Ryan Wrecker discusses local politics, Gavin Newsom, and 2028 elections.

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Transcript Hey, welcome back! Happy to be with you, and thank you for joining us here. I'm looking at some of the text messages that said, "Good morning, Ryan. Always enjoy you filling in with childhood summertime memories. Don't forget we were riding our bikes without shoes or helmets to go play on a construction site!" Yes, playing on a construction site, yes! I can't say I went barefoot outside. That was not my thing. Maybe that was more your generation, the barefoot. My son learned a tough lesson this weekend. He was out riding his bike in the neighborhood, and he wears these Crocs. And I've warned him about it. I said, "These are not the best shoes to be wearing to ride a bike." But all these kids like to wear the slip-on Crocs. It's like a thing with kids now. If you go back just 20 years, if you were wearing Crocs, you got made fun of. Now, they're so common. And what happened, his foot slipped, the Croc got stuck in the spoke, and he went over the handlebar. Banged his arm and back, scraped up pretty good on the pavement. Learned a valuable lesson that maybe Crocs and a bike don't match. But the barefoot, that wouldn't happen with. Your feet would get so tough! If you're riding barefoot with those pedals that have little spikes on it and it didn't bother you because the feeling of freedom was enough to carry you through the pain, then yes, I understand that. Another person said, "We want to talk about Ralph Norman and what we are going to do. The Upstate supports him 100%. Write-in is the only option. Ralph has already endorsed Sheri Biggs, and the write-in option is not an option. I don't know why you think the write-in option is an option. I feel like you're trying to force it at this point." Not really, I think, a viable path, so if you really like Ralph, I think you're going to have to look at him in the future for something else. Sorry, I don't want to break your dreams here like breaking the summer as a child, but there's no write-in path here with him. That's just not going to happen. I don't know if you noticed that the whole part of South Carolina felt a little dirtier over the weekend as Gavin Newsom was out here testing to see if he can get some traction in South Carolina. And this was in Summerville. Apparently, the Democrats were holding their presidential primary, and there they were—Gavin Newsom 2028 buttons and stickers and stuff like that. He was in Columbia on Friday night speaking at Allen University, and the Democratic governor in California didn't really address much of his problems and baggage that comes with being from California. He is just pressing forward. I think he found his strategy. Gavin Newsom found his strategy, and it's a very easy strategy for him, which is: I am just going to crank up the toughness. I'm going to pretend I'm tough, so I'm going to crank up the toughness a little bit, and then I am just going to be delusional about everything else and just pretend there's no other issues here. And then that's it. I'm going to, you know, hate Donald Trump—you know, that'll stay the same base level—try to make it sound like, "I was running one of the biggest economies. Look how great California is." The delusional level, they're going to crank that up really high, and just kind of ignore everything else, and that is his political strategy at this point. So, get used to Gavin Newsom in that sense. Maybe one day there'll be a big scandal with Gavin Newsom that will come out, drop the bomb, who knows? But at this point, we know how he ran California. It's not a good way to run the country. I'll tell you that. Most people recognize that, even Democrats that are leaving California right now, and the place they called their home, they're looking around and saying, "All this regulation, this burdensome regulation—my house burnt down, and I can't rebuild it because of your policies." Or, it's The Walking Dead in your major cities, and people are bent over touching their toes because of t ...

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