Dec. 16, 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, going across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb.
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star dancing in the night with a tail as big as a cot.
With a tail as big as a cock.
Welcome back, everybody.
Second hour this Saturday evening, December the 16th, and we're going to have a little fun this hour, getting everybody into the Christmas spirit as best we can.
Going to give you behind-the-scenes look at how the Christmas spirit is manifesting in the hearts and homes of some of our regular listeners and guests.
And I guess the purpose of this hour is just going to be to show you how truly wonderful the men and women who appear on this program are and the audience that supports the work of this program are and how it all ties together.
We use the word a lot.
It's not cliché.
We really are a family here.
And I've got some of my family here too.
In fact, the very woman who helped me build the family, and that's my wife.
It is her birthday.
We are live.
It is her birthday.
Happy birthday again.
I do not like the attention.
Thank you.
Well, I'm glad you're here tonight.
It wouldn't have been right not to be with you on your birthday.
So you just decided to come to work.
We were going to, I mean, we always can tape shows in advance and things like that from time to time, but we have had a string of illnesses in our family and we've had to take off and reschedule some things.
And anyway, we're still working through all of that.
But one of the things I wanted to ask you about, I've been wanting to tell this story on the show for a couple of months now.
You came to me with an idea.
Oh, I don't know when it was.
Early fall, I guess.
Probably this summer.
Late summer, early fall.
Anyway, tell them what the idea was because we're still reaping the benefits of it.
Well, this year we decided to – I always get in trouble for not having this microphone.
This is Keith.
I lost my train of thought after all.
All right, this project for school.
So we decided to do exploring countries and cultures this year.
And since you know so many people, we decided to send out a letter to some of these people in different countries just asking for a small token from their country or just to let the kids have an experience from somewhere different.
So it's like an immersive.
Go ahead.
No, what were you going to say?
Well, it's like to further complement the studies that the kids were having of these countries.
So they're studying the culture, landscape, animals, climate, politics of some of the different countries around the world.
And to have a little more, yeah, hands-on, immersive type of learning experience.
To really experience.
My wife had the idea of, hey, you know a lot of people in a lot of different countries.
Can you send out a letter and ask them to participate in this?
So I did.
I didn't realize how long it took for a mail to get here from a different country.
I mean, I knew it took some time, but I didn't realize how long it actually took.
Well, to give you one example, folks, Jonas Nielsen, who was our guest on the show last week, he sent something in for this project on October the 5th, and it got delivered this week.
I was like, whoa.
It was postmarked October 5th.
The people who've participated, though, and the people who've answered our call, it has been overwhelming.
Yes.
I had asked these guys, and I'm talking about regular people who appear on this program as guests during March around the world.
I'll give you some names.
I get just as excited to have these packages arrive.
And I'm like, oh, my goodness, we got something from Australia.
And I just cannot wait to get to that country and really dive into what these packages contain.
It's so cool.
Well, see, I just sent a simple letter saying, hey, you know, my wife's doing this study of different countries with the kids.
And, you know, is there any way you could send a little note about your country, maybe some brochures, some literature?
But they're going to be a little bit more.
A postcard, a souvenir, some maps, something like that.
And I put this into the letter.
Anything you can think of that would either be free or very inexpensive that you could fit in a small envelope and send to us.
And these guys, and I'm talking Drew Fraser from Australia, Tom Sunich from Croatia, Sasha Ross Mueller from Germany.
His is in the mail right now.
We got it from Canada.
Remy Tremblay, Paul from.
They sent the sweetest notes and they put so much thought and effort into these things for our children.
They did.
They did.
And the kids have learned so much.
And it's so fun to have such a hands-on experience from friends and family that really care about our homeschooling journey.
And if this does not make you excited about homeschool, I don't know what doesn't.
So I'm totally for homeschooling.
And if y'all have any questions or anything, I totally think that everybody should homeschool.
It's just the coolest journey.
And did people like Nick Griffin, a former member of European Parliament, who's, of course, a good friend, but he put so much thought into this.
He's been searching for a particular coin that he wanted to include in his package.
And Philip DeWinter is participating.
And then all of these people.
And I think it's important to humanize these people because they're all, everybody that I mentioned has been regularly, well, number one, regularly featured on this program, but also entirely attacked by the media as these monstrous type of beings.
And I think a segment like this certainly does show you the true character of these people.
But it really wasn't just the intended purpose to humanize them.
I just want you to know how great these men are.
Really kind to poor into our children.
All of us really are a family.
We are a family with our guests who are really friends and certainly our audience, which are friends and even more than that, certainly family.
But yeah, I mean, all of the stuff a Canadian businessman, we can't mention his name, but he lives in Western Canada.
He sent in a wonderful package.
Just some of the things that they've included are like little treats for the kids, the currency that they have there, like soaps or bath things they sent Isabel, a hat for Henry, just really cool, cute little things that they've never seen, maps of their country, just detailed information.
And it's cool to see you and the kids.
Letters from their children.
I mean, it's been really cool.
I was going to say that.
That's what Remy did.
He had his children send artwork.
And we're responding to that.
Yeah, our kids are so excited to write back and include a little something from here and what we're about.
Well, it's just become, it's really taken on a life of its own.
Not only has it helped the learning thing by able to get these items from these countries, but it's fostered a sense of togetherness and fellowship that's very good, sense of community.
We've gotten several recipes that the kids are lined up to do together as a family that I think that's going to be a really fun project to do.
I was going to mention, you mentioned this a second ago, but it's fun to see you and the kids get around either the kitchen table or the coffee table and open this up because these guys are sending in much more than what I asked for.
They're sitting in huge boxes.
And Drew Fraser from Australia, he sent in a nice handwritten postcard that was addressed to the kids.
He sent in a book about Captain Cook for our son.
He sent in other stuff that was gender appropriate for our daughter.
Little map that pointed out where his house is.
I mean, just again, the thoughtfulness of these things.
Candy, pens, currency, wonderful samplings of these respective nations.
And I think at Christmas time, this is just a fun activity to have.
And even though it was hatched earlier this year, they're still coming in now and it's really enhanced.
But for them to spend their time and effort onto our family just means a whole lot to me.
That's right.
But that's the kind of people we've got here associated with this effort.
We'll be right back, family.
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In message one, we said that Satan, the father of lies, John 8, 44, gave the left evil spiritual power.
The more they use the lies, the political left today is the beast.
Now, the Bible confirms that the dragon gave him the beast his power.
Revelation 13, 2.
The extra evil spiritual power that comes from the beast by their lying is what accounts for the string of the leftist criminals in the government that have never yet been prosecuted.
It also explains why American capitalists support communism in the 21st century.
Note 1.
That behavior of capitalists was predicted by Vladimir Lenin, a cell of the beast.
Note 2.
Henry Ford was a capitalist, and he would have never gone communist.
The difference between Ford and the present day end-time capitalists is that Ford was born and educated in the kingdom of Christ, 19th century America, the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21.
Get the little lamb to the shepherd boy.
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy.
Do you hear what I hear?
A song, a song, high above the tree, with a voice as big as the sea.
With a voice as big as the sea.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is Christmas time, and we're certainly feeling the Christmas spirit here at TPC.
It is exhibited throughout our panel of guests, the hosting staff, the production crew, even our own audience.
You know, we were talking in this last segment with my wife about how all of these wonderful guests who live abroad have been participating in this study that we're doing with our kids of different countries and how they went above and beyond to send these incredibly thoughtful packages and these letters addressed to the kids that sort of break down the contents.
And you just see this again, the spirit of togetherness and fellowship.
And it just really makes you proud to be associated with an endeavor such as this and to have fostered those relationships.
We have got to stick together.
We've got to know and believe in the goodness of our people and of our cause.
And it is manifest within the people that we are able to have the blessing of working with on this program.
And never more so than at Christmas time, I think.
But and it's also the audience too.
People donating to the Christmas fundraising drive saying, hey, here's a double donation.
Give the incentive gifts to somebody else who wanted them but couldn't.
No, I love it when that happens.
I think it's so sweet.
You've seen that a couple of times here recently.
And even in the last quarter, people were saying, hey, here's some extra money.
Why don't you keep what you were going to send me?
If somebody else wants it, send it to them.
We're already subscribed to the American Free Press, but I'm going to donate anyway.
Give a subscription to somebody else who you see this all the time with our audience.
Our people are not only good, they are the best people in the world.
And we've got another sterling example of the kind of quality person we're talking about right now with Lacey Lynn, our dear friend, that's joining us.
Lacey also sent in a package, but a very different kind.
And we just opened that earlier this week.
How are you doing, Lacey?
I'm doing well, thank you.
How are you?
Well, we're doing fantastic.
I don't want anybody to get jealous that Lacey sent us a gift.
Oh, well, I mean, she sent us a gift.
So we did get some homemade marshmallows dipped in peppermint, and I'm not going to lie, I ate every single one of them.
Yeah, I got to tell you, Lacey, by the time I got home the day your box came, I found the other contents: the wonderful candle, the elderberry syrup, the jam.
But Danny described this stuff to me, but I couldn't.
I said, well, where is that?
I can't find that.
I ate it all.
It was delicious.
I'm glad y'all enjoy it.
I'm glad you all enjoy it.
And yeah, thank you.
Thank you so much.
I'm glad you all enjoy it.
And I wish that I could send to everybody.
I guess I can't lie then because I guess I do have favorites.
You have to pick someone to pick somebody to send to.
Well, it was wonderful.
And again, it's just a representation of what we're explaining to the audience this hour about just what a special group we have here.
Extends from the audience.
I'm still solo.
There's no top to bottom, but I mean, just throughout the spectrum, everybody associated with this program, listener or whatever, just the best people I've ever met in life.
Well, anyway, all that being said, Lacey, I texted you yesterday.
It's Danny's birthday today, Saturday, December 16th.
We're live, and we appreciate you coming on with us tonight.
But I said, listen, just give me a segment, anything you want.
And I didn't ever follow up to see what you decided.
So we'll find out together right now.
What do you got?
Oh, we know that's dangerous, right?
No, I've become so comfortable with you.
You can do that.
I never have to recheck.
It's all you always hit it out of the park.
I'm talking all over you, so go.
Okay, so happy birthday, Danny, by the way.
Thank you.
So wanted to say that.
I hope y'all have a wonderful celebration.
So one of the things that I wanted to talk about tonight was I'm seeing this trend of Christians opting out of European, specifically European holiday traditions.
And they use the reasoning being, you know, Christianity, keeping Jesus at the center of Christmas.
And of course, I didn't ask y'all what your opinion about this was before.
So this could be risky to bring up.
But I think it's important to keep the traditions.
And I actually wanted to look at the Bible really quick when we talk about holidays and traditions and food, kind of cultural things like that.
One example here I find in Acts 20 when it talks about Paul traveling.
So he had decided to sail past Ephesus so he didn't have to spend time in Asia so he could get back to Jerusalem specifically for Shabbat.
Now, this was a Jewish holiday, religious holiday, and Paul obviously was not religiously Jewish anymore.
It was a cultural holiday.
And then we go back to Colossians 2, 16, therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food or drink or with regard to festival or new moon or Sabbath.
So when we look at the Bible, obviously traditions are not a salvivic issue.
And I don't know about y'all, but I am just so tired of Christians using that as a cop-out to join the rest of the world and erasing European tradition.
How about you?
I agree 100%.
So don't feel as though you went out on a limb with that one in any way.
No, I say that all the time.
And of course, the church appropriated some of the European traditions that had existed before Christianity took the continent.
And I don't have a problem with any of that at all.
I mean, you know, Santa Claus isn't mentioned in the Bible and, you know, the things with the trees and a lot of the stuff.
No, I think it's perfectly fine to blend those things in because we do celebrate our cultural heritage along with our spiritual heritage.
I mean, they both are important parts and what makes us who we are.
And no, I agree 100%.
And in fact, I get a little bit irritated, to be honest with you, when you have, and we were talking about this in the first hour, and I'll talk about it a little bit more with Pastor Chuck Baldwin in the next hour about how Christians will completely roll over and allow themselves to be entirely displaced, but then take a courageous stand against, you know, Halloween or Santa Claus or something like that.
So I mean, we're like, what are you doing?
What's the matter with you people?
No, it's perfectly fine.
Right, right.
I see the anti-Halloween stuff as well.
And actually, that's how I kind of grew up.
But over the last few years, we've been incorporating more traditional kind of, like we do sometimes the spooky, like movie.
I'm not talking about scary.
We don't do that just because of my comfort level.
But we do like Halloween town or, you know, something like that.
That's really cute and fun.
But we do Halloween and we celebrate Halloween.
We dress up and we do do Santa Claus.
And, you know, I just, I have a conviction that, you know, when people talk about convictions, it's usually in a religious context if you're Christian.
But I have the conviction to traditionalism and that philosophy and our European identity to do what kind of Edmund Burke was talking about when he was talking about the true social contract.
It's between the social contract is between your ancestors and your descendants and that responsibility you have in between to honor both, to pass on traditions that you inherited from your ancestors to your descendants.
And when I look at the Bible, I just don't see anything that condemns that or makes it a salvific issue.
So, and I've seen this a lot with some Christians.
They will disregard European traditions to specifically adhere to Jewish customs and holidays.
Now we're getting, yep, now you're going.
Which is that's just dishonest.
And then, of course, you know, because Jews aren't Christians either.
So they complain about the pagan roots.
And I'm like you, I don't, I don't find an issue with the pagan roots.
And I know we can go back and forth.
A lot of people can go back and forth on whether this specific tradition is Christian or pagan.
And, you know, you get it every year.
But I don't see that because something has pagan roots, that as European Christians, we are asked to give away our cultural identity.
I just don't see that.
And then, you know, those who rule over us, we're being asked to adopt their customs and traditions.
And it's just a, it's a cultural takeover, is it not?
Yeah, and they're not only not Christians, they are entirely opposed to it and are its biggest enemies.
And yeah, I mean, of course, something in your ancestral memory is stirred at a harvest festival or, you know, hay rides and things like that in the fall, which was such an important time for our European forebears.
And then, of course, but yeah, I mean, you know, talking about non-salvational issues, I mean, I agree.
I mean, it's just a matter of preference in a grand scheme of things, but going out of your way to condemn things and make things, you know, sinful that are, in fact, not is something extra.
And interesting message, Lacey, that you shared with us tonight as part of our hour here with the TPC ladies talking about Christmas.
I really wanted to ask you what's on the menu for the Christmas gathering at your home, but we'll have to save that for later.
I know having been a dinner guest of yours before, it's going to be immaculate and fantastic.
Thank you, Lacey.
We'll talk to you again very soon.
And Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas.
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Said the Shepherd Boy to the Mighty King.
Do you know what I know?
In your palace more mighty king.
Do you know what I know?
A child, a child shivers in the cold.
Let us bring him silver and gold.
Let us bring him silver and gold.
Ladies and gentlemen, so many different ways you can get into the Christmas spirit.
Hopefully over the course of the last couple of weeks and continuing on next week when Pastor Brett McAtee will be back with us to share the biblical accounting of the birth of Christ.
We have been helping you get into the Christmas spirit a little bit more here on TPC.
This hour, I think, has really been a good effort at doing so.
But another way you can do it is there are some good Christmas movies out there.
And to help us take a look at some of those, we have our regular contributors.
Well, two regular contributors, really, both of them, Jack Ryan and Courtney from Alabama.
They're going to be talking about it together.
But first, Jack is going to make a recommendation.
And it may be my quintessential recommendation of the season.
Jack, tell us what it is.
And hello to you.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you and all of our listeners and to Courtney from Alabama.
I love her accent and her children are adorable.
I saw them when they've grown up a little bit yesterday.
My recommendation is a 2005 movie.
It is a foreign movie.
I think it's French, but it's German, British, and has lots of different actors.
It is the Christmas Truce of World War I, Joyer Noel.
And it talks about the Christmas Eve truths between the French, Scottish, they're British, but they're all Scottish, and Germans on the trenches and the brutal times.
That was probably the worst thing that white Europeans have ever done to each other, the World War I slaughters and the gas attacks in the trenches.
And it just shows different.
It starts off with the scenes of little children being fed propaganda that some other group of white European Christians or British Christians are their enemies and done bad things, propaganda, as it's always done.
And then that people are kind of bored and they're going to war is kind of exciting, but the modern war has become so dreadful with the technology and they're just locked down in the trenches.
And these are regular people.
They're not aristocrats.
They're regular workers from France and from Britain and from Germany.
And they're showing some of the brutality.
But then, so on the German side, they send some upper-class opera singers.
And this is in occupied France.
So the land is French, but there's Prussians and Scottish people coming in there.
And some very high-class opera singers from Berlin.
One of the guys was drafted into the war.
And he first tries to sing to the aristocrats, including the Kaiser royals, but then he goes into the trenches with the regular people.
And they send, they say, okay, the troops are bad.
They send him some Christmas trees, lights, and he just starts singing the Christmas carols.
And the other people, and they're only like 50 meters away, they hear Christmas hymns that they know.
What is the main song?
Silent Night.
Silent Night.
And they start singing it in German, and then the Scottish people know it very well, and they start singing it in English, including a pastor, a Presbyterian Christian, Scottish pastor who can play the bagpipes.
And the French know that true.
And then it just, they start singing to each other, and it's sort of the piece comes on of international Christian, European, white brotherhood.
And then the guy, the opera singer, does even more than that.
He gets out of the trench with a Christmas tree and starts singing to the other side.
It moves them.
And despite what their officers are getting orders to stop fraternizing with the enemy, everyone on all sides gets out and they start sharing pictures of their wives and children.
And it is just beautiful.
I've referenced that film before.
I've never saw the whole one.
I tried to watch it last night.
I watched two-thirds.
I stopped.
I just, when I could see what's coming, that the truce is going to end.
And I just couldn't take it.
I'll go back and see it.
But it's just, it's so amazing.
That is back in the day when people, all of these countries, societies were white, some type of European and all-Christian.
And they even had common by-birth blood-related kings, the King of England, the Kaiser of Germany.
On my side, the Russian Tsar were cousins and things like that.
But these just national rivalries and all kinds of things prompted them to wage a fratricidal white brother war against each other.
And that is the worst.
In many ways, our civilization has never recovered from World War I. Not well, the first one and the second.
And I would just say, before we toss it to Courtney, we're going to skip this break.
I want to stay with these two for the rest of the hour.
We'll skip that third break.
But this, it would have been an incredible story for a movie, no matter what.
But the fact that it really happened, I think, is really astounding when everything that binds us together overcame the manufactured differences.
That Christmas truce, of course, was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around Christmas in 1914.
In the week leading up to the holiday, the film depicts it well.
This is a relatively new film.
I think you said 2005, and I've seen it.
It's very well done.
German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk.
And Arias men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs.
And there were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, and they were singing carols together and playing football, which was one of the most enduring images of the truths.
And I think that, you know, at Christmas, if you have a Christmas prayer, pray that our people never go to war against one another again.
And it is in this spirit that we're offering, you know, TPC's Christmas fundraising incentive with what that is with Harry Cooper and Shark Hunters.
But anyway, I think one more thing I want to mention before we go to Courtney, and that was a fantastic opening statement, Jack, about that movie.
But December 16th is just another terrible day in the history of Western civilization.
It's the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
It was on this day in 1944 that 200,000 German troops, backed by 1,600 guns and 350 tanks, launched that last-ditch Ardennes offensive.
And it was the single bloodiest U.S. camp campaign of World War II, the Battle of the Bulge, fighting desperately there they were.
And that's the thing.
These two world wars, Courtney and Jack, heartbreaking because both sides so clearly lost those wars in catastrophic fashion.
The Allies and the Axis, the very best and most fit of European mankind, were decimated.
And it created a vacuum that has been filled by the weak and the timid and the apologetic.
And we are suffering for it.
The Bolsheviks did a communist coup in Christian Russia 100 years ago.
And those things happen.
And these are not pacifist Christians that are in there.
They're not gay feminist Christians.
These are tough Scottish and German and French guys that are fight and they know they can respect that people.
And then for a little time, they recognize, and it's more that working classes.
There's one or two upper class people in there, but usually they're the professional military.
It's like, we've got to do the orders and stuff.
But it's the people in the trenches.
And a bunch of upper class guys are back drinking champagne.
They're not at the front.
And it is what happens now: it's like the rich people.
And it's not just this ethnic banking J people that do it, that these rich people think war is fun, let's promote it.
But the Bushes and these families, they never actually go into trenches and fight.
No, no, no, sure, they don't.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
All right, that's no, I just want to toss it over to Courtney.
We've kept her on ice long enough, and I want to give her a shot equal to what you had there, Jack, to talk about movies and Christmas and just as Lacey did in the last segment.
Courtney, really, any way you want to take it, you're always so well prepared as well.
Take it away, and then we're going to skip this break.
So we're not going to take time away from y'all and then allow the two of you to engage in a little discussion about Christmas movies and Christmas spirit and all of that stuff.
Thank you.
And yeah, I would like to add on to what Jack was just talking about.
Yeah, you know, I talk on the show a lot about how I really value the diversity of Europeans.
Like, whether, you know, whether it's French people or English or Russian or Polish or German, Italian, or Southern or, you know, whoever, I think our diversity within our, within, you know, the European people, I think it just makes us so wonderful.
And I love to see the differences preserved.
But at the same time, I definitely know, I definitely do not ever want to see us go to a war like that again.
And so, yeah, that sounds like a great movie.
I've seen parts of it.
Like, it's like the scene that Jack's talking about.
And but we're going to post, by the way, I think we're going to put, I don't know if it's on Christmas, it's late next week, right before Christmas, we're going to post that scene.
Continue on, Courtney, at our website.
Continue, Courtney.
Oh, you're fine.
No, so after that, after that movie, I don't know if I can compare.
My movie suggestions are the, you know, I'm an 80s.
I'm an 80s child, and I'm sure James remembers this.
Like in the 80s.
She's going to recommend Home Alone to counter James.
And, you know, when we were little, James, I don't know if your parents did this, but my parents, they would record on VHS the most obscure Christmas movies that were like made for TV.
And, you know, in the 80s, you know, the 80s was one of the last decades where they still made sentimental, sweet, serious Christmas movies.
It's like now everything has to be a comedy.
Like ever since the 90s, everything has to be a comedy.
And I think the 80s was the last time, you know, you can go back and really find a bunch of gems and some of the most obscure stuff, like the made-for-TV movies that my mom and dad recorded for me on these fuzzy, these now fuzzy VHS days.
Oh, yeah.
It's like, you know, it's like that, that's some of the best ones.
And that's just, those are some of my best memories of Christmas movies.
And one of the ones I want to talk about has Jimmy Stewart in it, an old Jimmy Stewart in it.
It was made in 1980.
It was made for TV and it was put out by the Church of Latter-day Saints.
And it's only 25 minutes long.
And it is, I mean, it is a very, oh my gosh.
I mean, first of all, Jimmy Stewart, I think he was a great person.
You can tell that he was a good Christian.
And he's just, you know, he's just a good person.
Every movie he's in, I think, was a good one.
And 1980, you know, this movie I'm talking about, I think that was, you know, right before his last days.
But he, you know, it's like we all know, you know, when he was younger, he was in It's a Wonderful Life.
And then, you know, and then so later on, you know, before his last days, he does this other movie.
And it's great, very less well-known.
But anyways, the whole thing's on YouTube.
It's called Mr. Kruger's Christmas.
And it's only 25 minutes long.
It has a very powerful Christian message.
It's what Christmas is all about.
And I cannot watch it without crying.
It is so, you know, to give the gist of it without giving it away, it's about, it's kind of a reverse idea of a Christmas carol.
It's where, you know, there's an old man, Jimmy Stewart, he lives all by himself.
And instead of being cranky and hating people, you know, like Scrooge does in a Christmas Carol, it's the reverse.
It's like he wants to be around people.
And he's alone.
His wife died, you know, years and years ago.
He lives alone in a basement.
He's a janitor.
And he's always trying to, you know, become friends with people like Christmas carolers or random people in the store.
And he's ignored a lot.
And he just lives alone.
And, you know, he lives alone with his cat.
And it's a tearjerker.
There's one scene where he talks to Jesus in one scene.
And it's just, it has a happy ending.
And I just recommend it to everybody.
It's on YouTube, Mr. Kruger's Christmas.
It's only 25 minutes long.
But I think, Jack, did you want to say something?
Well, I just wanted to thank you for recommending that.
And this is something that we can always do.
And the danger that we have, if you get it past a certain age, is you live it completely in the past.
And you look around and you see popular TV or politics, which are admittedly pretty bad, rap music or Harvey Weinstein, Bob Iger movies.
And so you just say, I don't even want to deal with it.
I just want to just go back and keep watching the same movies.
There are ones, but if you find someone like Courtney from Alabama that has some suggestions of new movies that you haven't seen, or my suggestion is you look abroad for British and German, French, and you can read translation subtitles in color much easier than black and white.
So it's not so hard.
So this is something you can do.
Like I haven't seen this movie, Mr. Kruger's Christmas, and it's not that long.
It's on a three-hour movie.
You can do that.
You can find something new.
So I'm going to watch this probably today, Mr. Krueger's Christmas.
And if you have people that are just always going to do the same thing over and over, you fall into bad habits and you fall into bad habits of watching tackle football five days a week and thinking in politics.
It can only be Democrat and Republican, and everyone has to go on to Harvard.
Everyone's got to be pro-Israel.
And you become, you fall into ruts.
So my suggestion is be open-minded.
Some of my recommendations, they might be a little bit more, I don't know, high-end or foreign or something like that.
But someone like Courtney from Alabama, who's got her life together, has got beautiful children, she's going to have good taste in movies.
So if she suggests something new, go do it.
Go watch it and just say, okay, yeah, we'll watch a classic Mr. Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, but we're going to watch this new movie and it's only 25 minutes.
So that's something all of our listeners can do this Christmas.
Do something new.
It only takes 25 minutes.
Yeah, and I'm assuming and imagining, and certainly am certain, that Mr. Krueger's Christmas is not one of these modern day Christmas movies.
You know, was it you, Courtney, a moment ago that just said every Christmas movie now is a comedy?
You know, and most of the time.
Yeah.
And some of them are okay.
I mean, some of the Tim Allen stuff.
I mean, it's family stuff.
I like Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase and stuff like that.
There's nothing necessarily wrong with the Christmas comedy, but the heartfelt stuff, that's a different kind of Christmas movie.
But then a lot of these Christmas movies, and I'm sure Mr. Krueger's Christmas isn't Freddy Krueger.
They've got a lot of this, this new genre of Christmas horror movies now that have come out in recent years, like Christmas, Bloody Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and who could forget the Jack Frost, where he kills people with icicles.
And then there's a movie called Elves, and I'll read the synopsis here.
A department store Santa Claus discovers a neo-Nazi plot to make a nice girl with an elf, and it's directed by a guy named Jeffrey Mandel.
So this is how the people who run Hollywood are doing it.
Part of the war on Christmas that people like John Derbyshire and John and Peter Brimlow and John O'Sullivan have talked about.
It's an open war on Christmas because it's our tradition.
It's our holiday.
It's our religion.
If we had something else, they'd attack us.
But that's what it is.
And people say, well, I don't understand why they're doing that.
Well, it's easy to understand.
There are different people that resents us.
It's envious of us and hates us.
And that's why they're desecrating Confederate graves.
That's why they're taking down statues.
And that's why they're doing the war on Christmas.
Okay.
They hate us.
Okay.
So that's what it is.
And don't think it's anything else.
I figured that one out.
Yeah.
That's pretty much the beginning of it and the end of it, as far as that part of the conversation is concerned.
But in any event.
Now, Jack, you had some other movies as well, though, in addition to the, and it's just, I'm like you.
It is difficult to watch those World War II movies.
I mean, that was a World War II movie.
I mean, the classic ones that you watch, I mentioned Miracon 31st Street and Bells of St. Mary's is with Bing Crozi, a Catholic priest that sort of his parish is kind of shutting down.
That's when they the the the owners of Hollywood have always been kind of the same but we had more influence and there was Catholic influence we they pushed through the haze code and you couldn't do hardcore porn and stuff so there was a market for movies with a Catholic uh theme bells of St. Mary's and uh they're very lovely and who was the the um the nun that was in that it was a beautiful um Ingrid Berger name maybe maybe just a tremendous one obviously the Frank Copper It's a Wonderful Life,
but I would just say something about Frank Copper.
Sometimes a lot too often people think that Frank Copper movies, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds goes to town, or just rah-rah, America.
America's great, good for that.
It's not like that.
It's not like a Toby Keith pro-war movie, just like, you know, go for it.
He shows America that's corrupt and it's big business and big government are cruel and rough and bad, and they can destroy the small businessman.
And it's only by some short work of regular good Americans that they save the day.
Like Mr. Smith, It's a Wonderful Life.
That guy was ready to try to commit suicide.
And he, it's almost one, it's during the Depression when our country could have gone communist, but we got through it.
But so it's a highly, highly, but you can't overwatch it.
But I, I, obviously, the Frank Copper movies are fantastic.
It's a wonderful life is just amazing.
And it will bring tears to the even the toughest man's eyes.
All right, Courtney, back to you.
Other recommendations, other thoughts, other things you want to share with the audience?
Yeah, Jack.
Yeah, Jack just mentioned, you know, even the toughest man could watch those movies and cry.
And that's how I feel about Mr. Krueger's Christmas.
I just encourage everybody to watch it.
You know, even, you know, if you're a male in the audience and you're worried about it being too sappy, it has Jimmy Stewart in it.
So that's a good reason for a man to watch it.
I mean, you can't go wrong with Jimmy Stewart.
And, you know, put out by the LBS Church, it is a wonderful movie.
It's what Christmas is all about.
Everybody has to watch it.
And let's see what other VHS tapes can I pull out from.
That was the easiest way to get a movie.
I did that through the 90s.
You see a movie that's on TV, and back then it was real easy.
You pop one of these VHS cassettes into your VCR and you push record and you're recording whatever's on TV and you got the movie.
So yeah, that was a great ingenious way to get something that you could watch again and again.
And I got a lot of those home VHSs of stuff like you're describing right now with the fuzz and all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There was another movie.
You know, it's not quite as serious, but there was another 80s movie.
It's another one.
I feel like I'm the only person who's seen it.
It was called Santa Claus the Movie.
And it was probably the, it was probably, you know, at the time when it came out, it was probably kind of big.
It had John Wisgowan and Dudley Moore.
And yeah, those are two big name actors.
Yeah.
If they were both in it, somebody had to see it.
Right, right.
And I think at the time it was big, but for some reason, I guess it kind of got buried in the past, especially now that all these other Santa Claus movies have come out.
But I got to tell you, you know, the first half of the movie is a little more serious because it starts off with the history of Santa Claus.
He starts off like in a village in Norway.
Him and Mrs. Claus just go around the village giving out toys to little kids.
And this is like in the 1100s or 1200s.
And then he gets picked.
He gets picked.
I think it's Father Christmas who appears to him.
gets picked as the chosen one to be Santa for all the Christian children around the world.
And it takes you through this whole montage through all the centuries where, you know, he's, you know, there's Christmas music playing in the background and it shows it shows an hourglass where it shows all the centuries past passing by up to the 1980s.
And, you know, and everybody, you know, all these settings, all these kids that he's visiting, you know, they're typical, you know, they're mostly white.
Like there's one scene where he goes to revolutionary War America, like that, period.
And it's just, it's just a very, it's probably the most well-done movie I've ever seen depicting the history of Santa Claus.
Like the first half of the movie is really good, but then when it gets to the modern era, the 1980s, it's mostly set in New York City at that point.
And I think that part is good, too.
I mean, that's when John Lithgow comes and he's kind of this evil toy maker who's competing with Santa and everything.
And so the movie kind of takes a different turn, and that might be why it has a lower rating because I guess a lot of people think the movie has an identity crisis.
I don't know.
But I think overall it's a good movie with a good message.
It takes Santa seriously instead of, you know, poking fun at him and making him a comedian.
It takes him seriously.
And there's a lot of good messages in it, again, about what Christmas is supposed to be about.
There's great music in it.
And so I just don't know why it's not more well known.
Well, this is, I know Jack was saying he wants to watch some of your recommendations.
How can people get a hold of it?
Are you going to make a bootleg of your bootleg and send it to Chicago for Jack?
Or is it available anywhere?
Well, Mr. Krueger's Christmas is definitely on YouTube.
As far as Santa Claus, the movie, you can pay for it on YouTube.
Okay.
And who was the guy that was in, oh, gosh, what's that comedy from the 90s that all the a lot of guys like it?
It's about bowling and yes, yes.
Okay, the guy, the guy that plays the guy that sits in a wheelchair in the mansion.
Yeah.
Okay, that is the Big Lebowski in the movie, but I don't know his name.
David Huddleston, I think.
That's right.
That's right.
He plays Santa in this movie, and to me, he's the best Santa of her.
Oh, man.
So he plays a great Santa.
And the Mrs. Claus does a great job.
You know, she's very supportive of Santa, you know, submissive, and she just always has this little smile on her face.
She's played by a British actor.
She's the cutest thing.
And then, and, of course, this is all in the early 80s.
And then Juddy Moore plays one of the elves, and John Lithgow is the evil toy maker.
But it's a good thing.
Well, it sounds like it's well cast, especially for those roles with those particular actors.
I can see them in those roles even without not having seen the movie.
Courtney, I want to thank you for your contribution to this show.
As always, Jack, final word to you.
We got about 30 seconds.
Okay, well, I was just hoping during this Christmas year in that truth of the World of One, maybe we could have a truth in Gaza.
The IDF troops and the Islamics would have a Christmas troop to stop slaughtering you.
Probably not very likely, but hey, come on, we could tweak it out.
Hope for it.
But Christmas, all of our listeners, and we've been through work.
Look at the bad things we went through.
We're still doing good.
And look at the beautiful photos of Courtney from Alabama and James' family.
Gorgeous children.
Good hair, too.
Like James's children have great hair, much better than the father's.
As you always say, Jack, could be worse, could be raining.