Oct. 26, 2013 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
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It's Saturday, very special night tonight, Saturday, October 26th.
I can't help but smile as I welcome you to the broadcast tonight.
The annual Political Cesspool Halloween slash birthday bash.
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I'm your host, James Edwards.
It was nine years ago to the day that I first took microphone in hand to welcome the first ever audience of the Political Cesspool.
That was October 26th, 2004.
This is, to the day, our nine-year anniversary.
We're going to be looking back on that nine years to the extent that we can in the three-hour commercial radio format.
But to do it, we're going to go back to the very beginning before I welcome Keith Alexander to the show.
He's going to be here.
You're going to be hearing from all the staff, the crew, some of our favorite guests, and more.
But it all started in 1999.
I was 19 years old, and I was watching, as I guess all 19-year-olds do, I was watching Crossfire on CNN.
And Pat Buchanan was on there.
And I don't even know who Pat Buchanan was, but I knew I liked what he had to say.
And I kept watching Pat and I kept expanding my knowledge and kind of getting more and more acclimated to paleoconservative thought.
And then lo and behold, Pat runs for president in the year 2000.
I joined his staff and I'm off and running.
That campaign didn't end the way, of course, we wanted it to, but politics was in my blood at that point.
And so after the defeat, I guess I was kind of like some of those Japanese soldiers on the Forgotten Islands that didn't know the war had ended.
I wanted to keep trying to find new ways to apply myself.
So in 2002, I mounted my own candidacy for state representative here in western Tennessee.
I was 22 years old by 2002, running as an independent against the Speaker of the House.
Needless to say, I lost, but I got 20% of the vote, nearly 20% of the vote.
I got more votes than any independent seeking a state office in the history of the state.
And still, though, after it was over, I needed another way to apply myself.
So I kept looking.
I was so bored in 2003, I learned how to fly.
I got a pilot's license.
And then I'll never forget where I was.
You just have some of those moments that are burned into your memory.
It was the summer of 2004.
I was with my family.
We were on vacation in Nashville.
I was standing outside of the Opryland Hotel on the porch, and we were going out to get in the car, and I received a phone call from Austin Farley.
He's another fellow I met in my campaign for state rep in 2002.
Austin Farley called me, and he said, you know, we have an opportunity.
I've been talking to this guy that owns a radio station in Memphis.
We have an opportunity, me and you, to start our own show.
Do you want to start a radio show with me?
I was like, you know what?
I don't know.
I've never done anything like that.
How would it work?
And we talked about it for a few weeks, and then we decided to do it.
I even remember where I was.
I was pacing outside my home.
We were trying to figure out what to name the show.
And we kept batting around ideas and nothing really stuck.
And then he called me up one night and he said, you know, my buddy, I don't even know who this guy was.
I still don't.
Just a buddy of Austin Farley, who was my original co-founder.
He said, my buddy said, what about the political cesspool?
I just paused for a minute and I said, that's it.
And that was it.
We were actually supposed to go on the air in the summer of 04 and we kept getting delayed waiting for WLRM to be bought by the owner that was putting us on the radio.
And it kept getting pushed back and pushed back.
So he said, well, we're waiting for WLRM to come online.
Why don't you just start the show on the sister station, which was WMQM here in Memphis?
Why don't you just get it started?
And when WLRM comes on, you can move over there.
So we started on September 26th, 2004 on AM 1600 WMQM.
And I remember the first call.
First of all, I remember just being petrified before we went to the air that first night.
Now I kind of come in nine years later, half asleep on some evenings to do the show.
It's just second nature.
But that first night, I remember just being very, very nervous.
And we started, everything I said on the radio that night was written down on a piece of paper.
You know, I wanted to make it perfect.
That's another thing that doesn't happen anymore.
We don't even use notes.
But the first call we ever got was a black lady.
And she said, you know what?
I've never heard anything so racist in my life.
We weren't even talking about race.
We just said, you know, we want to let you know that there's a difference.
There's not a difference rather between the Republicans and the Democrats.
And this show is going to serve as a voice for, you know, disenfranchised conservatives.
We didn't even mention white or race or anything like that.
First call we ever got within the first 15 minutes of our first show.
We were getting called racist and some things never changed.
But we began to build a buzz.
We began to build a buzz.
And so as we were kind of developing a cult following in Memphis, we had our official kickoff party in December of 2004.
This was again a couple of months after we first went on the air.
We had it at a local barbecue restaurant.
Sonny Landam, our good friend, he continues to be our guest on the show, making a couple of appearances a year.
He was in the movie Predator in 48 Hours, other movies in the 80s.
Sunny Landam was our keynote speaker.
When we got to the barbecue restaurant that night, we'd been advertising it on the air.
And it was a packed house.
Not only was it packed, I mean, we had reserved the entire restaurant, and we didn't know how many people were going to show up.
This was our first time to do anything like this.
And it was a packed house.
Every seat was filled.
The walls were lined with people.
We walked in there that night, me and Austin Farley, again, my original co-founder in Sonny, and we knew we had something.
We knew we were at least going to make it in the Memphis market.
We never knew, though, how big it was going to get.
This was, again, still in December of 2004.
Just still our very first weeks on the air.
Things continued to grow.
In March of 2005, we came over to 1380 WLRM.
That's when we first introduced the internet stream to the show, where we were beginning to welcome a global audience and beginning to build our following outside of Memphis by having the internet stream.
That started in March of 2005.
Art Frith joined the staff shortly after that, and then we really got a dose of professionalism to have a true radio man, a man who had had a career in radio as a part of the Armed Forces Radio.
Art was a Navyman.
We got some professionalism behind us, and things really started to take off both on the air and off.
In the fall of 2005, the political cesspool single-handedly preserved the Confederate parks here in Memphis.
We got our first dish of media, and boy, we were on our way, but we still didn't know what lay ahead of us.
But we're going to explore it all tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
We're going to celebrate the show, celebrate each other, and celebrate you, our listening audience, who's made it all possible as the birthday party continues.
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All right, everybody.
Welcome back to the special double header.
It's a celebration of Halloween, our last show before Halloween, and, of course, a celebration of the Political Cesspool's ninth anniversary on the mainstream airwaves.
It was nine years ago tonight, October 26, 2004, that we first took to the AM airwaves.
And I was sharing with you in the first segment, you know, how we got started and why we wanted this show to be different.
Our vision for this program was to be a voice for the dispossessed majority.
And we were going to feature on our program guests who should have their own talk shows on CNN or Fox, you know, the best and the brightest who, because they talked about the important issues without apology, were being shut out.
We wanted to offer them our forum, and together we have done something special.
And so we're welcoming three mainstays to the show in rapid succession here in this segment.
First of all, a man who, again, this show was built to welcome guests like Jared Taylor, the editor of American Renaissance.
This is a man who should have, and certainly does have, through his work with American Renaissance, who, my goodness, how prominent is that publication, but should be a man that Fox News goes to for commentary on the most sensitive issues that our culture faces.
We've been happy to welcome Jared to the show since our inception in 04.
He continues to be a regular guest and a great friend.
Jared, thanks so much for taking just a couple of minutes out of your evening tonight to say hello to us on our anniversary.
Oh, it's a pleasure.
I'm delighted to be on your anniversary program.
Happy birthday.
Congratulations.
Nine years, and we'll expect 90 more.
Well, God willing, we'll all still be here in 90 more.
I don't know if that's going to be something we can accomplish, but if it is, you're still going to be coming on, Jared.
I guarantee you that.
That's right.
I'll be talking to you from the grave.
They're putting me way, way under to stop me coming on your show.
Well, thank you for that.
You know, we celebrate nine years.
American Renaissance celebrates that.
And then some, how many years is it for you, my friend?
Oh, my gosh.
I hate to count them up.
It's going on to about 26 or 7 now.
26 years.
Wow.
A great accomplishment.
And we're honored to have you just to say hello this evening on our anniversary show, folks.
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Jared is in Washington, D.C. tonight, along with a couple of other friends of ours, Richard Spencer and Sam Dixon, fellow heretics.
And Jared, I believe Richard is standing right there with you as well.
Yes, yes.
But I just want your listeners to know that I'm one of your biggest fans.
And if you'd like me to put Richard on, he's right here.
Well, Jared, let me tell you, that's reciprocated a hundredfold.
And yeah, let's talk to Richard if we can.
Thank you so much.
Okay, here, here's Richard.
Richard Spencer, among many other things, is the president and executive director of the National Policy Institute.
Actually, the man of the hour in more ways than one.
The National Policy Institute is actually wrapping up its annual conference in Washington, D.C. As we speak, as we celebrate our birthday, they are wrapping it up in grand fashion there at the Ronald Reagan building, a posh venue in the middle of the district.
And Richard, you know, you just were featured in a big piece for Salon magazine.
And one of the things you hit on in that piece is something that I take pride in as well.
Revolutionizing the perception of pro-white activism, putting your best foot forward, letting people know that this is a healthy line of thought that everyone should be involved in.
Richard, first of all, congratulations on the success of this weekend's conference.
And tell us, how do we continue to change that perception?
Well, the perception is really a kind of propaganda move made by our enemies in the sense that they want to associate us with thuggish, dumb violence.
And I think the only thing we can do, we obviously can't, we can't run the airways, we can't change what they think or what they do, but the only thing we can do is to be reasonable and sensitive and to take time and care to look good at what we're doing and just to do our work and try to do it to the best of our abilities.
And it kind of can work sometimes.
I think what was interesting about that salon piece, which I found actually rather funny in many ways, was that despite the fact that it was a hit piece of sorts, the author, who was in many ways a kind of naive person, who wasn't that kind of intellectually curious, couldn't bring herself to really denounce me.
And she admitted that she actually agreed with me.
She found herself nodding along as I was talking until I maybe touched on a few issues.
And I thought that piece actually, despite the fact that it was objectively trying to harm us, actually made me and our whole movement by extension look good.
Well, you know, Jerry, excuse me.
Yeah, Richard, I can relate to that.
And that's why I'm so high on the work that you're doing with NPI and these incredible conferences you put on.
I had truly the honor of speaking at the one in 2011.
And I know tonight's was equally good, if not better.
You know, when the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote their magnum opus on me back in 07, and the title of it was Memphis Sewage, the author of the piece, who, of course, wrote it to denounce us and to make us look as bad as humanly possible, actually couldn't escape the fact, and they put this in the article, that in their opinion, was charming and intellectual.
And I know that that's what I think you had a female writing your piece as well.
And as much as she wanted to paint you in a bad light, she really couldn't.
You were changing the perception, even in her mind.
And just think of what we could do if we continue to reach a larger audience.
Yeah, I agree.
And also, they're just objective facts.
I mean, it was quite interesting.
I remember when at the conference in 2011, where you were a speaker, one of the criticisms was, oh, it was a bunch of old people, old men.
As if that in itself is a problem.
But, you know, I agree, we should have all ages.
But actually, today we were having a conversation on stage with Bill Regnery, my colleague and friend, and Sam Dixon, who's going to come on after me.
And one of those asked everyone in the audience, he said everyone under the age of 40 raised their hand, and more than half of the audience raised their hand.
He said, you know, everyone under 30 raised their hand, and about a third of the audience.
So I think what we're doing really resonates with young people.
And so this idea that we're some, you know, we're a bunch of dinosaurs, diehards, or whatever, is just simply wrong.
We're a kind of young and forward-looking movement.
Well, we are, Richard.
I don't know how they could report it otherwise.
You're leading the way.
A couple of young guys on the air right now, and I appreciate the working partnership and reciprocal respect that we have for one another.
Listen, my friend, go take your victory lap right now.
It's well deserved after putting on another Grand Slam conference.
We got just about two minutes, a little less than that.
I want to be sure to be able to work Sam Dixon on.
But everybody, check out Richard's work at npiamerica.org.
Thank you.
Very welcome.
Let's talk to Sam Dixon now.
Sam Dixon.
Congratulations, James.
Happy anniversary.
Thank you so much, my friend.
I was brainstorming with you a couple of weeks ago.
I was in Nashville getting ready to tape that television series that you know about.
And you and another gentleman named Christopher in Florida were the two, along with Keith Alexander, that I went to for talking points.
And you brought up the point that really had failed to dawn on me.
Think of all of the dull work day in and day out over the course of nine years to get us up to this point where we could welcome such an opportunity.
And Sam, you've been there since the very beginning.
I met you in 04, a couple of months before we went on the air, and you've been there as a guest and as wise counsel ever since.
And tonight you share in the celebration as well.
Well, I'm very honored.
I've done nothing.
I just talked.
And you've done all the blunt work.
And nine years, week after week after week.
I hope that all of your listeners appreciate the kind of discipline and time on task and focus and stuff that this represents.
Well, I think they do, Sam, and I appreciate you saying it.
We will continue the celebration here.
I wish we had gotten to you a little bit earlier, but I know you're in Washington.
A lot of people probably pawing at you to get a little FaceTime.
Enjoy it, and we'll talk to you again soon, I'm sure.
Roger Kevlin wants to speak to you.
All right, tell him to hang on.
We'll get to Roger.
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I just moved in my new house today.
Moving was hot, but I got squared away.
Bell started ringing and changed rattle loud.
I knew I'd moved in a haunted house.
Still I'm made up in my mind to stay.
All right, everybody.
We're getting that Halloween spirit.
You know, I guess it was that rockabilly Halloween spirit there with jumping Gene Simmons.
I guess it was appropriate that the political cesspool was born so near Halloween because we have been haunting guilty white liberals and respectable conservatives ever since day one, October 26, 2004.
I want to welcome on now.
You're going to be hearing a little bit from each of the remaining hosting staff and crew behind the scenes.
You heard in that last segment from a nice sampling of our guest list.
We got one more waiting in the wings, but you heard Jared Taylor, Richard Spencer, Sam Dixon.
I want to toss it over now to a man whose impact on this show has been absolutely immeasurable.
What Keith Alexander has brought to this show cannot be summed up with words in the English language.
It defies comprehension.
You think that I'm just saying nice things because we're all in a good mood tonight.
We're putting politics aside.
We're celebrating what this show has done.
We're looking back at the history.
We gave you a little bit of that in the first segment.
We're going to continue to recap and recount things that have happened in our nine-year run throughout the show.
You think I'm just celebrating to celebrate, but no, what Keith Alexander is and what he means to this show is everything I said and more.
We're going to let him say a few words now.
Welcome on another guest from the NPI conference in Washington, D.C. They're all there celebrating the Cesspool tonight.
And then we're going to get on to much more all fun tonight, folks.
Thank you, James.
This is Keith Alexander, and I feel particularly honored to introduce our next guest because I was the one who brought Roger Devlin to the attention of the Cesspool and James.
We used our good late compadre Bill Rowland to track him down.
And he has been an absolute bell-ringer of a guest.
He has been the bell cow of our movement in a very important way.
And I'll tell you that exactly what that is in a moment.
He writes regularly for the Occidental Quarterly, for Alternative Right, for American Renaissance, for The Last Ditch.
He is the resident expert on the effect of the triumph of liberalism and radical egalitarian programs like feminism, like the civil rights movement, on male-female relationships, and particularly on the relationships between white males and females in America.
His signature article is Sexual Power in Utopia.
He has Home Economics Parts 1 through 4.
And without further ado, Roger, welcome to the CESPO.
Hey, Keith.
Good to hear you again.
I just want to say a quick hello to all my CESPO friends, to Courtney in Alabama, especially, and to everybody in the Council of Conservative Citizens who may be listening.
Well, those are all people that we hold near and dear to our heart, too.
And let me tell you, you are, you know, you have such intelligence.
When I read your articles, I just mentioned, Home Economics 1 through 4 and Sexual Power and Utopia, and then hyper.
Utopian power.
Right, right.
Sexual power, sexual utopian power or whatnot.
And then what was the one about hyper something or other, about serial hypergamy, yeah, hypergamy.
You read those things and your jaw will drop.
They are so scholarly, so insightful, and so right on.
You know, basically what liberalism has done, I think, is reduce the birth rate of whites because whites are like an endangered species.
And like many another endangered species, we stop reproducing when our nesting grounds are disturbed and liberalism has definitely disturbed our nesting grounds.
Do you think that was intentional or just a coincidence?
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
That was intentional.
A lot of the people who pushed the sexual revolution were interested in lowering the population.
And yeah, you'll be glad to know I'm working on these subjects again finally after a hiatus of several years.
I've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes for Richard Spencer, editing, translating.
But I do hope to go back to that subject and maybe get a book out in another year or so.
Well, we'll look forward to that, Roger.
Keith is such a Keith so honed in, he thought this was a regular interview rather than it's, you know, hey, I told you no politics tonight, guy.
But no, we're celebrating the night.
But when you got a guy like Roger Devlin on you, you just want to jump into the issues.
But Roger, thanks for hijacking the phone and saying hello to us.
We're glad to hear from you.
And I know y'all are going to do it big tonight in Washington celebrating the success of the NPI conference this evening as we celebrate our nine years on the air.
And Roger, thanks for the role you've played in that as our guest and then some.
Congratulations on nine years, Jim.
Thank you so much.
And thanks to our friend Gerald, who is working as our associate producer out there in Washington to make you and Richard and Sam and Jared available to us.
Gerald's on the show.
All right.
All right.
So many good friends here and everywhere.
And, you know, Keith, again, we wanted to welcome people like that on, geniuses, peers like Jared and Richard and Sam.
And then as you just heard from Roger Devlin, that's, you know, this show was built to accommodate men like that who have been shut out because they tell the truth.
You know, what kind of John Rocker said this in a recent article for WorldNet Daily, who, by the way, you know, you want to talk about the role the political session has played in changing the landscape over the course of the last nine years.
I'm not going to say we are solely responsible for the renaissance they're having over there at WorldNet Daily, but they are taking on matters of race that they never took on before.
And certainly we have had a lot of working cooperation behind the scenes with some key players there at WorldNet, and now, you know, they're making a heck of a lot of sense and tackling issues that before they wouldn't.
But John Rocker is a regular contributor for them now, and he wrote in a recent article, what kind of politically correct kindergarten country do we have when telling the truth gets one denounced as a racist or worse.
If you objectively criticize matters pertaining to race or Jewish power and influence, you are either a racist or an anti-Semite, depending on who you're critiquing, unless it's just lavishing praise upon them.
Elon, that's not what we're here.
We're here to tell the truth and welcome guests on who also tell the truth and in some cases better than we are able to.
This program was built to serve as a form for them.
The people like you just heard, that was just four of the hundreds of guests we've had over the years.
They make the show as much as we do, and certainly it's all for the enjoyment and edification of our audience.
You know, there is such a news blackout on discussion of race and racial issues and your number two issue, Jewish power and influence.
You said that you can't touch those issues unless you effusively praise one group, either blacks or non-whites racially or Jews on the other.
You can even get in trouble for praising them.
Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States, who recognized the role of Jewish power and influence in the triumph of liberalism and made comments to that effect, really got lambasted by the leftist press because they don't want people knowing about the Jewish role in the triumph of liberalism.
So consequently, even praise is not welcome.
They want to work covertly behind the scene.
And that's what, and we have, you're talking about how with Richard Spencer, how they try to produce, how they try to present us or represent us as being thuggish, troglodytes, brutes and whatnot.
All the people that we have spoken to tonight or spoken about tonight are just the opposite.
They are the most rational, reasonable, intellectual, even-killed people that you would ever want to meet.
Family men.
Family men, intellects, educated people.
But they are frozen out of the mainstream media because the mainstream media has an agenda.
And, you know, what is that agenda?
They basically want white Gentiles to go gently into that good night.
They want everyone else, all other groups, to rise.
And basically, they know that when we reach a small enough portion of the population, it's going to be Katie bar the door.
It's going to be persecution, just like you see in Zimbabwe and in South Africa today, coming to a theater near you, coming to your hometown here in America.
So consequently, we feel that we're the Paul Revere of America right now.
We need to get out a bumper sticker that says it's race stupid.
Right, it's race stupid.
That's what we need to say.
I remember it was James Carville who in the 1992 election said, it's the economy stupid.
Well, guess what, James?
It's not the economy, it's race.
and people that will not discuss race and Jewish power and influence are basically playing hide the ball with you.
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You know that gypsy with the gold cow too.
She's got a pad that I'm fitting for combined.
Selling little bottles of love potion of the night.
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I've been in this race since 1956.
She loves that.
All right, everybody, you getting into the Halloween spirit?
Yet, I sure am.
I was out with my wife and daughter earlier this afternoon carving pumpkins.
Even before that, last night we went, my daughter was in a costume contest at the local community center.
We were just really getting into the spirit of the season, but we're certainly getting into the birthday party spirit tonight.
Wow.
Nine years ago tonight, Keith, I was doing this very same thing at this very same time.
We were on the air from 5 to 7 p.m. at that stage in the game in 2004.
So I would have been on the air at this time, nine years ago tonight, for the first time now, nine years and about, I don't know, 1,200 shows later.
We're still doing it.
And the impact of our work is bigger than it has ever been.
Again, we're going to continue to trace the history from our inception to present day as this show continues and we continue to interview cast and crew.
You're going to hear from Eddie Miller, Winston Smith, our producer, engineer, extraordinaire art frith, Sam Bushman, the owner of Liberty News Radio.
Hey, man, what an impact Sam has had on the development and evolution of our show.
Scoop Stanton and more.
You've heard from several of our favorite guests.
The hits just keep on coming tonight.
But Keith Alexander, again, can't say enough about what this man has done to improve our brand over the years and what he's brought to the airwaves every week without fail.
I say that last week he was out, but he's out like maybe once a year.
He misses less than I do.
Keith, let's talk first about, I know you're only here for a few more minutes, and then we're working everybody else in.
So everyone's time is limited tonight.
How did you first hear about our show and what led you to get involved as an on-air talent?
Well, here's what happened.
I was reading The Citizen Informer, the quarterly newspaper of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which is an excellent organization.
I would recommend anyone investigate them and join.
It's the general admission policy group for paleoconservatives.
And a paleoconservative is someone who thinks that everything that was on the table in 1950 still should be on the table for debate and discussion because quite frankly, I don't think any of the liberal movements, including the civil rights movement, that have occurred over the past 50 or 60 years were a plus to America.
They've all been big minuses and they need to be discussed.
But I was reading that newspaper and I saw an ad in there for the political cesspool and I said, isn't this strange?
This is in my hometown.
So I listened for a couple of weeks and then I called.
I don't remember the date when I called, but I remember exactly where I was when I called.
I was in my car using my cell phone and I was at the intersection of the Southern Railway at Goodlett and Southern Avenue in Memphis.
And I spoke with James and I think Bill Rowland at the same time, or maybe it was Austin Farley.
And they both made the comment on there, we got to get this guy on, you know, the show.
So that, of course, stroked my ego.
I like that.
I developed a personal friendship with James.
We went out to lunch once a week.
We talked a lot.
Basically, I shared with him my thoughts, my reading list.
He did the same with me.
And it just kind of, it was a symbiotic relationship.
And then I had my first appearance on the show when I was running for judge in Memphis.
Then that was such an enjoyable and positive experience that I did more and more.
If you get the CD of the best of Keith Alexander's shows, which came out as an inducement, not this last fundraising cycle, but the one right before that.
All of those early shows are on there.
People like Roger Devlin, Paul Gottfried, William Lind, Jared Taylor, all sorts of people who are giants intellectually in this movement.
But I got gradually sucked into the vortex of the cesspool as we're going down the toilet.
And let me tell you, it has been a wild ride.
It's been a great ride.
It has given purpose to my life.
It has given me something that makes me proud to have a cause larger than myself.
One of the things that most white people get conned into believing in is what Pat Buchanan calls economism.
And to put it in layman's terms, that's money talks and BS walks.
And everything except money is BS.
So consequently, white people shouldn't get involved in politics or in combating liberalism.
What you need to do is just try to make as much money as possible.
That's the only thing that matters.
Nothing else matters.
Well, that is a lie.
And none of our racial adversaries, none of our cultural adversaries buy into that.
And guess what?
That's why they're winning the culture war.
I basically needed to get beyond that myself.
And I did.
And let me tell you, Bill Rowland, who died back on February the 25th of this year, he suffered financially because of his paleoconservative activism.
But you know what?
I spoke to him shortly before he died, and he told me he wouldn't have changed one thing about that.
He said that there are some things that money can't buy.
There are some causes that are bigger than your bank account.
And the cause that we're fighting for here is definitely, I can tell you this, it has not been a big money maker for anybody here.
In fact, if anything, it's held you back financially.
But we're glad to do this because this is a job that needs to be done.
You talk about the jobs that Americans don't want to do.
You know, they always say for the excuse for having open borders and winking at illegal immigration that these people do, the jobs that Americans don't want to do.
James, me, Bill Rowland, Winston, Scoop Stanton, Eddie Miller, Art Frith, and all of our guests, Jared Taylor, Richard Spencer, Roger Devlin, Sam Dixon.
We're the people doing the jobs that Americans won't do.
This is a job that has to be done if we're going to save our civilization.
And it was just, let me tell you, I can't think of anything more fulfilling than being involved in this movement and making the difference that we have.
And James has been very modest.
We have learned over the past month that we are consistently in the top 10 of radio programs listened to on the internet in terms of listenership.
We're up there with people like Michael Savage and with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
And, you know, we're beating people like Mark Levin.
It's incredible how many people listen to us on the internet.
And that tells you that we're making a difference.
We're providing something that other people aren't providing in the mainstream media, but there is nonetheless a great desire and a great audience for.
And James is to be congratulated because this whole thing was his brainchild.
If it weren't for James, none of the rest of us could have gone tagging along on it.
So James, thanks very much from the bottom of my heart for everything you do and for keeping this ship on course over nine years.
And I hope that when all of us reach that blessed end, they're going to be playing these shows just the way that Jay Vernon McGee and Adrian Rogers' sermons are being kept alive on reruns on the radio because you've done an excellent job.
You're saying the things that need to be said that wouldn't be said were it not for you.
Keith, that almost brought tears to my eyes.
It's been, as you said, it's been a wonderfully turbulent and rewarding ride from nine years ago today to this evening.
And you mentioned those statistics, and those statistics are according to where we stand and where we rank during our live broadcast time from 6 to 9 p.m. Central on Saturday evenings.
We're in the top 10 every week online.
That's not even counting our listenership on the terrestrial AM and FM stations.
And who would have thought?
You know, when it all started nine years ago tonight, I would have never dreamed.
I actually just took it on as a hobby.
I thought it'd be something fun to do.
We'd give it a try, see what happened.
I never thought.
A lot of it is luck.
A lot of it was perseverance.
And some of it's just a tick of good timing, as the old song says.
You know, if this opportunity had been presented to me two years later in 2006, after I'd been married, I wouldn't have been able to do it.
You know, Austin Farley, my original co-founder, imagine the hardship, folks, working a full-time job, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., as Austin did, going into the studio from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., five days a week for no pay with a wife and four kids, as he had.
He made it a year, and I'm surprised he made it that long.
But without Austin, there would have been no political cesspool.
If the opportunity to start this show had been presented to me two years later after I'd been married, I wouldn't have been able to do it.
Some of it is just about timing, and I was in a position in my life in 2004 when this thing started to where I could give it a shot, and I'm glad I did, because now, wow, you look back on what has been accomplished.
How can you possibly cover it all in three hours as we look back and celebrate?
But we're going to talk about some of the highlights as the show continues.
All of that media attention and more.
But I remember when Keith Alexander first started calling in as just a caller, not even as a guest, just calling in.
And I was like, man, he's got something.
As he said, he said it.
We got to get him on as a guest.
He came in as a guest a couple of times, and it wasn't long until he was a co-host.
Now he's on every week.
The show's better for it.
We're going to take a break, folks.
Tonight's three-hour-long birthday celebration or anniversary and Halloween special continues right after this.
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