April 11, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, in the commercial break, Keith Alexander called the play, and he said he wanted something brass and fast.
That's what Sam Dishman served up.
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Well, the good news is there's still two weeks to come in our area.
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Two weeks to come in TPC's annual Confederate History Month coverage.
We're not yet halfway through it.
We will be after tonight, still two weeks, and we've got some great guests coming up.
We've got some great guests tonight, including John Friend, an independent journalist, an editor, a podcast host, and a critical thinker, openly dealing with the most taboo topics of our time.
He has been a regular reporter for the American Free Press, America's last real newspaper for the past seven years.
He also contributes to the Barnes Review, which, of course, just last week, we had Paul Angel, the editor of the Barnes Review, on the program to kick off our Confederate History Month coverage.
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John Friend maintains his own personal website, the RealistReport.com, the RealistReport.com, which features an extensive archive of podcasts he has hosted over the years.
And you can follow him on Twitter as I do, and as you should too, at Realist Report.
John, great to have you tonight.
Yes, sir.
Thank you guys for inviting me on the program.
I appreciate it.
Long overdue.
I've been following your radio program for a number of years, and you guys do great work.
So thank you so much for inviting me.
And likewise to you.
Well, it's absolutely likewise to you, John.
Of course, we've been reading your articles for years.
I know we've talked before, and it's been a long overdue invitation, hopefully the first of many, many, many to come.
But for the sake of this appearance, let's talk about some of your articles covering the attack on Southern monuments and memorials.
And then we'll go from there into a broader discussion on the ongoing war against white Southern history.
But this is your Bailey Week.
This is something that you have covered amongst you.
You cover a wide variety of issues, but this is one of the many issues you've covered, the attack on Southern monuments and memorials.
Why do they hate Southern history and white Southerners so much?
Well, it's part of a, in my opinion, it's really part of a broader attack on white European Western civilization in general.
And I think, I mean, I think that the South, I'm not from the South.
I have traveled through the South, have some friends in the South, and it's a very unique, like kind of distinct aspect of the American experience.
And I think there is a concerted effort to stamp that out.
And we've seen that over the years.
And really what kind of started it for me, I mean, back in, I think it was 2015 in the summer of 2015 was The alleged attack in Charleston, South Carolina by Dylan Stormroof, which was this major media spectacle.
And to be honest with you guys, I have a lot of questions about the official narrative explaining that alleged shooting in Charleston, South Carolina at a black church.
But that's really what kind of prompted a lot of the investigations I've been doing into this all-out assault on Southern history.
And I wrote a piece for the Barnes Review back in September, October 2017.
Well, it was published in the September 20, I'm sorry, September, October 2017 edition of the Barnes Review that kind of highlighted this assault specifically and what led to the removal of the Confederate flag and a number of Confederate monuments.
And it was really just a, you know, a broader assault on Southern history in general.
And I think that is really sort of the goal of the global power elite is to stamp out any sort of unique and authentic racial and national and ethnic and even religious identity amongst people.
And, you know, again, the South has been a, you know, a they've maintained that unique identity.
And, you know, we've seen this assault ever since then.
Well, John, it's kind of like a Quentin Tarantino movie.
A Quentin Tarantino movie is always a manual on how to kill white people.
And basically, he's got two groups that he really goes after.
One are Nazis, the other are Southern whites.
In this latest movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he has construed the Manson family to be a bunch of Southern hillbillies, and that's why he goes after them.
But, you know, Southerners are low-hanging fruit.
We're the only people that have monuments.
There aren't any monuments to Nazis, as far as I can tell, anywhere in Germany or whatnot.
So that's out of play.
But they're going to get the Confederates out first.
Then they're going to get the Southerners who were not Confederates but were slave owners, like Jefferson and Washington and others like that.
But it's basically a divide and conquer strategy similar to the civil rights movement.
What they're doing is their ultimate goal is all white Gentiles.
All white Gentiles are going to be cast into the basket of deplorables, and anything that celebrates them is going to be trodden underfoot as much as possible.
All the way up to John Wayne and beyond.
As we've seen, he's come under a very similar attack.
The John Wayne statue in California, no different than the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, et cetera, John.
Yeah, no, that's exactly right.
And you know what?
I remember specifically, very, very distinctly, right after this whole incident in Charleston, South Carolina, in the New York Times, Morris Deeds and Richard Cohen, who have now, you know, like these, you know, the disgraced former leaders of the Southern Poverty Law Center, they've since either been fired or have resigned from the organization, which is really just an anti-white hate organization.
They penned an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that white supremacy, white supremacists, should be viewed as the next target in the global war on terrorism.
Now, they don't hate all white people, John, just white Gentiles, okay?
You're splitting hairs now, Keith.
We're calling, okay.
I know where you're going with that.
You know what it is?
You know what it is?
Is they basically view any white person that has any sort of like healthy racial consciousness as like a white supremacist.
You know, I mean, I'm certainly no white supremacist.
Just recognize that I myself am white and I care about our history and our people.
And, you know, you try to say that openly, publicly, and you're denounced immediately as like some sort of supremacist.
There's so many double standards in play in society today.
It's just outrageous.
It's okay to be white mean, apparently.
What in the world could be objectionable about saying it's okay to be white?
But that is apparently a trigger or a red flag in the eyes of the left.
Oh, yeah, I know.
It's totally outrageous and totally unacceptable.
That's the thing.
I mean, we've got to put our foot down and just stand up to this non-gun.
Hold on right there.
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If you're asking yourself, after 16 years, how many versions of Dixie we have in our arsenal, the answer is plenty.
But for the purpose of tonight's show, we wanted to go back to Keith's childhood, the early 1900s, the early 1900s, and get these versions in tonight.
But anyway, no, back to John.
You know, John, so much of who we are is determined by genetic predisposition.
And I am so proud to have descended from fighting men.
And I posted on my Twitter account, the grave of my great-great-great-grandfather in Corinth, Mississippi.
He was one of just many in my line who fought to defend his home and his family during the war, Lincoln's War.
And John, by the way, if you can look at our website, look for Tuesday, The Littlest Rebel, that's a picture of me at six years old with a Confederate hat and a Confederate flag waving in back of my father's 52 Studebiker.
Well, that was what you were doing at seven.
I can tell you what my family was doing 158 years ago this week.
Picking cotton.
It's a privilege to descend from heroes, and I'll never apologize for that honor.
No, of course, but they did pick cotton.
That's not a joke.
I mean, my own grandparents, forget my Confederate answers, my own grandparents picked cotton.
That's what you did.
They were sharecroppers.
But anyway, no, 158 years ago this week, my ancestors were fighting at the Battle of Shiloh.
And in a rootless society, it is so precious.
What a precious gift to have a sense of one's own place in the flow of history.
Southern men should always be proud of their ancestors and be proud of their sacrifice.
And John Friend, my grandfather was in Shiloh, too, at that same time.
Well, and here we are now, their descendants still fighting together to this day.
John, back to you.
Go.
Yeah, you know, I'm almost jealous because at least you guys still have a very authentic, real Southern identity.
Most white Americans in other parts of the country and even in the South, you know, we are the only people that do not really have a distinct, healthy racial identity.
All the other minorities are encouraged to have a positive and pro-them basically outlook on everything, essentially, except for whites.
That's white supremacy and racism and all this other nonsense.
So it's a blessing that you guys still carry on in that healthy southern tradition.
Well, everybody has it.
It's just whether they will have the courage to assert it.
All you have to do is go to ancestry.com or something like that and find out who your relatives were.
You know, what surprises me is there are so many people of all races and of any locality that have no idea where their grandparents are buried, much less their great-grandparents.
Well, you know, this is for us in the South, John.
You know, for decent sons and daughters of the South, this is a huge part of our identity.
It's something that I am so proud of.
I mean, I say it.
I say it every year.
I believe it every day.
I believe that I won the genetic lottery having descended from these men.
And to have that blood in my veins, I mean, that is a treasure.
Look, every year, I take my sons around to the various ancestral graves in the Memphis area and show them where their ancestors were buried.
And I would recommend everybody do it.
You've got to make it real for them, folks.
Well, this goes back to the purpose of having John on.
And by the way, read his articles as we do in the American Free Press, the RealistReport.com, at RealistReport on Twitter.
John talks about not just these issues, but so much more.
So much more.
You should be following his work.
And John, we're going to have you back on regularly.
But you're talking about tonight the attacks on southern monuments and memorials and heroes as a broader entry point for the ongoing war against all whites.
And of course, we've seen that.
We've seen that.
The Confederacy, an easy target for them.
But from there, they go to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson all the way to John Wayne and to any white man.
Yeah, I mean, really, that's what it's going to be down to.
Yeah, it's basically any white person with any sort of common sense and any sort of racial consciousness.
I mean, that's essentially what it boils down to.
And of course, this does not apply to any other group of people.
It's strictly white people in a country that our ancestors founded and built and developed.
That's what's so outrageous about it is, you know, America is a country with a very unique, distinct identity.
I mean, you know, there's different regions and different parts of the country.
The South in particular is a very distinct, you know, region or, you know, ethnic identity, I think you could say.
But it's part of the broader American experience.
And yet it is highly demonized as some sort of evil.
There would be no America if there were not for white Gentiles.
If it were not for white Gentiles.
This continent would be a large wildlife preserve at best and a bad, threatening wilderness at worst.
Absolutely.
We would not have the amazing cities we see all across the country, the amazing infrastructure and technological advancements we've seen over the past 300 years of our history.
I mean, we could go on and on with it.
But I mean, really, what's going on is really history itself, like our collective historical narrative has been entirely weaponized against white people.
I mean, frankly, that is exactly what's going on.
And that's what's been going on for decades now.
And it applies to Southern history.
It applies to World War II history, certainly.
It applies to American history more broadly and any other number of topics we could talk about.
But that's basically what's going on.
And it's up to independent journalists and radio programs like this and the Barnes Review, for example, and American Free Press to set the record straight and to bring history into accord with the facts, which is exactly what the Barnes Review, you know, that's our mission, basically.
And, you know, that's what it's going to take.
You know, I mean, you know, there's more and more people that see just how dishonest and how just insulting the mainstream mass media really is.
But I think it's going to take a little bit more for people to understand just truly how dishonest the whole narrative is about everything, really.
And again, it's driven by Jewish power and influence.
You know, if it were not for that wealthy, intelligent group of people, they could never have dominated the media and dominated the news sources the way that they do.
And that's what we're dealing with, that domination.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, and it's true.
And, you know, it's really, you know, it's kind of a bummer to say that because people really don't want to hear that.
But at the end of the day, that's the truth.
That's the simple truth.
That's what this all boils down to.
Look, it's not my fault that the Jews control the media and put out these narratives.
It is what it is, you know.
And people get mad when you say that.
But it's like, look, man, I'm not making this up.
You can go look it up.
Well, look, you know, John, they brag about it in their own publications.
They brag about it.
And we're anti-Semitic for agreeing with them.
I mean, that's what it boils down to.
They say it.
That's exactly right.
Yep.
Well, it's like my grandfather used to say, John, he always told me, don't be afraid to call a spade a dirty shovel.
And that's what, you know, that's what we're dealing with here.
You've got to be able to tell people the truth about the source of this.
Otherwise, it makes no sense.
Absolutely.
It makes no sense.
John, we have seconds remaining.
Last word to you, TheRealistReport.com.
Well, there's the music.
Thank you very much for inviting me on.
I appreciate it.
We'll do this again.
And you guys, please do keep up the good work.
You guys are awesome.
I appreciate it.
And back at you, my friend.
Back at you, back at you, and twice as much.
And we'll have you back.
We have you back for a full hour.
John Friend, everybody.
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I don't know why that one was so loud, but we'll scratch that one off the list.
We've got a lot of versions of Dixie.
Whoa, I think that was the one Keith.
Sam said Keith wanted it.
He got it.
We'll play it every break.
That actually is the old Miss band playing Dixie.
Wow, that cleaned my ears out.
I don't know what was up with that, but it still sounded good.
It's a little loud.
But we'll, hey, all right.
Well, let's get with our next guest, a man who has been appearing on our Confederate History Month series for several years now.
A man who has been appearing on this show going all the way back to our inception, Michael Gaddy.
Michael Gaddy is an Army veteran of Vietnam, Grenada, Beirut.
He is a columnist who served as one of the founding members of the original Minuteman Project and also someone who is proud of his Confederate heritage.
I had the opportunity to interview Mike on several occasions back in the spring, the early spring of 2005.
And boy, those were the days, were they not, Mike?
Oh, they were great, James.
Along with Joe McCutcheon, we got to know Mike and Joe and their families.
And Mike came to our studio in Memphis and we did an in-person interview.
And he's been a fast friend ever since.
And it's great to have him back tonight.
Happy Confederate History Month, Mike.
Oh, thank you.
Same to you, James.
Well, let's get down to it.
First, let's cover your article.
Now, I like to bring this up every April because it's just one of those articles that should be brought back to the attention of the audience every year.
You wrote about your own personal Confederate heritage, your ancestors, ancestors who fought throughout the war, then walked home countless miles back after they were released from the POW camps after they were released.
This is an amazing legacy, and you wrote about it years ago, talking about it's not their flag, it's ours, our Confederate flag, our history, our ancestors.
It's not for sale.
It's not for leverage.
We will not kowtow to those who want us to abandon our ancestors, our family, our symbols.
Go, Mike.
Amen.
Thanks, James.
Yeah, that is so true.
I was inspired to write that about two relatives with the 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg.
And one of them, there's no official record to indicate, but I think one of them died after the battle on the 1st of July.
He was shown as being wounded with the 26th North Carolina, which was during the two days, 1st and the 3rd, the 26th North Carolina lost almost 80% of their entire regiment.
And he was listed as one of the wounded on the first and never shows up on the records after then.
And he doesn't show up as returning home.
So I think that possibly he was put into a grave or somewhere at Gettysburg.
Pardon me.
Gettysburg.
I mean, what a day.
I mean, Gettysburg, we were talking about the victory with Paul Angel last week at Chancellorsville, which, of course, set up Lee's advancement into the north at Gettysburg, talking about earlier tonight, you know, a battle that my ancestors participated in at Shiloh.
They say the South never smiled again after Shiloh.
What does it mean to you, Mike, in the current year to remember these people?
Well, to me, James, it's everything.
I've got a presentation that I've done at sons of Confederate Veterans groups.
I've done it on several occasions.
I usually end up making some people uncomfortable.
I make them angry.
But I start off my presentation by putting up at least five empty chairs near the podium.
And I start off that program by introducing to the group my five, whichever five I pick out of 27.
I introduce the people to them, telling them their unit, their days of service, and whether they survived the war or not.
And then I tell the people that I promised all of my ancestors many years ago that I will never do anything to dishonor or discredit their service or to discredit their sacrifice of what they did.
And to the best of my knowledge, I won't allow anyone else to discredit them either.
And we live in a time now, James, as you well know.
We have a nation of cowards.
We've got people, when you won't stand up for your own heritage, when you won't stand up for your own people, you really are nothing.
And that really touches me deep down inside to think about when I look at these.
I've got one relative fought with the 16th North Carolina, joined the 16th North Carolina with three of these brothers, and within two months saw a 17-year-old brother die at Manassas or near Manassas.
So it, you know, I can't even imagine the dedication and the spirit that these men had and what they were willing to do and what they left at home to go do this.
And then to think that someone today can find a way to discount that service, to discount that commitment.
No wonder our country's in the shape it's in.
Well, we're celebrating Easter, of course, this weekend as well, Mike.
And it really goes back to honoring your father and your mother.
Any man who won't honor his father is no man at all to me.
I mean, to me, as a southerner, as someone who had family and identity and faith ingrained in them from the cradle, if you won't honor your ancestors, what kind of a man are you?
And you wrote, Mike, one of the most beautiful love letters to the South, to your ancestors.
We're going to repost it.
We post it every year.
For many years now, we posted it.
We're going to post it again this week at thepoliticalaccessible.org, talking about it being our flag, our heroes, our ancestors.
And we're not going to be told how they can or cannot be honored.
And I love how you get so personal in it with the details about who these people were and how they're related to you.
And the world would be a better place.
The South, which is my foremost concern, would be a better place if everyone still remembered that.
Well, James, I tell you what, I consider myself very, very, very lucky.
I had a grandfather who lived into his 100th year, and he spent much of his last years with me.
As a matter of fact, he died in the house with me.
And he would tell me, because he was born in 1883, so he grew up with many of our Confederate ancestors, with his ancestors and mine.
He grew up talking with these men, and they would tell him when he was a young guy.
They would tell him about their experiences, and they told him about their war, the war, and they told him about Reconstruction and what it was like.
And he was able to relate those stories.
So I got them secondhand, but they were pretty direct.
And he would tell me those stories and tell me about his experiences.
And he would tell me about the character of these men.
And it was just, you know, when I would see his eyes and see his composure, when he would start talking about these men at a young age, James, that touched me.
And it touched me quite a bit.
And that meant a lot to me because I felt like I knew him because it was that close.
Well, you know, Mike, I mean, I didn't have a relationship like that with someone who was born just a few years after the war, but just knowing, I mean, it was passed down to me how important it was that we came from this line.
And thinking about Shiloh, I mean, could you imagine?
I had an ancestor who was a private in a cavalry that rode into Shiloh.
And you look around at your contemporaries today who are so scared, so afraid to be called the R-word, to be called anything less than a model American by a controlled media that hates them.
And I look and I'm descended from a man who fought.
You know, a man who risked life and limb to defend his home and his hearth and his family and his land and his farm.
Oh, I will never dishonor that heritage.
And neither will Mike Gaddy, my good friend and yours.
Boy, it gives me chills to talk to a man like Mike Gaddy.
We'll be back with him.
We got him for another segment right after this.
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Wow, that was a good one.
That wasn't as loud as the last one.
The last one was Keith's, that was Keith's call.
And boy.
Anyway, well, it still sounded good.
It was just a little loud.
But I love any version of Dixie.
Any version of Dixie will make my, will give me chills.
That's what it does.
It's my national anthem.
I will stand and put my hand over my heart for that song anytime you play it, any version you play it.
But let's go back to Mike Gaddy, the columnist, the teacher, the political activist.
You know, we first, I mentioned it a moment ago, we first came to know Mike back in the early months of 2005.
I want to tell you how long we've known Mike.
Let me put it in this context.
He called into the show every month from the border as he was one of the original founding members along with Joe McCutcheon and so many other great patriots of the Minuteman Project.
You remember the Minuteman Project?
We were just cutting our teeth back in 04-05.
That was our first year on the air.
He was calling in to the show.
We were on five nights a week then from a payphone.
We've known Mike Gaddy so long.
Payphones were still a thing.
Mike, do you feel old yet?
Oh, I feel old, especially after hearing you give that description, James.
Well, that wasn't the intention, but it just goes to show.
Oh, I know.
Good friends, good friends stick together.
And I am proud we've known each other that long.
Oh, me too.
I tell you what, and I'm so proud of what you've done with this show, James.
And you and I talked by email not too awfully long ago about the archives of those shows.
And unfortunately, we couldn't find them.
And then I don't know if I told you or not, but I found several CDs that you sent me back in 2005 of many of those shows.
Be happy to copy them and send them back to you if you'd like.
I would love for you to do that if you have the time, because that's the thing.
I mean, back then, that was before we joined the Liberty News Radio Network.
So a different provider was servicing our archives.
So some of those very, very, very early shows back when we first came into being in 04-05 may have been lost to antiquity.
But thank God you have them, Mike.
So yes, I would love to have those.
You and Joe McCutcheon are two of the very finest men I have met as a result of my work.
And anytime I have the opportunity to talk to either of you, you on the air, Joe on the air, Joe through email, whatever, it's a good day for me.
So please do.
Let's get in touch after the show and let's talk about that.
But let's go back to your column here.
Now, you've written for so many outlets, including LewRockwell.com.
We're talking about the article.
It's not your flag, it's ours.
And You write in it, those who hate this flag, meaning the Confederate flag, and seek to ban it, do so because in their hearts and in their minds, they will never, ever be equal to the challenges of those who fought and died for it.
It's not your flag.
Leave it to hell alone.
Wow.
Glad I wrote that.
Just gave me a cold shoe.
Yeah, I'll appropriate it, Mike, if you don't remember, but no, you did write it.
Yeah, that I remember.
I remember the emotion when I put that article together.
And believe it or not, I actually had some crazy woman call me up one time and ask me to apologize for that article.
I bet you didn't give it to her.
She got it, but it wasn't an apology.
Well, here's another thing I like in one of your taglines.
You write that you're constantly trying to understand why the great majority of people in this country are content to being slaves to an unconstitutional criminal government, a government that is systematically trying to destroy the intent of the founders of this nation and the culture that brought liberty and freedom.
Well, I think that is even more evident on the day that we speak today, James.
Well, it grows more and more evident every year.
Now, I remember going back last year, the year before, the year before that.
We've talked about different aspects of Southern history.
The great American Indian, General Stan Waddy.
Now, wasn't he the last Confederate general to leave the field?
Yes, and he gave up his forces right near our friend Joe McCutcheon.
And just let me say, you mentioned a minute ago to mention my name in the same sentence with Joe McCutcheon is an honor indeed, sir.
One of the greatest gentlemen I've ever known at any level in any place.
But yes, Stan Waddy gave up just a little bit south of Fort Smith near the Arkansas River.
Well, there you have it.
And I mean, you know, a great hero.
I wish he, you know, it's interesting, isn't it, Mike, that, and you're so right about Joe.
My wife and I have broken bread with Joe and his wife, his lovely wife, on many occasions, not nearly enough.
And the stories that man can tell.
I mean, what a great guy.
We're talking now in a language that the general audience can't understand.
I mean, of course, many people listening to this show will remember Joe McCutcheon's previous appearances going back many, many years, but they don't know him as we do.
Just a great guy.
And that is the greatest thing that I have ever received from my 16 years now.
16 years, if you can believe it, Mike, hosting this program is the men that I have met.
And I count you and Joe among them as being something that has just been a delight.
But in any event, no, you don't hear about Stan Waddy mentioned as any of the great American Indian heroes, do you?
No, you don't.
And if you really get deep into the study of the American Indians, I don't call them Native Americans because I had a very close friend of mine who was an American Indian one time.
He told me he hated that name.
He said, you're a Native American.
He said, I'm an American Indian.
So he and he and I had gotten into the studies of this quite a bit.
And there was a tribe in Georgia, and I wish I would have made some notes thinking about talking about the Indians, because this tribe was almost completely, all of their males were almost all killed in the war.
And it almost...
Who do they fight for?
The Confederacy.
There you go.
So, and they were almost totally wiped out.
And so, yes, and, you know, and Thomas's Legion, you know, gosh, I could talk about Thomas's Legion for two days.
It was just incredible.
And especially the wonderful story about, I forgot what Indiana unit they were fighting in the Cumberland Gap.
And Chief Junaluska's son was killed.
And so they became incensed, and they charged the lines.
And after they'd killed the soldiers from the Indiana unit, they scalped them home.
And so they got back to Howard the next day, and Howard says, oh, you got to take those scalps back, man.
We can't do this.
And so in a burlap bag, or as a toe sack, as we called it when I grew up, they carried the scalps back and put them on the ground under a flag of truce.
And then one of the Cherokee Indians just kicked it over towards him and told him he wasn't going to touch it.
Some of those stories are just so fantastic.
Well, you never have the opportunity.
We never have the opportunity in a month of commercial radio, a month equals four or five shows, depending on how the Saturdays fall in any given month in any given year.
You never have the time to fully cover the heroes, the stories, everything that went into the Confederate States of America.
We do the best we can with the time we've got.
But Mike, with two minutes remaining, remind everyone listening this evening, first of all, how they can stay in touch with your work and what you're up to, but also why it is so important, even as the years roll on and with every year that the calendar flips to, we're a year removed from the Confederate States.
Why is it important that we always remember?
Well, the Confederacy is the heart of America.
It's my heart.
And my website is www.rebelmadman.com.
And also I have another website now called embracingtheobious.com.
Rebel Madman, that Rebel Madman, though, really covers it.
I mean, that's a hell of a name.
I'm jealous of that name.
Well, I will count you as an associate in that name, sir.
Please do.
James, I really can't tell you how honored I am just to be included on your Confederate History Month.
And it just really makes me very, very proud that you consider to invite me back year after year.
Well, I promise you this, Mike, as long as we do it, as long as God wills us to be on the air, as many Aprils as there are to come in our run, you will be with us.
That and then some.
Thank you, James.
Thank you so much.
That means a lot to me.
Well, you mean a lot to us, and I know you mean a lot to our audience, and I appreciate everything you've written.
I appreciate everything you've done.
I appreciate your stand with the Minutemen.
And, you know, we're talking with you tonight, of course, about Southern culture.
Southern heroes, our shared ancestry.
But, of course, you deal with contemporary topics too, illegal immigration and everything under the sun.
You take a righteous stand on it.
We salute you, Mike Gatty.
We'll talk to you again very soon.
Love you, brother.
Take care, buddy.
Love you too.
We'll be back with Pastor Brett McAtee next.
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