6 O'FIVERS 4/30/26

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She's almost ready. She's fixing her hair.

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Oh my gosh. I'm kind of set off the Facebook. I'm trying to get my earplugs in my ears. Everything is tangled and twisted. Good morning. It's 6.07 on the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers on this Thursday morning, April 30th. Uh, you know, we we we put the whole four-hour show on Facebook. It's pretty quick, actually, right? I don't think we need to do anything after we do that, huh?

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Uh-huh.

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You alright?

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Yeah, I'm fine.

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What's going on over there?

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Uh, nothing.

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Okay. All right. We had some um some really not so good local news. Um, you know, there's nothing worse than starting off the tourist season with drowning. Uh and um and we've had, I think we've had a couple already, right? Um but uh the latest is a four-year-old boy. Oh, drowning in a hotel swimming pool at North Beach Plantation on 48th Avenue South. It says here, um is this in North Myrtle Beach? I think so.

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Um looking here. It must have been a hotel swimming pool in North Myrtle Beach.

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But there is now 48 South. Yeah. So um yeah, the boy was already being given CPR. Um EMS uh arrived a short time later. A hotel employee rescued the boy. Security footage showed the boy and other children playing in the pool. He began flailing and sunk under the water. I don't know how deep the water is. I don't know if he had a little swim device or something on him that fell off.

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Light on details. So where are the parents? Yeah, he he, as you mentioned, remained there for four minutes, pulled out by the hotel employee. Uh no additional information was immediately available. North Murdo Beach police are investigating. So that's it.

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Okay. Uh we also had a deadly car wreck. It seems like it's a single car wreck in at midnight, a thirty-seven-year-old woman was killed. Uh, she's from Conway, Teresa Michu. She lost control of the vehicle she was driving and crashed shortly after midnight near Brickyard Place near the community of Toddville off Highway 701. No other information is available for that. Um and then we had a car crash into a building. Do we know what building that was? It you know, they didn't give an address.

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They showed a picture. I can't I can't picture what the building is on the on the uh on the website. One person was taken to the hospital after a crash.

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Postal way.

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Yeah, into a commercial building. That's all they're saying. Carolina Force yesterday. Uh Oricani Fire Rescue was dispatched around 7 30. So it was while we were on the air, we didn't get any alerts uh to a postal way to a reported crash. Car hit the building. According to Oricani Fire Rescue, one person taken to the hospital. Thankfully, only minor injuries. The building did sustain damage. They showed a picture of it. There's like a big giant dent, so to speak, it looks like brick, and it's kind of caved in a little bit where the uh vehicle hit it.

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So Yeah. We have a lot of news coming out of um of uh this whole situation regarding Iran. And I want to try and update you all on that. Um so Trump says he may be cutting troops in Germany because of how they've been treating the United States. Um, and I don't know if he's just threatening them, but he's been lashing out at the Chancellor of Germany for uh for how they've been, I guess, characterizing the Iran ep operation Epic Fury. Says here, President Trump declared last night that he is studying and reviewing, quote, the possible reduction of troops in Germany in what appears to be retaliation for comments by Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merr, that Iran has humiliated the United States. And um, and even before, this is according to the New York Times, Mr. Merz made his comments to a group of German students. The United States had hinted that it may review its troop levels in Europe, despite the growing, uh the continuing concerns that Russia's president Vladimir Putin may attempt to test whether NATO would truly come to the aid of one of its smaller, newer members like Estonia or Latvia. And, you know, we all know that Putin wants this USSR back, and so uh we don't know if if Germany like understands that. So what what do we have? Uh what do we have around Europe? Well, we have about 35,000 troops based in Europe and Germany is the hub. It's also the center of medical treatment. We always hear that the injured wounded soldiers are brought to Germany. Um aircraft arming and maintenance and the headquarters for the American forces in Europe is in Germany. This is big, this would be big. Not only, I think, safety protection-wise, but also economically. Look at what happened when they pulled the base out of Myrtle Beach.

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Oh, economically, this will crush them in you know in a certain facet of their economy. Yes. Big time.

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Now Italy houses 12,000 American troops. One of my cousins is stationed there. The United Kingdom has about 10,000 troops, and all three have been critical way stations for forces and air aircraft flying to the Middle East to support Operation Epic Fury. Um, and military commanders are already feeling stretched, have been clear about the risks for the U.S. in cutting troops at the major uh bases in Europe. So I don't know um if this is just a threat, but MERS is a former investment banker. He knows all about money. So it says here he has been increasingly critical about a war he has viewed as unwise and illegal. Oh so Trump is uh, you know, illegal now. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Now Trump also mentioned he had a conversation with uh um Putin. He said they mostly spoke about um Ukraine, a little bit about Iran. Uh we know that this is most likely affecting Putin, this whole situation. But he told reporters that he had a call with Vladimir Putin yesterday, and he said he likely convinced the Russian leader to order a temporary ceasefire in the Ukraine war.

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I do have a clip of him talking about that after being asked the question. Would you like to hear it? Absolutely. All right.

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Well, I talked about Ukraine, and I talked a little bit about uh Iran, I talked uh about a few different subjects, mostly about Ukraine, and we had a very good conversation. I think we're gonna come up with a solution relatively quickly, I hope. I think you'd like to see a solution, I can tell you. That's good. What important does he want to have in the Iran situation? Umrichment, if we if he can help us get it. I said I'd much rather have you be involved with ending the war with Ukraine. To me, that would be more important because we've we've gonna we're gonna have that. Look, uh we we're not gonna let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And we've knocked out their navy, we've knocked out their air force, we've knocked out their anti-aircraft, everything, apparatus, everything they have, their radar, they have very little left. And they have some missiles, a small percentage. They have a small percentage of missile making facilities. We knocked out about 80% of them. The rest come very quickly if we don't make a deal. Uh they're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. They know it. And just about everybody else does. And so we talked about that a little bit. He doesn't want to see them have a nuclear weapon anymore. But I had a long talk with President Putin. I suggested a uh a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that. He might announce something having to do with that. Did he announce it yet? No, but I I was wondering I was just gonna ask you. You know, I asked him about uh even if it's a little ceasefire, there's so many people being killed, it's so ridiculous.

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There you go. There you go.

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Yeah. Now uh back to Iran. Trump. Uh this is this is you know, scary. Uh U.S. is to attack Iran again. Short and powerful wave of strikes may be in store. The U.S. Central Command has prepared plans for a short and powerful wave of strikes on Iran, likely targeting key infrastructure. Um, and let me see, the briefing uh is going to happen today by CENTCON Commander uh Admiral Brad Cooper. This signals that Trump is weighing the possibility of resuming major combat operations either to break the deadlock in ongoing negotiations or deliver a decisive blow before ending the conflict. And that also came out when we got news that this economic fury, which we've been talking about, um, which uh our Secretary Um Bessent on Operation Economic Fury, Treasury Secretary, um, I I may have a little clip on that, but it's it's it's this one's long. Uh Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States' maximum economic pressure campaign on Iran has sent the regime into crisis. And he said that it's crippling and that it's causing a$170 million daily loss, and that they seized uh nearly$500 million in Iranian crypto.

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I do have a little clip, but not talking about the crypto, but talking about that and the pressure. Do you want to hear that?

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Sure.

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That was on Fox Business yesterday.

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To be clear, uh the president gave the operation, gave the order for max pressure campaign more than a year ago. He gave it to me and Treasury last March. It was that pressure that brought the Iranian economy to a standstill in December that led to the protest. The largest bank in Iran collapsed. The central bank had demonetized the debt, and that created massive inflation. Their currency is down about 60 or 70 percent versus the US dollar. So they're in the middle of a currency crisis. And what we're doing now is, you know, we've we've been in a long race and we are sprinting for the finish line. President Trump told me three weeks ago to up the pressure again, and we have gone to uh the buyers of Iranian oil and told them that we are going, we are willing to do secondary sanctions on your industries, on your banks, uh, who tolerate Iranian oil in their system. One of the big mistakes out of many that the Iranian leadership made was bombing their GCC counterparts, because for years we had heard that there was no IRGC money in their bank accounts. Now they've become more transparent, and we are freezing those bank accounts for the Iranian people. And we we can see that every day it is more pressure on the regime, the retirement funds that they thought that they had outside of Iran. Uh we are freezing. We're holding those for the Iranian people. Same with all their villas in the south of France and all over the world. We are going to track them down and we are going to uh continue the uh economic pressure as well as the block on the straight of promotes.

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See, he doesn't mention crypto, but he does mention that uh they know where it all is and they got it frozen.

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Yeah.

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Saving it for the Iranian Iranian people.

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I don't know what that's gonna look like, but yeah, they are cryptocurrency assets according to this article.

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All right, it is uh 627 on the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers. So we had a little interesting story pop up about the Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evitt, and you know, the old story um where there's no bad PR. Um and so I I don't I forgot who said that was a famous Wasn't it P. T. Barnum? Yes, maybe. So South Carolina State University, that's a historical black university, um, which by the way, Trump really went out of the out of the their way, you know, the Trump administration went out of its way to um fund during the first presidency, right? Um and so it was P.

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T. Barnum. No such thing as bad publicity. No such thing as bad.

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Spell my name right publicity. And so uh I think that's kind of what Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evitt said, who by the way is running for governor, who we will not be interviewing today because um all candidate um all political interviews have been suspended for the 45-day period prior to the June 9th primary, just to remind you, um, so that we can do just one candidate interview per person. Um so of course, uh she is invited to come on to talk about her candidacy. But um so we all know that she has a family-owned business that she built her riches on, which is uh a payroll company. And she has been very successful business owner with her husband in this payroll company, and they're all over the country. And one of the things that uh people try to point out was that she was supporting DEI because her payroll company was helping businesses from all over the country comply with the DEI regulations and criteria in their state.

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Own a business, it's called compliance, and the government has big teeth.

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Yeah. So, like, that wasn't a fair assessment. It wasn't like she supported DEI. In fact, she was very vocal against it. And because of that, her being vocal about it over the years, um, it says here that um there were protests and petitions that were uh put out because the lieutenant governor, someone in the um South Carolina State University campus in Orangeburg County, wa wa invited her to speak at the commencement.

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Now it says the pet I found some more details. A petition calling for her removal uh gathered close to 9,000 signatures as of yesterday morning. Organizers of the petition cite her political positions and affiliations as a gubernatorial candidate, noting they have generated significant controversy across South Carolina. The controversy felt among communities that report feeling marginalized by current state policies, according to organizers. So you're right, as we had our little pre-show thing on social media, there isn't really one single thing. It's just that she's too orange.

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Yes. And the thing is, um, you know, she supports Trump and Which you think would be okay.

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Orangeburg County, orange?

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Yeah. Guess no? You think so, right? Um yeah, so you know it's really sad. That's so misguided and so wrong, but people are brainwashed into believing that they're giving people all sorts of crutches and um you know, and I and I get what their point is, but if they really examine the issue, maybe they would understand it. But you know, what are you gonna do? They don't want her there. So um orange is not the new black. She ain't black enough. Yes, that's what it is. So um they said they wanted somebody who identified with their lived experiences. And I I are are all can a white person go to that university? Or is it only black people allowed?

SPEAKER_04 17:08

That is a good question, and not something I've ever looked into.

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What's the name of it again? South Carolina State University. It's an HBCU. And Trump has done more for this university system than any. You know, HBCUs are all over the country. Uh so she's wearing it as a badge of honor.

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She says Well, in accordance with federal law, it has to accept students of any color or race or background. So there you go.

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President Trump and conservatives have done more for HBCUs than any administration in history. I must be doing something right because woke mobs are coming after me like a champion of eliminating uh eliminating radical DEI scams on college campuses. So bring it on, she said. And in a separate Facebook posts post, she said, These leftist protesters are coming after me because they know I will not bend a knee or compromise on South Carolina's conservative values.

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Now, a statement from the college uh did say they invited Evan to campus to engage with students, faculty, and staff constructively at a later date, outside of the celebratory nature of commencement. So it's like we don't want you for that, but you can come back another time. That's just being nice. They don't mean it.

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Hey, listen, don't bite the hand that feeds you. Because that's not gonna end well.

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No.

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I mean, I wouldn't recommend it, but they caved. So whoever uninvited her, they caved.

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Oh, this just in. The person who started the petition's name is Karen. I made that up.

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We'll be back in a moment. I just wanted to bring your attention to a local story that was a little odd. And I'm like, yeah. Sometimes I'm like, that's not a felony. Um, so let's say you're a woman in a relationship and domestic violence has happened and you were strangled but not to death. It's not a fa it's not a felony. It's not attempted murder. No. It's not a felony. Really? A retired South Carolina state police officer has been pushing for legislation for the past eight years to make non-fatal strangulation a felony in the state. How is that not a felony? That is so backwards. It is unbelievable.

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Well, I guess it comes from a time where most people just knew better not to do certain things. But because we have idiots running around, we have to have a law for everything.

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No, I think because it was accepted.

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Really? I didn't take it that way, but I think I take it that way. Okay.

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Um how is it not attempted murder? So there are bills moving both chambers uh through both changes chambers of the General Assembly to look at this. And here's what he said Brian Bennett, he's a champion of this, and he used to head up the task force for um domestic violence. So he knows firsthand that non fatal strangulation, also known as NFS, is a primary indicator of a future homicide, and that a woman who actually survives one strangulation assault is eight times more likely to be killed by her assailant in the future. So that's not good odds. Okay, so based on years of personal experience in dealing with this, he is championing this for women. Well, anybody, but women are usually the victim. So he says here, even though you may survive a strangulation event, the internal injuries that can be created to your body could lead to lifelong debilitating injuries and delayed death even months after the strangulation takes place. So there is a physical bruising and ruptured vessels in your eyes and all this stuff that happens to you physically, even if you survive strangulation. And there are also more severe non-physical signs that are often overlooked. You'll have trouble speaking, trouble swallowing. About 50% of the time, there's going to be a change in someone's voice. There are complaints of a headache. But one of the most really, really dangerous things is the risk of stroke, stroke injury, stroke death. And people do not realize that after they've been strangled but didn't die, they are severely injured. And they won't even know it happened to them. They don't even know something is wrong until it's too late. So he believes that the current state assault laws are insufficient and that a standalone NFS felony is essential due to the high risk of death. He says everyone that I talk to, everyone that I train, when they get the information about the dangers of strangulation, how frequent it is, how often it's missed, how the likelihood of homicide and bodily injury is going to be there, to them, it's a common sense decision. If we know something is dangerous, why haven't we acted in a way to protect people? He said he once responded to a domestic violence incident where a pregnant woman had been strangled by her partner. At that time I didn't know what he knew now, right? And he said, when I did become more informed about how much danger she was actually in at the time, that I wasn't aware, I had a stark realization that I had, if I had known more, I could have intervened in a better way and not just preserve her life, but that of her baby. And he said that the woman and the baby survive, but he was left with a sense of guilt, not knowing what he should have known. And that's been a driving force behind why he is advocating not only for this law, but for training so that people aren't in the position that he was, not recognizing the dangers and seriousness of non-fatal strangulation. But the most important thing is to get that person to an emergency room to be evaluated. So the South Carolina Fraternal Order of Police, which Bennett is a member of, supports the bill being passed. So it's one of their legislative priorities on their website. And um maybe, you know, you want to go ahead and contact your representative and senator and say, I am in support of this, or, you know, if you have a story to tell, share it with um someone in the legislation because they could use your story to better understand what could happen. So I just wanted to let you know that. I I I didn't know this. Did you know that? Did you ever think about it?

SPEAKER_04 24:42

No, I honestly it's not something I just automatically assume that if you attack someone and you put your hands around their throat. Why isn't that a felony?

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Yeah.

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I don't understand. Mike, the AR guy, has an interesting take on this, just to pass along what some folks are thinking on the budget blinds text line. They can charge people with whatever they want. Problem is when the courts take a plea, you know, plea bargain, they just kind of slap the hands and move on. And that, you know, there is a little bit of that going on, and that's kind of why we're in the situation. You know how much I hate that, right?

SPEAKER_05 25:11

We've talked about that a lot.

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I know. It's like we have all these laws on the books that sometimes are enforced. I mean, you've got local law enforcement, you've got local, you know, solicitors or district attorneys, depending on what part of the country you're in, that go through all this and say, yep, yep, yep, yep. And then it gets to court and it's like, what? He's out in 15 days, time served, whatever, whatever. Plea bargain, whatever, whatever. It's like, well, what's going on? And those are the people that are usually the repeat offenders, and it's escalated. And then you get the situation like you did on that uh that that train in in Charlotte.

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Mm-hmm. Yeah.

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We keep we're told all the time career criminals.

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39 times.

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How is it that career criminals a thing? If they broke the law once, twice, okay, now three times, what at what point do you say, okay, this person you can't fix them?

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Yeah.

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No matter how many laws you have on the books, you're not going to fix them if you're not enforcing the ones you got. So, Mike, I agree with you. I see your point.

SPEAKER_05 26:11

We also had another story about a man that is being sued. His he's in Conway. His name is Prentice Jackson. I think we spoke about him fondly. Um, Jackson was allegedly quote unquote mistreating 33 dogs at his Bellatrix court home. These are pit bull-like dogs. They were noticeably underweight, isolated from each other, untreated medical conditions, scarring consistent with dog fighting injuries. Shocker. Uh, well, when the state authorities came in to seize all the dogs and take care of them, they had to spend more than$100,000 for their care. And the monthly expenses to continue is$44,500 per month. Per month. And so now they're suing him. I hope they win. Now, I bet you he doesn't have$100,000.

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Yeah, I was gonna say.

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But this is the people from Nitty's kennels. Remember, I was telling you about that with the P in front of it?

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Yes.

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And I found all those videos of him training dogs and making them run on a treadmill like so fast.

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It's blatantly obvious what they're doing.

SPEAKER_05 27:37

No, it's for hog hunting. Come on, Nick. And he's breeding these poor little creatures and um God only knows what. Selling them. It says here the kennel that Jackson was running out of his home was referred to as Nitty's kennels. Sled reports that its surveillance of the home happened between January 27th and March 18th, and that Jackson owned the dogs for no reason other than fighting or baiting, to include breeding to perpetuate dog fighting. And so what they would do, and I've seen videos and um what they would do, they would train these dogs to be killers and fighters. And they're all these videos to show how vicious these dogs could be. And then you want to buy, if you're a dog fighter who wants to win, you buy the most vicious, strongest dogs possible. And he sold them for a couple of thousand dollars like that. And um, he would show all the training videos, but they were for hog hunting. Come on. Because lots of people go hog hunting with their dogs and they release the dogs to kill the remember how the fox they used to say that about the fox hunts, right? They would send dogs to kill the foxes because they were too crappy of a shot to to actually shoot the fox. I don't know. I I despise all of it, but it's a trigger for me because people like this are heartless, soulless individuals. They really are. And they're really putting everybody at risk. And they're torturing animals because they don't give them any water, they don't give them enough food, they're surrounded by fecal matter, it's in the heat, they have 40-pound chains around their neck, all intentional, all to create a monster.

SPEAKER_04 29:49

Exactly to create a warrior in their little battlefield. Disgusting. All these people together to bet on. I can't No, I I'm not a fan.

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No. No.

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To say the least.

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Yeah. So, and now we're supposed to pick up the tab as taxpayers. So let me tell you something. Sled better win this lawsuit. Because it might make some of these idiots think twice. Now, I talked to the uh 15th Circuit solicitor about ways to spot if dog fighting is going on. You know, there's a lot of rural areas around here, but dog fighting is very alive and well in these counties because there's a lot of stuff happening in the back of the woods that you don't know about. But you hear dogs, you hear, but if you see groups of cars showing up around a barn or a steel building on a regular basis, drop a dime. They have a whole animal war um welfare section of the police department. Drop a dime, then let them go to work. Don't get involved, except for the initial call.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

Yeah, you don't have to get involved, and you can remain anonymous. Yeah. You see something, just say something.

SPEAKER_05 31:12

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

Turns out to be nothing, no harm, no harm.

SPEAKER_05 31:14

When you know someone, if you're working in a store and someone comes to buy 40-pound chains for their dog, drop a dime. Because that person's torturing that you're not allowed to do that, by the way. I think we have tethering laws now. So there are telltale signs of dog fighting rings everywhere. People just have to keep their eyes. You don't want to get involved, no problem. Just give a tip. Because they will work on it. There's a whole team of people. And you know what? There are dime a dozen.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

It is different municipalities that have different things. It's not a statewide thing, but you're right in this area, 10 to 12 feet long, have swivels at both ends, cannot be heavy chains. Right. So there it is.

SPEAKER_05 32:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:09

That's just an organic.

SPEAKER_05 32:10

They put those things around their necks to make them stronger, and it's so brutal. And the weight.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

Tether cannot exceed 10% of the dog's total body weight. So they're pretty specific for that reason. Yeah. To combat that.

SPEAKER_05 32:22

If you're buying, if you're you're in a store and you're selling chains, and the person tells you what they're using it for, you should be calling the police on that person. Because that's illegal. And it it's a tip for them to look into it further.

SPEAKER_04 32:45

Uh Julie Harrington has has decided to cleanse your palate. Oh. So as we go to break, you can take a look at a nice picture.

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I'm gonna look at Snoopy. You're gonna love it! Where's Snoopy? Oh, look at Snoopy.

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Look at those fucks.

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And by the way, it is I wasn't gonna tell you. I told everybody to be quiet and not tell you, but it is Adopt a Shelter Pet Day officially. I'm letting you know.

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The Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers. Making Grand Strand Morning Radio great again. Back in a bit. One thing to say on that. Poor hobby.

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Poor hobby.