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Sept. 21, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Radio Show Hour 1 – 2025/09/20

The Killstream’s Ethan Ralph celebrates his 40th birthday by co-hosting TPC with James Edwards! Don’t miss this special crossover episode that was simulcast live on both shows.

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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.
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready and buckle up for a show to remember another unique broadcast.
There's been a lot of them this year.
Tonight will be one more.
This Saturday evening, September the 20th, Ethan Ralph of the Kill Stream is celebrating his 40th birthday.
And I don't mean he's celebrating it because it happened a couple of days ago or a couple of days from now.
No, Ethan turned 40 years old today.
And we're going to have a party for the next three hours as he co-hosts the full episode of TPC tonight.
Really looking forward to this one.
It's going to be a special crossover show.
He is live on the Killstream right now that's going to be simulcast both here and there.
Anything goes tonight.
We're going to talk about the issues.
We're going to talk about what's in the news.
A continuation of last week's show in some ways.
And that was a banger with Steve King and Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey and Kevin Deanna and Brad Griffin and others.
It's going to be a continuation of that, but we are also going to have a lot of fun.
And let's welcome the man himself, Ethan Ralph.
Happy 40th birthday.
That's a big one, no doubt.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's an honor and a privilege to co-host the show with you.
And yes, I turned 40 today.
I didn't know if I would make it or not at certain points in my life, but I did.
And it's great to be here with you, man.
Thank you for that intro.
Well, it's great to have you as well.
And as I said, we always have fun when we get together, whether it's on the Kill Stream or here on TPC.
And we will try to keep it lively and entertaining for your audience because I know they only expect the best when it comes to entertainment.
And you do keep them entertained.
You are a broadcasting animal.
I do three hours a week, three hours a week.
How long have you been going just today, Ethan?
Seven hours.
And that's pretty typical.
I mean, that's just another day at the office at the Kill Stream.
Yeah, pretty much.
I used to do, my schedules moved around.
When my show got really known, I did the late night shift on YouTube.
And long story, I won't go through the whole history, but that was usually from 11 until 2, 3 a.m. or later.
And then somehow I got bounced around and it's like a full day thing now.
So yeah, that's a pretty normal day.
It's usually seven, eight, nine hours.
And how many days are you streaming?
Usually five or six a week.
It depends.
You know, as a streamer, it can kind of just take some time off if you need to.
But yeah, usually five or six days a week.
That's incredible.
How do you come up with the content to fill that many hours?
That's probably the hardest part, honestly, especially if you don't at least have a three or four hours prep time because it's hard to fill that much time.
And if you don't have any guests, too, you just have to talk.
But one good thing is there's always something going on, right?
Stuff in the news and stuff like that and Twitter and drama.
So there's usually enough.
And audience is kind of.
You can lean on us for the next couple of hours, but I have left some gaps in the program schedule tonight to give you some time to talk about what you want to talk about.
But we're going to try to get into it all.
But before we move on past this first segment and really get into some of these topics, hey, folks, if you don't know, Ethan is also a fellow Memphian, and he's in his 40s.
So, I mean, you know, there's some ties that bind right there.
And the third hour is going to be a Memphis hour.
We're going to do a Memphis hour.
The National Guard rolled into town, you know, a couple of days ago, thanks to Trump.
So we're going to be talking about that.
But I can remember turning 40, Ethan.
You know, I turned 40 in June of 2020.
All right.
So think about that.
So that was two months after the COVID hysteria had just sort of beset the country.
That was really at the height of it all, the summer of 2020.
And you, I mean, you know, again, 40.
I mean, that's just one of the biggest birthdays you ever have.
And we couldn't do anything.
They had just opened a cracker barrel back up, but there was only like six tables in the whole restaurant that they were actually sitting people.
And it was like a four-hour wait, but that was it.
That was my 40th birthday.
Four-hour wait at Cracker Barrel, just so we could say we did something to mark the occasion.
Nothing was open.
You couldn't do anything.
Couldn't go anywhere.
So I'm going to have more fun on your 40th birthday over the next three hours than I did on mine.
Ain't no doubt about it.
Now, where are you going?
What have you been on your 40th?
Well, I was going to say, well, nothing really.
I've been working streaming all day.
I guess we already covered that.
But no, I mean, I went to Columbia a few weeks ago, so I kind of considered that my birthday trip.
I live in Mexico too.
So I guess I'll reestablish that, which is kind of crazy, I guess.
But yeah, I went to Columbia two or three weeks ago.
So that was my birthday trip.
That sounds talking about living in Mexico.
Now, you've been down there a couple of years now.
Yeah.
How long has it been?
Two, three?
Two years.
Yeah.
Two years.
All right.
When we get into the Memphis segment later tonight, we'll compare and contrast Memphis and Mexico.
By then, we'll really be rolling.
We'll talk about how those two stack up.
Now, what else was I going to ask you here before?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So just for the people, you have been on here before.
Every time I go on with you, we send out the email list.
We put it up on the blog.
You know, once you get it posted up there at the Kill Stream, tell folks about the Kill Stream, how long you've been broadcasting, because you've been around a long time yourself and certainly made a pretty big name for yourself.
Well, thank you.
And yes, Killstream's 10 years old in just a few weeks.
And so I've been streaming 11 years, came up through Gamergate.
Some people may know about that.
I won't go into the whole thing.
But it got really well known, I guess, kind of seven years ago.
And things kind of took off.
I made it my full-time job.
I don't know how many episodes we've done, 1,500 or something.
So 10 years, we talked to a lot of the same people you've talked to.
And then it kind of goes into internet drama and maybe some of my personal feuds and drama too.
But it's a weird mixture, I guess.
So internet drama, politics, we've done some debates.
We haven't done many this year, but traditionally, and I've went on, you know, done stuff on location in front of the Supreme Court after they overturned Roe v. Wade.
I was out at the Million MAGA March, the first one, when there was like half a million people there, streamed from there, streamed a lot of Stop the Steal stuff.
So there's some IRL.
They call it IRL streaming in real life.
So some of that's kind of mixed in too.
So that's kind of the description there.
But definitely a big part of the show is what you might call distant right politics and stuff like that.
It's just mixed with the other stuff.
With pop culture, with as you said, a little bit of gossip and drama here and there.
And you got on it.
You got on it right about at the time when it really exploded.
I mean, you weren't late to this game.
I mean, yeah, we go all the way back to 04, but that was a lot different than what you see.
I mean, nobody was live streaming back then.
I mean, that was just AM Talk Radio.
Twitter and YouTube weren't even around in 04 when we started.
I think Facebook had just come online.
But you got in there really at the ground level when it really started to proliferate.
And that was in about 2015.
So you were, you were one of the founding, you know, the killstream was really one of the foundational pillars of this whole explosion of content where, you know, now everybody with a microphone or a computer is a commentator.
We know that.
But, you know, Killstream goes back to about the beginning of that.
Yeah, it was kind of right when, right before it hit the rocket ship, right?
Like you said, and then just kind of took off.
And, you know, some of it was right place, right time, and people willing to come on the show and just cool with me and a lot of stuff happening.
You know, Trump had just come into office.
And I don't know, just a lot of it's right place, right time.
And I just love doing it.
And of course, I knew about your show well before I ever thought of streaming, right?
I remember you on CNN and I would read stuff in the media and the big bud politicals, Cesspool and Pat Buchanan with MSNBC.
And so I knew about your show well before all that and often call your show kind of the progenitor, predecessor, but not even the president because it's still here, right?
It inspired a lot of this type of entertainment, in my opinion.
Well, I appreciate you saying that because, I mean, there is obviously, you know, even though you and I are contemporaries in terms of age, you know, I'm mid-40s, you've just turned 40, but we do have, you know, being having our foundation being an AM radio, our audience is a little older.
It's a little different than yours.
And I'm excited tonight about this simulcast.
I'm actually right there in the rumble room with you and I'm watching the chat.
Now, I don't know if they can hear some of the stuff.
Okay, so you know what's going on.
Yeah, we had an audio problem right before and they're like, oh, three minutes, figure it out.
And I did, thankfully.
And so.
Well, you figured it out as far as the listening audience for my side is concerned, but I think they're only hearing half of it over there on your end.
But I'm going to have our first break.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, don't worry, bro.
I'll fix it after the first segment.
I saw somebody in chat complaining.
You've got some Johnny on the spots that have already gotten the live link to TPC up there, and everybody's just sort of gone over there.
What do you call your folks?
Are they Ralpha males, Ralphamaniacs, or do they even have a name?
Ralpha Male is the term.
By the way, the audio should be on now.
You guys should be able to hear it.
And I don't think there's an echo.
So I apologize for that.
But yeah, Ralpha Male, somebody made that up as a joke, play on the word or the term alpha male years ago, and I just ran with it.
So yeah, that's kind of associated with the Phil.
Well, I won't say that on the radio.
The FCC will probably find it.
Yeah, I was popping in and out today.
You see, Ethan Ethan knows we got to clean up the act just a little bit here on 1600.
But I was popping in and out throughout the day, catching some of your birthday stream.
And I hear the music.
We're going to take our first break.
Then we're really going to get started.
I saw the guy that was building a house out of Styrofoam.
I mean, it's a show like none other on the kill stream.
And so, folks, we're going to take our first break of the night.
When we come back, Ethan Ralph, just me and Ethan, one-on-one, talking about the issues, maybe taking some questions.
We'll be back.
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We are firing on all cylinders now with the one and only Ethan Ralph.
Everybody at the Kill Stream can hear both sides of the conversation now.
I think just one side was coming in during that first segment.
Of course, on our side of it, the radio side, everything was good.
We did find out Ralph of Sweethearts is the term.
It looks like that's been submitted there for the female side of your listenership.
And yeah, so how this worked, folks, was Ethan had asked me to come on and make an appearance for his 40th birthday stream, this whole day celebration that he's having over there at the Kill Stream.
And of course I wanted to be a part of that.
But then I was thinking, well, I mean, why not do a simulcast?
And we'll have you on the third hour.
That'll give us some content.
And then my co-host, Keith, who is an old miss alum, he's down there watching the game tonight.
I said, well, let's just do the full three hours together.
And this came up what was two days ago, I think, two or three days ago is when I pitched it to you.
And then anyway, the rest is history.
So I hope, listen, we have to make your audience proud tonight because this is your birthday show.
I think our audience is going to be happy.
But we want to make yours happy because my audience knows what to expect.
Maybe yours, this might be new for them, this AM radio format.
But we're going to try to play all the hits tonight, right, Ethan?
That's right.
It's not new to me, the AM radio format.
I love the radio, grew up with it.
WHBQ sports radio there in Memphis and several others.
I'm saving the Memphis thing until the third hour because I'm looking forward to it.
You know, this is like savoring the dessert.
We'll have some fun with that.
But let's hit some issues then.
And by the way, for everybody listening over at the Kill Stream, yeah, during the commercial breaks, we got a five-minute break at the bottom of the hour.
We got three breaks per hour and then at the top of the hour, so four if you count that one.
So yeah, let's make that happen.
You've already hit your goal for it.
So, I mean, we're good, but let's triple it or something or quadruple it.
Anyway, free speech, okay?
This is a big issue right now in light of what's happened since Charlie Kirk's assassination.
And I say this a lot.
I say this, I said it last week when we were talking with Lou Moore and all those other guests, Steve King.
But, you know, I'm not a free speech absolutist.
You know, this whole thing where, you know, we got to be principled.
And even if it does not serve the interest of our people, We're still going to be principled because that's like a high and mighty thing.
No, I say this all the time, but it's worth repeating, especially tonight because we got the Killstream audience tuned in extra.
Here's how you should determine your position on any issue.
Is it good for our people?
And if you ask yourself that, your position on an issue can change, but you're not a hypocrite.
You're being very consistent because what you are doing is basing your position on is it good for our people?
Our people, of course, white people.
So depending on whether or not we hold power, and we said this at the very end of the show last week, I think it was actually Kevin Deanna who said it.
You know, the question of secession came up.
Well, I'm for secession if we're subjugated and living under, you know, a tyrant.
I'm in favor of secession.
However, if we have the upper hand, I'm in favor of a strong central government to crush the enemy, to crush their spine, I think is how Deanna put it last week.
And you can have those positions and remain ideologically consistent, right?
Because it's what's good for our people based upon the situation that you're in.
And the same thing, Ethan, to me applies to free speech.
Hey, I mean, I'm for free speech if it benefits our people.
But in this situation, you know, I'm for burning the books.
I am for eradicating everything that the other side believes from society.
However, you have to do it.
Again, I am consistent because that's what's good for our people now.
Your take on free speech, because you've been a part of all this too.
You know, I mean, you've been, we've all had to suffer the indignity of being banned.
You know, I was banned from Facebook and YouTube and Twitter and every credit card processing company in the world.
And, you know, it was a setback.
Yeah.
You know, it hurt in terms of, you know, it hurt our ability to do what we needed to do.
But I never got upset and whined about it.
I just said, you know, God, just let me live long enough to be able to do it to them and that much harder.
I mean, that's my position on free speech.
So what do you say about that?
Well, so we talked about being on YouTube earlier and now banned or whatever, but I used to have the Top Late Night Show and got banned.
That probably cost me maybe like half a million dollars or something, right?
It was a really big deal.
I don't remember any left-wing commentators or streamers or celebrities or anybody saying that that was a bad thing or please help this guy.
He might lose his livelihood or, you know, people could spiral out of control.
Like your whole, that could happen to me, right?
That was my whole income.
That was my whole life.
Now I may do, but I thought about that because my first instinct is I actually, I turn towards free speech, like, right?
I like that.
And it's kind of my stock and trade and it's important to my business.
But and I see people pushing this and celebrating people getting mad.
And my first thought was, I don't know, maybe we're, maybe we're going too far.
And then they did the I stand with Jimmy Kimmel thing.
And I'm supposed to feel sorry for Jimmy Kimmel.
I'm supposed to feel sorry for Jimmy Kimmel, right?
This guy has been in Hollywood for what, 25 years since I was a kid.
The man show, that counts.
I'm sure he made a pile of money off that.
He's gotten a pile of money from ABC.
He hosts the Oscars.
What is it?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
I don't feel sorry for Jimmy Kimmel.
Hey, what would they have said to you, Ethan?
What would they have said to you?
I mean, Jimmy Kimmel, he is entitled to free speech, but not reach.
He can get a show on Rumble.
He can go to Rumble now.
You know, just like you had to do.
Set up shop.
I mean, I think he already has a YouTube channel.
Just go over there.
They won't ban him.
So, yeah, that started getting to me.
And then I started saying, you know what?
I just don't even care.
And so I don't know.
In my principled view, you want to go to what in theory I actually believe or want.
Yeah, free speech.
I want that.
But like you said, situations change and feelings change.
Well, here's your thing.
I mean, the situation is principles work if you have a shared identity, a racially homogenous society.
I mean, you can have disagreements, but everybody's going to be on board with the core issues.
The other side, this is the fact.
This is a fact.
And it's something that conservatives need to learn.
And they've never learned it before.
I hope they've learned it now, that we have a position of power, at least for the moment, is that these people did not, and nor will they ever extend to us something as high in my idea of an ideal as free speech.
I mean, they want us completely bankrupt.
They want us off of all platforms.
And if Trump hadn't gotten in their way and distracted them by running a third time, they would have already come for us and probably put the lights out in the last Biden administration, the last four years.
People say, well, by doing this to them, don't forget they could come back and do it to us.
They were already doing it and they were already going to do it.
And so, you know, this whole idea that the sense of fair play with your enemy, tolerance is not a Christian virtue.
Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibson's dead, said that on the show one of the times we interviewed him.
He was a great guy, by the way.
But this is, I mean, we have to have a sense of ruthlessness now.
This is, it isn't us or them.
One of these sides is going to be wiped off the board.
Yeah, free speech is all well and good, but only in a high trust society, we do not have that.
We have nothing in common.
It's just a bunch of racial aliens in this tower of Babel.
And I am not for their freedom of speech, and I am for using a strong state to suppress it.
And you say, well, I mean, would you want it done to you?
No.
But that is the way the game is played.
And again, my principle is, is it good for my people?
Not just this abstract ideal where, yeah, well, even though they want to outlaw us, it's their free speech, and I'm all for it.
Well, these people, you know, it's all well and good.
Like I said, in principle, in theory, yeah, I like that idea.
But politics is about winning.
And pick up Machiavelli and read The Prince and read Discourses on Living, by the way.
But it's not about really principles.
It's not about, oh, I wish things were.
It's about defeating your opposition.
And that might sound cold-blooded, but that's what it is.
It's not about anything else other than taking power and maintaining it.
And politics, competition over resources.
That's what it is.
And, you know, you can still have your ideals.
You can still have all this and that.
But do you want to win?
Are you going to feel bad about what you have to do to win?
Then don't get involved in politics, really, or care about politics.
Yeah, that's just how it goes.
It's a nasty business.
And that's just the way of the jungle here.
And, you know, it's not for the faint of heart.
And, you know, one side's going to have to win, Ethan.
I mean, that's all there is to it.
This is one thing I love about Ethan.
We can have a good time.
We talk.
I mean, you know, my first interview with him, even after 21 years in radio, was one of the most memorable interviews and the most fun.
The most I've ever laughed in an interview, I think, still to this day.
The first time I was on the Kill Stream, we got into Hermann Sermons.
We got into all of it.
But we'll probably get into it before the end of the night tonight.
But, you know, Ethan is also a very sharp political commentator.
He has fun on the kill stream.
He does a lot of different things that we don't do on AM radio, but he's as good as anybody when it comes to offering this commentary.
And I'm just saying that you live in a nation with all these squabbling nationalities that don't share the common faith, common heroes, common culture, common language, common anything, holidays.
You just, you can't have common ground.
One of those sides is going to dominate the other.
And this is our living space.
This is our country.
This is our ideas.
Our people should dominate.
And I don't feel bad about that at all.
I don't want them to have the freedom to do the things that they had been doing to us forever.
And we're only going to do even more so until we had this reprieve.
So it's very important that we get aggressive here.
And I say, Ethan, you know, I'm back on Twitter.
I was banned two and a half years ago, you know.
And I'm back as of two weeks ago.
I'm back two weeks ago, Thursday.
And it's at TPC James Edwards.
So any of the Killstream folks, we got a, I don't know where all those people were for the first time, but we haven't got them back yet.
But after, I said this last week, after a two and a half year ban, the difference on Twitter is unbelievable.
I mean, have you noticed that?
I mean, did you notice just sort of being in that, never taking a timeout?
I came back and I was like, what was what is going on?
Like, everybody's to the right of David Duke on Twitter now.
I never said anything.
I mean, Normis are to the right of David.
Well, there's the bottom of the hour.
All right, well, pick it up there as we continue the free speech, where it's going.
And Charlie Kirk and Irina Zarudska, we're going to get into it all.
We're going to have a lot of fun tonight.
We're just getting started.
These are just the opening salvos, folks.
So stay tuned to legendary King Street.
Ethan Roundtable, we'll be right back.
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Okay, so where we were before the break was, I mean, I was late to the party anyway on Twitter.
I didn't even join Twitter because I'd been banned from Facebook and YouTube.
I didn't even join Twitter until 2016.
I was just like, well, I'll give it a shot.
You know, that was the year of Trump.
You know, I joined, you know, that spring or something.
We had gotten the press credentials and gone and broadcast live at the Republican National Convention.
And so we, I got on Twitter in 2016 and made it until 23 before I got banned for no reason.
I mean, I don't even respond to other users.
I don't quarrel.
I don't do anything.
It was just, you know, a total arbitrary thing.
Kevin McDonald and I both got axed at the exact same day, the exact same time, and a few others too, Tom Sunich and Paul Fromm, if anybody knows those old war horses, friends of mine.
And they never let me back.
I appealed it every month for like two and a half years.
And I just finally came back without permission using a different name.
And so we got to start back from zero, which sucks because you're losing like, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of followers that we had.
But anyway, it is a party there.
And I'm glad I'm back.
I don't know why I waited this long now.
But I'm glad I'm back, Ethan, because what we were talking about is that the difference between two and a half years ago Twitter and today is night and day.
I was saying before the break, you know, David Duke is a great friend of mine.
I mean, we go on vacations together.
We go, I've been in his house.
He's been in my family friend.
And, but everybody on Twitter is to the right of him now.
I mean, people just, you know, random accounts with, you know, 15 followers, you know, just normie people are posting things that he wouldn't even say.
And it's just an incredible thing.
I mean, what has happened there?
Well, we were talking a little bit during the break, and I saved most of it.
But I said, if I had been gone from Twitter for five years and I came back into this, it would be like an alternate timeline type situation.
Like, did I step into a different dimension or what's happened here?
You know, I mentioned this too.
They use AI to translate into an English voice, Hitler's speeches and stuff, and those go viral and everything.
I mean, certain words you're not supposed to say, according to the FCC about minorities, et cetera.
They're all over Twitter, right?
And honestly, it's more of what Twitter should be.
I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, I'm just like, whoa, if I would have even alluded to that three years ago, I would have been kicked to the moon, right?
Immediately.
So there's a lot of stuff, and the misgendering thing is gone.
But I will say, as great as it is, it's still, they can still clip you, right?
It's still like they can take down who they want.
There have been a few people banned, but I'd say for the most part, they just restored Gavin McInnes again.
All that stuff.
So, yeah, it is kind of like a party on there now.
I've kind of gotten outflanked a little bit, though, because I'm used to the old.
I mean, look, I mean, John Burch Society, I mean, the John Burch Society on their official Twitter handle has a picture of Giga Chad on the phone calling his congressman and saying it's time to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
I mean, this is the John Burch Society.
Something has happened there in the last two years.
It's wild, man.
Like I said, it is insane.
Actually, it's interesting what's happened there.
And I don't know what their profits are looking like or how much pressure Mosque is under to rein it in.
I don't know how you could fully rein it in at this point.
And the longer it goes, the longer it's going to be.
But yeah, I actually said you should get a new account on there.
So I'm glad you did.
It was just the indignity of it all, the injustice of it all, to start from zero after you had organically built up a huge following.
And it just, you know, I just didn't, you know, I was getting by.
I was doing a, I got, you know, hired on by the American Free Press to do a newspaper column.
How old school is that?
A.M. radio in a newspaper in a print newspaper column.
But, you know, it reaches a lot of people and I just, you know, to hell with it.
But I'm glad I'm back.
You know, I just, you know, we'll get, we'll get there.
Hey, everybody on the kill stream at TPC James Edwards.
Out of the 2,500 people that are listening right now, there's got to be at least 10 of you that are on Twitter.
So that'll, that'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll do what we can.
But going back to the bans, Ethan, I mean, I don't like being banned, but I'd love to see these people get banned.
And again, I'm not too, yeah, I'm not too noble.
I'm not too noble for my own good like Rand Paul is.
If I had power, I would do the exact same thing to them and then some.
And that's why I never really got too upset about it.
They did right by them.
We're going to do right by us.
And there was one comment that I actually retweeted here in the last couple of days, or they call it repost now.
But this is spot on.
Talking about all the firings that are going on for people who didn't prostrate themselves in front of Charlie Kirk and his memory.
The comment reads, liberal OPSEC is bad because they've never had to deal with reprisal before.
They're getting hit like an isolated tribe's first contact with smallpox.
I said, you know, keep pouring it on them.
If I was a Roman emperor, it'd be thumbs down.
And we're talking about teachers, librarians, I mean, just regular people.
The left has never had to deal with the firings before, the loss of scholarships, you know, people getting expelled from schools.
There was Governor Abbott in Texas, you know, personally called university to get this one black kid expelled because he was mocking Charlie Kirk, and they did it.
Rudy Giuliani is sitting there taking DMs and saying, you know, who do we need to fire?
He's like personally calling businesses, Rudy Giuliani.
He's calling businesses and getting people fired.
I've never seen anything like it.
There's a scene at the end of the movie Miracle, the movie about the American hockey team that defeated the Soviets in the late 70s, early 80s.
Kurt Russell plays the coach in it and the hockey coach.
And it was just, I mean, these college kids playing against these seasoned, ruthless professionals from the Soviet Union.
And they had like a 0% chance to win.
And then they won.
And at the end, the Russians had never lost before.
The Soviets had never lost before.
And there's a scene where Kurt Russell says, you know, they're supposed to pull their goalie when they're losing, but they'd never been behind before.
They didn't know what to do.
And Kurt Russell's comment in that movie was playing the coach.
I believe his name was, I don't remember the coach's name, but whoever it was.
He said, they don't know what to do.
They don't know what to do.
And you're seeing this from the left right now.
They do not know.
They've never been lean and hungry.
They always talk as if they were like anti-establishment.
They were the ones that were propped up by the establishment.
They were the ones that were propped up by the Fortune 500 companies and the governments and the courts.
They've never had to deal with this before.
And they are getting absolutely routed right now.
And I hope it never ends.
Free speech has consequences, like somebody that just said.
And let them live with it.
And again, I don't feel sorry for them at all.
And now's the time to move on them.
And these people who feel bad and I got to stick by my principles.
Okay, that's fine.
Go ahead and do that.
And I won't hold it against you.
But don't go after anybody that's not worried about that right now, right?
Like they're on the move.
They're on the march.
You mentioned smallpox and then some more blankets to their camp and keep moving.
Right.
Like I actually like seeing it.
And as I said, though, at first, I was a little like, I don't know.
You know, maybe people are taking it too far.
Maybe there's going to be some backlash against this.
But that's the white man in you.
The white man in you has the sense of fair play.
The white man in you has a sense of fair play and integrity and honesty.
But you can't give that to people who don't reciprocate.
I mean, you cannot do that with an enemy and an alien people.
100%.
And, you know, a couple days went by, and it was really the Kemmel thing.
Like, I'll say, repeat it again.
And that just kind of could totally 100% convince me.
I already was taking joy in seeing some of these people whine, but that was the one where I just said, let it burn and keep going, whether they keep pushing.
And you have to take wins when you can get them.
And now's the time.
The time is ripe, right?
The time is right, whatever, to go for this and to keep scoring points because you don't know when you'll get a chance to score points.
Everybody last week was saying that.
I mean, again, Steve King, Steve Stockman, another congressman out of Texas, Lou Moore, you know, Lou's been on your show too, Ron Paul's campaign manager.
And everybody's just saying Rico, Rico, Rico.
Everybody's saying Palmer raids, you know, the Palmer Raids of the 1920s.
And, you know, I say crush them.
I mean, you know, Donald Trump, and I love it.
Donald Trump is at peak Trump right now.
I think we were witnessing peak Trump.
It wasn't 2016 when everybody was all so excited and when he was this blank canvas upon which everyone projected their wildest fantasies.
I think it's right now, the $100,000 for H-1B visas.
I think he did that reportedly while he was on the phone with the Prime Minister of India, taunting.
He's taunting reporters now like never before.
This thing about Antifa being a major terrorist organization with all caps, as he has wont to do.
And everybody knows that he's declared Antifa to be a terrorist organization.
It's early.
You're going to have to keep the pressure.
You're going to have to move fast.
You're going to have to move decisively.
But we forget we're only eight months.
We'll get your grade on Trump the first nine months of this administration in the next segment.
But right now, I mean, they've never been on their heels before, Ethan.
Not in my lifetime.
Not in my life has the left ever seemed to be on its heels.
And it's been on their heels since January with that flurry of executive orders.
He was hitting them from so many different sides.
Yes, if you want to find a reason to criticize Trump, you can find it.
If that's what you want to do, you can justify anything.
But he really hit them with a lot of flurries of EOs when he first went into office.
And they have not recovered.
I mean, the left is disheveled.
They are leaderless.
They are rudderless.
And they're getting romped right now.
And now, I mean, them getting fired, them getting doxxed.
Did you ever think we would see that?
No, not without somebody going to jail or something like that.
No, I didn't think I would see that.
Trump, I'll save that for the next segment.
I'm a little bit better.
I said that.
Tell us true.
Yeah, I'll say that.
But no, I didn't think I would see this.
It's a beautiful site.
I love it.
I hope it continues.
Burn, baby, burn.
Rhetorically speaking, of course, FCC, rhetorically speaking.
Not politically speaking.
Not actual.
Yes, not actual.
Not the way that they burn.
Not the way that they burn cities when they're in power.
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Hey, Ethan, you know, we got to mention this every hour, at least once an hour.
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I know your audience is tuned in tonight on the simulcast, but we want to make sure people listening on the radio side of it can find you after this show's over as well.
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All right.
So this is, I was going to play this clip, but the audio was not good.
It was on Air Force One, and you can hear the, you know, the engine hum and all that.
But a reporter asks Trump regarding Antifa being a terrorist organization, Trump interrupts, who are you with?
She says, NPR.
Trump says, NPR, I thought they were gone.
They're still here.
Oh, good.
Congratulations.
But not for long.
And then the reporter says, how do you target Antifa?
Trump says, do they have anything to do with your network, Antifa?
The reporter says, no.
Trump says, okay, well, I'm going to find out.
That was just the whole exchange.
I mean, I love that.
I mean, that was the kind of attitude and the bravado that made everybody really enamored with Trump back in 2016.
I get there's a difference between, you know, saying things that are funny and that really galvanize your base and actual policy, except that we've seen the policy in a lot of cases this year.
I'm going to get to the pros and the cons of Trump.
I understand that there's people that are not trusting of Trump over the situation in Gaza and Israel and the Jewish question, and we'll get into that.
We'll tackle that honestly.
I mean, we've tackled it honestly for 10 years.
I mean, there's almost been an entire generation of Trump now.
He's been around for so long as president.
But anyway, I mean, from Charlie Kirk Day on George Floyd's birthday, liberals losing their jobs en masse, Jimmy Kimmel show being canceled, Antifa being terrorist, the Indian scammers getting BTFO'd, as somebody put it, on the H-1B.
I mean, there's a lot more.
The South Africa thing, he is the American president.
He's not me.
He's not you, Ethan.
He is being pulled and he has competing interests all trying to leverage him to go in one way or the other.
As far as an American president can do or has done, I don't know if there's ever been another one that has done, that has done this much.
For his faults, yes, and they are there.
Yeah, there's some faults there.
I guess I got a little disillusioned in late May.
And then when's the Iran thing?
I think that was right after, right?
So it was the big beautiful business.
That was a big one.
I mean, that was a big one.
I was live on the air with Mark Weber when the bomb started falling.
We came back from a break and I said, Mark, he just, you know, World War III may have just happened.
But it was a limited action and not really anything happened.
That's true.
And I've, you know, I've gotten a little during that period.
I was kind of on the warpath myself with Trump.
And I was like, well, that's fair.
That's a fair criticism.
But I will say it's true.
It was limited.
And so far, nothing else has come out of that.
And I was able to stop the fighting afterwards or whatever.
I don't know if that did it, but probably had a hand in it.
So that kind of disillusioned me a little bit.
So throughout the summer, I don't think it was a great summer.
The Epstein files as well.
I think they were probably.
That's a big issue.
Sure.
Yeah.
I think they were on course to lose the House, honestly, and maybe the Senate in the midterms.
Now, I think this Charlie Kirk thing, I don't know.
I think it could actually have that big of an effect.
But we'll see.
It's still over a year away from the election.
But yeah, I was pretty disillusioned.
I do think since the Epstein debacle, which is still kind of there, right?
But since then, and after a week or two of him just non-stop talking about it, which is another reason it kept being a huge deal.
It's like, okay, Trump, do you not stop talking about it?
But that's just Trump.
But that was kind of my issue list there of problems.
But I do think the last couple of months have been pretty solid, other than the constant, you know, getting led around by the nose by Israel.
So that was the, that's, those are my qualms, I guess.
Well, let's look at it both sides and look at it objectively because both of those, the praise and the criticism is warranted, right?
I mean, it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition.
It can be a little of both.
And with Trump, it is.
There's no doubt about it.
So let's look at the good side.
Well, I'll say, well, let's look at the good side.
Here's one comment I just came across.
Some lefty on Twitter.
I still call it Twitter.
Attitude.
Writes, hundreds of peaceful protesters and I got tear gassed at the ICE Broadway facility this morning.
This is what your taxpayer dollars are being used for.
Commenter writes, I support raising taxes to do more of this.
So, I mean, that's pretty much the vibe and the mood on Twitter right now.
And as Trump said last week in a thing, I mean, he went pretty much hardcore.
He said, you know, the right's not a problem.
He said it's all the left.
He goes, the radical right, as you call them, you know, they're not doing anything.
They're not doing anything wrong.
In other words, that was on a Fox News interview.
We were going to do a segment last week.
Peter Brimelow had been scheduled to come on and do this great Trump so far, nine months in type of thing.
And then Kirk got killed and it all got repurposed.
So here we are now, Ethan, nine months into Trump 2.0.
The war with Iran didn't happen, although it came close.
This is Brad Griffin at Occidental Descent writing.
Trump's base did not go back to sleep.
It is more radicalized than ever.
We've been talking about that.
Illegal immigration has ended.
The H-1B has been reformed to basically end infinite Indians.
Black crime is a mainstream issue.
Trump has leaned hard into Irina Zarutska's murder, which into this thing with the declaring anti-fi-terrorist organization.
Now, so the far right, in many ways, is mainstream now.
And there are some guys on our side who are advocating for Kamala to be elected because of the issue with Israel that you address.
And that is a serious issue.
But with regards to Trump and the Jews, cannot both of these realities exist?
Can we not be getting things domestically here that we would have not gotten, not even close with anything else?
And with anyone else, it would have been far worse.
While admitting that on some issues, the Jews still have a hook in him on issues pertaining to foreign policy in the Middle East, especially.
Of course, you know, they do.
Although I would have been very interested to see, and I'm glad we didn't live to find out how Kamala would have handled the thing in Iran.
You know, is it just a couple of bombs and they leave?
And I don't even think Trump changed anything with that bombing.
But anyway, I mean, these are all fair questions and concerns for open debate.
Well, to be honest, I don't think anything would have been different with the Harris administration as far as Israel's concerned.
They would have still been controlled by Israel.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I think she would have done more.
My point is, I think maybe more.
Yeah, more.
I think that's very possible.
And I said that even during the election because there was some debate about, you know, maybe it'd be better if Harris won and all that.
No, I don't think that's the case.
I still don't believe that.
And I have to fight this sometimes myself.
You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good is the saying, right?
And you listed a pretty impressive number of things there that Trump has gotten done.
And, you know, some of my concerns that I laid out there, they're still there, but you can't discount a lot of the stuff that he has gotten done that would have never happened.
Probably not just under a Democrat president, but probably even under most Republican presidents, right?
They would have just never broken out of the, whatever you want to call it, like star chamber or just the constraints of being a mainstream politician, all these poll-tested talking points and this and that.
Trump is anything but, and most people would have been afraid to do even a quarter of the things he's done with the federal apparatus and federal power.
So, yeah, I think all that's fair to point out, too.
Again, it is a mixed bag, and we can give credit when it's due, and we can criticize also when that's warranted.
And that goes for Charlie Kirk as well, because he was a mixed bag.
I mean, five years ago, he was frankly utterly despicable with his positions on race and Israel.
A lot of rumors going on out there that he'd had a change of heart.
I mean, he had certainly moved more in our direction on race.
I mean, there's no doubt about that.
He had condemned Martin Luther King and whether it was being done because he had had a genuine change of heart or it was just a calculated move to keep up with his base.
That's up for debate.
I've watched more of Charlie Kirk's content in the last week than I ever did when he was alive.
And a lot of the stuff there.
I mean, there's some common ground.
But I found interesting.
If you want to find the worst clips of Charlie Kirk and play those from five, six years ago, okay, he's going to look bad.
But Matt Gates affirmed Tucker Carlson's assertion saying that Charlie Kirk urged Tucker to expose Epstein's Mossad ties and was tormented, quote unquote, by Zionist donors over Netanyahu and Gaza.
Matt Gates writes on his Twitter.
I mean, this is not, I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy, or there's some rumors out there.
No, Matt Gates on his own Twitter says they are 100% true that Kirk turned down money from Netanyahu and that he had had a big problem with Israel in his last weeks and months and that he was getting enormous pressure from his donors.
A lot of idle chat on the internet about this.
I would give Gates, I mean, Gates should be the Attorney General of the United States right now.
And he was there in Congress.
I would give his testimony some credibility.
I think that's a credible, reliable source, as they say.
I think so too.
And there's other sources that say that.
Now, does that mean he was going to remember I was on the radio?
Is he going to do something like totally out of pocket and still not work between all the factions?
No, because that was his job, right?
To do that.
I don't know that he was going to come out and denounce Israel or something of that nature.
But it does seem, and even some of his quotes, we played one earlier when a guest of mine named Southern Dingo was on, and there was a quote that you couldn't even really imagine it coming out of his mouth five years ago.
And it wasn't that inflammatory by our standards.
But that being broadcast by Charlie Kirk, who had taken a ton of Zionist money for been funded by them, really, for 10 years, it was unprecedented for him.
And putting that out to his audience may have raised some ire from his backers.
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