Sept. 21, 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.
Thank you, Liz.
Our producer, Liz, been with us for so many years here on TVC.
She's great.
She keeps us going, and she keeps me flying right.
And we're back for the third hour.
Doesn't seem like it's been two hours so far, Ethan Ralph.
And again, my friend, happy 40th birthday to you.
If it was 41 or 39, we would have still done it, but 40 is real special.
Thank you so much.
And no, it doesn't.
Time always flies by on here.
And yeah, I appreciate you having me.
It's been a blast.
Memphis, I miss Memphis.
Well, I mean, it really should have been where you celebrated your 40th.
I mean, you got to come home for your 40th.
I mean, what happened with that?
I don't know.
So many people want me to come back to America.
And why are you in Mexico?
And you need to come back.
And I don't know.
I'm considering it, but I moved to Mexico a couple of years ago.
I still come back here and there.
And, you know, I have a couple of kids there, too.
And so I do come back.
But I just kind of accidentally self-exiled myself here in Mexico, James.
So it's been a couple years.
Well, let's talk about it.
Let's talk about it right now.
Let's talk about Mexico.
Let's talk about Memphis.
That's what I wanted to talk about with you in the third hour because maybe surely everyone should know, but perhaps if anybody doesn't, we're both Memphians.
And that's something because Memphis is a very unique city.
I mean, now it's, of course, majority black.
Everybody knows it's a hellscape like Birmingham and Atlanta and all the others, Baltimore.
But Memphis was never a very majority white city.
I mean, even at the best of days, it was like 60-40 because it's a Delta city.
It's a river city.
It was the capital of the cotton empire of the South.
And it was always heavily black, but never more so than now.
But this is Memphis, and this is the only home I've ever known.
And Ethan, you were born here.
Now you're in Mexico.
So, well, I mean, well, let's just talk about it real quick.
The National Guard got rolled into Memphis this week, and it was the first time I think Trump rolled the National Guard into a red state.
Memphis is a blue tumor in the otherwise very healthy red state of Tennessee.
As far as state legislatures go, Tennessee does have a good one.
They defend the Confederacy.
They defend, I mean, they're pretty good on all the issues on the state legislature level.
You had the Tennessee III, you know, these two black guys and this one obese white woman.
You remember this?
One of them was like role-playing as Martin Luther King, and he was giving all these speeches, and they expelled them, you know, from the state legislature.
Tennessee has a pretty good state legislature as far as state legislatures go, but Memphis is this blue tumor.
All right, and this is where we live.
But it was always bad, but it was never this bad.
But the National Guard is here now, and I have seen pictures online.
You know, as much as AI has advanced, I can't differentiate anymore between what's real and what's not.
And I've seen that the citizens of Memphis have alleviated some of these National Guard Humvees of their hubcaps.
And I swear I don't know if it's real or not, but would it surprise you, Ethan?
No, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
I've seen some things in Memphis, maybe even participated in a few crazy things there in Memphis, like driving home.
So, yeah.
Oh, man, you talk about fun.
Go around Memphis during rush hour traffic.
So, yeah.
How is the National Guard being received there in Memphis?
Well, I mean, you know, the mayor pushed back on it slightly, but also hedged his bet and said, yeah, you know, you know, come on in.
You know, Memphis has a, you know, black city mayor, of course, and a black county mayor.
And it's, you know, it's rough sledding.
I mean, you know, that's the majority, and they're going to vote their people in.
They want whites should do the same.
I mean, whites are the only people who have some sort of abstract ideals.
For everybody else, it's a racial headcount.
He hasn't been as opposed to it as you might expect, but I don't know how much good it's going to do.
I mean, it's going to curb crime in the short term.
As long as they're here, it's going to be extra help and keeping eyes on things.
But as soon as they leave, it's going to go back because, I mean, the problem in Memphis isn't law enforcement.
It's race.
It's demographics.
And as long as Memphis is a majority black city, you're going to have a disproportionate amount of crime.
I don't know the percentage.
I've seen it before, the fraction of the percentage Memphis is to New York, whether it's 1 sixth or 116th or whatever the population discrepancy is between Memphis and New York.
But Memphis had more homicides than New York last year.
So that's where we're at.
And we all know why.
And the only way to get to alleviate Memphis of that is to get rid of the people who are committing it.
And you can't do that under the current laws.
And so, yes, having the National Guard here will help for a while.
Whenever they're pulled back, it'll go back.
It'll regress to the mean.
Yeah, I had no idea about that.
Whether there are like 20 million people in New York or so?
I don't know.
Versus, I think, one and a half or two there in the Memphis.
That's in the whole metropolitan area, too.
Not just the city of Memphis part, which I think is like 600K or something.
I have to double check and look all those numbers up.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, Memphis itself is about that, what you just said.
I mean, Shelby County, which is Memphis, you know, the county in which Memphis sits is about a million plus.
But it's not, you know, that big, you know, compared to New York or Chicago or Houston or, you know, someplace like that.
Yeah.
And for those who don't know, there's a mayor of Memphis and there's a mayor of Shelby County.
And a lot of the time when I was coming up, it was AC Warden was the mayor of Shelby County and Willie Harrington was the mayor of Memphis.
I was in sixth grade, Ethan.
I was in sixth grade when Willie Harrington was elected.
I went to Briarcrest.
Explain to the audience on the Kill Stream what Briarcrest is and what, or at least was and still is.
I had to private school.
And we were talking, we were talking during the break.
I went to private school in West Memphis, actually.
And I went to a private school, a Catholic private school, and even though I was Baptist, but when I got done with that, it was only kindergarten through sixth grade.
I went on some tours, right, of some other schools.
And I ended up going to public school, which looking back maybe wasn't the best idea.
Talk about culture shock.
But I went on a tour of Briarcrest.
It's a private Christian school.
Really nice, actually.
It's super nice there.
But yeah, I went and saw Briar Crest.
So it's a private school there in Memphis.
You have more details on it, I think, than I do.
But yeah, I went on tour to, I went there.
I forget the other ones.
Christian Brothers in West Memphis, but there was another private school or two that I went on a tour of in Memphis too.
But yeah, I ended up going to public school, which they're selling drugs in the hallways and stuff in public school, which they were not doing at St. Michael's Catholic School when I was in elementary.
I'm sure they're still not doing that there.
Listen to this, folks.
Ended up going to public school, which they're selling drugs in the hallways.
So that is the delay from what you hear live and what I hear on my monitor here at the AM 1600.
That is the, what you just heard in that brief second is what is going out live on cars driving around Memphis right now, Ethan Rouse's hometown.
That's what they're hearing.
You just heard it.
It's about a 30-second delay.
And anyway, I wanted you to hear that.
But yeah, so Briarcrest is, well, anyway, we brought up the transition in the 90s.
I was in sixth grade in 1992, and there was about three black people in all of Briarcrest, which is a very prestigious private Christian school.
You know, the founders of Briarcrest mince no words about it.
They said, well, this is a segregation academy.
You know, now they try to hide from that and trout it and pretend that that didn't happen.
But all the original founders of Briarcrest, I mean, all these private schools in the South, you know, happened to come around at the time of integration, forced integration.
So you didn't have many blacks there, even in the time that I was coming of age.
But you did have about two or three.
And I remember the day Willie Harrington was elected.
The next day after Willie Harrington was elected, there was two or three blacks at Briarcrest.
They were like bouncing off the lockers, you know, excited about it and like running down the halls.
And so, you know, it's been a black city and a black county for a long time now, you know, ever since the 90s for sure.
And we never had a huge white minority here, white majority here, even going back to the, you know, 100 years ago because of its position on the Mississippi River in the Delta.
But now, I mean, the National Guard is here.
And why?
Why is there crime here?
Well, there's crime here because of one reason, and it is racial.
It is entirely racial, and there is no reason for it other than that.
And the state of Tennessee is all for it.
Memphis is, well, a little bit, you know, not entirely for it, but they can't be entirely against it because they know it's true.
And we'll see where it goes.
But this is Memphis, Ethan Ralph.
This is Memphis.
Is Mexico safer?
Do you feel safer in Mexico, a third world nation, than Memphis?
Where I live, yes.
This is one of the safest cities in North America, Amerida, Mexico, and Yucatan State.
This is the safest city I've ever lived in.
I lived in, well, West Memphis, born in Memphis, and was in Memphis all the time.
Spartanburg, Richmond.
Those are the places I've lived in America.
And it's unbelievable.
I can walk down the street, 3 a.m., no problem, no worries.
Yes, it is.
Can you imagine?
You can't even go to Bill Street during prime time on the weekends and feel safe, even with all of the phalanx of cops.
We'll be right back.
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Help me find a party and try to get in touch with me.
She could not need a number, but I know one place to call.
My mother took the message and they wrote it on the wall.
There's no place like it.
I mean, Memphis is Memphis.
Am I right, Ethan Ralph?
And you have to live here to know it.
You have to be born here to enjoy it.
But there's something about it.
I mean, you know, my parents, my grandparents, okay, on my mom's side and my dad's side were both born in northern Mississippi.
And, you know, of course, going back to the war between the states, you know, every man in my line did his duty on behalf of the Confederacy.
But when my grandparents on my maternal and paternal side got married, they moved to Memphis, which was the nearest big city to find work.
So my grandparents on both sides moved to Memphis, started their families.
My mom and my dad were born.
They found each other.
I'm a second generation Tennessean.
But, I mean, Memphis was a hell of a place.
I mean, it's a pretty cool city in a lot of ways.
I mean, it's a river city.
It's on the bluffs.
There's a good, rich history here that has, you know, been deleted now because of political correctness.
But, I mean, if you go back far enough, you don't have to go back too far, just, you know, back to the 1960s at least, Memphis is a pretty cool place.
I love Memphis.
And yeah, there's a ton of problems.
And I grew up appreciating those problems too.
It was tough from a young age to keep my head on a swivel.
Always keep situational awareness, especially in certain areas.
But I love Memphis.
There's something about it.
I really miss it all the time.
I try not to think about too much.
Well, not like wistfully, right?
I don't want to get in that mode.
But yeah, I'm from Memphis.
My mother was born.
Actually, she was born in West Memphis across the bridge there.
But I was born in Memphis, Tennessee, because I was seven months when I was born in 1985.
So yeah, I love Memphis, the cultural history, just the impact on the country itself.
I mean, Martin Luther King killed there for one, but just so many others.
It's actually, for its size, had an outsized cultural impact.
You think about Elvis and just the musical aspect too.
The blues rock and roll.
I guess we could mention rap.
We talked about Project Pat last time I was on here.
But for its size, it definitely punches over its weight, right?
It does.
It does.
I mean, well, it's a Confederate state.
It's a Confederate city.
I mean, you know, we lost the river battle in the war between the states.
They came in with ironclads.
We had cotton clads.
Our ships were like, you know, reinforced with cotton bales.
But, you know, I'm a proud Tennessean.
I mean, Tennessee has a rich history, and Memphis has a rich history culturally, you know, historically, and any other way.
I mean, now, I mean, it's a punchline.
It's like, you know, modern-day Atlanta.
But, I mean, you know, it all gets baked into the cake, right?
I mean, so, you know, looking back, growing up here as we did, Ethan, your thoughts on Memphis, favorite places in Memphis.
What would you say to the folks listening tonight on both the simulcast and I TPC and the kill stream?
Growing up in Memphis, where would you want to go?
My favorite places in Memphis.
Well, when I was growing up, I used to love to go to the Pink Palace Museum, actually.
There it is.
100%.
So Pink Palace, Adventure River was another place I used to go.
The blacks ruined that one.
We don't have a water park here anymore.
We don't have Liberty Land anymore.
We had an amusement park and we had a thing in a water park.
Liberty Land and Adventure River, respectively, but they're all gone now.
What was the name of that roller coaster?
I wrote it.
The old wooden roller coaster at Liberty Land.
I'll tell you, that was Elvis's favorite ride.
They actually moved it piece by piece to a theme park in Wisconsin, I believe.
Elvis's favorite ride, the wooden roller coaster, the zippin' pippin.
The zippin' pippin, that's right.
Yeah, I rode that.
And it's you, you look at it, and I've rode a 300-foot drop coaster.
I think it was 250 or 300 foot feet in Dallas.
I forget what they call it.
Now, the Titan, I think, of the Six Flags there.
And so I think I rode this after.
Anyway, I remember walking up to it.
I was like, oh, there's not much to this, but I'd never ridden a wooden roller coaster.
And you get on one of those and it's doing all this and that.
And you appreciate why it was like a favorite ride.
But yeah, Liberty Land.
What else?
I'm trying to think.
I said Adventure River.
There was another one I forgot.
And I started thinking about Liberty Land.
Mid South Fair, of course, when it would come around.
That's right.
Every fall, Mid South Fair.
Yeah.
Memphis in May Music Festival, which I also loved.
Although that would get a little hectic.
Beale Street.
You mentioned Beale Street.
I won't say when I was young, when I was a teenager.
I guess I was still young.
Well, look, I mean, 20 years ago, it wasn't exactly safe when you and I were coming of age, but you could still go there now.
I mean, you know, it's bulletproof vests and cops, and it still doesn't help.
Well, the last time I went was, I think, about five years ago.
So it was even more hectic than.
I mean, it was always a place where you could get got, but I would go late 90s, early 2000s.
I wouldn't be afraid.
I mean, I wasn't afraid last time I went, but it was just a little more ominous than it was the times before.
Well, you know, my friend, I got to ask you, because we've been talking about this for the last two or three years, four years, however long it's been since we've been collaborating.
The 40th birthday should have been spent in Mtown.
I mean, we could have done it big tonight.
I mean, imagine doing this show and then going out.
We could have done it.
I know.
You got to get back.
You got to get back here at some point.
I have to.
For nothing else than to see you and hang with you.
Of course, I have some other things that I'd like to do there.
My uncle still lives.
He actually lives in Jackson.
So he moved.
That's 40 minutes.
Yeah, that's 40%.
Yeah, it's not far.
Yeah, it's not far at all.
But Jackson's really nice too.
But yeah, I'm trying to think of some.
Of course, you know, the sports.
I used to go to the Pyramid.
Of course, to see concerts.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, well, I mean, the pyramid, I mean, you get it, right, folks?
I mean, Memphis, Egypt, Memphis, Tennessee, you know, the pyramid.
Now it's bad, it's the biggest bass bro shops in the world, and it's it's it's a good place.
I mean, it's still fun to go to.
But back in the day, it was the multi-purpose, you know, major arena for basketball, concerts, whatever.
You know, I went to NBA games there, University of Memphis, Garth Brooks, Neil Diamond.
I mean, anybody that was anybody, everything that was anything was at the pyramid back in those days.
Now they have the FedEx Forum and the Pyramid is again a bass bro shop now, but you know, it's still cool.
And it's, you know, it's a very interesting thing driving in from Arkansas, coming across the Mississippi River and seeing the pyramid on that Memphis skyline.
I mean, it's different.
It's unique.
It's very unique.
It's like reflective too.
The sun shines off of it.
The inside of it, because it's a pyramid, it's very steep when you're walking up the steps, right, to your seat.
Maybe the steepest arena that I've ever been in, probably because it's the only pyramid that I've ever been inside.
But yeah, the pyramid.
I'm trying to think, well, this is when I was young and older, but the barbecue place is there.
Central Barbecue.
Yeah, the Rendezvous.
Let's talk about Memphis Barbecue because that's a big thing here.
They have the Memphis Barbecue Fest.
Memphis is known worldwide for its barbecue.
The Rendezvous, Corky's.
I mean, you know, there's so many.
Let's see.
Corky's Rendezvous.
I mentioned Central Barbecue, although I didn't get it.
Yeah, Central is great.
Central's awesome.
Yeah, I go there every time now.
Interstate BBQ.
Now, it's on Third Street.
It's kind of in the hood, I guess.
But they have a really good barbecue.
There used to be a place called Neely's that I liked.
Yeah, Neely's.
I think you might have mentioned that Tops.
I mean, Tops.
There's no shortage.
There's the Tops in West Memphis, too, I think.
Or used to be.
So, yeah, I grew up eating a lot of barbecue there in Memphis.
Where did you like to go when you were young in Memphis?
You can't, excuse me.
You can't go wrong.
It got to a point.
So, you know, again, we have my side of the family, my wife's side of the family.
On my wife's side, before she passed away, my wife's grandmother, she would always have this big spread on Christmas when we would do that side of the family.
But, you know, later, the last couple of years of her life, it got to be too much for her.
And she would order Tops.
And I mean, Tops was, you know, unreal.
But when I take, we're going to talk about the Pink Palace.
There's a little bit of confusion in the Killstream chap about what the Pink Palace is.
And so we're going to talk about that when we come back.
But near to the Pink Palace is Central.
I mean, the rendezvous downtown.
You can't go wrong.
I mean, Corky's, you get, there used to also be a place called the Pig and Whistle, which is very historic.
You could get this pulled pork barbecue with the best tasting barbecue sauce you've ever had paired with catfish and hush puppies and fries.
And I would like, I would, there's not much I wouldn't do for that plate.
I mean, that is a beautiful pulled pork barbecue with their sauce, catfish, hush puppies, and fries.
I mean, that was the pig and whistle.
You know, I do love Mexican food, but man, you actually made me start salivating.
I didn't start drooling, but I can feel my mouth like filling up right now because I haven't had any of those Memphis delicacies since I was there five years ago, four or five years ago.
And so I crave, I crave them all the time.
Poncho's cheese dip as well.
Oh, yeah.
You know, ponchos closed a couple of years ago.
Everything's relative now.
I've got three kids, but if it happened six months ago or five years ago, it was like a few days ago.
I mean, it all blurred together.
But it wasn't very long ago that ponchos closed.
Ponchos was a Mexican restaurant.
They have world-famous cheese dip.
You still find it in all the supermarkets around here, maybe elsewhere as well.
But when ponchos closed on the last day, my parents used to take me to ponchos all the time.
You know, growing up after church, you know, whenever we'd go to ponchos.
And it was just incredible.
The last day they were open, you know, the line was like down Summer Avenue, right past the Gold Club, which was the strip club.
People are confusing the Big Palace maybe with that, but the Ponchos is right next to the goal club.
You like wrapped around that place.
They even close the ponchos in West Memphis now, so there's no more ponchos, which is where it started.
They're completely out of business.
But not the cheese dip.
Yeah, the cheese dips.
The cheese dip lives on.
Somebody's still getting royalties.
Somebody's still getting somebody in the ponchos family is still making money.
That cheese dip.
I actually got some in the refrigerator at home right now.
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Prior to the Senate vote yesterday, House Republicans approved a short-term continuing resolution as correspondent Bernie Bennett reports.
Democrats voted against the funding bill, demanding restoration of Medicaid support and action to extend subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that are now set to expire at the end of the year.
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Then I'm walking in Memphis.
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But do I really feel the way I feel?
That's the thing.
That's the thing that led us back into break.
If you're listening on the kill stream, Ethan and I were talking about this thing.
You know, can we live stream us doing Bill Street in our 40s?
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But it, you know, hey, you know, we talk about this thing with Irina Zarutska, you know, The beautiful young white Ukrainian who was savagely murdered by this primal black on the train in Charlotte.
You know, I was talking about this last week with Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow and others who were on the show a week ago tonight.
And, you know, the only thing that separated that from any countless number of black on white murders was that it was on video.
And you got to see her reaction.
That is the only difference because Ethan, just a couple of years ago, right here in Memphis, walking in Memphis, was Eliza Fletcher.
You know, you remember that one?
The young, she was a young school teacher, but she was also a lot more than that, a billionaire heiress to a fortune who was so good in her heart that she still chose to teach at St. Mary's, which is a private school.
She taught elementary school there.
She was jogging.
She was a marathon runner.
She was jogging in Memphis, not walking, but jogging in Memphis.
And another guy, just like this guy who was released with 14 priors and who killed Zarina Arutska, this guy who was released with all these violent offenses, found her, sexually assaulted her, murdered her.
The only difference is we didn't get to see the video of that like we did Arena Zarutska.
That is the reality of black on white crime.
That is Memphis, that is New Orleans, that is Atlanta, that is Baltimore, that is Chicago, that is everywhere they predominate.
And until you get a reckoning on the racial question, you will never get a solution to the criminal question.
Yeah, just to, and it's almost been blocked out by the Charlie Kirk stuff, but it's still pretty powerful.
But, you know, that's just kind of how the news goes.
But I was, some people criticized her because they said, well, she didn't know to be scared of feral urban dwellers.
But, you know, I don't know if that would have happened to me.
I don't know if I would have let that guy walk behind me or however it was or sat in front of him.
I think he walked in.
I don't know.
I have to watch it again, but I think she was already seated, right?
But if you're talking about Eliza Fletcher in Memphis, I think she was just talking about her.
Oh, no, no, but she was seated.
But she walked in.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, in Ukraine, they don't have that problem.
They've never seen a black, so they don't know.
Well, you know, if I can help it, and this comes from living in that area, really, and just mob movies and stuff.
I don't sit.
I don't like to sit where your back is to the wall and anything.
You never do back to a door or a window.
Yes.
Exactly.
That's how I actually look.
Now, if I have to, you know, I will, but that's my preference.
So I've always been like that.
But it was just, there was another brutal murder in Memphis.
I think some nurse was jogging through Midtown.
This was a couple of years ago.
No, no, no.
It was very recent.
And he killed her and her husband.
I mean, you know, this is an everyday, I mean, black on white crime is a dime a dozen.
Black on white violent murder and rape is a dime a dozen.
The thing with Zarina Zarutska was that it became public because of the video, and it only became public because of Twitter and Elon Musk.
But there's that.
But I mean, these are a dime a dozen otherwise.
So anyway, but what we're telling you, ladies and gentlemen, listening live on TPC and the simulcast on the kill stream is that Ethan and I will walk down Bill Street and we will stream it, but he's got to get to Memphis because I can't, you know.
I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it soon now that he laid out that during the break.
We will stream us eating catfish, hush puppies, and barbecue and all of the rest of it.
That's a veritable stream.
There's no place like it.
I mean, there's no place that does it better than Memphis.
My mouth is still watering.
This is the most worked up I've been in the whole show because I'm thinking of Memphis food.
And he started talking about hush puppies.
And I thought of my grandmother's cornbread and catfish.
She would cook catfish too and crappie.
And, oh, my God.
Eating is really good there.
Well, now we're cooking with grease, are we not?
I mean, now we're cooking with each other.
Hey, well, let me just take a look at it here.
Well, you're 289% over your goal tonight.
But listen, folks, on his birthday, if we don't get him to $1,000 tonight, I mean, what are we even doing here?
Straight up.
Folks, if you're listening on the kill stream, and I know this is a Schimelcast tonight, it's on TPC on AM radio.
It's on the kill stream.
If we can get this man on his 40th birthday to $1,000, and Ethan, I'm such a technophobe and Luddite.
If I could even log in, I don't even know how to even create an account and do it.
But if you are a, but I would.
If you are a regular, though, if you're listening live right now and it looks like there's 3,000 people at least listening to us now on your stream, there's got to be somebody who hasn't donated.
We got to get you to 1,000.
But 1,000, I mean, 40,000 would really be appropriate, but for your 40th birthday, but 1,000 would be all right, right?
Yeah, that would be all right.
Although I will say the supporter's been quite supportive and generous.
No, no, no, they have.
I mean, because you're 300% over your quota, but I mean, you're 300% over your goal for today.
So, no, listen, all due respect to the folks who have contributed, but we could.
I wouldn't complain if that happened.
No, I wouldn't complain.
But yeah, it's a little bit different.
You only turn 40 once.
I mean, as opposed to all the other birthdays on the 40th, you only do it one time.
That's true.
That's only one time.
But yeah, we'll see.
Also, it's a little different.
If your viewers haven't seen my show or some other live streams where people can send in chats while I'm talking, send in songs and stuff like that.
This is entirely alien to an AM radio audience.
My audience, I love you.
I mean, you know, you have sustained me for almost a quarter of a century, but we don't know live chats.
We don't know super chats.
Explain it, Ethan.
Well, it's so there's a running feed next to the stream, which is audio and video.
And some people just listen to audio if they're out and about doing stuff, and some people do both.
But there's a box next to the stream, and all the users can log in and leave live commentary on what I'm saying.
And they can also break in and send stuff about the news, send stuff about their day, like whatever they want to type in there, unless they make me angry and I ban them.
But whatever they want to type in there, I let go.
And I try not to ban very often.
But yeah, that's how that works.
And then they can send in stuff and supplement the show, right?
They can send in jokes.
Now, sometimes they land, sometimes they don't, but that's how the super chat thing works.
And that's how the live chat, you get live reaction to what you're saying.
It's like a live feel of the audience.
And we do take callers sometimes too.
So I know they're familiar with that, but we can do a little bit more on the stream.
Well, there you have it, folks.
And then just a quick clarification on the Pink Palace.
This is the Memphis Museum of Natural Science and History.
It was named the Pink Palace for Clarence Saunders, who was the original founder of Piggly Wiggly.
Now, Piggly Wiggly was the first modern grocery store.
Used to when you went to a grocery store back in the day, and I mean, back, you know, many, many, many, many decades ago, you gave your order to the clerk and he would go and collect your goods and he would bring it up and ring you up.
The modern grocery store is what you enjoy today.
You walk through the aisles yourself and you pick up your stuff and put it into your cart and go to the checkout register.
That was made possible due to Clarence Saunders and Piggly Wiggly.
And he was a Memphian and Piggly Wiggly was a Memphis Enterprise.
You remember the GameStop controversy a few years ago?
You know, Piggly Wiggly went bankrupt.
Now it's a museum.
I love going to the Pink Palace because it's always cold inside and no one's ever there.
We're in a majority black city.
They don't like that kind of stuff.
I take my kids there.
Sometimes we play hide and seek.
But there are great exhibits.
The Enchanted Forest comes every year at Christmas.
The traveling exhibits are a little bit, you know, can be suspect.
Sometimes you get stuff like the garbage workers strike exhibit.
But the Pink Palace is an interesting place and it's interesting in the history of the world and it's interesting in the history of Memphis.
Clarence Saunders Piggly Wiggly.
I told this story, Ethan, last week to, I know we're coming up on a break, but to Peter Brimelo, who was the former editor of Forbes magazine before V-Dair.
And I ran into Steve Forbes.
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Two jeans, two shirts, or a combination of both.
Go to perks.
Watch for the opening of our newest location on Broadway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Yeah, the Shannon River Ranger.
Keep it a tip with your life.
If you grew up in Memphis in the late 80s, early 90s, everybody knew the birds jingle and the birds commercial.
And every time, it's being a dead horse now because we've done it two or three times now.
But if I don't do it with Ethan Ralph, who am I going to do it with?
Only Ethan Ralph would know and respect the cultural significance of Burts.
Go to Burt's.
I'm trying to think, what was he?
I brought it up last time where there was Burt's and there was another one too.
All right, so because I never left.
I mean, because Ethan, you left and you went to other places.
You're living in New Mexico now.
I never left Memphis.
So I'll tell you, there was a three-front war on, you know, in the battle of blacks, men, fashion.
In the early 90s.
And it was Burts.
You just heard that commercial that was played like prime time on all the network programming.
Like cops, when cops would come on WPT, what was it?
WPTY, WPTY with the Simpsons and the cops.
And that was the kind of commercial you would see and hear.
But in the early 90s, there was a three-front war for who would be the king of black men's fashion.
And it was Burt's.
There was another Greggs.
And then there was Marty.
Yeah, I remember as soon as I said him, I was like, Marty's, Marty's.
Greg's the other one.
They always talk about Zoot suits.
Well, I got your Zoot suits.
Yeah.
Three-front.
Martin or whatever.
Like pink and bright purple and all this.
It looks like, you know, a pimp convention or something, right?
That's straight up.
This was the early 90s when it was all still comical.
And like all the wives was like, yeah, you know, that's funny because they're different.
And then it like got, you know, you began to lose the cultural significance of like, you know, yeah, they really were different.
It was really, you know, weird, but, you know, they're black.
So what do you expect?
But Burt's, Greggs, and Marty's.
Now, Berts probably had the most famous commercial.
Everybody I knew going to Briarcras knew the Burt's commercial.
Anyone, you know, was talking about it.
But Marty's and Greg's store for men.
There was a Gregg's commercial.
I love to see Greg's guys doing it.
But all of these people, you know, it was all black and it was all black women models.
And Burt's, Greggs, and Marty's, it was all men's blacks, fashion stores.
But the suits were all three-piece suits.
But they would be matching colors like mustard yellow, ketchup, red, purple, green.
I mean, the most ostentatious and like ridiculous colors that nobody, you know, sensible would ever wear.
And a hat match, you know, like a top hat.
We'd do it.
I tell you, Ethan, you know, that was in the 90s.
So you say, well, that was the 90s.
But I went to two or three years ago.
I was in Montgomery for a speech with Jared Taylor.
Brad Griffin was there.
Who else was there?
John Hill, who was a descendant of Confederate General A.P. Hill, writer for the American Free Press.
I hope I'm not leaving anybody out, but we were there and we gave talks.
That was on a Saturday.
And on Sunday, we went to Selma, Selma, which is not too far from Montgomery.
And Jared did, I was with Jared when he did this at Amarin.com.
If you go to Amran.com and you do a search for Selma, check it out because you'll see what Selma looks like now.
What, 60 years after the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the civil rights movement?
What do they get?
What is the result?
Check it out.
But we were in Montgomery that day and we were in Montgomery on a Sunday.
The speech was on Saturday.
We woke up in Montgomery on Sunday.
We went to the state capitol, which still has a very beautiful Confederate memorial.
Straight up, 100% on time.
Strike me dead with a lightning bolt if I'm exaggerating in any way.
Before we went to Selma later that day, we were in Montgomery that morning, and we walked past the church Martin Luther King pastored at or whatever he did at.
And everybody going into that church on a Sunday morning two years ago looked like they were dressed by Burts.
It's the same as it ever was.
They were all wearing like matching, you know, mustard yellow pants, suit and vest.
It wasn't even Easter.
It was in August.
It was in August of like three years ago.
I was like, man, it's just unreal.
Go to Burt's.
Go to Burt's, Ethan.
Go to Burts.
Maybe I should.
But I just remember Zudzitz Marty's.
I think there was a Marty's in West Memphis too.
But yeah, those ads were hilarious.
The ads, I used to watch Saturday Morning Wrestling, USWA.
Hilarious in the early 90s.
Yeah.
Yeah, the ad set that they would have, though.
I don't remember if it was Marty's or Burt's that they would play ads.
There's like a certain set of ads that would air on Memphis Wrestling.
So that's another topic near and dear to my heart.
Jerry Lawler just had a stroke recently, another one.
Another one.
I was going to say which one.
Yeah, he had.
Well, we just lost it.
We just lost Hulk Hogan, too, of course.
I know.
Big loss.
What about you kind of brought that up?
There were a lot of blacks celebrating that on Twitter because he said a certain word one time when he was secretly recorded and they were celebrating.
No, he probably knew it.
And that's why he was estranged from his daughter who was into it.
Somebody just posted in the chat here at Killstream.
MLK was a Jewish communist puppet.
Believe me, I know.
We interviewed the officer who arrested Rosa Parks.
He did a full hour interview with us.
It's all at thepoliticalaccessible.org at TPC James Edwards on Twitter.
But yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, Hulk knew.
I mean, you know, Hulk was an American.
His come out music.
I'll tell you this to tie it all into full circle.
You know, the whole We Are Real Americans, you know, what Hulk came out to for his, you know, matches was Pat Buchanan's theme song in 2000.
I was there, and that was what he would come out to the speeches.
And then now it led to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is actually doing everything Pat Buchanan had hoped to do.
Very different messenger, very different vessel, but can you argue with the result?
I mean, you know, here we are full circle.
I didn't know you had that interview.
That sounds like something I need to hear.
The Rosa Parks, the guy who arrested her, which was totally astonished.
His name was Officer True Lackey, the one pictured in the iconic fingerprint of him fingerprinting Rosa Parks when she was arrested.
Yeah, I've got the interview.
And it's transcribed in a few different places, but no, we've got it.
And he said, you know, listen, he said, you know, everything about that whole thing was a scam.
He said blacks would come out in, you know, when anytime King would march, they would come out and they would just go and wipe people's lawns and start defecating and urinating.
He's trying to provoke a conflict.
He said, yeah, we released the hounds.
We released the dogs and the fire hoses, but only after all that, and there was only one side of it, the media ever reported.
Talking about all of that.
We've been around a long time.
He's dead now.
But we go back so far.
You know, we've interviewed Luke Waffa pilots.
We've interviewed the guy who arrested Rosa Parks.
Damn, Ethan.
I mean, we only got a minute left.
I had at least an hour more of you.
And I could talk literally probably for eight hours easily.
No, I mean, straight up.
I didn't even get to the women of Memphis versus the women of Mexico.
And I guess that's depending if you're talking about the women of Orange Mound and Lamar Avenue.
Yeah, or some of those church ladies in the Baptist churches versus, you know, yeah.
I will say there are some beautiful ladies in Mexico as well.
But yeah, I've had a blast tonight, man.
Thank you so much for having me on.
I can't believe it's over.
I mean, we could really let loose on the kill stream.
But I mean, three hours.
I hope that everybody on the kill stream has had a good time tonight.
It seems like they have.
I haven't monitored every comment, but I see here now, it looks like a TPC listener joined in.
Yeah, $10.
That's big money.
Yeah.
I said they're enjoying the Memphis reminiscing, they said in chat too.
So thank you for that.
And I'm enjoying it too.
And it's making me want to come back sooner.
And we're going to do the Bill Street stream.
We have to.
All right.
You just tell me when.
I'm here every day.
I'm here all day, every day, every week.
I live here.
So you want to go to Bill Street?
I'm 30 minutes away, and we need to do that.
I left a lot on the table tonight.
I'm looking at my notes here.
They're spread out all over the desk here at the station.
And we didn't even get into the whole trans phenomenon, you know, why these people are so violent.
I really wanted to get into that with you.
And we didn't get into, we did get into the Pink Palace a little bit.
I want to talk about it.
You and I start talking.
Well, I was just going to say, you and I start talking.
It could go anywhere, right?
I didn't mean to cut you off.
Sorry.
I wanted to talk to you about meeting Dan Rather coming out of Report of Republican National Convention in 2016.
We'll save that for the kill stream next week.
I'm going to write down.
I got a picture of that.
I got a picture of it.
I was going to say, I want to remember that, actually.
I just wrote that down to make sure because I've seen a ton of dancing.
I used to grow up in my family usually watch the CBS Evening News.
And so, yeah, I grew up with Dan Rather.
He's still alive, maybe.
Well, I mean, argument.
Not doing the Lord's work.
He's not doing it.
Yeah, he may be.
But anyway, I know we're coming up on a break.
Three hours tonight.
101.
Not even 101.
Not even as my guest, but as my co-host, just talking about the issues, just doing these things.
Hey, folks, if you're listening in on the kill stream, I'm at TPC James Edwards as of two weeks ago.
I'm trying to rebuild a following that has long since been lost.
Thepolitical Cessible.org.
If you're tuning in here tonight on this Simulcast through the AM side of it all, where could they find you, Ethan?
Killstream.
Or excuse me, rumble.com/slash killstream live.
And thank you so much.
Love you, brother.
Let's do it again soon.
I would love to come back.
We'll do the after hours thing on Killstream at a time of your choosing, but let's get to Memphis.
Easy for me to say because I live here, but let's next time you're here, we can make it an event.
I can tell you that.
100%.
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