Oct. 19, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Now that's, that is a movie that I always think about when I think of my childhood Halloween.
That's Hocus Pocus, the Big Disney hit that they play incessantly in October, still to this day.
My daughter loves it.
But hey, Jack Ryan's with us now for the next two segments, and Jack has a movie he wants to bring to your attention.
We actually have the trailer for it.
Here it is.
Yesterday, Dracula was the most fearsome being the screen has ever seen.
Today, tonight, you, you, you could be Dracula's next victim.
Come on, Johnny.
A date with the devil.
Are you ready?
He's ready.
He's waiting to freak you out right out of this world.
Died September the 18th, 1872.
100 years ago to the day swear before the of the devil to keep it secret Who knows about vampires, for God's sake?
My grandfather died fighting a vampire.
Plus terrible, plus dangerous and hard of old time.
The year is 1972.
A leap year in horror.
A vintage year of vampires.
Masters of horror to meet again in the 20th century.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is from the cinematic masterpiece, Dracula A.D. 1972.
As we slip into the Hollywood spirit, Hollywood, Halloween spirit, and have a little fun tonight in our third hour with Jack and then later Courtney from Alabama.
So, Jack, why did we play the bulk of that clip tonight?
Or the bulk of that trailer, I should say.
I mean, it was a great trailer.
That's a Christopher Lee Hammer Dracula, one of the last ones.
But it's a cool flick.
It's sort of a modern track.
I mean, many years ago in 72, but the Dracula theme, the Victorian theme of good and evil, it's in the modern world.
The young people are playing rock and roll music and they've got it.
But it's still good guys against bad guys.
It's not any kind of degenerate.
It's a completely white film.
Even Dracula in Bram Stoker, he's some Eastern Romanian, like everybody's white and they have it.
It's good against evil.
But it's fun.
It's a good movie.
And I like all the hammer, Christopher Lee, Dracula 1972.
It's a film that doesn't get a lot of attention, but I like it.
And you can play it from your children.
It's not, you know, it's not there.
It's Halloween and stuff like, but it's good against evil, good winds, and music is fun.
So I like the movie, and I like it very much.
All right.
Well, that's just one Halley.
Why do I keep on saying Hollywood?
Yes, yes.
But Halloween is the word I'm looking for.
One Halloween movie you can get into.
There are a lot of good Halloween movies.
I like the movie Fright Night, a little campy boy who cried wolf vampire movie that was made in the early 80s with Ronnie McDowell and Chris Sarandon.
And there's some good movies out there, some undiscovered or overlooked gems that has occult followings.
Now, there is a perfect Halloween book that you have for us tonight that you actually taught public school with.
So when you were a public school teacher, this was a part of your curriculum in some shit.
The place was set where I was teaching.
I'm going to introduce it.
I'll talk about it in the second 15 minutes.
But the book recommendation is H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror of Red Hook.
I discovered this author, H.P. Lovecraft, fairly recently.
He's a New England horror person.
And he's very brilliant, but it seems he's a New Englander.
And it seems it's like New England white Christian world is like the civilization is there, but underneath it, there are these threats of other things, other worlds, and other people.
And so this story is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where I was a public school teacher after I graduated Vanderbilt University.
So I was teaching the very charming ages of seventh and eighth grade.
I wasn't teaching underworld occult type deals, but it was sort of some terrifying things, stories that I have.
And the Horror from Red Hook, no, it's a very good story.
It's a short story, but it's a very good Halloween story and very much appropriate to my life and the life of our listeners.
Well, I want to know a little bit more about your time as a public school teacher.
How did your students take to you?
Well, I was teaching the very charming ages of seventh and eighth grade, which is a rough deal whenever you get that.
And so they had a system that they opened up teaching to liberal arts graduates from good schools and things like that, because it's like in the military, young people have idealism there, but you have casualties.
So these tough kids from Red Hill, it wasn't just when they were black and Latino and immigrant, you know, back in World War II days.
It was a Navy type place.
So they're tough kids.
And so they send the teachers in there to try to teach them.
And they figure that, you know, we'll lose a couple of teachers and they'll commit suicide or things like things like that.
So that was the most interesting job I've ever had.
And it was the best job that I ever had.
It toughened me up and made me the person that I am today.
And made me that I will never have to deal with these cowardly, conservative sissies, you know, just cowards that can't face up to terror, whether it's the horror of Red Hook or just Raphael Ramirez and some of the rough kids that I met at Keegan, Brooklyn.
So, yeah, no, it was good.
And I discovered this book.
It's good.
Horror from Red Hook is my story.
We're coming up, I think, on a break, but I can tell you a lot more about my experiences there.
I lived in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, but I walked over and the kids came, they crossed the bridge from Red Hook.
It was like, Welcome back, Cotter, but not nearly as funny.
Yeah, this is fascinating.
I mean, to think one of the TPC's crewmates was a public school teacher.
I can remember seventh and eighth grade.
I mean, man, that was where it was at.
I think my two favorite years ever in school were in seventh and eighth grade.
I can remember going to my very private Christian school, which is probably a far sight from a public school in Brooklyn, but maybe a different experience.
But I love seventh and eighth grade.
I mean, I still remember so much about those formative years.
And anyway, but I'm sure my experience was a little different than perhaps your students would have had at a public school in New York.
But nevertheless, it was a great time to be live.
No, it's good to be live, but I mean, they're not cute little kids, but they're also not responsible adults.
And that's why you get in there, and when you do that, you just have no time for piasters.
That's all you have to do.
What works in traditional society?
So this is the basic rule.
I'll talk about it in the next 50 minutes.
Yeah, let's talk a little bit more.
Now, we've got Jack normally our closer.
He normally does the last 30 minutes, but we wanted to talk to Courtney from Alabama, our good friend, de facto mascot, about Halloween and this time of year because she loves it as much as I do.
But she had a family function and she couldn't come on for the last 30 minutes.
So we booked Jack up, put Courtney in the end.
We're listening to Jack right now talking with Jack.
Courtney's still to come.
Stay tuned.
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, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
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I could go with the light.
We're all with Fright Night Night Night.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back.
James Edwards with Jack Ryan.
Jack, I'll horse trade with you.
I'll watch Dracula 1972.
If you go and watch Fright Night from, I believe, 1985, it's Chris Sarandon plays the vampire.
He moves into this suburban neighborhood, and the boy next door sees him and sees him doing things that vampires are wont to do.
And, you know, of course, tells people and nobody believes him, of course.
And he hires Roddy McDowell to come.
And Roddy McDowell's the vampire killer.
It's just a great, one of my all-time favorite movies of any kind.
Fright night?
What is it?
Fright night?
Fright night.
Fright night is the movie.
I'm open to all things good.
Obviously, your choice and things are excellent, your choice.
And women are good.
You've got a beautiful wife and things like that.
I'm open to all kinds of things.
I don't do so well in the suburbs.
I've lived in rural and rough.
Yeah, yeah.
I get lost in the suburbs.
Like Chicago's got like 27 suburbs.
They're all named after parks and forests and groves, river forests, park forests, forest groves.
They don't have numbers, streets, and you get out there.
And why don't you know they have part blend view or something like that?
Why don't they have a view of crack dealers?
That's a place I'm more like comfortable and I know where what's going down.
Okay, Fright Night.
Yeah.
Well, hey, the good news is, though, Jack, you don't have to move to the suburbs to watch Fright Night.
That's the thing.
And now everything's streaming online now, so you don't even have to go to a video store anymore.
But let's recap very quickly before we chase that rabbit any further.
So Jack's movie recommendation of the evening is Dracula 1972.
He says it's a flick, a nice mix of Victorian England and mid-England, all-white, fits in with our Halloween theme.
And his book tonight is H.P. Lovecraft's Horror of Red Hook.
Now, this ties in with Jack's personal life because he taught public school students from Red Hook, Brooklyn.
So we're going to go back to the discussion of the book and Jack's teaching.
I want to know what it was like to be a teacher at a public school in Brooklyn holding sensible beliefs like you do, having to do what the public school administration would have wanted you to do.
Well, you do, it's because I have an urban environment.
I grew up in south side of Chicago and I've dealt with urban kids and coaching, things like that.
I haven't.
But being a classroom teacher, it's very different from being a coach or being friends with it.
And they had two systems that you'd have a homeroom and a class where it's just you and a blackboard against 30 kids if they all show up.
And then you have like a, there's a group one where you have two teachers and an assistant and there are tables and you play against.
That worked very much better.
Just the classroom one where it's one guy uh against uh, 30 12 year olds from these rough ones, you're really like being a Christian that they throw into the lions, where you're just being like ripped to shreds and if you can't make it and these kids you know they're tough kids, they've got a belt, they've got a notch on their belt for all the the teachers that have quit or gone insane or committed suicide.
So you cannot be some soft intellectual person and try to go in there and try to make it.
You got to be a principal, tough person.
You have to be disciplined and tough against what's threatened you.
They don't have guns or like, you know, knives or anything like that.
But you have to be, you know, tough and you've got to restore discipline.
You got to say like you're the teacher and they're the student and you're going to do order and things like that where a lot of things I didn't think I was going to have to do, but you would do it.
You call parents.
A lot of times the parents don't have their act together.
So it's the grandparents who are from the South and the grandparents in the South will back up the teacher.
And so you talk to the grandparents and there's some kid that's mouth and op.
He's a miniature Muhammad Ali.
And the next you talk to the grandparents.
They come in the next day after the grandparents from the South have beat the kids' ass.
You know, he's respectful.
He's writing.
He's raising his hands.
So that just sort of taught me all my things that I do about life, about politics.
You should be a good person, but you cannot be soft.
You can't be some intellectual BSer, whether it's a liberal person or these libertarians.
And so that's one of my claims of fame.
So I'm the biggest person on the alternate that has exposed these idiot libertarian BSers.
They've always got some theory why you can't enforce laws against rape, murder, heroin, smuggling, illegal immigration.
They've always got some excuses, but they're so smart.
But the bottom line is that they're really, they're just soft and cowardly people, and they would not last a week at my school in Brooklyn.
And I taught at the PS 142.
So other schools around the country, it's Thomas Jefferson School or whatever.
Our schools in New York City are like German prisoner of war camp Stalek 142.
So I thought it'd be a PS142 there.
You know, it's got a strict, you know, that they've got behind.
But yeah, I love, and my students were not bad people.
Once they saw that you were not a coward, that you were tough, you're a good person, you know, you would earn their trust and you could do things.
So I like my students very much.
I wanted them to have a good life.
And, you know, but that's my recommendation there.
This world is not meant for cowardly Christians.
If you're some cowardly Christian, you know, don't go teaching seventh grade at PS 142 in Red Oak, Brooklyn.
I wish I could have been in that class.
I was talking about my experience at my Lily White Private Christian School where the tuition cost more than, you know, that was the joke.
I've said this before.
That was the joke when everybody graduated.
The parents were relieved that they didn't have to pay the tuition anymore because they were going to get a break.
Just having to pay college tuition was a big break from the private school tuition.
But what I wouldn't have given to spend a day in Jack's class.
You know, you would have done fine because you're a good person, you're an intelligent person, but you're also not a cowardly.
I'm not supposed to say the same, this word, but it's like a cat, you know, and it's like a few things.
Yeah, you're like there.
And I have so many people, relatives, uncles, cousins, nephews, brothers.
And it's like intellectual, but the main divide is between, you know, these are good people, but the main one is that they're just, they're cowardly, you know, folks.
And if they would do something like going to boot camp and Marines or something like that, or do what I did, being a public school teacher, have to face terror.
And, you know, most people, most public school dudes are not killed.
Okay, I'm just using exaggeration, but you're going to have to deal with people that get in your face, that are going to be calling you names, that are threatening you.
And so some guy like Mitt Romney, who's never taken public transportation, who's never had a blue-collar job, who's never gotten his hair messed up, who's never gotten to a fistfight, a guy like that is just these kids in Brooklyn can see that.
They can horn in and say, you know, this guy is a, and if our people get that reputation that we're all like that, that we're all cowards, that we're all going to give in, that we're never going to defend our people, including when our graves and statues are being desecrated and destroyed.
Yeah, all those people are going to do that.
But yeah, if you get in there and say, no, I'm not backing down.
I don't care.
There's 30 of you, there's one of me, but I'm tougher than you are.
So, you know, that's why that's life.
And then you do that, you're going to be good.
So this is something that I recommend our people do, that after college, they maybe go to the Peace Corps, but spend a year or two as a public school teacher.
If you want to be that as a career to be a public school teacher, most of the public schools are dominated by leftist unions and bad things.
So obviously, we have a teacher strike in Chicago.
That's not good.
But for our regular people, yeah, that's something I'd recommend that you do.
Get in there and you'll come out of it a much better person, a much stronger person.
Practical words of wisdom from teacher Jack there.
And man, you know, I love this show tonight.
Current events, contemporary topics with Keith and Sam in the first hour.
One of the best guest interviews of the year with Simon Roche in the second hour.
Folks, if you're tuning in, like, go back and listen to that.
And then now just celebrating the season with Jack Ryan and Courtney from Alabama.
She's next to close us out tonight.
Jack, love you.
Thank you.
Talk to you next week.
We'll be right back.
Thanks.
Give my best to Courtney from Alabama.
She's a great count.
I will.
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One of the things we've been doing on iTonight, folks, is playing some of those fun Halloween songs.
And that segment is no different as we welcome back to the show our longtime friend Courtney from Alabama calling from Alabama tonight.
She's back to talk with us about how these fall temperatures we're all enjoying right now and the spirit of Halloween stirs her ancestral memory.
Courtney, it's great to have you back tonight.
Thank you.
I'm glad to be back.
So you and I love this time of year.
Now, I know you love it as much as I do.
You say it's very non-southern when it comes to our weather preferences, but to that, I would say, you know, we were living in this for thousands of years in Northern Europe.
It was only, in fact, I've made mention of this with Keith just last week.
It was only the last two or 300 years that our people came down and settled the South from Northern Europe and Scotland and England and so on and so forth.
So historically speaking, we are more in tune with that type of weather.
And 200 years wasn't enough to catch us up on it.
Exactly.
And, you know, I wonder if most white people, like even in the South, if eventually they grow out of the warm weather phase, because, you know, when I was in my 20s, I was the type that just loved to go to the beach.
I loved summer.
I like to go to tan and everything.
And I've long grown out of that phase.
And I wonder if most Southerners grow out of it at a certain point.
But what I don't get is, like, if you look at these, if you look at the demographics of these different Caribbean islands that are even further south of us, it's like even they have like 3% of their population is European that still lives in those areas.
And it's not always from, you know, places like Spain and southern Europe, people with British ancestry.
And it doesn't make much sense to me.
I don't know how people, you know, like people of our stock permanently live in places like that.
It's fun to vacation, too, but I don't get that.
But so now, let me ask you this.
I complain about the weather all throughout the summer on this show.
And then the last couple of weeks, once it finally broke, I think people can even pick up in the tone of my voice how much happier I am.
So you're in Alabama.
You've got some beaches.
You've got some nice beaches down there.
You've got Orange Beach.
You got Gulf Shores.
You have to pick, Courtney.
Do you want to go to a beach in the sun?
And I do like going to the beach.
I like that for a vacation.
But if you had to pick one climate to live at, would you live on the beach or would you live in a cold, dark European forest?
If I had to pick one or the other, as much as I love being on the coast, I do think our people have a connection to the sea.
And I love always, I do always love being near a coastline.
But if I really had to pick, and especially now since I've lived this close to the coast for so long, I used to live further inland in Alabama, but now that I've lived this close to the coast for this long, it's like, you know, it's like you always want what's on the other side of the fence.
And now it's like I'm always longing to go to the mountains and a cabin somewhere in the middle of a forest, like you said, and where, you know, where you can see the change of seasons.
And, you know, it's like the more I go to the beach, the more I realize it's not what it was made out to be when, like, as a kid or a teenager, it's like you, it's really not a comfortable thing to do, you know, sitting in the hot sun, getting sand on you, getting, you know, with the, with the sunscreen, and, you know, and then it gets stuck to the sunscreen.
And it's just not really, it's a fun thing to do once a year, especially if you took a really nice beach to go to.
But, you know, to go and do it every weekend or something, it's just, I really don't, I agree.
It's really not something that our people are really, I don't know, made to do.
I don't know.
I like it.
I like it for a week or two out of the year.
Now, that's just me.
I know people say they dream of living on the beach.
They want to retire.
They want to live their whole life there on the beach.
And I agree with you too that we are, you know, we have an affinity for the sea.
Our people do.
I mean, that's in our explorer DNA.
But of course, that coastline in Scotland is a lot different than that coastline and the panhandle down there with Florida and Mississippi and Alabama.
But you said you have had some encounters with some arrogant non-southern liberal whites on this topic.
What does that mean?
It's funny.
You've already touched on some of it by bringing up the beautiful beaches.
But on social media, I have friends all over the country.
I love, you know, I love people from all around the country.
There's good and bad from everywhere.
But there is a tendency for, and I do apologize to people in the audience who are from up north because I know in the past on this show, I got a little carried away with my southern pride.
And I do, I love our people from everywhere who are on our side.
And I know there's good and bad on both sides or both parts of the country, but there is a tendency for people who live further away from minorities to be, you know, less in tune with the race issues.
And our people, you know, are always around minorities.
So it just happens to be that way.
But there are some of the more liberal, you know, the more liberal connections I have on social media, you know, they do tend to mostly be from up north.
And I love, you know, during fall, I love to put up pictures, like nice fall scenery pictures on social media.
And it just makes me feel good.
And I like to share what makes me feel good.
And I'll have like one of my arrogant friends that's not from Alabama.
They'll say, well, how do you even know what that's like?
And I'll be like, well, that's why I long for it.
And, you know, in North Alabama, we actually do have some areas where you do get fall foliage, like in the pretty northern hills up there around Huntsville.
It is really pretty up there.
But then, you know, in the southern part of the state, as you mentioned, we do have our beautiful beaches and everything.
And it's funny, those same people on social media, like even when I post a beautiful beach photo in Alabama, they'll say, that's not Alabama, it's South Florida.
And I'm like, no, it's Alabama.
And it's like, I think there's a lot of people who have this perception that Alabama is nothing but mud or something.
I don't know.
But we do have our own type of beauty here.
But I definitely do prefer the more, I mean, at least at this part of my life.
There was a time in my life where it was a little different.
But at this stage of my life, I prefer a nice cozy cottage somewhere in the mountains with ball leaves and a warm drink or something like that.
I hear you.
I'm with you.
Yeah, I think as we age, maybe preferences do change.
But at the end of the day, I just think this is who we are.
I mean, we evolved in that climate.
I mean, you know, I was talking about this last week, too.
I was thinking the weather had just turned a little bit before our last show.
So maybe 10 days ago, it turned.
And I was walking with my daughter.
It was in the 50s.
We were walking around the neighborhood, and I was just telling her how wonderful this felt, because that's where we came from.
And it was because of that climate that we became who we are, not having the long growing seasons, having to be clever and inventive and industrious and finding a way to survive these harsh winters that we had in Northwestern Europe.
And it caused our brains to develop more than some of the people in other climates where food was always readily available, and game was available, and it was always fruit and it was falling from the trees into their laps.
So much of the climate made Europeans what they are.
And so I think that's why we have an affinity for this particular type of weather.
Am I way off base here?
Oh, I agree fully.
I definitely agree with you.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see.
Well, I guess that's a whole other topic to go into.
But it'll be, you know, like I'm talking about hundreds of years down the line.
And of course, I'm an optimist for our future and everything.
I'm not a pessimist, but I do think we have a future.
But it'll be interesting to see if our people over time, as much as I love my beloved Alabama, and I'm sure as much as the whites who are down in the Caribbean love their areas, you know, it'll be interesting to see if over time, you know, white people will start moving further north back to where we'd rather be.
Like there's parts of an interesting question because I have a conflict with that.
You know, like you, of course, that's one of the things I'm known for and this show is known for is southern pride and heritage.
And this is where our people came from once we came to settle and colonize America.
We came from Scotland and Europe and Wales and Ireland.
And we came down here, England, and we settled this part of the country that was a totally different climate than that from which we came.
But of course, this is ours now or has been ours.
And I have that Southern pride and I love everything about Southern culture.
I love the South.
I would die for the South.
I was born in the South.
I want to be buried in the South.
But boy, I never did take to the weather.
You know, so it is interesting when it comes to everything.
It's great about the South except for the climate.
It just doesn't match with who we are and what our people are and what our historical is.
But we got to take a break.
I was talking with Courtney earlier today and she said, you know, 15 minutes, maybe that's too much.
I said, no, we can do easy 30.
We could do more than that.
We haven't even scratched the surface of the things I wanted to talk to her about.
But we will talk to her about a little bit more in detail about why she loves this time of year and how Southern Baptists are taking the fun out of Halloween.
We'll be right back.
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Well, there is a Halloween standard, if there ever was one.
And welcome back to the final segment of what has been a fantastic show with Simon Roche, Keith Alexander, Sam Bushman, Jack Ryan.
And by the way, Courtney, Jack, our weekly correspondent, told me to tell you hello when he heard you were coming on.
So you have fans even amongst the staff here, as you will know.
And we, with regard to Courtney, she's been one of those ones that has just always been there.
She has been a fan and a friend and a listener of this program for as long as I can remember.
In fact, I don't even remember when I first met Courtney.
She has just always been there.
And she's back tonight to talk about Halloween and what makes this season of the year so special.
And let's first go back to the history of Halloween itself.
A quick clip.
We'll let Courtney listen to it and then respond.
Here's the history of Halloween and how it pertains to our people.
From communion with the dead to pumpkins and pranks, Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitched together with cultural, religious, and occult traditions that span centuries.
It all began with the Celts, a people whose culture had spread across Europe more than 2,000 years ago.
October 31st was the day they celebrated the end of the harvest season in a festival called Sowhen.
That night also marked the Celtic New Year and was considered a time between years, a magical time when the ghost of the dead walked the earth.
It was the time when the veil between death and life was supposed to be at its thinnest.
On Samhain, the villagers gathered and lit huge bonfires to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living.
But as the Catholic Church's influence grew in Europe, it frowned on the pagan rituals like Samhain.
In the 7th century, the Vatican began to merge it with a church-sanctioned holiday.
So November 1st was designated All Saints Day to honor martyrs and the deceased faithful.
Both of these holidays had to do with the afterlife and about survival after death.
It was a calculated move on the part of the church to bring more people into the fold.
All Saints Day was known then as Hallows.
Hallow means holy or saintly.
So the translation is roughly Mass of the Saints.
The night before, October 31st, was All Hallows' Eve, which gradually morphed into Halloween.
The holiday came to America with the wave of Irish immigrants during the potato famine of the 1840s.
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The young pranksters wore masks so they wouldn't be recognized.
But over the years, the tradition of harmless tricks grew into outright vandalism.
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Storekeepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks, and children were encouraged to travel door to door for treats as an alternative to troublemaking.
By the late 30s, trick-or-treat became the holiday greedy.
Okay, so we're here back with Courtney talking about Halloween.
And I think just listening to that clip, it reminds us that this goes back, as we just were reminded, all the way to the Celts.
This is something that is very European in tradition.
And whether those traditions are handed down orally or through genetic predisposition, I think some of it just comes with our DNA package.
This is a European time of year, and that's what we're here to talk about.
So continue on, Courtney, with how much and why you love this time of year and how the church now is taking the fun, not out of just Halloween, but of Christmas as well.
Yeah, I, and that was an interesting clip, by the way.
I enjoyed that.
Yeah, I, ever since I can remember, we celebrated Halloween in my house growing up, you know, and, you know, it was all about jack-o'-lanterns and, you know, friendly looking ghosts, you know, like little decorations like that around the house that my mom would put out, little frankensteins.
You know, it's all harmless things.
It's fun.
It doesn't mean you're worshiping those things.
It's just you're recognizing the history of it, and it's fun.
It's almost like you're poking fun at those things.
You're not worshiping them in place of Christ or anything.
It's just you're kind of poking fun at it.
And it's a lot of fun.
And it's part of our history.
And I've never, you know, and as an adult, I still have fun with that stuff.
And I let my kids enjoy it.
I've never been into the blood and guts Halloween or like the demonic stuff or anything.
I agree that that stuff gets a little too, you know, goes too far.
But, you know, jack-o-lanterns, witches, black cats, just appreciating it as the mythical characters and what they come from.
I mean, I enjoy that stuff.
I find it harmless.
And a lot of, it's a trend now for many, many Southern Baptists these days to, you know, think that we can't celebrate Halloween.
Like we're somehow anti-Christian if we celebrate Halloween.
And I think, you know, and I'm not talking about anybody in the audience who might be dealing with, you know, because I know it's all good people that are listening to your show, but I'm talking about the ones who the anti-white evangelical types who want to turn Christianity into a strictly Semitic worship, you know, instead of worshiping our European, you know, instead of enjoying the European part of our Christian history, and there's nothing wrong with enjoying it because it's who we are.
There's nothing wrong with celebrating Christianity, you know, using European traditions instead of just going to this boring, bland, you know, strictly Semitic, you know, based where you get rid of all, you know, all these celebrations that came from Europe.
And when it comes to Christmas, you know, a lot of these same people are now taking Santa Claus out of their home.
And if that's what somebody wants to do, especially if it's a good person who listens to your show, I'm not judging them, but I'm talking about the anti-white ones who just don't seem to have a life.
They're serious about everything.
They're judgmental.
They're just, they're miserable people.
I don't doubt that they're true Christians, but it's just, it's the judgmental part that comes from them.
And I guess, you know, they can do what they want to do.
They can celebrate how they wish.
But I don't get it.
I guess.
I just don't get it.
I find it a very harmless celebration.
You know, it's a very harmless, very old, you know, celebration.
And again, it doesn't mean you're, it's a very shallow way to look at it, look at things if you think that by celebrating that, that means worshiping witches.
No, I mean, look, we're Christians.
This is a Christian program, but we can certainly give a tip of the hat to our ancient European pre-Christian ancestors and a fun, family-friendly, non-religious way, kind of incorporate some of these things.
That's what the church has always done.
I mean, the church took pagan elements of paganism and put it under the umbrella of Christianity.
But with regard to the church, it's interesting.
I mean, they can take a hard stand against soft targets.
They can target how evil and sinful it is if you have a beer or how evil and sinful it is if you celebrate Halloween.
But when it comes to doing what the church is supposed to do, which is to protect and advance Christianity, they completely lay down and roll over.
You don't hardly any churches anymore, even Southern Baptists, even these fundamentalist, conservative, for lack of a better word, churches, they don't really get out hard and heavy and say anything against homosexuality anymore.
They certainly don't say anything with regards to securing the border or doing anything that they would need to do to protect their flock.
They just don't do it.
But when it comes time to waving their hands and talking tough about things that they're absolutely never going to have any hope of changing, well, then they can do that because, of course, they know that that's never going to go anywhere.
And it's not going to cause them any concerns with their societal overseers.
You know, they can rail about alcoholism or Halloween all they want.
That's not really hitting the enemy where it hurts.
Right.
That was a good way to put it.
I agree.
I agree.
Now, I have noticed at least the Southern Baptist churches I go to, I do give them props, or I do appreciate the fact that the ones I've been to at least are still pretty good about gender roles as well and homosexuality, you know, at least the ones I've gone to.
But when it comes to the race issue, I mean, forget that.
I mean, it's so ridiculous.
No, no, no.
I think in most, and of course, there is a difference between church and church and the convention itself with regard to the Southern Baptist.
And you know my history with the Southern Baptist and all of that.
But yeah, they are still fairly decent on some of these issues.
They're just not going to go out into the street and actually flex any sort of muscle to overturn homosexual marriage or anything like that.
But anyway, we're out of time.
What a great 30 minutes.
Man, it went by far too quickly.
The whole show did tonight.
Courtney, thank you.
Happy Halloween.
We hope to talk to you again soon.
And for everyone else, we'll see you next week when DPC returns.
I'm James Zeppers for the entire crew.
God bless you.
Have a good night.
Go to a Courtney's, pick a pumpkin, do something with your kids.