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**Branson Quirke** (0:38)
Hey, welcome to The TMZ Podcast. What if I rapped the intro?

**Neda Anvar** (0:43)
Please do it, please, please.

**Branson Quirke** (0:45)
Can I try and freestyle it?

**Neda Anvar** (0:46)
Yes, yes.

**Branson Quirke** (0:46)
All right, hey, welcome to The TMZ Podcast. You got me, Aneda, rhymes with Feta. You got Branson.

**Neda Anvar** (0:55)
Rhymes with Pampson.

**Branson Quirke** (0:57)
You know, my name backwards is Nasnob.

**Neda Anvar** (1:02)
I don't know, guys, I don't know what he's taking today, but there's something, he's cracked out today.

**Branson Quirke** (1:09)
What's the big deal? What's the problem here? You got a problem with that?

**Neda Anvar** (1:13)
How do you guys feel about that rap?

**Branson Quirke** (1:15)
Well, I was doing it because we're about to talk about a rapper.
Who is in deep trouble. Nicki Minaj, we'll get into it, but to shift the tone, we are going to talk about a lot of things today, but to shift the tone, we did just put something up on the site.
As we reported this morning and over the weekend, Lindsey Graham has passed away, but it's now been announced who's been appointed to finish his US. Senate term. So I just wanted to put that up here at the top. South Carolina Governor Henry McCaster has appointed Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Norton, to fill the late senator's vacant US. Senate seat. The appointment was announced on Monday following Lindsey Graham's sudden death, just hours after President Donald Trump publicly endorsed Norton for the position. So yeah, I mean, I didn't know it happened this quickly. That's why I wanted to bring it up.

**Neda Anvar** (2:13)
Yeah, this is huge.

**Branson Quirke** (2:14)
If someone passes away, someone finishes me.

**Neda Anvar** (2:16)
They replace him immediately with his sister.

**Branson Quirke** (2:18)
Or they've been appointed. I wonder if...

**Neda Anvar** (2:20)
Yeah, what is that? What is appointed? Is it official?

**Branson Quirke** (2:23)
Governor McMaster officially confirmed Norton will serve out the remainder of Lindsey Graham's current term. According to us, TMZ, Trump urged that Darlene Graham Norton be selected to complete her brother's Senate term. So it sounds like the governor just went along with what the president was. But I think that's a great idea, you know, keeping it in the family.
What better person than the sister of someone who passed away?

**Neda Anvar** (2:48)
Yeah, it probably shares the same beliefs, which is good for them. And she's going to do justice to her brother, I bet.
I assume they think the same way and believe the same things.

**Branson Quirke** (3:00)
Yeah, I guess we'll see. I mean, Lindsey Graham.

**Neda Anvar** (3:03)
Especially if Trump urged that to happen, he's probably like, OK, she will be the perfect replacement for him.

**Branson Quirke** (3:09)
Yeah, I mean, Trump was a big fan of Graham and said that he was a part of the family.
Graham, you know, this was such a sudden death. We had been speaking to him, you know, every couple of weeks in DC.

**Neda Anvar** (3:21)
I know.

**Branson Quirke** (3:22)
DC was Charlie Cotton was talking to him in the hallways on the way to meetings.

**Neda Anvar** (3:26)
He seemed perfectly fine, too.

**Branson Quirke** (3:28)
Perfectly fine. He had been traveling a lot recently, too. And potentially, we know that it was a heart disease that led to this.

**Neda Anvar** (3:37)
I think his dad had died at like around the same age of a sudden heart thing.

**Branson Quirke** (3:41)
You never know. And he was very active, too, before he passed away.

**Neda Anvar** (3:45)
So he lived a pretty healthy lifestyle.

**Branson Quirke** (3:46)
You could be healthy and all of a sudden it hits you. So just, you know, enjoy every day. I know, regardless of your political opinions, just enjoy every day as you go along.

**Neda Anvar** (3:57)
It's just crazy that it was him and not McConnell. That's the craziest part.

**Branson Quirke** (4:03)
People were saying...

**Neda Anvar** (4:04)
Over the weekend, we thought it might become official that McConnell's gone.

**Branson Quirke** (4:07)
If you had like a prediction market on who was going to pass first, McConnell would have been like negative 10,000.

**Neda Anvar** (4:15)