Aug. 1, 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.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, the third and final hour is now upon us.
And our second of two featured guests this evening is a friend of mine and a friend of yours.
John Friend is an independent journalist, an editor, a podcast host, a critical thinker, openly dealing with the most taboo topics of our time.
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John, it's great to have you back.
I think you were last with us back in April for our Confederate History Month series.
Great to have you back this opening week in August.
Hey, thanks, James.
Good to talk to you once again.
Can you hear me okay?
I can hear you fine.
Can you hear me?
Yes, sir.
Yeah, thank you so much for having me back on.
I appreciate it.
Well, a lot to talk about.
No shortage of topics.
And in fact, when we were exchanging emails over the last few days, I mean, obviously the biggest topics going on right now are the issues you're addressing in your publications and on your website and in your podcast.
The Black Lives Matter insurrection, anti-foterrorism, COVID-19, so-called COVID-19.
You've been covering those topics for the American Free Press and Barnes Review.
Where should we begin, John?
Yeah, I know it's hard to know where to start.
This whole year has been so crazy and we're, you know, just barely halfway through it.
You know, I guess to start, I mean, this whole COVID-19 situation is really, really shaping up to be this very tyrannical.
Well, we're seeing a very tyrannical agenda unfold.
And in my view, it's not at all any sort of, you know, public health or medical pandemic.
It's certainly a political pandemic that's been totally manufactured by the media, by these alleged experts and these technocrats that have basically taken over the government and taken over representative government anyways.
I mean, we see like these tyrannical mayors and governors and public health officers basically just dictating whatever they want to people now.
It's really incredible.
And sadly, a lot of people are going along with it.
I mean, I can't help but think.
I mean, could you imagine if you owned your own private business, whether it's a restaurant or a bar maybe or whatever, anything, and they're demanding that you shut down and basically ruin your livelihood.
I just don't understand why nobody has challenged any of this stuff in court.
I mean, I'm sure it would be a difficult legal battle, but I mean, I would like to think that somebody would at least go down with the fight.
And I just really haven't seen too many stories like that.
There have been a few people, I guess.
There have been, you know, stories coming out of like gym owners, for example, like openly defying the law.
And just, it's not even a law.
See, that's the thing.
It's like these ridiculous mandates and recommendations that they just expect everybody to go along with.
And it's really an incredible situation.
So we had that, I guess, to kind of start the year.
And then the media sort of shifted gears and it was all about the Black Lives Matter movement and so-called, you know, white supremacy and, you know, institutional racism and all this other nonsense.
And we're seeing our country being totally destroyed by these radical revolutionary communists, essentially, is what they are.
I mean, some of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, I mean, have openly admitted that they're trained Marxists in interviews.
And, you know, their ultimate goals are not only destroying the police and defunding the police, but really tearing down and destroying traditional Western civilization and everything that it stands for, including all these monuments we're seeing defaced and vandalized and torn down across the country.
And they're basically doing this with impunity.
In fact, we have almost like an anarcho-tyranny situation where criminals and looters and these BLM radical revolutionaries are allowed to engage in open criminality and open terrorism.
I think that's exactly what it is.
It's political terrorism.
And they're allowed to do these things with impunity.
They're not, you know, the laws are not being enforced against them.
If they are arrested, in a lot of cases, the local prosecutors and district attorneys are literally letting them go and allowing them to escape justice.
Meanwhile, people like these, like the couple down in St. Louis, the McCloskeys, I mean, they're out there like attempting to defend their home from this radical violent group and they're being prosecuted.
I mean, it's like a total inversion of the rule of law.
And it's out of control.
It's very transparent.
It's no secret.
I mean, it doesn't take a genius to figure this stuff out.
I mean, it's being like openly reported in even the mainstream media.
And it's really just a very incredible and almost scary situation we're living in nowadays.
Well, you hit on the two, the two stories of the year.
The COVID hoax, which I think is becoming the biggest hoax, maybe the biggest hoax in history.
And it has some stiff competition, so I'm not saying that glibly, but it's up there.
And then, of course, the insurrection, the lawlessness, the total anarchy, the destruction of property across the board.
That's just been allowed to happen, you know, without any pushback, you know, relatively any pushback.
I don't know.
And in retort, John, I don't know where to start.
I guess just very quickly with COVID, I would say I was skeptical from the beginning.
Skeptical from the beginning.
I thought maybe, you know, it's a new cold.
It's a new respiratory illness.
Certainly doesn't appear to be that deadly.
It's certainly not worthy of shutting anything down, as I've said before, much less everything.
But the whole thing about it is my gut is normally right, but above and beyond gut instinct, which has led me well through my life, God gave me a brain that works and I do use it and it comes with a sense of discernment.
And the whole thing just stinks to high heaven.
And you say, well, you know, James, but look, look at all the cases, the new cases.
Well, I don't believe the tests.
I don't believe the tests.
I do not believe the test results are accurate.
I don't believe the deaths are accurate.
I mean, if there is a new virus, a new illness out there that isn't particularly deadly, there's certainly a big difference than dying with COVID versus dying because of COVID.
But then with all of these skyrocketing test results, I don't believe them.
I do not believe them at all.
I don't believe them.
But even if you didn't have any discernment, if you didn't have a brain, if you didn't have any of it, if you have a pulse, you know that the media lies to you about everything.
And if they lie to you about everything, why would this thing be the only thing they're telling you the truth about?
If you have nothing left in that baseline, that should be enough to know that something stinks to hell and back.
And it's really coincidental that it's all happening right before an election.
John?
Yes, exactly.
Very, very good point.
Yeah.
I mean, it's clearly, you know, like average people that I like interact with and deal with on a day-to-day basis or come across and meet.
I mean, most people see through this.
Most people see it as clearly a political pandemic where it's being used to undermine President Trump.
Just another example of the establishment trying to undermine everything he's trying to do.
And I mean, I'm no huge fan of President Trump.
I mean, I'd certainly support him over anybody else, but I want to pause right there and continue the music playing.
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To spend more time together as a family.
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My parents, they do everything I am.
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And now back to tonight's show.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're back with John Friend of American Free Press and the Barnes Review.
Don't forget to check out his personal website, TheRealistReport.com, talking with John about the big two stories of the year, of course, the riots, the insurrection, the lawlessness, the anarchy, and how it's been allowed to sustain itself without any sort of pushback.
And of course, the whole COVID thing, which preceded it, and has, of course, followed it now in the wake of a lot of that unrest.
But yeah, John, I mean, I, again, I go anywhere you go now.
And this is just as recently as just the last couple of weeks, you cannot go into any store.
You cannot get any service without there being some sort of a mask, as you called it, a mandate.
I mean, it's not necessarily a law, but there's at least a placard on the door of any business you'll go in.
You will not be allowed to do business there unless you bend the knee.
And we had a great conversation last week with Pastor Brett McAtee about this.
But in any event, it just rubs me the wrong way in every way imaginable.
And it's so absurd.
It just goes to show.
I mean, we've heard about herd immunity.
What about herd mentality?
It's really, really, I think, a beta test to see how quickly and how subservient people will be, how fast they'll conform to anything, the state hands down.
And with this, with so little to go on, people have just done it.
Yeah.
Flat out.
I know, I know.
It's incredible.
I was driving around today.
I mean, it was like 90 degrees here in Southern California, and there's people walking down the street by themselves with a mask on.
And I'm like, what are you thinking?
Like, first off, you can't even breathe with the thing on.
I try my best.
I mean, if I walk into a store and I and they're like demanding I put it on, you know, I'll put it on and get what I got.
I don't know what I need to do and go.
But you know what?
It's incredible because I mean, and in a lot of cases, I mean, even here in Southern California, you know, I'll go in certain places, especially in Orange County.
Orange County has kind of like rebelled against all this, you know, at least compared to a lot of other places in the country.
And it's like, it's like the good old days.
If you go down to Orange County, it's like pre-COVID.
You know, you can go out to the beach, you can go walk around, you can go into stores and not have to be hassled about a mask or whatever.
So there are some, you know, some places, some areas that are kind of resisting this and seeing through it, at least to a certain extent.
But yeah, it's really just out of control.
I mean, there's a website that I follow called Technocracy News.
A guy named Patrick Wood is behind that website, and he's really been covering the whole COVID situation very, very well.
And he's put out a lot of material by like, you know, independent professional medical experts demonstrating that face masks, I mean, not only do not like do anything to prevent like, you know, a virus or whatever, but it's actually unhealthy for healthy people to go around and wear these things all day.
I mean, it like reduces your oxygen intake.
It's, it's, I mean, just put one on for five minutes.
It's annoying.
Like you don't want to wear the thing.
It's like, you know, it's very restricting.
And it's, I think you hit the nail on the head.
I mean, it really is sort of like a test just to see like what they can get away with.
Like, will people comply with this nonsense?
And sadly, a lot of people will, and they'll buy into it.
And they think that they are like saving lives or whatever by putting on a stupid face mask.
It's really insane.
And, you know, I just, they're like doubling down on everything.
I mean, think about it.
It was, it was first the COVID situation and then these riots like took over.
And that was the main, you know, headline for the, for like a month or maybe even longer than that.
And now it's right back once the riots sort of died down.
Now it's right back to the COVID situation.
And I mean, you look around and you talk to people and nobody I know has had it or is even sick.
You know, like nobody knows anybody that's had the, had this alleged virus.
Nobody's sick.
Everybody's fine.
And it's just really like you look at the headlines, you look at the mainstream news and you see the headlines coming out every day, you know, record cases and surging cases and record.
And I'll tell you.
It's very, it's like fear-mongering.
And it just totally is a, is like the opposite of your observed lived reality and experience in the real world, at least for me.
And I'm sure I'm sure for other people as well.
No, well, for me as well.
And I'm sure for a lot.
I mean, I know there's some people who have gotten a positive test who have felt bad.
And, you know, I've heard from them as well, but I certainly don't know anybody who's died from it.
And, you know, again, the fact that this is all coming up right before an election, and I think you're going to see a spike in this, more shutdowns all the way to the election.
And if Biden wins, Biden, who hasn't even campaigned a day, I mean, this guy's senile.
He's got Alzheimer's.
If he wins, oh, wow, it's just, it's dissipating.
It's a miracle.
But this, on top of the riots, and some of this is Trump's fault.
I mean, again, I would rather, look, I would rather Trump, even if he's just paying lip service with this whole thing about keeping the Confederate bases as they are named and some of this other stuff and all the good tweets he's had, even in the absence of actual action.
I mean, I'd still take that over Biden and what he's got coming for us.
And so maybe it's all just to get Trump out.
I don't know.
But that coupled with this insurrection has just been, this is made for the most interesting year of my 40 years on this earth.
And John, the thing about the riots is, of course, you go back to the 60s and you had the southern states who were enforcing the laws of their state at the time.
And the federal troops were sent in to circumvent the existing law.
Okay.
And the media and the liberals, they were all for it, of course.
And now, of course, every law imaginable, state law, local law, municipal law, federal law, natural law, they're all being violated by these anarchists, these rioters, these looters, these insurrectionists.
And the same people who wanted the National Guard to go in and violate state law in the South in the 60s, they're saying, well, you can't send people in here to do that.
You can't send your stormtroopers in here and disturb our community.
I mean, my God, I tell you, we talk about hypocrisy never tripping up the left, but it's never been as obvious as it is now.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
And I mean, it's like the same thing with when like all the BLM protests really, you know, got started back in like late May, early June.
And the media is praising this.
There was even like a press release put out by a bunch of doctors and public health quote unquote experts saying that, you know, racism is a bigger threat even, you know, than COVID-19.
So these protests are okay.
Meanwhile, anybody that's out there like protesting the lockdowns and standing up against this very tyrannical agenda, they're denounced as conspiracy theorists.
And they don't care about public health.
And they're actually actively spreading the virus and all this nonsense.
So there's like these huge double standards and huge hypocrisy that's just right in our face.
And you know what?
I know we're about to wrap up.
One thing I wanted to mention is I think one of the biggest things, like thinking about all this over the course of the past few months, you know, really, we haven't really had the rule of law be enforced in this country for years now.
I mean, think about like when Trump was running for office back in 2015.
He gets elected.
You go to one of his rallies.
I mean, out here in California, I went to a couple of his rallies.
And I mean, it was like total anarchy and violence everywhere.
And Trump supporters getting attacked.
And the rule of law wasn't enforced then.
And it's even in 15 and 16.
You're right.
Yeah.
So, I mean, this has been going on for a long time.
Now it's on a whole other, whole other level.
You know, it's rashed it up like five notches.
And it's only going to get worse until we actually take a stand and start enforcing the law.
And I just don't see that happening right now.
I don't see the president doing that.
I don't see, of course, we don't see any of these local police departments and police chiefs.
They're in fact bowing down to the Black Lives Matter movement and going along with it and like, you know, embracing it.
Meanwhile, all these stores and all these private businesses and even public property, the federal courthouse in Portland, for example, being totally looted, totally destroyed.
And, you know, again, with impunity, it's crazy.
And not only with impunity, with the leader of like, you know, Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, marching with the anarchists and even being routed out by them, but still supporting them.
It beats all I've ever seen, but John, we'll continue to take a look at it.
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John, we look forward to having you back very soon.
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That's the theme, of course, from the Andy Griffith show.
And it was in the lifetime of my parents, even, certainly, within the lifetime of my grandparents.
And boy, how we wish it could and would return to that.
And it will if we have anything to say about it.
Jack Ryan, how are you doing tonight, buddy?
I'm doing just great.
How you doing, sir?
Well, I'm doing good.
And I will let the audience in on a little secret.
We made mention of the fact that at the top of the show tonight that a select group of TPC supporters and friends and family were together in the Deep South at this very time last week.
Yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen, at this very moment, perhaps, last Saturday night, I was cutting into a steak with none other than Jack Ryan sitting shoulder to shoulder with me.
My wife and children there at the table too.
Jack, that seems like a year ago now, but it was only a week ago.
We were breaking bread together, but it's great to be with you on the show tonight as well.
Now, it was just tremendous to be back in the Deep South.
I went to college in Nashville, Tennessee at Vanderbilt, and it was great to be back in the South.
And the South is still the South.
And just to hang out with you and your lovely family, it was so nice.
James is a good-looking guy.
He's a really good-looking.
If I was a gay guy, I'd be sending him flowers.
But his wife and daughter are just beautiful and charming.
And your daughter is so, she's this young southern lady with great manners and a little southern accent.
It was great.
I had a great time being with the people.
I had a really fantastic time.
But I'm back in Chicago.
Well, now you're back in Chicago.
That's right.
Wasn't easy to get there flying down from Chicago with all the delays and the COVID and the reroutes and the delayovers.
But no, I have to admit, and Jack, let's just, you know, there's so much heinous stuff going on in the world.
And we talked about it with Mark Reber and John Friend.
Let's just hang out for a minute tonight as we wrap up the show this evening.
And I'll actually, if you don't, if the audience will indulge me, I'll brag on my daughter.
My 10-year-old daughter, Isabel, was at the top of her game last week in terms of her manners and just being the lady that her mother raised her to be.
And, you know, I guess I had a hand in that as well.
But I'll give a lot of credit to her mother because I'm working a lot.
And my wife runs the home and she homeschools them.
I was really impressed with my daughter.
And Jack, I really appreciate you picking up on that.
No, I just noticed it.
And one thing, I don't know, I had this strange scare that I, when I saw you, the James is a very good-looking guy, but he doesn't have a good head of hair.
He's bald.
And for some reason, I thought that his children would look like cancer ones would be bald and things.
But no, your daughter's got a beautiful head of hair.
She's gorgeous and she's got great manners.
And just, you know, just to be with civilized, nice people.
Wow, it was a great time.
But I got treated very well on the flights going.
They weren't overpacked.
I hung out at the back of the stewards.
They were very nice of me.
So I had a really good trip.
And I hope to come back to the East South again sometime soon.
Yeah, it was a little road trip for us as well, but we made it and we left from there.
And I'm on vacation right now, as we made mention of earlier in the program.
But very, very quickly, Jack, before we get into the topic of conversation for the final segment and a half tonight, I gave Keith the opportunity at the top of the show to make mention of this, and I'd like for you to do it as well.
The caliber of our audience.
I mean, you got to meet at least the heartbeat of the audience at that very private, very discreet invitation-only gathering that we had last Saturday for Friday, Saturday for dinner.
I mean, what were your reflections on the type of people who called this show their voice?
Just very civilized, nice people.
And this world is increasingly hostile and ill-mannered and threatening.
But just to be around good people, and it's not really too political or things like that, but just to be around good people that are nice and have good manners and help people.
These are our kindred people.
These are our kinfolk.
And I was with my kinfolk, and no one called me any mean names.
Not one person said, You're a Yankee.
You're like, no.
Not one person.
But I'm hoping to get a southern bride.
You got to keep coming back down here.
You keep coming back down here enough.
We want to go home with you.
Yeah, no, very good.
Good folks.
And, you know, the past, we do like a lot of history and things like that, but we can't live in the past.
We have to make new history and we can lament the attacks on our history and things like that.
But I think there's going to be good things happening now.
We're going to make new statues.
We're going to have new heroes.
And obviously, the history of the South and of our people is tremendous and it's being attacked.
We're going to defend our people and our history, but we have to make new history.
We have to make new statues and new heroes and things like that.
So that's what we're trying to do.
And yes, the work has been commenced, as we say, but we are always working towards that.
We will continue to work.
But anyway, the Andy Griffith theme, Jack, I mean, I know we've talked about this with everything going on.
It's a novelty on occasion to end the show on a little lighthearted note.
And you were looking back.
You say you can't live in the past, but it doesn't stop us from looking back there from time to time for inspiration and encouragement.
And you can find well, I think it's the greatest American television show that presented the southern or small town world that we have.
I think it's the best.
And I'd like to go from here on out to the end of the election.
I want to talk a lot less about politics because I just don't think we're going to have a lot of opportunities to really change things.
Yes, participate in politics and the presidential election network.
But right now I see going on.
It's going to be a witch hunt.
And they're going to try to try to find any Trump supporters and attack us and try to say, oh, look at these terrible racists.
And we have, I mean, these other people, but these terrible conservatives, I thought these conservatives were gone, that Paul Ryans, the Mittens Romney, the Karl Rofe, but they've resurfaced and they're coming back and they're pushing their one and they're trying to find anyone that's politically incorrect and persecute us.
So I basically, my view is to just kind of step back and not really talk a lot about presidential politics.
It is what it is, but let's, you know, let's talk about culture, movies, books, and let's try to get through this because I just feel that there's not a lot of opportunity for us from here to the election.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, if you were Jack living in Chicago, but you want to talk about contemporary politics?
I mean, 19 people were shot in Jack's house last week.
Well, I mean, it's kind of consistent.
So these, I mean, it's nothing new.
I mean, we've averaged 500 murders every year in my life since I was like eight years old.
It's come back.
We're tough people.
We're good people, and we're handling the things.
We obviously have got a bad Black Lives Matter lesbian mayor that went in the middle of the night and ripped out all the statues of Christopher Columbus, which has really pissed off the Italian-American people in there.
But otherwise, we're grouping, we're handling the things.
But just the never-ending presidential election is just a real pain.
And Leon Trotsky, the communist, he talked about permanent revolution.
Well, we've got permanent presidential elections every day since Trump was elected.
These leftists have gone on on these things.
And so it doesn't really leave us a lot of opportunity to do our thing.
So I want to encourage our listeners not to get stressed out about politics.
It is what it is.
But, you know, obviously participate in the politics.
Try to find local heroes that are coming.
But concentrate on other things, on culture, on music, on family.
And we're going to do okay.
We're going to get through this.
We will.
And we're tough people, we're good people, and we're going to get through it.
Well, we will, Jack.
And it is so important.
It is so difficult, but so important to have that in-real life fellowship and camaraderie that can only come from gathering together and exchanging ideas.
And of course, it is from those in-person gatherings and the exchange of ideas that solutions present themselves.
As we have made mention of so many times before on this show, I mean, it doesn't need to be stated.
It's pretty obvious that you need to have that coming together of the minds.
But, you know, and we had that.
And we're one of the few people who could still have that because we have such a loyal, solid following at this program of trusted individuals that you can give confidential information to.
And you can have a dinner at a restaurant and not be accosted by the terrorists that are going out and putting cities to flame.
You can do that when you have good people who can be trusted.
This audience has certainly developed such a community around this program, which, of course, those of us that work on this program are very proud of and should be.
Oh, we got to do this, but we also have to work very hard.
The enemies of our people are really brutally attacking our freedom of speech.
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Sometimes it feels like this world's spinning faster than it did in the old days.
So naturally we have more natural disasters From the strain of a fast pace.
Sunday was a day of rest.
Now it's one more day for progress.
If we can't slow down, the floor is there.
It's all an end problem.
Taking on the sixth stream.
People pass by and you're calling by their first name.
Watching the clouds roll by.
Bye and bye.
Well, I don't care too much for pop country, but I do like that song.
I miss Mayberry.
And don't we all, literally and figuratively, that style of life, the way things were back then, I think that they can be again.
I think that they will have to be again if we are to survive.
And, you know, people with that mentality, though, gathered together is always a special thing.
People who want the best for themselves and for their family always are a rare few in this day and age when degeneracy, when everything that is wrong is presented to be right and everything right presented to be wrong.
When you can get people together, this is the point.
When you can get people together that know the difference between the two, then you are in fine company indeed.
And we were in that company last week, Jack.
And I'm glad you were there and I'm glad we were there together.
And from there, I left to go immediately down to Florida where I am now.
I'm going to have to outrace this hurricane tomorrow to get back home.
But I'm down here with my wife and children.
And it's been a great week.
Started last week with the great dinner we had with our audience.
It was some of the members of our audience, of course, and our team, me, you, Keith.
And now down for a family vacation and then back up to Tennessee.
But anyway, yeah, we miss Mayberry, don't we, Jack?
Well, yes, we do.
And it was, I think, the greatest show ever.
But let's get into the issue of the Mayberry.
So my theme tonight was to talk about the love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor in the Andy Griffiths show.
And there were some quality gals there.
The mother of Opie and the wife of Andy was never really referred to.
They just sort of popped out this kid and she was kind of gone.
But the women in the Andy Griffith show, so there's Ellie, the pharmacist, who was like, she had a star in Father Knows Best.
Fun gal, sexy gal.
So she was right in there.
And then there was Peggy, this nurse, the distance girl, but a really sexy gal.
She was.
There was Barbara Eden, I dream of Jeannie.
They kind of had a guest show, rich girl that kind of came in, probably a little bit too sexy for the Mayberry crown.
Then there was Charlene, the daughter of the darlings, the mountain tribe that people that came in.
And then there was this teacher, which is my least favorite one, Helen Crump, who's kind of a sexless teacher that he kind of ended up with.
So these are the love interests for Andy Taylor.
And I wanted to kind of throw this out to our audience, who they thought was the best love interest for Andy.
I've got my opinion on this.
People could get pretty heated.
They could just get kind of angry, but they had some really interesting women on the Andy Griffith show for the love interest.
So I still threw a penalty flag on you that you weren't into this subject.
I was.
Well, see, yeah, you did hit me with a penalty flag there, Jack.
I said Jack was asking me my opinion on the love interest on the Andy Griffith show.
And I said, well, Jack, I got to admit to you, this is a topic better suited for Keith Alexander.
Because, see, for me, I am a huge aficionado of 50s and 60s pop music, but I never really watched 50s and 60s TV or movies.
Now, there's really no rhyme or reason for that.
It just never happened.
I love the music.
Never really got into the TV or movies.
Now, Keith could have this conversation.
I tell you, Keith could have had this conversation with Jack right now.
It could have filled the entire three hours.
I could have taken another week off, two in a row, enjoyed the final weekend of my vacation, and they could have gone at it at this because, again, anybody who's ever been into Keith's den, if there's anything that man lives for, it's 50s and 60s TV and movies.
But anyway, so I'm sure Keith could have added it this particular conversation, Jack, more than I could.
But in any event, you can tell us the conclusions.
But I'd say I think it is the best television show for southern small towns.
And then our greatest enemies, these really vicious, hateful cultural Marxists, guys like Tim Wise, who's supposedly anti-racism.
He just hates white people.
He went into this rant about how much he hated the Andy Griffith show and the people who followed us were going to die and they won't have PBR anymore.
And he just went into this rant about how much he hated the world of Mayberry and things like that.
So I think it is our best television show.
It's a good one.
And, you know, we have to promote our own television shows and movies and music and things like that.
And so I think that promoting good culture is really the best thing that we can do.
Well, it would certainly be a shift from the way we're trending right now, would it not?
Yeah, well, I mean, you think it can't get any worse, but then it does get worse.
I think I shared a story.
I don't know if it was on the air in conversation, but I was talking with a friend of mine.
I may have mentioned this a couple of weeks ago on the show.
I don't remember.
A friend of mine who said, you know, in the 1970s, he said, you know, he can remember thinking there's no way it could possibly get worse than it is right now.
This is something he told me a couple of weeks ago, remembering back in the 1970s, he said to himself, there's no way it can get any worse than it is right now.
This has got to be the bottom of the barrel.
Norman Lear, like the show, yeah, like the one in...
He paused for a second, and then he said, well, it just goes to show how little imagination I have.
And I laughed.
Because he promotes the work Dante's Inferno, the book, which he talks about the levels of hell that you're in there.
And then you can get, okay, this is the world.
Everyone's in hell, but there's another level of hell where it gets worse.
Like, you think the worst TV show ever is the Jerry Springer show where they jump around and scream and then they're like, oh, that's the worst.
But then they come up with this other one, the Maury Povet show, where they say, who's the father?
You're going to do that.
So, I mean, you know, we're good people and we're tough people.
So we're not, you know, we're not scared about stuff.
I was a public school teacher in Brooklyn in 1980, so it's not like I've never heard someone using curse words or stuff like that.
We're prepared.
We're able to deal with the demons and the culture people.
We're in it.
And we're not shocked.
We're not, you know, we're not sad.
So, yeah, we're prepared.
We're there, but it's going to get worse.
There's always something worse.
And these women's TV shows, Ellen DeGeneres and stuff, like, my God, why would anyone watch this stuff?
She's not funny.
She's not intelligent.
Okay, she's lesbian.
Okay, we know that.
But so why does she have her TV show?
Why do people watch this crap?
So, any event, but yeah, you know, we do what we can.
We're there, and we're doing positive stuff, and we've got some good things going our way.
But this rest of the year for presidential election is going to just really suck.
Well, that's why I have to take a departure the last segment or two of any show you're on, Jack, and depart from that because it will get worse for a time, and then it will get better.
But I can't say it's going to get better before November, and it may not get better before we die, but it will get better.
And that's been the whole point of the show tonight with Mark Weber, and then even with John Friend.
I mean, yeah, there's bad things going on right now.
Nobody's going to lie to you.
We're not going to write on your leg and tell you it's something else, or is it the other way around?
But in any event, no, we know that there's things that aren't good right now, but we can have a laugh.
We can come together.
Have shared fun, have a share.
Fellowship and encouragement.
Because our enemies have no sense of humor.
The Taliban, these ISIS people, and these politically correct ones, they're so humorless.
And this whole idea, like having a laugh is something that they can't take.
So, you know, it's a weapon.
Well, you're 100% right.
And, you know, that was Bob Whitaker's whole thing.
You know, Bob Whitaker died a few years ago, but he was one of the first people I met in this movement and former Reagan appointee.
He wrote the book Why Johnny Can't Think.
But his big thing was, you know, they cannot, the one thing that they cannot stand is being mocked and ridiculed.
They want you to fear them.
They want you to cower before them and take them seriously.
But I mean, everything that they, and when I say they, I'm talking about, you know who I'm talking about.
Institutions, corporate America, the government, the media, academia, you know, you name it, education, the churches, they want to be feared.
They want to be taken seriously.
But you have to, but what they're pushing on us is so laughable and so ridiculous.
I mean, of course, any normal person is going to laugh, but that is the silver bullet to them.
They're kryptonite.
They cannot stand to be ridiculed.
You have to laugh at them, and you have to be able to have a laugh as we try to have from time to time on this show.
We do.
And we have a positive view of life, and we enjoy life, and we enjoy the good things in life.
And one of the good things in life is to enjoy good movies, good books, good music, and just the company of great husbands, good people, which we did last week in the 2000s.
That's right.
Well, I tell you, Jack, I think, Sam, we started the music early tonight.
I don't know what's going on.
No, I'm just kidding.
But listen, Jack, hey, don't become one of the 500 people murdered in Chicago tomorrow.
Stay with us.
We'll talk to you again here at the TPC.
That's great.
Love you, buddy.
For Jack, Ryan, Keith Alexander, our guest tonight, Mark Weber and John Friend.