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	You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
	The Political Cesspool, going 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.
	Welcome back, everybody, to the second hour of tonight's live broadcast through quite possibly the most memorable show I have ever hosted, and that's saying a lot.
	We've done over a thousand shows over the course of the past 10 years.
	Don't forget, for the first five years of our run, we were nightly Monday through Friday.
	Then we figured out we could work less and reach more when we got nationally syndicated, thanks to a gentleman that I'm going to be introducing in just a moment.
	But I'm looking around the room tonight.
	I was looking around the room during that last long commercial break, and as I did perusing the corners of Times Square after my first CNN experience, I'm asking myself even now as I sit, how did this happen?
	How did this happen?
	How did this show grow into the entity that could attract people to take their vacation time and invest hundreds of dollars to fly or drive to Memphis to share a weekend with those of us who host this show week in and week out?
	And I can tell you, I don't know the answer to that other than to say it didn't happen overnight.
	And a lot of the people in this room have been with us for a long, long time.
	And I thank you for that.
	Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for giving us 10 years on the air.
	The people here in Memphis in the middle of their dinner right now.
	But I would like to remind those listening to us on the Nationally Syndicated Airwaves this evening that you can join us in spirit by going to cfcc.org for the Council of Conservative Citizens.
	I believe they are administering a live chat in honor of our 10-year anniversary.
	Actually, we will not officially turn 10 until October 26th of this year.
	October 26th of 2004 was our very first show ever.
	Thankfully, this incredible venue was not available a week from now because if they had been, I probably wouldn't be here myself.
	Some of the most important people in the world to me are in this room tonight.
	Certainly I'm talking about our listening audience, but even more so, I'm talking about my wife.
	My wife is here.
	Stand up.
	She can't stand up, she says.
	My wife is just about to.
	Put her on the radio.
	It's been a long time since we did that, Sam.
	My wife is 39 weeks along and expecting our son.
	Our son will be born next week.
	And if this venue had been able to give me my first choice, I would have probably not been here, but perhaps the rest of you would have been.
	But my wife is here, and I thank her for standing by me through this journey for the last 10 years.
	And we gave her recognition last night.
	Can we please hear a round of applause for my wife?
	And talking about this venue, I would like to say what an incredible venue I think we have here.
	A great...
	A great facility, brand new, clean, very nice, very sleek.
	And I think the service has been impeccable.
	The food has been good.
	the beverages.
	I think it's been a world-class venue for our operations and for our function tonight.
	And I'm not going to mention them by name, but I'd like to thank our host facility here for putting us up for the weekend and for giving us the opportunity to gather tonight and practice our God-given basic fundamental freedoms here as human beings.
	Also, some other important people in the room.
	I gave them an introduction last night.
	As I said in my welcoming remarks, there are certainly a lot of people in this room that I wouldn't be here if it were not because of them.
	There are a lot of people in this room tonight that have played a role in my evolution as a thinker and a spokesman and have played a great part in my development as an activist.
	But there are two people in this room tonight that I quite literally would not be here if it were not for them.
	And my parents are here.
	All right.
	You know, and we like to shatter the stereotype.
	We like to shatter the grotesque caricature that is bestowed upon us by the true creeps of American society, that we are somewhat abnormal.
	Folks, I am telling you that we are the most righteous and genuine people, I think, that the world has to offer.
	And we are family-oriented people and God-centered people.
	And we are family people.
	And my family is here tonight.
	My daughter is here.
	My four-year-old daughter, my wife is here with my son who will be born next week.
	He's here too.
	He's just not out of the womb yet.
	And my parents and my pastor of my church was here last night.
	And so to have the support of everybody in the radio world, to have the support of everybody who is here, our extended family, our brethren, our kinsmen, but to have the support of quite literally my physical family is a blessing and an honor and something that I don't take for granted because not everybody has that.
	You know, not everybody has the involvement and the support and the participation of their parents and their wives and their families and their loved ones.
	And I have that.
	And my brother even was here last night.
	I have one sibling, a younger brother.
	He was here last night for me as well and for all of us.
	And that's who we are.
	That's who we are.
	That's what we care about.
	That is why we fight for family, for faith, for kin.
	And I'm so grateful that it's not just my small family.
	Most of my ancestors have already been called home by the Lord.
	All of my grandparents have passed.
	My uncle, a lot of people that I've loaded.
	We don't have a very big family in the nuclear sense, but we do have an incredible extended family all around the world.
	And some of their finest representatives are here tonight.
	And that is each and every one of you, ladies and gentlemen.
	I would like to give you a round of applause.
	I've talked so much, I've given nary a minute to a man who, again, quite literally we would not be here if it were not for his support over the years.
	A man who I thought just gave an incredible presentation last night.
	If we have a minute, we'll let him say hello, and then we're going to spend the next segment on the radio with him.
	But he is the one and only, the incredible, Sam Bushman.
	Sam Bushman, owner, owner of the Liberty News Radio Network.
	You know, up until 2008 or 2009, we were a radio show on the AM airwaves, but only here in Memphis and on the internet.
	Sam's given us an opportunity to reach an audience the likes of which I never thought we would attain.
	And he and he alone keeps us on the syndicated airwaves each and every week.
	I love you, brother.
	Sam Bushman, thank you.
	Well, thank you, sir.
	And I want to start out by just saying I'm grateful for those who have hosted us as me and Kurt have come down to be part of this 10th year anniversary.
	Keith Alexander, Eddie Miller, dragging James into Arkansas while he's freaking out, thinking he has to get home and all that stuff.
	I'm just telling you, we're thankful for Danny and your daughter, true Southern Bells.
	In fact, your daughter's a real Southern Belle.
	Just saying.
	Anyway, we're grateful to be part of it, James.
	Well, you know, there is, as I said last night, for every story, there's a backstory.
	We know that the people in this room made tonight possible.
	You at the very top of that list, Sam.
	But we had a pretty good time even before we all gathered together here yesterday at the hotel.
	You came in town on Wednesday, and Keith Alexander gave us the royal tour of Memphis.
	We even ended up over in Arkansas.
	We walked the bluffs of the Mississippi River.
	We had a deadgum good time.
	We're going to talk a little bit about that and much more when we return.
	Sam Bushman, my guest here, on our 10-year anniversary broadcast here at the Political Sess Court.
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	And now, back to tonight's show.
	All right, everybody, I can't believe that we're already at the halfway point of tonight's live broadcast.
	We're very nearly there anyway.
	We continue to blaze on through this.
	I tell you, a thousand hours of preparation and planning is going by a little bit too fast.
	I don't want this night to end.
	I don't want this weekend to end.
	I don't want to part company with my brothers and sisters.
	But it has been great.
	And for those of you not here, I may have mentioned this before, but I cannot mention it enough.
	We have had such a good time here.
	We've had such a wide variety of attractions, I guess you could say.
	But I think the very top, completely complimenting the atmosphere and taking it to the very next level has been our maestro on the piano.
	And if I could mention him every segment, I would.
	But I have just enjoyed the piano music as much or more than anything else this weekend.
	Can we give it up one more time for Maestro?
	I don't know.
	He must be eating somewhere now, but he's entertaining the assembled live audience here during every commercial break.
	And I should add, ladies and gentlemen, that if there is one among us that have not yet visited his tip jar, to please do that, he canceled a couple of engagements tonight to be with us.
	He is a professional entertainer.
	He works.
	This is his job.
	He has no other job.
	This is his job, and he does a damn fine job of doing what he does, and that is playing the piano.
	He is a professional entertainer, a concert pianist.
	And so if you've not yet shown him your love, I would encourage you to do that.
	I have given him everything in my pocket.
	James, I got to take control of the show for just a second.
	Please, Sam.
	I must do it.
	I got to do it.
	Everybody, listen up.
	This is vital.
	James is not the type of guy to do this, so I'm going to do it for him.
	I need somebody with a big ol' hat.
	And I need him to take that hat off and start passing the hat for the political cesspool.
	An event like this is expensive to pull off, ladies and gentlemen.
	So what I want to do is, who's going to help me pass the hat and start some contributions for the political cesspool to take care of business?
	As I mentioned last night in my speech, radio is incredibly expensive.
	But it's not just radio.
	It's public appearances.
	It's the effort that it takes behind the scenes.
	It's the toll on the family that's critical.
	And so what I need to do is I need to get the hat.
	Who can get that done?
	Can the bombardier get that done for me?
	There's nobody like the bombardier that can run around and shake hands and give everybody big old hugs and weasel them out of a bunch of people.
	Because the bombardier is in the back of the room.
	He's oblivious to what we're talking about.
	Hey, we need to get the bombardier to report over here.
	What we need to do is pass the hat for the political.
	He is the only one here at this event wearing a hat.
	It is a don't tread on me gads than flag hat.
	See, that's what we need right there.
	We need to fill that thing.
	That is valid for the political cesspool.
	I'm just telling you, who's going to help me get that done?
	Yank off that bombardier's hat and let's get her done.
	Right, you need to start passing that around and shaking hands and giving people hugs and asking for money, Bombardier.
	And James won't do this, but I'm going to push it.
	I'm embarrassed even listening to this.
	I know I don't want to hear it.
	It needs to be done.
	And James is too humble to do it, but it's something that's necessary from time to time.
	And I think it's valuable.
	I don't want a penny of it.
	I'm not asking for money.
	I'm telling you, though, that we've got to double down in what we believe in.
	And this is the opportunity to do that.
	Last night.
	Bill Johnson going to do it.
	Bill Johnson's taking, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Johnson, chairman of the American Freedom Party, has taken the hat off of the head of Eddie the Bombardier Miller and is now passing it in search of contributions to help us.
	Now, double down.
	We're not the kind that say give your money to the Lord, but we give you our address.
	We tell you it's for the political cesspool.
	But it is for an ideology.
	It is for an understanding of God, family, and country.
	And it is time to double down and dig a little deeper.
	I'm cringing now as I watch this.
	I'm not.
	I am not fleecing.
	I know this is going to happen.
	James needed to just sit back.
	I told him I was going to pass the hat, and he didn't want me to, and I'm on it, and he can't stop it now.
	It's rolling.
	It is your network.
	It's my show, your network.
	So I guess I have to defer to it.
	But we're doing a hierarchy here.
	But we're doing it because we want the next decade of the political cesspool to grow.
	I would like to say that.
	It's an investment into the future, James.
	Ah, man.
	Sam, thank you.
	Ladies and gentlemen, you've given so much to be here.
	You've given so much over the years.
	You know, you would not be here.
	If you have a hole burning in your pocket, I guess you could.
	The chairman, you know, what an honor to have the chairman of the American Freedom Party, a man of the stature and the prominence of Bill Johnson.
	It's fantastic.
	I'm too embarrassed hardly to talk.
	Let me say something else.
	While they're passing the hat, you who are out in the audience on the radio, you don't have the ability to get the hat in front of you.
	I mean, to hold the Bombardier's hat full of money is a treasure.
	But what I'm saying, though, is you have the ability to go to thepoliticalcesspool.org.
	Ain't there a donate link up there?
	There is always a donate link in thepolitical cesspool.org.
	All right, so y'all can pass the hat in the virtual world, thepoliticalcesspool.org.
	Click on that dude and just add zeros to whatever you donate.
	I'm talking about that.
	And I think it's vital that we do this.
	I think it's essential for the future growth of the show.
	The more money we have, the more public appearances we can do, the more we can take on the folks in the mainstream press like never before.
	The new media is going to take center stage, baby, and it's happening now live.
	Sam Bush, what can you say?
	You didn't think I was going to pass the hat.
	I told you I wasn't.
	Yes, sir.
	Let her rip.
	I told Sam it's so easy for me to do this for other people and for other causes.
	You know, Pat Buchanan told me one time he just cringed.
	You know, if somebody sent him $1,000, if somebody sent him a significant contribution, he cringed to have to pick up the phone and thank them because he was so embarrassed that they had given to him.
	And I think I got that.
	Let me tell you why I'm not embarrassed.
	Americans all over the country are looking for ways they can be involved in the solutions, James.
	And when people don't have an opportunity to do that, it's very discouraging.
	And when people feel like they're part of something like the political cesspool, like the new media taking center stage, tears comes to their eyes, a feeling, a sense of accomplishment and love and appreciation and involvement.
	People feel useful.
	You can't take it away from them, James.
	People like to give.
	People like to be a part of it.
	I agree.
	And I like to ask for everybody but myself.
	If it were not absolutely necessary that we do the quarterly fundraising drives, listen, if I was a self-made man, if I had more money than I knew what to do with, I would fund the show.
	Never ask for a dime.
	I hope you people sincerely know that.
	But it does, you know, a nationally syndicated show that reaches the amount of people we do.
	It does take at least a little bit to keep the wheels on the wagon.
	And you people have done it.
	And I didn't intend to fleece you tonight.
	I'm going to tell you this.
	Is it a blessing to be part of America and part of the solution?
	Yes.
	Is it a blessing to give?
	People give when they're asked if they believe in the cause.
	That's right.
	And I'm saying it's a blessing that you can't deny them.
	Well, it's a blessing to work with you, Sam Bushman, and it's a blessing to be in the company of so many great people.
	And I want to thank you before we come up on our next commercial break.
	You know what Lee Cochran said today?
	What did Lee Cochran say?
	Listener Lee Cochran, a very dedicated listener.
	He's been gracious enough to cart us around everywhere and use his vehicle for us and do some wonderful things.
	We appreciate him.
	He said earlier today, he goes, man, you guys are the A team, huh?
	I said, well, I don't know about me and a team, but they've certainly got the A team here today.
	And so that's kind of critical.
	Lee nailed it, didn't he?
	Well, he did.
	He's been great.
	I've heard so much about him from his work in the local community.
	This is actually my first time to meet him.
	He looks a bit like Dom DeLouise, but he is here.
	But listen, Sam, I want to tell you, I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve on your network and the opportunity to work with you on a day-in and day-out basis, week in, week out, for years, has been an incredible honor for me.
	To be a part of the Liberty News Radio network and to work under you is an honor and a privilege, and I appreciate it.
	And I love you.
	Thank you, Sam Bushman.
	And I've successfully kept the focus off me the whole time.
	Bill.
	Well, you have.
	And, you know, none of us are in this to get rich, God knows.
	And none of us are in this for recognition.
	We're just in here to serve.
	And we serve together.
	People like me put my money where my mouth is.
	I want to know who gave that penny.
	And I'm going to.
	Ha ha.
	Who saw a penny in the hat?
	I'm going to put my money where my mouth is, though, and I'm putting money in the hat.
	Oh, Sam.
	Yeah, got it.
	I need to be giving it to you.
	I don't tell people to do things that I don't do.
	Right?
	That's against my religion.
	Then let me donate as well.
	There you go.
	I'm going to do it too.
	You know, I donate every quarter.
	I donate every month.
	I'm putting some in the till here, too.
	And that's going straight to the Cesspool account.
	That's not going to James Edwards.
	And it's certainly not going to Eddie Miller.
	I can guarantee you that.
	Oh, my goodness.
	The Bombardier's not on the tape.
	Come on.
	Not what I had.
	You see, when you see the Bombardier in person and you watch him speak, you know when he goes to tears in the middle of his speech because he believes in what he's saying.
	He's had the man cry twice today.
	The bombardier.
	The most hardened of the hard.
	I'm not going to tell it.
	Listen, not what I had in mind for this segment, but we're going to get back to the standard programming writer of this.
	And thank you, Sam Bushman.
	Let's hear it, everybody.
	And thank you, everybody.
	Thank you so much.
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	call us at 1-866-986-6397 the 10-year anniversary celebration rolls on tonight And what an atmosphere it is.
	Great food, great friends, great fellowship, family, and great music as well.
	Where's Bill Johnson?
	Well, let's go ahead and get Bill Johnson on, if we could.
	They just brought out the dessert, which looks very good, so I don't want to interrupt you from that.
	But I want to thank you for a lot of things.
	Number one, your friendship and your support over the years and what you did just in the last few minutes.
	And certainly earlier today, I was the recipient of an incredible certificate of recognition from Bill Johnson.
	And it was very moving and very unexpected.
	And it will be framed and it will hang in our studio at the radio station here, our flagship here in Memphis.
	Bill Johnson is, of course, among other things, an attorney, very accomplished attorney, and the chairman of the American Freedom Party, of which I serve gladly and proudly as a member of its board of directors.
	And Bill Johnson is just one of the notables, one of the great luminaries in the crowd tonight.
	Ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause for Bill Johnson.
	Thank you very much.
	Party, a lot of supporters of the political festival, and one of the years has been a supporter for a long time, his name is Mr. Mullins, and he wants to give money to patriotic people, and it's divided up into two different categories, a Mullins peer and a Mullins fellow, and a Mullins fellow is someone who maybe needs a little bit of support financially for what he does, but a Mullins peer is someone who's accomplished a great deal,
	and so we decided to give it up.
	Yeah, he is.
	Can you hear him?
	My mic?
	However, it is not just because of the books that he's written, the television, the radio show that he does, and all his other activism.
	We've primarily decided to give it because he's such a wonderful husband and father.
	And that's what we need for future generations.
	So we gave him that certificate with great pride.
	Well, thank you so much, Bill.
	I was so honored and moved.
	What you and Sam Dixon did there at the end of the official program before we segued into the grand finale, which we are part of now here at this radio program, was inspiring and moving.
	And I can't thank you enough.
	And for you, and just like everyone else in this room tonight, you got on a flight in Los Angeles, California, flew all the way to Memphis just to be here tonight.
	That was a sacrifice of your time, energy, resources.
	And to be sitting across the table from you tonight is an honor.
	And to have you here for our event is even more.
	I wouldn't have missed it because, see, we activists are so involved in the trenches day to day.
	And we, I just want to check the word out there.
	Okay, we are activists in the trenches day to day, and we get demoralized sometimes because it's not moving forward as fast as we want.
	So when we come to these successful operations, we see all these supporters out there, all these generous supporters who give money when we pass the hat, it really rejuvenizes us and allows us to go back and carry on hopefully with a future that'll be great for our people.
	Well, working together, we will ensure that future, and I look forward to working with you, my friend, for many years to come.
	And I'm thankful for the association that we've had so far.
	Thankful for you being here for 10 years and the role you played in this event and everything else.
	I appreciate you.
	I respect you.
	Thank you very much.
	Bill Johnson, ladies and gentlemen.
	Could we get, perhaps, I won't give away his full name and location, but could we get Brian here?
	Everybody knows Brian.
	Well, I saw Arkansas here in the room.
	Or perhaps taking a break.
	He's out of the room.
	Could we get our friend from Canada, if it's at all possible?
	Is it possible?
	It is possible.
	Our lone international traveler tonight.
	We have to have the man who put the idea into my head on our nine-year anniversary, which we celebrated, obviously, this month in 2013.
	And I've shared this story a couple of times now.
	He said, you know, he'd want to come down here for the 10th.
	You made it.
	You're here, and there's probably a little bit more people here than perhaps you thought it would be.
	But what was it about coming down for the 10-year anniversary that made you want to travel that long, long trek from the wilds of Alberta?
	Well, I actually spent less time getting down here than a lot of people that drove.
	Yeah, I guess that's true.
	You're just in the air for about four hours.
	And there's people here that drove eight, nine hours or more.
	At least, yes, some more than that.
	So, yeah, it was just, I just happened to say, well, for 10 years, you've got to do something significant.
	And I'm going to come down.
	And James just ran with it.
	He called me.
	This gentleman called me after our nine-year anniversary show last year.
	And in fact, even before I received the call, I was thinking, you know, for the 10th year, we should probably do something.
	You know, because we always dedicate a show each year to the anniversary, whether it's the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, whatever.
	And I said, you know what, for the 10th year, I think we'll probably do two weeks.
	We'll talk about it for two weeks.
	We'll reminisce and walk down memory lane together.
	But not even in my wildest imagination did I believe that we could plan and actually pull off a conference such as this.
	But this man gave me the idea.
	And like I said, quite a few people here, for one reason or another, that I might not be here if it were not for them.
	Well, I would probably be here if not for the gentleman sitting across the table from me.
	But we would certainly not be here together.
	I would be doing the show rather, but we would certainly not be here together and enjoying this event if it were not for this one man right here who gave me the idea.
	And it's true, he's modest.
	He's laughing.
	He's laughing, maybe a little bit embarrassed, but it's true.
	And this guy never misses, you know, we talk about passing the hat and how embarrassed it makes me, but this guy never misses a fundraiser.
	And there's a few of the people in the room that can join him in that camp.
	But for years and years and years, this man has supported us with emails and letters and prayers and financial resources.
	And he is a brother in arms.
	So I want to thank you for coming so far and for everything you've meant to this show.
	This is for you, my friend.
	Thanks, James.
	It's an honor.
	The honor is ours.
	Thank you, brother.
	Did Brian ever get back in the room?
	He's on his way.
	He's on his way.
	What's taking so long?
	Oh, the copperhead has something to say.
	Well, I mean, Scoop wants to call in, but we can't take a call tonight, can we, Kurt?
	All right, well, okay, tell him to do it.
	Let's get Brian first, and then we'll get Scoop on.
	Maybe we can do it.
	Brian from Arkansas, another one who never misses a drive, never, you know, he doesn't give until it hurts, he gives until it feels good.
	Yes, I do, guys.
	And he gave me something last night that was incredible.
	It was my flag, and it's draped over the piano there in a certain way.
	We should really unfurl that.
	I unfurled it earlier today, and it was draped over the podium last night.
	Brian brought to me from Arkansas one of the finest knit Confederate flags I've ever seen.
	And it's emblazoned in the stitching with the political cesspool: no retreat, no surrender, no apologies.
	Our catchphrase, which was birthed by Bill Rowland.
	And that flag will be our flag forevermore.
	And for no other reason than that, but there are other reasons.
	I wanted to bring you on tonight.
	You're my friend.
	You're my brother.
	And I appreciate the role you've played in getting us here tonight as well.
	And that flag, though.
	That flag deserves a round of applause.
	Did everybody see that flag?
	Yes.
	Well, it is a token of my appreciation, James.
	And I want you to know, and Mr. and Mrs. America, I want you to know that your Cesspool family loves you.
	That's why we're here.
	That's why we do this.
	And I'm going to give you a country boy perspective of what's going on here.
	What was it about the show as you give us the perspective that lured you in to being the kind of supporter that you've been?
	Well, I'll tell you, every evening when the Cesspool hits the air, James dropped the tailgate and went bolts out of the back of the truck.
	Is the best train, is the best train hunting dog that you could imagine because he's always on the trail of the facts that matter most to our people.
	He's nipping at the heels of truth.
	And when you hear him strike, he has a pretty voice.
	Listen to him and be ready because he's going to turn the truth right back to you.
	And you can listen to Hannity and O'Reilly and Limbaugh if you want to, but they're going to drag you through every briar patch in the woods because they're just running rabbits.
	That's all they're doing.
	But the political cesspool, that's a dog that'll hunt right there.
	A dog that'll hunt.
	Yes, sir.
	Was that script?
	Let me tell you something.
	He had no idea I was going to call him up tonight.
	I didn't tell him about that.
	That sounded like something better than what could possibly have been scripted.
	No.
	I appreciate it.
	I bolted into the wife.
	My wife is upstairs with pneumonia.
	I bolted into the door with her piece of cake, and the phone rang.
	I picked it up, and a man I don't even know said, You want to be on the radio with James Edwards?
	I said, Yes.
	So I ran back down here and sat down just in time to speed.
	Well, enjoy the cake for yourself.
	We're going to take a commercial break.
	God bless you, my friend.
	Thank you so much.
	Hang on and come back to the political sesh pool right after these messages here on the Liberty News Radio Network.
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	Are you familiar with the term vigor?
	Strength in body and mind?
	He pursued his tennis game with vigor, for example.
	Well, I hadn't, but I learned about it from Kurt Crosby.
	All right, and he actually let me take a scientifically proven free vigor test.
	And I got 13 out of 32, not very good.
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	Welcome back.
	To get on the show, call us on James's Dime at 1-866-986-6397.
	All right, everybody, and welcome back to the show.
	Welcome back to the 10-year anniversary show.
	You know, we're not to the third hour yet, but I can tell you that we have saved what I think is the best for last.
	Sam, where's Sam?
	Sam Dixon?
	Sam Dixon's outside of the room right now.
	Sam Dixon stole a little bit of my thunder today.
	Sam Dixon likes the group sing-alongs.
	And in honor of the dearly departed Bill Rowland, we did a group sing-along of Auld Lang Syne after Sam's talk today.
	We did Auld Lang Zyne.
	Well, before I knew he was going to do that, he certainly didn't know I'm going to do this, to take advantage of our musical maestro over there in the third hour tonight, not coming up right now, but coming up in just a little bit, towards the end of the show, our grand finale tonight.
	We're going to have a group singing of Dixie.
	Now, we just heard the Bonnie Boo flag there in the commercial break, another anthem.
	But we are going to have a group singing of Dixie.
	And we're going to do that in about an hour's time, a little bit less than that.
	And I want you to sing it so loud that they can hear you in Nashville.
	Do you think you can do that, ladies and gentlemen?
	We tried this at the Council of Conservative Citizens meeting a couple of months ago, and it went well.
	But we're going to do it even better tonight because we got a piano in here.
	And I've actually put together the traditional version of Dixie.
	If you've listened to our Confederate History Month series in the past, you will be familiar with the war version of Dixie.
	There are two official versions, the traditional and the war version.
	I think the war version was obviously written sometime during the war, but it wasn't something we made up, is what I'm getting at.
	And I have printed this out, and I printed this out well in advance of knowing that, again, Sam was going to steal my thunder.
	But we're going to ask the Copperhead, just hang on to this because we're not doing it right now.
	We're going to do it in the next hour.
	But I want everybody to go ahead and start looking over the verse, or the verses rather.
	You know the verse.
	You know verse 1.
	You know the chorus.
	Verse 2 and the war chorus are sung just like the version we all know and love.
	So we're just going to pass these around, hang on to them, look them over, and we're going to sing them together, and we're going to sing them as loud as we can at the end of this show tonight to wrap up the festivities with something that'll really be emotional and inspiring, I think, to sing this song of all songs.
	And I know that we have honorary, we're all southerners tonight.
	Let me just first say that.
	We're all southerners in this room.
	Even the people from Canada and from California.
	But this is something that's going to get to everybody, I hope.
	I hope I'm not investing a little bit too much into this, but I think it's going to be fun.
	Do we have Peter Scoop Stanton on the line?
	Peter Scoop Stanton could not be here tonight, but I believe he is called in.
	Let's see if the room can hear Scoop.
	Scoop, are you there?
	Maybe not.
	I believe I hear you.
	Are you in the janitor's closet?
	Yeah, actually, I'm on a train.
	Can you all hear me in Memphis?
	Be loud if you can hear Scoop.
	They can.
	Outstanding.
	Well, I apologize for the slight technical difficulty here.
	I was on a choo-choo train going through a tunnel.
	But I send my deepest regards for not being able to make it, but I had some family issues.
	But I'd like to make a shout out to the Copperhead because that man did everything possible to get me down there.
	But it didn't work out.
	But I've been listening to the show in and out thanks to the free internet from the MC Suites Hotel off of Route 7.
	The nice man behind the desk decided to hook me up since I told him it was very important.
	But anyways, I've been hearing about it passing on the hat.
	My suggestion is do another beer challenge right then and there in the event over at Mulberry Street, room 306.
	Yours truly happens to be wearing the exact same sweatshirt that I did my beer challenge in.
	And in fact, I went to a local store and picked up a 12-pack of the same beverage that I did the beer challenge at.
	So that's my suggestion.
	Well, we did have a couple of people respond to that.
	Hey, Scoop, let me ask you this.
	You've sent in a couple of lists this week that we would have certainly recounted had you been here in person tonight.
	Recount some of your favorite moments.
	Now, Scoop Stand, if you don't know, as most of our people, I'm in the minority when it comes to the political cesspool staff of not having served in one of the branches of the armed forces.
	We have a couple of Army people.
	We have Navy folk.
	Scoop was a member of the Navy when he first heard about it.
	And he started calling in from Rhoda, Spain, where he was stationed at the time as a listener of the show.
	And he started calling in so much, we just adopted him.
	And so he's been with us since 2005 in one shape, form, or fashion.
	So, Scoop, a few of your most memorable moments.
	You sent them to me an email this week.
	Can you remember them off the top of your head?
	Not only can I remember them off my head, but I have them right here in my hand since old Scoop's got to keep his title knowing that I might be on air.
	Okay, first I want to start off with the best successful bombs.
	Now, what I mean by bombs is that things that happen on the air that just sounded absolutely horrible, but is radio gold.
	All right, I'm going to make this quick.
	Number 10, Charlie Leduff's Ohio joke.
	Number nine, yours truly oversleeping during this time slot while stationed overseas.
	Number eight, Anthony Kumia doesn't call in the first hour, and yours truly has to fill in, giving some real absolute garbage radio.
	Number seven, Swedish television gives James 15 seconds of fame, literally.
	Number six, Paul Babu throws us under a bus.
	Number five, a snake in a radio studio.
	Number four, visitors to WLRM crashes Jeff Melton's live broadcast of the political festival.
	Number three, David Duke's Eurofest crashes RBN's computer and kills the archives.
	Number two, Sonny Landham's opinion of Obama almost cost us SEC fine.
	And number one, Sonny Landham's hospital bed interview.
	That night was Mr. Landing in the hospital bed, Pat Buchanan, and then yours truly.
	So that was one for the record.
	I remember that show.
	I remember all those.
	Yeah, I remember, you know, there was actually literally a snake in the radio studio that got fried by one of the transmitters inside the station, and we couldn't go in there.
	We had to play tapes for a few days.
	That was several years ago, but a snake had gotten boiled by one of the coils.
	And you can imagine what that smelled like in 120-degree Memphis summers.
	And we've had a lot of stories.
	All right, top 10 moments, though.
	Not the bomb.
	Give us your top 10 very quickly, Scoop.
	All right, well, here's the top 10 off-air accessible events.
	I'll load them real quick.
	Number 10, yours truly crashes a live broadcast from Chino Stakes from Philadelphia WPHT.
	Number nine, I crashed Obama rallies.
	Number eight, myself and James Edward getting nasty on Facebook for art for a photo contest.
	Number seven, Scoop and James go at it over Frankie Valley and Jimmy Pang stemming from a comparison of the Butler Captain Phillips movie.
	Number six, Chilo the Duff is changing the business in a voicemail while sitting in my car.
	Number five, Bob Abiu again and the Arizona Senate race.
	Number four, you at the National Press Club.
	Number three, Eddie Miller gets ejected.
	Number two, your three CNN appearances.
	And number one, your 15 seconds of fame again on Swedish TV.
	Now for my top 10 best moments ever.
	10, Sonny Landham again.
	9. The return of Winston Smith.
	Hearing loss will not stop him.
	8. Anthony Weaver gave us, Wiener gave us tons of material.
	7. Chilo the Duff, Radio Gold.
	6. Sean Bergen got fired for telling the truth, and we love him.
	5. Godfrey Dulia showed us another side of World War II.
	Number 4, the USS Liberty Survivors.
	We did the job the media refuses to do.
	3. George Zimmerman.
	We called it.
	2. Anthony Kumia, best interview ever.
	And number 1, Bill Rowland's tribute show.
	The one show we did not want to do.
	Everybody spoke from the heart, and everybody's eyes were misty.
	Back to you in the studio.
	Thank you so much for walking down memory lane with us, Scoop.
	I remember most of that.
	You know, it's hard to remember everything.
	I remember most of that he was talking about.
	Obviously, the Bill Rowland tribute show.
	That will be right up there with tonight's show, with the ones that I will never forget.
	He mentioned some of the things in passing, and he was going very quickly through those lists that perhaps not all of you have been privy to.
	This is probably the first public gathering that Eddie Miller has not been ejected from.
	That I've been to.
	That I've been to with him.
	We went to a Ron Paul rally, and we were all set to have this rally for Ron Paul at the place where we will be tomorrow morning, the Nathan Bedford Forest Monument, where there was some woman there with purple hair who said that, you know, we don't want to be racist by appearing there.
	And Eddie proceeded to give her a piece of his mind and was shortly thrown out of the facility.
	I went not long after that to a meeting with our United States Congressman.
	Eddie and I live in the same district, and we're under Marsha Blackburn's jurisdiction.
	And Marcia Blackburn, a Republican long-term United States Congress, whatever you want to call her, Congressperson.
	Anyway, she came in, and it was an incredible situation.
	Eddie, you know, as a member of her district, as one of her constituents, went up to her to voice his displeasure, which obviously these people are not used to.
	And I was watching her as if it was something out of a sci-fi movie.
	She sat there with the same plastered grin on her face the whole time while Eddie got more and more belligerent until he was again escorted out by the arm proprietor of the place.
	So Scoop mentioned in passing watching Eddie.
	Scoop was actually there for one of those ejections.
	Eddie, you're not going to get thrown out tonight.
	I promise you.
	We got to take a break, everybody.
	The third and final hour coming up right after this is going to be one not to miss.
	Another hour of the political cesspool is in the can, but don't go away.
	There's more to come right here on the Liberty News Radio Network.

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