Oct. 26, 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.
If you decide someday to stop this little game that you are playing, I'm gonna tell you all the man.
My heart's been dying to be saying.
Just like a ghost, you've been a haunting my dream.
So I propose on Halloween.
Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little girl like you.
Well, welcome back to the third and final hour of a show taking place 20 years to the day of when it all began on October 26, 2004.
And that's a good song for Halloween, is it not, kids?
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah.
564 are not underappreciated.
They had some great hits.
My favorite one was Traces, but spooky and stormy and whatever.
What else do they have?
Oh, you can't go wrong.
I mean, that's a big three already.
But in any event, I didn't propose on Halloween as the song.
I proposed in January of 2005 to the young lady who is to my left right now, and that's my wife.
And I can tell you this, 20 years wouldn't have happened without that support.
Now, when I did propose in January of 2005, that did occur three months after the beginning of the show.
And I don't think I've ever thought of it exactly like that because we began dating before the show started.
And then, obviously, the show came on, and she was even with me when I ran for office in 2002.
So it was a long time coming, but it just above yourself, James.
She's been a part of this whole thing.
Even three years prior to the founding of the show, the founding of the show, a couple of years prior to the founding of the show, the founding of the show and on into it.
And then we got married in 2006 after proposing in 2005.
Well, she is here with us right now.
And we could not have this show tonight, I don't think.
We have to thank Sam Bushman and we have to thank my wife because it just doesn't happen without her for all of these years sacrificing her Saturday nights so we can do the work.
And she's embarrassed right now, but we have to thank you.
She's kept a common sense perspective and a ballast to your life.
You would probably be in Bolivar or State Mental Hospital.
That's a pretty spooky place to visit this time right down the road.
But anyway, we have done a lot of family activities this month.
We've done pumpkin picking and we've still got pumpkin carving to do.
But we have been to a hayride.
We've done Zubu, you know, where they decorate the zoo for Halloween.
And trick-or-treating still to come.
Remember the time at the Memphis Zoo when the black people in Memphis complained that the dinosaurs weren't real?
But we were going to a corn maze the other day and we were going down the same road that we used to, that I used to always take going out to the 1380 when we were on 1380 in the early days.
The old cotton patch out there.
Yeah, going down that road out to the radio station.
When we first started, if you actually look on your calendar, October 26, 2004 was a Tuesday.
And when we first started, we were on the air.
We were supposed to start in the summer of 2004.
And it took a while for the station to reformat.
So they put us on a sister station.
And we were on Tuesdays and Thursdays only for a few weeks.
And then we started doing Monday through Friday.
But in any event, When we would be driving out to the studio, we took this road and we took it again for the first time in many years going out to this corn maze.
And my wife was saying, this is the road you would take every night because it was Monday through Friday back then.
We had just gotten married.
Yeah.
And I remember that shortly thereafter we went once a week, right?
What do you remember about those days?
Well, I just remember it being, we had just gotten married when that really got established and it really took off.
And you were gone every single night.
And we were newlyweds.
And I had never lived in a home by myself, let alone been by myself.
And so he keeps telling me to put it close to my mouth.
But it is.
Anyways, I had never been by myself.
So when you would go to work every night, I was terrified.
Every little creak and noise, I was scared to death.
So a lot of times I would ride up to the station with you and sit up there with you.
That was even spookier.
Yeah, it was a little creepy up there, too.
There was always black snake and snakes or a wasp or two.
And, you know, I'm.
You know, my parents lived right down the road from where our first house was when we first got married.
And so sometimes my younger brother and my cousin would come down and play Nintendo with her.
Can you please come down here and check the house?
I swear I heard something in the attic.
And anyways, they would sit with me.
But I'm so thankful that it's just blossomed the way that it has and grown and that we can do one day a week now.
I think I can put up with that.
But it's a lot more than just one day to prepare a show.
It takes all week long.
So it's more than just the three hours that y'all get to hear.
It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort.
And I'm really proud to get to stand by your side and watch the way that this is growing.
And be the wife of a man that wears pajamas.
Well, nobody's supposed to see that.
That's why it's radio, not television.
And he does have a polo on.
But anyways, it has been a blessing to see all the fruits that have come from your hard labor and all the friends and the family and the relationships that we've gained through all of this.
They're just priceless, really.
So I'm thankful for it all.
I know that I have sacrificed a lot, but it's something that I feel that I was called to do.
And I'm honored to be able to make this home a clean, happy, you know, balanced place for you to be able to thrive and really put together the best of what you can so you can provide for us the way that the Lord called.
So I'm thankful for you and I'm honored to stand by your side for this.
So I love you.
I love you too.
And anniversaries are always big, whether it's an anniversary where we met or where we got engaged or, of course, our wedding anniversary, the show anniversary, the kids' birthdays.
And October is such a busy month for us because we've got the show's birthday, which we always make an event out of.
And then two of our three kids have birthdays, Caroline and Henry's birthday is tomorrow.
It's really sweet to get to celebrate.
And it's really a reminder of the blessings that we have because not everything is as successful.
And you never know when it's going to end or when the next year is going to be really truly your last.
So every year that we get to spend doing this and sharing the time with y'all, it's precious.
It is.
We've met so many great people, as we've been talking about all night, Friends for Life in a lot of regards.
Every audience member, whether we know them well or just a little bit, or maybe they've never even contacted us, but they do.
When we do get to meet them and talk with them, they are always first-rate people.
They absolutely, absolutely.
We've made so many friends for life through this work.
But again, if you don't have that harmony at home, it's just not going to stand up.
And so, being able to do this, and I can remember those transition years when we got picked up by RBN and when we got syndicated, having the opportunity to go once a week, and it would give me more time at home.
But that was part of it.
And I can remember talking to a guy that I would always go to for advice.
And he said, well, look at it this way.
You're not going to be on the air as much, but every show will be an event.
And everybody will have a week to get to the point.
Because this is your psychiatrist.
No, no, but this was a good friend.
And I think that plus being able to be at home and having every event, you know, having being able to prepare for a good show every week instead of just trying to find something to talk about if you were on for two or three hours a day with no big staff and no budget to speak of, you know, not making a you know a lot of money at that time.
And so, um, yeah, so I mean, moving to once a week, and we've sat there, we've stayed there because it works well for the network and it works well for a lot of the affiliate stations.
And getting once a week on a weekend night gives you more AM affiliates than obviously when it's more crowded during the week.
Tell the real truth, James, it's because Danny told you that is what he's going to be, right?
No, that's not.
That's actually not the way it went, but I support whatever decision that he makes because I know that it's provided for our family and been the best decision for us.
So when he did decide to go one day a week, I was, I couldn't be more thrilled.
Now, you know, if the one day a week could be like Tuesday, but Saturday, it's fine.
We can do other stuff throughout the week.
And we do.
And we have been doing a lot of that stuff this month for Halloween.
And we still got a few things.
We've got a big wedding coming up.
It's been 20 years of no Saturdays with you.
Well, not quite 20.
I think we went on Saturdays in like 09, but only 16 years with 15 years with a long time, but I'm used to it.
And it's perfectly fine.
No, it's perfectly fine.
I love getting to see you do what you love and you're great at it.
So I'm 100% supportive of whatever you decide to do.
Of course, we still have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday.
You're right that James is really good at what he does.
I think Jared always brings out that if he had gone into the mainstream and sold his soul, he could have moved right to the top.
But instead, he stayed loyal to his beliefs.
And the result is the show.
We've been loyal to our calls and to our friends, and we've had loyal spouses.
And I love this one.
And I'm going to give her a kiss live on the air.
20 years.
She's been a part of all of it and then some.
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I saw Lon Cheney walking with the queen.
Doing the werewolves of London.
I saw Lon Cheney Juno walking with the queen.
Doing the werewolves of London.
I saw a werewolf bringing a pena colada and Trader Vicks.
And his hair is perfect.
A Halloween staple, if there ever was one.
And now let me tell you this: as we celebrate 20 years on your radio airwaves, there are at least, at least two people who can recite names, dates, occurrences that have happened in the history of this show far better than I can, if ever, an autobiography or some sort of chronological history of this show is going to take place.
There's a couple of people who you'll hear from before the end of the hour that could do it.
And one is Scoop Stanton.
And Scoop is always a mainstay on our Halloween shows.
Well, happy Halloween, everybody.
That too.
But adjusting the level here.
Our anniversary shows.
And he has been a part of the show since 2005 in his own right.
And he is now going to cram in all of those hits we said we couldn't get to.
Scoop's going to try to cram in 20 years of TPC in 20 minutes without interruption.
Take it away, Scoop, and thank you for preparing this for us tonight.
This is going to be a real treat for me.
I think you fell asleep.
There he is.
There he is.
Okay, there he goes.
All right.
Take it away, Scoop.
All right.
20 years.
This car wreck known as the Political Cess Pool made it to 20 years.
The Doors only made it to six years, eight if you include the two albums without Jim Morrison, and led Zephan only 12 years.
I wish I had three hours to explain everything about the Political Assessable, but I'll do my best.
It was James Edwards and Arsene Farley that came up the idea of doing a radio show on a religious station located in a beanfield in Millington, Tennessee.
And we are off.
And right out the gate, James and Austin started ruffling the feathers of the Memphis political machine.
Austin did leave the show to run for office, and the cesspool went out in full force for Austin Farley.
And unfortunately, Austin did lose a race, but he will later make Political Assessable history.
Austin's loss was the start of our perfect record where every single political candidate we endorsed or support loses.
The streak was broken in 2016.
Now, in the early years, the political cesspool family started to grow.
You had Jess Bonds and Jeff Miller were filling co-hosts, guest hosts, and whatnot.
And James did not want to sound like hee-haw radio, so he brought in the Lord of the Board, Chief Art Frith, to make the Cesspool sound, quote-unquote, professional.
Winston Smith did join, bringing in Eddie the Bombardier Miller, Keith Alexander, and then the late Bill Rowland also joined the family.
And then in 2005, James got an email from a PESPA fan, later phone call on the air from this annoying individual.
This pain-the-ass fan asked for a job, never meeting James.
Now, was this a plant from the SPLC?
Was it not from one of these legitimate hate groups?
Nope.
Was it some kook?
Yes, it was yours truly, Peter Scoop Stanton.
I would call the Cesspool from Spain at 2 a.m. in the morning on my dime.
And one year in, and the Cesspool had a foreign correspondent.
Now, all of us came and went, and others refused to leave.
Art and his wife decided to retire to Michigan for his last show.
James couldn't make it for whatever reason, so it was Austin Farley and Jess Bonds manning the board and having the funniest show in Cesspool history.
It was one for the books.
But anyways, our guest list is very expansive.
I'm going to read off an incomplete list of the people.
It's worth more than the three-penny quartet that we hear once in a while on the Cesspool or the three-penny trio.
But anyways, here is an incomplete list of the people we brought in over the years.
These are the movers and shakers in our movement.
Some more notable guests will be mentioned in a moment, but these people made a huge impact on the Cesspool and American society.
Some of these guests include Virginia Abernathy, Frosty Rollerich, Lieutenant Beau Greitz, Lieutenant General Halmore, Bob Whitaker, Brother Nathaniel Katmer, Chief Drew Lackey, David Duke, Hal Gibson, Ted Nugent, Jared Taylor, Jerome Corsi, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, the Reverend James David Manning, BJ Ellis, Harry Cooper, Jim Gilcrif, Michael Petruca, Nick Griffin, Godfrey Dulius, the Reverend Ted Pike, Joe McCutcheon, John Tate, Dr. Micah Hill, Dr. F. Roger Devlin,
Dr. Kevin McDonald, Gordon Lee Baum, Paul Craig Roberts, Peter Gemina, Dr. Paul Godfrey, Joe Sobrin, Steve Saylor, Sam Dixon, John Deborshire, Craig Bodiger, Merlin Miller, Alvita King, Joe McCutcheon, Tim Murdoch, Gene Androoms, Peter Bremlo, and the immortal Pat Buchanan.
Now, the Cesspool now has the regular Congressman Steves as a regular guest.
I said Steve's plural because we have former Congressman Steve King from Iowa and former Congressman Steve Sklees from Louisiana coming on the show.
These are the gentlemen.
I mean, stay stop.
Stock now.
I'm sorry.
God damn it.
These gentlemen are the congressmen we used to have and need more than ever.
Anyways, we also had some of the cream of the crop of our movement.
These people made an impact still felt today.
These men defined the political cesspool.
These are the personalities Russell Limbaugh, Shan Handy, Mark Levin wished they could get, but could not book on their shows.
These guests include Richard Spencer, the Southern Avenger Jack Hunter, who shares something in common with Paul Babu, and Carlton Hoffman, who had a moment of weakness with CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp.
Then there's Matt Heinback.
Not only was he a guest on the cesspool, but yours truly ran into him one year at CPAC.
Mr. Heinback was involved in a domestic incident where his wife and father-in-law found out that the horny Heinbach was messing around with his mother-in-law.
It wasn't too hard to figure out as all four individuals lived in the same trailer.
I am not kidding.
And not for anything, this sounds like a political cesspool version of Freak Off.
Moving right along.
Anyways, the Pessibles have always been proud Southerners and everything Southern.
They make no excuse about it.
Even with knowing as yours truly, Sean Bergen, Jim Lancia, and many guests from north of the Mason-Dixon line, the Pacific Bull remained true to the Confederacy.
Every April, the Cessible sub-race Confederate History Month, this special time of the year tells the real story of the war between the states.
The Cessible has such an impact on yours truly for the love of the Confederacy and the South for the first spin-off show.
Not only did I ask James Edwards to do the voiceovers, but at the opening bumpers, I had him introduce myself and Jim Lancia as two southern boys from Metropolitan New York City.
Anyways, over the years, we have evolved.
We've gotten bigger.
We've gone syndicated.
We were the first shows doing remote broadcasts on laptop computers thanks to technology developed by our own Sam Bushman, and we still use those same laptops today.
Now, for the Cess Pro's 20th anniversary party, the whole show was writing on the reliability network.
Like everyone else, we stuck with Sam and he stuck with us.
Anyways, one of the things we like to say is that we report news before it happens.
Not predict, but report.
We had two attorneys, Sam Dixon and Keith Alexander, painstakingly explain how George Zimmerman was innocent, reported the news as he was acquitted live on the air.
We were in and out of Ferguson, Missouri before CNN unpacked their suitcases.
We said that Trump would get the nomination.
This was in June of 2015.
Sam and Sean predicted his win in 2016.
Sean and yours truly hijacked this Cessbool on December 20th, 2014, when New York police officers Win Jen Liu and Rafael Ramos were slaughtered by a black radical.
We said that this story was going to go national and we were the first in everything.
We said it was going to go national and sure it did.
It went national and we've been leading the pack by decades.
What do I mean?
Well, the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh has a movie came out that says, I am a racist.
It was a blockbuster.
In the movie, Walsh exposes the race hustlers who are nothing more than a slit con artist.
Does this sound familiar?
Yep.
There are other conservative pundits who are no longer afraid of calling a spade a spade, including Tarka Carlson, who called out the Anti-Defamation League and mentioned the great replacement theories.
And same thing for Alex Jones.
YouTube sensations, Brandon Tatum, Kevin and Keith Hodge, Jericho Green, Anthony Brian Logan all get tens of thousands of views on YouTube for exposing media hypocrisy, race hustling, and bad behavior with a particular group of people.
I call these gentlemen the black version of the political cesspool.
Many other personalities have ventured into the once-chartered waters.
For that, we have two words for you.
You're welcome.
For 20 years, the political accessible has paved the way of exposing race hustlers and shakedown artists and co-conspirators from the obvious Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, to the once revered Southern Poverty Law Center to Tim Wise to the media who refuses to give a description of a suspect if it is a person of color.
We hear the suspect is described as male, six foot tall, wearing a hoodie, blue jeans, and white sneakers.
We were also the first to call out the ADL for calling everyone an anti-Semite to shake down everyone else for money.
We were one of the very few media outlets to defend Sean Bergen for telling the truth.
We have had our reputations ruined.
Guests cancel.
Potential sponsors, affiliates, and guests tell us no.
Loss of income, law enforcement coming to our door, and even death threats.
But we're not going anywhere, and we're not changing anything.
Now, are we mad because other people made it big while we're still digging the trench while under constant enemy fire?
No.
Our so-called colleagues may live like kings, but they look down upon us and call us names, yet they listen to us.
We have something that none of these outfits have.
That's a great point.
We have been together for 20 years, and we've gotten bigger.
The political accessible even branched off with spin-off shows and only strengthened our bonds with each other.
Yours truly has a spin-off show right after the political accessible called 75 Radio, as I'm not able to contribute to the political accessible as much as I've done in the past.
But not only am I still on the Cesspool website, but James' picture is on 75 Radio's website.
And despite me doing another show, me and James text one another constantly.
At the 20th anniversary party for the Cesspool, we barely spoke to each other.
Why?
Because we were texting one another more than two teenage girls, weeks before the event, during the event, and still after the event.
And during Saturday's festivities, I made James stop Dennis Tracks right in the middle of the festivities as I sent him a text of 75 Radio's spokesman, Danella Rodriguez, for absolutely no reason.
Trust us, we're poppers next to the Daily Wire, but we're a million times happier.
The only thing we ask for is recognition.
There are big talkers, past and present, that would not only talk about the subject matter that we cover on Saturday night, but use the same talking points.
But anyways, we've come back.
You'll hear more of Scoop Stanton talk about Memory Lane and the political cesspool.
You're listening to Liberty News Radio.
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BBC correspondent Jacob Evans reports that Ecuador is extending planned power cuts from 8 to 14 hours a day to combat a severe energy crisis.
For more than a month, people in Ecuador have had to live with forced energy blackouts, plunging the country into darkness for hours on end.
It's because of an energy supply that has been crippled by prolonged arid conditions, causing the country's worst drought in 60 years.
Around 70% of Ecuador's energy comes from hydroelectric power, when water is released through dams, spinning turbines, and creating electricity.
But with drought comes little rainfall and falling water levels.
The newest move has seen the blackouts almost double from 8 to 14 hours a day, a measure Ecuador's energy minister deemed painful but responsible.
In central Mexico, authorities say the crash of a bus and a large truck resulting in the deaths of at least 24 people.
Breaking news and analysis, townhall.com.
Spirit Airlines continuing to have deep financial trouble and may be looking now to unload some inventory as well as several other cost-cutting measures.
Correspondent Keith Peters has more.
The low-cost air carrier is cutting jobs and selling off some jets worth millions of dollars as it aims to cut costs amid looming financial struggles and an uncertain future.
Spirit says it has identified about $80 million of cost-cutting measures set to begin early next year.
Those cuts will be driven primarily by a reduction in workforce.
The Florida-based airline disclosed in a Thursday regulatory filing.
The budget airline also agreed to sell 23 airplanes for about $519 million.
That could help provide some key cash for a company that's faced loss after loss since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keith Peters reporting.
More on these stories at townhall.com.
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Ups and
downs and sideways and in-betweens, victories and setbacks.
We've experienced it all and we've experienced it all together.
And I want to thank Scoop Stanton here as he continues for one more segment trying to cram 20 years of TPC history into 20 minutes of radio airtime and a little bit less than that actually.
Scoop is always so well prepared and I got to say when he was reading off that litany of guests in the last segment, I'd forgotten about some of those as I tend to do.
Like, and how could you forget the Joe Sobrin interview?
Now, that should be one that we're featuring in our retrospective series and all of the other ones.
Ted Pike.
Well, he mentioned Ted Pike.
Well, yeah, you can never forget Ted Pike because he appeared so regularly for so long.
But Scoop is also responsible for bringing in members of the family like former New York City newsman Sean Bergen, who became a regular contributor.
Anthony Cumia.
Jim Lancia.
Well, he got Cumia on for that interview, but Lancia became really a part of the family along with Bergen.
Scoop's fingerprints are all over this show in many ways as well.
And as for some of the, you know, he mentioned some erstwhile colleagues like Richard Spencer and Carlton Huffman.
And, you know, certainly over 20 years, some people go a different direction and you don't really know what happened.
But it doesn't change the fact.
My opinion on relationships is, well, there was still something there at a time that remains evergreen.
And I really enjoyed working with Matt Parrott.
And a lot of these people have become mainstays of this movement and even beyond, who basically wouldn't have been on the radio had it not been for us.
Well, people come and go, that's for sure.
And for the time that they've been with us, I have enjoyed it.
And, you know, listen, a lot changes in 20 years.
There's one constant, though, and that is we were here 20 years ago tonight, and we are still here tonight to the day, by God's grace.
And by the timing of the calendar, we are here 20 years to the day after it all started.
Scoop, back to you.
Continue on with this.
Call, brother.
Okay, now let's go over some of the events that happened in the past two decades.
Here are just examples.
They're not any particular order chronologically or importance.
But, anyways, 2010, James Edwards wrote, published Racism, Racism.
In the book, James tells us how the world is a racist, how racist means everything and nothing at the same time.
Anyways, yours truly and Sean Bergen went to Geno Stake in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I drove up from D.C.
He came down from New York.
He was frantically doing research while I was stuffing my face with a sandwich.
During the segment, Sean said he was going to give me $20 to give to the street musicians to stop playing.
2014, Purely Surprise winner Charlie Duff comes on the Cesspools for his first of many car wreck interviews with Yours Truly.
And then later that year, Charlie comes to D.C. to show me how it's done.
And he is a regular contributor to 7-5 Radio.
June 8th, 2014, Cesspool hosted the survivors of the USS Liberty attack.
Now, I spent eight years in the Navy, loved the military, love history, and never heard of this attack until I heard on the Cesspool.
So, anyways, folks, do your research on the attack on the USS Liberty.
August 2nd, 2014, radio allegeant Anthony Kumi comes on the Cesspool.
This would be the best interview for both James and Coomia.
Then all hell breaks loose afterwards.
Alleged comedian Joe DeRosa, who got nationwide exposure thanks to Coomia, throws the Cesspool and Coomia under the bus.
Also under the bus, thankfully, which DeRosa's career because he was never heard from again.
Anyways, our one Eddie the Bombardier Miller has been ejected from more events than anyone in political accessible history.
Eddie doesn't hold back on the air or off of it.
Also, James called the Bombardier for nothing.
Right.
Also, James gets fans together, stand up and run up against Al Sharpton to push him out of Confederate park in Memphis.
James had numerous appearances on CNN.
James was also part of a crappy reality show from Europe.
He was on for about two seconds.
I forgot about that.
No, the second time I was on longer, but the first time.
Four seconds.
Anyways, James did attend the inauguration of Donald Trump.
The night before, James gave the microphones over to Sam and Sean, who hit a grand slam.
And next to the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the second biggest miracle on this planet was that Scoop Stanton made it to a political accessible function.
The 20th anniversary party, no less.
Anyways, moving right along, a snake gets into the board at WLRM Studio, shorting out all its equipment.
The Cesspool and Liberty Roundtable does a five-hour live stream for the 2016 and 2020 election.
And we're doing it again this year, folks, 2024.
We're doing a five-hour live stream.
Anyways, the Cesspool is deep at a Trump rally in Millington, Tennessee.
It was like ECW invading the WWE's In-Your House pay-per-view.
I was covering a memorial outside the Supreme Court building in 2020 when Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away wearing a Confederate flag bandana.
Anyways, June of 2016, some degenerate shot at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Despite our differences with this group of people, Sean and Jim Lancia actually tore apart the media and police response.
It was one of the best shows.
Also, we were fighting with the Trumps.
After Donald Jr.'s interview, there were a lot of bad blood between us and the Trumps.
The Trumps being the most powerful family in New York City, the old man running for president, who we supported.
And I was asking James, are we fighting the Trumps?
Because right now we're fighting with everybody.
And the only question we had was, whose car are we taking?
Anyways, James did sue the Detroit News for defamation.
A reporter claimed that James was in the Ku Klux Klan.
And that's not the case.
But we do get dead serious, down and dirty.
One subject near and dear both of myself and James.
Who is better?
Jimmy Page or Frankie Valley?
Anyways, Charlottesville.
It was an important point in political accessible history.
Me and Eddie were supposed to meet up to tell about what's going on, report on events.
Instead, it was a setup where the cops did nothing to prevent the protesters from being harmed.
It was one of the most monumental shows in accessible history.
It was proof positive that we are under attack and nothing is being done to protect us.
It was at this time I decided that with everything going on, including my changing hours of my job, I asked for James Blessing to do a spin-off show.
So that's where the idea of political accessible spin-off show was born.
Next.
Oh my God.
All right.
I lost page six or seven.
What do we got going?
Oh, one of our best shows, frequent guest actor Sonny Landham was in the hospital bed on heavy medication.
James asked Sonny if he wanted to postpone his appearance.
The show must go on.
So on that night, it was Pat Buchanan, followed by Sonny Landham, and then yours truly.
And it was mind-blowing, but it was a bad choice of lineup because you have Pat Buchanan, Sonny Landam, doing his best performance, and then me.
What a letdown.
Hold on right there.
Hey, hold on right there, my friend.
I got this.
I was plumbing the depths of the attic and everything, and I found this early promo to the show voiced by the man you just mentioned.
Let's see if we can get it to play very quickly.
Hello, I'm Sonny Landam, and you're listening to the political cesspool with my friends, James Edwards and Austin Farley.
Yeah, that was way back.
But thank you for invoking the name of Sonny Landam.
Continue, Scoop.
All right, by two seconds left.
Anyways, October 5th, 2024, James goes on a three-hour tear about the lack of resources coming to the southeast United States for Hurricane Helene.
20 years in, and the kid still has fire in his belly.
All right, the top five moments.
Here we go.
October 28, 2023, Cesspool's 19th anniversary show.
Everybody that matters is on.
I come out.
I'm bombed after I take the selfie herd around the world with our gorgeous spokesman, Al Danella Rodriguez.
We invite her on the 75 radio.
She comes on.
It was a show that blew the doors off the political cesspool.
Next, the cesspool at the Republican National Convention, 2016.
A lifetime of A-list guests coming on the show.
Number three, the Paul Babu Saga.
James, you're going to have to spend half an hour about that.
Anyways, number two, Bill Rowland.
He was the guy in the late for the CSS Cesspool.
He shaped James in the talk show that he is today.
Bill worked his magic.
On Saturday, James couldn't make the show.
So is me, Bill, and Keith.
And you thought we were on for 10 years.
Number one, Sean Bergen show.
Sean went to another platform.
Myself, James, Sam, we shout out from the rooftops.
Listen to this guy.
Listen to this, support the platform.
It was the biggest show on that platform.
But anyways, the best part of the political cesspool is the people, the political cesspool.
Now, I wanted to get a start a career in radio.
Instead, I got a family.
For that, James, I can't thank you enough.
I love you.
I love everyone on the cesspool.
And stay tuned for Sunfridge Radio right after the political cesspool.
James, back to you in the studio.
We call it the fourth hour, TPC's fourth hour.
If you just stay tuned to however you listen to this show, if you're listening live, you go straight into the next program on Liberty News Radio's Saturday night lineup, and that is 7-5 Radio with Scoop Stanton and Walter Yerku.
Walt was the star of one of Netflix's most popular documentaries ever.
And so be sure to check that out.
And it's always immediately following TPC here on Liberty News Radio Scoop.
Thank you so much.
20 years and 20 minutes.
And you reminded me of some things that weren't going to get mentioned tonight.
That infamous libel lawsuit, some of the guests, some of the experiences, some of the places, the RNC.
We've talked about it all, but to hear it again tonight, I love you for it.
Thank you for documenting being our scribe here at TPC.
And stay tuned for more scoop in just a few minutes.
We got one more segment.
We're coming back with it next.
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This is a battle, a battle between truth and deceit.
A battle between forces that would enslave this country in darkness and between a media that wants to present you with the truth.
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TheEpicTimes.com 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 Sowhen.
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 7th 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 Hallamis.
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, happy Halloween to you all, ladies and gentlemen.
As you know, we appreciate the Christian Europe and the pre-Christian Europe, but this is really just such a wonderful time of year, fall, autumn, into the winter.
This is the kind of temperature and climate where we as Europeans became who we are.
And there's something uniquely European about this time of year.
And of course, we're going to have so much fun together the rest of this year with Thanksgiving and Christmas and all of that coming up.
Just a quick thing as we celebrate 20 years to the day of the first broadcast of TPC.
I want to go back very quickly to Art Frith, who was our producer during those early years.
He has been emailing all night long, something must be wrong with my computer speakers.
Even Keith sounds good tonight.
Talking about you being up on your mic.
He said a couple of things that just popped into his head that Scoop didn't mention, that TPC was way ahead of the time regarding the border situation by having members of the Minutemen Project calling in live from the border as we were in the studio and that we were instrumental in keeping Al Sharpton on his bus when he came to Memphis to protest Nathan Bedford Forest.
He never stepped off the bus addressing the crowd president from the bottom step of his bus's entrance instead of doing that rally because we were doing a vigil alongside that route.
Don't forget, James, you're the one who single-handedly killed Paulazan's broadcasting career.
Well, we actually did revisit that in the second hour.
He says he does still miss running the board every night for DPC.
It's been 17 years since he departed Memphis for the real Nashville.
He is now retired in Nashville, Michigan.
And Danny was on earlier in the hour and he said that guy from Arkansas that used to be on Clendon or something.
He said, Hart said, I can remember Danny coming to the studio and having to walk over to your side of the glass and tell you to stop passing notes back and forth.
Kids, what are you going to do?
And he remembers what he thinks is our best show ever, Sonny Landam.
Next time you see the big Indian and Predator cutting himself with that buoy knife, remember he is more based than a lot of our guys doing an interview from the hospital bed live and pumped full of painkillers and drugs.
All right.
We've had a lot of memories.
We've recounted a lot of them tonight, but the last five minutes of the show is to our friend Courtney from Alabama.
As I said, there are two people who remember more about the history of this program than I, Scoop and Courtney.
And Courtney, happy Halloween.
The last bit of this segment is yours.
Close us out before we go into next week's election preview show.
Going to be a big one.
Courtney.
Hey, thank you for having me on, as usual.
It's always an honor.
I've got to say, and I'm sure you've had the same experience before, both of you, many times.
But after a long southern summer, I remember the first morning walking out on my porch, getting into fall, that first morning when I felt the cool air and it was like my ancestors were speaking to me.
It was like I stood on my porch and I stepped out of Alabama and stood briefly in Scotland for a minute or something.
But it's just such a nice feeling.
And I bet there were many times when our Confederate ancestors and our southern ancestors before and after the Confederates, many times when they had that same feeling that we got, you know, after they endure the long summer, southern summer, they feel that cool air that makes them feel a little more at home.
So that is where our people, European people came from.
That's where we developed.
James, definitely.
Well, I mean, now I see that Courtney's on the same page, but James suffers through Southern Springs.
Well, this line of latitude that we're on here is equal to Libya.
It is a far cry from Scotland and England and all of that.
Create the island of Crete, too.
Go keep going, Courtney.
So, you know, I've said this before.
I'm a very festive person.
Every month in our house, we celebrate something in this house just about every month.
You know, something that harkens back to our European heritage.
Now, what we celebrate in April and December is pretty obvious.
You know, next month after this, we're going to be celebrating the pilgrims.
I love teaching our children about it, being proud.
July, you know, we celebrate the founding fathers.
There's even a couple things specific to the Gulf Coast I might go into in a minute that we celebrate at the turn of the year, January, February, March, that are kind of unique to down here that are European.
And, you know, with the exception of a couple of summer months, you know, there's always something to celebrate every month.
And this time of year, like as you kind of already said, from October into February and March, what's so special about it is, you know, you get festive.
It feels so cool out, like you're in Europe again.
And I like to decorate with lights during this time of year from October all the way through, even through January, February, and March, because on the Gulf Coast, thanks to the Spanish and French settlers on the Gulf Coast, we have Mardi Gras down here.
And I want to specify that the Mardi Gras that's in Alabama is very family-oriented, unlike New Orleans.
And we do not go to that stuff in New Orleans.
But it's very family-oriented.
There's a lot of lights, and we decorate with lights.
So, anyways, October specifically, there's just something so nice about putting a candle in a jack-o'-lantern in a dark room and looking at it.
There's something ancestral about it, like all those dark winners or ancestors endured.
And they would, you know, they would light a fire or have a lantern.
There's something very European about it.
And so, it just makes me feel so good.
And, and I have a few more things, but I just wanted to see if y'all had anything to add.
Well, with the two minutes we have remaining, we will add what we can as we thank everybody again for 20 years of us being able to do this and next week's big show right before the election.
But, Courtney, it's all your time.
One of the things I remember is that every Valentine's Day, it seems like we have Courtney on.
Well, that's right, which is on throughout the year.
But, yes, on Valentine's Day.
That's one of the main sites.
That's one of our traditions.
That's right.
And Halloween.
A lot of holidays.
But you're right.
But yeah, you know, we don't really, in our house, well, it's my husband's house.
I shouldn't say my house, but in our house, we don't really, you know, for Halloween, we don't get into the, we don't go overboard with the really scary stuff, like the blood and guts and the satanic stuff.
But in our house, you know, it's like we, I like the, I like the, you know, the innocent decorations, like little jack-o'-lanterns everywhere and, you know, little cute ghosts and, you know, little things like that.
That's what I grew up with.
And, you know, we have a lot of this stuff in our heritage, like even outside of Halloween, like all there's a lot of scary folklore out of Europe, like, you know, the big bad wolf and little Red Riding Hood and, you know, the original Disney fairy tales, like what they originally were.
And stories that take place in dark forests.
Dark forest used to cover so much of Europe.
And it's just, there's just so many, it's just part of our heritage.
You know, but I don't know.
Whenever I feel that cold air, I start thinking about that.
Absolutely.
How could you not?
And by the way, you brought up the big bad wolf.
My youngest daughter for like a year now, totally into the big bad wolf.
If you go, Google, YouTube this: Three Little Pigs Disney Silly Symphonies.
This was back in the 30s.
Wonderful take on the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs.
Now, that's different.
They had one of him and Little Red Riding Hood, too, that was done while Walt was still the head of the company.
Anyway, something to see this Halloween weekend.
Thank you, Courtney.
Thank you, Scoop.
Thank you, Sam.
Thank you, Jack.
Thank you, everyone, for 20 years.
We got to get back to work next week.
We've had a lot of fun tonight.
Happy Halloween to everybody.
We'll see you next Saturday, three days shy of Election Day 2024.