A Housekeeping Episode to talk about Season Three Starting Now

Introducing our Third Season, and why it is beginning so quickly after the end of our Second Season. 

The coverage of the 2026 South Carolina Elections. 

Transcript

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Hi everybody, this is Ryan Wallace, your host for Grand Strand Politics, and this is a little bit of a housekeeping show for you. Just to say we are going to spend this month and a little bit of June looking at the South Carolina elections up and down the ballot from the governor's race to the attorney general's race to uh the United States Senate race, which is going to be pretty interesting, I think. And uh and then the Ory County Council races uh that are gonna be going on and the school board races. So we've got a lot on the plate. And uh we we did that preview that you've listened to uh already uh earlier, but I do want to just say this, we're running behind, and uh and I apologize about that, uh both in uh uh with our Substack newsletter, uh the group site and Facebook, and of course the podcast, because and I haven't talked about it much, but I was very ill at the beginning of the year and was in the hospital a couple times, and we it threw our schedule back. So I apologize about that, and we had already done the interviews with John Bond senior, and I wanted to get them on the air as part of season two, and we decided to run with that in April, and so we are um making up ground here in these first couple weeks of uh of May. So we're gonna start off with the gubernatorials forum that uh Russell Fry put together in Florence, uh uh running it this week, and then the Attorney General's debate that was held last week, so those were held uh uh you know about two weeks ago or more. Uh, and then we will hopefully by then have you caught up in the live events through May as this all heats up. And I apologize. Normally we would have started season three uh sometime in April when we would have been able to carry some of the events that were already going on, but uh because of my illness in January and February, it pushed back the schedule in season two and my ability really to produce the for the interview program and and look back with John Bond Senior, and I did want that to be a part of season two uh as planned, and uh, and it was a really good, if you haven't listened to those eight episodes, they are a fascinating look at the history, the more modern history of Orie County politics with somebody who, with Talking Politics and Big Talk, uh had a huge influence on it and covered it all, like we're doing now, but he did it back when it was still on uh public TV. Uh, and so uh uh I I just I enjoyed that thoroughly. So we hope you'll go back and take a listen to some of those episodes and the ones we had on Mayor Bob Hirsch, who was the mayor in the 1970s in Myrtle Beach. So a lot of history in season two that I we think you can enjoy. But from here on out, we're gonna we're gonna churn out some episodes and some live events for you and cover across the board elections in Ory County. And we hope you'll also tune into uh the Randall Wallace Substack page where we're gonna be doing uh writing up some stories, and of course our sister podcast, uh Randall Wallace presents as looking at Bob Dole uh in the 1995-1996 campaigns and his life in the Senate. Uh, we're wrapping up that season right now uh on our main national show. So anyway, we hope you enjoy the programming, and we'll hope you enjoy May and end of June in the South Carolina 2026 elections. Uh, and until next time, so long for now.