Asylum South

The gang welcomes its first conservative guest, Chip Felkel — CEO of the Felkel Group, longtime GOP strategist, and retired drummer/DJ. Rhodes and Jessica launch an impromptu public relations campaign for Spartanburg, and Zoomer Noah Barker discusses recent breaking news about emojis.

This week the gang speaks with Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, the first leader featured in a new segment called “Constituent Mail”! We also gab about the various incarnations of Nikki Haley, state-sanctioned dumpster fires, and what Sarah Palin was up to in Columbia the weekend of Rhodes’ wedding.

Special thanks to:

Rebecca Haynes of Conservation Voters of South Carolina for giving us the dirt on "pyrolysis"

Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin 

Asylum South Resident Ninja Noah Barker

Related Reading: "Nikki Haley's Time for Choosing" by Tim Alberta, POLITICO Magazine

The gang welcomes Dr. Jermaine Johnson, newly-elected South Carolina State Representative (District 80). Join us as we talk Palmetto State politics, love, cougars, math, and marriage advice from a divorce lawyer.

The gang and guest panelist Don Polite dish with local restauranteur and innovator Sarah Simmons. Find out how Simmons is not only surviving a pandemic but shaking up the Midlands food scene altogether. 

Plus everyone chimes in for a round of “Best Band/Worst Band: 90s edition,” and Chris makes a surprise endorsement. (Disclaimer: Zac stresses that he doesn't actually want to drown the guy from the Counting Crows.)

Rhodes, Laurin, and Chris discuss vexillology and the Palmetto State’s flag controversy with flag aficionado Ted Kaye. Plus, the gang talks court-packing and kid movie parenticide in a segment called “Big Questions From Little People.”

Join Rhodes Bailey, Laurin Manning Gandy, Chris Kenney, and their band of misfits as they talk life in the Palmetto State and an evolving American South.