Dec. 21, 2019 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Said the night wind to the little lamb.
Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb.
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star, dancing in the night with a tail as big as a cock, with a tail as big as a cock.
Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Do you hear what I hear ringing through the sky, shepherd boy?
Do you hear what I hear?
A song, a song high above the tree with a voice as big as the sea.
With a voice as big as the sea.
Probably my all-time favorite Christmas song, and that is my all-time favorite rendition of it, the Johnny Mathis version of Do You Hear What I Hear?
And quietly stealing the show tonight.
And what a show it's been and will continue to be is the music of the season.
Nothing like Christmas music to stir the soul and awaken that spirit.
Sam Dixon was on with us the first hour.
That will be the last hour we talk about politics before Christmas.
But there are still two hours to come.
In the third and final hour, we will have my pastor, David Rogers.
He'll be with us to share the biblical accounting of the Christmas story.
I specifically plan for that to be the last hour of programming before Christmas.
And I'm really looking forward to having Pastor on with us tonight.
But right now, I told y'all earlier, we have received a lot of Christmas cards, and we're so thankful for all of them.
The people, that so many of you in our audience would care enough about us to send us a Christmas card is really so heartwarming and a blessing.
But one stood out this week.
It was a handwritten Christmas card from Lacey Lynn, who we have been working with this year and has become a great friend of the broadcast and of us as individuals as well, a personal friend.
But along with her card were three canned items, elderberry syrup, apple butter, and Christmas jam that she canned herself.
And it even had a nice little personalized sticker on it.
And it just really made our day.
In fact, my wife was feeling a little under the weather the day it actually came in, was delivered at the post office.
She took some of that elderberry syrup.
And I tell you what, we're going to rename it Lacey's Miracle Elixir.
My wife was lifting refrigerators the next day with the help of yours truly and an appliance, Dolly.
But yes, it's true.
Anyway, Lacey, with that, I had to call you this week and invite you to come on the show to share some of that Christmas spirit because you sure you sure uplifted the Edwards household this week.
How are you tonight?
Well, I'm so glad.
I'm so glad y'all enjoyed it and she was able to feel better.
I'm doing well.
Thank you.
How are y'all?
We're doing fantastic.
Of course, for all of you who all of you should know by now that Lacey is a full-time homemaker, homeschooling mother of two, an Eagle Form member, Christian conservative activist.
She runs a YouTube channel that addresses topics like nationalism and benefits of her traditional life.
Very much in line with what we're all about here at TPC.
But no, now the time has come for us to spread Christmas cheer.
And who better to do it than those who can give us our Christmas cheer with a dose of feminine grace and elegance.
And so we have two such ladies, the first, though, Lacey, tonight.
Lacey, what are y'all doing to celebrate Christmas and get into the spirit of the season?
And what does Christmas mean to you?
Well, Christmas, as a Christian, you know, means celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
I know we can go back and forth on whether or not he was born on Christmas.
And I think it's pretty well accepted that that's not the exact date that he was born.
But definitely as a Christian, it means celebrating our Savior.
And, well, you know, I am a Texas girl through and through.
So I've actually never been much of a winter girl.
I've actually loved summer my entire life and lemonade and pool days and just mint juleps and all sorts of fun stuff, going to the blueberry farm and picking blueberries and making blueberry pies.
But, you know, this year I've actually really become quite the fall and winter girl.
And I think it has a lot to do with getting closer to the European roots and really appreciating all those traditions.
It is so funny you mentioned that, Lacey, because before I came to the studio tonight, I was on with Henrik and Lana on the Red Ice Yule stream.
And I said that.
I was their first.
Oh, were you?
Well, fantastic.
I had to get in and out.
You opened the show and I almost closed.
Well, I'll have to go back and watch.
So you're having a busy night tonight, too, making the rounds and these appearances.
But I said at the beginning of it that I love the cold in the dark.
And I love that climate.
I think it hearkens to our ancestral memory, having spent all of those centuries in Northern Europe.
If you come from where I came from, with English and Scottish descent, and it just stirs my genetic memory to be in this cold.
I love the cold.
I would like to live in an eternal winter, but I would like to be able to voluntarily take a vacation to the beach when I want to.
But these summers are pretty brutal.
So to each their own.
But I think it's interesting later in life, you've become more, and you mentioned getting more in touch with the European roots because, of course, that's the climate where our people developed.
That you now are more embracing the fall and winter weather as opposed to being a summertime girl.
Well, it might have something to do with having kids.
The summers are even more brutal after you have kids to put in the car seats.
And the metal is hot on their little tiny bodies and they just want to get outside and play.
And summers are less fun when your kids are having less fun.
But to see their eyes light up and the joy around Christmas with having kids is just, it makes it a lot more fun.
It does.
It's majestic.
There is a majesty of Christmas that really supersedes our ability to explain it.
It's just something you feel.
It's something you know.
There is something about Christmas, I think even to non-believers, that really just instills a sense of hope, does away with despair, brings people closer together.
There is something about, and of course we know what that something is.
You mentioned it just a moment ago.
I mean, what is Christmas?
It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
But there is something about this season that I think tugs on the heartstrings of those who share our faith and those who don't.
It is a very spiritual time.
I do love the weather.
I like the cold.
I like all of that.
I think I would like Christmas even if it was in the summer.
But in any event, I agree with what you're saying.
Now, that's what Christmas is.
That's what Christmas means to us.
How are you getting into that Christmas spirit?
I know you've been doing quite a bit of canning and spreading goodwill through your homemaking capabilities.
Yes, I put up a video today on my YouTube channel of canning jam.
Hold on right there.
That was just a teaser, everybody.
That was just a teaser.
Sometimes those breaks sneak up on us.
Anyway, we pose that question to Lacey, how she is getting into the Christmas spirit with her husband and her children at their home.
And we'll find out a little bit more about those videos she was just about to mention when we come back.
And more Christmas music.
Stay tuned.
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And now.
Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king.
Do you know what I know in your palace warm mighty king?
Do you know what I know?
A child, a child, shivers in the cold.
Let us bring him silver and gold.
Let us bring him silver to the people there.
Listen to what I say.
Pray for peace, people everywhere.
Listen to what I say.
The child, the child, sleeping in the night, he will bring us goodness and light.
He will bring us goodness.
One of the all-time greats.
And I don't know what year we started incorporating Christmas music into our December broadcast.
It's been quite a long while ago, but it is really something that I look forward to all year long.
Being able to do that at the top of each segment during the month of December.
And we're just having a very relaxed, informal, friendly hangout with Lacey Lynn right now in the last couple of hours before Christmas.
And talk about the songs we've had tonight so far.
Joy to the World.
Oh, come all you faithful.
Angels We Have Heard on High, Good King Winceslas.
Lacey, what are your favorite Christmas songs?
What's my favorite Christmas song?
Well, it doesn't have to be one.
It could be a handful.
Oh, geez, I don't know.
Away in a manger, probably.
I love that idea.
When I was a kid doing Christmas Eve service at church, I always loved that one.
A classic carol.
And that's not in the rotation tonight.
We should do something about that.
Anyway, we were talking with you before the break about some of the things y'all are doing in your home to settle into the spirit of the season and some of your most recent videos there at your YouTube channel.
I know you've got some new lighting equipment.
You've got a whole new setup there now.
Well, I try.
It's mainly just me knowing what to do with the lighting rather than it being new lighting.
There's some trial and error to do there.
I mean, I've been making jam, obviously, and giving those away for Christmas presents with family and friends and around the neighborhood.
Actually, we just started, well, we didn't just start, but a couple weeks ago, we started a Christmas curriculum, and it's from Gather Around Homeschool.
And the kids and I have been baking and learning songs and reading scripture every day.
And we sometimes do it by the fireplace and buy our stockings.
And we did the tree and we did the lights.
And it's just, it's been really great, actually, to do that homeschooling curriculum.
It's just like a Christmas mini unit that the kids and I do together every day.
It's really been fun.
Well, that's fantastic.
What's coming up on Lacey Lynn's YouTube channel?
Which, by the way, folks, if you want to find it, I'm sure she can give you a more direct path, but you can just go to my Twitter account at JamesEdwards TPC, link over to Lacey's account, which is there at the top of, it's pinned to my page, as it were, and you can link over to her Instagram and YouTube.
What's coming up?
What are your plans for the coming year?
Not just the coming year, the coming decade.
The dawn of a new decade is on us.
You know, I've heard so many people talk about how it's the 20s again, and just really being excited about the age of Gatsby.
Lots of normies on the internet being really excited about the flapper days.
You know, it's the 20s again.
The 20s were horrible.
And, you know, actually, it does kind of resemble the 20s again, unfortunately.
But, well, I'm taking just a couple weeks off of YouTube, and then I'll come back with even more cooking and book reviews.
I have book reviews that I want to do.
I read, too.
I cook and read.
Cook and read?
What kind of woman is this?
I think we cut out there for just a second.
You still there with us, Lacey?
All right.
Anyway, momentary technical hiccup there.
Lacey, have you followed the, just a quick and brutal transition here.
We only have a couple of minutes remaining.
I said we weren't going to talk about politics.
I probably shouldn't try to shoehorn this in here.
But Lacey's always good and a good sport, and she's always up to snuff on these types of issues.
Have you heard about the Christianity Today controversy, Lacey?
The Christianity Today.
I thought it.
Yeah.
Yes.
You know.
Well, basically, Christianity Today was a so-called Christian magazine founded by Billy Graham.
They've called for Trump to be removed for his profoundly immoral conduct.
Of course, they have failed to call out any type of pro-homosexual, pro-abortion politician.
It's pure disgusting virtue signaling.
But I think it's always fun to have people on who can reconcile, especially at Christmastime, matters of faith versus that which the church seems to be presenting to our people.
In other words, there is the faith, and then there are apostates within the church, but we still, of course, want our audience to come to know the truth that we have found, especially at Christmas time.
Yeah, I know Lacey's having a little bit of issue with her phone down there.
You know, it's all the way down in Texas, so what are you going to do?
But anyway, folks, you know, I may pose that question to Pastor when he comes here.
I don't want to really do that when he's sharing the biblical accounting of the Christians at Christmas story.
We may save that for Keith in the final show of the year.
But anyway, I want to thank Lacey for coming on tonight.
I want to thank her especially for her canned goods, a stay-at-home mom, home, trad mom, trad wife.
And she cooks, she cleans, she reads.
Learn more about her.
We, I think, had Lacey on for the first time this year.
Oh, I don't know, back in January or February, something like that.
And she's made a handful of appearances since then.
We got together for our TPC 15th anniversary conference.
She was one of our speakers back in late October down there in northern Mississippi.
And we just really have had a good time connecting with her.
She's a sweet girl.
And it's good to know that, hey, even in this, I don't want to say Godforsaken, but in this degenerate day and age, there are people out there doing the good work and being the salt of the world and keeping the embers stoked.
And she's one of them.
And that is, of course, what we like to do here at TPC is bring to you the people who we feel as though you need to know and to encourage you by letting you know that they are out there and they will be showcased.
Well, I actually just walked in right now.
My own wife is here as we go to the commercial break.
So my wife just walked in.
We're going to have Courtney from Alabama when we come back.
We might put my wife and Courtney.
We might just have a little hangout.
We'll see.
Lacey has texted me.
She just did get disconnected on her phone.
That's what was going on there.
So we'll have her back soon.
But when we come back, Courtney from Alabama.
Stay tuned!
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Well, I got a message from Courtney from Alabama earlier this week asking if we had yet played God Rest You Merry Gentleman during our Christmas assortment of songs.
And I said, no, as a matter of fact, we haven't, but it is already lined up to be played on this coming week's show.
And of course, one thing led to another.
And here she is, Courtney from Alabama.
If one thing can bring her out and onto the air, it is God Rest You Merry Gentleman, a good English traditional Christmas carol, like not unlike another one we featured in the first hour.
But no, Courtney is a good friend, longtime friend, and a pretty regular guest on the program.
Courtney, Merry Christmas.
How are you?
I'm great.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Thank you for having me on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What was it about?
I know we got a lot of stuff to talk and not a lot of time to do it.
But what was it about?
I don't even remember now, actually.
What was it about the song, that particular song?
Yeah, it's one of those songs where, as usual, my daughter is asking me to do things to help her out right now.
So I got to make sure she's squared away.
Okay, so anyways, we're okay now.
It's one of those songs that just reminds me of a better time in England.
You know, it's featured, it's featured in a lot of Dickens period movies that take place during the Charles Dickens time.
It's actually referenced in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
And if you watch a lot of movies that take place during that time period, especially Christmas movies like A Christmas Carol, you'll see Carolers singing that song.
So I traditionally think of it as, I would traditionally relate it to that time period in England, but it was actually written centuries before that in England, 15, 1600, somewhere around there.
But anyways, it just reminds you of a better time in that country.
It really does.
It does do that, as have all the songs we've been featuring tonight.
But that is a good one.
That's another one of my favorites.
So anyway, but from there, well, let me just first say, I got to work some of these in.
We've got so many, and I love a handwritten Christmas card, especially this one right here that's got all this glitter on it to make it look like sparkling snow.
That comes from Jimmy in Washington State.
Thank you for the beautiful card, Jimmy.
James, what a great name.
In Mont Vale, New Jersey, he writes, thank you.
Thank you for your, yes, we did send out Christmas cards as well.
Well, thank you, James, for receiving it.
Wishing you and the family at TPC a joyous and blessed Christmas.
Keep up the great work.
We will from a listener in San Marcos, California.
Thank you for keeping the show running, a shining beacon for the truth.
Well, thank you so much.
And he has a very nice Santa Claus card that he sent in.
He's a very generous supporter of the show.
We wouldn't be here without him.
He's a great guy.
Great Christmas cards coming in.
And I know, Courtney, you were getting yours out today as well.
Yeah, sometimes it's hard to do on time, but it's better to get them out than not at all.
Well, that's for sure.
Well, anyway, where are we going from here?
I know you said you want to talk about the five F's.
Oh, well, before we get into Christmas, I was going to say something really quick about just very, very quick.
I don't want to spend too much time on it.
The Miss America pageant.
I guess you all touched on that last week and the, you know, just the ridiculous scenario or considering, you know, who won and how she won and what they've taken out of the pageant.
The main thing I want to say is they've taken out, you know, they've taken out the swimsuit section.
They've taken out the evening gown section.
And if they're going to do that, and I'm speaking about this as a straight heterosexual female, if they're going to take all that out, they're going to have a hard time finding regular feminine, pretty, heterosexual women who are going to want to be in these pageants because we really, I mean, us women, we really enjoy being looked at by men.
I mean, that's one of the, you know, I'm sure it's one of the draws to being in these pageants.
And if you take that stuff out, I mean, what's the fun in it?
I mean, it's just the same thing.
I'm sure you can.
You know, I mean, and it's all in good taste.
I'm not supporting pornography or anything, but, you know, just swimsuit, wearing a, you know, a nice swimsuit or an evening gown.
You know, you like, women like looking pretty for men.
And that's, you know, that's a lot of the draw to being in these pageants and being pretty.
But of course, they're changing all that.
They're changing who's judging them.
And so it's not about beauty anymore, obviously.
But that's all I have to say about that.
Well, we actually did cover that very recently.
I don't remember if it was last week or the week before where you had Miss South Africa.
And like I said, when we were covering it, there were other black contestants who were far more feminine.
And, you know, this one had, you know, a shaved head and it looked androgynous.
And of course, you had any number of bombshells that didn't even play.
So, yes, I don't think beauty really factors into these beauty pageants anymore.
But anyway, nevertheless, we'll see.
I guess we should still be thankful that it was technically a woman who won it.
I think this may be, if progress continues unimpeded, as they put it, that men will start winning these beauty contests.
But anyway, we'll see where it goes.
But focusing back towards Christmas, you said you wanted to talk about the five Fs.
Now, if that is capital F according to my text message here, but that translates into film, food.
No, no, no.
Let me get it in order.
Film, fun, food, family, and faith.
Yes, exactly.
Thank you.
And before I go into that, I'm going to make one correction for myself real quick in relation to what we just talked about.
It wasn't the Miss America pageant.
You're right.
It was Miss Universe.
And I was just referring to what Miss America did for the Miss Universe pageant.
It was ridiculous, a science experiment and all that.
So anyways, enough of that onto the five F's.
But yeah, so the first one, film.
I just, you know, I wanted to touch on some things that make me excited about Christmas and everything, you know, recent things I've done with my family.
And, you know, there's some obscure films that I grew up watching that just seems like nobody else has seen sometimes, but they mean so much to me.
One of them is called Santa Claus the Movie.
There was a lot of money put into it in the 80s when you and I were like three, four, five or whatever around that time.
It came out in the mid-80s.
A lot of money was put into it.
There were some big-time actors that were in it.
But for some reason, it didn't do good in theaters, but it's become a cult classic, you know, among people in our age group.
And I grew up watching it and I still love it.
It has an excellent soundtrack.
It's very touching.
It portrays how Santa came about and the mythology behind him.
I think it's the best movie that portrays that part of it.
So if nobody has seen Santa Claus the movie, I strongly suggest it.
And I'm very curious of who in your audience knows what I'm talking about.
I would love to know that.
Don't be fooled, folks.
She's not talking about the Santa Claus with Tim Allen.
No, no, this is in the 80s.
It came out in 84, and it's called Santa Claus the Movie.
It's a very good movie.
And so there's that.
And then, okay, so the next S was fun.
So my family was in town recently, and I'm not going to go into specifics, you know, in regards to my location in Alabama or anything.
Well, everybody knows I'm kind of in the lower part of the state.
We'll leave it at that.
But every, it's just like every city, every city in Alabama has a famous gardens that you can go see, and they decorate them during Christmas.
And my family came into town recently.
We all went to the gardens.
They had them decorated for Christmas.
I'm not going to say the name of the garden or the name of the city.
I guess some people will figure it out.
But they had it all decorated for Christmas.
And I'm telling you, no matter what time of year you go to these gardens, it's just white people everywhere.
And so I encourage anybody, like, you know, if you have your own famous gardens in the city that you're in, then, you know, spend time there throughout the year.
And, you know, that's a way to only be around people like yourself mostly.
It's nice.
It was just a nice, wonderful family experience.
It really was.
Has the weather broken down there yet?
I mean, we've gotten some nice, cold winter weather here now.
You're another line of it is called.
All right, good.
You're like another step down the lines of latitude.
So anyway, we'll take a quick break.
More film, fun, food, family, and faith with Courtney as we celebrate the last hour or two before Christmas here on TPC.
We'll be right back.
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two zero five six seven two two thousand why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
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Well, of course, folks, this is our last broadcast before Christmas, and it's been a special one.
I think this is a standout show.
It started with Sam Dixon on in the first hour to talk about the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Then he and I made mention of a couple of ominous anniversaries in the history of Western civilization that take place in the month of December.
Of course, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, both took place during the months of December and years prior.
And just what a catastrophic outcome those wars had on our people and how we can recover and learn from those mistakes going forward into a brighter future.
In the third hour, my pastor will be with me to share the biblical accounting of the Christmas story in that, our final hour before Christmas.
Then we'll be back next week with Keith.
We'll have the full crew back, Keith and Jack, and we'll be looking back on the year that was, reviewing TPC's top 10 moments and much, much more in next week, our final show of the entire year.
And then we get into a brand new decade.
But this hour, you are hearing from, as Sam Dixon put it a few minutes ago, the as well as Lacey Lynn, who was with us at the top of the hour.
She had a little bit of trouble with her phone.
It actually had gone out during the commercial break in a segment prior.
It dropped off again about a minute or two before we were wrapping up with her.
She had texted some apologies afterwards, but no, no reason to do that, Lazy.
We understand it's live radio.
Things happen.
Phones die.
It's okay.
And we've got Courtney now.
So we are all good.
And we're continuing now with Courtney talking about the Christmas spirit and getting into the Christmas spirit here on the winter solstice, December the 21st.
Courtney talking with us about film, fun, food, family, and faith as it applies to Christmas.
As she mothers her children in doing radio, we wouldn't want it any other way.
Courtney, where'd we leave off?
Well, I actually have my daughter in my lap right now.
We both have a blanket on top of us, so we're kind of winding things down tonight.
But yeah, so we're kind of in the middle of fun and food right now.
You were asking me about the weather down here.
And, you know, you and I have talked before about how the South doesn't really capture the true, you know, change of seasons like what our ancestors had in Europe.
You know, and normally we associate Christmas with snow, and we really don't have traditional Christmas down here, especially on the Gulf Coast.
But we have our own type of fun down here during this time of year.
It does get cold.
We don't have snow, but it does get cold.
And something that harkens back to our European heritage that I really enjoy is when it's dark and your house is lit up by a bunch of lights, Christmas lights, just cozy lights, candles in the windows.
If you want to get real traditional there candles in the windows, and what I like is um, you know, we have the christmas decorations up during christmas and then during new year's, I have a tradition of taking down, like anything that's red and green, but keep it up white lights for new year's.
I'll, i'll take, i'll keep the christmas tree up and make it a new year's tree and just keep white lights, silver and gold on the tree for new year's.
And then, and then down here on the Gulf Coast, after new year's, we go directly into Mardi Gras season, and so that's a season of, you know cold, dark and lights too, and where I am on the Gulf Coast it's very family oriented.
It's not a trashy Mardi Gras or anything, it's very family oriented.
And where I am, and uh, where I am is actually where it started.
You know that this part of Alabama was Spanish at one time and so um, so anyways, during Mardi Gras I still have the tree up and I put a bunch of beads on it, and so it's just it's a dark time of the year where I just love light, cold and you know, amongst the dark, and um, it just, it just makes me feel good inside and um, and I think that's something that harkens back to uh, perhaps our European heritage and are now but um, i'm with you on that 110.
I I didn't put it exactly that way, but I was just talking about how this, this climate and this this the, the cold and the dark, you know, really stirs our ancestral memory.
I said something about that uh, on RED ICE, earlier tonight.
I actually had said it earlier this hour too.
I agree with you, entirely awesome, um.
And then going into the food segment, you know, I think I enjoy um, you know, down on the Gulf Coast we kind of switch things up a bit.
I, I enjoy just eating what you enjoy, what you enjoy the most at Christmas, you know, or during the holidays well, i'm not saying holidays in the liberal sense, but I mean, you know, during any holiday, whether it's Thanksgiving or Christmas, I think you should put on the table whatever you enjoy eating.
And down here in our house we that's, we like to eat a lot of seafood during this time of year and we'll have the gumbo going and um, and for Thanksgiving, this year, in addition to the turkey and ham, I had some stuffed clams on the table, and um, and it and it's, and i'm sure we're gonna have some seafood with the ham on christmas eve.
Um, it's just, I don't think it's fun to really just go with the standard.
You know stuff you're supposed to have at each meal, like the the turkey at Thanksgiving, the ham at Christmas.
I think it's fun to switch it up and just eat what you enjoy.
Um, so that's how we do things in this house.
So, and with that accent, it sounds like the party never stops down there in Alabama from Christmas to Mardi Grand, just always something going on as we continue to work our way through Courtney's Country.
Christmas with film food fun, family and faith.
Uh, we got to work through family and faith in about three minutes because we're going to run out of time.
That's fine um, with my family recently visiting um, I just think it's important to remember I I had a conversation with a baby boomer recently, you know, and my parents are baby boomers and um, and you know, before they came to visit, there was a baby boomer who I was talking to, who said, um, he's a local Southerner too, from this area, and he told me, you know, you get to an age where everybody older than you has died and um,
and you're the oldest left in your family and and it really changes lives that you know things aren't the same as when you were a kid and everything was exciting and you were the center of attention and and he said it, just it, just it kind of gets sad.
It's bittersweet because you're happy about your kids that's the most important thing in your life, obviously but then, you know, it's also sad that everybody that you're so used to and familiar with from childhood is gone, and um, and he and he and he.
When he said that to me, it just kind of made me think, well yeah, my parents irritate me.
You know, all of our parents irritate us and you know my parents are baby boomers also and you know my.
I love my parents, but when they visit, there's always certain things that irritate me, like telling me, you know how to take care of my children.
You know when i'm, when I was gonna something I was about to do anyways, like make sure they have scarves on, make sure they have their jackets on um, little things like that.
But you know what it's like I. I'm trying to learn to.
I'm trying to learn to just uh, you know to to, to just appreciate them and and and realize that you know a decade, you know they're baby boomers a decade from now.
You know they, they may start, that generation is going to start dying off and it's just important to appreciate them, you know, while they're still alive, and overlook the minor things and um, especially during this time of year and I don't have much to say about faith because you're about to have your preacher on and you know and, but I think it's a good segue, you know, I just want everybody to remember, not to sound cliche, but just remember what the reason for the season is.
And we, we remember it.
In this house, we have two major scenes.
That and my daughter has stolen one of the baby Jesus is one of the major scenes.
But that's okay, that's okay if she, if she appreciates baby Jesus that much that she wants to have him in her room and in the bathtub with her, and I mean that's, that's fine, because that's what it's all about.
That's fine.
At least she's learning about him.
And I think our dog was eating Jesus out of our meeting anyway.
No anyway no, I saved him, don't worry.
But um anyway, we've had a lot of fun uh, a lot of fun having you on Courtney, before you go, there's all kinds of fest, uh festivities going on tonight.
Another rare occurrence this evening is that uh, my wife is uh, has has stopped by for a few minutes.
She's about to be leaving to go do what you're doing and that's putting you know, attending to the kids.
But I know she wanted to say more to you.
Danny, I love you're so sweet, i'm.
You know.
That's one of the things that i'm so thankful for for the show is this i've got.
It is the sweet friendships that i've been able to have because of this show.
So Courtney, I really appreciate your friendship and merry christmas.
No I I, I love you too Danny, and I just love how much you glove on my children every time you see them.
Well, they're too sweet not to.
You could tell how much they're loved on and how sweet and cuddly they are.
Oh, thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
And your house looks great for Christmas.
I've seen the photos on Facebook and everything.
Well, I was going to get on here and talk a lot more to you, but as you could tell, I have a cold and a terrible cough.
And every time I start talking, I get to coughing.
She's going to take more of Lacey's Miracle Elderberry Elixir.
And, you know, pasta.
Sam in the first hour is laboring through the remnants of the flu.
So everybody's sick around here, but a lot of love, too.
I have been taking Lacey's elderberry syrup, and I do feel a little better.
I told you you started lifting refrigerators after that.