Dec. 19, 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, going 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.
Hark the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king.
Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.
Joyful all ye nations, join the triumph.
I love Christmas, ladies and gentlemen.
So thankful, so blessed to be able to spend another Christmas on the air with you.
This is our last show before Christmas.
We're thankful, so thankful to have you with us.
We are entirely shifting our focus now over to the festive and the spiritual.
Got three fantastic ladies coming up this hour to help better acquaint you with the Christmas spirit.
And the next hour, we're going to share the biblical accounting of the Christmas story itself, Pastor Brett McEtee helping us do that.
But first, let me tell you, I love everything about Christmas.
Also, I love everything about winter.
There's just something about a dark, cold winter that stirs our ancestral memory, Keith.
I mean, this is, in fact, the climate that helped make our people so brilliant, so inventive, and so tough.
It feels like home.
Some people like to go out and bake on a beach, and I guess there's a time and a place for that.
But I always, I always look forward to having an excuse to go outside when it's really cold at night.
So it was about 27 degrees the other night at about 10 o'clock at night, a couple of nights ago.
And I was like, man, I need to take out the garbage.
And I just went out there and I just sat there in the driveway and just absorbed the 20-degree weather.
It was beautiful.
It's wonderful.
And, of course, Orion's belt is a winter constellation.
You can look up above my house and see Orion's belt plain as day.
In fact, I took a picture of it, posted it to Twitter a few days ago.
I love wintertime, but contrastingly, Christmas time.
You're not up in Minnesota, though.
You go up there 27 degrees.
I say, let's head to the beach.
Well, that's true, but I think I would like it just the same.
I mean, this is, hey, after all, this is it.
This is it.
We are Europeans in part because of the weather that shaped us.
But also, this time of year is a time that brings light and hope to a dark world.
That's what Christmas is all about, the warmth of family and friends and getting together at Christmas time.
So it's an interesting dual type of scenario, I guess.
You've got the dark, cold climate, but you've also got the warmth and the light and all of that that comes with Christmas and the birth of Christ and friends and family and coming together.
And it just, there is no time throughout the year that instills your spirit and your soul with more hope than Christmastime.
And so for that reason and so many others, it's, well, it's good to be here tonight.
Well, it's like a three-dog night.
You have to all cluster together to stay warm and survive.
Well, you know, you're going to mention three-dog night.
You're going to get me wanting to sing a song or something because we love that band and we love this.
Well, it was based on the, I guess it's a Russian fable about A night being so cold that you'd have to put three sled dogs into the bed with you to stay warm.
It was actually some sort of a Native American type of thing, or should I say American Indian, excuse me.
But, um, or even, I don't even know if it was that.
I think it was like Alaskan Eskimos or something.
Well, wherever it was cold, though.
Somebody solved this conundrum for us, but let's move on to the mail that we have.
Well, what I was going to say is this.
Talking about that book review that we were talking about in the last hour, there was one more comment that was sent to me.
I bought the book 10 years ago.
I can't believe that, one, it's been 10 years ago already, and two, how prophetic James was.
If I were a billionaire, I'd give James the kind of money our enemies give to leftist causes.
Well, I'll tell you, I wouldn't be opposed to that.
That's an exceedingly kind compliment, but it's also one that made me think, believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen, TPC has never once received any kind of grant to fund our work.
We've never no money for the White Lives Matter movement.
Yeah, we didn't get the $10 billion that Black Lives Matter.
No, we've never even received a single bequest.
Amazingly, every victory we have willed into being has been fueled by our dogged tenacity and the individual donations of generous supporters like those tuned in tonight.
During our 16-year history, we have thrived on mostly very small contributions.
It's really a modern-day miracle, if you think about it, that we've been able to sustain such a high level of success and take on the world while operating on a budget not nearly comparable to that of our adversaries.
And I've wondered how much more we could do if we ever received a major infusion of funding.
Now, that is not to denigrate the funding that we receive from our listeners.
A $100 donation, a $200 donation, these donations are big money to us, and it makes all the difference in the world.
But I think it'd be astonishing what we could do with more because we've always punched above our weight class, and we accomplished more on a shoestring than most outlets can do with millions.
But here at TPC, our audience sustains us, and we don't take lightly your decision to give.
I consider it the highest of honors.
You make all the difference, so much so that you know we always make it a personal priority to offer a special incentive gift from us to you during every quarterly appeal, along with a very heartfelt note of thanks.
So this month, of course, this Christmas season, we are offering the book, Deus Volt's Handbook for Resisting the Great Replacement.
Now, you know, if you tuned in last week, this is a book that was the result of a collaborative effort.
It includes written contributions from Reverend James Dowson of Ulster, who was on our program just last week.
Former member of European Parliament, Nick Griffin, and others contributed to this book.
It is unique and refreshing because the authors realize that any successful nationalist awakening must be rooted in the muscular faith of our fathers that transcends our earthly realm.
This book is a rare gem.
I think it's one of the more important incentive gifts that we've offered.
The final chapters of the book are particularly important.
They're filled with practical instruction for becoming more self-sufficient, finding quality mates, building strong communities, proper behavior in times of crisis, and so much more.
I think you'll find value in it, folks, and I think you'll be able to use it as a guide during the difficult and dark days we may face ahead.
But I want to thank you again to everyone who's already contributed this month.
Thank you for your support of our work.
The bond we share with our listening family is unmatched.
And again, this book really, I think, serves as a centerpiece for the theme we have been driving home since Thanksgiving.
Now, come January, our first show of the new year.
We're back to business as usual on this show.
But for the last month and continuing tonight with the ladies and Pastor Brett in the next hour and then next week, our year in review show, we've really been hammering home real life people, real life stories, family, community, doing what you can to empower and better your personal life and the lives of your children.
That's where you need to be focusing the bulk of your attention anyway.
And this book really, I think, cements everything we've been driving at the last few weeks on this show.
I know you're going to be reading it, Keith, before next week.
That's right.
And going back to Remy's article, I think the ultimate lesson drawn from his article is that if you call another white person a racist, that makes you a race traitor.
And hopefully, we'll increase white racial awareness to the point that being called a rice trader is equal to being called a racist in today's world.
Read the article.
It's up at thepolitical sessible.org.
Again, thanks to everyone who's donated so far.
If you've not yet donated, $100 or more unlocks the book signed by Reverend Dowson.
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I want to thank Dave, who's actually donated.
Dave up in Illinois, who's donated sister Showbegan.
We'll be back with our ladies.
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The weary ones rejoices beyond rings.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are now very happy to be able to present to you a trio of some of our favorite ladies.
And leading that parade tonight is our dear good friend Kim, whose family has really become part of our own in more ways than one.
My wife loves this family as much as I do.
We've had the opportunity to visit their home and they and ours.
To know them is to love them.
That's exactly right.
That's to be sure.
Kim, Merry Christmas.
Thanks so much for spending a few minutes with us tonight.
Hey, James and Keith.
Merry Christmas to you guys.
It's really fun to listen to this show year after year.
And sometimes it feels like Groundhog Day.
I guess every year I'm like, man, I've been listening for so many years now.
I think I have your playlist memorized now.
We don't.
No, no, no.
We do.
There is a certain ebb and flow to TPC's cycle year after year.
We do revisit some of the same songs and some of the same content and articles at certain points of the year.
And each year as I even post some of the same stuff to the blog and say like, it'll automatically capture the URL.
It'll say like, put a number after it.
And if we've used it before, it'll be like number seven because we've done it seven years in a row.
But hey, if you find something you like, Kim, you got to stick with it.
We are traditionalists, are we not?
You know what?
I totally agree with that.
When you were playing the intro music of Oh Holy Night, I just wanted to say people that say they don't like Christmas music, it's an instant turnoff.
I'm sorry, if you say you don't like that song, Oh Holy Night, that's like saying, I don't like puppies.
And that bugged me.
Well, it's our traditions, though.
See, the thing, Christmas brings in our tradition.
You know what?
We're reading stuff and singing things that people were singing 10 centuries ago, oftentimes.
And that is probably the closest we get to really reaching out and touching our ancestors.
That's a beautiful.
Keith, that's a fantastic way to put it.
Yes.
Absolutely.
And duly noted.
Well, Kim, listen, we've got to ask you the questions we're going to be asking Lacey and Courtney to follow you.
Obviously, when we're talking about the Christmas spirit, what does Christmas mean to you?
Well, I think I'm going to spill Keith's line and your line actually that y'all have talked about tonight.
And y'all have talked a lot in the past about ancestral memory.
And that's tied in.
Of course, you know, we're Christians as you guys are.
So, you know, your first answer is, you know, Christmas is about the birth of baby, the birth of Christ.
And I think there's so much that gets tied into that as well.
It's all the ancestral memory.
It's the faith of our people.
It's going to your grandparents' house if you were so blessed to do that growing up.
I know you were James, and my best Christmas memories were going to my grandparents' house and them taking us to their little country church where my grandfather this year was buried.
He had his service there at that church.
All of those things are tied into who we are as a people.
You know, definitely our faith.
It's something that I really want to place into the hearts of our children.
Sometimes I feel like it can be difficult with the competition with presents and materialism.
I feel like that's always kind of a struggle.
But I think just as Christian parents, we have to do our best to keep refocusing our children onto the birth and life of Christ and to also enjoy the memories and the traditions for sure.
I appreciate that answer very much.
And this is exactly what I was hoping to be able to convey to the audience tonight.
I mean, you have to be able to put it into words.
I mean, there's a feeling you have, but I don't know really.
I hope I'm not overlooking anybody.
If I am, I don't do so intentionally, but I don't know of any other pro-white, pro-nationalist program that really drives home the real meaning of Christmas like this show does.
And it's important to be able to put it into words and not only be able to put it into words, but be able to put it into life as we are doing with very real people like you tonight, Kim.
And of course, people that we know for a fact live it as they speak it.
So it's been a difficult year.
It's been an unusual year.
What are you doing to get your wonderful family, your incredible husband, your fantastic children who we've had the opportunity to know and love?
What are you doing to get into the spirit of the season in this most unusual of years?
Well, we're kind of, you know, this year we've really had a wonderful, it's been, you know, times of sadness, but also just a lot of wonderful moments for our family.
And so, you know, as Christmas has started, the season has started, I've done what I've always have done, which is play Christmas music non-stop, basically.
In fact, I even get on to my kids if I come in and they're playing some normal album.
I'd say, you know, you can do that 11 months out of the year.
You need to be playing Christmas music.
And I play every single day.
I agree 100%.
Thank you.
And there's so many genres that are wonderful from, I play Celtic harp and flute Christmas music.
I play the London Philharmonic.
I play bluegrass.
I play classic country.
I mean, I play all the genres.
So that's definitely something that I want my kids to grow up and do.
I want them to play Christmas music to fill the house.
You know, we'll do things.
We always do my homemade gingerbread cookies.
I have my one recipe.
And that's another thing as part of traditions.
Use your grandmother's recipe or use a recipe that you've always using year after year.
My kids always look forward to that.
We do a gingerbread house.
The last couple years, something we did growing up, but a wonderful movie.
I'm sure Keith probably already knows all about this movie is A Child's Christmas in Wales.
I highly recommend that to anybody listening.
You can watch it with your family.
It's clean.
And it will tie your family to our motherland if you're from England, if you have Welsh ancestry.
It's just a beautiful, beautiful Christmas story.
Well, I'll tell you, Kim, well, we do share not just that ancestral memory, but that true ancestry.
And I can remember sitting around my family and yours talking about the DNA test results and all of that that we are so want to do.
Unfortunately, Keith couldn't answer your question as to whether or not he knows that particular film because someone has hijacked his headset.
Someone very special to me wanted to say hello to you this last show before Christmas.
Oh, that's sweet.
Hi, Danny.
You got a real baby doll this year for Christmas.
Oh, my gosh.
I did.
I heard you were coming on, and I had to come in here and say hello.
How are people?
Oh, thank you.
How is life with the baby?
How are the kids?
Now, did y'all get Christmas gifts for the kids, or did y'all say we gave you a baby, and that's good enough?
Basically.
You get the gift of life.
Yeah.
Hey, and that's a gift we're certainly paying down right now as all those NICU bills have begun to roll in.
Oh, my goodness.
I did not expect all that.
So, yes, indeed, there was a price tag attached to that, to that.
But she is sure worth it all.
She is so sugary sweet.
She's just everything that I wanted.
I tell you, she is.
And I know the kids are, I'm sure, just gaga over her.
I love seeing the pictures.
And I'm just, it's so exciting as, you know, when everybody has doom and gloom this year, you guys can say, we had a baby.
And we're waiting for this.
One thing that's funny is that Henry, you know, of course, we can all talk about our kids on the first name together with Kim because they are family.
But as the music begins, Henry gave us his Christmas list.
Now, you know, we just had this baby.
We just had this baby.
Danny just had this baby.
Henry's Christmas list.
He wants a brother in a motorcycle.
A brother in a motorcycle.
After a few days of Caroline crying, he scratched that brother off.
Hey, Kim, we love you.
Merry Christmas.
Thanks for being with us.
Our best of your family.
We're back with Lacey.
Merry Christmas.
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Morn is the king of his music we're playing tonight, the voices of angels couldn't sound more heavenly.
I love Christmas carols, but there is something about hearing a woman or women singing these Christmas hymns, these spiritual hymns, that really I think brings them.
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It realizes their full potential.
Let's just say, well, we've gotten so many Christmas cards in.
Let's just read through a few of them before we get to our next guest, another friend.
Here is our, well, another dear friend, John, over in the UK.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
It's going to be a hell of a 2021.
Keep punching and Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you, John.
James, may the Lord bless you and Keith and your work in the coming year.
Thank you so much for that.
Here is a letter we got from our friend and supporter, Bob.
It goes back to the Council of Conservative Citizens days.
Bob, you know, I love another thing about our audience that they'll send us these letters that catch us up on what they've been up to over the course of the year and with their families and what their families have been up to.
We are all one family here and we'll be appearing.
Actually, I'll be on with Ramsey Paul on Christmas Eve, a Christmas Eve live stream.
And Ramsey Paul sent in a Christmas card.
James and Keith, hope you guys have a great Christmas.
Thank you, Paul, for that.
Here's one from a really old friend, Linda Mueller.
Linda is Pat Buchanan's webmaster.
Dear James, stop the steal.
Merry Christmas, love Linda.
I can remember being in Orlando with Linda one year.
We had a hell of a weekend together.
Fun times back during the Buchanan days.
That's for sure.
Well, thank you, Linda.
Always good to hear.
You know, that's another thing.
We hear from new friends and old friends.
And we've I would love to have Pat on again, like I said, to revisit, you know, just like we revisited your book from 2010 and 2011.
He had suicide of a superpower.
Will America survive to 2025?
We got to have a what a more, what more timely question can we ask him?
Well, we interviewed him about that on this show, and the 10-year review for that could be coming up.
But hey, let's get to Lacey Lynn.
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Lacey, how are you tonight?
Merry Christmas to you as well.
I'm doing well.
Thank you.
Actually, I have a bit of a cold.
So excuse my voice tonight.
You sound as incredible as always.
Don't worry about it.
You sound fantastic.
All right, well, listen, it's Christmas time.
What are you doing?
Well, if it is, you're probably going to pull through.
If it is, you won't have any temperature and you'll feel great in a couple of days.
Well, hey, listen, we don't want you to have anything.
We don't want you to have a cold.
We don't want you to have the flu.
We don't want you to have Rona.
We want you to be completely healthy because you do great work and you set an example for the rest of us to follow.
It's been a real delight over the course of the last couple of years to get to know you and your family better as well.
And I think, you know, the first time I became acquainted with you, Lacey, was on a Ramsey Paul Christmas live stream.
I think it was two or three years ago.
And so that's when I first became introduced to you and your work.
And of course, the rest is history.
So thanks again for being with us tonight.
How are y'all celebrating down there in Texas this year?
What are you doing to get into the spirit of the season and all that good stuff?
Well, last year, I started a Christmas curriculum with the boys for a homeschool.
And it's a Christmas unit study.
If any homeschooling women are watching right now or listening right now, so go to Gather Around Homeschool and download the or buy and download the Christmas unit study.
It's really good.
It's chalked full of lessons.
So you read from scripture, you read the Christmas story.
Each lesson is about, it'll take an aspect of Christmas, like the nativity or Joseph or Mary or the star, and it'll just give a whole lesson on that.
And it'll intertwine activities in within the lesson, like making gingerbread cookies, writing Christmas cards, a letter to Santa, all these fun things.
If your kids are like 10 and under, they'll love it.
And this is, I think this is the last year that my kids will be that young.
So I'm definitely trying to soak up all of the magic and the belief, you know, this year.
They're at that age where they're turning a little bit too old for the magic of it.
And it's just, I want to hold on to it as long as possible.
It's funny you mentioned that because my wife, I know you and my wife follow each other on social media.
And we are at that stage with our daughter as well.
Our daughter's 10.
And I think my wife, she made me laugh the other night.
She said, I think you referred to some of your kids' friends as Grinches because they're trying to take away some of that magic of Christmas.
And yeah, I lament that as well, you know, having to sit down.
I remember, you know, the talk my mom gave me when she revealed to me some truths about, well, we don't want to go into too much because this is a family show about Christmas and how all that works and stuff.
But anyway, no, listen, once that's gone, once that stage passes, it can't go back.
I think it is endearing to preserve a child's innocence with regards to the magic and the wonder of it all.
I mean, there is still, of course, the wonder that is transcendent and the wonder that is very real in Christ and in our faith and in all of that.
But there are some of the more trivial aspects of it that only last for a time.
So I'm with you 100% on that, Lacey.
Definitely.
And it's been such a hard year, not only for adults, but I think we adults need to recognize how hard it's been on children.
I mean, for the first part of the year, my kids weren't playing with any other kids.
I mean, they were homeschooled and their neighborhood friends couldn't play outside either.
And going to movie theaters, getting out, parks.
I mean, for the whole first half of year, and probably a lot of other places in the country, even still right now, I just happen to live in Texas and we started getting out again a lot earlier than everybody else.
But this has been a really hard year for kids.
So holding on to something like a Christmas curriculum or we're doing eggnog actually after I get done here.
And every year, my mother-in-law and I would go to see It's a Wonderful Life shown in the theater out on the big screen.
And they're not doing that this year.
So we'll have to make do with what we have and make some homemade apple cider, just little touches to make it fun and watch the movie inside, just holding on to what you can.
So it's just been, I mean, you can do that.
Lacey, you can do that if anyone can, because we received a gift box from you last year that had all sorts of canned goods.
And I know you're, in fact, a queen at all that cannot be.
If you're looking for entertainment in my house, you could have the nuclear winner.
And, you know, by the time before the life of plutonium, what do they call it, the cell life of plutonium was over, we still wouldn't have seen all the Christmas movies and movies, old movies, I forget.
Hey, Christmas movies, and Lacey's particularly crafty and good with foods and arts and all that stuff.
So I can guarantee you, you're going to be celebrating in high fashion at your home here over the course of this next week.
So take us behind.
We got more stuff in there.
Oh, we're getting another.
Oh, see, now I was talking about last year.
Let me ask you this.
You're in Texas.
Tell us about secession.
Is anybody talking about that in Texas?
Can we set secession in a Christmas time?
Well, of course.
It's always on topic.
Just about anything that happens nationally.
Secession is a topic in Texas.
It can be just as simple as raising taxes or whoever gets in office.
I mean, they're always talking about it.
Well, you know, you all have a special status regarding secession.
You actually are authorized to secede.
I've heard that.
Based on the documentation under which you entered the union.
Well, we're going to let Lacey can some jams and watch Christmas movies.
Then she'll take it.
And then she can work on that in her spare time.
Homeschooling and everything else that she does.
And she does set such a great and incredible example for ladies.
And Lacey, give us the information on how people can follow more of your work.
I know you've been big into the Miss America this year, the Phyllis Schlafly hit piece that Netflix has done.
You've deconstructed that in fine fashion, but give us all that contact.
Yes, well, I wrapped up with the Mrs. America reviews, and I interviewed Phyllis Schlafly's daughter probably three times during the entire review process.
So all of those videos are on a playlist on my YouTube channel.
What project I'm working on right now is interviewing Barbara Billingsley's kids.
Wow, okay.
Well, I tell you what, you know, there's something about that.
We interviewed Mel Gibson's dads.
But you got to interview Carl Betts' children now, too, because, you know, you wanted to be Barbara Billingsley, but you wanted you to be married to Carl Betts in the movie.
Well, she is, though.
That's the thing.
She is wrong, but that's, listen, Lazy, thank you so much.
Merry Christmas.
We'll talk to you again soon.
A Merry Christmas to your husband and children as well.
Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
You know where the solution can be found, Mr. President?
In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world.
More babies will mean forward-looking adults, the sort we need to tackle long-term, large-scale problems.
American babies in particular are likely going to be wealthier, better educated, and more conservation-minded than children raised in still industrializing countries.
As economist Tyler Cowan recently wrote, quote, by having more children, you're making your nation more populous, thus boosting its capacity to solve climate change.
The planet does not need for us to think globally and act locally so much as it needs us to think family and act personally.
The solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids.
Have we realized the assault against our lives, our liberties, our faith?
To defeat this assault, Christians and all people of goodwill should have strategies to prevail in our faith and principles, which are simple.
No need for a complex formula.
One goal, one aim.
A strategy like the heroic Christians of the past.
We win, they lose.
Nothing less.
Big Q Little Q, The Calm Before the Storm.
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Great slams all at light.
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.
Christmas from Dixie tonight.
Well, amen to that, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back.
I want to thank Nancy in Kentucky for her Christmas card.
I want to thank Bill in Kentucky for his.
Oh, I know what's going on.
Keith left his mic wide open.
Yeah, that's what it was, Sam.
You called it.
Keith left his mic pointing to where we go.
Now we're back.
So thanks to Nancy in Kentucky.
Thanks to Bill and rather Nancy.
Well, they're all from Kentucky.
Thanks to Jared George and Jason for their card.
Micah, Merry Christmas.
My president is Trump winning again and winning the lottery.
So I can donate to you and many others.
Well, thank you, Micah.
We hope you win the lottery for sure.
That's for sure.
Let's see.
Alan down in Florida.
Alan always draws a Confederate flag on his handwritten notes.
We thank him for that.
Alan, dear Mr. Edwards, Merry Christmas to you and Mr. Alexander, to everyone at TPC.
Congratulations on another great year.
And I look forward to 2021.
We look forward to spending it with you as well, Alan.
And as a matter of fact, I just sent you a Christmas gift in the mail today.
And lastly, dear James from Nathan in Vermont.
Thanks so much for the hard work you do.
I can't exaggerate what a great time I had with y'all in Mississippi.
A real bright spot in a dark year.
Well, someone else who was with us at that particular event was the lady we have on with us now, as Sam Dixon calls her, the Rose of Alabama, Courtney from Alabama.
And we just had the music from Alabama, Christmas and Dixie.
Courtney, thanks for being with us tonight.
How are you?
Thanks.
I'm good.
How are you?
I kind of have a funny story about the band Alabama.
I actually met the lead singer in that, Randy Owens.
His son is close to my age.
And he was playing, he was on the baseball team, the 14 Alabama baseball team.
And his team was playing my sister's boyfriend's team because he was on the baseball team also.
And so we knew that he was at the game somewhere.
We were looking around for him way years ago in high school.
And we spotted him towards the end of the game, Randy Owens, up in the stands.
And my sister's boyfriend's team beat his son's team.
And so he was walking around at the end of the game looking upset.
He's a huge, huge, monstrous-looking man.
He's walking around looking upset.
And my sister wanted to get his autograph so badly.
And she had another friend with us.
And they go running up to him like these giggling, you know, girl fans do, stereotypical, you know, thing you see.
And he just kind of gives them this look like, not this again.
You know, he just, he was so depressed, he just wasn't interested.
And so he doesn't even look at us.
He just starts signing his name for us.
And my sister was trying to make small talk.
She said, oh, by the way, your son played a good game.
And he's like, no, he didn't.
And, you know, the whole time he's just not looking at us.
But anyways, we got his autograph.
That's all that matters.
Well, that's a great story.
I know you didn't go gaga goo goo for him because it wasn't Paul McCartney.
Am I right?
Oh boy, you know, um James didn't go gaga goo-goo over him because he's not Frankie Valley.
There's several.
There's actually several famous singers I'd probably go goo gog over.
And yeah, I've always heard each one of them.
There's others.
And I did, I did think it was pretty cool meeting Randy Owens.
Maybe not at the time as a teenager, but now, you know, I'd probably make a bigger deal about it.
But yeah, there's several men I'd probably, male singers, I'd probably go goo gog over.
But you're right.
Okay, well, anyway, he gave us a good song.
I'll give him this much.
Christmas and Dixie, a great song.
I wonder if they'd still sing it in concert.
I can't imagine you had trouble locating him.
He is rather singular looking.
I can't imagine that he's a creature.
He didn't stand out and crack in my life.
Oh, he's a doo-up guy.
He's a huge mountain man-looking guy.
Pretty intimidated.
That's fitting for the genre in Alabama.
They do have mountains in Alabama and all of that.
Well, anyway.
Do all the men in Alabama look like him?
Michael Hill does.
Yeah, that's right.
Bring Michael back on here pretty soon.
There's a lot.
Courtney would know she is Courtney from Alabama, after all.
We're having entirely too much fun with Courtney, as we always do when she's on.
She was last on with us at Halloween, and she appears throughout the year.
And it's Christmas this time, and she'll be back on with us when we have the full ladies' night of Valentine's Day, which, if you can even believe it, I was just talking about this a moment ago, but Valentine's Day is only like, what, eight weeks away?
I mean, it's already here, basically, as Kim was talking about earlier.
We run on a cycle here at TPC.
Well, I'll tell you this.
I was a little bit tired earlier, but all these pretty girls tonight have perked me up this hour.
My wife's here with us tonight.
We've heard from Kim and Lacey and now Courtney.
And, you know, that'll certainly get you woken up.
It's like a sugar high.
You're going to crash later tonight.
Well, for sure.
But we got Pastor Brett McCatey coming on next to share with us the biblical accounting of the Christmas story.
But first, Courtney from Alabama.
She's with us.
A trio of our favorite ladies were featuring this hour as we talk to them about Christmas and what Christmas means to them and their children and their family.
What they're doing to get into the Christmas spirit, the spirit of the season, and how they're celebrating.
Courtney, where do you want to go with that?
Well, you can, if you want to go by format and just walk me through the three questions, I think the first question was, what does Christmas mean to me?
Was that it?
That's it.
That's it.
Okay.
Yeah, two things.
Of course, you know, it's cliché, but it needs to be said.
You know, the first thing is, you know, the importance of the birth of Christ.
That's the whole meaning of it.
And I know your pastor will talk about that in the next hour.
But, you know, another thing, it's just a time where it just conjures up really nostalgic feelings of Europe for me.
You know, there's the stereotypical Christmases in Germany that everybody thinks about.
That's where the Christmas trees came from and all the, you know, the famous Christmas markets over there.
And if you haven't, and I know, I think, well, if anybody hasn't gone to those Christmas markets, oh my gosh, they're so impressive.
They really, they really know how to do Germany there.
But, you know, also it just conjures up nostalgia for England too, you know, which is where my ancestry's from.
It makes me think of Charles Dickens and just that whole time period when the United Kingdom was actually just very, you know, was going through some of its best years.
It was just so powerful and great, and they were proud of themselves.
And, you know, and I just think of, you know, Charles Dickens and the great writer he was during that time.
And it just, you know, it just reminds me of, you know, it reminds, there's various parts of Europe it just makes me think of.
And then, also, you know, even over here in America, you just played Alabama.
But, you know, there's kind of like this country Christmas setting that I think of that gets me excited.
You know, Christmas in the Smokies or, you know, like when you hear a Dolly Parton Christmas song or an Alabama Christmas song, it's like this image you think of, like a cabin in the smokies all decorated.
And that gets me excited too.
So it's just feelings of nostalgia like that and just getting to see family and stuff like that.
It's just, there's so much that's special about it.
Well, that's what Christmas means to you, and rightly so.
But what are you doing this year, this year of all years, the COVID year, to get into the spirit of the season to the extent that you can?
I know you're on a little family activity tonight.
And how are you celebrating this year?
What really gets me into the spirit is, oh, man, I use boxes and boxes of decorations, and I use all of them every year.
And I'm not somebody who, you know, there's a lot of women who just have to like to stick with one theme when they're decorating and only use one type of decoration, you know, like one color scheme throughout their entire house and it's prim and proper looking.
I just have a hodgepodge of all sorts of different things.
And, you know, and I think it looks nice.
If it's Christmas related, it goes, it goes together, I think, and it all looks good.
If somebody gives me something, I put it out.
You know, it's like whatever I've collected over the years for Christmas, it all gets put out and it's special and it makes the home look cozy, I think.
So that's how I get in the spirit.
I always have to have my home decorated.
Well, I'm going to pass on, as I did with Kim a moment earlier.
She's not often with me in the studio, but she is here tonight with our newest little baby Caroline.
And so my wife wanted to say hello to you very quickly.
And I'm going to share my headset.
So I'm completely disconnecting.
All right.
Well, let's just two big heads under one roof.
All right, go.
Hey, Courtney.
Hey, you got that sweet little baby?
I do.
It's hard to share this headset.
I'm scared I'm going to break it in half.
You're fine.
But I'll tell you, this is the moment where it needs to be television, not radio to see what Keith is seeing right now.
But I did want to take a moment to stop and say hello because I do love a ladies' night.
Yes.
Oh, oh, my goodness.
I've just, I love, I love seeing the pictures of that sweet little baby.
Of course, Courtney is the author of our ladies' nights.
You know, that basically she's the one who planned.
We're going to have a bigger one on Valentine's Day.
Oh, y'all are people.
No, yeah.
I think some of the sweetest shows are with all of my favorite people.
You and Keith.
Oh, that's so sweet.
I was enjoying it.
And it's so nice to hear people.
I know.
I know I am timid getting on here, but it's not my thing.
But I do enjoy having all my friends on here and hearing y'all's special moments too.
Yes.
Y'all have a great Christmas.
All right.
Well, Courtney, you as well.
Merry Christmas to you.
Merry Christmas to all the ladies who joined us tonight.