Dec. 24, 2022 - 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.
God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day to save us all from Satan's power and we will gone astray.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy from God, our Heavenly Father, that said angel came, and under two certain shepherds brought tidings of the same, how that in Bethlehem was born the Son of God by name.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.
You know, even after all of these years, Keith Alexander, I don't think we've ever been live on Christmas Eve before.
Surely not.
We either would have taped it or played a best of.
But not only are we live tonight, having a guest like Congressman Steve King coming on with us on his Christmas Eve as well, I think that's pretty remarkable.
And what a guy.
Yeah, I think that he feels real comfortable on our show, and we feel comfortable with him too.
It's, you know, one thing I wanted to bring out was he was talking about the whole January 6th thing, basically.
It's a way to get Trump.
And you've always heard the old canard that you can indict a ham sandwich.
Well, when they get an indictment on Trump, I think you'll find out that in either New York or D.C., District of Columbia, you can also convict a ham sandwich.
So I don't know how things are going to be.
But that's Sam Dixon's opinion.
He had sent an email out to me and a couple other guys a week or two ago saying that he believes that Trump will be in prison before.
And he was saying even in Georgia, we'll have to have Sam back on in early January.
There's a situation in Georgia where Trump is under investigation and you've got, you know, real radical leftist black female prosecutor down there.
We have people now in charge of the mechanisms of our government like the court system, like the prosecutorial offices and whatnot, that just can't be depended upon to respect the constitutional rights of other people, on the other side of the political divide from them this is how Fannie Willis is her name She's the district attorney of Fulton County, and I think Sam believes she has something cooked up especially for Trump.
Well, I've heard rumors about that too, but you know, there are several places in America where somebody like Trump cannot get a Well, I tell you, Metro of Atlanta is one of them.
I mean, you're going to have an all-black jury there.
Well, the same thing in D.C.
And probably, you know, you may get more racial diversity in New York, but you sure don't get ideological diversity.
Isn't that what we always say?
They're really for diversity, but not the diversity of opinion, of course.
Which is the real diversity.
Well, in any event, it is a pleasure to be here tonight.
Enjoyed Congressman King.
Of course, we stayed on the phone with the Congressman for a few minutes after the first hour while we were in that extended break and just exchanged some compliments.
And he will be coming back.
I believe he will be a regular going forward.
Yeah, he told James he's been reading his book.
Can't put it down.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know about not being able to put it down, but I got to let you read his book.
I've got it here, along with a very gracious inscription that he sent, and I thanked him for that.
Keith, I hope you make it to Christmas.
You've got to make it about four more hours.
You're going to hack up a lot before we get to the 25th.
It's giving me a heartburn right now.
All right.
Well, that was all that Bozo's barbecue.
Yeah, it could have been.
Any event.
So here's what we're going to do for the rest of the program.
Having Steve King on during the first hour to talk about hopes on a couple of issues for the coming year, some of the things that happened in the year that nearly was 2022 that we thought were good things.
And then a little bit of talk about Christmas.
We're going to talk a lot more about Christmas in the third hour when Pastor Brett McAtee, I was joking with Pastor Brett earlier this week when I called him to get everything scheduled for tonight, that he has officially attained the title of TPC chaplain.
He is our official chaplain now, I think you could say.
Who's going to be the poet laureate?
He's always with us for Christmas and Easter installments.
Tonight, he will once again be sharing with us the biblical accounting of the Christmas story, the biblical accounting of the birth of Christ.
So don't miss that, ladies and gentlemen.
What a fantastic way to end our last show before Christmas.
And we're ending it not a moment, hardly a moment before Christmas.
It'll be three hours till two hours on the East Coast until Christmas this Christmas Eve.
Pastor Brett will be with us to talk about that.
And he comes on throughout the year as well to talk about political issues, very much an ideological ally across the board.
Brami there scares his hen's teeth in the pulpits of America today.
Yeah, and the pastor of a legitimate brick and mortar church, and they know his beliefs.
He's on the hate list just like anybody else that tells the truth and still got his flock and just a great man all the way around, a brother and a man of God.
But what we're going to be doing this hour, we're going to have a trio of ladies, sort of like a little abbreviated version of our Valentine's Day installment that we do every year now.
The Valentine's Day show is entirely ladies' night, where we have up to a half a dozen ladies come on to talk to us about relationships and raising healthy families.
And we'll do that again in February.
But tonight we're going to have Lacey Lynn and Janice Hamblin and Courtney from Alabama share with us the Christmas spirit, what they've done, how they've celebrated their holidays, what they've been cooking, what the kind of decorations, just all that good stuff, with a little bit of a message that you might enjoy as well.
It won't be complete fluff, but it's on Christmas Eve.
So you got to put down your sword at Christmas, at least for a couple of hours.
So that's what we'll be doing.
And I want to say again, though, I got to say this very quickly.
I really enjoyed last week's show.
Well, I enjoy every show.
I've really enjoyed tonight, obviously.
I mean, my goodness.
But last week, just last week when we were replaying some of that interview with George Wallace Jr., and you were hearing him say things that just, I think when he was sharing the message about what George Wallace had said to the person who tried to assassinate him, as you said, always beating down the South.
Everybody in the South is always the immoral bad guys.
And then you hear what these people truly were like, and it's just what a pleasure to be able to bring the truth on these radio airwaves and then revisiting one of those TV appearances.
And we've been doing this at a high level for a long time.
Thanks to the audience.
Thanks to the audience and God's good grace, Keith.
It's like Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar.
He said the evil that men do lives after them.
The goodness is entire with their bones.
Well, I don't think George Wallace did anything wrong, quite frankly.
I'll just be perfectly honest with you, but they certainly have done a good job of putting the kibosh on anything nice to say about any of their adversaries.
That's part of critical theory.
That's right.
That's right.
You know, you never compliment the adversary.
You never tell him he's made a good point in a debate.
You treat him like he's a congenital idiot, a drooling village idiot or something.
And that is for instilling cultural pessimism.
Now, if you don't instill cultural pessimism, then the next step is a therapeutic state where they basically send you to the gulag for psychological reconditioning.
All right, let's take a break and let's get to the first of three ladies who are going to be coming on to spread Christmas cheer this Christmas Eve.
Stay tuned, everybody.
We'll be right back.
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What a special night and a special opportunity to broadcast to you this Christmas Eve.
Joining us now is former YouTuber, full-time stay-at-home mom, and the clone of June Cleaver and Phyllis Schlafly.
That is Lacey Lynn, of course.
How you doing on Christmas Eve, Lacey?
Hi, good to be here.
How are you?
We're doing wonderful.
How are you doing, Keith?
Doing great, except for a little bit of heartburn.
I'm so sorry.
It's good to hear your voice, Keith.
Well, it's good to hear your voice again, too.
Well, if you'd eaten Lacey's food, you wouldn't have heartburn.
I'll tell you what.
This lady is a sure enough chef.
Lacey, what are y'all doing tonight?
How have you gotten into the Christmas spirit?
And we just played the song.
What is Christmas to you?
What is Christmas to me?
Well, Christmas is the celebration of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
But we are actually doing a themed Christmas this year.
We are celebrating our ancestors with a Victorian-themed Christmas.
Now, that's our little thing.
Just to give us a little details.
What's going on?
Yes.
At the home.
So we have a prime rib roast tonight.
We have Yorkshire pudding and an English plum Christmas pudding for dessert.
That sounds like my Christmases.
My mother was a war bride, so she was English.
We had all that stuff.
Plus, I remember that.
Oh, that sounds wonderful.
They had suet pudding.
Did you like it?
Not the suet pudding, but I did love the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, things like that.
They had all sorts of crazy desserts.
There's one I would say, but I just don't want to offend people.
It's spotted.
It's nothing else fill in the blank.
Yes.
You and Lacey are speaking a different language.
You'll have to tell me during the party.
Anyway, hey, what about that?
Have you decked the halls in the Victorian theme as well with decorations?
I have.
So I went on the internet and I found some Victorian tin tinsel to hang on the Christmas tree.
And my kids did a garland with dried oranges and cranberries.
And there's lots of red and green.
The decorations for Victorian Times are very deep reds, deep green, kind of gaudy.
They didn't play it safe.
So we've got like a Victorian Santa kind of figurine on our kitchen bar thing.
I don't know what you would call it.
But we've got it decked out pretty Victorian around here.
I'll tell you what, Keith, you haven't – maybe you have because Keith lives in this limestone keep in midtown Memphis.
Dank James was over at my party.
Yeah, I was thinking, you know, only Lacey.
Lacey would be the only person I think that could perhaps match or exceed what I saw over at your house, Keith.
But it was just a wonderful spread very famously.
We've talked about this a couple of times.
My wife and I had the opportunity to go to one of Lacey's Valentine's parties a couple of years ago.
And it's just, it's really out of a picture book or out of a Hallmark movie almost.
And it's great to see people reconnecting with their past, as you're doing with this theme tonight and getting into the spirit and being, I like fine things.
And you had a very fine party at your home.
We used real China.
Yeah, go ahead.
You and Keith, both very fine.
Go ahead, Lacey.
Oh, no.
Ladies first.
Oh, well, it was just, it was fun to do.
And I like to, You know, there's this idea going around right now that you shouldn't put so much pressure on yourself during the holidays, especially women.
You know, they but I really like to see how much I can do.
And even if I have to wake up a little early or stay up a little bit late, usually it's waking up a little bit early.
But I really like to just try to make the best out of it and see what I can do and push myself a little bit.
It's so much fun for me, and it's so much fun for the kids and to create those traditions and honor your ancestors in that way.
So it's just, it's fun for me.
And I had a blast at the Valentine's Day dinner and I loved y'all coming over.
And it was just so much fun.
I like to push myself a little bit to create those memories.
I mean, you can sleep when you're dead.
Well, that's absolutely right.
And well, you certainly excelled under the pressure of all that.
And I tend to do that as well.
If I feel the pressure, it makes me bare down.
But I don't know.
I don't know if it was pressure or effortless on your part, Lacey.
But I want to talk about because you did it so well.
But let's talk about, we saw the Christmas card this year, outstanding.
I mean, I love the fact that this audience boasts, I think, some of the best-looking, most right-thinking, most families that are just so nuclear.
I mean, the true building blocks of civilization are manifested in our audience.
But talking about Christmas, and I'm going to toss this to Keith and then, Lacey, I'd like to get your take on this.
How wonderful and uplifting this whole season makes you feel.
And of course, Lacey, you mentioned the reason why we celebrate Christmas, but there's a lot of trappings that come along with Christmas that are fun.
Some of the things you mentioned earlier, the get-togethers, the decorating, the tree, all of it.
It blends in together in a cultural way.
But why and how could Christmas be hated so much by the system?
And we talked a little bit about that with Congressman King at the end of the first hour about why Christmas is hated.
And I gave some reasons, but I think, you know, at the end of the day, the ultimate reason is it's because it's the, well, you've said it before, Keith.
It's the religion of white people.
And they do not like white people.
They do not like Dr. Zeus.
I do not like his socks.
I do not like his Zeus.
That's what they do.
And it's wonderful to go back and see, I did my trip.
I have an old artificial tree.
And I got out all of these ornaments and things we had from all my lifetime, you know, back in the 50s, 60s, and everything like that.
I am consciously retro when it comes to celebrating Christmas.
And you sounded like you did me one better, though, Lacey.
You've gone back before the age of electricity.
Lacey, I got to ask you this.
This is something.
What's your position on real versus artificial tree?
We tried a real tree one time, and one time only.
That was the last time.
And we have a cat, and the cat just couldn't stay out of the tree.
And I was like, well, in winter, I thought I was done raking and doing all of that stuff.
And he just had to tend to it every day.
All those needles fall off.
They fell off like the hair on the top of James's head.
It was a disaster.
Lacey, your position on real versus artificial.
What do y'all use?
I know you would do the right thing.
So what's the right thing on this?
Well, it's one of the few controversies.
I don't actually have one side or the other.
We have an artificial tree just because, I mean, we live very inland in Texas.
So it's kind of hard for us to get to a real Christmas tree farm.
But if we were going to do that, I mean, it would be a lot for us to get out and do that.
But to find one, they're pretty messy.
What?
A cactus.
He said you could do a cactus as a Christmas tree.
But I heard they're pretty messy.
And I don't, we've just always done an artificial one.
I'm not against the real one.
Artificial, it's a one-time investment.
You use it year after year.
How many years your Christmases is your tree seeing, Keith?
I'll tell you what, I have no idea.
It's been there at least since 2000.
Can I get its AARP card?
Oh, only since 2000.
That's not too bad.
I think it was probably back in the 90s when I got it.
All right.
Well, Lacey, why do you think Christmas is so hated by the media and the powers that be in this country?
Well, absolutely.
What Keith said, it is a European tradition.
I mean, you know, I know there are, speaking of controversies, I know there are a lot of people, even within our circles, this time of year and during Halloween, where the debates of whose tradition belongs to what religious group just won't stop.
But regardless of whether you think the Christmas tree is pagan or Christian or, you know, all of that, it is a European holiday.
And when you're connecting with those traditions, you're connecting with your European ancestors.
And, you know, living in Texas in the summer, it's just, it's so hot in the summer, and it feels like it's so hard to connect back to the motherland during the summer.
But in that winter time, when it gets as cold as it's ever going to get in Texas, it feels a little bit more European, and I can feel that connection a little bit more.
So, well, I know you're going to feel like you are right.
And the climate of Northern Europe shaped our people in so many different ways.
You felt it this week in Dallas.
I looked on Thursday.
It was nine degrees.
I think a low of nine.
It was three here.
Keith came in on a dog sled tonight to the studio.
But anyway, Lacey, we love you.
We hope to talk to you again on Valentine's Day for that installment.
Wish the audience a Merry Christmas before you go.
Merry Christmas.
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You know, if we could bottle up the Christmas spirit and keep it year round, I mean, I know that that sounds cliche, and I guess that it is, but there is something about this time of year, especially so, that does fill you with hope and wonder and encouragement for the way things might could be.
Like better times could happen.
Well, you know, one of my favorite Elvis Christmas offerings is why can't every day be like Christmas?
And, you know, that is really, you know, I think all of us, particularly as you get older, relate to that.
You know, I was, you know, when we were talking to Lacey before, she was talking about, you know, gifts and things like this and the tree and doing whatnot.
When I was a child, there's no doubt that the big focus was on gifts.
But now, at my age, I feel what really gets me yearning for the Christmas time is going to parties where people are enjoying themselves.
You know, and people enjoy themselves.
You don't want toys anymore.
Well, no, not so much.
What I like is that you can actually have friends over and there's no ulterior motive.
You're not raising money for some church.
I laugh because I thought you were going to say something about, you know, actually, we'll have the chance tomorrow to go to a Christmas service at church, which I can't remember doing in a long, long time either.
The real reason is Jesus.
But there is something as we bring Janice on about the fellowship and togetherness.
I mean, you said parties, but I mean, just the time to come together.
Friends and family.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Janice is back with us.
She too is a mainstay on our annual Valentine's Day Ladies' Night special edition, and she's back with us here this Christmas Eve.
Janice, we love you and we love your husband, and you're near and dear to us, and thank you for being with us tonight.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
Merry Christmas to you both.
And you could not have put it with something to open up what I was really wanted to talk about.
And that is Christmas past and how I see that it has changed over the years since I'm old enough to be your mother, James.
You know, I've seen a lot of people.
Heaven forbid that you could say that to me.
No, no, you know that I did only say to James.
That's right.
So, you know, I mean, it's very sad.
I mean, Keith can probably remember.
We sang actual Christmas hymns in school, you know, all the way up through, I think, sixth grade.
We did.
We played them in band all the way through school.
You don't get that anymore.
And, you know, he talks about going to parties and being with friends and stuff.
And Christmas was always a time that we were with family, either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, if not both.
You know, well, for us, it was just family growing up.
Just family growing up.
And, you know, it wasn't this, oh, we got to go see the new Christmas movie on Christmas Day like a lot of people do now.
It wasn't any of that.
You know, and I miss that.
I miss that people, and even in church, a lot of churches, you know, there's not a real emphasis on Christmas being about Christ coming, that he could be our sacrificial lamb, that it's a time to, even though it's not necessarily the day he was born, but it's a time to remember that he did come and he came with a purpose and he was promised since Genesis to come for us.
And I see such a big difference.
And, you know, Keith, you probably can too.
That, I mean, I'm seeing where stores aren't even decorated for Christmas anymore, but they are for Halloween.
Yeah, you're right.
And so many people go a whole hog out on Halloween and you barely see any Christmas ornamentation.
But in the Biden White House, I understand there's not a Christmas tree, but there is prominently displayed on the lawn of menorah.
I know.
And I think that we need to start pushing back on that because that is religion.
And now you are, you are not keeping, though I don't agree with it.
I think it's a farce, separation of church and state.
And just not separation of synagogue and state.
Unfortunately, that's what they have pushed.
But, you know, the big thing is, is that Christmas used to be a time of family getting together.
I mean, we never put out a Christmas tree because they were always real until like two weeks before Christmas because, you know, you didn't want them to die in the needles everywhere.
So it wasn't like this stretched out holiday forever.
And, you know, it's like six weeks now.
And there was no Black Friday.
There was no big shopping day.
You know, probably the big shopping day was Christmas Eve.
Everybody went out and was getting gifts Christmas Eve or the day before Christmas Eve, you know, and it, and it wasn't so, it really was not so much about presents.
So we got them, like one or two.
It was more of a time to spend with your family.
And that's what I remember.
I was always with my dad's side of the family, all my aunts, uncles, and cousins, all of us.
And it was always so much fun.
And I miss those days.
I miss seeing them.
And, and, you know, and as I got to be a teen, our church, we would go out and sing Christmas carols in the neighborhood around the church.
Nobody does that anymore.
No, no youth group goes out and sings Christmas carols, not even to their own parishioners, you know.
Nothing like that.
It's like it's, you know, gone by the wayside.
And I don't really know how to bring that back except for to have young people like James and some of the ladies that were on to maybe try to get these things reinstated in their in their church and in their family.
It starts at the family level.
It has to start, you know, at your home.
And you're right about the Carolers now.
I mean, you just don't, I mean, maybe in small town USA, rural Main Street type communities, but I can remember being a little boy in the 80s, and that was the last time we ever had Carolers.
And, you know, we lived in a suburban area.
So it wasn't like people had to walk out to the farmstead to find our house.
But yeah, that's certainly a tradition that's not as prominent anymore, Keith.
Well, this brings up the pressing topic of the night.
When do you think the Christmas tree should go down?
Should that go down before January the 1st or do you take it all the way through the Christmas season to January the 5th?
Or does it matter at all?
It doesn't really matter one year.
My mom left it up till Valentine's Day.
But I usually take mine down the first week of January.
And I didn't put it up until the week after Thanksgiving.
That's what I did.
I always tell people, you know, go ahead.
I was going to say that one thing I do leave up year-round is I have a very small collection of about five or eight manger scenes.
They are up all year.
I can look at them and remember that Christ, he did come and he came to save my soul.
And I leave them up all year long.
And I love them.
It's just, it's a great reminder to me of what he did for me and in coming to earth.
And, you know, I just think that we need to start getting back into the whole thing that it's about Christ.
It's about his coming to come as a human and to come as such a frailty.
He didn't come as a man.
He came as a baby.
And he grew just like we do.
And, you know, all even a lot of old movies like Rudolph and Santa Claus, why are we teaching our children about Santa Claus?
I don't get it.
I got in a lot of trouble because I told my kids there was no Santa Claus.
He was just a spirit of giving.
My family was a little bit of a child.
Well, you know, I get that.
I get that.
But, you know, I still think, and this is what Lacey was talking about in the previous seg, but there are still some cultural trappings of Christmas, and Santa's one of them that is still uniquely European, obviously.
And so, therefore, you know, that's fine.
But the Christmas tree, too, we put ours up right after Thanksgiving, take it down, right after New Year's.
But there's just something about the light on the tree.
It makes me just feel so content and so at ease if everything's off and the game and the light is on.
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And out in California, the sunshine's falling down.
Maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in light.
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.
It's Snowy Christmas from Dixie tonight.
That's certainly a message right here in Dixie from us to you, wherever you may be.
Now, Elvis really did like Christmas.
He went all out.
Grayson was always decked out as long as he's owned it.
And of course, that was Alabama with Christmas and Dixie.
And we have Courtney from Alabama, who should be on this segment.
She's always a mainstay.
Yeah, we don't use that.
But is she with us?
Okay, we'll see if we can reach her.
Anyway, Keith, so she wants to come on and talk about some of the things the other ladies were talking about and also perhaps even a movie recommendation.
And I do believe we have her now.
Courtney, are you there?
I am here.
All right.
There she is.
Thank you for the lovely Christmas card with the pictures of your children.
Yeah, you wanted to say that last week.
That's right.
But we forgot.
Courtney, we just played.
I always include you in my Christmas card list.
I always include both of you every year.
It's so important.
Did you send one, Keith?
I didn't get one, so you better not have sent any this year.
No, I sent a few, but I just know.
You know, the post office in Memphis is legendary for its incompetence.
You never know whether you're going to get mail or not here.
Well, Courtney, it is Christmas in Dixie, and it is Christmas Eve, and it is great to have you as the final of three ladies coming on to help spread that Christmas cheer right before the clock strikes midnight.
What do you got planned for us tonight, Courtney?
Well, I think usually when you have us on for Christmas, you like to talk about some of our traditions usually.
So I was going to talk about decorating food and if there's time, maybe a movie suggestion.
But to start with decorations, I really just love to, you know, like any decoration I've gotten from the time I was a teenager, you know, till now, as long as it hasn't, you know, gotten lost or broken, I still put it up.
I mix everything together and put it up.
I don't, you know, some women just like to throw old things away and start over with a new theme or something with like a prim and proper look.
But I just like to put up everything I have from over the years, and I think it just makes the home cozy.
That's just how I decorate.
Can't go wrong with it.
If it's Christmas, it goes together.
And then for food, it's funny.
I love tradition.
I'm a huge fan of tradition.
But when it comes to food, I've kind of broken a little bit with tradition.
I think you should just eat what you want during the holidays.
My mom is the type who would always pull out her 1970s Southern Living cookbook and make the same recipes for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year.
You know, the sides, the certain casseroles and stuffing and the cranberry sauce, everything a certain way.
And there's nothing wrong with that, but it's like we have to act like we're too prim and proper to eat the good stuff like mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese, I guess.
But I've kind of broken from that.
I think so.
If they come to visit, you know, I do all the traditional stuff.
But if it's just me and my husband, like on Thanksgiving, I make ham instead of turkey.
I make mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, all the, you know, like rolls, like all the really good stuff that everybody wants, but they don't admit to.
And then Christmas today, we have a pot of gumbo cooking and then the infamous butter bean and ham stew that's with cornbread.
That's always really good.
That's something you can stop up, right, Keith?
That's right.
Hold on.
You got to turn your mic back on.
Oh, you got to turn your mic back on.
You got to tell us about down there where you live, what regional variations are there to the normal turkey and dressing, some ham, you know, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole.
I'll never forget that every year.
What other specialties, are there any specialties down in your neck of the woods that are part of your tradition for celebrating Christmas?
I think down on the coast, we like to mix in seafood, and that's where the gumbo comes in.
A lot of times for Thanksgiving or Christmas, I'll have, you know, I like to, you know, put seafood on the table along with the turkey or the ham, whichever holiday it is.
And then Christmas Day, oh man, we have a crock pot going of seafood gumbo.
So I think that, and we, it could be our house that is really huge on that.
But I think maybe down here, the seafood element is a lot more common.
Gumbo on Christmas Day is something we don't do up here at Dewkeith.
But it'd be good.
I might try.
My mother was English.
We'd have things like Toad in the Hole, for example.
And they have another one that I can't mention in mixed company.
I've got to find out what you're talking about.
Lacey.
I'll tell you exactly what you're talking about.
It's a word that has one meaning.
Another one in England.
All right.
Send in your emails, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's see if you can crack the code.
Hey, Courtney, let's talk about movies real quick.
I was over at Keith's Christmas party a couple of weeks ago, and I saw his coveted collection of about 500 VHS movies.
What do you got in your library Christmassy?
Well, I like out of the Christmas Carol versions, I like George C. Scott the best.
Then Sir Seymour Hicks had Scrooge back in 1935.
And then the one that most people remember from my generation is Reginald Owens one.
Now, I also have Holiday Inn.
I have Home Alone 1 and 2.
I have Miracle on 34th Street, which is really, you know, if you haven't checked that out in a while, check it out because it's really a good movie.
What else have you got in mind?
Bad saying, I don't watch those types of stuff.
It didn't come out.
I don't think that one came out on VHS.
So you could play it.
Courtney, that's today's Hollywood.
I, yeah, I'm with Keith, actually.
I am not a fan.
I've noticed that the 80s, when I was little, that was probably the last decade that had any serious, wholesome, sentimental Christmas movies.
Now everything has to be a comedy.
Like from the 90s onwards, it seems like everything's a comedy.
And I agree with him.
He mentioned one of my favorite Christmas movies.
I am a huge fan of the Christmas Carol story.
And one of my favorite versions of it was the one from the 80s with George C. Scott.
It was supposed to be a made-for-TV movie, but I think it's probably the best version of it I've seen.
I think George C. Scott made Scrooge a believable character.
There's another one in 1951 with Alistair Sim as Ebenezer Screwed.
So those are the only four that I'm aware of.
I'm sure there are more somewhere.
Yeah, now they have to kind of poke fun at it and make it comedic if they make a version of it, it seems.
They even have Christmas horror shows and things like that now.
That just shows you how James and I were talking about something.
He said, how low can they go?
I said, there is no bottom.
They'll dredge up something that's even worse and more offensive than they did last decade.
But, you know, that's why in my house, at least, I've told James this, but he's not impressed.
I said, I don't have any of those VHSs from Disney that predate 1967 because that's when Walt Disney died in 66.
And he was the one that made the Disney trademark.
He was wholesome and heartwarming tales with no political acts to grind.
Every time I look at the clock, I can't believe how fast these segments with the ladies are going.
I guess it's because at Valentine's Day, we have them on for 30 minutes apiece.
And tonight it's just a quick one-hit, one lady.
But my God, Courtney, we've got about two minutes remaining.
I want to give you an opportunity to wish the audience a Merry Christmas and all of the people who, of course, tune in to hear you throughout the year on the program of Merry Christmas.
But I want to ask you, you said you did listen to last week's show when we revisited the George Wallace Jr. interview and that you liked it.
And being from Alabama, I'm glad that you did.
I was very, very touched.
I have so many wonderful ideas for when Confederate History Month comes up.
I'm going to touch on that.
I was very proud when I listened to that.
Very, very stirring speeches from him and very stirring commentary from his son when he was on your program.
I was glad to hear that Elvis was not the liberal that he's made out to be in this most recent movie.
Yeah, Yard Sign, Wallace the President.
Yeah, George Wallace Yard sign in the front lawn of Graceland.
That didn't make the movie, as we said last week.
That new movie that came out on Elvis.
Great article about that at Amran written by Gregory Hood, I believe.
You should check that out.
Anyway, it's mostly a work of fiction, apparently.
Courtney, last word to you, and obviously from us to you and to your family, Merry Christmas.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas to both of you.
Thank you for having me on.
Merry Christmas to the audience.
Remember the true meaning of the season, which is Jesus Christ.
And everybody knows what one of my huge point, what word am I trying to use?
One of my things that really tugs at my heartstrings is our people who are in prison, who don't belong there.
So please remember them during this holiday season.
That's a great message and a great and thoughtful thing for you to mention at the close of this particular segment.
We hope that, again, well, I know we'll talk to you again soon.
Hope that you have a great day tomorrow with your family.
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