Oct. 12, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Well, welcome back to the show, everybody.
This Saturday evening, October the 12th, it is now time for our featured guest of the evening, and what a guest she is.
A longtime friend of mine, and I do mean a longtime friend, one of the very first people I met when my entry into this whole thing began.
Dr. Virginia Abernathy, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
She has a PhD from Harvard University, an MBA from Vanderbilt University, and a BA from Wellesley College.
Dr. Abernathy taught at Harvard before joining the Vanderbilt University Medical School faculty in 1975.
Immigration and population balance is her signature issue.
She is the author of Population Politics and her newest, The Vanishing American Dream.
She returns this hour to inform our audience about the current state of mass migration to America.
Virginia, it is always our honor and privilege to host you, dear lady.
Well, James, it's wonderful to hear your voice.
It's always a pleasure to be on.
You know, I can remember when we first met.
I was 19 years old, young enough to be one of your students at the time.
And it was the Buchanan campaign, and we had a great couple of years in that, a year in change anyway, 1999, 2000.
And here we are still all these years later, and I'm all the better for it.
Well, you are, and you had a beautiful fiancé at the time, now your wife.
And I remember the Buchanan campaign.
I was a delegate for Buchanan out in San Diego in 1996.
Well, fantastic.
How about that?
Wow.
Well, we do share the scars, as we like to say.
Indeed.
Well, anyway, it's been an honor all these years, 20 years now.
We've known each other.
20 years.
Well, but the work still continues.
And boy, where do we stand?
I guess that'll be the question.
We only have you for a couple of segments tonight, 30 minutes, so let's make haste.
You called me on the phone a couple of days ago to inform me about a certain matter that needed some immediate attention, and we got some relief from none other than Senator Perdue in Georgia.
Tell us what was going on at the time and how it resolved, at least for now.
It is not yet resolved, but the issue is Senate 386, Senate Bill 386.
And this bill would revoke the current limit on giving green cards to citizens from a single country.
At present, the law limits green cards to single country of 6% of the total of green cards, which is over a million a year.
And that limit of 6% from one country has been in place for a long time, and it hasn't worked badly.
There is quite a diversity of immigrants.
The only difficulty being, of course, that many are not very well skilled, not skilled enough to contribute much to the USA.
So this current bill would revoke the limit of 6% from any one country.
And the practical effect would be to start to work through the enormous backlog of green card applications that we have.
It so happens that almost 90% of that backlog of applications for green cards is from Indians and a few Chinese.
The Indians, many of them, are already here on the 401 visas, which is work visas lasting three years with the option for renewal.
And many of them are in the information technology field, programmers and that sort of occupation.
So they are skilled.
And many of them are here.
But the point is that the backlog is almost all from one country.
And it's a question that at least needs to be debated of whether we want our immigrant flow for the next 10 years almost, which is the time taking us to work through the backlog.
If we want our immigrant flow to be almost exclusively from one country, which would effectively prevent immigrants from many other countries, the Middle East,
the Pacific, Australia, Europe, England, to come, because almost all the green card visas would be taken in working through this backlog of primarily people from one country.
So that is a question that definitely requires debate.
But the people pushing this bill, which includes Senator Pamela Harris from California and Senator Lee from, I think it's Utah, wanted to have this bill passed without a vote, without debate, just by unanimous consent,
which is the term for everybody in the Senate agreeing.
Nobody dissents, and there's no debate on this rather important question, I think, of whether we want our future immigrants dream just to come from a single country for about 10 years.
So that would seem worth talking about.
Well, the first effort to have Senate Bill 386 unanimously approved by unanimous consent came early in February.
And at that point, Senator Rand Paul put a hold on it.
He said he wanted debate.
So it was shelved until about two months ago.
And they tried again, again, the effort for unanimous consent.
And this time, through a huge effort from Population Environment Balance, which is coming out of California, we got a member of Population Environment Balance prevailed on Senator Perdue from Georgia to put a hold on it.
But and most recently, they made another attempt to get S386 through with unanimous consent.
And this time, a Democrat popped up to put a hold on it and say we've got to devote that.
This was a Democrat Durbin, Senator Durbin from Illinois.
Well, wonders never cease.
Wonders never cease.
So here we had a bipartisan duo proposing it.
Lee and Kamala Harris, that's a Republican and Democrat.
And now we have...
Well, you hear the music...
Yeah, you do, as do I.
That means it's coming up for commercial breaks.
So the good news is, folks, we've at least, I guess, what you could call this an impasse.
It's not going forward yet.
But Dr. Abernathy will tell you the rest of the story and we'll ask her her opinion on the overall state of America with regards to this issue, immigration, when we come back.
Stay tuned.
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And now back to tonight's show.
Well, folks, I mentioned earlier in the show, we just wrapped up a successful third quarter fundraising drive.
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And we have the aforementioned and incomparable Dr. Abernathy herself with us.
Again, she's been appearing on this show regularly since its inception so many years ago.
And she's back tonight.
And we're talking about this bill that she's mentioned that did not receive unanimous consent.
It's sad that it had to come down to one person stopping this thing from going forward.
But we did have Senator Perdue and then Senator Durbin, respectively, put a little wrench in the operation here.
Where does it stand now, Virginia, and what's next?
Well, what's next is that we are threatened still with this bill that would be very, very terrible, in my opinion.
I just talked about the nuts and bolts of it, but the fact is it would continue the very, very high, probably much too high immigration flow that we have of over a million green cards a year,
plus refugees, plus societies, plus the H-1B program, which often turns into people continuing to stay and their children born here becoming automatic citizens,
which is another issue that needs to be examined and the Constitution reinterpreted correctly so that we don't give automatic citizenship to children born here to illegal aliens.
But perhaps they are legitimately citizens if born here to people who have legal visas like either green cards or H-1B work visas.
So back to S386.
It really needs to be opposed.
One, the flow from a single country, which would probably not be a good thing.
It would tend to fragment the culture of the United States.
It's very difficult to assimilate people who come here in such large numbers that they can form almost a colony, a self-contained colony, and do not absorb American values and are not absorbed into the U.S. mainstream.
So that's one thing.
On the good side of this bill is that these people tend to be skilled.
They're here as programmers in large part.
But a new reformed immigration bill should, in my opinion, have much lower numbers.
It should also do, as President Trump has been describing, emphasize skills, people who can contribute to the United States, people who arrive knowing English.
That's very important.
English as a second language in our schools is a continuing bad store.
It's very much more expensive to teach English in addition to major educational subjects.
And it is a disadvantage to children who are American children who share teaching time with those who are not able even to speak the same language.
So I think we do have to reform immigration, lower numbers, emphasize skills, and emphasize coming here already knowing English.
And that would be a huge improvement.
The number that many people would support, for the optimal number of immigrants coming annually would be approximately 250,000, instead of the almost 1.5 million legal immigrants counting all flows and an unknown number of illegal aliens coming annually.
But 250,000 a year would probably stabilize the size of the population.
Many people think that's not a good idea, but here are the reasons that we should be stabilizing the population.
It would give greater advantage to Americans, young Americans, just being educated and joining the workforce.
They can compete against each other.
There is no reason they should be forced to compete for jobs, good paying jobs for the rest of the world.
Beyond that, perhaps most important and the ultimate reason is the environmental caring capacity.
Just how many people will our water resources, our freshwater resources, our agricultural land self support?
Do we really want to have cities growing, growing, growing so that the commuting times just to get to a job are two and three hours, such as in the case of some California cities, where the traffic, a commute that used to take me from my home to the office 20 minutes is now 45 minutes.
Is that the trend that we want?
But ultimately, the matter is environmental.
We now have about two acres of agricultural land per person.
That allows us to have a very healthy and varied diet, including plenty of protein.
If we continue adding people, we will soon have less land, agricultural land per person.
That's going to make food more expensive.
And some people will have less good diets.
Right now, we have one, we have a very optimal situation.
Dr. Abernathy, No, no, no.
I pardon the interruption, or ask you to pardon the interruption, rather.
We only have about a minute or two remaining with you tonight.
It's a little shorter interview than we're normally used to having with you.
When we bring you back on, you come back on with us, say, late November, early December.
We'll promote some books.
We'll talk.
We'll do a deeper dive a full hour.
Before the music starts playing, could you give us, could you end tonight by instructing our audience, what can we do to be part of the solution?
What would be the one thing you could impart upon our listeners tonight that would obviously oppose S386, and that's in the Senate.
It's already passed the House.
So if it passes the Senate, it becomes our new law.
Because Trump probably would sign it simply because of the higher skills of that Indian group that would then be admitted in such limited numbers.
So oppose 386 and advocate for a much, much lower total number of immigrants, no more than one quarter million a year.
And of course, continue doing what I'm sure all our listeners are doing, which is opposing illegal immigration.
Support the fence.
Support President Trump and the wonderful efforts he's making.
So that about rounds it up, James.
Well, that's very interesting to hear you say those final words.
And that was a topic of discussion we were having in the previous hour, which is, you know, certainly we want Trump to do what he promised to do.
We hope that he will be successful going forward.
We had hoped that he would be more successful up until this point.
But thank you for chiming in and offering your take on that.
And thank you, as always, for coming on with us.
When we have you back a little later this year, before Christmas, we'd like to do it for a full hour.
You've given us a lot to consider, a lot to ponder tonight, and we're always better for having you appear, Dr. Virginia Abernathy.
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Alright everybody, we We are turning the corner coming down the home stretch now.
From one Vanderbilt individual to another, from Dr. Virginia Abernathy, our featured guest, we go to Jack Ryan, our weekly correspondent.
Virginia taught there.
Jack, what, matriculated there?
You learned there.
But were you in Virginia's class?
That's all I want to know.
No, I didn't meet Dr. Abernathy until after I left graduate school and left New York City, and then I contacted her, and I just noticed her writing was sensible about the environment and immigration.
And I shared some of my experiences and about the real politics of immigration, things that she sort of suspected and knew.
But I think I want to credit myself for basically red-pilling her about the facts of life regarding mass immigration and politics of racial realities and things like that.
So she's a brilliant woman.
But I think I'm the teacher and she was more the student in this case.
Oh, interesting.
Well, no matter how you slice it, it's the Vanderbilt connection tonight.
And anyway, so we've got Jack with his intro music, and he always picks a song for a reason.
What's the song tonight, and what's the reason?
Okay, well, the other reason is I like the song.
KC and the Sunshine Band Baby Give It Up.
This is part of a very short-lived musical genre.
A lot of people hated it.
I like the disco music of this one.
I like partner dancing, and I'm a good dancer.
And this song probably had some other connotations, but I use it in sort of directed things that women should kind of give up.
And you can just, if you've got some woman that's a young woman and she's still got some life in her, but she's getting involved in bad politics, she's starting to go the way of Taylor Swift or something like that, you can kind of crank up this music and say maybe you should consider giving up this stuff and going a good way.
And so give it up.
Well, hold on right there.
Hold on right there, Jack, because this is a great point and a great topic.
And this is something that Keith and I were touching on when we were covering current events in the second hour.
So what we've done tonight is we did an hour-long salute to Christopher Columbus in the first hour.
Second hour, we talked about current events, headlines, breaking news, things that have been going on in contemporary politics.
And then, of course, this hour, our featured guest, we originally had Virginia scheduled for the second hour, but she was at a function.
And so we moved her to the third hour.
This is real live radio.
Everything's in real time and very fluid.
So we had to move Virginia from the second hour to third hour.
Anyway, it all worked out.
But in the second hour, we were talking about how CNN had this town hall forum on the so-called LGBTQ trans issues.
It focused exclusively on that.
And of course, everyone there spoke with one voice.
There's no, you know, for all of the, they claim to be in favor of diversity, but there is no diversity of opinion at all.
And we were talking about how all of them, you know, now accept this sham of transgenderism.
And I was saying to Keith in the second hour, it's interesting that all of them seemingly arrived at this conclusion at the exact same time that the media made it socially acceptable.
And my point in saying that is if they really believed it, if it was always true and they always knew it to be true, why weren't Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren advancing transgender issues, quote unquote, 20, 30 years ago?
I mean, it was true then, right?
Truth doesn't evolve.
But no, they only started doing it within the last couple of years.
And to your point, and this is the point, so did Taylor Swift.
I mean, Taylor Swift started out as this very young, very innocent, very country girl, and she's morphed into this very toxic pop vixen.
And she's out promoting every form of degeneracy that society says she should.
But she, too, like these politicians, is only doing it at a certain time.
If she had these beliefs 10 years ago, why not then?
Why only now that the media tells you this is what you should be doing and this is what you will do if you want to make it as a politician, as an entertainer, you better do what we tell you to do.
And that is what they're doing.
Well, I got a lot of views on this.
And one of my views is that there is nothing new under the sun.
So these problems that we have now in other respects, they've had them in other ways.
But they weren't the dominant one.
There wasn't a society.
There were always been prostitution.
There's always been adulterers.
There's always been homosexuals or bisexuals or things like that.
But we had a society up until the mid-1960s where that was considered to be wrong.
And we tried to promote the traditional family ones.
And you look at, I'm looking at these Westerns all the time and lots of shootouts.
But if you're a little nine-year-old kid watching these ones, you think there's just no sex, isn't it?
That the only thing they go to a dance hall and some people object that people are having dances with this gal that she's got a lot of money and the other Christian women say, oh, they're having dances.
And you're like, well, okay, well, you know, what's wrong with having a dance?
But the real world is that they were prostitutes in the old West.
But these corruptions have come in, and there's reasons why it's getting worse and worse.
And I can tell you personal experience.
I lived in New York City.
We'll talk about some of the movies that are coming out that are promoting this.
But if you've got a daughter, which I do, and you do, you want to try to promote your daughter to get married early.
Because if you don't, then trouble starts happening and other things go down the road.
And then if you think that if you don't try to start having a family until you're 37 or 40, it's rough to do that.
And they're all, I like the internet, right?
When it came out, I thought it broke the monopoly of the media and things like that.
But now the internet has opened up all kinds of vices.
So you've got these women, guys my age, they have mistresses from all over the world that can contact them anonymously and they don't have to go through a pimp or something like that.
So these are mistresses that can kind of hook up with older ones.
And it's kind of sad, but a miseducated Anglo woman that's in her 40s or 50s, she's not really, she's not really desirable.
She's not a lot of fun.
And, you know, I think that Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, kind of summed up what the world thinks about him when he just told Ophelia, he says, just get thee to a nunnery, you know, because we just, we don't want to hear your politics and we just, you know, it's just kind of rough, but it's a big city.
But anyway, but the otherwise, one point I always want to stress, and to all of our listeners, is that I'm always in favor of positive partner dancing where the man leads and the woman follows.
Now, you can get, you know, your Christian church, maybe some dances are like the tango or a little bit too sexy unless you're engaged or married or something.
But the partner dancing where the man leads and the woman follows is great because they're not arguing about politics and it leads directly to dating and it's fun, it's healthy.
And healthy societies have good partner dancing.
And we used to dance in the World War II years and the disco year and now mostly it's just Latins that dance.
Black Americans are not good dancers.
You can't dance to rap music.
And most dancing they do is twerking.
So you're dancing, you're dancing alone.
And I think if you're dancing alone, you're going to be making love alone.
That's not very romantic.
That's not good for our society to be alone and doing these things.
No, teach dancing.
And this disco one, you know, I could tell you some of the ones to do.
You got to put in some practice.
Our people are good at sports, football, basketball.
You got to put some time to be a partner dancer.
But yeah, put it in there.
And you literally, you can sweep the woman right off their feet.
She's not mouthing off about politics.
Maybe if Taylor Swift had some guy taking her dancing, she wouldn't have fallen off the cliff.
Shut up, woman, just dance.
So that's kind of my view.
And it's helped, it's been good for me.
Well, good for you and good for me.
So that's the song.
And that's the commentary on the Taylor Swift thing, which I think is spot on.
How about do we have a book in a movie tonight?
Yeah, I do.
Okay.
The book recommendation is the author is kind of, you know, I'm not the one.
It's Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War by Eric Sponer.
I think it's one of the best Civil War books.
The author is a New York City Columbia University historian.
He's Jewish and he's got bad one, but it's just a very honest book about the coming in there.
And it presents the Republican Party mostly from the Midwest.
And They're honest in that they oppose slavery because they knew that it would mess up independent family farmers.
And a lot of the people in Wisconsin were socialists from Germany that kind of came over, so they had it.
Jack, hold on right there.
Sometimes in live radio, you don't always nail the timing on the head.
So with you just getting into that as the commercial break begins, we will push the reset button and we will repose the question to you for that book of movie recommendations.
Let you start fresh at the top of the next segment and then we'll go in all the way to the house.
How's that sound?
So stay tuned.
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Okay, final segment of what has been a quintessential broadcast of TPC.
Two hours of commentary, opinion analysis from yours truly, Keith Alexander.
A great guest to anchor the whole show.
And then, of course, great contributions from our correspondents.
Last week, you heard from Sean Bergen.
Tonight, back in his regular spot is Jack Ryan.
And we're talking about his weekly recommendations and his overall theme.
Now, I had asked him about the recommendations of the book and movie right before we had to cut off that last segment to go to the break.
And so we'll repose it to Jack with him, take it from the top, and then we'll drive this thing all the way home.
So, Jack, book and movie.
Okay, so my book recommendation is the historian Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War.
I just feel it's very honest and presents.
It prevents the Republicans.
It's probably not the standard one Southerners think of it.
They think the Southerners, the Republicans were all these black Republicans, wild preachers, John Brown, incite the blacks and communists and things like that.
But most of the Republicans there in this book were Midwesterners, independent farmers.
And I would say that they were, we don't want to use the really term socialists that's taken off a bad name, but populists.
And they recognized that slavery would marginalize working class white Americans, white European ones.
They wanted to contain it, and they actually wanted to end slavery and have black slaves free, move somewhere else to help America or Africa or things like that.
I think it's a very honest and very good book.
His politics are different.
Pamela's not ours in New York.
Now, my movie recommendation, the most popular movie coming out right now is Joker.
And I didn't see it.
I don't recommend our listeners see it because I lived that life in the 80s.
Everything.
Not to interrupt you, Jack.
I would just, a very quick pause in that I haven't seen it either.
I have kids now.
I don't go to as many movies as I used to.
I used to go to a lot of movies at the theater.
Now it's like, unless it's an animated feature, I probably don't make it.
It's like restaurants, unless they have a playground inside.
I don't go there anymore.
But everybody on the right, or at least our side of the right, our part of the spectrum, is all about Joker.
I mean, Joker, Joker, this, Joker, that.
I mean, I see it everywhere on Twitter, on the website.
So what has got them in such a frenzy about Joker, and why are you kind of putting the damper on it a little bit?
Well, I mean, I've seen enough of the roots to know what's going on.
I mean, it is accurate about it's a movie about life in New York City, mostly the 80s.
And then they had deinstitutionalized mental ill and just appalling street scenes, Magler people.
You ride the subways, you see depressed, homeless people, crazy people, and streams from rich and poor.
But the other, I mean, they have some racial realities where the guy getting beat up, the white guy by some Puerto Rican black kings.
But the position that they're presenting is very much, in my view, it's the Jewish communist one, that the masses are exploited, rich people take over things.
They don't care about regular people and lord it over.
And there's kind of the story that there were, yeah, there were some rich wasps, Christian people while I was there.
Not many.
The owner of the New York Yankees was George Strendberg.
Donald Trump was there, but the rich and powerful people were not rich Christian people.
But it's depressing and you want to look at it.
And yeah, my view, I was there when George W. Bush Sr. was inaugurated president of the United States.
He ran a little bit on a strong anti-crime, the Willie Horton one.
But we're living in a place of just anarchy and murder and people being in the streets.
And I'm looking on a newsstand with an 18-year-old Italian-American and watching George Bush give this speech.
And the Italian guy goes, what's he talking about?
Is he stealing the borders?
Is he going to bring the military in, restore civilization, clean up the trash and do all these things?
And I'm like, no, he's not talking about that.
And he said, well, what's he talking about?
I said, just nothing, nothing at all.
And you live there and you deal this.
And then you've got to see these rich elite people, the Bush family.
Barbara Bush didn't know what a scanner for a checkout of a shopping center was.
So they don't deal with any of these problems that we do in the city.
And it's an easy one to just say, well, the problem is capitalism and we need to, you know, revolutionary type.
They always have that envy that they do.
And if you want to oppose that, you need something like populism and strict law and order and good religion.
But the option to that communist type view is not anything goes capitalism and tax cuts for Wall Street and just, you know, so I don't really want to see that.
So if my recommendation is not the movie, but if you're interested in that kind of gritty New York city world of the 70s, 80s, there's a lot of really cool movies that are into it.
Taxi drivers one.
The movie I'm going to recommend is Sid and Nancy.
It's the 80s.
It's about the love story of Sid Vicious, who was the drummer for the sex pistols of this punk rock band.
And he had a girlfriend from New York into the drug trade and things like that.
But it's a love story, and it just shows New York City is gritty and it's artistic in that rough world.
And it's very old and plays Sid Vicious in it.
And I think it's a better movie.
I don't want to give money to that joke of people.
I've looked at the writers and things like that, and I don't think we should contribute to it.
All right.
Very interesting take, an independent take, and not one that I can say I disagree with either.
I mean, you're still feeding the Hollywood beast, right?
I mean, not to say that not everybody's.
Yeah, and you're, it's easy to take the Jeffersonian view that big cities are just bad, and we should be a rural agrarian small time.
And there's a lot to be said for that.
But we do, because of populations, and we don't control immigration.
We don't control immigration.
We do have these big cities.
So what are you going to do with them?
And my view, having lived in them, is you better pick up the trash or you'll get rats.
You better have strict law and order and not let gangs of black gang members, M13 people roam the subways, sticking up people, raping people.
You better have strict law and order.
And you can't treat your own poor people.
You can't treat them as interchangeable with any worker in the world and abuse your poor people and just sip champagne at the top of the penthouse and just ignore the sufferings of your young people.
Or you really will lose politics to all kinds of bad Marxist communists.
And you've got to look at the people who can compete in such places.
Most of our populists are country people, but you have strong law Giuliani.
But you look in places like Russia or Germany 100 years ago, who could compete in Berlin, Red Berlin, with the communists.
It wasn't libertarians.
It wasn't anything goes capitalist.
It wasn't just screw over your poor people and social Darwinism.
You got to go on that street.
You got to compete with these people.
You got to compete with communists.
You'll have to see that your workers get paid a living wage.
And I've been in these places, and I can share my knowledge in it, but it's rough.
It's brutal.
And if you don't get in there, this communist view will win.
And a lot of times it does win.
Well, we opened the show tonight.
Great commentary tonight, Jack, by the way.
Not that that's unusual, but I appreciate it.
And we opened the show tonight talking about this great seasonal change we've had.
It finally hit the South this week, and the high today was in the 60s.
It was breezy.
It was cool.
It was great fall weather.
So how's Chicago doing this week?
And how's Chicago compared to Gotham?
Well, I'm mostly outside.
I'm still in and out of this.
The best time of the year in Chicago, Midwest is this time of year, September, October.
It's like New England.
It's cool.
You still get the sun.
Most of the kids are off the streets.
They're in school and things.
So this is by far the most beautiful time of year.
Yeah, it's just gorgeous.
The city, it's not really getting any worse.
I mean, we've got a Halloween come up in my old neighbor, New York neighborhood, where Obama made his stance.
It's a very low crime area because they've got a private police force, but they have three years in a row where they've had riots where rough kids from rougher black neighborhoods come in on Halloween, and they base some action on some terrible Hollywood movie, The Purge, where they go and rob and attack people, including beating University of Chicago students.
So we're going to see if it's going to be another four years in a row.
Halloween is just not a fun night if you live in a city.
It's trick-or-treats.
It's going to be mostly tricks.
So I would like for a police state, but like on Halloween, a big city, New York, Chicago, Detroit, yeah.
Hunker down, get out of town and just say, okay, police, do whatever you want to do, have a curfew.
And, you know, I'm not really answering the doors to people.
They come on the stop.
But no, it's beautiful.
It's great.
But it's a wicked big city.
And, you know, the crimes are the same.
The shooting totals are brutal.
But if you know how to handle yourself, you know where not to be, and you can handle it.
It's not going to be you.
But life in the big city is rough.
And I'm just contemplating another presidential election.
These things go on forever.
It brings out the worst of the people.
So I'm going to go to South America for a month.
Hey, let's stop it right there and continue.
We'll let you tell the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would put it, next week.
We got more time.
I want to hear about Jack South American Excursion.
I'm James Edwards for our featured guest Virginia Aberdanthy for Jack Ryan, Keith Alexander.
Have a great night.
Godspeed.
God bless you.
Enjoy this time of season.
Get out and enjoy the good weather.
Go pumpkin picking, do a corn maze, do a hay ride.