6 O'FIVERS WAKE UP ITS THURSDAY July 9th 2026

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Here comes the Litus Callaway show with next summer. Lit's Callaway next summer. Picking up your wake up with news, opinion, and insight every weekday morning on Talk 94.5 106.7.

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Left your mic opened.

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That's fine. I'll come together in a minute.

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Start your show. 607.

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Wow. I just took it in the video. I can't say seven. My daughter was, I mean, that was such a thing for a short time. And then I think it was just a couple days ago I saw this thing on Amazon. I saw, you can get 6'7 for like bed sheets and all that. And she goes, No. I was like, oh, we're over that already. Okay. You know, like bed sheets in a bed spread. It says 6'7. It's like funny kids' graphics. They're trying to capitalize on a fad. I know. And it was cheap. It was Amazon. It's probably made in China. But I asked her and she said, no, it's stupid. I'm like, oh sorry. Anyway. Alright, I'm coming to get my mics. Be prepared. What do you got? What do you got? I'm looking at um Are you playing it up on the thing or your thing?

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No, no. I was just looking at SpaceX. So cool. Alright. Did you guys see it? Did someone see it? What are you looking at? Oh, you're coming over here? We're trying to do a show here. Who cares?

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Nobody's listening.

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Yes, we already have to do this. What are you doing on my side? They sell the SpaceX.

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I'm gonna hang out on this side all day.

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Well, I said on my my Facebook that I would post the videos. So I wanted to post them. Oh man. 34 minutes ago, Dick Pond Road near Sakasidi Swing Bridge, two vehicle crash involving a motorcycle. All lanes of Dick Pond Road, traffic blocked. One person transported to hospital, critical injuries. It happened 420 this morning. Avoid the area. It happened like right by the swing bridge. As per the Ori County Police Rescue. So I don't know. Uh it probably is cleared up by now. But they just posted it 30 minutes ago to avoid the area. So that means they're still doing uh probably crash investigation.

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Probably.

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Which means it was a severe, at least a severe injury. You know, I saw that um I I did a little looking around about that gentleman that was killed on that motorcycle by your house. Yes. He lived right down the block.

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That's what you said in that text.

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Um, if it's accurate. He lived right down the block from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Um he was almost home. Yeah. And so was the alleged driver.

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Yeah. Uh we had some folks uh when we announced that that happened uh earlier this week, I think Monday. Uh who knew the man, lived in that community, and said that everybody loved him and he was just, you know.

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So he did live down the block?

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Yeah, he did live close to there. So that was accurate.

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That's so unbelievable, right?

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More more sadness, too. Uh you had mentioned it when we were doing our pre-thing. Yeah. Uh here we go. Here it is.

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Bonnie Tyler has died. A message posted on her website confirming the news, saying she passed away last night in a hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for. The singer, most famous for the song, of course, Total Eclipse of the Heart, had undergone emergency intestinal surgery in May and was placed in a medically induced coma. Although there's no confirmation yet, that incident was related to her death.

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So there you go. Third, uh, let's see, how old was she? Uh 75. 75. So young. Yeah. What was her um They didn't disclose what the illness was that I heard. Here, let me uh let me go back. Let me go back and see what it says here.

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Bonnie Tyler has died. A message posted on her website confirming the news, saying she passed away last night in a hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for. The singer, most famous for the song, of course, Total Eclipse of the Heart, had undergone emergency intestinal surgery in May and was placed in a medically induced coma. Although there's no confirmation yet, that incident was related to her death.

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So there you go. And it just says, and I read this a while ago, battling an illness. And that's that's that's all that we had had heard, at least at that time. What was this song was all over the place back in the day? It's very Aussie Sunday in a sense. Yeah, yeah. I wonder if Jim Steinman wrote it. I wouldn't be surprised.

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Every now and then I get a little bit nervous. That's the best of all the years on back. Every now and then I get a little bit nervous.

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Yeah, that was right. He wrote it. This Jim Simon who was meatloaf's uh co-conspirator on bad of the hello. So yeah. I knew he had to be the composer in this. Sounds so much like him.

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The reason why she had this um raspy voice was because she had vocal cord nodules on her vocal cord. Yeah. And she had them removed, and she wasn't supposed to speak until they healed. And she did.

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That happens to so many singers. They get the surgery and they're impatient. And they end up ruining their vo voice forever.

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Well, for her, it became a right.

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But their range, right, their range is never what it once was. She made it work. But you've got other singers who get go through that procedure to get their range back. They think it's gonna help, and sometimes it does.

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It's so risky.

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It's very risky. I mean, you can't beat age. You know, your voice drops.

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No, she did this in the 70s. No, I know that I'm saying that.

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No, no, no, no. I mean, you know, the singers that, especially from the 80s, the ones that sang, whoa, you know, oh, like rock stars. Yeah, and they they try to I'm gonna get I'm gonna beat Old Man Father Time, I'm gonna get that surgery, and then they speak to some Paul Stanley, Bon Jovi, so many of them. And then their voice is shot. But yeah, it worked for her. So anyway, yeah, Bonnie Tyler. Uh big global hit. Total eclipse of the heart died, 75.

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I just told um ChatGPT that she died because he didn't know. He said, She is not dead. ChatGPT? Yeah.

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Again, ChatGPT hates you.

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I said, catch up, dude. And they said, Oh, you're right. What does that tell you?

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Yeah.

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Now I'm now Oh now I'm helping ChatGPT.

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Yes, of course. Liz GPT. Who's this Chad guy? Hanging Chad GPT! We got Liz GPT. Now, uh, we're just getting information here from Keith. The bridge will be out until further notice. That bridge where the accident was. Yikes. That's how to be. I'm gonna have to remind people.

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Oh, say a prayer for these motorcycle riders. I feel so bad for people riding motorcycles, and I know it's like freedom, it's American, the wind in your hair.

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You'll never convince me.

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You just cannot do it here. You can what do you I would never convince you what?

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To not ride and you don't ride. Well, I haven't since I had the kids, but did my whole life. Exactly. And when I do it again, I'm still not wearing a helmet. Yep.

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You're not gonna ride again.

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Are you kidding me? After Nicolina went for a ride on Grandpa's Harley, I gotta fire mine up. She wants to go for rides. I said, okay. I was on my dad's bike, the same age. Grew up with it. Grew up with it.

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Not my godchild. She ain't going on no stinking motorcycle.

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You haven't signed anything yet.

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So when I get my fairy wings tomorrow, I'm gonna say to her, do the sign of the cross and say, never go on a motorcycle.

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Never. Okay, that's peanut. But my pumpkin.

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Well, listen, I'm not her godmother.

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I know.

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So I have no say. I'm gonna start putting my foot down on certain things. This is gonna regret it. You're so gonna regret asking me. I'll be like, no, not my goddaughter. She's perfect and she does not go on motorcycles.

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Listen, they are so mother-in-laws.

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I mean, you cannot ride them here. People are insane. They're not looking. No one's looking.

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I will tell you this. I've had more close calls here since I moved here 15 years ago. I never had anything remotely close to that.

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You got a potential drunk driver in your freaking neighborhood.

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Well, there's that.

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Who just killed a motorcycle rider.

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And the uh influx of the aging population that has moved here. No, they do not see the motorcycles truly are oblivious to them. I I've seen it so often. Plus on my own and drunkenness. Well, we had drunks in Wisconsin, too. Somehow they were able to avoid us.

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I mean, it's so unbelievable. I mean, I'm to I was talking to my friend yesterday whose husband was a motorcycle cop. Right? Most of his adult life.

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Experienced rider, you could say.

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Extremely highly trained rider. Mowed down by a drunk. And her life is changed forever. Just over a year. I called her. She's like, uh I'm in Colorado visiting my son. If he were here, we would blah blah blah blah blah. I mean, she's breaking my heart. This is a boot this family. This is you know, the the the son posted pictures of him and you know, his father and him and his father and his grandson fishing. Like that man was uh, you know, he's living his life. Just retired, right? He's out here living, loving his grandchildren, having a ball, freaking drunk driver. I hate drunk driving. And they they they didn't pass the bill to make it more harsh. And that's why we we have these issues. These people, they do it over and over and over again. And then, oh, finally they killed someone. Now we can lock them up one to twenty-five years for taking a life. Come on.

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Yeah.

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No, you drunk drivers, man.

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Whoever you may be, it's just uh You know, this isn't the 70s anymore. I remember my grandfather told you, chief inspector of our police force where I grew up, also a motorcycle cop until he got older, um, used to say all the time, we would, you know, we'd pull people over and we'd be like, hey, hey, hey, hey, park your car, I'll give you a ride home. Yeah. Don't want to see you in this car for at least 24 hours type thing. You know, and it and it was fine. But then, you know, mad came about and it the exposure, right? The exposure of all of that, it got to be the forefront of it. And it's like, then the penalties came, and it truthfully, I don't think we've we've helped anything. I I don't think it's done anything. Maybe statistically, I'm not really sure.

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You know what they used to do? They used to take one of those cars and put them on the front lawn of the school. I know, I remember.

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Dare would do this every semester or whatever. I know.

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You want this? You want to call death cause death and destruction? They used to have people, you know, paraplegics coming through school and saying, Yes, this is what happens when you drive drunk.

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I remember. You well, you and I school at the same time. I remember. My driver's had to go.

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What happened to students against drunk driving?

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We had a whole week talking.

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It impacted me.

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Sad? Yes, I remember that. We thought they were very annoying, although the message we agreed with, but they were really it was the people. Message was great. The people delivering it were like annoying.

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Oh.

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I mean, the sad in our class, our school.

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But didn't you have a contract that you brought home to your parents that had that?

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We had the conversation, but that was later. I don't there wasn't the contract when I was, I think that was later. Because I remember like my sister talking about it. So I think that came about a little later, the contract thing. But we always had an understanding, my parents and I, and you know, listen. You know, we know you're probably gonna drink. We don't want you to, but if you do, you're not driving the car, you're calling us, no questions asked. We always had that. You know, and I remember walking. You ready for this? 16 years old at my buddy's house. Yeah. Walking.

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Walking.

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Just walking around like at four in the morning. Well, we had a few. We weren't hammered, but probably intoxicated for a 16-year-old. Policeman pulled us over and said, What are you doing? Pulled us over, but you know, pulled up and said, What are you doing?

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Yeah.

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Walking. Where are you walking to? Well, my li I live over there. I was staying at my buddy's house. I live over. What are you doing outsolate? Just walking around. So you guys been drinking? No. He knew.

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Yeah.

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Threw us in the slammer. Had to call my dad.

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Wow. Good for that cop.

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And right. And I got picked up at six in the morning. My dad didn't say two words to me. Until the next day.

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That's the contract.

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That was the contract.

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You talk to them when you get sober.

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So anyway, you know, it was just it's parent. There was more parenting back then, I feel. That's not to say all and everybody. I know there's a lot of great parents out there. I run into them. I see what they do with their kids. Yes, keep doing it. But then there's a lot of people that don't parent at all. Oh, you're making noise over there? Here's a cell phone. Play with this. So I can do what I want.

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Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of drunks that that people just have uh alcohol and whatever other thing they're doing. Just can't control it. And again, and then they impact people's lives forever.

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And it's not the 70s or even the 80s or even the early 90s. We now have Lyft, Uber, cell phones to call people.

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We always had taxi cabs. Yeah, you did. But you didn't have a cell phone to call a cab.

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And now it's so easy. You just click, click, click, boom. All of a sudden it shows up. Not saying that that's always the safest alternative, depending where you're at. But if it's just your neighborhood bar and you know people, you get a ride. A lot of times the bars offer the ride home program. You know, I don't understand.

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I'll call a cab for you.

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Yeah. What is the excuse now that you're getting behind the vehicle, uh the wheel of a vehicle drunk, and injuring a couple of things?

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But how come the drunk never thinks they're drunk? I don't know that. Like, because if I have a if I have a drink and I don't even drink anymore, like I drink nothing ever. I mean, it makes me sick. Um, but if I have a drink, when I would have a drink, I'd be like, ooh, that hit me hard. Oh, wow. Okay, I drank that one too fast. Like, I know when I'm drunk. How is it that some drunks they think they can, you know, climb a mountain, drive a vehicle, get on a motorcycle? They could do all these things, ride a boat, sail a boat, whatever you do. I how how is it that a drunk never knows how drunk they are? Like a true drunk never thinks they're drunk.

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Liquid confidence.

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So unattractive. I know. It's like, you remember the drunk that that was at our um Trump party spitting in my face, trying to yell something? And she's like, and she's a doctor. And I'm like, dude, really? You're a doctor?

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I do.

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Oh my god. Yeah. Or was it a dentist? Because they're not real doctors, but whatever. I don't know. I digress.

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Hey, we've run into, and I'm gonna go ahead and say it, and I don't care who gets mad. We've run into elected people at some of our parties. Oh, I have to. Pretty schnookered up and getting in our face about stuff, and I'm like, really?

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Yeah. And that we have to excuse them because they were drunk.

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And we're standing there stone cold sober, broadcasting for 15 hours, and we're the jerks.

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We're the jerks. Got it.

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All right, it is 6.29 on the Liz Callaway show with Nick Summers. Welcome to your Trans Friday, July 9th. Why?

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Why not? Yeah. Sounds good.

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Well, you know what it is. It's like Friday, you know, you've been waiting for Friday. It's finally there. It's kind of anticlimactic. At least Thursday, you're like, you anticipate Friday. And it feels like a Friday because I just have one more wake-up of work before the weekend.

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The worst day of the week is really Tuesday. Is it? Yeah, because Monday is Monday. Sucks because it's Monday. You know, Wednesday's update, so it's getting a little better. Thursday, we now know it's Trans Friday. Well, yeah, but not everybody participates. Tuesday's great again. How do you do that? MTG.

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That's not good.

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No. So Tuesday, because Tuesday has nothing other than Taco Tuesday, which nobody celebrates, and they don't at 6 a.m. Tuesday suck. Taco Tuesday. Yeah. Where's my, you know, from the Bogadell? The breakfast tacos. Where's Dr. Jill when you need her?

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Alright, the embattled Senate campaign of Maine. Main Democrat or Dumbocrat.

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I I got clips. Graham Plattner. From him, yeah. He babbled on for like 10 minutes, but I shortened it a little bit. And then Fetterman. His reaction. Him dropping out. So if you want to do that, we can do that next.

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Alright. Who are they going to put in his spot?

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It's very Kamla-esque, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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Five days before.

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I think they have to pick one by the 27th.

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I thought it was.

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No, he has to get off the ballot by the 13th. That's it. But they have to pick someone by the 27th.

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So they'll just appoint someone, like usual. That's what the DNC does. Lizzie, got an update.

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What?

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Uh I just looked on the SCDOT, and they do have a camera on the swing birds and Sauckers too. We were told it was going to be closed for a while. It's looking wide open according to the live camera on the SCDOT. So Dandy Don, you just asked, and we did have a report that that thing was going to be closed for a while. I'm watching right now. I just I'm watching about six cars go across it. So uh this is a live cam from the SC DOT. It looks like they did clean up that earlier accident. They have finished the investigation.

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Two and a half hours ago.

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Yeah, it was two and a half hours ago. So now the swing bridge is open, and I'm watching traffic cross over it right now. So there you go, Dandy Don.

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All right. You know, life is so fragile. Very and uh a lot of people, you know, it's just so sad to me. It's like you just don't know what's gonna happen. Like the guy sitting at the Chestnut Hill restaurant in the freaking tree. What is that? How's that guy doing? Um I was talking to Javi uh yesterday, because you know, these things, he's like, I don't even know why you're in this business, he says to me. You carry all these things. I was like, I know all these news stories they imprint on me. And you know why? Because I've seen a lot of scenes because you know, when I was doing video, I used to go to the scenes and I would see the scene and I'd see the family, you know, and you try not to take video of the family. And I was a videographer in the news business for a couple of years, and that's enough, right? Because you see a lot, you're traveling a little you know, death, destruction, the worst day of the you know. And I'm thinking of this woman in this house being beaten by this man.

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I know.

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And I keep r I was like running it through my mind, and I'm like, no one would. There to save her. And like I'm thinking, uh you know, if you had didn't hear about this story in Conway, how he was beating up this woman, I don't know how he knows her. And then he just went at her with a a rubber mallet until she was dead.

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Well, they think that it was her silent her fall from the kicking, pushing, shoving, beating, whatever, her fall when she hit her head is is what did her in, sadly. And he continued to afterwards.

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But that's what I'm saying.

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Hit her with the rubber mallet.

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The the the savagery of the attack is like you know, you've been knocked over, you've fallen to the floor. Yeah, you could hit your head. I mean, it could happen anytime. You can be on your bicycle and your skateboard, your whatever. You fall and you hit your head, you're done for. I mean, one little hit can cause major damage. We get it. We get it. But I mean, the savagery of him be I I just can't get it out of my head, you know. And I think about that little girl in that neighborhood around the corner, you know, uh down that Bel Tare Road, and that little girl, the 11-year-old Kyrie Bell. I like these names, they stay in my head and what she s must have suffered at the hands of these people that are supposed to be like helping her, safeguarding her. And you know, I I I just think of these people. And now we got this other guy, you know, this is this guy arrested again. Two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree, one count of criminal sexual conduct with a minor back in June. And they they served him this creature, a 52-year-old man who looks way older than 52.

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Yeah, he does.

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Uh Steve Lane Leonard of Ory County, uh, you know, with child porn. They he was arrested back then for 250 images of child porn. And you're like, oh, it's a victimless crime. It's just pictures that are out there anyway. The kids were already victimized, you know. I mean, people are insane.

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Wow. Um I hadn't heard that justification before.

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Yeah, well, I mean, it's the same pictures, right? And they trade them like trading cards and they you know, no one has one picture. You know, they have tens of thousands of pictures because they can't stop it, right?

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No, they can't.

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Now there's a new law passed.

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And there's no rehabilitating them, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 24:46

No. Well look, it it's manifested itself into real life 4D, um, where he's allegedly um charged with uh sexual exploitation of a minor.

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It always escalates. It starts with the fantasies on paper, on screen, whatever, and then it's eventually it leads to I want to try that once.

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Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. We don't get it, but these people. A new law was passed in May, and it strength strengthens the penalties for child pornography and for previous offenders. The new law sentences anyone who is already on the sex offender registry and then re-offends to a minimum of five years in prison. Just let me know. Um I mean the internet will open this industry like wide open. I mean by the le years ago you had to go to the photo mat, right? The one-hour photo.

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Or you had these pervs who learned how to develop their own pictures, which is literally and that wasn't hard to do. No, it wasn't. It's really to do it in high school. Yeah, it's not that hard of a process. You just have to have a lot of people. I mean, not tall porn, but just no, but I mean developing your own pictures, right. And that's what they had to do. And then that guy was like the king of their little perverted circle, producing all these horrifying pictures and or films back in the day.

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Crazy, crazy stuff.

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Speaking of quality individuals. The Merce? Uh what's that? The Merce? The male nurse. No.

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Oh, you wanted to stay there? We could stay there. Oh, I know. I thought you were talking about quality individuals. Oh, like he counts.

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Okay. Go for it with your s your uh your nurse story.

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Oh, it's my merce story. Merce? Oh, yeah. Because you have to say male nurse.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Is that like a is that like a uh a merman instead of a mermaid? You have to say merce for a nurse. That's a male? He's a merse. I never heard that until you.

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Well, okay. You only live once. 55-year-old William Henderson. He's charged with a slew, quote unquote. SLU. No, that's an subjective word. Like they should have just given you the number of uh just count them up. You know, when you say slew, it means a lot. How many is a lot? A slew of drug-related offenses, including violations of drug distribution laws and theft of a controlled substance. Arrest warrants allege that Henderson took prescription painkillers and other narcotics from the hospital on multiple dates between January and April 2026, appearing to do so for patient care. The drugs listed on the warrants include oxycodone, hydromorphone, and fentanyl. The warrants state that Henderson did so while working as a MERS at the Grand Strand Medical Center. Investigators say, also say some of the required paperwork for those medications were incomplete, incorrect. The warrant says the allegations are based on an investigation, which include video interviews, and records reviewed by law enforcement. Um so they suspended temporarily his MERSI license on April 22nd. And it's in f in effect until further order of the board. Uh, according to the letter, he was licensed in South Carolina in 2017. He was released on a $12,000 bond across all charges. Um they wanted to go there and talk to him, but they were told he wasn't home. That's the first thing you want to do, right? Talk to the press. So that's not a shocker. Yeah, yeah. After an internal investigation, we took immediate action, and the inv individual is no longer employed at our hospital. We then reported the matter to the appropriate authorities and assisted with their investigation. We we remain committed to the highest uh standards of patient safety, integrity, and accountability. According to uh HCA Healthcare. Who's HCA Healthcare?

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Uh that's Grandstrand. HCA is the parent company.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

Oh, okay. Well, there you go.

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Hospital Corporation America, I think. I can't remember.

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Do you see my quality individual and want to raise me one?

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Uh I would like to. And this guy, yeah. We could just say boo-bye.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Hey everyone. Um, his voice is very good. I think as many of you know, over the past couple days, I have faced some very serious allegations, and I just want to make it clear. This is all false. The things that have been claimed did not happen. It's not real. It has placed an immense amount of weight. As I think about what needs to happen now. Amy and I are regular people. We were not looking for this experience. We were not looking to get into politics. We had no desire to run for office. I just want you to think about like what you would do as a regular person in a position where a much larger world, large forces were working against you personally to accuse you of the worst thing that a person could do, and it was not remotely true.

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Newsflash, it was your own party.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

The call was coming from inside the through press inquiries. Oh. With no time to truly respond, no time for investigations before a corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury, and executioner. Accusations are supposed to be the beginning of things, not the end. Those in power who have the ability to do so are using these allegations as an excuse to take away all of the things that we need to run a campaign. We are going to lose our ability to fundraise. We are going to lose our ability to access voter data. We are going to lose all of the things that any campaign needs on the basic level simply to function. Larger organizations, the national level party, the bigger donor networks, they have all committed to spending no money in this race if I'm in it. They would rather see Susan Collins win. And for that reason. She's a Democrat, so we are suspending campaign operations. It's incredibly difficult because I know that some will think it's an admission of guilt, and it most certainly is not. We're not doing it because of the allegations, we're doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Uh that was part of a longer message. It was about 10 minutes, give or take. So I just got to the heart of the matter. He babbles on and on and on.

SPEAKER_09 32:39

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:39

You know, the power's a B trying to keep him out of the race, and this was a good fight, and people believed in my message. Basically, people in my own party don't want me. Really? Everybody supported you. Everybody. Through all the nonsense. Babylon B was quick right away as soon as the announcement was made. Babylon B's headline is Democrats quietly add, have you raped anyone? To questionnaire for aspiring candidates. Uh funny, but you know. Yeah. John Fetterman had a great response. Maybe we can play that when we come back.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Okay. Sounds good. It is 657. Nikki, what you got?

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Well, we just played the uh most of the uh little goodbye speech from Gl Graham Plattner.

SPEAKER_04 33:26

Plattiner.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Plattiner, I said it right.

SPEAKER_04 33:29

Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

That's fun. Now he's a plant. Now he's a plant. Platner. Plattiner is a plantner. Yeah, I don't. I'm I'm done. All right, so here we go. Here is uh the guy, and it's brought up by the Budget Blinds text line. The guy who suffered a massive stroke had the best take out of all the Democrats. Here it is. Um what did you make of that announcement?

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Uh I'd say that the trash took itself out. You know, threw it out. Now, he he leaves an accused rapist. He's the guy that spent, he'll be remembered, a guy that spent 10 years in kick of the platform that's the predator's paradise. Um sent sexual messages to women and the newlywed, you know, and all the things he said, you know. Uh he he uh he gets to go away. The trash took itself out uh tonight.

SPEAKER_05 34:31

He choked up a couple of times during that uh announcement. Uh, do you think he thinks he's the victim here?

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Oh, yeah, definitely. That's the thing. I was I would say to you, I'm like, P. Hustle, P. Hustle, bro, you will only be remembered as the accused rapist that got pushed out of your election. That's your legacy, bro.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

That's your legacy, bro. Again, I mean, you know, he struggles still to find his words, Fetterman, but you know, he's has improved quite a bit. I'm not a big fan of Fetterman. I'm not buying into the you should become a Republican. That's it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 35:09

Uh integrity. The man has integrity. Yes. So I appreciate integrity. I don't care what your politics are. Agree. Because I don't like lack of integrity and lack of I what you know what I don't like? I don't like when I elect somebody and they do squat. Yeah, we have a lot of that going on. It really aggravates me.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

A lot of that going on right here in South Carolina. Yeah. A lot.

SPEAKER_04 35:32

That's why I like Trump. I mean, the guy's going the speed of Trump. It's like a Trump minute. It's way faster than a New York minute. All right, it is 6 59. We're gonna take a break. We'll be back. I have more information on Bonnie Tyler, who sadly uh we just heard passed away.