May 2, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
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Well, those that are the sounds of summer, ladies and gentlemen, it is May.
Summer is in the air.
The Beach Boys are playing in my car on the way to the radio station tonight.
Get out and go somewhere, Keith Alexander.
I'm trying to.
I would have been in Dallas, Texas tonight.
That brought back some good memories.
Does anybody out there remember a Honda 50?
I remember that was what all the cool kids had.
Before that, they had things like Cushman Eagles and stuff like that.
But when the Honda 50 came along, I mean, that was made for some guy, you know, with a pair of Ivy League pants and a button-down collar shirt driving with a girl with a little page boy collar blouse on all over the place.
That was the way.
That was the way that, you know, the seventh, eighth grade, that defined it back when I was coming up.
I'm James Edwards, Keith Alexander.
It's May.
I mean, what?
It's May.
You know, by my math, that's fifth month out of 12.
We're getting near halfway through this year.
How in the world?
Well, it goes by fast when you're having the kind of fun we've been having on TPC this year, having just wrapped up two special series.
Obviously, last month, Confederate History Month, our March Around the World month before last.
And we're going to get back into a variety show approach tonight for our first time in nine or ten weeks.
We're going to be catching up on a variety of topics and just sort of having a freewheeling, relaxed show.
Still a lot of great content.
We are going to have joining us this evening, the one and only Mark Weber.
Mark has appeared with us every month this year.
He is the only guest to have done so.
We love Mark, one of our favorites, the director for the Institute of Historical Review.
He's going to be back to offer insight and analysis on some of the most interesting headlines we've detected in the last couple of weeks.
Again, catching up on a lot of these stories we haven't had time to cover because of the special series now that we are into the month of May.
But let me tell you another thing we're going to catch up on tonight, Keith.
Jack is back.
Jack's back.
Jack a tag.
Well, he's not really back, but he's going to be on the radio with us tonight.
So Jack, Jack Ryan, has been a correspondent of ours here on TPC for the last couple of years, as you know, normally calling in the last segment or two of any given show to serve as our closer.
He comes in with the recommendations, book and movies and songs and things like that.
Well, Jack left to go to Africa at the end of January, and he still hasn't been able to come back.
So he's still in Africa three months later because of the shutdown.
And so anyway, he is going to set his alarm and wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning, his time.
It'll be our third hour, 8 o'clock Central tonight.
And we're going to have a full hour with Jack in the third hour.
We need to play that bumper music in Stranded in the Jungle by the cadets.
Yeah, okay.
He is these guys stranded in the jungle.
He truly is stranded over there now because of the coronavirus.
Well, we're going to get to him and we're going to find out what he's been up to.
We're going to do a full hour with Jack and see what he's been up to.
We're going to see what it's like to spend a lockdown in Africa, the people he's seen, experiences he's had.
I think that's going to be fun.
I'm looking forward to that hour.
I really am.
Well, we got some correspondence from a listener in the Pacific Northwest.
This guy, you know, there are guests out there who send in these critiques and reports and reviews of our work, and I'm so thankful for them.
And this guest is just a true friend of the program, a great supporter of our work.
And he was kind enough to offer his assessment of each of the guests we've had over the course of the past two months.
And he writes, dear James and Keith and the rest of the gang, your show presents such wonderful guests and to think that one can listen to the guests free of charge.
And that's true.
We don't hide our archives behind a paywall.
This is, we're like, what would we be?
We're like the Library of Alexandria, I guess, as far as talk radio is concerned.
Or at least the way it ought to be.
It talks about Adrian Davis having had met him before.
Adrian was on with us a couple of months ago.
He talks about smoking cigars and drinking whatever was available with Adrian.
Well, that's what it's like when you're with Adrian, let me tell you.
Dissident Mama, I like this critique.
He writes, the angels sing when a woman leaves the life of feminist socialist atheist to take on a life of non-feminist conservative Christian.
Praise be to God.
I subscribe to her newsletter.
Mark Weber, Mark's a real treasure to our cause.
The Institute for Historical Review is top drawer, as Keith's grandmother would say.
Well, we like Mark so much that, like I said, we just have him on every month now.
But he's been appearing for years.
John Friend, he talks about the American Free Press being a favorite of his.
Mike Gaddy, a man who is obviously proud of his southern heritage.
We had a great time doing Confederate History Month.
We had Easter.
You know, Easter was another thing.
It's been one special event after another on the show so far this year.
A true man of God was Brett McAtee, our friend in the Pacific Northwest writes.
Paul Angel, great to hear from the editor-in-chief of the Barnes Review, which I read every month.
So a subscriber of the Barnes Review.
Talks about Gene Andrews being a man's man, having met him at some of our events.
Sam Bushman being a marathon man, full of energy.
Tom Sunich, what an honor he says it was for us to have snagged him.
Nick Griffin, Zelchklo Glasnovich, Henrik Palmgren, Paul Fromm.
Yeah, you're right about Paul.
He is a national treasurer of Canada, even if they don't recognize it.
And he wishes me congratulations on my wife who is expecting our third.
So it has been a busy year in the Edwards home and a busy year on the radio.
And thank you.
And to everyone who sent in correspondence and feedback, the last two months have been great.
Tonight's show is going to be great.
And the rest of the year is going to be great.
It's always great when we're together, Keith.
Well, Paul Angel and the Barnes Review, I was aware of them before, but I mean, they have really piqued my interest, sparked my imagination.
I've started reading their stuff.
They are absolutely, you know, the top dresser drawer, as our listener said.
He says that you say that.
Well, I say that, and I say that about a lot of our guests, but none is it more appropriate to than Paul Angel and the Barnes Review people.
They are an invaluable resource.
And they write history that otherwise wouldn't be written, and every bit of it is absolutely true.
You know, I just had an epiphany.
I think yesterday or the day before, talking about all the fun we've had this year, we had the Valentine's Day show, the Ladies' Night Show.
We've had, of course, the two special series in March and April, respectively.
I was thinking, you know, something we might do later on this year is pair up.
a couple of our favorite guests together.
So maybe we pair up a Mark Weber with a Sam Dixon or we pair up a Michael Hill with a David Duke and we do some dual interviews.
You know, that's something we've never really had before.
It's always me or me and you with a featured guest, but maybe we start doing a big roundtable.
I'll think about it.
I'll think about how it might flow.
But I'll tell you what, no matter what, folks, no matter what month of the year, we're always going to give you our very best effort every single show.
And with the announcements and the opening banner out of the way, we're going to come back and we're going to get down to brass tacks.
We've got a lot to talk about tonight.
A lot of catching up to do on the news of the day.
Now that we have the extra time, we'll be right back.
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That's it,
folks.
This is the time of the year.
I always break out the Beach Boys CD, and I had that particular Diddy playing on full blast in my car earlier, and I was screaming it at the windshield, Keith.
Look, it brings back, it's a cultural nugget.
I remember the seventh and eighth grade.
I remember a kid named Ken Heberling and his girlfriend, Barbie Beaman, and she was on the back, and he was driving that Honda 50, nifty, thrifty Honda 50, they called it back then.
And I mean, it revolutionized these small motorcycles for guys.
See, before then, you have something that would spray out a lot of oil and grease, like a Cushman Eagle or a Duke Haddy or something like this.
But I mean, that Honda 50 was made for the early 60s and that beach culture that the Beach Boys sang about.
Well, like I said, I've had some appearances canceled.
I was supposed to be in Dallas to do a little event with Jason Kuna and Lacey Lynn, a private event that a supporter was putting on.
We would have been down there this weekend, Keith.
But of course, everything to date has been canceled now.
Everything on our calendar for July 1st onward is still booked.
So if you're scheduled to see me later this summer, all of that is to law systems go.
We'll continue to monitor, as the president says, the situation.
But we have no plans to cancel anything dated July 1st and onward that's on the books for our supporters.
But we have had to cancel, rather not us, but some of the events we were going to be appearing at have been canceled, including one I was really looking forward to tonight in Dallas.
But we'll get them put back on the calendar, so don't worry about that.
But of course, a couple of family vacations have been canceled as well.
I am trying like hell to get down to Southwest Florida to go to a beach, you know, because it's Beach Boys weather.
But we'll get down there as well soon.
My wife needs, you know, a pregnancy vacation.
We're trying to get out of here.
And you need goofing off time.
That's right.
I mean, you got to have balance in life.
Am I right?
Well, let's get down to work.
Enough monkey shines.
Saw an article by a new voice out there, Jack Antonio.
Jack Antonio.
And he is in the UK.
Obviously an expat.
But anyway, he writes about Britain's coronavirus hysteria.
Now, let me read this very short entry, Keith, and then we'll toss it over to you for commentary.
This is what a resident of the UK wrote.
We picked up on this, and here's his observations.
As I sit typing, my neighbors are out in the street banging pots and pans, cheering, whistling, blowing horns, and setting off fireworks.
They are waving to each other across the street and across garden fences.
Some are weeping.
All are bathing in an orgy of self-congratulatory virtue signaling.
In Britain, Thursday nights at 8 p.m. have become a national circle jerk, a corona pitch fest.
It's a mass public display of lockstep sentimentality as we give thanks to the selfless saints who work in the national health system.
I'm reminded of the North Koreans who must cry copious tears on demand before the tomb of their fallen great leader or else.
Meanwhile, in Britain, at a time of supposedly unprecedented crisis, our monarch has never seemed so insignificant.
For in Britain, corona rules, not Elizabeth.
Saccharin citizens have put thank-you notes on garbage cans to cheer our noble trashmen.
Little kids have attached finger-painted rainbows to those same garbage cans.
And those scamps have pasted rainbows to the front windows of their houses to lift the spirits of our indomitable postmen, if you can find one.
Worse, there have been regular street sing-alongs to such favorites as You'll Never Walk Alone and Please Shoot Me, Imagine.
All sung while maintaining social distance, of course.
Social media is then flooded with gushing declarations about how moving the songs were, followed by the usual teenage girl emojis being posted, in fact, by post-menopausal women.
Actually, the corona mania has transformed the population of Britain into squealing, tearful, prepubescent girls.
It's a new version of Beatlemania.
And this is the men.
Long gone are the British stiff upper lip and motto, keep calm and carry on.
British media has become one big broadcast moan of dependency, vulnerability, and entitlement.
Every radio call-in show and TV chat show is now, can you top this contest of corona victimhood?
Readers of a certain age will remember the 1950s U.S. TV show Queen for a Day, in which pathetic women competed for prizes with their tales of misery.
Audience applause decided if the gal who had lost a leg to cancer was more miserable than the one who had lost a husband to the bottle.
So I guess it makes sense that a country already used to being ruled by a monarch should embrace the idea of national misery contests to decide which lucky citizen is to be crowned king or queen corona.
Meanwhile, and this is the last he writes, the latest UK government figures reveal that corona kills at the negligible rate of about 0.11, as was predicted by honest doctors months ago.
And it's been confirmed that the official UK death toll of 20,000 includes those who died with, but not necessarily from, Corona.
Can you say massive exaggeration, boys and girls?
But facts be damned, the wailing and gnashing of British teeth proceeds unabated.
In this panic demic, the Brits are determined to run to their rooms, throw themselves on their bed, and have a good cry.
It's pathetic.
It's what happened to the once stiff upper-lipped English singing about garbage man.
The only song I remember about garbage men from my childhood going over to England was a ditty called My Old Man's Dustman.
A Dustman was like a garbage man over there.
It was something that people sang in pubs and whatnot back then.
But, you know, England has totally gone off the edge.
But on the other hand, I really can't say much for the Americans.
I was telling you about this.
But you've got to tell this story.
All right, tell the story.
Now, you have an English mother, a war bride, who, how old is she?
She is 93.
God bless her.
But tell the story.
Well, she was a fireman back in the days of the Blitz, okay?
But now I can't see her and no other.
Because she's in an assisted living.
Yeah, assisted living.
And of course, they're the most vulnerable segment of the population.
So you can't do that.
I got a phone call on Thursday morning that at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning, I got the call maybe about 9 o'clock.
They were going to have a parade of cars and all of the inmates of the retirement home were going to be out on the sidewalk.
And we were supposed to make the biggest fools of ourselves that we could, you know, festoon up your car and all this and act like a gibbering idiot.
So I got there about 11.25.
I couldn't figure, I couldn't work it in any sooner.
Drove by there.
And I mean, all of the staff, particularly the young women, they were just trying to ramp you up into a frenzy of frivolity as you went by there.
I stopped, waved to my mother, talked with her as best I could.
But the whole spectacle was really, it was a lot of people.
All right, so you're saying that they had all of the residents.
All of the residents of the assist this, I don't want to say nursing home.
We'll call it the assisted living facility.
I think that's the politically correct way.
Retirement home.
Right, retiring home.
All the residents were out on display on the sidewalk, and the children or loved ones of the resident could drive by them and wave and honk their horn as if it were some sort of a parade.
Yeah, and you know, if you really wanted to get in the spirit of it, you'd be an overweight man wearing a speedo with body pain all over you.
Well, didn't you say some of the people who were driving by in this parade, some of the other cars who were driving by to wave at their loved ones because they can't get in to visit them, it's locked down.
Didn't you say they were like their cars were festooned as if they were a parade float?
Yeah, right.
And they were making complete and utter fools of themselves.
And that apparently is the new standard of behavior for adults in the new corona world we live in today.
A couple of other related topics, and then we got to get on to other things.
We got a lot of catching up to do at the two fantastic special series.
We're getting back to the news and current events and topics.
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And welcome back, everybody.
Keith was to be featured heavily in this segment.
Unfortunately, he went to the green room and he still hasn't returned yet.
Should I yell for him?
Or should I just wait?
Keith Rock!
He'll be back here in a second.
Well, anyway, we've got a few of you.
There he comes.
Okay.
So, Mark Weber, don't forget Mark Weber in the second hour.
Then we're going to go all the way to Africa live in the third hour.
Jack's back in the third hour, our longtime correspondent back in the third hour.
Thanks for coming back, Keith.
Stranded in the jungle with Jack.
Okay.
Well, anyway, listen, we've got to go very, very, very quickly.
We've got a lot to cover in one segment.
We've got a special caller, a surprise caller in the fourth segment.
So let's go as quickly as we can.
I believe I read that now between 30 and 40 million people are now unemployed as a result of the United States coronavirus response.
30 to 40 million.
And it looks like the prescription is more cowbell for these people.
They need more cowbell.
What is, see, this is where the cure is actually worse than the disease.
I mean, that's exactly what has happened with this coronavirus.
There's nothing in terms of the health consequences or the death rate that compares with all of these people losing their livelihoods.
I mean, this is a major league depression that is looming right on the horizon.
And it's all because of this snowflake reaction to a, you know, a not very deadly epidemic.
Well, you got tens of millions of workers that are unemployed and perhaps unemployed from jobs that will never come back.
This is a sizable percentage of the overall workforce because you got to understand, you're talking about 40 million people out of work and growing.
Well, 300 million people in the country, but a lot of them are retired.
A lot of them are, you know, aged 16 or under.
They're not working yet.
So, I mean, 40 million people is a very substantial, over a quarter of the entire workforce out of work.
Now, another thing that's been happening, Keith, they're gassing chickens.
Have you heard about this?
They're gassing chickens and aborting pigs because the supply chain is breaking down.
Now, we're concerned about that.
We're all concerned about not being able to feed our children.
But Alex Jones has come up with a very unique workaround.
This is Alex Jones earlier this week on his program.
I don't know why.
It must be serendipity.
I listened to this too when it was happening.
Could not believe it.
Well, because he's actually aired on the same station we're aired on here in Memphis.
So they play him on the same station that airs us on Saturday nights.
Well, anyway, Alex Jones in this clip is talking about the people who have led us into this morass and what he'll do if he can't feed his daughters.
Let's take a quick listen.
I'm starting to think about having to eat my neighbors.
You think I like sizing up my neighbor?
How I'm going to haul him up by a chain and chop his ass up?
I'll do it.
But I'm literally looking at my neighbors now and going, I'm ready to hang them up and gut them and skin them and chop them up.
You know what?
I'm ready.
My daughters aren't starving to death.
I'll eat my neighbors.
But my babies come into the equation.
I will cook your ass up so fast and I'll tell them, oh, I killed a cow out back, baby.
Here it is because my babies ain't going to die for your crap, your failure.
I will eat your leftist ass like corn on the cob.
I'm ready.
I'll barbecue your ass flat.
I will eat you.
I'll drink your blood.
You understand that?
I will hang your ass up and cut you into cutlets like a filet mignon and grill your ass before I watch my daughters starve to death.
Let me tell you something right now.
I swear to God, if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to get my hands around your throat.
Keith, I'll tell you, it's an honor to broadcast this program on some of the same AM stations that air Alex Jr.
And we're considered to be more extreme than him.
Well, I'll tell you what.
This is the wildest thing I've ever heard.
I really, I don't think.
No, I can top it.
I can top it.
Although, that's probably the wildest thing I've ever heard on radio.
That's the most provocative thing next to Jerry Lewis saying that whenever he took a transcontinental air flight, he wanted to know when he's traveling over Mississippi so he could be sure to use the bathroom.
Well, no, I think that beats that.
That triggered me out of that background.
Well, that makes you mad.
But I laughed harder at that than I think I've laughed at any when I first heard it.
I'm still laughing at it.
I laugh at it now.
I've given a bunch of leftists taking it seriously, too.
Well, I laughed when I heard that for the first time a couple of days ago.
I laughed about as hard as I've ever laughed at anything I've ever heard on the radio.
But anyways, but here's another one.
And I'll stop me if you've heard this.
Transitioning from coronavirus, well, this is, I guess, related to coronavirus.
Pope Francis, listen to this.
This is tanned Pope.
This is not satire.
I repeat, not satire.
Pope Francis has released Vatican funds to bail out transsexual prostitutes in Rome who are struggling to pay their rent now that they can't turn tricks due to the economic downturn.
This is the Pope of the Catholic Church giving money to transsexual prostitutes because they can't pay their bills because their business is dried up.
This is what happens when you confuse Christianity with liberalism.
Didn't you say that the Nazi Pope wanted to have his throne back, Ratzinger?
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
And I want him to get it.
Is he really trying to, you know, I think he's been triggered by this Pope.
He says, you know, I thought I was on my last legs.
I said, but, you know, I got a lot more righteousness left in me than this wild man that we've got in there now.
Imagine the guy that is promoting transsexual prostitutes.
What a dude, man.
I'll tell you what.
You talk about the bad popes.
The Borgia popes didn't hold a candle to this guy.
I'm a fan of the Borgias, but anyway, no, we need more men like Cesare Borgia.
Rod Raymond women.
Ain't that the truth?
Especially as she's portrayed in the HBO series The Borgias with Jeremy Irons, who is one of my all-time favorite actors, a classical English actor.
Well, there's one more thing that actually made the news this week.
Now, 30 or 40 years ago, Keith, this would have rocked America to its core.
And it came out this week, and nobody said anything about it.
The Pentagon is releasing reports saying, yeah, there are UFOs out there.
We've seen UFOs.
And here's some video for the Pope you came off of one.
Alex, join in with it.
Well, you know, so could you imagine back in the 60s if an official government agency would have said, yeah, I mean, there's UFOs out there, and here's one for you to look at.
Well, that happened this week.
Now, whatever they were actually showing, I guess, is up for debate.
But, you know, they call it, they, in their own terminology, call it a UFO.
But everybody's more concerned, I guess, about the next TikTok video or whatever they're doing to be concerned.
I mean, it barely even made a blip.
It could not break through the coronavirus forcefield, the Pentagon saying that they have been in contact with UFOs.
And the Pope was on one of them.
Anderson Cooper had a son.
The gay CNN anchor.
Yeah, so how did that work?
Well, you know, don't ask questions and we won't tell you any lies.
Elon Musk says stay-at-home orders are fascist.
So I like stay-at-home orders now.
Why is it something like this?
Why is it always called fascist instead of communist?
Because fascist is right-wing and communist is left-wing.
And of course, the left can do no wrong.
What else is going on?
Well, there was a Fox anchor, a local Fox anchor out in the West who, you know, we always talk about the media speaking with a single voice, and there's never any dissent on any matter of any importance.
Well, why do all the anchors and reporters speak with one voice and always follow the sanction narrative on any given issue?
Because those who swim with the tide are singled out and shamed like this woman was.
Her name is Carrie Lake, and she's in, I believe, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California.
This was reported on Buck Owens country.
And she was reporting on these doctors that keep getting banned on YouTube for challenging the official coronavirus narrative.
And man, she was shamed in the national press.
So this is one local anchor who said, you know, maybe you need to take a look at these doctors.
I think they're onto something.
And she was shamed nationally.
So that, again, that is why you never have any differing of opinion on any matter of any importance on all of these networks, all of these local affiliates, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox.
They're all speaking with one voice, whether it's your local feed or the national feed, because if you get out of line, you're done.
And not only are you done, you're going to be nationally shamed and embarrassed as this Carrie Lake.
You're going to be unemployed.
You will be unable to be employed anywhere in the mainstream media.
Yeah, you'll be like Sean Bergen coming on talking with us for free.
Thank you, Sean, for doing that, by the way.
You're great.
But we have long passed the point of absurdity with this coronavirus thing.
Look at this right here.
What do you see, Keith?
Tell them what you see.
It looks like a dog with a mask on.
Well, it is a dog with a mask on because the CDC said now that dogs and cats need to practice social distancing.
This is an official CDC guideline, and now parents, you know, contest to see who can come up with the most politically correct dog.
Oh, it's just too much.
Yeah, those doctors, by the way, all doctors and nurses must adhere to the official narrative, too.
And those who speak a differing opinion are going to get the white nationalist treatment by the controlled press.
Those doctors out there are going to be Dr. Mangalo.
Doctors, man, they can't even get a hearing on YouTube.
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I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.
The press has created a rigged system.
They even want to try and rig the election.
Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.
And poisoned the mind of so many of our voters.
At the polling booth, where so many cities are corrupt and voter fraud is all too common.
And then they say, oh, there's no voter fraud in our country.
I come from Chicago.
So, I want to be honest.
It's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past.
Sometimes Democrats have to.
You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction.
There's no voter fraud.
You start whining before the game's even over.
Whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
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I'm coming my way to North Carolina.
Staring up the road, and pray to God I see it lights.
I made it down the coast in 17 hours.
Picking me over canned dog with flowers.
And I'm hoping variety I can see my favorite tonight.
So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel.
Rock me, mama, anyway you feel.
Hey, mama, rock me.
I had given a talk at a council of conservative citizens event in Nashville some years ago and went to this bar across the street after the fact that night.
And that group actually walked in, the old Crow Medicine Show.
I mean, it was just a dive bar, barely even had a stage.
And they certainly weren't scheduled to play there, but they walked in and got on the stage and sang that song for us.
Nice little southern song.
It obviously made an impression on you.
Well, it has a little southern twang to it, which is why I'm playing it in this particular segment.
We are, of course, just one week removed and on the heels of our Confederate History Month series.
And we made mention of this last week, but a longtime listener of ours in Colorado wrote, I've been enjoying, as always, your Confederate History Month series.
It is my favorite part of the year on TPC outside of your December shows with the Christmas music.
And I humbly submit that if you would ever like to have me on in the future to talk about the Confederacy, the Civil War, et cetera, and what it means to me, I'd be honored.
I consider myself a spiritual southerner, if not a literal one.
This comes from Brandon out in Colorado, and Brandon has written it.
No, that's absolutely right.
This guy's been great.
He's a supporter, a good guy, been listening to us for years, and it's our first time to have him on the show.
But Brandon, we thank you for the correspondence, and it's great to have you on tonight.
And look forward to talking to you.
Big gentleman.
Good evening.
All right.
We hear you fine.
All right.
Yeah, well, good to be on the program.
I really appreciate you having me on.
Well, no problem.
It's the least we could do.
I wish it could be longer for just this segment, but yeah, let's get into it.
So you were born out in the mountain west, but this is something that you said is our Confederate History Month series every April, one of the highlights of your listening year as a longtime listener of the program.
So tell us what it means.
I know you've spent some time in the South and actually come out here to do some southern tourism of some of the battlefields and monuments and such.
Yeah, that's correct.
I, despite my government school upbringing, developed a great love for the South.
I think it's a venerable and beautiful civilization with a long history.
And I just think it exemplifies the classical European culture on this continent.
And I just have great respect for everything Southern.
And it pains me to see the history and the patrimony of it being under attack and torn down today.
And I just, it's hard for me to understand in the name of a social justice jihad how you're going to tear down an entire civilization as rich as the South.
Because when I stand on some of these battlefields, I mean, It's like being in Europe, you know, and being in the presence of a venerable ancient, you know, historical event.
You know, you imagine Julius Caesar or the Napoleonic Wars or something.
When I stand on the battlefield of Shiloh or something of that nature in Virginia, and I look up at these monuments, you know, on Monument Avenue and I see General Lee or Stonewall Jackson, it's just you can't help but feel like you're in the presence of great men and heroic men and men that should be looked up to and emulated and not torn down.
So that's largely the short of it for me.
Well, Brandon, I tell you, it's just truly an honor.
First of all, to be able to talk to you after having, again, the years of correspondence and we haven't had the opportunity to meet, but this is our first time to talk and it just so happens to be live on the air.
But I tell you, I really appreciated what you say.
Keith, what does it mean to you to hear a listener from the Rocky Mountain area saying this about our history and our ancestors?
Because, I mean, it really is his too in a way.
I mean, we're all one family, but he just didn't have the opportunity of being born here.
And we could have very easily been born somewhere else too.
It doesn't change the way we think.
Well, it shows that it's more than just something you're born with.
This veneration of the South and the values of Southern civilization.
Thinking people are always coming around to rediscovering it.
Let me tell you that it is really interesting in this day and time that Confederate monuments are coming down, but we need to focus on where they're coming down.
They're coming down in urban areas that have gone black.
And, you know, we can't make it any plainer and blunter than that.
That's what's happening.
On the other hand, these monuments are now being shipped off to rural southern areas that are still predominantly white.
And that's what's happening, for example, with Nathan Bedford Forest's wonderful equestrian statue.
And that's where we are going to preserve this society and culture.
Meanwhile, the cities, any city that has taken down Confederate monuments is a city that is going into the toilet.
Okay, that's exactly, you know, that's the biggest marker of that.
When you have New Orleans or Memphis taking down Confederate statues, that lets you know that that city is in a heap of trouble and civilization is dying.
The lamp of knowledge and civilization is gone.
Well, in those big cities like that, obviously the demographics has changed, so the culture has changed and the heroes have changed and everything has changed.
But I'm glad you mentioned Nathan Bedford Forest because, Brandon, if you don't mind sharing this story with the audience, and I hope you don't mind me asking, but I know this from our behind-the-scenes communications.
You visited the Mid-South, Tennessee, not too long ago, and you actually had a private meeting with one of our regularly featured guests during Confederate History Month, Gene Andrews.
Can you tell us what happened with that?
Because I don't even know the full details of that one.
Yeah, that was actually one of the highlights of my trip.
We were down there, and Gene is a real gracious guy.
I mean, he's easy to talk to, and you know, we just got that quintessential southern charm, and we just bonded real quick.
And we knew a lot, we'd read a lot of the same books, and we knew a lot of the same stuff.
And he gave me a gave my wife and I a private tour of the property, and we just got to learn a whole lot about it.
And it was just, you know, it was a really hot day.
It was like a hundred and well, a little over a hundred that day, and it was really hot, but it was such a great day because I'd been down to a few other landmarks that same day.
But that was, you know, Ripa Villa in Spring Hill and Carnton Plantation up in Franklin.
I've been there the same day, but I have to say, seeing Gene down there was the highlight of That day, just really a gracious guy, took a lot of his time to explain everything and learned a lot about Forrest and the upbringing he had.
It was a very hard-scrabble frontier upbringing.
And I'm just in awe of men like that that grew up in such a, you know, it's the antithesis of the way we grew up today, you know, very soft and a consumerist society.
Forrest was not a garly man.
I didn't know.
Actually, Brandon, I was about to ask you, I didn't know if you were describing Forrest or Gene Andrews.
Am I right that you actually took your honeymoon to see some Confederate monuments?
So people always say, you know, one of the reasons we got to get rid of these Confederate honeymoons, these Confederate monuments is that it just doesn't bring in tourism.
Nobody wants to come see this stuff.
You actually spent your honeymoon to see this stuff.
Am I right?
Yeah, yeah.
We went out to Virginia and spent some time there.
It was during a hurricane, though, and so we like lost the whole day of our trip.
We got stranded in Charlotte, North Carolina for overnight, but we finally made it up to Lexington, Virginia.
We saw all the stuff there.
Stonewall Jackson's grave, the VMI, Stonewall Jackson's graveyard.
That's right.
Beautiful, yeah.
Yeah, so it was a beautiful trip.
Drove out to Appomattox and through the mountains there.
And then we went to Nashville for a week, but not a week, a couple days.
But we didn't get to see everything on that trip.
So that's why we keep taking these trips, you know, coming back and seeing more.
Just so great.
I tell people all the time, it's not just people in the South that appreciate what we do here when we honor these Southern heroes.
There's people all over the country, all over the world.
Brandon in the Rocky Mountains tonight.
So great to have him.
Keith, we're about to run out of time, but very quickly.
Well, Brandon, if you want to learn more about the true history of the South, then I suggest that you get in touch with the Barnes Review and get a copy of their excellent publication, Defending Dixie.
That is really the ultimate source, and you will get all of the alternative history, which tends to be the true history about the Civil War, the run-up to it, and Reconstruction and Jim Crow and everything else that's subsequent to it.
It's very necessary to have a corrective and thank heavens for the Barnes Review providing us with that scarcest of commodities, the historical truth about the South.
And of course, Paul Angel, editor of the Barnes Review, was one of our guests last month during Confederate History Month as well.
We had so many great guests.
But I'll tell you, I bet Brandon could match wits with us any day about it from what I hear.
Brandon, we have just seconds remaining.
A final word from you to the audience.
And thanks again so much for calling in tonight.
Well, James, I appreciate it.
Keith, as always, I appreciate your show, and thank you for having me on.
And maybe if I ever get out to Memphis, we can meet in person.
That'd be wonderful.
I'd definitely be an honor.
We're looking forward to it.
Thank you.
Anytime, Brandon.
Well, thanks so much.
Stay in touch, my friend.
Thanks for all the support and the gracious correspondence over the years.
And we look forward to talking to you again soon.
And please give our very best to your wife as well.
I sure will.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brandon out in the Rocky Mountains calling in tonight.
And when we come back, our featured guest of the evening, Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Reviews, he's going to be offering insight and analysis on some of the interesting stories we've picked up that we haven't had time yet to cover.