Oct. 5, 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.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, folks, after a two-hour deep dive into a book with its author, we're back on contemporary politics and breaking news and all of that good stuff with a man who has no peer in this business, Mr. Sean Bergen, our good friend for a number of years now, regular contributor to this radio program.
He told the truth in the mainstream media as a television newsman in the New York, New Jersey area.
And as all truth tellers do, he ended up here.
But we're all the better for it.
Sean, how are you tonight, brother?
I'm doing great, James, and it's great to be back on with you.
How have you been?
I have been doing all right.
Looking forward to fall, just living my best life with wife and kids.
And just every day on the radio is a blessing, even more so when accentuated by your presence.
So it's great to be together again.
Anyway, Sean, you know, you were coming on so often back a couple of years ago when we were languishing through the final years of the Obama term and we had so much domestic terrorism going on, terrorism around the world, really.
And, of course, Black Lives Matter, Muslim terrorism, what have you.
And that has been cleaned up to a large degree stateside.
But one thing Trump hasn't been able to do is clean up the media, unfortunately.
And that's what we're bringing you on to talk about tonight, among other things.
You're going to handicap the presidential field as it sits this evening, this October 5th.
We're going to talk about the impeachment inquiry and the media's treatment of it.
But let's start first there with the inquiry itself.
Now, we talked about this, Keith Alexander and I did, last week, but I'm betting that you can give us even more pressure and insights than we were able to muster.
So what's your take on this whole grand scheme?
At first, they thought it was going to be Russia and Putin that would bring the president down.
Maybe now it could be Ukraine.
I mean, what are they doing here?
This is a piece of political kabuki theater, and that's really all it is.
There's no substance to this.
It's not even really an official impeachment inquiry.
And the reason I say that is because they have not held a vote on the House floor.
That's number one.
And number two, they have not issued subpoenas.
All they've done is that they sent out some letters to Mike Pompeo and a handful of his staffers over at the State Department saying, you better come down here and talk to us.
And Pompeo said, yeah, no, thanks.
We're going to take a pass on that.
And that's it.
So there's really, there's nowhere for them to go.
Of course, you know, the media, you know, they're handmaidens in the media, basically just the PR arm of a very corrupt DNC right now, was, you know, looking for any reason excuse at all.
This is really just Democrats right now throwing some red meat out to their frothing at the mouth leftist, far-left, you know, elements of the Democrat Party.
That's really all this is.
There's no substance to it.
In order to be impeached, you first have to have an impeachable offense, and it simply doesn't exist.
And what they never ever banked on was the fact that Trump would just release the transcript of the phone call.
You look at it, it's right there in black and white.
Now, I will say this.
It's kind of like a political flashbang in the room.
They want everybody to look at, you know, was Trump trying to dig up dirt on Biden.
You don't have to dig up dirt on Biden.
Biden is all over the internet right now bragging publicly about the fact that he pressured the Ukrainian prime minister to fire the prosecutor, Victor Shokin, who was looking into Hunter Biden and the company that he sat on the board of, Barisma, a very corrupt oil and gas entity for which Hunter Biden was getting, some reports say $50,000.
Peter Schweitzer is now out there saying it was closer to $87,000 a month.
A guy, a crackhead, basically, who was fired, kicked out of the Navy two months prior for doing cocaine.
His ex-wife says he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hookers, blow, strip clubs, and prostitutes.
This is the guy now you're going to put on the board of your oil and gas company.
They were buying access to the Obama administration.
That's all that was about.
And Biden is on record publicly bragging about this at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in front of live guests.
He says, basically, Biden says, I told the prime minister, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting a billion dollars.
He was bribing the prime minister using a billion American dollars on record as doing this.
It's all over the internet.
And our corruption is a lot of people.
I was just going to say very quickly, Buchanan wrote about this in one of his most recent columns.
Pat Buchanan wrote that not Trump, but Biden would be the first casualty of this whole thing.
So if I, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, Sean, if I'm not saying this clearly, it seems as though everything they allege Trump might have done, Biden did, in fact, and said it, shattered it from the rooftops even.
Bragged about it.
And that was always the thing about Joe Biden is that, you know, he was the crazy uncle up in the attic during the Obama administration.
You couldn't, they had to keep him on a very tight leash because he can't go two steps without shooting his mouth off and embarrassing himself and the guy he was working for.
Now, the other thing is that in this panel discussion that he was on, you know, with the Council of Foreign Relations, the Ukrainian prime ministers told Biden, well, listen, you can't do that.
That's the president's call to make.
And Biden said, call him.
So Obama knew about this, and he didn't do anything to rein in Joe Biden.
And it wasn't just Biden who's up to his neck in dirty dealings in the Ukraine.
It's also Nancy Pelosi.
Her son is also involved with a Ukrainian energy entity getting massive payoffs.
You know, Ukraine has a history of corruption.
And what we have, we have a treaty in place with them that compels an American president and their president to root out corruption.
Americans want to know first and foremost where their tax dollars are going.
Why would we be giving tax dollars to a corrupt country?
Americans don't want that.
They don't like that.
And that's all Trump has done.
Now, what has also, what the media is trying to completely gloss over is if you look at the transcript of that phone call on page two, he asked the Ukrainian prime minister about a company called CrowdStrike.
CrowdStrike and Hillary's server because Trump knows that server is with an oligarch over in the Ukraine, over in Ukraine.
Remember Hillary's homebrew server, the illegal server that we heard so much about very early on?
Nobody knows what happened to that server.
Nobody.
And when the FBI was asked about investigating that server and actually looking at the server, James Comey said that he relied on the information that was provided to the FBI by CrowdStrike.
This is a cybersecurity firm very, very cozy with the DNC.
Now, you know that they struck a nerve there because our mainstream media is all over the internet now trying to downplay this and chalk it up to like Trump is trying to resurrect some debunked conspiracy theory.
It is not debunked.
It is not a conspiracy theory.
There's a tremendous amount of merit to this.
CrowdStrike ran interference for the Clintons and the DNC.
They were the intermediary between the Clinton campaign and the FBI.
And James Colmy took CrowdStrike's input and never examined the server.
What happened to the server?
Does anybody know?
Trump believes that it's in Ukraine.
And I think that Trump knows everything.
And that's what has these Democrats so terrified.
My goodness, did you hear how he paused his commentary right as the music started?
You would think this guy's been in media or something.
We'll be back, Sean Bergen breaking it down like no other can.
Right here on TPC for your listening pleasure and for your education.
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And we'll be back with more from the great Sean Bergen right after these words.
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All right, so Sean Bergen telling us his take on the impeachment inquiry.
And there's something about Sean's take is that it's always fact-based, which is such a rarity in news these days.
And speaking of news, let's talk about, Sean, the establishment media's coverage of this incident.
So I'm reading it like everybody else.
I read what they put out.
And the way you read it, it's like this is beyond Nixon.
This is beyond deep throat.
I mean, Nixon fell on his sword before it could actually be voted on, but this is like beyond that.
It surpassed that, if you could just read between the lines.
But of course, you put, you know, they set the record straight a moment ago saying, you know, they've done nothing but send out a few letters.
But above and beyond all of that, the spin on it and how serious and severe this may be, is the media's treatment on it.
Now, there was one thing specifically that I saw this week that had my fingers reaching for your number.
And that was a Reuters reporter by the name of Jeff Mason.
And so I watched this thing, and it was like Jim Acosta all over again.
So what you had with Jeff Mason was he went in and he repeatedly asked the president the same question.
The president gave the same answer.
He continued to ask the question until he would get the answer he was expecting, you know, to hear, I guess.
And eventually the president moved on from him.
And what I see from these reporters, Sean, like Jim Acosta and Jeff Mason, they go in there, they act irreverently, they disobey the rules, and then they come out and the rest of their peers and colleagues in the establishment press salute them as if they were Audi Murphy or something.
I mean, it's just absolutely sickening.
They go in there and the entire national media corps against the president, I mean, they are in with the in-crowd.
They're not going in there as some martyr, you know, taking a righteous defiance stand.
They're going in there with all the power of the media behind them.
They're coming out and acting as if they were really brave.
You know, it was another Sergeant York they were.
Your take on all of that, Sean?
Well, you know, that's the state of the mainstream media is that they don't really report the news for the people or the popular, you know, or the they report the news for one another.
So that they're going to be a little bit more.
That's a fantastic answer.
Yeah.
So, you know, what they're looking to do is, you know, after their little showdown with the president that all their colleagues, you know, saw, then they go to the Beltway Cocktail Party where they're celebrated and fatigued by all their, you know, like-minded liberal activists who call themselves journalists, you know, liberal activists who cloak themselves in objectivity.
And they're so lacking in self-awareness that they can't really see that what they are is basically political propagandists posturing peacocks.
They're just so blissfully unaware of how ridiculous they look to clear-thinking adults who don't share their crackpot worldview.
And so what we have now is a president who's willing to point out just how hypocritical they are, just how phony they are.
And he's willing to fight them.
He's willing to go back at them and use liberal tactics against them the same way.
Look, I mean, for 60 years, Republicans and conservatives have acted like gentlemen.
We've been collegial.
We've been stand-up guys.
We've, you know, fought according to the Marcus of Queensbury rules.
And for 60 years, leftists have been fighting us in a knife fight.
They've been using Sololinsky's tactics.
Trump now goes back and he uses their tactics against them.
And he completely goes on offense, which we love to see.
We love to see a president who's actually going to stand up and fight these people.
I mean, they savaged George Bush.
They savaged John McCain.
They savaged Mitt Romney.
All of these presidential candidates who just didn't, you know, they were too dignified to, you know, they want to take the high road.
Trump's a bruiser.
He's a brawler.
He's rude.
He's loud.
He'll overpower you.
He's a tough real estate developer from Queens, New York.
He's a knock-you-on-your-ass kind of guy.
And he goes right back at these punks and these weasels in the news media who are just nothing more than a bunch of postering peacocks.
I mean, I saw that guy.
And, you know, Trump called him out for being rude and said, listen, we have another guest here.
We have the Finnish president.
Ask him a question.
You've already asked me the same question over and over again.
Ask him a question, you know?
But you're exactly right, James.
They're playing, you know, they're preaching to the choir and they're playing to one another.
And that's really all it is.
It's just one big ego trip from these guys so they can go back to the newsroom and high-five it with their friends and say, oh, yeah, you really showed him.
You didn't show anybody anything.
I mean, you sound, I mean, really, I mean, these guys, they sound like little girls, for God's sakes.
They call themselves newsmen, and they just, oh.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, what would be impressive from a newsman is if one of them had the courage to speak in a voice that differed in any way, shape, or form from their peers.
They all speak with one voice.
There's not one of them.
You would think of all the people in the media, Sean.
And we've talked with you about this over the years that you've been providing content for this program about why exactly that is.
And there's some peer pressure and virtue signaling and all of that goes into it.
But, you know, of course they would get fired or reprimanded or demoted or whatever.
But there's not one of them that has an opinion that's favorable to the president.
Not one, think about this.
Not one person outside of talk radio in newspaper that I know of.
I mean, Buchanan has a syndicated condom.
He's not really in the news per se.
But not one of these staff reporters have a favorable, I mean, maybe some Fox News.
You know what I'm saying?
Not one of them has something favorable to say about the president.
You talk about the president of the United States.
Not one guy in the media can say something objectively favorable about him.
I mean, that couldn't possibly happen.
That couldn't possibly be real.
Yeah, this is the kind of groupthink that goes on inside of newsrooms.
I mean, you know, as I was often fond of saying, like, if you're a conservative reporter or come from a conservative background in a newsroom, you live like in the shadows, like, you know, like you live like a gay man in the deep south of the 1950s.
I mean, it's just, you know, you're holding whisper conversations in the mop closet.
You know, I mean, it's just, you can't do it.
And if you take these guys on inside at an editorial meeting, forget about it.
I mean, I remember on many occasions every head in the room turning in my direction with the how dare you stare just by raising a question.
I mean, it's that bad.
Well, and you know, and there's a difference between commentators and reporters.
But see, these reporters fancy themselves as commentators where they really fancy themselves as, again, like some sort of a war hero or something to go out there and propagandize.
But I mean, you know, we get that there are the proverbial talking heads that go up there and offer their opinions.
But when you're talking about just the facts, who, what, where, when, and why reporting, that doesn't exist anymore.
No.
Well, look, you know, Fox News always drew a bright line between their commentary, their news analysis, and their actual news reporting.
You know, you know, and Sean Hannity has always been very open about what his role is.
You know, he's a commentator.
He's, you know, he's an opinion journalist.
He does advocacy.
But when you go to the other news stations, they pose as objective news reporters.
So in that regard, they're being really dishonest.
Well, they're first being dishonest with themselves.
And that is really the main problem with liberalism across the board is that these people are first incapable of holding themselves to account.
They get up in the morning, they look in the mirror, they see an objective journalist, which is a joke.
I mean, you know, Don Lemon is out on the anchor desk every night, night after night, providing opinion.
But he presents himself as an objective newsman.
So does George Stephanopoulos over at ABC News and these big network anchors, all of them are, I mean, Stephanopoulos was the communications director for the Clintons.
But I mean, you've got an entire generation of people who don't remember that.
They weren't around when George Stephanopoulos was, you know, in the Clinton White House.
So they look at him sitting behind the anchor desk at ABC News and they say, oh, you know, well, he's objectively reporting the news.
And I mean, thankfully, we have a president now who's been willing to just completely undress these folks in public, challenge them, right?
Points at them and says, you are fake news.
And now he's actually taken it a step further and he actually, more accurately, I believe, characterizes them as corrupt media.
That's what they are.
They are corrupt media because they have been complicit now with the DNC in trying to engage in a coup because these reports that were put out by Christopher Steele were all corroborated by news reporters and they were first leaked to the press.
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We're going to keep Sean for one more segment.
If he'll stay with us, I want to talk to you about the presidential field as it stands tonight.
It will change, of course, but we'll see where he handicaps it today when we come back.
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We're back with Sean Bergen, a valued member of our team now for going on five years.
Can you believe it's been that long?
And we're all goes by, doesn't it?
Well, anyway, I want to ask you about, I want to shift gears a little bit because I like you.
I don't think anything's going to come from this impeachment inquiry, except for the fact that maybe it might not knock Biden out of the race and give it to Elizabeth Warren as it stands right now.
We're going to talk to you about that in just seconds.
But as we handicap the presidential field, which is an ever-changing thing, it'll be different next week.
But we'll see what your take is on it tonight.
But the one thing, you know, I wish Trump had done more on the border.
I wish more could have been done on the border.
I have my criticisms, but the one thing I will give him an eternal salute on is his utter disdain for the media.
I don't believe that's fake.
I don't believe that that's fake.
I don't believe that he's playing a part and they're playing a part and then they're all buddies on the back end.
I do believe that there's real animosity there, and he has taken it like really no other man.
I think Limbaugh even said that last week.
I mean, hard to imagine anybody else taking that constant torment and incessant abuse the way he has and never really caving into them.
I mean, maybe a waffle here and there, but for the most part, he's been absolutely sturdy in the face of this withering assault, which begs the question, though, Sean, why is he still, he's done a lot to emasculate them.
He's done a lot to discredit the media.
I think the media has been laid bare as a result of this president, but he has not neutered them completely.
Why is he still doing press conferences with them and saying, you know what?
I know you're just going to report your narrative.
I'm going to bring in people like Sean Bergen and Sam Bushman.
You're going to get the news from this administration through them if you want to hear it at all.
Why is he still entertaining the likes of the fake news?
Well, look, you know, he speaks.
If you've noticed now, he's cut out the White House press briefings, right?
So there's no representative who goes out and appears before these posturing peacocks.
What he's been doing now is daily speaking to the Gagala press outside of Marine One with the helicopter running in the background where he addresses them directly.
He doesn't speak through an emissary.
Now, these gaggles are always videotaped, and they go out to the public directly.
So he's able now to completely bypass the media and go right over their head.
But there was a real strategy toward showing how phony and fake and corrupt now the media is because we are just now starting into the next phase of this operation, as I like to think of it, with taking down the swamp.
You know, Barr now, the AG, and his right-hand man, Durham, have just been overseas speaking with Italian officials, British officials.
They've been on the phone out to Australian officials talking about all the corruption that was spygate.
Barack Obama ran a spying operation out of the White House with the help of Brennan and Clapper and Comey.
And not only did he spy on the Trump campaign, but he'd been at this with his political enemies for years.
That's what's going to happen next.
And in order to get the message out to the American people, he has to continually reveal to them how corrupt our media is because the media was complicit in setting up that whole narrative, that whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative, which was completely false.
And we know that.
But our media has a tremendous amount of sway over the people.
It's on 24 hours a day.
And there's still a lot of people out there, I think, who can be swayed by them, can be influenced by them.
So he recognizes that it is a daily fight.
And he relishes that fight.
He loves to win.
He loves to fight and win.
And he knows how powerful that our media is in this country.
They just hold tremendous sway.
And together with Hollywood, popular culture, academia, and our school system, they're basically running a brainwashing campaign on a mass scale.
And he knows that.
He's able to recognize that.
Well, you're certainly right about that.
So let's transition now in the five or six minutes we have remaining and let's talk presidential politics.
So as you said, I mean, we're just now beginning to put our toes in the water of what will be the presidential campaign cycle of 2020.
And the Democratic field is thinning.
It's impossible to predict what the thing will look like a year from now when we're a month out of the next presidential election.
I do think it's safe to say that whatever venom we've seen from the establishment press will only grow more potent as we go forward.
I mean, their attacks on the president, their attempts to bring him down will only become more intense.
But right now, the Democratic field, I mean, that's what the interest is because we know Trump's going to be the nominee.
I guess you got to, what, give it to Warren right now?
Yeah, well, I mean, Biden has taken a nosedive in the polls since this whole Ukraine thing, you know, blew up in his face.
You know, 2019 is the year of the boomerang.
Anything that the Democrats have tried to throw out of Trump has boomerang back and blown up in their face.
So Biden is like a wounded animal right now.
The media recognizes it.
They need him out of the way because he's only going to reflect poorly on the Obama legacy.
And if the Obama legacy goes, then the Democrats are just dead in the water completely.
It'll destroy their party.
So Obama's want them out.
The media wants the Bidens out.
He's cratered in the polls in these early states like Iowa and New Hampshire that often determine the outcome of a presidential election.
Kamala Harris and Corey Booker are neck deep in the Jussie Smollett hoax.
It looks like they may have been coordinating that behind the scenes.
I'm sure more on that will come out as we progress.
And so for that reason, Olin Bernie, of course, went out with a heart attack last week, which doesn't bode well for his chances.
And so I think for the time being, Elizabeth Warren is the it girl until, until Hillary Clinton re-enters the race.
Yeah.
The reason she'll do it is to shield herself from prosecution.
Incredible, Sean.
Man, that was a heck of a delivery on that comic.
You think that's going to happen?
I was going to ask you about that.
And boy, you just packed a wallop.
I think Trump, I mean, Trump would mercilessly mock, and rightly so, Elizabeth Warren.
I mean, what a joke.
I mean, the whole Pocahontas thing.
And I mean, that's just an embarrassment waiting to happen.
You think Hillary's going to re-enter?
Because I think Trump walks over any of these other candidates.
One thing you have to consider is without the wall being built, you've still had this influx of third world migration, which is basically a Democratic voting drive.
I don't think the criminal justice reform thing was good for Trump.
I think those people are going to vote straight ticket Democrats too.
And Florida is a state that teeters by a few thousand votes out of millions cast.
So if Florida goes, it's all over anyway.
And it very well could, no matter who's the Democratic nominee.
But out of the field that exists, I think Trump walks over them unless Hillary comes back.
I think she'd be our best bet.
Yeah, I mean, at this point, I can't really see.
I don't think Elizabeth Warren really has, she doesn't have, she just simply does not possess the gravitas to carry a national election.
I mean, she might eke her way through a primary by appealing to that far-left element.
But, you know, on the national stage, she just, you know, I can't imagine her trying to go up against President Donald Trump on the debate stage.
It just, I mean, that would be ridiculous.
But, you know, listen, Steve Bannon was out, you know, on the press last week saying Hillary's going to get into the race.
And I think she's going to get into the race for the same reason that Biden got into the race, and that was to shield themselves from prosecution.
So not for the betterment or giving the party necessarily a candidate who they think could win or better compete.
And I do think, you know, I have no love loss for Hillary, I mean, to say the least.
But I think of what they've presented themselves with, I mean, these whacked out off-the-rails liberals.
And I mean, Hillary is that too, to be sure.
But, I mean, these people are even worse.
But it's not to help the party.
It's to shield herself.
You think that would be the primary motivation?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
You know, the level and the depth of corruption that I think is about to be revealed is, to be honest with you, I think it's going to destroy the Democrat Party completely.
I think my personal opinion is that 2020 is going to be a Trump blowout.
Well, I think it could be, except for the fact, my reservation and hesitation is this, Florida teeters.
Florida teetered.
I mean, he barely won Florida in 2016, and you've had four more years of really no stemming of the tide of illegal immigration.
And you had the criminal justice reform that I think these people are going to vote majority Democrat.
I mean, to say the least.
So if Florida goes, it doesn't matter.
There's no path forward if he loses Florida.
And Florida could very well go.
I think it really comes down to whether or not he can keep Florida.
If he keeps Florida and keeps Georgia and Texas, which are secondary states that are teetering, but not to the extent that I think Florida is.
If he keeps Florida, he wins.
I think the whole thing comes down to Florida, period.
If he loses Florida, I don't see a path.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's going to be interesting to see.
So, you know, that's my take on it.
It just oversimplified.
It comes down to Florida.
But if you take that out and you just look at how he matches up with the other candidates, I think he's better suited now than he was in 15, 16.
I mean, he's a known quantity now, and he's got an unbelievable, unparalleled record track record of success.
And the wall is being built.
Well, he's saying 500 miles by this time next year.
We'll see.
I'd like to have the full 2,000, but we'll see.
We'll get live up to the standard you said as a candidate, and then we'll all be very, very, very happy because it was a hell of a candidacy.
Sean, thank you for your contribution tonight.
We look forward to talking to you again.
It is going to be a rocky road through the 2020 election season, and we look forward to covering it with you.
We'll be right back.
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.
So, I want to be honest.
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 voter fraud.
You start whining before the game's even over.
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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In Congress, Steve sought impeachment of Eric Holder for his corruption of the Justice Department and his fast and furious gun running that caused Border Agent Brian Talley's death.
Steve called for arrest of Lois Lerner for her contempt of Congress as it investigated her targeting of conservative nonprofit groups.
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His case involved four checks to nonprofits.
DOJ has one standard for Hillary Clinton, but another for folks like President Trump and my husband.
We've spent all our savings, all Steve's retirement, and much of mine.
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What do you wish your parents will do to show you they love you?
Take me to Montana that I would have a huge slumber party with all the girls there.
Play with me more often.
My mom's so busy with the board meeting.
To spend more time together as a family.
Do more out-of-the-house activities.
This is a tough one.
My parents, they do everything they love me.
If it wasn't for them, I would have a roof over my head.
They don't need to show it to me.
They just know they lose my place.
Well, not yelling at me very much.
What do you wish?
What do you wish?
Raise my allowance.
To not argue together.
Have my dad be home more for dinner and stuff so that it could be even closer.
Family, isn't it about time?
Buy me an ice cream and kiss me to love me.
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Okay, folks, man.
As I wipe the sweat from my brow, it's been a great show tonight.
It seems like I say that every week or about every previous show that we do.
But tonight has been exceptional.
A little bit different.
We missed Keith.
We missed Jack.
Jack will be back next week.
And Keith, too, for that matter.
But we wanted to give Kevin some saturation coverage this week.
He's been making the rounds.
The more you saturate the promotion of something like a book release, the more impact you can have.
And, you know, get it in before the censors get it type of thing.
But Kevin and I did this interview on TOQ Live earlier this week, the monthly YouTube series that we co-host together.
And then, of course, tonight on TPC, we did it again.
Slightly different, of course.
And he also sat in with Henrik and Lana at Red Eyes.
Anyway, we've been talking about his book tonight for the first two hours.
Sean Bergen.
I mean, Sean is always a show stealer.
A scene stealer, as they would put it in the television world, but always good to have Sean on to offer his insights and commentary on the biggest news and trends of the day.
And so we were talking with Sean about the impeachment inquiry and the current field of Democratic candidates vis-a-vis Trump as we gear up now for presidential election season 2020.
But we're going to put all of that on hold right now, if we can, ladies and gentlemen.
And I would like to remind you of our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation for the support that you showed us over the course of the third quarter fundraising drive, which ran during the month of September.
So indeed, we had support come in from across the country and around the world.
And so let me now, if I may, read off just some of those cities.
Now, we're not even including all of the cities from which we received contributions because some people contribute anonymously.
Some people live in cities, or if you could even call them that, villages, towns, I don't know what you would call it, areas so sparsely populated that if we even mentioned the name of the location, they would be identified as a donor of this show.
So we're leaving out some of those places, but we're going to cover most of the places from which we received support over the course of the last 30 days.
And here they are.
Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. TPC and the following ports of call for doing your duty and your part in helping us stay on the air and remain well-funded through the next fiscal quarter.
We'll call on your support again around Christmas time.
But until then, we are ready to go and continue the battle.
Thank you to a very loyal listener in Alberta, Canada.
You know who you are.
We know who you are.
You donate every month, and you've done it damn near since 2004.
And that's another thing about it before I go through the roll call.
Sometimes when we go through the quarterly fundraising drives, we'll rattle off a few cities each week.
We saved them all for this one segment.
But there are people who have been donating from nearly day one, if not day one, and some who made first-time contributions in the last month.
But here you go.
Alberta, Canada, Beaumont, Texas, San Marcos, California.
Great guy out there.
Baldwin, New York.
Great people all.
I can't say great guy to this one town.
I mean, they all are.
Baldwin, New York, Chino, California, University Park, Texas, Parksville, British Columbia, Chandler, Arizona, Summerfield, Florida, husband and wife team down there.
Thank you so much.
I know you're going through some struggles right now, and we're thinking about you.
Sansaba, Texas, first-time donor.
Afton, Missouri, Evans, Georgia, Bourne, Texas, Jonesboro, Arkansas, our biggest and most loyal domestic contributor that lives there in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Green Valley, Arizona, great veteran supporter down there.
Kerry, North Carolina, we've got two supporters in Kerry who contributed.
You know, if they don't mind me saying it's a boyfriend, girlfriend team, but they both donated independently.
Are you hearing all of these cities, ladies and gentlemen?
And the states, not just the South.
This started off as a local, a regional show, grew into a national phenomenon, and now worldwide, we have listeners tuning in.
But North, South, East, West, you're tuned in and you're donating.
And thank you.
Bluntville, Tennessee, Cordelaine, Idaho, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Mesquite, Nevada, Riviera Beach, Florida, Greer, South Carolina, Whitestone, New York, Ben Wheeler, Texas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
And there's another city in Brazil that I sure can't pronounce, and I won't even try, but there's a couple of guys down there in Brazil that donate every quarter all the way from Brazil from Memphis to Brazil.
We're reaching people.
And it was incredible because after a shaky start, I mentioned this last week.
I literally did.
I may have said it before, but it's true.
I watched with awe the love that was poured on this show from our family of listeners, an outpouring of support that really rivaled historic levels.
And thanks to you, we're well funded for the next quarter.
Never ceases to amaze me when I notice the postmark on these contributions we receive.
I continue.
I'm marveling right now at how widespread our audience has become over the years.
Every week for the last 15 years, we welcome to the show the best and brightest men and women in Radio Land from all of these different places.
So astonishing to know that on any given Saturday night we have these folks tuned in.
Big cities, small towns, it doesn't matter.
And for those of you, by the way, who qualified for the gift incentive packages, they're going to be mailed out next week.
We're a little late getting them out.
We're always busy, but we're never too busy to do what we have to do.
And so we're going to get those out next week.
So stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled on your mailbox for that.
But as we continue on the roll call, listener support came in from Pachogue, New York, if I'm even pronouncing some of these places correctly.
Thomasville, Georgia, Woodruff, South Carolina, Clive over there in the UK, Morovia, New York, Sunland, California, Euphrato, Washington, Callahan, Florida, Irvine, California, Chicago, Illinois, that's Jackstown.
DeSoto, Wisconsin, Fort Worth, Texas, Dayton, Tennessee, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sam Bushman and I spent a good week in Cleveland a couple of years ago at the Republican National Convention.
London, England, Franklin, Tennessee, Travelers Resk, South Carolina.
Lafayette, you're expecting me to say Louisiana, aren't you?
But no, Lafayette, Indiana.
Canover, North Carolina.
Folks, you allow us to continue our journey.
Without you, we don't exist.
But because of you, we can continue and we won't let you down.
Bogota, New Jersey, Montville, New Jersey, Canton, New York, Astoria, New York.
Listen to the support in the New York, New Jersey area.
Metae, Louisiana.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Nashville, Tennessee.
Of course, here where we're born.
Memphis, Tennessee.
Hazard, Kentucky.
The Duke of Hazard contributed.
Rockville, Maryland.
Rudy, Arkansas.
Perry, Florida.
Beecher, Illinois, Sarasota, Florida.
Great River, New York.
Great family man there in Great River.
Chesterfield, Virginia, one of our biggest contributions of the quarter came from a dear listener in Chesterfield, Virginia.
New York, New York.
Kerner's, what's going on, South?
I'm reading all of these cities in the New York, New Jersey area.
Come on, where's me a Confederate?
Kernersville, North Carolina.
There you go.
Troy, New York.
Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Granite Scilly, Illinois, Mardella Springs, Maryland.
Pickens, South Carolina, one of our very biggest of the quarter came from Pickens, South Carolina.
Marietta, Georgia.
Maccaus, Maine.
All the way up in Maine, we have people tuned in.
Dundalk, Maryland, another one from Chicago.
Sheridan, Arkansas, and there were others.
Like, again, this card that I was reading from at the very top of the show.
We'll go back to the card to wrap everything up.
But he writes, I'm sure I speak for thousands when I heartily say thank you for your faithfulness, your bravery, and your fine work.
With that said, a rally from scripture.
Let me close with, do not be afraid of them.
Remember the Lord who is great and awesome.
And fight your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, your houses.
When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, then all was returned to the wall, each one to his work.
That's Nehemiah 4, chapter 4, verses 14 through 15.
And that comes from a listener who has motivated and inspired us and encouraged us, not just with his financial support, but with his words there in the state of Virginia.
Thank you so much.
He never misses a show.
I know so many of you out there do not miss a single broadcast.
You know what?
I can't even say that.
I think once or twice a year, even I take off from the show, and I might listen to a little bit of it, but maybe there's a minute or two I miss.
There are some people that don't even miss that much.
We love you.
God bless you.
God keep you.
We'll be back with you next week with another fantastic installment.
Welcome to October.
Welcome to fall.
We're going to have a great rest of the year together, celebrating and having a good time.