10 25 25 The Jonathon and Kelly Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan hub These,
I got shot, Kelly Nash, what do you hope happens?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I hope that I see the obituary that we're all
waiting for tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
That's what I hope Ford.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, absolutely, Jonathan and Kelly Show.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Oh my gosh. And then America turned very dark. We're
not gonna be happy until ice agents you're dead in
the streets, will be identify them then. And we're not
gonna be happy until Donald Trump is in the obituary. Call.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I mean, she was giddy totally.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
That is he's gonna be dead. Wow dark. All right, Hey,
this is Jonathan Rusher's Kelly Nash Your morning. Now. We
haven't Jonathan and Kelly Show chock full of interviews. We've
got some good stuff lined up for you. You're gonna hear
from a lieutenant governor, Pamelavit. She's out on the campaign
trail running for governor. We'll ask her about a little

(00:56):
bit of that and some other things happening with our
state government.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Segment three are swamp talk segment. We're gonna have a
special guest pretty much to carry the conversation us Congressman
Ralph Norman. All right, we're talking to him about the
shutdown and some other issues he wants to speak about.
He's also running for governor, so he has a couple
of issues he'd like to bring to the table for
voters to start considering. As the election will be here,
it'll be here for you know what Tom's flying. In

(01:21):
segment two, we're going to give Allenen Weaver an opportunity
to brag about our school kids. Usually we don't like
to get the report cards around here in the state
of South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, this is a big turnaround apparently in South Carolina
education with this new report card. And she'll get a
chance to brag on that and maybe talk a little
bit about what the future holds for us.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, and she is also now announced she's gonna run
for reelection. She made that announcement run for governor. No, no, no, no,
she's running for reelection. She made that announcement on the
Rational That was her official radio announcement.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, so we got the scoop on that. And Paul Dans,
who we first introduced you to on the podcast and
a rash thought about a week ago, is now a
South Carolinian.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, he's originally I think from New Jersey, right, but
he went to Virginia Law School and then he also
went to MIT.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's a big thinker, oh, big brain, and he is
the architect of Project twenty twenty five. Now he married
a South Carolina girl, the best in the world, so
he says. And since he is a MIT graduate and
Virginia Law School graduate, that's a pretty damn good endorsement
for South Carolina girls. Absolutely, we had an opportunity to
speak with him again. Now if you go to the

(02:38):
podcast there are actually two podcasts posted featuring this man,
and he is running in the primary against Lindsey Graham.
We'll start there. Good morning, You're going to be meeting
people in the Fairgrounds area before the big Alabama game.
What are the issues that you're hearing talking to people
in South Carolina that you want to continue the conversation with.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Well, we want to make America first, and now let's
end these endless wars that Lindsey Graham has been promoting
for now thirty two years in Washington. Let's actually build
up this state instead of destroying foreign countries and spending
our blood and treasure abroad. This is about making the
American dream affordable again and really reaching out to this
younger generation. Look, I'm a fan of huge college sports.

(03:22):
I played my self contact sports and it was an
All American student athlete in lacrosse. And it's time to
bring it not only on the playing field, but I'm
going to bring it up in Washington and actually bring
America First Fighter to DC. That's going to represent us.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Back at home talking with Paul Dan But you're going
to be at a tailgate event. This is being sponsored
by whom Our.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Tailgate's going to be out in the Sparagrounds area. We
love people to stop by. We're being hosted by the
South Carolina Emerging Tech Association, So that's bitcoin, that's all digitals,
So definitely be giving out answers. This is the way
for the next generation really of giving you some financial

(04:04):
freedom and liberty. But this is really what our whole
campaigns about. We're medical freedom and making this country great
again in a way that we've supported President Trump like I. Look,
I've been working for President Trump since twenty fifteen, helped
work him to get elected in sixteen, worked in this
first administration. But this is really about America First, and

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making life affordable again and emerging crypto currency is a
way to kind of get around the statism, the fact
that Lindsay and the rest of the gang, they really
just want to control your life and move this towards
the global world. We're trying to protect our national sovereignty
here at home.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
We're talking with Paul Dan's who's running for Senate against
Lindsey Graham. If you're talking to a Lindsey Graham supporter,
somebody who says I agree with you know, probably seventy
five percent of the things that he votes for our
campaigns on I have some disagreements with him. I'm not
going to line up perfectly with any but Lindsey does
seem to have the ear of the president. Donald Trump

(05:04):
has said many times Lindsey likes to help us when
we need help with the left. Why would I choose
you over the guy that Donald Trump seems to say
I need help from.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Well, Donald Trump's only going to be in Washington two
more years, and Lindsey cannot be trusted with carrying on
Donald Trump's agenda. America First. If you talk about and
that you know two out of three primary goers do
not trust this man, and there's a reason why he's
a snake. We cannot forget the old Lindsey where he

(05:36):
was saying Donald Trump can go to hell. He was
saying he's the worst nominee in the history of the
Republican Party. And you know he was basically, if he
had his way, there never would have been a Donald Trump.
He spent the first part of Donald Trump's twenty seventeen
twenty eighteen delegitimizing that presidency. He was behind the Russia

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hoax at the time, we should and building a border wall.
Fast forward, now we have twenty million illegals because Lindsay
was fighting Donald Trump the whole time. If you vote
for Lindsay, you are voting for gramnesty. We know what
this guy's all about. If you were to vote again
for Lindsay, you're voting for more war, probably World War three.

(06:20):
The guy as we speak is urging bombing in Venezuela. Okay.
That is one of the major sites of oil in
this western hemisphere. You are guaranteed a price shock when
that goes off. So this is a guy who's just
constantly about World War three. And that's why I'm going
to end endless wars and actually endless spending and bring

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investment back here to South Carolina. And for those who
are just beginning to sit in traffic right now, let's
actually fix this state instead of building roads halfway around
the world.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, one of the things a lot of South
Carolinia is you happen to be federal workers or TSA
agents or whatever their job description and what umbrella they're
working for the federal government sitting on the sideline, or
they're working right now free hoping they're going to get
their paychecks totally refunded to them after this shutdown is over.
We're hearing from Republicans now that this thing could end
up being the longest shutdown in American history. Since you

(07:14):
were steeped in policy with Project twenty twenty five, I'm
going to assume that you also are steeped in messaging.
Why is it we're not hearing the Republicans explain more
about what the Democrats are looking for in order for
them to be able to negotiate and get the deal
that they want to end the shutdown.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
The Democrats that made the Hill to Die on medical
care for illegals, and once we passed that threshold. It's
kind of all over look. I solute the folks who
are actually working right now for the federal government, because
they are the essential workers. The federal government never really
shuts down. It slows down, and it does the essential
parts of the government, which begs the question, why is

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it doing anything beyond that? So during this lowdown, it's
actually a helpful process because we cut it back, just
like Elon Musk did when he acquired Twitter. You know,
you famously fired eighty percent of the people and it
ran just the same. You figure out the things that
aren't running when you make a big cut, and you
add them back, certainly with TSA, with these security aspects,

(08:16):
law enforcement and obviously social Security checks and keeping things running.
That's always going to be part of government that never
gets shut down, and the Republicans have to make that clear.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
I see you've posted up a poll a couple of
weeks ago that you had a huge spike in September.
I guess the polling's going well. And you're also going
to be coming to the University of South Carolina on Monday.
Is this a turning point USA event like you just
were at at Citadel or is this something else.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
That's right. This one is going to be hosted by
the College Republicans and the National College Republicans just endorse me.
So this campaign is really for this next generation. It's
everyone thirty five and under who hopes to have a
share of the American dream. The guys ouse who are
out there right now filling up at the QT or whatever,

(09:03):
starting their day, working hard to get ahead and actually
get a piece of the rock. This is about making
life affordable the kids. You know, we are God Family country.
And Charlie Kirk, the leader of Turning Point, was no
fan of Lindsay. He said, this is one of the
number one goals of getting rid of these rhino senators

(09:24):
in Washington, and that's where I'm stepping up to do this.
We will be Monday at USC. It's open to the
public seven pm at the Russell House Ballroom with the
USC College Republicans. I'd love to see people out there
and be telling you about our campaign and answering questions
and really meeting voters. But this is about the kids.

(09:46):
We've had great polling we started here and in August
have doubled our numbers. We're up, you know, Lindsay and
myself were at health tomorrow, we'd be in the runoff.
So he knows we're coming and this is going to happen.
That's the the major thing people should take away. There
is hope in the future. We are getting rid of Lindsey.
We are retiring him to a golf course, hopefully one

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in Florida.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
So you're going to be in the fairgrounds and there
will be an exact location availability to point out on
your web page for those of you go into the
Alabama game Monday night at the Russell House. You have
another event in fact for Turning Point USA November. The
TIMP that'd be a little more open to the public.
Is that the way I understand it.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Well, we'll have more details. We're at Dansfirsenate dot com.
I'll be with Turning Point Action folks in the College
of Charleston. I know this Wednesday, but we are constantly
getting together with groups all over the state. Follow us
on social media to get the exact details.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now, I did have to edit that interview slightly because
of the time restraints of this program. If you want
to hear the complete As I mentioned earlier, two different
podcasts featuring Paul Dan's you can do that on our podcast.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, the rash Thought podcast is free, just like the
iHeart radio app is free, and that's where you'd find it,
the iHeart Radio app.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Coming up segment two, we're going to talk South Carolina
Edge mccation where there are superintendentive Ed. That sounds awkward,
doesn't it? Our superintendentive Ed That will be Ellen Weaver. Next.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Jonathan and Kelly show Jonathan Rush.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
So that Donald Trump can construct a ballroom where they
will be celebrated like our team, Kelly Nash, of all
places to do, construction is happening right here the front
lawn of the White House.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Estimated costs three hundred and seventy six million dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Jonathan and Kelly show WBOC.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
It is amazing the outrage this ballroom has created, just
for the national media, who, by the way, in the
second part of that audio, that was from Barack Obama's
three hundred and seventy six million dollars renovation that he
brought to the White House, and unfortunately from mainstream media.
Those news items are not like Snapchat. They don't disappear

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after somebody's viewed it. No, they stick around on the internet. Forever.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
That lady that reporter was she was giddy. We had
the other lady that was giddy about Trump dying. This
lady is giddy about how much you know, we're spending
three hundred seventy six million dollars on the White House renovations.
And by the way, there was other renovations done in
the Obama administration. We don't know the exact ticket price
of what it costs to get parts of the dining

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room redone in just the private living quarters of the Obamas,
because they had companies donate the money. So people who
are upset that Trump has got people donating, companies donating
for this ballroom see exact same thing that the Obamas did.
You never mentioned that, and I just saw the breaking news.
I don't know. I cannot believe that now we have
gone ABC News is per you know, aplectic about the

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idea that now some trees have been cut down or
as they called them, historic trees. These are historic trees
have been removed to make room for this ballroom. And
they're crying. I'm sure Elizabeth Warren is crying right the Indian.
She'd be very upset with anything from nature that was cut.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I'm searching my memory bank. Where did it happen they
had to cut a tree down or remove a Confederate
monument in one of the cities. Could have been Richmond.
Oh yeah, yeah. And those statues, by the way, those
were historic. They were I think many people, and they
put them there for people to stop and look at.
You would have thought that they would have figured that
on their own. Hey, we got something going on as

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historic here in South Carolina, and I am giddy about
it because I born and raised and went through public
school until the seventh grade, where I was moved for
a lot of different reasons we don't get into. But
I'm very excited about what was happening in our South
Carolina education system. I will say that again, I am
very excited about what's happening in our South Carolina education

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system in the year twenty twenty five. I can say
that I've never said that before as a South Carolinian.
And here to explain why. In the conversation we had
earlier this week, South Carolin Line of Superintendent of Education, Allen.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
Weaver, Hey, good morning, guys.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
We're doing great. I know you got a lot of
things you want to talk about in particular having to
do with your school initiatives and the life. But I
want you to know I feel like a kid again
because I've gotten real wrapped up in the SC two
fifty and suddenly now I find myself learning more about
our South Carolina history.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Oh, I cannot even tell you how personally excited I am.
History was my favorite subject in school, and so the
chance to talk about it from this office and to
inspire our students and our teachers about the amazing heritage
we have here in South Carolina. Most people don't know
that there were more revolutionary battles fought in South Carolina

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than any other state, and some of the most important battles,
from Sullivan's Island at the beginning of the Revolution to
really the Coup de Gras at the end of the
Revolution that ultimately led to the surrender at York Town
happened right here at King's Mountain, Calpons and so many
other battle sites. And so I want our students to
know that they are living inside a classroom here in

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South Carolina. They step outside their back door and they
are walking on historic battlegrounds, places where men and women
patriots fought for our freedom and American freedom was one
here in South Carolina. Historians across the board will tell
you that. And so I just think we have so
much to be proud of, and I'm not going to

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rest until every student in South Carolina knows that incredible story.
We were actually in ninety six, a couple of weeks ago,
rolling out this really exciting partnership with the American Battlefield Trust,
which is a national organization that preserves our historic battlefield,
and in fact, they actually worked with us to create
a specific curriculum for South Carolina for the SC two fifty.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
I love the idea that one of the goals right
now for our Department of Education is to instill pride
in every South Carolina student is to what happened in
this state to help launch America.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
It really is, And you know, I want every single
student to see themselves in the promise of America's founding ideals.
We all know that we have not exemplified those ideals
perfectly throughout our history, but the whole point is what
doctor Martin Luther King talked about, is that there was
a promissory note in those founding ideals, and we have

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been working throughout our history towards that more perfect union,
and every single student in South Carolina needs to know that,
know the hope of that story, and believe that that
story is theirs.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Let's talk about how South Carolina students have been testing
this year, in particular with the South Carolina Ready scores.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, thank you for the opportunity to talk about my
most favorite thing. You might have thought it was history,
but it's actually literacy and reading, and this is something
that we have talked about so many times before. We
saw our test scores on literacy for our third to
eighth graders go up six points this year. That is
a huge gain. So that puts us now at sixty

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percent of our students who are reading at proficiency level.
We were in the low fifties when I took office,
and I am so excited and grateful for the hard
work that our teachers have done to make this possible.
We at the state level have invested in training that
puts tools in our teachers toolboxes to help them teach

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the science of reading, which is based in phonics. And
so we're starting to just see the leading edge of
those gains and it's so exciting because, as you know,
if our kids can read, they can do anything. From
kindergarten to third grade, you're learning how to read, and
from third grade on you're reading to learn. So whether
that's history, whether that's literature, whether that's science and math,

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all of it hinges on a strong foundation in reading.
And so I am so excited about that. We know
we have more work to do, but the fact that
we are seeing that momentum is really just such an
exciting indication of what's to come. You know, people have
been talking for several years now about the Mississippi miracle.
I think it's time we start talking about the South

(18:02):
Carolina surge.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
I understand you have a big announcement this week.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, this actually is my official radio announcement. I am
running for reelection. I am so grateful for the opportunity
that the people of South Carolina have given me over
the last three years to serve as their voice in
Columbia and to represent the interest of our students to
the General Assembly and really to everyone that I talk to.

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And so we have made incredible progress over the last
three years, but there's a lot more still to do.
I've got fire and my belly. I'm excited for what's happening.
I'm so thankful for the incredible team that we have
here at the Department of Education, and we're ready to
take South Carolina education to the next level.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
I don't even know the answer to this question. Is
your office term limited?

Speaker 5 (18:46):
No it's not.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
We're one of the constitutional officers that are not term limited.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
So and only get personal for a second. How old
are you?

Speaker 6 (18:53):
I am forty six.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
If you could continue to grow South Carolina's third to
eighth grader at the rate we're growing it now, if
you stayed in office until your retirement age, can you
imagine what an unbelievable climb that would have been from
the similarly eternally forty ninth rated state in the US
to where we could be by the time you totally

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extend your service to our community and to our state.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Well, you know, hope propels action and hard work, and
that's what we're doing. And to your point, I am
so hopeful about the future of education in South Carolina.
It is not going to change itself overnight, but we
are already seeing progress and I think we're going to
continue to see that progress grow and accelerate. And I
will tell you I believe I have the most important

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job in the entire state in terms of elected officials.
And I don't say that with pride. I say that
with humility, because I don't think anything is more important
to the foundational future of our state, whether it's our
economic future, whether it's our civic future, our community's future,
than well educated citizens. If we get this right, there
are so many other things that flow out of that

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as a natural consequence that will help our entire state
to flourish. So I am so thankful for the chance
to do this job, and I hope the voters will
see fit to send me back next November. Here in
South Carolina, we're so blessed to have a pretty strong
consensus about what public education should be, and we've focused
on the fundamentals, and that's what's happening not just here

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in South Carolina, but really in states across the southeast.
And so I think you're going to continue to see
states that have been written off for a long time
continue to rise because they're not distracted by political agendas
that have no place in our public schools.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
South Carolina State Superintenative Education, Ellen Weaver, thank you for
using us as your official radio platform for the announcement
of your reelection.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, Jonathan Kelly, I wouldn't have it any other way.
You guys are the best.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Now, we did have to edit that interview again slightly,
only because at the time restraints of this program. You
can hear the entire interview with Ellen Weaver in our podcast.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, the Rashlop podcast is free to get on the
free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Now we have a kind of a special edition, although
we've done it before. We have a special guest for
our ever popular segment three Swamp Talk. We'll be speaking
with US Congressman Ralph Norman.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Next the Jonathan and Kelly Show, Jonathan Rush.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
It's Groundhog Day and that's a great movie.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
But this is Kelly Nash.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Some of your Republican colleagues have proposed to nuking the
philip us.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Are to force the government to reopen.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
We ran on that, We ran on Kelly the phil
of Us right now.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
We love it.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Jonathan and Kelly Show.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
W dooc that from the Democrat whose death threats are
now being targeted to him with his new name Uncle Fester.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
The Democrats have turned quickly on him.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh, they want his hide. They are very upset with
John Fetterman. Hey, we get into swamp talk. We're going
to have a conversation we had posted earlier on a
podcast with US Congressman Ralph Norman that's coming up in
only seconds and before the show's over to that, you're
going to hear from a Lieutenant Governor, Pamela Evitt. We'll
start here with our congressman from Washington, unless he's at

(22:04):
his hometown, because I'm hearing that the US House of
Representatives is afraid to go back to DC. They're being
called out. Congressman Ralph Norman, Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Where are you today?

Speaker 8 (22:15):
Good morning, Jonathan Kelly. I'm in rock Hill, South Carolina today, refusing.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
To open the government. I see why won't you open
the government?

Speaker 8 (22:24):
You know, if you look back in history, the longest
prior to this was in twenty eighteen nineteen, which I
think it went on for thirty five days. But if
you look back at the reason they held the paychecks
from veterans and basically stopped the government was over President
Trump wanting to build a fund to build a wall
to keep this country safe. This party, Democrat Party, is

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willing to shut this government down. Because they want an
extra one point five trillion dollars to register illegals to
get Medicaid Medicare. It's ludicrous what they're doing. They've lost
their way and American people going home toccountable.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, just know that while you're in rock Hill, Jill
Takuda and add case, just two of the Democrats in
the House. So we're back in DC begging you to
come back and take your responsibility. Seriously, say you just
want to harm the military, you're trying to punish people.

Speaker 8 (23:18):
Here's my reply to that.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Uh huh.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
Democrats, come back to Washington sign the Continued Resolution that
you signed thirteen times under Joe Biden. The only reason
you're not signing it now is a hatred of Donald
Trump that took front and center stage on these stupid
No King rallies that took place in over the country.
You're talking about inflaming those who would harm this country,

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just doing it. But the American people see it, and
we've done our job. We're not coming back and there's
nothing to negotiate now. We're not giving you a tree
and five of money we don't have that has to
be borrored. We're not going to play your games with
trying to have a voting block of illegals and give
them money. We're just not doing it. And so they
can say what they want, the facts for the fact,

(24:01):
and we'll stand one.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
You know, one of the more ironic things about the
No King's protest, and we're with Congressman Ralph Norman this morning,
is that the one that took place in d C
wouldn't have been able to happen under Democrats' laws because
they shut down the government and that would have closed
the parks and services in the mall in DC. Yet
Donald Trump has found a way to pay for the

(24:25):
not only for you know, the WICC program paid the
military members, but keep a lot of the parks and
services open. So the only reason they could have their
No King's protest is because Donald King, or Donald I
should call him Donald King. Donald Trump basically paid for
the No King's protest to be open.

Speaker 8 (24:44):
Well, you know, look what he's doing for, like you mentioned,
to pay for our military. We've got right at thirty
four thousand made the military. Here in South Carolina, we
have roughly twenty five thousand federal employees. And what this
president has done is phenomenal and coming up with ways
to fund our military of all means. You know, the
Democrats again, they're just blinded by pure hatred of a

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man who is rescued this country. He's got us back
on track with the safest now we've ever been under
the bastrous bid administration. They don't realize that it's anti
American what the Democrat Party is to come to today.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Well, as you mentioned you are in rock Hill today.
I don't know if you have any scheduled events as
you are, in fact running for the governor of the
state of South Carolina. We have a lot of issues
here that are greatly concerning the people because it's not
just DC, it's the state of South Carolina. One of
the things that I was reminded of every time I
got in my car over the weekend. If I were
the governor of the state, I would be embarrassed to

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drive our roads. We've been promised by the General Assembly
we'd have potholes fixed, and now we've got bridges here
in Columbia being shut down. I mean, it's amazing. With
the gas tax and the other ways that we've facilitated
through fees. With the DOT you would have thought would
have the smoothest roads in the nation by now.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Well, you know the corruption, the waste for all, the
abuse of paying for anything, but our roads and our bridges,
which are a core function of government. We travel them
every day. I had a blowout on I twenty six
a week and a half ago, and as you know,
twenty six who's under construction, and had I not been
able to get off, we would have been killed. I
mean trucks were going eighty miles an hour pass us.

(26:21):
And all that to say is under a Norman administration,
we're going to fix our roads and bridges. We're going
to change the way judges are elected. That the logan
Frederico who died from a man who had been arrested
forty times with twenty five families. It's not fair the
way we elect judges. And we're going to put some
term limits on to get the people who are making

(26:43):
these awful decisions that now serve I don't care whether
you were public and the Democrat out of office. And
it's time. It's the prior he's putting. First things first
has to come to South Carolina. I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Talking with Ralph Norman, who is running for governor and
you know, one of the challenges I would imagine as
the next governor is how much limitations there are on
that actual role. It's not as in some other states,
really gives you a lot of power. You have to
work so much with the General Assembly, do you I mean,

(27:19):
is that what you imagine that you'll be able to
work with these people better than our current administration.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
We'll work with them as long as they as they
put first things first and fix the things I just
mentioned our basic function of government rose bridges, you know
just what I mentioned, lextion and judges, as long as
they will change that. I mean, we've had ten years
and it's been under the Republican leadership of growth in government.

(27:45):
Ten years ago in South Carolina you had roughly forty
five thousand employees. What do you have now for government
right at one hundred and eighteen. We've grown government. We're
going to have a Doze Commission that's going to identify
where every dollar spent, and we're going to My executive
budget will be one of the leanest in the history
of this state. People are tired of not putting first

(28:09):
things first, and I will do that. And I've got
a history of it serving in Congress. We've turned the
tide in Congress toward conservatism, the Freedom Caucus ass and
we can do it in South Carolina. And that's, to
be honest, That's why I'm excited and that's why I'm running.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Maybe you're just better at diplomacy than some of our
previous governors, but we've seen I think it was Mark
Sanford that came in with pigs because he wanted to
point out how much port was being spent in our budget.
And as you mentioned, we've got a super majority, you
would think the Republicans will be able to get on
the same page.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
I'm lucky because I don't owe the establishment anything, the lobbyists,
I don't owe anything to So to change the system,
you can't be a part of it. I'll do it
in two ways. I'm on exercise vico when I have to,
and I'm won't speak directly to the people South Carolina
to advocate for what is common sense to me? Is
it fair to travel on roads that had the highest

(29:04):
fitality rate on our secondary roads?

Speaker 4 (29:06):
No?

Speaker 8 (29:07):
Is it fair to have bridges falling down?

Speaker 5 (29:10):
No?

Speaker 8 (29:11):
Is it fair that we've got an electricity problem? We've
got an electrical problem in this state. It's common sense
to me, But as I found out in DC, common
sense is so common.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
South Carolinia's are just getting so tired. They're getting disengaged
totally with the process because they're frustrated. It just seems
like on our county levels, not just the sheriff's departments.
We've had three of those arrested recently on corruption charges.
Our county councils seemingly work without having to be accountable
to anyone other than possibly not being re elected.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
That's one of the reasons that I really am excited
about coming back to South Carolina. You know, I will
not be silent when it comes to recruiting good, solid
business people to serve on the city council, County Council,
Planning Commission.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
School board.

Speaker 8 (29:59):
I mean as good as your weakest link. And I
got involved in a sheriff's race in Rocky in York
County elected a great guy who marine was a decorated
police officer. And I get involved in local races, and
I'm gonna recruit good people, and I will use my

(30:19):
voice and not be scared.

Speaker 7 (30:21):
To do it.

Speaker 8 (30:21):
And I could care less, you know what. The fall
back on or the criticism is, I'm going to push
for good people to get involved, because again, it all
goes back to who you put in office. And that's
why we've got to get the bad ones out. And
I don't care whether the Democrat or Republican. You get
them out if they're not doing the job. And I

(30:43):
will advocate for that. And it I mean, and why
not as government? You're the CEO of the state. We
will not elect another government until twenty thirty four because
in combers typically go back in. We can't risk South
Carolina standing the sidelines while we'll get overrun.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
And yes, you know, the Congressman had a lot to
talk about. We edited that conversation heavily for this broadcast.
You can hear the entire thing on our podcast.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Yes, the rast podcast is Dontee iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
And we wrap up the show this week with another interview,
this time Lieutenant Governor Pamela Abott Neck.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
The Jonathan and Kelly Show. Jonathan Rush, So.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
You've probably seen news that President Trump is moving all
sorts of money around to try to pay people during
the federal government shut down, Kelly Nash, And so it's
just important to know that when you read these stories
about Trump moving money from here to there to pay
the border agents or the troops, it's totally unnecessary.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
The Jonathan and Kelly show.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, I don't know what Donald Trump is thinking trying
to help some of the American people. Just come to
the table and give them what they want.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
What do they want?

Speaker 3 (31:52):
We'll continue to track over the weekend, which we'll have.
We're gonna have Senate votes over the weekend. Do you
think of the Democrats are going to keep denying the
American people of all weekend long? I don't know what.
I haven't looked at the Senate schedule because there's not
enough movement at this point and even think it's going
to happen in the next week or two.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Well, we finally have arrived. This is what the second
longest shut down in government in history. We finally arrived
at the point where the pain will kick in beginning
November first. So this is what the Democrats have wanted.
No EBT cards are going out, they're all getting their
emails in the last twenty four to forty eight hours.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
No, we're electronic fund transfers to your EBT.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, all that ends and so we're going to start
missing paychecks. As a matter of fact, I think Friday
was the first paycheck missed for a bunch of people.
And as long as the Democrats can get their way
and bring misery to as many Americans as possible, perhaps
they can get the Republicans to negotiate with them on
the healthcare issue.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
As we got more and more Democrats talking, now we
get a long list I'm sure over at Hakim's offices,
Democrats who are not allowed to speak to the media
because they're telling the truth. It sure is our leverage opportunity.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
It sure would be nice if you were willing to
negotiate without putting a gun to the heads of veterans
and poor people. But they're not going to do that.
The gun is firmly on the right there at the forehead.
Either you negotiate with us, or we kill all these people.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
The best government always happens under duress. I've forgotten which
one of our forefathers said, Hey, before we get out
of here. Today we had an opportunity to speak again
with our lieutenant Govenor Pamela Evatt.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
Hello, guys, how are you always great? To be back?
It feels like in thirty days. There is a lot
of ground that has happened.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
In thirty minutes. You can get a lot with this
news cycle. It's crazy.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
We've got to probably do this like a couple times
a month, right, I feel like there's just too much
ground to cover in such a short time.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Well, I thank Christy. Don'mprove you can make the world
turn upside down with just thirty seconds. As that video
rolled out in half of our airports here in South Carolina.

Speaker 7 (33:54):
Oh my goodness, that was unbelievable, wasn't it. You talk
about like the hackings that were happening and airports around
the country too, Well, I know.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
If Pennsylvania and then you had one in what Vancouver
or something like that was somewhere in Canada where the
Hamas people had hacked those airport.

Speaker 7 (34:11):
Yeah, you're saying that that was it. You know that
they didn't get into any kind of systems, but that's
still scary. I mean, I can't imagine if I was
in an airport, guys, and all of a sudden that
started streaming, I'd be afraid to get.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
On a plane. Well, Democrats are saying that they would
be afraid if we had the Christineome video playing, which
actually blames Democrats for TSA employees not getting paid. Do
you agree that that is a violation of the Hatch
Act or do you think that this is not a
violation and that that should have been played in all
airports because South Carolina came down. Basically, Greenville and Charleston

(34:46):
are not playing the Christine home video and Myrtle Beach
and Charleston are.

Speaker 7 (34:51):
I don't think she's out there campaigning for anybody, and
I think that's the promise of the Hatch Act. I'm
not an attorney, so you take that with a grain
of salt, but I always assume that the Hatchack, you
couldn't raise money for a specific candidate, you couldn't campaign
for a specific candidate. I think she's just talking about facts.
The Democrats have closed down the government. They talk a
game of being worried about the people, that they're doing

(35:13):
this for the people, but it's the people that are
getting hurt and they don't want it talked about because
the Democrats do a great job of trying to run
a narrative, and when we out maneuver them and get
the message out first, they just don't know what to
do with themselves. That's the crux of it.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
So then if James Cliburn is right in the Christy
Nome videos a violation of the Hatch Act, should airports
be allowed to play CNN and their lobbies. I would
make an argument that those news outlets are absolutely campaigning
and pushing a narrative for an election. As opposed to
the Christi Nome video.

Speaker 7 (35:42):
You're absolutely right, they have been pushing false narratives since
President Trump took office. Should we talk about all the
collusion that has gone on between networks and the Biden
administration and Democrats and the messaging that these networks have
pushed out on behalf of them.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
I see on your social media that when you recently tweeted,
South Carolina's farmers are doing more than growing crops. They
grow our economy, preserve our way of life. And I'll
always stand by our farmers and ensure that they have
a seat at the table. What are you hearing from
the farmers as you make your way around the state.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
What do they need?

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Because they are such an important part of the economy
of this state, them in our.

Speaker 7 (36:20):
Timber industry together, they challenge hospitality every year for the
number one revenue generator in our state. And you know,
they're resilient. The help they need is they need somebody
who will continue to work with the Trump administration to
make sure that they know the challenges they're facing boots
on the ground. You know, I've done roundtables all around

(36:42):
the state and have really sat down and talked with them.
What they want is to be heard. They want on
a federal level to get commodity prices more fair for them.
This was a banner year for growing corn. The commodities
price per bushel was four dollars a bushel. Their break
even cost us was five dollars a bushel. But farmers
are resilient and they didn't let their you know, they

(37:04):
went out there and they harvested at all knowing they
were going to make a loss. Tell me what other
business will continue to fight their hardest and work their hardest,
and so farmers just want to make sure that it
gets up to the administration. And you've seen President Trump
is standing up for farmers across the country and making
sure that other countries aren't taking advantage of our farmers.

(37:28):
They are resilient. When Hurricane Helene had and I was
at the Yance's farm in Edgefield. They had lost acres
and acres of pea countries fifteen years of growth two
weeks before harvest. You know what they were doing, guys,
They were getting ready to replant. They just keep going,
and I think they don't want people's pity. They just
want to make sure they have a fair shake. And

(37:50):
that's what we have to give to them. We got
to help them. We have to make sure they have
the money they need in their communities. We have to
make sure that they have good roads and bridges to
be able to move their crops around. And we have
to make sure that we stay a good friend to
the White House so that our president can continue to
fight for our farmers deal with every day.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Talking with Pamela Evitt, who is running for governor here
in South Carolina, I see an NBC news story talking
about how this race has kind of turned into a
battle to try to get Donald Trump's endorsement. Is that
something that you're expecting him to make an announcement that
he would be endorsing any of the candidates because he
does have relationships of some kind with well at least

(38:30):
three of you, or is this something you expect him
to kind of sit out and just he'll support whoever
wins the nomination.

Speaker 7 (38:37):
I never I've never been one to speak for anybody.
I think I think it would be an honor to
have his endorsement. I think everybody wants his endorsement. I
do believe. I think the South Carolina is very near
and dear to the President's heart, and I believe he
will want a weigh in. I don't know, I don't

(38:59):
know when that will be. But just like just like everybody,
I hope I have showed that I've been really loyal
to him and I want to bring his America First
policies right here to South Carolina. Two business people trying
to get it done.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Thanks again for being here, South Carolina. Don't forget. Christopher
Thompson is heading up a cast for the best Game
COT coverage that begins today at twelve thirty.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
You and I'll be a part of that with our
fan Talk San Talk.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah, we've got a lot of things to talk about
as the fans, because the fans are doing a lot
of talking.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
It's still Coctober. Anything's how possible could happen?

Speaker 3 (39:32):
We've already got it predicted Cocktober brother, We're celebrated today.
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
It's over.