Jan. 19, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the political cesspool.
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
What an honor it is to come to you each and every Saturday night, ladies and gentlemen, for the past 15 years.
And of course, as you know, you and you alone have made that possible.
Yes, we're here every night.
Thanks to you, our loyal and loving audience.
This is, though, the broadcast for Saturday, January 9th.
It's a faithful remnant.
The people that listen to us are the faithful remnant in terms of the American experience and the American experiment in government.
We are the only people that believe in the founding principles and live it out.
And God bless us all.
Amen to that, Keith.
And what I was saying, though, it's an honor to come here each and every night.
For the last 15 years, it's always an honor, but it's especially an honor tonight, this January 19th, 2019.
It's Robert E. Lee's birthday.
And we talked about that in the first segment of the first hour as we opened the show tonight.
We are dedicating tonight's broadcast to General Lee.
Now, that, that was a man.
What we have in Congress, we don't have men.
What we have in the churches, we don't have men.
You have a couple of men here on the radio tonight, and we have men in our listening audience, but we don't have men in the institutions.
And ultimately, for that, ladies and gentlemen, we have no one to blame but ourselves, white men.
At what point did the chickens open the coop doors?
John chapter 10, verse 9 says, our people's demise was turning their backs on our father in heaven and his son.
We've gone from secure and prosperous to vulnerable and weak in the last 50 years.
Now, we were talking about that, Keith, in the last hour.
How in 50 years' time, it went from George Wallace's segregation forever speech to Steve King, who I like.
I like Steve King a lot, but he voted to condemn himself in the revolution.
Real quick, you're right.
But that all happened in the last 50 years.
We were talking about this at lunch.
That happened within a single lifetime.
You went from segregation forever to a guy voting to condemn himself for asking what's wrong with Western civilization.
What's changed?
Well, a lot's changed, but I can think of one of the major differences, and that is between our current culture and that of the culture of the 1950s, America, we've abandoned God.
And if you haven't noticed, he has abandoned us as well.
Now, he has not abandoned us, but he has not blessed us, I guess.
Let me give you just a little bit different spin.
What has happened is cultural Marxism has succeeded where communism failed.
Communist terror wasn't nearly as effective a way of controlling public opinion.
Having your front door knocked on at midnight and then having yourself dragged to the basement of the Lubianka and having a bullet put in the base of your brain, that apparently doesn't work.
But what works is political correctness, the modus operandi of cultural Marxism.
If you can prevent people from making a living or advancing in their careers, that is a much better way to control them rather than communist terror tactics that were used by the Bolsheviks and by the Red Guards.
This is what they found.
They found the Achilles heel in humanity.
We'll tolerate this type of ostracism by enforcing political correctness against us.
But on the other hand, we would rebel against Soviet terror tactics.
They've found out where we are weakest, and they've gone for it.
People will cow down every time to this.
So as we covered in the first hour, you have Steve King voting to essentially censure himself.
You have the weatherman who was fired, and he just absolutely groveled.
And it didn't do either of them any good.
And we have now the churches aiding and abetting in this destruction.
And of course, we know this.
And they've turned their back on their mission of bringing Christ and his salvation.
Now they're bringing fire and brimstone against people that transgress liberal orthodoxy.
There you go.
And the latest groveling is still not enough.
Under its current leadership, the Southern Baptist Convention has moved from one embarrassing denouncement of racism to another.
The latest is a report from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
And in this report, they went back and they said it's an infamous Al Moeller.
Al Moeller, absolutely right, Keith.
Thank you.
Al Moeller, and that's Russ Moore's bosom buddy in the SBC.
And they said, you know, basically, I think what he was thinking was, is there anything we've missed?
Is there anything we could apologize for that we haven't already apologized for?
So they did an exhaustive search, and they found that they found exactly how many slaves the original founders of the SBC owned, and then they repented for that.
Okay?
So they're repenting for this horror.
As he put it, how did Al Moeller put it?
This certain kind of horror.
Okay.
So essentially, the SBC is criticizing its founders for accurately accepting what the Bible said about slavery.
The Bible nowhere, of course, condemns slavery as a sin, and this crazed abolitionism brought about the Civil War.
It was clearly based on the crackpots.
I've said before that, you know, different colonies had different purposes for the mother country.
They never intended the Massachusetts Bay colony, which is where all this puritanical abolitionist thought came from, to be a moneymaker.
Instead, they considered it to be a dumping ground for religious crackpots.
And boy, were they ever right.
That's exactly what it was and has proven to be throughout history.
And you know what?
Any organization that embraces liberalism will wither and die.
And that's exactly what's happening to the Southern Baptist Convention right now, just like it happened to the Episcopal Church, USA, to the United Methodist Church, to the Presbyterian Church, USA.
And when you offer, when people seek a loaf and you give them a stone, and when they seek a fish and you give them a serpent, people will depart your organization looking for true spiritual sustenance.
There is no pure spiritual sustenance anymore in the Southern Baptist Church.
Well, and that's why they have declined in members and in baptism for the last decade plus, as we talked about in recent weeks.
But it seems quite likely.
They're doubling down on stupid.
It seems quite likely that the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention is intent on co-opting the denomination for the globalist cause, while many of the more naive members think that groveling before the multicultural Caesar will allow them to be left in peace.
I don't know what's going to happen, though, that those big buildings are going to be taken over by Muslims and other religious groups that have not lost their faith.
Well, years ago, even, the Southern Baptist Convention gave the tithe money of its membership to help build a Muslim mosque in New Jersey.
So you're deluded, folks.
And it's obvious from the coverage of this new report by NBC.
Now, according to the leftist media, simply apologizing for racism is not enough, as we know.
It's now necessary to atone for your sin of racism, this fake and phony, Non-existent sin of racism by completely embracing the leftist narrative on race.
So the Southern Baptist Convention issued this report, Keith.
The seminary there in Louisville, manned by Al Moeller, did this report, the mole, on how many slaves the original founders of the Southern Baptist Convention owned, and then they apologized for that.
But this was the reaction from the mainstream press, from NBC.
They wrote, and I quote, when we talk about the SBC's current complicity, not only have they not atoned for it, they are still currently complicit because they say that while they apologize for this, they directly fail in witnessing to their flocks about the issue of racial injustice.
Nowhere in their apology do the words Black Lives Matter appear.
Okay, so we'll come back with that when we return.
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They will attack you.
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I'd advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
The press has created a rigged system.
They even want to try and rig the election.
Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.
And poisoned the mind of so many of our voters.
At the polling booth, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
And then they say, oh, there's no voter fraud in our country.
I come from Chicago.
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It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past.
Sometimes Democrats have to.
You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.
There's no one.
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Whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else, and you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
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So I was, appeasement never works.
Groveling never works.
We talk about this.
Now, ironically, the Democrats were saying that about Trump, that they can't cave in to Trump's shutdown of the government because they understand it.
They're saying doing so would encourage more such behavior.
So what have we learned from the weatherman?
Appeasement never works.
Groveling doesn't work.
Steve King, I love you, but voting to condemn yourself isn't helping you.
And even Al Moeller and Russell Moore have learned by the people.
And they comment that you made, they groveled all over the place, uncovered their sins or other sins of their ancestors.
Well, guess what?
Those sins have been assigned to them now.
It's just a matter of time before the leftist powers that be offer them the pistol and give them the opportunity to commit suicide.
Well, and so they came up with, I think, a grand total of 50 slaves that were owned by Southern Baptist church members when the church was founded, and they apologized for all that.
But what did NBC say?
Well, they didn't include Black Lives Matter in their apology, and so therefore they're complicit.
So they are complicit in the same system that allowed slavery because they did not include the anti-police anarchy of Black Lives Matter in their new agenda.
They're one step away from offering Al Moeller and Russell Moore the suicide pill.
White Christians have to believe, Keith, that as long as they contradict God's word, that they will be left without hope.
God will not bless us when we accept what the world says about issues of importance and the world will continue to curse and hate us simply for existing, no matter how many concessions we make.
Well, as a black minister said, and I approve of this comment, he said, you can't expect God to bless your mess.
You can't expect to live in sin.
You can't expect to embrace a godless ideology like liberalism and expect God to cause you to prosper, you know, eventually.
Well, now, of course, if you go to our top 10 moments of 2018, you will find that number one on that list was the Southern Baptist Convention versus James Edwards.
And so telling in that was that it was revealed later after the fact that their major resolution, the anti-alt-right resolution, in 2017 was implemented as a direct response to the political cesspools on-air commentary.
So now that I will tell you folks, that when the political policy of the world's largest Protestant denomination is being formed as a reaction to the positions that you're listening to, that is influence in one way or another.
You know, the thing that's so important about all of this is that think back about what happened to you, James.
They never would allow you to address the convention.
You had prepared a brilliant speech, and quite frankly, if they had allowed you to speak, I would imagine it would have split the convention right in two.
You probably would have had a substantial number of people, maybe even half of them, to get to the point.
And my pastor was ready to go.
My pastor and I were trying to get there.
They would not let us in, even though our church had credentials.
This shows you that they're fearful, and they actually know how weak they are.
They know that their tyrannical ways are setting their own membership against them.
And you need to vote with your feet, people.
Get out of these bad churches.
Well, that's what they're doing.
I mean, you know, membership in baptisms have plummeted.
I don't mean they've slightly declined.
I mean they have hemorrhaged for the 15 years.
We've got to create good churches, sound churches, churches that follow the doctrine and don't have not exchanged the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
All right, real quick, Keith, we've got to get off this.
As much as I want to continue to slam them, we've got to get off it for one second.
Trump retweeted Pat Buchanan this week, and of course the media came down on him.
Now, it was interesting, though, that, of course, you and I covered this last Saturday night.
A week ago tonight, we covered a couple of passages from Pat Buchanan's most recent column.
And wouldn't you know it, interestingly, that it was the exact same thing that Trump tweeted out.
The exact same passages were quoted by Trump.
And he tweeted it out, and then they came down at him for quoting Buchanan.
And it was talking about, I think he tweeted about Pat's column on border security.
What Trump specifically quoted was, the border is eventually going to be militarized and defended by the United States as we know it.
It's going to cease to exist.
Americans will not go into that general good night.
Now, we quoted Pat directly on that on the show last Saturday night, Sunday morning.
The very next morning, Trump tweets it out.
Now, I'm not saying we caused that, but I'm just saying it's a coincidence.
On the other hand, isn't it funny how what we do winds up being reflected in the policy of the president, in the policy of dissidents everywhere to the liberal takeover of every aspect of our lives.
Well, not just our government, not just your job, but everything.
Even your innermost private thoughts are now subject to policing by the politically correct hegemony that we live under today.
Of course, Donald Trump's son, Don Jr., surely loved the interview that Sam Bushman and I collaborated on at Liberty Roundtable to present him with.
And in fact, it was on Super Tuesday, and he stayed twice as long as he was scheduled for and agreed with everything we said.
So, yet, I think it's safe to say that the White House has monitored what we've done.
Donald Trump Jr. himself said that for as long as he lives, that interview will follow him to the grave.
Not only that, we're going to follow you till the end of time.
We are going to hold forth the lamp of liberty and righteousness and shine it into the dark corners of our society and of our government and of our churches and every other institution that's been taken over by the godless leftists.
And we're going to let all these cockroaches flee if they can.
And you may, and listen, you may throw me out of your club, but you will never get me to apologize.
You will never get me to relent on the truth.
But this is another lie that the media said.
And this is the reason I bring up the Trump Buchanan, Trump We Treating Buchanan's quote that we mentioned on the show last week.
The coverage of this from the lying press suggested that Donald Trump was quoting a column that Pat Buchanan wrote for VDARER.com.
Now, I love Peter Brimlow.
Peter Brimlow is a friend of mine.
Peter Brimlow appears on this show every year.
But Pat didn't write that column for VDARE.
And VDARE is not paying Pat Buchanan.
They're basically getting his permission to run that article.
That's right.
I mean, Amrin runs.
Pat writes for Creator's Syndicate.
He writes for newspapers.
Be generous enough to allow people like us to do this without having to pay him because he really is a fellow struggler in this struggle for righteousness and holiness in American life.
That's right.
So V-Dare, once Pat comes out with a column and it's posted to his website, it's posted in newspapers.
VDARE republishes it.
American Renaissance, Jared Taylor, republishes it.
We at the Political Successful, we run a Buchanan column every week on the blog because, of course, I worked for Pat.
And Pat was really the inspiration for you getting involved.
100%.
I mean, and of course, Pat's come on this show every time I've invited him to do so.
The only reason we don't invite him any more to come on is because we're afraid he'll say yes because he's always caught so much hell for it.
But Pat didn't write this column for VDARE as any journalist with a modicum of honesty would know.
I mean, every integrity.
Because you republish something, because you've been given permission to republish something, that means that you wrote it exclusively for that website?
No.
It's just another lie.
I mean, if they will lie about something that can so simply be found out, what else are they lying about?
And the answer is, of course, everything.
Now, they have decided they've gone by the new edition of the Bible that is confirmed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The American Family Council, focus on the family.
Groups like this have been named hate groups along with the political cesspool.
And if your thoughts appear in any of those groups or in any publications they have, then you're basically the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
Well, I am the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, according to the Michigan Court of Appeals.
We're a very small hate group, though.
Staff and crew number is about 10 on this show, but nevertheless, we'll be right back.
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So what's happened in the last few days?
Richard Spencer asks.
The most credible possible scientist to promote race realism has been unpersoned by academia and the media.
Civic nationalism and Western chauvinism have been effectively declared illegal by Congress.
And he's, of course, referring Steve King there, referencing to Steve King there.
James Watson has sadly proved that feelings really don't care about your scientific facts.
His final honors have been stripped.
As someone put it on Twitter, Watson is today's Galileo.
Progressivism is the state religion, and the New York Times is the Catholic Church.
He's been cast into the outer darkness.
Not even the world's most famous living scientist is allowed to speak the truth.
That's something that Jared Taylor touches on in his most recent YouTube video.
He's once again James Watson that is being hounded and humiliated for telling the truth and not retracting it.
And Jared is so disgusted that he quoted Mark Twain by saying, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
Well, Jared was with us a week or two ago.
He's not with us tonight, but we are going to play his YouTube on Dr. Watson because it's, well, it's perfect.
Let's listen to Jared now.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
James Watson is the most distinguished scientist living today.
He shared the Nobel Prize with Francis Crick in 1962 for discovering the molecular structure of DNA.
Other Nobel laureates have called this discovery the greatest single scientific achievement of the 20th century.
James Watson ran Cold Spring Harbor for 35 years and built it into the top molecular genetics research laboratory in the world.
He played a key role in the Human Genome Project, which has already started a revolution in medicine, biology, and psychology.
And now, at age 90, James Watson is an object of hate and contempt.
His downfall began in 2007 when he wrote a book called Avoid Boring People that contained the following sentence.
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically.
That same year, he explained that sentence to a reporter.
He said he was, and I quote, inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says, not really.
In other words, different groups evolved separately, and there is probably a genetic basis for differences in average intelligence.
This view is supported by an immense body of scholarship and is consistent with everything we see when we open our eyes and just look around.
But we live in a world gone insane.
We're supposed to at least pretend to believe egalitarian nonsense.
And so the sky fell on James Watson.
He immediately issued a servile apology.
I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said.
He then went on to say there is no scientific basis for his view.
But heretics are not allowed to recant.
Cold Spring Harbor fired him as boss of the lab, and Henry Kelly, a former president of the Federation of American Scientists, said, it is a revolting way to end a remarkable career.
But the apology did get Dr. Watson something.
Cold Spring Harbor let him keep his honorary titles of Chancellor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, and Honorary Trustee.
Even so, speaking engagements and award ceremonies vanished, and James Watson became a non-person.
Well, last May, he briefly reemerged.
There was a meeting at Cold Spring Harbor where Eric Lander, a bigwig scientist at Harvard and MIT, offered a short toast to Dr. Watson's vital contributions to the Human Genome Project.
And he was mercilessly attacked for saying something nice about a wicked man.
Dr. Lander groveled as follows.
His views are abhorrent, racist, sexist, anti-Semitic.
I was wrong to toast.
I apologize.
And so James Watson sunk once again into obscurity until this month.
PBS aired a documentary called Decoding Watson, in which he was asked if he still had the same views on race.
The scientist got the better of the man.
He said he takes no pleasure in the differences between blacks and whites and wishes there weren't any, but genes are part of it.
Again, the sky fell.
Dr. Watson's old lab went into a frenzy and issued the following statement from which I quote, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory unequivocally rejects the unsubstantiated and reckless personal opinions of Dr. James D. Watson.
His statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science.
Let's stop right there.
I have no fewer than 13 books in my personal library, rigorously scientific books that support Dr. Watson's statements.
Besides these books, there are countless articles in scientific journals about the genetic basis for group differences in intelligence.
1,200 people work at Cold Spring Harbor.
Is every one of them lost in a hermetically sealed cocoon of complete ignorance?
Or are they just spineless cowards lying through their teeth because they're afraid of the ignorant fanatics who run this country?
But let's get back to their miserable statement.
The laboratory condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice.
Right, the world's greatest living scientist misuses science.
No.
He says he wishes there were no racial differences, but the evidence suggests that there are.
This is science triumphing over emotion.
That's exactly what it's supposed to do.
And here's more mush from Cold Spring Harbor.
The statements James Watson made in the documentary are completely and utterly incompatible with our mission, values, and policies, and require the severing of any remaining vestiges of his involvement.
And with that, Cold Spring Harbor stripped him of all his remaining honorary titles.
Are they going to dust the lab for his fingerprints and rub them all out too?
This is like the commies who used to doctor photographs of old Bolsheviks to erase the comrades they'd hauled out and shot.
Today the authorities don't shoot people who fail to tow the party line.
They just drag them through the mud, destroy their reputations, fire them from their jobs, and feel immensely superior about it.
Geneticist Joseph L. Graves, for example, is now saying, racism suspends all rational judgment.
It takes people who are otherwise brilliant and gets them down roads that are intellectually unsupportable.
The website The Scientist says, the science jerks and bigots should be shunned, no matter if they have a Nobel Prize.
Now every lefty ignoramus can think he is superior to one of the greatest intellects of our time.
Well last October, James Watson was in a car accident.
His son says he has, quote, very minimal awareness of what's going on.
He cannot speak for himself.
So I'll speak for him.
His treatment has been beyond appalling.
Mark Twain once said, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
This is one of those times.
I'm ashamed to be a member of the species that has put on such a spectacle of ignorance, vanity, cowardice, and spitefulness.
The truth will emerge, no matter how hard the fanatics try to hush it up.
James Watson is as much a pioneer and a bold thinker at the end of his career as he was at the beginning.
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All right.
Well, I'll pause it right there, Keith, with only seconds remaining before we go to Jack Ryan, a response to Jared's commentary.
I think he said it all.
Well, he said, one thing that stuck in my mind was that the Cold Springs Harbor hierarchy that is in charge now says that Dr. Watson's commentary is inconsistent with its mission.
Its mission, apparently, is to hide the truth from people.
But you know what?
The Lord said, you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.
As long as people set themselves up against the truth, they are bound to fail.
The people whose opinions will be ridiculed in the future are not those of Dr. Watson, but those of his persecutors.
And I think we can all rest assured that that will be the ultimate resolution of all of this.
We're going to take a break when we come back.
Jack Ryan, you know, he, Keith, is on vacation in Charleston or in South Carolina proper.
We're going to find out what he's doing.
And you were there not long ago.
Amen.
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Some good people up front take the lead.
A little less talk and a little more action.
And a few more rednecks is what we need.
Hey, all credit given and due to Kay Bushman.
He says he said he's going to turn it down.
He cut it just right for the intro music to the one and only Jack Ryan tonight, who is still in South Carolina.
Now, I'll tell you, Keith, when Jack takes a vacation, he takes a vacation.
Most Americans, when they take a vacation, it's a weekend, maybe a week if it's the big one.
But Jack will vacation for a full month.
And he is out of Chicago.
He's wintering, as it were, in South Carolina.
Now, we talked to Jack.
He was in Charleston last week.
A great update and a great song to intro him as he continues his peregrination through the South.
Jack, how are you?
I'm doing just fine.
You dare dare to lose you?
All right, keep talking.
Jack, I had a little bit of a disruption there.
So, how's South Carolina treating you tonight?
And great song.
Tell us all the recommendations and why that particular song was your intro tonight.
Well, the one was that when I came here, this is my second time on Hilton Island for a month.
So I just kind of noticed there were not a lot of Southern people, or not a lot of Charlie Daniels, good old boy Redneck.
So I was trying to get off the island and actually find some real southerners.
Rednecks went to Charleston, South Carolina, other towns there, and then Savannah.
I'm looking for the South.
I'm looking for the Southern people.
But things are going on.
How did you find them?
A little bit harder.
I mean, I went to Charleston, which is the out of the cultural South Carolina.
The Confederate Museum is really good.
It's pretty small.
There's just really a second floor.
But the gals that run that are fantastic.
Oh, wow.
They were great.
And then I stayed in an area.
It was mostly black, but I went to a traditional Anglican Southern church.
I'm two for two for church services.
It was all southern.
It was integrated.
Black preacher, good music, but no bad politics or things like that.
But unfortunately, the rest of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, similar things is that it has been colonized.
And there are people from New Hampshire.
And it looks like Boston.
And then people, you go into Sports Bar, they have the Patriots there.
So it's being gentrified as service economy.
And I don't think these people necessarily have terrible politics.
They're like, but I do think the regular Southern people, black and white, are being pushed out in the city.
So I had to take off.
But I found a nice town in Beaufort, I believe it is, South Carolina.
I want to apologize to OD readers because I tried to text the blog.
I don't have my computer.
I did a thumbnail and I made some typos.
I misspelled some Southern town.
So I apologize very much for that.
But I think the town was Beaufort, South Carolina.
And I found this nice bar of regular people.
Just Saul the Earth.
And that's the kind of people that we connect with.
It's regular people.
It's not people that are connected into elite religious or military or even academic institutions.
We try to connect with the regular people.
So that went well.
And then I had a very good time last night.
I went to Savannah.
There was a southern hockey tournament.
And it turns out these are just club teams that are playing.
They're not officially the teams, University of Georgia, Florida, and the like.
And it was regular people going there.
It didn't cost a lot.
And people from other places that came there, just regular folks, good-looking women.
Woo, that was great.
So that worked out really good.
I told you about that.
Yeah.
So that worked good.
And then I'm just, I'm doing better with the regular folks on Hilton than the Sixth School.
Be a tourist and get in there or get to know people, but I'm getting to know regular people that are year-round and they're good people, and the tennis is going pretty well.
So, I would say things are going a lot better than when I first got here.
And I just think, like, oh no, Mike, it's an occupation.
It's terrible.
The South is gone.
So, no, I'm feeling a lot better about the place I'm doing.
Well, I'm glad you were able to find the unreconstructed part of the South, but it is shrinking, as you've pointed out.
Right.
And this is true, but there are other people from Pennsylvania.
I don't really, it's not a communist, you know, bad New York, New Jersey, coming in to incite the blacks.
They're more actually trying to actually insulate themselves.
And the workers, white or Hispanics are doing the maids and maintenance and construction.
So that's more of the.
So I don't really feel as bad about these people from Pennsylvania that have come down here.
Good stock.
And the churches aren't as corrupt.
So I'm pretty happy about that.
You can't find that in Chicago.
Just find a non-communist, non-sexual perversion church.
So I'm two for two with church services.
Hopefully, I'll make it three for three tomorrow.
Well, my oldest son was married on Hilton Head.
And one thing I noticed about Hilton Head and the staffs at the hotels and the various resorts there was that they seemed to have recruited people from Eastern Europe in particular in other parts of Europe to serve as waiters, as maids, and things like this.
And things were working pretty well, at least in terms of efficiency down there.
Now, did you notice that at all?
Well, I haven't been so much into many hotels or regular.
I think that it seems to me more just white or Hispanic there.
And there was one hotel that had black maids there, and they paid them very little, like $8 an hour, and they had to take a bus, but they kind of ended that.
So they sort of made it the Hamptons.
And they have basically there's one rough black project or something over here, but they basically have discriminated against black workers and like to do that.
And they have got a very good life, and it's good.
But it's a gated community.
It's not a Hollywood-gated community of Rob Reiner.
They're not doing bad politics, but they like their lives.
And so they're kind of work that way.
And it is a gated community, and so they want to protect the place and make it prosperous.
Anyway.
Any responsible homeowner or president would put a gate around his property.
So, Jack, with that being said, as we continue to follow your travels through the South, now, Jack is not a Yankee, he is a Midwesterner from Chicago, educated at Vanderbilt University.
Jack is in South Carolina, and I'd like to hear how people enjoy South Carolina.
I have enjoyed South Carolina.
Jack, we know your song, Tonight, Your Intro Music by Charlie Daniels, and we know why you picked that.
And, you know, the term redneck, that could be derogatory or a term of endearment with regard to how you deliver it.
Of course, tonight, a term of endearment it is.
But let's talk about the book and movie recommendations because you are our Renaissance, man.
You are our cultural corresponding, our cultural hero.
So let's get to the book and movie, and then we'll get on with the trip.
Okay, so my movie recommendation is kind of a chick-flick or romantic one.
It's from 1983.
It's another Robert Duval movie, Tender Mercy.
And it's about a country Western singer who's sort of fallen off the track, get alcohol issues, and he shows up at a Motel gas station of a very attractive single mom, and she says, Okay, I'll give it to the place where you can't drink.
And like, and she has got a young boy, and and he gets his one together, and they get married.
Very simple one, but very romantic movie.
And this is an actor that he really doesn't have a really any bad movies that I know, Robert Duvall.
And he his movies, he I don't think he's taken an active political one in life, but his his characters are always pretty solid, pretty, pretty good.
Hey, let me tell you, there's one place that there is one exception to that, and that's the great Santini, which is okay.
But, but, but he also played Robert E. Lee in the fantastic movies, Gods and Generals.
It was so fantastic.
Warner Brothers itself, actually.
I've worked with Warner Brothers a couple of times on a reality TV show and also to promote the re-release of Gods and Generals.
Robert E. Lee, or rather, Robert Duvall played Robert E. Lee in that movie.
He played him fantastically.
And of course, Jack, this is Robert E. Lee's birthday tonight.
This is Robert E. Lee's birthday.
He was born on this day in 1807.
And Robert Duvall is a direct descendant from the Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis line.
So he was a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee, playing Robert E. Lee in that movie.
So that's the movie.
That's the song.
Let's get to the book.
We only have a couple of minutes left.
Well, I also want to say I like the Great Santini.
I mean, it was set in Buford, South Carolina.
It had some issues.
You remember the Red Pettis character, though, and the redneck.
I thought there was some racial politics PC and stuff, but I thought it was pretty, I thought it, and I think the mom, the southern mom in the Great Satini was good.
I liked it.
I think it reflected on the town.
It's a southern, yeah, rough, rough there, but I like the movie.
I just feel that he hasn't taken the 30 pieces of silver yet and portrayed our politics like other people, like so many have, like Andy Griffith did.
I mean, he's our favorite guy, but just to get a job as like Malak, he's got a new commercial for Obama or things like that.
And just to get a stay employed in Hollywood, it's very, very difficult to note.
Absolutely.
Thankfully, Robert Duvall is about 80 years old, so he doesn't have to worry about it for too much longer.
But Jack, with only seconds remaining, we've got to get to the book or people will be disappointed.
I have a big one.
I just have some recreational one.
I like the Hardy Boys mystery series, and I don't want to recommend Nancy Drew because that's a big thing that happens.
Whenever you get something that works for boys and stuff, they say, well, we need something for the girl.
You know, you have to have Batman.
We have to have Batgirl.
So the Hardy Boys mysteries are really good.
And then they say, well, let's have a girl flues detective, Nancy Drew.
But the Hardy Boys mystery series is a very good reading for young people and the like.
I think it's good.
Let me make one comment, Jack.
If you really want to get into the South, there are two movies that I would recommend to you.
A whole generation of Southern Boys was named Shane, and a whole generation of Southern girls named Tammy after the movie Shane, starring Alan Ladd, and Tammy and the Bachelor starring Debbie Reynolds.
Watch those and we'd love you to see that.
Yeah, and I like that guy, Wilson, who sets the guy up and insults the Southern guy and shoots him in the mud and stuff.
Yeah, Shane, that's good.
I like Shane.
I'll have to see that one.
And of course, in Tammy and the Bachelor, the great Leslie Nielsen plays the male suitor in that.
So we've got to go.
We've got to get to Sam Dixon.
But Jack, you know, when your trip winds up, and I know you're in South Carolina for a few more days, we're going to have a full 30 minutes with Jack to give us the full recap at this time in the South.