Oct. 7, 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.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, as we have been doing, and what a festive and celebratory night we've had tonight.
It's been an interesting night.
But we've celebrated the life and legacy of Christopher Columbus in the last hour.
Now, moving into our third and final hour, we're going to be talking with two of our friends at Antelope Hill Publishing.
Now, they have been mainstays.
Well, they.
Antelope Hill Publishing talent creators have been and content creators have been mainstays throughout this year.
That was something that Taylor Young and I, who's part of the editorial team there at Antelope Hill Publishing.com, put together in the early weeks of 2023 that once a month we would feature some of the talent there at Antelope Hill, and it has not left us wanting.
I think each one has been incredible.
Different topics, different books, different conversations, but all interesting.
And we're doing it again tonight in tandem.
Taylor Young of Antelope Hill Publishing is with us.
And also Sean Bell, who has written a book that we'll be talking about here in just a moment.
But we'll first let these two gentlemen say hello, Taylor.
First, you, then Sean.
Great to have you both on the show tonight.
Hey, yeah, it's wonderful to be back.
Always happy to be here talking with you and talking to your audience.
We'll be talking a little bit more.
Well, Sean, of course, for you tonight, making your debut appearance.
It's great to get to know you better and certainly interested to know more about your recently published book there at Antelope Hill.
But Taylor, of course, you've been supplying us.
We'll talk a little bit more about this later this hour with each and every one of the authors that we featured this year.
And it has gone by, I think, far too quickly.
I can remember talking with you back in January, February, it was.
And now here we are in October, and it just doesn't seem like it's been that long.
But nevertheless, welcome both.
And Sean, to you, since this is your first time.
Tell us a little bit more.
This is one thing I really enjoy doing with first-time guests, especially the kind of guests who produce the content that Antelope Hill publishes.
Tell us a little bit more about your background and what led you from the beginning to this terminus.
You bet, yeah.
I think it's probably a rather unusual story in the sense that I grew up like about as progressive as it gets.
Like in the middle of a major city.
It is interesting.
Yeah, no, it's unusual having bounced around in these circles for the last five years or so.
I don't meet a whole lot of people who followed my path.
Yeah, man, I grew up with parents who have all the right opinions about stuff with the one major distinction that I would call them like genuine liberals, like actually consistent on some of the free speech stuff that was a big deal in earlier iterations of liberalism.
So like a story I always tell people is, I don't know if you're familiar, but I think it was back in the 70s.
There was like a National Socialists rally in a Jewish suburb of Chicago, and the ACLU fought for the nuts.
Yeah, no, and that's like an example that's okay, Illinois.
Yeah, and that's like a story that I remember my mom telling me as an example of like, yeah, that's what this country is all about.
So even though they have all those – So classical liberal, we don't believe in what you say, but you're right to say it type of liberal.
Exactly, and consistent about it, which, you know, I could still talk to him about stuff, which I'd genuinely appreciate.
But yeah, then the thing that sort of, you know, sent me off in another direction is just the brute fact of inequality, I suppose.
And I worked my way from noticing individual inequality, right?
So people who are dissidents from the mainstream when it comes to individual inequality find themselves becoming libertarians, right?
And then somehow I came across Ayn Rand at the age of 13 or 14 or whatever.
And that was sort of the first book that told me it's okay to be better than other people.
Some people are better than other people.
These are like, you're not a bad person for feeling that way.
Recognizing differences, recognizing differences in talent and ability.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So I would say that that's sort of like a constant in my journey.
I don't know very much stuff, frankly.
It freaks me out to be talking to all these people because I don't feel like I know much.
But if I know one thing, it is that, that we are all different from one another and that that's fine.
We can work with that.
We can find a decent solution to that situation.
But the way to get to that solution is not to deny it, whether on the individual level or on the group level.
You know what we were saying at the break before then, that basically all of the left-wing movements that have proceeded to take over and bedevil us since the end of World War II are based on gaslighting, making you feel guilt and feel bad about yourself for something you have no responsibility for.
So that's why it's really important to get these ideas out here.
They don't want them to even be discussed because people, the more they discuss them, will realize just how gaslit they actually are.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I remember, it's so funny looking back on this, but I remember like 10 years ago when I was into, you know, don't laugh at me too bad, you guys, but I was into internet atheism at one point.
And I remember it like really disturbing me to hear there was sort of a schism in internet atheism 10 years ago around like Islam and criticizing Islam, which, you know, it's been done to death.
It's the most obvious thing in the world.
And I remember even that sort of sending shivers down my spine.
And I think that probably the thing that kept me looking is that I'm the sort of person that like when I feel that dark feeling like, ooh, this is something new.
This is some new powerful magic.
Like I just want to keep looking deeper and deeper and deeper.
Find the most powerful words you can say and the most powerful ideas you can espouse.
Now, we're about to talk about your first book, and then we're going to get back to Taylor, who has brought us all together.
I mean, really working with Taylor over the course of the last year is responsible for a lot of great hours of radio on TPC over the course of this year.
But this was your first book, right?
That's correct.
Yep.
All right.
And if you don't mind me asking, I don't want you to give away too much personal information, but how old are you, Sean?
I'm coming up on 30.
Okay, so you're in your 20s, and you've just written your first book, and you talked a little bit about your journey and some of your upbringing and where you are now.
The title of the book is an interesting one, Post with an Hyphen.
Post with a hyphen.
And of course, you can find this at antelopehillpublishing.com.
We'll be telling you more about it in the next segment.
But an interesting title.
What does it mean?
Right.
So, and you'll see it on the back of the book if you purchase the book.
Post is this prefix that can be appended to a wide variety of words.
Maybe the most obvious would be postmodern, but post-truth was a thing that was being thrown around in the liberal media at one point.
post-war maybe with a capital w to indicate world war ii uh and for me like there's if there's one thing that characterizes our uh epoch it's it's this being after everything after the age of exploration after the time when the world was mapped and known.
Hold on right there.
Hold on right there.
Post or after post-AntelopePublishing.com or with its author.
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Sean Bell, author of the book Post, and that's post with a hyphen, postmodern, post-Western, post-European, post-whatever.
And that's probably good.
We're talking about his book, also Taylor Young, a part of the editorial team at AnelopeillPublishing.com, which has given us so many great guests this year.
And it's been a real privilege and pleasure to partner with Antelope Hill.
And we certainly hope that that will continue.
We're going to bring Taylor back on in very short order.
But Sean, you were giving us a little bit more information about your book, its title, and its contents.
Now, I could read from the back page of the book, but rather than do that, let's just have you put it into your own words.
What is the book about?
Well, the book is a collection of short stories.
So, in terms of like a plot-through line, you're not going to find much of that.
The stories take place in environments both realistic and unrealistic.
Some are more blatantly, you know, politically allegorical.
Others perhaps hint more at the general spirit of the times we find ourselves in.
But it's a collection of short stories.
I don't know if that's a very good answer, but that's what I'm saying.
It is a good answer.
And I like what you know, of course.
Hold on, you got to turn your mic on, Keith.
After all these years, I was going to say that when I hear something like that, a collection, I think something like Sherwood Anderson's Winesboro, Ohio, or something.
Is there any connection with that type of story?
Well, I mean, even in my book, I mean, you had a collection of stories.
I mean, I think Sean's saying that there's not necessarily a tie that binds, but Taylor can tell us more about that.
Taylor, I know you wanted to comment on some of the stories that are contained in Post.
Yeah, so I've said before, I don't know if it was on this show or somewhere else, but this is one of my favorite books that we've actually ever published.
And it's true that there's a lot of diversity in terms of the settings of these stories and kind of the themes that they talk about.
But I like to always look for kind of like an overarching story in anything, if it's music I listen to or a book I read.
And to me, this is it's it's about the whole experience, basically, of being white specifically in the postmodern era.
So, and the whole experience of not just like the political aspect, but even just like the human aspect as well.
There's stories about like kind of looking at like the pitfalls of a relationship between like two like middle school boys who are friends with each other.
Or there's one story where it's a man who's like basically never found love because he just like was never able to just kind of like take the plunge and go for something.
So, there's a lot more than just politics, but even from like a political standpoint, there's a lot that I find really, really insightful and that I really kind of connected with while reading it.
I don't know if you maybe want me to go into any of the stories in particular, but there's a well I would actually, Taylor, I would, if you don't mind, at the expense of Sean, or not at the expense of, but in addition to, I will read, I will actually read now the back cover just to give people a better idea, because I am familiar and I take it for granted that everybody will be familiar with what this book is about, and then we'll toss it back to you, Taylor.
But this is the back cover of the book, Post by Sean Bell.
A fatigued traveler discovers a girl with a mysterious power in a city that simultaneously becomes the center of a global hoax, setting a new political paradigm.
A young man wanders into and out of an incredible inheritance in a scenario set up to contemplate the spiritual condition of race, of a race in its twilight.
Now, that's provocative to think about, folks.
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The above briefly describes a few of the stories, the parables, and the allegories that filled this book, Post, by Sean Bell.
These stories at once imaginative and down to earth contain settings ranging from alternative futures and magical time travel to the real life backwoods of America and a cast of characters, including baby boomers who should have politically awoken but never will, working class dissidents struggling in an atomized society and the weak fathers and feminist mothers who failed to raise them.
Each story is written not only with a skilled pen, but also a deeply perceptive understanding of the complexities of human relationships and personalities and the profoundly rooted causes of modern Western society's terminal decay.
Now we're talking, folks, touching upon themes including the temptation of fatalism, the futility of conservatism.
That is a key one right there.
The victimization of individuals by forces outside their control, the failure of authority figures, the pitfalls of human interpersonal struggles, and forever lost romances.
This anthology will undoubtedly capture the attention of political dissidents and scholars of the human condition alike.
Taylor, you said it before, and we have covered so many great books and great authors going back to the book on the opioid epidemic about a year ago now, and so many different antelope hill books and authors since then.
But you are saying that this is one that really stands at the cream of the crop of the antelope hill stable of talent and productions.
You write sure to be an instant classic, Sean Bell's debut work, Post.
Yeah, so if I could highlight just two of the stories in this one, one would be called Blue Mountain Trust, which is probably my favorite story in the book.
And in the story, actually, the character, the main character is told from his perspective.
And when he's referred to by other people, he goes by Sean Bell, actually.
So he goes by the author's name.
So, you know, I'll let Sean comment on whether there's, you know, kind of what meaning he had to that.
But just to briefly describe the story, basically, that is the one where he wanders into and out of an incredible inheritance.
So you have this young man who's he's he's told at some point in his life that his life is defined by squandering what is given to him.
And that this is basically, this is the inevitable fact of his life, is that whatever he gets, he will squander it.
And he's kind of put in a situation where he's given something very, very great and very, very valuable.
And he doesn't want to squander it, but he's afraid that in the end he will.
And I don't know.
I really, you have to read this story for yourself, but when you do, you kind of, you know, what I took out of it is this is like a contemplation, kind of like Sean was saying, like, you know, we live in a post-world.
We live, it feels like everything has been done.
So sometimes for especially like young white people to look around at the society around them and what it says about them and what it says about their history, you know, it's easy to kind of like lose all of your rootedness and kind of like forget why you're supposed to do anything and why you're supposed to struggle and like, you know, why you should have a responsibility to your inheritance and why you should seek to maintain it.
So I think that's what I'm going to say about that one without giving too much away.
I totally forgot, Taylor, that I put my name on that character.
That's a funny thing sitting here these several years later.
But yeah, man, I suppose that has something to do with fear of success, right?
and just like the idea that even were I to be granted the opportunity to do something momentous in the interest of good and justice.
Like, I don't know, I think probably most people have that voice that says, oh, but that's not you.
You're the guy who drops the ball at the goal line to do a sports ball, you know, metaphor.
But to make that more, you know, not as if I'm saying it, dictating it to the audience, I reflected that back on myself.
I think that was probably what I was thinking about with that.
Well, Taylor and Sean, this is Keith.
Whenever I hear the term post as a, you know, in a like post-war, post-modern things like this, it kind of gives you a sense of, you know, the blaséness or something or being blase or ennui that somehow we've run out of energy.
And I really don't know whether we're in a post modern era or a pre-white era or something.
You know, I don't know which way things are breaking.
What do you guys think?
good question oh well i think that uh it's who wants to take that that hot potato uh I'll just, I think it's up to us.
It's what we make of it.
We have to prove ourselves up to the task.
I'll hand it over to Sean.
I feel that they've sort of like gotten high on their own supply of ideology and there, there's this scene I would butcher it, but between Mel Gibson and checky Cairo in the Patriot, where he talks about how corn we'll be right back.
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Back, ladies and gentlemen, we are with Sean Bell, the author of Post with a hyphen.
Just Post, if you go to AntelopeHillPublishing.com, you'll find it about in the middle of the page there.
Taylor Hill, excuse me, Sean Bell, Antelope Hill, Taylor Young of Antelope Hill Publishing's editorial board.
And what a great year it's been of collaboration with Taylor and Antelope Hill and all of its authors.
But gentlemen, I was saying before the break, there's a scene in the movie The Patriot that came out in 2000, Mel Gibson.
And he's talking with one of his French allies in this particular scene.
And they're talking about how Cornwallis knew that his victories were perfect.
And Mel Gibson says we can use that against him.
And his French counterpart says, I would prefer incompetence.
He says, no, overconfidence will do.
And I'm actually kind of bullish on the way things are going right now.
I think that there's just no way.
I don't think there's any way that the current order is able to endure.
civilizations empires rise and fall i think that um we're living in interesting times is the old chinese curse well Well, but we'll see how it goes.
But until then, we'll continue to read great content from Antelope Hill.
But anyway, folks, I do agree that the old order is dying off in some certain way.
I just don't know what is replacing it, but something is going to replace it.
And it seems to me that we may be in a very energetic era around the cusp of it.
Well, I mean, you just look at all the unprecedented things that are happening.
And Keith and I will cover this in the final segment tonight.
One more segment here now with Taylor Young of Antelope Hill Publishing and Sean Bell, an author there.
But Sean, a couple of questions to you very quickly, and then we'll let Taylor wrap it up.
You wrote to me in an email this week that you have a very vague thing that you've been thinking about and that it seems that guys in the movement are generally rather conservative in their personality type.
There's a tendency to valorize very conservative life outcomes like emphasis on marriage, children, financial, and career success.
And you're not saying that that's a bad thing, but it's just an interesting thing that what we're building here, what Antelope Hill has done such a big part in building, this art scene, this, You know, not just autobiographical things or things that are topical, but works of fiction, works of art that cater to an audience that is quite conservative in temperament.
So that would be a question here for you now.
Is the image of this bohemian Steppenwolfian artist a libtard cliché?
Because certainly we can think of counterexamples of artists who live quite conventional lives, as you ask.
And we're also productive.
Yeah, you're asking me my own question.
I'm reading it as you wrote it.
Yeah, I mean, the reason I called it a vague thing is because the thought rests on so many different propositions that I don't feel that I've fully buttressed.
So the idea that guys in the movement are of conservative temperament, that's sort of a read that I've got, but I would be willing to accept pushback on that.
What do we mean by conservative temperament?
There's a book that I'd recommend to people.
I mentioned it in my message to you, but it's called The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, How Good People Can Be Divided by Politics, right?
And it sort of goes into the quantitative psychology of how conservative temperamented people differ from liberal people.
And it seems to me that in order to deal with the situations which we are likely to see, right?
Because I do agree with you fellas that the current order is not long for this world.
Things seem to be getting more and more out of control.
The sorts of people, I would argue, who are best suited to navigate untested waters that have never been charted before are precisely the personality archetype that that author I mentioned, Jonathan Haidt, characterizes as liberal, right?
Which is generally about openness to experience and willingness to embrace the unknown, whereas conservatism is more about doing things right and very attentively and precisely.
But you see, the way things have happened now is that they've flipped the paradigm.
They used to be the free speech advocates on the left.
Now they're the censors.
Maybe, you know, maybe our side is going to flip and be the open and inventive type.
Well, I tell you what, if you put me in control, I wouldn't be.
But it's a good thought exercise.
Well, I think if I could jump in, I think this is another scenario in which the people who have seized our countries and made a mockery out of the idea of democracy and in every way, like perverted all the institutions that we built, they've created this division in these two aspects of our characters.
Yeah, like Sean is saying, you could look at kind of like the type of person that a liberal is and you see some positive aspects in there.
You can certainly look at a conservative and you see many positive aspects in there as well.
You see the hard work, the belief in individual liberty, the care for family.
And these are all kind of aspects of our character as a people.
You have that.
You have the openness to experience, the ability to learn and to go beyond.
And these are all things that ultimately, we're going to have to reunite and bring back together so that they both can serve our cause, instead of having these different aspects of our, the character of our, of our people, that that built our civilization, be in opposition to each other.
Sean, this is a that's a fantastic point, Taylor.
But Sean, this is another question that uh, you and I had uh gathered in our email exchange earlier this week.
But how should we think of the avant-garde?
And no doubt we all here on the program tonight are suspicious of the notion of progress, And certainly there are innumerable examples of the novelties undertaken in art purely for the sake of quote-unquote progress, which end up abominable.
But there are good reasons, too, to engage in innovation if it results in the work of art hitting the audience harder.
Right.
And that's exactly where I was going to take this.
I think that the things that art says, when it's true and good and touching and authentic, they're actually very simple things.
Right?
Because actually, I think life, or at least a well-lived life, isn't that complicated.
It's mostly about working hard at something that is meaningful and appreciated by other people.
And it's about love and friendship and community and stuff.
Right.
So, so, but maybe this is just me being a creature of my time, but saying that straight up almost turns my stomach.
It's like it's like too sugary for me.
It's too Hallmark card.
We need this layer of irony, which, you know, that itself becomes a problem.
But I think what artistic experiments do or artistic innovations do is allow us to say the same thing over and over again in such a way that the listener doesn't roll his eyes.
You know, it's almost like misdirection, which makes it seem like a cheap parlor trick.
But I don't know.
I'm thinking out loud, but I think that might be what it is, right?
Like I take a certain sort of person and do something that, you know, hopefully if I write correctly, I can delight their mind so that their mind stops protecting their heart.
And I can say something that's like, you know, the things that the heart cares about.
Like I said, they're real simple things, so simple that your mind might reject them.
I don't know.
Well, Sean, I will tell you this.
What I do know is that it's been an honor to get to know you better tonight.
I would highly recommend your book, Post with a Hyphen.
If you go to antelopehillpublishing.com, folks, you just do a Control-F search for Post.
You'll find it.
And it comes with the editorial boards.
I'm talking about all the great books there.
And I read a little bit of thrilling adventures among the early settlers to my son at night.
I've mentioned this several times over the course of the year.
There is so much, and I mean this in the very best sense of the word, there is so much diversity at antelopehillpublishing.com.
You'll want to check it out.
But for Taylor to have said that this is a book among all of the books that they have printed and published that you need to check out, well, it's hard to argue.
Post by Sean Bell.
And it is hard to believe, Taylor, how quickly these past few months have flown by.
We have about a minute remaining.
But I have, and I say again, greatly enjoyed the collection of outstanding guests that you have provided the program this year.
And you've done a wonderful job of handling that.
I would say I'm looking here at The Sword of Christ by Giles Corey.
And with a foreword by Kevin McDonald, our good friend, that is a provocative combination.
Maybe we want to do that in December, but I want to thank you both for coming on tonight and Taylor again.
The year-long work we've done together, and of course, Sean tonight.
30 seconds remaining.
Taylor, the final word is yours.
All right.
Well, I mean, I'm just, I don't know how to follow that up, but I'm very happy as well to have been able to connect you with some of our authors and get to discuss some of our books.
It's always really wonderful being on here.
So I hope your audience has enjoyed.
I would encourage them to check out the book, check out the rest of our books, and we'll have more coming out.com.
We'll stay in touch.
Thank you, Taylor.
Thank you, Sean.
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That's my favorite.
In the cool of the evening, when everything is getting kind of gloofy, I call you up and ask you if you'd like to go with me and see a movie.
First you say no, you got some plans for the night.
And then you stop and say, all right, love is kind of happy with a spooky little girl like you.
It's that time of the season, is it not, ladies and gentlemen?
It's October.
It is the harvest time for our ancient European forebears.
It is particularly significant for James because, one, the weather's getting cooler.
You know how much I love that.
And he also has a special part in his childish heart for Halloween.
You know, I do.
And you know, we'll be getting to that later this month.
It is October after all.
But it is really, I mean, going back to our ancestral DNA this time of year meant so much.
I mean, you know, certainly it got really cold in Northern Europe.
So if you weren't ready to get down into business in October, you weren't going to make it very much longer.
That's right.
So it's our big, beautiful brains developed there in that climate.
And so here we are now.
Hey, Keith, just quick, give me 30 seconds and maybe 60.
Great show.
I mean, it's a little bit of everything tonight.
Yeah, well, Steve King is without peer, as far as I'm concerned.
He's an insider who's one of us.
And he really wants to tell the truth about what goes on up there.
And that type of person is rare indeed, folks.
And it's our pleasure and our privilege to produce shows with content makers like him.
He can tell exactly from first-hand experience what is going down in the deep state.
And I think that type of information is invaluable today.
Columbus?
Columbus, of course, is probably second only to Jesus Christ in terms of now we're bordering on the blasphemous.
No, I don't want to be blasphemous.
But what I mean in terms of mortal men, he was the, you know, the light bearer.
He is the one that basically opened up our horizons and he discovered a new world that we can populate and try to correct some of the mistakes that were made in the old world.
You know, it's really kind of remarkable that we are so blessed to live in this continent that has two large moats protecting us called the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
There's no reason for us to ever have gotten into any foreign wars.
In fact, our ancestors specifically warned us about that.
George Washington warned us about that in his farewell address.
And by golly, what have we done now?
We've become the warmongers of the world.
And we need to get away from that.
We need to go back to the wisdom of our founding fathers.
And the original founding father, you know, not in terms of our government, but in terms of our world, is Christopher Columbus.
That's right.
That's right.
That's a good line.
I agree with that.
And that was our second hour.
And then always good to talk to the guys at Antelope Hill.
Tom has got content in there and Sean.
Yeah.
And they like to share it with us.
They're very generous in that regard.
But there is really great stuff there.
And again, I think that book, The Sword of Christ, Giles Corey, it's got the Orthodox Christian symbol as its front page.
And, of course, a foreword by the evolutionary psychologist Kevin McDonald.
So that makes it doubly provocative.
as you read my uh magazine there keith now we're not going to mention what you're no no don't even mention it but But anyway, so, yeah, great show all the way around.
A lot of diversity tonight.
Again, we hate to use that word, except when we like to use it.
Well, it's really a good term that's been hijacked by the left.
Sort of like gay.
Yeah, right, exactly.
When our hearts were light and gay, you know, and stuff like that.
Don, we now are gay apparel.
Right, yeah.
That definitely has a double entendre meeting today.
But we are old-fashioned, and we're unashamedly old-fashioned.
And we know that, you know, we have not improved upon the world.
It's like back to the future.
Yeah.
The past is prologue.
All right, you got to get on your mic then.
Well, what I was going to say, though, is that we have not improved upon the world that we were bequeathed.
I was reading something with another guy that's about my age, and he says, what has happened to our society since 1950 is unprecedented and, quite frankly, jaw-dropping because it's hard to imagine that in one person's lifetime, we could descend so low from being so high before.
Yeah, I mean, think of when you were born.
What year?
Don't take you.
Well, around 1950, okay?
But anyway.
He just said 51.
Well, just think about this.
That's when America was at its zenith in terms of power and prestige and wealth.
And what has happened since then?
We have, like Blowtorch Mason said, we've squandered our inheritance for a mess of pottage.
We have allowed ourselves and our young people, our wealth, our inventiveness to be hijacked and used for improper and unworthy purposes.
All right.
And we need to get back on the solid track, the old path.
How do we only have a few minutes remaining?
Great show tonight.
Variety show.
I mean, truly a variety show.
As you said many years ago, we were the Lawrence Welk show of the alt-right.
Except we're still here.
And now the Lenin sisters, right?
But anyway, Brad Griffin, and a show is not complete unless we quote Brad, right?
Yeah, that's right.
All right, so let's do it here before we wrap up.
Brad writes at Occidental Dissent, nearly everything that is happening in politics these days, the most recent example being the demise of Kevin McCarthy, is a bright flashing light about our civic health.
In blue states, the sole purpose of law is to reward friends and punish political enemies.
Trump is now leading Joe Biden and the rear clear politics average.
Ironically, it is because Joe Biden and the Democrats are perceived as a greater threat to American democracy with the lowercase D, not the capital D that the Washington Post uses it.
Trump has the mugshot to prove it.
The great threat to democracy has been arrested four times and faces a thousand years in prison.
But you know what?
In spite of all that, his following is as loyal as ever, and they are not going to accept Brand X.
They want him in there, and they're not going to accept anything else.
And boy, I tell you what.
Something got to give.
I tell you what, I'll tell you what.
I can't wait to have Steve King back on in December when we do a little celebration of the Savior.
We'll do a little Christmas and we'll do a little, what do you see, Congressman, coming up in 2024?
Because here's the deal.
The legal order is breaking down into a blue zone and a red zone way of doing things.
In the blue zone, you have this entrenchment of the new social justice system.
It's driving out millions of political refugees to the red state.
So there's like a total resorting.
You're going to have the reddest of the red and the bluest of the blue.
A lot of the, you know, why have our property values here in the South doubled in the last couple of years?
It's because you've got so many people coming in from places like California, New York, and elsewhere, blue states, that are driving them up because they're trying to get away from it.
They need some relief.
Believe me, they come down here like true refugees.
These are the real asylum seekers, not the people coming across the Texas-Mexican border, but the people coming down from New York and now over from California.
Now, we would be out of bounds to not at least mention this, and I don't want to go too deep into it.
We don't have the time to do it, but the second front in World War III may have opened up today.
I mean, certainly you had the Russian-Ukrainian front, but now you've got what's going on.
What's going on in Israel?
I mean, Ahab, as Ray Stevens called him.
Ahab and Arab.
Ahab did a number on the Israelis today, if you're listening live, here on Saturday.
The fighting started in Ukraine over a year ago.
Israel is now about to use this as an excuse to go to war with Iran.
How long will it be until China invades Taiwan?
We're about to be engulfed in something.
I mean, everything is unraveling.
Folks, I don't think as you sit minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, week to week, show to show, if you can pick up on it, but I've been talking about it in all of my stops this year.
I talked about it at Amrin.
Something is happening.
This whole thing is unraveling at pace.
And now you have not only the situation in Eastern Europe, but now what's happened in Israel today.
Now, what should we do about what's going on in Israel today?
Let me tell you this.
We need to do exactly what the Israelis are doing about the Russian-Ukraine war, which is absolutely nothing, sitting back with their arms folded.
This is not our fight.
We do not need to be drawn into it.
But it is interesting.
And the Israelis have nuclear weapons.
They have all of our weapon systems probably improved over the versions that we have.
There is no reason for this.
You know, they tend to pretend they're liberal, but they're the most hidebound.
Now, I tell you what, if I could be as racially homogenous and as authoritarian and as nationalistic as the Israelis are in their domestic agenda, we'd be doing pretty good.
Exactly.
They don't have a border problem.
They don't have any problem with a border wall.
Well, they did today.
Well, they have these groups.
But then on the other hand, what they're doing that is never reported on are, you know, the depredations against Palestinians that live in their midst.
So, you know.
Well, that's the thing.
I think it's that when, you know, what happened today, look, there has been unrest in that part of the world since the beginning of recorded history.
There will always be unrest in that part of the world.
And there will always be atrocities on both sides, as there have been.
But it's interesting, you know, when you see a little Palestinian kid with a dirt cloud get run over by Abram's tank, I'm exaggerating a little bit here, but when you see that, you don't see that.
But when you see what happened today, and it was something, I mean, you're seeing rapes, you're seeing all kinds of violence, but you certainly see that.
That does make it through the filters.
And you see that on your social media and in your news reports.
You don't see it when the shoe's on the other foot and they're doing it on the other side.
That's why I say, as you said, it's not our fight.
It's not our fight.
We need to just sit back the way that the Israelis do on the Russian-Ukraine conflict.
All right.
Well, a lot of unrest in the Middle East, in the Holy Land, if you will.
Go to Occidental Descent.
It makes you understand what a blessing it is to live in America rather than in the so-called old world where all of the wars and all the old animosities are just as fresh today as they were 1,000 years ago.
Thank you, everybody, who contributed to the program tonight.
Go to Occidental Descent if you have the eyes to see it.
Pretty gruesome stuff what's going on in the Middle East today.
But you can take a look at it if you want to.
I think people need to know where are we going in the next year.
Next year is going to be unlike anything I've ever seen.