Aug. 24, 2024 - 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, welcome back.
Keith Alexander.
Two hours down, one to go tonight.
This Saturday evening, August the 24th.
Have you had a good time tonight?
Yes.
David Zuddy in the first hour talking about polling.
Jack Ryan, not only providing commentary, but the soundtrack to tonight's show, all about Chicago, the DNC in Chicago.
was there he was like you know just a couple of miles from the united center when it was his head down Well, you had to.
You had to.
I mean, what good's it going to do to go?
Interestingly, that they built those walls around the United Center for the convention this week.
They certainly think that that would work to keep them safe as they gather together to have their abortions and their vasectomies and all of that.
But not a good idea for the country, but a good idea for them.
The cash and carry abortions now.
You get impregnated, we dash.
No, I tell you what.
I can't, you know, I'm stupefied basically with the cavalier approach that they take to things like abortion.
It's just, you know, it's not a serious topic to them.
It's just birth control.
It's just that.
You can have your abortion, then go cast your vote for Kamala, and then go out and have a good time.
Get pregnant again.
Why don't you at the party that night?
You could do that if you went to the DNC.
So these people are disgusting and repulsive by every and any standard of measurement.
But we know that.
We knew that.
They moved it again.
And this is what's driving people outside of the United States away from the United States.
If we insist that sexual perversity is a civil right and everybody needs to get on board or else you can't be a member of our club, people say thanks, but no thanks.
I don't want to be in your club.
And that, for example, Victoria Newland using the deposits of Russia as a political weapon against them and keeping their money from them.
That's what started the drive against using the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.
And when that really takes firm root, the inflation is going to be incredible because you can't just start printing money like the Democrats are used to and like a lot of Republicans are used to as well for your pet causes without consequences if you're not the world's reserve currency.
All right.
Well, that being said, the time has now come for us to go back to our special series this year.
It is a year-long series, TPC at 20 a retrospective, one installment per month, 12 installments.
This is installment number eight because we are in August, the eighth month of the year.
Already we have revisited with fresh reaction and commentary to our classic interviews over these last two decades with former police chief of Montgomery, Alabama, Drew Lackey, former Sirius XM radio star Anthony Kumia, former member of the Croatian parliament and former general in the Croatian War for Independence, Zelchko Glasnovich,
former United States Congressman Walter Jones, former movie star Sonny Landam, Donald Trump Jr., and Hutton Gibson, father of Mel Gibson.
Who do we have tonight?
Well, I'll tell you, since Jack Ryan's got us in a singing mood tonight, I thought it would be fun to spend this installment, number eight of 12.
Only four more to go after tonight this year.
Our 20th anniversary year is beginning to rapidly vanish.
But tonight, since we are in a singing mood, I thought we would revisit our interview from 2012 with Ray Stevens.
What do you remember about Ray Stevens, Keith Alexander?
It's close to the mic.
I remember he made some songs that were great but considered politically incorrect now, and that he also made a song that was very politically correct that he's known by as well.
But he's had, he's kept his career going in Nashville.
He's got a show, I think a weekly show in Nashville.
And he's still touring, you told me.
Well, I like Ray Stevens.
I've always liked Ray Stevens.
He is a southerner born in Georgia.
He's a plain-spoken guy with a lot of common sense and good humor.
And yes, I mean, in recent years, he has made a lot of politically incorrect songs.
He had a song called Come to the USA, which we'll give you some clips from a little bit later this hour about the immigration debate, particularly illegal immigration.
He had a song called The Obama Nation, which is, of course, a play on words.
He has a new song out about the whole transgender nonsense.
I think it's like Bubba changed his name to Sally or something like that.
So, you know, he is known for his novelty songs.
He is known for his comedy songs like The Streak and Ahab the A-Rab and Guitar Zan and songs like that.
Harry the Hairy Ape.
All of those songs are good.
I mean, those are good songs.
Those are comedy songs.
But he was also a very serious musician.
He won a Grammy for his arrangement of Misty, which is a beautiful song.
But he is mostly known for novelty songs and comedy songs.
And he sold well over 5 million records, won a couple of Grammys.
And I guess if you had to ask me my favorite Ray Stevens song, he even had a big hit with a gospel song that he repurposed, Turn Your Radio On.
He turned that, that's an old gospel classic that he turned into a big hit.
So he had songs that were serious, songs that were funny, gospel, country, you name it.
But he's mostly known for his comedic songs.
And my favorite of those, I think, goes a little bit something like this.
Well, when I was a kid, I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi, visit my granny in her auntie Bellum World.
I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees, free as song.
One day, I happened to catch myself a squirrel.
Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoebox and punched a couple of holes in the top.
When Sunday came, I snuck him in the church.
I was sitting way back in the very last pew, showing him to my good buddy Hugh.
When that squirrel got loose, went totally berserk.
What happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaven, thought it was hell.
But the fact that something was among us was plain to see.
As the choir sang, I surrender all.
A squirrel ran up hard and rumbled cover all.
His heart leaped to his feet and said, Something's got a hold on me.
Yeah, the day the squirrel went to circle in the first self-righteous church in a sleeping little town of Pataska.
It was a fight for survival that broke out in the rival.
They would jump in the pews and shout, Hallelujah.
And that's the Mississippi Squirrel Revival.
Interestingly enough, my pastor, the pastor of my Southern Baptist church that I grew up in and a lifelong friend of the family, he happened to be born in no other place than Pascagoula, Mississippi.
So when we had the chance to have Ray Stevens on the show back in 2012, I had to call Pastor.
He was a lifelong, not only was he born in Pascagoula, he was a lifelong fan of Ray Stevens.
So it's just like hand in glove.
And he had always liked Ray Stevens.
And growing up, even as a boy, I knew he's a big Ray Stevens fan.
And then I grow up and get this radio show.
We have Ray Stevens on the show.
And Pastor's born in Pascagoula.
He's a Southern Baptist, raised a Southern Baptist.
So we all get in there and we have this show and we have a good time with it.
And we're going to listen to that in just a moment.
But that was just one of the songs that Ray was known for.
Of course, we mentioned Misty to go from one end of the spectrum to the other.
This is how you win a Grammy, apparently, back in 1975.
Take a listen to this, and then we'll get to the interview.
If I can get the, oh, I see what I did.
I muted this thing.
Let's turn it back up.
Look at me.
I missed Jefferson's Kittle and Dreamer.
I'm walking on the clouds.
I can't understand the.
I missed it holding your hand.
That's a beautiful song if you listen to it all the way through.
You remember that one, Keith?
I do.
You remember 1975?
Yeah, I was a law student at that time.
How was 1975 for you?
It was busy.
It was a big brain fog trying to make the best grades possible and get out.
So I graduated in May of 76.
If we didn't have a break coming up here in the next couple of minutes, I would go ahead and start this thing.
But it was a fast, interesting, well, I'd say interesting.
It was a fun interview.
It was a fun interview, and it took place back in 2012.
So when you hear Ray Stevens talking as we revisit this as part of our TPC at 20 retrospective interview series, you're going to think that it could have been something that was taped last week because he's talking about liberals being in control of the government and this and this and this.
But it was actually taped or aired live, I should say, back in the Obama era, 2012, at the height of the Tea Party fame.
And we'll listen to it.
It was yours truly and my pastor, David Rogers, who paid a heavy toll for never bending the knee.
What a great unsung heroes of our movement.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But it was yours truly and my pastor who interviewed Ray Stevens.
We're going to revisit it when we come back.
So stay tuned.
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Welcome back.
So, you know what we do here, right?
We don't play the entire interview.
We play clips from it, and then Keith and I revisit these clips with fresh reaction and commentary to keep it new and current.
This is an interview with Ray Stevens back in 2012.
This is the opening to that interview, talking about Obama and what was going on politically in the year 2012.
And again, as I said, my pastor, who was born in Pascagoula, which was the setting for the song Mississippi Squirrel Revival, was a longtime fan of Ray Stevens.
And I brought him into the studio for this interview.
And we're going to pick it up here with him saying hello to Ray.
And we'll be back with you in just a moment.
Got to let Brother David sit in on this one for me.
And indeed, he is.
And I'd like to give him the opportunity to say hello before we get things rolling here, Pastor.
It's great to have this time to talk to you, man.
I've been a fan since Ahab to Arab and probably before then.
Love your work, brother.
Well, thank you.
You're admitting you're an old guy, but that's all right.
Us old guys have to stick together.
Yes, we do.
I'm looking at this picture on the wall of you, and I looked at the video earlier today.
It looked like the same.
Man, this is a young guy on the wall over here.
Yeah, well, take care of that picture.
We will.
Well, Ray, it seems as though so many in the entertainment industry are all too eager to parrot a liberal talking point, but those with the courage to swim against the tide and stand up for the traditional American point of view are few and far between.
You're one of them.
What led you to make the decision to use your talents on behalf of conservative values?
Well, it's just an obvious thing to me.
And, you know, I think to me, the country being in the hands of liberals at this point, and we're going down the tube real fast, I mean, we're not making any progress, and it's very disturbing.
I've been asked the question, aren't you concerned about your career if you come out for conservative causes?
No, I'm not concerned about my career.
I'm concerned about my country, my country that gave me the opportunity to do what I want to do and succeed in the profession that I chose to be in.
And I don't think any other country in the world would have allowed that to happen.
So I'm more concerned about my country than I am my career.
Well, God bless you for taking that principle stand.
And certainly we stand behind you and are very happy to do what we can to help promote your work today.
And talking about the work, particularly your more recent releases, which are being very well received.
33 million unique visitors to your YouTube channel.
You're not pulling any punches with the new songs.
I mean, I'm just going to give the audience a quick sampling of some of the titles that you've recently put out there.
Throw the bums out.
The global warming song.
Mr. Businessman, which is a special tribute to Bernie Madoff.
If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.
Come to the USA, brilliant song covering the illegal immigration issue.
We've actually played it a couple of times on this radio program.
And your newest, Obama Nation, which is actually the song that you've come on to tell us about today.
What's Obama Nation all about?
Well, it's kind of an obvious play on words.
And it talks about what's been going on since he was elected president and what he said he was going to do and what he's actually done.
And it's pretty self-explanatory, the song is.
And we had a lot of fun shooting the video.
I got some cameo appearances with Larry Gatlin and Billy Dean.
And we were going to get Charlie Daniels to be on, but he was out of town.
We had to go ahead and put it out before we could get Charlie's part on there.
But it's a lot of fun.
Ray, I've enjoyed watching the video, watching it a number of times.
One of the things that I noticed in it is you make reference to Obama not paying any attention to the Constitution.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Well, he doesn't.
He flaunts his power over the, you know, the oath of office says you swear to defend the Constitution.
And I recall during his swearing in that he kind of mumbled through that.
And that should have been a tip-off right there.
But the Chief Justice, I guess, at the time that was swearing him in let him get away with it.
And of course, he probably had no alternative.
But he just tries to go around the Congress and the Constitution every chance he gets.
Ray, Obama Nation hits everything from health care, the nation's debt, the president's use of executive orders.
Your music video also includes pictures, statistics about the nation's unemployment rate, and even, in my opinion, rightly compares Obama to Marks, Lennon, and Ingalls.
You know, you mentioned that you're not worried about the effect that this might have on your career.
Certainly it's being well received by Main Street USA because we talked about the number of visitors to your YouTube channel.
It's not going to get you invited to the right cocktail parties, I guess.
But tell us about the overall reaction your political satires are receiving.
Cocktail parties with a bunch of liberals.
What are you talking about?
You sound like me.
I'm not interested in going to the best places.
I'm a whole lot more interested in going to the right places.
So that's the voice of my pastor right there, a man who has shaped my life in so many ways, even still to this day, his imprints on my very most formative of years.
Longtime Ray Stevens fan.
We had Ray on the show.
We had to have Pastor in for that.
And it's great to hear his voice here on the radio tonight.
And it just goes to show, Keith, we've had a lot of fun over these last 20 years.
And this was a guy that I grew up listening to.
If you'd have told me, I mean, I listened to his, you know, you know the kind of music I like.
I think our audience knows the kind of music I like.
I like the old stuff.
And I grew up listening to Ray Stevens.
If you'd have told me, you know, as a little boy, that there would have been a day when we would talk and do all of this.
I remembered him, too.
He was from the early 60s.
I remember listening to him.
Close, I remember listening to him on Ahab the A-Rab, which was just the breakout hit of that particular summer.
I think it was 1962, 61, or something like that.
Well, he never stopped.
I mean, he had hits, you know, the 70s.
He was a big one.
And after that, he just had them one after another, one after another, and they were all good.
Well, I mean, he had, as we said, a string of hits, and we'll try to get that.
Let's see, I think we've got time to work in this clip right here.
Let's see what we say here.
Oh, yes, this was about when we aired this originally, Chick-fil-A was under a lot of fire for their opposition to Obama's political correctness.
Well, Obama and the whole homosexual marriage issue.
And people were showing their defiance by going to eat at Chick-fil-A.
And so we talk a little bit about that.
It seems trivial now, 12 years later.
But at the time, we were all at Chick-fil-A then.
Of course, Truitt.
Hold on.
Yeah, the old man died in the country.
And then his son came in and became very politically correct.
That's right.
But which is terrible.
We got to listen to this very quickly so we can work a display for Chick-fil-A.
And I'm just overjoyed to see this.
I'm so encouraged by the support for Christian values and the America, the values that America was founded on in support of a gentleman who runs Chick-fil-A.
I'm very encouraged.
We're in Memphis, Tennessee.
I went to Chick-fil-A yesterday.
James went to Chick-fil-A yesterday.
The line's around the block, out the door.
And I'm like you.
I am thrilled.
I'm convinced that Main Street America has solid American values.
My concern is how in the world did we let the kind of leadership that we have get in place that they are today?
We were asleep at the wheel, and we can't be that way anymore.
We've got to really be on guard against, in this upcoming election, against voter fraud because the Democrats have proved it time and time again.
They'll cheat every chance they get.
And I've had it with those guys.
We've got to really jump in there and police the voting places this time.
Well, I'm glad you're not.
How do you really feel?
That's what I want to know.
You know, one of the things I enjoy is that you talk like a group of guys sitting around a water cooler at work, not worried about what other people think about your opinion.
I'm not.
Well, that's pretty apparent.
And I appreciate it very much.
You made references to Obama's socialist tendings leanings in the video.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Well, it's obvious.
He's a socialist.
He wants to turn America into some sort of communist state.
And, I mean, does a building have to fall on people to come around to saying that?
It's obvious.
That's what's going on, folks.
I saw a movie the other night, 2016.
I was invited to a private screening, and it's very eye-opening.
You should see it if you can.
All right.
So I think the big takeaway from that clip is even in 2012, he's saying voter fraud.
He's saying the Democrats will cheat every chance they get.
How prescient was that?
Well, I tell you what, it shows that, you know, there's nothing new under the sun.
This is what the Democrats have done ever since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
I remember that was cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of one man, one vote.
But what if that man doesn't want to bother to vote?
Well, if he doesn't want to bother to vote, don't worry.
They've set up the mechanism in the Voting Rights Act of 65 so other people can vote on his behalf.
And another name for that is voter fraud.
And that's what we've had since 1965, particularly in the black precincts.
That's where it was all focused to be, and that's where it's all come from.
And that surprisingly protects the Democrats from criticism because they know that if they try to police it, they will be called racist.
And being called a racist is kryptonite to a Republican.
And who are we talking to about these things?
Republican.
What?
Party member.
Interviewer, are we revisiting this hour?
Ray Stevens.
I said 5 million records sold.
It was 5 million videos sold.
25 million albums sold.
50 years in the music business.
We'll be right back.
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Beautiful stuff.
And he really could do it all.
25 million albums sold.
He did it with a career that spanned pop, country, rock, and comedy genres.
All of these hits.
We've played a few of them tonight from the Greatest Hits album that I've had since I was a little boy.
And Ray Stevens made a stop on TPC back in 2012.
And that's the interview we are revisiting tonight.
And part of the reason.
I'm about 30 years older than you, and I have memories of songs from my childhood of Ray Stevens, like Ahab A-Rab, I think, came out in 60 or 61.
And I remember that was just the biggest hit ever.
You know, everybody listened to it.
And he did this song because it was his dad's favorite gospel song.
And this was actually something, I don't know if it's going to be in the clip we're going to play tonight.
I listened to the entire interview earlier this week, but there was a portion, and I don't think we are going to play it, but there was a portion of the interview, the full interview, where Ray Stevens and my pastor talk about we're all Southern Baptist and growing up as a Southern Baptist, and that was his religion.
And he made that song Turn Your Radio On because it was his dad's favorite gospel song.
And the record producer said, No, you're a comedy singer.
We're not going to put this out.
It'll never go anywhere.
And he just kept pushing and pushing and pushing.
They eventually released it.
It was a huge hit.
And it actually, he turned Turn Your Radio On, which was an old-time gospel hymn, into a pop hit.
And you just heard a little bit of it right there.
Well, he was a talented guy.
There's no doubt about it.
And he wouldn't have sustained a career for over, well, 60.
Yeah, now it's 60.
It was 50 years in 2012.
Now, you know, he's pushing 90 as all of my favorite singers are, if they're still alive.
And he's probably 70 years now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
We're going to go back to this interview.
This sort of, I think, channels Bob Whitaker, the former Reagan administration appointee who was a friend of ours, using comedy to make people think and using comedy to mock the left.
Let's see what he had to say about that.
Well, you preempted me on the Chick-fil-A question or the Chick-fil-A issue.
I know you've been on Huckabee's show, so I was going to bring that up.
Now, I've got to put you on the spot here.
Did you eat a Chick-fil-A yesterday on Appreciation Day?
No, but a bunch of people in my office did.
Well, God bless them.
I had a guitar player in the studio.
I couldn't get away, but I would have if I could have.
But Chick-fil-A's got eaten on my behalf by several of my employees.
I was at the website or YouTube earlier today and saw a reference to Ray Stevens' encyclopedia.
Tell us about that.
Well, it's just out, and I've been working on it for over two years.
And, you know, I have a sort of a reputation for cutting comedy songs.
And, you know, back in the old days, I would get some resistance at radio when I tried to get radio programmers to play my records.
They'd say, oh, it's a comedy record.
Comedy's a fast burn.
Here today, gone tomorrow.
And I, of course, don't feel that way and didn't then.
And I contend that a good comedy song will stick in people's memories as longer longer than a lot of the love songs that you hear these days.
And I wanted to do an album of the greatest comedy songs that have ever been recorded.
And we went all the way back to the beginning of recording and picked the biggest hits.
And there are 108 of them in this package.
And I put together a little coffee table book that comes with it.
It's nine CDs, 108 songs, and an owner's manual or coffee table book, if you want to call it that, that comes in the package.
And it's called the Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music.
And we got everybody in there from Spike Jones to the Coasters to the Big Bopper, you name it.
If it was a big comedy hit, it's in there.
Well, I've ordered mine, and I'd encourage people to order it.
One more thing I want to say.
James and I were talking earlier.
You're materialist satirical.
Some of it is, yeah.
We were talking about Jesus used satire.
Of course, I'm a pastor, been a pastor for 30 years.
Jesus used satire very effectively.
He said it's easier for a rich man to go through to get into heaven than it is for a camp to go through the eye of a needle.
That's satire.
Do you think your satire is going to be more effective than maybe some other means are?
Well, you know, that's kind of what I'm known for.
And so I figured I'd go with my strong suit.
And if you can get people to laugh, maybe you can get them to think and change their mind about if they were going to vote liberal.
Maybe they'll think twice before doing that again.
If you stick your hand in the fire one time, don't do it again.
You know, you could get fooled the first time, but that flame's still hot, and those liberals are still liars.
Well, thanks to people like you, we have modern-day Paul Revere's out there, pastors over here laughing as he listens to your comments, but pumping his fist as he does so.
What's next for Ray Stevens?
I mean, you've probably only got about four or five decades left in you.
Presidential bid, perhaps?
Oh, no.
No, no.
I'm from the rural South, but I'm still smarter than that.
I wouldn't dare.
Your program is aptly named Cesspool.
Well, a little satire there.
I can remember eight years ago when we first went on the air, we were trying to come up with a name that would get attention and maybe cause people to come and take a look.
So the political cesspool, it's what we talk about.
It's what we find ourselves navigating those murky waters if we're talking about modern day politics.
So appropriately enough.
And then now here we got the king of satire on.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, we've been talking about.
So this is Ray Stevens.
We're playing clips from this interview from, my God, 12 years ago now.
I just heard by say when we went on the air eight years ago, that was 2012, talking about 2004.
And now here we are in our 20th year, 2024.
We are still doing it, though.
And do you remember songs like this talking about comedy?
Some of the comedy songs, we played some of the country songs, some of the Grammy-winning songs, some of the other songs.
But you remember this one?
I think this is maybe the song he is best known for.
You know, I hate to see more and more people like this getting older.
I gave a joke in my talk last week in Alabama.
My phone is like the Hotel California.
Once you check in, you can't check out.
But about half the people in my phone contact list are gone now.
They've gone on to their eternal reward.
This was a better America when stuff like that was seen as comedy and not the filthy, wretched, degenerate stuff we have now.
This was a good guy all the way around, Ray Stevens.
You know, modern music is the big problem is it's no talent music.
I mean, all the same, the women moan, the men groan, and they all sound alike.
And, you know, I can't, back in the 50s and 60s, I can tell you what the top 10 songs were on the Billboard, you know, top 10.
I can't tell you any songs right now that are on the top 10.
And how do I even determine what's on the top 10 now?
Because you don't hear that much on the radio.
At least half of the radio doesn't play contemporary music anymore.
And that's not the way it was back in the 50s and 60s, for sure.
And that's because the contemporary music of the 50s and 60s was so far superior to what we have now, in my humble opinion.
And your humble opinion, uh, to be sure.
Well, let's get to uh some of the goodbyes that we had uh during that particular program.
I don't know if we have time to get to the goodbyes, I don't know if we have time for that.
How much time do we have left, Liz, before the next break?
I know it's seconds, it's not minutes.
So, probably yeah, well, we can't do it and then run into the wall.
So, we'll do it at the top of the next segment.
Well, that's what we'll do.
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On a chicken farm, just downstream from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a nuclear reactor leaks in water accidentally.
What happened next is like a horror story by Ralph Nader.
That toxic waste leaked into a brood house incubator.
Inside that chicken coop, they always kept the TV off.
And the programs help the chicks to grow, help to keep them calm.
As poor little chickens put that heavy water down their gullets, the kung fu show was on the air, and something happened to those bullets.
They began to grow and grow with that kung fu show not fill their rain.
That's the only way we can explain.
Teenage mutant kung fu chicken.
Chicken, chicken.
You know, using comedy and satire to attack the left.
He even mentioned Ralph Nader in the lyrics of that one.
His songs went from, of course, that was referring to teenage mutant ninja turtles that were big at that time.
My children, I remember when they were young, were entranced by that particular show.
Well, I was too.
I was about the same age as your boy.
That's right.
But we'll get to some of the parting shots from this interview that my pastor and I did with Ray Stevens 12 years ago.
You know, one of my children was motivated by that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle show to take Ninjutsu.
And I tell you, it was really a great advantage for him growing up because nobody could beat him up.
And that didn't go unrecognized, particularly by the girls.
So he has that to thank, I guess, for, you know, that was one of the few positive reactions that have happened from modern culture.
What, Teenage Mutant Kung Fu Chickens by Ray Stevens?
No, well, the whole Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle thing got him into a good, really serious martial art skill.
All right.
Well, let's say it had a lot of practical value.
This is how we said goodbye 12 years ago.
It's just a pleasure to talk to Raymond Stevenson, his own self.
Where'd you find that?
Where'd you hear that?
Man, I've been listening to that for many years, many years.
That's on one of those, one of the songs.
I forget which one.
That's when the Highway Patrolman pulled you over.
Yeah, yeah.
Saw your license and said it's Raymond Stevenson, his own self.
Dudley Dewright.
Right.
Now, how many, I got to ask you this in closing.
How many pastors from Pascagoula do you really know?
I may not know any, to tell you the truth.
But I know the type of guy that would be a pastor in Pascagoula.
I sure do.
I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church.
My mama was a Sunday school teacher.
And they go on from there, and Pastor and he connect on.
They talk about having grown up and that, you know, at that time, the Keith and the 60s and 70s and all of that.
I mean, it was just a beautiful expression.
50s and 60s.
It started to go south in the 70s, as I say.
But basically, the 50s and 60s in the South, even despite all the civil rights agitation that happened at the time, was a wonderful place to live in.
It was.
And they reflected on that for a few minutes.
And then I know my dad always listens to every show, and he may not remember this.
In fact, I didn't even remember it until I revisited the interview this week in preparation for tonight.
I was in the church when the squirrel got out.
You knew that, didn't you?
Well, we're all Southern Baptists here, and the man who first took me to Pastor's Church when I guess I was an infant is my dad.
And he's been in the studio with us for this very memorable interview, Dad.
I got to get you while we're still taping here on the air to say hello to Ray.
I already got to say how low to write, but I really have appreciated you over the years.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Ray Stevens, everybody.
Ray, take care, my friend.
Thanks again for taking the time out of your busy season.
Well, so we all had a good time that time.
We've had a lot of good times over the 20 years here on TPC, have we not, Keith Alexander?
Yep, and, you know, that's a typical show right there.
That is, you know, like Southern Porch Talk, as you said.
It was.
It was.
I think the big takeaway from that, now you've got to remember, the Democrats had all of these pop stars at their, we were talking about this in the second hour, of course, the Democratic National Convention, all of the pop stars that were there.
I wouldn't.
You couldn't pay me to listen to lame-brain James Taylor and him talking through a song as he does.
And all of a gaga or something like that.
Well, some of her songs are kind of catchy, but I got to be honest about that.
But I don't think she was there, though.
I mean, I know she's like far left and anti-white and pro-white.
She's a weirdo.
Anyway, we're talking about weirdos.
She would qualify.
All right, no, that's for sure.
All kidding aside, that's for sure.
Now, Beyonce, all of them.
But, you know, that's another reason I wanted to actually bring this one up tonight is because they had all of these so-called celebrities up there and Oprah Winfrey and everybody shucking and jiving for the Democrats and they're astroturfing this thing.
But, you know, you got, hey, listen.
I say thanks for reminding me why I don't want to vote for you.
You got Tony Orlando and Ray Stevens still out there on the other side, I guess.
But, you know, that was all good stuff.
And no, it was a fun interview.
It wasn't necessarily profound.
I think the biggest takeaway would be him saying in 2012, watch out for voter fraud.
How precious was he on that one?
Now, get close.
I'm taking away your stationary mic.
It hasn't helped.
So we're putting it back in your hands.
No, let me tell you that it was, you know, it was wonderful, really, you know, to have him know even back then that voter fraud was going to play an ever-increasing importance in our election system.
It's basically voter fraud has ruined our elections, and the elections are the bedrock of our constitutional government.
If we don't have fair and free elections, then nothing else matters.
Nothing can hold back the damn if we can't elect the right type of people to serve in our government.
We see now how effective our government or how ineffective our government is when you have the wrong people elected.
Doesn't matter what the rules say, they'll just ignore them.
So anyway, that was a fun interview.
Again, being able to talk to people like that is a privilege you have when you do something like this.
And not many people have the chance to do that.
And I don't know how many people even know who Ray Stevens is or how many people listen to those songs.
But he had a lot of those songs.
He had a lot of hits.
Ahab the A-Rab.
We didn't play that with the night.
It's Me Again, Margaret.
Guitar Zan.
All of these songs were big hits.
Erica Harry Ape, I remember.
But even bought that record.
This was one that came out much more recently.
Ray Stevens singing about illegal immigration.
Now, listen to the lyrics of this, folks.
Listen to the lyrics of this as we get ready to wrap up this show.
If you think about illegal immigration, be careful when you're choosing the nation because breaking the law in some countries is frowned upon.
Now imagine that.
Sneak into China, they'll call you a spy, ship you to Mongolia till you die, and in the Sudan, they'll hang you and the camel you rode in on.
Yeah, don't go hiking and enter Iran or you might never be heard from again.
And in Mexico, you might face a firing squad.
Yeah, forget all about going to North Korea.
That's a great example of a bad idea.
So when it comes down to it, there's only one option you got.
Yeah, come to the USA.
There's no counterfeit to pay.
Could you get caught illegally immigrating?
Come to the USA, it will be your lucky day, Cause when you get in, there's lots of goodies wait, Like health care, welfare, free education, Help with your voter registration And driver's license and credit cards And license plates for your car, Lots of jobs for you to do And employers who'll turn a blind eye to Come to the USA,
Don't worry about the Constitution.
We'll help you start a house of prostitution If that's the kind of work that you want to do.
You see, those gringo infidels are crazy.
They'll give citizenship to your new baby.
So, you see, there's really only one choice for you.
Come to the USA.
Says no penalties too late.
Should you get caught illegally immigrating?
I said, come to this, it will be your lucky day.
Cause when you get in, there's lots of goodies waiting.
Yeah, you get public housing and cable TV and food stamps and even government cheese.
The borders are a swinging door.
Go home for a visit and come back for more.
There's sanctuary and amnesty.
Bring the home fam damily eventually.
Yeah, come to the USA.
That's all kind of stuff, is it not, Keith Alexander?
That's it, is it not?
Well, you can tell there's wit behind it, you know, and thought.
Wit, and it's satire, but it's also true, and it rhymes, and that's the kind of good stuff.
Absolutely.
Yep, we're going to miss him when he's gone, so listen to him while we can.
That's absolutely right.
The one and only Ray Stevens 12 years ago on this show, and 12 years from now, who knows where we're all be.
But we're here tonight.
We were here then, and we've been here for the last 20 years, and we need your support to stay on another month.
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Well, for David Zutty and Jack Ryan from Chicago, Jack got us in the singing mood.
And all of those brain-dead celebrity singers in Chicago.
Yeah, no talent bombs, basically.
Yeah, you can take us out, Liz.
I'm sorry.
Just forget all of that.
If the music's playing, you can take us out.
We'll talk to you next week, ladies and gentlemen.
All seem to lead to us revisiting this Ray Stevens interview tonight as installment 8 of 12 is in the can.
We'll see you next week.
We still got a little bit of time left this year.
Going by far too fast.
Good night, everybody.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Keep us in your hearts and your minds, and we'll be here for as long as we can.