Oct. 30, 2021 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
From communion with the dead to pumpkins and pranks, Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitched together with cultural, religious, and occult traditions that span centuries.
It all began with the Celts, a people whose culture had spread across Europe more than 2,000 years ago.
October 31st was the day they celebrated the end of the harvest season in a festival called Sowen.
That night also marked the Celtic New Year and was considered a time between years, a magical time when the ghost of the dead walked the earth.
It was the time when the veil between death and life was supposed to be at its thinnest.
On Samhain, the villagers gathered and lit huge bonfires to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living.
But as the Catholic Church's influence grew in Europe, it frowned on the pagan rituals like Sowhan.
In the 7th century, the Vatican began to merge it with a church-sanctioned holiday.
So November 1st was designated All Saints Day to honor martyrs and the deceased faithful.
Both of these holidays had to do with the afterlife and about survival after death.
It was a calculated move on the part of the church to bring more people into the fold.
All Saints Day was known then as Hallowis.
Hallow means holy or saintly.
So the translation is roughly Mass of the Saints.
The night before, October 31st, was All Hallows' Eve, which gradually morphed into Halloween.
The holiday came to America with the wave of Irish immigrants during the potato famine of the 1840s.
They brought several of their holiday customs with them, including bobbing for apples and playing tricks on neighbors, like removing gates from the front of houses.
The young pranksters wore masks so they wouldn't be recognized.
But over the years, the tradition of harmless tricks grew into outright vandalism.
Back in the 1930s, it really became a dangerous holiday.
I mean, there was such hooliganism and vandalism.
Trick-or-treating was originally an extortion deal.
Give us candy or we'll trash your house.
Storekeepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks, and children were encouraged to travel door to door for treats as an alternative to troublemaking.
By the late 30s, trick-or-treat became the holiday greeting.
Well, that being said, happy Halloween, everybody.
It is October 30th, and welcome back to TPC.
That is a brief and broad overview of Halloween on this, the eve of Halloween.
I hope you enjoyed the first two hours.
To give thanks to my right-hand man, Keith Alexander, for helping me break down what has taken place so far in the Charlottesville trial, which began on Monday.
We will continue to cover that until its completion and at length each and every week here on TPC.
But now we turn our sights to Halloween, which, as was mentioned just a moment ago in that clip, a European cultural holiday rich in tradition.
And to help us do that is our good friend once again joining us here on the broadcast, Courtney from Alabama.
Courtney, how are you?
And happy Halloween to you.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me on again.
Happy Halloween to y'all too.
And I wanted to start off by saying, you know, you played the clip about our ancestors and what they celebrated and everything.
And that's where it all starts.
And as far as my ancestors go, I'm really looking forward to the next time you have me on for Confederate History Month, whenever that is, because I've been asking my dad some more questions and I know more.
And yeah, we had family in the Alabama territory back before it became a state.
And I think that's pretty significant.
And, you know, he knows more details on, you know, the troops and which parts of the Confederacy they fought and everything within Alabama.
But anyway, so that's for that time.
But, but yeah, as far as Halloween goes, yeah, I just, you know, I think that here in America, we are so blessed with so many different, so many different European groups came together.
And therefore, we have so many holidays, like so many more than a lot of other countries do.
And, you know, I'm just the type of person I like to find any reason to celebrate.
And we have so many holidays to celebrate.
You know, and obviously there's Halloween, which is why I'm on tonight.
And Christmas is an obvious one.
And Easter, but, you know, it's like I make a big deal about New Year's.
And then down here on the Gulf Coast, where like in Mississippi, in Alabama and Mississippi, you know, we have Mardi Gras too, but it's very family-oriented.
It's not like in New Orleans.
So I like to, you know, take my kids to those parades and everything.
And that's a European tradition too.
And then, you know, and then St. Patrick's Day, I like to listen to Irish music and make Irish food.
And the month of November, I like to watch movies on the Pilgrims and teach my kids about it.
So it's like every month there's just something to celebrate.
And so I'm not one of these people that is so into Halloween that I have to celebrate it all year and it's bigger than Christmas and by no means.
But I think there's a time and place for everything.
And in October, I just get excited about Halloween because as you said, it does go way back.
And, you know, and I know there's people who don't agree with the celebration of Halloween, but for religious reasons.
But, you know, I just, I think sometimes, sometimes I see similarities in evangelical Christians as I do to people on the left, unfortunately.
I feel like on both sides, there's a tendency to take out anything that has anything to do with Europe and narrow it down to where, you know, like whether it's Halloween or Santa Claus and just narrow it down to a very narrow, boring way of living that's not really, you know, of course, both sides do it for different reasons.
I think on the evangelical side, they do it to kind of, you know, get to a more Semitic foundation as opposed to European foundation.
And, you know, like taking away Santa Claus, Halloween.
And I just don't, I just don't think, you know, if we want to celebrate that, it's just part of our heritage.
I don't think there's anything evil about it.
And it's kind of a minor thing for us to be arguing over anyways.
But I guess that's basically my opening remarks on that.
I think the church has bigger issues to go after than that.
And a lot of the people in the church who go after Halloween are also anti-white.
So let's keep that in mind.
I think that's a good observation.
Yes, as far as the church's shortcomings go, that it's a soft target for them to go after.
I mean, let's see how strongly they stand against BLM terrorists or the antiphoterrists that we've been talking about in the previous segment.
No, no, they don't go after them at all.
They actually go after the people who congregate in their own pews, particularly if we're talking about the Southern Baptist Convention, for instance.
They go after their own members as people for whom to be displeased or with whom they will be displeased.
I've got a lot to respond to Courtney on when we come back in the next segment, so stay tuned.
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They're telling me not to smoke, but they smoke themselves.
When it comes to smoking, are you sending mixed signals?
But when you teach someone a certain way to do things and you go back on that certain way, it sends mixed signals to the person that they're trying to teach.
The parents need to be a good example.
Smoking.
If you think you're old enough to start, you're smart enough to stop.
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I really don't want to talk about this, but I will.
I'm just so mad.
I didn't get asked to the junior prom and it's raining, which means by the time I get to school, I'm soaking wet.
Dad picked me up just after I left, and I was so mad I got out and he said, wait, your mom said to give you this.
I forgot my lunch money and then I dropped it in the water and I was late for history.
And so at lunchtime, I had to find something on Jon Stewart Mill, which, of course, our library didn't have.
So I had to walk all the way down to the office to call my mom and she found something on the internet and called me back.
And Karen, she wouldn't even help me.
And that's a whole nother story.
But dad helped me conjugate nouns or whatever on the way to the swim team workout.
And then he read my history paper while I was in the pool.
And of course, I forgot the bibliography.
So I had to do that with my mother when I got home.
And it made me totally forget that I put my jeans in the washer that morning.
And I hate it when they sit wet like that all day and smell like mildew.
But my mom said she put them in the dryer while I was at the swim team.
And you know, I'm just not going to go to the prom no matter who asks me.
I just want to stay home with my mom and dad and just hang out.
Isn't it about time?
Unless Dustin asked me.
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Who's that I see walking in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood.
You sure are looking good.
You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me, Little Red Riding Hood.
I don't think little big girls should go walking in these spooky old woods alone.
What big eyes you have with the guide by that dry bootland?
So just to see that you don't get chased, I think I ought to walk with you always.
What full lips you have, they sure to look someone bad.
So until you get to grandma's place, I think you ought to walk with me and be safe.
Memphis' own Sam the Sham there with Little Red Riding Hood.
And we'll talk about that more in just a moment.
But welcome back to this, our last hour before Halloween.
And to respond to Courtney's commentary in the previous segment, this is my favorite time of the year.
I've always said that.
I've always felt that long before I went into talk radio.
There was just something about this time of year that even if I couldn't articulate it, even if I couldn't understand it, I felt it.
It's a beautiful time of year, number one, with the leaves changing.
The weather is so nice.
You have Thanksgiving and Christmas still to look forward to and then the winter.
But why do I like the winter?
Why do I like winter better than summer?
I think it's because it is in this climate.
It was this climate that made our people, our people from the windswept isles of Northwestern Europe.
This is the climate that we evolved in.
And I don't mean that necessarily in the biblical sense, but it was this climate forced us to be more imaginative.
It forced us to be more innovative and more resourceful.
We had to come up with ways to survive that people in a subtropical climate wouldn't have to with fruit being bountiful and plentiful, just waiting to be taken from the nearest tree at all times of the year.
No, it was in this climate that our brains became sharper.
And this is certainly a European tradition.
Halloween, it does go to the pre-Christian era of our people, but they were our people still.
Even then, this is our history.
And this time of year makes me feel more connected to that history as a European.
And I hope in saying that, I in some way am stabbing near the mark.
Courtney, your response to that.
I agree.
I agree with everything you just said.
And it is.
It's just, it's really, for me, it's not so much, you know, it's not so much, oh, I just want to, I just want to celebrate things that are scary and evil, like, you know, like some people make it out to be.
It's just, it's something about this time of year that just makes me feel good and everything associated with it.
And Halloween is just one of those things.
And whether it's something as simple as a jack-o'-lantern lit up, it's just, you know, it just, it makes me feel good.
It makes me feel so much better than summertime.
And it's something that just goes way back for our people.
And there's, and it's, there's nothing wrong with it.
And it's just, it's such a fun thing to celebrate one of our many great traditions that sets us apart from other people.
And it's a pre-Christian Europe.
Yeah.
Well, no, no, I'll get to it in just a second.
It's a pre-Christian Europe, but it's still our people nonetheless.
And of course, during this time of year, I enjoy going to the corn mazes.
I enjoy going on hayrides.
I enjoy carving jack-o'-lanterns, which I did with my children just on Thursday.
Trick-or-treating, it's all look, these are European traditions.
Nobody else came up with these traditions.
This is a European thing.
It's a wholly European thing.
That's W-H-O-L-L-Y.
And it's good fun.
And I'll continue to say that.
Now, we played the song Little Red Riding Hood.
That's Sam the Sham.
But that's also something that I wanted to talk to you about.
And that is these dark European fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, like Hansel and Gretel, like the Pied Piper, and there are many others.
And I know that you are a student of this history as well, Courtney, so you'll be able to talk a little bit about this.
But that's interesting, too.
And those old European fairy tales, these medieval fairy tales, they didn't end like a Disney movie.
I mean, Little Red Riding Hood got eaten at the end of that original telling.
And of course, Hansel and Gretel got eaten as well.
And the Pied Piper killed all the kids.
But those were European fairy tales that told a story.
It was a hard way to tell a story.
But those were the way that our ancestors going back many centuries now would impart wisdom upon their own children.
But it's also something that I think we talk about around Halloween time.
Yes.
Yes.
And something, you know, something that all people have in common, not just Europeans.
I think we do it the best, but something that all people have in common is like there's some attachment, there's some interest in the mysterious and the unknown and something scary, you know, something scary.
And so every culture has like tales of something scary, you know, that doesn't exist or it might exist.
Like, you know, I'm sure that in the Amazon jungles, they had stories about monsters that lived in the jungle.
And I'm sure that the Arab culture has scary stories that take place in the desert.
Well, for Europeans, it's just like there's this fascination with these deep, dark woods because Europe used to be covered with them everywhere, just the deep, blackest woods.
And that's, you know, like the stories that you mentioned, like Console and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood and, you know, all these other stories, so many of them are attached to these giant forests and these giant deep black forests where you go in the middle of them.
It's so dark.
And something else, you know, that fascinates me, you know, as a southerner, we really don't have forests like they do in Europe or like they do like in the Pacific Northwest.
Our forests down here, it's smaller trees and there's a lot of undergrowth.
And also another thing down here that I don't like is when you can't really walk in a forest during the summertime without running into these giant spider webs that have these humongous banana spiders, these incredibly terrifying banana spiders in them.
You know, anybody up north who hasn't seen one, Google it.
I've seen one that's as big as a man's hand before.
I'm not joking.
I mean, I'm not exaggerating.
I can send James and Keith a picture of it.
I mean, I'm not exaggerating.
Anyways, my husband and I went on a trip to the Pacific Northwest once, and we drove by this forest, and I was just so, I just wanted to get out of the car and walk into it.
I know there's grizzly bears and all that stuff, but I was just so impressed with it, and I just felt such an attachment to it.
You know, as a European, I don't just like fall, but I'm just so, I feel like such an attachment to forests and just going deep into a forest, like the real ones like you find in the Pacific Northwest or Europe.
I mean, and there was a time when they covered a lot of Europe.
And it's just, and we have so many stories attached to them.
And I love it.
I really, there's something about it that just makes me feel good because it was a part of our, it was a part of us for so long.
Yeah, to respond to what you were saying, there was an article that I just read a day or two ago.
It was completely unrelated to anything we're talking about tonight, but it was about these Asian orb spiders that have taken over Georgia and North Georgia.
They're just proliferating now, and people don't know what to do with them.
I mean, you know, they're killing them, but they can't kill them faster than they can reproduce.
There's these giant, like you said, these huge spiders with the classic orb webs.
But, you know, in any event, you do like the deep dark forest.
This is Courtney's thing.
If you know Courtney, and we've gotten to know Courtney very well over the years, she's basically our mascot here on this program, and she's been a longtime friend of the program.
And she comes to our conferences, and, you know, she's a big celebrity in TPC circles.
But she likes the deep dark woods that she always has.
And that's what we're talking about tonight.
We're talking about Halloween.
We're talking about Europe.
We're talking about these things, this climate, these environments where our people became who they are.
And those same people still live in us here in the American South.
We'll be right back.
Stay tuned.
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Who you gonna call?
Yes!
I ain't free of no ghosts.
Well, there's one of the movies I grew up on, that's for sure.
As a child of the 80s, 1980, in fact, Ghostbusters was a big part of my formative years.
And what a great cast.
Let's see if I can remember them off the top of my head.
There was, of course, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Held Ramis, and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters, but a great supporting cast as well.
Rick Moranis, William Atherton, Annie Potts.
I could keep going.
Great movie, great comedy.
Back when comedy was still funny.
I mean, comedy has been, of course, a victim of political correctness as well in recent years, but that takes me back to my childhood.
And Courtney, too, is a child of the 80s.
In fact, my daughter has an American girl doll, and the American girl doll who represents the 80s era is named Courtney.
And it actually looks like Courtney.
Probably her fandom in TPC's universe extends beyond this program.
It probably influenced that doll itself.
But Courtney, you wanted to talk about Ghostbusters and the 80s and Halloween and all of these great things tonight.
Hey, this show is kicking off what our Halloween show does every year is kick off a great festive end of each calendar here on TPC coming up in Christmastime, always a great time to be had here with the Christmas music that we begin featuring not just the last Saturday before Christmas, as we're doing here tonight, the last Saturday before Halloween, but the entire month of December, November, always a fun time as well.
Always look forward to the Halloween show through the end of the year.
It's always great fun and great content here.
On TPC, I think, though, this November will certainly be overshadowed by the Charlottesville trial, which we'll continue to cover, but we're going to have a good time doing that too.
So, Courtney, to the 80s and to Halloween, continue.
Yes, Ghostbusters was a huge part of my childhood, too.
I remember that being very big.
All the boys, you know, dressing up like that for Halloween.
And I remember there was a cartoon, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters cartoon that ran during the 80s.
The real Ghostbusters.
The cartoon was the real Ghostbusters.
Yeah, yes.
And that's right.
That's right.
And I love the movie, the first movie.
It's a shame that they ruined it.
Like, just like they've ruined so many things lately.
You know, they tried to take all the original characters except have women play them.
And it was so ridiculous.
It's like a lot of times you can't, you know, men are the best at comedy.
I think they, I think it, it suits them.
Like when they do it, there's like a when a man does it, it's like it's attractive.
Like Bill Murray, Bill Murray's not really somebody I would normally look at and say, oh, he's, he's so handsome.
But in that movie, I think, I think he's attractive, like the way he acts.
And then, you know, and I liked Dan Aykroyd in that too.
You know, he's a little overweight, but I thought he was kind of cute in that, too.
And it's just, it just suits them.
It just, it kind of, it just, it's just fitting and it suits men better.
But like when women try to do that, it's kind of gross.
I think it's gross when women act like that.
It's not really what they're doing.
It's funny you mention that because I was just rattling off the entire cast of Ghostbusters, you know, off the top of my head.
I swear I'm not looking at it here at the studio.
But I forgot Sigourney Weaver, who's such a good actress and does great in her role as Dana in Ghostbusters 1 and 2.
You know, it's contrary to our thought process.
But one of my, another movie of the 80s that I really grew up on was Aliens, which has her as this strong female role, but it's not in a way, you know, she's a reluctant hero in that movie.
Aliens is just a great action movie.
I'm not big on sci-fi, but I thought that was a great movie.
But anyway, Sigourney Weaver also in Ghostbusters as well.
And Ghostbusters 2 was good, not as good as the first, as most sequels are not.
In fact, interestingly, Aliens is one of the very few movies that I think everybody would agree the sequel was greater than the original.
But to your point, Courtney, they remade Ghostbusters a couple handful of years ago, and they recast all of the original Ghostbusters as females.
And I didn't watch it.
I couldn't bear to watch it because I didn't want to sully or taint the memory of such a good original movie.
Did you watch it?
I mean, of course, I probably read what you read, and we can talk about that, but did you watch it?
I couldn't bring myself to watch it.
I think I only watched reviews on it, like people who have YouTube channels that have reviewed it, but I only want to watch the reviews where people are criticizing it.
I mean, it's just, it's so ridiculous.
Oh, my gosh.
It's just, I mean, they're making a new one.
They're making another reimagined Ghostbusters.
It's like, I think some of the scions of the original Ghostbusters.
I think maybe Harold Ramos' kid is the actor.
He plays.
Who does Harold Ramos play in the movie?
Yeah, Peter Vinkman, you got...
Egon, is his name Egon?
He plays Egon.
It's Egon.
I think Egon's sons in it.
Yes.
And, you know, so we'll see what they do.
I'm sure it's going to be woke.
It has to be, you know, if it's being produced by Hollywood in this day and age.
See what the new Ghostbusters will be.
There's another one coming out.
Of course, the one with the all-female cast, which is a total joke.
The first two are good.
The first one is absolutely great.
But nevertheless, we're talking about the 80s.
We're children of the 80s.
This is Halloween.
So we're talking about Ghostbusters.
Of course, what else would we be talking about?
But I didn't watch it.
You didn't watch it.
So there's not much we can say except for the reviews, which was universally panned, of course.
But, you know, Hollywood can afford to make these movies to make a political point while losing millions of dollars.
And that's what they do.
Exactly.
I mean, I wish you were more into it.
I mean, this has nothing to do with Halloween, but I wish you were more into Star Wars because I'm not a big sci-fi person, but I love the first three Star Wars, like from the 70s and 80s.
They are so, gosh, they're so white and the message in them, and there's proper gender roles.
I mean, like the proper gender role, I mean, everything is just such a power.
They're such powerful, well-made movies that they completely have ruined them.
It's like, I don't even, I don't even act like any of the sequels exist or the prequels.
I don't act like anything.
They've ruined them.
Just like with any movie, they ruin it with multiculturalism and feminism.
And I don't know why.
Going back to Ghost.
Go ahead.
I was just going to say, you know, I like Harrison Ford.
Harrison Ford is one of my favorite actors.
And, you know, the Jones, and even though the NAMA Jones are a little bit silly in some ways, we won't get into that.
But they're all enjoyable movies.
And, you know, so I like a lot of the actors that played the roles in those movies.
Never have, I got to admit this, folks.
As much as I am, you know how much I love the 50s and 60s music.
Courtney and I share that together.
I never did get into older movies, even though not that Star Wars is that old, but late 70s.
But I never have watched a single Star Wars or Star Trek.
Not one, not one, not ever.
Which is a little bit bizarre, I guess.
But I've never seen those either.
But I know that they have completely tainted those as well.
Yes, it's, yeah, it's such, and you know, we mentioned Ghostbusters in the 80s.
You know, it's so amazing.
Like, we think of everything like from the 50s and before as the only time when movies were good, like wholesome, I guess.
But even looking back at the 80s, gosh, it was so much better than now.
Like, for the most part, they honored proper gender roles in the 80s.
You know, women were getting rescued and men were doing most of the fighting.
And then, you know, and it wasn't, they didn't have to force multiculturalism into everything.
I mean, there were so many movies where everybody was white, like even in the 80s.
I mean, but I'm not trying to get too far off of Halloween.
But yeah, I mean, that's what that's, they basically were, they basically, Ghostbusters is one of those great products of the 80s that they have just basically completely ruined.
So, but, but, yeah, those are my thoughts on that.
You can't really, I mean, the original cast was so wonderful in that role, and you can't, there's just some, I mean, women, women just aren't as funny as men are.
When men are funny, they're attractive, they can be attractive.
When women do it, it's gross.
Like, in the same way, it's just gross.
It's vulgar.
I mean, take it from a woman, ladies and gentlemen.
Take her opinion on this.
But, but, yeah, I'm not sure where you wanted to take the discussion next.
I guess that's all I had to say about it.
Well, I'll take it in time.
We're coming up on a break.
I just would remind everybody that Courtney started planning for this particular show, our Halloween show, which we do every year.
And there's the music.
She started planning for tonight's hour at Easter.
That's how long she's been planning for it, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, maybe not that long, but no, we have been talking about it for a long time.
Courtney has been a longtime contributor to this program, made many appearances, which just read about in a recent article, Courtney, as you know.
But she's always with us for Halloween, or at least has been for the last several years, and that will continue if I have anything to say about it.
We'll be right back.
Stay tuned.
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Welcome to Flight Night.
Well, welcome back to our last segment before Halloween.
And that, of course, is the theme song from the Jay Giles Band, another 80s institution you may have heard their biggest hit centerfold, the Jay Giles band.
That is the theme song to the movie Fright Night.
Now, I have never much cared for the horror genre.
I don't sit around watching Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees back-to-back-to-back.
I mean, of course, I've seen the nightmare on Elm Street and all of that.
But 1985's Fright Night has always been one of my favorite movies.
Another movie that I grew up on, it's a story about a boy played by William Ragsdale, who rightly suspects that his next-door neighbor, Chris Sarandon, is a vampire.
And when nobody believes him, he enlists the help of a television host, Peter Vincent, played by the late, great Roddy McDowell.
And McDowell's role for my money as the reluctant vampire killer in this campy little mid-80s low-budget film that has now accumulated a cult following.
McDowell's role is one of the most underrated performances I think you'll ever see.
I think it's world-class acting.
Now, one thing you may not know is that Courtney and I recommend movies to one another.
We're longtime friends, so we can do this.
So she recommended to me and to my family the sound of music.
And I recommended to her reciprocally Fright Night.
But she did watch it.
And she watched it on that big, beautiful, big screen that she has down there in Alabama.
She watched it just last year.
So she's a child of the 80s, as am I.
But it took her all the way to 2020 to watch Fright Night.
And she did it last year.
So we're talking about movies, Courtney.
You talked about Ghostbusters in the last segment.
Let's talk about Fright Night now.
Am I overselling it?
Am I, what did you think about it?
It was, no, I actually, I honestly enjoyed it.
It was, it was, it's representative of its time, I would say.
And it, uh, it, I mean, in itself, I didn't find anything wrong with it.
It's not really, it's not really something at the top of my list.
It's like it's probably not at the top of your list, but it was, you know, it was, it was, no, no, no, no.
It's not at the top of my list.
It is at the very top of my list.
Well, you'd have to, it's, it's the memories, I think, with my cousins and brother.
But anyway.
Yeah, that'd say, okay.
When I was, I mean, I have a lot of movies.
I have a lot of movies from when I was little that nobody else has ever heard of.
In fact, I think last year, it might have been last year for the, but no, two years ago, the year before last when I was on for Christmas, I recommended a Christmas movie from the 80s that I don't think anybody's heard.
Sometimes the less well-known stuff is better sometimes.
But no, I was glad.
I was glad I saw it.
And I'll probably see it again at some point.
And It's just spinning for its time.
It's probably one of those things if you did grow up in the 80s, you should see at least once.
And, you know, once you start watching it, if you like Halloween in the 80s, you'll enjoy it.
Well, Acting Well Past, you know, Robert Roddy McDowell was a classically trained actor.
And for him to take that role, I thought he really added some gravitas to that.
But there's a lot of good movies that you could watch around Halloween time.
I mean, of course, AMC is doing all of the different horror movies and the different movies that you would watch this time of year.
And then it's interesting to me, of course, how quickly things transition.
Come Monday, November the 1st.
It'll be nothing but nothing but Christmas stuff.
And that's fine.
I mean, Christmas is obviously a superior holiday and much more important for a variety of reasons.
And we will touch on that when the time comes.
But, you know, for the reasons we've mentioned tonight, Halloween, what it means going back to the ancient Celts and the ancient people of Europe so many generations and centuries ago, it does tuck at the heartstrings.
There is an ancestral memory there that exists just the same.
And that's why we spend an hour every year talking about Halloween.
So, Courtney, with only minutes remaining, this segment and this year before Halloween, as it were, the Halloween coming up just a few minutes after we go off the air tonight.
I mean, we are literally on the night before Halloween.
So, three hours after we go off the air, two hours if you're on the East Coast, you'll be there.
What have we not covered tonight that you want to talk about?
In closing, I just like to talk about, you know, a lot of times when I'm on, I like to talk about, you know, light topics and, you know, maybe topics that don't matter to most people, things that are fun to talk about, fluff topics, or either that, or I'll come on and talk about something serious.
But I'm such an optimist about it, you know, whether it's the James Fields trial or the Chavoon trial or Trump, you know, winning his lawsuits, you know, when he was, you know, at the end of that terrible election process last year.
You know, it's like I'm always an optimist until the very end.
And I think I've irritated people before because of that.
And I'll say this: the reason I'm like that, just like to talk about happy things and just being optimists is because I think as a woman, you know, that can be, it's okay for that to be my role,
you know, like just like in a relationship, like in our house, if my son, my little boy, if he hurts himself, you know, I baby him and I, you know, snuggle him, whereas my husband's like, okay, stop crying, you know, and that's kind of how it should be.
I kind of make things nice and sweet, whereas he kind of focuses on what's more serious, like, okay, he needs to learn to be a man now, you know.
But, and I think in our movement, it's the same way.
Like, you know, as a female on the movement, it's okay for me to, you know, call into a show and talk about these things, as long as I'm not trying to take a man's role and lead things.
Because if you're trying to lead a movement, you do have to be more serious and realistic.
You know, like, like, you know, at the end of last year with that terrible whole election outcome, I was one of the people just being an optimist until the very end.
Even up until January 20th, I thought something was going to happen and he was going to, you know, find his way in and win.
And it was usually men that had to tell me that to be like, I'm sorry, he's not going to make it in.
We have to be realistic.
He's just not going to do it.
And a lot of other women were kind of like me a lot, you know, and I'm not just saying in our movement, but I mean, like, in general, I was part of a Facebook group that was cheering him on.
And up until the last minute, it was mostly women on there who thought he was still going to get in.
And something miraculous was going to happen on January 20th.
Whereas every now and then a man would step in and say, guys, he's not going to get in.
So I think if you're leading a movement, it's important to be realistic.
And because If you're going into battle, you have to be realistic, you know, about what an outcome is going to be.
But, you know, if I'm just, you know, basically all I'm doing at this point is raising my children and calling into your radio show.
That's really all I do.
I don't even comment on websites anymore.
And so I think, you know, I think if that's my only role, I think it's okay for, you know, me to call in and just keep people happy.
And I'm not going to stop being an optimist.
I just, it's not in my nature.
You know, even with these current trials going on that y'all were talking about earlier with Charlottesville, I'm going to be an optimist about those until the end.
I just can't imagine being any other way.
I just can't, I just can't.
So I don't know if that really, I don't know if optimism really relates to coming on here and talking about laid-back topics.
I think the two kind of intertwine.
But that's just, that's just why I'm like this.
I just, you know, I just can't imagine going day to day, always being negative about everything.
And I know, you know, again, if you're a leader, you have to be more realistic.
But just to get, just to get through the year and the day, you know, it's just fun to just focus on what we're able to celebrate every month, whether it's Halloween one month or Thanksgiving another month or Easter, you know, just focusing on our wonderful European traditions.
And then each trial we go through, it's like, I just hope for the best outcome because sometimes you never know.
You never know.
So well, I appreciate your participation and your participation for the many years you've been appearing on this program.
I think it strikes a great balance that we seek to present to the audience, not because we seek to present something for presentation's sake, but because it is a fair representation of who we are and who our audience is.
And I think you're a fine ambassador, as we used the word last week on our 17th anniversary show of our audience.
And you're a fine representative of our audience.
You are exhibit A in many ways of who and what our audience is.
Somebody with dreams, a family-oriented person with hopes and a vision for a better tomorrow.
And it's important to have that, to balance out the commentary for some of these very difficult stories and some of these very difficult scenarios and these very difficult and dark days that we face in many ways that there will be a brought tomorrow.
And of course, you spread that joy.
So we wish you, Courtney, and your family a happy Halloween.
I was going to ask you, my God, how fast did this hour go?
How did it go by that fast?
I was going to ask you what you and your family are going to be doing for Halloween tomorrow, but whatever you are doing and whatever you are doing in our listening audience, be safe, have fun, spend that time with your family.
And we'll talk to you next week for Keith Alexander, for Courtney from Alabama, for our entire staff and crew.