Oct. 28, 2023 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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It's Halloween weekend, and we'll be talking a little bit more about that before the end of the program tonight.
But of at least equal importance and certainly of more importance to us here at TPC, it is our anniversary weekend.
Now, 19 years on the air.
And I was telling Keith Alexander in the last segment, there's only been one person who has been here from day one until the present.
And I guess that's yours truly in a way.
But behind the scenes, that's certainly not true.
There is one person who has been with me since even before the very first step.
And that's my wife, who has actually joined us here.
Surprise guest, if you could call her that.
Surprise.
During the opening segment of this, our third hour.
Now, we've told this story before, probably on some of the Valentine's Day broadcasts when we bring all of the ladies on.
But I first met my wife in the summer of 2001.
Now, this is 19 years on the air for TPC, so that goes back, that'll take us back to 2004.
But it was in the summer of 2001 when I first met the young lady who would eventually become Mrs. Edwards.
And Keith.
But so 2001, that was a year after the Buchanan campaign, but a year before I had decided to run for office and a full three years before the start of the radio program.
And so she has been with me since.
For all of it.
For all of it.
Literally, for all of it, notwithstanding Buchanan.
So how are you doing tonight?
Good.
You got to get close.
I got to tell you, like I tell Keith.
At least Keith's been on 19 years and he still doesn't get it.
I know how to do that.
I know.
I got it.
I got it.
All right.
So you can remember all the way back.
I just remember how many people have held this microphone and how close they've had it to their mouth.
Probably a few germs on that windscreen.
So I'm a little hesitant to hold it that close.
Yeah, there's probably some.
There's only one person that's been this close.
Now, I can remember you.
When I was running for office in the fall of 2002, you were out at the campaign booth at the carnival and at the local fall festival hanging out.
Hanging out and handing out literature.
And then the show started.
And then the rest is history.
Now, one thing I want to mention, the early days of the show, and still to this day, I mean, you've always done it, but I can remember in the first house that we had when we just first gotten married.
I can remember sitting in that den with the wood paneling.
Yes.
And you and I just sitting there together stuffing envelopes.
And you still do that, but you still do that.
But I remember.
I was just crouched doing it.
I remember that one, though.
I mean, you really have been a part of this the whole way.
What has that been like?
I mean, there's some good and some bad in there.
What do you mean?
I mean, I'm honored to be able to have the life that I have and be able to stand and watch you.
It is close to my mouth.
Yeah, but it's got to be really close.
Or at least you've got to talk louder.
You can go.
Go.
I'm honored to have the life that I have.
And I know that I'm blessed.
And I know that there are sacrifices that come with that, with, you know, having the.
Well I I, I tell you what you're driving at.
Uh, we actually had Sam Bushman on in the last hour.
So you and I and the kids were going on a walk around our neighborhood last week, a few days ago, whenever it was, you know, i'm not going to speak as eloquently no no, you're doing great, but you were reading a little bit of the Rolling Stone article and you started laughing at how they were characterizing Sam.
Sam Bushman, he's one of the kindest, nicest people i've ever, i've ever met and, and you know, for people to make fun of or say some of the things that they've said is is just ridiculous.
Well, you can see, when you obviously see through that you were laughing and I said you know what's what's so funny?
Said that how they're talking about Sam.
He's not like this at all and, of course, but this is one of the benefits or benefits I don't know if that's even the right word but one of the things that you know from being behind the scenes of all of this is, you know all of these people and you've gotten to know so many of the guests, so many of the regular guests.
They've really been a part of our family and that's the word again now.
She has not been in here for the previous two hours.
That word has come up so many times, family family, family but you consider them to be that, and so do I absolutely.
I mean, some of these people have been around since i've been, you know, 16 years old and there's been a lot of wisdom and a lot of, a lot of things that i've learned and and really grown up with a lot of these people and you know, i'm i've just in their homes and them in our home yeah, in our home and even maybe some trips together watch people build families and, you know, support our family.
Well, there's just so many people.
I mean, there's so many people we could single out, but the the we were talking with this, with Jack Ryan, about some of the people that come to conferences.
Now we're talking about people that we can't mention on the air, friends and supporters of the program.
That really more than friends, but people that we've gotten to know.
And there's people that are in our everyday lives.
How would you let me ask you this, because I asked this question of Jack in the last hour.
How would you describe the people that you've met who are listeners and supporters of this radio program?
I mean, I don't really think that there's there's words that can specifically um, compared compared to how they are described by the media.
Well, if anybody knew these people and knew their hearts and knew, you know just how they treat people you're making me worry about this stupid microphone.
I can't even think.
Well, these are wonderful people.
Yes, these are wonderful people.
They are family people god-oriented uh people, and they are the really the best that America has to offer.
I I, I would say that the people of this audience the, the sampling, the size that we have met, represent the very best of this country and it's salt of the earth.
Thank you, that's so true.
That's so true um, I for an example, you know, a a conference that you went to recent recently, and Henry wanted to go, you know, for a daddy, a daddy date, just him and he got cinnamon icing on his shirt and one of the ladies took him back to the kitchen and got the stain out of his shirt and wrote me a letter.
You know, I just wanted to make sure that stain came out of his shirt and I just couldn't be more thankful for people that are in our lives like that.
I'm glad you brought that up.
So sweet and so tender and they really do love our families like their own.
Well, i'm glad you brought that up that way.
That's a great.
I'm glad you brought that up because this is another behind the scenes on that actual trip.
Jared Taylor was speaking with me of that thing and so Henry and I my son and I might turn nine years old yesterday, by the way, little buddy uh, the show turned 19 years old two days ago.
Henry turned nine years old yesterday and you were very pregnant at one of our conferences with Henry about a week before he was.
Yeah, I had him the monday after but uh, the Jared was with us and and and I remember me and my son and Jared going out to eat at this Meet And Three place and uh, we were just hanging out all weekend and Jared said you got to take this boy skating.
He wanted, Henry wanted to go skating and he said, Jared said you got to take this boy skating.
And it's just people like that, like Sam and Jared and all the regular as these big, Profound people, and they and they really are, but to me, they've just been a part of my life since I was, you know, a young teenager.
And I just see them truly as, you know, just family.
And I know I keep saying that, but I don't know how else to explain it.
I think everybody's.
But you've gone on terms with these people.
You've literally grown up with these people.
I've known you since you were a teenager.
They know what family means to them.
And, you know, they're just such important, they serve such important roles in your lives.
And I can't imagine without these people.
One of the things I was going to mention tonight, but we don't have time now because we only have you for one segment and we're running out of time.
But we're doing a project with the kids where you're teaching the kids a little bit more about the different nations.
Exploring countries and cultures.
And so many of our international guests have participated in this project that my wife thought up of.
You look really good, by the way.
That's my t-shirt.
But she came up with this thing.
And we'll tell you more about that in a subsequent show.
But so many of our international friends have participated in this project.
We'll tell you more about it next time.
Love you.
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Hey there, little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good.
Big bad All right, welcome back, everybody, to that synthesis that we have this time every year.
Or at least on some years, sometimes we celebrate the anniversary even earlier than this.
Sometimes we celebrate it the week before the 26th, sometimes the week after.
You just never know.
But tonight it is our anniversary broadcast and also our annual Halloween broadcast, as you can tell with this festive music.
And another teammate who has been a part of the show for a long, long time, Courtney from Alabama.
Now, Keith, we hear from Courtney regularly on our special broadcast, whether it be Confederate History Month or maybe even sometimes the 4th of July, certainly on Valentine's Day and throughout the year in between as well.
Halloween, she normally features sometimes Christmas too.
I send her some email articles today, by the way.
And sometimes when I go out to conferences, I'll hear people ask, hey, what about Courtney from Alabama?
You know who I like?
Courtney from Alabama.
Well, let's hear from her now.
And as we celebrate 19 years on the air, she's been a part of it.
She's part of the team.
Really on the air for a long time.
But even before that as a supporter, Courtney, how are you tonight?
I'm good.
How are y'all doing?
I always appreciate you having me on.
Well, we're doing good.
How are you doing, Keith?
I'm doing great.
Well, let's toss it back then to Courtney, who I know has spent a lot of time today preparing her remarks.
So, Courtney, before we get into Halloween and all of that, to close the show, one more segment on 19 Years on the Air.
What's your take?
Okay.
You know, I have, just like you said, I've been on for many different topics.
You know, Halloween and Christmas are a couple of the more laid-back ones with Christmas being, you know, a little more serious for obvious reasons.
And then Valentine's Day, that can be a mixture of, you know, laid-back fun and more serious topics.
But, you know, to be honest, my favorite time being on the show and also, you know, as far as feature guests that you have, and I hope I'm taking this in the right direction.
But, you know, I get the most excited over the topics, over three different topics that I associate with my identity.
I have three identities that I celebrate.
One of them is, you know, my southern heritage.
The other one is, you know, early America, the founding fathers, the pioneers and the settlers.
That's also part of my heritage.
And then you go back before that, our heritage in Europe, particularly for me and the three of us, particularly Great Britain.
And so I love it when either I'm on the show talking about either of those any of those topics or when you have other people on.
For Southern Heritage, of course, there's Confederate History Month.
That's always, that's always probably my most favorite.
And then, you know, when you're broadcasting from Alabama and then your South Carolina broadcast, oh, man, that is always, that's always a very, I really enjoy that one.
And then, you know, and of course, you know, for the second part of my identity, early America, I always enjoy the 4th of July when you have, when, when either the two of you or you have guests on talking about, you know, the founding fathers and what they really, you know, envision for this country.
And, you know, and then when I get to come on and talk about it.
And then, you know, the third identity, Europe, particularly Great Britain.
I really like it in March when you do the march around the world.
I think that's what it's called.
And especially, you know, again, I have a bias, but especially when you have the leaders on from Great Britain, I just feel the closest affinity to them.
And so I like all three of those topics.
And I want to let the audience know, I got permission from James ahead of time to, you know, to kind of talk about, you know, start with that, but then also talk about why I'm passionate about this topic.
So I don't want it to sound like I'm meandering or straying.
And I'll try to wrap this up quickly so it doesn't sound like I'm rumbling.
But, you know, there's a reason for what I'm going into.
It's just why I'm so passionate about these topics.
And I just, you know, I feel like, let me look at the right notes here.
You know, those three identities that I just mentioned, I feel like, you know, the three, the groups, and those three identities kind of overlap in this country as far as the Americans that can trace their heritage to those identities.
There's a lot of overlap between them.
And I feel like, you know, they're really the most attacked in this country.
There's an effort to erase them from history.
There's a celebration of immigrants.
And, you know, and it's to the point where, you know, it's like we're at the point where we act like the people who are descended from those three groups I just mentioned.
It's like we just don't exist anymore.
We're deliberately undercounted and censuses.
There's a bunch of reasons for that.
And I'm going to talk about that more on the 4th of July.
But I mean, it's kind of obvious.
I mean, there aren't very many.
I mean, you don't really hear very many Americans going on about, oh, I'm so proud of my British ancestry.
It's like, that's the one ancestry nobody really talks about.
But another thing I want to point out is, you know, this idea that we're all just a bunch of European mutts.
You know, I think, you know, liberals love to repeat that over and over again, just like this idea that we're a nation of immigrants.
I think they do it to demoralize the whites in this country, make us feel like we don't really have anything to fight for.
And I hear a lot of people in our movement repeat that too, but they do it for different reasons.
They do it to bring white people together.
Like we shouldn't be focused on our ancestries.
We should come together as one blob of white people.
Well, the problem with that statement, though, is that it's not really true.
I'm noticing more and more as white people are doing their ancestry DNA tests, they're discovering that most of them are actually mostly, you know, they can connect themselves to mostly at least, you know, one part of Europe, a particular region of Europe, a particular country.
And the part of America that you're from says a lot about what that region of Europe is and what that particular ancestry is.
And I think as more white Americans do these ancestry DNA tests, I think a lot of people are going to be in for a huge surprise.
White Americans are a lot more homogenous than what we are currently being told.
And this Sean Hannity view of America, that we can all just forget our ancestries and become one as Americans.
Or even this idea in our movement that all of us as white people can just, you know, come together.
I mean, I just, I think that that ship has sailed.
I mean, we've let so many immigrants into this country at this point that there's too many people here right now who categorize themselves as their old world ethnicity more than being America, more than being American.
So I think it's time for founding stock Americans to start doing what everybody else is doing.
And this doesn't mean being mean to other white people or excluding them if they sympathize with us.
But I just think we need to see ourselves more as a group than we currently are doing.
And I'm going to make one, just a parting statement on that because I don't want people to think I'm going on and on about this, like it's the 4th of July.
But in closing, I just want to make a parting statement on this.
And then I want to hopefully have time to give you all some compliments as hosts of the show.
But Patriotic Alternative, that's that group over in Britain that Mark Collette is a part of.
They're doing a lot of work over there for Great Britain.
They recently had a conference and there was an Australian fellow who got up to speak and he started his speech by saying, I am an Australian, but Britain is my ancestral home.
So other than caring, other than caring about Australia's future, Great Britain is the other place in the world that I care the most about.
And I'm kind of paraphrasing.
And, you know, I think a lot of Americans in our movement should probably, you know, start taking that approach too.
You know, I think Eastern Europe is a great place with a great culture.
We can learn a lot about it.
I think they have a great future ahead of them.
But that is not where most white Americans came from.
And I don't think it should be our main focus most of the time.
But so anyways, I'm done with that.
And I, you know, and I, these topics that I'm so passionate about talking about on the show or hearing others talk about, I've always felt this way.
I mean, ever since I've joined the movement, but it's really only recently, and I've always just been so afraid to be bold about it because I feel like there's a stigma attached to it, like it's considered divisive.
And it's only recently that I thought, you know what, I'm just going to say how I feel and I'm going to say what I feel.
I don't see anything wrong with what I'm saying.
I think it needs to be said.
And I'll stop talking about it when James tells me to.
But thank you for letting me on.
And I really appreciate how positive James is, like letting all of us on and talk about what we want to talk about.
It kind of gives us a safe space as pro-white people, if I can sound like a liberal.
But, you know, and I appreciate Keith for, I really appreciate Keith for always being my cheerleader on this topic.
So on that note, I'll turn it back over to y'all.
But I just want to second too soon.
We got a break.
We'll be right back with Courtney from Alabama.
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This Saturday, a sigh of relief in the state of Maine after a 48-hour manhunt, detectives in Maine find the mass shooting suspect dead.
He shot himself in the head this after killing 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar.
We're going to grieve for the families that lost loved ones here.
Lewiston, Maine Police Chief David St. Pierre speaking at a news conference.
We're going to continue to work.
We're going to persevere and we've become better people for it.
And the chief telling reporters.
I just don't want to forget the families that are grieving and will continue to grieve.
I don't want to forget the law enforcement officials that have worked tirelessly throughout this whole event to come to a good conclusion.
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Israeli military aircraft attacked about 150 underground targets in the northern Gaza Strip over Friday night into Saturday amid the ongoing war against Hamas terrorists.
The Israeli defense forces said Hamas terrorists were killed while underground combat zones and other underground terrorist infrastructures were also destroyed.
More than 8,700 people have been killed in the war on both sides since the October 7th, Hamas terror attack.
A full-scale invasion of Gaza is still looming as Israel has amassed hundreds of thousands of troops on the border with Gaza who are awaiting orders to begin.
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Intuition tells me that it's time to go.
Keith, I know you are a big VHS connoisseur.
Do you have 1985's Fright Night?
I think it's hidden away somewhere.
I'm telling you, I say it every year at Halloween.
Roddy McDowell as the reluctant vampire killer gives one of the most underrated performances in the history of motion pictures.
Now, if you can find that DVD and blow off the dust, excuse me, not the DVD, but the VHS.
Well, I'll tell you one that I'll tell you my favorite one.
My favorite one is The Body Snatcher from 1945, starring Boris Karloff and Bella Lawrence.
Now you're really going back.
You got that one on VHS for sure.
Oh, absolutely.
And I've got it on DVD too.
Oh, okay.
I watch it every Halloween night because, you know, it is such a well-made.
So on Tuesday, we're going to know what you're doing.
Yeah, exactly.
Tuesday night, I'll be doing that.
I won't be answering the door to the urchins that come up because believe me, I get true urchins over here in my neighborhood in the middle of Memphis.
But let me say something in reply to Courtney's comments about her heritage.
The English and the people from the British Isles were different from other settler groups of colonists that went to the New World and beyond to become colonists of their respective countries.
The Spanish, for example, were interested in basically going to a place, making a hat full of money, and coming back to Spain.
The English and the people from the British Isles actually went to settle, and they have created something very unique and special in the world, the Anglosphere.
That would be Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa.
Those are the places where people from the third world wanted to go.
They didn't want to go.
It's not just a matter of wealth.
They don't want to go to Saudi Arabia or Dubai or places like that that are very wealthy or even Japan or Korea.
They want to go to the Anglosphere because we create a, it tells the quality of those settlers because those settlers may have been the scum of the earth where they were coming from, but if you gave them a land that had reasonably fertile soil and a reasonable, you know, growing season, they turned every one of those places into a garden spot.
And that's what we need to give ourselves credit for that.
All right.
And we do.
And we do hear, we do in June and July and August and even September, but not on the anniversary and Halloween hybrid show.
Because this is not Halloween, though, is a, you know, an English holiday.
We are about to talk about that, and you are exactly right.
Now, speaking about the English, and Courtney, you mentioned this in the last segment, too.
You mentioned March Around the World.
I gave a quick plug to my AFP column for American Free Press.
I got a Q ⁇ A, a print interview with Nick Griffin, who is a mainstay on our March Around the World.
He actually gave a great answer and a blunt and concise answer to the question, what was the most important lesson you learned during your five-year career in the European Parliament?
And he wrote that there is in fact no parliamentary road to the national revolution.
And if you want to read the rest of that Q ⁇ A with Nick, you'll find it in the next issue of the American Free Press, which is coming out soon.
And I've got the PDF advanced version here, and I'm looking at it.
One other announcement I'd like to make is, and I was about to forget, but I was asked not to forget, and in fact, reminded not to do so.
Next Saturday, a week from tonight, we'll be in Middle Tennessee, and I'll be speaking at a League of the South event, and we'll be doing a live remote broadcast from said event.
So if you want more information about how you could join us, and also there will be Simon Roche from South Africa, Michael Hill, and others, send me an email, james at thepolitical cesspool.org.
And if you check out, we'll let you know where to go.
But that's a week from tonight in Middle Tennessee.
We're going to get to that.
But first, we're going to get to Halloween on Tuesday.
And Courtney, I know you've got thoughts about that.
You always do.
Take it away.
Okay.
Yeah, I might save my comments I had on, you know, the decorating and everything in the last segment.
But thank you.
Thank you.
I appreciate all y'all your comments, Harry, there.
I want to say, you know, we're in the fall season, and I have to say something about football.
And, you know, for those of you who think we get too arrogant on this show during Confederate History Month, well, you know, we, as Southerners, we criticize ourselves on this show a lot, too.
And we're about to right now.
So sit back and enjoy it.
But anyways, on the topic of football, you know, that's a real big deal in the South and in my state very much.
So it's like, you know, I used to be really into it years and years ago.
I won't say which school I attended.
I know that Keith and James know, but, you know, I try to protect my identity on here.
There's only like, there's only like five people in the state of Alabama, so I'm sure the SPLC could kind of put pieces together at some point.
So anyways, as far as cheering for football teams, half my family, growing up, they loved one side of the family loved Alabama, one loved Auburn.
And when I joined the movement, I kind of had to, it's like a switch turned on immediately.
It's like I was always racially aware, but as far as joining a physical movement and realizing, oh, there's other people who think like me, like, and learning about names like Jared Taylor and James Edwards.
And so it's like, it's like I had to empty a compartment of my brain that was devoted to football so I could make space for what we discuss in the movement.
And it was like, it was like a night and day switch it turned on.
Like I had no time to get excited over football anymore.
And it was like literally like a night and day turn a switch turning on.
It was amazing.
It's kind of sad in a way because my dad and I used to bond over that topic.
Like I was the only daughter that was really, really into football.
We could discuss stats and stuff that, you know, I guess women don't really follow.
And so it was a special bond.
But after I joined the movement, it's like, you know, he would always call me on the weekend.
That was always a tradition.
He'd be like, what'd you think of the game?
And like before we would talk, I would have to quickly Google the topic and, you know, like see how the game went.
And I had, you know, sometimes a little white lies, okay.
And, but I would get in trouble when he would say things like, did you see so-and-so that pass they made into the end zone?
And oh, what did you think of that?
It's like, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So after a while, he caught on.
And so, you know, he doesn't really call me about it anymore.
It's kind of sad.
But anyways, you know, there's this strange dichotomy with Southern whites in Alabama.
You know, on one hand, we are a very solidly red state.
We're much healthier in so many ways than other whites around the country.
You know, Southerners in general are similar, but Alabama is just a very solidly red state.
I don't want to bash us too much, but, you know, because we do have a lot of things that we're doing right compared to other people.
But on the other hand, it's like there's a strange obsession with blacks playing football here.
And, you know, most white people in this state, they're able to watch football, but still be racially aware.
I have to give them that credit.
But, you know, I hate to say this, but this is where I'm getting into Halloween a little bit.
But, you know, and I'm talking about football right now because it's fall, you know, that's the big thing right now.
So for a lot of people in my state.
So, you know, but, you know, I hate to say it when it comes to the people in my state who can be a problem.
I hate saying this because I'm a Christian.
I'm a Baptist.
You know, I was raised evangelical.
But you really see a lot of the problems in Baptist churches in Alabama.
It's not so much the population at large, but like when it comes to, you know, just not really putting your race first.
Now, the churches that have really old people or people or churches out in the country, you know, or, you know, the people in our state who didn't go to college, you know, those churches, I don't think those are really an issue, but the large churches that you see in cities and college towns, it's amazing.
It's like the strange dichotomy.
They're against celebrating something, something European like Halloween, but they worship black football and then, of course, Israel.
Let me just say this, Courtney.
James was talking about that exactly.
He said the type of people that you see at a typical mega church like Bellevue Baptist in Memphis are totally different from the people that go to the small rural churches.
Right.
Exactly.
And, you know, I've been in rooms.
I've been at football watching parties like with other Southern Baptists.
And a black scores a touchdown and does his little dance.
And I see the whole room erupt.
All these white people in the room, they start dancing around the same way he's dancing, flapping each other's behind and whooping, whooping and hollering.
And I guess we got it.
I guess we got to pick up on the next.
You've been on the team long enough to know what happens when the music starts.
You got one more inning here.
Yeah, one more inning with Courtney from Alabama closing off this special show we do every year that synthesizes our anniversary in Halloween.
And she meets at the intersection of those two things tonight.
Stay tuned.
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From communion with the dead to pumpkins and pranks, Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitched together with cultural, religious, and occult traditions that span centuries.
It all began with the Celts, a people whose culture had spread across Europe more than 2,000 years ago.
October 31st was the day they celebrated the end of the harvest season in a festival called Sowin.
That night also marked the Celtic New Year and was considered a time between years, a magical time when the ghost of the dead walked the earth.
It was the time when the veil between death and life was supposed to be at its thinnest.
On Samhain, the villagers gathered and lit huge bonfires to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living.
But as the Catholic Church's influence grew in Europe, it frowned on the pagan rituals like Samhain.
In the seventh century, the Vatican began to merge it with a church-sanctioned holiday.
So November 1st was designated All Saints Day to honor martyrs and the deceased faithful.
Both of these holidays had to do with the afterlife and about survival after death.
It was a calculated move on the part of the church to bring more people into the fold.
All Saints Day was known then as Hallows.
Hallow means holy or saintly.
So the translation is roughly Mass of the Saints.
The night before, October 31st, was All Hallows' Eve.
which gradually morphed into Halloween.
The holiday came to America with the wave of Irish immigrants during the potato famine of the 1840s.
They brought several of their holiday customs with them, including bobbing for apples and playing tricks on neighbors, like removing gates from the front of houses.
The young pranksters wore masks so they wouldn't be recognized.
But over the years, the tradition of harmless tricks grew into outright vandalism.
Back in the 1930s, it really became a dangerous holiday.
I mean, there was such hooliganism and vandalism.
Trick-or-treating was originally an extortion deal.
Give us candy or we'll trash your house.
Storekeepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks, and children were encouraged to travel door to door for treats as an alternative to troublemaking.
By the late 30s, trick-or-treat became the holiday greeting.
Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
A little bit of background on this uniquely European cultural holiday.
It's really even more uniquely British Isles.
Yeah, fantastic, Keith.
You're exactly right.
And Courtney was talking about earlier the Southern Baptists, they have a problem with Halloween, but they can certainly worship at the altar of SEC football.
Not that you know anything about that wearing your old missed hat tonight, Keith.
Although you did sacrifice going to the Vanderbilt game tonight in honor of our anniversary.
I know that took a lot out of you.
I'd rather worship Halloween than Martin Luther King.
Well, the Southern Baptists always know when to draw a hard line.
Halloween and like the occasional beer, they're teetotalers, but everything else, there'll certainly bend the need to whatever the system commands.
And, you know, look, I can understand the difference between a spiritual and a cultural holiday.
I value my spiritual heritage and my cultural heritage as well.
And you just got a little idea about how Halloween is.
But as a Baptist, you don't celebrate All Saints Day, do you?
Morphs all of that together.
Well, there is Reformation Sunday, you know, coming up, and we've been reminded to mention that as well.
But I do love all the family fun fall festivities that there are to be had out there this time of year.
We mentioned it earlier in the show.
So much of who we are as Europeans was shaped by our climate as well and being up in the northern hemisphere.
Yes, northern latitudes.
Northern Northern latitudes.
I mean, down here in the south, which it still gets, it can get cold here on occasion.
You're on the lines of latitude parallel with Libya.
Well, people don't.
Oh, yeah.
But you go up to Maine.
You got to go all the way up to Maine and beyond to get to even where London is.
Right, yeah.
And the only reason they're habitable up there, and it's not like Labrador, is because of the Gulf Stream.
And so, anyway, this was an important time for our people and our development, and it certainly played a role in our whole culture and civilization.
Well, I mean, and just in terms of being able to survive, you had to use that big, beautiful brain that evolved in Northern Europe.
You had to think ahead.
You couldn't just go out, wander out, and pick some fruit off of a tree like that.
That's exactly the equatorial age.
So you go out now this time of year, you take a hay ride, you pick pumpkins, you pick apples, you go to an orchard, it's harvest time.
This is uniquely European.
You go out and the local botanic gardens here, they have a scarecrow contest every year, and I love taking my family out to that.
And just all of the things this time of year.
And I know Courtney agrees.
This is a wonderful time for European people.
And why is it for family?
And why is it so, Courtney?
There's a lot that I love about it.
You know, just this time of year in general, I think it's from Halloween all the way through New Year's.
And then, you know, on the Gulf Coast, we got on the Gulf Coast, we also have Mardi Gras.
I mean, even though, you know, most of us down here aren't Catholic anymore, we still have that history down here with the Spanish colonization and the French.
And there's still a lot of people descended, you know, from that on the Gulf Coast.
That's a big deal down here.
I mentioned that, too, because, yeah, from Halloween all the way through Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras, I just love, you know, I don't know how to explain it.
I love, you tend to decorate this time, those times of the year where you put lights up and you can sit and look at them at night or you light up a jack-o'-lantern and you look at it.
There's something very European about it.
It just, it makes me feel so calmed and cozy.
And I just really love it.
That's one thing.
And, you know, the cooler weather and just all the festivities, all the wonderful things that we can do with our children that we enjoyed as kids.
It's just so, it's so, it's wonderful.
And of course, I know you had Danny on earlier, right?
Yeah, opening segment of this.
Yeah, yeah.
And she and I, I've noticed she and I love to decorate like for just about every holiday.
And I noticed we have that in common.
And we both decorate for Halloween.
And, you know, I just, you know, I like to do something for every holiday to, you know, to share with my children.
And I mean, not every holiday.
I mostly focus on, I focus only on the white holidays.
And there's a lot of them.
We have the best holidays.
Out of all people in the world, we have the best celebration.
What would you take?
Easter, let's see.
There's Easter, there's Thanksgiving, there's Christmas, there's Halloween, or Juneteenth.
I think you know the answer.
Well, yeah, we all agree Christmas is the most important.
But yeah, I just love this time of year in general.
And, you know, I know earlier this month, I missed, I know earlier y'all talked about Columbus today.
And, you know, I think I need to start doing something for Columbus Day in my house, too.
I might make Italian food and play Italian opera.
I don't know.
I'll tell you what I do, Courtney.
Courtney, I'll tell you, what do you watch every Halloween?
Keith?
Oh, the body's Tammy.
Oh, Tammy.
Tammy.
I watch it differently.
You watch Tammy the other 364 days.
But one movie I watch every year, and I've mentioned this before, it came out in 1992.
That was the 500th anniversary of Columbus, 1992.
Am I doing my math right?
That sounds about right.
1492 was the name of the movie, Conquest of Paradise.
Gerard Depardieu plays Christopher Columbus.
Segourney Weaver plays Queen Isabella, who my daughter is named after.
And I watched it every Columbus Day, at least for the last, I don't know, I think Columbus Day ought to be one of the most important holidays of the year for white Americans in particular.
That's when white people came to the new world and made the presence permanent and changed human history forever for the better.
Courtney, back to you.
Yeah, I, you know, I know I talk about my heritage a lot, but, you know, Italy, Italy, that's another one of those European countries that they have given the world so much.
You know, they gave us Christopher Columbus, the Renaissance.
And I'm so proud, like, when I look on a map of Europe, like of the Roman Empire, I'm so proud to see that England was conquered by it to know that, oh, we were civilized.
You know, no, no.
But, no, I just, you know, I think they're a great culture.
There's a lot of great European cultures that have done a lot for us.
We were too civilized.
That's why we got conquered by the Angles and the Saxons and the Danes.
Well, that's okay.
You know, that's all right.
It's all still in the family.
But, Courtney, this was something that was brought up to me in our recent Columbus Day celebration.
So I'll get a quick take on this.
We have about a minute remaining.
But a wonderful anniversary and Halloween show tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
A wonderful.
You and your family.
She has children that are really going to enjoy Halloween.
Well, Courtney does it big.
But a wonderful 19 years, ladies and gentlemen.
And thank you, all of you who have had a hand in that journey as it continues.
But, Courtney, we were celebrating Columbus Day, and rightly so.
But a listener in Arkansas made mention of this.
Not anti-Columbus, but this was interesting.
He said, when you celebrate Columbus Day, don't forget to celebrate Queen Elizabeth I as well, because had it not been for the English defeating the Spanish Armada, we might very well be a Spanish nation today and have all of be a majority Catholic, majority, you know, Hispanic culture as opposed to the be more like Poland than England.
So we thank Christopher Columbus, but we also thank Queen Elizabeth I, who was the daughter of Henry VIII.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
I love that period of British history.
Oh, it was fantastic.
Oh, the Tudors.
If you want a movie about that, watch the Seahawk with Errol Flynn.
And you need to watch the Tudors on Showtime.
You know, you haven't watched anything since the 50s, Keith.
Well, I know, but then you haven't watched anything I've recommended from before the 90s.
Oh, oh, oh, James.
You got to warn Keith.
You got to warn him.
That show, you know, yeah, so it's about Henry VIII.
I really loved it.
But, you know, it was made in recent years.
And considering, you know, what Henry VIII had Negroes in Tudor.
No, it didn't have any of that.
It did not have that.
Courtney batted for me.
It did not have that.
It did not, but, you know, considering Henry VIII and what he did, I'm sure you can guess what there's a lot of in that theory.
And it was a Showtime series.
So they tend to like that, don't they?
All right.
Hey, listen, Courtney, we love you.
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19 years on the radio.
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You know how it happened?
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All of the lamentations and gnashing of teeth and wailing.
We'll get back to it next week.
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