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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What are the most difficult problems he or she will
face in two thousand and eight?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Kelly Nash, why don't we just ask some of Obama?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Obama? What is since he won by his leuch a
big amount Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Wo oh, that is one of my favorite political audio
snippets of all time.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
How many times have we said why don't we ask
Osa Obama?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Obama live on? I mean that is it's ultimately more now,
more famous in my mind than Schappiquitnick, good job, dead,
good job. He drove it off right off into the
into the ditch again instead of the river this time.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hey, this is Jonathan Rush's Kelly Nash good morning. Now.
This is the last Jonathan and Kelly show under that
Jonathan and Kelly Show title. Now we're still going to
be working together, thank god, and we're still going to
be on mornings on WCS. They got on The Morning Rush,
But so far as the Jonathan and Kelly Show on WVOC,
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as well as the Rash Thoughts on WVOC and other
stations across the state, this will be the last Jonathan
and Kelly Show.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I literally can't believe that I'm hearing that like it
just it's like jarring me. We've been doing this show
since twenty twelve, and it's just wow.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
And I've been a part of a lot of fun
radio shows, this one in a lot of different areas
because of the content of the program has been more
fun than any other thing I've been a part of.
So I'm gonna miss it. But the big news is
is not that this show's coming to an end. Is
that the big news is that Kelly is now going
to be doing his own political talk show without having
(01:50):
to be hamstrung by Jonathan rush Well.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I don't think I was ever hamstrung. I think that
I was just here to provide the laugh track. I mean,
it's been a blast. But yeah, as far as my
other radio show, that's called The National Briefing, and that's
been on for a few months out on the West
Coast and then they started using it now in Charleston,
And depending on when you're hearing this, it's going to
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be on six to nine at night weeknights. I'm sure
that the hate email is going to be piling up
now for two reasons. One, you're replacing Mark Levin, Yes,
I am replacing Mark Levin. And two, what the flip
where's Jonathan Rush? You don't get anywhere near angry enough.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Kelly didn't fly off the handle like I did.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I may just call you and just say here, here's
the latest update.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Go on it not unless you want to fill up
about seven or eight minutes, Sally will tell you, thank God,
you're going to call somebody. She wouldn't. She would not
want to hear the conversation over diender like I will
continue to have with her. But here's the thing. Kelly
had an opportunity to work, and I'm excited for Kelly
to be able to do this. Kelly had an opportunity
to start filling it from some shows as he mentioned
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the different parts of the country, and then out of
that grew the National Briefing. By the way, I love
the logo for the National Briefing.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I just got the little instead of an eye, the
palmetto tree.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I do like the tip of the hat the South Carolina.
So I'm excited for you for that. Now I'm told
that behind my back, Kelly actually set up an opportunity
for us to talk to one of the original three.
When we first started the Jonathan and Kelly Show Live
in the Afternoon on WVOC.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Well, and you know, before we even get into that,
I think it's important to kind of acknowledge how it
came about the whole show. You know, you and I
individually used to fill in for the old afternoon guy,
and I guess we can say his name. I mean,
like you can't say people's names around here. So Kevin
Cohen used to do the afternoon show on WVOC, and
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then they were replacing him. And so in case Kevin's
hearing this, this is the legit story. They told us
they were moving on and Sean Hannity was going to
have the afternoon show, but they had us fill in
for one or two times, and then they said, instead
of using Hannity, we'd like to use YouTube. Guys, what
do you think? And we said awesome. You know, I
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know that through the years, I've heard from numerous people
who think that we tried to take him out or something.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
We had no. We we got him kicked out and fired,
and we did not.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But individually, individually, I hated doing that show. I hated
it because Kevin was very hyper local and that meant
that I had to like learn about like Mayor's races
and Casey or something. You know, it's like all this
like if you're going to fill in for him, you
knew that his audience was calling in with really deep
questions about local, local, local, and I didn't know this thing.
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So I had to study all day before doing a
fill in for him. And then one day you were
filling in, you said, I think it would be fun if.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You joined me.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You remember that, And I was like, I don't think so.
And then you know, whether it's the Holy Spirit, which
I think, or maybe you know, just gut intuition. The
next day, I said, you know what, I should do that,
and so we filled in together and we had a blast,
and that's how it all got started.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was it was It was so much fun doing
that show because we did it live. Now we pre
record this program on Fridays, and we do all of
our shows as if we're doing them live. None of
this is scripted. Not one thing you've ever heard of
this program was scripted.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No, you say this, and I'll say that none.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Of that happened. And I was laughing at myself thinking
about the fact that we put together what would have
been a great Dynamic radio show. If they had continued together,
one of them kind of went astray. The other one
went on to do his own thing on Fox News.
But when we had Trey Goudi and Mick Malvaney on
the program to fill in for us while.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We were on vacation, that was amazing, hysterical, you know,
the Mick. You know, I think maybe in segment four,
maybe we'll kind of relive some of our favorite guests,
and Mick was one of those back in the day.
And and uh, the idea of having your superhero Trey
Goudi fill in, and you know, we had just kind
of started that whole rash thing. I don't even know
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how we started it, but it became put Russian ass
together and then you do the handclap. You put Russian
as together.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's rash.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And so those guys, what did we do? We get
him a sweeper or something? Right, you put that's right,
we wrote it for you. Put was it Mick? And no,
I forget what we put together.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I can't remember what it was now.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And I remember that Trey Goudy said, or no, it
was Mick Mlvady said, I'm glad you didn't use his
middle name, which is Preston, and then it would have
been that's right, you put Trey and Get and Mick together,
you get Trick. It was Trick Radio for the for
the days they were filling in for us. But I'm
glad you didn't use Preston. That's his middle name. Was
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good point, Mick, Oh tell you what. We're gonna take
a break right here.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And Rob Sanders, the original producer for this program, who
was much more than a producer, absolutely he was. His
title was producer for this program, was going to join
us in just a second. On the Last Jonathan m.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Kelly Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Jonathan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your
doctor under the reform proposals that we put.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
For Kelly Nash.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who
are here illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And Kelly Show, you had to give.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
A tip of the hat to two of my favorite moments.
As we are now broadcasting the Last Johnathan Nick Kelly Show.
If you're wondering why I'm playing old audio snippets, I
think that half of America, the Republicans, at least in
the Independence and Conservatives, knew that a Barack Obama just
lied to you when he told you could keep your plan.
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We're gonna totally remake it, but you can keep your doctor. Really,
and then Joe Wilson's you lie moment, which ended up
with its own Wikipedia page, is one of South Carolina's
most prideful moments.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Because he was so accurate. I mean, Joe Wilson. Look
for those of you who don't know the backstory on that.
Joe Wilson did apologize later to the president, you know,
for disrupting the speech, but he couldn't contain himself because
he had read he had taken the time to read
the you're lying when you say this doesn't llegals are
getting ominous.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It was really tough to pick my favorite political moments
and audio snippets for this particular program. I got some
other ones you're gonna really enjoy coming up. Kelly. All right,
Kelly has set up a phone call. Let me go
to this line. This Rob Sanders, our original producer for
the Jonathan M. Kelly Show.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Kelly asked me to call in and talk about the
demise of RASH Radio.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I guess untiny demise.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Come on, it's a new birth brother. We're all excited
for Kelly. Yeah, okay, buddy, what's up.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
More than the guys if you're doing well, we.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Are and we're all exciting. Kelly's got a brand new
show that he's gonna be doing on WVOC and on
our sister station, wc SSC WSS.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Afford four letters they only could pay for three.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Got you and that effort. I thought, you know something,
I need to step aside. Let Kelly take over this thing.
And he's kind of taken it and now upped it,
which I knew that he would. I love the show.
By the way, the title of the show is called
The National Briefing Briefing National nash ion Al And then
in the middle of it, Rob did you notice as
a pal meadow tree, But he got the South Carolina.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
That's always important. You gotta have the Palmeado state in it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Well, of course, particularly when you're talking about national stuff,
because as Chuck Todd pointed out, if I were a
young political report of the day, the first thing I'd
do is move to South Carolina. That is the epicenter
of all things political in this country.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And you've been quoting that since we started the show
almost I feel like, right like in twenty fourteen when
things went kind of haywire with the Lindsey Graham race
and stuff. I think that was the time that you
got yourself all worked up and ended up cursing at
a caller and Rob, Rob, do you remember this? I
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stared at him in disbelief that he was saying what
he had said. I can't remember the exact bomb that
was dropped, but I was like, huh, And then he
said he realized that he reached he hit the dump button.
And then you were in freak out mode because you
were like, do not talk to anybody on the air
right now, because we don't have a drop button, so
if any more bombs are to fall, we're totally done for.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
To be honest, what happened with that was the caller
said something to him. It set Rush off. Rush gave
him the old I'm not gonna drop the word here.
But as soon as the guy said something first, and
I dumped it first, and then Rush said what he said,
So some of that kind of floated on the air.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Maybe are you telling me all these years later that
what Rush said went on the air.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I love this bar. I didn't even know about this.
I love this that that got on the air, and
absolutely nobody called to complain because they agreed with me.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
It was interesting because you thought I actually had to
drop for a little bit and said, oh I had
to dump myself. Well no, you didn't. Wow. I just
looked at you like, oh my goodness, we're all gonna
get fired today.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I think that was the first time in broadcast history
that a host actually had to use the edit dump
button because of something that he said, not something that
the caller said.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
It was pretty sad, you know, I was thinking not
about some of the things that came about on this show.
If you would listen to this show, you would have
known about the corruption. I guess is the way you
would look at it. With the South Carolina Education Lottery,
the penny text. We kind of called that before it
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even remotely happened. We were begging people, oh no, it's
just a penny. It's that was a faiale from the start,
and we tried to tell everybody, and of course it goes,
it goes and gets passed. And I think Steve Benjamin
still hates us because Mayor ben I mean, that guy
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sees us. He might spit in our eye.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
James Cliburn came in for one visit, never to be
seen again.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
James Clyburn was the biggest disappointment of anyone who ever
proposed to be a man that I have ever talked to.
Remember the deal because he had one of his books out,
So the deal was, I will come on two times,
one time to promote my book. After that he would
come back and talk about anything that we wanted to
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talk about, and he never made himself available for the
second booking to talk about the things I wanted to
talk about. He totally do exactly.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
You've also had other guests that were on the show
but kind of left. Who's the lady that was on?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Fuck?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Oh, Dana Perino. We used to have Dana Perino as
a regular back in the day.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well, but apparently she didn't a rush collar or sugar
and you just stopped doing the show.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
There was something about it. I can't remember what it
was that, but you're right, there was some sort of
conflict that arose and then suddenly she was no longer
available to be on the Jonathan and Kelly.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Now, I'm gonna be honest with you of all the
things that happened that I'm responsible for in the show
that one I really feel bad about. I'm a huge
Dana Perino fan. Sally would tell you, I think she's
hot and also right, but also she was fun to
talk to, and she also gave you the position because
she's been on both sides of the coin. She's also
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been on the inside, so she's able to give you
a little insight you don't typically get from someone that.
I felt bad about that, and I let the show
down because I upset her, and I never tried to
reach out to apologize because I knew there was nothing
that I could say. There's nothing I can say to
Darling to make her come back.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Come on, come on back, sugar Bridges. You know, I
was just thinking about some of the guests that we had,
Rob and I had. For some reason, this just popped
into my mind. One of my favorite interviews was with
some no name we I don't even I don't even
know if we knew the guy's name at the time,
but he was here to Uh it wasn't in the building.
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He was a phone call, but he was in Richland
County and he was here to help with the Obamacare website.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And I did not understand what a website was.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Because you wanted his email address.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I wanted his I said, what website do we go to?
And he kept telling us his email address at gmail
dot com. I got your email. What is the website?
He was like, it's like from more info info at
infogmail dot com. That's not a website.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
It was almost as sad as the day that Kelly
went to vote. We're doing our election coverage here and
Kelly goes to stands in li or whatever. I think
Kelly came back. I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's been So I went after the morning show, stood
in line for like four or five hours, and then
I said, I'm not gonna be able to vote because
I got to be on the air at three, so
I had to leave come back, and then you guys
said you gotta vote, so you after the show was over,
I went back. I got in line of about six thirty.
I finally voted like eleven thirty that night. That was
the twenty twelve of the box.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The best part about that was the look on Jonathan
and I's face when you're like, I just don't have
time to vote. I'm not going to be able to vote.
We looked at you like like you had you brought
the bat macaroni and cheese to Easter.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You have to go what are you talking about. You're
not going to be able to vote. We've been talking
about this now for days. You have to vote if
you're an American citizen. Absolutely, I don't think I can vote. Guys.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Well, I think that vote ended up in a bag
that's now somewhere in the congrege.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Well, I'll always remember that. And it's just funny because
of how much stuff that was good that came from
this show. I mean, I think we still got the
big the big wal art that the code that the
the cartoon is put together with you two, and just
just cool, cool stuff that came from the show. And
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I'm sad to see it kind of going away. It
kind of hurts the heart a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was a little concerned about Kelly's health because what
was it, twelve thirteen years ago we did this.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We started fourteen years ago in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Back in twenty twelve, Kelly and I would come to
work to do the morning rush of ninety seven five
w COS and then literally we would probably plan for
the next day we do all of our commercials, we
do all the other ancillary stuff for the morning show,
and then the noon we would switch gears and start
putting on our political caps and reading all the political
stuff and getting ready for the show. We would do
the show until six. We'd get out of here at
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like seven or eight. You go to bed at like ten,
you get up at four, you go. That was the longest.
It was the longest two and a half three years
of my life. We literally were running off sleep deprivation,
which was the only excuse I have for half the
stuff I said on the air, because I was so
volatile back in those days. I would explode of people
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for no reason because I was just so damn tired.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I loved it when you used to explode, though, and
you'd say, I'm telling you right now, brother, Hillary Clinton
will be in prison before noon or whatever.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
And then you're like, Rand Paul will be the next
president or whatever. You say, Put it up on that board.
Put it on the board, put it up.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
The production board was Rob's favorite, although I think it
was Rob Sanders who tried to help me with my attitude.
We're gonna take a time out right here, because I
got to get a commercial break in if robu Rob,
the producer will be waving at us, you're.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Running along, You're going along, running along.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We'll do this and we'll be back more. We Rob
coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Jonathan, President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst
president in the history of the United States. Exclamation point
at real Donald Trump. Well, at real Donald Trump. At
least I will go down as a president.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Kelly Nash.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I am officially running for president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I can't remember which moment it was. Was it after
one of the National Press dinners or was it after
that comedy skit where we both thought, yep, that did
it well, yeah, and I was like he was baiting
him into it and having no idea what the hell
was going to happen. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I think that the comedy skit was first, and then
I think at the National Press briefing he was Trump
had kind of said something about he might be running
for president or something, and Obama stood there and, like
you said, he just baited him, and he was like saying, well,
you know, we saw on the Whatever's the show The Apprentice?
Donald had to make the really tough decisions about should
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little John be allowed to participate whatever it was, and
Trump just sat there and took it. He took it,
and then like a couple of months later I have run.
It was great And how many people said, You're never
going to be the president. I mean, we used to
play that montage all the time of all those celebrities
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saying it's never going to happen. Never, it can't happen,
It's never gonna happen. He's not going to win, George Clooney,
Nancy Pelosi, the list of all these far left people,
and then he won. That was the greatest night ever.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So if you just joined us, this is the last
Saturday Morning. This is the last broadcast, terrestrial or podcast
for the Jonathan and Kelly Show, as Kelly will be
doing his own political show now and a lot of
our efforts here. I enjoy doing it with Kelly, but
would be redund It'd be a waste of time for Kelly.
And there are other things quite frankly, probably need to
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be paying attention to on my other radio program. So
this is the last of the Jonathan K. Kelly shows
that you'll be hearing on WVOC. You'll be hearing Kelly
on the National briefing. This is the last Saturday Morning
broadcast in particular, and I want to pick up here
because we've been talking with one of the original three,
because Rob Sanders was the producer for the program, but
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he was much more in that he was involved in
what topics are going to discuss. And I mentioned we
never scripted anything. We did know what we were going
to talk about. We agreed all that. Yeah, we tried.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Sometimes you would be breaking news. You got to get
into that. You know, some callers say something or send
us off.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Course, that's true too. Anyway, Rob wanted to call to
share a couple of thoughts on this last Jonathan and
Kelly show. If I remember correctly, you had me taking
some kind of woman's feminine product to relieve the stress
of my brother. What was that you brought in. I've
forgotten the name of it.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I think it was min all.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It was mine all. Oh my god, Bob Sanders had
me taking mine doll.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I don't even think I knew that. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I was taking mind doll. No one drive was as
crazy as Tiger Woods. I'm surprised I didn't run the
whole damn show in a ditch.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Well, he said he had a headache. So I went
around and someone's like, I got some mind all, maybe
that'll help. So I like went and brought him some
min all, and you know, he pushed through and did
his thing. But I think that one of the other
funny things was when the show first started, right, Kelly
comes to me and like, after we'd done this the
first show is if that's somewhere on tape that is
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that is Radio Gold because we were just backing into
things and everything else. But Kelly asked mees like, hey, Rob,
what do you think the show was good? And I'm like,
I think. I looked at Kelly and I was like,
how the hell am I supposed to know? You know
what I mean? But it was it was fun. I
know that, and I know that there were people that
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in the political world of South Carolina that were some
of them might have liked it, and some of them
might have been really really that with some of the
stuff that we put out on the air.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I totally get if you're upset with me, because not
only was it sleep deprivation, it was total frustration, and
not just for South Carolina Republicans and Democrats of the
General Assembly. Remember when wiseass Obama decided that he was
going to start using the FCC as another tool of
the government in his overreach. He was going to start
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using the FCC to monitor particular news talk stations, and
we would have to actually sit down and record on
paper and then save any recordings of shows to prove
that we were being fair and balanced. And we took
a chair and shoved it in the corner, and I
put Mignon's name on it. Was it Mignon because.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
We called her Filet Mignon.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, we put Filet Mignon Cliburn's name on it and
invited her ass to come sit down anytime she would
like if she wants to monitor the Jonathan Kelly Show.
And that chair set in that corner empty for a year,
like Clint Eastwood with the Do you wonder.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Why Cliburn was like, Nah, I'm not coming back.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You gotta chair with your last name on it already.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
We even talked about that. It's like, there's no way
that this is gonna work with him coming back because
we keep popping his daughter on the spout. Yeah, he's
not gonna like that. Somebody's gonna wake him up out
of that coma that he's in. Hey, I'm making fun
of your daughter.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Rob did were you in on the pop tart eating competition?
I remember Jonathan and I ate pop tarts, and I
think maybe you were too, and all three the goal
was to try to make it look like a gun
after a first grader had been like arrested for chewing
his pop tarts into the shape of a gun. Do
you remember that competition?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I do, and I remember that your gun looked better
than Jonathan.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Where's my reward?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I don't have a prize exactly.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I mean Russ was upset about that because he was
trying to have the fully automatic you know, Bretta and
you were. He ate a little bit too much and
his ended up looking like a bad corn dog and
things there. Yours ended up looking like an actual gun.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So I could have gotten rested in that school.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm having flashbacks now. None of this, by the way,
like a lot of the show, none of this was staged.
I didn't know we're going to talk to you until yesterday,
and I've forgotten about it. To be honest with you,
when you look back on some of the things that
we did on the air, This is just being involved
in the community and understanding what South Carolinians are thinking.
When we had I believe it was Carl Blackstone on
and he was making a proposal to the city council,
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if you want to build a minor league ballpark, put
it where Owen Steele is. Because everybody was talking about
what a great success downtown Greenville was with their drive,
So why not do it like the Drive is. The
Drive basically is a stadium that's another gigantic bar. You know,
you're making it so people will stop in and have
a couple of beers, enjoy the game, and move along
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as they walk like a regular bar crawl down the vista.
Well that fell on deaf ears because Steve Benjamin Hell
of high Water was going to have we have a
damn stadium in the middle of what was then the
largest plot of land inside the city limits of any
metropolitan area in the United States of America, for screaming,
don't build a stadium right in the middle. Now, I'm
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glad we got Segar Park. I just wish it were
still where Owen still used to be.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
That's true, you know, speaking of stuff where we almost
got in trouble, but didn't. We decided I say we
It was kind of by idea. I think Kelly checked
out on it, but we decided that when Texas A
and M came to town all time, they came to
town where they had their yellow practice. It's just strange.
It's one of the strangest traditions in college football. But
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we devised the idea that we would take the big,
huge w COS crusher truck. And Jonathan knows the people
at the State House where they were doing this, you
know PEP rally, which is, by the way, in absolute disgrace.
How do you have a PEP rally for Texas A
and M right in the heart of South Carolina's campus.
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How does that happen? Anyway, So they're at the state
House steps doing their thing, and I was like, you
know what, we can't stand for this. And I knew
I was turning Jonathan's crank when I said, We've got
to take care of this. This has to be fixed.
So we take the crusher rush pulled the crusher up
onto the onto the sidewalk there near the Confederate Memorial,
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and we missed sandstorm and the game cock fight song
has blasted it into that crowd rush gets out of
the truck, I have the other key. As soon as
he gets out, I locked the door. So when the
cops come, they're like, y'all got to move this truck,
and I don't have any keys as we're blaring sandstorm
into the Texas A and M crowd. That's something that
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I'll never forget. That was one of those things where
Kelly's like, that's the good idea. You guys, call me
and let me know how it works out.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I bet you to this, say, Texas A and M
now has the thirteenth Man, and that thirteenth man is
at the perimeter of every one of their pet rallies
to make sure no jerk shows up with a gigantic
truck with a PA system from the opposing team.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
That to me is just absolutely funny. But the show
is one of the coolest shows that's out there. And
I'm proud of you, Kelly for doing your thing man,
because it's gonna be great and bring bringing the wit
and charm and some conservative politics to people. We kind
of have to have that, man.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Thank you, rob Ben, It's been great catching up with you,
and I know I'm I'm sure I'm speaking for Jonathan
as well. We miss you man. You got contributed so
much to the show and just being in the building.
You know, mockt so we could mock Clempson on the
off chance that you lost the game, and you can
lock us on the everyday occurrence when we lost games.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Yeah, well that's true. And I'll tell you what if
I were there every day. Seane Biemer looks like his
mom burnt his pop tarts every time they lose a game.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
We comes into that presa.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That one for you, John, You know, that was one
of the beauties of the charm. We always had the
voice of the Clempson Tigers nearby, so people didn't feel
like they were left out and being ganged up on
because Kelly and I were both true gamecock fans.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Absolutely, we're very exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
For a lot of people who liked me. Maybe reflecting
on some of the things that we said, covering some
of the things we did, some of the politicians we
talked to, some of the issues that we got so
geared up over, like the penny tax. So many times
we pointed out the General Assembly was using the lottery
money in the shell game to take money out of
the general budget. Which they were. Some people would tell
me that we're inside the General Assembly or inside the
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State House, that you could hear the Jonathan to Kelly
show echoing down the hallways, and then you would hear
different Republicans or Democrats start yelling at the top of
their damn lungs whenever we were discussing any particular topic.
But the one thing that I brought Democrats and Republicans
together on is that for most part you could find
members of both parties who said, because I was a
complete I'm asked, which I'm not disagreeing with. I have
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never claimed to be a smart man, but I can
tell you this. The two people I'm most thankful for
in this entire venture but Kelly Nash because he kept
us like in the forefront and the headlines. But Rob
Sanders kept me off the damn obituary page because you
did so much work on the backside that I didn't
have to do that. Now I've been doing a lot
of in your absence, So you kept me off to
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obituary page because there were we were so committed to
this show, and I mentioned the long hours earlier that
I'm surprised we actually lived.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Through that's true. And you know what, the people that
were upset about it, In my opinion, you were either
a Democrat or a corrupt Republican. Those are the only
people that were upset about the stuff we put out
on the air.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And that's the way it's ever to be, upsetting democrats
and corrupt Republicans.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Yep, all the Democrats didn't like us.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Now when you see me in public, you don't have
to you don't have to worry about me being insulted
by your comments. I'm no longer a part of the show.
I know I wasn't the smartest person on the radio,
and I didn't care. I had an opinion, I had
an opportunity to share it. Now, you know, you can
just walk up and say those things to me, And
there's no way I can have any way to get
the airwaves to be in they to form or fashion
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and retribution against you. And I will not pull up
a Donald Trump revenge mode because I don't have a
show to be on.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I thought you were going to say it, but I
will bring the crusher to your office and sandstorm that works.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
And you know, the stuff we had nothing that can about.
We should have taken the gooba dust out. That shit
happened and we never did though. There's just stuff that
we just didn't do.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Rob. I may have to bring the gooba dust back
out again. I've been contemplating that and we'll do that
on the morning Rush on w COS. Thank you again
for all your efforts. We appreciate your help. I'm really
excited about Kelly and the national briefing. You hear it
beginning at six on WVOC. You can also hear it
on iHeartRadio app and in Charleston you get to hear
An Know on WSC. Correct, I got it all right
(30:56):
that time. Now that I got something right, I need
to go ahead and I'm going to end on a
high note. I got it right, Kelly confirms, cong that
was so much fun working with him.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I miss Rob. He was a great guy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Hey, we're going to have one more segment, and since
we do record this on Friday for broadcast on Saturday,
Kelly would tell you that this is the time. What
I tell him, you're going to take a break, because
I got to figure out how much time we got left.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
We got a back time.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
We have back time, and it coming with back time
in a little radio lingo on The Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show, You've called women you don't
like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Your Twitter account.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Only Roo'donald.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Kelly Nash. No, it wasn't Thank you Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
If I had an opportunity to be at a cocktail
party with Donald Trump, we're you just sitting around talking
about all kinds of different things and casual things, that
would be one of the questions I would ask, do
you regret using the rosi o'donald line? Although it was perfect,
it was a perfect answer. It was a hysterical girl.
Everybody laughed at it, except Prosie, because you literally took
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a woman who was headed to total obscurity and gave
her a lifeline. She now has a reason in her
own mind for the leftist, a reason to exist.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
You know, I hadn't thought of it that way. I mean,
she has been one of his favorite punching bags, and
every now and again he'll just bring her name out
of out of retirement and just smack it one more
time and then move on.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
But you literally have television shows picking up her comments
off of social media.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Absolutely, and I'm trying to think of like form like
where's Ricky Lake?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Ricky? Like why didn't he name call me? Right? How
many people are envious that the president didn't use you
as the punching bag? I bet there's a long list
of Hey, by the way, if you have joined this program,
this is the last Jonathany Kelly show. And by the way,
I back timed it. We have eight minutes and eleven
seconds for this segment, so we have roughly another six
minutes to say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Oh my gosh, Jonathan, And how do you say good bye?
I mean it's you know, thankfully, like you said earlier,
you and I still be working every day Monday through
Friday on our regular show, the one that pays.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Us, yeah, actually pays us to be here.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, the other shows, those revolves has been doing kind
of Bobby. Yeah, it's been a hobby. It's an expensive
hobby because we could devote a lot of hours to it.
But yeah, this is a but it's been a heck
of a ride. I mean, you know, we were talking
earlier with Rob about some of the stuff that used
to happen on the show, and we used to have
a lot of guests in the studio back in the day.
You mentioned Mick mulvaney and Trey Goudi were kind enough
(33:34):
to be our fill in hosts for a while. And
but you know, I remember, I'm trying to think. Look,
I'd be remiss if I didn't say my favorite guest,
Joe Wilson. I got to say Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson
brings the heat. He always brought it. It's never been
a time he hasn't come in here fired up. He
hasn't been a timey income in here with all the
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paperwork and the documentation and all of that. And everybody
gets a business card. If you're in the hallway, you're
getting a Joe Wilson business card. He don't care. If
you got twenty of them, you're getting another.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
It is funny way I think about all the people
that I've talked, we talked to on this program on
the phone or in the studio. I mentioned earlier the
Uly moment, which is one of my favorite South Carolina
politics moments of contemporary times. Yeah, he always does, and
he listens wherever he is. He's listening right now. He
could be in Afghanistan, we don't know. But he's listening
right now, and I really believe he brings other people
(34:28):
to the program.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Oh absolutely. When I was in DC, I met some
people who said he had talked about our show to them,
and so, I mean, he is our number one champion,
and so we certainly appreciate the support of Joe Wilson.
But you know that we even had people that we
didn't agree with. I don't know if you even remember this.
We had Gavin Newsom on this show. Gavin Newsom called
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in to promote his book that was probably around twenty
sixteen ish, that's something like that. We had Gavin Newsom
in here. We had Bacari sellers on the show. We
mentioned James Cliburn earlier. We tried to be I don't
know we were fair, but we were balanced. We were
at least as conservatives in the South. We were courteous. Okay,
we can say that Blessed.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Gave them an opportunity to come on, and they had
an opportunity, like Gavin, and we talked about James Cliburn already,
even when it was something we didn't agree with, we
gave them the opportunity. We weren't afraid to talk to
anybody you know, that's the one thing when you do
a live radio show, and how much do I miss
that when we did it live because of the phones.
When you do a live and you push that button
(35:32):
or Rob tells you three, you could see, we would
see who's lined up. All would know is line three
is a guy named Bob. You hit the button and
Bob could be someone who's tuned into the program, who
is a stute in South Carolina history politics. You don't
know who Bob is, but you punch that button and
you're willing to talk to Bob on the radio live.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
One of the callers we used to get, I don't
want to say I'm the regular, but we probably heard
from him three or four times was the old Lexington
sheriff James Metz.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
We used to call on.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
And I used to do an invitation to him back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Unfortunately, James S Meths guy. He ended up taking his
name off of buildings all over Lexing the county. Big
screw up. Even he would he would tell you that, okay,
but definitely got politically rolled on that. Oh absolutely targeted
from the beginning, and unfortunately turns out there was something.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
You give him a little something to work with.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
They're gonna, they're gonna Steve Benjamin walk.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Oh my gosh, we're going to talk about the traffic light.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
No, I'm talking about the fact that the damn federal
prosecutor opened up his as with Steve Benjamin has been
lining his pockets with the public's money for years.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yes, that was the opening statement, and Steve Benjamin was
not on trial.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Never mentioned again. They hung Pensing out to dry. If
I'm Pinson, I'm pissed. Why does he get off the hook?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Well, you're not the mayor. Actions have consequences.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
But I am excited for Kelly and that he will
be having his own program now. I want to mention
this one more time to make sure everybody knows and
you can hear it, because it's real important for me
to make a radio pitch from a radio guy. It's
really important you tune in and listen to WVOC and
if you're in Charleston area on WSC because radio locally
is going to exist and be the influence that it
(37:15):
is only if it has a terrestrial presence. And though
we just want a big fight to make sure that
AMNFM stays in the automobiles, not only because of the
emergency alert system and the things like that, but because
the radio station is plugged into the local community. Now,
will Kelly be talking about the county council race in
Fearfold County? Probably not. But making sure that you listen
(37:38):
to local radio is important because you don't want to
lose it. You'll never get it back.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
And we'll certainly give a little extra attention to the
South Carolina senators and House members and stuff. They're going
to get a little extra attention than the national guys
because most of our guys are national people. Whether it's
Nancy Mace or it's Lindsey Graham or Tim Scott, all
these people are very well known throughout the country. It's
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like you said, you know over and over again, South
Carolina is the hotbed. This is the political It's an
unbelievable state because there's only five million of us, and
yet we seem to drive so much of the news cycle.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Look at the history of South Carolina and it's domina,
it's place at the national table. From Wade Hampton, you
go certainly with and from one time, at one point
we had two of the most vocally distinguishable senators with
Strom Thurman. You can always tell with Strom is gonna speak,
or even with Fritz Hollings, because it was just South
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Carolina has always had a national presence and it will
continue that way. And Chuck tab was right. The only
thing I've ever agreed with. I'll give you one last slute, Tuck.
You're right. If you're a young reporter looking to make
your name in politics today you've moved to South Carolina. Hey.
On a personal note, I have enjoyed every minute working
with Kelly, but more so I've enjoyed every minute of
the availability. Thank you. iHeartMedia for allowing me to be
(39:00):
a part of this program, and I will miss it much,
but I will be listening to Kelly. The National Briefing
to begin on WWOC Monday night, YEP six to nine,
six to nine. It was really tough for me to
pick out which closer I wanted to use on the
last program.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Oh, do we have a little bit of Tom Jones
or that was that's part of that's a throwback. We
used to play Tom Jones all the time on Fridays
and get the weekend started.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
No, no, no, we're not going to do that one.
I chose this one and in walking out the door
with great broadcasters, I've tried to put myself in the
midst of their last good nights. Jonathan and Kelly show,
I'll show myself out until we meet again.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And that's the way it is in w voc
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What are the most difficult problems he or she will
face in two thousand and eight?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Kelly Nash, why don't we just ask some of Obama?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Obama? What is since he won by his leuch a
big amount Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Wo oh, that is one of my favorite political audio
snippets of all time.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
How many times have we said why don't we ask
Osa Obama?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Obama live on? I mean that is it's ultimately more now,
more famous in my mind than Schappiquitnick, good job, dead,
good job. He drove it off right off into the
into the ditch again instead of the river this time.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hey, this is Jonathan Rush's Kelly Nash good morning. Now.
This is the last Jonathan and Kelly show under that
Jonathan and Kelly Show title. Now we're still going to
be working together, thank god, and we're still going to
be on mornings on WCS. They got on The Morning Rush,
But so far as the Jonathan and Kelly Show on WVOC,
(01:10):
as well as the Rash Thoughts on WVOC and other
stations across the state, this will be the last Jonathan
and Kelly Show.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I literally can't believe that I'm hearing that like it
just it's like jarring me. We've been doing this show
since twenty twelve, and it's just wow.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
And I've been a part of a lot of fun
radio shows, this one in a lot of different areas
because of the content of the program has been more
fun than any other thing I've been a part of.
So I'm gonna miss it. But the big news is
is not that this show's coming to an end. Is
that the big news is that Kelly is now going
to be doing his own political talk show without having
(01:50):
to be hamstrung by Jonathan rush Well.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I don't think I was ever hamstrung. I think that
I was just here to provide the laugh track. I mean,
it's been a blast. But yeah, as far as my
other radio show, that's called The National Briefing, and that's
been on for a few months out on the West
Coast and then they started using it now in Charleston,
And depending on when you're hearing this, it's going to
(02:13):
be on six to nine at night weeknights. I'm sure
that the hate email is going to be piling up
now for two reasons. One, you're replacing Mark Levin, Yes,
I am replacing Mark Levin. And two, what the flip
where's Jonathan Rush? You don't get anywhere near angry enough.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Kelly didn't fly off the handle like I did.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I may just call you and just say here, here's
the latest update.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Go on it not unless you want to fill up
about seven or eight minutes, Sally will tell you, thank God,
you're going to call somebody. She wouldn't. She would not
want to hear the conversation over diender like I will
continue to have with her. But here's the thing. Kelly
had an opportunity to work, and I'm excited for Kelly
to be able to do this. Kelly had an opportunity
to start filling it from some shows as he mentioned
(03:02):
the different parts of the country, and then out of
that grew the National Briefing. By the way, I love
the logo for the National Briefing.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I just got the little instead of an eye, the
palmetto tree.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I do like the tip of the hat the South Carolina.
So I'm excited for you for that. Now I'm told
that behind my back, Kelly actually set up an opportunity
for us to talk to one of the original three.
When we first started the Jonathan and Kelly Show Live
in the Afternoon on WVOC.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Well, and you know, before we even get into that,
I think it's important to kind of acknowledge how it
came about the whole show. You know, you and I
individually used to fill in for the old afternoon guy,
and I guess we can say his name. I mean,
like you can't say people's names around here. So Kevin
Cohen used to do the afternoon show on WVOC, and
(03:52):
then they were replacing him. And so in case Kevin's
hearing this, this is the legit story. They told us
they were moving on and Sean Hannity was going to
have the afternoon show, but they had us fill in
for one or two times, and then they said, instead
of using Hannity, we'd like to use YouTube. Guys, what
do you think? And we said awesome. You know, I
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know that through the years, I've heard from numerous people
who think that we tried to take him out or something.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
We had no. We we got him kicked out and fired,
and we did not.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But individually, individually, I hated doing that show. I hated
it because Kevin was very hyper local and that meant
that I had to like learn about like Mayor's races
and Casey or something. You know, it's like all this
like if you're going to fill in for him, you
knew that his audience was calling in with really deep
questions about local, local, local, and I didn't know this thing.
(04:47):
So I had to study all day before doing a
fill in for him. And then one day you were
filling in, you said, I think it would be fun if.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You joined me.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You remember that, And I was like, I don't think so.
And then you know, whether it's the Holy Spirit, which
I think, or maybe you know, just gut intuition. The
next day, I said, you know what, I should do that,
and so we filled in together and we had a blast,
and that's how it all got started.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It was it was It was so much fun doing
that show because we did it live. Now we pre
record this program on Fridays, and we do all of
our shows as if we're doing them live. None of
this is scripted. Not one thing you've ever heard of
this program was scripted.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No, you say this, and I'll say that none.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Of that happened. And I was laughing at myself thinking
about the fact that we put together what would have
been a great Dynamic radio show. If they had continued together,
one of them kind of went astray. The other one
went on to do his own thing on Fox News.
But when we had Trey Goudi and Mick Malvaney on
the program to fill in for us while.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
We were on vacation, that was amazing, hysterical, you know,
the Mick. You know, I think maybe in segment four,
maybe we'll kind of relive some of our favorite guests,
and Mick was one of those back in the day.
And and uh, the idea of having your superhero Trey
Goudi fill in, and you know, we had just kind
of started that whole rash thing. I don't even know
(06:10):
how we started it, but it became put Russian ass
together and then you do the handclap. You put Russian
as together.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's rash.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And so those guys, what did we do? We get
him a sweeper or something? Right, you put that's right,
we wrote it for you. Put was it Mick? And no,
I forget what we put together.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I can't remember what it was now.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And I remember that Trey Goudy said, or no, it
was Mick Mlvady said, I'm glad you didn't use his
middle name, which is Preston, and then it would have
been that's right, you put Trey and Get and Mick together,
you get Trick. It was Trick Radio for the for
the days they were filling in for us. But I'm
glad you didn't use Preston. That's his middle name. Was
(06:52):
good point, Mick, Oh tell you what. We're gonna take
a break right here.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And Rob Sanders, the original producer for this program, who
was much more than a producer, absolutely he was. His
title was producer for this program, was going to join
us in just a second. On the Last Jonathan m.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Kelly Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Jonathan, if you like your doctor, you can keep your
doctor under the reform proposals that we put.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
For Kelly Nash.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who
are here illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And Kelly Show, you had to give.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
A tip of the hat to two of my favorite moments.
As we are now broadcasting the Last Johnathan Nick Kelly Show.
If you're wondering why I'm playing old audio snippets, I
think that half of America, the Republicans, at least in
the Independence and Conservatives, knew that a Barack Obama just
lied to you when he told you could keep your plan.
(07:52):
We're gonna totally remake it, but you can keep your doctor. Really,
and then Joe Wilson's you lie moment, which ended up
with its own Wikipedia page, is one of South Carolina's
most prideful moments.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Because he was so accurate. I mean, Joe Wilson. Look
for those of you who don't know the backstory on that.
Joe Wilson did apologize later to the president, you know,
for disrupting the speech, but he couldn't contain himself because
he had read he had taken the time to read
the you're lying when you say this doesn't llegals are
getting ominous.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It was really tough to pick my favorite political moments
and audio snippets for this particular program. I got some
other ones you're gonna really enjoy coming up. Kelly. All right,
Kelly has set up a phone call. Let me go
to this line. This Rob Sanders, our original producer for
the Jonathan M. Kelly Show.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Kelly asked me to call in and talk about the
demise of RASH Radio.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I guess untiny demise.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Come on, it's a new birth brother. We're all excited
for Kelly. Yeah, okay, buddy, what's up.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
More than the guys if you're doing well, we.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Are and we're all exciting. Kelly's got a brand new
show that he's gonna be doing on WVOC and on
our sister station, wc SSC WSS.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Afford four letters they only could pay for three.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Got you and that effort. I thought, you know something,
I need to step aside. Let Kelly take over this thing.
And he's kind of taken it and now upped it,
which I knew that he would. I love the show.
By the way, the title of the show is called
The National Briefing Briefing National nash ion Al And then
in the middle of it, Rob did you notice as
a pal meadow tree, But he got the South Carolina.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
That's always important. You gotta have the Palmeado state in it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Well, of course, particularly when you're talking about national stuff,
because as Chuck Todd pointed out, if I were a
young political report of the day, the first thing I'd
do is move to South Carolina. That is the epicenter
of all things political in this country.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And you've been quoting that since we started the show
almost I feel like, right like in twenty fourteen when
things went kind of haywire with the Lindsey Graham race
and stuff. I think that was the time that you
got yourself all worked up and ended up cursing at
a caller and Rob, Rob, do you remember this? I
(10:11):
stared at him in disbelief that he was saying what
he had said. I can't remember the exact bomb that
was dropped, but I was like, huh, And then he
said he realized that he reached he hit the dump button.
And then you were in freak out mode because you
were like, do not talk to anybody on the air
right now, because we don't have a drop button, so
if any more bombs are to fall, we're totally done for.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
To be honest, what happened with that was the caller
said something to him. It set Rush off. Rush gave
him the old I'm not gonna drop the word here.
But as soon as the guy said something first, and
I dumped it first, and then Rush said what he said,
So some of that kind of floated on the air.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Maybe are you telling me all these years later that
what Rush said went on the air.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I love this bar. I didn't even know about this.
I love this that that got on the air, and
absolutely nobody called to complain because they agreed with me.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
It was interesting because you thought I actually had to
drop for a little bit and said, oh I had
to dump myself. Well no, you didn't. Wow. I just
looked at you like, oh my goodness, we're all gonna
get fired today.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I think that was the first time in broadcast history
that a host actually had to use the edit dump
button because of something that he said, not something that
the caller said.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
It was pretty sad, you know, I was thinking not
about some of the things that came about on this show.
If you would listen to this show, you would have
known about the corruption. I guess is the way you
would look at it. With the South Carolina Education Lottery,
the penny text. We kind of called that before it
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even remotely happened. We were begging people, oh no, it's
just a penny. It's that was a faiale from the start,
and we tried to tell everybody, and of course it goes,
it goes and gets passed. And I think Steve Benjamin
still hates us because Mayor ben I mean, that guy
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sees us. He might spit in our eye.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
James Cliburn came in for one visit, never to be
seen again.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
James Clyburn was the biggest disappointment of anyone who ever
proposed to be a man that I have ever talked to.
Remember the deal because he had one of his books out,
So the deal was, I will come on two times,
one time to promote my book. After that he would
come back and talk about anything that we wanted to
(12:51):
talk about, and he never made himself available for the
second booking to talk about the things I wanted to
talk about. He totally do exactly.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
You've also had other guests that were on the show
but kind of left. Who's the lady that was on?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Fuck?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Oh, Dana Perino. We used to have Dana Perino as
a regular back in the day.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well, but apparently she didn't a rush collar or sugar
and you just stopped doing the show.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
There was something about it. I can't remember what it
was that, but you're right, there was some sort of
conflict that arose and then suddenly she was no longer
available to be on the Jonathan and Kelly.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Now, I'm gonna be honest with you of all the
things that happened that I'm responsible for in the show
that one I really feel bad about. I'm a huge
Dana Perino fan. Sally would tell you, I think she's
hot and also right, but also she was fun to
talk to, and she also gave you the position because
she's been on both sides of the coin. She's also
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been on the inside, so she's able to give you
a little insight you don't typically get from someone that.
I felt bad about that, and I let the show
down because I upset her, and I never tried to
reach out to apologize because I knew there was nothing
that I could say. There's nothing I can say to
Darling to make her come back.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Come on, come on back, sugar Bridges. You know, I
was just thinking about some of the guests that we had,
Rob and I had. For some reason, this just popped
into my mind. One of my favorite interviews was with
some no name we I don't even I don't even
know if we knew the guy's name at the time,
but he was here to Uh it wasn't in the building.
(14:25):
He was a phone call, but he was in Richland
County and he was here to help with the Obamacare website.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And I did not understand what a website was.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Because you wanted his email address.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I wanted his I said, what website do we go to?
And he kept telling us his email address at gmail
dot com. I got your email. What is the website?
He was like, it's like from more info info at
infogmail dot com. That's not a website.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
It was almost as sad as the day that Kelly
went to vote. We're doing our election coverage here and
Kelly goes to stands in li or whatever. I think
Kelly came back. I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
It's been So I went after the morning show, stood
in line for like four or five hours, and then
I said, I'm not gonna be able to vote because
I got to be on the air at three, so
I had to leave come back, and then you guys
said you gotta vote, so you after the show was over,
I went back. I got in line of about six thirty.
I finally voted like eleven thirty that night. That was
the twenty twelve of the box.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The best part about that was the look on Jonathan
and I's face when you're like, I just don't have
time to vote. I'm not going to be able to vote.
We looked at you like like you had you brought
the bat macaroni and cheese to Easter.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You have to go what are you talking about. You're
not going to be able to vote. We've been talking
about this now for days. You have to vote if
you're an American citizen. Absolutely, I don't think I can vote. Guys.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Well, I think that vote ended up in a bag
that's now somewhere in the congrege.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Well, I'll always remember that. And it's just funny because
of how much stuff that was good that came from
this show. I mean, I think we still got the
big the big wal art that the code that the
the cartoon is put together with you two, and just
just cool, cool stuff that came from the show. And
(16:14):
I'm sad to see it kind of going away. It
kind of hurts the heart a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was a little concerned about Kelly's health because what
was it, twelve thirteen years ago we did this.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We started fourteen years ago in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Back in twenty twelve, Kelly and I would come to
work to do the morning rush of ninety seven five
w COS and then literally we would probably plan for
the next day we do all of our commercials, we
do all the other ancillary stuff for the morning show,
and then the noon we would switch gears and start
putting on our political caps and reading all the political
stuff and getting ready for the show. We would do
the show until six. We'd get out of here at
(16:47):
like seven or eight. You go to bed at like ten,
you get up at four, you go. That was the longest.
It was the longest two and a half three years
of my life. We literally were running off sleep deprivation,
which was the only excuse I have for half the
stuff I said on the air, because I was so
volatile back in those days. I would explode of people
(17:10):
for no reason because I was just so damn tired.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I loved it when you used to explode, though, and
you'd say, I'm telling you right now, brother, Hillary Clinton
will be in prison before noon or whatever.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
And then you're like, Rand Paul will be the next
president or whatever. You say, Put it up on that board.
Put it on the board, put it up.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
The production board was Rob's favorite, although I think it
was Rob Sanders who tried to help me with my attitude.
We're gonna take a time out right here, because I
got to get a commercial break in if robu Rob,
the producer will be waving at us, you're.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Running along, You're going along, running along.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We'll do this and we'll be back more. We Rob
coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Jonathan, President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst
president in the history of the United States. Exclamation point
at real Donald Trump. Well, at real Donald Trump. At
least I will go down as a president.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Kelly Nash.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I am officially running for president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I can't remember which moment it was. Was it after
one of the National Press dinners or was it after
that comedy skit where we both thought, yep, that did
it well, yeah, and I was like he was baiting
him into it and having no idea what the hell
was going to happen. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I think that the comedy skit was first, and then
I think at the National Press briefing he was Trump
had kind of said something about he might be running
for president or something, and Obama stood there and, like
you said, he just baited him, and he was like saying, well,
you know, we saw on the Whatever's the show The Apprentice?
Donald had to make the really tough decisions about should
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little John be allowed to participate whatever it was, and
Trump just sat there and took it. He took it,
and then like a couple of months later I have run.
It was great And how many people said, You're never
going to be the president. I mean, we used to
play that montage all the time of all those celebrities
(19:21):
saying it's never going to happen. Never, it can't happen,
It's never gonna happen. He's not going to win, George Clooney,
Nancy Pelosi, the list of all these far left people,
and then he won. That was the greatest night ever.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
So if you just joined us, this is the last
Saturday Morning. This is the last broadcast, terrestrial or podcast
for the Jonathan and Kelly Show, as Kelly will be
doing his own political show now and a lot of
our efforts here. I enjoy doing it with Kelly, but
would be redund It'd be a waste of time for Kelly.
And there are other things quite frankly, probably need to
(19:54):
be paying attention to on my other radio program. So
this is the last of the Jonathan K. Kelly shows
that you'll be hearing on WVOC. You'll be hearing Kelly
on the National briefing. This is the last Saturday Morning
broadcast in particular, and I want to pick up here
because we've been talking with one of the original three,
because Rob Sanders was the producer for the program, but
(20:17):
he was much more in that he was involved in
what topics are going to discuss. And I mentioned we
never scripted anything. We did know what we were going
to talk about. We agreed all that. Yeah, we tried.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Sometimes you would be breaking news. You got to get
into that. You know, some callers say something or send
us off.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Course, that's true too. Anyway, Rob wanted to call to
share a couple of thoughts on this last Jonathan and
Kelly show. If I remember correctly, you had me taking
some kind of woman's feminine product to relieve the stress
of my brother. What was that you brought in. I've
forgotten the name of it.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I think it was min all.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It was mine all. Oh my god, Bob Sanders had
me taking mine doll.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I don't even think I knew that. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I was taking mind doll. No one drive was as
crazy as Tiger Woods. I'm surprised I didn't run the
whole damn show in a ditch.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Well, he said he had a headache. So I went
around and someone's like, I got some mind all, maybe
that'll help. So I like went and brought him some
min all, and you know, he pushed through and did
his thing. But I think that one of the other
funny things was when the show first started, right, Kelly
comes to me and like, after we'd done this the
first show is if that's somewhere on tape that is
(21:31):
that is Radio Gold because we were just backing into
things and everything else. But Kelly asked mees like, hey, Rob,
what do you think the show was good? And I'm like,
I think. I looked at Kelly and I was like,
how the hell am I supposed to know? You know
what I mean? But it was it was fun. I
know that, and I know that there were people that
(21:54):
in the political world of South Carolina that were some
of them might have liked it, and some of them
might have been really really that with some of the
stuff that we put out on the air.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I totally get if you're upset with me, because not
only was it sleep deprivation, it was total frustration, and
not just for South Carolina Republicans and Democrats of the
General Assembly. Remember when wiseass Obama decided that he was
going to start using the FCC as another tool of
the government in his overreach. He was going to start
(22:22):
using the FCC to monitor particular news talk stations, and
we would have to actually sit down and record on
paper and then save any recordings of shows to prove
that we were being fair and balanced. And we took
a chair and shoved it in the corner, and I
put Mignon's name on it. Was it Mignon because.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
We called her Filet Mignon.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, we put Filet Mignon Cliburn's name on it and
invited her ass to come sit down anytime she would
like if she wants to monitor the Jonathan Kelly Show.
And that chair set in that corner empty for a year,
like Clint Eastwood with the Do you wonder.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Why Cliburn was like, Nah, I'm not coming back.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You gotta chair with your last name on it already.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
We even talked about that. It's like, there's no way
that this is gonna work with him coming back because
we keep popping his daughter on the spout. Yeah, he's
not gonna like that. Somebody's gonna wake him up out
of that coma that he's in. Hey, I'm making fun
of your daughter.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Rob did were you in on the pop tart eating competition?
I remember Jonathan and I ate pop tarts, and I
think maybe you were too, and all three the goal
was to try to make it look like a gun
after a first grader had been like arrested for chewing
his pop tarts into the shape of a gun. Do
you remember that competition?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I do, and I remember that your gun looked better
than Jonathan.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Where's my reward?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I don't have a prize exactly.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I mean Russ was upset about that because he was
trying to have the fully automatic you know, Bretta and
you were. He ate a little bit too much and
his ended up looking like a bad corn dog and
things there. Yours ended up looking like an actual gun.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So I could have gotten rested in that school.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm having flashbacks now. None of this, by the way,
like a lot of the show, none of this was staged.
I didn't know we're going to talk to you until yesterday,
and I've forgotten about it. To be honest with you,
when you look back on some of the things that
we did on the air, This is just being involved
in the community and understanding what South Carolinians are thinking.
When we had I believe it was Carl Blackstone on
and he was making a proposal to the city council,
(24:31):
if you want to build a minor league ballpark, put
it where Owen Steele is. Because everybody was talking about
what a great success downtown Greenville was with their drive,
So why not do it like the Drive is. The
Drive basically is a stadium that's another gigantic bar. You know,
you're making it so people will stop in and have
a couple of beers, enjoy the game, and move along
(24:51):
as they walk like a regular bar crawl down the vista.
Well that fell on deaf ears because Steve Benjamin Hell
of high Water was going to have we have a
damn stadium in the middle of what was then the
largest plot of land inside the city limits of any
metropolitan area in the United States of America, for screaming,
don't build a stadium right in the middle. Now, I'm
(25:14):
glad we got Segar Park. I just wish it were
still where Owen still used to be.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
That's true, you know, speaking of stuff where we almost
got in trouble, but didn't. We decided I say we
It was kind of by idea. I think Kelly checked
out on it, but we decided that when Texas A
and M came to town all time, they came to
town where they had their yellow practice. It's just strange.
It's one of the strangest traditions in college football. But
(25:42):
we devised the idea that we would take the big,
huge w COS crusher truck. And Jonathan knows the people
at the State House where they were doing this, you
know PEP rally, which is, by the way, in absolute disgrace.
How do you have a PEP rally for Texas A
and M right in the heart of South Carolina's campus.
(26:02):
How does that happen? Anyway, So they're at the state
House steps doing their thing, and I was like, you
know what, we can't stand for this. And I knew
I was turning Jonathan's crank when I said, We've got
to take care of this. This has to be fixed.
So we take the crusher rush pulled the crusher up
onto the onto the sidewalk there near the Confederate Memorial,
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and we missed sandstorm and the game cock fight song
has blasted it into that crowd rush gets out of
the truck, I have the other key. As soon as
he gets out, I locked the door. So when the
cops come, they're like, y'all got to move this truck,
and I don't have any keys as we're blaring sandstorm
into the Texas A and M crowd. That's something that
(26:50):
I'll never forget. That was one of those things where
Kelly's like, that's the good idea. You guys, call me
and let me know how it works out.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I bet you to this, say, Texas A and M
now has the thirteenth Man, and that thirteenth man is
at the perimeter of every one of their pet rallies
to make sure no jerk shows up with a gigantic
truck with a PA system from the opposing team.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
That to me is just absolutely funny. But the show
is one of the coolest shows that's out there. And
I'm proud of you, Kelly for doing your thing man,
because it's gonna be great and bring bringing the wit
and charm and some conservative politics to people. We kind
of have to have that, man.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Thank you, rob Ben, It's been great catching up with you,
and I know I'm I'm sure I'm speaking for Jonathan
as well. We miss you man. You got contributed so
much to the show and just being in the building.
You know, mockt so we could mock Clempson on the
off chance that you lost the game, and you can
lock us on the everyday occurrence when we lost games.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Yeah, well that's true. And I'll tell you what if
I were there every day. Seane Biemer looks like his
mom burnt his pop tarts every time they lose a game.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
We comes into that presa.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That one for you, John, You know, that was one
of the beauties of the charm. We always had the
voice of the Clempson Tigers nearby, so people didn't feel
like they were left out and being ganged up on
because Kelly and I were both true gamecock fans.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Absolutely, we're very exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
For a lot of people who liked me. Maybe reflecting
on some of the things that we said, covering some
of the things we did, some of the politicians we
talked to, some of the issues that we got so
geared up over, like the penny tax. So many times
we pointed out the General Assembly was using the lottery
money in the shell game to take money out of
the general budget. Which they were. Some people would tell
me that we're inside the General Assembly or inside the
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State House, that you could hear the Jonathan to Kelly
show echoing down the hallways, and then you would hear
different Republicans or Democrats start yelling at the top of
their damn lungs whenever we were discussing any particular topic.
But the one thing that I brought Democrats and Republicans
together on is that for most part you could find
members of both parties who said, because I was a
complete I'm asked, which I'm not disagreeing with. I have
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never claimed to be a smart man, but I can
tell you this. The two people I'm most thankful for
in this entire venture but Kelly Nash because he kept
us like in the forefront and the headlines. But Rob
Sanders kept me off the damn obituary page because you
did so much work on the backside that I didn't
have to do that. Now I've been doing a lot
of in your absence, So you kept me off to
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obituary page because there were we were so committed to
this show, and I mentioned the long hours earlier that
I'm surprised we actually lived.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Through that's true. And you know what, the people that
were upset about it, In my opinion, you were either
a Democrat or a corrupt Republican. Those are the only
people that were upset about the stuff we put out
on the air.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
And that's the way it's ever to be, upsetting democrats
and corrupt Republicans.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Yep, all the Democrats didn't like us.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Now when you see me in public, you don't have
to you don't have to worry about me being insulted
by your comments. I'm no longer a part of the show.
I know I wasn't the smartest person on the radio,
and I didn't care. I had an opinion, I had
an opportunity to share it. Now, you know, you can
just walk up and say those things to me, And
there's no way I can have any way to get
the airwaves to be in they to form or fashion
(30:12):
and retribution against you. And I will not pull up
a Donald Trump revenge mode because I don't have a
show to be on.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I thought you were going to say it, but I
will bring the crusher to your office and sandstorm that works.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
And you know, the stuff we had nothing that can about.
We should have taken the gooba dust out. That shit
happened and we never did though. There's just stuff that
we just didn't do.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Rob. I may have to bring the gooba dust back
out again. I've been contemplating that and we'll do that
on the morning Rush on w COS. Thank you again
for all your efforts. We appreciate your help. I'm really
excited about Kelly and the national briefing. You hear it
beginning at six on WVOC. You can also hear it
on iHeartRadio app and in Charleston you get to hear
An Know on WSC. Correct, I got it all right
(30:56):
that time. Now that I got something right, I need
to go ahead and I'm going to end on a
high note. I got it right, Kelly confirms, cong that
was so much fun working with him.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I miss Rob. He was a great guy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Hey, we're going to have one more segment, and since
we do record this on Friday for broadcast on Saturday,
Kelly would tell you that this is the time. What
I tell him, you're going to take a break, because
I got to figure out how much time we got left.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
We got a back time.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
We have back time, and it coming with back time
in a little radio lingo on The Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show, You've called women you don't
like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Your Twitter account.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Only Roo'donald.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Kelly Nash. No, it wasn't Thank you Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
If I had an opportunity to be at a cocktail
party with Donald Trump, we're you just sitting around talking
about all kinds of different things and casual things, that
would be one of the questions I would ask, do
you regret using the rosi o'donald line? Although it was perfect,
it was a perfect answer. It was a hysterical girl.
Everybody laughed at it, except Prosie, because you literally took
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a woman who was headed to total obscurity and gave
her a lifeline. She now has a reason in her
own mind for the leftist, a reason to exist.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
You know, I hadn't thought of it that way. I mean,
she has been one of his favorite punching bags, and
every now and again he'll just bring her name out
of out of retirement and just smack it one more
time and then move on.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
But you literally have television shows picking up her comments
off of social media.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Absolutely, and I'm trying to think of like form like
where's Ricky Lake?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Ricky? Like why didn't he name call me? Right? How
many people are envious that the president didn't use you
as the punching bag? I bet there's a long list
of Hey, by the way, if you have joined this program,
this is the last Jonathany Kelly show. And by the way,
I back timed it. We have eight minutes and eleven
seconds for this segment, so we have roughly another six
minutes to say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Oh my gosh, Jonathan, And how do you say good bye?
I mean it's you know, thankfully, like you said earlier,
you and I still be working every day Monday through
Friday on our regular show, the one that pays.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Us, yeah, actually pays us to be here.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, the other shows, those revolves has been doing kind
of Bobby. Yeah, it's been a hobby. It's an expensive
hobby because we could devote a lot of hours to it.
But yeah, this is a but it's been a heck
of a ride. I mean, you know, we were talking
earlier with Rob about some of the stuff that used
to happen on the show, and we used to have
a lot of guests in the studio back in the day.
You mentioned Mick mulvaney and Trey Goudi were kind enough
(33:34):
to be our fill in hosts for a while. And
but you know, I remember, I'm trying to think. Look,
I'd be remiss if I didn't say my favorite guest,
Joe Wilson. I got to say Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson
brings the heat. He always brought it. It's never been
a time he hasn't come in here fired up. He
hasn't been a timey income in here with all the
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paperwork and the documentation and all of that. And everybody
gets a business card. If you're in the hallway, you're
getting a Joe Wilson business card. He don't care. If
you got twenty of them, you're getting another.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
It is funny way I think about all the people
that I've talked, we talked to on this program on
the phone or in the studio. I mentioned earlier the
Uly moment, which is one of my favorite South Carolina
politics moments of contemporary times. Yeah, he always does, and
he listens wherever he is. He's listening right now. He
could be in Afghanistan, we don't know. But he's listening
right now, and I really believe he brings other people
(34:28):
to the program.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Oh absolutely. When I was in DC, I met some
people who said he had talked about our show to them,
and so, I mean, he is our number one champion,
and so we certainly appreciate the support of Joe Wilson.
But you know that we even had people that we
didn't agree with. I don't know if you even remember this.
We had Gavin Newsom on this show. Gavin Newsom called
(34:51):
in to promote his book that was probably around twenty
sixteen ish, that's something like that. We had Gavin Newsom
in here. We had Bacari sellers on the show. We
mentioned James Cliburn earlier. We tried to be I don't
know we were fair, but we were balanced. We were
at least as conservatives in the South. We were courteous. Okay,
we can say that Blessed.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Gave them an opportunity to come on, and they had
an opportunity, like Gavin, and we talked about James Cliburn already,
even when it was something we didn't agree with, we
gave them the opportunity. We weren't afraid to talk to
anybody you know, that's the one thing when you do
a live radio show, and how much do I miss
that when we did it live because of the phones.
When you do a live and you push that button
(35:32):
or Rob tells you three, you could see, we would
see who's lined up. All would know is line three
is a guy named Bob. You hit the button and
Bob could be someone who's tuned into the program, who
is a stute in South Carolina history politics. You don't
know who Bob is, but you punch that button and
you're willing to talk to Bob on the radio live.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
One of the callers we used to get, I don't
want to say I'm the regular, but we probably heard
from him three or four times was the old Lexington
sheriff James Metz.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
We used to call on.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
And I used to do an invitation to him back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Unfortunately, James S Meths guy. He ended up taking his
name off of buildings all over Lexing the county. Big
screw up. Even he would he would tell you that, okay,
but definitely got politically rolled on that. Oh absolutely targeted
from the beginning, and unfortunately turns out there was something.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
You give him a little something to work with.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
They're gonna, they're gonna Steve Benjamin walk.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Oh my gosh, we're going to talk about the traffic light.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
No, I'm talking about the fact that the damn federal
prosecutor opened up his as with Steve Benjamin has been
lining his pockets with the public's money for years.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yes, that was the opening statement, and Steve Benjamin was
not on trial.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Never mentioned again. They hung Pensing out to dry. If
I'm Pinson, I'm pissed. Why does he get off the hook?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Well, you're not the mayor. Actions have consequences.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
But I am excited for Kelly and that he will
be having his own program now. I want to mention
this one more time to make sure everybody knows and
you can hear it, because it's real important for me
to make a radio pitch from a radio guy. It's
really important you tune in and listen to WVOC and
if you're in Charleston area on WSC because radio locally
is going to exist and be the influence that it
(37:15):
is only if it has a terrestrial presence. And though
we just want a big fight to make sure that
AMNFM stays in the automobiles, not only because of the
emergency alert system and the things like that, but because
the radio station is plugged into the local community. Now,
will Kelly be talking about the county council race in
Fearfold County? Probably not. But making sure that you listen
(37:38):
to local radio is important because you don't want to
lose it. You'll never get it back.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
And we'll certainly give a little extra attention to the
South Carolina senators and House members and stuff. They're going
to get a little extra attention than the national guys
because most of our guys are national people. Whether it's
Nancy Mace or it's Lindsey Graham or Tim Scott, all
these people are very well known throughout the country. It's
(38:03):
like you said, you know over and over again, South
Carolina is the hotbed. This is the political It's an
unbelievable state because there's only five million of us, and
yet we seem to drive so much of the news cycle.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Look at the history of South Carolina and it's domina,
it's place at the national table. From Wade Hampton, you
go certainly with and from one time, at one point
we had two of the most vocally distinguishable senators with
Strom Thurman. You can always tell with Strom is gonna speak,
or even with Fritz Hollings, because it was just South
(38:39):
Carolina has always had a national presence and it will
continue that way. And Chuck tab was right. The only
thing I've ever agreed with. I'll give you one last slute, Tuck.
You're right. If you're a young reporter looking to make
your name in politics today you've moved to South Carolina. Hey.
On a personal note, I have enjoyed every minute working
with Kelly, but more so I've enjoyed every minute of
the availability. Thank you. iHeartMedia for allowing me to be
(39:00):
a part of this program, and I will miss it much,
but I will be listening to Kelly. The National Briefing
to begin on WWOC Monday night, YEP six to nine,
six to nine. It was really tough for me to
pick out which closer I wanted to use on the
last program.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Oh, do we have a little bit of Tom Jones
or that was that's part of that's a throwback. We
used to play Tom Jones all the time on Fridays
and get the weekend started.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
No, no, no, we're not going to do that one.
I chose this one and in walking out the door
with great broadcasters, I've tried to put myself in the
midst of their last good nights. Jonathan and Kelly show,
I'll show myself out until we meet again.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And that's the way it is in w voc
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