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00:06 One of the surprising races last night had to do with Luke Rankin losing to Rick Shealy. And uh that surprised a lot of people. I want to talk to Nick because I'll be honest with you. um I know so little about Rick Shealy. We've got Nick on the line. Nick, tell me about Rick Shealy. So I've known Rick Shealy for 10 years as me being involved in the Republican Party. Rick is an unbelievable guy. 00:35 He's incredibly humble. He is going to be a strong conservative down in Columbia. He's been our EC for a few years and he's always pushed to close the primaries, always try to keep South Carolina first in the South. Just really just an all around great guy. Because you see, I was looking at his website this afternoon and the last paragraph is, Rick believes that Columbia needs leaders who remember who they work for. 01:04 and he's committed to serving as a true advocate for his community. Well, when you get to Columbia, they make no bones about it. When you get there, you have to forget who you work for and you work for leadership. 01:19 Well, that's exactly the reason why that the current representative got voted out because he pretty much sold House 614 out to trial lawyers. So I mean, you know, when we get people like Mike Kasky telling Sarita Edgerton things like, nobody reads these bills, I mean, you're just supposed to go along and vote however leadership tells you to. Is that the kind of person Rick Shealy is going to be? No, he is not going to be that type of person. Rick Shealy, 01:49 will be will will do his homework he will read the bills and if it's and if he thinks it's a good bill he's going to vote for it but if he thinks it's a terrible bill he will vote again he will vote against it so what is it what is it about rick shilley do you think the voters really um... or was it about luke rankin was it more a anti luke rankin vote or was it more of a pro rick shilley it was a mixture of both when people got to talk with rick 02:17 they could tell that he was a sincere he was a humble guy somebody that you could like have a talk with that i usually like that help people usually you like to have politics usually you like to have guys that you could both go to church with but also could like hang out with the watch and watch a football game yeah and rick came across like that lucrake it did not come across like that lucrake it came across as pompous arrogant and just just overall just 02:45 really it kind of seemed like that he just looked down on the people of Lawrence County while he was representing them and just hanging out with all the big wigs and people like Charleston and Columbia and Greenville and really just it felt like that we just were forgotten during his leadership or during his time as a representative. All right. Well, I appreciate it, Nick. Thank you very much. Now, there was also that little bit of a confusion about Luke Rankin. 03:15 because Lou Crankin, again, the state representative Lou Crankin, he's got a 40, his freedom index score is 40%. I had him at purple. But there's another Lou Crankin. And the other day, Ron Reddy sent out a mailer or a flyer about how we've got to get rid of Lou Crankin, but he did not specify which Lou Crankin. 03:42 So if you took Luke Rankin, the state representative, according to his freedom index score, he's kind of middle of the road, and you compare him with the absolutely dreadful, hideous Senator Luke Rankin, who is nothing but a rhino, 04:02 I think some people got confused on that pretty well. So maybe just for future reference, if you've got the same name as a horrible state senator, maybe think about using your middle name. You know what I mean? Maybe just think about changing something up in your campaign so that you are not confused. 04:27 I would love to get Rick Shealy on the program. I'd love to talk to him to find out what his plans are over in the 14th ah because that's important. You folks in Lawrence, you need rep ...