July 13, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Well, now here at the top of our third hour on this Nathan Bedford Forest Day 2019.
This is the day that the great and good general was born in the year 1821, July 13th.
And we are here many, many years later, still remembering and honoring a man who fought for us, a man who struck like a titan, as it is mentioned on his grave here in Memphis, Tennessee.
I'm James Edwards.
You're listening to the Political Cesspool.
Our guest this hour is Gene Andrews.
Gene, a good friend of ours, a regular guest, is a former Marine, even a former athlete, making it all the way up to the Cincinnati Bengals before trading in his helmet for a career as a high school history teacher.
Gene Andrews currently serves as the caretaker of the Nathan Bedford Forest Boyhood Home, and he's back with us this hour to talk about that official proclamation that was signed by the governor of the state of Tennessee making today, July 13th, 2019, Nathan Bedford Forest Day in Tennessee.
Gene, let's just start right there.
Your reaction to the proclamation, which of course it is given every year.
Every year for decades and decades and decades, it has been given.
But this year, the media decided to be really, really offended about it.
Oh, they always are.
They always are.
Anything Southern, anything Confederate, they get extremely upset.
But it's state law.
They have to recognize Robert E. Lee's birthday in January, Jefferson Davis' birthday June 3rd, and Nathan Bedford Forrest on June 21st.
And we used to have state holidays on those days.
All the state offices were closed.
And then when the federal government took over and mandated that we have federal holidays, we got rid of George Washington's birthday that we used to celebrate in the South.
Of course, we never celebrated Lincoln's birthday in the South.
So they forced us to celebrate it by combining Lincoln and George Washington in February and put it on a Monday and called it President's Day.
And of course, we know why Lee's birthday was taken out in January for the federally mandated holiday there.
And they would like to make sure that we don't even recognize these fine leaders and southern historical figures that we have.
And now they're upset that we even have a day that just recognizes that.
July 13th or the Monday after that is not a holiday in the state of Tennessee, but they don't even want us to recognize it.
Well, we do recognize it.
And I would like to read the proclamation again signed by Governor Bill Lee of the state of Tennessee.
Whereas Nathan Bedford Forest is a recognized military figure in American history and a native Tennessean.
Now therefore I, Bill Lee, governor of the state of Tennessee, do hereby proclaim July 13th, 2019 as Nathan Bedford Forest Day in Tennessee and encourage all citizens to join me in this worthy observance, which of course, Gene, we are doing today and even tonight on this radio program.
Now, a lot of news has come out.
It always makes a little bit of news.
It has never made as much news as it is making this year.
They're all acting like they never knew this was going on in Tennessee before, even though they cover it in previous years.
Just reading from one article here, Governor Bill Lee has proclaimed Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forest Day in Tennessee, an observation to honor the former Confederate general.
And you know that they had to put this in their early Ku Klux Klan leader whose bust is on display in the state capitol.
Per state law, as you mentioned, the Tennessee governor is tasked with issuing proclamations for six separate days of special observation, three of which pertain to the Confederacy.
Lee and governors who have come out to our detractors out there, Tennessee was a Confederate state.
I know they were.
And these were Tennessee's heroes.
Tennessee heroes, absolutely.
And these people that they disparage today, they actually laid their life on the line for Tennessee.
Forrest was shot five times.
I don't know how many of these news commentators have ever been shot once, gathering a story or defending their right to the First Amendment.
But Forrest laid his life on the line for the state of Tennessee and wound up being wounded.
In fact, two of the bullets were so close to his spine that the surgeons didn't want to try to take him out because they were afraid it would kill him or paralyze him.
So you have somebody like that that defends Tennessee, and now today we have these craven cowards in the news media, the fake news media, the prestitutes, whatever you want to call them, that are so upset that we honored a Tennessean.
And what have they ever done with their life other than drag other people down?
They've done absolutely nothing.
And I believe that's why they hate Forrest, because he was a man that actually did something, and these clowns have done absolutely nothing productive.
I think, Gene, that's absolutely right.
I think jealousy and envy, when you are one of these low-level beta males, these cucked-out embarrassments to manhood, like a Ted Cruz, who I said in the first hour, Ted Cruz, when compared to Nathan Bedford Forrest, is flabby and flaccid mentally, physically, and spiritually compared to a man's man of any generation like Nathan Bedford Forrest was.
And I think jealousy does drive some of their resentment.
But I will say this: good sons of the South, proud sons of the South, are thankful for a state like Tennessee, who still to this day, in this God-forsaken era, remembers its finest heroes.
And that's what we're doing tonight.
Gene, we're going to talk about this more in the next segment as well, of course, but remind everybody exactly, if you can do it in two minutes, which is impossible, but remind everybody why Nathan Bedford Forrest is worthy of this observance.
He fought for the people of Tennessee.
He rescued the men that were going to be executed at Murfreesboro for the serious crime, the heinous crime of supplying food and clothing to their sons.
He rescued the people of West Tennessee when they asked him to do something about Fort Pillow because the Yankee soldiers at Fort Pillow were coming out and robbing and looting the homes in West Tennessee, raping the women.
It was the civilians that asked Forrest to do something about Fort Pillow.
He was coming out of the state after a raid.
He wasn't even going in that direction.
So the people of the South love Forrest because he defended the people of the South as opposed to the craven cowards that we have in state government and national government that represent us today and do absolutely nothing for the individual citizens of this state or this country.
Ted Cruz has denounced this proclamation saying we must change the law because Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate and a Democrat.
This goes back to the whole Democrats were the real racist canard that the Republicans put out there.
Well, we talked about this on the phone.
Democrats were the ones who were the conservatives back then.
You and I would have been Democrats back then.
Democrats stood up for white people in the 1800s.
Absolutely, absolutely.
And let me point out one other thing to Teddy Boy out there.
I think he's got enough problems in Texas along the southern border he needs to take care of.
Don't be worrying about Tennessee, Teddy Boy.
We'll take care of Tennessee and you take care of the mess you've got on your southern border in Texas and everything will be just fine.
I'd also like to point out that Forrest went to Texas.
He and several other young men in their early 20s, they went to Texas to volunteer to fight in the war for independence for Texas.
And they got down there and they didn't need him anymore and they'd spent all their money and he had to stay down there for six months splitting rails for 50 cents 100 to earn enough money to get back to Tennessee.
So he goes to Texas to lay his wife on the line for Texans.
And we've got a Texas coward today, Teddy Boy Cruz, that bad mouse forest when he went to Texas to try to help them.
You know, a fake Texan, of course, and to whom is he pandering?
I don't know.
I mean, he's certainly pandering to his Jewish handlers, APAC, and in that lobby.
But, you know, Ted's going to be out as soon as the next election comes in.
He's going to be washed away.
I mean, he's a Cuban and a Canadian and whatever the hell he is, but he's going to be gone soon enough.
And I'll tell you this, 100 years from now, Southerners will still remember Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Nobody will remember Ted Cruz.
We're going to take a break.
The caretaker of the Forrest Boyhood Home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee is with us, Gene Andrews himself, another great son of the South.
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But anyway, we're continuing on now with Gene Andrews talking about Nathan Bedford Forrest Day here in Tennessee by official proclamation and the media-manufactured controversy.
And what these, you know, Gene, we said this earlier.
If there was a state referendum where the citizens of Tennessee went in to vote on whether or not they wanted to keep Nathan Bedford Forest Day as a state observance, it would pass 65, 35, 70, 30.
It would pass by about the same margin that Trump beat Hillary by.
It would pass overwhelmingly.
And, you know, none of that is reflected in the news coverage.
And we know that to be true because we live here.
In the news coverage, they've picked one or two politicians who will badmouth Forrest.
And then that's the whole story as if nobody supports Forrest.
It's just everybody's against this.
And of course, they talk about his so-called association with the Klan.
I want to address that actually head-on.
You know, so Ted Cruz hopes that by denouncing Forrest and the Confederacy, that he can successfully pander to Jewish donors who may have grown irritated and less willing to finance his presidential ambitions.
But let's talk about this.
So it is true that Forrest was in some ways, perhaps even loosely associated with an organization that protected women and children from rape and murder during the horrors of Reconstruction.
That's what was going on.
People forget how horrible it was, how lawless and how savage it was to be a white Southerner in the months and years, early years after that horrific war.
How dangerous.
There was no law.
And so a group of former Confederates got together and they maintained law and order and they maintained civilization.
They protected their people.
And in doing so, as our friend Gerald in Texas writes, they helped convince the North that Southern people would never accept subjugation to carpetbaggers, to scallywags, and that continued Northern military occupation of the South would lead to a new, far more vicious guerrilla war.
And if you go back far enough, everyone has some connection to slavery.
I don't care about any of that.
Take it up with the blacks who sold their kinsmen into slavery in the first place if you've got a problem with it.
Nathan Bedford Forrest is being honored for his role as a military genius.
He fought for his people.
He is unmatched and immortal.
His memory must be protected and preserved within us and our children because God knows these demons will burn everything down to the stone itself, Gene.
Absolutely.
And that's why they want Forrest and Lee and all those statues torn down.
They don't want any reminders of what real people were in the South.
They want these phonies and the characters, the progressives, the little wimpy snowflakes, the worthless characters that we have today that are thrown out in their face on TV.
They want everyone to think that's what America should be.
And they don't want a reminder of what America used to be and when we had real men and real women living in the South and defending the South.
You know, we don't want to leave the women out.
They always laughed and said Confederate soldiers wouldn't desert because they didn't want to go home and face the women.
And they had to answer the question, what are you doing home?
And your uncle and brother and cousins are all still up there on the front lines.
So we don't want to leave the women out as defenders of the South either.
But it's obvious why they don't want these statues, why they don't want these days of recognition.
And you compare what we have today that's supposed to pass for manhood compared to what we had during that time period.
And there is no comparison.
And first of all, they always say that Forrest started the Klan.
Well, that's a lie.
The Klan was started in Pulaski, Tennessee.
We know by six former Confederate soldiers, we know their names, and they used to be a plaque on the law office where they formed the Klan.
And that was in December of 1865, and Forrest was living in Memphis.
He wasn't anywhere close to Pulaski unless he used Spotted Al Gore's internet that he claims that he invented and did it online back then.
So that's a lie.
And there's really no definitive proof that he had any major involvement in it.
He may have been locally involved or something like that, as most men were.
But as far as any leadership role, I mean, that makes no sense.
Why would they pick him to be the leader of the Klan when he was probably the most famous person in Tennessee or in, I don't know, the Western theater of the war, probably second only to Robert E. Lee in fame and recognition and respect throughout the South.
So why would you pick somebody like that?
They would be the very person they would go after if they were trying to find out who was actually in this secret organization.
Well, don't let the facts get in the way of a good smear campaign.
But as I said, though, give it all to them.
I won't back down from any of it.
I won't back down.
Even if it was true, I would still honor and revere General Forrest.
And the Klan wasn't the only vigilante group that was formed in the South to protect white Southerners.
It was the Red Shirts in South Carolina.
It was the Knights of the White Camellia in Texas and Louisiana and southern Middle Tennessee and northern Alabama.
It was the Ku Klux Klan.
And, you know, why did they have to even form an organization like that?
Because the federal government was so rotten and so corrupt.
And even the United States Congress committee that investigated the Klan, the minority report said, had the Reconstruction government not been so corrupt and dishonest, there would have never been a Ku Klux Klan.
Well, and that's what we're talking about.
So, I mean, I don't want to get off on a rabbit trail on that because that's not what this is about, but that's what they always try to attach to Forrest.
So there needs to be at least some grown-up adult talk about it, which we're able to do here on this political set on this radio program to talk rationally about the situation that was at hand there that led to that happening.
And again, why it was necessary that some organization come in and protect the women and children of the South who were facing murder and rape and everything else.
These people that rant and rave about Forrest have forgotten their elementary school of science, which said for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
So when they brought down this dictatorial government, this rotten, corrupt government, of course there's pushback on it.
People weren't going to lay here and be trampled and see their women raped and see their homes destroyed and everything stolen from them and have to put up with this corrupt or rotten administration.
So of course there was pushback on it.
I mean, anybody would do that.
There were guerrilla operations in France during World War II.
The Spanish, the word guerrilla, it's guerrilla is actually the spelling.
It's Spanish for small war, the guerrilla operations against Napoleon when he invaded the Iberian Peninsula.
And it's not gorilla like a monkey.
It's guerrilla, gee, like small war in Spanish.
So that's where it came from.
There's always pushback against an invader.
Well, Gene, again, we salute the state of Tennessee for remembering one of its greatest sons, Nathan Bedford Forrest here on Forest Day 2019.
And it wasn't that long ago.
And we're not even talking about the 50s and 60s.
We're talking about as recently as the mid-2000s, the middle of the last decade, when now United States Senator Marcia Blackburn went to the unveiling of the newest Confederate statue at Shiloh Battlefield.
I mean, she was there to present the unveiling of it.
So it wasn't that long ago that this was a lot more commonplace than people want it to, or the media and those who hate whites in the South want it to be.
I think most white Southerners are still very fine with this by a vast majority.
Absolutely.
But even Blackburn herself, a now sitting United States Senator, was there at Shiloh a few years back to help commemorate and christen the new Confederate monument there.
Well, it just shows you how far we've fallen in the last decade or so, or, well, I don't know, just five or six years, have really seen a tragic turn against all of our history.
You know, it's insane about taking down the statues of Columbus, getting rid of a statue in recognition of Kate Smith in Philadelphia, of all things.
Just shows how crazy this country has become.
Well, ultimately, though, this is going to be a tempest in a teapot.
This story, like all news stories now and the rapid cycles that we have, it'll be off the news in a couple of days, and Bill Lee will still be governor, and we will still have Forest Day.
But while they're pushing back against it, we're going to advocate and advance it here on TPC, and we did it tonight with Gene Andrews.
Happy Forest Day, Gene.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Thank you very much.
All right, buddy.
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I love my calendar girl.
Yeah, sweet calendar girl.
I love my calendar girl.
Each and every day of the year.
January, you start the year off fine.
February, you're my little Valentine.
I'm gonna march you down the aisle.
You're the Easter morning when you smile.
Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl.
I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl every day.
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Well, folks, when Jumpin' Jack Flash, Jack Ryan, Jolly Jack, told me this week that his song of the week was Neil Sadaka's Calendar Girl, I got really excited because you know, I think that's the greatest music of all time, right?
I mean, we just did the doo-wop reverie, as our friend John put it last week with Lacey Lynn when we did the 50s question examination.
And then Jack told me that he hated that song.
I said, Jack, say it ain't so.
But we got to have a big meeting of the minds here right now.
Jack, what is going on?
I think when you had that wreck last week and the yeah, you bumped your head or something happened when that pepper spray went off in your back pocket.
Tell me, tell me you were joking.
Come on.
No, I really, I just hate, I just hate that song.
It's just so gay.
It's so enthusiastic.
And jumping around and there's a character of pop songs there.
And he might not even have been gay, but it's just so happy and clappy.
And it's one of the reasons why our people go for things like black, blues, smoking, and down and out.
It's just so cheerful.
Look, that was the feel in the late 50s.
That was how that was the culture.
That was the atmosphere.
That was, come on.
I mean, you know what it's like to be a teenager in love.
Right.
They had the one.
Okay, but the reason why I actually chose that song, because it went in with my theme in that sports theme that my alma mater, the Vanderbilt Commodores, won the College Baseball World Series.
That's our third and a champion.
Congratulations.
The last 100 years, we won women's bowling in 1950, and I think we had less lesbians on the team in the 1950s than the current U.S. soccer team.
But we are a power in baseball, and we are the best baseball team.
We've won two champions in the last six years, and we got second place.
But my issue is that this great team, this strong southern team that I won to South Carolina, our official name is the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Okay, but now they've got this stupid gay name, which is Vandy.
Okay, Neil Sadaka.
How about Vandy?
You think it can't get any worse?
So they came up with a new derivative of that.
The name of our team is the Vandy Boy.
How about the Vandy Boys?
And then you've got a Neil Sadaka song going around, and it's just, no, I just don't think it's a manly, strong name.
So I'm trying to prove, I tried to present the idea that the Vanderbilt should change their name to the Vanderbilt Commies, which would get fear and respect in the South.
But instead, I'm going with the Vanderbilt V-Doors.
So how about them V-Doors that my team is the best college baseball team in the nation?
And how about them V-Doors?
Hey, hey, thank God for small blessings.
But what's wrong with Commodore?
I mean, a Commodore is a good strong name.
You want to be a Commodore of a ship, you want to be a buccaneer or something like that?
Kind of too long, too long.
And then, well, I like the RB group, the Commodores, which is Lionel Ritchie or something like that.
But people, Americans like short names.
They like some things.
And this Vandy, it just drives me.
He's like, you can create Vandy Boys.
I don't think that that's respectful.
I don't think that's something that you want to inspire your young lad to be is coming up and say, do you want to be one of the Vandy Boys?
And then have Neil Sadaka song come out and people start prancing and singing.
I don't think that that.
I don't think Hank Williams would have wanted it that way.
No, I don't think so.
Johnny Cash?
No, I don't think so.
All right.
Hey, Jack, very quickly.
We got a caller.
We'll agree to disagree on Neil Sadaka and his manliness, but I'll tell you what, no matter what's going on there, great music, I'll say.
But let's go with the book and movie recommendations because we got a caller we're going to get to in Illinois.
So let's get through the other recommendations.
Let's take the call and then we'll get into your theme of the week in the next segment.
What's the book in the movie this week?
Okay, so the book recommendation are the sports books written by the author, Claire B., the Chip Hilton series.
And it's the 1950s, and these are very morality plays of wholesomeness, but they're well-written books about a teenager making a team, and there's drama.
It's not goody-touches, but there's no sex or violence or anything like that.
And these are sort of like the Hardy Boys mysteries.
And these were excellent books.
I read them.
And I think the coach Bobby Knight from Indiana, he was a big fan of that one.
So they're the Claire B. Chip Hilton sports books.
The movie recommendation is Ruby Ridge and American Tragedy starring Randy Quaid.
It's about the terrible endoff of the family where our government went nuts and tried to massacre this white separatist family living in Ruby Ridge.
And that incident happened, I think, like 27 years ago.
It just seemed like it was like last year.
That's half my life.
This movie was a pretty good, fair presentation of it.
And I think Randy Quaid, he got into the role and did some of the politics of it.
And I think he's been somewhat blacklisted in Hollywood because of that.
But it was a fair presentation of the incident.
And I think that all of our listeners should be familiar with that event.
It was a very huge event in my life because I just feel what could go bad.
I was certainly, you know, of course, familiar with the event, as I'm sure all of our listeners are.
I did not know that Randy Quaid started a movie about that.
Of course, Randy Quaid is a pretty big, or at least used to be a pretty big name in Hollywood.
So that's interesting.
I'll take you up on that recommendation and check it out.
Now, before we get to your theme of the week, let's go quickly to Alan in Illinois, take a quick call, and we'll let you answer the concern.
Alan, how are you?
Okay, fine.
I just want to make three points.
You mentioned earlier about black crime, and I want to go a little deeper.
First off, I want to say that our entire prison population is almost completely black, and that's like maybe $30, $40, $50 billion a year to keep them comfortable.
The other thing that you haven't thought of is the AIDS epidemic.
The AIDS epidemic is almost entirely in the black race.
And that, I calculated that out, and it's like $68 billion a year plus.
So, in other words, to keep blacks in the United States, it's costing us over $100 billion a year.
And now they're screaming at the top of their lungs that they demand reparations.
Now, wait, I got just one more point.
Chicago is located in, Chicago is located in Cook County.
And what's happened now is Cook County recently changed the way they tax property.
If you live on the north side of Chicago in Cook County, you pay 10 times a higher real estate tax rate than you do if you live on the south side of Chicago in the same exact home.
Now, do I have to tell you what color people live in the north side of Cook County and what colored people live in the south side?
Obviously, it's whites in the north and blacks in the south.
So we are being taxed at a ratio of 10 times higher than the black race in Cook County, and they are screaming at the top of their lungs that they all deserve a million dollars, but we can afford to repatriate them.
We can afford to restore them to their beautiful homelands in Africa because they are too expensive.
It's costing us too much money.
So that's all I'm done.
If you don't have any more questions, I'll hang up.
Alan, that was a fantastic call.
Thank you for that.
And I'm sure our favorite Chicagoan, Jack Ryan, could weigh in on that.
I like Alan's points, and that is they've been receiving reparations the whole time.
That's what they complaining about now.
But to his points on Chicago, Jack, you would be the expert there.
I just think that taxes, real estate taxes, are pretty high throughout the city.
I mean, where I'm from, I used to be in and out of it, but I'm on the south side, Barack Obama's neighborhood, and we're getting taxed extremely high.
And it's not his worldview is a bit dated.
So it's just not true that the north side is all white and that the south side is all black and that they're doing the city is mixed up.
You've got refugees coming into the Edgewater neighborhood.
You've got all kinds of Arabs and Pakistanis and things like that.
We've actually lost 50% of our black and African American population since 2000.
So the other people are going to other places.
But big cities have high taxes and things like that.
But my worldview is more about culture and civilization.
And I want to live in a safe, clean place.
And if the taxes are a little bit high, but to live in a civilized place where people are not getting murdered every day, to live in Rudolph Giuliani's or even Bloomberg in New York City, Getaudi did a good job, and they have strict police and they have strict gun rules that people can't carry around guns without licenses to live in a place like that where you don't have 2,000, 3,000 shootings or 600 murders that go unsolved.
I'll pay higher taxes for fees like that.
So these conservatives are just worried about just taxes, taxes, or things like that.
That's not my world.
Somebody from Memphis, one of our listeners, Todd in Memphis, just wrote in Alan for president.
But hey, Jack, you're from the south side of Chicago.
One of your music recommendations.
Have we done Bad Bad Leroy Brown yet?
Is it one of your lead-ins?
I mean, that's one of my themes.
Yeah, that's.
We got it.
I mean, you and Leroy Brown, you know, there in the south side.
We'll be right back.
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We'll be back with Jack.
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Okay, we're back with Jack Ryan closing out the show as he so often does.
He has already given us his song, book, and film recommendations.
We're going to get to his theme of the week and let him take us to the house here in this final segment of a busy show tonight.
Although, Jack, I did make mention to you that you got a letter from a listener in Nevada, Joseph in Nevada, who wrote, I have a recommendation for Jack.
Now, Jack's normally the recommendation man, but here's one coming to Jack.
And he recommends, if I'm pronouncing this correctly, Coriolanus, the play and the movie.
Gerard Butler, who also starred in the movie 300 as Leonidas.
Gerard Butler stars in the movie version.
Shakespeare has no equal.
Are you familiar with that one, Jack?
They're referencing more of a minor play by Shakespeare that they have.
Maybe I might have read it, but it wasn't a big hit.
I mean, most things written by William Shakespeare are going to be pretty good there.
I mean, they're just like a song by the Beatles.
He's never really had a big bomb that he had.
But I can't see that that's really, I can quote Hamlet or Macbeth.
Macbeth is my favorite Shakespeare play, and I think it's just fantastic.
And the bard from Stratford upon Avon is someone, it's just, he's a brilliant guy, and he knows his history, but he's also a fun guy.
He likes to have fun, and his sort of his meat going around Falstaff is a good character that they had.
So yeah, I think that William Shakespeare is probably the greatest writer in the English language.
And so better than any Zulu writers, because the Zulus don't have a written language.
Neither did the Vikings.
They had some runes and stuff.
But that's one of the reasons we're proud of our British heritage.
We've had great writers.
And we actually, civilization entails that you have a written language.
And if things go down and bad in the places that we have 100 years from now, we could have whole kinds of places in Europe and North America where they don't have books, where people don't read or write, or they just have rap music where they have these things like that.
That's for sure.
Okay, Jack.
So let's get, well, we need somebody to review Gerard Butler's turn in Cariolanas.
We'll see if the movie did Shakespeare Justice on that one.
But anyway, let's go to the theme, Jack.
It's all yours.
Well, my theme was that I was bragging about the victory in my Vanderbilt alma mater and the College Baseball World Series.
And I highly recommend, I think I must say banned it, that politics runs downstream from culture.
So most of the politics in the United States are pretty depressing and negative.
But if you find cultural places where we're doing well, that we can support them.
And we're doing very good.
And then good politics are going to flow away from that.
So I noticed that college baseball is not a giant sport.
It doesn't have the revenue of the NFL or college football, but it's a very good sport.
And it's mostly our people doing it.
Southerners, Midwesterners.
There are black Americans playing college baseball, including the best pitcher for Vanderbilt, but they're talented athletes, and they're not communists.
They're not doing protests.
So if you follow college baseball, it's going to be a positive experience, particularly the Omaha-Nebraska World Series.
It's a folk festival.
So I could consider the time that college baseball, SEC baseball, could be like SEC football was in the 50s or the 60s, where that was the biggest deal, where Bear Bryant was the most respected and honored guy.
And we could have it where the coach of the Vanderbilt team could run for governor of Tennessee or something like that.
So that's sort of my theme is to get into positive sports and culture and particularly college baseball.
You know, it it it doesn't hurt that my team is the best baseball college baseball team in the country.
So I'm pretty happy about that.
So that's sort of my theme.
Did you get to make it to Nebraska for the playoffs?
You know, I didn't do, I didn't do it.
I wanted to have it.
And this is an issue that I have that you, other people, my friends from college and stuff, they got married, they have families and things like that.
And then, well, for me, me, I'm pretty much a bachelor.
So I can pick up at the drop of a hat and take a train and go somewhere.
Yeah, you should have been there.
Yeah.
Well, I, well, but then I got to go alone to have it.
Yeah, I might.
I should have.
I followed it.
But I don't know.
My big cultural thing is I'm trying to become a great salsa partner dancer.
And that's how I think I'm going to get my next wife and family putting my time into that.
So, yeah, no, I should do.
And I'm considering a move.
The ratings for Omaha, Nebraska is a great city.
It's low crime rate.
Economy is good.
It's not too big or too small.
And the demographics are good.
So, yeah, I think I could check it out.
But I got all these things and I've got property.
I don't know.
I've got some regrets.
But that party there is a tremendous folk festival.
You see the fans in the stands, they look great, good looking women, children.
And college baseball is something.
And also minor league baseball is something that we can get behind.
Also, college hockey.
And I think college hockey, if I was an investor, I think college and minor league hockey will do very, very well in the American South.
And we just need to get away from football and basketball.
They were once our sports.
Football is just too violent.
It's like gladiatorial slate smashing each other around and killing.
Then you have the halftime show with Beyoncé doing Black Panther political.
You know, why do we have to waste all of our time and money supporting that when there are so many other good sports or good musical cultural things that we should support?
And again, if we're having success in culture, we'll have success in politics.
But we're obviously, we can get burnt out.
The politics is so depressing.
It's terrible.
I try to do watch it today and spare my morning because everything they write, I like.
And yeah, you know, well, what's wrong with winning?
What's wrong with being successful?
What's wrong with my Vanderbilt Vandy, not Vandy, the Calendar girls?
No, the V-Doors.
How about them doors?
They're the best college baseball team.
They've dominated the last six or seven years.
So yeah, let's do that.
Let's support that and go forward and enjoy winning.
Hey, Jack, I got an important question for you to round out the time here.
But first, the audience wants to know if you would like to adopt a nickname.
Now, you're Jack Ryan.
Some of our longtime staff members have nicknames like Eddie the Bombardier Miller or Keith Alexander the Great and so on and so forth.
And we've got two names in the running.
Do you want to be Jolly Roger Jack or Jumpin' Jack as in Jumpin' Jack Flash?
Or do you want to keep working on it?
The first sounds a little bit gay, Neil Sadako.
And I've never had a good nickname.
And I think there's a place in hell reserved for people that will put bad nicknames on people.
Jumpin' Jack.
I don't know.
I want to be, I don't know.
I'm not real happy with either one of them.
I don't hate them.
But I know we'll work.
We'll work on something.
Okay.
But I mean, the Jolly Roger Jack, you could be like, you could have like that buccaneer attacking spirit.
I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll keep working.
Pirates didn't not have enough women on their ships, you know?
So I just feel that I'm trying to like, you know, I'm just got to get a woman on your ship first.
You know, you do, but then they have.
And then there's one gala 47 guys.
You know, is she really going to get it?
Yeah, but if you're the captain, you don't have to worry about it.
Well, like some better democracy.
All right.
I agree.
I need a nickname.
Well, let's work on it.
But I'd like to also just hear from our fans.
Give me some feedback on what they like about what they do.
Well, you're getting recommendations.
I'm good.
And he's single, ladies and gentlemen.
I think he's the well.
He's not great income, but got some little property, and I'm a great partner dancer.
Hey, and you're on TPC, so that alone should be worth at least a seven.
Anyway, so very quickly, Jack, the ICE raids.
Now, the so-called ICE raids.
Trump was supposed to deport like a million people.
It's down to like maybe a thousand.
It was spread out over 10 cities.
But I heard that your mayor, the lesbian lightfoot mayoress of Chicago, said she's not going to aid in the bet with the cooperation of the law.
She's not going to aid in the bet, you know, the law being enforced.
And that her job as the mayor is to reflect the values of the city.
So I guess the values of Chicago are lawlessness if she's not going to enforce the nation's laws.
Yeah, but yeah, but then the other issue is that, okay, yeah, we're a sanctuary city, so they don't enforce our immigration laws, and they don't enforce the laws against murder.
I think less than 15% of murders get solved.
But the situation is so bad in a rough area that the illegal aliens don't want to come here anymore.
It's so bad that it's like life in Nogales, Mexico is probably on par for some rough area of Chicago.
So, yeah, I mean, it's just, it's from a law and owner perspective, populist conservative, Chicago is the worst that they have.
But they're going to go to Trump, he talks a good game, he's great, and then he's going to deport a million people, and it ends up, he deported, you know, eight guys that were in the M13 gang, and they won't deport them.
They'll probably just come after you.
The ICE is probably coming to try to find you.
The other thing I want to say is also that regular black Americans have always treated me fairly in my life, and I treat them.
And when I had this motorcycle accident, I'm there.
I'm bruised and bloodied two blocks from Louis Farrakhan's main mosque.
And everyone there treated me well and healthy and things like that.
So I'm going to be positive about our country, people.
Yeah, I could pull all my hair out about Chicago stuff, but I don't have a lot of hair to pull out.
Well, we're out of time, so we can't pull any more seconds out of this broadcast.
We'll talk to you again next week, Jack.
We got one last nickname recommendation in from a listener in Memphis.