Sept. 29, 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.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Well, welcome back to the third and final hour, everybody.
James Edwards and now Eddie the Bombardier Miller back after a couple of weeks off.
Eddie has been, of course, as always with Eddie, preparing for his latest marathon.
Now, Eddie will be up in New York running the New York Marathon in about a month.
So Eddie's been out training for that.
And of course, as always, with the Bombardier raising money for his favorite charities to benefit the childhood victims of catastrophic illnesses.
And Eddie has, that's the guy Eddie is.
I mean, he did a couple of tours in Vietnam as a combat medic.
Then he spent a life serving others as a registered nurse.
And then after he retired from nursing, he began raising money for the kids and running marathons.
And that is, of course, in addition to his work and service here as one of your co-hosts on the Political Cesspool.
But he's been out for a couple of weeks.
It's great to have him back tonight.
Eddie, how are you?
Thank you.
Thank you, my son, for that great introduction.
You know, I'm a sentimental guy.
Everybody probably knows that.
But James, do you remember the very first time, my very first marathon, we did a YouTube?
You did it.
You did a YouTube.
I do remember that.
Yeah, and I think you can still find it.
The Political Cesspool's YouTube channel has a grand total of about six videos.
And I think the last of which was posted in about 2012.
But yeah, I know what you're talking about, Eddie.
Well, you know, and you can still find it.
Yes, James Edwards did that.
We did it at his house.
And you know what?
We kicked some tail raising money.
The political cesspool audience, you know, God knows we love y'all.
Y'all are so generous.
And you back everything we do.
And that, I'll tell you what, I raised, I forgot what my first goal was there, but we destroyed it.
Well, the TPC's audience is very generous.
And that's actually one of the things I want to talk about this hour.
We're going to be talking about this hour, some positive trends, some positive developments that we can share with all of you.
And I'm actually going to make an announcement tonight that no one knows about.
No one knows about except for me and the other individual involved.
Sam Bushman doesn't know about it.
Eddie doesn't know about it.
Keith doesn't know about it.
You don't know about it.
Nobody knows about it.
I'm pretty excited about it.
To me, I think it is tailor-made hand in glove for this audience.
And we're going to tell you about it in just a minute.
But first.
But first, but first, we do want to remind you how generous you are, ladies and gentlemen.
And our third quarter fundraising drive is coming to a halt tomorrow, if you can believe it.
After 14 years and 14 times four, however many that is, that's how many fundraising drives we've done because we do them once a quarter and we've done them once a quarter for 14 years.
And this is our third quarter fundraising drive for this year.
And you have been most generous.
Now, last week we read from a wide variety of cities from which support has come to TPC this month.
I want to tell you a few of the cities that support has come from since last week's show.
And here they are.
Valley, Alabama.
Thank you for your contribution.
The same to you in Essington, Pennsylvania.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Cordelaine, Idaho.
If you'd have told me 14 years ago that one day somebody in Cordelane would be listening to TPC, I'd have told you to get out of town.
I think that's a big silver capital up there, James.
Ben Wheeler, Texas, Sherwood, Arkansas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
You know, one thing about our audience is they are the best of the best that our people have to offer that Americans have to offer.
We're talking about doctors, lawyers, and this gentleman in Baton Rouge.
You know who you are, and we appreciate you so much.
Marietta, Georgia, Dolores, Colorado.
I can't read my own writing here.
While you're trying to read it, I'd like to give a shout out to Jimmy in Washington.
Speaking of St. Judge Jennifer, Jimmy in Washington, he's always contributed to the St. Jude Marathons, and they're endless.
I know y'all probably get tired of that, but the disease is also endless.
We haven't cured it yet.
But now I'll shut up.
Summerfield, Florida, I want to say.
And Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Thank you so much.
You know who you are in Tulsa.
We love you dearly.
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Monterey, Indiana.
Troutdale, Virginia.
If I could name Mr. and Mrs. TPC, the couple there in Troutdale, Virginia would be high in the running.
Dear, dear, dear people, Easton, Massachusetts, right there in Boston.
TPC coming through loud and clear in Boston tonight.
Granite City, Illinois.
Greer, South Carolina.
Our most recent contribution came actually during the show tonight.
Greer, South Carolina.
And Hank in Florida, of course.
Well, Hank, look, Hank's a gamer.
I mean, Hank's always there.
And yes, I was about to mention, I was about to mention, in fact, the only thing we like more than the people who give every quarter are the people who give twice a quarter.
And there are some of those.
How about Buddy in Jonesboro, Arkansas?
Buddy, you are Mr. TPC.
And Alfredo, Washington, Jimmy, obviously Keith in Canada.
Callahan, Florida, you know who.
Chino, California.
He gives every week, actually, if you can believe it.
Mesquite, Nevada.
Mesquite.
Thank you so much.
Baldwin, New York tonight, our friend on Twitter.
And TPC Nation, it is, Eddie, from the biggest cities to the smallest hamlets across this country and around the world.
People are tuned in to you tonight to hear what we have to say.
But I have got, I did this last week.
We like to do it during our fundraising drive.
I just grabbed these off the top of the desk.
I don't know who they're from, but we're going to read them.
And well, this is just from Buddy, the aforementioned buddy.
James, we could not do without you.
You are indeed a godsend.
And I want to say something about Buddy.
Eddie, I'm going to hand this to Eddie.
Eddie hasn't seen this.
Eddie, along with Buddy's contribution, he also sent this.
Can you tell us what you're holding in your hand right now?
You've got to put the microphone to your mouth.
Buddy.
Hey, you know what?
Unfortunately.
What do you got there?
I didn't bring my glasses here, but I can certainly recognize the Confederate battle flag on a coin.
It must be some kind of coin.
I wish I had my glasses, James, but that's a beautiful Confederate battle flag.
It is a General Forrest Memorial piece.
It was presented at Selma, Alabama.
The great legendary Pat Godwin down there in Selma, who does the Nathan Bevan Forest Reunion every year.
That was a piece that was given to the participants there a couple of years ago.
Buddy sent that to us.
I carry it everywhere I go now.
And that is a fantastic.
That's gorgeous.
And thank you, buddy.
Thank you, buddy.
Look at this.
Look at this.
They also send cards.
This is a very nice festive card with a tree trunk and some pumpkins.
And it's a fall card.
And it's from Dennis in Virginia and Pam in Virginia.
And they write the fill of fall is in the air.
Hopefully, we will be seeing the colors change soon.
And they want to know about what we're up to in the latest in TPC.
And they send in a nice contribution every quarter.
Dennis and Pam, we love you.
We love you very much.
This company of cards, you know, we have a we like cards.
Yes, I have a card from Kim and Cody in Missouri, and I still have it on my refrigerator with all their beautiful children.
I see it every morning and every afternoon when I come to the refrigerator.
I'm really sentimental.
Aren't we all?
And this comes from Phil in Illinois.
Here's a small donation for the work you do.
Well, it's not that small to us, Phil.
None of them are.
And what you sent, Phil, we appreciate and we value.
And Eddie, I mean, did you ever think, well, we're going to come back.
We're going to do a little bit more of this because we have to.
This is the last week of our fundraising drive.
But we want to give the credit to you.
This isn't about us.
This is a pat on the bat and a round of applause from us to our audience.
Listeners all over the world tonight tuned in to James Edwards, Eddie, Debamede Miller, Keith Alexander, and our selected guests this evening, Tom Kaczynski and Roger Desmond on DPC.
You make it possible, ladies and gentlemen.
We exist because of you.
We'll be back.
Okay, girls, about finished with your lesson on money.
Daddy, what is a buy-sell spread for gold coins?
Well, when you sell a gold coin to a coin shop that's worth, say, $1,200, you don't actually get $1,200.
But don't worry, we're members of UPMA now, so we don't have to worry about that.
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.
Or I can ask them to drop it right into Mommy and Daddy's bank account because we're a UPMA member family.
Find out more at upma.org.
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Abby Johnson was once director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas.
After a moral crisis, she quit, and now she campaigns against what she once endorsed.
They implement abortion quotas in all of their clinics.
What do you mean, quotas?
You have to perform a certain number of abortions every month.
One of the reasons that I left?
Yes, it's in your budget, right there on the line item.
One of the reasons I left Planned Parenthood was because in a budget meeting, I was told to double that abortion quota.
And for me, as someone who had spoken to the media and had said, you know, we're about reducing the number of abortions.
We're about, you know, prevention, all these other services, I was shocked.
So since you actually worked at a Planned Parenthood, give us some sense of the relative number of abortions.
Okay.
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We're giving this hour to the audience.
They deserve it.
They are responsible for any good we've ever done.
It all comes down to people like Phil in Granite City, Illinois, and Pam and Dennis in Virginia, and certainly Buddy and Rich, and so many, everybody who donates to this show.
I mean, we can't name them all, although we do try to at least shout out their cities.
This came in from, I think, this is the most simplest letter you'll ever receive, but it was attached with the contribution from Boston, Massachusetts that I received today in the mail.
James, great show.
Keep up the good work.
I mean, it doesn't get much easier than that.
But because of you, my dear friend, we can.
And thank you.
And that is from the Copperhead, not Matt the Copperhead, but from the Copperhead, another Copperhead up in Easton, Massachusetts.
I'd like to come in on that.
James, you've heard me say it.
If you've heard me say it once, you've heard me say it a hundred times.
That Southern is not a geographical location.
It's in the heart.
Well, that's true.
But I'd prefer to be born here if I had a choice.
But no, it is true.
I tell you what, I take that guy in Boston right there over a lot of people that I see here that were born and raised and have history stretching back to the 1700s in the South.
There's no doubt about it.
I'll take that guy in Boston over a lot of Southerners in this day and age in a New York minute, as it were.
Got that right.
Okay, this comes from William in Dolores, Colorado.
James and TPC crew, here's a donation.
Hope things are going well.
Thanks again for your excellent work.
Well, if we're excellent, it's because we have an excellent audience.
Now, what else do we have here?
I am just grabbing these at random.
Let's see.
Think about letters.
I love handwritten letters.
I know, and I'm still writing myself.
It's so hard to read.
You know what?
I got one tailor made for you.
I'm so low-keck.
I just hate emails.
As a matter of fact, I would just tell James, I don't know where in the world my phone is.
I cannot keep up with that stinking.
That's why I hadn't heard from you in three weeks.
I lose them.
This comes from Stephen in Arkansas, and he has contributed, and he's happy to see Keith back with Scoop and Copperhead fading out.
You know, this is the thing about our audience, Eddie.
They don't miss anything.
Yes, Scoop has had work conflicts, and the Copperhead has had work conflicts.
So you haven't heard as much from Scoop and Copperhead lately.
They know our movements.
They track our movements.
And, hey, listen, Stephen, I'm sorry for the confusion we had with you last quarter, but we're going to make it right.
And so we're going to send you a lot of good stuff in the mail this month.
What do I have here?
Eddie?
How about this?
Well, I think I read this one before.
How did this get back?
This is from John in London.
London again.
Well, he says he likes, he wants to hear more from the guy in Brazil.
We actually had a caller.
Oh, yeah, Brazil.
Brazil.
With the Bombardier Beer.
It's the same guy, right?
I mean, he's part of the family.
No, he's all about it.
And we love him, and we know him.
Now, one more thing I want to read here.
Now, this, I think, should be read in front of the Bombardier.
So we got a, and this isn't even getting into the good news I've got tonight or the positive developments.
We're going to get to that in just a second.
This comes from a listener in Baton Rouge who sent in a very generous contribution this month.
He said, this is a fact worth sharing with the audience.
And as I read this, I said, I think Eddie would like to respond to this.
Facts worth sharing with the audience.
And that comes from our dear friend Ron in Louisiana.
And Ron writes, when was the Vietnam War?
From November 1st, 1955, to April 30th, 1975, according to Wikipedia.
That's a long war.
It's a very long war.
20 years.
I'll tell you something else.
One day in a war is a long day.
And how many days did you spend over there?
Too many.
But he doesn't stop saying.
Same thing.
One more thing.
Even a small minefield is a big minefield.
And how many minefields have you trotted through?
Too many.
But I survived by God.
You know, and I know God has a purpose for me and James because I survived that, you know, survived.
A lot of your comrades didn't.
Too many.
But they were fighting for the international bankers, so God bless them.
First cousin didn't make it back.
How many Americans were killed in the Vietnam War?
58,318 is the official statistic.
I'd say five times that many because, you know what?
They were dying like flies.
After they got home.
You know what?
You couldn't keep medics.
You could not absolutely cannot keep medics.
When did the opioid crisis start?
They say, in the late 90s to the present day.
But listen to where he's going with this.
How many drug overdose deaths happened in 2017?
More than 72,000, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Who was Leon Trotsky, the leading communist Bolshevik who founded the Red Army and participated in the deaths of 60 to 70 million Russian Christians?
Bronstein was his real name, I think.
Davyodvich Bronstein.
Yes, indeed.
Thank you, Eddie.
Who is Nora Volkov?
That is the director in chief of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuses, 2003, and the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky.
How about that?
And now, finally, what house did Nora Volkov grow up in?
The very same house in Mexico City where Trotsky was murdered.
That is incredible.
How about that?
You know, so from Vietnam to the present day, it seems that the more things change, the more things stayed the same, I think is maybe perhaps what this listener from Louisiana is writing to us about.
What would you say to that, Eddie?
Well, you know, I would say quickly, go look up Gary Webb.
He did a great series.
He was an investigative reporter, I think, with the San Diego Mercury newspaper.
Dark Alliance.
He took all of his articles and published them into a book called Dark Alliance.
Took him two years investigative project where he found out that the CIA was the largest drug dealer in the United States.
So they were the ones that were responsible for the big crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
And also, James, you may remember, we used to have Colonel James Boat-Reitz on the air.
He also found, going back to Vietnam, he went back to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma looking for POWs after the war.
He found out firsthand that the drug problem was many, many, many times greater in proportion than we realized.
And the drugs were coming out of Burma with his friend General Kum Saul that Colonel Grice participated in the war with.
And they were of comrades against the communists.
And Kum Saul was dealing these drugs, selling them by the tons to the American politicians in the United States.
But go look up that.
Colonel James Bog-Grice made a movie about that.
Me and James had Colonel Greitz on several years.
Well, it's quite a few years ago now.
But if you look in the colours, I think you had him on on CB Radio.
Yeah, probably.
I'll tell you what.
Now that was one hell of a show.
I'll tell you, look up James, Colonel James Bogreit, and look up Gary Webb, newspaper reporter, California.
They'll tell you just about all you need to know about the drugs, the Vietnam, the United States CIA, Daddy Bush, Daddy Pappy Bush, head of the CIA, largest dope peddler in the world.
I've never seen anyone push, extend his eternal reward as much as Pappy Bush.
Poppy Bush.
That guy's got to be 215 years old.
They don't die.
These evil SOBs, they just will not die.
We've talked about that before.
Only the Good Die Young.
Billy Joel told us that.
But I think there's some truth to that.
From Essington, Pennsylvania, to James and staff, keep up the great work.
So proud of you.
How proud are we of our audience, people like Steve in Pennsylvania?
Keeps us going.
Short and sweet, Eddie.
No doubt about it.
Well, when we come back from the break, folks, we're going to get into it.
I wanted to read some of this correspondence.
We don't always have the time to do that.
Sometimes we have to make time because there's really nothing more important.
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Well, I may have saved the best piece of correspondence this week for the last.
They're all good.
They're all equally good, but this one stands out a little bit, I guess you could say.
The listener writes, James Edwards, Eddie the Bombardier Miller, and Keith Alexander are worth their weight in gold.
You are the holy trinity of radio and the voice of whites in America.
My goodness, we don't get comments like that every day.
Eddie, you've been deified.
I'm telling you.
Well, I'll tell you, I don't deserve it, but I sure I'll take it, though.
Yeah.
You know what?
I was just telling James, y'all.
I've got to say this.
I'm a sentimental guy and moody.
You know, and I was just telling James, James can tell you bored anybody.
Now, we've never had a crossword, have we?
No.
Well, I get so low sometimes, and I wake up at night, and I tend to get depressed and anxious, I guess because of my background.
And sometimes, like I was telling James, what's the use?
You know, in the middle of the week, I'll say, why do I do this?
Why do we do this?
You know, the world's going to hell in a handbasket.
I had a Navy commander who I know sent me an email the other day.
And he made me feel so good.
He said I was his hero.
I'm a little older than him.
And I was telling him how I'm giving up on the United States and giving up on the people.
He said, no, don't give up on it.
He told me I was his hero, et cetera, et cetera.
And getting messages like that.
And people, I'm telling you a flat truth, people.
Our audience out there, you have no clue how much it recharges my batteries.
I get low.
I want to give up.
I have trouble with anxiety sometimes with depression.
You know, because I'm so old and the world seems to beats me down.
But y'all just lift me up so much.
I'm thinking, by God, we got some people out here that are really worth fighting for.
And I'll tell you this.
Here's one of them.
Roseanne in Florida.
Roseanne in Florida.
And this gets to the crux of what we're talking about this hour.
I think sometimes, folks, truly, we do need to push aside an hour to focus.
To focus and praise on the audience.
We don't do it enough.
The audience is responsible.
This is a listener-funded program.
We're like PBS.
We don't really have paid sponsors.
We have listeners.
We're a listener-supported show.
And one of the things that comes with being part of a community and part of a family as we are is you really connect with one another.
And we have said for years and years that our audience is our family and vice versa.
And we are your family.
And we see it all the time.
I mean, we get letters every week from people sharing with us news of celebration, the celebration of a marriage, the celebration of a birth in your family, but also of the heartaches and the hardships as well.
People writing us to share with us, to cast their burdens and cares upon us about an illness in the family or even the death of a spouse or the death of a child.
And we receive it all.
We receive the good and the bad, the ups and the downs of life.
Our audience shares that with us.
And the latest example, Eddie, came in just a couple of days ago from Roseanne in Florida.
And I'm not going to share with you everything that is in this letter.
I certainly don't mind you reading it, Eddie.
I'm not going to share it over the public airways.
But her husband is facing a life and death struggle.
And she writes me this beautiful handwritten letter explaining his struggles.
And then she apologizes at the bottom of the letter for not being able to send in more money to the political suspect.
What was her name?
Her name is Roseanne in Florida.
And she shares with us this life and death struggle that her husband is facing.
And then she apologizes to us for not being able to send more.
And Roseanne, my dear friend, dear lady, we are here to serve you.
And it meant more than gold just that you would share with us your struggle and the struggle that you have, that you would give us the opportunity to pray for you and to share this burden with you.
And that's one of the things that I wanted to share with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
Eddie, I told you a few weeks ago that the audience doesn't know this yet.
And I didn't share this with the audience.
I'll make one quick comment.
Yeah, go for it.
Sure, sure, sure.
Let's be quick.
A lot of you people may not know that my wife had cancer like seven years ago.
And you know, most of you people in the audience, you know my background, the hell I've been through in my life, South Memphis, the war, psychiatric hospital, et cetera, before I can't overcome all that.
And I'm not proud of it, but I'm not ashamed of it.
Bad things happen to good people and happen to bad people.
But my wife had cancer.
So I can relate to Roseanne's problem because the day the surgeon called my house and told me my wife had cancer, that was one of the worst days of my whole life.
It was worse than anything I'd ever gone through.
And I tied my record when I was in the military being up.
I was up five days and five nights with that woman.
I wouldn't let anyone touch her.
A lot of people might know I'm a registered nurse.
I had her medicine.
I gave it to her around the clock on the dot.
And every time I would get relaxed to go to sleep, she would scream out in pain or she was vomiting and puking.
It was worse than hell.
I'd rather die than have to go through that again.
I was so thankful my wife made it.
Roseanne, God bless you.
Honey, I know what you're going through.
I've been there.
God bless you.
That's what we're talking about tonight, folks.
Above and beyond everything else, when we talk about very important issues, we are here to serve and to minister to one another.
And to that end, this is the announcement I want to make tonight.
You know the sacrifice my pastor made back in June.
Yes, yes, yes.
What you don't know is that shortly after that, my pastor had a stroke.
And I took Pastor to the mall this week so he could walk.
And that's part of his physical therapy.
That's part of his recovery.
And he said, you know, he said, James, did you ever mention on the show what happened to me?
And I said, well, Pastor, it actually occurred to me a couple of times.
Wanted to share with the audience what had happened to you because you mean so much to him because we received so many letters and emails of people wanting to talk to my pastor after the courageous and righteous stand he made back in June with regard to the Southern Baptist Convention that's fellowshipping our church because he wouldn't expel me as a member.
And I sent all of those emails and letters to him.
And he was ministered by your correspondence.
And he said, did you share with the audience what had happened to me?
And I said, well, I thought about it, but I didn't want to do it.
I was about to do it, but I didn't want to do it since it dealt with a personal issue and your medical issue without first clearing it with you.
And so, no, I hadn't.
He said, well, I'd like you to do that.
And he goes, I want you to tell the audience what had happened to me.
And so I'll tell you why he said that in just a moment.
But first, let me tell you what did happen.
He did suffer a very severe stroke.
And for a while, he had lost complete motor function and his ability to speak.
And as a pastor, that is your entire livelihood.
That was a couple of months ago.
And I was up at the hospital with him in intensive care.
We visited him several times.
And it was really rough.
But thankfully, he has recovered mightily.
He is still not nearly 100%, but he's doing much better.
Obviously, there's still some glitches in his speech, but he's a lot better than he was, which is to say he couldn't speak at all.
And he is walking now again, and he still can't write.
He still can't read, but he is doing better.
And anyway, so we were walking at the mall this week, and he said, you know, I'm winding down my ministry.
And actually, I had gone over to his house last week, and he had donated every book in his library to a local seminary.
And he gave me the handwritten notes of every sermon he ever preached.
And I actually have those in my office at home.
Every sermon he ever preached.
Now, you know, I was born and raised in this church.
I've spent my whole life in this church.
This is every sermon I've ever heard.
And he gave them to me so I could home church going forward because he's winding down his ministry at this point.
He's debilitated.
And one thing he wants to do, though, he brought this up because so many people had written to him.
And I had shared with him before that we get all of these emails from people around the world who share with us the trying times they're having.
And he volunteered to me at the mall while I was helping him get some walking in as part of his physical therapy.
It had rained that day, so he wanted to go to the mall to walk because he didn't want to walk on a slippery sidewalk where he might trip.
Doesn't he have to have a walker to James?
He doesn't have to have a walker, but he needs a little assistance.
But he's doing good.
He's doing better every day.
That's amazing.
What he wants to do is to serve as the chaplain of this radio program.
That's how he wants to continue his ministry.
And so for every person like Roseanne out there, we get these letters and emails literally every week from people sharing with us their celebrations in their family to their most dire moments.
He wants to be a part of that.
And he wants to be able to pray for them.
And he wants to be able to read these emails because you ministered to him so much during that stand that he took.
And of course, he had appeared on this show many times before over the years, but certainly since June, I think he has taken a particular liking to the audience of this program.
People like Rich, there were people who actually sent in financial contributions to him after the fact.
And he is going to serve as a chaplain of this program.
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Now his prayer doesn't mean any more than anyone else's.
He's not the Pope, thank God.
But we do believe that there is power in prayer and there's power in community.
And we're going to pray for you.
We'll talk a little more about it when we come back.
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Well, folks, that's the positive development that I wanted to share with you this hour is that, yes, a month or two ago, my pastor suffered a very severe stroke.
And he has recovered to a large degree, thankfully, but not entirely.
And as he begins to wind down his ministry, he's in his 70s now, he wants to basically take a bigger role with this program.
And when we were walking at the mall just last Wednesday, a couple of days ago, he asked if I had shared with the audience the news of his stroke.
And I said, well, you know, that's your personal information.
And I had wanted to.
I knew that they would care to know, but I didn't want to share your private information with a listening, a public audience without your permission.
He said, no, I want you to tell them, and I want you to tell them that with your permission, and if they'd be willing, I'd like to serve in this capacity, that when they send you in a letter with their cares and concerns, that I might be able to write them back and let them know that we're praying for them, that you're praying for them, and that I'm praying for them, that I could take on a responsibility to pray for your listeners who have blessed me so much in these trying times since June when our church was his fellowship.
And so that's something that he wants to do.
And I don't think there's anyone better to do that.
I don't think I would be here if it wasn't for him.
He is, outside of my father and grandfather, the greatest man I've ever known in my life, along with Eddie and Keith and, of course, Sam Bushman, and very much part of the inner circle.
And so that's what my pastor wants to do.
Post-stroke, as he recovers, he wants to serve as someone who can serve our audience and the good people, the good Christian people who called this program their home.
Eddie, I know that means a lot to you.
Because, you know, Eddie, you have said for years that we should start and end this show every week with a prayer.
Now, we haven't quite done that yet, but I thought that this would be an hour during which you would have something to say.
Yes, I have.
And, you know, the last time I saw your pastor, he was.
I was actually back there in June.
You were actually in the studio that day in June when the Southern Baptist Convention, when that was all at a fever pitch, you were here.
Now, you weren't on the air that hour, but you were actually sitting in with us during the hour that Pastor and I shared that story.
I wanted to be here with him, and it was a— And we prayed together before we went on air that day.
Yes.
Yes, you got that right.
I told Pastor, I told him all about my running history.
I had the New York Marathon coming up.
I had trouble at the New York Marathon before and asked him to pray for me.
And you know what?
He hugged me and prayed for me.
And it was just the most warm feeling came from the pastor.
And he was praying for you at a moment when he stood to lose his entire livelihood.
That's right.
That's right.
Absolutely right.
I came over here because, you know, the SBC was on y'all like stink on an ape.
And, you know, it meant so much to me, the pastor, to take his time out and pray for me.
You can see the man has a charisma about him.
But yes, I think it's such a wonderful idea that he's going to come on and have a part in this show.
And James is right.
I've been saying for years, James can tell you, that I think we should open and close this show every show with a prayer.
And I think that we should also, and I'm not saying, like I was telling James during the break, I'm not saying it should be the Baptist Bible hour or the Jehovah's Witness Bible hour.
You know, not a fire-beating Christian, you know, a Bible show because we're going to keep it political.
But, you know, all things are political.
He reads Romans 13, for God's sakes.
In fact, there's a whole book about Romans 13, Chuck Baldwin and his son.
But, you know, that said, and I've told, James can tell you, I've told James over and over and over, not he didn't know, that if we will give God the glory, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, if we will give him the glory and put it in his hands, and I was talking to our dear friend Hank in Florida about this just the other day.
I said, Hank, I need your advice.
You're one of the most solid Christians I know.
How can we make this show hellfire breathing, no compromise, what we believe in?
But yet, how are we going to do that and keep it in a way that pleases God Almighty, that it pleases Christ, Jesus Christ, who saved our rotten, miserable soul.
You know, and we have atheist people out there that listen to us.
And it's my greatest desire, if we could lead someone to Christ on this show, even though it's a political show, and James talking about his pastor is what's got me on this.
It'd be, there's nothing like leading someone to Christ because you know what?
I've only been there.
James came to my baptism.
I was an old man when I got baptized two months before my 62nd birthday.
I'm now 71.
There's nothing like it.
But yes, we need to do it.
And you know what?
If God is not in it, you will not succeed for long.
You will not.
We have to get God in.
You know what?
I think that's the greatest news I've heard since I've been on the celebration.
Your pastor is coming in.
Thank God for that.
I think that's a good sign that we're going to win.
When we talk about heroes like Tom Kaczynski, who has stood up to the fire, and then now my pastor who has certainly done it.
And even when I, you know, we go back to earlier this summer where I shared the story with y'all.
I encouraged my pastor to denounce me.
I begged him to denounce me, to just tell them that he had expelled me as a member, to expel me as a member, as long as it wouldn't have to come back down on him and the church.
And he said, no, I can't do that.
We can take the heat by it.
Because it's not because I love you, because it's the right thing to do, although I do love you.
And then the entire church stood with me, and it was just one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
And I'm all the better for it.
And so now I was just so encouraged when he asked to serve in this capacity.
I said, well, I'm going to tell the audience this week that that's what your intentions are.
Now, he's still having a little trouble writing, so it might take a couple of weeks to get this program put into effect, but we will put up an article about it at thepolitical cesspool.org this week so you can read all about it.
But essentially, now as he recovers from his stroke, as he winds down his ministry, he wants to play a bigger role in serving as a minister to this audience.
That's the best news.
I just have chills all over my body.
James, I'd like to say, how many other pastors would have cut and run?
I mean, is there any other one that you're doing?
You know, the one I know that didn't cut and run.
You know, and I'd like to say one more thing.
I'll make this short.
The American view of government is really religion.
And the next show, we have time.
I'd like to talk about the debate I had with the law students Thursday.
I run by the law school a lot of times on my training run.
And God bless them.
They're so ignorant now.
But listen, I can promise you people, I'm not selling you anything.
I don't have a church, but I'm going to tell you, I promise you, I give you my word of honor, there is a God, the God of the Bible.
Our rights come from him.
And the purpose of government is to secure those rights.
That's the only purpose the government has.
And if I can impress upon you one thing, one thing, and once again, I said in the Bible hour, because you know I'm hellfire on what we believe here.
You know how all you do is read our websites.
But there is a God, the God of the Bible.
Our rights come from him.
He sent his son to earth to take upon the sins of the world.
He went through unbearable pain and suffering and torture to save your miserable, rotten soul, just like he did in mine.
And it's a free gift.
All you have to do is accept that gift.
And I beg you to accept it because I accepted it.
James Edwards knows who I was.
Friends, people knows how rotten I was.
And I'm still rotten except for the saving grace of God, of Jesus Christ who came.
And though my sins were scarlet while I was yet a sinner, he saved my sorry, miserable, rotten soul, which I did not deserve it.
And I beg you, I beg you before it's too late, because you know what?
I don't care what we do.
We're not going to win this battle, this political battle, a war battle, whatever battle we're in, unless we have God on our side.
I'll tell you the damn truth.
I've been through every fight you can be in, through gang fights in South Memphis.
You know all that.
You know my millhead history.
But without God Almighty on our side, we are going to get our butts kicked.
So I'll tell you what, you better realize that, all you pagan friends out there.
So, James, I guess I'll turn it back over to you, son.
And we do love our pagan friends, but I will say there's so many things that set TPC apart, but now we actually have an officially ordained member of the clergy that is going to be part of our ministerial team.
And so you can continue to.
Now, again, as I said, his prayer doesn't mean any more than mine or Eddie's or yours.
They're all equal in the eyes of the world.
But there is power in community, and there is power and comfort that comes from knowing that other men and women that you love and trust are sharing your burden with you.
And so for people like Roseanne and her husband, we're praying for you.
My pastor will be praying for you.
And you will hear from us.
And that's something that we want to incorporate.
I think that is a good way that we can continue to serve our audience.
In addition to what we're doing on the radio every week, we will be incorporating this into the package that you get with TPC.
And I couldn't be more proud.
I've chilled up my spine going he's coming on, Jay.
And you know what, James?
Like you said, to go back to what you said, where two or more are gathered in my name, I'm there also.
And I would like to ask you, our pagan friends, our atheist friends, one more thing.
Even if you do not believe, I'm going to ask you to do this as a favor to me.
Even if you think I'm stupid for asking you to do this, spend, listen, spend 10 days, get up and start praying.
Get your knees and pray.
Go to your private place and pray and say, God, if you're there, if you're really there, if you're not a fairy tale, please come into my heart and convict me.
Convict me in my sins.
Search me, oh Lord.
Search me and convict me of my sins.
Let me know you're there.
I do want to be, you know, I want something other than what I have.
Because you know what, people?
And I'm going to sound like you're swearing.
One of these days, you're going to die.
And you're going to spend all eternity either in hell or heaven.
So there's all we got time for tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
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