6 O'FIVERS GOOD MORNING 8/12/26

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SPEAKER_12 0:01

It is 6.07 on the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers. Welcome to your Wednesday, the 12th.

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What was it? First vinyl record that you purchased with your own money.

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I had to be at least 12 or 13. I want to say it was probably a Michael Jackson. Okay.

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Alright.

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I'm thinking. Okay. Um you have to remember I grew up in a very musical family. So music was always being purchased. So I'm not really. My family too. But I had a lot. I had a little Victrola box thing, like blue, and I would open it up and play Elvis Presley. Nice constantly. And I wore my aunt gave me one of her old pleated skirts, and I would spin and dance and spin and dance next to the record player. That's my earliest memory of vinyl records. Okay. But I also also always got those um those records that were like Donald Duck, you know, Disco Duck. Sure. Um I got the Disco Duck records.

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And I also got um I thought it was funny when I heard in the radio, but never enough to spend money on it.

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Yeah, well, we had it. The Disco Duck. I remember stupid song. I remember those albums, and um there was like another one too. I can't remember. Uh but the do do doodle uh diddies, do diddies, you know. Keep your eyes on your hands, get your hands on the wheel, keep your stoopy eyes on the road ahead. No. We're having fun sitting in the back seat. I am not a gananicist and with Fred. Dumb Diddy. That's what it was. Dumb Diddy's okay.

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You don't remember dumb didn't the world's burning, why not?

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The world will s continue to burn whether we talk about it or not. You okay over there? I don't remember it being like this. Maybe I'm gonna go.

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Yeah, we were cool back then. Oh my gosh, here's the album. 1977, yeah, that's a cover. I remember this album cover now that I see it.

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My dad was a rocker. My mom liked a bunch of different stuff. My dad was mainly a rocker. So I grew up with a lot of vinyl too, but where's the hook? Oh yeah, there it is. Alright, that's enough.

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I had a cousin who could do that really well. Yeah, I know somebody. Where is he now? I know somebody. I don't know, he's running some company, Connecticut.

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Somebody sounds like sounds like the guy I know that does that currently. Every time he sees a kid, he thinks that he talks like that, and they're going, my my kids don't know who that is.

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Oh, remember that song? On top of spaghetti. No. All covered witches. Yeah. I you don't remember Dumb Diddy's?

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No.

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Oh my gosh.

unknown 3:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_10 3:39

Hey, Mike the AR guy. Back to the world burning. Uh nice job, Mark McBride. Finishing dead last again. A whopping 797 votes statewide.

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Wow.

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Nice job. See you again when it's time to room for my. Oh, sure you could. Well, for sure, at least 18. 19, because I'd vote for you.

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You'd vote for you.

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Just because. I'd love to see that. Because then you promised me that I could be your press secretary. Yes, I'll be.

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What was your question?

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Nobody'll come to the press conferences anymore.

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Nobody would ever want me to do anything. Sure. I'm not one of those elector types.

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Um my problem is I don't have much um cooth. I don't have no cooth. I got no cooth.

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It's a simpler, goofier way of saying yes, you are uncouth at times. You're just not at times very diplomatic.

SPEAKER_12 4:42

No, I'm not.

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You have another way of saying you have no filter.

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I have a a BS meter that uh when it sounds uh the alarm, holy mooley. Um, but yeah. So um need I say it.

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Hold on. I just real quick here, since we talked about it, Alice Cooper from Dr. M, Terry King, C CR. Yeah. Brothers and Sisters by Almond Brothers, great album. Uh Robert Fislockey. What else do we have? Santana, a praxis from Bob the Turf Guy. Uh what else? What else? I think that's everybody. All right. Okay, we'll move on. Yes, Mike the Air guy. He said, he said uh uh uh Glenn called him honey. I said, I ain't gonna do that. Pumpkin. He finally just got it. So there you go. All right. Moving on. What do you want? What do you want to talk about? I don't know. Back to vinyl? Mine was Kiss. Are you surprised?

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No, I'm not surprised.

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Because I heard Dr. Love on the radio.

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Yes, my sister had that. And I said, definitely an album in my house.

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And the DJ didn't say who it was. So I called the radio station. As like, you know, nine years old, however old I was, uh, right around there. And I said, Hey, what was that? He goes, That's the new Kiss song. Calling Dr. Love. I was like, oh. So I'd saved up all my money, and that weekend I went on my bike two miles away. I drove to Shopgo, which was a Wisconsin version of Walmart. Yeah, kinda sorta. And uh I said, Where's the new Kiss album? And the guy pointed over there this big display, and I was like looking at him going, What is that?

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So cool and weird. Oh, don't you wish he had that cardboard now?

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Oh, I know.

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That must be amazing.

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So I grabbed it, took it home, put it on, and I was listening and so that's not it. And I skipped it to the next one. Oh, that's not the song. I only wanted to hear that one song. Well, that's not the song. Wasn't on there. We were sold a bait and switch. Sorta. Well, it was months later I found out when I heard the new new song, which was Christine 16. Yeah. Wait a minute. I went back to that album I got two months ago, spent all my allowance to get it. Yeah. That was the new album. Did they have the old album? They didn't have well, I finally later down the road got it. Okay. But I had purchased the new one. So the first official purchase as a uh as a wrong album capitalist was the wrong album, but it turned out to be my favorite album forever. And it's Kiss Love Gun.

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Look at that.

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Yeah.

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See, that's cool. Yeah.

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That's it.

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Did you um did you make money doing something?

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Yeah. I did so. Well, I I got an allowance, but I also had sponsors. Yeah, I mowed lawns. I didn't we didn't have a paper out there. We did. Uh I washed cars. Oh. And we had a police officer who lived across the street from us in the apartment complex. Uh huh. And uh I still remember. It was Officer Jerry. Great guy.

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Uh-huh.

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And he always let me wash his car and then he'd bring the dare home. The dare car home.

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Ooh, cool. Which was a transaction.

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Then I got to wash that.

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Oh man. Cool.

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He always paid me money.

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Is that why you never did drugs? I you know, I don't know. I just had a dare cop across the street.

SPEAKER_10 7:55

Maybe. I don't know. I just never, it just didn't appeal to me.

SPEAKER_12 8:00

Well, apparently it appeals to like most people at the um fresh brewed coffee house. It does. Yeah, a lot of drugs down there. Really? I've been hearing a lot of stories. Like, I really never really paid attention to the fresh brewed coffee house, but now that there are 14 people arrested for loitering and pot and open container, it's like, what's going on down there? Thank God the city is starting to clean that place up. Holy moly. Who needs that in town? Brings down the house values and all sorts of safety issues. The quality of life crime kind of stuff. Like uh, you know, what things that drug addicts tend to do. Like litter and loiter and uh breaking into cars and all sorts of stuff like that. Stealing things off your porch, stealing packages, stealing underwear from stores. Well, they do that, you know. It's underwear is very valuable in the um camps, in the homeless camps.

SPEAKER_10 9:01

Oh, I I guess I'm from that perspective I understand that.

SPEAKER_12 9:04

Yeah, underwear and socks. That's why they that's like the number one thing stolen, probably from Walmart. I'm taking a while.

SPEAKER_10 9:10

Well, the question I have is from what I understand, digging deeper into this because I missed some of this, I was gone. Apparently, this has been going on for quite some time. They've been congregating and hanging out. Why all of a sudden the arrests?

SPEAKER_12 9:24

Well, I have a theory on that. I'm so glad you should ask.

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I'm interested. Do I need to sit down?

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So apparently, apparently, some brain trust in the city of Myrtle Beach selected four final candidates for police chief. And they all happen to be from very blue jurisdictions. Oh, yes. While the very competent um interim police chief, Chris Smith, who threw his hat into the ring, was denied a final final place, despite being a police officer in the city of Myrtle Beach for many, many years.

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Here, wait, let's stop you there. Scott Booth, Chief of Police in Roanoke, Virginia. Nicholas Augustine, Assistant Chief of Police in Montgomery, County, Maryland. Frederick Chambers, Deputy Chief of Police in Fairfax County, Virginia. And Philip, I think it's uh Rathman, Chief Deputy, uh Deputy Chief of Police in Aurora, Colorado. Where pot is very legal.

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Yep.

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So yeah. All very blue cities. Why? Why blue? Um I mean, I get the back the blue thing, but not this way.

SPEAKER_12 10:39

I guess yeah, exactly. Um I guess because the powers at B, and I don't know who made these final these four finalists, but um I spoke to someone, I spoke to someone who knows a lot about the City of Myrtle Beach Police Department. And they said, they them said that that the interim police chief chief is phenomenal.

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Why did they give it to him?

SPEAKER_12 11:14

Because I think they want somebody bluer. And I think what happened is very, very disappointing. Being a city of Myrtle Beach resident, last night they had a public meet and greet from 5 to 6.30 at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. I could not go, but I'm wondering if any of you did. And what I did find out is none of them said they would cooperate with ICE.

SPEAKER_10 11:48

Well, to me, that's a no-go right there, all four. Start over. Find me, find me some new ones. How is it that you, as a a law enforcement officer, has decided on your own you're not going to cooperate with federal law enforcement officers?

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So I spoke to someone who knows a lot about law enforcement, and they them ran lots of background checks on each single each one of these people. And none of them are the kind of police officer uh or chief or whatever they they did, right? Um for this area. You have someone from Montgomery County, Maryland, you have someone from Roanoke, Virginia, you have someone from Fairfax County, Virginia, and Aurora, Colorado, as you said, right? These are all very liberal. And they'll fit in nice and cushy with the city of Myrtle Beach, I guess. And then all of a sudden, when it's known that the four finalists are picked, a whole bunch of arrests happen of homeless people who are a menace to that area of the city.

SPEAKER_10 13:01

Wait a minute. Are you proposing this theory? That's my theory. That he's being passed over for a job he's super qualified for and is well liked and does a good job. Yep. For these especially by the cops. Right.

SPEAKER_12 13:17

Which, by the way, you want that. Yeah. You want someone who's been there on the beat and and in the city that you're gonna be chiefing. Isn't he right? Chiefing. I am chiefing. That's what chiefs do. They chief. Chiefs, not chiefs. No chiefs. Chiefs. It's thieves. Right. Chiefs.

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Right. I'm going on it. And and making sure. The job they do is chiefing. They chief the cities. They chief the cities. That they're the chiefs of. It's perfect. So when they them decided to not have this guy be in the running, and just, oh, I don't know.

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Drop the hammer. Throw that's what you're saying. Drop the blue hammer on.

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I like them even more now.

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Menace on the streets. The drugs. That explains the loitering, the whatever, prostitution for drugs, whatever's going on around uh the coffee house.

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Montgomery County, maybe the most woke county in the state of Maryland, says essential deplorable.

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I know all about it, yeah. I almost moved there in 1998.

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Why are we looking only in blue? Why? Why? Could you at least kind of make it look like you mean it with make one red person?

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You know what? The city of Myrtle Beach is one disappointment after another. One disappointment after another. One disappointment after another. Come on, people. Even the mayor! The mayor, who who mayor Mark Krua. How long has he been mayor? Hasn't been on the air yet with us. I asked. I asked again. You asked. Yes, I did. I asked again. I saw him at a very nice event. You know what happens when I ask too many times? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll do that. I stop asking.

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I know.

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I don't like to ask.

SPEAKER_10 15:04

You know, I've heard this before. I have family that works for the city of Conway. Homeless people are bussed from Myrtle Beach to Conway. Who is doing that? I'm telling you what the text says.

SPEAKER_12 15:16

That's interesting because people in the city of Myrtle Beach say all the other police departments are dropping the people off in the city of Myrtle Beach because all the services are in Myrtle Beach.

SPEAKER_10 15:26

Well, now they're saying they're being bussing them to the city of Conway. Dropping them off in Conway. I don't know. It's the police department, I guess. Is it? Well, who else is gonna drop them off? So I bet the city of Conway knows, says this person. Interesting.

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I listen. You me beer.

SPEAKER_12 15:47

I I changed that to this is this is when you know, like, like Stuart Axelrod has thrown his hat in there and said, I'm going to represent all 14 people arrested pro bono. You know he's putting the screws to the city because he's a defense attorney and he's just like, you know, I'm not gonna say Axelrod is anti-police because I'm I don't believe that, but he's he's uh oh, he he's a defense attorney. So so anytime he can put the screws to a police department, he's doing it. Okay, he's doing it. Or either that or he's extremely bored and has no clients. I don't know which is it.

SPEAKER_10 16:26

Well, it can't be a racist profile. I mean, everybody knows who he is at this point.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Why, Stuart? Why?

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Yeah, why am I supposed to is that one of those times? It's one of those times.

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Why? Why?

SPEAKER_12 16:42

I don't know. I think I think, you know, people marching people marching in support of skells hanging out on the street are really misguided. That's all I have to say. They're really misguided.

SPEAKER_10 17:00

I I'm I'm just I'm really I'm honestly confused.

SPEAKER_12 17:04

We're not, and I don't want anybody to get confused with New Directions, because New Directions is if you find yourself homeless, even if you're on drugs, they provide you a program, a safe place to land, all the help you need to get out of your situation. To break the cycle. To break the cycle, drug recovery. They do all of that. And it's another lie. They're there the the these people out here supporting all the scales on the street, they're saying, We need an emergency shelter. We don't have one, we need money, we need to go fund me. We need okay. Um guess what? New Directions has an emergency shelter. They have it. So don't lie. There is one. But it's for true emergencies, not for drug addicts.

SPEAKER_10 17:56

Yeah. He weather related.

SPEAKER_12 17:59

Yeah. Or suddenly you're homeless. That's an emergency. Not that you're homeless like every day for the rest of your life because all you want to do is do drugs and be a menace.

SPEAKER_10 18:11

It seems to me that an interim police chief if he truly is behind turning the screws and you know. Yeah, and let's go. Well, I I kind of think that's a good idea. I kind of like them now even more. Because if you make an area less attractive, it kind of takes care of itself. Yeah. It's like, oh, don't go there, you'll get arrested.

SPEAKER_12 18:31

Duh. Problem solved. Duh. It's called policing 101. I'm so fed up with that whole thing. Did we cause enough damage?

SPEAKER_10 18:42

Uh everybody agrees. Did we cause enough damage? No, not yet.

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Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_10 18:50

When somebody pulls the plug on the show, then we've hit the pinnacle of causing damage.

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And I've done enough damage. Alright, alright. Alright, let's go.

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The Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers, making Grand Strand Morning Radio great again. Back in a bit.

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Alright. Did we have lightning last night? Because it looks like a house got struck by lightning. A little bit.

SPEAKER_10 19:10

Last night. I know it was because we had the kids. Nicolina and her friend staying over, and as soon as it started thunderstorming, both of them came into the bedroom. Oh, that's scary. What time? I don't know. I was half asleep.

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I was just reading here.

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Maybe 11, midnight.

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With all this humidity and heat, uh, the chances of us getting more lightning.

SPEAKER_10 19:30

Yeah. Storms could pop up at any time. Most of us stay dry, but they're saying they're always there. The potential.

SPEAKER_12 19:36

Uh Cypress Springs way near Sea Mountain Highway. It you know that North Furtle Beach area. I don't know. It's like a magnet of lightning.

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Seven little girls. No, no, the shot in the back. Nope.

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One, two, three. Spread.

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Yes. Who remembers that song? Who I know Magadon will remember that song. That's a moldy oldie right there. Uh the bunch of blind sex line is open. 843-798-talk 798-8255. All right, so we have our two people that are running for Senate in the runoff.

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I figured out who Fred was.

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It makes me want to have a devil dog to sit in my beanbag chair. This is what? I'm gonna have a devil dog while sitting in my beanbag chair. Because that's what I would do. I would eat a devil dog while eating the devil dog ass! What are you talking about? How do you not know what a devil dog is?

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I have no idea.

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I don't know what you're talking about. I sit in my beanbag chair and sweat in my beanbag chair because it was all like vinyl and stuff. And you'd be like, sweat. And then every time every time you plopped in it, all the beans would fly out.

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Why do you have holy beanbag chairs? And what is the devil dog?

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What? And who is Fred?

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I'm so confused.

SPEAKER_12 21:50

I'm not having a good morning. That's my childhood. Okay. It's probably like fluoro chlorophluorocarbons in my beam chair. Oh stop. Then hence hence why I'm here. Um yeah. Bean bags, devil dogs, yodels. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 22:10

That was what it did. We had I fiddle faddle, we had that. That was good. So sugary. I know. Oh sugary. I but I I wouldn't eat a lot of it.

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That's all the fillings I have.

SPEAKER_10 22:23

I would need a lot of it. I didn't like a lot of sugar. I didn't have a sweet tooth until I turned fitty. What? Yeah, now it's like a chocolate. That means you're missing something. I don't know. What am I missing?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 22:37

What?

SPEAKER_12 22:37

You're missing some kind of thing that's making you crave sugar.

SPEAKER_10 22:40

Yeah, I probably have cancer somewhere in me and I'm feeding it.

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Stop.

SPEAKER_10 22:45

They say that isn't it? Cancer feeds off the sugar?

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Yes. Okay.

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You have to starve it by not eating sugar. Oh, by the way, Neil says, I remember that song. I always wondered who Fred was, too. Whatever. He was one lucky dude. Be like Fred. Be like Fred.

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Be like Fred.

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Oh, uh Brenda says, I remember those songs, Liz.

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I love them. Dumb Diddies.

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Purple People Leader, I think was the first one.

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Got a one-eyed, one-armed purple people. What is it? One eye?

SPEAKER_10 23:16

One eye, one uh one-horned.

SPEAKER_12 23:19

One horned. Not all. Isn't it?

SPEAKER_10 23:21

He might have one. Well, if he took the COVID jab, he might have several arms. We don't know. This is the little turn eye.

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Oh my gosh. Alright.

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It's like a 605 hour of days gone by.

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Our clients are like, really?

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I know.

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We pay for the Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_07 23:50

Well, I saw the thing coming out of the sky. One big eye. It looks like a purple people eater to me. It was a one-eyed one horn flying purple people.

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I'm so glad you were playing Darlene's campaign song.

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What eyed one? What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_10 24:13

She's a people leader. She's got one eye.

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I heard him say in a voice so gruff.

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I wouldn't let you go, you're so tough.

SPEAKER_07 24:27

It was a one-eyed one horn flying purple people leader.

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Oh man.

SPEAKER_12 24:33

Yeah.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_12 24:34

Yeah. Yeah, not a good day. Not a bad day, but not a good day. Um, my candidate did not win. Maybe yours did, um, but mine did it. Not you, they them. Um and so uh we have a clip of a coverage of such said election.

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Is this from you or from me? You have a clip. I do. Yeah. Let's start with your favorite. You ready? Yes. All right, from WIS TV, by the way.

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It was a big night for Darlene Graham as she advances to a runoff against Ralph Norman. She spoke to a room full of media tonight saying she's thankful, but also acknowledging that this is a very emotional time.

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That this is a very emotional night because I'm usually standing here celebrating with Lindsay. So I know he's looking down right now, smiling, though. So that gives me peace, but it it is difficult.

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Graham touted what she has been able to accomplish in Washington in just the three weeks she has been there, including passing the Russia sanction legislation, something that was very meaningful to her brother Lindsay.

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Some politicians never get a major piece of their legislation passed, so I've already accomplished more in a few weeks than many do in decades.

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Come on, Grim thanked her supporters saying is far from over, but she's a fighter and she is here to answer the call.

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When President Trump and others asked me to run for a full term in the Senate, I prayed hard about it. I knew I could not sit on the sidelines. That's not how Lent Lindsay and I were raised. That's not who I am. I'm a fighter.

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Over the next two weeks, Graham plans to visit many voters across the state of South Carolina and show why she is the best candidate to serve a term in the U.S. Senate. Reporting in Columbia, I'm Hannah Burbank, WIS News 10.

SPEAKER_10 26:32

All right, so there's that coverage.

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I'm a fighter.

SPEAKER_10 26:35

Well, the whole thing about, so I got more done than wait a minute. Your brother did all the work.

SPEAKER_12 26:42

I am a fighter. Like, if you're gonna be a fighter, then just stop saying you're a fighter and just act like one. Act like one. I am sorry her brother died. It is a horrible tragedy that we're all upset about. But why are you doing this to us? That's where I have no more patience for that.

SPEAKER_10 27:04

All right, moving on to WIS TV coverage of Ralph Norman.

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Now to York County, where Ralph Norman is celebrating his results tonight, finishing second in the special primary.

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Our Stephen Biddocks was there, was just one of three reporters that went one-on-one with Norman and shares more from Rock Hill for what was an exciting night there.

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Just a couple months ago, Ralph faced a similar situation. A crowded field on primary night. That day, the votes did not fall his way, but this time it was a different story. I spoke with Norman after delivering his victory speech. He said, as you can imagine, it's a lot more fun being on this side of the race, heading to a runoff. In his victory speech, Ralph Norman said he ran the campaign on three words faith, family, and freedom. Norman says he always trusted South Carolina voters to make the right call and believes it's time for people to come together to stop socialism and Democrats from taking over the country. Norman also pointed to his record and experience, saying his conservatism is needed now more than ever. When asked about not receiving the Trump endorsement, he said he wanted it, but it's fine because it's South Carolina choosing the next senator. Norman and Congressman Russell Fry battled in a tight race for second all night. But Norman's strength in the upstate and along the North Carolina border is what pushed him into this runoff against Darleen Graham.

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I see a electricity in this race. I see people wanting to get involved, and I think it couldn't come at a better time. We are at a tipping point in America, and I want to make sure it tips the right way.

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Norman says he is willing to participate in debates against Darling Graham. Whether those happen or not is still to be seen. But one thing that is clear is Ralph Norman's going home tonight with two more weeks of campaigning ahead. Reporting in Rock Hill, I'm Stephen Biddings.

SPEAKER_10 29:02

You know, we had uh somebody just pop in, Dr. M here on the budget blinds text line, kind of sums up uh how I think I will speak for we us, as opposed to they them. Uh I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about either one of them, and I think you and I can agree with that. But here's my response, and I think you'll agree with this. We don't either, but Norman has more of a record of voting conservative, and he's got that at least. Darlene has nothing but a name as far as we're concerned. So yeah, uh listen, stuck between those two? Norman. Has to be.

SPEAKER_12 29:35

I'm not saying we have to take the low road, but we cannot treat other candidates with kid gloves. They need to be exposed for who they really are and what they've really done. And that is the job of the other candidates and the team around the other candidate is to opposition research, you find out the information, you uh point out all the character flaws and issues with that person being in that role. Let other people do that for you, and you just talk about the positive message and speak like a fighter. Don't say, I'm a fighter. It's not sellable. But look, here we are, because you know why? We don't know enough about Darlene Graham to not vote for her. And that is the job of the candidates to expose people for who they are, how they live their life. You know, you want to throw your hat in the ring and be the senator, then you are going to be exposed for everything that you can and are able to do. You know, I mean, nobody pointed to the fact that she's like doubled or tripled the agency she's run. Money-wise, employee-wise, all that.

SPEAKER_10 30:56

Sounds like big government.

SPEAKER_12 30:58

Exactly, exactly my point. Stop it. Come on.

SPEAKER_10 31:02

Listen, I know like you, we know nothing about her, and what we do know of her is what you just pointed out.

SPEAKER_12 31:08

It's the campaign's job to expose her.

SPEAKER_10 31:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_12 31:11

But they don't want to make Trump mad because he picked her. So what? Exactly. Come on. And and I said, don't treat her like you're don't do the grandma, two men in a trick rule. Jate my grandma. Okay? Lots of us have suffered tragedy in our lives. And lots of us stand up and go back to work the next day. It happens. It's horrible. It's tragic. It's life. It's what happens.

SPEAKER_10 31:40

But it's not, I don't think. The pedigree to centered there to represent South Carolina for six or more years.

SPEAKER_12 31:49

This really says a lit this election result really says a lot about Trump and it says a lot about Lindsey Graham. That's all I have to say.

SPEAKER_10 32:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 32:04

And I hope everybody who voted for Russell Fry and Sanford coalesced behind Ralph Norman. Because we have a little bit of a better chance with him. I think he's a term limits guy, so I think he'll be done after six years, and then we'll vote for Russell Fry again.

SPEAKER_10 32:20

Not to mention, I'm sorry to point it out, but I'm sure it'll be pointed out. His age. Yeah. He's not a spring chicken. 71, 73. Six years, you know. And not everybody operates at the Trump energy level. Yes, I'm bringing Trump back into it because look at the guy, 80, and look what he does.

SPEAKER_12 32:37

Not human. Come on.

SPEAKER_10 32:38

Oh, that's what I mean. So not everybody has that. Everybody ages differently. And Ralph Norman seems to be pretty surprised. Seems to be, you know, he's got those marbles when I hear him talk. That's good. I'm okay with it. As opposed to the other. I'm not okay with because I know nothing about her. And just because her brother held the seat and sadly passed away, does not mean you get an automatic okay from me.

SPEAKER_12 33:02

Man, it was a horse race. I couldn't I couldn't stand watching it. It was like, man, I gotta look away. I gotta look away. It was like Russell was in the lead, Ralph Norman was in the lead, Russell, Ralph Norman, and then they said, Oh, Darlene made it in.

SPEAKER_10 33:14

Yes, Brad and Lisa, you are right. Going back to the they-them portion of the show. Uh people voted with their hearts, not their heads. Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_12 33:22

Yeah. I feel bad for her. But doesn't mean I need to make her my senator.

SPEAKER_10 33:26

No, and now that's done. Okay, now we feel better. Now let's get to the business of what needs to be done. Ralph Norman is the only viable.

SPEAKER_12 33:33

Russell Fry. While tonight we ran out of runway, we are incredibly proud of everything this campaign accomplished. And every single South Carolinian that believed in our mission, fighting for families. In three weeks, we formed a campaign, raised over a million dollars, held over 30 events, crisscrossed the great state, and fought for every single vote. We have absolutely no regrets. Tonight, the great voters of South Carolina have spoken, and we want to congratulate both both Darlene Graham and Ralph Norman on advancing to the runoff. Bronwyn, to Bronwyn, James, and my entire family, thank you. This was an insane three-week sprint. You never wavered. Not once. I could not have done any of this without you, and I love you more than words can say. And to my campaign team, every volunteer, every donor, and every supporter who knocked a door, made a call, sent a text, and believed in our fight for South Carolina's future. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You gave everything, and I will never forget it and never stop fighting for South Carolina's future. God bless you. God bless South Carolina, God bless the United States of America. Signed Congressman Russell Fry.

SPEAKER_10 34:35

And that's the good news out of all this. He's still going to be there to represent us in the House of Representatives.