Oct. 28, 2017 - 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, 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.
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Well, it is our Halloween show, so you're going to have some of that kind of music tonight, which we like, and we like to get in the festive spirit of the season, whatever season it may be.
And this is a festive time of year.
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With our anniversary event last weekend, my goodness, ladies and gentlemen, the cup runneth over from that event.
And still to this day, a week later, it is hard to process everything we experienced and heard and saw and felt when we were together here in Middletown.
We're still getting emails and correspondence from people talking about what a wonderful time they had.
It really was extraordinary.
A political cesspool convention is unlike any other, you know, far-right convention that you'll go to.
There's more of a familial southern Christian feeling to it than any other type of convention that I've attended.
And I've attended basically all of them.
You know, everybody that puts one out virtually, we've been to one of us.
And ours are unique, you know, for better or worse.
Well, I want to ask you, Keith, a little bit about that.
Keith is only in here for the opening segment tonight, so we're going to get quickly to him.
But just first to remind you that tonight is the live broadcast of the Political Cesspool this Saturday evening, October the 28th.
And our birthday, the actual first day we went on the air was October 26th.
So the actual anniversary of the first broadcast of the show occurred midweek this week on Thursday.
Last weekend, we had our big anniversary event, and tonight, I guess, we're going to continue that.
So with our anniversary actually falling in between tonight's show and last week's event, we're still in full-on celebratory mode.
And we're going to dig deeper into that the first little bit of the show tonight and basically just recap from our perspective what we enjoyed last weekend.
So Keith, to you on that, I know you only have a few minutes with us tonight.
Talk about the caliber of the audience, the topics of conversations behind the scenes.
Obviously, during the live show last week from the event, we talked about the different speakers and the different presentations, their topics.
So you know all of that.
Now we're going to take you a little more behind the scenes and talk about the spiritual connection that was had by all.
Well, every time I go to one of our conventions, I'm surprised pleasantly by what I see.
And what surprised me pleasantly was, one, the number of young people that were in the crowd.
You know, I remember going to some other conventions where basically a 60-year-old was one of the young bugs in the audience.
This has so many more young people.
The alt-right is doing a great job of getting the word out, and the ideas are popular, and they're spreading like wildfire.
Now, the second thing is, I saw, I was very heartened at the number of women and families with children that attended this convention.
That shows that reproduction is alive and well.
We're going forth, being fruitful and multiplying.
We're doing exactly what the left doesn't want us to do.
And survive and live and thrive.
You know, I remember the thing we get the most flack from, from the Southern Poverty Law Center and other leftist groups, is the statement in our large statement of principles that we want the white birth rate to increase.
Well, you know, who that's a member of a race doesn't want their race to survive and thrive, but apparently it's wonderful when every other race does it except for white Gentiles.
You know, Elliot Cohen, for example, a famous Jew, wrote a book about how bad it is that Jews are marrying outside their race and religion in America.
Can you imagine what would happen if a white Gentile wrote that?
I mean, he would be denounced as the second coming of Adolph Hill.
Well, you look at all the flack we get, as you mentioned, from the press, and we set the bar moderately low in that statement in our plank of principles.
We write that we wish the white birth rate to increase to replacement level fertility.
They think that's the equivalent of saying that we want to send people to gas chambers or something.
See, this shows you just how insane the left is.
The left wonders why people are not flocking to them in droves.
They're wondering why their support is diminishing, why their star is waning politically.
This is why.
Everybody realizes now that it's a death cult and that it is motivated not by benevolence and love as they used to pretend, but by malevolence and hate.
All right, so back to the people, as you mentioned.
A lot of beautiful women there, a lot of children.
Now, there have been other events, other conferences where you saw an uptick in women in recent years, but I have never before remembered going to a big event like this where you saw a large number of children walking around, toddling around, even crawling around.
Some couldn't even do that.
There were some children so young they had to be strapped to their mother's backs.
I mean, it was.
Or fronts.
It was totally unlike what I would see, let's say, 10 years ago at a right-wing convention of any type.
This shows you that there is a change.
The times they are changing, as Bob Dylan said, and the left had better watch out because our ideas are popular.
They're converting people.
And you're seeing a big uptick in people that think like us out there in the fruited plain, as Brush Lindbaugh calls it.
And remarkable people.
We're going to talk more about the caliber of people who were there, some of the behind-the-scenes stories that you didn't get in the show last week.
And again, to be sure, we are not going to replow the field that we planted last week.
And, of course, we broadcasted live from the event last week.
We had the different speakers on.
Other notable faces from the crowd came up and joined us in that very high-energy, emotionally charged broadcast.
We're not going to recover what we covered last week.
We're going to talk a little more about the conference, to be sure, but from a slightly different perspective for the benefit of those of you who were there and were not there.
But Keith, this is your only segment tonight.
Final word to you on that.
Well, I think that we've really, we've made a breakthrough with the public.
I think that despite the best efforts of the left liberal Jewish-dominated press corps, the entertainment industry, all of the institutions that the cultural Marxists have marched through and taken over the churches.
Despite all of that, there is a ground swell of common people that are embracing our ideas.
They realize how pernicious the left truly is, and they are flocking to our standard.
We are about 8 to 10 percent of the population agrees with us at this point.
And once you hit that magic 10% point, it's just, you know, the jet stream will carry you to 20 in no time.
And I think Brad Griffin made this comment, and he was absolutely correct.
Donald Trump could not have been elected without us.
You know, the margin wasn't that big, but it was big enough because of people that think like us.
He better not cast us off.
He better embrace us because we're an important part of his coalition.
All right, folks, we're just getting started in a show that is going to feature heavily a post-conference recap.
You're getting that right now, or at least the beginnings of it.
Thank you, Keith.
We'll be back right after this.
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Well, we are on the eve of Halloween, are we not, this Saturday evening, October 28th.
Folks, there's not words.
There's not adjectives.
If you were not there, it would be impossible for me to articulate what you missed last week, but that won't stop us from trying.
And I cannot thank enough everyone who was there in that sold-out venue there at Eddie's house to share with us the celebration of 13 years on the air.
I have just been inundated with comments.
I think everybody who was there has reached out to me since then to share with me their thoughts.
And we're going to try to work through a few of those.
The most comprehensive one came thus far from a listener, good friend, supporter in Texas.
And he writes this, here's a brief report about James Edwards' TPC anniversary event held last weekend, October 20th through the 22nd in Memphis, Tennessee.
I rode up from Dallas with two fellow attendees and very much enjoyed sitting in the passenger seat and looking at the scenery along the way.
East Texas and Arkansas are quite pretty.
The soiled part of Blood and Soil has meaning for Southerners there.
I saw one matched pair of American and Confederate battle flags on either side of the entrance to a house in Texas, so that ain't quite gone yet.
All attendees were in fine fetal and eager to socialize and strategize.
TPC has a southern theme, but it's non-parochial.
It has listeners from around the world.
There were people from California, Ohio, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Canada present at the event.
A number of pretty young women, several with handsome small children running or crawling around.
That was good to see.
Among the pretty young women was one mother with a beautiful six-month-old daughter.
I could spend more time talking about some of the extremely high-quality, attractive, and interesting people I met.
But you'll just have to find out for yourself by going the next time James decides to put another event together.
A number of veteran activists were there too and did, I am told, a lot of networking and planning.
The speeches were fine.
James and Sam Bushman gave a particularly dynamic and entertaining tag team presentation on Friday about their experiences in the media.
On Saturday, I especially liked Virginia Abernathy's data and fact-based analysis of our immigration situation.
Not the least for its sober contrast with some of the more emotional speakers.
Eddie the Bombardier Miller's Speech used words, but he is essentially a nonverbal person of pure emotion, and you must attend his speech in person to understand him or it.
Jared Taylor's speech about our Confederate ancestors and how much we can learn from them.
This was really a co-speech with James, who read the quotations, which Jared had previously found he could not deliver without choking up.
Again, you missed something remarkable if you weren't there.
Jared asked for moderation and forgiveness after proper chastisement and reminded the room of historical examples where Yankees behaved honorably towards southerners in battle, which, given his audience, was a brave thing to do.
The evening program featured an incredible dinner banquet and a live broadcast of the radio show.
The speakers were all guests, plus a few more, like a longtime supporter from New York and new TPC contributor Jack Ryan, the journeyman writer from Occidental Descent.
Brad Griffin's website is Hunter Wallace, who has a very interesting background.
He has ancestors who were refugees from the Russian Revolution.
He has lived throughout the country, attended a prestigious university, and taught public schools.
So if you've pigeonholed TPC's original program, a regional program, you really haven't listened.
And finally, how could we forget to mention Chris the Maestro, a young professional piano player and entertainer who is an alt-right guerrilla fighter?
He provided piano music background for the entire event, played requests, gave a speech that combined crazy and brilliant in equal proportions, complete with dancing slides.
And he co-wrote an anthem with Jared Taylor, who also performed on the clarinet.
Yes, all of that and more in a single weekend.
And finally, thanks to James, because a good time was had by all.
Folks, listen, I am only now beginning to realize how special last weekend was.
I mean, of course I knew it was going to be special.
I knew it would be special, but it only, it took me about three or four days for it to all sink in and for me to absorb it all.
It was a multi-sensory event.
The feedback, as I mentioned, has been so overwhelming that I initially thought that the attendees were simply flattering me with hyperbole.
I have never, listen, we've received all kinds of feedback and correspondence over 13 years on the air, and it's been a full 13 years as of last Thursday, a couple of days ago, or this Thursday, I should say.
But one woman said the event changed her life.
Now, can you imagine a transformative event that reaches somebody to the level where they say, this weekend changed my life.
Another gentleman said it was the best time he'd ever had in his life.
Now, I can't speak for any of that, but if I do say so myself, what we're able to do, our events are unlike any other in terms of a sense of emotion, togetherness, a sense of family.
Now, that's not to say that the way we do business is better than the way other movement events are put on, but I do think that there is a slightly different feel that resonates from the top down.
And we always share ourselves fully and completely with the audience, and I think the audience bonds with us in, as Keith mentioned a moment ago, a familial way.
And I want to thank everyone from across the country, all of the speakers, especially Sam and Kurt, who did all the tech work to get the equipment up and running and to broadcast the show and to wire the room, the AV.
I mean, there was just so much they did in addition to speaking and, of course, syndicating the show.
I mean, Sam Bushman is probably the single most important part of the radio program.
And, of course, just all of the attendees, greatly honored to read That report that was issued from the gentleman in Dallas.
Reading stuff like that makes all of the labor-intensive production, and believe me, it was that and more.
That's an understatement.
But it makes everything I had to go through to plan it worth the pain and pressure.
I said last week that planning these things is the worst pain I've ever inflicted upon myself because there's just so much.
I am a perfectionist.
I guess some people could plan things.
I staged managed every single minute of that event.
Every single minute was planned in advance to give you the most optimal experience I could possibly deliver.
From the selection of the speakers to the collaboration with the speakers on their prospective topics to the musical entertainment to the food.
Oh, did we eat?
Just everything.
The venue, everything was micromanaged by me.
I couldn't delegate a single thing because these things are my creation.
They're my babies.
And my babies were there, by the way.
Henry and Isabel, my family, my wife, my parents, my pastor.
I mean, yes, it was a family event, truly, for me, in more ways than one.
But I micromanaged every bit of that.
And I'm a little OCD, I'll admit that, but I want everything.
I want to deliver the very best to my audience.
And we'll read a few more comments about this as we continue.
I wanted to stay on this this week because, again, with our actual anniversary passing in midweek in between the event last week and tonight's show, I wanted to follow up a little bit more because I just couldn't host that event, even though we talked about it all week, or rather, all three hours on the show last week.
Had a lot of different faces.
I don't think we did it quite enough justice.
So I wanted to wrap it up that the first half of tonight's show, we won't get back to business as usual.
But more to come.
More to come right after this.
Stay tuned.
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Moving was hard, 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.
Nothing was gonna drive me away.
All right, everybody.
Well, we're back.
I am, if you can tell by my voice, maybe you can, maybe you can't.
And I know you can't tell how I feel right now.
I have a little bit of a cold, a little bit under the weather.
I'm still a little bit exhausted, to be completely frank with you.
I mean, last weekend took it out of me in every way that something can be taken out of a man.
Emotionally, mentally, physically, just completely wiped out and drained after the success of the event.
And as we mentioned, the feedback continues to pour in.
I want to thank again by name, though, first, all of the speakers, one last time, in the order in which they appeared.
First and foremost, Sam Bushman.
On the second day of events, Gene Andrews, Keith Alexander, Dr. Michael Hill, Dr. Virginia Abernathy, Chris the Maestro.
What a guy.
Oh, I love that man.
Eddie the Bombadir Miller, Brad Griffin, and Jared Taylor.
That was the lineup.
They were all on the show last week, and many other people from the live event were there.
Virginia Abernathy actually just sent me an email about midweek.
And just simple, but James, thank you for the beautifully organized event and all your hospitality.
And I talked a little bit last week about my experience with Virginia.
So glad that the speakers enjoyed it as well.
But back to the attendees, the people who really made it possible.
It's easy for me to get a few people together to talk.
We do it on the radio every week, but to have a sell-out crowd there to hear them in person, coming from all across the country, that is a little bit tougher to do.
But we did it, did we not?
This comes from a listener in Seattle.
Dear James, thank you for inviting me to the big celebration.
It was a great event.
It was great to see your lovely wife and kids.
I also enjoyed visiting with your father until we meet again.
Well, thank you so much for that, sir, and thank you for coming.
Now, this particular individual, I think, got there only for Saturday's festivities, meaning that he flew from Washington State all the way down to Memphis just for the day and then back very early Sunday morning.
That is the kind of dedication and commitment that our audience shows us.
We give our best to you.
You give your best to us.
And together, we share in that fellowship and in that sacrifice.
And yes, you know, I had a lot of people come up.
I, of course, introduced my parents, and I had a lot of people come up and introduce themselves to my parents.
My mom said after the event, I mean, they were just so bowled away by the outpouring of love and affection.
My mom said she had just a number of people come up and thank her for having me.
Can you imagine?
I mean, you know how much that means to her?
How much that meant to them?
I think, I don't know who it was, but I think somebody went up to my dad and just started crying.
I mean, that meant the world to them.
You made, I can't tell you how much it meant to my parents.
And I would rather see people like my parents and my wife and my children be honored than me.
So when you give them a compliment, it means 10 times more than you giving me one, as much as I love and respect and value your feedback.
But I heard from my parents a couple of days after the event.
I didn't even know this had happened.
I figured a few people might come up and say hello, but I didn't even know until a couple of days after the event that that many people had gone up to my parents to hug them.
There was a lot of hugging going on, believe me.
And to shake their hands and to thank them for giving birth to me.
I mean, that's really touching and moving, ladies and gentlemen.
This comes from a dear fellow in Missouri.
James, just wanted to send you a quick note to say we had such a great time at your party.
Thanks to you and the crew for all the hard work.
Everything went very well.
But I've got to say, the maestro stole the show.
I totally understand why you wanted to make sure he was going to be there.
His musical skills were impressive, but they were bested by his delightful and hilarious presentation.
Well done, my friend.
From another listener, a contributor in Texas, James, I just want to take the time before I get busy again with work and life to tell you how much of a pleasure it was for me to attend your TPC 2017 conference.
This past weekend, it was wonderful to see people from all over our country, young and old, coming together for the cause of our people.
The fellowship and energy was tremendous.
Thank you so much for your generosity and hospitality and making sure that I had accommodations and taking the time out of your hectic schedule to visit personally with me.
Love you, brother.
Well, I love you too, brother.
A lot of love in that room, I tell you.
It's amazing how we get, you know, the lies that are told about how hate motivates our actions.
Nobody believes that.
Even our enemies don't believe that.
And the people who were there experienced something that, again, words just don't do justice to.
But there was a lot of love in that room.
Again, I hate that I can't match the energy being a little raspy tonight, being a little under the weather, still being tired from the after effects of a shocking weekend, a shockingly good weekend.
It'll be tough.
Know if we had ended it all, if that had been the last show that we had ever broadcast of the political cesspool, that would have been all right by me because I don't know if we'll ever top it.
I just don't.
But the show must go on.
The struggle must go on.
The fight must go on.
And so here we are.
And we're going to get back into the saddle.
We're going to keep on fighting.
We're going to keep on pounding.
We're going to keep on doing things.
As long as you're out there with us, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to fight.
We're going to stand together.
And we're going to continue to give you great radio.
Spectacular weekend.
Look forward to many more.
Well, again, I hope we have many more in us.
Another attendee.
It was an honor in all caps to be there.
Another bit of feedback.
I have never been to a better conference.
The event exceeded any and all expectations.
Thanks again for the great weekend.
You have no idea how much fun I had, laughing one minute, crying the next.
It was a great time, writes this listener in Arkansas, who gave us a beautiful, hand-stitched, tailor-made, personalized Confederate battle flag in 2014.
And you know what?
He did it again this year.
A different one.
Can't say a better one because the last one was so good, but an equally as good one.
It was a great time.
He writes, The flag is a gift to your show for all you do for our people.
Thank you so much for inviting me.
Brother.
A lot of that going on, like it was a church gathering, and maybe it was in a way.
It was certainly spiritual.
A lot of brother, a lot of sister talk.
And I think the only thing I could say is I read back and I texted this to a couple of people this week.
My only regret from last weekend was that with such a big crowd and such a busy schedule, I didn't have enough one-on-one time with each person.
I would have loved to have spent an hour just one-on-one in conversation with each individual.
More than that, I would have spent a whole day or even the whole weekend with every single person there.
And I wish that I could have done that.
I wish that there was some way that I could have spent one-on-one time with every single person to the extent that I would have liked.
I tried to talk to as many people as I could, obviously, and greet as many people as I could.
And I hope that I got that to cover everybody or that everybody sought me out at least at some point.
But there is not one person in that room, maybe outside of my wife and children, that I value more than another.
Everyone made an equal sacrifice in terms of being able to be there.
It takes a lot of money to travel across the country, to get on an airplane, to drive for hours, to find a hotel room, to all of it.
It just costs.
And so people gave us a great deal of commitment in that.
And the kind of people who were there, just out of a handful that I know and that came up to me.
Doctors, nurses, attorneys, artists, architects, former military and law enforcement clergy.
Of course, we mentioned my pastor being there.
And some of the people's travel schedules.
Hey, I told you about the one guy that came down from Washington State just for the day.
There was a lady that came.
Her work schedule conflicted her at the last minute, and she ended up having to work.
She's a nurse, and she had to work on Friday.
She was supposed to be there originally on early Friday afternoon, but she had to work a long shift on Friday.
She got in the car Friday night after work and immediately started driving to Memphis.
It was about a nine or ten hour drive, I think.
Nine or ten hour drive.
Didn't get to Memphis until the next morning, mid-morning, early afternoon.
Was there for the afternoon session in the live broadcast last week and then instantly back another nine or ten hours in the car Sunday morning.
Came by herself.
20 hours in the car, round trip.
She was in the car longer than she was in Memphis.
That is the kind of dedication our people put out to this show.
We couldn't have a finer, more intelligent, more attractive audience.
I am in the debt of everyone who was there.
I love you all.
We'll be back right after this.
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I told her that I was a farmer chase.
I've been this way since 1956.
She looked at my palm and she made a right decide.
She said, What you need is love potion number nine.
Oh, that's a good song right there.
One of my favorite Halloween songs.
Back to post-conference recap.
Gonna try to paint the verbal picture for those of you who couldn't be there in the words given by those who were.
And this comes from a listener in Illinois.
James, it was such an incredible weekend.
So many great speakers that I really enjoyed.
I've not heard too much from Michael Hill before, but he was very impressive and has a real presence about him.
I enjoyed his speech so much that I've already watched two of his past speeches on YouTube.
Jared Taylor was really the reason I went from a Pat Buchanan conservative to what I believe today after stumbling onto his speech, Race and Nation, about 15 years ago.
I was able to tell that to him in person, which was something I'll never forget.
It has to be so much work to put an event like that together, both before and during the event itself, but you pulled it off marvelously.
The list of speakers was as impressive as I could have ever imagined.
And as a history major, I enjoyed and appreciated the emphasis on Confederate history.
Thank you so much for inviting me.
For an entire weekend, I was able to talk to, eat with, and be with some of the finest people alive today.
The weekend was capped off Sunday morning at the Forest Gravesite.
To be before one of the greatest men who ever lived, with many of the greatest people alive today, is an experience that very few will get to be a part of.
It was an absolute honor.
The honor, again, dear friend and everyone else, was and is and will continue to be ours.
And I can tell you a little bit about what it was like for me.
I didn't eat the whole weekend.
We had the most incredible food.
Eddie's wife, we had it at Eddie's house, you know, and Eddie's wife was cooking up all the food.
And man, did she do a good job?
Grilled pork loin, Atlantic salmon one night, carved roast beef, and chicken the next, and more sides.
There's no way anybody could humanly eat everything that was served.
It was about four or five different sides and desserts every night, and bread and drinks.
I didn't eat any of it.
I didn't eat one bite the whole weekend.
Except, well, I'll take that back Saturday night after it was over.
I hadn't eaten since Thursday.
And because I get so hyped up and amped up on, I just get tunnel vision.
I have no appetite.
But Sam Bushman, now he ate every meal.
Oh, there was breakfast, too.
It's just, it's like I said, we charged everybody a $125 conference registration fee, and we gave them $150 worth of food.
So that's just, I don't know if that's a good business model, but it sure's made for a good time.
I don't know if there's anything we didn't eat over the course of that weekend, but I Saturday, about two hours after the show, Saturday night, I mean, the people were still going strong into the midnight hour and beyond.
And I was sitting there and people were around me, you know, coming to talk to me, and it just suddenly hit me.
It just, you know, it just, I remember this vividly.
I was breathing, and I couldn't tell if I was breathing or not.
I just, I wondered if I was dead.
Did I just die?
I mean, it was a struggle to even take in a breath.
That's how exhausting this whole thing was.
And then I had to tell my foot one in front of the other to go to the car, and my wife took me to Wendy's.
And the only thing I ate was Wendy's at about midnight on Saturday night of the whole weekend because I didn't, well, I could, I just, don't worry about me.
It was all for y'all.
But we pour all of ourselves into our work, into our events.
We're very open and raw.
We share our full selves with the audience.
And there's one more thing I'd like to say.
And this maybe probably should have been mentioned first.
With the kind of events we put on, we say they're a little bit different than any other movement events in terms of the kind of people, the kind of topics, just everything.
The feel, the emotional experience, the multi-sensory experience, all of it.
Just a little bit different.
And as I said in my presentation, the opening and welcoming remarks before Sam and I did our tag team presentation, the main event on Friday night, I said, this show, I'm the founder of this radio program.
So this show takes on my personality.
It takes on my quirks, my eccentricities.
This show is an extension of me.
And so these events are an extension of me.
And one of the things that I thought it would be important to do would be to open the entire thing before we had dinner on Friday night.
And we had dinner before, well, we started with piano music, I guess you could say.
We had the great Christopher on the piano taking a request and setting the atmosphere with that wonderful upbeat, feel-good music, put everybody in a good mood just from right on the onset.
And he continued that all throughout the weekend.
And so we started with that.
But before dinner was served, I had my pastor come up and say a blessing.
And that's really the first thing that happened in this entire event was my pastor came up, he said a prayer, everybody ate, then he introduced me, and then we were off to the races.
Then the very end of the entire conference, if you listen to the show, obviously we sang Dixie.
That was the last thing we did because we had done that before in 2014 at the 10-year anniversary event.
We wanted to close with that again because so many people had asked us to, and I was going to do it anyway, no big deal there.
But before we sang Dixie, we sang, How Great Thou Art.
So we started the event with a prayer, and for all intents and purposes, we ended it with a hymn.
And that's just how we do business.
And then on Sunday, on Sunday, quite a few people that didn't have early flights out of town or didn't have to get back on the road immediately, quite a few people were scrambling to find churches.
I know that Sam Bushman and Kirk Crosby were in church on Sunday morning, and they took a couple of attendees with them.
Keith Alexander was at his church on Sunday morning, and as he was getting into the pews, he saw another family that was at our event walk into his church.
Keith didn't even invite them.
They just showed up.
And so he ended up sitting with them and I believe having lunch with them.
So a lot of our people were finding churches to go to on Sunday.
We mentioned so many women and children in the audience.
I didn't realize how many women it was until the last segment of the radio show.
It was about 50-50, maybe 55, 45.
If a man had a wife, she was there.
And there were some single women there, and not counting the children.
But when Christopher and Jared put on their incredible anthem.
Now, that's the one thing you didn't hear on the radio show last night, but I think this thing has the power and is profound enough to really impact the movement.
And when they put on their anthem, we did that after the show, and then we called it, and everybody was off to fellowship.
But we asked all of the women to come up to the front of the room so they could sing along with the conductor.
And when that happened, the room looked empty.
Not because people left, but because the women got up and moved to the front.
And it was just amazing to see that proportion of women.
And then, of course, again, to see the kids.
The kids, there was a little kiddie playground basically going on in one side of the room in the corner.
A bunch of, I don't know, toddlers.
And my daughter's seven.
My son turns three today, actually.
Today's his birthday.
And we had a great birthday today.
I love you, Henry.
And so he was there tromping around.
He's three.
My daughter's seven.
There were some other kids around that age in between those two, some infants, some not even old enough to even crawl.
And it was great to see that.
It was just so good to see that.
But there was a couple of things I forgot to do at the conference.
And I want to make amends for that now.
Dr. Michael Hill's wife, a very beautiful lady, her birthday was last Friday.
So she actually spent her birthday.
They spent her birthday with us.
And that is a tremendous honor.
And I had meant, I knew it was her birthday.
And I had meant to get our pianist to play happy birthday to her at the end of Friday's activities.
And it totally slipped my mind, totally forgot.
And I regret that because that should have been done.
So I want to offer Mrs. Hill a very happy and belated and sincere birthday wish.
We forgot to mention Bill Rowland.
We didn't forget to mention it.
We just didn't mention it before the room.
His name came up several times throughout the conference.
But I wanted to pay tribute to our fallen heroes, Bill Rowland, Gordon Baum, obviously his wife, Linda, Gordon's widow, was there in attendance, and she's a dear, close, personal friend.
We want to remember those people.
We want to celebrate the birthdays of those still with us, and we want to celebrate and remember those who have preceded us in death.
And that was one thing, the only thing that I think I forgot to do, except for fundraise.
You know, we didn't make any money on this.
We lost a little money, actually, but what we gained was so much more valuable.
I mean, it was just so much more valuable.
I would do it all over again.
Obviously, we didn't get in to radio to make money.
If we did, we'd have been gone after the first couple of weeks on the air 13 years ago.
But we do have to bring in enough to stay on the air.
And one thing I had meant to do was to do a little auction of some items that I left at home.
And so that didn't happen.
Maybe we'll do that again.
And there were some things I wanted to do to help kind of shore up our finances for putting on the event.
So I would ask this.
I would ask this as we close this hour and begin to move on.
If and only if you were there in Memphis last week, and if and only if you had a good time, would you mind putting a little tip in the jar to help us shore up the finances from the event and to ensure that we can continue to do things like that in the future?
We could have cut corners.
We could have not rented a piano.
There's other things we could have done to save money, but it would have taken away from the event, and I wasn't willing to do that.
And so there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
That's my experience on the conference.
You heard from Keith earlier.
We're going to hear from Eddie next, and then we're going to get back to business as usual.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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