April 21, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Week three or four of this year's Confederate History Month series.
And we spend about half an hour of the first hour introducing our guest tonight and walking down memory lane.
He is Michael Gaddy, a well-known writer, political activist, and teacher who defends and teaches the Constitution as ratified, meaning he's an originalist.
Our Bill of Rights and the tenets of our Declaration of Independence.
Mike Gaddy is constantly trying to understand why the great majority of people in this country are content being slaves to an unconstitutional criminal government.
And boy, aren't we all around here?
As you know from our recounting of our experience with Mike in the first hour, he was one of the very first guests we ever hosted on TPC and he returns this hour to participate in our ongoing Confederate History Month series.
Mike, it's so great to have you back.
Hey, James, it's always great to talk with you, my brother.
Well, you too.
You too indeed.
And before we get to the topic at hand tonight, just very quickly, if you don't mind, recount your memories of the Minutemen Project, particularly your participation on our show during that magical month in 2005.
James, I tell you what, when I first arrived there, I just wanted to be just a guy just sitting on our border trying to protect this country from what is absolutely an invasion.
It's not immigration.
It's an invasion.
If it was immigration, they would come across legally instead of illegally.
But I just wanted to be on the border.
I just wanted to be there and had told some friends that I was heading that way.
And then they said, well, would you be interested in talking about your experience on a daily basis?
You and I hooked up.
We talked about it.
We decided we could do it.
I saw one of the greatest outpourings of American patriotism, true patriotism.
I saw people on that border that were just absolutely unreal.
I saw a grandmother come from California and bring her grandchildren and sit on the border for four or five hours every day because she wanted her grandchildren to know what it was like to be an American.
I saw a man from Utah come there who had recently had his leg amputated, but he wanted to be a part of that.
I saw a chief of police from a city in Missouri come.
I saw a lady come there from in the Boston area.
And when she got there, everyone was asked for identification, and she pulled out a green card.
And immediately people were saying, oh, what are you doing here?
And she said, well, she said, I'm in the country legally.
And I know what I had to go through to get into this country legally.
And it just makes me angry that there are people just walking across this border.
And she came all the way from the Boston area, flew to Phoenix, rented a car, and drove to the border in Arizona to be a part of it.
I saw people from California who were in the hospital industry building hospitals, and they were basically put out of business because hospitals were going basically broke in California in many instances because of having to pay for medical treatment for so many people in our country illegally.
It was certainly an altering experience.
I met some wonderful people there.
James, got to establish a relationship with you and the folks at the political cesspool.
Just, you know, it's hard to tell people what a defining moment in your life is, but that was one of them for me.
Well, it was a wonderful experience for us as well, let me tell you.
And I appreciate you sharing that story as we go back in time just a little bit.
And I know you're on tonight to talk about Confederate History Month, but we once again, and we mentioned his name a couple of times in the first hour, Joe McCutcheon is another one that was right there with you and became a good friend of ours and a friend of our family.
And that's what this is all about.
It's about family.
And as we now transition into Confederate History Month, I said before, that's why our enemies can't understand our reluctance to just roll over as they attack our flag and our very flesh and blood and our monuments.
It's personal.
It's not just that we agreed that these people were on the right side of history and that these people were fighting for the original vision of our founding fathers and that these people were fighting for righteousness and that these were good Christian soldiers and people.
It's much more than that.
It is our own flesh and blood and a man who won't defend his family and defend his ancestors is no man at all.
And thankfully we've got a man on the show tonight and his name is Michael Gaddy.
Now you wrote an article some years ago that we repost every year at thepolitical cesspool.org.
It's not your flag.
And as I told the audience, Mike, there's no way in four weeks of commercial radio, we're on the air three hours a week, four weeks, four Saturdays in April.
There's no way in 12 hours of commercial radio that we can even scratch the surface, the tip of the iceberg of the heroes and the battles and all of the stories and ideas that made up the Confederate States of America.
But we can do the very best that we can with the time that we've got.
And we're trying to give people a snapshot to make them think, but it starts at home.
And in this article that you wrote, you made mention of your ancestors who fought for our Confederate states, our nation at the time.
By all means, honor them before we get into the meat of the matter.
Tell us who they were and what they did.
Well, there were two of my ancestors who were from the North Carolina area, and they had joined the 26th North Carolina.
They are two out of 27 that I have been able to document lately with a recent one with the 38th Georgia named George Washington Gaddy, who was GW, who was killed at Antietam on the 27th of September in 1862.
But these men of the 26th, North Carolina, one was, I believe, was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg because I found records that he was wounded.
I can find no burial spot and he never returned home.
I had another ancestor who did return home.
He actually surrendered with Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9th, 1865.
So we know that he survived.
It's hard to track him after that.
But those were two that I was sure of.
The 26th North Carolina was always an inspiration to me just reading about them, their terrible losses, the standard bearers who went down.
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Absolutely.
But when we come back, we are going to recount the story of the Company K of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Two of Michael Gaddy's ancestors served under those colors.
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Folks, I've had more chills in my arms and more choked up in the last two weeks of radio than I can remember in a long, long time.
Just so many heroes, so many heroes who gave it all.
And we've talked about some of them.
The crew of the Hundley, Tennessee Governor Isham Harris, the city governor of Tennessee, fighting in the trenches with his countrymen at Shiloh.
And just so many heroes, the ones you know, the ones you never knew.
I mean, the former Vice President of the United States of America, John Breckinridge, was commanding an army of kids with no shoes at the Battle of Newmarket.
I mean, these were men who risked and lost it all for a cause greater than themselves, and they were fighting on the right side.
And I'll tell you, people, who risked and lost it all was the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, the regiment in which two of Michael Gaddy's ancestors fought for.
And he's going to tell you the story.
It's a story that he tells in his column, It's Not Your Flag.
But we want him to tell the story to you live on the radio tonight.
And that's exactly what he's going to do.
Michael, break down that column in any way you want and take all the time you want.
It is a beautiful, moving, stirring column, and we want you to tell us about it.
Well, James, let's stop and think about these young men who were going into battle.
The 26th North Carolina left from, made a departure in Virginia and started with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia towards Pennsylvania.
And over 150 of the men of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment were barefooted when they started their trek.
And a veteran of the march, and I'm reading from the article, a veteran of the march from Virginia to Pennsylvania would write, thousands were as ragged as they could be, some with the bottom of their pants and long frazzles, others with their knees sticking out, others out of their elbows and their hair sticking through the holes in their hats.
Farmers from the area these men called home could not afford replacement clothes and shoes, much less to own a slave.
One of their officers wrote home of these men.
These men were patriots.
They loved their country.
They loved liberty.
They were quick to see, quick to understand, and quick to ask.
You know, I have walked the ground there, James, on several occasions, and there is an eerie feeling for me when I'm there, just like there is at several other battlefields where I've actually stood on the ground where my ancestors stood or very near where they stood.
There's something about this when you, you know, that these men are now being destroyed in history and called racist and what have you.
And it's amazing that these men, as you alluded to earlier, could go into battle for the same reasons that the people at Yorktown and Cowpens and Kings Mountain, for the exactly the same reasons.
It was called independence and liberty.
And they went into battle the same way, and now they are, you know, just absolutely ridiculed.
And just as our, as General, I escaped my mind for the moment, I'm sorry, but just as it was predicted, they have been defiled in history.
And that is because the people who are defiling them are Marxist socialists.
And nothing hates liberty more than abject socialism.
But when the 26th North Carolina went into battle on the first day of July in 1863, they went into battle at McPherson's Ridge at Herbs Woods.
And it was just to the south of Chambersburg Pike.
The 26th North Carolina was opposed by a part of the Union Army's Iron Brigade, which was made up of the 24th Michigan, the 7th Wisconsin, and 19th Indiana.
The 26th North Carolina drove the Iron Brigade from the field and into the streets of Gettysburg in a rout.
The Iron Brigade was running into the streets of Gettysburg, trying to surrender to each other and hiding in basements.
Yet, in that one half hour, the North Carolina boys suffered horrendous casualties.
Colonel Bergwins, who was 20 years old and was known as the boy colonel, was mortally wounded and would die that evening.
Second in command, Lieutenant Colonel John Lane, was seriously wounded and near death.
Of the 800 members of the 26th who entered the battle, 588 were either killed or wounded.
One of those was one of my relatives, Elijah Gavy.
The regiment's 10 companies had been led by nine captains.
Three of the nine survived the first day's battle.
16 lieutenants were dead or wounded.
ENF companies who were on the flanks of the Color Guard were almost completely decimated.
Of the 82 men who began the battle with Company E, only 12 remained uninjured.
Of the 91 men from Company F, 90 had been killed or wounded, including five of the six twin brothers who were members of the 26th North Carolina.
On several occasions during the battle, the opposing forces had been simply yards apart.
During the one-half hour charge up the hill, 14 different men, including Colonel Bergwin and Lieutenant Colonel Wayne, went down while carrying the Confederate battle flag.
That is the flag that does not belong to cultural Marxists.
And I can totally understand why they hate it.
And we also must know that, and people should know, that another reason, and people have a hard time grabbing on to this, but the very semblance of the Confederate battle flag is the St. Andrew's Cross.
St. Andrew was Simon Peters' older brother.
And when he was to be crucified in Greece for preaching the word of God, he said he would be crucified, and he said, I am unworthy to be crucified on the cross of Christ and tilt it to the side so it will resemble an X.
And that is how he was crucified.
That's why we have the Confederate battle flag, yeah.
Exactly.
And we have to remember that this Confederate battle flag or the cross of St. Andrew, you know, it really baffles people today when you tell them to take down and look at the battle.
I'm sorry, at the flag of Jamaica.
The flag of Jamaica is also a resistance to tyranny flag.
Jamaica is 93% black, I believe, and yet they have the same flag colored differently, but they have the same flag.
And so it's known as a resistance to tyranny.
And on the gate at Monticello, there is a, in wrought iron is the phrase, resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin wanted that to be the motto of the country.
Well, it was the motto in some ways of the Confederate States of America, Deo Vendes, with God our vindicator.
And they wanted this to be a Christian nation, and they wanted the world to know that the Confederate States of America was a Christian nation.
And we're coming up, and we talked about that, I think, in previous weeks already this month, certainly in previous years.
We've been doing Confederate History Month for 14 years on this show.
I think we've covered quite a bit, but you can't cover it all.
You just can't cover it all.
But what we're covering tonight with Michael Gaddy is so personal and so raw and so touchy.
I know, I'm looking at Eddie Bobider Miller, a Grizzled War veteran from Vietnam, and he's saying right now he's in awe.
We'll be right back with the man who's all-inspiring, Michael Gaddy, right after this.
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What an emotional night of radio, ladies and gentlemen.
What I love about this appearance by Michael Gaddy tonight, well, there's a lot of things.
Our history with Michael Gaddy is certainly one of them, I'm not going to lie to you.
But the fact that it is so personal, you know, two weeks ago was the anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh.
And my great-great-great-grandfather fought at the Battle of Shiloh.
He was born in Carwith, Mississippi, and he died at Shiloh.
And so we're talking to Michael Gaddy tonight and his ancestors of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Born in North Carolina, and so many of that regiment died at Gettysburg.
And I'm sure you know the name Michael Perutka Mike.
And Michael Perutka wrote an article.
I don't have it pulled up in front of me right now, but he wrote an article about Gettysburg.
And we know that this country was born On, excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, born on the 4th of July, 1776.
That's when we had our Declaration of Independence, 4th of July, 1776.
And it died, Michael Perutka wrote on the 4th of July, 1863, when the Confederates were retreating from Gettysburg.
Mike, take it from there, please.
Well, James, one of the, I count myself to be a very fortunate individual.
I had a, my grandfather was born in 1883, and he lived to be 100 years old.
And I spent many, many hours with him.
And I learned that he had spoken to many of my relatives who were participants, that he had spoken with them directly in his younger years.
And being born in 1883, he was born, you know, just less than 20 years at the end of the war.
And I got to hear firsthand some of the stories and some of the experiences.
And mostly what I heard, other than the battles they had participated in and what have you, was the terrible, terrible time of what this country calls Reconstruction.
And that, you know, today we wonder about Southerners and what was done to the people of the South after the war is just as egregious as what was done to them during the war.
But to get back to the battle and to these wonderful brave men, on the second day of July, the 26th North Carolina basically rested and regrouped after the terrible battle on the first day.
And while resting, they listened to their own regimental band play the Bonnie Blue Flag, the old North State, and that wonderful hymn.
And to me, it is a hymn, Dixie.
The 26th would then go into battle again on the 3rd of July, and they made up part of the heroic charge across that open field in what history has called Pickett's Charge.
They would take their place in the very front of that line.
During that charge from seminary to Cemetery Ridge, eight more brave men of the 26th North Carolina would be killed or wounded while carrying that sacred Southern cross, the Confederate battle flag.
Of the 216 men of the 26th North Carolina who participated in the battle on the 3rd of July, only 84 survived.
All told, the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment suffered the greatest losses of any unit on either side during the entire war.
So stop and think about it.
They went into battle with 800, and at the end of two days' battle, they were not involved on the second.
At the end of two days' battle, there were 84 of them left.
And as I wrote, little did these extraordinary, brave, and courageous men know that 150 years later, worthless pieces of humanity who do nothing but breathe up good oxygen and lack the courage of one of these brave men had in the tip of his finger would refer to them and those of their posterity who honor such courage, devotion, and commitment.
Racists, there can be no greater debacle in the history of this country than what we have thrown on these wonderful veterans.
And the general I was trying to think of a while ago, I'm sorry to skip my mind, was with that great general from Arkansas, Helena, Arkansas, Patrick Clayburn, who is certainly one of our heroes.
I know you know that, James.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Excuse me, Mike, but he had some of the greatest quotes of any of the Confederate heroes.
I love his quote about how he'd want to die with his hand fighting for what's right.
And that's how he died.
And he did, and he died leading his men from the front.
He was not in a bunker three stories underground, commanding troops in battle.
And that's what our military has become.
He led from the front.
I've stood on the very spot where he died.
And both and my good friend Joey McCutcheon has stood there as well and has sent pictures from the spot.
And it's just an honor.
And as he started the charge that day, he turned and he said, he said, a lot of mourning will take place in homes in Arkansas tomorrow.
He knew exactly what he was doing, what was going to happen.
But he was fighting for liberty.
And you're right, those words, those beautiful words that he wrote because he knew what would happen if the South didn't win.
And I am so often reminded of General John Bell Hood riding side by side before the charge at Chancellorsville, riding side by side with Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson.
And Jackson asked John Bell Hood, General, do you think you will survive the war?
And he said, yes, General Jackson, I think that I will.
He said, although I think I will be terribly wounded, which was certainly a premonition.
And he turned to Jackson and he said, General Jackson, he said, do you think that you will survive?
And Stonewall Jackson said, no, General, I do not think that I will, nor would I want to should our cause fail.
What beautiful words.
What wonderful wonderful heroes.
They are.
Whether it's Patrick Claiborne, General Claiborne, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Jefferson Davis, you know, I was down at Beauvoir just last month, and I was able to go and touch the giant oak tree, the very same tree that after the war, Jefferson Davis, President Davis, could often be found under reading his Bible.
And, of course, last month we offered peace of the original roof of the Davis home to our donors.
And so you know all of these amazing heroes, or you know, some of them, but it's the heroes like our family members, quite frankly, Mike.
The ties that bind in that it's the blood binds, the stronger than steel cables bind that we have.
I mean, how would you put that into words?
My ancestors who fought, every man of fighting age in my family line who was alive at the time during Lincoln's war against the South fought.
If they were of age, they fought.
I had great grandfathers.
I had lineal and collateral descendants of my family tree that fought.
Any man of fighting age who could fight fought if they were in my line.
And of course, yours, and it's 26th, North Carolina.
How does that bind us together?
And how are we together and fill this brotherhood more than 150 years later?
There's something spiritual about it.
Put it in your own words.
Well, to me, James, it's, you know, when I sit down with wonderful friends like Joe and Joey McCutcheon and their families, and I have, I've got an article that I wrote about Joe, and hope you'll let me tell you that I would like to forward that to you.
I'd like for you to read that article that I wrote about Joe, who, to me, is a true hero in his own right.
And I love him like a brother.
But one of the things I wrote in that article that we've mentioned, James, and I would like to read it.
It's a simple paragraph.
And it's, go ahead, we've got music.
Well, we may have to hold it until we come back, but I promise you this.
When we come back, we're going to let you read that, and we're going to get on with it.
We only have one more segment with Michael Gaddy.
It's going by far too fast.
I know my co-host, Andy the Bombardier Miller, his ancestors fought for the South.
Eddie fought for the, who'd you fight for in Vietnam, Eddie?
Fight for the international bankers.
And he's going to say hello to you when we come back too, Mike.
So just stay tuned.
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The quote we were searching for a moment ago, I was trying to recite it.
I didn't quite have it in me.
But Patrick Claiborne, this is what he said before his death at the Battle of Franklin.
If this cause that is dear to my heart is doomed to fail, I pray heaven may let me fall with it.
On my face is toward the enemy, and my arm is battling for that which I know is right.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't make men like that anymore.
I want to say one thing before we toss it back to our guest tonight.
Amen indeed, Michael Gaddy.
Before we toss it back to Mike, throughout our Confederate History Month series this month, we've played the great songs.
We've played Dixie, we played Bonnie Blue Flag, we played some other stuff.
This song tonight actually has a little history behind it.
It is a more contemporary song.
It didn't come out until 1976, the night that drove all Dixie down, but it is a special live version we've played for you tonight.
It's an emotional song.
Only something from deep within your soul can make every hair on your arm tingle.
And the reason is that, of course, these are our people, and we couldn't be more proud to claim them.
This is our very flesh and blood.
And in fact, you've got to understand when you're talking about your ancestors, they're still alive in you.
You wouldn't even be alive if you didn't have their blood and their DNA in you.
They still exist because you breathe air.
They are alive in you.
These people still live as long as you live and as long as your children live.
But there's actually history in this song.
The lyrics to the night they drove all Dixie down tell, of course, of the last days of the Second War for Independence and the suffering of the South.
A Confederate soldier in this song, Virgil Kane, served on the Danville train.
That was the Richmond and Danville Railroad, a main supply line into the Confederate capital at Richmond.
And by connection to the rest of the South, the Union cavalry regularly tore up the Confederate rail lines to prevent the movement of men and material to the front lines where Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was besieged at the siege of Petersburg.
And as part of the offensive campaign, Union Army General George Stoneman's forces tore up the track again, and you hear that in the song.
The lyrics of the song refers, of course, to the condition of the southern states in the winter of early 1965.
We were hungry, just barely alive.
The Confederacy is starving and on the verge of defeat.
References made to the date May 10, 1865, by which time the Confederate capital of Richmond had fallen.
And, of course, the Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured shortly after that, the definitive end of the Confederacy.
The writer of that song, Robbie Robertson, claimed that he had had the music.
This was a Canadian, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
Robbie Robertson was a Canadian, claimed that he had the music to this song in his head, but he had no idea what it was to be about.
And he said, and I quote, at some point the concept blurted out to me.
Then I went and I did some research, and I wrote the lyrics to the song.
Robertson continued that he traveled down south.
And when I was first down south, I remembered quite a common expression would be, don't worry, the South's going to rise again.
And at one point when I heard it, I thought it was kind of a funny statement.
And then I heard it another time, and I was really touched by it.
Thought, God, because I keep hearing this, there's a pain there.
There's a sadness there.
This is America, and it's a land of beautiful sadness.
And that song, The Night They Drove All Dixie Down, it's number 245 on the Rolling Stones' top 500 songs of all time, if you can believe it.
Anyway, Michael Gaddy, back to you.
You were making a point right before the break, and I'd like, if you can remember it, I would like for you to get back to it now.
All right, James, thank you.
It's just a paragraph from my article.
Won't take but a couple of seconds here to get this out.
And that paragraph is, abject cowards despise the virtue of bravery in others.
Those who have no honor or commitment to purpose abhor those who do.
The men of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment had courage, honor, and commitment in abundance.
They died or were seriously injured carrying the Confederate battle flag in the battle.
That flag is representative of the character of the men who died on the field of honor in valiant pursuit of that which they believe to be right and true.
That flag also represents those who hold such honor, bravery, and dedication in the highest regard and cherish the memory of the men who left home and family behind in the pursuit of freedom from invasion, oppression, and tyranny.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to read this article for yourself.
Now, you can follow what an hour of radio.
I just have to say, you can follow Michael Gaddy's recently.
He's been published all over the place, but you can follow him at RebelMadman.com, RebelMadman.com, and you can read a lot of his articles.
We have, with his permission, republished for thepoliticalaccessible.org.
It's not your flag.
It's not your flag is the title of the article that has been the centerpiece of his interview tonight with us and that was republished at thepoliticalaccessible.org just a couple of days ago in advance of its appearance tonight.
What an emotional hour of radio.
Eddie the Bobby-Miller is with us, Mike, and if you don't mind, he'd like to just say quickly hello to you.
He was with us all the way back in 05 when you and Joe McCutcheon were coming on the air.
Eddie's ancestors, like ours, served in duty and in honor to the Confederate States of America.
He is the son of a Confederate veteran as we are.
Eddie also, as he mentioned, served in Vietnam on behalf of the international banks.
God bless his honesty.
International bankers.
God bless them, you know.
But you wanted to say something.
I got to say, I think in many ways, 2018, our 14th year on the radio, has been our best yet.
Every week has been a barn burner.
We've had just great guests after great guests.
We've really poured our heart and soul into the programming of this year.
But Eddie, you're telling me tonight for your money is the most emotional, maybe even your favorite of the year.
Yeah, I'd like to say that what separates Mr. Gaddy from all the other wonderful guests we've had.
Make no mistake, we've had some incredible guests.
I won't name them.
I don't want to slight anybody.
But what Mr. Gaddy has done is touched the very nerve center of my soul in James's.
You have no idea how emotional it has been in this studio.
And I would like to just respectfully ask the people that are listening to me and some of my dear friends, please, God, never as long as you live, ask me again, why do y'all spend so much time refighting the Civil War?
Why do you spend so much time on the Confederacy?
Please don't ask me that again because, you know what?
I have a temper.
James knows it.
And I don't want to say something to my people, to my friends, that I can't take back.
But just don't do that.
If you would listen to this one hour tonight, you would know why we spend so much time on the Confederacy and our ancestor.
By God.
And if you can't understand that, don't say a word to me about it.
Back to you, James.
Well, I would just say very quickly, Eddie did two tours in NAM as a combat medic.
His nickname.
He can't touch the guys he's talked about tonight.
Well, his nickname, the Bombardier, comes not from, that wasn't his designation in the war.
He was a medic.
His name, the Bombardier, comes from his temper.
And anyway, I've got to control it.
It cost me dearly.
Mike, this has been, and it's on air delivery.
That's right.
Hey, Mike, this has been one of the fastest hours of radio that I can remember.
And there was another article that you sent me that I had full intention of getting to tonight, and that was, of course, the causes of the war and how the revisionist history, but it was all about slavery.
It's just poppycock.
And I intended to get into that with full force, but we just didn't have the time because every minute we've spent has been so well deserved.
But with the two or three minutes we have remaining, I'd like to give that to you to finish it in the way that you would like, in any way you wanted to finish it.
We have about two minutes to go.
Go, Mike.
James, I can't tell you.
It's like I can't tell you how much it means.
And thank you, Eddie.
I appreciate everything you had to say, man.
Listen, I'm going to tell you one quick thing.
I've known James for years and years and years, way before the susposed started.
I've never seen him.
Very seldom you see James get emotional.
There was tears shed tonight, Mr. Gaddy.
Well, we should, gentlemen.
And Eddie, Mike.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Absolutely great.
You know, I feel like with James, you know, we don't talk that often, but it's just like every time we do, we're able to talk.
I feel like I'm reuniting with kin folks.
And Eddie, I've heard much about you from my good friend Michael Goza.
And I must tell you that I have the utmost respect for you and all you stand for.
And I just want to thank you, James, for allowing us to rejoin.
And to, we had some great times back in 05 every night talking about what was going on on the border.
But tonight was very special, brother.
I thank you for that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, you made it special.
Listen, we could have had an hour.
We could have filled an hour of radio many different ways.
But the spirit moved me a few days ago to reach out with you, reach out to you.
And I'm so glad you received the invitation and agreed to appear tonight.
You've really made the night of radio special, and we'll remember this for a long time.
It is special.
Anybody can come on and talk about the history, but few, well, certainly even fewer than that can come on and share personal stories, stories of their ancestors.
And that's the stuff that really tugs at the heartstrings.
That's the stuff we can relate to.
Well, you know, James, the way Mike was tonight, I hate to be able to do that.
That don't make me say anything because, I mean, he's just so spellbound.
He touches your soul more than any preacher.
Well, that's a whole other topic, as cucked out and as apostate as the churches have become.
An old-time preacher.
Yeah, an old-time preacher.
That's a better way to put it.
Hey, Mike, plug your website.
How can people learn more?
And I know you're published all over the place and different websites that carry different years' worth of your archives and columns.
But how would you like people to find you?
Just go to www.rebelmadman.com.
Unfortunately, I haven't added anything there recently, but I'm hard at work on another effort for liberty and freedom.
All right.
Well, we'll look forward to finding out more about what that is when the time comes.
RebelMadman.com.
He's a rebel, not a madman.
He's right on Target, but we'll be back with the third hour.