Sept. 28, 2013 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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We're expanding.
We're metastasticizing.
And we're taking care of business.
Even during the commercial break, I was up in the green room with our guest of the evening, Courtney from Alabama, our esteemed guest.
And Eddie the Bombardier Miller received a call from a producer of a television program that I will be appearing on, or at least going to film my part on the 2nd of October.
I'll be traveling.
And so we'll have a pretty good story for you next week.
So we're taking care of business on the air and in between commercial breaks here tonight.
I'm James Edwards, Eddie Miller.
You heard from Keith Alexander, albeit briefly during the first hour.
The main event, though, now, are a true lady, a Southern Belle, a debutante.
I think that's the word we would use, the adjective.
The debutante, Courtney from Alabama, all of her fans on the blog tonight tuned in, listening intently.
And we're going to talk about something I think that perhaps we've never talked before, something that comes with a bit of a feminine touch, a story.
We covered at least half of what I wanted to cover tonight during the first two hours, which is pretty good, better than average, I guess, for us.
But before we get down to the meat of what you want to discuss this evening, Courtney, just a quick, did we talk about this earlier?
You've been listening since 2006.
We did establish that.
What led you to our, not only what, perhaps curiosity would have led you to the show.
Any number of people might have tuned in a time or two just to see what we were all about.
What led you to stay for seven years and counting?
Well, I'm afraid to be too honest about what it was that originally attracted me to the website.
It was all beyond.
I'll be honest.
It was a picture of James.
I was like, oh, a young guy in the movement.
And yeah, he was attractive.
It was a link on American Renaissance.
And I started back then, it was in 2006.
Back then, they had different schedules for their show.
Like, I think they had like three nights a week or something like that.
But I would tune in every now and then.
And it was because I just kept seeing this link on American Renaissance.
And then I opened it up and I was like, oh, a young guy that's attractive.
Okay.
Well, you know, and that just kind of led me to listen to the show.
And it was a very good show, very intelligent men.
And so that's very important too.
And I think I'm trying to remember.
I think it was in 2008 that I started listening more heavily.
It was right after Obama got elected.
And there was just one night early early, what am I saying?
Like towards the end of 2008, early 2009, when James Edwards had Pat Buchanan on and then Jared Taylor.
And it was just very inspirational talking about the future of our country, like a lot of positive things, like how this could wake people up and what we need to do.
I was just very inspired.
And I think from then on out, they started having it every Saturday night.
And so I started listening religiously.
And I think it was in spring of 2010.
That was the first time that I actually called or sent an email to the show.
And then fall or winter of, or it was the end of 2010 that I called in for the first time and met the gang.
And then I've seen them at conferences ever since.
And then now here I am again.
So I've been listening very religiously.
So here, I'm going to give it back to James.
A mutual admiration society we have tonight in the studio, I think it's safe to say.
And I'm going to have to send Jared a thank you card, you know, because it wasn't just Courtney and presumably countless others that have come to know this show as a result of the promotion that American Renaissance has given us.
But Peter Scoop Stanton, one of our staff members, in fact, you know, the international correspondent at the time when he first joined our team, and now he's our DC contributor, Peter Scoop Stanton, first came to know this show, just like Courtney from the promotion we were receiving on the American Renaissance website.
So it's an incestuous group we have here with one hand washing the other.
Incestuous perhaps isn't the right adjective, but we do cross-pollinate, I think, those few organizations that deal with race realism, the Council of Conservative Citizens.
If I start naming them, I'll forget some and I'll be embarrassed.
Obviously, Amrin, and there are some others, the political cesspool, of course, being there at the top.
But, you know, there is a sense of solidarity.
I think it's probably the best and most accurate way to describe it.
And we stick together and there's good people out here.
And it really is a brotherhood, a familial bond with both our brothers and, in this case, our sisters who subscribe to the same right thinking.
And that's the way we should always present it as right thinking philosophy.
And folks, I'm telling you, it continues to get bigger and better.
You know, we're about to embrace an opportunity this week that's going to get word of the political cesspool to millions of new listeners by the time this television show comes out in January, prime time.
So I'll be going up to film my part here in a couple of days and very, very excited to be a part of that.
Excited to have been chosen to speak on some very important issues by a very big budget program.
So more to come.
Can't give you more than that now, but it's exciting.
All right.
So we're going to be talking about southern cuisine for the remainder of the hour.
And Courtney has some interesting thoughts and anecdotes, I guess, to share.
And I'm not exaggerating, folks.
This young lady has been meticulously preparing and planning her remarks since at least 4 o'clock this afternoon.
I've never seen anything like it.
I'm like Larry King.
I come in here.
I don't even know what we're talking about.
And I just sit down in the chair and it just happens.
But I remember, and I was sharing this with Courtney and Keith before the show started tonight.
I do remember the very first show I ever hosted, October 26, 2004.
The very first show was me and Austin Farley, the original co-founder of the show.
And we were the only two in the studio.
I did not say a word on that show that was not written down on paper.
I wrote out every single word that I said on paper just because I wanted it to be perfect, right?
It was my first time on radio.
I just thought that's the way it had to be.
Did not say a word on air that night that was not scripted.
And I wrote it.
I mean, so it was my words.
I mean, I wasn't just reading something that someone, you know, someone else's thoughts.
I mean, it was what I wanted to convey, but it was just I had to make sure I had everything collected and presented properly.
And then, of course, now it's the exact opposite.
I don't even know what we're talking about.
And I'll just come in here and do the show.
But it's a breath of fresh air.
Did I hear somebody say that across the room, Eddie?
It's fun to have this, you know, obviously after nine years.
If you don't get the hang of doing something, I guess something's wrong with you.
And so after nine years and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of shows and thousands probably of broadcast hours, I guess, this radio thing's taken to me a little bit, and so not so much preparation goes in.
If we have a super big guest, you know, I'll jot down a few questions in advance.
But anyway, we're going to get off of that and back to Courtney, the star of tonight's show.
Talking about Southern Cuisine.
Why are we talking about Southern cuisine?
Well, we'll have to ask her.
Why is that a topic of conversation tonight?
We'll find out.
The best is yet to come, folks.
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Goodbye love!
Love, God by me love!
I'll buy you another ring, my friend, if I make you feel alright.
I'll get you anything, my friend, if it makes you feel all right.
Cause I don't care too much for money, but money can't buy me love.
You know, Courtney from Alabama is a child of the 80s, as am I. I'm a little bit older than her, but there was actually a movie that came out with the one Patrick Dempsey before he was the well-known Patrick Dempsey of Gray's Anatomy.
You remember the movie Can't Buy Me Love?
Can't Buy Me Love.
That was a movie that I watched growing up, and pretty good.
Pretty good movie.
But he could buy her love in that movie.
And he did.
But then they found out that there was really something there.
Good movie.
Good movie.
Can't buy me love.
Well, you know, we were listening in the green room earlier tonight.
I put in in the studio in honor of our visiting guest who drove nine hours one way just to be here with us tonight for three hours.
The Please, Please Me album by the Beatles.
Really, a lot of good selections on there.
Some of the songs well-known.
Some of the songs, not as much, but equally good.
Just on this one album, you have, I saw her standing there.
Please please me, of course, the name of the album, title track.
P.S. I Love You, great song.
Do you want to know a secret?
Great song.
Of course, Twist and Shout, another 80s movie.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off quite prominently featured that song.
A lot of good stuff from the Beatles in the early 60s, early to mid-60s, before, again, they became social revolutionaries and much more famous.
Anyway, yeah, right.
That's right.
We have one man here who lived through it, and it's not either of us on the air right now.
It's Eddie the Bombardier Miller, who is still here.
He's not mic'd up, but he's still here and still reveling.
All right, we got to get down to it.
She spent far too much time preparing for this for us to intrude anymore on her time.
Courtney, what are we talking about?
What's the feature focus of the third hour and why?
Okay, well, Eddie kind of touched on it a little bit.
But basically, usually when I come to Memphis, this is my second time, I usually bring some sort of a baked good.
And I thought tonight I would bring something that's distinctly southern.
I brought Mississippi mud pie, and the south is known for its pies.
I love, I'm pretty good at making pies, actually, not to brag too much, but it just kind of reminded me just like music and sports and food, like anything that's good about the south and unique about our traditions down here.
Have you noticed that anything that's good about us down here is associated with black people?
And I was trying to mention this to Keith when we were out eating earlier, but I didn't want to say it too loud.
I was kind of beating around the bush, but I think he understood what I meant.
But it's attributed to black people or the Native American culture or Yankee transplants.
And so much of that is not true.
Like, especially like the topic of food, when people think of southern cuisine, they think of fattening food, fried food, sweet drinks and snuff.
And they pretty much associate it with something you would get at Popeyes or Waffle House.
And a lot of that, the ideas for that, a lot of that came from southern food.
But at the same time, that's not all it is.
And it has a very rich tradition.
It comes from Europe originally.
It does not come from the African-American community.
And in the South, we have a very, I take pride in being a southerner.
I mean, we're like the last region that has a distinct identity.
And I'm not ashamed to say that.
And I'm going to say it.
We have a distinct identity.
Nobody else does.
I'm sorry.
Nobody else does.
And, you know, we can trace our lineage back to the colonial period for the most part.
Our food down here, a lot of it, I mean, it does not come from African Americans.
Most of it comes from our English, Scottish, Irish heritage.
We do have a lot of, people don't think of this a lot outside of Louisiana, but we have a lot of French and Spanish heritage too.
Southern Alabama was originally part of under Spain's control.
People don't think of that.
And southern Alabama, Mobile, Alabama is the first place to start Mardi Grab.
Most people don't know that.
It was not New Orleans.
And so a lot of interesting old cultures here that have been here since the beginning.
If you go further up, like around Kentucky and Virginia, there is some German influence a little bit.
And then finally, lastly, you know, maybe there's some that can be attributed to Native American and black or African American culture, but not as much as they make it out to be.
I mean, it's just interesting that anything good down here is associated with those two cultures.
Anything bad is associated with white people, the native white people down here, not transplants.
So anyways, I mean, just like, just like just like our dialect down here, I mean, I had a college professor, a Yankee college professor down here who told the class that our accents came from black Americans.
And it was because, you know, the white children during a certain point in time grew up in homes with black maids.
But how many homes actually had black maids in the house?
I mean, it was only a small percent.
And so, I mean, just like just like with that, there's so many things that did not, so many things good about our culture that did not come from black people.
It came from our heritage and where we came from in Europe, the Scotch-Irish-English heritage.
And just like with the dialect, there's different regions attributed to our food culture down here.
We have the Tidewater culture that's affiliated with Virginia.
Appalachians further inland into Virginia, western Virginia, Kentucky.
Cajun and Creole, as everybody knows, Louisiana.
And that's influenced lower Mississippi and Alabama to a degree.
The Low Country, that's a lot of the coastal regions, Georgia, South Carolina.
And then Floridian is its own culture.
And then, of course, the Gulf Coast, which I'm very familiar with.
But anyways, yeah, just like with our dialects, we have a lot of different regions.
We have localized traditions in each of our regions, just like with our southern dialects.
And we've influenced other types of cuisines in other parts of the country, too.
A lot of dishes that have squashed tomatoes, corn, you know, grits come from corn.
Deep pit barbecuing.
Barbecuing is something you find all over the country, all over the world, actually.
But deep pit barbecuing specifically came from the south.
Just a lot of traditional southern meals that we have down here that I'm just going to run through real quickly, like pan-fried meals, field peas, collard greens, turnip greens, poke salad.
Mashed potatoes was listed.
I'm not sure about that.
I didn't think mashed potatoes was native to the south.
Cornbread, lots of soups, country ham, hush puppies.
I love hush puppies.
Succotosh.
Chicken fried steak, pimino cheese, boiled and baked sweet potatoes, a lot of dishes with sweet potatoes, actually.
Ribs, I think ribs mostly comes from the western south, like Oklahoma, Texas.
Fried catfish.
I'm very familiar with that.
The fried green tomatoes.
Okra.
I like okra.
Butter beans.
I have an aunt that makes delicious butter beans.
Pinno beans, black-eyed peas, fried chicken.
People think of fried chicken as coming from the black community.
It does not come from the black community.
The Scotch Irish did a lot of frying, and that's where it comes from.
I mean, and that's the largest white group in the South right now.
Virginia ham, stuffed ham, whole hog barbecue, green beans.
When people flavor their green beans with bacon and salt pork, that's southern.
Red-eye gravy, country gravy, chicken and dumplings, gumbo.
All sorts of pies, like any sort of cream-based pie that you can think of, came from the south.
The fruit-based pies, that's more of a toss-up, like cream-based pies.
And pecan pie is not cream-based, but that's a pie that originated down here.
Again, that comes from our roots in the British Isles mostly.
Desserts like that.
Bread pudding, which is very popular in England, is very popular down here too.
Let's see, what was the next point I was going to make?
A lot of breakfast foods that people don't think about, like the full-fledged breakfast came from the South.
Biscuits and gravy, Ritz, and like all sorts of stuff, all sorts of.
But I'll touch on that more in a minute.
We're getting hungry in here.
Eddie's drooling over here.
He's salivating at the thought of that country-fried steak and hushed puppies and fried catfish.
to take a break and put in our order with chef courtney and we'll be back right after this your daily liberty newswire You're listening to Liberty News Radio.
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Beautiful song.
On the Fab Four from their early years.
I think I've just actually mentioned that song from the Please Please Me album, which is still playing on repeat in the green room up a little bit down the hall here at the studio.
That song was actually in stereo, so they only got half of it, I'm understanding.
But it still sounded good.
I mean, I knew what was going on.
Anyway, you know, if there's any other Epcot aficionados out there, and you know, if there's one thing I love nearly as much as Frankie Valley, it's Epcot in Orlando.
And they have in the World Showcase in the United Kingdom exhibition a group that comes out called the British Invasion.
It's a cover band that plays nothing but the British Invasion stuff, obviously prominently the Beatles stuff.
That song there took me back to an experience I had at Epcot.
Good times.
Good times.
It rivals only the good times that I have here in the studios of the Political Cesspool.
And, you know, I am James Edwards, and I take a lot of pride in that.
I could be a lot of things.
I could be, you know, I could award out, and I ought to probably been a state representative by now.
But I'm the host of the Political Cesspool, and it's a show that I founded.
And so there's pride of authorship there, and everything we've accomplished has been done together with working cooperation and partnership with the audience and certainly Sam Bushman and a few others that have just played key and integral roles in the development and evolution of this show.
But to be the founding host of this show is something that can never be taken away.
And I, for one, hope and expect that we will be here for years to come and that bigger and better things are in our future and the best is still ahead of us.
But I'll tell you what, folks, I don't know how I got from the British invasion at Epcot to there, but it's exciting to be here with you.
And excited to be with Courtney from Alabama as well as Eddie and Keith, who have contributed to tonight's program as well.
But we're talking about southern cuisine.
That's the topic of the hour.
Pretty informative stuff.
Where do we go from here, Courtney?
Well, I appreciate James letting me spend a whole hour talking about this.
And the Beatles.
There's some comments on the Beatles.
Yeah, I just got done talking about the breakfast, like just the full-fledged breakfast.
I've talked to people from up north, and they don't really make a big deal about breakfast.
It's like a little thing of oatmeal or grapefruit or something like that.
But a lot of the really full hearty breakfast foods that you eat actually came from the south from British roots mostly.
I guess we're the region that retained that the most.
But to go into some different regions, like southern Louisiana, that's where you have the Cajun and Creole culture.
A lot of people don't think of this, but like from South Carolina to along the coast all the way to Louisiana, there was a huge rice culture to feed, there was a lot of growing of rice to feed large families at one time.
And it's a good filler, just like the reason why they use it in East Asia.
So that's why when you eat a gumbo dish, you put rice in it.
That's where a lot of that comes from.
But they also had the benefit of having coastal seafood, corn, okra.
And then if you go into south, into certain parts of Louisiana, specifically New Orleans, they retain more of their connections with Spain and France.
And so it's more of a culinary cuisine in those areas.
But anyways, again, South Carolina, I'm getting into the Low Country regions now, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia.
South Carolina, again, a huge rice producer.
They have a dish, black-eyed peas flavored with salt pork called Hoppin' John and Charleston red rice.
Those are unique to that area.
Barbecue, each region of the South has its own types of barbecue.
I can have barbecue sauce in Alabama.
It tastes completely different from barbecue sauce in North Carolina.
All good, though.
There are certain sauces that are vinegar-based.
Others are more honey-based.
But everywhere I go, it's always delicious.
Arkansas is the top rice-producing state in the country.
I mean, I know it's not one of those coastal states I just mentioned, but it's the top rice-producing state of the country.
They produce a lot of sweet corn.
Virginia is known for Smithfield ham.
I kind of threw Arkansas in there.
It's not considered one of the low countries.
But Georgia, I mean, everybody knows, known for peaches, pecans, peanuts, and vidalia, onions.
Anyways, going kind of into the western south, Oklahoma is known for cornbread.
Cornbread's a big, that originated in the south.
Cornbread and beans is a big Oklahoma dish.
Biscuits and gravy.
That's one of those breakfast foods that came from the south.
Let's see.
Tennessee is known for country ham, and then they have famous barbecue restaurants in Memphis.
I've experienced some of those ever since.
Yeah, oh, we went to kind of a hole-in-the-wall place today in Memphis.
Keith took me there and it was some of the best barbecue I've ever had.
And they put the coleslaw right on the barbecue sandwich, which is the way to do it.
And the best baked beans I've ever had.
Fried apple pie.
I mean, just delicious.
And the last time I came here, what was that restaurant y'all took me to with the ribs?
Very famous.
Rendezvous.
Rendezvous.
That was delicious, very delicious.
Let's see.
What else am I looking at here?
Let's see.
Okay, so if you go down to Mississippi, they're known for farm-raised catfish.
I've had a lot of that in Alabama.
Very, very delicious.
And you always have hush puppies with that.
Let's see.
Maryland.
Maryland, I think, I kind of consider Maryland a border state.
I don't know if this is really uniquely southern, but they're known for their blue crabs.
That's not really something I consider unique to the south.
But anyways, Florida is known for its key lime pie.
That's another pie I like to make.
Cream-based, again.
Swamp cabbage.
I haven't had that before, I don't think.
Okay, going up into like Kentucky and the Appalachian area.
Kentucky's known for beer, cheese, burgu, which is a spicy stew served with cornbread.
In the Appalachian regions, they were kind of isolated, so they had to depend on stuff produced locally.
They didn't have the benefit of the Gulf states where you had all the seafood coming in.
I mean, I've been spoiled by seafood being from Alabama, but in the Appalachian region, they depend on pigs and chickens.
Smoked houses were very common.
Hams, bacon, sausages, venison, and then a lot of hunting, wild game, venison, squirrel, buttermilk biscuits with sorghum and honey.
I've eaten biscuits with sorghum.
It's really good.
That's another breakfast meal.
You can get that at Cracker Barrel, really good.
Some other regional divisions, the Upper South, to get more simplistic, the Upper South has a lot of, it's mainly known for pork, sorghum, whiskey.
Those are its main three unique products.
Low country, which I'm more familiar with, being from Alabama.
A lot of seafood, rice, and grits.
And when people think of grits, they think of just like a boring breakfast food, but you can have it at dinner time, flavored, any sort of flavor, and you can eat it with shrimp and fried fish.
And it is so, it's one of the most delicious meals you could ever have.
Western parts of the South are mostly known for beef.
Eastern part depends on pork mostly.
Well, I mean, that's like my main thoughts.
I just wanted to kind of give an idea of just how diverse southern food really is and where it came from.
what did he just say where where it you know where it came from i mean I mean, I think I covered just about everything.
Just so many different types of pies and so many breakfast foods and so many other types of meals that I've gone through that we just take for granted.
It's not just quote-unquote soul food.
And, you know, I'm going to hand the mic over to James now.
Listen, if you weren't hungry before the show started, you got to be by now because she just reeled off some of my favorite dishes.
Anything that wasn't green, because I've never eaten a vegetable or a fruit.
But some of the stuff she mentioned is just stuff that just really, really gets me going in a big way.
Now, Courtney, this is the question that must be asked, and it begs to be asked.
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Why, of all the things, is southern cuisine.
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Well, we've had a lot of Beatles infused in tonight's broadcast as a result of our esteemed guest and dignified guest this evening, the lady, Courtney from Alabama.
But we end it with some Frankie Valley of the Four Seasons, number one.
Look at me there sporting those sweatpants, t-shirt tucked into the sweatpants.
Only I could pull off that look.
There's Frankie Valley there with me.
I can't even count as many times as I've met Frankie now, but he just gets better with age, just like me.
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And Eddie, you were there.
I know Eddie hasn't been on the mic this hour.
He's sitting off.
We got Courtney mic'd up and the headsets on, but you were there in the early days, as you like to say, when 50 people were listening to the show in 2004 and 2005.
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All right, Courtney, only 10 minutes left.
I guess I should ask you now, a very fine presentation.
I guess there is something to be said, Eddie, for preparation before a radio interview.
I mean, that just goes to show how good you can be with a little homework and a little study in advance of your delivery.
We should probably go back to the basics and then we will be as good as Courtney.
Courtney showed us up tonight.
She certainly showed you up tonight, Eddie.
Well, anyway, two questions, Courtney.
Well, I'll ask the first one and then I'll ask you the second.
First of all, did the experience tonight warrant the hours you put in on the road?
Yes, I think so.
I can give a definitive yes for that.
Eddie, Eddie.
That's okay.
Eddie gave a colorful description earlier, but that's okay.
That's okay.
I mean, I'll let them have fun with that.
But it's all in fun.
I like these guys.
They're gentlemen.
So it's always worth the trip.
It's definitely always worth a trip.
So I think that does that answer your question.
To call us gentlemen is certainly a stretch of the definition, but we will take it.
We will take it.
No, I'm glad that it warranted the trip.
And listen, I mean, Eddie, come on.
We've had, we were talking earlier about our dear friend, one of the most generous contributors of the show, to say the very least.
And I don't want to embarrass him, but a man from Canada, an inspiration to us for sure, flew from Western Canada to be with us.
When was that?
About a year ago this time, I believe.
If I'm not mistaken.
And now Courtney has driven nearly as long as he had to fly to be here.
We have an audience that is second to none, that the sacrifice of themselves for our benefit or for the benefit of the cause that we all share is a better way of putting it.
But I really enjoyed, and in all seriousness, very much enjoyed the education that I received on Southern cuisine.
Now, listen, I'm a noble.
No, I take that back.
I'm not noble, but I am a son of the South.
I am a son of the South.
I'm a proud son of the South.
Noble can be debated, but proud cannot.
A proud son of the South and a proud eater of Southern food.
And I received an education on the cuisine of our people tonight as a result of Courtney's studious delivery.
So, Courtney, we have, oh, my goodness, the show has come by far too quickly.
Can you stay for another week and we can do this again seven days from now?
We only have a couple of minutes left.
Where do we end up tonight?
Why did you want to, of all the things you could have talked about, you could have spoken on, why did you want to talk about southern food?
Okay, I'm going to jump right into it and be frank.
I'm proud of my heritage, and I think that's one part of southern culture that maybe like a feminine perspective can give a little bit more expertise on, if I can use that word without being arrogant.
But it's just one of the areas where the South is misconstrued.
Anything good about us is associated with blacks, and it's just so not true.
It mostly comes from our Scotch-Irish ancestry, mostly.
That's mostly where a lot of good things about us come from.
It comes from the white people down here.
It doesn't come from trans plants.
It doesn't come from blacks.
It doesn't come from the Native Americans.
It comes from the white people that originally settled down here.
And another thing I'm going to say, and I think James is too modest to say it, but every now and then I hear people complain, oh, you know, I've heard this at conferences.
I see it on the website.
Oh, the political cesspool is just too southern biased.
And, you know, number one, number one, I don't really think that's true.
I think James is very polite about incorporating, you know, while still being proud of his heritage, as he should, you know, incorporating everybody into his audience.
But, you know, number two, if I can say this frankly, if you're from up north and you want to see more northern biased websites, then start your own websites.
That's what I'm going to say about that.
So Eddie's saying something.
I'm sorry.
Maybe I should give him the microphone.
But I wasn't trying to be mean, but I'm just trying to be like Scarlett O'Hara and I'm going to step in and say something that I think sometimes maybe the men are too humble to say.
And, you know, they are gentlemen and they don't want to come across as too harsh at times, but it's true.
And I think we're fully entitled to be proud of our heritage.
And if somebody else wants to come on and talk about their cuisine from their part of the country, I'd be very happy to hear.
But tonight, you know, this is who I am.
So this is what I talked about.
So I'm proud to be from the South, Sweet Home, Alabama.
Amen.
There you go.
We should have played that song.
That song should have been substituted for one of the Beatles, diddies.
But in all seriousness, folks, I think Courtney, beyond a shadow of a doubt, has proven her intellectual capacity.
In addition to everything that Eddie was talking about earlier, she has both.
But in agreement with what she's saying, and I know Eddie would second this notion, we here in the political cesspool, and this goes for Keith and Winston and our dearly departed Bill Roland, we're Southerners first and Americans second.
And that is it, because, you know, listen, the first and foremost prerequisite for nationhood is to have a culture separate than that of your surroundings.
And the South still, as watered down as it is now compared to what it once was, the South still has a distinct culture, which is number one when it comes to things you need to have an independent nation.
That and much, much more.
And our cuisine we focused on tonight.
But the South, listen, you know, I am a Southerner first.
Oh, my goodness.
And Sam is on top of his game tonight.
Let's go out with this.
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