was the target. One of the navigators
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got way off course, and because the traffic circle is
you know, six miles west maybe a little further and
has lights around it, they actually bombed the traffic circle
instead of Bomb Island. And after that happened, the decree
came down at dusk, we turn off the lights so
nobody would accidentally bomb the traffic circle again, which had
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gas stations on it at the time. It could have
really been tragic.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Now, wait a minute, they turn the lights off. I
thought they had to turn them on and.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Turn them off. Turn them off at dust, turn them off.
Don't confuse yourself a bomb island. Turn the lights off
of the traffic circle.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Cause my understanding was that they it was off and
that was the problem. They were like, we're not seeing
anything there, so we assumed that were near the island.
I just know it was in October of nineteen forty
four and it was a B twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We missed the big anniversary last year. Again another great idea,
but the traffic circle. Look, they have a lot of
fun around the traffic circle. I never had that much fun.
I'm going to blow stuff up around here just to
make Jonathan happy.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Is this an actual Randal Sheely. Randall Sheeley wrote about
this in the Saluta Standards Sentinel.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You mean Ralph Sheey, It.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Says by Randall Sheely. And one night in October of
nineteen forty four, when the people went to bed with
the chickens, so to speak, turning out their lights early
in order to get a good night's sleep. The war
was on and the people conserved electricity as much as possible.
An incident occurred that has been talked about and passed
on from generation to generation, that being the bombing of
the Saluta County Traffic Circle. I have had the honor
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of hearing the men and the families tell this story
all my life, since the same type of plane bombed
the circle as when Colonel Doolittle used to bomb Japan.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I wanted to share my story again. At around eleven PM,
the residents of the area were awakened at what everyone
thought was enemy planes bombing the area. Even though it
only lasted a few minutes and seventeen bombs were dropped.
When it was happening, it seemed like thousands of bombs
to those who were there. People scrambling out of bed
in their pajamas, taking cover in different hiding places around
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their property, some hiding in a large concrete culvert. Men, women,
children all thought that the Germans or Japan had just
begun bombings. Salute to South Carolina. The residents were lucky
that night, as the bombs that fell around them were
loaded only with small explosives and white powder. On impact,
the charge would spread the powder, making the hit for
the crew overhead to observe how well they had done
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their jobs. Having spent a lot of time around this
area with my grandparents and cousins, I've heard the story
over and over again, but I'd like to give I
would like to give anything to hear what mister w P.
Pink Lindler tell it again? Or had I been the
owner with a tape recorder staying with Granddaddy and had
recorded him. No one could tell the story quite like
he could. I wonder who that dude was. He would
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tell how he knew his old thirty five Chevy. We
had outrun those damn planes. There's thirty five Chevy. He
got a thirty five second outrun the beach twenty five.
The families of mister Pink, whom at the time operated
a grocery store and garage on the circle.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Mister J. D.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oxner was the supervisor for the State Highway Department and
Cali Bedenbah, magistrate for the county, were affected more than others,
as their homes were located on or at the circle.
Mister Pink was in his pj's and was ready to
shoot out the lights if necessary to help darken the place.
The lights were turned off and on every day back
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then by him or mister Oxner. When this was going
on a night bombing mission, they were notified that the
lights in the circle needed to be turned off, as
were the lights and the homes around the lake. They
were not warned that night, so the lights were left on,
so apparently they did see lights and that's why they
started bombing. Mister Pink went to Columbia the next day
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and called Fort Jackson to report the incident. He went
until the next day since the air Court was out
of the army. Then a colonel from the Fort went
to the circle to instigates. Since no bombs actually hit
any buildings, no official report was ever filed. What there's
no official report if this ever happened.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Nothing to see here. It's just reporting this up the
chain of command. We bombed our own citizens.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh my gosh, that's insane. There's no there's no paperwork
on this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Nothing never happened unless you were mister Lindler, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Was there any newspaper stories on it?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Has it just been passed down generation to generation.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know, Randall Sheeley, but I can I can
tell you that I'm sure I've read articles in the past,
and the Saluta Standards Sentinel, probably in the Twin City
News as well. This is crazy. Maybe what used to
be the Prosperity newspaper. I've forgotten the name of it.
I don't think it's there anymore. We're losing way too
many of our small town newspapers. But nearly, just like
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Doolittle piercing the heart with his tokyo raid, our own
army we bobbed as death at the traffic circle, all.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, nursing the heart of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I have found an article. This is in the Lexingon
County Museum. They have an article headline traffic lights mistaken
for bombing target. This happened at the intersection of highways.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I guess that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Means numbers n Os forty three and three ninety one
between Lexington and Saluda and the del Mar community has
been cut off for the next thirty days on orders
of the Highway Department. Vigorous protests have been coming in
from the area because pilots flying over the region mistaked
the flaring circle for a bombing target. The blackout thus
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was made to appease irate residents who have now developed
jumpy nerves as a result of the bombing attacks. The circle,
as the arrangement is widely known, was constructed just four
years ago at a cost of many, many thousands of
dollars in safety precaution. Where these heavy traffic arteries intersect
the circular space about four acres causes each highway to
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make it so they're describing a traffic circle. It was
then reported mistakenly as a bombing area. It was indicated
yesterday one of the irate residents of the community advised C. E. McMillan,
the state highway engineer, by telephone quote, if you don't
out and out and out, if you don't out in
that lights, I'll shoot them out myself.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Out.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You gotta out in them lights. Mister McMillan has out,
And oh they did, but I like that. Mister McMillan
has quote unquote out in them and they will remain
outed for the next thirty days. What paper was that,
They don't tell me what paper it said, but it's
in the Lexingdon County Museum if you want to see
the headline traffic lights mistaken for bombing target. That's the
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only paperwork on this thing.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh my, Well, for those of you who have been
on the western side of the you know how important
the Volunteer Traffic Department is out of the circle.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
That's where it's located there.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So here's an opportunity for you to support them, especially
after their tragic loss. And that's going to be the
Young Farmers. Is that where that is? Let me get
back to the post.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Live music at the Saluta County Young Farmers Facility Saturday,
March twenty second, between three and seven Oyster Roast and
Concert featured me back Intenzie Butler, brooks Herring and your
favorite rut Spence.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I may be back in time for this event, so
I'm looking forward to going now because it's an oyster roast.
Rut Spence I saw him, you know, he and his
band won their opportunity to be an opener for the
Field and Stream Music Festival. Oh so, and he is
the grandson of Floyd Spence. By god, so I met
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him when he was appearing at the ten Roue for
the first time. I got a rut Spence hat. You
need to buy one of those at the merch s table.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You like it.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh beautiful, and that's on. That's if you've never been there.
That's one's seventy eight. Hiway went seventy eight right before
you hit the split back to Highway thirty nine about
I'm gonna guess three miles before you get to downtown proper, Saluta,
South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I wonder if Rutt's going to be at the because
it got rained out last year, right they field and streaming.
They got again this October. What is it twenty October
that so I hope he gets a chance to perform there.
I'm trying to see who's who's in the lineup right
now for October third. Eric Church obviously, Miranda Lambert skinnerd
says they're back in Riley Green's Easy Top, Bailey Zimmerman,
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Larry Fleet. They got pretty much all the guys they
had in Gal's, Edwin McCain, yep, pretty much everybody who
was originally in the first one way Jennings, Peyton Smith,
come on, give me read.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Spence had one of the more interesting musical mash.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Area is rut Spence.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He'll be there, excellent, He's got He had one of
the more musical mashups. It was a collage as it
were a music collage, but he incorporated the Beatles, Lenyard
Skinner one of their own originals and ACDC wrapping up
with a big kick out of zz Top. It was.
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It was an interesting collage of music.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Hope he plays that nice all right, So we're gonna
do all that as we get ready what's the date
of that event again, the twenty second?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Uh yeah, the you're talking about the obviously the Oyster
Roaster concert. That's the March twenty second. What's that two
saturdays from now?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay, all right for the Volunteer Traffic Department fundraiser. Okay,
Kelly Nash? What's going on in your neighborhood? Who bombed
your neighborhood? Can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No? I can't. Every time I go around with the
traffic circle, I think about that.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Thankfully they weren't full bombs, but seventeen bombs fell on
the traffic circle.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You can always reach out to us on social media.
You can also email us. I am Rush at ninety
seven five WCS.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Dot com, Nash at ninety seven five w sous dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And tomorrow we start talking, you start talking, you start
winning the same phone number at TATO three ninety seven
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Speaker 2 (23:14):
S tomorrow morning on the morning, Rush
Hello, Kelly Nash, Good morning, Good morning. It is tomorrow
show Today. Tomorrow is gonna be a much better Tuesday
than we started up with a Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Tyler.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ryan's lready promised it. Take it to the bank. Okay,
I'm just gonna write that down on a deposit slip
and send it on over. Good morning. This is Jonathan
Rusher's Kelly Nash. Now, when we get together tomorrow, what
you're talking about is going to give you another chance
to win Brooks and dun tickets. And tomorrow we're doing
another giveaway for the Gathering.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Correct, yep, this is we only had two.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We had one today that was for Friday's edition of
the Gathering, and then we're going to do one tomorrow
which is for the what don't call it Saturday version.
So we're excited about it. And I mean, if you
haven't seen the Gathering or been do it or hurt
like what it's about, it's literally your opportunity to try
hundreds of different weapons and incredible firing ranges. There's one there,
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like you said, it's like a mile long.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If you hit the target on that one, you'll be
in for some kind of prize. They got some incredible range.
And also one note here, you need to go ahead
and bring your own eyes in the ears. They have
a limited availability of that. They don't even know exactly
how many people obviously are going to need them once
they show up. So go ahead and bring your ear
protection and your eye protection.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They did say sunglasses would be acceptable. They did, which
is I don't know how much protection the sunglasses would provide.
I would actually go ahead and get real eye protection.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I would think so.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But anyway, and those are these tickets that were giving
away are eighty dollars a piece for tomorrow and the
Brooks and Done tickets. I don't know how much those
things go forward. That's going to be for their Now again,
there's a for Saturday, March twenty second. Friday, the twenty
eighth of March is Brooks and Done with the Neon
Moon tour in Charlotte with David Lee Murphy. You get
all of that tomorrow. If you know the word which
(01:47):
is a takeoff on fret, it's pronounced fress.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Oh yeah, that's you flee you something makes you run far.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Far away.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It is actually to devour something.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh again, I got it totally backwards. You don't run
from it. You run towards it and devour it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yep, if you devour something. And by the way, this
is from Germany. This is a German word frost.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How did I not know this? I don't know, but
you did? But but now you do?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Now you do?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
How did you do on Thanksgiving? Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I freshed it. I fresh that fool, So tomorrow you
get fresh. You got tickets to the gathering. Thank you
to our friends at Palmeto State Armory who put that
on at the Clinton House plantation. Tickets are available now
we have a link to buy them, and to Brooks
and Dunn the Neon Moon Tour in Charlotte with David
Lee Murphy. Tickets on sale now we have a link
(02:46):
there as well. You win all of that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And we begin to count down to the big five
point celebration St. Pats and five Points that'll be coming up.
Why's it begin for Friday night? You know they're already
pumping green beer. Are we giving away stuff to that?
Or no?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Was I suppose are we supposed to have that in
our thing?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No? I don't believe we have anything to give away
from that. Okay, all the money goes to the charity
support it so and I think they've already started drinking
the green beer. I did see a sign you'd appreciate
at the Old Meal Pub in Lexington. There sign out
front says thank God Daylight savings time is here. It's
an extra hour to drink.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That is one way of looking at it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't know how you're going to spend your extra
hour of sunlight, but that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's beautiful out there now.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I do see on the contest page at ninety seven
to five w CS dot com we are giving away
pairs of passes to the Saint Pats in five points.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's right. If you do want to win, you can.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Go to ninety seven to five w CS dot com
cuick the contest page. I know we have the big
announcement about the iHeartRadio Festival.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I guess it was this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
The performers, all the performers, so that's all out there
as well, and I believe we're giving away passes to that.
So a lot of winning going on at ninety seven
five WCS dot com. I can also tell you that
you know what, I wish that I had told you
this in advance, so you would go to the Morning
Rest blog and play it because I.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Just want you.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I want to get your reaction to it. Okay, the
new ABC song that has been implemented in several schools
here in the Midlands. They're no longer doing the song
that we all grew.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Up with what ABC.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yes, it's the same melody and I'm not saying that
they've changed the lyrics they've changed, because you can't really,
but they've changed the way they're delivered. Oh and I
wanted to get your react that tomorrow at seven ten,
What do you think the new ABC song?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So while you're on the Morning Bust blog page, I'll
be sure and click on that story so you can
hear it and then you can react to it tomorrow
as well.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Also coming up this week, we have a blood moon
lunar eclipse. Now Jonathan and I will probably able to
well I'll be able to see it. I'm not sure
if you'll be able to see it. It starts at two
twenty six, it goes to about four to ten in
the morning, and it will be roughly one thousand times
brighter than a normal moon. It is magnificent. The next
(05:16):
one on the East Coast will be March second and
third of twenty twenty six. But we've got one coming
up this Thursday night into Friday morning.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay, so get ready.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
If you want more details on that, that's on the
Morning Rest blog. Also, we've got a new study, most
popular beers by state. Most popular beer in the country
as well. What is the most popular beer in America?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Jonathan?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It would have been an an huzer Bush product prior
to three years ago. Now this is one brand, so
it's not like a micro brew. I'm thinking about all
the breweries we have around, So it's going to be
I'm going to go with Madello Miller.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Really number one beer in thirty states? Wow, not even close, obviously,
because you've got thirty We just went to one brand.
Second most popular. Cores comes in number one in eight states.
Now South Carolina pops in here with New Jersey, and
(06:21):
I am shocked. Anytime South Carolina and New Jersey share anything,
it's shocking. But I really could not have imagined that
this would be the most popular beer.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Perhaps Blue Ribbon, no think higher brow? Okay, low one brow?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Do they still make low and brown?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Guinness? Oh? Really the most popular beer in New Jersey
in South Carolina is Guinness.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay, which is that's shocking to me.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I haven't had a Guinness in probably five years, and
I didn't even really like it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Then did not realize it was ganning popularity.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Corona number one in one state, Connecticut of my home
state and Colorado. Colorado can't even lock downs or anything
else from this made out there. It's blue Moon.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh my, where's that, mate? I don't know. I think
it is from Colorado.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Let's see what blueo.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I believe it is blue moon, not blood red moon. No,
this is blue moon. One's in a blue moon.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I know I have had a Blue Moon beer, but
I don't know that I was that blown away by
it that I'd become a frequent consumer of it.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Oh, you're right. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was launched in nineteen ninety five by from Molson
under Molson Cores and they originally it was originally brewed
in Golden Colorado. But it's called a Belgian white, so
it's inspired by the beers of Germany.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
The genealogy behind beers has fascinated a lot of South Carolinians.
I hear him talking about it all the time. I'm
ignorant in these conversations. I just listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Wow. And I didn't realize that it's unavailable in the
state of Minnesota because there's too much alcohol in it.
Oh really, Yes, there's five point four percent alcohol by
volume in the state of Minnesota. You can only go
to a max of three point two. So that's like
one of those. It's kind of like, now we're getting
back into the original Smoky in the bandit. Maybe they'll
(08:25):
do something where somebody's trying to smuggle Blue Moon into
some rich person's party up there or whenever. Anyway, so's
that's the stories that we've got for tomorrow. I'm really
shocked that we've gotten rid of the ABC song.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I can't wait to hear it. I'm going to get
off of this podcast now and go click on that.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It feels so wrong. Now tomorrow on the show, I'll
have to say it feels right because Jonathan is the traditionalist,
and so he will he gets to defend the honor
of the original version.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
This will immediately be reject as the state of South
Carolina will stand on its own without the Federal Education Commission.
Oh you imagine I when Weaver is going to make
a declaration exactly. You're going to teach those kids to
mumble through element o P like we all did, because
that's what that's what they're addressing, is the elemental P
portion of the song. They feel like children can't enunciate it,
(09:21):
and I don't know if it makes them feel bad
about themselves or they're having a hard time learning that
part because they can't say it. They just hear the
teachers say it, you hit the you hit the ABC
speed bomp at element op.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yea element op.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
They can't say it. It's too it's too tricky for
their mouths.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
This is too challenging for the youngsters. Wemb it down.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We got this.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's just feels so wrong when they get to that
part and they well they get to they start changing
it earlier in the song in order to space it out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So it is weird anyway, all that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It's almost as tragic as remember when they changed the
theme song from Gilligan's Island from all the no the
professor and Marianne.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I do not remember this.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh yeah, that was a big crisis.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
There was a crisis in the sixties. All the kids
in the Saluta Middle School were talking about it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Gelligod Island my favorite afternoon television show.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Oh, speaking of Saluta, we should mention that we've got
we've got a thing going.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On there and you're going to be huge. Rut Spence
is going to be there.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This is an oyster roast, and I believe I got
to miss this. I love oysters. I love the traffic Circle.
This is a big salute to their volunteer fire department,
a tragedy that they suffered not not too long ago
with the loss of their chief and another volunteer.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, that was on September twenty seventh that Land and
Bodie and Chad Satcher passed away. So they're raising money
for a critical response and safety equipment for the Circle
volunteer fire Department. They've got an event. Like I said,
the oyster Roast in concert happens Saturday, March twenty second,
from three to seven. And you can get I'm sure
(11:04):
you can get information anywhere on that one. If you're
just put in Saluta. You know Fire Department oyster roast.
It's the Saluta County Young Farmers Facility is where they're
having it at.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, I was hoping they were going to have it
at the traffic circle, and I thought they should have
a parade and make sure that like Troop thirty one
Boy Scout troop is in the parade, okay, along with
the Troop seventy nine. I think, out of prosperity and
just make the parade keep going around and around the
traffic circle until the Boy Scouts can no longer make
(11:34):
another step. Just have like the longest parade ever. But
how would patrol said, no, you can't shut down the
traffic circle for seventeen hours.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm just thinking, and what is the like the Boy
Scouts are now going to the hospital or something in your.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Version of events that would be great.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Who thought up this idea to send thirteen year olds
to the hospital?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It was just an eye you didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Who goes down first?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I really is hoping it's somebody this year, because I
believe you're coming up on the anniversary in August of
the bombing of the traffic circle, and I realize it
could be a little dangerous, but we got firemen on hand.
We could actually like have a recreation of the bombing.
So we got some explosives put in the ground.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Okay, and so we already know where they're going to
go off. We're not going to actually have somebody errantly
drop a bomb.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
No, no, no, we're not dropping them. We already know
where they're going to be able to get everybody back.
But just recreate the accidental bombing of the traffic circle.
If you never heard the story, when they were B
fifty twos of training for World War two and they
were headed over the lake to Bomb Island that's why
it's called bomb Island, which had a ring of lights
around it that was the target. One of the navigators
(12:56):
got way off course, and because the traffic circle is
you know, six miles west maybe a little further and
has lights around it, they actually bombed the traffic circle
instead of Bomb Island. And after that happened, the decree
came down at dusk, we turn off the lights so
nobody would accidentally bomb the traffic circle again, which had
(13:19):
gas stations on it at the time. It could have
really been tragic.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Now, wait a minute, they turn the lights off. I
thought they had to turn them on and.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Turn them off. Turn them off at dust, turn them off.
Don't confuse yourself a bomb island. Turn the lights off
of the traffic circle.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Cause my understanding was that they it was off and
that was the problem. They were like, we're not seeing
anything there, so we assumed that were near the island.
I just know it was in October of nineteen forty
four and it was a B twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
We missed the big anniversary last year. Again another great idea,
but the traffic circle. Look, they have a lot of
fun around the traffic circle. I never had that much fun.
I'm going to blow stuff up around here just to
make Jonathan happy.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Is this an actual Randal Sheely. Randall Sheeley wrote about
this in the Saluta Standards Sentinel.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You mean Ralph Sheey, It.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Says by Randall Sheely. And one night in October of
nineteen forty four, when the people went to bed with
the chickens, so to speak, turning out their lights early
in order to get a good night's sleep. The war
was on and the people conserved electricity as much as possible.
An incident occurred that has been talked about and passed
on from generation to generation, that being the bombing of
the Saluta County Traffic Circle. I have had the honor
(14:37):
of hearing the men and the families tell this story
all my life, since the same type of plane bombed
the circle as when Colonel Doolittle used to bomb Japan.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I wanted to share my story again. At around eleven PM,
the residents of the area were awakened at what everyone
thought was enemy planes bombing the area. Even though it
only lasted a few minutes and seventeen bombs were dropped.
When it was happening, it seemed like thousands of bombs
to those who were there. People scrambling out of bed
in their pajamas, taking cover in different hiding places around
(15:08):
their property, some hiding in a large concrete culvert. Men, women,
children all thought that the Germans or Japan had just
begun bombings. Salute to South Carolina. The residents were lucky
that night, as the bombs that fell around them were
loaded only with small explosives and white powder. On impact,
the charge would spread the powder, making the hit for
the crew overhead to observe how well they had done
(15:30):
their jobs. Having spent a lot of time around this
area with my grandparents and cousins, I've heard the story
over and over again, but I'd like to give I
would like to give anything to hear what mister w P.
Pink Lindler tell it again? Or had I been the
owner with a tape recorder staying with Granddaddy and had
recorded him. No one could tell the story quite like
he could. I wonder who that dude was. He would
(15:52):
tell how he knew his old thirty five Chevy. We
had outrun those damn planes. There's thirty five Chevy. He
got a thirty five second outrun the beach twenty five.
The families of mister Pink, whom at the time operated
a grocery store and garage on the circle.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Mister J. D.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oxner was the supervisor for the State Highway Department and
Cali Bedenbah, magistrate for the county, were affected more than others,
as their homes were located on or at the circle.
Mister Pink was in his pj's and was ready to
shoot out the lights if necessary to help darken the place.
The lights were turned off and on every day back
(16:30):
then by him or mister Oxner. When this was going
on a night bombing mission, they were notified that the
lights in the circle needed to be turned off, as
were the lights and the homes around the lake. They
were not warned that night, so the lights were left on,
so apparently they did see lights and that's why they
started bombing. Mister Pink went to Columbia the next day
(16:50):
and called Fort Jackson to report the incident. He went
until the next day since the air Court was out
of the army. Then a colonel from the Fort went
to the circle to instigates. Since no bombs actually hit
any buildings, no official report was ever filed. What there's
no official report if this ever happened.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Nothing to see here. It's just reporting this up the
chain of command. We bombed our own citizens.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh my gosh, that's insane. There's no there's no paperwork
on this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Nothing never happened unless you were mister Lindler, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Was there any newspaper stories on it?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Has it just been passed down generation to generation.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know, Randall Sheeley, but I can I can
tell you that I'm sure I've read articles in the past,
and the Saluta Standards Sentinel, probably in the Twin City
News as well. This is crazy. Maybe what used to
be the Prosperity newspaper. I've forgotten the name of it.
I don't think it's there anymore. We're losing way too
many of our small town newspapers. But nearly, just like
(17:53):
Doolittle piercing the heart with his tokyo raid, our own
army we bobbed as death at the traffic circle, all.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, nursing the heart of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I have found an article. This is in the Lexingon
County Museum. They have an article headline traffic lights mistaken
for bombing target. This happened at the intersection of highways.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I guess that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Means numbers n Os forty three and three ninety one
between Lexington and Saluda and the del Mar community has
been cut off for the next thirty days on orders
of the Highway Department. Vigorous protests have been coming in
from the area because pilots flying over the region mistaked
the flaring circle for a bombing target. The blackout thus
(18:43):
was made to appease irate residents who have now developed
jumpy nerves as a result of the bombing attacks. The circle,
as the arrangement is widely known, was constructed just four
years ago at a cost of many, many thousands of
dollars in safety precaution. Where these heavy traffic arteries intersect
the circular space about four acres causes each highway to
(19:06):
make it so they're describing a traffic circle. It was
then reported mistakenly as a bombing area. It was indicated
yesterday one of the irate residents of the community advised C. E. McMillan,
the state highway engineer, by telephone quote, if you don't
out and out and out, if you don't out in
that lights, I'll shoot them out myself.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Out.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You gotta out in them lights. Mister McMillan has out,
And oh they did, but I like that. Mister McMillan
has quote unquote out in them and they will remain
outed for the next thirty days. What paper was that,
They don't tell me what paper it said, but it's
in the Lexingdon County Museum if you want to see
the headline traffic lights mistaken for bombing target. That's the
(19:52):
only paperwork on this thing.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh my, Well, for those of you who have been
on the western side of the you know how important
the Volunteer Traffic Department is out of the circle.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
That's where it's located there.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So here's an opportunity for you to support them, especially
after their tragic loss. And that's going to be the
Young Farmers. Is that where that is? Let me get
back to the post.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Live music at the Saluta County Young Farmers Facility Saturday,
March twenty second, between three and seven Oyster Roast and
Concert featured me back Intenzie Butler, brooks Herring and your
favorite rut Spence.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I may be back in time for this event, so
I'm looking forward to going now because it's an oyster roast.
Rut Spence I saw him, you know, he and his
band won their opportunity to be an opener for the
Field and Stream Music Festival. Oh so, and he is
the grandson of Floyd Spence. By god, so I met
(20:50):
him when he was appearing at the ten Roue for
the first time. I got a rut Spence hat. You
need to buy one of those at the merch s table.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You like it.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh beautiful, and that's on. That's if you've never been there.
That's one's seventy eight. Hiway went seventy eight right before
you hit the split back to Highway thirty nine about
I'm gonna guess three miles before you get to downtown proper, Saluta,
South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I wonder if Rutt's going to be at the because
it got rained out last year, right they field and streaming.
They got again this October. What is it twenty October
that so I hope he gets a chance to perform there.
I'm trying to see who's who's in the lineup right
now for October third. Eric Church obviously, Miranda Lambert skinnerd
says they're back in Riley Green's Easy Top, Bailey Zimmerman,
(21:36):
Larry Fleet. They got pretty much all the guys they
had in Gal's, Edwin McCain, yep, pretty much everybody who
was originally in the first one way Jennings, Peyton Smith,
come on, give me read.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Spence had one of the more interesting musical mash.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Area is rut Spence.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He'll be there, excellent, He's got He had one of
the more musical mashups. It was a collage as it
were a music collage, but he incorporated the Beatles, Lenyard
Skinner one of their own originals and ACDC wrapping up
with a big kick out of zz Top. It was.
(22:15):
It was an interesting collage of music.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Hope he plays that nice all right, So we're gonna
do all that as we get ready what's the date
of that event again, the twenty second?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Uh yeah, the you're talking about the obviously the Oyster
Roaster concert. That's the March twenty second. What's that two
saturdays from now?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Okay, all right for the Volunteer Traffic Department fundraiser. Okay,
Kelly Nash? What's going on in your neighborhood? Who bombed
your neighborhood? Can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No? I can't. Every time I go around with the
traffic circle, I think about that.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Thankfully they weren't full bombs, but seventeen bombs fell on
the traffic circle.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You can always reach out to us on social media.
You can also email us. I am Rush at ninety
seven five WCS.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Dot com, Nash at ninety seven five w sous dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And tomorrow we start talking, you start talking, you start
winning the same phone number at TATO three ninety seven
eight nine two sixty seven ninety seven eight w co
Speaker 2 (23:14):
S tomorrow morning on the morning, Rush
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