This 19-Year Old Ran for Office Against His Teacher and Won | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In a world of Trumps, be a Cameran. On this week’s SoloPod, the 19 year old who beat his high school teacher in an election become the next member of the Board of Supervisors for Surry county, Virginia. You will not believe this incredible young man’s story!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.3 | Native Land Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:15.1 | This is Angela Wright. |
| 0:16.1 | It is my solo pod for Native Land Pod. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm thrilled to be here with you all today for two very good reasons. |
| 0:22.4 | The first is it is Lolo Smith's birthday. She, of course, is one of our producers for Native |
| 0:28.9 | Lampod. She keeps the show together. She keeps the trains moving. Got lots of opinions. So make sure |
| 0:33.9 | you express an opinion to Lolo today for how grateful you are, for everything she does to keep the show going, for what she offers to the community, for loving on black folks, the culture, real hard, Lolo. |
| 0:47.2 | We're so grateful for you. |
| 0:48.3 | I thank God for you. |
| 0:49.4 | Glad to call you, my little sister. |
| 0:51.3 | And most of all, glad to tell you that you are one of my best teachers. So we love you, sis. Happy birthday. I hope you get to celebrate all across the world what she is currently doing. I'm not going to tell y'all where she's at. For security reasons, I wouldn't have to come there. I want to have to fight y'all. So we're going to just go ahead and keep that on the low. But Lolo is celebrating globally for this Thanksgiving |
| 1:11.9 | holiday. Now, that said, my second favorite reason for being here today, if I had to rank them at all, |
| 1:19.5 | is I get to celebrate this young man who has inspired me at a time where we are being tested and tried on every single side in this country. |
| 1:31.0 | We are being told that young people who look like me don't care about politics, that it's |
| 1:37.7 | whatever. It's a mess, that things are just too far and they would rather not engage. You even heard Farrell recently say |
| 1:46.1 | that it's a trick bag and either both sides to have to choose a side, right? I don't want to |
| 1:53.7 | misquote the man. I think that he offered a very clarifying, poignant perspective in Michael |
| 2:00.7 | Harriet's contraband camp write-up, which was brilliant, by the way, |
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