Feb. 24, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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All right, folks, we're going to do something a little bit different this third and final hour tonight because of the date that it is.
It was on February 25th, that would be five years ago tomorrow, that we lost Bill Rowland, our longtime founding co-host of this show.
Bill Rowland, my friend and a mentor in so many ways.
He went to be with Jesus Christ five years ago tomorrow, February 25th, 2013.
Bill Rowland, as I wrote on the website, as we post every year at this time, was called home by the Lord on February 25th, 2013.
As many of our listeners, of course, know, he was valiantly battling cancer for over two years before his passing.
That fight came to an end five years ago this week.
Bill is now in heaven.
The loss was and continues to be absolutely devastating to me.
In addition to being one of my very best friends in life, of course, Bill was largely responsible for the development and cultivation of the political cesspool from its very inception.
Bill was the one who guided me through my first row with the media in which they labeled me a hate group.
He told me how to respond, or at least gave me his advice on how I should respond.
And that made all the difference.
That moment defined everything that would happen for the following 13 years.
Bill Rowland guided me through that turmoil.
And had it not been for his sage counsel, it would have all ended up very differently.
We wouldn't be on the air today.
Everyone who follows this show, who has listened for that long, you know, we have listeners every day coming on, new listeners to the show every day, every week.
But for those who were listening beyond five years ago, you know that Bill co-hosted this show on a regular basis with me.
He was always my right hand behind the scenes.
I talked to him at length every week.
Rarely made a decision without seeking his wisdom.
Whatever value I may have as a leader in this movement is due in large part to Bill Rowland's counsel.
His impact on me personally and the radio program specifically over the course of that decade that he was with us from the time we started the show to the time that we have now cannot be overstated.
In addition to his value as a compatriot and a mentor, he was an incredible role model.
Those of you who don't know him as well or who didn't know him as well as I did were robbed of a tremendous blessing.
But those who did know him understand exactly what I'm saying here.
Barely scratches the surface of his true value as a man.
He represented the very best that anyone could aspire to be.
He cannot be replaced as a leader or as a husband or as a father that he was taking from us at 54 years of age five years ago this week is a loss from which we will not recover.
But of course, rather than lament his passing, I thank God for the time he allowed Bill Rowland to be a part of my life and the life of this show.
I miss my friend.
I miss him every day.
I miss him especially at this time of year.
Bill and I shared many mutual friendships, one of which was that of Sam Dixon.
Sam Dixon, we have a couple of clips we're going to play from Bill, and I think we're going to extend the tribute to Bill a little bit longer than we thought.
So I think we'll do the clip the next segment, if that's okay.
Because I do want to share this, that Bill and I shared many friendships, one of which was Sam Dixon.
Sam Dixon said this of Bill Rowland: quote, Bill was one of the finest men I've ever known, truly noble, sound, intelligent, tactful, polite, and brave.
He is one of the few who had something to lose, but were still willing to step up to the plate for our race, as well as one of the even rarer and fewer who did so while being an all-American family man with a lovely wife and two wonderful children.
Bill soldiered on despite his cancer, working at both his job and on the radio with James Edwards.
All of you might consider sending his family a note recognizing his bravery and devotion through these decades of hard, dull, day-in-day out work for the resurrection of our kin.
Sam Dixon wrote this in conclusion to his tribute to Bill at the time of his passing: Lord, let us now, thy servant, depart in peace according to thy word.
Another mutual friend wrote this: Bill was a good and courageous man as I've ever met.
I never saw fear in his eyes.
He was truly worthy of his southern patrimony, which he never failed to acknowledge and honor.
I miss him greatly.
And I'll say this before I toss it over to Eddie.
I'm still in Bill's debt for the incredible impact he made on my life and activism.
He left a lasting legacy.
I'll never forget him.
I'll never forget the things that he did.
I'll never be as good of a man without him here.
The show will never be as good without him here, though I do look forward to meeting my friend again in the kingdom of heaven one day.
Eddie, I remember being in the hospital two days before he died.
And the last thing you said to Bill was, I'll see you in heaven.
You know, one of the greatest privileges I've ever had in my life, James, you were there that day, you and our other brother, Keith.
I was allowed to pray for him.
You know, you may remember James came to my baptism.
I became to Christianity late in life.
I was on fire as a Christian then, and I was, you know, you people might remember, I'm a nurse.
I have a BSN, and I was kind of attending to two tours as a combat medic.
I was attending to him.
I was attending to him, his pain, you know, asking me how much pain he was in.
And then I asked him.
If people don't know why we're laughing, it's because Sam cut in to say you have a BS.
That's right.
That's right.
Keep going.
But absolutely.
But yeah, I was allowed to pray for him.
And you people know, you know me, especially people that came to the political Seth Pooh Family Reunion.
I'm really emotional.
I think I broke down and cried that day.
But Bill allowed me to pray for him.
His family allowed me to pray for him.
And Lord knows that was one of the most emotional minutes of my life.
I'll never forget that.
What a privilege.
You know, I remember seeing Bill.
He was a lion.
He was a lion.
Like Sam Dixon is right.
There was no fear in his eyes.
James, I remember we were over back in 07 at the council meeting over in the Quad City in Alabama.
He was literally ready to fight.
He was a lion.
There was some black brethren over there trying to stir up some crap.
I'd already gone across the river.
I think the thing was in Muscle Shoals.
It was in Florence.
Across the river would have been Muscle Shoals.
Across the river, Muscle Shoals, and Bill was ready to get it on.
They came in being disrupted.
Just to give people context, they came in being disruptive, uninvited, at no provocation, came in to disrupt the meeting.
And Bill stood up.
There were women and children in the room, and Bill stood up to, he was going to face them down.
And Sam Dixon was there to witness that.
He sure was.
And Bill said that, in a way, he wished I was there at the time.
But in a way, he wished, I guess he's just glad that I wasn't there because we probably would still both be in jail.
Because I'll tell you what, me and Bill, Bill was another lion, and I'm not tuning my money.
And Bill was a guy who was a genius, and he was a strategist.
And Bill, I'll give you another example.
Bill was entirely responsible for the success that we had in 05 and 06 protecting the Confederate parks here.
God, what a lot.
Got all the credit for that as the head of this show.
Bill was the one who told me every step to make.
He had a God-given, you know, he was gifted by God.
You know, I remember the first time I saw Bill, the first time I met him was at your wedding.
Your wedding.
Talk about that.
So, I mean, you came on.
My wedding was in May of 06.
So that was a year and a half after we started the show, which was in the fall of 04, of course.
And you had not yet come on, even though we had met as early as my campaign in 2002 for state representative, you had not yet officially come on as a regular co-host.
And so you met Bill, and Winston was there and Austin Farley.
Well, we'll share the story when we come back.
We got a couple of clips.
Two battles.
Behind the scenes.
I think we may.
I think we may extend the segment that we were going to do, memorializing Bill.
We were going to do it for two segments.
Let's extend it to three.
We got a few clips we want to play so you can hear Bill's voice again on this show.
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And we'll be back right after this.
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There are precious few voices for our movement in the mainstream media.
In fact, when you talk about AM Radio, this is it.
This network, this show and Liberty Roundtable, that is it on AM Radio.
All of A.M. Radio.
That's it.
And so you say, you've got three hours a week.
That's precious little time to talk about all the issues that we need to cover.
But I'll tell you this.
There's nothing more important than remembering our fallen heroes, to remember the people upon whose shoulders we stood.
If we don't do that, we're nothing.
And so that's why I will dedicate this hour to Bill Rowland.
And as I posted to Twitter earlier this week, longtime political accessible co-host Bill Rowland passed away five years ago this week.
He was one of the best men I've ever known.
His impact on our show continues to be felt.
And I ask that you join us in remembering our brother by checking out the tribute that we posted to him earlier this week on thepoliticalaccess pool.org.
I'll show Eddie the picture now.
So the picture that Eddie's looking at right now is the one that we posted to thepoliticalasspool.org.
It's a picture of myself in the middle, Bill to my left, and Jared Pipe.
That was at a live remote broadcast of TPC in 2011 in Jackson, Mississippi.
And that was a great day.
President of the South immediately responded to that post on Twitter by writing, Bill was a good man and a fighter for his people.
He is sorely missed in this evil day.
And that's Michael Hill paying tribute to Bill Rowland, who you met for the first time at my wedding in May of 06.
Tell us about it, Eddie.
I sure did.
I didn't know who he was.
I recognized his voice immediately when I heard him speak.
You know, Bill was there.
Austin Farley was there.
And the great Winston was there.
Art Frith was there.
I mean, the whole TPC crew at the time was there.
That was right before you came on as a full-time contributor in May of 06.
No, I knew Bill.
He knew me through some of the battles.
We all had met before.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, me and James had been through the political, James had run for political office a few times.
Or rather, I guess I should say y'all had known each other before, but that was the first time y'all had a chance to talk.
First time we'd got, I absolutely had a chance to talk in person.
We, like you know, James and I had been involved in several political races supporting other people.
James ran for political office here in Tennessee once, and it got pretty rowdy at times.
We had a few battles on the street, James and me and my grandson.
I think we bit off more we could chew a few times.
But Bill, that's how Bill found out Me and how I found out about him.
But I saw, I was a big, big fan of Bill.
And Winston, too.
Matter of fact, the very first person I ever heard of the political success pool was Winston Smith.
I may have told this story before.
I was coming home from deer hunting years ago, and I heard this guy speaking.
I said, This is one of the most intelligent people I've ever seen.
He sounds like an English professor or something.
Come to find out.
He has his degrees in English.
And by the way, I don't know if you know this or not, James, but see, Bill had a degree in English too.
Bill graduated from the University of Mississippi when it was the University of Mississippi.
And no one, no one on earth loved the South more than Bill.
No one loved Ole Miss more than Bill.
It absolutely ripped his heart out what happened to Ole Miss.
He referred, and rightfully so, to the chancellor to Ole Miss, the car is a carpet, a carpet salesman.
A carpet merchant.
A rug merchant is what he called it.
A rug merchant.
You know, he was one of these carpetbaggers.
He was a Muslim, for God's sakes.
Coming down here in the Bible Belt, running Ole Miss, and he hated Southerners.
He despised Southerners.
He hated the tradition of the South, this carpetbagger.
It just ripped Bill to pieces.
Bill knew more about the South and more about Ole Miss, history of Ole Miss, anybody I know.
Keith is real good about that.
But I don't know anybody.
Bill could come on, and you mentioned, we mentioned during the break.
Bill could run the radio show all by himself.
He never ran out of stuff to talk.
He was like an English professor and a history professor all in one.
But let me tell you what, Bill was hardcore Christian.
And you know his favorite book?
That was his big thing.
Big thing.
His favorite book.
His favorite as anything.
His favorite book of the Bible was Job.
You know, I don't know if you remember we went to his funeral, and I found out about that.
He was hardcore Christian all the way.
Well, that funeral, too, of course, was he died five years ago tomorrow, so his funeral would have been five years ago next week, a couple of days after his passing, of course.
And we were there, and I was a pallbearer, and you were there.
Keith was there.
Sam Dixon came into town.
A lot of our friends came into town for that funeral.
Sam Dixon stayed at my house that week.
So he could go to the funeral.
I remember that very fondly.
And it was bitterly cold that day.
It was cold.
Yeah, that was the first couple of days of February of 2013.
That church was icy cold.
It was freezing.
And then as we got to the place where he was buried, the moment, folks, you're going to think this sounds like an exaggeration.
It was freezing cold.
I mean, it wasn't.
But the moment that we laid hands on his casket to move his casket from the hearse to his burial plot, it started snowing.
And it was just a beautiful moment.
It was a beautiful moment.
And he was a beautiful man.
And I'm looking now at our Twitter.
And a recent commenter wrote that Saturday night, you know, we talk about Make America great again.
This commenter writes, Saturday nights are great again since I came across the political cesspool a few months ago.
Just now, coming to know about your show, sorry I didn't know about it before.
Thanks to James Edwards and his crew for the work that they do.
So that's a new listener to which a reply came in from someone who's been listening to us from day one.
She writes, I can't believe it's been that long.
14 years.
I remember when your show was first getting started.
So we have members of our audience who have been listening to this show since the time Bill was a major part of it.
And of course, many new listeners who have come in the last five years since Bill went on to be a member of the kingdom of the Lord.
But if you didn't ever hear Bill, go back in our archives.
That's one thing that's so great about our broadcast archives.
They go back to the very beginning, the very founding of this show in the fall of 2004.
And it is a treasure trove littered with gems and diamonds.
And many of them, Bill Rowland.
Bill Rowland was part, you know, we talk about when Jimmy Kimmel did a skit mocking the show.
It was the interview with Hutton Gibson, who Bill Rowland put that interview together.
It was Bill Rowland, the one who got Mel Gibson's father on the show.
And he handled that interview.
I was a part of it, but Bill did the heavy lifting on that.
And he did a great job, and he did a great job in everything that he ever did.
And so, yeah, we have listeners who are new, listeners who are old, but our broadcast archives, everything is evergreen in the broadcast archive.
So you can go back and you can listen to Bill.
We're going to play a couple of clips of Bill in the next segment.
We'll wait till the mentioned earlier.
So you can hear his voice one more time on TV.
One of the greatest privileges of my lifetime was able, I was prayed for Bill.
I think we said two days before he died.
I prayed for him in his bedroom.
You and Keith were all in the hospital room.
His wife was there and his mother was there.
I knew he was dying.
He knew he was dying.
He was so weak he couldn't speak, but the man still had courage.
He went to his grave knowing where he was going to heaven.
And you know, I was also privileged.
I did some shows.
Me and Bill did some shows together.
And I must say, we had a marvelous time.
Never a dull moment.
You know, we may have mentioned this before.
I think Bill was the one that brought Brother Nathaniel on.
Oh, Brother Nathaniel.
I actually, when Brother Nathaniel was on last month, I mentioned to him that die.
He was Bill.
Out of all the guests we had on this show, and all the guests that Bill Rowland interviewed, and all the guests that Bill Rowland didn't interview, of all of them, Brother Nathaniel was always his favorite.
And anytime.
Both brains.
The last time that Bill Rowland, well, anybody, Bill Rowland, he always went, if it was a night that he was hosting in my absence, he wanted Brother Nathaniel on.
In fact, the last time Bill Rowland ever hosted the show, it was just a few months before he died, but he was doing well at the time.
And when he went down, he went down very quickly.
No one expected him to go as quickly as he did.
Even though we knew he had cancer, when he went down, it was a steep decline.
But I had my appendix taken out.
And I didn't expect my appendix would burst, but it did.
And it burst on a Thursday.
And we had a show on Saturday.
I was still in the hospital.
I called Bill from the hospital bed.
I was in the hospital recovering from my appendectomy on a Saturday morning.
I said, Bill, they're not letting me out.
I can't go home.
I can't get to the studio.
Can you come to the show?
You should have died.
You used to kill people.
Well, just say, I called Bill from the hospital.
I said, Bill, can you cover the show tonight?
They won't let me out of the hospital.
I can't get to the studio.
Can you do the show?
Of course, Bill did it.
And it was a fantastic show that night.
And that was the last time he was ever on the internet.
The time that he was filling in for me when I was in the hospital for an appendectomy.
The last time Bill Rowland was ever on the show.
It was no emotional.
That show.
And then he passed away.
That was in October of 12, and he passed away in February of 13.
And of course, he couldn't come on in the meantime because his health went down.
He took more chemo.
We got to buy the first scene.
We've got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
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When Eddie and I talked earlier this week, we talked about obviously giving a tribute to Bill this hour in honor of his passing, which occurred tomorrow, five years ago tomorrow.
And we talked about doing it and then wrapping up with some more talk on contemporary politics.
But I think we're going to just push all that aside and do the whole hour for Bill because the loss of Bill Rowland still hurts deeply.
I think of him often.
He would have savored every second of our anniversary celebration last fall.
Can you imagine Bill in that sold-out ballroom in that posh first-class location back last October?
He would have loved every second of it.
He would have considered the day that we were denounced by Congress a few years ago to be our most significant triumph.
He would have beamed with pride that rally in defense of Nathan Bedford Force that we had a couple of years ago.
500 people, 500 people.
He would have never believed it.
But nothing would have pleased him more than the unprecedented list of accomplishments that we've made over the course of the last two years.
Indeed, the last five years since Bill's passing have been the five biggest years for the political cesspool.
Even though we had a big national profile by the time of his passing, we're better known.
We're more well known now.
But I say, I say, obviously, none of it would have happened had it not been for the foundation that he helped us poor.
And without question, he would have been so proud of all that this show has done in his absence from beyond this earthly realm.
Bill is still part of our fabric, and he shares in all that we do.
His lasting impact will be felt on this program until we no longer exist.
And so in honor of the anniversary of the passing of our brother, we dedicate this hour to him.
Well, I like to tell you people, too, something.
And I'm not talking down to you.
I'm sure you already know.
A great man once said that the farther you look back into the past, the farther you can see into the future.
You know, another way to say that is, you know, you've probably heard me say this before.
And according to Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, one of the things they wanted to do, one of the goals of the communists was to sever the brain tie, so to speak, the neurons that are going back from the children to the past.
He said, if we could extricate the past from the mind and souls of the young people, we have them.
Now, if there were young people, you know, so that's why we have to honor Bill.
We have to honor our past.
It's very important.
Not only just because we love him and we love our relatives.
If we don't remember him, nobody will.
That's right.
That's all there is to it.
And if we're not our past, if we don't have blood and soil to remember, we're nothing.
We're just animals, James.
We're like stray dogs.
And if it makes you feel any better when my time comes or when your time comes, I hope that you outlive me.
I want you to.
I've been talking about me for a month.
Hey, rest assured.
If you go home before I do, you're going to be remembered.
And if I go home, I trust you'll do the same.
I surely will.
I don't know sure well.
Well, I tell you, you know what we do?
We'll bury you with a carrot.
Because James don't like vegetables.
But you know what?
No, I wouldn't do that to you, not even to death.
Give me a steak.
Let me go home on the steak.
All right.
Hey, folks.
Bill was the man.
We do this every year around the anniversary of his passing.
You know something else I got to say?
Because we need to.
I've never heard.
I almost hate to admit this.
I'm known to have a little salty language every now and then.
You know, I never heard Bill cuss.
I haven't heard you cuss since the last commercial break.
That's true.
That is true.
That's a record for me.
Hey, mark that down, Sam.
Anyway, I've never heard you cuss.
He was a gentleman.
I never heard anything.
He never saw him.
I'm telling you this.
I mean, we say Robert E. Lee was the greatest American.
Robert E. Lee was the most Christ-like American who ever trod the soil.
But we never met Robert E. Lee.
Of the people that I have known in real life, Bill Rowland was probably the most Christ-like man that I've ever met.
It was a straight throwback to Robert E. Lee, no doubt about it.
You know, he advocated all of his principles.
And he walked the walk.
And you know what?
Something?
He sacrificed a lot.
No kidding.
I mean, don't we all?
But he did no more, no less than anybody.
Well, I mean, certainly much more than most people, but I mean, certainly on par with anybody else on this show.
But of course he did.
A couple of years ago, we do this every year around this time.
There was one show we did recently, the last couple of years on Bill.
And we actually had the last couple of minutes of the last show he ever did, which was the show that I had the appendectomy.
And we had that.
We don't have that queued up now, but we do have this.
It was a YouTube video.
We have a YouTube channel.
We just never posted anything to it, but we did seven years ago.
And it was a YouTube video of me and Bill in the studio.
So you can see what our studio looked like.
And we have that queued up.
Let's listen to it now.
Let's let Bill's voice be heard again on the airwaves.
Let's go.
Hello there.
James Edwards here coming to you live from the Political Cesspool Studios here at WLRM.
And I'll tell you what, ladies and gentlemen, for the last seven years, you've listened to our award-winning show, a show that has received international publicity from CNN, Fox, some of the biggest newspapers and magazines in the world, but you have never seen, you've never had the opportunity to view the inside of our studios where all the magic happens.
This is the belly of the beast.
Until now.
It's Keith Alexander operating from behind the camera today.
So it's an honor to bring you in to our recording studio so you can see where the magic happens.
Now, we actually have three of the five Political Accessible hosts, Keith behind the camera, myself, and longtime Political Cessible co-host, Bill Rowland.
Hello out there in Radio Land.
This is one of the few chances you'll get to see us when we actually do the show or prepare to do the show.
It's Saturday night.
We're just a few minutes prior to air time, and Bill, for the benefit of our ever-growing audience, there are people who are relatively new listeners to our show.
What kind of show do we give them here every Saturday night?
We give you the show that you'll hear on no other station in radio, on television, or anywhere else broadcast media does business.
This is the show that really covers controversial topics.
And I think most of all, we strive to bring you the truth that is hidden from you by the big networks and by the globalist media, which means the controlled media that intends to keep us on a liberal track until we start the death march to the end of the world, I guess.
So we want to get us off that track and get you back on the track of the truth and to, I would say, raise your consciousness about issues that you didn't really know about and that you wouldn't know about unless you listen to us on Saturday nights.
We've had a lot of great guests.
We certainly have a lot of flare.
That was the last from Bill on that.
Well, that was just a fun, quick video we did.
Nothing too deep or noteworthy there, except for the fact that he got to heal.
We had a great time on and off the air, behind the scenes and in public and at dinner.
And it was just great.
It was a brotherhood, and it still is.
But just with one of them.
You talked about how that left.
I'm just going to call her.
Very quick.
We got a caller.
Charles in North Carolina.
You know, I used to say we used to meet at McGinnis's and we would do fish and chips.
And you said how fast he went down.
I mean, like a month.
Before he died, we were out eating fish and chips.
It seems surreal he's gone.
Even after five years.
Charles, take it away, brother.
Hey, James, Eddie.
Hey there, Charles.
Hey, I'm calling in, you know, just a listener.
I didn't, wasn't lucky enough to have known Bill, but I know I always loved it when he was on the show and looked forward to it.
And I remember, I think, when he was, I didn't even know he was sick, and he was interviewing that dentist.
Did that series of interviews with that dentist they locked up for that hokey insurance or billing fraud or whatever it was.
And he was a trooper, man.
I mean, I was listening to the whole thing, and I couldn't even tell he was sick.
You know, he just really a trooper and miss him.
I do, too.
And I remember talking to his wife and then in the days and hours before he passed, getting regular updates.
And I remember when I knew it was bad, I would call Bill every day, almost, at least several times a week.
And I remember we were having Martin Luther King's Nissan.
I was going to call Bill to see what he thought about that night.
And she said he couldn't come to the phone because he just couldn't.
And I knew that things, that was just a few days before he passed away.
But I remember that interview that you talk about.
It was Dr. Tom Sell.
It was the longest continuous series we had on this show in terms of, I mean, obviously we have the Confederate History Month series every year, but in terms of, he did that for about five or six weeks in a row.
And it was a continuing conversation.
And he did an incredible job.
But everything he did was incredible.
And I'm so thankful.
First of all, let me just say that you might not know Charles the way I do, ladies and gentlemen, but Charles is a very loyal and longtime listener and contributor, donor to this program.
And he's a great man.
And to have been with us as long as you have, to remember the Bill Rowland shows like you do, you are a trooper too, Charles, and we thank you too.
You know what?
Charles also has been a humongous contributor to St. Jude Children Returs Hospital.
And Charles, I hope you don't mind me telling people that you were yourself once was a patient.
You got treatment at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
You've knocked it out of the park, my friend.
I love you to death, and I can never repay what you've done for me at St. Jude and the political suspo.
I appreciate that, man.
And yeah, I'm glad to do what I can to help when I can.
You know, I'm not saying that about Bill to take anything away from you guys, but you're doing a great job.
But, you know, I just wanted to mention that, you know, I really liked him, and, you know, I do miss him not being on the show.
You know, guess he's in a better place.
We don't have that.
That's a good thing to think of.
Well, that's for sure, but there's not enough of that in our movement and in our community.
I just don't see really anybody else doing it.
I can't think of one other of all the peers and all the great people that we know.
I can't think of one website or organization or outlet that has remembered somebody who's gone on.
And we've got to do that.
And that's one of the things we do here.
We do that every year.
And thank you for helping us do it tonight as we remember Bill.
God bless you, Charles.
On the fifth of his passing, the fifth year of his passing, and we'll do it again next year.
That's for sure.
We got one more segment tonight.
Thank you so much, Charles.
God bless you.
We'll be back to wrap up the show right after this.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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For those
in the audience who may not know who this voice belongs to, I'm Art Frith, known as the Chief, or, as Winston Smith crowned me, the Lord of the Board.
I served as disciplinarian for James and producer and board engineer for the show in its embassy back in 2005 and guided it to the professional sounding program you hear today before I left in 2007.
This week started off on a sad note for the political Cessapool family as Bill Rowland was called home.
I first met Bill during the early days when co-founder Austin Farley and Jess Bonds were regulars.
Bill brought a keen sense and insight to the show when it came to Southern heritage and history.
He was a true leader in the Southern conservative movement.
Bill was a great listener, but he could also ask hard-hitting questions of our guests.
He also helped me keep Baby Boy in line when he was at the WLRM studios after I left.
Bill was with us when Jim Gilchrist and fellow members of the Minuteman Project were in studio during a time when the political Cessapool was the only radio program providing in-depth interviews and the truth about what was going on along our southern borders.
When James would go off on one of his many vacations, otherwise known as a weekend trip to stalk Frankie Valley down in Epcot in Florida, Bill was there to fill in as host.
And for those who might not know, we were a Monday through Friday three-hour a night show back then.
The guests Bill played a role in hosting and interviewing were numerous, to say the least, and did not always include politics.
There was the night Barry Schwartz, an expert on the Schrada Chern, was our guest and turned out to be a great informative interview on one of the most controversial topics in Christianity.
Then there was Dr. Sam Francis, Michael Andrew, Peter Bermalow, and one of my favorites, Jared Taylor.
However, the interview that sticks out most in my mind was the second part of our two-part interview with Lieutenant Godfrey Dulius, a German Lukewalker pilot who fought the Allies during World War II.
This interview was so popular that it's been aired a number of times as one of our best of shows and for good reason.
I am honored and excited to be part of the interview with Lieutenant Godfrey Dulias, formerly of the Luftwaffe, who was a fighter pilot in World War II.
And I'm very excited about this interview.
Lieutenant Dulias, are you on the air?
I am here, right.
Well, I am an amateur historian of sorts.
I guess that dad is even bragging a little, but one of my hobbies over the years has been the study of fighter pilots, World War II pilots, and Luftwaffe pilots.
So this is really a great treat for me, and I look forward to this interview and asking you some questions mainly about your career.
I know the last interview that you had on the show, the last time you were a guest on the show, we talked about your horrific experience as a prisoner of war of the Russians and the cruel treatment you received at the hands of the communists.
Tonight, if you don't mind, we'd love to focus on your career as a pilot and some of the things that maybe people don't know about the Luftwaffe and the equipment you use and so forth.
Okay, that's okay.
And then again, of course, we want to talk more about your book towards the end here.
One of the things I wanted to ask you, Lieutenant Dooley, I understand that towards the end of the war, as the war drew to a close, that there was some problem, particularly getting fuel for your airplanes.
Were you ever grounded or did you have to restrict your operations because of lack of fuel in your fighter plane?
Yes, many a time.
We couldn't fly because we had no sprit.
We call it sprit, you know.
And so we were laid off.
We couldn't fly.
There was nothing there.
And also other days when we have bad weather, then we couldn't fly because most of us young pilots there did not have any instrument training because they needed pilots so badly on the front that as soon as you came off the air academy and could fly a plane and you could shoot, then they sent you to the front.
Bill was a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens and worked hard to support the fundamental principles of American civilization, liberty, justice, and national safety, and truly believed with all his soul that the United States is a Christian nation above all.
His critics would call Bill Rowland a racist, but I'm here to tell you he was not.
One national talk show host is called a great American.
However, in my opinion, if any of us are worthy of being called that, Bill Rowland was just that and a great, true Southern gentleman.
It was always a great time when I had the opportunity to sit around and talk with Bill, and those memories will not soon fade from my mind.
We have lost a true leader, and I've lost a good friend.
More than a hard worker and defender of Southern heritage and principles, Bill was a soldier in the fight for conservatism.
He was a devoted family man and Christian.
With his passing, his wife has lost a devoted, loving husband, and their children, a great father and role model.
Once Bill gets through all of the in-processing there is to do in heaven, I know he will roll up his sleeves and get a radio studio together and have things ready for when the rest of the political cesspool team begins to arrive.
And oh yeah, there's one other thing.
Bill will have St. Peter prepare a restraining order against James Edwards so that Frankie Valley can have peace and quiet finally when the time comes.
I know Bill is listening to this show tonight.
Rest easy, Bill.
You've earned it in spades.
Folks, when right after Bill passed away, we scrubbed the whole next show that we were scheduled to do.
We did a three-hour tribute to Bill.
The whole show was dedicated to Bill that night.
It was one of the most memorable shows we've ever done.
Everybody was on that show except for Art, who had to pre-record his segment on the show that night because of a work conflict.
And so we aired it during that show, but he wasn't live with us.
And that was it.
And Sam found that, and I didn't even remember that until we played it again.
But wow.
Eddie, 30 seconds.
Listen, I want to go 30 seconds.
Speaking of dedicating things, listen, the last song, Fortunate Son, we dedicated that song to Kim in Missouri.
Kim in Missouri.
You know why we dedicated it to you?
I know why.
God bless you.
I love you so much.
I love Cody so much and your family, the most beautiful family I've ever seen.
Having people like you love me knows that I have been, I have done something right in life.
And you know, also, a little Danny says she loves you too.
She's in the studio tonight.
God bless you, Kim and Cody in Missouri.
We love you so much.
But we played that song just for you.
And art was big on the man.
Art made the hour.
Art's tribute to Bill.
But we had a lot of fun with Bill.
Let's go with, this was Bill interviewing Paul Fromm.
We were in Nashville, Tennessee on off-site field remote for the Council of Conservative Citizens several years ago.
We caught Paul Fromm getting on the elevator and we had a little fun with him.
Here it is.
And it's Bill Rowland with the political cesspool and I'm here by the elevators with Paul Fromm of Canada.
He came all the way from Canada on this elevator.
And so we're so glad to have him.
Paul, it's great.
We heard your speech.
Oh, you make a speech.
I haven't made a speech.
Well, it always seems like you have, you know, I mean, it's the thing, is the crowd's always worked up when you walk in the middle.
By the way, I was just down here to listen and maybe just share a little bit about the election campaign I'm involved in up in Canada.
I'm running for mayor of Mississauga, which is a community of about 720,000.
It's a field of 17 people.
And I'm running on an anti-immigration platform, which I think is going to resonate with a lot of people.
We've got nearly 48% of our community are from the third world.
We've got huge problems with welfare, overcrowding, traffic gridlock.
And it's an experiment, but I want to help put immigration reform on the map.
And that's what I'm doing this for.
Have you gotten a John Edwards $800 haircut yet?
Because that's the only way to win in Canada.
No, I haven't.
I haven't gotten one.
You have to get one before you leave Nashville.
Get a load of the boots every day.
This is Canadian honky talk right here.
Let's see if we can zoom in on those.
If those don't win him votes.
Yeah, I don't know if it wins votes, but they're comfortable, and that's what matters.
In Canada, the tradition is wear socks, no underwear when you're running for office.
He's missing the 10-gallon hat and the huge belt buckle.
And the $800 haircut.
But that's okay, because this is the man right here, Massaga, if you're listening.
Paul Fromm.
He rode an elevator all the way here from Canada.
This is Bill Rowland with the political cesspool.
So that was just a video.
That was a video clip we did for our long-neglected YouTube channel.
We laughed with Bill.
We cried with Bill.
We fought with Bill.
We served with Bill.
And we were there at his funeral.
We were there for many good times and bad times and lean times and fat times.
And it's great to hear him tonight.
The Art Frith tribute was the highlight of the hour.
No one can do what art does.
And a serious side, a fun side, and we have it all and we had it all with him.
The show's not as good without him, but we still continue on and we still let his fingerprints, his fingerprints are still certainly felt.
And so, again, for all the people who have joined the show as members of our listening audience in the last five years, you didn't know him.
But maybe the show is better now with heavenly beings being a part of it.
And we got to go.
Hope you enjoyed the guest tonight, Paul Kersey and Mark Weber.
And then, of course, Bill Rowland, the tribute tonight.