Show Rewind 7-16-26

You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are, listening to me, which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-I-Hart or go to iHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-I-Hart or iHeartadvertising.com. You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash. All right, let's get into it. Boy, big, Tim Scott broke it down a little bit yesterday. I've had several people talking to me, Christopher, and saying, well, when are you going to announce, like, I'm in charge of the Lindsey Graham funeral thing? I'm like, I don't know. I mean, it does seem like it's been taking a while. And yesterday, Tim Scott basically said, It's too many world dignitaries trying to come and pay tribute to Lindsey Graham. So right now, quote, the funeral arrangements have been very complicated by the fact that so many global leaders want to attend the process of figuring out when the National Cathedral will be made available for the exact time as the global leaders who want to come and all other national leaders who want to be there is becoming more difficult. It's right now an impossibility to do it this week. He said he spoke with Darlene Graham, who had remained hopeful that the services could be held next week. After talking to Darlene, she suggested that there's some hope for next week that we could still make it. Unfortunately, there's now planning going into the following week. Wow, I didn't realize the National Cathedral was booked that far in advance, I guess it is. You've got security concerns. You've got all these world leaders. Lindsey Graham was a friend to everyone. I mean, he knew every world leader. He was a globetrotter. And people have been accusing South Carolina of, okay, why are you putting politics before you even honor the man, before you even put him in the ground? Well, unfortunately, for us, the timetable requires that we do. And so we've had to talk about the election before we can even talk about burying Lindsey Graham. And did you see, I don't know why it started going viral a couple of days ago, but the 2015 interview with Lindsey Graham from, I think it was CNBC, he was getting ready to run for president, or I think he'd already announced he was running for president, something to that extent. And I just loved watching that video. And it was, it was powerful because he talked about the death of his parents and how that. was navigated by him and then taking over his, you know, the care and upbringing of his sister. Also talked about, though, if he had advice for senators. And he said, look, if you want to be considered someone who's serious about national security, you can't stay in America. You've got to go see how our security.

is implemented around the world. And he was talking about how many times he'd been to Afghanistan, how many times he'd been to Iraq, how many times he'd been to Iraq. And he was just basically saying, I can see once we make a change how it is affecting that nation. And then I can come back and advise the president. Hey, listen, this thing worked. This thing's not working. And I mean, the guy just completely devoted himself to... his job. He was selfless in that respect and made such a name for himself that, I mean, yes, there are other senators who would get this kind of attention had they died early. But not many. True. And, you know, we sometimes accuse these senators and representatives of globetrotting just to, you know, take a paid vacation. But, I mean, he was working all the time and apparently worked himself to death, essentially, with the way he died. But, yeah, I mean, he had great respect and he never dodged an issue. You give him credit for that. I mean, there are some senators who are known, okay, all right, that's his issue. You know, Rand Paul, for example, you know, finances. He's always talking about the government and wasteful spending. Lindsey Graham's issues were everything. He never dodged an issue. If there was an issue confronting America, Lindsey Graham was usually at the forefront of the argument, whether you agreed with them or not. I'm trying to remember who said this about him, but they were taking a long flight with him, and they asked them about, you know, something about when did you feel comfortable? like kind of being one of the leaders in the Senate. And he said, I can't remember exact words of what he said, but it was to the extent of, I kept thinking they were in charge. And then after a little while, I realized there is no they. And if there is a they, they don't know what the blank they're doing. So I just started giving my opinion. And it worked for him. And it worked for him for years. We were fairly critical of them here at times. And Lindsey Graham certainly. did not always operate under what South Carolina considered to be its political bent. But... At the same time, Lindsey Graham, I don't think we realized in South Carolina how he was viewed by the rest of the country and the world, for that matter, how important he was to national politics. And I just find it interesting, Tim Scott announcing that maybe it won't even happen next week, that the funeral may be taking place the week after that and then goes on to say that. My understanding is as soon as you get through the one here in D.C., they're going to move quickly to have a funeral service down in South Carolina, probably within a day or two. And I'd be surprised if he didn't lie in state in the South Carolina State House as well. That's what I'm wondering as well. I'm imagining they're going to want to give the people an opportunity to come by and pay their tributes to the fallen senator. But the...

Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday, I'm flying into D.C. this weekend, specifically for this Lindsey Graham thing. I don't know. Does he have like a private thing going on or whatever? Or is he just going to stay here for 10 days? Yeah, I don't know. Unless he knows something we don't. Yeah. And, I mean, there will be tremendous security concerns depending on when this funeral takes place. So it will probably take a week or two of planning. Absolutely. Yeah, this is going to be a very big deal. So we're going to keep our eyes on that. And we're going to break down some more of the national stories that are going on as well today, not just here in South Carolina, but all around the country and around the world. What's going on with Iran? What's going on with the president's speech tonight? We've got some previews of that. And other things is we roll on South Carolina's morning news. 60 a.m. WV.O.C. and 94-3. W.S.C. Now, Kelly Nash. And here we are at South Carolina's Morning News Command Central, where we're constantly scanning the news, looking for not only stories that impact you, but might be interesting. Like this one, Arcola, Texas, which is apparently a small suburb just outside of Houston, K-H-O-U television reporting this morning, that the mayor... Fred Burton has been arrested. And this is not probably going to be related to Donald Trump's speech tonight, but it is another case of illegal voting. According to the authorities, the, I guess soon to be former mayor, was in a runoff and he went ahead and encouraged three people who he knew were not eligible to vote to go ahead and vote for him. He was arrested last night. He's charged at the Fort Bend County Jail. Bonset Wednesday night. They were set at $25,000 for each for the illegal voting charges, $20,000 for the misuse of official information charge and $20,000 for a fraud charge and $15,000 for the tampering with a government record charge. I mean, this is a city of 2,000 people.

When you think that power does not corrupt people, this is like being the class president, 2,000 people. And this guy's willing to violate local, state, and federal law to try to cling to power and get illegal votes for himself. This is, oh, imagine what they're going to do at a national level. 2,000 people, but he tried to influence three votes? In a runoff election, which had a grand total of 400 people voting. Okay. So, yes, three votes made a difference, and that's why he's in jail today. And I... Again, what kind of perks come with being the mayor of Fort Bend or whatever the heck the name of it? What is it? Arcola, my apology. Yeah, I don't want to disrespect Arcola. But, I mean, this is not, I would imagine, a very prestigious gig. This is the kind of, this has got to be a part-time job at best. I mean, is the mayor of Columbia is still a part-time job? Yes. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm imagining the salary for the Arcola Mayor position is probably... five grand a year or something like that it sounds like he tampered with more money than that because he's also been accused of a few other things yeah along with along with tampering with votes yeah the two counts of illegal voting one count of misuse of official information i don't know what that means uh one count of fraud one kind of tampering with government records all of which are felonies so you're 68 years old and you're gonna go out like this. This is, this is, but again, to the bigger point of what Donald Trump's going to be addressing tonight, the idea that there's foreign governments tampering with our elections. It's interesting that the Democrats and the mainstream media pretty much have said, we don't want to hear it. We're not interested in it. And like you and I were talking about yesterday, if he's going to go back to 2020, a lot of Republicans don't want to hear it, especially about what's going on with Georgia, because we really think that Georgia is. That is a very winnable state for the Republicans this year. But if you start reiterating these old voter fraud claims, people are going to maybe tune out a little bit or maybe just can say, oh, the conspiracy theories. But the idea that people want to tamper with U.S. federal elections should not be surprising. No. The other fear, I think, with... arguing too much about 2020 is people say all right well then my vote's not going to count i'll just sit on my hands and stay home in november and you don't want that either especially if you're a republican

So, yeah, he's got to be careful with that message tonight and what he tells people. But this case you just brought up in our COLA shows Democrats also, in addition to saying we don't want to hear it anymore, they also say it's not possible in America. We've got too many safeguards already. We don't need the Save America Act. We don't need anything else. We're already. We already have election integrity. Well, this goes to show even in a small town, it's easy to do. Yeah. And I guess their pushback would be, well, he got caught. The system worked. Yes, I understand that the system did catch this guy. I don't know exactly the backstory. KHOU does not really tell me how they caught him. But, you know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are, listening to me, which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-Ehart or go to IHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-Ehart or IHeartadvertising.com. I'm happy he got caught, but I also know that many crimes go unsolved. And when you continue to deny that there's an actual problem or you minimize it, then that diverts attention from the actual crime of illegal aliens voting and people who are not registered to vote in these towns. And I don't know if I ever told the story, Christopher, on the air. When I first moved here from New York, I moved here to Charleston in 2003. It was in like 2009, there was a story about cleaning the voter rolls. I checked. I was still a registered voter in New York, even though I had registered in South Carolina, which should have taken me off the voter rolls. I don't know if I was still voting in New York. Maybe I suddenly switched from a very consistent Republican vote to the mid to late 2000s. Suddenly he's a very big Democrat supporter. I don't know what happened. But I had to actually write a letter up to the New York voter rolls to get my name removed. They should be cleaning those things. That shouldn't be the responsibility of the citizen to have to get their name off the rolls. And that's another way that they abused the system and the Democrat systems. But anyway, we'll hear more from the president about that tonight. We will have some more stuff that's going on right here in South Carolina as the morning rolls on with South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC, Columbia, and 943 WS.C. Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. So Merle's Inlet is home to the biggest...

what is it called, an oyster, man-made oyster reef in South Carolina and one of the biggest ones in the country. And they're looking to expand upon that. And they're saying that in ORI County. The number one problem, I guess, facing people who want to go out into the water is bacteria near the swimmers. You know, you've got those big washouts that they have and all kinds of stormwater swashing through there with nastiness in it. And apparently, Christopher, they're saying that the oysters are like the number one way to get rid of all that bacteria. Yeah, they, I mean, the water flows through there and it filters. Through those oyster shells, live oysters. Yeah. What you've got to do now is attract those live or grow those live oysters, and they're trying to put some oyster beds into place that would filter some of that water out. It says an adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons a day. One oyster filters 50 gallons a day. So they've already had huge success, they say, in Merle's Inlet with this and how they want to expand it. The problem has been... And I'm kind of confused as to how this became a problem. I'm just reading it from the, this is what is it, the state newspaper. The project is entirely dependent on the amount of oyster shells that are recycled over 100 restaurants serve oysters in ORI County, but only one participates in the recycling of the oyster shells. The rest just dump them in a landfill. Yes. And it says ORI County lagging behind individual South Carolina cities, many that are many miles from the coast. So I don't know how did this get started in like inland cities, but they didn't figure out how to do it in Myrtle Beach. I don't know why a restaurant wouldn't participate. I mean, if you're going to dump the shells anyway, why not just hand them off to the city or the county and say, here, use them. Yes, that would seem very simple, but of course we need more funding. We're looking for grant funding to create a collection route to increase the number of participating restaurants without placing an additional task on them. So I guess they're hoping to have some truck that goes around and kind of picks up the oyster shells for everybody. But yes, if we... Look, I'm not against government spending money on stuff like this. If it's something that you can directly affect the quality of life, especially in an area like Myrtle Beach where so much is dependent upon how many people want to come. And if they come down here and they're like, gosh, the beaches suck because it's just filled with bacteria. Can't swim in the water. Well, then let's invest a little bit. And if natural resources like an oyster can clean it up, I have no opposition to it. Do you see any reason to oppose this? I don't think so. That's one of the things I've always been uncomfortable with Myrtle Beach. And you see it more there than I think you do in other places. All these wastewater drains right on the beach. Yeah. And yeah, so if they can make people more comfortable about coming to those beaches, then I'm all for it. And I guess they would put these oysters up.

upstream. So by the time the wastewater comes out, it's already been cleaned up. So. Anyway, maybe you've got thoughts on that. Maybe you've, maybe you're somebody who's already donating your oyster shells. Let us know on the talkback feature. This is South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. Well, we just heard in the news break that the vice president was on the Joe Rogan podcast yesterday discussing the Epstein. files and Look, I'm obviously not an advisor to JD Vance. I would like for him to stop talking about it because it seems like he makes it worse the more he talks about it. Yesterday, if you get an opportunity or if you've already heard it, he starts opening up all kinds of conspiracy theories. He went down about three or four different rabbit holes regarding tax fraud allegations regarding... how he could be a member of Mossad, you know, that the Israelis were controlling him. I mean, Why would you want to just keep talking about this? It's almost a distraction at this point from what's really important. And I'm not sure most Americans, in spite of what was said at the hearings on Capitol Hill yesterday regarding Todd Blanche, I don't think most Americans are paying attention to the Epstein files anymore. And at this, you know, one of the things that JD Vance said that I thought should have just been the jump off point was he said any. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Visit iHeartadvertising.com. Again, that's iHeartadvertising.com. Information that the government might have had would have been compiled in 2006.

And we don't have any. So I don't know if it was destroyed in Florida in 2006 or if they never had anymore. So anything else is just speculation at this point. And people's imaginations are running wild. And if you didn't have social media, you wouldn't have... I don't think any push for more stuff on the Epstein Files. The Epstein Files is a great ideal, this ideal that there is a shadow group of very wealthy businessmen and political influencers who are just kind of manipulating children for their devious objectifications and all that sort of thing. That is like a Bond villain movie. Even if it happened, which I don't believe that it was at the level that most people are thinking. But even if it did, that has been destroyed. He's been either by self-infliction or by prison guard or by the Clintons or whatever. He is off the earth and has been off the earth now for what, six, seven years. And we have no new victims. We have no... By the way, when they always talk about justice for those victims, there was a like several hundred million dollar payout made as well. If most victims got the kind of justice that these women got, they'd all be rich. But, and again, it's not to minimize the fact that they were sexually assaulted when they were young people. But. They are a group of people who have had an inordinate amount of attention paid to them for 20 years now. And if they want further, quote unquote, justice, then they can reveal the names of the men that they say that they're afraid to tell us about. But I guess we're supposed to keep looking for. I think most Americans realize that we've learned all we're going to learn. Everything else is just speculation or will remain secret forever. And I agree with you, Christopher. I don't think most Americans care that much at this point about it. And... If I could advise JD Vance, stop talking about that and stop talking and stop thinking you can negotiate with the dang Iranians. All right. Maybe you've got thoughts on that. Let us know on the talkback feature on the IHeart radio app. This is South Carolina's morning news. Live from the state capital, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. It seems there's nothing John Thune can't screw up. So, uh... Recent survey, 68% of Americans would like to stop changing the clocks. And the vast majority of them would like it to be daylight savings time permanently. I disagree with that position, but that's okay. That's what Americans want. That's what they should get. It passed the House on Tuesday overwhelmingly. The only one from South Carolina voted against it, Jim Clyburn. But...

Now it's moving to the Senate, and John Thune has already said, not for it. Not for it. Also, surprisingly, Tom Cotton is not going to be for it. They've got like 13 or 14 senators who've already spoken out against it. But again... 68% of Americans want this. Why can't it? It's so easy. Just bring it up for a vote. You could knock this out before lunch today if you wanted. You would think so. I mean, if that many Americans are in favor of it, then why are, I understand the arguments. And there are a lot of people who say, okay, this is going to mean, you know, kids at the bus stop, in darkness and wintertime. Yes. Leave it one way or the other and stick to it. Yeah, I would prefer it to be, like you said, the earlier way, but that's also because I go to bed early. But, you know, either or let's just pick one and move on and get it handled. My gosh. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. You know, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is a case study in why liberal societies fail. And yesterday he gave what I would say is a master class in why liberal societies just crash and burn. We're going to break down some of his news conference yesterday. And we've got plenty more to get to as well. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Hi there. Thanks for starting your day with us. Christopher Thompson here. And yesterday, KTTC, Minnesota, carried a little snippet of the Tim Walz press conference. Tim Walz, as you know. part of a three-person commission, also Keith Ellison, the Attorney General for Minnesota, and the Supreme Court Chief Justice for the state. They make up the three-person panel that decided to give a full pardon to a man who, 20-plus years ago, was having sexual relations with a 10-year-old girl, not once, not twice, did it numerous times over a two-year period. She finally called the authorities. And he tried to bribe her, offered her $10, then admitted to the police and the authorities and everybody. Yes, this is what I did. But this is the way we do things where I'm from in Laos. This is the way we raise young girls. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with Iheart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Visit iHeartadvertising.com. Again, that's iHeartadvertising.com. Thankfully, the police did not care about the cultural differences at the time. But anyway, they've had an order of deportation on this guy since 2006.

It's been a case of hide the illegal for 20 years in Minnesota. They caught him in November of 2025, and a Supreme Court justice in that state ruled that the federal authorities had to let him go, even though he, again, had an order for 20 years to be deported. For whatever reason, they complied and let him go. And it became a bigger deal once that kind of hit the newswires. And Marco Rubio last week revoked his status again. And then Homeland Security went and got him. And he's now back in Laos. So here is the report yesterday with Tim Walz. answer to all of that. For the first time, Governor Tim Walz responding on camera today to the pardon pushed back out of Washington following a June decision he supported. Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can't all be judged by our worst day? And I want to be very clear, these are horrific crimes. Yeah, it was a pretty horrific crime. Yeah. And yes, by the way, that guy. Even to show you how liberal Minnesota was 20 plus years ago, he spent a grand total of nada, not one day in jail, nothing. And now he's got a full pardon. And obviously it was an attempt to try to keep them in the country because they love illegals, especially they apparently love criminals. And how flippant can you be? If you're a Minnesota citizen, aren't you yelling at Tim Walz? Did it make us any safer? Yes. The minute this man was shipped out of the country, we all feel safer. He said something to the extent of they based it on two things. One, they don't have any reason to believe he's been revilating. Two, the victim. did send in a letter saying that she forgave him. And that's a good thing for her to forgive. Does her no good to carry that grudge? And so anybody who's been violated in any way, I would encourage you to try to... Release yourself and give forgiveness to the perpetrators. However, that's not what criminal justice is about. The reason Minnesota is a hellhole in California and Washington State and Oregon is because they don't enforce criminal law. You've got... The shoplifting is so bad in these places. Walmart goes out of business in some of these towns. You know how bad you have to shoplift to make Walmart unprofitable? That's almost unheard of. You've got like a zombie apocalypse of drug-riddled people wandering your streets, defecating everywhere, the homeless parade. It goes on and on for miles and miles because you come up with excuses.

Oh, well, that was their culture there. Oh, they had a tough upbringing. Oh, they really needed to steal the food. Oh, they needed it. No. If you want societies to work, you need to have law and order. I'm so thankful we live in South Carolina where from the Attorney General's office on down, the sheriff's departments, everybody seems to understand that if you commit a crime, even if you're a great person. You still got to go to jail. And Tim Walz's saying, we shouldn't all be judged by what we've done on our worst day. I mean, for most of us, our worst day might be speeding or, you know, something like that. Yes, it's breaking the law, but we didn't, we didn't injure anybody. We didn't hurt anybody. We just, you know, push the speed limit a little bit. This guy's worst day was assaulting multiple times a 10-year-old girl. Well, he, he. I mean, it was a bad two-year period. Apparently so. It was from 10 to 12 that he was assaulting that girl. And it was only when she became 12 that she kind of realized, oh, this is criminal what's happening to me. What a tragic story. And I pray to God, he's wrong. He's lying about that's how we do things in Laos. I hope that's not how they raise 10-year-old girls in Laos. But he is now home in Laos. And Tim Walz is mourning his departure, as is most of the Minnesota government. Again, for any of you stuck behind liberal lines listening on the IHeart Radio app, if you can get out, it is so much better on the other side. Like I said, I escaped New York. 20 plus years ago to get to Charleston. I have not regretted it one second. You won't either. Get out while you still can. Oh my gosh. Are we any better off now? Now that the criminal child molester's gone? Yeah. Yeah, you are. But Kelly, don't judge him on his worst day. I mean... I haven't been drunk in decades. But if I got drunk tonight and drove my car and injured somebody, I need to be judged in order for society. People in society have to feel safe. And one of the ways they feel safe is they know if I get out of line, bad things will happen to me so I don't get out of line. And I trust that everybody else feels the same way. And the people get out of line and go to jail or let's bring back mental institutions. They're very worried about incarceration rates. Send them to Met. Where are the lunatic asylums? We need more of them. And if you wound up injuring a victim when you were parading around drunk, let's hope the victim did eventually forgive you. But that doesn't forgive your crime. Exactly. The consequences of your actions need to be paid for. And again, so for everybody to see it. You don't get two different levels of some sort of justice here. Oh, because she forgave him? Well, then guess what's going to happen? If that's the standard, every criminal is going to try to force the victim to...

Oh, I forgive them because I don't forgive them. They're going to kill my parents. I mean, come on, man. Grow up, Tim Walz. Golly. Again, thoughts and prayers to everybody who has to live in a liberal state today. All right. Coming up, we have... The view is attention. The view is talking about us yesterday, Christopher. Oh, yes. That can't be good. We'll talk about that and more as South Carolina's morning news rolls on. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.30 a.m. WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, Kelly Nash. Well, most of Americans and pretty much all South Carolinians were very moved by the touching tribute to Lindsey Graham and the idea that not only the president, but our governor, decided to use his sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, to fill the last couple of months of his service in the Senate. I say most Americans, because yesterday on The View, it became rather obvious that Sunny Host and Joy Behar take great exception to that idea. I don't love it. You know, she'll be the first woman to be a U.S. senator in South Carolina in the history of the state. And I think that that's just, it's just fundamentally wrong that South Carolina just couldn't elect a woman. And this is the only way that it was done. I think the experience does matter. And while she is a certified optician and while she has done great work in that field, I don't think that she should be representing the people of South Carolina. and the U.S. Senate. I just don't believe in that. Isn't this the very definition of a DEI? Correct. Correct. It's everything that the Republican Party stands against. Everything that the Republican Party stands against. It's a DEI hire is what they're saying. Maybe they don't know what DEI means, Christopher. Do we need to give them a definition of what a DEI hire is? They do understand she's simply a placeholder until January, right? And they do understand we're holding an election right now to replace Lindsey Graham. And by the way, I love that little shot that she took at. They can't elect a woman. Back to back. We elected not only a woman, but she happens to be a person of color to just check another box for you who care about such things. We don't care about those types of things. We just care about who's qualified. But Nikki Haley proudly represented us, not only here as our governor, but then we're up to the ambassadorship. Yeah, no, you're not making me feel any worse. I don't feel bad that we have.

Darlene Graham Nordone. She is not a DEI hire. This is not to check a box. This is a fantastic story that the view refuses to acknowledge. And this is not a precedent setting. situation either. Most cases, it's the widow of a senator who dies suddenly, who is, you know, then appointed to replace their husband for the remainder of his term. In this case, Lindsey Graham wasn't married, so it's his sister. But, I mean, this has been done countless times over the years. You know, Debbie Dingell is a representative from Michigan. And she, the Dingle name has been in Congress now, I think, over a hundred years. Wow. It started with like, well, because she married into the family. I think John Dingle was her husband's name. He's the, I believe still the longest serving member of Congress in history. It was like 58 years or something. And then before that was like his father. Well, when he passed, she was appointed and then she ran four and won election over and over and over again. It was so funny because I had done a video about her. She literally fell asleep during a congressional hearing. And so I was mocking that. And then two weeks later, I happened to be in D.C., not this recent trip, but the year previous. And I met her. And she was so nice to me. And I'm thinking, I totally just wrecked you on social media the other day. But she was a nice lady, just not at this point probably shouldn't be serving if you're falling asleep during congressional hearings. But yes, the view. I liked Alan Wilson tweeted that out and said, congratulations, darling. You've been a senator for less than 24 hours. And the women of the viewer are already mad at you. You're off to a great start. There you go. Lindsay would be proud. All right. More to come. This is South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 5. 5.60 a.m. WV.O.C. Columbia and 943 W.S.C. Charleston. You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are. Listening to me. Which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-I-Hart or go to IHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-Ehart or IHeartadvertising.com. Now, Kelly Nash. And with me is Christopher Thompson, sports director. Christopher, have you ever been down to Cartersville, Georgia? Know where it is. I've only been there once. Okay, they've got something called Lake Point Sports in Cartersville, Georgia, which is apparently just a destination for like high school championships. It is a massive complex for travel ball, for championships. I mean, they, for sports year round.

Well, and here in the Midlands, they want to replicate that, apparently. So, you know where the tennis center is in Casey. They want to take over 300 acres and build a massive sports complex. And like they say, this facility will be modeled after a facility that's already been recognized nationally. It would come with a hotel. all kinds of, you know, things that are needed, but also profitable opportunities. And the way they would pay for all this is the, I guess the homeowners in Lexington County. Let me just read this directly from the state newspaper. The bond issue needs to be approved by the county council members in three separate readings and the subject of a public hearing provisionally scheduled for August 11th council meeting. Gibson tells the county council that a tax assessment of approximately $14.88. on a $100,000 home would go towards paying down the bond. And over the life of the bond, the amount of the millage will decrease as the assessed value of our complex site increases. So it's about $74 million I think they're trying to get. You know, could this be a great thing? I absolutely, I think it could be a great thing. Oh, I mean, you see these sports complexes, even smaller ones that attract, you know, maybe eight teams a weekend. You're talking about those teams, their parents, anybody else who travels with the team, they're eating in restaurants, they're staying in your local hotels, they're patronizing your local businesses. It's a booming business. I mean, whether it's summer or these days, winter, any time. And you're talking about volleyball, you're talking about baseball. Is it big enough business? Well, I will see. Lexington County taxpayers, they're a pretty conservative bunch, but they're doing a pretty good job of selling this so far as being, you know, this would be the preeminent southeastern sports complex. Well, at least as good as the one down in Georgia. Yeah. I guess. And as they said, there's nothing like this in the state currently, although there are some. I guess out in the Myrtle Beach area that have an indoor facilities like this one would have. But nothing. would rival. This combines it all. Everything you would want if you're a travel team coach and you're looking for someplace for your team to play. And centrally located throughout the state of South Carolina. So everybody's no more than, you know, a couple hours away from it. So this could be a huge addition for South Carolina. I know our friend Bill Shanahan's involved with this as well. He's very excited about it. Very excited about it. But again, you point out. You know, $14.88 on $100,000 home. Median home price in Lexington County, I'm going to guess, is around $350 to $400 at this point. So you're looking at, you know, $50 extra or so. Is it?

Are you guys ready to pay another 50 bucks a year for this? They'll have to sell the value as far as tourism and all the dollars that will be coming in as a way to pass this. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see that council meeting on August 11th. We'll keep our eyes on it because, again, this would impact the entire state of South Carolina, all high schools, all travel balls, basketball, baseball, all of it. So exciting stuff possibly coming to the Midlands. And we're following that and other stories. This is South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the low country. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now here's Kelly Nash. Hey guys, it's Steve from Phoenix and South Carolina. I lived in both places. I'm in South Carolina right now. You should look at the story at the Mesa Sports Complex in Phoenix. Check out where all that bond money went. A father and a son made out with hundreds of millions of dollars. They are now in jail. Have to be very careful with who you deal with with these sports complexes. It can be an ugly, ugly business.

Oh, my goodness. Well, you know, first off, thank you, Steve, for listening. Appreciate that. Appreciate using the talkback feature on the Iheart radio app. That's the easiest and best way to get a hold of us here on South Carolina's morning news. But to your point of fraud, corruption, those types of things, absolutely. You have to be very, that's. Well, it starts with the elected officials. Are we careful with who we elect? I'd like to think that the people of Lexington County are very careful. Now, they're going to have an opportunity on August 11th at the county council meeting to let their voices be heard. And, you know, I think Richland County probably learned a little bit on the penny tax thing. You know, we tried warning against that penny tax back in 2014, I think it was that they got it passed. Maybe it was 2012. But... Yeah, that tax is, it turns out to be a slush fund often. Well, the good news for Lexington County is that, A, the Recreation and Aging Commission is well respected in this state. And they're not wanting to go around wasting dollars. Now, is there oversight needed always? I don't know. I looked at this case in Mesa, Arizona. I don't know how a father and son went around selling bonds for a sports complex. They're going door to door selling bonds and saying, okay, you give this money and you sign this over and we'll take care of everything and then you'll get money back. How did that work? Is that what was happening? Apparently so. Goodness. Well, you know, the fraudsters are going to fraud. Yeah, that's true. But in this case, it will be Lexington County's government that will be running the show. They need to put out a nobody's coming to knock on your door and do a house assessment or anything like that. You owe this or you're going to jail. No, that is not going to happen. No. All right. So right now. Again, next opportunity for the people of Lexington County to talk about this will be at the August 11th County Council meeting. Do you want to have your millage rates pretty dramatically increased? I think we said it was about $14.80 per every $100,000 that your home is valued at. They say that that millage rate will drop as the valuation of the sports complex center, which will be the biggest one, not only in South Carolina, but one of the biggest in the country, is completed. and should generate a lot of business for the state of South Carolina. And, of course, everybody who lives in the state benefits at that point because you now have a place to come. Whether you're living in the low country, you're up in ORI County, you're up in Greenville, whatever. This would be a world-class facility for high school championships and other things like that. Sports tourism is huge right now. I mean, these travel ball teams, and we're talking about soccer, we're talking about baseball, even pickleball these days. I mean, that's big bucks right now. I didn't see. Did they have pickleball? I don't know if it's listed, but I mean, it wouldn't.

Wouldn't take much to convert one of those fields into a pickleball court, probably. 300 acres. Anyway, we're going to keep our eye on that. Also, what was I just reading about? There was a story here. Oh. We, the South Carolina Election Commission, are they getting us in trouble? Are we about to get sued by the feds? We're going to talk about that story next. Live from the state capital, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. I don't know. I wish he had worded it a little bit differently. South Carolina Election Commission Executive Director Conway Belongia, quote, we don't know what we're asking for. Boy, oh boy, come on. You can't do better than that Conway? We don't know what we're asking for. All right. So here's the situation. As we all know, we need to have a special primary to replace Lindsey Graham. The problem is that we're in violation of federal law by doing so. Apparently, there's a federal law that says you have to wait 45 days minimum. in order to mail out ballots to service members in order to have this happen. For us to, we can't do that. We can't wait that long. Well, our state law says we've got to immediately act. Yes. So our state law, but again, federal law is always going to be over the state law. But. Yeah, he says we're not waiting. Now, they did reach out, they said, to the federal, the feds on this, and they have not got back to them. And that's what he said, we don't even know what we're asking for. All we're doing is letting them know what we have to work with, what we're dealing with, and we're going to take it from here. Well, you're asking for a waiver is what you're asking for, and the federal government's given that before in extenuating circumstances like this. That's what you're asking for. Maybe you should be the spokesperson for the South Carolina Election Commission. I would have spun that a little differently, but okay. We don't know what we're asking for. Now, I do not like this decision. Christopher, maybe you feel differently about it. Again, we heard it in the news update. Eligible voters who did not cast a ballot in the Democrat primary in June can vote. Anyone who didn't vote in the Democrat primary, I would have much rather it been only people who voted in the Republican primary. I don't think you can say that legally. I mean, because we still have open primaries right now. So you can't close it just for this one and say Republicans only. So, yeah, if you did, that ruling officially came out yesterday. If you did, if you voted Democrat in the first primary, you can't vote this time around. Otherwise, you're eligible.

So this invites what we like to call corruption and dark money. And so there will be a very sinister move by the Democrats to flood the ballot boxes with people who didn't vote in the previous primaries to just swing for the most extreme, radical, whoever they think is the most unelectable Republican. It might happen, although I think Republicans still have the numbers in this state. To overcome that. Do we, we still don't have an official other than Mark Lynch. I don't think we have anyone who's officially declared yet, have we? No, I have not seen anybody officially declared. Other than Mark Lynch, who's still hanging around out there. And that's obviously not the kookball that South Carolina wants to elect. It will have to be someone other than him. Oh my gosh. Cookeball is the official description. It's trying to be nice. Trying to be nice to him. There you go. You're welcome, Mr. Lynch. There's the nicety of the day for you. All right. We'll see who else gets involved. Obviously, there's a lot of speculation about Ralph Norman getting involved and some other people. A lot of people hoping that Nikki Haley gets involved. We'll see how it plays out. We'll keep an eye on that and other things with South Carolina's morning news. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Visit iHeartadvertising.com. Again, that's iHeartadvertising.com. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. All right. So coming up tonight, all eyes, well, at least people who care about fair elections will be watching President Donald Trump. We're going to be speaking with Rory O'Neill. He's got some insights as to what we can expect this evening and maybe some other news as well because it's always fun to talk to Roy. He's got his finger on the pulse of all that's happening. And so always a special treat to welcome him to the broadcast. So we've got that also. Maybe talk a little bit about that Blue Angels flyover. We thought we had a close one here on our beach. Pretty low. My gosh, that's incredible what they did down there in Florida with the, well, no injuries, thankfully. But that was quite the spectacle. So that and more. South Carolina's morning news continues. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. And people who love. free and open elections and democracy. I'm sure we'll all be gathered around their television sites tonight to hear what President Donald J. Trump has to say. And a little sneak peek of that. We got Roy O'Neill on the phone. Good morning, sir. Hey there, Kelly. Good morning. So, yeah, have you had any insights at all as to this proof that the president's going to be bringing forward tonight? No specific. So we heard from the president sort of teased this speech a little bit on Tuesday when he was in the Oval Office with reporters.

saying it would be about voting machines, but he didn't elaborate, saying it would concern that subject and, quote, we'll have a couple of other things to say, unquote. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was asked about the speech yesterday. She said, have to tune in tonight to find out exactly what it's going to say. We have a report from CBS News this morning that perhaps the president will discuss some previously undisclosed evidence that China. has been meddling in U.S. elections. Now, exactly what meddling means is also a little gray. Yeah, and he did, I think it was the president who put, when he originally posted it, not Russia. because that has always been the thing that Russia was meddling. Is it surprising that foreign governments want to meddle with the U.S. democracy? Probably shouldn't be. I was surprised by CNN and Abby Hoffman in her take of, I don't want to hear about it. I don't want to hear about it. And that's just, to me, one of the most obnoxious things about the mainstream media is they'd rather ignore it. Well, let's see the evidence, right? I mean, we've been waiting for six years now, and the allegations have been repeated over and over again and haven't gotten backed up with a whole lot of credible information. And yes, as I said, meddling is a curious term, not curious, but, you know, meddling has a broad, can mean a lot of things. It can mean that they posted TikTok videos saying they wanted Joe Biden to win or that they suppressed Donald Trump pro-Donald Trump videos. And is that election meddling? I suppose that could be included, or does it really mean China and we're computer hackers were going into election systems and changing the results? I mean, obviously that's a very different level of election meddling. So I'm anxious to hear what the president has to say. Yes, sir. Have you had any opportunity to maybe discuss with anybody around the state of Georgia? Because we are very, one of the things that we are, yeah, we're thinking that the people in Georgia are like, please stop talking about 2020. Well, right. And we saw reports earlier this week that the president might call into question the validity of the elections of the two Georgia U.S. senators. Now, we haven't really heard much of a follow-up to that. We'll see if there's going to be perhaps some new information about that included tonight. But again, that's just one of those things that's been floating out there. And then we'll actually have to wait and see what the president has to say. Yeah, we've got the president and the governor, Georgia, kind of on the same page for the first time in a while. And you've got Jon Ossoff. Certain polls are showing him going to lose in the upcoming election. You'd hate to give them a lifeline when they're in the middle of ending their own regime.

But I think maybe you'll agree. There has to be a point of like, show me the goods. Like, or let's move on from the topic. I mean, Abby on CNN, whatever. But, you know, there is some point of like you've been talking and talking and talking, but I'm ready for some receipts. Yeah, tonight's the night. Put up or shut up. That's the better phrase then. Put up or shut up. And is there, you said other things. Do we know if he's going to be talking about Iran tonight? Yeah, we think that there'll be some talk of Iran and hopefully some progress that's been made. You know, we did see an American who had been being held in Iran. She got released yesterday after suffering a heart attack while in Iranian custody. And hopefully some talk about the economy and some of the economic successes that are out there. You know, Republicans on the Hill yesterday were asked about what do you want the president to talk about. No one said 2020. They all want the president to shift to the economy, address concerns of a lot of American households, and say, look, we are making a lot of progress in a lot of different areas. It's not perfect. Things are certainly, though, on the right track. And the president should reinforce that message rather than sort of have people insist that he didn't lose in 2020, which is also those weird confirmation hearings when they keep asking who won the election. And boy, no nominee will ever say that Donald Trump lost. And it's just weird to watch them squirm like that. Well, and it's a bizarre litmus test, though, for the Democrats to try to put people through. So we're in a, we're in, we're in, we're in oddsville at this point. This is crazy, Bill. Thank you for giving us a little preview of what to expect tonight. I'm sure you'll be watching. Absolutely. I hope we will talk about it tomorrow. All right, Rory. Thanks for checking in, and we'll have more on that. All right. We'll talk to you tomorrow, hopefully. In the meantime, what is going on with the Iranians? Boy, they got... Pretty big and bold after they released the young lady. Well, not the young lady, middle-aged lady. She's my age, I think, right? We'll talk about what they're saying. Has the president read this yet? Because if he has, I don't think that he's going to stop the bombing anytime soon. We'll talk about that and more on South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 a.m. WV. and 943 WSC. Now, Kelly Nash. You know, I am a huge fan supporter of Donald Trump. And every now and again, he and I don't see eye to eye. This is one of those instances when he says, like, I think we heard it at the top of the hour again, oh, the Iranians, they really want to make a deal really badly. We'll have to see if we're going to do that. Maybe we'll finish them off. Maybe we won't. This guy, I've never heard of this guy, whoever he is. He's described in a Fox News story this morning as a spokesperson for Iran's Khatam El Aniba Central Headquarters, warned Thursday morning. Well said, by the way. Thank you. Tehran will unleash widespread military attacks. Quote, if the recent threats by the empty-headed U.S. president to target the infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran are carried out.

then everything that is currently out of Iran's restraint has so far remained intact, namely all the infrastructure throughout the region will be crushed under the powerful blows of Iran's armed forces. He goes on to say that Tyran will, under no circumstances, allow for the United States as a foreign and extra regional country to have any say. and the Strait of Hormuz. This is Iran's unbreakable red line. And if we are challenged, we will not respond with an equal blow, but a superior blow. He's telling you, Trump. They're telling you, we don't want to negotiate. We don't want peace. Come and kill us. They're begging you to come and kill them all. And any thoughts of a deal are all but out the window at this point? I'm not sure who in Washington does think right now. A deal is not only imminent, but even possible. And now we're seeing reports that Iran is telling the Houthis, their allies, okay, let's start attacking in other places around the Gulf. And if we get hit, meaning Iran, if our power structure gets hit the way Trump is threatening, we're empowering you, we're emboldening you to start attacking. And the Houthis have already done that. They broke a, what, a four-year truce with Saudi Arabia yesterday? They started firing missiles there and sending drones there. I mean, this is all but chaos at this point. It is chaos. And the Middle East has always been a hotbed, but it's always been kind of powered by this Iranian revolution that happened 47 years ago or whatever it is now. And it's the IRGC. And I don't know. It's an easy puzzle to follow, not necessarily an easy puzzle to solve, but the only way to solve it is to kill the IRGC. Again, that's 180,000 troops or so that control 90 million people. I don't want the innocent people in that country to die. However, you have allowed... this terror regime to overthrow your government. And I mean, obviously there were some of you involved with that back in the late 70s and probably even wanted this. Maybe some of you regret it now, whatever the case may be. But until those people go, that's why you keep getting these mixed messages. Well, we're negotiating with them. You're not negotiating with the IRGC. You're negotiating with somebody who probably does want peace. The IRGC does not want peace. They want to just dominate the entire world. And they look at you and Israel as the big Satan and the little Satan. They've been telling us that for 47 years. They're not lying. They're not lying. They want your death. And now they're calling you empty-headed. Maybe that's the, maybe that will be the thing that pushes Trump far enough to finish this job. They're calling me empty-headed. I don't see how he can't not address that tonight, too. I mean, that's, I know Americans are, well, he's focused on.

the election and election scandals of the past. And I know he wants Americans focused on future election integrity with tonight's speech, but I don't see how you cannot address what's going on in Iran tonight before you close that speech out. And what would you like? You, the listener, would you like to see the United States military come down like just unleash hell? on these people or do you like these measured responses trying to force them to the negotiation table maybe i'm wrong maybe you see a piece a path to peace that will just kind of calm the tensions in the Middle East. If you do, I'd love to hear about it, or if you'd like to see us rain hell, or maybe my original plan is still in play. I still say, find the civilians that want to rise up and give them military weapons and let them go to battle. But either way, you can use the talkback feature on the I-Heart radio app. Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC. Columbia and 94-3 WSC Charleston. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Visit iHeartadvertising.com. Again, that's iHeartadvertising.com. Now, Kelly Nash. I used to have as a regular guest, we got to get him back on. Dr. Joe, we call him Dr. Joey. His real name is Joseph. Got to give him a little more respect. Dr. Joseph von Nesson from the University of South Carolina. He's a research economist. And he says about one and a half percent of our agriculture land in South Carolina is being used by solar farms. People want to grow the solar farms. Other people don't want to grow the solar farms. They say here in South Carolina it's ugly. I would point to the fact that, yes, they're ugly, but I'll also add not very effective. If you look at the power produced nationally, all the solar panels in all of America. produce about 8% of our energy. It's even less in South Carolina. Right now it's between 3.92% and 5.15%. So we'll say 4% of the energy in South Carolina is produced by all these solar panels you see on people's roofs on the solar panels. You've got those solar farms that are going throughout the state.

I would much rather us invest more, like what Elon Musk is doing. He's saying we are on the brink of kind of figuring out the problem that is transforming solar energy into real power. He points out that he thinks you could take 100 miles by 100 miles. somewhere that nobody lives, some desert somewhere, and literally power the entire country. It'll be far more effective than nuclear energy within the next 10 years, he says. Makes sense. And much like the argument about data centers, I think there's a place for these things. You just mentioned a desert, for example. I mean, you don't put it on farmable land. You put these solar farms someplace where you're not going to use that land for anything else. those data centers, we keep hearing about the noises and all that sort of stuff. Put them out in the middle of nowhere. Yes, it's more expensive for the people that are behind those data centers. But so what? What do I care? Don't put it near population centers. And I do love the fact that Elon Musk keeps talking about the idea of... he's planning on putting those data centers in outer space. Yeah, I think he mentioned the ocean at one point, and then he said, yeah, let's boost them up into outer space where they're not going to bother anyone. Yeah, and then you've got the, like he said, well, then have access to the sun 24 hours. It's always going to be able to have the sun to power it and then just beam it back to Earth. So we are on the cusp of some major breakthroughs in the state of South Carolina. Humble opinion? Well, maybe not so humble. Maybe my bold opinion is I don't like these solar things. I think they look ugly when I'm driving down the road. They do. Well, obviously somebody finds them profitable. Well, if they're profitable enough for you to find them, you know, what's the difference in putting them next to the highway or next to a road, a scenic road, versus putting them out in the middle of nowhere? It's not going to cost you any more money to put them out there. Yes. So South Carolina's got some decisions to make when it comes to these solar farms. Well, think about how big tourism is to our state. And do we want people seeing that as they drive past solar farms? Or do we want them seeing, you know, scenic pastures, for example? I remember going to Palm Springs, to your point. I went out to Palm Springs once. And this was probably about six, seven years ago. And I drove out of Palm Springs. And they had those windmills. Gosh, those were ugly. I mean, it went for like 20 miles, just windmill after, I mean, like one right after the other. To Trump's point, the birds, they don't stand a chance. Anyway, so, yeah, what do you think about these solar farms that are starting to fill up in South Carolina? Let us know on the talkback feature on the I-Heart radio app on South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. I'm reading a story.

in the morning edition of the posting career. Do they have afternoon editions? I don't think they do that anymore, but anyway, they posted this about two hours ago. And I love the spirit. I really want to be a fan of what they're talking about here. But a couple of things popped up. First, I hate the phrase, the unhoused. The word unhoused is a... It implies that everybody deserves a home, that everybody is just, and that somehow society has allowed these people to become unhoused. No, that is not the way life works. People are homeless because they've made some choices and or some circumstances have arisen that have allowed them to become homeless. Now, in North Charleston, what they're specifically doing, which I'm a fan of, is they have community leaders working with a couple of representatives. of the homeless and they're putting together a like a committee a task force how can we get these people who are currently living in the woods currently living in their cars couch surfing whatever to figure out how they can become housed, so to speak. Okay. The thing that makes me a little bit nervous, apparently this has already been done in Greenville is, and so this is kind of what they're modeling it after, it's something called Greenville together, made up of local leaders, nonprofits, landlords, et cetera, is that, like for this one in Greenville, they get $500,000 a year from the city. And then once it's given into them, then they figure out how to disperse this money. which, you know, we had a caller earlier on the talkback feature, talking about how this, you know, all of a sudden you start with one thing and it leads into another. I hate to be the guy who points out slippery slopes, but this is how things, you know, it goes from 500 grand a year. If we're not careful, if you don't keep your eye on it, it goes to 50 million in three or four years. I think Columbia currently spends between four and five million on the homeless situation and, you know, distributing money to homeless services, et cetera. Yes. So what they're doing in Greenville is they spend that money as well. Then they spend another half million. to give it to the local church leaders and those people who are working with the homeless. I don't know how you get to be the leader of a homeless group, but they're interviewing a lady here in the story this morning. Allison Scott, member of the council who currently lives in a tent in the woods, trying to find permanent housing, says that getting a job is difficult because of her past criminal record. So, yeah, look, again, life choices make life harder if you make the wrong one. So if you've got a criminal record, life gets harder. Not insurmountable, just harder. She says she struggles to meet basic needs, relies on inconsistent food and water donations from nonprofits. So I'm not really sure what she's contributing other than my life sucks right now.

But does she have some insights as to how to make her life not suck? If she does, that would be interesting. They should have put it in the story. But I want to be a fan of this. I like the idea of getting, because I've often felt that the government is trying to supplant the role of charities. And I, like, you would never have a charity get defrauded to the tunes of millions and millions of dollars like you see in Minnesota. and other places because it's a local thing. And you know if somebody's ripping you off. And those people are usually arrested pretty quickly. Yes, because the money's intended to do good, not make some idiot from Somalia rich. But that's, so I'm trying to cheer this on. So. I'm at a B level right now for the North Charleston Homeless Commission. I'm at a B level. I'm trying to get to win a. It's a problem in every major city. And, you know, South Carolina is no different. It's just trying to figure out what you're going to. You can only throw, it's almost like education. We had the argument about education for years. We can only throw so much money at it. It's got to be more than just money. There have got to be solutions other than just, yeah, let's spend more money on our homeless problem. That doesn't erase the problem. That's right. You're absolutely right, Christopher. And we have too many people who think that that is the problem. So we'll continue to hash that out. If you've got thoughts on it, use the talkback feature on the IHeart radio app. It's South Carolina's morning news. Live from the state capital, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources with a warning that I had not expected. Do not kidnap the deer. Apparently, this is the busiest month. July is the number one month for the birth of little baby deer. And they are adorable. My gosh, these things are adorable. They weigh four to eight pounds when they're born, about 12 inches long. After a couple of weeks, they've doubled in weight, so they're anywhere between eight and 16 pounds. But even then, they're still just like you could bring them home and love on them. And apparently, What happens throughout South Carolina, according to Lee Kenemar, is that the moms of these little babies, they hide the babies in people's backyards. They seek out... human beings' backyards because they feel like that's the safest place for them. It keeps them away from coyotes and cars and everything, and they'll hide them in the shrubbery. And then later on in the day, somebody comes out and goes, oh my gosh, look at this adorable little deer. We've got a new pet. Mom must have abandoned it. And they pick it up and they bring it in the house. And weeks later, you've got a disaster on your hands because it's a wild animal. And... And sometimes these, these poor animals end up injuring themselves, as they explained. They will continue to try to run through the wall, expecting it to give way like they would expect branches to give way until they kill themselves, break their bones, whatever.

As a little side note, they also fill the home with urine. Oh. So they're not going to be house trained either. No thing. So they're saying do not kidnap them. The mom will come back later. And if she doesn't find the deer, now she's going to be irate. So you could have two big problems on your hands. So for South Carolina homeowners, if you happen to find one of these little baby deer in your backyard, understand that mom's coming back tonight. She's just out trying to get some food for the deer right now. So. I had not expected that warning. Do not kidnap the deer in South Carolina. I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah. But you know what? I might go look at my backyard today, see if I could just see one, take a picture with it or something. Anyway, this is South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Interesting dilemma today. I, uh, is we get ready for Trump's speech tonight. I'm looking at the Daily Beast. They've got a headline TV networks humiliate Trump over his address to the nation. And I apparently, no. I'm assuming Fox and Newsmax are going to carry it. But they're saying as of this moment, nobody has responded to them. ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNB, or MS now, CNN have not responded as to whether or not they're going to carry it. I know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said you can't carry it because it'll be filled with lies. You must de-platform him. I'm looking at USA today and they're saying the only place to be sure to see it. would be the White House YouTube page and whitehouse.gov. So if you want to watch the president tonight, you're guaranteed to see it at whitehouse.gov, Whitehouse YouTube page as well. I would assume Fox News and Newsmax, I have not checked any further than that. Have you heard anything on this, Christopher? I have not. Good news is that I know in Columbia it will be carried right here on our station, and I think Charleston will be doing that as well. So even if you can't see it, you can listen to it. Absolutely. And of course, you know, tomorrow we will have all the reactions. I wonder if, I wonder if Chuck Schumer is going to have a reaction. You know, yesterday he was, was it yesterday he was giving his big speech on the floor and he was trying to talk about the Save America Act or whatever. And then he moved on to Iran and had this to say. Now on Iran and the NDAA. When all the Trump administration... He actually giggled at himself passing away. I mean, that was so... Can somebody get the senator some Bino? Can somebody help Chuck Schumer? No more speeches after lunch for Chuck. He's cut off for a while. Anyway, hope you're having a great morning. We'll be back tomorrow to, like we said, recap the president's speech and all the breaking news that happens on the overnight. This is South Carolina's morning news. We'll join you tomorrow. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with iHeart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeart media a part of your 2026 plan today. Call 844-844-I-Hart. Again, that's 844-Ehart.