The Charlie James Show Podcast

Hour 3

00:00 Welcome back to the program. Let's go to the phones and talk to Wes in Greer. How you doing, Wes? Doing good, Charlie. know, real quick, I did not catch the ad that the person was absolutely pointing out the truth of Lindsey Graham. Why did he wait so long for that ad? That ad is brilliant. That is that is everything. The only thing he left out, he should have put in there, hey folks, 00:29 You want to know who was instrumental in the Russian hoax? Lindsey Graham. That's right. Hey, you know what is so funny because I think it was John, producer John said yesterday when that ad came on, he said, where was this ad two months ago? I like, right? I mean, please. 00:50 believe that man has got to go. If smarmy had a picture beside it in the dick 00:59 You're right. It's how we forgot him walking around Disney World with the Little Mermaid bubble wand. Yeah, Tinkerbell's wand. that. Yeah. What's up, Quick story. Thank God for Pete Hexas and Trump. But I'll tell you something, Charlie. It wasn't just the schools doing this, okay? I have a very good friend of mine that went in the Army in 1990, okay? An enlisted man. He excelled. 01:28 He absolutely excelled. took the Kandahar airport the first night of the war. Okay. He took that airport, his squad. You know how vital that airport was to our operations? Okay. guy, this guy's a patriot. This guy is a smart fella. You know, he came from a bad situation, family wise. Okay. He went into army and he made something of himself and he told me, said, I want to fly helicopters. And I said, well, 01:58 Wow, you know, won't that be an uphill climb? He said, yes, it will. So he went over a period of time. He was able to, you know, pass the test, get in there. He was on track. They had him actually flying old school Vietnam style Huey. Yeah. Okay. He comes home. He's excited. He's telling me all about it. And right as he's getting towards the end of it, I say, you know, when he comes back, say, you know, how'd you do, buddy? I'm out of it. And I said, why? 02:28 He looked at me and he said, well, I'm white. No, no. He said, said the instructor told me that right now they're taking others quote unquote. Yeah. That that score well below where he was. Yeah. And unless he could get in the top 10, he would not be selected because he was white. And I swear. 02:57 on my life. That's word for word what he told me. Yeah. Well, those days have come to an end under Pete Hicks. Well, but I'm sitting there going, wait a minute. Our lives are on the line here. The army is job, as Rush Limbaugh famously said, is to blow stuff up and kill people. Yeah. And when you lose track of that, you've lost it. OK? Yeah. It's that simple. I mean, I was like. 03:25 In our army? Yep, in our army. Wes, I appreciate it, buddy. Got to run here, but thank you. Let's go to Bill and Inman. Bill, welcome. Hey, Charlie, how you doing? I'm doing good, man. What's up? 03:55 So what did you, just regular or diesel? Regular, regular gas. What did you pay for it? 04:05 Oh wow. Yeah. 04:21 Well, I do. I know absolutely he cares about Americans. He cares about Americans by protecting us from Iran getting a nuclear weapon. That's how he cares about Americans. Listen, how long have we been in this war? What, eight weeks now? Ten weeks? 04:36 This isn't like this thing is dragged on for years. We're talking about weeks, not years. So, I I think we can hang on a little bit longer, Bill, and hopefully something will be done today. President Trump was in the Situation Room all day reviewing this plan with Iran. He has put out some just absolute hard lines here. He says they got to get rid of the enriched uranium. 05:06 no nuclear weapons, they've got to allow the US to come in and remove it, they've got to, if they do have any more mines in the Strait of Hormuz, um they got to get rid of those. It's just a laundry list and there is, and here's what's going to hang people up because he mentioned some ...

Hour 2

00:00 Welcome back to the program on your Friday afternoon. Everybody looking forward to the weekend. I know I am. And it's, yeah, you're right, JJ. I forgot all about it. I don't know why it slipped my mind. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible. 00:29 with liberty and justice for all. 00:36 Oh 00:40 for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties. 01:12 share his grace on thee. 01:25 America is back. Yes, sir. Well, the Democrats, they're kind of in a bit of a panic now and it's coming from a source that they didn't expect. You see, Joe Biden wrote this new memoir and this is another book that nobody's going to Nobody. Here's what's going to happen. 01:55 The Democrat Party, which by the way is broke, they are like $14 million in the hole. They have almost no cash on hand, but I digress. They're going to go in and they're going to buy all of these Jill Biden books and then they're going to take it to, it's going to be the top of the New York Times bestseller list or whatever. And they're going to be promoting this thing pretty heavily. So she was on with Rita Braver the other night and it was kind of interesting what Jill Biden said. 02:25 Let's take a listen to this because it's one of the things you go, did you really just say that? We all thought it, but here we go. Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that. The COVID, excuse me, dealing with everything we have to do with. 02:55 Look, if we finally beat Medicare. Thank you, President Biden. Before or since? Never. Or since? Yes. Or since? You've never seen anything Never. No. What happened? I don't know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my God, he's having a stroke. And it scared me to death. It scared her so bad. It's, oh, this is I feel so sorry for. 03:25 It scared her so bad that she went on stage right after and she said this. then she was so, she was so concerned about her husband that she started a chant of four more years. 03:52 And then after that, did she take him to the hospital? Did you take him to go get medical care? Just to get checked out, make sure everything's okay? No, they went to Waffle House in Atlanta. They literally went and got him some scattered, smothered, and covered. Got one of those patty melts. She wasn't. So the Democrats are like, oh my, why did she come out? 04:22 What is the fraud here? It's absolutely fraud. 04:29 You did such a great job, you answered every question. So now, this is according to Dana Perino over at Fox News, so now we know that this is what she's saying in her book and the question I would love to ask her is, were you lying then or are you lying now? 04:48 That's Jill Biden after that debate. Was she lying then or she lying now? Did he do a great job or were you scared to death for him? Which one is it? So now the Democrats, so here's what the Democrats, they've got this and you probably heard this several times today, but they're gonna say, well, who are you gonna believe? 05:08 You're going to believe your own lying eyes. We saw the decline of Joe Biden. We saw it. We saw it constantly. I mean, what? How many times did he screw up? How many times did he mispronounce that? And I don't mean just mispronounce things. I'm talking about destroying the English language. 05:37 It really is amazing. Remember this? when Joe Biden said this? 05:44 America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. was gonna put him in, excuse me. Yeah, no, everything's fine with Joe. No, he's sharp as a tack. Absolutely sharp as a tack. But then after that debate, I mean, when you looked at, when you watched CNN after that debate, because I remember we were at, 06:09 Willie Taco, was us, Fourth District Republican Club, the Young Republicans, um all these groups out ...

Hour 1

00:00 And uh welcome to the program on your Friday afternoon. So glad you joined us. We appreciate you tuning in. Well, I tell you what, I'm ready for the weekend. I don't know about you guys. I am ready for the weekend. You know what I'm really ready for um is Tuesday. Because Tuesday is going to be these elections in Los Angeles with Karen Bass and what is his name? Spencer Pratt. That's going to be an interesting race to watch. But we'll talk about that later. Right now, President Trump is 00:30 um Well, he's in serious negotiations right now in the White House about the Iran situation. And from what we're hearing, these negotiations, these meetings are extremely intense right now. He did release something over on Truth Social. Stacey Bartrow just read a little bit to you. uh I'll read this. It said, Iran, these are his terms. Okay. Doesn't matter what Iran wants. 00:59 Doesn't matter what anybody else wants. These are Donald Trump's terms on Iran. Okay. Iran must agree that they will never have a nuclear weapon. The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open. No tolls for unrestricted shipping and traffic in both directions. All mines, if any, will be terminated. We've removed through detonation numerous such mines. 01:27 with our great underwater minesweepers. Iran will complete the immediate removal and or detonation of any mines that are left, which will not be many. Ships caught in the Strait of Hormuz due to our amazing and unprecedented naval blockade will now be lifted. May start the process of heading home. Say hello to your wives, husbands, parents and families for me, your favorite president. The enriched material sometimes referred to as nuclear dust. 01:57 That is the um 60 % 02:04 enriched uranium that they have, which is buried deep underground with virtually collapsed mountains caused by our powerful B-2 bomber attack 11 months ago sitting on top of it. We will be unearthed by the United States, which is agreed is the only country along with China with mechanical capability of doing so ah in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency. 02:33 and destroyed. No money will be exchanged until further notice. Other items of far less importance have been agreed to. I am in a meeting now in the Situation Room to make a final determination. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now, what's going to hang people up? And you may have raised an eyebrow on this, is the talk about money. 03:02 He's talking about a transfer of money that technically belongs to Iran, but we are holding that. We've frozen those funds. We've frozen those assets from Iran. Now, I know the question you're going to ask and some of you naysayers out there that are always trying to find something wrong with Donald Trump and trying to come out and say, know, he's uh taco. Trump always chickens out. Here's a deal. 03:30 There's a huge difference between what Trump is talking about and what Barack Obama and Joe Biden did in sending money to Iran. There's a massive difference here. Number one, Obama got nothing for all of that money that he sent over there. I mean, nothing. He got no guarantees. He got no oversight. He got nothing, was decommissioned. It just absolutely nothing. was just, you go. Here's all this money. And what he did, 04:00 He sent that money to Iran hoping that that would make them behave, but it didn't. Joe Biden, same thing. So what Donald Trump is doing is saying, listen, you agree to all of these things that we're laying down. You get rid of your nuclear capability, you get rid of all your enriched uranium, open up the Strait of Hormuz, no tolls, no mines, no nothing. And then, then... 04:28 If you behave, we will unfreeze these assets. Now, is that going to work? I don't know. I don't know if that's going to work. And I'll be honest with you, I'm a little nervous about these negotiations. I know a lot of you folks are as well ...

Question Pam Evette McMaster 2.0? SC Redistricting; blame Sen Graham

a callerDuring Hour 2, Segment 2 of The Charlie James Show on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, a passionate caller drove a segment that targeted establishment Republicans, questioning the future of the state's leadership and pointing fingers over the spectacular collapse of the SC redistricting bill.Summary of the Caller's Argument:The "Pam Evette as McMaster 2.0" Question: The caller sharply questioned the gubernatorial candidacy of Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette. They expressed deep skepticism about her platform, framing her not as a fresh conservative outsider, but as an extension of the current administration—essentially "McMaster 2.0". The caller argued that her campaign relies too heavily on Governor Henry McMaster's endorsement rather than offering a truly aggressive, new direction for South Carolina.Blaming Senator Lindsey Graham: Turning to the failed mid-decade redistricting effort, the caller directed heavy fire at U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. They accused Graham and his establishment allies of working behind the scenes to quietly undermine or dilute the aggressive, Trump-backed redistricting push. The caller voiced a common frustration among the show's populist base: that Graham consistently maneuvers to protect establishment interests rather than fighting for maps that maximize conservative power.Redistricting Outrage: The caller tied these two points together, claiming that the broader failure to pass the new congressional maps during the special session is symptomatic of an uninspiring, passive Republican leadership class in South Carolina that refuses to fight the political left.Charlie James used the call to pivot into a broader discussion on the split within the state's GOP electorate as voters head to the newly opened early voting booths today ahead of the June primaries.

SC Senate doesn’t pass redistricting: Lou Rankin speech

The Charlie James Show on News/Talk 98.9 WORD (Hour 1, Segment 1) aired on the morning of Tuesday, May 26, 2026, delivering a sharp critique of the state legislative gridlock after the South Carolina State Senate officially rejected a mid-decade redistricting push.Key Takeaways from Hour 1, Segment 1:Redistricting Collapse: Host Charlie James opened the segment breaking down the Senate's failure to pass the highly contested redistricting maps during the high-stakes special session called by Governor Henry McMaster.Focus on Luke Rankin: The show heavily featured and criticized a floor speech delivered by State Senator Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach), the powerful Judiciary Committee Chairman. James analyzed Rankin's stance, framing the breakdown of the vote as a betrayal of the conservative base that expected a redrawn 6th Congressional District to maximize Republican electoral advantages ahead of the primaries.The "RINO" Critique: Consistent with the show's recent coverage of the state's shifting conservative landscape, James used the failed vote to target established Republican leadership in Columbia, labeling those who blocked or delayed the maps as establishment figures failing to fight the "radical left".Primary Election Impact: The segment emphasized the absolute chaos this creates for election officials and candidates, noting that the legislative failure coincided exactly with the launch of statewide early voting today for the June 9th primaries.