Feb. 10, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
I don't know which way to go.
You kiss the living fire, like a sweet song of a fire.
You lie along the sky, burning love.
Welcome to tonight's live broadcast of the political cesspool, ladies and gentlemen.
It is our last show before Valentine's Day.
Now, you know, there's a few shows every year where we play some of our favorite songs.
Every song tonight has been hand-picked by yours truly.
So if you like the music and it gets your feet tapping, send me an email.
If you don't like the music, keep it to yourself because I hand-picked all of these songs.
These are some of my favorite songs.
We like to play intro music before each segment on the show, right before Valentine's Day.
Some of these love songs, songs about relationships right before Halloween, some of those fun novelty songs that signify that time of year.
And then, of course, for two or three weeks before Christmas, we really get serious about it.
And even before Easter, I think we do some of those gospel songs.
So Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas, you're going to get a little more music than you normally would on this show.
And I hope you like the selections tonight.
We actually really did put in a lot of work to that.
Sam was in the editing bay for about two days earlier this week, getting it all queued up.
So, hey, and I'll tell you what, not just that, this is the hardest I've ever worked.
14 years on the radio, I have never worked harder to make sure that each and every show is tailor-made for our listening audience.
And haven't we had some outstanding guests?
I keep saying it.
Our broadcast archives are ablaze with all of the guests that we've had since the beginning of this year.
Last week was no exception, and this week won't be either.
Last week, of course, Peter Brimelow and Paul Craig Roberts, a little bit of feedback online from the Paul Craig Roberts interview, and this is a takeaway that everybody should have.
The listener writes this, Paul Craig Roberts was launching depth charges by using some very politically incorrect words, such as that what we are witnessing is the result of decades-long development of the anti-white ideology of hate, or stating that, of course, the American people don't have a print or TV media.
That Paul Craig Roberts was willing to refer unapologetically to the events in Charlottesville last summer entirely from the perspective of the preservation of white heritage may have been the most remarkable moment in his interview on the political cesspool.
In this regard, in particular, Roberts is far out in front of where the president himself has been willing to go.
All in all, it must be considered perhaps something as a watershed moment.
It is one thing for a political insurgents like Paul Nalen to employ a dissident vocabulary, but quite another for someone with the credentials of Paul Craig Roberts, who has been at the very center of national political power.
And you know, Paul Craig Roberts has been appearing on this show for over 10 years.
It has been far too long since we last had him on.
I'm glad we rectified that situation last week.
It was an incredible show with both him and Peter Brimelow, and we got a lot of feedback from that.
And I'm telling you, there are a lot more, a lot more people out there like that in positions of power and positions of influence.
We've got an actor.
I love this guy.
I'm not going to say his name.
He's an actor in the UK.
Appeared with some of the biggest movie stars, Oscar winners, mainstays at the Academy Awards.
Incredible actor, commercial, film.
And he donates to the Political Cest Pool just about every month.
I have enjoyed the correspondence with this particular individual as much as anybody that listens to us.
Incredible guy.
And you wouldn't think that there are people in those fields that listen to this show, but there are.
And there are so many.
And I just hope you're enjoying the run.
Enjoy the run.
January was a month, of course, that saw us speak with attorneys like Kyle Bristow and Sam Dixon, academics and authors like Professor Andrew Fraser and Dr. Virginia Abernathy, Dr. Kevin McDonald, evangelists like Brother Nathaniel, and tonight with Jesse Lee Peterson, who's on deck, intellectuals like Jared Taylor, new media stars, Henrik Palmgren and Lana Loctiff, up-and-coming leaders like Patrick Casey of Identity Europa, and battle-tested veterans like Dr. Michael Hill and David Duke,
elected officials like Nick Griffin, power brokers like Peter Brimelo and Paul Craig Roberts, about a myriad of issues of importance to our survival.
16 guests so far in the first five shows of the year, and those are the guests that we wanted.
We have made a concerted effort to fill our show with incredible talent each week in 2018.
Catch every episode.
If you've missed a show, go back in our broadcast archives and check it out because they're still there and they're still fresh.
And we've already got the schedule filled halfway through the month of March.
So I'm telling you, more good stuff is coming.
We're excited about the year we've had so far.
You're going to help us keep it going and take it to a wider audience as we continue to expand and reach new affiliates on the AM dial.
Let's go now to one of our old friends, Matt the Copperhead, who's getting on early tonight.
Copperhead, how are you, brother?
James and our beloved listening family of the Political Sessible.
I'm having a wonderful night here, brother.
Great news.
I'd love to make an announcement on a personal behalf of my family.
And my cousin, she made the U.S. Olympic ski team.
Of course, for obvious reasons, I will not give out her name, but I will you and our beloved listening audience.
She's the white girl with the skis.
Not to be confused here.
Okay.
No, no, fantastic.
We're over the moon with pride.
She's definitely put the hours in and went to training camps.
And we're definitely going to be rooting for her in Korea and just bustling with pride over that.
But how are you doing, my brother?
Hey, how about that?
Ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause to the family of Matt the Copperhead.
That's what I'm talking about.
There are talent and individuals who are a part of our extended family that you wouldn't expect.
And now we have one, I guess, in a six degrees of separation type of way competing in the Olympics that just started a couple of days ago, and they'll be going on for most of February.
So I tell you what, nothing gets me as hot as curling, Matt.
I tell you, I can really get into an intense curling.
Absolutely.
The Scots were definitely on the right track with that.
The Canooks, our beloved brothers to the north and the not-so-great white North pick it up and they're like the champions at it.
But it's like you toss the, I guess you would call it the curler and you sweep and you sweep.
Yeah, there we go.
Now I'm a hockey fan and definitely hope one of our nations in the West can pick it up.
I mean, who are we going up against?
I don't think we have too much of a challenge with the Koreans.
They got a united team.
So my whole point is you come out as a united team.
You're playing as a united team.
What the hell are we doing on the 38th parallel?
Bring the guys back for some other time, you know.
There's a good article on FaithandHeritage.com that we're going to repost at thepoliticalcesspool.org.
And it talks about the Winter Olympics.
And I won't go into too much detail on it right now because we don't want to take away time from you before the break.
It's coming up quick.
But yeah, it talks about some of these homogenous nations versus the way the USA is trying to present itself, even though the USA team in the Winter Olympics, of course, is vastly majority-wide, obviously.
But nevertheless, yeah, you know, it's the Olympics are the Olympics, and it's an ancient tradition and it's become politicized and politically correct, of course.
Got this pride baby, this brother that wants to hold the flag.
Yes, he's going to hold the flag anyway.
Give me a break, you know.
Maybe hold on right there.
Hold on right there.
If people aren't familiar with that story, Matt, if you can stay on through the break, we'll keep you just for a minute or two on the flip side.
And I'd like you to share the story of what's going on there with that particular controversy, and then we'll let you fly and we'll continue with the show.
Matt the Copperhead, everybody, an old friend and a good man.
We'll be right back.
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Well, when you sell a gold coin to a coin shop that's worth, say, $1,200, you don't actually get $1,200.
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Daddy, why somebody seals that gold?
We don't have any gold at the house.
It's stored safely in the UPMA vault, securely and insured.
But the SP 500 outperformed gold.
Daddy, gold is a bad investment.
Some people do think of it that way, but actually, gold is money.
And as members of the United Precious Metals Association, we can use our gold at any store, just like a credit card.
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And though I really keep crying, I think I may start crying.
My heart can't wait another day.
When you kiss me, I just got to say, Baby, I love baby.
Well, if you wanted to know what the Wall of Sound sounded like, there's a quintessential selection from Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.
Now, our maestro at the birthday celebrations that we've had in the 10th and the 14th, respectively, he says, I appreciate, James, that you like the pop music of the 50s and 60s, but you got to be careful about praising Phil Spector.
I guess he's right about that.
I mean, I guess we'll give him that.
Look, I'm on that jury, though.
It's hard for me to get.
No, I wouldn't have even got on the jury.
I would have just said, you can't put me on the jury.
I like his music too much.
Anyway, Copperhead, to you, you can respond to that if you'd like, Copperhead.
There's no wall of sound like a Jew with a gun, man.
All right, then.
Studio in LA, it was John Lennon and Phil Spector.
That wasn't his first rodeo with a 38.
I tell you that much.
That's in the walls in the studio.
All right.
Now you're crashing me back down to reality.
The reality of it all is much harsher than the feel-good vibes of that music.
I mean, the man was an innovator.
He's right up there with Brian Wilson for sure.
You know, you're talking about pioneering sound engineering without a doubt.
You know, the guy is a genius.
Yeah, there was a little bit of a rivalry there, not to depart too much.
But Phil Spector said he never did understand how it took two writers to write Little Deuce Coop.
So there was a little bit of a competitive, but they both respected each other.
Anyway, tell us very pet sounds.
And end of argument right there.
Boom.
You know I love the Beach Boys.
God knows I love the Beach Point Boys.
Oh, that's the Beach Boys.
When it gets closer to summer, I'm sure we'll play some of their music.
But, okay, tell us very quickly about.
We're going to be producing in the pen.
See you later.
Well, you know, I think he can't speak anymore.
Specter has lost his voice.
He's still alive.
If people didn't know that, he's alive.
He's in prison for the rest of his life, but he's still alive.
And so's Ronnie.
But, yeah, but he lost his ability to speak.
Anyway, that's way too much time.
We've wasted way too much time on that.
Okay, back to the Winter Olympics.
Yeah, quickly.
The BLM on ice.
What happened there?
All right, tell the folks what happened.
Black Lives Matter on ice.
Oh, well, you know, they say, oh, well, the blacks, the blacks, the blacks are revolting.
Well, you said it.
They stink on ice.
Well, the guy, I mean, all right, so again, it doesn't really go by who's the most popular, who has the most celebrity.
I don't think Michael Phelps or LeBron James or a lot of these people were the flag standard bearer.
But there was this one, one of the very few blacks that are in the Winter Olympics, and even one of the few blacks that are on the American Winter Olympic team.
He wanted to hold the flag and trot the flag out during the opening ceremonies, and it went to somebody else, and he pouted, and he talked about Black History Month, and he, you know, made a stink of it on social media, etc.
So that's pretty much, you know, I guess that's pretty much the whole story.
He just, it wasn't good enough that he was representing America in the Winter Olympics.
He wanted to carry the flag.
And since he didn't carry the flag or wasn't allowed to carry a flag or wasn't selected to carry the flag, you know, it's racism and he's being put down and it's blah, blah, blah.
So anyway, hey, Copperhead, thanks for calling in tonight.
We love you.
It's always good to talk to you.
Oh, well, yeah, absolutely.
I got to get on more.
Now that I have a new schedule and everything, and got my new gigs back in New York.
I have to set up an address over here at Aqueduct Racetrack so people can send my eight-mail or fan mail.
And I can get back to normal.
God bless.
James, and God bless our people and our beloved listening audience.
Hey, they're listening tonight on Valentine's Day, and we love them, especially on Valentine's Day, do we not?
Everyone, but most of all, our people.
That's right.
He's true.
That's true.
All right.
Thank you, Matt.
Hey, by the way, folks, a little preview on what's coming up for the month of February, as we mentioned tonight.
16 guests in the first five weeks of the show.
We had four weeks in January, last week, first week in February.
Paul Craig Roberts, Peter Brimlow, 16 incredible guests in the first five weeks.
And it's going to continue for a few more weeks at least, if not the entire year.
Tonight, Jesse Lee Peterson, 11 years after Jesse Lee and I were on CNN together, he's going to be back with us tonight on the Political Cessible.
His last appearance was a couple of years ago on this show.
Incredible interview, by the way.
We actually reposted that interview.
Somebody created a YouTube video out of the audio.
And so we posted that to thepolitical cesspool.org yesterday.
If you haven't listened to it before, you need to listen to it.
It's just an outstanding conversation.
Next week, Tom Kaczynski, the town manager of this little hamlet in Maine, who was dismissed after announcing that he didn't hate white people, he's going to be on next week.
That was a very big story a couple of weeks ago.
And he'll be on along with Ken Gividin, the Daily Ken.
Ken will be back.
Remember, he used to follow us for quite a while right after the Political Cessible.
Now, Red 42 is in that slot with Scoop and Jim Lancia.
But next week, Tom Kaczynski and Daily Ken Gividin.
And then on February 24th, the last show of the month, Paul Kersey, Stuff Black People Don't Like, and Mark Weber.
So we're trying to keep up with the standard that we've set for ourselves so far this year.
I would say, again, you've missed any show this year.
Broadcast archives at thepoliticalaccessible.org.
Our guests are always waiting to talk to you.
And the show, well, I don't know if the show hasn't ever been better, but the guests have never been better, at least in terms of that many in this short of a time period.
Now, I want to go back very quickly to something that Peter Brimlow mentioned last week.
I think it needs to be re-emphasized because it was pretty astonishing.
And we're going to actually follow up with this, and I should say reinforce this in the third hour.
First things first, the fine folks at VDARE.com seem to enjoy our most recent conversation with Peter Brimlow almost as much as our audience did.
In fact, they even went the extra mile by transcribing the entire interview.
That's hard to do, folks.
You sit down and do it.
It takes a minute.
Transcribing an hour's worth of talk into print, and they posted it to VDAir.com for their entire readership.
Peter himself prefaced the transcription by writing this.
A four or five-hour project, Sam Bushman said, for someone that's a professional at that.
So they enjoyed the appearance so much and thought it was newsworthy enough to do that and put it up as a feature piece.
on their VDA.
Sam said for him, it would be 20 hours.
But Peter prefaced the transcription by writing this.
I don't suppose that my old friend David Frum would go on James Edwards' The Political Cessible Talk Show, but then again, he doesn't have to.
The whole point of being a token conservaton is that you get mainstream media radio invitations now long denied to immigration patriots.
You just have to be careful not to say anything important.
I'm grateful to everyone that was involved in last Saturday night's show, from which we adapted the following transcript below.
I began by reminiscing about Paul Craig Roberts, who had been Edwards' guest the previous hour.
So you can go to VDAir.com or to thepolitical cesspool.org to read.
That's a rare thing to actually read an hour of the political cesspool, but you can do it thanks to Peter Brimelow and his team at VDAR.
But one of the things that Brimelow reported on last week that I'd like to re-emphasize right now was the fact that President Trump would have won 47 states if the right to vote had been restricted to only white males in high school, in high school.
That blew me.
As I said, as you can read in the transcription, I said, I did a verbal double take.
I couldn't collect my thoughts or put my thoughts out of my mouth quickly enough when he told me that.
We'll tell you why that.
Obviously, I guess you know why that's significant.
You would have thought that it would be the younger generation that would be furthest away from the truth and from reality.
But things are changing, it would appear.
We'll be back to tell you a little more about it right after this.
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Cupid, please hear my cry and let your hour fly straight to that girl's heart for me.
Oh, yeah.
Well, if that's not a Valentine's Day song, folks, I can't pick one for you.
The great Johnny Rivers, and he is great.
I've had the opportunity to see that man in concert quite a few times in my life, and he puts on a hell of a show.
And if you ever get the chance to do it, you know, a lot of these old acts are still out there, and they don't call them holdies but goodies for nothing.
That's right.
They're still out there.
And you should see them if you can, because I don't guess any of us are going to be around forever.
But people who were making hits in the early 60s probably certainly won't be around forever.
Anyway, Peter Brimlow last week reported that I'll just restate the fact President Trump would have won 47 states if the right to vote had been restricted to only white males in high school.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear that.
Even after adding in white females in high school, Trump would have still carried a staggering 45 states.
So you would think that it would be that generation.
You know, high school is obviously, you're talking about teenagers.
You're talking about 18 at the outside to be a senior in high school.
So you would think that that generation would be among our weakest links, but apparently not.
It's pretty remarkable.
I had never heard that before.
And I would have not have guessed that the racial polarization was that widespread amongst teenagers.
But millennials are being converted.
It would appear according to these statistics.
And of course, VDA are only brokers in cold, hard, verifiable facts.
Now, Peter Brimlow naturally covered much more than that during his time on TPC last weekend.
It was a fantastic appearance.
And I've talked to Peter since then.
He was very pleased with it.
And so no matter how you take your interviews, if you want to read it, you want to listen to it, you can go to V-DARE and read it.
You can go to our archives and listen to it.
But it was fantastic.
But that was really something that I think everybody can take away, put in their back pocket, and invest a little bit of hope in that the teenagers, the young people, Trump would have carried it.
And in a very big way, of course, you know, the Copperhead called in a minute ago.
And wouldn't you know that Sam Bushman, Matt the Copperhead, Kurt Crosby, Sam's co-host on the Liberty Roundtable show, aired Monday through Friday morning, right here on the Liberty News Radio Network.
And yours truly, we were all there in the Quick and Loans arena.
We were there the moment Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
We were in the arena as credentialed members of the press.
And I'm so glad the Copperhead called in this hour because this is a story that I should have brought it up while he was still on the air.
But I said, oh my God, Matt, look.
And there around this ticker around the arena was these tweets from VDARE, Peter Brimelo's organization.
And I took the pictures because it was so significant.
And I immediately either texted or called Peter.
And he, I think, still on their Twitter account, it says V-DARE officially, what does it say on the?
Well, you can go to V-DARER, V-DARE's Twitter officially presented at the Republican National Convention or something to that effect.
But nevertheless, it was a pretty remarkable moment.
I forgot about this.
Michigan newspaper.
All right, very quickly.
I got to get to this very quickly.
Michigan newspaper outs the hotel that hosted me two years after the event.
My relationship with the newspapers in Michigan has been very peculiar.
It all started in 2016, of course, when the professional liar for the Detroit News wrote that I was the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
You all know the contentious lawsuit followed that resulted in one of the most ridiculous rulings in the history of American jurisprudence.
It rewrote defamation law and received widespread attention after being reported on by national public radio late last year.
But what you may not remember is that I also took a trip to Michigan just before the presidential election to deliver a speech and to make a television appearance.
This was about two weeks before Trump was elected president.
And well, it took them nearly two years, but the intrepid investigators at a newspaper in Lansing, Michigan have finally figured out which hotel hosted me and broke the news story on February 1st.
And this is what it reads.
Happy Valentine's, everybody.
The attorney who successfully sued Michigan State University to allow white supremacist Richard Spencer to speak on campus has hosted a local white nationalist meeting under the radar every six months for the last two years.
The meetings have been held at the best Western hotel, formerly the Holiday Express in Lansing.
A meeting in October of 2016 featured James Edwards, host of the political cesspool, a white nationalist radio program.
Edwards unsuccessfully sued the Detroit News with Bristow representing him, claiming libel.
Edwards cried foul when an editorial writer implied that the radio host was the leader of the KKK.
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in October of last year that there was no libel because while Edwards was not an elected leader of the Klan, he was an embodiment of the organization and a mouthpiece for its leaders.
Now, hang on a minute.
How can I be a mouthpiece for its leaders?
I thought I was the leader.
Am I a mouthpiece for myself?
Who are the leaders that you gave?
And who are the leaders that I gave my mouthpiece to?
I don't know about you, folks.
But I think that this article has Pulitzer written all over it.
What excellent journalism.
Honestly, to be able to find the location of a meeting after only two years.
That's phenomenal.
That's phenomenal work.
Now, of course, we reported about the event on the air.
And on this website, on our website, just days after it happened back in 2016, in an article written by Kyle Bristow himself, he talks about the speech that I gave, where it was, the people in attendance that we went out to lunch afterwards, that I appeared on television later that evening.
I tell you what, these people in Michigan, these newspapers.
And let's not forget that.
I mean, just a couple of weeks ago, Jesse Jackson was up in Detroit giving an award to the so-called journalist for defeating me in court.
This court case and this story will not die.
I would prefer that if I had won, but I mean, my goodness.
If I had won, I guess it would have died.
Yeah, that's right.
Thank you, Sam.
That's true.
But we're still making news in Detroit and in Lansing and in Michigan.
I mean, can you believe it?
I guess you can.
But that's predictable.
That's predictable.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we have denounced some people we're mouthpieces for.
I mean, that's for sure.
But I got to tell you, this is a Valentine's Day show, is it not?
So I'm going to read now two of the most incredible love letters.
Not love letters that you may be thinking about, but love letters nonetheless that came in from members of our audience.
And this one came in from a listener, a longtime listener, who we just had the opportunity to meet for the first time at our conference last October, a longtime listener from the state of Washington.
Dear James, I made a donation today in memory of my great, dear old dad, who died last Friday at the age of 93.
Dear old Dad was a radio man on a submarine during World War II.
He was involved in four war patrols in the South Pacific.
His submarine was off the coast of Japan when the war ended.
Dear old Dad was married to my dear sweet mother for 64 years before she died in 2012.
They raised four sons.
He was a pharmacist.
He got tired of many years behind the prescription counter, so he started a new career driving semi-trucks.
For many years, he worked seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at his drugstore.
My dear, sweet mother was a registered nurse and was also a bookkeeper for my dear old dad's drugstore.
Mom was a conservative woman born in Indiana.
She was so sad when I returned from college as a brainwashed liberal, but I saw the light in 2005.
My mother rejoiced at my conversion.
My dear old dad raced sports cars and was the Northwest champion of his division one year.
He was also the state commander and the chaplain of the World War II Sub-Mariners Association.
Hey, let me tell you something.
What a wonderful son to honor his father and his mother.
And I thank you.
I thank you, Jimmy, for sending me that email and to share with me the news about your father's passing, to share with me a little bit, a snapshot about his life and his time as a married man and as a father.
And this gentleman sent me also a picture of his father who was in his 90s at the time of the picture.
And he looked like a man that I would have loved to have known, a man that I would have been honored to have met and shaken his hand.
This is our audience, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Valentine's Day, a time for love and love of our people and love of our family.
And I wanted to share that with you because these are the kind of people that this show attracts.
And it's the best, not just salt of the earth, but the best people that America can produce.
This man, honoring his father, thank you so much for sending us a contribution in his name.
We are honored to receive it and every cent of that contribution, like everyone we receive, will be allocated wisely to honor the man in whose name it was given.
We'll be right back.
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Here I am in my everlasting love.
Lead you by my side.
Girl, you'll be my bride.
You'll never be denied.
Everlasting love.
Hey, folks, Valentine's Day is coming up.
If you want to remember what love is, you need to go to 1 Corinthians 13, verses 4 through 8, and that'll tell you what love is.
But grab hold of the person you love and just embrace them on Valentine's Day because that day won't always be here.
And I want to thank again Jimmy from Washington State for sharing with me the story of his father, his father's life, for making a contribution to this show in the name of his father.
We've had one other person do that in the history of our show.
And it was a sweet young lady named Janice in Tennessee, right here.
And when her father passed away last year, she made a contribution in his name.
And I'll tell you what that means to me.
What that means to me is that we are family.
We talk about it all the time.
But especially on holidays, we have to remember that we are family.
We laugh with you.
We celebrate with you.
We suffer with you and we cry with you.
And we do love you.
And I want to tell you, I'm talking about reading love letters from the audience.
If this next letter doesn't tell you what love is, you will never get it.
And this comes from a man who has been supporting this show since we first went on the air.
He sent this to me along with his most recent contribution, and I asked him permission to read it on the show, and he granted it to me.
And I hope that you will take this with you as we celebrate Valentine's Day next week.
This is what he writes.
Dear sweet man from Florida.
When you face hard times as a married couple, you learn things not only about yourself, but about your relationship.
It's one thing to face hard financial times, wayward children, or even those growing moments when in the early days you're learning to live with one another and adjusting to nuances and personality traits.
But when you face death as a couple, it's quite another thing.
I'm so thankful to have had a godly woman, a strong woman of faith and character.
We shared our thoughts, our fears, our hopes about this terrible situation.
We encouraged one another and prayed together as well as for one another.
Together, as much as we hated the circumstances, we decided that we would trust our Savior, the one who promised, though we didn't understand, that all things would work for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.
The one who told us that he truly understands and will give us courage and strength, the love and faith to see us through.
In May, when we thought we had the disease beat, my wife was doing well.
We believed that the disease was in remission and had changed our lifestyle, our eating habits, and began to make homeopathic defense to keep remaining threats at bay.
But it was in June that my wife began having some issues.
These were beginning to happen, and they were concerning, so we went and had things checked out, and the news wasn't good.
So we decided to go to the premier specialist in the field, Mayo.
The soonest appointment we could get was June 21st.
This would have been June 21st of last year, our 32nd wedding anniversary, he writes.
It was on that day that the doctor told us that there was nothing they could do.
The surgery would not help.
My wife asked, how long do I have?
The doctor's replied, two months.
He might as well have hit me in the chest with a sledgehammer.
On the drive home, the atmosphere was somber and quiet.
Thoughts and emotions were all over the place.
The next day, my wife, Dawn, being the strong-willed southern woman she was, called hospice and set up home care.
Believe it or not, she then called the church where she wished to be buried and got permission, as well as set up the purchase of her burial plot.
She then called the funeral home and purchased the casket that she was to be laid to rest in.
To paraphrase the conversation, it went something like this.
What is the basic package you have?
The lady on the phone told her.
My wife said, that'll be fine.
In typical salesperson fashion, the lady asked, don't you want to hear about our other packages?
My wife replied, no.
Caskets are like toilet paper.
You use it, and no one ever sees it again.
My wife, what a woman, what a southern bell she was.
My responsibility was to take apart our bed and put it away so that we could bring in that cold, ugly hospital bed, the same bed that my sweetheart would snuggle up to me and tell me how much she loved me in.
That same bed that every night I would reach out to hold her or touch her shoulder before drifting off to sleep and tell her she was the most wonderful thing in the world, how much I loved her and needed her.
It wasn't an easy thing to do.
As things worsened and she was basically bed-ridden often, she would ask me to pray with her.
I would pull up a stool and sit down, hold her hand, and begin to ask the Lord to give her the peace that passes all understanding, to give her courage and faith.
She would not face the situation in such a way, that she would face the situation in such a way that would bring glory and honor to Christ, and that if no miracle come forth, she would die well and free of pain.
She would pray for me that I would not be angry with God, and yes, I would miss her terribly, but that I would not sink into despair or drown in a bottle full of depression.
That I would love and trust Christ and serve him with my whole heart in spite of the circumstances.
We continued to talk, to share, to cry, to encourage each other.
But eventually there came a point in which I could no longer at home do the things for her that she needed.
I just didn't have the resources, so we had to move her to a full-time hospice care facility.
I was so proud of my wife.
As friends and family would come to visit to say their goodbyes, to tell fun stories about their times together, and sometimes just to tell her how much she inspired them, she was always upbeat.
She actually tried to encourage and comfort them.
When her unsaved friends would come by and inquire about things, she would say, no, I'm not afraid to die.
I know where my salvation lies.
I know where I'm going, and it's okay.
What a testimony.
Looking death square in the face, her faith, her trust, her confidence was in Christ, knowing that he would be faithful and see her through.
As friends and family would leave day after day, we would be alone together, and once again we would share, talk, and pray.
As the end began to draw near, my sweetheart would fade in and out.
I asked the nurse, is the pain, is it the pain medicine?
She said, no, it's the body's defense mechanism.
As the disease advances, the body begins to shut down when it can, including the consciousness, so that it can fight to the last.
One night, during this in-and-out phase, the nurse came to administer my wife's medications and whatever else things that they do.
Dawn woke up.
I had the strange sensation that this may be my last opportunity.
So while the nurse was doing her job, I placed my hands on each side of her sweet face.
I made absolutely sure that she was looking at me, and I had her attention when I said, I love you.
Looking in her eyes, I could tell that she was struggling to stay focused, to stay awake.
But she looked me in the eyes.
She smiled, that beautiful smile, and she said, I love you too.
That was the last time she was conscious.
Those were the last words she spoke to me, and I cherished that moment.
The whole last week, my best friend in all the world would remain unconscious.
At night, after family had gone home, I would still hold her hand and pray with her, sing her favorite songs, and just sometimes cry.
I would then push my bed up to hers, lay down, reach out, and take her hand, and go to sleep.
On that last morning, August 25th, at 5 a.m., I suddenly woke up.
I reached out to Dawn, and I knew that she had just gone home.
I moved my bed away.
I leaned down and kissed her on the lips, and I told her goodbye.
I then went to the nurse, and she came in and confirmed that, yes, she was gone.
The nurse was kind enough after my request to stand by my side.
She held my hand while I held Miss Dawn's hand, and I prayed, thanking God for all the years he gave me with her and for the blessing she had always been to me.
God answered my darling's prayer.
I must admit, for a while there at night, I would walk the streets of my neighborhood praying, tears running down my face, and I would ask God, why?
Why did you break my heart?
And yes, I would scream these questions in anger.
But now, by God's grace and mercy, in answer to Dawn's prayer, I have chosen not to be angry, to realize that God owes me nothing.
I owe him everything, to be thankful that he gave me 32 years, two months, three days, and five hours with the most wonderful, loving, beautiful woman he could have ever chosen for me.
I look forward to the day when my time comes to step through those same gates that Miss Dawn has passed.
And when she sees me, we'll do everything.
We'll do what she has.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me reread that last.
Let me reread that last period, that last sentence.
I will look forward to the day when my time comes to step through the same gates that Miss Dawn has passed.
And when she sees me, will do what she has been known to do when she was with me.
Run and leap into my arms, squeeze me tight, and say, I love you.
That's difficult for me to read.
That is what love is.
That is what Valentine's Day is about.
And that is what our audience is about.
And I want to thank that gentleman, Hank, for letting me read that and to share with our audience what true love really looks like.
That is it, ladies and gentlemen.
And I am so proud.
I have never been more proud in reading that letter to tell you that I am a host of a radio program that brings to its audience people like that.
People like Jimmy in Washington State, who is honoring his father in a time of his passing.
People like Janice, who honor their fathers in their passing, and people like Hank, who honors his wife with such a letter that it brought tears to my eyes the first time I read it.
It brought tears to my eyes as I was reading it right then.
That is our audience.
That is what this show is all about.
That is why you support us because no matter what happens in this world, we have always got each other.
So long as we are together, we have hope.
And the best people that I've ever met in my life are the people who listen to this show, who send us letters and come to our events.
And by the way, it wasn't included in that letter, but that dear man said one of his wife's last requests was that he be sure to attend our conference last October.
She was there for the one in 2014.
He was there with their grown son in 2014, or rather last year, 2017.
God bless you, dear people.
God bless you.
We love you.
We'll be back with our featured guest right after this.