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South Carolina Lede — 306 episodes

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Risky Redistricting Business

2

All Aboard the Redistricting Train

3

PENULTIMATE SINE DIE POD

4

The Royal We

5

SCGOP Double Dip: Pam Evette and Ralph Norman

6

It’s Debatable: GOP and THC

7

Scout and About

8

Crossover Crossroads

9

Budgets, Bridges, and the Boys turn 701

10

It's Electric! Pt 2

11

SC: It's Electric! Pt 1

12

2026 First Gubernatorial Debate Breakdown

13

Sanford Shocker

14

It’s Bo Time, Baybee

15

Reddy or Not, Here Comes the Campaign Trail

16

The Gang Spills the THC

17

TBD THC

18

Stick to Your Gummies

19

Spring Forward into the Governors Race

20

A Few Good Men

21

America At War in Iran

22

Amendments & Endorsements & Commandments, Oh My!

23

SC Lede Book Review Episode

24

High Court Curveball

25

Super Minority Report

26

Be My Valentine?: Governor Candidates and the Legislature

27

Spicy Spin Cycle

28

Trump Endorses MAGA Warrior

29

Poller Vortex

30

McMaster’s Victory Lap

31

Transportation and Healthcare Infrastructure Deep Dive

32

SC Legislative Session, 2 Weeks In

33

King Day at the Dome 2026

34

We’re So Back, Folks!

35

Senate Legislative Preview

36

House Legislative Preview with Speaker Murrell Smith LIVE IN COLUMBIA

37

New Year’s Economic Outlook

38

SC Lede Year-End Savings Event Spectacular 2025

39

Pre Preview Season Season Preview

40

LIVE in Mt Pleasant at Hobcaw Brewing with Caitlin Byrd

41

Big Shrimp Energy

42

‘That Dog Don’t Hunt’

43

You Down with DOT? Yeah You Know Lede

44

Breaking News: Gobble Gobble Ledesgiving Spectacular!

45

Abortion Bill Stalls in Subcommittee

46

Post Shutdown with Lindsey Graham

47

Less than a Year to Election 2026

48

SC 'Fede'- Askin' Hanna Raskin about Michelin Stars

49

Shutdown Soybean Ripples and Mace Drama

50

AirPorts of Authority

51

Campaign Trails from the Crypt

52

Fresh Meat for the Campaign Trail

53

Gavin Out Sick Oops All Wind Down Halloween Edition with Sean and AT

54

On The Ground at the No Kings Rally

55

The Thousand-Year Flood 10-Year Retrospective

56

Shutdown Breakdown with Lisa Desjardins and Josh Dawsey

57

Lede Goes 1-on-1 with Lindsey Graham

58

The SC Lede Shutsdown DC

59

Clemson: Free Speech Ground Zero

60

Offseason Abortion Debate

61

Campaign Ad Nauseum

62

DEA, Drugs, Data, and You!

63

Kirk First Amendment Fracas

64

First Amendment War of Words

65

LIVE IN ROCK HILL

66

Fall Fiscal Vibe Check Y’all

67

The Epstein SC Connection

68

The Ad Wars Begin

69

Uh Oh! Big Infrastructure Pod Alert!

70

Deep Fried Rose Ceremony

71

Campaign Ketchup

72

Special Oops Our Bad Alert!

73

No Rest for the Campaign Trail Weary

74

Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham Busy in the Dog Days of Summer

75

It's Pam!

76

“Golden Age” of Campaign Trail is Upon Us

77

Doctor! Help! I’m Seeing Double Gavins!

78

Campaign Trail CHURNETH

79

The Ken Burn-isode: The American Revolution

80

The 2026 Campaign Trail Cometh

81

Remembering Mother Emanuel 10 Years Later: Part II

82

Remembering Mother Emanuel 10 Years Later: Part I

83

Aiken Breakin' Heart with Shane Massey

84

Gavin Gets Gaslit

85

Grand Strand with Pam

86

What is this? A Democratic wrap up for Ants?

87

Dems vs the L.O.G. Jam

88

South Carolina Check up with MUSC President

89

Bountiful Big Beautiful Bills and Budgets Bonanza

90

Gavin’s Geopolitical News Grab Bag

91

Session Debrief Part II

92

Rapid Fire Round Table Wrap up

93

Sine Die Conclave

94

Family Caucus Matters

95

Maayan Schechter & The Sine Die Sprint

96

See You Next January

97

Curtis Loftis: Don’t’ Call it an Impeachment

98

Econ Spring Break

99

State Budget: A Tradition Unlike Any Other

100

Simmer & Stocks Sink—Buy the Dip

101

Tax Reform Hits the Skids

102

Talkin’ Tax Cuts- No April Foolin’

103

Torts, Boondoggles, and Forrest Fires

104

Simmer Down Now

105

TORTal Recall

106

That Thing You scDOT

107

Big Ol Budget Bigtimes Torts

108

The Budget Vote-a-Rama Cometh

109

All Tort No Chaser

110

$1.8 Billion Boondoggle: Loftis Translation

111

March Madness Reaches the Statehouse

112

Celebrating 600 Boondoggle Style

113

The ABCs and 123s of Education Bills

114

Graham Gone Global

115

That Thing You DOGE

116

All Aboard The SS Electric

117

COFRAGE Against the Machine

118

One Month Down, a Lifetime to Go

119

How do you solve a problem like a boondoggle?

120

Graham at Ground Zero

121

$1.8 billion Boondoggle Claims Another

122

South Carolina Bids Biden Bon Voyage

123

Billion Dollar Boondoggles Are BACK!

124

Gavin Gavelin’ in the 2025 Legislative Session

125

Live in Columbia with House Speaker Murrell Smith

126

New Year, Get Ready!

127

Season of New Traditions: 2025 Hot or Not

128

2025 Econ Pod Outlook

129

House PreFiling Party

130

How Many Licks does it take to get a School Voucher Bill Passed?

131

Tariff or not Tariff, that is the Question

132

S.C. Statehouse Musical Chairs

133

Clemson Vs USC Post Election Professors

134

UAPs, Turkey, and You

135

Going to Space with Nancy Mace

136

The Devil at His Elbow: Valerie Bauerlein on Alex Murdaugh

137

Getting Our Lame Ducks in a Row

138

Finally Through the Election Void

139

Election 2024: Souls to the Polls

140

Pre-Election 2024 LIVE IN COLUMBIA

141

Campaign Trail Blitzkrieg

142

2024 Election: Record Early Turnout

143

2024 Election: Yep, Early Voting. It’s Here.

144

Boats & Votes

145

Shrinking Pool of Poll Workers a Problem in S.C.

146

A Conversation with AG Alan Wilson

147

Helene and the Misinformation Storm

148

Helene Hectic Aftermath

149

Midwestern Nice Veep Debate

150

Pod Delay Alert

151

Zelensky Visits America’s Mom and Dad

152

School Vouchers No No Explain Yes

153

Conspiracies on the Trail & Hate on the Hill

154

Viral Internet IRL

155

Big Debate Reaction Energy

156

Presidential Debate Dogfight

157

A Campaign Trail Tale of Two Candidates

158

H-O-T-T-W-O (Months) TO GO

159

All Out Election Sprint

160

Lede is BACK in Session, People!

161

DNC Day 5

162

DNC Day 4

163

DNC Day 3

164

DNC Day 2

165

DNC Day 1

166

Lede Special Announcement

167

Harris, Hurricanes, and a Hot Hot Campaign Trail

168

Pumpin’ the Breaks on the Runaway News Cycle

169

Kamala’s brat Summer Cometh

170

Biden Bombshell Rocks the Free World

171

RNC Day 4

172

RNC Day 3

173

RNC Day 2

174

RNC Day 1

175

Biden Campaign Running on Empty

176

40 Acres and a Lie

177

Introducing 'Who What When'

178

Lede Infrastructure Week!

179

A Journey to Adjournment: the 125th General Assembly

180

The Lede Goes Global! (Just Canada, Sorry….)

181

Primary Primer with Maayan Schechter

182

Great Scotts!

183

2024 SC Primary Pandemonium

184

Primary Pregame 2024

185

Supreme Leder Holding Court

186

The Trump Verdict Heard ‘Round the World

187

The Reason for the Hurricane Season

188

Gerrymandering SC (1)01

189

The Truth IS Out There -SLED

190

60 Years of Integration at USC

191

Lindsay Graham, Lloyd Austin? Oh Hail no

192

Leders Never Say Sine Die!

193

I Saw the Sine Die

194

Sine Die Another Day

195

May the 4th District Be With You

196

1 Billion 800 Million Misplaced Dollars. How Do you Measure a Discrepancy? (It’s a RENT Joke)

197

Big Judicial Energy with Russ and Maayan

198

Billion dollar lost and found

199

Campaigns and Gains

200

Putting the FUN in Perfunctory Session!

201

Total Crossover Eclipse

202

Spring Breaking with Nancy Mace and Jim Clyburn

203

DEI Hard

204

These Ears are Made for Markin’

205

March Statehouse Madness

206

Judiciary Spring Cleaning

207

Big Budget Energy

208

Dog Days of Session

209

Stupor Tuesday: Nikki Haley Calls it Quits

210

Super Tuesday Super Sprint for Second

211

There's Something About Primary

212

SC Lede 2024 GOP Primary Radio Special

213

SC Republican Primary: Today is the Day

214

SC 2024 - The End of Days

215

Haley and Trump Battle For SC

216

On The Bus With Nikki Haley

217

Failed Joint Session

218

Post Democratic Primary Meg-Tacular

219

Finally First: The SC Democratic Primary

220

Biden Wins! (the SC Primary)

221

S.C. Primary: Voters' Paradise

222

New Hampshire Results Show

223

Nikki Haley’s Comet

224

Lede Free or Die

225

Raucous Caucus

226

All Eyes on Iowa

227

2024 Legislative Preview

228

Coming in for a Soft Landing

229

The Rise of Trump

230

2023 December to Remember Lede-a-Thon Year End Sales Event (0% APR Financing)

231

Twas the Night Before Econ Pod-mas

232

Breaking Sununu News!

233

Newt in 2012: The Streak is Broken

234

The Field Goes Nuclear on Nikki Haley

235

All's NOT Quiet on the DeSantis Front

236

Nikki Haley: Hypebeast of the Southeast

237

McCain vs South Carolina

238

It’s Giving Thanksgiving

239

Katrina Shealy: Courage in the Face of Peer Pressure

240

100 Days til SC 2024

241

SC 2024: Why We Love to Hate Polls

242

Miami Heat: Haley vs DeSantis vs Etc

243

Mean Girls Take Miami

244

Lindsay Graham Slams Blockade

245

Dirty Tricks & Politics

246

South of Spooky Halloween Special

247

The Lede Goes Local

248

Lindsay Graham Goes to Israel

249

SC Lede: International Lede

250

How to Run a Campaign in SC

251

SC01 Goes to the Supreme Court

252

No One Paints Nancy Mace in a Corner

253

ECON POD ACTIVATED

254

Who are the SC GOP Primary Voters? Part 2

255

Scott Gets Spicy, Haley Gets Heated

256

A Whale of a Trump Rally in Summerville

257

DC Lede: Republicans in Disarray

258

Who are the SC GOP Primary Voters? Part 1: Regions

259

Abortion: Finding Common Ground

260

Graham Jury

261

Nikki Haley Plays the Hits

262

SC 2024: What Makes SC So Important?

263

You Gotta Have Faith… on the Trail

264

Haley and Scott with Some SC Home Cookin’

265

Debateful 8

266

Debating to Exhale

267

Lindsey Graham: Not a Co-Conspirator

268

Fair and Loathing in Iowa

269

Haley, Scott, and Trump Hurtling Towards the Debate

270

Trump and the Silver Elephant in the Room

271

Miami Lede

272

Palmetto Perspectives: Human Trafficking in SC

273

Beam Me Up, Nancy! Set Phasers to Stun

274

New Jersey Lede?!

275

DeSantis Part Deux

276

IoWHAT THE...?

277

Bidenomics Arrives in the Palmetto State

278

Trump Train Rumbles Through the Upstate

279

Mo' Money, Mo' Projects

280

Climate Change and Hurricane Season Preview

281

Obama Has Entered the 2024 Chat

282

Trials and Trails

283

Trump Indictment Fallout

284

See You Next Term!

285

Noted Florida Man Stumps in SC

286

One on one with former Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn

287

WANTED: Lindsey Graham

288

Hittin' the Trail with Tim Scott

289

The Ballad of Tim Scott

290

Abortion Ban Marathon Debate

291

McMaster Convenes Summer School

292

Sine Die...ish

293

Lede, Laugh, Love — Live From Columbia

294

A Conversation with Nikki Haley

295

Tim Scott? Oh, He's Runnin'

296

Abortion Debate Deja Vu

297

Sunday Funday with Nancy Mace and Lindsey Graham

298

DeSantis: The Blueprint

299

Talking Gun Reform with SLED Chief Mark Keel

300

Lede, Laugh, Love — Live From Clemson

301

Statehouse Crossover Portal Activation Alert NOW

302

Spring Break Blockbuster Bill Bonanza

303

Final Countdown to Crossover

304

Medical Marijua- Nah, Bro

305

Dial M for Murdaugh

306

Trail Bites: March 23, 2023