Dec. 21, 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.
Welcome back, everybody.
As this program becomes especially festive this second hour, we're going to take you into the homes of four TPC listening families and talk to the ladies of the household.
And during each of these next four segments, it's a little abbreviated version of the Valentine's Day show, I guess we do every year, but we're going to let the ladies call their shots on a political topic of their choosing and then how they celebrate Christmas.
It can be memories, traditions, music, food, whatever.
And we're starting right now, a little bit to the east of us in central Tennessee with Janice.
Janice, Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
I'm going to jump right into my political things.
I wanted to first make sure everybody understood that it was the 79th anniversary of Patton's death.
And he didn't die natural causes.
He was basically murdered because he was going to give up his pension and come to the United States.
And he was going to let the whole country know that we fought the wrong enemy, that we should have been fighting with Germany against the communist USSR.
Then I wanted to bring memory to Ursula Haberback, who died while she was waiting to hear she was going to go back to prison in Germany for basically sort of kind of denying the Holocaust.
I don't know all of her story, but she was standing up for being able to question 6 million Jews put in a gas chamber.
And I mean, she was, I think she was 96 when she died.
I can't imagine putting a 96-year-old woman or man into prison for something like that.
But Germans were getting ready to do it.
Then I want to bring out two women who are, they both have their own shows.
And one of them actually talks with Eddie Miller on Blood River Radio often, and that is Monica Schaefer.
She is of German descent.
Both of her parents were in Germany during World War II.
And she always believed the Holocaust and couldn't believe her parents didn't know anything.
And then she finally got the truth and she speaks out against it.
She also came out of the Green Party.
And we all know what the Green Party is.
It's the party that we're polluting the earth.
And so she has two things in her pocket that she just, you know, she knows the truth now.
She was fouling a lie and she came out of that lie and now she speaks out about both of them a lot.
And I just, I really enjoy listening to her.
And she plays beautiful before her own show.
She plays this beautiful German music every time.
I mean, it's just like so relaxing and so beautiful to think that they hate themselves when they've made so much beauty in the world and were so smart.
I just, I'm glad that she speaks on behalf of her people.
Next one is Candace Owens, who has been named the anti-semite of the year by the ABL.
Because she has brought on guests like the men from the USS Liberty.
And if you've never heard about that story, you need to go and watch her show.
They've also been on Stu's Peters, I believe.
And the thing is, is that their ship was just one that picked, they're one of the ships that sits out in the ocean and grabs all the communications between other countries.
And Israel attacked them.
And their intent was to sink them and blame it on Egypt because this was in 1967 during the Six-Day War.
They were intending to pull the United States into the war by doing this.
And she also had part to brow about the landing of men on the moon hoax.
I would suggest if you guys don't know anything about either one of these two things, go to her channel and find out about these.
Our government has put lie upon lie upon lie on us, starting back with a constitution that it is good for us.
And they just keep following the lies on.
But I think two big lies that would actually, actually help break us free of this trance they have on us is the Holocaust lies and the man landing, us landing on the moon.
They didn't happen, neither one of them.
And it's time for us to wake up and admit we're not the greatest nation in the world.
Janice, I will tell you, dear lady, you have brought the heat this cold winter night with your opening remarks here.
And of course, of course, the Liberty, I mean, you know, we've had them on as well on more than one occasion.
And Dave Gehery, if people don't know this, Dave Geharry, who's one of the survivors of the Liberty, is actually behind the publication of Jason Kessler's book.
So it's just, you know, again, there's so much networking and things going on behind the scenes.
But I just, I couldn't help but laugh at how in tune we are with our audience.
I had no idea what Janice, I told the ladies to surprise me.
Don't tell me what you want to talk about.
You can talk about anything you want.
You pick it.
And I had no idea what Janice was going to say when in the previous hour I compared my battle with the post office to Stalingrad, which, you know, interesting.
I got to say this too.
That Operation Barbarossa, get back to that.
Sunday, June 22nd.
I was born on Sunday, June 22nd, 1980, so a few years later.
And of course, that went over into the following year because winter does that.
But anyway, so anyway, that was funny.
But Janice, what about Christmas?
I know that y'all always, y'all have, as our friends in New Orleans, who I just visited, you have some very interesting decorations in the Hamblin home.
We don't necessarily have to go there, but I love the Christmas tree.
I love your Christmas tree.
I know somebody whose father lives in Louisiana that really would like that tree, but you can't have it.
It is a wonderful looking tree.
So let's talk about Christmas now for a second.
What about Christmas, Janice?
Anywhere you want to go with it.
Well, I'm going to mainly go with what I grew up with, and that was that Christmas, it was really all about being with your family.
And we, I'm going to tell you, growing up, you got one or two toys.
If you were lucky, you got that.
Mostly it was, oh, you got a new pair of pajamas or something like that.
It was more, the whole thing was more that we got together with my dad's side of the family every year, either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
But also, the tradition my mom had that I took over and put into my family was that after you open presents, you know, you have the traditional Christmas breakfast and it was always waffles with lynx sausage.
It did not matter.
It was that everything, and I did it until all my kids were gone.
We can't do that now with Richard because he's diabetic and we cannot have waffles or syrup.
So, and another thing is, is I remember my mom had this little tiny Hammond organ, and my sister and I would sit and during the Christmas season, we would sit and play the organ and sing Christmas carols together.
Like for two weeks straight, we would be doing that.
And it was fun.
When I got into high school and my dad's mom had passed away, and we had my dad, because he was the oldest child, he started hosting Christmas at our house.
And what we did was we had a talent show and did Dirty Santa.
Dirty Santa.
Yeah.
My oldest sister and her husband and girls almost always won the talent show.
They were big.
My sister is exceedingly creative.
And so they usually, they usually won.
Can I go back to something else?
I think that's a good thing.
I'll tell you what.
You know, Janice, I was laughing.
I remember you on one of the Valentine's Day shows.
You're a mainstay on our Valentine's Day program.
And when we do this for three hours with the ladies, then not just one.
You seamlessly went from tips on gardening to Jews.
And I without, I want to finish with Jews.
Thank you.
That is that I get about it.
Everybody needs to remember that Khazarian Jews, which is most of what's in Israel, hate Christ.
They call him the bastard son of a whore, and that he is stewing in human excrement in hell.
And it's time that we stop believing your line.
They're not our friends.
They don't like us.
They hate us.
And David Duke is one that will point that out all the time.
He actually goes and reads what they read and he tells us.
And if I really had a lot of cojones, I would be putting on my Facebook that I feel that the holiday of Hanukkah is offensive to me and that the menorah is a hate symbol.
You know, I don't know where the other ladies are going to go after that one.
This is Janice's Garrett Snow.
That's why we brought her first.
She said a high bar here.
I tell you what, Janice, at Christmas, we laid down our swords and we just kind of relax a little bit.
Somebody's got to keep it up, and that's you.
Thank you, my friend.
We'll be right back.
Stay tuned, everybody.
Thank you, Janice.
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Oh, my God.
Just when I thought I knew all of the Christmas albums made by all of the pop acts of the 50s and 60s, Kim brings the Everly Brothers Silent Night to my attention.
Even Keith Alexander didn't know that the Everly Brothers had a Christmas album.
And boy, those harmonies.
And Kim, it would have come from Kim, who is also, like Janice, a mainstay on our Valentine's Day program.
An exemplar of good taste.
Absolutely.
I mean, yeah, let it be me, Kim.
You know, that's, we like to bring you on to that at Valentine's Day.
But you have broadened my horizons tonight with the Everly Brothers rendition of Silent Night.
Merry Christmas to you and your homeschooling, home churching, homesteading family that just continues to grow every year.
James and Keith, it's an honor to be on the show.
And yeah, that Everly Brothers album is called Everly Brothers with the Boys Town Choir.
And every song on that album is absolutely beautiful, amazing.
It needs to be in your home repertoire for Christmas for sure.
And they had the purest voices, I think, of anybody in, you know, Southern rock and roll back in the 50s.
Oh, absolutely.
So beautiful.
So I was listening to that today.
And thank you so much, James, for playing that.
I really don't know how I can top Janice's segment.
I mean, wow.
We should have saved her for last.
You know, with that kind of heat, but she was ready to fly.
She's on base.
You got to bring her around.
Man, no kidding.
You want to have the bases loaded before you bring the heavy hitter on, but she just did a grand slim just there.
And we got one run in instead of four.
Yeah, I mean, I was just going to talk about chewy gingerbread cookies, and she's talking about the Jews and that the moon landing was fake.
I mean, this is, man, this is crazy.
But, you know, it's funny, James, because I'm going to talk about a book, and you're going to know what book this is.
That next year marks 23 years since this book came out.
You read it.
I read it.
I know Keith has read it.
And people are still reading it and commenting online.
It continues to change lives.
I'm curious if either one of you knows off the top of your head this book.
Well, we've been struggling with the placement of years tonight.
It was, yeah, 2002.
2001.
Death of the West.
Death of the West by the end of the day.
Well, see, 2001, you confused me.
2002, I knew instantly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
2002.
Yeah.
And I, I, you know, you asked, you know, you mentioned just if we had a topic, and I thought, you know, that is a book that with everything you guys were talking about in the in the first hour, it is continues to be so relevant today.
And I know when I read that book, you know, we're about the same age, James.
And when I read that book, it was life-changing.
And, you know, going from, you know, just a normal high schooler seeing things, reading that book, it was like I found the secret key, you know, to the door.
And once that was unlocked, and that book, along with Peter Brimelo's book, Alien Nation, were both just so pivotal.
And I'm actually sitting here with a beautiful copy that was sent out by your wonderful show that was signed by Pat Buchanan that I have.
And just if anybody's looking for a Christmas gift, it's a wonderful book to give people that are almost there that need a legitimate source of truth.
And, you know, Buchanan's writing, he just has a way of putting things that will touch you.
And he's not overly verbose.
He can just get right to the point, kind of like kind of like a Jared Taylor writer, you know, where you just read it and it will either resonate with you or it won't.
And if it doesn't, well, you're not my friend.
But the book's just amazing.
You know, some of the chapters, Laurie Clanquista, The War Against the Past, DeChristianizing America, and the Lady Revolution about cultural Marxism.
Yes, yes, yes, yep, yep, chapter four.
So I just wanted to mention there are some books in people's lives, you know, when they read them, they set them on a path in a certain direction.
And, you know, I know y'all have always promoted his work.
And forever, when he was still doing his blog, just those weekly blogs that he was doing, just what an incredible man.
What an incredible book.
And I just wanted to mention that and to thank your show in particular, James.
Thank you for 20 years of just wonderful content, having people like Pat Buchanan on, promoting his books throughout the last 20 years.
So many great books that have come out of that man's work.
And I just, yeah, I just wanted to honor him by mentioning that book and your show for the good work and for 20 years of being able to tune in and just be a part of it by listening.
So thank you.
Well, thank you, Kim, for bringing this up.
And as you know, and you know the history well, there would have never been a TPC had there not been a Pat Buchanan.
I mean, it was directly from him that we spawned and through his last third and final campaign.
And you were right, too, Kim, that basically if the scales don't fall from your eyes after reading that, then you're beyond hope.
Well, we were just mentioning this again in the first hour.
It's just uncanny that both you and Janice are touching on and had prepared topics in advance for things we touched on in the first hour.
But I went back and we're actually in the process.
We're working with a courtroom transcriptionist who is transcribing some of these interviews for publication for people at TOO and Countercurrents.
And I think American Free Press actually just put in their newspaper transcription of an interview that we did with Pat about Churchill Hitler and the unnecessary war.
But we went and transcribed an interview where Pat and I were talking about race and demographic trends and things like this.
And he spoke with a degree of candor in that interview, which I think was the last one he did with us that really you hadn't heard in decades.
And so, yes, I mean, and he, God bless him, Pat, just turned 86 last month and certainly changed my life.
I would not be here.
There wouldn't have been 20 years.
There wouldn't be Trump if there hadn't been Buchanan.
Well, there wouldn't have been a James Edwards and there wouldn't have been a TPC and we wouldn't be talking tonight.
And I wouldn't know Kim and I wouldn't know you.
I mean, it really did all come from Pat Buchanan.
Anything that this show has ever done, it started with Pat Buchanan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Amen.
Amen.
Well, yeah, you know, the Bible says to honor the ancient landmark, and that's, here's his book.
I'm honoring it.
And honor thy father and thy mother.
Honor your people.
Same thing.
So just it's, you know, no one is perfect, you know, not even Pat Buchanan, but there's a lot of people that are good, honest people and have really been true and believe in what they actually say.
Did we send you that?
Nobody may be perfect, but he comes as close as you get, I think, with Pat Buchanan.
Yeah, second he's just such a good guy.
Such a good guy.
I mean, really a genuine, pure heart he was.
There was no egotism.
He was friendly.
He was funny.
He was engaging.
He was a loyal friend.
Yeah, I mean, he defended us.
You certainly did have to do that.
Anyway, Kim, yes, when you mentioned Buchanan, that's, you know, like Big Jim Folsom, Keith.
You bait the trap like that.
You catch Big Jim every time.
Yeah, that's right.
But so it's limited the amount of time we have to talk with you about Christmas, Kim.
But just give us maybe a minute.
On Christmas, the feeling in your home this time of year, anything you got.
We got about a minute left.
Yeah, I guess I could touch on the music.
My family knows that they're going to be inundated with Christmas music.
I mean, it's kind of a shame you only have about 30 days to hear some of the most beautiful songs ever written.
And so for 30 days, I just try to get it all in.
Yes, unless it takes you back to your cultural heritage.
I'm glad she mentioned that because I listen from the day after Thanksgiving through New Year's, nothing but Christmas music.
I won't listen to any song of any genre except Christmas music from Thanksgiving to New Year's.
Anyway, go on.
And there's so much of it.
It's like just when you think, you're like, oh, oh, no, I didn't get in Handles Messiah.
Everybody, we're going to listen to this.
Or John Denver's Christmas album.
I just, I love that album.
Tennessee, Keith, you will probably, you probably love Tennessee Ernie Ford's Christmas album.
It's amazing.
Well, you know, we made a living off of that.
We were playing when David was on, it must have been the first show after Thanksgiving because we were already playing Christmas music.
But when David was on, we were playing some orchestra, some orchestra versions with a full symphony of some of these classic Christmas carols.
And I told him, and he was commenting on how beautiful it was and the reasons why it's so beautiful and uplifting.
And I told him, and I said, it is a superior form of humanity, a superior expression of humanity.
These Christmas carols that we're playing tonight, especially, I like the pop stuff too.
That's fun.
But this stuff we're playing tonight is a superior form of humanity.
Yeah, I couldn't have said it better myself.
So, yeah, yeah, just we do a lot of just Christmas music.
And, you know, that's, I guess that's my big thing, really, is just to put that cultural aspect into my children and to my family.
And so fortunate to be part, so fortunate to be part of the Anglosphere because that's what most of this comes from.
Also, Germanic and whatnot, Northern European, but, you know, all of these wonderful English heritage songs that we have are just English Christmas carols.
Yes, yes, absolutely, Keith.
Yes.
Kim, Merry Christmas to you, to your wonderful husband, who is a dear friend of mine, to all of your kids who we know and love so well.
Merry Christmas.
We'll be right back.
Merry Christmas.
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Angels we have walked on, sweetly singing on the plains and the mountains in the blood,
Welcome back to TPC's annual Christmas broadcast.
This last Saturday before the blessed holiday, holy day.
Great to spend an hour with the ladies tonight.
You've already heard from Janice and then Kim and now Lacey, who has been a friend of ours for so many years.
Of course, her YouTube channel was very popular.
She cashiered that to have another baby.
But she is still coming on TPC, and we are thankful for that.
Lacey actually receives fan mail for the ads that she voices.
Someone wrote in not too long ago and commented that she had an angelic voice.
So I thought that pairing her segment with Angels We Have Heard on High would be most fitting.
Lacey, Merry Christmas, and how are you tonight?
Merry Christmas to y'all.
That is really sweet.
I think I have a very shy-sounding, timid voice, but I'm glad people think it's angelic.
That's much nicer.
It's feminine.
That's what it is.
Definitely not like Betty Fredan.
No, not like Betty Fredan.
No.
Well, I actually have a question for you.
By the way, I should say we received Lacey's Christmas card at the Edwards home.
Our studio here tonight is festooned with Christmas cards.
I was going to read through some of them, but I don't think time's going to permit tonight.
But we still have one show left in the year next week, and we'll get to those then.
Thank you for everyone who sent us in Christmas cards and nice notes and letters and all of this.
But there was actually a book I saw.
Lacey, I don't want to intrude on your time.
We've got to make haste here.
I saw a book.
The title of it was June Cleaver Was a Feminist.
You want to deal with that?
Oh, so I was actually planning on speaking on something else, but we could actually talk all about this.
Now, you take it wherever you want to go.
I saw that randomly.
I saw that randomly and for no reason a few days ago in advance of you coming on and I said, I got to pocket that in my mind and maybe mention it to Lacey.
You take it anywhere you want to go.
Is that with the cover of Is It a Black Woman?
I didn't know.
I think it's just well I have to look it up again.
I don't know.
It's not a black woman.
There was one with a cover of a black woman that I saw.
But so I think actually that kind of ties in a little bit with what I wanted to talk about.
You guys.
So let me let me go there first and then I'll come back to June Cleaver.
So there's this book called Eve in Exile and I wanted to talk about it.
I think it might have been like the last time I was on or the time before that.
I can't remember.
But we ran out of time and I just managed to like scoot it in just a little bit.
But if I still had a YouTube channel, this is what I would make a video about.
It would be a book review on this really incredibly awful book.
So Rebecca Merkel is, I don't know if y'all have heard of Doug Wilson.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
He is a Reformed theologian in Idaho.
And he that's his daughter is Rebecca Merkel.
So spoiler alert, there is some Jewish blood in the mix in the family.
So he's been making all this controversy on X now because he's the whole conversation is going back and forth about whether ethno-nationalism is a sin and calling out the Jews as a sin.
And he's on the side that says that it is.
So his daughter, Rebecca Merkel, is married to a Jew.
Now, she wrote a book called Eve in Exile, pretending to be against feminism.
It is the most crypto-feminist book I've ever read.
It made me even more mad than the feminine mystique because it came from a perspective of I'm a Christian, I'm not a feminist, and here are all the reasons why I'm not a feminist.
But then once she says something against feminism, she backs it up and actually says something feminist.
She goes backward and says something feminist.
So, for example, going to the June Cleaver thing, she actually brought up Leava to Beaver because of course she did.
You know, they can't help themselves bring up Leava to Beaver.
And she said that 1950s women, 1950s housewives specifically, always comes back to the 1950s housewives.
They've always got to do it.
And Victorian women.
There must be something good there as I keep coming back to it.
Needed liberation from some sort of like unnamed oppressive force, right?
But so that she could get her I'm not a feminist card, she claims that feminists had the right questions.
They just didn't have the right answers.
So she does criticize feminists as they just weren't Christian enough.
And that was the issue that she had with the feminists.
Not that they were completely wrong on every area and in every way possible.
Slavishly devoted to the Jews.
Exactly.
Well, she's not going to say that, but it was the most deceptive book I've ever read.
And at the end, she talks about a third kind of woman, not a traditionalist, not old-fashioned, not conservative, but also not feminist.
And she doesn't really ever quite define what she's talking about.
But the whole book.
Right.
The whole book allows you to accept some line of feminism without thinking that you're accepting feminism.
I was just going to say, Lacey, in my mind, I guess I thought having the ladies on the Saturday before Christmas would sort of soften things up a little bit here.
Edges on, man.
They're going harder than we do on a normal basis.
I know Denise was on.
I'm sure she went pretty hard too.
Wait, if you didn't hear it, go back and listen.
I mean, she came out barrels blazing.
She had a Tommy gun and she didn't pull her finger off the trigger the whole way.
But I do want to ask you one thing, Lacey, and that is about Christmas, because you are a culinary artist extraordinaire.
So I've had the benefit and the privilege of attending one of Lacey's dinner parties.
My wife and I went down to Texas and we attended one of her dinner parties.
And so I want to ask you this.
It was something like out of a little, you know, out of a movie, out of a book.
It transcended expectations.
Yeah, it did.
Reality, that's the word.
So Lacey, what are you preparing?
What have you prepared this Christmas season?
What will you be preparing in the coming days?
We haven't talked about food yet, really, with any of the ladies.
We've been too busy on Jews and too long.
What do you got, cooking?
What's cooking in Lacey's?
Yeah, I know you do.
What's cooking in Lacey's kitchen this week?
Well, thank you so much for the kind words.
I really appreciate it.
So actually, I just got done packing some gift baskets to give away at church for our friends at church.
I made some, it's a Martha Stewart recipe.
It's candy cane marshmallows.
So you make marshmallows from scratch and they've got a little bit of peppermint flavor in them and a red food coloring swirl.
I know, I'm sorry, red food coloring.
I know.
But I'm sorry, your wife is going to hate me.
I'm sorry.
Dan is making notes.
It could be beet food coloring, you know, there are natural versions.
Exactly.
And then there's the, I just said pistachio and cranberry cookies.
And then I did candied oranges dipped in chocolate and encrusted with pistachios on the side.
See, I mean, do you see how all of that?
How versatile are the ladies in the TPC for our care package?
No, no, we got one.
I got one that got one this week, got one just a day or two ago.
So, no, I mean, it's just, they are everything you would want a woman to be in terms of motherhood and being a wife and a home, a homemaker, but they are on top of the issues as well.
I love, we don't do it often enough.
We should do it more.
Valentine's Day, yes.
At Christmas hour, yes.
But Lacey, you and the ladies inspire me.
Oh, well, thank you.
Y'all inspire us.
Well, we appreciate that.
We're all in this together.
But I'm just saying, it's just talking to you about going to church and making things for your church.
It is, I enjoy doing these hours with the ladies because it gives the audience not only a sneak peek inside the homes of the, I don't want to say the average, but perhaps the extraordinary TPC listening families, but still, this is who we are, and it is a wonderful way to be.
These ladies are exemplars for our movement, and everybody needs to recognize that.
So we will talk to you again, Lacey, in February for the Valentine's Day show, of course, but that won't come soon enough.
Thank you for being on with us tonight.
Merry Christmas to you and your three children, to your husband, and we will talk again soon.
Courtney, coming up next to wrap up this hour.
Fantastic.
Madden cleanup.
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I'm a descendant of General A.P. Hill and the founder of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, I rented a box truck and set out on a mission to help the victims.
I was in North Carolina for weeks, and I brought out four truckloads of supplies, 60 generators, gave out over $130,000 directly to families who are not getting help from the federal government.
I rented heavy equipment for communities to fix driveways and roads, and I put families up at hotels.
The media has seemed to forget about these people, and they still need our help.
If you would like to donate this Christmas season, my GiveSendGo is givesendgo.com slash GDEPE.
Anything you give is going directly to these people.
Once again, it's givesendgo.com slash GDEPE.
Thank you.
God bless and God save the South.
Can a nation conceived in liberty carry its head high if it denies protection to the youngest and most vulnerable of its citizens?
Can a country founded on God-given rights continue to thrive without understanding that life is a precious gift from our Creator?
I believe that great nations and great civilizations spring from a people who have a moral compass.
I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet done.
I will be in earnest.
I will not equivocate and I will not excuse.
I will not retreat an inch and I will be heard.
One thing I promise you, I will always take a stand for life.
I don't know how our crops survive the drought and too much rain.
It must have been a miracle.
How else could you explain?
And who's the one we need to thank?
And who's this morning for?
And who's the one responsible for all this peace and joy?
And who deserves to credit for the blessings we enjoy?
The preacher said last Sunday, it was Joseph and Mary's boy.
The Christ child born in Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary's boy.
What a great selection by Courtney from Alabama.
That's Alabama, Alabama's Christmas album.
I had never heard that song until she suggested it today.
And I listened to it and I thought that would be a great way to end this hour, our last hour before Pastor Brett McAtee returns for our annual Christmas tradition in the third hour to present to us the biblical account of the birth of Christ.
And how about the ladies tonight, Keith, before we turn it over to Courtney?
I'll tell you, they're the high point of the show.
High point of the show, a high point of the month, maybe.
They have come in ready to go.
And Kim was talking earlier about a certain individual whose influence and legacy gave birth to this program.
But we've interviewed all kinds.
And I tell you, I don't know if I enjoy anything as much as shows like this where we're just getting down and we're talking with our friends and family in the audience and the people we've worked with, some of these ladies and that we know and we know their husbands.
And it's just wonderful families that make up the cornerstone of everything we've done here for the last couple of decades.
And a couple of decades.
How about that?
The one show left in our 20th anniversary year.
It's next week.
And we're going to read a lot of your mail.
We were going to read it tonight.
Time did not permit, but we will get to it next week.
Thank you for everyone who has been breaking through that USPS blockade and getting their letters into us.
Keep them coming, please.
Courtney, welcome back to the program.
Merry Christmas.
It's great to have you to wrap up this hour with the ladies tonight.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for having me.
I'm so honored.
And are you still like the plan where we talk about something political and then something Christmassy?
Well, you know, I think next year we may invert that when we talk about the Christmas stuff first, because we've been so excited and enamored by the topics that the ladies have presented that we've crammed in the Christmas stuff at the very last minute in some of these segments.
We've caught the kickoff now.
It's all broken field running from here.
You go anywhere you want to go, Courtney.
Okay, I'll start with the political and I'm so sorry if you hear kids in the background.
We want to hear that.
That's the best sound there is.
That's true.
That is true.
And so let's see, I'll get right into it.
I agree with something that James said in his post-election coverage before about people in our circles just always dwelling on the negative.
You know, I agree that Trump isn't our savior and he has a lot of flaws.
But I also think when a large percentage of whites vote for him, I mean, a lot of them think like us, it's a sign that a lot of them think like us, but they don't think they have any other options.
I noticed the same people in our circles who are always dwelling on the negative and bashing Trump's base all the time for being stupid.
They're usually the same people who are always picking at Southerners, too, about how.
you know, too many of us support Israel, too many of us are neo-cause and we're, you know, blind, stupid Republicans.
But, you know, I just don't, I don't see how a lot of white people in other regions are really any better when you see so many of them voting for Kamala.
And I do think a lot of Southerners, like when they vote for Trump, I really don't think a lot of them are thinking of Israel.
I think they're thinking that this is their only option.
And a lot of them might be thinking like us in a lot of ways.
One of the things I say, Courtney, is that even a blind hog will find a good acorn every once in a while.
I agree that all this adulation of the Jews is misplaced, but that's just a small part of the Southerners like guys.
I agree.
I agree.
And there are flaws we have, but like James always says, and also like Sam Dixon always says, you know, we can point out our flaws as Southerners, but when other people pick at us, it does irritate me.
But that's what I wanted to say about that.
Just, you know, focusing on the positive when we're thrown something like this.
I do agree that Kamala would have been so much worse.
But that doesn't mean we can't, you know, point out Trump's flaws and be aware of them, too.
But it's called being objective.
Yeah, it's called being objective.
Exactly.
And I can go into the Christmas thing now if you want.
Before you do, before you do, I have a serious question before we transition.
I saw something a couple of days ago, and it made me think of you.
And I don't know if you've seen this yet or if you have what your response is to it.
Did you see that Paul and Ringo took the stage together again three days ago?
Oh, I guess I'm a bad fan.
I can't believe you missed that.
Well, you know, they brought John Lennon back from the dead through AI.
Well, they have.
I mean, they brought back his vocals through a throwaway recording that never made it out.
And so now they're duetting again.
But Ringo joined McCartney at the O2 Arena in London.
Nobody knew it was coming.
And they were performing together again with this AI enhanced vocals from Lennon from a track that never made it out of the studio.
So anyway.
Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe will be visiting us from the Omega right next.
Anyway, you check that out.
It's on YouTube.
Okay, I do think I saw something about the AI John.
Wow, that's crazy.
But I've been traveling lately, so I guess I have some sort of an excuse for not watching.
It was only like two days ago.
It's only two days ago.
But yeah, to see them back on stage, you know, Courtney and I love the, well, as we all do, I guess, the early 60s pop sound of the British invasion.
Forget the first time, and when they kind of trilled together, they would shake their mop-top heads.
And that was something totally new.
Anyway, so that's an aside.
That's an aside.
But Courtney, with the last three minutes of this hour, and I want to thank again, Janice and Kim and Lacey for just being outstanding, as they always are.
Valentine's Day can't get here soon enough.
But Courtney, the last couple of minutes are you.
How are you celebrating Christmas?
Again, I feel like this just didn't get quite as much attention this hour as, well, there's just never enough time, but favorite Christmas memories, traditions, food, songs, you go anywhere.
And I still think the Four Seasons have a better Christmas album, Wonderful Christmas time, and Xmas War is Over.
That's not, they could have done better than that.
But go, Courtney.
Did the Dell Visions do a Christmas album?
I don't know about that.
I didn't know the Everly Brothers did until Kim came on tonight.
But anyway, go, Courtney.
Well, I pick Alabama's Christmas music over the Beetle.
Anyway, so I want to say a little bit about avoiding stress during the holidays.
I kind of like the challenge of the quote-unquote stress.
I think I like to plan out what I'm going to do each week and weekend and what gifts I need to buy, who I need to see at that particular time, meals I need to prepare for.
I just think it's fun planning it out each week.
And a lot of times I'll buy gifts throughout the year.
I try to focus on American-made stuff.
When my husband and I ever go to an Amish community, like I know there's one in Tennessee, it's like we just stock up on their products and they make such nice little gifts, like their soaps, their candles.
You can pull up a gift bag with them.
If you go to an American National Park, you know, the gift shops usually have nice products in them.
Restaurants, local restaurants that sell their own barbecue and seafood sauces, I like to give those away as gifts.
For older people in the family, I usually just get them food because that's really all they need at this point.
And, you know, and I also want to talk about large gatherings.
I'm the type of person who does not really like huge family gatherings.
You know, my mom, my mom grew up in Montgomery in this tiny home, and she had this really loud, large southern family where they're shouting across the table at each other.
And I think when she, well, when she and my dad raised us, they didn't really want that.
So we kind of had a more quiet, calmer Christmas and where it's more, you know, smaller groups of people at a time instead of a huge, large gathering.
And that's kind of how I like to do it.
Me and my husband, we kind of see certain people on certain weekends, like an aunt and an uncle one weekend, and then another weekend.
You know, like this weekend, we're seeing my parents.
And we like to split it up like that.
And then when it's actually Christmas Eve, it's just us and our kids.
And that's just how we do it.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
If you don't like being with large crowds of people who stress you out, you know, even if it's your family, I don't think you should have to deal with that way if you don't want to.
But yeah, it's very different from when my mom was growing up.
She had a very large family there in Montgomery.
He was always shouting at each other over the table.
And yeah, it's just, we're just, we're the opposite.
We've got like two people, two relatives still alive on both sides, my wife's side and mine.
So it's Christmas is always an intimate gathering.
All the holidays are an intimate gathering, even if you combine the two clans.
But Courtney, just be glad that none of your relatives are liberals.
I've had to deal with that.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
Courtney, it's good to talk to you again.
Of course, Keith, as you'll recall, Courtney was here in Memphis just a few weeks ago.
I know her kids are mine.
It's pretty as ever.
Oh, look at it.
Listen to that.
We all went to the zoo together and had an overall good time.
We went and, yeah, good stuff.
Good stuff, Courtney.
Good to talk to you again.
Merry Christmas to you and yours and to all the ladies who were on this hour.
Pastor Brett will take us into this blessed holy day in the third hour with his message.