April 26, 2025 - 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.
Her scallant South Carolina, nobly made to stand.
Then came Alabama and took her by the hand.
Next quickly, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida.
Oh, raise them high upon every flag that bears a single star.
The wrong, the valid, the right.
Texas and Louisiana joined us in the fight.
Davis Herbert residents and Stephen Statesmen are.
Now rally behind upon every flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah, hurrah, southern Raiser.
Hurrah for the fire flag that bears a single star.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, with that, the end has come now for our Confederate History Month programming 2025 installment.
We look forward to the next one again next year already.
Some great guests this month.
And to close out our very special month of programming, this annual tradition, this special series is Kirk Lyons, a mainstay for our Confederate History Month programming every year.
He, of course, is the co-founder and serves as the chief trial counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center.
It's, as you know, a nonprofit public law corporation that offers legal support to defend the First Amendment violations, violations of civil rights, and discrimination against advocates of Southern heritage.
And he is with us tonight to apply the finishing touches on this year's Confederate History Month series.
So we will let you take to the canvas, Kirk, and draw us a masterpiece.
James, thank you for having me.
I'm talking to you from the war room on the Arlington litigation, and it looks like it'll be a fight to the finish.
We're filing our motion, or in our appeal, we're filing a motion for rehering that tabulates all the illegalities and criminal acts of the last regime in taking down and desecrating the Reconciliation Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.
Not only does its removal desecrate the graves of the sculptor Moses Ezekiel and several other men, but it desecrates all 500 graves in the Confederate section in Arlington.
And I think it's a fight worthy of any crusader knight.
Well, let's talk about, let's just start right there.
There's several things I want to talk to you about during the time we have with you this hour, Kirk.
But yes, I mean, it is important to fight for our people, whether it be on the airwaves or in the court of public opinion or on the streets or in a court of law.
And that is where you take your shield and your sword.
And so we have over the years talked with you about many different cases you've litigated or fought or defended.
And I guess it would be generous to say going to court on behalf of our issues is a win-some, lose-some proposition.
But you do fight.
And what do you, again, give us some more details about what you're widing?
Well, the thing that I advocate and where the SLRC is different from just about anybody else that's handled a heritage case is that we have always, always, always understood that all Confederate flag cases are political.
And it didn't start really sounding, that did not really start resounding with average folk until they did it to Trump over the 2020 election and his legal attempts to get justice and found out that these are all political cases and a very skewed judiciary can savage your case and pretend that it's all tied up with legal niceties when they're just being political.
And that means that like any other civil rights group in the past, we've got to fight these cases in the courts.
We've got to fight them in the court of public opinion.
And there's a job for every one of our supporters to do if we're going to win this case.
And we finally got through to people in the Arlington case when the SCV was doing the litigation.
They started finally, finally learning that the average supporter has got to do his bit.
And that is to support the litigation financially.
And he's got to call, call, call, call the politicians and tear them up and make them do the right thing vis-a-vis the legal underpinnings of the case.
Things that the citizen can do that the attorney cannot.
Look, folks, you got to attack.
You got to defend on all fronts.
You can't leave one front wide open.
It is important.
Armed combat.
Infantry, cavalry, artillery, air force, balloon corps, submarine force, all of it's got to be brought to bear, all of it.
And everybody has a role, whether it's to give money, whether it's to fight in the court, or whether it's just to show up in our thousands to observe the legal proceedings and stare like vultures at the judge and the jury.
Well, we have to be present.
Certainly, if, I mean, I have my misgivings about criminally corrupt courts, of course, but I can tell you, if you don't show up, the outcome is absolutely guaranteed.
And I do think that things are changing culturally to an extent that at some point it may even trickle down to the ones that are one of the ways, it's still one of the ways that we can fight peacefully and nonviolently.
I mean, and it sets, it's a revolutionary act to turn the system and point out their inconsistencies and their lies and their backstabbing.
That's a revolutionary act.
And because it makes a historical record, all of court proceedings are recorded and written down.
The opinions are written down.
And it makes a record that we can point out later again and again and again.
And if enough people are involved, I mean, how do you think the Marxists in the NAACP won?
They didn't win any of their lawsuits in the early days, but they stayed at it.
And they had thousands and then millions of people writing op-eds, editorials, calling politicians, contacting judges, and letting the judges know who made those decisions that if you do not do what we want you to do, there are consequences.
You will pay for this, whether you're not reappointed or ever sent to a higher court.
That's what they did and it worked.
And it's not the only arrow in our quiver, but it's a very important one that we have to play.
Well, let's give the website right now.
If you want to support that aspect of the fight, a man, and listen, Kirk Lyons has been in court all over the country.
He's talking about and defending this Arlington monument in Arlington, Virginia, the National Cemetery right now.
But he has been engaged in so many fights from the entire length and width of Dixie, from Texas to Virginia and all points in between.
You can support the calls there at the Southern Legal Resource Center's website.
That is SLRC for the Southern Legal Resource Center, S-L-R-C- or dash, C-S-A.org, S-L-R-C-C-S-A.org.
And I would encourage you to do that.
I mean, Kirk has been, listen, Kirk, you know, you're not, this is, this is, the timing of this is interesting.
I received, a friend of mine recently sold his house and sent me up a box of items that he thought that I would enjoy that included some vintage clothing with some of our long gone.
It was very nice.
I mean, it wasn't like, you know, period stuff.
It was from like campaigns from, you know, the 80s and 90s and things like that.
People that he would have supported.
But one of the things he sent was a magazine.
And the magazine, and I just looked at it yesterday, I received this box.
Jay, down in Florida, if you're listening, I received the box yesterday.
You sent it on April the 3rd.
I received it yesterday.
That's pretty standard for the Postal Service these days.
I got it yesterday.
And Kirk, one of the things included in this box of goodies was a magazine from 1994.
I'm going to go get it during the break.
I actually brought it.
Okay.
But it's out in the car.
I'm going to get it to the break.
Interview from 1994 with you.
And I was like, I just got it last night and you were going to be on the show tonight.
And 1994 interview with Kirk Lyons.
I was 14 years old, man.
You were out there in court.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, that's 94.
My number three son was born in 94.
So that's cool.
I brought that.
I tell you what, we got a two-minute break.
And when we come back, we have a lot more I want to talk to you about.
I want to talk about some current issues, some cultural issues.
Sure.
The South, the Confederacy.
And certainly we want to end the hour by going back and talking a little bit more about your work in the courts at the Southern Legal Resource Center.
I'm going to run out to the far and get this magazine.
And we'll see what you were talking about in 1994.
I'll be right back.
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And interesting that I use that word because here I am now with Kirk Lyons of the Southern Legal Resource Center.
Now, Kirk, I went out and I got this magazine.
I received this yesterday.
All right.
So I just got this yesterday.
I looked at it.
I was like, I'd be dead gum.
Kirk's going to be on the show tomorrow.
January 1994.
January 1994.
And it's got an interview with you.
And I haven't actually heard of this particular organization.
It says you were with the CALS Foundation at that time.
Yeah, CAS Foundation was basically what we used for our Waco cases and cases like that back in the 90s.
It was basically a civil rights organization to file lawsuits against tyrants.
Well, it says right here, I'm just reading from this very quickly, taking on, reading from this article 1994, taking on some of the most controversial cases in modern American history, laws, excuse me, Lions and the Cause Foundation have gained a reputation for uncompromising dedication and toughness from the Fort Smith, Arkansas sedition trials to the Randy Weaver case at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to the Branch Davidian affair in Waco, Texas.
And of course, it's a QA, this publication with you.
And it's, I'm really looking forward to reading it.
This is the first time I've actually looked at the inside.
I saw the cover yesterday.
Got a young-looking Kirk Lyons here.
Now, Darker back then.
No less handsome, but definitely a little bit younger back then.
Well, it just goes to show folks how long this man has been engaged in the fight.
That goes back to 94.
And those were some pretty big cases all the way back then.
You've been doing this at a high level for a long time.
The 32nd anniversary.
Well, we didn't celebrate it, but we remembered the 32nd anniversary of the burning down of the Branch Davidian church and the 30th anniversary of Oklahoma City.
And we know so much more about that cover-up now than we ever did before.
And that's one of the things that I will probably work on the rest of my life.
I know enough factual information about the Oklahoma City bombing to be dangerous.
And I think we can, once we cut through all the nuttier parts of the conspiracy theories, I think we can actually find out what really, really happened.
And frankly, what it was was a government sting operation that went horribly wrong.
Well, I tell you what, it would be interesting and fascinating to bring you back to talk about that at greater length on another occasion.
But yeah, there's a lot more being found out.
And there are actually some bona fide historical researchers that are going through what of the record is available, and they're finding some incredible stuff.
And it looks like there was a government sting operation called PatCon that's job was to go find right-wingers, entice them into crime, and then snatch them up when they tried to do it.
And that's what the Oklahoma City bombing was.
And the problem was that the writer, it was supposed to be, they were supposed to be stung in the parking garage.
The rider truck wouldn't fit in the parking garage.
And so unbeneath to the FBI, McVay and John Doe, number two, of which that is a fact, by the way, came around to the front of the building.
And so without their knowledge, was able to blow up the building.
So the cover-up is Mr. Uncle Sam doesn't want you to know that.
That I tell you what, I'm writing a note to self right now.
Bring Kirk back soon to talk about OKC because this is, I want to focus what little time we have left.
Well, I mean, I do want to refocus to the South and to the Confederacy, but it is still current.
It may be off topic for what we are supposed to be talking about right now, but they just released a brand new movie about this.
And of course, we won't like the treatment of it and the conclusions.
And it was an establishment piece, but this is still something that fascinates people still of this day and for a lot of different reasons.
So we will have you back on to talk about that.
Now, you got it.
The last hour we had on the author of this research piece that was talking about voting patterns in the different regions and how the regional voting patterns, votes for Trump, basically, varied greater by region than by gender.
And of course, the South is just overwhelmingly voting for Trump.
I played a clip from George Wallace, and I meant to share.
I mean, people know this, but we had revisited an interview with George Wallace Jr. earlier this month as part of our Confederate History Month programming.
And he said during that interview this, at the end, at the end, the very last thing he said in that interview with him that we did was, I've always resented how the people of the South, even today, are portrayed.
There's an agenda at work.
It portrays Southerners in such a way as slow and backwards and all that.
And then you add into the fact that we're generally conservative and the wisdom is that we must be flawed, but we're not flawed.
And I'm convinced that the people of the South and the spirit of the people of the South are going to save the country.
I really believe that.
Now, that was an interview from good for George Wallace Jr.
Well done.
Indeed.
Well, that was a very good interview.
I actually got to vote for Wallace for president.
My very first presidential election was in 1960.
Now, you really did.
And I was a Wallace delegate at the Travis County, Texas Democratic Party caucus after the primary.
How about that?
Now you're really going back.
Huh?
Now you're really going back.
Let's talk.
I'm a Wallace delegate.
Let's tie it all in together then.
Going back to that and going back 100 years before that, I mean, because they were fighting a very similar battle in 1960 that they fought in 1860, a different way, unfortunately, the same result.
Why is it important, Kirk?
I ask this question of a lot of my guests every year, but I think as we, every year we move forward, we're a year further away from that war.
Why is it still important to remember the sacrifice of the Confederate soldier?
Why do we still celebrate Southern culture?
Why do you do all of this?
Because our ancestors were right then and they are right now.
We now have been able to see the human face of evil that our ancestors saw in 1860.
When you see all these woke, Marxist, criminal thugs, that's what our ancestors saw.
We've actually been given a golden opportunity to see the world through their eyes.
And what they saw that scared them in 1859 and 1860 is what we see now.
And they could not see living in a union with these people that wanted to kill them in their beds, that hated them, despised them.
And that's exactly what we're seeing now.
That's exactly what we're seeing now.
It wasn't called Marxism then, but that's what it was, especially when you brought real Marxists over from Germany to take over the Republic or to basically found the Republican Party in the 1850s.
That's what our ancestors were fighting.
And they were, and even a slave society, I say this all the time, even a slave society has the right to defend itself against an invasion and the horrors of war.
Everybody poo-poos how horrible war is.
And our ancestors had the absolute right to defend their homes and firesides from an illegal, thuggish invasion.
And that for that reason alone, they're right there right now to defend themselves and praise them and honor them.
All these years later, and what is the direct correlation?
Now, look, Trump is an imperfect vessel.
I voted for him three times.
I like a lot of the things he's doing.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous to just say that everything he's doing is not good for us.
There are some things he's doing.
I'm not saying that it's the answer.
He's not the answer.
If he can be a stepping stone to something bigger and better beyond that, I'm not saying we shouldn't have our own ethnostate.
We shouldn't have a secession.
But if we have to be governed by Washington right now, I'd rather it be him than Kamala.
But how do you correlate and how do you connect?
What's the direct connection between the spirit of 1860 and even the spirit of the South today?
We were talking in the George Wallace that interview.
The difference in voting patterns, the difference in culture, the difference in Christianity.
I mean, I think I was saying, you know, it's waning.
It still exists, but it's waning.
But when I looked at these election results from 2024, the South stands out in a glowing and flashing way from the rest of the country.
There is still a distinct and separate people here.
We are.
And our Generation Z is knocking it out of the park with their conservatism and their unwillingness to follow the post-World War II consensus.
So you went from having people out there that are, you know, learning that a good bit of the world wants them extinct and they don't like it and they're fighting back.
And you're talking about movements in Europe now that have this has all really much exploded since the Trump election.
And we will take this break.
We're going to reform people in Britain and alternativa for Deutschland in Germany.
We're coming up on a break, Kirk, but I got to just, for a point of emphasis, reiterate what you just said.
You're talking about Generation Z.
This is like the high school age people, people that are just becoming voters.
And they are much further to the right than the generation older than them and two generations older than them.
The right and the youngest people are coming back.
That's something we'll talk about next.
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Version of Dixie.
Have you ever heard that version, that exact version of Dixie before?
I know Kirk Lyons prefers a fast-paced cadence, and I do too, but I played that one for a reason.
That was the version of Dixie that played at Walt Disney World until just a couple of years ago.
If you can believe it, in the queue of the ride Splash Mountain, they would have several different period songs that would play on a loop, including Dixie up until, what was it?
I mean, three or four years ago, and then they re-themed the ride.
That was the ride based off the Song of the South movie, Bray Rabbit.
Well, you know, Walt Disney was a rabid Confederate.
When he was on set for the Great Locomotive Chase, which was filmed in North Georgia in the 1950s, he wore a Confederate keffy every single day of filming.
Every single day of filming.
I knew he was very wise on other concerns that we shared.
Let's just put it that way.
And I knew that he was staunchly conservative, for lack of a better word.
And I'm sure he was a sympathizer, but I did not know that.
I did not know that.
But I mean, that movie was wonderful.
And that YouTube video about the making of the great locomotive chase, it's worth anybody's time.
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But it ran on the wonderful world of color in the 1950s before the movie was released.
And it's worth anybody's time.
This is the thing about culture, though, Kirk, is it can change.
It can shift.
It can change back again.
And again, for anything people could say about modern Disney, I get it.
But that song still played there until very recently.
And going back to what we were talking about before the last break with regards to these up-and-coming young people who were much further to the right than the generation immediately before them and two generations before them, you would expect a slow fizzling out of right-thinking people with each subsequent generation.
But it is beginning to turn.
So we will see if the culture can once again inform some of these institutions.
But, you know, say what you will about Disney, you know, Dolly Pardon did the same thing.
Dolly Pardon was about 30 minutes away from you, Kirk, up in God's country, and she got rid of the Dixie Stampede and all that.
But these things, what has been lost can come back.
I got to ask you this.
I want to ask you this very quickly.
This is a letter that came in, and then we'll go back to your work and any other things, parting shots.
A letter that came in from Ralph in Arkansas, and it reads, Dear James, I'm sending you information about this book.
Some of it I may agree on, but turning your back on Confederate heritage is wrong.
The Confederate cause was just and right.
I wish you would have a segment of your show with one of your Confederate History Month guests and ask them about it, basically, is what he writes.
And so that's you, Kirk.
The name of the book, I haven't heard about it before, and I haven't read it, but it's called Dixieland Deceived, the Great Conspiracy Behind the Civil War.
And there's an endorsement for the book.
The listener writes wrong.
He circled it and writes wrong.
But someone who endorses the book writes, as a descendant of a Confederate soldier, I was raised on a steady diet of what I now believe to be fabrications and lies.
I joined the Sons of Confederate veterans and was disturbed by the number of men, blah, blah, blah.
Well, the whole premise of this book is that the usual suspects based in Roth Childs, Europe, aligned with the empire-seeking plantation society in the South.
It was this elite who long-range planned and under one false pretext after another finally executed America's greatest disaster.
And it was the determined leadership of Abraham Lincoln that thwarted this elaborate scheme of this deadly cabal in the end.
Do you want to take a stab at that one, Kirk?
Well, every, well, for one thing, every intelligent person in the country knew that when the first guns went off, when the first cannons fired on Fort Sumter, slavery was dead.
It was only a matter of time.
And you know, the best exponent of that was Jefferson Davis, who told a peace emissary in 1864 that he knew that slavery was finished in North America when the first guns fired on Fort Sumter in 1861.
He knew it was over eventually.
And every intelligent man did.
And this was, in any war, follow the money.
And where was the money?
Those loans and those bankers were supporting the North, not the South.
The Rothschilds.
That's certainly the first time I've never heard that.
And Northern plutocrats.
I've never heard Lincoln went to war to fight the globalist bankers.
I've never actually heard that exact principle.
No, he was part of them.
And of course, I believe that they turned on him.
The deep state turned on him in 1865 and murdered him.
And I believe that that was led by the Secretary of War, Edward McMaster Stanton, who, save for the fact that Andrew Johnson didn't get killed, pretty much ran the country during Reconstruction.
Pretty much ran the country.
And that was the plan.
And they needed a martyr so they could wave the bloody shirt during Reconstruction, and they got it.
And they felt like Lincoln was too much of a free thinker and he'd get in their way.
And so they figured, let's just get him off the stage and make a martyr out of him.
And that's what they did.
Now, John Wilkes Booth did it, but he was like the Patsy, like Oswald.
All right.
Well, that's an interesting take.
And I know we're, I wanted to be sure to work that in for Ralph, but I've been intending to do it all month.
But I appreciate your take on that.
And with three or four minutes remaining, let's go back full circle to the current battle.
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And support the work of a guy.
I mean, we established, well, the fact that he's on the show should tell you what high regard we hold Kirk Lyons to be in.
But we established earlier, if you haven't heard him over all these years, we've been on the air 21 years, went back to 91 fighting those cases, excuse me, 94, fighting those cases back then and beyond that as well.
He's been at it a long time.
He is sincere.
He is earnest.
He is capable, and he needs your support.
SLRC-CSA.org.
Final word to you, Kirk, to the troops on Confederate history and Southern heritage.
Deo Vendiche, God vindicates us.
Never give up, never surrender.
Let's fight like hell.
I believe you're going to show us the way as we go into this last break of Confederate history.
Thank you.
Thank you, James, for having me.
I've enjoyed this very much.
Well, we always enjoy having you on.
We always enjoy talking to you.
We always enjoy seeing you.
And hopefully.
I'm going to have two more grandkids this summer and fall.
Oh, my goodness.
How are you up to now?
That will be four grandkids.
I've got two now.
All right.
All right.
Well, it's growing.
It's growing.
It's growing so steady.
I haven't caught them with more, but I'm working on it.
Well, God bless you and your family.
I shut my mouth quickly enough.
God bless you and your family.
And I know y'all were up there and went through Hurricane Aline.
Y'all were right there in the epicenter of it all.
And I haven't had my roof yet because I got to pay for Arlington.
So help us out.
There you go, folks.
Hey, listen.
And why not?
Help them out with everything.
And you can do that at slrc-csa.org.
God bless you, Kirk.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Thank you, James.
Thank you for all you do.
You got it.
Bye-bye.
One more break.
We'll be right back.
Stay tuned.
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It's not like it used to be.
The Stone Rush Cavalry came and it tore up the tracks again in the winter of 65.
We were home in just a valley of mine.
On May 10th, Richmond itself.
It's a time I remember those old dingo board Dixie down.
When all the bells were ringing, the night dingo board Dixie down.
Folks, if you get a chance to watch the live rendition of that song by the band, watch the drummer as he sings that song as if he is in actual, literal pain to sing.
That's a rough song.
That's a tough song.
It's a beautiful song.
It's one of the greatest songs of all time.
I mean, there's no doubt about that, no matter what your politics are.
That is just a song of songs.
But, you know, I am not entirely sure that they licked us.
I'm not entirely sure that they did drive old Dixie down.
I still see it, and I see it every time I go to South Carolina.
And I'm there at Dixie Republic.
And you can celebrate Confederate History Month all year round at DixieRepublic.com.
And the only guest, so nice, we're having him on twice this month to wrap up our Confederate History Month series in the very last segment of the hour.
Now, listen, all of our guests have been just outstanding this month.
I mean, every show, every year, every month, but I've really enjoyed the people we featured during Confederate History Month this year.
Great job by all.
But bringing Paul Lawrence back on for the second time this month, well, because we should.
Paul, talking about driving Dixie down, is Dixie still alive based upon what you see in your parallel community building up there and the things that are happening and people that are coming together there at your property and elsewhere.
It's great to see, it looks like we may have skipped a generation of loyalists to the South, but their children and grandchildren are revisiting their roots and they're becoming more engaged in it, looking out for the true history.
And it gives a lot of inspiration.
Well, we had you back on.
We had you on two weeks ago.
You know, we were up there together on February the 8th.
Now, that was just a great trip.
I mean, there wasn't really any reason, really, for me to come up there.
I mean, there wasn't anything going on.
But we come up there.
There never has to be a reason to come up to Dixie Republic.
And my son and I drove up there on February 8th, and we spent the weekend with y'all.
And we just had, that was just a great show.
I mean, every show we do up there is great, but there's normally some type of event, not always, but normally some type of an event we're up there for.
And two weeks ago, we had you on.
Y'all are having a big arm wrestling competition there at Dixie Republic to get some community engagement, to get people coming in.
And y'all had just a great turnout.
And when you were on with us two weeks ago tonight, you were talking about that and the atmosphere.
And Hunter from the Jolly Boys came on, and it was just, you know, helping us have an opportunity to sort of experience it through the radio, I guess, with y'all.
But you've got another big event coming up, an event that I've actually never missed.
I've never missed one of the annual Dixie Fests that you've put on, but you know, I've got a scheduling conflict this year, and it pains me.
I'll see you again soon, but not that soon.
Tell us about Dixie Fest.
Remind everybody, we have broadcast live from every Dixie Fest.
We'll have to miss this one, but we're still going to be covering it.
And we want you to have the opportunity to enjoy what we've enjoyed and see what we've seen.
When is it and how can they do it, Paul?
Historically, our Dixie Fest has been in July, but it's too goggling hot, to be honest with you.
This year, we're going to do it May 10th, which is in the Carolinas.
It's officially state holiday, Confederate Memorial Day is May 10th.
So that's whenever we're going to do Dixie Fest this year.
We're going to have the bouncy house, the axe-throwing, live vans, all kinds of food.
It's family fun and food.
What's better than that?
In a safe environment, no drive-bys.
Not only that, I mean, as we say, every time we're up there, you can get some leather work done on a belt, on a holster, whatever.
In the past, you've had everything up to and including dunk tanks, bouncy houses, axe-throwing, food trucks, Ferris wheels.
I mean, you never know what you're going to get when you go up there on a Dixie Fest, except for you can be guaranteed you're going to have a good time with good people.
And every time I've gone to these things, and we're having you back on tonight because here, as we said this evening, we're still what, two or three weeks away from that.
So, plenty of time for people to make plans to go to the upcountry of South Carolina, a place that we have come to know and love as a result of all these trips the last several years up there.
My son loves going, you can't even keep him away from Dixie now.
And one thing I've seen all the times I come, Paul, you'll have everybody from eight months to 80 years old, and then some just beautiful kids running around the grounds there inside the store, wholesome families, God's people, good people.
Yeah, it's reminiscent.
I'm older than you are, but it's reminiscent of whenever I was a child.
The different events and festivals and carnivals that my family would attend and other families in the community.
Everything was safe, nice.
It wasn't so diverse.
It was monochromatic in a good way.
We need more of that.
We need less diversity and more homogeneity.
And again, folks, that is going to be all day.
That is an all-day event.
That goes, there's a firework.
Are y'all going to do the fireworks again this year?
I know you normally do.
I don't want to say you're doing fireworks if you're not doing fireworks this year.
We normally do, but last year when we did it, it put a hole in a brand new flag that we had just raised that day.
So we're working out the logistics on that.
Well, no matter what they do, and again, some of the activities and festivities change, but there will be plenty for you to get into on Saturday.
I just did want to mention that our flag raising is going to be the event's going to be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Multiple bands throughout the day and evening.
But the big flag, it's raised in between 12 and 1.
There's going to be the CSA Color Guard's going to be there.
And we all sing Dixie.
So that's a good middle time to be here.
Well, that is, yeah, the Color Guard marches out.
They sing Dixie.
There's a rifle volley, and the flag goes up, and everybody cheers.
And yeah, you mentioned the bands, too.
I forget, you know, bands all day long, people dancing, people eating some good food, going into the store, looking around, and then again, all the other activities that are taking place on the ground throughout the day.
They're vast and varied.
And we have had some great times there.
And there's a lot of radio, too.
I mean, you know, again, I hate and it pains me not to be able to be up there on May 10th this year because we've always done the political cesspool from every Dixie Fest.
But it's not just the political cesspool anymore.
Obviously, Steve Weitener, Michael Gaddy, you know, has done shows there before.
Weitener with RBN and Gaddy and others.
So you're really actually growing a lot of homemade media coverage or alternative media coverage of this event.
And that's always good to see, too.
And everything is just growing and the community is growing.
And it's just so wholesome.
And it's just something, folks, I mean, I'm doing the best I can to try to explain it.
I mean, we've had all these shows from there, so I hope we've come close to giving you an idea of what it's like, but it's really just something you have to experience.
Paul?
Johnny, I'm out here in Johnny's shop, and he wanted to put in a couple of words.
Yes, sir.
We got to hear from Johnny with about a minute left.
Yeah, we're sitting here chomping at the bit waiting for May 10th.
It's going to be a big one.
They always are.
And you're always such a big part of it, Johnny, the role you play up there in the leather shop and just you and Paul.
And of course, going back to the legacy created by Scott, the original owner, and Paul getting it, and just everything that's being built there.
Thank you both for being a part of it.
And just two great guys, two great guys, two great leaders, true community organizers.
I mean, we've let the left and the blacks sort of hijack that.
This is a real community organizing in a real community building event.
Well, we couldn't do it without you, James, and without all the support of your listeners and fellow southerners and those from, I mean, we ship all over the world, all over the country.
So our message and our symbols resonate with resistance to tyranny, no matter where you are in this world.
Amen.
No matter where you are and no matter when you are, it's always a good time to stand in opposition and in resistance to tyranny.
As I said a moment ago, celebrate Confederate History Month all year long at Dixie Republic.
And if you can't be there on May 10th, go online at DixieRepublic.com, get some caps, some t-shirts, a lot of Trump merchandise there at DixieRepublic.com.
In addition to the belt buckles, the flags, of course, license plates and a lot of miscellaneous items.
DixieRepublic.com, put in an order.
And thanks to Paul and to Johnny for holding down the fort there and keeping that establishment going and everything they're doing to grow it.