May 16, 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.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Well, one of the themes tonight, ladies and gentlemen, is remembering those who blazed the trail for the rest of us to follow.
And in the last hour, we did that with Tim Murdoch, as we recalled the life and legacy of Bob Whitaker, a former Reagan appointee who impacted the lives of both Tim and yours truly.
Now, though, we go back to Mike Gaddy, who was recently with us, as recently as last month's Confederate History Month series.
Mike is an Army veteran of Vietnam, Grenada, and Beirut.
He is a columnist who served as one of the founding members of the original Minuteman Project, and that is where he first became known to us.
He returns this hour to remember yet another man who blazed a trail for us.
We talked about Bob last hour, who had, of course, been called home a couple of years ago.
But this hour with Mike, we remember a man who is still very much alive and still very much an impactful figure in the lives of those who knew him or know him.
Mike, how are you?
I'm doing well, James.
Hope you are.
Well, I always am always made better when we have the opportunity to talk with one another, especially here on the radio.
So for those longtime listeners who remember, and we did make mention of the fact just last month when you appeared with us during Confederate History Month, that we first started collaborating together back in the very early days of this radio program, back in the spring of 2005.
Now, we had just been on the air a couple of months by that time, going on the air in October of 04 for the first time.
You, though, were calling in every night from the front lines of the border there with the original Minuteman Project.
Jim Gilchrist, Chris Simcox, you, Joe McCutcheon.
Joe McCutcheon is who we're here to talk about tonight, and why is that?
Well, James, he's just a special kind of guy.
He's always the same.
He's always the same durable American.
He has stood for the same things for 50 plus years, probably longer than that.
But he doesn't waver.
He's what I call a true blue all-weather patriot.
And those are just rare as hen's teeth in today's era, as you well know.
I, well, we'll get to the personal stories and anecdotes in the next segment, how we met and that moment at the trading post there on the border when you first crossed paths with Joe on the way to call into our show from a payphone.
Payphones were still around.
It makes you happy you lived this long.
You can remember when payphones were still a thing.
They're gone now, but thank God they were there in 05 because without them, we would not have known Mike Gaddy and Joe McCudge.
I can remember the first time you and Joe, Mike, came to Memphis, and you said in our studio, what an incredible night.
And it paved the way for a long-lasting friendship.
But you had written a column entitled, What is a Conservative?
Would you mind sharing that with us?
And if we can't get to it all, we'll stop and then we'll resume it in the next segment.
But if you don't mind.
All right, buddy.
Just let me know at any point you need me to slow down or what have you.
But true, what I wrote was called What is a Conservative?
And I will read that.
For most of my adult life, I have heard people refer to themselves as conservative.
I have had a real hard time reconciling in my mind what that actually means.
Some folks I've known who consider themselves conservatives were nothing but political whores hiding behind some professed idealism in order to feather their own nest using whatever political connections they could establish to exploit their fellow man.
Others who preach right-wing fanaticism are nothing less than born-again fascists.
All they are lacking is a funny little mustache.
War is the answer, forget the question.
Then there were the liberals who saw a swing of political power to the right during the Reagan years and used it to bring tenants of the welfare warfare state to the political right, masquerading as compassionate conservatism.
Standing in front of the trading post in Palominas, Arizona, several years ago, I met a true conservative, a man who practices real conservatism every day of his life.
Joe is an American from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.
He cares deeply about America, freedom, and liberty.
Joe sees being a conservative as a way of life, not a political persuasion.
He stands firm in defense of freedom and sees that to preserve freedom, government must always be minimized.
He understands the natural laws mentioned by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and that those laws existed long before the very idea of government.
He also understands these rights do not depend on government for their moral authority.
He understands that a true conservative takes responsibility for his own life, and that means some folks will succeed while others fail, and the great majority just muddle by.
He knows that cosmic justice or social justice does not exist on the human plane, and that any effort by government to implement either is simply government attempting to become a deity, taking from those who produce to give to those who believe they are entitled to that which belongs to others.
He knows that men are essentially selfish creatures and given half a chance will threaten the freedom of others.
He understands the true function of government is to protect the rights of all, not take from some to idealistically level the playing field.
To do otherwise is to violate the reason for the very existence of government.
He understands a true conservative sees no legitimate reason to take the freedom of anyone who operates within the concept of the rule of law, especially under some delusional belief that security can be guaranteed by doing so.
He understands that man does not control the laws of the universe and that security is nothing but an illusion and cannot be purchased with money or freedom.
Joe understands the base instincts of those who actively seek dominion and control over the lives and property of others.
He knows they very seldom, if ever, have the morals and integrity to avoid the temptation to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
They are just not wired that way.
He knows when you place a weasel in a hen house, the weasel will do what weasels do.
He will eat chickens.
Joe also knows the lesser of two weevils will only eat fewer chickens until he perfects his skills or learns from bigger weasels how to eat all the chickens.
Weasels that don't eat chickens usually starve.
Joe knows the person who would best serve the interest of others is the person who would be the most reluctant to involve themselves in the process because they only desire to be left alone to succeed or fail on their own.
Joe wears the scars of criticism from the socialist left and the fake rights as a badge of honor.
His efforts toward individual freedom and a government that operates within its intended purpose draws the slings, arrows, lies, and slurs of Marxist socialists, neocons, and rhinos everywhere in our society.
The lesson Joe provides to all who are engaged in the battle for liberty is: if you are not the victim of verbal assaults, character assassinations, and outright lies, you aren't fighting hard enough.
Was Joe born to fight these battles?
There's considerable evidence which indicates he was a true son of the South.
Joe inherited the unbridled love of liberty of Jefferson, the personal character of Lee, the boldness of Jackson, and the tenacity of Fark.
Hold on right there.
Hold on right there.
We have nearly gotten to the conclusion of the column that Mike Gatty had written in honor of his friend and mine, Joe McCutcheon.
And we'll get to the conclusion and why we decided to spend the half hour bringing it to your attention tonight on the program when we come back.
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In this day and age, it's so easy to fall in line with the what have you done for me lately mentality.
But that's not the way real men do it.
Real men remember their friends.
I can remember like you, Mike, those Minutemen days.
I wasn't there on the border as you and Joe McCutcheon were, but I remember those call-ins.
And I remember the in-studio appearances not long after that.
I can remember not long after that, sitting down with my wife, even before we had children, having a steak dinner with Joe and his beautiful wife and some speaking appearances we shared together.
You can't make old friends, can you, Mike?
No, absolutely not, James.
And Joe is just that special kind of character.
Would you like me to finish those last two paragraphs?
Okay.
Possibly Joe's greatest attribute is he is so focused on his goals for his country, he does not see in himself the characteristics mentioned above.
Joe loves his country and his native South with a passion most will never understand.
He sees them both as deserving of loyalty and that dedication and not instruments to use for his own enrichment and glory.
General George S. Patton is said to have commented that with a company of Citadel grads, he could win a battle, and with a division of BMI grads, he could win a war.
If we had 100 men like Joe, we could turn this country around.
And that finishes that article.
Well, it was a fantastic tribute, and it is the, I guess, cornerstone of the appearance that you're having this evening, Mike, with us to remember Joe McCutcheon and not remember him.
He is still alive and well.
Thank God.
But you don't always have to remember your friends and your trailblazers after they're gone.
Sometimes it is appropriate, perhaps even more so, to do it while they are still with us.
And Joe is one of those guys.
And, you know, you and I both know behind the scenes Joe McCutcheon stories that perhaps we can't share on the air.
But this is a guy that, like Bob Whitaker, who we were remembering in the last hour, a Reagan administration appointee who could have had a very comfortable life in mainstream conservatism if he had wanted it, if it weren't for those pesky principles of duty and honor and, you know, and for his kinsman, sacrifice for his kinsmen.
Well, Joe's one of those guys.
I mean, Joe, Joe's contact reached to the very highest of pinnacles.
But, you know, he never betrayed us.
And it's a guy like that that I will always salute.
Mike?
Well, Joe is just special.
And having known him for these past 15 years has just been a true, true pleasure being able to sit and talk with him over the last three years that I've been in Arkansas,
to be able to sit and talk with him on many occasions and to truly understand and to look into those eyes that just burn passion of freedom and America and what this country was intended to be and how he has never.
What could we do with a thousand Joe McCutchins?
Oh my goodness.
That would be, if we had five in each state, which would only be 250, just no telling what we could do, James, the things we could accomplish.
The thing that he has that you can't instill in people is that passion.
And the absolute never say die, I won't quit.
And this is what I stand for.
And if you don't like it, tough.
And to me, that's what made this country.
That reminds me of Jefferson.
Like I said in the article, it reminds me of Patrick Henry at the Virginia Ratification Conventions.
He was going to stand on his principles regardless.
And Joe has always done that.
Well, it certainly has.
And other people have as well.
I mean, people we feature every week on this program.
And God bless them all.
I am so thankful for the friends that I have, regardless of, you know, societal strata.
But, you know, Joe was a guy who could have punched his ticket.
And we know that.
I know that.
You know that.
And he certainly did very well in life.
And good for him for doing so.
But he never betrayed the principles and convictions and his friends.
And for a guy who had opportunity who did that, you know, that's a guy I can relate to.
I know, Mike, that's a guy you can relate to.
And with only two or three minutes remaining, let's go back to the very beginning and let's go back to that Minuteman project.
Now, people in the early 2000s, the mid-2000s will remember that.
That was the big story of that time in this particular America First movement of ours.
But you and Joe were there on day one.
And you mentioned it in your column in your tribute to Joe, your written tribute to Joe, having passed him on the way to call into this very broadcast way back in the spring of 05.
Go back to that moment in time, Mike.
Well, I was walking out of the Palominas trading post, and as you mentioned earlier, I had a cell phone back then, believe it or not, but there was no reception on the border.
And so I had to go to the payphone outside the Palominas Trading Post to call in.
And we had a prescribed time each day that I would call in and we would discuss the events of the day.
And I was walking out the walkway and Joe stopped me and he said, Hey, you're Mike Gatty, right?
And I said, Yes, sir.
And he said, Well, I'm Joe McCutcheon introduced himself, and we talked for a while.
And then I kind of had to hurry.
As a matter of fact, I broke off the conversation because I was running out of time and needed to get there to call you.
But that was the beginning.
And later on, you know, I got to meet Barbara.
I talked with her quite a bit and the fantastic work she did there as well.
And then afterwards, we began to see several things happening within the movement.
And Joe and I stayed in stay in stayed in contact.
We stayed in contact by email or telephone, and we visited each other.
I would come to Arkansas.
He would come to Colorado.
It just became that special kind of friendship, James, much like the friendship I have with you.
And it was just one of those things that, as the song says, you can't make old friends.
And that just was something very, very special.
And still is for me.
Still a very special friendship.
Well, it certainly still is, my friend.
And it's important to remember not just one another, but each other, those of us outside of just the two that are speaking tonight, remember our friends.
Mike, just seconds remaining.
Why did we do this segment tonight?
Why did we spend the last 30 minutes doing this?
Tell us.
Because no one in my mind has been more of an inspiration for freedom and liberty than Joe McCutcheon.
And it's important.
I can't thank you enough, James, for allowing us to have this 30 minutes to have this tribute for Joe McCutcheon.
Thank you.
I think it's important.
And no, thank you for suggesting it and for bringing it to my attention.
I couldn't jump on it quickly enough.
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Well, welcome back, everybody, to the last half hour of tonight's live broadcast, the broadcast for May the 16th.
Great first hour with Keith Alexander lamenting the Brown versus Board of Education decision, which was passed 66 years ago.
Tomorrow, 1954, what a great country this must have been to have lived.
That was the year of birth of my father, by the way, who was here with me tonight.
I'm on vacation.
I am sticking it to the nanny state by bringing my family on vacation, and we're having a great time.
And we are not at 100% full strength tonight because we're not in the home studio.
So there's a little bit of hiccup and some garble and some static in my headset.
But I may not be able to give you the best, but I'll give you what I can give you tonight and for the rest of the program.
But we have with us now for the last half hour our good friend, our very own Courtney from Alabama, who last appeared with us on the Ladies Night Show for Valentine's Day back in February.
We had Janice back with us for an Encore appearance last week.
Now Courtney follows her.
Courtney, how are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
How are you doing?
I am doing good.
I might not be able to hear everything you say.
The connection from afar to the studio has become a little glitchy here the last few minutes.
So if ever you don't, I don't respond to you, just keep on talking.
But I can hear you fine for now.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'll tell you something interesting first, or it might not be that interesting.
I don't know.
But I like to, sometimes I like to make lasagna from scratch.
And I made it tonight.
We have guests in town.
And I was thinking, you know, at these meetings, these conferences, whether it's Ambert or your party, one of the wonderful things about these meetings is you get to meet people from all over the country.
A very diverse group of white people.
And I've met a lot of people from New York of Italian-American descent.
And one thing that we as Southerners are, you know, we have some shortcomings in some departments.
And one is cooking pasta.
And I was looking at the directions.
I'm like, what does al dente mean, you know, for the lasagna noodles?
And I was just thinking about, you know, some of the friends I've met at your parties.
There's a very nice Italian-American gentleman from New York that's always at your parties.
And I was like, I know the one.
Maybe he could give me advice on what L dente means.
But I think it came out okay.
So anyways, enough of that.
Well, we'll let him judge.
If you could please preserve a piece and we'll put it in Ziploc bag and we'll send it up.
And we'll let a native New Yorker taste the Southern fare of lasagna.
Definitely.
Yeah, I'll say this.
The noodles were, they were still yellow and they didn't taste good when they were L dente.
According to what I thought was L dente, they were still.
Well, you're having family over.
I'm on vacation, so it's a celebratory night tonight, and we'll get through it the best we can.
And again, I apologize for whatever reason, just in the last few minutes, this has flared up again.
I can hear most of what you're saying, but not all.
But I know you have a full outline tonight, and you can easily carry the next segment and a half without my participation.
But remind the audience why you're coming back on tonight and some of the topics you want to address.
Okay, you gave me some good feedback after the ladies' night show.
You said you had a lot of fans who really enjoyed the show.
And I thought of all the stuff I couldn't get to.
I mean, it's such a fascinating topic.
You know, there was just so much I didn't get to last time.
And I know that I know that a lot of the men in your audience, they love getting a female perspective on this topic.
And so, you know, that's the only reason why I want to talk about it.
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
I know it's a touchy topic for a lot of people, sensitive topic, but I don't ever come on here to try to lecture or ridicule anybody.
I hope, you know, I just want to walk away knowing I helped somebody.
And I know a lot of men are very interested in, you know, how women think.
And so that's what I'd like to help with.
Well, let's get to it.
I know it is always a novelty to have a female perspective on this particular show.
And as I said last week with Janice, you know, we talk about a lot of different topics, but there are the topics we talk about with ladies that everyone can relate to, and that is relationships and the male-female dynamic.
And that's what you're here to talk about.
Yeah, yes, yes.
And I know, I know a lot of men love to hear, I think it's an important perspective here.
They love hearing, you know, women talk, you know, about what women are thinking, and hopefully it'll help them.
So, you know, one thing I talked about briefly last time that I wanted to touch on a little bit, women in the workplace.
You know, another issue related to that, you know, where a lot, you know, a lot of people don't think about how it all starts a lot of times.
When you go to my parents' generation and the generation before, it seemed like parents started having, you know, a lot of disposable income to send their kids to college.
And there was this craze where, oh, we don't just send our boys to college, let's send our girls too.
And so they would save money for all their children starting from when they were infants.
And, you know, and I grew up in a house like this.
And all of us, our parents had, you know, had saved money for us to go to school.
So by the time we were 18, we couldn't say, no, we're not going when our parents had saved all that money for us to go.
And so I think most women who go to college now, that's the situation they're in.
Parents save for them, and they can't really say no when they're 18.
And then, once they get to college, they feel like you know they have to do the best they can at school, be all they can be, and then be all the way that they can be at their careers so that they're not, you know, they feel guilt for wasting their parents' money.
It's really sad, it's a really sad situation.
So, I think part of the root of the problem is we need to get rid of this idea that everybody has to go to college.
And I'm starting to see that college is becoming less popular than it was.
I think as times get worse, I think that trade schools are going to become more popular, and hopefully, we'll start seeing more traditional gender roles with it.
So, that's what I'm hoping for.
That's really all I wanted to touch on in relation to women in the workplace that I didn't get to last time.
And gosh, I'm moving a lot faster than I thought I would.
If you wanted to say anything, Ken, I don't know.
Well, you're a veteran at this.
Do you know how quickly these segments go?
You've been appearing with us for years and years, and you've got a good sense for the pacing.
Now, tonight, though, I have to remind you, I am hearing most of this.
The audience is doing all of this, but broadcasting from afar, it's a long story why we did that.
We were thinking about taping a show, which we very rarely do, very rarely, but there was so much pump faking with regard to whether or not we'd even be allowed to come on this particular family vacation.
And then at the last minute, we were, and we did.
And so, we're broadcasting from afar, and it has somewhat affected our ability to hear our guests.
But hopefully, it has not impacted you and the listening audience.
But, Courtney, you're doing great.
Keep on, and I'll let you know the break is coming up soon.
And then you'll have one last segment to get into the rest of the topic.
Great.
Yes, you know, something I didn't get to talk about last time.
A lot of the women talked about what they're attracted to and then and what led them to their current husbands.
And I didn't get to say anything on that because, you know, there's such a fascinating topic.
There was so much I didn't get to, which is why I'm here tonight.
And I agree with what the other lady said who answered that question that they were attracted to the confidence that her husband had.
And I wanted to spend most of the next segment talking about that.
You might have things to say on that too, if you can hear me.
Let's see, I'm trying to see my notes here.
Yes, I think you're hosting the show now.
You're actually hosting it now.
My connection has become so bad.
So, the music is going to kick in any second, but no, you're doing fine.
And I know when we come back, well, I've actually got your notes.
Oh, this is good.
This is good.
We're going to get into the next segment.
Roman numeral 2.
We'll look forward to that.
But a parting shot on this segment before the music begins.
Okay, yes.
You know, there's an idea going around in our circles that women are attracted to jerks, men who are jerks.
I don't think that's really true.
It's really, they're attracted to men who have confidence.
And I'm going to talk about that more in a minute.
But, you know, last time I was on, I talked about, you know, the sexual harassment garbage in the workplace and, you know, why, you know, a lot of the false flags related to that, the Me Too stuff.
And a lot of that stems from how different men and women are.
You know, when it comes to their flirting, like what flirting is to a woman is different to a man.
A woman thinks certain things are innocent, like when she's talking to a man, but a man thinks about taking it to the next level.
And I'm not saying that in a bad way, but a lot of times that's how things are working, you know.
And anyways, I'll get back to all that in a minute.
Well, there's the music, and you are very trained to stop in the music because you are a veteran of doing this.
We'll be right back with Courtney from Alabama, and she is basically a part two, as Janice gave us last week.
Janice Hamblin, we were rambling with the Hamblins last week, Rich and Janice both on the show.
And tonight, Courtney coming back for part two of her Valentine's Day appearance back in February.
Stay tuned.
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Kosher, certified.
Put the two words together to get Kosh certified, which is spelled with an SEH instead of just SH.
It's the right way to spell this, the German way.
And it made it easier to trademark.
Now, did I tell you that the letters SCH still make the shh sound?
As in all those American food producers saying, shh, let's keep it really quiet that our product is kosher certified.
Think about it.
Nearly one century of kosher certification, and hardly anyone outside Exclusive Observers knows that most packaged food and kitchen products are literally certified by religious intermediaries.
Well, because you, consumer, are indirectly paying for this, the Kosh Certified app is here to make kosher certification awareness an inclusive matter for people of all faiths and identities.
And it even boasts a unique database of products not kosher certified.
We call that NKC.
Start meming it.
It's fun.
NKC, not kosher certified.
Now, to confuse our audience even more, we put a question mark at the end of our name.
And that really cinched our trademark approval.
It relates to the website where you can begin your new shopping behavior, thekosherquestion.com.
Welcome back.
To get on the show, call us on James' Dime at 1-866-986-6397.
Courtney from Alabama, our good friend is doing a great job bringing us into Safe Harbor tonight during the last two segments.
Any port in a storm?
And it's been hit or miss tonight with my connection.
We are not in Kansas anymore.
We're not in the studio anymore with the secure connection.
Now, when we do these live conferences, though, we always have Sam Bushman and Kurt Crosby there to make sure we're hardwired in.
But when you're on vacation on the last minute, no less, it well, you never know.
But we've made it this far.
We've got one segment to go.
And actually, the connection improved during the commercial break.
So I'll be able to hear Courtney along with the rest of you.
Courtney, remind everybody again why you're back this evening before we get to part two of segment two.
Well, you heard you got a lot of good feedback after the last show.
And it sounded like a lot of young men in the audience wanted to learn more.
And I thought, oh, great.
There was stuff I didn't even get to.
So I'll come back.
You're finishing up basically your appearance on Valentine's Day.
Now, that Ladies' Night show back in February, we had any number of female guests.
I can't even remember them all.
But I know my wife popped on for a few minutes.
And it was just a great show.
It was a very special show.
It's been a busy year with a lot of special events and one-off special shows.
And that was one of them for sure.
And not everybody got all the time they needed.
And so this is basically the overflow, but just as important as the original.
So continue on.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We left us off on where I touched on the just how men and women approach so many things differently.
I think a lot of the confusion and dating that, you know, leads to heartbreak, a lot of times it has to do with just how different men and women are, not understanding each other well enough.
You know, we approach things so differently.
And, you know, last time I touched on sexual harassment, and I want to touch on, there's something interesting I just want to add to that.
And I learned this from my father mentioned this to me before.
When I was a teenager, he gave me a lot of good advice on boys.
And I think all teenagers should get good advice from their parents about, you know, the opposite sex.
That needs to happen more.
You know, what you should do and what you should not do around them.
I think daughters need to listen to their fathers about how boys are, you know, and vice versa.
You know, maybe mothers have good things to share to the sons.
I don't know as much about that side as much.
But my father gave me a lot of good advice on how boys think.
And at the time, I just shrugged it off like, oh, whatever.
You're from a different time.
You don't know what you're talking about.
But now that I'm an adult, I realize that everything he said was right.
And going back to the sexual harassment, he always told me, you know, if you look at a, if you, if you keep looking at that boy across the room, you know, like you're looking at him, he's going to come talk to you eventually.
And I'm like, oh, no, he's not going to do that.
I'm just looking over there and be like, yes, he is.
And I've learned after that point, I saw more and more of that would happen in those scenarios.
And he told me something interesting that I didn't think about before in regards to the Muslim cultures.
You know, the women cover up over there entirely.
And I used to always think that was just because, you know, that was just because of modesty.
And they just have such strict versions of modesty over there.
Well, he told me that a lot of it has to do with women, you know, their facial expressions, you know, looking at a man, body language.
You know, women interpret it as one thing, like certain things are innocent, but a man interprets it differently, like, oh, she wants me to come talk to her.
And so the way they control it over there is they just entirely cover the woman up.
And I'm not advocating, I'm not advocating to go that far, but I do think a lot of these other cultures have a better handle on how to treat the differences between the sexes.
And that's why in so many of these other cultures, you know, teenage boys and teenage girls are segregated and they don't interact.
You know, they don't go on dates without chaperones.
And that's just why they do so much like that over there because.
So much gets misinterpreted between the sexes.
We're just so different from each other.
And, you know, and then that's why that's why men, that's why boys in high school get friend zoned a lot.
My dad had to tell me all the time, boys don't want to be your friends.
They want to date you.
And when I was a teenage girl, I honestly didn't understand that.
I really didn't.
I wasn't trying to hurt guys that I dated.
I really was.
And I just really didn't understand.
So these are important things that parents need to be teaching their kids.
Now, back to the topic of how women like men with confidence.
Let's see.
Yeah, we want a man with confidence.
I don't think it's that most women want jerks.
A jerk actually portrays a lot of very effeminate qualities.
Like he overreacts to everything.
He has to have a response to everybody.
He says something mean about him.
He has to pick fights with everybody.
That's usually how a jerk acts.
And that's not very masculine.
That's not very manly.
It's reacting to everything that's said to you and feeling like you always have to have a response.
It's actually a very effeminate trait.
And I want to give, so back to a man with confidence, you know, that's a man who, you know, is nice.
You know, he's kind to a woman, but the woman knows, the woman knows that he would defend her as well as himself when necessary.
Like when the time comes that he has to fight, he'll do it.
So that's what a man with confidence is.
And, you know, she can see it on the date.
Let's see.
I had another, oh yeah, I want to give a good example of this.
Recently, you know, and I'm not, I'm not, I've never been a child that really talks back to my parents much.
But recently, you know, my dad was on the phone with me and he kept, or no, we were texting.
And I felt like he was being a little overbearing.
You know, he was giving me advice on something and he kept, he was treating me like a child, I felt.
And so I responded to him.
I said, you know, let's just not talk anymore.
You're treating me like a child.
We'll continue the conversation another time.
And then after I sent that, you know, I don't talk back very much.
So after I sent that, after I sent that, I was like, oh, no, what have I done?
What have I done?
He's going to be mad.
He's going to be mad.
But he wasn't.
His response to me, all he said to me was, okay.
That's all he said to me in response.
And you know what?
When he did that, I admired that so much.
I was like, that is, my father is an amazing man.
It's like, he just showed what he did was very masculine just now.
He showed me that he's not going to stoop down to my level.
He's not going to argue with me.
He's just going to say, okay, this isn't worth my time.
Okay, Courtney.
Okay.
You know, and I respected him after he did that.
Now, if I were to send something like that to my mother, she probably would have gotten offended and had a response for me.
So anyways, it's very masculine behavior to, you know, only react when it's necessary.
And that's a man with confidence.
Like he's nice when he's supposed to be, but he fights when he needs to.
And James, I can tell you're that type of person.
And many men in the movement are like that.
And my father is, my husband.
There's a lot of good men, you know, I know at your parties who are like that.
And so that's what's meant by a man with confidence.
And, you know, there are some women who go for jerks.
And, you know, and well, what happens a lot of times is sometimes, unfortunately, the jerks, when they're first dating a woman, they're putting their first, their best foot forward.
And so they're acting nice, but then the woman can also be tough.
And so she's mistaken it for confidence.
And then when she gets too far into the relationship, she's afraid to back out of it, you know, and a lot of people are like that.
But, you know, as far as actual jerks go, you know, I can tell, I can say to the women, if there's any women listening out there who thinks, who thinks that that's sexy, you know, dating a man who's abusive and a jerk, you know, and it goes both ways.
Women can be verbally abusive.
So, you know, verbal abuse especially goes both ways.
And, you know, if you're a member of either sex, you've dated somebody who's verbally abusive, it's not sexy at all.
There's nothing sexy about it.
And I've, you know, I'm happy with my husband now, but, you know, there was, you know, I did have one boyfriend in the past.
He was verbally abusive.
And it's not sexy.
It's like you cringe every time they walk in the room.
You know, they appear weak.
You know, when they have to react to everything and beat and like, you know, I don't know, torment you with their words and make you feel bad.
I mean, there's nothing sexy about that.
You know, you might think that way ahead of time before you get into that type of relationship.
But trust me, when you're in it, it's not sexy.
And I mean, I guess that's the main thing I wanted to go into.
I mean, I just heard so many women last time talk about how they love men with confidence.
And I just want to reiterate that that's, you know, I think that that's what I've always looked for too.
Well, I guess to that end, I would say for all, you know, of course, not every man in our listening audience is married or otherwise betrothed.
And so have confidence then, men.
And I guess that would be our parting shot tonight.
We could go longer on this topic, but everything you covered, I think was important.
And it's good to know because this is, again, something that everybody can relate to.
Everybody, no matter what your signature issue is, I said this with Janice last week.
Everybody is involved or at least wants to be involved in relationships.
And so this hits very close to host.
Whether you're man or male or female, young or old, if you're not married, this is something that you're interested in.
And if you are married, it's something you're interested in.
Courtney, thank you for Keith Alexander, our guest tonight, Tim Murdock and Mike Gaddy.