April 24, 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.
Virgil came to the name, and I served on the dental train.
Tristan was calmer and came and they tore up the tracks again in the winter of 65.
We were hungry till the ball.
I made 10 of Richmond and fell.
It's a time I remember when the night did no more kicks it down.
When all the bells were ringing, the night sit down.
And all the people were singing.
It was a great song and what a great song to wrap up our Confederate History Month coverage this evening.
Welcome back to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
Sometimes, as I said, we are at the whim of what the bird brings in.
The bird this week brought in the Derek Chauvin verdict and it brought in the situation at Columbus, Ohio, and it brought in some other things that we had to cover tonight, or else we would have gone two full hours wrapping up our annual Confederate History Month series.
But thank goodness we have this third and final hour where we're going to be talking about our shared heritage and our personal patrimonies.
And as we said last week and as we said earlier tonight, your ancestors are literally part of you.
And to understand yourself, you must first understand them.
And to help us bring clarity to that understanding is our good friend Courtney from Alabama.
Courtney, I think back in January, you got dibs on Confederate History Month.
And I said, yes, we will include you.
We will do that.
And we saved her for last.
And it has been a great month.
It kicked off with Rebecca dissident Mama Dillingham the first Saturday of this month, Gene Andrews, Dr. Michael Hill last week, Kirk Lyons, now Courtney.
Courtney, welcome back.
How are you?
I'm great.
How are you?
Thanks for having me.
Haven't spoken on this in a while.
I'm looking forward to it.
Before I get into it, I'll make a quick comment on the trial, and then we'll, you know, I know you want to quickly move on.
Yes, no, By all means, you know, that's certainly taken precedent.
Well, not necessarily precedent, but it's certainly taken over tonight any way you slice it.
So, yeah, what would you like to say about that?
You watch that, I'm sure, with interest as the rest of us did.
Yeah, I, you know, I don't, as a lot of people probably figured out by now who know me, I don't handle stories about wrongly convicted people very well, people that get sent to prison who don't deserve it.
I mean, other than losing your children and something terrible happening to them, I think that's the second worst thing that can happen to somebody.
And it just really, you know, I cry over these stories.
I cried over James Fields and his situation.
And my husband, he loves watching these shows about prisons all the time and the inmates and them like he just loves those shows.
And they always like to throw in all these stories about, you know, people who shouldn't be in there who've been wrongly convicted.
And, you know, I tell him, and he likes me to watch them with him.
He'll call me in the room to watch it with him.
I'm like, look, if this is one of those stories where somebody innocent goes to prison, I don't even want to know about it.
Don't call me in here.
And so, anyways, you know, when I was on the road driving when the Chauvin verdict came in, and well, when it was announced that they had a verdict, and my husband called me and let me know.
I had all my friends who knew I was big on the trial.
They let me know.
James even notified me.
And I, you know, and I said, you know, I told a few of them, I was like, you know, I don't think I can watch it.
I can't watch the verdict come in.
When it was the O.J. Simpson trial, they had the camera on his face.
And I cannot, and, you know, this can't be good.
If it's coming back this early and the jury's half black, you know, this cannot be a good verdict.
I cannot watch this.
I can't watch his face.
And, you know, they told me, you know, you might as well just watch it.
You know, just go.
So they convinced me.
I watched it.
And, you know, oddly enough, you know, it was hard to watch, but I didn't cry.
I think it's because Chauvin himself really didn't react much to it.
You know, it's like he took it like a man.
And I geez, I don't know how he did it, but maybe that's why it was so much easier for me to watch it this time.
And maybe also I've just grown so numb to this stuff by now.
You know, it's just getting so ridiculous.
I don't know.
Anyway, that's all I have to say on that.
Well, from Gettysburg on, we have been used to unfortunate and unjust setbacks, that's for sure.
So you do certainly build up a little bit of an immunity to it.
Courtney was late to that in some regards.
She's always been this eternal optimist.
And I've always been a glasses half-full type of happy warrior, too.
But at the same time, in this case, it was hard to imagine he would walk scot-free with the societal pressures that were being put on this.
But yes, I mean, no, you're not wrong, Courtney.
It's pretty hard to put a happy face on what is happening to America now.
And Chauvin and Nicholas Reardon are perfect examples of this.
Are we sure that was the cop's name in Columbus?
I know sometimes.
I believe it was.
Well, whoever the white cop was in Columbus.
But it looks like he's going to not get away with it, but not be martyred like Chauvin was.
Anyway, we don't know.
It just depends on what the media decides.
The media could still bring charges against him.
The media rules.
All right.
Well, anyway, that being said, Courtney, so what we're talking about this hour with you is, and let me go back to your notes here, which you so graciously sent me about three or four times because I kept losing them.
But the South as an ethnicity and how you wish Southerners in your state would focus on their similarities rather than fighting over football and these other transient and unimportant things.
Where do you want to go, Courtney?
Yeah, that was what I was going to start off with.
You know, the last time I've grown a lot over the years, I've matured.
The last time I was on, you know, your program, you know, talking about Confederate History Month, you know, I've changed a lot since then.
I was not a mother back then.
I wasn't married back then.
I've become a lot more softer and understanding.
When I was on your show last time for Confederate History Month several years back, I was a fireball on here.
I was like, you know, so I was very close-minded and very extremely pro-Southern about, you know, and that's okay to an extent, you know, but I know you have a lot of different other people in your audience, you know, who are good people too.
And, you know, one of the things I talked about was our ethnicity in the South and how, you know, we are unique and how we just have this, you know, we have this unique, we're like a subculture of the country and we've been this way, you know, and we haven't changed.
We're one of the regions that just has not changed much over the generations, you know, compared to other generations.
I know we have obviously changed, but compared to other regions, we still kind of have a lot of our identity.
And I made the remark that, oh, nobody else is really like that.
Well, you know, that's not true.
There are other regions.
You know, you have like the Italians in New York.
You have the Swedish people in the upper Midwest.
And, you know, there's a bunch of other interesting white ethnicities that we have.
But, you know, I guess I would say the southern ethnicity is the largest, and it's probably maybe still the most intact.
We're losing that very quickly.
You know, I would say if you can trace at least most of your heritage back to the Confederacy, that makes you a southern, you know, by a southerner by ethnicity.
Oh, I hear the music.
So, yeah, see, Courtney is such a problem.
She knows when the music starts, you got to stop.
But, you know, I was actually marveling in what you mentioned a moment ago that it has been that long since you appeared with us during our Confederate history, but it's because you are an intermittent guest who appears with us at least two or three times a year, every year, going back many, many, many years.
So interesting that you haven't appeared with us on this particular series in a while.
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me, said, Lord, you're quick, come and see that echoed of Roman E. Lee.
Now I don't mind chopping wood.
And I don't care if the money's longer.
You take what you need and you leave the rest.
But there she never had taken the very thing.
The night and no hope dixie down.
When all the bells were ringing, the night and no more digs it down.
And all the people were singing.
They went they may have driven them down, but they didn't drive them down easy.
And that is our heritage.
That is our ancestry.
The ancestry that I share with Keith Alexander and Courtney from Alabama.
My ancestors, the blood that pulses through my veins, they fought and they fought to the bitter end and they did their duty.
And if I'm to be snuffed out, I want to go down fighting.
I don't want to go down like so many of these simpering weaklings, you know, begging for a pat on the head by their overlords.
That is a beautiful thing.
As T.S. Eliot said, this is the way the world will end, not with a bang but a whimper.
We do not want to be able to do that.
Not if we have anything to say about it.
That song, though, the best thing to do.
I don't want to stand, of course, either.
Old Dixie Down by the band.
That was actually written by a Canadian musician who had visited the South.
And he said as he visited the South, people would keep telling him the South would rise again.
And that he saw such a beautiful sorrow in the sentiment of these people back in the 60s and the 70s when the song was written and how real it was and how palpable it was.
And so he put forth, and that is one of the greatest songs of all time.
Now, of course, since the band released that song, they themselves have tucked on it and apologized for it.
But it is a beautiful remembrance of the old South.
And though we went down, we went down fighting and we went down for the right reasons.
I'd like to read this to Courtney and get her response to it.
Some of the greatest Americans ever produced came out of the state of Tennessee, and I'll list them in order.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Davey Crockett, Andrew Jackson, Jack Daniels, and Edward Carmack.
Edward Carmack, you may not know.
Also, James K. Pohl.
And James Edwards and Keith Alexander, for that matter.
But anyway, if we're going to keep going down the list, but no.
Edward Carmack was a senator out of Tennessee, a United States senator.
He was three years old when the war between the states began, seven years old when it ended.
So it wasn't yet his time.
But he did go on to become a United States Senator out of Tennessee.
And he wrote this.
And it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever read.
And I'd like to read it to Courtney and to our extended audience and get her response to it.
The South is a land that has known sorrows.
It is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with tears.
A land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead, but a land of legend, a land of song, and a land of hallowed and heroic memories.
To that land, every drop of my blood, every fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart is consecrated forever.
I was born at her womb, I was nurtured at her breast, and when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I will be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender and encircling arms.
That is hard for me to read.
As many times as I have read that, being the son of Confederate veterans, that is a difficult thing to read without any emotion.
That is our pledge to the South.
Courtney, your response to it.
Oh, yeah, that was touched my heart too.
That's it's you know, it's it's just it's really sad, you know, what we're losing.
Um, you know, we I guess another reason why it's so easy to be so, you know, as a southerner, it's so easy to be biased, you know, towards us, you know, in this movement, even though, even though that might be a little divisive sometimes, I just feel like we're the most persecuted.
You know, I mean, we're and you know, we have such a great history and we've done all the right things, we produced so many great people.
I mean, yeah, we weren't always perfect, but you know, I mean, we had such a solid culture, and we made the, we were on the right side so many times, and you know, and it's like the other side has persecuted us so much for what we stand for, and we're a worse-off country because of it.
And, you know, and it's just it's really sad that we're being forced to forget our history, you know, in relation to the stuff you just read.
And it's well, the important thing, uh, Courtney, I believe, is this: that we haven't changed.
The rest of America has changed, but the South is most like what they were in 1791 than any other part of the nation.
That's true.
That's true.
I mean, ethnically, I mean, all sorts of ways, ethnically, culturally, I mean, we've stayed the most intact.
You know, there's these other regions, like there's people in well, Virginia is part of the South, but there's people like in the Northeast, you know, who can trace their lineage back to colonial times, but it's not as big of a region, it's not as big of an intact group, and they're not culturally the same by any means.
So it's not quite the same.
And they're really not hegemonic up there anymore, except in places like New Hampshire and Vermont.
New York is today is not the New York of 1800, for example.
And neither is Detroit.
Well, the dirty little secret, of course, Keith and Courtney, is that some of the biggest race riots that were spawned from integration, forced integration, came in places like Boston.
They don't want to let you know that.
They don't want you to remember that.
But then we're the ones who are to blame for it all in the eyes of the media.
And the media reigns in America today.
That's what, if you want to know who our real enemy is, our enemy is the media.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And James, am I allowed to get some input here?
Did you want to say something else?
No, I'll give you that permission.
Go ahead, Jordan.
You're the guest.
Go ahead.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, the other, and this kind of relates the other thing on my list here on the outline.
You gave a list of great people from Tennessee.
And, you know, and I feel the same way about people from Alabama.
I feel like we've produced some of the best politicians and the hardest fighting ones, like even in recent years.
And, you know, and we're as a state, we're always doing things that make the rest of the country mad, you know, whether it's that abortion issue or the border.
I think Texas might give us a run for our money sometimes.
You know, I'm just so proud of it.
But, you know, the thing that the one thing that holds us back as a state is getting so consumed by football, this football rivalry here.
You know, there's two teams here.
You know, I'm not going to say which one.
I'm not going to say where I went to school because it's going to give away too much about me.
But you guys know, but I'm not going to, or y'all know, but I'm not going to say it on air.
But, you know, it really, people get so are so ugly to each other in this state over this rivalry, people who otherwise have so much in common.
You know, we all have very similar ancestries in this state.
I mean, most of us are Republicans, you know, the good type of Republican.
We have so much in common, but yet we make such a huge deal over football.
And, you know, I used to get into it.
I used to really get into the state rivalry.
But, you know, now it's like, I just don't.
And this has nothing to do with where I went to school, what I'm about to say, but I'm at the point where, you know, I'm happy if Alabama makes, you know, wins the national championship because I think it, you know, it's just my southern pride coming out there.
Because I know, I know that makes a lot of people mad when Alabama keeps winning the national championship.
So that makes me happy.
But beyond that, I don't really get into it.
I don't care anymore.
There's just some things where you have to stop and think, if this is the worst thing you're fighting over, you know, you're probably doing pretty good.
Just like, you know, and this is a joke.
This is a joke.
It's just like James and me discussing or, you know, discussing which band from the first season's better.
You know, it's just.
I knew where you were going.
I knew where you were going before you even said it.
Well, the important thing, though, I think, Courtney, is that.
The important thing is to realize that it's the four seasons.
Right.
Yeah.
That's okay.
And that's fine.
That's fine.
No, we got to take a break.
They were good.
That's that conversation for the next hour.
The Beatles are the four seasons.
But anyway, we got to take a quick break.
All right.
Good.
It's only 8.30, so we still got two segments left.
I thought we were coming up with a final segment.
I was going to say that wasn't enough time.
Two segments won't be enough either, but we'll do our best.
We'll be right back.
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The night and no more dancing down.
When all the bells were ranged, the night made no more dancing down.
And all the people were sang and they were beautiful song, a tragic song.
They drove old Dixie down in the end, but her people are still here.
And we know they're still here because the people who fought for that righteous cause, their blood still flows within the veins of the three people on your airwaves right now in this third and final hour of our last week of Confederate History Month.
Hard to believe that this month has gone by so quickly, as did our March Around the World, two back-to-back special series, March Around the World and Confederate History Month.
But there's actually some real history in that song.
The lyrics of the bands, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, tell of the last days of the Second War of Independence and the suffering of the South.
Confederate soldier Virgil Cain in the song served on the Danville train.
That's the Richmond and Danville Railroad, a main supply line into the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, from Danville, Virginia, and by connection to the rest of the South.
Union cavalry regularly tore up the Confederate rail lines to prevent the movement of men and material to the front where Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was besieged at the siege of Petersburg.
And of course, as part of the offensive campaign, Union Army General George Stoneman's forces tore up the track again.
The song's lyrics refer to the conditions in the southern states in the winter of early 1865.
We were hungry, just barely alive.
The Confederacy is starving and on the verge of defeat.
Yet still our ancestors endured, Courtney, Keith, myself, my own ancestors.
References made to the date, very quickly, May 10, 1865, by which time the Confederate capital of Richmond had already fallen.
May 10th marked the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the definitive end of the Confederacy, Keith.
And the reason they were starving is because we were the first objects or subjects or targets of total war.
Only one northern nation, only one northern town was burned by Confederate troops, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to protest Sherman's March to the Sea.
In the meantime, 43 towns in Mississippi alone were burnt to the ground by northern forces.
Where my ancestors are from.
And Mississippi wasn't even a major theater in the war.
So that shows you what they're referring to in that song.
It's a beautiful song.
It's a tragic song, but it's a song that tugs at the heartstrings of, I'm sure, our guest this hour, Courtney from Alabama.
And Courtney, that was actually one of the things we meant to talk about tonight, our own personal southern patrimony.
I know, Keith, you and I have talked about it for years and years and years of the show, and we never miss an opportunity.
But Courtney, let me say one thing before we get to that.
I want to get to the football quickly.
Courtney, the football teams that you were talking about no longer represent you or me or James or anyone else who is white in the South.
In fact, they let them know by, one, supporting taking down Confederate monuments and also supporting Black Lives Matter and groups like that.
So consequently, at least for me, I will go to the games in order to commit with friends and former classmates and whatnot and things like that.
But I'm really kind of indifferent to what happens on the street.
If anybody's ever concerned or wondering why Keith is so absent in October, September, November, well, that's football season.
He's down in Oxford.
Yeah, but I'm up there in the grove.
I don't even bother to go in the stadium sometimes.
All right, it's just a social lubricant, those football tickets.
But anyway, Courtney, take it away.
You can answer Keith if you want to about the football question, or you can go straight into your personal heritage as the daughter of a Confederate veteran, the daughter of the Confederacy.
Oh, me?
Okay.
Well, you said daughter, so obviously it's me.
I just want to make sure it was my turn to talk.
No, no.
Keith, I understand Keith's love of football.
I mean, because he's positive about it.
It's okay if you're positive about it, but if you're getting involved in these silly rivalries where you're hating other southerners just because of the team they cheer for, that's an issue.
And I know Keith's not like that.
But yeah, the next topic, or well, it's related to the bigger topic.
But, you know, I think it's sad that America is such a transient nation where, you know, the average person, like they grew up in Chicago, but their parents might have been from Iowa.
And then when they get married, they go live in California and their kids move, I don't know, to North Carolina.
I don't know.
You know, it's like, I can't relate to that at all.
I really can't.
You know, because my family has been in Alabama for so long.
It's like, you know, I have connection to the land here.
And it's funny when you talk to like the average white person in America who's not aware on the race issue.
It's like, oh, you have connection to the land?
Are you Native American?
It's like, no, that's not, that's not a necessity.
But anyways, you know, I can go to where, I know where all my great-grandparents' graves are.
They're all in Alabama.
And I know what parts of Alabama they're in.
And, you know, for the longest time when I was a child, like all my family, like the bulk of my family, probably 75% of more of my family was centered around Montgomery.
That's where everybody was.
Everybody has moved away recently for obvious reasons.
The population has changed.
But, you know, even if not, even though not everybody was in Montgomery, the rest of my family was somewhere in Alabama, you know.
And so you just go back like really far.
You know, not only was my family centered in Montgomery, but they were also in Alabama.
You have to go back to when my great-grandparents were kids that you start getting to, you know, people growing up outside of Alabama.
And even though they grew up outside of Alabama, they were still in the South.
They were in states that bordered Alabama.
Like two of my great-grandparents' children came over from Mississippi.
One came down from Tennessee.
One came from the Florida panhandle.
And then if you go back before that, you know, I know most of them were in the South during the Confederacy.
It's really hard to, and then if you go back before that, you know, it's hard to pick out.
You know, it's really hard to think of myself as an immigrant in any way, you know, because I feel like my family was here from the founding.
You know, my dad talks about how he had some Scottish and Irish people come over, you know, maybe in the 1840s.
But most of them seem to have been here before that.
So anyways, I just, I just can't relate.
You know, it's, I mean, even, you know, even in the South, it's becoming more common for, you know, you run into people down here and their parents are from Michigan or, you know, it's becoming less common.
The Southern ethnicity is dying more and more.
And, you know, a lot of them are good people.
They assimilate, you know, but, you know, still, as far as the Southern ethnicity, it's just it's dying more and more each generation.
But, you know, I just think that's interesting to talk about.
If anybody has ever been curious about me in the audience, I am the real deal.
I am a real Southerner.
I'm not somebody whose parents came here from Mississippi.
Well, imagine she's in Alabamian.
She's Alabama born and bred.
Well, Alabama, you know, I guess you would say South Carolina is the cradle of the Confederacy in a way.
Alabama's right there with it.
And don't mistake the accent for her being a Yankee.
She's really a southerner.
James and I are a little bit different.
We basically share states.
My relatives were floating between Mississippi and Tennessee, basically.
My ancestors were all from Mississippi.
And then, of course, later, my maternal and paternal grandparents, born in Mississippi themselves, came up to Tennessee to find work.
And then and there, did they have my parents who met as first-generation Tennesseans?
And then from their collaborations, I was born.
Well, I always heard when I was a child that the two biggest cities in Mississippi were New Orleans and Memphis.
So that's basically the same type of area.
As Keith says that with a sly grin, I wish we were television, not radio sometimes.
See, my Civil War ancestor that I relied upon to get into the Sons of Confederate veterans.
Tell us his name.
Independence Ellen Schuler Alexander.
That is one hell of a name.
And he was one of 12 children.
They were poor.
They didn't have any slaves, okay?
IES Alexander.
He had a brother named President Washington Alexander.
They ran out of names.
They were running out of names, yeah.
You know, but that's not, you know, as recently as just my grandparents' generation, both of my, well, I have four grandparents, obviously.
All of them, all each of the four came of siblings ranging between eight and twelve.
I mean, that's incredible.
That's a lot of white kids.
And that as recently as our grandparents' generation, they were having, we're not having that many.
That's right.
We need to.
But of course, Courtney's trying to change it.
He's done a good job.
Right back.
Stay tuned, everybody.
Okay, girls, about finished with your lesson on money.
Daddy, what is a buy-sell spread for gold coins?
Well, when you sell a gold coin to a coin shop that's worth, say, $1,200, you don't actually get $1,200.
But don't worry, we're members of UPMA now, so we don't have to worry about that.
Daddy, why some of my silver gold?
We don't have any gold at the house.
It's stored safely in the UPMA vault, securely and insured.
But the SP 500 outperformed gold.
Daddy, gold is a bad investment.
Some people do think of it that way, but actually, gold is money.
And as members of the United Precious Metals Association, we can use our gold at any store, just like a credit card.
Or I can ask them to drop it right into Mommy and Daddy's bank account because we're a UPMA member family.
Find out more at UPMA.org.
That's upma.org.
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.
But I tried to make it Sunday, but I got so damn depressed that I set my signs on Monday and I got myself undressed.
the altar, but I do agree there's times when a woman sure can be a friend of mine.
Well, we'd
like to dedicate that song, Sister Golden Hair, to our longtime friend and companion, Courtney, from Alabama.
And if anybody's ever been to one of our conferences, they know that she does have those free-flowing, curly locks of golden hair.
You can spot her across the room.
And Keith, you remember the 70s, don't you?
I do very much.
Yeah, I graduated from college and law school during that period.
Better off then, or are we better off now?
We're better off then, but we were really better off in the 50s and 60s.
Early 60s.
That was it.
Well, anyway, our own sister Golden Hair Courtney from Alabama, and she is most certainly from Alabama.
Talking about our Confederate ancestry, let me just say this.
I always knew I was a lineal descendant of Confederate veterans, but it was as recently as just, well, several years ago now, but in my adult life, that I took the time to do all the research and gather the official documentation.
And thanks to Ancestry.com, the census records, and a lot of help from fellow Memphis with genealogical know-how, I was able to make some fascinating discoveries that made me extremely proud.
And for starters, multiple branches of my family tree have roots that tap into the Confederacy.
One of my great-great-great-grandfathers served in the 4th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion.
In addition to being able to trace a direct line from him to me, I was also able to pull a record from the 1903 when he applied for a Mississippi Confederate soldier's pension.
And for the first time in my life, I was able to see and locate his grave.
My maternal side of the family also boasts Confederate lineage.
Not only was one of my great-great-great-grandfathers on my mother's side of the family tree a Confederate veteran, but also were two of his brothers.
All three of them served in Company H of the 21st Texas Infantry Regiment.
And one gave his life in service to the Confederate States.
And so to me, to be directly descended from this noble line of brave and fighting men is the highest honor that I could ever receive.
Other than my own wife and children, there's nothing in the world that can make me more proud.
There are other Confederate veterans, both lineal and collateral, and other branches of my tree.
But that's the thing, audience and Courtney and Keith.
One of the reasons that I fight so hard to preserve and protect the memory of the Confederacy is because a man who won't defend his family and the honor of his kin isn't a man at all.
And so Heidi Roosevelt said something like that one time.
He said, a man that will not defend the graves of his ancestors basically has no sense of pride and propriety.
Well, and that's why I take my wife and kids down to Ponotoc County, Mississippi.
That's Pat Buchanan's Confederate ancestry.
I was talking to Pat off.
Pat's been on the show several times, and I made mention of this a couple of weeks ago with Michael Hill.
But Pat Buchanan's Confederate ancestors hail from the county right next to mine, and they're buried at the same cemetery in Oklahoma, Mississippi.
You know Oklahoma, don't you, Keith?
Absolutely.
Remember, that's where Bobby Gentry was from.
You know, Billy Joe.
It goes back to, we were talking with Michael Hill about this: that we found each other, our own Confederate veterans.
The Confederate veterans that I share with Michael Hill, he has veterans, I have veterans.
They all fought at Shiloh together.
And then yet we found each other so many years later and came together and began to collaborate with one another.
We gravitated with Pat Buchanan.
Pat Buchanan has been a guest on this show.
Pat and I, you know, are still in touch on occasion.
And his people came from the exact same county as my people.
They're buried in the same cemetery.
And my ancestor fought in the Battle of Oklahoma with General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
And I guarantee you.
He was in the 15th Tennessee Cavalry.
His brother, President Washington Alexander, was killed at Shiloh.
IES Alexander was wounded.
He went back with a medical leave to his farm.
And then he said when Nathan Bedford Forrest was coming through, he wanted to fight with his fellow Bedford County.
He was from Bedford County, Tennessee.
Well, and that's the thing.
So, you know, I take my family down to Pontotock County where our ancestors are from.
And you still see this Confederate square where you can pay respects in front of the beautiful monument that is proudly displayed at its center.
And, you know, that's the thing about it.
And to go down there, I said this before.
You know, CNN had lavished me with first-class airfare and limousine couriers and take me anywhere I wanted to go.
And I remember going to Times Square after an appearance on CNN.
They took me to Times Square and I ate at a restaurant and I walked around Times Square and I said, you know, I'd rather be on a red dirt hill of Mississippi than here.
And there's something that all the money in the world can't take the place of.
And that's your patrimony.
That's your Confederate ancestors.
I heard somebody say recently that rather than being in New York, they'd rather live in a place where they could pee off the back porch.
That was actually you at dinner tonight, Keith.
And by the way, I should say, we actually had the opportunity at supper tonight.
We always do a weekly pregame powwow.
And so we were having supper tonight, and there was a couple, a husband and a wife, longtime fans of the show, who rode in, and we invited them to join us tonight for supper.
And it was their first time to meet us, that they've been listening for years.
And it was great to be able to break bread with them.
Two great people of our listening audience here in the local area.
But anyway, back to Courtney from Alabama.
Courtney, that's my southern patrimony.
It's yours.
It's Keith's.
But Gone with the Wind.
We've got about four minutes remaining.
I want to turn it over to you to talk about Gone with the Wind, yet another thing that's fallen victim to cancel culture.
I have quoted Gone with the Wind in many of my speeches, but I've never actually watched it.
Even though, Courtney, you have watched the Tudors because of my recommendations and even Fright Night, which I would still heartily recommend.
But I did watch the video.
One thing I would recommend for you, Courtney, is Santa Fe Trail.
Tammy and the Bachelor.
No, but Santa Fe Trail is about what a maniac John Brown was.
All right, but we're running out of time.
We're talking all over Courtney.
But I would say that I did watch Sound of Music.
I want to make this known to the audience.
I did watch Sound of Music because of Courtney, but I've not yet watched Gone With the Wind.
But both Keith and Courtney have, and Gone with the Wind has fallen victim to council culture.
What do you love about Gone with the Wind, Courtney, with four minutes remaining?
Oh, man, it was just so nicely done.
It was made during a time period when they took pride in everything they did with movie sets.
They made it authentic.
They got the characters right.
They spent a lot of time thinking about which actors and actresses they would use.
They used attractive people.
I went into a lot of detail last time about how much I like Clark Gable.
But no, seriously.
We have talked about that before.
There were cartoons.
There were cartoons during that time where they're making fun of him with the big ears and everything.
They make him kind of look ugly in the cartoons.
But, you know, when he got older, he kind of took on those features.
But if you watch his stuff from, you know, the early 30s, mid-30s, even by the time of Gone with the Wind, I mean, he was a handsome man.
But anyways, he's something that's so memorable from that movie for me.
I really like him in that.
And, you know, of course, Vivian Lee did a good job.
And it was just the time when they weren't gratuitous about everything, about, they weren't gratuitous about, you know, sex and gore.
And, you know, they, the people back then were, and I said this last time, the people, you know, during that time period, the 30s when they made that movie, you know, they were not by any means prudes.
I mean, they were just like us.
It's just they had standards back then.
And a movie could be good without being gratuitous.
You could hit, you know, they hint at all those things.
All those things suck.
And, you know, the stuff that people enjoy now in movies, they hinted at all of that in Gone with the Wind.
You don't have to see it to know it's there.
You know, I mean, and it was good despite that.
It was good dialogue.
And it just gives me so much pride as a southerner when I watch it.
Even though most of the actors and actresses aren't even from the South, that's okay.
They did a good job.
Well, 1939 was when Gone with the Wind came out, and some people...
How old were you at 39, Keith?
I wasn't there.
But anyway, in 1939, they had, it was a bumper crop of great movies.
But the one that is the standout from that year is Gone with the Wind.
It was the major opus, the Magnus Opus of 1939.
And it was, you know, it was the biggest box office sensation they'd had up until that point.
And it shows you just how much things had changed.
Another 1939 movie regarding the South is Santa Fe Trail with Errol Flynn as Jeb Stewart and Ronald Reagan as George Custer.
And that was a great movie also.
Well, we could have gone a whole nother segment, if not another hour with Courtney from Alabama.
And I felt as though we didn't give Gone with the Wind as much airtime as we had intended to.
But nevertheless, wow, two months, two great series, March Around the World, Confederate History Month.
I don't know what we're going to do with ourselves next week, Keith, when we get back to business as usual.
But for Keith Alexander, our guest tonight, Tim Vurdock and Courtney from Alabama, I'm James Edwards.