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It's fifteen minutes after six o'clock. Good morning, and welcome into a Monday. It's the third of March. Good to have you long. I am Gary David here with Christopher Thompson and the rest of the team. You're going to Utah. Morning to you. What a few things have happened since we last left here, haven't they? I would say, so, my goodness, things are are are blowing up figurably speaking of course. So yeah, welcome in to a Monday morning, brand new week, full of opportunity and may be a
few challenges along the way. By the way, quick program, no tomorrow night. The President giving his joint speech to Congress. This is not a State of the Union address. You don't have those until you've had a year in office, and Trump well he had four I know, but so this is not technically a State of the Union address. But for all intents and purposes, that's that's what it is, and I don't know, he's got a lot to back into one speech tomorrow night, but we'll have that for you.
By the way, our coverage begins at eight o'clock tomorrow night with our iHeart Radio team with a one hour preview of the speech and getting things caught up and all, and then the speech begins at nine o'clock tomorrow night, So we'll have that here for you on WVOC. So note that run down big stories, hot topics, well here at home. It's boy, it doesn't it seem like a self fulfilling prophecy. As we approached the end of last week, there were you know, all sorts of warnings out no
no outdoor burning. We had, we had dry conditions, and we supposedly had a you know, a chance of rain last week one day and didn't get much out of that. Again, we've had very high and many many days of gusty conditions outside and it never seems to fail. You get you get those two things happen, then you get the wildfires and the Myrtle Beach area not the only spot, by the way, but.
Yeah, you see some of those pictures from Carolina forest though, and it looks like California.
It looks like it looks like Los Angeles.
And then we woke up this yesterday morning and we started seeing signs of that o'cooney was having fires.
And Larndon County was having issues. Yeah, they've got issues up in North Carolina as well. So the governor, as you heard the update a few minutes ago, declaring a state of emergency because of these wildfires. As of noon yesterday, the state Fire Marshal telling us there were more more than one hundred and seventy five of these wildfires burning
more than four thousand acres across the state. So yeah, Orie County getting the most attention, hardest hit, but Spartanburg, Oconey, Union Pickens counties all having issues again because of dry, windy conditions. Again, no lives have been lost, thankfully. There were evacuations and in parts of the Myrtle Beach area, but those evacuations now have been called off. Folks are told they can get back home. But the fires are still burning, but they're getting getting some containment on those.
The Carrot of wild Carrota Forest wildfire, it'd gottenok, about sixteen hundred acres or so thirty percent contained. So as of about four forty five yesterday afternoon. Well then they updated again about six o'clock. That's when they told us sixteen hundred acres thirty percent contained. But again folks have been told they can go back home.
That's incredible because those fires were in people's backyards Saturday nights.
Oh gosh, yes, yeah. Our oldest son was over in the Myrtle Beach area. He said he was about ten to fifteen minutes away from where these wildfires were burning in Carolina forest. But he said, yeah, we'll say everywhere you went. I mean you you smell that smell. So there's there's I can't It's just you really got to start listening to these folks, you know, they tell you, hey, you know what, it's dry, it's gonna be breezy, gonna be gusty, no outdoor burning. Yet people continue to do
it anyway. And we don't know the cause of these fires necessarily, but does somebody probably careless? So there you go. All right, Well, the situation seems to be getting a bit of a better handle on it, thankfully, and there will be some rain coming through here middle part of the week. We're told chance cranking up, maybe tomorrow night
and then Wednesday. Not day long rains, but system to move through and it'll bring some of that rain to the upstate where I have some issues, and also to the Marlar Beach Erry hopefully a chemical reaction sending three people to the hospital. Let a Chick fil A over the weekend. This was a chick Fili up when Garner's Ferry Road has Matt Team people hospitalized. But it's gonna be okay, apparently, but it shut the place down that day.
Apparently it was a couple of chemical products used for cleaning. They got mixed if they were poured down a train. And wow, you just never know, right, the Social Pig? Can we take just a moment and more in the passing of the Social Pig?
Is it gone already?
It will be the lease expired? And this is the Pigley Wiggy over on Divine Street. I know, I know Jonathan rush Is always talked about the Social Pig. It's one of his favorite haunts.
We worked over on Millwood a long time ago. Oh yeah, we used to on that place pretty regularly. Yeah, and I lived in that area for a while, so it's yeah, yeah, that will be missed.
Yeah, Wow, so we had apparently a little get together over the State House over the weekend, a group claiming membership posted courier rights to a well known white supremacist group. This is Patriot Front. About forty folks marching up Main Street on This was on Saturday, burying the banners of the insignia of the organization Patriot Front. We're okay, all right? And what happened on Friday at the White House? Wow?
You know, kid, Depending on who you listen to, you know, the left has our own version, the right has our own version. But the bottom line is, you know, Trump wind up kicking Zelensky out. Zelenski, by the way, who has a habit of rubbing people the wrong way. This is not the first time he rubbed Joe Biden the wrong way. A couple of times. The records show this. They had several heated conversations that didn't end well, and this seemed like it was a done deal when we
left the air on Friday. So Lensky was coming to the White House. So we're gonna sign this minerals deal. It was going to be hopefully a first step towards ending the conflict in in Ukraine. And then it didn't. So we'll get into this this morning. You know, the left, you know, you got you get. He's Latimir Putin's got Trump in his back pocket. So here we go again, another administration where it's all going to be Russia, Russia, Russia. Now, Zelensky has since said he still wants to sign this
minerals deal. Europe, of course, you know, all up in arms now and it kind of weird. Almost every message set on social media to Zelensky by European leaders they all look the same. They had their talking points, right. My only question is that Europe, You've had three years to try to do something. What have you been doing? And this is in your backyard? So now they realize they have to Yeah, right, all right, So Trump playing hardball and well we'll see where it goes. We'll have
more to say on this coming up. Are there more emails going out here? Apparently there are the federal employees we'll get. I guess this will be a third email telling them to explain their recent accomplishments. Okay, that was supposed to go out this past Saturday. I'm not sure whether or not it did or not. Say the truth, what have you done for me lately. What have you done for me lately? Just five bullet points, that's all. That's all. The Education Department offering buyouts of up to
twenty five thousand to many of its employees. We got that news coming down on Friday. The Oscars last night. I don't know, as you watch any mister Thompson did not. I was actually in a room where the TV was on and watch some of that. I was doing prep work for the show this morning. Wasn't paying any attention to it at all, although I just every time I look up and thought, but this is really boring, I'll go.
I mean, I'll go back and watch Conan's open just because I like Conan O'Brien.
But you really, yeah, yeah, it was. It was weird, very weird. But there was an in memorium said, I did see the memoriam memoriam segment.
And uh, that always makes news more for who's left out than who's put in.
And I'm not sure they left anybody out last night. It went on and on and on. Yeah. But as far as the win best picture Anora ever heard of it, no, I mean either, I don't think anybody else did either, except for the Oscars voters. This is uh apparently this this this this flick here, I believe I saw this that it becomes the lowest grossing Oscar winning Best Picture of Film ever. Wow. Yeah, nobody saw this thing.
It was an independent film.
That was an end. But then again, what little bit I saw kind of the corner of my eye. Who are these people? Not just that flick, I mean a lot of these movies. Who are these people? Uh? Well, anyway, yeah, okay, and uh Trump making English the nation's official language. Now, I know there are some people that will say, well, that's just you know, Trump being Trump and bring you know all, there are very good reasons for this, and this goes more than just to more than just making
English the official language of this country. We'll talk about that too and more coming up on this the Monday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. It's delightful to have you with us.
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It is six forty two. Good morning, Good to have you along. Monday morning, March the third is going to be a busy week. Again, we'll mention we will carry Trump's addressed to the Joint Session of Congress tomorrow night. Our coverage begins at AID with the pregame at eight o'clock and then the speech at nine. Again, I don't know how he fits all this in in one speech
tomorrow night. What more than seventy five seventy six executive orders since he was inaugurated, not to mention other executive actions and proclamations, and one of them, first reported Friday by the Wall Street Journal, is that Trump an executive order declaring English the official language of the United States of America White House that are confirmed that that to
be the case. Now, this again, this is one of those things where you're going to have some folks immediately dismissed this as, oh, yes, it's just another Gulf of America type thing. Well, no, this is something Trump has teased on the campaign trail that he would do at SEAPAC last year. He talked about we have all these languages coming into our country, and we don't have one
instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language. So, going back to Bill Clinton, there was a federal mandate that required agencies and other recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non English speakers. And this is an order that will rescind that federal mandate and yes, make English the official language of the land. Think about
that for just a moment. So we've had this federal mandate since the Clinton years requiring the government, agencies and anybody else who gets federal funding provide language assistance to people who don't speak English. Well, I realized that the bulk of these people are speaking Spanish, but not all
of them. You know, somebody comes over here, don't you pick the place, you know with a language that you've probably never heard of before, And now you're a government agency or you're getting federal funding from the government and you're required to provide language assistance to them. That's there are some situations that's got to be just about impossible. But it's bigger than that. Summary of the order says the move is to promote unity, establish efficiency in the government,
and provide a pathway to civic engagement. This is what really boils down to. And this has been going on this country for decades now. People come here from other places, they don't assimilate into our society. You know a case in point, it's it's Paris, right, whether there are parts of Paris where it's almost as though any French law doesn't exist. There are parts of Paris where their neighborhoods of immigrants, where they basically are, for all intents and purposes,
their own country. They don't interact with other Parisians. It seems as though French law doesn't exist in these spots. I mean, that's an extreme example. But the idea of America being a melting pot, just that phrase itself, you melted, it's a melting pot. We all assimilate together, and for folks who come over here don't ever bother to learn to speak the language. You can't assimilate when you can't communicate. And this has been going on for far too long.
It just works. It doesn't work that way. It only works when people assimilate into our society. That's what you came here for to begin with, right, You came here for all the advantages we have to offer. But you don't want to make a few sacrifices. Nobody's telling you got to give up the language that you grew up with, but you've got to be able to speak the language of the land you've moved to. And not only that,
more importantly, you've got to assimilate into our culture. You don't have to ditch what you've already, what you've always known, but you got to fit in with that. And that's not just this country, it's anywhere. This is one of the reasons why we are seeing so many issues in Europe right now. It's not just France, it's the UK, it's Germany, it's the entire European continent where immigrants have come in have refused to take part in that country society.
They just wanted to bring their own moved here. We want to take what we can take, but we don't want to give up anything in return. It doesn't work. We talk again about the immigration issues we have in this country, the problems they've got in Europe. Wow, and again it's a lack of assimilation into society. And that's been going on here for a long I mean for decades. So this executive order to make English the nation's official language. There's more to it than just what you see on
the face of it. And this is not just a we're America and we're going to do things our way. They are very important reasons why this has to be done this way, and this is what Trump is aiming to do. So this is not a it's a Gulf of America type thing here. This one is uh, this one's important and it's it's high time it happened.
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Fifteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning and good to have you on board from Monday, March the third. All right, so we now have our own wildfire problems mentioned this last hour. It never seems to fail. It is a self fulfilling prophecy. It seems, you know, when the conditions are ripe for this, it always happens. And we got the warnings late last week. Hey, you know what, we get dry conditions and this has pretty much been statewide.
Now we've had a lot of a lot of windy weather and we had more and they were the concerns about wildfires, and sure enough, there they were, and there they are. They're still burning in well, several counties across the state.
Do we know how the big win in Orey County started?
We don't. I know, somebody doing an outdoor burn was a cigarette tossed out into some brush? We know it wasn't lightning.
Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter at this point, although, I mean, you have to wonder with the nice weather we had, you know, the in and out the last couple of weeks, if somebody was outside doing the the camping thing, campfire uponfire, right, whatever.
Well, the the state wide outdoor burn band was issued Saturday by the Forestry Commision. It probably maybe should have been issued you know, Thursday or Fridays. Hey, the truth Although and again I I realized that there are people out there that they don't care. They're gonna do it anyway. This is why you shouldn't. So yeah, we are still we continue to be under a state wide burn ban. The governor yesterday declaring a state of emergency. This burn
band will remain in effect until further notice. Now, yeah, kind of just mentioned we've got a chance of rain coming up middle part of the week, and most all the states should see at least something out of this. But it's not going to be a good day long kind of rain. There'll be uh maybe even some storms that moved through here pretty quickly. Along with them more gusty wins. So yeah, this burn band may stay in effect for a while. But you got the the high wins,
the low humidity. It's a prescription for this sort of thing. Now, Myrtle Beach has had a history of wildfires, it's not unusual, but we saw again times over the weekend when they were people told to evacuate from their homes in the Carolina Forest area. Now, I think those people, at least according to the latest I saw here WMFB and BF excuse me, Myrtle Beach TV station reporting that those who were evacuated from their homes in Kilina Forest have been
allowed to return back home. So they're starting to get a handle on it.
That's incredible in itself, because if you saw any of the images yeah Saturday night, I mean that was literally at the doorstep or at the backyard of many of those residents in Carolina Forest. Yeah, so the fact they've been allowed to return, and maybe that's one difference from what we saw in California.
Yeah, as of noon yesterday, the state Fire Marshal telling us there were more than one hundred and seventy five wildfires burning across the state. One hundred and seventy five plus. Again, as of noon yesterday, some forty two hundred acres had been burned.
I don't think I don't think the ones in the upstate got nearly as much attention.
No, huh huh.
And and everybody nationally, I mean, because Myrtle Beach is known, you know, everybody nationally was focused on Myrtle Beach. You know, nobody mentioned o'coney and the counties and the upstate.
Yeah, you had the wildfires burning in Spartanburg County, o'conney, Union Pickens counties. But yeah, the kilout of forest fire was the biggest of them, and they did get all the attention. But again, about thirty percent contained that kiln of forest wildfire last last that we were told. So uh yeah, yeah, I mean you've been watching it, you know, the last couple of months in California and thinking, man,
well I don't live there, it's come here. It's come here and it's again it's it's not unusual for Myrtle Beach to have this sort of an issue, but there it is so thirty percent contained, we're told that was the six pm update yesterday. And yeah, like you said, you had it looked like these homes were about to be engulfed by these flames. So hats off to the firefighting cruise. And not just there, but you know other parts of the state, Newberry County for example, they they're
they're urging folks not to burn there. Well, of course we have a state wide burn now anyway, but there was a large woods fire in the little Mountain area, So yeah, they got pretty close to home. But thankfully of the coordination amongst these departments all across the stay to to try to fight these back. Seems like they were a little a little better organized, a little better
at doing their job. And say, you know what we saw out in LA and probably probably because politics didn't get involved, right, we don't have to worry about that at least not to that that level. But by the way, if I did see him, as I mentioned earlier, and was watching some of the oscars last night, and I was on the laptop doing a show prep. But I kind a few things out of the cornermye. They did do a they had a group of firefighters they brought up to the stage.
I think they did part of the monologue, the opening monologue.
I don't think that was the mom It was later later on. Okay, well I could have. Yeah they did some jokes. Yeah, then they did some joke. Yeah, that was later on the in the in the broadcast last night. Yeah, they did a few jokes. Okay, but you know, it was good to at least at the they recognize them.
It's not their fault. They're they're out there trying to do their job the best they can do. Yeah, they wanted to be celebrated. They wanted to celebrate the firefighters.
Yes, so let's uh, let's be sure we celebrate ours who have done done a good job so far and trying to keep this getting out of hand and getting getting worse than a kid. But it can it can, it can happen here. So again when you uh, and now I realize you know you you're you're a conscientious individual. But they're just way too we people out of firem No, well, they don't pay attention to what what what? What's going on here? And number two, theys could care less. I
got I've seen this in my neighborhood. People who will go out and burns them to bring in the backyard on the worst possible times to do it. Man, don't be that person. It's like coming up on seven twenty three. We'll keep an eye out and anything changes will let you know.
Certainly exciting times on the Glenn back program.
Rare for me to be excited. It's going to be very exciting.
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It seven forty two. Good morning, and they good to have you along. It's Monday, March the third. All right, So the ninety seventh Oscars were last night. No, I'm not going to waste much of your time talking about the oscars. Trust me. I could care less. But again, and why well, because these people don't live in the same world that we do. Listen listener.
Rick messaging us earlier on Facebook saying it the fact that best picture went to a movie about a sex industry worker shows how out of touch Hollywood is.
Right the ap article Honora a strip club, cinder bella story without the fairytale ending one Best Picture last night. Okay, first question is have you ever heard of this movie? Uh? Chances a pretty good No, I hadn't.
No.
I had you heard of Wicked? You heard of Doune Part two? You expected those would be big winners. Conclave, which won what a couple of big awards going into the Oscars last night, which I had, I did see and which was very good. And because of the ending, I thought it was a shoeing of the Oscars. I'll love the ending of this thing. I'm not gonna give it away. But no, it was this Anora, a movie
nobody's ever heard about. And Noorra now is the lowest box office grabbing Best Picture winner ever, sixteen million dollars in ticket sales.
That was it, and it wins Best Picture and Best Actress and Best Actress too. Yes, for someone again I've never heard of.
Right now, I guess in that industry, you know, winning an award like that, that's going to mean that this at least for this what's her name Mikey whatever it means. She's gonna get more plumb, She's gonna make money. Okay, she'll make money, but you know, I'd rather make money than have some gold statue in my hand. Sixteen million dollars, that's all it did. Okay, that's almost say about all that,
but the immemorium section. And every year they do this, I do typically at least watch a replay of that. It never fails yours. Wow, I forgot that many you know, celebrities passed in this past year, and of course the most recent being Gene Hackman. And a Morgan Freeman hosted that segment last night and talked very much from the heart about his friend Gene Hackman. He said, the only legacy he wanted to leave was well, just to you know, he did good work. He tried to do good work.
Shouldn't that be the legacy we all want leave at least part of it, you know, I mean love for family and friends and all. Yes, but we just did good work. We haven't learned a lot more about the death of Hackman, other than the fact that his pacemaker showed his last event was more than a week before his body was found. His and his wife's bodies.
I don't want to get you off track here, but go ahead.
I like to get off track. It's you listen to me long enough. You know I'd get a product all the time, man, I mean we have.
If he had been in a hospital, obviously, it would have triggered an alarm. Yes, shouldn't these pacemakers?
Come?
I know a doctor can't monitor his heart beat twenty four hours a day and all the other patients he and she that have on a pacemaker. But if you're if a pacemaker stops working, shouldn't that trigger something?
I am under the impression that it does. So why didn't he get checked on question? I mean this is a this is a celebrity patient, yeah, and a patient at ninety five years old. You'd think you'd be keeping pretty good track of that, right, Yeah, I don't. Again, I may be wrong, but my impression is that, yes, everything else can be remotely monitored these days, right, My my understanding is that they can. No, I haven't. I haven't any heard anybody ask that question.
You're not watching every heartbeat obviously, but if something stops working, that should.
Raise an alarm bells somewhere, right, Yeah, yeah, I got nothing on that man interesting, nothing on that. Now the investigation is again because the deaths now I have been deemed suspicious, is a criminal investigation. But again Sheriff's Department in Santa fe It says no obvious sides of foul play, no external trauma to either Hackman or his wife. Again, as we mentioned on Friday, tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning.
But doctor Michael Bodden saying that the fact that this pacemaker last recorded in an event on February seventeenth could be a clue. He says that event would have been a cardiac arrest caused by a normal pulse rate, that the pacemaker keeps track of the pulse when it gets down too low, a dischargers and that's all in the record, he says, Just nothing as far as Hackman's death is concerned. I mean, nothing that you wouldn't think might happen to a ninety five year old.
Yeah, I mean the reports of people who have talked to him recently said his health was declining. It was normal for him to go a couple of months without speaking to anyone outside like relatives, So that didn't trigger any investigations. But What about the wife, that's the question mark.
Now his opinion is that it's just a theory, is that she may have found Hackman dead or dying. The fact that she was found on the ground of the bathroom with an orange prescription pill that was open and pills, remember, all over the place, scattered across the countertop. It was thyroid medicine and yroid blood pressure some titl and on. I think that again, in her agitated state, she may have had some sort of an event. She was in
her sixty what sixty three, sixty four? I think it was okay, So what about the dog, Well, then there's the dog. Yeah, I don't know. The dog was found ten to fifteen feet away from Arakawa, and that's Budden says. The perplexing part was okay, the death of the dog. Uh, it turns out from what they say. He says that the dog was constrained in his cage or kennel and we'll have just died from dehydration lack of water during a nine day period. We couldn't get out. The other
dogs were not in kennels. That one was okay, So that all may makes sense, Okay, it makes better sense anything else we've heard.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to go all Randy Quait on you. And you know, it suggests that Hollywood had him murdered because he knew something about something.
But I mean it was kind of strange. Well, yes, very strange, very strange. Okay. So that's uh, that's where we are right now. That of all the theories I've heard, that's probably the best one.
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This meeting was about signing an economic partnership between the United States of America and Ukraine, which would have been good for the American people to recoup the tax dollars we've paid to defend President Zelensky's country. It also would have been a great economic partnership for generations for the Ukrainian people.
It is sixteen minutes half eight o'clock in the morning. It's Monday, March third. And when we left you on Friday morning, this was not on the on the Bengo guard here, right, we were counting down to this White House meeting between Trump and Zelenski at which this minerals
deal would be signed. It was the really, I mean, the first positive step in more than three years of warfare towards potentially coming up to some sort of a deal to end this thing and in the meantime an opportunity to recoup some of the nearly two hundred billion dollars. I think that's the number, give or take, that we taxpayers have given to the cause in Ukraine. That was
the plan, and then it wasn't. It takes some kind of khunas man when your company is being decimated by well maybe not a superpower anymore, but at least a former superpower, and you've got, for the first time since it started, at least a glimmer of hope that it might be a way to bring this to an end. And you walk into the Oval office dressed like you're out for a job. He always dresses like that. I get it, Well, he dresses like that during the war.
Yeah, I think this was what a lot of people forget, is that Ukraine has been under attack for quite a while now, and you tend to get stressed. Yeah, I mean it's I mean, he's he's lost people, he's lost assets.
This all the no more reason to jump at something that might get you out of this mess.
There, I agree with you. And he came in. I forget what he was wearing. That's what he wears.
Yeah, that's what he wears.
The body language and the grimaces and the eye rolling. I mean, I know Trump is a handful, but you're sitting next to him and you're making those expressions, You've got to know that JD. Vance is watching you.
Yeah.
And it wasn't Trump, it was Vance that exploded.
Yes, but here's your lifeline, man. Then they'll guarantees this will bring it into the hostilities. But it's the best thing you got, and it's the only thing you've had in more than three years of this war. This had already been supposed to, This was negotiated, right, This was agreed to righteah. Oh yeah, he was only there at the Oval office to sign off on it, which, by the way, for the record, he still wants to sign off on it. But it's gonna take a little more
doing now. But I've heard too many people talk about this was this the plan all along? Yeah, every's all your Trump and and in Vance ambushed him, But did he come in there in the Oval office last Friday morning with any intent at all of signing this thing. At eleven fifteen Friday morning, Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris Murphy posted on x just finished a meeting with President Zelensky
here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine. So Zelensky met with the anti trumpers like Chris Murphy. What did they tell him? Was this what really happened? Did Vladimir Zelensky sit down with some Democrats who said, yeah, don't take this deal. This is a bad deal. This
is a bad deal, man, don't do it. Convince him that this was all about giving Vladimir Putin everything he wanted and vladimir' Elensky nothing. Was this another way for Democrats to try to ramp up the whole Russia Russia Russia thing? Did they want this deal to blow up? Did they put it into Zelensky's head that this was all about Putin getting everything he wanted in Ukraine getting nothing?
And did they do this again to try to get some sort of a political advantage here and revive the whole Russia Russia Russia Trump is a putin puppet conversation. And did Vladimir Zelensky fall for it? Okay, don't know what exactly was said and this sit down and this get together with Murphy and other anti trumpers and Zelenski, but just a simple fact they had this, this meeting. I'll give you some insight into what may have happened on Friday and why well the expected deal didn't happen.
Now afterwards, of course, all the European leaders coming out and supporting Zelensky in this, and the social media posts issued by a number of European leaders, they all look like they were the exact same post. You know, the talking points were sent out. Here's what you here's what you need to say. You know, God help you Selenski and Ukraine if you're going to depend on the Europeans
to bail you out of this mess. I mean, consider this is this, this mess is in their own backyard and it's been going on now for more than three years. And what have they done to try to bring it to an end? Nothing? What did the Democrat Party try to do to bring it to an end? Nothing? I mean, if you think you're gonna keep giving money to Ukraine, weapons to Ukraine, and that at some point in time Vladimir Putin is just gonna say, ah, yeah, I can't, I can't win here, then you're crazy. This guy is
a nut. He will never stop unless the there's some sort of a deal struck here. And in three plus years, neither the Biden White House nor the European leaders and they don't know, nobody could come up with anything to even get us a glimmer of hope that it might come to an end. So the one guy who does did this whole thing just gets sabotaged. So the Democrats could bring up the whole rush of thing all over again. Just maybe, just maybe.
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It's eight forty one or final A few minutes with you here on a Monday morning. Thank you so much for spending it with us. So again, the wildfires in our state breaking out of the weekend, doing a good job of containing them. Folks in Carolina Forest in the Myrtle Beach area who were evacuated were told yesterday they
could go back to their homes. I mean, they have done an incredible job of getting a handle on this that that that Carolina Forest fire is said to be thirty percent contained, so they're still dangerous.
But the hotspots that you have to kind of keep an eye on for a while. Uh huh.
Yeah, we're talking about this Earl this morning, herboid and said, Yeah. The other difference we had here we actually had water. Yeah, our fire hydrants had water in them. Imagine that because you know Myrtle Beach in the averywhere you go on Myrtle Beach, they got those those retention ponds too, and you get the inner coastal water and coastal Waterway. Yeah, right there. So they were, you know, flying these planes and sucking up the water and dropping them. So they
did a fantastic job. Not out of the woods yet, but hopefully did you happen to see this, By the way, Gavin Newsom over the weekend suspended to landmark state environmental laws to expedite measures. He says they needed to protect their you know, California against wildfires. Okay, so you were wrong to begin with by instituting them. Don't just suspend them, do away with them unless you want to invite this sort of thing all over again. Wow, he's learning on
the job. Yeah, yeah, right, all right. Let's see here, did another email go out over the weekend? Another tell us what you did last week? Email that was supposed to have gone out Saturday. You may have heard of Pete hagsath as reverse course now and he's telling civilian workers part of the Department of Defense to respond to these not not back to Elon Musk, but at least to internally, you know. I mean, how can you be
upset by that? If your boss, no matter where you are, I just want to say, hey, are you doing anything?
What did you do last week? Can he can name? Can you name four or five things?
Just to give me four or five things? Yeah, that had to be that has to be an expose here, just it's just bullet points.
Wouldn't be all that difficult for most of us in regular life.
No, So I'm trying to complain about all that.
Well, and this needs to be a coordinated effort. This The administration needs to either go full bore into this or not. Well yeah, I mean, it's not going to be successful if every department can say, well, and we're going to protect this or we're going to protect that, give him the keys.
Let's see what you can do.
Yeah, I mean, you can always go back and say all right, that's essential, like they did with the Ebola for example, the Ebola funding that accidentally got cute. They can go back and say, all right, that's we need that. Keep that, but give them at least the chance to make us hole again.
Well you know this again, this is where politics comes into play, because yeah, it doesn't matter. It's the other side doing this, so it's got to be bad.
Well, it's not going to be just Democrats fighting it though, as we mentioned, Republicans have plenty of sacred coals, especially in the Defense Department that we don't want cuts.
So that's right, it's gonna be tough. So this wasn't here in this country, but to our well, the country that Trump would like to make our fifty first state. This just happened a Canadian woman's basketball College Conference championship game over the weekend, saw a man, Yeah, this was a women's game. Saw a man score twenty one points and ultimately win the tournament MVP. Yeah, to add insult
to injury, huh. But in California, a California high school girls basketball team easily lost in the playoffs when they played without their male player. This male athlete who's been exposed for competing in girls sports in the state place for high school in San Francisco, and they just let him do it, but was not playing the other night, and well this team got beat fifty nine thirty three without him.
Did you see the it just a little change of subject, same topic. Did you see what Ram e Manuel said? I think it was on Bill Maher. Ram Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff or Obama. Yeah, I thought it was okay, might have been a whatever he said. They were talking about how these Democrat cities, including Chicago, had been ruined by Democrats laws and Democrat policies, and Emmanuel said, I don't want to hear another word
about the locker room or restrooms. You better start focusing on the classroom and I mean went on to be very honest, and there was a long discussion about how Democrat policies have ruined so many big cities in the country.
Well, there are a few Democrats out there that are actually speaking somewhat logically realistically. Yeah, James Carvel's one of them. Yeah, which is kind of scary Fetterman and other Yeah, yes, you mentioned the classroom. How about this out of Clarksville, Tennessee, a former student suing the school system he graduated from. He graduated with a three point four GPA.
So you think he was pretty bright.
He can't read or even spell his own name. Wow, he's a dyslexic. Actually, I can't ever say that word dyslexic. A whit school district. This is in Clarksville, Tennessee, the Clarksville Montgomery County School System. A judge apparently a ruling that this student did not receive a compensatory education from this school district. Imagine that he can't read even spell his own name and he graduated a three point four GPA.
Yeah, that shouldn't happen. I mean, I know, you can slide, you can get through and that going on. Yeah, but somebody should have noticed at some point. I mean, you take exams at the end of the year if nothing else, right, Yeah.
And cash. But tell, among other things, did you hear this allegedly proposing that the FBI started a partnership with the UFC, not to have UFC fighters work for the FBI, but in order to have them train them physically for physical fitness. Okay, all right, that would work for some of them. For others, maybe not so much.