Nov. 2, 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, going 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.
Well, welcome, everybody, to tonight's live broadcast of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander.
It is Saturday evening, November the 2nd, and I am still absolutely and entirely, completely worn out from last week's excitement and no rest for the weary.
It's been back to work.
We are back to work tonight, of course.
Inso much as we're in the studio this evening, we are not quite yet prepared to return to business as usual, though.
If you can follow what I'm saying here, we're back to work, but it's not going to quite be business as usual just yet on tonight's broadcast as we continue to bask in the afterglow of last week's most incredible 15th anniversary broadcast.
Keith?
It really was a great time.
You know, God bless all here is the way I felt about it.
I had great conversations up in people's rooms after the formal part of the presentations and the speakers and the banquets and all of that stuff.
And I mean, I don't normally stay around after all that, but I stayed until I think about two in the morning talking because, I mean, the conversations were just sparkling.
You know, I had no idea that we had people that were so tuned into all of the right issues on Christianity, for example.
I met with an Orthodox Christian, with a Roman Catholic, with a fundamentalist and some other people.
And I mean, all these people were sharp as TA.
I mean, they really knew their stuff.
And it was a great back and forth.
So, you know, the intellect of the people that are attracted to our show always flabbergast me.
I have no idea.
And I mean, we had so many young people that are doing the right thing, having children.
They brought their husbands and wives and children.
Everybody was there.
And it was, like somebody said, it's like the family reunion you wish you had where you liked all the members of your family.
That's the way I felt.
And it was, I've never felt that at any of the other conferences that I've gone to, to be perfectly blunt about it.
I think we have a special vibe going here at the Political Cesspool.
Well, Kevin McDonald said something to me along those lines.
And of course, for those of you who were with us last week, you know, and for those of you who weren't, we had a supporter down in Mississippi who opened up, who opened up their home to us to have this one-day dinner gala and some talks throughout the afternoon session.
And it was just a great time.
And then we all stayed at area hotels near their location and then back up to Tennessee on Sunday.
But it was, well, of course, truly invigorating.
I have I didn't get to enjoy it, I think, as other people did.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I loved it, but I didn't enjoy it as an attendee would.
And that is because, well, a couple of things.
I am a perfectionist with a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
And so I was so intensely focused on making sure everything was just properly staged, managed, and everything ran on time and everything down to the food.
And by the way, I heard, I heard tail that we had a couple of great meals that weekend, but I wouldn't know it because I was so laser focused on getting things done and making sure everybody was having a good time.
I did not actually enjoy either of those buffets that our hosts had presented.
So tell us about that.
There must have been vegetables on the menu.
But no, in any event, I want to thank again.
This is what we're going to be doing tonight.
Now, I know you tune into this show, and rightly so, to hear us talk about current events, political issues, our commentary, opinion, and analysis applied to your concerns.
And that's what we do.
And that's why we're here 15 years later.
But tonight, we are going to pause and reflect just a little more.
If you don't take pause to reflect from time to time and what better time throughout the year than perhaps a year in review show right before the end of December, first week of January, and on your anniversary, which we celebrated last week, if you don't take pause to take stock of what you've built, I mean, what are you doing this for?
Are you doing it just for the labor and the struggle?
I mean, that's fun and that's fine.
But no, I think it's okay to take a show maybe once, twice a year, where we, as a community, as an audience, reflect and look back on what we've accomplished and what we've done and what we've built.
And what we're talking about now specifically is the family that we've built.
And that's what it is.
You mentioned family reunion.
So many people called it that last week.
I have had since we got back home, since last Sunday afternoon, all steadily, steadily throughout the week, I have received emails, phone calls, text messages, and even letters.
Even people who have already written snail mail letters and sent them in to share their praise over the event.
And it makes me so happy that they enjoyed it to that extent.
I have not had the chance.
I pretty much came home and collapsed for a couple of days.
I have not had the chance to respond to those pieces of correspondence yet, but I promise you, however you try to contact me this week, if it was a phone call, a text, an email, or a letter, I will respond to you in kind that way.
Just give me a minute because I'm catching my breath too, and I know a lot of people are.
But wow, did the reviews come in five stars?
It felt so good for me, not talking about the people that came, but just to for me personally, and I think for you too, to really see and connect with the people that listen to us and support us and rely on this show in a lot of ways.
We rely on them in ways that, you know, every way that it's possible to rely on someone.
But it's great to see the people.
And I mean, what a great group of people.
I mean, this is not like some of these old conferences that we used to go to back 20 years ago where it's what I call the Wrinkled Rooster Club, a bunch of old white guys meeting.
We had young people, a lot of families, a lot of women, a lot of children.
Newborns, newborns, toddlers, a little bit older children like my daughter, who, of course, was there along with her birthday boy brother, nine and five, respectively.
I mean, they were all through there.
And, you know, one of the themes that we talked about is how white people are diminishing as a percentage of the population in all white nations now.
It's not an accident, but you know what?
What I saw was our counteroffensive.
I saw tons of children there.
I mean, we had a nursery going, basically.
We're going to be talking.
This is what we're going to be doing tonight.
I said, reflecting on last week's event, we're going to paint a verbal picture.
Now, I know last week, obviously, we're broadcasting live from the 15th anniversary celebration and dinner gala with the people who were speaking throughout that day at that beautiful, beautiful home.
And so you got to hear it last week, obviously, we were broadcasting live from the scene, and you got to hear all of the people who gave speeches.
Well, tonight, we're going to be featuring some of the people who were just there as audience members.
Not to say just there.
Of course, without the people coming as attendees, you don't have an event.
And so they were every bit as much as important as we were or any of the speakers, to be sure.
We're going to be bringing some of those folks on that you didn't hear from last week.
And again, I think they were the real stars.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And that's not us just blowing smoke or saying it because we're obligated to.
We say it because we mean it.
And we're going to be hearing from them throughout the show tonight.
So stay tuned, buckle up.
It's going to be a fun transition back into business as usual.
Next week, it'll be like it never happened.
We're going to be back talking about the cesspool of politics, as it were.
But tonight, though, tonight, we celebrate on community.
We celebrate our family.
And that's you, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us, won't you?
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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.
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Well, we're back, everybody, and taking pause for one more week to take a look at what we have been able to do as a result of God's good graces and your generous support, what we have done together.
And it's not us and it's us together with you.
And we look at the people who were there last week.
Again, the presenters.
So we were a little late getting last week's live show posted to the broadcast archives.
We normally have it posted within about 15, 30 minutes after each live show.
We normally have it up in the archives because people listen to it throughout the week.
Some people listen to it after the fact.
Some people listen to it on their commute to work throughout the week.
Anyway, but we were late getting it up.
So if for whatever reason you may have missed, it is up and it has been up since last Sunday, but if for whatever reason you didn't have a chance to go and check it out yet, throughout the broadcast live from the scene of our 15th anniversary party, we featured the likes of Gene Andrews, who gave a great talk on General Forest.
Each of these people who were on the show last week broke down in just a few minutes' time the synopsis of their presentations.
Dr. Michael Hill, Jason Kuna, Kevin McDonald, Sam Bushman, Sam Dixon, Lacey Lynn, Kirk Lyons, Simon Roche, and Rick Tyler.
So those were some of our speakers at the event, and what a huge show of respect it was to have all of them turn out to honor TPC's birthday.
But we also talked to Keith about the fact that it was a standing room only crowd.
And those are hard to come by.
And it was a very good number.
It wasn't a standing room only crowd, and we had a capacity of 15.
I mean, you had a very, very, very large group there by the standards of our ranks, I guess you could say.
And people from all over the world.
You talked about the beautiful women and children.
I can remember going out to the foyer and just seeing a veritable playground.
Kids just crawling all over each other and just having a great time, the sounds of children's laughter.
It's such a healthy, healthy scene.
But you had people literally from all over the world.
We talked even last week during the show about our friend from Brazil who came bearing gifts of Brazilian whiskey and a Parker's pen and these fantastic items.
And what a joy.
I mean, he and his brother have been supporting this show every quarter and in some cases every month for years and years and years and years.
And of course, we never had the opportunity to meet.
And then we had the opportunity to spend some time with him last week.
We had, of course, a presenter from Africa, from Africa, from Brazil, from Washington State.
It was just amazing, too.
And we touched on this when we polled the people who had turned out.
How many were from the South and how many were from north of the Mason-Dixon line?
It's about a 50-50 split.
And that was just incredible.
Our northern listeners even had to travel further than some of our regional listeners.
And it was just so good to see such a great mix, true diversity there, and that the kind of diversity you want.
It was really great to meet David.
It was a guy from South America, just a wonderful individual.
Eduardo.
Eduardo, excuse me.
Yeah, Eduardo.
And I'd met him for the first time.
I'd heard about him.
We'd corresponded, but we went out to lunch.
We had a great time.
You know, it was fellowship that we couldn't have otherwise.
And it was just, you know, I tell you what, you were talking about the mothers with the children.
Well, even the ladies there that weren't, didn't have children there.
It was like you could just see a mother's hands at work all the time.
Ladies were just enjoying having these children around.
And one of the themes of the speeches, you know, one of my themes when I made my speech was how the white population is diminishing.
Well, not among our listeners.
They apparently have gotten the message loud and clear, and they're all following the biblical admonition to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply because we're seeing all of these beautiful children.
And see, this is tough for our people to do, James, because we are, as geneticists say, case strategists.
We believe in low fertility, high investment parenting.
If we don't think we can provide the quality, the top quality of life for our children, we tend not to have them.
That's how things like the Brown decision really seriously, negatively impacted our birth rates because people suddenly were faced with the reality that if they wanted their children to get a decent education, they're going to have to send them to private schools.
Well, our people now acknowledge and know that that's the case, but they have decided to, you know, suck it up and do what it takes through homeschooling or whatever to provide their children with all those advantages.
And we are beginning to see a renaissance, a new awakening, a new blooming of a new crop of children.
And it's really that if there was, there are so many heartening things about this past weekend, but nothing to me more heartening than that.
Because this is the proof of the pudding.
People were actually having these children, bringing them to our conference.
Well, and I'll give you, for those who weren't there, and perhaps you picked some of this up on the live broadcast because we certainly recapped some of the things that were going on in addition to featuring each of the speakers.
Also, notable people in the crowd, well, everyone in the crowd was notable for different reasons.
They're either supporters or they're just fantastic people, but even people like Virginia Abernathy, who, along with her husband, drove down from Nashville and not even to speak, just to be there and to enjoy the camaraderie and to show her support.
And Virginia is such a dear friend to have her there was just a phenomenal thing.
But the purpose of this show, what we're doing tonight, is to praise you in the listening audience for what you've allowed us and helped us to build.
But going back to those families and there was a picture, by the way, and you're right.
Even a lot of the women there who did not physically have kids present with them had already been mothers, perhaps.
And we had a good mix of women all the way from, I would say, what, early to mid-20s on the other side.
I would say that the children competed with the speakers for the attention of people.
And they were all in.
I mean, you know, we didn't have the children in one place and everybody else.
No, everybody was in the same room together.
And you saw these healthy, beautiful families.
Of course, you know, I talked about, for my part, I had my pastor there.
Of course, my wife, my parents, my children.
My son turned five years old last Sunday, so everybody gave him a nice hearty singing of happy birthday.
They had a piano in the house, and we had a piano player there who kind of livened everything up during the timeout.
That's a key to our conferences, by the way.
We have that same guy every time, and he is always never ceases to amaze you with his talent.
And then his female lady friend was there to sing.
And vocalist.
It was just all of it just weaved in together along with great speeches and fellowship.
And so that's the question, Keith.
We're talking about the families, the kind of people attracted to this cause, the way we present the message.
And man, I wish I'd had an hour to spend it with everybody there.
I'm thinking about people like Perry and Joel.
If I start naming names, I'm going to leave 98 people off.
We have a great East Coast contingent.
We have a West Coast contingent.
We have a Texas contingent.
Yeah, in fact, there was a lot of, we'll talk about this with Wilburn Sprayberry in the third hour, but there was quite a few Texans that came in on a party plane.
They all booked travel together and came in and had a good time traveling to and from with one another.
And so the question is, though, Keith, in your words, why spend a show?
Our airtime is so valuable.
And by the way, that was another thing.
We had some station managers there who have kept us on the air, who were there to revel in the celebration.
So a lot of important people turned out.
The most important people turned out.
Now, I know there was a lot of people who wanted to come.
We had a sellout.
We had a waiting list.
We couldn't work everybody in.
And some people had to cancel at the last minute.
We had over 400 people there, and it was just incredible.
Why are we spending this show, though, talking about this?
Why is it important?
Why did we feel led to do this?
and it's not for vanity's sake, of course.
What does the audience who went there need to know?
Well, what you need to know is that this show keeps getting bigger and better with each passing year.
That's a great sign.
You're either growing or you're dying.
And we're growing, folks.
And there's no better proof of that than what went on here in the Mid-South last weekend.
Keith and I are going to talk about it for another segment or two, and then we're going to turn it over to you.
If you were there, by the way, if you're tuned in live right now and you were there, we've already got a few people lined up.
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Well, we're recapping last week's 15th anniversary celebration, and you heard a lot of the highlights in last week's three-hour live show, but that was only three hours of a full weekend, so you certainly didn't get to hear and see it all.
We were talking about just the family feel of the even something just like singing, you know, happy birthday to my son.
And he was smiling like a crocodile, you know.
And we just had a weekend to remember, and it was a full weekend.
It was a jam-packed schedule.
Kevin McDonald sent me a note after the event, and he said it was a great event.
And he had talked about how this program had established itself as an important voice in the movement, but that we had also really built up a beautiful community of supporters.
A family, really, his quote, directly.
Praise came in even before the event from people like Jared Taylor, who had written even in advance of last weekend's gathering, which he, of course, knew about.
And he was with us a couple of years prior when we had one.
And we don't do these every year, but we do them, well, when the spirit moves us, I guess.
But this was a milestone event.
It was the 15th anniversary.
Jared wrote, you have a genius for radio that would have taken you far in the mainstream.
Happy anniversary.
And it's always good to know that if we hadn't made the decision to serve our people, we could have been successful in this life.
So thank you, Jared, for that reminder.
Been the emperor of the North Pole.
But I don't remember if I said this on the program, but last week, but we had a gentleman, great guy, another monthly contributor to the show who we had the opportunity to meet.
And he was coming in from the West Coast, and he had a layover in the middle of the country.
So he was about halfway from home, halfway to where we were getting together.
And his flight got canceled, and they weren't going to be able to get him to where we were until Saturday night.
He would have missed, for all intents and purposes, the entire event.
And so he rented a car and huffed it another eight hours in bad weather just to be with us.
And that's the kind of dedication and perseverance and sacrificial nature that our audience puts towards us.
And, of course, we try to reciprocate that.
Our audience loves us and we love them back.
Now, let's see.
There was one mistake that was made last weekend, and I didn't know it.
And we should have known this because we've done these a couple of times.
We've done these live broadcasts going back years and years ago to the Council of Conservative Citizens Days.
And we know how this works.
We know how microphones work.
My God, we've been in this for 15 years.
But boy, did I ever make a blunder.
So the microphone, if you hold it up, it will pick up the background.
You can call it noise if you'd like, but it'll pick up what's going on in the background.
If you are close to the mic, it's, of course, designed to pick up the speaker's voice and drown out the background.
Well, when we did our group singing at the end of last week's live show, we sang How Great Thou Art and we sang Dixie.
And regrettably, Jack and I were on our mics.
And so it drowned out that beautiful chorus of 100 people standing and singing.
And what you heard was just me and Jack.
And let's just put it this way.
I went back and listened to it and cringed.
My ears cringed.
Jack and I are not going to be getting a record contract anytime soon, but we certainly made a joyful noise.
Amen.
Oh, James' vibrato was.
I don't know.
Maybe we caught Jack off guard with the gospel hymn.
I don't know what was going on, but it sounded so beautiful in years past when we've done these events where we hold up the mics and it picks up the strong room of people.
But last week, you couldn't hear the room, but you could hear me and Jack all too well.
Probably the two worst voices.
So that was a mistake because that's always a highlight of these live programs, these remote broadcasts that we do is to be able to have the group sing and how wonderful it is to have a group singing those great songs.
And we didn't, we were going to have to take a mulligan on that when we watched that.
But we'll get it back to that.
The singing points out what sets us apart from the herd.
We are southern.
We are advocates of the white race.
We are Christians.
And all of those things, and we are with a strong focus on the family.
So you put those four things together into the blender.
We are different from any other group that I know of that advocates for the things that we advocate for.
And of course, it's not a competition.
We're here to cheer on and to promote.
I mean, that's what we do every week is we bring on people who were doing similar work and we try to promote them and build them up and get their message out.
I mean, that's what we've made a career out of doing that.
But it is different, not better or worse, necessarily.
It depends on each person.
It's organic, basically.
It's what we are, and we can't help but express that.
And I think it comes across very well.
Apparently it does, or else we wouldn't have such a large group of devoted supporters.
Well, I, of course, selected who I wanted to speak at this event because I knew, you know, we wanted people who had been featured on the show, people who would give us a good cross-section of the different ideas and topics and issues that bring our show to life.
And we certainly had that.
But I was impressed at how many people reinforced matters of faith in the name of Jesus Christ, as at least, if not more than half the speakers did.
And you're right.
I don't want to say it reinforces our brand as if we were stage managing this thing.
We did allow it to sprout organically, and it is just who we are, and it comes out.
It oozes from our pores.
But it was great to see the speakers just so naturally fit in to their roles and how they just naturally amplified what we're all about before those there.
Sam and Kurt wouldn't have it any other way.
You know, our people at Liberty Radio that are the key to us being with you every week.
There was another speaker, Simon, of course, who made the trip from South Africa.
And he called me up the day after the event.
I guess that was last Sunday.
Or maybe it was Monday.
It's all a blur.
My life's a blur now, so it's just not a day-to-day or week-to-week thing.
My whole life's a blur and going by too quickly at this point.
But Simon called me up Sunday, Monday, whatever it was, and he said that he has attended hundreds of events and that ours exceeded his expectations by, I say every standard of measurement.
That's the way I put it.
That wasn't his exact words, but it was something to that effect.
He also, you know, Simon gave a very intense talk, and he said, you know, James, I regret the talk I gave.
I had a different talk planned, and I tossed it.
I lost it.
I just wanted to speak extemporaneously, and that's what came out.
And I said, Simon, you know, don't apologize for being passionate.
Now, yes, we were there as an anniversary celebration.
It was a lot of sugar and saccharin, and it was, you know, a good time.
And Simon's speech was more sobering than the rest of the lot.
But, you know, and a lot of people appreciated it.
And it was intense.
And I said, you don't have to say that.
Don't regret it.
I think he said he regretted giving the speech.
And I said, don't regret it.
It was full of passion, and people need to know.
I mean, we need to be there to celebrate, and we need to be encouraging.
But at the same time, we have to be aware of the realities that are going around.
We don't need to stick our head in the sand.
But I thought of him, I said, you know what, though, Simon?
I think we're going to win.
I do think we're going to win.
Well, you know, there's one speaker that said that, you know, he didn't like the negative tone of a couple of speakers.
I think you may have had me in mind and also Simon.
But, you know, Simon and I both are fathers, both have children, both think about the future of families first and foremost, because that's who we are.
And some of the critic is a person that isn't married, doesn't have children, things like that.
But basically, most of us there were people that approach it not just as an individual, but as a member of a family or the head of a family.
And that's really key.
You know, this is not theoretical.
This is real world stuff.
We are, as a race, diminishing in numbers and percentages throughout the world.
And we now see that it's not just a coincidence.
It's something that has been engineered by our enemies.
And it's not going to end well if we don't reverse this.
And we're therefore passionate about seeing it reversed.
And that is, and that's why I was so heartened by all the families and the young people at this meeting.
Apparently, our message has gotten across, and they're actually, you know, going forth, being fruitful and multiplying, which is what we need to do first and foremost to stave off the bad ending that our enemies would like to thrust upon us.
That was another thing Simon brought up.
And I want to thank Simon again, as I did on the phone last week and as I did in person for making such a long journey.
I didn't like traveling the short distance that I had to travel to get down there.
But I mean, coming from the other side of the world, and it was a good crowd, but I mean, you're traveling literally across the world to speak to 100 people, which is what we set the limit at, which is all the place would hold.
But he commented on the families, the women, the children, and the beautiful women, by the way.
Absolutely beautiful women.
And beautiful children.
That's for sure.
And handsome men if we're going to keep on going.
But in any event, and a youthful crowd, not just a bunch of old-timers.
But the old-timers I like the best.
I'll tell you what, old-timers have the wisdom.
That's why I hang out with you every week.
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We've talked a lot about the younger folks in the crowd, and rightly so.
But yeah, I have to tip my hat to the elder statesmen who were there with us last week because they're the ones who have reached a level of financial security where they can give in order to keep us alive.
And I'm talking specifically about Mr. Wonderful, who just texted us.
Thank you, Rich, and his lovely wife, Janice, who were there, who we would not be here without.
But it's more than that.
I mean, these are some of my closest friends in life.
And I don't mind saying that.
People like Buddy and Patsy and some of the people that I singled out by name in my opening remarks last weekend.
I mean, these are the people that I have perhaps grown closest to, along with some of our regular guests and our entire listening audience.
And I feel as though I have a great relationship with everyone in the audience, but obviously there are some people you correspond with a little bit more and you see a little bit more often and you talk to on the phone a little bit more.
Well, you know, there's a lot of negativity about the boomer generation, but the boomer generation was very well represented.
And they have the wisdom of years of experience now.
They've been through the battles.
They've been through the fires.
And what we do basically would be impossible without their wisdom and their input.
And it's good to see, though, that it's not, as it might have been, let's say, 15 years ago, basically a bunch of old-timers.
Excuse me.
Instead, you see young people, young families, beautiful women, virile young men.
See, and people that are obviously from the top dresser drawer, too.
They're good people in every way.
Thank you.
Keith got that phone on again.
Well, you never know.
Keith's on call.
So there you go.
He got it.
Don't worry, folks.
I got it.
It's all taken care of.
Okay.
Well, Keith's standing.
Keith Stanley.
All right, we're under control now.
We got it back under control.
Anyway, that is what a family is, right?
I mean, you have the old that leads the next generation, and then you have three, you know, we had three or four different generations there in that room.
And you need all of that to be healthy.
You need those with the experience and the life stories to help lead God and direct you.
And then the torch passes down and on and on and on, all the way down to those little babies that were there.
And by the way, speaking of them, we have a message here from a young lady who looked like a living Barbie doll.
I think we all remember her.
And her fantastic husband.
Much better than that.
She looked like an angel, is what she looked like.
And sold her baby.
And she sent me a very kind message this week.
Thank you, James, for the terrific weekend.
You made our little family reunion one we will remember forever.
It was so great meeting your lovely wife and children.
Can't wait to meet the next baby Edwards.
Thank you for your service.
Well, thank you, dear lady.
And yeah, so the story here, she mentioned the family reunion.
Well, that's what we call our gatherings.
But it was true for her in a personal sense.
So her husband, they had just had this baby.
I don't know how old the baby was, but nothing.
It was three months.
Three months.
So just a few weeks old.
And the husband had not, and of course, we know their names, and we're not going to mention their names lest they be uncovered.
But the husband, who's a great, great man, young guy, great guy.
But he had had to go away for work.
And so he had not seen his wife and infant child in a few weeks or a month or two.
And so they actually had their little family reunion.
They all met where we were at.
And that's what brought them back together as he has to work through a few things and is away for training.
And that was fantastic to know that they had to be.
You've got to be very proud of that baby and wife.
Sure.
I mean, it was just, you know, it was right out of, you could not have found a magazine cover.
I said that to her.
She sent me a couple of pictures from the event with them standing by the grand piano.
And I said, and I called her by her name.
I said, that could be on the cover of Esquire Magazine.
And that is just how handsome and beautiful and good looking.
And there's something about right-thinking people.
If you have that on your inside, in many cases, will permeate to your outward appearance.
And I hope they all take after Sam and Kurt, who, among all of our followers and our fans and our supporters, have the largest families that I know of.
And that's what we all ought to strive for, quite frankly.
Well, that's for sure.
Just, yeah, Rick Tyler has, what, like, 19 kids?
So he has more than Sam and Kurt combined.
I mean, can you imagine?
I can't believe it's combined more than well.
I think it's a tie.
They're all in double figures.
Well, no, no.
Kurt's got 11.
Sam's got eight.
Rick Tyler has 19.
Get busy, Sam.
Me and you combined have five.
So what can we say?
Yeah, I got to get going.
You're not too old.
It's like I told somebody, menopause is a misnomer.
It ought to be called womenopause because men don't have it.
So that's not your excuse now, Sam.
Menopause.
Okay, I get that.
That's a good one, Keith.
Hey, we just got, speaking of the lovely ladies that were in the crowd, how about Kim, who just said, I thought that Kirk Lyons gave a great speech.
Whoever introduced you to him must have good taste.
And certainly they do.
And that was Kim and her husband who.
Absolutely.
Of course, they have a big family, and they've been stalwarts from almost the very beginning.
And, you know, I actually met them before we started the show.
I met them at a speaking engagement in New Orleans in the spring of 2004.
So actually, some of the people who were there with us to celebrate the 15th anniversary, I have known since before our first night on the air, if you can believe it.
That's how far back some of our audience members go.
And not audience members, family members.
Yeah, and Kim's sister was there.
And of course, she's a fixture at all of our meetings like this.
And see, all of these people are just like family to us.
And, you know, that Texas crowd coming in, always, you know, we've got people that, you know, really are like family.
My home is open to them anytime they want to come through.
Well, there'll never be another political cesspool.
What we have built here is so organic, so long-tenured, especially by these movement standards.
And we'll talk a little more with Wilburn Sprayberry in the third hour about not just his personal reflections and remembrances and observances from the weekend we shared last week, he was there, but also his general take on where our cause is right now and what's working, what's not, what needs to be fixed.
But I'll tell you one thing that nobody knows about, except for me and you.
A highlight for me truly came on Monday when we did a little hangout with Jack Ryan.
So Jack stayed a day late and he took the train.
And we just spent a, we were back up in Memphis by this point and we spent a day with Jack and we went out to eat and we walked along the Mississippi River and we just had a lot of laughs and some good fellowship.
Drove all around town, had a great time.
Jack's a great guy.
See, this is what we like to do.
Whenever people come to town, we encourage them to get in touch with us and give us, you know, a chunk of time and we'll squire you around, take you out to lunch, let you understand what Memphis is all about and what the political cesspool radio show is all about.
You gave him a little history lesson on the naval battle that unfortunately we lost here in Memphis.
What did the Confederates call their Navy?
Well, the Union had ironclads.
In Memphis, in the Battle of Memphis, the South had cottonclads.
They put bales of cotton up on a steamboat, hoping that the cannon shot from the Union Navy would bounce off.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way.
But that's the way it's always been.
We have the spirit and we have the human capital, but sometimes we don't have the munitions and the actual supplies that we need to deal effectively with our enemies.
But we're working on that and we recognize the problems.
And also, we need the numbers.
That's what they're trying to do.
That's what the left is trying to do to us and every other white nation, swamp us with numbers.
Well, we're going to take care of that too.
And I was glad to see with the crowd that we had that people are taking this to heart.
I just want a cotton clad.
That'd be fun to get out there in the river and scoot around in that.
That's for sure.
Hey, by the way, folks, there was so much hustle and bustle and comings and goings and everything.
If we owe you a book, we were running a special promo at Levis last week.
If you failed to get a book or you forgot it or whatever happened, send me an email, send me a message, send me a carrier pigeon, and we'll get that in the mail to you if we owe it to you.
I know a lot of people had the chance to get it there and had Kevin McDonald sign it.
And anyway, we do have some additional autographed copies.
We'll send it to you if you left it, if you forgot it, if we failed to give it to you.
It was hard to keep everything sorted.
We did the best we could to keep things running on time and everything 100% perfect.
But if anybody was forgotten or overlooked, let us know.
We'll send you that book.
But yes, Kim is right about Kirk Lyons, a real highlight.
I love the fact that we touched on each of the pillars that bring this show to life, as I said, and some other related issues.
We talked about identity.
We talked about Kirk Lyons.
And we talked about, of course, the South.
And with Gene Andrews and Kirk Lyons, they really anchored that part of the program.
Well, Kirk is really, you know, he's a walking advertisement for what we recommend.
He's a smart man.
He went to the University of Texas, has a law degree.
He fights for things like the preservation of Confederate monuments, not just in his home state, but all over the South.
And he brought his beautiful children through here one day.
I remember taking them out to Jerry Snow Cones here in Memphis, and they were thrilled with it and gave them an idea for having a business of their own.
But, you know, this is what we need.
We need to have families like that, and we need to address the needs of the entire family, not just thoughts.
Well, folks, if you were there, you want to call in?
We'll take a couple of calls tonight.
We don't normally do it, but we do have a few people who were there that are already going to be calling in.
So we'll see what happens over the course of the next two hours as we continue to look back as we kick off the 15th year officially now going forward back to work next week.