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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Traffic and weather every ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Plays on
ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome in. We made it to Monday. I know the
weekend is never long enough. If we will check your
forecast here coming up. Looks like another nasty line of
storms is headed our way by mid afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, we're covering. This morning's top story is Los Angeles.
Mayor Karen Bass says the situation in Los Angeles is
about an agenda. President Trump deployed two thousand members of
the California National Guard, and a move sharply criticized as
inflammatory and unnecessary by both Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom.
Newsom says the state of California is planning to sue
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the Trump administration. Newsom is urging Trump to rescind the order,
calling it illegal and unconstitutional. Newsom says Trump was not
allowed to activate the state's National Guard without first coordinating
with him. On Sunday, protesters set multiple cars on fire,
through rocks and other objects at law enforcement, and attacked
officers with fireworks. They also blocked traffic on several roads
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and the one oh one Freeway.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
How More weak and feckless. Can new scum as a
Trump calls him, get he had the time to go
and get a letter pen by a bunch of blue
state Democrat governors, you know, against Trump, but you didn't
have time to restore law and order in your own state.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, Los Angeles is out of control? And what does
Gavin Newsom do about it? He sues the Trump administration
for trying to do something about the you know, out
of control this going on in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You cannot make this stuff up. It is such lopsided lunacy. Yeah,
there are people out here who were upset, like oh,
and believe that this is Trump's fault. I mean, the
TDS Trump arrangement syndrome is just real in its rampant.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, not only new Some and care and Bass, but
Kamala Harris is piped in and you know, said that
this is just appalling what's going on in California. Not
the riots, not the actions of these illegals, not the
actions of the rioters, but the actions of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The President himself explain to me how you can reckon
that given the facts. She's the former borders are and
this is a problem that she has created.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, and she's from California too, so it ought to
hit home to her that you know that her state
is under attack, but it doesn't. She sides with the
other side as usual. She'll probably put together some kind
of bail and legal fund for these people that are
being arrested.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Wait for that tweet on X real soon.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I believe it's really important to provide some context of
who's arrested over the weekend. And one of the Fox
reporters is Bill Malugin. He's there and he is explaining,
these are some of the worst, most violent criminals.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
A lot of the arrests they're doing, the targeted operations
they're doing, are criminal judicial warrants, meaning a federal judge
has signed off on these arrests, and they're targeting illegal
aliens with criminality that goes beyond just being in the
United States. Some examples of Vietnamese national in the US illegally.
Who is convicted of murder for shooting up a high
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school graduation party back in nineteen ninety four, killing two people,
Multiple sex offenders, multiple drug traffickers, multiple aliens convicted of
violent crimes like assault with a deadly weapon or shooting
a gun into an inhabited dwelling.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, this is the brainchild actually of US Attorney Bill Esale.
He pulled together an all star federal task force comprising
agents from five federal law enforcement agencies, all working out
of an office in Los Angeles. When an illegal alien
with a prior deportation is inevitably arrested upon identification and
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booking into the local jail, the task force seeks a
federal criminal warrant signed by a federal judge for felony
re entry. So this is one of the creative tools
that they're trying to use to fight back against these
sanctuary cities and states.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I mean, listened to what Bill mallusion just one of
those cases that he reported there somebody is shooting up
a graduation party that killed two people back in the
nineteen nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, it's been going on for quite a while, and
it was just only this didn't get created under the
Binder administration and only got exacerbated and accelerated.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Just felt like it was important to provide some context
to who these because I don't know about you, but
I heard, you know, one hundred people under arrest. I
was thinking, wow, you would think in la it might
be more, you would see more than that. But clearly
this is the tip of the iceberg. As Tom Hoeman
has said, the borders are this. We're coming for the
worst of the worst. At this point, we are getting
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violent criminals off of American streets to make it safer.
And here we've got one lawmaker after another standing up
for this lawlessness, some encouraging fomenting. The way that they're
reacting to this.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, you know, if you listen to the left, they're
instead of providing law and order, they're creating chaos on purpose.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Of course, pointing fingers at Trump. It's Trump's fault. He's
fomenting violence. He's making these people throw rocks, block streets,
burn things. Come on.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, it's just amazing to me that anybody can stand
up for this, you know. And they try to create
some human rights issue out of it, and these are
the people that you're defending. But they'll say, oh, it's
not about the individual, Well.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, it is, of course, it is. It should be,
and what it should.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Be about are the individuals that have lost their lives,
the individuals who are family members of those people who
will suffer for the rest of their lives over those
losses that didn't have to be because these people didn't
even have a right to be here in the first
place that committed these crimes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I truly believe this has more and more people running
from the left every time a Democrat stands up and
I and you can only imagine because of the overwhelming
win back in November, that more and more people are saying, listen,
this is about law and order. This is about safety
and security of my family, this is about this is
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affecting every fabric of our lives, our economy, our security.
And now we finally have the adults back in the
room and in charge to say, we have laws that
every single one of us have to follow, whether you're
in our country legally or illegally, which, hello, it's already
illegal for you to be in our country by not
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following the laws in the rules.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well, these people literally threaten our sovereignty. They threaten the
existence of the United States of America. If we keep
down this road, what do you think the United States
is going to turn into? I mean, look at what
it's turned into already. Now imagine this going on for
another ten or twenty years and now think what it
may be like something out of the movies, right.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And these politicians are doing the best they can to
make it. The divided states of America.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, you know, I don't know why they think. Well,
you know, I mean, they've been successful. They keep winning
re election now, don't they, And that's all they really
care about at the end of the day. Do you
think they care about these illegal aliens? Do you think
they care about the victims of their crimes? Or do
you think they care about their own behinds and their
grasp on power and in the wall that that affords them.
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Recovering this morning's top stories, Colleges can now directly pay
their student athletes after a major settlement was reached with
the NC DOUBLEA. The settlement resolves three federal antitrust lawsuits
accusing the NC DOUBLEA of limiting athletes earning potential. The
NC DOUBLEA will pay around two point eight billion dollars
in damages over the next ten years to athletes who
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played from twenty sixteen to the present. Starting in the
fall semester of this year, each school can pay athletes
up to a specific limit, with that cap expected to
rise each year for the first year, that limits twenty
point five million dollars, and that's spread across all of
sports for each college. The money comes straight from the
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athletic department in addition to scholarships and other benefits athletes
already receive.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
This almost seems like it's opening up a can of worms.
Going back to twenty sixteen. I'm sure that's when the
first lawsuit. You know, this is in reaction to that.
But is someone Are these kids really going to get
rich off of this?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well, I don't know. I mean, twenty point five million dollars,
It depends how many people had spread over, right, So
I guess it would depend on you know, which college
it is and how many NCAA sports they have at
that college.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean, I played your own sports growing up in
school through high school and had to make a hard
decision going into college. And it was a tough one
because I saw the toll it took not just on
my physical body but also my academics. And college was
hard and I'm like, all right, I'm going to focus
just on my studies and I'm not going to play sports.
That was a hard decision for me to make. But
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if I could have you gotten rich and sept for
life and taking care of my family, I might have
said yes.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, I mean they you know, they sacrificed their young
bodies for this in a lot of cases, especially like football,
and they're not allowed to be compensated. So and you
can say, well they get free tuition and room and
board and all of that. Well, you know what, there's
people getting rich off of them. And I always thought
it was kind of sick that they use the kids
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that way, and so I think it's totally fair to
have them share in the riches. I mean, why should
everybody else get rich, including the colleges, off the backs
of these young athletes, And a lot of them never
will make it to you know, the NFL or MLB
or whatever the case might be. So I don't have
any problem with compensating them. They they're the source of
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a ton of income for these colleges and broadcast TV,
and I mean you can you know, sponsorships and all
of these things, but they don't see any of that money.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I think that's what's coming down the line. Maybe because
of this decision, you're going to see logo soup all
over their jerseys.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Wait for it, well maybe, and I don't know what's
wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It'll be something different. I mean, everybody's got have a
opinion about something. They'll say, oh my gosh. You know,
look now they're I mean, it's a business, like it
or not. Colleges and universities they are a business, and
so if they're going to be compensating, they're going to
be making it for that money somewhere somehow. But people
will complain about it, Well, it.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Is a business, and they're out there recruiting these athletes.
It's not like they're just going to the student body
who wants to play football, you know. So let's stop
pretending and call it for what it really is. Like
you said, it's big business, huge business, millions and millions
and millions and millions of dollars. So why shouldn't some
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of it go to the athletes that are in a
lot of cases sacrificing their bodies for the rest of
their life in order to do this. So this is
something that all of US Southerners can celebrate today. Today
is National Iced Tea Day. Tea was grown in the
US as early as the sixteen hundreds, with South Carolina
being the first to produce it commercially. However, recipes for
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ice tea began appearing in cookbooks not until the eighteen seventies.
It was also served at hotels and train stations, but
in nineteen oh four, visitors to the Saint Louis World's
Fair were greeted by exceedingly hot weather. British tea plantation
owner and merchant Richard Bleckendownen took advantage of the situation
by selling chilled tea drinks as a cold refreshment. That
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event is credited with popularizing iced tea among the masses.
South Carolina officially designated sweet Tea is its state's official
hospitality beverage in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And then you got the big giant sweet tea there
in downtown Summerville. You could do a whole sweet tea tour.
Actually there's a whole bus tour. This is a day
meant for you. Where's your big thing of tea in there?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I've got it in there. I carry a big old
jug is sweet tea around me.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He's not kidding, y'all. I'm not kid like every day.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And who knew it took some British tea plantation owner
in merchant to popularize ice tea across the country.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'd tell you I was in college when I went
over seas. My sister was studying abroad and I went
to visit her, and I'll never forget these They don't
call it soccer over there, but at the university where
she was studying, these guys come in and they were
from from their soccer practice, football to them and they
literally took a break down for tea. Literally every afternoon.
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Hear these you know, sweaty athletes, young guys sitting down
for tea time. And it really got me that they
were drinking hot tea and they'd have milk in their
tea and it was just wild. It's like what I
told him, we ice oar tea. And they thought it
was strange, just as I thought it was strange that
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they were doing tea time and everything stopped for their
tea time.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, it was wild. Well, I mean that's, you know,
one of their cultural.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I know what, It's not something you think you see
college age kids doing in the middle of the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's one of their cultural traditions.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I know, after sports.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
But we used to have tea time in my dad's office.
When I worked for my dad, we had tea time
in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's very civilized.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, and it was also everybody drank so much coffee.
It was like, all right, instead of taking a coffee break,
and it was meant to and we'd sit around the
conference table in the you know, in the conference room
hot tea and yes, and have a cup of tea
and discuss the day's events just for like, you know,
ten minutes or so.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You want to start a tea time here.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And so well, tea times all the time for me, that's.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
True, but anyway, an afternoon hot teath.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
But that was also a way not to you know,
drink so much coffee and yeah, and have a civilized
little moment over a cup of tea and share what
was going on, socialize for a few minutes and then
get back to work.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, now we need to look into what's got more caffeine.
And I'm assuming you drink tea over coffee because it
has a lesser amount of caffeine at least the effects
on your body.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, and I don't think it does have a lesser
amount of caffeine.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I was going to say, I think is actually more
I say it does Green tea. Good Lord, that stuff's
really got a lot of caffeine.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, I use black tea, and I mean, I'm I'm
a fan of Red Rose, so I use Red Rose
tea to make my iced tea. But I use like
fourteen bags a gallon. So I don't know what that
is the equivalent to of coffee, but it probably has
as much or more caffeine than coffee.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Does you know what I missed? I want to bring
back as the Sun tea? Did you ever do the
sun tea? To get into that I have, I really
like the sun tea.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
The Sun tea adds an extra dimension to it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It does. There's something that it just it didn't. You
can't get it any other way unless you had that
jar with the lemons on it. You put it out
in the sun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh man, it makes it taste extra delicious. It certainly does.
And no, by the way, it's not. It doesn't. The
reason I drink tea has nothing to do with caffeine.
It's I just don't like cold coffee and I like
sipping on something, so coffee doesn't quite work, you know,
And I love tea. It's the nectar of the gods.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I always say, yep, you and Rick Rush, By the way,
do you make it sweet? Half and half? What do
you do?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I don't make it as sweet as is what most
of restaurants will serve you. Oh lord, I'm always like
cut it in half at least. And that's my first
question is how sweet is your tea? You know, And
they'll be.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Like, well, it's not mad.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It's like all right, make it half. Or if they
say pretty sweet, I'm like, give me like a quarter
sweet tea and the rest on sweet.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You ever jump onto the Arnold's Palmer kick where it's
like half lemonade half tea.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I tried it, but I mean I'll stick with my
straight tea. And again I mean ironic that it took
some guy from Britain to do this, But when you
think about it, and I know there's a lot of
people like.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We had ice tea in the South Way.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Before if you think about this, people didn't have access
to ice, you know, until the early twentieth century pretty much.
I mean there were certain places. That's why it was
served in hotels and train stations because they had some
access to ice where they would literally cut huge blocks
of ice out of frozen lakes and then store them
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in warehouses and then the iceman would come around. So
it wasn't very practical to drink iced tea until we
had refrigerators in freezers. And if you think about that,
that's you know, the early twentieth century, and that's really
what caused iced tea to explode after being introduced to
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the masses at the Saint Louis World's Fair in nineteen
oh four.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
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This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Plays on
ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome in. We made it to Monday. I know the
weekend is never long enough. If we will check your
forecast here coming up. Looks like another nasty line of
storms is headed our way by mid afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, we're covering. This morning's top story is Los Angeles.
Mayor Karen Bass says the situation in Los Angeles is
about an agenda. President Trump deployed two thousand members of
the California National Guard, and a move sharply criticized as
inflammatory and unnecessary by both Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom.
Newsom says the state of California is planning to sue
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the Trump administration. Newsom is urging Trump to rescind the order,
calling it illegal and unconstitutional. Newsom says Trump was not
allowed to activate the state's National Guard without first coordinating
with him. On Sunday, protesters set multiple cars on fire,
through rocks and other objects at law enforcement, and attacked
officers with fireworks. They also blocked traffic on several roads
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and the one oh one Freeway.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
How More weak and feckless. Can new scum as a
Trump calls him, get he had the time to go
and get a letter pen by a bunch of blue
state Democrat governors, you know, against Trump, but you didn't
have time to restore law and order in your own state.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, Los Angeles is out of control? And what does
Gavin Newsom do about it? He sues the Trump administration
for trying to do something about the you know, out
of control this going on in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You cannot make this stuff up. It is such lopsided lunacy. Yeah,
there are people out here who were upset, like oh,
and believe that this is Trump's fault. I mean, the
TDS Trump arrangement syndrome is just real in its rampant.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, not only new Some and care and Bass, but
Kamala Harris is piped in and you know, said that
this is just appalling what's going on in California. Not
the riots, not the actions of these illegals, not the
actions of the rioters, but the actions of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The President himself explain to me how you can reckon
that given the facts. She's the former borders are and
this is a problem that she has created.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, and she's from California too, so it ought to
hit home to her that you know that her state
is under attack, but it doesn't. She sides with the
other side as usual. She'll probably put together some kind
of bail and legal fund for these people that are
being arrested.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Wait for that tweet on X real soon.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I believe it's really important to provide some context of
who's arrested over the weekend. And one of the Fox
reporters is Bill Malugin. He's there and he is explaining,
these are some of the worst, most violent criminals.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
A lot of the arrests they're doing, the targeted operations
they're doing, are criminal judicial warrants, meaning a federal judge
has signed off on these arrests, and they're targeting illegal
aliens with criminality that goes beyond just being in the
United States. Some examples of Vietnamese national in the US illegally.
Who is convicted of murder for shooting up a high
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school graduation party back in nineteen ninety four, killing two people,
Multiple sex offenders, multiple drug traffickers, multiple aliens convicted of
violent crimes like assault with a deadly weapon or shooting
a gun into an inhabited dwelling.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, this is the brainchild actually of US Attorney Bill Esale.
He pulled together an all star federal task force comprising
agents from five federal law enforcement agencies, all working out
of an office in Los Angeles. When an illegal alien
with a prior deportation is inevitably arrested upon identification and
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booking into the local jail, the task force seeks a
federal criminal warrant signed by a federal judge for felony
re entry. So this is one of the creative tools
that they're trying to use to fight back against these
sanctuary cities and states.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I mean, listened to what Bill mallusion just one of
those cases that he reported there somebody is shooting up
a graduation party that killed two people back in the
nineteen nineties.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, it's been going on for quite a while, and
it was just only this didn't get created under the
Binder administration and only got exacerbated and accelerated.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Just felt like it was important to provide some context
to who these because I don't know about you, but
I heard, you know, one hundred people under arrest. I
was thinking, wow, you would think in la it might
be more, you would see more than that. But clearly
this is the tip of the iceberg. As Tom Hoeman
has said, the borders are this. We're coming for the
worst of the worst. At this point, we are getting
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violent criminals off of American streets to make it safer.
And here we've got one lawmaker after another standing up
for this lawlessness, some encouraging fomenting. The way that they're
reacting to this.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, you know, if you listen to the left, they're
instead of providing law and order, they're creating chaos on purpose.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Of course, pointing fingers at Trump. It's Trump's fault. He's
fomenting violence. He's making these people throw rocks, block streets,
burn things. Come on.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, it's just amazing to me that anybody can stand
up for this, you know. And they try to create
some human rights issue out of it, and these are
the people that you're defending. But they'll say, oh, it's
not about the individual, Well.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, it is, of course, it is. It should be,
and what it should.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Be about are the individuals that have lost their lives,
the individuals who are family members of those people who
will suffer for the rest of their lives over those
losses that didn't have to be because these people didn't
even have a right to be here in the first
place that committed these crimes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I truly believe this has more and more people running
from the left every time a Democrat stands up and
I and you can only imagine because of the overwhelming
win back in November, that more and more people are saying, listen,
this is about law and order. This is about safety
and security of my family, this is about this is
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affecting every fabric of our lives, our economy, our security.
And now we finally have the adults back in the
room and in charge to say, we have laws that
every single one of us have to follow, whether you're
in our country legally or illegally, which, hello, it's already
illegal for you to be in our country by not
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following the laws in the rules.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well, these people literally threaten our sovereignty. They threaten the
existence of the United States of America. If we keep
down this road, what do you think the United States
is going to turn into? I mean, look at what
it's turned into already. Now imagine this going on for
another ten or twenty years and now think what it
may be like something out of the movies, right.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And these politicians are doing the best they can to
make it. The divided states of America.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, you know, I don't know why they think. Well,
you know, I mean, they've been successful. They keep winning
re election now, don't they, And that's all they really
care about at the end of the day. Do you
think they care about these illegal aliens? Do you think
they care about the victims of their crimes? Or do
you think they care about their own behinds and their
grasp on power and in the wall that that affords them.
(08:01):
Recovering this morning's top stories, Colleges can now directly pay
their student athletes after a major settlement was reached with
the NC DOUBLEA. The settlement resolves three federal antitrust lawsuits
accusing the NC DOUBLEA of limiting athletes earning potential. The
NC DOUBLEA will pay around two point eight billion dollars
in damages over the next ten years to athletes who
(08:22):
played from twenty sixteen to the present. Starting in the
fall semester of this year, each school can pay athletes
up to a specific limit, with that cap expected to
rise each year for the first year, that limits twenty
point five million dollars, and that's spread across all of
sports for each college. The money comes straight from the
(08:43):
athletic department in addition to scholarships and other benefits athletes
already receive.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
This almost seems like it's opening up a can of worms.
Going back to twenty sixteen. I'm sure that's when the
first lawsuit. You know, this is in reaction to that.
But is someone Are these kids really going to get
rich off of this?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well, I don't know. I mean, twenty point five million dollars,
It depends how many people had spread over, right, So
I guess it would depend on you know, which college
it is and how many NCAA sports they have at
that college.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I mean, I played your own sports growing up in
school through high school and had to make a hard
decision going into college. And it was a tough one
because I saw the toll it took not just on
my physical body but also my academics. And college was
hard and I'm like, all right, I'm going to focus
just on my studies and I'm not going to play sports.
That was a hard decision for me to make. But
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if I could have you gotten rich and sept for
life and taking care of my family, I might have
said yes.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, I mean they you know, they sacrificed their young
bodies for this in a lot of cases, especially like football,
and they're not allowed to be compensated. So and you
can say, well they get free tuition and room and
board and all of that. Well, you know what, there's
people getting rich off of them. And I always thought
it was kind of sick that they use the kids
(10:05):
that way, and so I think it's totally fair to
have them share in the riches. I mean, why should
everybody else get rich, including the colleges, off the backs
of these young athletes, And a lot of them never
will make it to you know, the NFL or MLB
or whatever the case might be. So I don't have
any problem with compensating them. They they're the source of
(10:30):
a ton of income for these colleges and broadcast TV,
and I mean you can you know, sponsorships and all
of these things, but they don't see any of that money.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I think that's what's coming down the line. Maybe because
of this decision, you're going to see logo soup all
over their jerseys.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Wait for it, well maybe, and I don't know what's
wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
It'll be something different. I mean, everybody's got have a
opinion about something. They'll say, oh my gosh. You know,
look now they're I mean, it's a business, like it
or not. Colleges and universities they are a business, and
so if they're going to be compensating, they're going to
be making it for that money somewhere somehow. But people
will complain about it, Well, it.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Is a business, and they're out there recruiting these athletes.
It's not like they're just going to the student body
who wants to play football, you know. So let's stop
pretending and call it for what it really is. Like
you said, it's big business, huge business, millions and millions
and millions and millions of dollars. So why shouldn't some
(11:34):
of it go to the athletes that are in a
lot of cases sacrificing their bodies for the rest of
their life in order to do this. So this is
something that all of US Southerners can celebrate today. Today
is National Iced Tea Day. Tea was grown in the
US as early as the sixteen hundreds, with South Carolina
being the first to produce it commercially. However, recipes for
(11:54):
ice tea began appearing in cookbooks not until the eighteen seventies.
It was also served at hotels and train stations, but
in nineteen oh four, visitors to the Saint Louis World's
Fair were greeted by exceedingly hot weather. British tea plantation
owner and merchant Richard Bleckendownen took advantage of the situation
by selling chilled tea drinks as a cold refreshment. That
(12:18):
event is credited with popularizing iced tea among the masses.
South Carolina officially designated sweet Tea is its state's official
hospitality beverage in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And then you got the big giant sweet tea there
in downtown Summerville. You could do a whole sweet tea tour.
Actually there's a whole bus tour. This is a day
meant for you. Where's your big thing of tea in there?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I've got it in there. I carry a big old
jug is sweet tea around me.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He's not kidding, y'all. I'm not kid like every day.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And who knew it took some British tea plantation owner
in merchant to popularize ice tea across the country.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'd tell you I was in college when I went
over seas. My sister was studying abroad and I went
to visit her, and I'll never forget these They don't
call it soccer over there, but at the university where
she was studying, these guys come in and they were
from from their soccer practice, football to them and they
literally took a break down for tea. Literally every afternoon.
(13:21):
Hear these you know, sweaty athletes, young guys sitting down
for tea time. And it really got me that they
were drinking hot tea and they'd have milk in their
tea and it was just wild. It's like what I
told him, we ice oar tea. And they thought it
was strange, just as I thought it was strange that
(13:42):
they were doing tea time and everything stopped for their
tea time.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, it was wild. Well, I mean that's, you know,
one of their cultural.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I know what, It's not something you think you see
college age kids doing in the middle of the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's one of their cultural traditions.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I know, after sports.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
But we used to have tea time in my dad's office.
When I worked for my dad, we had tea time
in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's very civilized.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, and it was also everybody drank so much coffee.
It was like, all right, instead of taking a coffee break,
and it was meant to and we'd sit around the
conference table in the you know, in the conference room
hot tea and yes, and have a cup of tea
and discuss the day's events just for like, you know,
ten minutes or so.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You want to start a tea time here.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And so well, tea times all the time for me, that's.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
True, but anyway, an afternoon hot teath.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
But that was also a way not to you know,
drink so much coffee and yeah, and have a civilized
little moment over a cup of tea and share what
was going on, socialize for a few minutes and then
get back to work.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, now we need to look into what's got more caffeine.
And I'm assuming you drink tea over coffee because it
has a lesser amount of caffeine at least the effects
on your body.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, and I don't think it does have a lesser
amount of caffeine.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I was going to say, I think is actually more
I say it does Green tea. Good Lord, that stuff's
really got a lot of caffeine.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, I use black tea, and I mean, I'm I'm
a fan of Red Rose, so I use Red Rose
tea to make my iced tea. But I use like
fourteen bags a gallon. So I don't know what that
is the equivalent to of coffee, but it probably has
as much or more caffeine than coffee.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Does you know what I missed? I want to bring
back as the Sun tea? Did you ever do the
sun tea? To get into that I have, I really
like the sun tea.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
The Sun tea adds an extra dimension to it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It does. There's something that it just it didn't. You
can't get it any other way unless you had that
jar with the lemons on it. You put it out
in the sun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh man, it makes it taste extra delicious. It certainly does.
And no, by the way, it's not. It doesn't. The
reason I drink tea has nothing to do with caffeine.
It's I just don't like cold coffee and I like
sipping on something, so coffee doesn't quite work, you know,
And I love tea. It's the nectar of the gods.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I always say, yep, you and Rick Rush, By the way,
do you make it sweet? Half and half? What do
you do?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I don't make it as sweet as is what most
of restaurants will serve you. Oh lord, I'm always like
cut it in half at least. And that's my first
question is how sweet is your tea? You know, And
they'll be.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Like, well, it's not mad.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
It's like all right, make it half. Or if they
say pretty sweet, I'm like, give me like a quarter
sweet tea and the rest on sweet.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You ever jump onto the Arnold's Palmer kick where it's
like half lemonade half tea.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I tried it, but I mean I'll stick with my
straight tea. And again I mean ironic that it took
some guy from Britain to do this, But when you
think about it, and I know there's a lot of
people like.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We had ice tea in the South Way.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Before if you think about this, people didn't have access
to ice, you know, until the early twentieth century pretty much.
I mean there were certain places. That's why it was
served in hotels and train stations because they had some
access to ice where they would literally cut huge blocks
of ice out of frozen lakes and then store them
(17:03):
in warehouses and then the iceman would come around. So
it wasn't very practical to drink iced tea until we
had refrigerators in freezers. And if you think about that,
that's you know, the early twentieth century, and that's really
what caused iced tea to explode after being introduced to
(17:23):
the masses at the Saint Louis World's Fair in nineteen
oh four.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
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