April 2, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide, as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
This is the moment you've been waiting for tonight,
is it not, ladies and gentlemen?
It is.
It is the first Saturday of April, and that means it's the first Saturday of Confederate History Month.
And joining us now live from Alabama is no other than Dr. Michael Hill.
Our salute of the South officially begins this hour.
We're going to lean heavily into it for the remainder of the month, but it officially begins this hour with Dr. Michael Hill, who is the chief of the League of the South and also a retired university professor of history and author of two books on Celtic warfare.
And what a privilege it is to kick off Confederate History Month officially with the one and only Dr. Michael Hill.
Michael, thank you for being with us tonight.
James, it's always my honor and pleasure, but always to be your first guest for Confederate History Month.
Quite a privilege.
Thanks.
I was talking to you just a couple of minutes ago in queue and making mention of the fact that this is, of course, our 18th year to do this and to have you kick it off.
We've got big plans this month for Confederate History Month.
They will be unveiled as each week proceeds throughout the month of April.
And of course, we'll take an hour off for Easter as well with Pastor Brett McAtee, who will deliver to us the biblical accounting of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Very special month April is.
It puts us in tune with our cultural and racial heritage and also our spiritual heritage.
And to have Michael Hill on that note kick things off this month is very meaningful to me, Michael.
James, I do appreciate you putting me in such an honored position here.
And I will certainly try to do my best for the next hour not to let you down, brother.
Well, we've got a lot to cover with you.
And if I could go back to the first hour, our guest in the first hour, who was Jared Taylor, when Jared was on, and I did this with our second hour guest as well, but I made mention to Jared who our second and third hour guests would be.
And when he heard that you, Michael, would be on with us tonight, he asked me if I would be sure to tell you hello.
So far be it from me not to deliver that message from Jared Taylor to Michael Hill.
He says hello.
Well, it's good.
It's certainly good to hear from Jared.
I always have the greatest respect for him.
And if he's not, if he's listening right now, hello, Jared.
I appreciate the shout out, as it were.
And James, if he's not listening, please tell him I said thanks.
Well, I did already in advance, but perhaps he is listening as well as so many people are around the country and across the world tonight.
But let's get to Confederate History Month.
You know, Michael, unlike Black History Month, that's not something we made up.
That's something that has been celebrated by states in the South for a long, long time.
Confederate History Month, talk about its history.
Well, you know, I can remember when I was a child and a teenager, that the celebration of Confederate History Month in April was, you know, it's something that you did, and nobody thought anything controversial about it.
We simply thought that we were carrying out the biblical admonition of the fifth commandment to honor thy father and thy mother by doing this.
And nobody made any big deal about it.
I mean, it was an important thing, but there was no controversy to it.
And I can remember, obviously, in the 60s at the centennial, the 100th anniversary of the war between the states or the war of northern aggression, it was a great celebration, particularly in April of beginning in April of 1861 and all going all the way through 65, of course.
It was amazing.
And nowadays, you know, they try to make you feel like you're committing some kind of crime if you celebrate Confederate History Month.
But hey, to hell with that.
If we have to be outlaws to celebrate our ancestors, so we'll be outlaws.
You said the word, my friend.
And there's actually, I've got this whole hour, unbeknownst to you, planned out.
And each segment, I have something that I want to present to you.
And there is a segment for outlaws.
And in fact, my namesake that we'll get to, but we'll get to that in just a moment.
But you wrote an article several years ago now that I always like to bring up.
My heart is in Dixie.
Do you remember that article?
And do you remember?
Why is it important?
Here's the question.
Why do we still actually before I even ask the question?
And we only have two minutes remaining, so we'll have to make it quick this segment.
A listener at the political cesspool contacted me yesterday and he asked if he could meet me in my hometown.
He was driving through and he was going to a place in rural Mississippi to place Confederate flags on his Confederate ancestors' graves in this small part of rural Mississippi.
He was driving through my town.
He wanted to meet me to present a contribution.
And, you know, that really brought it all into sharp focus.
Why is our heart still in Dixie?
Why are our Confederate heroes still revered and worthy of remembrance so many years after that particular conflict, Michael?
Because there's a long, long line of blood between us all.
And we realize who we are.
We realize that's who we are.
That's where we're grounded in that blood and soil.
And you couldn't beat it out of us, James, if you tried.
It's who we are, and it's who we always will be.
That article that we were mentioning a moment ago, My Heart is in Dixie, you wrote it so many years ago for the League of the South website.
We'll give that URL in just a moment.
But Michael, it supersedes time and space.
It is everything.
Why is that so?
Well, this is a universal principle that we're dealing with here.
You know, a man is born into this world into a particular family and at a particular spot, a place, a home, if you will.
And those things I think God puts into our soul so deeply, so deeply, and those that he blesses with an understanding of what's down in your soul like that can realize the importance of these things and realize that they're important enough to actually die for, as our ancestors were willing to do, and I hope we are, because these are the things that make life real and worth living.
These transitory, the racinated international jet setters who can be, you know, at home anywhere, you know, those people, those people are not real to me.
These Confederates are real, James, and we're with them, with them.
They live in us.
This is something that people who are not of our blood and soil cannot understand, but they're not dead.
They're still alive.
Their very being, their very DNA, their very blood and bone still beats in our hearts.
And we'll talk with Michael about that as soon as we come back.
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They spread your gravel.
To Dixie's land, I'm bound to travel.
Look away.
Dixie land.
There I wish I was in Dixie.
Hooray, hooray.
In Dixie's land, I'll take my stand and live that night.
I don't mind mentioning it to Dr. Michael Hill or the guy next door or anybody that I run into.
There is only one national anthem that I will stand and put my hand over my heart to, and you just heard it.
Am I wrong, Michael?
Sir, you are absolutely right.
I actually, you know, I, on the 4th of July, there are two days of the calendar year that I have a great deal of consternation towards, and that is Memorial Day and the 4th of July.
To see so many white Southerners waving as hard as they can the flag of tyranny towards their people.
Back then and still to this day, I do not understand it.
I actually drove over an overpass today that was populated by about six people.
It was, you know, young adult couples who are waving the American flag, the Yankee flag.
And I would imagine, Michael, these people to be nominally conservative Christian people who think they're doing the right thing by waving as hard as they can the banner of their oppressor.
And they waved at me, and I just couldn't bear to wave back.
I couldn't even look in their direction.
I can't stand it.
I know that this runs afoul to some of the people in our listening audiences, even to some of our guests, but I do not allow the Yankee flag on my property.
I do not teach my children.
I don't know my land.
That's right.
I do not teach my children as we homeschool to pledge allegiance to that flag.
Michael Hill.
No, I don't have it in my house.
I don't have it on my property.
I don't pledge allegiance to it.
And I think if you point it out to these good people that you're talking about here, that I think recently the U.S. flag was paired at every embassy around the world with the queer flag.
You know, I don't even know what to call it other than that.
I've lost count of all the letters in LBGTQ, whatever, but you get the message.
But yeah, when you see the American Empire flag, you often see that flag going along with it or Black Lives Matter flag or maybe even the anti-Fa Communist flag.
But the point is, I have my own flag, sir.
And you know which one that is?
That's that beautiful battle flag, that St. Andrew's Starry Cross.
And that'll always, till the day I die, be my flag, sir.
Well, and why is that?
That's the question.
That's the question because blood and bone runs deeper than what, than what?
The fad of the day.
You know, blood and genetics, to me, is more important.
And it's wonderful when a nation can be a nation.
You know, there's a difference between a nation and a country.
There's a difference between a nation, which is a race, which is a specific subset of people, versus a country, which is a geographic politici.
But when one could be both, that's wonderful.
But here and now, it is not that.
And so if the force choose between one and the other, I choose my people over this corrupt, criminally corrupt government that occupies Washington, D.C., and that subjugates our people in the South and that has subjugated our people in the South since 1865.
And make no mistake about that, as we open up Confederate History Month this year in 2022.
You know, Michael, those truths are eternal.
So when people ask, hey, why are you still doing this in 2022?
1861 to 1865 was a long time ago.
But truth never dies.
Our people never die.
I'll die for our people.
What about you, Michael?
Well, our president, Jefferson Davis, said a long time ago that these principles tend to re-exert themselves at different times and under different circumstances.
And that's true if it is a true and solid principle, which the principle that our Confederate forefathers fought for was, of course.
It was the principle that men like Washington had stood for generations, a couple of generations before them.
And in the subsequent generations after 1865, there are us who God has given mercifully the eyes to see and the ears to hear the truth about the American experience here.
And anyone who has that truth has to stand on the side of the Confederate battle flag over the flag of the current American empire.
And thank God, and literally that we have people in other parts of the country that I deal with on a fairly regular basis in the league who say, I'm not really a southerner, but I am in the sense that I know that what you and your ancestors are fighting, what they fought for, what you're continuing to fight for is right.
And some of these people will say, you don't know how much I wish I had Confederate blood in my veins, and you don't know how lucky and blessed you are to have it.
And I say, oh, but yes, I do, because it identifies me and it gives me a principle to stand on and fight for that I know is sound, I know is solid, and I know that good men sitting in the chambers with God himself looking down on us fought for.
And the last thing in the world I want to do is to embarrass those people by not standing fully for the cause for which they fought and for which that flag we've been talking about stands.
Yeah, well, we talk about that all the time.
We fight for our past, our present, and our future.
And if you're not fighting for all of those things, what are you doing?
And to your point, Michael, one of the earliest mentors I had back when I was working with Buchanan back in 99 and 2000, he's gone on now to his eternal reward, so I don't mind mentioning his name.
His name was Warren Baldwin, and he actually introduced me to Willis Cartoon and he introduced me to the American Free Press and the Barnes Review and all of these things.
But he was a native New Yorker who had moved to Tennessee.
And he mentioned these things.
You know, I'm not of your blood, but I am with you in spirit.
And, you know, there's so many white Southerners now who are with us in blood, but are not with us in spirit.
And that can change.
And as I said, I mean, you know, it's so easy for people to go with the prevailing tide.
It's so easy to go with what's currently in vogue and what's a fad.
And, you know, as quickly as these people falter, they can be brought back on.
There's only a very special few of us on either end of the political spectrum who are true believers, come what may.
But I was asking Jared Taylor at the very end of his appearance in the first hour about, of course, our Confederate heroes.
And it's very easy to mention the people you know, Lee and Jackson and Forrest and, you know, the top-tier people, but there's so many Confederate heroes like our ancestors, Michael, who may not be strung off the tip of the tongue, but no less sacrificed and offered every bit as much.
And before we get into that and genetic predisposition and blood and ancestral memory, as we've covered on this program before, your comparison between our Confederate ancestors and our Confederate heroes, there's a big difference between people who are true leaders of a people and people who occupy leadership positions.
And, you know, we have that now with people like Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham and, you know, fill in the blank.
But compare that to our heroes in our history, Michael.
Well, I think that what you see in the South among the heroes that we have is these are people who came out of this people we call southerners because they were one of them.
And they were given by God a special providence and a special place, special talents that their people recognize.
But they recognize them as one of them.
They weren't placeholders.
They didn't buy these places.
They didn't use electoral trickery to get in positions of authority like that.
They were from the people and the people recognized them as leaders.
And most importantly, the people realized that what they were going to do in their positions of authority would be for the benefit, not of some faction, not of themselves, but for the people as a whole and the South.
Hold on right there.
Dr. Michael Hill, Chief of the League of the South.
We'll be right back with you right after this.
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I'm a good old rebel.
Now that's just what I am.
And for this Yankee nation, I do not give a damn.
I'm glad I fought again.
I only wish we'd won.
I ain't asked any pardon for anything I've done.
I hate the Yankee nation and everything they do.
I hate the Declaration of Independence, too.
I hate the glorious union, tis dripping with our blood.
I hate the striped banner.
I fit it all I could.
I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years thereabout.
Got wounded in four places and I starved at point lookout.
I catch the rheumatism of camping in the snow.
But I killed a chance of Yankees and I'd like to kill some more.
You know what?
I'm going to take you, and I don't think he would mind me saying this, Dr. Hill, but you know, David Duke is a good friend of ours.
Is he not?
Absolutely he is.
I have known David for longer than I have done this program, and it is in fact because he invited me to speak at his conference in 2004, just a few months shy of my first night on the air, that I met so many great people that have continued to leave their fingerprints of my activism and my development as an activist over all of these years.
People like Sam Dixon and Paul Fromm and Nick Griffin and countless others.
There were so many there that weekend.
But I was with David a couple of years ago and I was telling him what I just told you.
I can't stand the American flag.
I can't stand to see it and to see Southerners waving it.
The more they're oppressed, the harder they wave it.
He said, you know, I get it, James, but, you know, you just, it's, you got to play the game, basically.
I can't.
I can't stand it.
I can't stand it.
And I agree with the lyrics in that particular song.
I, man, it's just, it's just a bridge too far.
And, Michael, that gets me to what I wanted to cover with you in this segment.
And that is, it goes down to, look, they have taken away our cloth.
They've taken away our flag.
They are now working to take away our stone, our monuments across Dixie.
And of course, what comes next is our very flesh and blood.
And to say that that is taking it too far is not true.
That is the logical progression as we have seen throughout history.
And that's what we're fighting for.
I think I did myself a disservice to say I would die for my people.
So many people, the whole my cold dead hand, you'll take my second amendment with my cold egged hand.
But as soon as the ATF or the FBI knocks on the door, those people are going to be handing over their guns.
I actually really mean it when I say I would die for my people because I would fight for my people.
I would fight for my people and I would live for my people.
And that's what I've done for the last 20 years as a public advocate.
That's what you've done, Michael, for even longer than that.
It's one thing to say, hey, anybody can cheaply say I die for my people, but it is much harder to fight for your people.
That's what we're doing.
And to the point, it goes from cloth to stone to flesh and blood.
Where are we at, Michael?
Well, we're past the stone in the fabric.
I think their ultimate plan is to destroy us as a people.
And I think that's been underway for quite some time.
You know, a man who won't live for his people, I have a hard time believing he would die for them.
And you're absolutely right.
Hear, here.
The first thing that you can do is go out there and live for your people.
And that means you get involved in doing what is necessary to make sure they are able to be free and prosperous generation after generation, not just in your time, but in your children and grandchildren's time as well.
I despise a man who will say, well, you know, I don't care what happens after I'm gone.
I'll let the next generation worry about that.
Heck, I wouldn't spit on a man like that if he was on fire.
Well, that's the thing, Michael.
No, I mean, anybody who would quote me from what I said just a moment ago about the American flag, I do not, I really do not care.
I welcome it.
No, yeah, exactly.
I've said for many, many years, I have no respect for that banner.
It stands for a corrupt government.
It stands for a government that has long been enemies of me and my people.
And it's today about a government that is pushing not only on us, we were the practice run for them.
They're doing to the rest of the world now what they did to us 150 or 160 years ago.
And that flag stands for it all.
Everything from godless transgenderism to whatever you want to fill in the blank with.
But no, there's no way that I will salute that flag.
There's no way that I will honor it.
There's no way that I will give it any respect.
You know, I hate to walk into a Walmart, but, you know, I try everything I can to avoid it.
But if I have to walk into a Walmart in May and it's around Memorial Day, Yankee Memorial Day, that's not Confederate Memorial Day.
That's right.
My God, to see those flags makes me cringe.
And I don't mind saying it on this program.
Listen, I get it.
If you can take your mind back to a time at Fort McHenry and Francis Scott Keyes' writing of the Star-Spangled Banner, I get it.
That's a beautiful thing.
I won't take that from you.
But everything that that flag has stood for for a hell of a lot longer than it stood for at Keyes lyrics to 1861.
Man, that's not a flag that any Christian or any Southerner should allow on their home.
But Michael.
Every perversion you can think of.
Absolutely.
I mean, not just the subjugation of our people during the Great War and the Reconstruction and the horrors of Reconstruction, but every bit of degeneracy that you can imagine from transgenderism to homosexuality to interracialism to the destruction of our own flesh and blood.
That's what that banner stands for for me.
And for whatever years it stood for something better than that, it has far been outshadowed by the current status quo.
Yes, sir.
Michael, I was browsing around at leagueofthesouth.com.
We have just a couple of minutes before our last break.
And then I want to go to the forthcoming conference that'll be happening in June.
But I was at leagueofthesouth.com earlier today just to get your bio.
Of course, I knew it, but I wanted to be able to recite it properly.
Chief of the League of the South, retired professor of history and author of two books on Celtic warfare.
And we've talked about those books, by the way.
We'll talk about them a little bit more in the following segment.
But very, very, very quickly, I stumbled upon an article there that I had not seen before that you wrote last year.
And it was entitled, What Would They Say About Frank James Today?
I don't know if you know this.
I'm partly named after Frank James.
My name is James Franklin Edwards.
My brother is Jesse Edwards.
And my younger brother, I have one sister.
My younger brother is Jesse Edwards.
And so, you know, in Confederate History Month, it's easy to recite Lee, Jackson, Forrest, go on with your top-tier heroes.
But you know what?
I resonate a little bit more, not maybe a little bit more, but equally as much with Jesse and Frank James and Quantrill, the people who never stopped fighting.
That's right.
How about you?
Oh, yes, sir.
Those are some of my greatest heroes.
And in that article, I pointed out that my great-grandfather, James Henry Hill, who was the son of a Confederate soldier, in his youth, he was befriended by an old Frank James.
And I take that as a great point of family pride that my great-grandfather on my father's side was a friend of Frank James.
How about this?
How about this?
And this is going to get me to what we're going to talk about in the next segment.
But my great-grandfather went to a theater at which Frank James was a ticket taker.
Now, my great-grandfather was a young man in this time.
My dad has told me this story with pride.
But he had his ticket taken by Frank James in his elder years at a theater in Missouri.
I mean, that's just incredible.
And that is actually what we're going to be getting into in the next segment is that after all of these years, blood and bones still unites us.
You know, Michael, we're coming up on the anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh, which took place in the first week of April in that year.
And it was told that the South never smiled again past Shiloh.
But our ancestors, I know you're in mine, were on the field together in that war.
And here we are now in the year 2022.
We found each other once again and we're still fighting together from the Frank and Jesse James connection to the Battle of Shiloh to all the way through.
There is something about genetic predisposition and ancestral memory that finds us, that finds us throughout time and space.
And we'll talk with Michael Hill about that as soon as we come back in this last segment of the first hour of Confederate History Month 2022.
Michael Hill of the League of the South.
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I can almost hear my papa saying, won't you hold still, son?
Stop squirming around.
Another southern sun days come down.
Michael Hill, I got an email from a lady listener in our audience a few weeks ago in anticipation of this month's special series.
And she wrote, her name is Lisa.
Never met her, never received a piece of correspondence from her before, but she wrote just a couple of modern songs for our people, and that was Shenandoah's Sunday in the South.
And you just heard a few lyrics from that song, and I'm actually watching the video of it here, the music video here in the studio.
All white cast.
I mean, obviously, this was taken a few years ago, but, you know, we're not that far removed from it.
And in fact, Michael, we're not removed at all from it.
As I mentioned at the top of this hour, I had a listener who just was coming through town yesterday, in fact, going down to Mississippi this week to lay flags on his ancestors' graves.
The media would love to lead you to believe that that no longer exists, but it does, and it does quite more than you would realize.
Yeah, there he goes.
By the way, Shenandoah boys are my boys.
They're from my home county.
You know, Shenandoah, Sunday in the South.
That's the band.
Yes.
Yeah, I know Marty Raven and Jim Seals.
I played guitar with Jim Seals before.
That is a great song.
Yeah, those boys are from my home county, Dan in Marion County, around Hamilton, Alabama.
How about that?
Well, there you go.
Well, Michael, this is something.
I shouldn't doubt it.
I shouldn't doubt it.
And this is what gets back to what we were touching on before the break.
We've talked about this.
You've made so many appearances over the better part of two decades on this program.
But one thing we've touched on before is that we know that your Confederate ancestors and my Confederate ancestors fought together.
And here we are now, so many years later.
And here we are now still fighting with the means available to us.
This is the, though, the anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh.
Your reaction to that?
Well, I took my 15-year-old grandson to Shiloh back around Christmas, last Christmas, a few months ago.
And on the way, we stopped at the cemetery just north of Killen here in Green Hill, Alabama, and let him put a Confederate flag on the grave of his ancestor, who was with the 16th Alabama Infantry, joined when he was 16, fought in every campaign with the Army of Tennessee, and surrendered with them in North Carolina and walked home.
And my grandson was very moved by all this.
We walked the battlefield at Shiloh, and I don't think he'll ever forget it.
And this is how we pass it on from generation to generation by doing things like this.
And I am so thankful for having had the opportunity to do that with my own flesh and blood.
You know, there's just something that you can't describe about that transmission of this mystical thing, not just between generations, but between people like you and you and me, James, whose ancestors Fought together.
And here we are, we find ourselves together so many decades later doing the same thing in just a little bit different form right now.
But nonetheless, fighting the same fight for the same cause.
It's mystical.
It can only be from God.
Absolutely.
I mean, it absolutely, I said this before, it transcends time and space, but it transcends logic and reason as well.
It has to be as it was meant to be.
There is this genetic predisposition.
And Michael, with so many great appearances that you've made on this program, I mean, we've talked about your past prior to being chief of the League of the South, your tenure as a university professor.
And even before that, when you first stepped foot on the grounds of Scotland and mentioning as you got off the plane, you instantly felt this ancestral memory.
I mean, that is something that only you can realize.
It's almost supernatural, I guess.
And I would ask you this.
You don't know where I'm taking my kids.
You know, we homeschool.
You don't know where I'm taking my kids on Friday, April the 15th.
But for the first time in their lives, I'll be taking them to Shiloh, and I'll be taking them to trod the grounds where their ancestors trod.
And that'll be very special to me.
I've taken them to the, I've taken them to Corinth.
I've taken them to Thaxton.
I've taken them to these very small Mississippi towns where their maternal and paternal grandparents have been from, but not to the battlefield, actually, where they actually fought.
And so that's going to be very special.
You were just there a few months ago.
I'll be there in a couple of weeks.
You know, this is something that it doesn't die in the hearts and minds of those who know.
For the people who say, just get over it, get past us.
It's impossible.
Yeah, it's impossible.
And even if it were possible, I wouldn't want to do it because as I started out by saying tonight, this is a commandment, the fifth commandment, about honoring your father and your mother or honoring your ancestors is what it obviously means broadly defined.
And we have an obligation to do that, but there's just something that God has put in our hearts and in our innermost being that causes us to do this.
I mean, we don't even have to think about it, James.
I mean, when I was a kid, I had these feelings.
And later on, I understood why, but I didn't know when I saw that flag or when my grandfather was telling me about his granddaddy.
And, you know, it just, it made it real to me.
And that never left me.
And it always was coursing there through my veins.
And, you know, as you said, it's a religious experience, really.
Well, it is that and so much more.
But I, again, folks, want to remind you that we've had a great program tonight transitioning between our march around the world, which took place last month, such a special time when we interview only guests internationally, and Confederate History Month, which is taking place here now and this month.
And this has been a little bit of a transitory week.
We had four weeks in the month of March.
There are actually five weeks this month.
And so for the remainder of the four months, we'll be focusing very heavily on our southern patrimony, which is a big part of our program and our Confederate history.
But this week, this first week, we have Been doing that, but also a little bit of current events as well with Jared Taylor and David Cole.
But here with Michael Hill to officially kick it off, and this is our third and final hour of the first week of April, has been very special.
And from henceforth, for the remainder of the month, it'll be dominated by our Southern Patrimony and Confederate history.
And of course, that'll continue until the month of May comes forward.
And then we will have a little bit more of commonplace here on TPC.
But Michael, one thing I want to ask you before we bring the curtains to a close on this, our first broadcast of the month, is the very important event that everybody should know about that's taking place the first weekend of June in Lake City, Florida.
I think you are the man to provide us with more details about that and how people can be a part of it.
Well, it's going to be the 2022 League of the South National Conference in Lake City, Florida on the weekend of June the 3rd and 4th.
And if you would like information about that, go to our website, which is www.leagofthesouth.com.
And there's an icon on there which says 2022 National Conference.
If you'll click on that, it will give you all the information you need to know about the conference, about the speakers, about how to register.
And we have a marvelous list of speakers.
And I have an invitation out to my friend James Edwards, and I certainly hope he's able to make it.
Because if he is, he's going to join the likes of Kevin MacDonald and Sam Dixon and Eddie Miller and Rick Tyler and David Duke.
And my goodness.
But boy, I tell you what, it would be surely a shame if James Edwards missed that weekend because these are like our go-to guys for any given broadcast.
But yes, you mentioned the roster.
And you mentioned it earlier tonight.
You're pulling double duty, Dr. Hill, being on with Eddie earlier.
And then now us to close the program tonight.
But Lake City of Florida, I know Lake City well.
Traveling down I-75 as I so often do, it is right there at the intersection of I-75 going north and south.
And as you mentioned earlier, I-10 going east and west is a very convenient location to do to get to.
And the Florida chapter of the League of the South is very robust.
So I anticipate that coupled with the likes of Kevin McDonald and Sam Dixon and David Duke and Michael Hill.
You know, that's an event you want to be at.
And you can be there.
All you have to do is go to leagueofthesouth.com and there at the top left-hand corner, click on the 2022 National Conference.
It's coming up that first weekend in June.
Plenty of time for you to make arrangements to get to a very convenient place to get to.
Am I right, Dr. Hill?
One minute remaining.
You're absolutely right.
And we're going to have good security.
If you're worried about being dox, we're doing betting on everybody who registers to come.
And we may be turning some people away if we don't really trust them.
So don't worry about your security.
Wonderful event.
I'm actually here at the website right now.
And again, that website is leagueofthesouth.com.
All you got to do is go to the top left-hand corner and click on the 2022 League of the South National Conference.
This is going to be a fantastic event.
Dr. Michael Hill, thank you for kicking off Confederate History Month 2022 with us here on TPC.
A lot more from our Southern Heritage and Heroes to come this month, but it all started right now, this hour.
Dr. Michael Hill, League of South.com.
Godspeed to you, my friend and brother.
Thank you, James.
I am honored to be on with you.
We'll talk to you again very soon and certainly hope to see you and everybody listening in June.
Leagueofthesouth.com, folks.
Go there now.
We'll be back with you as our celebration of Confederate History Month continues next week.
Great guests coming up this month, the likes of which you've never seen before.