This week, Jumelle makes a HUGE announcement! We then welcome feminist author and free-speech activist, Dr. Emily Taylor. We listen to her story about being doxxed and attacked by South Carolina lawmakers in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.

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1. H. 4762 - School volunteer chaplains and historical displays
2. SC House approves bill requiring classrooms to post Ten Commandments [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
3. Most Religious States 2025 [Smilehub]

1. https://jumelleforsc.com/
2. Jumelle’s socials [Linktree]
3. Jumelle’s ACTBlue
4. The Concise Guide to South Carolina State Government by Vincent Sheheen [The University of South Carolina Press]

1. Emily Taylor: Author page on Ms. Magazine
2. Hot Feminism: Letter s from South Carolina [Substack]
3. Federal Civil Rights Protections for Students Are Being Hollowed Out [Ms. Magazine]
4. Dying to Be Men: American Masculinity as Death Cult [Ms.Magazine]
5. Men Respond to My Article about Violent Masculine Domination With TOTAL DOMINATION [Substack]
6. Rep Luke Rankin celebrates [Facebook]
7. Michanna Tate for SC House 14

1. The Latest: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in US-Israeli attack [AP News]
2. The All About Nothing Podcast interview with Zolal Habibi

1. Seth Andrew: “Wrapped in the Flag: The Perversion of Patriotism in MAGA America” [Youtube]

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US Senate Candidate Brandon P Brown stops by the studio as he swings through South Carolina on a campaign to be our next US Senator replacing Lindsey Graham. List as we talk about his history, his campaign, the issues, and more!

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1. Pamela Evette campaign launch speech [WSAV3, YouTube]
2. Nancy Mace campaign launch speech [FOX News, YouTube]
3. Alan Wilson campaign launch speech [FITS News, YouTube]
4. Ralph Norman campaign launch speech [Ralph Norman, YouTube]
5. Josh Kimbrell campaign launch speech [Josh Kimbrell’s FB - his web site was down]

1. BrandonPBrown.com
2. Brandon Brown for South Carolina [Facebook]
3. Campaign launch video [YouTube]
4. Brandon Brown Runs For Congress - Part 1 (2004) [Soomo, YouTube]
5. Former Rep. Jesse Jackson tries to mount a comeback [WGN News, YouTube]
6. Trump’s Prescription Drug Website Exposed as a Big Fat Scam [Yahoo! News]
7. America borrowed $43.5 billion a week in the first four months of the fiscal year, with debt interest on track to be over $1 trillion for 2026 [Fortune]

1. US Department of Health and Human Services bizarrely advises the public on 'best foods to insert into rectum' [Unilad]
2. Moderna Has a Promising New Flu mRNA Vaccine. Trump’s FDA Wants Nothing to Do With It [Gizmodo]
3. What is mRNA? [Canadian Institutes of Health Research]
4. H. 4262 submitted by the SC Freedom Caucus “no healthcare professional practicing within the State shall administer a synthetic mRNA-based gene therapy product to any person within the State.”
5. Are mRNA Vaccines a Type of Gene Therapy? [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]
6. ‘Irreparably Damaged’: Former Senior Official Details the Darkest Days of the CDC Under RFK Jr. [Gizmodo]
7. States Join WHO Network After U.S. Withdrawal [US News]
8. JFK’s comments about RFK Jr. [MICHAEL BRIGANTE on Instagram]
9. RFK Jr. said he swam with his grandkids in a creek known for raw sewage [MSNow]
10. RFK Jr. opens up about past cocaine addiction on podcast [CNN, YouTube]

1. Josh Johnson speak on anti-immigration efforts [TikTok]

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US Senate Candidate Catherine Fleming Bruce fills in as a guest host for Jumelle on this special outdoor live recording from the “Pretti Good Reason for a Protest” rally in Uptown Greenwood, South Carolina! Bill and Catherine cover her campaign, the state of our country and chat with a wide variety of surprise guests that stopped in to say hi!

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1. SC's 'Mothers and Preborns Act' looks to change legal definition of fetus, issue brochures [ABC15 News]
2. Frogmore Stew Podcast
3. Frogmore Stew clip about Sen Billy Garrett [TikTok]

1. Public outcry! Speaking out: About 50 protest ICE, Trump immigration policies in Uptown Greenwood [Index Journal]
2. Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it [The Guardian]

1. Catherine Fleming Bruce for US Senate [website]
2. Ranked Choice Voting [Fair Choice]
3. Ranked choice voting in NYC showed us what elections could look like [WBUR]

1. Video of Suzy waving flag [YouTube]

1. Modjeska Simkins' History [Historic Columbia]
2. Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights [SC Progressive Network]
3. The Sustainers: Being, Building and Doing Good through Activism in the Sacred Spaces of Civil Rights, Human Rights and Social Movements [Amazon]
4. South Carolina Statehouse corruption investigation [Wikipedia]

1. Episode 55 “Stewed Moose” with Caroline & Phillip Dennis [BWaBitS]

1. What, Exactly, Is a Grand Jury? [MoloLamken LLP]
2. Justice Department tried to bring a third felony charge against Letitia James [CNN]

1. Eunice for SC

1. Libraries and museums get federal funding back after Trump cuts [NPR]
2. Email the campaign at [email protected]

1. Dr. Jermaine Johnson for SC
2. Trump won’t apologize for sharing since-deleted racist video depicting Obamas as apes on Truth Social [CNN]
3. Trump video depicting Obamas as apes draws mixed reaction from South Carolina leaders [WYFF]
4. South Carolina lawmakers consider bills to close party primaries [Live5 WCSC]

1. 50501
2. Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history? [The Guardian]

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The Snowpocalypse of '26 hit Greenwood, SC this past weekend and we were not able to record as scheduled.

However, we're delighted to bring you this BONUS clip from our previous episode with Kervin Searles that didn't make it into the final release due to time constraints.

1. Dozens charged in sports bribery scheme involving US university basketball players [BBC]
2. A Newly Created Polymarket Account Made $436,759.61 on Nicolás Maduro’s Capture [Gizmodo]
3. https://polymarket.com/
4. https://kalshi.com/
5. https://electionbettingodds.com/
6. Three Welsh Tories charged with betting offences [BBC]
7. Betting scandals broke sports. Could prediction markets do the same to politics? [Vox]
8. Prediction Market user made $436,000 betting on Maduro capture [CBS Mornings TikTok]
9. Gambling platform Polymarket not paying bets on US invasion of Venezuela [The Guardian]
10. War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets [Futureism]
11. French trader bet over $28 million on Trump election win using 4 Polymarket accounts [CNBC]
12. Polymarket was banned but Donald Trump erased the regulations [Wikipedia]

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Bill and Jumelle kick off Season 4 with special guest, Kervin Searles, founder of the Gravity Counseling Group, published author and South Carolina Clinical Mental Health Counselors Association’s Counselor of the Year!

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1. Here are your chances in SC of being ‘abducted’ by space aliens, based on UFO reports [The State]
2. Alien Abduction Odds Index 2026: Where Reports Cluster Across the U.S. and Canada [Canada Sports Betting]
3. UFO Welcome Center [Trip Advisor]
4. UFO Welcome Center in Bowman destroyed in fire [WIS10]

On the national level

1. ICE murdering citizens in Minnesota
2. Trump kidnapping the President of Venezuela
3. Trump trying to kidnap Greenland

On the state level

1. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years for distributing child sex abuse material
2. Measles cases skyrocketing in South Carolina
3. Measles cases jump again in South Carolina, rising to more than 550 [AP]
4. SC Legislative has restarted and right away it’s abortion, trans restrictions and closed primaries

1. Republican winning by less than 2 dozen votes in SC House special election [SC Daily Gazette]

1. Kervin’s practice, Gravity Counseling Group
2. Kervin’s book: Undrafted and Purposed: Still Living, Loving, and Leading in Life [Amazon]
3. Kervin named to the board of Community Initiatives, Inc [Greenwood Today]
4. Named Counselor of the Year [SCCMHCA on Facebook]
5. Kervin’s speech at GWCDP Breakfast Meeting, Dec 2021 [YouTube]
6. Speaking with Gravity podcast [YouTube]
7. Three Roles One Mission [YouTube]
8. Adlerian Psychology: 8 Basic Principles [allaboutpsychology.com]

1. Walk for Peace [Facebook]

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One last best-of episode for Winter Break with some very special moments from the first half of 2025. We’ll be back in two weeks with an all-new original show!

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1. Original plaque of those lost from Greenwood in the World Wars, segregated [The Historical Marker Database]
2. The Story of "Fired up! Ready to go!" [YouTube]
3. South Carolina War Plaques Are 'Glorifying Segregation,' Mayor Says [NBC News, 2015]
4. Greenwood resident: I violated Heritage Act [Index Journal, 2018]
5. South Carolina Heritage Act [Wikipedia]
6. After 54 years, Confederate flag comes down in S.C. [CBS News]
7. South Carolina still recognizes Confederate Memorial Day. Make it stop [The State]
8. Check out the album, “A Man Who's Never Plowed” by The Trey Ward Band featuring the song “Greenwood Mill”.

1. A $1.8 billion mistake could cost the South Carolina treasurer his job (AP News)
2. How to Steal A Lot of Money -- Legally (forward by Curtis Loftis) (Amazon)
3. SC Senate to consider removing state treasurer from office following $1.8B probe (Live 5 News)
4. SC treasurer petitions state Supreme Court to stop efforts to remove him from office (South Carolina Daily Gazette)

1. Rep April Cromer pulls the “Female Card” on Rep Micah Caskey
2. Rep April Cromer’s mental disorders
3. Rep Rosalyn Henderson-Myers shares about death threats she received as a judge
4. Rep Gilda Cobb Hunter talks about DEI

1. Pod Save America clip about the release of the mean who beat Officer Michael Fanone near to death (YouTube)
2. Trump pardons upend massive Jan. 6 prosecution by freeing rioters and dismissing cases (AP)
3. Massive Police Union That Endorsed Trump Slams Jan. 6 Pardons (Daily Beast)

1. Gander, Newfoundland (Google Map)
2. Newfoundland & Labrador Welcome Desk (newfoundlandlabrador.com)
3. “Lend a Hand, Do What You Can”: Remembering the Generosity of Gander (9/11 Memorial and Museum)
4. Come From Away (Broadway Musical)
5. Come From Away (on Apple TV+)

1. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul by Michael Fanone [Amazon]

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We are on Winter Break, so here is a best-of episode to help kick off the New Year! We’ve compiled a bunch of hilarious “Or Better Yet” segments that opened many of our episodes.

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1. McCravy Resigns (YouTube)
2. SC legislator loses leadership role, asks to be reassigned, in another GOP spat (South Carolina Daily Gazette)

1. SC Senate can’t figure out Zoom (YouTube)

1. Tizzy Ent video about Elon Musk’s son & the Oval Office press conference (TikTok)
2. Did Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son tell Trump to ‘shush your mouth’? The internet is divided (The Straits Times)

1. SC state senator insinuates group tried to buy his vote then later walks it back (AOL)

1. One state wants to classify 'Trump derangement syndrome' as a mental illness. 7 things to know [The Palm Beach Post]
2. Republican Behind 'Trump Derangement' Bill Quits After Sex Charge [Newsweek]
3. Eichorn ad and newsclip from CourierNewsRoom [TikTok]

1. Naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan (Wikipedia)
2. RFK Jr did heroin and went to the top of his class (Instagram)

1. Ms Curly McCatlady with useful dating questions (TikTok)

1. Check out the album, “A Man Who's Never Plowed” by The Trey Ward Band featuring the song “Greenwood Mill”.

1. South Carolina state representative arrested, booked [WCNC, YouTube]
2. State Rep. RJ May arrested, booked at Lexington County jail [News 19 WLTX, YouTube]
3. SC representative arrested, booked in Lexington County jail [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
4. SC legislator denied bond on charges of distributing child sex abuse material [The State]
5. Republican Behind 'Trump Derangement' Bill Quits After Sex Charge [Newsweek]
6. Bill’s video of RJ May tapping away at his phone mere months after having had all of this electronics confiscated [TikTok]

1. NATO secretary-general calls Trump 'Daddy' [ABC News]
2. Video from [The Independent - YouTube]
3. “Daddy” Trump lip sync [@bransennn on TikTok]
4. Gay state senator zings Republicans over their new ‘Daddy Trump’ nickname [Independent]

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Bill and Jumelle finish up Season 3 with a memorable Christmas episode with a number of friends of the show joining in to provide topics of discussion.

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1. House Republicans’ attempt to censure Democrat over texts with Epstein fails [The Guardian]
2. @aerialist_elena2 repost of @hereswhykevin on TikTok showing Rep Tony Wied playing deaf AND dumb

1. The Whole Truth interviewed Sylvia Wright
2. How Tariffs and Interest Rates Drove Up Small Business Bankruptcy Rates [Inc.]

1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [Wikipedia]
2. Office for Civil Rights (OCR) [US Gov]
3. Federal special education staff may get their jobs back. But for how long? [NPR]
4. When AI Technology and HIPAA Collide [The HIPPA Journal]
5. You’re Not Imagining It. People Actually Are Starting To Talk Like ChatGPT [Vice]
6. Hundreds of girls in SC are trafficking victims. A Columbia nonprofit offers help for survivors. [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
7. Good to Know: Why do we need government? [Michigan State University]
8. 30-year fixed mortgage rates: 1982 - 2025 [Bankrate]
9. Library of Alexandria [Wikipedia]
10. The Burning of the Library of Alexandria [The Ohio State University]
11. Eratosthenes & the circumference of the Earth [Britannica]
12. Why are home prices so high? How today's market impacts housing costs. [Yahoo! Finance]
13. Illicit fentanyls in the opioid street market: desired or imposed? [NIH]

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Bill and Jumelle welcome Stacey Mars, chair of the Greenville County Democratic Party and co-host of The Whole Truth Podcast.

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• Josh Johnson’s website
• Josh Johnson on people being upset by Bad Bunny performing at the next Super Bowl [TikTok]
• The real reason conservatives are furious about Bad Bunny’s forthcoming Super Bowl performance [The Conversation]
• Greenwood goal: $2500 for Dr. Jermaine Johnson for Governor [ActBlue]
• Videos and speeches from the 2025 Carnell Drummond Mays Banquet [YouTube]

• Greenville County Democratic Party
• The Whole Truth Podcast with Stacey Mars & Charles Morris
• Emerge South Carolina
• The relatively unknown Democrat drawing huge crowds in South Carolina [Politico]

• 2025 Legislator Compensation [NCSL]
• SC legislators pass $14.7B spending plan despite concerns over legislators’ pay raise [South Carolina Daily Gazette, May 28 2025]
• SC Supreme Court strikes down legislative pay raise [South Carolina Daily Gazette Nov 12, 2025]

• Latest House results confirm 2018 wasn’t a blue wave. It was a blue tsunami. [CNN]
• Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms [The Texas Tribune]
• What happens to California's redistricting after Texas' congressional maps were struck down in court? [CBS News]
• Justice Alito restores GOP-backed Texas congressional map, for now [Axios]
• Mapped: Where Redistricting Battles Are Unfolding Nationwide [Democracy Docket]
• South Carolina GOP targets James Clyburn's district in gerrymander wars [ABC News 4]
• 2025 Redistricting Tracker - VoteHub 
• Redistricting between censuses has been rare in the modern era [Pew Research Center]

• Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department [Politico]
• What does the US education department do - and can Trump truly dismantle it? [BBC]
• The Education Department is being dismantled. Here’s what that means [AP News] 
• ‘Abuse, Grooming, Drugs, and Sexual Coercion’: The Scandal Wrestling Buried [Rolling Stone]
• Ring boys push back against WWE and McMahons’ attempt to end abuse case [Post Wrestling]
• Title 34 Subtitle B Chapter VI Part 668 Subpart A § 668.2 [Code of Federal Regulations]
• AACN Alarmed Over Department of Education’s Proposed Limitation of Student Loan Access for Nursing [American Association of Colleges of Nursing]
• Nursing Is No Longer Counted as a ‘Professional Degree’ by Trump Admin [Newsweek]
• Mayra Rivera Vasquez’s post [Facebook]

• Exploring the First Amendment [@ashleytheebarroness on TikTok]
• City of Greenwood moves forward with ordinance punishing prejudice-based conduct [Index Journal] 

• Marc Maron - Democrats have a buzzkill problem [FB Reel]

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Bill and Jumelle are honored to score the FIRST podcast interview with Dr. Jermaine Johnson since he launched his candidacy to be governor of South Carolina two weeks ago. We explored a side of this dynamic leader that you simply won’t see or hear anywhere else!

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• Democrats win across the spectrum as voters reject Trump [CNN]
• Speaker Johnson Holds News Conference on Day 36 of Government Shutdown [C-Span]
• Trump blames shutdown for Republicans' election losses to Democrats [Axios]
• Fox News Host Drops Stunning Take on Election Bloodbath: ‘By Winning Democrats Are Actually Losing’ [Mediaite]

• Dr. Jermaine Johnson campaign launch video [YouTube]
• Jermaine Johnson (politician) [Wikipedia]
• SC House representative releases documentary on his life as a homeless teen [ABC 4 News]
• I Got Myself a Yard - Theatrical Trailer [Vimeo]
• Prepping for Preparation: Based on NEB's "Program Preparation" [Amazon]
• Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One on One (Basketball) Commodore 64 C64 Longplay [YouTube]
• Alumnus is a Game Changer [The College Today - College of Charleston]
• From homeless youth and turbulent CofC career, Jermaine Johnson is Andrew Yang's guy in SC [Post and Courier]
• Democrat Jermaine Johnson to challenge for state House seat currently held by Jimmy Bales [The Post and Courier Free Time, 2020]
• Agreeing to Disagree and the Theater of Elected Office - With Representative Jermaine Johnson [Bourbon in the Back Room]
• Exclusive One-on-one with Democratic State Rep. Jermaine Johnson and Republican State Senator Matt Leber [The Arena SC] (Nov 2024)
• SC down a second ‘sister senator’ as Sandy Senn concedes in GOP primary [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
• Matt Leber’s Mistress-gate: Domestic Violence Charge Filed [FITSNews]
• Rep. Jermaine Johnson announces bid for governor [WACH FOX]
• Jets Insider Confirms Jermaine Johnson is NOT Getting Traded [New York Jets News]
• Visit https://johnsonforsc.com/

• Dr. Jermaine Johnson speech on State House steps, Oct 1, 2025. [Instagram]

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