The Rhodes Rewind Podcast

Columbia County School Board Trustee Philip Kent joined us, with great news on huge potential tax savings for homestead residential property tax payers in the county! He believes the majority of the 5 member school board would vote to eliminate property taxes if the windfall promised by the construction of the proposed Appling Data Center goes through as planned...Philip and Austin discussed that,...

Austin and Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT on the MYTH that the proposed data center project in Columbia County could somehow cause a "rate increase" for Georgia consumers... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Our Friday conversation with Columbia County commission chairman Doug Duncan...he gives us a status report on the proposed data center project. He also discusses his future hope for Columbia County as he enters his final year of leadership. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

On Friday Austin's comments about the date center got very misconstrued, hear what he actually said here: See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

It is a complicated process, and it has been complicated for decades.  Attempting to balance capitalism and open government, while honoring legal business confidences. Toss in community and environmental concerns...and it gets even more difficult to easily understand, much less explain to the uninitiated. And that is where we are in the ongoing "DATA CENTER" proposal/project in Columbia County. We...

Derrick Dooley is challenging several veteran Republican lawmakers in the quest to take on Georgia Senator John Ossoff in the upcoming midterms.  The former college and NFL coach, who is also the son of late UGA legend Vince Dooley, checked in with The Austin Rhodes Show Tuesday afternoon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...

On this week's Thursday Sports Huddle AB welcomes the new United States Jr Amateur Golf Champion... and Lakeside Panther... Hamilton Coleman!  And later... he meets the man tasked with rebuilding the football team at Augusta Christian, new head coach Brandon Compton See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

THE END OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAX IN COLUMBIA COUNTY?!?!?!?! That is the plan Commission Chairman Doug Duncan announced Thursday afternoon on The Austin Rhodes Show... If the tax revenue from Columbia County's new Data Center, currently under development next to the Amazon Center in the CC Industrial Park, comes in as expected...it could very well happen!  Here is the interview...HUGE NEWS!!! Se...

Our old friend RNC Chairman Michael Whatley called in today to discuss the latest news with the Trump administration and the latest developments with "The Big Beautiful Bill", the Russia/Ukraine standoff, and Georgia's electoral future! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

He is one of the biggest talents in stand up...and if you don't know that, then clearly you need to get out more!  Brad Williams will be at the Columbia County Performing Arts Center THURSDAY NIGHT!   Seats still available, but not for long!  Here is my conversation with Brad from Tuesday afternoon... the link for online tickets is in the first comment! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv...

Intelligence defense and cyber-security policy professor from Augusta University Dr Craig Albert joined the show this week with a fascinating conversation about our nations current cyber challenges and recent headlines regarding our capabilities.  Check it out here: See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Tori Branum has made a name for herself in social media as a 2nd Amendment advocate, and now the Dublin Ga resident wants to be your next 12th district Congressional representative.  She intends to run against incumbent Rick Allen, and appeared this week to make her case. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

While Austin was out on vacation, The Richmond County Sheriff's Department took over the Austin Rhodes Show for a day!  District 5's Commissioner Don Clark hosted some of Richmond County's finest for 3 hours of a very interesting and informative look into the ongoing work of the Sheriff's department. In hour 3, Sheriff Eugene Brantley joined the program and answered calls and questions from our te...

While Austin was out on vacation, The Richmond County Sheriff's Department took over the Austin Rhodes Show for a day!  District 5's Commissioner Don Clark hosted some of Richmond County's finest for 3 hours of a very interesting and informative look into the ongoing work of the Sheriff's department. In hour 2, DC spoke with Lieutenant Michelle Thomas of the Traffic Division about the H.E.A.T. tea...

While Austin was out on vacation, The Richmond County Sheriff's Department took over the Austin Rhodes Show for a day!  District 5's Commissioner Don Clark hosted some of Richmond County's finest for 3 hours of a very interesting and informative look into the ongoing work of the Sheriff's department. In hour 1, DC focused on the Violent Crimes Division and the Crimes Against Children and Trafficki...

This week we said goodbye to our General Manager of Beasley Broadcasting Augusta Kent Dunn...after more than 30 years of service to our listeners.   We were able to catch up with him on his way out the door...for one last conversation. A great broadcaster and a better friend! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-i...

Incumbent Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols needs your vote in the upcoming Republican primary...both he and his challenger, Columbia County resident Lee Muns were in studio in separate interviews last week.  Here are both conversations....   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Congressman Buddy Carter is hoping to become Georgia's next US Senator!  He stopped by the studio this week to talk to Austin and make his case! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Captain Andy Shedd of the Columbia County Sheriff's Department called in to the show Monday to discuss this weekend's events and clear up the falsehoods floating around the internet about what really happened at Thunder Under Evans See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Two members of a group challenging local efforts to keep library books off limits to "unsupervised" children in the Columbia County Library joined us Thursday...Many points we agree on, many points we do not...but I always appreciate folks who are willing to come in and articulate their differences and concerns! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https...