Feb. 13, 2021 - 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.
Each time we have a quarrel, it almost breaks my heart.
That we will have to part.
Each night I ask for the stars above.
Why must I be a teenager in love?
One day I feel so happy.
Next day I feel so sad.
I guess I learned to make the good with the bad.
Cause each night I ask for the stars up above.
Why must I be a teenager in love?
Oh, what a song.
What a song.
That is Dion and the Belmont.
Dion survived the night the music died.
That's an interesting story.
I'll have Keith recite that story next week when he's back.
But that is a fantastic song.
That's when some of our guests tonight found love when they were teenagers.
Megan, my wife, maybe Kim, but maybe others too.
But in any event, you don't have to find it at that age.
That's the important thing.
You can find it at any age in our guest now, Janice, who is an inspiration to me, an inspiration to our audience.
She has become a regular guest over the years.
Her husband, Rich, one of the most generous supporters of this show, he too is a member of the family.
We are so thankful to have them as part of not only our listening family, but quite frankly, our physical and spiritual family as well.
Janice, you know how much we love you and Rich.
You're always a welcomed guest in our home, and it's great to have you tonight.
I wouldn't dare dream of having a show like this without you.
Thank you for being with us.
Well, thanks for having me on.
But that was an odd choice of songs despite we were not teenagers.
And to be honest with you, we've never had a fight.
Well, that's probably why you met when you're not teenagers.
Well, it's a good song.
Number one, two things.
Number one, it's a good song.
But number two, it goes to show, and we brought that song up in your segment specifically to prove the point that you do not have to necessarily be a teenager to find love.
It's a story.
It's one of the stories I best like telling.
So we've got to get to important matters of state tonight.
And there's so much we need to cover with you, Janice, especially you.
But first, you know the love story of you and Rich, and you know what I want to get to.
Can you tell us what I'm thinking of?
I mean, the betting process, the whole courtship between you and Rich.
Tell us how we factor in.
Okay.
Well, the first time Richard and I met each other, we didn't like each other, to tell you the truth.
And then we kept meeting at Ron Paul's Liberty on the Rocks, and we would sit and talk.
And then he started, he would share books with me.
And then he also, first he started me out slow, books first.
Then it was, he wanted me to go to League of the South meeting, meet him there, so I did.
And then I think the last thing he did was he said, I want you to listen to this radio program called the Political Festival.
You can pull it up on your computer.
And I think he really thought that would be something that would so horrify me that I would run from him.
And I was like, what was wrong with that?
They didn't go far enough.
But I know why you don't go any further.
That's because, you know, you can't, or you would be all there.
And you do have a message to tell everybody.
And that is, it's okay to be white.
And we need to be proud of our ancestors.
And so, but yeah, he used the show to kind of vet me.
And then we knew each other.
And, you know, like, that's one thing that some of the other girls had brought up.
And it was really important for both of us to kind of vet each other, especially after we had a failed first marriage.
You don't want to do that, go down that road again.
To know that the other person was on the same wavelength.
The same things were important.
The same things meant something to you.
And, you know, all three of the other ladies have touched on that, that that was an important thing that you have to have the same.
I like the way that Rebecca put it, that you have to have the same worldview.
And you do.
We have to have a biblical worldview, what most lost people have just a humanist worldview.
And you both have to have it to have a successful marriage.
You have to have one or the other worldview to have a successful marriage because not all your listeners are believers, but they still have to have common ground with their spouse.
And Richard was very, Richard and I were very cautious and very careful.
And one thing that Megan was talking about is, you know, you put all your cards on the table, who you are.
And when you're just talking to somebody as a friend, you're not as cautious about holding things back as like when you want, you're trying to impress somebody.
And I tell younger people, the worst thing you can do is just try to impress somebody.
Be friends.
Because a friendship made in the beginning of the relationship is going to be what carries you through all the bad times.
If you're not friends, you know, there's not a whole, you can't really build on anything.
You have to be friends first.
And if nothing else, Richard's been the most interesting friend I've ever had.
Well, listen, we call him Mr. Wonderful around here, Janice, as you know, because he's always so full of encouragement and praise.
Hey, Rich is a guy who will tell you what he thinks, good, better, and different.
And I love him, and I love you.
And you're part of our family.
And we've been to events together.
We've been to funerals together.
Yeah.
And it's just been such an honor.
I want to tell you, especially, Janice, it's been an honor to know you and your family.
Well, I could say that about everybody we're having on tonight.
I mean, I mean, it's only half a dozen people.
They are all part of it.
And League of the South, by the way, well, I just got to say, Michael Hill deserves some benevolence or some bequests because it looks as though he played a role in at least two of the marriages we've had tonight, both you and Rich and Megan and her husband.
Megan and her husband.
Yeah, Megan, Megan meeting her husband through League of the South demonstrations and so.
But it goes to show.
And listen, it can happen at any age.
So, I mean, I obviously met my wife as a teenager.
Megan's husband met her as a teenager.
I don't know exactly how old Kim was when she met her husband, but she wasn't much older than a teenager because I know I met her in the early 2000s, and I'm a little bit older and not much, but it's within the margin of error anyway.
But it doesn't have to happen that way.
And you and Rich have inspired me so much.
And you've been such a part of our story.
But it just goes to show we're talking about Valentine's Day, finding mates, finding spouses, building families.
Listen, it doesn't have to happen when you think it should happen.
It can happen at any age.
And when it does happen, it will be just as important, just as impactful.
And Janine can testify to that, and we will continue to ask for her testimony.
When she comes back, she's with us for another segment.
Stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen.
Janice, as we continue our Valentine's Day weekend, she'll be back right after this.
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Because, because I love you.
Hey, Funny, I gotta tell you.
I don't want to tell you because I want Sam to continue to run those songs.
So Sam, just ignore me and continue.
Because when you say these things, you know it makes them money.
From the 1980s.
I was born in 1980.
I can sing all these songs like the back of my hands.
It's the best music that was ever made, being highlighted by the best women that were ever made.
But I can tell you, Janice actually was around when these songs were made.
And man, that must have been something.
I envy Keith.
I ask him every week, well, man, it must have been better back then than it is now.
I didn't have the chance to live through that, Janice.
We did have better music than you're people.
Thank you.
Well, listen, the Dave Clark 5, because, I mean, you were around.
I go to these concerts still.
I was born in 80.
I'm 40.
I was, you know, this music was long gone by the time I was born, but I was attracted to the best of all things, the best of women, the best of music, the best of ideology.
And that's why I'm here now.
And that's why there is a TPC.
But wow.
I mean, for you and Rich to and Keith and for all of the, you know, I joke.
I joke sometimes.
There are other people that listen to you.
No, no, no.
Well, however you want to put it, but no, no, no.
I joke.
I say, you know, I am so blessed.
I was actually on a radio show a few nights ago and I said, when I started this show, I was 24 years old.
And I said, I can't imagine how anyone older than me would have cared what I had to say because I have so little respect.
Can I say something to that?
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Talk about that.
And you have Megan on, and she's only 24.
I mean, yes, I find her she has a lot of wisdom and she just needs to continue to hang out in.
And the other women, Rebecca and Kim, are both younger than me.
Probably all three of them could be my children.
And they've all showed a lot of wisdom and intelligence.
And I just wanted to commend all three of them that, you know, they're showing the wisdom they have.
And I would say all of them have the wisdom from God.
And I'm glad that they're sharing this wisdom with everybody and that they do it within their circle that's right there with them.
Their family and the people that are around them.
And I just thought, you know, that it's important that they continue to have that influence in their sphere, in their world.
And so, yeah, that's why people listened to you when you were 24, because what you did say touched people.
It hit them where some moves that they'd always thought they always felt they didn't think anybody else felt that way.
Hang on.
Janice, I'm only laughing because just as you were speaking, your husband, Mr. Wonderful himself, texted me and said, We still don't care what you have to say.
But I know that's in Justin in good taste.
Richard's one of our most benevolent sponsors and benefactors.
Listen, I love y'all for that and for so much more.
You got to have a sense of humor in this life.
Listen, do you not, ladies and gentlemen?
You have to have a sense of humor in this dystopian 1984.
I mean, we're beyond whatever Orwell could have envisioned when he wrote 1984.
We're beyond that.
They were planning it back then.
They were planning it back then.
There you go.
They were telling you up front what they wanted to do to our world.
Yes.
And if you let me go through this, then I'm going to touch on that again.
But, you know, the main thing is that.
We've got about four minutes left.
It's all yours.
Yeah.
All four of us have come to the same conclusion as you and your spouse have to be on the same page.
Now, I'm going to give them some wisdom on the other end of it that it's important to be on the same page for your children's sake.
And I have living experience of this.
My ex-husband and I worry about a star way in thinking by the time the marriage ends.
And that hurts your children.
If you do not have the same goals in mind for them, I wanted a homeschool.
He didn't.
He thought people that homeschooled were weird.
So sorry to all you ladies at homeschool.
You're weird to him.
I think you're wonderful.
Keep it up.
It's a sacrifice.
It means that the wife cannot work outside of the home if she's going to homeschool your children.
And it's really important.
You know, and it's all these little things.
You have to be on the same page.
You have to have the same worldview.
Literally, you are Christian or non-Christian.
You have to look at things the same way.
And even non-Christians can look at a lot of things in this world that Democrats are crazy.
They're weird.
They're out of this world and off the world.
And, you know, you have to look on things the same way.
And like, and I had a wife, one of Richard's friends tell me, he says, love is like dancing and men are to lead.
And I think that's an important lesson for women because we do tend.
God told us we're going to want to take, we're going to want to get the authority over our husband.
He told Eve that.
Why do I think I'm any different than Eve?
And so, you know, we have to always remember: men are who God put in place to lead the wife and the family.
But it makes it a lot easier when the husband also loves the wife as Christ loved the church.
Because if, you know, Megan made, you know, she said something about Marshall always stuck to his person, you know, to his beliefs.
He wouldn't waver.
That's important.
A man not wavering in what he says and what he believes and what he thinks.
Then you can say as a woman, I can trust this person.
Because you know what?
He's not flip-flopping.
He's not constantly changing his mind.
He's solid.
And that's an important thing.
You don't want to flip-flop on things like that.
But, you know, you have, and then your politics and the love of your ancestors and your history is so important.
And, you know, what kind of things you like to do as a family.
And these are all important things for a husband and wife because you know what?
One day all those little children, all the little pitter-patter of the feet are going to be gone.
They're not going to be there.
And you're stuck with this spouse.
And if you have not cultivated a relationship and a friendship to that husband or wife, it's like, why am I with them?
You have to cultivate that at all times.
And now that I've done preach, now I'm going to step on toes.
And that is, you know, I am thankful that most of the ladies that were on here are homeschooling their children and that they think it's important and they love their husbands.
But some have said they have a Christian worldview.
And then I want to step on toes and say, if we really want a Christian home worldview, we cannot be inviting Satan into our home all the time.
We don't need to be watching the garbage they have on TV or listening to a lot of the garbagey music.
There's a lot of good music, there's a lot of trash.
And we don't need to be spending our money on going to movies.
I mean, 1984, every movie that's ever made, they are stepping us up into believing what they want us to.
I watched a 1974 movie that was about women's rights.
It was very subtle, but it was all about, you know, women are good and men are bad.
You know, we need to vote.
And so you just, we need to be careful about what we allow our children to see and hear and letting them.
I hope none of the women in there let your kids play video games all day.
It's so awful.
It's a horrible thing.
I don't.
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They reach for her, but she's not there.
Go to pieces and I wanna hide.
Go to pieces and I almost die every time my baby passes by.
I remember what she said.
Let me tell you the truth.
The truth is, I have done a lot of shows and it's been a lot of hours on radio since 2004 when we started this particular broadcast.
And I will tell you that a few shows are as important to me as this one tonight.
And it is because of the guests that we're having, these ladies.
And this music and all of the memories and all of the things we're bringing to you this evening, it stands out.
It truly does.
And I have known Courtney for nearly as long as we have done this program.
Courtney is closing us out tonight.
She's our closer.
All of these fantastic women, we wanted our mascot.
And I'll call her our mascot because she goes back so long.
Courtney from Alabama, that is a special song to both of us, but for you for a very special reason.
Courtney, would you mind sharing with us why?
Oh, hey.
Thanks for having me on.
Yeah, that's just my parents are baby boomers and just like yours are.
And I grew up on oldies music.
And that's just where most of my good memories come from is that type of music.
Of course, you know, as a child, I grew up with 80s music too, because that was my decade as a kid.
And that's special to me, too, but not as special as it not quite as special as 60 music because this music is just better.
And my parents played it all the time.
I mean, that was just one of those songs that they played over and over again, not over and over again on repeat, but it was just on one of the albums they played, like a mix of 60s hits.
And so I heard it a lot.
And my parents love that duo.
So anyways, it's just a beautiful song.
I love it.
It makes me feel good.
Well, that's why we're playing it tonight.
I guess I'm the same as you.
I was born in the 80s, literally 1980.
I barely made it.
I barely skirted under the Gen X banner, but I knew the best music that was ever made.
And I knew the best thoughts that were ever made, the best heroes that were ever made.
And that's who we celebrate.
And that's who we showcase here on this particular broadcast.
This is TPC Courtney.
You know, we've been talking with a lot of ladies tonight, several of which, several of whom go back with me many, many years.
You go back with me as far as nearly any of them.
And I'm thankful for that.
And I'm thankful for you spending a little bit of your Valentine's Day weekend with us.
So where do we want to go?
You are the last of a half dozen women who have appeared on the program this night.
What do you want to share with the audience?
I guess I'll talk about a little bit of my, you know, just some quick thoughts on marriage and then, you know, kind of reiterate some of the stuff I went into last time, last Valentine's Day, about dating.
Just kind of elaborate on that some more.
It's just some important, you know, points to go over again, I guess.
And just like you, I enjoy it.
So I enjoy the topic.
So, but I'll start with a couple of quick points about some thoughts on marriage, just some things I've learned myself being married.
Yeah, well, something important, and maybe this is stating the obvious, is that both, you know, husband and wife, they both bring very important elements to a marriage and raising kids.
I mean, different elements for sure, because men and women are different and we both have different roles.
But very, you know, if I can, I don't know if I can say equally important, but I'm sure it was God's plan for them to be equally important, even if they're very different roles.
And, you know, like, like I'll give my marriage as an example, you know, my husband has weaknesses in areas I don't when it comes to stuff related to the kids and vice versa.
I have weaknesses that he doesn't have.
You know, I might be better at making sure the kids eat nutritious food throughout the day instead of just candy.
And I'm better, you know, I might be better at making sure they go to their appointments, but he's better at making sure they reach their milestones.
He's a better disciplinarian.
You know, when it comes to milestones, you know, us women have a weakness of wanting to baby our children forever and ever.
You know, they're our babies.
And the man, you know, my husband's like, okay, it's time to put the baby on the floor, but could get it out of your arms, put it on the floor, let it crawl some, stuff like that.
So I appreciate him for that.
And I see, I easily see how he, you know, gives in areas where I lack and vice versa.
So that's, I think that's important to remember.
And, you know, the man overall is supposed to lead, you know, but at the same time, I think it's important for both sides to listen to each other.
And I think the what I think it's kind of like a give and take thing.
Like the less that a woman nags, the more a man will listen.
But the more a man listens, the less a woman nags about things.
So, you know, that's just another quick important take-home point.
But anyways, are you still there?
Even quiet.
No, I'm definitely still here, Courtney.
I'll be waiting for you to take us to the house tonight.
Okay, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Let's see.
Okay, so and not only that, Courtney, Maya, not at, but if I could, not only am I here, my wife is here, and our youngest, Caroline, is here.
We are here, but I have my mic turned off because she's nursing, and you never know.
She might get mad.
Megan was nursing.
We have two guests tonight.
Two.
Tell me what other AM radio broadcast tonight featured two females nursing while they were on the air, except for TPC.
And so it's here.
Oh, it's happening as I speak, and I'm looking at it.
I love it.
Thank you, Jacob.
Oh, I love it.
No, hey, but we can go back to Peter and Gordon.
We can go back to, and listen, Courtney, don't be embarrassed.
We can go back to Peter and Gordon.
We can go back to the Beatles.
We can go back to anything.
Oh, man.
That's all more fun to talk about.
But no.
I mean, it's not more fun than talking.
No, I was listening to what you were saying.
Oh, you're so sweet.
Okay, but yeah, on the topic of dating, and I also forgot to mention at the beginning, I usually do things differently.
It seems like the other women do a much better job of listening to everybody else before they come on.
I guess I'm just running around always doing things up until my slot on the show.
So I don't get to listen until afterwards.
Hey, don't feel bad.
That's what I'm doing too.
I'm in and out doing stuff with the kids.
Don't that's what our jobs are.
So don't feel bad about that.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
And so if I say something, I don't want any of the other women to think I'm disagreeing with something they said.
If it's something different from what they said, I did not hear what they said.
So I'm not disagreeing with any of them intentionally.
But I'll listen tomorrow.
But, anyways, on the topic of dating, I want to elaborate on something I said last time, and that's taking self-responsibility.
Like in order to be successful, you have to take responsibility of yourself as a person.
And I think that's a Christian thing to do.
You know, I don't really like focusing on what one side's doing wrong more than the other, you know, like men versus women or whatever.
I think, you know, both sides, if you look from a biblical perspective, both sides, there's certain biblical truths we're all supposed to be living by, whether you're a man or a woman.
And there's areas that we as humans are falling short, especially with these younger generations, but it's happening in older generations too.
And one of them is just taking self-responsibility, like when you're dating and not, you know, taking, you know, you can change yourself and make and improve yourself in the dating field.
You can't control what other people are doing.
You can't, you can't get upset about this group and that group that doesn't want to date you.
You know, this group of women or that group of men, you know, whether you're male or female.
You know, we don't try, we don't support the transgender stuff on here, but I mean, like, if you're a man, you know, focusing on what the women are doing, if you're a woman, focusing on what the men are doing and complaining about it, you can change what you're doing when you're dating.
That's all you have control over.
And to give a good example, and I've never cussed on this show, and I can't believe I'm about to do this, but James already gave me permission to say this ahead of time.
I sent an email and asked.
That's how nervous I am about it.
But basically, you know, I'm going to give an example with my relationship with my father.
My father, to put it bluntly, is a smart ass.
I don't know how else to describe it, so I have to say smart ass.
I apologize.
But I'm, you know, I, on the other hand, I'm sensitive.
Well, I hear the music, so we'll get to it when we get back.
The scissors came in, Courtney.
The censors heard your profanity and they came in to shut us down before you can continue this talk enough.
That's not true.
It was a schedule.
Don't worry about it.
But we'll be back and we've got one more segment with Courtney, who ends our closure tonight.
What a fantastic half-dozen women we've had with us tonight.
Courtney will close us right after this.
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Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
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Who are they?
Democrat.
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.
By a friend of Medjagoria.
The strategy of heaven revealed.
Big Q Little Q, The Calm Before the Storm.
Available on Amazon.com or by calling Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.
Please lock me away and don't allow the day here inside where I hide with my loneliness.
I don't care what they say.
I won't stay in a world without love.
Birds sing out of tune and rain clouds hide the moon.
I'm okay.
Here I stay with my loneliness.
I don't care what they say.
I won't stay in a world without love.
Well, there they are, ladies and gentlemen.
Peter and Gordon, to send us into these last two segments, Peter Asher.
What would Courtney do to have a message from Peter Asher?
I wonder.
But in any I just really wish y'all could see him in between breaks singing.
Hey, was I not singing these songs, Danny?
Tell him what I'm saying.
I mean, you woke the baby up twice, but yes.
Well, so Danny said, put the Carolina mic.
No, just do it.
All right, Courtney.
Cut Caroline's mic.
Say, Dad has a little laugh.
Well, it was the best music ever made, and we don't have to be born in the 60s to know that, do we, Courtney?
No, not at all.
Oh, man, I love that.
Thanks for playing both of those for me.
I love that.
That was a very good deal.
That was just useful.
We all know after all these years, Courtney, you are the Beatles girl, and we could have done the Beatles for you, but I thought that would have been too predictable.
Cliche.
They have great music.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, I think so too.
Yeah.
But yeah, there were a lot of great hits from different groups back then, and my parents played a lot of them.
Some groups more than others.
I wonder who.
No.
But I love it all.
Obviously, the four seasons is she's alluding to, but in any event, let's get back.
Okay.
Let's get back to it.
Let's get back to it, Courtney.
Let's get serious here.
Let's get back to what we're supposed to be talking about tonight.
And that is the theme of the evening.
Female guests offering their thoughts on dating traditional roles for the women at home and in politics and building strong marriages and raising healthy families.
Now, I have brought to the audience tonight six of the best women that I could draw upon to paint that picture.
Thankfully, all my first choices accepted the invitation.
Courtney, you're among them.
Where do we want to go from now?
Okay.
Yeah, I was talking about, I don't want to repeat that word again.
But basically, my dad, you know, he's just one of those types, has a response for everything.
You know, he can hurt your feelings real easily.
A great father raised me wonderfully, but we've always had personality clashes.
I'm sensitive.
I'm, you know, I'm not like that.
He's the exact opposite.
He doesn't mind hurting your feelings.
So growing up, he made me cry a lot.
And even as an adult, I would cry a lot at things he said.
But, you know, it got to a point where I'm not going to change him.
I'm not going to, you know, he's in his 60s.
I'm not going to change him.
And I shouldn't expect him to change for me.
I can change myself.
I can grow up and get over it.
I can, you know, if he says something I don't like, I can get over it.
He's family.
I need to love him how he is.
And I can just ignore it and get over it.
Forget about it.
Become tougher.
You know, I can't expect him to change for me.
And I say the same thing to people when they're dating, you know, whether you're a man or a woman.
And I see this mistake made on both sides.
I mean, you can't sit and complain about, oh, this type of woman just doesn't like me.
I hate women.
I just hate all of them.
You know, none of them like me.
Well, okay, but are you dating?
Are you setting your standards too high while not improving yourself any?
And, you know, and I'll say the same to women too, because I see it on both sides.
And, you know, like if you're a woman who's 40 who refuses to date men over 45, you know, maybe that's why you're not getting dates.
You're a, if you're a man who's, you know, overweight and you're except that the supermodels aren't dating you will make.
Maybe you need to lose some weight, you know.
So uh, focus on what you can do to improve yourself instead of always, instead of blaming the opposite sex for why you're not being successful.
Because I can.
You know every single person I've ever known that's constantly complaining, you know, constantly complaining about how they're not successful with the opposite sex and they're blaming it on the opposite sex.
Every situation, whether male or female, I've noticed that, you know, it's like I can look at that person and kind of assess why they're not getting dates and I'm not saying that to be mean, you know I'm not.
I applied the same disciplines and rules when I was dating.
I had to, you know, eventually come to a point where I was like, what am I doing wrong?
What am I doing wrong?
And, and you know, every time some, every person I've known who's complained constantly about the opposite sex, you know, instead of improving themselves, it's like I can always see why they're not getting dates really easily.
So anyways, you know, and the other thing is, when you're dating, you have to be positive, you have to be, you have to go into the dating field being positive.
I don't care if you're a male or a female, it's so such a turn off to the opposite sex.
When you're so negative, I mean it's a huge turn off.
I went on a date with a guy once.
Of course I'm married now, but and this is not much I'm not talking about my husband when I was dating him, but somebody else.
I went on a date with a guy once and it was like every time it's like everything I did he was like, right what, what's wrong?
What's wrong.
Why are you looking at me like that?
What, what did I do wrong?
What what what, what you know?
And it's like he was so insecure, you know, it got to the point where I just wanted to get up and leave because you're, you're putting work on the extra person.
When you come into a date with a bad attitude like that and it shows.
I mean, even if you're not verbally showing it, it shows.
So you know and I know, something that a lot of us struggle with is finding somebody who's you know.
You, you worry about finding someone who's racially aware and you can't, you can't be too picky on that.
This has been.
This has been mentioned before by other women on this show last year.
I didn't listen to this year, but last year I know a couple of them mentioned this and it's like you know, I mean a lot of it depends on where somebody's from, you know, I noticed.
I mean I'm from Alabama, that's where my ancestors are from, going way back.
I'm a real southern girl, but I did spend time in other states before I got married and I've dated, you know, men from different states.
You know in my past and I noticed that the furthest away I got from Alabama in the South, the less racially aware they tended to be, you know, whereas in the south it was more easy to discuss racial issues on dates.
But you know, even even dating a southern man, I still wasn't going to pull out Jared Taylor's book from Jared Taylor or something and start discussing it.
I still wasn't comfortable enough to do that.
What I noticed is usually like, especially with a southern man, usually at some point he starts talking about like race, like black crime or illegal immigrants or you know, and so that opens up a good window for you to share your views and you know.
And the same thing with women, you know, gosh women uh, white women, at least here in Alabama, like especially the Less education they have, like the more they're very racial and racially aware.
You know, I mean, again, with women, it depends on where they're from in this country, too.
Sometimes you might need to move, you know, and but like, yeah, in Alabama, like, yeah, like, especially the less education they have.
I mean, gosh, they're very on point about race.
I've noticed that I've never dated a white woman, but I've, you know, I've had conversations with them, and I've noticed this.
I've noticed how racially aware they are, depending on where they're from.
And, you know, even somebody who's liberal, you know, a white person who's liberal, it's like eventually they say something at some point that opens a window for you to bring that topic up.
I've noticed.
Like, you know, most of the time, I mean, I don't even know if a lot of times it seems to happen.
There was a woman from Michigan, a middle-aged woman from Michigan, who came down here to live, and she and I were in the same Bible study.
And she was one of these northerners who came down and she was so judgmental on how, you know, our attitude towards blacks.
And, you know, she was so, it's like she acted like she knew more than we did.
And we're so racist down here.
And that's all she would talk about.
But then one day I was around her and she started talking about all these Indian immigrants in Atlanta and just how mad it made her that they were there.
And, you know, because her daughter lives in Atlanta.
And, you know, that opened up a good opportunity for me to say, oh, yeah, you know, and I shared my experiences with that group.
And, you know, she might not be, you know, being from outside the South, she might not be too aware of, you know, the black issue, you know, the crime issue with racial differences and blacks and stuff down here.
But she, you know, but she might be somebody who you could easily talk to about third world immigration.
You know, she might agree with you on something like that.
So what I'm saying is, you know, you can't, when it comes to that topic, you don't have to be so forceful and picky about it, like on the first date.
Sometimes you have to kind of hear somebody out and listen to them talk a little bit.
And a lot of times they'll open up a window for you to say something back and feel them out.
Like even if they're not aware of racial crime, you know, they might be upset about another issue, immigration, or there's something that has impacted them somehow in their lifetime at some point.
I think that was it.
Hang on a minute.
This was.
Oh, yeah.
Tell you something.
I think you'll love us.
And I say that something.
I want to hold your hand.
I want to hold your hand.
Hey, listen, Courtney, believe me, that wasn't planned.
But Sam Bushman knows you as I know you.
And no Valentine's Day show would have been complete without a Beatles song.
And we'll have a Beatles song on the website tomorrow morning.
Sunday morning.
Sam, stop it.
Sam.
Hey, that's all, Sam.
You don't have to stop, Sam.
I mean, I will request you stop, but I mean, if you want to continue, you can't.
We only have a few seconds remote.
All right.
Sam says that's all we get to.
Hey, but listen, Courtney, thank you.
Tomorrow morning, Sunday morning, 2 a.m., we'll have a Beatles song by an orchestra.
I don't remember which one it was, but we have it scheduled.
That's all.
We dedicate that to all the ladies tonight.
Courtney, to Janice, to Kim, to Rebecca.
Who else, Danny?
Danny, my wife?
Yes.
Megan.
Megan, thank you.
Thank you.
There they are.
Hey, fantastic show tonight.
It'll be one that I remember all the way through the end of the year.
Courtney, thank you.
Thank you for having me on, and I really enjoy.
What do you want to say to Courtney?
Thank you for coming on.
I really enjoy listening to you talk.
And I wish that you lived closer so we could.
But she has a beach near her, and we're always wanting to go.
I know, and she sent a sweet little outfit for Caroline to wear and huh.