Oct. 27, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, everybody.
Happy birthday, TPC.
14 years on your radio.
Yesterday, October 26th, 2004 was that fateful night.
And happy Halloween, too.
It's a double celebration this evening.
I guess you could say the trick was on the liberals 14 years ago.
And the treat has been for all of us for the subsequent days, 14 years.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
We are going to have a very special anniversary broadcast of TPC this evening during which we celebrate those 14 unprecedented years on the radio.
I was texting with a good friend in Texas just a couple of minutes before we went on the air.
He was asking me what's going to be coming on the program tonight.
I said, tonight, it's going to be pure fluff.
I say that, but it's not really that.
I do sincerely think it's important to pause one night of the year to reflect and be thankful and celebrate the good we have accomplished together.
And so that's what we're going to do tonight.
And we're going to do it with the entire TPC crew.
All nine of us.
Nine, you say.
Did you know that there was that many?
They don't always, they're not only always on the air every week, but indeed there are.
And let me tell you who's coming up to join me on the radio tonight as we look back, remember, commemorate our 14th anniversary, 14 years old this weekend is TPC.
And joining me to take part in that celebration, of course, Keith Alexander, Sean Bergen, Sam Bushman, Art Frith, our old producer and announcer, Jim Lancia, Eddie the Bombetter Miller, Jack Ryan, and Winston Smith, along with yours truly.
So we're going to look back on some of those great triumphs over the years.
We're going to set our sights on future success.
And I was up till about two in the morning last night pouring through our archives, pouring through our blog, going back many, many, many years.
And I would be surprised if you remember everything we're going to cover tonight.
But that's what we're doing.
And I think it's going to be a fun show.
But here are the rules.
We can look back on any memory, but it can't have taken place this year.
So we do this, I guess you could say twice a year.
We do a year in review show for the current year, the last broadcast of every calendar year.
So we're going to look back on 2018 during that show.
And after that show, it can enter into the record books and then be recalled on these anniversary broadcasts.
But no, this is for 2004 to 2017.
We're going to be looking back on that.
I remember that first night, though, folks.
I surely do.
We used to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
It was Tuesday, October 26, 2004.
And what was going on was we were waiting for AM 1600 to get its FCC license.
And the guy who owns 1600 said, hey, we got 1380 over here.
Or rather, we were waiting for 13.
We're back on 1600 now.
This is confusing.
We were waiting on 1380 to open up because it was going to be an all-political talk.
But they had 1600, which was a Christian station at the time.
And it still is, of course, but it also does politics.
Now we're back on 1600.
But anyway, we were on Tuesdays and Thursdays just to kind of warm up, just to kind of warm up before we went Monday through Friday.
And then, of course, for the last many years, we've been on just Saturday only.
But we were doing Tuesdays and Thursday nights back then in those days.
And it was a Tuesday night, October 26th.
And we talked about Bush versus Kerry.
That's how long ago it was.
It was just about a week before the election, I guess.
So we talked about Bush versus Kerry.
And I can tell you, I had no idea what was in store for me, not even close.
But we've come a long way, haven't we, folks, from our humble beginnings to the point where I guess you could say, quite rightly, we are the most attacked AM radio show in the world, but we wouldn't want it any other way.
Now, a lot of good has happened over those years.
Too much to recap in a single broadcast, to be sure.
But we wouldn't have lasted 14 years in the spotlight without the support of those in our listening audience.
That's a fact.
So we want to thank you again.
We want to thank you first and foremost before we get started tonight, before we have this parade of staff and crew join me this evening for letting us celebrate another birthday as your voice on the mainstream airwaves and for sharing the adventure with us and making possible all that we do.
So, but let me tell you something very quickly.
There is this lady in Memphis who knew that the anniversary was coming up.
So she gifted to me and to Keith and to Eddie three custom-made mugs that she made herself in her house.
And she gifted those to us.
And I said, these are actually really nice.
I said, how about can you crank out an assembly of them?
And we'll offer these to people for the anniversary.
A little special anniversary incentive, if you will.
And we got a picture of them for you, ladies and gentlemen, at thepoliticalcesspool.org tonight.
And let me tell you something.
This is the truth.
Coffee tastes hotter out of them.
Tea tastes sweeter out of these things.
They must have magical properties.
It is Halloween, after all.
But check those out.
And if you want to, in honor of our anniversary, and this is a momentous occasion, 14 years contribution of $50 or more during the anniversary show tonight.
And we're going to send you one of those mugs.
And we actually are running that incentive all weekend.
And we had some people take advantage of it yesterday, some today, and hopefully some during the show tonight.
So a gift of $50 or more to the show for our anniversary.
And we're going to send you one of those things and we'll send them out next week.
So that's just something for you to keep in mind.
So we told you what's going to be coming up this evening.
I well, some of you have been there with us the entire time.
We get new listeners every week, but there are some of you out there who have been with us since 2004.
And I certainly remember those early days.
Those early days were hard trying to catch on.
But I think, and we're going to look back on those years, but it's really been the past three years.
The past three years have just been remarkable, the prominence and the media.
And we were no stranger to it even prior to those three years.
But the last three years, you go back to 2015, you know, we drew over 500 people to Nathan Bedford Forrest's grave.
500 people.
That's a crowd of unprecedented size up until Unite the Right.
But this one was a smashing success.
And nobody even left a piece of trash on the ground.
That was just really a highlight of it all.
If I look back and you say, James, you know, give me three.
That's one.
That's one of them right there that we were able to do.
We were able to help turn out that crowd.
500 people, man, woman, and child, business people, fine people there rallying at the foot of the general and his grave.
Being denounced by Congress, you know, that happened a couple of years ago, I think also 2015.
What a fantastic honor.
What a high honor to be personally named James Edwards, the political cesspool, reprehensible.
We denounce them on the record of the United States Congress.
What a blessing.
What a blessing.
And I thought it'd be incredibly difficult for us to top those two accomplishments in 2016, which was the year after, but I was never more happy to be wrong.
2016, we were a constant fixture in the establishment press.
Now, this is a little more recent history, so we'll go through this very quickly because you remember this.
What we're going to be getting into is some things that maybe you don't going back.
We've been here for a few days now.
Being named one of the top 20 right-wing media fixtures responsible for Donald Trump.
I don't know necessarily if that's true, but we'll certainly take it.
Personally, named by Hillary Clinton as someone who will shape our country.
She put that in a fundraising letter.
Receiving those press credentials to the Republican National Convention, interviewing Donald Trump Jr., going to the inauguration, broadcasting from the press pen.
We were in the news every week that year, and we didn't even take any interview requests.
Hey, you know that.
Let's talk about some of the things you might have forgotten.
It's going to be a fun show tonight.
Thank you, folks.
We're going to do it together because we've done it together this long.
We'll be right back.
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Well, what a special time of year this is for me.
I obviously celebrating the anniversary of the radio program.
Now, 14 years on the air, my son's birthday is today.
So the show went on the air October 26, 2004.
My son was born October 27th, 2014.
He turned four years old today.
So we were out doing a corn maze today, and we did a hayride.
And I actually left my family to come into the program tonight.
We were carving pumpkins at the time that I had to leave to come to work, as it were.
So this is just a great time of year with Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner.
And of course, Halloween is a patchwork holiday.
It's a European holiday.
And it goes back, it speaks to our ancestral memory.
If you have some of that Celtic origin, as I do, as Michael Hill calls it, the ancestral memory.
But anyway, right now we are celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
We're going to be doing it with our entire crew.
And I don't know if there's any man more important to our success than Sam Bushman, the owner of the Liberty News Radio Network.
And for a while, we had a board op that was paid by the network to come in and produce our show.
But Sam started liking the show so much, he is now board ops just for fun.
But we were talking just a moment ago about some of the things that have happened in recent years.
And of course, Sam and I were together at the inauguration of Donald Trump in January of 2017.
And I think this show, as much as anyone in the cause, has made great strides towards mainstreaming our sincere and heartfelt message by using our position in Talk Radio to grant our movement access to events and individuals that are normally off-limits to so-called dissidents.
But one thing that Sam and I certainly shared in was the Donald Trump Jr. interview.
And I only bring that up again because there was something that came to, was brought to my attention about a week ago that I had never even seen before.
So there was this interview with Donald Trump Jr. after his father was elected president.
They asked him about the interview.
And he said that interview with James Edwards will follow me for the rest of his life or for the rest of my life, he said.
And he wasn't joking.
If you go to his Wikipedia page, on his Wikipedia page, it has his early life, his career, and his involvement in politics.
And underneath that third subcategory is interview with Edwards, it reads.
And what you'll find there says, on March 1st, 2016, in an interview with white supremacist James Edwards and Trump Jr. was aired.
As a consequence of the interview, mainstream media outlets have accused Trump Jr. of either being a believer in the white genocide conspiracy theory or pretending to be an advocate for political gain.
Now, a couple of things I would say in response to that.
Number one, it's a good thing he agreed with everything that we said on that fateful Super Tuesday and that he agreed to stay twice as long as he was originally booked for.
So I think that's number one.
But number two, this is why I want to bring Sam Bushman on.
Well, number one, again, he's Sam Bushman.
But Sam, you know, we talk about this from time to time.
The media seems to have a little bit of bipolar or maybe a little bit of schizophrenia when it comes to who and what we are.
Sometimes you'll read articles that say, oh, it's just this obscure political cesspool, obscure Liberty Roundtable, Liberty News Radio.
And then sometimes it'll be Hillary Clinton fundraising saying James Edwards is going to be advising Trump if we don't beat him.
or Donald Trump Jr. was just pretending to be an advocate of our position for political gain as if he was siphoning into our power to fuel his father's rise to the presidency.
And I think the truth of the matter is...
Which is the truth.
All of it sounds quite ghoulish for Halloween, though.
I mean, no matter what, their pitch always is it's evil.
You're a nobody and you don't matter, or you're everybody and you matter.
But no matter what, dealing with you just brings out the goblins and the hate and the evil and the, you know, and these people just go berserk.
Even Donald Trump Jr. couldn't handle the heat.
And I still challenge Donald Trump Jr. to a debate.
I wrote his father, the president of the United States, an open letter debating or, you know, baiting them, saying, come on, you know what?
Let's talk about this and shut down the naysayers and the goblins and the people who are really just threatened by us nobodies.
You know what?
Let's throw down the gauntlet and have a real open conversation about who we are and what we stand for and what we believe.
And I think the president of the United States and his son, they're kind of chicken, James.
They're a little bit afraid to engage in open, appropriate discussions about who we are and what the mission of the United States is and what our purpose is and what the president's purpose is.
And hey, am I a nationalist compared to a globalist?
Absolutely.
Am I for America first?
Without question.
Am I afraid of being white?
No.
Am I afraid of discussions about race and being white?
No.
I'll take anybody on anytime, anywhere, just name the forum and I'll be there.
But the problem is they dribble that whenever they think no one will take them up on it.
They don't say that stuff to me, James, because they know full well I'll fly out and be there.
I have seen Sam flay.
I have never seen anybody work like Sam does with a reporter.
I have seen him take a hostile interview.
I've been on the line with him with some of these interviews.
And he'll have this guy.
I've never seen anybody turn a reporter like Sam can.
It's really amazing.
I don't have that talent.
But I'll tell you what our standing really is.
We're not obscure and we're not the power behind Donald Trump.
We are somewhere in the middle.
And I would put our portfolio against that of anybody else, pound for pound, dollar for dollar.
I think we punch way above our weight class, and we've done a lot of good, and we have a great reach thanks to this audience.
But I'll tell you another thing, ladies and gentlemen, looking back on some of these memories, you remember tens of millions, maybe $100 million worth of publicity was bestowed upon us in the last couple of years.
And one of the chapters of that were the robocalls.
Now, I don't know if people know this little secret.
It's not really a secret.
I don't know if we've mentioned it.
I'm not afraid of telling it.
All right, tell the story.
All of those robocalls that Bill Johnson was putting out, that was in-house.
That was right here.
Hey, man, Bill and Jared Taylor and several people voiced them.
I was the producer who recorded their voices and put it all together.
I was the one that produced every one of those robocalls, ladies and gentlemen.
And I'm not trying to take credit for it or that I'm important.
We're really trying to illustrate to you, they say we're nobodies as they talk about us all day long.
They say we're nobodies as they write on the wiki page for the son of the president of the United States saying he had to tap into their power.
He's not really one of them, but he knew to get elected he needed them.
Hillary Clinton said, Okay, so it's both sides of the aisle saying this kind of stuff as they tell you we're nobody.
Now, you know what it reminds me of?
There's two stories of Halloween.
There's the ghoulish, evil, satanic day, but then there's people like me who believe in the resurrection of the Savior Jesus Christ.
And the reason they call it Halloween is because when people started coming out of the graves, followers of Jesus Christ getting resurrected.
So to me, it's a day of resurrection.
And it's kind of like, hey, you know what?
Every time they criticize us, we're better than dying lives, James.
We get another life, another form.
And every time they try to hate us and down us and destroy us, all they do is give us more credibility every time they turn around.
And they're going to continue to do it because they're desperate.
Well, it's interesting you bring that up since we are tying Halloween into this.
The Celts didn't call it Halloween.
They called it Sowhan.
Yeah, they also called it All Saints.
Right.
So, but then it became Hallamis and then All Hallows' Eve and All Saints Day.
And so that was when the Christian church began to take over the holiday.
And it's a patchwork still.
But nevertheless, you're right.
But the reason I bring that up is this is a Christ-centered radio program.
It's a family-friendly show.
I think the way we come at our issues is the most mainstream way.
It's the kind of way that's going to get professionals on board with the message.
It's not shocking.
I mean, it may be shocking if you're shocked by the truth, but we don't come out here to be sensationalists.
We come out here to do the good work, to tell the truth in love.
And we're good-natured and we're all family men and we're all Christians.
And when we come back, we're going to keep Sam Bushman for a little bit longer into this next segment.
And we're going to ask him some of his favorite memories looking back.
We're going to ask this of all of our team tonight.
His favorite memories looking back, some favorite interviews.
Then we're going to move on to the next one.
We got a lot to get to tonight.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do.
He said that we are actually going to post an article to the website next week linking liberalism to witchcraft.
So stay tuned for that.
But first, very quickly with Sam Bushman, we're going to get to Keith Alexander.
We got everybody else coming on in rapid succession.
By the way, they behave.
We're talking about the way they behave about Donald Trump doing so well about conservative ideals, though.
They sir seem like they're into witchcraft.
I mean, these people are coming unglued.
They got witches trying to put hexes on the president.
I mean, it's just insanity.
It's just crazy.
Big time.
Anyway, are you there, James?
Yeah, I'm here.
Okay, go ahead, sir.
Well, no, I was just going to say, so that's coming up.
But very quickly before we go to Keith, talking about those robocalls.
So Bill would write the script.
Jared voiced one.
I voiced one.
Somebody else voiced one.
And every time you would produce them, and they would make national moves, and it would be the biggest story of the day.
So that's just some of the stuff behind the scenes that maybe you never knew about.
And they even wrote stuff at the time, too, we should.
Sure, with the inauguration, that was great.
James, they even said they sure wish they could figure out who was producing them even.
I mean, that was part of the news stories and stuff.
Well, see, that's the thing about it.
That's the thing, though, about it is we don't get caught up.
I mean, yes, we're proud of what we've been able to do, what we've done through God's grace and our audience's generosity, but it's not a competition with other people out there who are doing similar work and doing great work.
And in some cases, maybe better work than what we're doing.
We're in it.
Look, if we wanted to have our name splashed everywhere, what do we turn down?
About 100 interviews?
I mean, with the biggest people in the world in 2016, when they were trying so desperately to link us to Trump, but we don't get wrapped up in the games that they play.
We're here to do the work.
We tend to our flock.
We offer something unique and we go forward.
But we also don't go out with megaphones either and seeking the attention.
I mean, there's so many things we could do that would just garner all kinds of attention, right?
But we don't.
You know, we don't try to garner that attention.
But I'll tell you one of my favorite memories of the whole run of the political cesspool.
And I've been involved as a listener from 2008 forward.
2009 is when I became the syndicator of the show.
Been doing it ever since.
It's true.
I used to have a board op sit here and do the show.
And for some other shows, I still do, but in this case, I like the show enough to where I love to dedicate my Saturday nights to it.
With rare exception, I have somebody fill in, but I like to be here because I enjoy the show.
I believe in the show.
But one of my favorite memories is this.
I don't know how many people know this, but I'm a totally blind person.
I'm the owner of the radio network.
I do a show myself, and I syndicate James and other talk shows.
And I run the network, and I built the network myself with my own two hands.
And anyway, I'm kind of a technical geek behind the scenes and a decent talker as well.
But anyway, so I'm totally blind.
And one of my favorite times when we put on Winston, and Winston is deaf.
And we had a go-between, I don't know what you call it, translator, a TTY person who would basically take what we say and type it up for Winston to see.
And so I thought it was pretty neat, man.
You got these white supremacists on the radio.
Now, I know they're not, folks.
Just listen to me.
According to the mainstream press, you got these white supremacists.
And anybody who's a deformed soul under the white supremacist idea would just be murdered.
I mean, you got to kill blind people and defects.
You got to get rid of them.
And so I'm just thinking, you got this blind guy producing the show on a network that he built with his own two hands.
You got this deaf guy with a TTY lady in the middle.
And he's going off on politics.
And I just find the whole thing just comical, James.
Well, there's the truth and then there's the narrative.
But unfortunately, sometimes history remembers those who have the bigger pins.
But nevertheless, for those who are objective-minded and open-minded, we offer something that I don't think anybody else does, and we're very proud of it.
So we're going to go to Keith now.
But Sam, obviously, none of the success we've experienced since 2009 when we joined with Liberty News Radio would have been possible without you.
We love you.
We respect you.
And there's not a better man than I know.
Thank you, sir.
Happy Halloween, everybody.
Keith, you're up, sir.
Okay, guys.
Yeah, Keith, when we were talking, I know, Keith, you're at a Halloween party tonight as well, so your time is limited.
And with just a few minutes remaining, we were a little late getting you.
We couldn't reach you during the previous segment.
So Sam went a little long while we were trying to get in touch with you.
But you said last night when we were talking that there was one particular show that you wanted to bring to the audience's attention tonight as the best of TPC.
Which one was it?
The Charlottesville broadcast.
I thought that our personal coverage with Eddie Miller being there in person and our commentary, both yours and mine and Eddie's, really, you know, would stand up against anyone's accurate, truthful account of it.
If you want to get an accurate, truthful account of what was actually happening on the ground in Charlottesville last year, go to the TPC, what was it, August the 12th or whatnot?
Yeah, whatever.
Yeah, it was actually on the same day.
It was a couple of hours after the events at Charlottesville took place.
And what we did, it was in such a contrast to the establishment media's narrative.
We had people there on the ground, and we staggered the segments.
It was me and you and a featured guest who was there, either a speaker or an organizer.
And then we would go to Eddie, who was on the ground with, I don't mean rank and file in a demeaning way, but just people who were there.
And he was bringing these people on as they would sweat and as they bled.
And it was just, I think we offered that real-time, honest assessment of what happened to counteract what the establishment was pretending happened.
And it was just the most beautiful.
If I had one show to say, this is who we are, this is what we do.
It is, you're right, Keith.
It's that show.
Yeah, it was totally accurate and totally factually based, unlike the mainstream legacy media narrative that they developed about the thing.
And we came up with the metaphor of a kill box.
And I think that is perfect.
And we also were the first to report that James Alex Field, the guy that is still languishing in jail in Charlottesville, being charged with murder, was basically just scared to death and running for his life.
And we also pointed out at that time that the key to understanding it is the roadway versus the sidewalk.
If he had been trying to hit people, if he was like these Muslim terrorists in France and otherwise, he would have gotten up on the sidewalk and started piring people down.
He didn't.
He stayed in the roadway with his car all the time.
He was just trying to get the heck out of Dodge because of all the danger that he was in.
And it was a, you know, it was a real danger.
It was not an imagined danger.
They were beating in the windshield of his car, beating in the back windows and whatnot.
And these people got in the roadway.
He threw it into reverse.
And I think it was, it's been established by Heather Heyer's mother.
That's the lady that died, unfortunately, in this incident.
But she said that she died of a heart attack, not of any trauma that she received from Fields' car.
But of course, you have to listen to the political cesspool to get the truth about that.
Well, you know, the great thing about it is, Keith, if you're a new listener to the show, or if you're a relatively new listener to the show, let's just say you've been listening for a year, two years, three years.
We've been on the air 14 years.
That's a lot of years.
Every show we have done since early 2015.
Now, the very first shows, we didn't have archive capabilities yet.
But going back to the early part of 2015, you can catch every single episode of TPC.
They're all there, and we're proud of all of them.
They're all our babies.
And so it's hard to pick favorites, but the Charlottesville episode certainly stands out.
There are a few other shows.
To anything that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News has done, this is the real truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on Charlottesville.
And I would recommend that if somebody really wants to come back and figure out what really happened there, check TPC, the political cesspool.
Well, Keith, you've been a part of so many great shows.
You've been with me for so many years, and the show just wouldn't be half as good without you.
And that's why we I think this has been our best year of broadcasting, ironically, just because we've had to pour in so much effort to make up for you being on your sabbatical in the early months when you were running for office.
But it's been so great to have you back for these last couple of months.
It was instantly back to old times and the good old days.
And you've been with us for so many years and you add so much intellectual heft to this broadcast.
And I just couldn't imagine doing it without you.
I love you.
And while I got you on the line, though, I appreciate the comments and let me put it back at you.
I think that you have the talent as an MC for a radio show that is the equal of anybody that is making millions of dollars a year for the legacy media.
You could have gone in that direction, but instead, because the truth matters to you, you decided to be involved in our movement.
And because of that, I think our movement ought to be eternally grateful to you.
Well, thank you for saying that, my friend.
I do appreciate it.
It's a mutual admiration society, as they say.
But while I've got you on the line before the music starts, when are we going to get together for lunch this week?
You want to do Thursday or Friday at high noon at the usual time?
It's your choice.
Probably Friday would be better, but let's do Friday.
I am not above using this nationally syndicated broadcast to serve as my personal telephone call to Keith.
It saves me a call later.
I'm nothing if not efficient.
Let's do Friday high noon at the usual spot.
I'll see you there.
We'll plan next week's show.
Next week's show will mark the very first show of our 14th year.
So, and we've got a great guest coming up.
Hey, we got a guest coming up next week that made a very recent appearance.
Then we've got a guest making her very first time appearance.
And then we got a guy coming on who hadn't been on in about 10 years.
So you're going to get a little bit of everything in the next three weeks of PPC.
But tonight we celebrate 14 years.
Thank you, Keith.
Go back to the party.
We'll be back with Scoop Stanton next.
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two zero five six seven two two thousand abby johnson was once director of a planned parenthood clinic in brian 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 about that?
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.
Abortions Planned Parenthood provides over 330,000 abortions a year.
They are the largest single abortion provider in our country.
Moving was hot, but I got squared away.
Bell started ringing and changed rattle loud.
I knew I'd moved in a haunted house.
Still a made up in my mind to stay.
Now, Keith would have liked that song.
That's Jump of Gene Simmons, not the Gene Simmons from Kiss, but the other one.
The one who has a song that I like.
That one.
Haunted House.
The better one.
Anyway, all right.
Happy Halloween.
Happy anniversary.
Happy birthday, TPC.
Sam and I were talking during the commercial break, and there's so many stories behind the scenes that none of you could have ever been privy to.
But we had a show right after the inauguration.
So we were all there at the inauguration, Jared Taylor, myself, Sam Bushman, Kurt Crosby.
What a great time in Washington it was that week, let me tell you.
We can't share everything on the air, but we had an inauguration broadcast.
So the inauguration, we were at the inauguration, and then on the Saturday night following the inauguration, we were there and we did the show from a hotel in Washington.
And it was me and Sam and Sean Bergen, who's going to be on in the second hour.
And it was just such a great show.
We had hot wings downstairs in the hotel, and then we went upstairs and we had the show.
And one of our sponsors was just laying on the couch.
And it was just a great night.
There's been so many great nights behind the scenes.
My goodness.
I mean, obviously, we get together every week.
We're brothers.
And going to the Hermitage, the very first time I ever met Sam Bushman after a couple of years on the radio with him, or a couple of years under his ownership here with the network, Eddie the Bombardier Miller and I went up to Nashville and we picked up him and Kurt because Sam was speaking at the Constitution Party convention that year.
That was several years ago.
But we went to the Hermitage.
We visited Andrew Jackson's grave.
The last time I was there before that was with Pat Buchanan.
And me and Pat went to go see the grave.
And it was just a good, that was a good time.
The night we were coming back from a baptism, we went to go see the Copperhead get baptized in Missouri and we were coming back and Eddie made the Baskin Robbins open up and service ice cream.
They actually gave it to us for free.
They were closed.
They opened up and then they didn't even charge us.
We've had so many good times.
Yeah, Eddie makes the girls melt like that.
I don't know.
But there have just been so many memories.
And it really goes back, I think our very first memory was the Minuteman Project, the Minutemen Project in 2005, before anybody was covering it.
That goes way back.
Before anybody was covering the Minuteman Project, we were covering it.
And we were covering it with people on the ground.
Joe McCutcheon and Michael Gaddy.
Now, both of them have made many appearances on the show over the years.
That was really one of the very first things that we did on the radio that I thought was just incredibly cool.
And then, of course, later, Sean Hannity and so many other people were covering the Minuteman Project.
And I'm not saying they covered it because we covered it, but what I'm saying is we did, as a matter of fact, cover it.
We were covering that stuff going on at the border in 2005 before anybody else on the AM radio was doing it, before any of the national press caught up on it.
We had Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox, who were the founders of the Minuteman Project.
We had them on before anybody knew who they were.
And TPC has been sort of doing that kind of stuff ever since then.
Babe Buchanan was on.
Pat's sister was on that month as well, talking about the Minuteman Project.
That was, I think, really one of the first things where we thought that, you know what, we may have something here that people are going to pick up on.
Let's go to Scoop Stanton.
Now, Scoop hasn't been able for years and years and years.
Scoop, every Saturday without fail, he'd be on to do his segment.
Now, earlier this year, Scoop had a job change.
He changed career paths, and he is working at nights during our broadcast time now on Saturdays.
But we had to get him on for the anniversary show.
And we're not saying Scoop's gone for good.
We're just saying he's got a conflict currently.
So he's been out for a while.
But he's with us tonight.
And if Scoop is anything, he is a man who can chronicle the history of TPC better than even yours truly.
This guy remembers things that even I can't remember.
And he can do it off the cuff and from pure memory.
And so we always love having Scoop on for these shows to give us his, well, I don't want to say top 10, but top moments, top memories, top interviews.
Scoop, I'm going to turn it over to you.
It's great to have you back on the show tonight on our anniversary broadcast.
14 years.
You've been here for the vast majority of them.
Yeah.
Well, James, I haven't gone anywhere.
Just that, like you said before, I'm at work.
I'm at work right now.
I took a little play hook for a second.
But you can still hear me right after the political cesspool on 7-5 radio with none other than Walter Yerku.
And this week I've did the show Solo, which was a stinko-rooney.
But last week we had Michael Down on, and it was a mother of all shows.
But anyways, let me talk about the top 10 moments for the Political Cesspool.
Now, we've grown in 14 years.
We're not the Cesspool of 14 years ago.
We've grown.
We've gotten bigger.
We've gotten much, much better.
So most of these items were things in the past, probably about five years.
Number 10, James Edwards' appearance on CNN.
That was a groundbreaker.
Number nine, Anthony Kumia as a guest.
We got radio legends with Anthony Kumia, and it was one to die for.
Number eight was the Bill Rowland tribute show.
We didn't have a dry eye in the hole for three hours.
Number seven was the show from Charlottesville.
Eddie the Bombardier Miller and yours truly did show up to Charlottesville at different times, and we gave you an honest report because, I mean, like everything else, the media is just full of it.
Number six, the war on cops.
We reported first that I called Saturday in December 14th, 2014.
Sean Bergen got a scoop on it.
We ran with it.
We've coined the phrase and we're proud of that.
We had an exclusive on that.
Number five, Dylan Roof.
Now, this incident with this idiot, Dylan Roof, almost broke the cesspool because everybody, the brothers going after the members of the Cesspool, members of the CFCC.
You know, what do we do?
What do we know?
How we know it, things like that.
But guess what?
We still persisted.
Number four, the survivors of the USS Liberty.
This is the greatest non-event in history.
When I say non-event, nobody talks about it.
When I was in the Navy, we never heard about the Liberty incident.
I didn't hear about the Liberty Incident until I joined the Cesspool, which is absolutely disgusting.
What it is, people, Israel attacked a flagged U.S. naval vessel, and LBJ kept it under the carpet.
Number three, denounced by Congress.
Our old favorite gunslinger, Paul Babu, was testifying before Congress about immigration or something.
And somebody asked him about the political cesspool.
And we were denounced.
And that was one of the best shows ever.
James and Eddie anchored it.
I called in my two cents.
I was off that day.
And then, Mr. Grinsley Gagel, Brian Williams, he had his scandal.
So we brought Sean Bergen out to top it all off.
We couldn't have done any better than that.
Number two, the visit to Cleveland.
The political cesspool at Liberty News Radio went to the Republican National Convention as legitimate journalists, or the legitimate news people.
And they were next to CNN, and they treated the Cesspool family great.
But then as soon as they could, they threw us under the bus.
So that goes to show what CNN is.
But we were treated like the people we are.
We are professionals.
We're journalists.
We're reporters.
We're entertainers.
You know, we tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
And we have fun doing it.
And number one, our biggest thing, our biggest event was the election of Donald J. Trump.
Donald Trump is our Ronald Reagan.
Back in the 80s, our fathers, they voted for Reagan and looked up to Reagan.
And Donald Trump is our man.
He's not 100% behind us, but nobody is.
But he is by far the best thing we've had.
He saved America.
Some of the things Donald Trump did was he's trying to close the border.
He got rid of our bad trade deals.
He's bringing manufacturing jobs back.
He revived the coal and steel industries, which were dying industries.
He's putting pride back in America.
He's putting people back to work.
Stock market's going crazy.
Military is being rebuilt.
The Veterans Administration is getting refurbished.
And he's doing all this and taking on the media head on.
Nobody has done this.
And he's still winning.
The idiot, the pipe fake bomber, they're going to tribute him to Trump.
And the situation in Pittsburgh, they're going to attribute him to Trump.
But, I mean, Trump is the best things that we had for the CESFO because he broke our losing streak.
Because forever and a day, everybody that ran for office, everybody we endorsed lost, lost big time too.
But Trump beat that streak.
The first guy I ever voted for that won.
And I include myself in that long list of electoral failures.
But this is why I love Scoop.
Scoop covered 10 momentous events in less than 10 minutes.
And that's what he can do.
And just to recap, CNN, you know, everybody knows I was on CNN for a string of interviews very early on.
I was a regular contributor.
The thing I remember most about CNN is getting airbrushed, getting that makeup that they do you.
That was interesting.
And then staying on with Jesse Lee Peterson.
And of course, Jesse Lee and I are still in touch today.
The Anthony Cummea interview, that was a big one that we had.
We were too much.
Anthony Cumi is supposed to be this hardcore guy.
We were too much even for him.
The Bill Rowland tribute.
We remember our fallen brothers.
We love you, Bill.
Bill, you're part of this tonight, brother.
The USS Liberty, I mean, you talk about interviews that we've had.
Having three surviving crewmen of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on the air for an hour, that was a fantastic interview.
And of course, thanks to Scoop Stanton, two of the people you'll be hearing from in the next hour as they recount their favorite TPC memories, Jim Lancia and Sean Bergen.
They are a part of our crew because of Scoop.
And then, of course, who could forget how much we were tied to Donald Trump, how much we have been tied to Donald Trump, either in ways real or imagined.
It has been, hey, I'll tell you this.
Rest assured, the Trumps know our name, and he's the president, and we're still on the air, so we'll take it.
Right, exactly.
And this is just scratching the surface because, I mean, things that Sean and Jim, they talked about is amazing.
Jim, he sent a letter to Trump wanting to become the South African ambassador.
I went to CPAC.
We did a whole bunch of other stuff.
But anyways, I got to go back to work, folks.
Hey, go back to work.
Hey, we're nothing if not family men and hard workers.
And so Scoop's going to go back to work.
Thank you, Scoop, for all you've contributed to the show over these years and for calling in the night.