March 11, 2023 - 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.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in our March Around the World series, we are going to visit a port of call outside of the Anglosphere and outside of the entire extended Western world and even the Eastern European world.
We are entirely abroad now going down to South America and making a stop in Brazil this hour with a very good, near and dear friend of mine, a man who has contributed to every quarterly fundraising drive for as long as I can remember.
But that's not why we're having him on.
We're having him on because he is a fantastic contributor in his own right.
And he's made a handful of short appearances with us in the past.
And this one is going to be his most profound and extended to date.
And so we will not mention his name because he does have a prestigious position down in Brazil.
And he's a family man.
So we're not going to risk that.
So we will just label him as our South American correspondent.
And my friend, it is great to have you back tonight as March Around the World now extends to South America.
How are you down there?
Hi, James.
I'm doing very well.
Thanks so much for having me again.
It's a pleasure and an honor to be in this show, to be in the March Around the World series.
It's a great series.
I love the series.
Well, we love it too, and we love having you on tonight.
We got a lot to cover with you.
So let's just, like we did with Tom Sudic, let's just get right down to it and see how much we can cram into this hour.
So let's first celebrate the inclusion of Brazil in our March around the world and also meditate on some of these issues.
In your opinion, is the disease of the West restricted to developed first world countries?
So I think you're that, James.
It's a question because sometimes I hear people in the show talking about the immigration and the flooding of poor country people to developed countries.
That's just the way it is.
But if you look at the things that happens in Brazil as to the way of the culture, of the demise of Christianity, the Christian values, they are all the same.
They're really very much alike.
The way the left works is really, really much the same.
And if you take a closer look, you'll see that Brazil and leftists in Brazil and the politicians, they almost copy what the leftists in the U.S. are doing with a little bit of a delay, something that is getting closer with the globalism and everything.
But it's always, it's just the same.
You saw the January the 6th and we just had our January the 8th.
It's very close and very related.
Yes, and we're going to get to that in just a moment because you have already been on twice in recent weeks to talk about the unrest there with the election between Bolzanaro and Lula and your own version of January 6th.
You were on not long ago at all to talk about that.
So we are going to get an update from you on that in just a moment.
But first, in the broader, grander scheme of things, what makes a third world nation?
And why would Western leaders, the leaders of the United States, the leaders of Western Europe, want to replicate the miseries of a third world nation in what was a previously high-quality, high-trust society?
So I've been dealing with this questioning about what makes Brazil, which is a very large country and a very rich country, a third world nation.
And if we look back at the beginning of the last century, the difference were smaller between Brazil and the United States in some ways.
Brazil makes up about half of South America.
If you look at it, it looks like it makes up about half of the entire continent.
Sure.
And I also sent you that stuff about the Confederates that came to Brazil after the war.
I want to ask you a whole other question about that.
So about these questions, what comes to my mind is the stock of the people, you know, the quality of the people.
And that struck Emperor of Brazil back then.
And I guess that we didn't make Brazil never was able, and the whole of Latin America never was able to get a better education system and concerning the uprising of people to make them better people,
better citizens, and better care of the population as a whole.
So I don't know.
I don't know why the U.S. want to turn the United States of America into a Brazil country or something worse.
I cannot answer that question.
I keep on trying to find some economical issue, but I just can't find anything.
Doesn't make sense to rational thinking people like you.
Am I right?
I mean, why would you want to trade down?
Not that we're trading down if we have people like you, but unfortunately, not everybody from other places have your intellect and your loyalty and your dedication to truth and all of the good things we stand for here.
Yeah.
All right, so let me let me go ahead.
Go ahead.
No, I was just going to say that we got to remember that Latin America is also a Christian country and is also an European-raised country.
So this is the end result of the occupation of Spanishes and Portuguese.
So and then later.
Is that your native tongue?
Is your native tongue English or Portuguese?
Our native tongue is Portuguese, which is a little bit different from the Portuguese of Portugal.
And you speak English better than I do, so that's very interesting.
Oh, my God.
So it's mainly Roman Catholic countries.
And now we're always divided.
So this, I keep on thinking in the bigger picture, this is the end of Christianity, right?
It's happening everywhere in the Western world.
We should be considered also Western world down here.
Yeah, you know, that's what.
Okay, let me ask you this, because as I said with Tom Sunich, when he was on, I had a map of the Balkans that was pulled up here in the studio.
And now I have a map of South America, and I'm looking at Brazil.
And I'm not going to let the audience know exactly where you live in Brazil, but I'm looking at the area in which you live, and I'm looking at the entirety of Brazil.
You've got the Amazon.
Up, of course, north of Brazil, you've got Colombia, you've got Venezuela.
But then south of Brazil, you've got very, very different nations in terms of culture, in terms of racial components.
You have Argentina, you have Paraguay, you have Uruguay, and then, of course, you have even the land of the Incas, Peru, and Chile on the Pacific coast.
A lot of diversity in South America.
So, what nations in South America are doing it right?
What nations are doing it wrong?
And where does Brazil stand in the middle of all of that?
So, all the other nations in South America.
Okay, can we go ahead?
Go ahead.
So, Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking country in Latin America.
All the other countries speak Spanish.
So, there's a big divide here.
So, Brazil is seen as very different from the rest of Latin America.
And the rest of Latin America, even though it's big, like you said, it's a lot of different countries, a lot of different cultures, and a lot of different backgrounds.
I think the south of South America may be more white than the United States now.
It seems so.
So, Argentina and Uruguay, they were both very rich countries.
Uruguay was also named as Switzerland of South America because they were very, very rich back at the beginning of the 19th and 20th century.
And Argentina was also, they were very proud of their European origins.
And they also were known to be a little bit, how can I say that?
They considered themselves better than the other ones in South America because of this European descent.
Politically speaking, right now, I don't remember, I don't recall a single nation in Latin America that's doing a good job in terms of right-wing politicians.
Which one is doing?
Okay, they might not have been in a good job, but which is doing the best of the lot?
Could we at least put it that way?
They might not be doing good by our standards or what we would hope, but is there one nation in all of South America that's doing a little bit better than the rest?
Could you say?
Chile was doing great.
They had a little bit of a backlash recently with electing, again, some leftists, but I guess they're turning that around in certain ways.
But Chile was doing very well back in the 2000s.
They had a thriving economy.
They have a thriving economy.
They have very interesting places and a lot of resources.
And Argentina as well is very big.
It's a really big country.
But Argentina just turned awfully in recent years.
They are really, economically speaking, I guess they're bearing like 100% inflation per month, something like that.
Oh, my God.
What happened?
That's worse than here.
Correct.
Yeah.
So they were beaten.
They had a kind of a right wing back in the early 2000s, 2010.
And then in recent elections, they lost and the leftists came back again and they are ruining the country.
Just a little bit of the same way that Lula is doing right now with Brazil in terms of economy.
Let's get started.
Let's get into that.
If you don't mind the interruption, well, let me ask you this very quickly.
Maybe you could take 60 seconds to answer it now.
And I want to get into Lula, your new president, apparently.
This is just from someone who's totally unaware of the situation.
I would think that if you are an expat, if you're an American expat living in a place like Costa Rica, which is in central Mexico, not on your continent, but a little bit further north, there's no way you're going to drive home.
Because if you were to drive through Mexico all the way up to the border, you're going to get nabbed by a cartel or something.
I mean, there's just no way to get home using the roads because of the third world nature of these countries you have to go through.
Can you, from your location, travel through South America safely?
I mean, from the different nations of countries, nations of South America?
Can you travel by road like that?
Depending on the places, yes.
The biggest problem is the Amazon forest.
That's where everything gets rough, not only in terms of the anatomy, but also in terms of violence.
Yeah, I see.
Hey, if you look at the map of South America, you look at Brazil, all of the cities are on the coast, and then there's this big swath that has no cities, and I guess that's the Amazon.
It's right there in the middle.
So it's pretty safe in Brazil.
Sometimes people, it's very common for people of Brazil and other countries to charge.
You can drive down to Buenos Aires, for instance, and not get jacked or anything, right?
Yeah, you can go down all the way to Patagonia and Santiago de Chile.
Everything's going to be fine.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
That was just something to satisfy my own curiosity.
But let's talk about what's going on there politically.
So two appearances ago, we had this contested election.
It was a razor-thin margin, very similar to Trump and Biden.
And Bolzonaro was claiming election fraud, et cetera, et cetera.
And then in your last appearance, there was basically some upheaval, and it was the Brazilian answer to January 6th, except it was a little bit more militant, I think we could say.
And there was certainly some upsettedness over the election results and if they were true and accurate and so on and so forth.
But since then, it looks as though, well, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
Has Bolzonaro given up the fight?
Is it Lula's presidency unencumbered?
I think the last we heard of Bolzonaro, he was in Orlando eating at a Kentucky Fried Chicken and shopping at Publix, and he was at CPAC a few days ago.
But he's not going to be president of Brazil anytime soon.
Is that pretty much where we are now with the communist Lula back in charge?
Yeah, pretty much that's it.
So there's no way we can turn around the election anymore.
So that's out of the question.
That's a terrible thing because I like Bolzonaro.
I liked a lot of what I heard.
Certainly much more than Lula, to say the least.
Yeah, sure.
I mean, he's the best president that I have ever had in Brazil in my life.
You voted for him.
I don't remember.
You voted for him?
Yeah.
Sure, twice.
Yeah, I did.
And I was hoping for the election.
Everybody, I mean, like 50-50, we are split today.
So I hope I think that 50% of the people hoped for that.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, just to accentuate the point on how close it was.
I mean, it was basically a 50-50 election.
But by their count, by their count, let me put it.
By their count, it was 50-50.
So Lula knows the ways of Brazil's politics.
And it's a very rough politic.
It's a very dirty, sexual politic.
And in ways that, you know, corruption is just norm.
It's just okay.
So Bolsonaro, he ended a lot of corruption.
And I guess that the deep state didn't like that.
Brazilians, politicians in Brazil, they like money.
I mean, they go for this career because of the money, because not the status, I guess.
I guess it's much more of the power and money.
So Lula knows how that when he gets his hands in the money that Brazil can make, how to, you know, make Congress work on his side, make the Senate.
And now we have this tyranny of the judiciary here.
Everything that we hear is just, I mean, it's nonsense.
People were arrested.
They were arrested for two months because of that January 8th.
So, and now they're facing trial.
So it's incredible.
It's a cloud world.
It was so similar.
It happened nearly on the same day.
Was it January the 8th in Brazil that happened?
Yeah, January the 8th.
That's it.
Three years later, right?
In the 2020.
What are the odds of that?
That's something.
But unfortunately, after the challenges and even after the situation down there on January the 8th, which was again Brazil's answer to January the 6th, Bolzonaro was not reinstalled.
Was it corruption?
Was it legal that he did not win?
That remains to be answered.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was not taken out of that by alternate means of a fair election.
What do you think?
We can only speculate.
I'm not very inside the political world, but I can tell you that in Brazil, we always have this Brazilian way of doing things, you know, Uje Chino.
We always do away with things.
So I think that they made deals.
And people say it's hearsay.
They say that Bolsonaro made the deal that he would not go to prison.
And he went away and he went to the U.S.
So he's in Orlando.
I tell you what, I go down to Orlando a lot.
If I'd have run into Bolzonaro at the Publix, I go to Publix every time I'm in Orlando.
I love Publix.
They're better than any grocery store we've got up here.
If I'd have run into Bolsonaro at an Orlando Publix, I will tell you, that would have been a day I wouldn't have forgotten.
Or at the Orlando KFC, because I like KFC too.
What can I say?
You know, Harlan Sanders, this is a little bit of trivia, folks.
You wouldn't know this.
Did you know that George Wallace had Colonel Harlan Sanders?
I'm probably going to get him canceled now.
I'm going to get KFC canceled.
He was one under consideration for being George Wallace's running mate before Curtis LeMay.
Harlan Sanders was a Wallaceite.
So, yeah, the KFC guy was based.
But anyway, if I could have been at the KFC with Bolsonaro, I like the chicken pot pie they got there, I'll tell you.
Anyway, I'm sorry he's not going to be the president anymore, but he's still around and he can still do good.
But so let's talk about Brazil now under the communist Lula regime.
You've got what?
You've got businesses.
We've got a couple of minutes before the break, maybe a minute, and we'll come back.
We got you for one more segment.
We've got one more segment with you.
Businesses are closing.
Prices are going up.
Gas prices are soaring.
Government is reinstating rising taxes that were either reduced or canceled under Bolzanaro, other restrictions, return of old draconian laws against law potting citizens regarding gun rights, limitations on the number of guns, ammunition, transport and carry of firearms.
It's all reverting back to the bad old days, is it not?
Yeah, we're going back a little bit faster to the days of Lula in the early 2000s.
And you can tell that the animosity there is in the air.
You can see that people are overstressed.
We don't know the future.
We kind of don't know what he's going to do.
Economically speaking, it's been quite disastrous, but not so much.
We always try to live our lives in the middle of this battle where the people from the right say a lot of bad stuff, and the media from the left, which is ridiculous.
Their news are just ridiculous.
They said the other day that jobs, the number of unemployed is very high, but it's low.
You cannot understand what they say in the media, so it's quite ridiculous.
So we kind of live in the middle of this battle, you know, from right-wingers and left-wingers, which is very bad for the people.
You can feel the stress.
Well, believe me, I feel the stress from here and there and beyond, but I'm thankful that we have people like you, men like you, down there to help sort it all out for us.
And we've got you.
We're going to keep you for one more segment, if that's okay.
I know it's getting late.
You know, we were talking about late.
I mean, it's getting close to midnight down in Brazil.
Take a break.
We'll be back with our correspondent to South America right after this.
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Our march around the world continues.
And for the first time, making a stop in South America.
And what a stop we're making tonight.
I have been as I have enjoyed and have been captivated as much with this guest in this particular hour as any of them.
And they've all been great already this month.
And this, our 2023 installment, you've already heard from Nick Griffin, Professor Andrew Fraser, Paul Fromm, Dr. Tomislav Sunich, and now our correspondent in South America reporting live from Brazil tonight on TPC's march around the world.
So, all right, it looks like we're not going to have Bolzonaro back in office for now, but Trump is working on his next act.
Is it possible that Bolzonaro has another play left in him, or is it only declined for Brazil under Lula and what is to come?
Well, we had the lucky of having a right-wing governor for the state of Sao Paulo, where I live.
And we have been seeing a lot of talk about Bolsonaro coming back.
I guess he was laying low because of the situation.
He never assumed the loss of the election.
That's one thing.
So he just laid low, stayed down, went to the United States, stayed quiet.
And now in CPAC, I guess it's his first appearance, true appearance, I mean, like, as a politician after everything from the election in October.
So I guess he's coming back.
We just don't know if we're going to have an election system that will allow anything else other than Lula or the leftist party until 2024.
We will see in the elections.
Next year we have elections for mayors and president's gonna be 2025, I guess, 26.
So we don't know.
But we'll find out.
The state of Sao Paulo is responsible for 45% of the income of the country.
So it's pretty it's looking pretty good for São Paulo right now.
We we just don't have the guts for secession.
Wish we had, but it would be a lovely thing to have a secession of the state of Sao Paulo in all this situation right now.
I tell you what, secession is back on the menu up here.
And, you know, you've got at least some of the blood there from the original American secessionists.
So let's talk about that and end on a little bit of a good news note.
The Confederates in Brazil.
So, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, March Around the World will segue into TPC's Confederate History Month coverage once the calendar flips from March to April.
We'll be celebrating that special event of a special broadcasting event throughout the month of April.
But there are Confederates in Brazil.
So, according to our guest here right now, this is, I'm going to read directly, and we knew that there was a Confederate presence in Brazil, but he's going to give you a little bit more background and information on it.
Certainly more informed than anything I could tell you about it.
But he wrote me earlier today this: that Emperor Pedro II offered land and money to Confederates after the war between the states.
He knew that the population stock of Brazil was not that good, and he wanted to lift the quality of the Brazilian citizenry.
The city of Americana in Brazil was created in the state of Sao Paulo, and a Confederate party is held there every April.
So, April is Confederate History Month, and correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm getting this information from you.
There is still to this day a Confederate party held there every year.
Tell us more about the Confederate presence or the descendants of the Confederates in Brazil.
This is very fascinating to me.
So, that's a nice story.
It's really close to where I live.
We didn't go to this party.
We planned once, but we couldn't.
I'm going to send you some pictures, James.
I guess you're going to love this.
They have a cemetery because they were Protestants and they could not bury their dead in a Catholic cemetery.
So, they made the first non-Catholic, non-indigenous cemetery in Brazil here in the city of Americana in another city nearby.
And in this place, which is also kind of a farm, a small farm, they do this party every year with dancing.
They dress themselves as Confederate soldiers up to this day.
They put a lot of Confederate flags all around the place and in the cemetery.
Can they display those Confederate flags without fear of repercussion or social estrangement?
Yeah, I put a Confederate flag in front of my house.
This is an interesting story.
One guy, I always put some flags in front of my house.
I guess it's beautiful, and you can flag something that is important to you.
So, in April, I was putting the Confederate flag in front of my house, and this old guy from a neighbor hereby, he was passing, walking, and said, Oh, I like that flag.
They're the Confederates and everything.
And then we started talking about the Confederates, and you know the history.
All right.
Well, there you go.
I mean, if you know the truth, the truth will lead you back to the old South, and you'll be okay with that, and you'll be proud of that.
But it's interesting that all the way down to Brazil, the descendants of Our people here still exist, and they are in Brazil able to show that affirmation of pride without fair repercussion.
Am I right?
Yeah, I guess that it's because they are small in some way, because everybody here has the same manners, mannerisms of the left from up there.
So I found some places of people like questioning the Confederate flag and everything, but here in Brazil, we just don't care.
I mean, people, we don't have that much of the anger about the flag and everything, and about slavery and the hatred of race and etc.
So even here still in the American South, you can still see huge Confederate flags off of interstates that the Sons of Confederate veterans put up.
Every time I drive down to Florida, going down I-75, I always salute the Confederate flags as I pass.
You pass about a half dozen on the way down there.
I mean, you see them every day still, but certainly more in the rural South or off of major interstates than you do in the metropolitan areas, to be sure.
But to know that there are, you know, and I have seen some of those Confederate flags in Brazil, and they're even painted as murals, and they're huge.
There's huge Confederate flags down there.
Yeah.
They're big.
And they say that this party is really good.
So I don't know, maybe this year.
I can't believe you haven't been there yet.
I know.
TPC's Brazilian correspondent haven't been to the Confederate parties.
But listen, it's wonderful to know.
I don't know how many people knew that.
Certainly we have never had a guest on that could confirm that.
But let's give the last, we got about two or three minutes left.
We've covered a lot of ground tonight.
The elections, the current state of affairs in Brazil, the different nations that make up South America, the Confederate expatriates who came down there after the war, and their descendants still to this day who celebrate that Confederate pride in Brazil.
And that is a wonderful, wonderful thing to impart upon this audience.
But with a couple of minutes remaining, is there anything you'd like to cover in closing that we haven't covered yet?
I just send you this story about this congressman from Brazil, the Nicolas Fejira guy.
I guess they're going to see him in Turkic Council in the future.
He just wore a wig and he made a speech condemning transgenderism and LGBTQ agenda.
And he's making news in the U.S.
So keep an eye on this guy.
He's a very young guy, very promising.
And we hope that he does something good.
I mean, he's not backing down anything.
So this is a Brazilian Congressman.
I don't know him.
Brazilian Congressman Nicolas Ferreira basically taking the LGBTQ mob to task?
Yeah.
I mean, there were only women allowed to speak in the House at March the 8th because it was International Women's Day.
So he wore a wig.
He said he was feeling like a woman called himself Nicole.
Yeah.
And he called himself Nicole and started to make a speech.
That's the thing.
I mean, why couldn't he identify as a Nicole that day?
How do we know if he's telling the truth or not?
We have to take all of these other perverts at their word.
This is wonderful.
I love this guy.
This guy, I think, is promising for us.
Hey, Godspeed to him.
Maybe he'll be a president of yours one day.
And until then, my friend, I want to thank you.
God bless you, your family, your brother, who we also know and love, and who we have met.
And I still have the bottle of Brazilian liquor he gave me.
It's all been consumed, of course, but I kept the bottle.
Love you so much.
Take care.
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So we're two weeks into March Around the World.
You've been to five different nations so far, and we've got at least that many to come in the final two weeks of our march that will continue throughout the remainder of this month before we get into Confederate History Month, kicking it off the very first day of April.
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So that's when we'll kick off Confederate History Month Saturday, April 1st.
Still two more segments, two more weeks of March Around the World, and we'll see where we go next week.
We still have a lot of places left to visit, but so far, it has been nothing short of stellar.
Keith, I know you would have been here the entire three hours tonight had you not had the blowout on the interstate.
You had to get towed back to your house.
And so we're only having you on the segments where we don't have other guests to sort of eliminate some of the audio discrepancies between having three people on three different means, and it just doesn't sound quite as good.
But you did get to hear Tom Sunik in Croatia earlier tonight and then our Brazilian correspondent.
How about that guy in South America?
Pretty good stuff.
Am I right?
Oh, yeah.
It's wonderful to hear from him.
He's a good personal friend of ours, too.
I remember when he was here for one of our.
That was his brother.
That was his brother.
There's two of them.
There's two of them.
That was his brother.
Well, he's really.
Everybody in Brazil is our brother.
But these two actually are.
There are.
Well, I feel like I'm both equally well because they're both, you know, big supporters of ours, and we're big supporters of them.
And it's wonderful to hear about that.
I particularly was interested in the Confederados.
That's what they call the Confederates that fled to Brazil rather than succumb to Yankee Reconstruction actually.
A little bit of a foreshadowing for our next special series in April, one to the other, kind of blending in there with that.
But that is interesting history, is it not?
It is.
And it, you know, that whole Reconstruction era is neglected.
It's a neglected corner of our national history.
And, of course, what you do here is nothing but left-wing pro-black propaganda nowadays.
They don't tell you about the horrible corruption and the persecution of white southerners that basically caused a lot of white southerners to move into the interior west to escape that persecution.
You know, I've heard it said before that the interior west of the United States is basically the south without a race problem.
And that's why all the cowboys in the old movies used to talk with southern accents because there was a predominance of southerners out there, you know, like Doc Holiday and people like that in the west.
Oh, I gotta say, I gotta stop you right there because I gotta mention, you mentioned Doc Holiday.
My dad's all-time favorite movie is Tombstone, the 1993 version.
Val Kilmer playing Doc Holiday.
Say what you will.
I mean, Val Kilmer played Doc Holiday so good in that movie.
His accent, you know, because Doc Holiday was from Georgia.
He died in Colorado.
You could visit.
I actually visited with my father the grave of Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp's brother.
He's buried in Portland, Oregon.
Have you ever been to Tombstone?
I've never been to Tombstone.
Neither, but I want to go.
We'll have to make a trip to go there someday.
Yeah, who do we know down in Arizona?
We've got to find out.
But no, anyway, watch Tombstone 1993.
If you've never seen it, Val Kilmer is Doc Holliday, who is a Confederate, I believe.
Am I wrong in that?
He was a Confederate, right?
He had a Confederate Tyler.
Yeah, a lot of these people did.
A lot of the people.
Now, Wyatt Earp was a Yankee.
Wyatt Earp was a Union guy.
He was a Union soldier.
People like Johnny Ringold and like that were Southern.
Johnny Ringo.
Yeah, right.
Anyway, we're digressing now.
But down in Brazil, our people made it down there because, well, because they hungered for freedom and they did not want to live under a tyrannical Yankee government.
And, you know, the past is prelude to the future.
We still live under a tyrannical Yankee government down here today.
Okay, I got to say this.
I got to say this very quickly.
The Clantons, Ike Clanton, was a Confederate.
And this is Rich Hamblin informing me here of this now.
Now, the actor who played Ike Clanton in the movie Tombstone, 1993, where Kurt Russell played Wyatt Earp, where Val Kilmer played Doc Holliday.
Michael Bean played Johnny Ringo.
Ike Clanton was played by Stephen Lang, who is a Jewish guy from New York, but he played Stonewall Jackson in the movie Gods and Generals.
And go and read what Stephen Lang, the Jewish actors, said about Stonewall Jackson.
He said after researching and reading and getting into character for Stonewall Jackson, he was basically a believer in the cause, that he came to believe in the southern cause.
Can go read these things that he defended the man in the cause, Stonewall Jackson and the cause of the Confederacy in these interviews back around the time that Gods and General came out, which was in the early 2000s.
Now, would he still say that now, 20 something years later?
I don't know, but he said it at the time.
And that man is an incredible actor.
You watch him play Ike Clanton in Tombstone.
You watch him play Stonewall Jackson in Gods and General.
How could that even be the same guy?
He's that good of an actor.
Anyway, Keith, I'm totally blowing it up right now, but continue, please.
Well, I like the 1957 version, but the best thing about the 1957 version was the music, the majestic music of Dmitry Tyamkin, a Russian emigrant, by the way, to America.
In fact, a lot of them, Valennikov and whatnot, a lot of the music that we identify as, you know, great movie music from the golden age of Hollywood.
Oh, that was, you know, written and scripted and the product of Russians that came over here.
So, you know, now some of them are Russian Jews, some of them weren't.
But nonetheless, it was an important contribution.
And like, you know, that song, Gunfight, Okay, Corral, I tell you what, if you want to hear a stirring piece of music about as a movie theme, you can't beat that.
How about I can beat it right now?
Who's that?
What's that?
When Liberty Valence wrote time, the women folk would hide.
Now, who wrote that?
I bet you it was written.
Who sang it was Gene Pitney.
Right, yeah, Gene Pitney.
But it wasn't used in the movie, unfortunately.
What was that about?
Yeah, how did that happen?
I mean, such an iconic movie-themed song.
It was written for the movie, performed for the movie, but it didn't make it into the movie.
And it was a great hit.
It was a great hit for Gene Pitney.
It was the strangest thing.
I think they released the movie before he had recorded it because he'd had priority.
They wrote it for the movie, and he performed it for the movie.
Why couldn't they just hold off until they could get it in there?
I have no idea.
Oh, my God.
I am telling you, this has been, for me, the fastest show of the year.
Every single hour I've wanted to add more time.
We just couldn't get to it all.
I want to say a couple of things about March Around the World there very quickly, Keith.
We went to Croatia tonight with Tom Sunich.
You know, a couple of years ago, when we first kicked off this series, we had General Zelchko Glasnovic on.
He's a former war general who also is a sitting member of the Croatian parliament.
Not the European Parliament, not the Nick Griffin served in, but the Croatian Parliament.
He was at the time of his appearance a member of that governing body.
And he was with us on all of the issues.
This is a guy who, when he served in war, he was a general.
He got shot, I think shot in the heart, or he was in the hospital, and they told him he couldn't leave.
It was life or death.
And he left and crawled out the window and went back to war.
Okay?
And he told the story on the political cesspool.
And then he eventually got elected to be a member of the Croatian parliament.
100% with us on the issue.
Ladies and gentlemen, the point of that is there are people out there in positions that are with us, like Philip DeWinter, the sitting member still currently of the Belgian parliament, who has been a member of the General General.
I remember when he came over here, it was Anna Von Demersch, who was also in the.
Well, let's talk about that.
Let's talk about that very quickly.
So, Philip DeWinter has been a guest on this show a couple of three times, all during which he has been a member of the Belgian.
Yeah, he's been on March Around the World.
He's been on it other times, too.
Philip DeWinter is his name, whereas Nick Griffith calls him Flip.
Flip the winner.
But he came to Memphis, and he came to Memphis to meet us.
We showed him around.
I have a picture in one of my bedrooms of you and me and Philippe and DeWinter and Anna Vandemerst there.
Who is a senator?
Philip DeWinter is a member of the Belgium.
Part of the Van Bleet building on Gayosa Boulevard in Memphis.
And Anka is a senator and a former Miss Belgium, by the way.
She's about a head taller than me, and I'm six foot two, so you do the math on that.
She's a former Miss Belgium.
And we took them around.
Love them.
Love them.
And have a great relationship with Memphis.
Well, they didn't think Memphis was very large because you had to bail out.
And I tried to get them to say, no, you've got the wrong impression.
Let me take you around the whole thing, but they didn't have the time to do it.
But if they ever want to take me up on that offer to give them a full and complete tour of Memphis, the offer has been made, and I will follow through on it if they come to me.
Well, I tell you what, you never know who you know.
And so, you know, I'm going to call Flip as Nick calls him after this.
We'll see if we can get him on later this month.
Well, you know, the point is, you go back in our archives and all of the archives are evergreen.
We've had some fantastic, fantastic guests on this show.
What incredible people we've had.
Oh, March Around the World and Confederate History Month and throughout the year, all the 12 months, all the 52 weeks of the year.
Fantastic guests every single night.
And tonight is no exception in Croatia.
I remember earlier this year when we dug out George Wallace Jr.'s interview.
Yeah.
He told us that Elvis was not as portrayed in this latest movie from Australia.
Instead, he was a big George Wallace supporter and told George Wallace that he had a Wallace for President sign in the front yard of Graceland.
Wasn't that great?
Now you could only hear it here, folks, because that was the interview that we did with George Wallace's son.
Where else are you going to hear him?
Where else are you going to get a million views on the SBLC?
Where else are you going to get a half million views on this?
Let me slide the money.
Which I wanted to revisit with you.
Let me listen before we leave.
I think that what Tom Sunich said is right.
Croatia, I think, is something that we need to look into visiting at some time.
I think that is a hidden gem in Europe now.
You can have your second family there, Keith.
They're all waiting for you, buddy.
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